Going home for summer can be bitter sweet. You can enjoy those home comforts that you grew up with once again, and see your friends from school. However, it can feel like you're losing some of the freedom that you've got so used to being away at uni. Here are just some of the things to look forward to when you go back.
Returning home from university can often result in finding out your sibling has moved in to your bigger and better room, or everything's been moved out and it's been turned into the new home office. Either way, you rarely return to find your space exactly how you left it, which is why one of the best things about uni is you have your own space for you to do what you want with it and no-one can tell you otherwise.
Being a student gives you a real sense of independence, so going home for summer can sometimes be a bit tricky. While the summer holidays are a great time to relax and catch up with school friends, it often leaves you counting down the days until you have your independence back. When you get back to uni you can say goodbye to curfews, as well as having to explain where you're going and who with, just to name a few.
Societies can be a big part of many people's university experience. They provide a sense of community and entertainment, not to mention the amazing friends you'll make. Whether your society is for sports, ideology, hobbies or anything else we're sure you missed it over the summer break. Going back to uni means the start of these regular get-togethers with like-minded friends and the intake of excited, new freshers.
Your degree is quite often like the British weather – when it's cold you want it to be hot, but when it does heat up it's often 'too hot'. Similarly, during the academic year you just want a break and for it to be over, however after a few months of freedom you find yourself getting excited to go back. You look forward to learning something new every day, getting stuck in to a topic and having a regular routine which gives you a sense of motivation every morning.
University friends are a unique type of friendship. Being in the same position back in first year and then quite often spending every day together means you bond with people quickly. Going home for the summer holiday means you probably haven't seen them through the break and now you can't wait to get back. There's so much to look forward to – summer catch-ups, group revision sessions, duvet days and more.


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Fingernails and Hair Do Not Grow After Death
Today we take a look at the morbidly muttered myth that fingernails and hair continue to grow after death. Is it true? We'll break down the science for you.
Do Fingernails and Hair Continue to Grow After Death?
It is another one of those macabre rumors that casually hovers on the periphery of mainstream acceptance. Perhaps we've all heard it at some point in our lives, and perhaps we've forgotten where. Nevertheless, we are often eager to repeat the hearsay in melancholic whispers during our most pessimistic of moments. Did you know that fingernails and hair continue to grow after death? The saying conjures an added degree of eeriness to our already overactive imaginations. We attempt to brush away thoughts of mortality, yet the suggestion manifests and casually oozes from the depths of the collective unconscious. Nothing can hold back the reality of impermanence, but science can dispel the myths.
What Does Science Say?
Science can't make us immortal, but it can be a descriptive antidote to those dark fantasies that plague our imaginations.
"It is a powerful, disturbing image, but it is pure moonshine. No such thing occurs," said William Maples, a well-known forensic anthropologist.
According to an informative article from the BBC, there haven't actually been any scientific studies on this subject, but the answers can be deduced from what scientists have observed about the process of death and the growth of fingernails or hair.
At the cessation of life, the heart stops pumping blood throughout the body. Nerves and organs, which require oxygen and glucose transported through blood flow, quickly begin to die within minutes.
Fingernails, which are grown from the germinal matrix at the base of the nail, require glucose to grow. Without glucose, the mechanism of nail growth is impossible. Correspondingly, hair is grown from the base of hair follicles by a division of cells in the hair matrix. This swift division of cells in the hair matrix which results in hair growth is sustained by the fuel of glucose and oxygen. As with fingernails, the deprivation of glucose makes further cell division and hair growth an impossibility.
As Dr. Andrew Weil tersely explained it, "…dehydration of the body after death can cause retraction of the skin around hair and nails, giving the illusion that they have grown."
How Did This Myth Originate?
As with many myths and urban legends, we will probably never know exactly how and where this mythology originated.
It likely has some basis in optical illusion. The skin of a deceased person quickly begins to lose moisture and dehydrates. This causes the skin to recede which may give the appearance that fingernails and hair are somewhat longer. Hair muscles may also contract which might contribute to the illusion.
Watch a brief video detailing this process:
The British Medical Journal (BMJ) also has an informative web page on medical myths from 2007 which is maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Health. The page provides several interesting facts about the possible origin and perpetuation of this myth. They report that the superstition of hair and nails growing after death is mentioned in the 1929 novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque.
According to the BMJ article, legendary host of The Tonight Show, Johnny Carson, also reportedly uttered the following joke, "For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off."
The suggestion that fingernails and hair continue to grow after death is nothing more than a myth which has no scientific basis. Hair and fingernail growth requires glucose, the transport of which is immediately halted at the end of life. As with many of these supposed truths, the origin of this fictitious tale is nearly impossible to pinpoint. Belief in this myth may have some basis in an optical illusion which makes it appear that hair and fingernails have grown on a departed individual due to skin dehydration and retraction.
Originally published August 2014
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Julia Domna was the wife of Septimius Severus, who took the throne in AD 193. She was Syrian and he was North African.
After Severus's death in AD 211, her sons shared the throne. Her older son, Caracalla, put her in charge of his correspondence and response to petitions, making Domna a sort of press secretary - a key position. Such formal power was unheard of for an imperial woman but Caracalla often made his own rules.
She used her position to acquaint herself with leading philosophers and artists and to promote their works and ideas.
Yet soon Caracalla broke his mother's heart by having his younger brother Geta executed. The young man died in Domna's arms. A few years later Caracalla was assassinated and Domna committed suicide by starving herself to death - partially out of grief, but some also claim it was from a desire to avoid going back to being a private citizen after many years in political power.
It is claimed that Julia was bestowed more titles than any other Roman empress, and she was worshipped across the empire under various local titles. Her legacy is mixed, but she was undoubtedly one of the most powerful and active empresses in Roman history.
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Global Health Brigades (GHB) at Jefferson was born out of a series of relationships.
Stephanie Kahn, the group's founding vice president, had spent two years between undergrad and medical school working as an educational coordinator and research assistant with Nemours duPont Pediatrics at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.
"I got to know Stephanie pretty well," recalls Esther K. Chung, MD, MPH, professor of Pediatrics and GHB faculty co-advisor. "So when she was accepted to Jefferson, I floated the idea of creating a student-led global health initiative." Kahn's response was a resounding "definitely."
Global Brigades, the parent organization of GHB, was founded in 2007 and maintains a permanent presence in each country where it is active (Honduras, Panama, Ghana, and Nicaragua). It plays the role of connector, bringing together visiting medical volunteers and native caregivers to enable long-term engagement with the needs of host communities. Typically, trips to a given community occur every three months and last for about a week, encompassing aid areas like engineering, law, and microfinance, in addition to health.
It just so happened that one of Kahn's fellow first-years, Emily Bollinger, had volunteered with the organization in college and relished the opportunity to continue serving, this time as president of Jefferson's brigade. Together, the two set about pulling together bylaws, talking to global health experts at Jefferson, and recruiting.
"Your big time to do research or to do something that's not medical school is between your first and second year," Kahn says. "You get about 10 to 11 weeks, but there aren't a lot of abroad programs that offer a short-term option. GHB is a great opportunity for students who still want to travel but also want to do research."
Bollinger and Kahn cast their net wide in an effort to attract an interprofessional group of medical, OT/PT, and pharmacy students, as well as a cohort from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. On the alumni side, Kahn's mother, Michele Christie, MD '84, and Frank Konzelman, PharmD '13, also accompanied the group as clinical supervisors.
Among the experts whose advice they sought was Nick Leon, PharmD, associate professor of Pharmacy and co-chair of Jefferson's Global Health Initiatives Committee, who had been a part of past brigades, volunteering as a kind of free agent whenever his schedule permitted. As it turned out, he had time to serve as a faculty co-advisor with Dr. Chung for the Jefferson chapter.
"This is not helicopter medicine," he says. "GHB will only go somewhere if they think they can offer continuity of service to the community." By the time spring 2017 rolled around, the group had done its homework and TJU officials gave their blessing to GHB. Planning began in earnest. There were funds to raise—to cover airfare, living expenses, and buying medicines in-country—and a long list of supplies for care packages: 1,800 toothbrushes, toothpaste, soaps, shampoos, and other items. Brigade members solicited local businesses, friends, and family in order to meet their goals, receiving the full complement of essential supplies by the time GHB was ready to go wheels up.
On June 4, the group flew into Managua, Nicaragua's capital and only major city, and got oriented for their time in the country—organizing medicines, meeting their Nicaraguan counterparts, and acclimating to the heat. Work started early the next day.
Each clinic day began before dawn with a bus ride from their base in Estelí over the narrow roads leading to Puertas Azules and El Cebollal, the communities where the brigade saw patients until well into the evening. "The first day we went out into the country to Puertas Azules, there were hundreds of people waiting for us when we arrived," says Bollinger. "Some had walked for hours just to be seen by our team."
Business hours were a frenzy but provided ample opportunity for hands-on learning and meaningful patient interaction. "I don't speak any Spanish beyond some medical vocabulary," Bollinger says, "but I was still able to build relationships with my patients through translators and by just taking time to be present."
Every student managed a carefully delineated piece of the puzzle, from triage to dispensing medicines, rotating through each station to gain a wider perspective on their work.
"The whole thing is highly choreographed," Leon says. "It's set up so that after families have been seen and received their scripts, they go to a public health talk given by someone in the community, while our pharmacy team organizes the medications."
This routine repeated every half hour and ultimately enabled the Jefferson brigade to see 980 patients over three days. Evenings, after the dust settled and the brigade was back at its base, were for reflection. Did you keep running into particular challenges? What kinds of illnesses were we seeing?
Among the most frequently heard complaints were respiratory illnesses and GI issues—caused by dirt floors and limited access to clean water. "Seeing all these cases and talking to the people, you quickly make a connection between health outcomes and social factors," Kahn says. Using Global Brigade's in-house EMR system, students will be able to spot the signs of success such as a shift from acute-type illnesses to more chronic problems that can be effectively managed. As other volunteers work to provide better access to clean water and housing, brigades like Jefferson's bridge the gap between this wider context and the concrete behaviors—like dental hygiene and nutrition—that create a healthy community.
As Chung describes it, the disparities students are encountering in Central America are of a piece with what's happening in Philadelphia's underserved ZIP codes—the product of a complex mixture of poverty and a lack of resources.
"They're seeing how family and community matter to people who have very few material comforts," Chung says. "And maybe more importantly, they're learning 'soft skills' like humility and how to ask open-ended questions, which really prepare them to work in situations—the real world for instance— where patients are the best teachers."
The week sped by, but the team's experiences made the flight back home with them.
The people they met and the connections they made are shaping how Jefferson's brigade members think of themselves and their future as doctors. They are more attuned to the systems that empower— and hamper—their work and are more sensitive to the impact a single person can have in delivering care or just brightening the day.
For now, Bollinger and Kahn are in the midst of prepping for Step 1 board exams and will be handing over the reins of GHB, but not without helping to set the agenda for future brigades.
"We want to have our members undertake a year-round engagement with these issues through speakers and other volunteer work," Bollinger says. "It's important to prepare, so we can hit the ground running."
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Messing with Major
Major George Tillery is a Pennsylvania lifer, 65, who confronted SCI Mahanoy Superintendent John Kerestes over Mumia Abu-Jamal's deteriorating health. Prison authorities retaliated against Major Tillery – repeatedly ransacked his cell and denied him medical treatment for seeking medical assistance for Mumia and other prisoners. Tillery was transferred to SCI Frackville and then falsely charged with drug possession, disciplined and given six months in "the hole."


I've had a few people request a post like this and become I am nosey and love to see what other people keep inside their bags I thought it is only right to let y'all snoop inside of mine!
I am hoping to do this again with my smaller cross body bag as well so maybe in June or July y'all can snoop in that one as well!
The bag I am currently using is the largest bag I tend to use, my large Longchamp Le Pliage tote! I love the Le Pliage totes and have different sizes and colors in these and you really can't go wrong with any of them!
I am a big fan of having pushes and different "sections" within my bag and that's one reason I adore my Gigi New York Clutch! I store tons of miscellaneous items in the clutch and it holds way more than you would ever suspect!
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I also keep my portable phone charger, sunglasses, waller, and key wrist on hand at all times!
We carry a lot of the same things! Kind bars, luna bars, whisps, hand sanitizer and knotted hair ties are all must haves for me. Not so much the hand warmers though :p Not much of a need for them in LA!
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Q: Apache Jena Aggregate multiple expressions For the following data.ttl file:
A SAVINGS_1 200
A SAVINGS_2 300
A SAVINGS_3 370
A EMAIL emailidone
B SAVINGS_1 400
B SAVINGS_2 300
B SAVINGS_3 100
B EMAIL emailidtwo
C SAVINGS_1 200
C SAVINGS_2 600

The query:
SELECT ?NAME ?SAVINGS_1_VALUE ?SAVINGS_2_VALUE ?SAVINGS_3_VALUE WHERE {
                                                                  ?NAME SAVINGS_1 ?SAVINGS_1_VALUE .
                                                                  ?NAME SAVINGS_2 ?SAVINGS_2_VALUE .
                                                                  ?NAME SAVINGS_3 ?SAVINGS_3_VALUE .
                                                                  ?NAME EMAIL ?email . }

Gives Output:
NAME  SAVINGS_1_VALUE  SAVINGS_2_VALUE  SAVINGS_3_VALUE
 A      200                 300              370
 B      400                 300              100

Is there a way to calculate the MAXIMUM of SAVINGS_1, SAVINGS_2 and SAVINGS_3 for individuals A, B and C who also has EMAIL using JENA ARQ Processor?
The expected query output would be
Expected Query output: NAME  SAVINGS_1_VALUE  SAVINGS_2_VALUE   SAVINGS_3_VALUE  MAXIMUM
                         A      200                 300              370           370
                         B      400                 300              100           400

MAX() function takes in only one argument, it can calculate the maximum of ?SAVINGS_1_VALUE or maximum of ?SAVINGS_2_VALUE and so on. Is there a way to evaluate maximum of ?SAVINGS_1_VALUE, ?SAVINGS_2_VALUE, ?SAVINGS_3_VALUE projections and add the result as another column? If the existing Jena Processor is not able to achieve this then what could be possible extension points to achieve this? Custom Aggregators also seem to evaluate on individual variable expression.
Note: There are multiples of variable expressions on which I want to evaluate this! So bind (if ... Is not an option for me to achieve this!

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France | Authorities urged to ensure justice for Adama Traoré and end judicial harassment of human rights defender Assa Traoré
For over five years, Assa Traoré, the sister of Adama Traoré, a black French man who was killed at the hands of the police, has faced judicial harassment for campaigning for a transparent investigation to establish the responsibility of the gendarmes, a name given to the paramilitary police officers in France, for the death of her brother and for them to be brought to justice. ISHR joined with the Adama Committee to call on the French Government to urgently put an end to the judicial harassment of Assa Troaré. This harassment diverts the public attention from the justice that is expected for Adama's death and appears intended to dissuade Assa from continuing her struggle.
On 19 July 2016, Adama died as a result of an arrest at the hands of the gendarmes of Beaumont sur Oise. Five years later, none of the gendarmes involved have been questioned as the courts still refuse to charge them. In light of the stifled progress caused by the failure of the French authorities to reconcile the contradictory reports on the causes of Adama's death and establish the key facts, and the many unfounded statements issued by the prosecutor in charge of the case, Assa Traoré has initiated several actions demanding that light be shed on the death of her brother. These actions include setting up a "Truth and Justice Committee for Adama", travelling throughout France and the world to campaign on this matter and various social and political struggles in France and abroad, as well making use of national and international media to raise awareness on the lack of justice for Adama. Through the Truth and Justice Committee for Adama, Assa Traoré has been campaigning to demand transparency on the circumstances of Adama's arrest, and to have the responsibility of the gendarmes in his death recognised, and, more generally, against police violence.
On 19 July 2019, three years after Adama's death and frustrated by the perpetual obstruction of the investigation into it, Assa Traoré published a Facebook article on Adama Committee's page entitled "J'accuse" in which she accused and named all those who have allegedly obstructed the investigation into her brother's death, including experts, gendarmes, prosecutors and judges. In this article, Assa Traoré demanded the truth about the acts that caused the death of her brother and denounced the lack of action on the part of the judicial authorities in dealing with the perpetrators. The gendarmes mentioned in her article filed a defamation and breach of the presumption of innocence lawsuit against her in December 2019. This lawsuit was dismissed in July 2020 and the three gendarmes were ordered to pay legal costs to Assa Traoré. However, the gendarmes appealed the decision to the Paris Court of Appeal. In February 2021, Assa Traoré was ordered by the Paris Court of Appeal to remove the "J'accuse" article from all social media networks where it was posted and to reimburse the gendarmes' legal costs.
More recently, on 6 and 7 May 2021, a criminal trial took place before the 17th Chamber of the Paris Correctional Court in which Assa Traoré was sued for defamation. She was tried and the prosecutor demanded that she pay damages of €10,000 to each of the three gendarmes, a disproportionate amount in view of the fact that she is currently unemployed and a mother of three children. On 1 July 2021, Assa Traoré was acquitted of her charge of defamation but the gendarmes' lawyers said that they would appeal the decision.
At the 45th Session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in October 2020, ISHR and the Adama Committee delivered a joint statement in which they stated that it was clear that by instituting further legal proceedings against Assa Traoré, the French authorities are attempting to criminalise her and discredit her fight for justice for her brother. These lawsuits are being used to divert the public attention from the justice that is expected for Adama's death and to dissuade Assa from continuing her struggle. In cases of racially motivated police violence, the criminalisation of victims is recurrent, including the judicial harassment of which Assa Traore is currently a victim.
Despite the swiftness of the French courts in trying Assa Traoré for claims brought against her by the gendarmes to protect the State officials, there has been hardly any progress made after five years towards the trial of those who were involved in Adama's death. The targeting of Assa Traoré, a family member of the victim of racially motivated police brutality has a considerable adverse impact on all other families who wish to speak out and seek justice for the crimes and violence committed by the police.
In ISHR's joint statement issued at the 47th Session of the HRC, ISHR noted that although France is a member of the HRC, it allows a climate of impunity for racialised police violence to persist. ISHR urged France to end impunity for racist police violence, end judicial harassment against defenders working on police violence, and refrain from criminalising them. ISHR also urged France to accept the pending visit requests by the Special Rapporteur on racism and the Working Group on People of African Descent. Watch ISHR' statement here.
In view of the above, ISHR and the Adama Committee request the French Government to:
Put an end to the judicial harassment faced by Assa Traoré for her plea that the perpetrators of her brother's death be held responsible and prosecuted;
Ensure a prompt, transparent and impartial investigation into the case of Adama Traoré;
Accept the United Nations Special Rapporteur on racism and the Working Group on People of African Descent's requests to visit the country; and
End impunity for police violence and ensure genuinely free and impartial investigations into the death or injury of any person at the hands of the police.
Salma El Hosseiny
Mainga Simoonga
ISHR contact
Twitter @salma_ishr
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Cote d'Ivoire: Strengthen collaboration between human rights defenders and international human rights mechanisms
Strengthening the collaboration between human rights defenders and international human rights protection mechanisms is important to ensure effective protection of human rights and the rights of human rights defenders.
UK: Dismantle systemic racism against Black people in policing and criminal justice, end police impunity
Marcia Rigg, Sean Rigg's sister, delivered a joint statement on behalf of ISHR, INQUEST and United Families and Friends Campaign, highlighting how bereaved families in the UK and beyond have had to fight for accountability and struggle to have their voices heard and their experiences counted, and calling on the UN to put the voices of victims and their families at the heart of the transformative racial justice agenda to dismantle systemic racism.
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Elections | Human Rights Council Pledging Event 2021
This week in an online event, 10 candidate States publicly spoke to an audience of around 200 people on their pledges as incoming Human Rights Council members for 2022 – 2024. They also faced questions on pressing human rights issues from both States and civil society organisations.


We went to Dubai for a 3N4D honeymoon vacation through Antilog Vacations. We enjoyed the famous desert safari with BBQ dinner, half day Dubai city tour, Dhow Dinner Cruise & more. It was perfect honeymoon for us & we are glad that we choosed Antilog Vacations for this trip. Their services were impeccable for us!
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robin hood: Alan a Dale, Outlaw of Sherwood.
Alan a Dale, Outlaw of Sherwood.
Above: Alan A Dale in his latter years. From "Rogues of Sherwood Forest" (1950).
Alan A Dale makes relatively few appearances throughout the films and television programmes devoted to the legend of Robin Hood. But any schoolboy growing up in post war Britain would be familiar with this outlaw from his numerous appearances in boys annuals of the time. Robin Hood first encountered Alan A Dale singing alone in the depths of Sherwood Forest, despairing over the loss of his girlfriend, the maiden Ellen, to an old Knight. Robin took pity on him and rescued the fair Ellen during her wedding ceremony. She went on to marry Alan, who in turn became a faithful and loyal member of Robin Hoods Merry Men.
Far too many films combine the character Alan A Dale with that of Will Scarlet. And yet two people could not be less alike. Alan was a good natured, even tempered woodsman, with a gift for story telling, whilst Will Scarlet gained his name partly because of the coloured fabric he might rob from the rich and wear as trophies, but mostly because because of the anger inside. The above statue, which stands outside the gates of Nottingham Castle, depicts Alan A Dale (left) alongside Will Scarlet. Note that Alan is playing a small harp. This is correct, even though he is most popularly pictured with a mandolin, as in the Walt Disney film The Story of Robin Hood, and the Hammer films Sword of Sherwood Forest and Challenge for Robin Hood. But note also that the artist has persisted in depicting Will Scarlet as a "dandy". This is certainly incorrect.
Actually hear Alan A Dale sing on THIS LINK.
For more information about Alan A Dale follow this link and also visit the website Robin Hood Pictures at http://robinhoodoutlaw.blogspot.com/ .To see where Alan A Dale met Robin hood in Papplewick, see THIS LINK.
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The Connexion at Wescott Wins Best Community Amenity Award
HHHunt Communities was honored to win the Best Community Amenity award for The Connexion clubhouse at Wescott. Presented at the Home Builders Association of Virginia (HBAV) Housing Excellence Awards Ceremony, this award recognizes the best HBAV member community amenity. Factors taken into consideration when judging were theme, effectiveness, function, creativity, and design.
Located in the heart of Wescott, our urban-inspired master-planned community in Chesterfield County, The Connexion was created to provide an amenity that complimented the natural surroundings, promoted socialization, and included both indoor and outdoor components.
Homeowners can use the clubhouse to work remotely, enjoy the coffee bar at their leisure or host an event. Designed for both the work-from-home lifestyle and social gatherings, it's replete with technology for today's modern homeowner. Equipped with surround sound, the clubhouse offers large smart TVs connected to the internet for both conference calls and movie nights. We've hosted many lifestyle-centric events at The Connexion and have received amazing feedback from homeowners, prospective home buyers and realtors.
This award directly ties to two of our Brand Promises: to be Customer Focused and a Provider of Quality Products and Services. Additionally, it exactly matches our Vision to improve the world and how people live by creating meaningful experiences and places of great distinction.
HHHunt Communities was honored to win the Best Community Amenity award for The Connexion clubhouse at Wescott presented by HBAV.
HHHunt Apartment Living Named in the J Turner 2022 Elite 1% ORA® Power Ranking List
We are excited to announce that Abberly Onyx in the Greater Atlanta, Georgia area and Abberly NoDa Vista in Charlotte, NC made the 2022 Elite 1% ORA® Power Ranking List.
Ed Shaffer Inducted into Greater Charlotte Apartment Association (GCAA) Education Hall of Fame!
We are excited to announce that Ed Schaffer was inducted into the Greater Charlotte Apartment Association (GCAA) Education Hall of Fame.
Jonathan Ridout awarded the Ernest E. Mayo Award
We are excited to announce that Jonathan Ridout, VP of Real Estate Development, was awarded the Ernest E. Mayo Award by the Home Building Association of Richmond.
HHHunt grows multifamily portfolio in Charlotte with acquisition of NoDa community
HHHunt announced its expansion in the Charlotte, North Carolina region with the acquisition of Live at Noda located in the historic North Davidson district of Charlotte.


So What is the Top U.S. Travel Destination For 2015?
What Locations Should Curious U.S. Tourists Visit in 2015?
Planning on doing some traveling here in the U.S. in 2015? The U.S. authors and editors of The Lonely Planet, suggest you give strong consideration to Queens, New York.
I know, as strange as it may sound, Queens, New York actually has much more to offer than just "The King of Queens" TV show. Who knew?
The folks at The Lonely Planet picked Queens as the top spot because quote, "It's New York's largest borough and is also quickly becoming its hippest, due to all the microbreweries springing up, along with new boutique hotels, a reinvented seaside at Rockaway, a world-class art scene, and a truly global food culture."
Anyone that lives in South Dakota already knows how many great things the Rushmore State has to offer. That's why the authors and editors at The Lonely Planet suggested Western South Dakota as a must stop.
The western half of South Dakota was chosen as the second biggest travel destination for any curious U.S. tourist in 2015.
Keeping Your Man's Attention. You Get Six Minutes Ladies, That's it!
Sure there are the faces. Everyone knows about Mt. Rushmore. But just think of all the photo opportunities waiting for would be travelers visiting locations like the 1880 Train in Hills City, or the Broken Boot Gold Mine in Deadwood. And who could forget nature's mystery area, The Cosmos outside of Rapid City, right?
All must see stops in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
As you're making your travel plans for the new year, The Lonely Planet folks also suggest you spend time visiting places like; New Orleans, the Colorado River, North Conway, New Hampshire, Indianapolis, Greenville, South Carolina, Oakland, California, Duluth, Minnesota (better bring a coat this time of year) and finally, Mount Shasta, California.
Those locations rounded out the top 10 places U.S. tourists really need to think about visiting in 2015.


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Tools for Lipedema Treatment
Thought Leadership, Lipedema
Thought Leadership, lipedema, Pneumatic Compression, Therapy
By Karen L/ Herbst, M.D., Ph.D.
Lipedema puts a strain on the body and may lead to psychosocial distress, loss of mobility and quality of life. Today, I'd like to provide you with a deeper understanding of lipedema, several related conditions, and helpful tools we can use for treatment.
Lipedema affects almost exclusively women and impacts approximately 11% of the female population. There are three stages of lipedema and the earliest stage, known as Stage 1, is fairly difficult to detect because it involves very small nodules of fat under the skin.
As a woman enters Stage 2 lipedema, she's more likely to notice the condition and begin seeking a diagnosis. Her weight is increasing, and the texture of her lower body's skin is changing, even if she leads an overall healthy lifestyle. She may have pearl-like to walnut-size fatty masses in the skin with a fluffy and mattress-like texture. This is due to the underlying fat nodules.
In Stage 3 lipedema, fibrosis is developing around the fat cells and fat lobules. This stage of lipedema frequently involves a distinctive and noticeable cuff of fatty tissue around the joints especially the ankle and/or wrists. In addition to fat, lipedema is composed of fluid and fibrosis, which I'll discuss more below.
Why Stage 3 Lipedema Is Special
I view women who reach Stage 3 lipedema as quite special and unique. We need to understand their Stage 3 lipedema in terms of its interrelationship with Stage 2 and Stage 1 lipedema but also independently. Women with Stage 3 lipedema likely have a change in their genetic material (genes) that causes a severe loss of elasticity in their tissue. This means that their tissue can continue to expand without restraint even to the point where it folds over and forms hanging lobules. Without the changes in their genes, it is unlikely for a woman with Stage 1 or Stage 2 lipedema to progress to Stage 3 lipedema. The lobules present in the tissue of women with Stage 3 lipedema can inhibit blood flow and lymphatic flow through the tissue and thereby greatly increase the risk for the development of lymphedema. Prior to developing lymphedema, a woman with lipedema has fluid in her tissue; it is just not free flowing as in lymphedema but is bound up as a gel in the tissue. The word "lipedema" means fluid in the fat, which is actually controversial. There are still some doctors who don't believe fluid exists in the lipedema fat tissue, which is what inspires me to spread awareness and education about this issue.
Resistant Lipedema Fat
Lipedema is highly resistant to dieting, exercise, and bariatric surgery. This is because it has a large amount of fluid plus fibrosis, which is thick and hardened tissue. The fibrosis, combined with the fat, prevents women with lipedema from seeing the benefits of bariatric surgery.
Normally, women who have obesity can lose obesity-related fat through bariatric surgery and may have excellent results. However, lipedema fat is much more resistant to surgery and will likely remain after the procedure, to the patient's great disappointment.
For example, a young woman who has lipedema may have bariatric surgery, and when you compare pre-bariatric surgery photos with post-surgery photos, you'll see a loss of abdominal fat and calf fat, but her thighs remain about the same. This means she holds most of her lipedema fat in her thighs, which will likely remain quite resistant to both weight loss efforts and surgery.
Understanding Edema and Lymphedema
Edema is the swelling of the soft tissues caused by increased interstitial fluid. This swelling can be generalized or localized, and it results in increased fluid pressure in the capillary or post-capillary venules and increased plasma proteins.
Lymphedema is a severe condition that involves obstruction in the lymphatic system. Within the lymphatics, fluid moves from the capillary through the interstitium and out the lymphatic vessels within the interstitial space. Proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans in the interstitial space are found between collagen and elastic fibers, and when bound with sodium and water, form a gel-like structure..
Normally, our bodies can manage their water and sodium balance to hydrate the skin and provide a soft feel to our fat tissue. However, in someone with lipedema, these bodily processes don't function optimally. Tiny cells known as fibroblasts, which normally hold the collagen fiber matrix together, release their grip and allow swelling to occur especially when inflammation is present in the tissue.
This gel inhibits flow through the tissue and can result in edema or, in extreme cases, lymphedema. This is a severe imbalance involving pressure, fluid, fibrosis, and fat.
Managing Your Condition at Home
Whether a patient has edema, lymphedema, or lipedema, and no matter which stage it's in, most will seek a diagnosis and treatment options. My patients are always eager to find relief.
Below is a list of potential treatment options. Patients should always consult with their own doctor before starting a new regimen.
Low-Salt Diet
Sodium causes enhanced capillary filtration, creates more interstitial fluid flow, and stimulates interstitial matrix production. This may worsen lipedema and other conditions.
Unfortunately, diets and weight-loss plans rarely make a significant impact for lipedema patients due to the somewhat intractable trio of fat, fibrosis, and fluid. Also, some women have other conditions for which sodium restriction is not advised including postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). A low-salt diet can be beneficial, but each person should follow their own doctor's advice in terms of limiting their salt intake.
Hormones, Food, and Supplements
Unless absolutely necessary, avoid taking high-dose or prolonged oral corticosteroids. Corticosteroids mimic the hormone cortisol in the body and can worsen swelling. If taking a corticosteroid is a must, employ stress management techniques, such as breathing methods, because stress maintains a chronically high level of cortisol in the body and activates the sympathetic nervous system.
Fresh, anti-inflammatory foods should be a priority for lipedema management.1 Avoid eating too many processed foods, which are typically high in sodium and preservatives, and processed carbohydrates.2 Also, anti-inflammatory supplements may also be helpful, as long as the patient responds well to them.3 These include Diosmin and Vitamin C.4
Exercise and Movement
For people with lipedema, certain forms of vigorous exercise aren't always enjoyable and some forms can be excruciating due to the pain felt in the lipedema tissue. However, body movement is essential to create much-needed negative interstitial fluid pressure that draws fluid into the tissue and pushes fluid out through the lymphatic vessels, and engages the lymphatic pump (muscle) which helps support lymphatic flow.
When the body remains immobilized, the pressure in the interstitial tissue creeps toward zero. By engaging in moderate movement, the person restores the desired negative pressure and benefits their body.
External Forces and Compression
External forces can also create the right pressures within the body. This includes activities like stretching and swimming, plus the use of pneumatic compression pumps and compression garments worn on the body.
Manual therapy from a professional has long been the "gold standard" of care, but it's often inaccessible for a variety of reasons: expense, lack of health insurance, distance, and so forth. For these reasons, a sequential pneumatic compression pump may be the best option for someone who needs an at-home solution.
Why Compression Devices Are Beneficial
Compression devices use mechanical movement and stretching to do something similar to what manual therapy does. There is evidence that mechanical stretching prevents pre-adipocytes from becoming fat cells. Under external forces, these cells spend more time healing than on triglyceride storage.
A compression pump can increase fluid flux into the capillary, reduce inflammation, and promote the health of the interstitial space. When using a pump, the patient should make sure to treat the following four essential areas where fluid is at risk of accumulating:
Medial knee
Medial elbow
Inner thigh
Please note that a pump must be used properly to get the best results and avoid counterproductive fluid movement. For example, don't focus only on the lower legs because this will simply move fluid into other undesirable areas like the inner thigh and abdomen.
Take a comprehensive approach to get the most benefit from the device. In my work with patients, I have seen positive results5 from combining the following activities with pump use:
Eating anti-inflammatory, enzyme-rich foods
Using compression garments
Getting moderate daily exercise, including walking
Elevation of the legs
Whole-body vibration
Deep-tissue treatment with the hands
Using gua sha tools (tools that help deepen treatment in the tissue)
Bouncing up and down while standing or on a trampoline
Engaging in squeeze-and-release tissue activities, including yoga
The dead cat shake: While lying down or standing, shake the arms and legs.
Helping Patients Help Themselves
Early detection and treatment can make a huge difference for people with the conditions we've covered in this article. This is why I urge patients to take action as early as possible to prevent their condition from transitioning to a more severe stage.
I encourage my patients to use compression garments and sequential pneumatic compression pumps regularly, in addition to the other activities listed above. Doing so provides measurable health benefits. Plus, it gives people a sense of control over their condition, which in itself can vastly improve their outlook and quality of life.
About Dr. Herbst
Karen Herbst, M.D., Ph.D. is board-certified in endocrinology and has held faculty positions at Martin Luther King Drew Medical Center/UCLA, VA San Diego Health Care System/UCSD, and the University of Arizona. She won the Lifetime Achievement Award from Tucson Business and was named one of America's top physicians. You may recognize her as the research physician on Mystery Diagnosis, featuring a man with Dercum's Disease (The Man with 1000 Lumps). Now retired, Dr. Herbst is currently pursuing a career in private practice and research where she is head of the standard of care committee for lipedema in the US6 and working with the CDC on ICD-10 codes for lipedema.
About Lympha Press
For more than 40 years, Lympha Press has been a proud provider of top-quality compression pump home therapy equipment, including The Lympha Press Optimal Ⓡ Plus, which was the first pneumatic compression device cleared by the FDA for the treatment of lipedema in the United States. To learn more, please view the product gallery or call 1-800-734-0422.
Chuck Ehrlich, Emily Iker, MD, Karen Louise Herbst, Ph.D., MD, Linda-Anne Kahn, CMT, CLT-LANA, Dorothy D. Sears, Ph.D., Mandy Kenyon, MS, RD, CSSD, and Elizabeth McMahon, Ph.D., Lymphedema and Lipedema Nutrition Guide, LymphNotes.com, accessed June 1, 2020, http://www.lymphnotes.com/nutrition.php.
Deanna M. Minich, A Review of the Science of Colorful, Plant-Based Food and Practical Strategies for "Eating the Rainbow," Hindawi Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism, Hindawi.com, accessed June 1, 2020, https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jnme/2019/2125070/.
Tanaka H, Lund T, Wiig H, Reed RK, Yukioka T, Matsuda H et al. High dose vitamin C counteracts the negative interstitial fluid hydrostatic pressure and early edema generation in thermally injured rats. Burns 1999;25:569–574.
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Karen Herbst, accessed May 10, 2021, Tools for Lipedema Treatment During the COVID-19 Pandemic, https://lymphaticnetwork.org/news-events/tools-for-lipedema-during-the-covid-19-pandemic.
Herbst KL, Kahn LA, Iker E, Ehrlich C, Wright T, McHutchison L, Schwartz J, Sleigh M, Donahue PM, Lisson KH, Faris T, Miller J, Lontok E, Schwartz MS, Dean SM, Bartholomew JR, Armour P, Correa-Perez M, Pennings N, Wallace EL, Larson E. Standard of care for lipedema in the United States. Phlebology. 2021 May 28:2683555211015887. doi: 10.1177/02683555211015887. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34049453.
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Multitasking mama! Mara Martin hit the catwalk while breastfeeding her 5-month-old baby.
Talk about multitasking: A model has taken to the catwalk while breastfeeding her 5-month-old daughter.
Mara Martin hit the runway on Sunday night for the 2018 Sports Illustrated Swim Search show.
The new mom was one of 16 finalists chosen to take part in the show as part of Miami Swim Week.
Wearing a stunning one-shoulder gold bikini and carrying her baby daughter in her ams, the model beamed as she strutted her stuff on the runway at the W South Beach hotel.
Ahead of the show, Martin explained on Instagram how thrilled she was about being chosen as one of finalists and how much she was looking forward to walking in the show.
Sports Illustrated also shared a video of Martin and her baby rocking the runway.
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Kathryn Stott
Ton Koopman
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Martin Roscoe
Artist: Kathryn Stott
Songs of Comfort & Hope (2020)
performed by Kathryn Stott (piano), Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
composed by Benjamin Britten, Caroline Shaw, Edvard Grieg, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Ernest Bloch, Felix Mendelssohn, Francis Poulenc, Fritz Kreisler, Graham Fitkin, Harold Arlen, Harry Sdraulig, Hughie Charles, Jerome Kern, Roderick Williams, Sergey Rachmaninov
Yo-Yo Ma: The Classical Cello Collection (2015)
performed by Barbara Bonney (soprano), Edgar Meyer (double bass), Emanuel Ax (piano), Isaac Stern (violin), Jaime Laredo (viola), Kathryn Stott (piano), Pamela Frank (violin), Rebecca Young (viola), Ton Koopman (harpsichord), Ton Koopman (organ)
composed by Antonin Dvorák, Arnold Schoenberg, Béla Bartók, Benjamin Britten, Camille Saint-Saëns, César Franck, Edouard Lalo, Edward Elgar, Ernest Bloch, Franz Schubert, Gabriel Fauré, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Jules Massenet, Ludwig van Beethoven
Songs from the Arc of Life (2015)
composed by Antonin Dvorák, Camille Saint-Saëns, Charles Gounod, Claude Debussy, Edvard Grieg, Edward Elgar, Franz Schubert, Frederick Delius, Fritz Kreisler, Gabriel Fauré, George Gershwin, Giovanni Sollima, Jacob Gade, Jean Sibelius, Johannes Brahms
Yo-Yo Ma Plays Bach (2017)
performed by Bobby McFerrin (vocals), Kathryn Stott (piano), Kenneth Cooper (harpsichord), Ton Koopman (organ), Ton Koopman (harpsichord), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Yo-Yo Ma (baroque cello), Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Ton Koopman (conductor)
composed by Charles Gounod, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Corigliano
Nocturne (2007)
performed by Kathryn Stott (piano), Truls Mørk (cello)
composed by Frédéric Chopin
Fauré: The Complete Music for Piano (1995)
performed by Kathryn Stott (piano), Martin Roscoe (piano)
composed by Gabriel Fauré
Kabalevsky: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3; Colas Breugnon Overture; The Comedians (2003)
performed by Kathryn Stott (piano), BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
composed by Dmitry Kabalevsky
Fauré: Orchestra Works (1995)
performed by Kathryn Stott (piano), Peter Dixon (cello), Richard Davis (flute), BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
Tine (2013)
performed by Kathryn Stott (piano), Tine Thing Helseth (trumpet)
composed by Alexander Glazunov, Edvard Hagerup Bull, Fritz Kreisler, George Enescu, Giacomo Puccini, Jacques Ibert, Manuel de Falla, Oistein Sommerfeldt, Paul Hindemith, Sergey Rachmaninov
Fauré: Nocturnes; Impromptus; Barcarolles; Romances (1986)
performed by Kathryn Stott (piano)
Debussy: Greatest Hits (2001)
performed by Catherine Collard (piano), Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Guarneri Quartet, James Galway (flute), Kathryn Stott (piano), Michel Dalberto (piano), Boston Symphony Orchestra
composed by Claude Debussy
Kabalevsky: Piano Concerto Nos. 1 & 4; Symphony No. 2 (2006)
performed by Kathryn Stott (piano), BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Järvi (conductor)
Rachmaninoff: Greatest Hits (1997)
performed by Alexander Brailowsky (piano), Alexis Weissenberg (piano), Anna Moffo (soprano), Byron Janis (piano), Kathryn Stott (piano), Leonard Pennario (piano)
Kathryn Stott Plays Debussy & Ravel (1991)
performed by Kathryn Stott (piano), Michael George (baritone)
composed by Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: String Sextet; Piano Quintet (2012)
performed by Bartholomew Lafollette (cello), Doric String Quartet, Jennifer Stumm (viola), Kathryn Stott (piano)
composed by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Sir William Walton: Collected Works (2002)
performed by Gregor Piatigorsky (cello), Jascha Heifetz (violin), Kathryn Stott (piano), Yuri Bashmet (viola)
composed by William Walton
Debussy for Relaxation (1999)
performed by Barry Douglas (piano), Catherine Collard (piano), Guarneri Quartet, James Galway (flute), Kathryn Stott (piano), Marisa Robles (harp), Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
William Walton: Sinfonia Concertante; John Ireland: Piano Concerto; Frank Bridge: Phantasm for Piano and Orchestra (1989)
performed by Kathryn Stott (piano), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley (conductor)
composed by Frank Bridge, John Ireland, William Walton
Fauré: Piano Music (1999)
Christian Poltéra plays Frank Martin (2008)
performed by Andrea Guarneri (cello maker), Christian Poltéra (cello), Kathryn Stott (piano), Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Tuomas Ollila (conductor)
composed by Frank Martin
Fauré: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2; Piano Trio; Nocturne No. 13 (2008)
performed by Christian Poltéra (cello), Kathryn Stott (piano), Priya Mitchell (violin)
The Art of the Lindsays (2004)
performed by Janet Hilton (clarinet), Kathryn Stott (piano), Leon Bosch (double bass), The Lindsays
composed by Alexander Borodin, Antonin Dvorák, Béla Bartók, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Joseph Haydn, Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms, Leos Janácek, Ludwig van Beethoven, Maurice Ravel, Michael Tippett, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Foulds: Piano Music (1998)
composed by John Foulds
Shostakovich: Piano Quintet; Ustvolskaya: Octet; Composition No. 3; Symphony No. 5 (2004)
performed by Catherine Antcliffe (bassoon), Christopher Tombling (violin), Gareth Newman (bassoon), Gavin McNaughton (bassoon), Graham Cole (tympani [timpani]), Helen Keen (flute), Karen Jones (flute), Kathleen Stevenson (flute), Kathryn Stott (piano), London Musici
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Exicure to Receive $25 Million Upfront Payment and Up to $725 Million in potential Milestones
CHICAGO & CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Exicure, Inc., (NASDAQ:XCUR) a pioneer in gene regulatory and immunotherapeutic drugs utilizing spherical nucleic acid (SNA™) technology, today announced that Allergan's wholly-owned subsidiary, Allergan Pharmaceuticals International Limited, and Exicure, Inc. have entered into a global collaboration agreement to discover and develop novel treatments for hair loss disorders based on Exicure's proprietary SNA technology.
Under the terms of the agreement, Allergan will receive exclusive access and options to license SNA-based therapeutics arising from two collaboration programs related to the treatment of hair loss disorders. Exicure will receive an upfront payment of $25 million and will conduct discovery and development in two collaboration programs for hair loss disorders. In the event that Allergan exercises an option, Allergan will be responsible for clinical development and commercialization of the licensed products. Exicure will be eligible to receive development and regulatory milestones of up to $97.5 million per program and commercial milestones of up to $265 million per program. Exicure will also be eligible to receive tiered royalties on worldwide net product sales of mid-single digit to mid-teens percentages on worldwide net product sales.
"We are excited to combine our knowledge of nucleic acid therapeutics with Allergan's deep expertise in medical aesthetics to develop and commercialize innovative treatments for hair loss disorders." said Dr. David Giljohann, chief executive officer of Exicure. "This collaboration is an exciting opportunity to advance Exicure's SNA technology in an important new therapeutic area."
Additional Details about the Collaboration and Hair Loss Program
One of the most common hair loss disorders and a subject of the collaboration is androgenetic alopecia also known as pattern baldness, affecting approximately 50 million men and 30 million women in the United States. It is estimated that over $3.5 billion a year is spent on treatments, the majority of which are ineffective.
Conference Call Today at 8:30am ET/7:30am CT
Exicure will hold a conference call at 8:30am ET to provide a corporate update and to discuss the strategic collaboration announced today. A live audio only webcast of the conference call can be accessed in the Investors section of the company's website at www.exicuretx.com. To participate in the conference call, please dial 866-997-1948 or 270-215-9856 five minutes prior to start time. The conference ID is 9849047. An archived version of the webcast will be available on Exicure's website for 30 days.
About Allergan plc
Allergan plc (NYSE: AGN), headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, is a global pharmaceutical leader focused on developing, manufacturing and commercializing branded pharmaceutical, device, biologic, surgical and regenerative medicine products for patients around the world. Allergan markets a portfolio of leading brands and best-in-class products primarily focused on four key therapeutic areas including medical aesthetics, eye care, central nervous system and gastroenterology. As part of its approach to delivering innovation for better patient care, Allergan has built one of the broadest pharmaceutical and device research and development pipelines in the industry.
With colleagues and commercial operations located in approximately 100 countries, Allergan is committed to working with physicians, healthcare providers and patients to deliver innovative and meaningful treatments that help people around the world live longer, healthier lives every day.
For more information, visit Allergan's website at www.Allergan.com.
About Exicure
Exicure, Inc. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing therapeutics for immuno-oncology, inflammatory diseases and genetic disorders based on our proprietary Spherical Nucleic Acid, or SNA technology. Exicure believes that its proprietary SNA architecture has distinct chemical and biological properties that may provide advantages over other nucleic acid therapeutics and may have therapeutic potential to target diseases not typically addressed with other nucleic acid therapeutics. Exicure's lead program is in a Phase 1b/2 trial in patients with advanced solid tumors. Exicure is based outside of Chicago, IL and in Cambridge, MA.
For more information, visit Exicure's website at www.exicuretx.com.
Exicure Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements (including within the meaning of Section 21E of the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and Section 27A of the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended) concerning the Company, the Company's technology, potential therapies, cash requirements and other matters. Forward-looking statements generally include statements that are predictive in nature and depend upon or refer to future events or conditions, and include words such as "may," "will," "should," "would," "expect," "plan," "believe," "intend," "look forward," and other similar expressions among others. Statements that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on current beliefs and assumptions that are subject to risks and uncertainties and are not guarantees of future performance. Actual results could differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement as a result of various factors, including, without limitation: unexpected costs, charges or expenses that reduce cash runway; that Exicure's pre-clinical or clinical programs do not advance or result in approved products on a timely or cost effective basis or at all; the cost, timing and results of clinical trials; that many drug candidates that have completed Phase 1 trials do not become approved drugs on a timely or cost effective basis or at all; the ability to enroll patients in clinical trials; possible safety and efficacy concerns; regulatory developments; and the ability of Exicure to protect its intellectual property rights. Risks facing the Company and its programs are set forth in the Company's filings with the SEC. Except as required by applicable law, the Company undertakes no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statement (including without limitation its cash runway guidance) or to make any other forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise
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Link Roundup – Hello. I stutter.
Last week Action for Stammering Children put up posts on Twitter regarding stammering. These were quotes by children, teenagers and therapists on stammering and how to build confidence. I wanted to look at them and give my own thoughts on each. I'll be doing one per week — they posted five, and they can be found on twitter @StammerCentre and by searching for #stammeringtips.
One of the nice experiences I've had since moving to Saudi is the respect. You simply get more if you are a Westerner. The premise is simple — you have been hired because you have the expertise and knowledge to help the company or project. The way we do things in the West is considered more sophisticated, and imparting that know-how is important.
So what happened to me when I started going to more meetings here — meetings with my engineers and clients — was that as soon as I started talking, everybody got quiet and started to listen. It was a bit unsettling at first, really. But then I figured it out. Did I stutter? Oh sure, lots. But everybody just sat there, staring at me, hanging on my every word. This guy knows! Listen to him! At least that's what I'd like to think.
Sadly, thinking about it more, I realize that before coming here, people would listen to me because … well, I didn't talk that much in the office or in meetings. Because I was covert! And knew I'd stutter. So if I had something to say, it was startling to them. And it must have been important if the quiet guy is speaking up!
But most importantly, I've learned that friends and loved ones don't care about your stutter at all. If you ask them about it, they'll tell you that, "I don't hear you stutter when you talk." And why is that? It's because they're listening. They want to hear the message, hear your feeling, and make a connection. You listen to them, and they listen to you. That's the point of family and friends, right?
I wanted to look back and see how I was feeling a year ago at this time — going to my first conference. Thought I'd share a few posts. It's also what really prompted me to get blogging about stuttering. This year I'm really excited — I'm going to see friends who I met last year and stayed in touch with, and my brother is even going to see what it's all about.
No and no. But I suppose it's up to me to stay open about this. It's new to them. We know it's complicated. It's worth an explanation. I've just noted that you only have anybody's attention for a short period, so you have to be rather concise — do you talk about acceptance, or do you talk about the philosophy of stuttering and that stuttering on what you want to say is better than not saying anything?
Here's my first post regarding the conference from last year.
I know that most of them will stutter, and I know many others will be speech therapists and professionals. But it's still intimidating.
I'm excited about going to this conference because I really do have a lot of questions for other people who stutter. Since I've kept this stuttering to myself all these years and avoided reading up on it, I've lived a silo-like existence.
I obviously owe everybody a link roundup. Until then you can read this great piece over at diaryofastutterer.
I have for some time urged others to at least attempt to see the little glimmers of hope that do occasionally shine through. Like flowers rising from the soil for the first time in spring, hope is always attempting to rise above the ground that is holding it back. These past two weeks have pushed me to my limits, as do most weeks.
I really enjoy the positive feedback loop he talks about. It's something I've been trying to do more and more. Don't focus on the negative. Those of us who stutter will find that we can be fluent, and we can be effective communicators at times.


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The Conversation: How Young Advisors Can Spur Owners to Succession Planning
Practice Management > Building Your Business
by Angie Herbers
The original version of this story was published on Investment Advisor
Over the years, my longtime friend Eric Hehman, CEO of Austin Asset in Austin, Texas, has publicly talked at conferences and to me about his experience becoming a partner and CEO at his firm.
He has talked about how he and his firm's founder, John Henry McDonald, worked together to make the transition from a startup firm to an ongoing business. It's such an important issue—and he had such an important perspective—that I convinced him to let me share his story. It's one that I feel a lot of owner-advisors and future partners could truly benefit from.
He and McDonald grew their firm from $25 million in client AUM in 1997, when Hehman started as an intern, to $540 million in AUM ($4 million in revenue) today. But all you younger advisors who hope to run your own firm someday, take note: It wouldn't have happened without Hehman taking the initiative.
"John Henry never came to me and asked: 'Do you want to be an owner?'" Hehman told me. "You have to be a catalyst, to make a case that lays out what you see. We had an interactive discussion about why he needed to sell shares and build a management team. He was brave enough, and I did research to build a case and walk him through what I saw so that we could find solutions together. John Henry was amazing in his ability to separate who he was in the business and what he wanted the business to be."
Most advisors who start up independent advisory firms aren't entrepreneurs, at least not in the usual sense. They don't have a particularly unique business idea that they built a business around like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerburg. (Maybe the guys who launched the first independent financial planning firms back in the '70s, or the first fee-only firms in the '80s, but that was a long time ago.)
Today, most owner-advisors launched their firms using well-established business and service models, taking on the challenges of a startup because they wanted to take care of their clients their own way. Consequently, most of today's business management wisdom doesn't really apply to independent advisory firms, with one major exception: the changing roles of firm founders and advisors who were hired as the firm grew. In our experience, failure to understand the evolution of the founder's role in advisory firms is the single biggest stumbling block to building ongoing businesses that have real market value.
To understand how the roles of a founding advisor and the other advisors change over time, we like to talk about their relative importance to the business. In a startup firm, the person who brings in the clients, which is almost always the founding advisor, is most important—there isn't a business without client revenue to fund it. Over time, providing a consistently high level of service to keep the clients it has taken years to attract becomes more important. What's more, the way new clients are attracted changes too, from prospecting to referrals from existing clients. The stature of the firm becomes a powerful marketing tool as well, especially when a firm's advisors maintain a visible presence.
The result of this shift is that managing the growing business effectively and efficiently gradually becomes more important—to client service, to the bottom line and to growing the business—than attracting new clients. More often than not, a founding advisor's skill set and inclinations won't be well-suited to these new challenges. The issue facing the advisory industry is how to make this transition from firm founder to others who are more suited to taking advisory firms to the next levels of growth.
Hehman said this is called "Founder's Syndrome." He did a lot of research about it before he had "the talk" with McDonald. "I realized that at first, I didn't have much to offer and he had everything," he told me. "But pretty soon, connecting the management dots became a much larger piece of the business, and then we had to decide where the business was going to go."
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In fact, research and the use of outside experts turned out to be the key to Hehman's ability to get his firm owner to listen to his ideas: "The founder mentality is not to change course. They only address things because they have to. What happens is that firms get to that fork in the road where they have to decide to grow or stay small. Then you have to present your plan, based on others' ideas in addition to your own. You can craft a story about why the owner would want to let go. There has to be a real reason for them to want to do that. The answer is that they can have a smaller piece of a much bigger pie."
For Hehman, the use of outside experts started in 2004 when the business had grown large enough that he realized he needed to know more about human resources. He turned to an HR consultant. "He had great experience, had been at Fortune 500 companies and consulted with some, too," he said. "The consultant and I decided we needed an employee survey. Like any founder, John Henry didn't want one. He didn't want anyone to tell him how to run his business. But with the consultant's help, we convinced him to do it, and we learned a lot that helped us make the firm better."
That experience enabled Hehman to convince McDonald to use other consultants, including management consultants and a personal business consultant, and even to set up an advisory counsel of outside business leaders. "It was the first time we got an honest assessment of the business from people who knew business. We got things for both of us to work on, project to project for four years. By that time we didn't need the HR consultant anymore," said Hehman. "John Henry was a bigger believer in consultants than I was."
Initiated by Hehman, the use of consultants enabled him and McDonald to work together to create a better business. "We learned together," he said. "Neither one of us knew it. He had been running the firm for 17 years. I started working there for free. We both were figuring it out together. He taught me things about running a business. My role was to make things uncomfortable so we could make progress, reminding him that it's not about you, it's about where you want to take the business."
A crucial part of their work with consultants and each other was an ongoing, interactive discussion about why McDonald needed to sell shares and build a management team. "He was an incredibly willing participant in this," Hehman said. "I didn't want him to feel like I was alone running his business, that all of his eggs were in my basket. So we created a system to professionally develop other people in the firm to be managers and owners, who would help me grow the firm, which would be of more value to him later."
The transition structure they worked out called for McDonald to sell 69% of the firm to Hehman and other partners—Greg Van Wyk, who oversees their planning division, and Jonathan Davison, who oversees the portfolio/client service division—over 10 years using five-year notes for each increment. "It's a long process," he admitted. "I'm four months away from paying off my percent." Hehman noted it was important that McDonald negotiated a materially lower than market value to transfer the business, and then let Hehman and the others buy ownership over time at today's valuation. "The juniors need to feel that it's a good deal, to get excited about growing the business," he said, "rather than knowing that if they do a good job, the next purchase will cost them more."
In my opinion, Eric Hehman is one of few role models for future partners across the industry. By taking the initiative to start the conversation, realizing he had a lot to learn and surrounding himself with experts, he started a process that grew his firm more than 10 times larger and created a succession for his owner-advisor to retire and his co-workers to share in his firm's success. "The successor generation can play the role that a planner does with clients by having the life stage conversation with the firm owner," he told me. "Do it by writing a strategic plan. If you don't, someone else will. If the founder doesn't want to hear that, you've heard all you need to know—the founder doesn't value your opinion. Your purpose in life isn't just to make the founder's life better. It is also to create your own voice."


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The Battle of St. Leonard's Creek
Joshua Barney's sketch of one of his proposed barges.
The British fleet under the command of Rear Admiral George Cockburn had received little in the way of opposition during 1813 and was able to conduct raids from tidewater Virginia to the northern end of the bay. When the bulk of his small fleet retired at the end of the year to winter in Bermuda, Commandant Joshua Barney and Secretary of the Navy William Jones were given a small window of opportunity in which to construct a defense.
"I am therefore of opinion the only defense we have in our power, is a Kind of Barge or Row-galley, so constructed, as to draw a small draft of water, to carry Oars, light sails, and One heavy long gun" wrote Barney in July of 1813. It was a "mosquito fleet" of eighteen such vessels that hindered the British advance on Baltimore and Washington the following summer.
The British fleet vastly overpowered Barney's squadron; but Barney could retreat to shallow rivers where Cockburn's frigates could not follow. Furthermore his ships were magnificently manned by thoroughbred seamen who were all volunteers. After a brief engagement off Cedar Point, the flotilla retreated up the Patuxent to St. Leonard's creek. Cockburn could not allow Barney's fleet to harass his operation, so he sent a detachment comprised of a 74 gun frigate, a brig-sloop, and a number of his own gunships to blockade the entrance of the Creek. On June 9th, 1814 some fifteen British barges, including one armed with the Congreve rockets mentioned in the U. S. national anthem, attempted to force Barney out of his hiding spot and into the range of the 74-gun frigate. The ploy didn't work, as the first few British barges to come within range of Barney's guns quickly retreated back to the mouth of the creek. The next day, the British flotilla returned in force but were met with a heavy barrage. In the pursuit, Barney managed to ground the 18-gun schooner St. Lawrence.
Joshua Barney's sketch of St. Leonard's Creek, June 10th, 1814.
With his initial attempts to destroy the flotilla frustrated, Admiral Cockburn settled on blockading the creek and raiding the surrounding countryside to deprive Barney of much-needed local support. The flotilla had to move quickly or disband to avoid capture. A quickly built battery commanded by Colonel Wadsworth allowed Barney's men to force their way out of the creek on June 27th. Though he admitted "our shot was terrible" and Wadsworth commented that he had difficulty setting the battery up in time, the combined barrage commanded by the two men was enough to allow the flotilla to escape up the Patuxent with only a few gunboats lost.
Ultimately though, Barney's flotilla was forced to disband. Towards the end of August, the British army received reinforcements and presented a greater threat to the flotilla men from the shore. In addition, Barney was under pressure from the Secretary of the Navy, who knew that reinforcing the flotilla would draw strength away from defending Baltimore and Washington. And so Barney opted to blow up his flotilla. For nearly three months, he and his men had prevented Cockburn from making the sweeping advances he had enjoyed in 1813, forcing him to expend time and effort that allowed Baltimore to mount a successful defense. Once disbanded, many of the flotilla men joined American forces defending Washington D.C. on land, and were among the last to lose their position at the Battle of Bladensburg on August 24th. Barney survived the war to become a decorated naval hero.
To find out more information, please visit these links:
Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum: (http://www.jefpat.org/1812war.html) Houses most of the artifacts of the flotilla. Stages yearly reenactments of the battle.
Video footage of an underwater archeology of one of the flotilla's ships. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyuTenWAuIc.
For a more in-depth look at the Battle of St. Leonard's Creek go to http://mason.gmu.edu/~chughes3/projecthome.html.
Barney, Joshua. "Barge for Use in the Defense of Chesapeake Bay." In The War of 1812: A Documentary History: Vol. II ed. William S. Dudley. Washington D.C.; Navel Historical Center, 1992, 375.
Barney, Joshua. "Captain Joshua Barney, Flotilla Service, to Louis Barney." In The War of 1812: A Documentary History: Vol. III ed. Michael Crawford. Washington D.C.: Navel Historical Center, 2002, 123.
Barney, Joshua. "Joshua Barney's Defense Proposal." In The War of 1812: A Documentary History: Vol. III ed. William S. Dudley. Washington D.C.: Navel Historical Center, 1992, 373-6.
Barney, Joshua. "Joshua Barney's Sketch." In The War of 1812: A Documentary History: Vol. III ed. Michael Crawford. Washington D.C.: Navel Historical Center, 2002. 87.
"Copy of a Letter From Col. Wadsworth to the Secretary of War" Daily National Intellegencer, June 29th, 1814.
Hughes, Christine F. "The only defense is a kind of barge: Joshua Barney's Chesapeake Bay Flotilla". last modified May 5th, 2003 http://mason.gmu.edu/~chughes3/projecthome.html
Pack, James. The Man Who Burned the White House: Admiral Sir George Cockburn 1772-1853. Hampshire: Kenneth Mason, 1987, 143.
Shomette, Donald G. Flotilla: The Patuxent Naval Campaign in the War of 1812. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.


This blog is about circuit design, with a strong focus on analog/RF CMOS circuit design.
Poojan Wagh has worked as an electrical engineer for 8 years. Most recently, he is working in the areas of analog-to-digital converter design in Motorola Labs, and on RF Receiver circuits in Motorola at large. He has worked on RF circuits, on direct digital RF (DDRF) data conversion/power amplification, and on audio data conversion/power amplification. He received his MSEE and BSEE degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.