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Capital funds from the city and state have fallen to just $7 million from a high of $42 million in 2008, because of the recession. Meanwhile, two of the park's planned revenue-producing commercial piers have yet to be developed, leaving the Hudson River Park Trust, which runs the park, short of the money it needs for routine maintenance.
Adding to its woes: A lawsuit filed in November by the owners of Chelsea Piers, the sports and entertainment complex, which leases three piers from 17th to 23rd Street from the trust. The suit seeks to force the trust, and by extension taxpayers, to spend "at least $37.5 million" repairing damage its piers have sustained over the past two decades from small marine borers known as gribbles and teredos.
This month, the trust fired back in court with a motion to dismiss, arguing that the lawsuit amounted to nothing more than a "for-profit commercial venture trying to secure a huge public bailout for longstanding problems of its own making and for which it bears the sole legal responsibility."
The suit is a contest between the Bloomberg administration, state officials and the trust on one side and on the other, a well-connected group of investors led by Roland W. Betts, whose list of friends includes George E. Pataki, Michael R. Bloomberg and his Yale fraternity brother George W. Bush. The trust's board chairwoman is Diana L. Taylor, Mayor Bloomberg's live-in companion.
Hudson River Park grew out of the ill-fated proposal to build Westway, a superhighway, on 200 acres of landfill along the West Side.
State and city officials in 1998 estimated the park's cost at $300 million — within a year, that had jumped to $370 million — and its completion date as 2003. The city and the state have already put in $340 million in capital funds, and the trust says another $200 million is needed to finish the public areas of the park. Fourteen years after it began, the park is 70 percent complete.
The cost of caring for structures built on or over water is enormous because they are constantly subjected to battering by tides, winds, fungi and marine borers, problems largely unknown at landlocked properties. Indeed, the biggest hurdle in the park's development has been the piers themselves.
"It's far more expensive to replace, repair and take care of these piers than anyone anticipated," said Madelyn Wils, president and chief executive of the trust and a former executive vice president of the city's Economic Development Corporation. Ms. Wils said demolishing and replacing Pier 54, at West 13th Street, where the wood pilings are severely deteriorated, would cost $33 million; constructing its planned amenities would cost an additional $30 million.
Pier 40, at Houston Street, is even more problematic. The 14-acre pier has thousands of steel pilings that are severely corroded; a recent estimate for their repair came in at $80 million to $90 million.
Pier 40 also happens to be one of the piers designated for commercial development, with revenues to cover park maintenance. The others include Chelsea Piers and Pier 57, at West 15th Street, where plans are moving ahead for an urban market fashioned from recycled shipping containers, as well as a rooftop park.
The annual budget for routine maintenance at the park is $15 million, a figure Ms. Wils says has not grown despite a doubling of the landscaped areas in recent years. Almost half of the $15 million comes from fees at the covered parking area on Pier 40 — revenue that is now threatened by a leaky roof.
"Part of the challenge is how to put together a plan for successful private investment and appropriate redevelopment when you're basing that thinking on quicksand," said Vin Cipolla, president of the Municipal Art Society, a nonprofit group dedicated to planning and preservation, and one of 29 members of a new Hudson River Park task force. "There has to be public investment, and the leadership will have to come from the governor. Otherwise we'll just see more deterioration."
That legislation was highly specific — some say restrictive — in terms of the sorts of commercial activity allowed in the park, with prohibitions on hotels, offices, housing and casinos, as well as limits on the length of leases.
"We want to make changes so we can move ahead and finish building this park," Ms. Wils said. "This is not an impossible task, but we can no longer sit around and say, 'What do we do with Pier 40?' We need to take action."
The trust also hopes to step up private fund-raising, taking a page from the successful campaign of the nearby High Line park. The Chelsea Piers lawsuit may make that task even more difficult.
The suit describes the dire state of Chelsea's wood pilings, arguing that the company has already spent $16 million on "necessary emergency repair work." It contends, as it has several times in the past, that the Hudson River Park Trust has a legal obligation to pay for the rehabilitation of the pilings.
Executives and officials of the piers and the trust were reluctant to discuss the issue because the lawsuit is pending. A spokesman for the trust would say only that it would vigorously defend itself.
The mayor's office played down the dispute. "This is a good-faith disagreement between the two parties, which is what judges and courts are for," Stu Loeser, a spokesman for Mr. Bloomberg, said.
Chelsea Piers, which currently pays $3.5 million a year in rent, opened in 1995, three years before the State Legislature created the Hudson River Park. In the late 1990s, Chelsea Piers asked for a rent rebate to pay for pier repairs.
After the trust rebuffed its demands, Mr. Betts went directly to Mr. Pataki, who was then the governor, and won a five-year rent rebate for pier repairs, beginning in 2004, that was worth $2.5 million. The trust insisted, however, that the rebate "should not be viewed as a waiver, modification or concession by the trust to any of the terms and conditions of your lease." The lease states that Chelsea Piers is required "to make all repairs," structural and nonstructural.
But the lease also contains an exception: The state will use its best efforts to include Chelsea Piers in any comprehensive, government-sponsored rehabilitation of the Hudson River piers.
Mr. Betts and Chelsea Piers Management contended in the suit that contrary to the lease, the complex had been wrongfully excluded from a multibillion-dollar effort by the city and the trust to rehabilitate the Hudson River waterfront.
To defend itself, the trust hired Randy M. Mastro, who was a deputy mayor in the Giuliani administration and over the past seven years has served as the go-to lawyer for companies suing the Bloomberg administration. He has a reputation as a fierce and combative litigator.
In his response to the lawsuit, Mr. Mastro argues that there is no "comprehensive plan" to repair all the piers on Manhattan's Hudson River waterfront. Indeed, the trust's motion states that only about one-third of all the piers on the river have been scheduled for construction work by the trust. The trust also says the cost of repairing the pilings at Chelsea Piers could reach $100 million.
"And now, unable to obtain any further subsidies from its public landlord," the trust says in its brief, "Chelsea Piers belatedly sues as its 'last gasp' effort to avoid its contractual repair obligations, and in the process, threatens to bankrupt a public corporation charged with the development and stewardship of the most acclaimed public park in New York City since Central Park."
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WINIMED 10 contains 2 X 25 tablets per package and it is manufactured by Deus Medical. Stanozolol is considered to be one of the most popular and well-known steroids today in use. It is introduced to the market in 1960s by Wintrop Laboratories and its popularity over the years continued to grow. It was developed for medical purpose of treating anemia; moreover, it has been also used for veterinary purpose. The low androgenic properties it has and being responsible for building high caliber muscle tissues made it a widely-used steroid among both bodybuilders and atletes.
It has more anabolic properties than androgenic ones which is why its anabolic or estrogen-related side effects will less likely to develop; moreover high blood pressure is not an issue while using it.
Women often have difuculties using anabolic steroids because of its virilization effects; however, Stanozolol as it's often known carries a much lower virilization rating. Therefore, being less likely to be androgenic and lower virilization effects makes stanozolol a proper and safe choice for women bodybuilders.
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You may have heard people refer to CFHI and those involved in the organization as part of a global family. Our 'family' is made up of wonderful volunteers, health care providers, devoted staff (stateside and abroad), as well as the fastest growing part of our family– more than 7,000 CFHI alumni and counting! We have been growing our family and projects for over 20 years.
CFHI is not only a global family, but we serve families. Two projects that come to mind when I think about how our work affects families are projects that target the long-distance trucking industry in India and the illegal sex workers that support this industry.
In India, young men, and boys barely out of school, travel the highway system connecting the most distant corners. The work is hard, the hours long, and the travel dangerous on the over-crowded highways connecting coast to coast. While away from home for 2-6 months at a time, many truck drivers engage in sexual activities with prostitutes. Two National Aids Control Organization (NACO)-based foundations that target this population are the Society for the Promotion of Youth and Masses (SPYM) and SWACH (Survival for Women and Children Foundation).
Both do amazing outreach and fieldwork with peer educators, some once truckers themselves. They captivate the young audience by performing skits (see photo, right), playing card games, leading monthly health camps, and offering the men free hair cuts and shaves while they talk about safe sex. SWATCH peer educators target the high-risk female sex workers~ often widowed women (some still in their teens) who have been forced into sex work to support their children. Their main activities include teaching why condom use is important, the importance of regular HIV testing and resources are available if they test HIV positive. They even teach the woman how to put on a condom on men in the dark by demonstrating how to put a condom on a model blind-folded! Challenges ahead include rehabilitation training for the sex workers.
The family in Child Family Health International is both our global family of staff and local health care providers that make CFHI Global Health Education Programs the amazing experiences they are, and the network of folks, our alumni, who have been touched by CFHI's transformative programs, as well as the families served by CFHI programs and reinvestment in host communities.


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Josep Lluís Mateo was born in Barcelona (1949) and graduated in Architecture in 1974 from the ETSAB and gained his doctorate (cum laude) at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in 1994.
Mateo's practice is based in Barcelona, and he is currently involved in a number of local and international projects such as the new Film Theatre of Catalonia in Barcelona, the new headquarters for PGGM Pension Fund Company in Zeist, Holland and the office building on the former site of Renault factories in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, among others.
With each of his projects, Mateo seeks to connect the practice of construction with research and development in both intellectual and programmatic terms. He works in the area between the sphere of ideas and the physical world of reality.
Academic collaborations and teaching:
Josep Lluís Mateo has been Professor of the Architecture Department at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich (ETH-Z) since 2002. He has also taught and lectured at numerous institutions around the world, including Princeton, Columbia University in New York, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, ABK Stuttgart, UP8 Paris, OAF Oslo and ITESM Mexico. He was Visiting Scholar at the Jean P. Getty Center in Los Angeles from 1991 to 1992. Josep Lluís Mateo is President since 2009 of the Board of Directors of the Barcelona Institute of Architecture. He has been a member of a number of juries and expert committees, including the Quality Committee of Barcelona City Council (2000-2008), and for prizes such as the European Landscape Award and the Thyssen Award.
Recent exhibitions and prizes:
The practice's work has been exhibited on numerous occasions thanks to its international influence. New York's MoMA devoted a space in the exhibition "Spain: On Site" (2006) to its apartment building in Valencia for the Sociopolis Project. Individual exhibitions include those at Ras Gallery (Barcelona, 2009), Architekturgalerie Aedes (Berlin, 2004), Architekturzentrum Wien (Vienna, 1998), Col•legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya (Barcelona, 1998),Galerie Fragner (Prague, 1998), Galerie Aedes (Berlin, 1994), Architekturgalerie Luzern (Luzern, 1992) and Architekturgalerie Munich (Munich, 1991).
The work of Josep Lluís Mateo has been awarded many prizes, including:
- Top International Purpose-Built Venue 2008, First Prize. Best International Convention Centre category.
Organized by C&IT magazine, London. Project: CCIB-Barcelona International Convention Centre
- 2008 Archizinc Award, First Prize. Collective Housing category. Project: Sant Jordi Students' Hall of Residence, Barcelona
- European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award 2005, Runner-up. Project: CCIB- Barcelona International Convention Centre
- 15th Award of Grupo Dragados de Arquitectura.


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A sleeping babe: every sleep-deprived parent's Christmas wish.
By Elizabeth Pantley, Author of the No-Cry Sleep Solution
The environment that your baby enjoyed for nine long months in the womb was not one of absolute quiet. There was a constant symphony of sound — your heartbeat and fluids rushing in and out of the placenta. (Remember those sounds from when you listened to your baby's heartbeat with the Doppler stethoscope?) Research indicates that white noise sounds or soft bedtime music helps many babies to relax and fall asleep more easily. This is most certainly because these sounds create an environment more familiar to your baby than a very quiet room.
Many people enjoy using soothing music as their baby's sleep sound. If you do, choose bedtime music carefully. Some music (including jazz and much classical music) is too complex and stimulating. For music to be soothing to your baby, pick simple, repetitive, predictable music, like traditional lullabies. Tapes created especially for putting babies to sleep are great choices. Pick something that you will enjoy listening to night after night, too. (Using a tape player with an automatic repeat function is helpful for keeping the music going as long as you need it to play.)
There are widely available, and very lovely, "nature sounds" tapes that work nicely, too, as well those small sound-generating or white-noise devices and clocks you may have seen in stores. The sounds on these — raindrops, a bubbling brook or running water — often are similar to those sounds your baby heard in utero. A ticking clock or a bubbling fish tank also make wonderful white-noise options.
"I went out today and bought a small aquarium and the humming noise does seem to relax Chloe and help her to sleep. I didn't buy any fish though. Who has time to take care of fish when you're half asleep all day?" Tanya, mother of 13-month-old Chloe
You can find some suitable tapes and CDs made especially for babies or those made for adults to listen to when they want to relax. Whatever you choose,listen to it first and ask yourself: Does this relax me? Would it make me feel sleepy if I listened to it in bed?
If you must put your baby to sleep in a noisy, active house full of people, keeping the tape running (auto rewind) will help mask baby-waking noises like dishes clanking, people talking, siblings giggling, TV, dogs barking, etc. This can also help transition your sleeping baby from a noisy daytime house to which he's become accustomed subconsciously to one of absolute nighttime quiet.
Once your baby is familiar with his calming noise, or music, you can use these to help your baby fall back to sleep when he wakes up in the middle of the night. Simply sooth him by playing the music (very quietly) during the calming and falling-asleep time. If he wakes and cries, repeat this process.
If your baby gets used to his sleep time sounds you can take advantage of this and take the tape with you if you will be away from home for naptime or bedtime. The familiarity of these sounds will help your baby sleep in an unfamiliar environment.
Eventually your baby will rely on this technique less and less to fall and stay asleep. Don't feel you must rush the process; there is no harm in your baby falling asleep to these gentle sounds. When you are ready to wean him of these you can help this process along by reducing the volume by a small amount every night until you finally don't turn the music or sounds on at all.
Babies enjoy these peaceful sounds, and they are just one more piece in the puzzle that helps you to help your baby sleep, gently, without any crying at all.
Excerpted with permission by McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Publishing from The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night by Elizabeth Pantley, copyright 2002
Website: http://www.pantley.com/elizabeth


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dispatch-conf is a tool that aids in merging the ._cfg0000_<name> files. ._cfg0000_<name> files are generated by Portage when it wants to overwrite a file in a directory protected by the CONFIG_PROTECT variable.
With dispatch-conf, users are able to merge updates to their configuration files while keeping track of all changes. dispatch-conf stores the differences between the configuration files as patches or by using the RCS revision system. This means that if someone makes a mistake when updating a config file, the administrator can revert the file to the previous version at any time.
When using dispatch-conf, users can ask to keep the configuration file as-is, use the new configuration file, edit the current one or merge the changes interactively. dispatch-conf also has some nice additional features:
- Automatically merge configuration file updates that only contain updates to comments.
- Automatically merge configuration files which only differ in the amount of whitespace.
Edit /etc/dispatch-conf.conf first and create the directory referenced by the archive-dir variable. Then, execute dispatch-conf:
root #
When running dispatch-conf, each changed config file will be reviewed one at a time. Press u to update (replace) the current config file with the new one and continue to the next file. Press z to zap (delete) the new config file and continue to the next file. The n key will instruct dispatch-conf to skip to the next file. This can be done to delay a merge until a future time. Once all config files have been taken care of, dispatch-conf will exit. At any time, q can be used to exit the application as well.
For more information, check out the dispatch-conf man page. It describes how to interactively merge current and new config files, edit new config files, examine differences between files, and more.
user $
man dispatch-conf
Another tool to merge configuration files is etc-update. Like dispatch-conf, it does provide an interactive merging setup and can also auto-merge trivial changes.
It should be noted that etc-update is an older and largely unmaintained utility. It is not as simple to use as dispatch-conf, nor as fully featured. It is imperative to note it does not backup old versions of configuration files. Once a file is updated, the old version is gone forever.
When possible, it is strongly recommended to use dispatch-conf (see the previous section) instead of etc-update.
root #
After merging the straightforward changes, a list of protected files will be provided that have an update waiting. At the bottom the possible options are shown:
Please select a file to edit by entering the corresponding number.
(-1 to exit) (-3 to auto merge all remaining files)
(-5 to auto-merge AND not use 'mv -i'):
When entering -1
, etc-update will exit and discontinue any other changes. With -3
or -5
, all listed configuration files will be overwritten with the newer versions. It is therefore very important to first select the configuration files that should not be automatically updated. This is simply a matter of entering the number listed to the left of that configuration file.
As an example, we select the configuration file /etc/pear.conf:
Beginning of differences between /etc/pear.conf and /etc/._cfg0000_pear.conf
End of differences between /etc/pear.conf and /etc/._cfg0000_pear.conf
1) Replace original with update
2) Delete update, keeping original as is
3) Interactively merge original with update
4) Show differences again
The differences between the two files are shown. If the updated configuration file can be used without problems, enter 1. If the updated configuration file isn't necessary, or doesn't provide any new or useful information, enter 2. If the current configuration file has to be interactively updated, enter 3.
There is no point in further elaborating the interactive merging here. For completeness sake, we will list the possible commands that can be used while interactively merging the two files. Users are greeted with two lines (the original one, and the proposed new one) and a prompt at which the user can enter one of the following commands:
ed: Edit then use both versions, each decorated with a header.
eb: Edit then use both versions.
el: Edit then use the left version.
er: Edit then use the right version.
e: Edit a new version.
l: Use the left version.
r: Use the right version.
s: Silently include common lines.
v: Verbosely include common lines.
q: Quit.
After having finished updating the important configuration files, users can then automatically update all the other configuration files. etc-update will exit if it doesn't find any more updateable configuration files.
With quickpkg users can create archives of the packages that are already merged on the system. These archives can be used as prebuilt packages. Running quickpkg is straightforward: just add the names of the packages to archive.
For instance, to archive curl, orage, and procps:
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The prebuilt packages will be stored in $PKGDIR (/var/cache/binpkgs/ by default). These packages are placed in $PKGDIR/CATEGORY.


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Each year, CGI meets face-to-face with business and IT leaders to hear their views on the trends affecting their organizations. In 2018, we conducted 127 in-person interviews with utilities executives to learn more about their top trends and priorities.
Pace of change accelerates, cybersecurity is a growing concern
The top trends in the utilities industry continue to be steady year‑on‑year, led by a focus on becoming digital organizations to meet customer expectations. Most notable in 2018 is the increasing importance of cybersecurity. Eighty-eight percent of utilities executives interviewed cite it as a growing concern, making it the second biggest trend. Assuring regulatory compliance and optimizing investment and operational costs of assets are the next top trends. This year, changing business and operating models to address distributed energy resources (DERs) rises in importance, entering the top five trends list for the first time.
Multi-pronged approach to drive digital maturity
This year, 59% of utilities executives interviewed have a defined digital transformation strategy, while 27% are starting to build a strategy. Of those with a defined strategy, 80% are building, launching, have operationalized or are realizing results from a strategy that includes their ecosystem of partners, and 86% are at similar stages with internally focused enterprise strategies.
Culture change is top challenge to digital transformation
The top barrier to digital transformation cited this year continues to be cultural change and change management, but with much greater emphasis. Cybersecurity also strengthens as a challenge.
Benchmarking internal IT and more
This year, business and IT executives interviewed ranked their satisfaction with their own IT organizations based on 10 key attributes of a world-class IT organization. Business leaders in this sector assessed their satisfaction with internal IT at a much lower level than their IT counterparts.
CGI can provide clients with a discussion of all available benchmarking, including each client's positioning, on topics such as digital maturity, IT budgets, IT satisfaction, innovation investments and more.
Discover the insight
Download the 2018 CGI Client Global Insights utilities summary infographic for additional trend information. We also invite you to request a copy of our full report and to arrange a personal discussion with a CGI expert for further analysis and insights.
Also see the 2017 CGI Client Global Insights industry summaries.


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Most people believe that probate should be avoided if at all possible. It can be an expensive, time-consuming process that exposes your family's private matters to public scrutiny via the judicial system. It sounds simple enough to just gift your property to your children while you are still alive, so it is not subject to probate upon your death, or to preserve the asset in the event of your significant end-of-life medical expenses.
This strategy may offer some potential benefits, but those benefits are far outweighed by the risks. And with other probate-avoidance tools available, such as living trusts, it makes sense to view the risks and benefits of transferring title to your property through a very critical lens.
Potential Advantages:
- Property titled in the names of your heirs, or with your heirs as joint tenants, is not subject to probate upon your death.
- If you do not need nursing home care for the first 60 months after the transfer, but later do need such care, the property in question may not be considered for Medicaid eligibility purposes.
- If you are not named on the property's title at the time of your death, creditors cannot make a claim against the property to satisfy the debt.
- Your heirs may agree to pay a portion, or all, of the property's expenses, including taxes, insurance and maintenance.
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- You lose control over your property. Once you are no longer the legal owner, you must get approval from your children in order to sell or refinance the property.
- If your child files for bankruptcy, or gets divorced, your child's creditors or former spouse can obtain a legal ownership interest in the property.
- If you outlive your child, the property may be transferred to your child's heirs.
- Potential negative tax consequences: If property is transferred to your child and is later sold, capital gains tax may be due, as your child will not be able to take advantage of the IRS's primary residence exclusion. You may also lose property tax exemptions. Finally, when the child ultimately sells the property, he or she may pay a higher capital gains tax than if the property was inherited, since inherited property enjoys a stepped-up tax basis as of the date of death.
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to estate planning. Transferring ownership of your property to your children while you are still alive may be appropriate for your situation. However, for most this strategy is not recommended due to the significant risks. If your goal is to avoid probate, maximize tax benefits and provide for the seamless transfer of your property upon your death, a living trust is likely a far better option. Before making any transfers it is very important to seek professional advice on the legal and tax consequences.


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Milton reveals the truth about being an international spy, before being given a disappointing new identity which forced him to appear on Mock the Week, Live at the Apollo.
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For artists Chip Burr and Fiorenzo Berardozzi, a meal is more than the sum of its ingredients. It's about the music playing overhead, the conversation with the server, and of course, the plate itself.
Which is why chef Sean Brock decided that Burr and Berardozzi's CBFB Tablescapes pottery would make the perfect dinnerware at Husk and McCrady's—a canvas for the culinary works of art Brock and his team create each night.
"I searched high and low for someone to make plates for us in Charleston," recalls Brock. "These guys knew exactly what I was talking about. Their style is simple yet modern, which is what our food strives to be."
The sculptors admit they lucked out getting the gig. "My son-in-law is Mark Marhefka of Abundant Seafood," say Burr. "He mentioned our work to Husk GM Dan Lattimer and then we got a call from Sean." Since that call, CBFB has received many more with requests from people across the country who have dined at Husk and McCrady's, loved the plates, and want to order their own.
For fans, it's not just the look of the dinnerware, but the glaze, texture, and weight that's appealing. To make them even more unique, the ash from Husk's wood-burning oven goes into the fires used to seal the glaze. "Only that ash can produce the color resulting in our pieces," says Burr. Art, full circle.


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By Hunter Lovins, posted on TriplePundit.com, July 20, 2012
"The diverse crises that the planet faces will only be solved when companies and communities implement authentic and innovative sustainability practices. It is therefore encouraging that there are an increasing number of colleges and universities now including sustainability as part of their campus management programs and curriculum.
Are these programs effective enough to create the next generation of thought leaders our world needs? The answer is, 'No. Not yet.'
A good start is underway, however. Pressure from companies, students, and ranking organizations is forcing colleges and universities to embrace sustainability.
The business community is demanding candidates with sustainability training. Accenture found that over 93 percent of CEO's see sustainability as crucial to business success, with 88 percent stating it needs to be fully embedded into their strategy and operations.
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting is increasing annually, creating job openings for graduates familiar with integrated reporting. Given that about 20 percent of CSR reports each year are submitted by companies reporting for the first time, recruiting candidates who are familiar with sustainability, or training existing employees is a top priority for these companies. Job candidates who hae a strong knowledge of sustainability are better positioned not only to fill current job openings, but help lead their companies into the future.
A 2010 study by McKinsey found, however, that many companies need education on how to go forward. Most executives surveyed considered sustainability important to the their future, agreeing that the management of environmental, social, and governance issues was 'very' or 'extremely' important in a wide range of areas, including new product development, reputation building, and overall corporate strategy. However, only 30 percent said that their companies actively sought opportunities to invest in sustainability or embed it in their business practices. Respondents admitted to a pervasive lack of understanding of what sustainability is and how to implement it. This educational gap, they stated, was inhibiting action."
To read more about current action steps being taken at colleges and universities across the country (including UW-Green Bay) and the three problems identified as to where efforts are falling short, READ the rest of the article HERE.
Do you think UW-Green Bay is doing a good job of embedding sustainability into our campus culture?


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Knowledge transfer and innovation
The creation of new knowledge and its transformation into disruptive innovations that generate value is not a linear process but a continuous cycle of interrelations needed to implement an efficient method of producing highly innovative and competitive products and services. The stepping stones in this cycle are SCIENCE >> KNOWLEDGE >> TECHNOLOGY >> APPLICATIONS >> PRODUCTS, thus without science, new knowledge and technological advances it is not possible to come up with innovative applications and products and then the value generating chain stops running and competitive capability is lost. It is therefore essential for governments worried about competiveness to invest in Science, in a coordinated manner with Industry, in order for the latter to benefit from the results of research.
With this spirit in mind, the Regional Government created the IMDEA Institutes and IMDEA Nanociencia, since then, has focused on generating knowledge, on providing R&D services, and on developing strategic R&D projects with highly innovative industries from Madrid, Spain and across the rest of Europe. The key element for our Foundation is to integrate the strategic needs of society and of industry right into the lab and the research programs in an interactive way, as opposed to waiting for results to start a linear sales approach, which hardly ever works.
The Science and Business relations model adopted by IMDEA Nanociencia provides a specialized framework for the development of new applications and products based on the understanding, analysis and manipulation of nanoscale physical, chemical and biological phenomena. This novel approach provides industry with a new tool to enhance its competitive edge and this is why at IMDEA Nanociencia we encourage companies to invest in nanotechnology. Our strategy enables us to offer our collaborators an extensive SERVICES AND APPLICATIONS CATALOGUE which is of great interest and quality as a result of our foundational commitments:
- Carrying out international excellence research projects that generate new scientific and technological knowledge by focusing on understanding fundamental problems at the nanoscale that help industry develop new applications, services and products.
- Linking scientific research to social and business demands and establishing flexible, efficient and adaptable programs of cooperation with other institutions and companies.
- Supplying advanced services of nanoscale study, research, development and innovation to public sector and private sector users.
Each one of the 10 research programs embarked upon by IMDEA Nanociencia has the goal of bringing to the new developments and advanced applications of nanotechnology for key sectors of the economy. In each program we offer a series of ADVANCED RESEARCH SERVICES, as well as the possibility of directly developing for companies SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS focused on the challenges.
Some of the Spanish companies that are most interested in benefiting from the Institute's activities have begun on joint projects or projects outsourced by companies. Among other applications we can mention the use of magnetic nanoparticles for medical diagnosis or as a hyper-thermal anti-tumour treatment, applications in nanostructured coating for the aerospace and defence industries, the use of nanoparticles in advanced graphic printing processes, in new bioclimatic buildings, in the development of instrumentation, in the administration of medicines, and in the development of new solar cells. IMDEA Nanociencia has already established collaboration relationships with the aerospace industry and, in fact, some of the research programs of the IMDEA Nanociencia Institute are very close to the demands of certain markets. Thus the automobile sector is interested in the mechanical and anti-reflective properties of nanoparticles, in the development of magnetic sensors and in the application of giant magneto-resistance. The biotechnology and healthcare industries are interested in nanoparticles as carriers of medicines, in their application in anti-cancer therapies, in the improvement of image diagnosis techniques and precocious detection systems using nanoscope systems, and in the use of nanoparticles and nanomaterials in the remediation of water and in the energy sector.
To facilitate relations with industrial sectors, IMDEA Nanociencia has an INDUSTRIAL ALLIANCES UNIT, which arranges bilateral and sector meetings. Currently IMDEA has programs with companies in the following sectors:
- Healthcare
- Aerospace
- Clean Energy
- Environment
- Transport
- Nanomaterials
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The University of Victoria (UVic) has extended the deadline for tuition fee reimbursement reductions in the wake of the fatal mid-Island bus crash involving two first year students.
UVic has worked to accommodate and support the students and staff who are processing the deaths of eighteen-year-olds Emma Machado and John Geerdes. The pair were among 48 passengers en route to the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre when their bus rolled down an embankment on Sept. 13.
READ ALSO: UVic president offers condolences after two students killed in bus crash
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Due to the extenuating circumstances, the Office of the Registrar anticipated that a higher number of students may be looking to drop courses to relieve some stress. On Wednesday, the university announced that the drop date had been moved from Sept. 17 to Sept. 20 to allow students more time to decide about their fall semester courses.
The university acknowledged that many students have been affected by the incident either directly or indirectly and, in an effort to minimize barriers, moved the deadline. Typically students have until mid-September to drop courses and receive a full tuition reimbursement and after the drop-date passes they'll only get 50 per cent back if they choose to drop a course.
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Overweight and obese workers take more sick days
And the obese are more likely to suffer an occupational injury.
Spanish researchers looked at the health and the number of days signed off sick of 174 000 employees taking part in The ICARIA Study.
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Dr Miguel-Angel Sánchez-Chaparro of the University of Málaga said: "Overall, the working population is supposed to be young and healthy but we have found a high prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors, like tobacco consumption, hypertension, or dyslipidaemia.
"About six per cent of Spanish workers are at high cardiovascular risk, i.e. their likelihood of suffering a fatal cardiovascular event during the next ten years is five per cent or greater, and they take excess sick leave."
The latest study investigated the impact of obesity on sick leave and whether it varied according to being metabolically healthy or metabolically unhealthy.
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Hide AdResearchers classified the participants with an average age of 41, two thirds men and half doing manual labour by their BMI and whether they were metabolically healthy or unhealthy.
To be metabolically unhealthy they had three or more of the following criteria - large waist circumference; raised triglycerides or receiving treatment for hyperlipidaemia; low HDL (high-density lipoprotein) cholesterol; high blood pressure or previous diagnosis of hypertension or receiving treatment for hypertension; or high fasting glucose or receiving treatment for diabetes.
The number of sick days were retrieved from medical records and divided into non-work-related diseases and accidents and work-related diseases and accidents.
The proportions with overweight, obesity and metabolically unhealthy phenotype were 38%, 16% and 10%, respectively.
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Hide AdThe researchers found a consistent association of overweight and obesity with sickness absence due to non-work-related illnesses in both metabolically healthy and unhealthy workers.
Metabolically healthy overweight and obese people were 37 per cent more likely to take sick leave and metabolically unhealthy overweight or obese people were 71 per cent more likely to take sick leave than people who were not overweight/obese.
Dr Sánchez-Chaparro and co-author Dr Eva Calvo-Bonacho, head of health projects at ICARIA said: "Our results show that overweight and obese workers are more likely to take sick leave for non-work-related illnesses, regardless of whether they are metabolically healthy or unhealthy.
"The increase in sickness absence and associated productivity losses add to the pervasive consequences of obesity which is already a major public health concern."
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Hide AdIn the case of work-related sickness absence, the risk of suffering occupational injuries was higher in workers with a BMI 35 to 39.9 kg/m2 and metabolically healthy.
They added: "In the case of work-related sickness absence, our results suggest that obesity and the metabolically unhealthy phenotype could be linked with a kind of exclusion from professions and activity sectors that involve more physically active jobs and are thereafter riskier from the point of view of occupational injuries."
"Our results highlight the need to develop effective interventions aimed at decreasing the negative impact of the obesity epidemic among the working population.
"Metabolically healthy workers who are overweight or at the mildest range of obesity progression may be an appropriate target group in whom to implement lifestyle modification initiatives to reduce the likelihood of transition to an impaired metabolic phenotype."
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Angry Roger Waters Rejected 'Huge' Deal From Facebook
Roger Waters said he rejected a "huge" offer from Facebook for the use of the classic Pink Floyd song "Another Brick in the Wall Part II" and called the corporation's boss, Mark Zuckerberg, "one of the most powerful idiots in the world."
Speaking during an event that's part of a campaign to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange – the imprisoned subject of an international debate over freedom of expression – Waters said the offer had come directly from Zuckerberg, who wanted to use the song in a film to promote Facebook and Instagram.
"So it's a missive from Mark Zuckerberg to me," Waters said in a new video clip. "Arrived this morning, with an offer of a huge, huge amount of money, and the answer is – 'Fuck you! No fucking way!'"
He added that he mentioned the letter as an example of "insidious movement of them to take over absolutely everything." You can watch the video below.
Waters read aloud some of Zuckerberg's letter: "We want to thank you for considering this project. We feel that the core sentiment of this song is still so prevalent and necessary today, which speaks to how timeless your work is, truly."
"And yet they want to use it to make Facebook and Instagram even bigger and more powerful than it already is, so it can continue to censor all of us in this room and prevent this story about Julian Assange getting out," Waters said. "So the general public could go, 'What? What? No! No more!'"
He suggested it was important for people with power to stand against alleged limitations of free expression by social media corporations. "I will not be a party to this bullshit, Zuckerberg," Waters said, before becoming more personal in his attack: "You think, 'How did this little prick – who started off by saying, 'She is pretty, we'll give her a four out of five,' 'She's ugly, we'll give her a one' – how the fuck did he get any power in anything? And yet here he is, one of the most powerful idiots in the world."


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Jesus, I am cruelly lonely
and I do not know what I have done
nor do I suspect that you will answer me.
And, what is more, I have spent
these bare months bargaining
with my soul as if I could make her
promise to love me when now it seems
that what I meant when I said "soul"
was that the river reflects
the railway bridge just as the sky
says it should—it speaks that language.
I do not know who you are.
I come here every day
to be beneath this bridge,
to sit beside this river,
so I must have seen the way
the clouds just slide
under the rusty arch—
without snagging on the bolts,
how they are bore along on the dark water—
I must have noticed their fluent speed
and also how that tattered blue T-shirt
remains snagged on the crown
of the mostly sunk dead tree
despite the current's constant pulling.
Yes, somewhere in my mind there must
be the image of a sky blue T-shirt, caught,
and the white islands of ice flying by
and the light clouds flying slowly
under the bridge, though today the river's
fully melted. I must have seen.
But I did not see.
I am not equal to my longing.
Somewhere there should be a place
the exact shape of my emptiness—
there should be a place
responsible for taking one back.
The river, of course, has no mercy—
it just lifts the dead fish
toward the sea.
Of course, of course.
What I meant when I said "soul"
was that there should be a place.
On the far bank the warehouse lights
blink red, then green, and all the yellow
machines with their rusted scoops and lifts
sit under a thin layer of sunny frost.
And look—
my own palm—
there, slowly rocking.
It is my pale palm—
palm where a black pebble
is turning and turning.
all you bare trees
pile of twigs
red and green lights flashing
muddy bottle shards
shoe half buried—listen
listen, I am holy.
collected in Before the door of God : an anthology of devotional poetry / Hopler, Jay ed.; Johnson, Kimberly ed.p370


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The most successful growth companies adopt at least four best practices:
- Find the next S-curve
- Lean on customers
- Think like a designer
- Lead the way
1. Find the Next S-Curve
Nothing grows forever. The best products, markets, and business models go through a predictable cycle of growth and maturity, often depicted as an S-curve.
Diminishing returns set in as the most attractive customers are reached, price competition emerges, the current product loses its luster, customer support challenges emerge, new operating skills are required, and so on.
Unfortunately, growth company leaders are often blinded-sided by this predictable speed bump. Once the reality of the S-curve becomes apparent, it may be too late to design the next growth strategy.
The time to innovate—the innovation window—is when the first growth curve hits an inflection point. How do you know when you're hitting the inflection point? You never know. So the best companies are forever paranoid and make innovation a continuous process.
Steve Jobs understood this when he returned to Apple. In 2002, he challenged his company to break out of the mature computer industry where Apple had never garnered much more than 10 percent market share. He told Time Magazine in 2002, "I would rather compete with Sony than … Microsoft."
Eight years later, after introducing the iPod, iPhone, iPad, and a game-changing retail channel, Jobs claimed victory and Apple Computer became Apple Inc. While introducing the iPod, Jobs said, "Apple is the largest mobile devices company in the world. Larger than the mobile devices businesses of Sony, Samsung, and Nokia."
2. Lean on Customers
Successful growth companies have a deep understanding of their customers' problems. Many are embracing tools such as the customer empathy map to uncover new opportunities to create value. This customer insight is the foundation for their lean approach to product innovation: rapid prototyping, design partnerships with lead users, and pivoting to improve their product and business model.
I'm constantly amazed at how few companies invest the time to get out of the office and interact with customers (outside of sales situations). During the turnaround of IBM, Lou Gerstner launched Operation Bear Hug to get the company back in touch with its customers. IBM's top 50 executives had to visit five customers per week and deliver a write-up to Gerstner.
3. Think Like a Designer
Managers are trained to make choices, but they don't always have good options. Innovation involves creating new options. This is where designers excel. Apple's exceptional user experiences were largely the creation of Jonathan Ive, a professional designer and Jobs' righthand man.
Design thinking requires a different set of tools. Growth company strategists have abandoned Porter's Five Forces Analysis because it assumes that markets have well-defined boundaries and competitors must fight for market share. Instead they search for uncontested market space and make competition irrelevant using Blue Ocean Strategy and the Business Model Canvas.
4. Lead the Way
Unless the CEO makes innovation a priority, it won't happen. Innovation requires a level of risk-taking and failure that's impossible without executive air cover. The best growth companies create a culture of innovation:
- Howard Schultz decided Starbucks had lost its way. He flew in every store manager from around the world to help redesign its café experience.
- Google encourages employees to spend a day per week on new ideas.
- P&G tracks the percentage of revenues from new products and services.
- Gray Advertising gives a Heroic Failure Award to the riskiest ideas … that fail!
More important are innovative leaders as role models. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has told both employees and shareholders that he cares less about profitability and more about planting seeds that are likely to pay off in five to seven years. He's so driven by vision that he's investing over $40 million of his own money in a product designed to last for 10,000 years.
To launch his successful Think Different campaign, Steve Jobs commissioned The Crazy Ones, a video that featured Einstein, Edison, Gandhi, Muhammad Ali, Hitchcock, Richard Branson, and other "trouble-makers" who changed the world. Every employee understood the CEO's views on risk-taking and innovation.
Adopting these four best practices can help any company drive innovation and growth.


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Friday, October 2, 2009
The Little Black Dress: Day to Night
To show off the versatility of this cute little dress, I decided to do a day and a night look. For the day look, I wanted something I could wear to the office, so I knew layering was key. Because a jacket would have masked the pretty pleating detail, I opted to wear the dress over a ruffly silk blouse. A polka dot scarf, taupe booties and a simple gold chain complete this vintage-inspired ensemble.
For night, I kept it simple but added some glitz with a sequin vest, some sass with a leopard scarf and some color with hot pink studded slingbacks. I'll have to show you a close-up of these soon since you can't really see the studs.
I have to apologize for the wrinkles; these shots were taken after sitting at my desk all day, so I didn't look as fresh as I would have liked! Thank you ModCloth and Weardrobe. This was fun!
Day Look Dress: Weardrobe Dress, courtesy of ModCloth // Shirt: Rebecca Taylor, thrifted, $23 // Scarf worn as belt: Thrifted, $1 // Chain: F21, $1 // Shoes: gojane.com, $23
Night Look Vest: Vintage, thrifted, $6 // Scarf worn as belt: Thrifted, $1 // Shoes: Vintage, thrifted, $1
20 comments:
- Leah Brunner said...
great outfits! I love your bangs pulled back, looks cute!
- October 2, 2009 at 10:34 PM
- Ebony Arwen said...
very smooth transition.
both outfits are cute & quirky :) - October 2, 2009 at 10:35 PM
- C said...
I love both these looks! I'm totally lusting after those gojane shoes you're wearing in the day outfit. Oh, and your hair looks great in these pictures..so sleek!
- October 3, 2009 at 8:01 AM
- Beth Dunn said...
Love that dress-so cute! xoxo
SC - October 3, 2009 at 8:29 AM
cleverly (and stylishly!!) done xo
- October 3, 2009 at 9:00 AM
- Kansas Couture said...
Thanks, everyone!
Clare - Beware of the shoes! While I have plenty of affordable shoes that are totally comfortable, these are sooo painful. It's because the heel is 4" or so, and there's no platform of any kind. I made the mistake of going dancing in them. Ouchhhh. - October 3, 2009 at 10:44 AM
- smalltownchic said...
What great looks! and those shoes...
www.smalltownchic.com - October 3, 2009 at 11:34 AM
- Lions, Tigers and Fashion OH MY! said...
lovely transition and I love your hair like that!
- October 3, 2009 at 1:11 PM
- Lexie said...
both of these look SO cute! especially the sequins on the night look!
- October 3, 2009 at 2:04 PM
- Fashionisaparty.com (Suz) said...
cute, love the day shoes!
- October 3, 2009 at 3:21 PM
- grace said...
cool pink shoes...i want
- October 3, 2009 at 4:41 PM
love the shoes in the first look, flawless!!!!
thanks for showing the versatility, love it!
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cosmicaroline.blogspot.com - October 3, 2009 at 6:52 PM
- piglet said...
I really love the night look. Oh, and I love your hair pulled back like that, very pretty!
- October 3, 2009 at 11:31 PM
- Rebecca Jane said...
i've enjoyed seeing the various interpretations of this dress from all of you weardrobe ladies! I really like your second look here!
- October 3, 2009 at 11:58 PM
- Nadia Kamballa said...
Great look. Love the night look especially, the sequins jacket complete the whole look.. ^_^
http://thenovembergirl.blogspot.com - October 4, 2009 at 8:23 AM
- FashionAddict said...
Ooooo, I LOVE the day look. It's just so fabulous, especially with that flower belt and ankle boots. You have amazing taste, lady!
- October 4, 2009 at 12:01 PM
- myedit said...
Both are really nice and stylish. You always think of wearing things in a completely fresh way.
And your clean ponytail is HOT! - October 4, 2009 at 4:37 PM
Both looks are really great, and your hairstyle is very pretty!
- October 5, 2009 at 12:37 PM
- K said...
You hair looks so cool all pulled back. I love these looks. It makes me want to pull out my LBD and make it work for my own office. Tha sequin vest is so cool!
- October 5, 2009 at 12:49 PM
- Unknown said...
what a fab way to transition from day to night. love the sequin vest.
- October 22, 2009 at 6:10 PM


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Greetings from EuroCG 2012, from which I post via iPod, so apologies for lack of problem motivation, background research and mathematical formatting.
Question:Suppose L is a horizontal or vertical line in the argand plane passing through a Gaussian prime. Are there infinitely many Gaussian primes on L?
In fact, all I need is a next prime along a line, but of course if that was guaranteed one could repeat the process to keep going forever. Still, if there is a next prime, some idea of how far along it is might also be useful for the application in mind.
Hopefully equivalent question for rational primes in rational integer sequences: let $s(k)=a^2+(b+k)^2$ for $k\ge0$. If $s(0)$ is prime, does the sequence $\{s(k)\}$ contain infinitely many primes?


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The PV designs brand began because as a speaker Dr. Alvin S. Perry liked to wear a bowtie and he thought it would be a good idea to place a bowtie on his 4 year old son Coleman who attended speaking events with him. PV stands for P5 with the "P" representing Perry and the "V" representing the Roman-Numeral 5, indicating the five members of Dr. Perry's family. The premium brand consists of neckties, bowties, pocket squares, cufflinks, ascots, infinity scarves, blazers, and uniforms. Dr. Perry's vision is to provide fashion that would distinguish the wearers of the PV designs brand from every person in the room.


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THIS IS A 1-2 NAP PROJECT (ABOUT 2 HOURS). depends on your child:)
Materials needed:
Felt (I prefer wool blend) 1-2 yards (total) of varying colors.
hot glue and/or sewing machine (this entire thing can be made either way or a mixture of both)
ruler/tape measure
large paper (newsprint, etc and you can tape pieces together if neccessary) and marker
*optional: pinking shears
What we will be doing first is to figure out the size of each "gored" piece (triangles that are sewn together to make a circle). Its like a slice of pie... and we need the dimensions so you can make a template for cutting out the pieces to make your skirt.
1. figure out a rough estimate of what you want the circumference of your circle/skirt to be. I used a fabric tape measure to make one. 2. create the "circle" on the floor and then measure the diameter of the circle (I did mine with a long ruler, you could use a tape measure, etc).
instructions above: draw out a little diagram, then divide your circumference and diameter in half. keep these measurements and move to the step below.
If the number you got after dividing your circumference in two is not easily divided into 4 (i.e. I got circ.=62, then I divided it by 2 and got 31, but that doesn't divide into 4 (or more) easily so I rounded up to 32. So, Now to make the piece of "pie" you have your sides (diameter /2) and the top (1/2circ. divided by 4 or more). See diagram below.
The next instructions are written above. just click on the photo to enlarge it. After making this template, then use it to cut out 8 "slices of pie" out of varying colors of felt. I stuck to greens, gray, and creme.
Then cut out some decorative stripes. I used my pinking shears to make the edges interesting. Then SEW or HOT GLUE the strips onto each slice of pie.
After you have adhered the stripes, sew or glue each piece of the christmas tree skirt pie together. i put wrong sides together when i sewed that way there would be a ridge between each piece. ** leave an opening between the first and last triangles so that you can open up the skirt and put it around the trunk!
Once you have sewed them all together, cut a circle out of the center (big enough to fit your trunk). Hot glue the cut threads so they don't unravel.
You can either leave it as is, pink the edges of the whole thing, or proceed as follows...
first trim all the strips that are hanging over the edge. Then either free-hand some scalloped edging, or make a template on paper. then trace onto the felt.
I free-handed as you can see. I am too impatient and have limited time. (I had to use a few strips, so i just overlapped them when adding a new one.)
Then hot-glue or sew the scallops round the circumference of the skirt! It would probably be cute to do another row of scallops too... in a contrasting color... hmmm...
put it around the tree!!!
voila! too bad i have that cord showing in the photo!!!! ugly! if you have any questions email me at kaytea81(at)gmail(dot)com. Happy Christmas tree skirt making!!


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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Welkin Johnson
On episode #122 of the podcast This Week in Virology, the complete TWiV crew teams up with Welkin Johnson to explore the other AIDS epidemic, infection of monkeys with simian immunodeficiency virus, and its restriction by the cellular protein TRIM5.
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- Edwin Kilbourne, MD, 1920-2011
- Evolution of TRIM5-CypA in Old World monkeys (PLoS Pathogens)
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- Infectious retrovirus in pet vaccines (J Virology)
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Tim Page, a classical music critic for the Washington Post and author of a recent New Yorker piece on growing up with Asperger's Syndrome, has been placed on leave by the Post for criticizing Marion Barry.
Must we hear about it every time this Crack Addict attempts to rehabilitate himself with some new — and typically half-witted — political grandstanding? I'd be grateful if you would take me off your mailing list. I cannot think of anything the useless Marion Barry could do that would interest me in the slightest, up to and including overdose. Sincerely, Tim Page.
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one hundred thirty five,000 objects from the Museum's assortment of over 240,000 are available in the online collections database. The content of a lot formal art through history was dictated by the patron or commissioner fairly than just the artist, but with the advent of Romanticism , and economic modifications in the production of art, the artists' vision turned the usual determinant of the content of his art, rising the incidence of controversies, though typically decreasing their significance.
Crammed with over 140 appropriated artworks and collages collected and created by Dalí, the guide is an equally surreal observe-as much as TASCHEN's reprinting of the artist's cookbook Les Diners de Gala In addition to Jean-François Millet's The Angelus, which was a continuing level of reference in Dali's works, visuals embrace a Bacchus-like kitten, and a kind of tableau vivant featuring Dali himself.
Shiner finds evidence that the older system of the arts earlier than our modern system (nice art) held art to be any expert human activity i.e. Historical Greek society didn't possess the time period art however techne Techne could be understood neither as art or craft, the reason is that the distinctions of art and craft are historical merchandise that came afterward in human historical past.
Theodor W. Adorno said in 1970, "It is now taken for granted that nothing which concerns art can be taken as a right any extra: neither art itself, nor art in relationship to the entire, nor even the precise of art to exist." 30 Relativism was accepted as an unavoidable fact, which led to the interval of contemporary art and postmodern criticism , where cultures of the world and of history are seen as altering kinds, which could be appreciated and drawn from only with skepticism and irony.
The museum has a big assortment of folk art. Art is a various vary of human actions in creating visual, auditory or performing artifacts ( artworks ), expressing the creator's imaginative or technical talent, supposed to be appreciated for their magnificence or emotional power. Free admission offers everyone the chance to get pleasure from, recognize and perceive the best visual arts.


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It was confusing as to why he had the reaction at all. The weird thing was that he had had the item in question (Gerber 2nd Foods Dessert - Hawaiian Delight...if you're curious) once before with no adverse affects. I gave Elijah a few spoonfuls of the dessert and it was kind of funny because he acted like he didn't like it. I thought, "That's my boy...loves his green beans, but hates dessert." Within minutes Elijah's face got all blotchy and his upper chest all red. He was breathing fine and acting normally, so we weren't too concerned, but it was still scary. We called the clinic and we're going in two weeks early for Elijah's nine month check-up. That means we'll see Elijah's pediatrician tomorrow morning and they'll run some blood tests to see what he is allergic to. Hopefully armed with this knowledge, we can avoid any more allergic reactions. Right now, it just seems like one more thing to worry about.
In the great news department...Elijah is doing MUCH better with sitting. I think I can safely say that Elijah is sitting unassisted for a few minutes at a time as of yesterday. I placed the boppy pillow behind him in case he fell, but it wasn't giving him any support. Granted, I can't really leave his side as he easily falls over, but believe me, it's very exciting! I felt like I was floating yesterday, so happy that Elijah is making such obvious progress.
I had a dream last night that I was trying to teach Elijah to crawl and then he just took off crawling down the hallway. This is the second time I've had a dream where Elijah was mobile (last time he was running around the house) and while I don't put much credence on dreams, I think it's my subconscious saying I believe that he really is going to get there and that he's on the right track.
Today was Early Intervention and we had three women in our house visiting Elijah...his usual OT, a teacher, and the Vision Consultant. The Vision Consultant performed a vision test and Elijah seemed to do well. Not as good as he should for his age, but he definitely looked at things and even batted at one of the things. Elijah's OT seemed very pleased with how well Elijah is doing. She thought he seemed more relaxed today in his trunk and like he was in better control of his body. I may be wrong, but every week his OT just seems so incredibly happy about the progress Elijah is making and how fast he is progressing. She said again today that it seems like we talk about things one week and the next week Elijah is doing them. Yes, we're working hard, but I also know God is answering prayers. Elijah is sitting! That is AMAZING! He got there and much quicker than even I expected. He's got a ways to go before I can just set him down and walk away, but wow...he really is getting there! Thanks for the prayers!
I'm sure I'll have an update tomorrow about Elijah's visit to the pediatrician with a weight update. Stay tuned. :)


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George Washington, hero of the American Revolution and the country's first president, in 1796 withheld documents the House of Representatives had requested from him regarding treaty negotiations with France.
Washington thought that giving the House papers respecting a negotiation with a foreign power would be to establish a dangerous precedent.
Washington's reluctance to hand over these documents has echoed through time, in conflicts between Congress and Presidents Monroe, Jefferson, Adams all the way to Presidents Coolidge, Kennedy, Nixon and Reagan, among others. For the most part, members of Congress still must rely on the president and his administration for information in the areas of foreign relations and intelligence.
In the latest version of that long-running tension between Congress and the president over power, Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire appeared before the House Intelligence Committee on September 26.
The testimony is part of a chain of events that began in mid-August of 2019 when an anonymous whistleblower filed a complaint with the inspector general for the intelligence community, who is tasked by Congress to identify problems in the national intelligence agencies. The complaint related to reports that President Trump pressured Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his family. The developing conflict between Trump and Congress has involved, among other aspects, a struggle over who can have access to crucial documents.
The Intelligence Committee will no doubt use Maguire's testimony as a preliminary step in the formal impeachment inquiry announced by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, on Tuesday.
Questions about the degree to which the legislative and executive branches of the U.S. government should share power have arisen throughout the nation's history. While a simple view of the American Constitution revolves around the idea that the federal government is divided into three coequal branches, this understanding is incomplete.
The Founders struggled with problems related to the separation of powers. The text of the Constitution, combined with subsequent legal analysis, shows tension between a desire to separate the branches and the need to integrate the federal government's core functions.
Foreign relations and national security issues like those underlying the Ukraine conflict only exacerbate this tension.
President's broad authority
Pelosi's announcement relied heavily on references to the U.S. Constitution. At one point, she said, "Our republic endures because of the wisdom of our Constitution enshrined in three coequal branches of government serving as checks and balances on each other."
Yet, what exactly does the Constitution say about the relationship among these three branches?
Over time, the Constitution's language has been interpreted to grant the president broad authority in the conduct of foreign affairs. Many recognize presidential power is greatest when the president directs foreign policy.
The president's broad power is partly by design. Imagine if the president had to publicly broadcast his strategy and build a legislative coalition every single time he communicated with a foreign leader.
And part of the president's power is a result of the accumulation of laws granting policy authority to the executive branch over time.
Regardless, there is no question that the Founders intended for members of Congress to exercise oversight of presidential conduct in foreign policy. In fact, Congress first established a congressional committee to request executive branch documents relating to foreign relations in 1792.
Yet then, as now, lawmakers struggled to obtain the requested information.
Oversight system's weaknesses
Because voters in contemporary politics reward or punish the president for issues that arise in foreign relations, presidents have a reason to control the narrative when it comes to national security.
Congress often has little incentive – or ability – to do much about it. There is waning congressional interest in oversight of foreign policy. Reelection concerns encourage members of Congress to focus their energies on domestic affairs and constituent service.
When legislators do get involved in foreign policy, they are often in a reactive position. Because of the president's constitutional freedom to initiate contact with foreign powers, the president has an advantage over Congress.
Furthermore, the nature of the oversight system can hinder legislators' responses to presidential action. It takes time and resources to coordinate a response, not to mention agreement among a majority of members of Congress.
What's old is new again
So what makes the crisis involving Trump, Ukraine and the whistleblower different from other foreign policy power struggles between Congress and the executive branch?
Perhaps this is a Trump issue, not a foreign policy issue. More constituents are pressuring their Democratic congressmen to pursue impeachment than ever before. This straightforward conflict may provide a clear story for Democrats to tell.
Yet, despite providing a written record of the call between Trump and Ukraine's leader, the president and his administration still control much of the information about the events.
And Congress has limited time and resources to force the executive branch to relinquish this information, particularly if Congress wishes to do so before the 2020 election.
While Congress can appeal to the courts to compel disclosure of documents it needs in its investigation of the Ukraine affair, it is unclear whether the courts would do so.
Separation of powers issues and what is called the political question doctrine – which says some disputes are too political in nature for the judiciary – makes courts reluctant to interfere in political fights between Congress and the president, particularly about national security.
The situation is further complicated by the fact that Republican support for Trump appears intact, making coordination across the chambers of Congress quite difficult.
While the current battle between Trump and congressional Democrats is newsworthy, it is not entirely new. The fight for information over the president's negotiations with foreign powers is an inevitable consequence of the U.S. constitutional system.
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14 years ago I posted a couple of stories from my first sexual experience, which…
She was standing by the door,tugging down her short school skirt.It had been two days since she got caught,she thought that she was safe,then today during class it happened,the dreaded pink slip,,,that tells you to go straight to the office do not pass go do not collect two hundred dollars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The one good thing is that she is actualy in umiform today.The little blue skirt might be a little short,but it would do,and her white blouse maybe a little to tight,,,well ok,,,very tight you could see her nipples her big sensitive nipples,,,pushing hard against her bra….But what the heh you couldnt have everything!
She saunters into the principals office and drops down into the one comfotable chair in front of the desk.She gives sister Mary a big smile!
"Get up!you will stand whilste in my office,unless told to sit!"sister Mary says banging her desk.
"OH for christ sake,,Look there isnt anything you can do to me.So I got caught on my knees in the boys shower room,you cant do a bloody thing so get the lecture over with so I can go to lunch"laughs Jacqui
She slouches down further in the chair openly laughing at the stunned look on the nuns face.
She jumps as she hears a voice behind her.
"Sister Mary might not be able to do anything Bratt,,but I promise you I can,,,,,and I will"says her uncle Joe
With out thinking she yells "well shit,,,what are you doing here?"
He frowns
"I had a very interesting phone call from sister Mary,,,,you see Bratt,sister Mary no longer thinks that I have been trying to correct you behavour,,,,,,,,,so we thought that I should come and see for myself how you have been behaving."he growls
"BUT,,,,,,BUT,,,,,,unlce Joe,,,,,I was only playing around"blushes Jacqui
"I know Bratt,and I also know all the boys you have been playing around with…"he says
Jacqui looks pleadingly at her uncle,,,he cant mean to punish her with sister Mary looking on,,,,no surely not,,,,,then she notices her uncles long blue bag with the white ties……………
"OH god uncle Joe,,,,please you cant,,not here"she pleads
"Its time sister Mary understood that I have been trying to improve your behavour,,,,,,,,,now Bratt I want your nose against the wall,,,,,,skirt up."he orders
Jacqui moves over to the wall,she lifts her skirt high around her waist,,,she had forgotten that she was wearing her red lacy g-string until she heard the shocked gasp from sister Mary.Bl;ushing profusely she hears a sound she knows very well,,,,,the sound of her uncle emptying his "tools" out onto the floor.
She tries to block out the sound of there voices as they discuss the benefit of the different implements.She doesnt hear her uncle move in behind her,,,,,but she deffinately feels his hand,,,,
"UNLCE jOE PLEASE NOT SO HARD"jACQUI SCREAMS
"YOU WILL NEVER FORGET THIS ONE BRATT"he laughs
"iS THIS ALL YOU DO?"ASKS SISTER mARY
"Oh no sister,,,,,,,,,lets move on,,,,STRIP BRATT"says uncle Joe
"NOOOOOOOOOO" screams Jacqui
"NOW"yells uncle Joe
Jacqui unbuttons her school shirt letting it slide down her arms as she releases her big tits from her bra.She pushes the skirt and g-string down her legs.Standing naked,,,eyes to the floor,,,she realises that she has never been more humiliated in her life.
Uncle Joe smiles at the site of his niece as he sits on the straight backed chair. ""over my knee Bratt"he says quietly
Jacqui moves over to her uncle,she notices the long paddle on the ground beside his chair,without a word she lowers herself over his lap.
The spanking starts in earnest,,his big hand slapping hard,covering all of her arse.She starts kicking her legs when he starts concerntrating on the bottom of her arse.He knows that she "hates"this.
After over fifty hard spanks.he pauses and gently rubs her arse.He can hear the sniffles that she is trying so hard to hide.When he bends down to pick up the paddle,,,she finaly looks at him,,,tears streaming down her face,,,,,as she begs him with her eyes.
"its not so much fun,uncle Joe when you cant make me feel good to"she whispers so as sister Mary wont hear.
"I know my little slut,but I will make you feel good soon"he whispers back as he readies his paddle
"NOOOOOOOOO more please uncle Joe"Jacqui screams
"You maybe right Bratt,,,,this is a little to cramped…..I think you should bend over sister Mary's desk"he laughs
Jacqui pulls herself to her feet,she is careflu not to touch her burning cheeks,she knows he will add more punishment if she does.She moves over to the desk and slowly lowers herself.
"WAIT"says sist Mary
Jacqui stands and whatches as the sister pulls an old grey wollen army blanket from the shelf and spreads it over the top of her desk,Jacqui glares at her as she realises what that stiff spikey wool is going to do to her poor sensitive nipples.
"now you can bend over my desk,,,slut,,"whispers sister Mary
Uncle Joe laughs as he whatches his slutty niece bending over the desk,,,He notices that she has spread her legs wide,just as he likes,,,he pulls th paddle back
He pauses as he notices how wet his niece has become,he can see her rubbing her tits on the thick scratchy blanket.
He stops and runs his hands over the burning arse,he looks up and sees how flushed sister Mary has become,,,,,,,,,,,,,mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm,,,,,he thinks "she is enjoying this"
He moves back to his "tools" and picks up the thin leather strap,Holding it by the handle he whatches sister Mary as he whips it through the air.He notices her breathing getting faster as he moves back to his niece.
He smiles as he imagines the wet patch on the abck of her habit.He again runs his hand over Jacqui's red and swollen arse,whatching sister Mary as he runs his fingers along his nieces dripping cunt.
Sister Mary cant take her eyes off those fingers,,,she whatches as they dip into the young juicy cunt and as they move up and force there way into the tight arse-hole.She reaches down and slowly rubs her cunt through her habit…as she watches Jacqui rubbing her nipples hard against the blanket snd pushes her arse back onto her uncle fingers.
Uncle Joe slowly pulls his fingers from his slutty nieces arse-hole,,he wishes he had her toys,he would have loved to see the nuns face if he had emptied them out onto the desk!!!!
"MMMMMMMM fourty I think"he murmers as he pulls the strap back
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"screams Jacqui
He pauses as he niece reaches back and grabs he burning cheek,,he konow that he has never been this hard on her before and gives her a minute to control her sobs.
"down again little slut"he whatches the effect his words have on the nun,he knows his niece likes to be called names,but is surprised at the effect his words have on the nun.He can see her fingers pushing hard against her pussy.
He quickly delivers the last twenty with the strap.He can see that sister Mary has cummmmm by the flushed dazed look on her face.He can feel his own excitement grow as he sees the juices running down his nieces legs.
"Jacqui needs 30 minutes in the corner,before I give her the cane"he says calmly to sister Mary.
Jacqui doesnt move,,,she cant her arse is on fire and she cant stop crying as she listens to them talkk.
"Yes well,,,,I have some things to take care of,,,,I will return in 30 mins,,,if that is alright"sister Mary stammers,,blushing
"I understand"murmers uncle Joe"I will ahve to lock the door,so that no one accidently walks in"he says
"OOOO yes of course"says sister Mary hurrying to the door.
Uncle Joe locks the door and slowly moves over to his niece,,,she has collapsed into a heap on the floor,,he stands over her and slolwy unzips his pants,he can see her looking up at him as he frees his rock hard cock.
"You know what I want little slut"he growls
Jacqui pulls herself to her knees and opens her mouth wide for his cock….Uncle Joe grabs her head and slowly starts fucking her face.
"mmmmmmmmm good girl"he murmers"I was going to get you to suck sister Mary"he says
He can feel her throat working as she tries to talk.He pushes his cock deep in her throat as he asks
"Well little slut,,,do you want a rest,,or do you want me in your tight arse?"he asks as he pulls his cock from her throat
Jacqui jumps up as he releaes her hair and throws herself back down on the desk,,she spreads her legs as wide as she can,,,
"OH GOD UNCLE JOE FUCK MY ARSE ,,,,PLEASE,,,PLEASE'she screams
He pinches her burning red cheeks as he slowly pushes his cock into her tight waiting arse-hole.He leans over her pushing her tits hard into the blanket and desk.
"AAAAAAAAAAAA YES FUCK MY SLUTTY ARSE_HOLE"screams Jacqui
He starts fucking her with deep hard strokes,,,Jacqui can feel her orgasm starting,,as he slams against her burning bruised arse and the increddible sensation of her nipples being dragged back and fourth over the blanket.
She feels his cock start to swell as he starts slamming into her,,,She feels his cummmmmmm squirting deep in her arse as her own orgasm crashes over her.
He leaves her twitching over the desk as he cleans himself up and puts his cock back in his pants.He moves over to unlock the door as he hears the timid knocking.He lets sister Mary in as he looks at his niece,,,,,still bent over the desk,,,with her own cum juices running down her legs,,,and his cum oozing out of her gaping arse-hole.
He moves over to his "tools"taking his time picking out a cane as he whatches sister Mary move to stand behind his niece.He sees the nun run her fingers along the dripping slit and up around the hole he had just fiiled.He looks on stunned as the nun lifts her wet fingers to her mouth.He sees the glazed look return to her eyes as she sucks his and his nieces cum from her fingers.
He picks up the thin cane,he waits until the nun is sitting at her desk,he can see her still wet fingers on his nieces nipples,,,,squeezing and pinching them.
Jacqui lifts up onto her elbows to give the nun more room,as she feels the first of twelve cuts of the cane land on her arse.
Jacqui is screaming and in tears as he lays the twelth stroke on her arse,uncle Joe looks at the long red stripes and small bruises covering his nieces arse,,,and the small bruises covering her big tits,,,,,,,,,,,,sister Mary smiles at hi as she says
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