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Global Perspectives | Italy
As we look forward to our second edition of Focus; dedicated to future healthcare, we look back at our first edition discussing sustainability: an important issue on all companies' agendas. In this article our Head of Consumer, Elena Massucco, reflects on sustainability in her home country of Italy. Hear her views on what makes good design, and the differences in how contrasting cultures approach such a complex issue.
Where are you from?
I am originally from Italy – where my family lives. I had itchy feet when I was young and lived in Tokyo and Paris before settling down in the UK 9 years ago.
What are sustainability perspectives or attitudes like in your homeland?
We are not the most attentive of Europe, but over the last few years we have developed a modern and pragmatic attitude towards sustainable consumption and are willing to pay for more virtuous behaviours. Directing purchases to products that are identified as guarantors of eco-friendly attitudes has become key and retailing solutions are reflecting this shift of attitude.
Are there any initiatives that you think are driving sustainable behaviour?
Nowadays there are a lot of options to refill, re use, buy in bulk. From water dispensing machines (provided by the council) and dispensing units for washing up liquids (in stores) to distributors for diary and even cheeses. Retailers are very conscious of new consumers' attitudes so buying in bulk or in big portions has become the norm. From buying full crates of fruits to rice sold in bags, there is a big push to reduce the amount of packaging used in homes. Especially in light of the strict rules around recycling and amounts allowed for each household. Also, worth mentioning that Italians shop often at markets, were fresh produced in sold directly from the producers, thus limiting the use of secondary packs. Lastly, in 2013 a ban on non-biodegradable plastic bags was approved – a massive behavioural change but a very effective one too.
What product or initiative stands out in the UK that is a good example of sustainable by design? (e.g. reusable bags, refillable products, eco-product, recycling in general)
Perhaps one of the best corporate sustainability initiatives in the UK is the one ran by Marks and Spencer with the launch of Plan A in 2007. With the ultimate goal of becoming the world's most sustainable major retailer, Plan A set out to address three global challenges: the increasing pressure on finite resources, rising social inequality, and the need for healthier, more sustainable lifestyles. On 1 January 2012 all M&S operated stores, offices, warehouses and delivery fleets in the UK and Republic of Ireland became carbon neutral. As part this commitment, M&S unveiled its ' sustainable suit' – a suit made from organic wool traceable back to the farms where it was produced, and the lining made from recycled plastic bottles.
What do you think we could all do more of in an effort to be more sustainable?
I am always amazed when stores shrink wrap individual units of fruits and vegetables. As consumers, we have an incredible power to change retailers attitudes towards packaging so, when possible, we should all choose to purchase the most sustainable option. Two aubergines do not need to come in a secondary pack ;-)
Elena Massucco, Head of Consumer at Kinneir Dufort
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Watch a Behind-the-Scenes Video on the Making of the Book of Shadows Tarot
Tarot Pathways on August 28, 2012.
The Book of Shadows Tarot is a unique project, many years in the making.
It is an ambitious project based on a two-deck system. Each deck is designed to work independently but also to work together.
The decks are based on the concept of As Above, So Below. The first deck, As Above, is a non-traditional (that is, not based on the Rider Waite Smith images) exploration of Wiccan/Pagan theories. So Below is a traditional deck that shows how magic is manifest in everyday life.
The kit comes with the book and the As Above deck. The box includes a space for the second deck, So Below, available in February 2013.
Below is a video created by Lo Scarabeo. Take a peek into the creation of this fascinating new tarot system.
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13 February 1996
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Concluding observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child: Mongolia
1. The Committee considered the initial report of Mongolia (CRC/C/3/Add.32) at its 264th to 266th meetings (CRC/C/SR.264-266), held on 10 and 11 January 1996 and adopted [*] the following concluding observations:
A. Introduction
2. The Committee expresses its appreciation to the Government of Mongolia for the submission of its initial report, its written information in reply to the questions set out in the list of issues (CRC/C.11/WP.2) and its constructive and fruitful dialogue. The Committee is encouraged by the frank and cooperative tone of the discussion, in which the representatives of the State party indicated not only the policy and programme directions, but also the difficulties encountered during implementation of the Convention.
B. Positive aspects
3. The Committee takes note with satisfaction that the Government has put children high on its political agenda, during a difficult period of political and economic transition, by organizing several high-level meetings such as the National Summit on Child Protection and Development (1995), by declaring 1995 the Year for Children and 1996 the Year for Education, and by allocating 20 per cent of its national budget to education.
4. The Committee welcomes the State party's wish to seek advice and technical assistance to ensure full implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in its legislation and in the field of the administration of juvenile justice.
5. The Committee notes the efforts by the Government in the field of law reform, especially the adoption of a new Constitution, a new Law on Education and the current drafting of legislation on the rights of the child.
6. The Committee also welcomes the establishment of mechanisms to deal with children's issues and the question of children's rights, in particular the National Centre for Children (NCC) and the National Council for Children.
7. The Committee is encouraged by the Government's willingness to disseminate the Convention on the Rights of the Child within Mongolian society and to make public through the media, and especially television programmes, all its related actions.
C. Factors and difficulties impending the implementation of the Convention
8. The Committee notes the difficulties facing Mongolia in the present period of political transition, social change and deep economic crisis. The situation of many children has worsened as a consequence of growing poverty and increasing unemployment. The Committee also notes the geographical and climatological particularities of the State party which can, to some extent, affect the daily life of children.
D. Principal subjects of concern
9. The Committee is worried about the impact on children of the difficult economic situation prevailing in the country. In this connection, it is particularly concerned as to whether appropriate measures have been undertaken to protect children, particularly those belonging to the most vulnerable groups, in the light of articles 3 and 4 of the Convention.
10. The Committee is concerned at the insufficient attention paid to the need for an efficient coordination mechanism between various ministries, as well as between central authorities and local authorities, in the implementation of policies for the promotion and protection of the rights of the child.
11. The Committee is concerned at the insufficient attention paid to systematic and comprehensive data collection, identification of appropriate indicators and monitoring mechanisms in all areas covered by the Convention, especially the most hidden such as child abuse or ill-treatment, but also in relation to all groups of children including minority group children, nomad children, children of single-parent families, children in rural areas, institutionalized and disabled children, and children living and/or working on the streets.
12. The Committee expresses its concern that the State party has not yet taken fully into account in its legislation the general principles of the Convention: article 2 (principle of non-discrimination), article 3 (principle of the best interests of the child), article 6 (right to life, survival and development) and article 12 (respect for the views of the child).
13. The Committee is concerned at the insufficient steps undertaken to ensure birth registration of children and by the fact that children living in remote areas might not be registered and therefore be deprived of their fundamental rights.
14. The Committee is worried by the absence of legislation regulating international adoptions.
15. The Committee is worried by the high rate of school drop-outs, especially among boys living in rural areas, and the reported increase of child labour. It is also concerned by the difficulties encountered by children living in rural and remote areas and by disabled children in their access to basic services such as health care, social services and education.
16. The Committee is concerned that appropriate measures have not yet been taken to prevent and combat effectively ill-treatment of children within the family and about the insufficient information existing on this matter. The problem of sexual exploitation of children also requires special attention.
17. The situation in relation to the administration of juvenile justice and in particular its compatibility with articles 37 and 40 of the Convention, as well as other relevant standards such as the Beijing Rules, the Riyadh Guidelines and the United Nations Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty, is a matter of concern to the Committee.
E. Suggestions and recommendations
18. The Committee recommends that the State party take further steps to strengthen coordination between the different governmental mechanisms involved in human rights and children's rights, at both central and local levels, and ensure closer cooperation with non-governmental organizations.
19. The Committee further recommends that the State party undertake to gather all necessary information on the situation of children in the various areas covered by the Convention, including on children belonging to the most vulnerable groups. It also suggests that a multidisciplinary monitoring system be established to assess the progress achieved and difficulties encountered in the realization of the rights recognized by the Convention at the central and local levels, and in particular to monitor regularly the effects of economic change on children. Such a monitoring system should enable the State party to shape appropriate policies and to combat prevailing social disparities and traditional prejudices. The Committee also encourages the State party to consider the establishment of an independent mechanism, such as an ombudsperson.
20. The Committee is of the opinion that greater efforts are required to make the provisions and principles of the Convention widely known and understood by adults and children alike, in the light of article 42 of the Convention. The Committee wishes to encourage the State party to further develop a systematic approach to increasing public awareness of the participatory rights of children in the light of article 12 of the Convention.
21. The Committee recommends that periodic training programmes on the rights of the child be organized for professional groups working with or for children including teachers, law enforcement officials, social workers and judges, and that human rights and children's rights be included in their training curricula.
22. Children's birth registration should be given priority to ensure that every child is recognized as a person and enjoys his/her full rights. The Committee encourages further steps to ensure birth registration of children, including the establishment of mobile registrations offices.
23. In the light of article 2 of the Convention, the Committee also recommends that the State party take all necessary measures to fight school drop-out among boys in rural areas and to prevent their involvement in child labour, and to reinforce the access to basic services for children (health, education and social care) in rural areas and for disabled children throughout the country.
24. The Committee recommends that, in the framework of its legal reform, the Government take fully into account the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, especially its general principles (arts. 2, 3, 6 and 12).
25. In relation to intercountry adoption, the Committee is of the opinion that the State party should, as soon as possible, draft and adopt legislation to regulate this activity. The State party is also encouraged to ratify the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption of 1993.
26. In order to promote the protection of refugee children, the Committee recommends that the State party ratify the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees.
27. The Committee encourages the Government of Mongolia to pay particular attention to the full implementation of article 4 of the Convention and to ensure judicious distribution of resources at the central and local levels. Budget allocations for the implementation of economic, social and cultural rights should be ensured to the maximum extent of available resources and in the light of the best interests of the child.
28. In the light of article 19 of the Convention, the Committee further recommends that the Government take all appropriate measures, including legislative ones, to combat ill-treatment within the family and sexual abuse of children. It suggests, inter alia, that the authorities gather information and initiate a comprehensive study to improve understanding of the nature and scope of the problem and set up social programmes to prevent all types of child abuse.
29. In the field of the administration of juvenile justice, the Committee recommends that legal reform be pursued and take fully into account the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in particular articles 37, 39 and 40, and other relevant international standards in this field, such as the Beijing Rules, the Riyadh Guidelines and the United Nations Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty. Particular attention should be paid to the prevention of juvenile delinquency, the protection of the rights of children deprived of their liberty, respect for fundamental rights and legal safeguards in all aspects of the juvenile justice system and full independence and impartiality of the judiciary dealing with juveniles.
30. In the framework of the ongoing technical assistance programmes of the Centre for Human Rights and the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Branch, law reform in the field of children's rights and training of professionals working with children should be initiated. Special attention should be paid to training in the relevant international standards, in particular for judges, law enforcement officials, correctional officers and social workers. The Government is encouraged to consider requesting this specific assistance from the Centre for Human Rights and the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Branch. It is further suggested that the Government consider seeking technical assistance from other relevant organizations, including International Labour Organization, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations Children's Fund and World Health Organization. The Committee also encourages the international community to provide technical assistance and advice to the State party in its current efforts.
31. The Committee encourages the State party to disseminate widely the State party's report, the summary records of the discussion of the report within the Committee and the concluding observations adopted by the Committee following its consideration of the report. The Committee would like to suggest that these documents be brought to the attention of Parliament and that the suggestions and recommendations for action contained therein be followed up. In this regard, the Committee suggests that cooperation with non-governmental organizations be reinforced.
* At the 287th meeting, held on 26 January 1996.


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Andrew Rathbun-saxophones, Jeremy Siskind-piano, Tom Knific-bass, Keith Hall-drums
The WESTERN JAZZ QUARTET is a resident faculty ensemble in the School of Music at Western Michigan University. Formed in 1974, the quartet combines performing and teaching with uncommon success as they promote jazz music and jazz education through a very active schedule of tours, concerts and workshops. Activities range from performances for school children of all ages to concerts, tours and recordings with such artists as Art Farmer, Stefon Harris, Tim Hagans, Kenny Werner, Billy Hart, Mark Murphy, Randy Brecker, Dave Liebman, Janis Siegel, and Bobby McFerrin.
In 2012, after a retirement and shift in faculty, the NEW WESTERN JAZZ QUARTET was born with Rathbun, Siskind, Hall and the veteran Tom Knific. The NEW WJQ will be releasing a new CD in the fall of 2013 complete with a tour of Russia and concerts around the U.S.
The Western Jazz Quartet has performed from Boston to Los Angeles, and tours regularly world wide. It has been featured at festivals in Canada, Europe and the U.S., and at a week of performances at La Villa in Paris, France. The group was honored with sponsorship by the Arts America Program and often tours as artistic ambassadors for the US Department of State including Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Poland, Italy, Croatia, and Slovenia. The quartet has also toured Europe four times with pianist Wlodek Pawlik, drum legend Billy Hart, and jazz legend Randy Brecker.


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Most of us associate Sex and the City with labels, labels, labels — Manolo, Jimmy, Dolce...the list goes on. After the second film (and that infamous $10 million wardrobe), it's easy to forget that the show actually had (relatively) humble beginnings. In Rizzoli's new book, Fendi Baguette, feting the rerelease of six of the Italian house's iconic arm candy (out June 1), Sarah Jessica Parker describes how the little wardrobe department that could became a veritable treasure trove, thanks to one mini handbag. "In the very beginning, [stylist] Patricia Field and her team had to be industrious and creative with a low budget by getting clothes from thrift stores in order to tell interesting fashion stories," Parker writes. "At this time, things were inaccessible and out of reach; Fendi was really the first important design house to loan us items, with the baguette handbag being the first."
SJP goes on to explain that having that Label (with a capital L) influenced her alter ego's style and shopping habits, and set off an influx of designer pieces. "Once Fendi loaned us items, everyone was willing to do so, which helped us dramatically in conveying Carrie's decadence."
For our part, we want to say "Thank you, Fendi!" for being a trailblazer in on-set fashion, and setting off the lavish life of our favorite lovelorn writer. Although some lament the sometimes (okay, always) over-the-top lifestyle of SATC's fictional foursome, it's hard to imagine the show without those fabulous touches. Plus, what else besides the lustrous labels could have turned Sex and the City 2 from groan-inducing to slightly bearable? (Fashionista)
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The PCA9614 is an Fm+ SMBus/I2C-bus buffer that extends the normal single-ended SMBus/I2C-bus through electrically noisy environments with the use of a differential SMBus/I2C-bus (dI2C) physical layer. The device consists of two single-ended to differential driver channels for the SCL. The devices acts as a bridge between the normal 2-wire single-ended wired-OR SMBus/I2C-bus and the 4-wire dI2C-bus.
Where used?
- Monitor remote temperature/leak detectors in harsh environment
- Control of power supplies in high noise environment
- Transmission of I2C-bus between equipment cabinets
- Commercial lighting and industrial heating/cooling control
- Any application that requires long I2C-bus runs in electrically noisy environments
- Any application with multiple power suppliers and the potential for ground offsets up to 2.5 V
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- Improved resistance to system noise and ground offset up to 1⁄ 2 of supply voltage
- Compatible with I2C-bus Standard/Fast-mode and SMBus, Fast-mode Plus up to 1 MHz
- Lock-up free operation
- Supports arbitration and clock stretching across the dI2C-bus buffers
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- Latch-up testing is done to JEDEC Standard JESD78 which exceeds 100 mA


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Menucher Menuchehry, the latest consultant whose name has emerged in the government's insider trading probe, is a 41-year-old employee of Marvell, a fabless semi-conductor manufacturing firm, and a consultant to Gerson Lehrman.
The FBI may or may not suspect that Menuchehry provided sensitive information to Diamondback Capital Management, a Gerson client, because the Journal, where the news is reported, at once says:
The consultant, an employee of Marvell Technology Group Ltd., provided information about the technology industry to a Gerson client, Diamondback.
And at another time, after identifying Menuchehry as the consultant, says:
It isn't known whether authorities suspect Mr. Menuchehry passed inside information to any fund.
So, that's a little contradictory.
But here's one thing to take away from what we're learning about these experts or consultants. They're all great, friendly guys who people want to hang out with.
When he appeared on CNBC, John Kinnucan, the hero who didn't wear a wire for the FBI and warned his clients, seemed like just about the coolest guy on the planet, Primary Global raved that their employee, Don Chu, was a fun guy to travel with "on the highways and byways of Taiwan), and Menuchehry is apparently one of the "nicest" guys out there.
Here's what his friends say about him:
"He was a great team lead, an excellent engineer and the nicest guy you could work with." – Simon at Mahi Networks
"Excellent engineer and a great team lead. His attention to engineering and planning details and team dynamics resulted in very high quality projects and motivated team environments. His crisp and clear communication skills further his technical skills and play a critical role in his leadership style." – Vikas at Mahi Networks
We can't say anything about his engineering or leadership skills – he's not on the masthead of "leaders" at the 5,000-employee firm Marvell – but Menuchehry is the latest charismatic "expert" on semiconductors. Don Chu had connections in the same area.
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Sunday, July 3, 2011
Alternatives For Monetizing Linkedin
Inspired by the news that Twitter would be selling ads in your newsfeed, I suggested last week that it might be more beneficial for social sites and online-based content generators to charge their customers rather than relying on revenue from advertising. While that may sound like blasphemy to today's online user, I think in the long term it may be more efficient than pushing more ads on more people. Anyhow, I received some great feedback that sparked a couple of new ideas.
The success of LinkedIn's business model was repeatedly mentioned as something that should be emulated by other sites. However, the model is actually not new at all. In fact, it's very close to how traditional newspapers have made money for over a century. LinkedIn does charge some percentage of its users who desire the full-use of the site. The non-paying users are only allowed limited-use of the site. Additionally, LinkedIn has an advertising component to its business model. Despite its limited short-term success (a high initial public offering), I believe they're different opportunities to capitalize its position as the online home for professional networking, to make money and to make the site more social.
The basic outline starts with LinkedIn partnering up with other businesses who sell relevant products to its users. It could be anything from office supplies, flowers, lunches, thank you cards etc.
Lets say for instance that through LinkedIn you learn a colleague or friend received a promotion. You could go to a partnered retailer and get them a gift (or buy from a suggested). Maybe you had meeting or an interview and want to want thank that person while leaving a good impression going away. LinkedIn may help you find the right gift. Obviously, sales would be split up between the retailer and LinkedIn. Or why not offer lunch instead of simply asking to be introduced on the network.
I'm sure they're are plenty of other ways to monetize the site using the "gift plan." Maybe LinkedIn could "gift" free advice to young professionals which could be sponsored by a relevant company in the industry.
Social activity existed long before the internet. This engages the professional networks on LinkedIn in activities that are (actually) social and already doing offline. And it just seems like a more logical and seamless way to monetize a social activity than buying laundry detergent on Facebook.
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Ricky Ponting's Australia received a boost ahead of the Twenty20 world championships starting later on Tuesday when his team swept four of the five top ICC awards.
Ponting himself won two, the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for the cricketer of the year and the captain of the year award at a formal ceremony held at the Sandton Convention Centre here on Monday night.
Matthew Hayden was named the one-day player of the year and fast bowler Shaun Tait, who missed out on the Twenty20 event due to injury, won the emerging player's award.
Australia picked up a fifth award away from the players when Simon Taufel was declared the best umpire for the fourth year in a row.
Pakistan's prolific batsman Mohammad Yousuf prevented an Australian clean sweep by bagging the Test player of the year ward for scoring 944 runs in 10 innings at 94.40 during the voting period of August 2006-August 2007.
Ponting, who was voted player of the year for the second successive year, said he was honoured to be feted by the cricket world.
"It's more of an eventful night than I thought it would be and I am honoured," said Ponting. "It's a great achievement and something I will probably look back on this with a lot of pride."
Ponting led Australia to an Ashes whitewash, Champions Trophy victory and a third consecutive World Cup title during the past year.
"I was happy with the way I have gone about things during the past year and I think we have lifted ourselves to a new level as a team," Ponting said.
It has been an unbelievable 12 months of cricket and we should all be very proud with what we have achieved."
Ponting said he was looking forward to the Twenty20 tournament where Australia are placed in group B alongside England and Zimbabwe.
"It would be nice to add another one to the cupboard but it is going to be a very open competition," he said.
Yousuf, who has been banned by Pakistan for joining the rebel Indian Cricket League, said he was delighted to be named the Test player of the year.
"This is the first time for a Pakistan player to win this award so I am particularly delighted with that," the 33-year-old said in a video message from Lahore.
"I thank Allah and my Pakistan team-mates. I also want to thank the ICC panel for voting for me."
Mahela Jayawardene's Sri Lanka won the Spirit Of Cricket award, while Thomas Odoyo of Kenya was named the player of the year among non-Test nations.
Indian seamer Jhulan Goswami picked up the women's player of the year award, making up for the absence of any male compatriot among the nominees.
"It is special to win the award because none of our stars had been nominated," said Goswami. "I hope this award will give a fillp to the women's game in India."
The inaugural Twenty20 world championship opens later on Tuesday when hosts South Africa take on the West Indies at the Wanderers here.
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Ricky Ponting's Australia received a boost ahead of the Twenty20 world championships starting later on Tuesday when his team swept four of the five top ICC awards.


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Bollywood 100 in Birmingham
PAST EVENT - 7 - 30 June
Bollywood 100 in Birmingham
Birmingham will be rolling out the red carpet as it celebrates 100 years of Indian cinema, popularly known throughout the world as Bollywood.
The Bollywood 100 in Birmingham festival will capture the glitz, glamour, music, dance, drama and style of one of the biggest film industries in the world, with a lively city-wide programme of arts and culture events throughout June.
Festival highlights include:
Sun 9 June - Bollywood's Got Talent competition at mac birmingham
Join the fun as contestants battle it out in front of a live audience and a panel of expert judges including renowned front man of bhangra band DCS, Shin Parwana!
Tues 11 June - Bollywood the Cabaret at Solihull Arts Complex
A sumptuous celebration of the music, movement and colour of Bollywood, with classical Indian dance fusion, funk, jazz and ballet and a stunning soundtrack of Bollywood hits.
Thurs 13 June - Bollywood 100 gala dinner at Edgbaston Stadium
Special guests, Bollywood legend Zeenat Aman and acclaimed actor Abhay Deol with BBC presenters DJ Bobby Friction and Satnam Rana. With live music, dance and fashion show.
Sat 22 June - Bollywood 100 Mela at The Arcadian, FREE Family Fun!
Free open air Mela with Bollywood dance performances and a live set by gifted vocalist Ambika Jois. Presented in partnership with Birmingham Hippodrome
Sun 30 June - JALSA: Classical in Bollywood at Bramall Music Building
Celebrating Bollywood's classical Indian music with popular singers Sanchita Pal and Sanyogita Kumari, tabla virtuoso Sarvar Sabri and dance performances.
Director of sampad, Piali Ray OBE says:
We are delighted to be working with partner organisations across Birmingham to mark the achievements of the Indian film industry and to commemorate its prolific output which is known and loved throughout the world.
We're especially excited to be bringing leading Bollywood stars to the West Midlands to take part in the celebrations alongside home grown talent and emerging Bollywood artists.
The Festival will also include screenings of classic and contemporary Bollywood films at a variety of venues throughout the city.
Bollywood is big business internationally with Birmingham increasingly taking centre stage as a location for the South Asian film industry, attracting visitors to the City and helping boost the economy.
For ticket details and more information please visit www.sampad.org.uk/bollywood100inbirmingham
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Kimberly Smith believed she was "in good hands" when she rented an East Baltimore rowhouse nearly 20 years ago that was part of a Kennedy Krieger Institute study of lead paint remediation techniques.
Kennedy Krieger takes care of children, Smith thought at the time. One of her children had suffered lead poisoning when the family had lived elsewhere, she recalled in a recent interview, and she was pregnant then with her fourth child, Cecil.
"I was told it was a great opportunity — it was lead-safe," Smith said. "It was one less thing I had to worry about."
But something went wrong while she and her children lived at 1110 Rutland Ave., according to a lawsuit filed in Baltimore Circuit Court. Though the house had undergone repairs intended to reduce lead-paint hazards, the suit alleges that her infant son was being poisoned from the time she brought him home from the hospital until she moved out of the house more than three years later. By then, Smith says, her son was showing signs of behavior problems, which she now sees as a symptom of brain damage that would plague him throughout his life.


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Upcoming Seminars
October 5, 2018
Vasyl Pihur
Privacy/Security Engineering Manager
Snapchat, Inc.
CTRB 2161/2162, 11:00am- 12:00pm
Past Seminars
January 8, 2016-11:00-12:00 CTRB 2161
Naihua Duan
Professor of Biostatistics (in Psychiatry)
Division of Biostatistics, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University
As personalized medicine/precision medicine is emerging as a promising way to improve clinical decision-making, to customize clinical decisions for individual patients to accommodate the unique needs and preferences for each specific patient, there is a growing need for biostatistical methods to be developed and deployed to serve the needs for personalized medicine. As an example, the on-going NIH-funded PREEMPT Study, http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/chpr/preempt/, is developing a smartphone app that allows chronic pain patients and clinicians to run personalized experiments (n-of-1 trials), comparing two different pain treatments, to help patients and their clinicians to choose the most appropriate pain treatment for each individual patient. Such personalized biostatistical toolkits can be utilized by frontline clinicians and their patients to address the specific clinical questions confronted by each specific patients, to enable the specification and execution of the personalized trial protocol, to facilitate the collection of outcome and process data, to analyze and interpret the data acquired, and to produce reports to the end users to help them with evidence-based decision making. This paradigm exemplifies the potential for "Small Data" (as opposed to "Big Data") to be deployed in clinical applications for the benefits of both today's patients (quality improvement) and future patients (human subjects research).
- Joint work with Richard Kravitz, Christopher Schmid, and the PREEMPT Consortium.
January 22, 2016-11:00-12:00 CTRB 3161/3162
Somnath Datta
Preeminent Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Florida
Title: Multi-Sample Adjusted U-Statistics that Account for Confounding Covariates
Multi-sample U-statistics encompass a wide class of test statistics that allow the comparison of two or more distributions. U-statistics are especially powerful because they can be applied to both numeric and non-numeric (e.g., textual) data. However, when comparing the distribution of a variable across two or more groups, observed differences may be due to confounding covariates. For example, in a case-control study, the distribution of exposure in cases may differ from that in controls entirely because of variables that are related to both exposure and case status and are distributed differently among case and control participants. We propose to use individually-reweighted data (using the propensity score for prospective data or the stratification score for retrospective data) to construct adjusted U-statistics that can test the equality of distributions across two (or more) groups in the presence of confounding covariates. Asymptotic normality of our adjusted Y-statistics is established and a closed form expression of their asymptotic variance is presented. The utility of our procedures is demonstrated through simulation studies as well as an analysis of genetic data.
January 29, 2016 – 11:00-12:00 CTRB 3161/3162
Raymond J. Carroll
Distinguished Professor and Jill and Stuart A. Harlin 83 Chair in Statistics
Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University
Title: Constrained maximum likelihood estimation for model calibration using summary-level information from external big data sources
Information from various public and private data sources of extremely large sample sizes is now increasingly available for research purposes. Statistical methods are needed for utilizing information from such big data sources while analyzing data from individual studies that may collect more detailed information required for addressing specific hypotheses of interest. We consider the problem of building regression models based on individual-level data from an "internal" study while utilizing summary-level information, such as information on parameters for reduced models, from an "external" big-data source. We identify a set of very constraints that link internal and external models. These constraints are used to develop a framework for semiparametric maximum likelihood inference that allows the distribution of the covariates to be estimated using either the internal sample or an external reference sample. We develop extensions for handling complex stratified sampling designs, such as case-control sampling, for the internal study. Asymptotic theory and variance estimators are developed for each case. We use simulation studies and a real data application to assess the performance of the proposed methods.
April 1, 2016-11:00-12:00 CTRB 3161
Ciprian Crainiceanu
Department of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins University
Title: Wearable computing and clinical brain imaging
The talk will focus on wearable computing (accelerometers, heart monitors) and structural brain imaging and will introduce three distinct scientific areas. The first part of the talk will focus on movement recognition, identification of circadian patterns of activity and quantification of their association with health outcomes. The second part will focus on structural MRI (sMRI) and its application to longitudinal lesion segmentation, tracking, and quantification in Multiple Sclerosis patients. The third part will be dedicated to the association of stroke location and stroke severity using computed tomography (CT) brain imaging in a large clinical trial. Emphasis will be on the scientific problems and datasets.
General information about Dr. Crainiceanu's work can be found at www.smart-stats.org, while the most relevant papers for this presentation can be found at
May 6, 2016-11:00-12:00 CTRB 2161/2162
Marianthi Markatou
Associate Chair for Research and Healthcare Informatics
Professor of Biostatistics, SPHHP & SMBS
Assistant Director, Institute for Health Care Informatics
Department of Biostatistics
The State University of New York at Buffalo
A Semi-parametric Method for Clustering Mixed Data
Despite the existence of a large number of clustering algorithms, clustering remains a challenging problem. As large datasets become increasingly common in a number of different domains, it is often the case that clustering algorithms must be applied to heterogeneous sets of variables, creating an acute need for robust and scalable clustering methods for mixed continuous and categorical scale data. We show that current clustering methods for mixed-type data suffer from at least one of two central challenges: (1) they are unable to equitably balance the contribution of continuous and categorical variables without strong parametric assumptions; or (2) they are unable to properly handle data sets in which only a subset of variables are related to the underlying cluster structure of interest. We first develop KAMILA (KAy-means for MIxed LArge data), a clustering method that addresses (1) and in many situations (2), without requiring strong parametric assumptions. We next develop MEDEA (Multivariate Eigenvalue Decomposition Error Adjustment), a weighting system that addresses (2) even in the face of a large number of uninformative variables. We study theoretical aspects of our method and demonstrate their superiority in a series of Monte Carlo simulation studies and a set of real-world applications.
Joint work with A. Foss, B. Ray and A. Hetching
May 13, 2016-11:00-12:00 CTRB 2161/2162
Wenxuan Zhong
Associate Professor
Department of Statistics
University of Georgia
September 23, 2016-11:00-12:00 CTRB 3161/3162
J. Sunil Rao, Ph.D.
Director and Professor
Division of Biostatistics
Department of Public Health Sciences
University of Miami
Title: Classified Mixed Model Prediction
Abstract: Many practical problems are related to prediction, where the main interest is at subject (e.g., personalized medicine) or (small) sub-population (e.g., small community) level. In such cases, it is possible to make substantial gains in prediction accuracy by identifying a class that a new subject belongs to. This way, the new subject is potentially associated with a random effect corresponding to the same class in the training data, so that method of mixed model prediction can be used to make the best prediction. We propose a new method, called classified mixed model prediction (CMMP), to achieve this goal. We develop CMMP for both prediction of mixed effects and prediction of future observations, and consider different scenarios where there may or may not be a "match" of the new subject among the training-data subjects. Theoretical and empirical studies are carried out to study the properties of CMMP, and its comparison with existing methods. In particular, we show that, even if the actual match does not exist between the class of the new observations and those of the training data, CMMP still helps in improving prediction accuracy. Two real-data examples are considered – one coming from a genomic study of breast cancer and the other from a sociology study of school-aged children.
- This is joint work with Jiming Jiang of UC-Davis, Jie Fan of the University of Miami and Thuan Nguyen of Oregon Health and Sciences University.
September 30, 2016-11:00-12:00 CTRB 3161/3162
Hongzhe Li
Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics
Chair, Graduate Program in Biostatistics
University of Pennsylvania
Title: Integrative Analysis for Incorporating the Microbiome to Improve Precision Medicine
Abstract: The gut microbiome impacts health and risk of disease by dynamically integrating signals from the host and its environment. High throughput sequencing technologies enable individualized characterization of the microbiome composition and function. The resulting data can potentially be used for personalized diagnostic assessment, risk stratification, disease prevention and treatment. In this talk, I will present several ongoing microbiome studies at the University of Pennsylvania and provide some empirical evidence of using microbiome in precision medicine. I will talk about some statistical issues related to species abundance quantification, compositional data regression and mediation analysis.
October 13, 2016-11:00-12:00 CTRB 3161/3162
Mosuk Chow, PhD
Senior Scientist & Professor of Statistics
Program director of Master Applied Statistics
Department of Statistics
Penn State University
Title: The Development of Master of Applied Statistics Program at Penn State
Abstract: The Master of Applied Statistics (M.A.S.) program at Penn State was created to meet the strong workforce demand for individuals with sophisticated tools and knowledge to handle and analyze data in the new information age. The development of the M.A.S. program was partially funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation as a Professional Science Masters program. The program was approved by the Penn State Graduate School in 2001 for both the residence program at University Park and for the online program at World Campus. The residence program started admitting student in 2001 but the first online MAS cohort began in Spring 2010. In this talk, our experience developing and offering the MAS program at Penn State will be shared.
October 28, 2016-11:00-12:00 CTRB 2161/2162
Chuanhai Liu, PhD
Professor of Statistics
Purdue University
Title: A Multithreaded and Distributed R for Big Data Analysis
Abstract: The computer software R is one of the most popular computing tools for data analysis. In the past decade or so, tremendous efforts have been made to make R useful for big data analysis. These include Tessera, Revolution-R, and SparkR, to name a few. As we know, they are all making use of JAVA-based softwares such as Hadoop and Spark. In this talk, we introduce an entirely new alternative, a multithreaded and distributed R, called SupR. The prototype of SupR (http://www.stat.purdue.edu/~chuanhai/SupR/index.html) was made possible by modifying R (R-3.1.1) existing internal system implementation with additional ~40K lines of new source code in C. The key features of the prototype include (1) a R-style front-end obtained by maintaining the existing R syntax and internal basic data structures, (2) a Java-like multithreading model, (3) a Spark-like cluster computing environment, and (4) a built-in simple distributed file system. With simple examples, including multithreaded Expectation-Maximization and distributed Linear Regression, we show how SupR can be potentially useful for big data analysis.
November 17, 2016-11:00-12:00 CTRB 2161/2162
Shiva Gautam, PhD
Professor, College of Medicine
University of Florida, Jacksonville
Title: A-kappa: An Index for Agreement Among Multiple Raters
Abstract: Medical data from biomedical studies are often imbalanced with a majority of observations coming from healthy or normal subjects. In the presence of such imbalances, agreement among multiple raters based on Fleiss' Kappa (FK) produces counterintuitive results. Simulations suggest that the degree of FK's misrepresentation of the observed agreement may be directly related to the degree of imbalance in the data. We propose a new method, A-Kappa (AK), for evaluating agreement among multiple raters that is not affected by such imbalances. Performance of AK and FK is compared by simulating various degrees of imbalance and the use of the proposed method is illustrated by a real data set. The proposed index of agreement may provide some insight by relating its magnitude to a probability scale whereas existing indices are interpreted arbitrarily.. Computation of both AK and FK may further shed light into the data and be useful in the interpretation and in presenting the results.
December 2, 2016-11:00-12:00 CTRB 3161/3162
Ejaz S. Ahmed
Professor and Dean, Faculty of Mathematics and Science
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Brock University
A Journey Through Data to BIG DATA: A Statistician Perspective
Abstract: In this talk, I will shed lights on some historical developments in the arena of so-called big data analysis. We will shed lights on the use and abuse of statistical techniques when analyzing such data. Specifically, I will consider a high-dimensional setting where number of variables are greater than the sample size. In recent literature many penalized regularization strategies are investigated for simultaneous variable selection and post-estimation. Penalty estimation strategy yields good results when the model at hand is assumed to be sparse. However, in a real scenario a model may include both sparse signals and weak signals. In this setting variable selection methods may not distinguish predictors with weak signals and sparse signals and will treat weak signals as sparse signals. The prediction based on a selected submodel may not be fruitful due to selection bias in the submodel. We suggest a high-dimensional shrinkage estimation strategy to improve the prediction performance of a given submodel. The relative performance of the proposed strategy is appraised by numerical studies including application to a real dataset.
January 27, 2017-11:00-12:00 CTRB 3161/3162
Sharon Browning
Associate Professor
Department of Biostatistics
University of Washington
Identity by descent in populations
Abstract: Individuals are identical by descent if they share genetic material due to inheritance from a recent common ancestor. "Unrelated" pairs of people often have detectable segments of identity by descent in their genomes due to very distant relationships. Identity by descent segments are useful for a wide range of genetic analyses including association testing, relationship inference and estimating demographic history. In this talk I will outline probability models for identity by descent and genetic data, and present methods for detecting segments of identity by descent from genetic data in population-based samples. I will also present the concept of effective population size, discuss how it relates to probability models for identity by descent, and present a method for estimating recent effective population size by using identity by descent. I will show results for several populations in Europe and the US.
February 3, 2017-11:00-12:00 CTRB 2161/2162
Sudipto Banerjee, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Biostatistics
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
High-Dimensional Bayesian Geostatistics
Abstract: With the growing capabilities of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and user-friendly software, statisticians today routinely encounter geographically referenced data containing observations from a large number of spatial locations and time points. Over the last decade, hierarchical spatial-temporal process models have become widely deployed statistical tools for researchers to better understanding the complex nature of spatial and temporal variability. However, fitting hierarchical spatial-temporal models often involves expensive matrix computations with complexity increasing in cubic order for the number of spatial locations and temporal points. This renders such models unfeasible for large data sets. In this talk, I will present some approaches for constructing well-defined spatial-temporal stochastic processes that accrue substantial computational savings. These processes can be used as "priors" for spatial-temporal random fields. Specifically, we will discuss and distinguish between two paradigms: low-rank and sparsity and argue in favor of the latter for achieving massively scalable inference. We construct a well-defined Nearest-Neighbor Gaussian Process (NNGP) that can be exploited as a dimension-reducing prior embedded within a rich and flexible hierarchical modeling framework to deliver exact Bayesian inference. Both these approaches lead to algorithms with floating point operations (flops) that are linear in the number of spatial locations (per iteration). We compare these methods and demonstrate their use in a number of applications and, in particular, in inferring on the spatial-temporal distribution of air pollution in continental Europe using spatial-temporal regression models in conjunction with chemistry transport models.
- This is based upon joint work with Abhirup Datta (Johns Hopkins University) and Andrew O. Finley (Michigan State University).
March 17, 2017–11:00-12:00 CTRB 2161/2162
Arnold J. Stromberg
Professor and Chair
Department of Statistics
University of Kentucky
Feasible Solutions Algorithms: Concepts and Grant Applications
Abstract: Recent work by our group revisited feasible solution algorithms (FSAs) first popularized by Doug Hawkins in the early 1990's. We use FSAs to find interactions between explanatory variables in predictive models. The generality of the algorithm is both a blessing and a curse. NIH and other funding agencies have been issuing more RFAs for secondary data analysis which is ideal for FSA. This has allowed our team to submit multiple grants relating to FSA, but so far, only one pilot project has been funded. Grant reviews suggest reviewers don't understand the algorithm, which has led to expansions of the algorithm which leads to publications and improved grant applications, including a recent R01 submission.
June 16, 2017-11:00-12:00 CTRB 2161/2162
Ming-Hui Chen, PhD
Professor, Department of Statistics
University of Connecticut
A Partition Weighted Kernal (PWK) Method for Estimating Marginal Likelihoods with Applications
Abstract: Evaluating the marginal likelihood is essential for model selection. Estimators based on a single Markov chain Monte Carlo sample from the posterior distribution include the harmonic mean estimator and the inflated density ratio estimator. We propose a new class of Monte Carlo estimators based on this single Markov chain Monte Carlo sample. This class can be thought of as a generalization of the harmonic mean and inflated density ratio estimators using a partition weighted kernel (likelihood times prior). We show that our estimator is consistent and has better theoretical properties than the harmonic mean and inflated density ratio estimators. Simulation studies were conducted to examine the empirical performance of the proposed estimator. We further demonstrate the desirable features of the proposed estimator with two real data sets: one is from a prostate cancer study using an ordinal probit regression model with latent variables; the other is for the power prior construction from two Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group phase III clinical trials using the cure rate survival model with similar objectives. When time permits, an extension of the PWK method for computing the marginal likelihoods for variable tree topology space.
- This is joint work with Yu-Bo Wang, Lynn Kuo, and Paul O. Lewis.
November 9, 2017-11:00-12:00 CTRB 2161
Michael G. Hudgens
Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Director, Biostatistics Core, Center for AIDS Research, UNC
Title: Causal Inference in the Presence of Interference
A fundamental assumption usually made in causal inference is that of no interference between individuals (or units), i.e., the potential outcomes of one individual are assumed to be unaffected by the treatment assignment of other individuals. However, in many settings, this assumption obviously does not hold. For example, in infectious diseases, whether one person becomes infected depends on who else in the population is vaccinated. In this talk we will discuss recent approaches to assessing treatment effects in the presence of interference. Inference about different direct and indirect (or spillover) effects will be considered in a population where individuals form groups such that interference is possible between individuals within the same group but not between individuals in different groups. Analyses of a cholera vaccine study in over 100,000 individuals in Matlab, Bangladesh will be presented which indicate a significant indirect effect of vaccination.
CTSI and The Department of Biostatistics Special Invited Seminar
HPNP G 114, November 15, 2017
Tony Barr, M.S
A Model of Reality Inc.
Title: The Search for Understanding: A Perspective from SAS Creator
Abstract: My childhood dream of being an inventor led me to major in physics at North Carolina State University. However, I became fascinated with computers and took an assistantship programming with the Statistics Department. This led me to create the SAS language to bring statistics to the people. The theme of understanding gradually became a primary motivator for me in trying to write programs in many different domains. The history of SAS and the future of computing will be covered. A picture of the future is presented where people understand programming and programming becomes a universal skill.
January 27, 2017-11:00am- 12:00pm CTRB 3161/3162
Sharon Browning
Associate Professor
Department of Biostatistics
University of Washington
Title: Identity by descent in populations
Abstract: Individuals are identical by descent if they share genetic material due to inheritance from a recent common ancestor. "Unrelated" pairs of people often have detectable segments of identity by descent in their genomes due to very distant relationships. Identity by descent segments are useful for a wide range of genetic analyses including association testing, relationship inference and estimating demographic history. In this talk I will outline probability models for identity by descent and genetic data, and present methods for detecting segments of identity by descent from genetic data in population-based samples. I will also present the concept of effective population size, discuss how it relates to probability models for identity by descent, and present a method for estimating recent effective population size by using identity by descent. I will show results for several populations in Europe and the US.
August 24, 2018-11:00am- 12:00pm CTRB 2161/2162
Kasper Hansen
Assistant Professor
Department of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Title: Analyzing bisulfite sequencing data from human brain regions
Abstract: Epigenetic marks in the human brain have been hypothesized to be associated with disease. Towards understanding this, we have profiled DNA methylation, chromatin accessibility, and gene expression in multiple different human brain regions in fractionated cell populations. We will discuss statistical approaches to analyzing such data, which includes local likelihood smoothing and scalable computing.
September 28, 2018-11:00am-12:00pm CTRB 3161/3162
Limin Peng
Associate Professor
Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Rollins School of Public Health
Emory University
Title: Trajectory Quantile Regression for Longitudinal Data
Abstract: Quantile regression has demonstrated promising utility in longitudinal data analysis. Existing work is primarily focused on modeling cross-sectional outcomes, while outcome trajectories often carry more substantive information in practice. In this work, we develop a trajectory quantile regression framework that is designed to robustly and flexibly investigate how latent individual trajectory features are related to observed subject characteristics. The proposed models are built under multilevel modeling with usual parametric assumptions lifted or relaxed. We derive our estimation procedure by novelly transforming the problem at hand to quantile regression with perturbed responses and adapting the bias correction technique for handling covariate measurement errors. We establish desirable asymptotic properties of the proposed estimator, including uniform consistency and weak convergence. Extensive simulation studies confirm the validity of the proposed method as well as its robustness. An application to the DURABLE trial uncovers sensible scientific findings and illustrates the practical value of our proposals.


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PALMDALE, CA --Hollywood character actor Paul Picerni, perhaps best-known as Robert Stack's FBI agent sidekick on television's "The Untouchables," has died. He was 88. Picerni's daughter Maria Atkinson-Bates says her father died Jan. 12 at Palmdale Regional Medical Center north of Los Angeles after suffering a heart attack at his home in the desert community of Llano. The death was first reported in the Los Angeles Times.
Besides his role as agent Lee Hobson on "The Untouchables" from 1960 to 1963, Picerni starred in "House of Wax" with Vincent Price in 1953. It was the first 3-D movie produced by a major studio. His other films included "The Scalphunters" in 1968 and "Airport" in 1970.
Picerni's appeared in TV shows including "Gunsmoke," "Kojak," "T.J. Hooker" and "Perry Mason."


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On Wednesday June 15 , the White House announced that First Lady Michelle Obama, her mother Mrs. Marian Robinson and her teenage daughters Malia and Sasha will visit Liberia at the end of this month. The trip comes as a part of the First Lady's "Let Girls Learn" global initiative.
In Liberia, the First Lady will visit a Peace Corps Training Facility in Kakata, where she will meet with girls and young women participating in a GLOW (Girls Leading Our World) Camp. Her visit will highlight both the Peace Corps' work to help girls in under served communities build self-confidence, communication, and other leadership skills and new programming from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) aimed at improving access to quality education and life skills for adolescent girls across Liberia.
Also in Liberia, the First Lady will visit a school in Unification Town for a discussion with adolescent girls who have faced serious obstacles in attaining an education. This discussion will be moderated by actress Freida Pinto, an advocate for girls' education. The conversation will highlight both the educational barriers girls face as Liberia moves beyond the Ebola epidemic, and the U.S. Government's efforts to continue to address those barriers and provide adolescent girls with equitable access to safe and quality education. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf will join Mrs. Obama during her visit. The First Lady's events in Liberia will take place on June 27, the White House said.
The First Lady and her family also plan on visiting Morocco and Spain during the global initiative tour.
At the same time, the University Consortium for Liberia's (UCL) CFO Saki Golafale will be in Liberia promoting UCL's collaborative learning initiative and chemistry discussions. Read more about his trip on Global Atlanta's webpage. Learn more about UCl's educational programs and the upcoming annual fundraising gala at ucliberia.com.
This Spring Break, Liberian pastor Lawrence E Kennedy of Bethel Outreach Ministries in Norcross, Georgia planned a trip to the Liberian Consulate Office with a group of Liberian youths. Spring Break often involves trips to the beach or vacations to places where large bodies of cool water are present, but Pastor Kennedy had a different idea. He organized a small group of Liberian children and a Liberian teacher to take a tour of the Liberian Consulate in Georgia. Cynthia Lynn Blandford, Honorary Consul General led the tour answering questions and delving out interesting facts about Liberia and its leaders.
"What does that key open," one student asked while pointing to the large golden key sitting in a velvet box in the office corridor.
"It's the key to the City of Savannah," Honorary Consul General Cynthia Lynn Blandford answered as she explained how the key is a welcoming symbol that does not open any physical doors.
The key, which offers the Liberian government access to the Mayor and wonderful people of the beautiful city of Savannah, was presented to the Liberian Ambassador and the Honorary Consul on February 26, 2016, during a visit to Savannah, Georgia at the invitation of Senator Lester Jackson.
The Honorary Consul General showcased pictures of Liberia's leaders and other artifacts in the office. As the group weaved through the space asking questions and receiving answers, they made their way back to the entrance where they posed for several pictures.
The Liberian consulate office is opened Tuesdays and Thursdays by appointment only for visa and consular services.
2BKaribbean editor and vlogger Marissa Williams published her interview with Cynthia Lynn Blandford, Honorary Consul General of Liberia in Georgia, on April 6. The interview focuses on the Organization of African and Caribbean Consular Corps of Georgia. This organization unites the fourteen (14) African and Caribbean consulates in Georgia around a singular mission of representing their respective countries on matters of trade, travel, and tourism.
Watch the video below and click here to read what else the Honorary Consul General had to say about young people, women, and the African-Caribbean connection.
Savannah, Georgia and Monrovia, Liberia have an almost 300 year history. Hence, Liberian Ambassador Jeremiah C. Sulunteh's February visit to the Savannah Port, was natural. Savannah's relationship with Liberia dates back to the 1800s when African-American settlers sailed from its shores to Liberia's early colonies. That relationship continues today with a Sister Port Agreement that Honorary Consul General Cynthia Blandford arranged. The Agreement, which focuses on training, capacity building, economic development, trade, data sharing, and marketing was signed into action on September 18, 2015 – five months before the ambassador's visit.
While in Savannah, Ambassador Sulunteh and Honorary Consul General Cynthia Blandford visited Savannah State University – a member institution of the University Consortium for Liberia (UCL). At Savannah State, volunteers organized 1,000 boxes filled with books, school supplies and Pet Carts to assist the disabled in mobility. The boxes were to be shipped to the University of Liberia and AME University. Both the Liberian Consulate Office in Georgia and the Embassy of Liberia in DC support UCL and its mission to provide brighter futures through education and understanding.
Ambassador Sulunteh also toured Savannah's natural gas facility and met with the Savannah Black Caucus. As the Honorary Consul General works to strengthen the bond between Savannah and Liberia, the consulate office looks forward to future visits.
Last October, Liberian Vice President Joseph N. Boakai made a trip to Atlanta organized by the Liberian Consulate office in Georgia. During his visit, the Vice President met and spoke with many organizations to discuss a series of topics concerning Liberia. The Liberian Association of Metro Atlanta (LAMA), Thompson Hine Law firm, the University of Georgia (UGA), Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Delta Air Lines, The Lofa Association of Georgia (LAG), Centers for Disease Control (CDC), The Carter Center, and Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) were among the organizations.
Vice President Boakai launched his three day visit with a town hall meeting and dinner hosted by LAMA, LAG, The Patriots for the Transformation of Liberia, and The Friends of Joseph N. Boakai, Sr. During this meeting he discussed topics of dual citizenship, his presidential campaign, the Ebola crisis and the local community center. The next morning, Vice President Boakai met with the Thompson Hine Law firm to engage in strategic business discussions. At the breakfast UGA International Programs Director Brian Watkins discussed plans for a program focused on women empowerment and poultry production. Both Watkins and Cynthia Blandford, Liberian Honorary Consul General in Georgia have been collaborating on the project with support from retired Clark Atlanta University president Dr. Kofi Bota and the President of the Ghana International Chamber of Commerce Matilda Arhin.
In addition to agriculture, infrastructure was discussed. Construction partners Omega Paving and HJ Russell and Company shared their ideas on roads and development in Liberia. After the Thompson Hine Law firm meeting, the Vice President had a Sister Airport Collaboration Agreement lunch meeting with Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Hartsfield's Senior Deputy General Manager Michael Smith and International Business Director Alrene Barr briefed the Vice President and his delegation about the Agreement, which focuses on training and capacity development, technical assistance, strengthening airport relationships, and sharing information.
Travel discussions spilled over into Vice President Boakai's next meeting with Delta Air Lines where he and the Honorary Consul General discussed reinstating direct flights between Atlanta and Liberia with Peter Carter, Delta's Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer. Day two concluded with The Lofa Association of Georgia discussing the urgent need to complete the Gbarnga – Mandecoma Highway Project, and the Potential Mining of Wologizi Mountain. The Patriots for Transformation Project wrapped up the evening with a fundraising dinner in honor of the Vice President. At the dinner, Duluth City Council Member Marsha Anderson Bomar presented a proclamation from Duluth Mayor Nancy Harris stating that October 18-21, 2015, was Vice President Joseph N. Boakai, Sr., Day in the City of Duluth.
For his final day in Atlanta, Vice President Boakai shifted the conversation to focus on Liberia's health and well-being. He engaged with the Centers for Disease Control, Carter Center, and Morehouse School of Medicine. The Vice President had a conference call with Dr. Tom Frieden, Director of the CDC; a program briefing at the Carter Center; and a discussion on post-Ebola recovery strategies and partnerships organized by the University Consortium for Liberia (UCL) with Morehouse School of Medicine. Over 60 guests, including MAP International, MedShare International, Morehouse School of Medicine faculty, the President and Chief of Staff of Savannah State University, Emory University School of Nursing, and the Liberian Nurses Association of Georgia attended the Morehouse School of Medicine meeting.
The Vice president could not leave Atlanta without showing appreciation to Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill and his Security Team for their service. Vice President Boakai's eventful Atlanta visit left much anticipation for a progressive 2016. The Liberian Consulate office in Georgia continues to forge and maintain relationships that will benefit both Liberia and Atlanta in the coming years.
Delta Air Lines Announces Enhanced Partnership with Kenya Airways
Partnership offers seamless connections for Delta customers between Liberia and the U.S. via Accra, Ghana
MONROVIA, 24 July 2014 – Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) today announced that it has reached agreement on an enhanced partnership with SkyTeam partner Kenya Airways to offer convenient connecting flights between Monrovia, Liberia, and Accra, Ghana.
The services will begin effective September 1, 2014, operating three times a week on a Boeing 737 aircraft operated by Kenya Airways. The Kenya Airways flight will offer seamless and convenient connections with Delta's nonstop flights between Accra's Kotoka International Airport and New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
"Delta has had a presence in Liberia for four years and we are pleased to be able to continue this association with the country through our new partnership with Kenya Airways," said Perry Cantarutti, Delta's senior vice president for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. "Delta recognises the importance of offering services between Monrovia and the United States and we would like to thank the Liberian Government for its continued support. Delta remains committed to the country and facilitating travel to the U.S. with our Kenya Airways partner."
This service replaces Delta's three-times weekly operations from Monrovia's Roberts International Airport to Accra, Ghana. Passengers connecting onto Delta's Accra to New York-JFK services from Kenya Airways will enjoy through check-in for their entire journey from Monrovia – collecting their boarding passes and checking in luggage from Monrovia through to their final destination in the United States.
Passengers connecting in Accra will be able to proceed directly to the transit lounge, without the need to clear Ghanaian immigration, for the flight departure from Delta's dedicated airport gates to New York. Delta staff will be on hand to ease the connecting customer process and the transit time in Accra is anticipated to be one and a half hours. SkyMiles and Flying Blue members will continue to enjoy mileage accrual and elite benefits like extra baggage allowance, priority boarding, and lounge access on both airlines.
Business class passengers connecting through Kotoka International Airport will be able to access the new Sanbra Priority Lounge, which is positioned next to Delta's airport gates, and provides customers with a luxury lounge experience prior to their flight to New York-JFK. The lounge has capacity for 108 people with leather seating, free Wi-Fi, complimentary snacks and a wide variety of soft and alcoholic drinks, as well as televisions and shower facilities.
Delta's sales office will remain open in Liberia and continue to sell tickets to the U.S.. Delta will also continue selling tickets from the U.S. to Liberia.
Kenya Airways' Regional General Manager for West Africa, America, Europe & Asia Pacific, Julius Thairu said: "This strategic partnership with Delta Air Lines enhances our presence in West Africa and cements our position as Africa's premier airline. By providing a seamless connection from Liberia to Delta's Accra to New York service, it significantly boosts Kenya Airways' efforts to link Africa to the rest of the world.
This will provide our guests from Africa with an additional efficient and convenient connection to the U.S. on Delta Air Lines. It ties in with our long-term growth strategy to increase our footprint across the world."
The Monrovia-Accra-New York schedule will operate as follows:
|Accra: 20:00
|Accra: 22:35
|New York-JFK: 05:13 (+1 day)
|New York: 22:52
|Accra: 13:30 (+1 day)
|Accra: 14:55
Delta's daily services between Accra and New York are operated with a Boeing 767-300 aircraft with 225 seats, comprising 25 seats in BusinessElite, 29 in Premium Economy and 171 seats in Economy.
Once onboard, passengers in the BusinessElite cabin will enjoy forward-facing seats that convert to a 180-degree fully flat-bed and offer direct aisle access in a 1x2x1 configuration. Delta has also invested in its economy class with seats that provide additional legroom, adjustable headrests, personal in-seat entertainment screens with over 350 films, 250 TV shows, 100 hours of HBO, 4,500 songs and 30 games and USB power at each seat. All Economy passengers will be provided with a complimentary amenity kit to improve their flight experience.
Delta Air Lines operates services to four African cities in four countries. The airline has grown from 22 weekly departures to and from Africa in December 2006 to 29 in summer 2014.
Passengers travelling from Liberia can book flights to the U.S. on Delta and Kenya Airways via travel agents and Delta's dedicated reservations teams in Liberia.
Delta Air Lines serves nearly 165 million customers each year. This year, Delta was named the 2014 Airline of the Year by Air Transport World magazine and was named to FORTUNE magazine's 50 Most Admired Companies, in addition to being named the most admired airline for the third time in four years. With an industry-leading global network, Delta and the Delta Connection carriers offer service to 333 destinations in 64 countries on six continents. Headquartered in Atlanta, Delta employs nearly 80,000 employees worldwide and operates a mainline fleet of more than 700 aircraft. The airline is a founding member of the SkyTeam global alliance and participates in the industry's leading trans-Atlantic joint venture with Air France-KLM and Alitalia as well as a newly formed joint venture with Virgin Atlantic. Including its worldwide alliance partners, Delta offers customers more than 15,000 daily flights, with key hubs and markets including Amsterdam, Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, Los Angeles, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New York-JFK, New York-LaGuardia, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Salt Lake City, Seattle and Tokyo-Narita. Delta has invested billions of dollars in airport facilities, global products, services and technology to enhance the customer experience in the air and on the ground.
Kenya Airways, a member of the Sky Team Alliance, is a leading African airline flying to 65 destinations worldwide, 38 of which are in Africa and carries over three million passengers annually. It continues to modernize its fleet with its 48 aircraft fleet being one of the most modern in Africa and includes its flagship B787 Dreamliner aircrafts. The on-board service is renowned and the lie-flat business class seat on the wide-body aircraft is consistently voted among the world's top 10. Most recently it has scooped top awards at the Africa Investor (Ai) Tourism Investor Awards and was declared the Business Airline of the Year in Africa. Kenya Airways takes pride for being in the forefront of connecting Africa to the world and the World to Africa through its hub at the new ultra-modern Terminal 1A at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi. For more information, please visit www.kenya-airways.com.
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Focusing on trade, education and economic development, Liberian Embassy in Washington recently profiled diplomatic partners in Atlanta. The Consulate office was established by Madame Cynthia Lynn Blandford, who was commissioned August 31, 2009 as Honorary Consul General of the Republic of Liberia in the state of Georgia. H.C.G. Blandford is Liberia's first African American female Honorary Consul General.
Download and read the Liberian Embassy of Washington DC Newsletter!
Honorable Consul General Cynthia Lynn Blandford was the invited guest for the Pathways to Diplomacy and Global Leadership program on April 1, 2014, on the campus of Morehouse College. Mr. Hugh Williams, Diplomat in Residence was the instructor and Ms. Ashley Hamilton, Spelman College International Affairs Major and Intern in the Liberian Consulate Office invited the Consul General to speak on the "New Diplomat". The Consul General currently employs four Interns and two Fellows in the Liberian Consulate office in Atlanta this semester.
ATLANTA–Honorary Consul General Cynthia Blandford spearheads University Consortium program to bridge the educational gap for Liberia. SSU is an institutional member of the University Consortium for Liberia (UCL), an organization founded by the honorary counsel general for the Republic of Liberia, Cynthia L. Blandford, and the Liberian Embassy in the United States. The purpose of the UCL is to institutionalize a framework through which U.S.-based colleges, universities and other academic-related organizations involved in Liberia. UCL Program and Savannah State University
The Honorary Consulate General Republic of Liberia and President and CEO of Global Strategies for Good, LLC, the Honorable Cynthia Lynn Blandford and Ameila Ross-Hammond, Ph.D., Distinguished Faculty & Professor of Music; Director, Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Campus Liaison, Norfolk State University, co-hosted an 8-day Service-Learning program in Liberia where Norfolk State students read to students at J.W. Pearson Elementary school, delivered much needed school supplies, traveled to the beautiful city of Robertsport to meet with the Superintendent of Grand Cape Mount County to discuss the eco-tourism and planted a vegetable garden with students at Senje Technical School. The delegation also had the opportunity to meet with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the USAID Country Director, Minister of Education and other key officials, tour the City of Monrovia to see historic sites and to experience the wonderful culture, food and history of Liberia.
For more information on how to plan your trip to Liberia, please call the Liberian Consulate Office at (404) 565-1154.


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Last week I finished my very own personal 3D workstation, aptly nicknamed 'Beast'. It contains one of Intel's latest 8-core 5960x processors and has a state-of-the-art Nvidia GeForce 980 graphics card.
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As mentioned last year in this forum post by David Braben, the constant focus on pushing technological boundaries within Elite Dangerous has required us to reconsider our support for the Win32 version of the game client.
The removal of the Win32 version will affect less than 0.01% of Elite Dangerous players and well be reaching out to those few people directly to make sure theyre well aware of the changes. The change will come into effect at the release of 2.4 those trying to access the 2.4 beta will be required to play on the Win64 version also.
If youre unsure this will affect you, you can find a guide online that will help, such as this one here: https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/2172...ndows-answers/
As we mentioned above, the vast majority of players wont notice a difference, and if we believe youll be affected well get in touch with you directly. The change allows us to make the Win64 client the most stable and safe version of the game possible, and focus on the future of Elite Dangerous.


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I have been working with the Sony E-reader 300. I'm not here to sell a specific product so I've tried the Nook (Barns & Noble), Kindle (Amazon), and additional Sony models. All models operate with the same premise. Some have more bells and whistles than others and are supported by the different companies.
The 300 is Sony's base model in the e-reader series. It is a handheld unit that allows you to read electronic formatted information such as e-books from a 5 inch digital screen. This particular model requires a computer that has Internet access for downloading e-books in the PDF or EPUB format.
At first, the entire process seemed a bit daunting. I had to register the reader, set up my computer which included downloading additional applications, and then had to learn how to use the online store and how to use our local library's e-book site. Just for a book!
Why go to all extra steps to load a book onto a piece of equipment? Why not just pick up the book? I had even more questions. Can I borrow a library book for a reader? What happens when I'm done with them? I had many questions. These are just a few questions I had.
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