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by Jessica Piper
On a cold November day, a little more than a week after the midterm elections, the Maine Secretary of State pointed at a spreadsheet projected onto an old-fashioned screen in a cramped, blue-walled office.
"This has been quite an undertaking here," said Matthew Dunlap, who has overseen dozens of federal elections during his tenure as Secretary.
That spreadsheet was the culmination of an election cycle that can only be described as unusual—or, some would say, revolutionary. Democratic Senate candidate Zak Ringelstein openly encouraged supporters to vote for him, but to be sure to list his incumbent opponent as their second choice. Independent Tiffany Bond, running for a seat in the House of Representatives, refused to take campaign donations throughout the entire election cycle, instead asking her followers to spend their money at local businesses in Maine's sprawling second district or to donate it to schools.
In most elections, candidates like Ringelstein or Bond would have been decried as potential spoilers, grouped alongside Ralph Nader and the plethora of independent politicians who have been accused of siphoning votes from major candidates. But no one was talking about spoilers in Maine this fall. Instead, the talk was about ranked choice voting: an electoral process which, supporters argue, could break down the partisan divide and open up new possibilities for American elections—assuming that it weathers legal challenges.
Lawsuit after lawsuit
In ranked-choice voting, voters have the option to list candidates by order of preference. In the first round of counting, precincts tally first-place votes for all candidates. If no candidate has achieved a majority—50 percent plus one—then the votes that went to the last-place candidate are re-allocated to each voter's second-ranked candidate. The process repeats until one candidate has a majority.
Proponents of ranked-choice voting argue that it eliminates voters' need to choose between the "lesser of two evils" and allows independent candidates to run for office without fear of becoming spoilers. Voters can support a longshot independent candidate without hurting the major-party candidate they support, as their second-place vote will be counted if the election is close. If major-party candidates realize they may need the second-place votes of independent candidates, they might be forced to broaden their appeal to reach more of the electorate.
Detractors tend to argue that the potential benefits of ranked-choice don't play out in practice, as voters often don't rank every candidate. In an empirical study of four local elections that used ranked-choice between 2008 and 2011, researchers found that between nine and 27 percent of ballots were exhausted, meaning the voters had not ranked either of the final two candidates. This outcome suggests that a nontrivial proportion of voters either didn't understand ranked-choice voting or chose not to fully utilize it—and thereby had less sway in the electoral process.
In Maine, many saw ranked-choice voting as a reaction to firebrand Republican governor Paul LePage. LePage was twice elected to the state's highest office without a majority of the votes, and garnered national attention for his inflammatory comments about the state's Somali immigrant population, his vow to veto any bill sponsored by a Democrat, and a number of other controversial statements. His antics became so well-known that LePage jokingly bragged in 2016 that he was "Donald Trump before Donald Trump became popular."
The majority of Mainers had not voted for LePage; in 2010, the Republican received 37.6 percent of the votes, while independent Eliot Cutler received 35.9 percent and Democrat Libby Mitchell came in with 18.8 percent. As an incumbent in 2014, LePage did better, winning 48.2 percent of the vote—still less than a majority. While it can't be definitively said that ranked-choice would have changed either of these outcomes—retrospectively guessing voters' second choices is a futile exercise—there is a strong possibility.
Ranked-choice activists were careful not to frame the issue as a response to LePage; they wanted the movement to be nonpartisan. It is worth noting that Maine's history of three-way races goes back a lot longer than LePage. His predecessor, Democrat John Baldacci, was elected without the majority of votes in both 2002 and 2006. And Angus King, the now-Senator who has long highlighted his credentials as an independent, was elected governor of Maine in 1994 with just 35.4 percent of the vote share, though he did get a majority when he ran as an incumbent in 1998.
Still, LePage was governor when Maine voters approved ranked-choice voting by a small yet decisive margin, 52-48, in November 2016. Its passage was led by the state's Democrats and independents; LePage and other Republican leaders opposed it, citing constitutional concerns.
The legal challenges came quickly. That following May, Maine's Supreme Court issued a unanimous advisory saying that ranked-choice voting unconstitutional in general elections for state offices. The state's constitution mandates that elected officials are chosen "by a plurality of all votes returned." Plurality was interpreted by all seven justices to mean the most overall votes; under ranked-choice, the candidate with the most first-place votes might not win, so the law couldn't stand. The judges did not offer an opinion on whether ranked-choice was valid for federal elections.
Still, the outlook for ranked-choice voting didn't look good. The state legislature has the power to amend the state constitution, but with Democrats in control of the House, Republicans in the majority in the Senate, and LePage in the Blaine House hardly looking to broker a compromise, such an outcome seemed unlikely. Instead, in October 2017, lawmakers passed a different kind of compromise—a bill which delayed the implementation of ranked-choice until 2021, ostensibly to allow for more time for a constitutional amendment, but which would repeal the law at that point if no such amendment was passed.
Activists, however, weren't done yet. This February, ranked-choice voting supporters submitted 80,000 signatures to the Secretary of State in favor of a "people's veto," another referendum on the voting system, to be carried out at the same time as the state's June primaries. They received another boost in April, when the state Supreme Court ruled that ranked-choice was to be used for both parties' primaries; disallowing it, the judges unanimously agreed, would be an overstep of the separation of powers.
The state Republican Party sued, arguing it shouldn't have to abide by ranked-choice for party functions, but the court disagreed. So on June 12, voters on both sides of the aisle participated in the first statewide ranked-choice election in American history.
They also had a chance to vote on the people's veto, which was—in practice—a confusing and poorly-worded question: "Do you want to reject the parts of a new law that would delay the use of ranked-choice voting in the election of candidates for any state or federal office until 2022, and then retain the method only if the constitution is amended by December 1, 2021, to allow ranked-choice voting for candidates in state elections?"
A yes vote favored ranked-choice voting; a no vote opposed it. And by roughly the same margin as in 2016, Maine voters said yes. Ranked-choice voting remained unconstitutional in elections for state-level offices, but rulings and voter approval paved the way for its use in the federal-level midterm elections. (Though it didn't happen without a grumble from LePage, who vetoed a bill that would have allocated funding to cover the costs of administering a ranked-choice election.) The Secretary of State's office drew funding from a variety of sources instead.
The first election
Three federal seats were contested in Maine this fall. The state is divided into two congressional districts, and Senator Angus King, an independent who typically caucuses with Democrats, was also facing re-election.
King had challengers on both sides of the aisle; Ringelstein was the official Democratic nominee, though he had little support from the state party, while state senator Eric Brakey ran on the Republican ticket. Ringelstein openly encouraged his supporters to "vote with your hopes," but also rank King as their second choice. In previous elections, the state's liberals might have worried about splitting the left-leaning vote, but, with ranked-choice in play, there was little such concern.
Ringelstein's mostly self-financed campaign never garnered much momentum, but it did give him an opportunity to push King to the left. In a notable moment during one of the final three-way debates, the Democrat and former teacher challenged the incumbent to stop taking donations from ExxonMobil. King said he would, and few days later, returned previous donations he had received from the oil company.
On election day, ranked-choice voting mattered little. A popular incumbent, King won re-election with a decisive 54 percent of the vote, although some liberal voters said the system freed them to follow Ringelstein's advice and vote with their hopes.
"I wanted the Maine Democratic party to know that there were Democratic voters out there," said Jack Ward of Brunswick, who voted for Ringelstein.
In Maine's liberal first district, Chellie Pingree likewise won reelection with a simple majority, collecting 58.8 percent of votes outright despite facing both independent Marty Grohman and Republican Mark Holbrook.
In the second district—the vast, rural territory that voted for Obama in 2012 and Trump in 2016—it got more complicated. Polls leading up to the election showed a tight battle between incumbent Republican Bruce Poliquin and Democrat Jared Golden, but they weren't the only candidates in the race. Bond and fellow independent Will Hoar were also running, and polling at a combined roughly eight percent.
A family lawyer, Bond ran an unconventional campaign. She rarely campaigned on weekends, preferring to spend time with her young children, and specifically asked her supporters not to donate to her campaign, but put their money back into Maine's economy.
It was all possible, she said, because of the state's new system.
"All the things I hate about politics, I'm wasn't going to do that," Bond said. "And I have that freedom because of ranked-choice voting … All I can do is improve the race."
In the lead-up to November, pundits speculated that Bond and Hoar supporters would likely rank Golden ahead of Poliquin; when the candidates were asked in a debate who they personally planned to rank second, both of the independents indicated that the incumbent Republican was their last choice.
November 6 rolled around, and after the first round of ballots, Poliquin came in with 46.2 percent of votes; Golden won 45.6 percent; Bond got five percent and Hoar 2.4 percent.
Ranked-choice voting was to get its first test. On November 8, dozens of private courier drivers fanned out across northern Maine. Two days later, all of the ballots were collected, and processing began in Augusta, the state capitol and the only site that has the proper technology to count the votes.
There was just one more hiccup; a few days into the counting, Poliquin filed a lawsuit to try to stop it. In a statement, he argued that ranked-choice violated the "one vote per person" system that "has always been the successful system used" for elections in the United States. The official complaint cites Article I, Section II of the Constitution as well as the First and Fourteenth Amendments and the Voting Rights Act, arguing that ranked-choice voting disenfranchises voters who don't list second- and third-choice options as their ballots are not counted in the final tally if their first-choice candidate is eliminated.
Both Golden and Bond filed motions to intervene in the case.
"I relied on that process, and I think that voters did, too," Bond said. Ranked-choice voting affected her decision to run in the first place, and she was critical of the lawsuit and Poliquin himself. "Obviously, he's not an attorney," she added.
In a public statement, Golden's campaign manager, Jon Breed, called the lawsuit an "affront to the law and to the people of Maine."
On Thursday, November 15, two important results were set to be released: Lance Walker, judge for the U.S. District Court of Maine who was appointed by President Trump earlier this year and confirmed just a month ago, was set to rule on Poliquin's suit, and Dunlap announced his office would be releasing the ranked-choice results.
Walker's decision came out first, a little before 9 a.m. In a sixteen-page decision, he denied the incumbent Republicans' motion.
A few hours later, Dunlap stood in front of the projector in the blue-walled room. He first thanked the state employees who carefully tabulated votes under heavy media scrutiny. Deputy Secretary of State Julie Flynn explained the process, and how they would have to use the find and replace function because Golden's name had been listed as "Golden, Jared F." in the first position and "Golden Jared F." in second position, so the Excel spreadsheet was counting it as two separate candidates.
Then they ran the ranked-choice software. Picking up nearly 70 percent of votes in the second round, Golden reached 50.53 percent of total tally. In the same calm fashion that had characterized the previous week's proceedings, Dunlap declared the Lewiston Democrat the winner.
Poliquin has said he will continue to challenge the constitutionality of ranked-choice voting, and LePage has not guaranteed that he will certify the results. But, two years after Maine voters approved the new election process, it is most likely that a candidate who won because of ranked-choice will be walking the halls of Congress.
Beyond Maine
Though he may be ranked-choice voting's biggest opponent right now, Bruce Poliquin may actually be doing the system a favor. The now-lame duck congressman has indicated he will pursue his lawsuit in district court, with the next hearing set for Dec. 5. If there is an appeal, the case could be sent to the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals, or potentially the U.S. Supreme Court.
If Poliquin wins his case, it would be the death knell for ranked-choice voting. But if he loses—which seems more likely given Walker's decision last week and the Maine Supreme Court's earlier this year—a federal court's approval of ranked-choice voting would seem to open up possibilities for other states to adopt the system.
In California, ranked-choice been raised as a potential alternative to the state's top-two primary system; San Francisco has been using ranked-choice for its mayoral elections since 2004. In Arizona, former Green Party candidate Angela Green told the New Yorker she hopes her campaign "wakes up everyone to understand why ranked-choice voting is so important."
The city of Fargo, N.D., approved a related but different system this November. Under "approval voting," voters simply check all of the candidates they like, and the candidate with the most approval votes wins.
While no one state has appeared as a clear front runner to take up the ranked-choice fight next, there seems to be a sincere interest in alternative voting systems.
In his initial decision denying Poliquin's motion to suspend the ranked-choice count, Walker wrote, "I am not persuaded that the United States Constitution compels the Court to interfere with this most sacred expression of democratic will."
Ranked-choice seems to be a part of that sacred expression.
Jessica Piper is a senior from Bowdoin College studying economics and Hispanic studies.
The views expressed in this article are those of the writer. The Contemporary takes no position on matters of policy or opinion.
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"The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice."
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the early 1960s, Birmingham, Alabama, was so dangerous to Black Americans who suffered so many bombings at the hands of White supremacists that it was often referred to as "Bombingham." There's an old joke from the Civil Rights movement: "A Black preacher in Chicago wakes up one morning and tells his wife that Jesus had come to him in a dream and told him to go to Birmingham to seek justice. His wife is horrified. 'Did Jesus say he'd go with you?' The husband replies, 'He said he'd go as far as Memphis.'" Birmingham was just that dangerous.
We view the heroism of history from a safe distance. Pretending that we would do the same, given the opportunity. Stand up for justice, risk our careers, or even our lives. But few of us heed the call. It's just too hard. You know those moments when we "Go along to get along." Not to cause even "good trouble" as the late John Lewis would say. Even in protest, we often don the mantle of self-righteousness, which can make change more threatening, rather than advance "truth and reconciliation."
Imagine not having the safety and security of the rearview mirror, but instead to have lived history-making in real time? What courage and strength of character. At the Edmund Pettus Bridge; on the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, with Rosa Parks; at the door at Foster Auditorium when Governor George Wallace attempted to block the integration of the University of Alabama. To run into the burning building rather than away from it?
Enter Andrew Young, among the last of the early civil rights leaders, the former executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and a close confidant to Martin Luther King, Jr. Later in his career he served as a U.S Congressman from Georgia, Ambassador to the United Nations and the Mayor of Atlanta. At 88, he is still leading the way.
Ambassador Young was kind enough to offer to kick off a series called American Legends that we are doing with CommPRO and on our podcast, In House Warrior. Sponsors of this historic event – free to the public – include the Museum of Public Relations and American Heritage magazine. Bill Ide, the former General Counsel of Monsanto, a partner at Akerman in Atlanta and a friend of the Ambassador for over 50 years, will join me in moderating this timely conversation on Aug 21 at 2 pm ET over the CommPRO network.
Ambassador Young will provide perspectives on the upcoming presidential election, including the emerging new "birtherism," #BLM and the impact of COVID-19 on communities of color… please join the conversation.
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Some Democratic presidential candidates say that America's economic system is badly broken and in need of sweeping, structural change. Others say that the existing order is fundamentally sound, even if it could use a few modest renovations. The former are widely portrayed as ideologues or extremists, the latter as moderates.
And it's certainly true that Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are ideologically "extreme," if our baseline is the median member of Congress or the median policy agenda pursued by recent American presidents. But it's not clear why these would be the appropriate metrics.
After all, we do not equate calls for sweeping change (whether from recent precedent or from current consensus) with extremism in all circumstances. When young people in an Islamist autocracy take to the streets demanding basic civil rights, we do not regard them as radicals, or the regime's apologists as moderates. Our assessment of the dissenters' ideological character does not hinge on how far their values depart from those of the status quo order — but rather on how far that status quo departs from our consensus values.
Thus, whether it is truly extreme or moderate to demand sweeping changes to American capitalism depends on the degree to which the existing system aligns with common-sense views of what a just or rational economic system should look like.
Happily, the Federal Reserve just released some data that makes the state of this alignment easier to gauge. In its new Distributive Financial Accounts data series, the central bank offers a granular picture of how American capitalism has been distributing the gains of economic growth over the past three decades. Matt Bruenig of the People's Policy Project took the Fed's data and calculated how much the respective net worth of America's top one percent and its bottom 50 percent has changed since 1989.
He found that America's superrich have grown about $21 trillion richer since Taylor Swift was born, while those in the bottom half of the wealth distribution have grown $900 billion poorer.
Notably, this measure of wealth includes liabilities, such as student debt. And it does not include consumer goods, such as computers or refrigerators, as economists do not conventionally view such products as wealth assets. But if one did include the Fed's data on the distribution of consumer goods, the wealth gap between the top one percent and bottom 50 would actually be even larger.
So, is an economic system that distributes its benefits in this manner consistent with Americans' common-sense views of economic justice? If not, would incremental changes be sufficient to bring it into alignment with the median American's values? Or would more sweeping measures be required?
Put differently: Does the average American believe that, over the past three decades, our nation's richest one percent have contributed roughly $22 trillion more to our collective well-being than the poorest 50 percent have? Does she think that the tens of millions of working-class people who spent the past 30 years cooking other Americans' dinner, cleaning their toilets, caring for their children, harvesting their crops, ringing up their groceries — and performing the countless other poorly remunerated forms of labor that our society demands — collectively produced an infinitesimal fraction of the value that America's corporate lawyers, hedge-fund managers, venture capitalists, specialist physicians, heirs and heiresses, and other high-paid professionals did?
Survey data (and common sense) says otherwise. In 2011, Michael Norton of Harvard Business School and Dan Ariely of Duke University published a study on Americans' views of how wealth was distributed in their society, and how they felt it should be distributed. They found that, in the average American's ideal world, the richest 20 percent would own 32 percent of national wealth. In reality, the top quintile owned 84 percent as of 2011. And that share has grown in the intervening years. Today, the one percent alone commands roughly 40 percent of all America's wealth.
Given all this, any politician who insists that American capitalism is "already great" is clearly a far-right extremist whose indifference to inequality puts him or her wildly out of step with ordinary people. But is it the case that Warren and Sanders would take things too far in the other direction?
Not remotely. I do not have the relevant data or skills to project precisely how the full implementation of either candidate's agenda would influence America's wealth distribution. But neither candidate is calling for a series of reforms that would place the United States far outside the Western European norm. In fact, both Warren and Sanders have cribbed their signature policies from European nations. As the 2018 World Inequality Report demonstrated, policy choices do matter — and income inequality is much lower in Western Europe than it is in the U.S.
But even Scandinavia's social democracies feature far more inequitable distributions of wealth than Americans think to be fair, according to Ariely and Norton's survey. What's more, it will take a lot of redistribution just to prevent America's current wealth gap from growing even larger. The fundamental challenge in combating inequality is that wealth begets more wealth. Those who can afford to invest in bonds get to collect annual interest payments; those who invest in stocks or real estate typically see their capital assets annually appreciate. Thus, most years, our nation's collective capital stock directs loads of passive income to America's wealthiest citizens. As Vox's Matt Yglesias observes, much of the explosion in wealth inequality that the Fed documents can be attributed to the fact that the one percent began 1989 owning a wildly disproportionate share of corporate equities and private businesses. The passive income generated by these assets would have allowed the one percent to pull away from everyone else, even in the absence of soaring wage inequality.
Nothing short of progressively redistributing ownership of capital assets could bring our nation's wealth distribution into alignment with its values. For the moment, neither Warren nor Sanders has released a detailed plan for doing that on a large scale. Their current platforms would be less likely to significantly reduce wealth inequality than to merely slow its growth.
Perhaps "we should adopt redistributive policies and institutions that are common throughout Western Europe, so as to prevent the one percent's share of national wealth from rising too far above 40 percent" sounds like an extreme proposition to you. But the alternative — or at least the alternative's implications for wealth inequality — would strike the average American as far more radical.


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Substitution: the Law of God required the death of the sinner, "The soul who sins is the one who will die." ; and God's love for mankind had to find another way of satisfying this demand, and from the very outset of the fall of mankind God instituted what the Scriptures reveal as a substitution to satisfy this demand, "The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.", and these garments had to come from an animal that was killed, which in effect took their place in death, and they were clothed in the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus our Saviour, symbolized in all the animal sacrifices of the Old Testament . All these sacrifices; as outlined in Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy and elsewhere in the Old Testament, had to be acceptable to God, and equivalent to the condemned person, and in the case of Christ, innocent, willing to die, and possessing an infinite life, so as to satisfy God's Law which demanded a life for a life . So it is obvious that these requirements could only be satisfied by our Lord Jesus Christ . Redemption: the root meaning is to buy or to buy back again; and refers to a liberation from sin and its oppression; and is illustrated in the Old Testament as a relative called a "kinsman redeemer" who had the right to buy back property that had been sold by a family member due to debt, poverty or sickness, so as to keep it in the family . Although the completed work of Christ is adequate in providing salvation for all mankind, it can only be effective to those that accept and believe in Him, and His work of redemption is expressed in different ways throughout the New Testament . As has been shown in our previous study of sin, mankind belongs to God because of our nature or characteristics, but because of sin we have come under the control and oppression of Satan, and through redemption Christ has secured the release of our souls. Propitiation: meaning satisfaction, which is also an aspect of Christ's completed work, for He was the "atoning" sacrifice or the "substitutionary atonement" (NIV Study Bible) for our sins . Reconciliation: and in this we see that mankind is reconciled (or meets the requirements) to God, and simply means a complete change of our attitude towards God . Christ's completed work provided reconciliation for all mankind meaning that all mankind can be saved , but again we must understand that this does not mean that all mankind is, or will be saved for we are all called upon to "Be reconciled to God" , even as all things in heaven are reconciled
The work of the Holy Spirit is to convict mankind of sin, righteousness and judgment: "When he comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment: in regard to sin, because men do not believe in me; in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned." . If it were not for The work of the Holy Spirit in the lives of mankind, no one would be saved, because of the sin nature we are all dead in our sins and spiritually blinded by Satan , and in our natural sinful state we do not accept the things relating to God, nor do we seek God . Christians can assist in the work of the Holy Spirit by the lives that we live, so we should not frustrate His work.


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For investors in Williams Companies (NYSE:WMB), Friday was a bad day for a reason other than Brexit. A Delaware court ruled that Energy Transfer Equity (NYSE:ETE) will be able to get out of its deal to acquire Williams, due to concerns about how the deal will be taxed. This should substantially affect Williams shareholders as the deal was made when energy prices were much higher, and Williams wanted to force the deal in order to help maximize shareholder value. Without the deal, however, Williams will still be fine and has a few paths forward.
Court Ruling
It is not a secret that Energy Transfer wanted out of the deal. When they made the merger agreement with Williams, energy prices were high and there was the projection for large synergies between both companies. Now with the substantial drop in prices, Energy is facing a cash crunch caused partially by the cash portion of the deal. Energy has offered previously to renegotiate the deal with Williams, as they were hoping that Williams shareholders would accept more stock compensation instead of cash. However, Williams has refused to budge. While a court usually doesn't allow a company to get out of a merger that it doesn't like, in this case there was a specific question before the court.Williams Partners is doing just that, trying to push for the merger. First, the company announced in a press release that a majority of its shareholders have voted to approve the merger:
The agreement between Williams and Energy contained a provision that would essentially let Energy walk away from the deal if the tax structure on the deal was not what Energy thought that it would be. While this is usually a routine matter, Energy's counsel refused to issue a letter addressing the merger as tax free. As a result, Energy has cited the tax issue as the reason that it wants out of the deal. Importantly for Williams, there is a $1.48 billion breakup fee should Energy back out of the deal.
The court ruled that Energy's lawyers were acting in good faith in their belief that the tax structure was not as initially thought tax free. While Williams leaned heavily on the argument that this is just a ploy by Energy's attorneys to help Energy get out of a deal that it now regrets, the court found the issue differently. While it may look suspicious, there is very little evidence that this is the case, and it does appear as though this is an issue where Energy's attorneys found a problem in the deal structure, and were acting in good faith. Williams is expected to continue to try to do everything that it can in order to help make the merger go through at its current terms.
As previously announced, the cash and stock elections will be subject to proration and adjustment procedures that are further described in the merger agreement between Williams and ETE (the "Merger Agreement"). Subject to those proration and adjustment procedures in the Merger Agreement, common stockholders of Williams had the option to elect to receive for each share of Williams common stock (other than Williams shares held by Williams, subsidiaries of Williams, Energy Transfer Corp LP ("ETC") and its affiliates and shares for which the holder thereof has perfected appraisal rights under Delaware law) the right to: $8.00 in cash and 1.5274 common shares representing limited partner interests in ETC ("ETC Common Shares") (the "Mixed Consideration"); or 1.8716 in ETC Common Shares (the "Share Consideration"); or $43.50 in cash (the "Cash Consideration").
Based on the information as of the election deadline, 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on June 24, 2016 (the "Election Deadline"), the preliminary merger consideration election results were as follows:
* Holders of 22,447,733.992 shares of Williams common stock, or approximately 2.859% of the outstanding shares of Williams common stock, elected to receive the Mixed Consideration;
* Holders of 25,222,476.625 shares of Williams common stock, or approximately 3.212% of the outstanding shares of Williams common stock, elected to receive the Share Consideration;
* Holders of 489,030,749.927 shares of Williams common stock, or approximately 62.291% of the outstanding shares of Williams common stock, elected to receive the Cash Consideration; and
* Holders of 248,375,417.456 shares of Williams common stock, or approximately 31.637% of the outstanding shares of Williams common stock, failed to make a valid election prior to the Election Deadline.Williams also issued another release announcing its intentions to fight the court ruling:
Williams today also filed papers commencing an appeal in the Delaware Supreme Court of the Delaware Court of Chancery's June 24, 2016 ruling relating to the Merger Agreement between Williams and ETE. While Williams appreciates the Court of Chancery's consideration of this matter, Williams does not believe ETE has a right to terminate the Merger Agreement because ETE has breached the Merger Agreement by failing to cooperate and use necessary efforts to satisfy the conditions to closing, including delivery of Latham & Watkins LLP's Section 721(a) tax opinion. Williams remains ready, willing and able to close the merger under the Merger Agreement entered into with ETE on September 28, 2015. If ETE terminates the Merger Agreement, Williams will take appropriate actions to enforce its rights under the Merger Agreement and deliver benefits to Williams' stockholders.
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Mark Stone's Top 5 Expressions
When you play a sport and accomplish a task as a team, it is something worth celebrating. Whether you hit a home run, score a touchdown or light the lamp, it makes you happy and creates an expression you want to let out. Scoring a goal while playing in the best hockey league in the world is definitely cause for celebration and Mark Stone is one of the best at showing his feelings.
The Vegas Golden Knights forward has been recognized on Twitter as having some of the best cellys when he or his team scores. The hashtag "#ExpressiveMarkStone" has become a trend online and whenever they score a goal, you can bet there is a camera on him to catch his emotion.
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This season has brought us many great expressions as he was averaging almost a point-per-game before the season was halted. He recorded 63 points in 65 games, only 10 points behind his career-high he set last season.
Perhaps it is the fact that he was drafted at the end of the sixth round in 2010 that makes him not take any game he plays for granted and appreciate every moment he spends on the ice. Each time he puts the sweater over his head, he knows to give it his all and celebrate his personal, and more importantly, team success in his new home.
Here are my top-five #ExpressiveMarkStone moments.
#5 – Any Goal is Worth Celebrating
Stone is a competitive player and anytime his teammates score he is ecstatic, even when he is on the bench. In this clip, you can see the pure joy he has on his face when Paul Stastny scores, putting them up 4-1 in the second period over the Arizona Coyotes.
Stone is intently watching the play from the bench and jumps up when he sees the puck go in the net. He gives fist bumps to his teammates around him and starts pounding the boards as he is cheering while giving the players on the ice a few congratulatory words when they skate by.
#4 – Pumped for a Victory
The Golden Knights have had an up and down season, putting them in the middle of a playoff race at the start of the new year. With a new coach, each win matters as the try and qualify for their third straight Stanley Cup playoffs appearance. They welcomed a tough Philadelphia Flyers team to town in January and won a hard-fought game, 5-4.
After each win, the team goes on the ice to thank the goalie and the boys celebrate together. Stone was the first player to greet Marc-Andre Fleury and you can see the excitement on his face when he congratulates his netminder. Also, the fact that his high fives are more like hard fives gives away how pumped he was for those two points.
#3 – Puck on a String
Sometimes I think Stone's celebrations are better when he makes the play rather than when he finishes it. He starts the two-on-one by looking away from Max Pacioretty and gets Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Brent Seabrook to bite, then uses a sweet little toe drag to get around him and slide the puck over to Pacioretty for the finish.
This goal put the Golden Knights up 4-0 in the third period, but you can see when he meets Pacioretty in the crease that it should have been a goal to put them up by one late in the game. He doesn't take his foot off the gas and that makes his cellys even more entertaining.
#2 – Scoring When It Matters
In a match-up with one of the top teams in the league, the Tampa Bay Lightning and Golden Knights were at a 2-2 standstill when Stone broke that tie late in the second period.
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Pacioretty started the play by causing a turnover in the neutral zone, then deadline acquisition Alec Martinez picked the puck up and sprung Pacioretty the other way for a 2-on-1 with Stone.
He fed the puck over to Stone, who crashed the middle of the ice and went forehand-backhand to slide it past the outstretched leg of Andrei Vasilevskiy. His serious, yet passionate facial expression said it all. This was a potential Stanley Cup Final matchup and he was all business when it came to winning the game.
#1 – Top of the World
This game against the Coyotes was a big one for both clubs. They were tied at 46 points going into the contest and it was a five-team race for division supremacy as the season was headed towards the new year. On the first man advantage of the game for the Golden Knights, the team cashed in.
You can see by Stone's emotion how big of a game this was for them and he wanted to set the tone early. The Coyotes tied the game a few minutes later, but Stone made it a mission to win this game. He scored another goal before the end of the first period and the Golden Knights held onto that lead for the rest of the game, closing with a 4-1 victory and leaping over the Coyotes in the standings.
Related: Best and Worst Moments of 2019-20 Golden Knights Season
It is unfortunate that the season had to be put on hold. Winners of 11 out of their previous 13, the Golden Knights were on a tear and we undoubtedly would have seen many more Stone expressions. With the team they have assembled in Las Vegas, the organization should be a Stanley Cup contender for the next few seasons – we can only imagine what kind of faces Stone will give us if he is able to hoist Lord Stanley.
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Vancouver, BC, May 8, 2017 — Paul Mercs Concerts is pleased to present the following five concert dates of Jesse Cook's Beyond Borders Tour 2017:
Jesse will perform music from his upcoming album "Beyond Borders" along with guest artists and instrumentation to be included in this tribute to Jesse's diverse musical influences.
Jesse Cook is a Canadian guitarist, composer, and producer. Widely considered one of the most influential figures in "nuevo flamenco" music, he incorporates elements of flamenco rumba, jazz & many forms of world music into his work. He is a Juno Award winner, Acoustic Guitar (magazine)'s Player's Choice Award silver winner in the Flamenco Category, and a three-time winner of the Canadian Smooth Jazz award for Guitarist of the Year. He has recorded on the EMI, E1 Music and Narada labels and has sold over 1.5 million records worldwide.
Cook has recorded nine studio albums, three live DVDs and has traveled the world exploring musical traditions that he has blended into his style of rumba flamenco. In addition to headlining concerts and festivals, he has opened for such legends as B.B. King, Ray Charles and Diana Krall. He has performed with Welsh soprano Charlotte Church on The Tonight Show and toured with legendary Irish band, The Chieftains.
"Guitar virtuoso Jesse Cook is a walking embodiment of the gypsy music he plays: eclectic, energetic, and very exciting. Perhaps that is why he says that his music chose him, and not the other way around. After all, he does seem like the perfect candidate." – The Star Online
Tickets for Victoria available at www.rmts.bc.ca, 250-386-6121 or 1-888-717-6121, or in person at the McPherson box office and usual outlets.
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Climbing Jersey in Stilettos 2
Climbing Jersey in Stilettos 2
Chronicles of Life and Love in the Soprano State
Part 2: Exes and Unfriending on Facebook
This morning Sofia and I met before work and chatted over coffee. She updated me on her shopping sprees for her new apartment, her spontaneous, sexy haircut, and living life on her own terms. To date, she has seen Stan twice since moving out; had a brief encounter with Glenn, a former flame; and is now actively dating Josh.
Yes, this fiery Latina went from being a caged bird with wounded wings to a rising phoenix making men take notice. Yes, her swagger is BACK.
I updated Sofia on my newest writing venture –a new column, chronicling life and love in Jersey for Angie's Diary. I explained that I would take pieces of my life, along with my inner circle, to paint a realistic picture of Jersey –which is far from MTV stereotypes and Hollywood depictions. She was excited about my news and was about to ask me if I'll be writing about Shena and Elena when her cell phone began to chime.
It was Stan so she rolled her eyes and let it go to voicemail –it seems he's been calling her frequently to see if she'll change her mind about moving out. Hey, can someone please tell me when a signed lease and moving van equaled 'I just want a few days by myself and then I'll come right back? Ugh!!
Anyway, I asked her the question all computer-savvy friends ask when a relationship is supposed to be officially over. "When are you going to change your status to 'single' on Facebook?"
Sofia frowned and gave several reasons why she hasn't and each added up to either her fear of an emotional confrontation or exploitation of Stan's resources (like "he's the only person I know with a truck to help me move in the new couch I ordered".) Yes, I know women can be shallow when it comes to using a man but don't act like they don't use us. We're the same species just different versions, people. LOL
Sophia didn't need much prodding to realize her reasons were placing them in some weird sort of limbo. Having one foot in a relationship wasn't helping her confront being 'officially' single and prolonging a relationship when she didn't love him was making Stan believe she still wanted to come back.
What she was doing was equivalent to placing a dog on display at the pound and leaving his nametag on; everyone can see he belongs to someone but only the owner knows she's NEVER coming back. Poor Stan, no one deserves that.
I asked Sophia to consider making May 1st her official 'single deadline day' because she can't expect Josh or anyone else to wait around while she makes up her mind. But she's hesitant because Stan revealed he doesn't remain friends with exes. Internally, I shouted 'good for you, Stan' because only a mouth-breathing, purse carrier would want to see his ex's wall posts depicting life with a new love.
Now, I'll admit I've been in a similar situation. I friended someone I dated on Facebook, then we broke up so I waited a month to see if we would communicate as friends. But he never communicated –he didn't comment on my wall status, say 'hi', or even click if he 'liked' any of my comments. He just existed among my named friends.
So I deduced that he was just a voyeur of my Facebook activities and I didn't need that so I defriended him. And you know happened… the very same day, a few hours later, he sent me a friend request to reestablish contact because for him I was still an option. And for what reason would I ever accept? We weren't even communicating, Man! UGH!!
This is what everyone needs to understand about defriending exes on Facebook. Defriending isn't stating to the world that you think this person is unworthy of your friendship. You're just saying you don't think it's good for your former paramour to see comments, photos, and wall posts of your life activities without him or her.
Exes need time to detach and go on with their lives. So if you need to send a Facebook message explaining your defriending first, go right ahead but follow thru. Nothing is worse than talking ad nauseam about needing to do something and then failing to do it –that's just playing games with people's feelings.
So over my latte, I grinned at Sofia, "It sounds like you like having Stan in your stable of possibilities."
"No. It's not like that."
"You sure? He's not dating anyone because you haven't 'official' broken up, yet you're secretly seeing other men –one of which makes you beam like a freakin' night light."
Sofia laughed softly, "Everything is fine, Ang. There's no need for drama right now."
"Worried about him defriending you or just stating to your friends that you're single?"
She deflected, "I just don't want to change my Facebook status just yet. Okay?"
We both knew what she was doing…string him along while she had her cake and ate it too. In the past, our group cursed narcissistic men for the very same thing yet here we sat drinking our Cinnamon Dolce Skinny Lattes trying to pretend this was different and neither of us is an Oscar-award-winning actress.
Tell me is it nicer for an ex to believe there's the hope of a relationship if you've moved on? Have you ever unfriended an ex on Facebook? And what was the fallout?
1,4,3…'til next time, Chicas


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NIA arrests one for 2006 Kerala twin blasts
New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday said it has arrested one of the men involved in the 2006 Kerala twin blaste from the airport here.
Mohammad Ashar, who had since been absconding, was arrested on Wednesday from the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport here after he arrived from Saudi Arabia, an NIA spokesperson told IANS.
Ashar had escaped to the Middle East nation in 2007. He would be produced later in the day before an NIA Special Court in the national capital to obtain a transit remand to take him to Kochi for his production before the Special Court in Ernakulam.
The twin blasts near the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation and Mofussil bus stands had rocked Kozhikode on March 3, 2006, and left two persons injured and a few properties damaged.
The counter-terror agency had taken over the case from the Kerala Police in 2009 and filed the charge-sheet against eight accused in August 2010 under several sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Arms Act and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
The NIA official said that thier probe revealed that besides Ashar, another absconder P.P. Yusuf, was involved in the conspiracy hatched by prime accused T. Naseer and others to carry out the IED blasts after bail was denied to the accused involved in the Marad communal riots of 2003 in Kozhikode district.
Ashar and Yusuf had assisted Naseer in preparing the Improvised Explosive Devices and planting them.


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The International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development (IY2017) is a watershed moment for making tourism a catalyst for positive change. As the United Nations General Assembly affirmed when announcing the adoption of the International Year, tourism can contribute to all the three dimensions of sustainable development – economic, social and environmental – and each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Not only does the sector spearhead growth, it also improves the quality of people's lives. It can bolster environmental protection, champion diverse cultural heritage, and strengthen peace in the world. To harness tourism's impressive potential to advance sustainable development, clear evidence is needed on progress made to date – it is vital to understand what works, what doesn't, and what needs to be done to surmount current challenges and capitalize on opportunities.
It sets out tourism's strengths and the challenges it faces, while underlining the need for careful planning and management. As a first step towards gathering evidence of the nexus between tourism, sustainability, and development, it is by no means exhaustive. Rather, with this document UNWTO invites governments, organizations and individuals to submit further evidence and case studies to inform a flagship report on the ways in which tourism can further the course of sustainable development.
Tourism offers significant opportunities as a tool for development, given the sector's substantial size, contribution to international trade, rapid growth, and linkages to other sectors through the tourism value chain. Opportunities also abound given the prospects it offers for women and youth; its relative importance for developing states, rural areas and indigenous communities; its potential to incentivize the conservation of natural and cultural assets; and its capacity to spur interaction and understanding. Nevertheless, challenges persist – such as tourism's susceptibility to market influences; over-dependence on tourism; issues of overcrowding; concerns over working conditions; emissions and pollution; and potential adverse effects on biodiversity, heritage and communities.
Sustainable Economic Growth
Whether growth is tourism-led or economy-led, tourism clearly makes an immense contribution to the global economy – estimated at US$ 7.170 trillion – through direct, indirect and induced contributions.11 International tourism generated US$ 1.5 trillion in exports in 2015, equivalent to 7% of all global exports in goods and services and 30% of exports in services alone – making tourism the world's third largest export category.
It is especially significant in developed economies – accounting for an average of 77% of tourism consumption in OECD countries15 – but is also crucial in several developing nations, representing 90% of tourism spending in China. The sector's rapid growth means that tourism will only continue to grow in economic importance. Domestic tourism is growing swiftly, by 6% per year, while international tourism – which grew by an average of 3.9% each year between 2000 and 2014 – will grow by 3.3% per year up to 2030,16 with international tourist arrivals predicted to reach 1.8 billion.17
Social Inclusiveness, Employment and Poverty Reduction
Tourism is not just a major part of the global economy; it is also a means of furthering "inclusive" growth which increases opportunities for all. The sector is a major source of employment, providing an estimate one in eleven jobs worldwide. In 2015, tourism accounted for 283 million jobs – 9.5% of global employment – through direct employment and indirect jobs across the supply chain. Tourism is especially notable for the opportunities it offers for economic activity at the local level, as well as for women and youth – the sector employs higher proportions of women and young people than are represented in the overall global workforce.
Resource Efficiency, Environmental Protection and Climate Change
As a sector which depends so much on the natural environment, tourism has a special responsibility towards the planet, with the potential to harness this dependency to promote conservation. Challenges abound as tourism is a generator of emissions and pollution which drive climate change – accounting for an estimated 5% of global CO2 emissions. The sector consumes vast quantities of resources – for instance, tourism can strain freshwater resources, with tourist facilities using between 100 to 2,000 litres per guest, per night, far more than most local populations. Energy consumption, food waste, and overall waste management are also pressing concerns. Opportunities for "greening" the tourism sector are not only environmentally sound, they also promise substantial businesses savings through efficient resource management and sourcing local supplies, materials and services, which in turn can benefit local employment. Far more needs to be done to ensure efficient resource management, including among small businesses.
Cultural Values, Diversity and Heritage
The global wealth of cultural heritage is one of the principal motivations for travel. 40% of international arrivals are considered "cultural tourists", i.e. travellers who participate in a cultural visit or activity as part of their stay. The myriad links between tourism and culture can contribute to catalysing inclusive, sustainable development. Tourism presents notable opportunities for safeguarding the world's rich cultural heritage, since the revenue it generates can be channelled back into initiatives to aid its long-term survival. Culture, in turn, offers innovative means of gaining socio-economic benefits through tourism.
Mutual Understanding, Peace and Security
Where are we now? There appears to be a strong, positive correlation between tourism and peace. On the one hand, the very existence of tourism depends on peace and security. On the other, the transformative power of tourism – grounded upon billions of encounters that occur every day – paves the way towards dialogue, mutual understanding and tolerance, the cornerstones of a culture of peace. A sustainable, well-managed tourism sector also contributes to the building blocks of peace – the "attitudes, institutions and structures" upon which peaceful societies are built , alongside economic development, democratisation, social justice, education, equality, empowerment, and reconciliation.


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Thanks to everyone who expressed an interest in my June 5, 2019 post "Was it worth my time to automate that?" The solution is now available on the AppExchange from Salesforce Labs! Check it out!
Have you ever wondered:
- How much time am I saving with this automation?
- How many times has this process ever fired?
- Was the time I spent building this thing worth the investment?
- Are the people who requested this automation actually using it? If not, who is?
Click here to go to the AppExchange listing.
The unmanaged package includes:
- Custom Object: Process Automation (parent object)
- Custom Object: Automation Runtime (child object)
- Flow: creates one Automation Runtime record
- Apex Test Class (makes me feel like a real bad ass. Wrote it myself!)
- Flow error handling email (see Initial set-up required)
Initial Set-Up Required
- The Flow error handling email is sent to the current user and says "Forward this to your system administrator." That's awkward, so you could update the Flow to send it to the right person (video below) and change the copy of the email.
On-Going Steps:
Steps to take each time you create a new workflow rule, process, or Flow.
Step 1: Measure How Long the Process Takes Now
Get a baseline for how long it takes someone to do this process now before creating the automation. Let's say 4 seconds.
Step 2: Build, Test and Deploy Automation
For example, I create a process and the first criteria/node of this Process will fire when an Opportunity is marked "Closed Won" and that will update the Account Type to "Customer." (
If I am hardcore, I will always always test in a Sandbox first).
Step 3: Create a Process Automation (custom object) record
Include the name, type, and node (if applicable) of the automation. Put in the time of the previous process, and how the time it took for Step 2. Copy the ID of your new record from your URL.
Step 4A: Modify Automation for Process Builder
In that same node of the Process, add an additional Immediate Action, choose "Flows", choose your Flow "Create Automation Runtime." Set the Flow variable "ProcessAutomationID", type "String" to the ID of the Process Automation record you created in Step 3.
Step 4B: Modify Automation for Flow
At the element of the Flow you'd like to track, launch a Subflow.
Toggle on the variable ProcessAutomationId and paste in the id of the Process Automation record.
Save and activate the Flow.
Step 5: Fire ze missiles!
Make the automation fire and you'll see a new Automation Runtime record created.
That will roll-up to your parent record, Process Automation, and give you data that you can take to your boss or add to your resume. "Saved company 18929 seconds." or "Wasted 5 hours building this shit that no one has ever used."
Additional Thoughts
- This will add Apex CPU time! And maybe crazy amounts, I don't know!
- Instead of having Automation Runtime records you could just add 1 to an ongoing count on the Process Automation record. A benefit of the child record is to know who triggers the automation.
- I wish we could automate the automation so that each time a new Process was created it would automatically add this step on.
- This could be part of your data dictionary. Each Process Automation record could have a description of the process, and say who requested the automation, so you could get back to them later and say "I built you this beautiful thing! Please use it!"
Future Improvements
- Instead of hardcoding the admin's email address, include a custom metadata type that stores it.
- Process to alert you when you break even on time spent.
- Reports & dashboards.


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kiss me go
isn't it complete cosmic eye candy?! i think so! don't ask me why i would need a fox mask, but seriously, i'm getting a little upset thinking what it'd be like to live without one! i'm sure i could think of something, like maybe when i'm having a bad hair day, i bet no one would be paying attention to my hair when i have a fox with pink triangles in front of my face. see? SEE?! i knew there was a reason i needed one. and the swallow garland? perfect excuse not to make my bed when i'm having company coming over, because birds on my wall will actually make my bed look chic, like the one in the picture. i'm telling you, i can't stop staring at everything in this shop!
what are some of your new favorite shops?
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I WANT ALL OF THOSE MASKS!!!!ReplyDelete
Dear Danielle, I recently found this item:ReplyDelete
And what can I say? It just seems right to me. I'm picturing Jeff and I having those masks available to us for wedding photos. I'm galactic wolf all the way!
definitely favorite-ing that shop! Amazing! I love the patterns and colors. Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
Ooooh, love this shop! I spend a lot of my free time looking at Etsy shops when I should be looking at grad schools. FmlReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 2, 2011 at 6:59 PM
well now my non-money filled paypal account wants to buy these! AHHH those masks are awesome! <3ReplyDelete
off to save it UP lol
that shop is so you!!! i think you need the fox mask, for bad hair days and to have it on your inspiration board. seriously, too effen bad i'm not still there cos then i could get the bear mask and we could have a photo shoot!ReplyDelete
speaking of etsy and you... these reminded me of my girl fiancee: http://www.etsy.com/listing/73099844/6-shimmery-delicious-chocolate-gem
love you!
ps. what books did you pick up? xo
loving those birds!ReplyDelete
This store is amazinnnggg!! thanks so much for sharing! xReplyDelete
so i've decided you need to blog more. i really miss reading your humor on a daily basis.ReplyDelete
This is amazing!!! I need. I want. I gotta have.ReplyDelete
so fun!! those masks would be really fun to use in a photo shoot. hmmmm....now you've got my wheels spinning :).ReplyDelete
These are such cute findings! Luckyy!ReplyDelete


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Radio host Sean Hannity called up the Obamacare hotline on the air during his show today. Hannity quizzed the operator, Irlene, about how much the Obamacare website cost. He also peppered her with questions about how much more Obamacare will force Americans to pay for health insurance. Irlene said that Healthcare.gov is terrible, Americans are finding it frustrating and potentially dangerous to their personal information.
Hannity asked her if she had come across anyone who likes the site.
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- April 5, 2017
Eisai Co., Ltd.
Meiji Seika Pharma Co., Ltd.
Eisai Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo, CEO: Haruo Naito, "Eisai") and Meiji Seika Pharma Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo; CEO: Daikichiro Kobayashi, "Meiji") announced today that they have entered into a license agreement for the commercialization of safinamide (development code: ME2125) for the treatment of Parkinson's disease in Japan and Asia. Safinamide is currently under clinical development by Meiji in Japan.
Under the agreement, Eisai will obtain exclusive rights to safinamide to market in Japan and to develop and market in Asia (seven countries*). Meiji will continue the clinical trials that it is currently conducting and submit a manufacturing and marketing authorization application for the drug in Japan. Meanwhile, Eisai will conduct clinical trials for seeking regulatory approval, and make the applications in Asia. Meiji will manufacture and supply the product of safinamide to Eisai for Japan and Asia.
Furthermore, Meiji will receive an upfront payment from Eisai, as well as developmental milestone and sales royalty payments under the agreement.
Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disease which causes motor impairment, including shaking in the limbs, muscular rigidity and brachybasia. It is caused by degeneration of the dopamine nervous system, which leads to a shortage of dopamine, a neurotransmitter in the brain.
According to a survey by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the number of patients suffering from Parkinson's disease in Japan numbered 163,000 in 20141, with the number of patients increasing due to the aging of the population.2
Levodopa is widely used to treat Parkinson's disease by replenishing the brain's supply of dopamine. However, as the disease progresses, levodopa's duration of effect ("on" time) decreases, and there are cases of Parkinson's disease symptoms returning before the next dose ("wearing-off" phenomenon). To prevent the "wearing-off" phenomenon, combination therapy with a drug that has a different mechanism of action to levodopa is administered.
Safinamide is a selective monoamine oxidase B (MAO-B) inhibitor, which reduces the degradation of excreted dopamine, helping to maintain the density of dopamine in the brain. Additionally, safinamide blocks sodium ion channels and inhibits glutamate release, and as such, has potential as a new Parkinson's disease treatment which possesses both dopaminergic and non-dopaminergic mechanisms. Global clinical trials of safinamide in combination with levodopa for the treatment of mid- to late-stage Parkinson's disease showed extended "on" time, and an improvement in motor function.3
Safinamide was discovered and developed by Newron Pharmaceuticals S.p.A. (Headquarters: Italy, Milan, "Newron"). In 2011, Newron entered into a licensing agreement with Meiji, granting Meiji exclusive rights to development, manufacture and commercialize the drug in Japan and Asia. Safinamide is marketed under the name "Xadago" in eleven countries in Europe, and on March 21, 2017, was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In Japan, Meiji is currently conducting Phase Ⅱ/Ⅲ trials for safinamide in combination with levodopa.
Through this agreement, Eisai and Meiji will make further contributions to address the diversified needs of, and increase the benefits provided to, Parkinson's disease patients and their families.
- *South Korea, Taiwan, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, and the Philippines
Media Inquiries:
Public Relations Department, Eisai Co., Ltd.
Tel: +81-3-3817-5120
Fax: +81-3-3811-3077
Public Relations, Meiji Seika Pharma Co., Ltd.
Tel. +81-3-3273-3354
Fax: +81-3-3281-7046
< Notes to editors >
1.About Eisai Co., Ltd.
Eisai Co., Ltd. defines its corporate mission as "giving first thought to patients and their families and to increasing the benefits health care provides," which we call our human health care (hhc) philosophy. With approximately 10,000 employees working across our global network of R&D facilities, manufacturing sites and marketing subsidiaries, we strive to realize our hhc philosophy by delivering innovative products to address unmet medical needs, with a particular focus in our strategic areas of Neurology and Oncology.
Furthermore, we invest and participate in several partnership-based initiatives to improve access to medicines in developing and emerging countries.
For more information about Eisai Co., Ltd., please visit www.eisai.com/.
2.About Meiji Seika Pharma
In order to protect and improve people's health and lives, Meiji Seika Pharma, as a "Speciality and Generic Pharmaceuticals Company", runs its pharmaceutical business in the two main fields, infectious disease and central nervous system disorders, as well as generic drugs. Meiji Seika Pharma strives to respond to diversified medical needs and contributes to the well-being of people worldwide.
For details, please visit its corporate website:
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Patient Survey 2014 (Disease and Injury) by Statistics and Information Department, Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
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Japan Intractable Diseases Information Center http://www.nanbyou.or.jp/
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Borgohain R et al. Randomized Trial of Safinamide Add-On to Levodopa in Parkinson's Disease With Motor Fluctuations. Mov Disord. 2014 Feb;29(2):229-37


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Numerology for 20/June/2016
There may be a great deal of emotion and re-evaluation with regard to the best way forward. You may feel pushed into new territory with everything coming up to be dealt with. You want to get to the bottom of things and can be quite direct and argumentative in your communications, so watch out for any illusions. Be kind to yourself and others' acknowledge just how sensitive you are. Use your knowledge and power for the higher good, but always remember that you can only get things right by getting things wrong. There are no mistakes only lessons to be learned and wisdom to be shared.
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Haversine Forums -> AirTrack - General Issues and Support
x-plane 11 FF767-300 AirTack
Recently I bought the FF767-300ER. I have used both AirTrack and AirFMC with no problems. AirFMC works with the 767-300 but AirTrack does not load the Flightplan (Route .flp). I have tested different Flightplan programs but the Aerosoft flp file is not acknowledged and loaded by AirTrack. Am I the only one with this problem? Any suggestions?
This is normal for that plane I'm afraid :(
AirFMC simulates the keyboard and screen of the CDU of the 767 so it works well as it just sends keystrokes and displays what it's told to.
AirTrack on the other hand taps to the XPLMNavigation data of X-Plane and attempts to read/write the flight plan from there.
The problem is that the 767 has its own internal flight plan representation which is not shared with the outside world, so there is no way to send that to AirTrack.
The only solution to this problem is if the 767 in the future stores its flight plan in the corresponding XPLMNavigation data structures of X-Plane or something similar. But for now it's not possible.
What you can do is to re-create the same flight plan for AirTrack and load it independently. You an also do it here on the web site under routes and then just press LOAD in AirTrack and it should be there.
hope this helps,
sorry for the limitations, they're beyond our control,
joao @ haversine
Thanks but I read a different claim for FF767-300ER
Does it work for x-plane 10 and not x-plane 11? If this is true please amend the above claim.
Thanks again...
Sorry, what do you mean?
The FF767 is supported by AirFMC (both in X-Plane 10 and 11)
The FF767 is partially supported by AIrTrack; some effort has been put on the plugin to tap into things like its MCP so you can control the plane's auto-pilot for instance. Unfortunately due to the above reasons, this support is partial as we have no way of reading the flight plan.
And applies equally to X-Plane 10 and 11.
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WW2 US 10th Air Force Patch
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Friday 19 August 2016
Len takes up card making!
This is what we ended up with:
I used:
- 5" x 7" white card blank, tent style
- Len's image, which he produced using Office Draw - bless him. There are loads of layers and little extras added onto the image itself and I only had to print it off onto a piece of white card
- then I trimmed it down to size, mounted it onto a frame of golden yellow card and glued it to the card front
- my only other contribution was to pop the little googly eyes over the ones on the little 'digger dumper' then print and and add an insert inside the card
The definition in the photo isn't too grand but I was stunned by the thought and detail from Len. He started just with the little digger dumper and then added bits like the cardboard box, the gift (he even embellished the bow!), the little boy, the word 'foreman' on his shirt, 'Max' on his hat, the hammer in his hand - even the eyes and mouth! There's a 5 on the front scoop of the digger dumper, the name of Max's 'company' added to the brick wall, the 'Happy Birthday' and even the little sun in the top right hand corner.
I know that a lot of you gals play with digital images really well - but this blew me away. Without any prompting, Len added so many lovely little details - whilst I slept blissfully unaware of him working away!
I'm so proud of his hard work - and little Max loved his card!
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Wow! I think he is a keeper, Di!ReplyDelete
Well I would say that Len is AWESOME! Nice job! I've tried a bit of digital cardmaking and it isn't easy! What a lovely and talented hubby you have!ReplyDelete
Well, well, well, Len has been hiding his artistic and digital talents under a contractor's hardhat, hasn't he?! Excellent card for Max, Len, and high points on the "Husband of the Year" competition!! Hugs, DarnellReplyDelete
Hi Di, Len did a marvellous job creating the scene and adding the extras for Max. One very lucky little boy! ... have a great weekend.... MeganReplyDelete
Len made a fantastic card! I bet Max loved it. So many wonderful details to make it very personal and fun. Great job Len!!ReplyDelete
Oh goodness, the struggles I have with the digital side of crafting (and me a techie, too!) and yet he can just get up early and produce this! He's been hiding his light under a bushel. Can you persuade him to start writing tutorials for us?ReplyDelete
Wowzer--now that is one great card for little Max! How fun that Len helped you out! I can't do anything like that on the computer, but that's OK since I have a house full of stamps--haha!ReplyDelete
Clever Len! I know how much effort that's taken, love all the personal elements added, who needs moonpig lol xxxReplyDelete
I what a kind thing to do Di...what a keeper Len is and the image is brilliant...I would not know where to start. The little lad must have adored his card...fab!!! Take care, hugs xxReplyDelete
A fabulous card - Len's image is great. He should join us in the playground more often!ReplyDelete
Kath x
What a star Len is to help out &save the day. Great card & nicely personalised. Well done Len. XxxReplyDelete
Brilliant! Well done Len - fabulous design. xxReplyDelete
Wow, Len has made a perfect image for Max, and your card looks great! I'm suer that Max will love it!ReplyDelete
Fantastic you must have been so surprised. I'm currently struggling with a card for teenage nephew, does Len have any ideas? I refuse to buy one ( wash my mouth out for even thinking it!)ReplyDelete
love this fantastic card.... we could all do with your Len sometimes lolReplyDelete
Tilly x
This is just wonderful and how clever of Len - watch him he will be in there with the cuttlebug next.ReplyDelete
Well done to Len. This is one special card. Bet you couldn't believe your eyes when you saw it. Hugs Mrs A.ReplyDelete
P.s. Norm sends his love and says he had to put elastic bands round his trouser bottoms to stop the ants eating him!!
Well done to Len, wish my hubby would take such an interest in my crafting. No wonder Max loved this card.ReplyDelete
Sue xx
Well done Len!! watch out Di...you have competition!! I never seem to be very successful with digital crafting.ReplyDelete
What a clever and creative card!! Well done LenReplyDelete
Dr Sonia
Great work Len! Maybe he should have his own spot on your blog? It's great to see guys crafting.ReplyDelete
Em xxx
Wow, that's fantastic. Len did a great job, and all the bits of personalization are wonderful. The googly eyes make the backhoe look like a character out of "Cars."ReplyDelete
Well done Len.....great job! Loving your new blog Di ;-)ReplyDelete
Janice x
Wow, Len did good and what a lovely thing to do to creep down early to give it a go, and what a great success it was too. There is a lot of extra personalisation and little Max must have been thrilled with this. xReplyDelete
Wow, that Len is a keeper, I'd say - what a sweetie!!ReplyDelete
Oh Di! My grandson Ben would so love this card for his 2nd Birthday! I don't suppose your clever Len would do the same but with a 2 on and Ben instead of Max? Happy to pay for it - it would be perfect. x JoReplyDelete
Hi Di. What a great card Len did. What a great guy! I love your addition of the Googley eyes.ReplyDelete
And I'm sorry to hear about your back issues. Back problems are no fun. Hope you feel better soon.
A great card Di and this time not so much to do with your skills. Len has done a fantastic job. He's put so much thought into it with all the details and while you slept to. Now that's what love is all about. I do hope your back is soon better again. BarbxxReplyDelete
Go Len! That's so cool that he took the initiative and put all the little details together to make it happen. What a sweetie he is! And his card ain't bad either! In fact, it's super duper.ReplyDelete
Watch out Moonpig - that is all I can say! What a fabulous card. No wonder everyone was happy.ReplyDelete
Such a kind thing for Len to do.
Loving your new look blog too. You must be over the moon with it.
Hope things are getting a little easier for you "back wise".
Love and hugs
Jules xx
Wow! This warms my heart to read about your fellow working away on this image for you and the little fellow next door. Three cheers for Len!ReplyDelete
I could not do this so huge cheer for Mr Len. Miss Pixie if you need to take some time out just yell and I'll do the comments for a week for you Karen xReplyDelete
Ooooh wow Len the saver he did a fab job Di well done Len the card is gorgeous xReplyDelete
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Tag Archives: employee communication
Nestled in Waterloo's tech park, surrounded by beautiful nature lies one of Canada's biggest software companies – opentext. It started with three University students in 1991 – and has now transformed into a multibillion $ corporation with offices worldwide. It is no surprise that opentext, a company driven by commitment to technological innovations, jumped on the social media train right after the invention of Facebook in 2004. And with the growing access to WIFI and social networking services, the social media landscape of opentext just became broader. A massive website, accounts with Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest – you name it, the company surely has a presence. None of those accounts created millions of followers, but considering that the social media approach is specifically about enterprise information and content management, opentext is doing quite well to get their message out. When the company discovered the power of social media for promoting their services and products to the world, it didn't take long to find out that it can also be used to motivate and engage employees. With the goal to make it as easy as possible to connect with team members, who potentially work in three different countries across the globe and need to solve problems quickly, even when one just started his day when it's almost bedtime for the other, opentext encouraged employees to use traditional social media outlets before implementing internal equivalents. While opentext's social media team conveys the company's messages to external audiences, the corporate employee communicators look after the internal audience. This includes writing emails to announce company news, employee stories and the management of the company's Intranet, internal blogs and of course, social media channels.
Employee Involvement Key to Budget Marine's Success
Budget Marine is the Caribbean's leading marine chandlery, specializing in equipment sales and service. Headquartered in St. Maarten, Budget Marine has a firm retail footprint throughout the Leeward, Windward & ABC islands. Budget Marine supplies all types of boats: sail, power, fishing, and megayachts. Budget Marine is also keenly committed to promoting the sport of boating through their involvement in events and youth sailing programmes on many islands.
#DeliveringThanks: FedEx Recognizes Employees Who Embody the Purple Promise
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Improving employee engagement from the inside out: Social Media and Harrods
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