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Pharmacist and toxicologist, member of the board of directors of the Brazilian Society of Toxicology (SBTox) and CEO of Spektra Consultancy. She worked in the pharmaceutical industry in Brazil actively participating in the scientific and regulatory development of the areas of analytical development and toxicological evaluations focused on impurities assessments. More than 15 years of experience in developing stability-indicating methods and toxicological assessment of impurities in drug substances and drug products (degradation products, mutagenic impurities/nitrosamines, elemental impurities, extractable and leachable) using in silico tools and integrated risk assessment. She currently works as a consultant at Spektra Consultancy in the area of impurity assessment in compliance with ANVISA and ICH regulations. Spektra is also the representative of FreeThink Technologies in Latin America.
After receiving his B.S. (UCLA) and Ph.D. (UC Berkeley) in physical-organic chemistry, Kenneth Waterman completed post-doctoral studies (Columbia University) before spending 12 years at Polaroid (as a distinguished scientist), then 13 years at Pfizer (as a Research Fellow). He has successfully invented and commercialized a number of products and is the author of over 75 publications. He was made an AAPS Fellow in 2011 the same year he started FreeThink Technologies.
A firm specializing in solutions to the most difficult stability, impurity, analytical, solid-state, and formulation issues. Retiring from Lilly in 2015, he brings 30 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry to his consulting firm, with a demonstrated track record of innovation and problem-solving. He obtained his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in 1989 from Vanderbilt University, joining Lilly that same year.
Dr. Baertschi has organized/chaired numerous scientific conferences / symposia on stress testing, stability, photostability, and impurities, and has published extensively in these areas, including two editions of a book on pharmaceutical stress testing / drug degradation. Dr. Baertschi is a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS), is a Fellow of the AAPS (since 2007).
He has a B.Sc. in Chemistry and a D.Phil in the application of magnetic resonance spectroscopy (ESR and NMR) to determine the mechanisms and kinetics of organic oxidation reactions. He has over 25 years of experience in analytical chemistry in the pharmaceutical industry, working in areas ranging from inhalation to dissolution, and has authored numerous regulatory submissions. In recent years, Garry focuses on pharmaceutical stability and has helped to develop, refine, and apply accelerated studies for the prediction of long-term stability performance. Garry has authored numerous scientific papers and recently co-authored a book on "Accelerated Predictive Stability." Garry's role at Pfizer also includes troubleshooting pharmaceutical product problems, understanding causes of poor stability, and improving product design.
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Question of the Month: Where Do You Place Fischer On The List of Greatest Players Ever?
Bobby Fischer is back in the news, partly due to the September opening of the World Chess Hall of Fall in St. Louis, but mostly because of the new documentary "Bobby Fischer Against the World."
This has rekindled some debate about where Fischer fits in among the all-time greatest chess players. Which brings me to the "Question of the Month."
Where do you place Fischer on the list of greatest players ever?
- Number 1
- Somewhere in the top 5
- Somewhere in the top 10
I had to go through this exercise once again when working on the 3rd edition of "Chess for Dummies."
Just for my own amusement, I tried to think about which baseball pitcher I would pair with which player, and Nolan Ryan popped into my head as soon as I thought of Fischer. (I beg the indulgence of the readers who do not care about baseball.)
Ryan would often be dominating with a blazing fastball and a wicked curve. He pitched a large number of complete game 1-hitters and no-hitters.
It calls to mind Fischer's 11-0 sweep in the US Championship or his 6-0 match wipe outs of Taimanov and Larsen. The bane of both their existences, in a different sense of the word, was control.
I, personally, rate Karpov just a bit above Fischer. Karpov reminded me of Greg Maddux. Maddux finished with 355 wins, but never had what people would call over powering pitches. Players didn't strike out against Maddox the way they did against Ryan, but at the end of the game they were 0-4. Karpov didn't make you worry about ending up on the losing side of a diagram labeled White to play and win, but your chances of beating him were shockingly low. For years, any Karpov loss would reverberate around the chess world. He was that consistent and that good. Just like Maddux.
The player I consider number 1 all-time is Garry Kasparov, and I struggled to come up with a pitcher to pair with him. The best I could come up with was Roger Clemens, and it's not because I consider Clemens to be the best pitcher of all-time. I don't. It's just that Clemens had the usual assortment of pitches coupled with a devastating fastball for much of his career. He became dominant (leaving aside the steroid issue) when he developed a split-finger fastball. It looked just like a fastball, but dove downwards at the last second. Batters couldn't tell which pitch it was until it was too late. Kasparov's games leave me with a similar impression. By the time you figured out what he was up to, it was too late. Kasparov wasn't just intimidating, he was unreadable.
As always, we'd love to hear what your answer to the "Question of the Month" will be. I can't speak for the other Trustees, of course, but I'd love to hear any of your analogies, as well.
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In my game I built 2 more hellions and a medivac, and when I did a drop my opponent brought 4 tanks + 4 vikings to my base. In this game I was lucky: he was not pushing too hard, and I was able to start killing SCVs with hellions and in parallel to build some vikings/marines/tanks...and eventually I won.
But if my opponent was just a little bit more aggressive, he would have destroyed my base...
Question: what should my reaction be to detected tanks if I am building hellions? Should I build my own tanks? Build vikings? Build marauders?
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Vengeance for the Ostfriesland?
I've heard of inter-service conflict, but…
In 1987, while flying off the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga, a Lt. j.g. Timothy W. Dorsey fired a missile at an Air Force F-4 reconnaissance jet piloted by then-Lt. Ross. He and his backseat officer ejected as the F-4 plunged into the sea.
A Navy investigation called Lt. Dorsey's decision an "illogical act" that "raises substantial doubt as to his capacity for good, sound judgment."
"The September 22, 1987, destruction of USAF RF-4C was not the result of an accident, but the consequence of a deliberate act," the investigator wrote. "His subsequent reaction [to the radio command] demonstrated an absolute disregard of the known facts and circumstances."
The Navy banned him from flying for life.
The Senate adjourned without considering Dorsey's promotion to Admiral. The USAF crew survived, but the pilot has experienced severe back pain since the incident. To say the least, the story of Dorsey's later career must be remarkably… interesting.


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The medial palpebral ligament is a strong band attached to the frontal process of the maxilla, directly in front of the lacrimal FIG. 698.-SAGITTAL SECTION THROUGH SUPERIOR EYELID. groove; it divides at the medial commissure into two slips, one for each tarsus (Fig. 699). The eyelids are further strengthened by membranous expansions, termed the superior and inferior palpebral ligaments, which extend into them from the margin of the orbit. The superior palpebral ligament is continuous, along the superior margin of the orbit, with the pericranium and with the periosteal lining of the orbit, and it blends, below, with the tendon of the levator palpebræ superioris. The inferior palpebral ligament is prolonged from the lower edge of the inferior tarsus to the inferior margin of the orbit, where it is continuous with the periosteum of the face and orbital floor. Laterally the two palpebral ligaments fuse to form the lateral palpebral raphe, while medially they become thinned, and, separating from the medial palpebral ligament, are attached to the lacrimal bone, behind the lacrimal sac. The superior and inferior palpebral ligaments form the septum orbitale, between the superficial and deep structures of the eyelids; this septum is perforated by the vessels and nerves, which extend from the orbital cavity to the face or scalp. The skin covering the eyelids is thin and delicate, and is continuous, at their margins, with their conjunctival lining. It contains numerous small sudoriferous glands and fine hairs, the latter being provided with sebaceous follicles. Branched pigment cells are present in the cutis, and pigment exists also in the deep layers of the epidermis. The subcutaneous tissue is loose and devoid of fat, and in it are found the fibres of the orbicularis oculi Raphe palpebralis muscle-a small Supra-trochlear nerve separate bundle of which, termed the muscle of Riolan, occupies the margin of the lids behind the eyelashes. The glandulæ tarsales (O.T. Meibomian glands) are FIG. 699.-DISSECTION OF THE RIGHT EYELID. The orbicularis oculi has been completely removed. elongated sebaceous glands with numerous lateral offshoots; they are embedded in the tarsi and are filled with cubical epithelium. There are from twenty-five to thirty in the superior eyelid, and from twenty to twenty-five in the inferior; they open by small ducts, about 1 mm. in length, along the lid margins, behind the eyelashes; the ducts are lined with stratified epithelium, placed on a basement membrane. Between the eyelashes and the muscle of Riolan are two or three rows of modified sudoriferous glands, termed the glands of Moll. H. Müller described a layer of non-striped muscle in each lid: in the superior extending from the tendon of the levator palpebræ superioris to the upper tarsus, and in the inferior connecting the inferior tarsus with the inferior oblique muscle. The eyelashes are curved, silky hairs which project from the free margins of the lids; in the upper lid they are longer and more numerous than in the lower, and are curved upwards, while those of the lower lid are bent downwards. Conjunctiva. The conjunctiva is the mucous membrane which lines the eyelids, and is continued, from them, on to the front of the bulb of the eye. The part on the eyelids is termed the tunica conjunctiva palpebrarum, that on the bulb of the eye the tunica conjunctiva bulbi; the lines of reflection of the membrane from the eyelids to the bulb are known as the superior and inferior conjunctival fornices. The conjunctiva palpebrarum is intimately adherent to the tarsi and presents numerous papillæ. It is covered with a layer of columnar epithelial cells, beneath the bases of which are small flattened cells; near the fornices a number of acino-tubular glands, much more plentiful in the upper than in the lower eyelid, open on its free surface. The conjunctiva bulbi is thinner than the conjunctiva palpebrarum, and is loosely attached to the sclera by submucous tissue. The plica semilunaris conjunctivæ has already been referred to (p. 821). On the cornea the conjunctiva is represented merely by the epithelium cornea (p. 809). Vessels and Nerves.-The chief arteries of the eyelids are the superior and inferior palpebral branches of the ophthalmic, which pierce the septum orbitale above and below the medial palpebral ligament, and run laterally in the corresponding lid near its free margin. On reaching the region of the lateral palpebral commissure they anastomose with each other and with twigs from the lacrimal, superficial temporal, and transverse facial arteries, and in this way an arch is formed in each lid. Secondary smaller arches are found, one above the primary arch in the upper lid, and another below that of the lower lid, while the upper lid receives branches also from the supra-orbital and frontal arteries. The veins are arranged in two sets: (a) subcon junctival or retrotarsal, opening into the muscular tributaries of the ophthalmic veins, and (b) pretarsal, into the angular and superficial temporal veins. The lymph vessels, like the veins, form pre- and retrotarsal networks, which communicate with each other through the tarsal plates. The lymph is drained chiefly into the anterior auricular and parotid lymph glands, but partly, by vessels which accompany the anterior facial vein, into the submaxillary lymph glands. The sensory nerves of the eyelids are supplied by the trigeminal nerve-the upper lid chiefly by the supra-orbital and supra-trochlear branches of the ophthalmic; the lower, by the infraorbital branch of the maxillary. The region of the lateral commissure receives some filaments from the lacrimal nerve, that of the medial from the infra-trochlear. These sensory nerves form a marginal plexus behind the orbicularis oculi muscle. The levator palpebræ superioris muscle is supplied by the oculomotor nerve and the non-striped fibres of the eyelids by the sympathetic. APPARATUS LACRIMALIS. The lacrimal apparatus consists of: (1) the lacrimal gland, which secretes the tears; (2) the lacrimal ducts, by which the tears are drained from the front of the eye; and (3) the lacrimal sac and naso-lacrimal duct, which convey them into the nasal cavity. FIG. 700.-DISSECTION TO SHOW THE LACRIMAL APPARATUS. Glandula Lacrimalis. The lacrimal gland is a flattened, oval body situated in the superior and lateral part of the orbital cavity; it consists of two portions -superior and inferior-imperfectly separated from each other by the expansion of the tendon of the levator palpebræ superioris muscle. The glandula lacrimalis superior is firm and much larger than the inferior; it measures transversely about 20 mm., and sagittally from 12 to 14 mm. It occupies the fossa lacrimalis on the medial surface of the zygomatic process of the frontal bone, and is fixed by fibrous bands to its periosteum, while its inferior surface is in contact with the levator palpebræ superioris and rectus lateralis muscles, which intervene between it and the bulb of the eye. The glandula lacrimalis inferior consists of small, loosely aggregated lobules; it lies below and in front of the orbital portion, and projects into the posterior part of the upper eyelid, where its deep surface is in contact with the conjunctiva. The ducts draining the glandula superior are from three to five in number; they pass between the lobules of the glandula inferior, and open at the upper and lateral part of the fornix conjunctivæ superior. The ducts of the glandula inferior number from three to nine; some of them join those from the glandula superior, while others open separately at the fornix conjunctive superior. The lacrimal gland has a structure resembling that of the parotid, and is supplied by the sympathetic and lacrimal nerves and by the lacrimal artery, while its veins are drained into the ophthalmic vein. Ductus Lacrimales.-The lacrimal ducts, two in number, commence in minute orifices, termed the puncta lacrimalia, at the apices of the papillæ lacrimales (p. 821), and are directed medialwards, along the medial parts of the margins of the eyelids, above and below the lacus lacrimalis. The superior duct at first ascends for a short distance and then inclines downwards; the inferior duct descends for a short distance and then runs horizontally; at the angle where it changes its direction each duct is dilated into an ampulla. The two ducts open close together into the lateral and front part of the lacrimal sac, a little below its middle; sometimes they open separately into a pouch-like dilatation of the sac, termed the sinus of Maier. The ducts are lined with stratified epithelium placed on a tunica propria, outside which is a layer of striped muscular fibres derived from the lacrimal part of the orbicularis oculi. These muscular fibres are arranged somewhat spirally around the ducts, but at the base of each papilla lacrimalis they are circular in direction and form a species of sphincter. On contraction they serve to empty the contents of the lacrimal ducts into the lacrimal sac. The saccus lacrimalis and ductus nasolacrimalis together form the passage by which the tears are conveyed from the lacrimal ducts to the nasal cavity. The lacrimal sac is the upper expanded part of the passage, and measures from 12 to 15 mm. in length, about 7 mm. antero-posteriorly, and from 4 to 5 mm. transversely. It lies in the groove formed by the lacrimal bone and frontal process of the maxilla, and ends above in a rounded, blind extremity or fundus, while it narrows below into the naso-lacrimal duct. At the junction with the duct a fold of mucous membrane, named the valve of Beraud, together with a laterally directed pouch, the sinus of Arlt, are sometimes present. Near its superior extremity it is crossed, in front, by the medial palpebral ligament (O.T. tendo oculi), from the upper and lower edges of which the orbicularis oculi takes origin; the lacrimal part of the orbicularis oculi muscle is behind it. The naso-lacrimal duct averages about 18 mm. in length, and has a diameter of from 3 to 4 mm. Rather narrower in the middle than at its extremities, it is directed downwards and slightly backwards, and opens into the inferior meatus of the nose at the junction of its anterior fourth with its posterior three-fourths, i.e. a distance of 30 to 35 mm. from the posterior boundary of the nostril. Its lower orifice is somewhat variable in form and position, and is occasionally duplicated. It is frequently guarded by a fold of mucous membrane, termed the plica lacrimalis (Hasneri). Through this orifice the mucous lining of the duct is continuous with that of the nasal cavity. The mucous membrane of the duct is thrown into inconstant folds, several of which have been described as valves. Its epithelium is columnar and in part ciliated; opening into the lower part of the duct are numerous glands, similar to those in the nasal mucous membrane. The nerves of the lacrimal ducts and sac are derived from the infra-trochlear branch of the naso-ciliary; their arteries from the inferior palpebral and nasal. The veins of the naso-lacrimal duct are large and numerous, forming a sort of erectile tissue similar to that in the nasal cavity. DEVELOPMENT OF THE EYE. The retina and optic nerve are developed from a hollow outgrowth of the fore-brain, termed the optic vesicle (see pp. 54 and 33). This extends towards the side of the head, and its connexion with the brain is gradually elongated to form the optic stalk. The ectoderm overlying the optic vesicle becomes thickened, invaginated, and finally cut off as a hollow island of cells, which is named the lens vesicle. This vesicle indents the outer and lower part of the optic vesicle, converting it into a cup (optic cup), lined by two layers of cells continuous with each other at the margin of the cup. The inner of these strata, thicker than the outer, is named the retinal layer, and becomes differentiated into the nervous and supporting elements of the retina; while the outer, named the pigmentary layer, forms the stratum pigmenti. The edge of the optic cup extends in front of the equator of the lens, and bounds the future aperture of the pupil. In front of the lens, and also opposite its equator, the retinal layer is thin, and represented only by a stratum of columnar cells which becomes closely applied to the pigmentary layer, the two forming the pars ciliaris and pars iridica retina. The indentation of the optic cup extends as a groove for some distance along the postero-inferior aspect of the optic stalk, forming what is termed the chorioidal fissure (Fig. 701). Through this fissure mesoderm passes inwards between the lens and the retina to form a part of the vitreous body, while the arteria centralis retinæ also becomes enclosed in it and so gains its future position in the centre of the optic FIG. 701.-SECTIONS THROUGH PORTIONS OF THE HEADS OF FETAL RABBITS, to illustrate the connexion of the optic cup with the fore-brain, and the invagination of the ectoderm to form the lens. nerve. The arteria centralis is prolonged forwards from the porus opticus through the vitreous body, as a cone of branches, as far as the back of the lens. By the fifth or sixth month all these branches have disappeared except one, the arteria hyaloidea, which persists until the last month of foetal life, when it also atrophies, leaving only the canalis hyaloideus to indicate its position. Optic stalk The vitreous body is developed between the optic cup and the lens, and is derived partly from ectoderm and partly from mesoderm. It consists primarily of a series of fine protoplasmic fibres which project from the cells of the retinal layer of the cup and form a delicate reticular tissue. At first these fibres are seen in relation to the whole of the optic cup, but later they are limited to the ciliary region, where by a process of condensation Chorioidal they appear to form the zonula ciliaris. When the mesoderm reaches the cup through the chorioidal fissure it unites with this reticular tissue to form the vitreous body. formation of chorioidal fissure and enclosure of the arteria centralis retinæ (from nodel by Ziegler). The lens, at first in contact with the ectoderm FROM BEHIND AND BELOW, to show from which it is derived, is soon separated from it by mesoderm, and then consists of a rounded vesicle with epithelial walls. The anterior wall remains as a single layer of cells-the anterior lens epithelium of the adult; the cells of the posterior wall become elongated into lens fibres, and by the forward growth of these the cavity of the vesicle is obliterated. This elongation into lens fibres is greatest at the centre of the lens, while near the equator the fibres are shorter, and here the gradual transition between the anterior epithelium and the lens fibres is seen (Fig. 696). The lens becomes enveloped in a vascular tunic, which receives its vessels from the arteria centralis retina and from the vessels of the iris. The front part of this tunic forms the membrana pupillaris, and this, like the rest of the tunic, disappears before birth. The hollow optic stalk becomes solid by the thickening of its walls and, acquiring nerve-fibres, is transformed into the optic nerve. These nerve-fibres are mostly centripetal, and are derived from the nerve-cells of the retina; but a few are centrifugal and have their origin in the brain. The further development of the retina resembles, in certain respects, that of the spinal medulla. Cameron states (Journ. Anat. and Physiol., vol. xxxix.) that in the early stages of the development of the inner or retinal layer of the optic cup all the structures, described by His as being present in the spinal medulla of the human embryo, are to be found, viz., (a) spongioblasts, (b) germinal cells, and (c) neuroblasts. |


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Weekly Market Commentary – 10/15/2021
-Darren Leavitt, CFA
US Financial markets rallied across the board on a solid start to the 3rd quarter corporate earnings season. The Consumer Discretionary sector led gains with a 3.6% advance off of much better than expected Retail Sales data. The Materials sector also had an excellent showing as supply chain logistic concerns remained and helped push commodity prices higher. Technically, the S&P 500 regained its 50-day moving average on Thursday and built upon that threshold on Friday. Over the next few days, investors will continue to look at this level to see if it can be reestablished as an area of support. Economic data for the week was, for the most part, better than expected, showing continued progress on the labor front.
For the week, the S&P 500 gained 1.8%, the Dow increased by 1.6%, the NASDAQ led gainers with an advance of 2.2%, and the Russell 2000 added 1.5%. It was an interesting week in the US Treasury market that saw the yield curve flatten a bit. The release of the most recent FOMC meeting notes suggested that the Federal Reserve will curtail their asset purchase program by 15 billion in the next couple of months with plans to eliminate the program by the middle of 2022. The news hit the front end of the curve, where the 2-year note yield increased by nine basis points to close at 0.4%. Interestingly, the back end of the curve was bid up. The 10-year bond yield decreased by three basis points to 1.58%, and the 30-year bond yield fell eleven basis points to close at 2.05%. Oil prices continued to rally, with WTI gaining $2.86 or 3.67% to close at $82.26 a barrel. Gold prices increased by $10.7 to $1768.10 an Oz. Notably, Copper prices increased by 10% or $0.455 to $4.731 a Lb.
Financials kicked off 3rd quarter earnings this week with impressive reports. Most banks beat on the top and bottom lines and found investment banking and Sales and Trading sources of strength in the quarter. Commentary out of the executive suite seemed to be cautiously optimistic. On the one hand, a rich pipeline in IPO's coupled with more M&A should continue to be a tailwind for investment banking. On the other hand, CEOs acknowledged that we could be in for a more persistent inflationary environment. Investors also saw solid results out of United Healthcare, Walgreens, and Taiwan Semiconductor. Delta Airlines announced a nice quarter but warned of the impact of higher fuel prices on their coming quarters. Apple also made headlines when it announced it would reduce the production of the iPhone 13 because of supply chain constraints.
Economic news for the week was generally positive. Retail Sales blew away estimates on both the headline and core numbers. The headline number came in at 0.7 versus expectations of -0.3, while the core number that excludes autos and energy came in at 0.8 versus the estimate of 0.4. On the labor front, Initial claims came in at 293k, the lowest level since the pandemic started, and Continuing Claims also trended lower to 2.593M. Inflation data was better than expected at both the consumer and producer levels, but year-over-year increases still cause concern. CPI came in at 0.4 versus expectations of 0.3 whole the core number came in at 0.2 versus 0.3. A year-over-year increase of 5.4% and 4%, respectively. PPI came in at 0.5 versus expectations of 0.6, while the core number came in at 0.2 versus 0.5. Finally, The University of Michigan's preliminary reading of Consumer Sentiment for October came in at 71.4, down from the final September reading of 72.8.
Investment advisory services offered through Foundations Investment Advisors, LLC ("FIA"), an SEC registered investment adviser. FIA's Darren Leavitt authors this commentary which may include information and statistical data obtained from and/or prepared by third party sources that FIA deems reliable but in no way does FIA guarantee the accuracy or completeness. All such third party information and statistical data contained herein is subject to change without notice. Nothing herein constitutes legal, tax or investment advice or any recommendation that any security, portfolio of securities, or investment strategy is suitable for any specific person. Personal investment advice can only be rendered after the engagement of FIA for services, execution of required documentation, including receipt of required disclosures. All investments involvement risk and past performance is no guarantee of future results. For registration information on FIA, please go to https://adviserinfo.sec.gov/ and search by our firm name or by our CRD #175083. Advisory services are only offered to clients or prospective clients where FIA and its representatives are properly licensed or exempted.


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Jets: 19
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Spa Volume: 240 Gallons / 908 Liters
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What a great start to a terrific show this was. You could tell it was going to be very special from the get-go, and boy was it ever! Just pure magic.
Happy 25th anniversary!
Hi Shoe Dick,
Now that VCRs are as obsolete as Laser disk players...
I was just noticing your PC beside your TV...
Is it set up to record your satellite or Cable signal... or just to receive and play back Internet content?
Is there a European internet service that is comparable to Netflix ?


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Los Angeles, California - July 30, 2010 - Building upon solid ratings and critical acclaim for returning hits Warehouse 13 and Eureka, and newcomer Haven, Syfy today announced a rich development slate of seven scripted projects featuring television icons Lee Majors and Kevin Sorbo; the Sanctuary creative team of Damian Kindler, Martin Wood and Amanda Tapping; a swashbuckling space opera and an alien version of The Office from Universal Cable Productions plus a single camera 1/2-hour about fighting zombies and a dramedy featuring supernatural villains.
In making the announcement, Mark Stern, Executive Vice President, Programming, Syfy, and Co-Head, Original Content, Universal Cable Productions, said: "One of our key agendas is to continue the extraordinary growth and momentum of our popular dramas. Through partnerships with these formidable talents, in front of and behind the camera, we hope to expand our powerful brand by offering our viewers an imaginative next generation of programming."
After months of emotional tumult, Edgar and Mallory call their relationship quits. As they say their final goodbyes, the ex-lovers are nearly hit by a meteorite that, it turns out, imbues them with extraordinary powers. Unfortunately, the powers only work when they are in close proximity to each other. Though the last thing they want to do is stay together, they'll need to try if they hope to overcome the newly arrived other-worldly forces that threaten to destroy them and anyone else who gets in the way.
Executive Producers: Bob Cooper and J.J. Jamieson for Landscape Entertainment
Executive Producer/Writer: Andrew Miller
Studios: A Universal Cable Productions/Fremantle Media co-production
In this 1/2-hour single-camera series, a down-on-his-luck 20-something undergoes back surgery, only to find that the procedure did not go well. Enter Lee Majors, who claims he has the perfect solution. He entices the young man into his ultra high-tech lab and makes him bionic. Now intrinsically bound together, Majors tries helping his new partner get his life back on track.
Executive Producers/Writers: Matthew Salzberg and Jenji Kohan
Executive Producer: Steven Pearl
Studio: Lionsgate
National Treasure meets Firefly in this swashbuckling space opera about an adventurous female relic hunter and her team as they hunt down -- and sometimes steal -- valuable and powerful objects to sell on the black market, all while staying one step ahead of the bounty hunters hot on their heels.
Co-Executive Producers/Writers: Dirk Blackman & Howard McCain
Co-Executive Producers: George Krstic & Ryuhei Kitamura
Supervising Producer: F.J. Desanto
Studio: Universal Cable Productions
In this "Robin Hood" story for the 23rd century, a young man of privilege teams up with a misfit spaceship crew to right the wrongs of his family.
Writer: Damian Kindler
Executive Producers: Damian Kindler, Martin Wood, and Amanda Tapping for
My Plastic Badgers Productions
A 1/2-hour single-camera series in which Kevin Sorbo plays an exaggerated version of himself... a former syndicated television series star. When a fan approaches Sorbo to enlist his skills in combating the underworld mythological creatures that threaten to destroy Los Angeles, an unlikely partnership is formed. Together, they use their intimate knowledge of the myths of Hercules to defeat a myriad of beasts.
Executive Producer: David Eick
Supervising Producers/Writers: Adam Karp & Royal McGraw
Producer: Kevin Sorbo
The Office meets Men in Black in this project featuring an office Temp who slowly discovers that his off-kilter and odd-ball bosses at the strange hi-tech "ad agency" where he works are really aliens working on a plan to destroy the Earth.
Co-Executive Producer/Writer: Scott Prendergast
Executive Producers: Michael Rotenberg and Tom Lassally for 3 Arts
Executive Producers: John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky for Ternion
In this 1/2-hour single-camera satire, when the zombie population of Marshall City overcomes the 30-foot barrier separating the infected people from the rest of the city, the Zombie Extermination and Removal Operations company (the Zeros) are called in to keep the peace. When they can get out of their own way long enough to focus on a case, they are pretty effective with very unorthodox methods.
Executive Producers: David Kenin and Steve Brenner
Co-Executive Producers: Chris Provost & Dave Hales
Syfy is a media destination for imagination-based entertainment. With year round acclaimed original series, events, blockbuster movies, classic science fiction and fantasy programming, a dynamic Web site (www.Syfy.com), and a portfolio of adjacent business (Syfy Ventures), Syfy is a passport to limitless possibilities. Originally launched in 1992 as SCI FI Channel, and currently in more than 96 million homes, Syfy is a network of NBC Universal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. (Syfy. Imagine greater.


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Zachary Sniderman served on Mashable's editorial team from 2010 through 2012. An arts and culture writer, Zack previously wrote for Maclean's Magazine, Greenshoelace.com and a ton of Columbia websites. Zack graduated with an M.S. from the Columbia School of Journalism and his B.A. from Harvard University. He now lives in New York City and misses pond hockey.
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I am not a 'Twitter person'. Watching Hugh Laurie a few weeks ago on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross saying he is none as well was a joy. But when he uttered the following joke, he gave away a splendid idea for a sensational new micro blogging site:
I'm not a 'Twitter person' … I'm more of a 'Shh person'. I subscribed to this 'Shh network', where you write something down, but don't send it anywhere.
I thought someone might have picked this idea up or had the same idea before, but my short search for such an (obviously hoax) service was unsuccessful. So, I created one myself:
Apart from the fun of "cloning" Twitter, writing a better front-end code and having the satisfying feeling of implementing a small project all in one day, I also had the idea of twittering silence on twitter itself. You can follow my as interesting as everybody else's tweets on:
By the way, I needed the underscore because a twitter user called 'shh' already existed … as did 'shhh' … and 'shhhh' … and 'shhhhh' … I could have taken 'shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh', but maybe that wouldn't have been such a good idea. Seems a bit desperate, doesn't it?
These two projects are really a bit unrelated. They serve the purpose of linking to each other. (Yeah, my middle name is "PR". Or was it "SEO"? Where is your birth certificate when you need it?)
And, of course, they share the same philosophy: "Silent twittering" for fun and more privacy awareness.


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New Study Suggests Global Pacts Like REDD Ignore Primary Causes of Destruction of Forests
NEW YORK (24 January 2010)—A new study issued today by some of the world's top experts on forest governance finds fault with a spate of international accords, and helps explain their failure to stop rampant destruction of the world's most vulnerable forests. The report suggests that global efforts have too often ignored local needs, while failing to address the most fundamental challenge to global forest management—that deforestation usually is caused by economic pressures imposed from outside the forests.
"Our findings suggest that disregarding the impact on forests of sectors such as agriculture and energy will doom any new international efforts whose goal is to conserve forests and slow climate change," said Jeremy Rayner, a professor at the University of Saskatchewan Graduate School of Public Policy and chair of the panel of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) that produced the new assessment. "With this report in hand, we can say with greater certainty that the success of current efforts to protect forests through a global climate change agreement will depend in part on whether negotiators integrate these findings into their policy proposals."
The product of some 60 experts in political science, policy studies, law and international relations, the new report represents the most comprehensive scientific assessment to date of international forest governance. The detailed results of the work of the expert panel, which was constituted under the Collaborative Partnership on Forests and coordinated by IUFRO, will be presented next week to the Ninth Session of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) as part of the launch of the International Year of Forests.
Rayner and others on the IUFRO panel argue in an accompanying policy brief that the report's findings suggest the need for a dramatic shift away from "top-down" efforts to protect forests. Instead, they say, most international initiatives, including the recent global pact under discussion, known as REDD, should focus more on supporting regional and national efforts to impact the forces that are putting the forests at risk.
The new assessment of international efforts to improve forest governance is being released as the United Nations prepares to launch the International Year of Forests at the Forum on Forests in New York. The report will explain why tropical forests remain at great risk, despite adoption of initiatives such as the Convention on Biological Diversity and global boycotts of tropical timber. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization's Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010, for example, South America lost 4 million hectares per year, while Africa lost 3.4 million hectares annually between 2000 and 2010.
To address such dilemmas, many groups have embraced REDD as a cure-all for addressing a variety of forest-related problems, primarily for its potential to bring new money to poor forested regions through payments for environmental services. REDD—which stands for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation—is the effort formally negotiated in December 2010 at the Cancun climate change conference.
Although the authors cite some successful examples of efforts to slow destruction of forests, it is argued in the report that REDD shows signs of repeating many of the mistakes of the past. Even an expanded REDD effort, known as REDD+, falls short of considering the needs and roles of forest communities and other local inhabitants. "REDD+ is an improvement, as it names forest conservation as a goal and sustainable forest management as a solution," Rayner said, "But it continues to explicitly value carbon storage above the improvement of forest conditions and livelihoods."
In their policy brief drawing on the results of the new assessment, the editors argue that REDD is more likely to succeed if the final agreement reflects lessons learned from past efforts. This means REDD negotiators must sufficiently engage stakeholders outside the forest sector—such as in the agriculture, transportation and energy sectors—and stop an over-reliance on a "one-size-fits-all" global scheme to address situations that are vastly different from region to region and country to country.
"REDD has gone further than past global forest strategies in engaging agriculture and other key sectors. Nevertheless, there is still a long ways to go," said Constance McDermott, James Martin Senior Fellow in Forest Governance at Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute. "Unless all sectors work together to address the impact of global consumption, including growing demand for food and biofuels, and problems of land scarcity, REDD will fail to arrest environmental degradation and will heighten poverty."
McDermott notes that REDD's overriding focus on protecting and pricing the carbon stored in forests will lead to the "further exclusion of indigenous people from their forests and the criminalization of their traditional livelihoods." These concerns are heightened by the growing number of "land grabs" by governments and individuals who are motivated by a desire to take advantage of REDD's forest-based carbon credits, incidents that already are occurring without consultation with local forest users.
"International approaches that aim to transform forests into storehouses for carbon, or for biodiversity or some other narrow purpose, are inevitably going to produce disappointing results," McDermott said. "Instead of generating 'grand plans' based on the simplification of complex problems on a global scale, we might be better advised to listen and learn from existing efforts, both public and private, across multiple scales and multiple sectors."
Despite noting the pitfalls surrounding REDD and other accords in chapters devoted to the topic, the report reflects optimism that conditions are ripe for reducing forest destruction worldwide, and with an international effort playing an important role.
The positive forces include an unprecedented amount of attention worldwide to the problem of illegal logging and a widespread acceptance of the concept of sustainable forest management. The report also cites a flurry of activity driven by NGOs to give local communities in many forested regions—and, in particular, indigenous groups and women—a stronger voice in forest planning processes.
Meanwhile, the IUFRO analysis finds many bright spots of forest governance work at the regional and national level. For example, the US, through its amendments to a law known as the Lacey Act, has made it illegal to import wood known to come from stolen timber. The EU is making a similar effort to exclude illegal wood from imports through its "due diligence" process that has forged important partnerships with major tropical timber producers like Cameroon. Brazil, long the target of an international campaign to reverse its forest destruction, has enacted new environmental and policy reforms that have the potential to slow forest loss in the Amazon Basin.
An example of a good start can be found within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which has engaged in a number of forest-related activities, including developing a regional standard for monitoring illegal logging and establishing a clearing house for assisting member states with forest-related research. The hope is that such a process will allow decision-makers to learn from the mistakes of the past.
The report also points out that many national actions have had an international component. The US and EU actions on illegal wood imports occurred in the wake of intensive advocacy efforts from NGOs. NGOs also played a strong role in Brazil's reforms. In addition, political support for forest reforms enacted in Guatemala was boosted by the fact that they were based on concepts widely embraced at the international level.
"We are not saying we need to abandon a global approach to forest governance, but we do need to establish the appropriate roles," said Rayner, chair of the IUFRO panel that produced the report. "The REDD process, for example, might provide a great way to raise money for sustainable forest management and other forest programs, but much of the details and operational aspects would be undertaken at the regional and national levels."
Rayner and other colleagues on the expert panel believe that far more can be accomplished if there is a reassessment of the proper role of global initiatives in driving productive changes in national and local management of valuable forestland. A chapter in the report proposes the creation of a new framework called "Forests +" that would bring a more inclusive spirit to global discussions of forest governance, focus most international initiatives on supporting and coordinating national and regional efforts, and pursue global accords only when a top-down approach is broadly demanded.
"The goal of Forests+ is to solve problems by focusing on the many ways people use forests and by including from the start a broad group of stakeholders and institutions inside and outside of forests," said Benjamin Cashore, professor of environmental governance and political science at Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and director of the Yale Program on Forest Policy and Governance. "Specifically we identified new ways of having an impact that don't require a 'top down' approach. Instead they would help nurture national and local strategies that work, provide training where needed and encourage market incentives that allow consumers to pick products based on how sustainably they are produced."
Cashore added that such an approach would pave the way for efforts within the forest sector to provide transparent, accountable and problem-focused efforts that would be critical in assessing any regional or global proposal, and for moving forward toward long term solutions. In their policy brief, IUFRO experts conclude that endowing Forests+ with the prestige and "moral authority" required to succeed will involve establishing a new high-level institution or assigning the role to an existing institution or even a consortium of groups. They note that the office of the UN Secretary General has energized other related efforts by establishing special offices and advisory boards. One model for implementing a Forests+ endeavor discussed in the IUFRO report is the Secretary General Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation, which has helped galvanize action around water issues.
For more information, please contact:
Gerda Wolfrum: +43 1 877 01 51 17 or wolfrum(at)iufro.org
Coimbra Sirica at +1 301 943 3287 or csirica(at)burnesscommunications.com
Michelle Geis at +254 701 709 790 or mgeis(at)burnesscommunications.com
You may be interested in this article of Richard Black (BBC News) as well: ⇒Forests: REDD or dead?


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Elegant handcrafted Hallberg-Rassy 31 half model in GRP mounted on a mahogny board in the same beautiful finish as your boat.
Plaque with Boatmodel, building number and boat name will personalize this for you.
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Model with standard keel.
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3 Stars
The Draw
Elevated Mexican street food bolstered by a strong list of tequilas, mezcals, sotols, whiskeys, and creative cocktails.
The Drawback
Crowds pack the bar and restaurant nightly, so waits are long and the dining room is noisy.
Don't Miss
Queso a la plancha tacos, pork belly agrodolce tacos, queso fundido con tequila, chicken chicarrónes, Pinche limeade, churros with Mexican hot chocolate
Price $$ (Average entrée: $11–$15)
Food: 3 stars
Service: 3 stars
Ambience: 2 1/2 stars
Taco trucks are sexy: Their edgy, spontaneous personalities make them intriguing. Their straightforward authenticity is alluring. And the mystery of their whereabouts jumps the excitement quotient.
Chef Kevin Morrison understands the magnetism of the food truck, and he knows how to turn that raw energy into a prosperous business. After launching Pinche Tacos, his highly successful taco trailer, and a brick-and-mortar taqueria in the City Park neighborhood (at press time, a second location in Highland was just opening), Morrison's momentum is in overdrive. In fact, in the past year, he has earned myriad accolades, including a Best New Restaurants nod from Bon Appétit and a place on our annual list of Denver's top 25 restaurants.
The success of the 48-year-old Indiana native comes as much from Morrison's clear, focused cooking as it does from his ability to make the dining room feel as real as the atmosphere around his taco trailer. Take the name: As the story goes, Morrison was in the throes of recipe development for his original truck when he hit upon the idea for a beef cheek taco. As he described the creation—at length—to friends, one reportedly interrupted with, "Just give me that f$#%ing taco!" Pinche Tacos (Spanish slang for the expletive) stuck. But when Morrison applied for a liquor license for the York Street location, the Department of Excise and Licenses nixed the word "pinche." The official name became Tacos Borrachos—but everyone still calls the restaurant by its unofficial name.
Morrison maintains an equally edgy, urban ambience in the dining room, which fits into its gritty surroundings. With red accent lighting; a long, black slate bar; plank flooring; bare tables; and a floor-to-ceiling chalkboard listing names and descriptions from the tequila collection, the space eschews pretension. Servers, too, are devoid of airs as they encourage diners at both individual and communal tables to join in what feels like a house party. The small space is packed nightly (and for brunch), with diners crowding the bar area and the entrance, lingering sometimes up to two hours for a table. For those waiting, the space can be awkward, but the vibe is loud and friendly with servers seamlessly weaving in and out of the crowd to help make everyone feel as comfortable as possible. Lunch is decidedly tamer.
No matter when you arrive, though, Morrison's tightly focused "Mexican food with a twist" comes through even in the antojitos (appetizers). A version of the classic queso fundido is revved up with a splash of tequila and diced tomato and onion. The guacamole, which is made fresh throughout the day, is brilliant with just enough salt and extra diced onion.
Unlike some modern takes on Mexican street food, Morrison's tacos don't stray from Latin flavors, even as he adds contemporary flair. Take the lengua tacos, in which tongue from locally raised cattle is boiled for tenderness, braised, and then crisped on the griddle for caramelization. They are served on corn tortillas; scattered with avocado, diced onion, and cilantro; doused in tangy roasted tomatillo salsa; and drizzled with a creamy guajillo honey mayo that pulls the flavors—earthy, meaty, tart, and sweet—together. This attention to balance is true of every taco that crosses the counter, including the pork belly agrodolce with its perfect little cubes of sweet and sour braised pork belly, candied garlic cloves, cabbage-cilantro slaw, and a side of braising jus. The vegetarian queso a la plancha, however, may be the best taco of all, with salty, griddled Cotija cheese and smashed avocado offsetting the mouth-puckering roasted tomatillo salsa and lime.
Happy hour ushers in a twist on the taco theme with an array of affordable nibbles including chicken chicharrónes (crispy fried chicken skin dipped in a fiery salsa casera); skin-on fries (or "Pinche Papas") sprinkled with Monterey Jack and smothered in a mildly spicy chorizo "gravy"; "Sloppy Josés" sliders made with the same chorizo filling; and smoky chipotle deviled eggs. Brunch, too, offers interesting combinations such as the green eggs and ham: a pepper-crusted cube of pork belly draped in a sauce of tomatillos, serrano chiles, and garlic and topped with fluffy scrambled eggs. Every meal at Pinche offers simple food and exacting flavors—with the same edge and value that attracts long lines to the food truck.
All of these dishes pair perfectly with Pinche's well-edited cocktail list, with stars like the grapefruit-driven Palomas and the refreshing Pinche limeade made with house-made lime liqueur. A robust collection of nearly 50 tequilas, mezcals, and sotols (similar to tequila, only made from a different plant in another region) offers ample opportunities for interesting flights. One of the most unusual is the Del Maguey Single Village Mezcal Flight, which includes a pour of Albarradas from the Mixe region and the Mezcal Pechuga, which is uniquely distilled using fruits and—get this—chicken breasts.
Are there downsides to this quirky taqueria? Of course there are, if you look for them. Some diners won't like the wait; others will be turned off by the noise bouncing off of the restaurant's hard surfaces.
But for me, I'll take the din and the crowds (though maybe not the long waits) as part of the seemingly nonstop party known, endearingly to many, as a pinche good time.


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Here's proof that Governments' creativity in finding new revenue sources is unlimited, reports The Merc:
The California Legislature is considering a bill that would allow the state to begin researching the use of electronic license plates for vehicles. The move is intended as a moneymaker for a state facing a $19 billion deficit.
The device would mimic a standard license plate when the vehicle is in motion but would switch to digital ads or other messages when it is stopped for more than four seconds, whether in traffic or at a red light. The license plate number would remain visible at all times in some section of the screen.
Note: the bill is not passed yet, and it's only about a feasibility study. And guess who would fund the research: the company that would make such licence plates, San Francisco-based Smart Plate.
Forgetting all technical details, visibility and driver distraction issues, a few questions that naturally come to mind: just whose car is it? ( yeah, I thought so…) Who gets to decide what ads to display or not, and more importantly, who receives the revenue?
Of course once the license plate is electronic, new opportunities about – just look at this research by Accenture, the global Consulting firm:
- Toll Plazas
- Parking
- Fleet management
- Police monitoring..etc.
The last point raises the possibility of another arms race, just like what we've seen with radar detectors, between those wishing to hack the system to fake/shield their license information and law enforcement…
And here's the business that would certainly benefit: body shops. Bumper repair prices would sky-rocket, and so would the number of low-speed, bumper-to-bumper accidents. You know, when the driver behind you has the urge to click the ad you're displaying. 🙂
Oh, well … while you wait for the 2-year research to conclude, you may wish to implement your own solution. (hint: iPad + velcro)
(Cross-posted @ CloudAve)


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This blog was born ten years ago today.
After seven years of very consistent upkeep, in which time it documented and shaped innumerable adventures and ups and downs, in early 2012 it began to fall dormant.
There were several factors at play in this, not least that I just had too much else going on at the time to keep it properly updated. But between one thing and another, it seemed to be dying.
Given its longevity and the significance of the the role it had played in my life, just leaving it to wither away from neglect seemed unacceptable though.
Accordingly I vowed to update it retrospectively at least up until the end of 2012, aka the long-anticipated supposed end of the world.
2012 wasn't the end of the world as it turned out. (Who knew.) But it was huge, and quite apart from a commitment to the blog as a project, I felt like I needed to do this – to sort through and assimilate all of the media I'd generated that year and make it into posts – as a means of catharsis. Operation Kill The Blog / Get Over 2012.
It's been very difficult, and taken an extremely long time. But having now at long, long last completed that epically and increasingly all-consumingly procrastinated task, I hereby declare TF to be Done.
*flops exhaustedly*
Vale Blog.
You've been hugely important to me throughout an extraordinary ten-year cycle, which now seems to be over.
I can't even begin to find the words right now. And I'm not sure what comes next.
But I expect we'll find out.


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Location Mailing Lists are those that pertain to a specific locale. Some of the lists are state-wide, some county-wide. There are even mailing lists for genealogical information relative to a specific city. If your research is place-specific, either in a U.S. state or a foreign country, these are the lists to join.
As far as posting guidelines, each list has its own rules, but generally common sense prevails. You are requested to post messages which are on-topic. For example, if you join a mailing list whose topic is Shelby County, Indiana, post messages about your ancestors and research in Shelby County, not New Orleans.
Next, be polite. We genealogists tend to be a polite bunch, but the occasional odd duck does appear. If someone posts an offensive message, just contact the list administrator and let them deal with any problem. Carry on personal correspondence with other group members off-list, via e-mail, if what you have to say is only of interest to you and the other person.
When you subscribe to a mailing list you will automatically receive an e-mail detailing any rules regarding posting to the list, plus information on how to unsubscribe. Make sure you keep this initial e-mail, otherwise if you want to unsubscribe, you won't remember how.
When you join mailing lists, the chances are very good that someone on the list will be researching one of your surnames, or one of the locations your ancestors lived, i.e. a particular county or country of origin. Mailing lists optimize your chances for success. Many researchers have made the most progress in climbing their family tree thanks to mailing lists.
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Cover Scents and Attractants
Cover Scents
Cover scents are designed to reduce human odor by helping to neutralize it or by hiding it with a natural competitive scent.
- The scents can be applied to skin, footwear, or clothing.
- Many hunters hang scent-soaked pieces of cloth around their stand or blind.
Attractants work by offering animals a tempting odor that mimics food sources; scents that sexually arouse males; and scents, such as licorice or vanilla, that pique "curiosity."
- A successful technique for stopping a deer at your pre-selected, pick-off spot is to sprinkle a few drops of scent on a leaf or twig at that site.
- Do not apply attractants to your skin or clothing because the deer will follow the scent and detect your position.


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The 55,000 Asian pieces in the musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac cover the entire geographical area of this continent, from Turkey to Japan. They essentially illustrate the popular and minority arts of the recent period, complementing the collections in the musée du Louvre and the musée national des arts asiatiques Guimet.
The earliest assemblages come from the royal cabinets of curiosities, and above all from the first scientific expeditions sent to Asia by the Minister of Public Instruction in the late 19th century. Throughout the 20th century, these collections were continually added to by ethnologists from the "musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro" and then the "musée de l'Homme". The Colonial Exhibitions, particularly that of 1931, gathered numerous artisanal and everyday objects which today form a significant part of the Asian collections of the musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac.


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Updated June 11, 2021 at 7:04 PM ET
Three experts have now resigned from a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee after the agency approved an Alzheimer's drug called Aduhelm against the wishes of nearly every member on the panel.
The drug — its generic name is aducanumab — was approved on Monday, setting off a variety of responses, from celebrations among some patients, caregivers and doctors to pointed questions about the drug's benefits and costs.
The latest exit comes from Dr. Aaron Kesselheim, a professor at Harvard Medical School who is also director of the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He said the FDA is greenlighting Aduhelm despite not having enough proof that the drug will help Alzheimer's patients.
The controversial approval could set a precedent in how similar drugs are evaluated in the future, Kesselheim says.
"I think there's a real danger considering this to be a one-off event," he told NPR on Friday.
Approval of Aduhelm, he added, "now sets a precedent for the treatment of future [Alzheimer's Disease] drugs, as well as drug approvals more broadly, and the amount of data they need."
Doctor sends a scathing resignation letter to the FDA
"Accelerated Approval is not supposed to be the backup that you use when your clinical trial data are not good enough for regular approval," Kesselheim said via Twitter on Monday as the FDA issued its OK for Aduhelm.
Kesselheim called the FDA move "probably the worst drug approval decision in recent U.S. history" in a scathing resignation letter he sent to acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock on Thursday.
"It is clear to me that FDA is not presently capable of adequately integrating the Committee's scientific recommendations into its approval decisions," wrote Kesselheim, who had served on the FDA advisory committee since 2015.
He said the FDA switched its approach to Aduhelm at the last minute to grant accelerated approval — a classification that will require the drug's makers to conduct another study after it is released to the public. And he alleged that when the advisory committee voted against the drug in November, its members had been given different criteria to consider than the FDA cited in an explanation of its decision.
Kesselheim also wrote that "some of the questions FDA asked the Committee to answer were worded in a way that seemed slanted to yield responses that would favor the drug's approval."
Still, 10 of the committee's 11 members voted against the drug's approval, according to the STAT medical news site, which added that the final member voted "uncertain."
The FDA acknowledged the controversy and attention the drug's approval has garnered. The agency "concluded that the benefits of Aduhelm for patients with Alzheimer's disease outweighed the risks of the therapy," Patrizia Cavazzoni, director of the FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, said in a statement this week.
By resigning, Kesselheim joins neurologists David Knopman of the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota and Joel Perlmutter of Washington University in St. Louis, who announced their departures from the FDA's Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee this week.
With the three resignations, the federal panel has now lost a third of its members who come from outside the government.
Aduhelm is the first new therapy to be approved for Alzheimer's disease since 2003.
As NPR's Jon Hamilton has reported:
"This drug has generated all kinds of excitement because it is the first approved drug that does more than just relieve the symptoms of Alzheimer's. This drug actually affects an underlying disease process by reducing the amount of sticky amyloid plaque that builds up in the brain. The catch is that removing this plaque may not actually help patients avoid memory loss and thinking problems. One big study showed that it did. Another showed that it didn't."
He noted that the FDA would not normally be expected to grant approval to a drug under the mix of circumstances that have surrounded Aduhelm.
Drawing connections to another expensive drug
In his resignation letter, Kesselheim also cited the FDA's approval in late 2016 of eteplirsen, which is meant to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The agency's approach to the two drugs has been a debacle, the doctor said.
Sarepta, the maker of eteplirsen, said at the time that it would charge $300,000 per year for each patient receiving the drug.
The approval of "two highly problematic drugs" that might not help people who are suffering from terrible conditions, Kesselheim warned, "will undermine the care of these patients, public trust in the FDA, the pursuit of useful therapeutic innovation, and the affordability of the health care system."
Aduhelm was developed by the U.S. company Biogen and the Japanese company Eisai. When the drug hits the market, it will be extremely expensive.
The drug will be administered through infusions every four weeks, resulting in a yearly cost of about $56,000, the companies said. That's the list price, which doesn't necessarily reflect the out-of-pocket costs for someone who has insurance and/or Medicare. Preliminary estimates suggest patients' copayments for the drug could cost around $11,500 annually.
In defense of that high cost, Biogen and Eisai point to the huge amounts of money required to take care of someone with Alzheimer's disease. Each year in the U.S., they said, Alzheimer's and other dementias bring an overall annual cost of more than $600 billion.
Some patient advocates celebrate FDA's move
Others are cheering the FDA's approval, including advocates for patients who are suffering from other debilitating diseases. In their eyes, the FDA's approval is a sign that the agency is willing to listen to their communities. One such response came from the ALS Association.
"We are heartened by the FDA's decision to speed new treatments to people with Alzheimer's and we need them to do the same for people with ALS [amyotrophic lateral sclerosis] immediately," said Neil Thakur, chief mission officer of the ALS Association.
"There are even more promising therapies in the ALS pipeline, such as AMX0035, which has been shown to be safe, slow disease progression and lengthen life," Thakur said. "People with ALS cannot wait for additional clinical trials when there are potential therapies that have demonstrated efficacy and safety."
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.


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When: April 20, 2016 7:00 pm (Eastern Standard Time)
Participants will learn how VoiceThread can help educators provide multiple means of engagement, representation, action and expression for their courses. Participants will learn how to use VoiceThread's multi-modal communication platform, closed captioning feature, and VoiceThread Universal to design accessible lessons.
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Though this video is quite good, there are a couple of things that we teach differently:
- It is breezed over in the video, but the best way to self-arrest is to avoid falling. Good snow climbing technique should be practiced on low-angle slopes so that when you are on high-angle slopes it comes as second nature.
- We teach the piolet canne (cane) position as the baseline position. We only hold the piolet in the self-arrest position when it appears that a fall is likely. As the piolet canne position is the most stable walking position and it provides the most security, we like to see people move up the mountain in this position. One should practice self-arrest starting from the piolet canne position.
- There is some debate on whether you should put your feet up or not. The concern -- as the guide in the video points out -- is that if you put your feet down and your crampon points catch, that you might flip head-over-heels. On the other hand, it might stop you more quickly. We teach people to put their toes into the snow to arrest the fall.
Many people like wrist-leashes because they limit the possibility of dropping the axe. Our guides prefer them for steep terrain. There are two downsides to the constant use of a leash. First, it adds time to a turn, because the axe must be on the uphill side of your body. Moving the wrist-leash from one hand to the other many hundreds of times throughout the day adds time to the clock. Second, if you fall and lose control of the axe, it may become a liability. The last thing that you want in a fall is to be punctured by the axe.
Some people like to attach the ice-axe leash to their harness. This is a very bad place to attach a leash. Any loss of control during a fall could lead to a catastrophic torso puncture injury.
People are very adamant about wanting to use a wrist-leash while climbing for fear of dropping the axe. But really, how common is it for a climber to drop an axe? Not common at all. An ice axe is like a mountaineer's weapon. How many soldiers in the heat of battle drop their weapons? While mountain climbing is definitely not as intense as a war, it can be a dangerous pursuit and most climbers are unlikely to drop the most important tool they carry.
In preparing this blog, I watched a number of videos about self-arrest techniques. There were quite a few bad examples and indeed, some that were just flat dangerous. If you practice self-arrest, always wear a helmet and do not attach the leash of the axe to yourself. Always practice in a place where there is a good run-out. And be conservative in your practice of the head-first/stomach technique as this is a very easy one to get hurt practicing.
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POPixel Steam Key Global
POPixel is a game made with pixelart. It's the perfect mix between casual and adventure styles. You control an acrobat bullet-man that blows up balloons jumping on them, but it's not that simple: each balloon has an unique behavior.
Explore 4 differents worlds with 30 levels each, blow up every balloon you find and don't forget to collect all the 3 coins in each level. Unravel aerodynamic puzzles and floating challenges, find out what each balloon does and use them in your favor to complete your task.
- Dozen kinds of balloons, each one with unique behavior.
- Four different world with 30 levels each.
- Pixelart.


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Michael Irvin has filed a $100 million lawsuit against a female employee at a Renaissance Hotel in Arizona, who claimed the Cowboys legend made an inappropriate comment towards her this week, resulting in his dismissal from NFL Network's ongoing LVII coverage.Renaissance Hotels' parent company, Marriott, is also named in the lawsuit for evden EVE NAkLiYAt allegedly scheming to make Irvin the next victim of '.'
Irvin's alleged comment has not been revealed, and his accuser is listed as 'Jane Doe' in the filing, obtained by DailyMail.comThe NFL Network personality says he being 'railroaded' with false accusations that are threatening his broadcasting career.
'After a friendly 45 second conversation with the employee in an open lobby that was witnessed by others, multiple witnesses have provided statements verifying Michael was a gentleman and behaved just like you see on television,' reads a statement from McCathern, the Texas law firm representing Irvin. 'He was being gracious with fans, taking pictures and speaking with anyone who wanted some of his time.'
Marriott spokespeople have not responded to DailyMail.com's request for comment.
Michael Irvin has filed a $100 million lawsuit against a woman who claimed the Cowboys legend made an inappropriate comment towards her this week at an Arizona hotel, resulting in his dismissal from NFL Network's ongoing Super Bowl LVII coverage
Renaissance Hotels' parent company, Marriott, is also named in the lawsuit for allegedly scheming to make Irvin the next victim of ' cancel culture.' The alleged incident is believed to have taken place at the Renaissance Hotel location in Glendale, Arizona (pictured)
After returning to his room following the brief exchange with the woman, Irving claims he was woken up by hotel staff, who removed him from the hotel without explanation.
'Plaintiff was judged guilty without even knowing the accusations,' the lawsuit reads. 'A few days later, Plaintiff was removed from his scheduled programming, and essentially »kicked off the air» and »cancelled» due to these allegations.'
In his lawsuit, Irving claims he has witnesses who can support his statement that he and Doe 'casually exchanged pleasantries,' adding that the 56-year-old 'shook her hand, and went to his room alone.'
The filing also claims that the hotel refused to listen to eye-witness accounts of the interaction.
What's more, the hotel manager is accused in reporting the incident to the NFL 'with the intention of damaging that relationship and canceling [Irvin].'
'Evidently, as Plaintiff was sleeping one of the managers of the Hotel reported false information to the NFL about the Plaintiff accusing him of improper behavior towards a hotel employee,' the lawsuit reads. 'The NFL responded by removing Plaintiff from all scheduled programming surrounding the Super Bowl. Plaintiff's representatives have reached out to the hotel and even met in person to obtain clarity about this situation and provide witnesses and resolve this matter before Plaintiff's reputation could be damaged any further—but to no avail.'
In his lawsuit, Irving claims he has witnesses who can support his statement that he and Doe 'casually exchanged pleasantries,' adding that the 56-year-old 'shook her hand, and went to his room alone
Irving says he's already had appearances canceled as a result of the accusations.
'It is clear Michael is the latest victim of our cancel culture where all it takes is an accusation to ruin a person's life,' McCathern said in the firm's statement. 'Michael looks forward to clearing his name in court and hopes the Court of public opinion will see the truth come out as well.'
'When I came into the hotel [on Sunday night], they asked what I did and I said, »I just went straight to the room,»' Irvin said, as quoted by
'So they moved my hotel, and I said, »What's going on, guys? What's happening? Why are we moving hotels?»
'They said, »Well, last night you walked in, you talked to somebody.» I said, »I didn't talk to anybody. I went straight to the room.»
'And then they showed it on camera that I did talk to somebody. I talked to this girl for about a minute. I don't know what — they didn't show it to me. They told it to me. I didn't see it. But that's why they moved me, because I guess the girl said I said something to her within that minute that we talked, and so they moved me.'
'That's why I'm kind of hiding to wait and see how everything comes down,' Irvin added. 'It was a minute meeting somewhere in the lobby. I don't even remember it really because I had a few drinks, to tell you the truth.'
NFL Network reporter Michael Irvin speaks with Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni during Super Bowl Opening Night at Footprint Center
Speaking with the , Irvin said his only physical interaction with the woman was a brief handshake.
Although no formal complaint was filed, the hotel did notify NFL Network about the alleged incident, leading to Irvin's removal, DailyMail.com has learned.
The 56-year-old Irvin gave his side of the story to Dallas radio station on Wednesday morning, saying he briefly spoke with a woman in his hotel lobby, but can't remember what he said to prompt a complaint. When you have almost any questions concerning where in addition to how to work with evden evE NakLiyat, you are able to e-mail us on the internet site.
'Michael Irvin will not be part of the NFL Network's Super Bowl LVII week coverage,' NFL Network spokesman Alex Reithmiller told DailyMail.com in a statement.
Irvin has faced other accusations in the past.
In 1996, eVdEN eVE nAkLiyaT a Cowboys cheerleader claimed that Irvin and Dallas offensive lineman Erik Williams sexually assaulted her at gunpoint, but the accuser later pled guilty to perjury and filing a false police report.
Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid speaks with NFL Network reporter Michael Irvin during Super Bowl Opening Night at Footprint Center
That same year, Irvin was arrested with cocaine and exotic dancers at a hotel room, Evden EVe nAKLiYat later pleading guilty to drug possession. He would be arrested for cocaine possession again in 2001, although those charges were ultimately dropped.
In a civil suit, EvDEn evE NAKliyAT Irvin was accused of sexual assault at a Florida casino in 2007.He filed a counterclaim and the two sides settled out of court.
Florida prosecutors declined to charge Irvin over accusations he drugged and sexually assaulted a 27-year-old woman in March of 2017 due to a lack of evidence.
Irvin told reporters in July of 2017 that he has lost 'millions' of dollars in endorsements and business deals as a result of the claims made against him.He also said he was 'devastated' by the allegations, EVDEn Eve NAKLiYAt partly because they were made by a young woman he considered to be a friend.
The woman claimed she was at a bar in Miami with Irvin when they decided to go to his room at the W Hotel in Fort Lauderdale.Shortly after arriving at the room, she claimed she began to feel sick and the last thing she remembered was trying to fight Irvin off, she told police at the time.
She told police she did not remember anything else until she woke up the next morning.After taking an Uber home about 7:30am, she called police to report the alleged drugging and rape.


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I have a dilemma regarding ebook publishing. I am a seasoned graphic designer/illustrator trying to break into the kidlit industry with an author/illustrator picture book.
I'd just begun sending out dummies of my book to potential agents when I was contacted by a publishing company specializing exclusively in ebook apps for the iPad. They had seen my work at a regional SCBWI event and wanted me to submit any manuscripts/dummies I happened to have for their review and possible acceptance. They went on, in that initial conversation, to say that if the app sold large numbers, it would make it potentially appealing to traditional publishers.
That's probably true. But what are the chances of it selling in large numbers? That's the question.
I'm a total noob at this (a key reason I was seeking an agent!) and don't want to miss the chance of my book being something really wonderful. Although I'm not afraid to embrace new technologies, I believe traditional publishing is better for many reasons. I know a good editor is worth her weight in gold and can do to a good MS what a good Art Director can do with a bunch of disparate pieces of art and copy.
Here's the question. If I submit to this app publisher, and they accept and publish my PB, will that completely shoot down any chances of it getting published as a traditional, printed book? Should I just stick it out and see what turns up with my submissions to agents?
If you think that your book is going to change significantly in the editing and design process, then you probably don't want to publish it as an app first.
If you do decide to publish your book as an app, don't hand over your creative property to someone unless they can show you an app they've done before that you think is cool. Lots and lots of people are trying to make apps. Some of them suck at it. Be warned.