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Up to Photo Library
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A side altar in the Mechelen cathedral.
A large reliquary in the Mechelen cathedral.
I can't tell if this is a reliquary or a tabernacle. In any case, they're closely related. A reliquary is a storage place for a relic - a piece of a dead saint. A tabernacle is a storage place for concecrated hosts - pieces of jesus. Their evolution and the adoration of relics and the adoration of the eucharist (a piece of jesus) is closely linked.
This is in the Mechelen cathedral.
Two reliquaries in the Mechelen cathedral.
A reliquary in the Mechelen cathedral. The reliquary appears to hold somebody's hand or forarm, or perhaps both. I would guess that it's most likely the hand or a piece of the hand.
Organ pipes in the Mechelen cathedral.
The organ manual in the Mechelen cathedral.
The altar in the Mechelen cathedral.
There was a bishop buried inside the cathedral who had this monument.
I find that his grip on the crucifix is amusing, but recognize that this is immature.
In the cathedral in Mechelen, Belgium
A stained glass window over an altar in the Mechelen cathedral.
A stained glass window in the Mechelen cathedral.
A monument in the Mechelen cathedral.
A confessional in the Mechelen cathedral.
A statue of a saint in the Mechelen cathedral.
I don't know who the saint is, but he's got an angel kneeling next to him and is feeding a sausage to a dog or a wolf. On closer inspection, the sausage, looks like, um, not a sausage exactly, but um. Wow.
A statue of a tortured Jesus in the Mechelen cathedral.
A altar to the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Mechelen cathedral.
The woman was trying to teach her youngest child how to kneel and pray. At some point, the assistance of the older child was required to get the younger one into the correct position.
The woman was trying to teach her youngest child how to kneel and pray. The older child is demonstrating how you should hold your arms while praying.
A woman and two children pray in the cathedral in Mechelen, Belgium
The interior of the cathedral in Mechelen, Belgium was full of statues.
The interior of the cathedral in Mechelen, Belgium was full of statues. That thing on the right is the pupit.
In the middle is St Thadaeus, who IIRC, was crucified upseide down. This was at his own request because he thought he was unworthy to die in the same manner as Jesus.
Rear organ pipes in the cathedral in Mechelen, Belgium.
This is a detail of the pulpit in the cathedral in Mechelen, Belgium.
The scene is the conversion of St Norbert. This conversion involved him falling off of his horse.
I don't know if the women are the women below the cross or if they are unrelated to the crucifix.
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XX Vaisampayana said, After Yudhishthira had stopped, the great ascetic Devasthana, possessed of eloquence, said these words, fraught with reason, unto the king Devasthana said, Phalguna has told thee that there is nothing superior to wealth. I shall discourse to thee on that subject.
Listen to me with undivided attention, O Ajatasatru, thou hast righteously won the earth. Having won her, it behoves thee not, O king, to abandon her without cause. Four modes of life are indicated in the Vedas. Do thou, O king, duly pass through them, one after another. At present thou shouldst, therefore, perform great sacrifices with profuse presents. Amongst the very Rishis, some are engaged in the sacrifice represented by Vedic study, and some in that presented by knowledge. Therefore, O Bharata, thou must know that the very ascetics also are addicted to action. The Vaikhanasas, however, are said to preach that he who does not seek for wealth is superior to him that seeks for it I think that he who would follow that precept would incur many faults. Men collect together diverse things for the performance of sacrifices simply because of the Vedic ordinance.
He who, tainted by his own understanding, giveth away wealth to an undeserving person without giving it to the deserving, doth not know that he incurs the sin of killing a foetus The exercise of the duty of charity after discriminating the deserving from the undeserving is not easy. The Supreme Ordainer created wealth for sacrifice, and He created man also for taking care of that wealth and for performing sacrifice. For this reason the whole of one's wealth should be applied to sacrifice. Pleasure would follow from it as a natural consequence. Possessed of abundant energy, Indra, by the performance of diverse sacrifices with profuse gifts of valuables, surpassed all the gods. Having got their chiefship by that means, he shineth in heaven. Therefore, everything should be applied to sacrifices. Clad in deer-skins, the high-souled Mahadeva, having poured his own self as a libation in the sacrifice called Sarva, became the first of gods, and surpassing all creatures in the universe and prevailing over them by means of that achievement, shines in resplendence. King Marutta, the son of Avikshit, by the profusion of his wealth, vanquished Sakra himself, the chief of the gods.
In the great sacrifice he performed, all the vessels were of gold, and Sree herself came in person. Thou hast heard that the great king Harischandra, having performed sacrifices, earned great merit and great happiness. Though a man, he nevertheless vanquished Sakra by his wealth. For this reason everything should be applied to sacrifice
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Characterization of interactions and pharmacophore development
Gja5
Maternal antibodies transported across the placenta can provide vital immunity against
Posted on June 1, 2017 by Carmen Sanders
Maternal antibodies transported across the placenta can provide vital immunity against infectious pathogens for infants. The highest Neonatal: maternal ratio (NMR) was found in measles (1.042) and the ratios for the other pathogens ranged from 0.84 to 1 1.00. Linear regressions showed that log(NMR) decreased by a factor of 0.04C15.43 as log(MA) levels increased. A second analysis restricted to maternal positive measles sera revealed that MA measles of was still inversely associated with NMR. Low NMR was found in high MA HIV?+?serums among 22 paired sera. MA levels appear VX-809 to play a role determining transplacental antibody transfer; further study is needed to reveal the mechanism. Maternal immunoglobulin G (IgG) is transported across the placenta by an active, neonatal Fc receptor (FcRn) mediated process during pregnancy. This transport can confer short-term passive immunity1,2,3 and protect infants against attacks throughout their first weeks of life. Particular maternal antibodies offer immunity against infectious pathogens for babies until their personal immune system offers time to adult4. Infectious illnesses have already been a danger to babies5. Within the last 10 years, measles, hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) and human being immunodeficiency disease type 1 (HIV-1) disease have remained general public health problems among infants in a few countries, including China6,7,8. Another disease, poliomyelitis, a crippling and fatal infectious disease possibly, could be nearing eradication by giving continued appropriate vaccination technique among babies9. Transplacental transportation of antibodies offers been shown that occurs to various levels for a number of infectious illnesses. For example, IgG transplacental transfer continues to be researched among term and preterm babies for several antibodies, including tetanus, varicella, measles, and human being papillomavirus (HPV). Preterm babies were discovered to benefit less from maternal antibodies, posing them at higher risk for infectious diseases in the first months after birth than term infants10,11,12,13. This difference may be related to the temporary decrease in total IgG during the second trimester of pregnancy due to hemodilution14. Infections also influence maternal humoral immunity. Infants born to HIV-infected mothers have been found more likely to be measles antibody seronegative and had lower levels of antibodies than those born to HIV-negative mothers15. However, limited data are available on how maternal antibody (MA) levels influence transplacental VX-809 transportation15. Decreasing transplacental transport of measles antibody has been reported associated with VX-809 increasing levels of measles antibodies in maternal serums in some western countries and African countries14,16. However, studies of certain diseases, as well as studies in China, are lacking. Here we examine the MA levels for various antibodies of measles, HFMD, poliomyelitis virus (PV), and HIV infection, and their associations with neonatal antibody levels. Results Measles, CA16, EV71, and PV I, II, III antibodies Demographic characteristics and seroprevalence of antibodies Excluding 22 HIV?+?mothers, 711 mother-infant pairs were enrolled in this study with a median gestation period of 38.9 weeks (range 35C43), median delivery age of 27.7 years (range 16C45) and median birth weight of 3.2?kilograms (range 1.6C4.8). 62.7% (446) of infants were born by vaginal delivery. Antibody Levels for measles, coxsackievirus A16 (CoxA16), enterovirus 71 (EV71) and Poliomyelitis virus (PV) I, II, III in maternal and newborn serum samples are provided in Table 1. Less education (below college), diabetes and measles vaccination were related to higher maternal measles titers (p?<?0.05). Less education was also linked to higher CA16 titer (p?=?0.008), and women of older gestation age (39 weeks) were associated with higher PV II titers (p?=?0.047). Table 1 Seroprevalence of measles, coxsackievirus A16, enterovirus <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/14613?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Gene.Gene_ResultsPanel.Gene_RVDocSum">Gja5 71, and poliovirus I, II, III antibodies in maternal and newborn serum samples. Positive relationships between neonatal and maternal titers (geometric mean concentration) were found for all 7 antibodies (r: 0.918 for measles, 0.733 for CA16, 0.828 for EV71, 0.778 for PV I, 0.786 for PV II, and 0.683 for PV III; p?<?0.001). 81.6% of pregnant women (95% confidence interval (CI): 78.6C84.3) and 87.3% of newborns (95%CI: 84.8C89.7) were measles antibody positive. 87.0% of pregnant women (95%CI: 82.3C90.9) and 72.7% of newborns (95%CI: 66.7C78.2) were positive for CA16 neutralizing antibodies. For EV71, the positive rates were 82.3% (95%CI: 77.0C86.8) and 72.2% (95%CI: 66.2C77.8) respectively. Neonatal: maternal ratio (NMR) The highest NMR was found for measles (1.042). The NMRs for CA16, PV I-III and HIV-1 antibodies ranged from 0.84 to 1 1.00. Subjects with positive maternal measles, CA16, EV71, PV I, and III antibody titers, were found to have significant lower NMRs compared with subjects with negative maternal serum levels (Table 1). Negative maternal sera also had a higher NMR for PV II antibody than the positive sera; however, the difference did not reach statistical significance. Multiple linear regressions results showed that MA titer was the common, statistically significant factor related to NMR. Indeed, NMR decreased by a factor of 0.04C15.43 as log(MA) levels increased (Table 2). Table 2 Linear models for NMRs as a function of maternal levels for <a href="http://www.adooq.com/vx-809.html">VX-809 different antibodies. After we restricted the analysis.
VX-809
Latest findings show that zinc is an important factor necessary for
Posted on May 13, 2017 by Carmen Sanders
Latest findings show that zinc is an important factor necessary for regulating the meiotic cell cycle and ovulation. Supplementation with a methyl donor (SAM) AMD 070 during IVM restored histone H3K4me3 and doubled the IVF success rate from 17% to 43% in oocytes from zinc deficient animals. Thus, the terminal period of oocyte development is extremely sensitive to perturbation in dietary zinc availability. loci, hypermethylated around the paternal allele (Davis et al., 1999; Tremblay et al., 1997). Relative hypomethylation in the growing oocyte helps to maintain a high rate AMD 070 of transcription (Bouniol-Baly et al., 1999; De La Fuente and Eppig, 2001; De La Fuente et al., 2004). High transcription in oocytes is necessary to produce and store the large quantity of maternal RNAs and proteins (Schultz and Wassarman, 1977; Sternlicht and Schultz, 1981; Wassarman et al., 1979) that are needed as maternal factors until embryonic genome activation. However, because of the considerable hypomethylation, many of the transcripts produced in the oocyte are of repetitive sequences, such as the mouse transcript (MT) family of retrotransposons, which accounts for up to 14% of transcripts in fully-grown oocyte (Evsikov et al., 2004; Mehlmann et al., 2004; Peaston et al., 2004; Peaston et al., 2007). Later in oogenesis, transcription of repetitive elements including, intracisternal A particle (and mRNAs was conducted using gene specific primers (Table 1) and mRNA as the normalizer as explained previously (Livak and Schmittgen, 2001; Tian and Diaz, 2012). Only one product of the appropriate size was recognized for each set of primers and all amplification products were sequenced to confirm specificity. Primers for repetitive elements (and test was detected. Proportional data was transformed (arcsine) before analysis. The JMP 7.1 statistical analysis software (SAS, Cary, NC) and Microsoft Excel were utilized for analyses. Results Zinc deficiency causes epigenetic flaws in oocytes To determine that oocyte epigenetic coding is changed in zinc lacking oocytes, we utilized immunofluorescence staining and measurements of nuclear fluorescence strength in GV-stage oocytes from control and zinc lacking pets to measure distinctions in chromatin methylation. Dimethylation of H3K4 had not been altered with a 5 time treatment using a zinc lacking diet (Amount 1A). However, little if any staining was noticed for trimethylated histone H3K4 in zinc lacking oocytes (Amount 1B). To see whether DNA methylation may be suffering from zinc insufficiency also, an antibody against 5-methylcytosine (5-MeC) was utilized to identify global AMD 070 DNA methylation. Amazingly, DNA methylation was also significantly low in zinc lacking oocytes in comparison to control oocytes (Amount 1C). Amount 1 Aftereffect of zinc insufficiency on chromatin methylation in GV-stage oocytes Preconception zinc insufficiency causes aberrant gene appearance in oocytes Epigenetic flaws, particularly decreased DNA methylation could hinder global transcriptional silencing and/or silencing of recurring components in oocytes. The appearance AMD 070 of several extremely abundant and essential oocyte transcripts was assessed by qPCR as an indirect way Gja5 of measuring transcriptional silencing. Focus of and mRNA had been reduced by ~50% even though mRNA was just moderately reduced ((P=0.08), Amount 2A) in zinc deficient oocytes. The focus of and mRNA weren’t changed by zinc insufficiency in oocytes. On the other hand, there have been significant raises in concentrations of transcripts for numerous repeated elements. transcripts improved more than 20 collapse while and transcripts improved 2C3 collapse in zinc deficient oocytes. In contrast, transcripts did not differ.
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Alaric Bond
Author of historical nautical fiction
Hellfire Corner, first in the Coastal Forces series
Artwork by Geoffrey Huband RSMA
My Fighting Sail series was launched over ten years ago and currently consists of twelve books set during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Most are based around the Royal Navy of the time although I have also touched upon the Honourable East India Company and the merchant service in general. I strayed twice to write two books that concentrated more on the work of the revenue service but, until now, my entire output has focused on the turn of the nineteenth-century. However the urge to explore a later period, and navy, has always been strong.
I was born in the ‘fifties and amongst my school friends there was much talk of World War Two, then a recent conflict. Most of our parents had been in the services or working for the war effort in some way and Southern England still held many reminders in the shape of pill boxes, bomb shelters and anti-invasion measures for youngsters to seek out and explore.
Even then my main interest was maritime history, and I began to read accounts of twentieth-century naval actions as avidly as those from a hundred and fifty years before. It soon became obvious that, once again, the Royal Navy was pivotal in securing peace in Europe and equally major warships had not been responsible for every victory.
The Battle of the Atlantic, surely one of WW2’s longest and most punishing campaigns was arguably won by convoys of merchant shipping, often made up from elderly, dilapidated vessels and frequently escorted by equally aged destroyers and underpowered corvettes. And Dunkirk, though by no means a victory, could still be considered a success due mainly to Royal Naval small craft backed by civilian owned and manned “little ships”. Together the two unlikely allies brought about a rescue as remarkable as it was audacious. Even the immediate defence of Britain’s home waters lay very much in the hands of lighter vessels and I quickly found myself concentrating all my attention on this aspect of WW2 sea power.
During the course of my reading I also noticed a similarity between the Royal Navy of 1939-45 and that of the Georgian era. In both periods Britain placed little emphasis on preparing for conflict and the sudden building programme that saw hastily constructed fleets of warships take to the water demanded an equivalent increase in manpower to sail them. As a result, the relatively few professional seamen available were quickly swamped by untrained civilians brought in to fill the gaps.
6th MGB Flotilla, Robert Peverell Hichens' MGB 64 leading
Thankfully measures such as the quota act and press-gangs were unnecessary during the later conflict, although conscription was exhaustive and not all those called for naval service came willingly. But, as in the past, a good proportion took to the life and prospered with the many news skills that would set them up in well-paid jobs at the end of hostilities. Some even went so far as to volunteer for special service in divisions such as Naval Intelligence, the Submarine Service, the Fleet Air Arm or Coastal Forces, and it was the latter that drew my attention.
Originally formed during World War One, Coastal Forces administered the Royal Navy’s high-speed launches; the Motor Gun Boats, Torpedo Boats and Motor Launches whose role in the defence of home waters was later extended to cover many other areas of conflict. Small, fast and eminently vulnerable, Coastal Forces’ craft undertook a multitude of tasks ranging from convoy and minesweeper protection, through the clandestine delivery and recovery of SOE agents or escaping airmen, to direct attacks on enemy merchant shipping and coastal targets. Their crews were exclusively volunteers drawn from both the regular Royal Navy and ‘hostilities only’ recruits – many of the latter having been in civilian occupations barely months before. And they were supervised in the main by officers equally fresh to Service life, being drawn from the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.
Much of Coastal Forces’ work was undertaken at night, in the worst of weathers and their main opponents were the Kriegsmarine’s own small craft. These included the heavily armoured VPs that carried far greater weaponry, minesweepers which could be the size of small destroyers and the vastly more powerful E-Boats.
Most of the early British vessels were small indeed, the majority being between sixty-three to just over seventy feet in length, and there could be little formal naval discipline on craft of such a size – something the few regular officers were quick to realise if not always understand. With crews regularly consisting of under ten men, it was not unusual for entire departments in larger vessels to be represented by a single rating aboard a high-speed launch. Inevitably something close to a family environment evolved and, although attention might be paid to the courtesies of rank and uniform ashore, when at sea the attitude was considerably more relaxed.
MGB 66 at speed with the crew at action stations,
off the coast at Fort William
Despite what some maintained to be a dangerously casual approach, Coastal Forces was to become a major influence in the outcome of World War Two. Some of their successes might not have attracted public attention although a few, such as the daring raid on the dry docks at Saint-Nazaire, did come to prominence and all undoubtedly affected the outcome of the war.
Serious research for my Coastal Forces series began over four years ago and the first instalment, Hellfire Corner, is due for release during the early part of 2020. I hope to follow it with another although further Fighting Sail books are also planned.
Outside the Lord Warden Hotel,
the building that became the Coastal Forces base
HMS Wasp during WW2
Hellfire Corner contains many aspects of what quickly became a private war, including conditions on land. My fictitious MGB flotilla is based at Dover, an English town that suffered more than most from intensive air raids and was also subject to long-range artillery bombardment from the nearby French coast. Investigating civilian social history can be as fascinating as the military aspect, although the focus is very much on time spent at sea and naval action.
Launching a new series has brought back many feelings of trepidation experienced when starting Fighting Sail (I actually began writing His Majesty’s Ship over twenty years ago), but this is definitely not the end of my Georgian naval saga. The next Fighting Sail book has been outlined in rough and there are at least two more to follow. Ideally, I’d like to alternate between the two subjects and eras; there is a massive amount of material in each and many more stories to tell.
Hellfire Corner is due for release at the end of January 2020 and will be available in all popular formats.
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St. Joseph - characterization in 'The Cherry Tree Carol'
I've always been quite taken with Stephen Cleobury's arrangement of "The Cherry Tree Carol".
It's a traditional English carol about a pregnant Mary and her husband Joseph walking through an orchard. Mary wants a cherry and the cherry tree itself, recognizing who Mary is, bows down to her so that she can easily pluck cherries.
I find the idea compelling. Nature itself recognizing the Queen of Heaven.
And because Mary is still pregnant throughout this carol, it works at Advent or Christmas carol services.
But as I compared two slightly different versions of Cleobury's arrangement recently, I noticed a profound difference in the role Joseph plays in the carol.
In Cleobury's first version of this arrangement from 1985, he sets a seven stanza version of the carol. (This version is available in a publication called A Trio of Carols from Oxford.) Joseph doesn't really do or say much here.
"Old" version from 1985
Joseph was an old man
And an old man was he,
When he wedded Mary,
In the land of Galilee.
And as they were walking
Through an orchard so good,
Where were cherries and berries
As red as any blood.
O then bespoke Mary,
With words both meek and mild,
‘Pluck me one cherry, Joseph,
For that I am with child.’
‘Go to the tree then, Mary,
And it shall bow to thee;
And you shall gather cherries
By one, by two, by three.’
Then bowed down the highest tree
Unto our Lady's hand;
‘See,’ Mary cried, ‘See Joseph,
I have cherries at command.’
‘O eat your cherries, Mary
O eat your cherries now;
O eat your cherries, Mary,
That grow upon the bough.’
Then Mary plucked a cherry,
As red as any blood;
Then Mary went she homewards
All with her heavy load.
In this carol, Joseph seems to know that the tree is ready to bow down to Mary. He encourages her to go to the tree. In the penultimate stanza, Joseph rejoices with Mary, if the lines "O eat your cherries, Mary" can be considered rejoicing. Maybe it's just some encouragement? This is odd. Perhaps Mary is skeptical about the tree's intentions. Anyway, Joseph comes off as a supportive husband in this one.
In the version that is more familiar to us now, however, the carol is rather dramatically reworded. There is an additional stanza, and Joseph doesn't come off well at all. This "new" version is published in Advent for Choirs from Oxford and is published separately. It was in the King's College Choir's hands as early as 1996.
"New" version
Joseph and Mary walked
through an orchard good,
Where was cherries and berries,
so red as any blood.
so meek and oh, so mild:
for I am with child.’
O then bespoke Joseph,
with words most unkind:
‘Let him pluck thee a cherry
that brought thee with child.’
O then bespoke the baby,
within his mother’s womb:
‘Bow down then the tallest tree,
for my mother to have some.’
unto his mother’s hand;
Then she cried, ‘See, Joseph
O then bespoke Joseph:
‘I have done Mary wrong;
But cheer up, my dearest,
and be ye not cast down.’
Things take a severe turn in that fourth stanza. In this "new" version, he is not exactly a supportive husband.
In the "old" version, Joseph was happy to tell Mary how to get the cherries. In fact, he was privy to the knowledge that the cherry tree was willing to bow down. Here, however, he seems to have some unresolved issues with Mary's pregnancy.
Furthermore, the in utero Christ gets a voice in this carol, which is perhaps unique in the carol repertoire(?).
But the inherent conflict in this carol gives the narrative more texture. From within the womb, Christ instructs the "tallest tree" to bow down.
The connection we are meant to draw, I think, is that "him…that brought thee with child" is depicted here with nature itself operating at Mary's command.
In the "old" version you could describe Joseph as lazy, at worst. In the "new" version Joseph is mean, but his momentary cruelty allows for Mary's command of nature to stand more clearly as a symbol.
What I find utterly awkward in this "new" version, is the egg-on-his-face Joseph of the penultimate stanza.
There is a brief apology in there, which is nice. It's addressed to us, the audience, but I wish we could just sit Joseph down and be like, "look, dude, apologize to your wife directly."
It would be the catharsis this carol needs.
The feeling of things being unresolved persists for me, not only with Joseph's weak, saccharine apology but also with the way Cleobury masterfully arranges the last line of this carol: "all with her heavy load."
Not only is she bearing the infant Christ, but she's burdened with this mean "old man" as her husband.
The heaviness of the organ part, especially as performed in King's College, Cambridge, is marvelously evocative of these burdens. (You really need to be listening on proper speakers/headphones, or with a subwoofer, to get the full effect.)
Labels: Advent, Christmas, Cleobury, St. Joseph, the Blessed Virgin Mary
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Unintended consequences.
Further to my post about racism in South London, in which I wondered why once genuinely mixed populations seem to have become racially polarised, I've come across this piece on Spiked, which explains why.
A raft of new legal and policy measures was initiated to eradicate institutional racism - the most significant of which was the Race Relations Amendment Act 2000. This places a duty on over 43,000 public authorities to 'promote…good relations between persons of different racial groups' - effectively requiring bodies to prevent acts of racial discrimination before they occur. Social institutions such as the police force, education system, and health service are now legally obliged to monitor people's interaction with each other in order to tackle racism.
But the more public authorities talk about racism and devise anti-racist policies, the more they racialise people's everyday experience. It seems that everyone today is seen as a potential racist who needs to be monitored and every member of an ethnic minority as a potential victim of racism.
It's sad, is what it is.
The Jews in France.
Letters to the editor.
Janet Jackson's political analysis.
Microsoft VBA help files.
Criminal law & the Right.
Date cute heathen guys.
Contingency plans.
Insane or stupid?
At the root of evil.
Futility in the face of evil.
Oh. My. God.
I don't understand baseball.
Where do people learn these things?
Strange electoral tactics.
Customer service.
Aye, right.
Attitude versus policy.
Pets meet politics.
Lazism.
A new type of microwave.
No free speech in this election.
Rock stars are morons.
A delicious fish pie.
He.
No hypocrisy involved.
Keep fit the natural way.
There's such a fine line between clever and stupid.
Copyright and irony.
Stomachs are not combustion engines.
The evil Nestle.
Logic.
Statism and whisky.
Jealousy.
Brian bloody Eno.
Film scores.
Things you don't often see.
Oo! An antisocial behaviour order. Well, then.
Filth.
The scariest thing about the Internet.
Small-scale bad luck.
The Retro-Encabulator.
Those crazy Soviets.
I'd love to see the Labour Party's photo archives.
No dogs.
The cost of BBC DVDs.
Speed cameras don't piss people off; people piss p...
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Jason Elias: Pop Culture Idiot, An Irreverent Look At Pop Culture From One Of The World's.. Biggest Whiners.
Natalie Morales Moves To Access Hollywood
on May 7, 2016 in Access Hollywood Billy Bush Jenna Bush Hager Natalie Morales Tamron Hall Today
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on May 2, 2016 in Callie Torres Ellen Ellen Pompeo Grey's Anatomy Patrick Dempsey Private Practice
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Michael Strahan Leaves Live! With Kelly and Mike
on Apr 27, 2016 in Kelly Ripa Live! With Kelly and Michael Michael Strahan
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Prince 1958-2016
on Apr 27, 2016 in Prince
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Michael Strahan Leaves Live With Kelly and Mike, Earth Tremors Felt From The Worlds Collective Shoulder Shrug
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The People V. O.J. Simpson
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Josh Elliot Leaves NBC, A World Rejoices. Jenna Wolfe Leaves NBC and a World Cries!
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The Fab Life: A Review From Someone Who Hates Television
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The Meredith Vieira Show and NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt.
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The Parenthood Finale: Oops Zeek/Zeke!!
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Legends of the Mat
My Ringer Beat Your Ringer
By BigApple, June 7, 2011 in Legends of the Mat
BigApple 86
I was the wrestling coach of the Ft. Wolters, Texas (about 40 miles west of Ft. Worth) base team. Ft. Wolters at that time was the primary helicopter flight school for the US Army. In addition there were many foreign students. I taught in the Leadership Branch, which also got the officer classes for pre-flight. My high school coach had been an AA for Ed Gallagher at Oklahoma A&M, so I'd had some pretty decent coaching in high school.
I figured some of the students in the officer classes might have wrestled in college. I was the scheduling officer for 15 officers. So I made sure that I got a different section each day. I'd ask them if any of them had wrestled in college. Finally one day a student held up his hand, he said he hadn't wrestled in college, but had wrestled for Greco-Roman for Turkey in the 1960 Olympics and placed 5th. Rafik Turna was his name, and he was at 136.5 in 1960 and could still make in 1968 even though he smoked and drank.
First day of practice I'm in the down position I stand up and the next thing I know I am flying through the air straight to my back. I said that is a slam! Rafik replied no it was a Salto. So every day I got an education in Greco Roman wrestling from Rafik, how to do arm throws, spins, jap whizzers, and gut wrenches.
We could use foreign students in dual meets, but not the tournaments for the Army teams (Ft. Wolters which had about 4,000 stationed there, took a team of foreign students as their soccer team and won the 4th Army tournament easily. After that the generals said no more foreign students!).
I convinced Rafik that as good as he was, there was no way the Ft. Sill team would have anyone as good as he was. So he agreed. Goes out in the first period and hits a 5-point arm throw. Then he stalls the rest of the match and wins 5-3. I realized the wrestler from Ft. Sill was pretty good. When the match was over Rafik, said you lied, he was pretty tough. When the meet was over the coach for Ft. Sill comes over and asks me who my 136.5-pounder was? I said who was yours? He said mine was 2nd in D-2 last year. I said mine was 5th in the 1960 Olympics, my ringer beat your ringer!
Rafik completed his 5 months at Ft. Wolters and then went to Ft. Rucker. I never saw him again, nor how to get in touch. I still teach some of the stuff he showed me, and tell these two stories.
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dransfeldtisadork 0
There wasn't a Div II in the 1960s, it was College Division. Div II and III seperated in 1973.
oldcougar 54
I was coaching youth wrestling. We had a meet for the league championship. The other coach cheated with his kids at every opportunity, hiding kids, lying about weight classes and then protesting - 'we don't have time to do weigh-ins', etc. The previous year our teams met for the championship and he won by cheating, so I was ready for him the next year.
It was going to be a close meet. He came to me and said, "I have a kid from the Jr Hi who is looking for a bout. He's pretty good, but not great. Okay if we set one up?" The kid was a ringer and I knew it. The kid ended up as a PA state place winner in high school. What the other coach didn't realize that I had brought my own ringer. So I said, "I have a kid who came along to watch the meet. He's in Jr Hi and is pretty good, too. Let's set it up."
My ringer beat his ringer. We won the dual by 6 points.
TobusRex 2,106
Those are pretty cool stories :D
mspart 266
Bring more on!
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TripNSweep 671
Not to cast any doubt, but I searched some Olympic results and couldn't find anyone named Rafik Turna who competed in the Olympics. This guy may have been a very good wrestler, but from looking at some results it doesn't appear that he competed in the Olympics for Turkey. Turkey entered Yasar Yilmez at the 2nd lowest weight who was a 3x world silver medalist, Muzahar Sille the next weight up won the gold in 1960, and the next weight up was Adil Gundor who had no other notable results.
Edited May 8, 2020 by TripNSweep
GreatWhiteNorth 427
On 5/7/2020 at 11:10 PM, TripNSweep said:
Funny thing here. 30 years ago, the world wide web didn't even exist. Back then, when you discussed events from history you either had an encyclopedia or your memory to rely on.
If it was something that wasn't in an encyclopedia, then you just had your memory - which was, and still is, hit or miss for most all of us when it comes to specific details of events happening even 1 year ago, much less 40-50 years ago.
My point - you can diligently fact check the stories of legends and find results that are fuzzy. Or you can just enjoy them. I'd recommend the latter.
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4 hours ago, GreatWhiteNorth said:
I honestly was just curious to see who he was. My guess is either Warren remembers his name wrong, or he competed at worlds in an off year or something like that.
gimpeltf 1,893
1 hour ago, TripNSweep said:
Another possibility is that the guy gave a fake name. I couldn't find that name either but Turna translates to crane (as in lift, hoist) and rafiq to friend.
7 hours ago, gimpeltf said:
Entirely possible too.
11 hours ago, TripNSweep said:
Exactly. That's what I was getting at (wasn't trying to accuse you of any wrongdoing.) I have zero videos of any of my college matches. I have zero results or statistics other than wrestling 4 years as a starter to letter, and getting a trophy one year for fastest pin (I don't remember which year.) My coach did videotape some matches, but the purpose was to analyze the match rather than for historical purposes. I had nothing in my dorm room to watch the tape on so I didn't consider getting/dubbing any of the tapes at the time. After my senior season I did think to ask my coach if he had any of the tapes, but he was recording on the same set of tapes over and over so my matches were long gone. I guess there might be some old school newspapers in the library archives I could dig up - but I'm not even sure they even listed my opponents names in the results.
Pre-digital, pre-youtube, pre-web sites - we had to rely on our memories and they certainly don't get better with age! Oh well - this way, we probably remember opurselves as better than we really were and there's no proof that we weren't!
Plasmodium 2,032
Ran across a wrestler named Mustafa Dagistanli from Turkey while looking for big apple's ringer. 5 golds(3 worlds/2 Olympics). Turkey was boss back in the day.
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Heft 7 - Jahrgang 4 (2016)
Body Polis
Herausgegeben von Pascal Eitler / Joseph Ben Prestel
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Pascal Eitler / Joseph Ben Prestel: Body Polis – Körpergeschichte und Stadtgeschichte
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This article calls for a connection between research in urban history and the history of the body. The authors contend that while studies on the history of the body are often situated in cities, urban settings are rarely at the center of their analysis. In the same way, bodies are simultaneously a ubiquitous and understudied topic in urban history. Rather than exploring the effects of cities on bodies or the limits that bodies set for changes in cities, the article proposes a focus on the co-constitution of bodies and cities. This shift in perspective leads to paying attention to the various ways in which cities and bodies have shaped each other over time – through health policies and building codes to dance halls and sports clubs. The authors argue that such a perspective ultimately allows examining the specificity and relevance of the body polis for body politics in history.
Mikkel Thelle: Tales from the Body Public: Corporeal Citizenship and Appropriation of Public Space in Copenhagen around 1900
How can we approach the interaction between body and city as political? This article moves through a sequence of cases in which bodies - groups, crowds, or swarms of people - have affected the public space of Copenhagen around 1900. First, election day is investigated for its contradictory spectacle of the public egalitarian crowd and the singular subject of the secret ballot. The analysis then turns to political marches of the period, considering the way participants in these marches produced and appropriated their routes during the intensified political tensions of the 1880s and 1890s. The strange phenomenon of New Year riots at City Hall Square and the anarchist attack on the Stock Exchange, as the final examples, serve to show a pattern of bodily agency, on a scale from the least to the most contested crowdings. In this way, the article seeks to locate the body in the discussion of public space in cultural history that has for some time been focusing on materiality.
Linda Braun: Dancing in Step with Society: American Popular Dances and the Urban Body between Regulation and Amusement in Imperial Berlin (1900-1914)
This article analyzes the urban body in Imperial Germany through the lens of an integral part of night life: popular dancing. In the first decade of the twentieth century, American popular dances appeared in Berlin and other European metropoles. The cakewalk and various step dances replaced the established tradition of popular dancing: In general, American popular dances did not follow a choreography but instead allowed the leading (usually male) dancers to experience more autonomy and combine figures more freely. The dancing bodies moved into more directions than previously with the waltz. Even more importantly, individuals from different social strata enjoyed the same dances, often in the same locations. Such concepts and social practices of popular dancing might suggest that American dances softened or transformed social distinctions. This article shows that a new physicality of dancing, the accessibility of American popular dances to all social strata, and the possibility of learning the new dances via imitation did not change social behavior in Berlin’s dance halls. In Berlin, dancing bodies moved in new ways but previously established social distinctions continued to limit contact between social strata: Urban bodies danced in step with German norms.
I-Wen Chang: Modernity and the Formations of Female Bodies: Dance Hall Culture in Taiwan during the 1920s and 1930s
This article examines the bodily discipline of comportment in Taiwanese society with a focus on the formations of modern female bodies during the Japanese "Dōka" (literally "assimilation") policy era (1919-1936). It investigates the cultural relevance of dance in terms of bodily discipline and the negotiation of identities in urban spaces. With archival research and the examination of the documentary Viva Tonal: The Dance Age (2003), this article looks at how the idea of modernity was brought to Taiwan during the Japanese colonization era through various bodily techniques. It argues that dance halls and social dance are locations in which the moving body in urban Taiwan negotiated and subverted specific forms of resistance and agency.
Stefan Höhne: Containerkörper. Zur Genese logistischer Regierungstechniken in New York City, 1900-1950
In the densely populated Metropolises around 1900, we can witness the emergence of a new bodily paradigm: the container body. Focusing on the New York City subway, the largest urban transit system of the twentieth century, this article traces the dynamics of standardizing and modularizing the passengers’ bodies while black-boxing their emotions in favor of ideas of input and output. In implementing these ideals into both the materialities and logistics of the system, the engineers not only aimed to counter the perceived problem of the uncontrollable and irrational urban masses. By linking these strategies of containerization with an ethics of containment, they also helped to give rise to a crucial program of subjectivation in late modernity.
Sascha Schießl: Von der Duldung zur Reglementierung. Städtische Prostitutionspolitik in Göttingen während der 1960er Jahre
While the “sexual revolution” in 1960s West Germany is usually associated with more open discussions of sexuality and the partial removal of moral laws from the penal code, this article shows that female prostitutes in the city of Göttingen continued to be subject to regulations and repressions. Under the pretext of upholding their version of public order, local authorities sought to abolish street prostitution and restrict the trade to newly established brothels. Even though these measures violated federal law, authorities still aimed at controlling the female body and disciplining a segment of the urban population that was perceived as deviant and unruly. As the article sheds light on these local dynamics, it provides a new vista on the “sexual revolution”, highlighting how prostitutes did not benefit from social changes in this context and how local developments could diverge from broader discourses concerning sexuality, bodies, and morals.
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John Ainger
World's First 30-Year Bond With Zero Coupon Flops in Germany
The world’s first 30-year bond offering a zero coupon struggled to find buyers, signaling that negative yields across Europe may finally be taking their toll on investor demand.
Germany failed to meet its 2-billion-euro target ($2.2 billion) for the auction of notes maturing in 2050, selling only 824 million euros. It’s another sign that the global bond rally may be coming to a halt now that more than $16 trillion of securities around the world have negative yields.
“The broader conclusion is that this is an ominous sign for cash bonds,” said Antoine Bouvet, a rates strategist at ING Groep NV, looking ahead to the end of a summer lull in European issuance next month. The jury is still out on whether this is “a turning point in the long-end rates rally, as the fundamental driver of lack of faith in central banks’ ability to reflate the economy is still there.”
Dwindling expectations for inflation and growth in coming years has led the European Central Bank to hint at a new wave of monetary stimulus next month, driving a rally across the region’s bond markets. The whole of Germany’s yield curve is now below zero -- the first major market exhibiting such a trait -- meaning the government is effectively being paid to borrow out to 30 years.
The sale comes as Germany is priming the pumps for extra spending should an economic crisis hit. While the nation is confined to strict laws on running a fiscal deficit, Finance Minister Olaf Scholz suggested Germany could muster 50 billion euros ($55 billion) should a recession hit. The economy contracted in the second quarter.
The auction was at a record-low average yield of -0.11%, while the Bundesbank retained nearly two-thirds of the debt on offer. The real subscription rate -- a gauge of demand that accounts for retentions by the Bundesbank -- fell to 0.43 times against 0.86 times at the previous sale of similar maturity bonds on July 17.
“This shows that there is less demand for 30-year bonds at negative yields,” said Marco Meijer, a senior fixed-income strategist at BNP Paribas SA. Still, Meijer doesn’t “see yields rising a lot in Europe.”
German 30-year yields rose three basis points to -0.12% as of 2:30 p.m. in London. Those on 10-year securities climbed two basis points to -0.67%.
Tantrum Risk
One of the triggers for a German bond selloff in 2015, after benchmark yields first neared 0%, was a poor 10-year auction that highlighted a loss of demand at low yield levels.
This time around, Commerzbank AG had expected demand to come from life insurers and macro investors, despite the yield curve flattening in recent weeks to drive down long-dated yields. German 30-year bonds are still attractive for U.S. investors, when hedged for currency swings, offering around a 2.6% yield, relative to around 2% on a 30-year Treasury.
“It is technically a failed auction,” said Jens Peter Sorensen, chief analyst at Danske Bank AS. “I am not all worried about this -- as investors can always just buy in the future and do not need to participate in auctions.”
— With assistance by James Hirai, and Charlotte Ryan
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25 Years ago Bill Clinton signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (Rfra)
WHAT WAS ONCE HERALDED BY BOTH PARTIES, SOON BECAME SEEN AS A TOOL USED AGAINST LGBT CIVIL RIGHTS.
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) marked 25 years of its existence on November 16. It was a success by any legal yardstick. The RFRA was passed in 1993 by an almost unanimous Congress, a rare product of bipartisanship cutting across parties. The then-President Bill Clinton signed it into law and the legislation became a poster achievement on the civil rights spectrum. It was deemed so good that about 50 percent of the states adopted the legislation. Matters, however, soured soon after. The RFRA began to be seen as a kind of tool in the multiple culture wars between the new LGBT rights movement and conservatives, reports worldreligionnews.com.
Times have changed so much now that about two months prior to the midterm election, 50 House Democrats became co-sponsors of a new bill which will effectively end the RFRA. This move brought 172 House Democrats to support H.R. 3222. These Democrats are all ready to dismantle RFRA and make this action an important map of their political agenda at a time when their party assumes control of the House. H.R. 3222 declares that religious freedoms are secondary when it comes to progressive causes like the LGBTQ agenda and abortion rights. The new H.R. 3222 is pushed by progressive groups who claim that religious beliefs are simply a cover for hate, discrimination, and bigotry. The about-turn in federal government policy is a telling story of how politics and culture have changed during the past 25 years. Secularists have long criticized RFRA. They describe it as a superstatute which effectively amends any and every federal law. The law permits businesses, including corporations, and religious people to violate standing United States laws on the excuse that the same laws conflict with their personal religious beliefs. For all practical purposes, the RFRA and its state equivalents make the desired loophole for any person who wants to discriminate in name of religion. The law permits any person and businesses to side-step any law everyone must follow by simply stating that the particular law burdens their religion. It helped that this bar for getting burdened is really low. The RFRA is also unconstitutional. Even the Supreme Court in its judgment of the Hobby Lobby case relied only on the RFRA and not the interpretation of the American Constitution.
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DESTINATIONS > VIETNAM
Ha Long Bay - Quang Ninh
Tin đăng ngày:01/06/2011 - Xem:1791
The legend of Hạ Long has it that, “Once upon a time, soon after the Việt people established their country, invaders came. The Jade Emperor sent Mother Dragon and her Child Dragons down to earth to help the Việt people fight against their enemy. Right at the time invaders’ boats were rushing to the shore, the dragons landed down on earth. The dragons immediately sent out from their mouths a lot of pearls, which then turned into thousands of stone islands emerging in the sea like great walls challenging the invaders’ boats. The fast boats couldn’t manage to stop and crashed into the islands and into each other and broke into pieces.
After the victory, Mother Dragon and Child Dragons didn’t return Heaven but stayed on earth at the place where the battle had occurred. The location Mother Dragon landed is nowadays Hạ Long Bay and where Child Dragons descended is now Bái Tử Long. The dragons’ tails waving the water created Long Vĩ (present Trà Cổ peninsula) and formed a fine sand beach over ten kilometers long”.
Hạ Long Bay is located in the northeastern part of Vietnam and constitutes part of the western bank of Bắc Bộ Gulf, including the sea area of Hạ Long City and Cẩm Phả Town and part of Vân Ðồn island district. It abuts Cát Bà Island in the southwest. Toward the west is the shore with a 120 km-long coastline. It is located within 106o58’-107o22’ east longitude and within 20o45’- 20o50’ north latitude. The site is 1553 sq. km with 1969 islands of various sizes, of which 989 have been named.
The islands in Hạ Long Bay are mainly limestone and schist islands most lying in the two main areas: the southeastern part of Bái Tử Long Bay and southwestern part of Hạ Long Bay. These islands represent the most ancient images of a geographical site having a tectonic age of from 250 million to 280 million years. They are the result of many times of rising and lowering processes of the continent to form a karst. The process of nearly full erosion and weathering of the karst created the unique Hạ Long Bay in the world. In a not very large area, thousands of islands with different forms look like glittering emeralds attached to the blue scarf of a virgin. The area where many stone islands concentrate has spectacular scenes and world-famous caves and is the center of Hạ Long Bay Natural Heritage, including Ha Long Bay and a part of Bái Tu Long Bay.
The area is recognized as the World Natural Heritage that is the area of 434 sq. km with 775 islands. It looks like a giant triangle with Ðầu Gỗ Island (in the west), Ba Hầm Lake (in the south) and Cống Tây Island (in the east) as its three angle points. The nearby area is the buffer area and areas classified as national beauty spots in 1962 by the Ministry of Culture and Information.
Viewed from above, Hạ Long Bay looks like an extremely vivid huge drawing. This is a wonderful and skilful masterpiece of the Creation and of nature that turns thousands of dumb soulless stone islands into fantastic sculptural and artistic works of various graceful shapes, both familiar and strange to human beings. Thousands of islands emerging uneven in the fanciful waves look strong and magnificent but also mild and vivid. Amidst these islands we feel as if we were astray in a petrified legendary world. There are many names given to islands according to their shapes and forms. This one looks like somebody heading toward the shore: Hòn Ðầu Người (Human Head Island); that one looks like a dragon hovering above the sea surface: Hòn Rông (Dragon Island); another looks like an old man sitting fishing: Hòn Lã Vọng; some look like big sails struggling amidst the wind to set off for the sea: Hòn Cánh Buồm (Sail Island); then two islands look like a pair of chicken lovingly playing with each other above the sea: Hòn Trống Mái (Male and Female Chicken Island); and amid the vast sea stands an island like a big incense burner like a ritual offering to Heaven: Hòn Lư Hương (Incense Burner Island). All are so real that people are taken aback by them. Those stone islands have experienced unpredictable changes over time and they take different shapes from different angles of view. Here, we come to realize that they are not dumb inanimate things but are vivid and soulful.
Inside the stone islands are various breath-taking caves, such as Thiên Cung, Ðầu Gỗ, Sửng Sốt, Trinh Nữ, Tam Cung and others. These are really magnificent palaces of the Creation on earth. Long ago, Hạ Long Bay has been called by the great national poet Nguyễn Trãi:“a wonder of the earth erected towards the high sky”. Many men of letters from all over the world have been taken aback at the grandiose scenery of Hạ Long. They seem to get puzzled and incompetent as their treasure of vocabulary is not rich enough to depict the splendor of this place.
Hạ Long Bay is also attached to glorious pages of Vietnamese history, with famous sites such as Vân Ðồn, a bustling trade port in the 12th century, charming Bài Thơ Mountain, and not very far away from here is the Bạch Đằng River which witnessed two famous naval battles of the Viêt’s ancestors against invaders. Also, Hạ Long is one of the cradles of human kind with the glorious Hạ Long culture in the late Neolithic age, discovered at such archeological sites as Ðộng Mang, Xích Thổ, Soi Nhụ and Thoi Giếng.
Hạ Long is also home to great biodiversity with typical eco-systems like mangrove forest, coral and tropical forest. It is also home to thousands of plants and animals of numerous species, for example shrimp, fish and squid. Some species are particularly rare and can be found no where else.
With such special values, at the 18th Session of UNESCO’s Council of World Heritage held on 17 December 1994 in Thailand, Hạ Long Bay was officially placed on the list of the World Natural Heritage. In 2000, UNESCO recognized it as the World Heritage for the second time for its geographical and geomorphologic values. This confirms the global premier value of Hạ Long Bay.
Wherever you come from, whosoever you are and however old you are, you will certainly experience the same emotion and feeling when admiring this wonder of stone and water. And great experiences will always remain even when you leave the place. The legend of Mother Dragon and Child Dragons sending out pearls to form thousands of stone islands to stop invaders still serve as the soul of this invaluable heritage of the world.
Have you ever come to Hạ Long, the unique wonder of the world of its kind, to admire and explore secretes implicit in the place?
(Source Tourism Information Technology Center & Quảng Ninh Tourism)
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AT&T ‘proud’ to partner with Chinese telecom giant controlled by communist party
https://youtu.be/u8fxfSVzH44
A t it’s one of the most powerful conglomerates
in the world it’s the largest telecommunications company on the globe it’s also not incidentally the parent
company of cnn that means a massive amount of america’s digital infrastructure depends
on cnn a massive amount if a t and its ceo john stanky decided to prioritize
foreign interests over american interests that would be grave news to every
american we’re learning tonight that at least one instance that’s exactly what a t and
john stanky did we’ve confirmed that a t lobbied the department of commerce
not to levy sanctions against china telecom which is a large state-owned corporation headquartered in beijing
this was first reported by the national file specifically we know that at t worked to keep china telecom off of
something called the entity list that list blocks companies from selling american products and technology
to certain foreign firms without first getting a license we’re told that china telecom was set to
be sanctioned because of its alleged support of human rights abuses by china’s government
and there are very many of those u.s officials have said that china telecom is backed by the chinese military
and under control of the nation’s communist party and of course that makes sense
a t is a proud partner of china telecom has a joint venture with china telecom in a statement provided to this show
a t admitted that it does not want china telecom on the entities list setting potential unintended
consequences corey stewart is the former under secretary of commerce for industry and
security he has first-hand knowledge of what happened and he joins us tonight to
explain corey stewart i appreciate your coming on tonight it’s hard to believe that a t
an american you think of it as an american company would lobby on behalf of a company controlled by the chinese
military tell us if you would what you know about this and why it happened well you know i was
as i was under secretary uh some it was very disturbing because uh we had a lot of indications
uh there’s very good intelligence out there uh that uh the chinese government through its it’s
basically state-owned subsidiary of china telecom has been using cell phone technology telecommunications
technology to track minority populations in china to spy on them and then to hand this
information over to the china police state and they’re rounding up the uyghur
population which is a minority muslim group in western china as well as tibetans and other minorities and
placing these people in essentially modern day concentration camps
where there’s widespread reports of of gang rapes of torture other human rights abuses potentially
even executions and genocide occurring in these camps and china telecom was assisting
the government of china and helping to do that when we learned of this we of course in the trump administration
uh began to place china telecom on the entity list to put sanctions upon them when we were contacted by ed gillespie
the executive vice president of atnt who urged us not to place uh china telecom despite these abuses on
the entity list and needless to say we were pretty much shocked by that
why would john stanky the ceo of the company i mean a t has a lot of different businesses
it’s a very successful company critical company in in the united states why would he
jeopardize the image of a t by siding with a company that is had a hand in
genocide in china it doesn’t make sense to me it it doesn’t make sense
unless you assume that despite what cnn and its corporate parents say about
protecting minorities and standing up for human rights if it’s all a lie and what they’re
actually doing is placing profit over and above human rights over and above u.s national
security concerns and you know i have to say that att is not alone
there are other u.s corporations in china who are turning a blind eye to the human rights abuses who are
turning a blind eye to china threatening its neighbors in the south china sea who are turning a blind eye to that
what they’re doing is is helping the china uh undermine u.s national security
concerns and that is uh something that we tried in the trump administration
and we were on the verge of placing china telecom uh as well as other companies on the
entity list and let me just say this the staff the career staff at the commerce department we’re clearly on a
path to do this if it doesn’t happen that will mean that there was pressure from the biden
administration put on it by att to not put them on there i look forward to cnn covering the story in some detail
given that often expressed concern for human rights under secretary stewart i appreciate you
AT&T Attempts to Keep Chinese Firm Off Blacklist
NTD EVENING NEWSNTD Newsroom Feb 25, 2021
Corey Stewart, former undersecretary for the Department of Commerce, is accusing telecom company AT&T of pressuring the department to take a Chinese military-linked company off a U.S. blacklist.
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Consultant Gastroenterologist Bournemouth, Dorset
Algorithms for health care professionals
Algorithm for the investigation of ileo-anal Pouch dysfunction
Algorithm for the treatment of pouchitis
Investigation and treatment algorithm for pouchitis patients who fail to respond to standard therapy or relapse on maintenance antibiotic therapy
Scientific Medical Publications
Abstracts (oral presentations)
Abstracts (Poster presentations)
Book chapters (published in medical text books)
Full papers published in scientific medical journals
Letters to medical journals
Review articles published in scientific medical journals
The ileo-anal pouch
Colonoscopy, video capsule colonoscopy and FTRD colonoscopy
Enteroscopy
Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s disease
Drugs used in inflammatory bowel disease
Pregnancy and inflammatory bowel disease
Video Capsule Endoscopy; small bowel, UGI and colon capsule
Images obtained at Video Capsule Endoscopy
Women with IBD (ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease) who want to become pregnant should firstly discuss this with their gastroenterologist primarily to ensure that the drugs you are taking are safe during pregnancy (most are). Additionally it is important to make sure that your disease is under control (in remission) and to continue your IBD drugs throughout the pregnancy to ensure that you stay well.
In women who become pregnant whilst their disease is in remission only about one-third will relapse. Whereas in those who become pregnant with active disease two-thirds will have continuing active disease and two-thirds of these patients will get worse. Some studies have reported that in patients with active disease up to one-third of women will have a miscarriage. In those where the disease is in remission
It is important to appreciate that during pregnancy the biggest risk to the baby is active disease (which in itself may even mean that surgery is needed) and stopping your medicines may make you more likely to develop active disease (most IBD medicines are safe during pregnancy).
The following advice is based on the European Crohn’s and Colitis organisation (ECCO) guidelines.
Drugs that CANNOT be taken during pregnancy
-Methotrexate
-Metronidazole (SAFE after the first 12 weeks)
Drugs which should ideally be avoided
-Ciprofloxacin
Drugs that are known to be safe to take during pregnancy
-5-ASA drugs (Asacol, Ipacol, Mezavant, Pentasa, Octasa, Salofalk)
-Prednisolone
-Azathioprine
-Mercaptopurine
-Infliximab
-adalimumab
Drugs that cannot be taken during breast feeding
-Metronidazole
-Loperamide (Immodium)
Flexible sigmoidoscopy is considered safe during pregnancy, colonoscopy should be avoided unless absolutely necessary.
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Board index Chaos Reborn Realm Design
[Suggestion] Final encounter to appear after final battle
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Post by Mazy » Tue Mar 13, 2018 1:39 am
In realms, there really needs to be some kind of 'epilogue' screen after the final battle (right before it goes to the screen where you rate the realm).
Currently the way realms are story-boarded is.. encounter, battle, encounter, battle, final encounter/the end, final battle, rate this realm.
The final text based encounter is before the final battle so you can't really use it to tell the final part of the story because the outcome of the final battle is unknown.
The final encounter can only be used as a way of setting the scene before the final battle (instead of a way of concluding the story after the final battle).
There needs to be an encounter after the final battle to conclude the story (so that the encounter before the final battle is just a regular encounter, rather than the final encounter).
Having no encounter at the actual end makes the storytelling aspect of realms problematic, there's no way to end the story as such..
..you can't have an 'end scene' (conclusion/epilogue/aftermath), there's no way of having a plot twist to the outcome of the final battle.. and if the realm is part of a series there is no way of adding a 'to be continued.. in <realm title>'.
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Re: [Suggestion] Final encounter to appear after final battl
Post by CGR » Tue Mar 13, 2018 10:15 am
This is on my List of Things.
I will make this happen when I'm back on Realms code again.
I'd also like an overview or prologue screen so you can get an idea of what a realm is like before you enter it.
E.g., co-op oriented realms can make this clearer in their prologue.
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SphereCommerce, LLC, acquired HealthiPASS Inc
Like HealthiPASS Inc
By HealthiPASS Inc
By SphereCommerce, LLC
SphereCommerce, LLC Competitor`s Deals
Healthcare Business Services
synopsis: Sphere, a leading provider of end-to-end integrated payments and security software, has acquired Health iPASS, an innovative provider of cloud-based patient engagement software and revenue cycle management technology. The acquisition of Health iPASS allows Sphere to further its capability within healthcare and wellness,
buyer: SphereCommerce, LLC
Sphere is a software and financial technology company providing integrated solutions that reduce friction and facilitate better and more secure commercial interactions with customers in primarily healthcare and non-profit. "
target: HealthiPASS Inc
Health iPASS is an innovative provider of cloud-based patient engagement software and revenue cycle management technology. Health iPASS’s solutions enhance provider revenue collections and deliver a streamlined healthcare consumer experience from appointment to final payment.
Francisco Partners Management LLC, acquired Office Ally
synopsis: Office Ally, a leading provider of healthcare clearinghouse and software solutions, announced its acquisition by Francisco Partners, a leading global investment firm that specializes in partnering with technology businesses. Office Ally processes approximately 25 million claims monthly for more than 720,000 providers nationwide.
Francisco Partners is a leading global investment firm that specializes in partnering with technology and technology-enabled businesses. Francisco Partners has invested in more than 300 technology companies, making it one of the most active and longstanding investors in the technology industry. "
target: Office Ally
Office Ally is a leading provider of electronic clearinghouse services, revenue cycle management, and healthcare software solutions to payers and office-based physicians in the U.S. Office Ally processes approximately 25 million claims monthly for more than 720,000 providers nationwide.
Bain Capital, Hellman & Friedman LLC, will acquire athenahealth, Inc.
synopsis: athenahealth, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based enterprise software solutions for medical groups and health systems nationwide, has entered into a definitive agreement to be jointly acquired by affiliates of Bain Capital and Hellman & Friedman.
buyer: Hellman & Friedman LLC
buyer: Bain Capital
Hellman & Friedman is a global private equity firm focused on large-scale equity investments in high-quality growth businesses. Bain Capital is one of the world’s leading private multi-asset alternative investment firms. "
target parent: Veritas Capital
target: athenahealth, Inc. (ATHN:$1,311.40)
athenahealth, Inc. is a leading provider of Internet-based business services for physician practices. athenahealth's service offerings are based on proprietary web-native practice management and electronic health record (EHR) software, and automated and live patient communication services.
nThrive, will acquire TransUnion Healthcare
synopsis: nThrive, Inc., a leading healthcare revenue cycle management SaaS platform, will acquire TransUnion Healthcare, a provider of revenue protection solutions. TransUnion Healthcare leverages comprehensive data, accurate insights, and industry expertise to engage patients early, ensure earned revenue gets paid, and optimize payment strategies.
buyer parent: Clearlake Capital Group, L.P.
buyer: nThrive (MDAS:$764.22)
nThrive provides healthcare revenue cycle management SaaS solutions, offering patient access, charge integrity, claims management, contract management, machine learning & robotic process automation, data & analytics, and education software solutions to more than 900 hospitals and health systems. "
target parent: TransUnion LLC
target: TransUnion Healthcare
TransUnion Healthcare creates simplicity and transparency throughout the healthcare ecosystem. Its Revenue Protection solutions leverage comprehensive data, accurate insights, and industry expertise to engage patients early, ensure earned revenue gets paid, and optimize payment strategies.
Olive, Inc., acquired Healthcare IP
synopsis: Olive, the automation company creating the Internet of Healthcare, has acquired Healthcare IP, a leader in revenue cycle management with one of the highest customer satisfaction ratings in the industry.
buyer: Olive, Inc.
Olive works with the leading health systems in the country to uncover and solve the most persistent problems facing healthcare. The company uses AI to reveal life-changing insights that make healthcare more efficient, affordable, and effective. "
target: Healthcare IP
Healthcare IP is an integrated partner of healthcare provider and payer organizations, advocating data transparency and user experience in the revenue cycle. Their flexible SCALE platform reduces touchpoints through workflow automation and organizes data to make sense.
Meddo, acquired Doxper
synopsis: Meddo, a digital outpatient care platform in India, has acquired Doxper, a health record management and patient engagement platform in India. Doxper is an AI powered digital pen and paper solution that allows doctors to digitise their case sheets. Their platform provides easy access to patient info and sends automated reminders to patients.
buyer: Meddo
Meddo is a digital outpatient care platform in India. Meddo is re-defining how primary and secondary healthcare is provided in India through a connected care delivery platform. Their platform allows patients to easily book appointments and consult with doctors online. "
target: Doxper
Doxper is a health record management and patient engagement platform in India. Doxper is an AI powered digital pen and paper solution that allows doctors to digitise their case sheets. Their platform provides easy access to patient info and sends automated reminders to patients.
EverCommerce, acquired MDTech
synopsis: EverCommerce Inc., a leading service commerce platform, has acquired Medical Design Technologies (MDTech), a leading provider of mobile charge capture solutions. MDTech provides accurate, efficient, and simple charge capture and analytics solutions to small- and medium-sized practices across 20 different specialties and 29 states.
buyer: EverCommerce (EVCM:$407.11)
EverCommerce is a leading service commerce platform, providing vertically-tailored, integrated SaaS solutions that help more than 500,000 global service-based businesses accelerate growth, streamline operations, and increase retention. "
target: MDTech
MDTech is a leader in providing electronic charge capture solutions. MDTech is an established independent software vendor (ISV) specializing in state-of-the-art healthcare applications with specific expertise as a mobile applications provider, providing wireless healthcare applications.
EverCommerce, acquired Updox
synopsis: EverCommerce, a leading service commerce platform, has acquired Updox, a complete healthcare communication platform for in-person and virtual care. Updox will join EverCommerce’s portfolio of health services companies, enabling it to provide customers with faster access to more products, a broader suite of solutions, and more resources.
buyer parent: SilverLake
EverCommerce is a service commerce platform, providing marketing, business management, and customer retention solutions to businesses. They develop, acquire, and transform mission-critical solutions that help service-based businesses accelerate growth, streamline operations, and increase retention. "
target: Updox
Updox is a complete healthcare communication platform for in-person and virtual care. Updox's fully-integrated care coordination communications platform connects various healthcare providers, including physicians, patients, payers, pharmacies, labs, and healthcare partners.
Carasent, acquired Avans Soma
synopsis: Carasent ASA, an investment management company in Norway, has acquired Avans Soma AS from Rieber & Søn, a family-owned Norwegian investment company. Avans Soma is a Norwegian company that develops digital solutions for healthcare, rehabilitation and mental illness. They offer cloud-based health records systems and patient follow-up solutions.
buyer: Carasent (OB:CARA:$12.97)
Carasent is an investment management company in Norway that focuses on businesses that develop entrepreneurial and e-health solutions. Carasent's strategy is to continue to develop and expand digitalization that helps customers to meet challenges in providing efficient health care services. "
target parent: Rieber & Søn
target: Avans Soma
Avans Soma is a Norwegian company that develops digital systems and tools for healthcare, rehabilitation and mental illness. Avans Soma offers a cloud-based modular health records system. They also offer a patient follow-up solution with built-in CRM functions.
CloudMD Software & Services Inc., will acquire Benchmark Systems
synopsis: CloudMD Software & Services Inc., a Canadian telehealth company, will acquire an 87.5% stake in Benchmark Systems from AntWorks, a global AI and intelligent automation company. Benchmark Systems is a provider of healthcare solutions. They offer cloud-based solutions for revenue management, practice management and electronic records management.
buyer: CloudMD Software & Services Inc. (CNSX:PHGI:$26.84)
CloudMD offers SaaS based health technology solutions to medical clinics across Canada. The Company has developed proprietary technology to deliver quality healthcare through the combination of connected primary care clinics, telemedicine, and artificial intelligence (AI). "
target parent: Antworks
target: Benchmark Systems
Benchmark Systems is a leading cloud-based provider of fully integrated solutions that automate healthcare workflow processes. Benchmark Systems offers a suite of solutions for revenue management, practice management and electronic records management.
Waystar, will acquire eSolutions, Inc.
synopsis: Waystar, a leading provider of healthcare payments software, announced a definitive agreement to acquire eSolutions, a revenue cycle technology company with unique Medicare-specific solutions.
buyer parent: Bain Capital
buyer: Waystar
Waystar provides cloud-based technology that simplifies and unifies the healthcare revenue cycle. Their platform removes friction in payment processes, streamlines workflows and improves financials for providers. They support over 450,000 providers, 750 health systems, and 5,000 health plans. "
target: eSolutions, Inc.
eSolutions is a healthcare technology company working to strengthen providers’ revenue health so they can focus on their patients. eSolutions focuses on eligibility, claims, data & analytics, audits & denials, and quality & compliance to save providers time and money.
Health Catalyst, will acquire VitalWare
synopsis: Health Catalyst, Inc., a leading provider of data and analytics technology and services to healthcare organizations, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Vitalware, LLC, a Yakima, Washington-based provider of revenue workflow optimization and analytics SaaS technology solutions to healthcare organizations.
buyer: Health Catalyst (HCAT:$199.57)
Health Catalyst is a leading provider of data and analytics technology and services to healthcare organizations. The company's customers leverage the cloud-based analytics software data platform to make data-informed decisions and realize measurable clinical, financial, and operational improvements."
target: VitalWare
Vitalware is the leading mid-cycle revenue SaaS solutions provider, specializing in Health-IT applications aimed at making the business of healthcare easier through its intuitive cloud-based technologies and regulatory content expertise.
Smith & Nephew, Inc., acquired MiJourney, LLC
synopsis: Smith+Nephew, the global medical technology business, has acquired MiJourney, a patient management software company based in Pittsburgh, US, that enables coordination across the entire episode of care by administrators, physicians, and patients.
buyer: Smith & Nephew, Inc. (LSE:SN:$5,138.00)
Smith+Nephew is a portfolio medical technology business that exists to restore people’s bodies and their self-belief by using technology to take the limits off living. They own three global franchises of Orthopaedics, Advanced Wound Management and Sports Medicine & ENT (ear, nose, throat). "
target: MiJourney, LLC
MiJourney is a patient management software company based in Pittsburgh, US, that enables coordination across the entire episode of care by administrators, physicians, and patients.
Medical Transcription Billing, Corp., acquired CareCloud Corporation
synopsis: MTBC, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based healthcare IT and revenue cycle management solutions, announced the closing of its acquisition of CareCloud, which provides its proprietary, award-winning, enterprise cloud platform and business solutions to more than 7,000 healthcare providers nationwide.
buyer: Medical Transcription Billing, Corp. (MTBC:$65.19)
MTBC is a healthcare information technology company that provides a fully integrated suite of proprietary cloud-based solutions, together with related business services, to healthcare providers and hospitals throughout the United States. "
target: CareCloud Corporation
Founded in 2009 as a practice management software company, CareCloud subsequently evolved to serve the full spectrum of practice workflows, including revenue cycle management (RCM), practice management (PM), electronic health records (EHR), and patient experience management (PXM).
Health Grades, Inc., acquired eVariant LLC
synopsis: Healthgrades, the leading resource that connects consumers, physicians and health systems, announced it has acquired Evariant, a leading healthcare consumer and physician engagement company. The Evariant Patients for Life Platform™ delivers actionable intelligence that enables healthcare providers to find and guide patients for life.
buyer parent: Vestar Capital Partners
buyer: Health Grades, Inc. (HGRD:$58.17)
Healthgrades is the leading online resource for comprehensive information about physicians and hospitals. People use Healthgrades websites to search, compare and connect with hospitals and physicians. "
target: eVariant LLC
Evariant, the healthcare consumer and physician engagement company, enables providers to optimize growth through smarter patient acquisition and retention. The Evariant Patients for Life Platform™ delivers actionable intelligence that enables healthcare providers to find and guide patients for life.
OptimizeRx, will acquire RMDY Health
synopsis: OptimizeRx, a software company that enables digital health messaging between pharmaceutical companies and providers, will acquire RMDY Health, a leading provider of digital therapeutics solutions. RMDY helps healthcare stakeholders digitize their clinical and wellness programs to connect with patients and improve outcomes.
buyer: OptimizeRx (OPRX:$24.21)
OptimizeRx is one of the nation’s leading providers of digital health messaging via electronic health records, providing a direct channel for pharma companies to communicate with healthcare providers. "
target: RMDY Health
RMDY Health is a leading provider of digital therapeutics solutions for the health and wellness industries. RMDY helps healthcare stakeholders digitize their clinical and wellness programs to connect with patients, drive behavior change and improve outcomes.
New Mountain Capital, LLC, acquired Ontario Systems, LLC
synopsis: Ontario Systems has been acquired by New Mountain Capital, a New York-based investment firm. Ontario Systems is a leading provider of enterprise software that automates operations and accelerates revenue recovery for clients in the healthcare, accounts receivable management (ARM), and government markets.
buyer: New Mountain Capital, LLC
New Mountain Capital is a New York-based investment firm that emphasizes business building and growth, rather than debt, as it pursues long-term capital appreciation. They currently manages private equity, public equity, & credit funds with approximately $20 billion in aggregate capital commitments."
target parent: Arlington Capital Partners
target: Ontario Systems, LLC
Ontario Systems is a leading provider of enterprise software designed to improve operations and revenue recovery for clients in the healthcare industry and the accounts receivable management (ARM) market as well as federal, state, and local governments.
Evergreen Coast Capital, Veritas Capital, acquired athenahealth, Inc.
synopsis: athenahealth, Inc., a leading provider of network-enabled services for hospital and ambulatory customers nationwide, announced that it has completed its previously announced sale to an affiliate of Veritas Capital and Evergreen Coast Capital.
buyer: Veritas Capital
buyer: Evergreen Coast Capital
Veritas Capital is a leading private equity firm that invests in companies that provide critical products and services, primarily technology and technology-enabled solutions. Elliott Management Corporation's Evergreen Coast Capital is a private equity firm which focuses on technology investing. "
$5,645 [$5,600]
on offer 5/7/2018 via Wall Street Journal
Elliott Management Corp., offer to acquire athenahealth, Inc.
synopsis: Elliott Management Corporation, an American investment management firm, is to acquire athenahealth, Inc., a company that provides network-enabled services for healthcare and point-of-care mobile apps to drive clinical and financial results for its hospital and ambulatory clients in the United States.
buyer: Elliott Management Corp.
Elliott Management Corporation is one of the oldest fund managers of its kind under continuous management. As of January 1, 2018, Elliott manages more than $34 billion in assets under management. "
athenahealth, Inc. is a publicly traded American company that provides network-enabled services for healthcare and point-of-care mobile apps to drive clinical and financial results for its hospital and ambulatory clients in the United States.
$6,533 [$6,660]*
Mediware, acquired MedTranDirect, Inc.
synopsis: Mediware Information Systems, Inc., a leading supplier of software for healthcare and human service providers and payers, announced it has acquired MEDTranDirect, Inc., a leader in software solutions for healthcare revenue cycle management and an approved network service vendor for Medicare.
buyer parent: TPG Capital
buyer: Mediware
Since 1980, Mediware has provided software solutions to healthcare providers and has since expanded to serve many state and federal agencies. Mediware’s solutions are perfect for high-growth, complex patient care environments that remain underserved by existing vendors. "
target: MedTranDirect, Inc.
MEDTranDirect, Inc. is a leader in software solutions for healthcare revenue cycle management and an approved network service vendor for Medicare. Established in 1986, MEDTranDirect serves several hundred customers.
Qgiv, acquired Acceptiva
synopsis: Qgiv, a leading provider of nonprofit fundraising technology, announced its recent acquisition of Acceptiva in partnership with strategic investor Sphere. Acceptiva is a digital fundraising platform that provides nonprofits the ability to accept and process online payments and donations.
buyer parent: SphereCommerce, LLC
buyer: Qgiv
Qgiv, Inc. is a leading digital fundraising platform founded in 2007. From their headquarters in Lakeland, Florida, they currently serve more than 4,500 nonprofit and faith-based organizations in the United States and Canada. "
target: Acceptiva
Since 2004, Acceptiva has provided nonprofits with the ability to accept payments for any need, any time; seamlessly, securely and affordably. Acceptiva serves over 700 nonprofits and faith-based organizations with payment processing, funds management, and reporting.
Paya, Inc., acquired Paragon Payment Solutions
synopsis: Paya Holdings Inc., a leading integrated payments and commerce solution provider, has acquired Paragon Payments Solutions, an industry-leading integrated payments solutions provider focused on serving the unique needs of the non-profit and healthcare verticals.
buyer: Paya, Inc. (PAYA:$206.05)
Paya is a leading provider of integrated payment and frictionless commerce solutions that help customers accept and make payments, expedite receipt of money, and increase operating efficiencies. "
target: Paragon Payment Solutions
Paragon Payment Solutions is an integrated payments provider committed to delivering tailored solutions and strategic partnerships that help software providers and their customers excel. Paragon's solutions include payment facilitation, hosted payments, mobile wallet integration, and more.
REPAY - Realtime Electronic Payments, acquired Ventanex
synopsis: Repay Holdings Corporation, a leading provider of vertically-integrated payment solutions, announced the acquisition of Ventanex, an integrated payments solutions provider to the consumer finance and B2B healthcare verticals. Ventanex’s technology platform offers inbound and outbound omnichannel payment solutions and complex rules-based processing.
buyer: REPAY - Realtime Electronic Payments (RPAY:$198.50)
REPAY provides integrated payment processing solutions to verticals that have specific transaction processing needs. REPAY's proprietary, integrated payment technology platform reduces the complexity of electronic payments for merchants, while enhancing the overall experience for consumers. "
target: Ventanex
Ventanex, founded in 2012 and headquartered in Dallas, TX, is an integrated payments solutions provider to the consumer finance and B2B healthcare verticals. Ventanex’s technology platform offers inbound and outbound omnichannel payment solutions and complex rules-based processing.
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., acquired InstaMed
synopsis: As part of its efforts to accelerate its activity in the payments processing space, JPMorgan Chase has purchased healthcare payments technology company InstaMed. InstaMed has developed a cloud-based platform to coordinate bill payments between providers, insurers and patients.
buyer: J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (JPM:$128,646.00)
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $2.7 trillion and operations worldwide. The Firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management. "
target: InstaMed
InstaMed is healthcare’s most trusted payments network, connecting providers, payers and consumers on one platform. The InstaMed Network connects over two-thirds of the market and processes tens of billions of dollars in healthcare payments annually.
Global Payments, Inc., will acquire Heartland Payment Systems
synopsis: Global Payments Inc., a leading worldwide provider of payment technology services, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Heartland Payment Systems, Inc., one of the nation's largest payment companies. Heartland delivers credit/debit/prepaid card processing and security technology through Heartland Secure.
buyer: Global Payments, Inc. (GPN:$7,975.45)
Global Payments Inc. is a leading worldwide provider of payment technology services that delivers innovative solutions driven by customer needs globally. They provide a range of products and services that allow their customers to accept all payment types across a variety of distribution channels. "
target: Heartland Payment Systems (HPY:$2,682.40)
Heartland Payment Systems, Inc., one of the largest payment processors in the United States, delivers credit/debit/prepaid card processing and security technology through Heartland Secure™ and its comprehensive breach warranty.
PaySpan, Inc., acquired mPay Gateway Inc.
synopsis: PaySpan Inc., the leading provider of healthcare payment and reimbursement automation, announced the acquisition of the assets of mPay Gateway, a point-of-service patient payment solution for healthcare providers.
buyer parent: ABS Capital Partners, L.P.
buyer: PaySpan, Inc.
PaySpan, Inc., with more than 25 years of payments expertise, is a trusted source of innovative healthcare reimbursement solutions, empowering the healthcare economy for health plans, providers, members and banks. "
target: mPay Gateway Inc.
mPay Gateway is a PCI certified acquiring card processor, delivering bankcard solutions with integrated web based management software to Providers that addresses the increased cost of collecting from consumers enrolled in consumer directed health care plans.
Media Central Corporation Inc., will acquire Varipay
synopsis: Media Central Corporation, an alternative Canadian media company, will acquire Varipay Inc., a digital payment processing company in Canada. Varipay offers ecommerce integration, POS retail processing and virtual terminals to CBD, vape, gaming, travel and supplement merchants.
buyer: Media Central Corporation Inc. (CNSX:FLYY:$0.00)
Media Central is an alternative Canadian media company that acquires and develops high-quality publishing assets. Media Central's brands include Vancouver Free Press Corp., Now Communications Inc., digital cannabis platform CannCentral.com, and ESports outlet ECentralSports.com. "
target: Varipay
Varipay is a digital payment processing company in Canada. Varipay offers ecommerce integration, POS retail processing and virtual terminals to CBD, vape, gaming, travel and supplement merchants. Their unique payment platform powers multi-currency payment solutions with an instantaneous settlement.
Pineapple Payments, acquired 1st Payment Systems, L.L.C.
synopsis: Pineapple Payments, a rapidly growing payments technology company based out of Pittsburgh, announced today that it acquired 1st Payment Systems. Based in Roswell, Georgia, 1st Payment creates comprehensive payment programs for associations and Integrated Software Vendors (ISVs) in the Powersports and healthcare industry.
buyer: Pineapple Payments
Pineapple Payments is a payments technology company that provides payment processing, proprietary technology, and omni-channel payment acceptance solutions for merchants of all shapes and sizes. Its core payment gateway and suite of value-added payments tools are distributed by resellers nationwide."
target: 1st Payment Systems, L.L.C.
Founded in 2008, 1st Payment Systems is a leader in comprehensive payment processing solutions. 1st Payment uses a direct sales channel focused on tight vertical markets and high-volume businesses, including Powersports, automotive, dental, and healthcare.
First Data Corporation, acquired BluePay, Inc.
synopsis: First Data Corporation announced the successful completion of its acquisition of BluePay Holdings, Inc. from BluePay’s current owners including TA Associates and BluePay management. BluePay is a leading provider of technology-enabled payment processing for merchants, utilizing physical POS, CRM and ERP software integrations.
buyer parent: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
buyer: First Data Corporation (FDC:$8,679.00)
First Data is a global leader in commerce-enabling technology and solutions, serving businesses and financial institutions around the world. They help companies, from start-ups to the world’s largest corporations, conduct commerce by securing and processing their transactions. "
target parent: TA Associates
target: BluePay, Inc.
BluePay is a leading provider of technology-enabled payment processing for merchants. Through physical POS, online, and mobile interfaces, as well as CRM and ERP software integrations, BluePay processes business-to-consumer and business-to-business payments.
TA Associates, acquired BluePay, Inc.
synopsis: TA Associates, a leading global growth private equity firm, announced that in conjunction with company management it has completed a majority recapitalization of BluePay Processing, Inc., a leading provider of technology-enabled payment processing services to merchants in the United States and Canada.
buyer: TA Associates
Founded in 1968, TA Associates is one of the largest and most experienced middle-market growth private equity firms. The firm has invested in over 425 companies globally and has raised $18 billion in capital. "
target parent: Goldman Sachs & Co.
Providing the highest level of data security in the industry, BluePay makes U.S. and Canadian credit card processing simple and fast. BluePay is a full-service credit card processor based in Naperville, Illinois, with offices and data centers located across the U.S.
Ticker: MTBC
Medical Transcription Billing, Corp.
MTBC (Medical Transcription Billing, Corp) is a healthcare information technology company that provides a fully integrated suite of proprietary web-based solutions, together with related business services, to healthcare providers, revenue cycle management companies and software vendors.
Ticker: CRW.L
Craneware, Inc.
Craneware, based in Scotland, is the leader in automated revenue integrity solutions that improve financial performance for healthcare organizations. Its SaaS solutions help and healthcare providers effectively price, charge, and code for services and supplies associated with patient care.
Ticker: STRM
Streamline Health
Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. is a healthcare industry leader in capturing, aggregating, and translating enterprise data into knowledge. Through their Looking Glass Platform they provide clients with meaningful, intelligent SaaS-based solutions from patient engagement to reimbursement.
Ticker: HNTN.OB
H-NET.NET, Inc.
H-NET.NET, Inc. is the global leader in providing B2B e-commerce services to the visioncare industry. The company is positioned to become the central hub and provide a one-stop multi-service Internet portal and Internet-based transaction processing services. The company has also expanded into the g
Ticker: OTCPK:MJTK
CannaSys, Inc.
CannaSys is a leading technology solutions, marketing and branding company in the regulated cannabis industry. Its products are delivered SaaS to facilitate point-of-purchase transactions, customer relationship marketing solutions and regulated cannabis laboratory information management systems.
Carelabs Co., Ltd.
Carelabs is a South Korea-based digital beauty and healthcare company. CareLabs provides comprehensive healthcare IT services, including clinic information services, clinic customer management software, and digital marketing solutions.
Ticker: HAXS
Healthaxis, Inc.
HealthAxis Group is simultaneously the most experienced and modern SaaS-based supplier of benefit platform systems. The comprehensive suite offered by HealthAxis helps organizations address compliance, increase administrative efficiency, lower cost, and improve quality.
Ticker: ZMD
ZoomMed Inc.
Zoommed Inc. develops and markets various computer applications for healthcare professionals in Canada. The company builds and operates the ZoomMed Communication Network, a clinical interoperable information exchange network between physicians and various other stakeholders of the healthcare sector.
Ticker: TSXV:NGH
Nightingale Informatix Corporation
For more than a decade, Nightingale has been delivering innovative cloud-based Electronic Health Record and Practice Management solutions to healthcare organizations across the United States and Canada. They create software that is truly intuitive—minimizing training and maximizing adoption.
Ticker: MDRX
Allscripts is the leading provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions that physicians use to improve healthcare. The company's unique solutions inform, connect and transform healthcare, delivering improved care at lower cost.
Ticker: TSXV:PHA
Premier Health of America Inc.
Premier Health of America is a Canadian Healthtech company that provides a comprehensive range of staffing and outsourced services solutions. Premier Health uses its PSweb platform to lead the healthcare services sector digital transformation to provide patients more accessible care services.
Ticker: VEEV
Veeva Systems is a leader in cloud-based software for the global life sciences industry. Committed to innovation, product excellence and customer success, Veeva has over 300 customers, ranging from the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies to emerging biotechs.
Ticker: MODN
Model N, Inc.
Model N is the pioneer and leading provider of Revenue Management cloud solutions for the Life Sciences and High Technology industries. Model N helps its customers maximize their revenues by maximizing sell time, revenues per opportunity and number of opportunities.
Ticker: ASX:CGL
Citadel Group Limited
Citadel is a leading Australian technology and software company that specialise in secure enterprise information management in complex environments. Citadel provides secure information to support real-time decisions across the Health, National Security and Defence industries.
Ticker: KERN
Akerna
Akerna is a global regulatory compliance technology company in the cannabis space. Akerna’s service offerings include the MJ Platform, its leading seed-to-sale, regulatory compliance, technology solution, and Leaf Data Systems, which provide government clients with compliance technology solutions.
Ticker: OTCPK:ICRD
International Card Establishment
International Card Establishment, Inc. provides credit card and electronic transaction processing services to merchants across the United States. They are specialists in Marijuana Merchant Accounts, and an online source for everything related to high risk merchant accounts and payment processing.
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'Work for benefits' plan unveiled
Incapacity Benefit will be abolished under the proposals
Unemployed people will be forced to work for their benefits, as part of welfare reforms unveiled by Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell.
He told MPs that from now on, the longer people claimed, the more the state would expect in return.
The Welfare Green Paper includes plans to scrap Incapacity Benefit and make those jobless for more than two years work full-time in the community.
The Tories back the plans, saying many of the ideas were theirs first.
This shake-up will apply to all 4.5 million people on out-of-work benefits, but is expected to impact most on those on Jobseekers Allowance.
Signed off sick
Mr Purnell told the Commons he aimed to reduce those on benefit by a million over the next seven years.
Claimants will have to carry out four weeks' community work once they have been unemployed for more than a year.
Work works and it's only fair that we can ensure that a life on benefits is not an option
James Purnell
Work and Pensions Secretary
After two years, they will be ordered to work full-time in the community.
Incapacity Benefit claimants will all move to the new Employment Support Allowance by 2013, which ministers hope will be regarded, for all but the most disabled people, as a temporary benefit.
People who have been signed off sick will have a new medical check with someone who is not their own GP.
Drug addicts are also being targeted, with the government expecting them to declare their problem and to embark on treatment in return for benefits.
Mr Purnell said the plans would "transform lives" and help achieve the government's ambition of an 80% employment rate.
People in Aberdare in the south Wales valleys give their reaction to the benefit proposals
"Instead, the longer people claim, the more we will expect in return. At three months and six months, claimants will intensify their job search and have to comply with a back to work action plan," he said.
"Work works and it's only fair that we can ensure that a life on benefits is not an option."
For the first time all parents on benefits will be able to keep their maintenance payments, he said.
And he pledged to "simplify the bewildering complexity of the benefits system".
The Conservatives say they will support many of the proposals, effectively neutralising any Labour backbench opposition.
But shadow work and pensions secretary Chris Grayling claimed the plans were a "straight lift" of those previously put forward by his party.
"Since these are Conservative proposals we will certainly support them," he said.
"I know you will have some difficulties getting them through your own party. Can I assure you we will help you get them through this House even if you have a backbench rebellion to contend with."
No difference?
The Liberal Democrats have welcomed some elements of the Green Paper, but are reserving their judgment on whether to support ministers.
But former welfare reform minister Frank Field told the BBC's Today programme he doubted the proposals would make any difference.
"The key fault in the old system is being brought into the new system, and that is if you can get through the employment capacity test... you'll get onto a higher rate of benefit," he said.
As long as people are paid a fair wage for their work, why shouldn't they work for benefits?
Peter Hearty, Southend-on-Sea
Mr Field said he had been arguing for 10 years that there should be a single rate of benefit for people of working age who were unable to work. They should be funded via the Disability Living Allowance, not benefits, he said.
"The whole emphasis here, naturally, will be for people not to get jobs but to get onto the higher rate of benefit," he added.
And Labour left-winger Jeremy Corbyn said he was "surprised and disappointed" that the government seemed to be "punishing people for being poor".
In February government welfare adviser David Freud suggested less than a third of the 2.7 million people claiming the benefit were doing so legitimately.
'Deep concerns'
Lib Dem work and pensions spokeswoman Jenny Willott said the government's plans "ignore the disincentive to work that our complex benefit system has created".
"The fact that over half of children living in poverty are in working households is largely ignored," she said. "Reforms must ensure that work really pays or we will see poverty levels rising in Britain."
Jon Sparkes, chief executive of the disability charity Scope, said he had "deep concerns about the tone of these reforms and the target-led ethos underpinning them".
He added: "Disabled people face a myriad of barriers in finding employment, including negative attitudes from employers and inadequate social care support.
"Punitive measures against individual disabled claimants will do nothing to remove these barriers."
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First Australian F-35A arrives at Luke AFB ,AZ
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Photorecon.net visits the USS Nimitz and the F-35C.
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Luke Air Force Base 2011 Airshow & Open House
For three days in March the sky was filled with Military and Civilian aircraft. Also on the list of performers were the United States Army Golden Knights and the Red Bull Skydiving Team. There...
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David DeJulius gets clutch layup to fall
David DeJulius gets the layup to fall late in the 2nd half as Cincinnati grabs the 61-57 victory.
— E.J. Liddell scored 19 points and No. 16 Ohio State defeated Penn State 61-56 Sunday.
— Jay Wright heard hollering from the Villanova fans who lingered at a bar near his postgame news conference and the Hall of Fame coach needed a score update.
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Chronic stress causes genetic changes in chickens
Researchers looked for signs of how chronic stress can affect the genes of the chickens, causing “epigenetic changes”. Photograph: Matton
How can stress in animals be measured? Scientists from Uppsala University and elsewhere have now found that what are known as epigenetic biomarkers could be used to detect long-term exposure to stress in commercially raised chickens. This may, in time, lead to improved conditions in animal rearing. The study has been published in the journal Frontiers in Genetics.
Subjected to chronic stress, animals show deterioration in their general state of health and a weakened immune system, which is unfortunate in terms of animal protection. For commercial animal production, it means that animal products are of a lower quality and a larger quantity of meat has to be discarded. These repercussions, in turn, adversely affect farmers’ finances and consumers’ food quality. Nonetheless, there are currently no reliable ways of measuring long-term stress in animals.
Researchers from Sweden and Brazil have now, in chicken studies, looked for signs of how chronic stress can affect the genes of red blood cells, causing “epigenetic changes”. In brief, this means that specific molecule types (“methyl groups”) attach themselves to different parts of the DNA strand (“methylation”), depending on how the animal has lived. This may exert long-term effects on gene expression. Genes can, for example, be turned on or off (activated or deactivated).
Divided into two groups
The chickens studied, males of the popular White Leghorn breed of laying birds, were divided into two groups. One group was raised in a normal commercial environment, housed with other chickens and with good access to food and water. In the other group, the birds were exposed to factors known to induce stress. They were periodically isolated from one another, with also limited access to food and water. The same experiment was performed in both Sweden and Brazil.
“We took blood samples from the chickens in both the control group and the stress group after the stress treatment ended. We analysed the methylation of red blood cells and compared methylation patterns in the two groups,” says Fábio Pértille of the University of São Paulo, the first author of the study.
Exposed to prolonged stress
What they then saw was that in the stressed birds, the way in which the methyl groups had bound to the DNA of the red blood cells was entirely different from how this occurred in the control chickens. Although the scientists were unable to see how long these changes persisted, they were nonetheless an indication that the chickens had been exposed to prolonged stress.
“It’s early days, but the results from this study are a step towards being able to identify specific epigenetic biomarkers that are evidence of the stress imposed on commercially raised animals in their living environment. It would be highly useful to have a diagnostic tool for tracking recurrent stress in production animals. And that could bring about, for example, improved health and protection for farmed animals; meat and dairy products of higher quality; and reduced use of antibiotics,” says Carlos Guerrero-Bosagna, a researcher in environmental toxicology at Uppsala University.
Åsa Malmberg
Fábio Pértille et al. (2020), Putative Epigenetic Biomarkers of Stress in Red Blood Cells of Chickens Reared Across Different Biomes, Frontiers in Genetics. DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2020.508809
Previously unknown dinosaur habitat found in Poland
This footprint of a bipedal predatory dinosaur, 199 million years old, is so well preserved that even details such as claws and skin are distinguishable. Photograph: Grzegorz Niedzwiedzki
In summer 2021, in an opencast clay mine in Borkowice, Poland, researchers found what may be Europe’s largest array of dinosaur tracks. Several hundred very well-preserved footprints from at least seven dinosaur species were discovered, and the scientists say far more remain to be found.
Multimillion kronor bequest to mycological research at Uppsala University
The mycology research conducted at Uppsala University includes systematics and ecology. The image shows inedible false honey mushrooms growing from a tree stump. Photograph: Getty Images
Thanks to an SEK 10 million donation from two private citizens, a new foundation will be established: The Lennart and Kerstin Holm Scholarship Fund for Mycological Research. This will have a significant impact on fungal research at Uppsala University, which examines systematics, ecology and evolutionary biology.
Philippine ethnic group has most Denisovan DNA
Fieldwork for the study on the island of Luzon. Photograph: Ophelia Persson
The Philippine ethnic group Ayta Magbukon has the highest proportion of genes from our extinct relatives, the Denisovans, a new study led by Uppsala University shows. Their Denisovan share far exceeds that of ethnic groups in Papua New Guinea, who previously held the record. The study is published in the scientific journal Current Biology.
New beetle found in fossil faeces attributed to dinosaur ancestor
The animal to thank for the excellent preservation of Triamyxa coprolithica was probably the dinosaur ancestor Silesaurus opolensis. Photograph: Małgorzata Czaja
The tiny beetle Triamyxa coprolithica is the first-ever insect to be described from fossil faeces. The animal the researchers have to thank for the excellent preservation was probably the dinosaur ancestor Silesaurus opolensis, which 230 million years ago ingested the small beetle in large numbers.
Big ERC grant for research on the origin of land animals
Professor Per Ahlberg conducts research on the origin of land animals. Here with a fossil jaw from the lobe-finned fish Polyplocodus – probably a close relative of the first tetrapods. Photograph: Mikael Wallerstedt
The European Research Council (ERC) has now distributed the grants in its 2020 ERC Advanced Grants call and Uppsala University is one of the recipients. The grant of EUR 2.4 million goes to Per Ahlberg, Professor of Evolutionary Organismal Biology, whose research seeks to reveal more about the origins of land animals by studying the tracks left by our more than 360 million-year-old ancestors – the ‘tetrapods’.
Largest-ever DNA mapping study of the Philippines
Over 50 millennia, at least five major immigration waves have successively populated the Philippines, the most comprehensive survey of genetic variations in the country to date shows. This Uppsala University study comprises 2.3 million DNA markers from some 1,000 individuals and suggests that climate change may have played a role in the mass movement of populations.
New light shed on the early evolution of limb bone marrow
When and how bone marrow first originated in the limbs of early four-legged animals is disputed in evolutionary biology. With the help of powerful X-ray technology, an international research team, led by Uppsala University, has now discovered that this evolutionary adaptation most likely took place after the first tetrapods stepped ashore. The study is published in the scientific journal eLife.
Multigenerational effects of environmental toxins
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The effects of the endocrine disruptor linuron on frogs are not limited to those exposed, but are passed on to their offspring and grand-offspring. First generation offspring have reduced body weight and decreased fertility, while second generation offspring have increased body weight and a disrupted metabolism. This is demonstrated by a new study conducted by researchers at Uppsala University and Stockholm University that has now been published in the journal Science of the Total Environment.
Simulation of the tide at the end of silur. The colors indicate the tide height in meters for two different tide parameters. Photograph: Mattias Green/Bangor University
Big tidal ranges some 400 million years ago may have initiated the evolution of bony fish and land vertebrates. This theory is now supported by researchers in the UK and at Uppsala University who, for the first time, have used established mathematical models to simulate tides on Earth during this period. The study has been published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A.
A tiny jaw from Greenland sheds light on the origin of complex teeth
A team of scientists led from Uppsala University have described the earliest known example of dentary bone with two rows of cusps on molars and double-rooted teeth. The new findings offer insight into mammal tooth evolution, particularly the development of double-rooted teeth. The results are published in the scientific journal PNAS.
A rare look at a dinosaur baby inside its egg
Using synchrotron X-rays, the researchers created an image of the skull from a sauropod embryo, including the parts that were embedded in the rocks. Photograph: Photo: Kundrát et al
The great long-necked dinosaurs, or sauropods, of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods were the largest animals ever to live on land. In a paper published in Current Biology, an international team of researchers including members from Uppsala University use cutting-edge imaging technology to give us a unique glimpse of the very beginning of a sauropod life: the face of an unhatched young inside an egg.
Short film about Evolution and Developmental biology
Thousands of teeth tell the long history of sharks
Doctoral student Mohamad Bazzi holding a lamniform shark tooth. Photograph: Jordi Estefa
Sharks have roamed the earth’s oceans for around 450 million years. Although they survived the catastrophic extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, that event did alter the balance between two important shark groups. In his degree project, Mohamad Bazzi investigates which types of shark have been most successful during different periods.
Meet our scientists at Scifest!
On March 5 - 7, Uppsala University and SLU hosts the science festival Scifest at Fyrishov. Many scientists from the Department of Organismal Biology will be there.
New and surprising light on the earliest tetrapods
Artistic reconstruction of the Sosnogorsk lagoon just before a deadly storm. Credit: Mikhail Shekhanov for the Ukhta Local Museum.
Superbly preserved fossils from Russia, excavated with support of a grant from the National Geographic Society and described today by an international team in the leading scientific journal Nature, cast new and surprising light on one of the earliest tetrapods – the group of animals that made the evolutionary transition from water to land and ultimately became the ancestors not just of amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, but of ourselves.
DNA study sheds new light on the Neolithic Battle Axe Culture
Skeleton from a man linked to the Scandinavian battle ax culture that arose about 5,000 years ago. DNA from this individual was analyzed in the study. Photograph: Jonas Karlsson, Östergötland Museum
In an interdisciplinary study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, an international research team has combined archaeological, genetic and stable isotope data to understand the demographic processes associated with the iconic Battle Axe Culture and its introduction in Scandinavia.
Photosynthesis in the dark
First prize at poster presentation
Who Does What in the Heterogeneous VTA?
Filter-feeding pterosaurs were the flamingoes of the Late Jurassic
The scans revealed many microscopic food remains including foraminifera (small amoeboid protists with external shells), small shells of marine invertebrates and possible remains of polychaete worms. Photograph: Qvarnström mfl.
Modern flamingoes employ filter feeding and their feces are, as a result, rich in remains of microscopically-small aquatic prey. Very similar contents are described from more than 150 million year old pterosaur droppings in a recent paper in PeerJ. This represents the first direct evidence of filter-feeding in Late Jurassic pterosaurs and demonstrates that their diet and feeding environment were similar to those of modern flamingoes.
New article about fairy rings
Studies of fungi provide new knowledge of harmful mutations in cells
Historically, fairy rings have been associated with various supernatural notions, such as traces of witches’ cauldrons, dancing elves or other magical creatures. Photograph: Markus Hiltunen
Long-lived mushrooms that grow in ‘fairy rings’ accumulate surprisingly few mutations over time. This finding indicates that their protection against harmful mutations is well developed. The results, to be published in the esteemed journal Current Biology, are interesting in terms of both medicine and evolutionary biology.
Paper second place winner of Mark A. Smith Award in Neurochemistry
Megalith tombs were family graves in European Stone Age
Grave in Primerose, Ireland. The team found an overrepresentation of males compared to females in the megalith tombs on the British Isles. Photograph: Göran Burenhult
In a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an international research team, led from Uppsala University, discovered kin relationships among Stone Age individuals buried in megalithic tombs on Ireland and in Sweden. The kin relations can be traced for more than ten generations and suggests that megaliths were graves for kindred groups in Stone Age northwestern Europe.
Meet biologists at Scifest!
New findings about the 210 million year old dinosaur-like archosaur
Coprolites, or fossil droppings, of the dinosaur-like archosaur Smok wawelski contain lots of chewed-up bone fragments. Photograph: Gerard Gierlinski
Coprolites, or fossil droppings, of the dinosaur-like archosaur Smok wawelski contain lots of chewed-up bone fragments. This led researchers at Uppsala University to conclude that this top predator was exploiting bones for salt and marrow, a behavior often linked to mammals but seldom to archosaurs.
Individual lichens can have up to three fungi, study shows
Wolf lichens can have up to three different fungi. Photo: Veera Tuvoinen.
International research team uses genome sequencing to show that a lichen can contain up to three different fungi.
Gigantic mammal “cousin” discovered
Skeleton of Lisowicia bojani. Photograph: Tomasz Sulej
During the Triassic period (252–201 million years ago) mammal-like reptiles called therapsids co-existed with ancestors to dinosaurs, crocodiles, mammals, pterosaurs, turtles, frogs, and lizards. One group of therapsids are the dicynodonts. Researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden, together with colleagues in Poland, have discovered fossils from a new genus of gigantic dicynodont. The new species is described in the journal Science.
Unravelling the genetics of fungal fratricide
Selfish genes are genes that are passed on to the next generation but confer no advantage on the individual as a whole, and may sometimes be harmful. Researchers at Uppsala University have, for the first time, sequenced (or charted) two selfish genes in the fungus Neurospora intermedia that cause fungal spores to kill their siblings. Unexpectedly, the genes were not related to each other, perhaps indicating that selfish genes are more common than previously thought.
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Jack Gordon coordinated many
Presidential Visits to Seattle
Jack Gordon is escorting Democratic Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson through the exhibits at the 1952 Washington State International Trade Fair. Stevenson's two sons are directly behind. Stevenson visited the Trade Fair held at the Civic Arena on September 8.
(Photo courtesy of the Greater Seattle News Bureau.)
Senator Jack Kennedy was "pinned" by Seafair's King Ben Bowling during his November,1961, visit to Seattle. Kennedy planned to return to Seattle during the Century 21 World's Fair in 1962, but the "Cuban Missile Crisis" got in the way. That's Gordon on the microphone. The program was held in Seattle's Victory Square located on University Street between 4th and 5th Avenues and opposite Victor Rosellini's Four-10 Restaurant. Kennedy followed this program with a speech at the University of Washington to honor their 100th Anniversary and ended the day back at the Olympic Hotel with a dinner celebrating U.S.Senator Warren G Magnusen. More pictures of Kennedy's whirlwind trip to Seattle are available on this site.
Photo by Steve Reed Photography, Seattle
During a visit in the 1980's Richard Nixon listens to Gordon.
During a quick visit in October, 1976, we have a full length view of RASW Exec. John F "Jack" Gordon, Governor Dan Evans, and President Gerald Ford. (Photo Credit to Wm J Murray III of Seattle)
In 1980, Jack brought in former President Gerald Ford as the Keynote Speaker
for the Pacific International Hospitality Show. Left to right are NRA President Bob Power of the Nut Tree Restaurant, Vacaville, California, President Ford, Jack Gordon, and RASW's perennial Convention Chairman Victor Rosellini.
It's a good thing that there were several levels of head tables. Here's President Gerald Ford during his 1980 visit to the Restaurant Convention, shaking hands with Bruce Attebery along with a benevolent Victor Rosellini looking on.
A jovial Jack Gordon welcoming Ronald Reagan. Also greeting the President was Evelyn Egtvedt.
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Lathered Up
Meet the owners.
Lather Salon came together from the desire to merge ideas, personalities and dreams. Longtime friends and co-workers Kimberly Bacon and Kristin Isaac sought the freedom and responsibility of Salon ownership, as well as a chance to work together to create something unique in a town that is already known for thinking outside the box. With a desire to avoid stereotypes and industry hype, Kim and Kristin sat down together to conceptualize a Salon that would offer limitless expression within the framework of their both complimentary and contrasting creative visions. Lather is the result.
Welcome, be yourself… and just a little bit more.
** Less than 24 hour cancellation will result in a charge of 50% of the service fee.
No Show, no call will result in a full charge. **
Menu of services.
Women’s cut $70 +
Men’s cut $45 +
Single process color $70 +
Partial highlight $120 +
Full highlight $150 +
Shampoo & Style $45 +
Updo $85 +
** Less than 24 hour cancellation will result in a charge of 50% of the service fee **
Kristin Issac
Senior Stylist, Colorist & Co-Owner
Kristin Isaac’s passion for hair began during what most women remember as the “Barbie Years”. Through early trials, simply joy and experimentation, she learned many things that still aid her today (never try to curl a Barbie’s hair). After college, she entered the prestigious and challenging Aveda Institute, and ten years later, her experiences with everyday mom’s, celebrity clients, and her drive for constant improvement continue to bring out the best in her clientele.
An expert in precision cutting, color and blow-outs, Kristin’s repertoire also includes personal styling, hundreds of successful wedding updos and much more. Her patience, drive for exacting results, hard work and by extension, happy clients, will leave you feeling satisfied, inspired and with the joy of a vision realized.
Kim Bacon
“The drive to make art is what inspired me to get into the hair industry and is what keeps me here after almost 30 years in the business.”
Kim Bacon started her career in the 80’s working for Toni&Guy. She quickly became the companies Chemical Artistic Director in 1993 and taught hair color and color theory to hairdressers around the world. In 1997 she opened her first salon, The Velvet Chair in Dallas, Tx.. She went on to work on Michigan Ave in Chicago, Ill. in 2001.
“Specializing in ‘just’ hair color for 15 years really grounded me in this business and helped me take and artists’ perspective when it comes to creating a visual palette for my clients”. Visiting art galleries, connecting to current trends in fashion and music keep me fresh and inspired”
Kim Bacon has trained with Rodger Thompson of Vidal Sassoon, Paul Mitchell, John Paul DeJoria, Anthony Mascolo of Toni&Guy, Sally Hershburger, Nick Arrojo, Beth Mindardi formerly of Redken and Michael Gordon of Bumble and Bumble. She has been featured in publications such as Allure Magazine as one of ‘The Nations Top Colorists’ 1993, Elle Magazine 1995, Allure Fashion Insider 1995, and Hairstyles 2001, as well as many local publications. Kim lives in heart of downtown Austin, Tx with her daughter, Michael.
“Music, fashion, art, webinars, the big picture, the small details, or just going rogue in the process of creating something new for my clients keeps me excited as a hairdresser”
Steve Stanford.
Senior Stylist & Colorist
I am fortunate to have been trained by one of the most influential stylists in Austin, and I am proud to bring that knowledge to Lather Salon.
Having done hair for 25 years, I am constantly reminded how lucky I am to work in an industry where I can make clients feel better about themselves, their hair and appearance.
By forming strong, lasting relationship with my clients, I can make good and honest decisions about their hair to compliment their lifestyle. Styling hair is a great passion for me, and so are the friends I have made along the way.
Jai Leverton.
Jai Leverton grew up in north Texas and has been a pro stylist since 2010.
Awards & Specialties
– Formal Hair for Austin Wedding Day Style magazine.
– Specializes in color, dimensional blondes, natural and edgy Balayage highlights and Balayage ombré as well as fashion colors and color corrections.
– Uses L’Oréal professional color-line (including their ammonia free permanent line INOA.)
– Was featured in InStyle Magazine’s “Best Color in Austin.” October 2011
Rick Garza.
Rick has been a stylist for 30 years. Throughout that tenure, he has been a color educator for Goldwell color. Rick started his career in West Texas before relocating to Austin in 2001. Staying current in an ever- changing industry creates the need for education. Learning new techniques lend to creativity and therein lies the happy medium. The best reward is making clients happy.
Elyse Gomez.
Elyse has been a Licensed Cosmetologist since 2004, but She’s an artist in the truest sense of the word. From a life long fascination with painting and sculpting, she has refined her love of the arts into a profession as a highly demanded hair stylist. Drawing from her vast artistic abilities, Your hair is her canvas! Combing through any hair type with ease, every Cut and Color is her masterpiece. With a listening ear and an eye for detail, she’ll be sure your hairstyle fits your lifestyle and that your color compliments your complexion.
Specializing in a wide range of styles from conservative to edgy, her number one goal is to find a look that matches a client’s personality. Whether you desire something modern or classic – she’s got you covered.
Amanda Rambo.
Amanda comes to us with 19 years of experience in professional make-up artistry. As a young girl being involved with stage plays and musicals, Amanda quickly fell in love with makeup and the power it has for transformation. She enjoyed transforming herself and fellow actors into trolls, animals, and fantasy creatures. Eventually, Amanda began focusing her artistic passions on beauty and editorial style makeup. She is well sought after by brides and professional women in the Austin area and beyond seeking the dependable, experienced hand of a caring and inspired artist.
Amanda’s inventive and imaginative spirit manifests itself artistically in other forms and variations. Her crochet creations can also be seen littering the salon and her Instagram page: Amanda’s Insta.
From Cesar Chavez Drive, turn onto Walter Seaholm Drive. Go straight at the first stop sign, and up a small hill. At the top of the hill, turn right at the stop sign. Go approximately six to seven car lengths and look for the entrance to the parking garage, “Gables West Ave.” on your left. Pull up to the intercom and enter the code 0109 (no # or “Call”). You can also scroll through the list to get to ‘Lather’ and press the call button. When in the garage, look to your right for a door marked, “Exit to retail shops and leasing office”. Once you’ve parked, this is how you’ll exit the garage. Once you’ve exited the garage, turn right on the sidewalk and walk approximately 1 ½ blocks, toward Bowie St.. Lather is the second-to-last salon, before Bowie St.
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Tino Troy
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Tino took an interest in guitar playing when he was 16 years old, a while back! In his last year at school he built an electric guitar. He then went on to college where he met Peter Moore, a follow guitarist and fan of Status Quo. This was around the time when twin guitar bands came to fore, while Thin Lizzy & Wishbone Ash became major influences. From there Praying Mantis was born, more information can be found at www.praying-mantis.com Mantis became one of the pioneers of the NWOBHM. From these roots a family tree was born which included certain members of Paddy Goes To Holyhead. Tino joined the band in late '87, replacing Andy Scott who was too busy with his production work to continue. After about 18 months he left Paddy to form The Wandering Crutchlees with Mal McNulty & Jeff Brown, who by this time were involved in Andy's new look Sweet, and Bruce Bisland. In 1990 Praying Mantis were invited to Japan, where they have a loyal following, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of NWOBHM. Tino and Danny remained good friends through the years and hooked up again in 1999 when they formed 'The Glam Stars', along with his brother Chris, Mal McNulty and former Mantis drummer Dave Potts. The band only done a handful of shows, while P.G.T.H. was between gigs, after which Danny invited both Tino & Chris to join him in the new look Paddy Goes To Holyhead.
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April 18, 2021 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm BST
Paisley St George's Causeyside 82 Causeyside Street, Paisley
Join us for our regular Sunday worship at 11am in Causeyside. A booking system is in place while we are still restricted in numbers, and we will allocate you on a first come basis to attend at Causeyside or the Outreach Centre where the service will be live streamed,
April 15, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm BST
Service of Union
Paisley St Georges Outreach Centre 31 Nethercraigs Drive, Paisley
The Service of Union between Glenburn Parish Church and Stow Brae Kirk will be held in glenburn Parish on Thursday 15th April 2021 at 7pm. Attendance at the service is by invitation only. The service will be livestreamed on our new YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/G3wKe6AsBi0
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Artist Profile – Aaron Lockman
Aaron Lockman
Name: Aaron Lockman
City/State: Chicago, IL
Age: Chronologically 23, Spiritually 63 1/2
Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation: Mostly cis male, but with he/him/they/them pronouns, and a relationship with gender that could mostly be described as exhausted. Bisexual as heck.
Racial/Ethnic Identity: White/Eastern-European-Jewish
Why do you want to write for Rescripted?: Because I thoroughly agree with Rescripted’s mission of bringing a diverse array of voices into the critical sphere. And because the people seem nice.
What are your artistic disciplines?: Acting, writing (plays, memoir, nonfiction), puppetry.
What “lenses” do you bring with you when you go to a show?: Jew, person of queer identity, person with anxiety, person with privilege trying to use it well.
Who is your favorite theatre artist and why?: I mean, unfair question. But I’m a pretty big Calamity West fan these days. Every play of hers I’ve seen has been tightly paced, devastating, timely, passionate, hilarious, and human.
Bio/Website: Aaron Lockman is an actor and playwright with a BA in Theatre from Columbia College Chicago. He has previously performed with Metropolis Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Eclectic Full Contact Theatre, the side project, Surging Films and Theatrics, and The Living Room. His plays have been performed at The Theater at Monmouth, Mary’s Attic, Prop Theatre, and Columbia College. Aaron also writes reviews of Chicago theatre for the website PerformInk. You can hear his voice on the podcast The Audio Diary of Aaron Lockman, or on the audiobooks Surviving Hitler, Locke and Key, and The X-Files: Cold Cases. You might also have seen him narrating the Adler Planetarium’s sky show, Destination Solar System. Aaron enjoys walking dogs, playing with Legos, talking excitedly about astronomy, and making annoying puns. http://aaronlockman.com
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Tag Archives: la cruz
Miranda, Venezuela, Zulia
With Chávez’s health in doubt, regional Venezuelan elections assume greater importance
December 13, 2012 Kevin Lees 1 Comment
With Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez recovering from surgery, due to what may be terminal cancer, it’s easy to forget that this weekend will mark a handful of key regional races throughout Venezuela, including a gubernatorial race in Miranda state that pits Chávez’s former presidential rival against Chávez’s former vice president.
Although the attention this week has been mostly on Chávez’s health, his departure to Cuba for surgery and, perhaps above all, his speech last Saturday night indicating that his preferred successor is former foreign minister and vice president Nicolás Maduro, the results of Sunday’s races will establish the backdrop for the leading figures of both Chávez’s Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV, or United Socialist Party of Venezuela) and the broad opposition coalition, the Mesa de la Unidad Democrática (MUD).
Indeed, with rumors flying of complications after his surgery, the weekend’s races have counterintuitively become more important as Venezuela prepares for the possibility, at least, of a new early presidential election if Chávez resigns or dies in office.
In their own right, however, because 20% of the federal budget is (theoretically) allotted to state governments, governorships provide the MUD and other opposition candidates a platform for government, notwithstanding the centralization of Venezuela’s federal system under PSUV rule.
The key race that everyone will be watching is the governor’s race in Miranda, where the incumbent, Henrique Capriles, recently finished his unsuccessful presidential campaign against Chávez as the MUD’s standard-bearer — although he lost by 9 points, Capriles won 45% of the vote, making him Chávez’s most successful political opponent in his 13-year reign. Miranda state is likely Venezuela’s most developed state and its second most populous, bordering (and in some cases including) the broad Caracas metropolitan area. Chávez actually won this state in the October presidential race by a squeaker — with 49.96% to Capriles’s 49.52%, and Capriles won the 2008 election with just over 52% of the vote.
His opponent is the somewhat humorless former vice president, Elias Jaua, and although one poll has shown Jaua with a five-point lead against Capriles, other polls have shown varying Capriles leads and it’s certainly difficult to believe Capriles is an underdog. By all accounts, the fresh-faced Miranda governor has been a more-than-capable administrator in the past four years, bringing a dose of good government to Miranda after the corruption of his predecessor, Diosdado Cabello. Furthemore, Jaua’s record as a colorless Chávez yes-man makes it seem like he’s less than likely to sweep to victory, although if Chávez’s health takes a serious turn for the worst between now and Sunday, Jaua may yet benefit from a vote of sympathy.
Capriles defeated Cabello, the governor from 2004 to 2008, in the prior election, and Cabello, who’s since become the leader of Venezuela’s PSUV-dominated National Assembly, would temporarily take over as president in the event that Chávez resigns or dies after he is sworn in for his next term (set to begin January 10), with a snap presidential election to follow within 30 days. Despite Chávez’s speech anointing Maduro as his preferred successor, Cabello has long harbored presidential ambitions, he, along with Jaua (especially if Jaua wins) may try to become the PSUV’s presidential candidate in any such election instead.
Of course, in the event of such a rapid election, Capriles is very likely to lead the opposition against Maduro, Cabello or whomever the PSUV runs. But that could change if Capriles doesn’t win Sunday’s vote in Miranda handily — given his narrow loss to Chávez and the very short 30-day window for a new presidential election, Capriles may nonetheless still be the main opposition candidate. But it would open the door for another candidate to emerge, likely from among the other six states where opposition governors are currently in power.
That brings us to Zulia state and with 3.8 million people, it’s Venezuela’s most populous. Nestled in Venezuela’s far northwest bordering Colombia along the Caribbean coast, Zulia’s oil and agricultural wealth makes it, like Miranda, one of the country’s wealthiest states. Pablo Pérez (pictured above, top), who widely lost the MUD’s presidential nomination to Capriles by a 2-to-1 margin way back in February 2012, is running for reelection in what should be an even more solid opposition win for Un Nuevo Tiempo (UNT, a New Era), the centrist party that was founded in Zulia in the late 1990s and which has controlled the governor’s office since 2000 (until 2008, under Manuel Rosales, who lost the 2006 presidential election against Chávez by a 25-point margin). Pérez is running against the PSUV’s Francisco Arias Cárdenas, governor of Zulia from 1995 to 2000, though Pérez is heavily favored. Capriles did better in Zulia than he did nationwide in October, winning 46.27% to just 53.34% for Chávez. Both Chávez’s national government and Pérez’s UNT regional government have spent large sums on social programs in the state, and a win for the PSUV would be quite a staggering victory for chavismo.
If Capriles falters in Miranda, Pérez, who lies politically to the left of Capriles, could well become the next consensus opposition presidential candidate.
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Home ARTS ‘Talk Memory’ review
‘Talk Memory’ review
by The Other Press November 9, 2021 November 10, 2021
Photo by Matthew Fraser
This is an album for longtime jazz listeners who appreciate the classics but also love the forward leaps that came after.
So good from a band twice bad
By Matthew Fraser, Editor in Chief
I have been a fan of BADBADNOTGOOD (BBNG) since at least 2016. I don’t remember the first song that I heard from them, but I do remember being absolutely floored both times that I heard them play “Confessions Pt. II” live. The combination of technical brilliance, jarring shifts in intensity and smooth mastery is one thing to understand through your stereo, but another to witness in real life. Since then, I have been a serious fan, jealously waiting for their next release. On October 8, the Canadian Jazz band granted my wishes and released their fifth album Talk Memory.
In a sense, this album is a departure from their third and fourth albums as they’ve reigned in a touch of the intensity and replaced it with a smoother, more traditionally jazz style. It’s not that the album is bereft of power—far from it—it’s that the power on display is less room-filling and more mind penetrating. The captivating intensity of “Triangle” and “Eyes Closed” have receded into an effort that straddles the line between introspective and progressive. This is an album for longtime jazz listeners who appreciate the classics but also love the forward leaps that came after.
The album’s opener “Signal From the Noise” harkens back to the Carlos Santana era of fusion jazz with its shifting melodies and high energy. The song carries forwards in a loose yet mature and technical manner, buoyed by the woodwinds layered throughout its sonic atmosphere. “Unfolding (Momentum 73)” continues to evoke the sound and feel of 1970’s fusion jazz but adds more of the future-facing space-age sound of the era. The song submerges elements from the piano and saxophone into the background to be uncovered and picked out by keen and attentive listeners.
“City of Mirrors” begins as a classy, jazzy, effortless song calmly directed by Brazils legendary Arthur Verocai. Over the first minute, violins serenade listeners before the song gently transitions into an improvised jazz session. An essence of Thelonious Monk is present in the discordant midpoint before the song returns to its fusion jazz core, smoothly blending old and new.
“Beside April” follows quickly, displaying both a modern smoothness and the expert arrangement of Verocai. Here, John McLaughlin-esque guitar riffs and styling wrap themselves into the blazingly fast arrangements on display. The technical brilliance of the preceding two albums recedes to be replaced by a more mature sound.
“Love Proceeding” feels almost like a modern reimagining of a 1960’s pop song. Verocai’s hand is once again evidenced in the orchestral arrangements, adding to the sense of a bygone era while also lending depth to the jazz band’s technical sound. When “Timid Intimidating” begins, the band’s collaborations and friendship with artist Thundercat are on display. However, the band shifts smoothly into its fusion jazz form and once again resurrects the sound of McLaughlin.
“Beside April (reprise)” is chillingly cinematic as the piano leads this delicate but strange reprise of the earlier song. In no way is this a lesser version, rather, it is a stripped-down and retooled imagining that comes at listeners in a cooler, nearly eerie fashion. The final song on the album, “Talk Meaning” is a percussion-driven explosion that may be the most ‘modern sounding’ song on the album. Here, various sonic elements, sounds and instruments wander in and out of the soundstage while the polyrhythms of each instrument fuse and transform. The saxophone, drums and piano work with and against each other at points to create and maintain a driving rhythm. The song and the album end and as the string section reemerges then disappear leaving a lone harp to carry listeners away.
This fifth album shows the uncanny mastery of technique and jazz ideas that have become the trademark of BBNG. The band chooses to blur the lines between eras at will while maintaining the coherency that most musicians long aspire to maintain. The band is perfectly in control of themselves and their audience once again. I now hungrily await their next live performance. Pro tip: The vinyl edition contains a bonus song.
Stand out tracks:
City Of Mirrors
Beside April
Timid Intimidating
Talk Meaning
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Flying Colors – Third Degree
Written by Derek Walker
Rock supergroup finds the best from all its members. Despite the restraint their prog tendencies still shine through. Wonderful stuff.
Label: Mascot Label Group
Time: 9 tracks / 64 mins
I have gone on record as saying that two of Neal Morse’s recent albums have been the best thing to happen in Christian rock over the last few years. That quality continues here as part of the rock supergroup‘s third (and possibly best) album Third Degree.
Comprising members who have also been part of bands such as Deep Purple, Dream Theater, Dixie Dregs, Steve Vai and Spock’s Beard, the band was assembled with the specific mission to combine complex music with accessible songwriting.
They have hit that target in the bulls-eye. Most tracks enjoy interesting time signatures that add so much punch to them, and there is such a wealth of compositional talent here, as well as playing expertise, that these songs are tightly constructed, averaging only around seven minutes in length (about a third of Neal Morse’s normal track length) - and they are immensely singable.
But while restraint reigns, there is no lack of passion. Just hear singer Casey McPherson’s feelings run riot in “You are Not Alone”.
Each track has its own qualities: with particular thanks to McPherson's singing, lead single “More” is particularly Muse-like (as is "The Loss Inside," where Morse has his Jon Lord hat on for the organ work). The immense “Cadence” starts as a gorgeously intimate track, laced with strings, that has Neal Morse's style running right through it, and then it builds and builds. “Guardian” develops too, starting with an open sound that let's Dave LaRue's bass shine, then features an extended bass solo later.
Elsewhere, we get three very different tracks: “Geromino” sets itself apart by its funky sound; the Beach Boys-influenced “Love Letter” is perky and Beatles-esque; while ballad “You are Not Alone” eschews complexity for pure emotional power, featuring Steve Morse's restrained, but effective lead guitar. His soloing on "Crawl" helps to make it a powerful album closer, too.
Neal Morse’s influence as part of this secular set-up is lower, but Christians will get the meaning of “Last Train Home” from lyrics like these:
“Watch it now as it comes through the station
Through every life I've known
I'll take a one-way ticket to a new elevation
I ride the last train home.
Don't be sad you're going home
Though the water has covered you
You'll stand and begin again
This is your genesis, your train to Jerusalem.”
This is a complete band, each member excelling in his role. The whole album can be streamed here
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Env Sciences Magnet
Biodiversity Camp
Prairie Pollinator Project
Prairie Pollinators
Bee Keys for the PPP
Pollinator Portraits from the Prairie Pollinator Project
The Prairie Pollinator Project is an epic endeavor to map pollinator networks in restored prairie ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest. The project is led by Susan Waters - www site HERE - in collaboration with the Institute for Applied Ecology. The project has accumulated several thousand specimens, affixed with tiny labels in hundreds of boxes. These encompass the fantastic diversity to be discovered in the small space of a Pacific Northwest prairie. Some of this is evident at a glance, bees that are iridescent green (Ceratina), brick-red (Nomada), hairy in the extreme (Anthophora), and enormous (Bombus). The next level is harder. Typical sweat bees (Halictidae) are brown and black with hairy white stripes. Among these are several dozen species distinguished by the details - the distribution of tiny pits, or the precise shape of the "carina of the posterior propodeum." Another problematic group, the mason bees (Osmia), have a generally consistent appearance but comprise perhaps 75 species in Oregon.
Images in this gallery are from our specimen collection, representing pollinators at 14 sites in the Pacific Northwest. We've photographed them for own use, as vouchers, and to help in identifications by others frustrated, as we have been, by the lack of exemplars for comparison of samples. We also shoot them because they are beautiful, and worthy of close scrutiny. A few images of pollinators and host plants in the field here: https://cappaert.smugmug.com/Oregon-Pollinators
Technical: all images were made with a Canon 65mm lens and ring flash. The most recent are focus-stacked, i.e., composited from a series of 30 images made while moving the focal point in small increments.
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Annual Reform Report (3 of 5 parts)
Fiscal Reform
The special audit report (2005) and the AusAID funded study (2010) point to challenging fiscal infrastructure within DepEd -ARMM and have set out recommendations which are relevant today. “Out -of-box” salary release and more check and balance mechanisms to arrest slippage from several sources (Oplan LP) and as a result of a freeze order to hold the finances and accounts of the ARMM government had resulted to savings for DepEd-ARMM.
The current payroll database is vulnerable and will have to be improved either through a windows-based system and connected to the HRIS; the WB-AusAID Public Expenditure Institutional Review (PEIR) interventions which has already completed its 1st phase is a significant reform initiative to the overall fiscal health of the department; and fiscal processes will have to be improved according to existing accounting and auditing rules and regulations.
System Review
Under the WB-AusAID Public Expenditure and Institutional Review (PEIR), a study has been undertaken and two consultants are assisting DepEd-ARMM in improving its payroll and Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS); and in developing its operations manual. We have since and continue to purge the payroll and plantilla of ghost and overstaying personnel.
Earliest to remit and highest increase in PPSTA remittance nationwide
For the past eleven months of this administration, DepEd-ARMM is consistent in being the earliest region to submit its remittances to the Philippines Public School Teachers Association. As a result, ARMM teachers are now allowed to an increased loanable amount.
REGIONAL INITIATIVES TO SUPPORT ARMM HELPS
Repair and Maintenance of School Buildings
Aside from the Basic Education Facilities Funds (BEFF) and the regular MOOE of secondary schools and division offices, DepEd -ARMM office had provided repair and maintenance assistance for 77 schools in the province of Maguindanao for this year. Other schools from other provinces will also avail of this program in 2013.
Textbooks and Instructional Materials
A total of eighty-four thousand one hundred sixty-six (84,166) assorted teaching-learning supplementary materials were procured and currently being delivered to school-beneficiaries. CVIF Smart Foundation donated 800 assorted books for ARMM secondary schools and elementary books aside from those that were separately donated to the 85 elementary schools in Basilan and Lamitan. At present, DepED-ARMM is waiting for Two (2) Twenty-footer Container Van of Textbooks donated by Asian-American Initiative (AAI).
Pisara ng Pagbabago Project Realizing the lack of the most important teaching equipment, blackboard, DepEd-ARMM procured 1,000 blackboard for each province and had just delivered the allocation for schools under the Province of Maguindanao to be followed immediately by the delivery to Lanao del Sur, Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi. For the island provinces, chalks and erasers were also given to some schools.
New Flags for the ARMM Schools
DepEd-ARMM also supplied its 2,473 schools with one Philippine Flag and one ARMM ag.
Rehabilitation of the Sulu SPED Center
DepED-ARMM recently entered into a MOA with the Philippine Marines for the rehabilitation of Sulu SPED Center last November 18, 2012, where an initial amount of Two Hundred Thousand Pesos was allotted. This coming school year, we hope to establish a SPED Center in each province.
Oplan Balik Eskwela
DepEd-ARMM through its “Kulayan ang Paaralan” Project, in partnership with AusAID and other ARMM line agencies, sponsored around 100 schools for repair and improvements.
School-Based Management (SBM) Grant
Five hundred one (501) schools were recipients of SBM of the 2011 Grant that amounted to P25 million pesos. Individual checks were released by the regional governor to the school head beneficiaries. A similar amount under the 2012 SBM Grant will be released early next year, following a successful liquidation of the grants received.
Schools & District Maintenance and Other Operating Expenses (MOOE)
At the start of Hataman’s administration, only Two Hundred Forty Six (246) out of the 299 National High Schools have MOOE in the amount of Four Million Eight Hundred Thirty Six Seven Hundred Twenty Eight (Php 4,836,728.21). Since December 2011, Nineteen (19) more schools were given MOOE and were now releasing Seven Million Nine Hundred Thirty Six Nine Hundred Sixty Four (Php 7,936,964.15); and by 2013, each NHS will already have their respective MOOE.
Division Maintenance and Other Operating Expenses (MOOE)
Consistent with its support to the high schools and districts, an increase in the monthly MOOE of all divisions was approved by the regional secretary. A previous monthly MOOE of divisions amounting to ONLY P1.6 Million was increased by 100 percent doubling the allocation to P3.2 Million.
Capacity Building on Financial Management
In order to strengthen compliance with government procurement, accounting and auditing rules and regulations, DepEd-ARMM had invited COA to train 494 principals to undergo seminar-workshop on simplified accounting forms and preparation of financial statements for DepEd-ARMM
LOOKING AT TEACHERS PRIVILEGES AND WELFARE
Settlement of the 1.9 Billion Pesos obligations of DepEd-ARMM
Based on the MoA signed with GSIS, DepED-ARMM already encoded 99% of its personnel service records. Eventually, the Office of the Regional Governor and the DepED-ARMM is hopeful that by the end of the year, a MoA with the DBM on settling GSIS obligations will be signed.
DepED-ARMM has completed in a single payment transaction the Marawi City GSIS obligations amounting to P5.4 million and P4.0 million for Basilan account. Currently, we are still paying around P1.0 million for the interest of the Basilan account.
Buy-Out Loan Program with Landbank
To save ARMM Teachers from further victimization of loan sharks and lending institutions, DepED-ARMM entered into an agreement with the Land Bank of the Philippines to Buy Out Loans and/or Emergency Salary Loans at a maximum amount of Three Hundred Thousand Pesos at an effective interest rate of 7.14% per annum to permanent teachers.
Adjustments of Step Increments
Selective and misapplication in the adjustment of step increments had resulted to injustice and demoralization of teachers especially those who have been in the service for some time. An order was issued to rectify the step increments.
Payments of Back-Pays
A Memorandum Order is issued in December to effect the payment of back-pay claims for the year 2012.
IMPROVING EDUCATION QUALITY AND SYNERGY
DepEd-ARMM and DepEd CO Convergence
The first convergence meeting with DepEd CO was in April 2011 at the start of this school year to align the DepEd-ARMM programs to that of the national program on education. Another convergence meeting was held in December.
K-12 Implementation
In compliance with the national policy on K-12 curriculum implementation, which form part of the 10 point education agenda of the president, DepED-ARMM conducted series of teacher training for both elementary and secondary. This school-year’s implementation of the K-12 curriculum commenced with the Grades 1 & 7. In preparation, we have trained three thousand two hundred and forty-five (3,245) Grade 1 teachers and one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one (1,891) grade 7 teachers to implement the new K to 12 curriculum. A P20-million support funds for the reproduction of teaching and learning materials were downloaded to the division offices.
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Whispers of a Machine review - This collaborative tech-noir mystery from the creators of Kathy Rain and The Samaritan Paradox is a finely-tuned sophomore effort for both. These brutal killings obscure a sinister truth, as Vera soon finds ties to a group of fanatics committed to creating an AI superintelligence — a pursuit outlawed for nearly a century. While some of the dialogue can feel a little cliché and cheesy, it actually fits nicely within the atmosphere of a pulp crime novel. Whispers of a Machine is a Sci-Fi Nordic Noir that tells the story of Vera, a cybernetically augmented special agent tasked with investigating a string of murders.These brutal killings obscure a sinister truth, as Vera soon finds ties to a group of fanatics committed to creating an AI super-intelligence — a pursuit outlawed for nearly a century. It's a sci-fi Nordic Noir with heavy Cyberpunk elements, set in a post-apocalyptic future. Whispers of a Machine > Guides > XBL Laberbacke's Guides ... Use the power switch and the control panel of the machine on the left, then search the metal pile with the "blade shape" attachment for an achievement Pick up the knife Switch the machine off again before you leave for an achievement. Summary: Whispers of a Machine is a Sci-Fi Nordic Noir that tells the story of Vera, a cybernetically augmented detective in a post-AI world, who investigates a string of murders and unravels a dark conflict over forbidden technology. Whispers of a Machine is a smart point-and-click that elevates its spotty lore with a great script and an excellent, if underused, augmentation system. These brutal killings obscure a sinister truth, as Vera soon finds ties to a group of fanatics committed to creating an AI superintelligence — a pursuit outlawed for nearly a century. Whispers of a Machine is a sci-fi adventure game from the development talent behind the Kathy Rain and The Samaritan Paradox series. Whispers of a Machine is a perfect example of this, offering up a classic noir mystery with a bit of sci-fi flair for an interactive adventure that, just like a good book, is hard to put down once you start. Whispers of a Machine is a 2019 point-and-click Adventure Game, developed by Clifftop Games and Faravid Interactive and published by Raw Fury. These brutal killings obscure a sinister truth, as Vera soon finds ties to a group of fanatics committed to creating an AI superintelligence — a pursuit outlawed for nearly a century. Whispers of a Machine is a Sci-Fi Nordic Noir that tells the story of Vera, a cybernetically augmented detective in a post-AI world, who investigates a string of murders and unravels a dark conflict over forbidden technology. Directed by Joel Staaf Hästö. Whispers of a Machine is a Sci-Fi Nordic Noir that tells the story of Vera, a cybernetically augmented special agent tasked with investigating a string of murders. Whispers of a Machine is a Sci-Fi Nordic Noir that tells the story of Vera, a cybernetically augmented special agent tasked with investigating a string of murders. With Andy Chmelko, Ivy Dupler, Sandra Espinoza, David Gilbert. Whispers of a Machine is a Sci-Fi Nordic Noir that tells the story of Vera, a cybernetically augmented detective in a post-AI world, who investigates a string of murders and unravels a dark conflict over forbidden technology. Playing the Game. Whispers of a Machine is a Sci-Fi Nordic Noir that tells the story of Vera, a cybernetically augmented special agent tasked with investigating a string of murders.
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THE LONG ROAD TO TRIUMPH
Not long ago anybody would have thought that a boy battling intellectual disorder would conquer the world. And today Ranveer has. Diagnosed with autism at the age of 2 years, Ranveer has been a fighter, as all children with special needs are, DEFYING THE ODDS AND BATTLING THROUGH THE CHALLENGES…
Over the years there have been numerous interventions, therapies, special education, occupational therapy, speech stimulation, sensory diet, calming medicines, Ranveer’s childhood was a summary of a report chart that indicated slow progress. His world was limited to his parents, and caretakers as his only circle of friends.
But not for long when Ranveer’s journey took the twist of a lifetime when he was introduced to Golf. As some would say, Golf is a game of precision and focus, Ranveer took this as a challenge. An opportunity that would push him beyond boundaries and help him confront the limits posed by intellectual disability and the insupportable social frontiers.
Golf, being a game of concentration, accuracy, body & mind control, it seemed to be the last game which Ranveer’s therapists and special educators suggested. All stumbling blocks mastered, Ranveer struggled to make his mark on the greens. As the seed of Golf was taking its roots, he started his training under the national coach Mr. Anitya Chand and began getting his grip on golf with a professional angle.
THE RISE OF RANVEER-The odds were plenty and so was his iron clad will to part ways with ‘Autism’ and tame it into a gift. UNTIL….
Until one day, that turned a new page of his life. The Special Olympics Golf Masters 2013! The event that would unleash a champion and lay the foundation of a new entity. The lone Special needs golfer from India, the 12 year old Ranveer represented millions of hopes at Special Olympics Golf Masters 2013. A promising game for all athletes the Special Olympics Golf Masters was brimming with expectation and inspiration. With his shots winning him the Level 1 and 2 competition, Ranveer created news all across the country and the globe. Raising the trophies of victory against all difficulties, he became ‘the topic of the day’ as the entire crowd cheered him during the grand ceremony. Since then there has been no looking back!
The winner of level 1 and level 2 in 2013, winner of level 2 in 2014, Ranveer is on a winning spree. His name and his feats at the Special Olympics Golf Masters figured as a record in the Limca book of Records for three consecutive years – 2014, and 2016. He is also declared as one of the 10 people of the year 2016 award by Limca Book of Records.
A passionate golfer, the champion to give golfing stalwarts a run for their money, Ranveer’s laurels keep him going. His calendar is packed with specific training programmes, divided in days, weeks and months; sessions that are full of golf at the bunker, putting green, driving range and actual play on the course… Every single day!
“WHY FIT IN? WHEN YOU WERE BORN TO STAND OUT”…
Ranveer’s achievements are plenty and the leading ones can be identified well as under:
1. First Indian along with his unified partner Ms Monica Jajoo to win Gold Medal at the World Special Olympics 2015 at Los Angeles on 31st July, 2015.
2. First Indian to participate in Special Olympics -Asia Pacific Golf Masters, Macau 2013 & to win TWO GOLD medals for India in both Level 1 & Level 2 golf competitions.
3. First Indian to participate again in Special Olympics -Asia Pacific Golf Masters, Macau 2014 & to win ONE GOLD medal for India in Level 2 golf competition.
4. First youngest Indian to compete at the Special Olympics -Asia Pacific Golf Masters, Macau 2015 with 19 countries & to win a bronze medal after playing with 0-19 handicap golfers aged between 25 to 40 years old.
5. First Indian to have consecutively been a LIMCA RECORD Holder for his victories at the Asia Pacific Golf Masters tournament for FOUR CONSECUTIVE YEARS 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017.
6. First Indian golfer ever to represent Special Olympics World Games.
7. Selected by the World renowned Sports Magazine ‘The Sports Illustrated’ as the Sportsperson of the year for his stellar performance at the World Games.
8. Felicitated by the Deputy Commissioner-Gurgaon, Govt. of Haryana-for his outstanding achievements in Golf.
9. Conferred upon the Indian Achiever’s Award by former PM Lal Bahadur Shastri’s son, Mr.Sunil Shastri.
10. Honoured with the PHD Sports Excellence Award by the PHD Chamber of Commerce & Industry-Sports Committee.
11. Felicitated by the honorable Prime Minister Mr.Narender Modi on the Haryana Swarna Jayanti.
12. Was felicitated by the Honourable Governor of Haryana- Kaptan Singh Solanki ji, on 15th Jan’2017.
13. Ranveer Singh Saini has been conferred with the highest Sports award of Haryana, ‘Bheem Award’ by the honourable Governor of Haryana Professor Kaptan Singh Solanki on 19th February, 2017.
14. Was awarded the Talent Hunt ‘Autistic Marvel 2017’ by the National Trust – The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Govt. of India
15. Gold medalist Asia Pacific Golf Masters Macau, 2017
16. Conferred with the prestigious Sports Achiever Award-2017 by the PHD Chamber Of Commerce & Industry with Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Govt. of India at the 5th Global Sports Convention 2017
17.Silver Medal at the World Games 2019 at Abu Dhabi on 21st March 2019
This outlines Ranveer and his enormity in Golf but there is more that keeps him ahead of the game and the rest! Trailing with him are so many attributes that make him the cynosure far and wide. To pick some of them would be:
1. Pianist qualified Initial & Level 1 with the Trinity College of London. Has performed publicly at the Epicentre, India Islamic Centre & other platforms.
2. Received the Lifetime Honorary membership at the Avondale Golf Club, Sydney.
3. Received the Lifetime Honorary membership at the Ambience Greens, Gurgaon.
3. Outstanding cook at 14 years of age.
4. Perfect pitch talent in music.
5. Mathematical genius in calculation of future calendar dates.
Ranveer’s accomplishments have defined his social habits, giving a boost not only to his golf or career but also to his individuality and independence. Golf turned a new leaf in Ranveer’s life. It proved to be the catalyst what medicines, therapies, diets and interventions could not do!! It raised his self-esteem beyond measure, giving him the confidence that exudes beyond words and focus that speaks volumes of his aim to overcome the hurdles.
With his historic victory at the Special Olympics World Games, LA 2015, Ranveer has once again cut out a place for himself on the world map. His invincible prowess in golf has raised the bars for those eyeing for international titles. His making it to the world games at LA was itself a page turner in history but he capitalized this platform not only to become the first Indian at the world games but also creating ripples by his record breaking victory.
There are many takeaways from Ranveer’s victory. His ‘fight tooth and nail’ resolve towards his goal, hardwork and perseverance. But most of all his power to say no to the temptation of ‘giving up’. Been through the hardest times and finally making it to that mountain of glory, he is able to dig one compelling truth and that is ‘If you believe it, you can do it too’. Hurdles come in many disguises. But, we all can tap into that same source that lies inherent in us; by standing our ground and reminding oneself that failures are common human condition that only enable us to forge ahead.
All said and done, finally, the rise of Ranveer has credibly turned up the heat on how one can champion dreams into reality. An inspiration for all, this young lad fires an artillery on how dedication and determination can team up to tee off the marvel you are! Who knows you can be the next poster boy or the girl, belting out a new narrative to go forth and conquer.
This is just the snippet of Ranveer’s road to triumph that foregrounds those countless days of him unwilling to surrender to obstacles and travails. Meanwhile, he continues to create history while inspiring others to move mountains and carve their unique path through their unique gifts.
This is just the snippet of Ranveer’s road to triumph that foregrounds those countless days of him unwilling to surrender to obstacles and travails.
Meanwhile, he continues to create history while inspiring others to move mountains and carve their unique path through their unique gifts.
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Introducing Kevin the Vampire
By Will Madden on Tuesday, June 14, 2016
The Killbug Eulogies is still moving along the production pipe. Today I’m announcing a novelette whose release I’m slipping ahead of that science fiction novel. It is called Kevin the Vampire.
Back in the 80s, Kevin (a vampire) hoisted a firebrand to bad-assery outside the punk rock clubs of New York City. These days, he’s retreated to rural Ohio, where he lazes around an abandoned church, playing the organ and dreading the taste of the corn-fed locals. One night, a vampire hunter breaks into his sanctum bearing worrying news: another of Kevin’s kind has concocted a plot to turn the whole world into a hell for living and undead alike. The hunter proposes an alliance to destroy this rogue vampire, but Kevin suspects his would-be ally has at least one secret he isn’t telling.
The conceit was this: ten chapters in ten days, each chapter representing a significant turn in the plot. No planning in advance. I was allowed to go back after it was done to remove inconsistencies and apply a layer of polish.
Making The Killbug Eulogies into a fun story that will also have resonance with readers has required a lot of time and energy. (The money was not negligible for me either.) Instead of crossing my fingers and hoping for the best on the publication end, I’ve written Kevin the Vampire as a test run. This way I hope to have fewer snags putting out the work I’m more invested in. So yes, it’s a learning exercise, but hopefully one that will be fun for everyone.
When Kevin felt depressed, he’d mount the chancel and drape his body across the altar. He always took off his shoes when he did this. He had no idea why. Pretty much his entire life was a sacrilege now. He’d smeared lewd paintings with human blood on the walls! After that, how could either he or God care about some schmutz on the altar cloth? But no matter what you did, Kevin felt there always had to be a line, and this is where he drew his.
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