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PRESS RELEASESBLOGIN THE NEWSEVENTSEVENTS ARCHIVE
Barefoot Networks, Google Cloud, ONF and P4.org to Showcase P4 Runtime-based Control of Network Switches
P4 Runtime, a silicon-independent and protocol-independent API for control plane - forwarding plane communication, to be demonstrated at the upcoming SDN NFV World Congress
PALO ALTO, CA - (October 3, 2017) - As P4 continues to gain adoption and momentum as a leading programming language for networking, Barefoot Networks and Google Cloud have collaborated to create an open source project under P4.org called P4 Runtime - an API for enabling communication between control plane and forwarding plane in an extensible and scalable manner. The P4 Runtime API is suitable for local or remote control plane software and it is independent of the underlying forwarding plane type. It offers the ability to control a wide variety of networking devices including fixed-function ASICs, FPGAs, NPUs, software switches, and Programmable ASICs.
In addition to the above effort, Barefoot Networks and Google Cloud worked with Open Networking Foundation (ONF) to integrate P4 Runtime with the ONOS™ controller. The combined framework is used to demonstrate ONOS controller deploying and managing Google’s tor.p4 program on Barefoot Networks’ 6.5Tb/s and 3.2Tb/s P4-Programmable Tofino Ethernet switches.
With the advent and increasing use of P4-programmable forwarding planes, a control plane that can evolve and change as fast as the programmable forwarding plane is a critical necessity. This demonstration of ONOS with P4 Runtime fulfills that need by showcasing a network switch deployment model that is seamlessly upgradeable for installing new features and functionality.
"AT&T applauds efforts that disaggregate hardware from software using open, standard and extensible APIs," said Andre Fuetsch, President AT&T Labs and Chief Technology Officer at AT&T. "We’re excited to see P4 Runtime gaining traction. When integrated with the open and globally-adopted ONAP platform, it will pay huge dividends to network operators."
"As networks scale to handle the onslaught of new services and insatiable need for bandwidth, having open and extensible hardware abstractions has become a critical business need," said Jochen Appel, VP Access Network Engineering & Cost Engineering at Deutsche Telekom. "We are very excited about P4 Runtime, since it gives us the freedom to deploy best-in-class network switching solutions thereby shortening time to market for new network services and delivering increased value to our customers.”
“With the arrival of P4 and P4-programmable devices, the logic for processing packets in the forwarding plane has moved to software while continuing to deliver the performance of hardware,” said Nick McKeown, Chief Scientist and Co-Founder, Barefoot Networks, “With Barefoot Tofino, P4, P4 Runtime and ONOS, you now have a high performance networking stack that is fully programmable, giving you complete control of the network.”
“As an early member of P4.org and a pioneer in programmable switching solutions, Cavium is very supportive of the P4 Runtime project,” said Eric Hayes VP/GM Switch Platform Group, Cavium, “With the growing momentum of programmability in the networking industry and the production availability of Cavium’s XPliant multi-terabit programmable switching solutions, Cavium is extending support for the P4 Runtime abstraction to enable developers to design and deploy networks that benefit from open, extensible, application-centric SDN solutions."
“By integrating P4 Runtime with our ONOS controller, we are making progress towards building completely programmable solutions whereby applications can dynamically dictate behavior all the way down into the forwarding plane,” said Timon Sloane, VP Marketing & Ecosystem, ONF. “This is a significant step making possible the next era of innovation in Software-Defined Networking.”
Please join us today for a webinar with Nick McKeown, Chief Scientist and Co-Founder at Barefoot Networks, Timon Sloane, VP Marketing & Ecosystem at ONF and Jim Wanderer, Director of Platforms Engineering at Google, as they present P4 Runtime and their collaborative work at 9AM PST. You can register for the webinar here.
Barefoot Networks also announced today its sponsorship of SDN NFV World Congress 2017, held October 9-13 at The Hague, Netherlands. The world's largest meeting place for carrier network transformation industry leaders, SDN NFV World Congress provides a platform for industry-leading innovations and speaking sessions. Barefoot, Google and ONF will demonstrate their collaboration in ONF’s booth (A4) at the event. Barefoot will also be demonstrating its Tofino™ Switch, the world’s fastest and P4-programmable switch chip in its own booth A3. Please come and visit us.
P4 Runtime related activities at SDN NFV World Congress include:
4:00 PM - 4:20 PM - Next Generation SDN Switches, Jim Wanderer, Director of Engineering, Platforms, Google and Alternate Board Member, Open Networking Foundation
9:40 - 10:00 AM - Keynote, Nick McKeown, Professor, EE and CS, Stanford University and Chief Scientist, Chairman and Co-Founder, Barefoot Networks
Tuesday, October 10 - Friday October 13
8:15AM - 7:15PM - tor.p4 + P4 Runtime + ONOS Demonstration – hosted at the Open Networking Foundation booth A4, the demo is a joint effort between Barefoot, ONF and Google. See Trail Point #15 for more detail.
To connect with Barefoot Networks at SDN NFV World Congress, please contact info@barefootnetworks.com.
About Barefoot Networks
Barefoot Networks launched in 2016 after two years of developing technology that built switch silicon with a forwarding plane that is defined in software while not compromising on performance. Barefoot empowers network owners and their infrastructure partners to design, optimize, and innovate to meet their specific requirements and gain competitive advantage. In combining the P4 programming language with fast programmable switches, Barefoot has also created an ecosystem for compilers, tools, and P4 programs to make P4 accessible to anybody. Backed by Google Inc., Goldman Sachs Principal Strategic Investments, Alibaba, Tencent, and by premier venture capital firms Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Andreessen Horowitz, Barefoot Networks is headquartered in Silicon Valley. For more information, visit https://barefootnetworks.com/. Follow us on Twitter: @barefootnetwork. Follow us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/barefootnetworks. Follow us on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/barefoot-networks
Barefoot Networks, the Foot Logo and Tofino are trademarks of Barefoot Networks.
The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) is an operator led consortium spearheading disruptive network transformation. Now the recognized leader for open source solutions for operators, the ONF first launched in 2011 as the standard bearer for Software Defined Networking (SDN). Led by its operator partners AT&T, China Unicom, Comcast, Deutsche Telekom, Google, NTT Communications, Turk Telekom and Verizon, the ONF has now merged operations with ON.Lab to create a single organization driving vast transformation across the operator space. For further information visit http://www.opennetworking.org.
Türk Telekom Joins the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) as a Partner Member
Membership Exemplifies Türk Telekom’s Commitment to Developing Technologies that Advance SDN and Greater Network Agility
AT&T Labs and The Open Networking Foundation Collaborate on the Release of VOLTHA
Major Milestone Marks the First Complete Open Source Software Release for Broadband Access Networking
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Open Research Community
Open Research Library Blog
Recollecting Crises, Constructing Narratives and Examining their Aftermath
Pablo Markin
Community Manager, Open Research Community
Published by Böhlau Verlag in 2019, Collapse of Memory – Memory of Collapse: Narrating Past, Presence and Future about Periods of Crisis, edited by Alexander Drost, Olga Sasunkevich, Joachim Schiedermair and Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, has become available in Open Access at the Open Research Library earlier this year, as part of the KU Open Services collection.
A Blog Post by Pablo Markin.
Drost et al., eds. Collapse of Memory – Memory of Collapse. Böhlau, 2019. Accessed September 25, 2020. https://openresearchlibrary.org.
As Alexander Drost, one of the editors of Collapse of Memory – Memory of Collapse: Narrating Past, Presence and Future about Periods of Crisis, suggests “[i]t is consensus in memory studies that individual memory is shaped collectively. People and media condition certain patterns of individual remembrance and premediate meanings of outstanding events like collapse and crisis” (Drost, 2019, p. 24). Authors, painters, photographers and directors tell fascinating stories about the decline of empires and democracies as much as earthquakes and infectious diseases. Hereby, as this volume seeks to demonstrate, catastrophe and collapse evolve as a complex construct of experience, interpretation and emotion. The resulting narrative combines analyses of facts about the collapse with a retrospect evaluation, updated vision and confirmation of these facts in the cultural memory of a given society. The random occurrence becomes, thus, a memorable event. The contributors to this volume have taken a narratological approach in examining collapse, disaster, catastrophe and how these in turn manifest themselves across different types of media.
In his introduction to this edited volume, entitled “Collapse Makes Memory: An Introduction,” Alexander Drost argues that
“[t]he fascination of failure and destruction sustains an entire sector of the media industry, for compelling stories can be drawn from catastrophes, crises and collapse. The decline of empires and kingdoms as much as earthquakes and infectious diseases have fired the imagination of authors, film makers and painters. They become motivated to present their vision of catastrophes as a key turning point for individuals, nay, even for entire societies. Taken this way, catastrophe emerges as a multi- faceted construct of experience, interpretation and emotion. […] When the incisive event enters into the collective consciousness, the narrative frames the event in time and also permits a view into the future. The objective is not only to overcome collapse but also to prevent similar catastrophes from (re-)occurring in future. In this process, the narrative is key in understanding collapse and its impact on society as well as societies’ interpretation of collapse through cultural memory. […] In this way narrating collapse is understood as an active process of forging meaning by selecting certain occurrences to construct a story. This process transforms the random occurrence into a memorable event. Considering how such events are constructed from a narratological perspective, the contributors have broadened their approach to include: mechanisms of construction, such as the use of particular media, narration strategies as well as the impact of cultural memory in narrating and thereby coping with collapse” (Drost, 2019, p. 9).
Edited by Pablo Markin
Drost, Alexander, Olga Sasunkevich, Joachim Schiedermair and Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, eds. Collapse of Memory – Memory of Collapse: Narrating Past, Presence and Future about Periods of Crisis. Böhlau, 2019. Accessed September 25, 2020. https://openresearchlibrary.org.
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BT's Converged Core to Launch in 2023
At last year's Total Telecom Congress, Howard Watson, BT's CTIO laid out his vision (see Tweet) where Fixed, Mobile & Wi-Fi networks work together in a converged network.
Howard Watson, CTIO, BT lays out a vision of convergence where fixed, mobile and WiFi networks are being enhanced to deliver a next generation experience to the end users #TTCongress @totaltelecom pic.twitter.com/YTUa3Qtl3a
— 3G4G (@3g4gUK) October 30, 2018
While those slides are not publicly available, a similar set of slides are available here on BT's homepage from Barclays CTO Conference earlier this year.
This year, Howard Watson was able to expand further on their vision for converged core of the future.
Howard Watson, Group CTIO, BT talked about how the fixed and mobile core networks handle traffic separately but they are expecting converged core by 2023. Their smart network will provide a seamless & consistent customer experience
@totaltelecom #TTCongress pic.twitter.com/B301Dx4Cdv
The slides in the tweet above gives a good idea of BT's vision of convergence where their fixed broadband customers and mobile customers from BT, EE, Plusnet & Wholesale along with Wi-Fi can get the same consistent experience regardless on where and how they access the network.
Total Telecom wrote a nice summary from the congress, part of which is reproduced below:
BT’s Hybrid Network, to be launched in 2023, will be comprised of the company’s mobile, fixed line and WIFI networks, offering customers ever present, gigabit connectivity
Consumers in the UK are increasingly intolerant of complexity, even as they begin to demand ubiquitous, gigabit capable connectivity, according to BT’s CTIO.
Speaking at the Total Telecom Congress in London on Tuesday, Howard Watson said that while consumers were essentially technologically agnostic as to how they received their connectivity, they were becoming increasingly demanding about the speed, quality and reliability of that connection.
At last year’s Congress, Watson announced that BT would be launching a fully converged, hybrid network that would offer seamless connectivity across the company’s mobile, fixed line and WIFI networks, with the aim to have all of its customers signed up to the network by 2023.
This year, Watson stressed the crucial role that WIFI and mobile connectivity would play in this hybrid next generation network.
“Whether you are connecting through fixed, mobile or WIFI, bound by intelligence and software driven common infrastructure, we truly believe we can transform the customer’s experience and deliver that seamless connectivity that they demand. We are in a unique position to do that because we are the only operator in the UK to build this type of network.”
“Making this happen is not east or trivial and we need to push the boundaries of the available technologies in terms of what they can do in terms of coverage, capability and interoperability. We need to rollout new technologies like 5G and WIFI 6 across the whole of the UK.”
BT was the first operator in the UK to launch 5G mobile network services through its mobile subsidiary, EE, which now has a 5G presence in 20 towns and cities cross the country. BT has subsequently launched 5G for its own brand customers and Watson said that EE and BT would try to provide 5G network coverage in an additional 25 towns and cities across the UK by the end of 2019.
Earlier I wrote about how the new 5G Core Architecture promoted Fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) and also another feature called Access Traffic Steering, Switching and Splitting (ATSSS) would play a key role in convergence. It is very likely that BT is moving in that direction for their converged core.
While the slides from Total Telecom Congress is not publicly available, they are present in BT's Technology’s Business Briefing here.
The 3G4G Blog: 5G and Fixed-Mobile Convergence (FMC)
The 3G4G Blog: Introduction to 5G ATSSS - Access Traffic Steering, Switching and Splitting
The 3G4G Blog: Exploring Network Convergence of Mobile, Broadband and Wi-Fi
Tutorial: Service Based Architecture (SBA) for 5G Core (5GC)
The 3G4G Blog: Updated 5G Terminology Presentation (Feb 2019)
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Skoda Kodiaq spotted in the wild, little disguise
Alexi Falson Aug 10, 2016
Car News, Skoda, Spy scoops, SUV
Alexi Falson
Skoda has been caught out testing its highly anticipated Kodiaq large SUV, just weeks away from its official debut.
Credit goes to Magazin ProDriver CZ’s Facebook page, who spotted what may well prove to be the world’s first photo of a mostly undisguised Kodiaq.
The front end, and particular headlamp aesthetic, looks as though it’s borrowed some inspiration from the Range Rover Evoque with a hint of the Suzuki Vitara thrown in for good measure. Overall though much of the design language of the Vision S concept has been carried over, in a somewhat watered-down manner.
The Kodiaq will benefit from VW Group’s wide range of powertrains, including but not limited to, a likely 1.4-litre TSI unit in the base model, a 2.0-litre TSI in the step-up variant and a 2.0-litre TDI unit.
It is likely that buyers will have the choice of opting for a 92kW and 110kW version of the 1.4-litre, while the 1.8-litre TSI produces around 134kW, and the 2.0-litre TDI engine can produce either 110kW and 140kW, but with significantly more torque.
Kodiaq owners are set to have the choice of a six-speed manual or DSG auto, turning the front wheels in the base variant, with an optional all-wheel drive drivetrain on offer. The Kodiaq is also said to be equipped with an advanced off-road mode.
The crossover is expected to be around 4.7 meters long, and have a wheel-base slightly longer than the Octavia. Both five- and seven-seat layouts will be offered, with a confirmed cargo space of up to 2065L.
Skoda has also said a hybrid variant could enter the Kodiaq lineup in the coming years, but it will have to wait for the introduction of Skoda’s first ever hybrid, based on the Superb, which is expected to be released by 2019.
It’s not long until the Kodiaq makes its official debut in Berlin on September 1. Stay tuned for more.
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Alexi is a contributing news journalist and junior road tester at PerformanceDrive. He has a passion and appreciation for the engineering in cars, as well as new technologies that lessen the impact on the environment. His dream cars are an M3 to drive to work, and a LaFerrari for the weekend.
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Delaware County High School Working To Protect Students Against Bullying
Filed Under:anti-bullying advocacy group, Bonner Prendergast Catholic High School, Bullying, Cyber-Bullying, delaware county
By Matt Rivers
DREXEL HILL, Pa., (CBS) – From verbal bullying to cyber bullying — it’s tough for some young people to safely escape the abuse.
Local schools are working to protect students.
At Bonner Prendergast Catholic High School, a coalition of students, administrators and outside experts are trying to make sure bullying is kept at bay, with students leading the charge.
There’s no easy answer to this problem. Bullying exists in every school in every state nationwide. What happened in Edison Tuesday, (see related story), is the problem at its worst.
“They’re driven to the point where they don’t have enough support and they feel that there’s no outlet,” said Dr. Claudio Cerullo, the founder of Teach Anti-Bullying, Inc., an anti-bullying advocacy group. He has done a lot of work at Bonner Prendergast Catholic High School, lecturing students about bullying and how to fight it. But what he started, the kids picked up and ran with.
“The first day we had 30 people come and the next week we had 55,” said Nick Grandizio, a Bonner Prendie senior.
He started an anti-bullying club, where students can vent about a subject only growing in its reach. Where bullying once stopped once you got of the bus, social media allows it to follow you home — cyber bullying with real consequences.
“It makes you feel excluded from everyone else and it really messes with your emotions,” said Julia, another senior.
But with their club, those emotions can be expressed without ridicule or judgment, kids surrounded by contemporaries, not counselors.
“I think that’s why it’s good we have a club because you can talk to another student about it rather than reach out to an adult,” said Julia.
“We can let it out and we can talk to each other and it’s really helpful,” said Seamus Mekes, another senior.
Experts like Dr. Cerullo said clubs like that are great, but the message needs to be reinforced at home, with parents holding their kids accountable both for what they do at school and online.
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Philadelphia Joins Lawsuit Blaming Opioid Manufacturers For Health Crisis
By Pat Loeb January 17, 2018 at 5:21 pm
Filed Under:KYW Newsradio, Opioid Crisis, opioid epidemic, Pat Loeb
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Philadelphia has joined a growing list of state and local governments suing opioid manufacturers for the costs of an addiction epidemic, charging “false and deceptive” marketing practices “created the public health and safety crisis.”
The city is seeking an injunction to stop the companies from spreading false information about the effectiveness and addictiveness of painkillers and require that they pay for treatment and public awareness programs.
“City agencies have incurred tremendous and avoidable costs trying to combat this crisis and because it is our duty to protect the public from further harm, I believe we have no other choice but to file this lawsuit,” said City Solicitor Sozi Tulante in announcing the filing.
Defendants include Allergan, Teva, Endo, Purdue, Johnson & Johnson and several others which those five have acquired.
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All issued statements saying they shared concerns about the opioid epidemic but distancing themselves from it, to varying degrees.
The 160-page lawsuit lays out a history of painkiller marketing since 1996, when use of the drugs shifted from relief for dying cancer patients to treatment for otherwise healthy individuals suffering back pain, arthritis and headaches.
“Defendants created a falsely favorable perception of prescription opioids through coordinated, sophisticated and highly deceptive marketing,” the suit states. “Defendants engaged in this deceptive conduct because they recognized that chronic pain patients could provide a much larger, and far more lucrative, market.”
Among the tactics the suit cites is the misrepresentation of a 1980 letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, “Citing it,” says Tulante, “as scientific support that opioids were safe and not addictive, as if it were an article presenting peer-reviewed study. It was not.”
Another is the creation of the concept of “pseudo-addiction,” the idea that withdrawal symptoms were actually a sign of undertreated pain, thus generating even more prescriptions.
“The defendants’ deceptive marketing practices led to an exponential rise in prescription opioid sales in the city of Philadelphia,” says Tulante. “This epidemic has taken a grim toll in our city and includes historically high rates of opioid use, addiction and opioid-related overdoses.”
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Health Commissioner Tom Farley says he expects the overdose death toll from last year to hit a record 1,200, the highest rate of any large U.S. city.
The costs associated with the epidemic, laid out in the suit, are myriad. Tulante said he didn’t know the total but the suit lays out areas where the city pays for addiction and related consequences, including:
— Addiction Treatment. The suit says 14,000 people received city-funded treatment in 2016 and 6,000 enrolled in methadone or similar maintenance programs, ranging in cost from $450-$1,000 per month.
— Care for infants born addicted, estimated at $60,000 per child for hospital costs alone.
— Treatment for Hepatitis C, an addiction-related disorder, estimated at $84,000 per person.
— Naloxone for treating overdoses.
— Autopsies for those who die from overdoses.
— The costs of first responders.
— Increased Criminal Justice costs for crime related to addiction, estimated at $30 to 40 million per year.
— Increased social services including foster care for the children of addicts, roughly $8,000 per year in payments to foster parents plus the cost of staff who manages care; also, the rising need for shelter and housing because of increased homelessness among addicts.
— Public Awareness to counteract the defendants’ marketing, on which the city is spending $1.9 million.
“This public health crisis has seriously disturbed the quality of life for all Philadelphia residents,” says Tulante.
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More than 100 government entities now have filed similar suits. The state of New York reached a settlement with Endo and Purdue but both those companies denied the allegations in Philadelphia’s suit and promised to fight it vigorously.
“Endo has taken meaningful action during the past year by voluntarily ceasing opioid promotion and eliminating its entire product salesforce,” it said in an emailed statement. The company, with U.S. headquarters in Horsham, noted it also “terminated its new opioid product development programs.”
Purdue’s emailed statement said it was “deeply troubled by the prescription and illicit opioid abuse crisis,” but added, “we must balance patient access to FDA-approved medicines, while working collaboratively to solve this public health challenge.”
Janssen, a subsidiary of New Brunswick-based Johnson & Johnson, emailed a statement saying, “We believe the allegations in the lawsuits against our company are both legally and factually unfounded. Janssen has acted in the best interests of patients and physicians with regard to its opioid pain medicines, which are FDA-approved and carry FDA-mandated warnings about possible risks on every product label. According to independent surveillance data, Janssen opioid pain medicines consistently have some of the lowest rates of abuse among these medications.”
Teva’s emailed statement did not deny the charges in the lawsuit but said, it “is committed to the appropriate use of opioid medicines… To that end, we take a multi-faceted approach to this complex issue; we work to educate communities and healthcare providers on appropriate medicine use and prescribing, we comply closely with all relevant federal and state regulations regarding these medicines, and, through our R&D pipeline, we are developing non-opioid treatments that have the potential to bring relief to patients in chronic pain.”
Allergan, again in an emailed statement, said its products “account for less than 0.08% of all opioid products prescribed in 2016 in the U.S. These products came to Allergan through legacy acquisitions and have not been promoted since 2012.”
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Former CIO Burger King, Popeyes, Tim Hortons and More–Joins Ovation
Jul 17, 2020 | News
OREM, UT. (July 17, 2020) — Former CIO of Burger King, Popeyes, and Tim Hortons Joins the Ovation Team.
Ovation Up, Inc. (Ovation), an actionable guest feedback tool for restaurants and retailers, is pleased to welcome Kelly MacPherson onto their advisory board. MacPherson is the former Chief Information Officer for Burger King, Popeyes and Tim Hortons, and has led technology for Abercrombie and Fitch, MICROS, Planet Hollywood, and Hard Rock Cafe.
“There is no better person than Kelly MacPherson in the industry to help see the Ovation vision through,” said Zack Oates, Founder and CEO of Ovation.
MacPherson’s 30 years in the restaurant and retail space opens the door for Ovation to expand their offerings, business, and customer base. She pioneered guest receipt surveys and has been a champion of feedback through other major economic downturns and looks forward to using her abilities to guide brands through the “new normal.”
“I have been successful throughout my career in driving change and transformative growth while leveraging technology for high-profile global brands. Earlier in my career, I developed a vision for a 360 degree customer strategy before the term became mainstream. Knowing how critical guest insights and analytics are coupled with the means to engage in 1:1 dialogue with customers has always been and continues to be a passion. We need more than just long surveys,” MacPherson said.
Ovation’s technology uses a 2-question survey to measure guest satisfaction on- and off-premise, automates 98% of the work to engage with customers, and uncovers insights to improve. Unlike reviews or long surveys, Ovation relies on actionable communication that is easy for the customer and simple for the brand. They are venture-backed and in over 40 states.
“My expertise in restaurant technology and operations will bring a different perspective and practical experience as Ovation continues to grow and scale their offering,” said MacPherson, “I’ve always been fascinated about the guest experience and how technology can be leveraged to help shape the industry. Ovation brings it all together.”
“She enables Ovation to have a much broader view of what the industry is needing in today’s tumultuous environment. She has already been an incredible asset in her first few weeks with us and we are excited for a long and successful partnership,” said Oates.
MacPherson joins others on the board from former Google, eBay, PayPal, startups, and 3x NFL MVP Steve Young.
About Ovation
Ovation (www.ovationup.com) is a restaurant and retail tech company that helps acquire guest feedback and take action to resolve real-time customer issues and uncover the root causes. Using technology, such as on- and off-premise surveys, Ovation bridges the gap between brands and their customers’ experiences. Ovation helps businesses consolidate feedback, automate engagement, and drive insights to improve.
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Justia Patents Including Sample PreparationUS Patent for Apparatus and method for sensing biomolecules which allows restoration of sensing offset Patent (Patent # 10,690,582)
Apparatus and method for sensing biomolecules which allows restoration of sensing offset
Sep 8, 2017 - KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
An apparatus for sensing biomolecules includes: a storage in which a solution containing a target material is received; a sensor configured to sense the target material; and a flow controller connected between the storage and the sensor to supply the solution to the sensor, wherein the flow controller controls a solution flow to supply the solution containing the target material and the solution containing no target material in an alternating manner. According to the apparatus for sensing biomolecules, the sensing device always achieves a sensing offset, and consequently, long-term continuous measurement is enabled, leading to the maximized usage efficiency of the sensor, and the value of quantitative measurement can be obtained with high precision.
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This application claims priority to Korean Patent Application No. 10-2016-0116165, filed on Sep. 9, 2016, and all the benefits accruing therefrom under 35 U.S.C. § 119, the contents of which in its entirety are herein incorporated by reference.
BACKGROUND 1. Field
Exemplary embodiments relate to an apparatus and method for sensing biomolecules, and more particularly, to an apparatus and method for sensing biomolecules which always achieves a sensing offset of a sensing device through flow control of a target material supplied to the sensing device.
With the increasing interest in environment and demand for technology in recent years, studies are being made on an apparatus and method for quantitative and qualitative analysis of biomolecular materials in a fluid. For example, attention is paid to a sensor device that senses biomolecules by an electrochemical method using a graphene electrode to which a target biomolecular material binds. Besides, there are various electrical or optical sensors such as an electrochemical-type sensor using a gold (Au) electrode, an optical-type sensor using fluorescence absorbance and emission, or a sensor using antigen-antibody reaction or aptamer.
However, the conventional biomolecular sensor has a problem with a time-domain drift phenomenon in which a reaction offset of the sensor rises with the increasing time during which the sensor is exposed to a target material. FIG. 1 is a graph showing a time-domain drift phenomenon. Referring to FIG. 1, theoretically a sensor signal will have to increase or decrease in the presence or absence of a target material as shown in a graph 100. However, in reality, the reaction offset increases over time, and the signal generally increases in size irrespective of whether a target material is present or absent, so the sensor signal shows the pattern such as those shown in a graph 101 or 102. Due to this, the problem of the conventional sensor is that it impossible to continuously measure and reliability of the value of quantitative measurement is low.
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According to an aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided an apparatus and method for sensing biomolecules which always achieves an offset of a sensing device for sensing a target biomolecular material to allow long-term measurement and maximized usage efficiency of the sensing device.
An apparatus for sensing biomolecules according to an embodiment includes: a storage in which a solution containing a target material is received; a sensor configured to sense the target material; and a flow controller connected between the storage and the sensor to supply the solution to the sensor, wherein the flow controller controls a solution flow to supply the solution containing the target material and the solution containing no target material in an alternating manner.
In an embodiment, the flow controller may include: a first valve installed on a first flow path connecting the storage and the sensor, wherein the first valve is opened and closed to control a flow of the solution containing the target material; a filter installed on a second flow path connecting the storage and the sensor; and a second valve installed between the filter of the second flow path and the sensor, wherein the second valve is opened and closed to control a flow of the solution from which the target material is removed by the filter.
In an embodiment, the flow controller may be configured to open the first valve and the second valve in an alternating manner at a preset time interval. The preset time interval may be, for example, 5 to 20 minutes.
In an embodiment, the filter may include a filtration device configured to filter the target material based on particle size and/or an adsorption device to which the target material specifically binds.
A method for sensing biomolecules according to an embodiment includes: injecting a solution containing a target material into a storage; and supplying the solution containing the target material and the solution containing no target material to a sensor in an alternating manner, by controlling a fluid flow from the storage to the sensor.
In an embodiment, the supplying of the solution containing the target material and the solution containing no target material in an alternating manner may include: opening a first valve installed on a first flow path between the storage and the sensor; and opening a second valve installed on a second flow path between the storage and the sensor with the first valve closed, wherein the second flow path is different from the first flow path and a filter is installed on the second flow path to filter the target material.
In an embodiment, the opening of the first valve and the opening of the second valve may be iteratively performed in an alternating manner at a preset time interval. The preset time interval may be, for example, 5 to 20 minutes.
According to the apparatus and method for sensing biomolecules in accordance with to an aspect of the present disclosure, a sensing device always achieves a sensing offset by injecting a solution containing a target material and a solution from which a target material is removed by filtration or adsorption into the sensing device in an alternating manner. Consequently, long-term continuous measurement is enabled, leading to the maximized usage efficiency of the sensor, and the value of quantitative measurement can be obtained with high precision.
The apparatus and method for sensing biomolecules in accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure can be used in systems for providing samples stably and periodically, allowing a wide range of applications irrespective of the sensing principle, such as electrochemical sensors and optical sensors, and particularly, can be immediately applied in the field of existing quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) technology or real-time bio-signal monitoring.
FIG. 1 is a graph showing a time-domain drift phenomenon in a conventional biomolecular sensor.
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of an apparatus for sensing biomolecules according to an embodiment.
FIG. 3 is a graph showing the channel resistance measured by an apparatus for sensing biomolecules according to an embodiment.
FIG. 4 is another graph showing the channel resistance measured by an apparatus for sensing biomolecules according to an embodiment.
FIG. 5 is a flowchart of a method for sensing biomolecules according to an embodiment.
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present disclosure are described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Prior to the description, the terms or words used in the specification and the appended claims should not be construed as limited to general and dictionary meanings, but interpreted based on the meanings and concepts corresponding to the technical spirit of the present disclosure on the basis of the principle that the inventor is allowed to define terms appropriately for the best explanation.
Therefore, the embodiments described in the specification and illustrations shown in the drawings are just some embodiments of the present disclosure and do not fully represent the technical spirit of the present disclosure, and it should be understood that there various equivalent variations and modifications may be made thereto.
Referring to FIG. 2, the apparatus for sensing biomolecules according to this embodiment includes a storage 10 in which a solution containing a target material is stored, a sensing unit 30 for sensing the target material, and a flow controller 20 for allowing restoration of a sensing offset by controlling a solution flow between the storage 10 and the sensing unit 30. In an embodiment, the apparatus for sensing biomolecules further includes a pump 40 to cause the solution to flow so that the solution from the storage 10 is supplied to the sensing unit 30.
The storage 10 in which the solution containing the target material is received may be a reservoir with a fine structure. The target material in the solution received in the storage 10 may be any biomolecule with a size of nanometer or micrometer level, and is not limited to a particular material.
The flow controller 20 is connected between the storage 10 and the sensing unit 30. In an embodiment, the flow controller 20 includes a first flow path 201 and a second flow path 202 that are different from each other, and first and second valves 203, 204 are respectively installed on the flow paths 201, 202. Furthermore, a filter 205 is installed on the second flow path 202. The filter 205 is a device for removing the target material in the solution, and for example, may include a filtration device which filters the target material by filtering off particles larger than a particular size based on the particle size, or an adsorption device which removes the target material from the solution due to specific binding of the target material.
The flow controller 20 allows the solution supplied from the storage 10 to the sensing unit 30 to be supplied through any one of the first flow path 201 and the second flow path 202 by opening and closing the first and second valves 203, 204 in an alternating manner. When the first valve 203 is opened and the second valve 204 is closed, the solution is supplied through the first flow path 201, and thus, the target material in the solution is transmitted to the sensing unit 30 without any resistance. On the other hand, when the second valve 204 is opened and the first valve 203 is closed, the solution is supplied through the second flow path 202 and the solution from which the target material is removed by the filter 205 installed on the second flow path 202 is supplied to the sensing unit 30.
In case that the solution containing the target material and the solution containing no target material are supplied to the sensing unit 30 in an alternating manner, the sensing offset of the sensing unit 30 may be restored by way of cleaning over a time interval during which the solution containing no target material is supplied to the sensing unit 30. To this end, the flow controller 20 may open and close the first valve 203 and the second valve 204 in an alternating manner at a time interval of about 5 to 20 minutes that is optimal for bonds between molecules.
In an embodiment, the flow controller 20 includes a controller 206 for regulating the opening and closing of the first and second valves 203, 204. The controller 206 includes a timing controller, and may close the opened valve 203, 204 or open the closed valve 203, 204 by inputting a defined mechanical and/or electrical signal to each valve 203, 204 in each cycle of the timing controller.
The sensing unit 30 is a sensor which detects the target material in the solution while the solution is flowing. For example, the sensing unit 30 may include an electrode 301 made of graphene, a power source 302 for applying voltage to the electrode 301, and a reaction chamber 303 which exposes the target material to the electrode 301 so that the target material is adsorbed to the surface of the heated graphene electrode 301. However, this is provided for illustration, and the sensing unit 30 may be any electrical and/or optical device for detecting biomolecules, for example, a sensor using an electrode made of gold (Au) or an optical sensor using fluorescence absorbance and emission, and is not limited to a particular type.
FIG. 3 is a graph showing the channel resistance measured by the apparatus for sensing biomolecules according to an embodiment.
FIG. 3 shows the channel resistance measured by the sensing unit while supplying the target material to the channel of the sensing unit, in which a first time interval T1 denotes a time interval during which the solution containing the target material is supplied to the sensing unit, and a second time interval T2 denotes a time interval during which the solution containing no target material is supplied to the sensing unit. As shown in the drawing, it can be seen that the sensing offset does not change while the first and second time intervals T1, T2 are repeated in an alternating manner multiple times, and the channel resistance simply increases or decreases depending on whether the target material is present or absent.
FIG. 4 is another graph showing the channel resistance measured by the apparatus for sensing biomolecules according to an embodiment, depicting the channel resistance measured with the increasing concentration of thrombin supplied to the channel of the sensing unit from 0 pM to 100 nM.
The conventional sensor for sensing biomolecules increases in sensor measurement value over time because the sensing offset is not restored, and thus, it is possible to continuously measure only at a higher concentration of biomolecules to measure in a next measurement cycle than a previous cycle, i.e., at increasing concentrations. Due to this, after measurements are carried out a few cycles, the offset of sensor measurement values excessively increases, resulting in a loss of a sensing reference point, which makes quantitation impossible.
In contrast, in the case of the apparatus for sensing biomolecules according to this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 4, even though the concentration of biomolecules changes, the offset can be restored with no great change in channel resistance value over a time interval during which biomolecules are not detected.
Accordingly, using the apparatus for sensing biomolecules according to this embodiment, it is possible to continuously measure at a lower concentration of biomolecules to measure in a next measurement cycle than a previous cycle, i.e., at decreasing concentrations. In addition, in the case of a solution containing two or more types of different target materials, stable measurement is also possible without a loss of a sensing reference point.
Accordingly, the benefit of using the apparatus for sensing biomolecules according to this embodiment is that as measurement values change, quantitation of the target material can be achieved with higher precision than the conventional sensor based on offset restoration following each measurement cycle.
FIG. 5 is a flowchart of a method for sensing biomolecules according to an embodiment. For convenience of description, each step of the method for sensing biomolecules according to this embodiment is described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 5.
First, a solution containing a target material may be injected into the storage 10 (51). The target material may be mixed in a fluid, which then may be delivered, and the target material may be any biomolecule that can be detected using the sensor of the sensing unit 30, and is not limited to a particular material.
Subsequently, the flow controller 20 may open the first valve 203 installed on the first flow path 201 between the storage 10 and the sensing unit 30 (S2). In this instance, the second valve 204 installed on the second flow path 202 between the storage 10 and the sensing unit 30 is closed. Consequently, the solution containing the target material is supplied to the sensing unit 30 through the first flow path 201, forming a measurement cycle. The measurement cycle may have an interval of about 5 to 20 minutes, but is not limited thereto.
When one measurement cycle is completed, the flow controller 20 closes the first valve 203 (S3), and opens the second valve 204 installed on the second flow path 202 between the storage 10 and the sensing unit 30 (S4). As the filter 205 is installed on the second flow path 202, the target material in the solution is filtered off by the filter 205 and only the solution containing no target material is supplied to the sensing unit 30. Through this, the sensing offset restoration of the sensing unit 30 is accomplished. Similar to the measurement cycle, a time interval for sensing offset restoration may be about 5 to 20 minutes, but is not limited thereto.
Subsequently, the flow controller 20 closes the second valve 204 (S5), and opens the first valve 203 again to carry out a next measurement cycle (S2). The fluid flow control step (S2 to S5) may be iteratively performed the number of times required to sense the target material.
While the present disclosure has been hereinabove described with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings, this is provided for illustration purpose only and those skilled in the art will understand that various modifications and variations can be made thereto. However, it should be noted that such modifications fall within the scope of technical protection of the present disclosure. Therefore, the true scope of technical protection of the present disclosure shall be defined by the technical spirit of the appended claims.
1. An apparatus for sensing biomolecules, comprising:
a storage in which a solution containing a target material is received;
a sensor configured to sense the target material; and
a flow controller comprising: a first flow path connecting the storage and the sensor; a second flow path connecting the storage and the sensor; a filter installed on the second flow path and not on the first flow path, the filter filtering out the target material, wherein the flow controller controls a solution flow to supply the solution containing the target material through the first flow path and a solution containing no target material through the second flow path to the sensor in an alternating manner, and the first flow path and the second flow path are connected to each other into a single path extending to the sensor.
2. The apparatus for sensing biomolecules according to claim 1, wherein the flow controller further comprises:
a first valve installed on the first flow path, wherein the first valve is opened and closed to control a flow of the solution containing the target material received from the storage; and
a second valve installed between the filter of the second flow path and the sensor, wherein the second valve is opened and closed to control a flow of the solution containing no target material.
3. The apparatus for sensing biomolecules according to claim 2, wherein the flow controller is configured to open the first valve and the second valve in an alternating manner at a preset time interval.
4. The apparatus for sensing biomolecules according to claim 3, wherein the preset time interval comprises 5 to 20 minutes.
5. The apparatus for sensing biomolecules according to claim 2, wherein the filter includes a filtration device configured to filter out the target material based on particle size.
6. The apparatus for sensing biomolecules according to claim 2, wherein the filter includes an adsorption device to which the target material specifically binds and which prevents the target material from passing through the filter.
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Filed: Sep 8, 2017
Date of Patent: Jun 23, 2020
Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Seoul)
Inventors: Jaebin Choi (Seoul), Chulki Kim (Seoul), Sang Kyung Kim (Seoul), Seok Lee (Seoul), Chaehyun Lim (Seoul), Jae Hun Kim (Seoul), Taikjin Lee (Seoul), Minah Seo (Seoul)
Primary Examiner: Sadie White
Current U.S. Class: Including Sample Preparation (436/174)
International Classification: G01N 15/10 (20060101); G01N 35/08 (20060101); G01N 15/02 (20060101); G01N 27/327 (20060101); G01N 15/06 (20060101); G01N 35/10 (20060101); G01N 15/00 (20060101);
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Justia Patents Credit Or Identification Card SystemsUS Patent for System and method enabling mobile near-field communication to update display on a payment card Patent (Patent # 10,713,649)
System and method enabling mobile near-field communication to update display on a payment card
Jul 9, 2019 - Capital One Services, LLC
Disclosed are a system and methods enabling updating of a card number of a payment card and thereby reissuing the payment card utilizing a reissue application associated with the payment card. The reissue application, when executed communicates with a service provider that manages the payment card. The payment card includes processing circuitry and a rewriteable visual display. Using cryptographic techniques, the reissue application and payment card are authenticated to the service provider. Upon verification, an updated card number is obtained and provided via near-field communication to the payment card. In response to the update payment card number received from the reissue application, the rewriteable visual display on the payment card is updated with the updated card number. Other information may also be presented on the rewriteable visual display of the payment card based on user preferences.
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Payment cards, such as credit cards, gift cards and debit cards, have become a preferred payment method in transactions. The number of transactions involving payment cards is increasing at an incredible rate. The number of fraudulent transactions is also increasing at an incredible rate. As a result, the number of payment cards that must be replaced is increasing as well. A payment card may have once been an inexpensive item, but with the security features required today the cost of a payment card is not trivial. The cost is particular high to card issuers when multiplied by the many card replacements that occur every year.
Disclosed is a method including a step of sending, via a mobile device, a request to update a card number on a payment card to be reissued. The request may include an indication that a card number presented on a display of the payment card and encoded on a magnetic strip of the payment card is invalid and unusable. In response to the sent request, the mobile device may receive an authorization to reissue the card and update the card number. In response to the received authorization, an updated card number may be obtained from a secure source of updated card numbers. In response to command signals from a reissue application executing on the mobile device, an updated card number signal representing the updated card number may be output via a near-field communication circuit in the mobile device. In response to outputting the updated card number signal, a signal indicating that updating of the card number was successful is received via a near-field communication circuit in the mobile device.
Disclosed is another method that includes emitting, by a near-field communication device of a payment card, an authentication signal for receipt by a near-field communication device of a mobile device. The emitted authentication signal includes a card number currently displayed on the payment card. The emitted authentication signal may be emitted after the payment card is introduced into any portion of a near-field communication electric field surrounding the mobile device. The emitted authentication signal may be an approval of a request to change the card number currently displayed on a visual display of the payment card. While the payment card remains within any portion of the near-field communication electric field surrounding the mobile device, the method may include receiving, by a near-field communication device of the payment card, an updated card number signal. The updated card number signal may contain an updated card number. In response to receiving the updated card number signal, the card number currently displayed on the visual display of the payment card may be replaced with the updated card number.
Disclosed is an example of a system including a reissue application on a mobile device, an authentication server, and a payment card. The reissue application may be executable by a processor of the mobile device and when executed is operable to reissue a card number of the payment card. The authentication server is operable to communicate with the reissue application. The payment card may include a payment card near-field communication device, a rewriteable visual display, a processor, and a memory. The rewriteable visual display of the payment card may be operable to present a prior-issued card number. The reissue application, when executed may be operable to send a request to the authentication server to verify that the reissue application is associated with the payment card. In response to a verification that the reissue application is associated with the payment card, the reissue application may obtain an updated card number. The updated card number is different from the prior-issued card number. The signal generation component of the reissue application generates an updated card number signal. The updated card number signal may further include information related to at least one of: a card verification value, an expiration date, or an issuer. The reissue application may cause the updated card number signal to be output. The payment card may be operable to receive, via the payment card near-field communication device, the updated card number signal. Based on the updated card number signal, the rewriteable visual display may be driven to present an updated card number in place of the prior-issued card number.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a system operable to reissue a payment card according to an example;
FIG. 2 is an example of a contactless card suitable for use in the system example of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3A is a block diagram illustrating examples of components of the contactless card of FIG. 2;
FIG. 3B illustrates an example of an apparatus that supplies power to a payment card for modifying a rewriteable visual display of a payment card example as described with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3A;
FIG. 4 is a flow chart of an example process performed by a mobile device using in a system such as that illustrated in FIG. 1;
FIG. 5 is a flow chart illustrating an example of a process executed by one or more components of the system example of FIG. 1; and
FIG. 6 illustrates a computer architecture suitable for implementing one or more components of the system example of FIG. 1.
Various examples describe a system and methods that enable updating of a card number of a payment card and thereby reissuing the payment card utilizing a mobile device associated with the payment card. The mobile device hosts a reissue application that is a mobile computer application that executes on a processor of the mobile device operable to communicate with a service provider that manages the payment card. The payment card includes processing circuitry and a rewriteable visual display. Using cryptographic techniques, the mobile device and payment card are authenticated to the service provider. Upon verification, an updated card number is obtained from a secure source and provided via near-field communication by the mobile device to the payment card. In response to the update payment card number received from the mobile device, the rewriteable visual display on the payment card is updated with the updated card number. Other information may also be presented on the rewriteable visual display of the payment card based on user preferences. The benefits of the disclosed examples include mobile reissuance of a payment card, reduced wait time to receive an updated card number, increased security based on security features of both the mobile device and the payment card, and other benefits that may be apparent upon review and consideration of the disclosed examples.
In the described examples, the payment card may be a contactless card of credit-card dimension including an embedded integrated circuit, a storage device and an interface that permits the card to communicate with a receiving device using a Near Field Communication (NFC) protocol. An example of contactless payment card that may be used in the disclosed examples is described in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 16/205,119 filed Nov. 29, 2018 by Osborn, et. al, entitled “Systems and Methods for Cryptographic Authentication of Contactless Cards” and is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety (hereinafter the '119 Application).
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a system operable to reissue a payment card according to an example. The system 100 may include a service provider 105, a mobile device 120, a data network 130, and a payment card 110.
The data network 130 may be a cellular network, a wide area network (WAN), the Internet, a Wi-Fi network, or a combination of different networks. The service provider 105 may include a data storage device 101 coupled to a payment account server 103, an application server 106, a service provider network 107, and an authentication server 150. Service provider 105 may be, in one example, a business providing computer-based services to clients over a network 115. The combination of the software and hardware that provides a particular service of the service provider to a client is referred to herein as a “server.” The servers may communicate over a private network 125 of the service provider, often referred to as a service provider network 107. The service provider network 107 may comprise a wireless network, a wired network or any combination of wireless network and wired network as described above with regard to data network 130.
In the system of FIG. 1, service provider 105 is shown to include an application server 106 and an authentication server 150. Although each server is illustrated as a discrete device, it is appreciated that the applications and servers may be distributed throughout the enterprise or, in the case of distributed resources such as “cloud” resources, throughout the service provider network 107. The application server 106 may support one or more application services provided by the service provider 105, for example, an account management service. The authentication server 150, according to one aspect, may be operable to provide one or both of first factor authentication and second factor authentication using the contactless card as disclosed in more detail below.
Data storage device 109 comprises data storage resources that may be used, for example, to store customer account, credential and other authentication information, including dynamic password data, for use by the application server 106 and the authentication server 150. The data storage device 109 may be comprised of coupled data resources comprising any combination of local storage, distributed data center storage or cloud-based storage.
The service provider network 107 may be a wide area data communication network or the like, that enables the various components of the service provider 105 to communicate with one another within the service provider 105 and the data network 130 outside the service provider 105. The payment account server 103 may be coupled to a data storage device 101 and communicatively coupled to the data network 130 and the authentication server 150. The payment account server 103 may be operable to store payment account information 102 related to the payment card 110 as well as other payment cards (not shown) in data storage device 101. For example, the payment account information 102 may include at least one of: a payment account balance, payment account limits, information related to the mobile device 120, user preference information, such as user prefernce selections, transaction information, a payment card number history, a list of undeployed payment card numbers, information related to users authorized to use the payment card 110, or the like.
In some examples, the payment account server 103 may be operable to store the updated card number 129. For example, in response to a request from the mobile device 120, the payment account server 103 may be operable to retrieve the updated card number 129 from the data storage device 101 and send the updated card number 129 to the reissue application 127 executing on the mobile device 120.
The application server 106 may be operable to manage the operation and delivery of different applications (i.e., computer applications or programming code), such as the reissue application 127 that are executable by a processor on a mobile device, a server or another computing device. For example, a user may select an icon, link or other mechanism provided as part of the reissue application 127 to launch the application on the mobile device 120 to access payment card number reissue services. The application server 106 may maintain user preferences, user names, or similar information in a data storage (not shown) that may be similar to data storage device 101.
The authentication server 150 may include hardware and software for performing various authentication processes. The authentication server 150 is operable to communicate with the payment account server 103 and the application server 106 within the service provider 105. For example, the authentication server 150 may provide an authentication status with respect to a payment card that is having a card number reissued in response to a request from either the payment account server 103 or the application server 106. In addition, the mobile device 120 and the data network 130 are operable to exchange communications between the mobile device 120 and the authentication server 150.
In an example, the authentication server 150 may be operable to authenticate transactions made with the payment card and operations related to the payment card, such as reissuing a payment card number, authenticating account information updates, or the like. For example, the authentication server 150 may be operable to store information related to clients of the service provider 105 including a client information table (not shown). The information may also be stored in data storage device 101 and be accessible to the payment account server 103. Such information may include, but is not limited to, the client username and client cryptogram keys and counters.
The mobile device 120 may include a mobile device processor 124, a memory 122 storing a reissue application 127, transceivers (XCVRS) 187, and a near-field communication (NFC) device 125. The mobile device 120 may include a secure element 185 that may be operable to, optionally, store an updated card number 129. The reissue application 127 hosts the signal generation component 121. In examples, the reissue application 127 upon execution by the mobile device processor 124 may cause the mobile device processor 124 to be operable to cause the mobile device display 128 to present a user interface 126 that provides information related to the payment card 110 including information that associates the payment card 110 with the reissue application 127 on the mobile device 120, and enables the reissue application respond to user inputs to the user interface 126.
In more detail, the reissue application 127 may enable a user to manage a payment account, such as set authorized users, set spending limits, set and respond to purchase verification notifications, request a reissue of the payment card number, or the like, maintained by the payment account server 103 in the data storage 101. In an example, the reissue application 127 may be associated with the payment card 110 at the authentication server 150. The reissue application 127 may, for example, be provided by the service provider 105 and may be operable to link to different services and servers, such as the application server 106 and authentication server 150 as well as communicate with the payment card 110. The reissue application may include a signal generation component 121, which generates signals, such as command signals, for output to other devices, such as the service provider 105, the payment card 110, or the like.
The mobile device 120 may include at least one input device (shown in a later example) coupled to a user interface 126 and a mobile device display 128. The mobile device 120 may further include a mobile device display 128, which may, for example, be a touchscreen display suitable for providing the user interface 126, that is operable to display information in response to signals generated by the reissue application 127 executing on the mobile device 120 processor. The mobile device display 128 may be operable to display the user interface 126 that presents information in response to signals generated by the reissue application 127 executing on the mobile device 120 processor.
The mobile device processor 124, for example, may be operable to, via the reissue application 127, present via the user interface 126 on the mobile device display 128 a placement indication of where the payment card is to be placed with respect to the mobile device 120. The placement indication may indicate a placement of the payment card 110 with reference to the mobile device 120 that enables near-field communication signals to be exchanged between the mobile device near-field communication device 125 and the payment card near-field communication device. The indicated placement may, for example, align the respective electrical fields of the respective near-field communication devices of the mobile device 120 and the payment card 110 for near maximum signal strength. User preference display signal generation instructions may be information that is communicated between the mobile device 120 and the payment card 110. The user preference display signal generation instructions may be generated by the signal generation component 121 into a signal, for example, based on the information related to the selected user preferences, and may be output by the NFC device 125 as a user preference signal display to the payment card 110.
The signal generation component 121 may be hardware, software, firmware or a combination thereof, that is operable to generate signals in response to instructions from the reissue application 127 executing on mobile device processor 124. For example, the signal generation component 121 may be software that functions as part of the reissue application 127. In another example, the signal generation component 121 may be a component of the mobile device 120 related, for example, to the transceiver 187 or the mobile device processor 124, that is utilized by the reissue application 127.
In some examples, the signal generation component 121 may be coupled to, or be part of, the mobile device processor 124. In an example, the mobile device processor 124 may output user preference display signal generation instructions to the signal generation component 121. The user preference display signal generation instructions may include user reference information that is to be output by the rewritable visual display 113 of the payment card 110. The signal generation component 121 may be operable to generate, according to the user preference display signal generation instructions, a user preference display signal. The user preference display signal, for example, may include the information related to the selected at least one of the selectable user preferences. In an example, the signal generation component may include programming code that is executed by the mobile device processor 124 to process the user preference display signal generation instructions for output as a user preference display signal. In an example, the signal generation component 121 receive instructions from the mobile device processor 124 to produce a signal for output to a payment card or another device, such as the issuer server 108, or an entity, such as service provider 105. In the case where the instructions are to be sent to the issuer server 108 or the service provider 105, the instructions may be output to a respective transceiver of the transceivers 187 for output by the mobile device 120 via the data network 130. The generated user preference display signal may be forwarded to the mobile device near-field communication device 125 for output from the mobile device 120.
In an example, the mobile device 120 may be operable to detect via the mobile device near-field communication device 125, an authentication signal emitted from the payment card near-field communication device 115. The authentication signal may be forwarded to the authentication server 150, and, in response to forwarding the authentication signal, the mobile device 120 may receive verification or authentication that the payment card 110 is a valid payment card having an authenticated association with the mobile device 120. For example, as a result of the verification or authentication, the service provider has indicated the payment card 110 is valid for use in transactions and that the association between the mobile device 120 and the payment card 110 is verified and authenticated.
The mobile device 120 may include a secure element 185. In some examples, the mobile device processor 124, when obtaining the updated card number 129, may be operable to retrieve the updated card number 129 from the secure element 185 of the mobile device. The mobile device processor 124 may report the updated card number of the payment card 110 to an issuer server 108 that is related to an issuer of the payment card. In response to reporting the updated payment, the updated card number may be deleted from the secure element 185 of the mobile device 120.
The payment card 110 may be operable to receive, via the payment card near-field communication device 115, the user preference display signal output by the mobile device 120 near-field communication device. The user preference display signal may be processed by the microprocessor 112 of the payment card 110. The processed user preference display signal may be forwarded to the display driver 633 and the rewriteable visual display 113 for output of an updated card number. The payment card near-field communication device 115 may be operable to transform the updated card number signal output by the mobile device NFC device 125 to voltage values suitable to drive the rewriteable visual display 113 (i.e., an electronic ink display in this example) to replace text and/or graphics, such as a card number, presented on the display with new text and/or graphics, such as an updated card number. The payment card 110 may include a payment card near-field communication (NFC) device 125, a display driver 633, a rewriteable visual display 113, a microprocessor 112, a counter 114, and a memory 116. The rewriteable visual display 113 of the payment card 110 may be coupled to the display driver 633 may operable to present a card number. The rewriteable visual display 113 may, for example, be an electronic ink display. The memory 116 may store applet(s) 117 and other information 119. The applets 117 may include an instance of the reissue application, such as reissue application 127, that may be obtained from the application server 106 of the service provider 105. In an example, the memory 116 may include a secure element (not shown) within the other information 119. In some examples, the payment card processor 112 may be operable to retrieve an updated card number 129 from the secure element. The counter 114 may keep a count of the number of times the payment card 110 is used in a transaction or the like. The counter 114 count number may not be shared outside of the card, which makes the counter 114 count number difficult to determine by an eavesdropping device. Details of the applet(s) 117 and other information 119 are explained in more detail with reference to the examples of FIGS. 2-5.
The payment card 110 may be a contactless card that is in wireless communication, for example, near-field communication (NFC), with the mobile device 120. Via the NFC interaction between the payment card 110 and the mobile device 120, the payment card 110 may harvest energy (described in more detail with reference to the example of FIG. 3B) from the mobile device's NFC signals to perform the functions as described herein. For example, payment card 110 may comprise one or more chips, such as a radio frequency identification chip, operable to communicate via NFC or other short-range protocols. In other examples, payment card 110 may communicate with mobile device 120 through other means including, but not limited to, Bluetooth, satellite, and/or Wi-Fi. In some examples, the mobile device may be, for example, a card reader terminal, a cellular phone, a laptop, and/or a tablet. The payment card 110 may be operable to communicate with the mobile device 120 through NFC when the payment card 110 is within range of the respective mobile device. As described in more detail below, the payment card 110 may include username, encryption key and counter information from counter 114 that may be transformed using cryptographic algorithms to generate a cryptogram including dynamic password that may be used by the service provider to authenticate the mobile device.
The system 100 may also include an issuer server 108. The issuer server 108 may be associated with an issuer (e.g., Mastercard, Visa, American Express, Discover, or the like) of the payment card 110. The issuer server 108 may be coupled to the data network 130 and be communicatively coupled to communicate with the service provider 105 and the mobile device 120. The issuer server 108 and components of the service provider 105 may cooperate with one another to provide services to the mobile device 120. In some examples, the issuer server 108 may store the updated card number 129. The mobile device processor 124 via the reissue application (app) 127 may enable the mobile device 120 to retrieve the updated card number from the issuer server 108.
Details of an operation example are described in more detail with reference to the examples of FIGS. 4 and 5. However, it may be beneficial at this time to briefly describe an operational example that explains the interaction of the respective components of the system 100 with reference to FIG. 1. In the example, the mobile device 120 may be operable to send, by the reissue application 127, a request to the authentication server 150 sent via the data network 130. The request may be made to the authentication server 150 to verify that the mobile device 120 is associated with the payment card 110. In response to a verification that the mobile device 120 is associated with the payment card 110, the mobile device 120 may obtain an updated card number (CN) 129. As shown, the updated card number may be stored in a number of different locations within the system 100. For example, the updated card number 129 may be stored in a secure location by the service provider 105 in a payment account server that is coupled to a data storage device 101. In an example, the updated card number 129 may be stored with payment account information 102. The payment account information 102 may include information related to each payment card account managed and serviced by the service provider 105. Alternatively, the issuer server 108 may store a number of unused or unassigned payment card numbers that may be used as an updated card number 129.
In the example, the updated card number 129 is different from a card number displayed on the payment card 110 prior to issuing an updated card number. The signal generation component 121 may be operable to generate an updated card number signal. The updated card number signal may, for example, include the updated card number and other related information, such as an encryption key, authorized user name(s), a card verification value, an expiration date, an issuer name, or the like. In another example, the updated card number signal may be a signal without the updated card number that instead indicates that the updated card number is to be generated by a device, such as payment card, an issuer server, or the like, that receives the updated card number signal. In a further example, a card verification value may be another identifier, such as a hash value or the like, related to the payment card 110 that may be used by, for example, the authentication server 150 to further to confirm or verify that the payment card 110 is authentic, valid or is associated with a user who also possesses the mobile device 120. The updated card number signal may be output via the mobile device near-field communication device 125. In the example, the payment card 110 may be operable to receive, via a payment card near-field communication device 115, the updated card number signal output by the mobile device near-field communication device 125. In response to receiving the updated card number signal, the microprocessor 112 may be operable to process the updated card number signal, and, based on the updated card number signal, the rewriteable visual display 113 may be driven (by display driver 633) to present the updated card number instead of the displayed card number.
The payment card 110 may include a number of components, such as those shown in FIG. 1, but a more detailed discussion of an example of a payment card is provided with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3A-B.
FIG. 2 provides a front view of an example of a payment card 200 suitable for use in the example processes described herein. The payment card 200 may be operable as a payment card, such as a credit card, debit card, or gift card, issued by a service provider/issuer, whose name 205 is displayed on the front (or the back, in some examples) of the payment card 200. The contactless, payment card 200 may also include user identification information 215 displayed on the front and/or back of the payment card 200, a rewriteable visual display 207, and a contact pad 220 as well as the service provider/issuer name 205.
The payment card 200 may include a substrate 210, which may include a single layer, or one or more laminated layers composed of plastics, metals, and other materials. Examples of materials that may be used to form the substrate 210 include polyvinyl chloride, polyvinyl chloride acetate, acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, polycarbonate, polyesters, anodized titanium, palladium, gold, carbon, paper, biodegradable materials, and or the like. In some examples, the payment card 200 may have physical characteristics compliant with the ID-1 format of the ISO/IEC 7810 standard, and the payment card 200 may otherwise be compliant with the ISO/IEC 14443 standard. However, it is understood that the payment card 200 according to the present disclosure may have different characteristics.
The rewriteable visual display 207 may be an electronic ink display that responds to drive signals to set the state of the display, and in response to the drive signals being removed the electronic ink display remains static in the state set by the last applied drive signal. For example, an example of a currently-displayed or prior-assigned payment card number may be “1234 5678 1234 5678” as shown in the rewriteable visual display 207. The payment card 200 may also include a magnetic strip or tape, which may be located on the back of the card (not shown). As described in the following examples, the currently-displayed or prior-assigned payment card number “1234 5678 1234 5678” may be written over with an updated card number such as “0987 6543 2109 8765” or the like. As a result, the payment card with the updated card number may be reissued and used in future transactions.
In an example, the payment card 200 may include a rewriteable magnetic strip that is rewritten with the updated card number at substantially the same time that the updated card number is provided to the electronic ink display for use in future transactions.
The payment card 200 may also include user identification information 215 displayed on the front and/or back of the card, and a contact pad 220. The user identification information 215 (shown as “Cardholder Name”) may be a user's name or nickname. The contact pad 220 may be operable to establish contact with another communication device, such as a mobile device, a smart phone, a laptop, a desktop, a tablet computer, or the like. The payment card 200 may also include processing circuitry, antenna and other components shown in other examples. These components may be located behind the contact pad 220 or elsewhere on the substrate 210.
As explained above, the payment card 200 may be built on a software platform operable on smart cards or other devices that comprises program code, processing capability and memory, such as JavaCard. In some examples, applets, such as 117 of FIG. 1, may be added to contactless payment cards to generate requests to reissue card numbers as well as other services, such as issuing a one-time password (OTP) for multifactor authentication (MFA) in various mobile application-based use cases. Thus, the functionality of the contactless payment card enables communication with a mobile device to reissue a payment card number as described below with reference to FIGS. 3A-5.
FIG. 3A is a block diagram illustrating examples of components of the contactless payment card of FIG. 2 in more detail.
As illustrated in FIG. 3A, underneath (and coupled to) the contact pad 320 may be processing circuitry 325 for processing and storing information and one or more antennas 355. In addition to a logic circuit and the like, it is understood that the processing circuitry 325 may, for example, contain additional components, including processors, memories, error and parity/CRC checkers, data encoders, anti-collision algorithms, controllers, command decoders, security primitives, tamper-proofing hardware, or the like as necessary to perform the functions described herein.
The one or more antennas 355 may be placed within the payment card and under contact pad 320 and around the processing circuitry of the contact pad 320. For example, the one or more antennas 355 may be integral with the processing circuitry 325, while another of the one or more antennas may be used with an external booster coil. In another example, the one or more antennas 355 may be external to the contact pad 320 and the processing circuitry. The one or more antennas 355 may also provide inductance needed to harvest power to drive, for example, the processing circuitry 325, the memory 335, the rewriteable visual display 207 of FIG. 2, and the like. The processing circuitry 325 may include a power management unit (not shown) which may be operable to manage the power supply and storage for the payment card 200.
In an example of energy harvesting, FIG. 3B illustrates an example of an apparatus 360 that supplies power to a payment card for modifying a rewriteable visual display of a payment card example as described with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3A-B. In the example apparatus 360 of FIG. 3B, the antenna 362 may be an NFC compatible antenna configured to receive NFC signals. In the example of FIG. 3B, the antenna 362 may be operable to provide both communications and the inductance needed for power harvesting. As mentioned above, the antenna 362 may be coupled to a communication interface (shown in the example of FIG. 3A) that provides the signal to processing circuitry for signal processing (as described with reference to FIG. 3A). For example, the power captured by the antenna 362 may, for example, be obtained from a 13.56 MHz NFC signal that generates an alternating current within the antenna 362. Of course, radio frequency signals of a frequency different than 13.56 MHz may also be used. The matching circuit 363 may be a part of the antenna 362 that is matched to the incoming magnetic field to produce maximum inductance. In the example, the inductive-capacitive (LC) filter 364 may act as a low pass filter, which removes high-frequency components from the received signal that are unnecessary for communication. The communication output by processing circuitry (shown in FIG. 3A).
The energy from the induced electrical current and induced voltage is harvested by the energy harvesting component 361. The induced voltage may be approximately around 0.1 volts (V). The voltage may be provided to the power management unit 365 for rectification, smoothing and other processing as well as distribution to other components, such as display driver 333 or NFC circuitry 368 that may be controlled by a microprocessor (shown in other examples). In the example, the induced voltage may power the changes on a rewriteable visual display, such as an e-ink display. If the induced voltage is too low, it may be increased using additional circuit elements and technique such as using a transformer with a greater number of turns of the coil or an increased permanent magnetic field. When the payment card is not being reissued since the e-ink display only needs to be powered when being changed, the payment card may harvest energy while being used with NFC devices and store the harvested energy in an energy storage device 367, which may be a battery, a capacitor, a supercapacitor or the like, to store power for a future change of the display. The power management unit 365 may, in a further example, include an intermediate energy storage device, such as a capacitor to smooth out the voltage provided by the energy harvesting component 361.
In the examples, signals received via the NFC antenna 362 may be used to power the NFC circuitry 368 directly or the power can be captured via the energy harvesting component 361 to drive the display driver 333, under control of a processor, to update the payment card number and present other information via changes to an e-ink display as described with reference to other examples.
Returning to the example of FIG. 3A, the memory 335 may be a read-only memory, write-once read-multiple memory or read/write memory, e.g., RAM, ROM, and EEPROM, and the processing circuitry 325 may include one or more of these memories. For example, a read-only memory may be factory programmable as read-only or one-time programmable. One-time programmability provides the opportunity to write once then read many times. A write once/read-multiple memory may be programmed at a point in time after the memory chip has left the factory. Once the memory is programmed, it may not be rewritten, but it may be read many times. A read/write memory may be programmed and re-programmed many times after leaving the factory. It may also be read many times.
The memory 335 may be operable to store one or more applets 340, one or more counters 345, and payment card account identifier(s) 350. The one or more applet(s) 340, one or more counters 345, and a payment card account identifier 350. The one or more applet(s) 340 may comprise one or more software applications associated with a respective one or more service provider applications (provided, for example, by service provider 105 of FIG. 1) and operable to execute on one or more payment cards, such as a Java Card applet. For example, an applet of applet(s) 340 may be operable to respond to one or more requests, such as near-field data exchange (NDEF) requests, from a reader, such as a Near Field Communication (NFC) reader and produce an NDEF message that comprises a cryptographically secure OTP encoded as an NDEF text tag. According to an example, each applet may store a username for a user associated with the payment card account to access the associated service provider application. The one or more counters 345 may comprise a numeric counter sufficient to store an integer that, in some examples, is representative of the number of times the payment card 200 is used.
The payment card account identifier(s) 350 may comprise a unique alphanumeric identifier assigned to a user of the payment card 200 and/or one or more encryption keys that together may be used to distinguish the user of the payment card from other payment card users. In some examples, the payment card account identifier(s) 350 may include information identifying both a customer and an account assigned to that customer and may further identify the payment card associated with the customer's account. According to some aspects, the username 342 may be derived from a combination of the one or more of the payment card account identifier(s) 350 and/or one or more encryption keys 343.
For example, with reference to FIGS. 1 and 3, the memory 335 may include username 342, an encryption key 343 and counter 345 information that may be transformed by the microprocessor 330 using, for example, cryptographic algorithms to generate an encryption key including a dynamic password that may be used by the service provider's authentication server 150 of FIG. 1 to authenticate the payment card 110, the mobile device 120, a user (not shown), or all three. For example, the microprocessor 330 may use the payment card account identifier(s) 350, the encryption key 343, and a value from one of the counter 345, in cryptographic processing functionality provided by the microprocessor 330 to generate an encryption key including a dynamic password that may be used, together with the username, to authenticate a reissuing of payment card 110 and the provision of an updated card number 129 to the payment card 110 via the mobile device 120. In one example, the dynamic password relates to the counter 345. In such an example, the dynamic password thus advantageously reflects previous behaviors of the holder of the payment card 110. For example, the counter-based dynamic password may reflect the number of times that the user has used the payment card 110 to obtain a particular service (e.g., money advance, transaction authorization, or the like) of the service provider 105, which is a knowledge factor that is virtually impossible for a malicious third party to ascertain. For example, the number of times the payment card 110 is used may be stored as the counter 345 value in a secure memory of the payment card and the counter value may be incremented each time the payment card is used in a transaction.
The microprocessor 330 and memory 335 elements of the foregoing exemplary examples are described with reference to the contact pad 320, but the present disclosure is not limited thereto. It is understood that these elements may be implemented outside of the contact pad 320 or entirely separate from it, or as further elements in addition to microprocessor 330 and memory 335 elements located within the contact pad 320.
Returning to FIGS. 2 and 3A-B, in some examples, the payment card 200 may comprise one or more antennas 355 placed around the processing circuitry 325 of the contact pad 320. For example, the one or more antennas may be integral with the processing circuitry 325 and the one or more antennas 355 may be used with an external booster coil. As another example, the one or more antennas 355 may be external to the contact pad 320 and the processing circuitry 325. In an example, the one or more antennas 355 may extend around the area of the card to increase the power transfer characteristics of the antenna when placed in an electric field, such as an NFC field of a mobile device.
The processing circuitry 325 may include one or more communications interface(s) 337, such as a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip 338, coupled to the one or more antennas 355 operable to communicate with a mobile device, such as 120 of FIG. 1, via one or more short-range wireless communication protocols such as near-field communication (NFC), the Europay, Mastercard, Visa (EMV) standard, or the like, and in conformance with ISO/IEC 14443. In some examples, the RFID chip 338 may also be referred to as a payment card near-field communication device, such as 115 of FIG. 1. Although NFC is used as an example communications protocol, the disclosure is equally applicable to other types of wireless communications, such as the EMV standard, Bluetooth, and/or Wi-Fi. The RFID chip 338 may include additional components, such as those shown in the example of FIG. 3A.
The payment card account identifier(s) 350 may comprise a unique alphanumeric identifier assigned to a user of the payment card 200 and/or one or more encryption keys 343 that together may be used to distinguish the user of the payment card from other payment card users. In some examples, the payment card account identifier(s) 350 may include information identifying both a customer and an account assigned to that customer and may further identify the payment card (i.e., payment card number) associated with the customer's account. According to some aspects, the username 342 may be derived from a combination of the one or more of the payment card account identifier(s) 350 and/or one or more encryption keys 343.
In an example, the reissue of a payment card number may utilize, a password-less authentication protocol that practically applies a contactless, payment card cryptogram exchange protocol as a first factor authentication mechanism to facilitate application service access without sacrificing application service security.
The payment card cryptogram exchange protocol includes registering a payment card of a client with an application service, binding the contactless card to the client and using a cryptogram exchange protocol to perform first factor, second factor and/or other authentication of client access requests by utilizing one of the applet(s) 340, a counter value from counter 345, a key value from encryption key 343, and the microprocessor 330.
In order to insure valid authentication of a payment account, the mobile device and the payment card, the three are typically bound to one another by associating digital credentials of the payment account, the mobile device and the payment card with one another.
For example, the payment card may be registered with the service provider 105 to receive a reissue application service. As part of the registration, a username, such as 342, may be is stored in the data storage device 109 coupled to the authentication server 150. In some examples, the username may be automatically generated by the service provider 105, unknown to the mobile device, and loaded into both a user information table (not shown) stored in the data storage device 109 and an applet of applet(s) 340 downloaded on the payment card 110. As an example, the payment card is associated with a user and a user's payment account which is maintained by the payment account server 103 and stored in data storage device 101. A payment card number (e.g., 1234 5678 1234 5678), user information and user payment account information (i.e., an account number or other identifier) may be maintained and stored by the service provider 105 via the payment account server 103. The payment account information 102 also includes information regarding a mobile device associated with the user, the payment card, and the user payment account. For example, the payment account information 102 may include mobile device 120 information such as a unique identifier associated with the mobile device (e.g., a telephone number, a mobile equipment identifier (MEID), an international mobile equipment identity (IMEI), an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI), a serial number, a media access control (MAC) address, and/or the like), application information related to an application that was used to capture the image (e.g., an identifier of an instance of the application, an application version of the application, and/or the like), and/or the like. Once the payment card is registered with the service provider 105 and bound to the mobile device, application authentication using a payment card cryptographic algorithm may be performed to enable authentication of the payment card, the mobile device and the user, which enables reissue of the payment card via the reissue application. Examples of a cryptographic algorithm suitable for use with the disclosed examples include 3DES (Triple Data Encryption Algorithm), Advanced Encryption Standard (AES); a symmetric Hash Based Message Authentication (HMAC) algorithm, such as HMAC-SHA-256; and a symmetric cypher-based message authentication code (CMAC) algorithm such as AES-CMAC, or the like. This level of security enables the following process to be executed securely, thereby mitigating concern by a service provider or payment account user of an unscrupulous person fraudulently compromising a payment card such as that as described herein.
FIG. 4 is a flow chart of an example process performed by a mobile device using in a system such as that illustrated in FIG. 1. In an example, an e-ink display-enabled card has been compromised (e.g., fraudulent transactions have been made using the payment card number) and the payment card needs to be reissued. Instead of replacing the payment card (110 of FIG. 1 or 200 of FIG. 2), the payment card in the disclosed examples may have the number on the payment card to be changed. In the example, the payment card may be placed within an electric field of the NFC device a mobile phone (e.g. “tapped to phone”) and provide information to authenticate the payment card. Based on authentication of the card and the mobile device, the mobile device is operable to pass over the new information: card number, card verification value (CVV), expiration date, service provider/issuer (e.g., VISA or MASTERCARD), all of or some of which may be displayed. For example, the e-ink display is modified, and when the payment card is removed from the NFC field of the mobile device, the e-ink display is held static.
In more detail, the process 400 may include the mobile device sending a request to update a card number on a payment card to be reissued (410). The request may include an indication that a card number presented on the display of the payment card and/or encoded on a magnetic strip of the payment card is invalid and unusable to complete a transaction (e.g., a purchase of an item or service, or the like). A payment card number may become invalid and unusable because the payment card number has been compromised by identity theft, user carelessness or the like. In some examples, prior to sending the request for authorization to reissue the payment card, an authentication message may be generated by a reissue application, such as 127 of FIG. 1, executing on the mobile device. The authentication message may, for example, include information related to the mobile device stored by an authentication server of a service provider. The authentication message may be included in the request with the indication.
In response to the sent request, the mobile device 120 may receive an authorization to reissue the payment card and update the card number (420). For example, the mobile device 120 may receive authorization to reissue the payment card and update the card number based on an authentication message included in the request. For example, the authentication message included in the request may have information, such as the encrypted messages, that is processed by the authentication server 150. An authentication status message may be sent from authentication server 150 to the payment account server 103, the application server 106 or both. In response to the authentication status message, the payment account server 103 or the application server 106 may obtain and send the updated card number and/or information associated with the selected user preferences (described in more detail below).
In this example, the card number encoded on a magnetic strip of the payment card may not be updated. In response to the received authorization, an updated card number may be obtained from a secure source of updated card numbers (430). In the example, the mobile device may obtain the updated card number by retrieving the updated card number from a secure element of the mobile device. Upon retrieving the updated card number from the secure element, the mobile device may report the updated card number of the payment card to, for example, an issuer server related to an issuer of the payment card, or a financial institution related to the payment card or the like. The mobile device may delete the updated card number from the secure element or take some other action to insure the updated card number is not inadvertently reused again. As shown in FIG. 1, the updated card number (CN) 129 may be stored in various locations and may be obtained by the mobile device 120 upon request and authorization by a respective source. For example, the secure source of the updated card numbers may, for example, be one or more a number of various sources, such as a secure element within a mobile device, a secure element within the payment card, a source within the service provider, a source within an issuer of the payment card, or another secure source. Instead of obtaining an updated card number of the secure element of the mobile device, the mobile device, when obtaining the updated card number from a secure source of updated card numbers, may retrieve the updated card number from an issuer server associated with an issuer of the payment card, such as an issuer server such as 108 in FIG. 1. In other examples, updated card numbers may be generated by a reissue application 127 of the mobile device using a cryptographic hash function based on data retrieved from the payment card 110 of FIG. 1. In another example, the processor 112 of the payment card 110 may be operable to generate an updated card number, for example, by using a cryptographic hash function or some other function and data maintained in the payment card memory, such as data from counter 114 or the like. In the example, the cryptographic hash function or other function may be secure sources of updated card numbers by using various cryptographic and other security techniques. When the payment card 110 of FIG. 1 generates the updated card number, the authentication server 150 of FIG. 1 may be used to authenticate the payment card 110 via the mobile device 120. Once authenticated, the payment card 110 itself may generate the updated card number.
In yet another example, at step 430, the mobile device 120 when obtaining the updated card number from the secure source of updated card numbers, may retrieve the updated card number from a secure element of the mobile device. The mobile device 120 may report the updated card number of the payment card to an issuer server related to an issuer of the payment card and delete the updated card number from the secure element.
In response to command signals from a signal generation component executing on the mobile device, an updated card number signal representing the updated card number may be output via a near-field communication circuit or device in the mobile device (440). With the payment card being within range of the near-field communication circuit or device in the mobile device, the near-field communication device embedded in the payment card to be reissued may receive the updated card number signal (450). In an example, the payment card may also receive an authentication signal from the mobile device 120 via the payment card near-field communication device. The logic circuit on the payment device may verify, for example, utilizing an encryption key or the like, that the mobile device 120 is associated with the payment card.
The payment card may use the energy from the updated card number signal to supply power to a microprocessor to respond to the received signals. For example, at 460, in response to receiving the updated card number signal and harvesting energy from the received signal, a visual display on the payment card may be modified to indicate the updated card number. In an example of a payment card equipped with a rewriteable magnetic strip, the payment card microprocessor may be operable to rewrite the rewriteable magnetic strip with the updated card number. Conversely, in an example of when a payment card is not equipped with a rewriteable magnetic strip, the updated card number is different from the card number represented by the magnetic strip of the payment card to be reissued. In addition, the updated card number signal may include a value that indicates that the magnetic strip is invalid and unusable to point of sale devices that continue to use swipe technology. The payment card may store the value that indicates that the magnetic strip is invalid and unusable and provide information related to the value to the point of sale device. Alternatively, the updated card number itself may indicate the magnetic strip is invalid or the authentication server may have a setting that provides the indication to the point of sale device that the magnetic strip is invalid and unusable.
In another example, the updated card number may be a temporary payment card number, such as a temporary virtual number, usable for a single transaction, a predetermined time period, or the like. The temporary virtual number may be displayed for a limited time such as for the duration of the single transaction, the predetermined time period or the like. In another example, the rewriteable visual display may be used to display one-time use “tokens,” the temporary virtual numbers, or dynamic credit card numbers. These would be provisioned by either the application server or authentication server and transmitted to the payment card via NFC of a mobile device or the like. The display may present indication that the token, temporary virtual number or dynamic credit card number is not a primary payment account number.
In some examples, the process 400 may include enable the mobile device to perform additional functions. These additional functions, for example, increase user awareness of the monetary value associated with their payment card by providing additional information that may be time consuming and inconvenient to obtain. For example, in response to a user input, the mobile device may select account display preferences for displaying information on payment card. In response to the selected account display preferences, a signal generation component of the mobile device may modify signal parameters for rewriting the rewriteable visual display according to the selected account display preferences. The modified signal parameters may be used to transmit a user preference display signal to the payment card. The transmitted user preference display signal causes a presentation of information on the visual display of the payment card, such as one or more of: a last transaction amount, a rewards total amount, an account balance, an account ceiling limit, or a warning related to account balance. Of course, other information may be provided. The presented information may be obtained from the service provider 105, for example, from the payment account server 103, the application server 106 or the like.
A payment card, such as 110 of FIG. 1, may be operable to execute a process for authentication of the card in order to receive the updated card number. FIG. 5 is a flow chart illustrating an example of a process 500 executed by the payment card of the system example of FIG. 1. In the example, at 510, a processor of the payment card may generate an authentication signal that includes a payment card number currently displayed on a visual display of the payment card. In the example, a near-field communication device of the payment card may emit the generated authentication signal for receipt by a near-field communication device of a mobile device. In the example, the emitted authentication signal may include a payment card number currently displayed on the payment card. The emitted authentication signal may be emitted after the payment card is introduced into any portion of a near-field communication electric field surrounding the mobile device. The emitted authentication signal may be an approval of a request to change, or reissue, the card number currently displayed on a visual display of the payment card. In the example, the payment card may store in a memory device within the payment card an indication that a card number encoded on a magnetic strip of the payment card is invalid and unusable.
While the payment card remains within any portion of the near-field communication electric field surrounding the mobile device, a near-field communication device of the payment card may receive an updated card number signal (520). In one example, the updated card number signal may be received from the mobile device and may contain only an updated card number. In other examples, the updated card number signal received from the mobile device may contain the updated card number as well as other information, such as information based on user selected preferences.
In a specific example, the updated card number signal may be related to a provisioning of an Europay, Mastercard, Visa (EMV) profile. In an example, EMV profiles contain authentication keys used to verify transactions with chip-based and contactless payment transactions. These authentication keys can be encrypted and sent with the card's symmetric master key (stored in the cards secure memory, such as a secure element) or done through activating backup “profiles.” The backup profiles may, for example, be inactive full sets of EMV compliant-data on the chip of a payment card that become primary payment card numbers (i.e., payment card numbers that are authorized for use in transactions). On activation of a respective updated payment card number, the payment card may display the updated payment card number as a new primary account number (PAN).
In response to receiving the updated card number signal, the card number currently displayed on the visual display of the payment card may be replaced with the updated card number (530). For example, a processor or logic circuit on the payment card may, in response to receiving the updated card number signal by the near-field communication device of the payment card, generate a display drive signal for driving the visual display of the payment card to change the card number currently displayed.
The payment card may also receive, at 540, an account status signal may be received via the near-field communication device of the mobile device. In response to the account status signal, the visual display of the payment card may be modified to present at least one of: a payment card account balance, a most recent transaction amount, an annual percentage rate of account, a rewards points balance, a payment due date, a location-based discount, or a location-based reward.
The process 500 may further include selecting account display preferences for modifying information displayed on payment card. For example, the signal generation component under control of the reissue application 127 may modify signal parameters in response to the selected account display preferences. Prior to transmitting the signal representing the updated card number, a display preference signal that is based on the selected preferences may be transmitted to the payment card. The display preference signal may cause the display on payment card e-ink display of one or more of: a last transaction amount, a rewards total amount, an account balance, an account ceiling limit, or a warning related to account balance.
In other examples, the user preference display signal, in addition to the updated card number, may include information related to the selected at least one of the selectable user preferences. For example, the mobile device processor 124 of FIG. 1 may be operable, via a user interface provided by execution of the reissue application 127, to present a menu of selectable user preferences on the mobile device display 128.
In the example, the selectable user preferences in the menu may include one or more of: a payment card account balance, a most recent transaction amount, an annual percentage rate of account, a rewards points balance, a payment due date, a location-based discount, or a location-based reward. Through at least one input device (such as a touchscreen, button, keypad or the like), a selection of at least one of the selectable user preferences may be received by the mobile device 120. The at least one selected user preference may be stored in the memory. In an example, each selected user preference may be presented on the rewriteable visual display 113 of payment card 110 whenever the payment card 110 and the mobile device 120 communicate with one another, regardless of whether a payment card number is going to be reissued. The mobile device processor 124 may be further operable to, via the reissue application 127, obtain information related to the selected at least one of the selectable user preferences in response to a verification that the mobile device 120 is associated with the payment card 110. The information related to the selected at least one of the selectable user preferences may be stored in the memory 122, for example, in other elements 189, or retrieved via the authentication server 150, payment account server 103 or application server 106. The memory 122 may also be operable to store user-related numbers, information related to users authorized to use the payment card, or the like.
In another example, the payment account server 103 may be operable to retrieve the updated card number from the data storage device 101 in response to a request from the mobile device 120. The payment account server 103 may send the updated card number to the reissue application 127 executing on the mobile device.
In response to the account status signal, the visual display of the payment card may be modified to present at least one of: a payment card account balance, a most recent transaction amount, an annual percentage rate of account, a rewards points balance, a payment due date, a location-based discount, or a location-based reward (550). In some examples, prior transaction information may be stored in a memory, such as 335 of FIG. 3A. When the payment card is placed in a near-field communication electrical field, the payment card may harvest energy to present a portion of the prior transaction information.
In another example, the rewriteable visual display may be used to display one-time use “tokens” or dynamic credit card numbers. These would be provisioned by the server and transmitted to the card via NFC. There would probably be some sort of indication that it isn't the primary account number.
In addition to reissuing payment card numbers for use in future transactions, the rewriteable visual display may be controlled to change the type of card. For example, a payment card may be completely changed into another kind of card, such as a prescription card, an identity card, a debit card or the like. Of course, to provide such as change in the type of card, the service provider, such as 105 of FIG. 1, may have access to, or provide, the respective services related to a prescription card, an identity card, a debit card or the like.
FIG. 6 illustrates an example of a computing architecture 600 suitable for implementing various examples as previously described. In one example, the computing architecture 600 may be incorporate elements as may be typically used to implement a server or network platform, if appropriately programmed, as part of system 100. In another example, the computing architecture 600 may be incorporate optional elements that may be typically used to implement a smart digital device or a computing device that may be implemented as part of system 100.
The computing architecture 600 includes various common computing elements, such as one or more processors, multi-core processors, co-processors, memory units, chipsets, controllers, peripherals, interfaces, oscillators, timing devices, video cards, audio cards, multimedia input/output (I/O) components, power supplies, and so forth. The examples, however, are not limited to implementation by the computing architecture 600.
As shown in FIG. 6, the computing architecture 600 includes a processing unit 604, a system memory 606 and a system bus 608. The processing unit 604 can be any of various commercially available processors or number of processors.
The system bus 608 provides an interface for system components including, but not limited to, the system memory 606 to the processing unit 604. The system bus 608 can be any of several types of bus structures that may further interconnect to a memory bus (with or without a memory controller), a peripheral bus, and a local bus using any of a variety of commercially available bus architectures. Interface adapters may connect to the system bus 608 via slot architecture. Example slot architectures may include without limitation Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP), Card Bus, (Extended) Industry Standard Architecture ((E)ISA), Micro Channel Architecture (MCA), NuBus, Peripheral Component Interconnect (Extended) (PCI(X)), PCI Express, Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA), and the like.
The computing architecture 600 may include or implement various articles of manufacture. An article of manufacture may include a computer-readable storage medium to store logic. Examples of a computer-readable storage medium may include any tangible media capable of storing electronic data, including volatile memory or non-volatile memory, removable or non-removable memory, erasable or non-erasable memory, writeable or re-writeable memory, and so forth. Examples of logic may include executable computer program instructions implemented using any suitable type of code, such as source code, compiled code, interpreted code, executable code, static code, dynamic code, object-oriented code, visual code, and the like. Examples may also be at least partly implemented as instructions contained in or on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, embodied with programming code that may be read and executed by one or more processors to enable performance of the examples of operations described herein.
The system memory 606 may include various types of computer-readable storage media in the form of one or more higher speed memory units, such as read-only memory (ROM), random-access memory (RAM), dynamic RAM (DRAM), Double-Data-Rate DRAM (DDRAM), synchronous DRAM (SDRAM), static RAM (SRAM), programmable ROM (PROM), erasable programmable ROM (EPROM), electrically erasable programmable ROM (EEPROM), flash memory, polymer memory such as ferroelectric polymer memory, ovonic memory, phase change or ferroelectric memory, silicon-oxide-nitride-oxide-silicon (SONOS) memory, magnetic or optical cards, an array of devices such as Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) drives, solid state memory devices (e.g., USB memory, solid state drives (SSD) and any other type of storage media suitable for storing information. In the illustrated example shown in FIG. 6, the system memory 606 can include non-volatile memory 610 and/or volatile memory 612. A basic input/output system (BIOS) can be stored in the non-volatile memory 610.
The computer 602 may include various types of computer-readable storage media in the form of one or more lower speed memory units, including an internal hard disk drive (HDD) 614 (or, optionally, external hard disk drive (HDD) 613), a magnetic floppy disk drive (FDD) 616 to read from or write to a removable magnetic disk 618, and an optical disk drive 620 to read from or write to a removable optical disk 622 (e.g., a CD-ROM or DVD). The HDD 614 or 613, FDD 616 and optical disk drive 620 can be connected to the system bus 608 by an HDD interface 624, an FDD interface 626 and an optical drive interface 628, respectively. The HDD interface 624 for external drive implementations can include at least one or both of Universal Serial Bus (USB) and IEEE 1394 interface technologies.
The drives and associated computer-readable media provide volatile and/or nonvolatile storage of data, data structures, computer-executable instructions, and so forth. For example, a number of computer program modules can be stored in the drives and memory 610, 612, including an operating system 630, one or more application programs 632, other program modules 634, and program data 636. In one example, the one or more application programs 632, other program modules 634, and program data 636 can include, for example, the various applications and/or components of the computing architecture 600. At least one computer-readable storage medium may include instructions that, when executed, cause a system to perform any of the computer-implemented methods and processes described herein.
Optionally, when configured as a mobile device, a smart digital device, a laptop or the like, the computing architecture 600 may include additional devices to enable data input and output to a user. For example, a user may enter commands and information into the computer 602 through one or more wire/wireless optional input devices, for example, a keypad 638 and a tactile input device, such as a touchscreen 640. Other input devices may include microphones, infra-red (IR) remote controls, radio-frequency (RF) remote controls, game pads, stylus pens, near-field communication devices, dongles, finger print readers, gloves, graphics tablets, joysticks, keyboards, retina readers, touch screens (e.g., capacitive, resistive, etc.), trackballs, track pads, sensors, styluses, and the like. These and other input devices are often connected to the processing unit 604 through optional interface 642 that is coupled to the system bus 608 but can be connected by other interfaces such as a parallel port, IEEE 1394 serial port, a game port, a USB port, an IR interface, and so forth.
Another optionally element may be display 644, which may be an organic light emitting diode (OLED), light emitting display (LED), or other type of display device, that is also connected to the system bus 608 via an interface, such as an optional video adaptor 646. The display 644 may be internal or external to the computer 602. In addition to the display 644, a computer typically includes other peripheral output devices, such as speakers, printers, and so forth which may be coupled to the system bus 608 via the optional interface 642.
The computer 602 may operate in a networked environment using logical connections via wire and/or wireless communications to one or more remote computers, such as a remote computer 648. The remote computer 648 can be a workstation, a server computer, a router, a personal computer, portable computer, microprocessor-based entertainment appliance, a peer device or other common network node, and typically includes many or all the elements described relative to the computer 602, although, for purposes of brevity, only a remote memory/storage device 659 is illustrated. The logical connections depicted include wire/wireless connectivity to a local area network (LAN) 652 and/or larger networks, for example, a wide area network (WAN) 654. Such LAN and WAN networking environments are commonplace in offices and companies, and facilitate enterprise-wide computer networks, such as intranets, all of which may connect to a global communications network, for example, the Internet.
When used in a LAN networking environment, the computer 602 may be connected to the LAN 652 through a wire and/or wireless communication network interface or adaptor 656. The adaptor 656 can facilitate wire and/or wireless communications to the LAN 652, which may also include a wireless access point disposed thereon for communicating with the wireless functionality of the adaptor 656.
When used in a WAN networking environment, the computer 602 can include a modem 658, or is connected to a communications server on the WAN 654 or has other means for establishing communications over the WAN 654, such as by way of the Internet. The modem 658, which can be internal or external and a wire and/or wireless device, connects to the system bus 608 via the interface 642. In a networked environment, program modules depicted relative to the computer 602, or portions thereof, can be stored in the remote memory/storage device 659. It will be appreciated that the network connections shown are exemplary and other means of establishing a communications link between the computers can be used.
The computer 602 is operable to communicate with wired and wireless devices or entities using the IEEE 802 family of standards, such as wireless devices operatively disposed in wireless communication (e.g., IEEE 802.11 over-the-air modulation techniques). This includes at least Wi-Fi (or Wireless Fidelity), WiMax, and Bluetooth™ wireless technologies, among others. Thus, the communication can be a predefined structure as with a conventional network or simply an ad hoc communication between at least two devices. Wi-Fi networks use radio technologies called IEEE 802.11x (a, b, g, n, etc.) to provide secure, reliable, fast wireless connectivity. A Wi-Fi network can be used to connect computers to each other, to the Internet, and to wire networks (which use IEEE 802.3-related media and functions). The wireless technologies may couple to the computer 602 via one or more transceivers (not shown) within for example the optional interface 642 or communication interface 656 that facilitate the use of the Wi-Fi, WiMax, Bluetooth wireless technologies as well as others.
The various elements of the devices as previously described with reference to FIGS. 1-6 may include various hardware elements, software elements, or a combination of both. Examples of hardware elements may include devices, logic devices, components, processors, microprocessors, circuits, processors, circuit elements (e.g., transistors, resistors, capacitors, inductors, and so forth), integrated circuits, application specific integrated circuits (ASIC), programmable logic devices (PLD), digital signal processors (DSP), field programmable gate array (FPGA), memory units, logic gates, registers, semiconductor device, chips, microchips, chip sets, and so forth. Examples of software elements may include software components, programs, applications, computer programs, application programs, system programs, software development programs, machine programs, operating system software, middleware, firmware, software modules, routines, subroutines, functions, methods, procedures, software interfaces, application program interfaces (API), instruction sets, computing code, computer code, code segments, computer code segments, words, values, symbols, or any combination thereof. However, determining whether an example is implemented using hardware elements and/or software elements may vary in accordance with any number of factors, such as desired computational rate, power levels, heat tolerances, processing cycle budget, input data rates, output data rates, memory resources, data bus speeds and other design or performance constraints, as desired for a given implementation.
As used in this application, the terms “system”, “component” and “unit” are intended to refer to a computer-related entity, either hardware, a combination of hardware and software, software, or software in execution, examples of which are described herein. For example, a component can be, but is not limited to being, a process running on a processor, a processor, a hard disk drive, multiple storage drives (of optical and/or magnetic storage medium), an object, an executable, a thread of execution, a program, and/or a computer. By way of illustration, both an application running on a server and the server can be a component. One or more components can reside within a process and/or thread of execution, and a component can be localized on one computer and/or distributed between two or more computers.
Further, components may be communicatively coupled to each other by various types of communications media to coordinate operations. The coordination may involve the uni-directional or bi-directional exchange of information. For instance, the components may communicate information in the form of signals communicated over the communications media. The information can be implemented as signals allocated to various signal lines. In such allocations, each message is a signal. Further examples, however, may alternatively employ data messages. Such data messages may be sent across various connections. Exemplary connections include parallel interfaces, serial interfaces, and bus interfaces.
Some examples may be described using the expression “one example” or “an example” along with their derivatives. These terms mean that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the example is included in at least one example. The appearances of the phrase “in one example” in various places in the specification are not necessarily all referring to the same example. Moreover, unless otherwise noted the features described above are recognized to be usable together in any combination. Thus, any features discussed separately may be employed in combination with each other unless it is noted that the features are incompatible with each other.
With general reference to notations and nomenclature used herein, the detailed descriptions herein may be presented in terms of functional blocks or units that might be implemented as program procedures executed on a computer or network of computers. These procedural descriptions and representations are used by those skilled in the art to most effectively convey the substance of their work to others skilled in the art.
A procedure, process, or method is here, and generally, conceived to be a self-consistent sequence of operations leading to a desired result. These operations are those requiring physical manipulations of physical quantities. Usually, though not necessarily, these quantities take the form of electrical, magnetic or optical signals capable of being stored, transferred, combined, compared, and otherwise manipulated. It proves convenient at times, principally for reasons of common usage, to refer to these signals as bits, values, elements, symbols, characters, terms, numbers, or the like. It should be noted, however, that all of these and similar terms are to be associated with the appropriate physical quantities and are merely convenient labels applied to those quantities.
Further, the manipulations performed are often referred to in terms, such as adding or comparing, which are commonly associated with mental operations performed by a human operator. No such capability of a human operator is necessary, or desirable in most cases, in any of the operations described herein, which form part of one or more examples. Rather, the operations are machine operations. Useful machines for performing operations of various examples include general purpose digital computers or similar devices.
Some examples may be described using the expression “coupled” and “connected” along with their derivatives. These terms are not necessarily intended as synonyms for each other. For example, some examples may be described using the terms “connected” and/or “coupled” to indicate that two or more elements are in direct physical or electrical contact with each other. The term “coupled,” however, may also mean that two or more elements are not in direct contact with each other, but still co-operate or interact with each other.
Various examples also relate to apparatus or systems for performing these operations. This apparatus may be specially constructed for the described purpose or it may comprise a general-purpose computer as selectively activated or reconfigured by a computer program stored in the computer. The procedures or processes presented herein are not inherently related to a particular computer or other apparatus. Various general-purpose machines may be used with programs written in accordance with the teachings herein, or it may prove convenient to construct more specialized apparatus to perform the required method steps. The structure for a variety of these machines appears from the description given.
It is emphasized that the Abstract of the Disclosure is provided to allow a reader to quickly ascertain the nature of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. In addition, in the foregoing Detailed Description, various features are grouped together in a single example to streamline the disclosure. This method of disclosure is not to be interpreted as reflecting an intention that the claimed examples require more features than are expressly recited in each claim. Rather, as the following claims reflect, inventive subject matter lies in less than all features of a single disclosed example. Thus, the following claims are hereby incorporated into the Detailed Description, with each claim standing on its own as a separate example. In the appended claims, the terms “including” and “in which” are used as the plain-English equivalents of the respective terms “comprising” and “wherein,” respectively. Moreover, the terms “first,” “second,” “third,” and so forth, are used merely as labels, and are not intended to impose numerical requirements on their objects.
What has been described above includes examples of the disclosed architecture. It is, of course, not possible to describe every conceivable combination of components and/or methodologies, but one of ordinary skill in the art may recognize that many further combinations and permutations are possible. Accordingly, the novel architecture is intended to embrace all such alterations, modifications and variations that fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.
1. A system, comprising:
a payment card comprising a payment card near-field communication device, a rewriteable visual display, a processor, and a memory, wherein the rewriteable visual display of the payment card is operable to present a prior-issued card number;
a reissue application stored in a mobile device, wherein the reissue application is executable by a processor of the mobile device and when executed is operable to reissue a card number of the payment card; and
an authentication server operable to communicate with the reissue application,
wherein the reissue application, when executed, is further operable to: send a request to the authentication server to verify that the reissue application is associated with the payment card; in response to a verification that the reissue application is associated with the payment card, obtain an updated card number, wherein the updated card number is different from the prior-issued card number; generate an updated card number signal including the updated card number and information related to at least one of: a card verification value, an expiration date, or an issuer; cause the updated card number signal to be output; and
wherein the payment card is operable to: receive, via the payment card near-field communication device, the updated card number signal; and drive, based on the updated card number signal, the rewriteable visual display to present an updated card number in place of the prior-issued card number.
2. The system of claim 1, wherein the reissue application, when executed, is further operable to:
provide a user interface;
receive an input via the user interface;
present, via the user interface, information in response to signals generated by the reissue application;
present a menu of selectable user preferences via the user interface, wherein the selectable user preferences in the menu include one or more of: a payment card account balance, a most recent transaction amount, an annual percentage rate of account, a rewards points balance, a payment due date, a location-based discount, or a location-based reward;
receiving, via the user interface, a selection of at least one selectable user preference from the menu of selectable user preferences; and
storing the at least one selected user preference.
in response to a verification that the reissue application is associated with the payment card,
obtain information related to the selected at least one of the selectable user preferences, wherein the information is retrieved via the authentication server; and
generate a user preference display signal, wherein the user preference display signal includes the information related to the selected at least one of the selectable user preferences; and
cause the output of the generated user preference display signal to the payment card near-field communication device.
4. The system of claim 3, wherein the payment card is further operable to:
receive, via the payment card near-field communication device, the outputted user preference display signal;
process the user preference display signal; and
forward the processed user preference display signal to the rewriteable visual display for output of the information related to the selected at least one of the selectable user preferences.
present, via the user interface, an indication of where the payment card is to be placed to enable near-field communication signals to be exchanged with the payment card near-field communication device.
6. The system of claim 1, further comprising:
a payment account server coupled to a data storage device and communicatively coupled to the authentication server, wherein the payment account server is operable to: store payment account information related to the payment card, wherein the payment account information includes at least one of: a payment account balance, payment account limits, information related to the mobile device, user preference selections, transaction information, payment card number history, a list of undeployed payment card numbers, or information related to users authorized to use the payment card.
a payment account server coupled to a data storage device communicatively coupled to the authentication server, wherein the payment account server is operable to: in response to a request from the reissue application, retrieve the updated card number from the data storage device; and send the updated card number to the reissue application.
8. The system of claim 1, wherein the reissue application is operable to:
detect an authentication signal emitted from the payment card near-field communication device;
forward the authentication signal to the authentication server; and
in response to forwarding the authentication signal, receive verification that the payment card is a valid payment card associated with the reissue application.
9. The system of claim 1, wherein:
the rewriteable visual display is an electronic ink display, and
the payment card near-field communication device transforms the updated card number signal to voltage values suitable to drive the electronic ink display to replace the prior-issued card number with the updated card number.
10. The system of claim 1, wherein:
the payment card processor is operable when obtaining the updated card number to: generate an updated card number using a cryptographic hash function and data maintained in the payment card memory.
11. The system of claim 1, further comprising:
an issuer server communicatively coupled to the reissue application, and
wherein the reissue application is further operable when obtaining the updated card number to: retrieve the updated card number from an issuer server associated with an issuer of the payment card.
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Filed: Jul 9, 2019
Date of Patent: Jul 14, 2020
Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Inventors: Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, MD), Colin Hart (Arlington, VA), Kevin Osborn (Newton, MA), Rajko Ilincic (Annandale, VA)
Primary Examiner: William E Rankins
Current U.S. Class: Credit Or Identification Card Systems (235/380)
International Classification: G06Q 20/34 (20120101); G06Q 20/32 (20120101);
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Justia Patents Chemistry: Molecular Biology And Microbiology Patents Micro-organism, Per Se (e.g., Protozoa, Etc.); Compositions Thereof; Proces Of Propagating, Maintaining Or Preserving Micro-organisms Or Compositions Thereof; Process Of Preparing Or Isolating A Composition Containing A Micro-organism; Culture Media Therefor Patents Bacteria Or Actinomycetales; Media Therefor Patents Transformants (e.g., Recombinant Dna Or Vector Or Foreign Or Exogenous Gene Containing, Fused Bacteria, Etc.) Patents Streptomyces Patents (Class 435/252.35)
Streptomyces Patents (Class 435/252.35)
Tacrolimus analogues, a neuroprotective composition comprising the same, an immunosuppressive composition comprising the same, a method for preparing the same, and a mutant for producing the same
Abstract: The present invention relates to novel tacrolimus analogs, a composition for the prevention or treatment of neurological diseases or immune hypersensitivity disorders comprising the same, a method for preventing or treating neurological diseases or immune hypersensitivity disorders comprising administering the analogs to a subject, a method for preparing the analogs using an isolated modified Streptomyces sp. strain wherein the activity of one or more enzymes selected from the group consisting of TcsA, TcsB, TcsC and TcsD is reduced; and the isolated modified Streptomyces sp. strain for prepare the analogs.
Filed: February 22, 2013
Assignee: Intron Biotechnology, Inc.
Inventors: Yeo Joon Yoon, Jae Jong Kim, Si Kyu Lim
Industrial yeast capable of producing ethanol from at least one pentose
Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of methods for obtaining ethanol-producing yeast strains, to the field of the thus produced strains and to the field of the industrial production of ethanol from said strains. Particularly, the present invention relates, in the most general aspect thereof, to a method for preparing yeasts from industrial Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains, to said strains, and to the use thereof in the industrial production of ethanol from industrial media containing at least one pentose.
Filed: April 4, 2011
Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
Assignee: LESAFFRE ET COMPAGNIE
Inventors: Thomas Desfougeres, Georges Pignede, Christophe Rave, Jean-Michel Bavouzet, Didier Colavizza
MALONATE DECARBOXYLASES FOR INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the enzymatic decarboxylation of malonic acid (propanedioic acid) derivatives catalyzed by enzymes structurally and/or functionally related to arylmalonate decarboxylase (AMDase) as isolated from microorganisms of the genus Bordetella. The present invention also relates to novel enzymes with a decarboxylase activity, useful for performing the claimed method, mutants thereof, corresponding coding sequences and expression systems, methods of preparing said novel enzymes, and screening methods for obtaining further suitable enzymes also having said decarboxylase activity.
Inventors: Bernhard Hauer, Nina Schneider, Krzysztof Okrasa, Jason Micklefield, David Leys, Colin Levy
Chimeric Retinoid X Receptors and Their Use in a Novel Ecdysone Receptor-Based Inducible Gene Expression System
Abstract: This invention relates to the field of biotechnology or genetic engineering. Specifically, this invention relates to the field of gene expression. More specifically, this invention relates to a novel ecdysone receptor/chimeric retinoid X receptor-based inducible gene expression system and methods of modulating gene expression in a host cell for applications such as gene therapy, large-scale production of proteins and antibodies, cell-based high throughput screening assays, functional genomics and regulation of traits in transgenic organisms.
Filed: November 24, 2014
Inventors: Marianna Zinovievna KAPITSKAYA, Subba Reddy Palli
METHOD OF PROVIDING DISEASE-SPECIFIC BINDING MOLECULES AND TARGETS
Abstract: Provided are novel specific binding molecules, particularly human antibodies as well as fragments, derivatives and variants thereof that recognize neoepitopes of disease-associated proteins which derive from native endogenous proteins but are prevalent in the body of a patient in a variant form and/or out of their normal physiological context. In addition, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such binding molecules, antibodies and mimics thereof and methods of screening for novel binding molecules, which may or may not be antibodies as well as targets in the treatment of neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease are described.
Filed: July 2, 2014
Applicant: University of Zurich
Inventors: Roger NITSCH, Christoph Hock, Christoph Esslinger, Marlen Knobloch, Kathrin Tissot, Jan Grimm
Lipase Variants and Polynucleotides Encoding Same
Abstract: The present invention relates to variants with improved activity in an amide-bond reaction. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the variants.
Applicant: Novozymes A/S
Inventors: Werner Besenmatter, Allan Svendsen
Polypeptides Having Endoglucanase Activity and Polynucleotides Encoding Same
Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having endoglucanase activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
Inventor: Nikolaj Spodsberg
NOVEL ANTIBODY SPECIFIC FOR CLEC14A AND USES THEREOF
Abstract: Provided is an antibody specifically binding to the CTLD (C-type lectin like domain) of clecl4a (C-type lectin domain family 14, member A), a method for preparing the antibody, a composition for suppressing angiogenesis comprising the antibody, a method for suppressing angiogenesis by administering the antibody or the composition, a composition for preventing or treating cancer comprising the antibody, a method for treating cancer by administering the antibody or the composition, a composition for diagnosing cancer comprising the antibody, a kit for diagnosing cancer comprising the composition, a method for diagnosing cancer using the composition, a composition for suppressing angiogenesis comprising a material for inhibiting expression of clecl4a, a kit for angiogenesis comprising the composition, a method for suppressing angiogenesis or treating cancer using the composition, and the use of the CTLD of clecl4a as an epitope for an antibody suppressive of angiogenesis.
Filed: June 14, 2013
Applicant: SCRIPPS KOREA ANTIBODY INSTITUTE
Inventors: Suk Mook Lee, Min kyoung Ki, Mee Hyun Jeoung, Jong Rip Choi
Polypeptides Having Xylanase Activity And Polynucleotides Encoding Same
Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having xylanase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
Filed: January 26, 2015
Inventors: Alfredo Lopez de Leon, Michael Rey
GTP Sensors
Abstract: Certain embodiments are directed to polypeptide sensors. Certain aspects of the invention are directed to polypeptides for sensing or detecting GTP and GTP concentrations. In further aspects, the polypeptide sensor can measure GTP concentrations, with high temporal and spatial resolution.
Applicant: The Board of Regents of the University of Texas Sy
Inventors: Rui Sousa, Mitra Rana
COSMETIC COMPOSITION FOR IMPROVING SKIN CONDITIONS COMPRISING FUSION PROTEIN
Abstract: The present invention relates to a fusion protein comprising a skin-penetrating peptide, a polynucleotide encoding the fusion protein, an expression vector comprising the polynucleotide, a transformant comprising the expression vector, a method for preparing the fusion protein, a cosmetic composition for improving skin conditions, which comprises the fusion protein, and a pharmaceutical composition for external skin use, which comprises the fusion protein. The fusion protein of the invention comprises a skin-penetrating peptide bound to a physiologically active protein. The fusion protein significantly enhances the skin penetration and skin retention of the physiologically active protein while maintaining or enhancing the ability of the physiologically active protein to synthesize a material showing physiologically active effects. Thus, it can be widely used as an active ingredient in functional cosmetic compositions and pharmaceutical compositions for external skin use.
Filed: April 30, 2014
Inventors: Seol Hoon Lee, Sang Hwa Lee, Nae Gyu Kang, Eu Gene Hur
Polypeptides Having Xanthan Degrading Activity and Polynucleotides Encoding Same
Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having xanthan degrading activity, catalytic domains and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides and catalytic domains. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides and catalytic domains.
Filed: May 7, 2013
Inventors: Dorotea Raventos Segura, Peter Fischer Halin, Anders Viksoe-Nielsen, Lars Anderson, Martin Simon Borchert, Leigh Murphy, Astrid Boisen, Lorena G. Palmén, Kenneth Jensen, Carsten Sjoeholm, Tine Hoff, Charlotte Blom
COLON DISEASE TARGETS AND USES THEREOF
Abstract: The present invention provides a method for diagnosing and detecting diseases associated with colon. The present invention provides one or more proteins or fragments thereof, peptides or nucleic acid molecules differentially expressed in colon diseases (CCAT) and antibodies binds to CCAT. The present invention provides that CCAT is used as targets for screening agents that modulates the CCAT activities. Further the present invention provides methods for treating diseases associated with colon.
Filed: October 22, 2014
Applicant: CELERA CORPORATION
Inventors: Yeounjin KIM, Tao HE, Steve RUBEN
POLYPEPTIDES HAVING GLUCOAMYLASE ACTIVITY AND POLYNUCLEOTIDES ENCODING SAME
Abstract: Provided are isolated polypeptides having glucoamylase activity, catalytic domains, and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, catalytic domains. Also provided are nucleic acid constructs, vectors and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides, catalytic domains.
Inventors: Tianqi Sun, Ming Li
TRANSPORTER BIOSENSORS
Abstract: The invention provides fusion proteins comprising at least one fluorescent protein that is linked to at least one transporter protein that changes three-dimensional conformation upon specifically transporting its substrate. The transporter protein may be a nitrate transporter, a peptide transporter, or a hormone transporter. The invention provides fusion proteins comprising at least one fluorescent protein that is linked to at least one mechanosensitive ion channel protein. The invention also provides for methods of using the fusion proteins of the present invention and nucleic acids encoding the fusion proteins.
Inventors: Wolf B. Frommer, Cheng-Hsun Ho
Heat-Stable Carbonic Anhydrases and Their Use
Abstract: The present invention relates to use of Caminibacter carbonic anhydrase in CO2 extraction, e.g., from flue gas, natural gas, biogas or ambient air. The Caminibacter carbonic anhydrases are especially well suited for these purpose due to their extreme thermostability.
Inventors: Martin Borchert, Paria Saunders
GENETICALLY ENCODED BIOSENSORS
Abstract: The present disclosure provides, inter alia, genetically encoded recombinant peptide biosensors comprising analyte-binding framework portions and signaling portions, wherein the signaling portions are present within the framework portions at sites or amino acid positions that undergo a conformational change upon interaction of the framework portion with an analyte.
Filed: August 8, 2012
Applicant: HOWARD hUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE
Inventors: Jonathan Marvin, Loren Looger, Richard T. Lee, Eric Schreiter
Anti-Human Cytomegalovirus Antibodies And Use Thereof
Abstract: This disclosure provides anti-human cytomegalovirus antibodies and methods of treatment, prophylaxis, detection, and diagnosis using the same. In another aspect, the disclosure features therapeutic, prophylactic, and/or diagnostic compositions for human cytomegalovirus infection or for a human cytomegalovirus-related disease that include a binding agent (e.g., antibody) or polynucleotide disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the composition is formulated for ocular or topical administration. The compositions can further include one or more human cytomegalovirus-neutralizing antibodies, an intravenous immunoglobulin preparation, and/or one or more antiviral compounds (e.g., ganciclovir, foscamet, cidofovir, or valganciclovir).
Inventors: Shuji Sato, Sean Andre Beausoleil, Wan Cheung Cheung, Roberto D. Polakiewicz
Polypeptides Having Alpha-Glucuronidase Activity And Polynucleotides Encoding Same
Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having alpha-glucuronidase activity, catalytic domains and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, catalytic domains. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides or catalytic domains.
Inventors: Johan Börjesson, Anders Vikø-Nielsen, Nikolaj Spodsberg, Kristian Krogh
Method for Producing Recombinant 11-De-O-Methyltomaymycin
Abstract: The present invention provides a tomaymycin biosynthetic gene cluster of Streptomyces species FH6421, and its use for producing 11-de-O-methyltomaymycin.
Applicant: Sanofi
Inventors: Claus Lattemann, Mark Broenstrup, Stefan Werner, Rolf Müller, Kirsten Harmrols
METHOD FOR THE BIOCATALYTIC CYCLIZATION OF TERPENES AND CYCLASE MUTANTS EMPLOYABLE THEREIN
Abstract: The present invention relates to novel mutants with cyclase activity and use thereof in a method for biocatalytic cyclization of terpenes, such as in particular for the production of isopulegol by cyclization of citronellal; a method for the preparation of menthol and methods for the biocatalytic conversion of further compounds with structural motifs similar to terpene.
Filed: December 4, 2014
Inventors: Michael Breuer, Bernhard Hauer, Dieter Jendrossek, Gabrielle Siedenburg, Juergen Pleiss, Demet Sirim, Silvia Racolta
Antibodies capable of binding to the coagulation Factor XI and/or its activated form factor XIa and uses thereof
Abstract: The present invention relates to antibodies capable of binding to the coagulation Factor XI and/or its activated form factor XIa and methods of use thereof, particularly methods of use as agents inhibiting platelet aggregation and by this inhibits thrombus formation.
Inventors: Andreas Wilmen, Julia Straßburger, Frank Dittmer, Michael Strerath, Anja Buchmüller, Joanna Grudzinska-Goebel, Ricarda Finnern, Martina Schäfer, Christoph Gerdes, Hannah Jörißen, Asako Itakura, Philberta Leung, Erik Tucker
Cutinase Variants and Polynucleotides Encoding Same
Abstract: The present invention relates tocutinasevariants. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the variants.
Inventors: Aditya Basu, Naik Sangeeta, Santhosh Mepadam Vasu, Paul Pritish, Rakhi Saikia, Allan Svendsen
THERMOSTABLE C. BESCII ENZYMES
Abstract: The disclosure provides thermostable enzymes isolated from Caldicellulosiruptor bescii and fragments thereof useful for the degradation of cellulose and/or hemicellulose, including thermostable cellulases and hemicellulases. The disclosure further provides nucleic acids encoding the thermostable enzymes of the disclosure. The disclosure also provides methods for the conversion of cellulose and hemicellulose into fermentable sugars using thermostable enzymes of the disclosure. The disclosure also provides enzyme cocktails containing multiple enzymes disclosed herein. The enzymes can be used to release sugars present in cellulose or hemicellulose for subsequent fermentation to produce value-added products.
Applicant: The Board pf Trustees of the University of Illinois
Inventors: Yejun Han, Xiaoyun Su, Dylan Dodd, Roderick I. Mackie, Issac K.O. Cann
Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having glucoamylase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
Inventors: Sara Landvik, Marc Dominique Morant, Keiichi Ayabe, Guillermo Coward-Kelly
REPEBODY FOR NOVEL INTERLEUKIN-6 AND USE THEREOF
Abstract: The present invention relates to an repebody capable of binding specifically to interleukin-6 (IL-6) to inhibit the biological activity of IL-6, a polynucleotide encoding the repebody, a vector comprising the polynucleotide, a recombinant microorganism having introduced therein the polynucleotide or the vector, a method of producing the repebody using the recombinant microorganism, a composition for preventing or treating cancer, which comprises the repebody, and a method for preventing or treating cancer, which comprises administering the composition for preventing or treating cancer, which comprises the repebody. The repebody of the present invention significantly reduces the activity of STAT3 and the concentration of interleukin-6, and thus can be widely used as an agent for preventing or treating IL-6-related diseases.
Applicants: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, THE INDUSTRY & ACADEMIC COOPERATION IN CHUNGNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY (IAC), KOREA BASIC SCIENCE INSTITUTE
Inventors: Hak-Sung Kim, Joong-Jae Lee, Jung Min Choi, Eun-Kyeong Jo, Chul-Su Yang, Hae-Kap Cheong, Hyun Jung Kim
Chimeric surface active proteins
Abstract: The present invention relates to a nucleic acid molecule encoding a chimeric protein having the biochemical activity of a surface active protein, wherein said chimeric protein comprises: (a) an N-terminal portion of a first surface active protein, wherein the N-terminal portion is devoid of between 0 and 10 of the most N-terminal amino acids of the mature first surface active protein; and, C-terminally thereof, (b) a C-terminal portion of a second surface active protein, wherein the C-terminal portion is devoid of between 0 and 10 of the most C-terminal amino acids of the mature second surface active protein. The present invention further relates to a vector, a non-human host and a method for the production of a chimeric protein having the biochemical activity of a surface active protein. In addition, the present invention relates to a chimeric protein encoded by the nucleic acid molecule of the invention and a composition comprising the chimeric protein.
Assignee: B.R.A.I.N. Biotechnology Research and Information Network AG
Inventors: Guido Meurer, Esther Gabor, Anke Bachert, Jürgen Eck
Utilization of phosphoketolase in the production of mevalonate, isoprenoid precursors, and isoprene
Abstract: The invention provides for methods for the production of mevalonate, isoprene, isoprenoid precursor molecules, and/or isoprenoids in cells via the heterologous expression of phosphoketolase enzymes.
Assignees: Danisco US Inc., The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Inventors: Zachary Q. Beck, Andrew C. Eliot, Caroline M. Peres, Dmitrii V. Vaviline
CBH1A VARIANTS
Abstract: The invention relates to recombinant expression of variant forms of M. thermophila CBH1a and homologs thereof, having improved thermoactivity, specific activity, and other desirable properties. Also provided are methods for producing ethanol and other valuable organic compounds by combining cellobiohydrolase variants with cellulosic materials.
Filed: March 12, 2013
Inventors: Behnaz Behrouzian, Xinkai Xie, Kui Chan, Xiyun Zhang, Vesna Mitchell, Douglas A. Hattendorf
Compositions and Methods Comprising Alpha-Amylase Variants with Altered Properties
Abstract: Described are compositions and methods relating to variant alpha-amylasess having altered biochemical properties and advantageous performance characteristics as compared to a reference alpha-amylase. The variants are suitable for use in various industrial applications such as starch conversion, ethanol production, laundry, dishwashing, pulp and paper production, textile desizing, and/or sweetener production.
Applicant: Danisco US Inc.
Inventors: David A. Estell, Brian E. Jones, Marc Kolkman, Christian D. Adams, Edward M. Concar
HUWENTOXIN-IV VARIANTS AND METHODS OF USE
Abstract: The present invention relates to Huwentoxin-IV variants, polynucleotides encoding them, methods of making and using the foregoing, and methods of alleviating pain with peptide inhibitors of Nav1.7.
Inventors: William Eckert, Mack Flinspach, Michael Hunter, Yi Liu, Robert Neff, Alan Wickenden, Alan Gibbs
Method for producing useful substances by a recombinant actinomycete, streptomyces species
Abstract: The invention provides a promoter derived from a genome of an actinomycete, Streptomyces species, and can specifically induce expression of a transgene in an actinomycete, Streptomyces species, in and after a logarithmic growth phase, and an actinomycete host having a high secondary metabolite production ability and a high precursor supply ability in and after the logarithmic growth phase, and a method for producing useful substances in which the promoter and the actinomycete host are combined.
Assignee: JNC Corporation
Inventors: Kazuya Yamanaka, Yoshimitsu Hamano, Tomohiro Yoshimura
PROTEIN INHIBITORS TO COMPLEMENT AND VEGF PATHWAYS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF
Abstract: The invention provides bispecific fusion proteins that inhibit activation of complement pathway and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) pathway and methods for using these fusion proteins.
Inventors: Jeng-Horng Her, Huang-Tsu Chen
MICROBIAL ENGINEERING FOR THE PRODUCTION OF FATTY ACIDS AND FATTY ACID DERIVATIVES
Abstract: Some aspects of this invention relate to methods useful for the conversion of a carbon source to a biofuel or biofuel precursor using engineered microbes. Some aspects of this invention relate to the discovery of a key regulator of lipid metabolism in microbes. Some aspects of this invention relate to engineered microbes for biofuel or biofuel precursor production.
Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Inventors: Gregory Stephanopoulos, Syed Hussain Imam Abidi
MICROBIAL PRODUCTION OF ALKANOLAMIDES AND AMIDOAMINES AND USES THEREOF
Abstract: The disclosure relates to a recombinant microorganism engineered to express an enzyme which catalyzes the conversion of a primary amine and an acyl thioester to a fatty amide. The disclosure further encompasses a method of producing a fatty amide by culturing the recombinant microorganism in the presence of a carbon source.
Applicant: REG Life Sciences, LLC.
Inventors: Jason J. Lutes, Stephen del Cardayre
FERMENTATION PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF RAPAMYCIN
Abstract: The present invention provides a novel method for producing rapamycin by submerged fermentation which comprises cultivating Streptomyces hygroscopicus (CBS 773.72) and mutants thereof. The present invention provides a high yielding mutant culture MTCC5681 from Streptomyces hygroscopicus CBS 773.72. This culture is capable of producing rapamycin more efficiently than the cultures Streptomyces hygroscopicus from sources like ATCC, NRRL etc which have been reported so far.
Applicant: Natco Pharma Limited
Inventors: Baby Rani Polavarapu, Suneel Kumar Battula, Kali Satya Bhujanga Rao Adibhatla, Venkaiah Chowdary Nannapaneni
GH61 Polypeptide Variants and Polynucleotides Encoding Same
Abstract: The present invention relates to GH61 polypeptide variants. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the variants.
Inventors: Janine Lin, Doreen Bohan, Michelle Maranta, Leslie Beresford, Michael Lamsa, Matt Sweeney, Mark Wogulis, Elizabeth Znameroski, Frank Winther Rasmussen
Process for producing reveromycin A or a synthetic intermediate thereof, process for producing compounds containing a spiroketal ring and novel antineoplastics, fungicides and therapeutic agents for bone disorders
Abstract: A bacterium belonging to the genus Streptomyces having an ability to produce reveromycin A or a synthetic intermediate thereof, the bacterium being modified so as to increase expression of revQ gene coding for the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 36 or an amino acid sequence having an identity of not less than 80% to SEQ ID NO: 36 as compared with a parent strain, thereby the above-mentioned production ability is increased as compared with the parent strain.
Assignee: RIKEN
Inventors: Hiroyuki Osada, Shunji Takahashi, Makoto Kawatani, Yoshiyuki Sakaki, Atsushi Toyoda
BIOCATALYSTS AND METHODS FOR SYNTHESIZING DERIVATIVES OF TRYPTAMINE AND TRYPTAMINE ANALOGS
Abstract: The present disclosure provides engineered transaminase polypeptides for the production of amines, polynucleotides encoding the engineered transaminases, host cells capable of expressing the engineered transaminases, and methods of using the engineered transaminases to prepare compounds useful in the production of active pharmaceutical agents. The present disclosure provides engineered polypeptides having transaminase activity, polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, methods of the making the polypeptides, and methods of using the polypeptides for the biocatalytic conversion of ketone substrates to amine products. The present enzymes have been engineered to have one or more residue differences as compared to the amino acid sequence of the naturally occurring transaminase of Vibrio fluvialis. In particular, the transaminases of the present disclosure have been engineered for efficient formation of chiral tryptamine derivatives from its corresponding prochiral ketone substrates.
Inventors: Jovana Nazor, Derek Smith, Michael Crowe, Shiwei Song, Steven J. Collier
Compositions and methods for producing benzylisoquinoline alkaloids
Abstract: The present invention relates to host cells that produce compounds that are characterized as benzylisoquinolines, as well as select precursors and intermediates thereof. The host cells comprise one, two or more heterologous coding sequences wherein each of the heterologous coding sequences encodes an enzyme involved in the metabolic pathway of a benzylisoquinoline, or its precursors or intermediates from a starting compound. The invention also relates to methods of producing the benzylisoquinoline, as well as select precursors and intermediates thereof by culturing the host cells under culture conditions that promote expression of the enzymes that produce the benzylisoquinoline or precursors or intermediates thereof.
Assignee: California Institute of Technology
Inventors: D. Christina Smolke, Kristy Hawkins
PRODUCTION OF FATTY ACID DERIVATIVES
Abstract: The invention relates to compositions and methods, including polynucleotide sequences, amino acid sequences, recombinant host cells and recombinant host cell cultures engineered to produce fatty acid derivative compositions comprising fatty acids, fatty alcohols, fatty aldehydes, fatty esters, alkanes, terminal olefins, internal olefins or ketones. The fatty acid derivative composition is produced extracellularly with a higher titer, yield or productivity than the corresponding wild type or non-engineered host cell.
Publication date: March 5, 2015
Applicant: REG LIFE SCIENCES, LLC
Inventors: Derek L. Greenfield, Andreas W. Schirmer, Elizabeth J. Clarke, Eli S. Groban, Bernardo M. Da Costa, Zhihao Hu
METHODS FOR CONTROL OF FLUX IN METABOLIC PATHWAYS THROUGH PROTEASE MANIPULATION
Abstract: The embodiments described herein pertain to cells, and methods for preparing cells, that can be used as biocatalysts by altering enzymes that compete for a substrate or product of a pathway of interest such that the targeted enzyme is sensitive to a site-specific protease, which protease is expressed but relocated in the cell to a site where it is not in contact with the targeted enzyme in the intact cell. Upon cell lysis, the protease contacts the target enzyme, which is then inactivated by protease cleavage.
Applicants: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, GreenLight Biosciences, Inc.
Inventor: James R. Swartz
MUTANTS OF HYDANTOINASE
Abstract: The present invention relates to a hydantoinase having an amino acid sequence selected from (i) or (ii), with (i) amino acid sequence selected from SEQ ID NO: 6-20 and SEQ ID NO: 73-119 (ii) amino acid sequence wherein in the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 6-20 and SEQ ID NO: 73-119, 1 to 75 amino acid residues have been substituted, deleted, inserted and/or added, and wherein further the catalytic activity of the hydantoinase is higher by a factor of at least 1.2 than the catalytic activity of the hydantoinase having amino acid sequence SEQ ID NO: 1, The present invention further relates to a process for preparing amino acids, wherein said hydantoinase is used.
Inventors: Steffen Osswald, Heiko Schuster, Jürgen Roos, Andreas Karau, Ulrich Schwaneberg, Ronny Martinez, Hemanshu Mundhada, Ursula Holter
MULTI-SPECIFIC FAB FUSION PROTEINS AND METHODS OF USE
Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to multi-specific Fab fusion proteins (MSFP) which comprise an antibody Fab fragment with both N-termini fused to a fusion moiety (fusion moiety A or B). MSFP containing the Fab fragment exhibit significantly reduced binding ability of the Fab fragment to the Fab target. Binding of the Fab to its target is restored when the MSFP is clustered on a cell surface by binding of the fusion moieties to their target. The reduced binding of the Fab to its target, especially when presented on a cell surface in its native state, absent fusion moiety binding provides advantages such as: reduced side effects and allows desirable pharmacological effects of selectivity and specificity in a controlled manner.
Inventor: Hongxing ZHOU
MICROORGANISMS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING BUTADIENE AND RELATED COMPOUNDS BY FORMATE ASSIMILATION
Abstract: Provided herein are non-naturally occurring microbial organisms having a formaldehyde fixation pathway and a formate assimilation pathway, which can further include a methanol metabolic pathway, a methanol oxidation pathway, a hydrogenase and/or a carbon monoxide dehydrogenase. These microbial organisms can further include a butadiene, 1,3-butanediol, crotyl alcohol or 3-buten-2-ol pathway. Additionally provided are methods of using such microbial organisms to produce butadiene, 1,3-butanediol, crotyl alcohol or 3-buten-2-ol.
Applicant: Genomatica, Inc.
Inventors: Anthony P. BURGARD, Robin E. OSTERHOUT, Priti PHARKYA, Stefan ANDRAE
BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAY FOR HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION OF A NONRIBOSOMAL PEPTIDE SYNTHETASE DRUG AND ANALOGS
Abstract: The present invention is directed to the biosynthetic pathway for a nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) derived drug and analogs thereof. The invention also discloses polynucleotide sequences useful for heterologous expression in a convenient microbial host for the synthesis of the NRPS derived drug.
Inventors: David H. Sherman, Garth D. Ehrlich, Benjamin Janto, Robert M. Williams, Christopher M. Rath
Carboxyl esterase polypeptides
Abstract: The present invention relates to a polynucleotide encoding an enzyme having carboxyl esterase [E.C. 2.1.1.1] activity.
Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
Assignee: B.R.A.I.N.
Inventors: Christian Elend, Karl-Erich Jaeger, Christian Leggewie, Christel Vollstedt, Wolfgang Streit
POLYPEPTIDES HAVING ALPHA-AMYLASE ACTIVITY AND POLYNUCLEOTIDES ENCODING SAME
Abstract: Provided are isolated polypeptides having alpha-amylase activity, catalytic domains, carbohydrate binding domains and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, catalytic domains or carbohydrate binding domains. Also provided are nucleic acid constructs, vectors and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides, catalytic domains or carbohydrate binding domains.
Inventors: Tianqi Sun, Ming Li, Junxin Duan
Polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and polynucleotides encoding same
Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
Inventors: Lan Tang, Ye Liu, Junxin Duan, Wenping Wu, Randall Kramer
PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA PCRV BINDING SINGLE VARIABLE DOMAIN ANTIBODIES
Abstract: Polypeptides are provided that are capable of significantly inhibiting andor neutralizing P aeruginosa. The polypeptides comprise two or more immunoglobulin single variable domains that are directed against the PcrV protein of P. aeruginosa, wherein the “first” immunoglobulin single variable domain and the “second” immunoglobulin single variable domain have different paratopes.
Applicant: Ablynx N.V.
Inventors: Evelyn De Tavernier, Ann Union, Bruno Dombrecht, Guy Hermans, Erika Morizzo
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Funding, news 28th June 2018 28th June 2018
Manchester schools: apply now!
We are looking for 10 schools to help us develop an exciting new national pilot project based in Manchester and funded by Sport England. The project will start in September and is one of just 22 projects across the country that has won funding. Do you want to:
Improve the health and wellbeing of families at your school?
Improve children’s fitness levels and their readiness to learn?
Develop the skills of parent volunteers to support other families and the school?
Increase parental engagement and support the school’s community cohesion?
Develop a longer term sustainable model to enable families to get more active together?
Enable families to develop positive networks and reduce isolation?
If so, apply to get involved in our new funded Active Families Project! What does the project involve? We plan to train a member of staff and three parent volunteers from each school as Family Activity Champions and enable them to facilitate groups of families to commit to becoming more active together. This would include:
After-school activities. This is block of six sessions of fun activities for families held directly after school one night of the week on school premises (A member of school staff would need to be present) Ten different families would do a block of sessions each term which would include a range of accessible activities such as games, skipping, treasure hunts and dance (a total of 30 families over the year).
Home activities. From these sessions families would also be given activities or challenges to do together at home to try and increase their regular daily activity levels. If they attend the six sessions and complete the home activities they get a bronze award.
Community Activities. As part of a silver award families would then be encouraged to access other opportunities and facilities in the community in the evenings and weekends (e.g. swimming, cycling, badminton, activities in parks etc.)
Families who could show that they had sustained increased activity over several terms would then get a gold award.
This is a two year project. During the second year we would offer continued support to help schools to embed the project and deliver successful elements of the project to a further 30 families (including enabling training and support of further Champions as required). There will be an option for Champions to get accreditation (e.g. level 2 City and Guilds Award in facilitating groups or working with parents) for their work. This project is to be aimed primarily at families from low socio-economic groups (parents whose highest qualification is GCSE, low paid workers or those on benefits). If these families are a minority at your school, we may still able to work with you but we would have to ensure that mainly the target families would access the project. We would need the pilot schools to agree to:
Allocate one or two members of staff to be involved with the project including helping to facilitate the after school sessions at the school, supporting the Family Activity Champions and encouraging families to do the home and community activities.
Recruit appropriate parents to be Champions and identify and encourage targeted families to attend the sessions.
Provide a hall or gym suitable for 30 adults and children to do family activities immediately after school one day a week for 18 weeks of the year.
Allocate a member of SLT to have an overview of the project and support its development including enabling recruitment, publicity, monitoring, evaluation and celebration of successful families.
Staff attending the briefings, training and review sessions.
In the second year pay a small contribution towards resources ( max £300) out of the school’s Sports Premium funding
Lend some equipment e.g. balls, beanbags and bibs.
In return, PEN will provide
Six days of comprehensive training for the parent volunteers (Family Activity Champions).
Briefing for a senior leader and training for the staff supporting the project.
Ongoing support and visits to the school
All the resources needed to help recruit families and run the sessions, including publicity, Active Family Bags, activity cards and resources to support the activities, family record cards, resources needed for the after-school activities, certificates and incentives etc.
Funding to support families to access activities.
Opportunities to recognise, celebrate and publicise nationally the successful outcomes at your school
Interested? If you want to find out more please come to a special briefing session to be held on Thursday 5th July at the Windrush Centre M16 7WD. There will be two sessions.
2.00 – 3.00 OR
Please email [email protected] to book a place at a briefing. Alternatively you can just fill in and return the application form by Friday 13th July to [email protected]. We will let you know by Thursday 19th July if you have a place on the project.
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Sassanian Boulangerie hits a 100
It has been in existence for 100 years, pampering palates and occasionally modifying the menu to gel with the changing food habits taking care to not camouflage its original flavour.
By Annanya Banerjee | The Indian Express
Sassanian Boulangerie has everything that makes up the quintessential Irani cafe: bun maska with chai, pudding and the jolly bespectacled Parsi man at the counter.
Sassanian, which turns 100 this year, remains one of the few remaining Irani cafes in the city and has retained its old-world charm.
Started by Rustom Yazdabadi in 1913, Sassanian was in 1947 taken over by the Kola family, which continues to manage the cafe.
Meheraban Kola, who has been looking after the cafe after his father died over 10 years ago, recalls how, for all these years, Sassanian has been a part of the breakfast of every person in living in the vicinity.
"The cafe used to open at 5 am and the within a couple of hours, people would start streaming in to purchase bakery items to take back home, or sit and have bun maska and chai as they flipped through newspapers. The Irani jockeys in pre-Independence days would visit us every morning for their cup of chai before heading for Mahalaxmi racecourse for their polo matches," Kola says.
Apart from selling essential bakery products and tea, the cafe at one time doubled as a provision store as well.
The cafe would stock hair products, tooth brushes, pastes, chocolates and soaps. It even held a record of sorts for selling the maximum number of ‘Polsun’ butter packs over a period of few years.
In the 1960s they stopped selling grocery items and became a full-fledged cafe. Even today, what they sell best are what the favourites were 100 years ago: plum puddings, mawa cakes and of course, Irani chai.
"In 1990, Sassanian expanded its menu and introduced chicken rolls, pastries etc.A few years later, they introduced chinese cuisine and dhansak which is a favourite among most regulars. During Easter and Christmas, this place is packed for orders of hot cross buns and cakes," says Deepak Rao, a history professor and a regular at the cafe and who often brings his students to Sassanian to give them a taste of ‘Bombay’.
Unlike many of the Irani cafes which have either shut down or have been revamped to cater to a slightly high-end section of the eating-out community, Kola has no such plans for his beloved Sassanian.
He is attached to cheap viagra every part of the place, including the polished bentwood chairs imported from Poland which have been there since the cafe first opened.
"Just because a place is air-conditioned and has fancy interiors does not mean it is satisfactory for the customer. Here, at regular prices, we provide fresh food and in substantial proportions. One can just drop in for a cup of tea and relax in the cool interiors inside. Our patron list ranges from lawyers to high-ranked police officials and college students to office-going crowds.
"It is the authenticity of the place that has made it run for so many years and hopefully, for many more years to come" says Kola.
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Romanced by a Canadian Pork Chop
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Courtney Hutchison // New York, NY
Fleeing that odd combination of loneliness and freedom that comes when a long relationship ends, I drove north that spring into Quebec. I watched happily as the landscape regressed into ice and snow, putting mile after mile between me and the sodden thaw of New England. My friend Alex and I had chosen this unorthodox spring break because we spoke French, because it was drivable and off-season hotels are cheap, and because no one else we knew would be there.
The winter in Montreal had been hard and snow-ridden, so we mostly traipsed about in layers from cafe to eatery, indoor market to brasserie, perpetually sliding just-licked fingers into our down gloves. Always there was one place every local recommended: Au Pied du Cochon, or the house of the pig’s foot. I flashed a furrowed brow at Alex — I was vegetarian and the name sounded suspiciously meat-centric.
“It’ll be fine,” she said, “I’m sure they have vegetables.” Alex, if given a choice, would wrap every porterhouse steak in pancetta and fry it in duck fat. She got us the last reservation of the night.
It was everything a restaurant in winter should be: warm and fire-lit, the smell of unknown mingling foodstuffs soaking into the wood beams of the ceiling, the oak planks of the floor. The menu read like a shrine to all manner of beast and fowl — most revered, of course, was the pig. I staked out the vegetarian items and tried to ignore how the smell of roasting pork was making my mouth water.
Our waiter arrived to take our modest, student-budget order. He had dark, almost black, canine eyes, and he looked at me like a hungry wolf — a very friendly, rakish hungry wolf. When we declined to order wine, he said it was a travesty and that we would have wine pairings for each course. When we protested that we only ordered one course, he grinned conspiratorially. As he plucked our menus from our hands, I warned him that I was a vegetarian, but he only laughed and said, “I don’t believe in that.”
Slowly, with understated bravado, he brought us course after course, wine after wine. I picked around the meat, my resolve weakening after each dish elicited moans and contented sighs from Alex. I was struck by how much I wanted to please him, but I held out, nibbling on the scant meat-free garnishes.
The place had mostly emptied by the time he brought out the main course: a pork chop, smoked and drizzled with a tart marmalade reduction. He placed the dish and took the empty seat beside me, draping his arm over the back of my chair. His posture was languid but he watched me intently in a way that flushed my face with blood. I looked nervously at the little chops, balanced tenuously against each other. “I know these pigs,” he said into my ear. “I own this restaurant. They lived very happy lives on my friend’s farm, I assure you.” He dipped a pinky into the sauce at the edge of my plate and licked it off his finger.
Recounting now, I would like to say that it was mere politesse that made me give in, but, in truth, it was because of him. It had taken me three years with my ex to admit to myself that something essential and intangible was missing — there was no whirlwind of shed clothes, no nights spent impractically, ecstatically squeezed two to a narrow dorm bed. I had been too young to realize that dating your best friend was not enough. This waiter was something else altogether. I was no fool, I didn’t think anything would come of it, but the wanting of the waiter was intoxicating and significant, and I didn’t want it to stop.
And the pork was good — heinously good. I couldn’t help but make little noises of gratitude as I ate it. More wine was called for to celebrate my hedonism, and the three of us talked and ate until all the other tables were cleared and the kitchen closed. Sometime after one, Alex and I reluctantly made motions to leave. I didn’t want to, but I was drunk and his restaurant was closing and he had refused our offers to come out with us. “I’m too old,” he said. When he walked us to the door, I kissed him on each cheek slowly, lingering. I breathed in his ear. He was grinning, holding my gaze as I pulled away until a shout from the kitchen roused him.
“Don Juan, c’est ta femme. Le bébé est malade…” Hey loverboy, your wife is on the phone. The baby is sick…
And in a moment we were shuttled out the door to wait for our taxi in the March snow. Once outside, the enchanted purity of my attraction to this apparently married new father deflated rapidly. I thought of his wife at home with a colicky baby, and his piercing gaze suddenly struck me as a leer, his careful stalking of me a bit creepy. The pork churning in my poor stomach, so unaccustomed to digesting it, felt leaden.
By the morning I had a hangover and was nauseous with meat-guilt and what the French call a “crise de foie,” a crisis of the liver, stemming from too much rich food. I could only chuckle somewhat morosely at the fact that “crise de foie” sounds identical to the French “crise de foi,” a crisis of faith.
Courtney Hutchison is a writer and health journalist with ABC News in New York City.
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[from Dan_Soltzberg] Power Players and Profanity: Talking About Talking Dirty on NPR [Bob Sutton: Work Matters] – The author of "The No Asshole Rule" talks about the role of profanity in work culture and leadership, and his recent interview on the topic for NPR All Things Considered
[from julienorvaisas] How facts backfire [The Boston Globe] – Researchers at the University of Michigan found that when misinformed people were exposed to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely changed their minds. In fact, they often became even more strongly set in their beliefs. Facts, they found, were not curing misinformation. Like an underpowered antibiotic, facts could actually make misinformation even stronger. Instead of changing their minds to reflect the correct information, they can entrench themselves even deeper. The general idea is that it’s absolutely threatening to admit you’re wrong,” says political scientist Brendan Nyhan, the lead researcher on the Michigan study.
[from julienorvaisas] Eerie relic of science history [Boing Boing] – [It's worth reflecting on the ethical boundaries of recruiting every once in awhile – though the Milgram study's ethical lapses went well beyond the use of questionable recruiting methods, of course.] This is the newspaper ad that recruited subjects for Stanley Milgram's obedience to authority experiments. As you can see, subjects were told they were being recruited to aid research on memory and learning. In reality, Milgram was studying how far down the path of evil average people would go, simply because someone in a lab coat told them to.
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Industry-Backed Label Calls Sugary Cereal a ‘Smart Choice’ – The program was influenced by research into consumer behavior. That research showed that, while shoppers wanted more information, they did not want to hear negative messages or feel their choices were being dictated to them.
“The checkmark means the food item is a ‘better for you’ product, as opposed to having an x on it saying ‘Don’t eat this,’ ” Dr. Kennedy said. “Consumers are smart enough to deduce that if it doesn’t have the checkmark, by implication it’s not a ‘better for you’ product. They want to have a choice. They don’t want to be told ‘You must do this.’ ”
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How's that for a long-lasting brand/product? After 72 years, TV's `Guiding Light' switching off – It began as a 15-minute serial on NBC Radio in January 1937 and debuted on CBS television in 1952, focusing on the Bauer family of Springfield.
April 2009 – Iraqis Snap Up Hummers as Icons of Power – “Iraqis love them because they’re really a symbol of power,” said Mr. Hilli, a chubby 37-year-old who could not stop chuckling. Nonetheless, he spoke with authority, since he was his own first customer. Hummers in Baghdad are symbols of much more besides: increasing security, returning normality and a yearning for the trappings of sovereignty. Mr. Hilli allowed that there was something else, too, a little more indefinable, which in Arabic is “hasad thukuri,” [penis envy]
April 2003 – Americans induce patriotism through Hummer purchase – "When I turn on the TV, I see wall-to-wall Humvees, and I'm proud," said Sam Bernstein, a 51-year-old antiquities dealer who lives in Marin County, Calif., and drives a Hummer H2, an S.U.V. sibling of the military Humvee. "They're not out there in Audi A4's," he said of the troops. "I'm proud of my country, and I'm proud to be driving a product that is making a significant contribution."
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Nuno Gama presented collection as works of art in the Museum of Ancient Art
The pieces of the collection of Nuno Gama for the next spring were shown today in the National Museum of Ancient Art in Lisbon, as works of art, with the mannequins scattered throughout the floor dedicated to Portuguese painting and sculpture.
The panels of São Vicente de Fora, which are on the third floor of the National Museum of Ancient Art (MNAA), were the main reason for Nuno Gama to choose the place to present a collection there.
“I do not know how to explain it very well, but there is a great energetic discharge when I come here. I’ve seen them so many times, I’ve dated them so many times,” he shared with the journalists as dozens of people walked through the museum rooms dedicated to painting and sculpture, where the mannequins were as if they were statues.
In addition to the panels, Nuno Gama also wanted to bring the press and the guests “to the best cultural register in Portugal”. “Our, our culture, I think that this was also important, draw attention to the museum and the works, in some way,” he said.
The challenge to the MNAA to host the presentation of the collection was considered “very well” by the director, António Filipe Pimentel.
To the journalists, the director recalled that fashion “is nowadays a very special area of creation, it is a junction of design, light, performance, a series of strands that have to do with contemporary creation and that today concentrate on fashion shows. ”
Over time, several museums have hosted fashion shows, including the MNAA, but António Filipe Pimentel was interested “that there was a logic in the use of space, and Nuno Gama brought just that.”
“His collection is strongly identitary, has a lot of this plastic and aesthetic connection to the Portuguese identity and it made sense that here on the third floor of the MNAA, the treasures of Portuguese painting and sculpture, the plasticity of the models was present and we made this way to contact several audiences, “he said.
For Nuno Gama, this presentation of the collection, instead of the traditional parade, also allows “more attention to the pieces”.
“I did something that I always wanted to do: you can see things 360 degrees, you can open the piece and find a beautiful and wonderful peacock inside, or see that the back has a detail, that sometimes during the parade there is no time , because so much information is happening that sometimes I get the feeling that people do not see half of what we do, “he said.
To see the pieces better, people could approach the mannequins, standing next to pictures and statues.
To guard against any eventuality, the MNAA concentrated vigilance on the third floor while the parade unfolded.
“I myself have been watching,” said the director of the museum, stressing that “the risk of a work can happen to one person, but the fact that people are in circulation is important.”
The watchmen were “alert to anyone approaching too closely” of the paintings and sculptures, “but that is every day.”
António Filipe Pimentel stressed that “it is fundamental to use the heritage”, although “with all prudence and caution”.
“Heritage serves us, to be passed on to future generations and loved and only loves those who know,” he defended.
In next spring’s collection, “Grail Harbor”, Nuno Gama shared that he “somehow” managed to detach himself from the “normal collection structure”. “I’ve been a lot for the customer, I’m more and more focused on my clients, and trying to respond to what I’m looking for, and that’s what I’ve come up with for the style, the contents, the formulas. , I’m going to die for sure, “he said.
The fashion designer pointed out that there are many things that are sometimes not perceived externally but that the construction level is extremely complicated, it is easy to make a hard shell with lots of things inside, it is difficult to destroy all this and keep the beauty of the piece in some way, “he said.
The 51st edition of ModaLisboa continues until Sunday, with parades in the Carlos Lopes Pavilion, in the Eduardo VII Park.
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Solar segment attracts growing interest
The Indian energy sector is set to undergo a transformation. Consistent efforts are being made to increase the share of renewable energy in the fuel mix to about 38 per cent by 2022; this translates into an installed renewable energy capacity of 175 GW. Of this, a major portion (about 100 GW) will come from solar-based installations.
Given the policy and regulatory support provided to solar power, this segment has attracted attention from all quarters. The entry of a large number of players has increased competition, which, in turn, has driven down solar tariffs to an all-time low. Industry experts expect solar power tariffs to reach grid parity soon.
A key emerging trend is the increasing role of the states in driving growth in the solar space. The market, which was earlier driven largely by the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission and the Gujarat Solar Policy, 2009 is now led by over a dozen state solar policies. States such as Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Telangana have come to the forefront, promoting capacity addition through state-centric policies. Most of them have started aligning their policies and targets to the central government’s schemes and targets.
Power Line provides an overview of the solar capacity allocation trends, policy developments, rooftop and net metering initiatives, key challenges and the way forward…
Capacity and tendering trends
According to the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), 5,248.21 MW of grid-connected solar capacity has been installed in the country as of January 2016. Of the total capacity, about 51 per cent or 2,676.65 MW has been installed under state policies. This includes 32.77 per cent or 877.15 MW in Gujarat, 12.31 per cent or 329.47 MW in Andhra Pradesh, 11.69 per cent or 312.89 MW in Telangana, and around 11.49 per cent or 307.55 MW in Madhya Pradesh.
In the past few years, the size of tenders issued by states has increased significantly. In 2014-15, the maximum capacity of state-level tenders across Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh was 500 MW, whereas in 2015-16, it stood at 2,000 MW in Telangana. Other large-capacity tenders were a 1,200 MW tender each in Karnataka and Jharkhand, and a 750 MW tender in Madhya Pradesh.
Policy developments
In line with the central government’s vision for the solar segment, the state governments have been formulating policies for promoting solar power development. The key states that announced solar policies in 2015 were Gujarat (Gujarat Solar Power Policy, 2015), Telangana (Telangana Solar Power Policy, 2015) and Andhra Pradesh (Andhra Pradesh Solar Power Policy, 2015).
Haryana was the first state to announce a solar policy in 2016, the Haryana Solar Power Policy, 2016. The new policy, which was released in March this year, supersedes the Haryana Solar Power Policy, 2014, which was to remain in effect till March 31, 2016. The new policy aims to increase the state’s involvement in promoting solar power development. It seeks to promote decentralised solar off-grid applications and ground-mounted projects in solar parks, canal tops/banks, panchayat land, rooftops, etc. It also provides various incentives to encourage private sector investments. These include the provision of industrial status to projects; exemption from change of land use approval, electricity duty and cess; freewheeling and banking facilities; and exemption from transmission and distribution and cross-subsidy surcharges. Besides, the state government has decided to purchase solar power over and above the renewable purchase obligation (RPO) target.
Rooftop and net metering initiatives
Of the government’s ambitious target of installing 100 GW of solar energy capacity, 40 GW will be contributed by rooftop plants, which are attracting interest owing to their competitive costs. To tap the potential of this segment, states are in the process of formulating supportive policies. Steps are also being taken to put in place net metering regulations for operating rooftop solar projects.
Many states have already announced rooftop solar policies. As of February 2016, states such as Punjab, Madhya Pradesh and Uttarakhand have released separate tenders for rooftop solar projects.
With regard to net metering, states such as Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Punjab came out with relevant regulations in 2013 and 2014. Over a period of three years, almost 26 states and union territories have released policies and regulations to operationalise net metering. However, owing to various challenges at the utility level, their implementation has been slow.
Capacity addition plans
As per the Power for All documents released by various states, the cumulative capacity addition between 2016-17 and 2018-19 is estimated at 26,025 MW across Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Punjab, Rajasthan and Telangana. The highest capacity addition (6,000 MW) is expected in Rajasthan, followed by Telangana (5,466 MW) and Maharashtra (4,617 MW).
Challenges and the way forward
Several challenges pertaining to land procurement, development of transmission and evacuation infrastructure, RPO compliance, etc. continue to impede the development of solar projects.
To achieve the government’s solar target, land needs to be acquired on a large scale. However, there are difficulties in acquiring land with specific radiation requirements in a short time period of less than 12 months. The upcoming solar parks hold immense potential in resolving this issue by making facilities such as land, clearances and infrastructure easily available to the developer.
Moreover, developers in most states are losing revenue because the evacuation infrastructure has not been developed in a timely manner. Therefore, the state governments need to develop the required evacuation infrastructure based on their solar potential. In addition, the state electricity regulatory commissions need to specify long-term solar RPO targets and ensure that these targets are complied with by all obligated entities.
Going ahead, the states need to maintain policy and regulatory continuity to ensure sustained participation in the solar power segment.
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Why some Republicans defected as House Democrats impeached Trump
The outcome was preordained. The Republican response was not.
As the House spent the day speechifying, everyone knew that Nancy Pelosi had the votes to impeach Donald Trump — ensuring, if nothing else, that he goes in the history books as the only president to twice suffer that fate.
But there was a lingering question as to how many GOP lawmakers would follow the lead of Liz Cheney, the third-ranking Republican, who dramatically broke with her party to support impeachment with a blistering statement about Trump’s “betrayal” of his office.
That may have been personal in part — her dad, Dick Cheney, called her in the cloakroom to say Trump had attacked her in his rally speech before the riot–and in part a matter of conscience.
Majority Leader Steny Hoyer repeatedly quoted Cheney in his closing comments.
In the 232-197 vote, 10 Republicans joined every Democrat in backing impeachment. That’s a small fraction, though probably double what it would have been without Cheney’s defection, yet gave the proceedings a bipartisan flavor.
The day’s other big surprise: Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy holding Trump accountable, even as he argued for a censure resolution instead. “The president bears responsibility for Wednesday’s attack on Congress by mob rioters,” he said on the floor. “He should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding.”
McCarthy has been under fierce pressure from party members unhappy with his handling of the assault’s aftermath. Clearly, some Republicans are torn between supporting their president and showing voters they want accountability for the violent invasion of the people’s house.
And yet it’s the Mitch McConnell maneuver that still has Washington reeling. On Tuesday, his team leaked word to the New York Times, Fox News, and other outlets that he believes Trump committed impeachable offenses and is pleased that the House is moving forward. Then CBS reported yesterday, based on “a person close to” the Republican leader, that he supports impeachment but won’t make any comment until the House formally submits the charge.
TRUMP’S IMPEACHMENT COULD FIZZLE AFTER HE IS GONE
Having lit the match, the senator had to deal with the smoke. McConnell put out a statement saying “while the press has been full of speculation, I have not made a final decision on how I will vote and I intend to listen to the legal arguments when they are presented to the Senate.” He has to say that, of course, or be accused of prejudging the evidence.
If McConnell does eventually embrace impeachment, it raises the possibility — for the first time, really — that 17 GOP senators could vote to convict Trump. It would be a far easier vote if the leader of the Republican caucus, who blames the president for the loss of their majority, is on board.
Here’s why I remain skeptical. Trump remains very popular with the rank and file, and any senator voting to convict him would alienate part of his or her base and likely face a primary challenge backed by the former president. I also don’t believe that McConnell would whip the vote–meaning he’d leave his colleagues along to vote their conscience rather than pressuring them to back the leadership line.
Watching the House debate yesterday, it was striking how many members talked about their personal reactions to the insurrection, some saying they feared for their lives. Those fears were quite real, especially given what we’ve since learned about the organized nature of the siege and the intent to commit murder.
One Democrat after another spoke of Trump inciting violence; Missouri’s Cori Bush called him the “white supremacist-in-chief.” One Republican after another called the move an unprecedented “sham,” as Ronny Jackson of Texas put it, and an attempt at revenge.
Each side accused the other of shattering political unity. Republicans said Democrats had objected to the Electoral College results for George W. Bush and Trump; Democrats said those were symbolic protests long after John Kerry and Hillary Clinton had conceded.
Outside, photos showed National Guard troops, who should have been there last week, napping on the marble floors, a reminder that the Capitol remains on a war footing.
The Democrats justified their rush job — no hearing, no ability to amend the article charging Trump with incitement — by saying Trump represents such a clear and present danger that he must be removed from office as soon as possible.
But that argument was undercut by the fact that the Senate trial won’t be finished until Trump is already out of office–and continued confusion over when the Democrats will submit the case to the upper chamber.
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Beyond the political crosscurrents, it just seems strange to convict a former president who by then will be back at Mar-a-Lago. (McConnell’s office says no trial will start until after the inauguration.)
The Democrats naturally want to hold the follow-up vote that would bar him from running again, at age 78, four years from now. The downside for the Dems is that all this will distract and overshadow the incoming Biden administration, with Covid-19 now killing as many as 4,400 Americans a day.
Meanwhile, the Twitter-less Trump issued a statement the old-fashioned way — emailing the press — and an accompanying video orchestrated by White House aides. He said in the release that “in light of reports of more demonstrations, I urge that there must be NO violence, NO lawbreaking and NO vandalism of any kind. That is not what I stand for, and it is not what America stands for.”
That is a far more positive message than Trump’s “witch hunt” rhetoric just one day earlier.
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Global estimates of diabetes prevalence for 2013 and projections for 2035
Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2014 Feb;103(2):137-49. doi: 10.1016/j.diabres.2013.11.002. Epub 2013 Dec 1.
L Guariguata 1 , D R Whiting 2 , I Hambleton 3 , J Beagley 4 , U Linnenkamp 4 , J E Shaw 5
1 International Diabetes Federation, Brussels, Belgium. Electronic address: leonor.guariguata@gmail.com.
2 Directorate of Public Health, Medway Council, Chatham, United Kingdom.
3 University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados.
4 International Diabetes Federation, Brussels, Belgium.
5 Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia.
DOI: 10.1016/j.diabres.2013.11.002
Introduction: Diabetes is a serious and increasing global health burden and estimates of prevalence are essential for appropriate allocation of resources and monitoring of trends.
Methods: We conducted a literature search of studies reporting the age-specific prevalence for diabetes and used the Analytic Hierarchy Process to systematically select studies to generate estimates for 219 countries and territories. Estimates for countries without available source data were modelled from pooled estimates of countries that were similar in regard to geography, ethnicity, and economic development. Logistic regression was applied to generate smoothed age-specific prevalence estimates for adults 20-79 years which were then applied to population estimates for 2013 and 2035.
Results: A total of 744 data sources were considered and 174 included, representing 130 countries. In 2013, 382 million people had diabetes; this number is expected to rise to 592 million by 2035. Most people with diabetes live in low- and middle-income countries and these will experience the greatest increase in cases of diabetes over the next 22 years.
Conclusion: The new estimates of diabetes in adults confirm the large burden of diabetes, especially in developing countries. Estimates will be updated annually including the most recent, high-quality data available.
Keywords: Ageing; Development; Diabetes; Prevalence; Urbanisation.
Copyright © 2013. Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd.
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Midwest vs South Elite Showdown: Top 2027 Performers
By DeVontae Cobb
Posted On: 01/7/21 2:19 PM
Lewisville, Tx — The Midwest vs South Elite Showdown was a national 3rd-grade through 8th-grade tournament put together by Coach Josh Woodson and the F.O.E. family, with a grand prize of $500 to the first place winners. Teams came to play in Lewisville and Carrolton from all over the South and Midwest, Memphis, Houston, Indiana, Oklahoma, you name it. It was a joy to see how skilled, talented, and competitive these young players were. The tournament was filled with talent from top to bottom but here are just a few of the 6th-graders that stood out and caught my eye.
Ravondrick Williams Jr. | Duncanville, Tx | Class of 2027
This F.O.E. forward stood at about 6-foot-2inches, downright oversizing the competition with his length. Ravondrick wasn't an easy player to get a clean shot over, he’s super long and throws people off when contesting their outside jumpers and shots inside the paint. No layups were allowed whenever Williams was around, he was an exceptional rim protector even as a help-side defender. There wasn't a single game
Lewisville, Tx — The Midwest vs South Elite Showdown was a national 3rd-grade through 8th-grade tournament put together by Coach Josh Woodson and the F.O.E. family, with a grand prize of $500 to the first place winners. Teams came to play in Lewisville and Carrolton from all over the South and Midwest, Memphis, Houston, Indiana, Oklahoma, you name it. It was a joy to see how skilled, talented, and competitive these young players were. The tournament was filled with talent from top to bottom but here are just a few of the 6th-graders that stood out and caught my eye. Ravondrick Williams Jr. | Duncanville, Tx | Class of 2027 This F.O.E. forward stood at about 6-foot-2inches, downright oversizing the competition with his length. Ravondrick wasn't an easy player to get a clean shot over, he’s super long and throws people off when contesting their outside jumpers and shots inside the paint. No layups were allowed whenever Williams was around, he was an exceptional rim protector even as a help-side defender. There wasn't a single game that I saw Ravondrick play this past weekend where he wasn’t in complete control of the boards. He continuously got a hand on the ball when it came off of the rim, going up high and hard to the glass on both sides of the floor, and creating second-chance shot opportunities all weekend long. He did a great job of consistently establishing position and posting up, looking for the ball in the high or low post. Williams was a very good finisher inside, even when getting bumped and pushed he still converted most of his shot attempts. This young prospect also showed the ability to put the ball on the floor and get through the lane using a powerful first bounce and first-step around the free-throw line, needing just one dribble to get all the way to the rack. Ravondrick Williams Jr. saved his best performance for last and once he had it going his teammates continued to feed him and let him eat. Williams completely went off and was near unstoppable in the championship game. He was all over the floor doing everything asked of him and much more, even knocking down a clutch free-throw to help seal the victory in the closing seconds of the game. I get the feeling that Ravondrick doesn't have much of a ceiling, his potential is remarkable, there's no telling what type of player he will become or how tall he will become but he already has the game to be a dominant player at both forward positions right now. Trey Wright | Prosper, Tx | Class of 2027 This bucket getter was in attack mode from the get-go, driving the lane hard, scoring through contact, and knocking down his jump shots from deep, just out there showing an outstanding ability to create offense and make shots from anywhere on the court. Wright proved to be a skillful, score-first guard that can put up points in bunches and doesn't need many shots to heat up. Very sound game offensively, nice smooth crossovers with phenomenal footwork. Trey used creative moves when penetrating inside and finishing at the basket, where he has good touch on his floaters and could also make tough layups with either hand. The Lightning Elite guard is someone you must account for at all times, he can be an effective player on and off the ball due to his ability to get open and hit shots from beyond the arc. Trey Wright played the game with a good competitive spirit, he made some impressive hustle plays when getting back on defense by jumping long passes and chasing a man down all the way to the basket before rejecting their shot. Trey was always cool, calm, and collected, he didn’t get rattled and he wasn't phased by the pressure defense, he stuck to his game and it worked wonders for him. Kavian Bryant | Forney, Tx | Class of 2027 Kavian Bryant is a pure hooper who's very confident in his abilities. He knows how to let the game come to him, he plays at his own pace, and never rushes his shot, his dribble, or his passes, a very disciplined, poised, and under control player at all times with the ball. Kavian displayed a high basketball IQ for a player at his level. He's a combo guard with lead guard abilities but also a natural at the shooting guard position. Good versatility with the ball, he can score from all three levels on the floor and pass it as well. It was impressive to see how Bryant used the pick-and-roll to set his teammates up with layups and open jump shots. A quality facilitator out of the two-guard position who looked to pass first before creating his own shot. Kavian was a knockdown shooter off the dribble in the mid-range and from beyond the arc, very efficient all weekend. Bryant was pulling-up and making his jump shots from the top of the key with no conscious whatsoever. He has so many different dimensions to his game that it put constant pressure on the defense with his unpredictable and aggressive style of play. Kavian Bryant is a high ceiling prospect that can truly become a special talent as he gets older. Erick Reese | Little Elm, Tx | Class of 2027 Lightning Elite guard, Erick Reese was absolutely electrifying on the court, his energy was contagious and rubbed off on all of his teammates and even the crowd. The way he gave the same high level of intensity and effort on both sides of the ball was incredibly impressive. This past weekend, Erick was a relentless attacker who had times where he got into the paint of the defense effortlessly. His first step was lightning-fast and often got him to the basket in a blink of an eye, making him a constant threat to blow by his man off the dribble. Once inside, Reese showed terrific finishing skills at the hoop with both hands. This kid's touch on his inside shots was impeccable, he completed plays with all types of layups, reverses, up and unders, you name it, he did it. Erick Reese was on fire by the final day, carrying the scoring load in the championship game and fighting hard until the bitter end. Markell Gomillia | Oak Cliff, Tx | Class of 2027 Markell Gomillia showed off his elite dime dropping abilities with a lot of the passes he made. Markell threw guys open, made full-court bounce passes, behind the back passes, and passes thru tight windows in the paint. This point guard made others around him better with the way he put them in positions to score. Gomillia is always looking even when you think he’s not, your hands must be ready at all times whenever he's on the court. Good instincts with the ball in his grasp, great at controlling the pace of play, changing speeds and directions on a dime, and creating space or drawing fouls by initiating contact that often led him to the free-throw line. Markell has a true knack for drawing the foul when driving the lane, he bounced off of defenders, absorbed the contact thrown his way, and either finished the layup or got the call he was looking for. He proved to be an effective slasher, someone who can break their man down and get into the teeth of the defense on a consistent basis. Markell Gomillia is a very energetic player that plays with a lot of passion and extreme confidence, the love for the game just oozes out of him when he's on the court. Stay tuned for more from Prep Hoops Next!
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Paper $24.95 ISBN: 9781889963211 Published February 2002
Cloth $34.95 ISBN: 9781889963204 Published February 2002
Ice Window
Letters from a Bering Strait Village 1898-1902
Edited and annotated by Kathleen Lopp-Smith and Verbeck Smith
With a foreword by Dorothy Jean Ray
392 pages | 8 x 10 | © 2001
A young, optimistic teacher eager to work with another culture, Ellen Lopp welcomed the challenges that life in an isolated coastal village of northwest Alaska offered. Ellen married and raised a family while adapting to arctic ways of survival; she was a teacher and a student, helping a generation of Native Inupiat adjust to the white culture being thrust upon them while learning their language and lifeways. She and her husband Tom were instrumental in establishing the reindeer industry in northwest Alaska, from distributing reindeer to teaching the Natives how to care for them.
Ellen shared her observations and experiences in letters to family and friends. This window expands our knowledge of a vital period in Alaska history and offers an intimate view of people’s lives and turn-of-the-century events at Cape Prince of Wales. Most important, as renowned anthropologist Dorothy Jean Ray has commented, Ellen’s letters clearly show the kind of person who was the best representative of a culture destined to change another culture. Unlike many teachers and missionaries, the Lopps accepted the villagers as their friends rather than as people to be subjugated. Most of Ellen’s letters were saved and passed down through the family; they make up the core of this book. Editor Kathleen Lopp Smith, Ellen’s granddaughter, augments the text with annotations and numerous photographs, making this a highly readable and informative volume of historical value, one that is descriptive and vivid in its details.
2002 Pathfinder Award Winner, Alaska Historical Society
"That these letters and diaries survive is a wonder; that Lopp Smith has done such an admirable job of bringing them to light is a revelation. . . . (Lopp Smith) combines excerpts of diaries and letters her grandparents, Ellen Kittredge and Thomas Lopp, wrote, to carefully chronicle hardship, exploration, scandal and, above all, daily life. A vivid writer and a keen observer, Kittredge recorded everything, usually while nursing a child: the amazing experience of ’midnight sun’; a 600-mile missionary dogsled trip while pregnant; the butchering of a whale; the scandalous exile of one of the other whites in the area for adultery with a Native American; questions over theology as she attempts to teach Old Testament ideas to the ’Eskimos’. In conditions where every drop of water comes from heating snow seven months of the year, where Kittredge (who bore six children during the decade) teaches, preaches and tends to the sick, money is worthless. Services are traded for scarce food. Siberians and gold rush miners bring disease as they pass through and Native infant mortality runs high. Yet despite these circumstances, Kittredge and Lopp work hard, taking photographs (which they develop outside in sunlight), print a newsletter (The Eskimo Bulletin), and train Natives to set type as well as herd." (Publisher’s Weekly)
One: 1892
Two: 1893
Three: 1894
Four: 1895
Five: 1896
Six: 1897
Seven: 1898
Eight: 1899
Nine: 1900
Ten: 1901
Eleven: 1902
Appendix A:
Pioneer Education in Northwest Alaska
Appendix B:
A Visit to a Native Qazgi
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The Barge People (2018)
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Set on the canals amid the glorious British countryside, two sisters and their boyfriends head off for a relaxing weekend away on a barge, unaware of the flesh-eating fish mutants lurking in the water, ready and waiting to feed.
Director: Charlie Steeds
Actors: Emma Spurgin Hussey, Kane Surry, Kate Davies-Speak, Makenna Guyler, Mark McKirdy, Matt Swales, Natalie Martins
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Comcast Gets Greenlight for CBRS Auction
Executive Insight & Opinion | Supplier News
SOURCE: Cablefax
Amy Maclean
Comcast has a shot at winning some of the more than 22K licenses that will be offered up in the FCC’s upcoming auction of Priority Access Licenses in the 3.5 GHz CBRS (Citizens Broadband Radio Service). This week, the Wireless Telecom Bureau granted it a waiver to participate even though it has a controlling interest in fellow auction applicant Midco (the SD operator is 50% owned by Midcontinent Communications Investor and 50% owned by Comcast Midcontinent, an indirectly owned subsidiary of Comcast).
“Comcast and Midco have sufficiently demonstrated that, should they both apply, they will operate independently in the auction based on Comcast’s lack of management and decision-making control over Midco and the additional internal controls on communications they assert they have agreed to. Accordingly, we find that waiver of the rule is warranted because it will not undermine the rule’s purpose and will serve the public interest,” the Bureau said. Comcast’s participation wasn’t contested. The only comment in the proceeding came from NCTA, which naturally supported allowing its largest member to bid.
The FCC has delayed the CBRS auction until July 23, with upfront payments due June 19. The Besen Group, an international mobile industry data management consulting firm, has estimated that the spectrum auction will bring in $3.8bln with the average cost of $0.17 for MHz-POP for the continental US and Alaska. It has developed a spectrum evaluation tool for enterprises interested in participating in the auction.
Among cable operators, Charter has been pretty vocal in its interest in using CBRS technology to offload mobile data traffic from its MVNO with Verizon. “The CBRS spectrum really allows for a more efficient use of the mobile platform, at least the way we look at it,” Charter CEO Tom Rutledge said during the company’s 1Q20 earnings call last week. He was asked if the FCC’s decision to free up 1200 MHz of 6 GHz spectrum for WiFi would impact its valuation of CBRS. The short answer is no, with 6 Ghz to be used more in the home for a whole news set of wirelessly delivered products (all part of cable’s pitch as a connectivity provider).
“Although [CBRS] could be used indoors as well,” Rutledge added. “We see them as separate notions and separate values and … one hasn’t affected the other.” Charter has conducted trials across the country exploring fixed and mobile wireless access technologies using CBRS spectrum, including fixed trials focused on developing a rural broadband solution. Midco also has been active in CBRS testing and plans to use CBRS spectrum to deploy high-speed fixed LTE wireless broadband throughout its rural footprint.
Written by Ryan Downs
Source: The CBRS Alliance The CBRS Alliance, an industry organization focused on driving the development,...
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The Howard Stern Show
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Greer ban at university ‘is to seem fair to Muslims’: Vince Cable warns feminists and right-wingers will be censored to prove institutions are not ‘anti-Islamic’
By islamsurveyed / October 28, 2015 / Right Oriented Media / Leave a comment
Universities will ban feminists, Right-wing politicians and other controversial speakers to appear fair on Muslims, Vince Cable has warned.
The ex-business secretary said the Prevent strategy would make institutions feel compelled to censor all ‘extreme’ views to prove that they are not ‘anti-Islamic’.
Under the Government’s counter-terror drive, universities have a duty to monitor students for signs of ‘non-violent extremism’ and block hate preachers.
But yesterday Sir Vince said institutions would feel obliged to ‘demonstrate impartiality’ and ban ‘non-Muslim speakers whose reputation is also controversial for different reasons’.
He said some speakers were already being given hostile receptions on campuses, including Ukip leader Nigel Farage who cancelled an appearance at Cambridge after protests. [224 comments]
[TOP RATED COMMENT 713 votes] Yet more appeasing for the people who make next to no effort to integrate into OUR society!
[2ND 533] I think Cable has missed the wider threat of censorship at universities. It’s true that they are overly sensitive to anything that might be critical of Islam (although not so sensitive in the other direction) but the banning of Greer and other speakers reflects a general intolerance of anyone who does not follow an extreme ‘politically correct’ line. This is not only outrageous but also sad in that students are being denied the chance to hear more than one point of view on any issue.
[3RD 415] It is wholly unacceptable, in this secular country, that a person should be banned from speaking at one of our Universities because of their gender, or to appease a sectarian group. If any group of people seeks to suppress or marginalise the rights and freedoms of either gender, then they are committing an illegal act, and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent that law allows.
There is quite obviously an insideous movement in this country to undermine women’s freedoms in order to cowtow to followers of a certain religion. The fact this movement goes unchallenged and has such a toe-hold in British Universities is an absolute disgrace. [Daily Mail] Read more
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This is a preprint version of an article submitted for publication in the Medical Journal of Australia. Changes may be made before final publication. Click here for the PDF version. Victoria is the unlucky state in a lucky country. Most other states and territories, except for NSW, have achieved elimination of community transmission of the pandemic virus SARS-CoV-2 28 or more days of no locally acquired cases where the source is unknown. The situation in NSW is mixed and precarious. It seems highly unlikely that states and territories that have eliminated local transmission will relinquish their status by freely opening borders and engaging with Victoria and NSW if community transmission remains. Australia going forward as two separate systems six or seven states and territories having eliminated the virus, one or two not is a significant concern.
A New Zealand epidemiologist working in Australia says we’re not doing enough to protect our Covid-free status. Four people have escaped from managed isolation facilities in the past week, with the most recent case yesterday seeing a man break a window to get out from a hotel in Auckland. Melbourne University Professor Tony Blakely told Francesca Rudkin he doesn’t know why we tolerate people leaving quarantine. New Zealand is a “poster child” for elimination, and the country cannot risk losing that status, Blakely says.
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Research interest on the link between income distribution and population health can be traced back to Richard Wilkinson’s seminal paper published in in the British Medical Journal , showing a correlation between income inequality and life expectancy among nine industrialized countries Wilkinson Ten years on, despite dozens of papers published on this topic, the issue continues to be debated. Is income inequality a public health concern?
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This copy is for your personal non-commercial use only. You can give Erica Rose credit for one thing: she means what she says. And new partner Sarah Newlon was right there with him.
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Add a Memory to the Timeline. November 26, — March 11, John Earl Blakely, Jr. He passed away unexpectedly in his home on the morning of March 11, He was the eldest of his siblings and had a large family on both sides. He worked for many years as a forklift operator at the Dollar General Store Warehouse in Scottsville, Kentucky and had been a cook at serval different restaurants. He was a good cook and could make a meal from just about anything. Mom always said he was the only one out of her children who would never go hungry.
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In the last couple of days there has been a pronounced shift in the expert dialogue about this. The population is growing tired of this suppression strategy. Professor Blakely said the early thinking around flattening the curve is premised on the idea you could never totally get rid of the virus. We could lock ourselves off from the rest of the world and make sure no one gets out of quarantine.
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In 98 seasons of Augustana baseball, no player has etched his name more prominently in the Viking record book than Marc Blakeley. For good measure, he played in victories during his career, making him the winningest player in program history. A native of Adams, Wisconsin, Blakeley was a four-year starter in both football and baseball at Adams-Friendship High School, where he set several school records in each sport.
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In addition to single-season school records for hits and total bases, he set a new standard for runs 60 and tied records for games played 49 and started 49 , home runs 10, since broken and at-bats He also led the team in slugging. Both of those marks still rank seventh-best in school history. After dropping their regional opener in Bloomington, Illinois, they bounced back to win three straight before being eliminated by Carthage in a heartbreaker.
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Optical pumping of a single hole spin in a quantum dot
Brian D. Gerardot, Daniel Brunner, Paul A. Dalgarno, Patrik Ohberg, Stefan Seidl, Martin Kroner, Khaled Karrai, Nick G. Stoltz, Pierre M. Petroff, Richard J. Warburton
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The spin of an electron is a natural two- level system for realizing a quantum bit in the solid state(1-16). For an electron trapped in a semiconductor quantum dot, strong quantum confinement highly suppresses the detrimental effect of phonon- related spin relaxation(1-7). However, this advantage is offset by the hyperfine interaction between the electron spin and the 10(4) to 10(6) spins of the host nuclei in the quantum dot. Random fluctuations in the nuclear spin ensemble lead to fast spin decoherence in about ten nanoseconds(8-14). Spin- echo techniques have been used to mitigate the hyperfine interaction(14,15), but completely cancelling the effect is more attractive. In principle, polarizing all the nuclear spins can achieve this(16,17) but is very difficult to realize in practice(12,18,19). Exploring materials with zero- spin nuclei is another option, and carbon nanotubes(20), graphene quantum dots(21) and silicon have been proposed. An alternative is to use a semiconductor hole. Unlike an electron, a valence hole in a quantum dot has an atomic p orbital which conveniently goes to zero at the location of all the nuclei, massively suppressing the interaction with the nuclear spins. Furthermore, in a quantum dot with strong strain and strong quantization, the heavy hole with spin- 3/2 behaves as a spin-1/2 system and spin decoherence mechanisms are weak(22,23). We demonstrate here high fidelity ( about 99 per cent) initialization of a single hole spin confined to a self- assembled quantum dot by optical pumping. Our scheme works even at zero magnetic field, demonstrating a negligible hole spin hyperfine interaction. We determine a hole spin relaxation time at low field of about one millisecond. These results suggest a route to the realization of solid- state quantum networks(24) that can intra- convert the spin state with the polarization of a photon.
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Gerardot, B. D., Brunner, D., Dalgarno, P. A., Ohberg, P., Seidl, S., Kroner, M., Karrai, K., Stoltz, N. G., Petroff, P. M., & Warburton, R. J. (2008). Optical pumping of a single hole spin in a quantum dot. Nature, 451(7177), 441-444. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature06472
Gerardot, Brian D. ; Brunner, Daniel ; Dalgarno, Paul A. ; Ohberg, Patrik ; Seidl, Stefan ; Kroner, Martin ; Karrai, Khaled ; Stoltz, Nick G. ; Petroff, Pierre M. ; Warburton, Richard J. / Optical pumping of a single hole spin in a quantum dot. In: Nature. 2008 ; Vol. 451, No. 7177. pp. 441-444.
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Gerardot BD, Brunner D, Dalgarno PA, Ohberg P, Seidl S, Kroner M et al. Optical pumping of a single hole spin in a quantum dot. Nature. 2008 Jan 24;451(7177):441-444. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature06472
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Why I Bought It: Vianney Halter Deep Space Tourbillon (Archive)
by GaryG
As the resident collector here at Quill & Pad, I think it’s important that I share with our readers what goes on in an enthusiast collector’s head as he or she ponders the purchase or sale of a watch, or even considers a fundamental re-shaping of his or her collection.
This is the first in a planned series of “why I bought it” articles that will unfold here over time. Of course, there will be photos – and lots of them – but I hope you’ll find my commentary on a collector’s mindset and the motivations, delights, and possible misgivings behind each individual transaction interesting, too.
Vianney Halter wearing his Deep Space Tourbillon at Baselworld 2014
Let’s start the series off with a bang: my latest addition, the Vianney Halter Deep Space Tourbillon.
The Deep Space Tourbillon by Vianney Halter
Why I bought it
My good friend Terry has a great taxonomy for grouping watches within a collection into three classes. Briefly:
Fun: pieces bought just because they appeal; usually at a price point at which long-term value isn’t a big concern. In some collections, the “fun” pieces tend to churn more rapidly than others. A recent example in my collection is the new Omega Bullhead. I find it really striking, and if no one else does it doesn’t really affect me one way or the other.
Investment: meant not in the sense of “pieces I buy in expectation of increasing value,” but rather “pieces with established or predictable market values that form the foundation of a collection.” One of the secrets of amassing a collection worth more than you can really afford is to focus on these sorts of watches – I’ll likely come back to this in a future post. The A. Lange & Söhne Lange Double Split and the Philippe Dufour Simplicity are two examples of this for me.
On edge with the Deep Space Tourbillon
Patronage: watches bought because they support the efforts of makers (often, but not always, independents) whose ability to continue delighting us with new things depends heavily on the ongoing support of enthusiast collectors. Here we’re talking about watches like my two Kari Voutilainen pieces, and perhaps the Habring2 watches I’ve bought over the years as well.
Passion embodied: the Deep Space Tourbillon by Vianney Halter
I’ll add a fourth dimension that, for my collector pals and me, runs deeply behind all three of the above: passion. To quote the mother of a former work colleague of mine: “If you don’t love it, don’t buy it!” This helps me to steer clear of many fads, and also keeps me from buying “investment” pieces on the premise that since everyone else loves them, I should as well.
Based on this scheme, the rationale for my purchase of the Deep Space Tourbillon is squarely in the “patronage” category:
For me, Vianney is one of the true artists of horology. His work is always edgy without (to me) going over the line, and history has already established his Antiqua – which many found shocking at its introduction – as a modern classic. I see the Deep Space Tourbillon as a worthy extension of Vianney’s daring design aesthetic.
Side view of the Vianney Halter Deep Space Tourbillon
I also find the technical design of the Deep Space Tourbillon stunning to look at, and at the same time technically innovative. I don’t know of another central multi-axis tourbillon, and Vianney’s conception of one is both audacious and (at least to date!) successful.
Central triple-axis tourbillon of the Vianney Halter Deep Space Tourbillon
I was an early subscriber to the watch. Our small collector group became aware of the existence of the Deep Space Tourbillon in January of 2013, and shortly thereafter I had the opportunity to see a fairly rough (but running) prototype while sitting at the San Francisco airport late at night with Vianney’s marketing chief, Bertrand Bourgeois. The opportunity to get in early as a sponsor of the work was tremendously appealing to me, and the payoff is a special “Voyager” inscription on the case back that only appears on the subscription pieces.
Case back with Voyager inscription reserved for subscribers
That said, this watch could also be in the “fun” category, although at the price (current retail is 187,500 Swiss francs) one would have to be chortling pretty much non-stop to get a good fun-to-price ratio!
Why I love it
This won’t be a full “wearing impression” review – among other things, I’ve only had the watch for a few weeks!
Already, though, there are a number of things that make me happy with my choice:
It’s beautifully made. I don’t think that Vianney gets enough credit for the truly excellent finishing of his watches, both movements and cases. This one is no exception – and in addition is much, much more refined than even the second-generation prototype. Additional gilded wheels, changes to the size and color of the quarter-hour indices, and subtle changes to the case and crown dimensions and materials are but a few of the upgrades that make the finished watch truly extraordinary.
It has the Halter “DNA.” look at the crown of the watch: even though the material (rubber), shape (flat-topped), and color (grey) are different, the grippy nubs remind us of Vianney’s watches from past years, as do the hooded insets between the lugs and other design features.
Side view of the Deep Space Tourbillon accenting the characteristic crown
It wears beautifully. Yes, it’s big, but the titanium case makes it light, and the way the straps drop down from the lugs results in a great fit, even on my relatively small wrist.
Deep Space Tourbillon on the wrist
It keeps great time. There’s no second hand, but by observing the position of the tourbillon cage and timing the jumps of the minute hand against my “atomic” desk clock I’m able to conclude that it’s running at about +1 second per day.
It’s fun to watch. Oh, that tumbling! Absolutely mesmerizing.
It’s a buddy watch. One of the greatest bits about this watch for me is that I took delivery of mine on the same day as one of my closest friends.
The Deep Space prototype and two finished watches on delivery day
It’s fun. Lots of very serious watchmaking, but in a whimsical form. Even the display box mixes classical and serious: it is a very sober and beautiful blue lacquered box containing a nesting Space Age display stand complete with silver-colored leather. It makes for a great desk display – in the same way that an Antiqua in its winding box can serve as a desk clock, the Deep Space on its stand is lovely to see as it sits on a desk, spinning away.
Deep Space Tourbillon on its desk stand (‘Despicable Me’ Minion not included)
Is it for you?
For those who have the means, is this a watch to consider as part of a collection? In my humble opinion, the Deep Space Tourbillon might be just the thing for you if:
The design really speaks to you. If you already have some of Max Büsser’s MB&F pieces in the safe and on your wrist, an Antiqua whirring away in its winder, or even a Greubel Forsey with its aggressive expression of brilliant finishing, the Deep Space Tourbillon may well speak your language.
You have considered other multi-axis tourbillons like the Jaeger-LeCoultre Gyrotourbillon series but they haven’t quite hit the mark for you.
You are an independent watchmaking fan and see this as a landmark piece worthy of your patronage.
You have a collection that is heavy on “investment” pieces and you sometimes yearn to see a top-notch, but more unconventional, watch among the assortment in your box.
The technical virtuosity of the watch blows you away.
You have a Minion USB stick like mine and he seems lonely without the Deep Space Tourbillon.
You have the chance to put one on your wrist and just can’t take it off!
GaryG wearing his Deep Space Tourbillon on delivery day (photo courtesy AllenS)
On the other hand, you might want to think twice, or wait and buy later on the pre-owned market, if:
You demand a high level of certainty about the future value of all of the watches you buy.
This would be your only watch, or even one of a small collection – unless you have already been through some cycles of consolidation and feel quite confident about your choices.
The prospect of buying a substantial piece from an independent makes you fret about future servicing and finding replacement parts for maintenance.
It doesn’t make your pulse race.
One caution: when the Antiqua first came to market, many found it off-putting and even almost barbaric! Naturally, in today’s environment, it is now considered more of a classic.
I don’t expect that many of these watches to be made, so if you are seriously considering the Deep Space Tourbillon you might be well-advised to think ahead: if you can imagine this watch as part of a long-term collection for years to come, you might be well-advised to get on Vianney’s list today.
For more information, please visit www.vianney-halter.com.
Quick Facts Vianney Halter Deep Space Tourbillon
Case: 46 x 48 x 20 mm, grade 5 titanium
Movement: manual winding Caliber VH113 with central triple-axis tourbillon, 3 Hz/21,600 vph frequency, 60-hour power reserve
Functions: hours, minutes
Price in 2014: 202,500 Swiss francs (without shipping and taxes)
*This article was first published on July 7, 2014 as Why I Bought It: Vianney Halter Deep Space Tourbillon. You may find the comments underneath the original article interesting.
Every para of your article tells me that you are really enjoying it and that’s all what matters. Caution to fellow readers, be careful Gary’s passion may be contagious and too tempting:)
Enjoy and keep having fun. Life is too short and unpredictable to miss these moments.
GaryG says:
Thanks, Rumi! So many great watches out there — it’s hard to avoid being enthusiastic!
Best, Gary
congratulations Gary! by buying it in 2014, you already gained more than 10% in value/price (compared to current value early 2018!)
We shall see! It is nice to feel that the likelihood of “getting hurt” on a given purchase is low.
Such a great, well written article! Love the watch…and the picture of you with the big smile says it all. Enjoy Gary!
Chinmay Bafna says:
Gary, lovely article, look forward to getting one someday,
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Potential of intensity-modulated radiotherapy to escalate doses to head-and-neck cancers: what is the maximal dose?
PURPOSE: To investigate the potential of intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) to escalate doses to head-and-neck cancer and find the maximal dose that could be prescribed to the target volume with IMRT while doses to critical organs were maintained at their currently acceptable levels. The secondary goal was to search for limits in current IMRT technology. METHODS AND MATERIALS: For a group of 12 head-and-neck cancer patients with different tumor locations and shapes, we performed IMRT planning using a simultaneous integrated boost strategy, that is, the gross tumor volume (GTV), clinical target volume (CTV), and electively treated nodes were treated simultaneously at different dose levels. The critical structures involved in the treatment field that needed to be spared included the brainstem, spinal cord, and parotid glands, depending on the disease site. Nine coplanar 6-MV photon beams were used for planning with the IMRT system developed at our institution, and dose-volume criteria were used for optimization. By varying the optimization parameters, we gradually increased the dose to the GTV while keeping the dose to the critical structures at less than the acceptable tolerance level. The criteria for accepting the plan included the following: (1) the prescription dose to the GTV had to cover 99% of the volume, and the dose homogeneity of the GTV needed to be <10%; (2) the prescription to the CTV (which was set either at 60 Gy or 10 Gy less than that of the GTV) had to cover 95% of the volume, and the same amount of normal tissue outside the CTV received the CTV prescription dose as in the current acceptable plan; (3) the prescription to the electively treated lymph nodes needed to cover 90% of the volume; and (4) the maximal dose to the brainstem and spinal cord had to be <55 Gy and 45 Gy, respectively. For parotid glands, the dose needed to be as low as possible without compromising the target doses. The deliverable plans as determined by the actual multileaf collimator leaf sequences were used for the final evaluation. To verify that the acceptable plans were deliverable, the experimental measurements of planar dose distribution were performed in phantom with film. RESULTS: The maximal dose to the GTV varied from 86 to 176 Gy if the CTV dose increased with the GTV dose. It was reduced to 76-82 Gy if the CTV dose was kept at 60 Gy. The competing criteria usually are the requirements of the tolerance doses to the critical organs and target dose homogeneity, not the target prescription dose. Using more beams only increased the dose marginally. The results could change significantly if a different set of criteria for the plan evaluation were used. Dosimetric measurements confirmed that such a high dose and dose gradient could be delivered accurately with dynamic multileaf collimators. Statistical analyses showed no significant correlations between the maximal doses and the number of GTVs and volume of GTVs and CTVs. CONCLUSION: Doses to head-and-neck cancers with simultaneous integrated boost IMRT can be escalated to a greater level than currently prescribed clinically. The limit of IMRT in head-and-neck cancer has not been reached at the current prescription level of 70 Gy. Such high total and fractionated doses should be carefully evaluated before being prescribed clinically.
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Collection of youth short stories about aliens 1990-1994ish
I am trying to remember the title/author/editor of a book I had as a kid. It was a collection of short stories about aliens. The cover had a one eyed green alien reaching through the bars of a cage.
One of the stories was about two kids who discover ancient cave drawings that depict horrible aliens living on Earth, and then a space ship of humans coming and destroying them, implying that humans are the real aliens.
Another story I remember have kids travelling through tubes to an alien zoo. One of the kids (I think he was the antagonist) chucks an ice cream cone at the caged alien...who eventually escapes and enacts his revenge.
I think there is another one where people are sleepwalking through town to some sort of spaceship...it turns out to be a garbage disposal unit? I'm Not sure. I remember in that story the alien was explaining to the captive human what was happening to the humans that were sleepwalking, "We don't have a word for it, I think your word is "garbage disposal".
One of the short stories had "Fayetteville" in the title. Like "What happened in Fayetteville" or something like that. I remember this specifically because when I discovered that there really were cities by the name of Fayetteville in the US I was petrified!
I don't believe it was a Bruce Coville collection, I've looked through the chapters of those and none of them look familiar. I feel like it was a scholastic publication...but that's just because I think I purchased it from the scholastic book catalog.
This is driving me nuts, I've been looking for about a year...perusing the young adult section of used book stores and emailing librarians.
For some reason I keep thinking the title is similar to the "more scary stories"-esque anthologies.
Can someone help me find it?
story-identification aliens short-stories
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Goosebumps practically had a mixed storyline like one book one story each – Legendary Lambe Jan 30 '12 at 14:44
You're looking for this book: Aliens: Extraterresterial Tales of Terror by Don Wulffson.
It came in two different covers, one with a cyclops, and one with a goblin-thing.
The "garbage disposal" story is "The Dastasian Invasion" and comes right before "The Killer of Fayetville". "Alien Ancestors" is the one about the cave paintings. And the zoo one is "An Eye for an Eye"
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I've requested a copy from my library to see if I can confirm that this is the right one. There is one named "The killer of Fayetville", so that's a possibility. – FuzzyBoots Jul 14 '14 at 14:32
Yup! I've got the cover they describe. The "garbage disposal" story is "The Dastasian Invasion" and comes right before "The Killer of Fayetville". "Alien Ancestors" is the one about the cave paintings. And the zoo one is "An Eye for an Eye". – FuzzyBoots Jul 23 '14 at 22:01
You can search SF story titles on the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. There is a single story whose title contains “Fayetteville”: “A Snapshot from Fayetteville” by Mick Collins (1993). ISFDB only lists this story as published in anthologies of furry fiction, and the Locus Index attributes the story to FURthest North Crew. You can read a review on SFsite. This is the right time frame for this story, but looks like the wrong genre, and I can find no mention of this story's inclusion in another collection that looks like what you describe.
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The book is titled "Aliens", however, it is nearly impossible to find it online. I have searched for a very long time, but to no avail.
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Desmond Yunana, a reverend of Anglican Church Nigeria based in Borno state, says Abubakar Sheaku, Boko Haram leader, is critically ill and wants prayer from Nigerians.
Delivering a sermon in church on Sunday, Yuana said last night, he had a “revelation” that the Boko Haram leader’s health condition is very bad.
He said Shekau, who needs prayers from both Christian and Muslims residents of Maiduguri, is ready to ask for forgiveness.
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The Agile software development methodology has been around for a long while, but organizations seldom apply the methodology to business intelligence. Several tribe members at one of my #BIWisdom tweetchats on Twitter commented that they’ve seen more interest in Agile BI over the past six months and it was also discussed at a recent BI conference.
One of the tribe tweeted that the problem with Agile BI is that people don’t understand it is a more disciplined approach, not less disciplined.
So how does it apply to BI? It’s an ad hoc way to fail faster and with less risk. It means that organizations would be able to respond faster to the need for insight, not weighed down with the complexities of traditional data warehouses. It would accelerate the throughput of new data sources into the data warehouse instead of having to wait many weeks for implementation and would enable business users to interact with data using ad hoc tools.
As one of the members tweeted, it’s using the same techniques as Agile software development: short, iterative sprints adding up to a release, sprint planning and retrospectives, daily standups and the combination of a backlog and detailed sprint planning. It eliminates traditional static reporting. This disciplined approach allows an organization to respond quickly and effectively.
Simply put, it’s BI plus flexibility, a way to formalize the needed flexibility to get the desired outcomes.
It’s not cut and dried though, as evident in the tweetchat members’ issues brought out in our discussion:
What if the business can’t wait for even a sprint to look at new data?
Good start, but you often also need an abstracted service layer from source systems; otherwise, Agile is a pipe dream.
The business often judges BI on the front end, but Agile BI can flourish only if the whole stack is flexible. So the BI stack needs to be built for flexibility, but flexibility is often the last consideration.
How will the organization marry agility and governance?
Agile is often equated with fewer people, fewer steps and faster results. But how can an organization achieve this when the data is complex?
Where does Agile BI fit in an organization since it facilitates IT working closely with the business side. If it’s housed in a Business Intelligence Competency Center (BICC), it can leverage cross-functional teams, one of the strengths of BICCs. But many organizations lack a BICC — which results in driving Agile BI into the IT group, without integrating the business users into the process.
As we whizzed through the tweetchat, the theme — and primary challenge with Agile BI — that finally emerged is the strategy. Does the strategy need to be agile, or is it that the tactical execution of the strategy needs to be agile?
The BI strategy must have a feedback loop based on actual results and changes in external systems. Questions ensued:
What about the velocity of the feedback loops? It could cause recursive loops and work like a market meltdown.
How will the feedback loops impact the metrics since BI needs to measure results based on the strategy?
Will a feedback loop then indicate the strategy itself is wrong or indicate that just the execution of the strategy needs to change?
Like micro and macroeconomics, organizations will need a clear understanding of how the Agile BI process impacts their strategy and tactical operations.
Bottom line: No organization operates in isolation. Without the feedback loop enabled by Agile BI, an organization will be flying blind — and this phenomenon will dictate the tactical approach to BI initiatives.
In contrast, the more agile the organization becomes, the more modular framework it will need for BI and the more it will need self-service tools facilitating greater interaction with data. Agile BI is simply embracing a process that recognizes the fact that requirements change and decision cycles are faster in the new norm of today’s business.
Howard Dresner is president, founder and chief research officer at Dresner Advisory Services, LLC, an independent advisory firm. He is one of the foremost thought leaders in Business Intelligence and Performance Management, having coined the term “Business Intelligence” in 1989. He has published two books on the subject, The Performance Management Revolution — Business Results through Insight and Action, and Profiles in Performance — Business Intelligence Journeys and the Roadmap for Change. He hosts a weekly tweet chat (#BIWisdom) on Twitter each Friday. Prior to Dresner Advisory Services, Howard served as chief strategy officer at Hyperion Solutions and was a research fellow at Gartner, where he led its Business Intelligence research practice for 13 years.
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Circuit Court’s refusal to stop Sarasota County’s retail pet sales ban from going into effect upheld by Second District Court of Appeal
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As case continues in Circuit Court, Petland continues to sell animals
The Petland store in Sarasota is on Fruitville Road. File photo
Florida’s Second District Court of Appeal has affirmed the 12th Judicial Circuit Court’s refusal to allow the Petland Sarasota store to continue selling animals while Petland pursues litigation to overturn Sarasota County’s ban of retail pet sales.
The appeal court issued a per curiam affirmation on June 16, an unsigned opinion reflecting that the majority of the justices agreed with the Jan. 23 order of 12th Judicial Circuit Court Judge Frederick Mercurio. In his ruling, Mercurio wrote that Petland’s request for a temporary injunction to stop the new county law from going into effect on Jan. 27 did not meet the judicial standard for issuing such an injunction.
According to Florida Rules of Civil Procedure, Mercurio pointed out, a court must consider whether a temporary injunction will meet specific tests before deciding to grant one. Along with the likelihood of irreparable harm, they are the unavailability of an adequate remedy of law; the likelihood of a case’s success, based on its merits; and consideration of the public interest.
In regard to the Petland case, Mercurio wrote, “there appears to be an adequate remedy of law in the form of damages.
Thomas D. Shults of the Sarasota law firm Kirk Pinkerton, who is representing Petland franchise owner Brad Parker Jr. and Petland in the case, did not respond to multiple requests from The Sarasota News Leader for comment this week on the Second District Court’s decision.
Petland filed its original complaint against the county in October 2016.
(From left) Carol Winterfeldt, Mary Donohue and Carolyn Repeta showed support for the ban as they stood outside the County Administration Center in downtown Sarasota on Jan. 27, 2016. File photo
On June 28, a News Leader reporter visited the Petland Sarasota store in the Target Shopping Center on Fruitville Road. The reporter saw numerous puppies and young dogs for sale. When the reporter asked if the animals had been obtained from breeders, a store employee responded that all of the canines were obtained from United States Department of Agriculture-certified breeders and that each had papers that allowed a buyer to check with the individual breeder.
(Although Petland has asserted the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) certification as support that its animals are not from “puppy mills,” proponents of the county law have countered that the federal government regulations are minimal. For example, one USDA stipulation is that a dog have at least 6 inches of space between its nose and the bars of its cage; animal lovers say that is vastly insufficient.)
When the News Leader asked for a response from Sarasota County about the appeal court ruling, spokesman Jason Bartolone wrote in a June 28 email that the county does not comment on pending litigation. However, he noted, “The county does have a counterclaim for injunctive relief pending in circuit court, and our method of enforcement at this time is to pursue this remedy through the pending litigation.”
In January 2016, a proponent of the county ordinance showed the board this photo of a dog that the speaker said was taken at a ‘puppy mill.’ File photo
The News Leader also contacted Sarasota attorney Morgan Bentley of Bentley & Bruning, who has been representing advocates of the new county law. Bentley wrote in a June 27 email, “It is true that the appeals court has upheld the trial court’s decision.” A certain period of time is allowed for Petland to file motions for rehearing its petition for the temporary injunction, Bentley added, but that is relatively short. If Petland does take that step, and the court does not allow a rehearing, he continued, the county could begin enforcing its ordinance.
“That said,” Bentley pointed out, “there is still a ways to go in the trial court case so the county may decide to put off enforcement in an abundance of caution. More of a practical question than a legal one, and will be up to the county to decide. Personally, I think the county could begin enforcement and then simply waive the fines if the trial court does not ultimately go its way. But again, that is up to the county.”
Animal advocates fight for enforcement
On June 27, Sarasota in Defense of Animals emailed a bulletin to supporters, saying the county “should be raking in $15,000 to $30,000 per day” by enforcing the new retail pet sales ban against Petland. The penalty for violating the law is $500 per day for each dog and cat for sale in the store, the bulletin notes.
The section of the county ordinance regarding administration and enforcement of the new law says, “The Animal Services Director, Animal Services Officers and [county] Code Enforcement Officers shall investigate complaints of alleged violations,” which are considered civil infractions.
Sarasota in Defense of Animals is urging animal advocates to contact the County Commission about enforcing the law. Image courtesy SDA
It also says, “Each day of any such violation shall constitute a separate and distinct offense” and “A separate and distinct offense occurs per Animal.”
The maximum penalty provided for in the ordinance for a civil infraction is $500.
Sarasota in Defense of Animals — which is a nonprofit rescue organization — is urging its supporters to contact the County Commission — by writing letters, calling the members or emailing them — “and politely asking them to fine Petland while [the] lawsuit is pending in the courts …”
It provides the U.S. mail address, phone number and email address for the Board of County Commissioners.
Petland adds a new count to complaint
In the meantime, on May 1, Petland and Parker petitioned the 12th Circuit Judicial Court for approval to file an amended complaint against Sarasota County; they wanted to add another argument to their allegations that the ordinance the County Commission approved on a 3-2 vote in January 2016 violates state laws. Mercurio agreed to the petition on May 3.
Lamar Brad Parker is owner of Petland Sarasota. File photo
Filed on May 4, Count IX of the amended complaint says the county’s “conduct in this matter violates the Florida Antitrust Act.” The amended complaint also includes additional statements “regarding the price fixing and anti-competitive effects” of the county law.
One argument in the original complaint is that the county law does not provide for any compensation to Petland, even though Parker testified during the January 2016 public hearing that the ban would have a severe negative impact on his business. The suit also says that in discussing whether to approve the new law, the County Commission cited no “Finding of Fact” that the ordinance was justified “upon any inhumane treatment of dogs or cats at retail pet stores such as Petland.”
Furthermore, the complaint alleges that because the law exempts owners of dog- and cat-breeding facilities, it infringes upon Parker’s and Petland’s right to equal protection under the Florida Constitution.
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On Jan. 24 — one day after Mercurio refused to issue the temporary injunction — the Office of the County Attorney filed the county’s counterclaim against Petland and Parker, along with the answer to the original Petland complaint.
Assistant County Attorney David Perce pointed out in the counterclaim, “As a charter county, the County has broad powers … to enact ordinances that are not inconsistent with general law. … If [Petland and Parker] continue their sale of live dogs and cats beyond the one-year amortization period [for the new county law] … they will be in violation of Section 14-53(a)(1) of the Sarasota County Code of Ordinances.” The amortization period expired on Jan. 27, Pearce noted.
“Irreparable harm is presumed for a violation of the Code,” he added.
Therefore, the county sought a mandatory injunction against Petland and Parker to keep them from violating the county retail pet sales ban, as well as a prohibitive injunction against them for future violations of the law.
On June 12, Petland and Parker filed their response to the counterclaim. They argued that the county had failed to provide sufficient facts to support its assertions. Moreover, they repeated their view that the retail pet sales ban “violates several provisions of the Florida Constitution on its face or as applied [to Petland and Parker].”
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PRINCE ALBERT -- A man charged with attempted murder in connection with an incident that occurred at a business in Prince Albert appeared in court Friday.
The incident occurred Wednesday around 10 p.m. in the 3200 block of Second Avenue West, police said in a news release.
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Crucial Strategy for OpenStack in 2017
I have been working on OpenStack full time for 5 years. During that time I have seen a meteoric rise in OpenStack in terms of adoption and feature parity with OpenStack’s largest competitors: AWS and VMWare. I am running for the OpenStack board of directors as an individual candidate to improve the competitive outcomes for OpenStack.
In my technical work I have been involved in the founding of OpenStack Heat, which was an effort to produce parity with AWS CloudFormation, while also blazing a trail on the incubation track for OpenStack. Without Heat and the excellent engineering team which implemented the first incubation project, OpenStack may have taken longer to become as large and vibrant as it is today.
After Heat, I turned my attention to solving what I perceived as a technical gap in OpenStack: at that time, OpenStack had no functional interoperability with Kubernetes. This led to my involvement in contributing technically to the OpenStack Magnum project by writing a majority of the initial implementation and recruiting a talented core team from across the OpenStack community. Magnum provides technical interoperability by running Kubernetes on top of OpenStack in an OpenStack-native way.
Finally, I started the OpenStack Kolla project to solve OpenStack’s last significant pain point. Operational expenses quantified as the warm blooded people responsible for operating an OpenStack cloud were greater than other competition in the IaaS platform marketplace. OpenStack prior to Kolla required very large teams to maintain. With a Kolla-deployed OpenStack, this problem no longer exists. I passed the baton as the Project Team Lead in November 2016 to a solid leadership team I had developed in the 3 years Kolla was in development.
One thing we tried early on with Kolla was deploying OpenStack on top of Kubernetes 0.9.7; in fact, that was the original goal of Kolla. At the time, Kubernetes was in its early stages of development and could not serve the complex use case scenarios OpenStack presented. Instead, we went through numerous iterations and eventually settled on Ansible as the basis for Kolla. Kolla works so well because Asnbile is such a great dependency choice and the Kolla community stuck with the implementation until we reached critical mass and success.
In March 2016, the core reviewer team of Kolla had made a determination that Kubernetes was mature enough to revisit. As PTL at the time, I didn’t have attention to dedicate full time to growing the community around an OpenStack-on-Kubernetes deployment tool. The core reviewer team started the work with my encouragement. Today, the kolla-kubernetes core reviewer team has implemented a fully functional helm-based microservices layer. We have proven that OpenStack will run on top of Kubernetes, and there now are real, production deployments of the kolla-kubernetes deliverable of the OpenStack Kolla project.
The main factor that makes OpenStack great is the large, diverse set of community members working on the overall system using the Open Source methodology. The properties that makes VMWare and AWS great from the point of view of those respective vendors is vendor lock-in and lower operational expenses. The teams I’ve led in OpenStack have solved various aspects of the lock-in problem, and now with Kolla OpenStack has much lower operational expenses than the competition (AWS and VMWare).
There is no going back in life; instead there is only forward. To this end, the forward-looking strategy I believe is most crucial for OpenStack is competing against these closed source behemoths in cooperation with other Open Source Foundations.
As a result of my belief in this strategy, I am running for the OpenStack board of directors as an individual board member to drive Foundation Interoperability. The first foundation I have a strong desire to build bridges with is the CNCF. CNCF is hosting the Kubernetes, Helm, and other open source projects, of which I personally believe in harmony with OpenStack will lead to the best possible outcome against our closed source competition.
I encourage you to spend the few minutes to vote for the individual candidate that you believe best serves your desires for a better future for the world of software. You may view all of the individual director candidate profiles or inspect mine in particular.
I believe without question that collaboration and foundation interoperability is key to both the success of OpenStack and CNCF. Without excellent working relationships between these two foundations, the worst possible outcome may occur: competition between Open Source Foundations. The world of Open Source should stand together rather than apart. When you vote for the board of director membership, vote for candidates that will deliver on the best outcomes for OpenStack.
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An Afternoon with Mr, Hafid, Director of F&B
learn. Socrates, one of history’s great philosophers and teachers, once said: “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” This is exactly what happens whenever SDH Institute brings hospitality professionals into the classrooms to share their work experiences.
On the afternoon of 3rd December 2015, SDH Institute had the honour of inviting two directors from the newly opened Hotel Jen (a member of the Shangri-La Group) to give a short talk to our students. The talk aimed at inspiring SDH Institute’s students in the pursuance of their hospitality careers through a live testimonial from a successful hotelier and/or F&B professional. And Mr. Abdul Hafid, Director of Hotel Jen’s Food and Beverage Department, was that important guest and main speaker. He was accompanied by Ms. Sherine Chua, the Human Resource Director of Hotel Jen.
The students who enjoyed the talk and the interaction with the guests are currently taking the diploma, advanced diploma, and post-graduated diploma in hospitality and tourism management. Also present in the audience were the bachelor and masters students taking the Vatel programme in international hotel management.
The main speaker, Mr. Abdul Hafid graduated from Vatel Business School of Hospitality and Tourism in Nimes, France, in 1996. Thus, being a Vatelien himself, his hospitality experiences and insights were both absorbing and impactful especially to the Vatel students in the audience. Upon graduating from Vatel, Mr. Hafid had the opportunity of travelling around the world to put his knowledge to test. He had been with various hotel organisations in a number of countries before joining the prestigious Shangri-la Group in 2012. With the group, he plays an important role in the branding and launching of Hotel Jen Singapore.
Students were also excited at being briefed about Hotel Jen’s Management Trainee Programme where, if they apply and are selected, they would be able to experience working in the various Hotel Jens branches around the world!
After the talk, while some students had to continue with their respective classes for the day, many students stayed back for a question-and-answer session with the two directors. The details of the hotel’s training/internship opportunities were the focus of the later interaction between the students and the guests.
The SDH Institute team and students were very fortunate to have Mr. Hafid and Ms. Chua as guest speakers and presenters. Their sharing and presentations were undoubtedly unforgettable.
Everyone looks forward to visiting Hotel Jen very soon.
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Big changes over at Cylance as it works out its ANZ channel strategy
AI cybersecurity firm Cylance has revealed a new line up for its executive team in Australia and New Zealand, at it looks to boost its channel and sales teams with strategic hires.
Lani Edwards will step into the newly created regional channel manager role, while Rick Ferguson and Anthony Farr appointed to the role of enterprise sales managers. All three executives will report to Andy Solterbeck, vice president, Cylance Asia Pacific, and are tasked with driving the company’s regional sales and solutions delivery to market.
Solterbeck says since launching into the ANZ market earlier this year, Cylance has seen a ‘tremendous’ level of interest from the marketplace.
He says there has been strong uptake escalated through the channel, with early adoption in the mid-tier and enterprise customer base.
“We are excited to announce the new appointments to Cylance’s channel and sales team in ANZ,” says Solterbeck.
“Cylance’s regional growth strategy is reliant on our channel partners, and we are investing in a team of industry experts with impeccable credentials to manage and support the demand for our solutions.”
As regional channel manager, Edwards is responsible for driving Cylance’s channel program and continued growth in the region. Prior to joining Cylance, Edwards was regional head of channels at FireEye and Juniper Networks.
Meanwhile, Ferguson will be responsible for leading sales in New South Wales, Canberra and New Zealand. He has held a number of senior management positions globally and has most recently worked as regional director at Palo Alto Networks and director of sales at Cisco Systems.
Farr brings over 25 years of industry experience to his role managing Cylance’s sales operations in Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia.
Furthermore, Vlado Vajdic, Mark Jones and Stephen King also join the Cylance team as sales engineers for the ANZ region. All three will report to Greg Singh, director of Sales Engineering, Cylance Asia Pacific.
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What role does security play in the age of IoT within the enterprise?
As the widespread adoption of IoT connected devices increases, so too do concerns about data and network security.
That’s the word according to Ixia, who says that while the Internet of Things is set to revolutionise many aspects of business and daily life, it’s essential to understand how carefully manufacturers have tested devices’ reliability and security before an organisation connects them to their network.
Analyst firm Gartner forecasts 21 billion of IoT devices to be in use worldwide by 2020, with almost six percent for industrial IoT applications. The market is set to grow to US$1.3 trillion in this time. This is being fuelled by growing consumer expectations and the evolving regulatory landscape.
Moreover, Gartner predicts that by 2017, 50 per cent of IoT devices will have been created by companies that are younger than three years old.
Areg Alimian, senior director of solutions marketing at Ixia, says this can be concerning, particularly for businesses looking to involve IoT devices in their daily operations.
Less-mature organisations may not have had time to fully refine their devices’ reliability and security features, he says.
“Organisations deserve to know that their devices will work reliably and securely,” Alimian says.
“For the companies making these products, IoT success requires more than just the device. It is essential to test through all stages of development and continuously monitor the devices. IoT really begins in the lab,” he explains.
“There are programmes that can help test IoT device processors, operating systems, and network connections with realistic protocol and application traffic. These tools help find vulnerabilities before they cause harm to a business network.”
For organisations implementing IoT devices and solutions, Alimian says it is important to know that the products are thoroughly tested by the manufacturer. It is also essential for IT teams and/or CIOs to review current network policies for these devices.
“As employees bring more wireless IoT-connected devices into the business they will want to connect them to the office network,” says Alimian.
“It is important that the network can support more connected devices and that there is a policy clearly dictating the manner in which the devices are connected.
“The policy should also provide best practice guidelines for those using the devices while connected to the network,” he says.
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Safe Work Australia recently launched its National Return to Work Strategy 2020-2030, providing a framework for national action to improve return to work outcomes for Australian workers.
Australian states and territories have largely worked separately to address issues of return to work. The National Return to Work Strategy paves the way for national collaboration to improve outcomes for workers.
The strategy is a 10-year plan to minimise the impact of work-related injury and illness, and enable a timely, safe and durable return to work for workers. It is endorsed by work health and safety ministers across Australia, and union, employer and industry groups.
More than 500,000 Australians sustain a work-related injury or illness each year at an estimated cost of $61.8 billion. Australia’s workers’ compensation systems alone bear direct costs of $9 billion per annum from income support, treatment and rehabilitation and lump sum payments – the broader impact on workers, their families and society is far greater.
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Club 1871 - the What, When, Where, How, Who & Why Thread
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Re: Club 1871 - the What, When, Where, How, Who & Why Thread
by RoyalBlue » 02 Mar 2020 11:39
Sadly if the idiot minority continue to spend much of the game trying to antagonise the visiting support and then creating trouble afterwards, I can see the club getting cold feet and bringing Club 1871 to an end.
LWJ
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by LWJ » 02 Mar 2020 11:52
paultheroyal
Don't agree with the C1871 reaction - that is not what the section is meant to be about - however the words disgusting and absolute scum are a slight over reaction simmops. HTH.
It's DD - he's looking for a reaction and is showing he hasn't learnt
No I am not. It is disgusting and scummy to provoke people in opposite stands and causes trouble and that is clear to see from that video.
The ethos of CLUB1871 was to support the team and unite and provide atmosphere. Not provoke other fans.
Are you forgetting this happened in Y26 as well? And will continue to happen regardless of Club 1871 or not? It happens at football grounds across the country every weekend. Why are you making it out to be worse that it is?
by Simmops » 02 Mar 2020 11:59
LWJ It's DD - he's looking for a reaction and is showing he hasn't learnt
it is bad whoever done it. but y26 was not always about family fun and them being given their own section and rules
lol. They don't have a different set of rules to anybody else in the ground. They are more policed and anyone caught causing trouble is warned/removed.
You don't even go to matches, I seriously don't get why this bothers you other than the fact you are trolling?
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by sandman » 02 Mar 2020 12:23
Calm down, DD.
It's not as if anyone did anything really antagonistic like flick beer at each other or something.
LWJ Are you forgetting this happened in Y26 as well? And will continue to happen regardless of Club 1871 or not? It happens at football grounds across the country every weekend. Why are you making it out to be worse that it is?
I do go to matches when I can. I am not trolling, please stop using that as a default response whenever I say anything.
sandman Calm down, DD.
Yes if they did that then they should be banned.
LWJ Appears Club 1871 are going to attempt a tifo for the SheffU game. Big chance for them to impress the doubters if this works.
Now cancelLOLed.
I reckon the Barnsley game is just an excuse
Snowflake Royal
by Snowflake Royal » 02 Mar 2020 17:58
RoyalBlue Sadly if the idiot minority continue to spend much of the game trying to antagonise the visiting support and then creating trouble afterwards, I can see the club getting cold feet and bringing Club 1871 to an end.
Agree, but it'll take more than one game. Given this sort of stuff was almost weekly in Y26 and generally C1871 has been a roaring success it's going to take quite a while for the club to pull as negative a move as shutting down the most vocal and positive section of the stadium.
notloyalenuffroyal
by notloyalenuffroyal » 02 Mar 2020 19:52
Agree with you too, but if you take 2 games rather than 1, you have the Wigan match where the support was offensive and toxic towards the team from 30 minutes in "we've had a shot", "we're fuxking shit", "we're going down with the wigan", followed by a game where there are clashes between fans that have no particular rivalry whatsoever over the years.
The only logic for the club will surely be to move Club 1871 to Y26, where they can use the gate to block off between the home and away fans and then we are back where we started.
Having a fight with people from Barnsley who came to watch a game of football. What is up with some people?
If they were to swap the sides of the away end the gate could be moved IMO.
Always wondered why we didn't have a ramp of some description going down the hill to take home fans away.
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by Hendo » 03 Mar 2020 09:21
Snowflake Royal Agree, but it'll take more than one game. Given this sort of stuff was almost weekly in Y26 and generally C1871 has been a roaring success it's going to take quite a while for the club to pull as negative a move as shutting down the most vocal and positive section of the stadium.
There were the "death stairs" for the first season, IIRC.
But yes, I think it would make sense to move C1871 to the Y26 corner and move the away fans the other side of the stand.
A ramp like the boardwalks at centerparcs might work
LWJ If they were to swap the sides of the away end the gate could be moved IMO.
Never been to CP m9. Although just a concrete ramp would do the job I expect.
Concrete yes, but it basically meanders back and forth like a mountain road. So it's never super steep at any point.
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by Old Man Andrews » 03 Mar 2020 11:01
Club 1871 is sold out.
So much for the moron on the previous page saying it was finished........
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by Tilehurstsouthbank » 03 Mar 2020 11:11
Old Man Andrews Club 1871 is sold out.
You've changed your tune...
I did a long time ago, people seem to forget that. It isn't for me but I did go and watch a game in Club 1871 and thought it was perfectly fine if you like that kind of thing. Each to their own.
For me it's just preferring a 'Side on' view of the game. Pretty much all away games you're behind the goal and it's harder to see what's going on. The whole 'atmosphere is better in 1871' isn't an issue to me, but fair play to them for generating more noise most games. Thought they were excellent v Barnsley, the handbags aside...
I'm also one for preferring to be on the side. Always prefer to be higher up if I am behind the goal or on the side as it just gives you a better view. Not really fussed about being too close to the action.
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Article| February 10 2003
Changes in Chromatin Accessibility Across the GM-CSF Promoter upon T Cell Activation Are Dependent on Nuclear Factor κB Proteins
Adele F. Holloway,
Adele F. Holloway
Division of Molecular Bioscience, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, ACT 2601, Australia
Sudha Rao,
Sudha Rao
Xinxin Chen,
Xinxin Chen
M. Frances Shannon
Address correspondence to M. Frances Shannon, Division of Molecular Bioscience, John Curtin School of Medical Research, P.O. Box 334, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia. Phone: 61-(0)2-61259690; Fax: 61-(0)2-61250415; E-mail: frances.shannon@anu.edu.au
Received: June 24 2002
Revision Received: November 12 2002
Accepted: December 05 2002
J Exp Med (2003) 197 (4): 413–423.
Revision Received:
Adele F. Holloway, Sudha Rao, Xinxin Chen, M. Frances Shannon; Changes in Chromatin Accessibility Across the GM-CSF Promoter upon T Cell Activation Are Dependent on Nuclear Factor κB Proteins . J Exp Med 17 February 2003; 197 (4): 413–423. doi: https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20021039
Granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) is a key cytokine in myelopoiesis and aberrant expression is associated with chronic inflammatory disease and myeloid leukemias. This aberrant expression is often associated with constitutive nuclear factor (NF)-κB activation. To investigate the relationship between NF-κB and GM-CSF transcription in a chromatin context, we analyzed the chromatin structure of the GM-CSF gene in T cells and the role of NF-κB proteins in chromatin remodeling. We show here that chromatin remodeling occurs across a region of the GM-CSF gene between −174 and +24 upon T cell activation, suggesting that remodeling is limited to a single nucleosome encompassing the proximal promoter. Nuclear NF-κB levels appear to play a critical role in this process. In addition, using an immobilized template assay we found that the ATPase component of the SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex, brg1, is recruited to the GM-CSF proximal promoter in an NF-κB–dependent manner in vitro. These results suggest that chromatin remodeling across the GM-CSF promoter in T cells is a result of recruitment of SWI/SNF type remodeling complexes by NF-κB proteins binding to the CD28 response region of the promoter.
GM-CSF is a key cytokine involved in the production and function of myeloid cells (1–3). GM-CSF is induced in a variety of cell types, including T cells, macrophages, endothelial cells, and fibroblasts in response to immune and inflammatory signals (1–3). In T cells, GM-CSF expression is rapidly and transiently induced after T cell receptor stimulation and costimulation through CD28:B7 interactions (4). Dysregulated expression of GM-CSF is most likely a contributing factor in a range of pathological conditions including leukemias (5, 6) and chronic inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (7). These diseases are often associated with constitutive expression of transcription factors such as NF-κB (8, 9).
The production of GM-CSF is regulated primarily at the level of transcription, via proximal promoter and enhancer regions (10–12), although posttranscriptional control also contributes to the final level of mRNA and protein (13). The GM-CSF proximal promoter (+1 to −100) consists of a complex array of well characterized transcription factor binding sites (see Fig. 1 A; for a review, see reference 14). The NF-κB family of transcription factors plays an important role in the induction of GM-CSF expression via a region of the proximal promoter known as the CD28 response region (CD28RR; Fig. 1 A). This region consists of a variant NF-κB site, known as CK-1 or CD28RE, a classical NF-κB site and an adjacent Sp1 site (15) which all serve to integrate signals from the T cell receptor and the CD28 costimulatory signal (4, 16, 17). The state of chromatin condensation across specific genes in the nucleus forms an important level of control in the regulation of inducible gene transcription (for reviews, see references 18 and 19). The formation of DNase I hypersensitive (DH)* sites has been observed in the enhancer and promoter regions of the GM-CSF gene upon T cell activation (11, 20), suggesting that changes in chromatin structure occur across these regions. Furthermore, the CD28RR has been implicated in these events at the promoter (21). A mutation in the NF-κB/Sp1 region of the CD28RR blocked induction of the DH site in the human GM-CSF promoter in a transgenic mouse model resulting in an inactive transgene (21). Interestingly, this mutation in the CD28RR reduced activation of the human GM-CSF gene only when it was integrated into chromosomal DNA (21), indicating that factors which bind to or are recruited to the CD28RR may play a key role in the reorganization of chromatin structure across the GM-CSF promoter.
Currently, there are two general mechanisms by which chromatin structure is known to be altered to allow gene transcription to occur (for reviews, see references 19 and 22). First, multi-subunit ATP-dependent remodeling complexes have been identified (for a review, see reference 23), which use the energy of ATP hydrolysis to disrupt histone–DNA interactions. Second, histone modifying complexes which alter histone NH2-terminal tails are thought to regulate gene transcription by disrupting chromatin structure and/or providing a histone code that is targeted by other proteins (24–26). One model suggests that chromatin modifying/remodeling complexes are recruited to specific promoter regions through interactions with DNA bound transcription factors which are able to access their binding sites in a chromatin context (for reviews, see references 23 and 25).
In this study, we show that upon T cell activation changes in chromatin structure occur across a specific region of the GM-CSF proximal promoter, limited to a region of less than 200 bp. NF-κB proteins appear to play a critical role in these chromatin remodeling events, which precede GM-CSF gene transcription. Using an in vitro recruitment assay, we show that the NF-κB sites of the CD28RR may play a critical role in recruitment of brg1-containing complexes to the GM-CSF promoter.
Plasmids.
A pGMSelect plasmid, containing a 4.5 kb BamHI-EcoRI fragment of the human GM-CSF gene was used to mutate the GM-CSF promoter (indicated in Fig. 6 A) using Altered site II (Promega). pCMV4sIκBαS32/36Aflag was provided by Dr. D. Ballard, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN (27). The mouse GM-CSF constructs, AOGM and pMGM2.4luc, were provided by Dr. P. Cockerill, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK (28).
Cell Culture and Preparation of Stable Cell Lines.
Jurkat T cells and EL-4 T cells were grown as described previously (15). Cells were stimulated with 20 ng/ml PMA (Boehringer), 1 μM calcium ionophore (A23187; Sigma-Aldrich), 10 μg/ml murine CD28 receptor antibody (clone 37NF1; provided by Dr. A. Strasser) and pretreated with 1 μM MG-115 (Carbobenzoxy-l-leucyl-l-leucyl-norvalinal; Boehringer) for 1 h before stimulation. Cells were transfected by electroporation with 10 μg of the plasmid of interest and 1 μg of pcDNA3.1 for selection, as described previously (15). Transfected cells were selected in media containing 800 μg/ml of G418 then maintained in 400 μg/ml G418.
Nuclear Extracts.
Nuclear extracts were prepared by the method of Schreiber et al. (29). Protein concentrations were determined by Bradford Assay (Bio-Rad Laboratories).
RNA Isolation and Real-Time PCR Analysis.
Total RNA was isolated from 5 × 106 cells using Tri Reagent (Sigma-Aldrich). cDNA was prepared and SYBR Green PCR reactions performed as described previously (30) with 50 ng cDNA in a total volume of 25 μl. The GM-CSF primer set +II (Table I) was used. PCR reactions conducted in parallel using GAPDH primers (sense: 5′-CATGGAGAAGGCTGGGGCTC-3′ and antisense: AACGGATACATTGGGGGTAG-3′) were used to normalize for differences in cDNA synthesis and RNA input.
Chromatin Accessibility by Real-Time PCR.
Accessibility of DNA to digestion with restriction enzymes and MNase was analyzed using chromatin accessibility by real-time PCR (CHART-PCR) as described previously (30). EL-4 T cell nuclei (5 × 106 nuclei per 100 μl) were treated with 80 units HaeIII or 100 units HinfI enzyme (Boehringer) at 37°C for 45 min or with 50 units MNase (Boehringer) for 5 min at 20°C. Genomic DNA (50 ng) was isolated and analyzed by SYBR Green real-time PCR (30). The primer sets used are shown in Table I. Accessibility was determined by correlating the Ct values from the amplification plots to a standard curve generated with genomic DNA, and was expressed as a percentage of undigested genomic DNA for each primer set.
PCR Amplification from Mononucleosomal DNA.
Mononucleosomal DNA was prepared from formaldehyde-fixed EL-4 T cells as described previously (31). EL-4 T cells (5 × 105 cells) were fixed for 10 min with 1% formaldehyde and the reaction stopped by addition of 0.125 M glycine. Cells were washed and incubated in 0.5 ml buffer A (10 mM Tris, pH 7.4, 10 mM NaCl, 3 mM MgCl2, 0.1 mM EDTA. 0.5% NP-40, containing protease inhibitors) containing 60 ng/ml spermine and 315 ng/ml spermidine for 5 min at 4°C. Cell nuclei were recovered by centrifugation at 800 g for 5 min at 4°C, resusupended in MNase buffer, incubated with 50 units MNase for 10 min at 37°C, and then incubated in 0.3 M NaCl at 65°C for 16 h to reverse the cross-links. Mononucleasome fragments (150–200 bp) were purified from an agarose gel and resuspended in 30 μl of MilliQ water. PCR amplification was performed with 4 μl of mononucleosomal DNA, 20 ng of genomic DNA, or 100 pg pMGM2.4luc plasmid DNA using 0.5 U Taq DNA Polymerase (Fisher Biotech).
Nucleosome Assembly.
Chicken long chromatin was prepared as described previously (32). A fragment of the mouse GM-CSF promoter (−179 to +24) was amplified by PCR from the pAOGM plasmid using a biotinylated sense primer. After digestion at restriction enzyme sites in the primers, the PCR product was radiolabeled with 32Pα-dATP using Klenow DNA polymerase. Nucleosomes were assembled onto the DNA by the salt gradient dialysis method (33). Mock assembled and nucleosome assembled DNA was incubated with 10–40 units of HinfI restriction enzyme, electrophoresed through 5% polyacrylamide/1× TBE and visualized using the Fuji PhosphorImager.
Immobilized Template Assay.
Template assays were performed by a modification of the method of Ranish et al. (34). A fragment of the human GM-CSF promoter (−120 to −45) was amplified by PCR from the pGMselect wild-type and mutant plasmids using a biotinylated sense primer. The PCR product was purified by gel electrophoresis and eluted using the QIAGEN QIAquick gel extraction kit. The template (150 ng per reaction) was bound to 15 μl Dynabeads M280 Streptavidin (Dynal) as described previously (34). The prepared template was blocked for 15 min at room temperature in 50 μl binding buffer (20 mM HEPES, pH 7.9, 100 mM NaCl, 5 mM MgCl2, 0.5 mM EDTA, 0.01% NP-40, 10% glycerol) containing 0.1 mg/ml BSA. Alternatively assembled or mock assembled nucleosome reactions were incubated with Dynabeads overnight at 4°C, washed three times in binding buffer, and blocked similarly.
After blocking, beads were washed three times in binding buffer and resuspended in 10 μl binding buffer. Nuclear extracts (250 μg per reaction) were diluted fourfold and supplemented so that the reaction conditions were equivalent to those in binding buffer. Reaction mix was supplemented with 4.5 μg poly(dI:dC), 4.5 μg sheared salmon sperm DNA and protease inhibitors, and incubated on ice for 10 min. The DNA template was added to the nuclear extracts and incubated for 2 h at 4°C with mixing. The beads were washed three times with binding buffer containing 1 mM DTT, 1 mg/ml BSA, and protease inhibitors. Proteins were eluted from the beads in SDS load buffer, resolved by SDS-PAGE, transferred to nitrocellulose, and subjected to Western analysis using anti-RelA (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc.), anti-Sp1 (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc.), anti-CBP (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc.), and anti-brg1 (35) antibodies. Proteins were detected using SuperSignal Chemiluminescent substrate (Pierce Chemical Co.), visualized using the Fuji luminescent image analyzer (Las-1000 plus), and quantified using the Fuji Image Gauge software.
Chromatin Is Remodeled Across the Proximal Promoter Region of the GM-CSF Gene After T Cell Activation.
To investigate changes in chromatin structure across the GM-CSF gene upon T cell activation, accessibility of the gene to micrococcal nuclease (MNase) or restriction enzyme digestion after T cell activation was measured using a real-time PCR assay (CHART-PCR; reference 30) and nine primer sets which amplify regions of ∼100 base pairs from −633 to +164 (Fig. 1 A, primer sets −VII to +II). PCR amplification was monitored by SYBR green incorporation (36). The amount of PCR product generated from MNase digested samples was plotted as a percentage of that generated from undigested samples for each primer set.
In nonstimulated cells accessibility of different regions of the GM-CSF gene to MNase digestion was not uniform and ranged from ∼25 to 60% accessibility across the region of the gene examined (see Fig. 1 B, open bars; Fig. 1 C, black line). There were two regions which were less accessible to digestion with MNase, one centered in the vicinity of the proximal promoter (∼−100 bp) and another further upstream at about −350 to −400 bp. These regions of relative inaccessibility to MNase may indicate the preferred positions of nucleosomes on the uninduced GM-CSF promoter.
To further investigate nucleosome positioning across the GM-CSF promoter, mononucleosomal DNA of average size 150 bp, was prepared by MNase digestion of formaldehyde cross-linked EL-4 T cells (Fig. 1 D) and used in PCR reactions with the primer sets indicated in Fig. 1 A. While all the primer sets amplified appropriate size products from genomic DNA or from a plasmid containing the GM-CSF promoter (Fig. 1 D), only specific primer sets gave strong PCR products from the mononucleosomal DNA (Fig. 1 E). It should be noted that primer set +I cannot amplify from the plasmid because the insert does not contain this part of the GM-CSF gene. Primer set −I gave a strong PCR product from the mononucleosomal DNA whereas flanking primer sets −II and +I gave little or no product (Fig. 1 E). The lower band seen in primer sets −I and −II most likely represent primer dimers that are also seen in the control sample lanes. Similarly, primer set −V yielded a strong PCR product from mononucleosomal DNA whereas sets −IV and −VI did not (Fig. 1 E). These data support the possibility that nucleosomes are preferably positioned at regions centered at −100 and −400.
Upon T cell stimulation the region covered by primer set −I (−155 to −40 spanning the CD28RR, see Fig. 1 A) became significantly more accessible (∼3.4-fold) to MNase digestion (Fig. 1 B, open bars). The CD28RR is important for induction of GM-CSF gene expression upon T cell activation (37–39). Set +I (−63 to +43) that spans the transcription start site became slightly more accessible (∼1.4-fold) to MNase digestion upon T cell activation (Fig. 1 B). This primer set covers AP-1 and NFAT/Ets binding sites, which are also important for promoter activity (37, 40, 41). The region downstream of the transcription start site, covered by primer set +II (+24 to +164) and the regions upstream of the proximal promoter covered by primer sets −II through to −VII did not show any significant changes in accessibility after T cell stimulation (Fig. 1 B). Therefore, changes in MNase accessibility upon T cell stimulation were limited to a 200 bp region assayed with primer sets −I and +I, which covers the proximal promoter elements and the transcription start site (Fig. 1 C).
To confirm the changes in accessibility of the GM-CSF gene upon T cell stimulation, the accessibility of HinfI (F) and HaeIII (H) restriction enzyme sites across the GM-CSF gene were also analyzed (see Fig. 1 A). The HinfI sites at −97 and −548 (as assayed using primer set −I and −VII, respectively) showed intrinsic accessibility (∼30% at both sites, see Fig. 2 A), in agreement with the intrinsic accessibility to MNase digestion. Upon T cell stimulation the HinfI site at −97 became more accessible again supporting the data generated using MNase (Fig. 2 A). Importantly, this HinfI site is adjacent to the CK-1 site within the CD28RR of the GM-CSF promoter. In contrast, the distal HinfI site at −548 did not become more accessible to restriction enzyme digestion upon T cell stimulation (Fig. 2 A).
The accessibility of 2 HaeIII restriction enzyme sites (at −105 and −127, both amplified by primer set −I) before and after T cell stimulation was also monitored using CHART-PCR. Using this primer set, accessibility to HaeIII digestion upon T cell activation increased (Fig. 2 B) implying that either one or both of these HaeIII sites became more accessible to digestion upon T cell stimulation. In contrast, the HaeIII site further upstream at −219, displayed no change in accessibility upon T cell stimulation (Fig. 2 B, primer set −II) as was also seen with HaeIII sites at −281, −383, and −483 (Fig. 2 C). Similarly, HaeIII sites downstream of the transcription start site (at +122 and +141) assayed with primer set +II did not display any changes in accessibility upon T cell stimulation (Fig. 2 B), in keeping with data generated with MNase digestion. These data for both MNase and restriction enzyme accessibility clearly demonstrate that significant changes in chromatin structure are limited to a region encompassing the proximal GM-CSF promoter.
Put together, these data point to the presence of a nucleosome spanning the GM-CSF promoter in resting T cells, which becomes remodeled upon T cell activation.
Characteristics of Chromatin Remodeling across the GM-CSF Promoter after T Cell Stimulation.
The timing of chromatin remodeling events across the proximal promoter region of the GM-CSF gene after T cell stimulation, and the relationship of these events to transcription from the GM-CSF gene were investigated. As described earlier, in nonstimulated cells, the region covered by primer set −I displayed a low level of inherent accessibility to digestion (Fig. 3 A), which was unchanged at 30 min after stimulation. However, 1 h after stimulation, accessibility at this site had increased approximately threefold (Fig. 3 A) and this was maintained for up to 6 h when levels of accessibility started to decline (Fig. 3 A).
To correlate these remodeling events with transcription, GM-CSF mRNA levels were analyzed from EL-4 T cells stimulated in parallel by quantitative real-time PCR using primer set +II (+24 to +164), which covers a transcribed region of the GM-CSF gene (see Fig. 1 A). Little increase in GM-CSF gene transcription was detected 1 h after stimulation (Fig. 3 B). However, RNA levels dramatically increased after this time with a 70-fold increase seen after 2 h stimulation and ∼600-fold after 6 h simulation. This is in keeping with previous studies, where maximum levels of transcription were detected after 8–10 h of stimulation using RNase protection (11). Chromatin remodeling events across the promoter, therefore, precede significant transcription from the gene and begin to decline before the time of maximum mRNA accumulation.
We next examined the stimulation conditions required for chromatin accessibility changes across the GM-CSF promoter. P/I stimulation lead to increased accessibility for HinfI digestion across the proximal promoter but treatment with a CD28 activating antibody together with P/I, did not increase the level of HinfI accessibility (Fig. 3 C). In contrast, levels of GM-CSF mRNA were increased by CD28 activation (Fig. 3 C), implying that the signals generated by P/I are sufficient to lead to changes in chromatin accessibility but that CD28 signals increase the levels of mRNA via a distinct mechanism.
Remodeling of the GM-CSF Promoter Is Dependent on NF-κB Proteins.
As the CD28RR region of the human GM-CSF promoter has been previously implicated in the formation of an inducible DH site (21), the role of NF-κB proteins in generating MNase or RE accessibility across the GM-CSF promoter after stimulation was examined. EL-4 T cells were pretreated with the proteasome inhibitor MG-115 for 1 h before stimulation, preventing degradation of the IκB proteins and subsequent translocation of NF-κB proteins to the nucleus (unpublished data; reference 42). The MG-115 inhibitor had no effect on the inherent basal level of accessibility seen in nonstimulated cells (unpublished data). However, in stimulated cells treatment with MG-115 reduced the increase in accessibility by almost fourfold (Fig. 4 A). To further assess the effect of inhibiting NF-κB translocation to the nucleus, EL-4 T cells were stably transfected with a mutant IκBα construct which cannot be phosphorylated and thus prevents NF-kB translocation to the nucleus (27, 43). Levels of RelA protein were reduced by ∼50% in stimulated EL-4-IκBα nuclear extracts compared with extracts from cells transfected with the empty vector (Fig. 4 B, compare lanes 4 and 2). Levels of the transcription factor Sp1 or the ATPase component of the SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex, brg1, were unaffected in the nuclei of the EL-4-IκBα cells (Fig. 4 B).
Primer set −I was used to assay the accessibility of the HaeIII sites in the proximal promoter region of the GM-CSF gene in nonstimulated EL-4-IκBα cells and cells stimulated with P/I for 2 h. The change in accessibility normally seen upon stimulation was reduced by 40% in the EL-4-IκBα cell line (Fig. 4 C), in line with the 50% reduction observed in RelA levels. The level of GM-CSF mRNA was also reduced by ∼40% in the IκBα-transfected cells (Fig. 4 D) compared with the control CMV-transfected cells (set at 100%) consistent with the reduction in promoter accessibility.
Therefore, reduction of NF-κB protein levels in the nucleus lead to a reduction in chromatin remodeling at the GM-CSF promoter as well as a reduction in transcription from the gene. This suggests that NF-κB proteins play a role in chromatin remodeling events at the GM-CSF promoter upon T cell activation.
Brg1 Can Be Recruited to the GM-CSF Promoter In Vitro.
From the data above, it is possible that the NF-κB proteins and their cognate binding sites in the CD28RR of the GM-CSF promoter are involved in recruiting chromatin remodeling activities to the GM-CSF promoter as has been shown for certain transcription factors on other genes (44, 45). To assess this possibility, we used an in vitro recruitment assay to determine if chromatin modifying complexes can be recruited to the GM-CSF promoter in a NF-κB–dependent manner. An immobilized GM-CSF template, consisting of a 75 bp region of the proximal promoter from −120 to −45, encompassing the CD28RR (17; see Fig. 1 A) was incubated with nuclear extracts from nonstimulated and P/I-stimulated Jurkat T cells. After washing, bound proteins were eluted in SDS load buffer, subjected to SDS-PAGE, and analyzed by Western blotting, using antibodies to specific proteins.
Little RelA is present in nuclear extracts of nonstimulated Jurkat T cells, but is detected in extracts stimulated with P/I for 30 min as expected from previous results (Fig. 5 A, lanes 1 and 2, top panel). As expected, RelA bound to the GM-CSF template from stimulated but not nonstimulated extracts (Fig. 5 A, lanes 3 and 4). Sp1 protein was detected in both nonstimulated and stimulated nuclear extracts at approximately equal levels (Fig. 5 A, lanes 1 and 2, middle panel), but significant binding of Sp1 to the GM-CSF template was only detected from stimulated extracts (Fig. 5 A, lane 4). In the experiments shown in Figs. 5 and 6 there are variable levels of Sp1 binding in the unstimulated extracts. The reason for this variation is not clear, but may arise because the Sp1 protein binds only weakly to the Sp1 site in the absence of NF-κB proteins and is stabilized by binding of NF-κB proteins to the adjacent sites. Recruitment to the GM-CSF template of the ATPase component of the SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex, brg1, and the histone acetyl transferase CBP, representing the two classes of chromatin altering activities was then examined. Approximately equal amounts of brg1 protein was detected in both nonstimulated and stimulated nuclear extracts (Fig. 5 A, lanes 1 and 2, bottom panel); however, significant binding of brg1 to the GM-CSF template was only detected from stimulated extracts (Fig. 5 A, lane 4). In contrast, although CBP protein was present in nonstimulated and both 30 min and 6 h stimulated nuclear extracts at approximately equal levels (Fig. 5 B, lanes 1–3, bottom panel), it did not bind to the GM-CSF promoter (lanes 4–6). Therefore, brg1 but not CBP is recruited to the GM-CSF CD28RR template in vitro after T cell activation.
To determine the timeframe of recruitment of brg1 to the GM-CSF template, nuclear extracts that had been stimulated with P/I for various times between 0–8 h were examined using the template assay. Localization of RelA to the nucleus upon T cell stimulation is highest at 30 min after stimulation and continues at lower levels through to 8 h (Fig. 5 C, top panel, lanes 1–6). This is reflected in binding of RelA to the GM-CSF template (lanes 7–12). Levels of Sp1 protein in the extracts do not change post stimulation (Fig. 5 C, middle panel, lanes 1–6). However, Sp1 binding to the GM-CSF template appeared to mimic that of RelA, with little binding from nonstimulated extracts and binding seen at all time points after stimulation although variable levels of binding are seen across the time course examined (lanes 7–12). Brg1 levels in the nucleus also remained constant after T cell stimulation (Fig. 5 C, bottom panel, lanes 1–6), but maximum brg1 binding to the template was detected at 30 min of stimulation (Fig. 5 C, lane 8). Lower levels of brg1 binding were detected at all other time points (Fig. 5 C, lanes 9–12) in parallel with RelA binding. Similar results were obtained when nuclear extracts from EL-4 T cells were used with a mouse GM-CSF template (unpublished data), which has a high degree of conservation with the human sequence across the CD28RR (Fig. 6 A).
Thus, brg1 can bind in vitro to the GM-CSF promoter template from stimulated but not unstimulated T cell extracts and binding appears to parallel that of RelA and Sp1.
Brg-1 Recruitment to the GM-CSF Template Is Dependent on NF-κB Proteins Binding to the CD28RR.
To determine whether brg1 recruitment to the GM-CSF promoter was in fact dependent on NF-κB and/or Sp1 binding sites and proteins, binding studies were conducted using mutant DNA templates. Templates were generated with mutations in either the NF-κB (κBm) or CK-1 (CK-1m) sites, both NF-κB and CK-1 sites (CK-1/κBm) and the Sp1 site (Sp1m) of the CD28RR (Fig. 6 A). Binding to these templates from nonstimulated and 30 min P/I stimulated extracts was examined. Mutation of the Sp1 site, while reducing Sp1 binding, had no effect on RelA or brg1 binding (Fig. 7 C). Mutation of the individual NF-κB binding sites (κBm and CK-1m) reduced RelA binding and in parallel reduced brg1 binding but appeared to have no effect on Sp1 binding (Fig. 7 B). In contrast, in the absence of both NF-κB sites (CK-1/κBm) binding of RelA, Sp1, and brg1 were dramatically reduced (Fig. 7 D). Thus, brg1 binding to the GM-CSF template is dependent on intact NF-κB but not Sp1 binding sites, suggesting that NF-κB proteins may recruit brg1 to the GM-CSF promoter template. In addition, Sp1 binding is dependent on intact NF-κB binding sites but not vice versa.
To further test the possibility that NF-κB proteins were involved in recruiting brg1 to the GM-CSF template, extracts were prepared from Jurkat T cells stably expressing the mutant IκBα protein. Stable expression of this mutant considerably reduced the level of RelA in the nucleus (Fig. 7 E, compare lanes 2 and 4) and as expected binding of RelA to the GM-CSF template was dramatically reduced in these extracts compared with extracts from cells transfected with the empty CMV vector (Fig. 7 E, compare lanes 5 and 6). This reduction in RelA binding was paralleled by a similar reduction in Sp1 and brg1 binding (Fig. 7 E, lane 6).
Taken together, these experiments show that in vitro binding of brg1 to the GM-CSF promoter is dependent on prior binding of NF-κB proteins to two sites in the CD28RR.
NF-κB Bind to a Nucleosome Assembled GM-CSF Promoter, In Vitro.
To test the possibility that NF-κB proteins are able to bind to the GM-CSF promoter in a chromatin context before nucleosome remodeling, a 197 bp fragment of the GM-CSF promoter (−173 to +24) was assembled into a nucleosome and binding of RelA examined. This fragment contains the HinfI restriction site at −97 and corresponds to the region which displayed an increase in accessibility following T cell activation (see Fig. 1 C). The GM-CSF template was radiolabeled and assembled into a single nucleosome as assessed by a shift in the migration of the DNA through a polyacrylamide gel (Fig. 7 A, lane 4), compared with mock assembled DNA (lane 1). The naked DNA was digested by the HinfI enzyme into two fragments of 121 and 76 bp, as expected (Fig. 7 A, lanes 2 and 3). In contrast, the HinfI restriction site in the nucleosome assembled DNA was protected from digestion (Fig. 7 A, lanes 5 and 6) but the small amount of naked DNA remaining in the assembly reaction digested as expected. Therefore, the GM-CSF promoter template could be assembled into a single nucleosome which protected the HinfI restriction site from digestion.
The HinfI restriction site is adjacent to the CK-1 element in the GM-CSF promoter so binding assays were conducted to determine whether the nucleosome could also prevent NF-κB binding (Fig. 7 B). Unstimulated and 30 min P/I stimulated Jurkat T cell extracts where incubated with the DNA templates. RelA bound to the naked DNA template from stimulated extracts as expected (Fig. 7 B, lane 4). RelA also bound to the nucleosome assembled template from stimulated extracts, although with reduced affinity (Fig. 7 B, lane 6). Therefore, the RelA protein is able to access its binding sites in the GM-CSF promoter despite the presence of a nucleosome.
A key control point in inducible gene expression involves reorganization of chromatin structure across regulatory regions of genes to allow access for the transcriptional machinery. Here we have mapped chromatin accessibility across the promoter region of the GM-CSF gene in unstimulated and stimulated EL-4 T cells and several important points have emerged. First, the entire region that was mapped from −633 to +164 showed intrinsic accessibility to both MNase and restriction enzymes. This is in stark contrast to a recent study on the IL-2 promoter in the same cell type where we showed that there is no accessibility across a large region of the IL-2 gene implying a more “closed” chromatin configuration for this gene (30). Second, two regions of the GM-CSF upstream sequence were relatively inaccessible to digestion in these assays and such regions may represent preferred nucleosome positions. The possibility that nucleosomes are preferentially located in these positions (centered on −100 and −400) was confirmed by the ability to amplify these regions and not flanking regions from cross-linked mononucleosomal DNA. While one of these proposed nucleosomes would span the GM-CSF promoter in resting T cells, the fact that this region still displays some inherent accessibility may indicate a fairly flexible nucleosome arrangement that allows some access of transcription factors to their binding sites. GM-CSF, in contrast to IL-2, has a pattern of expression that may require flexible access to DNA binding sites in chromatin, being expressed in a wide variety of cell types in response to many different signals (for a review, see reference 1). In addition, some myeloid cell types display constitutive transcription from the GM-CSF gene with mRNA levels being controlled at the stability level (46). Recently, the chromatin structure across the promoters of several immune function genes has been investigated. For example, the IL-12 gene assembles a nucleosome across important control regions including NF-κB and C/EBP binding sites (47). In contrast, the HIV and IFNβ promoters contain important transcription factor binding sites in nucleosome-free regions (48, 49). Positioning of nucleosomes across the promoter regions of inducible genes appears, therefore, to be gene-specific and such differences may reflect the timeframe or signal requirements for the response of these genes to cell activation.
The third important finding was that the proximal promoter region of the GM-CSF gene undergoes an increase in accessibility to MNase and restriction enzymes after activation of the cells with P/I. The region that becomes remodeled stretches between −174 to + 24 across the transcription start site and encompasses the CD28RR as well as more proximal AP-1 and NFAT/Ets binding sites. This suggests that a single nucleosome positioned across this region may be remodeled after activation, which is similar to the situation described for the IL-12 p40 promoter upon activation of macrophages (47). Furthermore, the remodeling events at both the GM-CSF and IL-12 promoters occur 1 h after stimulation (47). In addition, chromatin changes in both genes are dependent upon a primary stimulus (P/I for GM-CSF and LPS for IL-12) but not enhanced by a secondary stimulus (CD28 for GM-CSF and IFN-γ for IL-12) (47). Importantly, an increase in GM-CSF mRNA levels is detected at 2 h and nuclear run-on assays have shown that transcription is induced in 2 h (50), only after the chromatin remodeling events have occurred. Therefore, chromatin remodeling events at the GM-CSF promoter may be a critical initiating step in activation of GM-CSF gene transcription.
Several pieces of evidence have previously shown the importance of the CD28RR in GM-CSF promoter function particularly in a chromatin context. First, a mutation in the CD28RR, that altered the specific NF-κB family members that bound to the GM-CSF κB site, eliminated promoter activity in transgenic mice and in stable cell lines but not in transient transfections (21). This mutation also specifically prevented the formation of a DNase I hypersensitive site in the promoter that was normally detected in the wild-type transgene (21) and in the native human gene (20). Second, a triplex-forming oligonucleotide directed against the NF-κB/Sp1 region efficiently inhibited constitutive GM-CSF expression in Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemic cells (9) as well as inducible expression in Jurkat T cells (51), suggesting an important role for this region in transcription from the endogenous gene.
These results presented here suggest that specific NF-κB family proteins bound to the GM-CSF promoter are important for recruiting chromatin remodeling activities which bring about changes in chromatin structure. The SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex is a likely candidate for such an activity, given that we have now shown that brg1 can be recruited to the GM-CSF promoter in vitro in an NF-κB–dependent manner. From these in vitro binding experiments, a model can be proposed whereby NF-κB proteins first interact with the CD28RR. This in turn leads to both Sp1 binding and brg1 recruitment to the promoter although brg1 recruitment does not appear to depend on Sp1 binding. While Sp1 was not required for recruitment of brg1 in vitro it may play a role in stabilizing the complex in a chromatin context or in the recruitment of coactivators or the transcription machinery after chromatin remodeling and further studies are required to determine this role. Similarly, while the histone acetyl transferase CBP was not recruited to the CD28RR region of the GM-CSF promoter, in vitro, this does not rule out the involvement of CBP or other histone acetylases in GM-CSF promoter activation.
It has previously been shown that a brg1-containing complex binds more tightly to chromatin after Jurkat T cell activation (52) in keeping with the possibility that brg1 is recruited to the GM-CSF promoter in vivo. SWI/SNF complexes have been shown to be recruited to other promoters through interaction with specific transcription factors (44, 45) but this is the first example of brg1 complexes being dependent on NF-κB for binding at least in vitro. This model would suggest that NF-κB proteins may be able to access their binding sites in the CD28RR in a chromatin context. In support of this is the finding that a nucleosome can be assembled across the GM-CSF promoter region in vitro and that RelA can still bind, although with reduced affinity, to the nucleosome-assembled GM-CSF promoter. This is in contrast to a recent study on the IL-2 gene, where binding of NF-κB proteins was completely inhibited by the assembly of a nucleosome over the promoter (53).
Aberrant expression of NF-κB is often a feature of pathological conditions such as leukemia, other cancers, and chronic inflammatory diseases. For example, the constitutive activation of NF-κB proteins has been reported as a distinguishing characteristic of leukemic stem cells (54). It is possible then that in such conditions a key checkpoint in the control of GM-CSF expression may be circumvented so that the chromatin structure of the GM-CSF promoter is in a constitutively ‘open’ state. This may contribute to the inappropriate expression of GM-CSF often observed in these conditions. Thus, defining the mechanism by which chromatin remodeling complexes are recruited to genes such as GM-CSF may provide novel therapeutic targets for these diseases.
We thank Dr. P. Cockerill for GM-CSF plasmids, Dr. D. Ballard for IκB plasmids, and Dr. G. Crabtree for brg1 antibodies. We thank Dr. David Tremethick for critical reading of this manuscript and many helpful discussions. We thank Donna Woltring for preparation of the GM-CSF mutations.
This work was funded by a Project grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia to MFS.
A.F. Holloway's present address is Discipline of Biochemistry, University of Tasmania, Hobart 7001, Australia.
Abbreviations used in this paper: CHART-PCR, chromatin accessibility by real-time PCR; DH, DNase I hypersensitive.
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Accessibility of regions of the GM-CSF gene to MNase digestion. (A) Schematic representation of the GM-CSF gene showing transcription factor binding sites and the CD28RR of the promoter. DNA fragments amplified by primer sets −VII to +II and HinfI (F) and HaeIII (H) restriction enzymes sites are indicated. (B) Nuclei from nonstimulated (white bars) or 4 h P/I stimulated (black bars) EL-4 T cells were incubated with MNase. Genomic DNA was analyzed by real-time PCR using the indicated primer sets. The mean and standard error of three replicate assays are shown. (C) Percentage accessibility determined in B for nonstimulated (black line) and stimulated (gray line) nuclei was plotted against position on the GM-CSF gene corresponding to the midpoint of each PCR product. Transcription factor binding sites in the GM-CSF promoter are represented. (D) Agarose gel purified mononucleosome-size DNA fragments generated by MNase digestion of formaldehyde cross-linked EL-4 T cells (lane 2), genomic DNA from formaldehyde cross-linked cells digested with MNase to generate mononucleosome-size fragments (lane 3) and genomic DNA from untreated cells were run on a 2% agarose gel. Lane 1 contains a DNA marker ladder. (E) PCR amplification with primer sets from A as indicated using mononucleosomal DNA (lane 1), pMGM2.4luc plasmid DNA (lane 2), genomic DNA (lane 3), and no DNA as a control (lane 4). The PCR products are shown for each primer set after agarose gel electrophoresis. Faster migrating bands are likely to represent primer dimers.
Accessibility of regions of the GM-CSF gene to restriction enzyme digestion. Nuclei from nonstimulated (white bars) or 4 h P/I stimulated (black bars) EL-4 T cells were incubated with HinfI (A) or HaeIII (B) restriction enzyme. Genomic DNA was analyzed by real-time PCR, using the indicated primer sets. The mean and standard error of three replicate assays are shown. (C) Changes in accessibility in 4 h P/I stimulated nuclei compared with nonstimulated EL-4 T cell nuclei as determined with MNase (gray line) and restriction enzymes (black line) were plotted against position across the GM-CSF gene. For restriction enzymes the position of each cutting site was plotted and for MNase the position corresponding to the midpoint of each PCR product was plotted. Transcription factor binding sites in the GM-CSF promoter are represented.
Characteristics of chromatin remodeling at the GM-CSF promoter in stimulated EL-4 T cells. (A) Nuclei from nonstimulated EL-4 T cells and cells stimulated with P/I for the indicated time periods, were incubated with MNase. Genomic DNA was analyzed by real-time PCR analysis, using primer set −I. (B) Data generated in A was graphed as fold change in accessibility at each time point compared with nonstimulated (gray line). GM-CSF mRNA levels were determined by real-time PCR analysis of cDNA prepared from EL-4 T cells treated as in A, using primer set +II. Data is graphed as fold change in RNA levels at each time point compared with nonstimulated (black line). (C) Nuclei from EL-4 T cells either nonstimulated or stimulated with P/I and P/I/antiCD28 antibody for 4 h, were incubated with HinfI. Genomic DNA was analyzed as in A. GM-CSF mRNA levels in cells treated in parallel, were determined as in B and are indicated below.
Chromatin remodeling at the GM-CSF promoter is dependent on NF-κB proteins. (A) EL-4 T cells were either untreated or pretreated for 1 h with the proteasome inhibitor MG115, then incubated with or without P/I for 4 h. Nuclei were incubated with HaeIII restriction enzyme and the genomic DNA analyzed by real-time PCR analysis using primer set −I. The percentage change in accessibility in 4 h P/I stimulated nuclei compared with nonstimulated nuclei was graphed. The mean and standard error of three replicate assays are shown. (B) Nuclear extracts (50 μg) from CMV-transfected (lanes 1 and 2) and mutant IκBα-transfected (lanes 3 and 4) EL-4 T cells, either unstimulated (lanes 1 and 3) or stimulated for 2 h with P/I (lanes 2 and 4) were subjected to SDS-PAGE and analyzed by Western blotting with the indicated antibodies. (C) Nuclei from CMV-transfected and mutant IκBα-transfected EL-4 T cells, either left unstimulated or stimulated for 2 h with P/I, were incubated with HaeIII restriction enzyme and the genomic DNA analyzed by real-time PCR as in A. (D) GM-CSF mRNA levels were determined by real-time PCR analysis of cDNA prepared from cells treated as in C, using primer set +II. The increase in GM-CSF mRNA levels upon stimulation in EL4-IκBα cells was plotted relative to control (EL4-CMV) cells set at 100%. The mean and standard error of three replicate assays are shown.
Recruitment of brg1 to the GM-CSF promoter in vitro. (A) Nuclear extracts prepared from Jurkat T cells, either nonstimulated (lane 1) or stimulated with P/I for 30 min (lane 2) were incubated with WT GM-CSF template (lanes 3 and 4). Bound proteins were resolved by SDS-PAGE and subjected to Western blotting using the indicated antibodies. Lanes 1 and 2 represent 1/5th of the input extract. (B) Nonstimulated (lane 1), 0.5 h (lane 2), and 6 h P/I stimulated (lane 3) Jurkat T cell nuclear extracts were incubated with WT GM-CSF template (lanes 4–6). Bound proteins were analyzed by Western blotting with the indicated antibodies. Lanes 1 to 3 represent 1/5th of input extract. (C) Nonstimulated Jurkat T cell nuclear extracts (lane 1) or extracts from cells stimulated with P/I for the indicated time periods (lanes 1–6) were incubated with WT GM-CSF template (lanes 7–12). Bound proteins were analyzed as in A.
Recruitment of brg1 to the GM-CSF promoter is dependent on NF-κB proteins. (A) Nucleotide sequence of the human and mouse GM-CSF CD28RR is shown with CK-1, NF-κB, and Sp1 binding sites indicated. Bases that are different in the mouse sequence or that were mutated to generate the mutant templates are indicated. (B) Nuclear extracts from nonstimulated (lane 1) and 30 min P/I stimulated (lane 2) Jurkat T cells were incubated with GM-CSF templates as indicated (lanes 3–8). Bound proteins were resolved by SDS-PAGE and subjected to Western blotting using the indicated antibodies. Lanes 1 and 2 represent 1/5th of the input extract. (C and D) Nuclear extracts from nonstimulated (lane 1) and 30 min P/I stimulated (lane 2) Jurkat T cells were incubated with the indicated GM-CSF templates (lanes 3–6) and analyzed as in A. (E) Nuclear extracts prepared from CMV-transfected (CMV, lanes 1 and 2) and mutant IκBα-transfected (IκBα, lanes 3 and 4) Jurkat T cells were left unstimulated (lanes 1 and 3) or stimulated for 30 min with P/I (lane 2 and 4). Stimulated nuclei were incubated with WT GM-CSF template (lanes 5 and 6) and analyzed as in A.
NF-κB can bind to the nucleosome assembled GM-CSF promoter, in vitro. (A) A 197 bp GM-CSF promoter template, either naked DNA (lanes 1–3) or nucleosome assembled DNA (lanes 4–6) was incubated with varying amounts of HinfI restriction enzyme, as indicated. The DNA was electrophoresed through 5% polyacrylamide gel. The positions of the nucleosomal DNA, naked DNA, and digested DNA fragments are indicated. (B) Nuclear extracts prepared from Jurkat T cells, either nonstimulated (lane 1) or stimulated with P/I for 30 min (lane 2) were incubated with a naked GM-CSF template (lanes 3 and 4) or nucleosomal assembled GM-CSF template (lanes 5 and 6). Bound proteins were resolved by SDS-PAGE and subjected to Western blotting using the indicated antibodies. Lanes 1 and 2 represent 1/5th of the input extract.
Table I.
Primer Sequences for SYBR Green Real-Time PCR Analysis
Sense primer (5′–3′)a
Antisense primer (5′–3′)a
+II AAGGTCCTGAGGAGGATGTG GAGGTTCAGGGCTTCTTTGA
+I GAGTTCTGTGGTCACCATTAATCA CACATCCTCCTCAGGACCTT
−I GCCTGACAACCTGGGGGAAG TGATTAATGGTGACCACAGAACTC
−II AAAAGGAGAGGCTAGCCAGA TAAGCCCTTCCAAGAACTGG
−III CCAGGAAATCCAAATATGCC CAGTCTGACCCAGCCTCTG
−IV GAACAGCAGGTGCTATGGAA GGCATATTTGGATTTCCTGG
−V TGGAATGAGCCACCAGAGTA GGCTCTTGCTTCCATAGCAC
−VI CATTGGGCTGGACCTTATTT TACTCTGGTGGCTCATTCCA
−VII
TCATTCTCACTGCTCCCAAG
ATAAGGTCCAGCCCAATGAC
The primer sequences were designed using the murine GM-CSF gene sequence (GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number X03020).
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The Anchorite is the debut solo EP from Phil Stiles. Whilst the socio-political lyrical themes of Final Coil remain; the music diverges, drawing from a range of electronic influences to create a darkly ambient soundtrack for Phil’s tales of social decay. Eerie dissonance abounds, especially on the atmospheric Intro, which combines stately guitar with the cold, inhuman hum of subterranean machinery. Elsewhere, the rhythmic pulse of mangled samplers recalls the claustrophobic nightmare of Massive Attack, whilst the muscular guitars of Antipathy brings to mind the industrial nightmare of Godflesh.
Recorded in the wake of Final Coil’s acclaimed sophomore album, The World We Left Behind For Others, and set against the backdrop of the UK’s fateful decision to leave the EU, The Anchorite portrays the seismic societal shift that is occurring around an increasingly turbulent world.
Recorded and mixed by Phil, the EP was mastered by the legendary James Plotkin (ISIS, Khanate, Earth, Sunn 0))), Pelican), and the result is an EP that treads a fine line between cold industrial, progressive rock and somnolent trip hop.
Praise for The Anchorite:
“The Anchorite is everything it promises to be given the circumstances it was written in: introspective, critical and wickedly wintry… Phil Stiles may have a day job as a rock musician, but he could ably carve out a second income from a career in electronic music.”
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“Overall – A morose, but effective EP, ‘TA’ invites serious contemplation of the contents therein, via its carefully cultivated thematic narration and consistent solemn accompaniments. Food for thought, presented in a precisely performed fashion.”
Rock Queen Reviews
Even if it is a “simple” ep, the anchorite is the subject of considerable commitment, as demonstrated by the highly effective production… Despite its brevity, the anchorite represents an excellent viaticum for a career to be developed.”
Ver Sacrum
I loved this EP. I mean how could I not? It is unique and it draws from so many elements and styles that I love. The whole experience is very well put together and really nails the tone and emotion that they are wanting to deliver.”
Uber Rock
“…batters down the synapses and ensures the listener is really thinking about what’s being said and delivered.”
Median Man
“The Anchorite” pleased me from start to finish, its tracks complement each other very well, it maintains a linear and creative segment and portrays the seismic change of the society that is occurring, not only in the UK, but around the world…”
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Indonesia bombing family “kind, ordinary people…”
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Nicer people you’ll never meet:
“Mr Dita was kind. Familiar to his neighbours. Socially active. An ordinary person living in a normal neighbourhood,” neighbour Binawan Widiarto told the ABC.
The family that carried out three church bombings in Indonesia’s second-biggest city on Sunday were just “ordinary” people, according to their neighbours.
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Monday morning, a family of five, including an eight-year-old child carried out a bomb attack on a police headquarters in Surabaya, killing four people and injuring 10, an Indonesian police official said. They drove up to the gates of the police station on two motorcycles and then detonated the explosives at the security checkpoint. The four adult perpetrators died but the young child is now recovering in hospital.
East Java Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Frans Barung Mangera told Anadolu Agency the Church attack fatalities include an 11-year-old child. The attacks wounded at least 43 people.
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john Daniel. says:
“The family that carried out three church bombings in Indonesia’s second-biggest city on Sunday were just “ordinary” people, according to their neighbours.” [sic]
The family were islams
… islam “ordinary” is not the same as normal “ordinary”
… so pull the other leg !!!
Every islam is Vile Putrid Malevolent Deceitful Vicious
… By Default !!!
… It’s in the qur’an !!!
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“It was in Lyon that I managed to take my game to another level,” says Lucy Bronze
Former Olympique Lyonnais player Lucy Bronze became the first Englishwoman on Thursday but also the first defender to be voted best player by Fifa.
Manchester City defender, Lucy Bronze was named Thursday best player of the year 2020 during the trophy ceremony “The Best Fifa Football Awards”, succeeding the American Megan Rapinoe crowned at the end of the previous season. 29 years old, Lucy Bronze, European champion with OL in August, was in competition with her former teammate at OL Féminin Wendie Renard and striker Pernille Harder (Chelsea).
She took a step forward at OL
Lucy Bronze made her classes in the English Championship at Sunderland, then Everton (2010-2012 and Liverpool (2012-2014) where she won her first two league titles (2013, 2014). The Englishwoman then wore three years the City jersey, during which a brace in 2016 and an FA Cup in 2017 were added to his record. But football in England still lagging behind other countries, it is theOlympique lyonnais that she chose to take another step forward.
“When I left Manchester City, I had secured my place in the team and I was known everywhere but I was not what we call a superstar. I think it was in Lyon that I managed to take my game to another level “, she told Soccerbible.
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Armenia Mourns Karabakh War Victims
Armenia on Saturday began three days of mourning for the victims of clashes with Azerbaijan as the opposition kept up pressure on the country’s leader to resign over the handling of the conflict.More than 5,000 people including civilians were killed in Armenia and Azerbaijan when clashes erupted between the ex-Soviet enemies in late September over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.The war ended in November with a Moscow-brokered peace agreement that saw the Armenians cede swathes of territory to Azerbaijan, which has been backed by close ally Turkey.The deal sparked fury in Armenia, with the opposition urging Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to resign.On the first day of the national mourning on Saturday, Pashinyan was expected to lead a procession to a memorial complex in the capital Yerevan where victims of the conflict are buried.The opposition planned to hold a separate march later in the day. Pashinyan’s critics have called on supporters to stage a national strike, starting Tuesday.”The entire nation has been through and is going through a nightmare,” Pashinyan said in a video address ahead of the memorial march.”Sometimes it seems that all of our dreams have been dashed and our optimism destroyed,” he added.The 45-year-old former newspaper editor was propelled to power in 2018 after he channeled widespread desire for change into a broad protest movement against corrupt post-Soviet elites.But after six weeks of clashes with Azerbaijan, many have called Pashinyan a “traitor” for agreeing to what they say is a humiliating deal with Azerbaijan. He has so far refused to step down.As part of the peace deal Russia deployed nearly 2,000 peacekeeping troops to Karabakh.Moscow said on Friday that a Russian mine clearer was killed by a blast in Karabakh when an explosive went off earlier this week.
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Georgia Lawsuit Claims Discrimination Against Puerto Ricans
Lili Stenn
A lawsuit filed Tuesday claims that the Georgia Department of Driver Services discriminates against people born in Puerto Rico who apply for drivers licenses.
The lawsuit claims that, among other things, Puerto-Ricans are forced to take a quiz and answer questions about the island, that requires them to answer questions like “[what is] the name of the frog [that is] native only to PR.”
An attorney who works for one of the human rights organizations that filed the suit said the quiz “bears a strikingly disturbing resemblance to the tests applied by segregationists to block voter registration of people of color.”
Human rights groups filed a lawsuit in Georgia Tuesday, claiming that the state’s Department of Driver Services (DDS) is discriminating against people born in Puerto Rico who apply for drivers licenses
Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory, and Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens, but the lawsuit says the DDS holds people born in Puerto Rico to much stricter requirements than people from other states or Washington, D.C.
The suit claims that DDS requires applicants born in Puerto Rico to take extra driver exams that are not required of other people with out-of-state licenses, and that it will not accept birth certificates issued in Puerto Rico before 2010.
BREAKING NEWS: We filed a class action complaint w/@southerncenter against Georgia DDS for violating rights of Puerto Ricans applying for drivers licenses in Georgia. Georgia DDS failed to comply the Equal Protections clause of the U.S. Constitution! https://t.co/uvQau3pvGN pic.twitter.com/oajHYKv0dY
— LatinoJustice PRLDEF (@latinojustice) July 2, 2019
“DDS also requires that accepted birth certificates and other original identity documents submitted by Puerto Rico-born driver’s license applicants be retained and flagged for fraud review,” the lawsuit continued.
The plaintiffs also accuse the department of forcing Puerto Rico-born applicants to “answer questions about the island that are not required of United States mainland-born applicants, including identifying ‘what a meat filled with plantain fritter’ is called; where a specific beach is located; and ‘the name of the frog [that is] native only to PR.’”
The lawsuit states that because of those requirements, the DDS is violating the Civil Rights Act by engaging in “race-based stereotyping and implicit bias against Puerto Ricans.”
Kenneth Caban Gonzalez
The lawsuit was filed by the Southern Center for Human Rights and the advocacy group LatinoJustice on behalf of a Puerto Rico-born man named Kenneth Caban Gonzalez.
However, it also claims that there are most likely more than 40 people from Puerto Rico who have similar claims. Which, if true, would meet the 40-plaintiff minimum required for a class-action lawsuit.
The defendants are listed as the DDS Commissioner Spencer Moore and a specific DDS employee named James Woo.
According to the lawsuit, Caban Gonzalez applied for a driver’s license in October of 2017, after meeting the state’s 30-day residency requirement.
When he went in to get his license, DDS officials took “his driver’s license, his original birth certificate, and his social security card,” and informed him “that he would be notified when to pick up his original identity documents.”
About a month later, Caban Gonzalez received a text from the defendant James Woo, telling him to go to DDS office for an interview.
When he arrived, he was arrested on one count of first-degree forgery and another count relating to making false statements. The criminal charges are still pending, the lawsuit says.
DDS never gave any of Caban Gonzalez any of identification back, forcing him to get a new birth certificate and social security card.
It has now been 600 days since he applied for the license, the lawsuit states, and the department still has not given him a license or told him why they believe his identity documents were false.
DDS also has not given Caban Gonzalez a hearing on the matter, which he is supposed to be allowed under the law. To make matters more complicated, DDS has not outright denied him a license, which means he cannot appeal the decision.
Caban Gonzalez was eventually given a state ID, but the department did not explain why they considered his identification documents sufficient to issue him a state identification card, but not a driver’s license, despite the fact both have the same documentation requirements.
Even though he has some form of state identification, not having a drivers license has made it hard for him to get a job, take his newborn daughter to the doctor, or make other trips, according to the lawsuit.
After the news of the lawsuit broke, the Governor of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Rosselló responded in a statement calling the allegations “absurd.”
“Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens and cannot be treated unequally in any U.S. jurisdiction,” Rosselló said.
“If true, I ask Georgia Governor Brian Kemp to address the disturbing irregularities immediately. The U.S. citizens of Puerto Rico cannot be subject to illogical and illegal requirements when procuring government services.”
The Government of Puerto Rico takes these allegations very seriously and, if true, I ask Georgia Governor @BrianKempGA to address the disturbing irregularities immediately. https://t.co/z3eU1TnCKz pic.twitter.com/FjqEb8Gp7q
— Ricardo Rosselló (@ricardorossello) July 3, 2019
A spokesperson for Kemp told Fox News that the Governor had asked DDS to conduct an investigation.
“Our team has spoken with DDS Commissioner Spencer Moore and asked him to conduct a full investigation into these claims,” the spokesperson said. “Given that this matter involves pending litigation, we will decline to further discuss any specifics involving this case.”
A DDS spokesperson told CNN that the department has not formally received the lawsuit yet, and cannot comment on it. However, the spokesperson did say that “the department processes all driver’s license applications in accordance with state and federal law.”
However, the spokesperson did say that “the department processes all driver’s license applications in accordance with state and federal law.”
Additionally, another DDS spokesperson confirmed to CNN that the so-called “quiz” questions come from a document DDS released to comply with an open records request, but add that the quiz “is not an authorized DDS document.”
CNN also reported that a note on the guide for the quiz stated: “While this guide can in no way positively determine if a person was born in or lived in Puerto Rico, it will help determine if the individual has a normal base of knowledge of their claimed birthplace.”
However, Gerry Weber, a senior attorney with the Southern Center for Human Rights, compared the quiz to a Jim-Crow era law.
“The so-called quiz, applied to Puerto Rican drivers, bears a strikingly disturbing resemblance to the tests applied by segregationists to block voter registration of people of color,” he said.
Weber’s argument references the fact that DDS’ actions and policies affect more than the ability to drive. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, around 700,000 new voters registered through DDS in 2017 and 2018 alone.
Weber argues that if the department is discriminating against Puerto Ricans, they could be preventing them from voting.
Georgia has recently been accused of suppressing the votes of people of color in the last election. An active lawsuit filed in the state is trying to overhaul the state’s entire election system, arguing that it violates the constitutional rights of people of color.
In March, the House Oversight Committee launched an investigation into the allegations of voter suppression in the state.
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Biden Outlines $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Plan
President-elect Joe Biden unveiled a sweeping $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief stimulus proposal on Thursday.
Under the plan, $1 trillion would go to direct relief for Americans. This includes a round of $1,400 stimulus checks, an extension and $400 weekly increase to federal unemployment benefits, and a $15 minimum wage.
The proposal would also allocate $440 billion for aid to local governments and businesses, as well as provide $400 billion to directly fight the coronavirus with more testing and vaccinations, among other efforts.
Biden Outlines Direct Aid in Stimulus Plan
President-elect Joe Biden announced the details of his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief stimulus package while speaking at an event in Wilmington, Delaware on Thursday.
Biden described the package, titled “American Rescue Plan,” as a set of emergency measures to immediately address the country’s economic and healthcare needs. The package will be followed by a second, broader relief package in February, which will aim to address more long-term economic recovery efforts.
Most significantly, $1 trillion — more than half of the funding allocated in the first package — will go to direct relief for Americans. Among other measures, the direct aid provisions in the plan include increasing federal unemployment benefits from $300 a week to $400 a week and extending them from March to September.
Biden’s plan also includes $1,400 stimulus checks to top off the $600 already approved in the December stimulus package. However, eligibility for the direct payments would be expanded to families of non-citizen immigrants as well as families with adult dependents.
Additionally, the proposal includes several other measures targeted at directly helping struggling Americans, such as raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, adding billions in funding for child care, and expanding the child tax credit to poor and middle-class families.
Broader Goals
As for the broader economic and pandemic-centered measures, Biden’s package would allocate $440 billion for aid to states, local governments, and businesses. It would also provide $400 billion to directly fight the coronavirus, with a major focus on expanding testing and accelerating vaccine distribution.
Biden has set the dual goals of delivering 100 million vaccines and reopening the majority of K-12 public schools in his first 100 days. To meet that objective, his plan includes $20 billion for a universal vaccination program, $50 billion to expand testing, and $130 billion to help schools reopen safely.
The proposal, overall, meets many of the demands for direct aid that Democrats have pushed for months but have been unable to approve with the Republican-controlled Senate. Now that Democrats hold the presidency and control of both chambers, many members have urged Biden to ask for an even higher price tag.
Biden, for his part, has said he would like to try for a bipartisan majority on his first piece of legislation, but given Republicans months-long resistance to many Democratic asks, that desire is likely a pipe-dream.
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Democrats Ask for Investigation into GOP Members Aiding Rioters
More than 30 House Democrats signed a letter Wednesday demanding that security officials look into “suspicious behavior and access given to visitors” at the Capitol the day before last week’s insurrection.
The lawmakers claimed they “witnessed an extremely high number of outside groups” visiting, including guests who “appeared to be associated with the rally at the White House the following day.”
The letter comes one day after Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) accused her Republican colleagues of bringing rioters into the Capitol the day before for “reconnaissance.”
Notably, neither the letter nor Sherill herself directly named any members, and these claims have not yet been verified.
Demands for Investigation
Congressional Democrats are demanding an investigation into whether Republican representatives aided the Capitol rioters who lead last Wednesday’s insurrection.
In a letter signed by 31 members Wednesday, lawmakers asked the acting House and Senate Sergeants at Arms to look into “suspicious behavior and access given to visitors” the day right before the attack.
In that letter, the Democrats say that they as well as some of their staffers “witnessed an extremely high number of outside groups” visiting the Capitol.
They pointed out that was unusual because the building has restricted public access since March as part of pandemic protocols. Since then, tourists have only been allowed to enter the Capitol if they were brought in by a member of Congress.
Today I joined with more than 30 of my colleagues in requesting an investigation from the Acting House SAA, Acting Senate SAA, and USCP into the suspicious behavior and access given to visitors to the Capitol Complex on Jan. 5, 2021 – the day before the attacks on the Capitol. pic.twitter.com/zpPUSUuSrj
— Rep. Mikie Sherrill (@RepSherrill) January 13, 2021
The members found the tours “so concerning” that they reported them to the Sergeant at Arms the same day.
“The visitors encountered by some of the Members of Congress on this letter appeared to be associated with the rally at the White House the following day,” the letter continued. “Members of the group that attacked the Capitol seemed to have an unusually detailed knowledge of the layout of the Capitol Complex.”
The demands come after Rep. Mikie Sherrill (R-NJ) claimed during a Facebook livestream Tuesday that she saw Republican representatives bringing now-identified rioters into the Capitol the day before the riots for “reconnaissance.” Sherrill also alleged that some of her GOP colleagues “abetted” Trump and “incited this violent crowd.”
Members Under Fire
Neither the letter nor Sherill have directly named any members, and none of these claims have yet been verified. However, over the last few days, a number of Republicans have been condemned for their perceived involvement in inciting the rioters.
In a now-deleted video, right-wing conspiracy theorist and “Stop the Steal” organizer Ali Alexander claimed he had planned the rally that took place before the riot with the help of three House Republicans: Paul Gosar (Az.), Andy Biggs (Az.), and Mo Brooks (Al.). All three men voted to undermine the will of the American people and throw out the electoral votes in Arizona following the insurrection.
Biggs and Brooks have both denied that they have any involvement, but Gosar, who tagged Alexander in a tweet he posted just hours before the attack, has not responded to any requests for comment from several outlets.
“Biden should concede,” Gosar wrote. “I want his concession on my desk tomorrow morning. Don’t make me come over there. #StopTheSteaI2021”
Biden should concede. I want his concession on my desk tomorrow morning. Don’t make me come over there. #StopTheSteaI2021 @ali pic.twitter.com/E2kuoWPUVy
— Paul Gosar (@DrPaulGosar) January 6, 2021
While Brooks has denied any involvement in planning the rally, his remarks to the would-be domestic terrorists at the event have sparked widespread condemnation.
“Today is the day that American patriots start taking down names and kicking ass,” he told the crowd. “Are you willing to do what it takes to fight for America?”
Some House Democrats introduced resolutions to censure Brooks for his comments. Other members have also been pushing to invoke Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, a relic of the post-Civil War era which disqualifies people who “have engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the U.S. from holding public office.
Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) has also received 47 co-sponsored on her proposed resolution that would start investigations for “removal of the members who attempted to overturn the results of the election and incited a white supremacist attempted coup.”
House Impeaches Trump By Largest Bipartisan Margin in History
The House voted to impeach President Donald Trump on Wednesday for “inciting an insurrection,” making him the first-ever president to be impeached twice.
Ten Republicans broke party ranks to vote in favor of impeachment, which means this is the most bipartisan impeachment in U.S. history.
Ahead of the vote, sources close to Senate Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters he believes Trump committed impeachable offenses and that he was pleased Democrats were moving forward with a vote because it will make it easier to “purge” Trump from the party.
McConnel later said he has not yet decided whether he will vote to convict Trump. Still, he has refused to convene the Senate before Jan. 19, meaning that as of now, there is little chance that the Senate will conduct a trial and oust Trump before his term ends.
House Debates Impeachment
The U.S. House of Representatives voted 232 to 197 to impeach President Donald Trump on Wednesday for “inciting an insurrection,” making him the first-ever president to be impeached twice.
All Democrats voted in favor of the single article. They were also joined by 10 Republicans, which means this is the most bipartisan impeachment in U.S. history.
The decision was debated on the floor after Vice President Pence rejected Democrats’ calls to invoke the 25th amendment and remove Trump from office.
Most notable among the Republican members who voted to impeach was Liz Cheney (R-WY), the number three House Republican who announced her decision Tuesday night.
“There has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution,” she said in a statement.
Questionable Path in Senate
No Republican Senators have publicly said they support removing Trump from office.
On Tuesday, The New York Times reported that sources close to Senate Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said he “has told associates that he believes President Trump committed impeachable offenses and that he is pleased that Democrats are moving to impeach him, believing that it will make it easier to purge him from the party.”
Sources separately told Axios that “there’s a better than 50-50 chance” that McConnell would vote to convict Trump.
McConnell responded to the reports earlier on Wednesday but did not outright dispute many of the claims.
“While the press has been full of speculation, I have not made a final decision on how I will vote and I intend to listen to the legal arguments when they are presented to the Senate,” he said.
As for whether or not other members of the GOP would follow suit, a top Republican close to McConnell also told Axios that “Senate institutional loyalists are fomenting a counterrevolution” to Trump.
Additionally, McConnell’s advisers have said that he has “privately speculated that a dozen Republican senators — and possibly more — could ultimately vote to convict.” Notably, it would most likely require 17 Republicans to join Democrats in order for Trump to be found guilty.
In regards to a timeline, the Senate is in recess and not set to reconvene until Jan. 19, the day before Joe Biden’s inauguration. McConnell has rejected calls to ask that members return before then, meaning that as of right now there is very little chance that the Senate will conduct a trial and oust Trump before he leaves office.
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2014 Le Mans 24 Hours LMP2 Review Part 1
The 2014 Le Mans 24 Hours cemented the argument that this year’s LMP2 class was the most competitive in at least a decade if not more, although the class has struggled for numbers this year, especially in the World Endurance Championship, the 17 car entry for the 24 Hours provided a scintillating battle throughout the full 24 Hours. This class provided everything with stunning speed, intense battles for position and finally a popular class winner in the Jota Sport team. For 2015 this class has a lot to live up after this year.
Millennium Racing:
#22 Oreca 03R-Nissan: Fabien Giroix/Oliver Turvey/John Martin
Although I included this entry in my LMP2 preview post, it seemed as soon as I posted it this entry was withdrawn, as the funding issues which have prevented this car from running in the WEC so far this season reared it’s ugly head again. These funding issues must be frustrating for everyone involved with this Alan Docking Racing ran team, which if it ever makes it on track this year, will prove a formidable challenger for class honours with a very strong team and driver line-up. Let’s hope we see this car in action before the year’s out.
Sebastien Loeb Racing:
#24 Oreca 03R-Nissan: Rene Rast/Jan Charouz/Vincent Capillaire
For this relatively young team, this years Le Mans 24 Hours almost provided a fairy tale for them, as the team came an agonisingly close 4th in LMP2, only 1 lap off the podium. 4th for this new team is still a magical result for the team, of which little was expected pre-race.
The team’s driver line-up performed admirably, with the stand out of the three being amateur Vincent Capillaire, who more than held his own amongst an army of professional drivers in the class. If this team can retain it’s driver line-up and luck from 2014 going into the 2015 24 Hours, expect them to improve on a 4th in class. A truly great effort from this team this year.
G Drive Racing:
#26 Morgan LMP2-Nissan: Roman Rusinov/Olivier Pla/Julien Canal
For this team the 24 Hours proved a great disappointment as a team that was right in the mix for class honours early on was eliminated on Saturday evening. The OAK racing team and it’s driver line-up were definite contenders for victory, something we were robbed of seeing with their retirement. This team looks set to continue it’s dominance of LMP2 in the WEC this year, and hopefully we’ll see a much longer run for this team in 2015.
SMP Racing:
#27 Oreca 03R-Nissan: Sergey Zlobin/Mika Salo/Anton Ladygin
The Russian SMP Racing team came to Le Mans with high expectations and hoping for a great result in the 24 Hours. Things didn’t go to plan however during the whole week as both the team’s entries proved accident prone and slightly off the pace in this highly competitive class. Despite this the team was hoping to shed their bad luck before the start of the race.
Sadly this didn’t prove the case as the team was unfortunate to suffer a number of problems throughout the race, something which meant they finished 37th and the final LMP2 car to finish. In reflection, this AF Corse affiliated team will hopefully see that simply finishing the race, after the battle scarred week the team suffered, is enough of an achievement for this year. Expect to see more from this professional outfit in 2015.
Pegasus Racing:
#29 Morgan LMP2-Nissan: Julian Schell/Nicolas Leutwiler/Leo Roussel
This team appeared at a huge disadvantage to other entries in this highly competitive class, as to achieving a good result with many experts giving this small team little hope. The relatively unknown driver line-up and the fact this is the team’s first time back at Le Mans after several years were their reasoning behind the scepticism.
Sadly for this team a misunderstanding with the #1 Audi in Thursday’s evening qualifying session, resulted in a red flag inducing shunt for this entry.
The team subsequently performed brilliantly to re-build the car in time for the race. From here the team’s drivers stepped up to the plate to provide a steady run for this team, which managed to stay out of trouble for the rest of the race, although some mechanical reliability hampered the team as they struggled to a 10th place finish in class,18th overall. For this team they showed they were deserving of an entry and should come back stronger in 2015, hopefully for a much more rewarding race.
OAK Racing- Team Asia:
#33 Ligier JSP-HPD: David Cheng/Ho-Pin Tung/Adderly Fong
For this OAK racing-Team Asia entry, the 24 Hours proved relatively quiet for them as they soldiered on from a poor qualifying to attain an ultimately rewarding 12th overall and 7th in class finish. Not many thought these great looking new Ligier JSP2 coupe’s would complete the 24 Hours trouble free, despite extensive pre-race testing.
This team ran like a metronome and their relatively inexperienced driver line-up drove brilliantly to cope with changeable conditions, and whilst others were throwing their cars off track or suffering reliability issues, they kept going to hopefully the first of many Le Mans finishes for this young team.
Race Performance:
#34 Oreca 03R-Nissan: Michel Frey/Frank Mailleux/Jon Lancaster
The Race Performance have quietly impressed many within the European Le Mans Series showing so far in 2014, as they have proved competitive in both ELMS before the 24 Hours. Despite their impressive showings, not many tipped this car to challenge for class victory in the 24 Hours. Yet the team pulled a masterstroke in teaming rapid ex-GP2 racer Jon Lancaster with regular drivers Frank Mailleux and Michel Frey.
From the start, this car proved competitive as all 3 drivers drove impressively to keep the car in the hunt for victory. Sadly for this team, the car let them down in the final few hours as they were hobbled by a variety of mechanical issues, which left them tumbling down the order as they yo-yoed between the track and garage. The team did at least make the finish, albeit 13th overall and 8th in class. If this team continues it’s upward trend, the team will be hugely competitive next year. Expect big things in the future from this team.
OAK Racing:
#35 Ligier JSP2-Nissan: Alex Brundle/Jann Mardenborough/Mark Shulzhitskiy
Going into the race, this entry appeared one of the favourites for class honours on paper. The OAK racing team are prodigiously successful at the Le Mans 24 Hours, and their driver line-up was arguably the most competitive in the LMP2 class. Ultimately, despite showing blistering pace and leading a portion of the race, the team’s Achilles heel proved exactly it was feared it would be. The new Ligier JSP2 coupe.
Although the team made sure to do extensive testing before the race, a few small problems eliminated this car from contention on Sunday morning, something that left the drivers devastated. It seemed likely if this car stayed healthy, it would have won the LMP2 class. Something the team will be hoping they can prove in 2015.
Signatech Alpine:
#36 Alpine A450B-Nissan: Paul Loup-Chatin/Nelson Panciatici/Oliver Webb
Preparing for the Le Mans 24 Hours, this team appeared to be struggling as they were well off their 2013 ELMS title winning potential. After the first ELMS race the team changed tyre suppliers, hoping this would solve their issues. Yet this car still went into the race and under the radar contender for victory in LMP2. This was despite impressing in qualifying, especially LMPC Prototype graduate Paul Loup-Chatin. Throughout the race the drivers performed impressively and the car stayed out of the garage.
This left the team fighting for the top 3 podium positions in class with only a few hours to go. The team battled on into the final hours, eventually coming home a very competitive 3rd in class, and startling 7th overall. The team and drivers were clearly very happy with their result, and with such a young driver line-up, the team has plenty of potential to improve on their 3rd in class next year.
That’s it for the first half of my LMP2 Le Mans 24 Hours review, feel free to comment or look at any of my other Le Mans posts over the past few weeks. Finally a huge thanks to http://www.Motorsport.com for their amazing high quality photos please visit their site it’s the first for up to date news and scintillating high quality photos. Enjoy!
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Stan Kenton Research Center
On this Date in Kenton History
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The Stan Kenton Research Center is the physical embodiment of ALL THINGS KENTON.
Located in the most prestigious building in the charming town of Staunton, Virginia, we are in the process of moving into our third floor office in the Masonic Building.
The Collection Includes
A substantial collection of Down Beat magazines, dating back to 1938, along with a more modest assortment of other periodicals
CDs, albums, cassettes, and an 8-track tape
Several hundred scores and sets of parts
A set of Conn 16E Mellophoniums
Concert programs and newsletters
A significant digital archive
Hundreds of histroic photographs
The Stan Kenton Research Center has been the recipient of many generous gifts. If anyone has any materials that they feel would add to the collection, please contact us. The Research Center is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in accordance with the standards and regulations of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Visit our Donation Page
Center curator, Terry Vosbein
The front door.
Did you attend a Stan Kenton Band Camp? Follow this link to add yourself to the registry at All Thnings Kenton. You can also add comments and memories to the wall and upload pictures or other memorobilia.
Our two windows are on the 3rd floor.
Beginning to sort and fill the shelves.
Tony Agostinelli's great newsletter "The Network" has been transcribed and put online.
Several films, including Talk About a Lady, Kenton's 1946 foray into feature film.
Part of the collection of books. An annotated bibliography is online.
More books, including the controversial volumes by Chris Pirie.
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Court Appointment Proposal
(too old to reply)
Josh Rosenbluth
This strikes me as a good idea at first blush.
https://balkin.blogspot.com/2020/10/dont-pack-court-regularize-appointments.html
Post by Josh Rosenbluth
Sounds interesting. The article is not clear about the tenure of the
junior justices. Is there a fixed number of them and do appointments to
this group necessarily mean that that one must leave? Or, do they all
have tenure, raising the question of what could become a large body.
Since these judges must be approved by the Senate, don't we have the
same problem with the a Senate effectively packing the court with
members sympathetic to their party? I can see how this might reduce the
workload in the Supreme Court, but I'm not sure that it prevents a long
term party bias in what is supposed to be a politically independent body.
There are always nine junior justices. Assuming we immediately adopt
this plan, Clarence Thomas becomes the most senior member of the junior
justices. In 2021, the president will nominate a replacement for Thomas
with Thomas moving to the status of senior justice. In 2023, Stephen
Breyer moves from junior to senior justice, and so forth.
The picks will still be subject to Senate confirmation, but the will
always happen in non-election years (one, every two years), which ought
to short-circuit the Senate refusing to consider anyone.
Do you and Islander share a concern about an equitable composition of
the Court, or are you just aiming at insuring that it leans to the
Left? It does seem to me that the Left's interests are focused on what
might be sold as a 'modernization' of the Court and Constitution, but
in reality are aimed at radically increasing the power of the central
government and your Party.
I think the proposal is aimed at a equitable composition of the Court.
Possibly, but it seems that Jack Balkin is a prolific contributor to
SLATE, and I mean Prolific. Would you be as enthusiastic about the man
if he was a Breitbart or Fox News regular?
Balkin hasn't been a regular on Slate since 2008, but he is a liberal. I
would be equally supportive of the proposal no matter who made it.
Regarding your opinion on the proposal, I'd like to see it debated too.
Perhaps such a debate would change my mind. However, it isn't complex at
all, and you should be able to form an initial opinion without further
debate.
What he proposes may seem harmless and constructive, but it amounts
to, and is intended to be, a fundamental change in our form of
government. In the absence of an open debate, I am unable to form an
opinion -- "seems harmless and constructive" is as far as I'm willing
to go. I could say the same about socialism, and at one time did, but
I'm now old enough to realize that "seems" and "reality" are not
always the same thing, so bring on the national debate. In the
meantime I'll settle for Amy Barrett. (-8
I'll settle for "seems harmless and constructive" subject to further
debate. I also agree it would be a fundamental change, one that is needed.
Simply because a fundamental change "may" be needed does not mean that
Balkin's is necessarily the answer. Let's wait for a national debate,
but I wouldn't hold your breath on that one.
1. Balkin is a partisan.
2. In an age in which the parties can't so much as agree on a bailout
package, his scheme has as much chance as the proverbial fart in a
whirlwind. (-8
Do you agree with the proposal on the merits?
Far too complex for me to fully understand or agree. I would like to
see it thoroughly debated by both sides of the aisle -- which I doubt
will ever happen.
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Model systems for photosynthesis acting as photoinduced molecular wires in bilayers
P. Seta, E. Bienvenue, A. L. Moore, T. A. Moore, D. Gust
Sequential electron transfer are the key steps which determine the efficiency of the energy conversion processes in photosynthesis. An attempt at modelling the active natural reaction centers in the membrane environment is presented. Various triads and one tetrad, made up of electron donor and electron acceptor molecules, have been synthesized and incorporated into lipid bilayers. Photoelectrochemical measurements evidence a vectorial intramolecular and transmembrane electron transfer. The influence of the structure of the compounds on the photocurrents is discussed.
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Seta, P., Bienvenue, E., Moore, A. L., Moore, T. A., & Gust, D. (1989). Model systems for photosynthesis acting as photoinduced molecular wires in bilayers. Electrochimica Acta, 34(12), 1723-1727. https://doi.org/10.1016/0013-4686(89)85055-8
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In: Electrochimica Acta, Vol. 34, No. 12, 12.1989, p. 1723-1727.
Seta, P, Bienvenue, E, Moore, AL, Moore, TA & Gust, D 1989, 'Model systems for photosynthesis acting as photoinduced molecular wires in bilayers', Electrochimica Acta, vol. 34, no. 12, pp. 1723-1727. https://doi.org/10.1016/0013-4686(89)85055-8
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All songs included on this page were written or co-written by Bobby Troup, as credited.
Baby, Baby All the Time (Bobby Troup) — recorded by Julie London with Russ Garcia Orchestra; issued on the single Liberty 55009, b/w “Shadow Woman”
Lonely Girl (Bobby Troup) – from Julie’s album Lonely Girl, released April 1956
From Calendar Girl, released May 1956
February Brings the Rain (Bobby Troup)
This October (Bobby Troup)
From About the Blues – recorded in 1956, released 1957
The Meaning of the Blues (Leah Worth, Bobby Troup)
From the album Make Love to Me
It’s Good to Want You Bad (Bobby Troup)
From the LP Julie
Julie is an LP album by Julie London, released by Liberty Records under catalog numbers LRP-3096 (monaural) in 1957 and LST-7004 (stereophonic) in 1958.
Daddy (Bobby Troup) — album track presently unavailable
Jack Benny Show, air date 4 March 1962
Free and Easy (Henry Mancini, Bobby Troup)
Big thanks to visitor KLR of the site Songbirds — Classic Singers of Jazz and/or Pop for informing me of this recording in a 19 May 2017 comment on this page.
Non-album single:
I’d Like You For Christmas (Bobby Troup) — Liberty F-55108, b/w “Saddle the Wind,” issued in November 1957
From London By Night
Well, Sir (Bobby Troup, John Lehmann)
(2001 remaster)
Just the Way I Am (Bobby Troup)
Man of the West (Bobby Troup)
From the album Around Midnight
Lonely Night in Paris (Bob Alcivar, Bobby Troup)
From the album Send For Me
Baby Come Home (w.m. Bobby Troup, Jimmy Rowles)
From Sophisticated Lady
Where Am I to Go (w.m. Matt Dennis, Bobby Troup)
From the album Love On the Rocks
Where Did the Gentleman Go (Bobby Troup)
From the LP Feeling Good: with the Gerald Wilson Big Band
Girl Talk (m. Neal Hefti, w. Bobby Troup)
Julie London — issued in September 1965 on the single Liberty Records 55830, b/w “Won’t Someone Please Belong to Me”
Won’t Someone Please Belong to Me (Bobby Troup)
From the LP Nice Girls Don’t Stay For Breakfast
Nice Girls Don’t Stay For Breakfast (Bobby Troup, Jerry Leshay)
Audio files:
Julie London’s Albums | Stream Online Music Albums | Listen Free on Myspace
You left out Free and Easy from “Julie.” Mancini/Troup, maybe Bobby just wrote the lyrics. Found this page looking for a Troup songbook, he wrote some cool tunes.
Hey KLR,
Thanks for the tip! I’ve added the Julie London recording of “Free and Easy” from the 1957 album Julie to this page, and will add a Bobby Troup recording of the song to the Bobby Troup sings Troup page. Please don’t hesitate to let me know if you find any others I’ve missed. The help is much appreciated.
Most sites credit the song to Mancini and Troup without specifying who wrote what. The lone site I’ve found that indicates that Mancini wrote the music and Troup wrote the lyric is dbopm.com, which oddly enough gives the copyright year as 1959.
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14.01.21 January 14, 2021
Scotland’s news today is dominated by further lockdown restrictions. The measures may appear marginal: limitations on click and collect deliveries; firmer rules for takeaways; curbs around alcohol. But they are designed to stamp home the message that there is no imminent return to normality.
Source Direct: Lock Me Down
“Food – good food – is not a luxury, and there is nothing you can do, no one you can be, that justifies being deprived of it. The matter must be put beyond question.”
Sean Bell: Food is everything
05.01.21 January 5, 2021
Most will respect the gravity of the circumstances and follow the rules. But lockdowns, as everyone has always acknowledged, are an inherently chaotic last resort. For all the rhetoric of national unity, they come with significant costs.
Source Direct: Lockdown Return Highlights Deeper Failings
18.11.20 November 18, 2020
Lockdowns don’t hit all businesses equally. That’s a point that Andrew McRae, the Federation of Small Businesses policy chair, made following the latest announcement of tougher restrictions. He said that small businesses like retailers had to shut their doors for the next three weeks, “when many big businesses face few operating restrictions”. If you can […]
Small businesses are suffering – and it’s the banking system that’s the problem
02.11.20 November 2, 2020
As Scotland enters its new tiered system of restrictions today, England is getting prepared to dump it. Boris Johnson’s Saturday announcement of a four-week national lockdown, only for England, came about six weeks after his SAGE advisors had argued for a two-week circuit-breaker lockdown and he offered up the tiered system. What a mess. The […]
A second lockdown will be very different
08.10.20 October 8, 2020
Craig Dalzell has written a detailed response on Source here to the new restrictions imposed by the Scottish Government yesterday. Dalzell looks at the evidence report that the new measures are based on, which is really well worth a read if you have the time. Crucially, the evidence report finds that “at the current rate of growth (7 per cent increase per […]
The Great Barrington Declaration is Capitalist Realism for the pandemic-age
The new need-to-know term of the Coronavirus era is: “circuit-breaker”. Scottish and UK Government ministers are openly talking about the possibility of a circuit-breaker lockdown to stem the spread of covid-19. The October holidays is rumoured to be the week when the Scottish Government will introduce the measure, though it would probably extend to the […]
Circuit-breaks and faulty currents
02.09.20 September 2, 2020
Common Weal director Robin McAlpine looks at the broad sweep of the Programme for Government on Source here. There will also be a further, more detailed policy analysis published on the site later today. In short, the Programme was a bit of a pre-election teaser. There’s not a lot of heavy lifting going on in terms […]
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06.08.20 August 6, 2020
“The central green commitment of the Scottish Government’s economic recovery plan is an auction block of Scotland’s resources in the form of a Green Investment Portfolio.”
Analysis: The ‘Zealots’ and the Great Scottish Green Energy Auction
Usually on Source Direct we give focused news analysis on one main item, but there are so many things going on in Scottish politics right now we are going to give you a brief snapshot of several different issues today. 1) Economic Recovery report response: Remember Bennie Higgins’ Economic Recovery advisory report for Scottish Government Ministers? […]
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Extreme Allstars Conducting Mid-Season Cheer Tryouts
By Space Coast Daily // January 5, 2013
10 To 11 A.M. Saturday, Jan,. 5
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BREVARD COUNTY • MELBOURNE, FLORIDA – Extreme Allstars is starting a mid-season cheerleading team designed to introduce the sport to new particpants and provide additional tumble stunt and cheer opportunities to other interested cheerleaders.
Extreme AllStars will conduct tryouts for its mid-season cheerleading team on Saturday, Jan. 5 in Melbourne. (Image courtesy of Extreme Allstars)
Tryouts and clinic for the mid-season team will be from 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 5 at 3117 Skyway Circle in Melbourne.
There is no cost to try out for the team or participate in the clinic.
The team is open to girls and boys ages 4 to 18.
“This mid-season team will give new cheerleaders and current cheerleaders a way to sharpen their skills,” said Mandy Field, Extreme Allstars owner. “The team is open to girls or boys who are interested in learning about cheerleading, tumbling and stunting in a safe fun environment.”
Practices will be one day a week for approximately two hours and the cost for the team will be $55 per month.
Extreme Allstars is a competitive program specializing in cheerleading and hip hop dance based in Melbourne for both girls and boys.
The program was founded in 1998 by Mandy Field. Its coaching staff and has more than 75 years combined coaching experience.
All coaches are certified Level 5 by the U.S. All Star Federation.
“We believe in developing youth by building self esteem, teamwork, integrity and coaching our athletes to their highest potential,” Field said. “Our athletes are trained in our state-of-the-art facility that includes two full-size springboard floors, a foam floor, a rod tumbling strip, a tumble track and an air track.
For more information about the team, please visit http://www.extremeallstars.com/ or call 321-255-5161.
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VIDEO: Violent Protests Erupt At UC Berkeley, Shutdown Breitbart Editor’s Scheduled Speech
By Fox News // February 2, 2017
ABOVE VIDEO: Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos on the cancellation of his speech at UC-Berkeley after riots broke out, saying the progressive left fears anyone with different political views and he’s shocked at how oppressive higher education US campuses can be.
(FOX NEWS) –Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos said Wednesday that the riot that canceled his planned speech at the University of California-Berkeley was “heavily ironic and very, I think, self-defeating for the social justice left.”
Yiannopoulos’ planned talk was scrapped after violent protesters hurled smoke bombs, broke windows and started a bonfire outside the student union where he was to appear.
“No one’s safety is at risk from different opinions,” Yiannopoulos told “Tucker Carlson Tonight” in a phone interivew. “No one’s physical safety is endangered by political ideas from a speaker on campus, but universities have sort of allowed this stuff to happen, and even in some cases encouraged it.”
The Berkeley appearance was to be the 32-year-old’s last stop on a nationwide college tour that has sparked protests and occasional violence. Yiannopoulos told Carlson that he believes the protesters view him as a proxy for President Donald Trump, whom he vocally supports.
“I annoy the feminists and the Black Lives Matter guys probably almost as much as Trump does, certainly on college campuses,” Yiannopoulos said. “So, they go for the next best thing. They go for … the person they think they can scare. Well, they don’t scare me. I will continue to give college talks until the day I drop dead.”
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Tree is now on fire at UC Berkeley #MiloAtCal #UCBerkeley. People keep shouting “it’s lit!” pic.twitter.com/ypgu6D3T4t
— Gillian Edevane (@GillianNBC) February 2, 2017
“Free speech for all or no federal money!” –@ToddStarnes sounds off on the UC Berkeley riots (via @FoxFriendsFirst) pic.twitter.com/zVk4kYxpev
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#BREAKING: Protest at UC Berkeley over speech by Breitbart writer https://t.co/YZ32bCBsdM https://t.co/25YTxOkbzL
— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) February 2, 2017
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In Zambia, creating a culture of reading takes a village
By Jillian Slutzker
Lundazi, Zambia—With storybooks scattered around him on a blanket outside his family’s hut in their rural village near Lundazi, a town in Zambia’s Eastern Province, six-year-old Nowa Ngulube announces his big dreams.
“I want to become president,” he declares.
His father, Aaron Ngulube, the community leader of Kamberere Unga village, smiles an approval for his younger son’s big dream—a dream that requires a good education and literacy. Nowa’s older brother is in the sixth grade and cannot read.
This year, Nowa’s school took part in a “whole school, whole teacher, whole learner-oriented” approach to boost early grade literacy in pupils’ local Zambian languages. Led by the Ministry of Education, Science, Vocational Training and Early Education, the USAID/Read to Succeed project aims to address five key elements common to school effectiveness: learning, teaching, school management, responsiveness to a child’s psychosocial needs and parental and community support for education.
In rural areas like Lundazi, where adult literacy rates are low and school dropout runs high, mobilizing community support for education is key to keeping pupils in school and on track for success. Parents play a critical role in inculcating a culture of reading outside the classroom and maintaining pupils’ reading gains through the USAID/Read to Succeed project, which is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development and implemented by Creative Associates International.
“When we talk about communities, we are also talking about parents. It’s very important that we collaborate with them because the children stay with them. They come from their homes,” says Pilila Gertrude Jere, USAID/Read to Succeed Team Leader for the Eastern Province. “So, if you leave a gap, it means that the whole circle is not complete. The school and the community should be together and move together.”
Moving together for literacy
Students in rural Eastern Province face challenges outside of the classroom, including poverty and high absenteeism, often due to supporting their families in the fields. School Community Partnership Committees encourage parents to send children to school. Photo by David Snyder.
To mobilize community members and empower them to actively support learner performance and school management, USAID/Read to Succeed has established 1,204 School Community Partnership committees in schools across six Zambian provinces.
The School Community Partnerships bring parents, guardians, community leaders and educators together to discuss how to spread the culture of reading beyond the school day and improve school management, teaching quality, infrastructure and community support to the school. The project trains local committee members to guide these meetings.
Rabecca Sakala, Head Teacher at Chiginya Primary School in Lundazi, says she needs parents to be involved.
“We don’t want the parents there out there. They have to own the program, also. They have to support the program,” says Sakala. “That’s why we came up with this School Community Partnership committee, and they’re doing a tremendous job.”
Through the committees, schools prepares Learner Performance Improvement Plans with community members and display progress on school walls so parents can see what is working and where additional support is needed. Teachers regularly invite parents to observe lessons to see how their children are progressing and how the teachers use the new phonics-based methods in class, which can help parents provide more effective assistance to pupils at home.
In participating schools across Zambia, School Community Partnerships have launched innovative initiatives to enhance the reading culture, not only in the school but also in the villages—from adult literacy classes so parents can better assist children at home to the construction of reading shelters at schools that give pupils more opportunity to practice their reading skills.
With Creative’s whole child, whole teacher, whole school approach, “the school is not only owned by the teachers or the pupils,” says Lidah Mbewe, Head Teacher at Lutembwe Primary School in Chipata, the capital of Eastern Province. Community members “are free to come in at any time, find out whatever they want to find out, and assist wherever, in whichever way they can assist.”
Empowering communities with a sense of ownership of their schools and the project is imperative to long lasting progress for pupils and the success of the project.
“A learner is ours when she or he is in school, but when she or he goes home, again, the parents must continue where the teachers have all stopped. Learning does not only take place at school, even at home it has to continue,” says Mbewe. “So when we put all these things together, it means we’re helping this poor child to progress.”
Down the road from Nowa Ngulube’s family in the Ngonyala village, Donald Zimba says he has seen progress in a short time through USAID/Read to Succeed. His son, daughter and niece have made strides in their reading and writing, he says, and the community’s relationship with the school has grown stronger.
“There is a unity between the parents and teachers,” says Zimba. “When the children are stuck, the parents are called to see what the children are doing. This is improving the reading culture.”
Supporting neighbors to keep children in school
With her family’s support for reading at home, 7-year-old Choolwe Chiwala is excelling in her classes at Mshawa School in Chipata. Photo by David Snyder.
In many rural, poor or agricultural communities around Zambia, challenges outside the classroom can threaten the gains made in school and derail learners from moving forward.
Early marriages, illness, or needing to work to support the family contribute to higher rates of pupils’ absenteeism in these areas.
Additionally, HIV/AIDS has left more than 670,000 children orphaned throughout the country, according to UNICEF data from 2012. More than 1.4 million Zambian children are orphans due to HIV/AIDS and other causes combined.
“We have a challenge of a number of vulnerable children that have got no support. So we have high number of [orphans and vulnerable children] in our schools,” says Herbert Mwiinga, District Education Board Secretary in Lundazi.
For these vulnerable children, USAID/Read to Succeed’s School Community Partnerships are filling the gap. The committees hold community dialogues on special care and support to orphans and vulnerable children and spread important messages about preventing HIV/AIDS, lowering school absenteeism and delaying early marriages. The committees have also trained others on how to speak out about these issues.
Through home visits and outreach, School Community Partnership committees across beneficiary school have encouraged parents to send their children, and especially their girls, back to school.
From 2013-2014, pupils’ attendance across all USAID/Read to Succeed districts rose nearly 3 percent on average, from 72.95 percent to 75.47 percent across all participating school districts in 2014.
Some districts showed substantial improvements—for example, pupils’ attendance in Isoka, Muchinga Province climbed by 27 percent.
The activities of the School Community Partnership committees are shifting norms around the value of education and school attendance. With community support, some schools in the Mongu District of Western Province formulated by-laws that compel parents to send their children to school. According to the agreement, if a child misses school for two consecutive days without a reason, parents are reported to the village headman for action.
In many of the schools, community members have also stepped in to tender school gardens and provide meals at school for pupils to incentivize school attendance for children who would otherwise go without food.
Community support brings sustainable progress
With the ongoing engagement and investment of the community, educators and government officials say they are confident that positive outcomes of USAID/Read to Succeed will be sustained long after the project itself comes to an end.
“We have to continue the program. Why?” asks Sakala. “Because the community now has been sensitized on the importance of participation. And they know the importance of education. Meaning that even if [USAID/Read to Succeed] goes away, we will still continue.”
District Education Board Secretary Mwiinga agrees, noting that pupils’ success in reading also brings greater benefits back to the communities.
“If they are able to read, and then comprehend what they are reading, then it means we have opened a lot of gates for them for future success at the individual level, but also eventually for the family, and then for the larger community,” he says.
Special Report: Transforming education, creating a nation of readers.
Whole student approach reaches vulnerable Zambian youth
Private partners open a world of literacy with reading tools in a box
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Dov Is All You Need
Oh, Big Deal! So Close Down the Government
by Dov Fischer
So go ahead and close down the cockamamie Government. If only!
Let’s call a spade a spade: Donald J. Trump, private public citizen (oxymoron?), descended on an escalator (an oxymoron that!), and he said that Mexico is sending us their worst, not their best. Was he right? Did he speak elegantly? That is open to fair debate, but one thing is clear: From the moment he began his quixotic campaign for the Presidency, his signature issue was that he would regain control over our broken immigration system.
And so the campaign went: “I am going to build a big beautiful Wall, and Mexico is going to pay for it.” It honestly became as much his meme as Obama’s “If you like your plan, you will keep your plan. If you like your doctor, you will keep your doctor.”
Obama was a liar. He always was a liar. Who knows whether his name even is Obama? What we would give to read the application forms he submitted to get into Columbia and later into Harvard Law, and later to get hired as a part-time untenured law professor with no academic publications to his name! Given Elizabeth Warren’s tribal heritage, if only to read Obama’s “Lies My Father Told Me— and the Even Better Ones I Made Up All Myself.” Half the country pegged him as a liar from the day we met him, as the oceans stopped rising and the planet started healing. Another twenty percent have figured it out since. That is why, whenever the Republicans face a tough election and have run out of strategies, their final “nuclear option” is to convince the opponent to bring Obama to campaign for the Democrats. It worked for the GOP in 2010, in 2014, and just the other day in Georgia.
By contrast, for those who really “get” Trump, he is not a liar. He is a showman, a promoter, a kibbitzer, and a shrewd negotiator. He engages in what business law calls “puffery.” No one who voted for Trump takes his specific words literally; rather, Trump supporters take his core beliefs and end-goals seriously. By contrast, his haters in the Left Media consume themselves with counting “Pinocchios.” Meantime, Trump has fulfilled more campaign promises since almost any other American political figure in the past century or two, and his percentage of fulfilled promises is stratospheric.
So he pulled out of the Paris Climate nonsense, the disastrous and myopic Iran Deal, crushed ISIS in Raqqa, has been deregulating Obama rules to their point of disappearance, approved the Keystone XL pipeline, opened ANWR to oil exploration, moved our Israel embassy to Jerusalem, pulled us out of the blood-lusting UN “Human Rights Council,” stared down Western European leaders of NATO and actually told them to their faces that they have to start ponying up their Euros, Francs, Deutsche Marks, Pounds, Liras, and whatever other kind of play money they use (because we don’t let them print the faces of their queens and counts and kaisers on our real money). Our economy erupted. Unemployment hit record lows, propelling welfare and food stamp recipients to pay into the system with income taxes instead of draining it. The guy keeps his promises unbelievably, even if the Washington Post gives him more Pinocchios than Gepetto would have had if the tree-huggers and spotted-owl protectors had let him carve more wood.
But Trump has not yet fulfilled on immigration. When report cards come, he gets an “A” for “Effort” on Immigration and a “B-” for “Works Well with Others.” There is no pride in showing that “B- ” to Mom and Dad. He would have done himself much prouder and everyone else much better if instead he had worked a bit harder to earn an “F” in “Works Well with Others” on Immigration.
He — which also means “we” — will never get the Wall unless, like everything else these past two years, he basically just does it himself. We knew from Day One — and two years now have proven — that President Trump is a Constitutionalist and not the authoritarian dictator that the CNN/MSNBC crowd describe. When an Obama Judge strikes down a law, the President does not strike down the judge but pursues a hopeless appeal to the Ninth Circuit and begins the two-year wait for the Supreme Court ultimately to rule. When the House denies him, he negotiates. When it goes to the Senate, either he gets his 60 votes, or he tries a once-per-Congress budget reconciliation. If he is denied, he goes back to the drawing board. He plays by the rules.
With two years under his belt, the President has learned some lessons. He picked himself an Attorney-General who managed to get in the way of everything, to obstruct almost everything — all by getting lost. (An oxymoron!) He had a Republican House that never will pass immigration reform because they believe CNN polls more than their own voters, thus fear antagonizing people who never will vote for them anyway while driving their own actual supporters to stay home — as they now will, too. He does have a Senate majority, but he cannot get anything through the Senate (except for judicial and other nominations) without some 7 of 47 Democrats — in order to attain the 60-vote minimum — and he never ever will get any of them except for Doug Jones of Alabama during the three weeks before the 2020 elections.
He promised to change the broken immigration system and build a Wall for which Mexico would pay. CNN/MSNBC took him literally — that he will get Mexico literally to hand over pesos or nachos. By contrast, Trump’s supporters understood that there are more sophisticated ways for making Mexico pay — and Mexico will pay, just in a manner of asset-transfers that no one but the inside players realizes. Nevertheless, so far no Wall. He asked for $25 billion; he accepted less than $2 billion to start because he understandably perceived that, as urgent as the Wall is, Obama-Hillary-Kerry had left the United States military gravely underfunded and perilously inadequately supplied to confront any immediate danger. That military rebuild had to take priority. England and France had gone light on military defense after WWI, thrifty until a short brown-haired Austrian with half a moustache convinced Germany that he was a tall, blonde, racially Aryan German and grabbed almost all of Western Europe schnell. France got gulped like vichyssoise. England got bombed a ton because they also failed to build defenses to stop, say, a Luftwaffe. Therefore, Trump reversed the Obama-Hillary-Kerry decade that saw us snickering at “jayvee teams” that chop off heads, pushing red-plastic “reset” buttons, and bicycling through Paris with James Taylor on the handle bars playing guitar. So Trump accommodated, got the massive defense allocations, but no Wall.
With the 2018 midterms past, it now is time for Trump to shift into “Larry the Cable Guy” and just “Git-R-Done.”
Pelosi will not give it to him — and, in her defense, she cannot possibly do so. If she gives him that money, her Left flank will bail out on her, and she will not get elected House Speaker. She has to say no. And Schumer cannot seem weaker than Nancy for several reasons. First of all, even though Democrats talk the Identity Politics/Fluid Gender talk, we all know they do not believe one word of that stuff — otherwise, their two leading candidates for President would not be the two oldest White Men in politics, now that Strom Thurmond has passed away at age 101. Moreover, Democrats expect Schumer to swagger with at least as much macho as Nancy does. Third, Schumer just lost seats in the Senate in a year that all other Democrats had some gains. So Schumer can’t budge.
At this point, two years into his Presidency, there is no political downside to Trump shutting down the Government. Airport security will remain the same, and air traffic controllers will stay on duty. The Post Office will remain open, and letter carriers will keep delivering; indeed, the USPS is funded through a different mechanism. Social Security checks still will arrive as scheduled. The IRS will remain open. The prisons will remain open. (Another oxymoron!) ICE still will be at the border and raiding the homes of Illegals in Oakland. The military is funded, and our service men and women will be paid. Fully seventy percent of the Government will remain operating. That means — and this is dismaying — that you cannot shut down more than a fraction of the federal government even when you want to do it. Yes, federal employees will be sent home without paychecks, and CNN/MSNBC/WaPo/NYT will run stories about Scrooges and Grinches and Tiny Tim with no smartphone and Santa forced to sell reindeer on E-Bay. But meantime, as always happens with federal workers, they end up with the cushiest deal of all: sent home for the holidays, no work through Christmas and New Year’s, yet a complete recompensing salary check as soon as the stalemate ends, paying them every single unearned cent they otherwise properly would not have earned had they come to “work” as usual.
Sure, some federal agencies will close for a while. The Energy Department, for example. When was the last time you filled your car at an Energy Department office? The Education Department, for another. If you have kids in school, when was the last time you went to the Education Department for Parent-Teachers Night? Half those agencies should remain shut. Use their budgets and employees to build the Wall.
So, big deal! Close down the Government. People can reschedule their visits to national parks until the weather gets warmer. Go visit Beale Street in Memphis, Jackson Square in N’awlins, the National Cowboy Museum in Oklahoma City, Opryland, and Graceland, the bank that Jesse James held up in Russellville, Kentucky; a Quilt Museum in Paducah, or the Oscar Goetz Museum of Whiskey in Bardstown. Take a tour of the “Breaking Bad” sites in Albuquerque or a family-friendly casino (oxymoron!) in Las Vegas or the gorgeous red rocks of Sedona, Arizona, or a ranch in Laramie, Wyoming.
Close the Government and keep it closed demonstratively for a long time, until Congress budges and blinks on immigration after forty years of immigration anarchy. There is no political downside. First of all, it is two years until the next national elections. Even now we know that 35% will vote against Trump and the Republicans in 2020, no matter what — and 35% then will vote for him and them, no matter what. Another 15% will not vote in 2020 anyway, because they voted already in 1996. It all will come down, two years from now, to the 15% whose hearts and minds must be won by everyone from the Ballot Harvesters to the Bloomberg-Steyer Money Machines — and those 15% have a spotless record, dating back at least a century, consistently manifesting a memory that maxes out at 60 days. That is why most campaign advertising begins after Labor Day — because the people who decide our country’s course in November have to try to remember the day in September. Even now, you say “Christine Ford,” and they now think it is the name of a new truck. You say “Omarosa,” and they think that is where Ben Cartwright, Little Joe, and Hoss were ranchers. You say “Billy Bush and the tapes in the trailer,” and they think that is the former President who just got buried because of Watergate. You talk to them about “the Wall,” and they think Pink Floyd. You talk to them about the “Caravan,” and they think of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” or the Three Wise Men (not to be confused with Biden, Bernie, and Beto). Al Franken and Jill Stein? A monstrous portmanteau. This is the perfect time to shut down the Government — all the more so if there is a reason.
So shut the cockamamie thing down. For a week. For three months. For a year. Democrats will cave; they cannot breathe without Ubiquitous Government. And voters in 2020 will reward the President who stared down Pelosi and Schumer, and said, “We have to have a wall.… I will take the mantle of shutting it down.… I am proud to shut down the Government over border security.” They will re-elect that guy so that he can face four more years of Mueller, impeachment, and Jim Acosta while proving his mettle, his strength, and leaving the rest of NATO, along with Putin and the North Korean Doughboy, gazing in awe that this guy means business when he means business.
Dov Fischer
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Rabbi Dov Fischer, Esq., a high-stakes litigation attorney of more than twenty-five years and an adjunct professor of law of more than fifteen years, is rabbi of Young Israel of Orange County, California. His legal career has included serving as Chief Articles Editor of UCLA Law Review, clerking for the Hon. Danny J. Boggs in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and then litigating at three of America’s most prominent law firms: JonesDay, Akin Gump, and Baker & Hostetler. In his rabbinical career, Rabbi Fischer has served several terms on the Executive Committee of the Rabbinical Council of America, is Senior Rabbinic Fellow at the Coalition for Jewish Values, has been Vice President of Zionist Organization of America, and has served on regional boards of the American Jewish Committee, B’nai Brith Hillel, and several others. His writings on contemporary political issues have appeared over the years in the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Jerusalem Post, National Review, American Greatness, The Weekly Standard, and in Jewish media in American and in Israel. A winner of an American Jurisprudence Award in Professional Legal Ethics, Rabbi Fischer also is the author of two books, including General Sharon’s War Against Time Magazine, which covered the Israeli General’s 1980s landmark libel suit.
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At the Rotary Club of Sturgeon Bay we strive by connecting our community together for one purpose, to improve the lives of all. Our motto 'Service Above Self' is more than a tagline, it is our way of life. We come together to positive and lasting change locally and globally.
We build community programs for the benefit of our entire community. Our programs, developed over time, bring our community together, are all-inclusive, and define our Club and our members as people willing to take action.
At the Rotary Club of Sturgeon Bay we dedicate our efforts to building service projects that benefit all members of our community. As people of action, we really do walk the walk. From clean up crews to investing in the betterment of health, environment and community infrastructure, both locally and globally.
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Welcome to The Rotary Club of Sturgeon Bay
Chartered in 1920, the Rotary Club of Sturgeon Bay is home to nearly 100 community-minded individuals dedicated to serving above self and participating in Rotary International’s mission to promote understanding, goodwill and world peace.
Rotary – People of Action
Rotary is where neighbors, friends, and problem-solvers share ideas, join leaders, and take action to create lasting change.
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Rotary is dedicated to six areas of focus to build international relationships, improve lives, and create a better world to support our peace efforts and end polio forever.
Promoting Peace
Fighting Disease
Providing Clean Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene
Saving Mothers and Children
Supporting Education
Growing Local Economies
Learn More About Our Service Projects
Learn More About Our Programs
Explore Our Club’s Scholarship Programs
For more than 110 years, our guiding principles have been the foundation of our values: service, fellowship, diversity, integrity, and leadership.
The Rotary 4-Way Test
Rotary members believe that we have a shared responsibility to take action on our world’s most persistent issues. Our 35,000+ clubs work together to:
Promote peace
Fight disease
Provide clean water, sanitation, and hygiene
Save mothers and children
Grow local economies
Featured Service Project
Little Lake Restoration
Impact Starts With Us
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A MIDWEST HIP-HOP COLLECTIVE - Beta v 2.0
Lazerbeak - Penelope (LP)
RELEASE DATE: October 2nd, 2020
Penelope is the second album in Lazerbeak's meditative instrumental trilogy.
1. Treetops
2. Feels
3. Light Work
4. Top Down
5. River Wide
6. On the Lawn
7. Marlo
Due to COVID manufacturing delays we're anticipating having vinyl back by early November and will ship out as soon as we have them in hand. You will receive a digital copy of the album one week in advance of the digital October 2nd release date and then notified the second we have LPs in hand in early November. This delayed ship date will also include any non-preorder items you purchase along with this pre-order. Please place non-preorder items separately if you wish to receive them earlier. Thank you.
Armed with an endless vault of beats and an extensive musical catalog spanning over two decades, Lazerbeak’s classic sound has generally taken on an epic, hard-hitting, everything-and-the-kitchen-sink approach - inspired largely by production crews like Atlanta’s Dungeon Family and New York’s Bomb Squad. He’s collaborated with everyone from reigning pop queen Lizzo (producing her entire debut album), bluegrass heavyweights Trampled By Turtles, mythological supergroup GAYNGS, and the Grammy-winning Minnesota Orchestra, all while continuing to build and create with life-long comrades from his own Doomtree artist collective and notching production credits on everything from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton Mixtape to the dark electro pop of Banks’ critically acclaimed III album.
Much has changed in the last eight years since the Minneapolis producer released his hip-hop instrumental opus Lava Bangers, which later became the foundation for the Lazerbeak-produced Lizzo album Lizzobangers. His new solo album Penelope continues that progression with a drastic musical turn that echoes the same life-changing experiences Beak has encountered in that timeframe. Now 38 and a father of three, with a day job that includes CEO and general manager of Doomtree Records and manager of numerous high-profile acts, Beak set out to create a project that would reflect the ever-morphing landscape that he’s embraced in his 30’s. Whereas Lava Bangers’ 20 short, high-energy heat rocks relied heavily on monstrous drums, punishing low end, and gnarly horn stabs - sounding at times more like the fury of Run The Jewels or the Just Blaze-helmed Rocafella Records era - Penelope finds Beak stripping every sound back to its individual core to create seven meticulously slow-building and expansive instrumental meditations that ebb and flow with a newfound patience and restraint rarely seen from the producer.
The album’s title - named after Beak’s eight-year-old daughter and oldest child - is a reflection of this boiled-down, reflective approach and marks the second entry in his meditative instrumental trilogy. Inspired largely by his new life as a family man and a recent deep dive into all things mindfulness, self-wellness, and gratitude, Penelope thrives on ambient atmospherics, gentle melodies, and carefully-crafted percussion to create its own pulsing sonic universe. Every musical element is allowed the time and space to breathe and grow into a full-fledged composition, and the lack of vocals allows Beak to explore a much richer musical sound bed, giving each instrument its own moment in a constantly revolving spotlight. Whereas 2018’s Luther relied on darker retrospection and murky electronics, Penelope steps out of the water and into the sunlight, gravitating towards warm guitar tones, rich analog synths, and live percussion to accentuate a much lighter and brighter vision. Lead-off track “Treetops” recalls the feeling of laying on a deserted island as palm leaves sway above in the breeze, while the acoustic strums and uplifting choral build of “River Wide” joyously weave together to create what could easily be the soundtrack to an outtake from The Lion King.
There is a noticeable and newfound confidence that emanates throughout Penelope’s 35 minute journey, one that was only hinted at on Luther. It’s clear that Beak is in full command here, swiftly and adeptly moving in and out of a multitude of genres and vibes with the grace of a studio vet, while harnessing the curiosity and musical playfulness of someone half his age. It’s this maturity coupled with the willingness to explore that solidifies his place as one of the most versatile musicians alive today. By living with and exploring this unique aural space, Lazerbeak has completed the long trek from beat-maker to full-blown producer. Both creatively and personally, Penelope represents a newfound peace and balance for Lazerbeak. With one foot in the sea and the other in the sand, he’s managed to create a truly grounding and healing tour de force for our rapidly changing world.
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SMSFA welcomes legacy pension measure
Tharshini Ashokan
The government’s move to allow the partial commutation of certain non-commutable pensions has been welcomed by the SMSF Association.
The SMSF Association has welcomed the federal government’s new measure allowing the partial commutation of certain non-commutable legacy pensions.
The measure, outlined in the government’s mid-year economic and fiscal outlook (MYEFO), will enable retirees with “legacy pensions” who had previously been unable to commute amounts in excess of their transfer balance cap (TBC) to undergo the required partial commutation.
According to the MYEFO, the measure would also ensure “appropriate tax outcomes for these retirees given their prior inability to comply with the TBC rules”.
“We have long advocated the modernisation of these pensions – better known as legacy pensions – so the government’s decision to amend the law to ensure that retirees who have commuted and restarted these pensions are treated equitably under the TBC is a welcome reform,” SMSF Association deputy chief executive Peter Burgess said.
“Certainly, it will be appreciated by the minority of SMSFs who have been affected as we don’t believe the TBC rules work effectively in situations where a lifetime or life expectancy complying pension is converted to a market-linked income stream and the commencement value of the market-linked pension exceeds the member’s TBC.”
Burgess also voiced concerns regarding the requirement that a new commutation formula for market-linked incomes streams commuted and restarted on or after 1 July 2017 be retrospectively applied, noting it could cause excess pension balances with excess transfer balance earnings accruing from the original date of the commutation.
“This may be the case because the revised commutation figure using the new legislated formula could give rise to a substantially lower TBC debit than originally reported using guidance material available at the time. It’s also not clear how re-reporting could occur if the SMSF has subsequently been wound up,” he pointed out.
In addition, he highlighted the SMSF Association’s proposed solution to the issue, put forward in July last year, which called for the creation of a new TBC debit to write off any unintended pension balance excess that might emerge as a result of the introduction of the new formula.
“The amendments announced in the MYEFO paper appear consistent with this write-off TBC debit approach and we look forward to consulting on the draft legislation and making further improvements to the legacy pension system,” he added.
Calls to reform legacy pensions have been made on a regular basis by the SMSF sector including the use of an amnesty to allow pension holders to move products without losses.
In September 2020 then Assistant Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and Financial Technology Jane Hume said legacy pension reforms were not on the parliamentary agenda as COVID-19 had pushed back a range of legislative measures and left no room for other issues.
In a response to this claim, Australian Executor Trustees senior technical services manager Julie Steed said a solution had already been presented to the government by the SMSF sector and it would take very little effort by the government to enact the reforms.
Tharshini is a cadet journalist with Benchmark Media. She is completing a Graduate Diploma in Advanced Journalism at the University of Technology, Sydney and has a Bachelor of Business Administration/Bachelor of Commerce-Accounting degree from Macquarie University.
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How to Let Your Data Lake Flow Without Fear in a World of Privacy Regulations
Data lakes pose compliance challenges. Here's how to overcome them.
By Drew Schuil
Today's biggest companies are facing a deluge of data breaches, from the social media giants to credit card companies and healthcare organizations. In fact, the first six months of 2019 saw more than 3,800 publicly disclosed breaches and 4.1 billion compromised personal records. These breaches, along with the misuse and abuse of private information, continue to erode consumer trust. In response, companies are developing solutions to implement privacy and security controls that track, block, and restrict access to personal data.
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As the public becomes increasingly aware of data breaches and how personal information is being stolen, organizations and their customers are asking how and why personal data is being used. Inquiries are coming in the form of data subject requests (DSRs). Even though data might be king, privacy compliance is ruling the kingdom. It's become more important than ever to understand these questions and how to address the ever-increasing volume of DSRs.
The Surge of Data Privacy Concerns
Regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the upcoming California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) are forcing companies to respond to DSRs and answer consumer concerns about privacy (and rightfully so). However, achieving compliance with these regulations requires that companies understand what personal information they have across every ecosystem, where it's located, and how it's being used.
Data lakes are useful repositories for gathering massive amounts of data in its original format, with the idea that the data will eventually be subject to analysis, but privacy risks lurk within these systems. These huge storage repositories can pose serious problems when a customer submits a DSR. Data lakes are continuously ingesting disparate pieces of customer data from a variety of sources, so organizations often have no clue which sensitive information they have and how it is being combined.
For example, individual pieces of data can be safe on their own, but when combined can increase compliance risk. For example, gender, ZIP code, and date of birth fields are individually benign, but when combined can identify 87 percent of the United States population.
Using Automation to Monitor Data Lakes
To know and understand exactly what information is in their data lakes, enterprises need to inspect their data down to the data-element level and not rely on what's implied by their metadata. When operating at that level, enterprises can also identify highly sensitive combinations of data across their ecosystem to protect against security risks and remain in compliance.
To protect themselves from data lake compliance issues, organizations should implement automated data privacy management solutions to quickly identify where personal information is located across their systems. If organizations continue to use outdated manual processes, they risk human error caused by the constant stream of data being poured in and privacy teams working long hours to manually organize each piece of information.
Enterprises also need to monitor all data that enters and exits their systems -- continuously checking, scanning, and classifying data in motion. An automated data inventory and privacy solution can help in this effort and use de-identification or anonymization to prevent data analysts from connecting individuals to their personal information. In this way, data can still be used to drive business innovation without compromising privacy.
Protecting Data Use to Remain in Compliance
Regulations such as the GDPR and CCPA also require that data be encrypted to preserve the confidentiality and integrity of sensitive information. With the massive volume of data in a company's data lake and even more live data continuously streaming in, most traditional encryption validation tools quickly become obsolete.
Manual tools can't track data in motion. As soon as you manually track a piece of data, new data is already entering the system. This method only creates a snapshot for that moment in time, not accounting for any new information moving through the system. Data needs to be classified, labeled, and mapped back to the encryption requirements dictated by both these regulations and the organization's internal use policies to remain in compliance.
In an era of increasing data privacy regulations, it's more important than ever for organizations to know what sensitive data is held within their data lakes and repositories as well as what's traveling throughout their systems. Consumers now demand transparency, accuracy, and expediency when asking companies about what data they have and are collecting. It's imperative for companies to have the proper tools in place to accurately and responsibly handle data while responding to DSRs in a timely and efficient matter.
Drew Schuil is the VP of global BD & EMEA operations for Integris Software. For the last 19 years, he has held key leadership positions with enterprise software and cybersecurity companies. Prior to Integris Software, he was VP of global product strategy at Imperva, a data-centric audit and protection software firm, meeting with companies and speaking at industry events in 43 countries. Exposure to global privacy sentiment and the GDPR led to joining data privacy innovator Integris Software just as regulations such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) began driving heightened privacy awareness in the U.S.
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Tesla’s big battery event and shareholder meeting tentatively set for September 15
Darrell Etherington @etherington / 7 months
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been hyping a potential battery day for quite a while now, and it looks like we should see it happen within the next few months — Musk said on Twitter that September 15 is the “tentative date” for the “Tesla Shareholder Meeting & Battery Day,” which will include the usual shareholder meeting as well as a tour of the automaker’s cell production system for the batteries that provide the power for its vehicles.
The so-called “Battery Day” has already run into a few delays, after originally being planned for April of this year. It’s been bumped to May, and subsequently June, but Musk’s latest timeline of September seems a lot more realistic, given the current state of global affairs due to the ongoing coronavirus crisis, as well as Tesla’s own complicated issues with its handling of COVID-19, local government shutdown orders and employee health and safety.
Battery day has been modified from an earlier event planned to also include a powertrain component, but Musk made the switch to keep the focus more narrowly on the work Tesla has been doing to improve its battery performance and output. The Tesla Model S recently became the first and only electric vehicle to achieve a 400-mile-plus EPA certification rating for range, and Tesla has reportedly been working on new, lower-cost and long-lived electric battery technology that Reuters reported earlier this year Tesla plans to introduce to its China-made Model 3 vehicles either later this year or early next.
This would be the first significant event Tesla has hosted since its Cybertruck unveiling in 2019. Anything the automaker does with respect to its battery technology will draw a lot of attention, given that it’s likely the company’s most important competitive advantage in terms of continuing to win more customers away from internal combustion fuel vehicles.
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Baidu back in the dock accused of illegally obtaining user data
by Frank Hersey Jan 6, 2018 Jun 7, 2020
Chinese search giant Baidu is being sued for illegally obtaining user data such as location and contacts, according to the Jiangsu Consumer Council who are bringing the case. The Nanjing Intermediate People’s Court has formally filed the case, according to the council (in Chinese). The news comes just days after WeChat denied it reads private messages to train its AI and Ant Financial came under criticism for underhand permissions for Sesame Credit in Alipay.
The alleged Baidu breach came from two mobile apps: the browser and the standalone search app. Without prior consent from users, the smartphone apps collected data on users’ contacts, location, messages and also modified system settings, according to the consumer council. The council finds that the data collected does not match the requirements of these apps to provide services and as such the collection goes beyond reasonable expectations.
According to the council, they brought the matters to Baidu’s attention in July 2017 but after not having sufficient communication or signs of rectification from Baidu, they have pursued the case. The Jiangsu Consumer Council filed its complaint on December 11th, 2017 and Nanjing Intermediate People’s Court has formally accepted the case on January 2nd.
Tagged: Baidu, Data Privacy, News, Premium
Frank Hersey
Frank Hersey is a Beijing-based tech reporter who's been coming to China since 2001. He tries to go beyond the headlines to explain the context and impact of developments in China's tech sector. Get in... More by Frank Hersey
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Tata Docomo First Recharge Mobile Recharge Plans in Rajasthan
About Tata Docomo
Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL) together with Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Limited, a part of Tata group, has a service presence across 19 telecom circles in India. TTSL launched CDMA telephony services in 1996, and acquired of Hughes Tele.com India which was renamed to Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) by the Tata group in 2002.
The telco revolutionized mobile voice calling through the philosophy of ‘pay per use’ in 2009. In November 2010, Tata Teleservices launched 3G services in India. The company offers integrated telecom solutions to its customers across wireline and wireless networks on GSM, CDMA and 3G platforms.
Mumbai-based company operates wireless and wireline services through Tata Docomo, Tata Photon, Tata Indicom and Tata Walky brands.
Tata Teleservices also provides a gamut of enterprise products and services that include next-generation voice, data and managed solutions to large and small medium businesses through its optic fiber network, with a channel partners and in-house sales and service teams.
In non-voice services, the telco through its variety of portfolio offerings such as e-Governance, Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and m-Remittance (m-Rupee) services, provides citizen services, public safety and governance services.
In May 2017, Tata group has received the nod from the Competition Commission of India (CCI) to buy NTT DoComo's 21.6% stake in Tata Teleservices.
Tata Teleservices’s CSR initiatives are focused on empowering communities through education and livelihood opportunities and runs programs around core areas of human capital, social capital and economic with a focus on education aimed at employability, employee volunteering and employment generation.
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Operator - Tata DOCOMO
Recharge Type - FRC
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Young Workers Flock To Drilling Fields, Searching For Jobs
Scott Detrow
Scott Detrow is a congressional correspondent for NPR. He also co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.
Detrow joined NPR in 2015 to cover the presidential election. He focused on the Republican side of the 2016 race, spending time on the campaign trail with Donald Trump, and also reported on the election's technology and data angles.
Detrow worked as a statehouse reporter for member stations WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and KQED in San Francisco, California. He has also covered energy policy for NPR's StateImpact project, where his reports on Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom won a DuPont-Columbia and national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.
StateImpact Pennsylvania's recent project, BoomTown, examines a similar trend in northeastern Pennsylvania. Click on the above image to view our report.
The New York Times profiles the men and women – many of them just out of high school – who are migrating to oil boom towns in Montana and North Dakota in search of drilling jobs. Just like in Pennsylvania, communities in the mountain west are rapidly expanding to accommodate drilling rushes powered by hydraulic fracturing.
Less than a year after proms and homecoming games, teenagers like Mr. Sivertson now wake at 4 a.m. to make the three-hour trek to remote oil rigs. They fish busted machinery out of two-mile-deep hydraulic fracturing wells and repair safety devices that keep the wells from rupturing, often working alongside men old enough to be their fathers. Some live at home; others drive back on weekends to eat their mothers’ food, do loads of laundry and go to high school basketball games, still straddling the blurred border between childhood and adulthood.
Just as gold rushes and silver booms once brought opera houses and armies of prospectors to rugged corners of the West, today’s headlong race for oil and gas is reshaping staid communities in the northern Plains, bringing once untold floods of cash and job prospects, but also deep anxieties about crime, growth and a future newly vulnerable to cycles of boom and bust.
How is this boom pattern playing out in Pennsylvania? Our recent multimedia project, BoomTown, tried to answer that question.
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ABOUT THE PERSECUTION
LIFE OF AN AHMADI MUSLIM
PERSECUTION AROUND THE WORLD
EXTERNAL REPORTS
Dear Mr. Shehbaz Sharif, does calling Ahmadis ‘wajib-ul-qatl’ not count as hate speech?
How will you crack down on hate speech that your own government sponsors?
Dear Mr. Shehbaz Sharif,
I hope you are doing great. I promise to keep this short and to-the-point. A tweet from the Government of Punjab’s official Twitter handle caught my eye on Sunday. A statement, attributed to you, promised continued crackdown on anyone guilty of inflammatory hate speech.
Hate speech and incitement by religious clergy, and the resulting sectarianism has destroyed the social fabric of Pakistani society. Decades too late, the State finally recognized this crucial pathway to rising terrorism and rightly devised a National Action Plan (NAP) to combat it. NAP was supposed to crack down on sectarian hate speech and literature spread through mosques and madrassas across the country. It was supposed to protect minority faith groups from religious extremists and bullies.
It is no secret that the community most victimized by hate speech in Pakistan is the Ahmadiyya community. But despite NAP, Ahmadis remain marginalized, especially in the Punjab, and extremist clerics continue to pass edicts inciting violence against them. They continue to demand further legal restrictions on whatever remains allowed for the Ahmadis to profess. You know who these extremists are. In fact, not very long ago, you appeased them by forcibly changing the name of my birthplace from ‘Rabwah’ to ‘Chenab Nagar.’ They didn’t like the original name because it was derived from the Quran.
And just two days ago, news website and religious freedom watchdog, Rabwah Times, reported on an anti-Ahmadi conference that was held in Rabwah, in the heart of Punjab. Speakers at the conference included Ministers and prominent clerics. Local District Police Officer Mustansar Feroz also attended the conference to oversee security arrangements. Speaking at the conference, serving PML-N Minister and head of ‘International Khatme Nabuwat Movement,’ Mr. Ilyas Chinioti threatened:
“Qadianis (pejorative for Ahmadis) are traitors and we need to deal with them with force”
Maulana Shafqat added:
“Jews are backing the Qadianis (Ahmadis), this (Ahmadiyya) is cancer that has to be destroyed”
Other speakers expressed similar bigoted sentiment and demanded that the State impose the death penalty on Pakistan’s Ahmadi citizens. Does all of this not count as hate speech in your dictionary? If not, what more should the conference attendees have done to fancy your attention? Not only do such conferences occur unhindered, your government Ministers regularly attend them, and the Punjab Police assists with their organization.
Then, just recently, notorious right-wing analyst Mr. Orya Maqbool Jaan engaged in one-sided attacks on Pakistan’s Ahmadis on a TV show, emphasizing that Ahmadis were traitors of Pakistan and Islam. Did this not meet your criteria for hate speech? I sought to respond to his allegations, and invited the leader of the anti-Ahmadi ‘Khatme Nabuwat Forum,’ Mr. Mubasher Shah, to a panel discussion that was streamed LIVE to tens of thousands of viewers. On the program, Mr. Shah explicitly stated that Ahmadis were “deserving of death” for their “blasphemous beliefs.” Here is a video clip from the show:
Now, do even these death threats not make the cut for hate speech in your eyes? If not, what more would you have this cleric say to consider his words inflammatory?
Mr. Chief Minister, as you help me understand your definition of hate speech, also consider these alternate scenarios. Ahmadis remain severely repressed under the anti-Ahmadi laws of Pakistan. An 80 year old Ahmadi, Mr. Shakoor Bhai, was arrested and imprisoned for 8 years for selling a book with a Quranic inscription. Another aged Ahmadi, a distant uncle, sits in a prison cell for publishing a Quranic verse in an Ahmadiyya magazine. How come Ahmadis reading Quranic verses make the cut for “hate speech,” but those (including Ministers in your own government) who call for the killings of Ahmadis never meet your hate speech criteria?
There can only be two reasons for such gross contradiction between your words and actions. The first is that your crackdown on hate speech excludes inflammatory attacks on the most oppressed community in Pakistan. The second is that you do not know what “hate speech” means. I might not be able to do much in the first case except convince you to embrace justice for all Pakistanis. But just in case it is the second, I would hate to miss an opportunity to educate. Please click here.
I look forward to your response.
A Pakistani citizen,
Kashif Chaudhry
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Create a new database
This article covers the basic process of starting Access and creating a database that will be used on desktop machines, not over the Web. It explains how to create a desktop database by using a template, and how to build a database from scratch by creating your own tables, forms, reports, and other database objects. It also explains some techniques that you can use to get existing data into your new database.
Create a database by using a template
Create a database without using a template
Copy data from another source into an Access table
Import, append, or link to data from another source
Add an application part
Open an existing Access database
When you first start Access, or if you close a database without closing Access, Microsoft Office Backstage view is displayed.
Backstage view is a starting point from which you can create a new database, open an existing database, view featured content from Office.com — anything you can use Access to do to a database file or outside of a database, as opposed to within a database.
When you open Access, Backstage view displays the New tab. The New tab provides several ways that you can create a new database:
A blank database You can start from scratch if you want. This is a good option if you have very specific design requirements or have existing data that you need to accommodate or incorporate.
A template that is installed with Access Consider using a template if you are starting a new project and would like a head start. Access comes with several templates installed by default.
A template from Office.com In addition to the templates that come with Access, you can find many more templates on Office.com. You don't even have to open a browser, the templates are available from the New tab.
Adding to a database
Once you are working in a database, you can add fields, tables or application parts.
Application parts are a feature that let you use several related database objects together as if they were one. For example, an application part might consist of a table and a form that is based on the table. You can add the table and the form at the same time by using the application part.
You can also create queries, forms, reports, macros - all the database objects that you are used to working with.
Access comes with a variety of templates that you can use as-is or as a starting point. A template is a ready-to-use database that contains all the tables, queries, forms, macros, and reports needed to perform a specific task. For example, there are templates that you can use to track issues, manage contacts, or keep a record of expenses. Some templates contain a few sample records to help demonstrate their use.
If one of these templates fits your needs, using it is usually the fastest way to get a database started. However, if you have data in another program that you want to import into Access, you might decide it is better to create a database without using a template. Templates have a data structure already defined, and it might require a lot of work to adapt your existing data to the template's structure.
If you have a database open, on the File tab, click Close. Backstage view displays the New tab.
Several sets of templates are available in the New tab, some of which are built into Access. You can download additional templates from Office.com. See the next section in this article for details.
Select the template that you want to use.
Access suggests a file name for your database in the File Name box — you can change the file name, if you want. To save the database in a different folder from the one displayed below the file name box, click , browse to the folder in which you want to save it, and then click OK. Optionally, you can create and link your database to a SharePoint site.
Access creates a database from the template that you chose, and then opens the database. For many templates, a form is displayed in which you can begin entering data. If your template contains sample data, you can delete each record by clicking the record selector (the shaded box or bar just to the left of the record), and then doing the following:
On the Home tab, in the Records group, click Delete.
To begin entering data, click in the first empty cell on the form and begin typing. Use the Navigation Pane to browse for other forms or reports that you might want to use. Some templates include a navigation form which allows you to move between the different database objects.
For more information about working with templates, see the article Use a template to create an Access desktop database.
If you are not interested in using a template, you can create a database by building your own tables, forms, reports, and other database objects. In most cases, this involves one or both of the following:
Entering, pasting, or importing data into the table that is created when you create a new database, and then repeating the process with new tables that you create by using the Table command on the Create tab.
Importing data from other sources and creating new tables in the process.
Create a blank database
On the File tab, click New, and then click Blank Database.
Type a file name in the File Name box. To change the location of the file from the default, click Browse for a location to put your database (next to the File Name box), browse to the new location, and then click OK.
Access creates the database with an empty table named Table1, and then opens Table1 in Datasheet view. The cursor is placed in the first empty cell in the Click to Add column.
Begin typing to add data, or you can paste data from another source, as described in the section Copy data from another source into an Access table.
Entering data in Datasheet view is designed to be very similar to working in an Excel worksheet. The table structure is created while you enter data. When you add a new column to the datasheet, a new field is defined in the table. Access automatically sets each field's data type, based on the data that you enter.
If you do not want to enter data in Table1 at this time, click Close . If you made any changes to the table, Access prompts you to save the changes. Click Yes to save your changes, click No to discard them, or click Cancel to leave the table open.
Tip: Access looks for a file named Blank.accdb in the folder located at [install drive]:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033\Access\. If it exists, Blank.accdb is the template for all new blank databases. Any content it contains is inherited by all new blank databases. This is a good way to distribute default content, such as part numbers or company disclaimers and policies.
Important: If you close Table1 without saving it at least once, Access deletes the entire table, even if you have entered data in it.
Add a table
You can add new tables to an existing database by using the commands in the Tables group on the Create tab.
Create a table, starting in Datasheet view In Datasheet view, you can enter data immediately and let Access build the table structure behind the scenes. Field names are assigned numerically (Field1, Field2, and so on), and Access automatically sets each field's data type, based on the data you enter.
On the Create tab, in the Tables group, click Table.
Access creates the table and selects the first empty cell in the Click to Add column.
On the Fields tab, in the Add & Delete group, click the type of field that you want to add. If you don't see the type that you want, click More Fields .
Access displays a list of commonly used field types. Click the field type that you want, and Access adds the new field to the datasheet at the insertion point.
You can move the field by dragging it. When you drag a field in a datasheet, a vertical insertion bar appears where the field will be placed.
To add data, begin typing in the first empty cell, or paste data from another source, as described in the section Copy data from another source into an Access table.
To rename a column (field), double-click the column heading, and then type the new name.
You should give a meaningful name to each field, so that you can tell what it contains when you see it in the Field List pane.
To move a column, click its heading to select the column, and then drag the column to the location that you want. You can also select multiple contiguous columns and then drag them to a new location all at once. To select multiple contiguous columns, click the column header of the first column, and then, while holding down SHIFT, click the column header of the last column.
Create a table, starting in Design view In Design view, you first create the table structure. You then switch to Datasheet view to enter data, or enter data by using some other method, such as pasting, or importing.
On the Create tab, in the Tables group, click Table Design.
For each field in your table, type a name in the Field Name column, and then select a data type from the Data Type list.
If you want, you can type a description for each field in the Description column. The description is then displayed on the status bar when the cursor is located in that field in Datasheet view. The description is also used as the status bar text for any controls in a form or report that you create by dragging the field from the Field List pane, and for any controls that are created for that field when you use the Form Wizard or Report Wizard.
After you have added all of your fields, save the table:
On the File tab, click Save.
You can begin typing data in the table at any time by switching to Datasheet view and clicking in the first empty cell. You can also paste data from another source, as described in the section Copy data from another source into an Access table.
Set field properties in Design view Regardless of how you created your table, it is a good idea to examine and set field properties. While some properties are available in Datasheet view, some properties can only be set in Design view. To switch to Design view, right-click the table in the Navigation Pane and then click Design View. To see a field's properties, click the field in the design grid. The properties are displayed below the design grid, under Field Properties.
To see a description of each field property, click the property and read the description in the box next to the property list under Field Properties. You can get more detailed information by clicking the Help button.
The following table describes some of the field properties that are commonly adjusted.
Field Size
For Text fields, this property sets the maximum number of characters that can be stored in the field. The maximum is 255. For Number fields, this property sets the type of number that will be stored (Long Integer, Double, and so on). For the most efficient data storage, it is recommended that you allocate the least amount of space that you think you will need for the data. You can adjust the value upwards later, if your needs change.
This property sets how the data is displayed. It does not affect the actual data as it is stored in the field. You can select a predefined format or enter a custom format.
Input Mask
Use this property to specify a pattern for all data that will be entered in this field. This helps ensure that all data is entered correctly, and that it contains the required number of characters. For help about building an input mask, click at the right side of the property box.
Use this property to specify the default value that will appear in this field each time that a new record is added. For example, if you have a Date/Time field in which you always want to record the date that the record was added, you can enter "Date()" (without the quotation marks) as the default value.
This property sets whether a value is required in this field. If you set this property to Yes, Access does not allow you to add a new record unless a value is entered for this field.
If your data is currently stored in another program, such as Excel, you can copy and paste it into an Access table. In general, this works best if your data is already separated into columns, as they are in an Excel worksheet. If your data is in a word processing program, it is best to separate the columns of data by using tabs, or to convert the data into a table in the word processing program before you copy the data. If your data needs any editing or manipulation (for example, separating full names into first and last names), you might want to do this before you copy the data, especially if you are not familiar with Access.
When you paste data into an empty table, Access sets the data type of each field according to what kind of data it finds there. For example, if a pasted field contains nothing but date values, Access applies the Date/Time data type to that field. If the pasted field contains only the words "yes" and "no", Access applies the Yes/No data type to the field.
Access names the fields depending on what it finds in the first row of pasted data. If the first row of pasted data is similar in type to the rows that follow, Access determines that the first row is part of the data and assigns the fields generic names (F1, F2, etc.). If the first row of pasted data is not similar to the rows that follow, Access determines that the first row consists of field names. Access names the fields accordingly and does not include the first row in the data.
If Access assigns generic field names, you should rename the fields as soon as possible to avoid confusion. Use the following procedure:
Press CTRL+S to save the table.
In Datasheet view, double-click each column heading, and then type a descriptive field name for each column.
Save the table again.
Note: You can also rename the fields by switching to Design view and editing the field names there. To switch to Design view, right-click the table in the Navigation Pane and click Design View. To switch back to Datasheet view, double-click the table in the Navigation Pane.
You might have data that is stored in another program, and you want to import that data into a new table or append it to an existing table in Access. Or you might work with people who keep their data in other programs, and you want to work with it in Access by linking to it. Either way, Access makes it easy to work with data from other sources. You can import data from an Excel worksheet, from a table in another Access database, from a SharePoint list, or from a variety of other sources. The process you use differs slightly, depending on your source, but the following procedure will get you started.
In Access, on the External Data tab, in the Import & Link group, click the command for the type of file that you are importing.
For example, if you are importing data from an Excel worksheet, click Excel. If you don't see the program type that you need, click More.
Note: If you can't find the correct format type in the Import & Link group, you might have to start the program in which you originally created the data and then use that program to save the data in a common file format (such as a delimited text file) before you can import that data into Access.
In the Get External Data dialog box, click Browse to find the source data file, or type the full path of the source data file in the File name box.
Click the option that you want (all programs let you import, and some let you append or link) under Specify how and where you want to store the data in the current database. You can create a new table that uses the imported data or (with some programs) you can append the data to an existing table or create a linked table that maintains a link to the data in the source program.
If a wizard starts, follow the instructions on the next few pages of the wizard. On the last page of the wizard, click Finish.
If you import objects or link tables from an Access database, either the Import Objects or Link Tables dialog box appears. Choose the items that you want and then click OK.
The exact process depends on whether you choose to import, append, or link data.
Access prompts you about whether you want to save the details of the import operation that you just completed. If you think that you will be performing this same import operation again in the future, click Save import steps, and then enter the details. You can then easily repeat the operation in the future by clicking Saved Imports in the Import & Link group on the External Data tab. If you don't want to save the details of the operation, click Close.
If you chose to import a table, Access imports the data into a new table and then displays the table under the Tables group in the Navigation Pane. If you chose to append data to an existing table, the data is added to that table. If you chose to link to data, Access creates a linked table under the Tables group in the Navigation Pane.
You can use an application part to add functionality to an existing database. An application part can be as simple as a single table, or it can comprise several related objects, such as a table and a bound form.
For example, the Comments application part consists of a table with an AutoNumber ID field, a date field, and a memo field. You can add it to any database and use it as-is, or with minimal customizing.
Open the database to which you want to add an application part.
Click the Create tab.
In the Templates group, click Application Parts. A list of available parts opens.
Click the application part that you want to add.
On the File tab, click Open.
In the Open dialog box, browse to the database that you want to open.
Double-click the database to open it in the default mode specified in the Access Options dialog box or the mode that was set by an administrative policy.
Click Open to open the database for shared access in a multiuser environment so that you and other users can read and write to the database.
Click the arrow next to the Open button and then click Open Read-Only to open the database for read-only access so that you can view but not edit it. Other users can still read and write to the database.
Click the arrow next to the Open button and then click Open Exclusive to open the database by using exclusive access. When you have a database open with exclusive access, anyone else who tries to open the database receives a "file already in use" message.
Click the arrow next to the Open button and then click Open Exclusive Read-Only to open the database for read-only access. Other users can still open the database, but they are limited to read-only mode.
Note: You can directly open a data file in an external file format, such as dBASE, Microsoft Exchange, or Excel. You can also directly open any ODBC data source, such as Microsoft SQL Server. Access automatically creates a new Access database in the same folder as the data file, and adds links to each table in the external database.
To open one of the most recently opened databases, on the File tab, click Recent, and then click the file name for that database. Access opens the database by using the same option settings that it had the last time that you opened it. If the list of recently used files is not displayed, on the File tab, click Options. In the Access Options dialog box, click Client Settings. Under Display, enter the number of documents to display in the Recent Documents list, up to a maximum of 50.
You can also show recent databases in the navigation bar of Backstage view, for two-click access: 1) the File tab, 2) the recent database that you want to open. Near the bottom of the Recent tab, select the Quickly access this number of Recent Databases check box, and then adjust the number of databases to show.
If you are opening a database by clicking the Open command on the File tab, you can view a list of shortcuts to databases that you have previously opened by clicking My Recent Documents in the Open dialog box.
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Post-Ferguson, Houston Protests Yield New Action For HPD Body Cameras
November 28, 2014 L. Wayne Ashley Leave a comment
The cities of Houston, Texas and Ferguson, Missouri have nearly 1,000 miles between them. But for many Houstonians, this week’s decision to let Michael Brown’s killer free without trial had a strong and immediate resonance within the Bayou City. Citizens quickly mounted protests that not only spoke out about the Missouri decision, but renewed calls to do better in this community as well.
Thankfully, all of the protests in Houston have been peaceful, and as reported by the Houston Chronicle, those protests may yield some very real positive results…
The shooting of a black teenager in Missouri by a white police officer has prompted Houston Police Chief Charles A. McClelland, Jr., to push forward with a plan to have every officer outfitted with a body camera.
“Because of the incident that happened in Ferguson, I just think that it’s a matter of time before every law enforcement agency in the United States has body cameras,” McClelland said Wednesday. “It’s not ‘if’ anymore, it’s ‘when.'”
He spoke as demonstrators, for a second straight day, gathered in Houston Wednesday to protest the decision by the grand jury not to indict officer Darren Wilson for the death of Michael Brown.
“We are dealing with a system of global white supremacy and racism,” said Kofi Taharka of the National Black United Front at the protest.
“Houston is no different from Ferguson,” said Taharka, at the rally attended by dozens of people outside the downtown high-rise that houses the Greater Houston Partnership.
Several Houston police officers were watching the demonstration but kept their distance. HPD officials at the scene said there were no arrests.
At his regular briefing, McClelland said a body camera might have provided additional evidence to confirm whether the shooting in Missouri was lawful or not.
“It would have given grand jurors additional information to base their decision on one way or the other but it would have also given the public some piece of mind,” McClelland said.
He said the photographic evidence would have been nothing less than an independent and objective piece of evidence.
“And that’s what people are not trusting in Ferguson and some other parts of the country right now. They question what information is being given from law enforcement, prosecutors and people in the criminal justice system,” McClelland said.
The Houston Police Department has a pilot program for body cameras that is already underway, but at present it only provides the technology for 100 or so officers. The city estimates costs for the cameras at over $7 million dollars, and has been reluctant thus far to make any firm commitment to find the funds. But clearly, two days of protests and ample news coverage calling for the body cameras may help to turn that wish list into a necessity. Be on the lookout for this issue in future meetings of the Houston City Council.
Requiring police forces across the country to have body cameras is the central point of the Michael Brown Jr. law, which peaceful protesters in Ferguson and other St. Louis-area communities have been calling for since the young man’s tragic death in August. No matter one’s opinion of the case itself, we should all want to move forward with positive changes solutions such as this one.
And just in case you needed a reminder, the body cameras are an objective witness. They’ll protect our police that are in the right just as much as they will convict those doing wrong.
Here are some photos from the protest in Downtown Houston, held on November 26th.
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EU continues to ensure better future for Bangladeshi garment industry workers
Posted on 2. February 2016 by vbodmer
At a meeting on January 28, 2016 in Dhaka (Bangladesh), the representatives of the EU, US, Canada, Bangladesh and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) – partners committed to the so called Bangladesh Sustainability Compact – assessed the progress and set priorities for further work to improve situation of Bangladeshi textile workers. The meeting was also an opportunity for an open dialogue with stakeholders including trade unions, NGOs, buyers and employers
The initiative born in the aftermath of the tragic factory collapses in 2013 has brought about some tangible progress. The Government of Bangladesh has put in place a legal framework for labour protection that has now to be effectively implemented. Also, important work has been done on initial safety inspections in factories and to strengthen capacity of inspection services.
EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström declared: “Promoting responsible supply chains is an important part of our new trade and investment strategy. The respect of human and core labour rights are at the heart of our engagement with countries getting privileged access to the EU market. The Compact cooperation shows that we can team up with other concerned partners and work towards bringing about positive change. We are committed to taking this joint work forward in several areas in the coming months.”
EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Mobility Marianne Thyssen said: “The progress achieved so far proves that initiatives like the Bangladesh Compact can be effective in promoting genuine social dialogue and decent working conditions in the global context. While aiming for more fairness in global supply chains, we must also continue to encourage essential reforms.”
The priorities for further work singled out by the participants of today’s meeting include tackling issues related to registration of trade unions, ensuring appropriate investigation and prosecution of unfair labour practices and ensuring that workers can freely elect their representatives at factory level consistently with ILO conventions. Workers in Export Processing Zones should also have commensurate rights to those of the workers outside these zones.
On the safety side, the joint conclusions point to the importance of practical measures and repairs that need to be carried out in the factories. Partners will also continue supporting the Bangladeshi authorities in building capacity necessary for an effective supervision of occupational safety and health conditions, electrical safety and structural integrity of buildings and work in cooperation with all relevant stakeholders.
The parties warmly welcomed Canada as a new partner to the Compact and reaffirmed their commitment. The work will now continue and the next progress review is scheduled in a year.
In reaction to the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in April 2013, the Government of Bangladesh, the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the European Union and the United States launched a joint initiative known as the “Compact for Continuous Improvements in Labour Rights and Factory Safety in the Ready-Made Garment and Knitwear Industry in Bangladesh”. Given its involvement in the same supply chains and its own efforts to promote sustainable sourcing, Canada decided to join the initiative as of 2016.
The Compact outlines concrete commitments in respect of labour rights, in particular freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining, as well as structural integrity of factory buildings, occupational safety and health, and promotion of responsible business conduct.
The European Commission has been working closely with the other Compact partners to translate its commitments into tangible improvements. To this aim, the Commission hosted in October 2014 the first Compact follow-up meeting and released two technical reports, in July 2014 and April 2015.
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10TB SSDs on the way from Toshiba and Intel…but not for at least a year
by Ben Woods — in Insider
Micron and Intel, and separately Toshiba, have revealed that solid state drives (SSDs) as large as 10 terrabytes will be available to manufacturing partners as early as next year.
Ultimately, it’s still pretty early days for the multi-layer chip technologies that make such capacities possible, but devices containing 10TB of SSD storage are at least now on the distant horizon.
Micron and Intel say that by using 3D NAND technology, they can fit more than 3.5TBs of storage on a “gum-sized” SSD, and more than 10TB on a standard 2.5-inch drive.
While SSDs with this capacity still look a while away from arriving in consumer devices, it’s interesting to see such huge leaps in capabilities that put them in line with traditional hard disks.
When first introduced, SSDs were popular due to the size and weight savings, but drove the overall cost of devices far beyond those with standard disk drives. With this technology now maturing and becoming more mainstream, availability will continue to increase and prices should only continue to fall.
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Underwood Typewriter Models: A Complete Guide
Typewriters aren’t used much anymore, but they haven’t lost their luster. They’re intriguing machines that are excellent vintage accents in your home.
Underwood was one of the most well-known manufacturers of typewriters in the 20th century, and you may be surprised to find out that there were millions produced and they were so well built that they’re very easy to find and most of them still work.
If you’re in the market for a vintage typewriter, one of the popular Underwood type writer models will likely be the easiest for you to find and the best option, whether you’re going to use it or put it on display for everyone to see.
1 History of the Typewriter
2 About Underwood
3 Underwood Typewriter Models
3.1 Underwood No. 1
3.3 Underwood No. 3 and Underwood No. 4
4 Why Every Typewriter Enthusiast Should Own a Vintage Underwood
History of the Typewriter
The first early typewriter was made in 1575 by an Italian printer. It was a machine called the scrittura tattile and it impressed letters onto paper. It was rudimentary at best, slow, and never commercially produced.
In 1714, a patent given to Henry Mill described another machine similar to a typewriter. The description on the patent explains that one of the machines was actually produced.
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Between 1802 and 1870, there was no shortage of typewriters produced. They were all built by individuals, there were no two alike, and they were not commercially manufactured. Here are a few examples:
In 1802, Agostino Fantoni created a typewriter that he blind sister could use to write.
In 1808, Pellegrino Turri developed a typewriter and the carbon paper he used in it.
Pietro Conti di Cilavegna built the tachigrafo in 1823.
William Austin Burt, an American inventor, had his Typographer machine patented in 1829. It is currently in the London Science Museum, who credits it as the first documented writing mechanism.
Giuseppe Ravizza spent 40 years trying to perfect his typewriter invention. He produced 16 models between 1847 and 1880. He had the machine patented in 1855 and continued to iterate after that.
The 1845 Chirographer was patented by Charles Thurber and used to help the blind.
Brazil still recognizes Father Francisco João de Azevedo as the inventor of the writing machine for his homemade typewriter made from basic materials like knives and wood in 1861.
John Pratt, from Alabama, built the Pterotype in 1865 and was published in an 1867 Scientific American article.
Peter Mitterhofer built multiple models between 1864 and 1867. He had a fully functioning prototype in 1867.
The Hansen Writing Ball was the first commercially produced typewriter. It was invented in 1865 by Reverend Rasmus Mailing-Hansen and production began in 1870. It was successful in Europe and could still be found in London offices in 1909.
Because some of Mailing-Hansen’s models returned the carriage to its original position using a solenoid, people consider him the first person to invent an electric typewriter.
While the Hansen Writing Ball was the first to be commercially produced, it wasn’t nearly as popular as the Sholes and Glidden typewriter invented in 1878. It was the first typewriter with a QWERTY keyboard, and thanks to its success, other machines adopted the same keyboard rapidly.
By 1910, typewriter designs were largely standardized with the exception of alterations to keyboards and letter spacing in non-English speaking countries. While noiseless and electric designs had yet to be introduced, not much changed until 1961 when IBM and Remington Rand electric typewriters grew immensely in popularity.
With the entrance of personal computing, use of the typewriter fizzled out. While rapid technological change is common today, the typewriter dominated with little change for close to 90 years and its contribution to typing should not be underestimated.
About Underwood
Underwood Typewriter Company was founded in 1895 by John T. Underwood. Prior to founding the company, the Underwood family produced carbon paper and typewriter ribbon and starting in 1874.
They manufactured these products for Remington, but after Remington decided to manufacture ribbons on their own, the Underwoods shifted to typewriters.
A German-American by the name of Franz Wagner invented the first Underwood typewriter. When he showed it to a young entrepreneur named John T. Underwood, Underwood like it so much that he bought the company.
The Underwood No.1 and Underwood No. 2 were manufactured from 1896 to 1900 and were labeled Wagner Typewriter Co.
The Underwood No. 5 came out in 1900 and by 1920, sales had reached two million. Sales of the Underwood No. 5 were equal to all of the other typewriter manufacturers combined. They were the world’s biggest and most prominent typewriter manufacturer, and their factory in Connecticut was making one typewriter every minute.
In 1910, Underwood began including adding and subtracting machines to their typewriters. By 1939, Underwood Typewriter Company had produced more than five million machines.
Underwood attempted to promote itself by building the largest typewriter in the world. It was on display in Atlantic City for several years. Each key was big enough for a grown person to sit on.
Unfortunately, typewriter production paused during World War II, and the huge typewriter was taken apart for metal when Underwood transitioned to making M1 carbines.
In 1959, Italian-owned Olivetti purchased a controlling stake in Underwood, and by 1963, the merger was complete. The U.S. Olivetti-Underwood company transitioned to making primarily electromechanical calculators, but the Underwood name was seen on typewriters in Spain all the way up until the 1980s.
Underwood Typewriter Models
Underwood manufactured the first hugely successful modern typewriter.
There were over a dozen different models, but the most popular by far were the No. 1 and the No. 5. Underwood typewriters were known for their nearly indestructible workmanship.
However, Underwood also had the forethought to include many other features in their typewriters that eventually won over the market. Today, these machines have huge historic significance and a beautiful classic design.
They used a typebar design, which was much faster than type wheels, type shuttles, or type cylinders. While the typebar didn’t align the letters on the page as well, they were more efficient.
The front stroke mechanism was revolutionary, because while it sounds obvious, a lot of other typewriters at that time used understrokes. This was called blind typing. You couldn’t see what you were typing as you were typing it. Underwood changed that.
The QWERTY keyboard was awkward at first, but it became a force of habit for most typists. Underwood was smart to keep this arrangement.
When designing the four-bank keyboard with a single shift key, Underwood was taking speed into consideration first. A lot of other typewriters had a full keyboard with separate keys for each character while index keyboards didn’t have keyboards at all.
Still other typewriters had three banks of keys and two shifts: one for capital letters and one for numbers and symbols. The four-bank keyboard with a single shift key proved to be most efficient for fast touch typing.
While some typewriters used ink pads or ink rollers, the Underwood used ribbon inking. It created clean, neat letters that weren’t blurry or smudged. Ribbons lasted longer and were easier to maintain.
Underwood No. 1
The Underwood No. 1 featured the three most popular design elements of all previous typewriters. It set the standard going into the 20th century with a straight four-row keyboard, a single shift key that could be depressed from the right or left, and striking type bars on the front so you could see what you were typing.
While the Daugherty included these features in 1893, Underwood did it much more effectively. It was a superior machine in nearly every way and it zoomed to popularity quickly.
The Underwood No. 2 was nearly identical to the Underwood No. 1, with the exception of additional characters. The Underwood No. 2 had a wider carriage and allowed the typing of 84 characters across instead of the 76 character width on the Underwood No. 1.
Both of these models were discontinued with the release of the Underwood No. 5 in 1900.
Underwood No. 3 and Underwood No. 4
Manufacturing of the Underwood No. 3 and Underwood No. 4 overlapped with that of the Underwood No. 5. The Underwood No. 3 was a wide carriage machine while the Underwood No. 4 only typed 76 characters.
Image by Duc Ly via Flickr
The Underwood No. 5 set the standard for modern typewriters. When it was released, there were hundreds of varying designs and keyboard layouts. By 1920, nearly every typewriter modeled the Underwood No. 5.
Between 1900 and 1920, Underwood manufactured nearly five million of this particular model. Today, they are available on Craigslist, eBay, and other outlets where you can find used and antique items.
Because they’re so plentiful, value depends largely on condition. They were built well, and many of them still work perfectly. If they don’t, you can typically get them refurbished and back in working order, if you’re willing to pay.
Why Every Typewriter Enthusiast Should Own a Vintage Underwood
Image by Andraz Lazic via Unsplash
The Underwood Typewriter Company was one of the most well-known names in typewriter manufacturing for over 70 years. They set the bar for keyboard functionality, typebar design, and front stroke visible typing.
Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Jack Kerouac, and Robert E. Howard all used Underwood typewriters to pen their famous works. References to the Underwood typewriter in popular culture are also plentiful.
In Stephen King’s The Shining, Jack Torrance uses an Underwood typewriter to work on his play The Little School.
The 1991 Coen brothers film Barton Fink portrays the Barton character using an Underwood typewriter after Jack Warner claims that screenwriters are schmucks with Underwoods.
Mr. Underwood in To Kill a Mockingbird types on a typewriter all day every day.
Frank Abagnale in the 2002 Catch Me If You Can film says he forges a check using a stencil machine and an Underwood typewriter.
The main character in Moulin Rouge! uses an Underwood typewriter.
In Season 3, Episode 5 of Parks and Recreation, Ron Swanson uses an Underwood No. 5.
Pearl Jam released an album in 2009 called Backspacer, named after Underwood’s back spacer key.
Kevin Dolenz in the 1985 film St. Elmo’s Fire brings up a battered Underwood typewriter to Leslie Hunter.
In the Netflix series House of Cards, Frank Underwood uses an Underwood Universal Portable typewriter.
For antique enthusiasts, avid readers of classic literature, and professional writers, Underwood typewriters hold a special significance. However, these vintage machines should be important to anyone who uses a computer today.
The QWERTY keyboard revolutionized the way we type, and Underwood streamlined and perfected the design. Having an Underwood typewriter is more than having a retro artifact on display in your home. It’s about owning a part of history.
Getting ahold of an old Underwood typewriter of any model is as easy as could be. It only requires an investment of your time and a little cash and you could own a revolutionary item that changed modern typing forever.
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It’s Personal: Nourished 3D Prints Vitamins Tailored Exactly to Your Needs
If you’re like me, when shopping for vitamins you might pick up whatever’s on sale. After all, vitamins are mostly one-size-fits-all, right?
British startup Nourished would very much disagree. The Birmingham, U.K.-based company is trying to shake up the supplement space by using 3D printing technology to create personalized vitamins made specifically for you.
First you answer a short questionnaire on the Nourished website describing your lifestyle, health issues and nutrition goals. Nourished’s algorithm then builds you a unique “stack” out of their 28 “nourishments.” (You can also build your own stack if you already know what ingredients you want.) The company then 3D prints bespoke, layered vitamins just for you out of vegan gel — which end up looking like rainbow gummy candy — and deliver to your door every month.
Why 3D print the vitamins? According to Nourished’s Head of Brand, Caitlin Stanley, manufacturing supplements via 3D printing opens up a whole new world of personalization possibilities. Typically, active ingredients that show up in vitamins — like ashwagandha and Vitamin A — interfere with each other when combined into the same capsule. However, by printing these ingredients on top of each other, Nourished can fuse them into the same bite-sized supplement.
Each Nourished box comes with 28 stacks meant to be taken once a day. The vitamins are individually packaged “to maintain efficacy,” according to Stanley, who added that the packaging is compostable.
Photo: Nourished
If there’s one thing that might put people off of Nourished, it’s the price. The service costs £39.99 (~ $51.00) a month, which is significantly more than your average vitamin bottle off the pharmacy shelf. However, the cost is on par with other personalized D2C vitamin services, like Care/Of.
When I asked about competitors, Stanley was adamant that Nourished is the only company out there right now creating a truly personalized supplement. Care/Of basically just aggregates a variety of pills into a single pouch, while Nourished actually combines all of the ingredients into a bespoke bite-size supplement made specifically for the individual.
Nourished just launched a little over six weeks ago, so it’s in the very early stages. Right now it’s only shipping in the U.K. However, Stanley told me that the company plans to head to the U.S. in 2020. The company has raised a seed round for an undisclosed amount and currently has a team of twenty-five.
Personalization is a hot trend in the food space right now. Consumers want all aspects of their diet tailored to their exact preferences, from recipes to drive-thru orders to the foam topping your craft cocktail. But when it comes to health and nutrition, customization should be “first and foremost,” said Stanley. We’ll see if Nourished’s 3D printing strategy can help them be first and foremost in the personalized vitamin space, too.
If you’re interested in what’s coming next in personalized nutrition, you’ve got to be at Customize. The one-day event in New York City will explore the world of food personalization throughout the meal journey. Grab your Early Bird ticket before they’re all sold out!
Nutrient App Lets You Create a Personalized Meal Plan and Order Groceries
Oftentimes, meal planning services only provide one piece of the strategic cooking puzzle. They’ll help you decide what recipes to make for the week, but you’re often left on your own figuring out what you already have in your pantry and fridge and doing the actual shopping for ingredients part.
Startup Nutrient is trying to make meal planning a more streamlined process — one that’s also tailored to your specific dietary goals. Users go to the Nutrient website or download the app. They’re prompted to fill in a short questionnaire to determine what sort of calorie intake and nutrients best suit their lifestyle and goals. The app also takes into account any dining restrictions (meat-free, etc.). Nutrient then generates a meal plan of healthy recipes, all of which are developed internally.
From there, users can either download a shopping list or buy them through online grocery service FreshDirect, which they can do without leaving the Nutrient ecosystem. The Pantry page also lets users input what’s in their pantry and fridge, so the app can omit ingredients you already have from shopping lists or suggest recipes featuring ingredients it knows you have on hand.
Founded in Prague, the startup recently moved to New York City to attend the Food-X Accelerator. In the U.S. Nutrient is piloting its technology with a small group of friends and family. When I spoke with Nutrient’s CEO Roman Kalista over the phone earlier this week, he told me it plans to launch in November in the New York City area where it will integrate with FreshDirect for grocery fulfillment and delivery. The company plans to continue operations in their native Czech Republic, where they still have around 1,500 users.
Nutrient isn’t the only meal planning service to integrate with online grocery fulfillment. In the U.K. Mucho works with grocery delivery service Ocado, and eMeals has partnered with Walmart, Kroger, Instacart and more for grocery fulfillment.
However, according to Kalista, their service is the only meal planning app that allows users to go through the entire process within the app ecosystem: finding recipes, grocery shopping, checking out, etc. He also said that many other services end up being super expensive because they do a poor job translating recipes into ingredient lists. Nutrient, however, promises to be so efficient with its shopping recipes that users can pay as little as $1.75 per serving for their groceries. The platform also breaks down price per serving so you can see how much your meals are costing.
For now, Nutrient makes money by adding a small markup to all of its groceries. As they grow across the country and add more grocery partners, Kalista told me they hope to switch the cost over to the retailer side.
It’s too early to tell if Nutrient can follow through on its promise to streamline the meal planning process. But the startup does hit on a few big trends we see a lot of at The Spoon: personalization, shoppable recipes, convenience, and food as medicine (which Kalista said they’ll incorporate more of in future iterations). Perhaps most importantly, Nutrient doesn’t lock users in. Unlike meal kits or certain recipe planning services, users can use the app for as often — or rarely — as they’d like.
After they finish the Food-X program, we’ll see if Nutrient can indeed deliver on its promise to be the all-in-one solution to meal planning.
Impossible Foods Practices Right Jab, Warming Up for More Attacks against Plant-Based Meat
Early last week Rachel Konrad, the Chief Communications Officer for Impossible Foods, published a fiery rebuttal against Mom’s Across America (MAA)‘s recent article that stated Impossible Burger tests 11 times higher for Glyphosate weed killer than Beyond Meat burgers. Impossible’s clap-back was impassioned, to say the least; Konrad used the words “charlatans” and “quackery,” among others.
MAA is a vocal opponent to GMOs and is against Impossible’s use of genetic engineering to make heme, the ingredient that gives the plant-based burgers their bloody taste and hue. Claims about weed killer are questionable at best, and the whole post (and Konrad’s response) is arguably something of a footnote in the grand scheme of plant-based meat. However, both highlight an important point: Impossible Foods, Beyond Meat and other alt-protein companies will have to prepare themselves for a lot more of these sort of attacks in the coming months and years.
Both companies have enjoyed relatively little pushback up until this point. They’ve been getting glowing publicity, locking down buzzy new fast food partnerships, and Beyond blew past already high expectations with their wildly successful IPO.
However, as these companies become more successful, they compete with bigger and bigger players. In the future, Impossible and Beyond will have to look out for attacks from organizations with a lot more reach and funding than MAA.
Big Beef, for one, has made it quite clear they don’t approve of companies branding plant-based products as “meat.” Organizations like the U.S. Cattlemen’s Association or the National Chicken Council have even tried to ban vegetarian burgers, sausages and the like from using the word “meat” on their labels.
In some ways, Big Meat’s reaction is unsurprising. Plant-based options for dairy and meat are projected to take over 10 percent of the $1.4 trillion global meat industry over the next decade. That’s a lot of pressure for Big Meat to live up to, and not all of those companies are going to pull a Tyson or a Cargill and invest in their own disruption.
It’s not hard to guess traditional meat companies’ lines of attack. They’ll likely frame plant-based meat as “unnatural,” “unhealthy,” and full of suspect ingredients. In short: fake news — er, meat.
So far, it seems like Impossible has come out swinging — perhaps a little too hard, at least in the case of Konrad’s Medium post. Hopefully Impossible and friends can find a sustainable way to deal with the quackery from Big Meat and their friends, because it’s not going anywhere anytime soon.
CES 2019 Video: Lumen Gives You Personalized Diet Plans with One Breath
There are a bunch of companies offering personalized gadgets at CES this week, from smart mirrors to color-changing jewelry to toilets (for real). But Israeli startup Lumen is applying personalization to what’s going on inside your body. The company’s handheld breath detector measures your metabolism, then builds specialized meal plans based on that information and your dietary preferences.
We spoke with Lumen cofounder Dror Ceder on the CES show floor to learn more about the breathalizer-like device, and why he thinks it can help people diet more effectively and eat healthier.
The Spoon look at Lumen, a handheld breath detector for measuring metabolism
Better Juice Uses Microorganisms to Reduce Sugar in OJ (and Beyond)
On the weekends if I go out to brunch, I like to treat myself to a tall glass of orange juice along with my pancakes and eggs. Which seems like a healthy choice: OJ, after all, is fruit — it’s got to be good for me, right?
Apparently, not so much. According to a study in the journal Nutrition (via NPR), fruit juice has a fructose concentration of about 45.5 grams per liter — which is only a smidgen less than soda, which averages at 50 grams per liter. Just one cup of OJ has 21 grams of sugar, which is almost half of the FDA’s recommended daily sugar limit.
But you don’t necessarily have to ditch your OJ just yet. A company called Better Juice is developing a way to cut down on the amount of simple sugars in fruit juice, honey, agave, and more. Founded in 2017, the Israeli startup has created a column-shaped piece of hardware which contains mobilized non-GMO microorganisms.
The column is adjustable and electric powered. After the juice is squeezed workers pour it into the column, which uses pumps, heat exchangers, and cooling to pass the liquid through the micro-organisms and out the other side. As it goes through, the microorganisms convert the fructose, glucose, and sucrose (basically, all the molecules that make food taste sweet) in the juice into fibers that will, um, pass, instead of absorbing into your body.
“We’re not actually removing the sugar,” explained Better Juice CEO Eran Blachinsky over the phone. “We’re leaving it in the juice, just in a non-digestible form.” Blachinsky wouldn’t disclose what kind of microorganisms they used (algae, yeast, etc.) but told me that they were food grade. The entire process takes about one hour from start to finish.
Jenn Marston wrote about Better Juice earlier this year, stating that its low-sugar, high-fiber product “basically solves the two biggest gripes about fruit juice out there right now.”
Of course, reducing the digestible sugar content also means the juice will taste less sweet, so the company has to strike a balance between health and flavor. “We are able to reduce 87 percent of the sugars,” said Blachinsky. “But most people enjoy a 30 percent reduction.” According to him, that percentage maintains the sweet taste while still allowing the beverage company to label their product as “reduced sugar,” targeting health-conscious consumers.
Better Juice currently has six employees and has received approximately $500,000 from Israeli food tech incubator The Kitchen Hub. The company has just completed its prototype and will be piloting it abroad with three beverage companies: one in Israel and two “abroad.”
Each liter of Better Juice’s micro-organism-filled column can treat 1,000 liters of juice. Blachinksy didn’t disclose exact pricing details, noting that the number depends on the quantity in production, but said that 1 cubic meter of column would cost between $100,000 and $200,000 total. While the hardware will last indefinitely, the company has to replace the micro-organisms ever 2 to 3 months.
Reduced sugar beverages are growing in popularity — soda sales are down, while low-sugar or sugar-free ready-to-drink (RTD) products are on the rise. With its B2B technology that allows any juice (or honey, or ice cream, etc.) company to reduce the amount of sugar in their product, without sacrificing taste, Better Juice could help a large range of companies break into the burgeoning healthy drink market.
The only issue I could see is adoption difficulties on the manufacturing side. Blachinksy asserted that Better Juice’s column is easy to install and wouldn’t require specially trained or skilled employees, but it’s easy to be optimistic before the real-world test of a pilot program. If the column is indeed as easy to plug into manufacturing practices as Blachinsky hopes, it could be a pretty sweet (sorry) deal for all involved.
Personalized Nutrition Analytics Platform Nutrino Raises $8M
Yesterday Nutrino, the Israeli personalized nutrition company, announced the completion of its $8 million Series A funding round. Nielsen Ventures, Pereg Ventures, and Gandyr Group joined existing investors, including the New York Angels group, who led the company’s seed round. This latest raise brings their total capital to $10 million.
Founded in 2011, Nutrino synthesizes information from scientific reports, menus, and food nutrition breakdowns and matches that to data points on your health and eating habits, which it gets from wearables, health apps, or information you input directly into their Nutrino app. It feeds all this information into FoodPrint, their analytics platform, which then uses machine learning and AI to create an individualized nutrition profile and personalized dietary recommendations.
Nutrino isn’t the only company out there offering personalized nutrition. Just a few weeks ago we wrote about Sage Project, a platform which breaks down nutritional information for a variety of products and will soon offer individualized dietary recommendations. Habit uses personalized nutrition information to create customized meal kits. And last year, Amazon partnered with EatLove to offer meal planning and recipes tailored to personal health profiles.
Photo: Nutrino blog.
Two things seem to set Nutrino apart. First is its specialization in curating dynamic nutrition profiles for people with diabetes. In 2016 Nutrino launched a partnership with Medtronic, a producer of continuous glucose monitors and insulin pumps, to help people with diabetes better customize their diets. Users could sync their monitors and pumps to the Nutrino app, which would use data from the person’s glucose and carbohydrate levels to offer food suggestions. They can also use the app to scan grocery barcodes and get a nutritional breakdown of each item, or, if they’re in one of the 200,000 restaurants that fits with Nutrino’s technology, get personalized menu recommendations based on their glucose and carbohydrate levels.
Which, if you’re someone suffering from diabetes, is critical. There are an estimated 415 million people around the world living with diabetes, and the number is expected to grow to 642 million by 2040. Managing diets is a key part of staying healthy with the disease, and Nutrino’s responsive app seems like a helpful tool.
The second thing that sets Nutrino apart from other personalized nutrition platforms is its food database, which collates information on the eating habits of its millions of users. Companies in food & beverage and fitness use this data to shape their products and marketing strategies. So Nutrino doesn’t only serve individuals; it also uses their data to market its services to companies who want more data on nutrition and consumer eating habits (though promises to protect user confidentiality).
Nutrino will use its funding to expand its database, grow its personalized nutrition services, and explore new partnerships in food analytics for diabetics.
Personalized nutrition and meal recommendations are getting a lot of buzz right now. And Nutrino’s recent funding raise seems to indicate that these trends aren’t going to slow down anytime soon.
Bone Broth’s $103M Funding Shows Food Supplements Are A Hot Industry
How would you like to have your bone broth and drink it too?
Ancient Nutrition, a company best known for its bone broth-based protein supplement powder, just snagged a $103 million investment. The funding round was led by private equity firm VMG partners along with Hillhouse Capital and Iconiq Capital. It also included participation from over 100 current and former players in craft food companies such as Noosa Yogurt, The Honest Company, and Stone Brewing.
Ancient Nutrition’s new boost in funding shows that the market for supplements—especially ones that are “natural”—is still booming. The company’s main product is powdered bone broth, a trending meal supplement (which is essentially broth) sipped by health fiends and hipsters alike. Bone broth has particular appeal to people on the ketogenic diet, who believe that we should be eating more like our ancestors: high fat, lots of protein, and minimal carbs. The rising popularity of this and other low-carb diets, such as the paleo diet, have led to a higher demand for protein supplements.
Ancient Nutrition also offers bone broth-derived supplements such as protein powder, which comes in flavors like “French Vanilla” and “Greens.” These can be used in your post-workout smoothies or as a meal replacement, which is another category that has been on the rise lately thanks to veteran Soylent and startups like Bear Squeeze and Ample.
Ancient Nutrition has a serious health food pedigree. Co-founder Jordan Rubin started Canadian dietary supplement and probiotic company Atrium Innovations, which was acquired by Nestlé last year for $2.3 billion. He then took his natural products know-how to start Ancient Nutrition in 2016 alongside Josh Axe, the man behind the popular health & fitness website Dr.Axe.
This funding indicates a strong consumer market for health supplements, especially ones derived from natural products instead of chemicals. Throw the words “superfood” and “whole food” in there, and Ancient Nutrition is capitalizing on three consumer trends: natural, unprocessed foods, miracle health ingredients, and low-carb, high-protein diets. Plus they’ve got convenience going for them; by turning bone broth from a beverage that takes hours to cook into an instant, portable supplement, they’ve made it uber accessible.
Ancient Nutrition plans to use their funds to develop new healthy lifestyle products like fungi, probiotics, and essential oils, presumably all of which will come in French Vanilla.
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Meet the VR companies offering flights to nowhere
Would you pay money to eat airline food on the ground right now?
Photo: Biggie Productions (Getty Images)
Just last week I wrote about how some airlines—and one South Korean convenience store—have been selling airline food to people desperate to recreate one of the least interesting and most (literally) gut-wrenching aspects of flying. Apparently that was just the tip of the iceberg, though: according to The Washington Post, people are paying money to sit in a replica airplane cabin in order to take virtual reality flights to nowhere.
Per the Post, the Japanese company First Airlines was ahead of the curve when it first started offering this new form of non-transportation in 2017. The experience gives the participant a “flight” to destinations like New York, Rome, Helsinki, and New Zealand, and includes VR on-the-ground tours. All things considered, it’s both remarkably cheap and impressively detailed:
“The First Airlines experience channels all the minute details of flying, from departures screens in the lounge to flight attendants carrying out safety protocols. And the two-hour virtual reality experience, complete with a four-course meal and window TV screens replicating exterior views, is cheaper than an actual first-class plane ticket at about $62, or 6,580 yen.”
As a relatively frequent traveler myself, and someone who had almost an entire year’s worth of work-and-leisure travel abruptly canceled at the start of March, I completely understand the desire to get back out there. I also understand, and still experience, the anticipation and jittery joy that comes with getting ready for a trip, getting on a plane, and being transported to somewhere different and potentially new. But, at least for me, the actual process of sitting on an airplane, being given a meal (even if it’s a good one), and listening to the safety procedures lecture is the least compelling part of the experience.
Then again, I might be in the minority here. As the Post points out, in an interview with Reuters, First Airlines said its bookings are up by 50% and that advance reservations are now required. Plus, Taiwanese airline EVA Air recently offered an actual flight to nowhere on its “Hello Kitty Dream Jet,” which took off locally, putzed around in the air for a while, and then came back down.
Jacob Dean is a food and travel writer and psychologist based in New York. He likes beer, less traveled airports, and is allergic to grasshoppers (the insect, not the mixed drink.)
Lurch of the SoCal
Not that surprised honestly.
Netflix has had transit videos for years. I used to run the multi-hour European rail videos as a way to keep an especially pesky visitor from switching the television on and over to loud racing shows the moment he walked in the door.
Rather relaxing in more than just the “I don’t have to listen to a bunch of backwoods types arguing over why they don’t actually have to race on a racing show” angle. Seriously, that seemed to be all they do from what he watched - I tried accommodating at first. A four hour front window view of northern Europe was positively uplifting by comparison.
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Fifty Shades Freed: Chapter Fourteen
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Hey, dudes and duderinos! I’m back from Spain, miserably cold, with a coffee-drinking habit I didn’t have before and a LUST for BADLY WRITTEN ABUSE MASQUERADING AS ROMANCE. Luckily, EL James is here to sate my hunger with another chapter of Fifty Shades Freeeugh!
We left off last time with Elliot proposing to Kate in a big restaurant. I’m not the first person to say this, but damn if springing a surprise proposal on your partner in public isn’t manipulative as fuck, because it gives them no option but to accept, or risk embarrassing both you and themselves and pretty much everyone else in the room by turning you down. But wait, this is a Grey brother pulling this shit, so of course he thinks that’s a dandy idea.
Obviously Kate says yes, because this book might have been even remotely interesting if she didn’t, and everyone’s happy. They kiss, and Ana makes a snarky inner remark about it being “chaste” for them because she cannot turn off the cuntery for even her best friend getting engaged. Oh, and Ana realizes that Elliot was chilling with That Bitch Gia because she was helping him choose a ring, which is maybe the first thing Gia has done which has actually been questionable but Ana for some reason breezes right by it instead of using it as an excuse to tear the shit out of a woman who has the vicious temerity to do her job and be around Ana’s husband occasionally?
I like to think of myself as a Lucille Bluth with marginally less money but only slightly less style.
Christian’s sister wants to go clubbing, and Christian suggests they ask Kate and Elliot what they want to do
“Elliot shrugs and Kate turns puce.”
Puce.
Apparently it’s super obvious that Kate wants to fuck Elliot judging by the shade of literal burgundy she’s gone, but they decide to go clubbing anyway. They go to some exclusive upscale club, where OF COURSE a woman flirts with Christian:”Miss Satin Hot Pants flutters her eyelashes at my husband, flicks her long blond hair, and sashays through the entryway.”Look, I know Ana is pathetically sheltered, but could it not be that this hostess is a) simply being friendly in order to provide good customer service or b) only flirting to get a tip as lots of women in the service industry are encouraged to do? Like, she might not want to tackle-fuck Christian where he stands maybe?
It’s Thin Excuse For Gifs of Young Mark Hamill Post Meridian!
Christian’s sister and Kate’s brother go off to dance and Ana asks to see Kate’s ring and blah blah fucking blah. Another waitress comes up, and doesn’t flutter her eyelashes at Christian, but Ana still has to comment on it to her husband who seems to enjoy the fact she’s so stupidly jealous and hopelessly insecure in his presence. Hmm, why could that be? Christian makes Ana drink some water because she’s had a real fuckton to drink (Several cocktails, multiple glasses of wine and champagne), and she downs a glass and:
“I wipe my hand across the back of my mouth.”
Just picture it. Give it a second. Imagine the editor dangling in silhouette by a noose in their long-forgotten offices as people next door whoop distantly and count their piles of fucking money for this atrociously written mountain range of nonsense. I am. I’m that editor. This was a horror story in three sentences. Or so.
Ana reminds Christian fondly of that time he dragged her unconscious from a bar, undressed her, and slept next to her without her consent, and I guess it’s meant to be…romantic? I’ve heard a few romantic vomiting stories in my time, as I’m sure we all heave (typo unintended but happily left untouched), but this is not one of them.
Ana gets up and dances, and wonders why she spent so much time reading when she could have been doing this. She also thinks about how Jane Austen didn’t have good music to dance to, which is some bull fucking shit and got me thinking about how hanging out with Jane Austen would probably be a way better night than one spent with Ana Steele. Also, I just crunched the numbers, and if we go by the publication date of this book and the rough time period this scene is meant to take place in, there’s a good chance the club was playing Party Rock Anthem. I hate to remind you of it, but…
So yeah, just imagine that this song is scoring this scene, as I’m sure it will be in the movie. Ana is dancing away to LMFAO when some asshole comes up to her and starts feeling her up – she turns around and slaps him in the face, which is good, because she deserves to defend her bodily autonomy whenever it’s challenged by dickholes like that! And then, of course, we’re back into regression corner:
” I thrust my uninjured hand in front of his face,spreading my fingers to show him my rings.
“I’m married, you asshole!””
Oh, yeah, because that’s what makes it unacceptable – the fact that another man already owns you. Not because some jerk felt you up without your consent. That’s your husband’s job, dammit!
Speaking of, Christian storms up to the man and punches him. And then we get this edifying little bit of text:
““Christian, no!” I gasp in panic, standing in front of him to hold him back. Shit, he’ll kill him.”
The man who went after Ana is described as a blonde giant so I’m choosing to imagine him as Erik.
I’m pretty sure I’ve gone over the warning signs for an abusive relationship a dozen times in these recaps, but if not: fearing that your partner will inflict disproportionate physical harm on other people is one of them. Ana genuinely fears that Christian will beat this man to death in the middle of a club for touching his wife which, while shitty, he seemed to be backing down over after Ana told him off. How is that not chilling? How is that not frightening?
Forget what I said earlier by the way, because Ana lets us know what was playing, and it’s truly worse than anything I could have come up with:
“The song changes from the explicit lyrics of “Sexy Bitch” to a pulsing techno dance number where a woman sings with an impassioned voice.”
Wow, yeah, Sexy Bitch; because that’s not a pulsing techno dance number (also, the chances of that pulsing techno dance number being Titanium by Sia have got to be pretty high, right?). The guy who assaulted Ana gets to his feet and backs off, and Ana and Christian dance all sexy up on each other while Ana swoons over the fact that Christian can dance and that he punched a guy for no real good reason, I guess? They return to their seats, and Ana asks what they would have done if there had been press there:
““I have expensive lawyers,” he says coolly, all at once arrogance personified.
I frown at him.
“But you’re not above the law, Christian. I did have the situation under control.”
His eyes frost. “No one touches what’s mine,” he says with chilling finality,
as if I’m missing the obvious.””
This, but with a dozen times as many “fucks”
Alright, so what we have here is Christian strongly implying that he can get away with assault and goodness knows what other crimes because of his expensive lawyers, but battering away that doozy by reminding us that the only reason he got involved in that fight was because someone was touching his property. Not because someone had committed an assualt – because a dude who wasn’t him had his hands on his wife. I know I shouldn’t be surprised by this stuff any more, but it’s fucking sick the way these books paint possessiveness as romance, depicting incidences like this as examples as to why Christian loves Ana when he clearly views her another asset to own.
They go to leave and Kate remarks to Ana how well she can “handle” Christian, which is not something you should ever, ever, ever have to say about your partner’s temper, and the group gets their coats and goes (presumably everyone in the club breathing a sigh of relief as they do so).
They get back to the cabin, and Christian helps Ana undress and takes off her make-up because she’s too drunk to do so, and of course Christian is one of those dudes who’s like “I prefer you without make-up”. I know this is petty, but I’ve known far too many dudes over the years who expect back-pats for saying they find a woman more attractive without make-up like they’re martyring themselves for pussy, while I’m over here like “how nice for your boner, I’ll be putting on these bright blue eyebrows and black lipstick kthxbye”. And hey, with Christian, it’s always safe to assume the worst.
Christian puts Ana to bed, and refuses to have sex with her on the basis that she’s too drunk, and Ana falls asleep and this staggeringly boring chapter is over. All I have to show for it is the song Sexy Bitch in my head. I’ll have you yet, EL James.
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“I am ashamed I don’t know my husband’s grave” – Widow tells SARS panel
Mrs Christisna Nnatuanya, widow of Linus Nnatuanya who allegedly died in the custody of disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), in Awkuzu, Anambra, says she is ashamed that she can’t show her seven children the grave of their father.
Nnatuanya who testified at the Judicial Panel of Inquiry (JPI) on SARS activities in Awka on Tuesday said her husband was arrested at Ogbaru area of Anambra in January 2007 without warrant.
She said she could not see her husband until about six days when somebody told her that police personnel arrested some people in the area.
Christian said she later found her husband in SARS cell at Awkuzu.
She said her deceased husband told her he was arrested on the allegation that he was a member of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB).
“The heat and stench was much and my husband was allergic to heat. So they said I should go and bring N400,000, but I did not have it. I later raised N40,000 and on getting there, they said he had been moved to Abuja.
“It was one man by the name Ugochukwu Eze from Ebonyi who was arrested with him that told me that my husband had died in SARS cell; since then, all efforts to see him or his corpse have failed.
“People mock me that my husband died in SARS cell and there is no grave where I can point at where he was hurried. If only they can show me where they buried him, I can take the sand home for burial,’’ she said.
The petitioner said the panel should award compensation of N50 million to her and her children to cushion the pain of the loss and that the officers who were responsible for her husband’s death be brought to book.
In response, SP Innocent Obi, of the Legal Department of the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) Anambra, said there was no record related to the matter with the Police and prayed the panel to rule that there was no infringement on the part of the Police.
Hon. Justice Veronica Umeh, Chairman of the panel said investigation would continue on the matter.
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The Tailgate Toll
Photo Credit: Danielle Villasana | Daily Texan Staff
Published on April 29, 2011 at 12:31 am
It will cost more for Longhorn fans to enjoy the pre-football game sacraments of beer and grilled food if a Parking and Transportation Services proposal on tailgating passes.
The University will begin charging for reserved tailgating spots in Centennial Park next football season pending approval of a the policy. Centennial Park is next to the University’s tennis courts on Trinity Street, across Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard from the main part of campus.
PTS events manager Linsey Duett said the UT Police Department, the athletic department and PTS came up with the proposed regulations. She said the department has a price range in mind but would not release the proposed range since the policy is not official. The departments are expected to finalize the policy by next week, she said.
“There were people breaking the rules set out by the Board of Regents, and we want to get a handle on that,” Duett said.
She said the departments involved had concerns about businesses advertising and passing out drinks at the increasingly popular tailgating spot. The University prohibits both activities on its property.
She said, in years past, people have taped off spots up to a week in advance of home games, but UT staff has to clear the markings out for landscaping. Tailgaters also left behind stakes, which are prohibited on all University property. The department expects the new rules to bring more structure and order to the park before games.
President of the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity Isaac Gonzalez said his organization hosts tailgate parties at the park every year. The mechanical engineering senior said fraternity members already have to stretch to pay dues, and the cost of a spot to tailgate will be one more expense they have to absorb.
“We are still going to tailgate there,” Gonzalez said. “It’s too important to just stop, but it’s definitely a bummer.”
For himself and many students, he said tailgates have become just as important as the sport that inspires them.
“It’s just as big a tradition as Texas football itself,” he said. “People look forward to opening game all year, but it’s also the tailgate. It’s definitely huge.”
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The Meetings Show reveals Tomorrow’s Talent winners
Published By Neil Thompson on 12th August 2020
Ten of the meeting and event industry’s brightest talents have been named as the winners of the Tomorrow’s Talent initiative, launched by The Meetings Show in partnership with Meetings & Incentive Travel Magazine.
The initiative, sponsored by London Convention Bureau, aims to champion talented newcomers to the industry and provide a platform for nurturing, mentoring and supporting the industry leaders of the future.
Entries were judged by a panel of leading industry experts including Paul Harvey, deputy editor of M&IT; Paul Black, head of business events at London Convention Bureau; Patrick Delaney, managing partner at SoolNua; Fiona Macdonald, senior manager business events at VisitBritain; Ryan Curtis-Johnson, head of marketing and PR at DRPG; Leigh Cowlishaw, managing partner at Black Box Partnership and Ross Barker, group commercial director at Northstar Meetings Group.
Tomorrow’s Talent, now in its second year, is designed to shine a light on the meeting and events industry’s rising stars. This year’s initiative was open to any talented event planner or buyer with up to three years’ experience in the industry.
All entrants were assessed for their achievements to date, ability to face challenges, drive and ambition and engagement with the wider industry.
The 10 winners of Tomorrow’s Talent are:
Agnes Morgan, Ashfield Meetings & Events
Alexandra Cartlidge, Salesforce
Charlotte Buckley, ZiaBia Events Consultancy
Hannah Burrows, DMG Events
Jack Grover, Seven Events
Jenna Ingoe, DXC Technology
Megan Urwin, Successful Events
Nichola Moore, The Turner Agency
Rachael Kenny, Investors in People
Samantha Storey, Noble Events
Ross Barker, Group Commercial Director UK, Northstar Meetings Group, said: “It has been fantastic to be able to bring Tomorrow’s Talent back for a second year and we were overwhelmed with the standard of entries received from across the industry. Now, more than ever, it is important that we highlight and support emerging talent and we are thrilled to be able to provide a platform that helps nurture them. Congratulations to our 10 winners who have made such a huge impact within their companies and the wider industry in such a short time already.”
The Tomorrow’s Talent winners will be invited to The Meetings Show in October and to attend a London fam trip and lunch, hosted by the London Convention Bureau on a date yet to be confirmed.
The Meetings Show, which has been rescheduled to October due to the ongoing impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, will run a comprehensive, interactive virtual element alongside the live event to keep business meetings and events professionals connected and informed, wherever they are in the world.
Registration is open for the live show - taking place at Olympia London on Monday 19 and Tuesday 20 October - and the virtual experience, which will run on October 19, 20 and 21.
To register, visit http://www.themeetingsshow.com/register.
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The Roots Mural to Be Unveiled in Philadelphia
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The Roots are one of the most endearing rap groups in hip-hop. Now the hardest-working band are being honored in their hometown of Philadelphia with an honorary mural.
The mural, which was commissioned by the City of Philadelphia, will be unveiled at a dedication ceremony on May 31, according to muralarts.org.
Designed by Amber Art and Design featuring Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, the wall art pays tribute to the illadelph crew in such a unique and honorable way.
The mural is absolutely gorgeous. If you look closely, you can see all the band members profiles including Questlove's infamous afro and hair pick. There are also boomboxes and a tape that reads "Illadelph Halflife," which is the title of the group's classic third album.
“The first meeting with the artists was amazing; we shared ideas of what the final mural could end up looking like. It’s beyond anything Tariq and I ever dreamed of," said Questlove about the mural. "And to have it along South Street, near the same corners we were kicked off of for playing our music is fantastic."
The Mural Arts Program, which launched in the Fall of 2011, provides year-round art education to over 1,500 students throughout Philadelphia. The multifaceted project also includes a talkback lecture series called “Roots 101” in honor of the Philly band.
The dedication ceremony will begin at 11:30 a.m. ET. There will be food, prizes, music and a special appearance by the Roots.
Then on June 1, the 2013 Roots Picnic will kick off at Penn's Landing. The all-star concert boasts an impressive lineup of music acts including Naughty by Nature, Macklemore, Trinidad James, Solange, Hit-Boy and many others.
Congratulations to the Roots on their mural and their educational initiative with the Mural Arts Project.
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It started with the idea of showing a few artists on the theme Finnish manliness and it ended up with two shows called PASSION.
It works like a rally race: Jörgen starts and installs his art, later Jouni comes and changes the show around. We hope to see you at both openings.
Jörgen Erkius (Sweden)
Lives and works in Berlin. Erkius’ work is based on a performance-like process. It’s often a kind of circuit: it starts, goes on and ends, returning to a path similar to the one from which it began. This process is documented. Sometimes the result is photos, sometimes video. The objects he uses are gone: something has changed; there is a trace of the happening left.
Jouni Partanen (Finland)
Lives and works in Lahti, Finland. Partanen often works spontaneously within or with a given social context. He is a performance artist, often within collaborations, but also works with drawings and objects. He uses himself as an object and as a frame of reference. This is a process where a series of performances, previously made objects, drawings and, sometimes, personal belongings lead to an installation.
Ulrika Ferm
Platform is an exhibition and project room in Vaasa, Finland, run by artists and designers. It was founded in 2000 due to a need to see, talk about and practice contemporary art in a town that, from a contemporary art perspective, is situated on the periphery.
Platform arranges and produces exhibitions, projects and seminars according to longer-term themes. Many of Platform’s projects are characterized by social interaction where the local community becomes involved.
Like MAMA, Platform is one of the founding members of the StabilityMobility Network.
Curated by Ulrika Ferm, with the contribution of Jörgen Erkius, Jouni Partanen
HOME is the leitmotiv by which we encourage conversation about conceptions regarding belonging, representation and identification. HOME is a fundament, the place you return to and anchorpoint for the journey onward. HOME (offline as well as online) is the start of feeling connect to others. Under the name HOME we also present exhibitions in the showroom of MAMA. In collaboration with young makers we express interpretations about HOME | IN REAL LIFE | NETWORKS.
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Tag: Dark Matter review
Book club: Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
If you’ve never read a ghost story, or have been extremely sceptical about this genre then this is the novel for you. Its not a bump-in-the-night, jump-out-of-your-skin kind of ghost story, but rather a chill that slowly creeps over your skin with every page turn. A blend of Nordic folklore with hints of Greek mythology, Dark Matter is a powerful spine-tingling thriller that put me on the edge of my seat.
Set in the late 30’s, working-class Jack jumps at the chance of escaping a pre-war Britain and can’t believe his luck when he is invited to participate in an Arctic research expedition as a wireless operator. The ill-fated group set out for Gruhuken, a fictitious snow-bound island in the vicinity of Svalbard, Norway with a team of huskys, crates of equipment and hope.
Despite the disguised warnings and with the beginnings of trepidation in the air, the group start to realise that all is not as it seems in the Arctic. Daylight becomes a thing of the past and the endless nights starts to increase the groups’ uneasiness. Jack sees a figure by the hut, but quickly dismisses it until he is out taking readings later one afternoon. I felt the skin on the back of my neck prick when I realised that Jack suspects he is not alone; a scraping, a dragging echoing around the Arctic waste. A wet head rises from the water. Intent. Dread. Jack makes a break for it back to the hut. Did he actually see it? Is it real or a trick of the light, or, worse, a trick of his mind?
Before long, Jack is alone as the other characters leave for the mainland. Staying in a routine Jack tries to keep the horrors of his mind at bay. But it nags at him. The isolation of the bleak Arctic stillness permeating every pore. A thud. Is the bear pole moving? The creeping dread. And again the figure, malevolence radiating out from it. Ghosts can’t open doors, can they?
As Jack’s paranoia climbs to new heights, he realises the figure is in the room with him. Stumbling around he tries to get outside, to get away from it. He forgets his boots and before long realises his fate: he will die in the Arctic wilderness. Whether from the figure or the extreme conditions, Jack will not last long…
Jack is not a particularly likeable character. Paver’s style of writing in the first half of the book made me feel as though I was running through the story, from the meeting in London to arriving at Gruhuken the short sentences did not help to build up Jack’s personality. If anything, it emphasised his bitterness and short temperament, despite other characters commenting on his visibly calm facade at times.
But whilst I did not feel that Jack himself was endearing, his declining mental state was excellently portrayed by Paver. The worry and anxiety in the face of being alone on Gruhuken for the rest of the winter, Jack tries to keep in a routine but seemingly cannot hide his fear from those he communicates with. His fall into dispair, without being able to recognise it himself, and his hopelessness is resounding. His downward spiral stalled only by his new-found love of Isaak, one of the huskys whom he previously despised, really helped the reader understand the true sense of Jack’s loneliness and his need for some sort of interaction.
Gruhuken
Paver created Gruhuken from her memories of travelling around Spitsbergen and, I must say, that does give me some relief! Knowing that the figure dwells in a fictional place does help me to sleep at night to say the least.
Paver is brilliant at setting the scene; her description of the lessening daylight, the stillness and never-ending wastelands of the Arctic archipelago are so life like I felt as though I was suffering through the same ordeal myself. The words Paver uses really installed a wariness in me; his cabin little bigger than a coffin, all helping to create an intense atmosphere.
Like adverts and films, most novels have an abundance of dialogue. You notice if one ad is silent and moody. Dark Matter is no different. The novel is written in a journalistic style with the reader only having access to Jack’s thoughts; the plot centred around his observations and anxieties with little conversation helping to aid the story along. Its not a style I usually enjoy, but the descriptions and depictions of the Arctic wilderness and one man’s impending sense of doom make this book un-put-downable.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. And if you have any recommendations of other ghost stories I could try, do let me know!
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Mary Ellis, Student Nurse
by Hope Newell (1958)
Mary Ellis, the young Negro heroine of “A Cap for Mary Ellis,” is now in her second year of nursing school.
The work is harder and more time consuming than Mary Ellis or her classmates could have imagined. But despite their fierce schedule the second-year students have time to come to know their little sisters, to solve the minor dormitory mystery, and to grow and mature in many ways.
Mary Ellis learns much about herself through her work at the hospital. She faces several crises with varying degrees of success, is influential in arranging an operation and an adoption, and makes many new friends.
Hope Newell is well qualified to write about the field of nursing. Added to her factual knowledge is a deep perception and sensitivity to youth and humanity in general. “Mary Ellis, Student Nurse” is the story of a young girl working with love and dedication at her chosen career, and gaining insight and understanding of herself and the world.
Masquerade Nurse
Behind her was a shattered career, and broken hopes. Now she was living a false life, lying desperately to the man she loved.
Kathy Barrett awoke in a hospital bed…
When the lovely nurse opened her eyes she remembered the sickening skid, the crash, and nothing else. How did she get there; where were her friends Jim and Lynne? She struggled to speak, to ask questions of the handsome young doctor who stood at her bedside and who looked so much like Jim Stratton. His eyes were concerned, his voice tender as he spoke. “It’s all right, Lynne,” he said. “You’re going to be all right now, Lynne…”
This stirring novel is the story of a nurse who is the sole survivor of an automobile accident, a nurse who borrows the identity of her dead friend to find a new home and escape a threatening past, a nurse who lives a life of painful lies while she falls deeply in love with a dedicated young doctor.
by Faith Baldwil (1939)
This is the story of one of the most fascinating kinds of modern communities — a great city hospital. Within these walls live doctors, young and old, nurses, technicians, and patients of all varieties. Their lives are tuned to the rhythm of birth and death, and to the countless intense dramas that lie between.
Here is Dr. Bullard, who considered money a sin and refused to concede that a debutante could actually enjoy working in a hospital. Here is Jimmy Davenport, who fell in love with his floor nurse; here is the mysterious “Mrs. Smith” whose doctor had told her that the best place to hide is in the biggest hospital in the biggest city in the country. Here are diagnosticians, nurses interns, dietctians, clinical aids, and a host of patients.
Deftly, sympathetically, and with sure knowledge, Miss Baldwin tells of the lives of the inhabitants of this strange modern kind of community. She tells of the nurse whose yearning for romance is stifled by requirements of duty; of the doctor whose ideals conflict with his needs; of the sick child, the millionaire intern, the too-pretty patient. The fascinating world of a great metropolitan hospital comes alive in this many charactered novel.
Millionaire Nurse
by Katherine Foreman (1965)
Would her riches destroy her? — An exciting romance of medicine and high society.
is a fortune any way you look at it. And that’s what penniless young Andrea Corbury discovered she’d inherited — just minutes after receiving the R.N. degree she’d struggled so long for.
Andrea faced a hard and fateful decision. Would she practice the profession she was dedicated to? Or would she live the life of a gay society heiress — and earn the scorn of the handsome young doctor who loved her?
Miss Pinkerton, Adventures of a Nurse Detective
by Mary Roberts Rinehart (1914)
“Think it over, those of you who have something to conceal — are you certain that the soft-walking, starched young woman to whom in your weakness you talked so freely — are you sure it was not myself?”
Mary Roberts Rinehart is a master of suspense and the favorite author of millions of readers. Here is her most exciting heroine, Miss Pinkerton, nurse detective, who lives by the motto: “Doctor’s orders first and my own judgement next.” These four stories are written with such charm, wit, and with such feeling of excitement that Miss Pinkerton may soon walk off the pages of the book and onto a TV screen.
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TK Volleyball Building better athletes and better people
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To create a mentally and physically healthy environment for young athletes to test themselves through challenging training and competition. Athletes will be encouraged each and every day by a supportive staff of coaches who will seek to actively improve the overall lives of these athletes by being positive mentors who both know the game and seek to create balance between sport and life.
THE STORY BEHIND "TK"
What does “TK” mean? TK is short for “Talitha Koum” or “Taley Koum” (masculine) which when translated, means “Little girl/little boy, get up, arise.”.
The story of the logo: The Phoenix, the fire, and the volleyball...
TK difference and
Our mission statement is clear. We want to provide a healthy environment where athletes can be challenged - and challenge each other through the practice of healthy competition. We started this club as an alternative to those that already exist because we know that our methods work, and we know we can provide exactly what athletes want: An environment that is challenging, tough, and disciplined while at the same time being fair. They want an environment based on support and encouragement where every athlete knows exactly where they stand and what they need to work on individually at all times.
We believe that there are four pillars that support the healthy training of any athlete. If each of these pillars are strong, then the athlete has an excellent foundation upon which to build. Training these four pillars is the underpinning of our philosophy and reflected in just about everything we do.
This is how we measure our success. Not by how many games or tournaments or medals we win – or by how many athletes we send to college. We measure our success on how many athletes leave our gym at eighteen as healthy young adults ready to live whatever dreams they may have and fully prepared for any challenge the world may decide to send their way.
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developed through a combination of strength training, physical challenges, stretching and mobility work
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built by learning to push through physical challenges to develop an understanding that everyone is capable of so much more than they might know
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built on confidence created by the physical and mental pillars; allows the athlete to learn to be vulnerable and approach life with a student's mind
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an athlete with the strength and confidence to allow themselves to be vulnerable will awaken to the realization of a world outside their own - and of their responsibilities within it
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team only practices
No master coaching sessions or otherwise "shared" practice sessions unless preparing for competition through a scheduled scrimmage. Does this mean that coaches will isolate themselves and refuse to collaborate? Not at all! Quite the opposite in fact. Coaches are expected to lean on each other to strengthen teams.
TK Volleyball has on-site coaches and all athletes will receive strength, conditioning, mobility training as well as prehab for injury prevention.
We address the mental aspect of sports and will train our athletes with healthy coping mechanisms such as basic breathing and visualization skills. We will also offer help with both internal and external negative dialogue - all skills that will prove valuable both on and off the court.
We are truly attempting to create a better sense of balance for all families and their athletes. With careful attention to detail in regards to scheduling of practices and competitions, we strive to create a season that will offer top-notch training and competition with a healthy home and school life.
We work hard in the gym - that much is certain. However, we also understand that "more" is not necessarily better. Muscles aren't built during a workout; they're built while we sleep. Rest is even more important than the reps we take in the gym. Overtraining leads to fatigue, which leads to acute injuries and chronic pain - both of which contribute to an athlete's learning to dislike the game. Because of this, key rest and rejuvenation periods are built into every single age group’s training plan.
Not only will our older athletes act as mentors to our younger athletes, but we also work to have veteran parents available to assist parents new to club volleyball or to any parents who just want a sounding board in regards to recruiting, the stresses of competitive sports and/or what it means to be the mom or dad of a teenager.
Regular team-based meetings with discussions regarding time management, stress reduction, leadership, positive self-talk and other pertinent topics as deemed necessary by individual coaches to their particular team.
We understand that many in club VB pursue athletic scholarships, we also feel that our athletes’ work in the classroom is of utmost importance in affording them more opportunities and choices that could yield a better fit for them and their future. To that end, we will have programs that recognize academic achievement among TK athletes.
TK has a dedicated Recruiting Coordinator with the means to create a dynamic experience for every single athlete, - regardless of whether they want to go to a top D1 program or have something smaller and more intimate in mind such as a D2 or D3. We feel that our athletes and families need guidance through this arduous process and we are dedicated to doing whatever we can to help.
At TK Volleyball, we realize that what we are doing involves more than just training an athlete. We are helping parents to instill in their children the mindset and tools necessary for dealing with real-world issues. Volleyball is the vehicle, but it is neither the trip nor the destination. And their family is along for the ride - more often than not clueless as to how this whole thing works. As such we think we owe it to them to do our best to help them through the process.
what does TK
TK is short for “Talitha Koum” or “Taley Koum” (masculine) which when translated from Aramaic, means “Little girl/little boy, get up, arise.” And while it comes from a Biblical story, our club is not affiliated with any church or religious organization. Rather, the phrase is what serves as the inspiration and foundation to the club—“Little girl, get up”—“Little boy, get up”. What other lesson could we possibly want our athlete to know and fully understand than to always seek to rise again when we fall—when we struggle—when difficulties and adversity come our way? TK is committed to strengthening each of our athletes inside and out so that when they leave the program, they have a much stronger sense of who they are and what strength they have—both as an athlete and as a person.
The bird is a Phoenix – a mythical creature that (depending on the country/culture of origin) lives for a period of time, dies, and then rises in a burst of flame to be transformed anew. The Phoenix is a symbol—and has been for centuries—of humankind’s indomitable will. We want our athletes to feel powerful and capable of total transformation. We feel the Phoenix is the best symbolic representation of this mindset. The flame is part of the process that the Phoenix utilizes in its transformation but the flame also carries a bit deeper meaning for Suzanne—the creator of TKVB. Throughout her childhood, she had a horrible fear of fire having grown up in Southern California where wildfires would rip through mountain ranges near and dear to her home. It was somewhat ironic that she would later have to confront that fear and have to literally befriend fire and understand its true nature when she was in the Marine Corps. It was at this time that Suzanne fully understood that life brings us lessons and experiences that we must overcome so that we can become stronger and defeat those imaginary fears—and in so doing, when we confront and conquer those fears—we liberate others to do the same. The flame is a symbol of conquering fear and using obstacles as fuel for transformation.
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Frank Davis, Tobacco Tactics, updated 29 May 2012, accessed 17 January 2021.
Frank Davis is a pro-smoking blogger in the UK whose banner headline reads “banging on about the smoking ban.” 1. Davis is a smoker who disagrees with the smoking ban in indoor public places that was introduced in 2007. He has denigrated public health advocates with particularly aggressive language:
“We Must Destroy the Tobacco Control ‘Nazis'”
In response to a post by Forest’s Simon Clark that pro-smokers were losing the argument by calling the public health community “Nazis”, Davis replied:
My view is that these people must be called Nazis. Anything else is actually dishonest. They must have respectability withdrawn from them, just as they have themselves withdrawn it from others. They must be treated with the contempt with which they treat other people …. What we have is a state of war. And the sooner that people like Simon Clark recognise it, the better. We must set out not to debate with these people in a civilised manner, because that is impossible. We must set out to defeat them, and to destroy them, and destroy everything that they stand for, everywhere in the world. 2
Attack on Linda Bauld
The Letter to Linda
Davis penned a “letter to Linda Bauld” including the lines: “Those nasty emails and phone calls you’ve been getting weren’t organised or planned by anyone. I shouldn’t worry about them too much. It’s just the trailing edge of the swarm, like the zephyrs on the perimeter of a hurricane. But they’re not going to stop. They’re going to become more and more frequent. You should start worrying when bricks start getting thrown through your window, or messages daubed on your door. They won’t be planned or organised either. They’ll just happen.”
“Better still would be to leave the country .. That way you’ll be out of the country and maybe even living under a new name when your old university department gets torched, and your old colleagues are strung up from lamp posts.” 3
The article, which was also emailed to Bauld by mummybest see Anonymous Tobacco Trolls. For more on this see also:
Letter to Linda
Linda Bauld
Comments on Davis’ blog by others in response to this article
“You didn’t really think you could continue forever kicking people in the face with unanswered blows did you? No more hiding behind your protected academic immunity status while raining gutter level vitriol down on right decent folk. All the while you sit back reading and drooling over all of the ‘you stink’, ‘you’re filthy’ and ‘good riddance’ comments you’ve purposely incited. You love it, you cold blooded, majorly-credentialled snake … The dam is about to burst. You have no idea of how much pent up hostility is going to spill over the top when it finally breaks.”
Another posts a link to the UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies, saying “There are more than enough Tobacco Control “researchers” who may be feeling left out of this controversy and wondering why they have not been contacted.”
Another commentator translates it to German: ” Even if most Germans never heard of Linda Bauld, we have our own “Linda Baulds” who need to read something like this. :-)”
And one says: “It does not surprise me that the quack physicians and the quack professors involved in the Stirling Uni thing are horrified. Their whole cosy universe is about to be blown apart.”
Another says simply: “Need a Rope!”
This was not the first time Davis had criticised Bauld. In March 2011 he wrote:
“This report is by an anti-smoking zealot called Linda Bauld, and was no doubt conducted by a whole team of similar zealots, who were always going to find that the smoking ban had had next to no social adverse effects.” 4
Attacks on Deborah Arnott
Davis’s blog has attacked Deborah Arnott of ASH on more than one occasion:
“I Would Bludgeon her to Death”
Discussing a TV debate between Deborah Arnott and Dave Atherton from Freedom2Choose, Davis commented that “to be quite honest, if I’d been in Dave Atherton’s shoes, I’d have had a hard time preventing myself from strangling Arnott on the spot and on camera, or bludgeoning her to death with a microphone stand. 5
“Weaving Fiction” and “Hitlers”
In April 2012, Davis wrote: “And it’s why Deborah Arnott’s experience as a TV director or editor matters: as director of ASH, she’s just as much weaving a fiction as she ever was when she worked for ITV … The Deborah Arnotts (and also the Hitlers) of the world believe that Orson Welles had discovered a way of controlling and directing people”. 6.
“Put a Bulls-eye on her Forehead”
One comment posted in reply to Davis’ blog stated: “I just had a brainstorm regarding cigarette cases. My first instinct was to put Arnott or Glantz on the front with a bulls-eye on the forehead and then I thought – wait.” 7
↑Frank Davis blog
↑Frank Davis, Anti-Smoking Nazis, 13 April 2012
↑Frank Davis, Letter to Linda, 3 September 2011
↑Frank Davis, Impact of Smokefree Legislation, 24 March 2011
↑Frank Davis, Atherton Versus Arnott, 3 June 2011
↑Frank Davis, War of the Worlds, 23 April 2012
↑Frank Davis, Pall Mall Blue, 13 February 2012
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Lisa And Her Kin
Two Weeks In Texas
Kinship Records
The Miller family has been an institution in the Portland music community for over twenty years now. A musician and musical promoter herself, mother Lorna Miller’s brood of talented children include her eldest son, guitarist Chris Miller, who was a longtime local favorite (primarily with the Razorbacks throughout the ’80s), before migrating to Austin, Texas over a decade ago. Second in line was son Ian Miller, who initially gravitated to Portland’s underground Punk scene when he was still but a mere prat, turning in book reports at Multnomah Learning Center. His longstanding gig with his band, Apartment 3-G, lasted well into the ‘90s.
Sister Lisa Miller was more of a late arrival, honing her chops in the local open-mic folk scene for many years, eventually playing in a number of groups, most recently, with Trailer Park Honey. With that band, Lisa perfected a “trailer trash” country personae, which serves her well in this incarnation of the band. This recording, made in a couple of weeks while visiting brother Chris in Austin, features all three Miller siblings in integral roles, performing (mostly) Lisa’s compositions. Along for the dusty ride down a country road are former Honey bassist LW McGrath and Texan John Dorn on drums; as well as a whole passel of Austin ringers sittin’ in on the fun. In addition, Mizzletown’s own Rachel Browning lends her pipes to some of the back-up vocal chores on a couple of tunes.
This all boils down to a great album! The Austin hometown ringers provide so much authentic Texas country flavor, the tracks fairly drip with barbecue sauce. The first cut, “River Of Regret, is a perfect example. Over guest Ricky Davis’ whining pedal steel guitar and Micah Hulscher’s rollicking piano fills, Lisa sings, her husky alto caressing the vocals like eighteen wheels rolling on hot Texas asphalt.
With a hint of melody reminiscent of Gordon Lightfoot’s “Rainy Day People,” Lisa’s “Lucky Star” is a honky-tonk number worthy of Patsy Cline herself. Chris Miller’s slippery steel guitar phrasings slide effortlessly behind his sister’s dusky vocals. Eamon McLoughlin’s yearningly earnest fiddle solo adds more real country spice to the musical fricassee. Dorn’s “Walk Don’t Run,” surf-style drum intro decorates “Only Mama That’ll Walk The Line,” a rockin’ little number, lent mucho zest by Chris Miller’s stinging lead guitar solo.
Ricky Davis’ mournful pedal steel guitar and Earle Poole Ball’s Floyd Cramer-style piano flourishes furnish “Fools Gold” with stylistic authenticity, as Lisa wrings tears and beer from a memorable chorus. A classic. The gospel-tinged, hoedown two-step of “Preachin’ To The Choir” allows Lisa to explore different aspects in her vocal presentation, including a yodeling wail that nicely compliments the wholly unholy proceedings. McLoughlin uncorks a soulful fiddle solo, while Rachel Browning, along with John Twist, provides the response to Lisa’s calls.
“Sleeping His Way To The Middle” is a good-humored ditty, as familiar as an old pair of shit kickers- that is abetted by Poole’s roiling piano and Davis’ stellar pedal steel phrasings. Eeee-haw! A gentler number is the waltzing “Mending Matters.” Colored by McLoughlin’s filigree mandolin threads and winsome fiddle interludes, Lisa gives the song a plain, Loretta Lynn sort of vocal treatment. In a similar sentiment, “Rodeo Jewel” is a pretty, uptempo ballad. Ian Miller contributes a short, sweet and twangy guitar solo in the middle section, to add immeasurably to the true country grit of the song.
A bit of a rocker, “Sugar Pop” allows Lisa to toughen things up some, while Chris Miller adds fiery guitar solos to the mix. Hot! “Ladies Nite” is something of a country tear-jerker, certainly in line with the Tammy Wynette sentiments so closely associated with the genre: “She sits down at her vanity/searchin’ for some sanity/Hopin’ for a miracle to occur/Eyeliner and some rouge/red lipstick and a shot of booze/Now she’s ready for another night on the town” well if that don’t turn yer brown eyes blue, nuthin’ will.
“Jane’s Place” is a sprightly downhome tune. “Oh at Jane’s place, you never have to worry/Oh at Jane’ s place, it feels like home, without the hurry.” Piano and mandolin accompaniment, along with the other band members’ musical interjections create a celebratory atmosphere. Chris Miller’s short, sweet, steel guitar solo is a thing of beauty. The “secret track” at the end is a molten piece of swamp boogie, with Lisa exposing a bit of a snarl in her vocal delivery.
There aren’t a lot of bands in these parts, performing good old-time country music. This city is lucky to have the likes of Lisa Miller and Her Kin to present the genre in a genuine manner, with talent and aplomb. This album, with its bevy of illustrious guest performers, is just about as good as the genre gets.
Looking For Lori
Self-Produced
Kevin “Casey Nova” Nortness has been rocking in the Portland music community since Two Louies began its run twenty-three years ago. First, with his preeminent New Wave rock band, Casey Nova, Casey gigged regularly at clubs such as Long Goodbye and La Bamba, on bills with bands such as the Malchicks, the Odds and the Untouchables. Later, with the Cool Rays (in which TL’s own Dennis Jones played bass), Casey toured the North America and Japan extensively, becoming something of a sensation in the orient.
After that, it was the first incarnation of the Illustrations, the Shivers, the Paramours, before the re-formed Illustrations (with original member, drummer Brian Bickley and ex-Paramours lead guitarist Matthew Flier) in 1997.
Besides his talents as a musician and performer, Casey’s forte has always been his unerring ability to construct consistently good, occasionally brilliant, pop songs. It is distinctly possible that Casey may have squandered opportunities that his abilities might have afforded him stateside, by concentrating so much time and energy on his exploits ceaseless touring. Whatever the case, Casey Nova has never gotten the recognition he has always deserved- on a local level, if not on a much larger scale.
Because it’s a cinch that Casey and the Illustrations are a “national” act. The band members sound as if they have been playing together a long time (in a good way). Their songs sound familiar, but not imitative. It’s just solid, well-written, well-played pop music of a very high order.
The subject matter and tenor of the ten songs (and one extra “secret track”) presented on this outing are similar in context and presentation to the work of Neil Finn and Crowded House. These are mostly songs of love: lost and otherwise- unattained, unfulfilled, unrequited. These are eloquently anguished songs, with supple melodies that fit the lyrics like fine leather gloves. This album , these songs, are the obvious work of seasoned professionals.
The album begins with “5:55,” a song decorated by acoustic and electric 12-string guitars, as Casey’s warbling boyish tenor, reminiscent slightly of early Paul McCartney, presents the lyric, “It’s 5:55 now, so you ought to hate me/There is no reason, but maybe I’ll think of one,” over a pretty melody. With Brickley’s heartbeat kickdrum and Nova and Flier’s sludgy guitars, “Chocolate Heart” sounds like its subject matter.
The title track, rife with Flier’s moody guitar accompaniment, is an elegant paean to a dying love affair. Nova’s tremulously brittle voice breaks, like antique glass, into broken shards. “Fling” is a piquant, uptempo ballad, with tight, two-part vocal harmonies, calling to mind the work of the Rembrandts. Nice. “The Palace (Maria)” combines Neil Finn-ish song structure with Brian Wilson-like harmonies in the chorus. Flier’s chortling electric piano arpeggios give the song a bouncy momentum.
Brickley’s “The Queen” calls to mind Ray Davies or Karl Wallinger of World Party, while embellishing a tale of a man’s self-deprecating supplication to the whims of a beautiful woman. Lovely guitar phrases and delicate touches of piano, organ and even a cello part, color “Hattie, Maggie Says,” a gracefully exquisite number, about fleeting encounters. “I won’t stop to mention that by the way Hattie, Maggie says you’ve got a pretty name/I know if I did you would have guessed that you are my obsession/But Hattie, Maggie says that’s OK/ Since you don’t even notice me.” If nothing else, the song is direct.
“Bad Film” recalls Dwight Twilley from the ‘70s and the Fixx from the ‘80s. Toby Johnson’s sprightly bassline, coupled with Nova and Flier’s chunky guitar riffs, drive the song with a bouyant undercurrent. Descending to a darker instrumental region, “Down The Beam” recalls some of the Cars’ more vibrant work, with Casey’s lead vocal echoing that of Benjamin Orr. Intricate lead and backup vocals elevate this song above the ordinary.
Strains of accordion ripple through “Green Leather,” a simple song with familiar Novan themes: “I wrote you whatever thoughts crossed my mind/You called me neurotic/Guess you read the truth between the lines/When I told you about the weather/And how I love your green leather/Maybe four letters failed to arrive/But you got the fifth one/That message of surrender and goodbye.”
The hidden final track “Faster Police” (?) is practically two songs in one, with metal-tinged edges poking through the first portion while soft, acoustic guitar backing supports the latter section.
There is an element of self-pity in the lyrics to many of these songs, which tend to mitigate there impact somewhat. bathos and pathos are constantly at play , here. But Casey Nova is still better than most at coupling words with music. His songs reflect a level of compositional skill that is superior to his competition. Longtime fans of Casey Nova will recognize with this submission, his gift as being entirely intact. Those unfamiliar with his work (or the work of his sterling bandmates) just might be in for a pleasant surprise.
To B
Clandestine Records
Flatland have been in operation for over five years now, originally as a trio; gradually adding players to the fold as was deemed necessary. They are now a septet, though they will add additional side players on occasion- such as recent gigs where percussionist Chata Addy played with the band. Guest Saul Cline is aboard, on this project, adding his expertise on saxophone with that of regular member Mary-Sue Tobin. Through all of their manifestations, Flatland have elicited high critical praise for their (mainly) instrumental jazz musings, which draw heavily upon the rock idiom, ala Frank Zappa, Herbie Hancock, Return To Forever, Weather Report and, ultimately, Miles Davis- circa In A Silent Way and Bitches Brew.
This makes for an intoxicating concoction, especially when the band manages to incorporate Latin and African influences into the mix, as well. The band neatly fuses all these separate elements, with strong musicianship and clever arrangements that concentrate the focus on each member’s individual strength. And the members of this band have a lot of individual musical strengths, widely displayed over the course of the pieces presented here. Among the nine pieces, four are original pieces, one a traditional Malian folk song, and four others are compositions from some of the jazz masters
The opening cut, “To B”, written by drummer Steve Pancerev is a fine example. Under Don Corey’s sauntering bass lines, Pancerev and percussionists Eugene Flores and Nojeem Lassisi gently array a bed of tones and textures. Here a plaintive sax softly moans a middle-eastern flavored melody. At the bridge, guitarist Matt Wayne joins in a brief duet, before the sax resumes its solo. Then Steve Cleveland enters with a distorted solo on the Wurlitzer electric piano, in a style reminiscent of Jan Hammer or Joe Zawinul; intertwining with the guitar. Sublime stuff.
Corey kicks off the next track, Miles Davis’ “Jack Johnson,” with a percussive wah wah attack on bass, playing against expressive hand drumming from Flores and Lassisi. Pancerev joins in as Wayne injects subtle articulations. Sax enters in for a little trip on the outside. Corey inaugurates the next track, “Yer Mali Gakoyoyo,” the afotementioned Mailian folk song with a slow, luxurious stand-up bass excursion, before launching into a more spirited interlude, with sax duets playing against muted guitar contemplations.
Corey lends Herbie Hancock’s “Mama” a similar treatment, with a resonant introduction. The saxes create a warm waft through which Cleveland wends melodic gospel-inflected Wurlie threads. tasty. A bluesy context informs the Pancerev’s “Ursula,” with a riff shared by guitar and saxes buffeted by bouncy Wurlitzer passages. Corey’s feathery acoustic bass generates subtle momentum against Pancerev’s syncopated rim work and frothy cymbals. A nice interaction Cleveland and the saxes ensues, preceding an extended sax solo.
Volume pedal guitar whales swim in the murky depths of Don Cherry’s “Guinea,” before Pancerev propels the rhythm section, setting the scene for intertwining sax/guitar figures. After extended sax solos, Wayne launches into an expansive spacewalk with the digital delay. Next, the entire line-up launches into a lengthy cruise down a funky musical highwayon Davis’ “IFE,” with sax and electric piano jousting for the forefront, before guitar intercedes with a rambling, Robbie Kreiger (guitarist of the Doors) like solo. The percussion section then takes over to create an ambiance similar to that of Deodato’s “Also Spoke Zarathustra.”
Corey’s exciting Spanish-guitar styled entry solo on bass, creates a smoldering atmosphere, on his composition “New Guinea, “from which the song slowly combusts, with an arresting vocal emerging from the fiery coals. Lastly, the final number, Wayne’s “Urchin,” is a free jazz excursion with squawking saxes fighting against flailing guitar, before a sax rises from the ashes with a tawdry theme.
Flatland have grown into an excitingly proficient ensemble, more than capable of creating a wide variety of Jazz moods. The high caliber of musicianship throughout this project affords the band the uncommon luxury of being able to tackle an extensive array of styles; apprehending them and amplifying them- far beyond mere mimicry. These musicians are more than equal to the high standards set by the pioneers of jazz fusion, carving a clear path of their own, upon which to advance.
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Chargers overcome rally, beat UAA in OT for road sweep
Posted on November 6, 2016 by Michael Napier
Matt Salhany scored with 1:06 left in overtime, salvaging a 3-2 UAH victory and a series sweep over Alaska Anchorage.
It was first-ever sweep in Anchorage for UAH (4-7-1 overall, 4-3-1 WCHA), which swept a second road series in a season for the first time since 2004-05. With 13 points, the Chargers moved into third place in the WCHA standings.
UAH had a 2-0 lead and was in control throughout most of the first two periods, but Anchorage (1-7-0 overall, 0-4-0 WCHA) rallied for two in the third to force overtime. The Chargers outshot the Seawolves 34-16.
The first period was similar to Friday’s first period, except on Saturday there were no goals. The Chargers kept most of the action in the Seawolf end, but the difference was UAA didn’t make the critical mistakes, and goaltender Olivier Mantha made the stops — 14 in fact. Meanwhiel, UAA only mustered three shots on goal in the period.
The second period was full of penalties, the most crucial being a vicious hit on Brennan Saulnier by UAA’s Mason Mitchell. Saulnier was on his back for a few minutes as Mitchell received a five-minute major penalty for contact to the head, a two-minute penalty for roughing, and a game misconduct.
Saulnier was able to go to the bench on his own power, and was back in action on the ice as the Chargers had over six minutes of power play time to work with. He was quickly stoned by Mantha, who pounced on a wrap-around attempt.
UAH would finally not be denied on the major power play. Hans Gorowsky, from the left circle, ricocheted the puck off the left post and in at the 8:26 mark of the second period. It was Gorowsky’s third goal of the season, with Max McHugh got the primary assist, his fourth, for his nice pass from the slot. Josh Kestner also notched his fifth helper.
The power play would end on a too many men on the ice penalty on UAH, and Adam Wilcox’s elbowing call gave the Seawolves a chance to equalize with a two-man advantage. However, the Chargers were able to cleanly kill those penalties.
A penalty was called on each team in the final minutes of the period, and on the ensuing 4-on-4, Kurt Gosselin wristed a shot to beat Mantha with 48 seconds left to give UAH a 2-0 lead. The goal was confirmed on a lengthy video review, although the referee confused matters as he made a wave-off motion as he came back on the ice, followed by a point to center ice for the face off.
McHugh and Cam Knight got the assists on Gosselin’s goal.
UAA thought it got its first goal at 2:39 of the third period, but Jarrett Brown’s shot was found to hit just the cross bar and was ruled no goal.
The Seawolves did get their first score for sure at 5:19. Matt Anholt puts in a rebound UAH goaltender Jordan Uhelski could not catch or cover a high save on Jarrett Brown’s shot, cutting UAH’s lead to 2-1.
UAA would tie an a costly turnover. The Chargers turned it over in their own zone while on the power play, and Nick Rygaard got the puck all alone in front, beating Uhelski to tie the game at 2-2 with 5:53 left in regulation.
In overtime, Salhany drove to the net, and around Anholt, beating Mantha high, for the game winner. It was Salhany’s second goal of the season. Gosselin got the assist after a steal that led to the winning play.
Uhelski finished with 14 saves.
The Chargers, after playing five of their first six series on the road, play their next three series at home over the next four weeks. UAH hosts Alaska next Friday and Saturday.
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Rusted Memories: Inside an Abandoned World War II Nazi Labor Camp in Krakow, Poland
by james and karla murray
All photos by James and Karla Murray
This is an article by photographers and authors James and Karla Murray, who lead our food tour of the disappearing storefronts of the East Village. On their most recent exploration, they head to Krakow, Poland to explore and photograph the Liban Quarry, an abandoned World War II Nazi work camp.
Arriving in Krakow, Poland where we would spend the next 5 days, we knew at least one of those days would be devoted to traveling to the site of the nearby Auschwitz concentration camp. That was our plan. But on our first day in Krakow, we heard from a local about an abandoned World War II Nazi work camp just outside the center of the city. The work camp was located in an old limestone quarry that was left to slowly decay and was mercifully being reclaimed by nature. Feeling that this might give us a unique perspective on the atrocities that took place not only in Poland, but across Europe not that long ago, we decided to hike across the Vistula River to get a better look. In an age where tolerance unimaginably seems to be brought into question again, we wanted a quiet and somehow more personal experience than we felt we would get in the tourist-heavy memorial and museum sites nearby.
The quarry is located on the south side of the Vistula River and can be reached from the center of old Krakow by walking down Krakowska Street across the Pilsudskiego Bridge toward the Krakus Mound. Once on the Krakus Mound, you can reach the quarry itself by following an unmarked path toward the Podgórze Cemetery along its rim. Standing on the rim of the quarry in a driving rain, an unseen weight pushing on our shoulders, already heavy with backpacks, we knew we had made the correct choice. We were the only two living things taking in the gray, wet, and sorrowful vista at that very moment. We started shooting photographs. The experience was profound. Loose gravel underneath our feet broke the deafening silence as we left the rim, the ancient Krakus Mound behind us, and began our decent into the quarry. We found our minimal conversation was spoken in a hushed whisper. The question of why we were whispering was met with a shrug.
The Liban Quarry in Krakow, Poland was established in 1873 as part of a limestone company, “Liban and Ehrenpreis,” owned by two Jewish industrial families from Podgórze. Buildings and a railway line were laid as limestone was excavated from the rock. The quarry later focused on the production of quicklime, where the limestone rock is crushed and fed into kilns where it is heated to produce quicklime or lime, a versatile mineral with a variety of chemical uses including steel manufacturing and construction. During World War II from 1942 to 1944, the Nazis took over the Liban Quarry and used prisoners from the nearby Plaszów Forced Labor Camp to perform manual labor at the quarry for its wartime construction efforts. The large rusted lime kiln structures that remain at the long abandoned quarry today are likely from its usage after the war, when it resumed operation after the Germans “cleaned out” the work camp before Russians liberated the area.
The Liban Quarry became more widely known for its use by Steven Spielberg as the set of all the Plaszów Labor Camp scenes from his movie Schindler’s List based on the book Schindler’s Ark. Mr. Spielberg did not want to use the actual Plaszów Forced Labor Camp location out of respect for inmates who were exterminated at the camp on the orders of SS commandant Amon Goeth. As determined by the Highest National Tribunal of Poland, after hearing witness testimony from survivors, approximately 8,000 people died in the Plaszów camp by execution. Speilberg constructed 34 barracks, watchtowers, fence posts strung with barbed wire, and even a pathway lined with Jewish headstone props at the abandoned Liban Quarry as a highly realistic replica of the Plaszów Forced Labor Camp. He likely chose the quarry as it not only was scenic with huge limestone rock cliffs as well rusty lime kilns and other quarry machinery abandoned in place, but it also had a historic connection to the WWII SS atrocities as mentioned in the book. The headstone pathway was recreated by Spielberg because at Plaszów, the Nazis used real tombstones from Jewish graveyards at the site of the labor camp to pave the roads leading into the camp so that the prisoners were forced to walk over the relics of their ancestors on their way to and from work every day. Although many of the structures constructed for the movie set were dismantled and removed after filming was completed in 1993, the recreated fence posts strung with barbed wire and the tombstone road remain.
When walking around the quarry, we immediately felt a powerful sense of history. Instead of walking through a curated tour of a largely recreated concentration camp, you can wander amongst the abandoned structures and get a sense of what it must have been like to perform forced manual labor while at the quarry.
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How NFL Offseason Moves Will Affect Fantasy Football
By Mike W
It is always important for fantasy football players to pay attention to NFL free agency period because it can completely change the way some players are valued. Joining the right team can turn a player into fantasy star after years on the waiver wire. Here are five players that drastically changed their fantasy football value by switching teams this offseason.
Terrelle Pryor
Terrelle Pryor was one of the biggest surprises during the 2016 NFL season. His ability to catch, run and throw made him an extremely valuable commodity in fantasy football. His great season is even more impressive when you consider he did it with the Cleveland Browns. Pryor will finally get the chance to play with a great quarterback after joining the Washington Redskins. The loss of DeSean Jackson and Pierre Garcon will also make Pryor the top receiving threat on Washington this year. He should easily top his 1,007 receiving yards from last season.
DeSean Jackson may not catch a lot of passes, but he always puts up a solid fantasy stats. After signing a $35 million contract this offseason, his move to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers may seem enticing, but it actually hurts his value. Jackson’s value comes from his catching deep passes, but Jameis Winston struggles throwing the ball deep. Mike Evans is able to adjust to these poor throws because he is very tall, but Jackson lacks the height needed to adjust to bad passes. If Jameis Winston does not improve as a passer, then DeSean Jackson will struggle in Tampa Bay. However, if Jackson fits right in, all three players’ value in fantasy football will soar. Either way, Jackson will make more more this year than most of us would hope to earn in a lifetime, so we think he’ll be just fine.
Martellus Bennett
Leaving the New England Patriots usually hurts your fantasy value, but that is not the case with Martellus Bennett. Aaron Rodgers is the only NFL quarterback with skills that can match Tom Brady, so Bennett will be just fine in Green Bay. Bennett will have no competition at the tight end position in Green Bay, so he should see a lot more passes thrown his direction. Look for Martellus Bennett to become one of the most valuable fantasy tight ends this season. He may even top his great 2014 season that saw him catch 90 passes for 916 yards.
Mike Glennon
Mike Glennon had no fantasy value as the backup quarterback in Tampa Bay, but signing with the Chicago Bears was not ideal. Glennon has the ability to be a solid starting quarterback in the NFL, but he has absolutely no skilled receivers in Chicago. Glennon could have been worthy of a fantasy roster spot if he signed with the Jets or Texans, but it is hard to see him putting up big fantasy numbers with the Bears.
Latavius Murray is not a very efficient rusher, but he can still put up solid fantasy numbers when used as the primary running back. Murray is leaving the jumbled committee in Oakland to become the primary back with the Minnesota Vikings. The poor offensive line in Minnesota will limited his upside, but Murray should be a reliable source for fantasy points all season. Do not get scared by his recent ankle surgery. He will be fine for training camp.
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Comparative Urodynamics of Appendiceal and Ureteral Mitrofanoff Conduits in Children
Stephen H. Watson, Stuart B. Bauer, Craig A Peters, James Mandell, Arnold H. Colodny, Anthony Atala, Alan B. Retik
Urology - Adult
We report the cystometric and conduit pressure profilometric findings of 20 children for whom the Mitrofanoff principle was applied to the construction of 21 continent catheterizable urinary conduits. Mitrofanoff conduits were fashioned from ureter in 10 cases, appendix in 8, ileum in 1, stomach in 1 and a combination appendix and ureter in 1. Conduit pressure profiles showed that functional profile length correlated strongly with the static profile maximal Mitrofanoff closure pressure (p = 0.04) and dynamic profile maximal Mitrofanoff closure pressure (p = 0.02). There was a statistically significant difference between clinical continence rates for children above and below the functional profile length threshold of 2.0 cm. (p = 0.05). The zone of continence corresponded to the region of the conduit intramural tunnel. Only 2 of 21 conduits were incontinent but both were constructed with ureters implanted into bowel reservoirs. Compared to appendiceal conduits, ureteral conduits had a lower functional profile length (p less than 0.01) and static profile maximal Mitrofanoff closure pressure (p less than 0.01), indicating a possible advantage to the use of the appendix.
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Watson, S. H., Bauer, S. B., Peters, C. A., Mandell, J., Colodny, A. H., Atala, A., & Retik, A. B. (1995). Comparative Urodynamics of Appendiceal and Ureteral Mitrofanoff Conduits in Children. The Journal of Urology, 154(2), 878-882. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-5347(01)67193-3
Comparative Urodynamics of Appendiceal and Ureteral Mitrofanoff Conduits in Children. / Watson, Stephen H.; Bauer, Stuart B.; Peters, Craig A; Mandell, James; Colodny, Arnold H.; Atala, Anthony; Retik, Alan B.
In: The Journal of Urology, Vol. 154, No. 2, 08.1995, p. 878-882.
Watson, SH, Bauer, SB, Peters, CA, Mandell, J, Colodny, AH, Atala, A & Retik, AB 1995, 'Comparative Urodynamics of Appendiceal and Ureteral Mitrofanoff Conduits in Children', The Journal of Urology, vol. 154, no. 2, pp. 878-882. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-5347(01)67193-3
Watson SH, Bauer SB, Peters CA, Mandell J, Colodny AH, Atala A et al. Comparative Urodynamics of Appendiceal and Ureteral Mitrofanoff Conduits in Children. The Journal of Urology. 1995 Aug;154(2):878-882. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-5347(01)67193-3
Watson, Stephen H. ; Bauer, Stuart B. ; Peters, Craig A ; Mandell, James ; Colodny, Arnold H. ; Atala, Anthony ; Retik, Alan B. / Comparative Urodynamics of Appendiceal and Ureteral Mitrofanoff Conduits in Children. In: The Journal of Urology. 1995 ; Vol. 154, No. 2. pp. 878-882.
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== Global overview == HTML5 is different from HTML4 in a way that it addresses both document and application semantics making it more suitable for the web applications created today. HTML5 also reflects implementations better where they differ from HTML4 to ensure the language is implementable and compatible with the web. Inspired by the forward compatible error handling in CSS HTML5 defines detailed processing models where necessary to ensure that implementations become interoperable and that the language stays extensible in the future. HTML5 also integrates a new version of DOM Level 2 HTML so the element-specific APIs are defined along with the rest of the language. Because the language is mostly defined in terms of the DOM it's very easy to get an XML serialization as well. This XML serialization is called XHTML5 and is basically an update to XHTML1.x. == Syntax == ; Writing HTML5: HTML5 specifies its own syntax rules authors have to follow. HTML5 documents can be written in a way that looks exactly like XHTML although this does not imply that parsing such a document with an HTML parser will give the same result as parsing it with an XML parser. ; Parsing HTML5: HTML5 defines its own parsing rules (including "error correction") for text/html resources and no longer pretends that HTML is an application of SGML. == Elements and Attributes == === New elements === ==== Document Structure ==== * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-article article] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-aside aside] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-dialog dialog] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-figure figure] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-footer footer] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-header header] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-nav nav] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-section section] ==== Data ==== * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#audio audio] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-embed embed] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-m m] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-meter meter] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-source source] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-time time] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-video video] ==== Applications ==== * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-canvas canvas] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-command command] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-datagrid datagrid] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-details details] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/#the-datalist datalist] (Web Forms 2) * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-event-source event-source] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/#the-output output] (Web Forms 2) * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-progress progress] === New Attributes === An overview of all elements from HTML4 that got new attributes in HTML5. {| ! Element !! Attributes |- | a || media?, ping |- | area || ping |- | base || target |- | button || autofocus, form, replace, template |- | fieldset || disabled, form |- | form || data, replace |- | input || autocomplete, autofocus, form, inputmode, list, min, max, pattern, step, replace, required, template |- | li || value (no longer deprecated) |- | meta || charset |- | ol || start (no longer deprecated) |- | select || autofocus, data, form |- | script || async, defer |- | style || scoped |- | textarea || autofocus, form, inputmode, required |} HTML4 didn't have a concept of an attribute that applies to every element. HTML5 calls such attributes global attributes. The following attributes from HTML4 are made global attributes: * class * dir * id * lang * title The following new attributes are global attributes: * contenteditable * contextmenu * draggable * tabindex === Changed Elements === These elements have new meanings in HTML5 which are incompatible with HTML4. The new meanings better reflects the way they are used on the Web or gives them a purpose so people can start using them. ; [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-a a]: The a element without an href attribute represents a "placeholder link". ; [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-address address]: The address element is now scoped by the new concept of sectioning. ; [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-b b]: The b element now represents a span of text to be stylistically offset from the normal prose without conveying any extra importance, such as key words in a document abstract, product names in a review, or other spans of text whose typical typographic presentation is emboldened. ; [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-hr hr]: The hr element now represents a paragraph-level thematic break. ; [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-i i]: The i element now represents a span of text in an alternate voice or mood, or otherwise offset from the normal prose, such as a taxonomic designation, a technical term, an idiomatic phrase from another language, a thought, a ship name, or some other prose whose typical typographic presentation is italicized. Usage varies widely by language. ; [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-menu menu]: The menu element is redefined to be useful for actual menus. ; [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-small small]: The small element now represents small print (for side comments and legal print). ; [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-strong strong]: The strong element now represents importance rather than strong emphasis. === Dropped Elements === That these elements are dropped means that authors are no longer allowed to use them. User agents will still have to support them and HTML5 will probably get a rendering section in due course that says exactly how. (isindex for instance is already supported by the parser.) * acronym (use [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-abbr abbr] instead) * applet (use [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-object object] instead) * basefont * big * center * dir * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-font font] (allowed when inserted by WYSIWYG editors) * frame * frameset * isindex * noframes * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-noscript noscript] (only dropped in XHTML5) * s * strike * tt * u === Dropped Attributes === Some attributes for elements included in HTML4 are not allowed in HTML5: {| ! Element !! 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Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli’s attorney filed a motion to have their trial in the college admissions scandal postponed after evidence he deems “exonerating” was brought to light.
In court documents obtained by Fox News, the famous couple’s attorney, Sean M. Berkowitz, alleges that newly released personal notes from scam mastermind William “Rick” Singer point to FBI investigators directing him to lie and say that he made everyone involved with the scam aware their payments were bribery rather than legitimate donations to schools.
In January, the couple’s attorney accused prosecutors of withholding evidence that could help prove that they weren’t aware the money they were paying to Singer to get their daughters, Isabella and Oliva Jade Giannulli, admitted to USC went to personal bribes. The couple’s attorney now says that the trial should be postponed in light of this new evidence that puts blame on FBI investigators.
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“Singer’s notes indicate that FBI agents yelled at him and instructed him to lie by saying that he told his clients who participated in the alleged ‘side door’ scheme that their payments were bribes, rather than legitimate donations that went to the schools,” the court documents read. “They further note the Government’s desire to ‘nail’ one of the defendants ‘at all costs.’”
Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli’s attorney believes ‘exonerating’ evidence has come to light in the college admissions scandal. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
The motion includes Singer’s notes, in which he accuses the investigators of asking him to “bend the truth.”
“Loud and abrasive call with agents,” Singer wrote in his notes. “They continue to ask me to tell a fib and not restate what I told my clients as to where their money was going — to the program not the coach and that it was a donation and they want it to be a payment.”
The motion to postpone goes on to scold prosecutors for not turning over the evidence earlier, forcing the couple and their attorneys to demand the evidence in other court filings.
“The supplemental discovery produced today demonstrates that the Government was simply not being truthful with Defendants or the Court in the above filings, given that as early as October 2, 2018, Singer told agents working on the case the exact information we have been seeking in discovery, and those agents attempted to bully him into lying and saying something different,” the court document reads. “This belated discovery, which should have been produced no later than 30 days after indictment, is devastating to the Government’s case and demonstrates that the Government has been improperly withholding core exculpatory information, employing a ‘win at all costs’ effort rather than following their obligation to do justice.”
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The motion concludes: “The Government is trying to benefit from withholding information in violation of its obligations and the Defendants’ constitutional rights, but then force trial as quickly as it can. The Government should not be rewarded, nor the Defendants punished, for this kind of egregious lack of candor and violation of its obligations.”
Actress Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli’s attorney is hoping to get their college admissions scandal trial postponed in light of new bombshell evidence. (Photo by Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Loughlin and Giannulli previously pleaded not guilty to expanded charges of bribery brought against them in October along with 11 other parents swept up in the scandal. The duo has been accused of arranging a total collective payment of $500,000 to Singer to get their daughters recruited to USC as athletes on the crew team, despite never having participated in the sport.
The charge of conspiracy to commit federal program bribery carries a maximum sentence of up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000. The couple was previously hit with charges of money laundering and conspiracy that could land them behind bars for 40 years if convicted on all of them.
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Oneida County Reports 214 New Cases, Herkimer County Reports Another Death
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Oneida County nearly doubled its previous record for new cases in a single day on Tuesday, as County Executive Anthony Picente announced 214 new lab-confirmed positive test results.
In making the announcement at a late afternoon press conference that was prompted by the record load of new cases, Picente called the number 'alarming'. The previous single day high for the county was 109. That came earlier in November, a month that has seen Oneida County repeatedly set new highs for cases in a day, and active cases.
With Thanksgiving just two days away, Picente again urged residents to be diligent and to take as many precautions as possible.
Noting another number heading in the wrong direction, the county exec. said the number of county residents hospitalized continues to grow, and is now at 50. Of those, 35 are at MVHS facilities, 7 are at Rome Memorial and the remaining 8 are out of county. Picente said 15 of the 50 are nursing home residents - a category that is especially susceptible to the worst of COVID-19.
After peaking at just above 400 during the county's so-called first wave, Oneida County's active cases total has now ballooned to 1,151.
Picente also said the county will no longer report public exposures, echoing neighboring upstate county leaders who've said the coronavirus is around, and you can get it anywhere. So, wherever you go, take precautions, protect yourself and others and monitor yourself for symptoms.
And, Oneida County residents won't get a daily COVID update on Thanksgiving, he said, allowing the holiday to be celebrated without a number looming over the day. Picente also said the county would be changing over to a different 'data system' for tracking coronavirus numbers.
While the number of new cases reported in Herkimer County was just 12 on Tuesday, officials did announce the area's latest coronavirus death.
The death is Herkimer County's twelfth since March and second since Friday.
The active case total in Herkimer County is now up to 160, a new high for the county. There are six county residents hospitalized for treatment of coronavirus, officials said.
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The Truth Behind Lies: Song of the South
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As a child of age six or seven, I remember watching the Disney classic Song of the South and thinking how wonderful it must be to live in Uncle Remus’ fantasy world; however, now after taking a second look at this film, twelve years later, I realize that if I were a part of that world, I would be a slave. Slavery is romanticized so much through this children’s film that it’s easy for young black children to innocently long to unknowingly become an American slave.The Walt Disney animated Song of the South is much more than just an entertaining fairy tale, it has both social and political significance, serving as a means to mold innocent children’s minds by teaching white superiority and black inferiority, thus coveting very racist ideals; yet, also in underlying message, it allows a means of outlet for the millions that were oppressed in slavery.
The ever popular Walt Disney Song of the South is based on Joel Chandler Harris’ book of stories entitled Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings.Joel Chandler Harris was a white journalist who published the first Brer Rabbit slave folklore stories, tales that he had heard told by an elder slave during his youth, in his local newspaper. After gaining popularity Harris took on the alias of an elderly slave, Uncle Remus, and published his first book, Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings. This move by Harris was a very controversial one. Through his adoption of the Uncle Remus character he brought a literary minstrel show to life. He used Uncle Remus as a sort of “black face” in print.This literary minstrel show gives light to a mocking of the African American culture. Throughout his book all of the African American characters are extremely exaggerated so as to add humor and lighten the immoral institution of slavery, thus downplaying its severity.
Due to the great amount of recognition and fame that Harris’ book received, Disney felt compelled to make Uncle Remus’ tales into the animated classic Song of the South. This film was an instant success among both children and adults.In this film, Disney’s first hired black actor, James Baskett, playing the role of the slave Uncle Remus, seemingly befriends and entertains his young white master with African folklore and culture.
In a sense this movie serves as a feel good film for many whites trying to justify the unjustifiable, slavery. This movie which was released in the 1940’s depicts racial harmony in the south between slaves and their masters. This depiction is a very inaccurate portrayal of the relationship between slaves and their masters. It serves as a basis to take away from the horrid, gory, and immoral nature of slavery.For instance, whenever Johnny, the little white boy, is upset about anything, Uncle Remus always comes to his rescue and tells him a story to cheer him up. During this scene it almost seems as if there loving relationship between the slave and his young master.
This relationship is strongly exaggerated throughout the film in order to down play the reality of being a slave. Throughout this movie, the characters of Uncle Remus’ tales were clearly depicted as slave characters with the sole purpose of entertaining its white master.For instance when Uncle Remus is telling Johnny about Brer Rabbit and the Laughing Place, all of the animated figures are wearing the dull clothing that the slaves are seen wearing throughout the film, speaking in an extremely exaggerated Gullah dialect, and are blatantly depicted as very unintelligent characters. This animated interpretation demeans the African American folklore and further degrades African American culture. Disney’s Song of the South portrays African American people as humans with weak character who are comical, ignorant, and submissive.
When Uncle Remus, a slave, is seen dancing and skipping while singing Zip e dee do dah, slavery is once again depicted as fun and games. Uncle Remus seems as if he loves his current position as a slave and would prefer no other place but the plantation. When in actuality this is probably farthest from the truth. In reality, slaves where not even treated as human beings. They were said by whites to be born inferior for the sole purpose of servitude and entertainment, a lesser breed, so to speak.Slaves were forced to behave in a submissive way and entertain their masters with their seeming ignorance due the fear of beatings, hangings, and other types of cruel treatment. These are but a few details that happen to be missing from Disney’s wonderful harmony filled world of the south.
The world that is relayed to many children through this film can have very negative affects on their lives. The minds of children are very impressionable and movies such as Song of the South give a very strong message to its viewers.During the film, Toby, the young slave child, is constantly reprimanded for his actions, while Johnny is treated as if he is an angel even in situations where he may have been wrong. The message of this scene echoes the social order our society, teaching children of all cultures white superiority and black inferiority. These false teachings can be very damaging to children, due to the fact they may very well reenact the depicted behavior. This film serves as basis to keep people “in their place.
If someone, especially a child, is constantly told negative things about themselves they began to believe these things and fall as a victim to the negative teachings; on the other hand, if another child is constantly uplifted by society and told that they are capable of all things, they will be more likely to be successful in life. An accurate portrayal of life in the south before the Emancipation Proclamation can be seen when listening for the deeper meaning of the Brer Rabbit stories. Story telling is a very large part of African American culture.
Since slaves were not allowed to read, write, nor openly express themselves, they had to resort to other means of emotional outlet. Due to these restrictions they resorted to oral tradition. The stories that were told during Song of the South give insight to the true lives of American slaves. For instance, the Brer Rabbit tales are much more than they appear to be. For Uncle Remus Brer Rabbit is much more than an entertainment piece.
Brer Rabbit is seen by the African American slave as a representation of himself. In most of the tales Brer Rabbit is smart and clever, always outsmarting the other characters.The talents that Brer Rabbit possesses are those needed by slaves for survival on the plantation. In the film, during Uncle Remus’ tales, Brer Rabbit always escaped for his oppressors. Due to the unhappy nature of life, for a slave, on the plantation, many slaves had to outsmart their master in order to escape and runaway to freedom just as Brer Rabbit always did. The Brer Rabbit character represents all aspects of freedom. Throughout the film, Uncle Remus was seen as a very loving, kind, and docile, while Brer Rabbit, the main character of each of his stories, was many times portrayed as violent and hateful.
Brer Rabbit is Uncle Remus’ outlet. In the story entitled Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby, Brer Rabbit is stuck in tar because he wouldn’t control his temper and mind his business. This put Brer Rabbit in the position where he is about to be roasted by Brer Fox; however, he uses his intelligence to talk his way out of the situation and into freedom. Uncle Remus lives as a freeman through this character outsmarting his oppressor and unmasking his real feelings regarding the institution of slavery. Many limitations were put on slaves due the master’s fear for of control.These limitations were meant to oppress the slaves and limit their thinking abilities, thus keeping them under a veil of ignorance. Although many laws were made for oppression, the Brer Rabbit tales erased these limits.
Through the Brer Rabbit character there were infinite possibilities. The lessons taught during these tales show that the slaves were very aware that they were not inferior and that no one should accept limitations on self. Due to the fact that slaves knew that they were not inferior, they were able to tolerate and be somewhat content in their situation.This contentment is also shown through Uncle Remus’ stories. During each of his stories Brer Rabbit’s survival is based on his ability to reverse situations.
This reliance on reversal helps the possibility loom that they may soon be free from bondage. The characters of slave folklore provided a life without bounds for the oppressed and allowed them to be, not happy, but content. African Americans have been depicted in a variety of ways that attempt to lower the black moral and force its people into submission, while heightening the white conscience and lifting it out of immorality.Song of the South and Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings serve as a perfect attest to the previous statement. When skimming the surface, as Joel Chandler Harris’ and Walt Disney have done while portraying their various interpretations of slave folklore in Song of the South, there is a definite picture of racism and an establishing of sociological roles based on race. However, it is not until you look beneath the surface that you will find the true meanings the African American folklore.
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