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This is a test of the appendix command.
This is a test of the auto paragraph command.
 This is a test of the auto paragraph command.
This is a test of the background command.
This is a test of the begin bar command.
This is a test of the begin bar command.
This is a test of the begin bar command.
This is a test of the blank command.
This is a test of the blank command.
This is a test of the blank command.
This is a test of the bottom subtitle command.
This is a test of the bottom title command.
This is a test of the break command.
This is a test of the center command.
This is a test of the center no fill command.
This is a test of the center no fill command.
This is a test of the chapter command.
This is a test of the collect footnotes command.
This is a test of the collect footnotes command.
This is a test of the comment command.
This is a test of the disable bar command.
This is a test of the disable bar command.
This is a test of the disable bar command.
This is a test of the disable index command.
This is a test of the display appendix command.
This is a test of the display appendix command.
This is a test of the display chapter command.
This is a test of the display chapter command.
This is a test of the display elements command.
This is a test of the display footnotes command.
This footnote will be numbered.
This is a test of the display footnotes command.
.INDEX This is a test of the display index command.
.INDEX Here is a test of the display index command.
.header level 3,This is a test of the display header levels command.
This is a test of the display header levels command.
This is a test of the display number command.
This is a test of the display number command.
This is a test of the display page command.
This is a test of the display page command.
This is a test of the display reference command.
This is a test of the display reference command.
This is a test of the display subpage command.
This is a test of the do footnotes command.
This is a test of the do footnotes command.
This is a test of the do index command.
.index This is a test of the do index command.
This is a test of the enable bar command.
This is a test of the enable bar command.
This is a test of the enable index command.
This is a test of the end bar command.
This is a test of the end bar command.
This is a test of the end footnote command.
This is a test of the end footnote command.
This is a test of the end list command.
This is a test of the end list command.
This is a test of the end literal command.
This is a test of the end loop command.
This is a test of the end note command.
This is a test of the end note command.
This tests the end splice command.
This tests the end splice command.
This tests the end splice command.
This tests the end splice command.
This tests the end subpage command.
This is a test of the entry command.
This is a test of the facing page command.
This is on page 3.  It would normally be a right page.
This is on page 5.  It will be on a right page.
This tests the figure command.
This tests the figure command.
This tests the figure deffered command.
This tests the figure deffered command.
This tests the figure deffered command.
This test the fill command.
This tests the first form command.
This tests teh first title command.
This tests the flags command.
This is a test of the (flag (capitalize command.
This is a test of the (flag (capitalize command.
This is a test of the flags comment command.
.This is a test of the flags control command.
.This is a test of the flags control command.
This is a test of the flags end command command.
.list,(This is a test of the flags end command.
This is a test of the flags end command.
This is a test of the flags end footnote command.
(This is a test of the flags end footnote command.
This is a test of the ^<flag half down\< command.
This is a test of the ^<flag half down\< command.
This is a test of the ^<flag half up\< command.
This is a test of the ^<flag half up\< command.
This is a test of the (flags (index command.
THIS IS A TEST OF THE (F(L(A(G(S (L(O(W(E(R (C(A(S(E COMMAND.
THIS IS A TEST OF THE (F(L(A(G(S (L(O(W(E(R (C(A(S(E COMMAND.
this is a test of the flags page command.
This is a test of the flags quote command.
test of the flags text command.
This ia a test of the flags text command.
This is a test of the (f(l(a(g(s ^(underline\( command.
This is a test of the (f(l(a(g(s ^(underline\( command.
\\This is a test of the (f(l(a(g(s UPPER ((CASE\\ command.
\\This is a test of the (f(l(a(g(s UPPER ((CASE\\ command.
This is a test of the footnote command.
This is a test of the footnote header command.
This is a test of the footnote header command.
This is a test of the footnote rule command.
prefaced by a line of minus signs.
This is some text on the second line.
This is a line after the page size has been changed.
This is a test of the force page command.
This is a test of the force page command.
This is a test of the force page command.
This is a test of the header command.
This is a test of the header command.
.hl 1,This is a test of the header level command.
This is a test of the header level command.
.hl 2,This is a test of the header level command.
.hl 3,This is a test of the header level command.
This is a test of the immediate footnotes command.
This is a test of the immediate footnotes command.
This is a test of the indent command.
This is a test of the indent command.
This is a test of the indent elements command.
.le;This is a test of the indent elements command.
.le;This is a test of the indent elements command.
This is a test of the indent elements command.
This is a test of the indent footnotes command.
This footnote will not be numbered.
This is a test of the indent footnotes command.
.header level 1,This is a test of the indent levels command.
This is a test of the indent levels command.
.header level 3,This is a test of the indent levels command.
.header level 1,This is a test of the indent levels command.
.header level 1,This is a test of the indent levels command.
This is a test of the indent note command.
We here demonstrate the margins before a note.
with the altered margins and indentation.
This is a test of the input width command.
This is a test of the join command.
This is a test of the join command.
This is a test of the justify command.
This is a test of the justify command.
This is a test of the justify command.
This demonstrates the last form command.
This is a test of the left bottom subtitle command.
This is a test of the left bottom subtitle command.
This is a test of the left bottom title command.
This is a test of the left bottom title command.
This is a test of the left margin command.
This is a test of the left margin command.
This is a test of the left no fill command.
This is a test of the left no fill command.
This is a test of the left page command.
This is a test of the left top subtitle command.
This is a test of the left top subtitle command.
This is a test of the left top title command.
This is a test of the left top title command.
This is a test of the list command.
This is a test of the literal command.
This is a test of the literal command.
This is a test of the loop command.
This is inside the loop.
This is a test of the loop command.
THIS IS A TEST OF THE LOWER CASE COMMAND.
THIS IS A TEST OF THE LOWER CASE COMMAND.
This is a demonstration of the MOVABLE FIGURE command.
This comes after the movable figure command.
This is a demonstration of the MOVABLE PAGE command.
This comes after the movable page command.
 This is a test of the no auto paragraph command.
 This is a test of the no auto paragraph command.
This is a test of the no fill command.
^this tests the no#flags command.
This tests the no flags command.
This is a test of the no (flag (capitalize command.
This is a test of the no (flag (capitalize command.
This is a test of the no flags comment command.
.This is a test of the no flags control command.
.This is a test of the no flags control command.
(This is a test of the no flags control command.
(This is a test of the no flags control command.
.list,(This is a test of the no flags end command.
This is a test of the no flags end command.
This is a test of the no flags end command command.
This is a test of the no flags end footnote command.
(This is a test of the no flags end footnote command.
This is a test of the ^<no flag half down\< command.
This is a test of the ^<no flag half down\< command.
This is a test of the ^<no flag half down\< command.
This is a test of the ^<no flag half up\< command.
This is a test of the ^<no flag half up\< command.
This is a test of the no (flags (index command.
This is a test of the no (flags (index command.
THIS IS A TEST OF THE no (F(L(A(G(S (L(O(W(E(R (C(A(S(E COMMAND.
THIS IS A TEST OF THE no (F(L(A(G(S (L(O(W(E(R (C(A(S(E COMMAND.
this is a test of the no flags page command.
This is a test of the no flags quote command.
test of the no flags text command.
This ia a test of the no flags text command.
This is a test of the no (f(l(a(g(s ^(underline\( command.
This is a test of the no (f(l(a(g(s ^(underline\( command.
\\This is a test of the no (f(l(a(g(s UPPER ((CASE\\ command.
\\This is a test of the no (f(l(a(g(s UPPER ((CASE\\ command.
This is a test of the no footnote header command.
This is a test of the no footnote header command.
This is a test of the no header command.
This is a test of the no header command.
This is a test of the no justify command.
This is a test of the no justify command.
This is a test of the no number command.
This is a test of the no number command.
This is a test of the no number footnotes command.
This is a test of the no number footnotes command.
This is a test of the no offset command.
This is a test of the no offset command.
This is a test of the no paging command.
This is a test of the no paging command.
This is a test of the no paging command.
This! is a test: of the; no period? command.
This! is a test: of the; no period? command.
This is a test of the no subtitle command.
This is a test of the no subtitle command.
This is a test of the no title command.
This is a test of the no title command.
This is a ^&demonstration of the no underline space command.
The underline is now turned on between words.
The underline is now turned off between words.
\&The underline is now turned off everywhere.
This is a test of the note command.
This is a test of the note command.
This is a test of the note command.
This is a test of the number command.
This is a test of the number command.
This is a test of the number page command.
This is a test of the number page command.
This is a test of the number appendix command.
This is a test of the number chapter command.
This is a test of the number footnotes command.
This is a test of the number footnotes command.
.header level,This is a test of the number levels command.
This is a test of the number levels command.
This is a test of the number list command.
This is a test of the number list command.
This is a test of the number subpage command.
This is a test of the number subpage command.
This is a test of the offset command.
This is a test of the offset command.
This is a demonstration of the offset left page command.
This appears on the left page and is offset.
This appears on the right page and is not offset.
This is a demonstration of the offset right page command.
This appears on the left page and is not offset.
This appears on the right page and is offset.
This is a test of the page command.
This is a test of the page size command.
This is a test of the page size command.
This is a test of the paging command.
This is a test of the paging command.
This is a test of the paging command.
This is a test of the paragraph command.
This is a test of the paragraph command.
This is a test of the paragraph command.
This! is a test: of the; period? command.
This! is a test: of the; period? command.
This is a test of the print footnotes command.
This is a test of the print footnotes command.
This is a test of the print footnotes command.
This is a test of the print index command.
This is a test of the reset command.
This is a test of the reset command.
This is a test of the reset command.
This is a test of the right command.
This is a test of the right command.
This is a test of the right command.
This is a test of the right command.
This is a test of the right bottom subtitle command.
This is a test of the right bottom subtitle command.
This is a test of the right bottom title command.
This is a test of the right bottom title command.
This is a test of the right margin command.
This is a test of the right margin command.
This is a test of the right margin command.
This is a test of the right no fill command.
This is a test of the right no fill command.
This is a test of the right page command.
This is a test of the right top subtitle command.
This is a test of the right top subtitle command.
This is a test of the right top title command.
This is a test of the right top title command.
This is a test of the rule command.
This is a test of the skip command.
This is a test of the skip command.
This is a test of the skip command.
This is a test of the skip left page command.
This is a test of the skip left page command.
This is a test of the skip left page command.
This is a test of the skip page command.
This is a test of the skip page command.
This is a test of the skip right page command.
This is a test of the skip right page command.
This is a test of the space appendix command.
This is a test of the space appendix command.
this is a test of the space bottom command.
this is a test of the space bottom command.
this is a test of the space bottom command.
this is a test of the space bottom command.
This is a test of the space chapter command.
This is a test of the space chapter command.
This is a test of the space footnotes command.
This is a test of the space footnotes command.
This is a test of the space headers command.
.header level 1,This is a test of the space headers command.
This is a test of the space headers command.
This is a test of the space headers command.
This is a test of the space index command.
This is a test of the space index command.
This is a test of the space index command.
This is a test of the space notes command.
This is a test of the space notes command.
This is a test of the space notes command.
This is a test of the space notes command.
This is a test of the space top command.
This is a test of the space top command.
This is a test of the spacing command.
This is a test of the spacing command.
Start of the test of the splice command.
This is a test of the splice command.
This is a test of the splice command.
End of the test of the splice command.
This is a test of the standard command.
This is a test of the standard command.
This is a test of the standard command.
This is a test of the standard command.
This is a test of the style headers command.
.header level 1,This is a test of the style headers command.
This is a test of the style headers command.
.header level 2,This is a test of the style headers command.
.header level 3,This is a test of the style headers command.
This is a test of the style index command.
This is a test of the subpage command.
This is a test of the subpage command.
This is a test of the subpage command.
This is a test of the subtitle command.
This is a test of the subtitle command.
this is a test of the tell command.
.tl This is a message to right of the tell command.
This is a test of the test page command.
This is a test of the test spacing command.
This is a test of the test spacing command.
This is a test of the title command.
this is a test of the title command.
This is a test of the top subtitle command.
This is a test of the top subtitle command.
This is a test of the top title command.
This is a test of the top title command.
This is a demonstration of the underline command.
This line is not underlined.
This is a demonstration of the underline space command.
The spaces in this line are not underlined.
The spaces in this line are themselves underlined.
This is a test of the upper case command.
This is a test of the upper case command.


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Band Booking: Twin Sister
by Charles Reinhardt	1 Comment
Udbhav Gupta (pictured above wearing glasses) is a multi-instrumentalist from Long Island- and Brooklyn-based buzz band Twin Sister. Their full-length LP In Heaven came out last fall, an understated successor to their critically acclaimed EPs Color Your Life and Vampires With Dreaming Kids, and their most mature outing yet. Along with Andrea Estella, Brian Ujueta, Gabe D'Amico and Eric Cardona, he just finished a countrywide tour promoting the album, following right on the heels of a European tour. I caught up with Udbhav (Dev) at a mutual friend's loft over some beers, where we discussed the band, story telling, literature and a whole lot else besides.
So what are Twin Sister up to right now?
We're recuperating from an album cycle. We're finished touring behind this record called "In Heaven" and we are receding into our shells.
And how did you feel about it?
Making the record was really fun, it felt like the fulfillment of years of fantasizing about getting to rent a house and go into a studio.
And then afterwards when you finally had to say, "This is our record, we are putting it out" what was that process like? Deciding the record was done, sending it out and then watching it rebound off the world?
We decided it was done, and then we had to wait for four months. So that was actually really weird. Because we were done with the record around April and then it came out September 27th.
The next thing that we put out will probably be a year or two from now. I think we're going to go into hibernation and make a lot of stuff. For a really long time before we had any kind of public recognition as a band, we all produced music that we shared within a very small circle of people. And over time we accumulated a lot of material. From all of that stuff we put out two EPs. We'd gone through dozens and dozens of things and came out with ten songs. And it was fine and it came out well. But then we had to make this record and we really only wrote like twelve songs and then we put out ten of them or eleven of them. We didn't really have that chance to take it slow.
The album is good! I'd like to talk to you about a couple of songs. So for example, "Kimmi in a Rice Field", it's like a whole story. I wouldn't say it has a narrative arc, but it has characters and events. You have to imagine a lot of the backstory, but it's pretty much a full story.
"Kimmi" starts like a pretty upbeat 80's song, and then the tone goes unexpectedly dark. So, do you guys approach music in that way, where you're trying to take people on a ride where there's a beginning middle and end?
Yeah, we like to have the point where the song ends usually be somewhere different from where it started. Music as an art form is pretty interesting because your experience with time is fixed. Whereas with a book or visual art forms, you have control over how you spend time with that piece of art, with music, for those three minutes these specific things are going to happen. You have control. So then the narrative becomes a very weird different thing. You have to make sure it's well conceived because time is moving. We try to do that musically and lyrically.
It's weird how you'll hear a song that's really catchy, but then if you're in a situation where you hear the wrong lyrics, suddenly it's not catchy, even if the melody and delivery are the same. I find the song "All Around and Away We Go" really interesting, because it seems like the lyrics are more percussive and musical in and of themselves. They're important, even though they're not iterative.
Yeah, well in that instance, language is a huge part of the hook; it's what gives shape to the melody. When I listened to music as a young kid I never would remember lyrics at all. I remember when that changed and lyrics became a big part of my musical experience.
It's weird that you can be really good at lyrics or really bad at lyrics and it can be a serious problem.
Yeah, and totally unrelated to your overall musical ability.
So do the band's reading habits impact what goes on in the songwriting process?
We all have very different reading habits. Gabe and I probably read the most. Andrea hates reading. She likes comic books because there are less words. That's a direct quote. Andrea hates books, she really does. Gabe was a comp lit major in college, so he had to read a lot. I read a lot. Eric once spent maybe a year and a half finishing one book. Black Crow Speaks. [I think the book referenced here is Black Elk Speaks -ed. ]It's about a Native American leader talking about his experiences. He loved it.
What about yourself? What are you reading right now?
I just finished that Jennifer Egan novel A Visit From the Goon Squad. I really didn't like it. (Joking) It's not that punk. It won the Pulitzer, but I thought it was kind of condescending toward young people in a weird way, and modern times.
What's wrong with that?
Well, I'm a young person and I live in modern times.
Does she have a particular perspective that she's using to make this judgment?
Well, she's an older person, so she has that perspective. She just prefers – I really didn't like the ending. I just had some beef with it. Anyway, before that, I was re-reading Borges, Ficciones. It's my favorite book of all time.
That's interesting. Borges likes to combine genres in a very self-referential, tongue in cheek way. Would you say that Twin Sister takes a similar approach?
Yes. I think it's the whole thing of inventing worlds to occupy yourself in. It's a really cool way of to make art. Andrea does that all the time. That's why she invents her characters and her worlds and is in a lot of ways a completely ridiculous person, because she inhabits these spaces that are different from the rest of the world. In the same way, Borges does things like write reviews of books that don't exist.
Did you ever read Nazi Literature In the Americas by Bolaño?
I haven't read him.
It's a very similar idea. The book consists of biographies of famous far right wing authors from Latin America who never existed. It's as though this book is an important scholarly work in an alternate universe.
Yeah, that reminds me of the craziest one by Borges, called "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius". It's that story about a page in the encyclopedia that doesn't match up with another page of the encyclopedia. And it's writing about the literature of a universe that doesn't exist, and this whole team of people is working to create a tome of knowledge about this world. And their language is completely different. There are no nouns in that universe; there are only verbs and adjectives. So to describe the moon you can only describe its movement and its color and you can't use objects, so it affects their philosophy and ethics. Borges is so insane. I remember I was too young when I first tried to read him. Nobody makes you feel dumber than Borges.
I think he prided himself on that.
Yeah, it's a kind of machismo.
Gabe and I also bond over John Steinbeck a lot. East of Eden in particular. I love how he retold the Bible as his family story. It's hugely mythological but it's also his personal family story in California, it's this larger than life thing but is also very personal.
That follows the theme of creating a separate version of reality that the author controls. Speaking of control, there's a Twin Sister song "Meet the Frownies", which always catches me off guard because it starts off sounding very nice, but suddenly drops into a minor key. It subverts where you think the song is going to go, a bit like "Kimmi". Maybe it's not consciously conceptual. Those changes are a little disorienting.
That's to make sure you're paying attention. (Laughs) That's how life is, man. You know, everything's going swell, and then boom.
Do you guys try to subvert genres?
That's all we do all day. We find genres we like and then we rip them off, and end up making something totally different at the end. I would feel bad saying that and feel like a plagiarist, but it's really just how you start a creative process. Even if it's just something that's non-artistic, it's just about wanting to recreate that thing that you just felt or experienced.
Does Twin Sister have set characters? Does Andrea have different characters within Twin Sister that speak from a consistent perspective?
No, because sometimes Andrea's singing words that Eric wrote for himself. We're not that conceptually rigorous. It's not that strictly formulated. It changes from song to song. We feel that there isn't a set of rules. We create a set of rules per song or per record or release. Otherwise everything is up for grabs.
So you said that you're going into hibernation, what is that going to entail? What are you going to do with your time?
Well, we've set up a shared Dropbox folder and we've all just been putting demos into it. And hopefully we'll just keep adding more and those will turn into songs.
Is there any author's career that you're following, or that you think matters?
Jon Negron. But I don't know, I honestly have no idea. I don't really keep up. I usually get into stuff about five or six years later.
Do you think that musicians obsess about each other's careers the same way that writers do?
Sure, I mean it's how you measure yourself. That's how you assess how you're doing. It's more public than with other careers. Also, you're not competing over the quality of your art, you're competing about success. And those don't have a lot to do with each other in a lot of cases, and that's weird.
All I know is if I was a professional writer, I would be terrified because, like, there's no money in it. Just in the way that I don't really think about music as the way I will survive, because if I did that would be really frightening. I've been trying to make music for probably ten years now and you know it never makes you any money. I've spent so much money, making music. I would think it's exactly the same for writing. There aren't that many people who will pay you to write reliably or regularly.
Which might be the reason why concepts of success are so strange in both worlds, because getting something published or getting a record deal and being well reviewed are almost totally social goods as opposed to a quantifiable success.
Well it's definitely not money! A good record review is definitely not money.
Maybe each extra decimal point on your rating equals five more T-shirts sold?
Depends who's doing the reviewing.
Yeah, but I said decimal points, so . . .
Right. Yeah, probably.
Mikey says:
Coooooooooooooool!

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Prior to joining Revive, Carrie was Head of Finance for a major UAE based outsourced services provider, offering commercial support for many projects and services. Despite being a qualified accountant, Carrie has held a variety of operational roles at a senior level throughout her career in various sectors. Carrie has a wide range of experience in small local business and large multi-million pound organizations and that makes her perfectly placed to offer turnaround support to businesses.
Simon Crossland
Simon has held senior leadership positions in a diverse range of companies in the UK and Middle East with operations all over the world. Simon began his career in the construction industry in the UK where he held site and project management positions before leading a new division of a national construction company in London. Simon joined Revive in 2009 and has since completed interim management roles delivering transformation projects for manufacturing, logistics, aviation, security, and facilities services sectors for an enviable range of high profile clients. As a Master Black belt, Simon has trained and mentored Lean Six Sigma for Revive for nearly a decade, specialising in delivering an ROI for our clients through the strategic implementation of the Lean Academy. Simon is now Managing Director at Revive, responsible for leading the organisation through its global growth strategy.
Steve Porcher
Steve is a Chartered Engineer with over 20 years business experience and a track record of delivering results in complex project and operational environments. He began his career within the automotive sector as a resident engineer at Nissan, Sunderland followed by leading new product launches with Ford, Jaguar, Rover, Honda and GM in the first tier supplier chain. He spent three years in the Telecommunications Sector where he programme managed the development of a 3g mobile network base station in partnership with Ericsson which successfully launched in Tokyo, Japan in 2001 – the first commercially launched 3g network in the world.
Prior to joining Revive Group, Steve was a Senior Operations Manager with BAA at Heathrow Airport where he successfully delivered a variety of business change programmes which encompassed organisation re-design, delivery of new infrastructure and cost reduction initiatives.
Steve also holds a degree in Manufacturing Systems Engineering and has pursued his executive education in Business and Management with INSEAD France and Management Psychology with the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
Anna Gould
Senior Consultant, Master Black Belt and Project Manager with experience in both a corporate environment and consultancy. Results driven transformation expert with a solid history of implementing operational excellence initiatives across diverse industries including banking, financial services, insurance, logistics, manufacturing, IT, telecommunications, pharma, healthcare, BPO and government institutions. International experience of working in Europe and the Middle East.
Prior to joining Revive, Anna was Head of Transformation for a major UAE based outsourced services provider, offering commercial support for many projects and services. Anna also holds a master degree in Mathematics and Engineering from the best University of Technology in Poland.
Anna is a skilled mentor, coach and trainer having delivered over 500 workshops and trainings to various attendees up to top management level. She is highly experienced at building strong partnerships with stakeholders. Anna is extremely determined and has proven ability to work successfully at pace and under high pressure. She always challenges the status quo and her motto is "only facts, not opinions".
Tim Roberts
Director Revive Resilience
Tim is a Security Design Consultant with over 20 years' experience, firstly with Capita Symonds and then with Olive Group/Restrata since 2006. Since 1997 he has been the lead Technical Advisor to the UK Police Service and Home Office on the development and implementation of integrated security solutions to protect the UK's critical assets. He was instrumental in the design and implementation of the National ANPR Data Centre which can register and analyse up to 50 million vehicle sightings daily.
He has a wealth of experience in the design and implementation of integrated security solutions within the law enforcement and transportation sectors including the London Congestion Charging Scheme, City of London "Ring of Steel", Government Security Zone, National ANPR Data Centre and strategic ports and airports throughout the UK. More recently Tim has developed and implemented similar systems throughout the Middle East and Africa. Most recently he supervised the team assisting the MPS Olympic Security Directorate to implement security surveillance systems at all 2012 Olympic Games venues.
Alan Macleod MSyI
Alan has 30 years Police experience and over 8 years commercial exposure as a Senior Security Consultant operating in the UK, Middle East and Africa. He has a wide knowledge base in policing, particularly in Special Branch Ports, Counter Terrorism and Tactical Firearms. He is highly experienced in Security Risk Assessment, technical and physical security system design and development and is experienced in the installation, management and operational use of such systems.
Alan's experience covers the full project lifecycle from agreeing client and user requirements, aiding the development of designs and specifications, to the tender evaluation process, installation supervision, testing, commissioning and ultimately the maintenance of systems. He is a qualified Ports Facility Security Officer under the ISPS Code, a Member of the Security Institute and has been security vetted to the highest levels. He is skilled at building sound and lasting customer relationships and delivering business requirements in pressurised environments.
John Donlon, QPM MA Fsyl
Senior Advisor : Revive Resilience
An International Security Advisor on Policing, Port and Border Security, Critical National Infrastructure Protection, National Security and Counter Terrorism. John is a highly motivated, experienced and effective leader who has for a number of years been engaged as the National Co-ordinator within the Association of Chief Police Officers (Terrorism & Allied Matters) to provide strategic direction on all policing activity within the Protect and Prepare agenda in support of the UK Counter Terrorism Strategy (CONTEST). John is an internationally recognised intelligence and protective security expert with a proven track record in influencing and leading organisational change at a national level, designing and implementing effective security, resilience and counter terrorism initiatives and major crime investigations.
During his time with the Association of Chief Police Officers John was responsible for developing and delivering on numerous high profile and complex programme change initiatives including Safe Cities, eBorders, Border Management Programmes, National Analysis Centre and National Border Targeting Centre. Most notably during this time John was the Strategic Counter Terrorism lead for all aspects of Protect & Prepare activity for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympics Games and national lead for all aspects of policing relating to Protective security, improving resilience and Aviation & Border Policing activity within the United Kingdom.
Since leaving the Association of Chief Police Officers John has provided policing and security professionalism, advice and training on behalf of a range of organisations and Governments across Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Andy Phillips
Andy is a motivated, experienced senior manager with a passion for identifying and eliminating waste in manufacturing and service industries. Over the past 17 years Andy has specialized in introducing Lean manufacturing techniques to new industries and sectors, using lean tools to successfully to improve processes and reduce total cost.
Originally from an electrical/ mechanical engineering repair background, Andy combines his problem solving skills with an ability to engage and lead people at all levels of an organisation, to deliver lasting improvements within an organisation, its processes and people.
Andy has successfully completed projects covering all aspects of businesses, including safety, quality, productivity, cost, morale and environmental improvements, utilizing his coaching and mentoring skills to ensure improvements create a positive lasting legacy.
Lee Mears
Executive Coach : Revive Leadership Academy
Lee is a former British and Irish Lion and England International Rugby Player. Capitalising on his experience of being an elite athlete whilst working within high performing teams, he aims to help individuals and teams reach their full potential. Lee's exposure to blue-chip business, sporting and military organisations have has crafted his knowledge and understanding of leadership, communication, change management and strategic thinking. Lee has worked on coaching assignments throughout the UK, Europe, and Asia. He has applied his Elite Sporting approach to help individuals accelerate and manage personal and organisational transitions such as making the step up from a functional role to a more generalist leadership role, whilst modelling the desired changes needed in organisational culture and developing stronger presence and gravitas.
Lee believes coaching is the key to enhancing performance by generating a clarity of purpose and certainty of contribution for individuals & teams. He coaches and builds confidence through performance planning, which leads to transformational and sustainable elite performance.


RcmdrPlugin.KMggplot2_0.2-4 is on CRAN - Triad sou.
RcmdrPlugin.KMggplot2 v0.2-4 (an Rcmdr plug-in; a GUI for 'ggplot2') was released on Dec. 20, 2016.
Added ggplot2's colour/fill scales (scale_hue, scale_grey).
New plot: Beeswarm plot in Box plot (Thanks to DailyFunky @EpiFunky).
New function: lastcom() function to list the last command.
Fixed a bug: Histogram with missing values (Thanks to Dr. José G. Conde).
Fixed a bug: Boxplot with an inappropriate jitter position (Thanks to Dr. M. Felix Freshwater).


The Digital Life forum will not let me post a .dll even if I rename it.
Maybe you can .zip it before posting?
Firstly compress it with archivator like 7-Zip, then you'll be able to post it.
BTW, I already got x64 build 10041, now I'm waiting for x86 version.
OK, sorry but I only have the x64 version.
No worries, I just got it now from here.
Does anyone know if this project is still supported and if it works on current builds of Windows 10?
Edit:Just ran it on build 15007 and all seems to be working well...Will report back if anything changes.
How can RDP Wrapper be used if the user logging on isn't a member of the Administrators group. I get a message on W10 Home - the requested session access is denied. I tried adding GPEDIT and adding the user to the Allow Logon through Remote Desktop Services - that still didn't work. Used NTRIGHTS to give user every logon right. I want people to be able to RDP, but what in heck is blocking it? According to MS, user must belong to a group that has Allow Logon Through Remote Desktop Services - they do. Please - anyone?
How does this work on W10 Home? I went to the link you provided - downloaded but it won't install.
Is there a way to have multiple logons/sessions for the same account, one local and one remote exactly as in Concurrent RDP Patcher.exe for Windows 7?
It was buggy (some programs would freeze to the remote user) but it was cool.
I have a bug with RDP Wrapper 1.6.1 + Win10 1607 + multiple sessions per user.
When I open only one session all the "metro apps" normally close when I click on the red cross.
All the "metro apps" do not close when I click on the red cross (the window closes but in the task management they are always launched and impossible to restart it until I have killed the process !) on the first open session.
The problem is reproducible and must certainly affect all WIndows 10.
Installing Win 2016 + Remote desktop activation + Multiple sessions per user (Administrative mode / Maximun 2 concurrent sessions) = Same problem !
Also tested by enabling "Remote Desktop Session Host" = same !
The wrapper doesn't work anymore on Windows 10 Home creators update. Service supported/installed but not listening.
The problem about Windows 10 Home can't listening was solved.


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Venezuela gov't says it thwarted plot seeking to kill Maduro
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan officials say they have foiled a plot to overthrow the government that included assassinating President Nicolas Maduro and his closest political allies.
Maduro spokesman Jorge Rodriguez said on state television Wednesday that a network of mostly retired police officers and soldiers planned to bomb a key government building and seize a Caracas air base.
He also says the plotters wanted to edge opposition leader Juan Guaidó from Venezuela's political landscape.
The government has claimed various plots over the years, generally offering little or no evidence to back its charges. The opposition contends Maduro uses such claims to justify his crackdown on dissent.
Rodriguez says the purported network wanted to steal a helicopter to liberate a former defense minister now in jail and install him as president.
He also charges that leaders in Colombia and Chile backed the thwarted coup, but he didn't provide evidence.
Rodriguez showed what he says are intercepted video conference calls with the alleged plotters hashing out strategy for the attack planned for June 23.
Rodriguez says the leader of Venezuela's governing socialist party, Diosdado Cabello, was among those targeted for assassination.
Guaidó dismisses the claim as yet another attempt by the government to distract from Venezuela's real problems.


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Google's reCAPTCHA defeated by security researchers
A group of security researchers have discovered major flaws in Google's reCAPTCHA technology.
Jake Kenny
Let's start with where the word 'captcha' came from. It turns out that captcha is an acronym for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. The idea behind the captcha technology (and behind the original Turing test as well) is simple: it's a test humans are able to pass, but online bots cannot. Captcha usually comes in the form of a distorted text image that must be re-typed in order to verify you're not a computer.
Captcha technology is important because it provides simple and practical security to a variety of different things, such as protecting website registration, preventing comment spam on blogs, making sure only humans vote in online polls and more. Without the captcha technology, spammers could potentially abuse these situations by setting up numerous accounts, leaving a ridiculous number of comments, or voting an unlimited number of times in the same poll.
The first versions of captcha were relatively easy for computers to bypass. It resulted in an arms race between hackers and captcha developers. After the former brought a new version of captcha down, the latter would come with a newer, stronger version.
"Google's ReCaptcha is simplest way of getting rid of bots. No math problems required!" @jgamboa #WPEProTip pic.twitter.com/bPOegSbmbz
— WP Engine (@wpengine) April 14, 2016
At some point Google took the stage and released it's reCAPTCHA, which is now unofficially considered a captcha standard. It uses not only distorted text but also images and is believed to be one of the strongest captcha services. Google's reCAPTCHA technology is used by Google itself, Facebook and many other websites as a means of protecting against spam and abuse. In fact, reCAPTCHA is the most popular captcha provider in the world.
Unfortunately, it seems the technology might not be as foolproof as once thought.
Security researchers at Columbia University have discovered flaws in Google's reCAPTCHA technology that open the door for hackers to influence the risk analysis, bypass restrictions, and deploy large-scale attacks.
The researchers stated they were able to design a low-cost attack that successfully solved more than 70% of the image reCAPTCHA challenges, and each challenge required an average of only 19 seconds to solve. They also applied the system to the Facebook image captcha and found an accuracy level of 83.5%. The higher accuracy on Facebook is believed to be a result of Facebook's images being of a higher resolution.
The system used techniques that allowed it to bypass cookies and tokens, and used machine learning as a way of correctly guessing the images. The funny part is that this reCAPTCHA breaking system is powered by Google's own reverse image search. But it also can work offline.
"Nonetheless, our completely offline captcha-breaking system is comparable to a professional solving service in both accuracy and attack duration, with the added benefit of not incurring any cost on the attacker," the researchers stated, emphasizing the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of this particular attack.
Before the findings were made public, the researchers alerted Google and Facebook to inform them of these potential flaws. They stated that Google responded by attempting to improve the security of reCAPTCHA, but Facebook does not appear to have taken any steps towards improvement.
Best captcha I've seen for a while. pic.twitter.com/tVvbwjmTLC
— Siddharth Vadgama (@siddvee) April 12, 2016
Researchers believe that hackers could reasonably charge $2 for 1000 solved captchas, and as a result could make over $100 a day. They could stand to make even more if they launch multiple attacks at once or utilize additional techniques.
The research shows that there is a still a lot to be done in the world of cybersecurity, but also gives the chance for many companies, such as Google, to move forward and more actively look at their current security measures. Google has already shown interest in strengthening its security, and hopefully other websites aren't far behind.
Fake copyright violation notice aimed at stealing Facebook accounts
Human trafficking: big data turned you and me into goods for sales
How everyone and his dog online make the big data tyranny raise.


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Q: Java VisualVM profiling freezing issue I am using java visualVM 1.4 to do JDBC profling for my application, i need to do the following:
1-Start profiling
2-Take snapshot
3-Clear profiling records go back to step 1
I need to perform the previous loop for around 10 times, i am using my local-machine to do the entire work.
So i do the steps successfully for two times after that either ther visualVM freezes or the java process i am profiling freezes, and my only solution is to restart both process and do the work again.
I tried to read logs for visualVM and noticed that i see the following exception:
java.io.IOException: Can not attach to current VM
at jdk.attach/sun.tools.attach.HotSpotVirtualMachine.<init>(HotSpotVirtualMachine.java:75)
at jdk.attach/sun.tools.attach.VirtualMachineImpl.<init>(VirtualMachineImpl.java:58)
at jdk.attach/sun.tools.attach.AttachProviderImpl.attachVirtualMachine(AttachProviderImpl.java:58)
at jdk.attach/com.sun.tools.attach.VirtualMachine.attach(VirtualMachine.java:207)
at com.sun.tools.visualvm.attach.AttachModelImpl.getVirtualMachine(AttachModelImpl.java:124)
Caused: java.io.IOException: Can not attach to current VM
at com.sun.tools.visualvm.attach.AttachModelImpl.getVirtualMachine(AttachModelImpl.java:126)

I am using jdk 8_152 for both the JVM and the java process.

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El cantón de Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte era una división administrativa francesa, que estaba situada en el departamento de Mancha y la región de Baja Normandía.

Composición
El cantón estaba formado por diecinueve comunas:
 Besneville
 Biniville
 Catteville
 Colomby
 Crosville-sur-Douve
 Étienville
 Golleville
 Hautteville-Bocage
 La Bonneville
 Les Moitiers-en-Bauptois
 Néhou
 Neuville-en-Beaumont
 Orglandes
 Rauville-la-Place
 Reigneville-Bocage
 Sainte-Colombe
 Saint-Jacques-de-Néhou
 Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte
 Taillepied

Supresión del cantón de Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte

En aplicación del Decreto nº 2014-246 de 25 de febrero de 2014, el cantón de Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte fue suprimido el 22 de marzo de 2015 y sus 19 comunas pasaron a formar parte del nuevo cantón de Bricquebec.

Referencias

Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte

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ExSiTE Lab
Thermal conductivity of water-insoluble solid proteins – Paper published in Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (Congrats Brian Foley)!
March 16, 2014 by patrickehopkins Leave a Comment
We have reported the first measurements of the thermal conductivity of films of water-insoluble solid protein films. These measurements allow us to evaluate the heat transfer mechanisms in proteins, and evaluate models and hypotheses based on how thermal vibrations transport energy in fractal geometries. Our work was recently published in Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters ("Protein thermal conductivity measured in the solid state reveals anharmonic interactions of vibrations in a fractal structure," Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters DOI: 10.1021/jz500174x). Congratulations to Brian Foley who is the first author on this work!!! This work summarizes collaborations with Brian Kaehr at Sandia National Laboratories and University of New Mexico along with Prof. Costel Constantin at James Madison University. We all appreciate the generous support from the Office of Naval Research (YIP), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES), Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering, the Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund (CRCF) of Virginia and the 4-VA mini-grant for university collaboration in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Energy processes and vibrations in biological macromolecules such as proteins ultimately dictate biological, chemical, and physical functions in living materials. These energetic vibrations in the ribbon-like motifs of proteins interact on self-similar structures and fractal-like objects over a range of length scales of the protein (a few angstroms to the size of the protein itself, a few nanometers). In fact, the fractal geometries of protein molecules create a complex network of vibrations; therefore, proteins represent an ideal material system to study the underlying mechanisms driving vibrational thermal transport in a dense, fractal network. However, experimental studies of thermal energy transport in proteins have been limited to dispersive protein suspensions, which limits the knowledge that can be extracted about how vibrational energy is transferred in a pure protein solid. We overcome this by synthesizing solid, water-insoluble protein films for thermal conductivity measurements via time-domain thermoreflectance. We measure the thermal conductivity of bovine serum albumin and myoglobin solid films over a range of temperatures from 77 to 296 K. These temperature trends indicate that anharmonic coupling of vibrations in the protein is contributing to thermal conductivity. This first-ever observation of anharmonic-like trends in the thermal conductivity of a fully dense protein forms the basis of validation of seminal theories of vibrational energy-transfer processes in fractal objects.
P.E.H. appreciates financial support from the Office of Naval Research (N00014-13-4-0528). B.K. acknowledges support from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES), Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering. This work was partially supported by the Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund (CRCF) of Virginia and the 4-VA mini-grant for university collaboration in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Sandia National Laboratories is a multiprogram laboratory managed and operated by Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, for the U.S. Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration under contract no. DE-AC04-94AL85000.
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Record setting high in-plane thermal conductivity of AlN thin films enabled by SSTR measurements – Paper publishes in ACS Nano – Congrats Shafkat!
Two first author Nature Communications papers published on interface effects on thermal resistances of thin film GST and ultralow thermal conductivity of SiTe – Congrats Kiumars Aryana!
Evolution of microstructure and thermal conductivity of multifunctional environmental barrier coating systems – Paper published in Materials Today Physics: Congrats Hans Olson!
Ballistic Thermal Injection: a new mechanism to transfer energy across interfaces and control plasmon absorption published in Nature Nanotechnology – Congrats John Tomko!
Reduced thermal conductivity of ALD-grown PbTe-PbSe nano-composite thin films published in Advanced Functional Materials – Congrats Mallory DeCoster!
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The Future of UI Design and Its Impacts on Everday Life
Science fiction often influences the world of technology by showing us the impossible. Today's iPad is essentially the tablet computer from Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Back to the Future II in 1989 got a lot right about the technology of 2015, now people use tablet and computers in their daily life to work, and play games with the help of csgo boost guide they can find online. In fact, the man who invented the world's first flip phone, the Motorola Star-Tac, was inspired by the Star Trek communicator.
The future is definitely exciting when it comes to innovations in technology and in many ways, the future is already here! In this article we will review examples of how future UI design will impact our everyday lives.
Gesture Interfaces
Tom Cruz in Minority Report. © 2002 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
The most memorable futuristic user interfaces were shown in the Minority Report and Iron Man. These interfaces are the work of inventor John Underkoffler. He says the feedback loop between science fiction and reality is accelerating with every new summer blockbuster. He goes on to say, "there's an openly symbiotic relationship between science fiction and the technology we use in real life. The interface is the OS - they are one."
In the video above, view a real-life demonstration of the futuristic user interfaces as seen in Minority Report. You can see how simple hand gestures can perform complex operations. Now imagine playing video games with such capabilities!
Light Ring
LightRing from Microsoft Research uses infrared to detect finger motion and a gyroscope to determine orientation, and it can turn any surface into an interface. You can tap, draw, flick and drag on a book, your knee, or the wall. For now, the interaction is with only one finger, but still provides a really attractive and natural looking way for user gestures.
This technology puts wearable computing to a whole new level! Imagine controlling your device anywhere and any way you choose. As shown in the video, the nature of using this technology is similar to using a mouse, so we are already familiar with how the product works.
Room Alive
RoomAlive is Microsoft Research's follow-up to IllumiRoom, which was presented at CES 2012. Both are steps towards a "this-is-our-house-now" Kinect future. The new system goes beyond projection mapping around a TV by adding input-output pixels on top of everything in the room. RoomAlive uses multiple depth cameras and spatially mapped projectors to overlay an interactive screen from which there is no escape.
Imagine "real-life" video games that transform your living room into the world of the game. Or imagine virtual home decoration, projecting your vision of what you want to rearrange or add to your home's decor.
Skin Buttons
The Skin Buttons project uses miniature projectors to display interactive icons on the skin around the watch face. This technology expands the interactive zone around a smartwatch without making it physically bigger. The projector parts cost less than $2 and can even increase battery life by shifting workload from the main display.
FlexSense
The FlexSense is a transparent sheet of plastic, but its embedded piezoelectric sensors detect exactly what shape it's in. This allows for all kinds of intuitive, paper-like interactions. For example, flipping up a corner to reveal something underneath, toggling layers in maps or drawings.
Imagine cell phone cases that react as you peel the cover. Or interactive books or children's books that react as you turn a page.
HaptoMime
HaptoMime uses ultrasound to create tactile feedback in midair, so you feel like you're touching a hovering image when there's nothing there at all. It's produced by a hidden LCD and an angled transmissive mirror. This technology has massive potential for any public display.
Zero UI
Zero UI isn't a new idea. If you've ever used an Amazon Echo, changed a channel by waving at a Microsoft Kinect, or setup a Nest thermostat, you've already used a device that could be considered part of Goodman's Zero UI thinking. It's all about getting away from the touchscreen, and interfacing with the devices around us in more natural ways. With methods such as haptics, computer vision, voice control, and artificial intelligence, Zero UI represents a whole new dimension for designers.
As these technologies become more intuitive and natural for the new generation of users, we will be treated to a more immersive computing experience that will continually test our ability to digest the flood of knowledge they have to share. The potential for change is both overwhelming and exciting for future user interfaces and it's definitely something to look forward to when new technologies and ground breaking products come to market.
The Hard Truth About Website Speed
The time it takes for a page to load is an important part of any user experience. However there are times when you might choose to sacrifice load times in order to accommodate a better aesthetic design, new functionality or add more content to web pages. Unfortunately, website visitors care more about page loading times than an epic user experience. Also, website load times are becoming even more important when it comes to search engine rankings and mobile usage. Mobile visitors expect websites to load instantly, while using the slower speeds of mobile networks.
THE HARD FACTS:
Nearly half of users expect a site to load in 2 seconds or less
Additionally, they tend to abandon a site that isn't loaded within 3 seconds
79% of users who have trouble with performance say they won't return
44% of users would tell a friend if they had a poor experience
Site Analysis Tools
Are you interested in finding out how long it takes for your website to load? There are several free tools available. These tools report the number of requests, file sizes, and server response speed of your pages. Some even provide suggestions on how to improve your load times.
Pingdom Website Speed Test
GTmetrix
WebPageTest
Web Page Analyzer
Ensuring fast load times
At Wrecking Ball, we go out of our way to ensure the platforms we build for our clients are optimized for fast load times. Our hosted content is delivered through Amazon's high-speed AWS Cloud Hosting. Our CSS is optimized by the leading preprocessor, Sass. In the backend, such features as gzip compression and caching are enabled. Those are just some of our many practices for bringing down the loading time of our websites and applications.
How to Improve Page Performance and Make the Most of Your Hosting
Speed Is A Killer – Why Decreasing Page Load Time Can Drastically Increase Conversions


Mondo will sell two new posters by Jay Shaw for recent Drafthouse Films releases today. "Why Don't You Play in Hell?" is a 12″ x 36″ screenprint, has an edition of 75, and will cost $35. "R100″ is an 18″ x 24" screenprint, has an edition of 75, and will cost $35. These go up today (Tuesday, January 27th) at a random time. Visit Mondotees.com.
Love these! Jay just keeps knocking out belters.
There is a reason they call him Iron Jaiden. His work is rock solid.


Chimes Deluxe, Virtual chromatic percussion from Loops de la Crème.
Chimes Deluxe features 256 samples in 24-bit / 48 kHz stereo format recorded from trois chime sets: Ethnic with 20 thin and hollow tubes for a sound described as exotic, Studio with a dual 30-tube row and Concert, a set of 33 tubes for a loud and cutting sound.
Chimes Deluxe includes 11 tuned instruments and 8 sound design programs for the full version of Kontakt 5.3 and later, and you get an additional reverb with 12 impulse responses.
Chimes Deluxe is available for the introductory price of 29 € instead of 49 € excl. taxes at www.loopsdelacreme.com.
Spitfire Sable 3 updated and flash sale Spitfire has released an update for its Sable 3 string collection and offers a 50% discount of the Chamber Strings Complete bundle.
Terry Bozzio and Alan Parsons in SampleTank 3 IK Multimedia called drummer Terry Bozzio and producer/engineer Alan Parsons to create to drum and piano libraries for SampleTank 3.
New HoRNet ELM128 loudness meter plug-in HoRNet launches a new plug-in designed to measure the loudness in your audio projects in compliance with the EBU R128 standard.


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Q: How to disable the device rotation animation in SwiftUI? For UIKit to disable the device rotation animation you could override the viewWillTransitionToSize method.
Disable orientation change rotation animation
But what would be the best way to achieve this in SwiftUI?

A: We can do this almost in the same way - create a helper view controller with animation blocker and use it inside background as representable.
Tested with Xcode 13.4 / iOS 15.5
struct HelperView: UIViewControllerRepresentable {
    func makeUIViewController(context: Context) -> some UIViewController {
        OrientationHandler()
    }

    func updateUIViewController(_ uiViewController: UIViewControllerType, context: Context) {
    }

    class OrientationHandler: UIViewController {
        override func viewWillTransition(to size: CGSize, with coordinator: UIViewControllerTransitionCoordinator) {
            coordinator.animate(alongsideTransition: nil) { _ in
                UIView.setAnimationsEnabled(true)
            }
            UIView.setAnimationsEnabled(false)
            super.viewWillTransition(to: size, with: coordinator);
        }
    }
}

and usage:
    WindowGroup {
        ContentView()
          .background(HelperView())   // << here !!
    }

Module on GitHub


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Formidable Option: Orgovyx
Andy Studna
Pharmaceutical Executive, Pharmaceutical Executive-09-01-2021, Volume 41, Issue 9
Hopeful new standard of care for advanced prostate cancer capitalizing on momentum.
Myovant Sciences ushered in the new year of 2021 the very best way the company knew how: its first drug launch. Receiving FDA approval on Dec. 18, 2020, following priority review, Orgovyx® (relugolix) is the first and only oral gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) receptor antagonist for the treatment of adult patients with advanced prostate cancer.
Orgovyx works by blocking the pituitary gland from making hormones called luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone, which reduces the amount of testosterone the testicles can make.
"The approval and availability of Orgovyx is a meaningful step as Myovant works to bring about a new standard of care for men with advanced prostate cancer," Dave Marek, CEO of Myovant Sciences, told Pharm Exec. "Orgovyx was shown to be able to rapidly reduce testosterone levels without an initial hormonal surge. Additionally, the Phase III HERO study showed that when therapy is stopped, more than half of patients in the exploratory subgroup had testosterone levels return to normal over the course of a couple of months. The Orgovyx efficacy and safety profile* offers an option that may fit the needs of patients and physicians, providing control of testosterone, which is important in the treatment of advanced prostate cancer."
Prior to Orgovyx being available through authorized specialty distributors on Jan. 5, 2021, adult patients with advanced prostate cancer could only receive treatment through injections or small implants under the skin. One such therapy, androgen deprivation, uses drugs to lower levels of the hormones that help prostate cancer cells grow. Now, with the approval of Orgovyx, men with advanced prostate cancer can have the efficacy and safety profile of a GnRH antagonist in a daily one-pill treatment option that potentially reduces the need for clinic visits and injections. "In this way, we believe that Orgovyx has the potential to be a new standard of care in androgen deprivation therapy," says Marek.
In addition to its first approval, the Swiss company also welcomed 2021 by agreeing to a new partnership with Pfizer, which paid $650 million-plus to co-market Orgovyx. According to Marek, the efficacy and safety data from the Phase III HERO study of Orgovyx in men with advanced prostate cancer, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, generated excitement from several potential partners.
"While we were fully prepared to launch without a collaboration, after thoughtful review, we chose Pfizer as an ideal partner based on their robust capabilities and significant experience in prostate cancer and women's health," says Marek. "Pfizer has been an outstanding partner and an important contributor to our early launch success."
In the randomized, open-label trial, patients received either Orgovyx once daily or injections of leuprolide, another hormone-targeting drug, every three months for 48 weeks. The objective was to determine if Orgovyx achieved and maintained low enough levels of testosterone by day 29 through the end of treatment. The 622 patients who received Orgovyx had a castration rate of 96.7%. The most frequent adverse events reported in at least 10% of men in the ORGOVYX group were hot flush, musculoskeletal pain, fatigue, constipation, and mild to moderate diarrhea.
Following launch, Myovant reported Q4 FY20 Orgovyx product revenue of $3.6 million in its first launch quarter in addition to having greater than 2,000 prescribed patients through April. The momentum from launch has continued to accelerate with net product revenues of $10.5 million for first quarter 2021, which exceeds analyst expectations for a consecutive quarter.
"This performance reflects the consistent positive feedback we've received from clinicians on the differentiated clinical profile of Orgovyx," says Marek. "Despite this early success, we know we have much more road in front of us to enable more patients to have the opportunity to benefit from Orgovyx."
Immediately following launch, Myovant and Pfizer were targeting healthcare providers while building out payer coverage for Orgovyx. Now, the companies are expanding their engagement to reach out more directly to men with prostate cancer. "We're pleased with the payers' recognition of the efficacy, safety, and administration profile of Orgovyx that has contributed to our early coverage success," says Marek.
As of July 1, 2021, Myovant and Pfizer have achieved commercial (over 60%) and Medicare Part D (over 70%) coverage for Orgovyx. The companies are continuing to engage in negotiations with payers to make 2021 coverage decisions and expect to achieve broad coverage before their original calendar year-end 2021 goal. Marek adds, "We have formed the beginnings of a foundation that we believe can support our long-term vision: to establish Orgovyx as the standard of care for androgen deprivation therapy for men with advanced prostate cancer."
Even while looking forward to the continued success of Orgovyx, there is still much to be said about the efforts put forward by those who contributed during one of the peaks of the COVID-19 pandemic in late 2020. The initial phase of commercial planning was led by board member Adele Gulfo, and later assumed by newly appointed Chief Commercial Officer Lauren Merendino. Through the relationship of majority shareholder Sumitovant Biopharma, Myovant leveraged the capabilities of Sunovion as its market access partner to expedite contracting and distribution execution. In addition, Pfizer's team of experienced sales reps was on board just four weeks after launch to further expedite outreach. Marek concludes, "I'm proud of what our team and partners accomplished as they truly exemplified our culture of collaboration where we are all unified and devoted to improving the lives of patients with advanced prostate cancer."
*For full efficacy and safety information about ORGOVYX, please see the full prescribing information here.
Read the profiles of all 2021 product launch selections here.
Andy Studna is an Assistant Editor for Pharm Exec. He can be reached at astudna@mjhlifesciences.com.
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Trama
Mickey Burnett perde il lavoro e la ragazza il giorno prima del suo trentesimo compleanno. Clarence, il suo migliore amico, cerca di organizzargli un party e di portargli una squillo in affitto, Mysty, per tirargli su il morale.

Da questi presupposti nasce una serie di errori ed incomprensioni a catena, provocate anche dallo scontro con il protettore di Mysty, Clifford. I due amici litigano violentemente a loro volta e Mickey finisce con la faccia nella sua torta di compleanno. Per far pace, Clarence gli offre uno spinello che Mickey decide di fumare all'aperto, appoggiandosi su di una macchina ferma, che all'improvviso accende le luci: è quella della Polizia.

Produzione
La pellicola è in bianco e nero, ed è stata scritta insieme a Craig Hamann, protagonista insieme a Tarantino stesso e suo collega di lavoro. Solo circa 34 minuti dei 69 originali programmati sono sopravvissuti oggi. L'idea del film, autobiografica, venne tre anni prima, nel 1984, a Hamann, che la raccontò a Tarantino, che la trasformò subito in una sceneggiatura.

Le riprese vennero realizzate su pellicola 16 mm usando come location vecchi bar abbandonati e la casa di sua madre. Vennero "spalmate" per tre anni per diversi problemi e contrattempi occorsi durante la lavorazione, che venne sospesa definitivamente quando il laboratorio di sviluppo rovinò parte della pellicola girata.

Il cast e la troupe erano praticamente tutti i dipendenti dei Video Archivies, che finanziarono il progetto con 6000 $ detratti dai loro stipendi (7 $ all'ora all'epoca). Molti dei personaggi e delle situazioni sono state trasposte da Tarantino nelle sue sceneggiature successive.

Collegamenti ad altre pellicole
Il personaggio (autobiografico) di Clarence, alcune situazioni e pure parte dei dialoghi verranno riutilizzati da Tarantino nella sceneggiatura di Una vita al massimo, diretto da Tony Scott nel 1993.
Molti degli attori/colleghi di Tarantino qui presenti torneranno come comparse nei suoi film successivi.
La stazione radiofonica si chiama K-Billy, come il DJ de Le iene.
Clarence, parlando con la ragazza al telefono, dice di chiamarsi come l'attore Aldo Ray; inoltre, il nome del protagonista di Bastardi senza gloria è Aldo Raine.

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