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Tommy Sotomayor is an American radio and internet talk show host, film producer and YouTube personality. He became famous for his YouTube channel MrMadness Sotomayor featuring sensational and controversial upload headlines. The channel now has more than 280.000 subscribers. Sotomayor frequently comments on social and political issues and is a huge men's rights activist.
This article features everything you need to know about Tommy Sotomayor, his life and work, the controversy he creates and how to find him on social networks.
Early Years
Tommy Sotomayor was born as Thomas Jerome Harris in Atlanta, Georgia. There he spent early childhood and later moved to Phoenix, Arizona. Sotomayor is very private about his past life. He gives scarce information both on his family or his childhood.
Career Development
Sotomayor's career is full of interesting stories that gave him the nickname Mr. Controversy. His popular YouTube channel was launched in the summer of 2012. Sotomayor immediately started posting videos with controversial headlines like "15 Kids, 1 on the Way, No Man!"
His most viewed uploads even today are the ones with sensational headlines, like the one titled "Woman Gets Pregnant By 13 Year Old Boy!"
Sotomayor now publishes videos on more than 15 channels, the most popular being the main channel, followed by "TNNRaw2" with 288.000 subscribers and "Tommy Sotomayor's Everyday Life" with over 106.000 subscribers.
Tommy Sotomayor attracts attention by expressing anger and animosity against African American women and he continues to insult them even on his personal website. The site accepts members and Sotomayor is charging $100 per year for the membership. Site also offers you to buy sponsorship and vendor, or donate money if you support Sotomayor's views.
Sotomayor hosts the radio show "Your World, My Views", combining his humor and thoughts on various interesting topics with constant audience interaction.
In 2015 Tommy Sotomayor began filming a comedy "Drugs & Other Love", tells the story of an elder sister trying to get her brother onto drugs at the same time winning the heart of a drug dealer. He also directed, produced and hosted a documentary "A Fatherless America" (2017).
You'd think Sotomayor's ways of earning money aren't that profitable. But MrContorversy continues to surprise. Sotomayor's net worth is estimated to be $1.5 million, as of early 2016.
Personal Life
Sotomayor has a daughter, and in one if his videos he claimed he had not known of the child until he was called out to pay the child support by his ex-partner. Tommy also said he went to jail because of not paying the support.
In 2013 Sotomayor presented certain Miz Lana as his girlfriend, posting photos of them together. Despite that, rumor has it that Tommy is gay. People say Sotomayor's sexual orientation is the reason he takes his anger out on women. There have been many comments about his alleged relationship not being for real, but Sotomayor kept silent on the subject.
Full name: Thomas Jerome Harris
Nick names: Mr. Controversy, TJ, Mr. Madness, Clown, Glanderson Booper
Trade Mark: Tommy Sotomayor
Date of birth: December 11, 1975
Birth-sign: Sagittarius
Birth place: Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Residence: Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.
Age: 42
Occupation: YouTube video blogger, radio and internet talk show host, film producer
Personal Life and Family
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: African-American
Marital status: Divorced
Girlfriend: Miz Lana
Sexual Orientation: rumored to be gay
Children: Daughter
Personal Look and Measurements
Height: 180 cm (5 feet 11 inches)
Weight: /
Body: slim
Hair Color: dark brown
Eye color: dark brown
Net Worth and Salary
Net worth: $1.5 million
Social networks
You can find Tommy Sotomayor on social networks. He is most active on YouTube, were he's got one main and more than 15 other channels.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mrkingofcontroversy/ (@mrkingofcontroversy)
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/therealtommysotomayor/ (@therealtommysotomayor)
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SOTONATION1 (@SOTONATION1)
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/sotomayortv2 (sotomayortv2)
Interesting Facts about Tommy Sotomayor
There are few interesting facts about Tommy Sotomayor you didn't already read about in this article, considering the man in making a living of being controversial and interesting.
Consequently he is a man both admired and loathed with equal passion. There are countless Facebook pages expressing hatred on the personality and work of Tommy Sotomayor.
In April 2017, an online petition appeared aiming to get Sotomayor's videos removed from YouTube, according to Ebony magazine. The petition asked YouTube to stop hosting Sotomayor's videos because of his attitude towards African American women.
Quick Summary
Tommy Sotomayor is an American talk show host famous for his YouTube channel that features sensational video headlines. Sotomayor is a men's rights activist controversial for keeping a harsh attitude towards African American women and constantly insulting them. He owns more than 15 YouTube channels and a personal website, and hosts a radio talk show.
Sotomayor has a daughter and once had spent time in jail for not paying the child support. He claimed to have a girlfriend though is constantly rumored to be gay.


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It's too early to celebrate the demise of the Bush administration.
Many already seem to be waiting to celebrate the end of the reign of the neo-conservatives in the White House. It may yet be much too early. Now that Harriet Miers has extracted herself from humiliation in front of the Senate, along with expectation that Rove and Libby will indicted shortly, many seem to think that the Bush administration is now a lame duck. Haven't we seen this before?
Yes, we have.
In the summer of 2001 Bush was already considered to be heading for an exit. His government was unpopular, his measures were being defeated, and he was becoming known as the "holiday" President. The stealing of the election, backed by a majority of the supreme court, was well-known. We all know what happened next.
What followed was, despite a slow and shaky response to the terror attacks, the making of the war president. He was re-elected despite the war without end in Iraq, tax cuts for the super-rich, and "no child left behind". It was feared that he would in his second term reform social security and destroy the new deal for good.
Now things seem much different. The terrible mess of the response to Katrina, his botched nomination of Miers, Plamegate and now 2,000 military to deaths in Iraq appear to be his undoing. Right-wing Republicans are in revolt, and the party itself fears that it may be decimated in next year's midterms.
We shouldn't rejoice at the problems of the Bush administration. The worst thing would be for liberals to be seen to be celebrating, resulting in a backlash. We also should look at the pessimistic side of things. It's by no means certain that Rove or Libby will be indicted. Bush might well nominate a far-right ideological judge in place of Miers, winning back plaudits from the religious base he relies on. He would have problems getting him/her through the Senate, but may just manage it. The insurgency in Iraq may die down following elections in December, and the troops may be able to return. Iran may do even more stupid things than the President's yesterday silly remarks about "wiping Israel off the face of the Earth". If another terror attack took place, would the public rally behind Bush again, or instead search for the real reasons or blame the response to 9/11?
The opposite to all the above could happen. I've often thought that if the Democrats in America or the Conservatives in this country had started the disaster in Iraq, then the opposition would have destroyed them and won the next elections. Instead, Labour and the Republicans have been strong enough to shrug off what should have killed any government. This simple fact should remind us that nothing is certain is politics, and as ever, a week is a very long time.
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32 Transitioning from BUGS
From the outside, Stan and BUGS49 are similar—they use statistically-themed modeling languages (which are similar but with some differences; see below), they can be called from R, running some specified number of chains to some specified length, producing posterior simulations that can be assessed using standard convergence diagnostics. This is not a coincidence: in designing Stan: we wanted to keep many of the useful features of Bugs.
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At Langeais castle on July 2020
Falconry show
This activity brings back to life the ancient art of falconry. Following the demonstration, visitors can chat with the falconer and meet these fascinating birds.
From July 13 to August 27, Mondays to Thursdays at 11:30, 2:30 and 4:30 (length 30 min.) (in French)
Surprise guests at the château
Jehanne de Kermeur and Maître Cocquempot go about their different activities in the château and draw visitors into their daily lives. Skits, improvisations and surprises are in store for visitors during their tour!
From July 15 to August 15, Wednesdays to Sundays between 10am and 1pm and 3pm and 6pm (in French)


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But I stand firm: only teenagers collect and worship idols. I admire a lot of people, but I don't worship them. With regards to me I could mention The Buddha, Donald G. Reinertse, Michel de Montaigne, Hunter S Thompson and David Eugene Edwards, just to mention a few people from various walks of life. But I remain sceptic. If they're wrong, they're wrong.
This is important because everything the guys at 37signals does, might not be the right way to go for you. Every move from Steve Jobs is not necessarily worth repeating in awe. Everything that Chomsky writes is not holy or untouchable. Everything in the Bible might not ring true. Richard Dawkins is not the ultimate source of all accumulated wisdom between heaven and earth. Neither is Seth Godin, Malcom Gladwell or Chris Anderson.
I choose these examples simply because I often come across people who all express unhealthy admiration for their work – to the point of worship .
In the words of the great Seneca:
"No new findings will ever be made if we rest content with the findings of the the past. Besides, a man who follows someone else not only does not find anything, he is not even looking. 'But surely you are going to walk in your predecessors' footsteps?' Yes indeed, I shall use the old road, but if I find a shorter and easier one I shall open it up. The men who pioneered the old routes are leaders, not our masters. Truth lies open to everyone. There has yet to be a monopoly of truth. And there is plenty of it left for future generations too."
But, I hear you say, aren't you a bit of a Seneca fan right now with this quote and all?
No. I admire his writing. No more, no less. Please, learn to know the difference.


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In celebration of the 16th National Autism Consciousness Week with the theme "Making the Rights Real for Filipinos with Autism", ASP will be holding a Family Support Group (FSG) on January 28, Saturday at 1PM at ASP Office.
|Ms. Carmel Almendrala with son Mike
This ACW Celebration, our facilitator will be Ms. Carmel Almendrala. Tita Carmel is one of ASP's Board of Trustees. A wife of a retired ambassador, she personifies diplomacy as you will always see or hear her representing ASP in media with poise, grace and intelligence in spite of the disconcerting circumstance of educating an ASD child. Her son, Michael now 42 years old was a gold medalist in weight lighting at the Dublin, Ireland Special Olympics for the country. He is also an independent member of the community working as an administrative staff of the Philippine Information Agency. Mrs. Almendrala is one of the speakers of the forum on "Employment for Persons with Autism" on January 27, Saturday at 1:30PM at the Sky Dome of SM City North EDSA.
Sign up now and learn practical tips on parenting and how to advocate for your child with autism. Call 7-903-5496 to register.


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Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council is to debate a motion on the NI Protocol that, if approved, will see Council write to Boris Johnson and implore him to invoke Article 16.
The motion, put forward by DUP Councillor, Darryn Causby and seconded by his party colleague Alderman Stephen Moutray will be debated on Monday (February 22) at February's monthly meeting of Council.
The motion reads: "We propose that this Council acknowledges the negative and unnecessary impact on businesses and consumers in Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council as a result of the NI Protocol.
"We further stress the importance of trade within the UK market particularly as Great Britain is Northern Ireland's largest market.
"Furthermore, we propose that this Council writes to our Prime Minister and the UK Government to implore them to remove any barrier or impediment to unfettered trade, including through the use of Article 16 of the Protocol."
Speaking to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, Councillor Causby explained how he feels it is a "straightforward motion" that he fully expects Council to support.
"The motion sets out how the NI Protocol is adversely impacting businesses here and calls on the Prime Minister and the UK Government to remove barriers to unfettered trade in the United Kingdom," said Councillor Causby.
"It is a straightforward motion that underlines the importance of East – West trade. It is important trade with Great Britain is protected and it is important, we as a council, play our part in doing that.
"This protocol is a disaster for the country. This motion is short, sweet and to the point and I don't see how, with the best interests of the businesses and people of this borough in mind, Council would fail to support it."
Councillor Causby also expressed concern about the willingness of the EU to trigger Article 16, only to reverse its decision hours later.
"Look at how the EU have already used Article 16," said Councillor Causby. "They invoked it and then they didn't. Essentially, they threatened to cut off supply for the people of Northern Ireland on a whim.
"That is the position they adopted and we should be wanting to make sure they never do that again or have the ability to.
"We know the protocol and it's difficulties, it is not good for Northern Ireland. It is putting great pressure on our supply chain and is resulting in rising costs for daily items.
"We know for sure that it is causing significant difficulties for our haulage companies and our second hand car dealers.
"Simple things are proving quite difficult as a result of the NI Protocol and it is time that we, as a Council, ratchet up the pressure to get something done to make life easier for our businesses and constituents."
Councillor Causby also claimed he is eager to avoid the debate on the motion descending into traditional orange v green divisions.
"We are trying to avoid a discussion that becomes orange v green," said Councillor Causby. "This is about the economic welfare of Northern Ireland.
"The protocol is also in stark contrast to the Good Friday Agreement that states Northern Ireland is an integral part of the United Kingdom until the people say otherwise.
"The people have not said otherwise, yet we are being treated differently and that is not in keeping with the Good Friday Agreement.
"Those who argued that Brexit would break the Good Friday Agreement have ignored the damage the NI Protocol is doing, they seem content to 'cherry pick' in order to suit their agenda.
"We are essentially being subjugated by Brussels and anyone who calls themselves a democrat should be ashamed of what is going on here."


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Outstanding Reviewers for Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry in 2016
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry's reviewers, and in particular highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for the journal in 2016, as selected by the editorial team for their significant contribution to Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. Starting this year, we will be announcing our Outstanding Reviewers annually and each will receive a certificate to give recognition for their contribution. This new initiative will be featured across many of the journals published by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The reviewers have been chosen based on the number, timeliness and quality of the reports completed over the last 12 months.
Professor Kyo Han Ahn Pohang University of Science and Technology
Professor Barry Carpenter Cardiff University
Dr Justin Chalker Flinders University
Dr Bobo Dang University of California
Professor Concepción González Bello Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Dr Alakananda Hajra Visva-Bharati University
Dr Charles Heath CSIRO
Professor Colin Suckling University of Strathclyde
Professor David Yu-Kai Chen Seoul National University
Professor Jian Zhou East China Normal University
We would also like to thank the Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry Editorial Board and Advisory Board and the organic chemistry and chemical biology communities for their continued support of the journal, as authors, reviewers and readers.
Richard Kelly, Executive Editor Helen Saxton, Editorial Production Manager
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2017, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C7OB90045G First published online 09 Mar 2017
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I first read this book as an ARC, (Advance Review Copy), and loved the characters, the plot, the Old Las Vegas vibe, and the books message of recovery and redemption, but I read it a second time as an audiobook, and I am enthralled! The narrator, Jane Oppenheimer, is magnificent. Ive listened to hundreds of audiobooks, and shes one of the best in the business. She is able to give a unique voice to a long list of diverse characters, from Helen, the wacky widow who still communicates with her dead husband, Bobby, to the uptight, prissy psychiatrist to whom she is assigned, to her solicitous sister, Pat, to teenage boys, to a pair of multi-ethnic lesbian hairdressers and to the various down-on-their-luck men and women in Helens circle of friends and neighbors.
Helen Taylor wasnt always a crazy, voice-hearing hoarder. A Berkeley graduate, she and her husband lived a normal existence as high school teachers who loved the outdoors. Bobbys death in a hiking accident hurled Helen into another world where she survives by hoarding items and reselling them at a weekly flea market. When her neighbors dismembered body is found, Helen becomes the focus of the police and her estranged sisters attentions. The well-meaning sister, Pat, brings her son Jordan and Helens teenage son Marc, to Las Vegas to protect Helen and to try to establish normalcy in her life. Through Pat and Jordans efforts to sort through the detritus of Helens home and lifestyle the reader is exposed to a Las Vegas population of street people, flea market vendors, public servants and elite private health providers. Through Marcs efforts to appreciate Las Vegas as only a teenage boy can do, the reader is exposed to showgirls, the behind the scenes choreography of an actual performance and hotel security.
A Justified Bitch is an engaging mystery with dark humor and witty repartee between characters. Bobby and Helens humorous observations of the people and situations around them are revealed in comical similes such as
as busy as a pimp with one whore.
H.G. McKinnis brings a unique perspective to the telling of a Las Vegas story. As a dresser for the big production feather shows of Las Vegas recent past, shes been at the heart of the glamour and excitement of iconic Las Vegas. As a native of Las Vegas, shes lived in the neighborhoods away from the bright lights of The Strip and has seen them transform as populations, housing trends and the economy change. Her characters are like the struggling disenfranchised citizens of any American city, but thanks to McKinnis the reader is reminded that they also exist in the glamour capital of the world.
The book is wonderfully entertaining, but the audiobook brings the story to life in living color! I recommend both reading the book for the benefit of being able to go back and reread particularly humorous or insightful comments and listening to the book for the ability to be transported into Helens world and to hearing the people who surround her the way she hears them.
Read by Jane Oppenheimer
Imbrifex Books unabridged.


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Plano ISD LOTE Vision
The Plano ISD Languages Other Than English (LOTE) Department empowers students to communicate within and contribute to the global community.
Plano ISD LOTE Mission
The Languages Other Than English department merges a natural approach with a proficiency-focused and performance-based curriculum.
In order to fulfill the mission of the Plano ISD, the Languages Other Than English department believes that:
- Second language acquisition should be learner-centered.
- Instruction should be driven by learning targets based on state and national standards.
- Effective communication in the target language is the ultimate goal.
Plano ISD LOTE Preferred Instructional Practices
Inspired by the ACTFL Core Practices, members of the Plano ISD LOTE curriculum and assessment design team created the PISD LOTE Preferred Instructional Practices. These six practices serve as the compass for professional learning and instructional planning to help our students reach their proficiency goals. The PISD LOTE Preferred Instructional Practices are listed below. Click each one to read more on the topic.
- Target Language Instruction
- Student-Centered Instruction
- Discovery Learning
- Reading to Learn
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- Planning with Backward Design


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Verkhovodko & Partners offers a broad range of services related to asset management in the Republic of Belarus in order to procure cost-efficient use of investors' property and financial resources.
Considering the fact that our employees are all qualified lawyers, we are well aware which legal steps and when such steps need to be taken in order to assure proper asset protection. The contracts that we conclude and our actions are always correspond to client's legislation and concerns.
We offer asset management services as a cradle-to-grave comprehensive set of services. As a result there is no need for the Client to employ a team of managers (CEOs, accountants etc.), instead the Client has the single reference - Verkhovodko & Partners LLС.
Our legal services are subject to licensing, and we pay specific attention to professional ethics when rendering our services. Our reputation is very important to us, and we never deceive our partners. Our Clients put trust in our company and would gladly share their feedback with respect to our work.
Our fees are comparable to and in some cases even less than the investor's regular expenses for engaging personnel (the fee for the asset management services depends on the quantity of managing assets – total area, number of assets, number of tenants and other factors that affect input of the asset manager).
We offer a comprehensive set of legal services with respect to asset management, including, but not limited to:
- Performing functions of the company's manager (CEO);
- Asset protection from improper management risks;
- Rental payment management;
- Accounting and financial reporting;
- Statistical reporting;
- Managing all contracts (execution of maintenance contracts, lease agreements, rendering other asset-related services, coordination with tenants and other parties);
- Invoice management, rental collection, including court debt collection;
- Comprehensive asset management legal assistance, including legal supervision of the commercial activities of a Belarusian company, its founding documents, advising with respect to assets ownership and disposal, as well as most efficient tax planning;
- Asset Management Reporting;
- Summoning and conducting General Meetings of the company's shareholders, representing Clients during the General Meetings, drawing documents (allocation of dividends, foreign currency control, etc.), other related services.


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We invite all Wake Forest faculty to enhance their teaching and engagement with sustainability issues by participating in the Magnolias Project May 10-11, 2017 on the Wake Forest campus. No prior experience with sustainability-related issues in the classroom or in research is necessary, and faculty at all ranks and career stages are welcome.
This innovative approach to curricular change, modeled on the nationally renowned Piedmont Project (Emory University), provides faculty with an intellectually stimulating and collegial experience to pool their expertise. Faculty who would like to develop a new course module or an entirely new course that engages issues of sustainability and the environment are encouraged to apply.
The workshop will explore how we can meaningfully integrate sustainability—broadly defined—into our classrooms. Although we start by taking a close look at Wake Forest University and the larger Piedmont region, we invite participants to engage in local to global comparisons.
The Magnolia Project kicks off with a two-day workshop (May 10-11) that will offer opportunities to extend research and teaching horizons across disciplines and create new networks with fellow colleagues. Following the workshop, faculty participants prepare discipline-specific course materials on their own over the summer. They reconvene in the fall to discuss their insights and experiences. Participants receive a stipend of $500 ($250 upon completion of the workshop; $250 upon completion of a new or revised syllabus).
Project participants agree to:
- Read some materials prior to the workshop
- Participate in the full 2-day workshop on May 10-11, 2017
- Commit time during the summer to prepare or revise a syllabus and submit it in August
- Report back to the group in the fall semester
Interested? Applications will be accepted until April 17.
- Send a short description (one paragraph maximum) of how you plan to change an existing course, or develop a new one, that will incorporate environmental and/or sustainability issues to Kim Couch at email@example.com. Please include your name, departmental affiliation, phone number and e-mail address.
Want to know more?
Browse the Magnolias or Piedmont Project websites for example syllabi and faculty statements:
Come join a community of faculty searching for new ways to engage issues relevant to their fields.


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Free cardiology and echocardiogram clinic in Mannar, 25th-28th June: Assist RR has recently conducted 4th cardiology clinic in Mannar District General Hospital. With help from Dr Anenta Ratneswaran, Dr Mayooran Shanmuganathan, both cardiology doctors, consulted and scanned 236 patients. Our special thanks to Mr James and his family of Mannar, who gave the doctors free accommodation during their stay in Mannar. Moreover Miss Vinuthy Vijayakaandeepan, a 16 year old student from UK also accompanied the doctors on the trip to perform voluntary service at the clinic; this must be congratulated and encouraged amongst the diaspora youth. During this clinic we also donated a cardiac defibrillator given to us by Mr Vaseeharan of UK.
Donation of cardiac exercise treadmill machine to Mannar District General Hospital: As we had appealed for the purchase of this machine to hospitals in Northern Province, Mannar Welfare Association (UK) came forward and promised the full amount to fund a machine for Mannar District General Hospital. Their promised donation amounts to approximately £12,500. The final installation of this machine took place on 1st August 2018. We anticipate that 1000s of patients would benefit from this every year by having their tests performed locally and avoid travelling 100s of kilometres to Jaffna or Vavuniya, where they have had to go until now.
Donation of cardiac exercise treadmill machine to Killinochi District General Hospital: Similar to above, our appeal was met with generous donations from Standing Committee of Tamils (SCOT, UK), Shri Kanaga Thurrkai Amman Temple (SKTAT, UK), Dr Paramanathan (UK) and an anonymous donor from the UK. With these funds amounting to 12,500, we were able to purchase another cardiac exercise treadmill machine to Killinochi District General Hospital. Again, we anticipate 1000s of patients would benefit. Please see attached photos and media reports of this handing over ceremony. Photos the installed machine are attached.
Donation of echocardiogram machine by Mr Varatharajan and family (UK) to Killinochi Hospital: As we had previously mentioned, Mr Varatharajan and family from the UK handed over a brand new echocardiogram machine worth £27,500 to us at our fund raiser event in Croydon in May 2018. We enabled the delivery and installation of this precious machine to the director of Killinochi District General Hospital on 29th June 2018. This machine is the first of its kind in the whole of Sri Lanka and will help the cardiology doctors who visit Killinochi twice a month scan 1000s of patients a year and diagnose and manage their heart conditions more efficiently.
Cardiology and echocardiogram clinic in Mullaithivu, 8 – 9 August 2018: Assist RR has conducted its first free cardiology clinic in Mullaithivu District General Hospital between 8-9 August 2018. Dr Manoharan Santhalingam, a volunteer cardiologist from the UK, consulted and scanned around 80 patients during the two-day clinic single handed. This resulted in early detection of many cardiac diseases and the patients were referred for further actions. This clinic has helped to reduce the workload on cardiologists in Vavuniya and Jaffna. Our special thanks to Dr Manoharan for volunteering to do this clinic.


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But Western states are starting to mimic the style of these ideological states.
The Western states have a liberal ideology which asserts that the overriding good in society is a freedom to self-define or self-create. Therefore, unchosen, predetermined qualities like our sex and our sexuality have to be made not to matter - they are to have no influence over what we choose to do or be. In a liberal order we are to self-define our sex and our sexuality uniquely from a buffet of options.
Enter the new school curriculum here in Victoria:
Schoolchildren as young as four will be shown pictures of boys doing the dishes and girls playing footy in a bid to stamp out gender stereotypes.
Year one and two students will play games teaching that some kids have two mums or two dads and teens will be taught the meaning of terms like pansexual and cisgender.
The changes come as part of a newly released education curriculum by the Victorian Government, which will be made a mandatory subject in all state primary and secondary schools at the start of 2017.
The youngest students will be chanting the state ideology in our classrooms:
Year 1 and 2 students are encouraged to chant statements such as: "Girls can play football, can be doctors and can be strong", and "boys can cry when they are hurt, can be gentle, can be nurses and can mind babies".
And there's this:
Children will be taught from an early age the importance of challenging male and female-based labels in the playground and classroom.
Students in their final year of high school will be educated in 'gender literacy', with lessons about identities including: cisgender, transgender, transman, transwoman and gender fluid.
Those students will also be taught the difference between gender and sexuality, and schooled on sexuality preferences including heterosexual, bisexual, asexual and pansexual.
It makes me wonder if the West has now surpassed the former Communist East in its radicalism. It's true that the first leader of the Bolshevik women's department, Alexandra Kollontai, had ideas similar to our Education Minister. She too wanted to erase the binary sex distinction. She gave speeches in which she:
longs for the female body itself to become less soft and curvy and more muscular ... She argues that prehistoric women were physiologically less distinct from men ... Accordingly, sexual dimorphism may (and should) again become less visible in a communist society.
But Kollontai soon become sidelined in the Bolshevik Government as being too far to the left. I doubt if either Lenin or Stalin were as radical as our Education Minister in denying heterosexuality as the norm, or in wanting to erase the male/female sex distinction.
Western societies are not yet as authoritarian as the communist ones, but modernist ideology has now been taken further with us than it ever was with them.


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All Streets
New work, now posted. All of the streets in the lower 48 United States: an image of 26 million individual road segments. This began as an example I created for one of my students in the fall of 2006, and I just recently got a chance to document it properly.
Nothing particularly genius about this piece—it's mostly just a matter of collecting the data and creating the image. But it's one of those cases where even in a (relatively) raw format, the data itself is quite striking.
The data in this piece comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's TIGER/Line data files. The data is first parsed and filtered (to remove non-street features) using Perl. Next, using Processing, the latitude and longitude coordinates are transformed using an Albers equal-area conic projection (which gives it that curvy surface-of-the-Earth look that we're used to), and then plotted to an enormous image that's saved to the disk. The steps are similar to the preprocessing stages described in Chapter 6 of Visualizing Data.
I had originally hoped to use this piece to show patterns in street naming, but I didn't manage to find as much as I had hoped. For instance, names of local trees and flowers being tied to the local geographic regions where they're found. However, cookie cutter suburban neighborhood developments seem to have obliterated any causation. "Magnolia" is such a nice sounding, outdoorsy word; who wouldn't want it adorning their street corner? Local flora be damned.
There are, however, a few other interesting tidbits in the data that I hope to cover in a future project. Real work be damned.


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Omega Rectangular Art Deco 1930s
This isn't the first Omega Art Deco Dress Watch we have fallen in love with. This example features a huge rectangular steel case and is made even more attractive due to its gorgeous slightly golden colored dial with Art Deco Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds and a wonderful unique blue handset. And the icing on the cake is the nos condition!
If this isn't the ultimate dress watch, we don't know what is.
- excellent overall condition, showing no traces of use (nos)
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- 22 mm (without crown) / 36 mm (lug-to-lug) / 19 mm (between lugs)
- Year: end of 1930s
- Omega Caliber - manual wind
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Figure 3, Panel C - We employ a nonlinear regression to model IO based on stock characteristics. Logistic S-shape functional form provides a convenient form to identify markets segmentation and allows us to explain 91% of variations in IO only via Capacity variables.
Institutional Segmentation of Equity Markets: Causes and Consequences
with Roger Edelen and Greg Kadlec, Working paper
We demonstrate that segmentation is an important feature of institutional investors' demand for stocks. A specification for the number of institutional owners that incorporates segmentation increases the Rsquare from 75% to 90% while reducing the standard list of 8-10 relevant stock characteristics to 1 (market cap). Smaller institutions exhibit greater segmentation than larger institutions, despite the argument that they face lower implementation costs. Our evidence suggests that segmentation is driven by agency considerations. Stocks that fall outside of institutions' investable universe have disappeared over time, suggesting that growing dominance of segmented institutional investment may help explain the listing puzzle.
Presented in Virginia Tech Seminar, Virginia Tech BXBR Workshop, Georgia State University
Figure 2, Panel A- This graph presents the fraction of stocks within the exogenous decile breakpoints. The fraction of stocks in each exogenous 'decile' bin is approximately 10% pre-millennium, but it decreases sharply for small stocks post-millennium.
Segmentation in Institutional Investment: Implications for Asset pricing factors and Performance Evaluation
with Roger Edelen and Greg Kadlec, Working paper
We examine how IO segmentation influences pricing factors and find support for the demand-based asset pricing view (e.g., Koijen and Yogo, 2019, and Gompers and Metrick, 2001). Our evidence suggests that segmentation implies a constrained portfolio optimization and therefore impaired performance. Capacity frictions can lead to narrow investment opportunity sets, which limit money managers' ability to take advantage of profitable opportunities outside their investment segment. In this respect, we construct pricing factors (i.e., IO factors) that are feasible (ex-ante) for institutions and benchmark their performance.
Presented in Virginia Tech BXBR Workshop, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Technology Sydney, University of Sydney, Florida International University, Monash University, Deakin University, and Queensland University.
Figure 2 - Instrumented Principal Component Analysis (IPCA) allows factor loadings to partially depend on observable asset characteristics that serve as instrumental variables for the latent conditional loadings (KPS). For example, this graph illustrates a mapping between stock characteristics and the first factor loading.
Preferred Habitat in Institutional Ownership and Equity Costs of Capital
with Roger Edelen and Bradley Paye, Work-in-progress paper
Kelly et al. (2019) (KPS) use thirty-six stock characteristics to instrument five principal components of risk (latent return factors), as well as the time-varying exposure of each sample-firm to those risks. Equity discount rates derived from this model are both effective (outperform state-of-the-art factor models) and intuitive (tied to observable firm characteristics). Our study uses the KPS framework to construct instrumented principal components for institutions' equity demands (latent IO-habitat factors). We then evaluate (1) the degree to which IO habitat subsumes the latent return factors in KPS and (2) the extent to which the orthogonal component of IO habitat explains equity returns.


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The Planing and Development Department is Headed by Rev. Edmund Mwesigye as acting Planner.
The Department focuses its work on the fight against poverty, disease, environmental degradation, hunger, nutrition, illiteracy, injustice, and marginalization of the poor in society. The Department implements a "bottom up" community development strategy to empower families at household level so that they take charge of their own development agenda to improve the quality of their life irrespective of their faith, sex, tribe, or ethnicity.
The aim of the program is to make local communities and Church of Uganda institutions self-reliant in their day to day requirements. Its emphasis is on building their capacities to enable them to identify, prioritize their challenges/needs and act to reduce poverty, hunger, and promote environment and good health among the people of God.
We have been able to:
- Shift from subsistence farming to commercial farming
- Encourage churches to acquire land titles
- Promoting farming in God's way
- Sensitize people on land use planning and management
- Sensitize communities on socio-economic development aspects as the way of helping them to eradicate poverty
- Promote environmental protection
- We propose that there should be income generating enterprise or project at every church and household in the whole Diocese
- We propose that in case of any development at every church, planning department should first verify it such that land resource is well planned for.
- We also propose that every construction of either church or house at every church, there should be a plan and the Planning department should file a copy.
- We propose that there should be sub-committee or evaluation committee to monitor, evaluate and advise on the progress of several projects. This committee should sit at least once in two month.
- We intend to move in the whole Diocese sensitizing communities on socio-economic aspects as the way of helping them to eradicate poverty
- We propose to have rain water by constructing tanks or pumped water from dams that is cost friendly and reliable
- We plan to write proposals to solicit support that can lead to Household and Community Transformation
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LONDON (Reuters) – HSBC
said it "respects and supports" legislation that stabilises order in Hong Kong, as China moves to impose a national security law it says is aimed at curbing sedition, secession, terrorism and foreign interference.
The comments posted on the bank's Chinese social media channel on Wednesday are the most outspoken yet in favour of Beijing's position from the UK-headquartered but China-focused lender, which has historically avoided weighing in on Sino-foreign political matters.
A Hong Kong-based spokeswoman for the bank declined to comment beyond the contents of the post.
The bank's statement came as tensions rise between HSBC's two home countries, after Britain's prime minister Boris Johnson said the UK will not walk away from the people of Hong Kong if China imposes a national security law that would conflict with its international obligations under a 1984 accord.
(Reporting By Sumeet Chatterjee and Noah Sin in Hong Kong and Lawrence White in London, editing by Sinead Cruise)
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Emily Lillian Siwallace
February 3, 1932 – September 24, 2012
Lillian was born on February 3, 1932, the third of eleven children born to Samson and Dora Mack. After losing her two older brothers, she became the eldest in the family and took responsibility for caring and guiding her younger siblings.
Lillian met her future husband in 1947. They got married on a beautiful sunny day on December 20, 1948. After the ceremony, they were surprised to find that it had snowed about two feet and the snowflakes were so big they couldn't take pictures. Her husband Andy claimed that God had sent confetti down on them.
Lillian and Andy raised eight children of their own, seven boys and one girl. Their family grew to include 13 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren, and four great-great-grandchildren. Andy and Lillian adopted Eva Mack, Martin Lehr, Stanley Gascoyne, Lorne Cahoose, Annie Sulin, and Betty Sangster as their own in the traditional way.
Lillian went to back to school and earned a certificate to teach the Nuxalk Language. She was there when the Nuxalk Language was introduced into the local schools in 1975, and she was proud contribute to the survival of the culture for 17 years while transmitting her knowledge and heritage to elementary and secondary students.
Lillian was also proud to be a part of the Nuxalk Nation's efforts to save the culture and language from extinction; she loved to watch and listen to the young people dance with their bodies and voices echoing ancient traditions and stories. "It makes you feel good because you are a part of teaching them," she said. Below is an excerpt from Hank F. Nader's Concise Nuxalk-English Dictionary:
"I began to learn how Lillian had generously contributed to the revival of culture during her life. Over the years she had taught the Nuxalk language in the community school, where Nuxalk shapes, forms, and a sense of place exemplify a proud cultural heritage. I learned how she invited others to bring traditional songs and dances into the lives of young students. And how she encouraged artisans to apply their crafts to cloth, wool, paper, canvas, and silver so that they could resituate long past Nuxalk ways into contemporary and new imaginative spaces."
Lillian was one of the founders of Acwsalcta School. She and a group traveled to Arizona to look at their band-operated schools in preparation of building a Nuxalk school and education system. She took great pride in the successes of Acwsalcta School, and the Nuxalk culture and language were a big part of her life.
Above all, Lillian made her family a priority. She loved her husband, children, and grandchildren, unconditionally and made each of them special in their own way. Lillian's brothers and sisters knew that they could count on her when they needed advice and guidance. Mom, grandma, sister, auntie, friend, you will be greatly missed. Until we meet again…..


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In a few short weeks, agriscience students from colleges and universities around the world will compete at the highest level for the chance to be rewarded for their innovative research. The global regional finalists have been selected for the 2018 Alltech Young Scientist (AYS) program, the world's largest agriscience competition for university students. Now in its 13th year, the program's pool of nominees represents 83 universities from 28 countries.
The regional finalists will attend AYS Discovery Week, held in conjunction with ONE: The Alltech Ideas Conference (ONE18), May 20–22 in Lexington, Kentucky, to present their research to a panel of international judges. They will also have leadership building, career mentorship and networking opportunities. The prizes include a fully funded Ph.D. position for the global undergraduate winner as well as $5,000 USD, and a fully funded postdoctoral position and $10,000 USD for the global graduate winner.
The regional finalists for the graduate AYS award and their paper topics are:
Zili Gao, University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States
- "The heat shock cognate 70 protein is a novel target of nobiletin and its colonic metabolites in inhibiting colon carcinogenesis"
Saheed Salami, University of Catania, Italy; currently attending University College Cork, Ireland
- "Cardoon meal as a novel feed: effect on lamb performance, rumen function and meat quality"
Yanli Liu, Northwest A&F University, China
- "Metabolomics and proteomics reveal impacts of folic acid on lipid metabolism in chicken primary hepatocytes (Folic acid regulates lipid metabolism mediated by IGF2)"
Moisés Poli, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
- "Pacific white shrimp and Nile tilapia integration in biofloc system under different fish-stocking densities"
The regional finalists for the undergraduate AYS award and their paper topics are:
Ronald Trotta, University of Kentucky, United States; currently attending North Dakota State University, United States
- "Effects of source and level of dietary energy supplementation on fiber digestion and in vitro methane production from tall fescue-based diets"
Evgeny Remizov, Saratov State Agrarian University, Russia
- "Antimicrobial peptides as a base of development of new antimicrobial medication"
Shenfei Long, China Agricultural University, China
- "Dietary supplementation with DHA-enriched microalgae improves performance, serum composition, carcass trait, antioxidant status and fatty acid profile of broilers"
Juan Bol, Universidad EARTH, Costa Rica
- "Evaluation of induced resistant products to improve root health and control of plant parasitic nematodes in commercial banana plantation"
"The Alltech Young Scientist program provides a once-in-a-lifetime experience for the best and brightest minds of the next generation of agriculture science leaders," said Dr. Karl Dawson, vice president and chief scientific officer at Alltech. "The regional finalists will present their research to a global audience, and the undergraduate and graduate competition winners will have the opportunity to join our global team."


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Welcome to the Future.Bible Podcast, where you'll hear profiles of individuals and Bible-inspired organizations making a difference in the digital world. In each episode, we bring you stories of innovation, advancement and real life change.
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The complementary and alternative medicine for endometriosis: a review of utilization and mechanism.
Kong S et al.
Endometriosis (EM) is one of the common gynecological conditions causing menstrual and pelvic pain and affects 10%-15% of women of reproductive age. In recent years, the complementary and alternative medical (CAM) treatment for EM has become popular due to the few adverse reactions reported. The CAM therapy for EM includes several different treatments such as herbs (herbal prescription, extract, and patent), acupuncture, microwave physiotherapy, and Chinese herb medicine enema (CHM enema). These CAM therapies are effective at relieving dysmenorrhoea, shrinking adnexal masses, and promoting pregnancy, with less unpleasant side effects when compared to hormonal and surgical treatments. In this review, we focus on the status quo of CAM on EM and try to identify therapeutic efficacy and mechanisms based on some clinical and experimental studies. We hope to provide some instructive suggestions for clinical treatment and experimental research in the future.
fonte: Evid Based Complement Alternat Med 2014.
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Dirty Frackin' in Our Waters
In The Indy's April 2 article, "Frickin' Frackin' Fracas," the statement "No fracking currently occurs in Santa Barbara County" might be legally true, but it is less accurate in practical terms considering the ways in which we commonly define and perceive the place we call home. Most would probably consider surfing at Haskell's — where one such injection well is currently active just offshore — to be an activity done within the county, for example.
Here, and in this article, it bears mentioning that several other injection sites are active just off our coast. We must consider that waste water contamination of billions of gallons of high-quality water in California aquifers is already confirmed, and that these fluids have been found to contain levels of benzene up to 700 times the amount allowable by federal standards, as well as many other toxins and pollutants. Of course, injection also plays with the geology in uncertain ways and is known to cause earthquakes.


text: My Cats' Little Instructions for a Snowy Day by God My Cats and Me Posted on March 21, 2018March 21, 2018 Acceptance Spring arrived yesterday in New York; the fourth blizzard of the season arrived today. Mother Nature has a sense of humor. The whole world seems upside down. Two days ago, spring seemed on her way: the crocuses had sprung up. I had been in the park taking photographs of Lenten roses still dug deep beneath thick mud, struggling to stretch delicate buds above the snow. Delia and Susie had been spending quite a lot of time sitting in the front window, watching passerbys slowly abandoning their heavy winter coats. Time stretched one way. Today, it stretches another.Delia and Susie are so less confused than I about the snowflakes falling outside our window. They barely noticed how unusually dark it was this morning. There was no sunlight to wake them up, but their stomachs had urged their awake. They hadn't any need to consult a weather channel to confirm the goings-on for the day. And their friends outside–they are out under the gazebo, curled in the corner, well protected under the tarp. And it's only started to snow. My days, so ordered, get so easily overturned. Upended. Disrupted and disturbed. Theirs are taken in stride. Of course, mine are important and theirs…? All days, important. All days, meant to be enjoyed. Today, one for the scheduled to become unexpected. To remember those feelings of snow days being announced when you were a child. Delia and Susie live in the unexpected. I find it more difficult. Traffic jams, flat tires, thunderstorms and blizzards can ruin my whole day when, instead, they could offer respite. A few minutes to sit on the windowsill. A moment to catch a nap. A second to play. Catch a sunbeam and lay down in it. Aren't those the little instructions I've learned from my cat? Share Cat Wisdom:TweetShare on TumblrMoreEmailPrintWhatsAppRedditLike this:Like Loading... Related


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Tecan Group Ltd.. (8/15/19). "Press Release: H1 2019 Tecan Again Posts Significant Increase in Sales, Driven by Strong Growth in the Life Sciences Business". Männedorf.
Financial results for the first half of 2019
> Sales of CHF 296.1 million (H1 2018: CHF 273.5 million)
>> Growth of 8.4% in local currencies or 8.3% in Swiss francs
>> Organic growth of 6.3% in local currencies
>> Strong growth in the Life Sciences Business
> Reported operating profit before depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) of CHF 49.3 million (H1 2018: CHF 48.1 million)
>> Reported EBITDA margin of 16.6% (H1 2018: 17.6%), including costs related to the acquisition of NuGEN Technologies
>> EBITDA margin remains at similar level on a comparable basis with the prior-year period, i.e. adjusted for the effects of two acquisitions, the introduction of IFRS 16 and the change of CEO
> Reported net profit of CHF 25.3 million, including all acquisition-related costs (H1 2018: CHF 29.2 million)
>> Earnings per share of CHF 2.14 (H1 2018: CHF 2.49)
> Outlook for full-year 2019 confirmed
Operating performance in the first half of 2019
> Launch of NGS DreamPrep, a fully automated sample preparation solution for next-generation sequencing (NGS)
> Launch of Spark® Cyto reader platform with imaging capabilities for applications in cell biology
> New collaborations with QIAGEN and The Binding Site in disease areas of high unmet medical need
> Acquisition of a supplier of key parts successfully completed
Männedorf, Switzerland, August 15, 2019 The Tecan Group (SIX Swiss Exchange: TECN) once again posted a substantial increase in sales in the first half of 2019, driven by strong growth in the Life Sciences Business.
Tecan CEO Dr. Achim von Leoprechting commented: Tecans sales again increased significantly in the current financial year. The Life Sciences Business recorded a particularly pleasing performance with strong demand in the instrument business, driven by our leading Fluent automation solution. In the Partnering Business, sales of components also posted particularly strong growth.
Innovation will remain a key sales driver in the future. We launched groundbreaking product platforms in two of our core markets, genomics and cell biology, in the first half of the year. With NGS DreamPrep, we are able to offer our customers in life science research an integrated, fully automated sample preparation solution for next-generation sequencing (NGS), including the highly innovative reagents of Tecan Genomics. In our detection business, we launched the Spark Cyto reader platform. Its additional imaging capabilities enables laboratories to perform novel analyses of cells in real time. We are delighted with the high level of interest that the two products have generated since their introduction.
Financial results for the first half of 2019
Order entry increased by 4.2% to CHF 310.6 million in the first six months of the year (H1 2018: CHF 298.1 million), again exceeding the sales realized during the reporting period. This equates to a rise of 4.5% in local currencies. On an organic basis, excluding the two most recent acquisitions, order entry rose by 2.7% in local currencies and 2.4% in Swiss francs.
The order backlog once again increased significantly as of June 30, 2019, with the double-digit growth rate driven by both business segments.
Sales climbed by 8.4% in local currencies or 8.3% in Swiss francs to CHF 296.1 million in the first half of the year (H1 2018: CHF 273.5 million). On an organic basis, sales grew by 6.3% in local currencies and 6.2% in Swiss francs. In contrast to the previous year, growth in this reporting period was driven by a double-digit sales increase in the Life Sciences Business. As expected, the Partnering Business recorded only a small rise in sales following growth of more than 16% in local currencies in the prior-year period.
Recurring sales of services and consumables increased in the first half of 2019 by 7.0% in local currencies and 7.3% in Swiss francs, and therefore amounted to 44.4% of total sales (H1 2018: 44.8%).
The reported operating profit before depreciation and amortization (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization; EBITDA) rose to CHF 49.3 million in the reporting period (H1 2018: CHF 48.1 million) and the EBITDA margin reached 16.6% of sales (H1 2018: 17.6%), including acquisition-related costs totaling a mid-single-digit million Swiss franc amount. However, when calculated on a comparable basis with the prior-year period, the EBITDA margin for the first half of 2019 was at the same level as in the first half of 2018. The EBITDA margin as reported was adjusted for several influencing factors that reduced the overall margin: The acquisition-related costs of NuGEN and, to a lesser extent, the non-recurring additional costs of the CEO change both had a negative impact. By contrast, the adoption of the new IFRS 16 accounting standard (Leases) generated a recurring positive effect; also the recent acquisition of a supplier made a small positive contribution. Integration costs for completed acquisitions were comparable in both periods.
Thus reported net profit for the first half of 2019 was CHF 25.3 million (H1 2018: CHF 29.2 million), with acquisition-related costs reducing profits in particular. The net profit margin in the reporting period thus amounted to 8.6% of sales (H1 2018: 10.7%) and earnings per share were CHF 2.14 (H1 2018: CHF 2.49).
Cash flow from operating activities reached CHF 36.0 million (H1 2018: CHF 38.4 million), corresponding to 12.1% of sales in the first half of 2019 (H1 2018: 14.0%).
Information by business segment
Life Sciences Business (end-customer business)
Sales in the Life Sciences Business increased by 15.5% to CHF 162.4 million (H1 2018: CHF 140.5 million) in the first half of the year and were 15.7% above those of the prior-year period in local currencies. On an organic basis, i.e. excluding sales from NuGEN (now Tecan Genomics), half-year sales also increased significantly by 12.0% in local currencies. The instrument business, in particular sales of the Fluent automation workstation, recorded strong growth.
Order entry in the Life Sciences Business also continued to increase. As a result, the order backlog again increased at a double-digit rate.
Despite acquisition-related costs, operating profit in this segment (earnings before interest and taxes; EBIT) rose to CHF 19.0 million (H1 2018: CHF 18.1 million). The operating profit margin was 11.2% of sales (H1 2018: 12.2%).
Partnering Business (OEM business)
The Partnering Business generated sales of CHF 133.7 million in the period under review (H1 2018: CHF 133.0 million), which corresponds to a slight increase of 0.6% both in local currencies and Swiss francs. On an organic basis, sales grew by 0.2% in local currencies. After the segment generated particularly high growth of 16.1% in local currencies in the first six months of 2018, a smaller sales increase had been expected for the first half of 2019.
Thanks to solid growth in order entry, the order backlog in the Partnering Business also increased at a double-digit rate.
Operating profit in this segment (earnings before interest and taxes; EBIT) was CHF 25.0 million (H1 2018: CHF 25.6 million), while the operating profit margin was 18.6% of sales (H1 2018: 19.1%).
Additional information
Regional development
In Europe, Tecans sales in the first six months of 2019 increased despite the high baseline in the prior-year period by 3.4% in local currencies and by 1.8% in Swiss francs. In the same period of 2018, particularly strong growth of 19.9% in local currencies was achieved. This was mainly attributable to the Partnering Business, which is why, as expected, segment sales in the reporting period did not quite reach the prior-year level. By contrast, the Life Sciences Business recorded considerable growth in Europe on the basis of the high order backlog from the prior year.
In North America, sales in the first six months of 2019 rose by 14.0% in local currencies and by 16.9% in Swiss francs. The Life Sciences Business performed particularly well, with sales growth of 23.5% in local currencies in this region.
In Asia, Tecan generated an increase in sales of 11.8% in local currencies and 9.2% in Swiss francs. Both segments contributed to the sales growth in the region with good performances. Sales growth in China outpaced growth in the Asia region as a whole.
Operating performance in the first half of 2019
Tecan made good progress in implementing its comprehensive genomics strategy in the first half of the year, launching NGS DreamPrep only a few months after the acquisition of NuGEN Technologies. NGS DreamPrep, an integrated, fully automated sample preparation solution for next-generation sequencing (NGS) in life science research, combines the high productivity and precision of the Fluent automation platform with the innovative reagents of Tecan Genomics (formerly NuGEN). The use of this innovative solution can help double the typical sample throughput in a laboratory.
In addition, the Spark® Cyto reader platform for cell biology applications was launched at a major trade fair in June. Thanks to its additional imaging capabilities, the Spark Cyto multimode microplate reader enables life science research laboratories to track the development of cells in real time over an extended period, with complete control of all environmental parameters. Another special feature of this innovative instrument is that measurements can be carried out automatically for predefined events. Further processes can also be automated on the basis of the evaluated image data, such as the addition of chemical substances, which influence cell behavior or survival.
In March, Tecan Group Ltd. and QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) announced a collaboration to improve the sample processing of QIAGENs QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus (QFT-Plus) diagnostic test. QIAGEN is a leading global provider of Sample to Insight solutions for molecular diagnostics and life sciences. As part of this collaboration, Tecans Fluent automation solution will be utilized to aliquot samples for the optional Lithium Heparin single-tube workflow. The Fluent instruments will be supplied directly to laboratories through Tecans Life Sciences Business.
Tecan made good progress with a number of development projects in the Partnering Business in the first half of 2019, with various new instrument platforms set to be launched by partner companies in the second half of the year. In June, an ongoing development program with The Binding Site Group (Birmingham, UK) was announced for the first time. The two companies are jointly developing an automated solution for The Binding Site, based on Tecans Fluent platform, using mass spectrometry to diagnose blood cancers.
In June, Tecan successfully completed the acquisition of a long-term supplier of key parts. The aim is to vertically integrate the manufacturing of critical precision-machined parts. With two manufacturing sites, one in California (USA) and another in Vietnam, Tecan will be able to benefit from the long-term supply of high quality precision-machined parts and realize cost savings by internalizing their supply. Tecan has been the largest customer of this supplier, making up a significant share of its revenues. From June 1, 2019, the supplier will be included in the consolidated financial statements of the Tecan Group as a part of the Partnering Business segment.
Strong balance sheet high equity ratio
Tecans equity ratio was 68.1% as of June 30, 2019 (December 31, 2018: 71.4%). Net liquidity (cash and cash equivalents minus bank liabilities and loans) reached CHF 264.5 million (June 30, 2018: CHF 284.1 million; December 31, 2018: CHF 289.6 million), despite having paid the purchase consideration for the acquisition of a supplier fully in cash in the first half of the year (net cash outflow of CHF 21.2 million).
At the Tecan Group Annual General Meeting on April 16, 2019, shareholders approved an increase in the dividend from CHF 2.00 to CHF 2.10 per share. The payout of dividends totaling CHF 24.8 million took place on April 24, 2019.
Outlook for full-year 2019 confirmed
Tecan continues to forecast sales growth for the full-year 2019 to be in the mid- to high single-digit percentage range in local currencies. Sales to third parties are only expected to benefit from additional revenues in a low- to mid single-digit million Swiss franc amount from the recently completed acquisition of a supplier. This forecast does not take account of potential additional acquisitions during the remainder of the year.
Tecan expects that the reported EBITDA margin for the full-year 2019 will expand to around 19% of sales. The acquisition of the supplier should have an additional slightly positive impact on the EBITDA margin.
The expectations regarding profitability are based on an average exchange rate forecast for the full-year 2019 of one euro equaling CHF 1.14 (2018: 1.15) and one US dollar equaling CHF 0.99 (2018: 0.96). Again, no contributions or costs linked to further acquisitions are taken into account.
Financial Report and Webcast
The full 2019 Interim Report can be accessed on the companys website www.tecan.com under Investor Relations. An iPad app for the Tecan Financial Reports is also available from the App Store.
Tecan will hold a conference call to discuss the results in the first half of 2019 today at 10:00 a.m. (CEST). The presentation will also be relayed by live audio webcast, which interested parties can access at www.tecan.com. A link to the webcast will be provided immediately prior to the event.
The dial-in numbers for the conference call are as follows:
For participants from Europe: +41 (0)58 310 50 00 or +44 207 107 0613 (UK)
For participants from the US: +1 (1) 631 570 5613
Participants should if possible dial in 15 minutes before the start of the event.
Key upcoming dates
The 2019 Annual Report will be published on March 17, 2020.
The Annual General Meeting of Tecans shareholders will take place on April 7, 2020.
About Tecan
Tecan (www.tecan.com) is a leading global provider of laboratory instruments and solutions in biopharmaceuticals, forensics and clinical diagnostics. The company specializes in the development, production and distribution of automation solutions for laboratories in the life sciences sector. Its clients include pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, university research departments, forensic and diagnostic laboratories. As an original equipment manufacturer (OEM), Tecan is also a leader in developing and manufacturing OEM instruments and components that are then distributed by partner companies. Founded in Switzerland in 1980, the company has manufacturing, research and development sites in both Europe and North America and maintains a sales and service network in 52 countries. In 2018, Tecan generated sales of CHF 594 million (USD 606 million; EUR 516 million). Registered shares of Tecan Group are traded on the SIX Swiss Exchange (TECN; ISIN CH0012100191).
For further information:
Tecan Group
Dr. Rudolf Eugster
Chief Financial Officer
Martin Brändle
Vice President, Communications & Investor Relations
Tel. +41 (0) 44 922 84 30
Fax +41 (0) 44 922 88 89
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The Leather Masked Ball is a very popular event on the south Florida social calendar, and it is one of the largest charity events organized by the leather/BDSM community in the state of Florida. The theme this year is "Cellblock 9 – Leather Lockdown," and the DJ for this year's event is Brian Norwood, who has made a name for himself spinning at parties in Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Fire Island, and beyond. The Leather Masked Ball will open its doors to hundreds of revelers at 9 p.m. on Saturday, November 29 at Bill's Filling Station (2209 Wilton Dr., Wilton Manors).
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12 May, 2014As asbestos continues to be popular in the developing world, IndustriALL Global Union jointly with the sister organization Building and Wood Workers' International (BWI) have released a new publication exposing the dangers of this deadly material and a set of guidelines for people who fear they might be exposed to it.
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"Asbestos is still around and there are those who continue to tout it as a magic mineral," says the BWI and IndustriALL publication "Asbestos is a killer".
Although this material is no longer used in many countries, asbestos exposure remains a danger because of its long history of use: not only in cement products but for hundreds of other uses such as brake linings, floor tiles, insulation and fireproofing.
Weak regulation and enforcement means that people are still being fatally exposed to the killer fibres. The publication gives detailed steps people can take in case they fear there is asbestos in their workplace.
There are a multitude of environmental and health related issues surrounding the use of asbestos in society. The publication provides for a detailed overview of the asbestos related problems and suggests health and safety activists should keep alert on the dangers inherent with the use of asbestos and to keep the focus where it should be: saving workers' livelihoods and lives.
Despite advances in health and safety standards on many fronts, asbestos is still in use and the goal of a universal ban has far from been achieved. The first published article linking asbestos to disease came out in around 1906. No other cause of occupational disease has been as extensively studied, yet the industry remains. The art of denying scientific evidence and creating doubt in the public mind was perfected by the asbestos industry; and the tactics have been used by other industries wishing to avoid liability for their actions or products.


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Made out of nylon plastic, these Cable Clamps are molded in an open "V" position and are screwed closed to securely hold your cables and hoses in place.
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Product details:
Publisher: Egmont
Release date: May 7th 2012
Paperback, 320 pages.
Rating: 3 out of 5.
Ages: 12+
Source: Received from publisher for review.
Olive Corbett is not crazy. Not anymore.
She obediently takes her meds and stays under the radar at school. After "the incident," Olive just wants to avoid any more trouble, so she knows the smartest thing is to stay clear of the new girl who is rumored to have quite the creepy past.
But there's no avoiding Miranda Vaile. As mousy Miranda edges her way into the popular group, right up to the side of queen bee Katie – and pushes the others right out – only Olive seems to notice that something strange is going on. Something almost . . . parasitic. Either Olive is losing her grip on reality, or Miranda Vaile is stealing Katie's life.
But who would ever believe crazy Olive, the girl who has a habit of letting her imagination run away with her? And what if Olive is the next target?
A chilling psychological thriller that tears through themes of identity, loss, and toxic friendship, Shift will leave readers guessing until the final pages.
Monday 16 July 2012
Book Review: Shift by Em Bailey.
11 comments :
- Becky @ Stories & Sweeties16 July 2012 at 09:33
Ah, sad to hear you found this disappointing. I picked this one up at ALA and I was excited to read it---I'll have to go in with lower expectations, then maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised! :DReplyDelete
Hmm, this sounds really interesting! It's such a shame that the vagueness didn't work this time. I know there could be good cases for unreliable narrators and guessing but sometimes it's TOO vague.ReplyDelete
Awh this did have an intriguing premise, so it's sad to see it wasn't all that good. I might still give it a try but my expectations won't be as high as they were. Thanks for the honest review.:)ReplyDelete
- Julie Carlson16 July 2012 at 22:34
Glad I read your review. I saw this one and the bookstore and was drawn to the cover. I didn't end up getting it. The premise does sound interesting, but sorry to hear it ended up being disappointing!ReplyDelete
Ah it's a shame this was disappointing. I don't like vague plots either, everything is just too confusing and unexplained! Thanks for the review :).ReplyDelete
I've been considering this one for a while so it's a shame to hear it's not that great. I totally get what you mean about psychological thrillers with paranormal twists-mara dyer being a prime example-but it seems like this book takes that a step too far, plus Olive doesn't sound all that great. What a shameReplyDelete
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This sounds really interesting, I have it on my shelf already as I was intrigued by it, it's a shame you were a little dissapointed with it though.ReplyDelete
- daisychainbooks17 July 2012 at 16:21
You might love it! I've seen a lot of positive reviews around, but it just wasn't for me.ReplyDelete
- daisychainbooks17 July 2012 at 16:24
So true! And also, I was my own worst enemy with this one because I've read a ton of similar books!ReplyDelete
- daisychainbooks17 July 2012 at 16:25
Olive didn't really work for me at all! I'd recommend this one if it sounds like something new or different to you, but for me, I've read so many other books that follow a similar pattern to this one that there were no surprises for me.ReplyDelete
- daisychainbooks17 July 2012 at 16:25
I hope it works out better for you than it did for me! :)ReplyDelete
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Reloop just announced an all-black version of its Beatmix 4 Serato DJ controller here at Musikmesse 2016. The Beatmix 4 MK2 is a four-channel unit with pads, jogwheels, and an onboard tw0-channel sound card.
The original Beatmix 4 is a good consumer-focussed controller, and like the all-black Beatmix 2 MK2 that was released last year, this new Beatmix 4 MK2 just looks a little bit sleeker and more "pro" with black knobs, housing, and new pads.
• The Beatmix 4 MK2 is now available for €299. Check the Reloop website for more details.
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