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Amazon has been busy building up an expertise in healthcare. Its latest foray comes through a deal with a consortium of medical research institutions in Pittsburgh. The company's Amazon Web Services arm is lending its machine learning technology to the Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance to assist in the development of new technologies around diagnosing patients and monitoring disease.
The four-year-old consortium is made up of Carnegie Melon University, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. The idea is to combine their vast amounts of health data in an effort to come up with better ways of treating patients. The organization has eight projects it's hoping to bring closer to commercialization with the help of AWS. In particular, the release mentions "cancer diagnostics, precision medicine, voice-enabled technologies and medical imaging."
Amazon's stated intention in sponsoring the PHDA is to help the organization do its work faster. "We believe that machine learning can significantly accelerate the progress of medical research and help translate those advances into treatments and improved experiences for patients," Swami Sivasubramanian, vice president of machine learning at AWS, said in a statement.
Amazon has been increasingly pushing its way into public health, most notably with the formation of Haven, a consortium between itself, JPMorgan, and Berkshire Hathaway to experiment with healthcare systems. Last year, Amazon bought mail-order pharmacy PillPack for $753 million, and this year it made Alexa HIPAA compliant, giving it the ability to transmit patient healthcare data.
Several major healthcare providers—including Cigna and Livongo—have developed "skills" that its patients can use on the Alexa platform. In the U.K., Alexa can now remit public health information from the United Kingdom's National Health Service to its users. Amazon also has access to patient glucose levels and can set up doctors appointments and even conduct check-ins with patients post-operation.
Many of these healthcare initiatives revolve around patient care in the home, but the company has also been building tools for hospitals. Last year, it released Comprehend Medical, which uses machine learning to dig through health records for pertinent patient information using natural language processing. This year, it expanded Textract, a text extraction tool, to all AWS members and highlighted how Healthfirst planned to use it to collect data from medical charts.
PHDA will be using AWS machine-learning capabilities in interesting ways. For one, the scientists plan to try using the technology to diagnose a patient's mental health through the way they behave, look, or sound. They're also working on developing individual risk scores for cancer patients and charting how tumors grow and change over time.
Ruth Reader is a writer for Fast Company. She covers the intersection of health and technology.
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Brexit saga set to drag on until June or longer
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Investors are bracing for the prospect of a delayed or canceled Brexit, as the saga looks set to drag on for at least another three months.
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British PM to ask for extension to leaving EU after 29 March
Two votes in Parliament still fail to back withdrawal agreement
Request may come up at European Summit on 21-22 March
Prime Minister Theresa May is set to ask the European Union for an extension to leaving the bloc on the currently set date of 29 March, having twice failed to get her proposed withdrawal agreement through the British Parliament. It has raised the prospect that Article 50 – the process used to leave the EU – will be extended or even withdrawn.
"The most likely outcome is a delay, and the longer this delay, the greater the chance that there won't be a Brexit' at all," says Robeco Chief Economist Léon Cornelissen. "For financial markets, the prime issue is the avoidance of a hard Brexit – a disastrous outcome that still remains very unlikely."
It follows two key votes by the House of Commons to try to resolve the impasse and allow the UK to leave the EU with some sort of trading agreement. A vote on Wednesday 13 March rejected the idea of leaving the EU without a deal, ruling out a so-called hard Brexit. However, the vote is not legally binding, and a hard Brexit will still occur by automatic process of law on 29 March, unless active steps are taken to prevent it.
European Summit ahead
On Thursday 14 March, British MPs voted to ask the EU for a delay to Brexit so that the political problems associated with getting it through Parliament can be ironed out. This could take place on the next European Summit, scheduled for 21-22 March.
May has said she will ask for a delay to June 30, if a majority of the House of Commons approves her withdrawal agreement – at the third time of trying – in a vote scheduled for Wednesday 20 March. The first attempt on 16 January led to the biggest defeat for a government motion in British history; following a rebellion by 118 Tory MPs, she lost by 230 votes. A second attempt on 12 March was defeated by a lower margin of 149 votes, after some Tories relented, believing that her deal was better than Brexit being canceled.
"If her third (maybe followed by a fourth) attempt fails again, she has threatened to ask for a much larger delay, putting the whole prospect of Brexit into doubt," says Cornelissen. "It is doubtful that enough hardline Eurosceptics can be convinced to accept the withdrawal agreement after all, but it cannot be ruled out either."
"In this case, the UK would leave the EU on 30 June, thus after a short 'technical', politically insignificant delay to ensure an orderly process. Markets will probably react positively to the reduced uncertainty, though the withdrawal agreement says nothing about the future relationship between the EU and the UK."
It's still only 'round one'
"We've only seen the end to round one of the Brexit process. Negotiations on the future relationship are theoretically supposed to end in December 2020, but will probably take much longer as is usual in these type of negotiations. Apart from that, the new relationship will be worse than the current one, which gives these negotiations a rather peculiar character, and increases the difficulties of reaching a national consensus."
"For the foreseeable future, we would expect a Brexit in name only, which bodes well for the UK economy, which would prove more resilient, while sterling and UK assets in general would benefit."
Sterling has been in the doldrums ever since the original Brexit referendum in June 2016. From a peak of 1.44 euros to the pound in July 2015, it has slumped from around 1.30 euros at the time of the referendum to a low of 1.08 in August 2017. It has since ticked up to around the 1.17 level amid hopes of a resolution to the saga.
Even longer delay
If May does not succeed in pushing the unpopular withdrawal agreement through on 20 March, she has said she will ask for a longer delay. EU leaders have to unanimously agree on any extension.
"EU Council President Donald Tusk is pleading for a long delay, so that the UK can make up its mind again," says Cornelissen. "But other politicians worry that this would enable a crisis without end around Brexit. In the end, European leaders will probably agree on an extension, possibly initially for a shorter period to keep up the pressure. As a measure of last resort, the UK government could unilaterally engineer an extension of indefinite duration by withdrawing its Article 50 notification."
"In any case, European leaders won't want to take the blame for a hard Brexit, as the negative economic and logistical consequences would hurt the European economies as well. And it would be especially negative for the Irish Republic, as the immediate need for a hard border would rise."
Border controls
The Irish border issue is a major sticking point, since leaving without a deal would mean the need for customs posts to collect tariffs and check the quality of goods traveling into and outside of the Single Market. The meandering 300 km frontier is extremely difficult to police, and keeping it open is a condition of the Good Friday Agreement that brought peace to the province.
"The UK has already stated that in case of a hard Brexit, it would unilaterally keep the border open probably, primarily to prevent a return of the 'Troubles'," says Cornelissen. "But the EU and the UK have a legal obligation to protect their external borders, and leaving the backdoor open indefinitely isn't a feasible long-term strategy. It would mean the need for customs posts to collect tariffs and check the quality of goods traveling into and outside of the Single Market."
"In the grim negotiation climate in the event of a hard Brexit, the EU would probably insist on keeping at least Northern Ireland in the internal market, effectively creating a border in the Irish Sea. It would also insist on the UK continuing its contributions to the EU budget."
"So, a hard Brexit absolutely doesn't mean starting with a clean slate. A hard Brexit is a very unattractive option for both parties involved and remains highly unlikely. 'Realpolitik' would most likely prevail, and the UK would be offered an extension. This saga is going to run on for a while longer."
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Q&A with Performer and Poet Gemma Stroyan
We start rehearsals today for The Jam Diaries and so to mark the occasion we asked the brains behind the project, Gemma Stroyan, some questions.
Where did the idea for The Jam Diaries come from?
I realised that a lot of my spoken word that I began writing two years ago was about my experiences and feelings towards this culture of instant gratification, and that in fact it can leave us feeling dissatisfied and confused.
Then when I (rather ironically) had a conversation on tinder about the nature of tinder, the guy pointed out The Jam Experiment. The fact this experiment confirmed that greater choice and greater satisfaction does not always correlate seemed like the perfect metaphor and basis for all the writing I had already done. It was then a matter of piecing it together and experimenting with what I had, and what I wanted to say.
How long have you been working on the piece?
I suppose you could say for a year and a half really, but it's definitely had a clearer direction for the last 6 months.
What does a work in progress offer a writer?
It allows you to leave your ideas and concepts open to continuous development, which I think is actually essential with the kind of content of The Jam Diaries. The social landscape of online dating, or people's views towards instantaneous technology is ever changing, so it was important to keep the rehearsal process fluid, to allow for open discussions and progressive work.
What made you start writing poetry?
I have always written. Whether it just be putting observations on paper, or writing a diary, but it wasn't until I went to a spoken word event over 2 years ago that I realised the impact of performance poetry, and the importance of hearing the words out loud.
That same night I wrote my first poem and it features in The Jam Diaries (I still consider it one of my strongest and clearest pieces).
For the next 6 months, particularly whilst touring the country with a play, I found that writing poetry became my outlet for processing everything I was experiencing at such a fast pace. It became my diary, my way of understanding myself and collecting my thoughts.
Spoken word and theatre seem to be crossing boundaries more and more, why do you think this is?
I think the power of words on a page is something very simple and special. It is then a totally different thing hearing someone speak those words out loud. You have the vocal quality, the pace, the volume, the emotion that all lift the words from the page and give them life. All of the above add to telling a particular story. I think it's both creatively satisfying and powerful for a piece of writing to flow the way it can do in spoken word. Some moments just land with such specificity in this form. It is also incredibly freeing and playful for an actor to be able to build on the natural impact of the text.
A funny moment can be brilliantly executed with a little bit of rhyme, or equally an emotional point can really hit home with a particular choice in rhythm. The words are your oyster in spoken word, and for theatre that is what you want; to find creative ways to celebrate the potential of those moments.
Why do you love theatre?
I think all good theatre can transport you somewhere else for a while. I just feel like in a world where we seem to be increasingly anxious, judgmental and fearful, why not go somewhere where you're allowed to connect, to feel, to open your mind to a perspective you hadn't previously considered, or indeed to feel that you're not alone in your way of thinking? It's so important to tell stories to bring each other together and create change.
You can see The Jam Diaries at Summerhall on 2 December 2016 at 7pm
Filming the trailer for Buffer
So it's less than a month to go until we kick off at the Edinburgh Fringe! If you haven't got your tickets yet then you can get them here!
And to get the ball rolling we decided to film a trailer for the show, which you all will be able to see very soon! Our wonderful trailer designer and animator, Craig Kirk, had some excellent ideas for creating a short, snappy peak at the Buffer madness! So without giving too much away, here's a look at some snaps from the Sunday afternoon shoot.
Just getting the perfect angle
Point of view shot!
Nick's marvellous shirt
Playwright Alan doing his thinking pose
Close up!
Buffer is nearly here! The story so far...
Script Workshop
Those of you that have followed Thrive since the start will remember our show Riot Squat, written by Alan Gordon. After it's success in the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe, Alan and I have decided to join forces again to present this exciting new production for you. Buffer was originally a project Alan started whilst working with Playwright's Studio, Scotland in Glasgow. They are a great organisation supporting emerging playwrights and nurturing their work with the help of a professional mentor. The play was presented early 2013 as a reading at the Tron Theatre which I saw and loved. And it's been full speed ahead since then.
So in June this year we decided to organise a workshop to develop and fine tune the script to make it even more awesome for the fringe. We also used these few days to audition some brilliant actors for the two male roles in the play. As the characters of Craig and Spencer are quite complex and require a brilliant chemistry to pull the show off, we wanted to make sure we had the right boys! After an initial day of getting to know the actors, we started looking at script excerpts and mixing things up a little bit.
Buffer centres around the use of technology and how it enhances or restricts our every day life. And as you can see from our workshop photo montage, we found technology extremely helpful and time saving when the actors performed re-writes of the script on a sometimes hourly basis!
Over the course of the three days, we managed to cast the final characters, come to a solid conclusion about how the script developed and also have a laugh along the way! And as August approaches, our team is all joining to create the most wonderful show - one thing's for sure, it's going to be a cracker!
WaffleTV - 'The Witness' Interview - Fringe 2013
The writer and the cast of our 2013 Fringe Festival production of 'The Witness' are interviewed by Ross from WaffleTV.
✱ ✱ ✱ ✱ - All Edinburgh Theatre - 'The Witness' Review
Strong, confident performances from Thrive Theatre, in association with the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, mark out Alex Hope's cleverly-written and intriguing hypothetical thought-experiment.
Hope questions what happens when someone becomes incidentally enmeshed in a fraught and high-profile incident – and the impossibilities that this presents for any attempt to communicate and record both the event itself and the nature of one's own involvement.
In sparse, clinical surroundings, a woman is interviewed by successive officials. She is attempting to give a set of facts – the narrative of a controversial and critical event – for the last time. But these facts are not her own…
"Provocative, cryptic..."
The play's sparse set – the ominous presence of a hospital bed and a simple table and chairs, all decked out in the same, unsettling sterile, clinical white – makes good use of Venue 13's impressive black box space.
The cast, Aleda Bliss, Bertie Taylor-Smith and Alex Hope trade, in the main, on nervous, stilted, formal exchanges between the interviewee and what is intimated to be a medical professional; and between the same interviewee and someone who professes to a be a government official.
The mistrust, anxiety and difficulties and frustrations of framing discourse according to formal and legal convention are well played here, and the tense, nervous physical acting, especially on the part of Bliss as the interviewee is very effective.
"Strong, confident performances from THRIVE THEATRE..."
The Witness plays out through the composition of official documents, formal reports, a recorded interview and details from a sketchbook. There are strange, disturbing and abstract fragments, of answer phone message recordings whose relation to the main narrative is never entirely clear.
There are only facts here and no real details. The intervention of medical and possibly governmental influences, combined with the intimation of media involvement cut off the possibility of any direct explication of context. Alex Hope's script works exclusively through allusion and intimation to a situation, intimate familiarity with which is, it is suggested, assumed by each of the characters of the others and therefore ultimately eludes the audience.
Tantalising visual and verbal clues are given (references to 'Princes', gender and age are given). There are distinct intimations here and a conclusion is clearly meant to be reached on precisely what is being intimated. A narrative just about promises to unfold here – yet remains tantalisingly and frustratingly withheld.
"... (a) cleverly written and intriguing hypothetical thought-experiment."
The Witness is, ultimately, a play about the impossibilities of communication and thus of political and legal self-representation and self-understanding, played out through a hypothetical thought-experiment which obstinately and effectively hovers at the level of thwarted intimation.
Review by Mark Bolsover for Thom Dibdin's ALL EDINBURGH THEATRE - www.ThomDibdin.co.uk
✱ ✱ ✱ - The Scotsman - 'The Witness' REVIEW
In terms of its slow-reveal dramatic structure, which sustains an effective degree of suspense throughout, and the absorbingly nuanced, understated performances of its three-strong cast, this production of Alex Hope's first play by Edinburgh-based company Thrive Theatre scores impressively high. What lies beneath, however, turns out at the end to be so ludicrously far-fetched – in terms of its practical, if not necessarily emotional, likelihood – as to comprehensively deflate all the tension that has been painstakingly built up.
"...THRIVE THEATRE scores impressively high."
It's only fair to remain vague about plot details, given the way that Hope gradually and craftily ekes out his clues: suffice to say that the plot, set in Zurich, centres on a twentysomething solo backpacker, Rebecca (Aleda Bliss), being quizzed about her hapless involvement in what is described as Britain's biggest domestic crisis since the financial crash – but if true would be an infinitely greater media cataclysm.
"...Hope gradually and craftily ekes out his clues..."
The show's accompanying publicity talks of Hope's fascination with the unknowable private griefs of iconic public figures, but as the title suggests, the focus here is more on the intrusive and inconvenient implications for Rebecca, whose parallel travails with her uncommunicative boyfriend back in London, intercut using voiceover recordings of her telephone messages, shed no further light on the piece's ultimately mysterious intentions.
Review by Sue Wilson.
We debut 'The Witness' @ Edinburgh Fringe 2013!
A very warm hello to all followers of THRIVE!
Hopefully, like us, you're in the stage of mulling and musing over what to see this year. If so, 'The Witness' should be right up there with the rest of your 'to see(s)' - we are very, very, very excited to bring our second original play to debut at this year's Fringe Festival!
Our rehearsals are all done, the cast are away having their break in return for all the dedicated and fantastic work they've done already and now, for the rest of us at THRIVE, the quiet before the storm!
We'll be letting you know throughout our run (10th-18th), ticket availability, production news and of course, what our cast, crew and friends are getting up to during the upcoming Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2013!
Cast Members; Aleda Bliss & Bertie Taylor-Smith
If you've added us on to your list, you can visit the Fringe website for tickets here, contact us at info@thrivetheatre.com.
Also, don't forget to follow us on Facebook and Twitter for updates from the writer/director of 'The Witness', Alex Hope, and our Artistic Director, Becky Hope-Palmer.
Have a fantastic Fringe!
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✱ ✱ ✱ ✱ REVIEW - Three Weeks - 'Riot Squat
What if the 2011 riots had spread to Edinburgh? This is the question Alan Gordon's darkly humorous play attempts to answer, setting the action in university graduates Miles and Kristy's rather middle-class squat. The result is an insightful look at the motivations behind the riots and the bleak future today's graduates face. All three cast members play their roles with just the right mix of humour and sincerity, and the chemistry between Gemma Stroyan and Alex Hope builds throughout . Ross Donnachie also deserves a special mention for his portrayal of the Glaswegian rioter Billy, giving depth to a what could have easily become a very stereotypical character. An enjoyable and interesting piece of social commentary which remains relevant a year after the riots that inspired it.
Review by Charlotte Ryan
✱ ✱ ✱ ✱ * REVIEW - The Public Reviews - 'Riot Squat'
The 'Keep Calm and Carry On' poster was originally printed in WWII. It doesn't take a genius to explain why it's now being mass produced… Of course they want us to keep calm, looking at events globally; people power has proven to be as strong as ever. Closer to home, we have experienced the London riots; when graduating goes hand in hand with signing on, isn't it inevitable that this generation is going to erupt onto the streets?
In Riot Squat, the riots have descended upon Edinburgh. The city is falling apart. Miles (Alex Hope) and Kristy (Gemma Stroyan) are archetypal middle class graduates. Brought up in the shadows of their parents, they believe the world owes them a living. Now living in a squat, they refuse to accept their fallen state. As the nation fight for liberty this blinkered couple sit beneath their 'Keep Calm' poster worrying about climbing the social ladder. When Glaswegian street warrior Billy (Ross Donnachie) arrives to reveal Miles is the heralded 'Dummy Runner', the catalyst of the riots. The couple at first horrified, soon manipulate measures to ensure that Miles's identity remains hidden. The piece becomes harrowing as they find ways of using Billy to their advantage; after all, Kristy can't go around with a crisp as an engagement ring forever…
Perhaps the issue here could have been politicised more; it could have gone to the core of society's problems. Then again this could have taken away from what Alan Gordon's writing is so successful in showing; real characters whose lives we fully invest in. Riot Squat transports one into an all too real predicament. Is it focusing on the past, or predicting the future? Gordon is unwilling to say; yet when there's not much else for graduates to do, we can make our own predictions.
Review by Charles Tyrer
✱ ✱ ✱ ✱ REVIEW - Broadway Baby - 'Riot Squat'
In a squat in Edinburgh in the midst of the riots, Miles and Kristy have set up their own little home of pillaged potpourri and Wetherspoons sauce sachets. Kristy is the St Andrews born daughter of wealthy parents and longs for the success and advantage she was promised when she came to university. Miles, whose origins are vague enough to suggest sitting comfortably in the middle class boundary, lives in horror that it was his friend's charm and not his intellect that found employment. Their third roommate is Beryl, a Harvey Nichol's store mannequin that accidentally found its way into Mile's hands during the riots and has inadvertently become a symbol of youth rebellion for everybody in the city. The fourth arrival into the squat is Billy, a young Glaswegian with a cut above his right eye and an inexplicable dedication to the cause he thinks Miles has lead. Thus begins something between a comedy of manners, a quirky romantic comedy, and a crucial message about the position of students in modern society.
Thrive Theatre may not be in the most central of venues or have the biggest of reputations, but Riot Squat is a show you absolutely must see, especially if you are young and worried about just about anything. The play is a beautifully scripted, if sometimes too referential: jokes about Facebook and Little Miss Sunshine seem to be there to make a point about a particular generation rather than expressing fresh sentiments from these character's mouths, but Kristy's condemnation of her own desire for quirkiness almost feels like a refreshing nod towards these odd moments of problematic reference. In fact, these actors do a rare thing in that they take a blinding three hander and continue to elevate it further and further in spectacular performances.
Gemma Stroyan as Kristy enters the play as your atypical slightly cutting posh other half, but as the play continues both actor and script discover exactly who she is. Her monologue about what she deserves in life hits home like an arrow through the heart and her behaviour throughout the play - whether ethical or not - never feels unjustified somehow. Alex Hope as Miles is also almost impossibly charming, if at times a bit shrieky, and his battle between what one ought to do, and what one ends up doing, is played out on so many levels and is so sublime in part because he knows his course of 'correct behaviour' is never going to work for him. He is a sad inditement of what it is to be young today: knowing that a gleaming CV has nothing on a good networking lunch and the capacity to throw a dinner party. Billy, played with heartwarming naivety and yet incredible worldliness by Ross Donnachie, could feel infuriating due to arriving into a play where two characters and their relationship are so delightfully established. However, after some awkward first moments that felt a bit too much like a french farce he slips perfectly into the show when his role becomes clear.
It is often hard to find good pieces of new writing performed simply and well at the Fringe, and Riot Squat is a perfect example of this done right. What Riot Squat does as well, however, is even rarer: instead of just a beautifully written and well acted play that taps into wider, ancient issues, this performance steps into the recent past, grabs issues that affect each and every one of us and take them gently by the throat to be throttled before you. Whilst constantly comfortable and pleasant - and maybe lacking some of the menace they know lurks beyond the doors - Riot Squat talks directly to every person in the room in a way that hopefully will not be relevant in a year or two, and it is this confidence and relevance that makes it a must see this Fringe.
Reviewed by David Levesley.
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Ieri sono andata a New York per un pranzo. Bertolli mi ha invitato a mangiare pasta e…..
Wait, am I not in Italy right now?
Yesterday's Bertolli lunch in New York City has me dreaming of Italy. It has now been four years since I have visited, and I miss it terribly. After living in Florence for 8 months in 2004 I said I left my heart there. While I found love and a beautiful life here, a piece of my heart will always remain in Italia. The last time I visited was in 2006 with my girlfriends Lynne and Gina, and we had an epic trip (that was for you, Caitlin). We visited our favorite sites, drank lots of good wine, danced and indulged in some delicious meals!
Flash forward to A Voce in New York's Columbus Circle. I am sitting with some lovely bloggers, eating delicious pasta, and watching the first webisode of "Into the Heart of Italy". Rocco DiSpirito, Dan Cortese, and Marisa Tomei visit Italy and explore the country through its food. From what I have already seen, the webisodes not only welcome you into the heart of Italy, but they warm your heart. Even watching the preview I found myself wistful for another moment in Italy, another bite of delicious homemade pasta or cheese, another passeggiata down a beautiful street. I miss Italy.
We were served a beautiful lunch inspired by the flavors the 3 discovered in Italy. The appetizer was simple but decadent.. a few mushrooms laid on a bed of creamy fonduta with just a hint of truffles.
Il primo was a beautiful, lightly dressed plate of farfalle (a pasta also known here as bowties) with pecorio romano and rapini. Il secondo was farro (one of my favorite grains, and one I rarely find here in the quality I enjoy) with braised beef short ribs.
A small course of a hunk of parmigiano reggiano was served with balsamic, but I did not try it.
I was too busy chatting in Italiano con mia amica da bell'alimento! For the grand finale we were served BOMBOLINI! For those of you that don't know, just think… heavenly. These were lightly fried donuts filled with a cream and served with a dark chocolate sauce.
Thank you for the photo, Tina!
In my opinion, pasta dough does not have to be difficult to make. As many of you saw, I made pumpkin ravioli with some friends in the fall, and it was not only easy but lots of fun! The farfalle pinch, however, was much more difficult. I have to admit I was jealous that Tina got it right on the first, second, third, and fourth tries! I thoroughly enjoyed a decadent cappuccino as well as a cookie during the farfalle demonstration.
The whole afternoon I really felt as though I was in Italy. The lunch felt like an Italian getaway, where time has no end and a 3 hour lunch is expected. If you want to take a break from the daily grind to relax and step into Italy for a moment, watch these webisodes (Episode 1). While they don't come with wine and fabulous cappuccinos, they will make you smile.
Thank you for a memorable afternoon, Bertolli!
That is such an amazing experience! I'd love to be invited to such an awesome event!
You look cute and non-preggers. 😀 Cut your hair like that again!
I went to Florence on my honeymoon and absolutely loved it there. I can't wait to go back. I love the pictures. Your hair looks awesome with layers!
Glad you had a great time with Bertolli. All of the food looks fantastic!
That looks like SO much fun, a trip to Italy without leaving the US. I love Italy too. My SIL, BIL, and 2 baby nephews live there, but we haven't been in 2 years. Time to go this fall!
d) looks like a fun time at the bertolli event!
@elise, I have never been to Barcelona but I am dying to go! And my heart hurts when I think about Italia because I miss it so much!
What an experience! I'm going to have to check out that show.
I love freshly made pasta. My boyfriend and I have plans to try to make some of our own next week. It's going to be fun!
ho studiato a Sesto Fiorentino, qui vicino a Firenze il scorso anno… your pictures bring back so many memories! I miss all the great food there, so fresh and pasta every night, I'm hoping to return after graduation before grad school.
Ciao bella! E stato un piacere conoscerti! Ah, right not in Italy LOL This was such an amazing event. I feel so lucky to have gotten to meet such wonderful people & of course to have eaten such incredible food! Simply a fantastic experience (e quando hai voglia di parlare l'italiano basta a chiamarmi ; ) Baci!


Tony Dorsett had many memorable plays for the Cowboys.
What impact did it have on a game, a championship, or a career?
As you might imagine, a franchise of this caliber, with nearly fifty years of history, has provided more than its share of memorable plays and water-shed moments. I have dutifully sorted through every play in team history (anyone who believes that stand on your head) to compile my list of top ten plays in Dallas Cowboys' history.
Number 10: Greatest four-yard run in Team History. On September 30, 2007, Tony Romo chases down a snap that sails way over his head versus the Rams. He scoops up the ball, avoids chasing defenders, and gains four yards and a first down on what should have been a 30-yard loss.
Number 9: Larry Allen, the sprinter? On Monday Night Football versus the New Orleans Saints in 1994, Aikman throws a pass that is tipped into the arms of Saints' linebacker Darion Conner. Conner streaks down the sideline on what appears inevitably to become a seventy-one yard touchdown interception return. Instead the 315-pound offensive lineman caught him at the sixteen yard line, and a legend was born.
Number 8: Emmitt gets the record. By 2002, the glory was fading. The team of the 90's was floundering. Smith, however, had one more milestone – the biggest of his career – to pass. On October 27th, in a 17-14 loss to the Seattle Seahawks, Smith broke through in the fourth quarter with an eleven-yard gain. With that run, he surpassed Walter Payton, becoming the NFL's all-time leading rusher.
Emmitt Smith remains the NFL's all-time leading rusher.
Number 7: Butch Johnson's circus catch in Super Bowl XII. Dallas dominated Denver and it was the defense that shined that day. But the number three receiver on the roster, Butch Johnson laid out in the end zone to haul in a spectacular 50-yard touchdown pass from Staubach.
Number 6: Meredith to Hayes. Cowboys 31, Redskins 30. November 13th, 1966, Don Meredith hooked up with the receiver who at one time had been recognized as the fastest man in the world, Bob Hayes, for a 95-yard touchdown pass. Hayes had 246 receiving yards that day, a Cowboys record that has yet to be seriously threatened.
Number 5: Aikman to Harper: A Dynasty is Born. With a tenuous four-point lead in the 1992 NFC championship game and just 4:14 left in the game, everyone expected Jimmy Johnson to give the Niners a heavy dose of Emmitt. What he gave them was a 15-yard Alvin harper slant that went for seventy-one yards, putting the Cowboy on the opponent's nine-yard line and setting up the game-sealing score.
With a National Thanksgiving Day audience, Clint Longley picked the perfect time for his 15-minutes of fame.
Number 3: Bob Lilly's Super Sack. In Super Bowl VI, the incredibly tenacious and gifted defensive tackle known as Mr. Cowboy chased the weaving and bobbing Miami quarterback, Bob Griese, finally corralling him for a 29-yard loss. It was the signature moment in the Cowboys' breakthrough game. For the first time in team history, they were Super Bowl champions…and no longer the bridesmaid.
Number 2: Tony Dorsett 99-yard scamper. On January 3rd, 1983, before a Monday Night Football national audience, Tony Dorsett broke off a 99-1/2 yard run from scrimmage. It remains the longest run from scrimmage in NFL history, and is a record that may someday be tied, but can never be broken. "Dandy" Don Meredith's commentary during the run is classic. To further the legend, due to a sideline mixup, the Cowboys only had ten men on the field for the play.
The Staubach to Pearson Hail Mary remains the most famous play in Dallas Cowboys history.
Number 1: The Hail Mary. Oddly enough, the top two plays in team history came against the same team. No play in team history is more famous than the Hail Mary pass from Roger Staubach to Drew Pearson with just 24 seconds left in the 1975 wildcard playoff game against the Minnesota Vikings. On the verge of losing the game, Staubach heaved a last-second bomb, which Pearson caught by trapping it with one hand on his hip. He danced into the end zone to seal the 17-14 victory.
You can find more great articles about the then and now of the Dallas Cowboys at his blog (Silver and) BlueBlood.


The Fellowship does not meet on Sunday mornings but on the Earth-centered holidays and it holds monthly gatherings following the cycles of the Moon; therefore our members who want a weekly, Sunday morning experience and discipline often hold dual memberships with another congregation. We frequently combine resources and coordinate activities with sister congregations, and our speakers' bureau is available for guest pulpits and adult and children programming in churches, schools, universities, and libraries.
Prairyerth was accepted into the Unitarian Universalist Association on April 26, 1998. Headquartered in the Chicago area the Fellowship has members and operating circles throughout the United States. It takes its name from the eco-system of the American prairie.
Prairyerth grew rapidly becoming the little fellowship that could with membership over 120 people in 8 states, regional Earth-centered circles that met regularly and a virtual extended family of almost 2,000. Our four active councils developed dynamic programs, ceremonial and educational materials, and reached out across the continent.
In 2002, events beyond our control, good and bad, took a toll on the congregation and like prairie plants, we went into hibernation for a while, awakening for annual meetings, gatherings, and two Peacemaker Pilgrimages, and then retreating. Finally like the prairie, we bloomed again. We currently have 40 official members, 129 extended "friends", and three active circles.
how deeply our interconnected roots grow in the rich soil of our fellowship.
There are three operating circles in three geographic locations: the Prairie Circle of the Midwest, headquartered in the Chicago area; and the Mohawk River Circle in upstate New York, headquartered in Schenectady County, and the Heartland Circle in Kansas City, KS. For more information on membership, see the By-Laws page. Membership forms can be found on a subpage to: "All Are Welcome".
This year (2018) the UUA asked us to identify ethnic and racial diversity within our congregation. We really have never thought in those terms before but after reviewing our membership we can say that Prairyerth is as diverse as the native plants on the prairie. Our people are Black, White, Native, Asian and over 1/3 of both our fellowship and our leadership are "minorities". Leadership positions are held by women and men in fairly equal numbers.
This memorial photograph of Ray Schulenberg, a prairie restoration pioneer and Living Treasures of North America Heritage Award recipient, is in honor of someone who epitomized the Prairyerth ideal. Ray was a humble man, a strong supporter of our congregation, and a respected Elder who taught us about the plants and about the Pottawatomie People.


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I was in foster care for a year and a half, from age 10 to 11. During that time, I never had a mentor or a group where I could share my thoughts and feelings with other foster children. I didn't have a therapist or anyone else to talk about what was going on with me. I mostly kept my feelings inside.
I would have liked a person to talk to or play games with. Foster care is tough, and I wanted to know how other kids dealt with it. I also wanted to talk to older people about their experience in foster care so I could know what to expect.
Last month, I got to see the kind of group I wanted back then. It was a new mentor-mentee program at the foster care agency SCO Family of Services.
The program was started by Stephen Hanmer, SCO's Director of Education and Permanency Support. He started the mentor-mentee program with money from a city council grant intended to help "transitional-aged foster youth." Starting last fall, four adult mentors and eight mentees, ages 17-20, met, ate, and talked once a week for 12 weeks. All the mentors were known well and trusted by SCO staff. Everyone had a background check. Mentors and mentees were the same gender. All mentors had either been in care or were otherwise involved with the system.
On the alternate weeks, everyone had dinner together in a conference room at SCO. The group agreed to let me and my editor observe their final dinner together, where they talked about how the program was for them. There were two facilitators: Stephen and another SCO worker, Carol.
The SCO office in Jamaica, Queens, was nice, with brightly painted walls. Stephen's office was blue and had puzzles, card games, and coloring books. I spotted a Mr. Potato Head, which I hadn't seen since I was in foster care seven years ago.
Dinner was eggplant parmesan and lasagna cooked by Carol, and fried chicken. As people ate, everyone started out by answering the question, "What have you been doing to take care of yourself?" At first, I couldn't tell who was a mentee and who was a young mentor. One girl had passed her English Regents. A boy had stopped smoking marijuana and was reading an inspirational book his mentor had given him. One girl said her self-care was getting her Depo-Provera (birth control) shot.
One young mentor said he hadn't had any alcohol in 2018 or any meat for the past three weeks. Another young mentor shared that she told her boyfriend of seven years their relationship needs help. She said it was hard to leave the guy: "I'm tired of the relationship, but coming up in foster care, I really have that family picture." It seemed like the group had discussed her relationship before, and everyone gave her encouragement and advice. The fact that most of the mentors had also been in care connected the group.
His mentor, who's 29 now, said, "I aged out at 21 and I've always wanted to give back to the youth. I got two great young mentees, and it helps me to help them." Throughout the dinner, everyone was offering support and advice with everyone else's problems. The foster youth seemed to get a lot out of being listened to and being able to help others.
Then everyone answered the question, "What could the program do better?" Several people suggested more group activities, like working together at a soup kitchen, going bowling, roller skating, or to a museum.
Judging from the group's final dinner together, the program was a success. It seemed like everyone became more social and comfortable with people who were there to help and listen to them. They made a date to have a reunion in three months.
I would have loved a group like this when I was in care. I was removed from my home so quickly and didn't get the support I needed to be stable, and I got very depressed. I needed someone to talk to about what I was experiencing and how I felt. I felt isolated in care because I lost everyone I was comfortable with. I missed my mom and my siblings.
I'm 17 now, and things aren't going great with my mother. My social worker thinks I should sign myself back into care. My worker told me no foster parent wants older kids, so I'm afraid I'd end up in a group home with girls who steal my stuff and fight. I don't want to feel scared and alone like I did before in care.
I would like some of the benefits of care, though, like money for college and more preparation to live on my own. I would also like a mentor. The SCO program looked so good to me, I think every agency should have a mentor program like theirs, with mentors who know what foster care is like. It's a better way for former foster kids and current ones to connect and bond and share. A good mentor provides a helping hand and someone to talk to. A good mentor gives a foster child the love and attention she often doesn't get from others.
I would also like to be a mentor either when I'm older or even now. I have heard and learned a lot about what people are still going through in care. I could help children deal with issues I went through. What I really liked about the SCO dinner is that the help and advice and caring went two ways. You could tell it felt good for the foster children to support their mentors and not just vice versa. I think every foster child deserves a relationship like that.
Stephen Hanmer said he will incorporate everyone's suggestions for the next time SCO hosts the program, this spring. Many of the mentors are returning, and the program's success has attracted new ones. Any agency could use this model of inviting young adults who've aged out successfully to mentor youth in care.


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With rezolv change management support, the network groups identified key areas of strategic change that they would deliver across their area – changes which alone were impossible but achievable together.
The network groups devised approaches which would foster a new culture of joint leadership and a programme of action to deliver the change. The groups formed a national network who met in national and regional conferences to provide support for each other.
In 20 English regions leaders of schools, the community and other professional backgrounds responded to NCSL's invitation to build local networks. The leaders - who had little experience of working with each other - knew they wanted to collaborate to improve the life chances for children and young people but were uncertain how to move forward.
At NCSL's invitation rezolvprocesses were used to enable network leaders to:
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I have been confused about this for several days.please help me

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A Welsh Born Icon: A Shared Culture?
People living in what is now Ukraine find themselves in a familiar, uncomfortable position – seemingly at the mercy of a much more powerful neighbor.
In this case, the Russians.
Theirs is a tangled relationship – sometimes close; other times strained, but rarely equal.
In fact, the connections between the two countries run deep. Through marriage. Religion. Culture. And language.
Prodnose: Due to the configuration of its phone network, Crimea will be voting in the Eurovision Song Contest as part of Ukraine rather than Russia on Saturday.


Inspired by a book of Italo Calvino, Elba & Federico tells the story of a couple in their day-to-day life. The man works at night, the woman during the day. The moments they meet in their tiny, sleazy apartment are of unexpected tenderness, but more often, of out of hand futilities and pent-up frustrations.
This short film was originally part of the performance Her Body Doesn't Fit Her Soul (1993).


Planning a wedding is difficult. And overwhelming. Planning a wedding when your mother is on the other side of the country and your fiancé is on the other side of the ocean is almost beyond comprehension.
This entry was posted in 2010, Choices, DC, Mario, Wedding Plans and tagged Choices, Mario, marriage, memoir, memories, relationships, romance, Washington DC, wedding, wedding plans. Bookmark the permalink.
Wishing you the very best. Good luck with the wedding plans.


Nearly every paper published in the sciences today is accompanied by an abstract. An abstract is a miniature version of the paper, able to stand on its own, which repeats all of the important conclusions of the work. Abstracts are often reproduced separately in publications such as Biological Abstracts , and they may be the only part of a paper that many people see. Abstract writing is thus an important skill that should be cultivated by all students in the sciences.
Students in this course will be required to submit two typed, one-page, single-spaced abstracts of chapters in The Origin of Species . These will be due 7 February and 28 March. You may write abstracts of any two chapters you wish. Do not expect to be able to write your abstracts the night before they are due: in order to write a good abstract you must have thoroughly absorbed the material (as a result of several readings), and must carefully condense it into the proper form. And good abstracts, not hasty summaries, are what are expected.
Often an abstract is written as though it were an introductory paragraph to the paper as a whole. An abstract is not an introduction: it is a free-standing miniature paper of its own, and should not make reference to the remainder of the paper. Thus in an abstract one should never say "The results discussed below demonstrate that Darwin was mistaken," because when the abstract appears on its own in Biological Abstracts or some other indexing source, "discussed below" has no meaning. Similarly, one should avoid phrases like "I will show that Darwin was correct in his assertions," because in isolation these phrases are also meaningless. "I will show" such-and-such means that you will show it somewhere in the next few pages, but for a reader examining only the abstract there are no more pages.
Your submitted abstracts should be typed, single-spaced, and should fit within a rectangle 6 inches wide and 8.5 inches high. A sample page showing the required format will be provided. I have designed this format to be similar to those used at many scientific meetings where booklets of abstracts are printed for the attendees. Such booklets are reproduced photographically and abstracts that are included in them are required to follow strict guidelines.
Every scientific journal specifies the particular format in which its abstracts appear, and these vary slightly from one journal to the next. In most journals the authors' addresses appear as part of the abstract, but in some journals, like Science , they appear at the bottom of the page. I will provide you with samples that illustrate many of the principles of abstract writing as well as some of the abstract formats used in scientific journals today. You should note in particular the declarative style that good abstracts use.


David Owen: Answering the most fundamental question of all: what are the Olympic Games now for?
Sometimes you need to step outside the bubble that normally envelopesyou to illuminate the fundamentals of whatever your specialist subjecthappens t..
Chapter 6: Little Games J.D. King A serialization of The Sound of the Shadows. Last weeks post is here. Davy came to his senses from a cold sweat, alone. He had to talk to her. But Anne had left the Adirondacks for her 5th Ave. apartment.
A two-year-old penguin named Flop is sad when his five-year-old brother, Flip, would rather play with a friend his own age.
The battle between Giant Douche and Turd Sandwich is over.


Recently, you received tons of blessing, gifts to celebrate your birthday because you have sent so much love and passion, compassion to so many people.
Last night, you again sent to us a most precious gift - that is to love ourselves. You used yourself as an example to teach us how to fill our own empty , inner hole, insecurity and to be our own master of life, inner parents.
I learnt that to love ourselves truly, we can fill the inner hole and to live a truly happy self.
Last night, I was overwhelmed to see you, my dear mentor.
With love and gratitude to be your student again.
29 8 ....... 6 9 2017 taking long time to do , looks not yet finished.
童年陰影,或陰影的產生,往往和一個人的性格有關,性格是樂觀和外向型的,較容易放下仇恨。同時,也和一個人是否善解人意有關,既寬恕原諒的能力有關。Adaptability to change! moving forward ability!
A whole life story all in the dreams. Stunning!! 解夢後她告訴我第一個感受:I feel lighter and happier! Amazing!
從《奪命狂奔》,到今天的才藝四散的旗袍小姐,我們看到Bessie是怎樣活出真我,不再被恐懼壓得喘不過氣來,so lighted, relaxed! Carefree and cheerful!
Bessie,your potential is unleashed, excelled after you fully driving by your dreams, instead by fears.
Dream Power makes so much unbelievable things possible, and reachable.
So proud of you, Bessie.


The Batteries Directive 2006/66/EC was transposed through an amendment to the Austrian Waste Act, introducing the framework of producer responsibility obligations for the different battery types, which was published in April 2008. A new 'Ordinance on the Prevention, Collection and Treatment of Waste Batteries and Accumulators' followed on 15 May 2008.
Producers of portable batteries must join a collective system. SCIEX has joined batteries compliance scheme Elektro Recycling Austria (ERA) to manage all aspects of batteries collection and recycling in Austria. Please contact ERA (+43/1/595 26 36-777, office@era-gmbh.at, www.era-gmbh.at/kontakt) for further information.


Mr Eoin Baldwin has extensive experience in the field of foot surgery having been involved in Podiatric Surgery for 30 years. He holds two NHS Consultant positions in South London and Surrey. Mr Baldwin is a highly experienced foot specialist, having performed over 18,000 foot and ankle procedures. He is also a registered surgical tutor, peer reviewer and examiner for the Faculty of Surgery, College of Podiatrists.
Conditions treated include: Hallux valgus (bunions), hallux rigidus (arthritic or stiff big toe), hammer toes, chronic corns, bony lumps, soft tissue lesions such as neuroma (enlarged painful nerve), flat feet. Mr Baldwin also sees paediatric patients.


A British court has found that it is legal for Britain to arm one of the most despotic regimes in the world.
This is a court judgement, "necessarily long and rather dense" according to the judge Lord Justice Burnett, that very few people can have confidence in. The judge claimed that the secretary of state was rationally entitled to conclude that the Saudi-led coalition was not deliberately targeting civilians or breaking humanitarian laws.
But who really believes that some of the £3 billion worth of weapons that Britain has sold to Saudi Arabia in the last two years have not been used in ways which break international humanitarian law?
The coalition had conducted airstrikes targeting civilians and civilian objects, in violation of international humanitarian law, including camps for internally displaced persons and refugees; civilian gatherings, including weddings; civilian vehicles, including buses; civilian residential areas; medical facilities; schools; mosques; markets, factories and food storage warehouses; and other essential civilian infrastructure, such as the airport in Sana'a, the port in Hudaydah and domestic transit routes.
Not MPs who have studied the matter either. Two separate parliamentary select committees found last year that British arms sales to Saudi Arabia should be suspended until breaches of international law in Yemen were properly investigated.
The draft report from the joint committee on arms controls exports (CAEC) which was going to endorse the calls for arms sales suspension was only scuppered by Crispin Blunt, the Conservative chairman of the foreign affairs select committee who organised a walk out to ensure there was no quorum at a crucial meeting.
This isn't really about the facts, the legality or the rights and wrongs of the issue. The truth is arms sales to Saudi Arabia are far too important to the British state and British business to be interfered with on grounds of mere humanitarianism, legality or concern about the damage done.
Saudi Arabia is by far the biggest customer for the British arms industry, the part of our economy most favoured by the government. Close relations with the Saudis has been an essential part of Britain and the US's foreign policy for decades. Never mind that it is one of the most reactionary and vicious autocracies in the world imposing a draconian legal code with the utmost brutality. Never mind that Saudi has been the number one source of funding for terrorist groups across the Middle East for decades. The country is one of the centre pieces of the West's campaign to maintain its dominance in the Middle East, and for the Tories and the rest of the Westminster war party, that is all that matters.
Saudi Arabia was a key accomplice in the creation of the Mojaheddin in Afghanistan to spearhead the West's campaign to drive out the Russians in the 1970s and 80s. It was the launchpad for the war against Saddam Hussein in 1991, the West's main ally in the Middle |East throughout the War on Terror and the organising centre of the clampdown on the Arab spring. In the last few months Saudi foreign policy - with a new leadership and with full backing from Trump and May - has become more aggressive and unpredictable. Its attacks on Qatar and growing belligerence to Iran threaten to widen the war in the Middle East.
Nothing symbolises the poisonous hypocrisy of British foreign policy more than our sycophantic relationship with the house of Saud. The Campaign Against the Arms Trade is appealing this disgraceful judgement, but we need to step up the campaign for a new foreign policy and a complete end to arms sales to one of the most dangerous and states in the world.


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Q: how to import column(s) of data from TABLE customer to TABLE order and inserting additional data into TABLE order CREATE TABLE Customer
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CustID int IDENTITY(1,1) ,
customerNo AS 'C' + CAST(CustID AS VARCHAR(10)) PERSISTED PRIMARY KEY,
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customerCity varchar(50),
customerState varchar(50),
customerZIPCode varchar(20),
customerTelNo varchar(50),
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maritalStatus varchar(50),
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LLC Operating Agreements from Start to Finish
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Limited Liability Companies (LLCs) have become one of the most commonly used business structures in almost every jurisdiction in the United States. With its flexible governance structure, favorable tax treatments, and liability protection, there is no question that LLCs have become the go-to structure for new business or existing business that are being restructured. While LLCs do not demand the rigid formalities of corporate documents (like corporations do), an Operating Agreement is a must-have for all LLCs for several reasons. This presentation will cover the importance of an Operating Agreement in an LLC, drafting tips and best practices, and what every Operating Agreement should include.
• Key provisions
• Important of Operating Agreements in LLC governance
• Operating Agreements in Practical Use
Date / Time: July 12, 2019
SKU: N/A Categories: Commercial Law, Federal Bar Association, Federal Bar Association Self-Study CLE, Partners
Original Broadcast Date: March 13, 2019
Elizabeth Fernandez, Esq. is the managing attorney of EPGD Law's West Palm Beach office. She received her B.A. in Political Science from Florida International University and is a Lifetime Member of the FIU Alumni Association. Elizabeth earned her Juris Doctor with honors from St. Thomas University School of Law. While at St. Thomas, she was the President of the St. Thomas University Chapter of the Cuban American Bar Association and briefly served as Executive Vice President of the St. Thomas University Trial Team. Elizabeth received the CALI Book Award for Administrative law and earned Dean's List distinctions several times. Before joining EPGD Law, Mrs. Fernandez interned at the City of Miami City Attorney's Office, where she assisted in civil litigation matters, and the CABA Pro Bono Project.
Elizabeth is involved in the following professional associations:
• Dade County Bar Association
• South Miami Kendall Bar Association
• Cuban American Bar Association
Elizabeth is fluent in Spanish, and is admitted to practice law in the State of Florida, She is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Southern District of Florida, and the U.S Tax Court. In her spare time, Elizabeth enjoys attending sporting events and concerts, and spending time with her family.
Elizabeth focuses her practice on Estate Planning, Wills, Trusts, Guardianship, Probate, and Advanced Directives.
Live video broadcasts are new live CLE programs being streamed and recorded for the first time. All of these programs qualify for "Live" CLE credit in all states except NV, OH, MS, IN, UT, PA, GA, SC, and LA —these states require in-person attendance to qualify for "Live" CLE credit.
"Live" Re-broadcasts are replays of previous recorded CLE programs, set on a specific date and time and where the original presenting speakers calls in live at the end of the event to answer questions. This "live" element allows for "live" Re-broadcast CLEs to qualify for "Live" CLE credits in most states. [The following states DO NOT allow for "live" CLE credits on re-broadcast CLEs: NV, OH, MS, IN, UT, PA, GA, SC, and LA]
Section I. Overview of LLCs
Section II. Importance of Operating Agreements
Section III. Major Provisions
a) Formation of LLC
b) Membership
c) Capital Accounts; Member Contributions; Advances and Return of Capital
d) Allocation of Profits and Losses and Distributions
e) Rights and Duties of Members
f) Management
g) Transfer of Membership Interests
h) Books and Records
i) Taxation
j) Indemnification
k) Termination and Dissolution
l) Miscellaneous Provisions
Section IV. Practical Use of Operating Agreements


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Buy My Bombers In The Name Of Peace Says Arms Salesman Cameron And Don't Mention The $multimillion Kickbacks
British Prime Minister David Cameron arrived in the political unstable, terrorist and war-threratened Persian Gulf on Monday with a suitcase full of pictures of fighters, bombers, small arms, radars, rocket launchers and promised everyone that he was determined to bring about peace in the region.
Meanwhile, if they would just buy a couple of squadrons of Typhoon jets and their associated missiles and bombs then he was sure they would feel more secure. As a bonus, Cameron is doing side-of-the-mouth promises to the United Arab Emirates about sticking a squadron of British Royal Air Force jets into the region to protect the oill – sorry, we mean, the people – in the event of a rumpus with or over Iran.
When someone questioned the morality of selling lethal weapons to human rights suppressing dictatorships, Cameron appeared baffled by the objection. Oh, human rights and all that stuff. Don't worry, he would have a word with the sheiks and all about that.
In fact the sheiks and all wanted a word with him – not directly you understand. That's not the way the kings and princes do business here. Their problem is that they don't really go along with all that Arab Spring stuff. They may have helped with the rebellion that lead to the murder of the Mad Hatter of Libya around this time last year, but they really don't go along with all this UK idealism that thinks Arab Spring rebels are freedom fighters.
Cameron needs telling, they so believe, that the so-called human rights rebels are are a bunch of revolutionaries with mobiles and Facebook accounts bent on bringing down the Gulf monarchies and sheikdoms.
They think Cameron should get real and unless he does, there'll be no fat defense contracts or if there are, the gear will be used to put down any mob that steps out on the main drag with a placard calling for change.
The French President Francois Hollande stopped by at the start of the week. He had it about right. He said France will support the status quo in the Gulf kingdoms (ie despotism) with her United Nations Security Council vote and will wind up sanctions against Iran. If the Saudis could see their way to signing a Franco-Saudi deal for warship maintenance, then France will turn a blind eye or two when the human rights thing comes up in the UN.
They like that real politik in the Gulf. Hollande will probably get the contract in the post week after next just as soon as the princes get their brown envelopes.
So what about Cameron? He really would like to be known as the man who sold Typhoons to Saudi Arabia and Dubai. He says that selling weapons to the Gulf states who are, after all, jolly good friends, is an OK thing to do and to promote British arms sales is, what the British PM calls, "completely legitimate."
He says he wants to raise human rights issues. Well he might especially as the UK which he politically leads is a former imperial power that knows all about keeping the natives under the thumb.
When he arrived in Dubai, Mr Cameron made it sound so simple: " On human rights there are no no-go areas in this relationship". It was so simple that no one knew what he meant. His next line got closer to the truth: "We show respect and friendship to a very old ally and partner." The shorthand for this is that he wants a £3bn Typhoon deal that's worth an estimated 3,000 jobs in the UK.
But of course, Mr Cameron, said the visit is not all about trade and investment. Oh yes it is Mr C. Just as M. Hollande's visit Sunday was about trade and investment. The Gulf States are awash with cash. The UK wants a chunk of it. The irony of course is that one of Mr Cameron's Tory predecessors, the then Mrs Thatcher understood this and her arms salesmen (and her son) got their noses in the trough – and not too many people in the UK cared.
Now the jobs are scarce and the British arms industry, especially after the EADS-BAe Systems debacle, is not entirely troughless but needs to get snorting in the arms sales swill. And that's another sidebar for Cameron to watch. Dealing with Arab countries usually means someone gets bunged a million or so dollars for awarding these contracts.
The British suffer moral indignation over kick-backs, bribes, commissions, percentages or whatever the euphemism is for handing out money to seal deals. It is of course, a perfectly legitimate form of business just as a small time traveling salesman gives a box of chocs to a regular customer at Christmas. But with the percentages on a £3billion contract already sweating-up Arab royal family palms that may be something else Cameron would like to raise with the UK's very old allies and partners. We think not. We think not.
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John Kerry Claims Trump Is the Reason North Korea Wants a Bomb
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Former Secretary of State John Kerry is urging President Trump to scale back his rhetoric against North Korea, claiming he's only making matters worse.
My full exchange with @JohnKerry on North Korea: https://t.co/Ecck8zMGXl
— Christiane Amanpour (@camanpour) November 6, 2017
"The president needs to make sure he's not feeding into North Korea's fear of regime change or of a unilateral attack or otherwise," Kerry warned the president during an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour.
The rhetoric has "stepped over the line," he added. "It's given North Korea a reason to say, 'Hey, we need a bomb.'"
Amanpour wondered how much clout Kerry's words held, considering the Obama administration has its own fair share of critics who say their era of "strategic patience" did little to curb the North Korean threat.
"With all due respect that's not accurate," Kerry returned.
The Obama administration engaged in "lots of efforts" and got China to engage as well, Kerry argued, reminding Amanpour how China increased its sanctions against North Korea twice.
In the interview, Kerry also defended the Iranian nuclear deal, claiming "it's working" and has made the region and the world "safer." He is baffled why Trump would move to decertify it considering it gives them the ability "to know what Iran is doing."
Having tougher sanctions on Iran than North Korea just "doesn't make sense," he said.
Don't "tweet yourself" into a position of unintended consequences that could lead to war, Kerry said.
The former secretary of state hopes Trump's trip through Asia will result in some effective negotiations.
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We see this white squirrel occasionally in our back yard. I think it's considered piebald rather than albino, because it has some color. It's much more shy than the "normal" squirrels in the area, and seems to be shunned by them.
I happened to glimpse one of these this morning in the woods behind my house. I was stunned. Never before had I seen one. I got the binoculars, but lost it. What a treat.
Where was this squirrel located (city, state)? I live in Olney, IL where we have a TON of white squirrels.
Interesting info and a wonderful capture, Alfresco.
Wow what a cute shot. Love the colors.
Maybe the other squirrels are prejudiced against it.


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After third court victory, Woodfox still not free
By Kathy Durkin posted on June 17, 2015
Albert Woodfox
Forty-three years in solitary confinement is 43 years too long. Albert Woodfox, the last imprisoned member of the Angola 3, should be released immediately. Yet, although a federal judge three times has ordered him freed, the state of Louisiana is hell-bent on keeping him in prison.
U.S. District Judge James J. Brady ordered Woodfox's immediate release on June 9 and barred prosecutors from trying him a third time. But Woodfox's much-anticipated freedom was not to be. Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell quickly appealed this ruling, requesting an emergency stay to block the release.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered on June 12 that Woodfox be imprisoned while the state appeals this ruling in its attempt to try him for a third time for an Angola prison guard's murder in 1972 — despite his convictions being overturned twice. Oral arguments for and against Judge Brady's order are scheduled for the week of Aug. 31.
Judge Brady twice reversed Woodfox's convictions, including in 2013, due to racial discrimination in grand jury selection in his 1998 retrial. The state appealed. Then Woodfox was reindicted in February.
George Kendall and Carine Williams, Woodfox's attorneys, stressed the unfairness of a third trial, citing, for example, the deaths of witnesses: "The fact that two previous convictions have been reversed demonstrates the weakness of the state's case, even when the witnesses were living." (The Advocate, June 14)
Woodfox maintains his innocence, and the facts of the case are on his side.
Longtime support for Angola 3
Workers World has actively supported the struggle for justice and freedom for the Angola 3: Woodfox, Herman Wallace and Robert King.
A WW article dated June 8, 2012, explained that "Woodfox's case began 40 years ago, deep in rural southern Louisiana, when he and two other young Black men, Herman Wallace and Robert King, were silenced for exposing racial segregation, systematic corruption and horrific abuse in the biggest prison in the U.S. at that time, an 18,000-acre, former slave plantation called Angola."
Prisoners organized hunger strikes, work stoppages and political education classes — even forming a Black Panther Party chapter, reported WW. They called for investigations into "unconstitutional and inhumane practices. After a prison guard was killed in a 1972 rebellion, officials framed the three activists and threw them into solitary confinement."
Robert King was let out in 2001. After 41 years in solitary, Herman Wallace was released on Oct. 1, 2013, but died of cancer three days later. As Wallace lay dying, state authorities were feverishly trying to imprison him again.
Incarcerated at Angola for 40 years, Woodfox was then transferred to the David Wade Correctional Center and is now at the West Feliciana Detention Center. He is one of the longest-held prisoners in solitary confinement.
Woodfox's unbending fight for freedom has garnered international support. Thousands of actions have been held and tens of thousands of petition signatures obtained calling for his release. On June 11, 18 Louisiana legislators voted to allow Judge Brady's release order to stand.
Albert Woodfox reaffirms that he remains strong and will never give up until he gets justice. See angola3news.blogspot.com for updates and this courageous prisoner's address, to send letters of support.
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https://www.workers.org/2015/06/17/after-third-court-victory-woodfox-still-not-free/


Charles Fried (born April 15, 1935) is an American jurist and lawyer. He served as United States Solicitor General under President Ronald Reagan from 1985 to 1989. He is a professor at Harvard Law School and has been a visiting professor at Columbia Law School.
Fried was born in 1935 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, where his father was an important industrialist and Czech patriot. The Frieds left Czechoslovakia in 1939 to escape the anticipated Nazi persecution of Jews, lived in England for almost two years and came to the United States in 1941 via Montreal, Canada. He and his parents became United States citizens in 1948, after the communist takeover of Czechoslovakia. After graduating from the Lawrenceville School in 1952 and receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University in 1956—where he was a member of the Princeton Charter Club—Fried attended Oxford University, where he earned a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Law in 1958 and 1960, respectively, and was awarded the Ordronnaux Prize in Law (1958). In 1960, Fried received his Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Columbia Law School, where he was a Stone Scholar. Subsequently he served as law clerk to Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan II.
Fried's government service includes a year as Special Assistant to the Attorney General of the United States (1984–85) and a consulting relationship to that office (1983), as well as advisory roles with the Department of Transportation (1981–83) and President Ronald Reagan (1982). In October 1985, President Reagan appointed Fried as Solicitor General of the United States. Fried had previously served as Deputy Solicitor General and Acting Solicitor General. As Solicitor General, he represented the Reagan Administration before the Supreme Court in 25 cases. In 1989, when Reagan left office, Fried returned to Harvard Law School.
Fried has published extensively. He is the author of nine books and over 30 journal articles, and his work has appeared in over a dozen collections. Unusually for a law professor without a graduate degree in philosophy, he has published significant work in moral and political theory only indirectly related to the law; Right and Wrong, for instance is an impressive general statement of a Kantian position in ethics with affinities with the work of Thomas Nagel, John Rawls, and Robert Nozick. On September 27, 2010, he and Gregory Fried discussed their book Because It Is Wrong: Torture, Privacy, and Presidential Power in the Age of Terror at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. To see the discussion, click the link below. Fried has been Orgain Lecturer at the University of Texas (1982), Tanner Lecturer on Human Values at Stanford University (1981), and Harris Lecturer on Medical Ethics at the Harvard Medical School (1974–75). He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1971-72. Fried is a member of the National Academy of Sciences's Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Law Institute.
"I admire Senator McCain and was glad to help in his campaign, and to be listed as doing so; but when I concluded that I must vote for Obama for the reason stated in my letter, I felt it wrong to appear to be recommending to others a vote that I was not prepared to cast myself. So it was more of an erasure than a public affirmation — although obviously my vote meant that I thought that Obama was preferable to McCain-Palin. I do not consider abstention a proper option."
"Yes. We hear that quite a lot. It was put by Judge Vinson, and I think it was put by Professor Barnett in terms of eating your vegetables, and for reasons I set out in my testimony, that would be a violation of the 5th and the 14th Amendment, to force you to eat something. But to force you to pay for something? I don't see why not. It may not be a good idea, but I don't see why it's unconstitutional.
Fried is an adviser to the Harvard chapter of the Federalist Society.
^ "Prof. Charles Fried, McCain advisor, defects to Obama". Harvard Law Record. 2008-10-16. Retrieved 2008-10-26.
^ "Obama kept Law Review balanced". The Politico. 2008-06-24. Retrieved 2008-10-27.
^ "Harvard Law School Federalist Society". Harvard Federalist Society. 2005. Retrieved 2008-10-27.


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Holocaust survivor, 89, weds woman nearly 50 years younger
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Holocaust survivor Jack Garfein, 89, said "I do" to his 42-year-old bride, Natalia Repolovsky, last Sunday on the Upper West Side.
Garfein wept with joy as he entered the chapel of Congregation Rodeph Sholom.
"I can't believe all of this love I'm surrounded by after everything I've gone through in my life," he told The Post while choking back more tears after the ceremony.
Garfein, who was born in then-Czechoslovakia, lost his parents and sisters when they were marched to the Nazi gas chambers. He himself survived 11 concentration camps.
Among his wedding guests was Jack Terry, 89, whom he has known since World War II.
"I met Jack in 1945 at the Flossenbürg concentration camp," Terry, 89, told The Post. "We shouldn't even be alive . . . And here I am at his wedding."
Garfein, who came to the US at the age of 14, spoke no English at first but went on to become a major figure in The Actors Studio — where he collaborated with Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe and James Dean. He directed the films "The Strange One" in 1957 and "Something Wild" in 1961, and is credited with discovering actor Steve McQueen.
He met his now-bride seven years ago at a friend's party. Repolovsky, a technical writer, had just arrived in Manhattan from Moscow.
"Jack made me realize who I was because I was looking at myself through the eyes of someone who loved me," said Rapolovsky. "That is Jack's greatest gift to me."
As previously reported by The Post, the pair, who reside in Brooklyn, were engaged in July 2016. They had planned on tying the knot the next month but were delayed after Garfein developed pneumonia, which led to other health issues.
Two years later, the bride acknowledged that some people are skeptical of their extreme May-December romance.
"It's so amazing to get all of our closest friends together in one room," said Repolovsky, who wore an embroidered lace Elie Saab dress for the wedding. "The people who never judged and always supported our unusual union."
This is her second marriage and Garfein's third. He has four children.
And their closest supporters don't even see the age difference anymore.
"They truly love each other. A love like Jack and Natalia's is rare," said Garfein's daughter-in-law Vicki Bernstein. "I'm happy for them. Love is love."
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Are you aware of how many new arrivals to the US join the military and serve our country, as a way to earn citizenship? I wasn't, until recently. Will never again take for granted what others risk their lives to attain.
No, I wasn't aware of that. I do know, that in my lifetime, we have always been at war . . . conflict, or fighting, somewhere in the world. I support all veterans and have family members who served in nearly every branch. But I do feel that our National Guard troops should remain at home, defending our nation directly, as was the original intent, I believe.
Wherever they go, we should be thankful for their dedication . . . but also be supportive after their service as well. There needs to be much more consideration during that period.


Café Church is for you if the traditional approach to church feels too formal or irrelevant.
We meet in the Oasis Café in High Kirk, drink coffee, eat doughnuts and explore 'doing church' in an informal and interactive way.
The next set of Cafe Church dates are as shown above on the graphic. 7th Feb – 13th March starting at 11.30am each week.
Why not join us or, if you are a High Kirk regular perhaps you could invite a friend along.