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In de algebraïsche topologie, een deelgebied van de wiskunde, is een simpliciaal complex een topologische ruimte die wordt geconstrueerd door simplices, dat wil zeggen punten, lijnstukken, driehoeken, en hun n-dimensionale tegenhangers "samen te lijmen" (zie illustratie). Simpliciale complexen moeten niet worden verward met het meer abstracte begrip van een simpliciale verzameling, die voorkomt in de simpliciale homotopietheorie.

Definities
Een simpliciaal complex  is een verzameling van simplices die voldoet aan de volgende voorwaarden:
1. Elk zijvlak van een simplex uit  maakt ook deel uit van .
2. De doorsnede van twee simplices  is een zijvlak van zowel  als .

Merk op dat de lege verzameling een zijvlak is van elke simplex. Zie ook de definitie van een abstract simpliciaal complex, dat losjes gesproken een simpliciaal complex zonder bijbehorende meetkunde is.

Een simpliciaal -complex  is een simpliciaal complex waarin de grootste dimensie van enige simplex in  gelijk is aan . Een simpliciaal 2-complex moet bijvoorbeeld ten minste één driehoek hebben en mag geen viervlak van hogerdimensionale simplices bevatten.

Een zuiver of homogene simpliciaal -complex  is een simpliciaal complex waarin iedere simplex van dimensie lager dan  het zijvlak is van een simplex  van dimensie precies gelijk aan . Informeel gesproken ziet een zuiver 1-complex eruit alsof hij is gemaakt van een stel lijnen, en ziet een 2-complex eruit alsof deze is gemaakt van een stel driehoeken, enz. Een voorbeeld van een niet-homogeen complex is een samenstel van een driehoek en een lijnstuk verbonden aan een van de hoekpunten van de driehoek.

Een facet is elke simplex in een complex dat niet het zijvlak is van een grotere simplex. (Merk het verschil op met een "facet" van een simplex.) Een zuiver simpliciaal complex kan worden gezien als een complex waarvan alle facetten dezelfde dimensie hebben.

Soms wordt de term 'zijvlak' gebruikt om te verwijzen naar een simplex van een complex, niet te verwarren met het zijvlak van een simplex.

Voor een simpliciaal complex dat is ingebed in een -dimensionale ruimte, wordt naar de -zijvlakken soms verwezen als cellen. De term 'cel' wordt soms in een ruimere zin gebruikt om een verzameling homeomorfismen met een simplex aan te duiden, wat leidt tot de definitie van een celcomplex.

De onderliggende ruimte, soms ook de drager van een simpliciaal complex genoemd, is de vereniging van haar simplices.

Afsluiting, ster en schakel
De afsluiting van een verzameling van simplices , aangeduid met , is het kleinste simpliciale complex dat alle simplices in  bevat. Met andere woorden  is de verzameling die alle zijvlakken van elke simplex in  bevat.

De ster van een verzameling van simplices , aangeduid met  met betrekking tot een simpliciaal complex  is de verzameling van alle simplices in  die simplices in  als zijvlakken hebben. (Merk op dat de ster niet noodzakelijk een simpliciaal complex is.)

De schakel (Engels: link) van een verzameling van simplices , aangeduid met  met betrekking tot een simpliciaal complex  is gelijk aan . De link van  is in zekere zin de "grens" van  met betrekking tot .

Algebraïsche topologie
In de algebraïsche topologie zijn simpliciale complexen vaak nuttig voor concrete berekeningen. Voor de definitie van homologiegroepen van een simpliciaal complex, kan men het bijbehorende ketencomplex direct lezen, onder voorwaarde dat er consistente oriëntaties zijn gemaakt van alle simplices. De eisen van de homotopietheorie leiden tot het gebruik van algemenere ruimten, de CW-complexen. oneindige complexen zijn een fundamenteel technisch hulpmiddel in de algebraïsche topologie. Zie ook de discussie over polytopen van simpliciale complexen als deelruimten van de euclidische ruimte bestaande uit deelverzamelingen die alle een simplex zijn. Dat iets concretere concept wordt toegeschreven aan Alexandrov. Elk eindig simpliciaal complex kan in de zin, zoals er hier over wordt gesproken, als een polytoop worden ingebed in een groter aantal dimensies. In de algebraïsche topologie wordt een compacte topologische ruimte die homeomorf is aan de meetkundige realisatie van een eindig simpliciaal complex, meestal een polyeder genoemd (zie (Spanier, 1966), (Maunder,1996) en (Hilton en Wylie,1967).

Referenties

   Algebraic Topology, 1966, Springer,
   Algebraic Topology, 1996, Dover,
   Homology Theory, 1967, Cambridge University Press,

Externe link
  Simpliciaal complex op MathWorld

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Algebraïsche topologie


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Research in Family/General Practice is Essential for Improving Health Globally
Walter W. Rosser and Chris van Weel
The Annals of Family Medicine May 2004, 2 (suppl 2) S2-S4; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.145
Walter W. Rosser
Chris van Weel
family practice, general practice
During the last decade of the 20th century, there has been an increased recognition by the World Health Organization of the importance of primary care in improving the health of populations, with the medical literature providing supporting evidence. Under the influence of this growing awareness, many developed and developing countries have bolstered the role of primary care in the organization and structure of their health care systems.1–,3 Numerous universities in these countries have increased the primary care focus and content of their educational programs to better address the primary care needs of the populations their graduates will serve. This increasing interest in the provision of primary health care clinical service and education, however, has not been accompanied by investment in research efforts.
Primary care research is the missing link in the development of high-quality, evidence-based health care for populations. Awareness of the missed potential to benefit the health of the world's population led to the World Organization of Family Doctors (Wonca), supported by a number of other agencies (see sponsors list), to underwrite an invitational conference on the future of primary care research. Under the title Improving Health Globally: The Necessity of Family Medicine Research, 74 primary care experts from 34 countries met between March 8 and 11, 2003, at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The participants were asked to develop recommendations on how to better realize the potential of family medicine-family/general practice (from here on family medicine) research. Details of the organization and process of the conference are outlined elsewhere.4 The conclusions and recommendations of the conference are presented in this supplement. The focus of this conference was on research in family medicine.
The conference spent time defining the domain of family medicine as a discipline and thus the domain of family medicine research, as family physicians/general practitioners (from here on FPs) work in close contact with all medical specialties. A vigorous discussion led to the conclusion that family medicine is a well-defined discipline in which research in the context of primary care is essential to guide FPs in appropriate clinical decision making. Barbara Starfield's work linking the strength of the primary care sector in many countries with improved health status of the population strengthened the resolve of the group of the need for family medicine research.5
Emerging from this discussion was the need for the discipline to be more proactive in clearly defining the discipline of family medicine and assisting our colleagues, policy makers, educators, and funding agencies to understand why research in the primary care context is essential for improving any nation's health. These statements are supported by research results that have emerged from studies on common problems and their optimum management. Knowledge gained from this research can be applied in any country, resulting in improved quality of health care and often reducing use of expensive therapy.6–,10 Often the more common the problem, the less it is researched, creating considerable deficiencies in knowledge for practicing FPs.11
Evidence emerged that the greatest potential for improving population health can be found in the application of simple research principles in the most under-developed and underresourced health care systems.12,13 Being more proactive about these facts should make the discipline more attractive as a career choice for medical students who are unaware of the potential power and intellectual demands of research at the primary care level.
During the conference views from those outside the family medicine research community were sought. Richard Horton challenged the conference participants to be less introspective and to begin to challenge the status quo and gain acceptance of our convictions about the value of our research.14
A brainstorming session on how to build research capacity identified the need for our world organization, Wonca, to assume the role of providing an information clearinghouse so ideas could be shared internationally. Some topics in which sharing information was considered of particular value included capacity building,15 models of mentoring,14 research methods for clinical research,16 knowledge transfer,17 and problem solving for undifferentiated clinical problems.8,18 International information sharing would allow a free exchange of ideas and provide support for the adaptation of new research findings between countries with different health care systems.
The idea of extending the concept of mentoring from individuals in or between institutions to international mentoring between institutions and even national organizations captured the imagination of the participants.14 Many other ideas about strategies for research capacity building are included in the supplement of proceedings.4 Practice-based research networks, which are growing rapidly around the world, can function as a research capacity-building strategy for community-based physicians, as well as provide and a way of effectively disseminating research results.19
During the conference there was a sense that the developing countries could be marginalized by most of the ideas emerging from the discussions. On further reflection during the last day of the meeting, however, many of the ideas, especially about capacity building, were found relevant and useful for underdeveloped jurisdictions. The concept of a clearinghouse hosted by Wonca and examples of mentoring between developed and underdeveloped partners were found to be relevant for developing countries.20 Examples of how the application of simple epidemiological or research principles was feasible in "chaotic and overwhelmed" underdeveloped health care systems were inspiring. The concept of community-oriented primary care has provided dramatic improvements in population health status in under-served populations.21–,23
The conference participants departed, inspired by the richness of ideas that emerged from a unique international blending of minds, further convinced of the pressing need to strengthen research in family medicine in all the countries of the world. Improving the health status of the world's population will increase equity by assisting every human being to realize his or her full potential. Implementation of the 9 recommendations supported by the conference participants will require showing our physician colleagues and the world's governments the benefits of investing in family medicine research. Success in this strategy can improve the health of the world. Failure to increase investment will be to lose a great opportunity to make the world a better place for all inhabitants.
The meeting was sponsored by Wonca, Health Canada, the Canadian International Development Agency, Queens University and the Department of Family Medicine Center for Studies in Primary Care, the Department of Family Medicine at University Medical Center Nijmegen, the Dutch College of General Practitioners, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the College of Family Physicians Canada, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, and the North American Primary Care Research Group.
Publication of this supplement and organization of the conference in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, March 8 to 11, 2003, from which this material was derived, would not have been possible without contributions from many. First and foremost, our gratitude is with the academic primary care leaders who dedicated their precious time and talents to participate in the conference and to prepare or peer review the background material (see the list of participants).
Organization of the Kingston conference and preparation of this supplement depended to a large extent on the untiring support of Yvonne Chung at the Wonca Secretariat in Singapore; Vicky Garrah and Sonja Verbeek at the Centre for Studies in Primary Care, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; and Caroline Roos at the Department of General Practice, University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Their support is graciously acknowledged.
The World Organization of Family Doctors (Wonca) and the guest editors would like to acknowledge the following organizations for their generous financial support:
The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDI)
Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP)
The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) • The Netherlands College of General Practitioners (NHG)
The North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG)
The Centre for Studies in Primary Care, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
The Department of General Practice, University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Conflict of interest: none reported
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The Real Villains of the Obamacare Cases Aren't the Judges—They're the Lawyers
Alex Wong/Getty
When the Supreme Court announced on Friday that it would hear King v. Burwell, the latest conservative legal attack on Obamacare, the immediate liberal reaction was fear of the potential consequences. Jonathan Cohn warned that over four million Americans could lose insurance subsidies, and Brian Beutler's morbid prediction that of many of these could die as a result ran under the ominous headline "The Supreme Court Is Now a Death Panel." Fear, however, turned to fury Monday when New York Times columnist Paul Krugman prospectively denounced any judge who votes against the Affordable Care Act as "corrupt" and "willing to pervert the law to serve political masters."
That's absurd. Alleging corrupt partisanship by conservative judges is not only uncharitable, it also misses the proper target: the cynical campaign that brought this suit to court in the first place.
Krugman is so confident in his own view—that a clause in the ACA limiting subsidies to state-run health-care exchanges is a judicially correctable drafting error—that he can't even imagine that someone else could think differently. But there are plenty of conservative true believers on this issue. A principled commitment to a particularly mechanical and localist brand of interpretive textualism really can lead to an honest view that eviscerates the ACA. Textualism certainly doesn't necessarily lead this kind of outcome—and I think it shouldn't—but Krugman's conviction that only pernicious intent could produce a conservative result reflects a depressingly limited imagination.
Rather than ad hominem attacks on judges, we should condemn the unprecedentedly cynical lawsuits that have brought us here. By now, Americans are used to playing out much of our politics in the courts. But even in the most politically fraught cases of the past, a rough correspondence between advocates' motivations and their arguments preserved a modicum of integrity to the process. When conservatives first attacked the ACA in the courts, they did so by arguing that the individual mandate was an unprecedented expansion of federal power, and the litigants were people whose freedom had been genuinely restricted. Fair enough. Those arguments were an accurate reflection of principled conservative objections to the scope and reach of Obamacare. When conservatives again challenged portions of the ACA in the Hobby Lobby case, it was on behalf of an understanding of religious liberty to which conservatives are genuinely committed.
There is no such integrity in the latest round of ACA challenges. Everyone, including the law's challengers, agrees that the current implementation of the ACA is far more faithful to the goals and purposes of the law, and to the intentions of those who passed it, than the opposing interpretation the challengers advocate. The primary question is one of intepretive theory: Should the intentions of the law's authors, and the apparently self-defeating consequences of challengers' opposing interpretation, matter? Narrow-scope textualist judges think not, and they are inclined to impose on the Obama administration a poison-pill interpretation that eviscerates the law. Slightly more charitable readers who think context, intent, and purpose are integral to interpretation are more likely to side with the administration.
As an abstract educational exercise examining the different schools of statutory interpretation, the case is actually quite illuminating. But think for a second about the lawyers rather than the judges: What kind of political hostility brought this case to court? The challengers know their interpretation of the law is uncharitable in the extreme, and yet they push for it anyway in order to force the law's implosion. The motivation for these lawsuits is opposition to the ACA as a whole, not principled objections on the actual issue in question—the IRS' understanding of the subsidies passage.
The plaintiffs in this case, who are actually the recipients of the contested subsidies in healthcare.gov states, probably did not even see themselves as "injured" until they were tracked down by an ingenious conservative search for a handful of people in a narrow income bracket in a select few states. In order to sue, the ACA's opponents needed to find someone who could claim "injury" by the IRS giving out extra money. That's not so simple. But by hunting down a few willing plaintiffs whose IRS credit bumped them up an income bracket and made them liable for penalties under the individual mandate, the ACA challengers found an Archimedes lever with which dismantle Obamacare. That's not politics as usual, or even political lawsuits as usual—it's scorched-earth opportunism. These cynical political operatives, not the textualist judges who feel compelled to go along with them, should be the targets of liberal fury.
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NANA documentary – Memoir book now available / Shana Tova / Anne Frank's Diary Animated
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BOSTON: David A. Ball, a former hospital industry public affairs executive and state health and human services official in Massachusetts, has opened his own public affairs and health care consulting firm, the Ball Consulting Group.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA: Online photo sharing service smugmug has picked Best PR for PR services.
WALTHAM, MA: Racepoint Group has added several companies to its roster of technology and health-care clients: Context Web, Cook Inc., Formation Systems, iKnowtion, Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange, and Third Screen Media.
SAN FRANCISCO: Singer Associates has signed several new clients, include energy company Calpine. Singer will focus on public affairs issues in California for Calpine. Other new clients include real estate firm Group 15; Citizens to Save Point Molate, which is working to preserve a section of Bay Area shoreline from Indian casino development; and Yes on Measure Q, a real estate development measure in Redwood City, CA.
SAN FRANCISCO: Sparkpr has signed several new clients, including Mozilla, which develops web browser and e-mail applications. Other new clients include fuel cell company MTI Micro, travel website Mobissimo, and mobile software company Orative.
SAN FRANCISCO: Access Communications has signed several new clients, including being named agency of record for Mental Images, which develops 3-D software used in architecture, design, and movies, including "The Matrix: Reloaded" and "The Hulk." Other new clients include Accelrys, Airframe Business Software, and Orbital Data.


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Aerospace firm expands its South Florida headquarters, creates 100 jobs
By NKF | July 17, 2019
AAR Landing Gear has expanded its Medley headquarters and will add 100 more employees, according to Newmark Knight Frank.
The company, a subsidiary of Wood Dale, Illinois-based AAR Corp. (NYSE: AIR), extended its lease at Medley Commerce Center by 10 years and expanded by 17,000 square feet to now total 177,000 square feet. It has about 500 employees there now working on landing gear for both airlines and the military.
AAR has about $1.8 billion in revenue.
The owner of the industrial building at 9270 N.W. 100th St. is Gateway Southeast Properties.
NKF's Steve Medwin, Nick Wigoda, John Mejia, Mark Deady and Adam Marshall represented AAR in the team. The landlord was represented by Jon Aibel, Alex Bernaldo and Mike Silva with Americas Industrial Real Estate.
"South Florida's industrial market is booming, and this transaction reflects AAR's continued commitment to grow its business in Miami," Medwin said. "Nearly 100 new high-wage jobs will be created with this expansion."
The aviation and aerospace sector is one of the biggest industries in South Florida.
Source: South Florida Business Journal & South Florida Citybizlist
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The designers have decided to make the base of the Interior the right proportions and elements of Classicism, but along with this have chosen unusually light, almost monochrome color scheme. The bedroom in the Classic style has acquired airiness and refinement, but also supplemental exclusive features which have served to create the magnificent Interior in opal colors and to turn an ordinary room into a space for rest and relaxation in the elegant splendor.
Often talking about Classic-style interiors, the main attention is focused on basic elements, strict geometry. But, certainly, the rich opal color has become a special feature of this room. It has become the basic thread, on which all the other decorative elements have been threaded. The result has exceeded expectations. The light, like saved by the centuries, Interior has combined the best traditions of Classic-style rooms of the past: gold of stucco moldings, artistic parquet, exclusive furniture, made by the best craftsmen, light and at the same time attractive light fixtures.
Gilded furniture parts, night lamps, wall-mounted lamps and stucco moldings, Royal wallpapers create a harmonious space. They are not "arguing" with each other and are the status complement to life.
Boudoir luxury is given to the bedroom by the large bed with the canopy, which folds softly frame the bed. Night lamps on the stylized bedside tables with the decor in the form of meander, decorative pillows, satin bedspread, bed headboard complement the excellent composition. Unusual lighting effect is given by wall-mounted lamps, they create soft glow. The room is shrouded in "fog" of light chiffon, which gives a feeling of pre-dawn morning freshness.
The wallpapers with proportional report in light colors, framed by thin rods covered with gilding create an interesting spatial effect. They, with using light fixtures, change the view of the true size of the room. Design of stucco molding has allowed changing the geometry of space and outline the silhouette of furniture.
Ornamental grisaille painting of the bay window is in harmony with color tones of the wallpapers, wonderfully complements it and does not create imbalance in the room. The overall concept of the airspace has been maintained perfectly.
The parquet pattern is extremely active, but it is completely appropriate in the monochrome Interior, in which there is no large abundance of active color spots. The geometrical pattern of the main field is harmoniously diluted by the frieze with a plastic classic-style pattern, which in turn echoes with soft textile fails, canopy and flowing lines of furniture.
The bedroom decor in opal colors was created not to hit somebody's fancy, but for the comfort and convenience for the particular family, which is why it has turned out to be harmonious, comfortable and exquisitely aerial.


All play and no work? Indeed, education experts equate children's playtime as a critical factor in strengthening their academic focus prior to their even entering elementary school. Structured playtime is actually work for children under five, and the skills they learn during these activities are intended to give your tot a leg up on their academic performance as they move forward, beyond preschool.
As your child gets older, they engage in a ladder like construction of play that develops in sophistication. For instance, toddlers play by themselves with little interest in interacting with their peers as they explore their brand new surroundings. This phase, known as solitary play, transitions into parallel play around age two where two like-minded children sit side-by- side as they play with the same toys, but each child is decidedly doing their own thing, and more likely than not each kid considers each toy their own.
While the solitary activity might seem to belie the fact that learning is going on, the reality is that each child is watching and listening to their compatriot's activities, and forming cognitive judgments based on those shared times and experiences. Indeed, this period serves as a bridge between the first two stages of play and the latter two developments known as associative and cooperative play.
Associative play witnesses two children playing independently, but they are accomplishing the same tasks and mirroring one another. Therefore, if one child is acting like a truck, you can believe that the other children in the group are likewise out on the imaginary road, and while the children are still acting alone, they are beginning to communicate and interact through sharing, talking, and taking turns.
Finally, cooperative play, beginning during the fourth and fifth years, is driven by the children's ability to communicate game rules and ideas with one another. With five years of game play under their belts, at this stage kids aren't shy by this time about getting the imaginary rules of their imaginary games right.
Beyond merely filling the time in between naps, an active playtime helps promote increased physical and language skills, but equally important this interactive time helps boost additional long-term factors like self-confidence and social development skills.
Developing fine motor skills, communicative behavior, and learning the ins-and-outs of social dynamics are all benefits of preschool playtime, and under the structured supervision of a qualified teacher, such development can truly blossom in children who are playing together in the preschool environment.


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Justin Thomas In Contention At The Players Championship
Tyler Maines
Tyler Maines Published: March 14, 2021
Justin Thomas at the historic 17th Hole at the Players Championship
Justin Thomas will head into the final round of the Players Championship sitting just three strokes behind the leader, Lee Westwood, and will be in contention for the win when he tees off at 12:40 CT on Sunday afternoon.
After shooting a sluggish -2 total through the first two rounds, Thomas barely made the cut for the weekend. On Saturday, also known as "moving day" in golf, Thomas started out hot with birdies on each of his first four holes. After pin-seeking the first four holes, Thomas pulled his second shot way left at the par four 5th hole. Thomas was then able to salvage a bogey at the 5th, and after an easy par at the 6th, Thomas was able to get his rhythm back with a chip-in birdie at the 7th.
Thomas would start off hot on the back nine with birdies on 10 and 11 and would continue his historic day with pars on the following four holes, which the rest of the field seemed to struggle with.
Now -6 on the day, Thomas walked up to the par five 16th hole hoping for an eagle to inch a little closer to the (then) lead. Thomas roped his tee shot 303 yards right into the middle of the fairway which set up his second shot perfectly. With a 6-iron in hand, Thomas pinned a shot from about 204 yards out to just seven inches from the hole. An easy tap-in eagle gave Thomas sole possession of the lead at the time at -10 for the tournament.
At the 2013 Players Championship, Martin Kaymer tied the course record when he shot a final-round -9. On the 18th green, Thomas had about a 30ft birdie putt to tie the course record. Thomas just rimmed out the putt to tap-in for par and finished -8 on the day and -10 for the tournament.
Later in the day, Lee Westwood would regain the lead at -13 with Bryson DeChambeau not far behind at -11. The Alabama alumn still has work to do if he wants to hoist a trophy on Sunday night but after Saturday's historic round, Thomas has as good a chance as anybody to win at the historic TPC Sawgrass this year.
Thomas has really struggled this year, especially after the passing of his grandfather just moments before he tee'd off at the Waste Management Open a few weeks back. This would be the biggest win for Thomas since 2017 when he hoisted the Wanamaker Trophy at the PGA Championship.
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catalogue VENDU—SOLD 2013
The Vendu–Sold catalogue allows us to take stock of the art market, by presenting the artists and artworks at the heart of this event and by shedding light on various aspects of the art market and its collaborators. In this year's catalogue, Paul Maréchal reminds us thatthe business and art milieus have more in common than we might think. Also aware of the interdependence between the various actors in the arts milieu and their exhibition venues, Andréanne Roy examines the impact of the market on artistic practices and on the direction of certain public collections.
Recently, a major study on cultural philanthropy, conducted by businessman and patron of the arts Pierre Bourgie and a team of seven business experts involved in the cultural domain, resulted in a report that was submitted to the Quebec government. We invited Anne Bertrand to provide an overview of this report, summarizing its main points and highlighting its strengths and weaknesses.
In addition to these reflections centred on the Quebec and Canadian context, two essays take a critical look at the international market, focusing particularly on Asia, which occupies a considerable position in the current art market. At our request, Marie Maertens, author of L'Art du marché de l'art, published by Éditions Luc Pire in 2008, revisited a chapter of her book on emerging markets, including those of China and India. Pia Camilla Copper, for her part, tackles the prejudice against Chinese contemporary art and its rapidly growing market. Drawing on anecdotes from her personal experience in China, she sets about deconstructing certain myths and misconceptions.
A Message of Thanks from Honorary President — Frédéric Metz
Forword — Sylvette Babin
The Business of Art — Paul Maréchal
The Impact of the Art Market on the Museification of Contemporary Creation — Andréanne Roy
Cultural Philanthropy in Quebec: More than a Business Relationship — Anne Bertrand
Emerging Countries: A New Eldorado? — Marie Maertens
Chinese Contemporary Art: "A Big Sham"? — Pia Camilla Copper
Sonny Assu, Melanie Authier, Lorna Bauer, Sarah Bertrand-Hamel, Tammi Campbell, Serge Clément, Sébastien Cliche, Louis-Philippe Côté, Manon De Pauw, Annie Descôteaux, Mario Doucette, Michael Dumontier & Neil Farber, Michael Flomen, Jérôme Fortin, Karilee Fuglem, Martin Golland, Jim Holyoak, Patrick Howlett, Mark Igloliorte, Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline, Chris Kline, Wanda Koop, François Lacasse, David Lafrance, Éric Lamontagne, Fabienne Lasserre, Frédéric Lavoie, Maclean, Nadia Moss, Wil Murray, Juan Ortiz-Apuy, Anne-Marie Ouellet, Alain Paiement, Rober Racine, Jon Rafman, David K. Ross, Samuel Roy-Bois, Francine Savard, Stephen Schofield, Carol Wainio.
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Aliens Versus Zombies
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Sci-fi / zombie hybrid (not horror)
When the pandemic killed 82% of the human race in just six months and turned most of the rest into ravening zombies, it seemed that things couldn't possibly get worse. Humanity's days were numbered—and it wasn't a big number.
Then, fourteen months after the zombie apocalypse began, an alien invasion fleet arrived with more than twenty thousand armed ships and two million ground troops ready for battle. With no organized resistance possible, it should have been a cakewalk to conquer and settle Earth.
Little did they know… Shipped July 10.
My Other Car is a Spaceship
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Military scifi/space opera
When space pirates threaten to take over the shipping lanes, retired air force fighter pilot Hal Nellis is recruited to fight them. It all comes down to a final battle for the spaceways. Win, and the pirate threat is crushed forever. Lose, and the people of Earth and countless other backwater worlds are doomed to enslavement and death.
Former Amazon #1 bestselling Military Sci-fi novel (#4 Space Opera)
Sunrise Destiny
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Paranormal / detective / alien-abduction sci-fi thriller
Ever have one of those weeks? While working a case, private detective Donatello Sunrise is abducted by aliens. And that's the highlight of his week. Soon, the cops are after him for serial kidnappings, a Mob boss wants him dead, and he's fleeing aliens halfway across the galaxy. Somehow, Sunrise and his hooker girlfriend, Lola, must find a way to save two worlds from disaster by helping the good guys defeat the bad guys.
The trick is figuring out which is which.
2010 EPIC Award Finalist.
Hard sci-fi / exploration / terraforming
Mars is like a frontier town, filled with prospectors and mining camps. It's a place of deadly dust storms, rockslides, and near-vacuum atmosphere. And then there's the terrorist.
4.3 stars on Amazon.
The Tesserene Imperative
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Hard sci-fi / deep-space prospecting / first contact
It was supposed to be a routine mission, but in an asteroid belt nothing is routine.
When prospecting ship Shamu is almost destroyed in a distant asteroid belt, the crew of five is left with three days of air, little water, a smashed starflight drive, and no hope of rescue. It will take every ounce of ingenuity and stubborn pigheadedness they possess to find a way to survive.
In the shadows of a small moon, there's a discovery waiting to be made—the secret to first contact. Will it open the stars to widespread exploration, or doom mankind to extinction?
The Imperative Chronicles
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Two great novels, one great price!
This set contains the complete, unabridged, highly rated novels (4.3 and 4.6 stars, respectively), THE MARS IMPERATIVE and THE TESSERENE IMPERATIVE. If you like hard sci-fi and lots of action, this is the book for you.
Frequently Misused/Misspelled Words and Phrases
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A useful tool for writers of all types and skill levels.
Do you write fiction, nonfiction, business memos, emails, a blog, or anything else that others will read? Are you confused by similar words (such as discrete vs. discreet; to, too, and two; lay and lie; there, their, and they're; or shined, shone, and shown)? Do you misspell common words (alright vs. all right, or ect. vs. etc.) and phrases (such as tow the line vs. toe the line; run the gambit vs. run the gamut)? If so, then this book is for you.,
It explains in simple language the differences between hundreds of words and phrases that are often misused and misspelled, as well as rules for proper punctuation and capitalization, and other elements of English that often trip up the unwary writer. And it does so with frequent humor to keep it from becoming too dry.


A Murdock Trust key priority is to ensure that the nonprofits and organizations we support are set up for success in the long term.
The videos below are designed to help organizations as they prepare to assemble an application for a grant with the Trust as well as any nonprofit organization looking for tips and advice on how to structure and manage their efforts more effectively.
To assist prospective grantees in completing their application, we have put together a series of short videos to walk you through our application process. Please enjoy the videos in this playlist, or select an individual video following on this page.
We have recorded several webinars to help you navigate the Grants Portal whether you are applying for the first time or have an active or closed grant.
Are you considering applying for a grant from the Murdock Trust? This video will help you better understand our process and get you started on your application.
Before submitting a proposal, we encourage applicants to carefully assemble and review budget and financial information. This video explains why and offers tips for a smooth process.
We want to be sure our grantees are set up for long-term success. This video looks at how we evaluate the financial sustainability of a proposed project.
The Pacific Northwest is home to a rich diversity of communities representing a wide variety of backgrounds. Ensuring all individuals and communities in our region can flourish and thrive is central to the mission of the Murdock Trust. We recently had the opportunity to broach this topic with a handful of leaders working to serve the common good and we wanted to share their ideas for how we can all work to ensure that our communities and our region continue to thrive.
As debate rages over the best way to adjust our tax structure, this video examines the history of the charitable deduction and the prominence with which Americans have held it over the years.
Is your organization's board maximizing its contribution to your mission?


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Q: can not download VSCode from China Azure site in my geographic area Due to internet regulation in my residential area, I can not download VSCode  from China Azure site
(https://vscode.cdn.azure.cn/stable/0ba0ca52957102ca3527cf479571617f0de6ed50/VSCodeSetup-x64-1.43.2.exe)
VSCode official site coerced the above link to be redirected to me , I have no other choices for download point of the installer.
Does anyone kindly provide me a alternative link of other Azure region( Germany West Central etc.) to download the newest version of VSCode?
Thank you for any clues.
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Are you looking for the best kennel in East Lansing or are you just looking for contact information for your dog or cat's favorite place? PetCareAvenue.com provides you with a list of 34 kennels in the 20 miles surrounding East Lansing, Michigan. We leave the research up to you to find the best fit for your pet. Hopefully you'll find it here!
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Q: Mouse event cursor difference between browsers I use mouseover to get the cursor type, i get different results in Chrome and in Firefox when mouse is over for some reason the cursor style in Chrome is "auto" and in Firefox is "text". I need to know when the cursor is default in both browsers and when it's auto (as it's suppose to be over text input) or text. .
I wrote a simple code here to reproduce the issue, try it on both Chrome and Firefox and see the difference (here it is at jsfiddle if you want to play with the code).
Thanks in advance :)

window.onmouseover=function(event) {
    var currentCursor = $(event.target).css('cursor');
    console.log(currentCursor);
    $('#pointer').html(currentCursor);
};

<input type="text" width="100">

Move the mouse in and out the input field

A: Chrome and Firefox probably use a different default sheet for the input controls.
If you want to be sure you can set your own stylesheet and force the cursor to be 'text' of inputs of type text.

window.onmouseover=function(event) {
    var currentCursor = $(event.target).css('cursor');
    console.log(currentCursor);
    $('#pointer').html(currentCursor);
};
input[type="text"] {
  cursor:text
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<input type="text" width="100">

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Everyone wants an amazing logo and if you've seen our previous article you'll remember we told you how to create one. But we felt we had a little bit more to say on the matter so below you'll find a few more tips to really get the most out of your logo design.
We've told you once and we'll tell you again, keep it simple! If your logo is overly complicated and has too many special effects it will be difficult to reproduce. Whilst you want people to think 'wow' when they see your logo you also want them to remember it and if it's complex they just won't do that. You need to avoid the visual kitchen sink approach, of course you want your logo to represent your business but you don't need to illustrate every element of it. This also means using no more than two fonts and three colours to avoid overloading your customers with information.
Your logo is the starting point for all future artwork so it needs to fit with your other marketing materials. Just because it looks great on your website it doesn't mean it will look good on other mediums such as flyers, business cards and letter heads. A complex logo will leave you with limited style options when you want to expand your marketing strategies. Make sure your logo is a vector based image as this means it is easily transferable to everything from shop signage to staff t-shirts. If you don't know how to do this employ a designer who will introduce you to the thrills and spills of professional logo design.
Ideas are great, we creative types thrive on ideas from our clients, but that doesn't mean you have to use every idea you come up with. As Henry Ford said 'The air is full of ideas…' but it would be a disaster to try and incorporate them all in to one logo. Decide on one strong idea for your logo and keep the others in reserve. You never know when they may become useful for secondary graphics or for other artwork. An idea may not work immediately so explore every possibility, look at your logo from every possible viewpoint to see if you can change anything. If you can't, move on, sometimes an idea just isn't going to get off the ground.
So there you have it, a short but sweet addition to your logo design knowledge. Remember, it should be simple, versatile, keep fonts and colours minimal and explore every variation to make sure you get the best logo for your business.


Chennai, Mar 1: There has been a huge criticism over the manner in which TV news channels went about covering the sudden demise of actress Sridevi. And there has also been an equally huge criticism over the fact that why do people continue to watch news channels and then cry that it is silly and stupid.
We at Crank's News fully appreciate this point. And that is why we have taken the moral position that we will critcise TV news without even attempting to watch it.
For this we have to thank Twitter. (Twitter, if you don't know, is the official media partner for controversies across the globe. Whenever anything controversial transpires anywhere, it is first shared on Twitter before it moves to other places.) By the virtue of being on Twitter we get a ringside view of all the bad things happening all around.
And here is a representative exchange on news television that we never watched.
Anchor: We have some Breaking News coming in on the death of actress Sridevi. Just as well, because we ourselves were quite tired of playing the same few tunes from Sadma, Chandini and Lamhe for more than half-a-day, despite this being a news show, and droning our lines without any variation and without even a molecule of insight into her career or personality.
We now have reports from Dubai that Sridevi died not because of cardiac arrest as was originally believed, but she apparently perished after drowning in her bathtub. For more on the sensational twist, we have our correspondent Neha Grewal speak from a different part of this same studio even though we are going to ask her about things that happened at distant Dubai. Neha is our resident expert in this matter. She specialises in saying the same thing again and again. She is the Sanjay Leela Bhansali of news reporters.
Neha, what is your take on this unexpected development in Sridevi's death?
Neha: Yeah, you really plucked the word out of my mouth. Unexpected it certainly is. Which in other words means we were not expecting this at all. This is the proverbial twist in the tail. The classic out of the blue development. No one even had an inkling of this. The development totally sets the cat among the pigeons. Or to put it differently, it might also have put the pigeons among the cats. This shocking turn of events, we can now confirm to our viewers, has totally shocked every one.
Anchor: Aptly summed up, Neha. We will keep coming back to you all through the day. If Sridevi drowned to death in her bathtub, it raises many uncomfortable questions chief of which is whether Global Warming has made water in bathtubs to rise alarmingly.
But this is not the occasion for levity, but a moment of extreme sadness and that is why we have, with extreme sensitivity, come up with an image of a bathtub in the background and we will bring in experts on the subject of Sridevi's drinking habits, as it has emerged that her blood contained traces of alcohol . Over to one of the experts who might be an Advocate/Politico/Socialite/Bollywood hand/Person who had once seen a movie that starred Sridevi.
Anchor: Wait till what we have in store. We will have reporter speak from inside a mock funeral pyre. Meanwhile, we have our correspondent Atul Saxena from Mumbai outside Sridevi's house, even though it is well known that her body is in Dubai, her husband is in Dubai and all her family members are elsewhere.
Atul: As we speak, the whole place is crammed with people, all average fans, all probably wondering with the same question as to what we news people are doing outside Sridevi's house here in Mumbai when it is well known that her body has not been even handed over to her family members in Dubai.
Anchor: Atul, thanks for the update. Now we will go to politician Amar Singh because he is known to be close to Sridevi and Boney Kapoor family and despite this he has agreed to shamelessly speculate whether Sridevi committed suicide, which will help us to keep discussing the event till the next controversy arrives.
When Amar Singh speaks on TV, even those who hadn't switched on the TV get out of the room.


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Маргарита Павловна Какабадзе-Гудушаури (род. 1916 — 1989) — заведующая сельской врачебной амбулаторией в с. Ламискана Каспского района Грузинской ССР. Герой Социалистического Труда.

Биографическая справка
Маргарита Павловна Какабадзе-Гудушаури родилась в 1916 году на территории современной Грузии. По национальности — грузинка.

В 1939 году окончила Тбилисский медицинский институт и с этого времени работала заведующей сельской врачебной амбулаторией села Ламискана Каспского района Грузинской ССР (ныне — Каспийского муниципалитета края Шида-Картли Грузии).

Указом Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 4 февраля 1969 года «за большие заслуги в области охраны здоровья советского народа» Какабадзе-Гудушаури Маргарите Павловне присвоено звание Героя Социалистического Труда с вручением ордена Ленина и золотой медали «Серп и Молот».

Проживала в селе Ламискана Каспского района.

Муж — Арчил Эстатович Гудушаури, альпинист (1915 — 1982).

Награды и звания
 Герой Социалистического Труда (№ 12246, 04.02.1969)
 Орден Ленина (№ 401011, 04.02.1969)
 медаль «За трудовое отличие» (16.10.1951)

Источники

 Кузьмин М. К. Ученые-медики — Герои Социалистического Труда. — М.: 1988.(рус.)

Герои Социалистического Труда
Кавалеры ордена Ленина
Награждённые медалью «За трудовое отличие»
Родившиеся в 1916 году
Медики СССР
Родившиеся в Грузии

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Discussion in 'Lens Lust' started by mike367, Aug 15, 2009.
Don't read reviews. Take pics instead.
Determine the sweet spot for that sample, then work within it. When you bump into the less appealing edges - stay away from them. Every lens has it's strengths and weaknesses, so find the weaknesses and work within the strengths.
Use f/1.4 - f/1.8 only when you have to. You'll get acceptable results at f/2-f/2.2. You won't get truly sharp results until f/2.8. Color and contrast are good, and focus on the D300 is quite fast.
Bokeh on this lense is adequate but nothing to write home about.
Mr. Harry Lavo is right 1.4 and 1.8 are only for when you really need it.


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Bill, Hill, Barack's ObamaCare schmooze
By Niall Stanage - 09/25/13 09:50 AM EDT
Former President Clinton and President Obama were welcomed to a "conversation" about ObamaCare on Tuesday by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonDemocratic debates are magnet for lobbyists NYT editorial board endorses Warren, Klobuchar for Democratic nomination for president Sanders v. Warren is just for insiders MORE.
The unusual event briefly brought together the last, current and possibly future Democratic presidents. And it highlighted how much a successful implementation of the law would benefit not just Obama but Hillary Clinton, if the 2016 Democratic front-runner chooses to run.
The three never actually shared the same New York stage at the Clinton Global Initiative event.
Hillary Clinton delivered only a brief introduction, light-heartedly focusing upon the commonalities between her husband and the man who beat her in the fiercely contested 2008 Democratic presidential primary.
Clinton noted superficial similarities — the two men are both left-handed and "fanatic sports fans," she pointed out — before adding to laughter that "they each married far above themselves."
Hillary Clinton exited before her husband and Obama stepped into the spotlight. But the air of bonhomie only deepened, if anything.
Obama endorsed her message about their respective marriages, while Bill Clinton William (Bill) Jefferson ClintonMcConnell proposes compressed schedule for impeachment trial Trump lawyers urge senators to swiftly acquit Trump in impeachment trial The American disease and death bowls MORE praised the Affordable Care Act as "a big step forward for America."
Later, the former president described an explanation by Obama of the link between healthcare and broader economic matters as "about as good an overview as you're ever going to hear."
The Clinton Global Initiative is often presented as a bipartisan and somewhat apolitical gathering. But there was little sign of that on Tuesday, as Obama wryly noted: "Let's face it, it's been a little political, this whole ObamaCare thing."
He accused opponents of "trying to scare and discourage people from getting a good deal" and described some TV commercials that have targeted the law as "a little wacky."
Bill Clinton is already fully signed on to push the law, and often merely encouraged the president to tell people about the benefits of the reform law.
"Tell 'em how this has gotta work," was one typical instruction.
The ghost of an earlier effort to reform the healthcare system, spearheaded by Hillary Clinton during her husband's first term, hung over the discussion, however.
Some observers argue that success for ObamaCare could cast HillaryCare, as it was known, in a more benevolent light — less as an ignominious failure and more as a precedent that paved the way for Obama's expansion of healthcare coverage.
"For Hillary, it's a way of vindicating her," said Susan MacManus, a political science professor at the University of South Florida. "It establishes her, in a way, as a path-breaker on the issue. She was the first person to go after it in a major way and, up to that point, people had not really wanted to."
During Tuesday's conversation, Clinton, who had appeared tired, perked up noticeably when Obama compared the opposition to the Affordable Care Act to the effort to thwart the then-first lady's efforts in the 1990s.
"The devil you know is always better than the devil you don't know, and that's what Harry and Louise was all about back in the '90s, right?" Obama said to a smile and nod from Clinton, a reference to an ad campaign against the reform effort in 1994. "It was scaring people about the prospect of change."
But Democratic strategist Zerlina Maxwell noted that she believed the Clintons' engagement with the healthcare issue went deeper than politics.
"I think they actually care about the health and sense of security of Americans," she said. "For sure, it's about making sure that this time around it is successful and it sticks. But I think it's deeper than that."
MacManus put a more directly political gloss on the event, and others like it, which she argued were intended to maximize the political benefits to Democrats.
"The most powerful Democratic leaders are trying to create a sense of cohesiveness on the issue and put Republicans on defense," she said.
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Boston Bruins to play outdoor game at Lake Tahoe against Philadelphia Flyers
TIME FROM THIS PRESIDENT. DUKE: THE BRUINS TAKEN TO THE GREAT OUTDOORS. THE NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE ANNOUNCED THEY WILL FACE THE PHILADELPHIA FLYERS ON FEBRUARY 21 IN THE OUTDOORS AT LAKE TAHOE. IT WILL MARK THE FOURTH OU
The National Hockey League announced Monday that the Boston Bruins will play a game in Lake Tahoe next month.The Bruins are scheduled to face the Philadelphia Flyers on Sunday, Feb. 21 at 3 p.m. along the south shore of America's largest alpine lake.The game will be part of the NHL Outdoors at Lake Tahoe two-day event, as the Colorado Avalanche and Vegas Golden Knights will play at 3 p.m. the day before.Both games will officially be held at the Edgewood Tahoe Resort in Stateline, Nevada, which is along the border of California. The rink will be located on the lakefront 18th fairway of the resort's golf course, according to the NHL.Due to the coronavirus pandemic, this will mark the only time the Bruins are scheduled to travel west of Pittsburgh or south of Washington, D.C. The NHL says the Bruins -- along with the Avalanche, Flyers and Golden Knights -- will wear their Adidas "Reverse Retro" jerseys for the outdoor games.This will mark the fourth time the Bruins have played an outdoor regular-season game. They defeated the Flyers in the 2010 Winter Classic at Fenway Park, lost to the Montreal Canadiens in the 2016 Winter Classic at Gillette Stadium and beat the Chicago Blackhawks in the 2019 Winter Classic at Notre Dame Stadium.Fans won't be allowed in attendance. Instead, the league is hoping the series will serve as a broadcast spectacle — and engage fans during an already unusual season. The NHL canceled the 2021 Winter Classic, which was scheduled for New Year's Day in Minneapolis. According to an ESPN report earlier this month, the NHL wanted to create a signature event for the 2020-21 season and did exploratory trips to Lake Louise, Alberta, and Park City, Utah, before it settled on Lake Tahoe as the destination.
STATELINE, Nev. —
The National Hockey League announced Monday that the Boston Bruins will play a game in Lake Tahoe next month.
The Bruins are scheduled to face the Philadelphia Flyers on Sunday, Feb. 21 at 3 p.m. along the south shore of America's largest alpine lake.
The game will be part of the NHL Outdoors at Lake Tahoe two-day event, as the Colorado Avalanche and Vegas Golden Knights will play at 3 p.m. the day before.
Both games will officially be held at the Edgewood Tahoe Resort in Stateline, Nevada, which is along the border of California. The rink will be located on the lakefront 18th fairway of the resort's golf course, according to the NHL.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, this will mark the only time the Bruins are scheduled to travel west of Pittsburgh or south of Washington, D.C.
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A view of casino resorts located on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe.
The NHL says the Bruins -- along with the Avalanche, Flyers and Golden Knights -- will wear their Adidas "Reverse Retro" jerseys for the outdoor games.
This will mark the fourth time the Bruins have played an outdoor regular-season game. They defeated the Flyers in the 2010 Winter Classic at Fenway Park, lost to the Montreal Canadiens in the 2016 Winter Classic at Gillette Stadium and beat the Chicago Blackhawks in the 2019 Winter Classic at Notre Dame Stadium.
Fans won't be allowed in attendance. Instead, the league is hoping the series will serve as a broadcast spectacle — and engage fans during an already unusual season.
The NHL canceled the 2021 Winter Classic, which was scheduled for New Year's Day in Minneapolis.
According to an ESPN report earlier this month, the NHL wanted to create a signature event for the 2020-21 season and did exploratory trips to Lake Louise, Alberta, and Park City, Utah, before it settled on Lake Tahoe as the destination.


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JPMorgan Chase Commits $30 Million to Support Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Students
5 months ago HBCU Staff
Courtesy of knight lab
By: JP Morgan
JPMorgan Chase announced an expanded five-year, $30 million commitment to the financial and career success of students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). This commitment expands on the firm's Advancing Black Pathways (ABP) initiative which launched in 2019 to chart clearer pathways toward economic success and empowerment within the Black community.
"Deepening our relationships with HBCUs is an important step to breaking down barriers and creating more access to economic opportunity for Black students," said Byna Elliott, Global Head of Advancing Black Pathways. "This commitment offers HBCUs the flexibility they need to meet the unique needs of their students and provide the next generation with access to tools and resources to get ahead."
Deepening Partnerships
Over the past two years, the firm has grown from an initial three HBCU partnerships to 19. Each of the partner schools is located in or near where JPMorgan Chase does business, which will allow the firm to leverage its business expertise, partnerships, and philanthropic efforts to best support the long-term sector development and sustainability of HBCUs and their students.
Career Pathways Initiative
As part of the larger initiative, the firm committed $5 million to help HBCUs expand their career pathways programming and connect more students with career mobility opportunities following graduation. The commitment includes $3 million in philanthropic capital provided to five HBCUs and $2 million in philanthropic capital provided to UNCF (United Negro College Fund) and its Institute for Capacity Building to help these institutions increase student completion of high-quality career pathways and scale their operational models to improve overall student success.
UNCF's Institute for Capacity Building is focused on increasing student and workforce outcomes for low-income, first-generation Black students and other students of color. The program helps institutions prepare 21st century, career-ready graduates with integrated career pathway development.
"HBCUs have been producing top talent for decades and are uniquely positioned to accelerate economic mobility for students of color," said Monique Baptiste, Head of Jobs and Skills, Global Philanthropy, JPMorgan Chase. "Helping these institutions build capacity to support more students as they successfully transition from college to in-demand jobs is critically important to building a more inclusive and equitable future. Together, we can help empower a new generation of leaders and create more opportunities for all."
Through this collaborative effort between UNCF and HBCU institutions, the firm is focused on supporting young people to successfully navigate transitions from post-secondary education to in-demand jobs of the future.
Even before the pandemic, rapid changes in technology, automation and artificial intelligence continued to shape the economy and exacerbate the disconnect between skills and jobs, particularly for young people. Colleges and universities are adjusting to better prepare their students for an ever-evolving labor market, including elevating the importance of connecting credentials and work experiences to in-demand jobs of the future. HBCUs play a critical role in creating pathways to economic opportunity.
"Recognizing the transformational impact that a college education can provide, JPMorgan Chase is a generous and thoughtful partner and embraces UNCF's mission to prepare students for career and entrepreneurial opportunities in the 21st century," said Edward Smith-Lewis, vice president, strategic partnerships and institutional programs, UNCF. "We are deeply grateful to JPMorgan Chase for their generosity and look forward to continuing our partnership for many years to come."
Student Financial Hardship Fund
The five-year commitment includes plans to continue the Student Financial Hardship Fund launched by the firm in February 2020, in partnership with the UNCF and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, to help students attending any of the HBCU member schools to cover the cost of personal finance emergencies that might otherwise prohibit them from continuing their education. Since its launch, the Fund has assisted more than 1,200 students to offset costs for crisis-related expenses, including transportation home and personal technology needs at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. The Fund will now also be allocated towards degree completion expenses to address demand for student support as they prepare for graduation.
Additional Resources for HBCU Students
In October 2020, JPMorgan Chase announced a $30 billion, five-year commitment to address the key drivers of the racial wealth divide that included a commitment to creating partnerships with HBCUs through curriculum development, scholarships and mentorship programs to increase the pipeline of HBCU students entering the wealth management industry.
As part of the $30 billion commitment, J.P. Morgan Wealth Management created The J.P. Morgan Wealth Management Scholarship Program in partnership with UNCF to strengthen career pathways for HBCU students into the wealth management industry. Established in 2021, the program provides scholarships and mentorships to students studying any major at select HBCUs and will help them develop the skills needed to grow a career as a financial advisor. J.P. Morgan Wealth Management will award a total of 375 scholarships through 2025.
The firm also supports innovation in student support and education delivery through direct equity investments in companies transforming higher education and career readiness. In March 2021, the firm co-led a $5 million funding round for Upswing, an online student engagement organization that supports 11 HBCUs and two predominantly Black institutions, and provides tutoring, student support and other services to 49,000 HBCU students.
Tags: ABP, Advancing Black Pathways, hbcu, JPMorgan Chase, united Negro College Fund (UNCF)
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In the late 1990s I got into graphic novels mainly through Neil Gaiman's The Sandman. The storyline took me along the dark magical paths of Books of Magic, Fables, The Dreaming, Lucifer, and an all-time favourite, John Constantine the Hellblazer. But I always shied away from going deep into comicbook territory because of the costs and the intimidating catch-up job to be able to speak about any character or storyline without sounding like an idiot. I did not even really go very deep into the graphic novels I loved.
Even when the movies and TV series started coming out in earnest I held my ground. I watched most of them but still refused to go into the back stories and original plots.
Comixology app downloaded into my iPad. Then all hell broke loose. Especially when I found out that there is a brand new Constantine series and it is only on issue no. 5. And somewhere along my crash course research on catching up I found a bit of news that Constantine will be showing up in an Arrow episode and that got me into wanting to know about the character crossovers and who belongs where and how the universes intersect, overlap and all that.
So twenty years after my foray into graphic novels I return to the forest and go in farther than I ever did. One more thing that sets me just a little bit more into the Odd/Eccentric Woman Of A Certain Age category.


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Barnett v. Raoul (3:23-cv-00209) (S.D. Ill. 2023) - NSSF Gun/Mag Ban
By Upholder,
January 24, 2023 at 10:18 PM in Judicial Second Amendment Case Discussion
Upholder
NSSF has filed a lawsuit in Federal court, in the Southern District of Illinois with named plaintffs:
CALEB BARNETT, BRIAN NORMAN,
HOOD'S GUNS & MORE, PRO GUN
AND INDOOR RANGE, and NATIONAL
SPORTS SHOOTING FOUNDATION,
complaint: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ilsd.94464/gov.uscourts.ilsd.94464.1.0.pdf
steveTA84
Just so everyone knows who's involved in this lawsuit (I would not want to be Pritzker and Raoul right now LOL)
davel501
The great illinois firearm law fire sale...everything must go!
On 1/24/2023 at 8:21 PM, steveTA84 said:
It makes sense as Illlinois is dumb enough to drive this case all the way up the ladder vs admit they were wrong, just like Illinois reinforced Heller with McDonald, Illinois is now positioned to reinforced Bruen on an epic level across many aspects of exercising the 2nd.
It makes sense as Illlinois is dumb enough to drive this case all the way up the ladder vs admit they were wrong ...
Illinois flinched on Moore v Madigan rather than take it to SCOTUS.
Jan 25, 2023 Molly B. changed the title to Barnett v. Raoul (3:23-cv-00209) (S.D. Ill. 2023) - NSSF Gun/Mag Ban
Jan 25, 2023 Molly B. pinned this topic
Posted January 25, 2023 at 05:18 AM (edited)
On 1/24/2023 at 9:29 PM, Euler said:
I believe that only happened because Illinois was the only state left to allow concealed carry by that time, the writing on the wall was not only clear but being blasted out of loud speakers across the country in every court. Daddy Madigan as much as we hate him isn't/wasn't a dumb man, he knew the gig was up did what was necessary to save his families face.
The same could theoretically happen here, but I'm betting it's going to be California, New York or Illinois that takes this to the Supreme Court, and the blind arrogance of J.B. right now to appeal to his voter base on a potential future presidential run can't be ignored.
Edited January 25, 2023 at 05:21 AM by Flynn
cybermgk
On 1/24/2023 at 11:18 PM, Flynn said:
"and the blind arrogance of J.B. right now to appeal to his voter base on a potential future presidential run can't be ignored." Yeppity yep
Yep on the rest as well.
I hope it IS Illinois 's stupid over reach that brings them all down. That is if it i expedient.
martho
Location:Near the State of Chicago-but not in it
That didn't stop Durbin from going on TV and saying, "Just because 49 other states have it, doesn't make IL wrong." The entrenched mindset of these 4,000 term politicians always on display. Assault weapons ban or bust relection or bust is more like it.
Docket entry #4: Notice of Judge Assignment. Judge J. Phil Gilbert assigned. All future documents must bear case number 23-209-JPG
cbunt32
Recused from this one as well
MrTriple
Location:I have no idea where I am right now. Wherever it is, it smells funny
Interests:The 2nd Amendment, music, motorsports, trucks, bacon, art, bacon, bacon, steak, bacon, bacon-wrapped bacon burgers, and bacon-wrapped bacon strips.
Why is he recusing from all of these?
CplHunter
Location:Will County
On 1/26/2023 at 3:35 PM, MrTriple said:
U.S. District Judge Phil Gilbert will no longer preside over cases involving state government due to his position as trustee at Southern Illinois University.
https://madisonrecord.com/stories/510793356-gilbert-reassigned-from-133-cases-due-to-position-as-siu-trustee
Posted January 26, 2023 at 10:08 PM (edited)
On 1/26/2023 at 3:52 PM, CplHunter said:
Unfortunate, certainly, but perhaps it makes sense.
As for Harrel, are there any conflicts we need to be aware of?
Also, how are cases assigned to judges? I'm not sure if anyone has explained the process but it would be helpful to understand how it works.
Edited January 26, 2023 at 10:09 PM by MrTriple
Motion for Preliminary Injunction filed Thursday.
I know we all know that'll be denied....
On 1/27/2023 at 7:57 AM, steveTA84 said:
For the sake of the discussion let's assume that to be true. SCOTUS declined to weigh in on New York case because the appeals court had expedited it. Here we have a standard tactic of delaying these lawsuits and courts that allow it to happen. I wonder if SCOTUS would see this case differently
On 1/27/2023 at 8:15 AM, cbunt32 said:
I do believe the Democrats are forcing the hand of SCOTUS. After Bruen they all went stupid with this stuff. I guess reading comprehension and intelligence is lacking amongst them...
richp
I'm beginning to worry that if this drags out, we may be putting too much faith in the extent and lasting effect of Bruen.
The SC needs to quickly and incontrovertibly slap down these recalcitrant district and appeals court judges, so states like NY and IL don't think they can do an end run.
Location:McHenry County
Whatever the outcome, there will be an appeal. At this point, what matters is establishing a record to support us through that appeal.
But we also have to look at the concurrence on the denial: This was about procedure and not merits (good for us) and SCOTUS made it clear that the courts were to "move with all due haste" or something along those lines. This last part is important, since it seems that the Second Circuit fast-tracked the case for a hearing on March 20th, less than two months from when SCOTUS declined to get involved. While I can't read minds, it's possible the Second Circuit's decision to fast-track could've been influenced by that concurrence.
The only other possibility I can come up with is that the Second Circuit's original denial was written so hastily because they knew SCOTUS would throw in back in their faces and so they didn't want to waste any time writing it up. Same thing in the end, but it allows the Second Circuit to at least pretend to have put up a little resistance.


On Tuesday, WTI Crude prices declined by 0.1 percent to close at $56.6 per barrel over demand concerns as China trims down its growth targets for 2019 coupled with appreciating Dollar. China is one of the biggest consumer of Crude, lower demand from China weighed on the Crude prices. Supply cuts by OPEC continue to support the crude. OPEC and its allies meet next in Vienna on April 17- 18, 2019. Crude was further supported as US-China trade tension has eased off which had hampered the global growth prospects.
Excess of supply by U.S. might over power the Supply cuts by OPEC and its allies and weigh on Crude prices. On the MCX, oil prices are expected to trade lower today, international markets are trading lower by 0.8 percent at $56.11 per barrel.


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Defense contractor Raytheon already does a lot of business "Inside the Beltway" here in Washington.
Now, as the actual Beltway--I-495, circling Washington in Virginia and Maryland for 64 miles--heads toward partial privatization, Raytheon has been selected by Transurban (USA) Inc. to deliver an integrated tolling and traffic management system for a 14-mile section of the I-495 Capital Beltway in Northern Virginia. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Transurban (USA) Inc. is part of Transurban Group, which is a major transportation concessionaire owning and operating toll roads in the United States and Australia. The company has more than 5 million customers globally and 10 years of experience operating complex toll road infrastructures.
"We're offering a high-occupancy vehicle, transit and toll facility with a level of complexity and new technology that will allow us to provide our customers with the best on-road and customer service experience," said Tony Adams, Transurban vice president, Development & Major Product Support. "We selected Raytheon to help us deliver this project because of the company's proven experience delivering turn-key, integrated open road tolling systems, seamless back-office functionality and successful track record integrating tolling and traffic management systems."
One of the largest highway expansion projects in the country, the Capital Beltway High Occupancy Toll (HOT) project includes adding four lanes to the Beltway and replacing $260 million of aging infrastructure. More than 58 interchange bridges and overpasses will be rebuilt.
HOT lanes allow high-occupancy vehicles to travel free of charge while single-occupancy vehicles are tolled.
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