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Dr Helen Enright - CHAIRMAN
I am a retired Exmouth GP and initially represented local doctors when the Hospiscare service was introduced. I have been a trustee for many years and this will be my second time as Chairman. Hospiscare @ Home is a valuable extension to our excellent clinical services and as a Board we are determined to meet the challenge of the increased funding required.
John Hawkins - VICE CHAIRMAN
Brian Bradley
Born in Birmingham attended Abingdon School and latterly Exmouth Grammar School, happily married to Joan since 1979. Lived in Exmouth since 1966. Chairman of the Bradleys Estate Agency Group. Member of East Devon Golf Club and previously involved with various different local charities. Serves on the Finance Committee.
Chris Winter
Di Sumner
Frances Longhurst
I joined the charity as a volunteer driver, then became a Trustee in 2004. My background is in Sales Promotion, as well as 5 years with a national Cancer charity. I was Chairman of Exmouth & Hospiscare from 2011 - 2017.
Dr Jackie Lewis
I am a superintendent pharmacist director of my own award winning community pharmacy. Over the last few years I have particularly specialised in researching how we can support patients with cancer and we have also improved communication on discharge of complex care patients from our local hospital.
I am passionate about pharmacy and helping my patients in the community setting and have a special interest in combining this with my oncology experience. I am currently serving on the British Oncology Pharmacy (BOPA) committee as a Private Provider member and I am working with the local Macmillan GP to educate pharmacy teams in Devon. I am proud to be a trustee on the board of Exmouth and Lympstone Hospiscare.
Jose Cortizo
Myself and my family were introduced to Hospiscare in 2009 when my late wife Amy was diagnosed with terminal cancer. The care that Amy received during her illness and the continuing support received by the family were invaluable. I joined as a Trustee to be integral in supporting the growth of the Charity to care for families like mine in our community.
Julia Russell
I am a relatively new trustee and I live in Lympstone. I am pleased to be involved in the Charity because Hospiscare allowed my wonderful mother-in-law to die with dignity. The Hospiscare at Home facility is fantastic with wonderful dedicated nurses which we hope will go from strength to strength. We need all the support we can get and that's where you, the readers of this, come in!
Ken Groves
Richard Missen


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Doctoral programme in architecture, city and design
regional planning and public policy
(three years program)
Palazzo Badoer
S. Polo 2468
30125 Venezia
041 257 1426/1845/1865/1886/1787
coordinator: Francesca Gelli
vice-coordinator Guido Borelli
academic board
Università Iuav di Venezia
Guido Borelli, Giulio Ernesti, Laura Fregolent, Francesca Gelli, Anna Marson, Marco Mazzarino, Simonetta Morini, Francesco Musco, Stefano Stanghellini, Carla Tedesco, Stefania Tonin, Margherita Turvani
others universities
Giovanni Allegretti, Francesca Cognetti, Daniel Cefaï, Giovanni Laino, Patrick Le-Gales, Francesc Munoz, Gabriele Pasqui, Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Gilles Pinson, Brigida Proto, Claudio Radaelli
Pier Luigi Crosta, Giancarlo Paba, Liliana Padovani
phd students
Flavia Albanese, Sara Altamore, Lorenzo Betti, Maurizio Busacca, Francesco Campagnari, Giulia Cantaluppi, Paola Capriotti, Simona Colucci, Cassandra Fontana, Seyed Mohsen Hosseini Farhangi, Anselma Lovens, Alessandra Manzini, Dario Menichetti, Roberto Paladini, Alice Loredana Ranzini, Daphnè Reguissè, Remi Wacogne, Alessia Zabatino
>> track presented by Francesca Gelli
PhD research and training programme in Regional Planning and Public Policies – which first started in the Academic year 1990-91 – focuses on the transversality of urban policies in the context of contemporary complex and heterogeneous urban societies, thus bringing to the fore the need for the adoption of a cross-cutting approach to urban policies analysis, at the same time calling attention to the much-needed integration of and between different forms of knowledge (ordinary, professional, scientific, interactive ...) as well as the exploration of different planning fields.
Internationally-oriented, it encourages research studies both in European and extra-European countries, with a growing interest in the transition countries.
The Programme aims to broaden the comprehension of and facilitate innovative elaboration on the policy approach (theories and methods) as part of urban and territorial policies and planning processes' studying.
At the analytical level, a policy approach is characterized by the attention to:
- the social and interactive construction of territorial plans and policies (a multiplicity of agents may be involved/mobilize themselves in policy inquiry and in problem setting dealing with the elaboration and implementation of policies);
- the problem of agents' enactment; what are the favourable conditions for joint action (motivations that agents have to act; expected and unforeseen outcomes of actions; agents' networks; interdependences among agents as well as the effects produced by their actions). Theoretical and methodological contributions are to be derived from various disciplinary domains (sociology, anthropology, political sciences, history, economics, architecture and urbanism...);
- the observation of existing planning activities and practices, and especially the multitude of agents included and intervening in them, thus calling into question who actually qualifies for assuming particular planning competences (disciplinary, institutional, social) in a pluralized public action;
- the mechanisms for producing "useful knowledge", with the aim of facilitating more encompassing learning processes;
- tempo, time, timing in a planning process creation and development.
Some main research questions (to be studied/investigated with the aid of appropriate methodologies and research tools – single case study, comparative case analysis; ethnographic observation – and within a solid theoretical framework are:
a) planning institutions: their functioning and innovative potentials and actions, on different territorial scales;
b) problems and conflicts related to the definition of "public interest"; the pluralisation of "the public";
c) policy-making process: theories and practices of policy design and implementation; rationality models used in and kinds of knowledge needed for decision making and implementation (variety of information sources and analytical methods employed in the processes of government policy making and social problem solving);
e) policy making practices; plural practices of space use and territory construction conducted by many actors; their interdependence, outcomes, regulation.
The programme is designed to provide a comprehensive training for carrying out research studies and acquisition of expertise in main systems of spatial planning and urban policy-related areas (such as sustainable local development policies; climate changes and mitigation strategies; urban regeneration programmes; urban and rural development; infrastructural policies; environmental and social conflicts; place-based and participatory approaches to urban policy design and implementation; social innovation; ethnicity, multiculturalism and policy responses to diversity; etc.), but it is also flexible. Students can benefits from studying such topics, phenomena which they find particularly thought-provoking and also, by designing the research path which best meets their interests, under the supervision of well-known scholars and researchers (in some cases external member of the academic board).
Proposed activities
1. the first year: seminar series, involving Italian and foreign scholars- visitors who are invitedto discuss constitutive theoretical and methodological issues, and key concepts in urban studies; critical survey of planning and public policy literature which is to be undertaken by each PhD candidate; research activities aiming at improving methodological skills; the identification and design of individual research programme;
2. the second year: analysis of a policy case, recent or ongoing, developed by the PhD candidate usually during a research period abroad, in collaboration with foreign universities or other organizations, with relevant experts and scholars support; definition of thesis statements and general structure of the dissertation;
3. the third year: composition, writing and discussion of the doctoral dissertation.
The PhD candidates' participation in international and national scientific conferences where the their written papers are presented, as well as the publications or submissions of articles for publication in scientific journals (peer reviewed) are strongly encouraged during the first and second year and requested during the third year.

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A reflection on abortion and physician assisted suicide from the perspective of our nation's most cherished rights and duties
At the heart of almost every pro-life issue, there is a fundamental divide between the right and responsibility to life and the right and responsibility to freedom. This divide is particularly apparent in the topics of abortion and physician assisted suicide. With abortion, there is a division between the unborn baby's right to life and the woman's right to freedom. With physician assisted suicide, there is a division between the person's responsibility to life and his or her right to freedom. Aside from these individual rights and responsibilities, there are concerns about the societal effects that these decisions carry with them. What does it mean to live in a society that values a woman's right to freedom over an unborn baby's right to life? What does it mean to live in a society that values a person's right to freedom over his or her responsibility to life? In this talk we will examine these issues.
Nowadays, one often hears talk about rights, but one rarely hears talk about responsibilities. A return to the wording of our Declaration of Independence will provide something essential about the relationship between rights and responsibilities. The Founding Fathers declare,
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
In our founding document, everyone can clearly observe the notion of "rights," but it is more difficult to discern the notion of "responsibilities" or "duties." The document references "rights" frequently, but it only references "duties" on one occasion: namely, our duty to seek independence from an unjust regime.
The interpretative key rests in the phrase "these ends." What are "these ends?" Are they life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness themselves, or are they merely the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? If the ends are the former—life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness themselves—then it would seem that the government has a responsibility not only to guard these rights of the citizens but also to promote the rights' objects. If the ends are the latter, then it would seem that the government only has a responsibility to defend rights, not to intervene in the promotion of objects of the rights themselves.
Two details lend themselves to the interpretation that the Founding Fathers thought of the ends as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness themselves. The first detail has to do with the one use of the word "duty" previously mentioned. The text reads, "When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce [people] under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." Here one notes that either the Founders (1) used the terms "right" and "duty" somewhat interchangeably or (2) thought that a right has a corresponding duty. In either case, it is difficult to maintain that the Framers of our Nation were pure libertarians on the matter: they held the government has the duty to construct laws that promote life, liberty, and happiness as much as the government has the duty to secure citizens' individual rights to these objects.
The second detail has to do with the new government's job of affecting "safety and happiness." It is one thing to say that the government has the duty to guard against affronts to life, liberty, and happiness, but it is quite a stronger thing to say that the government has a duty to promote safety and happiness themselves. The inclusion of the "safety and happiness" clause suggests that the Founding Fathers thought it was beneficial to have a positive or constructive understanding of government: the government not only tears down oppression but also builds justice. Political ends are not only rights to goods but also goods themselves. The government must take some responsibility for encouraging our life, our liberty, and our happiness.
This reasoned interpretation of the Declaration of Independence does not sit well with proponents of the ideology of choice, whether in the case of abortion or physician assisted suicide. The opposition overlooks the positive and constructive role of the government and, instead, demotes government to guardianship of the shrine to individual liberties. The golden calf of this shrine is freedom, indiscriminate of its relationship with life and happiness. A corrupted concept of freedom as "the absolute ability to choose" has become the idol of the 20th and 21st centuries.
The chief philosopher or ideologue of this cult is Jean Paul Sartre. In his book Of Human Freedom, he claims, "Freedom is precisely the nothingness which is made-to-be at the heart of man and which forces human-reality to make itself instead of to be" (38). For him and his band of disciples, the human has no duties that correspond to its God-given nature. A person is free to choose anything, even to murder. The depraved motto is "I do what I want." Always placing itself at the foot of the individual, the government's role reduces itself to guarantor of this Sartrian freedom. In this dystopia the government's only sin can be "oppression," and an individual's only sin can be negative judgment of another's free decisions. The safety and happiness of the Declaration of Independence become slaves to the master of liberty. The government is not pro-life or pro-human flourishing. It can only be pro-choice.
However, a true student of history and philosophy will know lex est magistra vitae (the law is life's teacher). Culture is often downstream from law—the Supreme Court's decision on gay marriage being the chief example of our age. When the government permits or prohibits, it teaches. It is here that the pro-life movement must correct the wrongs of abortion, physician assisted suicide, and other affronts of liberty against life. Proponents of life ask the government to defend not only rights qua freedoms—now the phrase "right to x" means "freedom to/of x"—but also to proactively support life and integral flourishing at the individual and communal levels.
It is now clear that individual liberty is not the only goal of government, but the specific legal relationships among life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness remain ambiguous. The government may defend the rights as well as the responsibilities to all, but what happens when these rights and responsibilities are in conflict? Is it better to be radically free or to simply be alive?
The issue of physician assisted suicide illuminates this conflict acutely. The pure libertarian stands for the legality of the fatal procedure because each person has absolute dominion over his or her body and because there are no direct negative consequences to others. Furthermore, the assisted suicide may relieve a great deal of pain, which might otherwise continue indefinitely. How can the proponent of life defend his or her opinion in the face of these seemingly valid justifications? Is the duty to continue living absolute?
To begin a case for life, it is essential to double back to the proper role of the government: to ensure the freedom as well as the safety and happiness of its citizens. Physician assisted suicide is certainly not "safe"—killing is the opposite of safe—but the procedure's claim to happiness is more difficult to ascertain. An assessment of the resultant happiness depends heavily on one's philosophy and religion. It seems that there is a complication: physician assisted suicide is pro-freedom, anti-life, and somewhat religion-philosophy dependent on happiness. The case is ambiguous, so it seems appropriate for the American people themselves to decide, not the judicial interpreters of our legal rights and duties.
The Constitution forbids the establishment of a state religion, but it does not forbid people to vote based on their religious views. What does the Catholic Church have to say about the matter? Following good ancient philosophy as much as Jesus, she thinks that our lives belong to God, who alone should have the awesome responsibility of deciding the dividing line between life and death.
Furthermore, the Church's understanding of suffering is different from that of the world. The world is hedonistic: it seeks pleasure, success, and autonomy. It teaches that one's life decreases in value or dignity to the degree that suffering, failure, and dependency increase. The world's horizon is life, this life.
The Church is different. Her standard is Jesus Christ. Her motto is love, not only erotic love but also self-sacrificial, committed love. She teaches that one's dignity is infinite because God is its source. The Church's horizon is infinite and eternal. Suffering here is for but a moment compared to the eternal life to come. When a Catholic suffers, he or she unites that suffering to the sacrifice of the cross, trusting that pain and strife are redemptive. The Catholic knows that God himself has entered into the depths of suffering in his Son, Jesus, who has made suffering love salvific. One who knows that God has plumbed the horror of suffering no longer fears it. The apostle writes, "Death, where is your sting?"
To conclude, it is fitting to consider the pro-life mission in this contemporary culture that fears suffering and death yet paradoxically refuses to embrace the renewal of life in the womb. A proponent of life from conception to natural death is like a prophet who preaches the best of the American legal tradition alongside the best of religious tradition. The Creator has endowed every person with certain rights, and these rights are foundational because of the truths that they defend. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are goods in themselves, and the government has the duty to defend and promote their fulfillment. When these goods come into conflict with each other, it is up to the American people to decide the road ahead. May we choose to uphold the sanctity and inviolability of life, which find their foundation in God, the one who fixes the "the Laws of Nature."
Presented at Loyola University Chicago, October 29, 2017
Best wishes,
David J.W. Inczauskis, S.J.


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Power Program: Friday 8.5.16
Friday 8.5.16
A. Sprint + lateral broad jump, 5 short steps + jump: 5×4 resting as needed between
NOTE: Each "rep" is 5 quick sprint steps followed by a lateral broad jump for maximum distance. Start with a jump to the right, rep 2 will be a jump left, etc. The goal is to hit the last sprint step, immediately jump, and upon landing immediately begin the next set of sprint steps.
B1. Jumping lunges (unweighted): 5×8 (4 ea leg) for height
B2. Back-racked step-ups: 5×4-6 ea leg heavier than last week
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California is encouraging home builders that install rooftop solar energy systems to tilt hose panels westward toward the setting sun.
The goal is to capture more renewable energy in the waning hours of the day, when electricity demands are often highest, explained David Hochschild, a member of the California Energy Commission who specializes in renewable energy. The goal is to avoid more of the air pollution that comes from gas-fired generators at conventional power plants.
In the northern hemisphere, rooftop panels typically have been oriented toward the south to capture as much sunlight as possible throughout the day.


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I have been addicted to NeedSupply.com for a while now. They offer such a unique and eclectic selection of apparel that has a vintage feel. They don't offer the typical 'cookie cutter' type items which is what I love so much about them. From bags to belts, jewelry to shoes this site has items that will make people look twice and definitely get you compliments. Their prices are fairly reasonable-a few expensive items but mostly everything is under $100. I am head over heels (no pun intended) in love with NeedSupply.com! I tried to keep my NEED list conservative in numbers, but these twelve items are items I really love and would love to own! Sadly my shopping is on freeze since my vacation is 5 weeks away. I can look and droll though.
1. Moto Bag Canvas - $245
2. Original Flea Bag - $440
3. Hammered Charm Cuff Bird by In God We Trust - $50
4. Dead Sea Necklace by Academy - $30
5. Band Aid Ring by Michelle Lopez Studio - $315
6. Benny & Joon Floral Dress by Na Nin Vintage - $38
7. Sally Skirt by Motel - $72
8. Scrying by Cheap Monday - $35
9. Flowers in Seaglass/Smoke by Raen - $95
10. Benched Cutout Platform by Jeffrey Campbell - $187
11. Naia by Miista - $199
12. Strappy Clog by Opening Ceremony - $390
Like any of these? What are your favorite items?
I want to end today's post with some tweets the extraordinary Elizabeth Taylor said before passing. Elizabeth Taylor was everything we love in a celebrity: big talent, big heart, big courage, big beauty, and big drama. We will all mourn the loss of an amazing woman.
"Give. Remember always to give. That is the thing that will make you grow."
"You are who you are. All you can do in this world is help others to be who they are and better themselves and those around them."
"Every breath you take today should be with someone else in mind. I love you."
Truly a beautiful woman with a beautiful soul. Rest In Peace.


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Goldie Lookin Chain - You Knows I Loves You Baby Lyrics
I'm gonna make you sweat
The way a pig sweats on a hot day
'Cos I'm feeling real sexy baby
Real Sexy, oohh yeah!
That's right, I'm gonna put me a sexy video on
I'm gonna massage some oil into my body baby
'Cos I'm gonna get tight with you
I wanna take you to Mcdonalds with a candle
Girl, it's my love you can't handle
I see you walking on the way home from work
Your Tesco tunic really drives me berserk
I'm for real - it ain't no quirk
My love is lurking the way a rapist would lurk
In a bush, or a car park in town
I bought you this necklace
It cost me 12 pounds
From Argos, Elizabeth Duke
Maybe you're the skywalker to my luke
The Darth to the Vader
Flip Over the Crossfader
I'll serenade you with a bag of space raiders
Or walkers or smiths or maybe even quavers
'Cos my love for you is like drugs for ravers
With glowsticks and funny hats on
I loves you more than I loves my bong
You and me baby
Oh you fucking knows I love you right
But the thing is it's like this
You see, I can feel it inside
I can't explain how it feels
My sexual love is for real
Girl you knows it's true, like Milli Vanilli
I'll buy you ten fags on a daytrip to Caerphilly
I'm after your heart, Oh don't you see
And your three kids doesn't bother me
You Know....
I'll give you a rose, pull out your chair when we eat
Fuck I can't, 'cos In McDonalds it's a bolted seat
Don't matter 'cos I'm here with you
With a medium value meal and a chocolate sundae too
Later on I'll come and help you sign on
I'll stare into your eyes, the housing benefits gone wrong
Don't worry baby it won't take too long
I'm just sitting, I'm just waiting, I'm just writing this song
You know that, time passes and I'm loving every second
Buying chips for you is as lovely as I reckoned
You're Victoria Spice, I'm David Beckham
If you were Dellboy, I'd be the streets of Peckham
Why don't you come to me, why can't you see
My love for you is like Matt Bolan to a tree
(Dance with me!)
You and me baby
I'll take you for a ride, we won't go far
You've been running through my mind like a shining star
We've got plenty of time to make sweet love
'cos tonight's the night we take off the glove
You know what I mean, you're taking the pill
Don't worry - I'll sort out the bill
Supported by the DHSS
With family allowance, We'll sort out the mess
What's it gonna take, to get your attention
A tracksuit and gold chain and semi-erection
Say no more, I can feel a tear
You can smokes my fags and drinks my beer
I'll never want another like I want you
To prove my love, I gotta tattoo - on my bollocks
I was gonna have your name
but I only got initials
'cos I couldn't stand the pain
(My physical love!)
You and me baby
(The emotional reality!)
You're the nicest looking woman outside of my sexmags
Especially with your makeup, when your wearing your gladrags
I gotta tell you, I gotta let you know
I wanna buy you trips down the mecca bingo
We'll sit together, get four in a row
And win a china dog and with it too a family show
This is romance, how it should be done
When it's you and me together, it can only spell fun
We'll walk together, buy some meat in the market
I'll piss on the car, you'll smile and park it
I've got to tell you about something I think
Without you and my chain I'm the weakest link
So get down baby and feel my love
I'll get you drunk in Weatherspoons, Into a bush I shove
I'll have a grope and get the last bus
A romantic date, just the two of us
Yeah, one time
You and me baby
(Electrical Love!)
You and me baby
I'm feeling kind of
Kind of sexy baby
What say you put on that exercise video
And I'll watch you sweat
Oh yeah!
That damn video with Felicity Kendal
Damn you can....
And your making me feel kinda
I'm gonna go put the mask and gloves on
Oh yeah
Take em off baby
Just take them
Fuck the music baby
Take them Off
Just, take them off


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Prescription Drug Act Of 2003 ... FBIC Reports On The Medicare Prescription
Drug Act As It Plays Out ... The Mis-steps Right From The Start Includes A
Spendthrift Unnecessary $10B Financial Windfall Payment To Managed Healthcare
Insurers And There Is No Prescription Insurance Plan Or Drug Coverage? There Is
An Agreement Not To Negotiate Volume Discount Deals Or Lowest Prices With The
Drug Companies And Its A Prescription Discount Card? What Kind Of Prescription
Discount Plan Or Scam Is This For America's Seniors? ... And Literally No
Planning For Implementation Of The Bill Which Was Not Realistic To Begin With
And Is Utterly Worthless With Some 40 Plus Discount Card Programs Each With
Their Own List Of Drug Formularies, Their Own Set Of Rules, Discounts And
So-called Benefits Leaving Everyone, Including Seniors And Pharmacists Without A
Clue And In Absolute Confusion. In Addition, Speak To Any Pharmacist (As We Did
And As This Is Being Written By Experienced And Well-Seasoned Practicing
Pharmacists As We Speak), And Any Knowledgeable Pharmacist Will Tell You That
Prescription Drug Discount Card Programs Have Existed And Been Around Since The
Beginning Of Managed Healthcare And Exist To This Very Day.
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There have always been women who inspire us with their courage, who serve as role models and question the status quo. And there's no shortage of them. But what will it take going forward to continue to advance gender equality? More women - and men - like them.
From 1896 to the end of the 1990s
A gentle rustling can be heard as the tablets fall into the packaging, the odour of medicines hangs in the air and an occasional breeze wafts through the open windows. It's 1926, and women wearing serious expressions and white coats and hoods work side by side in a Roche Basel packaging room. Industrialisation is turning more and more women into workers; their husbands' salaries are no longer sufficient to feed their families.
According to Lionel Loew, from the Roche Basel/Kaiseraugst Historical Archive: "Women have been working at Roche since the company was founded in 1896, mostly in production, packaging or as secretaries." At the time, these positions were as far as a woman could advance in the company. Not even a university degree, rare for women in those days, could improve their lot in the job market. Although unimaginable today, this is how things were – not only at Roche in Switzerland, but throughout Europe.
So, it is surprising that, even back in the 1920s and 1930s, there were women at Roche who did not match any of the classic occupational profiles. But they had a champion in the company leader Emil C. Barell. With his support, some were able to follow unconventional paths. In 1926, Emil posted one of these women, Alice Keller – who held a doctorate in economics – to Japan. In Tokyo, she handled product launches and correspondence with Basel. In 1929, she was the first woman to be awarded the title of Direktorin at Roche, a sensational development at the time.
The first giant step in a long journey
From the 1940s to the 1980s, progress for women at Roche was slow. The professional world was dominated by men, and the topic of gender equality was hardly an issue of public debate in conservative Switzerland. At the beginning of the 1990s, this changed at Roche with the creation of an office for equal opportunities, which was led by Etiennette Verrey. One of her greatest achievements was a day-care centre for the children of employees.
Just a few decades ago, the reality of what women could achieve in the workplace was very different than it is now. Fortunately, there were women like Anny Schwarz, Hilde Pfaltz and Erika Böhni. They held their ground and helped pave the way towards equality.
Dr Anny Schwarz: from secretary to deputy director
In 1923, Anny Schwarz was a young woman desperately searching for a job. Like many people in the wake of the First World War, her parents were in dire financial straits and dependent on their daughter's income. Luckily, Anny's father had a friend, Dr R. Boehringer, who worked at Roche in Basel. He put in a good word for the young woman with Emil C. Barell, who was heading the company at the time. And so Anny Schwarz, who was about to take her doctoral examination in economics, was hired by Roche as a secretary.
35 years later, Anny had risen to the position of Deputy Director of the Purchasing Department. In a 1987 interview, she commented on her time with Roche: "They say that where there's a will, there's a way – and where the practicalities of the wartime economy were concerned, there certainly was. In Roche operations and purchasing, the word 'impossible' was not part of our vocabulary." Given the circumstances of the time, her rise was meteoric. Anny Schwarz is one of those people who made the impossible possible.
Dr Hilde Pfaltz: a single mother with staying power
On 1 April 1929, confident yet with uncertain steps, Hilde Pfaltz, 36, embarked on her first day as a laboratory technician with Roche in Basel. She already sensed that she would not have it easy in her job. In a 1987 interview, she described how, in the period between the two world wars, it was frowned upon for a woman with a child and an academic background to go to work. This was even true for a woman in her circumstances: a young widow raising a small boy on her own.
But Hilde would not let that hold her back. She worked tirelessly and by the time she retired in 1956, the situation for women at work had improved. Her perseverance still looks impressive today.
Dr Erika Böhni: competent and self-confident
After giving a lecture at a medical conference in the US in 1969, Erika Böhni writes in her diary: "The lectures given by the two men before me were both very undistinguished. My lecture, in simple words and new images, was explosive. Everyone was pleased. Women told me in the women's lavatory that they'd understood every word."
Erika Böhni was not short of self-confidence. And rightly so – she played a key role in the development of the chemotherapeutic agent Bactrim and the broadband antibiotic Rocephin. These medicines combined have benefited many hundreds of millions of people, and are still on the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines.
In 1987 she said this of her 33 years with Roche: "The high point was my research and development work on every aspect of the chemotherapeutic agent Bactrim. The mutually potentiating effect of the two active-ingredient components trimethoprim and sulfamethoxazole was something new and sensational at the time. People thought 'Böhni's gone crazy'. Until other bacteriologists confirmed it. It was a fantastic, exciting time."
No time to stand still
In 106 countries, gender equality is still 100 years away. This is the conclusion of the widely quoted Gender Gap Report by the World Economic Forum (WEF). Published in November 2017, the report analyses a total of 144 countries. Trailblazers like Iceland, Finland and Norway notwithstanding, the gender gap persists in every country.
The report delivers another finding. Since the study began in 2006, the WEF has documented continuous progress, but in 2017 the gap between men and women with regard to political representation (such as the number of women in parliament or the number of years with a female head of state), education (such as schooling or literacy rates), health (such as life expectancy and birth and death rates) and economic participation (such as the level of female employment or equal pay) widened again for the first time. The topic of gender equality is still far from resolved. And that's why the motto of this year's International Women's Day is #PressforProgress.
Where we stand at Roche
Sustainability is an integral part of our business strategy. By ensuring that we include people with various backgrounds, experiences, skills and perspectives, we can thrive and contribute to a successful future.
At Roche, the topic of gender equality has gained more momentum since the early 2000s. One element for making progress is flexible working. It creates better conditions for balancing the demands of family and career for both women and men. Examples include part-time work, working from home, and job sharing.
Although we've come a long way, we are committed to improving diversity and inclusion in the workplace. As a company and a society, we cannot close the book just yet. Women still face challenges in the workplace. Reconciling family and career, discrimination in the workplace, equal pay and the proportion of women in senior positions remain an important topic. How do women deal with these challenges at Roche?
"Flexible working is what makes it work"
Nicola Consalvo, Director and Deputy Global Head, Oncology Biostatistics, Roche Basel/Kaiseraugst
"I'm fortunate to have a husband who has given up his job to look after our five children. Also, Roche lets me do much of my work from home – without the option of flexible working I couldn't possibly do my job full-time."
"I believe mothers and fathers are equally valuable, so if my husband takes care of the children I don't think they're missing anything. Deciding to work a full-time job obviously has consequences. But for me it's about my children being happy. If their mother isn't, they can't be either. And achieving success in my professional life makes me happy."
"Biases are one of the biggest challenges in the workplace"
Rosa Lau, Principal Technical Writer, Roche Pleasanton:
"Our conscious and unconscious biases are one of the biggest challenges in the workplace, especially for women. Stereotypes and assumptions on gender differences can get in the way of a fair evaluation. These biases play a major role in women's professional advancement, and as we know, it is challenging for women to reach board level positions. All of us carry our biases, and by being aware of these biases we can make better-informed decisions."
"As a woman, you have choices in your life"
Maysoun Ramadan, Head of Communications and Public Affairs, Diagnostics Middle East: "It took me a few years of trial and error to figure out what work and family life balance meant. However, you have choices in your life and I have chosen to make it all the way to succeed at work and back home. My passion is to make people feel happy, change their lives and have a positive impact - and communications in diagnostics is a field where you can do this by sharing awareness and by connecting. With this belief and passion, I know that every day I wake up, there is one good change that is waiting for me to tackle and one wish to make come true, which is to be that great inspiration for my kids just like my mother was - and still - is for me!"
More women in senior positions
Roche has committed to supporting the UN's sustainable development targets. In pursuit of target number five, "Gender Equality", the proportion of women in key leadership positions at Roche has been steadily increasing – from 13 percent in 2009 to 28 percent in 2017. The goal is to raise it to 29 percent by 2020.
"From Switzerland to Indonesia"
Katrin Heil, Head of Controlling, Roche Jakarta
"Of course, good performance as well as the support of your line manager are the basis for a successful career. However, networking is also important. One should make others aware about the direction where one wants to develop and the skills and experiences one can bring to a position. So that they'll remember you when job opportunities arise."
"In the beginning, I did not really feel comfortable to reach out to colleagues that I did not know or that were in a higher level in the hierarchy. But I quickly realised that they are generally open to discuss. Roche has great colleagues and leaders, who have a lot of experience and can share their advice, and who are eager to discover and develop the potential in people."
"Diverse teams produce the best results"
Priya Ratnam, General Manager, Roche Belgium and Luxembourg: "I am inspired by making a difference in patients' lives, and creating that better future for patients and society. Diversity at work and gender equality is important because I fundamentally believe that diverse teams produce the best results."
"Gender equality is especially close to my heart... Growing up in India (a long time ago!), 'the plan' was for me to have an arranged marriage by age 20, and take care of my husband and children. Instead here I am in Brussels... having lived in four different continents! I am very grateful to my parents for believing that I could be anything that I wanted to be, and to Roche for giving me the opportunities to learn and grow. I firmly believe that every person should be given the opportunity to be and perform at their fullest potential!"
Gender equality is important to me personally, as I want to ensure different leadership styles are equally valued. As an advocate for Gender Parity, I actively volunteer my time to the Healthcare Businesswomen's Association as the Vice-Chair of the Corporate Board of Directors.
Looking ahead
When we talk about the future, there's one word that inevitably comes up: digitalisation. How we all work is undergoing fundamental change. It's hard to predict the impact of digitalisation on the development of women in the workplace, but it's certain that cloud technologies, for example, will make working from home easier. This advance in the field of flexible working could make it easier to reconcile family and career.
Sharing the responsibility
Another factor that will move closer and closer to centre stage in the future is working part-time. Family models in which both parents reduce the workload are still the exception in Europe. In its latest report from the year 2016, the Swiss Federal Statistical Office had this to say: "Part-time working is very uncommon among fathers in Europe. Only 5.7% of working fathers in the EU with children under six work part-time, and the figure exceeds 10% only in Switzerland (15.3%) and the Netherlands (14.3%)." (Source: Federal Statistical Office: Mothers in the Labour Market.)
But women and men in Generation Y and among digital natives are noticeably more self-confident, and this could lead to the "burden" of reconciling family and career being more widely shared.
A positive future
To make change possible, the prevailing legal, political and social conditions must be right. As we know from history, the role of women in the workplace develops in parallel to society. The Gender Gap Report makes it clear that much remains to be done in this area.
Strong women as role models
Sara Schwegler, a laboratory technician apprentice (Federal VET Diploma specialising in chemistry), Roche Basel/Kaiseraugst:
"I admire women who continue working when they have a child, and women who deliberately decide not to have children and to concentrate entirely on their careers. Personally, I'd like to have a family one day and continue working. I'm investing heavily in my education, and I enjoy my job – so it would be great if my future husband worked part-time as well."
The challenge of the new
Manuel Zumkeller, HR Recruiter, Roche Basel/Kaiseraugst:
"When my wife got pregnant, I knew I definitely wanted to reduce my workload as soon as our child was born. The classic model, in which the father leaves the house early in the morning and comes back late at night, isn't for me. So, I talked to my boss, and we agreed that I'd cut my workload to 80 percent for 15 months. I appreciate the fact that people at work were so understanding – not only my line manager, but my team as well. It was definitely the right decision."
Women have to take their career into their own hands
Julia Halbeisen, an IT specialist apprentice (Federal VET Diploma), Roche Basel/Kaiseraugst:
"I decided on a career as an IT specialist because I think it has a future. I wasn't put off by the thought that I'd mostly be working with men. I think it's cool that there are so many more career opportunities these days than there used to be, for men and women alike. And I think women ought to take them."
My management team in Kenya is currently entirely female. That has nothing to do with any ambition on my part to increase the quota of women in leadership positions. What matters for me is how qualified someone is, not their gender.
Diversity and Inclusion at Roche
Gender equality is strongly supported through mentoring, sponsorship and development opportunities. There are also an increasing number of professional women's networks across the company, providing a platform to share experiences. Importantly, we have concrete corporate goals with clear timelines to increase the proportion of women in senior positions. Today women represent 49% of the total workforce at Roche. In management 42.1% are women.
"By ensuring that we include people with various backgrounds, experiences, skills and perspectives, we can innovate, thrive and contribute to a successful future. Gender equality is an important part of our inclusive approach and ultimately means we all have the same chance to succeed. I am proud of the countless opportunities women have at Roche today, and our vision to unlock the potential of all our people," says Cris Wilbur, Head of Human Resources at Roche.
Fuelling that ambition are global goals, programmes and governance as well as local action plans in more than 70 countries around the world.
On International Women's Day, we highlight our commitment to #pressforprogress for our people, for our patients and for the communities in which we work.


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What Causes PCOS?
PCOS is an incredibly common disorder and condition affecting up to 10 million women each year. In fact, PCOS occurs in approximately 10 percent of reproductive-aged women. The common PCOS symptoms can vary with each individual case, however, PCOS is most often characterized by excess Androgen levels (testosterone), abnormal or irregular menstrual cycles, and obesity. Although PCOS can range in levels of severity, women who suffer from more serious cases of PCOS are at a greater risk for infertility, diabetes, and heart disease. Furthermore, Polycystic Ovary Syndrome is more common among family members. For example if a mother is diagnosed with PCOS at one time or another in her lifetime, then her daughter(s) may also be at a higher risk. This suggests that the onset of PCOS has more to do with genetics than lifestyle. However, lifestyle, including diet and exercise has an impact on the overall severity of PCOS. Most women who suffer from PCOS will experience increased weight gain and abdominal fat as well as both reproductive and metabolic abnormalities.
What Are the Symptoms of PCOS?
Although symptoms can differ among individuals as well as the severity of each PCOS case, the most common symptoms of PCOS include:
- Acne
- Obesity
- Infertility
- Menstrual irregularities
- Metabolic irregularities
- The presence of ovarian cysts (in some cases)
- Increased Androgen hormone levels
- Excess hair growth (particularly facial hair) Research and studies have shown that some women who suffer from PCOS have the presence of small ovarian cysts, however, this isn't always the case.
PCOS Treatment
The most common medical PCOS treatment options are birth control pills to help regulate menstrual cycles, medications to help prevent the onset of diabetes and control cholesterol levels, hormone pills to help stabilize hormone levels and increase fertility, and even cosmetic procedures to remove excess hair growth. But what modern medicine and science won't tell you is that there is a number of natural remedies and vitamins for PCOS fertility that not only help naturally reduce symptoms and balance hormones, but also help to treat the condition overall, improving reproductive health, and helping women to live healthier and happier lives.
What is the Best PCOS Natural Treatment?
The majority of PCOS treatment methods involve medications that either treat or prevent other diseases; they are not designed to improve overall female reproductive health nor do they address low testosterone in women or help to balance hormones naturally, which is the real problem behind PCOS. Therefore, the best supplements for PCOS are a blend of vitamins, minerals, and nutrients that help to naturally balance hormones and promote overall female health.
How Can Women Balance Hormones Naturally?
There are a few different ways that women can balance hormones naturally, and particularly address low testosterone in women. One of the best ways to balance hormones naturally is to take natural supplements for PCOS such as INOSIA.


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Workshops 2019
This series of six consecutive workshops give you a base to develop autonomy in caring for your health with medicinal plants. Focus on prevention to support your health. Care for yourself and your family with any day to day health issues. Learn to make a herbal extract (tincture), infused oil, ointment and syrup.
Each workshop covers four elements: cultivation (gardening), a system of the body, four medicinal plants, a method of transformation of the medicinal plant.
Dates: This workshop is given twice in 2019. Choose either the first or second series.
First series of 6 consecutive sessions- February 23rd, March 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th
Second series of 6 consecutive sessions- May 18th, 25th, June 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd
Time: 9:00am to 12:00pm
Place: Tallebudgera on the Gold Coast
Cost: $350.00
Number of attendees: limited to 10 people
A light meal is serve around 11:00am.
Handout notes are given for each session to take home.


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Our unstoppable fundraiser of the month for April has just completed the London Marathon.
Richard Osborne finished in a highly impressive time of 3 hours 47 minutes. What's even more impressive is that he has raised over £6000 in the process!
Richard tells us in his own words why he chose to run the London Marathon for our charity:
"Four years ago, my step son Samuel was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia on his 4th birthday. It was a terrible day for the whole family and it was just the start of a long journey for Sam as he was treated for the next 3 and a quarter years of his life.
I had absolutely no idea when Sam first started his treatment just how harsh and punishing the treatment is and how severely it affects the body. There were times during the treatment when he was extremely weak and extremely unhappy, it was very long road and at times we couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Four years on, Sam has completed his treatment and is really well. All of the hospital staff and team that helped to save Sam's life were fantastic. I would love to give something back to all that helped Sam to fully recover and all those who are totally committed to the cause of beating Leukaemia.
I see the Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research organisation as a major force in improving the way that Leukaemia is treated. Whilst the survival rates are higher than ever the treatment programme is a horrible experience for children. There is nothing I'd like to see more than a cure for the disease which allows children to lead a normal life whilst being treated."
You can donate on Richard's fundraising page by going to www.justgiving.com/R-Osborne


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A few nights ago, I arrived home from rehearsal like a walking zombie (due to a previous late night youtube marathon of My Big Fat Gypsy's Wedding). Ms V was wide awake still, having decided to wait up for me. I sat on her bed and she blurted a question she had clearly been deeply ruminating in my absence:
"What is this???" (points to her bellybutton)
Her angelic sincerity snapped me out of my lethargy. I impishly tired to convince her that the bellybuttons sole reason for existence was to make that trumpet sound when someone blows on it (I demonstrated). She protested my claim amidst much giggling, but her perceptiveness couldn't hold out to my insistence, especially as I had shown that neither the elbow, cheek, or shoulder were adequate places to make said trumpet sound. And when she tried it on me, she could find no tangible fault with my irrational argument.
I could not bring myself to leave her so deluded and eventually admitted my treachery then gave a brief lesson on the true purpose behind the bellybutton, using her doll and a lamp plugged into the wall as props. Unexpectedly the conversation turned; Never play with a child's imagination, unless you're in the mood for a trip:
"I wish I could see a woman with a woman or a man with a man; oh, I wish I could see how that looks like!"
(Uhmmmmmm, Pardon the Fuck?) "What? Why??"
"Mukaka says they are there! Like in America or what.....I just want to see how they get a baby....or what....."
We had, a couple of months ago, been forced (thank you much progressive parenting 101) to honestly respond to Ms V's classic "where do babies come from?" question with a brief synopsis of the biology behind procreation; we smartly used the broader example of the entire animal kingdom to keep things safely scientific (frankly, one would expect trying to imagine ostriches, giraffes, and lizards making babies would be overwhelming enough that there wouldn't be the time or imagination left to ponder same sex coupling-bah!). Apparently Ms V's imagination had used these scientific basics as a diving board into the deep dark depths of Adult Content!
I still felt myself in somewhat familiar territory. When I was her age there was a couple who lived across the street from us; a gay couple. I used to sit in my living room and keep watch at the window hoping for a glimpse of the fabled pair. Once during my vigil I "caught" them in an intimate moment: they were both outside trying to change the bulb on a floodlight at the side of the house. One man climbed a short ladder to reach it, and the other reached up and put his hands around his partners waist to brace him (to protect him). I felt I'd caught a glimpse of exactly what I'd been looking for: evidence that, despite the negative connotation when the gay couple was ever mentioned in the neighborhood, there was nothing at all negative or mysterious about them. They were good; they were right; they were Love. This notion was amplified by the contradicting fact that the rest of the neighborhood, including my home, held dysfunctional, lonesome, and sometimes violent families in which Love was a barely contrived facade.
In any case, wherever my curiosity led, from the lofty ideals of universal romance to the more carnal realms of Danielle Steel imagery (I was a young and avid reader) I had the prudishness, fear, and wherewithal to keep my musings to myself; the Little One has no such filters:
"I also want to know how they put their cho-chos (vagina) together, or..... what. And they have like holes-?"
"Vannesa!! Where did you get these ideas from?!"
"Eh! But you said I should tell you all what's on my mind!"
"Ah, yesss," (damn you psychobabble degree) "but who told you all these things? Why are you even thinking of them?"
"Uhmm, I think television or something." (we don't have a t.v-hmph!) "So do you have a hole in your cho-cho?"
"Oh for Gods sake!" (For FUCKS SAKE!!)
I then launched into a Progressive Parent 101 spiel which supported her right and desire to be curious, affirmed my commitment to be honest and open with her, and redirected all such detailed-oriented questioning for when she will be old enough to understand the answers. (Whew!)
Ms. V also has a running joke (that only she finds amusing) that slightly varies each time but basically involves my acquiring (sometimes at through her direct effort) an extra set of "buttocks", one or two extra sets of "bleasts", and (of course) a spare "cho-cho". Sometimes though, she is the one (usually by taking mine) who gets a secondary set of female fertility organs (Yes, in Africa this most definitely includes the buttocks!). She will choose the most innocuous conversations to intercept with this imagery, and will giggle adoringly at her fantasy. At which point I thank God for my highly pretentious academic background which is steeped in the social sciences. In these instances, images of ancient (and not so ancient, depending on the source) fertility God and Goddess statues come to mind; the classic Greek tragic hero, Oedipus also occurs to me (but that's probably my psychobabble training reminding me of Freud's say in such matters). In the end, though, my daughters "joke" seems more a ritual in which she uses these images to substitute our bodies having never been joined in organic creation; in mother-daughter coupling (a thing, I'm afraid, dear Freud would never have been able to understand).
Lucky for me, I do. My daughter is my muse, and I use her stories, her words, her ways of seeing the world to guide me on my path as a storyteller; it is an odd thing to do; though she does not fully understand this ritual of mine, she accepts that it is my way of learning her, knowing her, and thus knowing myself. It warms me to think that this ritual she has developed, of amplifying my femininity and then (rightly) claiming it for herself, is her way of learning me, knowing me, and thus knowing herself......
Or maybe she thinks she's gay. Either way, works for me.


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I've been shopping around for chairs for a while now and considered these from CB2, as well as these from West Elm, and these from IKEA, but I wasn't blown away by any of them. My goal was to find something that complemented our white lacquer dining table, but didn't clash with our wood grain hutch. We decided they would have to be either metal and fabric, black or a bright color.
Then I saw them. Tucked under a large dining table in the back of the DWR annex sat five of these little beauties:
And to my delight and amazement, not only did I love them, but they were marked down to $58, significantly less expensive than almost every other chair I had looked at. I planted myself next to them to scare off any other potential buyers while I waited to hear if they did indeed have a sixth chair available. No. Boo. Only the five. I could buy these and order one at full price from DWR, or I could buy these and hope that the Annex got another one in on sale, which they could ship to me later. In the end we decided to get four, which we could complement with our two Eames shell chairs if we had to fit six people at the table. Even better news, when we got to the register to pay I found out they were an additional 20% off, taking them down to $46 each.
Here they are in their new home!


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Manager, Patient Care Services (Pediatric After-Hours Clinics)
Monroe Carell Jr Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt
Requisition# 1908967
The Manager of the Vanderbilt Children's After-Hours Clinics is a leadership role that has comprehensive operational authority and responsibility for the currently six After Hours walk-in clinics operating across the Middle Tennessee Region. Their responsibilities include: fiscal accountability, maintaining quality and regulatory standards, maintaining a high level of patient/family centered care and service, patient and staff satisfaction, program development, managing and developing teams, and ensuring integration with the clinical enterprise. Provides feedback, coaching and mentoring to less experienced peers and other members of the health care team. This position reports to the Director of Pediatric Off-site and After-Hours clinics and is an integral part of the leadership of Children's Hospital.
(Note: This role can work remotely however, it does require rounding to the six after-hours clinics. Mileage Reimbursement is available)
You can learn more about the Vanderbilt Children's After Hours Clinics by following this link: https://www.childrenshospitalvanderbilt.org/program/vanderbilt-childrens-after-hours-clinics
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Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt is the only Comprehensive Regional referral center dedicated to caring for neonatal to pediatric patients in Middle TN. Our family centered care approach to care for children is continuing to grow throughout the region and is expanding to a community near you. Our mission is to care for children and their families in their community with excellent quality and great customer service that they would receive at our main campus. As the middle TN region has continued to grow, we are growing with them. MCJCHV's most recent clinic facility in Rutherford County will bring comprehensive surgical services to the region with surgical and radiology capabilities as well. Our goal is to hire great professionals who share our mission for the community
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Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded and your abilities challenged. It is a place where your diversity -- of culture, thinking, learning and leading -- is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt's mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.
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An Aberdeen pharmacy has become the first in the country to offer birth control pills directly from a specially trained pharmacist, thus avoiding the need to obtain prescriptions from physicians. The new scheme will be tested in a Boots the Chemist outlet, and will be available to women who are at least16 years of age. [Scotsman]
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Kick back, relax, and get your party juices flowing ... It's Friday!
By the end of the weekend, you would have gotten your eggs fried at the Electric Pickle (you'll understand what we mean in a few seconds), jammed with the Jacuzzi Boys at Churchill's, and busted a move with Mom at the Backyard Boogie for Mother's Day, all for less than a Hamilton.
Here are the ten best things to do under $10 this weekend. You're welcome.
See also: Five Best Concerts in Miami This Week
Get Down & Boogie. With Andrew Ward, Pirate Stereo, and Santiago Caballero. Friday, May 9, 10 p.m. Electric Pickle, 2826 N. Miami Ave., Miami; 305-456-5613; electricpicklemiami.com. Free before 1 a.m. with password "Fry My Eggs." Sure, you'll sound weird telling someone "Fry My Eggs," but if you get to party with Andrew Ward, Pirate Stereo, and Santiago Caballero for free, browse through Jacked Fashion's pop-up shop, and quench your thirst with open bar from 10 to 11 p.m. for doing so, then it's definitely worth the embarrassment.
Peachfuzz. With DJs Pase Rock, Aliyo, and DZA. Friday, May 9, 11 p.m. The Garret at Grand Central, 697 N. Miami Ave., Miami; 305-377-2277; grandcentralmiami.com. Free. Pase Rock "ain't got no time for bullshit." So bring your crew and get down and dirty to hip-hop tunes from Pase, Ailyo, and DZA at "your girl's favorite party."
Jahfe. With Army Gideon. Friday, May 9, 10 p.m. The Stage, 170 NE 38th St. Miami; 305-576-9577; thestagemiami.com. $5. "Be yourself" and chill with feel good vibes from Miami's reggae powerhouse Jahfe and FTL's Army Gideon.
Summer Daze. Presented by Red Rabbit with DJs Brito, Youssef, Basic Physics, Chris Valencia, Mike Russell, and Travis Emmons. Saturday, May 10, 12 p.m. Surfcomber Hotel, 1717 Collins Ave., Miami Beach; 305-532-7715; surfcomber.com. Free with RSVP via eventbrite.com. Summer Daze are ahead of us. So kick off the season of non-stop beach parties and string bikinis with the guys of Red Rabbit at the Surfcomber.
Jacuzzi Boys. With the People's Temple, Psychic Mirrors, and the Gun Hoes. Saturday, May 10, 9 p.m. Churchill's Pub, 5501 NE 2nd Ave., Miami; 305-757-1807; churchillspub.com. $5. Our very own rock 'n' roll heroes may have opened for Vampire Weekend during their two night stand at the Fillmore Miami Beach last week, later taking their talents to the Big Guava fest up in Tampa, but if we had to guess their thoughts on the matter, we're pretty sure they'd say there's no place like home. Jam with the Jacuzzi Boys as they put on one of the final shows at Churchill's with the People's Temple, Psychic Mirrors, and the Gun Hoes.
See also: Nicky and Mr. C Talk Birthdays, Friendship, and Churchill's Pub: "It's Like Cheers on Crack"
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7th Annual Everglades Awareness Benefit Concert. Hosted by Ploppy Palace and the Miccosukee Tribe. With Boxelder, Afrobeta, Sweetbone, Franklin's Wheel, Aaron Lebos Reality, Nature's Fury, Teri Catlin, Super Fuzz, Cog Noman, Nag Champayons present the Prolific Minimalists, Kuyayky, the Osceola Brothers Band, Mr. Grim Reapa, Orion, Val C. Wisecracker, Zip Robertson, Grant Livingston, Anthony Nelson, Silver Nightingale and others. Saturday, May 10, 6 p.m. 7th Circuit Studios, 228 NE 59th St., Miami; 305-757-7277. $10. The Everglades will disappear before you know it, unless you do something about it -- like help raise awareness and support at the 7th Annual Everglades Awareness Benefit Concert with the Aaron Lebos Reality, Afrobeta, the Osceola Brothers Band, and the rest of the tree huggers at 7th Circuit Studios.
See also: Miami's Ten Best Ska Bands of All Time
Bachaco. With Uma Galera. Saturday, May 10, 10 p.m. The Stage, 170 NE 38th St. Miami; 305-576-9577; thestagemiami.com. $10. Ages 21 and up. After you've gotten your creative juices flowing at Wynwood's Second Saturday Art Walk, make a splash with the guys of Bachaco and Uma Galera as they play some "Cumba Pa' La Nena" at The Stage.
See also: Second Saturday Art Walk: Five Best Parties
I'm In Miami, Bitch! Andrew Kaufman's book release with music by Haitian Hillbilly. Sunday, May 11, 3 to 7 p.m. Freehand Miami, 2727 Indian Creek Rd., Miami Beach; 305-531-2727; thefreehand.com. Free. We're in the 305, bitches! So do something stereotypically Miami this Sunday ... Like spend the day poolside at the Freehand as Andrew Kaufman celebrates the launch of his new street art and graffiti book, I'm In Miami, Bitch!, Noah Levy paints the hostel's latest mural, and Haitian Hillbilly spins some serious beats.
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Backyard Boogie. Sunday, May 11, 3 to 11 p.m. Wood Tavern, 2531 NW 2nd Ave., Miami; 305-748-2828; woodtavernmiami.com. Free. Put on your funky shoes, get groovy, and bust a few moves with Mom at Wood's Backyard Boogie.
Selectah Sundays Mother's Day Edition. With DJs Heron, Self Born, Exes, and Klassik. Sunday, May 11, 10 p.m. Will Call, 700 NE 2nd Ave., Miami; 305-577-5900; willcallmiami.com. It's Mother's Day! So party it up with Momma as DJs Heron, Self Born, Exes, and Klassik spin all of her favorite tunes.
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The Congress party's first list of 194 Lok Sabha candidates released on Saturday night has no major surprises. Anita Katyal reports
The more things change, the more they stay the same, it is often said. This could well apply to the Congress party which failed to deliver any surprises in its first list of 194 Lok Sabha candidates released on Saturday night.
Except for a few new entrants like former Infosys cofounder Nandan Nilekani, cricketer Mohammad Kaif, well-known lawyer Vivek Tankha and Atal Bihari Vajpayee's niece Karuna Shukla, the grand old party decided to play it safe and opted for status quo.
There had been a strong view in the Congress after its crushing defeat in last year's assembly elections and the successful debut of the Aam Aadmi Party in Delhi. The party felt it should take a fresh look at its policy of renominating sitting MPs and should instead field new faces if an incumbent candidate fails to deliver.
However, the party decided against making any drastic changes as it feared it would then have to contend with rebellion in its ranks on election-eve.
As it is, reports of desertions from the party continue to pour in everyday. Former Union minister D Purandeshwari has joined the Bharatiya Janata Party, former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy has floated his own party and sitting MP from Uttar Pradesh Jagdambika Pal announced his resignation on Saturday.
In addition, the Congress suffered a big blow in Odisha when its legislature party leader Bhupinder Singh and Congress Legislature Party secretary Anup Sai joined the ruling Biju Janata Dal on Saturday.
The Congress has also decided against the suggestion that Pradesh committee presidents should not be fielded so they can concentrate on managing the election in their respective states.
Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Arun Yadav, Uttar Pradesh Congress president Nirmal Khatri and Charan Das Mahant who heads the party's Chhattisgarh unit have been renominated. The newly-appointed state presidents Ashok Tanwar (Haryana) and Sachin Pilot (Rajasthan) do not figure in the first list but that's because they want to shift to a new constituency.
Tanwar is being considered for the Ambala seat instead of Sirsa while Pilot wants to move out of Ajmer, as they are both facing an uphill battle in their old constituencies. Similarly, Punjab Congress president Pratap Singh Bajwa, who represents the Guradaspur seat, has also sought change as he is apparently not sure of retaining his seat but the party leadership is insisting that he should contest from his present seat. The matter is yet to be resolved.
Going by the party's unwritten norm of "sitting getting" most candidates have been repeated.
In Madhya Pradesh, incumbent MPs -- Kamal Nath from Chhindwara, Jyotiraditya Scindia from Guna, Meenakshi Natarajan from Mandsaur and Kantilal Bhuria from Ratlam -- are on the list. Renowned lawyer Vivek Tankha is the only new name in the Madhya Pradesh list released on Saturday.
It's the same story in Uttar Pradesh. Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi will contest from their family bastions Rae Bareli and Amethi, respectively. Union ministers Sriprakash Jaiswal (Kanpur), Jitin Prasad (Dhaurahra) and RPN Singh (Khushi Nagar) have been repeated along with Annu Tandon from Unnao and Parvin Aron from Bairelly.
Sanjay Singh, who represented the Sultanpur constituency in the last elections, has been replaced by his wife Amita Singh. Sanjay Singh was recently accommodated as a Rajya Sabha candidate from Assam in an attempt to mollify him after he threatened to leave the party. Had he been allowed to go, Sanjay Singh could have created problems for Rahul Gandhi in Amethi, which is adjoining Sultanpur.
The Rampur seat, currently held by former Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Prada, has been allotted to Begum Noor's son Kazim Ali Khan. Jaya Prada, in line to join the Congress, is being considered for the Moradabad seat, presently represented by former cricketer Mohammad Azharuddin, who is being shifted to West Bengal.
However, their names are yet to be finalised. Jaya Prada's candidature is contingent on former SP leader Amar Singh's entry to the Congress which has yet to be cleared. Actor-politician Raj Babbar, who won the Firozabad seat last time, is being considered for the Ghaziabad seat, as reports suggest that it will be difficult for him to win this constituency. Again, there is no finality in this regard as his name was not included in the first list.
The candidates from Punjab whose names were cleared include sitting MPs Perneet Kaur from Patiala, Vijendra Singla from Sangrur and Ranveet Singh Bittoo from Anandpur Sahib. But the suspense over the nomination of Information and Broadcasting minister Manish Tewari continues. Tewari has been eyeing the Chandigarh seat, currently represented by former Railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, as he is not sure of retaining his Ludhiana seat.
Bansal resigned from the ministry following reports of irregularities committed by his relatives. Both Tewari and Bansal have been kept waiting.
The other familiar names in the Saturday list include Priya Dutt (Mumbai Central), Milind Deora (Mumbai South), Gurudas Kamat (Mumbai West), Sanjay Nirupam (Mumba) North), Vilas Muthemwar (Nagpur), Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar from Sasaram and former Kerala governor Nikhil Kumar from Aurangabad, both from Bihar.
Nikhil Kumar, who resigned as governor earlier this week, was replaced by former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit.
There is no word so far on the candidature of scam-tainted Suresh Kalmadi and former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan, who had resigned following his alleged role in the Adarsh housing scam. If they are denied tickets, the two would like their wives to be nominated instead.
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From the Vault: Pontypool
Pontypool—which is quite possibly the worst title I've ever heard—pays homage to its radio roots right from the start. Shock Jock Grant Mazzy, expertly played by Stephen McHattie, purrs the story of a local woman's missing cat over a black screen broken only by a red, skittering sound wave. I know it sounds mundane, but there's something innately chilling about his delivery. Pontypool banks a lot on that kind of vibe.
A great deal of the film is spent watching Mazzy "do his thing," much to the chagrin of his producer (Lisa Houle) and amusement of his board operator (Georgina Reilly). Mazzy's "thing," it seems, is pissing people off. And though we get little to no explanation as to why he was fired from his original job and plopped in the small town of Pontypool, Ontario, we can guess. The man lives to start trouble. Turns out this town doesn't really need his help.
Soon, Mazzy begins receiving phone calls describing scenes of mob violence randomly erupting all over town. Seems some folks have taken to babbling incoherently and eventually assaulting their fellow. . . Pontypoolians? Pontypoolans? Whatever. Point is, the source of this zombie-like behavior is revealed to be lurking somewhere within the English language itself, begging Mazzy to wonder whether his on-the-spot updates might be hurting more than helping.
I realize that you've probably gotten hung up on that whole "lurking within the English language itself" business. I must warn you that I can be of little help with any real explanation and I certainly wouldn't hope for Pontypool to give you one either. It is far more interested in the metaphorical, it seems, than the literal. It's taking the social commentary of Romero's zombie films to an extreme and this is really where the film begins to derail.
The power of language as well as the construction and deconstruction of words are interesting topics, but do they really have any place in a zombie film? I suppose I appreciate the attempt to bring something new to the table, even if it doesn't quite work. It's just that Pontypool gets so strange and esoteric by the later half of the film that it kind of blindsides you. Couple that with an ending that's a bit less than satisfying and what you have is a film whose reach far exceeds its grasp. So just what exactly is it about the English language that's setting people off? It's really best if we don't talk about it.
*NOTE: Yes, I do realize how many times I used "Pontypool" in this review. There's something hypnotic about it, don't you think? Pontypool. . . Pontypool. . .


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Miss Naysmith, 75, has a very interesting past. A cultured lady, she was once a well-known concert pianist and music teacher. After a series of family disputes and financial problems, she was evicted from her home in the 1970s. She then spent 30 years living in her Ford Consul car in the same street until the local council had the car towed away ten years ago. Since then she has been in the Transport for London car park.
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This is the first time I do a post on a book, and it won't happen again in a long time. I strongly discourage publishers and authors from contacting me about book reviews (it happens all the time, actually) unless my work is mentioned in the book in question.
This post is not a review per se because I admittedly haven't had the time yet to read the book in full, but this book doesn't need yet another review. On the front page of "Haunted Empire -- Apple After Steve Jobs" by former Wall Street Journal reporter Yukari Iwatani Kane, Walter Isaacson, author of the official Steve Jobs biography, calls this book "[o]ne of the most important business stories of our time" and says its author "brings us inside Apple at this critical moment with great insight and unparalleled reporting". Nuff said, I guess. Here's the front page (this post continues below the image):
There's a chapter on the summer 2012 Apple v. Samsung jury trial (this one I have indeed read), and it also mentions my work and how I experienced the billion-dollar verdict across considerable geographic distance.
The official release date is this coming Tuesday (March 18). You can find several links that lead you to online retailers on the author's official page for the book.
These are definitely interesting times at Apple. The next California trial against Samsung will kick off in two weeks from tomorrow (March 31), and it's actually an Apple v. Google trial (Google technologies are at issue and plenty of Google witnesses will appear) styled as an Apple v. Samsung trial. I'll talk about this more before the trial starts. Basically, what Apple is doing is to portray as an America v. Asia issue what is, at its technical heart, a Silicon Valley v. Silicon Valley, or Cupertino v. Mountain View, in-fight. The distance between the true rivals' headquarters is a 12-minute drive, not a 12-hour flight.
Apple can obviously choose whom in the Android value chain it targets with its lawsuits, but it will have to be somewhat careful about the America v. Asia theme this time around because Judge Koh strongly criticized its appeal to jurors' national bias at the November 2013 retrial in the first case.
Earlier this week I wrote about Apple's $40-per-unit damages claim. It has received more "Google +1" clicks than any other of my posts. I have seen many other critical comments on the amount and wish to highlight this commentary by Yankee Group Senior Analyst Boris Metodiev. Mr. Metodiev says Apple's claim is "nothing short of extraordinary" and "looks ridiculous", and he has "no idea how it came up with that number".
It would obviously have been much harder for Apple to present such a high per-unit claim if it had elected to sue Google rather than Samsung. Even Samsung's average per-device sales prices don't justify Apple's damages claim, but Google's revenue per Android copy distributed is much lower. Of course, there are damages theories that could be used against Google, but it's certainly more difficult, at least psychologically, to demand a high per-unit damages number from Google for five out of allegedly 250,000 patented inventions that are implemented in a smartphone.
Even this lawsuit won't be able to change anything about the fact that the "Haunted Empire" has strategically lost the platform battle. It now has to focus on defending the second place against, for example, Windows, which has even forged ahead of iOS in some markets. A recent Developer Economics report by VisionMobile says that "[t]he Mobile Developer Mindshare Q3 2013 shows Android leading at 71% of developers using the platform, followed by iOS at 56%", and the revenue gap is closing. A couple of years ago many developers had an iOS-first-Android-later approach. By now, more and more developers, especially those who focus on the global market and not just the U.S., do it the other way round.
These were just some personal Sunday morning reflections.
If you're bored enough on this Sunday to want to waste your time on something that is absolutely unrelated to IP but quite a coincidence, let me mention that I'm being (indirectly) sued by an Apple employee in my neighborhood (a biz dev guy working for Apple's German subsidiary in Munich). I was informally notified of his January 2014 complaint only on Wednesday, the day after I criticized Apple's $40 damages claim. It's a funny coincidence that after years of covering Apple's lawsuits and after more than 15 years without being sued by anyone over anything, I should now have to defend myself, in the role of an intervenor, against a lawsuit brought by an Apple guy. The percentage of Apple employees in this area is a lot lower than in Silicon Valley. But one employee of the "Haunted Empire" is apparently all it takes to be haunted by a lawsuit.
Fortunately, we have a "loser pays" rule here. It also benefits intervenors like me (the formal defendant is the Apple guy's landlady) and ensures trolls get the bill in the end. Then, we unfortunately don't have an equivalent to a motion to dismiss (or summary judgment) that would take care of a frivolous complaint early on.
That meritless lawsuit is based on the allegation that he and his family believe I could use my cameras, which clearly capture only a gate that I can't see from my house (I have a private road that is 50 meters long and there are some trees and hedges in between), and the door intercom system, which is four meters away from a hedge behind which the Apple guy has its garden, to spy on them and their conversations. Those who know the technology involved know it simply isn't possible; those who personally know me also know I wouldn't even try this (apart from the fact that I wouldn't have time for it; I monitor some Apple lawsuits, not its employees).
I had the cameras installed in 2012 (the number of burglaries has been on the rise here lately, about 10% per year) and before they were even installed, he had already thought that the motion detectors (that just make the light go on when it's dark) were cameras. He never communicated with me, only with his landlady who then contacted me, and I explained, through this channel, that motion detectors and cameras are different things. One can actually find pictures on the Internet that show those are just motion detectors. After this clarification, however, the problem surprisingly didn't go away. I was told that he still had a concern: one could hide a camera inside a motion detector, he said. The lawsuit is now about the real cameras and the door intercom system, but it has no more merit than the camera-hidden-in-motion-detector paranoia, which shows what kind of litigant I'm dealing with. Compared to that, I'll take the $40 per device thing any day of the week.
I know some other Apple people and the ones who talk to me directly (whether or not they have a problem) are not like him. Just wanted to clarify that ;-) But in such a large organization, I guess someone will always be haunted by something.
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Can't escape, Cannot hide, From the voices deep inside, Want to run, Run away, Before this noise leads me astray. Need to hear, Need to feel, Have to find what is real. Search the world for a truth, Find the answer within you. As you walk through the world, Try to clear your mind, Do all you can to understand, This race called humankind. Trapped within this sphere of noise, This cage of shouting heads, Beauty has to raise its voice, To show the joy it spreads. If people could forget
The sky, it phases. The stars, they shake. The moon, it falters. Hearts, they break. The clouds are dense, They encapsulate, The night, so tense, As hearts, they break. Somewhere in the darkness, There has to be some light, But searching with sparklers, You'll burn before the fight. Running through the forest, Thorns tearing through your soul, Trying to escape this, Needing to be whole. Life crumbles before you, Turning into dust, Fear what you've turned into, Learning not to trust.
Let It Grow.
Please follow the following announcement which follows the main title to save you from any common misconception. I do enjoy writing parodies of things occasionally, however this blog post is not one of them. This post has absolutely nothing to do with, and is in no way affiliated whatsoever with the popular Disney song 'Let It Go'. If you have travelled here with the hope and joy that you are about to read something that echoes your undying love for the Disney film 'Frozen', I shall humbly admit