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Home > JOURNAL > Vol. 14 (2006) > Iss. 3
Volume 14, Issue 3 (2006)
D-phenylglycine improves L-dopa binding to serum albumin
H.-P. Wang, Y.-H. Chuang, C.-Y. Lee, C.-L. Wang, and W.-H. Hsieh
Comparison of the solubility and dissolution rate of gliclazide-β-cyclodextrin inclusion complexes prepared by liquid/ liquid extraction and neutralization
Y.-K. Lo, C.-P. Hsu, T.-R. Tsai, and T.-M. Cham
Simultaneous determination of tartrazine and allura red in commercial preparation by chemometric HPLC method
E. Dinç, A.H. Aktaş, D. Baleanu, and Ö. Üstündaǧ
Pharmacokinetics and conjugation metabolism of naringin and naringenin in rats after single dose and multiple dose administrations
M.-J. Wang, P.-D.L. Chao, Y.-C. Hou, S.-L. Hsiu, K.-C. Wen, and S.-Y. Tsai
In-vitro evaluation of meloxicam permeation using response surface methodology
J.-S. Chang, P.-C. Wu, Y.-B. Huang, and Y.-H. Tsai
Protein properties of UF Teleme produced from various types of milk
A. Yetişmeyen, N. Gençer, A. Gürsoy, O. Deveci, E. Şenel, E. Şanli, and F.S. Öztekin
Suppressive effects of lotus plumule (Nelumbo nucifera Geartn.) supplementation on LPS-induced systemic inflammation in a BALB/c mouse model
J.-Y. Lin, A.-R. Wu, C.-J. Liu, and Y.-S. Lai
Detection of polyphenols and tanshinones in commercial Danshen by liquid chromatography with UV and mass spectrometry
M.-J. Don, H.-C. Ko, C.-W. Yang, and Y.-L. Lin
Antioxidative effects of intracellular extracts of yogurt bacteria on lipid peroxidation and intestine 407 cells
C.-C. Ou, J.-L. Ko, and M.-Y. Lin
Analysis of volatile compounds in Chinese mitten crab (Eriocheir sinensis)
D. Chen and M. Zhang
Determination of aflatoxin contamination in red-scaled, red and black pepper by ELISA and HPLC
H. Colak, E.B. Bingol, H. Hampikyan, and B. Nazli
Voltammetric quantification of fluoxetine: Application to quality control and quality assurance processes
R.P. Lencastre, C.D. Matos, J. Garrido, F. Borges, and E.M. Garrido
Induction of viable but non-culturable state in vibrio cholerae O139 by temperature and its pathogenicity
H.-H. Sung, C.-K. Chen, P.-A. Shih, and P.-C. Hsu
Identification of a sildenafil analogue adulterated in two herbal food supplements
M.-C. Lin, Y.-C. Liu, and J.-H. Lin
Erratum: (Journal of Food and Drug Analysis vol. 14 (2) (177))
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Kayakers, canoers getting easier access to Intracoastal from Castaway Island
Caren Burmeister
By the end of the year, kayakers will be able to launch at Castaway Island, even at low tide, and enjoy a longer boardwalk through the tidal marsh on the west bank of the Intracoastal Waterway in Jacksonville.The city recently approved a $500,000 project to dredge the kayak and canoe launch, extend the boardwalk 900 feet and add benches to the 312-acre preserve at 2885 San Pablo Road between Beach and Atlantic boulevards.Castaway Island, a Jacksonville Preservation Project that opened in 2004, has a children's education center, a wooden boardwalk with an observation platform and pavilion overlooking the waterway, picnic areas, trails with interpretive signs about animals and the canoe launch.But the launch is inaccessible except at high tide and the water level can vary by about 4 feet between high and low tides, said Warren Anderson, an avid kayaker who used to live near the preserve. He is thrilled the launch will be deepened."I saw people who would go out and get caught," Anderson said. "Sometimes they had to stay out there for hours until the tide came back in. This will be wonderful."On Monday, the city closed the trail and the launch site to prepare for the construction. Visitors may still use the park's picnic areas, butterfly garden and education center from 8 a.m. to sunset daily.Until the work is completed in the fall, kayakers have been directed to use other launch sites along the Intracoastal Waterway such as Tideviews Preserve on West First Street in Atlantic Beach, Dutton Island Preserve on Dutton Drive off Mayport Road in Atlantic Beach or Cradle Creek Preserve at 900 15th St. S. in Jacksonville Beach.Jacksonville recently awarded a $170,444 contract to the Jacksonville contracting firm Xeye Inc. to extend the boardwalk and add the benches and platforms at the preserve, said city spokesman Ben Pennymon.The city also signed a $361,982 contract with BNC Inc. to dredge the launch channel to 6 feet deep and 84 feet wide, Pennymon said. That will involve the removal of 5,350 cubic yards of material.Anderson founded the Public Trust Environmental Legal Institute of Florida, which helped develop the Jacksonville Intracoastal Salt Marsh Paddling Guide, a two-sided map of the Intracoastal Waterway from the Butler Boulevard bridge north to the St. Johns River. Among other things, the map identifies canoe and kayak access points, safe trails, water depths, amenities, channel markers and GPS coordinates.Because of tidal fluctuations, it has been difficult for paddlers to access Castaway Island while they are visiting other preserves along the waterway."That [dredging] really opens up the trail," Anderson said.The map is available at jaxintracoastalpaddling.org.Caren Burmeister can also be reached at (904) 249-4947, ext. 6321.
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Kyotographie 2020 adapts to an unpredictable world
Coming of age: “Touchable Future” by Toshie Kusamoto follows a young boy’s life in Miyagi Prefecture as the region recovers from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. | RYUSEI TAKAHASHI
by Ryusei Takahashi
In a time of crisis, organizers of the eighth annual Kyotographie International Photography Festival say art can serve as a way to bring people together.
For nearly a decade, Kyotographie has featured the works of photographers both local and international, from critically-acclaimed artists to emerging young talent, in historic heritage sites and venues scattered across Japan’s ancient capital. Unlike previous editions of the event, however, this year’s festival, which is currently underway until Oct. 18, is being held in spaces such as private businesses and public locations due to the original locations becoming unavailable after organizers postponed the festival from April to September. The result is an art event fully reliant on and supported by the local community.
Another major change to the event is that Kyotographie now has its first-ever permanent space at Delta, a cafe, gallery and hotel, located just a few blocks away under the Demachi Masugata shopping arcade.
Teamwork: Lucille Reyboz (left) and Yusuke Nakanishi, co-founders and co-directors of Kyotographie, sit outside Delta, the art festival’s first-ever permanent space. | RYUSEI TAKAHASHI
“Vision,” the theme of this year’s exhibition, is a rebuttal to the relentless, inescapable cycle of social, political and environmental turmoil in today’s world, according to co-founders and co-directors Lucille Reyboz and Yusuke Nakanishi.
“With what’s happening around us — the politics, climate change, all the issues in the world — we wanted to invite our audience to create a more long-term vision together,” says Reyboz.
“We chose this theme before the crisis,” Nakanishi adds. “But because of COVID-19, it took on a whole new meaning.”
From the self-portraits of Mari Katayama’s “home again” and the somber yet heartwarming photographs by Atsushi Fukushima in “Bento is Ready,” to the introspective visual commentary by Omar Victor Diop and the pioneering work of Marie Liesse to create “tactile photos” for the blind and visually impaired, this year’s Kyotographie explores ideas that reflect change in an unpredictable world.
Displayed outside on panels near the Kamogawa Delta is a series of photographs by Fusayoshi Kai, who has spent four decades chronicling life along the Kamo River — the cultural backbone of the city. He documented strolling elders, freewheeling youths, lovers lying in the grass, children splashing in the water and even a stray cat fed by locals.
Kai was once the proud owner of a bar and cafe, but a fire in 2015 burned down the latter, destroying more than 80 percent of his film negatives — including several cameras — along with it. What survived serves as a priceless record of Kyoto’s history.
Capturing the past: Fusayoshi Kai, whose photographs are on display along the Kamo River, has been documenting life along the river for more than four decades. | RYUSEI TAKAHASHI
Now things have changed, Kai says.
“Everything is too pretty,” he says with a laugh. “There are benches lining the pathways, no homeless people sleeping under the bridges, no stray cats looking for food — it should’ve stayed the way it was, in its natural form.”
During our conversation, Kai becomes distracted by passersby looking at his photographs, many of whom are groups of elderly locals who point at places and people they recognize. Kai excuses himself to introduce himself and chat.
“He’s always like this,” his curator, Sachiko Hamada, says during one interlude.
In fact, Hamada continues, during his career as a photographer, Kai has never bought a camera himself — all of them have been gifted by friends, family and girlfriends.
Hamada grins and points at the battered but evidently functional Nikon DSLR in the hands of Kai, who is now taking a group photo in front of the display.
“That one used to be mine,” she says.
On the other side of the city, inside the former site of Junpu Elementary School, is “KG+” — a satellite event created in 2013 to highlight new talent from Japan and abroad.
Among the 10 works chosen this year are “Gaze” by Chan Kai Chun, a collection of monochrome portraits of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy activists; “Touchable Future” by Toshie Kusamoto, a series of playful photographs that follow the life of a young boy in Miyagi Prefecture as the region recovers from the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011; and “The Beautiful Kakashi World” by Chika Usui, a collection of intriguing miniature scenes created after Usui happened upon a dwindling rural Japanese village occupied by scarecrows.
On display at Kenninji temple — said to be the oldest Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto — is “Leading Light” by Ryosuke Toyama, a collection of photographs that chronicle the maturation of young Japanese artisans.
In 2008, a then 28-year-old Toyama traveled around the country and photographed 20 craftspeople, only to realize that their conversations only skimmed the surface of what it meant to inherit generations of skills and knowledge to create traditional art.
Time and tradition: Ryosuke Toyama’s photographs, which are on display in Kenninji temple, chronicle the evolution of young Japanese artisans over the course of a decade. | RYUSEI TAKAHASHI
This left Toyama wanting, so he asked each person to write a letter addressed to themselves 10 years in the future. They sealed the letters and the photographer vowed to return.
And he did. In 2018, he reunited with the craftspeople and asked them to read the letter from their younger selves. As they reflected on the letter’s contents, Toyama took their portraits once again.
In doing so, he not only captured the growth of the newest generation of Japan’s artisans, he sparked his own transformation as a photographer and artist.
During his first visit, Toyama had used a medium format film camera — a machine built by a person he had never met in a factory he had never seen before, he says — to photograph craftsmen who had continued their ancestors’ legacies by creating art with their own hands.
The discrepancy, he says, forced him to reflect on his own craft.
In the 10 years leading up to his second visit, Toyama renewed his understanding of the long and meandering history of photography, both as an artistic medium and a vector for self-expression.
When he returned in 2018, he instead used an ambrotype — a technique invented in the mid-19th century that uses glass wet plates — to capture his subjects. The portraits appear transparent, like transient souls, in the soft light of the temple where they remain on display, hanging above samples of the handiwork of their subjects.
“Time is life, and life is time,” says Toyama, who turns 40 this year. “I still have much to learn about photography. In some ways, this project will never be complete.”
Kyotographie runs through Oct. 18 at various locations around Kyoto. For more information, visit www.kyotographie.jp.
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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex visits the YES4youth centre in Tembisa in October 2019. Picture: Timothy Bernard/African News Agency(ANA)
From Megxit to miscarriage tragedy: 3 years of highs and lows for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
By AFP Nov 30, 2020
by Joe JACKSON
Meghan Markle has experienced remarkable highs and lows during a tumultuous three-year period in which she married into royalty and became a mother before souring on life in Britain and returning to the United States.
The 39-year-old former television actress shot to global stardom with her engagement to Prince Harry in 2017 and their fairytale wedding six months later.
She gave birth to their son, Archie, in May 2019.
But although initially hailed as a breath of fresh air for the royal family, it gradually became clear she was struggling to cope with the strictures and scrutiny of royal life in Britain.
The couple announced they wanted to step back from their frontline duties at the start of this year, then permanently relocated to Los Angeles in a move dubbed "Megxit".
Her candid admission of having a miscarriage, published in the New York Times on Wednesday, is the latest example of her determination to do things her own way.
The revelation comes as the couple wage an increasingly public battle about their right to privacy, including legal action against some British media outlets.
It has echoes of Harry's late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, who reportedly suffered a miscarriage in 1983 and then became more outspoken in her later life.
Following in Diana's footsteps, Meghan is a United Nations advocate for women's empowerment and a global ambassador for the World Vision Canada relief agency.
She and Harry have also signed an exclusive deal with streaming giant Netflix, which recently launched the latest series of its hit series "The Crown", focusing on Diana.
Ancestors, royals and slaves
Rachel Meghan Markle was born in Los Angeles in 1981 to Thomas Markle, a white, Emmy Award-winning TV lighting director, and Doria Ragland, a black social worker and yoga instructor.
On her mother's side, her ancestors were slaves on cotton plantations in Georgia. Her mother's surname is taken from a slave owner.
Meghan's parents separated when she was two and divorced five years later. She is now estranged from her father and his other children, her older half-sister and half-brother.
Before her May 2018 wedding, her father took part in staged paparazzi photos, then suffered chest pains and needed heart surgery, causing him to miss her big day.
His leak to the press of a handwritten letter from Meghan pleading with him to stop feeding journalists stories seems to have done irreparable damage to their relationship.
Meghan went to a private Catholic girls' school where she is remembered for her strong sense of right and wrong. She went on to study theatre and international relations at university.
The future Duchess of Sussex graduated in 2003, after which she landed a six-week internship as a press officer at the US embassy in Argentina.
'Suits' springboard
Back in Los Angeles, in 2004 she fell in love with go-getting film producer Trevor Engelson, who helped her get on the acting ladder as she struggled for bit parts.
Soon after their engagement, Meghan landed her signature role in US legal drama "Suits" as savvy paralegal Rachel Zane.
She also cultivated a high profile for herself outside the show, attracting millions of followers on her now-closed personal Instagram account and lifestyle blog, The Tig.
Meghan was also revealed as the anonymous blogger behind The Working Actress, which chronicled the struggles of hustling for parts in Hollywood.
As her career took off, Engelson's faltered, and their marriage collapsed in 2013 after two years.
Through a mutual friend, she met Queen Elizabeth II's grandson Harry in July 2016 while visiting London. Their romance quickly blossomed on a whirlwind camping trip to Botswana.
Their engagement was announced in November 2017 and their glittering wedding, with a gospel choir and evangelical preacher, was seen as a moment of renewal for the royal family.
But media coverage became increasingly negative, with talk of rifts with her sister-in-law Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge. Staff reportedly quit in droves because of her pushy style.
A vastly expensive, celebrity-laden New York baby shower also attracted criticism, as did expensive repairs at public expense to their home in the grounds of Windsor Castle.
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Featured, Gender, Global, Headlines, Health, Humanitarian Emergencies, IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse, Population, Poverty & SDGs, Regional Categories, TerraViva United Nations
Q&A: Child Marriage, FGM and Harmful Practices on Women’s Bodies to Increase Because of COVID-19
By Samira Sadeque Reprint | | Print |
Studies have shown that the longer a girl stays in school, the less likely she is to be forced into child marriage. With many schools currently shut down and girls are not going to school, an increase in child marriage is expected. Credit: Ahmed Osman/IPS
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 3 2020 (IPS) - An additional 5.6 million child marriages can be expected because of the coronavirus pandemic, which resulted in a short-term increase in poverty and the shutdown of schools.
The current pandemic is also expected to have a massive impact on the projected growth of harmful practices on women’s bodies.
According to a recent report released by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), titled “Against My Will: State of World Population 2020”, an additional two million cases of female genital mutilation (FGM) will occur by 2030.
“A big protective factor in preventing child marriage is education,” Richard Kollodge, Senior Editorial Adviser of the report, told IPS. “Studies have shown that the longer a girl stays in school, the less likely she is to be forced into child marriage. [Now] if schools are shut down and girls are not going to school, that’s a loss of a protective factor and that could contribute to an increase in child marriages.”
Other contributing factors include people’s inability to go to work, which in turn is affecting livelihoods. In such circumstances, some parents might feel encouraged to marry off their daughter as it’s one less mouth to feed or because they believe it might be safer, Kollodge said.
It is significant then that this year UNFPA began its 10-year agenda to end harmful practices by 2030 in every country. IPS spoke with Tharanga Godallage, a results-based management advisor at UNFPA, on how the current pandemic affects this agenda and how it exacerbates the crises of FGM and child marriage across the world.
Tharanga Godallage, a results-based management advisor at UNFPA.
Inter Press Service (IPS): You report says, “Getting to zero harmful practices will require much faster progress. It demands a society-wide effort, where everyone who has a role in stopping these practices steps up to do so.” What steps can different actors in a society take to address this issue?
Tharanga Godallage (TG): The “harmful practices” are a multi-stakeholder commitment because no single stakeholder can solve this problem. It’s actually not only a country level problem — they exist across borders. For FGM in particular, cross-border stakeholder advocacy is really important.
In the eradication of FGM, and overall, the most important factor is strong political commitment from the government. The second one is law enforcement because we need to create new laws and policies if you really want to have sustained change.
The third one is the involvement of multiple ministries, because this is not a single-ministry show. The approach is to have the whole government involved.
Our observation and recommendation is to look at it in a more holistic way, especially the sustainable change.
There’s also the need for a change in social norms, which is the most critical and the most difficult as well. That’s why you need a huge advocacy campaign.
Social norm is the root cause of most of these cases, and that needs community level engagement, including leaders, who have a bigger role to play, and formal and informal community leaders.
And then there’s a socio-economic link to child marriage, and FGM, and son preference. We need to bring the policy makers and stakeholders together and have all these translated to policy change.
IPS: Your report says “If the pandemic causes a two-year delay in FGM-prevention programmes, researchers projected that two million female genital mutilation cases would occur over the next decade that would otherwise have been averted.” Can you break down how such a delay would lead to two million lives affected?
TG: Based on the historical trend and projections, we knew that the estimated FGM cases by 2030 without COVID-19 impact would be around 34 million.
Then we looked at the reduction of scale-up programmes and the new cases to determine how many cases those adjustments would lead to, and we projected 36 million.
Overall, this COVID-19 impact has been observed in two ways: one is the effect on scaling up prevention programmes, as we will not be able to do prevention programmes the way we planned, and then there might be new cases coming up on top of that.
IPS: What factors are you counting when accounting for this change in the projected number owing to COVID-19?
TG: The restrictions on group gatherings and travel have reduced availability of technical staff and delay of starting international programmes or prevention programmes.
The second one is economic impact. In the economic impact, according to the data we found, there was a 10 percent reduction on GDP overall and then because of the GDP [drop] there was an increase in poverty.
Usually we know increased poverty has 32 percent impact on child marriage, it’s very closely related. Hence, because of the economic factor, and the short-term poverty increase because of COVID-19 that was factored into the modelling, there will now be an additional 5.6 million child marriages.
IPS: Your report says “Ending harmful practices by 2030 in every country and community—an objective of UNFPA, will require rapid changes in mindsets that still sanction violence against women and girls and deny their rights and bodily autonomy.” How has this target been affected by the pandemic, and how do you aim to go forward in these circumstances?
TG: So far we have done our internal analysis of overall challenges. So, community mobilisation related research is going to be a very big challenge especially as we are trying to see how to [address that], especially the commitments relating to community mobilisation like social norms change and the comprehensive sexual education programmes (i.e.informal education). Those kinds of programmes will be heavily affected, and data generation is going to be a challenge.
People are used to the new normal now and people have come up with alternative strategies: call centres, telemedicine, and e-meetings. These are new innovative alternatives so maybe over time we might come to a new normal in our approaches to address these issues.
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Mum of two pleads with Limerick council for secure accommodation
A single mother of two has pleaded with Limerick City and County Council to help her secure accommodation after she lost her job and home after developing medical complications in pregnancy.
Thu, 04 Aug, 2016 - 01:00
David Raleigh
Cally Ryan, 30, her baby daughter Harper, and son Leon, 7, initially spent three months living out of a friend’s car, and have been sleeping together on her mother’s couch for the past five months.
With her daughter due to celebrate her first birthday on Saturday and her son returning to school next month, Ms Ryan begged the council for help.
“It all happened when I was pregnant with my daughter who’ll be one year old next week,” said Ms Ryan, a former waitress.
“I had problem with my pelvis when I was pregnant and I couldn’t continue working.
“As I wasn’t working, I couldn’t afford my rent and I had to move out. When I had my daughter I got back onto the council, but I’ve heard nothing.”
Ms Ryan, who has been on her council’s housing waiting list for seven years, said: “The longer it has gone on, I’ve been going from house to house. I was actually living out of a car — and the car wasn’t even mine.
“I was keeping all my stuff in it for about three months. I’m ringing the council every day and leaving messages for them to ring me back. They don’t return calls.”
Ms Ryan said her local authority had confirmed there was a one-bedroom flat available to rent in her native Cappamore, in north-east Co Limerick, but that she has not been told if she can move in.
“I am actually homeless with two kids, and I’ve been on the waiting list for seven years — I should be a priority at this stage,” said Ms Ryan, who added that she does not know where she will celebrate her daughter’s first birthday this weekend.
“Harper is one on Saturday,” she said. “I don’t know what I’m going to do, or who’ll let me have a party at their house. I’ll have to ask around.”
Ms Ryan said she does not want to bring her family to a homeless hostel.
“We all sleep on the couch, the three of us,” said Ms Ryan.
“I’m trying to do my best. I’m trying to stay positive for the sake of the children, because Leon picks up on everything. He asks me why I am crying and he tells me he’ll buy us a home when he wins the lotto.
“It’s just madness. I never thought I would see myself in this situation. I never thought that I would be homeless.
“It can happen in an instant, because I wasn’t able to go to work, and now I have nowhere to live.”
In a statement, Limerick City and County Council said that it “does not comment on individual cases”.
The council added in the statement: “At the end of June 2006 there were 4,336 applicants on the housing waiting list in Limerick City and County.
“The circumstances of all applicants are reviewed on a regular basis.”
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McCoy’s double dream
The cold seeps deep into our bones, and darkness begins to roll across Lambourn, the small village which calls itself the Valley of the Racehorse, but Tony McCoy is already high in the sunlit hills of his latest ambition.
Sat, 14 Apr, 2012 - 01:00
Donal McRae
“You’ve got to dream, don’t you,” the gaunt and pale champion jockey says as, his eyes flashing with piercing intensity, he confirms that, today, he will attempt to complete the rare double of winning both the Cheltenham Gold Cup and the Grand National in the same year on the same horse.
McCoy plans to ride Synchronised, “an ugly duckling’’, to victory in the Grand National over the brutal jumps of Aintree. Last month McCoy produced one of the supreme performances of his extraordinary career when he transferred his own courage and resolve into Synchronised’s surprising win in the Gold Cup.
“It’s what makes racing,” McCoy says, “chasing down the impossible. No horse has won a Gold Cup and a Grand National in 78 years. The last horse to do it was Golden Miller in 1934. That’s a huge pull for me. You could take the easy option and not run him. But you’ve got to try and do things that people haven’t done before — or haven’t done in a very long time. We’re going to give it a right good go.”
We’re on familiar McCoy territory — few sportsmen can rival his bone-breaking commitment or draining addiction to winning. Yet an Easterafternoon in Lambourn also strips away the iron man and reveals a warm and funny father, a camel-rider and a riveting talker.
In between racing back and forth to apologise for making me wait, McCoy entertains the masses in the beautiful, chalky Berkshire countryside. He and other hungover jockeys, still reeling from their drunken night out at the Lesters, horse-racing’s answer to the Oscars, take to the camels, small ponies and giant rolling balls as they try to beat each other at Lambourn’s annual Open Day. McCoy is consumed as ever. He wins the camel race. He then ensures his team win the overall tomfoolery prize.
We walk around afterwards, only for McCoy to be besieged by people. His wife, Chanelle, and their four-year-old daughter, Eve, eventually lead us back to his car. McCoy grins when asked if Chanelle dragged him on to the dance-floor at 4.30 the previous morning. “Chanelle … Chanelle,” he sighs. “We all had a good night. Chanelle definitely had a great night.”
Eve, meanwhile, cries when she realises her dad is staying behind, to talk, rather than returning home with her. McCoy looks wounded — but assorted small children chant his name in farewell. “Bye AP,” they shout.
Then, getting serious, we sit on the bonnet of a random car for this interview. It’s only much later that we slide off and head for the gallops. All the while, McCoy talks about his compelling tilt at the Gold Cup and Grand National double. Can he really win on Synchronised? “I think I can,” McCoy says. “If he jumps well, Synchronised can definitely win the National. I’m out to smash statistics and break records. It would be amazing if we did it …”
He shakes his head, reminding himself that “would be” is a meaningless phrase. It seems typical of McCoy, this grittiest of sporting icons, that he should attempt such a feat on a relatively unimpressive horse.
“There’s not a lot of presence or stature about him,” McCoy says of Synchronised. “He’s the sort of horse that, if you had 500 to choose from at the sales, he’d probably be the last you’d pick. He’s the ugly duckling. But he’s a winner. He’ll keep digging when others give in. He’s got a lot more heart and courage than talent or ability. He’s a survivor. A grafter. Actually, he’s a survivor and a surpriser. He’s also a lot better than Don’t Push It.”
Two years ago McCoy, at last, won the National on Don’t Push It. He now has the taste for an even more significant victory. “Synchronised came out of the Gold Cup in fantastic shape and we’ve got four weeks between the races. It’s possible.”
McCoy never trades in empty promises. He deals in hard facts and gut instinct. That combination has brought him 16 successive champion jockey titles. He will win his 17th later this month. “It’s all over. I’m 50 ahead. That’s why I took a little golfing holiday in Portugal with the boys [the former jump-jockeys Mick Fitzgerald and Carl Llewellyn and the Flat-racing jockey Richard Hughes] last week. The new season starts on April 29 and I want to be fresh. I want next season’s title even more than this season’s.”
Pausing to consider his unquenched desire, McCoy says: “Being champion jockey is by far the most important thing in the world to me — apart from my family. If I lost the jockeys’ championship I wouldn’t ride again. I’ve got no intention of losing it. You know, riding 289 winners in a season [in 2001–02] is my greatest achievement — without a doubt. But I’d love 300 winners one season. This year I thought I was on target. I really thought it might be possible. And then I got that 10-day suspension at Wetherby. You need a lot of luck for 300 winners …”
His more immediate aim is to become the first man to ride 4,000 winners in National Hunt. “I’m around 3,700-and-something. I keep telling [his former trainer] Martin Pipe I’m going to break his record of 4,182 winners. I never forget that one. Take 41 and double it. 4,182. Martin better feel worried. I’m after him.”
It’s easy to toss an outrageous number at McCoy. Could he ride 5,000 winners? “Yes. If I was a Flat jockey. Definitely. If I was a Flat jockey I’d ride until I was 50. But you can’t do that over jumps. I’m just thinking about 4,182.”
McCoy concedes that he’s fallen 700 times. “I don’t count the falls,” he says. “Just the winners.”
Earlier this year, he suffered one of his worst injuries. “At Taunton I was lying on the ground, sore, and my initial reaction was: ‘Fuck it, you got me, horse. You got me.’ It felt the hardest a horse could fall on me. The doctor got there and I couldn’t get up. I could hardly breathe. He said: ‘We’ll get the stretcher for you.’ I said, ‘Fuck, no. I’ve just broken some ribs.’ He said, ‘Look, you can’t move. We’ll get the stretcher.’ I refused. A stretcher for broken ribs? That would be embarrassing. I got up — but we didn’t know then I had broken two ribs at the front and five at the back. I’d punctured my lung. Now I understand why I could hardly stand and breathe.”
McCoy remains thoughtful — despite the raw language. “You get used to the pain. When I break some bones I tell the doc, ‘Look, it’s broken. Give me morphine.’ I broke my arm in 2003 and it was hanging off. I was in agony but I got the doc to give me gas and air and I walked out of the ambulance saying, ‘I’m all right now.’ I’m not going to die from a broken arm. A punctured lung was trickier. But that wasn’t going to kill me either. The only parts of my body I respect are my head and my back. I was in trouble [and in danger of paralysis] a few years ago when I crushed my T9 and T10 vertebrae and fractured both sides of the T12. I couldn’t get up that time. But I was racing seven-and-a-half weeks later.”
Such sobering detail explains why a perennial champion remains so humble. McCoy shrugs: “We’re all the same in the weighing room. As jockeys, mutual respect and humility are important. There’s no space for jealousy or arrogance with so much danger. Every time you go out there you know there’s a fair chance one of you will end up in the back of an ambulance. How can you be arrogant as a jump jockey? The ambulance will get you at some point.”
For anyone who has never met him, or who thinks people in jump racing are cruel, there would perhaps be surprise at seeing how McCoy’s face twitches when he thinks of the friends and horses he has lost.
“I’ve cried my eyes out loads of times over horses that have died. Wichita Lineman was my favourite ever horse and I rode him on the day he died. I cried over him. It was even worse when mates died while racing. I started at Toby Balding’s yard with Richard Davis, in 1996. He and his family were so good to me and I can never forget the day Richard died. The horse [whose fall caused Davis’s death at Southwell in 1996] was Mr Sox. A chestnut horse, with a white face. I can see him now. I can see Richard now. It feels like yesterday — it’s that close.”
The hurt in McCoy is so real that, for a moment, I imagine that chestnut horse with a white face, the sweetly-named Mr Sox. This is McCoy at his most moving — the human being inside the battered body. And, at 37, he is bluntly honest. McCoy does not flinch when admitting that, before they were married, he goaded Chanelle into giving up smoking.
“I had a lot of demons. It’s not a very nice word. But I was very obsessive. I went through stages when, if I wasn’t having a good time, then no one else anywhere near me was going to have a good time. It’s best I’m truthful now. It’s the way I was. But there’s no such thing as having a shit day anymore — it doesn’t wash with Eve. It’s a totally different mindset now to what it used to be. Things still grate on me and annoy me — but not like before.”
The day after he won the National in 2010, McCoy was photographed carrying Eve in his arms. She held up a sign that said, McCoy remembers, “My daddy’s the best jockey.” McCoy laughs: “Ruby Walsh said, ‘She’s a very good writer for a two-year-old’.”
McCoy is now stalked by talk of retirement. “I never used to think about it until I won the National. Now I get asked about it a lot. I’ve won all the races I wanted. But I’m very lucky and unlucky at the same time. I don’t work. I just do what I absolutely love to do. But I’m unlucky in the sense I keep asking myself: ‘How can I give this up? How can I replace it?’ I can’t.”
He brightens when we move on to a comparable sporting figure. Even if he resists such glib analogies only Alex Ferguson can outstrip McCoy for longevity and match his thirst for winning.
“No matter what anyone says about him, Fergie is a fucking genius. I hate that word — genius is so overused. But Fergie’s a genius — because, let’s face it, Man U are shit right now. They’re a shit team. If Fergie had Man City they’d be 15 fucking points clear by now. I’m an Arsenal fan, but I’ve got to know Fergie and it doesn’t matter that he’s 70.
He’ll be there another five years. What’s he going to do? Sit at home?”
McCoy will turn 38 early next month and, poignantly, even with the Gold Cup and the National double uppermost in his mind, he thinks of another fighter.
“I hope to God I can do what Joe Calzaghe did. I have so much respect for him. Joe Calzaghe retired as the undisputed, undefeated champion. He could’ve carried on but he knew. It was time. I’d like to do the same.”
And then, after chatting a while longer and shaking hands, McCoy gives a little wave. Walking down the darkening road he cuts a solitary figure but, looking over his shoulder, he also seems touchingly happy.
“You never know,” he shouts out, thinking once more of the National. “Anything’s possible …”
Copyright: Donald McRae/Guardian News & Media Ltd 2012.
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Dame Fiona Kidman brings her high-flying heroine to Belfast
New Zealand author Dame Fiona Kidman's novel The Infinite Air is the extraordinary story of an extraordinary woman, her compatriot Jean Batten. On a flying visit to Belfast last week, Kidman told Michael Jackson her own story and that of her aviator heroine
Jean Batten was known as the Greta Garbo of the skies in the 1930s
Fiona Kidman. Picture by Random House New Zealand
AT 76, Dame Fiona Kidman has no shortage of stories to tell. The critically acclaimed author was at the Belfast Book Festival last week promoting her novel The Infinite Air, a "semi-fictional" story based on the fascinating life of New Zealand aviatrix Jean Batten.
Glamorous and world famous – she was known in her 1930s heyday as the Greta Garbo of the skies – Batten came to prominence in 1934 when she beat pioneering flyer Amy Johnson's record-breaking flight from England to Australia. And she was born in Rotorua, a town where fellow Kiwi Kidman herself spent most of her life.
Kidman has been writing for over 40 years, and has published an array of literary works, gaining a multitude of awards and titles, among them OBE, and Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in France. As well as a novelist, she is a scriptwriter, a poet, and a strong advocate for New Zealand literature.
But another important aspect of her life is her family. She and her husband Ian have two children, and five grandchildren who she “absolutely adores”.
Coincidently she began her career in writing when she became pregnant for the first time.
“I started to call myself a writer when I was 22 – that was in 1963. I was a school librarian in a boys high school at the time,” she said. “The principle saw my little bulge and said, ‘My dear, I think perhaps it’s time that you went home now and knitted little booties’. Because my husband taught at the school, the boys might have thought, ‘Look at what sir has been up to’',” she laughed.
“I spent my time during my pregnancy, not knitting booties, but actually writing a play, which I submitted to a competition. I didn’t win but I decided that this is what I was going to do.”
Like many in the creative arts, Kidman had to work other jobs to support her literary career and her family. However, her passion for writing has always greatly influenced her career choices.
“I always wanted to do different things to what the women in my suburb did,” she explained. “I thought I could earn a bit of extra money by offering myself to the newspaper and saying I can do some articles and book reviews for you, and then they took me on.”
Having worked as a librarian and as a journalist for a number of years, Kidman had her first publication more than 10 years after she began writing. She published a collection of poems in 1975; her first novel was published a few years later.
“My first published novel was called A Breed of Women – it was published in 1979. It was considered a very feminist novel, and it got me into a lot of trouble,” she beamed.
“The central character did a lot of things that everybody assumed I did. She drank too much, she had affairs – people thought it must have been based on me, which of course it wasn’t.”
A Breed of Women is a feminist novel and while it may not be based on Kidman’s life, she herself is a strong advocate of feminism.
“Some people look askance when you say that you’re a feminist because they think it means that you’re belittling men, and of course it has no such meaning to me,” she said.
“I simply believe that women should have the same rights to health care, to education, and to a choice of career as men. They should have the choice to marry whom they please and the choice to have sex with whom they please – and they seem to me to be human rights.”
Kidman may have geographical links with The Infinite Air's protagonist, but she also believes that Jean Batten embodies some of her own feminist principles.
“Jean made choices from the very word go. She had trained as a pianist and also a ballet dancer, and her excellence in both would have been sufficient to ensure that she had a career,” she said.
“She was an extraordinarily gifted woman. She chose aviation against all the odds, and I certainly think she was a feminist before her time.”
Batten learned to fly at a famous flight school by the name of Stag Lane where she socialised with some of the world’s richest and most famous people. Kidman’s extensive research into Batten’s life revealed plenty of interesting stories.
“At Stag Lane there are some great incidents that I’ve researched,” she said. “I found one story about the prince of Wales being taken off to Buckingham palace in the back of a laundry van because he was so drunk it was the only way he could get there.
“Nobody could know that this was the prince of Wales and he was p***ed as a fart.”
Although Batten was extremely famous during her early life, as Kidman explained, her career as an aviator was cut short by the British War Office at the outbreak of the Second World War, when her allegiances were called into question.
“She had went to stay with Axel Wenner-Grenn, who was a very a wealthy Swedish man and friend of Hermann Göring. A telegram came from the British War Office saying on no account fly back over Germany,” Kidman said. "War had been declared, but it didn't say that in the telegram."
“Axel rang Göring asked could she get clearance to fly back to England. She was actually the last person to be allowed to fly over Germany before the war. When she got to Britain there was a man from the war office waiting for her – they requisitioned he plane and she never flew again.”
Having lost her plane, Batten spent the latter days of her life living in obscurity in the Caribbean. When she died, she was buried in a pauper's grave.
While reflecting on the process of writing a semi-fictional novel Kidman said: “Although it is in a sense a fiction, I do like to honour the person’s life. I don’t want to give them outrageously different lives to the ones they actually lived.”
The book's dialogue is largely imagined by the author and aspects of the story, such an assumed affair between Jean Batten and James Bond author Ian Fleming, are based on research she carried out.
“A novelist can make some leaps that a biographer can’t,” Kidman said.
Although she was in Belfast for the city's book festival, the author had also come to research a new novel.
“I’m just starting to do some work on a novel that has got a connection with Belfast,” she said. “I’m here for five days and I’d like to cram as much of Belfast into the pores of my skin as I can. It’s very important, because when I’m writing about somebody from another country I really like to get a sense of that country.”
:: The Infinite Air is published by Aardvark Bureau and is available in bookshops and online now.
Jean Batten
The Infinite Air
Belfast Book Festival
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President Trump's transgender military ban takes effect Friday
Transgender veteran says ban takes away equality
Updated: 6:12 PM MDT Apr 11, 2019
THE BAN. REPORTER: STARTING TOMORROW, ONLY TRANSGENDER SERVICE MEMBERS WHO MEET CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS CAN CONTINUE SERVING. THAT MEANS IF YOU WERE BORN A MAN, YOU HAVE TO DRESS AS A MAN AND USE THE MEN’S RESTROOM, SAME FOR WOMEN. BUT THERE ARE SOME OTHER EXCEPTIONS. THE MILITARY SAYS PEOPLE DIAGNOSED WITH GENDER DYSPHORIA OR DISTRESS OR DISCOMFORT WITH THEIR BIOLOGICAL SEX, ARE EXEMPT OR IF THEIR TRANSITION TO ANOTHER SEX HAS ALREADY BEGUN. I SPOKE WITH A TRANSGENDER MILITARY VETERAN WHO SAYS THAT WILL FORCE A LOT OF PEOPLE TO LIE ABOUT WHO THEY REALLY ARE. >> IT REALLY EFFECTS THOSE W HAVE A MORE SIGNIFICANT CASE OF GENDER DYSPHORIA, WHERE THEY NEED TO DO THE TRANSITION. SO, IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY STARTING DOING THAT, YOU’RE OUT OF LUCK. REPORTER: A 2016 SURVEY BY THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ESTIMATED THAT JUST UNDER 9,000 ACTIVE DUTY SERVICE MEMBERS IDENTIFIED AS TRANSGENDER I’M TOLD ABOUT HALF A DOZEN PEOPLE AT KIRTLAND ARE TRANSGEN
President Trump's transgender military ban goes into effect Friday.It will impact people all over the world, including Kirtland Air Force Base.KOAT Action 7 News spoke with a transgender veteran about the ban.According to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, only transgender service members who meet certain requirements can continue serving. That means, if you were born a man, you have to dress as a man and use the men's restroom. It’s the same for women.But there are some exceptions.The military says people diagnosed with gender dysphoria, or distress or discomfort with their biological sex, are exempt.They’re also exempt if their transition to another sex has already begun.Transgender military veteran Stephani Patten says that will force a lot of people to lie about who they really are.“It really affects those who have a more severe case of gender dysphoria, where they need to do the transition. So, if you haven't already starting doing that, you're out of luck,” Patten said.A 2016 survey by the Department of Defense estimated that just under 9,000 active duty service members identified as transgender, but last year only 937 had been diagnosed with gender dysphoria.A representative from the New Mexico chapter of American Veterans for Equal Rights says roughly a half-dozen people at Kirtland are transgender.The U.S. Supreme Court ruled by a 5 -4 vote the military could start enforcing the new law, but would not stop lower courts from appealing it.
President Trump's transgender military ban goes into effect Friday.
It will impact people all over the world, including Kirtland Air Force Base.
KOAT Action 7 News spoke with a transgender veteran about the ban.
According to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, only transgender service members who meet certain requirements can continue serving.
That means, if you were born a man, you have to dress as a man and use the men's restroom. It’s the same for women.
But there are some exceptions.
The military says people diagnosed with gender dysphoria, or distress or discomfort with their biological sex, are exempt.
They’re also exempt if their transition to another sex has already begun.
Transgender military veteran Stephani Patten says that will force a lot of people to lie about who they really are.
“It really affects those who have a more severe case of gender dysphoria, where they need to do the transition. So, if you haven't already starting doing that, you're out of luck,” Patten said.
A 2016 survey by the Department of Defense estimated that just under 9,000 active duty service members identified as transgender, but last year only 937 had been diagnosed with gender dysphoria.
A representative from the New Mexico chapter of American Veterans for Equal Rights says roughly a half-dozen people at Kirtland are transgender.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled by a 5 -4 vote the military could start enforcing the new law, but would not stop lower courts from appealing it.
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Greens to split as members join rival movement
Move made in effort to make one stronger green party that can compete in elections out of two competing factions.
By SHARON UDASIN
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In an effort to secure stronger political clout on both national and local levels, most Green Party city council members are splitting from their organization to officially join the Green Movement on Friday.
“For a variety of arcane historical reasons, two competing green parties emerged in Israel,” Green Movement co-chairman Prof. Alon Tal told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.
“This duplication is not only tactically disastrous, but it is substantively unjustified.”
On Friday morning, at a meeting in Tel Aviv, the majority of Green Party members serving on city councils – roughly 85 percent to 90% of them – will leave their organization to join the Green Movement, according to Hadas Shaknai, a Green Party member who served on the Tel Aviv-Jaffa city council for 10 years. There are about 45 Green Party members serving on city councils throughout the country, she said.
“It’s something that we should have done years ago, and it’s an obvious way to reach the election,” Shaknai told the Post on Thursday.
“When parties join together, they become stronger.”
She would not share her opinions about the reasons for the split in the Green Party, but said that she was no longer connected with the organization in which she used to serve as secretary-general, and that she was taking city council representatives from 20 municipalities with her. Council members from Nahariya, Kiryat Ata, Nesher, Hadera, Ramat Hasharon, Hod Hasharon, Netanya, Modi’in, Ramat Gan, Givatayim, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Rishon Lezion, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Kiryat Ono, Pardesiya and a few others will be joining her, she confirmed.
Pe’er Visner, the former longtime chairman of the Green Party, told the Post that those leaving to join the Green Movement had had no real connection with his party for some time, and that they certainly did not comprise 85% of its city council members.
But Tal said that “the party is in shambles” and that this was in part due to the fact that Visner “ran it as a dictator.”
Tal said that when the Green Movement approached Visner and proposed a merger before the 2009 elections, Visner refused to institute a democratic process for selecting a joint party chairman.
Dror Ezra, a member of the Herzliya City Council, is now head of the Green Party, which Tal said would have very few council members left on Friday.
“Dror Ezra is very committed to the environment,” Tal said. “I call on him to join the 85% – to be part of one single unit.”
Ezra said that the Green Movement had made the same announcement several times, and that he had no idea how many people had left the Green Party, as he had not received any resignation letters.
“We don’t force anybody to be in our party,” Ezra told the Post. “I personally don’t pursue politicians from other parties. I think that it’s not moral behavior in a political system, nor is it green behavior.”
He said that before the 2009 elections, his party invited Green Movement members to join his organization, but they refused.
“They threatened us, [saying] that if you don’t give us your party, we will destroy you,” Ezra said. “And this is what they did.”
Meanwhile, he charged that the Green Movement had posted a video online about corruption within the Green Party.
“They waged a war because we didn’t surrender to their blackmail,” he said.
He and his fellow Green Party members are just “regular people,” while Green Movement members are largely academics who began a sort of tribal battle against them, according to Ezra.
To these allegations, Tal responded that Shaknai and the representatives from 20 city councils had approached his party about becoming one movement.
“[Ezra] has a role to play and we have to learn from the lessons of the past and move forward,” Tal said. “I salute his environmentalism and don’t feel that there is enough room in this country for more than one green party.”
He called on Ezra “to join the rest of his colleagues and the Green Movement as a single, unified, democratic green party for the good of Israel and the environment.”
Tal founded the Green Movement alongside Eran Ben-Yemini in late 2008 as “an environmental and social political party uniting activists, founders of environmental organizations, city council members and academics, philosophers and scientists,” according to the party’s mission statement. Now co-chaired by Tal and Racheli Tidhar-Caner, the movement relies on a Council of Experts – professionals in science, environment, society, education and planning – to make policy decisions.
The Green Movement ran on a joint list with the Meimad party for the 18th Knesset elections in 2009, but was unable to win a seat.
According to the movement’s representatives, the latest election polls show that it would win three Knesset seats in the next election.
The Green Party, historically known as “the Greens,” was founded in 1997 after the collapse of the bridge at the Maccabiah Games opening ceremony, according to its mission statement, with the logic of, “Why invest in a bridge that we will dismantle tomorrow?” During the municipal elections of 1998, Visner and Shaknai’s party won seats on the Tel Aviv- Jaffa City Council. The 2003 municipal elections showed an increase in Green Party representation, with the Greens and other environmentally friendly parties submitting lists for 14 municipal council elections.
They now have representatives in councils all over the country.
Nationally, while the Greens have never won a Knesset seat, they received more than 13,000 votes in 1999, 13,000 votes in 2003, 48,000 votes in 2006 and around 12,000 votes in 2009.
“I am delighted that the voices of reason and moderation prevailed and that we now have an agreement in place that will allow the Green Movement to take its place as a major political player in the national and local governments,” said Tal, who is also a professor at Ben-Gurion University’s Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research.
“A party that prioritizes quality of life, equality, justice and preserving our resources for future generations is actually the best expression of Zionism for the next century,” he said.
The combined organization intends to hold internal elections in September, and Tal said he expected the Green Movement to end up the largest party locally after the 2013 local municipal elections, making use of the infrastructure that the former Greens already have solidly in place.
“This is a revolution in terms of green policy,” Tal said, adding that other parties had expressed interest in future cooperation nationally.
The success of green parties in Europe can certainly be replicated in Israel, he asserted. In Germany, where the green party transformation began, there are already state governors from the country’s Green Party, he said.
“The political map in Europe has undergone a total transition, with Green Parties now filling a key role in parliaments and governments across the continent,” Tal said. “But at the local level, green politicians are seizing the reins of power and introducing an agenda of sustainability.”
He is confident that the new Green Movement, acting together, will make a strong impact on the country’s political future.
“The political mosaic in Israel is starting to change. The fact that so many citizens voted green in local and national elections means that there is a generational shift in priorities and that the tired political Right-Left rhetoric of the old parties is increasingly irrelevant,” he said. “At the Friday convention, a united Green Movement opens its local and national campaign with a strong national presence and an agenda for improving the lives of all Israelis.”
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The winner of a Milwaukee area commercial real estate group's top development award for 2018 isn't an upscale apartment building or a flashy new office project.
Instead, it's a renovated, expanded school located in one of the city's poorest neighborhoods.
The school, Cross Trainers Academy, is operated by the Milwaukee Rescue Mission at 1530 W. Center St.
The academy, part of the voucher-based Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, opened in 2006 at the mission's main campus, 830 N. 19th St. The mission provides shelters, meals, child care and other services.
The school started with students in kindergarten, first and second grades before expanding through eighth grade, and moving in 2015 to the Center Street campus.
That relocation gave Cross Trainers Academy room to add high school grades — an important part of its mission of serving low-income children, especially those who are homeless, said Patrick Vanderburgh, Milwaukee Rescue Mission president.
By including a high school, Cross Trainers Academy can better equip students for the challenge of going to college and obtaining family-supporting jobs, he said.
"That's the grand mission for the school," Vanderburgh said.
The academy's high school formed a partnership with Milwaukee Area Technical College.
Students in this year's senior class — the academy's first — are attending MATC courses in the morning and taking academy classes in the afternoon, Vanderburgh said.
Cross Trainers Academy's students, ranging from kindergarten to high school, are in a building that totals about 100,000 square feet.
That compares with 40,000 square feet before the campus was remodeled and expanded to accommodate up to 550 students, Vanderburgh said.
The school has about 350 students, up from 150 when the academy moved to the Center Street campus in 2015, he said.
School sees rapid growth
Milwaukee Rescue Mission that year bought two buildings, which were constructed in 2003 and 2007 for the Academy of Learning and Leadership, a charter school. One of those buildings was attached to the LaVarnway Boys & Girls Club branch, 2739 N. 15th St.
The Academy of Learning and Leadership, an independent charter school, grew rapidly to over 400 students in 2007. But it had some of the lowest test scores in the city, and closed after losing its city charter in 2010.
Despite the charter school's failure, its buildings were well-constructed and properly maintained, Vanderburgh said.
The redevelopment of the vacant campus to accommodate Cross Trainers Academy first involved a 2017 addition to one of the buildings.
That created space for more vocational classes, Vanderburgh said.
But most of the work started in late May, just after the past school year ended, and was completed in time for the current school year.
"It was really pedal-to-the-metal all summer," Vanderburgh said.
That work included constructing a large connector between the two buildings. There were also extensive renovations.
The result was new classrooms, new administrative space, a new gymnasium and a new student commons/lunch room.
Vanderburgh praised the project's architect, Plunkett Raysich Architects LLP, and the general contractor, Catalyst Construction LLC.
"Their work was outstanding," he said.
'Put together our puzzle'
The Cross Trainers Academy expansion project included buying five vacant lots from the city on the block bordered by West Center, West Hadley, North 15th and North 16th streets.
The city-owned properties, combined with several other parcels bought from private owners, were used to "put together our puzzle" by creating parking lots and outdoor play areas for the academy's campus, Vanderburgh said.
Meanwhile, the academy agreed with the Boys and Girls Club to take ownership of the LaVarnway space and lease it back to the club for five years, he said.
That gives club executives flexibility to consider whether to continue operating the aging LaVarnway facility, Vanderburgh said.
Including property acquisition costs, the Cross Trainers Academy project budget totaled $19 million.
Milwaukee Rescue Mission financed the development in part with $6 million in capital reserves.
"We have a considerable amount of skin in the game," Vanderburgh said.
Around $4 million was raised through federal New Markets Tax Credits, which help finance developments in poor neighborhoods.
The remaining $9 million was raised through donations, Vanderburgh said. That campaign is still raising the final $1.4 million, he said.
The Cross Trainers Academy project was recently named the development deal of the year in the Commercial Association of Realtors Wisconsin's 2018 Deal of the Year Awards.
The contest judges were impressed with how the real estate brokers involved in the project worked with Milwaukee Rescue Mission to expand services in one of the city's poorest neighborhoods, said Tracy Johnson, association president and chief executive officer.
The brokers named in the award were Kevin Riordan, Nathan Powers and Kristian Sydow, all of Cushman & Wakefield/Boerke Co.
The runner-up in the competition's development category was Arrabelle apartments, which are under construction in Cedarburg.
Vantage on the Park, the conversion of downtown Milwaukee's former Park East Hotel into apartments, was a finalist.
Also nominated was A. O. Smith Corp.'s research and development center, which recently opened on the city's northwest side.
Meanwhile, Cross Trainers Academy continues its growth — part of the Milwaukee Rescue Mission's 125-year history.
"From day one, we've been serving children," Vanderburgh said.
Tom Daykin can be emailed at tdaykin@jrn.com and followed on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
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"Lost."; Credit: DroneArt31
Drone Photography Becomes Art in Long Beach Exhibit
Sascha Bos June 20, 2014
Two military aviators were working with drones when they struck on an idea: what if they used the remote- controlled aerial devices to take photos from angles no regular cameraman could reach?
“We realized that some of the stuff we were creating was really, really aesthetically pleasing,” one pilot explains. After their photo “Lost” won an aerial photography prize, they knew they were on to something: “A lot of what we've achieved and created is very different from anything else you'll see in aerial photos.” The ability to remotely control a camera allows the team to capture angles and aspects that would be very difficult for a typical photographer.
The two guys want to be known only as DroneArt31, preferring not to use their real names, perhaps because they're still in the military. They have their first art show in Long Beach this weekend, the city one of them hails from, and spoke to the Weekly while en route to California from New Mexico.
Another reason for the anonymity? As drones have become increasingly popular for military and home use, they have faced backlash. “Drone – I hate that word,” one of the artists said, preferring the term Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). But in their work, they use the word drone to incite debate: when the negative connotations of the word drone meet their art, they hope it will raise questions for viewers.
DroneArt31's goal is not to promote any particular message, but to spark conversation, which they feel is needed: When it comes to drones, they say, “people are scared of something they don't understand.”
“Heatwave.”; Credit: DroneArt31
The pair say they want to play with the controversial theme of privacy that the idea of drones invokes. One of their earlier projects, “Le Voyeur,” depicts a woman undressing in front of a window. Many of their photos, too, such as “Heatwave,” feature sexualized women in desolate landscapes. It's hard to ignore the predatory feelings these photos elicit.
Rather than sidestepping our uncomfortable associations with unmanned aerial vehicles, DroneArt31 hopes to dive straight into them.
“We have yet to see anyone else trying to [use drones] to create art, and we hope it turns out to be something amazing that will spark that conversation and debate,” say the artists. And while this may be one of the first local art shows to use drones, we suspect it won't be the last.
DroneArt31's photographs will be on view at Iguana Kelley's Bar in Long Beach from June 21 through July 21. The opening reception will be held Saturday, June 21, at 7 p.m.
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Hundreds of DACA recipients and supporters rallied in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday.; Credit: Ted Soqui
UC System Sues Trump Administration Over DACA
Jason McGahan September 8, 2017
The University of California has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Trump administration over its decision to end the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The lawsuit alleges the move violates the constitutional rights of thousands of students and is “nothing more than unreasoned executive whim.”
The current president of the UC system, Janet Napolitano, signed the order creating DACA in 2012, when she was Obama's secretary of Homeland Security. About 4,000 undocumented students — many of them DACA recipients — are enrolled in UC schools; that number does not include university researchers and health care providers who are DACA recipients. The largest number of DACA recipients (aka “dreamers”) are at UCLA and UC Irvine. Tens of thousands more dreamers attend college in the Cal State and California Community Colleges systems.
“The university faces the loss of vital members of its community, students and employees,” the lawsuit states. “It is hard to imagine a decision less reasoned, more damaging or undertaken with less care.”
In all, there are an estimated 240,000 DACA recipients in California — nearly a third of the national total. Los Angeles has the largest concentration of DACA recipients in the country, with an estimated 100,000 in the greater metropolitan area. The DACA program allows dreamers to attend school lawfully, work lawfully, purchase homes, open bank accounts and live in the United States without the constant threat of deportation.
In a statement, Napolitano said:
“Neither I, nor the University of California, take the step of suing the federal government lightly, especially not the very agency that I led. It is imperative, however, that we stand up for these vital members of the UC community. They represent the best of who we are — hardworking, resilient and motivated high achievers. To arbitrarily and capriciously end the DACA program, which benefits our country as a whole, is not only unlawful, it is contrary to our national values and bad policy.”
Ninety-one percent of DACA recipients have found gainful employment, according to a study by the Center for American Progress and FWD.us.
Janet Napolitano initiated DACA as Secretary of Homeland Security in 2012. Today, as president of the UC system, she announced a lawsuit against the Trump administration's decision to rescind the program, which protects an estimated 800,000 immigrant youths from deportation.; Credit: Center for American Progress/Flickr
On Tuesday, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said his office also is ready to sue to preserve DACA, a move that, like the UC litigation, could delay the cancellation of the program (which is set to end six months from now, per Trump's order). Becerra said at a press conference that his office is examining — in consultation with attorneys general from other states — possible violations of the right to due process in eliminating DACA benefits, as well as the possible discriminatory targeting of DACA recipients.
California education leaders have pledged to protect college students covered by DACA. Despite the Trump administration's decision, DACA recipients will continue to be eligible to pay in-state tuition, to receive state financial aid and to access free legal and support services on campus. Also, campus police are directed to refrain from questioning or detaining persons based on a suspicion that they're in the country illegally.
State Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) has proposed providing grants, fee waivers or reimbursements to undocumented students at California community colleges and state universities in exchange for service in their school or community. But there might be little the state can do to offset the damage of students no longer being able to work in the country legally, following the end of DACA.
The UC lawsuit asks the court to halt the Trump administration's repeal of DACA, which it argues in the legal complaint is “unconstitutional, unjust, and unlawful.”
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Operation Santa: Daughter moves home
Tasha signed up for the Operation Santa program to thank her parents for their generosity.
Bree Smith
Tasha, 19, signed up for the Operation Santa program to thank her parents for their generosity.
“When I was pregnant with my son, they let us stay with them,” the first-time applicant explained. “If it wasn’t for them, we would have been out on the street. I know a lot of parents who wouldn’t do that for their daughters.”
Tasha became pregnant with her 1-year-old son when she was still in high school. Despite their disapproval, her parents helped Tasha finish her degree while babysitting for their grandson. Now, working a part-time job, Tasha has been steadily repaying her parents’ kindness. With money tight in the household, she decided to sign up for the Operation Santa program to provide the whole family with gifts, groceries, and a traditional Christmas dinner.
“They’ve given up a lot for me and my son,” Tasha said of her parents. “I want to do whatever I can for them.”
Operation Santa will give Tasha’s family a merry Christmas. Run by the Lebanon Rescue Mission, Agape Family Shelter and Lebanon Daily News, the program helps local families in need at Christmas by purchasing toys, clothes and food with money donated by the community.
This year, Operation Santa needs to raise $42,000 to help the 521 families — 797 adults and 1,095 children — who signed up for help. The children will receive a few toys or a gift certificate and a few articles of clothing. Families will receive food for a full Christmas dinner, including a turkey, as well as a week's worth of groceries, such as bread, cereal and milk.
To donate money to Operation Santa, mail checks to: Operation Santa, c/o Lebanon Rescue Mission, P.O. Box 5, Lebanon, PA 17042. Donors who do not wish to have their name published in the newspaper should mark their donations as ‘anonymous.’
Also, all proceeds from the raffle of an Advent Train Garden — an intricate model train layout made by volunteers from churches in the Annville-Cleona area — go to Operation Santa. Chances can be purchased at the Advent Train Garden, which is on display inside the Lebanon Valley Mall at Boscov's until Dec. 23, when the winning ticket will be drawn at 8 p.m.
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Number of autistic pupils identified in Scotland's schools has more than doubled
Between 2012 and 2018, the number of autistic pupils in Scotland's schools has more than doubled (101 per cent).
Figures produced by the Scottish Children’s Services Coalition have highlighted dramatic increases in the reasons pupils are being identified with additional support needs (ASN) in Scotland’s schools.
The figures, based on an analysis of the annual Scottish Government Pupil Census (1) indicates that between 2012 and 2018 the number of pupils identified with autism spectrum disorder in publicly funded primary, secondary and special schools has more than doubled (101 per cent), those with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties by 86 per cent, those in care by over 54 per cent, those with physical health problems by over 98 per cent, those with mental health problems by over 252 per cent and those with communication support needs by over 293 per cent (pupils may have more than one reason for additional support) (see table at end of the press release for full details).
This is against the background of an overall increase by more 68.7 per cent since 2012 in the number of pupils with ASN, from 118,034 to 199,065 in 2018, an increase of over 81,000 pupils, representing just over a quarter of all pupils (28.7 per cent) (2).
Why is there an increase in pupils with identified additional support needs?
The increase is in part due to increased recognition and diagnosis of these conditions, as well as continued improvements in recording. Greater clarity in these figures means that support and funding can be more targeted, hopefully more appropriate to the needs of the child or young person concerned. The alliance of leading independent and third sector service providers has repeated its call for greater resourcing by local authorities and the Scottish Government to support those with ASN, who disproportionately come from lower income families and areas of deprivation.
The figures, from the annual Scottish Government pupil census, indicate that between 2012 and 2018 the number of specialist teachers supporting those with ASN has decreased from 3,840 to 3,437, a decline of 403, representing a new low (3). It also highlighted a fall in the number of specialist support staff in key categories such as behaviour support staff, where the number has dropped by 58 between 2012 and 2018 (from 180 to 122) and by 43 in the number of educational psychologists (from 411 to 368) (4).
This increase in those with ASN is set against a background of a cut in spend of £883 per pupil with ASN since 2012 Figures reveal that per pupil spend on those with ASN has slumped from £4,276 in 2012/13 to £3,393 in 2017/18. This amounts to a cut of £883 per pupil, representing a 26.7 per cent drop in real terms (20.6 per cent in cash terms) (5). The coalition also raised concerns about the effectiveness of a presumption of mainstreaming, that all pupils be educated in a mainstream educational environment unless exceptional circumstances apply.
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A spokesperson for the Scottish Children’s Services Coalition commented:
“It is clearly positive to see that we are become increasingly good at identifying and recording those with ASN, such as autism, dyslexia, mental health problems and learning difficulties.
“Greater clarity in these figures allows resourcing to be targeted in a more appropriate manner. However, what is key is that we provide those requiring it with the care and support that they need, if we are to genuinely close the educational attainment gap. This is clearly difficult in an environment of austerity and budget cuts, with evidence of cuts in the number of ASN teachers and support staff.
“While we also support the presumption of mainstreaming, that all children and young people be educated in a mainstream educational environment unless exceptional circumstances apply, it is clearly difficult to see how this is functioning properly for all those with ASN given this fall in specialist support and increase in the number of those identified with conditions such as autism and mental health problems. The Scottish Government and local authorities need to work together to provide the necessary resourcing to address the needs of those children and young people with ASN, who represent some of the most vulnerable individuals in our society. “
1: Scottish Government, Pupil Census 2018 supplementary data, Table 1.8, 14th March 2019. Available at: x (Accessed 22nd April 2019). 2012: Pupil Census 2012 supplementary data, Table 1.8 x, 11th December 2012 (Accessed 6th February 2017).
2: Scottish Government, Summary Statistics for Schools in Scotland, No. 9: 2018 Edition, 11th December 2018, Table 4.5. Available at: x (accessed 11h December 2018). 2012: Scottish Government, Summary Statistics for Schools in Scotland, No. 3: 2012 Edition, 11th December 2012, Table 3.5. Available at: x (accessed 12th March 2018).
3: 2018: Scottish Parliament, John Swinney MSP Written Answer, 20th March 2019. Available at x (accessed 20th March 2019). 2012: Scottish Parliament, John Swinney MSP Written Answer, 9th January 2018. Available at x (accessed 20th March 2019).
4: 2018: Scottish Government, School Support staff 2018, 12th March 2019, Table 1.1. Available at: x (accessed 12th March 2019). 2012: Scottish Government, Teacher Census 2012 supplementary data, Table 2.15 for primary schools, Table 3.17 for secondary schools, Table 4.13 for special school and Table 5.3 for centrally employed, 14th January 2016. Available at: x (accessed 1st August 2016).
5: 2012/13: Scottish Parliament, John Swinney MSP Written Answer, 24th April 2017. Available at: x (accessed 25th April 2017). 2017/18: Scottish Parliament, John Swinney MSP Written Answer, 5th March 2019. Available at: x (accessed 7th March 2019).
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RIVERTOWN IN REVIEW
The Rivertown Historic District is located at the southern end of Williams Boulevard where Williams meets the levee and the Mississippi River. It lies in the heart of what was the original city of Kenner as laid out by Minor Kenner in 1855. The land was quickly developed with the Kenner family owning three plantations and the close proximity to the Mississippi River made Kenner an ideal location for trade. Today, the historic district encompasses an area bounded by Kenner Avenue (North), the Mississippi River (South), Compromise Street (East), and Daniel Street (West).
The Rivertown area is said to be the first land of the metropolitan area on which Europeans set foot. La Salle’s Landing is located at the southern end where Williams Boulevard meets the levee and commemorates the site where the French Explorer landed on his way to the Gulf of Mexico. Legend has it that Rene’-Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle came upon Native Americans here burning river cane and thus designated the area Cannes Brulee or “burnt cane.” La Salle's Landing served as a port of trade throughout the 19th century and into the 20th century. Flying high above are the flags of ten different countries, all of which at some point governed Louisiana.
Central to the La Salle’s Landing plaza is a bronze statue marking the first ever World Heavyweight Prizefight Championship in the United States. On May 10, 1870 several thousand men gathered around a make-shift ring along the banks of the Mississippi River at La Salle's Landing. They gathered to watch "the fight of the century"... "Gypsy" Jem Mace, Heavyweight Boxing Champion of England take on fellow Brit, Tom Allen who held the title of American Heavyweight Champion. The winner would be crowned the first Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World and awarded a purse of $2,500.00. "Gypsy" Jem Mace walked away victorious that day. Today you will find a life-sized statue with boxers in a fighting stance commemorating that day in history when Kenner was the site where the first World Heavyweight Champion was crowned.
In 1983, Rivertown, USA was formed with the purpose of revitalizing the area and turning it into an historic district.
In July 1984 the National Register of Historic Places in Louisiana listed the Felix-Block House, known today as Heritage Hall.
Kenner's Rivertown Main Street was designated in 2014 by state officials as the 36th Main Street Community in Louisiana and the only one of its kind in Jefferson Parish!
Rivertown remains a twelve block historic district offering a host of cultural and family attractions. Visitors can take in the starry night sky in air-conditioned comfort at the Louis J. Roussel Jr. Planetarium & MegaDome Cinema which features a 50-foot domed projection screen. Or, be lead astronaut on a NASA prototype at Kenner's Space Station. The full-size NASA International Space Station prototype allows visitors get a first hand look at daily living and working in space. Dedicated to space travel and technology, the Space Station is a truly a one of kind exhibit. Other areas offer visitors a chance to explore spin-off technology with "Sput Nick" the robot, touch a 4 billion year old Gibeon Meteorite, and take a walk through the history timeline of the 20th century.
While strolling the streets of Rivertown, visitors can also shop several charming boutiques, eat a great meal at one of four locally owned restaurants or attend a live musical or theatrical production at the Rivertown Theater for the Performing Arts. Numerous festivals are also held in the area each year to celebrate the history and the continued cultural diversity of the city.
What Is Main Street?
As part of the Main Street program, committees of volunteers and businesses guide the effort of renewing the district and determine options for continuing revitalization. Community volunteers speak in a unified voice to promote the revitalization of Rivertown through art, culture, and economic development. Click to join our efforts!
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Thermo-electric technology providing energy solutions to rural households
Thermo-electric technology is the future of Carbon emission reductions. The technology is not new as it has been around since the 1800s. But the last 20 years has seen a lot of research go into this field with the growing need for conservation. Thermo-electric generators are some of the inventions that are fast becoming commercialised and soon they shall be able to power automobiles.
Powerspot, a Spanish company founded five years ago are market leaders in the manufacturing of user-end portable thermos-electric power generators. They were able to develop miniaturized power generators to be used where there were no electricity grids.
The device generates electricity when its base is heated with any material such as coal, wood, alcohol, kerosene, or with a flame from a stove. Also necessary is a coolant that can either be water or air. Once it starts producing electricity the generator can be connected to charge phones, tablets, electronic equipment, rechargeable batteries or light LED bulbs or any other USB device.
Initially their move to Africa was spurred by the need to improve the lives of refugee camp dwellers and rural households. They noted that despite the major urban migration into African cities, a large population, about 80%, is still living in the rural regions. These regions still do not have electricity let alone power grids. These statistics motivated them to bring their innovation to Africa to ensure that they reduced the population percentages that had no access to electricity.
They began expanding their product line by developing the PowerJiko from market research conducted in rural Kenya. The ‘jiko’ is a stove in Swahili and is commonly used in many households across the continent. They found an inventive way to combine the mini generator with a jiko to produce the PowerJiko. The idea behind it is to provide an energy solution while preparing a meal. The energy it produces can then be used to charge devices such as phones, tablets and also for lighting purposes.
The devices they have developed will generate energy for at least 15 years without any additional costs on repairs. The devices operate between 15-20 years without breakdowns, replacement with spare parts or maintenance.
In its initial phase the generator has reached more than 20,000 users mainly through collaborations developed with NGOs in Kenya, Mozambique, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe and Cambodia. They currently have more than 250 requests for the distribution of the PowerJiko in 29 different countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. They are in talks with various United Nation agencies for a possible collaboration to enable access to the product in Sub-Saharan Africa and certain parts of Asia.
“We opened a subsidiary in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania seven months ago with a local partner and we have begun commercialization and marketing as we have done in Kenya. The company is called TMBM Powerspot Limited,” says Alfonso Acebal, the Regional Director, Africa.
They are finalising a project in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kwango Province, where they are providing clean micro-energy to thousands of people in the region. In addition they are going into collaborations with several Kenyan organizations such as Safaricom, KWFT, Chai Sacco and KCB to provide rural households with a payment instalment plan, to allow them affordable access to the product.
At Kenya Climate Innovation Center they are in the Incubation programme to receive business acceleration and market development services.
Powerspot also offers a range of products focused on outdoor activities, such as adventure or survival, which are in four categories designed for different needs: Lanyard+, Micro and Nano, Mini Thermix and Thermix, and the Explorer. In addition, the company also markets a wide range of accessories like connectors and adapters, extensions, lamps, bulbs and cases.
By Michelle Mung’ata
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Thrissur: The Cultural Capital of Kerala
The other name of Thrissur is Trichur. This is renowned cultural capital of the state Kerala because of its rich and vibrant cultural heritage. You have the right escapade to the vibrant and colourful cultural events of Kerala in this place. You have the perfect settings to experience the captivating cultural extravaganza of the people of Kerala. The city of Thrissur is a very old city and was built in 1790 AD by Sakthan Thampuran. Thrissur is built around the pivot of Vadakkumnathan Temple. As you enter you are astounded with the imposing temples, wonderful and colourful festivals, massive and magnificent palaces, abounding splendour and historic monuments.
Being a cultural hub, it is truly secular in theme and atmosphere. Hindus, Moslems, Jews, Christians have all co-existed peacefully from the ancient times. There are many organizations from this place of Thrissur which have contributed to the growth and spread of Malayalam literature, language, arts and culture.
Reaching Thrissur
The nearest airport is at Nedumbassery, which is just 58 km away. You can hire taxi or take local state bus service to reach Thrissur. The railway terminus of Thrichur connects the Southern railway terminuses well. The place is well connected by roads to some major cities and towns in Kerala. You can also take the route of National Highway 17 from Mangalore in Karnataka.
Thrissur has almost all types of attractions that a visitor to the state can wish for it has Beaches, Tea Plantations, Backwaters, Wild Life, Hill Stations, Water Falls, and lot more.
Vadakkumnathan Temple: A perfect example of Kerala art and architecture which is dedicated to lord Parasurama. The four majestic gopurams (large entrances) with intricate work of on wood and some wonderful ancient mural paintings are the major attractions of the temple. There are shrines which are dedicated to different Lords and Goddesses. The temple is different from any other temple in Kerala with a hall inside it which is dedicated to perform arts and quite distinct from other temple premises.
Archeological Museum: The museum is a part of an old palace called Kollengode Palace. This is an architectural marvel which was built as a fusion of the traditional and western styles. You can have a look at the Stone Age weapons, excavated artefacts from Indus Valley and Harappa sites, stone and bronze sculptures, and other traditional arts and artefacts.
Zoo: If you are to Thrissur, don't miss the opportunity to hit the zoo which is spread around 13.5 acres of land. It is a beautiful landscape and rich flower beds. The zoo homes large numbers of animals and species which are endangered or on the verge of extint like lions, sloth bear, tigers, and others. The zoo is also the largest zoo to house some wonderful snakes like king cobra, vipers, rock python and other reptiles. There is also an art museum inside the zoo to entertain visitors.
Vilangankunnu: This is a beautiful hill station is located at a distance of 7 kilometre from the main city and is an ideal hill station to escape from city life with plantations and nature around.
The other places of attractions Thrissur are - Shakthan Thampuram Palace, Our lady of Doloures basilica, Peechi dam & Vazhani wildlife sanctuary, Athirapally & Vazhachal waterfalls, Guruvayoor, Punnathur Kotta, Kerala Kala Mandalam, Palayur Church and to name a few.
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It was back in 1995 while playing in the North West Counties League (NWCL) that we undertook our first venture in the FA Cup. This was a trip to Hinckley Athletic (now merged into Hinckley United). Kidsgrove struggled to compete with their well-financed hosts and succumbed 3-1 despite a brave performance. Craig Brookes had the honour of scoring Athletic’s first ever FA Cup goal, while the manager that day was none other than Peter Ward, in his first spell in charge.
The following season, Kidsgrove were drawn at home in the Preliminary Round but were comfortably beaten 3-0 by Chester-le-StreetTown, in a rare game against northern opposition.
Many Grove supporters will have very fond memories of the 1997/98 season as Jimmy Wallace assembled a side that won the North West Counties League and reached the semi-finals of the FA Vase, scoring exactly 200 goals in a season that spanned 71 games. Unfortunately, he was unable to extend his magic to the FA Cup, but Athletic were unlucky to bow out to higher-league WhitleyBay. Having drawn the home match 1-1 thanks to a goal from Paul Kiely, we made the long journey to the North East for the replay and drew 3-3, Kiely again scoring, along with Craig Walklett and Steve Colclough, only to lose 5-3 on penalty kicks.
There then followed a bleak number of years as Kidsgrove sought and failed to produce their first win in the competition. A Scott Dundas goal could not prevent a 2-1 defeat at Sutton Coldfield in 1998/99, while an inexperienced side were well beaten at Wellingborough Town the season after. Any hopes that the new millennium may bring a change in fortunes were quickly dispelled as Athletic were dumped out in an Extra-Preliminary Round Replay 3-1 at home to Pelsall Villa after drawing the initial match 1-1. Things didn’t get any better during 2001/02, as a disastrous afternoon in Nottinghamshire saw ArnoldTown beat us 4-1 with Darren Twigg scoring at both ends. Promotion to the Northern Premier League at the end of the season meant that we never won an FA Cup game while members of the NWCL.
At the tenth time of asking, on 31st August 2002, the fans were finally able to celebrate a victory as goals from Steve Tobin (2), Martin MacDonald and Danny Worthington saw us triumph 4-1 at home to Buxton. This set up a tricky away match at Alfreton Town, who were surging their way through the leagues, but a solitary strike from Twigg was enough to pull off a shock win. The goal almost didn’t stand – with the linesman having raised his flag for offside before realising that Twigg had in fact flicked the ball on to himself!
This success handed Kidsgrove a place in the 2nd Qualifying Round for the first time, and the reward was another trip to Hinckley, this time United. This proved to be a step too far as we were soundly beaten 3-0.
After this brief upturn in fortunes, normal service was resumed in 2003/04 with a 3-1 home defeat to Rugby United, and then matters sunk even lower with an embarrassing 4-1 defeat at home to local rivals Newcastle Town, who were still playing in the NWCL.
Grove then managed a run of seven seasons in which we always managed to record at least one win per year in the competition. Julian Ward and Glyn Hancock were the scorers as we earned a 2-2 draw at Stourbridge in a Sunday FA Cup clash in August 2005. The same players found the net again in the replay along with Adam Vickers, Matt Rhead and Wayne Johnson as Kidsgrove won 5-2. We were drawn at home to Leamington in the next round, losing 1-0 in front of a crowd of 429. This stood as Athletic’s highest FA Cup attendance until 2012.
The 2006/07 campaign began in comfortable fashion with a 2-0 success over Spalding United in the Preliminary Round. This set up a local derby with LeekTown, at that time a league above Kidsgrove in the Northern Premier League Premier Division. The teams fought out a goalless draw at Clough Hall, but Michael Lennon’s goal in the replay was enough to send us through to a 2nd Qualifying Round clash with Rothwell Town, much to the delight of the travelling support. In this game, we recorded our biggest win in the FA Cup, with a 6-0 thrashing of the visitors from Northamptonshire, as the prolific strike force of Lennon and Rhead helped themselves to a hat-trick each.
With Athletic into the 3rd Qualifying Round for the first time, the draw threw up an intriguing trip to Haverhill Rovers. The Suffolk-based side competed two levels below Kidsgrove in the First Division of the Eastern Counties League, but had recorded some impressive results, and would earn promotion at the end of the season. Having led 1-0 at the break through Aaron Rey, the game was delayed for 25 minutes during the second half after a serious injury to Haverhill’s Paul Abbott. The incident seemed to unsettle the team greatly and on the resumption, the home side hit back with two late goals, to send Kidsgrove out.
Matt Rhead (9) and Michael Lennon in action at Haverhill Rovers, October 2006
When the draw was made for the early rounds in 2007/08, few could have predicted the chaos that would ensue, in which Kidsgrove got caught up through no fault of their own. Having beaten Oldbury United 3-1 in the Preliminary Round, we were looking forward to a home tie against Barnt Green Spartak who had beaten Willenhall Town. It emerged, however, that Barnt Green had fielded an ineligible player in the game and it was ordered to be replayed. Willenhall took advantage and won this, but by this point the rest of the competition had already played the 1st Qualifying Round and teams were gearing up for the next set of games.
Eventually, Athletic and Willenhall met with Grove emerging victorious 2-0, but were then forced to travel to Rainworth Miners Welfare three days later without a recognised goalkeeper. With defender Wayne Brotherton having to step in, we fell to a disappointing defeat against a side two levels below us in the pyramid.
The 2008/09 campaign began with a 3-0 win over Pilkington XXX, but a good run was not on the cards as a trip to Eastwood Town ended in a 4-0 defeat. Kidsgrove once again overcame lower level opposition in the Preliminary Round the next year, Dave Walker’s goal being enough to see off Alvechurch, but were then caught out again, losing 3-2 at home to AFC Wulfrunians of the West Midlands Regional League.
2010/11 saw us encounter near-neighbours Biddulph Victoria in the Preliminary Round. With their first choice goalkeeper injured, and no replacements available, Vics were forced to field midfielder Steve Brannan, now a Kidsgrove player, in goal. He turned in a fine display as the first match ended goalless. This caused problems in goal for us, and with Steve Intihar unavailable a few days later, both sides named outfield players in goal, defender Dave Harper keeping a clean sheet as Athletic won through 4-0.
This earned us a home tie against FA Cup specialists Chasetown, promoted into the NPL Premier Division the previous season. The difference in levels was not apparent, though, and goals from Dave Walker, Liam Shotton and Adam Beasley capped a fine performance in a 3-0 win at the Seddon Stadium. In the next round, it was an injury-ravaged team that travelled to Solihull Moors of the Conference North, and despite fighting hard, with Shotton turning in a particularly good performance, the home side wrapped up a 2-0 win.
2011/12 marked Kidsgrove’s most successful ever in the competition. Home wins against Atherstone Town and Gornal Athletic were followed by a battling goalless draw at Boston United, who were then beaten 2-0 in the replay on a memorable night of football at the Seddon Stadium courtesy of goals from Sam Hall and a wonder strike from Craig Dove. Long Buckby, previously unbeaten, were defeated 2-1 in a tense game, to set up a clash with Bradford (Park Avenue) at Clough Hall with a place in the First Round Proper at stake. Unfortunately, in front of a crowd of 1,140, Athletic were unable to upset the odds and went out to two second half goals.
Andy Kinsey (10) jumps for the ball in the 0-0 draw at Boston United
If fans had hoped that this would act as a springboard to bigger and better things in the competition, they were to be sadly disappointed as the next four seasons saw early exits, ranging from the disappointing to the ridiculous. Bogey side AFC Wulfrunians returned to end the 2012/13 campaign at the first step, and although Kidsgrove won 3-1 at Market Drayton Town the following year in the Preliminary Round, we were once again eliminated by lower league opposition, this time at Tipton Town in front of a paltry 56 people. A Joe Woolley strike was mere consolation as we fell at Evesham United in 2014/15 before Grove made headlines for all the wrong reasons the following season.
Having secured a 1-1 draw at Midland League side Westfields, thanks to an Ant Malbon penalty, Athletic then raced to a 4-0 half time lead in the replay at the Novus Stadium. Amazingly, Grove then fell apart as the visitors struck back to finish the game 4-4. Andy Kinsey put Kidsgrove back ahead in extra time, but Westfields were not to be denied and struck twice more to record a remarkable 6-5 win.
2016/17 saw an improvement in fortunes: victory over Lye Town in the Preliminary Round set up a trip to local rivals Stafford Rangers. Despite parting company with joint managers Peter Ward and Ant Buckle days before the fixture, Ryan Austin's men recorded a memorable 2-1 win, with Ant Malbon getting both goals. Unfortunately, Grove came unstuck in the following round, deservedly beaten 2-1 at home by Matlock Town. Kidsgrove exited at the same stage last season, eventually being overpowered by a strong Kettering Town side after wins against Trafford and Clitheroe.
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Memorial Drive
A Daughter's Memoir
By: Natasha Trethewey
Narrated by: Natasha Trethewey
#6 in Bestselling True Crime Audiobooks
“Natasha Trethewey was 19 when her mother was murdered by her stepfather in 1985. For decades, she hid the event, and memories of her mother, in the recesses of her mind while she went on to win a Pulitzer Prize and become the Poet Laureate of the United States. Now, decades later, she opens herself up to her past to produce a harrowing yet beautiful memorial.”
Mike , Northshire Bookstore
A chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the moving, intimate story of a poet coming into her own in the wake of a tragedy
At age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. Grieving and still new to adulthood, she confronted the twin pulls of life and death in the aftermath of unimaginable trauma and now explores the way this experience lastingly shaped the artist she became.
With penetrating insight and a searing voice that moves from the wrenching to the elegiac, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Natasha Trethewey explores this profound experience of pain, loss, and grief as an entry point into understanding the tragic course of her mother’s life and the way her own life has been shaped by a legacy of fierce love and resilience. Moving through her mother’s history in the deeply segregated South and through her own girlhood as a “child of miscegenation” in Mississippi, Trethewey plumbs her sense of dislocation and displacement in the lead-up to the harrowing crime that took place on Memorial Drive in Atlanta in 1985.
Memorial Drive is a compelling and searching look at a shared human experience of sudden loss and absence but also a piercing glimpse at the enduring ripple effects of white racism and domestic abuse. Animated by unforgettable prose and inflected by a poet’s attention to language, this is a luminous, urgent, and visceral memoir from one of our most important contemporary writers and thinkers.
The Indie Next List
The New York Times Book Review: 100 Notable Books of 2020
Audiobook Releases
Author Natasha Trethewey
Narrator Natasha Trethewey
Publisher HarperAudio
Genres Biography & Memoir, True Crime & Nonfiction
Genre rank #6 in True Crime
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Art & Culture, May/Jun 2016, People, Things To Do
Artizanns: A Treasure Trove in Naples
Suzanne Farley at her store in Naples. Photo by John Adamski
At Artizanns, you’ll find pottery, glass, jewelry, wood, photography, painting, fabric, sculptures, and so much more. That’s what it says on Suzanne Farley’s rack card and every word of it is true. Suzanne is the proprietor of Artizanns, a shop that specializes in gifts from the Finger Lakes, located at 118 North Main Street in the village of Naples. The flipside of that card reads: “Our gallery offers so many original, affordable and imaginative creations from 200 Finger Lakes artisans, you’ll find yourself returning again, and again.” There’s no doubting the validity of that statement either.
Suzanne opened Artizanns 12 years ago after serving a 16-year stint as the executive director of the Naples Grape Festival. In that role, she sought and recruited artists and vendors who produced top quality arts and crafts, and managed a first-rate juried art show. It was during her tenure there that she realized a local gallery was needed to serve the region, and historic Naples was the perfect venue. After conferring with some local artists who agreed with her, Suzanne was off and running.
Artizanns started out by representing 35 artists in a tight 650-square-foot gallery on Mill Street, but within two years, it was representing 125 artisans. Suzanne has been at her present location – a converted 1,200-square-foot, 10-room, two-story house – for the last 10 years, and currently represents 200 artists. A stickler for quality in every medium, she does not handle any baubles, knick-knacks or trinkets. Every item, regardless of price, has to be made in the Finger Lakes, be visually attractive, and of lasting value. Her exhibits are organized by category and are freshened periodically on a rotating basis. Each room in her shop is dedicated to a different medium and during the course of the year, Suzanne determines what is selling and what isn’t and makes inventory adjustments accordingly during her annual March sale.
Her interest in the arts began years ago when she spent time in the dark room perfecting her love for black-and-white 35mm photography. “I had many talented art friends but managing the Grape Fest for all those years introduced me to all different kinds of media from extremely talented artists,” she told me. Having no time to indulge and interact with those artists while she was busy managing the festival, Suzanne was inspired to think about eventually opening a gallery of her own.
The range of artistic media at Artizanns leaves no stone unturned – a pun intended. Suzanne represents 20 different jewelers, some of whom incorporate polished pebbles or valuable gemstones into their work. One artist specializes in precious metal clay, a newer art form that originated in Japan. Pure silver, copper, or bronze are ground into a fine powder and mixed with an organic binder and water. The substance that results can then be sculpted, molded or textured, and cut into almost any shape. Once it’s fired, the finished product is a purer form than sterling, and is beautiful and strong as well. Precious metal clay designs are available in both stock and custom orders.
Suzanne’s stable of artisans also includes 20 potters whose products range from tableware to decorator lamps, and at least as many photographers who feature Finger Lakes scenic landscapes in a variety of image sizes. Some are even printed on metal. Other artists specialize in various forms of stained glass and unique wood products that are either decorative, functional, or both.
Artizanns provides parking on site as well as on the street.
The name for Artizanns came about during an early morning golf game with friends who tossed out suggestions. One of them incorporated Suzanne’s nickname, “Zann,” with various derivatives of artist. “Artizanns” just stuck. Her two biggest wishes a dozen years ago were that Artizanns would become a household name and that people could pronounce it correctly. It seems that both of those wishes have come true.
As an entrepreneur, Suzanne knows that any successful small business depends on local support, and so she carries arts and craft products that are not available anywhere else, especially in big-box stores. She has made customer service her top priority and often arranges for artists and patrons to work together in order to create a custom design or one-of-a-kind item. She knows that consistency in her gallery’s image and hours of operation ensure repeat business and for that reason, she’s open almost daily all year around. She’s also willing to accommodate a customer’s schedule, even on holidays if necessary. See artizanns.com for more information.
Artizanns also participates in a variety of different community events throughout the year in conjunction with the Naples Valley Visitor’s Association (NVVA). Suzanne is currently involved in her first annual Naples Busk & Balter, which will take place on Saturday, June 11. During the event, folks can enjoy live street music and dancing in and around the village, along with cider, beer, wine and grape juice tastings. Additional information will become available on the NVVA website and Facebook pages, as it develops.
But the bottom line is this: If you’re looking for a unique gift or distinctive home décor item, just reread the opening sentence of this article and then head for Artizanns. You can browse the gallery for hours and find things that you’ve never even imagined existed. It truly is a treasure trove in Naples.
Busk & Balter
Naples Valley Visitors Association (NVVA) is hosting the first annual Busk & Balter in the Village of Naples on Saturday, June 11. “Busking” is the art of street performance and “balter” means “to dance artlessly, without particular skill or grace. From 1:30 to 3 p.m. there will be musicians and other types of performers at several locations on Main Street. Other merchants in the downtown area will feature tastings of wine, cider, beer, grape juice and food tastings for a $5 donation to the NVVA (the performances are free). The music doesn’t stop at 3, as many of the Naples restaurants and wineries will be hosting their own performers beginning at 3 p.m. and going well into the evening. Restaurants and stores will all be open with event specials.
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story and photo by John Adamski
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Eight people released under investigation after GBH in Lincoln
'I've never seen anything like this - it's a big shock', said one resident
Holly O'Flinn
Eight people who were arrested in connection with an incident in Lincoln have been released under investigation.
The people, between the ages of 16 and 45, were arrested after a 16-year-old boy was taken to hospital with injuries following an incident of grievous bodily harm in the early hours of Saturday, May 12 just after 1am.
The teenager was found in Mons Road where it is thought he sustained his injuries at an address in Burton Road.
'There was a lot a shouting, glass smashing and crying' - residents' shock at commotion in quiet Lincoln street
A police cordon was put in place on a section of Burton Road, which also blocked the entrance of one of the property's driveways.
Local residents told Lincolnshire Live that a party had been taking place.
Police have taped off part of Burton Road.
Neighbour Wally Holt, 83, said: "I've lived here since 1964 and I've never seen anything like this - it's a big shock.
"It's not the sort of thing of thing you see every day and you don't want to."
Student teacher Francesca Ahern, 22, added: "I just assumed they were having a party but it got really loud and there was a lot of shouting, glass smashing and people crying."
If you have any information in relation to this incident, call 101 quoting incident number 22 of May 12.
You can also contact Lincolnshire Police by emailing force.control@lincs.pnn.police.uk - remember to put the reference incident number 22 of May 12.
You can also contact independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or online at crimestoppers-uk.
In an emergency, always call 999.
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Belgium: Socialist candidate wins more than a third of the vote
André Gonsalis
The recent internal leadership elections in the Flemish Socialist Party revealed a very militant mood in the ranks of the party. The two left candidates Erik De Bruyn and Elke Heirman received an amazing 33.6% of the votes, preparing the ground for the re-emergence of s strong left wing in the party.
In a previous article (read Belgium: Socialist Left candidate nominated for elections of party chairperson! by Wim Benda) we explained how Erik De Bruyn, a well known supporter of the Marxist tendency was nominated as a candidate for the election of chairperson of the Flemish Socialist Party of Belgium.
After a two-month campaign in the party branches, the 58,000 members of the party had the opportunity to vote by post for the candidates that had been nominated: the candidates proposed by the party leadership Caroline Genez and Dirk Vandermaelen and the left slate of Eric De Bruyn and Elke Heirman.
The result of the vote was made public in a national congress on 21 October. Genez was elected with 66.4%, but the left-wing candidates got an astonishing 33.6%. Even more astonishing than this result were the interventions of the rank and file during the congress.
After the devastating result in the last parliamentary elections, the party leadership could not escape the criticism that it had neglected the party branches. Speakers from the branches were allowed to address the congress and no less than 24 of them took the opportunity to do so. They talked about party democracy and the duty of the leadership to listen to the rank and file. They said that party congresses are meant for democratic decision making, not to be used as media shows. They stressed the need for unity in action with the trade unions (many speakers raised this). They pleaded against all divisions of the Belgian institutions along language lines and for internationalist solidarity.
A worker who had been a candidate in the last election said that it was not enough to put workers on the election lists, but that the party leadership should listen to the workers and discuss with them in the working places.
Many speakers challenged the official party line of "equal chances" with the fact that poverty has doubled over the last 20 years in Belgium: one in 7 people now live below the poverty line. They raised this together with the need to control the prices of basic goods, such as food and heating, through state intervention.
All these demands were first put forward by the "sp.a Rood" left wing of the party during this campaign. The points were taken up so eagerly by the rank and file that most of them instantly accepted them as their own. Even those speakers who expressed support for Caroline Genez used arguments of the left wing. Eric De Bruyn hit the nail on the head when he said after the congress that the left wing had obtained 33% of the votes but it had won at least 66% of the argument!
The other issue that was on the mind of most speakers was the formation of the new government. For136 days now the main right-wing parties have been negotiating the formation of a new government. The main stumbling block throughout this time has been the reform of the state along more nationalist lines. But while they are divided on this issue, they have far less of a problem on agreeing on attacks on social welfare, promoting nuclear energy, curtailing the right to strike, etc.
Many speakers warned the congress against "those nasty rightists", as Fred Patrie a comrade in his eighties and the star of this congress put it. The same comrade recalled the time when he became socialist as a youngster during the Second World War and in the resistance against the Nazis (both the German Nazis and the home-grown Nazis within the Flemish nationalists). He attacked "those capitalist thieves" who got rich through tax fraud and called for a tax on the big fortunes. He cited with astonishing accuracy a list of figures to prove that it is perfectly possible to pay for the pensions of the future generations, in spite of what the right wing is saying on this subject. His speech was met with a thunderous applause and ended with the words of the Internationale.
Everyone who took part agreed that this was the best congress the Socialist Party had had for many decades. The warm enthusiasm for socialism was apparent to everyone, not the fake enthusiasm that emanates from show congresses organised by professional spin-doctors. And what was at the root of this enthusiasm was several months of sometimes very sharp discussion, a discussion of all the basic problems that confront the Socialist Party and the working class in this society.
Many speakers called for unity against the forthcoming government. This was also the bottom line of the few speakers from the party leadership who addressed the congress. The left wing has no problem with this, but it should not be the kind of unity that is used to silence the rank and file! Real unity can only be the result of fraternal discussion and we are confident that in such a discussion socialist ideas will prevail.
For the first time in decades a genuine left wing is taking shape within the Socialist Party of Flanders. Tens if not hundreds of party activists have been showing interest in our ideas. Now we are setting us the task of organising them. And this is only the tip of the iceberg. The main organisations of the Flemish and Belgian working class are the Trade Unions, with their 2.8 million-strong membership. Some of them are still members of the Socialist Party, but many have ceased to be members, repelled by the right-wing leadership. But they are surely watching what is happening now very carefully. The Belgian working class has one of the most militant traditions in the world. If the "sp.a Rood" left wing plays the role it should, it could be the motor for the retaking of the Socialist Party by the working class.
Belgium: Socialist Left candidate nominated for elections of party chairperson! by Wim Benda (September 14, 2007)
Belgium: 100,000 workers march through streets of Brussels by Erik Demeester in Brussels (November 1, 2005)
Belgium: Two general strikes in three weeks – class struggle back on the agenda by Erik Demeester (October 19, 2005)
Belgium: First general strike in 12 years against bosses’ “work-till-you-drop” plans by Erik Demeester (October 7, 2005)
Belgium: Reshuffling of the right wing heralds growing polarisation by Maarten Vanheuverswyn and Wim Benda (December 15, 2004)
Federal elections in Belgium - a more marked left-right polarisation is emerging by Erik Demeester (May 19, 2003)
Belgium After the White March (October 1996)
General strike 1960-61: 35 days that shook Belgium 15 Jan 2021
Belgium: student bureaucrats censor anti-racist struggle 28 Nov 2018
Belgium: the strange friends of Carles Puigdemont 15 Oct 2018
Belgium: spontaneous strikes shake the government 3 Jun 2016
Bomb attacks in Brussels – what will they lead to? 22 Mar 2016
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European Capital of Culture Umeå 2014
Umeå the City of Birches
Umeå was founded in the early 1620's just like many other Swedish cities (i.e Göteborg, Sundsvall, and Piteå) . King Gustaf II Adolf wanted a tighter grip on trade in order to be able to levy more taxes and he therefore forced the merchants to move to the new cities. The city was built on the lands of the Sanda homestead as a compromise between Ön and Backen.
The city was burned to the ground by marauding Russian troops in 1714 and 1720. A Russian army corps captured Umeå in 1809 without any fighting to speak of but left after a few days of occupation due to imminent peace negotiations. In June 1888 the whole of the eastern part of Umeå, the shipyards at Teg and the houses on Ön Island were devastated by a fire that began in the brewery close to Renmarksbäcken. About 2,300 of the city's 3,000 inhabitants were made homeless. When the city was rebuilt after the fire, wide avenues were laid out as fire protection and silver birch trees planted along them to prevent fires from spreading from one building to another.
Umeå soon became known around Sweden as the City of Birches. In 1951 Umeå was allocated the fifth copy of most of what is printed in Sweden, enabling it to build up a major academic library. A dental school opened in 1956, paving the way for the development of the university.
Umeå's Graduate School for Social Work was established in 1962, the same year that Umeå airport opened. Umeå University was inaugurated on 17 September 1965. In 1992 Umeå overtook Sundsvall to become the Norrland municipality with the largest population. In 2012, Umeå's population topped 117,000 after several years of record growth. Today Umeå is the most densely populated town in northern Sweden. The 33 000 students at the university mean that Umeå stays young and vital and offers lots of city-pulse activities like shopping, eating in restaurants and pubs, or having a picnic in the city park.
The Umeå region is composed of Umeå and the five neighbouring municipalities. Together they have a unique span in which nature and nature activities, culture, history and city life can be easily combined.
All year round, the Umeå region has many guises. In the summer, beach life and boat trips draw you to the sea. Whitewater rafting trips are run along the Vindelälven, one of Sweden´s national rivers. A canoe is an excellent way to tour our islands and rivers. For the fishers, there are good salmon, salmon, trout, grayling and perch waters. The forests can be experienced from horseback or along any of our exquisite walking trails. There many golf courses in beautiful settings. Games can go on long into the light, summer nights.
Wintertime is embarking on a dog sled trek and experiencing the forest´s stillness and quiet a real adventure. A popular winter pleasure is also ice fishing on the frozen sea or a lake. The region has many kilometres of beautiful snowmobile routes to discover.
Umeå European Capital of Culture 2014.
Being Europe's Capital of Culture is part of Umeå's long-term development strategy up to 2050. The award will accelerate investment and growth. Culture and sport will have new opportunities for development in cooperation with the rest of Europe and the world. Umeå will be more attractive to students, people who move here, entrepreneurs, creators and investors. Umeå, the most northerly Capital of Culture ever, will treat audiences and visitors from all around Europe to a challenging and innovative year.
First visit to Umeå - Ambassador Meeting
Warm welcome by the Umeå2014 Team and special thanks to Tina Jonsson for the nice tour.
Karin Ardvisson speaks about the Lyza's project Together in Harmony at 13.59
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Macquarie partners with Energy industry for Calgary-based charities
Calgary, 07 October 2015
Macquarie Group teamed up with its energy industry partners to hold its inaugural Annual Shuck Off and Seafood Boil charity-day event on September 30, 2015. Bringing awareness to the needs of Juno Foundation, Brown Bagging for Calgary’s Kids, Children’s Wish Foundation and Alzheimer Society of Calgary, the event raised more than $230,000 in individual donations and corporate contributions.
The event included a number of energy industry leaders, with the CEOs of Crew Energy Inc., Toro Oil & Gas Ltd., RMP Energy Inc. and Annapolis Capital Limited competing in the inaugural CEO Oyster Shuck Off on behalf of their nominated charities. The total donation amount comprised approximately $130,000 of funds raised by the CEOs and their supporters, individual contributions from Macquarie staff and clients, together with a matching amount of $100,000 from the Macquarie Group Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Macquarie Group.
“We are delighted and honored by the great turnout at our first-ever Seafood Boil. More importantly, we are humbled by the generosity and commitment made by our industry colleagues in supporting such worthwhile causes. At Macquarie, we work to provide innovative solutions for clients every day, so it’s pleasing when we can work with clients to give back financially to those who need it most," said Dan Cristall, CEO of Macquarie Capital Markets Canada Ltd.
The event was held in Calgary’s charbar at The Simmons Building, with food and beverage also provided by Sidewalk Citizen Bakery and Phil & Sebastian Coffee Roasters. Dale Shwed, President and CEO of Crew Energy Inc. and winner of the Macquarie Oyster Shuck Off, took home bragging rights for his charity, the Children's Wish Foundation.
Tanya Koshowski, Executive Director at the Brown Bagging for Calgary’s Kids, said: “We are experiencing a huge increase in need in our city. The awareness and support from this fantastic group of people will ensure we achieve our goal of no hungry kids in Calgary and build a stronger, more resilient community while we do that! As of today we are aware of over 2800 kids every day that would otherwise go without a healthy lunch. We are so grateful that Barry Olson from Toro Oil chose Brown Bagging for Calgary’s Kids and that the Oyster Shucking event has ensured over 41,000 lunches are fed to kids.”
Tracy Luca-Huger, Executive Director at the Juno Foundation, said: “What a boost this has been for Juno Foundation! Funds raised by Macquarie will allow us to provide more subsidies for girls, young women and their families in need of financial assistance in receiving treatment for anxiety disorders, including eating disorders, self-harm and depression. The event was creative and engaged the audience, resulting in a win for local charities and a fun-filled night for guests. A resounding ‘thank you’ to Macquarie.”
Kyla Martin, Director at the Children’s Wish Foundation, said: “This incredible support could not have come at a better time for Children’s Wish and our Wish Families. Already within our first months of this year, we are experiencing unprecedented increases of wish referrals through our strong medical community relationships for our wishes granted to children with life-threatening illnesses. This tremendous support will ensure that our legacy of never denying eligible children their most heart-felt wish continues.”
Barb Ferguson, Executive Director at the Alzheimer Society of Calgary, said: “This captivating event was not only entertaining and creative, but also a tremendous boost at a much-needed time for the charitable organizations involved. Through these efforts, Macquarie Group and Macquarie Group Foundation have demonstrated impressive support for thousands of people affected by Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia in Calgary. It was an honour to be involved and represented by John Ferguson, our champion and our designated oyster shucker from RMP Energy Inc. as well. On behalf of the people we serve, we are most grateful for this level of support.”
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Award Winning actor Russell Tovey joins in SATs exam revision at Tottenham primary school’s breakfast club
Launches campaign to ensure no child sits morning exams on an empty stomach
London, 1st May 2019: Actor Russell Tovey (Being Human, Gavin & Stacey, Quantico, The Great Celebrity Bake Off 2019) joined pupils at Risley Avenue Primary School in Tottenham for a healthy breakfast and exam revision ahead of SATs exams this month.
Russell is supporting Magic Breakfast charity’s Magic SATs campaign, launching on 1st May, which is raising funds to ensure no child sits down to their morning exams on an empty stomach, too hungry to focus and unable to do their best.
As many as 1.8 million school age children are at risk of hunger in the UK1 and for too many, the first meal of the day is lunch. Magic Breakfast provides nutritious breakfasts and expert support to schools where children arrive for their morning lessons too hungry to learn.
An independent evaluation by the Institute for Fiscal Studies2 found that pupils in Magic Breakfast’s partner schools boosted their reading, writing and maths skills by an average of two months’ additional progress per year, compared to pupils in schools with no such breakfast provision.
Throughout May, individuals, corporates and restaurants will be fundraising in order to help Magic Breakfast end hunger as a barrier to education in UK schools. They might be donating a meal for a meal, or having a go at a SATs paper, like Russell Tovey, or setting themselves a sponsored fitness challenge.
The call will go out to text MAGICSATS to 70085 to donate £5 with the aim of raising £60,000 which equates to the cost of 200,000 breakfasts.
Alex Cunningham, CEO of Magic Breakfast, said: “We want all children to have the same chance to progress in their education and do well in their exams. A healthy school breakfast is a simple solution that has been proven to make a huge difference.”
Russell Tovey said that he had had an inspirational visit to Risley Avenue Primary School – “It’s great to see so many children enjoying a healthy breakfast to set them up for the morning ahead. Good luck to everyone taking exams this May!”.
1 Correlates of Food Insecurity Among Children Across the Globe, Innocenti Working Paper, UNICEF Office of Research, Florence
2 https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/projects-and-evaluation/projects/magic-breakfast/
About Russell Tovey
With an extensive background in film, television and theatre, Russell Tovey is best known for playing the leading role of George Sands in the BBC’s fantasy comedy series Being Human. Russell also starred in BBC’s comedy television series Him and Her, where he went on to win the 2012 Royal Television Society Award (RTS) for Best Comedy Performance. He can also be seen as character Budgie in Gavin & Stacy. His numerous television credits include BBC’s Doctor Who; critically acclaimed BBC TV mini-series Little Dorrit; Ashes to Ashes; Rob Brydon’s Annually Retentive; Sherlock; Looking; The Night Manager; What Remains; The Job Lot and Quantico. Russell will next be seen in the BBC’s Drama series Years and Years written by Russell T. Davies, alongside Emma Thompson and Jessica Hynes.
After starring in Alan Bennett’s 2004 play The History Boys, both at the National Theatre and on Broadway, he reprised his role of ‘Rudge’ in the 2006 film adaptation directed by Nicholas Hytner. In 2008, Russell also appeared in The Sea at the Theatre Royal Haymarket and then in 2009 as Gary in A Miracle at London's Royal Court Theatre. He has also played the title role in Tintin at the Barbican and the role of Roger in His Dark Materials at The National Theatre. In 2017, Russel played the leading role of Joseph Pitt in critically acclaimed Angels in America at The National Theatre, preceding a Broadway transfer.
In late 2012 Russell starred alongside Sheridan Smith in the popular thriller, Tower Block. He can also be seen in period drama film Effie, opposite Dakota Fanning, Emma Thompson and Julie Walters. Other notable film credits include Grabbers; Blackwood; The Lady in the Van; Mindhorn; The Pass; Hymm of Hate; and The Sea. Later this year, Russel will star alongside Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren in Bill Condon’s The Good Liar.
Magic Breakfast is a registered charity in the UK (number: 1102510 in England and SC048202 in Scotland) providing healthy breakfasts to over 40,300 children every school day as essential fuel for learning.
The charity works with schools in disadvantaged areas of the UK helping them to establish breakfast provision that targets every vulnerable child. A hungry child cannot concentrate and will miss out on the most important lessons, taught in the morning, if not given anything to eat.
School breakfast provision has been shown to improve educational outcomes for disadvantaged children. Independent research, funded by the Education Endowment Foundation and carried out by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, found that primary schools that offered a free, nutritious Magic Breakfast boosted their pupils' reading, writing and maths results by an average of 2 months' progress over the course of a year.
Magic Breakfast is supporting the provision of breakfasts to 480 partner schools - primary, secondary, SEN schools and Pupil Referral Units.
In March 2018 Magic Breakfast and Family Action were awarded a contract by the Department for Education to set up or improve breakfast provision in over 1,770 schools in disadvantaged areas of England. The two year investment is being funded through the Soft Drinks Industry Levy.
Fundraising packs are available on the Magic Breakfast website. https://www.magicbreakfast.com/appeal/magic-sats-2019
Sophia Dettmer, Head of Communications, Magic Breakfast
Lauren Jenkins, Russell Tovey publicist
PHOTOS: High Res images are available for publication, please contact Sophia Dettmer
Published: 1st May, 2019
Magic Breakfast's statement regarding the re-publication of the EEF's evaluation of school breakfast clubs
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Being a Scottish charity trustee brings responsibilities. At Magus Chartered Accountants, we can provide guidance on the reporting requirements in the London area.
It is often considered an honour to act as a trustee for a charity and an opportunity to give something back to the community. However, becoming a trustee involves a certain commitment and level of responsibility which should not be underestimated.
Whether you are already a trustee for a charity, be it a local project or a household name, or are thinking of becoming involved, there are a number of responsibilities that being a trustee places upon you.
We outline the main responsibilities below, with a particular emphasis on accounting and audit requirements for Scottish charities.
The charities sector in Scotland is generally overseen by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) also known as the 'Scottish Charity Regulator'. OSCR is a Non-Ministerial Government department which is the independent regulator and registrar for Scottish charities.
OSCR plays an important role in the charity sector and is in place to give the public confidence in the integrity of charities and to help charity trustees to understand and comply with their legal duties.
A key part of OSCR's work is to provide advice to trustees. A great deal of useful advice can be found on the OSCR website, where there is a section dedicated to Charity trustees' duties.
Types of charity
The main legislation which charities in Scotland operate is the Charities and Trustees Investment Act (Scotland) 2005 (the 2005 Act). Charities can be created in a number of ways but are usually either:
incorporated under the Companies Act 2006 or earlier (limited company charities)
incorporated under the 2005 Act through The Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisations Regulations 2011 ('the General Regulations') (Scottish charitable incorporated organisations, SCIOs), or
created by a declaration of trust (unincorporated charities).
Each of these charities needs to register and file their accounts with OSCR and limited companies are additionally registered with Companies House.
The type of the charity will determine the full extent of a trustee's responsibilities.
Who is a Trustee?
The 2005 Act defines trustees as 'persons having the general control and management of the administration of a charity'. This definition would typically include:
for unincorporated charities and SCIOs, members of the executive or management committee
for limited company charities, the directors or members of the management committee.
Charities need at all times to fulfil the charitable purpose for which they were created and it is the duty of all the trustees to ensure this.
Trustee restrictions and liabilities
In addition to the responsibilities of being a trustee, there are also a number of restrictions which may apply. These are aimed at preventing a conflict of interest arising between a trustee's personal interests and their duties as a trustee. These provide that generally:
trustees cannot benefit personally from the charity, although reasonable out of pocket expenses may be reimbursed
trustees should not be paid for their role as trustee.
There are limited exceptions to these principles which are set out in the 2005 Act. Where trustees do not act prudently, lawfully or in accordance with their governing document they may find themselves personally responsible for any loss they cause to the charity.
Trustees' responsibilities
The OSCR guidance Charity Trustee Duties explains what it means to be a trustee and how to become one. Trustees have full responsibility for the charity and a general duty to act in the interests of the charity. This means they should:
operate in a way which is consistent with the charity's charitable purposes
follow the law and the rules in the charity's governing document
act with care and diligence
manage any conflict of interest between the charity and any person or organisation that may appoint the charity's trustees.
Trustees have a duty to make sure that their charity's funds are only applied in the furtherance of its' charitable objects. They need to be able to demonstrate that this is the case, so they should keep records which are capable of doing this.
Charity trustees must put the interests of the charity before their own needs or those of any relatives or business interests. Where a decision must be taken where one option would be in the interests of a trustee and another in that of the charity a trustee should make sure the other trustees know of the conflict and should not take part in the discussion or decision.
The OSCR guidance Charity Trustee Duties also provides information on some specific duties contained in the 2005 Act. The guidance sets out trustees' duties to:
provide all the information needed to keep the Scottish Charity Register up to date
comply with the charity's governing document and the 2005 Act when making changes to the way the charity operates
keep proper accounting records and prepare an annual statement of account and annual report which are externally scrutinised
take control of how the charity raises funds
provide information to the public.
These duties are shared by every individual in charge of the charity. No individual charity trustee (for example the Chair or Treasurer) has more responsibility than any other trustee.
Accounting requirements
The 2005 Act requires that charities:
keep full and accurate accounting records (and funds requirements are of particular importance here)
prepare charity accounts and an annual report on its activities
ensure an audit or independent examination is carried out
submit an annual return, annual report and accounts to OSCR (and, for limited company charities, to Companies House).
The extent to which these requirements have to be met generally depends upon the type of charity and how much income is generated.
Funds requirements
An important aspect of accounting for charities is the understanding of the different 'funds' that a charity can have.
Essentially funds represent the income of the charity and there may be restrictions on how certain types of funds raised can be used. For example, a donation may be received only on the understanding that it is to be used for a specified purpose.
It is then the trustees' responsibility to ensure that such 'restricted' funds are used only as intended.
The effective management and control of fundraising is also an important trustee responsibility. The Scottish Fundraising Standards Panel oversee fundraising standards and deal with fundraising complaints for Scottish registered charities in line with the Code of Fundraising Practice.
The annual report is often a fairly comprehensive document, as legislation sets out the minimum amount of information that has to be included. The report generally includes:
a trustees' report (which can double as a directors' report and a strategic report, if required for charitable companies)
a statement of financial activities for the year
an income and expenditure account for the year (for some charitable companies)
a balance sheet
a statement of cash flows
notes to the accounts (including accounting policies).
Audit requirements
Whether or not a charity requires an audit will depend mainly upon how much income is received or generated and their year end:
all charities where income exceeds £500,000 require an audit
all other charities require an independent examination. Where 'accruals' accounts are prepared the independent examiner must be suitably qualified.
There are other criteria to consider, particularly regarding total assets, and we would be pleased to discuss these in more detail with you.
There is a comprehensive framework in place that determines how a charity's accounts should be prepared.
Unincorporated charities with income below £250,000 may prepare receipts and payments accounts, unless their governing document says otherwise.
All other charities must prepare accounts that show a 'true and fair' view and are referred to as ‘accruals’ accounts. To show a ‘true and fair’ view the accounts generally need to follow the requirements of the Charities Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP). The SORP can be viewed at www.charitysorp.org and charities are able to build a bespoke version of the SORP dealing with their own circumstances.
If you are in the London area please do contact us at Magus Chartered Accountants for guidance on the reporting requirements for Scottish Charities.
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Excise and Excise-Equivalent Duties Exemption (Inter-Governmental Agreements) Order 1996
Reprint as at 1 October 2018
Michael Hardie Boys, Governor-General
At Wellington this 19th day of August 1996
This order is administered by the New Zealand Customs Service.
Pursuant to section 81 of the Customs and Excise Act 1996, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby makes the following order.
1 Title and commencement
2 Certain goods exempted from excise and excise-equivalent duties
3 Revocation
Goods exempted from excise duty and excise-equivalent duty
This order may be cited as the Excise and Excise-Equivalent Duties Exemption (Inter-Governmental Agreements) Order 1996.
This order shall come into force on 1 October 1996.
The goods set out in the Schedule are hereby exempted from all excise duty and excise-equivalent duty imposed under Part 2 of the Customs and Excise Act 2018.
Clause 2: amended, on 1 October 2018, by section 443(4) of the Customs and Excise Act 2018 (2018 No 4).
The Excise Duties Suspension (Inter-Governmental Agreements) Order 1964 (SR 1964/195) is hereby revoked.
Schedule Goods exempted from excise duty and excise-equivalent duty
cl 2
All alcoholic beverages and tobacco products specified in Parts A and B of the Excise and Excise-equivalent Duties Table (as defined in section 5(1) of the Customs and Excise Act 2018) that the Chief Executive of the New Zealand Customs Service is satisfied are, at the time of importation or entry for home consumption,—
supplied solely for the use of such organisations, expeditions, or other bodies as may be approved by the chief executive (as defined in section 5(1) of the Customs and Excise Act 2018) for the purposes of this order and as may from time to time be established or temporarily based in New Zealand under an agreement or arrangement entered into by or on behalf of the Government of New Zealand with the Government of any other country or with the United Nations; or
supplied solely for the use of persons temporarily resident in New Zealand for the purpose of serving as a member of any such approved organisation, expedition, or other body.
Schedule: amended, on 1 October 2018, by section 443(4) of the Customs and Excise Act 2018 (2018 No 4).
Schedule: amended, on 24 June 2014, by section 13(4)(a) of the Customs and Excise (Border Processing—Trade Single Window and Duties) Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 10).
Schedule paragraph (a): amended, on 1 October 2018, by section 443(4) of the Customs and Excise Act 2018 (2018 No 4).
Schedule paragraph (a): amended, on 24 June 2014, by section 13(4)(b) of the Customs and Excise (Border Processing—Trade Single Window and Duties) Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 10).
Marie Shroff,
Date of notification in Gazette: 22 August 1996.
This is a reprint of the Excise and Excise-Equivalent Duties Exemption (Inter-Governmental Agreements) Order 1996 that incorporates all the amendments to that order as at the date of the last amendment to it.
Customs and Excise Act 2018 (2018 No 4): section 443(4)
Customs and Excise (Border Processing—Trade Single Window and Duties) Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 10): section 13(4)
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Appellate Law – The Final Judgment Rule and its Exceptions
By David Urban
Many times, parties to a lawsuit receive trial court rulings in the midst of the litigation that are unfavorable, oppressive, and seem to them to be demonstrably wrong. The parties want to appeal immediately, but their counsel will say that cannot happen, citing the “Final Judgment Rule.” The rule certainly sounds dark and fateful. Perhaps courts intend it to be, because the rule serves to deter disgruntled litigants from appealing while the trial court case is ongoing, and typically requires those litigants to wait months, or even years, to appeal. So what is this rule? And perhaps more importantly, what are ways to gain access to an appellate court early without offending it?
The Final Judgment Rule (sometimes called the “One Final Judgment Rule”) is the legal principle that appellate courts will only hear appeals from the “final” judgment in a case. A plaintiff or defendant cannot appeal rulings of the trial court while the case is still ongoing. For example, a party that loses its motion to compel discovery, motion for summary judgment, or demurrer cannot appeal these decisions, at least not until a final judgment has been entered in the case, concluding the lawsuit in the trial court. The Final Judgment Rule has existed for hundreds of years, and serves the purpose of promoting judicial efficiency – cases would practically never end if the party who lost a motion while the case was pending could appeal it, wait for a decision from the court of appeal, and then continue with the trial court case.
Moreover, the Final Judgment Rule greatly reduces appellate court workloads by tending to make it so that only very important issues are ultimately presented to those courts. If a party loses a motion early in the trial court case, they may certainly feel wronged. But in the weeks or months afterward, the case may settle, the issue may fade in importance, or the trial court might actually decide to change the ruling, making appellate review unnecessary. Postponing review conserves appellate court resources, and those of the parties as well. In addition, postponing appellate review allows the appellate court to rule on all the challenges to the trial court’s decisions at the same time, thereby further promoting efficiency. The appellate court will not have to consider “piecemeal” appeals.
The Final Judgment Rule may make sound policy sense. But it is not much comfort to a litigant who has lost an important motion in court many months before the actual trial will start and cannot immediately appeal the bad ruling.
There are, however, some ways around the Final Judgment Rule. Here are examples of four significant ways, and the circumstance under which each is available.
Petition for Writ of Mandamus:
This is the classic method for obtaining relief while a litigation matter is still ongoing. This type of petition to an appellate court seeks a “writ of mandamus” (sometimes also called a “writ of mandate”), essentially an order from the appellate court to the trial court directing it the trial court to change its decision or take some other action. This type of writ is available in both federal and state courts.
The advantage of a petition for writ of mandamus is that it is available to overturn essentially any ruling or order made by a trial court, even though the lawsuit is still ongoing. The disadvantage of this type of petition, however, is that it is entirely discretionary in the court of appeal. The court of appeal is free to turn down any writ petition, even one that clearly has merit, and the court of appeal denies the overwhelming majority of petitions for writ of mandamus seeking review of trial court orders. The state court percentage of accepted petitions is low and the number is even lower in federal court. The reason these writs are so often denied on this summary basis (i.e., without even considering whether they raise a valid legal point) is that courts of appeal rarely see any reason to depart from the underlying principles of the Final Judgment Rule.
There are particular types of scenarios in which appellate courts are more likely to decide a writ on the merits. One is when issues of privilege or confidentiality are concerned. For example, when a trial court orders a litigant to disclose sensitive personnel records of individuals or information in which the litigant claims attorney-client privilege, the need for appellate review is immediate. If the litigant obeys the trial court’s order, then the disclosure will be made, and the alleged harm done, before any appellate court can determine whether the trial court’s ruling in fact was correct. It is widely understood that in these scenarios, appellate courts will more likely choose to intervene in the midst of litigation.
Another example is when the issue raised by the writ petition is one of great public importance, and when the party who files the petition can persuade the court that the public would be well served by the appellate court immediately reviewing and providing guidance on that particular issue without waiting for the case to conclude.
A Preliminary Injunction Ruling:
The parties can also immediately appeal a trial court’s ruling granting or denying injunctive relief. Trial courts have the power to issue preliminary injunctions at the beginning of a case that can operate to preserve the status quo. For example, a trial court can order that a public college must stop enforcing a rule that supposedly stifles student First Amendment free speech rights. Trial courts can make these orders based on an initial showing by the plaintiff, at the beginning of the case, that they are likely to succeed on the merits of their claim, that they are likely to suffer irreparable harm if the preliminary injunction is not granted, and that general equities and the public interest support issuance of the injunction.
Not only are these types of orders for injunctive relief by trial courts (either granting or denying) immediately appealable, but in the federal appellate courts, appeals of injunctions are given priority over other types of cases.
Rulings on Anti-SLAPP Motions:
An immediate appeal is also available from a state trial court’s ruling on what is known as an “anti-SLAPP motion.” This type of motion can be used by a defendant, including a public entity, in response to a lawsuit that challenges conduct by the defendant in furtherance of the defendant’s right of petition or free speech as defined by the anti-SLAPP statute. (SLAPP stands for “Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation,” and is meant to refer essentially to meritless lawsuits brought against persons or organizations to punish them for and/or deter them from speaking out on important issues or petitioning the government for redress.) The statute defines protected activities very broadly. Indeed, courts have interpreted the definition to include government statements in various types of proceedings, including internal investigations conducted by public entities as to their employees. (Hansen v. California Dept. of Corrections and Rehabilitation.)
If the anti-SLAPP statute applies in a given context, then the defendant can make a motion at the outset of the case to have a trial court determine if there is any “probability” of success on the claim. If the plaintiff cannot present evidence making this showing of a “probability,” then the trial court rules in favor of the defendant. If the defendant wins the motion, the trial court will require the plaintiff to pay the defendant’s attorneys’ fees and costs. Thus, another very important way to have an appeal heard early in state court is to bring an anti-SLAPP motion.
Qualified Immunity Decisions:
Another judicial determination that is often immediately appealable, in the midst of litigation, is a federal trial court’s decision on the defense of qualified immunity. This is a defense available to individuals who are officials or employees of government agencies and are named personally in federal civil rights lawsuits. In general, the defense of qualified immunity applies when the individual defendant is challenged for actions he or she took relating to an area of law that is unclear or unsettled. If it is sufficiently difficult for the individual to tell what is constitutionally prohibited in the situation in question, then this defense will apply. Qualified immunity will not provide a defense to claims for declaratory or injunctive relief against the individual, but it will serve as a defense to a monetary damages claim.
If the trial court either grants or denies a motion based on qualified immunity in the middle of the case, then either side respectively can appeal the determination, if the appeal involves essentially legal questions such as whether the plaintiff’s alleged rights at issue were sufficiently unclear to merit applying the defense. The defense applies in a wide variety of cases brought against government officials and employees. Significantly, individual defendants can claim the qualified immunity defense in wrongful termination cases in which the former employee claims violation of his or her constitutional free speech or due process rights.
Each of these four ways to obtain appellate review on an interlocutory basis — i.e., in the middle of the case — are available to public entity defendants. This gives public entities a unique ability in many cases to structure the defense to obtain immediate access to an appellate court, and thus have important matters resolved before the case concludes.
For other litigation posts on related issues, see prior LCW posts: “Anti-Slapp Motions As A Litigation Resource For Public Employers,” “Extending Qualified Immunity To Private Individuals,” and “Appellate Law — What Are Amicus Curiae Briefs?”
David Urban
David Urban represents organizations in all aspects of labor and employment law. He has successfully defended employers in cases involving alleged discrimination and retaliation, disability, medical leave, privacy, trade secrets, and alleged violation of wage and hour laws such as the Fair Labor…
David Urban represents organizations in all aspects of labor and employment law. He has successfully defended employers in cases involving alleged discrimination and retaliation, disability, medical leave, privacy, trade secrets, and alleged violation of wage and hour laws such as the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) and California’s Wage Orders and meal and rest break laws. He has successfully represented government agencies in lawsuits alleging deprivation of constitutional rights, including lawsuits under 42 U.S.C. section 1983.
Read more about David UrbanEmail
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Job & Other Opportunity Advertisements
National Institute on Aging: Staff Scientist
Intramural Research Program
The National Institute on Aging (NIA), Intramural Research Program (IRP), a major research component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), is recruiting a Staff Scientist in the Molecular Neuropathology Unit (MNU) of the Laboratory of Neurogenetics (LNG) in Bethesda, MD. Research at the MNU focuses on understanding the neuropathological and molecular mechanisms of neurodegenerative disorders of the aging population (Parkinson's Disease, Dementia with Lewy bodies, Multiple system atrophy, and Alzheimer's disease), and developing novel, disease-modifying therapies.
The Staff Scientist will be responsible for designing and performing research in three major related areas: 1) Investigate the molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration in proteinopathies of the aging population thereby identify novel drug targets for testing in in vitro and in vivo models; 2) Perform comprehensive pre-clinical evaluation of small molecule, immunological, and combinatorial therapeutics in in vivo models of neurodegenerative disorders; and 3) Investigate the interplay between immune responses and mechanisms of neurodegeneration.
The successful individual must have a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree in Biomedical Sciences or related fields, with more than 5 combined years of postdoctoral and working experience in a translational laboratory setting. The individual should be an expert in in vitro and in vivo models of neurodegeneration, synaptic proteins biology, and have substantial authorship in the field of protein aggregation, transmission, neurotoxicity and neuropathology. The individual should have substantial knowledge of drug targets in cutting-edge preclinical neurodegenerative disease models and practical skills to support these efforts.
Staff Scientists do not receive independent resources, although they often work independently and have sophisticated skills and knowledge essential to the work of the Laboratory.
Salary is commensurate with research experience and accomplishments. A full Civil Service package of benefits (including retirement, health, life, and long-term care insurance, Thrift Savings Plan participation, etc.) is available. All employees of the Federal Government are subject to the conflict of interest statutes and regulations, including the Standards of Ethical Conduct. Additional information regarding the NIA IRP is available at the following website: www.irp.nia.nih.gov.
To apply: Please send a cover letter, curriculum vitae, bibliography, statement of research interests, and three letters of recommendation to: Sarah Lewis, Intramural Program Specialist; Office of the Scientific Director, National Institute on Aging; Vacancy #NIA-IRP-20-15; via email: niairpjobs@mail.nih.gov. Applications, including letters of recommendation, must reference the Vacancy #NIA-IRP-20-15. The first round of reviews is expected to occur on or about August 3, 2020; however, applications will be accepted until the position is filled.
DHHS and NIH are Equal Opportunity Employers
The NIH is dedicated to building a diverse community in its training and employment programs.
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And now, for a little football:
With the quarterback depth chart currently looking like Bo Nix, Joey Gatewood, Malik Willis and Cord Sandberg, could a scenario occur where one of the three returning candidates transfer out?
— Jared (@_hewenttojared)
Which one of Auburn’s quarterbacks is most likely to follow Chip Lindsey to Troy?
— GC (@GCdoesit2)
Again, I love how everybody has a different idea of what Auburn’s quarterback depth chart looks like right. Heck, I even go back and forth on mine every couple of days. Some days, I lean Willis, because he’s the most experienced option of the group and, at this time last year, was everybody’s heir apparent to Jarrett Stidham. Other days, I lean Nix, because he’s incredibly polished for a true freshman, enrolled early, might have the highest ceiling of the bunch and gives Gus Malzahn some cushion if the Tigers get off to a slow start on offense.
And there is always the possibility that one of the quarterbacks who doesn’t win the job transfers out. There is always the possibility that any player could decide to transfer at any time. Probably not Nix, because he’s a true freshman and a redshirt year never hurt anybody. But if Nix wins the job, you’d have to think that some of the rest could at least consider the possibility. And if that does happen to occur, you should hold no ill will toward that player. Or any player who decides to transfer, at any position, from any school. They have only five years to play four seasons. Who are we to judge a college student for making the decision they feel is best for them, their future and their family?
As to whether any of those quarterbacks, if they did decide to transfer, would join Lindsey at Troy, I am obviously not going to speculate. But the fact that Auburn’s former offensive coordinator is getting his first shot to be a college head coach just 75 miles down the road makes for an interesting story line. I think it’s a great fit for both sides, too. Lindsey is a much better coach than I think he was given credit for at Auburn in 2018 (his offense was great in 2017). He’s an Alabama native, he has plenty of connections throughout the state from his years as a high school coach and he got his start in the college ranks at Troy in 2010. I think he’ll do really well there.
MORE:Chip Lindsey makes quick impression on Troy Trojans
Now, if only Auburn would schedule Troy. Then we could really have some fun.
What are the chances Tate Martell or Jalen Hurts take a look at coming to Auburn?
— @IamD36
I don’t know that I see it with Martell. If he does leave Ohio State (remember: entering the transfer portal allows a player to talk to other schools about a potential transfer, but does not guarantee he does leave) because he doesn’t want to compete with Justin Fields, why would he go somewhere like Auburn where he is again going to have to compete? Plus, he has to sit out a year. You would think he would want to go somewhere with a departing starter, not a school with a junior, two redshirt freshmen and a true freshman at the position.
As for Hurts, I would be shocked if Auburn didn’t at least contact him now that his name is in the transfer portal. Malzahn referred to Hurts as “one of the best quarterbacks in the country” before this past season’s Iron Bowl. The 2016 SEC Offensive Player of the Year looks like the type of dual-threat quarterback that would fit perfectly into Malzahn’s offense. But, as I’ve written before, I don’t know how interested Hurts would be in Auburn. He’s become something of a folk hero at Alabama. The fans who made the trip to the national championship this past weekend gave him a standing ovation and chanted his name after he walked off the SAP Center floor during media day. He is beloved. And if Hurts transfers anywhere outside the SEC (Miami, Houston, Penn State, you name it), it will be a feel-good story. But if he transfers across the state to Alabama’s biggest rival, he will be turning heel and becoming the villain. I don’t profess to know what Hurts is thinking, but I’m not sure how interested he would be in dealing with the circus that would follow. Because it would absolutely, 100 percent, be a circus.
Who do you think wins the starting job at H-back?
— Alive Boy (@warneagle)
John Samuel Shenker. He was usually the one on the field in that spot when Chandler Cox wasn’t, and he’s versatile enough that he can also line up at tight end, which will help Auburn if it wants to play fast on offense. He flashed his ability as a pass-catcher this season (three receptions, 40 yards), so if he can grow as a lead-blocker in the run game, he could make an impact there.
Here’s what Cox had to say about Shenker in December: “I think he's going to do a phenomenal job replacing me. He might even be better than me. I can see it in the future. He's going to do a really good job. He's just a good kid, and he's always willing to get better.”
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Northamptonshire by John Rocque
£48.40 £55.00 Approx $65.94, €54.44
Author: John Rocque
Date published: 1760 circa
Copper engraving with later hand colouring. Overall size : 25.9cms.x 21.6cms. Image size : 198 mm.x 160mm. Very good condition. John Roque (originally Jean)moved to England in 1709 with his parents who were French Huguenot emigrants.He worked as a surveyor, engraver, cartographer and map-seller. In addition, he was involved in garden design with his brother Bartholomew, a landscape gardener. He produced engravings of the gardens at Wrest Park(1735), Claremont(1738), Painshill Park(1744), and Wilton House(1746), among others. However, it is for his maps that he is principally remembered, in particular for his map of London which he began working on in 1737. It was finally published in 24 sheets, in 1746 and was at that time the most detailed map of London yet produced. His London maps together with his other map-making endeavours resulted in his appointment as Cartographer to the Prince of Wales in 1751. The previous year a fire had destroyed his premises and stock but by 1753 he had ten draughtsmen in his employ and during this time "The Small British Atlas : Being a New set of Maps of all the Counties of England and Wales"" was published
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Renault future lineup changes detailed
Sep 27, 2013 at 5:12am ET
New details concerning Renault's upcoming lineup modifications have been revealed.
The next all-new model riding on the CMF2 platform co-developed with Nissan will be the Espace scheduled to come out towards the end of 2014, following the Initiale Paris preview concept showcased this month at IAA. In 2015, Renault plans on introducing a new generation of the Megane which will contain more models than the current family. 2015 will also be the year when we will get to see the new Twingo whose styling was previewed by the Twin’Run concept.
Shortly after that, the French automaker will introduce a Megane-based crossover riding on the same CMF2 platform which will essentially be Renault's version of the second-gen Nissan Qashqai. The next-gen Scenic will be more of a flexible SUV but at the same time maintaining its MPV roots, according to firm's design boss Laurens van den Acker.
Another important change is the new Laguna that will be completely new compared to the current generation which hasn't been very successful in terms of sales. The Laguna won't be sold in UK due to a bad sales history while the Escape will have the same fate because Renault says the car hasn't been engineered for right-hand drive.
Gallery: Renault future lineup changes detailed
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Backstreet Boys: Show ‘Em What You’re Made Of Movie
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By Brian D. Renner Apr. 19, 2015
Wednesday, May 13, 2015 (Limited)
Rating: N/A
A behind-the-scenes look into the world-famous boy band plus a very special performance from the Dominion Theatre in London. The event will give fans a retrospective look into the lives and careers of band members Nick Carter, AJ McLean, Kevin Richardson, Howie Dorough and Brian Littrell, as well as a never-before-seen acoustic set from London that spotlights the depth of the band’s talent.
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The Backstreet Boys, formed in 1993, have sold over 130 million records worldwide, making them the best-selling boy band in history. Twenty-two years later, the boys, now husbands and fathers, reunited to share their journey in this one-night event. Additionally, cinema audiences will be treated to a special acoustic set by the band filmed at the Dominion Theatre in London on February 26 which includes fan favorites: “I Want It That Way,” “As Long As You Love Me,” “Shape Of My Heart,” “Show ‘Em (What You’re Made Of)” and “In A World Like This.”
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HYPERGLYCINEMIA, LACTIC ACIDOSIS, AND SEIZURES; HGCLAS
Hyperglycinemia, lactic acidosis, and seizures is a severe autosomal recessive disorder characterized by onset of hypotonia and seizures associated with increased serum glycine and lactate in the first days of life. Affected individuals develop an encephalopathy or severely delayed psychomotor development, which may result in death in childhood. The disorder represents a form of 'variant' nonketotic hyperglycinemia and is distinct from classic nonketotic hyperglycinemia (NKH, or GCE; {605899}), which is characterized by significantly increased CSF glycine. Several forms of 'variant' NKH, including HGCLAS, appear to result from defects of mitochondrial lipoate biosynthesis (summary by Baker et al., 2014).
Genes related to Hyperglycinemia, Lactic Acidosis, And Seizures; Hgclas
Top most frequent phenotypes and symptoms related to Hyperglycinemia, Lactic Acidosis, And Seizures; Hgclas
Global developmental delay
Generalized hypotonia
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BRCA1, MTHFR, UBE3A, VHL, MUTYH, TP53, MCCC1, MCCC2, AARS2, ABCB11, ABCB4, ABHD12, ACACA, ACAD9, ACADM, ACADS, AGL, ACADVL, ACAT1, ZNF513 , (...)
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Epilepsy Advanced Sequencing and CNV Evaluation - Generalized, Absence, Focal,Febrile and Myoclonic Epilepsies.
By Athena Diagnostics Inc in United States.
ALPL, ADSL, SLC25A19, LIAS, ABAT, GAMT, GATM, SUCLA2, ALG9, GLDC, AMT, ALDH7A1, NDUFA1, L2HGDH, CYP27A1, SLC6A8, CHRNA7, PCDH19, SLC2A1, PHGDH , (...)
ALPL, ADSL, SLC25A19, LIAS, ABAT, GAMT, GATM, SUCLA2, ALG9, GLDC, AMT, ALDH7A1, NDUFA1, L2HGDH, CYP27A1, SLC6A8, CHRNA7, PCDH19, SLC2A1, PHGDH, CSTB, SCN1A, CACNA1A, CASR, DYNC1H1, CACNB4, ASPM, ATP1A3, CACNA1H, CHRNB2, CPA6, EFHC1, CRH, LGI1, GABRB3, GOSR2, NHLRC1, KCTD7, KCNH2, PRICKLE1, PRICKLE2, SCN9A, SLC19A3, ST3GAL5, SCN1B, SCN2A, SYNJ1, STX1B, SLC35A2, SLC6A1, FOLR1, GABRB2, GABRD, GRIN2B, HCN1, KCNT1, KCNQ2, KCNQ3, KCNC1, PNPO, SCN3A, CHRNA2, CHRNA4, CHD2, EPM2A, GABRA1, GABRG2, GRIN2A, HCN4, LMNB2, MBD5, KCNMA1, SCARB2, SCN5A, SLC4A10, ALG13, ASAH1, TBC1D24, PRIMA1, DEPDC5, PRRT2, BRAT1, PIGO, BCKDK
Epilepsy Advanced Sequencing and CNV Evaluation.
UBE3A, ALPL, ADSL, PAX6, CPT2, ATP6V0A2, HSD17B10, HPRT1, ADGRV1, SHH, POLG, SLC25A19, PANK2, MECP2, LIAS, ABAT, GAMT, GATM, STXBP1, SUCLA2 , (...)
UBE3A, ALPL, ADSL, PAX6, CPT2, ATP6V0A2, HSD17B10, HPRT1, ADGRV1, SHH, POLG, SLC25A19, PANK2, MECP2, LIAS, ABAT, GAMT, GATM, STXBP1, SUCLA2, TUBA1A, CTSD, SLC25A22, ALG9, GRN, GLDC, AMT, SLC9A6, ALDH7A1, NDUFA1, L2HGDH, CYP27A1, TPP1, CLN3, WWOX, SLC6A8, FGFR3, ARX, CDKL5, CHRNA7, FOXG1, MEF2C, PCDH19, PLP1, RAI1, SLC2A1, WDR62, TSC2, SYNGAP1, SMC3, SMC1A, TSC1, NIPBL, GPC3, CLN6, CLN8, FKTN, PPT1, PEX7, POMGNT1, CLN5, PHGDH, PLA2G6, DPYD, CSTB, SCN1A, NOTCH3, FKRP, CACNA1A, KCNJ11, CASR, DYNC1H1, POMT2, POMT1, KCNA1, CACNB4, LAMA2, LARGE1, MCPH1, ASPM, ATP1A2, ATP1A3, CACNA1H, CHRNB2, CPA6, EFHC1, CRH, LGI1, GABRB3, GOSR2, NHLRC1, KCTD7, KCNH2, PRICKLE1, PRICKLE2, SCN9A, SLC19A3, ST3GAL5, SCN1B, SCN2A, SYNJ1, STX1B, SLC35A2, SLC6A1, FOLR1, GABRB2, GABRD, GRIN2B, HCN1, KCNT1, KCNQ2, KCNQ3, KCNC1, PNPO, SCN3A, CHRNA2, CHRNA4, CHD2, EPM2A, GABRA1, GABRG2, GRIN2A, HCN4, LMNB2, MBD5, KCNMA1, SCARB2, SCN5A, SLC4A10, ALG13, ASAH1, TBC1D24, PRIMA1, DEPDC5, PRRT2, BRAT1, PIGO, BCKDK, COL4A1, ARFGEF2, CENPJ, DEAF1, DCX, EMX2, QARS, NDE1, PQBP1, RAB3GAP1, SIX3, RELN, TUBA8, FLNA, TSEN54, PAFAH1B1, ADGRG1, STIL, SRPX2, TUBB2B, CTSF, DNAJC5, MFSD8, ATP13A2, KMT2D, CACNA2D1, RBFOX1, CACNA2D2, MAGI2, HNRNPU, SETD2, TBL1XR1, SPATA5, EEF1A2, KCNA2, DNM1, SIK1, SNAP25, PURA, KCNB1, SLC13A5, DOCK7, NR2F1, NEXMIF, SZT2, GNAO1, WDR45, ST3GAL3, KANSL1, ROGDI, SCN8A, PIGA, NRXN1, GRIN1, DYRK1A, PIGN, PIGV, ANKRD11, PLCB1, SPTAN1, PNKP, SAMHD1, KCNJ10, TCF4, RNASEH2A, RNASEH2C, RNASEH2B, CNTNAP2, KIF1BP, SERPINI1, OFD1, SMS, ATRX, IQSEC2, FGD1, PHF6, SYP, GRIA3, ARHGEF9, PAK3, KDM5C, SYN1, OPHN1, ATP6AP2, CASK, CUL4B, RAB39B, SETBP1, ZEB2, TREX1, VPS13B, GFAP, VPS13A, TBX1, LBR, ATP2A2
Epilepsy Advanced Sequencing and CNV Evaluation-Epileptic Encephalopathy.
UBE3A, ADSL, SLC25A19, MECP2, LIAS, STXBP1, SLC25A22, ALG9, GLDC, AMT, SLC9A6, WWOX, ARX, CDKL5, FOXG1, PCDH19, SLC2A1, SYNGAP1, SCN1A, KCNJ11 , (...)
UBE3A, ADSL, SLC25A19, MECP2, LIAS, STXBP1, SLC25A22, ALG9, GLDC, AMT, SLC9A6, WWOX, ARX, CDKL5, FOXG1, PCDH19, SLC2A1, SYNGAP1, SCN1A, KCNJ11, SCN9A, SLC19A3, ST3GAL5, SCN1B, SCN2A, SLC35A2, GRIN2B, HCN1, KCNT1, PNPO, CHD2, GABRG2, GRIN2A, ALG13, BRAT1, QARS, CACNA2D1, CACNA2D2, HNRNPU, EEF1A2, KCNA2, DNM1, SIK1, PURA, KCNB1, SLC13A5, DOCK7, SZT2, GNAO1, WDR45, SCN8A, PIGA, NRXN1, GRIN1, PIGN, PLCB1, SPTAN1, PNKP, SAMHD1, TCF4, RNASEH2A, RNASEH2C, RNASEH2B, CNTNAP2, ARHGEF9, ZEB2, TREX1
NGS Epilepsy/Seizure Panel.
By Greenwood Genetic Center Diagnostic Laboratories Greenwood Genetic Center in United States.
MTHFR, UBE3A, ADSL, SHH, POLG, SLC25A19, MECP2, LIAS, ABAT, GAMT, GATM, STXBP1, CTSD, SLC25A22, SLC9A6, ALDH7A1, NDUFA1, TPP1, CLN3, ARX , (...)
MTHFR, UBE3A, ADSL, SHH, POLG, SLC25A19, MECP2, LIAS, ABAT, GAMT, GATM, STXBP1, CTSD, SLC25A22, SLC9A6, ALDH7A1, NDUFA1, TPP1, CLN3, ARX, CDKL5, FOXG1, MEF2C, PCDH19, SLC2A1, WDR62, TSC2, SYNGAP1, TSC1, PTCH1, CLN6, CLN8, PPT1, CLN5, CSTB, SCN1A, CACNA1A, KCNJ11, CASR, KCNA1, CACNB4, MCPH1, ASPM, ATP1A2, CHRNB2, EFHC1, LGI1, GABRB3, GOSR2, NHLRC1, KCTD7, PRICKLE1, PRICKLE2, SCN9A, ST3GAL5, SCN1B, SCN2A, SYNJ1, SLC35A2, FOLR1, GABRD, GRIN2B, KCNT1, KCNQ2, KCNQ3, PNPO, CHRNA2, CHRNA4, CHD2, EPM2A, GABRA1, GABRG2, GRIN2A, MBD5, SCARB2, SCN5A, TBC1D24, DEPDC5, PRRT2, ARFGEF2, CENPJ, DCX, EMX2, QARS, NDE1, SIX3, RELN, FLNA, TSEN54, PAFAH1B1, ADGRG1, STIL, MFSD8, CACNA2D1, MAGI2, HNRNPU, SNAP25, SLC13A5, DOCK7, SZT2, ST3GAL3, KANSL1, SCN8A, PIGA, NRXN1, GRIN1, DYRK1A, PLCB1, SPTAN1, PNKP, KCNJ10, TCF4, CNTNAP2, IQSEC2, PHF6, ARHGEF9, SYN1, OPHN1, ATP6AP2, CASK, ZEB2, NECAP1, CCL2, CLCN2, NEDD4L, MTOR, VANGL1, KCNAB1, EXOSC3, TSEN34, TSEN2, TUBB2A, TGIF1, ZIC2, NALCN, CEP152, ABCB1, NODAL, FOXH1, CDON, GLI2, CDK5RAP2, FLVCR2, PCNT, ATR
Epilepsy/Seizure.
By Knight Diagnostic Laboratories - Molecular Diagnostic Center Oregon Health & Science University in United States.
MTHFR, UBE3A, BTD, ADSL, MMACHC, ADGRV1, POLG, MECP2, LIAS, ABAT, GAMT, GATM, STXBP1, CTSD, SLC25A22, GLDC, AMT, SLC9A6, ALDH5A1, ALDH7A1 , (...)
MTHFR, UBE3A, BTD, ADSL, MMACHC, ADGRV1, POLG, MECP2, LIAS, ABAT, GAMT, GATM, STXBP1, CTSD, SLC25A22, GLDC, AMT, SLC9A6, ALDH5A1, ALDH7A1, PTS, QDPR, TPP1, CLN3, SLC6A8, ARX, CDKL5, FOXG1, MEF2C, SLC2A1, WDR62, TSC2, TSC1, CLN6, CLN8, PPT1, CLN5, PHGDH, CSTB, SCN1A, CACNA1A, GCH1, CASR, CACNB4, MCPH1, ASPM, ATP1A2, CHRNB2, CPA6, EFHC1, LGI1, GOSR2, NHLRC1, KCTD7, PRICKLE1, PRICKLE2, SCN9A, SLC19A3, SCN1B, SCN2A, FOLR1, KCNQ2, KCNQ3, PNPO, CHRNA2, CHRNA4, EPM2A, GABRA1, GABRG2, GRIN2A, MBD5, KCNMA1, SCARB2, TBC1D24, PRRT2, DCX, FLNA, TSEN54, PAFAH1B1, ADGRG1, DNAJC5, MFSD8, MAGI2, WDR45, SCN8A, NRXN1, PLCB1, SPTAN1, PNKP, KCNJ10, CNTNAP2, ARHGEF9, SYN1, OPHN1, CASK, ZEB2, PCBD1, PSPH
Infantile Epilepsy.
MTHFR, UBE3A, BTD, ADSL, MMACHC, POLG, MECP2, LIAS, GAMT, STXBP1, CTSD, SLC25A22, GLDC, AMT, SLC9A6, ALDH5A1, ALDH7A1, PTS, QDPR, TPP1 , (...)
MTHFR, UBE3A, BTD, ADSL, MMACHC, POLG, MECP2, LIAS, GAMT, STXBP1, CTSD, SLC25A22, GLDC, AMT, SLC9A6, ALDH5A1, ALDH7A1, PTS, QDPR, TPP1, CLN3, SLC6A8, ARX, CDKL5, FOXG1, MEF2C, SLC2A1, TSC2, TSC1, CLN6, CLN8, PPT1, CLN5, PHGDH, SCN1A, GCH1, KCTD7, SCN1B, SCN2A, FOLR1, KCNQ2, KCNQ3, PNPO, GABRG2, GRIN2A, MBD5, TBC1D24, PRRT2, MFSD8, MAGI2, WDR45, SCN8A, NRXN1, SPTAN1, PNKP, KCNJ10, TCF4, CNTNAP2, ZEB2, PCBD1
Comprehensive Epilepsy Panel.
By GeneDx in United States.
UBE3A, ADSL, POLG, MECP2, LIAS, GAMT, GATM, STXBP1, CTSD, SLC25A22, SLC9A6, ALDH7A1, TPP1, CLN3, ARX, CDKL5, CHRNA7, FOXG1, MEF2C, PCDH19 , (...)
UBE3A, ADSL, POLG, MECP2, LIAS, GAMT, GATM, STXBP1, CTSD, SLC25A22, SLC9A6, ALDH7A1, TPP1, CLN3, ARX, CDKL5, CHRNA7, FOXG1, MEF2C, PCDH19, SLC2A1, TSC2, TSC1, CLN6, CLN8, PPT1, CLN5, CSTB, SCN1A, CACNB4, ATP1A2, CHRNB2, EFHC1, LGI1, GOSR2, NHLRC1, KCTD7, PRICKLE1, SCN1B, SCN2A, FOLR1, GRIN2B, KCNQ2, KCNQ3, PNPO, CHRNA2, CHRNA4, EPM2A, GABRA1, GABRG2, GRIN2A, MBD5, SCARB2, TBC1D24, PRRT2, SRPX2, DNAJC5, MFSD8, MAGI2, KANSL1, SCN8A, NRXN1, SPTAN1, PNKP, KCNJ10, TCF4, CNTNAP2, SYN1, ATP6AP2, ZEB2
Infantile Epilepsy Panel.
UBE3A, ADSL, POLG, MECP2, LIAS, GAMT, STXBP1, CTSD, SLC25A22, SLC9A6, ALDH7A1, TPP1, CLN3, ARX, CDKL5, CHRNA7, FOXG1, MEF2C, PCDH19, SLC2A1 , (...)
UBE3A, ADSL, POLG, MECP2, LIAS, GAMT, STXBP1, CTSD, SLC25A22, SLC9A6, ALDH7A1, TPP1, CLN3, ARX, CDKL5, CHRNA7, FOXG1, MEF2C, PCDH19, SLC2A1, TSC2, TSC1, CLN6, CLN8, PPT1, CLN5, SCN1A, KCTD7, SCN1B, SCN2A, FOLR1, GRIN2B, KCNQ2, KCNQ3, PNPO, GABRA1, GABRG2, GRIN2A, MBD5, TBC1D24, PRRT2, MFSD8, MAGI2, KANSL1, SCN8A, NRXN1, SPTAN1, PNKP, KCNJ10, TCF4, CNTNAP2, ATP6AP2, ZEB2
Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Lipoic Acid Synthetase Deficiency via LIAS Gene Sequencing with CNV Detection.
By PreventionGenetics PreventionGenetics in United States.
Epilepsy and Seizure Plus Sequencing Panel with CNV Detection.
UBE3A, PTEN, ADSL, POLG, MECP2, LIAS, DHDDS, ABAT, SLC25A12, GAMT, GATM, STXBP1, CTSD, SLC25A22, GCSH, GLDC, AMT, SLC9A6, ALDH5A1, ALDH7A1 , (...)
UBE3A, PTEN, ADSL, POLG, MECP2, LIAS, DHDDS, ABAT, SLC25A12, GAMT, GATM, STXBP1, CTSD, SLC25A22, GCSH, GLDC, AMT, SLC9A6, ALDH5A1, ALDH7A1, TPP1, CLN3, WWOX, PNKD, FARS2, SLC6A8, ARX, CDKL5, FOXG1, MEF2C, PCDH19, SLC2A1, TSC2, CBL, SYNGAP1, SMC1A, TSC1, CLN6, CLN8, PPT1, SLC35A3, CLN5, CSTB, SCN1A, CACNA1A, NF1, SGCE, CASR, KCNA1, CACNB4, ATP1A2, ATP1A3, CACNA1H, CHRNB2, CPA6, EFHC1, LGI1, GABRB3, GOSR2, NHLRC1, KCTD7, KCNH2, PRICKLE1, PRICKLE2, SCN9A, SLC19A3, ST3GAL5, SCN1B, SCN2A, SYNJ1, STX1B, SLC35A2, SLC6A1, FOLR1, GABRB2, GABRD, GRIN2B, HCN1, KCNT1, KCNQ2, KCNQ3, KCNC1, PNPO, SCN3A, CHRNA2, CHRNA4, CHD2, EPM2A, GABRA1, GABRG2, GRIN2A, LMNB2, MBD5, KCNMA1, SCARB2, SCN5A, ALG13, TBC1D24, PRIMA1, DEPDC5, PRRT2, BRAT1, PIGO, BCKDK, COL4A1, QARS, RELN, FLNA, SRPX2, DNAJC5, MFSD8, RBFOX1, CACNA2D2, HNRNPU, SETD2, TBL1XR1, SPATA5, EEF1A2, KCNA2, DNM1, SNAP25, PURA, KCNB1, SLC13A5, DOCK7, NEXMIF, SZT2, GNAO1, WDR45, ST3GAL3, KANSL1, ROGDI, SCN8A, PIGA, NRXN1, GRIN1, DYRK1A, PIGN, ANKRD11, PLCB1, SPTAN1, PNKP, KCNJ10, TCF4, CNTNAP2, SERPINI1, ATRX, IQSEC2, ARHGEF9, SYN1, ATP6AP2, CASK, ZEB2, DIAPH1, EHMT1, ARID1B, ZDHHC9, CLCN4, NECAP1, NEDD4L, MTOR, NAGA, DNMT3A, SATB2, IER3IP1, TPK1, RANBP2, PACS1, NTRK2, C12orf57, KCNH5, MDH2, UBA5, HIVEP2, ARV1, FGF12, COQ4, PRDM8, PIGG, CERS1, DDX3X, GLRA1, SLC12A5, GPHN, NGLY1, NPRL3, NPRL2, CAD, FRRS1L, GRIN2D, HCN2, RORB, PLPBP, KCNH1, CARS2, CLTC, GAL, GABBR2, GABRB1, PIGQ, PPP2R1A, PIGP, RYR3, KCND2, YWHAG, FASN, AP3B2, JMJD1C, PIK3AP1, PPP3CA, ARHGEF15, SNX27, CNTN2, ITPA, NUS1, RAB11A, STRADA, KPNA7, GUF1, HECW2, RBFOX3, DENND5A
Leigh and Leigh-Like Syndrome Sequencing Panel (Nuclear Genes Only) with CNV Detection.
UQCRQ, BCS1L, C12orf65, DLD, POLG, NDUFS4, FOXRED1, NDUFAF2, COQ9, PDSS2, NDUFA12, LIAS, NDUFA9, PDHB, TTC19, NDUFA10, NUBPL, SUCLA2, TSFM, GFM1 , (...)
UQCRQ, BCS1L, C12orf65, DLD, POLG, NDUFS4, FOXRED1, NDUFAF2, COQ9, PDSS2, NDUFA12, LIAS, NDUFA9, PDHB, TTC19, NDUFA10, NUBPL, SUCLA2, TSFM, GFM1, SCO2, ETHE1, PDHA1, AIFM1, NDUFA2, COX15, SURF1, NDUFS8, NDUFS7, NDUFS3, NDUFAF6, SDHAF1, NDUFA1, NDUFAF4, NDUFS1, NDUFV1, NDUFV2, NDUFS2, NDUFAF5, HIBCH, SUCLG1, DLAT, LRPPRC, TACO1, FARS2, MTFMT, PDHX, SLC19A3, PNPT1, NARS2, FBXL4, COX10, TPK1, EARS2, SERAC1, LIPT1, ECHS1, PET100, NDUFA4, COX8A, GTPBP3, GFM2, IARS2
Mitochondrial Oxidative Phosphorylation Deficiency Sequencing Panel (Nuclear Genes Only) with CNV Detection.
AARS2, ACAD9, YARS2, UQCRQ, UQCRB, ATP5F1E, ATPAF2, BCS1L, TWNK, C12orf65, ELAC2, OPA1, TRMU, DLD, POLG, NDUFS4, SLC25A4, GARS, AFG3L2, FOXRED1 , (...)
AARS2, ACAD9, YARS2, UQCRQ, UQCRB, ATP5F1E, ATPAF2, BCS1L, TWNK, C12orf65, ELAC2, OPA1, TRMU, DLD, POLG, NDUFS4, SLC25A4, GARS, AFG3L2, FOXRED1, RRM2B, NDUFAF2, MFN2, HADHA, OPA3, MTO1, COQ9, PDSS2, PDSS1, COQ6, MRPL3, NDUFA12, LIAS, NDUFB3, NDUFA9, COX14, AGK, DGUOK, BOLA3, PDHB, TMEM70, SARS2, NFU1, NDUFAF1, TTC19, MTPAP, NDUFA10, NUBPL, KARS, GFER, SDHB, SUCLA2, COQ8A, MRPS22, RARS2, DARS2, SLC25A3, TUFM, TSFM, MRPS16, POLG2, TK2, GFM1, HADHB, PDP1, NDUFA13, COQ2, SPG7, SCO2, TYMP, ETHE1, PUS1, PDHA1, TAZ, AIFM1, MPV17, NDUFA2, COX15, SURF1, NDUFS8, NDUFS7, NDUFS3, NDUFAF6, ISCU, SDHAF1, NDUFAF3, NDUFA1, NDUFA11, NDUFAF4, NDUFS1, NDUFV1, NDUFV2, NDUFS6, NDUFS2, NDUFAF5, HIBCH, SUCLG1, DLAT, ETFB, ETFA, ETFDH, LRPPRC, FASTKD2, COX6B1, APTX, TACO1, FARS2, HARS2, MTFMT, PDHX, MGME1, SDHD, SLC19A3, PNPT1, LARS2, NARS2, COX6A1, FBXL4, DNA2, MARS2, NDUFV3, COX10, SCO1, TPK1, EARS2, COQ8B, IBA57, SLC25A1, COX20, SERAC1, LIPT1, ECHS1, RNASEH1, COQ4, COA5, PET100, APOPT1, UQCRC2, ATP5F1A, CARS2, NDUFB9, UQCC3, UQCC2, LYRM7, CYC1, COA6, COA3, ISCA2, FLAD1, NDUFA4, COX8A, GTPBP3, GFM2, IARS2, COQ7, NDUFB11, COX7B, MRPL44, MRPS23, MRPS7, PARS2, TRMT5, MRPL12, LYRM4, TARS2, VARS2, RMND1, TRMT10C, TMEM126B, COQ5, NSUN3, SFXN4, TRIT1, COA7
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy - different panels.
By Institute of Human Genetics Cologne University in Germany.
TTR, AARS2, ACAD9, AGL, ACADVL, ATPAF2, GAA, GNPTAB, GLB1, DLD, CRYAB, RAF1, MTO1, MRPL3, LIAS, AGK, TMEM70, FAH, MRPS22, TSFM , (...)
TTR, AARS2, ACAD9, AGL, ACADVL, ATPAF2, GAA, GNPTAB, GLB1, DLD, CRYAB, RAF1, MTO1, MRPL3, LIAS, AGK, TMEM70, FAH, MRPS22, TSFM, GFM1, COQ2, PDHA1, PHKA1, SURF1, GUSB, MLYCD, FXN, COX6B1, SLC22A5, PMM2, BRAF, GLA, HRAS, KRAS, MAP2K1, NRAS, PTPN11, SOS1, SOS2, RIT1, MAP2K2, NF1, TTN, DES, MYH7, BSCL2, FHL1, MYBPC3, ACTA1, LZTR1, LAMP2, RASA2, RRAS, A2ML1, ACTC1, TNNI3, PRKAG2, PLN, TPM1, TNNT2, CSRP3, MYL2, MYL3, AGPAT2
Lipoic Acid synthase deficiency (LIAS).
By VU University Medical Center Metabolic Unit, PX 1X 009 in Netherlands.
Comprehensive mitochondrial disorders panel.
By Centogene AG - the Rare Disease Company in Germany.
MCCC1, MCCC2, ACAD9, ACADM, ACADS, ACADVL, ACAT1, PC, UQCRB, HLCS, ATP5F1E, ATP7B, ATPAF2, AUH, BCKDHA, BCKDHB, BCS1L, TWNK, STAR, MTRR , (...)
MCCC1, MCCC2, ACAD9, ACADM, ACADS, ACADVL, ACAT1, PC, UQCRB, HLCS, ATP5F1E, ATP7B, ATPAF2, AUH, BCKDHA, BCKDHB, BCS1L, TWNK, STAR, MTRR, AMACR, CPS1, CPT2, OPA1, ABCB6, TRMU, PRODH, AASS, DLD, POLG, NDUFS4, HSPD1, SLC25A19, SLC25A4, AFG3L2, CYP11B1, KIF1B, ALAS2, SLC25A13, MFN2, SDHC, PANK2, HADHA, OPA3, FH, CYP11B2, MRPL3, ACO2, IDH3B, DHODH, LIAS, NDUFB3, NDUFA9, AGK, ALDH18A1, DGUOK, DIABLO, PDHB, ALDH6A1, SARS2, PCK2, NDUFAF1, HMGCL, HSD3B2, NDUFA10, CYP24A1, CYP11A1, SCP2, IDH2, CAVIN1, ABAT, SLC25A12, GATM, COX4I2, SOD2, SDHB, SUCLA2, CYCS, MRPS22, ACAD8, SLC25A3, HAX1, TUFM, TSFM, MRPS16, HTRA2, ALDH2, POLG2, ACADSB, TK2, SLC25A22, GFM1, HADHB, PDP1, UNG, COQ2, SPG7, GLUD1, PARK7, PCCB, PCCA, HMGCS2, PINK1, GCSH, GLDC, AMT, DMGDH, SCO2, RNASEL, OTC, PDHA1, GK, TIMM8A, ABCB7, MAOA, ACSL4, SLC9A6, SUOX, ALDH5A1, SARDH, AK2, CYP27B1, AGXT, OAT, NDUFA2, COX15, SURF1, NDUFS8, NDUFS7, NDUFS3, CPT1A, NDUFA1, NDUFA11, NDUFS1, NDUFV1, NDUFV2, NDUFS6, NDUFS2, MCEE, MMAB, MMAA, MUT, DBT, MLYCD, SUCLG1, DLAT, OXCT1, IVD, ALDH4A1, SLC25A15, HK1, ETFB, ETFA, ETFDH, GCDH, FXN, COX6B1, CYP27A1, SLC25A20, FECH, PPOX, OGG1, CPOX, TMLHE, PDHX, SDHA, SDHD, BRIP1, PDX1, LARS2, COX10, SCO1, HADH, GSR, CRBN, BCL2, MIP, NDUFB9, TIMM44, HSPA9
Pyruvate dehydrogenase lipoic acid synthetase deficiency.
CentoICU platinum plus.
BRCA2, F2, F5, MTHFR, UBE3A, MCCC1, MCCC2, AARS2, ACAD9, ACADL, ACADM, ACADS, AGL, ACADVL, ACAT1, ALDOA, ALDOB, FBP1, PC, GYS2 , (...)
BRCA2, F2, F5, MTHFR, UBE3A, MCCC1, MCCC2, AARS2, ACAD9, ACADL, ACADM, ACADS, AGL, ACADVL, ACAT1, ALDOA, ALDOB, FBP1, PC, GYS2, ALPL, ARG1, HLCS, ATP7A, BTD, ATP7B, ATP8B1, AUH, BCKDHA, BCKDHB, BCS1L, C12orf65, GAA, ADSL, HNF1A, HBB, MMACHC, EYA1, COL1A1, COL1A2, STAR, WT1, RB1, PSEN1, HNF1B, MTR, RET, SLC37A4, EYA4, ABCA12, SLC16A1, MTRR, HSD17B4, CPS1, CPT2, KRT5, TRMU, WFS1, COMT, PSAP, GNPTAB, GLB1, PRODH, GNE, HSD17B10, JAG1, HPRT1, MKKS, ADGRV1, CEP290, AASS, DLD, POLG, NDUFS4, SLC25A19, GCK, CYP11B1, FOXRED1, NDUFAF2, ALAS2, SLC25A13, HADHA, RAF1, OPA3, FH, SMPD1, MECP2, CYP11B2, FBN1, COQ9, PDSS2, PDSS1, LIAS, ACSF3, PDHB, ALDH6A1, NFU1, FAH, NDUFAF1, HMGCL, HSD3B2, TAT, ABAT, GAMT, GATM, SPR, STXBP1, SUCLA2, ACAD8, P3H1, CRTAP, DNAJC19, CTSD, ACADSB, HADHB, PDP1, UNG, UCP2, COQ2, PCCA, HMGCS2, GLDC, AMT, ETHE1, D2HGDH, OTC, PDHA1, GK, TAZ, AIFM1, SLC9A6, MMADHC, LMBRD1, TCN2, HEXA, SUOX, ALDH5A1, ALDH3A2, HEXB, ALDH7A1, ACOX1, PTS, QDPR, PAH, AGXT, OAT, CTSA, NDUFA2, COX15, NDUFS7, NDUFAF6, CPT1A, GUSB, GALNS, MOCS2, MOCS1, SDHAF1, NDUFA11, NDUFV2, NDUFS2, NDUFAF5, MMAB, MMAA, MUT, HIBCH, DBT, MAN2B1, MLYCD, SUCLG1, DLAT, GALC, OXCT1, IVD, NAGS, CBS, GBE1, ETFB, ETFA, ETFDH, GCDH, GALT, GALE, GALK1, GLYCTK, LRPPRC, SLC3A1, ASS1, SLC22A5, SLC25A20, PMM2, ASL, SOX2, ALMS1, OGDH, CYP17A1, ANKRD26, HESX1, PAX2, PDHX, ABCD4, ADA, AGA, AHCY, ARSB, SUGCT, DOLK, GNMT, HPD, IL2RG, PNP, TSHR, ARSA, ASPA, CFTR, FANCC, BRAF, CDKL5, CHD7, DHCR7, FOXG1, GJB2, GLA, HRAS, KRAS, LIPA, MAP2K1, MEF2C, NPC1, NPC2, NRAS, PLOD1, POMC, PTPN11, RMRP, RPS19, SHOC2, SLC2A1, SOS1, WDR62, FGFR2, MAP2K2, TSC2, TSC1, NIPBL, NSD1, PHOX2B, GPC3, SBDS, LAMB3, FKTN, G6PD, CTNS, PROP1, DCLRE1C, SERPINA1, SLC7A7, SLC26A2, UGT1A1, LAMA3, SUMF1, WAS, ABCC8, BTK, LAMC2, PHGDH, PKHD1, TGM1, PMP22, EGR2, WNK1, CSTB, SCN1A, GCH1, NR0B1, KCNJ11, CASR, INS, PDX1, HNF4A, POU1F1, BSND, PKD2, PLEC, POMT2, POMT1, LAMA2, MCPH1, ASPM, NHLRC1, KCNH2, ST3GAL5, SCN2A, KCNQ2, KCNQ3, PNPO, EPM2A, BCKDK, CENPJ, RAB3GAP1, STIL, KMT2D, SPTAN1, KCNJ10, TCF4, ATRX, CASK, ZEB2, SALL1, ATP6V1B1, CACNA1D, EDN3, COL11A1, PNPT1, PAX3, KCNQ4, SIX5, PRPS1, KCNE1, KCNQ1, SIX1, GATA3, TJP2, FUCA1, CACNA1C, GATA1, KLF1, MVK, PKLR, UROS, NEU1, CDAN1, MAGT1, FANCB, RPS6KA3, NAA10, COMP, SPRED1, CEP152, CDK5RAP2, PCNT, ATR, CACNB2, GPSM2, MITF, CALM1, AKAP9, KDM6A, SFTPD, DOCK8, ABCA3, SFTPC, SFTPB, PRKAG2, DNA2, RAB3GAP2, F11, SPINK1, TBX19, LHX4, LHX3, CD320, SALL4, TBX5, JAK3, GNAS, F9, F8, ADAMTS13, FANCA, FANCD2, BDNF, AKR1D1, EVC, EVC2, RAB18, IER3IP1, RBBP8, MYCN, SLC46A1, MAT1A, DDC, PCBD1, PSPH, HADH, APOC2, AKT2, GLIS3, PTF1A, EIF2AK3, GP1BA, FGA, FGB, FGG, P2RX1, P2RY12, STIM1, GFI1B, ITGB3, ITGA2B, MASTL, TNFRSF13B, AICDA, CD40, CD40LG, CD3E, CD3D, IL7R, RAG2, RAG1, ZAP70, GNA11, INSR, SLC4A1, ELANE, RBM8A, LAMTOR2, RAC2, NHEJ1, LIG4, PTPRC, SPTB, SPTA1, ANK1, EPB42, GSS, C15orf41, PIK3CD, LRBA, PROS1, ITGB4, ITGA6, COL17A1, COL7A1, IL12RB1, NFKB2, ABCC2, JAGN1, F7, CD19, CR2, CD81, ICOS, PRKDC, TNFRSF13C, NOTCH2, CARD11, IL2RA, TSPYL1, FRAS1, ASNS, ACTN1, GP9, SLC25A1, PAX8, TSHB, THRA, DUOXA2, DUOX2, SLC5A5, TPO, TG, SERAC1, COA5, PET100, F10, SERPING1, ALOX12B, NIPAL4, CERS3, STS, ALOXE3, PNPLA1, CYP4F22, LIPN, PSAT1, SLCO1B1, SLCO1B3, LRRC8A, BLNK, CD79A, IGLL1, CD79B, F13A1, PEPD, SERPINC1, SLC52A1, TRHR, UMPS, HGD, IGF1, PCK1, IL21R, MALT1, IGF1R, GPHN, UQCRC2, MCM4, CD3G, CORO1A, UPB1, MPC1, UQCC2, ADK, CD247, IRF8, CTPS1, IL2, OPRM1, SOX6, CABS1, LCK, IKBKB, PPM1K, OPLAH
CentoICU platinum.
Nuclear encoded Mitochondriopathies Panel.
By CeGaT GmbH in Germany.
MCCC1, MCCC2, AARS2, ACAD9, ACADM, ACADS, ACADVL, ACAT1, YARS2, FBP1, PC, UQCRQ, UQCRB, HLCS, ATP5F1E, BTD, ATPAF2, AUH, BCKDHA, BCKDHB , (...)
MCCC1, MCCC2, AARS2, ACAD9, ACADM, ACADS, ACADVL, ACAT1, YARS2, FBP1, PC, UQCRQ, UQCRB, HLCS, ATP5F1E, BTD, ATPAF2, AUH, BCKDHA, BCKDHB, BCS1L, TWNK, C12orf65, STAR, ELAC2, SDHAF2, AMACR, CPS1, CPT2, OPA1, TRMU, WFS1, HSD17B10, DLD, POLG, NDUFS4, HSPD1, SLC25A19, SLC25A4, GCK, GARS, AFG3L2, FOXRED1, RRM2B, NDUFAF2, KIF1B, ALAS2, SLC25A13, MFN2, SDHC, PANK2, HADHA, OPA3, FH, MTO1, COQ9, PDSS2, PDSS1, COQ6, MRPL3, ACO2, NDUFA12, IDH3B, DHODH, LIAS, NDUFB3, NDUFA9, COX14, AGK, DNM1L, DGUOK, BOLA3, DIABLO, PDHB, ALDH6A1, TMEM70, SARS2, NFU1, PCK2, NDUFAF1, HMGCL, TTC19, MTPAP, XPNPEP3, NDUFA10, NUBPL, IDH2, KARS, GFER, TMEM126A, SLC25A12, GAMT, GATM, COX4I2, SDHB, SUCLA2, COQ8A, CYCS, MRPS22, RARS2, ACAD8, DARS2, SLC25A3, PNPLA2, TUFM, TSFM, MRPS16, HTRA2, REEP1, DNAJC19, POLG2, ACADSB, TK2, SLC25A22, GFM1, HADHB, PDP1, UNG, COQ2, SPG7, GLUD1, PARK7, PCCB, PCCA, HMGCS2, PINK1, GCSH, GLDC, AMT, DMGDH, CISD2, SCO2, TYMP, ETHE1, D2HGDH, PUS1, OTC, HCCS, PDHA1, GK, TIMM8A, TAZ, ABCB7, AIFM1, MAOA, MMADHC, AK2, OAT, MPV17, NDUFA2, COX15, SURF1, NDUFS8, NDUFS7, NDUFS3, NDUFAF6, ISCU, CPT1A, SDHAF1, NDUFAF3, NDUFA1, NDUFA11, NDUFAF4, NDUFS1, NDUFV1, NDUFV2, NDUFS6, NDUFS2, NDUFAF5, MCEE, MMAB, MMAA, MUT, CYB5R3, HIBCH, DBT, MLYCD, SUCLG1, DLAT, OXCT1, IVD, ALDH4A1, SLC25A15, NAGS, L2HGDH, HK1, ETFB, ETFA, ETFDH, GCDH, FXN, LRPPRC, FASTKD2, COX6B1, CYP27A1, SLC22A5, SLC25A20, PRKN, APTX, SLC25A38, GLRX5, OGDH, PPOX, WWOX, PNKD, TACO1, FARS2, HARS2, SLC6A8, MTFMT, PDHX, SDHA, MGME1, RMRP, SDHD, SACS, GDAP1, ATL1, MT-TL1, MT-ATP6, MT-ND1, MT-ND6, MT-ND4, SPAST, KIF5A, SLC33A1, SPART, SLC19A3, SAMHD1, CLPP, PNPT1, SLC19A2, MT-TS1, MT-TS2, LARS2, MT-RNR1, PDK3, DNA2, ERCC6, DDHD1, FDX2, MT-CYB, MT-ND2, MT-CO2, MT-ND5, MT-CO1, MT-RNR2, MT-CO3, MT-ND3, MT-ATP8, COASY, MARS2, COX10, SCO1, MT-TL2, TPK1, EARS2, HADH, IDH1, COQ8B, HOGA1, IBA57, SLC25A1, COX20, SERAC1, COA5, PET100, CHCHD10, DECR1, UQCRC2, YWHAE, ATP5F1A, MPC1, NDUFB9, CYC1, COX7B, MRPL44, LYRM4, RMND1, SFXN4, BCAT2, CRAT, CEP89
Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases and Sudden Death Panel.
By Health in Code in Spain.
HFE, TTR, AARS2, ACAD9, ACADM, AGL, ACADVL, ATPAF2, GAA, COL1A1, COL1A2, COL3A1, PSEN1, ELN, EYA4, GNPTAB, GLB1, PITX2, JAG1, DSP , (...)
HFE, TTR, AARS2, ACAD9, ACADM, AGL, ACADVL, ATPAF2, GAA, COL1A1, COL1A2, COL3A1, PSEN1, ELN, EYA4, GNPTAB, GLB1, PITX2, JAG1, DSP, DLD, SLC25A4, CRYAB, RAF1, FBN1, MTO1, MRPL3, LIAS, AGK, TMEM70, FAH, MRPS22, TSFM, DNAJC19, GFM1, COQ2, PDHA1, TAZ, PHKA1, COX15, SURF1, GUSB, MLYCD, CBS, COX6B1, SLC22A5, PMM2, ALMS1, COL5A1, COL5A2, DOLK, BRAF, DMD, GLA, HRAS, KRAS, LDLR, MAP2K1, NRAS, PLOD1, PTPN11, SHOC2, SOS1, MAP2K2, CBL, SMAD4, ENG, FKTN, SGCA, SGCB, CAPN3, LMNA, PSEN2, NOTCH3, FKRP, CAV3, TTN, DES, MYH7, FLNC, MYOT, LDB3, BSCL2, BAG3, FHL1, MYBPC3, ACTA1, TMEM43, EMD, TCAP, SGCD, KCNJ2, KCND3, LAMA2, KCNH2, SCN1B, HCN4, SCN5A, FLNA, CACNA2D1, TBX1, CACNA1D, KCNE1, KCNQ1, CACNA1C, LAMP2, SPRED1, TGFB2, NOTCH1, SMAD3, TGFBR1, TGFBR2, SKI, MYLK, FBN2, ACTA2, SLC2A10, MYH11, TRPM4, SLMAP, KCNJ8, ABCC9, SCN2B, SCN3B, KCNE3, CACNB2, GPD1L, PKP2, ANK2, RYR2, CALM1, CALM2, TRDN, KCNE2, KCNJ5, SNTA1, CASQ2, AKAP9, SCN4B, ACVRL1, BMPR1B, GDF2, KCNK3, CAV1, SMAD9, KCNA5, BMPR2, PDLIM3, NEBL, ACTC1, MYLK2, TGFB3, LAMA4, PRDM16, NKX2-5, ANKRD1, TNNC1, TNNI3, MYH6, PRKAG2, PLN, NEXN, DSG2, JUP, MYPN, RANGRF, TPM1, TNNT2, GATAD1, JPH2, MYOZ2, RBM20, ACTN2, CSRP3, DSC2, MYL2, MYL3, DTNA, VCL, PRKG1, TBX5, GJA1, CTF1, FHL2, TXNRD2, TMPO, GATA4, CRELD1, CETP, PCSK9, APOB, APOA5, GATA6, NPPA, GJA5, AGPAT2, ANK3, OBSL1, SCN10A, CTNNA3, KCNE5, ADAMTSL4, APOC3, CAVIN4, TBX20, MIB1, CALR3, LRP6, KLF10, TRIM63, SMAD1, FOXD4, FHOD3
Ventricular Arrythmia & Sudden Death Panel with Structural Heart Disease.
HFE, TTR, AARS2, ACAD9, AGL, ACADVL, ATPAF2, GAA, GNPTAB, GLB1, PITX2, DSP, DLD, SLC25A4, CRYAB, RAF1, MTO1, MRPL3, LIAS, AGK , (...)
HFE, TTR, AARS2, ACAD9, AGL, ACADVL, ATPAF2, GAA, GNPTAB, GLB1, PITX2, DSP, DLD, SLC25A4, CRYAB, RAF1, MTO1, MRPL3, LIAS, AGK, TMEM70, FAH, MRPS22, TSFM, GFM1, COQ2, PDHA1, TAZ, PHKA1, COX15, SURF1, GUSB, MLYCD, COX6B1, SLC22A5, PMM2, BRAF, GLA, HRAS, KRAS, MAP2K1, NRAS, PTPN11, SHOC2, SOS1, MAP2K2, LMNA, CAV3, TTN, DES, MYH7, FLNC, LDB3, BSCL2, BAG3, FHL1, MYBPC3, ACTA1, TMEM43, EMD, TCAP, KCNJ2, KCND3, KCNH2, SCN1B, HCN4, SCN5A, CACNA2D1, CACNA1D, KCNE1, KCNQ1, CACNA1C, LAMP2, TRPM4, SLMAP, KCNJ8, ABCC9, SCN2B, SCN3B, KCNE3, CACNB2, GPD1L, PKP2, ANK2, RYR2, CALM1, CALM2, TRDN, KCNE2, KCNJ5, SNTA1, CASQ2, AKAP9, SCN4B, KCNK3, KCNA5, PDLIM3, ACTC1, MYLK2, TGFB3, NKX2-5, ANKRD1, TNNC1, TNNI3, MYH6, PRKAG2, PLN, NEXN, DSG2, JUP, MYPN, RANGRF, TPM1, TNNT2, JPH2, MYOZ2, ACTN2, CSRP3, DSC2, MYL2, MYL3, VCL, TBX5, GJA1, CTF1, FHL2, GATA4, GATA6, NPPA, GJA5, AGPAT2, ANK3, OBSL1, SCN10A, CTNNA3, KCNE5, CAVIN4, CALR3, KLF10, TRIM63, FHOD3
Cardiomyopathies Panel.
HFE, TTR, AARS2, ACAD9, AGL, ACADVL, ATPAF2, GAA, PSEN1, ELN, EYA4, GNPTAB, GLB1, PITX2, JAG1, DSP, DLD, SLC25A4, CRYAB, RAF1 , (...)
HFE, TTR, AARS2, ACAD9, AGL, ACADVL, ATPAF2, GAA, PSEN1, ELN, EYA4, GNPTAB, GLB1, PITX2, JAG1, DSP, DLD, SLC25A4, CRYAB, RAF1, MTO1, MRPL3, LIAS, AGK, TMEM70, FAH, MRPS22, TSFM, DNAJC19, GFM1, COQ2, PDHA1, TAZ, PHKA1, COX15, SURF1, GUSB, MLYCD, COX6B1, SLC22A5, PMM2, ALMS1, DOLK, BRAF, DMD, GLA, HRAS, KRAS, MAP2K1, NRAS, PTPN11, SHOC2, SOS1, MAP2K2, CBL, FKTN, SGCA, SGCB, LMNA, PSEN2, FKRP, CAV3, TTN, DES, MYH7, FLNC, MYOT, LDB3, BSCL2, BAG3, FHL1, MYBPC3, ACTA1, TMEM43, EMD, TCAP, SGCD, KCNJ2, LAMA2, KCNH2, HCN4, SCN5A, FLNA, TBX1, KCNQ1, LAMP2, SPRED1, NOTCH1, SMAD3, ACTA2, MYH11, KCNJ8, ABCC9, PKP2, ANK2, RYR2, CASQ2, PDLIM3, NEBL, ACTC1, MYLK2, TGFB3, LAMA4, PRDM16, NKX2-5, ANKRD1, TNNC1, TNNI3, MYH6, PRKAG2, PLN, NEXN, DSG2, JUP, MYPN, TPM1, TNNT2, GATAD1, JPH2, MYOZ2, RBM20, ACTN2, CSRP3, DSC2, MYL2, MYL3, DTNA, VCL, TBX5, GJA1, CTF1, FHL2, TXNRD2, TMPO, GATA4, CRELD1, GATA6, GJA5, AGPAT2, OBSL1, CTNNA3, CAVIN4, TBX20, MIB1, CALR3, KLF10, TRIM63, FOXD4, FHOD3
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Extended Panel.
TTR, AARS2, ACAD9, AGL, ACADVL, ATPAF2, GAA, GNPTAB, GLB1, DLD, SLC25A4, CRYAB, RAF1, MTO1, MRPL3, LIAS, AGK, TMEM70, FAH, MRPS22 , (...)
TTR, AARS2, ACAD9, AGL, ACADVL, ATPAF2, GAA, GNPTAB, GLB1, DLD, SLC25A4, CRYAB, RAF1, MTO1, MRPL3, LIAS, AGK, TMEM70, FAH, MRPS22, TSFM, GFM1, COQ2, PDHA1, TAZ, PHKA1, COX15, SURF1, GUSB, MLYCD, COX6B1, SLC22A5, PMM2, BRAF, GLA, HRAS, KRAS, MAP2K1, NRAS, PTPN11, SHOC2, SOS1, MAP2K2, LMNA, CAV3, TTN, DES, MYH7, FLNC, LDB3, BSCL2, BAG3, FHL1, MYBPC3, ACTA1, TCAP, LAMP2, KCNJ8, ANK2, RYR2, CASQ2, PDLIM3, ACTC1, MYLK2, ANKRD1, TNNC1, TNNI3, MYH6, PRKAG2, PLN, NEXN, MYPN, TPM1, TNNT2, JPH2, MYOZ2, ACTN2, CSRP3, MYL2, MYL3, VCL, CTF1, FHL2, AGPAT2, OBSL1, CAVIN4, CALR3, KLF10, TRIM63, FHOD3
Cardiovascular Diseases_General Panel.
HFE, TTR, AARS2, ACAD9, AGL, ACADVL, ATP5F1E, ATP7A, ATPAF2, B4GALT7, GAA, HNF1A, NEUROD1, PPARG, COL1A1, COL1A2, COL3A1, ELAC2, PSEN1, HNF1B , (...)
HFE, TTR, AARS2, ACAD9, AGL, ACADVL, ATP5F1E, ATP7A, ATPAF2, B4GALT7, GAA, HNF1A, NEUROD1, PPARG, COL1A1, COL1A2, COL3A1, ELAC2, PSEN1, HNF1B, ELN, EYA4, CPT2, WFS1, GNPTAB, GLB1, FOXC1, PITX2, JAG1, NPHP4, PCDH15, DSP, DLD, SLC25A4, GCK, FOXRED1, CRYAB, RAF1, OPA3, FBN1, MTO1, MRPL3, LIAS, GPD1, AGK, DNM1L, TMEM70, FAH, IDH2, CAVIN1, SLC39A13, MRPS22, SLC25A3, PNPLA2, TSFM, DNAJC19, GFM1, MEF2A, COQ2, SCO2, PDHA1, TAZ, PHKA1, COX15, SURF1, GUSB, MLYCD, CBS, PYGM, FXN, COX6B1, SLC22A5, PMM2, ALMS1, ZFHX3, COL5A1, COL5A2, SDHA, DOLK, BRAF, CHD7, CREBBP, DMD, FOXF1, GLA, HRAS, KRAS, LDLR, LEP, LIPA, MAP2K1, NRAS, PLOD1, PTPN11, SHOC2, SOS1, SOS2, RIT1, MAP2K2, CBL, BMPR1A, SMAD4, ENG, ADAMTS2, FKTN, MTTP, SGCA, SGCB, CAPN3, LMNA, PSEN2, APOE, NOTCH3, FKRP, CAV3, NF1, CEL, KCNJ11, INS, PDX1, HNF4A, TTN, DES, MYH7, FLNC, ANO5, MYOT, LDB3, BSCL2, BAG3, FHL1, RYR1, MYBPC3, ACTA1, SYNE1, TMEM43, SYNE2, EMD, TCAP, SGCD, KCNJ2, KCND3, LAMA2, KCNH2, SCN1B, HCN4, SCN5A, FLNA, KMT2D, CACNA2D1, KANSL1, TBX1, CACNA1D, KCNE1, KCNQ1, MED12, FOXP1, EHMT1, CACNA1C, CTNNB1, LZTR1, RASA1, FOXP3, LAMP2, UPF3B, ZDHHC9, SPRED1, RASA2, RRAS, A2ML1, ABCB1, NODAL, FOXH1, TGFB2, NOTCH1, SMAD3, TGFBR1, TGFBR2, SKI, MYLK, FBN2, ACTA2, SLC2A10, MYH11, FKBP14, CHST14, ACVR1, TRPM4, SLMAP, KCNJ8, ABCC9, SCN2B, SCN3B, KCNE3, CACNB2, GPD1L, PKP2, ANK2, RYR2, CALM1, CALM2, TRDN, KCNE2, KCNJ5, SNTA1, CASQ2, AKAP9, SCN4B, ACVRL1, BMPR1B, GDF2, KCNK3, CAV1, SMAD9, EFEMP2, KCNA5, BMPR2, PDLIM3, ILK, NEBL, ACTC1, MYLK2, TGFB3, LAMA4, PRDM16, NKX2-5, ANKRD1, TNNC1, TNNI3, MYH6, PRKAG2, PLN, NEXN, DSG2, JUP, MYPN, RANGRF, TPM1, TNNT2, GATAD1, JPH2, MYOZ2, RBM20, ACTN2, CSRP3, DSC2, MYL2, MYL3, DTNA, AMPD1, TOR1AIP1, SPEG, VCL, ZMPSTE24, PRKG1, MFAP5, NOS1AP, SALL4, TBX5, EP300, GJA1, FHL2, B3GAT3, ABCG5, ABCG8, CYP2D6, OBSCN, TXNRD2, TMPO, ZIC3, GDF1, GATA4, EVC, IER3IP1, NPC1L1, CITED2, LEFTY2, CRELD1, ACVR2B, CETP, SCARB1, APOA1, PCSK9, LDLRAP1, APOB, APOA5, LPL, LMF1, APOC2, GPIHBP1, ANGPTL3, ABCG1, LCAT, ABCA1, SLC2A2, AKT2, RFX6, PAX4, KLF11, BLK, GLIS3, NEUROG3, PTF1A, GATA6, EIF2AK3, PDGFRA, INSR, CFC1, XK, TDGF1, COL7A1, NPPA, GJA5, NOTCH2, TBC1D4, CIDEC, PLIN1, AGPAT2, ZFPM2, ANK3, OBSL1, FGF12, COA5, SCN10A, CTNNA3, KCNE5, ADAMTSL4, GATA5, APOC3, LIPC, PLTP, CHRM2, CAVIN4, SLCO1B1, EIF2AK4, TBX20, MIB1, CALR3, ASPH, CALM3, MYLIP, SAR1B, TFAP2B, SMAD6, TAB2, TNNI3K, CYP3A4, INSIG2, LRP6, PKP4, KLF10, TRIM63, COA6, MED13L, KCND2, MRPL44, NKX2-6, CYP3A5, MCTP2, IRX4, SMAD1, FOXD4, FHOD3, PERP, PPP1R13L, KCNK17, IRX3, SLC22A8, LPA, MYOM1, PPARA, NNT, SLC25A40, HAND2, GREM2, ISL1, TOPBP1, TRIB1, BMP10, CH25H
Arrhythmia General Panel.
HFE, TTR, AARS2, ACAD9, AGL, ACADVL, ATP5F1E, ATPAF2, GAA, ELAC2, PSEN1, EYA4, GNPTAB, GLB1, PITX2, DSP, DLD, SLC25A4, FOXRED1, CRYAB , (...)
HFE, TTR, AARS2, ACAD9, AGL, ACADVL, ATP5F1E, ATPAF2, GAA, ELAC2, PSEN1, EYA4, GNPTAB, GLB1, PITX2, DSP, DLD, SLC25A4, FOXRED1, CRYAB, RAF1, OPA3, MTO1, MRPL3, LIAS, AGK, DNM1L, TMEM70, FAH, IDH2, CAVIN1, MRPS22, SLC25A3, TSFM, DNAJC19, GFM1, COQ2, SCO2, PDHA1, TAZ, PHKA1, COX15, SURF1, GUSB, MLYCD, FXN, COX6B1, SLC22A5, PMM2, ALMS1, ZFHX3, SDHA, DOLK, BRAF, DMD, GLA, HRAS, KRAS, LDLR, MAP2K1, NRAS, PTPN11, SHOC2, SOS1, SOS2, RIT1, MAP2K2, FKTN, SGCA, SGCB, CAPN3, LMNA, PSEN2, FKRP, CAV3, NF1, TTN, DES, MYH7, FLNC, ANO5, MYOT, LDB3, BSCL2, BAG3, FHL1, MYBPC3, ACTA1, SYNE1, TMEM43, SYNE2, EMD, TCAP, SGCD, KCNJ2, KCND3, LAMA2, KCNH2, SCN1B, HCN4, SCN5A, CACNA2D1, CACNA1D, KCNE1, KCNQ1, CACNA1C, CTNNB1, LZTR1, LAMP2, SPRED1, RASA2, RRAS, A2ML1, NOTCH1, MYH11, TRPM4, SLMAP, KCNJ8, ABCC9, SCN2B, SCN3B, KCNE3, CACNB2, GPD1L, PKP2, ANK2, RYR2, CALM1, CALM2, TRDN, KCNE2, KCNJ5, SNTA1, CASQ2, AKAP9, SCN4B, KCNK3, KCNA5, PDLIM3, ILK, NEBL, ACTC1, MYLK2, TGFB3, LAMA4, PRDM16, NKX2-5, ANKRD1, TNNC1, TNNI3, MYH6, PRKAG2, PLN, NEXN, DSG2, JUP, MYPN, RANGRF, TPM1, TNNT2, GATAD1, JPH2, MYOZ2, RBM20, ACTN2, CSRP3, DSC2, MYL2, MYL3, DTNA, TOR1AIP1, SPEG, VCL, NOS1AP, TBX5, GJA1, FHL2, OBSCN, TXNRD2, TMPO, GATA4, GATA6, XK, COL7A1, NPPA, GJA5, AGPAT2, ANK3, OBSL1, FGF12, COA5, SCN10A, CTNNA3, KCNE5, GATA5, CHRM2, CAVIN4, TBX20, MIB1, CALR3, CALM3, TNNI3K, PKP4, KLF10, TRIM63, COA6, KCND2, MRPL44, NKX2-6, FOXD4, FHOD3, PERP, PPP1R13L, KCNK17, IRX3, MYOM1, NNT, GREM2
TTR, AARS2, ACAD9, AGL, ACADVL, ATP5F1E, ATPAF2, GAA, ELAC2, GNPTAB, GLB1, DSP, DLD, SLC25A4, FOXRED1, CRYAB, RAF1, MTO1, MRPL3, LIAS , (...)
TTR, AARS2, ACAD9, AGL, ACADVL, ATP5F1E, ATPAF2, GAA, ELAC2, GNPTAB, GLB1, DSP, DLD, SLC25A4, FOXRED1, CRYAB, RAF1, MTO1, MRPL3, LIAS, AGK, TMEM70, FAH, IDH2, MRPS22, SLC25A3, TSFM, GFM1, COQ2, SCO2, PDHA1, TAZ, PHKA1, COX15, SURF1, GUSB, MLYCD, FXN, COX6B1, SLC22A5, PMM2, BRAF, GLA, HRAS, KRAS, MAP2K1, NRAS, PTPN11, SHOC2, SOS1, MAP2K2, LMNA, CAV3, NF1, TTN, DES, MYH7, FLNC, LDB3, BSCL2, BAG3, FHL1, MYBPC3, ACTA1, TCAP, LZTR1, LAMP2, KCNJ8, ANK2, RYR2, CASQ2, PDLIM3, ACTC1, MYLK2, ANKRD1, TNNC1, TNNI3, MYH6, PRKAG2, PLN, NEXN, MYPN, TPM1, TNNT2, JPH2, MYOZ2, ACTN2, CSRP3, MYL2, MYL3, VCL, FHL2, OBSCN, AGPAT2, OBSL1, COA5, CAVIN4, CALR3, KLF10, TRIM63, COA6, MRPL44, FHOD3, MYOM1
Cardiomyopathies General Panel.
HFE, TTR, AARS2, ACAD9, AGL, ACADVL, ATP5F1E, ATPAF2, GAA, ELAC2, PSEN1, EYA4, GNPTAB, GLB1, DSP, DLD, SLC25A4, FOXRED1, CRYAB, RAF1 , (...)
HFE, TTR, AARS2, ACAD9, AGL, ACADVL, ATP5F1E, ATPAF2, GAA, ELAC2, PSEN1, EYA4, GNPTAB, GLB1, DSP, DLD, SLC25A4, FOXRED1, CRYAB, RAF1, OPA3, MTO1, MRPL3, LIAS, AGK, DNM1L, TMEM70, FAH, IDH2, MRPS22, SLC25A3, TSFM, DNAJC19, GFM1, COQ2, SCO2, PDHA1, TAZ, PHKA1, COX15, SURF1, GUSB, MLYCD, FXN, COX6B1, SLC22A5, PMM2, ALMS1, SDHA, DOLK, BRAF, DMD, GLA, HRAS, KRAS, MAP2K1, NRAS, PTPN11, SHOC2, SOS1, SOS2, RIT1, MAP2K2, FKTN, SGCA, SGCB, LMNA, PSEN2, FKRP, CAV3, NF1, TTN, DES, MYH7, FLNC, ANO5, MYOT, LDB3, BSCL2, BAG3, FHL1, MYBPC3, ACTA1, SYNE1, TMEM43, SYNE2, EMD, TCAP, SGCD, KCNJ2, LAMA2, KCNH2, HCN4, SCN5A, KCNQ1, CTNNB1, LZTR1, LAMP2, SPRED1, RASA2, RRAS, A2ML1, NOTCH1, KCNJ8, ABCC9, PKP2, ANK2, RYR2, CASQ2, PDLIM3, ILK, NEBL, ACTC1, MYLK2, TGFB3, LAMA4, PRDM16, NKX2-5, ANKRD1, TNNC1, TNNI3, MYH6, PRKAG2, PLN, NEXN, DSG2, JUP, MYPN, TPM1, TNNT2, GATAD1, JPH2, MYOZ2, RBM20, ACTN2, CSRP3, DSC2, MYL2, MYL3, DTNA, TOR1AIP1, SPEG, VCL, FHL2, OBSCN, TXNRD2, TMPO, GATA4, GATA6, XK, COL7A1, AGPAT2, OBSL1, COA5, CTNNA3, GATA5, CHRM2, CAVIN4, TBX20, MIB1, CALR3, TNNI3K, PKP4, KLF10, TRIM63, COA6, MRPL44, FOXD4, FHOD3, PERP, PPP1R13L, MYOM1, NNT
Invitae Glycine Encephalopathy Panel.
By Invitae in United States.
LIAS, NFU1, GCSH, GLDC, AMT, SLC6A9
Invitae Epilepsy Panel.
UBE3A, ADSL, POLG, MECP2, LIAS, GAMT, GATM, STXBP1, CTSD, SLC25A22, SLC9A6, ALDH5A1, ALDH7A1, TPP1, CLN3, WWOX, PNKD, SLC6A8, ARX, CDKL5 , (...)
UBE3A, ADSL, POLG, MECP2, LIAS, GAMT, GATM, STXBP1, CTSD, SLC25A22, SLC9A6, ALDH5A1, ALDH7A1, TPP1, CLN3, WWOX, PNKD, SLC6A8, ARX, CDKL5, FOXG1, MEF2C, PCDH19, SLC2A1, TSC2, SYNGAP1, SMC1A, TSC1, CLN6, CLN8, PPT1, CLN5, CSTB, SCN1A, SGCE, ATP1A2, ATP1A3, CHRNB2, EFHC1, LGI1, GABRB3, GOSR2, NHLRC1, KCTD7, KCNH2, PRICKLE1, SCN9A, SLC19A3, SCN1B, SCN2A, SYNJ1, STX1B, SLC35A2, SLC6A1, FOLR1, GRIN2B, HCN1, KCNT1, KCNQ2, KCNQ3, KCNC1, PNPO, SCN3A, CHRNA2, CHRNA4, CHD2, EPM2A, GABRA1, GABRG2, GRIN2A, MBD5, SCARB2, ALG13, TBC1D24, DEPDC5, PRRT2, BRAT1, PIGO, QARS, DNAJC5, MFSD8, CACNA2D2, HNRNPU, SPATA5, EEF1A2, KCNA2, DNM1, PURA, KCNB1, SLC13A5, NEXMIF, SZT2, GNAO1, KANSL1, ROGDI, SCN8A, PIGA, NRXN1, GRIN1, DYRK1A, PIGN, PLCB1, SPTAN1, PNKP, KCNJ10, TCF4, CNTNAP2, SERPINI1, ATRX, IQSEC2, ARHGEF9, SYN1, CASK, ZEB2, EHMT1, ZDHHC9, SATB2, IER3IP1, PACS1, C12orf57, GLRA1, NGLY1, FRRS1L, SNX27, ITPA
Invitae Elevated Glycine Panel.
Invitae Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Deficiency Panel.
DLD, LIAS, PDHB, PDP1, PDHA1, DLAT, PDHX, MPC1
Epilepsy and Seizure Disorders: Sequencing Panel.
By EGL Genetic Diagnostics Eurofins Clinical Diagnostics in United States.
MTHFR, UBE3A, ADSL, ADGRV1, SHH, POLG, SLC25A19, MECP2, LIAS, ABAT, GAMT, GATM, STXBP1, CTSD, SLC25A22, SLC9A6, ALDH5A1, ALDH7A1, NDUFA1, CYP27A1 , (...)
MTHFR, UBE3A, ADSL, ADGRV1, SHH, POLG, SLC25A19, MECP2, LIAS, ABAT, GAMT, GATM, STXBP1, CTSD, SLC25A22, SLC9A6, ALDH5A1, ALDH7A1, NDUFA1, CYP27A1, TPP1, CLN3, ARX, CDKL5, FOXG1, MEF2C, PCDH19, SLC2A1, WDR62, TSC2, TSC1, CLN6, CLN8, PPT1, CLN5, CSTB, SCN1A, CACNA1A, KCNJ11, CASR, KCNA1, CACNB4, MCPH1, ASPM, ATP1A2, CHRNB2, CPA6, EFHC1, LGI1, GOSR2, NHLRC1, KCTD7, PRICKLE1, PRICKLE2, SCN9A, SLC19A3, ST3GAL5, SCN1B, SCN2A, FOLR1, HCN1, KCNT1, KCNQ2, KCNQ3, PNPO, SCN3A, CHRNA2, CHRNA4, EPM2A, GABRA1, GABRG2, GRIN2A, HCN4, MBD5, KCNMA1, SCARB2, TBC1D24, PRRT2, BCKDK, CENPJ, DCX, EMX2, NDE1, SIX3, RELN, FLNA, TSEN54, PAFAH1B1, ADGRG1, STIL, SRPX2, DNAJC5, MFSD8, MAGI2, ST3GAL3, SCN8A, NRXN1, PLCB1, SPTAN1, PNKP, KCNJ10, TCF4, CNTNAP2, PHF6, ARHGEF9, SYN1, OPHN1, ATP6AP2, CASK, ZEB2
Neurology: Sequencing Panel.
UBE3A, ADSL, TUBB3, CC2D2A, TMEM67, NPHP1, ADGRV1, CEP290, SHH, POLG, SLC25A19, MECP2, LIAS, GAMT, GATM, STXBP1, TUBA1A, RARS2, CTSD, SLC25A22 , (...)
UBE3A, ADSL, TUBB3, CC2D2A, TMEM67, NPHP1, ADGRV1, CEP290, SHH, POLG, SLC25A19, MECP2, LIAS, GAMT, GATM, STXBP1, TUBA1A, RARS2, CTSD, SLC25A22, SLC9A6, ALDH7A1, MKS1, TPP1, CLN3, ARX, CDKL5, DHCR7, FOXG1, MEF2C, PCDH19, SLC2A1, WDR62, TSC2, TSC1, PTCH1, CLN6, CLN8, FKTN, PPT1, POMGNT1, CLN5, TMEM216, CSTB, SCN1A, AHI1, FKRP, FGF8, VRK1, POMT2, POMT1, CACNB4, LARGE1, MCPH1, ASPM, ATP1A2, CHRNB2, CPA6, EFHC1, LGI1, GOSR2, NHLRC1, KCTD7, PRICKLE1, SCN9A, SLC19A3, ST3GAL5, SCN1B, SCN2A, FOLR1, GRIN2B, KCNT1, KCNQ2, KCNQ3, PNPO, CHRNA2, CHRNA4, EPM2A, GABRA1, GABRG2, GRIN2A, MBD5, KCNMA1, SCARB2, TBC1D24, PRRT2, BCKDK, ARFGEF2, CENPJ, DCX, NDE1, PQBP1, RAB3GAP1, SIX3, RELN, TUBA8, FLNA, TSEN54, PAFAH1B1, ADGRG1, STIL, SRPX2, TUBB2B, DNAJC5, MFSD8, MAGI2, ST3GAL3, SCN8A, NRXN1, PLCB1, SPTAN1, PNKP, KCNJ10, TCF4, CNTNAP2, KIF1BP, ATRX, ARHGEF9, SYN1, OPHN1, ATP6AP2, CASK, ZEB2, ACTB, ACTG1, LAMC3, EHMT1, EXOSC3, TSEN34, TSEN2, TGIF1, ZIC2, CEP152, NODAL, FOXH1, GLI2, CDK5RAP2, PCNT, ATR, CHMP1A, RAB3GAP2, TMEM237, TMEM138, RPGRIP1L, KIF7, CEP41, EOMES, RAB18, RBBP8, MYCN, VLDLR, DISP1, RTTN, ZNF335, CEP135, KNL1, CEP63, NIN, CDC6, CDT1, ORC6, ORC4, POC1A, MAPK10
Epilepsy and Seizure Disorders: Deletion/Duplication Panel.
MTHFR, UBE3A, ADSL, ADGRV1, SHH, POLG, SLC25A19, MECP2, LIAS, ABAT, GAMT, GATM, STXBP1, CTSD, SLC25A22, SLC9A6, ALDH7A1, NDUFA1, TPP1, CLN3 , (...)
MTHFR, UBE3A, ADSL, ADGRV1, SHH, POLG, SLC25A19, MECP2, LIAS, ABAT, GAMT, GATM, STXBP1, CTSD, SLC25A22, SLC9A6, ALDH7A1, NDUFA1, TPP1, CLN3, ARX, CDKL5, FOXG1, MEF2C, PCDH19, SLC2A1, WDR62, TSC2, TSC1, CLN6, CLN8, PPT1, CLN5, CSTB, SCN1A, CACNA1A, KCNJ11, CASR, KCNA1, CACNB4, MCPH1, ASPM, ATP1A2, CHRNB2, CPA6, EFHC1, LGI1, GOSR2, NHLRC1, KCTD7, PRICKLE1, PRICKLE2, SCN9A, SLC19A3, ST3GAL5, SCN1B, SCN2A, FOLR1, HCN1, KCNT1, KCNQ2, KCNQ3, PNPO, SCN3A, CHRNA2, CHRNA4, EPM2A, GABRA1, GABRG2, GRIN2A, HCN4, MBD5, KCNMA1, SCARB2, TBC1D24, BCKDK, CENPJ, DCX, EMX2, NDE1, SIX3, RELN, FLNA, TSEN54, PAFAH1B1, ADGRG1, STIL, SRPX2, DNAJC5, MFSD8, MAGI2, ST3GAL3, SCN8A, NRXN1, PLCB1, SPTAN1, PNKP, KCNJ10, TCF4, CNTNAP2, PHF6, ARHGEF9, SYN1, OPHN1, ATP6AP2, CASK, ZEB2
Nuclear-Mito NGS Panel.
By Fulgent Genetics Fulgent Genetics in United States.
HTT, UBE3A, MUTYH, TP53, MCCC1, MCCC2, AARS2, ACACA, ACAD9, ACADL, ACADM, ACADS, ACADVL, ACAT1, YARS2, FBP1, PC, GYS2, UQCRQ, UQCRB , (...)
HTT, UBE3A, MUTYH, TP53, MCCC1, MCCC2, AARS2, ACACA, ACAD9, ACADL, ACADM, ACADS, ACADVL, ACAT1, YARS2, FBP1, PC, GYS2, UQCRQ, UQCRB, HLCS, ATP5F1E, ATP7B, ATP8B1, ATPAF2, AUH, BCKDHA, BCKDHB, BCS1L, TWNK, C12orf65, ADSL, MMACHC, STAR, ELAC2, SDHAF2, ELN, SLC16A1, MTRR, AMACR, HSD17B4, CPS1, CPT2, OPA1, KRT5, ABCB6, TRMU, CASP8, PYCR1, CLCN7, DTNBP1, WFS1, COMT, PRODH, HSD17B10, FOXC1, AASS, DLD, POLG, NDUFS4, HSPD1, SLC25A19, SLC25A4, GCK, GARS, AFG3L2, CYP11B1, FOXRED1, RRM2B, NDUFAF2, KIF1B, ALAS2, SLC25A13, MFN2, SDHC, PANK2, HADHA, OPA3, FH, MECP2, CYP11B2, MTO1, COQ9, PDSS2, PDSS1, COQ6, MRPL3, ACO2, NDUFA12, IDH3B, DHODH, HARS, LIAS, NDUFB3, GPD1, NDUFA9, COX14, AGK, ALDH18A1, DNM1L, DGUOK, BOLA3, ACSF3, GPX1, DIABLO, LDHB, PDHB, ALDH6A1, ACAT2, TMEM70, SARS2, NFU1, PCK2, NDUFAF1, HMGCL, HSD3B2, TTC19, MTPAP, XPNPEP3, TAT, NDUFA10, NUBPL, G6PC, CYP24A1, CYP11A1, SCP2, IDH2, KARS, SPTLC2, GPI, ABAT, GFER, TMEM126A, SLC25A12, LDHA, ENO3, GATM, SPR, COX4I2, RPL35A, SDHB, SUCLA2, CYCS, MRPS22, GYS1, RARS2, ACAD8, DARS2, SLC25A3, TUFM, TSFM, MRPS16, HTRA2, ALDH2, REEP1, DNAJC19, POLG2, CTSD, ACADSB, SECISBP2, TK2, SLC25A22, GFM1, HADHB, PDP1, ATIC, UNG, NDUFA13, UCP2, COQ2, SPG7, GLUD1, PCCB, PCCA, HMGCS2, GCSH, GLDC, AMT, DMGDH, CISD2, TAP1, SCO2, GAD1, TYMP, ETHE1, UCP1, UCP3, PPARGC1B, RNASEL, D2HGDH, PUS1, AGPS, OTC, HCCS, PDHA1, GK, TIMM8A, TAZ, ABCB7, AIFM1, MAOA, ACSL4, ABCD1, MMADHC, SUOX, ALDH5A1, ALDH3A2, SARDH, AK2, PHYH, ALDH7A1, CYP27B1, PGAM2, PTS, QDPR, PAH, AGXT, TCIRG1, OAT, NME1, NDUFA2, COX15, SURF1, NDUFS8, NDUFS7, NDUFS3, NDUFAF6, ISCU, CPT1A, CHAT, MOCS2, MOCS1, SDHAF1, NDUFAF3, NDUFA1, NDUFA11, NDUFAF4, NDUFS1, NDUFV1, NDUFV2, NDUFS6, NDUFS2, NDUFAF5, MCEE, MMAB, MMAA, MUT, CYB5R3, CYB5A, HIBCH, DBT, MLYCD, SUCLG1, DLAT, GALC, OXCT1, IVD, ALDH4A1, SLC25A15, NAGS, L2HGDH, HK1, CYBA, ETFB, ETFA, ETFDH, GCDH, FXN, GLYCTK, LRPPRC, FASTKD2, COX6B1, SLC3A1, ASS1, CYP27A1, SLC22A5, SLC25A20, PRKN, APTX, SLC25A38, GLRX5, TPP1, CLN3, ANKRD26, SLC22A4, FECH, PPOX, OGG1, WWOX, MEN1, GPD2, CPOX, PNKD, AKAP10, PHB, TACO1, FARS2, HARS2, SLC6A8, MTFMT, PDHX, SDHA, SUGCT, MOGS, CPT1B, CFTR, CDKL5, FOXG1, DMPK, SLC2A1, SDHD, CLN6, CLN8, G6PD, CYBB, PEX2, PPT1, PEX7, SACS, PEX1, ABCC8, CLN5, GDAP1, SCN1A, CLCN1, SCN4A, ATXN7, CACNA1A, LRRK2, KCNJ11, PDX1, CLCNKB, SPAST, SPART, CACNA1S, RYR1, KCNJ2, KCNA1, TDP1, CHRNB2, KCNH2, SCN1B, SCN2A, FOLR1, KCNQ2, KCNQ3, CHRNA4, SCN5A, DNAJC5, MFSD8, CACNA2D1, NRXN1, SLC19A2, LARS2, KCNE1, KCNQ1, PEX6, NARS2, PEX14, PEX19, PEX13, PEX3, PEX16, PEX26, PEX10, PEX12, PEX5, PKLR, UROS, CLCN2, ABCC9, ANK2, RYR2, KCNE2, RSPH9, TFAM, PGK1, GNPAT, GNAS, TXNRD2, IMMP2L, ACACB, TFB1M, MRRF, NDUFS5, MARS2, COX4I1, NDUFA8, NDUFA7, NDUFV3, NDUFB6, COX10, SCO1, EARS2, DDC, HADH, AKT2, IDH1, INSR, AKT1, TPI1, HOGA1, PREPL, MED23, CLCN5, AAAS, COQ4, PMPCA, COA5, SLC27A4, FTH1, PEX11B, NTHL1, GLRA1, NOS3, BCL2, PCK1, DECR1, ABCD3, GPX4, NDUFB9, MOCOS, DISC1, CDC42BPB, FASN, NDUFA4, COQ5, PARP1, TXN2, MTHFD1, TIMM44, HSPA9, BCAT2, BCAT1, ARMS2, ACHE, TOMM40, TPH2, MDH1, MTHFS, MTHFD1L, FPGS, SHMT1, H6PD, GAD2, GLO1, HIGD2A, HSPB7, HSD3B1, NDUFA6, GLS, ECSIT, ECI1, HK2, NDUFB1, ATP10D, DMAC2, ACSL5, ACSM3, AS3MT, PPARGC1A, PTGES2, POLRMT, RAB11FIP5, MAVS, LETM1, IMMT, IDE, NIPSNAP3A, CLYBL, CHDH, CNR1, SIRT5, SLC25A39, SIRT1, SIRT3, TST, TOP1MT, USP24, NIPSNAP1, CKM, NPL, MGLL, MGST3, AGXT2, AKR7A2, MTCH2, MRPL48, BAX, MAOB, DDAH1, COX7A2, ENO1, GPAM, FAAH, TSPO, KYNU, PARL, ACLY, NDUFC2, NLRX1, PACRG, PAK5, PNMT
LIAS.
Early-Onset Epileptic Encephalopathy NGS Panel.
UBE3A, AUH, ADSL, ADGRV1, POLG, MECP2, LIAS, SLC25A12, GAMT, GATM, STXBP1, CTSD, SLC25A22, SLC9A6, ALDH7A1, TPP1, CLN3, WWOX, FARS2, SLC6A8 , (...)
UBE3A, AUH, ADSL, ADGRV1, POLG, MECP2, LIAS, SLC25A12, GAMT, GATM, STXBP1, CTSD, SLC25A22, SLC9A6, ALDH7A1, TPP1, CLN3, WWOX, FARS2, SLC6A8, ARX, CDKL5, CHRNA7, FOXG1, MEF2C, PCDH19, SLC2A1, TSC2, SYNGAP1, TSC1, CLN6, CLN8, PPT1, CLN5, CSTB, SCN1A, CACNA1A, DYNC1H1, CACNB4, ATP1A2, CHRNB2, CPA6, EFHC1, LGI1, GABRB3, GOSR2, NHLRC1, KCTD7, KCNH2, PRICKLE1, SCN9A, SLC19A3, ST3GAL5, SCN1B, SCN2A, STX1B, SLC35A2, FOLR1, GABRB2, GABRD, GRIN2B, HCN1, KCNT1, KCNQ2, KCNQ3, PNPO, SCN3A, CHRNA2, CHRNA4, CHD2, EPM2A, GABRA1, GABRG2, GRIN2A, MBD5, SCARB2, SCN5A, ALG13, TBC1D24, DEPDC5, PRRT2, PIGO, BCKDK, ARFGEF2, QARS, SRPX2, CTSF, DNAJC5, MFSD8, RBFOX1, CACNA2D2, MAGI2, HNRNPU, EEF1A2, DNM1, SIK1, KCNB1, SLC13A5, NR2F1, SZT2, GNAO1, WDR45, ST3GAL3, KANSL1, ROGDI, SCN8A, PIGA, NRXN1, GRIN1, DYRK1A, PIGV, PLCB1, SPTAN1, PNKP, KCNJ10, TCF4, CNTNAP2, IQSEC2, ARHGEF9, SYN1, ATP6AP2, ZEB2, CLCN4, NEDD4L, MTOR, KCNH5, ACY1, SLC12A5, TNK2, HCN2, ARHGEF15, KPNA7, RBFOX3
Comprehensive Epilepsy NGS Panel.
MTHFR, UBE3A, PC, ARG1, BTD, ATPAF2, AUH, BCS1L, TWNK, C12orf65, ADSL, PAX6, AMACR, CPT2, PSAP, GNPTAB, GLB1, CC2D2A, PRODH, ATP6V0A2 , (...)
MTHFR, UBE3A, PC, ARG1, BTD, ATPAF2, AUH, BCS1L, TWNK, C12orf65, ADSL, PAX6, AMACR, CPT2, PSAP, GNPTAB, GLB1, CC2D2A, PRODH, ATP6V0A2, GNE, HSD17B10, TMEM67, NPHP1, ADGRV1, CEP290, SHH, ME2, DLD, POLG, NDUFS4, SLC25A19, PANK2, RAF1, FH, SMPD1, MECP2, COQ9, PDSS2, PDSS1, LIAS, BOLA3, TMEM70, ABAT, SLC25A12, DPM3, GAMT, GATM, STXBP1, COQ8A, RFT1, TUBA1A, RARS2, COG1, COG8, KCNV2, CTSD, SLC25A22, MPDU1, DPM1, COG7, ALG9, ATIC, ALG1, ALG8, ALG2, GRN, COQ2, ALG12, B4GALT1, GLUD1, GCSH, GLDC, AMT, SCO2, SLC35A1, ALG6, MPI, ALG3, PDHA1, SLC9A6, HEXA, SUOX, ALDH5A1, HEXB, SLC35C1, ALDH7A1, QDPR, CTSA, NDUFA2, COX15, SURF1, NDUFS8, NDUFS7, NDUFS3, GUSB, GALNS, GNS, HGSNAT, NAGLU, SGSH, MOCS2, MOCS1, NDUFA1, NDUFS1, NDUFV1, GALC, ALDH4A1, SLC25A15, L2HGDH, ETFB, ETFA, ETFDH, GCDH, LRPPRC, MGAT2, PMM2, APTX, TPP1, CLN3, WWOX, TACO1, FARS2, SLC6A8, SDHA, AGA, ARSB, DOLK, DPAGT1, MOGS, HPD, FGFR3, ARSA, ASPA, ARX, BRAF, CDKL5, CHRNA7, DHCR7, EIF2B1, FOXG1, HRAS, IDS, IDUA, KRAS, MAP2K1, MEF2C, NPC1, NPC2, NRAS, PCDH19, PLP1, PTPN11, RAI1, SHOC2, SLC2A1, SOS1, WDR62, MAP2K2, TSC2, CBL, SYNGAP1, SMC3, SMC1A, TSC1, NIPBL, NSD1, PTCH1, GPC3, CLN6, CLN8, FKTN, PEX2, PPT1, PEX7, MLC1, MCOLN1, PEX1, POMGNT1, SLC17A5, SUMF1, ABCC8, CLN5, EIF2B5, PLA2G6, DPYD, TMEM216, EIF2B3, EIF2B2, EIF2B4, CSTB, SCN1A, AHI1, NOTCH3, FKRP, SCN4A, CACNA1A, NF1, KCNJ11, FGF8, CASR, CLCNKB, KCNJ1, DYNC1H1, VRK1, POMT2, POMT1, KCNA1, CACNB4, SLC1A3, LAMA2, DPM2, LARGE1, MCPH1, ASPM, ATP1A2, CACNA1H, CHRNB2, CPA6, EFHC1, CRH, LGI1, GABRB3, GOSR2, NHLRC1, KCTD7, KCNH2, PRICKLE1, PRICKLE2, SCN9A, SLC19A3, ST3GAL5, SCN1B, SCN2A, STX1B, SLC35A2, SLC6A1, FOLR1, GABRB2, GABRD, GRIN2B, HCN1, KCNT1, KCNQ2, KCNQ3, KCNC1, PNPO, SCN3A, CHRNA2, CHRNA4, CHD2, EPM2A, GABRA1, GABRG2, GRIN2A, HCN4, MBD5, KCNMA1, SCARB2, SCN5A, SLC4A10, ALG13, TBC1D24, DEPDC5, PRRT2, BRAT1, PIGO, BCKDK, COL4A1, ARFGEF2, CENPJ, DCX, EMX2, QARS, NDE1, PQBP1, RAB3GAP1, SIX3, RELN, TUBA8, FLNA, TSEN54, PAFAH1B1, ADGRG1, STIL, SRPX2, TUBB2B, CTSF, DNAJC5, MFSD8, ATP13A2, KMT2D, RBFOX1, CACNA2D2, MAGI2, HNRNPU, TBL1XR1, EEF1A2, KCNA2, DNM1, SIK1, SNAP25, PURA, KCNB1, SLC13A5, DOCK7, NR2F1, NEXMIF, SZT2, GNAO1, WDR45, ST3GAL3, KANSL1, ROGDI, SCN8A, PIGA, NRXN1, GRIN1, DYRK1A, PIGV, PLCB1, SPTAN1, PNKP, SAMHD1, KCNJ10, TCF4, RNASEH2A, RNASEH2C, RNASEH2B, CNTNAP2, KIF1BP, SERPINI1, OFD1, SMS, ATRX, IQSEC2, FGD1, PHF6, SYP, GRIA3, ARHGEF9, PAK3, KDM5C, SYN1, OPHN1, ATP6AP2, CASK, CUL4B, RAB39B, SETBP1, ZEB2, TREX1, VPS13B, GFAP, VPS13A, TBX1, LBR, ATP2A2, PEX6, FUCA1, NTNG1, MED12, PEX14, PEX3, PEX26, PEX12, PEX5, KAT6B, CLCNKA, NEU1, UBE2A, CLCN4, SPRED1, CCL2, CLCN2, NEDD4L, MTOR, VANGL1, TSEN34, TSEN2, TUBB2A, TGIF1, ZIC2, CEP152, ABCB1, NODAL, CDON, GLI2, CDK5RAP2, FLVCR2, PCNT, ATR, GNPTG, GLI3, SCN2B, SCN3B, SCN4B, KDM6A, SMARCA2, ADAR, PGK1, RPGRIP1L, ARL13B, COX10, SLC46A1, AKT3, NHEJ1, LIG4, ASNS, SNAP29, CCDC88C, MED17, ANK3, C12orf57, KCNH5, ACY1, COL18A1, MAPK10, BUB1B, SCN10A, DHFR, GLRB, GLRA1, SLC6A5, HDAC4, SLC12A5, GPHN, SRGAP2, TNK2, HCN2, GABBR2, RYR3, FASN, PIK3AP1, ARHGEF15, CNTN2, KPNA7, RBFOX3, BRD2, VDAC1, UBR5, NIPA2, CELSR1, EFHC2, RANGAP1, KCNAB2, HNRNPH1
Comprehensive Metabolism Panel.
By Blueprint Genetics in Finland.
HFE, MTHFR, MCCC1, MCCC2, ACAD9, ACADL, ACADM, ACADS, AGL, ACADVL, ACAT1, ALDOA, ALDOB, FBP1, PC, GYS2, ARG1, HLCS, BTD, ATP7B , (...)
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Hyperglycinemia, Lactic Acidosis, And Seizures; Hgclas Is also known as pyruvate dehydrogenase lipoic acid synthetase deficiency;pdhld;.
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AJ Thomas: ‘Linked learning’ will help ensure…
AJ Thomas: ‘Linked learning’ will help ensure employers can find skilled workers
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As a human resources professional for a high-tech company, I am responsible for screening applicants for jobs in an industry that is growing ever more competitive.
Potential hires need more than a solid education; they need work-ready skills and experience. Unfortunately, many candidates lack these prerequisites.
According to a new report from the business leaders organization America’s Edge, even at the height of the recession and with 2 million Californians out of work, only 38 percent of the state’s workers had appropriate training for 47 percent of California’s jobs in middle-skill careers — positions that require more than a high school diploma but not necessarily a four-year college degree.
What’s worse is the lack of qualified workers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics — the STEM occupations.
Only a few years ago California had one of the premier education systems in the country, but recently we have headed in the wrong direction.
New data show that approximately one in four California high school freshmen do not graduate in four years. An alarming 18 percent of students drop out of school altogether.
Fortunately, California has a promising approach to education reform that is gaining momentum. It is called linked learning, and it combines rigorous academics with relevant career-technical education and hands-on learning opportunities with regional employers, based on a proven national model called career academies.
I have worked with students in the green and biotech academies at Andrew P. Hill High School in East San Jose. Having a program that infuses entrepreneurial education into this school allows students to exercise career-essential skills, including communication, collaboration and critical thinking.
Many of the students I’ve worked with did not see the relevance in traditional high school classes, but through career-themed academies they could connect their studies to the real world.
For example, last year the students spent eight months working in teams, researching data for their business plans, which culminated in a professional presentation to CEOs and venture capitalists in Silicon Valley.
Their business plans included creating solar power lockers and diabetic dessert food lines. These students had to compete for internships and scholarships to further their education and gained an invaluable experience that will serve them well as they explore future careers.
Data on career academies show that participating students go on to work more hours and earn more money than nonparticipating students. Schools with linked learning programs have also shown significant increases in graduation rates and the number of students who enroll in postsecondary education.
The bottom line is clear: California must adopt policies that help expand these effective programs. Three bills awaiting Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature would do just that.
Senate Bill 547 would replace the Academic Performance Index, which judges a school’s performance solely using test scores, with a new, more comprehensive performance measure called the Education Quality Index. The Education Quality Index would be comprised of several indexes, including a career-readiness index.
SB 611 would establish the University of California Curriculum Integration Institute to bring together high school teachers, university researchers and other experts to develop courses with rigorous academic content linked to real-world applications. SB 612 would expand a proven professional development program that prepares teachers to deliver hands-on, integrated curriculum that is connected to high-need sectors of the economy.
Traditional methods of teaching in high schools are outdated and ineffective. It is time to embrace an education model that will infuse education with relevance and provide the kind of work-readiness skills that students want and employers need.
AJ THOMAS is a human resources manager for Infinera Corp. in Sunnyvale. She wrote this for this newspaper.
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Here’s a remastered version of Metallica’s “The Four Horsemen”
As you likely know by now, Metallica will be reissuing deluxe versions of their first two albums, Kill ‘Em All and Ride the Lightning, on April 15th. If you’re a true collector, you’ll want to shell out the $150 for them. The Kill ‘Em All box set includes four vinyl records, five CDs, one DVD, a hardcover book including rare photos and a patch while the deluxe numbered box set of Ride the Lightning includes four vinyl records, six CDs, one DVD, a hardcover book including more of those unseen photos, a mini-book of lyrics handwritten by James Hetfield and a set of three posters. The band have released the remastered (mastered!) version of “The Four Horsemen,” and maybe it’s just because we know that it’s been remastered (MASTERED!), but it sounds cleaner. Is it just us? Take a listen and let us know your thoughts in the comments section below. You can read the full track listings for both albums here.
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Primary Care > General Primary Care
Friday Feedback: GME Beyond Repair?
by Elbert Chu, Director, Partnership Strategy, MedPage Today August 1, 2014
This week, the Institute of Medicine slammed U.S. medical educators for failing to meet minimal training standards for new physicians and recommended a drastic overhaul in the government's $15 billion annual expenditure on physician training. In addition, the New England Journal of Medicine published opinion pieces on the topic.
We reached out to a diverse group of physicians via email and asked:
Do you think medical residents today are less prepared than they used to be, and what reforms would you want for government funding and oversight of physician education?
The participants this week:
Reid Blackwelder, MD, president, American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
Neil Brooks, MD, a family physician in Vernon, Conn., and former president of the AAFP. Brooks wrote a separate op-ed article on the subject for Medpage Today.
Russell Libby, MD, founder and president of Virginia Pediatric Group, a primary care pediatric practice with three offices in northern Virginia, and president of the independent practice association HeathConnect IPA
Chris Lillis, MD, a primary care physician from Fredericksburg, Va., and board member of Doctors for America
Mitchell B. Miller, MD, a family medicine physician at Coastal Family Practice in Virginia Beach, Va.
David H. Newman, MD, director of clinical research, associate professor emergency medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, author of "Hippocrates' Shadow: Secrets From the House of Medicine," and Newman's Notes columnist.
It's Not the Residents
David H. Newman, MD: "Residents today are as prepared as they have ever been to join the physician workforce. The problem is the physician workforce."
Reid Blackwelder, MD: "U.S. medical residents are well prepared for their specialties and subspecialties. The challenge facing society is that our medical education system is not producing the specialties most needed by Americans."
Russell Libby, MD: "I do have my concerns over graduate medical education for a number of reasons, but it varies from site to site. Is it being cut short on experience, yes. Does it recognize the need for the profession to step up to a higher level of competence and maintaining educational endeavors? That is a good question and will be a major issue in the years to come as our knowledge database expands exponentially."
Preach On
Neil Brooks, MD: "Yes, the time has come when the system is ripe for restructuring and providing a medical workforce which meets the nation's needs in both the affordability and quality of care."
Chris Lillis, MD: "I applaud the IOM report calling on leveraging the taxpayer dollars funneled through Medicare and Medicaid to be rethought rather than their currently few-strings-attached funding of graduate medical education. More accountability focusing on national needs and priorities with an eye on improving the efficiency of our healthcare system is long overdue in the GME [graduate medical education] funding scheme."
Mitchell B. Miller, MD: "Accountability and transparency are generally positive goals, especially when spending $15 billion. In general, it is high time to take a look at training and funding to be sure that we are doing our best to produce the highly trained physicians our nation deserves.
Big Brother Role
Newman: "The federal government has been paying to train too many narrow specialists who then work in areas teeming with doctors, and who practice a lavish, inefficient form of medicine. This should constitute a tiny fraction of the workforce, but it has become a majority."
Brooks: "An obvious problem with the funding of GME is that it is primarily the government. There have been proposals for an all-payer system which would result in third party carriers participating in the funding, but that is a political fight which the goal is most likely unattainable."
Lillis: "Like it or not, our healthcare system is a national priority paid for by at least 50% funding from the government (Medicare, Medicaid, Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense). As such, allocating resources for our national healthcare program requires some strategic input to meet the health needs of all of our citizens.
Resource Misallocation
Lillis: "Rural healthcare in the U.S. is in crisis. Some low income urban areas are underserved. We have an immense imbalance between the number of primary care doctors and the number of specialists we churn out every year.
Newman: "Compared to the needs of the American people physicians' skills are too narrow and they work in the wrong places."
Lillis: "I wholeheartedly agree that we do not have an absolute shortage of physicians, but we have a highly inefficient healthcare system with too few primary care physicians, and not enough medical resources in certain segments of the country. No better example of this can be found than the Remote Area Medical group that treats rural patients in Wise County, Va., (my home state)."
Brooks: "I believe that the only real primary care specialty is family medicine and possibly pediatrics. The problem is that a large number of pediatricians are now becoming subspecialists within that field and should not be counted in the primary care numbers."
Blackwelder: "Primary care physicians are the first contact when Americans need healthcare. They're also the specialists who coordinate complex care with subspecialists, therapists, inpatient professionals, and other health services. However, the current graduate medical education funding goes to hospital-based programs that tend to train subspecialists rather than community-based residencies that train primary care physicians. As a result, our physician workforce comprises 70% subspecialists and 30% primary care physicians -- an imbalance that impedes patients' access to care, and has contributed to our nation's poor health outcomes and high cost of care."
Newman: "The money paid by American taxpayers for physician training should be used to shape this workforce to meet their needs. This report, if used to spur innovation and reform, could be the first important step in that direction."
Miller: "Current training may not produce the best results. Specifically in primary care, more training in the ambulatory setting, which is where the vast majority of this care occurs, would be a needed improvement."
Blackwelder: "To assure an adequate primary care physician workforce, we must decouple GME funding from a hospital-based system to more community-based residency sites that train primary care physicians. Doing so is an important first step in better aligning our physician workforce with the health needs of a community."
Brooks: "I am greatly interested in seeing the results of some experimental programs in family medicine. It is my belief that it is no longer possible to fully train family physicians in 3 years and that we would extend the training time to 4 years. That will ameliorate some of the problems associated with failure to do office procedures and will result in family physicians who are more capable and confident in their first years of practice."
Lillis: "What if Medicare and Medicaid used GME funding to repay the medical school loans of graduating primary care residents to practice in these areas rather than churning out specialists we may not need? Lest my specialty colleagues protest, I will remind them that the rules of supply and demand will be in their favor if there are fewer specialists focusing on only needed care."
You may also be interested in these recent Friday Feedbacks:
Zero-Tolerance Employment Smoking Bans?
MD Celebrities in the Land of Oz
Free Care for Veterans?
Fetal Risk From WiFi and Mobiles?
E-Cigs for Cessation
RIP Annual Checkups?
Friday Feedback is a feature that presents a sampling of opinions solicited by MedPage Today in response to a healthcare issue, clinical controversy, or new finding reported that week. We always welcome new, thoughtful voices. If you'd like to participate in a Friday Feedback, or suggest a topic: e.chu@medpagetoday.com or @elbertchu.
Elbert Chu is director of growth and special projects at MedPage. He instigated and guides the Anamnesis podcast. He has written for The New York Times, Popular Science, Fast Company, and ESPN. Follow
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COVID-19 Vaccines: Safe for Immunocompromised Patients?
Roxanne Nelson, RN, BSN
Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center.
Coronavirus vaccines have become a reality, as they are now being approved and authorized for use in a growing number of countries including the United States. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has just issued emergency authorization for the use of the COVID-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNTech. Close behind is the vaccine developed by Moderna, which has also applied to the FDA for emergency authorization.
The efficacy of a two-dose administration of the vaccine has been pegged at 95.0%, and the FDA has said that the 95% credible interval for the vaccine efficacy was 90.3%-97.6%. But as with many initial clinical trials, whether for drugs or vaccines, not all populations were represented in the trial cohort, including individuals who are immunocompromised. At the current time, it is largely unknown how safe or effective the vaccine may be in this large population, many of whom are at high risk for serious COVID-19 complications.
At a special session held during the recent annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology, Anthony Fauci, MD, the nation's leading infectious disease expert, said that individuals with compromised immune systems, whether because of chemotherapy or a bone marrow transplant, should plan to be vaccinated when the opportunity arises.
In response to a question from ASH President Stephanie J. Lee, MD, of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Fauci emphasized that, despite being excluded from clinical trials, this population should get vaccinated. "I think we should recommend that they get vaccinated," he said. "I mean, it is clear that, if you are on immunosuppressive agents, history tells us that you're not going to have as robust a response as if you had an intact immune system that was not being compromised. But some degree of immunity is better than no degree of immunity."
That does seem to be the consensus among experts who spoke in interviews: that as long as these are not live attenuated vaccines, they hold no specific risk to an immunocompromised patient, other than any factors specific to the individual that could be a contraindication.
"Patients, family members, friends, and work contacts should be encouraged to receive the vaccine," said William Stohl, MD, PhD, chief of the division of rheumatology at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. "Clinicians should advise patients to obtain the vaccine sooner rather than later."
Kevin C. Wang, MD, PhD, of the department of dermatology at Stanford (Calif.) University, agreed. "I am 100% with Fauci. Everyone should get the vaccine, even if it may not be as effective," he said. "I would treat it exactly like the flu vaccines that we recommend folks get every year."
Wang noted that he couldn't think of any contraindications unless the immunosuppressed patients have a history of severe allergic reactions to prior vaccinations. "But I would even say patients with history of cancer, upon recommendation of their oncologists, are likely to be suitable candidates for the vaccine," he added. "I would say clinicians should approach counseling the same way they counsel patients for the flu vaccine, and as far as I know, there are no concerns for systemic drugs commonly used in dermatology patients."
However, guidance has not yet been issued from either the FDA or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regarding the use of the vaccine in immunocompromised individuals. Given the lack of data, the FDA has said that "it will be something that providers will need to consider on an individual basis," and that individuals should consult with physicians to weigh the potential benefits and potential risks.
The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has said that clinicians need more guidance on whether to use the vaccine in pregnant or breastfeeding women, the immunocompromised, or those who have a history of allergies. The CDC itself has not yet released its formal guidance on vaccine use.
Vaccines typically require years of research and testing before reaching the clinic, but this year researchers embarked on a global effort to develop safe and effective coronavirus vaccines in record time. Both the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines have only a few months of phase 3 clinical trial data, so much remains unknown about them, including their duration of effect and any long-term safety signals. In addition to excluding immunocompromised individuals, the clinical trials did not include children or pregnant women, so data are lacking for several population subgroups.
But these will not be the only vaccines available, as the pipeline is already becoming crowded. U.S. clinical trial data from a vaccine jointly being developed by Oxford-AstraZeneca, could potentially be ready, along with a request for FDA emergency use authorization, by late January 2021.
In addition, China and Russia have released vaccines, and there are currently 61 vaccines being investigated in clinical trials and at least 85 preclinical products under active investigation.
The vaccine candidates are using both conventional and novel mechanisms of action to elicit an immune response in patients. Conventional methods include attenuated inactivated (killed) virus and recombinant viral protein vaccines to develop immunity. Novel approaches include replication-deficient, adenovirus vector-based vaccines that contain the viral protein, and mRNA-based vaccines, such as the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, that encode for a SARS-CoV-2 spike protein.
"The special vaccine concern for immunocompromised individuals is introduction of a live virus," Stohl said. "Neither the Moderna nor Pfizer vaccines are live viruses, so there should be no special contraindication for such individuals."
Live vaccine should be avoided in immunocompromised patients, and currently, live SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are only being developed in India and Turkey.
It is not unusual for vaccine trials to begin with cohorts that exclude participants with various health conditions, including those who are immunocompromised. These groups are generally then evaluated in phase 4 trials, or postmarketing surveillance. While the precise number of immunosuppressed adults in the United States is not known, the numbers are believed to be rising because of increased life expectancy among immunosuppressed adults as a result of advances in treatment and new and wider indications for therapies that can affect the immune system.
According to data from the 2013 National Health Interview Survey, an estimated 2.7% of U.S. adults are immunosuppressed. This population covers a broad array of health conditions and medical specialties; people living with inflammatory or autoimmune conditions, such as inflammatory rheumatic diseases (rheumatoid arthritis, axial spondyloarthritis, lupus); inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis); psoriasis; multiple sclerosis; organ transplant recipients; patients undergoing chemotherapy; and life-long immunosuppression attributable to HIV infection.
As the vaccines begin to roll out and become available, how should clinicians advise their patients, in the absence of any clinical trial data?
Risk vs. Benefit
Gilaad Kaplan, MD, MPH, a gastroenterologist and professor of medicine at the University of Calgary (Alta.), noted that the inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) community has dealt with tremendous anxiety during the pandemic because many are immunocompromised because of the medications they use to treat their disease.
"For example, many patients with IBD are on biologics like anti-TNF [tumor necrosis factor] therapies, which are also used in other immune-mediated inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis," he said. "Understandably, individuals with IBD on immunosuppressive medications are concerned about the risk of severe complications due to COVID-19."
The entire IBD community, along with the world, celebrated the announcement that multiple vaccines are protective against SARS-CoV-2, he noted. "Vaccines offer the potential to reduce the spread of COVID-19, allowing society to revert back to normalcy," Kaplan said. "Moreover, for vulnerable populations, including those who are immunocompromised, vaccines offer the potential to directly protect them from the morbidity and mortality associated with COVID-19."
That said, even though the news of vaccines are extremely promising, some cautions must be raised regarding their use in immunocompromised populations, such as persons with IBD. "The current trials, to my knowledge, did not include immunocompromised individuals and thus, we can only extrapolate from what we know from other trials of different vaccines," he explained. "We know from prior vaccines studies that the immune response following vaccination is less robust in those who are immunocompromised as compared to a healthy control population."
Kaplan also pointed to recent reports of allergic reactions that have been reported in healthy individuals. "We don't know whether side effects, like allergic reactions, may be different in unstudied populations," he said. "Thus, the medical and scientific community should prioritize clinical studies of safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in immunocompromised populations."
So, what does this mean for an individual with an immune-mediated inflammatory disease like Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis who is immunocompromised? Kaplan explained that it is a balance between the potential harm of being infected with COVID-19 and the uncertainty of receiving a vaccine in an understudied population. For those who are highly susceptible to dying from COVID-19, such as an older adult with IBD, or someone who faces high exposure, such as a health care worker, the potential protection of the vaccine greatly outweighs the uncertainty.
"However, for individuals who are at otherwise lower risk – for example, young and able to work from home – then waiting a few extra months for postmarketing surveillance studies in immunocompromised populations may be a reasonable approach, as long as these individuals are taking great care to avoid infection," he said.
No Waiting Needed
Joel M. Gelfand, MD, MSCE, professor of dermatology and epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, feels that the newly approved vaccine should be safe for most of his patients.
"Patients with psoriatic disease should get the mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine as soon as possible based on eligibility as determined by the CDC and local public health officials," he said. "It is not a live vaccine, and therefore patients on biologics or other immune-modulating or immune-suppressing treatment can receive it."
However, the impact of psoriasis treatment on immune response to the mRNA-based vaccines is not known. Gelfand noted that, extrapolating from the vaccine literature, there is some evidence that methotrexate reduces response to the influenza vaccine. "However, the clinical significance of this finding is not clear," he said. "Since the mRNA vaccine needs to be taken twice, a few weeks apart, I do not recommend interrupting or delaying treatment for psoriatic disease while undergoing vaccination for COVID-19."
Given the reports of allergic reactions, he added that it is advisable for patients with a history of life-threatening allergic reactions such as anaphylaxis or who have been advised to carry an epinephrine autoinjector, to talk with their health care provider to determine if COVID-19 vaccination is medically appropriate.
The National Psoriasis Foundation has issued guidance on COVID-19, explained Steven R. Feldman, MD, PhD, professor of dermatology, pathology, and social sciences & health policy at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C., who is also a member of the committee that is working on those guidelines and keeping them up to date. "We are in the process of updating the guidelines with information on COVID vaccines," he said.
He agreed that there are no contraindications for psoriasis patients to receive the vaccine, regardless of whether they are on immunosuppressive treatment, even though definitive data are lacking. "Fortunately, there's a lot of good data coming out of Italy that patients with psoriasis on biologics do not appear to be at increased risk of getting COVID or of having worse outcomes from COVID," he said.
Patients are going to ask about the vaccines, and when counseling them, clinicians should discuss the available data, the residual uncertainty, and patients' concerns should be considered, Feldman explained. "There may be some concern that steroids and cyclosporine would reduce the effectiveness of vaccines, but there is no concern that any of the drugs would cause increased risk from nonlive vaccines."
He added that there is evidence that "patients on biologics who receive nonlive vaccines do develop antibody responses and are immunized."
Boosting Efficacy
Even prior to making their announcement, the American College of Rheumatology had said that they would endorse the vaccine for all patients, explained rheumatologist Brett Smith, DO, from Blount Memorial Physicians Group and East Tennessee Children's Hospital, Alcoa. "The vaccine is safe for all patients, but the problem may be that it's not as effective," he said. "But we don't know that because it hasn't been tested."
With other vaccines, biologic medicines are held for 2 weeks before and afterwards, to get the best response. "But some patients don't want to stop the medication," Smith said. "They are afraid that their symptoms will return."
As for counseling patients as to whether they should receive this vaccine, he explained that he typically doesn't try to sway patients one way or another until they are really high risk. "When I counsel, it really depends on the individual situation. And for this vaccine, we have to be open to the fact that many people have already made up their mind."
There are a lot of questions regarding the vaccine. One is the short time frame of development. "Vaccines typically take 6-10 years to come on the market, and this one is now available after a 3-month study," Smith said. "Some have already decided that it's too new for them."
The process is also new, and patients need to understand that it doesn't contain an active virus and "you can't catch coronavirus from it."
Smith also explained that, because the vaccine may be less effective in a person using biologic therapies, there is currently no information available on repeat vaccination. "These are all unanswered questions," he said. "If the antibodies wane in a short time, can we be revaccinated and in what time frame? We just don't know that yet."
Philip D. Bonomi, MD, a professor of medical oncology at Rush Medical College, Chicago, explained that one way to ensure a more optimal response to the vaccine would be to wait until the patient has finished chemotherapy. "The vaccine can be offered at that time, and in the meantime, they can take other steps to avoid infection," he said. "If they are very immunosuppressed, it isn't worth trying to give the vaccine."
Cancer patients should be encouraged to stay as healthy as possible, and to wear masks and social distance. "It's a comprehensive approach. Eat healthy, avoid alcohol and tobacco, and exercise. [These things] will help boost the immune system," Bonomi said. "Family members should be encouraged to get vaccinated, which will help them avoid infection and exposing the patient."
Jim Boonyaratanakornkit, MD, PhD, an infectious disease specialist who cares for cancer patients at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, agreed. "Giving a vaccine right after a transplant is a futile endeavor," he said. "We need to wait 6 months to have an immune response."
He pointed out there may be a continuing higher number of cases, with high levels peaking in Washington in February and March. "Close friends and family should be vaccinated if possible," he said, "which will help interrupt transmission."
The vaccines are using new platforms that are totally different, and there is no clear data as to how long the antibodies will persist. "We know that they last for at least 4 months," said Boonyaratanakornkit. "We don't know what level of antibody will protect them from COVID-19 infection. Current studies are being conducted, but we don't have that information for anyone yet."
This article originally appeared on MDedge.com, part of the Medscape Professional Network.
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Whittier police officer's suspected killer identified
By Jeffrey Thomas DeSocio
WHITTIER, Calif. (FOX 11/ CNS) - A Whittier police officer wounded in a shootout that killed a 27-year department veteran was recovering at home Wednesday, while the reputed gang member who allegedly shot them was in custody at a hospital and expected to survive.
Officer Keith Wayne Boyer, a 53-year-old grandfather and school resource officer, was killed in the shootout about 8 a.m. Monday and Officer Patrick Hazell, a three-year veteran of the Whittier Police Department, was shot in the abdomen, according to Sheriff's Homicide Bureau Lt. John Corina.
The 26-year-old suspect, Michael Christopher Mejia, was shot in the back and is in a hospital intensive care unit with non-life-threatening injuries, the lieutenant told City News Service.
Boyer and Hazell were fired upon while responding to a traffic crash near Colima Road and Mar Vista Street.
Boyer is the first Whittier officer killed in the line of duty in 37 years.
A memorial of flowers and balloons continued to grow outside the Whittier Police Department as community members and other law enforcement agencies continue to pay tribute to the slain officer.
Corina said witnesses identified the shooter as possibly the gunman involved in a murder earlier Monday involving a stolen car that the gunman ultimately crashed in Whittier. That homicide and car theft occurred about 5:30 a.m. Monday at a home in the 1400 block of Volney Drive in the East Los Angeles/City Terrace area, according to Deputy Kimberly Alexander of the Sheriff's Information Bureau.
The victim in that shooting was identified as 49-year-old Roy Torres, who was reported to be a cousin of the gunman.
The Whittier shootout began shortly after the suspect rear-ended some motorists near Colima and Mar Vista, disabling the vehicle he was driving, authorities said. He then asked people in the car he struck to help him move the disabled vehicle, according to Corina.
Officers arriving at the scene were told by motorists that the suspect was around the corner with the disabled car, Corina said.
When officers approached the suspect, he was sitting in the car. As they asked him to get out and prepared to pat him down for weapons, he pulled out a semi-automatic handgun and began firing at the officers, at least one of whom returned fire, wounding the suspect, Corina said.
The suspect was a Los Angeles resident released from jail about two weeks earlier, Corina said. The suspect's gun was recovered at the scene.
"Here you have a case where two officers walk up on a vehicle where they believe someone needs medical assistance and they end up in a gun battle fighting for their lives,'' Sheriff Jim McDonnell told reporters.
Boyer was a divorced father of grown children, a drummer who played in bands at nonprofit events and a "personal friend of mine for 25 years,'' Whittier police Chief Jeff Piper said, adding he had occasionally played guitar with Boyer in that band.
"He was the best of the best,'' Piper said. "He was humble, smiling, positive. He was a great guy and recently talked to me about retiring.''
Mejia has a lengthy rap sheet including convictions for robbery and auto theft, according to court records.
After serving several years at Pelican Bay State Prison, he was released on April 19, 2016, but has been arrested several times since. Mejia's most recent arrest was Feb. 2 and he was sentenced to 10 days in jail. He was released Feb. 11.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors called for a full investigation into Mejia's criminal history and parole and probation record. In response to Boyer's killing, McDonnell and Piper criticized recent legislation such as Prop 47 that reduced some offenses from felonies to misdemeanors, and AB 109, which diverted some offenders to county jails instead of state prison, saying the moves have led to dangerous people being quickly put back on the streets.
State officials noted that Mejia served all of the prison time to which he was sentenced, and he was not released early under any legislation. Following his release, however, he was placed under the supervision of the Los Angeles County Probation Department instead of state parole officials, under the terms of AB 109.
Funeral services for Boyer are expected early next week at Rose Hills Memorial Park at 3888 Workman Mill Road in Whittier.
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https://www.myplainview.com/news/local/article/Captain-Guerra-retires-after-26-years-with-15819738.php
Captain Guerra retires after 26 years with Plainview PD
By Ellysa Harris
Published 12:58 pm CST, Monday, December 21, 2020
Captain Dion Guerra
Photo: Provided By The City Of Plainview
Dion Guerra grew up thinking he wanted to be a firefighter.
It’s what he considers his first calling.
“I guess my love for guns kind of led me into the law enforcement side,” he said a couple of days before his last official day as a Plainview Police officer.
He just wanted to help people. At one point, he said, he was interested in the idea of joining the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport where the job of a policeman, paramedic and a firefighter are all wrapped into one.
But Guerra’s life took a different path.
He joined the Plainview Police Department as a full-time officer in 1994. His tenure with the department makes him one of the longest serving officers. Friday was Guerra’s last day to don the PD uniform.
“Captain Guerra has faithfully and honorably served the citizens of Plainview, Hale County and the State of Texas for the past 30 years,” said Chief Derrick Watson in a statement on a city of Plainview news release. “His knowledge of the agency and the community is going to be sorely missed by all.”
Guerra took time last week to reflect on his law enforcement career.
His family relocated from Lockney and made Plainview home in 1969. He calls himself a proud graduate of Plainview High School, Class of 1987.
That’s about when his journey into law enforcement really began.
He learned of an opportunity to join the Hale County Sheriff’s Office as a reserve officer in 1990. He served in that capacity for two years before he learned of a similar reserve program starting at the PD.
The position at the Sheriff’s Office provided experience. He learned about jail standards and earned experience in dispatch. He’d also been through the law enforcement program at South Plains College in Levelland.
So he joined the PD as a reserve office in 1993 while he worked on getting his peace officer’s license.
In 1994, he chose to give up his position with United Supermarkets, where he’d worked for seven years, and go full-time at the PD.
His field training officer was the one who is the longest-serving current officer – Capt. Manuel Balderas. He showed Guerra the ropes of the department.
During his time with the PD, Guerra tried a little of everything. He joined the SWAT team and eventually commanded the SWAT tactical team. He served as a patrol officer, school resource officer, was a patrol corporal, sergeant, lieutenant and was promoted to a captain position. Guerra was promoted to captain in January 2017.
He has also earned certification through the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Master Peace Officer and the Texas FBI National Academy.
In addition to all his certifications, his accolades and job experiences, Guerra also made a family within the department.
“You become a family within the department that you’re with,” he said. “There’s a great group of guys and girls that I’ve had a privilege of working with.”
Asked if there was anything he’s particularly proud to have accomplished during his time serving the city, Guerra mentioned the accomplishments of the department as opposed to individual.
“That’s what it’s all about,” he said in reference to the patience and professionalism he’s been privy to witness in the department.
What he’ll miss most, he said, are the general everyday activities of interacting with everyone that makes the department run and all the funny moments.
“I’ve had some great chiefs, some great supervisors that I’ve worked for,” Guerra said. “I wish Derrick Watson the best. I’m leaving as he’s coming in. I think he’s going to do an excellent job. He’s a sharp guy. He’s going to be good for the city and for these men and women. I wish him the best of luck.”
While he’s officially retired, Guerra said he’s not going anywhere. He plans to settle stay around Plainview with his daughters who are supportive and happy to see their father experience a change of pace.
“I have something else in the works,” he said.
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Medical activities suspended after Ebola treatment centre attack
Health workers putting on their personal protective equipment before entering in the red zone of the Ebola treatment centre in Butembo, North Kivu. November 2018, Democratic Republic of Congo.
© Alexis Huguet
Statement28 February 2019
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Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has put on stand-by its medical activities in the epicentre of the Ebola epidemic, in Butembo and Katwa, in the province of North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. This follows an attack on an Ebola treatment centre in Butembo city during the evening of 27 February.
Unidentified assailants set some of the compound’s facilities and vehicles on fire. The blazes were contained, but the teams were obliged to immediately cease patient care. At the time of the attack, there were 57 patients admitted in the treatment centre, which was run alongside the Ministry of Health; 15 of the patients were confirmed to have Ebola.
This incident comes only days after another Ebola treatment facility, also supported by MSF teams in the neighbouring district of Katwa, was attacked on 24 February – also forcing its suspension. MSF has evacuated our staff from the area for their safety pending a thorough analysis of the risks associated with continuing to provide medical care there.
As medical responders, it is very painful to have to leave behind patients, their families and other members of the community at such a critical time in the Ebola response Hugues Robert, MSF emergency desk manager
“We are extremely saddened by these attacks on our medical facilities. Not only did they endanger the lives of our staff members, they also endangered the most vulnerable people at the heart of our response: the patients,” said MSF emergency desk manager Hugues Robert.
“In light of these two violent incidents, we have no choice but to suspend our activities until further notice. As medical responders, it is very painful to have to leave behind patients, their families and other members of the community at such a critical time in the Ebola response.”
No staff or patients were harmed, but both attacks were traumatic for patients, their relatives and staff who were inside the centres at the time. The caretaker of one patient died during the attack on the centre in Katwa, allegedly when he tried to flee.
Almost seven months after the beginning of the current Ebola outbreak in the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri, there have been 879 confirmed cases of Ebola and 553 people have died (488 deaths are confirmed cases).
MSF will continue to manage Ebola-related activities in the North Kivu towns of Kayna and Lubéru, despite suspending activities in the Butembo and Katwa treatment centres. MSF also runs two Ebola transit centres in Ituri province, in the towns of Bwanasura and Bunia. In the city of Goma, MSF has been supporting emergency preparedness by reinforcing the surveillance system and ensuring there is adequate capacity to isolate suspected cases.
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Rohingya refugees left to starve at sea
A drawing by British artist Richard Swarbrick (@rikkileaks) from an animation about the enduring plight of the Rohingya. March 2020.
© Richard Swabrick
Voices from the Field22 April 2020
Loaded like human cargo into a wooden fishing trawler, around 500 people attempting to reach Malaysia from refugee camps in Bangladesh were starved and beaten by people smugglers during a two-month voyage. All of the passengers were ethnic Rohingya from Myanmar, and most were aged between 12 and 20, though there were also some young children. Denied permission to land in Malaysia, the 400 or so survivors were eventually rescued on 15 April by the Bangladeshi coastguard.
Amina*, a 14-year-old Rohingya girl from a small market town in western Myanmar, describes sitting on deck under the burning sun with hundreds of people for over two months.
“We had to sit like this,” Amina says, hugging her knees to her chest. “People’s legs swelled and got paralysed. Some died and were thrown into the sea. We were adrift at sea with people dying every day. We feel like we’ve been taken from hell.”
People were really malnourished, dehydrated and obviously overwhelmed. Some people had this look in their eyes, I’ll never forget it: they looked so scared. Hanadi Katerji, MSF nurse and medical team leader
No food, no water – many died
The refugees say they were beaten at the slightest provocation and given minimal food and water. “It was extremely hot and there was no food, no water,” says Amina. “We got one handful of dal and one capful of water per day.”
Other survivors say they often received no food or water at all for days at a time. Desperately thirsty, many people resorted to drinking seawater. Every day people died, say the survivors, who estimate that around 100 people died on board or were thrown overboard by the smugglers. No-one knows exactly how many died.
All the passengers on the boat believed that they were heading towards a brighter future and better prospects for themselves and their families, including work and marriage. Persecuted and denied citizenship by Myanmar authorities and unable to return to their homes in Myanmar, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya now languish in overcrowded refugee camps in Bangladesh, desperate for a way out. Survivors describe how their families had pooled their savings to pay huge sums to the people smugglers.
“We were adrift at sea, with people dying every day.
The men were at the bottom of the boat. It was completely covered. It was so hot in the bottom of the boat, but if someone tried to get out, they were beaten and thrown into the sea.
The women were sitting on the top, exposed to the sun. If we tried to put our veils above our heads, we were beaten. We had to sit with our knees up to our chests for the whole time. Many people got swellings in their legs, became paralysed or died.
It was extremely hot, and there was no food, no water – we got one handful of dal and one capful of water per day. Three or four people died every day. People drank salt water from the sea and died.
Many people died, especially the men because they couldn’t breathe properly, there wasn’t enough oxygen. The men were beaten and became extremely malnourished, all that was left was skin and bone.
The boat crew told us: ‘Everywhere you’re a refugee. In Myanmar you’re a refugee, in Bangladesh you’re a refugee, in the boat and in Malaysia too you’re considered a refugee. You will die wherever you go.’”
Read more of what 14-year-old refugee Amina told MSF staff of her experience on the boat
Extorted, abandoned – then rescued
After arriving in Malaysian waters, survivors say, the smugglers forced them to call their families in Bangladesh to say they had arrived safely and to ask them to transfer payment for the passage. The boat was denied permission to land in Malaysia, or in any other location, and eventually turned back towards Bangladesh. Some days before reaching Bangladesh, most of the smugglers abandoned the boat and its starving passengers.
After receiving reports that the vessel was drifting off Bangladesh’s southern coast, the Bangladeshi coastguard rescued the 400 or so remaining survivors. They are receiving care and will be quarantined for 14 days before being returned to their families.
MSF teams providing medical and mental health care
MSF sent teams of medical and mental health specialists to support the rescue and provide emergency care to the emaciated survivors as they arrived back in Bangladesh.
“Many of them couldn’t stand or walk on their own,” says Hanadi Katerji, MSF nurse and medical team leader. “They were just skin and bone – a lot of them were barely alive.”
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MSF medics stabilised those who were acutely unwell and referred five people to MSF hospitals for malnutrition with severe complications and other conditions. MSF mental health teams provided counselling to the survivors.
“People were really malnourished, dehydrated and obviously overwhelmed,” says Hanadi. “Some people had this look in their eyes, I’ll never forget it: they looked so scared. Some of the men had quite severe wounds, which weren’t healing, probably because of the malnutrition. Many of them had scars on their bodies; many reported being beaten by the crew on the boat.”
“Mostly people were stressed and really traumatised, frightened, uncertain. People were grieving for lost family members, and there were children who had lost their parents,” says Hanadi.
Denied citizenship by Myanmar, the minority Rohingya people have suffered decades of persecution and abuse by Myanmar authorities. In 2017, a campaign of targeted violence against the Rohingya by the Myanmar military forced over 700,000 people to flee into neighbouring Bangladesh. But almost three years on, there are still no solutions in sight.
“The boat crew told us: ‘Everywhere you’re a refugee,’” says Amina. “’In Myanmar you’re a refugee, in Bangladesh you’re a refugee, in the boat and in Malaysia too you’re considered a refugee. You will die wherever you go.’”
Reports received by MSF suggest that there are still three more boats at sea, carrying more than 1,000 people.
*Name changed to protect identity.
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Louisiana governor signs executive order protecting LGBT employees
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards talks with reporters about his budget cut proposal for the upcoming fiscal year after speaking to the House Appropriations Committee, April 12, 2016, in Baton Rouge, La.
April 13, 2016, 8:46 PM UTC / Updated April 14, 2016, 12:01 AM UTC
By Emma Margolin
Amid intensifying outcry over recently enacted anti-LGBT laws in Mississippi and North Carolina, as well as similar legislation advancing in Tennessee and Missouri, one southern state appears to be running in the opposite direction.
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Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, signed an executive order on Tuesday prohibiting discrimination against state employees and employees of state contractors on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, among other characteristics. The action also bans discrimination in services provided by state agencies, while recognizing an exemption for churches and religious organizations that contract with the state on education, health care and adoption issues.
In a statement, Edwards championed Louisiana’s diversity and said he signed the executive order in the spirit of “unity and fairness of all of our citizens.”
“We respect our fellow citizens for their beliefs, but we do not discriminate based on our disagreements,” said Edwards. “I believe in giving every Louisianan the opportunity to be successful and to thrive in our state. Our goal is to promote the opportunities we have right here in Louisiana. While this executive order respects the religious beliefs of our people, it also signals to the rest of the country that discrimination is not a Louisiana value, but rather, that Louisiana is a state that is respectful and inclusive of everyone around us.”
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In addition to extending nondiscrimination protections to LGBT state employees, Edwards’ executive order also rescinds a different one signed by his predecessor -- former Republican presidential candidate and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal -- that prevented the state from taking action against individuals and businesses with “deeply held” religious objections to same-sex marriage. That order, Edwards said, “was meant to serve a narrow political agenda.”
“It does nothing but divide our state and forced the business community, from Louisiana’s smallest businesses to large corporations, like IBM, to strongly oppose it,” Edwards said of the previous administration’s executive order. “It goes against everything we stand for -- unity, acceptance, and opportunity for all.”
Tuesday’s executive action marks a stark departure for Louisiana from a pack of southern states that have this year come under fire for advancing legislation seen as anti-LGBT. North Carolina became the most prominent target last month, when its Republican-controlled legislature hastily passed House Bill 2 -- a measure negating all local nondiscrimination protections for LGBT residents and requiring transgender people to use government building bathrooms that correspond with the sex on their birth certificates, not their gender identities. The Tar Heel State’s Republican Gov. Pat McCrory signed his own executive order on Monday that attempted to walk back certain parts of the controversial law. But even though that order expanded government equal employment policies to include sexual orientation and gender identity, LGBT rights groups were outraged that it left in place HB2’s discriminatory bathroom regulations.
“The intention of the [North Carolina] governor and his administration is to implement policies prohibiting discrimination the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity,” said Sarah Warbelow, legal director at the Human Rights Campaign, on a press call Monday. “But it does not address the fact that while someone who is transgender cannot be passed over for a promotion, that person is still going to experience discrimination in the restroom every day that they come to work.”
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Survey Finds Builders Still Doubtful about Economy’s Strength
A survey of builders and developers located in the Tri-State and Mid-Atlantic regions, as well as Pennsylvania and Florida, found that a majority is still not seeing an improvement in economic conditions.
Eugene Gilligan
Bill Feinberg
New York–A survey of builders and developers located in the Tri-State and Mid-Atlantic regions, as well as Pennsylvania and Florida, found that a majority is still not seeing an improvement in economic conditions.
The recently-released survey found that 25 percent of survey respondents thought problems in the economy were easing up, but 46 percent saw conditions either getting worse or remaining unchanged.
Many builders and developers thought that, at the beginning of 2009, the economy would improve by the end of the year, but many builders haven’t seen that improvement, says Bill Feinberg, president of Feinberg & Associates, an architecture firm, and founder of the Strategic Alliance, a group of eight real-estate related companies that conducted the survey.
Builders have told him, though, that they are seeing a pick-up in traffic at condominium and single-family home sales offices, he says, and many are seeing higher sales volume compared to the same period last year. The next few months could be telling, as historically, many people make plans to move after the Super Bowl, as spring approaches and families want to relocate in time for the new school year.
But, despite the rough economic times, many buyers are still demanding extras and upgrades. Builders said that 57.1 percent of buyers look for upgraded appliances, while 42.8 percent want open floor plans, according to the survey.
Many builders, however, have had to make adjustments to new economic realities, Feinberg says. Many are cutting down on the square footage of the apartments and condos they build, using less expensive construction materials such as stucco instead of brick.
He said he knows of one New Jersey apartment community that was to feature both a tub and a shower in the bathroom, but, after some thought, the builder eliminated the tub.
Builders have also made changes in their marketing campaigns, the survey found. While 60.7 percent of the survey respondents continue to try to reach potential customers through traditional means such as brochures and flyers, 67.8 percent said they are also using some new channels, such as Internet marketing, while 50 percent reach customers through print and broadcast advertising.
While builders have found that new media, such as Facebook and Twitter, is successful in attracting buyers among young professionals, some builders have also found success using these marketing tools in 55+ communities, Feinberg says.
There are some reasons for optimism going forward, he says, as many buyers may want to buy before the new homebuyer tax credit expires in April, and interest rates are still low. Where many buyers were looking to lowball builders one year ago, that attitude has changed somewhat.
“There’s more of a civil dialogue now,” Feinberg says.
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THERMOPYLES – SALAMINA 2020
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International meeting on Parthenon
The International Meeting “PARTHENON: The Integrity of a Symbolic Monument -The Role of Citizens-An International Campaign” was organized by the “Marianna V. Vardinoyannis Foundation” in cooperation with “Melina Mercouri Foundation”, at the Acropolis Museum on 26th of June, 2014. This meeting is the first step of the new international campaign for the Reunification of Parthenon Sculptures, called “Return-Restore-Restart”.
Goodwill Ambassador of UNESCO, Mrs Marianna V. Vardinoyannis, opened the meeting with her speech: “For each and every Greek , the integrity of Parthenon Sculptures is a national demand. But for every spiritual man is a question not only of cultural heritage, but a question of global ethics and rehabilitation order. As a Greek and as a Goodwill Ambassador of UNESCO, I will not stop fighting for the reunification of Parthenon Sculptures, for their integrity. But also transnational
cultural properties that have lost their way but not their voice and identity. Our campaign “RETURN (Return the Marbles) RESTORE (Restore Parthenon) RESTART (Restart History)” is another expression of the great struggle that began by late Melina Mercouri in 1982 and aims at even more substantial update of the Greek people on this issue, in an even greater awareness of global opinion and international organizations and ensuring broader alliances in this deal for the big comeback … I invite you to take a stand on our side. To support the international campaign that begins with the initiative of our Foundation in collaboration with the “Melina Mercouri Foundation”. Sending the message that the sculptures have a name and identity, have history and homeland, have memory and voice and that this voice becomes louder all over the world!”
The meeting was addressed by the Greek Minister of Culture, Mr. Constantinos Tasoulas and the Minister of Tourism, Mrs Olga Kefalogianni who welcomed the initiative of the new campaign. In particular, Mr Tasoulas said: “The idea of the campaign is very important and there is no more powerful weapon than an idea whose time has come. The Acropolis Museum is a museum waiting the Marbles and prepares the Idea, as well as the rationale for the UNESCO heritage monuments. The State will become the forefront of the idea in order the standby time to become limited “
The General Director of UNESCO, Mrs Irina Bokova, sent a written message: “Greece has long played an exemplary role in international efforts to protect moveable cultural heritage and fight against the illicit traffic of cultural objects. As a member of the recently created Subsidiary Committee of the 1970 Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property, the country serves as a pilot for other Parties to the Convention. Through its cooperation with UNESCO in seeking the return of the Parthenon Sculptures in the framework of the Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property to its Countries of Origin or its Restitution in case of Illicit Appropriation, Greece embodies the spirit of international cooperation that is at the heart of the United Nations. I have no doubt that the upcoming event entitled Parthenon – The Unity of a Monument – The Role of Citizens will be another bright illustration of the Greek nations unique place in the protection of the world’s cultural heritage.”
This was followed by speeches of the professors, the experts and heads of national Committees for the return of the Parthenon Marbles, who participated in the meeting.
During the first session with subject “Necessity of reunification” Dr. Mounir Bouchenaki, Honorary Special Adviser to the Director General of UNESCO Mrs. Irina Bokova, Director of the Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage in Bahrain, said: “UNESCO created a transnational Committee for the Restitution of the Parthenon Marbles because we believe that we must ensure that the symbols should be returned to their home countries, and the Parthenon is a Greek symbol. The Reunification of the Marbles is a question of ethics and morality. Moreover, all those who visit the Acropolis Museum remain amazed … and the good news are that the returning of antiquities to their countries of origin has already started, as happened recently in the case of Cambodia.”
Taking the floor Professor Dimitrios Pantermalis, President of the Acropolis Museum, noted that “the issue of the reunification of the Parthenon Marbles is a national issue, and for a nation, it is very important how to manage national issues, it is important to be well prepared when claiming, and the Acropolis Museum has completed this preparation. Finally, referring to the initiative of the ” Marianna V. Vardinoyannis Foundation” he said: “It is a new quality start for the assertion of the Sculptures”.
Dr. William St Clair, Senior Researcher at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study of the University of London, and Dr. Mark Vlasic, Professor of Law at the University of Georgetown, reported on the legal side of the issue by saying that it is necessary to introduce a new ethics, a new law on cultural heritage sites such as Parthenon.
The theme of the second section, which was “The Campaign for the Marble and the Role of Citizens'” was presented by Mr. Christopher Argyropoulos, President of the “Melina Mercouri Foundation”, President of the Special Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Culture and Sports for the Parthenon Marbles and by Ms. Manuella Pavlidou, General Secretary of the “Melina Mercouri Foundation”. Both of them referred on the efforts made by the Greek State with prime mover the late Melina Mercouri, from 1982 onwards.
Mr. Argyropoulos focusing on the idea of reclaiming stressed that “The sculptures emerge only in the physical space and the exhibition at the British Museum does not represent their beauty, while further disrupts the unity and deprives them of meaning and value.” He added: “Those who underestimate the claim ignore our request that the Greeks are entitled to claim.”
Ms Pavlidou referring to Melina’s struggle for the return of the Parthenon sculptures said: “And even if Melina no longer exists, the example of her sensitivity and commitment is still there, as well as her strength and militancy in the service of this valuable idea. Today a new era starts for the legacy she left us” and addressing to Mrs Vardinoyannis she added “I am sure that your personality and your international prestige will contribute decisively to the inspired, dynamic campaign announced today, to bring us closer in making the vision of Melina a reality for all. ”
Mr. David Hill, President of the International Committee for the Restitution of Parthenon Marbles, taking the floor expressed the hope that the campaign ‘Return, Restore, Restart’, starts a new future for the Parthenon Marbles and that in this future Greece is not alone, and therefore the claim is not only nationwide but of world heritage. “We have to send in Britain the message that Greece is not alone. It has as allies 16 large and powerful countries, who have Bid Committee of the return of Parthenon marbles and that the vast majority of world opinion, even that of Britain, wants the return of Parthenon Marbles. We believe that the effort of Mrs. Vardinoyannis is very strong! Together we will win!”.
Taking the floor Ms. Marlen Godwin, member of the British Committee for the Restitution of Parthenon Marbles, represented the President of the British Marbles Bid Committee, Mr Eddie O ‘Hara and she delivered his message: «The return of the Marbles is a matter of principle and the legal arguments put forward by opponents of the issue are of no importance. Those who do not support the claim should support their arguments, and not the opposite “. Regarding the argument that the Return of Parthenon Marbles will open the floodgates, Mrs. Godwin said: “There is no other precedent, there is no case of antiquities in the world similar to that of the Parthenon Marbles. This request is unique in the world.” And addressed to Mrs Vardinogiannis she added: “You start a difficult campaign. Do not get frustrated, disappointed and not like the others who started before you. Now there is the Museum, there is now courting international opinion.”
Then Mr. Fabrizio Michalizzi, representative of the Swiss Bid Committee of the Parthenon Marbles, stated that the request of Return, is a matter of justice and stressed the interest of all Europeans to restore this justice. Additionally, he said, the British Museum returning the Marbles will win the respect of all and the reputation of a noble gesture. Moreover, he said, the requirement of backlinks is only for the Marbles and not all Greek antiquities found in various museums around the world.
In his speech the Director of the Benaki Museum, Mr. Angelos Delivorias, stressed that the main requirement is the integrity of the monument.
The journalist Mr. Pavlos Tsimas spoke about the role of Media in the demand for the return of the Marbles featuring that is very important “first of all because it is crucial in this fight to prevent oblivion and secondly because it is a matter that needs documentation, two aspects that the Media can show off with the best way.”
Mr. Elias Nicolakopoulos, Professor of Social Theory and Sociology, University of Athens, presented the first nationwide poll by IPSOS OPINION company on behalf of the “Marianna V. Vardinoyannis Foundation” about the importance of the return of Parthenon Marbles for Greek people and explained, based on the poll results, why the power of citizens can be a powerful lever to bring to fruition our national imperative and restore morality, order and respect for, the values with which humanity must approach the heritage monuments.
“The Parthenon is an incomparable human creation, a monument of immense value, not only for the Greeks, but for the whole world, and its integrity, the Reunification of Parthenon Marbles is a matter of moral principle and duty. We are optimistic that sooner or later it will happen” was pointed out by eminent speakers who participated in the International Meeting on “PARTHENON-The Integrity of a symbolic monument -The Role of Citizens-An International Campaign”.
Conclusion: There are now more solid foundations and a brand new horizon for the Reunification of the Parthenon Sculptures!
The International Meeting “PARTHENON: The Integrity of a symbolic monument-The Role of Citizens-An International Campaign” was attended by the President of the “Independent Greeks” party, Mr. Panos Kammenos , the representative of SYRIZA party Mrs. Theano Fotiou MP, the Ambassadors of Austria, Iraq and Peru, the President of the ”Konstantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy” Mrs. Rodi Kratsa, the Academic Professor Christos Zerefos, the Director of the National Gallery Mrs. Marina Lambrakis Plaka, Dr Nikos Stampolidis- Director of the Museum of Cycladic Art, the Messenger of’ HOPE ” Sakis Rouvas, the wife of the Ambassador of Spain Mrs. Carmen Lucini, the film director Yannis Smaragdis, Mr. and Mrs. Aris Antsaklis, and many others.
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North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Program to 2015
by Jonathan D. Pollack
This essay evaluates three alternative scenarios for North Korea’s nuclear weapons development over the coming decade: (1) pursuit of a symbolic nuclear capability, (2) pursuit of an operational nuclear deterrent, and (3) a deficient or failed effort to achieve an operational capability.
MAIN FINDINGS
North Korea’s weapons are now a fact, not a bargaining chip. Absent fundamental internal change in North Korea or extraordinary changes in the negotiating strategies of the U.S. and other powers, there is virtually no possibility that North Korea will irrevocably yield the totality of these capabilities. Given that Pyongyang still confronts major technical hurdles if it expects to proceed to an operational deterrent force, however, the most likely outcome would be a symbolic nuclear capability. North Korea may be prepared to restrict some nuclear activities in return for guarantees and commitments from the U.S. and other powers. Even if such a move would not entail a definitive end to the program, this possibility warrants careful consideration by the U.S. and others seeking a negotiated end to Pyongyang’s nuclear program. It would not be prudent, however, to anticipate an early end to Pyongyang’s program or to the dangers this program poses both for security in East Asia and for the future viability of the non-proliferation regime.
There are four immediate policy considerations that the international community would benefit from exploring:
determining additional measures to discourage or impede North Korea’s future weapons development, which in the near term should focus on convincing North Korea to forego additional nuclear tests or further tests of ballistic missiles
reiterating to Pyongyang that any transfer of nuclear materials, technologies, or completed weapons outside its borders would constitute a grave danger to the international community as a whole
imposing additional costs on North Korea for any further nuclear tests
fully weighing the trade-offs in pursuing partial steps to restrict nuclear weapons development versus pursuit of maximal policy goals
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Review: The Kid With A Bike
There’s nothing overtly religious about most of the films by Belgian brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, but there is a spiritual character that often works in mysterious, elusive ways. “The Kid With A Bike” (Le gamin au vélo) is about a troubled twelve-year-old hard case (Thomas Doret), nicknamed “Pitbull” for good reason, who learns about life through a series of unexpected encounters, especially with a local hairdresser, played by the luminous Cécile de France. The duo is an unlikely match, but both performers are alive in thrilling fashion. Reviewers who called the film “Dickensian” after its Grand Jury Prize win at Cannes 2011 aren’t far off the mark: there’s a teeming, well-peopled generosity in how the Dardennes view even the most minor characters here. Vivid and beautiful, “The Kid With A Bike” moves in wondrous ways. With Jérémie Renier (“La promesse”) as the boy’s father. 87m. (Ray Pride)
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Part two | Nuclear energy in Africa
The second in this three-part series looks at how power purchase agreements raise the cost of electricity for consumers and act as major sources of inflationary pressure in economies.
By: Neil Overy
17 September 2020: A man walks beneath electrical cables at the Elias Motsoaledi shack settlement in Soweto. The writer says nuclear power will come at a huge cost to government and, by extension, to consumers. (Photograph by Siphiwe Sibeko/ Reuters)
Recent deals brokered between host nations and nuclear power companies show how consumers ultimately bear the cost of building nuclear power plants because of power purchase agreements, which favour the vendor and lower their financial risk but often lead to hugely inflated electricity costs for consumers.
No official details have yet been given to indicate what the price will be for electricity generated by the El Dabaa plant that Russia’s state-owned Rosatom is building in Egypt. But in 2016, one Egyptian energy expert predicted that prices per megawatt hour – how much it costs to produce one megawatt of energy for one hour – from El Dabaa would be at least four times more than from renewable power sources. Renewable energy prices have fallen significantly since 2016, while nuclear power has become more expensive.
Part one | Nuclear energy in Africa
British consumers will pay excessive amounts for electricity from the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station that EDF is building for decades after the plant is completed. While construction does not follow the Build-Own-Operate model, EDF negotiated a 35-year power purchase price linked to inflation with the British government in 2016 to extract as much profit as possible. The British government’s Public Accounts Committee conservatively estimated that this deal will cost consumers an additional $40 billion (about R615 billion) over the 35 years of the contract compared with alternative energy sources such as solar and wind.
A similar story is playing out in Turkey. Critics have pointed out that the price the government has agreed to pay Rosatom for electricity generated by the Akkuyu plant the Russian vendor is building will cost the country an additional $27 billion over the 15-year period of the power purchase agreement. This is because the price that has been agreed between Rosatom and the Turkish government is significantly above current electricity costs. A 2019 report by the Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects notes that electricity purchased from the plant will be at least 275% more expensive than alternatives.
Financial trouble
Despite such deals being signed, the long-term financial viability of state-owned nuclear vendors is questionable. EDF received significant cash injections from the French government and secured favourable loans backed by the British Treasury for Hinkley Point C, but was still forced to sell a third of its stake in the project to the China General Nuclear Power Group in 2016 because it was running out of money.
And EDF remains in serious financial trouble. It is about $52 billion in debt and two major agencies have given it a negative credit rating. The French energy company’s problems stem from delays in the construction of Hinkley Point C, which is said to have cost it at least another $4 billion so far, and at other nuclear power stations it is building. The Flamanville 3 project in France is now four times over budget and 10 years late. In Finland, the Olkiluoto 3 project is also four times over budget and is now only expected to be running in 2022, 13 years after its original start-up date. Further delays at Hinkley Point C and Flamanville 3 are strongly anticipated, which will plunge EDF further into the mire, meaning that more bailouts from the French government are likely.
Rosatom has experienced serious problems financing the Akkuyu nuclear power station. In 2016, it tried to sell a 49% share in the project because it could not raise the necessary capital to complete the plant. After failing to find any buyers, Rosatom was saved, at least in the short term, late last year by a $400 million loan from another Russian state-owned enterprise, Sberbank. Unsurprisingly, the completion of this plant is also delayed. Originally scheduled to be operational by 2019, its completion has already been pushed back twice and it is now predicted to be partially operational by 2023.
Covid-19 exacerbates old electricity struggle
That companies like EDF and Rosatom are reliant on the willingness of their respective governments to fund their survival is troubling. The economic consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic perfectly illustrate how susceptible both the global economy and individual economies are to unexpected shocks. Falling electricity sales in France owing to Covid-19 are resulting in intense speculation that EDF will need a significant emergency bailout from the French government sometime in early 2021 or face financial ruin. It is not clear what would happen to the plants it is currently building if EDF were to collapse. They could be abandoned, or taxpayers in host countries could be forced to pay even more for their completion.
These financial difficulties are often the result of problems that emerge during the construction phase of nuclear power stations, which lead to delays. A study completed in 2014 revealed the extent of this problem, saying only 3% of nuclear power stations have been built on schedule. In 2018, researchers from the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London found that between 1955 and 2016, construction delays increased the cost of nuclear power plants by 18% on average over their original budgets.
Consumers as cash cows
In effect, the public pays twice for these delays. In vendor countries such as France and Russia, taxpayers contribute to the bailouts of state-owned companies like EDF and Rosatom. In recipient countries, such as the United Kingdom, Egypt and Turkey, the public pays through artificially inflated electricity bills.
Rather than reflecting on this double burden, vendors and compliant governments are inventing new ways to squeeze yet more money out of the public. To fund additional nuclear power plants in Britain, the government is now considering a new funding model called Regulatory Asset Base (RAB).
The RAB model basically gives a blank cheque to vendors, allowing them to start charging customers for electricity during the construction phase of a power plant, before the station even produces electricity. In addition, it covers vendors for construction cost overruns of up to 30%, all of which would be paid for by consumers. It is proposed that the British government would cover any construction cost overruns of more than 30%. In effect, this funding model transfers almost all financial risk from investors to consumers, through hugely inflated electricity bills or tax transfers to vendors, or both.
In September, EDF appeared to indicate that it would only bid for the contract to build the proposed $25 billion Sizewell C nuclear plant in Britain if the British government adopted the RAB funding model.
A vortex of corruption
Another issue that needs to be seriously considered when evaluating the cost of nuclear power is corruption. A 2013 survey of corruption in the nuclear industry by Richard Tanter from the University of Melbourne found “widespread and often deep corruption” in the nuclear industry, saying that national and international nuclear regulatory regimes were “virtually completely ineffective”.
In recent years, the industry has been rocked by several corruption scandals.
In 2014, a massive corruption scandal involving South Korean nuclear vendor Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power, a subsidiary of Korea Electric Power Company, resulted in dozens of employees receiving a cumulative total of 258 years in prison for fraud and corruption. Many of these charges related to the supply of counterfeit equipment, some of it safety-related, to nuclear power stations in South Korea and the United Arab Emirates.
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In July, five people were arrested in Ohio in the United States, including the Ohio house speaker, for receiving $60 million from an embattled nuclear energy operator in exchange for securing the passage of a $1.5 billion bailout for the operator.
A month later, Brazilian federal prosecutors charged a subsidiary of EDF and Brazilian nuclear company Eletronuclear with corruption.
The construction and ongoing maintenance of nuclear power stations are areas particularly susceptible to corruption for two specific reasons. First, because they are megaprojects they are massively complicated enterprises that involve potentially hundreds of contractors and subcontractors, which creates fertile conditions for corruption. Second, these fertile conditions are exacerbated by the secrecy that surrounds nuclear power. While this secrecy is supposedly designed to stop the spread of nuclear technology or the capture of nuclear materials, it fosters an environment that is shielded from scrutiny and public oversight.
While Africa has no recent experience of nuclear power plant construction, other recent megaprojects on the continent – the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, the Lauca Dam in Angola, the Mambilla Hydropower Project in Nigeria, and the construction of the Medupi and Kusile power stations in South Africa – show how corruption can become entrenched in megaprojects on the continent.
In this regard, it is worth remembering that Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index for 2019 found that sub-Saharan Africa was the worst performing region in the world, followed closely by North Africa. There is clearly good reason to be concerned about possible corruption in any nuclear deals concluded on the continent. South Africa’s recent unlawful deal between former president Jacob Zuma’s government and Rosatom shows just how real this danger is.
Part three looks at the costs associated with nuclear waste disposal, decommissioning nuclear power stations and major nuclear accidents.
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Woman charged in hit-and-run at Indiana protest
by: CASEY SMITH, Associated Press
Posted: Jul 9, 2020 / 11:51 AM EDT / Updated: Jul 9, 2020 / 04:29 PM EDT
This photo provided by the Monroe County Correctional Center in Bloomington, Ind., shows Christi Bennett on Thursday, July 9, 2020. Bennett, an Indiana woman, was been arrested in a hit-and-run crash that sent one woman to the hospital and caused minor injuries to a man during a southern Indiana protest over the assault of a Black man by a group of white men on June 6. (Monroe County Correctional Center via AP)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana woman was charged Thursday in a hit-and-run crash that sent one woman to the hospital and caused minor injuries to a man during a southern Indiana protest over the assault of a Black man by a group of white men.
Prosecutors charged Christi Bennett, 66, with two counts of criminal recklessness, both felonies, and two counts of leaving the scene of an accident, one a felony and the other a misdemeanor, court records show. She was charged after being booked into the Monroe County Jail and released on $500 cash bond, Monroe County Sheriff’s Deputy Barry Grooms said.
Bennett’s first court appearance is scheduled for July 17. She could not immediately be reached for comment.
The confrontation happened near the Monroe County Courthouse in Bloomington, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) southwest of Indianapolis, on Monday evening.
Twenty-nine-year-old Chasity Mottinger was injured when Bennett’s red Toyota Corolla accelerated into her, launching her onto the hood, according to the probable cause affidavit. A 35-year-old man, Geoff Stewart, then grabbed the driver’s side of the car and held on as the vehicle accelerated. Both were eventually flung to the ground and the car drove off. Bennett never stopped, charging documents indicate.
Authorities have not disclosed a motive for the attack.
Mottinger was knocked unconscious and cut her head. She was hospitalized, police said, although no updates have been made about her condition. Stewart had scrapes to his arms.
Stewart told The Associated Press he tried to speak with Bennett and navigate her car through traffic after the protest ended. Seconds after he approached her car, Bennett revved it forward, he said.
“I’m really disappointed that she was released on such a small bond with her history of violence,” Stewart said. “This just adds to the concerns the community has had lately — but actually for a very long time — regarding violent white individuals not receiving proper attention from law enforcement, like the men last weekend.”
Bennett, who is white, has previously been convicted of other felonies, including stalking, according to court records.
Bloomington Police Department investigators determined Wednesday that Bennett, the woman the car was registered to, was staying at a motel in Scottsburg, Capt. Ryan Pedigo said in a news release. Investigators found her exiting a motel room and took her to Bloomington to be interviewed, he said. She and her lawyer declined to provide a statement to investigators, according to Pedigo.
Police say her driver’s license shows her as living in Greensburg, but that she has been living at the motel for at least a year.
The protesters had gathered Monday to demand arrests in an assault on Vauhxx Booker, a civil rights activist and member of the Monroe County Human Rights Commission, by a group of white men at Monroe Lake near Bloomington over the Fourth of July weekend. Booker said the men pinned him against a tree, shouted racial slurs and one of them threatened to “get a noose.”
The FBI has said it’s investigating the reported assault. Monroe County First Deputy Prosecutor Jeff Kehr said Thursday afternoon that the prosecutor’s office is still reviewing the Booker case. No charges have been filed yet, he added, with none expected Thursday.
This story has been updated to clarify information about Bennett’s hometown.
by Daryl Matthews / Jan 15, 2021
ALBANY, N.Y. (WETM-TV) - Police have arrested a man for engaging in sexual conduct with a minor.
47-year-old Tristan Warner of New Jersey was charged Friday with the intent to engage in sexual conduct with a minor.
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By Greg Evans On 03/01/15 at 9:56 AM EST
Bob Reid, of Atlanta, wears a shirt protesting the Environmental Protection Agency during a rally in response to an EPA hearing on tougher pollution restrictions on July 29, 2014, in Atlanta. David Goldman/AP
Culture Climate Change Climate Science Environment Films
In Merchants of Doubt, their 2010 book that vivisects bad science and industrial cynicism, science historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway decried the uneven battle for the popular imagination fought, on one side, by scientists ill-equipped for high-volume cable-TV tussles and, on the other, by the "well-financed contrarians" bent on dismantling whatever lab results, peer-reviewed theories and settled science might lead to even the most benign corporate regulations.
The authors unraveled the deny-and-obfuscate tactics concocted in the 1950s by Mad Men and Big Tobacco to cloud understanding of what even the proto-mainstream media was beginning to grasp. "Cancer by the Carton," read a 1953 headline in Reader's Digest. "Doubt," countered a public relations memo exhumed decades later from Big Tobacco's yellowed files, "is our product."
And doubt, argued Oreskes and Conway, became the mantra for purveyors of acid rain, ozone holes and, most significant, global warming. Keep the cigarettes burning, the CO2 combusting and the profits flowing for as long as possible.
Joining the fray is filmmaker Robert Kenner, whose surprisingly rollicking screen adaptation of Merchants of Doubt opens March 6 in New York and Los Angeles. It's a worthy follow-up to his 2008 Oscar-nominated Food, Inc., which arrived when Americans were primed to point fat fingers at Big Agra. This time, Doubt lands amid a national debate over science—legit, pseudo or just plain bad—that intensifies with every foot of Boston snow or new case of Disneyland measles.
Along with corporate greed and Madison Avenue chicanery, Kenner's film exposes a devoted and long-lived cadre of scientists (and their philosophical descendants) who established their careers during the A-bomb era and the Cold War's Big Science rivalries. Anti-communist ideologues, well-trained and often brilliant scientists such as physicists S. Fred Singer and the late Frederick Seitz saw (and see) corporate regulation as a pathway to socialism, an endgame more fearsome than any secondhand smoke or patchy ozone.
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Kenner spoke toNewsweek as he was heading for the Ambulante Documentary Film Festival in Mexico City, the latest stop on his festival circuit after Telluride, Toronto and New York. He was prepared, he said, for more of the anti-science vitriol documented in his film. "It's pretty amazing, this anger out there.… I'm going to be attacked. I just hope it only takes the form of written words."
Robert Kenner, director of "Merchants of Doubt," poses for a portrait during the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2014 in Toronto, Ontario. Maarten de Boer/Getty
When I read Merchants of Doubt, I didn't think, Wow, great cinematic potential. What did you see there?
I didn't think it was a movie, frankly, but it led me into an arena. And actually, very little of the book made it into the movie. We used the general thesis, which is all about regulations and what is done to stop regulations—this thinking that the free market knows all. A perverse form of capitalism has taken over.
When the Freds—Seitz and Singer—popped up in the movie, I thought, Didn't they read the book? How did you convince them to participate?
Well, Fred Seitz had died [in 2008], so the footage we used of him was from many years ago.... When I met Fred Singer, he told me he was doing a book on food and pesticides and he thought we could collaborate. I said, "What's the name of your book?" and he said, "Pesticides Can Save the World." I said, "We really are coming at this from very different angles," but that didn't deter him whatsoever. My impression is that he thinks he can win people over.... I'm hoping to represent him in a way he presented himself to me.
Many of these people, including Fred Singer, worked for [Big] Tobacco or were funded by Tobacco and went on to work on numerous other issues, including energy and climate, and used the same arguments they had used for Tobacco. Singer is an ideologue. I think he's made some money at it, but I make money, we all make money. I think his motivation was a real fear of communism. He was a very good scientist, and Fred Seitz was a major scientist who had done very impressive work. You get those few credible scientists who are ready to pervert their understanding of science to favor their ideological beliefs, and it creates a rocket that takes off. It leads us into this strange territory of the anti-Enlightenment.
It's hard not to come away without some admiration for them.
I really get offended when people on the left say, "Oh, these people are so stupid." They're not stupid. They're really smart. Tim Phillips [president of Americans for Prosperity, the conservative political action committee] is really smart. He's able to go out there and deliver this message, and he makes money for the Kochs. Marc Morano [climate change skeptic and frequent Fox News interviewee] said, "Our job is simple. All we have to do is stop action." I think he's very funny, he's very smart. And I wish he was backing other things.
What are the differences between the left's use of science and the right's use of science?
There is some bad science all around. In Food, Inc., I attacked the fact that there was no labeling of GMOs [genetically modified foods], but I didn't say GMOs are evil. I am suspicious of Monsanto's business practices, and I think if you have a product you are proud of, you should be open to promoting it, not hiding it. I might not like Monsanto's business practices, but I'm not going to totally tear apart everything they're saying about GMOs.
But I think because regulation has fallen into disfavor, [science skepticism] has become much more of a calling card for certain corporations and certain conservative or libertarian forces at the moment. But there are incredibly good, smart people who merely have different economic ideas than I might have, and different solutions. They're ready to recognize the problem of climate change and want to debate the solutions. That's where the debate should be today.
So you're optimistic that we're moving from a debate over the existence of climate change and toward a debate over solutions?
There is no debate about the existence! The media has been partially responsible for implying there's a debate on climate change. There are great debates to be had on solutions. When I say we should have a Manhattan Project on climate change, people like Bob Inglis [a South Carolina Republican who lost his congressional seat after disavowing climate change denial] or many brilliant conservatives might say, "No, business can solve this problem much more rapidly [than government]." I think business could be a great part of the solution, but you can't dump your garbage in the air and expect to get rid of it for nothing. We have to start to pay real prices.
Toward the end of the movie, you show a house with beautiful Christmas lights on it. The shot suggests that things people love will be taken away from them.
I look at those Christmas lights and I think, [Ronald Reagan's secretary of state] George Shultz has solar panels and drives an electric car. And when he sees my car he says, "How can you drive that gas car?" I got shamed into changing, and it wasn't easy. I got solar panels, and it took a lot of work to get them. If it weren't for George Shultz, I might have given up. It's hard to change. As Bob Inglis says, we want climate change to not be true. Shultz is saying, "Hey, you can have solar panels, and it only costs 10 percent more than putting regular tiles on your house." If you can price things in the marketplace correctly, these things will come about rather quickly.
How did you make a film about global warming entertaining?
First of all, I don't think it is about global warming. I think it's about people who create doubt. Their next big payday just happens to be climate change. It used to be tobacco. But the movie Thank You for Smoking was a bit of an inspiration. The other inspiration was Marc Morano, who is really funny, really quick. At the same time, I think when Marc Morano attacks scientists, there's a cost to the scientists' lives and to their research, so I wanted to point that out.
What do you want people to come away with?
We say in the film, "Once revealed, never concealed." Listen, we're not going to convince a third of the audience, but I think there are people who are just confused. I wanted to show that the tobacco representatives, when they talked about tobacco, were lying to us, and they got away with it for many years. I'm hoping that when you see many of the same people using much of the same language today, you'll start to look at this issue of climate change in a different way. And I would hope that newspapers stop presenting deniers as scientific experts. I think the news networks should be embarrassed to do that.
Archival footage in the film includes a hospital patient smoking in her bed and children playing in clouds of DDT. What images will we be looking at years from now, wondering, What were we thinking?
Senator Jim Inhofe saying, "Look, it's snowing—global warming is not happening." These guys are not going to look great to their grandchildren.
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Welcome to Nintendo Support
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From the silver screen to much-loved TV dramas, the North York Moors plays a starring role. If it’s not the stunning coastline or panoramic moorland, then it’s the charming villages, heritage steam trains, ancient castles and abbeys that have film and TV companies knocking on our door.
Ones to watch out for...
Colin Firth and Julie Walters lead a new film adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children's novel The Secret Garden. Much of the filming took place in the North York Moors including Helmsley Walled Garden (the secret garden), Helmsley Castle and Duncombe Park in Helmsley, North Yorkshire Moors Railway, plus moorland shots in Farndale, Goathland (Wheeldale Roman Road) and Rievaulx Moor. The film is available to view in the UK from 23 October 2020 at cinemas and via Sky Home Cinema Services.
The North York Moors took centre stage in this classic children’s adventure film, ‘The Runaways’, starring Yorkshire legend Mark Addy.
When misguided father of three, Reith (Mark Addy) passes away, his children, Angie (Molly Windsor), Polly (Macy Shackleton) and Ben (Rhys Connah), are left to cope alone; Angie acting as surrogate mother. Their Uncle Blythe (Lee Boardman) suddenly returns from prison, harbouring a grudge over a long-standing family debt. With no option the three siblings and their two donkeys leave their home in Whitby and embark on a journey across the North York Moors, in a search of their estranged mother (Tara Fitzgerald).
It's an uplifting film about childhood love and loss, taking in a scenic journey from Osmotherley, towards Robin Hood’s Bay, through Sutton Bank and Levisham Estate , including Skelton Tower. The North Yorkshire Moors Railway stations at Goathland and Grosmont also feature as the children climb aboard the train, with donkeys in tow! Through the many lessons learnt along the way, Angie, and her siblings discover for better or worse, what it truly means to be a family.
Set almost entirely in the National Park, the film is available on DVD & Digital. Check their website for details.
Miss Willoughby and the Haunted Bookshop
Due for release later this year, Miss Willoughby stars Kelsey Grammer of Cheers fame, Caroline Quentin and Nathalie Cox. The plot is based around orphan Elizabeth Willoughby who inherits an impressive estate and is brought up by a retired US marine who also runs the family business. Elizabeth becomes an Ancient Civilisation professor and is approached by friends to investigate paranormal happenings in their antique bookshop. Film locations included Ampleforth Abbey and Castle Howard, as well as York and Birdsall House near Malton.
North York Moors - in the spotlight
We take a closer look at some other locations you can visit for film-inspired days out.
With stunning views and stylish carriages, the heritage railway is hard to beat for a scenic backdrop. It’s played a starring role in TV favourites such as ITV’s ‘Heartbeat’ and ‘Downton Abbey’ and films including ‘Dad’s Army’, and Official Secrets, a spy thriller starring Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes and Matt Smith.
The film adaptation of Downton Abbey: The Movie used Pickering station on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway in the film's opening scenes, and you can also catch views of the train steaming through Newton Dale, along with Castle Howard, Hovingham Hall and Ampleforth College.
The railway also featured in ‘Testament of Youth’, the BBC Films/Heyday Films adaptation of Vera Brittain’s World War One memoirs, which was shot in several locations including Goathland, Egton Moor, Fylingdales and along the coast.
Not forgetting the wizarding world’s most famous train station, Hogsmeade in the Harry Potter films, is in fact the North York Moors very own Goathland station!
Duncombe Park
Helmsley’s stately home masquerades as the German HQ in the 2016 'Dad's Army' film, alongside cameos in the 2012 BBC drama ‘Parade’s End’ and the 2013 BBC film 'The Thirteenth Tale’.
Robin Hood's Bay and Staithes
The National Park’s dramatic coast played a starring role in Daniel Day-Lewis’s much anticipated final film ‘Phantom Thread’ about 1950s dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock. To capture the atmospheric beauty of the film, locations such as the stunning fishing village of Robin Hood’s Bay, the cobbled streets of Staithes, St Oswald's Church in Lythe and the classic interior of the Victoria Hotel formed the backdrop. It's possible to walk in Day-Lewis’ footsteps along the clifftops above Robin Hood’s Bay, by venturing north on a short stretch of the Cleveland Way National Trail towards Whitby.
Sit down with your pre-schooler and see Staithes in CBeebies ‘Old Jack’s Boat’, which features Bernard Cribbins as 'Old Jack', a retired fisherman who tells stories from inside his fishing boat, ‘The Rainbow’.
Well-known as the location for both the hugely popular 1980s ITV series and film versions of ‘Brideshead Revisited’, majestic Castle Howard also turns up in the BBC’s ‘Death Comes to Pemberley’ and ‘Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties’. Most recently it appears in the second series of the hugely popular ITV drama ‘Victoria’, when the house doubled as Kensington Palace.
The stunning ruins of Rievaulx Abbey forms the impressive backdrop for King Arthur and his metallic knights for the 2017 Transformers movie, ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’.
Channel 5 TV’s popular animal doctors in ‘The Yorkshire Vet’ hail from Skeldale Veterinary Centre in Thirsk, the original James Herriot practice, and often features Sutton Bank on visits out across the North York Moors.
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How to sit on a third-sector board | William Eccleshare, CEO of Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings
Susan Boster talks with William Eccleshare, CEO of Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, about time, money and patience...
Susan Boster
William Eccleshare is Worldwide CEO of Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings and a member of the CCOH Board. Prior to joining Clear Channel in 2009, William was Chairman and CEO of BBDO Europe, Middle East and Africa (Omnicom); European Chairman of Young and Rubicam (WPP); Global Strategic Planning Director of J. Walter Thompson Worldwide; and CEO, PPGH/JWT Amsterdam. He also spent three years as a Partner at McKinsey & Co, leading the firm’s European Branding Practice.
What boards, private and third sector, do you currently sit on, and which have you sat on in the past?
I am currently on the board of the Donmar Warehouse and chaired our Future Audiences committee looking at how we diversify our audience and improve access. I am the Senior Independent Director at Centaur Media and a NED at Britvic plc, and spent nine years on the board of Hays plc (recruitment). From 2002 to 2012, I sat on the board of governors of University College School and chaired the Curriculum Committee there.
Why did you choose to join the board of a cultural organisation?
I felt I could bring my commercial experience, particularly around marketing and brand communications, into a sector with which I have a lifelong love affair.
What are the key differences between your experiences on corporate boards and third sector boards?
On corporate boards one always has the long-term interests of shareholders as the ultimate guide to decision-making. For third sector there is a much more complex mix of criteria which requires sensitivity, personal judgement and a fondness for ambiguity.
What are the key qualities for a good board member in the arts/charity sector?
Firstly – and as with commercial boards – there needs to be a good understanding of the non-executive nature of the role. We are there to hold the executive team to account, but have to strike the right balance so that we are not overbearing or cross the line into running the place. Next, it’s critical to love, really love, the sector. The real work never gets done in the board meeting and if you don't want to put in the time to get to know the team, see every show, read every review, re-tweet every tweet and hang out in the place then really don't bother!
Finally, patience. You are not in a commercial environment. Things take longer, factors other than bottom line are in play – it truly is a different world.
What is the most unexpected lesson you have learned from your experience on third sector boards that you have then used for your NED/similar positions?
It may seem obvious but if you’ve spent decades in the private sector, it does come as a wonderful surprise to work with people who are not motivated by money. Understanding this has caused me to reappraise motivation in the commercial world and to seek to re-evaluate employee value propositions.
What is the biggest challenge your arts/culture/charitable organisations are facing right now?
Our world has been turned upside down by COVID-19 and our sector is in real danger. We urgently need to find new ways of connecting with our audiences whilst maintaining quality and distinctiveness. Fundraising in this new environment will require even greater ingenuity and we must not lose sight of our goal to gain share of mind from a younger, ethnically and socially diverse audience.
When have you gotten it wrong, and what did you learn?
I’ve tended to be excessively influenced by the leadership’s ability to sell their vision. I’ve learnt to dig deeper, to build broader relationships at all levels of the organisation and to really understand what’s going on outside the board meeting.
What is your advice to someone joining their first board in any sector?
Listen. Really listen. Understand what your unique value might be. Be supportive first; challenge only when absolutely necessary. Ask real questions, and don’t be distracted by point-scoring.
Susan Boster is the founder and CEO of Boster Group Ltd. an independent marketing consultancy that creates innovative brand partnerships for global corporations and cultural institutions to achieve business and social impact goals. Current and recent clients include BNP Paribas, Montblanc, Insight Investment, Moët Hennessy, AMEX, Gap Inc., Credit Suisse, Bacardi, EY and Disney.
Boster Group shapes partnerships on the basis of shared values, untapped assets and complementary capabilities. Distinctly, Boster Group measures return on investment for its clients and is focused on the impact of the creative campaigns it develops. Previously a CMO for News International, Susan is currently on the boards of English National Ballet, Donmar Warehouse, The Representation Project, and serves on the Enterprise Committee at The Design Museum.
Board moves – April 2020
Successful Applications: NED of a venture capital trust
How to sit on a third-sector board | In conversation with Marisa Drew, CEO of Credit Suisse’s Impact Advisory and Finance and Susan Boster
How to sit on a third sector board | In conversation with the Founder of the National Energy Foundation, Dame Mary Archer and Susan Boster
Case Study: how not-for-profit boards can be more successful appointing a Chairman
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Taking you back to the early days of Dirty Reggae, the aggro boys are once again proving that they know their reggae! Tunes that will remind you of Junior Murvin and the touch of Lee Perry.
The Aggrolites are an amalgamation of two previous Los Angeles reggae and ska bands, the Vessels and the Rhythm Doctors. They formed in 2002 as a live backing band for reggae icon Derrick Morgan, and were asked to record music for a new Morgan album. The project was never released but the recording sessions inspired the Aggrolites to become a permanent band. They have served as the backing band for Phyllis Dillon, Scotty, Joseph Hill of Culture, Prince Buster, and Tim Armstrong of RANCID.
They released a new album on June 5, 2007 called Reggae Hit L.A., which won an IGN award for Best Reggae Album of 2007. The Aggrolites made an appearance on the Nick Jr. show Yo Gabba Gabba!, created by Christian Jacobs, lead singer of The Aquabats. -Wikipedia
The Creepers
No backing tracks, just three real musicians playing real music with an Orange County California attitude. Bryan Adams to Bon Jovi, Poison to Prince.
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KEEP POUNDING
25 Seasons
Stats You Need To Know: Christian McCaffrey closing on all-purpose yards record
Will Bryan
The Carolina Panthers (5-8) are home against the Seattle Seahawks (10-3) on Sunday, December 15 at Bank of America Stadium.
Matchup Stats
Carolina is 4-9 all-time against Seattle, with the Seahawks winning the last two matchups. The Panthers are 3-4 against the Seahawks at home all-time, with the last win coming in the divisional round of the 2015 playoffs.
The Panthers rank second in the NFL with 47 sacks, just 13 shy of the franchise record.
The Seahawks' rushing offense ranks third in the NFL with 140.8 yards per game on the ground. Chris Carson ranks seventh in the league with 1,057 rushing yards.
Russell Wilson is tied for second in the NFL with 26 passing touchdowns and an additional three rushing touchdowns. His passer rating of 107.5 is fifth in the league.
Table inside Article
Total Yards/Game 341.5 (21st) 383.9 (5th)
Rushing Yards/Game 118.9 (12th) 140.8 (3rd)
Passing Yards/Game 255.5 (13th) 263.2 (11th)
Sacks Allowed 50 (31st) 40 (23rd)
Third Down Efficiency 31.3 (29th) 40.2 (15th)
Points/Game 23.1 (t-14th) 26.2 (6th)
Total Yards/Game 373.9 (24th) 375.5 (26th)
Rushing Yards/Game 139.2 (29th) 104.4 (13th)
Sacks 47 (2nd) 23 (t-29th)
Points/Game 27.7 (27th) 24.7 (22nd)
With three games remaining, Christian McCaffrey is in a tight race for the NFL's rushing title. Nick Chubb (1,281), Derrick Henry (1,243) and McCaffrey (1,220) all have more than a 100 more rushing yards than fourth-place Dalvin Cook. No Panther has ever won the league's rushing title.
McCaffrey still leads the NFL in scrimmage yards (1,946) and is first in total touchdowns (16). His 86 receptions are the most by a running back.
DJ Moore continues to rank fourth in the NFL in receiving yards with 1,061. His 79 catches are currently eighth in the league.
McCaffrey and Moore have combined for 3,037 scrimmage yards, the most by any RB-WR duo in the NFL this year. It's the most by any RB-WR duo through Week 14 since 2000 when Edgerrin James and Marvin Harrison combined for 3,051.
Panthers defenders Luke Kuechly (114), Eric Reid (106) and Shaq Thompson (103) all have over 100 tackles, marking the first time in franchise history that Carolina has had three 100-tackle players in the same season. The last NFL team to do it was Jacksonville in 2016.
Top DJ Moore catches on the road to 1K receiving yards
View some of the best photos from DJ Moore's 2019 season as he topped 1,000 receiving yards in Week 14.
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Milestones to Watch
Carolina (6) needs three touchdowns from 50 or more yards to break the franchise record for most 50+ yard touchdowns (8, 1999).
The Panthers (47) need 13 sacks to tie the franchise record (60) set in 1996 and 2013.
Christian McCaffrey (1,220) needs 296 rushing yards to eclipse DeAngelo Williams' franchise record (1,515, 2008) for rushing yards in a season.
McCaffrey (1,946) needs 49 scrimmage yards to break Steve Smith's franchise record for most all-purpose yards (1,994, 2001) in one season.
With 54 scrimmage yards and 14 receptions, he would become the second player in NFL history with 2,000+ scrimmage yards and 100+ receptions, joining LaDainian Tomlinson (2003).
With 14 receptions, McCaffrey would top 100 receptions for the second-consecutive season, becoming the first running back in NFL history with two or more 100-catch seasons.
McCaffrey needs 142 receiving yards to break his own franchise record (867) for most receiving yards by a running back. He needs 274 receiving yards to become the third player in NFL history (Marshall Faulk, Roger Craig) with 1,000 rushing yards and 1,000 receiving yards in one season.
DJ Moore needs 22 receptions for 100 on the season, becoming the fourth player in franchise history with 100 catches. If Moore tallies 22 catches and McCaffrey has 14 catches, it will mark the first time in NFL history that a team's running back and wide receiver both went over 100 catches.
Mario Addison (55.0) needs 1.0 sack to pass Mike Rucker (55.5) for third place all-time in franchise history. He would also record his second career double-digit sack season.
Eric Reid (106) needs 11 tackles to pass Mike Minter (116, 2000) for the most tackles by a safety in one season in franchise history. He needs one sack to be in sole first place for the most sacks by a safety in one season in franchise history (Toi Cook, 1996, 4.0).
Panthers vs. Seahawks through the years
Carolina has played Seattle eight times since 2013. The Seahawks lead the all-time series 9-4.
Carolina Panthers' Mushin Muhammad scores a touchdown past Seattle Seahawks' Ken Hamlin, right, in the second quarter in Seattle, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2004. Seattle won, 23-17. (AP Photo/John Froschauer)
Carolina Panthers' Donald Hayes (81) is hit by Seattle Seahawks' Jay Bellamy (20) and Willie Williams (27) after a catch in the second quarter Sunday, Oct. 8, 2000, at Ericsson Stadium in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Erik Perel)
Carolina Panthers' Drew Carter, right, makes a long reception against the Seattle Seahawks' Michael Boulware, left, and Marcus Trufant, center, in the second quarter during the NFC Championship game in Seattle, on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2006. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
Seattle Seahawks' Matt Hasselbeck, right, is pressured by Carolina Panthers' Dan Morgan in the first quarter during their NFC Championship football game in Seattle, on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2006. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
Seattle Seahawks' Shaun Alexander (37) carries the ball under the pressure of the Carolina Panthers' Dante Wesley (21), Mike Minter (30) and Julius Peppers (90) during the second quarter of the NFC Championship NFL football game in Seattle, on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2006. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Carolina Panthers' Steve Smith returns a punt for a touchdown in the second quarter against the Seattle Seahawks during the NFC Championship game in Seattle, on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2006. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
Carolina Panthers' Richard Marshall (31) reacts after recovering a fumble during the fourth quarter of the Panthers' 13-10 win over the Seattle Seahawks in an NFL football game in Charlotte, N.C., Sunday, Dec. 16, 2007. (AP Photo/Mike McCarn)
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Carolina Panthers' Matt Moore (3) throws a pass during their 13-10 win over the Seattle Seahawks in an NFL football game in Charlotte, N.C., Sunday, Dec. 16, 2007. (AP Photo/Rick Havner)
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Seattle Seahawks' Matt Hasselbeck (8) fumbles the ball as he is sacked by Carolina Panthers' Thomas Davis (58) during the fourth quarter of the Panthers' 13-10 win in an NFL football game in Charlotte, N.C., Sunday, Dec. 16, 2007. The Panthers recovered the ball. (AP Photo/Mike McCarn)
Seattle Seahawks' Shaun Alexander (37) fumbles the ball after being hit by Carolina Panthers' Chris Harris (43) during the third quarter of the Panthers' 13-10 win in an NFL football game in Charlotte, N.C., Sunday, Dec. 16, 2007. Seattle recovered the ball. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
Carolina Panthers' Steve Smith (89) is tackled by Seattle Seahawks' Kelly Jennings (21) during the third quarter of the Panthers' 13-10 win in an NFL football game in Charlotte, N.C., Sunday, Dec. 16, 2007. (AP Photo/Mike McCarn)
Seattle Seahawks quarterback Matt Hasselbeck, right, meets with Carolina Panthers quarterback Jake Delhomme at the end of the NFC championship football game Sunday, Jan. 22, 2006 in Seattle. Seattle won 34-14, advancing to the Superbowl. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Carolina Panthers play against the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday, October 18, 2015.
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Carolina Panthers play against the Seattle Seahawks in the divisional playoff game at Century Link Field on Saturday, January 10, 2015 in Seattle, WA.
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Carolina Panthers play against the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday, October 26, 2014 at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, NC.
Carolina Panthers play against the Oakland Raiders at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum on Sunday, November 27, 2016 in Oakland, CA.
Carolina Panthers tight end Greg Olsen, right, catches a pass for a touchdown ahead of Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman, left, in the second half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
Carolina Panthers practice on Tuesday, November 15, 2016 at Bank of America Stadium.
Carolina Panthers play against the Seattle Seahawks at Bank of America Stadium on Sunday, September 8, 2013.
Christian McCaffrey stiff-arms Austin Calitro during a game against the Seattle Seahawks at Bank of America Stadium on Sunday, November 25, 2018.
Christian McCaffrey runs the ball during the game against the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018, at Bank of America Stadium.
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James Bradberry sacks quarterback Russell Wilson during the game against the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018, at Bank of America Stadium.
Curtis Samuel runs the ball during the game against the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018, at Bank of America Stadium.
Kawann Short makes a tackle during the game against the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018, at Bank of America Stadium.
DJ Moore catches a pass during the game against the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018, at Bank of America Stadium.
Greg Olsen catches a pass during the game against the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018, at Bank of America Stadium.
Christian McCaffrey carries the football against the Seattle Seahawks at Bank of America Stadium on Sunday, November 25, 2018.
2019 Stats Season In Review
Take a look back at all of the season-ending statistics and rankings from the Panthers in 2019.
Stats You Need To Know: What CMC needs in season finale
Christian McCaffrey needs 67 receiving yards to join the 1,000-1,000 club.
Stats You Need To Know: Christian McCaffrey-DJ Moore combo leads the NFL
McCaffrey and Moore have totaled 3,335 scrimmage yards in 2019, the most by any RB-WR duo in the NFL.
Stats You Need To Know: Mario Addison nearing sack accomplishment
Mario Addison needs 1.0 sack to pass Mike Rucker for third in franchise history.
Stats You Need To Know: DJ Moore closing in on 1,000-yard receiving season
Moore needs 95 receiving yards to post the 18th individual season of 1,000 receiving yards in franchise history.
Stats You Need To Know: Saints-Panthers features NFL's top rusher and receiver
Christian McCaffrey leads the NFL in rushing yards, while Michael Thomas leads the NFL in receiving yards.
Stats You Need To Know: Statistical streaks on the line against Atlanta
DJ Moore goes for three straight over 100 receiving yards, while McCaffrey aims for eight straight with a rushing touchdown.
Stats You Need To Know: How will defenses stack up against the run?
Carolina ranks seventh in rushing while Green Bay's rushing defense is ranked 24th.
Stats You Need To Know: Titans defense has been stingy
Tennessee ranks fourth in the NFL with just 16.9 points allowed.
Stats You Need To Know: Panthers face undefeated 49ers
San Francisco boasts the NFL's second-best defense in yards allowed.
Stats You Need To Know: Bye week reset
James Bradberry in second in the NFL in interceptions and pass breakups.
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PALM BEACH GARDENS - The DMV office on PGA Boulevard has stood vacant for nearly two years while the city of Palm Beach Gardens and Palm Beach County’s tax collector negotiate over plans to demolish the 2,000-square foot building and replace it with a much larger one.
The city approved the project last summer on a unanimous vote, and tentative plans called for razing the 42-year-old building a short time later.
But discussions have stalled over easement issues and no end is in sight for a resolution of the long-running conflict.
“It‘s been three years since we first started this project,” said Constitutional Tax Collector Anne Gannon, whose office wants to build a 23,735-square-foot governmental building that would combine all Tax Collector services under one roof.
“In any other city, we would have had this building built. The city has asked for some unreasonable requests in terms of some easements on our property, and there‘s never an explanation of why.”
The city said it is not the one causing the delays.
Manager Ron Ferris said Palm Beach Gardens is holding the Tax Collector project to the same standards it holds all other projects that are built in the city.
“Their consultants have a lack of understanding of the city’s development order process, and that is what is causing significant delays,” he said.
The Tax Collector also is having issues with platting the parcel, Ferris said.
Cooperation from the Department of Environmental Protection‘s Division of Land Management, and eventual approval from trustees of the Internal Trust Fund, are required in order for the necessary easements to be granted.
Negotiations are continuing on that front, Ferris said.
“Our City Attorney is reviewing a request received on February 6,” he said. “Once they have the necessary easements, the project can move forward.”
Currently, clients who are required to take a driving test to obtain a Florida driver license must visit two locations for service — the current office in the nearby North County Courthouse, and the driving course at the former DMV site.
Splitting those services between two locations isn‘t ideal for clients, Gannon said.
“It‘s frustrating for people that live there,” she said. “They’re inconvenienced in the facility they‘re in now. We really want to move ahead with this, and we’re wondering when it‘s going to happen.”
There are other plans on the table if it doesn‘t, Gannon said, including remodeling the current DMV building.
But nothing has been decided as negotiations continue to drag on.
Gannon said the Tax Collector has spent $50,000 in legal services as it pursues a resolution with the city.
“We‘re not going to move to tear it down until all this is resolved,” she said of the old DMV building.
In the meantime, Gannon said her office is working with another Palm Beach County city to build a new governmental building.
The Tax Collector is in the process of implementing a sales contract with the city of Westlake, she said.
“We need to move ahead, because our clients are suffering,” Gannon said. “We‘ve got so many acres in Westlake, because we always knew we would have to move west because of all the construction. We just may move out there and complete our building there first until we work out these issues with the city.”
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Column | Broad – an intense fast bowler
Stuart Broad exults after picking up his 500th Test wicket. Reuters
Dr KN Raghavan
Published: August 02, 2020 04:50 PM IST
Broad was born with cricket in his blood as his father Chris was a former England opener who played in 40 Tests and 34 One-Day Internationals (ODIs) during the 1980s. Like his father, Broad also started out as an opening batsman till he was into his late teens when he suddenly shot up in inches and considered the possibility of turning into a fast bowler. This transformation was quickly executed and saw him play first-class cricket by the time he was 18. He became a member of England 'A' side in 2005 and made his international debut when turned out for the national side in T20 Internationals as well as ODIs in August, 2006, two months after he turned 20. His entry into Test matches followed one year later, when he played against Sri Lanka in Colombo in December, 2007.
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In between, Broad also found his way to lasting “infamy” as a bowler when he was struck by Yuvraj Singh for six sixes in an over during the Super Eight match between England and India in the inaugural T20 World Cup in 2007. Bowling the 19th over of the innings, Broad ran into Yuvraj who was on fire having been needled by the verbal missiles of Andrew Flintoff. Yuvraj took out his anger on Broad by carting him all over the park in Durban, thus racing to the fastest half-century in T20 cricket, which came off a mere 12 balls! After the first three hits, Broad looked clueless and appeared to have sunk into a trance, placing the balls in areas where Yuvraj found it most convenient to launch into his big hits.
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This assault could have finished the career of a lesser bowler but Broad survived this setback and emerged stronger from it. He cemented his place in the England side in all formats of the game and his useful contributions with the bat indicated that he possessed the potential for developing into an all-rounder. He made his mark in the Ashes series of 2009 that England won 2-1. He scored 234 runs and was the leading wicket-taker for his side with 18 scalps. During the home series against Pakistan in 2010, he scored his maiden Test century. Coming to bat with England precariously placed at 102/7, Broad and Jonathan Trott added a world record stand of 332 runs for the eighth wicket. Broad went on to remain unbeaten on 169, which incidentally, was higher than his father’s top score of 162 in Test cricket!
After a rather colourless Ashes series in Australia in 2010-11, Broad hit full stride against India in the summer of 2011. Subsequent to taking seven wickets in the first Test, Broad hit top form with both the bat and ball in the next game. He scored a quick-fire 64 to pull his side from 124/8 to a more respectable total of 221 when England batted first in the match. In the Indian first innings, he bowled with pace and venom to end up with 6/46 - the last five wickets coming off a mere 16 balls, without conceding a run. This also included a hat-trick when he removed Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Harbhajan Singh and raveen Kumar off consecutive balls. This all-round performance won him the man-of-the-match award.
Stuart Broad leads England players off the the field after the win over West Indies in the third Test. AFP
This series against India could well be termed as the turning point in Broad’s career as he has not looked back since. He is blessed with a capacity for bowling unplayable spells as the West Indians found out in the last Test at Manchester. Such occasions have seen him run through opposing sides like a knife through butter, irrespective of the names of the batsmen in the line-up. On such occasions he invariably picks up five wickets or more in a single spell, which would serve to understand the menace and destructive potential of his bowling when he is on song. This was most evident on the first day of the Ashes Test at Trent Bridge in 2015 when destroyed the Aussies with a devastating burst of bowling that saw him take 8/15 as the visitors crumbled to a total of 60 in just 18.3 overs. He has an intensely competitive streak within him, which does not endear him to supporters of opposing sides but makes him a star attraction on cricket grounds the world over.
It was Fred Trueman, the first bowler to reach the mark of 300 wickets in Test cricket, who famously said that any other bowler reaching this landmark would be a very tired person. Trueman played only 67 Tests, sending down 15,178 balls in a 13-year career. Broad, on the other hand has played 140 Tests and bowled 28,079 deliveries till date while playing Test cricket for an equal number of years. His strike rate of one wicket off every 57.8 balls is certainly far behind that of South African great Dale Steyn who took the shortest number of balls per wicket (43.2) among all bowlers who have taken more than 300 wickets in Test cricket.
Broad has been fortunate that he could strike a great partnership with James Anderson, the only other bowler from England with more than 500 wickets in Tests. Anderson is definitely the senior partner with 589 scalps from 152 Tests at a strike rate of 56.1 and is on track to become the first fast bowler to reach the 600-wicket mark. These two bowlers have complimented each other very well with the duo picking 895 wickets in the Tests they have played together so far. This combination of two fast bowlers, whose skills go up a couple of notches when bowling in tandem, has helped England no end.
Another factor that helped Broad greatly in prolonging his career was the decision by England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to preserve him for the longer duration version by limiting his appearances in other formats of the game. Thus he has played only Test cricket at the international level since 2016. He led England in the T20I format in 27 matches, from 2011 to 2014 but has not played that version since. Similarly, he played his last ODI in February, 2016. He is one of the few top international bowlers not to have played in the Indian Premier League (IPL). He turned down an opportunity in 2009 citing fears that too much of this form of cricket was not good for his body and when he was bought by Kings XI Punjab in 2011 for Rs 1.8 crores, he was forced to stay away due to an injury.
Stuart Broad, left, and James Anderson have formed a hugely successful new-ball pair. File photo: AFP
Plenty to offer
At 34 and after 13 years of cricket at the international level, Broad has not shown any signs of fatigue or weariness and appears fit enough to continue playing Test cricket for another two-three years. Broad possesses the potential to not only only overtake Anderson but also end up as the fast bowler with the highest number of Test wickets. It is the fond hope of legions of cricket fans that this intelligent cricketer with school-boyish looks and handsome features continues to play the game for many more years and contributes to enriching it.
(The author is a former international umpire and a senior bureaucrat)
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A United States flag is provided, at no cost, to drape the casket or accompany the urn of a deceased veteran who served honorably in the U. S. Armed Forces. It is furnished to honor the memory of a veteran's military service to his or her country. VA will furnish a burial flag for memorialization for:
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A beginner's guide to Terry Pratchett
A beginner's guide to Terry Pratchett's books
Dave Rudden, author of Knights of the Borrowed Dark series (and Terry Pratchett super-fan) chats doodling, dragons, breaking the rules and his five favourite Terry Pratchett novels – and of course, why you should read them.
Dave Rudden
When I was a kid there were people very keen to point out to me what was and what wasn’t a waste of time. Staring off into space, reading books with dragons in, doodling little pictures instead of doing homework… these were all activities typically quite frowned upon if you wanted to be a serious adult.
And rules are the kind of things that follow you around. Now that I’m a writer – and my job has become staring off into space, reading books with dragons in and doodling little pictures instead of doing real work – there are still people ready with rules, ready to tell you what you can and can’t do, constraining your choices like a too-tight coat.
Terry Pratchett breaks every writing rule in the book. He takes being ridiculous more seriously than every writer I’ve ever read. And most importantly, he doesn’t just tell stories, he tells stories about stories, and hands you the tools to break rules yourselves.
Here are five of my favourite Terry Pratchett novels, and why I think you should read them.
The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents
‘He'd realised there was something educated about the rats when he jumped on one and it'd said, "Can we talk about this?", and part of his amazing new brain had told him you couldn't eat someone who could talk. At least, not until you'd heard what they'd got to say.’
You have to start somewhere, and why not with a story with a familiar shape? We all know the story about the piper, and the town, and how one saved the other by luring the rats away. Not a bad trick, especially if you could re-use the rats afterwards, and especially if they’re in on the trick…
‘If you trust in yourself... and believe in your dreams... and follow your star... you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.’
Most books (including mine) are about a kid gaining great power, and how that power propels them into a new world with new challenges, throwing off their old lives like a cloak. Tiffany Aching, however, is a girl who learns that real power comes from knowing who you are, and where you are, and why. Having an army of immensely strong tiny blue men follow you around doesn’t hurt either.
‘“WHAT IS YOUR NAME?”
“Uh,” said Mort. “Mortimer… sir. They call me Mort.”
“WHAT A COINCIDENCE,” said the skull.’
The only thing more stressful than your first job is not being able to get a first job, and Mort (like me) is the kind of kid who gets picked last for just about everything. All that changes, however, when a tall figure in a black robe and a voice like two coffins grinding together arrives on a white horse and offers him a permanent position… Everyone looks good in black after all. Sooner or later.
‘The beef stew tasted, indeed, just like beef stew and not, just to take an example completely and totally at random, stew made out of the last poor girl who'd worked here.’
Learning magic is serious business. And having power is better than not having power, but having power also gets you noticed. Noticed by Things. The kind of Things that have capital letters in the middle of sentences and a hunger for the minds of trainee witches. When I wrote the sequel to my novel Knights of the Borrowed Dark, I was very aware that to keep things interesting, my main character could never have too much of a handle on what was coming his way. I learned that from Pratchett – Tiffany Aching may have an army at her disposal, but the one thing she can’t be protected from is herself…
Only You Can Save Mankind
‘On Earth, No-one Can Hear You Say "Um".’
Being a hero is a tricky proposition, which is why they usually tend to be large, not overly-complicated and have muscles like mating footballs. I didn’t have any of these as a kid, and so decided I just wasn’t hero material. Reading Pratchett changed all that. Heroes come in all shapes and sizes because problems do too. Johnny Maxwell is the short, worried, video game player kind of hero, and has destroyed plenty of alien empires in his time, which is why he finds it very confusing when one of them surrenders and pleads for mercy. What would you do?
Dave Rudden is a former actor, teacher and time-displaced Viking currently living in Dublin. He is the author of the award-winning Knights of the Borrowed Dark trilogy, and enjoys cats, adventure and being cruel to fictional children.
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The late great Terry Pratchett left an extraordinary reading legacy behind. His legendary fantasy stories have been casting spells over young readers for years and years...
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Discover the six life lessons authors, fans and long-time friends of Terry have learnt from reading Sir Terry Pratchett's books
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PRIDE Industries Expands Sales Team with Two Key Hires
ROSEVILLE, Calif.– (August 11, 2020) — PRIDE Industries recently welcomed two new professionals to support its business development efforts. The company saw healthy growth in its last fiscal year, and its recent hires are part of a plan to capitalize on that momentum.
Ross Gravagna joins the company as Director of Business Development, Facilities & Energy Services. With more than 100 fully integrated managed-services contracts, PRIDE is a well-known facilities services provider. Gravagna will be building on that foundation, ramping up PRIDE’s development efforts, especially in the western states.
Gravagna is looking forward to the challenge.
“I’ve spent most of my career helping companies substantially grow their national customer footprint,” he said. “I’m excited to join an organization with such an important social mission.”
A 501(c)(3) nonprofit social enterprise, PRIDE Industries was founded in 1966 with a mission to create jobs for people with disabilities. Today, the company is the nation’s leading employer of people with disabilities and barriers to employment, including service-injured veterans.
Gravagna is joined at PRIDE by Mackenzie Evans, who as Account Executive will be expanding the company’s reach into new and established markets. In addition to seeking out fresh opportunities for the company, Evans will work to ensure that current customers are benefiting from PRIDE’s well-known personalized customer service model.
“I’m a big believer in getting to know your customers well,” said Evans. “It improves communication and makes it possible to anticipate future needs.”
“We have our sights set high and need great people to help expand PRIDE’s impact in workforce development,” said CEO Jeff Dern. “Every additional customer helps create more jobs for people with disabilities. Ross and Mackenzie are a perfect fit for PRIDE, and I’m thrilled to welcome them to our team.”
PRIDE Industries currently employs more than 3,300 people with disabilities. Last year, the company earned nearly $350 million in gross revenue, which helps fund a variety of job training, coaching, placement, and support services for people facing barriers to employment.
About PRIDE Industries: PRIDE Industries is the leading employer of people with disabilities in the country. As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit social enterprise, the organization provides facility operations and maintenance services, custodial services, contract manufacturing, supply chain management, and fulfillment services to public and private organizations nationwide. Founded in 1966, PRIDE’s mission is to create jobs for people with disabilities through person-centered job coaching, training, and placement. PRIDE’s mission extends across the country, assisting individuals to become self-sufficient, contribute to their communities, and achieve their goals. Learn more at prideindustries.com.
Contact: Jill Beilby, PRIDE Industries
Email: Jill.beilby@prideindustries.com
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Eagles rely on depth, unselfish line to pressure QBs
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Blitzing is more of an option than a necessity for the Philadelphia Eagles.Defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz has always preferred to let his front four generate pressure on quarterbacks, and he has a group of players who can do it. The Eagles have so much depth on their defensive line they rotate seven players and keep them fresh for the fourth quarter.It takes unselfish guys willing to put the team ahead of personal goals in order to make that happen harmoniously.Defensive tackle Fletcher Cox is one of the best in the NFL and he plays nearly the entire game. But ends Brandon Graham, Chris Long, Derek Barnett and Michael Bennett each played more than half the snaps in an 18-12 win against Atlanta in Week 1. The defense had four sacks and 26 pressures.”Our front judges themselves on the entire group, not individual accomplishment,” Schwartz said. “You see that on the field. Fletch makes a sack and they’re all excited about it, because they all played a part in it. So I think you need to have unselfish players. It just needs to be stressed.”Schwartz doesn’t have to sell the players on a rotation.”It’s good for not just one game, but over the course of the season,” he said. “I think our players recognize that. I think it also goes to another theme of what we’ve been talking about: You have to trust a guy that he can go in and make those plays. If you want to rotate players, you need to have players that can be on the field. We have trust in those players. They work hard together. They realize it’s about the group, it’s not about them individually. That’s where the production counts.”When the Falcons had four cracks from the Eagles 10 and another from the 5 in the final minute of the game, Schwartz didn’t call one blitz. That’s quite unusual in that spot, but the line pressured Matt Ryan without needing help.”We have good players at three levels of the defense. We can rush without blitzing,” Schwartz said. “We were getting such good pressure that we didn’t need to blitz. When you can blitz on your own terms, you’re at an advantage. It’s frustrating if you’re not getting pressure and you have to blitz. It can put you in a bad spot.”But that really hasn’t happened to us. I think probably the biggest thing is there was no panic in our players. They knew what to expect. They went out and did it.”Schwartz called a blitz earlier in the game inside the red zone and it resulted in Ryan throwing an interception to Rasul Douglas.”Quarterback had to throw a little bit quicker than he wanted to,” Schwartz said. “Rasul had good vision on the quarterback, was able to make that (play).”The Eagles will have a tough challenge Sunday at Tampa against an offense that racked up 529 total yards in a 48-40 win at New Orleans. Backup quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick was sensational, throwing for 417 yards and four touchdowns, including scores of 58, 50 and 36 yards.”I’m excited to play a team like that,” Long said. “You want to play a team that’s playing well, because it’s a challenge.”NOTES: RB/PR Darren Sproles will not play against the Buccaneers because of a hamstring injury sustained in practice Thursday. WR Alshon Jeffery (shoulder) and QB Carson Wentz (knee) also won’t play. WR Shelton Gibson (knee) is questionable.___More AP NFL: https://apnews.com/tag/NFL and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL
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Food Allergy Lawsuits on the Menu
By: Charles W. Spitz
As awareness surrounding food allergies has steadily increased over the past 10 years, restaurants and the food industry have seen a corresponding rise in food allergy-related lawsuits. This comes as private insurers saw “claim lines with diagnoses of anaphylactic food reactions rise 377 percent from 2007 to 2016,” according to a recent study by Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE).
As dining guests with food allergies increasingly request food to accommodate their needs, the foodservice and hospitality industries face liability should they unknowingly serve a triggering ingredient or fail to label their food choices accurately and obviously. This heightened awareness also means that juries have a better understanding of food allergies – and may be more sympathetic to plaintiffs than ever before.
Recent cases offer examples of the types of claims that have steadily increased and serve as a reminder to the foodservice and hospitality industries that they must be vigilant when being asked to accommodate special dietary requests.
In J.D. v. Colonial Williamsburg, No. 18-1725 (4th Cir. May 31, 2019), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently examined whether a child with a severe gluten allergy should be allowed to bring a homemade gluten-free meal into a restaurant. In what has been seen as a victory for individuals with celiac disease or food allergies, the court held that it may be reasonable and necessary for an individual who has a disability due to a medically diagnosed diet – such as gluten intolerance or food allergies – to bring their own food into a restaurant.
The case was brought by an eleven year old boy who was on a school trip to Colonial Williamsburg in May 2017, where the class was scheduled to make a visit to Shields Tavern, which offers an authentic 18th century experience with costumed actors and musicians. Because J.D. is diagnosed as having “either celiac disease or non-celiac gluten sensitivity,” his family routinely prepares him with separate, homemade meals when he dines in restaurants. Celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder which causes problems in the small intestine when gluten, a protein in wheat, rye, barley and triticale products, is consumed.
Shields Tavern refused the father’s request that J.D. be allowed to eat his own food inside the restaurant stating that it was a health code violation and instead offered to prepare him a gluten-free meal in the kitchen. J.D. declined their request because he “didn’t trust the restaurant to safely prepare his food.”1 J.D. ultimately left the restaurant in tears and ate his homemade meal outside.
J.D.’s father brought suit against the owner and operator of Shields Tavern, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, alleging that it discriminated against J.D. by keeping him out of the restaurant and failing to provide him with a reasonable accommodation in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Rehabilitation Act, and the Virginians with Disabilities Act.2
The district court granted the restaurant’s Motion for Summary Judgment, reasoning “that J.D.’s request to bring his homemade meal inside Shields Tavern was not a ‘necessary’ modification under the ADA because the gluten-free meal offered by Shields Tavern would have provided J.D. with full and equal enjoyment of the restaurant.”
The family appealed the ruling and in a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit reversed the granting of summary judgment and remanded the case back to the district court for a jury trial. The majority opinion contains crucial interpretations of the ADA and the companion ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA) with respect to the disability rights of those with medically necessary diets.
The majority noted that the ADA requires that individuals with disabilities must not face discrimination “in the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations of any place of public accommodation.” The ruling highlighted that for J.D. the accommodation was necessary since he had become ill on several prior occasions from consuming trace amounts of gluten from meals that were deemed to be “gluten-free” restaurant food.
The ADAAA provides that the definition of “disability” includes a condition that “substantially limits the ability of an individual to perform a major life activity as compared to most people in the general population.” The majority confirmed that “eating is a major life activity.” juncture
While the ultimate issues in the case will be decided by a jury, the case serves as a cautionary tale for the hospitality industry. Even if the jury finds that the restaurant did not discriminate against J.D., the words authored by Judge Albert Diaz in his dissenting opinion may prove to be prophetic. He concludes: “The majority holds that forcing restaurants to give up control over the food they serve is a perfectly reasonable thing to do. While the majority claims its analysis is “individualized,” Maj. Op. at 13, the real-world consequences of its ruling are sweeping in effect. Even restaurants which, like the Tavern, have made indisputably rigorous and wholly commendable efforts to prepare gluten-free meals and thereby accommodate people with J.D.’s disability are strung up. Only in the judicial monastery could this impractical and unworkable requirement hatch. While the holding here is not the end of the matter—Colonial Williamsburg may well prevail at trial—it has the flavor of a de facto per se rule: Restaurants must either allow patrons to consume food prepared outside their premises or must justify their refusal at a costly trial. In practice, I suspect many will forgo the litigation and simply fold the tent. Thus do we bid a rule whose health and safety benefits are self-evident farewell.”
In another recent action, a California man filed suit against Xanterra Parks & Resorts, the owner and operator of the El Torvar Hotel, alleging that he suffered a permanent injury after consuming French onion soup at the hotel restaurant that a chef assured him was gluten free. According to the complaint, Todd Serlin, who suffers from Celiac disease, was a guest at the El Torvar Hotel and had dinner at the hotel’s restaurant. Mr. Serlin questioned the waitress several times to confirm that the French onion soup on the menu could be prepared gluten-free. The waitress assured him that the soup could be made gluten-free by removing the crouton. She added that a portion of the kitchen was reserved for preparing foods for patrons with food allergies, such as celiac disease.
Mr. Serlin asked the waitress to confirm with the chef that there was no gluten in the base of the soup. He was once again assured that the soup was, in fact, gluten free. Based upon these repeated assurances, Mr. Serlin ordered the soup and became ill within a few hours of eating his meal. It was later determined that the restaurant served him food that contained gluten.
Mr. Serlin filed suit against the restaurant alleging that it was negligent in serving him food which contained gluten. The case is still pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona.
Food allergy lawsuits are not restricted to those afflicted with Celiac disease. Earlier this year, a California man, who has a severe nut allergy, filed suit against celebrity chef Jose Andres after suffering a severe allergic reaction while eating at The Bazaar by Jose Andres located in Miami, Florida. Prior to arriving at the restaurant, Jason Reid’s travel planner had alerted the restaurant by email of Mr. Reid’s severe allergies to peanuts and nuts. Upon arriving at the restaurant, Mr. Reid reminded his server of his allergy restrictions. Despite his warnings, Mr. Reid alleges that he began to experience symptoms of a severe allergic reaction after he took the first bite from a tasting menu. He approached the server and asked if there were nuts in the food, which the restaurant staff denied. After his throat began to swell and he had difficulty breathing he self-administered his epinephrine auto-injector and went to the hospital.
The lawsuit alleges that the restaurant failed to properly train its staff regarding food allergies, failed to properly maintain the food, negligently served Mr. Reid nuts despite being repeatedly advised of his allergy and failed to properly warn him of the allergen in his dish.
In an interview given to Allergic Living magazine, Mr. Reid expressed frustration with the way his situation was handled by the restaurant staff. “They were jerks to me…It’s just scary how apathetic people are towards food allergies.” Reid stressed that his lawsuit is not about the money, as he has vowed to donate any recovery to charity. Rather, he hopes that his lawsuit will raise awareness about food safety at restaurants.
These cases serve as a stark reminder that the food service and hospitality industries must be vigilant with handling food allergy needs and accommodations. Food allergy lawsuits can be time consuming, costly and bring irreparable harm to an establishment’s reputation. To protect the well-being of their guests and limit potential financial and reputational damage, establishments should:
Properly train and empower staff with knowledge to handle situations that arise with food allergies. The server should ask the guests about any special dietary restrictions which would allow the restaurant to learn about any needs and answer questions the guest may have about how the food is prepared.
Label their menus with accurate allergen information and provide an alternative menu for guests with food allergies to provide patrons assurances that the kitchen is trained to handle food allergies and can accommodate their allergy needs in a safe manner.
Consider including information on its website about how it handles and accommodates allergy needs so a guest can determine whether it is safe to dine with them in advance.
1 J.D.’s concerns may not be unfounded as a May 2019 study published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology revealed that thirty-two percent of restaurant foods labeled gluten-free do, in fact, contain gluten.
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Readers sound off on topics from recent issues.
On the Level
There seems to be no end to the articles about the image of the profession. Mr. Foster's is another in a long line [that has] included some new ideas, at least ones I had not heard. My belief is [that] the poor image of the profession is long-standing and we continue to deserve it. I recently read a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson on the poor layout of the streets in Boston. He [wrote]: "People say Boston was laid out by cows; well, there are worse surveyors."
It is my belief that there are far too many incompetent surveyors in the profession and we do little to change the situation. [Here are a] few examples from my 25 years of work in three states:
1. I worked in two subdivisions done by the same person in which every lot with a curved side did not close.
2. I have run into six cases of multiple monuments in my career. The worst was in a common driveway/ entrance way for two car dealerships. The common point on the street line had six monuments. Why three let alone six? What can the client think? On another job a corner that was a non common corner on an abutting lot had four monuments, two of which were set by the same company. They used unique monuments so you could always tell their work.
3. While working in one county, I used eight or 10 plats produced by one surveyor. Every one contained an error. In talking to other surveyors in the county, they all agreed he did very poor work. One went as far as to say he did not believe the man had ever done a survey correctly.
To my knowledge all of these men are still practicing and have never had a complaint [made] against them with the state board. Until the standards for entrance into the profession are raised to a reasonable standard we will get what we deserve.
Paul Boucher, PLS
The Academic Angle
In the July issue, columnist Mickie Warwick, PLS, answers the question "Are the right questions being asked on the NCEES exam?" with these two questions: "Can a four-degree alone produce a qualified surveyor?" Answer: "Absolutely not!" and "Can apprenticeship alone produce a qualified surveyor?" Answer: "Absolutely not!"
Aside from the rest of the article being peppered with contradictions and bet hedging, let's just focus on the word "Absolutely." Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary defines "absolute" as "free from imperfection" or "having no restriction, exception or qualification." Or more simply and basically, it is generally understood to mean "without exception."
Granted, one might have to engage in a rigorous search to find a surveyor who was professionally "qualified" the moment he stripped off his cap and gown. But it's not necessarily impossible. So I'll simply offer a verdict of "Not Proven" on Count One.
However, on Count Two, the allegations are more serious. It flies in the face of easily available facts. There are literally thousands of practicing professional surveyors who became licensed through apprenticeship programs of one sort or another. Is she accusing them all of being unqualified? That assertion is almost absolutely ridiculous on its face.
Words like "absolutely" are fraught with a high element of risk when applied to surveying. More often than not, the answer is "It depends." In this case, it depends on the quality of the individual, the educational program or the apprenticeship. So while I applaud Ms. Warwick's zeal to promote the education of the working surveyor, I find her a bit shortsighted in terms of the grand scheme of things. She says her program graduates "about 12 students a year." Unless there are other comparable programs available in her state, that number seems a touch small to support the needs of the surveying community for an entire state.
So, even in a perfect world, I find her wrong on both counts.
Greg Shoults, "apprenticed" RPLS
Mickie Warwick responds:
The surveyors that I respect and admire come about equally from four-year degree programs, two-year degree programs and the "apprenticeship" route to licensure. However, I primarily deal with people just starting in the profession, so I have to think about the future-the future of the profession and the future of the students. The scope of work they will be asked to do and the technology available to do it are rapidly growing in magnitude and complexity. The definition to be concerned with is the definition of surveying. It is changing. Those with a strong background in English, math, science, computer science and GIS, in addition to surveying specific topics, will be better equipped to deal with those changes.
There are two surveying programs in Arkansas, one at the University of Arkansas Community College at Morrilton (a two-year degree) and one at the University of Arkansas at Monticello (with two- and four-year degree options). While the demand for surveyors is still strong here, we are in much better shape than many states regarding young people entering the profession.
While reading through the July issue, the cover story was kind of neat and everything, but I especially liked what Mickie Warwick wrote about concerning formal education versus experience. I liked her approach to the issues surrounding education and experience in that she did not make any attempt at condemning either of them. However, as surveying technology keeps advancing at a record pace, the need for continuing education is always a given. The author also makes a good case in point about hiring someone with four years of experience plus the education over someone with experience only. Ms. Warwick does make it clear, though, that no amount of classroom theory can ever replace the actual field experience.
In years past, anyone with experience as an instrument person, rodperson, survey crew chief, or draftsperson could certainly move forward into becoming a professional land surveyor. Today, with more stringent standards for state licensure, education is becoming more and more mandatory.
With surveying, Education + Experience = Success. Whichever variable they may lean more toward, it's great to see experienced professionals like Ms. Warwick set aside their time and efforts to help educate the future professionals of the surveying industry. Education is, without a doubt, the most critical component for the future success of surveying whether it be for an individual or the industry as a whole. I can tell you from my experience as a student that some of surveying's most experienced veterans make for the very best instructors.
Bob Baudendistel
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Ex-RNC chairman: ‘Trump is wetting his pants’
Former Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman (2009-2011) Michael Steele on Monday mocked the GOP’s response to a whistleblower complaint that led to the launch of a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, The Hill reported.
“On this particular day, the GOP decided on a new strategy to address the #WhistleblowerComplaint,” Steele tweeted, at 10:16 a.m. (ET), posting a gif of a woman trying to sweep away ocean waves.
Steele, who is now an analyst with MSNBC, as well as a columnist for the The Root, also commented on an interview conducted by Fox News with White House Advisor Stephen Miller—who said on air: “The president of the United States is the whistleblower, and this individual is a saboteur trying to undermine a democratically elected government.”
To that, Steele tweeted, “What a load of crap. Yeah, Trump has been the whistleblower in his own Admin. Just stupid.”
Indeed, on Sunday morning, talking to host Ayman Mohyeldin on MSNBC, Steele said that President Trump’s constant tweets about the whistleblower showed that the leader of the free world was “wetting his pants a little bit. This has him nervous. There’s real concern here.”
After the president tweeted at 6:53 p.m. (ET) on Sunday that he deserved to meet his accuser and claimed that “they”—meaning the media and the U.S. House of Representatives’ leadership—“represented a perfect conversation with a foreign leader in a totally inaccurate and fraudulent way,” Steele noted that “flashing tweets” from President Trump were “his way of trying to get control of something he’s losing his grip on.”
The whistleblower tweets from Trump also raised concern in other quarters—from the “Deep Throat” of this impeachment case. Indeed, Newsweek reported that Andrew Bakaj, the whistleblower’s lawyer, said, “The events of the past week have heightened our concerns that our client’s identity will be disclosed publicly and that, as a result, our client will be put in harm’s way.
However, the Trump tirade continued. At 8:30 a.m. (ET), the president tweeted: #FakeWhistleblower.
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This entry was posted in Politics and tagged #FakeWhistleblower, 'Losing his grip', 'Wetting his pants a little bit', Andrew Bakaj, Ayman Mohyeldin, FoxNews, House, Impeachment inquiry, Michael Steele, MSNBC, Newsweek, RNC Chairman (2009-2011), The Root, WH Advisor Stephen Miller, Whistleblower, Whistleblower's lawyer worried for his safety, White House trying to find out whistleblower's ID on September 30, 2019 by Poll-Vaulter.
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Stacey Abrams wins big in Georgia
While the polls in Georgia officially closed at 7 p.m. on May 22, the window of opportunity for Democrat Stacey Abrams—the first black woman to win a gubernatorial nomination for any major party in that state—opened up, The Root reported.
With only 34% of the vote in that early in the evening, “everybody from the Atlanta Journal Constitution to CNN to Stevie Wonder” could see that Stacey Abrams’ 75% to 25% lead over fellow Democrat Stacey Evans wouldn’t disappear with a few more counties left to check in, The Root said.
The landslide had not been predicted. Back on April 19, when the Atlanta Journal-Constitution/Channel 2 Action News released their latest polling numbers, more than half (52%) of likely Georgia Democratic voters still had not decided who would get their vote in next month’s primary election for governor. At that time, roughly one-third of likely Democratic voters said they backed Abrams; with Evans attracting about half of that, or 15% of the electorate.
According to The Root, Abrams’ victory not only puts Georgia on the map but heals an unnecessary and overblown wound in the Democratic Party, just in time for what might be a nation-changing, midterm election. Abrams secured the support of the two frontrunners in the last national Democratic primaries —Senator Bernie Sanders’ (I-Maine) and his Our Revolution advocates and former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (D-New York).
However, the news outlet warned,”The work is only just beginning. There will a be tough race against either Georgia Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle or Secretary of State Brian Kemp [in November].”
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City Council Candidate for District 27 Al-Hassan Kanu (photo from alkanufornyc.com)
New York City Council candidate Al-Hassan Kanu believes the key to being a good city councilmember is to listen to the people of the district.
“Being an elected official does not make you a god. It makes you a father,” he said. “If you want to serve, you have to actually reach out to the people.”
And if elected to be the representative for Council District 27, that’s exactly what he plans to do, Kanu said.
Kanu, a career public servant and immigrant from Sierra Leone, is one of the six declared candidates running for term-limited City Councilmember I. Daneek Miller’s (D-Cambria Heights, Hollis, Jamaica, St. Albans, Queens Village, and Springfield Gardens) seat in the 2021 City Council elections.
As a resident of the district and a former aide to Miller and to his predecessor, State Senator Leroy Comrie (D-Briarwood, Cambria Heights, Hollis, Hollis Hills, Hillcrest, Jamaica, Jamaica Estates, Jamaica Hills, Kew Gardens, Laurelton, Queens Village, Rosedale, South Jamaica, Springfield Gardens, St. Albans), Kanu said he knows the district inside and out. He knows the people and he knows their concerns, he said.
Much of his career in government, first as an aide to the two councilmembers and then most recently as the Queens liaison for Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, was spent listening to the community and solving their problems, he said.
During his years under Comrie and Miller, he fielded complaints about trash not being picked up, abandoned houses, and the lack of public transportation in the neighborhood. He dealt with constituents who had tax issues or who were unemployed.
“For the last 15 years that I’ve been working, talking to people, these are the issues that they complain about,” he said.
As the city councilmember for the district, he would continue listening to constituents, he said.
Kanu said he believes housing is going to be a perpetual problem in the district and citywide. One of his concerns is with property ownership. Under Miller, he helped launch the city’s Foreclosure Buyback program, a program through the City Council that purchased distressed mortgages for one-to-four daily homes. The program was cancelled after President Donald Trump took office but he hopes to reinstate it, he said.
And in the meantime, he thinks the city should hold off on its controversial annual tax lien sale. If they go forward with it, small property owners will be at risk of losing their homes, he said.
“It’s only going to get us back in the same predicament that we were in a couple of years ago with the foreclosure,” he said. “Our community is struggling, our community is struggling big time.”
Kanu would also push to create a committee that vets mayoral appointees, he said. Many of the issues around basic services stem from the fact that the commissioners chosen by the mayor are beholden only to the mayor, he said.
“Our issue in our city is not everybody’s involved,” he said. “Most of our commissioners, most of the agencies that we have in our community, they don’t have to talk to me, they don’t answer to our councilmember, they don’t answer to our community members, they don’t answer to the community board –– they answer directly to the mayor.”
Kanu, whose family fled civil war in Sierra Leone in the nineties and moved to Southeast Queens, said that living and working in the district has taught him the importance of community and advocating for its needs.
“My responsibility is the same as yours: we must invest in our community to uphold our values and create opportunities for generations after us,” he said.
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How tech is enabling women to take control of their fertility with the Natural Cycles app
Understanding Fertility 2019
As the femtech industry grows, the pioneers of the revolution discuss the future of women’s health
Women’s healthcare is being transformed by digital innovation, establishing femtech as one of the fastest growing health sectors. Analysts expect the femtech market of apps, products and services, designed to improve women’s wellbeing, to be worth around $50 billion by 2025.
Natural Cycles is one of the leading innovators in this sector, creating the first and only app to be cleared by regulators for use as a contraceptive. In five years, Natural Cycles has grown from an aspirational idea into an international success, with more than a million registered users worldwide.
It works by using an intelligent algorithm to determine the fertile and non-fertile days in a woman’s cycle based on basal body temperature and period data.
Women’s health is a field that has been underdeveloped and under-researched; there is so much technology could do in this space
“Natural Cycles was born out of our own need for an effective, natural method of contraception,” says Elina Berglund, one half of the husband-and-wife team who created the app and recently voted by Forbes as one of the top 50 women in tech. “It was my husband’s idea to package the algorithm into an app, with the hope that more women and couples could benefit from what we had created.”
Using techniques she learnt at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, Dr Berglund developed a sophisticated algorithm that can analyse intricate patterns in body temperature, which increases after ovulation, to determine fertile and non-fertile days in a woman’s cycle. It takes a host of important variables into account, such as sperm survival, temperature fluctuation, variation in cycle length, ovulation day and length of menstrual phases.
To use Natural Cycles, women take their temperature with a basal thermometer first thing in the morning, at least five times a week, and enter the reading into the app. The algorithm analyses that data and shows either a “green” (non-fertile) day or a “red” (fertile) day, when couples should use a condom if they want to have sex.
“Gaining regulatory clearance for Natural Cycles as a medical device marked a key milestone for us,” says Dr Berglund. “In February 2017, we became the first and, so far, only app to be CE marked for use as a contraceptive in Europe and, in August 2018, we received clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration, making Natural Cycles the first and only birth control app in the United States.
“These regulatory clearances were not only based on our clinical studies, we were required to demonstrate that our processes were robust enough to meet high-quality standards set by regulators.”
In a 2017 study of more than 22,000 women, the typical use-effectiveness rate of Natural Cycles was 93 per cent. With perfect use, Natural Cycles has been shown to be 98 per cent effective. According to Dr Berglund: “This means that when used ‘typically’, in other words ‘on average’, seven women out of a hundred will get pregnant during one year of use. When the app is used perfectly, which means never having unprotected sex on a red day, two women out of a hundred will get pregnant during one year of use. It’s important to know that no method of contraception is 100 per cent effective.”
However, it has not always been plain sailing for Dr Berglund. In early-2018, the Swedish Medical Agency (MPA) began a review into the rate of reported unintended pregnancies among Natural Cycles users. After a thorough six-month review of Natural Cycles data, the MPA found the number of pregnancies to be in line with the published typical use effectiveness rate of 93 per cent and, in September 2018, the investigation was closed with no action required by Natural Cycles.
“Perhaps naively, I expected that if I created a product that could benefit so many people and simultaneously provided greater contraceptive choice, it would be welcomed without challenge,” she says. “I have come to realise that it is not that simple. We have received some resistance due to scepticism and misunderstandings around relying on a combination of women’s biology and technology to provide effective contraception. We’ve learnt a lot from all this. I now understand that if you do something innovative, there will always be challenges along the way.”
There is certainly growing demand for internet-connected devices that give women greater control over their own health and Dr Berglund has a clear vision of how technology can improve health outcomes.
“Within the next five years, I want to see data-driven solutions that enable us to make smarter decisions for our bodies and help us to take preventative action to support ongoing health and wellness,” she says. “Until now, there has not been a requirement for apps to comply with any regulation and Natural Cycles has been a key player in working with regulators to carve out these much-needed frameworks, and we have paved the way as the first contraceptive app to receive regulatory clearance.”
Dr Berglund and her husband Dr Raoul Scherwitzl, chief executive and co-founder of Natural Cycles, aim to take Natural Cycles to more women across the world, but they also see a role for Natural Cycles in improving the understanding of women’s health more generally.
“We have seen limited innovation in the contraceptive field. Women’s health is an area that has been underdeveloped and under-researched. What I hope to see in the future is more innovation, not only in contraception, but in women’s health generally, as there’s so much technology could do in this space. Natural Cycles will most definitely continue to innovate, and to follow our mission of pioneering women’s health with research and passion,” Dr Berglund concludes.
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Matt Segal
Originally from Miami, Florida, Segal left the beaches for the mountains of Boulder, Colorado. He has been climbing since 1998, the first years dedicated to traveling the US and Europe for indoor competition. After many successful comp seasons Segal realized there was more to climbing than gymnastic movement on plastic holds, so he ditched the gym and journeyed outside.
Some say if Segal hadn’t become a professional rock climber, he could have made a solid go at it in the world of used car sales. His level of enthusiasm for climbing and adventure is unrivaled. When pitching an idea for a trip, Matt’s voice creeps up steadily in volume, and his gaze becomes more intense. Then, at the crescendo of the proposal, he’ll explode with “It’ll be great!” A born explorer, Segal has a sixth sense for sniffing out obscure, wild rock climbing destinations.
He’s traveled the world, from China to Argentina, mostly focusing on establishing the most difficult traditional climbs he can find. Some of his proudest lines include The Iron Monkey (5.14) in Eldorado Canyon, CO, The Orangutan Overhang (5.14-) in Independence Pass, CO and Air China (5.13d R) in Liming, China. Recently he’s also collaborated with both scientists and photographers on National Geographic expeditions where his skills as a climber have proven to be valuable.
Segal graduated from Naropa University with degrees in Psychology and Religious Studies with an emphasis in Tibetan Buddhism. Even though not working in his academic field, he carries the knowledge he acquired in his everyday life. He tries to live by the words of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, the late founder of Naropa University, when he said: “The arrival of chaos should be regarded as extremely good news.”
Freeride Skier
Nat Segal
Born and bred as a skier in Australia’s Victorian Alps, since 2010, Nat has been traveling the world as a top competitor in freeride skiing events, including the Freeride and Freeskiing World Tours.
Nat is known for her high energy, adventurous spirit and driven personality. It is these attributes, as well as her proactiveness in the media and her passion for skiing that has found her travelling the world working on a range of projects. This includes filming with Shades of Winter (2014) and co-organizing and participating in the Shifting Ice and Changing Tides Expedition to Greenland, for which she received a National Geographic Young Explorers grant.
Based in Chamonix, France, Nat continues to progress her freeride skiing and ski mountaineering skills.
US Biathlon
Paul Schommer
Paul competes as a member of the US Biathlon Team, a winter sport combining cross country skiing and rifle marksmanship. In his free time, he enjoys mountain biking, paddling, reading, and hanging out with friends.
Backcountry Snowboarder
Forrest Shearer
Forrest enjoys adventuring in the mountains on his splitboard, where he believes earning your turns is more rewarding. He was originally a surfer from Southern California but made the switch to Utah for the backcountry freeriding. With features in Deeper and Further, Forrest is one of the best backcountry riders out there.
Griffin Siebert is a snowboarder from Park City, Utah. He now resides in Salt Lake City, UT and can be found splitboarding, and climbing around the Wasatch Mountains. Griffin is a senior at the University of Utah, studying Environmental Geoscience, and is a huge advocate in trying to protect the snow we all enjoy for future generations to come.
Kikkan Randall
https://www.kikkan.com/
Kikkan made her Olympic debut in cross country skiing in the same place that she was born, Salt Lake City. She has the title of best results by an American woman in both the Olympics and World Cup. In 2008, she won the World Cup, becoming the first American woman to do so. She also won the first ever US Women’s World Championship medal at the 2009 World Championships. Herself, along with Jessie Diggins, became the first US duo to win gold for the cross country team at the World Championships in Val di Fiemme in 2013.
Chanelle Sladics
Chanelle is a triple-threat with skills in snowboarding, surfing, and skateboarding but most often, she’s found competing on the women’s slopestyle and rail jams circuit. Not only is she well known in the contest circuit, but also has been featured in magazines and films. She’s appeared in Oakley’s Uniquely, an all women’s film, and Runways Films’ See What I See.
Outside of snowboarding, Chanelle enjoys yoga, spinning records, organic gardening, and promoting environmental awareness. She not only works with Protect Our Winters, but also with Action Sports Environmental Coalition.
Sierra Quitiquit
https://www.sierraquitiquit.com/model
While Sierra’s career as a model for brands like American Eagle, Lulu Lemon, and Nike rockets forward, her skiing is quickly and simultaneously coming into its own. As a professional skier, her recent moves to Discrete, Spyder and Volkl are defining her as not only one of the hardest-charging skiers in the scene but a respected representative of brands reaching across industry lines.
Griffin Post
Griffin grew up skiing the slopes of Bald Mountain in Sun Valley, Idaho. After competing on the Sun Valley and Hailey Ski Teams, Griffin made the switch to freeskiing in his early twenties. He went on to compete on the Freeride World Tour and won his second contest ever entered, the U.S. Extreme Freeskiing Championships. Although he has established himself as a major threat in freeskiing contests, he believes that his skiing is just a means to accomplish a bigger goal; giving back to people who are less fortunate than you.”
Megan Pischke
Megan, a pro snowboarder, believes the mountains, surf, and yoga keep her daily life in check through all the ups and downs. She has made appearances in X-Games, Warren Miller Films, and even has first descents in Greenland. For more than 16 years, Megan has been involved with Boarding for Breast Cancer (B4BC). She partnered with this non-profit to provided scholarships to her ReTreat Yourself women’s wellness experience for breast cancer survivors. Unfortunately, Megan was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2012. After undergoing treatment, she became cancer free in April of 2014.
Maddie Phaneuf
https://www.maddiephaneuf.com/
Maddie began skiing at the age of 8, when her family moved from South Carolina. She didn’t pick up a rifle until the age of 15, and hasn’t put it down ever since. Following her high school graduation in 2013, she moved to Fort Kent, Maine and trained with the Maine Winter Sports Center. There, she devoted all of her time and energy in becoming a full-time biathlete. Maddie is now a professional biathlete on the US Biathlon National A Team – that’s cross country skiing and shooting guns! When she’s not training, you can find Maddie rock climbing, and exploring the Adirondacks.
Mark Sollors
Mark is pushing snowboarding in every discipline. He can ride powder with the best, while still being able to hit urban rails. He has been filming in the Whistler backcountry for a number of years now and has been featured in movies such as Colour, Burton’s The B, Standing Sideways, and also in Burton’s SNOWBOARDING backcountry web video.
Doug Stoup
Ice Axe Expeditions
Doug fell in love with Antarctica 20 years ago on the first ski and snowboard Descent of the highest peak in Antarctica, The Vinson Massif (16,077 ft) Doug has pioneered the skiing in the Antarctic Peninsula and this is his 48th trip to Antarctica and his 28th to the Antarctic Peninsula. Doug has lead international scientific expeditions to both poles. As the founder and President of both Ice Axe Expeditions and the Ice Axe Foundation, he is an educator dedicated to sharing the profound beauty and fragility of our planet and continues to push the limits of human endurance leading disabled adventurers in the polar environments while raising monies for charities. Doug is an expedition leader, professional ski guide, environmentalist, humanitarian, father and husband.
Cody Townsend
From his first ski run at Squaw Valley at the age of 2, Cody Townsend knew he had found his passion. He spent his early years chasing legends like Shane McConkey and Kent Kreitler around his home mountain before being recognized in his own right as an up-and-coming big mountain skier. Since turning pro a decade ago, Cody has constantly pushed the limits of fun and adventure. From skiing what some have called “the most insane ski line ever” to adventuring in the Arctic and hanging in the backcountry with his buds, Cody embodies what skiing was meant to be: a journey of exploration and relentless passion in the company of friends.
8-time X Games Champion
Kaya Turski
After learning to ski at a young age in Montreal, Canada, Kaya quickly turned towards slopestyle. Fast forward 20 years and Kaya is now a seasoned veteran in ski slopestyle. She has won major events such as the 2013 World Championships, the Winter X-Games, and the Winter Dew Tour. Currently, she holds more gold medals in X-Games than any other skier. Outside of skiing, Kaya spends time training on the trampoline, working out, doing yoga, and slack lining. She is also pursuing a degree in sports psychology.
Drew Petersen is a passionate skier, lover of the mountains, and eater of burritos. Originally from Silverthorne, Colorado, Drew now calls the Wasatch Mountains of Utah home. He enjoys all aspects of skiing, from deep powder and multi-day missions in the backcountry, all the way to ripping hard pack right up until last chair. Year-round, the mountains are where Drew is most at home, scoring turns in the winter and running in the summer.
“I’ve spent my whole life in the mountains, and ever since a young age, I have passionately cared about and have been learning about the realities of climate change. More recently, I realized that 20, 30, 50 years from now, when I look back, I want to know that I did something—even if it is just using my voice. We all have a voice, and that’s why I am joining POW, because I believe that POW’s unified efforts are the best chance at rallying the power of our communities and the outdoor industry to create positive change for the future.”
Leanne Pelosi
Leanne dominates rails in women’s snowboarding. These skills can be seen in films such as MissChief, La La Land, and a string of first place finishes in contests. She is also the founder and a featured coach in the all girls MGT Snowboarding Camps. Leanne has also been able to complete a Bachelor of Science degree while maintaining her snowboard career. Leanne spends her winters in Whistler, BC where the options are limitless.
Professional Trail Runner
Stephanie Violett
Minnesota born and raised, Stephanie now resides in Bend, Oregon. Stephanie has a passion for everything outdoors and a particular love for trail running. She spends most of her free time on the trails, training and racing. Her primary sponsors are The North Face, Clif Bar, and NATHAN. Stephanie also holds a PhD in Exercise Physiology and Nutrition, and works as a sport nutritionist.
Michelle started ski racing at Squaw Valley, California but switched over to freeskiing at the age of 15 to follow her real passion. She competed in slopestyle and halfpipe at the US Open and X-Games for a few years but decided to switch it up again and follow backcountry skiing. Michelle is now one of the best all around female skiers and has appeared in over a dozen ski films. Her segment in Matchstick Productions’ Superheroes of Stoke won her Best Female Performance at the Powder Video Awards and at the International Freeski Film Festival. A goal of hers is to feel safe in the backcountry and because of this, she’s launched a women’s avalanche safety clinic while being involved with the High Fives Foundation, a group that helps injured athletes.
Sarka Pancochova
Sarka began snowboarding at the age of 11 and developed her skills on Morava Pico, a mountain in the Czech Republic. She has early career wins at the Quicksilver Snowjam and the O2 World Rookie Fest. In 2008, she won the Horsefeathers Pleasure Jam and came in second at the Dew Tour the next year. Sarka qualified for the 2014 Olympics but took a bad crash on one of her runs. Since then, she took a break from competition and began filming in the backcountry, putting out her own snowboard series, Shark Tales.
Ski Mountaineer
Hilaree Nelson
https://hilareenelson.com/about/
Combining a passion for exploration, mountain adventures and skiing, Hilaree has travelled to some of the most exotic mountain ranges on earth. Her expedition career has led her to many ‘firsts” in the world of ski mountaineering including linking two 8000m peaks in one push, first ski descents in Baffin Island, a first American ascent and ski descent of Papsura peak in India and many more. She is an avid proponent of wild places such as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and holds to the philosophy that these places hold huge significance in the well-being of the human psyche. Recently named by Men’s Journal as one of the most adventurous women of the last 25 years as well as National Geographic’s 2018 Adventurer of the Year, Hilaree rounds out her athletic endeavors by sharing her many stories on stages across the country in hopes of inspiring imagination and passion in the people she encounters. Hilaree is also the mother of two wild little boys and finds her sanity in the San Juan mountains near her home in Telluride, CO.
2X Olympic Gold Medalist
Seth Wescott
After getting bored of ski racing at the age of 10, Seth switched to snowboarding and never looked back. He started competing in both halfpipe and snowboard cross events, but eventually narrowed his focus on snowboard cross when he got word of the Olympics adding the event. With two Olympic gold medals, one being the first in the event history, he has solidified himself in snowboard cross history. When he’s not snowboarding, Seth is surfing, golfing, or landscaping around his home. He is also a partner at a restaurant in Sugarloaf, ME, The Rack BBQ.
Meg Olenick
Meg is a Colorado native professional skier that learned to ski at Buttermilk Mountain at the age of two. She followed in her two brothers’ footsteps and began competing in slopestyle competitions. Known for her superior rail game and her style, she has put down some of the smoothest slopestyle runs. This has allowed her to podium on some of the biggest stages, such as X-Games and the Dew Tour. Unfortunately, Meg was plagued with knee injuries throughout 2011 and 2012 but was able to rebound and made the 2014 Olympic Team.
Steven Nyman
Steven started skiing at the age of two at Sundance Mountain Resort. He went on to become part of the Park City Ski Team and won two medals while part of the 2002 World Junior squad. The coaches were so impressed with his skiing that they entered him in a World Cup slalom event six days later. He finished 15th and progressed to becoming a three time World Cup Champion and three time Olympian.
Outside of skiing, Steven works on a project called Fantasy Ski Racer, which aims to connect fans to the skiing world. He has also become a host for the Birds of Prey race in Beaver Creek and the U.S. Alpine Championships at Winter Park.
Alex Yoder
Alex currently resides in Jackson Hole, WY as a Patagonia Ambassador. Attending summer school opened up his winter for riding and perfecting his skills. At the age of 18, he took a trip to Alaska, which set his career on the path it’s on today. He has won the North Face Masters Overall Young Gun Award (2010), was featured in the film ‘Manifest, and finished in fourth in the North Face Masters at Crystal Mountain.
http://www.andrewnewell.com/
Ski Team in 2002 and eventually progressed to the US National Team, competing internationally on World Cups and at World Championships for 10 years. He placed third in the 2006 World Cup, becoming the first American Nordic skier to do so in 23 years. Andy has established himself as one of the most consistent sprinters in the world through multiple top 10 finishes.
When he’s not competing, he can be seen pushing halfpipe and big air jumps on cross country skis. Outside of Protect Our Winters, he is also involved in Athletes for Action, an environmental activism program.
Ultrarunner
Luke Nelson
http://challengeofbalance.com/
Luke Nelson has spent his life wandering in the mountains. His father introduced to rock climbing at age 3, and backpacking shortly after. His youth was spent climbing, snowboarding, and kayaking as much as he could manage. He completed a degree in Outdoor Education at Idaho State University which led to work as a river guide in the summer and a ski guide in winter. After a poorly thought out bet he found running, and hanging around the wrong friends led him to running ultra marathon distances in the mountains. For several years he seriously competed in Skimo racing, a career that spanned 8 years, twice representing the USA at the world championships, and included winning a US National Championship in 2012. With an ever present desire for adventure he chose to focus less on the competitive scene and set his sites on adventure. He has since traveled all over the world exploring wild places on foot. Trail running has provided him an intimate connection to the land and strong desire to do what he can to protect and preserve them.
Filmaker + Snowboarder
Zeppelin Zeerip
noun: Zeppelin; A snowboarder, writer, filmmaker, and activist who doesn’t know how to ‘slow down.’ A Zeppelin can often be found amongst the peaks of the Wasatch range in Utah, on location for WZRD Media’s upcoming film The Heist, or holed up in a coffee shop writing.
Kt Miller
https://www.ktmiller.photo/Website-Content/Pages/About
KT is a skier and adventure photographer who captures images in some of the wildest places in the world. She specializes in human-powdered adventure with many high-level routes and first ski descents. As a media specialist, she has worked in the Arctic with polar bears and has hosted the world’s leading polar bear and climate scientists for large digital outreach initiatives. Her photography inspires others to take action on climate change, connect with the natural world, and become better stewards of the environment.
Alpinist
Graham Zimmerman
Thirty-something male. Heavy drinker. Of coffee. Sporter of Moustache. Enamored with alpinism and the experiences, challenges and relationships that come from it.
Born in New Zealand raised in the Northwest. After being exposed to alpine terrain in the Cascades he moved back to NZ where he cut his teeth in the Southern Alps and became a strong part of the Kiwi climbing community. Then, after graduating from university in 2007 he moved back to the states and has been focused on climbing as it applies to alpinism ever since. This has taken him on expeditions from Alaska to Patagonia to Kyrgyzstan to Pakistan and all over the lower 48 and Canada where he has established numerous new routes on rock, ice and snow.
Megan McJames
At 2 years old Megan learned to ski in Utah. She grew up doing many outdoor sports including mountain biking, hiking, camping, soccer and tennis, but especially fell in love with skiing! Megan is proud to have represented the United States in the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver, the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi and four World Championship events including 2017 in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Most recently Megan won the women’s giant slalom at the 2017 US Alpine Championships.
Ian started skiing at the age of two, learning to walk just two months prior. Growing up in a small ski town near Banff, CA, Ian knew exactly what he wanted to do with his life: ski. After high school, he moved to Whistler, where he and several ski friends would live for a year. Following a ski bum year, he traveled to New Zealand to follow the snow and his passion. Since then, he has competed on the Freeride World Tour and has been featured in multiple ski films. For Ian though, “It’s all about being in the powder.
Nick Martini
Raised in the east, Nick’s skills were soon noticed in ski competitions. He began seeing competitive results at a young age with the Alpha Dawg Award in 2009 as one of the top Dew Tour athletes younger than 18. He went on to make appearances in 10 major ski films and juggles being a successful competitor, film segment skier, filmer, producer, and CEO. Today, you will find Nick in Colorado, running his own company called STEPT Productions.
Devin Logan
Ted Ligety
http://www.tedligety.com/
At age 21, Ligety shocked the world by becoming the youngest American male to win an Olympic Gold medal in alpine skiing. He continued to dominate the men’s alpine circuit with five World Cup overall giant slalom titles and five World Championship titles. In 2013 Ligety became the first man in 45 years to win three events at the World Championships, and in 2014 he won the first-ever men’s giant slalom gold medal for the USA. At the 2015 World Championships on home soil in Colorado, Ligety became the first skier to win three consecutive World Championship titles in giant slalom securing his place in history as a legend in his sport.
Ligety is one of the hardest workers on the World Cup circuit. In addition to being one of the world’s best skiers, he runs his own business, a company called Shred Optics.
Brody Leven
http://www.brodyleven.com/
Brody is an adventure skier from the flat state of Ohio. He chases winter all year from North America to South America, and has skied on almost every possible place on the globe. One of his biggest accomplishments is climbing Denali. Brody also is a photographer, social media adventure expert, and a prolific writer. Recently, he was featured in a Grit Visual video for testing his endurance by running the Grand Teton.
https://www.irislazz.com/
Iris has been a professional snowboarder for 12 years and has won contests in every discipline, from slopestyle to freeriding competitions. She shares her talent and love of snowboarding through coaching kids at High Cascade and Alpine Meadows. Becoming a professional snowboarder was her dream and she is living this dream through competing on the Freeride World Tour and exploring the backcountry on her splitboard.
Currently residing in Jackson Hole, she enjoys fly fishing during the offseason. She plans on continuing to follow her dream of professionally snowboarding as long as the doors are open.
Polar Adventurer
Eric Larsen
http://ericlarsenexplore.com/
Eric has been to some of the most remote places on earth through his expedition guiding and polar adventuring. With the help of Lonnie Dupre, the pair completed the first summer expedition to the North Pole in 2006. This expedition involved canoeing 550 miles through sea ice and open ocean. He went on to lead a 600-mile, 41-day expedition to the South Pole in 2008. In 2009, he would start the first part of his Save the Poles Expedition with a 750-mile ski traverse in the South Pole. Two months later, he would start the second part with a 51-day expedition in the South Pole that would be completed on Earth Day of 2010. He completed the Save the Poles expedition when he reached the summit of Mt. Everest on October 15th, 2010. This made him the first person in history to reach the world’s three ‘poles’ within a 365-day period. Eric aims to connect people to places and issues and because of this, was elected as one of Outside Magazine’s Eco All Stars in 2008.
http://antonkrupicka.com/
Anton Krupicka is a mountain athlete living in Boulder, CO. He has been competing in mountain ultramarathons around the world for more than a decade and is a two-time Leadville 100 Champion and two-time 50 mile Trail National Champion. In addition to running, Anton is also an avid climber, skier, and cyclist, using these sports to pursue mountain adventures in a light-and-fast, self-powered, often multi-sport style that requires a combination of fitness and technical skill. He believes that getting outside and exploring the natural world—especially those places in your own backyard—is fundamental to being human, and consequently, that it is incumbent upon us to protect those places for future generations.
Sage Kotsenburg
I spend most winters snowboarding as much as I can and riding as much powder I can cram in.
I’ve been snowboarding since I was 5 years old.
When I’m not snowboarding I skate, surf and MTB and basically try to stay outdoors as much as I can.
I want to ensure future kids can have the same conditions I had when I was growing up and to leave the world a better place than I left it.
Chloe Kim
The 2018 Winter Olympics cemented Chloe Kim as the female face of both snowboarding and action sports. Winning an Olympic Gold Medal and scoring a 98.25 on her third and final run, Chloe became the youngest woman in history to win an Olympic snowboarding Gold medal.
Prior to the Olympics, Chloe medaled at every event she entered in the 2017-18 season, starting with Gold medals at the New Zealand World Cup, Copper Grand Prix and Dew Tour, where she officially clinched her spot on the 2018 Olympic team. In January 2018, Chloe won Silver Medals at the Mammoth and Snowmass Grand Prix’s and, in the last competition prior to the Olympics, her fourth career Gold medal at the X Games, making her the first athlete to earn four X Games Gold medals before her 18th birthday. She finished the year by defending her title for a third year in a row at the Burton U.S. Open.
Chloe kicked off the 2016-17 season winning Gold medals at the Copper Grand Prix and LAAX Open, pushing her consecutive event win streak to eight. She went on to win Bronze at X Games and the first World Cup Crystal Globe of her career. Chloe finished the season defending her Gold medal at the Burton US Open.
During the 2015-16 season, Chloe won six Gold and two Silver medals. Chloe season highlights included defending her X Games Gold medal, becoming the first X Games athlete to win two Gold medals before the age of 16. Chloe continued to break new ground in women’s snowboarding, becoming the first woman to land back-to-back 1080s and score a perfect 100.
Chloe made history during the 2014-15 season when she became the youngest competitor (at 14 years old) to win a winter X Games Gold medal.
2013-14 was Chloe’s breakout season. The year began with a Bronze medal at the Dew Tour and continued with Chloe grabbing Silver at X Games. She finished the season with another Silver at the Burton US Open – all at the age of 13.
Chloe has had just as much success off of the mountain as she has had on it, being featured on Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2017, TIME’s 30 Most Influential Teens of 2016 and 2017, and espnW’s 2015 IMPACT25 list. In addition, Chloe has been nominated for an ESPY, Kids Choice Sports Award, two Laureus World Sports Awards, and has been on the covers of Sports Illustrated, Sports Illustrated Kids and ESPN Magazine.
Chloe qualified to make the 2014 Olympic Halfpipe team, but due to her age and IOC rules, was unable to compete, setting up her debut on the Olympics stage in Korea this year. Chloe’s first tracks on a snowboard were at the age of four and she began competing when she was six. Chloe, whose parents emigrated from Korea, now lives in Los Angeles with her family.
Jordie Karlinski
https://www.jordiekarlinski.com/
Jordie has been on the snow since the age of two. As a Snowmass local, she has won professional snowboard contests such as the Burton Euro Open. She has also earned a third place overall at the Dew Tour, third in the New Zealand Open, and an invite to X-Games Tignes. Other impressive finishes include a sixth in the U.S. Revolution Tour, second at the Mammoth Grand Prix, and finishing just outside the podium at five Olympic qualifiers.”
Jeremy Jones
https://www.jonessnowboards.com/en/gear/collections/this-board-gives-back.html?q=%2FTHIS-BOARD-GIVES-BACK&utmcampaign=branded%3Fcampaignid%3D1581818602&adgroupid=66345551029&creative=332629946850&keyword=jones+snowboards&gclid=Cj0KCQiA5dPuBRCrARIsAJL7oehuU3JdBxoxPHj_ZiQmf_eXz8NCoUa7w1D86Qy2zhf57WHldhl5MFgaAp-REALw_wcB
Jeremy Jones, the Founder and CEO of Protect Our Winters, has been a professional snowboarder for over 18 years and is widely regarded as one of the best big mountain snowboarders in the world. Ten times voted “Big Mountain Rider of the Year” by Snowboarder Magazine, he has starred in over twenty snowboard films worldwide. In 2013, Jeremy was nominated by National Geographic as an “Adventurer Of The Year” and a “Champion Of Change” by President Obama for his work fighting climate change with Protect Our Winters.
https://www.jonesdakota.com/about
Dakota Jones is a mountain runner from Durango, CO. He has been running trails ever since he found that trail running wasn’t nearly as competitive as road running, and that it might give him a shot at being famous. He still isn’t famous, but it turns out he really likes exploring wild places on foot. Indeed, this unexpected appreciation of nature has resulted in him doing all kinds of complicated things in order to try to save the environment, like taking a cargo ship across the ocean and being a pain in the ass at potlucks by not eating meat. Lately, he has come to accept that compromises are inevitable, and that the goal must be to choose which compromises to make and then work to reduce them over time. By working with POW, he’s hoping to utilize his ability to run fast on trails to promote sustainability and respect, which sounds like two things that wouldn’t work together, but which in reality are surprisingly interconnected. Please go follow him on Instagram and get all your friends to do so too. His self-esteem depends on it.
Born and raised in Pennsylvania among the rolling hills, and Amish folk in the Appalachian countryside, Josh learned to ski at Tussey Mountain outside of State College when he was three years old. Continuing to learn on the icy slopes of the Poconos until fifteen, he heard about snowboarding, and never looked back.
At eighteen years old, he committed to six years in the military as a Navy SEAL. During that time he deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. On his second deployment, situated high in the Sulaiman Mountains of the Hindu Kush, he was snowed in for more than a month, and was surrounded by dream lines. The need for shredding was renewed, and upon separation from the Navy, he promptly moved to Colorado. He soon bought his first splitboard, and again, never looked back.
Getting inspired by Jeremy Jones, he kept at it. To help motivate his fellow veterans to go out in the mountains, he decided to pick up an audacious goal, “Become the first person to climb and ski/snowboard all 54 of Colorado’s 14,000 foot peaks in a single ski season.” On May 20th, he accomplished that goal, and did so in 138 days. The itch still can’t be scratched, and he’s beyond stoked to join the POW Rider’s Alliance to bring more people out in the mountains, and maybe inspire them to keep peaks snowy the world over.
John Jackson
John started his career as a teen phenom in the park and pipe before redirecting his path towards filming in the backcountry. Known now for his ability to combine his park skills with the world’s steepest lines, his film parts are unbelievable. These parts can be seen in Forum Films as well as Brain Farm. John and his brother Eric also filmed a mini series with Red Bull called Brothers on the Run. They journeyed from Alaska to the southern top of Chile in search of snow and surf.
When he’s not filming, he runs a jewelry business called Jax Union, which raises money for an orphanage project in Nicaragua. He is also a talented musician, playing the piano, guitar, and mandolin.
Hilary Hutcheson
Hilary grew up near Glacier National Park in Montana, which gave her a feeling of connectedness with the rivers and lakes in the area. After being taught to fish by a friend down the road, she made the commitment to always live near the rivers. She went on to attend the University of Montana as a broadcast journalism major and then worked as a news anchor in Missoula, Montana and Portland, Oregon. Currently, she is co-host on a fly fishing show on Trout TV. She also owns a marketing firm called Outside Media that represents fly fishing, ski, and outdoor industry brands.
Through her involvement in the outdoor industry, she has become an advocate for conservation. Outside of Protect Our Winters, she is involved in Project Healing Waters and Casting for Recovery. She also enjoys skiing with her daughters, trail running, and volunteering as a fly fishing instructor for Glacier Anglers’ Fun on the Fly Youth Retreat.
Nate Holland
Nate was born and raised in Idaho, where he idolized riders such as Shawn Farmer and Damian Sanders. He would go on to win eight X-Games gold medals in snowboard cross. With three Olympic appearances and his top performance landing him in fourth place in 2012, he is looking towards PyeongChang in 2018. Most recently, he won the Olympic test event in February of 2016.
Nate currently resides in Truckee, California with his wife Christen and daughter Lux. Outside of snowboarding, he enjoys dirt biking, fly fishing, mountain biking and wakeboarding.
http://elenahight.com/
After first snowboarding at the age of 6, Elena competed in her first event at the young age of 8 years old. She quickly progressed and at the age of 13 she became the first female to land a 900 in competition. She is also the first person, male or female, to land a double backside alley-oop in competition. Elena has also made impressive finishes in the Olympics with a sixth place in 2006 and a tenth place in 2010. After winning five X-Games medals and wins at the Burton US Open and the Grand Prix, she switched to filming full time with the Full Moon crew in 2016.
Angela Hawse
http://www.alpinist007.com/About.html
Angela is one of the few female IFMGA guides. She was the 6th in the U.S. and one of few women to sustain a full-time career as a technical guide. She has led over 25 high altitude expeditions all over the world, ski traversed Lapland from Sweden to Norway, ski guides in Antarctica and led an all-women’s ski descent of Mt. Elbrus in Russia. She owns Chicks Climbing and Skiing, is an Instructor Team Lead for the AMGA and works as a guide and avalanche forecaster for Telluride Helitrax. Angela has a Masters Degree in International Mountain Conservation and is an educator and advocate of the environment with long history of service work and giving back. In 2011 Angela was awarded the “AMGA Guide of the Year.”
http://emilyharrington.com/
Emily is a professional rock climber and adventurer with major accomplishments on the USA Climbing Team. She has 5 US national Sport Climbing Championships and 2 North American Championships. Her passion truly lies in outdoor climbing though. She shifted her focus towards this and has numerous first female ascents, has free climbed Yosemite’s El Capitan, summited Everest, and has climbed mountains in Nepal, China, Myanmar, Crimea, and Morocco.”
Hadley Hammer
http://hadleyhammer.com/
For most big mountain skiers, powder, mountains and big lines occupy the entirety of their daylight hours and even dreams. Hadley Hammer does not fit this stereotype. Though she crushes the big lines with the best of them as demonstrated with her competition record on the Freeride World Tour, Hadley also happens to be a sommelier, gourmet chef, book nerd, showcase Mountain Athlete and climber to name just a fraction of her side hobbies. Growing up in Jackson, WY, Hadley was brought up in the mountains, spending all her time chasing her brothers around the Tetons. As college approached, Hadley recognized the benefits of a formal career outside of her mountain life though and and headed east for a B.A in Hospitality and Economics. After a few years working in the urban hotel world, she recognized a key component missing and headed back to her mountain base to achieve a greater balance between career and lifestyle. Cultivated by rock climbing and skiing before she could even walk, balance is the name of her game and now manifests itself in her big mountain skiing pursuits and complimentary lifestyle.
Simi Hamilton
Simi grew up in Aspen, where he grew his skills in a variety of mountain sports. From mountain biking to white water paddling to climbing, he had his pick for what to pursue. Eventually he decided on cross country skiing and remains one of the top sprinters in the world. He became a three-time NCAA All-American with two Olympic appearances, three World Championship teams, and a World Cup stage win. Simi enjoys backcountry skiing in Colorado when he’s not cross country skiing. Outside of his career, he can be found climbing and surfing.
Roz Groenwoud
In the first women’s Olympic halfpipe competition, Canadian Rosalind impressively landed in seventh place. She has also finished in third place in both the 2010 and 2011 X-Games. In 2012, she would honor her friend and teammate Sarah Burke, who passed away in a ski accident, by winning the X-Games halfpipe gold. She still carries Burke’s name on her helmet in all competitions. Rosalind would go on to win silver in the 2013 X-Games as well. Currently, she is studying math and physics at Quest University.
Joe Grant
http://www.alpine-works.com/
Joe Grant is an endurance athlete living in Gold Hill, Colorado. He has been running ultras for over a decade and has a diverse and extensive resume competing in trail and mountain running events around the world in places such as Colorado, the Alps, Mexico’s Copper Canyon, Alaska and Japan. He derives his inspiration from exploring wild places under his own power and is passionate about protecting these places for future generations.
Taylor Gold
Taylor began snowboarding with his sister, Arielle, at the age of seven in his hometown of Steamboat Springs, CO. Gold joined the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club after seeing snowboarding in the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in 2002. Taylor’s first competitions were halfpipe, slopestyle, boardercross, slalom and giant slalom at a USASA event. Since then Gold has had multiple wins on the Grand Prix Tour, a Dew Tour win, a US Open title, two National titles, and a 2014 Olympic appearance.
When he’s not on the snow, Gold loves to jump on the trampoline, skateboard and play guitar. He shares a condo with his sister in Breckenridge, CO.
Arielle Gold
A Steamboat Springs local, Arielle exploded onto the halfpipe snowboarding scene with podium threats in every contest. In 2012, she won two silver medals in the Winter Youth Olympic Games and not long after, won gold in the FIS Junior World Championship. The next season, she won gold at the FIS World Snowboarding Championships, bronze at X-Games Aspen, and first place at the 2013 Burton European Open. During the 2013-2014 season, she clinched an Olympic spot with a podium spot at the U.S. Sprint Grand Prix and a fourth place finishes at X-Games and the Breckenridge Dew Tour. A shoulder injury prevented her from competing at the Olympics but she returned strong in the 2015 and 2016 seasons with a win at the LAAX Open and a podium spot at X-Games Aspen.
https://carolinegleich.com/
Caroline is a professional ski mountaineer from Salt Lake City, UT. Her achievements include ski mountaineering the three highest peaks in Ecuador in one week, the highest volcano in the US in a weekend, and King’s Peak in a single day. She has received prestigious covers from Powder Magazine, Ski Magazine, and Backcountry Magazine, and also has been featured in Warren Miller Films.
Her passion for skiing has driven her to advocate for the environment, not only through Protect Our Winters but also through HEAL Utah and Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation. Outside of skiing, she loves trail running, alpine climbing, ridge scrambling, biking, adventuring, and working in her organic garden.
Clare Gallagher
https://clare.run/
Clare is an ultrarunner living in Boulder, CO. After studying the impacts of climate change on coral reefs in Bermuda and in the Pacific, Clare transitioned to the mountain realms where she races internationally (2016 Leadville 100 winner and 2017 CCC course-record holder), while also advocating for public land protection and climate change mitigation.
Pep Fujas
Whether it’s the alpine, backcountry, park, pipe, moguls, or groomers, Pep rips it all. This wide range of skiing experiences has created his effortless, aggressive, and playful style in any terrain. His accomplishments include X-Games appearances, over 20 film appearances, and traveling the world in search of snow. When Pep isn’t skiing, he can be found climbing, surfing, mountain biking, fishing, or camping.
Skiing is Pep’s life passion, keeping him strong mentally and physically, and never bores. He believes there is never a bad day when skis are on his feet.
Bryon Friedman
Bryon was born in Atlanta, an unlikely location for a professional skier. After regular family trips to Vail as a child, his family moved to Park City when he was 8 years old. At the age of 10, he made the Park City Ski Team and two years later he won his first ski race. He made an impressive 10-year run on the U.S. Ski Team with some World Cup results and national titles.
Since retiring, Bryon started a business with the mission of delivering ecofriendly ski poles called Soul Poles. Bryon is also an incredible singer songwriter. He has created three albums and was voted best new singer songwriter by SiriusXM’s Coffeehouse channel.
Marie France-Roy
Growing up at the foot of Mount Éboulements in Quebec, Marie was always surrounded by snow. Like most kids, Marie started on skis, but at the age of 11 she switched to snowboarding after seeing her older brothers ripping down the mountains.
Since then, Marie has made appearances in X-Games and the Abominable Snowjam, while still filming video parts. She has been awarded TransWorld SNOWboarding’s Woman Rider of the Year, Women’s Reader’s Choice, and the Women’s Video Part of the Year. Marie has also worked on a non-profit snowboard documentary called ‘The Little Things.’ Being known for her sustainable lifestyle, she focused the movie on balancing life with the environment.
Mike Foote is a mountain athlete living in Missoula, MT. He spends summers running ultra marathons in short shorts and winters competing in full spandex at ski mountaineering races. Mostly he just likes to move efficiently through big wide open spaces year round. His time spent outdoors has fostered a love for the natural world and a desire to protect it for future generations.
Kimmy Fasani
http://kimmyfasani.com/
Kimmy started snowboarding at the age of nine and six years later, she took home the title of USASA National Slopestyle Champion. She would go on to win this title for 2 more years. After graduating high school early in 2002, she moved to Mammoth Lakes, CA to pursue her snowboard career, while working towards her Bachelor of Science in Marketing. In 2008, TransWorld SNOWboarding crowned Kimmy ‘Rookie of the Year’. After some top ten finishes but no podiums in contests, Kimmy shifted her focus to filming with Standard Films in the backcountry. She filmed the only female segment in Absinthe Films’ After/Forever.
Outside of Protect Our Winters, Kimmy works with Boarding for Breast Cancer, LIV Bicycles, and Lululemon. Herself and her husband, professional skier and Riders Alliance member Chris Benchetler, are also co-owners in Mimi’s Cookie Bar, a bakery in Mammoth Lakes, CA.
Benji Farrow
https://benjifarrow.blogspot.com/
After renting a snowboard for his seventh birthday, Benji switched from skiing to snowboarding permanently and hasn’t looked back. In 2011, he was on the World Championships halfpipe team and earned the top spot for the US with a 12th place finish. That same year, he finished in the top 10 at the Mammoth Mountain Grand Prix and was asked to join the U.S. Snowboarding rookie squad. With a podium finish at the 2012 Burton US Open, Benji was moved up to the U.S. Snowboarding Pro Team. In 2013, his first year on the team, he finished in fifth place at the Burton US Open.
Kaitlyn Farrington
Kaitlyn, a former professional snowboarder, won the halfpipe competition in the 2014 Winter Olympics. She also won the 2012 Dew Tour at Breckenridge and the 2010 X-Games Europe. With an X-Games Aspen silver medal, the 2013 World Cup Bronze Medal, and being the first women to land a backside 900, Kaitlyn was one of the best in women’s snowboarding.
Unfortunately, she sustained a career-ending injury in 2014 during a video shoot in Austria. After getting an MRI, she found out she has congenital cervical stenosis, a spine condition she’s had since birth. She announced her retirement on January 16, 2015. Most recently, Kaitlyn has picked up surfing and frisbee golf.
Amie Engerbretson
https://amieski.com/
Amie Engerbretson is a lover of the mountains and the beautiful communities that dwell in them. Born in Tahoe and raised on the slopes of Squaw during the post-Hot Dog: The Movie era, Amie spent her first day on snow at 10 months old and has been skiing for the camera (and for fun!) ever since. Following in the footsteps of her former pro skier father, Jeff Engerbretson, Amie developed a unique set of skills and deep knowledge of the mountains. She’s been featured in motion and print advertising campaigns and published in international media outlets. From skiing to mountain biking to paddle boarding, Amie’s warm personality, infectious smile, and passion for exploration are present on her many adventures. She has a bachelor’s degree in Media Management from Columbia College of Chicago and is always looking for ways to bring involvement and professionalism to her athletic career. She is sponsored by Spyder, K2 Skis, Leki, Backcountry Access, Dalbello Ski Books, Marker Bindings, Discrete Headwear, and Mons Royal.
Tim Eddy
Tim has been riding a snowboard for 17 years and calls the Sierra Nevada mountains home. His preferred choice of travel is his truck camper and splitboard. Positivity is what gets him out of bed in the morning, and long days in the great outdoors are what helps him sleep at night.
Lynsey Dyer
http://lynseydyer.com/
Lynsey is one of the most influential figures in action sports. As a professional skier, Lynsey’s has starred in films from companies such as Teton Gravity Research, Warren Miller, Sherpa’s Cinema, and more. She has skied on 6 continents, won every big mountain competition she’s entered, and won Powder Magazine’s Female Skier of the Year. Most recently, she started Unicorn Picnic, a film company that produced the first community driven, all female big mountain ski film, Pretty Faces.
Outside of being a professional skier, Lynsey is also a graphic designer, photographer, filmmaker, TV host, mentor, action sports model, and adventurer. Currently residing in Jackson, Wyoming, she balances art with being an athlete, while still finding time for her non-profit work.
Lexi Dupont
http://www.lexidupont.com/
Lexi was first put on skis at the age of two and soon began ski racing. She qualified for the Junior Olympics while on the Sun Valley Ski team. During her time at the University of Colorado Boulder, she competed with the university’s freestyle team. She went on to compete on the Freeskiing World Tour and placed in the top 10 overall in 2009 and 2010. Another impressive accomplishment of hers was a 4th place finish in the 2012 “Red Bull Cold Rush” event.
Lexi has also climbed Mount Kilimanjaro to raise funds for children in Tanzania, volunteered for Beadforlife, and participated in a six-week volunteer program at M’Lop Tapang Center for Street Children in Cambodia. She also enjoys sailing, biking, surfing, climbing, hiking, and yoga.
Mike Douglas
Mike Douglas has been called one of the 10 most influential freeskiers of all time. He, along with the members of the New Canadian Air Force, pioneered modern freestyle skiing and developed the first high-performance twin tip ski with Salomon back in 1997. Since then he’s won dozens of awards for his skiing, and has more recently added award-winning filmmaker to his resume. His company, Switchback Entertainment, produces documentary adventure films and the web series Salomon TV.
Josh Dirksen
After leaving his small Oregon hometown, Josh headed to Bend to shred Mt. Bachelor where he washed dishes to pay for snowboarding. His passion for snowboarding has taken him from the Pacific Northwest to over thirty countries around the world. Josh has first accents captured by Kingpin Productions, RobotFood, TGR and Warren Miller. He won the Vans Triple Crown Big Air Competition in 1999 and 2000, and received a bronze medal at the 2000 X Games Big Air Competition.
Jessie Diggins
https://jessiediggins.com/
Jessie Diggins was cross-country skiing before she could walk, hitching a ride in her Dad’s backpack, pulling his hair and telling him to ‘Mush!’ The apple didn’t fall far from the tree, and by three years old she was on skis of her own, sharing Dad’s passion for the sport. Little did they know at the time that a ferocious, ground-breaking competitor was in the making.
Jessie is known for two things, being able to “go deep into the pain cave”, ski-speak for pushing herself to the edge and beyond, and doing it with style, with a smile and with sparkles. Jessie began the team’s tradition of painting their faces on race day and finishing it up with a dusting of sparkles.
From Afton, MN, with a background in dance, swimming and soccer, Jessie was a nine-time Junior National Champion on skis. Within the senior ranks, she’s responsible for numerous American firsts:
•At 20, she was the youngest woman to finish top-5 in a World Cup distance race.
•In 2013, at just 21, she became the youngest American World Champion and the first U.S. Woman to win a Championship title (with teammate Kikkan Randall).
•At 22, she won silver at the U-23 World Championships, and went on to finish 8th at the Olympic Games in Sochi –tying the best-ever placement by an American woman at an Olympic Games in a distance event.
•During the 2015 season she ended a 33-year drought in championship level distance medals for Team USA by winning the silver medal at the World Championships in 10km skate.
•In 2015-16 she became the first American Woman to win a modern distance World Cup in the 5km skate individual race.
•In 2016-17 she won 5 World Cup medals & added both silver and bronze medals at the 2017 World Championships.
•In 2018, she and teammate Kikkan Randall became the first-ever winners of Olympic Gold.
Kit Deslauriers
http://www.kitdski.com/
After becoming the only women to have won two consecutive World Freeskiing Champion Titles, Kit redirected her career towards ski mountaineering. She became the first person in the world to have skied off the top of the 7 Summits, the highest points on the 7 continents. Her favorite skiing experiences were the first descents she made in the Artic National Wildlife Refuge of Alaska. She currently resides in the Teton Range of Wyoming with her husband Rob and their two daughters, Grace and Tia.
Alex Deibold
Alex fell in love with snowboarding at the age of four on a purple and green Burton Air 128 that he got for Christmas. He won the first slopestyle contest he entered. Alex has made the podium three times in the Snowboard Cross World Cup with a third and two second place finishes. In his first Olympic appearance in 2014, he won a bronze metal in the snowboard cross event. He is currently training for a return to the Olympics in 2018. Outside of snowboarding, Alex can be found mountain biking, backpacking, rock climbing, or surfing.
Danny started snowboarding on the hills of Michigan and eventually ended up on top of podiums with two X-Games gold medals in superpipe. He is known globally for massive amplitude and style in pipe competitions. He was voted 2006 Rookie of the Year in the TransWorld SNOWboarding Riders Poll and 2008 Snowboarder Magazine Top 10 Riders of the Year. Danny is known for reinventing snowboarding contests and making them more fun through contests like Peace Park. Outside of snowboarding, he can be found strumming his guitar or banging on a bongo.
Chris Davenport
https://www.chrisdavenport.com/
Widely known as one of the premier big mountain skiers today, Chris is also a two-time World Champion skier. One of his most notable achievements happened when he became the first person to ski all fifty-four 14,000-foot peaks in Colorado in less than a year. He has also guided and skied on Mt. Everest. He has over 30 appearances in films with companies such as Warren Miller and Matchstick Productions films.
Chris is also a commentator for ski racing events on networks such as ESPN, ABC sports, and Outside television. In addition to this, he has written two books and is a professional speaker on business and mountain sports.
Stacey Cook
Four-time Olympian Stacey Cook has been a member US Ski team for the last fifteen seasons. Stacey describes herself as resilient, relentless, and fearless. She raced just 5 days after a high speed crash during a training run at the 2010 Olympics that resulted in a helicopter medivac. Did we mention she’s fearless?! When not tearing down a race course on two planks, she is exploring exotic destinations, and earning her Business Degree through a distance learning program. She’s a big fan of mixing up her training regimen with long-distance hikes and mountain and road rides in the Eastern Sierras. Stacey is a big-time positive impact player in her community. A committed environmentalist, Stacey also fights the good fight by trying to reduce her footprint daily and as hybrid vehicle owner!
Johnny Collinson
Johnny grew up in Little Cottonwood Canyon with his sister Angel. It was here, at mountains such as Snowbird and Alta, that he found his passion in skiing. His father worked in the snow safety department while his mother homeschooled Johnny and Angel. This allowed for plenty of powder days. At the age of 17, he accomplished climbing the Seven Summits in one year while skiing three of them. Johnny has been able to travel the globe with film crews to ski powder in Japan, pillows in BC, spines in AK, and big mountain lines in Greenland. Even with all this traveling, he still finds time to return home to Alta to get in some resort laps.
Angel Collinson
Angel grew up in the employee housing at Snowbird Ski Resort, where her dad worked for the snow safety department. Angel, along with her brother, was homeschooled by her mother, which allowed for countless powder days. This lifestyle enabled her passion and skills to grow as a skier. After quitting ski racing at 18, she refocused her efforts into big mountain skiing.
Her love for the mountains and growing up in nature has led to her actively protecting the outdoors. She currently attends University of Utah, studying environmental law while still competing on the Freeskiing World Tour. During the summer, she rock climbs, kayaks, and even guides rafting trips in Glacier National Park.
Kelly Clark
https://kcfoundation.squarespace.com/photography
Kelly paved the way for all female halfpipe riders today. She is known for continually pushing innovation and amplitude in the halfpipe, allowing her to make history and set new records. In 2011, Kelly was the first female to land a 1080 in competition. Her 70 career wins make her the most decorated snowboard athlete in history, with one of these wins being an Olympic gold.
During the offseason, Kelly can be found biking, surfing, hanging out with friends, watching movies, or reading. She also helps run the Kelly Clark Foundation, which helps youth become successful through snowboarding. This foundation has awarded over $125,000 in grants and scholarships.
Cody Cirillo
Cody Cirillo is a professional skier out of Breckenridge, CO. He’s spent the past few winters competing and filming across the world, all the while attending the University of Southern California where he received a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science and Health. He’s passionate about bottomless powder, tacos, and the art of apres ski.
Jimmy Chin
https://jimmychin.com/
Jimmy Chin thrives in art and adventure. His career ranges from photography, documentary filmmaking, and being a 14-year veteran of The North Face Athlete Team. He has explored untouched places around the world, while photographing some of the most progressive athletes. From first ascents in the Karakoram mountain range to skiing from the summit of Mount Everest, Jimmy has made a name for himself in the outdoor community.
His outdoor photography has been on the cover of National Geographic and gathered recognition from Photo District News, Communication Arts, the American Society of Magazine Editors and the Lowell Thomas Journalism Awards. He shot and directed documentaries and commercial projects for The North Face, Pirelli, Apple, National Geographic, Working Title, and RSA Films. His recent film, Meru, won the Audience Choice Award at the Sundance 2015 Film Festival.
Callan Chythlook-Sifsof
Callan was born in Bristol Bay, AK, an area only accessible by air or boat. It was in 2007 that she would emerge from this wilderness and win her first VISA U.S. Snowboardcross Championship. She also took third place in the first world cup of her career the same year. Callan was plagued by an injury in the 2009 season but was still focused on her dream of making the 2010 Olympic Team. This dream would come true a year later when she became the first-ever native Alaskan to do so. Her other accomplishments include a silver in X-Games and return to the World Cup podium.
Sage Cattabriga-Alosa
Sage is one of the best-known skiers in the film industry and has the record to back it up. He won Best Male Performance from Powder Magazine in 2004, 2009, and 2011. Every year, Sage works with Teton Gravity Research to produce annual movies, webisodes, and commercial content. Not only is Sage passionate about skiing, but also sustainability, living well, mountain biking, and art.
Through his artistic talents, he produces graphic designs for musicians, designers, and companies such as The North Face and Atomic. Between living in Utah’s snowy winters and Portland Oregon’s hot summers, both his passions in art and the outdoors are able to thrive.
David Carrier-Porcheron
Also known as DCP, David is a professional snowboarder from Quebec, Canada. After riding for Burton Snowboards for 14 years, he started YES snowboards with Romain de Marchi, JP Solberg, and JMZ. DCP is married to former pro snowboarder Megan Pischke, and they have one daughter and one son
Julian Carr
http://juliancarr.squarespace.com/
Julian Carr is known for hitting the biggest cliffs in skiing, with a world record of 210 feet. He has been featured in seven Warren Miller films, received Powder Magazine’s Photo of the Year, won the Sickbird Award on the Freeskiing World Tour, and holds two world records in cliff height. Julian is also the founder of Discrete Clothing and a mountain running series called the Peak Series.
Kjersti Buaas
http://www.kjerstibuaas.com/
Kjersti Buaas is a professional snowboarder from Trondheim, Norway. She has competed on the professional Snowboard Tour for 18 years, and is one of few women who successfully has transitioned from halfpipe and slopestyle, to big air and freeride competitions. She has won medals in the Olympics, X Games & the Us Open & been awarded with many prestigious titles, one of them being “Queen Of Style” from Onboard Magazine. Kjersti is known for always adding extra intention into her style and presence, both on and off the mountain. With her positive, light energy, her enthusiastic attitude and growing passion for health, wellness and the environment, she inspires the snow community and beyond.
In 2015 Kjersti started hosting PRSNT women’s adventure retreats together with X Games medalist and TV announcer, Chanelle Sladics. Kjersti is still competing at the top level of snowboarding and recently started studying meditation. She wants to deepen her practice, expand her platform as an athlete and share the tools of meditation with the world.
Maddie Bowman
Maddie, a South Lake Tahoe Native, put herself into the history books by winning the first Olympic gold medal in women’s halfpipe skiing. She also has won seven X-Games medals, with four of those being gold. After a season ending injury in February of 2015, she bounced back in 2016 with an impressive win at the Park City stop of the U.S. Grand Prix. Maddie enjoys just about anything outdoors including mountain biking, hiking, wakeboarding, and backpacking. She is also currently enrolled at Westminster College, which helps keep her mind sharp during the offseason.
Mountain Biker
Casey Brown
Growing up the youngest of five in the remote west coast of southern New Zealand, Casey was quick to take to an outdoor lifestyle that included gathering edibles from the sea and forest, to wrangling sheep and chickens. Her family moved to Revelstoke, BC when Casey was eleven years old and with that move came bigger mountains. During her first few years in Canada, Casey pursued competitive freestyle skiing. Mountain biking was more of a hobby in the beginning, something she enjoyed doing with her family. Casey’s brother, Sam – an accomplished pro rider in the early 2000’s – introduced Casey to riding early on. She soon found herself shifting her attention to the sport. In 2012 Casey’s had a breakout year when she won the Canadian Championships, Queen of Crankworx and 6th at her first DH World Cup. These performances cemented her path to the World Cup Circuit. Many podiums and successes later she is focused on film projects and riding in Crankworx events. She is beyond fired up to keep making a name for herself in the freeride world.
Gretchen Bleiler
https://www.gretchenbleiler.com/
Gretchen is a 2-time Olympian and Olympic Silver medalist, World Superpipe Champion and 4-time X Games gold medalist, and has been inducted into The Sportswomen of Colorado Hall of Fame and The Action Sports Hall of Fame. She is the winner of the ESPY award for Best Female Action Sports Athlete and National Geographic Adventurer of the Year. She has done modeling, sports commentary, and has been featured in everything from prime time talk shows and national commercials to hundreds of publications worldwide.
Seeing the effects of climate change around the world pushes Gretchen to lobby on Capitol Hill, work with brands to design sustainable products, speak at events like the United Nations Climate Conference (COP21) in Paris, and serve on the board of Protect Our Winters and Aspen Center for Environmental Studies. As a leading female athlete, Gretchen also sits on the board for espnW in order to support their efforts in elevating women in sports. Since transitioning from snowboard competition in 2014, Gretchen is now creating a larger movement; inspiring the art of living extraordinary. She’s spearheading this through a company called ALEX that she co-founded with her husband, Chris Hotell. ALEX stands for Always Live Extraordinary and is designed to shift habits and consciousness for a healthy and sustainable world.
https://chrisbenchetler.com/
Chris grew up in Bishop, CA, starting out as a slopestyle ski racer, but quickly bailed when he realized he could ski powder for a living. Chris now travels the world and skis for Nimbus Independent, a production company he started in 2008 with Eric Pollard, Pep Fujas, and Andy Mahre. He’s been featured in films with TGR, Sweet Grass Productions, Warren Miller, and MSP in addition to being one of Skiing Magazines 2010 Skiers of the Years and competing in X-Games Real Ski. When he’s not skiing Chris is climbing, biking, surfing, and has been known to do a triathalon or two.
Hana Beaman
Starting her career in contest riding, Hana has since made the switch to backcountry snowboarding. Her accomplishments include three X-Games silver medals and numerous magazine covers, in addition to producing her own web series titled “P.S. with Hana Beaman” and a film called “Intervals”. Outside of snowboarding, Hana loves home improvement, real estate, architecture, and would love to be a doctor some day.
Skier & Mountaineer
Adrian Ballinger
http://www.adrianballinger.com/about
Adrian is Alpenglow Expedition’s head guide and founder, and has been guiding full-time for fifteen years. He is the only American to ski two 8,000-meter peaks, was the first person to ski Manaslu, and was the first person to summit three 8,000 meter peaks in three weeks. In addition, Adrian has led over 100 international climbing expeditions on 5 continents. Sharing the mountains with friends and clients is what Adrian lives for. In the foreseeable future, Adrian plans to ski, climb, and guide in the Himalayas, South America, Alaska, and at his home in Squaw Valley.
Freeskier
Ingrid Backstrom
http://www.ingridbackstrom.com/
Ingrid graduated from Whitman College with a Bachelor of Arts in Geology, and promptly headed to Squaw Valley, CA to live the ski bum life for a year. After entering a few freeskiing contests, Ingrid decided she had found her niche. Awarded Breakthrough Performance in 2005 in addition to being a ten-time Powder Magazine Reader Poll winner, Ingrid has appeared in films such as Steep, All.I.Can, Into the Mind, 6 Warren Miller films, and The Great Siberian Traverse. She has first descents in Baffin Island, Greenland, and the 20,000-foot Reddomaine Peak in China. When she’s not traveling for skiing, Ingrid is at her home in Central Washington where she spends time running, biking, and gardening with her husband and daughter.
Brittney Arndt
Brittney grew up in Park City, UT and is a member of the US National Luge Team. She was the 2016-17 winner of the Calgary Junior World Cup #2, and is a 2012 Norton Youth B National Champion, and 2015 Norton Jr. National Champion. When Brittney isn’t competing she loves doing anything outdoors including sledding, snowboarding, and rock climbing.
http://www.itsjamieanderson.com/
Jamie grew up with eight siblings near Sierra Mountain, where her two older sisters introduced her to snowboarding at age 9. Being home-schooled allowed her to be on the mountain almost every day. Jamie rose quickly in the snowboarding world, becoming the youngest Winter X Games medalist at age 15. Since then she become the first ever women’s Olympic Slopestyle Gold medalist, snagged 11 X Games medals, was named the women’s TTR World Tour Champion in 2008, 2011, 2012 and 2014, and the Winter Dew Cup Champion in 2011 and 2012.
Climber & Mountaineer
Conrad Anker
https://www.conradanker.com/
Conrad Anker is the leader of The North Face climbing team and a legend in the climbing and mountaineering community, where he is renowned for tackling challenging routes throughout the Americas, Himalayas and Antarctica, including multiple first ascents. Conrad lives in Bozeman, Mont., and sits on the board of the Conservation Alliance and the Leadership Institute of Montana State University. Conrad is also vice president of the Alex Lowe Charitable Foundation.
http://www.tommycaldwell.com/
Tommy resides in Estes Park Colorado with his wife Becca, son Fitz and daughter Ingred. He was raised by an adventurous father and mountain guide who taught him to embrace fear and doubt and turn them into inspiration. Given this attitude, Tommy has established some of the hardest routes in the country and free climbed 12 routes on El Capitan in Yosemite.
He believes difficult journeys, with little chance for success, teach him the most. This attitude is no better exemplified than by his first free ascent of the Dawn Wall in January of 2015, and his first ascent of the Fitz Traverse in Patagonia in February of 2014.
“I go into the mountains each day as a way to explore limits and self and to increase my love for the world we live in.”
Aaron Rice
Aaron Rice loves to ski good snow. So much so that in 2016 he broke the world record for most human-powered skiing in a calendar year; climbing and skiing 2.5 million vertical feet. He grew up skiing New England, alpine racing and making weekend trips up north looking for powder stashes in the glades. At the University of Vermont, he studied Environmental Science and spent most mornings in the mountains skiing into the backcountry. After graduation, he spent the next five winters in Alta, UT skiing as much as possible, culminating in the world record.
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Chapter 19: The Man Jesus
Jesus in the First Three Gospels
by Millar Burrows
Our review of the Gospels has shown why competent New Testament scholars have given up hope of writing a biography of Jesus. The nature of the Gospels themselves and the relations between them make any serious attempt to reconstruct the history behind them tend to resolve itself into a discussion of a series of problems, largely insoluble. A biography, moreover, involves an interpretation of personality and character. Many scholars are even more skeptical about this than they are about Jesus’ life and teaching.
From some points of view all this is not important. When stress is laid primarily on redemption by Jesus’ death and resurrection, his life becomes merely an interim between birth and death; and what kind of man he was is comparatively irrelevant. If the essence of his mission on earth is found in his teaching, what he taught is true or false regardless of his conduct or character.
The Christian church has never been willing to go that far. From the beginning the example of Jesus has been held up for imitation, although with the exception of patient suffering and love for others, it has proved difficult to apply this principle to specific situations.
Certainly any attempt to recover from the Gospels even a dim picture of Jesus should be undertaken with a sense not only of facing a difficult problem but of treading on holy ground. Much of what will be said in this chapter may be condemned as unwarranted "psychologizing"; but when a meticulous academic procedure has taken us as far as it can go, there is still a legitimate place for imagination, properly guarded. Everything that is said in the Gospels about the character of Jesus must be subjected to the same tests of historical accuracy used in dealing with the events of his life and with his teaching. After all is said and done, however, it will be the total picture, visible through the screen of particular incidents and utterances, that must be our final evidence.
There is such a picture. Through all the variations and uncertainties, the Gospels give us vivid glimpses of a definite, real, and extraordinary personality. After all, there was no sharp break between the ministry of Jesus and the experience of the church. The Lord of the church in the first generation was still the same Jesus who had lived among them and was still remembered. Colored by pious imagination, and perhaps also — God forbid that we should deny it! — by genuine spiritual communion, the memory was still there, and it is enshrined in the Gospels.
In the character of Jesus as it is reflected in the Synoptic Gospels, nothing is more certain or more typical than his devotion to the will of God. To fulfill the Father’s purpose he was willing to make any sacrifice, and he demanded the same willingness in his followers. The disciple’s eye must be single; having put his hand to the plow he must not look back; if an eye, hand, or foot should cause him to do wrong, he must get rid of it; he must even be prepared to hate those dearest to him.
Related to this utter devotion was the transparent sincerity and scorn of pretense or compromise shown by Jesus’ attitude toward the hypocrisy of the scribes and Pharisees and the complacency and lack of compassion of the rich. His complete commitment was also the root of the courage that enabled him to set his face steadfastly to go up to Jerusalem and to stand with quiet dignity before the high priest and Pilate. The conviction that he must do what had been written of him by the prophets was of a piece with his consecration to the Father’s will.
Throughout the tragic last events of Jesus’ life, except perhaps in the anguish of Gethsemane and the desperate cry from the cross (if it is authentic), "Why hast thou forsaken me?" the Gospels picture Jesus as accepting everything with patient endurance. When the writers of the New Testament hold up this aspect of his life for imitation, they make clear allusions to Isaiah 53. Possibly in applying this prophecy to him they unconsciously drew from it some of the colors for their portrait; but if Jesus himself did not see in it the divine plan for his own mission, it must have been the fact that he so notably exemplified these qualities that reminded his followers of the prophecy, or that reminded them of him when they read it. If later they went on to assume that he must have fulfilled everything in the prophecy, this could not have happened unless they remembered him as that kind of person.
The ultimate source of his devotion to God’s will was his love for his heavenly Father, with his consciousness of being God’s son. Not only did he say, as other Jews did, that the first of all the commandments was to love God with all one’s heart and soul and strength. In his life "the law appears Drawn out in living characters" (Isaac Watts).
The second quality of Jesus’ personality stressed by the evangelists is the impression of authority that he made on people. He spoke with a firm confidence that amazed those who heard him. The temptation story may dimly reflect a time or many times of doubt and earnest searching, but for the evangelists it was a demonstration of Jesus’ Messianic authority.
In Mark and Luke the first explicit reference to Jesus’ authority has to do with his teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum at the beginning of his ministry; Matthew makes the same statement at the end of the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus spoke with the conviction of immediate personal experience and knowledge. This must have seemed to his hearers either presumptuous or refreshingly new. The same sense of authority is heard in the characteristic and unique expression, "Amen I say to you" (usually, for lack of a better rendering, translated "Verily" — or "Truly" — "I say to you").
There is no suggestion of omniscience in such language. Jesus could be surprised. He marveled at the extraordinary faith of the Roman centurion, and at the lack of faith of the people of Nazareth. Several times he is said to have asked for information. "What is your name?" "Who touched my garments?" "How many loaves have you?" " Who do men say that I am? . . . But who do you say that I am?" "How long has he had this?" (referring to a boy’s epilepsy) "What are you discussing with them?" "What were you discussing on the way?" "Say to the householder, ‘The Teacher says, Where is my guest room, where I am to eat the Passover with my disciples?’" When he said, "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away," he added, "But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."
He did not even claim to be good. To the rich man who addressed him as "Good Teacher" Jesus replied, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone." Charged with exorcising demons by the power of Beelzebub, he said, "And whoever says a word against the Son of man will be forgiven; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.
This is a very different picture from the one presented by the Gospel of John. In addition to such examples of apparently supernatural knowledge as Jesus’ saying to Nathanael. "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you" (Jn 1:48), or telling the Samaritan woman that she had had five husbands and was then living with a man who was not her husband (4:18), the Fourth Gospel also stresses the "autonomy" of Jesus. Though he still says, "The Son can do nothing of his own accord" (5:19) and "I can do nothing on my own authority" (v 30), he will not do anything at the bidding of others but only on his own initiative and in his own way, as in turning the water to wine (2:3-4) or going up to Jerusalem for a festival (7:2-10). Equally characteristic of the Johannine Jesus and even more conspicuous is the series of "I am" discourses.
The Synoptic Gospels have two sayings that to some degree resemble these declarations. One is the "Johannine saying"; "All things have been delivered to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and any one to whom the Son chooses to reveal him." Following this in Matthew is the saying, "Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden," with the promise of rest, an easy yoke, and a light burden. In neither case is the probability that the saying is authentic sufficient to outweigh the evidence that he considered his own knowledge limited.
The authority of Jesus in the Gospels is not only a matter of his teaching; it applies also to his acts. In the synagogue at Capernaum, when the people exclaimed, "A new teaching!" they continued, "With authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him." When the chief priests, scribes, and elders in the temple demanded that he tell them where he got his authority, what they questioned was his right to "do these things."
The Roman centurion takes it for granted that because he himself is "under authority" and obeys his superiors, and his soldiers obey him, Jesus can order a sick person to get well and he will. Jesus did not keep this authority to himself. When he sent the twelve out through the country, he "gave them authority over the unclean spirits"; and they exercised it.
Still another form of authority is attributed to Jesus. The healing of the paralytic is said to show "that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins." This authority, however, is not committed to the disciples, unless it is what is meant by the power of binding and loosing.
Jesus’ authority is most prominent in Mark. The question has been raised, and it is a fair one, whether this emphasis, rather than being an authentic tradition, is an article of Mark’s theology. It may be both. The fact that it is important for Mark does not prove that he invented it. He may have underlined, so to speak, what was already an important feature of the tradition. And that tradition probably had a solid basis in historical fact.
The same emphasis is found also in Luke, including his unique material. In the temptation story as he tells it, Satan, showing Jesus the kingdoms of the world, says, "To you I will give all this authority and their glory." When the seventy disciples return from their mission and report that the demons are subject to them, Jesus says, "Behold, I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy."
One root of Jesus’ sureness in word and act was his insight into human nature. His parables reveal a close and sympathetic observation of everyday life: the farmer’s sowing and reaping, the shepherd and his flock, the house built on the rock, the leaven in the dough, the lost coin and the lost sheep, the father’s joy in the return of a wayward son and the elder brother’s peevish jealousy, the mother forgetting her agony for joy that a man has been born into the world, the workers standing idle in the marketplace because no one has hired them, and many other instances.
When the disciples argued about which one of them was the greatest, Jesus "perceived the thought of their hearts," as Luke says. There are many instances of his sharp insight into human nature. When he met a man who was sincere and dissatisfied with himself, "Jesus looking upon him loved him." Yet he saw right through pretense and sham. People who encountered him found in him a disconcerting clearness and directness of perception. When his adversaries tried to trap him with the question about paying taxes to Caesar, he at once recognized their insincerity. This incident and the other conflict stories manifest a skill in debate partly explained by the same quick insight into motives and thoughts, and partly also by a notable keenness of intellect.
His own thinking, so far as we can judge, was characterized by directness and clarity rather than analytical subtlety. He went straight to the heart of an issue, brushing aside the incidental details and insisting on essentials. This is evident in his interpretation of Scripture and his attitude toward traditional interpretations. His independent use of Scripture was a part of the contrast between his teaching and that of the scribes. He could cite proof texts on occasion in debate with Sadducees or Pharisees, and it is entirely probable that from his youth he had read and deeply pondered the Scriptures for himself; but his ideas were not arrived at by deductive analysis of texts or compilation of pronouncements by recognized "authorities." Without the prestige of official position, without the sanction of precedents or the support of respected names, he declared with the confidence of immediate perception what God would do and what man must do. No less dedicated than the most earnest of the scribes to God’s will, and to the Scriptures as the revelation of God’s will, he was indifferent or opposed to the traditional definitions of what the law required.
His perception of real issues and his sense of proportion are exemplified by his rejection of asceticism. This is vividly expressed in his comparison of John the Baptist and himself. The people who have rejected both him and John, Jesus says, are hard to please. They ascribe John’s austere way of life to demonic influence, but denounce Jesus because he enjoys eating with all sorts and conditions of men. They are like petulant children who will not join their playmates in playing either wedding or funeral. (Taken strictly, those who accept neither John nor Jesus are compared, not to the children who would neither dance nor mourn, but to those who complained of their attitude. The exact words, however, cannot be pressed. The piping and wailing clearly represent Jesus’ and John’s preaching, and the refusal to dance to the one or weep with the other corresponds to the rejection of both by the nation.)
The situation indicated fits perfectly the circumstances of Jesus’ ministry, and devout tradition would never have invented the criticism of Jesus as a glutton and a drunkard. It is unnecessary, of course, to suppose that these terms correctly described Jesus’ conduct. The fact that he did not conform to conventional ideas of what a religious teacher should do or should not do would be enough to evoke such opprobrious epithets.
The second part of the charge against Jesus was true enough: he was indeed a friend of tax collectors and sinners. The exclamation, "This man receives sinners and eats with them!" was no doubt a frequent expression of shocked surprise at the disreputable company he kept. His own answer to those who asked why he did so was that not those who are well but those who are sick need a physician. His conclusion to the stories of the lost coin and the lost sheep was, "Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance" The parable of the prodigal son rebukes the self-righteous, uncharitable attitude of those who like the elder son, do not rejoice when a lost brother is found.
Jesus could also associate easily and naturally with the rich and prominent. When invited, he dined at their homes. These indications, it is true, are found in the editorial and traditional framework of the narratives, but the picture of Jesus as one who "came eating and drinking," quite willing to join high or low, rich or poor, at the table, seems to be a fixed feature of the tradition.
He evidently had no fear of contamination from associating with those called sinners. This is not a fact to be documented by specific texts; it is an implication of the whole story. He was not afraid that his purity would be soiled if he came into contact with tax collectors and harlots, or that their impurity would rub off on him. He was not concerned that people might think this had happened.
So far as we can tell, with the exception of the charge of gluttony and drunkenness, no one ever said of him, "He is just one of them, and no better than the company he keeps." Instead, observers expressed surprise that he would associate with people so obviously unlike him. When he spoke kindly to a notorious woman, the Pharisee in whose house he was dining did not think, "So that is the kind of man he is!" but "If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him." Jesus’ attitude is notably evident in his relations with women. There is never any indication of self-consciousness or condescension when women, good and bad, poor and rich, approached him. He was not a crusader for women’s rights; he simply regarded them and treated them as people. How high his moral standard was could not be better demonstrated than by his declaration that to look at a woman with lust is to commit adultery in one’s heart.
We have seen indications of strain between Jesus and his own family, but also reason to believe that the division was not permanent. Whether he ever married we do not know. Some argue that as a normal Jewish young man he would almost certainly marry, but there were Jews who did not — witness the Essenes. If he did, it is futile to speculate about what happened to the marriage. If he did not, it was not because he condemned marriage as a concession to the flesh, or regarded it as a lower, less holy state than celibacy. He considered it sacred and permanent, and based his conviction on the purpose of God in creating man and woman. If a statement reported by Matthew is authentic, he said there were some who made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven; but this did not mean abjuring all associations with women. His friendship with Martha and Mary, his many recorded conversations with women, and the accounts of the women who accompanied him and his disciples and served them are sufficient to prevent such a misunderstanding.
A very likable trait, the love of children and the ability to gain their confidence, is shown by two incidents. The first is Jesus’ answer to the disciples’ question about greatness in the kingdom of God, when he put a child in their midst. It is interesting that there was a child there within Jesus’ reach or near enough to respond to his call, and that the child allowed Jesus to hold him while talking to the disciples. The other incident is the blessing of the children whose parents brought them to Jesus, with his indignant rebuke of the overzealous disciples who presumed to protect him from being bothered for such a purpose. He had younger brothers and sisters, and during their childhood he may have had to take the place of a father for them after Joseph died.
Another amiable and admirable quality, perceptible not in acts but in his sayings and parables, is Jesus’ love of nature. It was not a mystical, Wordsworthian communion with nature as a personified abstraction, but a more common, everyday appreciation of natural beauty and awareness of the life about him. Its most notable expression is the passage in the Sermon on the Mount about God’s loving care for his creatures. One can easily imagine that such thoughts had often occupied Jesus’ mind in his boyhood and adolescence. But the reverent pondering of his earlier years was carried over into his mature manhood as a firm assurance that, despite all appearances to the contrary, the Lord is mindful of his own.
In keeping with his love of children and nature was his concern for animals. There is not much in the Gospels about this, but he assumed that the owner of an animal would lead it to water on the Sabbath as on every other day; and if an animal should fall into a pit on the Sabbath, the owner would pull it out without regard to any rule of Sabbath observance. Perhaps he was better acquainted with practical farmers than with theoretical expounders of the law, though on this point the Pharisees undoubtedly agreed with him. The Essenes had a regulation that he would certainly condemn: "Let not a man help an animal to give birth on the Sabbath day; and if she lets her young fall into a cistern or ditch, let him not raise it on the Sabbath" (CD xiii. 14).
Attention has been drawn in several connections to another distinctive trait of Jesus, his keen sense of humor, manifested especially in grotesque hyperbole. In the light of such expressions it may be suspected that even the sternest demands for renunciation were spoken with a gentleness that took much of the sting out of them. This does not mean at all that he took lightly the sorrow and suffering and sin of mankind. Far from it. Even Mark never says that Jesus laughed or smiled. Jesus’ humor was of the kind that springs from a sense of proportion, a clear perception of what is important and what is not. In spite of the lack of explicit statements, the very nature of his sayings and acts themselves makes it incredible that he did not sometimes smile and on occasion laugh freely.
With all his utter sincerity and scorn of compromise, a rather surprising spirit of tolerance is shown by his disapproval when John the son of Zebedee reported that they had forbidden a man to cast out demons in Jesus’ name. A person who performed a "mighty work" in his name, he said, would not then speak evil of him. "For he that is not against us," he added, "is for us." He is reported also to have said, in a different connection, "He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters." The two sayings are not contradictory if they mean that every person is either for Jesus or against him, there is no middle ground. In the same context with the second statement Jesus asks the Pharisees, "And if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast them out?" He who said this might well say of a stranger who used his name to exorcise demons, "Do not forbid him."
Jesus did not react to all situations with humor or tolerance. One of the human traits that Mark mentions but Matthew and Luke pass over in silence is capacity for anger. In his account of the healing of a man with a withered hand Mark says that Jesus "looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart." This is the only place in the Gospels where the Greek noun meaning "anger" is used of Jesus. Apart from such direct statements, however, his words and conduct are sufficient to show that he was capable of blazing anger, which found expression in vivid, scorching language and at least once in direct action. It is true that he pronounced one who is angry with his brother liable to judgment. (In adding "without cause" the KJV is supported by many manuscripts and versions, but not the best ones.) The statement does not imply, however, that anger is never justified. If it did, Jesus would stand condemned by his own words.
The angry language he is said to have used appears especially in two groups of sayings, the condemnation of the Galilean cities that failed to repent and the denunciation of the Pharisees and scribes. If Jesus said even a fraction of the things attributed to him in these passages, he was a master of eloquent invective. In the first group he may have been expressing grief and disappointment rather than anger. This can hardly be said, however, of his denunciation of the scribes and Pharisees. Here, especially in Matthew, he voices a flaming wrath and withering scorn undiluted by sorrow or pity except for the victims of Pharisaic hypocrisy.
One act of Jesus, the cleansing of the temple, can best be explained, I believe, as an unpremeditated explosion of righteous indignation like that of an Old Testament prophet. We have noted other, more widely held views of it. In defense of my interpretation I will point out only that when Jesus the next day indirectly suggested that his authority was from the same source and of the same kind as John’s, he implied that he claimed and needed no other authority than that of a prophet, who spoke and acted on a divine impulse, reacting spontaneously to an immediate situation.
Sometimes it is not such fierce wrath but rather annoyance or disappointment that is manifest, as in some of the questions Jesus asked: "Have you no faith?" "Why did you doubt?" "How long must I bear with you?" When the disciples tried to prevent parents from bringing their children to Jesus to be blessed, Mark says, "he was indignant." Matthew and Luke, as usual, omit this reference to a common human emotion. The Greek verb used here by Mark expresses disapproval and displeasure rather than anger. When the Pharisees demanded a sign from heaven, Jesus "sighed deeply in his spirit," says Mark; and again Matthew and Luke omit the statement. We have observed that Jesus’ denunciation of the Galilean cities was evoked by grief as much as anger, as in his expression of grief over Jerusalem. So too when he looked around at the bystanders with anger before healing the man with a withered hand, Mark says it was because he was "grieved at their hardness of heart."
Far different was the grief Jesus felt in Gethsemane, when, according to Mark and Matthew, he said to the three disciples, "My soul is very sorrowful." Luke omits this, but a few verses later he tells of Jesus’ agony as he poured out the prayer that is the supreme expression of his dedication to his Father’s will. The evangelists stress this spiritual struggle in the garden much more than the physical pain he endured on the cross. What most of all caused his bitter anguish we can only dimly imagine. He had long faced the fear of death, and had set his face to go up to Jerusalem, telling his disciples that it awaited him there. Perhaps some hope that it might not be so never quite left him until that night in the garden. The desertion of those closest to him, and the treachery of one of those whom he had hoped to see judging the tribes of Israel, must have bulked large in his thoughts. Perhaps what was hardest to bear, however, was the fact that the whole consummation of his hopes, as he had contemplated it, seemed to be in doubt. He could accept the Father’s will; but he had thought he knew what God intended, and now he must trust without knowing. In the end, the Son, who knew the Father as no one else knew him, had to take his Father’s hand and step out into the dark.
Next to his dedication and the authority which it brought him, the quality of Jesus’ character that stands out most sharply in the Synoptic Gospels is his ready and sympathetic responsiveness to the needs of others. If on the Godward side, so to speak, the motive power of his life was devotion to God’s will, on the manward side "he was moved with compassion." It can be argued that the references to Jesus’ compassion like those to his authority, must be ascribed to the evangelists rather than the earliest tradition. Of the six places in which at least one Gospel speaks of Jesus’ compassion, not one reference appears in all the Synoptic Gospels. The fact that the evangelists all refer to his compassion, though in different places, may indeed be attributed to editorial procedure; but it also attests a unanimous tradition that this was a distinctive trait of his character.
There is some suggestion of tension between Jesus’ devotion to God and his compassion for men early in the story, when he goes out before dawn to a lonely place to pray, and says to the disciples, who tell him that every one is looking for him, that he must go on to other cities. The real tension, however, was between two aspects of the service of man to which God had called him. The physical needs of the people about him pulled one way; the inner compulsion to carry his good news to as wide an audience as possible pulled the other way. Moved as he was by the sight of distress, he steeled himself to sacrifice the immediate need to his wider mission.
Compassion was blended with insight in his readiness to forgive and to declare that God had forgiven. "My son," he said to the paralytic, "your sins are forgiven." When a woman anointed his feet while he was dining at a Pharisee’s house, he said to host, "Her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much." And at the end there is the prayer on the cross, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do."
Whether Jesus’ spiritual experience included ecstatic visions or auditions, such as prophets often have, is a very difficult question to answer with any assurance. The descent of the Spirit at his baptism can be so understood; but, as we have noted, the accounts differ in such ways that it is impossible to tell whether the Spirit was seen and the voice heard by Jesus alone or by the bystanders also. For him the experience may have been profound and decisive without being ecstatic; yet it may have been that too. Even the struggle with Satan in the wilderness can be interpreted as an experience involving hallucination. Fasting is a common part of the technique for inducing a trance. Altogether more likely, however, is a symbolic description of a completely conscious and rational inner conflict. The transfiguration bears a striking similarity to the experience at his baptism, but here the narratives indicate a vision seen and a voice heard by the three disciples rather than an experience of Jesus himself. The significance of the event is in any case much too uncertain to throw light on the nature of Jesus’ spiritual life. Another possible but uncertain instance of ecstatic experience may be mentioned. When the seventy disciples reported to Jesus that the demons had submitted to them, he said, Luke reports, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven." In spite of the shaky historical basis of this mission, the saying may be authentic.
Jesus was a Jew, not a Hindu. He was not a mystic in the sense of one who enjoys that "beatific vision" in which individual personality is absorbed in the undifferentiated unity of the All. There was mysticism in ancient Judaism: the tradition back of the Kabbala is its most notable manifestation. The characteristic form of Jewish mysticism, however, is the "I and Thou" type, in which the consciousness of distinct identity is maintained, if not heightened, and along with the feeling of communion there is also a keen sense of the distance between God and man.
If mysticism means "practicing the presence of God," then Jesus was a mystic. His praying is mentioned often by the evangelists. The children brought to him, Matthew says, were brought "that he might lay his hands on them and pray." Mark says twice and Matthew once that Jesus went out to a lonely place or up into the hills to pray alone. Twice Luke speaks of his withdrawing to the wilderness or the hills to pray, saying once, "and all night he continued in prayer to God." There are also five other places where Luke mentions Jesus’ praying. If some or all of these references express a special interest of Luke or of the circle he represents, they also reflect something that must have been characteristic of Jesus.
Such general statements do not indicate the content of Jesus’ prayers. Just before the prediction of Peter’s denial of his Master, Jesus tells him, according to Luke, that Satan has desired to win the disciples (the "you" here is plural), and adds, "But I have prayed for you" (here it is singular) "that your faith may not fail." Such intercessory prayer may well have been a frequent theme in Jesus’ devotional life.
How much use Jesus made of regular prescribed prayers is unknown, but he evidently followed the Jewish practice of giving thanks at meals. We have also one report of a special, spontaneous thanksgiving; "I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to babes; yea, Father, for such was thy gracious will." Matthew and Luke report this in quite different connections but in exactly the same words. It is entirely probable and in keeping with all we know about him that Jesus thanked God, perhaps often, for revealing to simple folk what the learned scribes could not perceive.
The climax of what is recorded about Jesus’ prayers is the story of his agony in Gethsemane. Here is a soul wrestling in bitter torment and perplexity, yet with unshaken commitment to the Father’s will. One word is preserved by Mark in the language that Jesus spoke, the Aramaic word abba. As he does elsewhere, Mark gives with the original word its Greek equivalent. Matthew and Luke give only the Greek translation. If nothing else in his recorded sayings could be accepted with confidence as the very word Jesus used, we could be quite sure that he used this word constantly in addressing God and in speaking of God. So great was the impression made by the way he used it that even the Greek-speaking church evidently continued to use it in worship, for Paul quotes it twice (Rom 8:15; Gal 4:6). Like Mark, Paul adds the Greek translation. Perhaps Greek-speaking Christians commonly did so in prayer.
According to Matthew, when the mob came with Judas to take Jesus, and one of the bystanders cut off an ear of the high priest’s slave, Jesus condemned the act and spoke of a prayer he might have made but did not; "Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then should the scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?"
The last prayers of Jesus reported in the Gospels are some of the words from the cross, which we have discussed in connection with the crucifixion. Of these the first and the last seem most in keeping with the other prayers that we have been considering. Both are reported by Luke; "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do"; and "Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit!"
In the picture of Jesus as we encounter him in the Synoptic Gospels, how much is tradition? How much is editing or interpretation? Each may claim many details, but in the aggregate the records reveal a real personality. Not only the lack of evidence, or the kind of evidence available, prevents giving a satisfying description of him. A sense of his incomparable greatness strikes us dumb.
After all, listing and documenting characteristics can no more convey a vital perception of a person than a face can be visualized through describing its features one by one. To get a clear and vivid impression of the man Jesus we have to live with the Gospels and let the whole picture take possession of us. When we do that, we sometimes receive an overwhelming impression of a person who almost frightens us. To me this has come in a few widely separated experiences. Such an experience, like the disciples’ Vision on the Mount of Transfiguration, cannot last. The splendor fades, because human nature is not capable of retaining it. Yet something is left that can never be lost, unless one becomes utterly unfaithful and estranged, and perhaps not wholly even then. Some day perhaps we shall really see Jesus, not as reflected in the dim mirror of our knowledge but face to face, know him as we are known, and see him as he is (I Cor 13:12; 1 Jn 3:2). Meanwhile we can at least try to see him as he was. That is all the more important if he is indeed (Heb 13:8) "the same yesterday and today and for ever."
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BURBANK, CA, August 18, 2016 – Warner Bros. Pictures’ action adventure “Suicide Squad” flew past half a billion dollars after 13 days in theaters around the globe, with a cumulative total of $509 million and counting. Having set records in its first two weeks in release, the film will help drive the overall August box office to a record high. The announcement was made today by Veronika Kwan Vandenberg, President of Worldwide Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures.
Kwan Vandenberg stated, “It is incredibly rewarding to see audiences around the world coming out in such a big way for ‘Suicide Squad.’ We have several major markets yet to open, and expect to continue seeing strong returns at the box office for the weeks to come.”
Sue Kroll, President, Worldwide Marketing and Distribution, added, “We’re thrilled with the huge numbers on ‘Suicide Squad,’ and to be coming out of an already highly successful summer with such a big win for our slate. The film is in position for another terrific weekend as our overseas expansion continues.”
The U.S. box office total now stands at more than $238 million; the international figure is $271 million, with the film opening in Germany this weekend and in Japan on September 10.
In the Philippines, “Suicide Squad” continues to dominate the box-office with current gross receipts at P276 million, and still counting.
From writer/director David Ayer comes “Suicide Squad,” starring Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman and Viola Davis.
It feels good to be bad… Assemble a team of the world’s most dangerous, incarcerated Super-Villains, provide them with the most powerful arsenal at the government’s disposal, and send them off on a mission to defeat an enigmatic, insuperable entity. U.S. intelligence officer Amanda Waller has determined only a secretly convened group of disparate, despicable individuals with next to nothing to lose will do. However, once they realize they weren’t picked to succeed but chosen for their patent culpability when they inevitably fail, will the Suicide Squad resolve to die trying, or decide it’s every man for himself?
Written and directed by Ayer based on the characters from DC Entertainment, the film also stars Jai Courtney, Jay Hernandez, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ike Barinholtz, Scott Eastwood, Cara Delevingne, Adam Beach, and Karen Fukuhara in her feature film debut. It is produced by Charles Roven and Richard Suckle, with Zack Snyder, Deborah Snyder, Colin Wilson and Geoff Johns serving as executive producers.
Now showing across the Philippines, “Suicide Squad” is distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.
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The Rowden Surname website
This site is dedicated to linking Rowden families and finding more about the origins of the surname. As I have discovered, there are many people all around the world with the surname and occasionally I have the very great pleasure in meeting them for the first time.
It is not known how long people have been using the surname Rowden - or its variant spellings. Some records going back to the 13th century indicate that the name was given to those who lived in an area described by the use of two old English words, ruh and dun.
Whether you are familiar with the spelling Rowden or Rowdon there is, I believe, little significance. Often different records relating to one individual will show both spellings. The individual may have been illiterate and not sure of how it ought to be spelt, although in many families one version was clearly used most. There are other close variations such as Rowdan, Rowdene, Rowdin, Rowding, Rouden; however they are not common. Although there are certainly more Rowdens now than Rowdons, I am of the belief that the name started out as Rowdon. To look more at the statistics select 'What's in a Name' from the top of the menu on the right.
Rowdens mainly lived in one of the four English counties shown here on the map. There were a few others dotted around in other counties but with the subsequent increase in movement of people away from their home areas the picture became less focused.
My family roots are in central Devon, England. At the centre of the county, in the civil parish of Sampford Courtenay, to the south of the Crediton to Okehampton road and just to west of the river Taw, is a small hamlet named Rowden. Here, there are a handful of houses with one formerly known as Rowden Manor. To the East of the small village is an area called Rowden Moor and a mile or two beyond that, the village of Bow. If any village in recent times, and here I mean the last few hundred years, had the most Rowdens in it, it must be Bow - alias, Nymet Tracey. Bow and its environs certainly outstripped any other place for the highest density of Rowdens living in one place in the mid-19th century. (For more on this see the census pages)
Although there was a strong Rowden presence in Devon in the 18th and 19th centuries, the map shows the other counties where Rowdens feature prominently. Wiltshire seems to hold second place with some minor spilling into neighbouring counties Hampshire and Dorset. The seaside village of Seasalter and its neighbour Whitstable feature a strong Rowden presence in the mid to late 19th century. However recent evidence seems to indicate that the paternal grandfather of these Rowdens came from Wiltshire. However, the very earliest Rowdons that I have discovered came from just outside of Bromyard in Herefordshire.
Whether you are a Rowden or Rowdon or maybe neither, I trust you enjoy browsing these pages.
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Premises liability: Poorly maintained lot causes woman’s death
On behalf of Richin & Gaines, P.A. | Jan 27, 2020 | Premises Liability |
Many young couples in Maryland and across the country enjoy spending time together in the company of their friends. Unfortunately, an evening turned into tragedy for a couple in another state who had been enjoying a night of dancing. A premises liability lawsuit filed in response to the incident claims that a young woman died because a company neglected to properly maintain a parking lot.
The incident happened during the early morning hours on a day in June 2019. A 23-year-old Marine was reportedly spending time with his 22-year-old wife and friends at Coyote Bar and Grill. As they were walking through the parking lot at the end of the night, the man was reportedly carrying his wife.
The lawsuit describes the parking lot as uneven, riddled with potholes and poorly lit. Unfortunately, the young man says he fell after stepping into a pothole, causing his wife to strike her head on the ground. She was taken to the hospital but died after spending five days in the intensive care unit.
Though the lawsuit was filed against the company that owns the bar, a manager of a business near where the accident happened indicates it may have occurred at an area for which the city is responsible for maintaining. When a tragedy such as this occurs, surviving family members often feel that it is necessary to hold those responsible for their loss accountable for their actions, potentially preventing similar accidents in the future. If a loss occurs as a result of a failure to maintain safe property conditions, an attorney with experience with premises liability lawsuits can help Maryland victims identify parties that may hold responsibility and take appropriate action.
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A spotlight on Scottish Art
29/05/2020 News Stories & Press Release, Old Master, 18th & 19th Century Pictures
Scenes of distant highland vistas and rugged landscapes are usually the images most associated with Scottish art pre-1900, perhaps made famous by the likes of Alexander Nasmyth (1758-1840), his son, Patrick Nasmyth (1787-1831) and Horatio McCulloch RSA (1805-1867).
However, throughout the 18th and 19th Century a number of other Scottish artists were at the forefront of the European artistic scene, producing highly accomplished and engaging works which would go onto contribute and influence Modern Art.
Within Roseberys upcoming Old Master, 18th & 19th Century Pictures, there is a wide range of works of art by Scottish artists. The highly anticipated auction that will take place on Thursday 4 June, 1pm includes works by Alan Ramsay, Sir David Wilkie RA, John Robertson Reid RI ROI, amongst other renown names.
Here we get to know more about the Scottish artists and lots in the upcoming sale.
Allan Ramsay (1713-1784)
Ramsay is considered to be one of the most prominent Scottish portrait painters. A likeable and well-educated character, he saw a productive career across Europe that led him to be appointed Principal Painter in Ordinary to King George III in 1761.
In his lifetime he travelled extensively, which ultimately contributed to his accomplished and fashionable style. A number of his sketches and portraits display French influences, particularly the portrait of his second wife, Margaret Lindsay of Evelick (Scottish National Portrait Gallery, NG 430).
Lot 154 : After Allan Ramsay, Scottish 1713-1784- Portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, three-quarter-length, in a red coat and blue sash and star of the order of the garter; oil on board
His portraits would also go onto inspire other artists; Lot 154 in Roseberys’ Old Master, 18th & 19th Century art auction 4th June displays a portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, after Allan Ramsay. The original work by Ramsay was completed in 1745 and is currently held in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery (PG 3762). Numerous copies of this painting along with copies of Antonio David's portraits (official painter to the exiled Jacobite court in Rome) were circulated to the family’s followers around Europe as a propaganda tool for instilling support for the Jacobite cause.
Sir David Wilkie RA (1785-1841)
Another Scottish appearance in Roseberys’ auction comes in the form of sketches by Sir David Wilkie (Lots 202 and 203). Known for his genre scenes depicting the traditions and simplicity of rural life, these works are preliminary sketches to some of the artist’s more well-known paintings, including one sketch of the figures from The Peep-o’-Day Boys’ Cabin, in the West of Ireland, 1835-6, held by the Tate (N00332).
Lot 203 : Sir David Wilkie RA, Scottish 1785-1841- Sketch for the painting The Peep O'Day Boys Cabin in the West of Ireland; pen and brown ink
Lot 224 ‘ Circle of David Wilkie RA, Scottish 1785-1841- An evening banquet; oil on panel’ - most likely inspired by Wilkie - shows a scene of elegantly dressed figures attending an evening banquet, in what appears to be a rocky, outdoor landscape. Although we are unable to determine the event which is being depicted, the composition and the use of chiaroscuro (the strong contrasts between light and dark) display many similarities to Wilkie’s other works.
Lot 224 : Circle of David Wilkie RA, Scottish 1785-1841- An evening banquet; oil on panel
Ultimately, Wilkie’s style falls into two brackets; his early paintings - showing Dutch and Flemish influence through the depiction of genre scenes and detailed finishes, and the later period, arising from his tour of the Continent between 1825 and 1827. A visible change is seen in his style and compositions after this period; paintings were produced in richer palettes and a more expressive technique, portraying historical events associated with the numerous places he visited during his travels.
Unfortunately his popularity dwindled amongst the public at the time - their preference was for his genre scenes, but his continuation of Royal portrait commissions never saw him short of work in his later years. When he died at sea in 1841, his death was captured by his friend J.M.W. Turner, in Peace - Burial at Sea.
John Robertson Reid RI ROI (1851-1926)
Another Scottish highlight included in Roseberys’ Old Master, 18th & 19th Century Art auction is an oil painting by this Scottish artist, titled Idle Moments, completed in 1876 (Lot 320)
Lot 320 : John Robertson Reid RI ROI, Scottish 1851-1926- Idle Moments; oil on canvas
Reid originally trained at the Edinburgh School of Art and the Royal Scottish Academy under the guidance of George Chalmers and William MacTaggart, before heading to the South of England in the 1870s.
It is thought he began painting en plein air in 1874, the same year of the first Impressionist exhibition in Paris, and two years before the present work was completed. Clearly, this practised skill has had the desired effect and Reid confidently depicts the sun casting its light on the back of the young female figure, focusing the eye on her playful interaction with the kitten on the pedestal, whilst leaving the foreground in subtle shadow. Reid often hired local villagers to pose in his scenes, fascinated with the gestures of candid social activity and the subtle expression of character in his subjects.
Reid was pioneering in Britain for publicly supporting the en plein air method, but instead of his style following the path of the Impressionists it subsequently displays similarities with the French Realism of Jules Bastien-Lepage and the Naturalism of Sir George Clausen. He began exhibiting at the Royal Academy from 1877 onwards, and eventually became the President of the Society of British Artists in 1886 and the Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers in 1898.
James Paterson PRSW RSA RWS (1854-1932)
‘The Glasgow Boys’ should be the first thought to spring to mind when discussing this artist. A leading figure of this group, Paterson is an important artist to address when looking at in Scottish Art during the second half of the 19th Century.
Paterson’s work predominantly focused on landscapes, with figures playing a minor role in the composition. After studying at Glasgow School of Art and in Paris, Paterson travelled around France and Italy in the following years, settling in Moniaive, Dumfriesshire with his wife in 1884 before finally moving to Edinburgh in 1905 and becoming a prominent member of the Royal Scottish Academy.
Alongside James Guthrie (1859-1930), John Lavery (1856-1941) and Paterson’s school friend William York Macgregor (1855-1923), their paintings present the beginnings of Scottish Modernism. (Back in 2015, Roseberys set an auction record for a painting by Macgregor at £9,840 (inc. buyer’s premium)(Lot 627).
Lot 319 : James Paterson, Scottish 1854-1932- The lute player; watercolour and pencil
Lot 319 by James Paterson, titled ‘The lute player’ a watercolour and pencil’ is one of Paterson’s rare portraits completed in watercolour, portraying a seated woman holding a lute - an excellent example of his draughtsmanship and typical of his portrait style. Paterson completed a number of sketched portraits of high-profile contemporaries after he had settled in Edinburgh.
Paterson was elected to the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour in 1885, became an associate member of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1896 and was awarded full membership of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1910, and eventually became President of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours in 1922.
Summarising two centuries of Scottish Art is no easy task, and ultimately the artists listed above only provide a very small spotlight on the vast expanse of styles and artists around in the 18th and 19th Century. These Scottish masters were inspired by their cultural heritage, surrounding landscape and their European neighbours, to ultimately bring a unique contribution to the artistic scene.
The Scottish paintings included in Roseberys’ Old Master, 18th & 19th Century auction on the 4th June showcase some excellent and rare examples of art produced by prominent Scottish artists of the period.
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Kusama’s iconic Pumpkin print – in rare yellow
21/03/2019 Prints & Multiples , News Stories & Press Release
LONDON: Iconic prints and sought-after editions by modern and contemporary masters together with a stellar group of lenticular works by three leading artists will feature in Roseberys London’s forthcoming Prints & Multiples sale in April.
Shane Xu, Modern & Contemporary Prints specialist at Roseberys London said: ‘I am really excited to offer such an amazing assortment of artists and work for the coming prints sale in April. My aim is always to keep the sale interesting by offering a wide range of artists and price levels. This sale includes work by top artists including, Francis Bacon, Ai Wei Wei, Miro and Alex Katz. Furthermore, we have a selection of interesting lenticular pieces, which is a unique technique used in editions, that will ensure excitement among buyers.’
The lenticular print collection showcases the innovative ways this once-kitschy holographic medium - which gives an image the illusion of motion and depth – is used today as a highly effective art form.Perfectly illustrating this point from the six-lot group for sale are two prints by British artist Mat Collishaw (b.1966). Inspired by old master paintings, Lame Duck II (2009), based on a still life by the 18th-century Spanish artist Jose Lopez-Enguidanos and Angel (2009), after Fra Angelico's Annunciation of 1442, give a dramatic new dimension to these venerable works. In Lame Duck II, Collishaw has intervened in this old master painting and reanimated the dead duck at the centre (upon which an 18th-century viewer might have dreamt of feasting) (Lot 253). Thanks to the holographic effect produced by lenticular prints, the duck's breast moves gently up and down, eerily drawing attention to the violent undercurrent of the scene.
In Angel, Collishaw makes the angel Gabriel, who is traditionally depicted announcing the news to Mary that she has been chosen to carry the son of God, appear and disappear from view (Lot 254). Without the presence of the angel, the narrative of the entire story is brought into question: Mary suddenly seems alone, scared, and vulnerable. Both made in a small edition of just three with an artist’s proof, the pair are estimated at £1,500-2,000 each.
Making up the rest of the group is Dylan Thomas, Kim Novak and James Joyce in New York (2013) by the pioneering British pop artist Peter Blake (b.1932) (Lot 210); James Dean at the Albert Hall (2012), also by Blake (Lot 211); and Haute Coiffure (2007) and Haute Coiffure Pink Lipstick (2007) by award-winning British photographer Tony Briggs, based on his photoshoot with a 17-year old Kate Moss for FACE Magazine in 1992 (Lot 320) (Lot 321).
Certain to attract eager interest from comic book enthusiasts is a highly sought-after complete set of six giclee prints from Marvel Superheroes (2015) (see above) (Lot 342). Each print was hand selected and signed by the recently deceased Stan Lee (1922-2018), widely considered to be one of the most influential people in the comic book industry.Lee rose through the ranks of a family-run business to become Marvel Comics’ primary creative leader for two decades, leading its expansion from a small division of a publishing house to a multimedia corporation that dominated the comics industry. Estimated at £8,000-12,000, the group are from the artist proof edition of 29 and come in Marvel Superheroes Comic cover designs featuring Wolverine, Captain America, X-Men, Thor, Iron Man and Spiderman
Several iconic contemporary prints will be making their way onto the Roseberys rostrum. Among them is the yellow screenprint Pumpkin (1999) by internationally renowned Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (b.1929) (Lot 364). The squash is Kusama’s signature image, especially in yellow, with this example estimated at £20,000-30,000. In a 2015 interview the artist said: "I love pumpkins because of their humorous form, warm feeling, and a human-like quality and form.”
Popular contemporary artist Jonas Wood (b.1977) - known for his heavy graphic aesthetic of scenes depicting domestic interiors, landscapes and sporting events - is represented by screenprint Vote (2018) (shown right). Featuring his signature basketball motif, it was made in an edition of 300 and is estimated at £3,000-5,000 (lot 338).
Also contained in the sale is Face of the Poet (1978), one of several notable editions combining imagery and poetry by fellow American Alex Katz (b.1927) (Lot 190). The complete set of fourteen aquatints are all signed and numbered from an edition of 25 and come with title page, table of content and accompanying letterpress poems by 14 authors. The set carries an £8,000-12,000 guide.
Highlights among a strong selection of British prints include a very early and rare screen print by renowned Op art exponent Bridget Riley (b.1931). Untitled (1966), signed, dated and numbered from the edition of 100, carries an estimate of £4,000-6,000 (Lot 159).
Meanwhile Pyronin Y (2005), an etching of a series of multi-coloured dots from an edition of 65 by Damien Hirst (b.1965), is estimated at £8,000-12,000 (Lot 226).
There is also a limited-edition photography portfolio produced in 2009 by the Sir Elton John AIDS Foundation and containing the work of a number of renowned contemporary artists and signed by the famous musician himself (Lot 248). It is estimated at £18,000-22,000. One of only 40 produced, it comes in its presentation box and includes photographs taken by Nan Goldin, Katy Grannan, Damien Hirst, Sally Mann and Richard Misrach among others.
Earlier prints by blue chip avant-garde names of the 20th century include a lithograph of Marc Chagall’s (1887-1985) Dedication [Mourlot 557] (1968) at £5,000-7,000 (Lot 124). A great example of both the artist’s techniques and his wildly romantic creations, this edition of 50 has not been seen on the market for five years.
Another star is Danseuse au Miroir [Duthuit 492] (1927), an expressive lithograph of a dancer by Henri Matisse (1869-1954) (Lot 100) (shown left). Here, Matisse addresses issues such as beauty, vanity and self-awareness as the dancer poses in front of a mirror, examining her figure and form. Created in 1927, this original lithograph on Japan paper is hand signed by Matisse in pencil and comes from an edition of 50 and is estimated at £10,000-15,000.
Prints & Multiple Auction
Monday 8 April, starting from noon
Thursday 4 April 1 pm - 5 pm
Friday 5 April 9.30 am - 5.30 pm
Sunday 7 April 10am - 2 pm
Monday 8 9.30 am - 11.30 am
For further information please contact Peigi Mackillop peigimackillop@roseberys.co.uk +44 (0) 20 8761 2522
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Home/News/Sports/IOC sets new deadline for Tokyo Olympics qualification period
IOC sets new deadline for Tokyo Olympics qualification period
By Neha| Updated: 3rd April 2020 7:58 pm IST
Lausanne: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has issued the new deadline for the qualification period which is June 29, 2021 after the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games were postponed for a year due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
“The new qualification period deadline is 29 June 2021 and IFs can define their own qualification period deadlines should the deadline be prior to this date,” the IOC said in a statement.
The Olympics governing body has also extended the deadline for the “final sport entries” which has now been set for July 5, 2021.
The revision of the qualification systems will be finalised as quickly as possible to give certainty to the athletes. This principle encourages International Federations (IF) to follow a like-for-like approach by replacing those lost opportunities that were allocating quota with the same number of events.
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“In line with the principle that athletes who have qualified for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 remain qualified, it is possible for IFs to extend the age eligibility criteria, if any, and allow athletes who are eligible in 2020 to remain eligible to compete at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 from July 23 to August 8, 2021,” read the IOC statement.
On March 24, for the first time in the history of the mega global event, the Olympics were postponed by a year. The decision was confirmed by the IOC after the organising body for the event and Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed to reschedule the Tokyo Olympics in view of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The IOC had, however, said that the original name of Tokyo 2020 will remain intact irrespective of the fact that it will take place next year.
The Tokyo Olympics 2020 will be ‘celebrated’ from July 23 to August 8 next year while the Paralympics Games will be held from August 24 to September 5, 2021.
The Tokyo Olympic Games were originally slated to be held from July 24 to August 9, while the Paralympic Games were scheduled to be held from August 25 to September 6.
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Keeping things in check: Meet SNOC’s sporting watchdog
SNOC President Tan Chuan-Jin (in blue) and former STAC Chairman (in red and gold stripes) visit the squash team before the 2015 SEA Games
Asian Youth Games
SNOC
By Justin Kor
It is 6.30pm on a Tuesday evening. While most are preparing to wind down their day, the work is just getting started for the members of the SNOC’s Special Training Assistance Committee (STAC). As the sun sets, they embark on site visits to the National Sports Associations (NSAs) situated around the Sports Hub. Dinner would have to wait.
The mission of the evening: to check on the progress of the athletes preparing for two upcoming major Games – the 2019 Southeast Asian (SEA) Games and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
The first pit stop is the Water Sports Centre down by the Kallang waterfront, where the committee meets canoeists and dragonboaters hoping to be chosen for the SEA Games in the Philippines at the end of the year.
Led by chairman Mr Milan Kwee, the team observe them at training. Out in the waters of the Kallang Basin, the athletes are out to impress, as they compete a practice race that showcase their powerful strokes and exemplary technique. Their boats seem to effortlessly glide through the water.
2017 SEA Games chef de mission Milan Kwee now leads the STAC committee at the SNOC
Following this ‘exhibition’, the committee then gets briefed on the preparation programmes by the coaches, aided by detailed dossiers that the canoeing and dragonboat federations have compiled.
An informal Q&A session then follows. Are the athletes participating in enough tournaments to maintain their competitiveness level before the major Games? What are the issues the association is facing? How do they expect their athletes to do at the Games?
The answers rapidly follow, as the officials and athletes share their plans to participate in regional competitions as a lead up to the SEA Games. They highlight issues that STAC notes down and will look to address, such as National Service commitments and requests for additional funding. In addition, athletes also share their aspirations and targets for the competition ahead – most hope for at least a podium finish in the Philippines, if not at least a personal best.
This is the routine that STAC adopts for every association. Down at the beach volleyball court, they observe players engaging in rallies and meet representatives from the Singapore Volleyball Association. They then wrap up proceedings with the last two sports for the evening – netball and pencak silat – in the multipurpose halls.
Before concluding each session, Kwee makes it a point to ask the associations if they have any questions, emphasising that it is a two-way communication between the two parties. “Ultimately, our goal is to help them. That’s why we want to make sure that everything is made clear to them,” he explains. It is close to 9pm before the committee wraps up.
But the work is far from over. Over the next few weeks, they will visit athletes and officials from over 50 sports around the island. The seven-member committee, made up entirely of volunteers, will visit up to six associations each time. In the lead up to a major Games, there will typically be three rounds of visits and meetings.
STAC was set up in 1990s by then chairman Dr Tan Eng Liang, who led the committee before stepping down last year. It is one of 11 committees in the SNOC, which also includes the Games Selection Committee and Finance Committee.
The best way for SNOC to evaluate the assistance needed for athletes, explains Tan, was to simply see the training sessions for themselves.
“We get to see whether they are serious about training before the selection trials, and ensure that they maintain their standards after being selected,” he says. At times, STAC even conducted random spot checks.
But he adds that the relationship between STAC and the NSAs is meant to be mutually beneficial. “In return, they (the NSAs) can tell us what assistance they need, as it’s also meant to be a feedback session for the athletes,” he says.
Indeed, NSAs have benefitted through STAC’s involvement. For instance, in 2014, 14 associations received nearly S$300,000 in funding from SNOC to provide their athletes with additional support for the 2015 SEA Games. This was only possible after STAC had received feedback from these associations, before evaluating and recommending them to receive the support needed.
In addition, the committee always looks to ensure that the selection is fair. “We want to make sure that everyone gets a chance, and that the best will represent Singapore,” explains Tan.
Through the years, the veteran sports administrator has seen much progress among the NSAs. He recalls when STAC first started, the associations were mostly run by volunteers as they could not afford to hire full-time staff.
But over the years, with financial aid from SNOC and Sport Singapore, these associations have become more professional with full-time workers.
“We’re improving. In the beginning, there were only 2 to 3 NSAs that were good enough. Now there are over 10. But we still have some way to go,” he remarks.
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Why the Best Innovators Are Unreasonable
April 8, 2015 | Books & Authors, Personal Development
The World’s Most Creative
What does it take to make it into the history books as one of the world’s greatest innovators?
Do creative geniuses have any unique characteristics?
Rowan Gibson, one of the world’s foremost thought leaders on business innovation, previously shared some of his thinking about his new book, The 4 Lenses of Innovation: A Power Tool for Creative Thinking. Part of what makes his research unique is that he studied innovators throughout history to understand their thinking, their characteristics, and their methodology. What he shared with me about history’s greatest innovators may influence the way you manage, the way you look at your boss, or the way you look at others we label as stubborn. Because, as we will see, the best innovators are often the most unreasonable people.
Rowan, throughout your new book, you give examples ranging from da Vinci to Richard Branson. By studying these innovators, you developed a unique perspective. What does one need to possess or do to get mentioned in the history books?
I think those that make it into the history books are to some extent unreasonable people. George Bernard Shaw put it best when he argued that, “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” Innovators like the ones I just mentioned – Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk –these are not reasonable people. They don’t just accept that the world is the way it is. They have this deep, insatiable urge to improve it or radically change it to fit their own vision of how things should be.
“You can’t harvest big ideas unless you sow the right seeds.” -Rowan Gibson
Unreasonable Innovator: Leonardo da Vinci
Take da Vinci. Was he a reasonable person? Here’s a man who filled 13,000 pages of notebooks with scribbles, drawings, scientific diagrams, and designs—everything from human anatomy and facial expressions to animals, birds, plants, rocks, water, chemistry, optics, painting, astronomy, architecture, and engineering. He once coated the wings of a fly with honey just to see if it would change the sound of the fly’s buzzing noise in flight. Why would anyone do that? Da Vinci did it to establish that the pitch of a musical note is connected with the speed of the percussive movement of the air. In this case the fly’s wings became heavier due to the honey, so they couldn’t beat as fast, resulting in a lower-pitched buzzing sound–which of course might be interesting at some level, but reasonable people don’t do things like that.
Unreasonable Innovator: Richard Branson
Let’s say you opened a little record store in London, UK. That’s nothing out of the ordinary. But would you call it “Virgin”? And would you then create your own record label and start backing unknown musicians like Mike Oldfield or controversial bands like the Sex Pistols? Would you try to grow your one little record store into a national chain of media hypermarkets? I mean, if you did all of that, it would be quite remarkable. But would you then decide to start your own transatlantic airline and go up against British Airways on their own turf? Would you try to build your own mobile phone business from scratch and then your own bank or take a big risk by investing in a space tourism company? These are not reasonable things to do. So clearly Richard Branson is not a reasonable man.
Unreasonable Innovator: Elon Musk
Look at Elon Musk. Would you seriously try to build your own rocket company and set out to replace NASA’s space shuttle? Or bring a high-performance electric car to the market when everyone in Detroit tells you you’re going to fail? Or pick a big fight with the national auto dealer association because you want to sell your cars exclusively online? Or go out and build your own electric charging network across the country? Or try to reinvent transportation with a revolutionary concept called “Hyperloop” that most people think is crazy? Again, only an unreasonable person would do things like that.
So if you look at some of the most successful innovators throughout the ages, you would have to conclude that to really get into the history books, you probably have to possess this tendency to be unreasonable about a lot of things and to stubbornly and perhaps obsessively follow your own ideas and instincts.
Innovators get into the history books by being unreasonable, stubborn and obsessive.
Why the Best Innovators are Doers
To be cited in The 4 Lenses of Innovation it means not only were you an innovator but also a doer. You made it happen. Many people have great ideas but don’t act on them. How do you develop not only the creative mindset but also the execution skill to match?
In some ways, the execution skills may be harder to improve at an individual level than the creative skills. That’s because execution is more about having the right disposition than about learning and using a specific set of thinking processes to trigger an idea. By disposition, I mean that either by nature or by nurture innovators tend to possess certain personality traits that are critical for making things happen. They are doers rather than dreamers. They are highly self-confident. They are inner directed—they march to the beat of their own drum. They set their own expectations and norms. They are courageous and resilient. They are able to drive an idea forward in the face of opposition and adversity. They are risk-takers with a strong entrepreneurial spirit. They understand that innovation is not just about coming up with ideas but about successfully introducing those ideas. These are attributes that are not so easy to develop.
That doesn’t mean it can’t be done. Again, we can start with the cultural environment. Is it a place where people are given the necessary time and resources to follow through on their ideas? Are they encouraged to experiment with new things and to pursue potential business opportunities that they themselves have identified? Is it a culture that celebrates entrepreneurial spirit and risk-taking—one where nobody is punished for making mistakes while trying new ideas–a culture where leaders embody and model the right disposition for others to follow and where there is a lot of trust and support for innovative people and their projects? Google has succeeded in creating a culture like this. So has Virgin Group. And W.L. Gore is another example. These are companies where people feel empowered to grow and stretch themselves and to go after big new business opportunities knowing that the organization is behind them. So you can definitely develop and improve these attributes. Individual coaching can help too, and I have seen some people go through a kind of personal transformation as they work on these traits over time.
“Innovation is the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.” -Peter Drucker
But execution, of course, is not just about individual disposition. Inside a large organization it also requires the right management processes and resources for innovation. It may call for industry partnerships and collaborations. It often requires a multi-functional development team working with everything they need to drive an idea all the way from the mind to the market. So here we’re talking about organizational execution skills as opposed to individual ones. And clearly they are absolutely critical for making innovation happen.
Copyright Rowan Gibson; Used by Permission
Developing a Creative Mindset
You’ve said that, “Creativity is not a birthright, it’s a skill.” What methods work to develop a creative mindset?
One of the things we know is that cultural environment—and the actual physical design of office space—has a huge impact on mindset and behavior. If you look at Google’s offices around the world, for example, they’re designed to be fun places to work, complete with playrooms, informal spaces, and inspiring breakout areas, where people can regularly relax and spend time thinking creatively together. Google would never have been able to achieve such a highly innovative corporate culture if their offices were dull, formal, and gray, with lots of long, dark corridors and closed doors. So the design of the physical space is a very important component in helping to unlock people’s creativity. It sends out a clear and powerful message that can foster the creative spirit.
Design of physical space can foster the creative spirit and unlock people’s creativity.
Of course, this would all be useless if a company’s management culture itself is not conducive to creative thinking and innovation. So if new ideas are regularly ridiculed or rejected, if standard operating procedures are relentlessly enforced, if it’s all about efficiency and meeting the numbers, if risk-taking and experimentation and failure are punished, then we simply can’t expect people to deploy their creativity at work. Instead, they are going to learn to just shut up and do as they are told and not to rock the boat. Creative thinking requires a culture where people are free to challenge the status quo and suggest different ways of doing things—where they feel that their brainpower is welcome and is being channeled into something exciting and meaningful and where there are few bureaucratic boundaries to get in the way–a culture, in other words, where innovation is not just management rhetoric but a daily reality.
“Creative thinking requires a culture where people are free to challenge the status quo.” –Rowan Gibson
So corporate culture and physical environment certainly play a key role in promoting a creative mindset. But what’s important to understand is not just the environments that enhance our capacity to dream up and introduce new things but also the thinking processes inside the human mind that lead people to their “Eureka moments.” That’s what my new book, “The 4 Lenses of Innovation,” is essentially about. It sets out to identify these thinking processes so that we can actually try to reverse-engineer the mind of the innovator.
Imagine if you could learn to look at a situation or a problem like, say, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, or Elon Musk. How would that improve your ability to discover new insights and opportunities? You know, one of the things that strikes me when we read about innovators like these and their great achievements is that nobody ever tries to analyze the thinking processes that might have led them to their breakthroughs. They don’t ask, “What was this person thinking? How did he or she spot some big opportunity that nobody else seems to have seen? What was the innovator’s angle of view?”
“There is an innovator inside of all of us.” -Rowan Gibson
That’s the objective with this new book. Because if we can truly unpack the mind of the innovator, then the great promise is that we can actually teach other people to develop that innovative mindset and those same mental perspectives. We can improve their creative thinking ability, just like teaching them any other skill. I believe we help literally anyone to deliberately and systematically bring out their inner genius.
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Ron Howard Talks About the Unique Challenge of Making ‘Solo’ [Interview]
Posted on Thursday, May 24th, 2018 by Peter Sciretta
Interviewing Ron Howard for Solo: A Star Wars Story was unlike any filmmaker interview I have done to date.
Usually, in my chats with directors, I talk a lot about development and intention. Yet this production was very different in that Howard came on as a replacement late into the production process. The script, casting, crew, and design of the movie had been already planned and partially executed. So I was curious how this film was uniquely different from the dozens of films he had made over his long illustrious career.
You can read our discussion below. It is spoiler-free – we have removed a spoiler-filled answer, which will be published the week after release.
Hey, how’s it going?
Good, how are you? Nice to see you.
Good to see you. I really enjoyed the movie.
This is a different challenge than your typical film for a number of reasons, being a Star Wars film. But also because you’re also coming so late in the process.
So how was this different from a typical Ron Howard movie?
It was an interesting journey. And I realized I had to rely on my raw instincts more than I normally would, because I didn’t have the time to prepare a movie and sort of develop a point of view about it. I had to have a point of view, but I needed to have it that instant. And without having lived with it for months or years. And it was interesting because I had to trust those instincts.
And I had collaborators I could turn to as a kind of a safety net, but I clearly saw that no one was looking for me to be a figurehead. It’s not the way these movies and Lucasfilm works. They wanted the leadership. And so that was interesting. The other thing was I went into it feeling that I was gonna apply my experience and my professionalism to this and I really like the story and I believed in it. But it was almost an arm’s length kind of a relationship that I was gonna have with this. And I’d take advantage of the fact that they needed me at a time when I wasn’t planning to direct anything anyway. And I would sort of tackle it as a professional slash creative challenge.
And it did not take long before I was all-in and I was just as emotionally connected to what we were doing. And certainly by the time we went into post and I was really seeing the movie as a whole, we went back, the one thing I’d asked for was to make sure that we had at least a couple of weeks to go back and be able to do some reshoots and pickups of the choices that I was making ’cause I knew there would be a lot of experimentation and exploration. We didn’t need quite all the time that we’d set aside, but we needed, I don’t know, seven or eight days. And…
That’s not a lot…
Yeah, not that much, but it was significant. And so everything about the process was again a little more driven by kind of raw instinct and a sort of a leadership style that needed to quickly cut through the range of options and make decisions. And I certainly looked to the collaborators but and used them and I rallied them. I sort of, I said, I need one of you Kasdans [to] stay here. Larry immediately turned to his younger son. Pointed to him. But Kathy [Kennedy] pledged to be around as much as she could. And the other producers were on deck. And so it was the whole, as we began to feel it working, it was pretty thrilling actually and kind of affirming in way.
Coming onto this film, you were handed a lot of stuff that was already solidified, like the cast and the crew, designers. How much leeway do you have to like add your own mark to that, especially in an action scene like the train heist?
A lot. A lot. A lot. The action scenes were, they’d been begun but they were far from completion. And there were a lot of question marks about those sequences. So there was a lot of urgent think tanking and brainstorming around those sequences.
So is it a case of you being married to the designs and the models and it’s your toy set to play with?
Yes. And sort of what happens next. Here’s the script. Here are some pre-vises. Here’s some what else? What else can we do? And my goal there was to link the key action scenes as much as possible to Han’s experience. I really, I loved [cinematographer] Bradford Young’s approach. I thought it looked great. I was happy to inherit that. And I love the aesthetic. And the one thing that I wanted to do was sort of more intentionally and purposefully stage the scenes and shoot them so that they, you felt like you were right alongside Han Solo in this adventure as much as possible. I felt like that would generate a little more immediacy and suspense along with the humor and the excitement and the fun of those sequences.
You mentioned Bradford Young and the movie looks unlike any Star Wars movie to date. But you still were able to capture the tone and the adventure and the humor. Is that a tough balance?
Well it’s, it requires a lot of work and intention. And Bradford was really interested in that. You know, could you give the look that sort of carried those vibes? Bradford talks about seeing him having vibes. And still create the kind of character connection, the cinematic urgency and make the plot points clear enough so that the narrative was hurtling along. And he was completely understood that and was excited about that. It required in some instances more coverage that sort of purposeful coverage, trying to bridge things than he might have expected. But he was excited and game.
You have a long legacy with George Lucas. I mean, I don’t have to tell you. But you were originally asked to do one of the Star Wars prequels?
Asked, but I really wanna underline it. It wasn’t like some sort of [formal] offer. It wasn’t like I read the script and had an opinion. [George Lucas] was beginning to get serious about doing the prequels, he reached out to a few people and I was one of them and just sort of dropped in conversation the question, would you wanna do one of these? And I already worked for George on Willow. And which was an amazing learning experience and life experience. And deepened our friendship. But at that point, we were really launching Imagine. I was focused on that. And it just didn’t make any sense for me to disappear for a couple of years into a sequel. And I felt, and one of the things that I liked about this movie opportunity was that I didn’t view it as a sequel. I viewed it as an offshoot. And it certainly demanded a sort of fealty to the galaxy as we understand it and–
Yeah, an authenticity to it.
And an authenticity in that regard. But it was a standalone movie.
You haven’t done many sequels. You’ve done like 35 films and only the Da Vinci Code follow-ups are really sequels.
Yeah, those are the only ones. And so it’s an unusual set of circumstances that led me to this, but I’m grateful for those twists, a twist of fate.
Would you come back for more [Solo or Star Wars] if they–?
I would never say never, I just don’t know what’s going on at Imagine. And by the way, there’s no plan. So that wasn’t a step toward sequels. I love this cast. And I had so much fun in this sort of the filmmaking playground that is this universe. And so if the answer is I’d be very, very open to it. I have no idea, you know, whether they would, you know?
I think people will want one. So thank you so much.
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Sheboygan Legion baseball: An unlikely state championship has team thinking big
McLean Bennett
Sheboygan Press
SHEBOYGAN – Steve Goes wasn’t expecting this.
The coach of the Sheboygan Legion baseball team watched his club open the season 11-13 — hardly an auspicious start for a group that just two years earlier had advanced to the Wisconsin American Legion state tournament.
Then his players started winning. A lot. The Post 83 Legion team finished on a 16-4 run, capping it with an unlikely win last week in the state championship game against Eau Claire.
“It was out of the blue,” Goes said of his dugout’s streak of unexpected fortune.
His players’ unprecedented run — Sheboygan’s varsity-level Legion team had never won a state tournament before last week — isn’t over yet. In fact, the limelight his players have been basking in is about to get a little brighter.
Sheboygan is scheduled to compete this week in a national-level regional tournament that could set Goes’ club up for an appearance later this summer in the 2018 American Legion World Series.
Sheboygan is one of eight teams playing Wednesday in a Great Lakes regional tournament in Toledo, Ohio. The Post 83 ballclub is scheduled to play its first game at 4:30 p.m. against a Post 134 team from Circleville, Ohio.
"As long as we get the bats going, pitch well, we should do pretty good," said Nathan Hendrikse, the infielder who pitched all seven innings in last week's state title game, Tuesday as he and his teammates bused to northwest Ohio. He was confident that the team could play with — and beat — any of the other rosters in this week's tournament.
That swagger wasn't always so evident in the Legion dugout, though.
“We had trouble in the beginning of the year,” shortstop Brent Widder said. The team’s confidence wavered during the first half of the regular season as players battled sloppy play and mistakes.
“No one expected this in Wisconsin,” Widder said of the state title. "We didn’t even expect this as a team."
Goes thinks the turnaround started sometime after the first week in July. Sheboygan had suffered "devastating" back-to-back losses despite getting strong offense from its lineup. But, “To our guys’ credit,” the coach noted, “they really put together a great stretch.”
The team cleaned up its errors, started batting more effectively and walked fewer opponents to first base. Confidence followed as wins accrued.
Sheboygan won most of its remaining regular-season games before posting an unlikely win against a top-ranked De Pere team in a state regional tournament. That win, Goes said, helped launch Post 83 into its unexpected state tournament berth — its first since 2016 — where Sheboygan faced another Goliath.
On paper, Eau Claire had Sheboygan's number. The team had beaten Post 83 during the regular season — and it did so again at the state tournament. But the tournament's double-elimination format meant Sheboygan had a chance to win the state title anyway. It just had to find a way to beat Eau Claire.
"It was a little nerve-wracking, I’m not going to lie," Hendrikse said about stepping onto the mound in last Tuesday's winner-take-title matchup.
"We just needed a spark. Our team does better in flashes," Hendrikse added, noting that by the second or third inning, he and the rest of his team had found its groove. "Once we have something going, that's when we can keep going and going."
Sheboygan held on for a 5-2 win despite putting Eau Claire runners on first and third down the stretch.
"It’s kind of surreal," said Sal Parra, an outfielder who also pitched in the state tournament, of the Eau Claire game. "Definitely something I'll forever remember."
Unlikely tournament wins like the ones Sheboygan has had in the last few weeks had Goes' players itching in their seats during Tuesday's bus trip.
"We really think we have a shot at this," Parra said.
"I think our mentality right now is just keep playing our baseball," Widder said. "It doesn't really matter who we're playing or where we're playing. We just want to keep playing hard."
And Dylan Lindow, a second baseman, said that while the rest of this week's tournament lineups are good, "we also realize that we're also a really good team, too."
Goes echoed his players' confidence.
"Nobody picked us to come out of the regional. Nobody picked us to even win a game, or even two games, in the state tournament," he said. "Yet here we are."
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Quarterly Report Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
For the quarterly period ended March 31, 2016
Transition Report Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Commission File Number: 001-35502
The ADT Corporation
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
1501 Yamato Road, Boca Raton, Florida
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
(Zip Code)
(Registrant's Telephone Number, including Area Code)
(Former name, former address and former fiscal year, if changed since last report)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes x No o
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Website, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§ 232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files). Yes x No o
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of "large accelerated filer," "accelerated filer" and "smaller reporting company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):
Large accelerated filer x
Accelerated filer o
Non-accelerated filer o
Smaller reporting company o
(Do not check if a smaller reporting company)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes ¨ No x
The number of shares outstanding of the registrant's common stock, $0.01 par value, was 165,618,879 as of May 2, 2016 at the effective time the registrant's common stock was delisted from the New York Stock Exchange (refer to Note 1 to the Condensed and Consolidated Financial Statements).
Item 1.
Condensed and Consolidated Balance Sheets (Unaudited) as of March 31, 2016 and September 25, 2015
Condensed and Consolidated Statements of Operations (Unaudited) for the quarters and six months ended March 31, 2016 and March 27, 2015
Condensed and Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Unaudited) for the quarters and six months ended March 31, 2016 and March 27, 2015
Condensed and Consolidated Statement of Stockholders' Equity (Unaudited) for the six months ended March 31, 2016
Condensed and Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (Unaudited) for the six months ended March 31, 2016 and March 27, 2015
Notes to Condensed and Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited)
Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
Controls and Procedures
Part II.
Item 1A.
Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds
Defaults Upon Senior Securities
Mine Safety Disclosures
Exhibit Index
PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Item 1. Financial Statements.
CONDENSED AND CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(in millions, except share and per share data)
Accounts receivable trade, less allowance for doubtful accounts of $21 and $23, respectively
Prepaid expenses and other current assets
Property and equipment, net
Subscriber system assets, net
Intangible assets, net
Deferred subscriber acquisition costs, net
Current maturities of long-term debt
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities
Deferred subscriber acquisition revenue
Other liabilities
Commitments and contingencies (See Note 7)
Common stock – authorized 1,000,000,000 shares of $0.01 par value; issued and outstanding shares – 165,549,250 as of March 31, 2016 and 165,850,306 as of September 25, 2015
Total Stockholders' Equity
Total Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity
See Notes to Condensed and Consolidated Financial Statements
CONDENSED AND CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(in millions, except per share data)
For the Quarters Ended
For the Six Months Ended
Cost of revenue
Selling, general and administrative expenses
Radio conversion costs (See Note 1)
Interest expense, net
Income before income taxes
Income tax expense
Net income per share:
Weighted-average number of shares:
Dividends declared per common share
CONDENSED AND CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
Other comprehensive income (loss):
Foreign currency translation and other
Total other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax
CONDENSED AND CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
Paid-In
Accumulated
Balance as of September 25, 2015
Other comprehensive income
Dividends declared
Common stock repurchases
Exercise of stock options and vesting of restricted stock units
Pre-Separation related tax adjustments
Balance as of March 31, 2016
CONDENSED AND CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:
Depreciation and intangible asset amortization
Amortization of deferred subscriber acquisition costs
Amortization of deferred subscriber acquisition revenue
Provision for losses on accounts receivable and inventory
Changes in operating assets and liabilities and other
Net cash provided by operating activities
Dealer generated customer accounts and bulk account purchases
Subscriber system assets
Capital expenditures
Other investing
Proceeds from exercise of stock options
Repurchases of common stock under approved program
Proceeds from long-term borrowings
Repayment of long-term debt
Effect of currency translation on cash
Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period
NOTES TO CONDENSED AND CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
1. Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Nature of Business—The ADT Corporation ("ADT" or the "Company"), a company incorporated in the state of Delaware, is a leading provider of monitored security, interactive home and business automation, and related monitoring services in the United States ("U.S.") and Canada.
Merger—On February 14, 2016, the Company, as authorized by the Company's Board of Directors, entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”), by and among the Company, Prime Security Services Borrower, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Parent”), Prime Security One MS, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”), and solely for the purposes of Article IX thereof, Prime Security Services Parent, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Parent Inc.”) and Prime Security Services TopCo Parent, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“Parent LP”), pursuant to which, on May 2, 2016 (the "Closing Date"), Merger Sub merged with and into the Company, with the Company surviving as a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (the “Merger”).
At the effective time of the Merger, each share of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share, issued and outstanding immediately prior to the effective time of the Merger (other than shares of the Company’s common stock held by Parent, Merger Sub, or any other direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Parent, shares owned by the Company, including shares held in treasury, or any of its direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiaries, and shares owned by stockholders who have properly made and not withdrawn a demand for appraisal rights under Delaware law) was cancelled and converted into the right to receive cash consideration of $42.00 per share, without interest and subject to applicable withholding taxes.
In connection with the closing of the Merger, on the Closing Date, the Company’s common stock was delisted from the New York Stock Exchange. The Company deregistered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 on May 12, 2016.
The completion of the Merger was subject to customary closing conditions including, among others, ADT stockholder approval and regulatory approval. On March 9, 2016, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission granted early termination of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended, and on March 11, 2016, the Commissioner of Competition issued a no action letter and waiver of the obligations to notify with respect to the Merger under Section 113(c) of the Competition Act (Canada). On April 22, 2016, ADT's stockholders adopted the Merger Agreement.
Refer to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on February 16, 2016 for additional information on the Merger and the definitive proxy statement relating to the Merger filed with the SEC on Schedule 14A on March 25, 2016.
Consent Solicitations
On April 1, 2016, in connection with the Merger, the Company commenced consent solicitations (the “Consent Solicitations”) with respect to ADT’s 5.250% Senior Notes due 2020, 6.250% Senior Notes due 2021, 3.500% Notes due 2022, 4.125% Senior Notes due 2023, and 4.875% Notes due 2042 (collectively, the “ADT Rollover Notes”), and such consents would (i) waive (with respect to each series of ADT Rollover Notes, the “Waiver” and, collectively, the “Waivers”) any potential “Change of Control Triggering Event,” including any potential obligation of ADT to make a “Change of Control Offer” (each as defined in the indentures governing the ADT Rollover Notes), and (ii) amend the indentures governing each series of ADT Rollover Notes, which would (a) amend the definition of “Change of Control” and (b) limit any required grant of capital stock as collateral with respect to the ADT Rollover Notes to the extent necessary not to be subject to any requirement pursuant to the SEC rules to file separate financial statements with the SEC or any other governmental agency (clauses (a) and (b) together, with respect to each series of ADT Rollover Notes, the “Proposed Amendments”).
In the Consent Solicitations, the Company was seeking consents to the applicable Waiver and the Proposed Amendments for each series of ADT Rollover Notes as a single proposal, which under each ADT Rollover Note Indenture requires the consent of holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of each such series of ADT Rollover Notes. As of April 25, 2016, the requisite consents for the Waiver and the Proposed Amendments (the “Requisite Consents”) were obtained with respect to each series of ADT Rollover Notes. On the Closing Date, Parent funded the payment of consent fees in connection with the Consent Solicitations.
Following receipt of the Requisite Consents, the Company has executed a supplemental indenture to each series of ADT Rollover Notes (each, a “Supplemental Indenture”) giving effect to (a) the Waiver of any “Change of Control Triggering Event” in connection with the Merger and (b) the Proposed Amendments. The Supplemental Indentures also provide each series of ADT Rollover Notes the benefit of (1) guarantees by Parent and all wholly owned domestic subsidiaries of the combined company and (2) a first-priority security interest in substantially all of the combined company’s existing and future assets. The Supplemental Indenture became operative upon the closing of the Merger.
Tender Offers
On April 1, 2016, in connection with the Merger, Merger Sub commenced tender offers (the “Tender Offers”) to purchase for cash any and all of the Company’s outstanding $750 million aggregate principal amount of 2.250% Notes due 2017 (the “2017 Notes”) and $500 million aggregate principal amount of 4.125% Senior Notes due 2019. On the Closing Date, $667 million aggregate principal amount of the 2017 Notes were purchased in the applicable Tender Offer, leaving $83 million aggregate principal amount of the 2017 Notes outstanding (the “Remaining 2017 Notes”), and $453 million aggregate principal amount of the 2019 Notes were purchased in the applicable Tender Offer, leaving $47 million aggregate principal amount of the 2019 Notes outstanding (the “Remaining 2019 Notes” and, together with the Remaining 2017 Notes, the “Remaining Notes”).
On the Closing Date, following the completion of the Merger and the purchase of the tendered 2017 and 2019 Notes in the Tender Offers, the Company delivered a notice of redemption (the “Redemption Notice”) to the holders of the Remaining Short-Term Notes. The Redemption Notice provides for the Company’s redemption of the Remaining Notes on June 1, 2016 (the “Redemption Date”) at a redemption price as specified in the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on May 6, 2016.
Exchange Offer
On April 1, 2016, Merger Sub launched an offer to exchange (the “Exchange Offer”) new 4.875% First-Priority Senior Secured Notes due 2032 (the “Exchange Notes”) for any and all of ADT’s outstanding 4.875% Notes due 2042 that are held by eligible holders. On the Closing Date, Merger Sub successfully completed the Exchange Offer and issued $718 million aggregate principal amount of Exchange Notes pursuant to the Exchange Offer. Following the completion of the Exchange Offer, $32 million aggregate principal amount of the Registrant’s 4.875% Notes due 2042 remained outstanding as of the Closing Date. The Exchange Notes have not been registered under the Securities Act or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent an effective registration statement or an applicable exemption from registration requirements or a transaction not subject to the registration requirements of the Securities Act or any state securities laws.
Revolving Credit Facility
On the Closing Date, the Company terminated its five-year unsecured senior revolving credit facility, dated as of June 22, 2012. In connection with the termination, the Company repaid all of its outstanding obligations in respect of principal, interest, and fees under its revolving credit facility.
Basis of Presentation—The Condensed and Consolidated Financial Statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries and have been prepared in United States dollars ("USD") in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America ("GAAP"). The Condensed and Consolidated Financial Statements included herein are unaudited, but in the opinion of management, such financial statements include all adjustments, consisting of normal recurring adjustments, necessary to summarize fairly the Company's financial position, results of operations, and cash flows for the interim periods presented. The interim results reported in these Condensed and Consolidated Financial Statements should not be taken as indicative of results that may be expected for the entire year. For a more comprehensive understanding of ADT and its Condensed and Consolidated Financial Statements, please review these interim financial statements in conjunction with the Company's audited financial statements included in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 25, 2015 ("2015 Form 10-K"), which was filed with the SEC on November 12, 2015.
Historically, the Company had a 52- or 53-week fiscal year that ended on the last Friday in September. Fiscal year 2015 was a 52-week fiscal year. On October 14, 2015, the Company's Board of Directors approved a change to the Company's fiscal year end from the last Friday in September to September 30 of each year, and thereafter the end of each fiscal quarter will be the last day of the calendar month end. The fiscal year change is effective for the 2016 fiscal year, which began on September 26, 2015, the day after the last day of the 2015 fiscal year, and will end on September 30, 2016. This change better aligns the Company's external reporting with the monthly recurring nature of revenues and expenses associated with its customer base.
The Company conducts business through its operating entities. During the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2015, the Company changed its segment reporting structure in connection with a change in the manner in which the Chief Executive Officer, who is the chief operating decision maker ("CODM"), evaluates performance and makes decisions about how to allocate resources. This change resulted in the reorganization of the Company's single operating segment into two operating segments, United States and Canada. These operating segments are also the Company's reportable segments and are identified by the Company based on how resources are allocated and operating decisions are made. Where applicable, presentation of the Company's operating segments and prior period amounts reported herein are based on the new segment structure. Refer to Note 9 for segment data.
All intercompany transactions have been eliminated. The results of companies acquired are included in the Condensed and Consolidated Financial Statements from the effective date of acquisition.
Radio Conversion Costs—Charges incurred related to a three-year conversion program to replace 2G radios used in many of the Company's security systems are reflected in radio conversion costs in the Company's Condensed and Consolidated Statements of Operations.
Inventories—Inventories are recorded at the lower of cost (average cost) or market value. Inventories consisted of the following ($ in millions):
Prepaid Expenses and Other Current Assets—Prepaid expenses and other current assets includes prepaid expenses of $22 million and $15 million as of March 31, 2016 and September 25, 2015, respectively.
Subscriber System Assets—Subscriber system assets represent capitalized equipment and installation costs incurred in connection with transactions in which the Company retains ownership of the security system. The following table sets forth the gross carrying amount and accumulated depreciation of the Company's subscriber system assets as of March 31, 2016 and September 25, 2015 ($ in millions):
Gross carrying amount
(2,781
Depreciation expense relating to subscriber system assets for the quarters and six months ended March 31, 2016 and March 27, 2015 was as follows ($ in millions):
Subscriber system assets depreciation expense
Financial Instruments—The Company's financial instruments consist primarily of cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, accounts payable, debt, and derivative financial instruments. Due to their short-term nature, the fair value of cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, and accounts payable approximated carrying value as of March 31, 2016 and September 25, 2015.
Long-Term Debt Instruments—The fair value of the Company's unsecured notes was determined using broker-quoted market prices, which are considered Level 2 inputs. The carrying amount of debt outstanding under the Company's revolving credit facility approximates fair value as interest rates on these borrowings approximate current market rates, which are considered Level 2 inputs.
The carrying value and fair value of the Company's debt that is subject to fair value disclosures as of March 31, 2016 and September 25, 2015 were as follows ($ in millions):
Long-term debt instruments, excluding capital lease obligations and other
Derivative Instruments—All derivative financial instruments are reported on the Condensed and Consolidated Balance Sheets at fair value. For derivative financial instruments designated as fair value hedges, the changes in fair value of both the derivatives and the hedged items are recognized in the Condensed and Consolidated Statements of Operations. The fair values of the Company's derivative financial instruments are not material.
Accrued Expenses and Other Current Liabilities—Accrued expenses and other current liabilities as of March 31, 2016 and September 25, 2015 consisted of the following ($ in millions):
Payroll-related accruals
Insurance-related accruals
Other accrued liabilities
Total accrued expenses and other current liabilities
Guarantees—In the normal course of business, the Company is liable for contract completion and product performance. In the opinion of management, such obligations will not significantly affect the Company's financial position, results of operations, or cash flows. As of March 31, 2016 and September 25, 2015, there were no material guarantees.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements—In May 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued authoritative guidance which sets forth a single comprehensive model for entities to use in accounting for revenue arising from contracts with customers. Companies may use either a full retrospective or a modified retrospective approach to adopt this guidance. In August 2015, the FASB issued an amendment to defer the effective date of this guidance by one year to December 15, 2017, for annual reporting periods, including interim reporting periods within those periods, beginning after that date. Early adoption is permitted, but not before the original effective date of December 15, 2016. This guidance, including all subsequently issued amendments by the FASB to this guidance, will be effective for the Company in the first quarter of fiscal year 2019. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this guidance.
In April 2015, the FASB issued authoritative guidance to simplify the presentation of debt issuance costs and require that debt issuance costs related to a recognized debt liability be presented in the balance sheet as a direct deduction from the carrying amount of that debt liability. The recognition and measurement guidance for debt issuance costs are not affected by the amendments in this guidance. This guidance is to be applied on a retrospective basis and is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2015. This guidance will be effective for the Company in the first quarter of fiscal year 2017. Early adoption is permitted for financial statements that have not been previously issued. The adoption of this guidance is not expected to have a material impact on the Company's financial position, results of operations, or cash flows.
In April 2015, the FASB issued authoritative guidance regarding the accounting for fees paid in a cloud computing arrangement. The new standard provides guidance to customers about whether a cloud computing arrangement includes a software license. If a cloud computing arrangement includes a software license, then the customer should account for the software license element of the arrangement consistent with the acquisition of other software licenses. If a cloud computing arrangement does not include a software license, the customer should account for the arrangement as a service contract. This guidance is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2015. This guidance will be effective for the Company in the first quarter of fiscal year 2017. Early adoption is permitted. Companies may elect to adopt this guidance using either (1) a prospective approach for all arrangements entered into or materially modified after the effective date, or (2) a retrospective approach. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this guidance.
In July 2015, the FASB issued authoritative guidance to simplify the subsequent measurement of inventory. Under this new standard, an entity should measure inventory at the lower of cost and net realizable value. Net realizable value is the estimated selling price in the ordinary course of business, less reasonably predictable costs of completion, disposal, and transportation. This guidance is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2016, and will be effective for the Company in the first quarter of fiscal year 2018. The amendments in this guidance should be applied prospectively with earlier application permitted as of the beginning of an interim or annual reporting period. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this guidance.
In November 2015, the FASB issued authoritative guidance to simplify the presentation of deferred income taxes, and require that deferred tax liabilities and assets be classified as noncurrent in a classified statement of financial position. The current requirement that deferred tax liabilities and assets be offset and presented as a single amount for each jurisdiction is not affected by the amendments in this guidance. This guidance is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2016, and will be effective for the Company in the first quarter of fiscal year 2018. The amendments in this guidance may be applied either prospectively to all deferred tax liabilities and assets or retrospectively to all periods presented. Early adoption is permitted as of the beginning of an interim or annual reporting period. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this guidance.
In January 2016, the FASB issued authoritative guidance related to the accounting for equity investments, financial liabilities under the fair value option, and the presentation and disclosure requirements for financial instruments. In addition, this update clarifies the guidance related to the valuation allowance assessment when recognizing deferred tax assets resulting from the unrealized losses on available-for-sale debt securities. This guidance is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2017, and will be effective for the Company in the first quarter of fiscal year 2019. Entities may early adopt the provision within this guidance to record fair value changes for financial liabilities under the fair value option resulting from instrument-specific credit risk in other comprehensive income. An entity should apply the amendments in the standard by means of a cumulative-effect adjustment to the balance sheet as of the beginning of the fiscal year of adoption. The amendments in the standard that address equity securities without readily determinable fair values should be applied prospectively to equity investments that exist as of the date of adoption of the standard. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this guidance.
In February 2016, the FASB issued authoritative guidance on accounting for leases. This new guidance requires lessees to recognize a right-to-use asset and a lease liability for substantially all leases and to disclose key information about leasing arrangements. The recognition, measurement, and presentation of expenses and cash flows for lessees will remain significantly unchanged from current guidance. This guidance is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2018, and will be effective for the Company in the first quarter of fiscal year 2020. Early adoption is permitted. The guidance is to be adopted using a modified retrospective approach as of the earliest period presented. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this guidance.
In March 2016, the FASB issued authoritative guidance to simplify the accounting for employee share-based payment transactions. The new guidance simplifies the accounting for income taxes, forfeitures, and statutory tax withholding requirements, as well as simplifies the classification of transactions related to share-based payments in the statement of cash flows. The guidance is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2016, including interim periods within those annual reporting periods, and will be effective for the Company in the first quarter of fiscal year 2018. Early adoption is permitted, provided that all amendments are adopted in the same period. The guidance also includes the acceptable or required transition methods for each of the various amendments included in the new standard. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this guidance.
2. Acquisitions
During the six months ended March 31, 2016 and March 27, 2015, the Company paid $282 million and $267 million, respectively, for customer contracts for electronic security services generated under the ADT authorized dealer program and bulk account purchases.
3. Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets
There were no material changes in the carrying amount of goodwill in either of the Company's reportable segments during the six months ended March 31, 2016.
Other Intangible Assets
The following table sets forth the gross carrying amounts and accumulated amortization of the Company's other intangible assets as of March 31, 2016 and September 25, 2015 ($ in millions):
Amortizable:
Contracts and related customer relationships
The changes in the net carrying amount of contracts and related customer relationships during the six months ended March 31, 2016 were as follows ($ in millions):
Customer contract additions, net of dealer charge-backs
Currency translation and other
The weighted-average amortization period for contracts and related customer relationships acquired during the six months ended March 31, 2016 was 15 years. Intangible asset amortization expense for the quarters and six months ended March 31, 2016 and March 27, 2015 was as follows ($ in millions):
Intangible asset amortization expense
The estimated aggregate amortization expense for intangible assets is expected to be as follows ($ in millions):
Remainder of fiscal 2016
Fiscal 2017
Other than goodwill, the Company does not have any other indefinite-lived intangible assets as of March 31, 2016.
4. Debt
As of March 31, 2016, the Company had $280 million outstanding borrowings under its $750 million revolving credit facility compared with $335 million outstanding as of September 25, 2015. During the six months ended March 31, 2016, the Company borrowed $130 million under the revolving credit facility and repaid $185 million. The interest rate for borrowings under the revolving credit facility is based on the London Interbank Offered Rate or an alternative base rate, plus a spread, based upon the Company's credit rating. The revolving credit facility has a maturity date of June 22, 2017.
Refer to Note 1 for information on the fair value of the Company's debt including the Company's unsecured notes as well as information about the Merger's impact on the Company's debt.
5. Equity
During the six months ended March 31, 2016, the Company's Board of Directors declared and paid the following dividends on ADT's common stock:
On December 15, 2015, the Company's Board of Directors authorized an increase in the Company's quarterly dividend from $0.21 per share to $0.22 per share of its common stock.
Pursuant to the terms of the Merger Agreement, the Company was not permitted to declare, authorize, or pay any dividends prior to the consummation of the Merger, other than the quarterly dividend announced on January 7, 2016, or dividends to its wholly owned subsidiaries.
Share Repurchase Programs
On November 18, 2013, the Company's Board of Directors authorized a $1 billion increase to the $2 billion, three-year share repurchase program that was previously approved on November 26, 2012 ("FY2013 Share Repurchase Program"). On November 26, 2015, the FY2013 Share Repurchase Program expired. Prior to the expiration of this share repurchase program, during the six months ended March 31, 2016, the Company made open market repurchases of 985 thousand shares of ADT's common stock at an average price of $30.01 per share. The total cost of open market repurchases was approximately $30 million, all of which was paid during the period. On the expiration date of this share repurchase program, the remaining authorized amount of $27 million expired.
The Company's share repurchases for the six months ended March 31, 2016 were made in accordance with the publicly announced board approved FY2013 Share Repurchase Program. In addition, the Company's repurchases were treated as effective retirements of the purchased shares, and therefore reduced reported shares issued and outstanding by the number of shares repurchased. The Company recorded the excess of the purchase price over the par value of the common stock as a reduction to additional paid-in capital.
On July 17, 2015, the Company's Board of Directors approved a new, three-year share repurchase program authorizing the Company to purchase up to $1 billion of ADT's common stock ("FY2015 Share Repurchase Program"). Pursuant to this approval, the Company may enter into accelerated share repurchase plans, as well as repurchase shares on the open market pursuant to pre-set trading plans meeting the requirements of Rule 10b5-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, in private transactions, or otherwise. The FY2015 Share Repurchase Program expires on July 17, 2018, and may be terminated at any time. As of March 31, 2016, no shares have been repurchased under the approved FY2015 Share Repurchase Program.
The Company may also repurchase shares in connection with tax withholding requirements associated with the vesting of share-based awards, which are separate from the share repurchase programs described above. During the six months ended March 31, 2016, shares repurchased to satisfy tax withholding requirements were not material.
Pursuant to the terms of the Merger Agreement, the Company was not permitted to repurchase shares of its common stock prior to the consummation of the Merger, subject to certain exceptions.
During the six months ended March 31, 2016, the Company did not record any material reclassifications out of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss.
Effective on September 28, 2012, Tyco International plc ("Tyco") distributed to its public stockholders the Company's common stock (the "Separation"), and ADT became an independent public company. During the second quarter of fiscal year 2016, the Company increased its unrecognized tax benefits and reduced additional paid-in capital by approximately $58 million associated with certain pre-Separation intercompany transactions which potentially impact the Company's NOL carryforwards. Refer to Note 6 and Note 7 for more information regarding the Company's unrecognized tax benefits and the 2012 Tax Sharing Agreement, as defined therein.
6. Income Taxes
Unrecognized Tax Benefits
During the second quarter of fiscal year 2016, the Company increased its unrecognized tax benefits and reduced additional paid-in capital by approximately $58 million associated with certain pre-Separation intercompany transactions which potentially impact NOL carryforwards. Refer to Note 5 for a discussion. The Company's uncertain tax positions relate to tax years that remain subject to audit by the taxing authorities in the U.S. federal, state and local, and foreign jurisdictions. Based on the current status of its income tax audits, the Company does not believe that the balance of its unrecognized tax benefits will be resolved in the next twelve months. The resolution of certain components of the Company's uncertain tax positions may be partially offset by an adjustment to the receivable from Tyco, which was recorded pursuant to the 2012 Tax Sharing Agreement. Refer to Note 7 for more information on the 2012 Tax Sharing Agreement, as defined therein.
The Company's income tax expense for the quarter and six months ended March 31, 2016 totaled $28 million and $56 million, respectively, resulting in an effective tax rate for the periods of 31.1% and 30.8% respectively. The Company's income tax expense for the quarter and six months ended March 27, 2015 totaled $32 million and $68 million, respectively, resulting in an effective tax rate for the periods of 32.0% and 32.7%, respectively. The effective tax rates reflect the tax impact of permanent items, state tax expense, changes in tax laws, and non-U.S. net earnings. The effective tax rate can vary from period to period due to permanent tax adjustments, discrete items such as the settlement of income tax audits and changes in tax laws, as well as recurring factors such as changes in the overall effective state tax rate.
7. Commitments and Contingencies
Purchase Obligations
As of March 31, 2016, there have been no material changes to the Company’s purchase obligations outside the ordinary course of business as compared to September 25, 2015.
The Company is subject to various claims and lawsuits in the ordinary course of business, including from time to time, contractual disputes, employment matters, product and general liability claims, claims that the Company has infringed on the intellectual property rights of others, claims related to alleged security system failures, and consumer and employment class actions. In the ordinary course of business, the Company is also subject to regulatory and governmental examinations, information requests and subpoenas, inquiries, investigations, and threatened legal actions and proceedings. In connection with such formal and informal inquiries, the Company receives numerous requests, subpoenas, and orders for documents, testimony, and information in connection with various aspects of its activities. The Company has recorded accruals for losses that it believes are probable to occur and are reasonably estimable. While the ultimate outcome of these matters cannot be predicted with certainty, the Company believes that the resolution of any such proceedings (other than matters specifically identified below), will not have a material adverse effect on its financial position, results of operations, or cash flows.
Environmental Matter
On October 25, 2013, the Company was notified by subpoena that the Office of the Attorney General of California, in conjunction with the Alameda County District Attorney, is investigating whether certain of the Company's waste disposal policies, procedures, and practices are in violation of the California Business and Professions Code and the California Health and Safety Code. The Company is cooperating fully with the respective authorities. The Company is currently unable to predict the outcome of this investigation or reasonably estimate a range of possible loss.
On April 28, 2014, the Company and certain of its current and former officers and directors were named as defendants in a lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The plaintiff alleges violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and SEC Rule 10b-5 and seeks monetary damages, including interest, and class action status on behalf of all plaintiffs who purchased the Company's common stock during the period between November 27, 2012 and January 29, 2014, inclusive. The claims focus primarily on the Company's statements concerning its financial condition and future business prospects for fiscal 2013 and the first quarter of fiscal 2014, its stock repurchase program in 2012 and 2013, and the buyback of stock from Corvex Management LP ("Corvex") in November 2013. On June 27, 2014, another plaintiff filed a similar action in the same court. On July 14, 2014, the Court entered an order consolidating the two actions under the caption Henningsen v. The ADT Corporation, Case No. 14-80566-CIV-DIMITROULEAS, and appointing IBEW Local 595 Pension and Money Purchase Pension Plans, Macomb County Employees' Retirement System, and KBC Asset Management NV as Lead Plaintiffs in the consolidated action. In addition to the Company, the defendants named in the action are Naren Gursahaney, Kathryn A. Mikells, Michael S. Geltzeiler, Keith A. Meister, and Corvex. On September 25, 2014, defendants moved to dismiss this action. On November 13, 2014, Mr. Geltzeiler was dismissed as a defendant without prejudice from this action. On June 4, 2015, the Court entered an order granting the motions to dismiss and dismissed plaintiffs' complaint in its entirety. The Court granted plaintiffs leave to file an amended complaint on or before July 1, 2015. That deadline passed, and the Court dismissed the action with prejudice on July 8, 2015. Plaintiffs filed a notice of appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on August 7, 2015. On August 21, 2015, defendants filed a motion to dismiss the appeal as untimely, and on December 7, 2015, the Court denied the motion. The appeal is still pending before the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
On January 14, 2015, the SEC sent the Company a letter stating that it is investigating the matters at issue in the foregoing litigation and requesting that the Company voluntarily provide the information and documents set forth in the letter concerning the same litigation. On February 16, 2016, the SEC sent the Company a letter stating they have concluded their investigation, and they do not intend to recommend an enforcement action against the Company.
Derivative Litigation
In May and June 2014, four derivative actions were filed against a number of past and present officers and directors of the Company. Like the securities actions described above, the derivative actions focus primarily on the Company's stock repurchase program in 2012 and 2013, the buyback of stock from Corvex in November 2013, and the Company's statements concerning its financial condition and future business prospects for fiscal 2013 and the first quarter of fiscal 2014. Three of the derivative actions were filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. On July 16, 2014, the Court consolidated those three actions under the caption In re The ADT Corporation Derivative Litigation, Lead Case No. 14-80570-CIV-DIMITROULEAS/SNOW, and on May 20, 2015, the Florida federal court entered an order of dismissal. The fourth derivative action, entitled Seidl v. Colligan, Case No. 2014CA007529, was filed in the Circuit Court of the 15th Judicial Circuit, Palm Beach County, Florida. The action was stayed pending the resolution of the Ryan action, described below, and was voluntarily dismissed by the plaintiff on November 19, 2015. A fifth derivative action asserting similar claims, entitled Ryan v. Gursahaney, C.A. No. 9992-VCP (the “Ryan action”), was filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery on August 1, 2014. The Delaware Court of Chancery dismissed the Ryan action on April 28, 2015, and on November 19, 2015, the Delaware Supreme Court affirmed the dismissal. A sixth derivative action asserting similar claims against the same group of past and present officers and directors was filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery on January 27, 2015 under the caption entitled Binning v. Gursahaney, C.A. No. 10586-VCP (the “Binning action”). Defendants moved to dismiss Binning's amended complaint on July 7, 2015, and on December 11, 2015, also forwarded a copy of the Delaware Supreme Court's affirmance of the Ryan action dismissal. On May 6, 2016, the Court granted Defendants' motion and dismissed the complaint.
Merger Litigation
Following the February 16, 2016 announcement of the execution of the Merger Agreement, six purported stockholders of ADT initiated legal actions challenging the Merger. On February 24, 2016, two purported stockholders filed putative class action complaints, entitled Shannon Seidl v. The ADT Corporation, et al., C.A. No. 50-2016-CA-1984-XXXX-MBN and Yun Li v. The ADT Corporation, et al., C.A. No. 50-2016-CA-1995-XXXX-MB, in the Circuit Court of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit in and for Palm Beach County, Florida against ADT, the members of the ADT Board, Apollo Global Management, LLC (together with its consolidated subsidiaries and affiliates, "Apollo"), Parent, Merger Sub, Parent Inc., and Parent LP. On March 9, 2016 and March 10, 2016, respectively, two purported stockholders filed putative class action complaints, entitled Rosenfeld Family Foundation v. The ADT Corporation, et al., C.A. No. 50-2016-CA-002566-XXXX-MB and Federico Castro v. The ADT Corporation, et al., C.A. No. 50-2016-CA-002661-XXXX-MB, also in the Circuit Court of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit in and for Palm Beach County, Florida against the same defendants (collectively the "Florida Actions"). The complaints in all four of the Florida Actions included claims for breach of fiduciary duty against the individual directors, alleging that the directors violated the duties of loyalty, good faith, due care, and/or disclosure owed to ADT stockholders. The complaints also included claims for aiding and abetting breaches of fiduciary duty against Apollo, Parent, Merger Sub, Parent Inc., and Parent LP.
Plaintiffs Seidl, Rosenfeld, and Castro sought an order, inter alia, permanently enjoining the defendants from consummating the Merger and enjoining the director defendants from initiating any defensive measures that would inhibit their ability to maximize value for ADT stockholders. Plaintiff Li sought an order, inter alia, requiring the director defendants to fulfill their fiduciary duties. All plaintiffs also sought certification of the actions as class actions, an accounting of all damages suffered or to be suffered as a result of the transaction, and attorneys’ fees and costs. On April 8, 2016, the plaintiffs in each of the Florida Actions filed notices voluntarily dismissing each of those actions.
On March 24, 2016 and April 4, 2016, two purported stockholders filed putative class action complaints, respectively entitled MSS 12-09 Trust v. Thomas Colligan, et al., Case No. 12133 and Peter Roy v. The ADT Corporation, et al., Case No. 12160 (the “Delaware Actions”), in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware asserting claims for breach of fiduciary duty against the individual ADT directors. Plaintiffs sought an order finding the directors liable for breaching their fiduciary duties based on the claim that the definitive proxy statement, defined below, failed to disclose certain allegedly material information necessary to permit ADT stockholders to cast a fully informed vote on the Merger transaction. Plaintiff Peter Roy also filed motions seeking expedited discovery and a preliminary injunction.
ADT believes that the Florida Actions and the Delaware Actions were without merit and that no further disclosure was required to supplement the Company's definitive proxy statement that was filed with the SEC on March 25, 2016 (as amended or supplemented from time to time, the “definitive proxy statement”), under applicable laws. However, to eliminate the burden, expense, and uncertainties inherent in such litigation, and without admitting any liability or wrongdoing, ADT determined to make certain supplemental disclosures to the definitive proxy statement, as set forth in the Company's Form 8-K filed on April 11, 2016. Nothing in the supplemental disclosures shall be deemed an admission of the legal necessity or materiality under applicable laws of any of the disclosures. On April 12, 2016 and April 13, 2016, Plaintiff MSS 12-09 Trust and Plaintiff Roy, respectively, filed notices voluntarily dismissing the Delaware Actions.
ADT and the other named defendants have vigorously denied, and continue to vigorously deny, that they have committed any violation of law or engaged in any of the wrongful acts that were alleged in the Florida Actions or the Delaware Actions.
Income Tax Matters
In connection with the Separation from Tyco, the Company entered into a tax sharing agreement with Tyco and Pentair Ltd. (the "2012 Tax Sharing Agreement") that governs the rights and obligations of the Company, Tyco, and Pentair Ltd. for certain pre-Separation tax liabilities, including Tyco's obligations under the tax sharing agreement among Tyco, Covidien plc ("Covidien") now operating as a subsidiary of Medtronic plc ("Medtronic"), and TE Connectivity Ltd. ("TE Connectivity") entered into in 2007 (the "2007 Tax Sharing Agreement"). The Company is responsible for all of its own taxes that are not shared pursuant to the 2012 Tax Sharing Agreement's sharing formulae. Tyco and Pentair Ltd. are likewise responsible for their tax liabilities that are not subject to the 2012 Tax Sharing Agreement's sharing formulae. Tyco has the right to administer, control, and settle all U.S. income tax audits for the periods prior to and including the Separation.
With respect to years prior to and including the 2007 separation of Covidien and TE Connectivity by Tyco, tax authorities have raised issues and proposed tax adjustments that are generally subject to the sharing provisions of the 2007 Tax Sharing Agreement. On July 1, 2013, Tyco announced that the IRS issued Notices of Deficiency to Tyco primarily related to the treatment of certain intercompany debt transactions (the "Tyco IRS Notices"). These notices assert that additional taxes of $883 million plus penalties of $154 million are owed based on audits of the 1997 through 2000 tax years of Tyco and its subsidiaries, as they existed at that time. Further, Tyco reported receiving Final Partnership Administrative Adjustments (the "Partnership Notices") for certain U.S. partnerships owned by its former U.S. subsidiaries, for which Tyco has indicated that it estimates an additional tax deficiency of approximately $30 million will be asserted. The additional tax assessments related to the Tyco IRS Notices and the Partnership Notices exclude interest and do not reflect the impact on subsequent periods if the IRS challenge to Tyco's tax filings is proved correct. Tyco has filed petitions with the U.S. Tax Court to contest the IRS assessments. Consistent with its petitions filed with the U.S. Tax Court, Tyco has advised the Company that it strongly disagrees with the IRS position and believes (i) it has meritorious defenses for the respective tax filings, (ii) the IRS positions with regard to these matters are inconsistent with applicable tax laws and Treasury regulations, and (iii) the previously reported taxes for the years in question are appropriate. No payments with respect to the Tyco IRS Notices would be required until the dispute is resolved in the U.S. Tax Court. At the request of the IRS, the trial start date was postponed and rescheduled for October 2016.
On January 15, 2016, Tyco entered into a Stipulation of Settled Issues with the IRS regarding the Tyco IRS Notices and the Partnership Notices intending to resolve all disputes related to the intercompany debt issues for IRS audits of 1997 through 2000 tax years of Tyco and its subsidiaries, as they existed at the time. On May 17, 2016, the IRS Office of Appeals issued fully-executed Forms 870-AD that effectively settle the matters on appeal on the same terms as those set forth in the Stipulation of Settled Issues, and on May 31, 2016 the U.S. Tax Court entered decisions consistent with the Stipulation of Settled Issues. As a result, Tyco has resolved all aspects of the controversy before the U.S. Tax Court and before the Appeals Division of the IRS for audit cycles 1997 through 2007. The resolution resulted in a total cash payment to the IRS shared among Tyco, Medtronic, and TE Connectivity in accordance with the formula in the 2007 Tax Sharing Agreement. Consequently, the cash payment was split among Tyco, Medtronic, and TE Connectivity 27%, 42%, and 31%, respectively. ADT’s share of the collective liability is determined pursuant to the 2012 Tax Sharing Agreement, and, under such agreement, ADT is not responsible for any cash payments under the resolution. The resolution has no impact on ADT's financial position, results of operations, or cash flows.
During the fiscal year 2015, the IRS concluded its field examination of certain of Tyco's U.S. federal income tax returns for the 2008 and 2009 tax years of Tyco and its subsidiaries. Tyco received anticipated Revenue Agents' Reports (the "2008-2009 RARs") proposing adjustments to certain Tyco entities' previously filed tax return positions, including the predecessor to ADT, relating primarily to certain intercompany debt. In response, Tyco filed a formal, written protest with the IRS Office of Appeals requesting review of the 2008-2009 RARs. Tyco has advised the Company that it strongly disagrees with the IRS position and intends to vigorously defend its prior filed tax return positions and believes the previously reported taxes for the years in question are appropriate. The 2008-2009 RARs are still under administrative review by the IRS, and are not covered by the Stipulation of Settled Issues.
If the IRS should successfully assert its positions with respect to the matters described above, the Company's share of the collective liability, if any, would be determined pursuant to the 2012 Tax Sharing Agreement. In accordance with the 2012 Tax Sharing Agreement, Tyco is responsible for the first $500 million of tax, interest, and penalty assessed against pre-2013 tax years including its 27% share of the tax, interest, and penalty assessed for periods prior to Tyco's 2007 spin-off transaction ("Pre-2007 Spin Periods"). In accordance with the 2012 Tax Sharing Agreement, the amount ultimately assessed against Pre-2007 Spin Periods with respect to the Tyco IRS Notices and the Partnership Notices would have to be in excess of $1.85 billion, including other assessments for unrelated historical tax matters Tyco has, or may settle in the future, before the Company would be required to pay any of the amounts assessed. In addition to the Company's share of cash taxes pursuant to the 2012 Tax Sharing Agreement, the Company's net operating loss ("NOL") and credit carryforwards may be significantly reduced or eliminated by audit adjustments to pre-2013 tax periods. NOL and credit carryforwards may be reduced prior to incurring any cash tax liability, and will not be compensated for under the tax sharing agreement. The Company believes that its income tax reserves and the liabilities recorded in the Condensed and Consolidated Balance Sheet for the 2012 Tax Sharing Agreement continue to be appropriate. However, the ultimate resolution of these matters is uncertain, and if the IRS were to prevail, it could have a material adverse impact on the Company's financial position, results of operations, and cash flows, potentially including a significant reduction in or the elimination of the Company's available NOL and credit carryforwards generated in pre-Separation periods. Further, to the extent ADT is responsible for any liability under the 2012 Tax Sharing Agreement, there could be a material impact on its financial position, results of operations, cash flows, or its effective tax rate in future reporting periods.
Refer to Note 6 for information regarding a change to the Company's unrecognized tax benefits during the second quarter of fiscal year 2016.
Other liabilities in the Company's Condensed and Consolidated Balance Sheets as of both March 31, 2016 and September 25, 2015 include $19 million for ADT's obligations under certain tax related agreements entered into in conjunction with the Separation. The maximum amount of potential future payments is not determinable as they relate to unknown conditions and future events that cannot be predicted.
8. Earnings Per Share
Basic earnings per share is computed by dividing net income attributable to common shares by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding for the period. Diluted earnings per share reflects the potential dilution of securities that could participate in earnings, but not securities that are anti-dilutive. The computations of basic and diluted earnings per share for the quarters and six months ended March 31, 2016 and March 27, 2015 are as follows:
Numerator:
Denominator:
Basic weighted-average shares outstanding
Effect of dilutive securities:
Dilutive effect of stock options and restricted stock units
Diluted weighted-average shares outstanding
The computation of diluted earnings per share excludes potentially dilutive securities whose effect would have been anti-dilutive in the amount of approximately 2.9 million shares and 2.2 million shares for the quarters ended March 31, 2016 and March 27, 2015, respectively, and approximately 2.8 million shares and 2.2 million shares for the six months ended March 31, 2016 and March 27, 2015, respectively.
9. Segment Data
The Company's operating segments are also its reportable segments and are comprised of the following:
United States: Includes sales, installation, and monitoring for residential, business, and health customers in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, as well as corporate and other operating expenses associated with support functions in the U.S.
Canada: Includes sales, installation, and monitoring for residential, business, and health customers in Canada, as well as operating expenses associated with certain support functions in Canada.
The Company's CODM evaluates segment performance based on several factors, of which the primary financial measures are revenue and adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization ("Adjusted EBITDA"). Revenue is attributed to individual countries based upon the operating entity that records the transaction. Adjusted EBITDA is defined as net income adjusted for interest, taxes, and certain non-cash items including depreciation of subscriber system assets and other fixed assets, amortization of deferred costs and deferred revenue associated with customer acquisitions, and amortization of dealer and other intangible assets. Adjusted EBITDA is also adjusted to exclude charges and gains related to the Merger, acquisitions, integrations, restructurings, impairments, and other income or charges. Such items are excluded to eliminate the impact of items that management does not consider indicative of the Company's core operating performance and/or business trends of the Company.
All discussions and amounts reported below, including the prior year period, are based on the new segment structure. There is no impact on the previously reported condensed and consolidated balance sheet, statement of operations, or statement of cash flows.
Segment results for the quarters and six months ended March 31, 2016 and March 27, 2015 are as follows ($ in millions):
Adjusted EBITDA:
Depreciation and Amortization:
(1) Results include the impact of fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates.
The Company's CODM does not evaluate the performance of the Company's assets on a segment basis for internal management reporting. Therefore, such information is not presented.
The following table sets forth a reconciliation of segment Adjusted EBITDA to the Company's consolidated income before income taxes for the quarters and six months ended March 31, 2016 and March 27, 2015 ($ in millions):
Restructuring and other
Merger, acquisition, and integration costs
Radio conversion costs
Separation related other income
Item 2. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.
The following discussion and analysis should be read in conjunction with our Condensed and Consolidated Financial Statements and the notes thereto, which are included in Item 1 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, as well as our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 25, 2015, which was filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on November 12, 2015 (the "2015 Form 10-K"). The Condensed and Consolidated Financial Statements include the consolidated results of The ADT Corporation and its wholly owned subsidiaries (hereinafter referred to as "we," "our," the "Company," or "ADT"). The financial statements have been prepared in United States dollars ("USD") in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America ("GAAP").
This discussion and analysis contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. Actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of many factors, including, but not limited to those provided in Part I, Item 1A. Risk Factors in the 2015 Form 10-K, and in Part II, Item 1A. Risk Factors and under the heading "Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements" below.
Historically, we had a 52- or 53-week fiscal year that ended on the last Friday in September. Fiscal year 2015 was a 52-week fiscal year. On October 14, 2015, our Board of Directors approved a change to our fiscal year end from the last Friday in September to September 30 of each year, and thereafter, the end of each fiscal quarter will be the last day of the calendar month. The fiscal year change is effective for our 2016 fiscal year, which began on September 26, 2015, the day after the last day of our 2015 fiscal year, and will end on September 30, 2016. This change better aligns our external reporting with the monthly recurring nature of revenues and expenses associated with our customer base.
ADT is a leading provider of monitored security, interactive home and business automation, and related monitoring services. We currently serve approximately 6.5 million customers, making us the largest company of our kind in both the United States ("U.S.") and Canada.
We conduct business through our operating entities. During the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2015, we changed our segment reporting structure, which resulted in the reorganization of our single operating segment into two operating segments, United States and Canada, which are also our reportable segments. Operating results are reported based on the following two segments:
United States: Includes sales, installation, and monitoring for residential, business, and health customers in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, as well as corporate and other operating expenses associated with support functions in the United States.
Where applicable, presentation of our operating segments and prior period amounts reported herein are based on the new segment structure.
Our subscriber-based business requires significant upfront costs to generate new customers, which in turn provide predictable recurring revenue generated from monthly monitoring fees. In any period, our business results will be impacted by a number of factors, including customer additions, costs associated with adding new customers, average revenue per customer, costs related to providing services to customers, and customer tenure. We manage our business to optimize these key factors. We focus on investing in each of our customer acquisition channels in order to grow our account base in a cost effective manner and generate positive future cash flows and attractive margins. We also focus on maintaining consistently high levels of customer satisfaction to increase customer tenure and improve profitability.
On February 14, 2016, we, as authorized by our Board of Directors, entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”), by and among ADT, Prime Security Services Borrower, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Parent”), Prime Security One MS, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”), and solely for the purposes of Article IX thereof, Prime Security Services Parent, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Parent Inc.”) and Prime Security Services TopCo Parent, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“Parent LP”), pursuant to which, on May 2, 2016 (the "Closing Date"), Merger Sub merged with and into ADT, with ADT surviving as a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (the “Merger”).
At the effective time of the Merger, each share of our common stock, par value $0.01 per share, issued and outstanding immediately prior to the effective time of the Merger (other than shares of ADT’s common stock held by Parent, Merger Sub, or any other direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Parent, shares owned by ADT, including shares held in treasury, or any of its direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiaries, and shares owned by stockholders who have properly made and not withdrawn a demand for appraisal rights under Delaware law) was cancelled and converted into the right to receive cash consideration of $42.00 per share, without interest and subject to applicable withholding taxes.
In connection with the closing of the Merger, on the Closing Date, our common stock was delisted from the New York Stock Exchange. We were also deregistered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 on May 12, 2016.
Refer to our Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on February 16, 2016 for additional information on the Merger and the definitive proxy statement relating to the Merger filed with the SEC on Schedule 14A on March 25, 2016. Refer to Note 1 to the Condensed and Consolidated Financial Statements for information about the Merger's impact on our debt.
We operate our business with the goal of retaining customers for long periods of time in order to recoup our initial investment in new customers, achieving cash flow break-even in approximately three years. We generate substantial recurring net operating cash flow from our customer base. In evaluating our financial results, we review the following key performance indicators:
Customer Growth. Growth of our customer base is crucial to drive our recurring customer revenue as well as to leverage costs of operations. To grow our customer base and improve awareness of our brands, we market our monitored security and home/business automation systems and services through national television advertisements, Internet advertising, a direct sales force, and an authorized dealer network. The key customer metrics that we use to track customer growth are gross customer additions and ending number of customers. Gross customer additions are new monitored customers installed or acquired during the period. Both gross customer additions and ending number of customers exclude contracts monitored but not owned.
Customer Attrition. Our economic model is highly dependent on customer retention. Success in retaining customers is driven in part by our discipline in accepting new customers with favorable characteristics and by providing high quality equipment, installation, monitoring, and customer service. Customer unit attrition is utilized as our key metric in assessing and managing customer retention. Therefore, beginning with the first quarter of fiscal year 2016, we have discontinued presentation of customer revenue attrition.
Customer Unit Attrition Rate. Customer unit attrition measures residential and business customer sites canceled, excluding health services and contracts monitored but not owned, net of dealer charge-backs and re-sales. Customer sites are considered canceled when all services are terminated. Dealer charge-backs represent customer cancellations charged back to the dealers because the customer canceled service during the charge-back period, which is generally twelve to fifteen months. Re-sales are inactive customer sites that are returned to active service during the period. The customer unit attrition rate is a 52-week trailing ratio, the numerator of which is the number of customer sites canceled during the period due to attrition, net of dealer charge-backs and re-sales, and the denominator of which is the average of the customer base at the beginning of each month during the period.
Recurring Customer Revenue. Recurring customer revenue is generated by contractual monthly recurring fees for monitoring and other recurring services provided to our customers. Our other revenue consists of revenue associated with the sale of equipment, amortization of deferred revenue related to upfront fees, non-routine repair and maintenance services, and customer termination charges.
Average Revenue per Customer. Average revenue per customer measures the average amount of recurring revenue per customer per month, excluding contracts monitored but not owned, and is calculated based on the recurring revenue under contract at the end of the period divided by the total number of customers under contract at the end of the period.
Cost to Serve Expenses. Cost to serve expenses represent the cost of providing services to our customers reflected in our Condensed and Consolidated Statements of Operations. These expenses include costs associated with service calls for customers who have maintenance contracts, costs of monitoring, call center customer service and guard response, partnership commissions and continuing equity programs, bad debt expense, and general and administrative expenses. Recurring customer revenue less cost to serve expenses represents our recurring revenue margin.
Gross Subscriber Acquisition Cost Expenses. Gross subscriber acquisition cost expenses represent certain costs related to the acquisition of new customers reflected in our Condensed and Consolidated Statements of Operations such as advertising, marketing, and both direct and indirect selling costs for all new customer accounts as well as sales commissions and installation equipment and labor costs associated with transactions where title to the security system is contractually transferred to the customer.
Adjusted Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization ("Adjusted EBITDA"). Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP measure reflecting net income adjusted for interest, taxes, and certain non-cash items which include depreciation of subscriber system assets and other fixed assets, amortization of deferred costs and deferred revenue associated with customer acquisitions, and amortization of dealer and other intangible assets. Adjusted EBITDA is also adjusted to exclude charges and gains related to the Merger, acquisitions, integrations, restructurings, impairments, and other income or charges. Such items are excluded to eliminate the impact of items that management does not consider indicative of our core operating performance and/or business trends. We believe Adjusted EBITDA is useful to provide investors with information about operating profits, adjusted for significant non-cash and other items, generated from the existing customer base. A reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA to net income (the most comparable GAAP measure) and additional information, including a description of the limitations relating to the use of Adjusted EDITDA, are provided under "-Non-GAAP Measures."
Adjusted Pre Subscriber Acquisition Cost EBITDA ("Adjusted Pre-SAC EBITDA"). Adjusted Pre-SAC EBITDA is a non-GAAP measure reflecting Adjusted EBITDA, as discussed above, adjusted for gross subscriber acquisition cost expenses and revenue associated with the sale of equipment. We believe Adjusted Pre-SAC EBITDA is useful to provide investors with information on the operational profits from our existing customer base by excluding certain revenue and expenses related to acquiring new customers. A reconciliation of Adjusted Pre-SAC EBITDA to net income (the most comparable GAAP measure) and additional information, including a description of the limitations relating to the use of Adjusted Pre-SAC EBITDA, are provided under "-Non-GAAP Measures."
Free Cash Flow ("FCF"). FCF is a non-GAAP measure that our management employs to measure cash that is available to repay debt, make other investments, return capital to stockholders through dividends, and repurchase shares. The difference between net cash provided by operating activities (the most comparable GAAP measure) and FCF is the deduction of cash outlays for capital expenditures, subscriber system assets, and dealer generated customer accounts and bulk account purchases. A reconciliation of FCF to net cash provided by operating activities and additional information, including a description of the limitations relating to the use of FCF, are provided under "-Non-GAAP Measures."
Quarter Ended March 31, 2016 Compared to Quarter Ended March 27, 2015
The following table sets forth our consolidated results of operations and key performance indicators for the periods presented.
(in millions, except as otherwise indicated)
Results of Operations:
Recurring customer revenue
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)%
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(10.0
Key Performance Indicators:
Ending number of customers (thousands)
Gross customer additions (thousands)
Customer unit attrition rate (percent)
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Average revenue per customer (dollars)
Cost to serve expenses
Gross subscriber acquisition cost expenses
Adjusted Pre-SAC EBITDA(1)
N/M - Not meaningful
Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted Pre-SAC EBITDA are non-GAAP measures. Refer to the "Non-GAAP Measures" section for the definitions thereof and reconciliations to the most comparable GAAP measures.
Revenue by segment for the quarter ended March 31, 2016 compared to the quarter ended March 27, 2015 was as follows:
$ Change
United States Revenue
Revenue in the United States increased as a result of growth in recurring customer revenue for our residential and business customers of $13 million. Recurring customer revenue increased primarily as a result of higher average revenue per customer. Average revenue per customer increased by $1.62 or 3.7%, to $45.55 as of March 31, 2016 as compared to $43.93 as of March 27, 2015. This increase was primarily due to the addition of new customers at higher rates, largely driven by an increase in ADT Pulse® customers as compared to total customer additions, as well as price escalations on our existing customer base.
Gross customer additions decreased by 9.8% to 211 thousand for the quarter ended March 31, 2016 as compared to 234 thousand for the quarter ended March 27, 2015. This decrease was due to lower customer additions in our direct channel which included the negative impact from our enhanced focus on high quality customer additions through our disciplined customer selection process.
Ending number of customers, net of attrition, decreased slightly to 5.8 million customers as of March 31, 2016 as compared to 5.9 million customers as of March 27, 2015. Customer unit attrition was impacted favorably by strengthened resale efforts and improvements in voluntary disconnects partially offset by the impact of non-pay and relocation disconnects.
Canada Revenue
Revenue in Canada decreased primarily due to the unfavorable impact of foreign currency exchange rates.
We evaluate operating expenses by categorizing costs into cost to serve expenses, gross subscriber acquisition cost expenses, depreciation and amortization, and other. The following tables reflect the location of these items in our Condensed and Consolidated Statements of Operations as well as by segment for the quarters ended March 31, 2016 and March 27, 2015:
For the Quarter Ended March 31, 2016
Selling, general and
United States Operating Expenses
Operating expenses in the United States increased by $18 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2016 as compared to the quarter ended March 27, 2015 largely resulting from an increase in depreciation and amortization of $20 million, and cost to serve expenses of $4 million. These increases were partially offset by a decrease in gross subscriber acquisition cost expenses of $7 million.
The increase in depreciation and amortization was primarily driven by additional depreciation expense on existing and new subscriber system assets, which included higher costs associated with ADT Pulse® additions and upgrades.
The increase in cost to serve expenses was primarily driven by the following:
•Increase in customer service expenses of $8 million, primarily due to an increase in ADT Pulse® customers.
•Increase in radio conversion costs of $7 million.
Incremental costs of $7 million related to the Merger, as discussed above.
These increases were partially offset by a decrease in maintenance expenses due to a lower volume of customer tickets and improved operational efficiencies from strengthened business platforms and capabilities to support business simplifications, and lower bad debt expense.
The decrease in gross subscriber acquisition cost expenses was primarily driven by a decrease in advertising costs of $8 million. Advertising costs decreased largely due to greater costs associated with dealer lead generation activities under a marketing efficiency program for the quarter ended March 27, 2015 as compared to the quarter ended March 31, 2016.
Canada Operating Expenses
Operating expenses in Canada decreased by $4 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2016 as compared to the quarter ended March 27, 2015 primarily due to the impact of foreign currency exchange rates.
Income tax expense decreased $4 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2016 as compared to the quarter ended March 27, 2015, and the effective tax rate decreased to 31.1% from 32.0%. The effective tax rate can vary from period to period due to permanent tax adjustments, discrete items such as the settlement of income tax audits and changes in tax laws, as well as recurring factors such as changes in the overall effective state tax rate.
Six Months Ended March 31, 2016 Compared to Six Months Ended March 27, 2015
The following table sets forth our consolidated results of operations, summary cash flow data, and key performance indicators for the periods presented.
Summary Cash Flow Data:
FCF(1)
Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted Pre-SAC EBITDA, and FCF are non-GAAP measures. Refer to the "Non-GAAP Measures" section for the definitions thereof and reconciliations to the most comparable GAAP measures.
Revenue by segment for the six months ended March 31, 2016 compared to the six months ended March 27, 2015 was as follows:
Revenue in the United States increased as a result of growth in recurring customer revenue for our residential and business customers of $33 million. Recurring customer revenue increased primarily as a result of higher average revenue per customer. Average revenue per customer increased by $1.62 or 3.7% to $45.55 as of March 31, 2016 as compared to $43.93 as of March 27, 2015. This increase was primarily due to the addition of new customers at higher rates, largely driven by an increase in ADT Pulse® customers as compared to total customer additions, as well as price escalations on our existing customer base.
Gross customer additions decreased by 6.1% to 449 thousand during the six months ended March 31, 2016 as compared to 478 thousand during the six months ended March 27, 2015. This decrease was due to lower customer additions in our direct channel which included the negative impact from our enhanced focus on high quality customer additions through our disciplined customer selection process. This decrease was partially offset by additional customers resulting from the change in the calendar month end, as there were six additional days in the six months ended March 31, 2016, as discussed above.
Revenue in Canada decreased due to the unfavorable impact of foreign currency exchange rates.
We evaluate operating expenses by categorizing costs into cost to serve expenses, gross subscriber acquisition cost expenses, depreciation and amortization, and other. The following tables reflect the location of these items in our Condensed and Consolidated Statements of Operations as well as by segment for the six months ended March 31, 2016 and March 27, 2015:
For the Six Months Ended March 31, 2016
Operating expenses in the United States increased by $53 million for the six months ended March 31, 2016 as compared to the six months ended March 27, 2015 largely resulting from an increase in depreciation and amortization of $41 million and cost to serve expenses of $11 million.
•Increase in customer service expenses of $17 million, primarily due to an increase in ADT Pulse® customers.
These increases were partially offset by a decrease in maintenance expenses due to a lower volume of customer tickets and improved operational efficiencies from strengthened business platforms and capabilities to support business simplifications.
Operating expenses in Canada decreased by $13 million for the six months ended March 31, 2016 as compared to the six months ended March 27, 2015 primarily due to the impact of foreign currency exchange rates.
Income tax expense decreased $12 million for the six months ended March 31, 2016 as compared to the six months ended March 27, 2015, and the effective tax rate decreased to 30.8% from 32.7%. The effective tax rate can vary from period to period due to permanent tax adjustments, discrete items such as the settlement of income tax audits and changes in tax laws, as well as recurring factors such as changes in the overall effective state tax rate.
To provide investors with additional information in connection with our results as determined by GAAP, we also disclose non-GAAP measures which management believes provide useful information to investors. These measures consist of Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted Pre-SAC EBITDA, and FCF. These measures are not financial measures calculated in accordance with GAAP and should not be considered as substitutes for net income, operating profit, cash from operating activities, or any other operating performance measure calculated in accordance with GAAP, and they may not be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies. We use Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted Pre-SAC EBITDA to measure the operational strength and performance of our business. We use FCF as an additional measure of our ability to repay debt, make other investments, return capital to stockholders through dividends, and repurchase shares. These measures, or measures that are based on them, may also be used as components in our incentive compensation plans.
We believe Adjusted EBITDA is useful because it measures our success in acquiring, retaining, and servicing our customer base and our ability to generate and grow our recurring revenue while providing a high level of customer service in a cost-effective manner. Adjusted EBITDA excludes interest expense and the provision for income taxes. Excluding these items eliminates the expenses associated with our capitalization and tax structure. Because Adjusted EBITDA excludes interest expense, it does not give effect to cash used for debt service requirements and thus does not reflect available funds for distributions, reinvestment, or other discretionary uses. Adjusted EBITDA also excludes depreciation and amortization, which eliminates the impact of non-cash charges related to capital investments. Depreciation and amortization includes depreciation of subscriber system assets and other fixed assets, amortization of deferred costs and deferred revenue associated with subscriber acquisitions, and amortization of dealer and other intangible assets. Adjusted EBITDA is also adjusted to exclude charges and gains related to the Merger, acquisitions, integrations, restructurings, impairments, and other income or charges. Such items are excluded to eliminate the impact of items that management does not consider indicative of our core operating performance and/or business trends.
We believe Adjusted Pre-SAC EBITDA is useful because it measures the operational profits from our existing customer base by excluding certain revenue and expenses related to acquiring new customers. Adjusted Pre-SAC EBITDA reflects Adjusted EBITDA, as discussed above, adjusted for gross subscriber acquisition cost expenses and revenue associated with the sale of equipment. Excluding subscriber acquisition related revenue and expenses eliminates the impact of growing our subscriber base.
There are material limitations to using Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted Pre-SAC EBITDA. Adjusted EBITDA does not take into account certain significant items, including depreciation and amortization, interest expense, tax expense, and other adjustments which directly affect our net income. In addition to the Adjusted EBITDA limitations, Adjusted Pre-SAC EBITDA does not take into account subscriber acquisition related revenue and expenses. These limitations are best addressed by considering the economic effects of the excluded items independently, and by considering Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted Pre-SAC EBITDA in conjunction with net income as calculated in accordance with GAAP.
FCF is defined as cash from operations less cash outlays related to capital expenditures, subscriber system assets, and dealer generated customer accounts and bulk account purchases. Dealer generated customer accounts are accounts that are generated through our network of independent, third-party authorized dealers. Bulk account purchases represent accounts that we acquire from third parties outside of our authorized dealer network, such as other security service providers, on a selective basis. These items are subtracted from cash from operating activities because they represent long-term investments that are required for normal business activities. As a result, subject to the limitations described below, FCF is a useful measure of our cash available to repay debt, make other investments, return capital to stockholders through dividends, and repurchase shares.
FCF adjusts for cash items that are ultimately within management's and our Board of Directors' discretion to direct, and therefore may imply that there is less or more cash that is available than the most comparable GAAP measure. FCF is not intended to represent residual cash flow for discretionary expenditures since debt repayment requirements and other non-discretionary expenditures are not deducted. These limitations are best addressed by using FCF in combination with the GAAP cash flow numbers.
Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted Pre-SAC EBITDA
The table below reconciles Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted Pre-SAC EBITDA to net income for the periods presented.
Revenue associated with the sale of equipment
Adjusted Pre-SAC EBITDA
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Did Rep. Mike Kennedy Say ‘Access to Hospitals’ Was Responsible for Deaths?
According to rumors, the Utah Republican says access to hospitals killed a million or more Americans a year — but is that true?
Kim LaCapria
Rep. Mike Kennedy claimed that access to hospitals kills at least a million Americans per year.
What's True
Rep. Mike Kennedy said "I’ve heard from National Institutes of Health and otherwise that we’re killing up to a million, a million and a half people every year in our hospitals."
What's False
We could not find a source supporting the claim that 1M to 1.5M people are "killed" every year in hospitals.
In April 2018 Utah Republican Mike Kennedy made national headlines as he faced off against Mitt Romney for a Senate seat in that state, prompting the circulation of a meme asserting that the Kennedy had once made a statement about access to hospitals and patient deaths:
Although the meme dated to at least 2015, its featured quote appeared in a 24 April 2018 Salt Lake Tribune article: “Who is that guy who beat Mitt Romney at the GOP convention?” which reported that:
At the top of the list is to “repeal Obamacare.” [Kennedy] told delegates, “I oppose Obamacare and any scheme that puts the government between doctor and patient.”
Four years ago, Kennedy made national headlines when, during a legislative task force meeting, he said, “Sometimes access to health care can be damaging and dangerous … I’ve heard from National Institutes of Health and otherwise that we’re killing up to a million, a million and a half people every year in our hospitals. And it’s access to hospitals that’s killing those people.”
That piece referenced a report and video from Salt Lake station KSTU, but neither source provided complete context. Kennedy was quoted as arguing against Medicaid expansion, and as represented, his remarks were accurately transcribed:
Representative Mike Kennedy, a Republican from Alpine, made the comments in a Health Reform Task Force meeting, in reaction to a story from another doctor.
Doctor Kyle Jones told the legislature’s Health Reform Task Force about a neighbor who was in a car crash. That neighbor suffered a rare response to pain medicine called toxic encephalopathy. The condition has caused memory loss, seizures and depression, according to Jones.
“Sometimes access actually can mean harm,” said Representative Mike Kennedy, a family physician.
The Republican from Alpine repeated the argument more than once: “Sometimes access to health care can be damaging and dangerous. And it’s a perspective for the [Legislative] body to consider is that, I’ve heard from National Institutes of Health and otherwise that we’re killing up to a million, a million and a half people every year in our hospitals. And it’s access to hospitals that’s killing those people.”
We were unable to locate any information substantiating Kennedy’s claim that access to hospitals killed between one and one-and-a-half million Americans per year. It’s possible Kennedy was referencing an ongoing study of the effects of medical mistakes, a topic that was the subject of research published in The BMJ in May 2016, but those figures estimated only 250,000 deaths due to medical error per year at that time.
Kennedy may also have been referencing research published in September 2013, in which researchers extrapolated between 210,000 and 400,000 deaths per year “associated with preventable harm in hospitals.” Authors of that study concluded that “engaging patients and their advocates during hospital care, systematically seeking the patients’ voice in identifying harms, transparent accountability for harm, and intentional correction of root causes of harm will be necessary” to reduce preventable hospital deaths but did not recommend restricting access to medical care as a preventive measure.
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Davidson, Lee. “Who Is That Guy Who Beat Mitt Romney At The GOP Convention?”
The Salt Lake Tribune. 23 April 2018.
James, John T. PhD. “A New, Evidence-Based Estimate Of Patient Harms Associated With Hospital Care.”
Journal of Patient Safety. September 2013.
Romboy, Dennis. “Little-Known Mike Kennedy To Take On Mitt Romney In Utah GOP Primary.”
Deseret News. 23 April 2018.
Roth, Max. “State Representative To Legislature: Hospitals Can Be Dangerous.”
KSTU. 28 August 2014.
Johns Hopkins Medicine. “Study Suggests Medical Errors Now Third Leading Cause of Death In The U.S..”
3 May 2016.
CBS News. “Mitt Romney ‘Probably Not Too Worried’ After Second Place Finish At Utah Convention, Reporter Says.”
26 April 2018.
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PSG talisman Neymar is one of the biggest football players in the world and he build this reputation while playing for his numerous clubs from Santos to Barcelona and Paris in addition to his impressive performances for the Brazilian national team. He is the main man for the Selecao as they gradually close in on a place at Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup via the qualifiers. Neymar has scored three goals in two qualifying games.
The PSG star missed the remaining two qualifiers through a leg injury, but his absence didn’t prevent Brazil from making it four wins from four qualifiers. The Selecao are leading the South American part of the qualifiers as they have a two-point lead over archrivals Argentina at the summit.
In total, Neymar, 28, has 64 goals in 103 Brazil games to make him the second leading goalscorer in history behind the great Pele (77 goals in 92 games). In a bid to further highlight Neymar as one of the leading lights in world football, Puma have designed new football boots for him. The special football boots would ne worn exclusively by the PSG player.
Neymar was with Nike before he signed for rivals Puma in the summer and that left fans with huge expectations on what the German sportswear manufacturers will do with the Brazilian international in terms of football boots and jerseys.
The Puma Future Z 1.2 football boots have finally been unveiled and they were designed for Neymar exclusively. It was designed to take the player’s game to the next level with his personal signature, No. 10, on the football boots.
The new football boots have started to work as expected after Neymar bagged a hattrick in the last PSG game, a Champions League home meeting with Istanbul Basaksehir of Turkey. Neymar scored three goals to lead PSG to the 5-1 rout of their Turkish opponents in their final Group H game. The result sealed their place in the round of 16 as Group H winners.
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BCCI approves 10-team IPL 2022 at AGM in Ahmedabad.
By Bhowal Soham
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) organized its 89th Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Thursday morning in Ahmedabad. The meeting produced several key takeaways- the most important one of them being that the board has officially approved for a 10-team tournament in the IPL 2022.
Ever since the conclusion of this year’s IPL in November, speculations have been rife about the format of the upcoming 2021 edition. But for the moment, it seems that the BCCI is comfortable with the existing 8-team model; given that the next season is just less than four months away.
IPL 2021 to remain an 8-team affair; possible expansion to 10-teams in 2022
The decision involved the BCCI’s general body comprising of all the state organizations. It is understood that BCCI president Sourav Ganguly and secretary Jay Shah are eager on expanding the IPL; to provide more opportunities to local talent and expand the map all across the country. The state associations concurred with the idea and agreed on expanding the 15th edition of the IPL to a 10-team affair. But the 2021 will remain an eight-team affair; mostly because of the time constraints involved in adding a new team at this stage.
Additionally, the board also unanimously agreed on a one-franchise per region clause. Essentially, states and union territories based around an existing IPL franchise won’t be able to contest for a new team. So the possibility of a Pune-based franchise making a return- which had been a popular speculation leading up to the AGM- stands null and void. Consequently, a variety of other cricket venues, like Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Lucknow, Kochi, and Vishakhapatnam become available now.
BCCI undecided on including cricket in 2028 Summer Olympics
Another peripheral aspect that gained traction was the likely inclusion of cricket in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. In recent times, the International Cricket Council (ICC) has expressed eagerness towards cricket being reinstated in the mega sporting event. In fact, a few months back, the ICC sent questionnaires to all member countries to weigh in on the matter.
But for the time being, the BCCI hasn’t decided on the situation and postponed the topic to a future meeting in 2021. Sources suggest that the board members require more clarity about certain key points; like whether BCCI would relinquish its autonomy and merge with the Indian Olympics Association. Additionally, there were some concerns about the revenue sharing model and a likelihood of clashing with the IPL.
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Home » The mind loves the heart, the mind becomes the heart, part 1
After lifting
At the end of the programme, Professor Hedges’ wife, Laurie, offered Sri Chinmoy a most beautiful bouquet of flowers. While doing so, she said to Sri Chinmoy, “I am so grateful to you. Wives are never honoured, but today you have honoured the wives. You are the first person to honour me.” Sri Chinmoy replied, “Husbands are flowers and wives are the beauty and fragrance. Without beauty and fragrance, the flower has no meaning. Again, if there are no flowers, how can we have beauty and fragrance?” Then Sri Chinmoy offered Professor Hedges and his wife some refreshments.
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Professor Brian Catling and his wife Sarah exchanged some humorous observations with Sri Chinmoy. Professor Catling said, “We know the law of gravity: it comes down. But in your case, when you lift, the apple went up. It did not fall down!”
Professor Brian Catling offers Sri Chinmoy a copy of his book of poetry entitled Thyhand.
Dr. Peter Carey and Sri Chinmoy spoke together about the world situation and about Dr. Carey’s work in East Timor. Sri Chinmoy said to Dr. Carey, “Only the peaceful heart, and not the medicine of the mind, has the power to effect healing and change.”
Professor Martin Kemp had invoked Leonardo da Vinci in his deeply moving reflections on the programme. Afterwards, Sri Chinmoy most fervently remarked to him, “How I wish I could follow in the footsteps of Leonardo da Vinci!”
Professor Kemp replied, “No, you two are one. I take both of you in the same spirit.”
On the occasion of his birthday, a beaming Professor Coleman accepts some refreshments from Sri Chinmoy.
Sri Chinmoy and Professor Avi Shlaim exchange their hearts’ oneness.
Sri Chinmoy greets Professor Arthur Fishman (Bahnni), who is Professor of Economics at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. Professor Fishman travelled to Oxford specially for this event.
Above: During the programme, Sri Chinmoy confers with Ketan Tamm about the order of lifts. Ketan is instrumental in organising many of Sri Chinmoy’s Lifting Up the World With a Oneness-Heart Award programmes.
Sri Chinmoy happily greets Dr. Kanti Rawal and his wife, Dr. Jeya Srinivasan, who made a stopover in Oxford on their way home to California specially to attend the function. Dr. Rawal is one of the world’s leading tomato scientists, and Dr. Srinivasan, now retired, was formerly with the Mathematics Faculty of the University of California at Davis. They are shown with their son Sanjay who, together with Ketan, has played a major role in the Lifting Up the World With a Oneness-Heart programmes.
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Sri Chinmoy's previous visits to the University of Oxford
1 November 19, 1970 Lecture entitled “The Universe”, Keble College
2 June 11, 1973 Lecture entitled “Three Lessons in Spirituality” in the Newman Room, University Catholic Chaplaincy
3 June 25, 1974 Lecture entitled “Confidence”
4 June 19, 1976 Lecture entitled “Goodness and Greatness” in St. Cross Building, Manor Road
5 May 16, 1981 Lecture entitled “Success-Height” in the Oxford Union Debating Chamber
6 October 15, 1987 Organ recital in New College
7 June 26, 1989 Organ recital in Christ Church Cathedral, Christ Church College, followed by Lifting Up the World With a Oneness-Heart Award ceremony in the garden of Mr. Robin Waterfield, Oxford. Sri Chinmoy honoured Professor Dame Dorothy Hodgkin (1964 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, University of Oxford), Professor B.K. Matilal (Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, University of Oxford), Dr. Nicholas Goodrick-Clark (historian and author, University of Oxford), Sir George Trevelyan and Mr. Robin Waterfield. That same evening, Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert in the Sheldonian Theatre, preceded by a short talk entitled “A Conversation with My Lord Supreme”
8 May 22, 1997 Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert in Christ Church Cathedral. This was one of his fifty worldwide concerts to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of India’s Independence. The introduction to Sri Chinmoy was given by Professor Indra Nath Choudhuri, Director of the Nehru Centre in London.
Sri Chinmoy, The mind loves the heart, the mind becomes the heart, part 1, Agni Press, 2003
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Region of Southern Denmark
Reducing hospital-acquired infections with artificial intelligence
SAS helps clinicians obtain reliable insights to promote patient well-being.
Improved patient safety
via AI technologies
Region of Southern Denmark achieved this using • SAS® Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning • SAS® Visual Text Analytics
Hospitals in the Region of Southern Denmark aim to increase patient safety using analytics and AI solutions from SAS
The Region of Southern Denmark, with help from SAS, has become the first place in the world to implement a complete system for monitoring hospital-acquired infections. Professor Jens Kjølseth Møller at Lillebaelt Hospital is the brain behind the new system, which is made possible by SAS® Analytics. Kjølseth Møller expects the system to reduce the number of infections during hospitalization by one-third, significantly increasing patient safety.
“It is unsatisfying that patients admitted to Danish hospitals are at risk of further illness,” says Peder Jest, Medical Director at Odense University Hospital. “The work of providing a high degree of patient safety and good infection hygiene is, therefore, a key focus area for the Region of Southern Denmark. With SAS, we now have the ability to monitor and predict the risk of hospital-acquired infections at a patient level.”
The challenge: An estimated one in 10 patients acquires an infection while hospitalized, and over 3,000 patients in Denmark die per year because of their infections. But until now, no one knew the actual infection rates, or exactly when and where to make a precise effort to prevent them. Now all hospitals in Southern Denmark have access to the new monitoring system that provides a complete picture of hospital-acquired infections at a patient level.
The system is the result of pioneering Danish work that connects many years of clinical experience with modern technology. Danish hospitals found it unacceptable that admitted patients were at risk of further illness. The work of providing a high level of patient safety and good infection hygiene became key focus areas.
“Now we have a tool that can monitor hospital-acquired infections. With that we can make sure – and even make it transparent and well documented – that we do everything we can to prevent these unwanted infections,” Jest says. “This means that our clinical managers are enabled to monitor their efforts and create better results because the system tells them where to look. This is a new era in the work of reducing hospital-acquired infections.”
SAS presents the information in a way that both clinicians and administrators can understand and act on … The knowledge we receive about patients today is the knowledge that will help prevent infections for patients tomorrow. Jens Kjølseth Møller Professor Lillebaelt Hospital
The first complete system for monitoring infections
Kjølseth Møller had earlier developed a system that could present an overview of the number of infections. This system used local data from one hospital only in the region. But it was not complete, because it couldn’t include unstructured clinical information on infections recorded in clinician notes by doctors and nurses.
The Region of Southern Denmark decided to work with SAS primarily for two reasons: great experience with high-quality artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and deep insights into the health care sector.
The technology dictates rules and clinical terms. These are the so-called “triggers” that can identify signs of infection in patients. It is the first time worldwide that a system based on AI has provided a complete overview of hospital-acquired infections.
In the future, all patients admitted to hospitals in Southern Denmark will be scored for their risk of developing a urinary tract infection while admitted to the hospital. This will enable doctors and nurses to respond in real time and prevent hospital infections. The risk models are developed with AI based on 284,000 previous patient cases in the region.
“We know how many infections there have been for a specific period in a particular department,” Kjølseth Møller says. “We changed our work procedures from handling much of the data ourselves to using a data management solution from SAS, which is accessible by both clinicians and administrators. We deliver raw data to the SAS system, and SAS presents the information in a way that they can understand and act on.”
From data management to model development and deployment, everyone works in the same integrated environment. Within SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning, AI helps predict which patients have an increased risk of developing hospital-acquired infections during hospitalization. The infection-monitoring overview is displayed through the region's management information portal, where doctors and departmental managers are accustomed to retrieving other information.
Region of Southern Denmark – Facts & Figures
previous patient cases were used to develop risk models
Lillebaelt Hospital
is one of five hospitals in Southern Denmark
is the region’s main responsibility
More hospitals want to monitor their hospital-acquired infection rates
In 2018, clinicians in Southern Denmark hospitals could, for the first time, draw reports of all infections. SAS allows hospital and departmental management to monitor the development of hospital-acquired infections with overview and development reports over time at the hospital, departmental and sectional levels.
“The knowledge we receive about patients today is the knowledge that will help prevent infections for patients tomorrow,” Kjølseth Møller says. “It will help us also work much more actively with what we call intervention, where we try to change routines to see if we can do better than what we do now.”
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Home » News » IIT-M Develops Eco-Friendly way for Hydrogen Generation From Seawater
IIT-M Develops Eco-Friendly way for Hydrogen Generation From Seawater
By Saur News Bureau/ Updated On Fri, Jan 17th, 2020
Researchers from IIT-M have developed a technology that can be used to generate hydrogen fuel from seawater in an eco-friendly way
Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) have developed a technology that can be used to generate hydrogen fuel from seawater, an advance that may contribute to a cleaner energy future.
Using this technology, described in the journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, hydrogen can be produced on-demand at the point of use, and hence it need not be stored. This overcomes the storage-related challenges associated with hydrogen as its highly inflammable and may cause an explosion, the researchers said.
Hydrogen can be a good source of energy for the future. Combustion of hydrogen does not produce carbon dioxide, unlike fossil fuels, making it a ‘clean’ source of energy, they said. Considering the increased levels of air pollution globally, the researchers are even targeting running cars and bikes by seawater using hydrogen power.
“As the hydrogen can be produced at the point of use on-demand, safety issues associated with the storage and transportation of hydrogen is avoided,” said Abdul Malek from the Department of Chemistry at IIT Madras. “The solid starting materials can be transported from one place to another place very conveniently. This bypasses the transportation bottleneck associated with the hydrogen sector.”
The researchers noted that hydrogen is produced at a tunable rate without heat, electricity or sunlight. The starting materials are all eco-friendly. The process is amenable to all scales of production that is relevant for the hydrogen economy — hence sectors such as automotive, aviation, etc. would benefit from this technology, they said.
“Hydrogen is the future. We want to make it ‘the present’. I am waiting for the day when our invention will fuel the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) rockets or Defence Research and Development Organisation’s (DRDO) missiles,” said Malek.
The researchers, including Tiju Thomas, Associate Professor at IIT Madras, said they are on the way to customise and design a proper hydrogen system for vehicles.
The technology is used to generate hydrogen from any source of water. However, as seawater covers two-thirds of the surface of the Earth, the researchers are keen on utilising it. The setup, the scientists said, can generate fuel production with the push of a button, which adds water from one compartment to the other.
“The water addition rate can control the amount of hydrogen produced and flow depending on the requirement. The technical details are patent protected,” Malek said. “The process is scalable. The amount can be produced according to the need. Hence hydrogen for mobility such as for cars etc is eminently possible via due customisation.”
The researchers noted that the commercial method requires a high temperature of about 1,000 degrees Celsius and nearly 25 bar pressure. However, the new process works at room temperature, and atmospheric pressure which is 1 bar, they said.
“Our current estimates indicate that the cost is likely comparable to the available prices — things could change with scale. However, the key selling point is enhanced safety, and elimination of point-of-use environmental pollution,” added Malek
Tags: Clean Energy, hydrogen, IIT-M, IIT-M Hydrogen Seawater, India, Seawater
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11 October 2018 - Addis Ababa, Brussels, Geneva ...
International Day of the Girl: If all girls completed secondary school, more than 50 million child marriages could be prevented
Fifty million child marriages could be prevented by 2030 if all girls around the world finished secondary school, new analysis by Save the Children reveals.[i]
The critical role that education plays, and will continue to play, in reducing child marriage rates has been outlined in a new briefing, Working Together to End Child Marriage.
The relationship between child marriage and education is two-way. Child marriage is one of the leading reasons for school drop-out in low-income countries. At the same time girls who are out-of-school are exposed to increased risk factors for child marriage; with many living in insecure environments, parents often feel that that marrying their daughters will protect from harm or the stigma associated with having a relationship or falling pregnant outside of marriage.
The briefing highlights the impact that universal education could have, as well as the huge amount of progress still needed to end child marriage and ensure all girls are able to complete secondary education. In addition, it calls on world leaders to prioritise girls’ access to health and protection programmes to help end child marriage.
The briefing also reveals that:
While an estimated 25 million child marriages have been prevented over the past decade, no developing country[ii] is currently on track to meet the UN goal of wiping out the practice by 2030[iii];
Meanwhile, based on current trends:
universal upper secondary school completion will not be achieved before 2084 - more than 50 years off target;
according to the current trend, 134 million girls will marry between 2018 and 2030. Almost 10 million girls will marry in 2030 alone, and more than two million of those marriages will involve girls under 15 years of age;[iv]
Last year, 21% of women between 20 and 24 years globally were married or in a union before the age of 18.[v]
A recent Save the Children study in Niger - which has the highest rates of child marriage in the world - also found that girls who do not attend school are more at risk of child marriage, early pregnancy, and being malnourished.
Helle Thorning-Schmidt, CEO of Save the Children International, said that while education alone won’t end child marriage, it is a critical piece of the puzzle in ending the abusive practice.
“A toxic combination of poverty and gender discrimination means many families come to the conclusion their daughters are better off becoming wives and mothers than with getting an education,” she said.
“When a girl gets married it doesn’t just violate her rights once—the consequences last a lifetime. She is more likely to suffer abuse, more likely to become a mother before she is emotionally or physically ready, and her children are more likely to die before their fifth birthday.
“We’ve seen that a combination of education and girls’ empowerment programmes have been the most successful way to bring down child marriage rates, while cash payments while cash payments give parents the opportunity to keep their daughters in education and enrol them in school, instead of having them working in the fields to add to the family income.”[vi]
Previous research by Save the Children and the World Bank has shown that while legal and policy reform is also important in ending child marriage and keeping girls in school, so is enforcing these laws and changing attitudes at the community level.
In Nepal - home to one of Asia’s highest rates of child marriage despite being illegal since 1963 - Save the Children has been advocating and working closely with local governments, law enforcement agencies, religious leaders, communities, and girls, to raise awareness of the dangers of child marriage.
Through activities like street dramas written and performed by children, to working with religious leaders who now refuse to marry anyone under the legal age of 20, child marriage rates dropped by 11% between 2015-2017 in areas where Save the Children operates.
“This is a testament that shifting social attitudes is important, which is why we’ve made such a huge effort to work with traditional religious leaders - making them partners, rather than barriers, to change - with incredible results,” said Ned Onley, Save the Children’s Country Director in Nepal. “Two of the religious leaders we work with now make parents submit birth certificates to prove that both the bride and groom are of legal age before they will even consider marrying them.”
Save the Children is calling on governments to step up their efforts to develop and implement action plans that include full access to health, and protection for girls. These plans must be fairly financed and must incorporate a strong focus on education.
“Progress is being made but not fast enough. On International Day of the Girl we urge governments to prioritise tackling child marriage, one of the major barriers to the empowerment and education of so many girls.”
On the methodology:
[i] We analysed data from Demographic Health Surveys (DHS) and Multiple Indicator Cluster
Surveys (MICS) for 67 countries to determine the likelihood of a girl being married and in school at the same time. This analysis is illustrative and embodies a number of assumptions and limitations. For example, the calculation is based on the impact of education on child marriage and does not the impact of child marriage on education. For further discussion, see accompanying technical note.
[ii] UNICEF (2018) See: https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/25-million-child-marriages-prevented-last-decade
[iii] This would include all segments of society for which trend data is available. Analysis is based on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Leave no one Behind pledge to meet the target for all groups, which in this analysis includes the poorest 20%, and girls in rural areas. Calculations are based on available data from a subset of 68 low- and middle-income countries that have disaggregated data on child marriage.
[iv] Save the Children calculation, see technical note.
[v] UNICEF (2018) Child Marriage: Latest trends and future prospects, https://data.unicef.org/resources/child-marriage-latest-trends-and-future-prospects/
[vi]Save the Children and Human Rights Centre UC Berkeley School of Law (2018) Toward an End to Child Marriage – Lessons from
Research and Practice in Development and Humanitarian Sectors, https://resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/node/13485/pdf/child_
marriage_report_june2018.pdf
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EVENT: Interpack 2014
Event interpack 2014
Held every three years Interpack is the world’s leading trade show for packaging and processes. From May 8 to 14, in Düsseldorf, the impressive Schoeller Allibert stand attracted many professionals from all sectors of industry including logistics specialists, interested in Schoeller Allibert’s comprehensive logistics packaging solutions offer…
Good Business - and a Nut in View Approximately 2,700 exhibitors and 175,000 visitors from all over the world: interpack 2014, the world's most important trade fair dedicated to packaging and processes, has had a very positive outcome. Schoeller Allibert is pleased with its successful appearance in Düsseldorf. Customers and interested parties were impressed with the company's extensive and innovative range displayed at the trade fair stand. Schoeller Allibert caused a sensation by being nominated for one of the most coveted international awards in the packaging industry: the Golden Nut. From 8 to 14 May, at the fully booked Düsseldorf exhibition centre, the focus was entirely on packaging and its related processes. Professionals from all over the world attended in order to learn about the latest trends and developments in the industry. On this occasion, Schoeller Allibert presented itself as a provider of one of the most comprehensive product ranges in the field of reusable packaging. "The interest and quality of the discussions at our stand were outstanding," comments Hans-Joachim Wiedmann, Managing Director of Schoeller Allibert Germany. "Our trade fair team not only made many valuable contacts but also received several very specific requests." Once again, the interpack event offered an ideal platform for relations with existing customers. At the Schoeller Allibert stand, trade fair visitors received information, among other things, on the foldable large container of the Magnum Optimum, Magnum HD and Boxer Pac series, the modular LWB storage and transport container system, the Eureka standard container, different product series from the range of stacking and nesting containers, as well as the foldable small load containers of the PreLog range. The company also showcased several plastic pallets, including the new Longleaf7, which is specifically designed to transport sacks. Thanks to its special design, this range comprises an additional layer of sacks with the same stacking height. With its extensive product range, Schoeller Allibert offers both standardised and customised solutions for industries as diverse as the automotive industry, the food and beverage industries, trade, and the service industry. As an ideal opening for the interpack event, Schoeller Allibert attracted attention ??with its innovative Leffe bottle crate. With a carrying capacity of 24 x 0.33-litre bottles, it offers the opportunity to store many kinds of packages, i.e. 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 12 bottle packs. The bottom of the crate comprises a double timber-framed insert, which is mounted on two anti-rust steel springs and pushed down when loading. After removing the cardboard carrier, the double bottom moves upward to a medium height. It can then be loaded with individual bottles, which do not come into contact with each other. The empty bottles maintain a stable position in the box and can be transported intact back to the breweries. Moreover, they are already in the correct position for automated handling at the brewery. The Leffe bottle crate is one of the 10 products that made it to the final selection for one of the most coveted international awards for packaging innovations: the Golden Nut. It is awarded by the Netherlands Packaging Centre (NVC), an association of companies committed to achieving ongoing improvement in packaging solutions throughout the supply chain. "We are very excited about this nomination, since it confirms our expertise as a developer and manufacturer of innovative and sustainable products," explains Hans-Joachim Wiedmann. The winner of the Golden Nut award will be announced in September.
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Brazilian Wandering Spider (Phoneutria): Bite, Attacks And Other Facts
Updated on: 22 Oct 2019 by Ashish
Brazilian wandering spiders are the most venomous spiders on the planet. They belong to the genus Phoneutria, which consists of a number of spider species. A couple of these species, including Phoneutria nigriventer, P. keyserlingi and P. fera are referred to as Brazilian wandering spiders.
Brazilian wandering spiders facts
The term ‘Brazilian wandering spider’ actually refers to not just one spider, but a number of extremely venomous spider species found primarily in South (especially Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Suriname, Peru and Guyana) and Central America. They belong to the genus Phoneutria, which is a family of venomous spiders in the family Ctenidae.
Phoneutria nigriventer – one of the few species of Brazilian wandering spiders. (Photo Credit : Techuser / Wikimedia Commons)
The Brazilian wandering spider is a highly venomous and aggressive spider. Also known as the ‘banana’ spider (because these spiders are frequently found in shipments of bananas), the Brazilian wandering spider ‘wanders’ the jungle floor as opposed to living in a lair or building a web.
Brazilian wandering spider species
According to the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS), the different species of Brazilian wandering spiders include Phoneutria fera, Phoneutria nigriventer, Phoneutria bahiensis, Phoneutria boliviensis, Phoneutria eickstedtae, Phoneutria keyserlingi, Phoneutria pertyi and Phoneutria reidyi.
Phoneutria bahiensis, a species of Brazilian wandering spider.(Photo Credit : Arnaldo de Souza Vasconcellos Júnior / Wikimedia Commons)
Brazilian spider anatomy
All species of Brazilian wandering spider are mostly brown, hairy and have a black spot on their bellies. These spiders are big too, with leg spans reaching around 15 cm (6 inches) and bodies reaching up to 5 cm (2 inches).
These spiders are nocturnal hunters, so they spend most of their day living and hiding in crevices or under logs, and venture out at night to hunt. They feed on certain insects, small reptiles, amphibians, mice and even other smaller spiders.
Brazilian wandering spider bite and venom
The bite of a Brazilian wandering spider may cause a few painful pinpricks to full-blown bite. The two most commonly known and feared species of the wandering spider are Phoneutria fera and Phoneutria nigriventer.
(Photo Credit : Bernard DUPONT / Wikimedia Commons)
Brazilian wandering spiders are known for being aggressive, thanks to the alarming toxicity of their bite. However, interestingly, that behavior is actually a defense mechanism. When threatened or under attack, they raise their first two pairs of legs, indicating to their predators that the they are ready to attack. Their bites, therefore, are actually an act of self-defense and they do it only when they are provoked, either by accident or intentionally.
Brazilian wandering spider bite on humans
If you happen to be in a situation wherein you’re bitten by one of these spiders, you may experience several symptoms, such as sweating, goosebumps and severe burning pain at the site of the bite.
Within 30 minutes or so, these symptoms become systemic and include irregular heartbeat, high or low blood pressure, abdominal cramping, hypothermia, nausea, vertigo, blurred vision and convulsions.
If you are bitten by any species of the wandering spider, you should seek emergency treatment, regardless of how the bite appears to be initially. It’s very important, as the venom could be life-threatening.
The bite of Brazilian wandering spiders can be lethal.(Photo Credit : Epic Wildlife / Youtube)
The venom is a complex cocktail of toxins, peptides and proteins that affects ion channels and chemical receptors in victims’ neuromuscular systems. It so happens that the venom the Brazilian spider Phoneutria nigriventer injects in its victim has been found to contain a few toxic polypeptide fractions, some of which have been purified and proven to be neurotoxic (Source). One of the toxic fractions, designated PhTx-3, has six neurotoxic peptides (Tx3-1 to Tx3-6).
Experimentation has shown that PhTx3 and one of the peptides named Tx3-3 act as calcium channel blockers by decreasing the calcium entry that contributes to glutamate3 and acetylcholine2 release in rat brain cortical slices and synaptosomes. In simple words, the venom of Brazilian wandering spiders mess with the function of the brain and wreak havoc on the victim.
Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Washington
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (itis.gov)
The short URL of the present article is: http://sciabc.us/BRlDV
Ashish is a Science graduate (Bachelor of Science) from Punjabi University (India). He spends a lot of time watching movies, and an awful lot more time discussing them. He likes Harry Potter and the Avengers, and obsesses over how thoroughly Science dictates every aspect of life… in this universe, at least.
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Concert Review | Yep Roc 15, Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, NC
Photo by Agatha Donkar
North Carolina knows how to throw a party, and Yep Roc Records threw themselves a doozy this past weekend, in celebration of their 15th anniversary. With help from their amazingly diverse line-up of artists, the Cat's Cradle, and the Carolina Brewery (they brewed a special "Rocktoberfest" beer for the weekend), it was a weekend of shows that I'll remember for a long time.
There was so many excellent things that it seems unfair to pick out highlights, but I did have some. On Thursday, on an unofficial "singer/songwriter" night, Eleni Mandell (whose first YR release, I Can See The Future, came out in July) absolutely blew me away. I was familiar with Mandell's name, but not her music, and her self-professed set of songs about her "crappy ex-boyfriends" was both fun and heartbreaking. (Her best line, in introducing a song about a relationship that had failed because she wanted kids and he didn't, was thus: "I'm here tonight. He's babysitting my kids.") I Can See The Future is her first label release after seven previous LPs, and I can't wait to dig into her back catalog.
Also on Thursday, Nick Lowe closed his set of hits from his extensive catalog with "I Knew The Bride (When She Used To Rock 'N' Roll)", a song that is near and dear to my heart. It inspired a bit of a crowd shout-along, and was absolutely a highlight of the weekend.
Saturday evening was a highlight, start to finish -- you can't claim that YR saved the best for last, as no one would ever describe Fountains of Wayne, Liam Finn, Robyn Hitchcock, or Sloan, who all played on other nights, as less than YR's best, but Saturday had a tinge of North Carolina pride that made me alternately grin and get a little weepy. After excellent sets from YR newcomer Darren Hanlon and Nashville's country-psych songwriter Jim White, the evening took a turn for the North Carolinian with local favorites Chatham County Line, whose set included a John Doe-fronted cover of X's "In This House That I Call Home".
I've seen CCL a dozen times in my seven years in NC, and I could never have fathomed seeing a punk rock icon play that song with them; only a little part of the magic that Yep Roc quietly makes here.
After CCL, Tift Merritt -- who was just here a few weeks ago, and who'll be here in another few with Justin Townes Earle -- played a long set full of songs from her Yep Roc debut, Traveling Alone, only about 10 days released at the time of the show. Tift also brought up quite a few old North Carolina friends, including Chatham County Line, and John Howie Jr, former frontman of the Two Dollar Pistols, with whom she released a duets record on Yep Roc many years ago. Some of the heavily out-of-town crowd seemed a bit puzzled by this awkward looking man in a cowboy hat and a great shirt, but Tift cited John as one of the first people to start letting her "hang around and open for him" when she first started playing out in the Triangle 15 years ago.
I might have gotten a little weepy over that, but I'll never tell whether I actually did.
The evening closed with a joint set from John Doe and the Sadies, and Yep Roc couldn't have closed out their party in a better way. John Doe, established and cheerfully grumpy; the Sadies established in Toronto but only starting to gain traction in the States thanks to their relationship with Yep Roc. I like my rock and roll grumpy, cheerful, and above all, full of electric guitars -- and Yep Roc does that.
They do everything, really, a label that's defied genre definitions and expectations for 15 years now. I'm grateful they choose to still call North Carolina home, and I'm thrilled that they invited Speakers In Code to the party. Thanks for having us, guys. We'll come to your birthday parties any time.
My full set, more than 100 photos, of the weekend is available on Flickr. Everything that Yep Roc has ever released, including that long out of print Tift Merritt / John Howie Jr record, which is seeing a vinyl re-release next year, is available at their website.
Written by Agatha Donkar
Tags: Chatham County Line, Darren Hanlon, Eleni Mandell, Fountains of Wayne, Jim White, John Doe, Liam Finn, Nick Lowe, Robyn Hitchcock, Sloan, The Sadies, Tift Merritt, Yep Roc Records
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A.P. Bio - Renewed for 4th Season by Peacock
Posted by Assassin at December 17, 2020 0 Comments
A.P. Bio Renewals and Cancellations
PEACOCK RENEWS "A.P. BIO" FOR A FOURTH SEASON
· Critically-acclaimed Peacock Original comedy A.P. BIO has been renewed for a fourth season. The 8-episode season will be coming to Peacock in 2021.
· Watch/share the announcement:
· "Everyone involved is so excited to do more episodes," said creator Mike O'Brien. "We're so thankful to Peacock and everyone who watched! Season 3 was the most fun we've had. I want to dig even deeper into the main characters and also keep messing with the sitcom format."
· The first three seasons of A.P. BIO are currently streaming on Peacock.
· When disgraced Harvard philosophy scholar Jack Griffin (Glenn Howerton) loses out on his dream job, he is forced to return to Toledo, Ohio, and work as a high school advanced placement biology teacher. As he comes crashing into Whitlock High School, Jack makes it absolutely clear that he will not be teaching any biology. Realizing he has a roomful of honor roll students at his disposal, Jack decides instead to use the kids' brainpower for his own benefit. Over time, his students help him realize his dream job might actually be the one he has right now. Eager to prove that he is still king of the castle, Principal Durbin (Patton Oswalt) struggles to control the force of nature that is Jack Griffin. The series also stars Mary Sohn, Lyric Lewis, Jean Villepique and Paula Pell.
· A.P. BIO was created by Mike O'Brien, who writes and executive produces. Lorne Michaels serves as executive producer, along with his company Broadway Video's Andrew Singer. Seth Meyers & Mike Shoemaker also serve as executive producers. The series is produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, Broadway Video and Sethmaker Shoemeyers Productions.
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Starling Bank pledges to transform banking for small businesses as it is awarded £100 million grant
Will create nearly 400 new jobs in the UK
Pledges to invest £95 million of its own money
Will make more than £900 million of lending available to small business owners
London, 22 February 2019: Starling, the leading digital bank, has today been awarded a £100 million grant from the Capability and Innovation Fund (CIF).
The bank has pledged to use the money to create 398 new jobs in the UK and to invest £94.8 million of its own money to help build a better bank for the small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) that are the lifeblood of the British economy.
Starling will make £913 million of balance sheet lending available to SME customers by the end of 2023. It expects to achieve a 6.7% market share within five years.
The grant comes from a £775 million fund created as a condition on RBS for accepting £45 billion bailout during the financial crisis. Today, Banking Competition Remedies, the independent body set up to distribute the funds, announced Starling as one of three recipients of the first round of grants.
Starling’s successful application marks a turning point in Britain’s banking industry. Starling built its banking platform from scratch and has a strong track record for innovation. Since launching its mobile banking app in May 2017, it has opened 500,000 current accounts. This includes more than 30,000 SME business accounts signed up in less than a year.
The £100 million grant will accelerate Starling’s ability to reshape the SME banking market, further invest in proprietary technology and build out its UK-based customer service and support team. Because Starling understands that many SMEs want to manage their banking online as well as through mobile apps, it will launch a web portal for SME banking customers later this year.
Anne Boden, founder and chief executive of Starling Bank, said:
“Starling Bank is delighted to have received this award. It will accelerate our ability to reshape the SME banking market.
“Starling will deliver an advanced fully-digital offering that connects SMEs with the financial solutions they need to thrive. This is the opportunity to bring new technology and a new approach to the sector.”
Starling accounts are quick to set up (there are no branches, so no visit required) and loaded up with a host of smart money management tools. The accounts also offer access to a Marketplace of third party financial services and software apps.
The grant comes just over a week after Starling announced it had raised £75 million of new funding from existing and new investors.
About Starling Bank
Starling Bank is a digital challenger bank based in the UK, operating personal and business current accounts, a Marketplace and Payment Services for banks, e-money institutions, government and corporates, as well as Banking-as-a-Service. Headquartered in London, Starling is a fully-licensed and regulated bank, founded by former Allied Irish Banks COO, Anne Boden, MBE, in January 2014. It received its banking licence in 2016. Since launching its mobile banking app in May 2017, it has opened 500,000 current accounts.
Alexandra Frean, Head of Corporate Affairs at Starling
alexandra.frean@starlingbank.com
Pagefield
Geoff Duggan
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The Go Tribe
Charity crowdfunding goes mobile: The GO Tribe launches app
Tasnuva Bindi - May 26, 2014 2 MIN READ
The GO Tribe – a charity with a twist – is set to change the way Australians learn and give through its newly launched crowd-funded mobile app. The organisation was launched in January, providing people the opportunity to learn about 12 different issues and support the efforts of 12 organisations across the year.
The Go Tribe harnesses the power of collaborative giving
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On the surface, The Go Tribe could be described as a charity, but in reality, it’s much, much more. It’s about taking a collaborative approach to change, and uniting individuals who want to create a positive impact using a simple premise: We get excited when we give together.
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Our reading today inspired my subject this morning: Mary Magdalene. According to all the gospels she is present at Jesus’ death, and the first to witness the resurrection. What I want to explore today is why? Why Mary Magdalene? And why did God choose a woman as witness to the key moments of our whole faith?
Mark 16: 9-16
There are many of you sitting here today who wouldn’t consider themselves women’s liberationists, I’m sure. But the last 100 years have wrought huge changes to our society, and because of others’ battles our lives are very different now. It is now so normal for women to be involved in politics, we have our second female Prime Minister. Women have equal rights in law – we can own property in our own right, our salaries come to our own bank accounts, not those of our husbands. We marry – or we don’t, and we are still thought of as normal. Spinsters are no longer life’s rejects. But God was 2,000 years ahead of us in the battle for women’s equality. He chose a woman to witness both Jesus’s death and his resurrection. What should we learn from this?
Going back to Mary Magdalene’s own time, she was an unmarried woman who followed Jesus and the twelve disciples around – a woman, with a gang of men, on the road! She was Jewish: this was radical behaviour in a religion where women were not allowed to talk to any men who were not relatives; even now in traditional synagogues, they are segregated, women sit upstairs unable to pray alongside men. And they were living under Roman rule, where a woman wasn’t even considered to be a person. In law, they were their father’s or husband’s property. They could not own property. Women were considered too subject to their emotions to judge things rationally, so weren’t trustworthy to make important decisions – a state of affairs that lasted for nearly two millennia.
Yet God entrusted Mary Magdalene to be the main witness to His son’s death and resurrection. As Christians we know His plans is perfect. So why Mary Magdalene? What was He trying to tell us?
What do we know about Mary Magdalene?
She’s certainly inspired huge creativity: artists, poets, novelists, film-makers. But in most art, including The Passion of the Christ, Jesus Christ Superstar, and umpteen classical paintings Mary is viewed as the fallen woman whom Christ redeemed.
You may remember Dan Brown’s bestselling thriller, The Da Vinci Code. It claimed that the lost Gospels not included in the books that form our Bible today would have revealed that Mary Magdalene was married to Jesus and they had a child whose holy descendants are still around today. The marriage was a work of pure fiction, of course, but there are lost Gospels which reveal her as a significant leader of the early church.
Mary is a common name in the Bible – I’m sure you can think of at least three. Unfortunately by the 6th century they all got rolled into one – the four women who anointed Jesus, and the prostitute mentioned in Luke 7:36-50. Even Pope Gregory the Great preached on this in 591 and Mary Magdalene became known as a penitent woman of dubious morality. It’s a good story, but it’s not Mary Magdalene’s story, and biblical scholars today reject this interpretation.
Interestingly, the Eastern Church never identified her as a prostitute, but honored her throughout history as “the Apostle to the Apostles”.
Gospel sources
So what do we know of her from the Bible?
She is the second most frequently named woman in the New Testament after Mary the mother of Jesus.
She’s called Mary Magdalene in all four gospels. In scholarly terms this is called multiple attestation, which means there is credible historical evidence that she existed. But how many other surnames can you think of in the Bible? To begin with, women were rarely named at all in ancient texts. If they were, it is because they were socially prominent, and most were still named in relationship to the men in their lives. Nothing in the Gospels suggests Mary is married, she’s never described as a widow, and there’s no mention of children. She’s one of a band of ‘women [who] were helping to support the [disciples] out of their own means.’ – so Mary M may have been a woman of independent wealth.
It seems likely that since she is associated with Magdala, a place on the shores of Galilee about 120 miles north of Jerusalem, she came from there. Magdala means Tower, which suggests a certain strength. If Peter was Jesus’s rock, was Mary his Tower? Interpreters since the time of Saint Jerome have suggested that Mary was called Magdalene because of her stature and faith.
Within the four Gospels she is named at least 12 times, more than most of the apostles, all but once in connection with the death and resurrection of Jesus. Uniquely among the followers of Jesus, she is specified by name (though not consistently by any one gospel) as a witness to four key events: Jesus’ crucifixion, his burial, the discovery that his tomb was empty, and most important of all, Jesus’s first resurrection appearance.
In Luke chapter 8 we see the only time that Mary Magdalene is mentioned not the in the context of Jesus’s end days: here she is accompanying him as he teaches the parable of the seeds, as one of ‘some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases’. Luke also mentions the seven demons, similar to the passage from Mark read today. This has been interpreted as meaning a Satanic exorcism, but to first century ears, this meant only that Mary had been cured of serious illness, not spiritual warfare. Illness was seen as an evil spirit, according to biblical scholars. The number seven in Biblical terms signifies completeness, so her illness was either chronic or very severe.
Matthew 27:56, Mark 15:40, and John 19:25 all mention Mary Magdalene specifically as one of the women who witnessed the crucifixion.
In Matthew 27: 60-61 and Mark 15: 46-47 she is witness to Joseph of Arimathea placing Jesus in the tomb:
Next morning, she then witnesses the EMPTY TOMB, according to Matthew, Mark and John. After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb, and she sees the earth move, literally:
2 There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it
Angels speak to them, tell them Jesus has risen, and to go see the place where he was laid for themselves.
John 20:1 describes Mary Magdalene discovering the tomb was empty, and running to fetch Peter and John.
In all the gospels, Mary Magdalene is first witness to the resurrection, either with other women as in Matthew, Mark and Luke, or alone, as in John, where Jesus exhorts her to go and tell his brothers to go to Galilee, where they will see him.
She does so, but significantly ‘they did not believe it’ – a foretaste of what was to come, perhaps. When Jesus appeared to the eleven disciples later, he rebuked them for their lack of faith
Significantly, he said: Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. Mary was the first believer [in the resurrected Christ]. He then lists the signs of a true believer – the ability to dismiss evil, speak in tongues, touch the untouchable, the ability to heal. Do we still believe in all this today? As true believers, we should.
The fullest account of Mary’s role after discovering the empty tomb is in John. Having gone to tell the disciples and not been believed, Peter and John return with her to see the empty tomb, to see for themselves.
It is Mary Magdalene’s most significant moment. She is in floods of tears and can’t see who is asking her who it is she is looking for, whether it is the angels or the “gardener”. She is desperate to find out where Jesus is, and doesn’t recognize the voice until He calls her by name, when she calls out “Rabbouni”. She then did what you do to someone you love and have missed – hugged him.
Jesus then says “Don’t hold on to me.” This isn’t an admonition, it’s because she has a more important task in front of her. She has a great commission – to go and tell others that He has risen from the dead.
A new concept in our faith developed, which had nothing to with what Jesus himself was preaching, and this is the concept that Jesus didn’t die – or he did, but he was raised from the dead. This is the basis of our Christian faith. And it is Mary Magdalene who first reveals this.
Jesus’ resurrection was the turning point for Christianity. This was when it changed from a small movement to a whole new religion.
The gospels were written from memory 35-65 years after Jesus’s death. I don’t know about you but my memories of events 40 years ago tend to be the highlights only. From these gospels we can conclude that Mary Magdalene was a highlight, a leading figure among those who followed Jesus.
Apocryphal sources
It was not until the fourth century that the list of canonized books we now know as the New Testament was established. The early church taught using other texts that were not accepted into the canon, and are known as apocryphal sources. But from these we have learnt a lot more about Mary Magdalene’s significance in the Christian movement.
In a Cairo bazaar in 1896, a German scholar came across a curious papyrus book, written in Coptic, – the Gospel of Mary. Set some time after the resurrection, it tells of disciples who have just had a vision of Jesus encouraging them to go out and preach his teachings to the world, but they are afraid to do so in case they are killed like him. In this book, it’s Mary Magdalene who steps up and tells them not to worry, He promised he would protect them. She is the leader, explaining Jesus’s teachings to the other disciples. Perhaps this was just too radical. But then again, remember this is how the Eastern Orthodox Church has always presented her – as the apostle to the apostles.
In 1945 at Nag Hammadi, in southern Egypt, two men came across a sealed ceramic jar in which there was a hoard of ancient papyrus books. Although they never received as much public attention as the Dead Sea Scrolls, these actually turned out to be much more important for writing the history of early Christianity. They were a cache of other Christian texts. including the Gospel of Philip.
In Philip, Mary Magdalene is presented as one of Jesus’ followers, but described as his koinônos, a Greek word variously translated in contemporary versions as partner, associate, comrade, companion. She is presented as a symbol of wisdom. When the other disciples at times seem confused, she is the one who understands His word.
I mention these apocryphal texts because they present further evidence of her historical significance – she is portrayed as a visionary and leader of the early movement whom Jesus loved and saw as significant. Mary ‘gets’ him more than any of the other disciples. Although they’re not Biblical texts, experts still believe that they give us significant insights into Christian history.
So to sum up, she wasn’t a prostitute, didn’t anoint Jesus’ feet, and wasn’t married to Jesus. What is not disputed is that Mary Magdalene is an important woman leader and witness in the earliest Christian Churches.
She was unconventional. She doesn’t fit the image of the subservient woman in the ancient world. She challenges all the stereotypes – don’t you just love a rebel? What’s most suprising, perhaps, is that Jesus seems to affirm her in this. Not once does he criticise Mary Magdalene as he did others of his inner circle: Peter, James, John and even his own mother.
That the message of the Resurrection was first entrusted to women is regarded by scripture scholars as strong proof for the historical truth of the Resurrection accounts. Had they been fabricated, women would never have been chosen as witnesses, since Jewish law did not acknowledge the testimony of women. That God first entrusted the proclamation of the Resurrection to a woman tells me that while human beings discriminate, God doesn’t.
In an age when women were not viewed as men’s equals, and had no rights, the message comes across loud and clear.
Jesus is for everyone.
What Jesus did often surprises us. He thought children were important. He reassured the repentant thief hanging on the cross next to him that later they would be in paradise together. And he (as part of God’s perfect plan) validated 50% of the world’s population, the half historically invalidated for so long, and by so many cultures, faiths and times, by choosing a woman to witness the most important parts of the Christian faith – Jesus’s death, burial and resurrection. To have been at one of these events would have made you theologically important, to be at all is significant: what a privilege.
I hope I have managed to convey why He chose Mary.
She was a willing and faithful servant who knew it was better to give than to receive.
Mary Magdalene loved Jesus deeply – with all her heart and soul. She followed him everywhere, and understood his teachings. Can we not learn from her utter belief, persistence and enthusiasm?
Mary was an extraordinary person, not just because she was a woman. I hope I haven’t alienated the other half of the population here, that was not my intention, I just wanted to make you think, and see that the real point of choosing Mary is to show that Jesus is for everyone.
Jesus is for all of us, young or old, male or female, the powerful and the powerless, regardless of race or religion. Jesus was for sinners as well as those who think their behaviour is good.
Jesus is for everyone, and I say Thank God for that, Amen.
Posted on Tuesday, 1st May, 2018 by Wendy Suffield (based on her talk in church on Sunday morning 29th April).
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OSCE Project Co-ordinator Supports Ukraine's Efforts to Enhance Anti-Trafficking Legislation
Tuesday, May 1, 2007 10:49 AM
KYIV, 20 April 2007 - The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, in co-operation with the Ministry for Family, Youth and Sports, will hold a meeting in Kyiv on 23 April order to review Ukraine's existing anti-trafficking legislation.
Discussions at the meeting are expected to form the basis for recommendations on steps the country will need to take to enhance its anti-trafficking efforts and ensure its compliance with international commitments.
"Ukraine is making some progress in its fight against human trafficking, and this meeting will help the country improve its legislation to address this problem more effectively," said OSCE Project Co-ordinator James Schumaker.
Viktor Rudenko, First Deputy Minister of Ukraine for Family, Youth and Sports, said a state programme to combat human trafficking adopted earlier this year aims to enhance the mechanism of legislative regulation of combating trafficking in human beings. The programme covers the period until 2010.
Representatives from the Ukrainian legislature and governmental bodies, as well as international organizations and non-governmental organizations will participate in the meeting, as will representatives of law enforcement and the judiciary. International experts will make presentations on anti-trafficking legislation in Bulgaria, Georgia and Moldova and on international practice in creating legislative frameworks to combat trafficking.
The Danish Foreign Ministry is financially supporting the meeting as part of the Danish Programme Against Human Trafficking in Eastern Europe.
Journalists are invited to the meeting, which starts 9:30 23 April at the "Ukrayinskyi chas" Press-Centre, Ukrainian House, vul. Khreshchatyk 2, Kyiv.
Olesia Oleshko
Media Project Officer
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Published in: OSCE Project Co-ordinator supports Ukraine's efforts to enhance anti-trafficking legislation, www.osce.org 20 April 2007
For more information on women in Ukraine, please visit the Ukraine country page of this website.
For more information on trafficking, please visit the Trafficking in Women section of this website.
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