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182 F. 2d 110 - United States v. Salon
182 F2d 110 United States v. Salon
SALON.
United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.
Harold E. Marks, George F. Von Kolnitz, Jr., Chicago, Ill., for appellant.
Otto Kerner, Jr., U. S. Atty., William Sylvester White, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Chicago, Ill., John Peter Lulinski, Asst. U. S. Atty., Chicago, Ill., for appellee.
Before FINNEGAN, LINDLEY and SWAIM, Circuit Judges.
FINNEGAN, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a judgment for plaintiff, entered in the District Court on complaint, answer and stipulation of facts; it was submitted to this court on briefs without oral argument.
The Government filed its complaint to recover for services rendered under the terms of a written contract with the defendant, who was a motor carrier engaged in the trucking business, in Chicago, Illinois.
On May 23, 1945, while the country was at war, the President of the United States issued Executive Order No. 9554 authorizing and directing the Director of the Office of Defense Transportation to take possession and assume control of such plants, facilities or transportation systems owned or operated by motor carriers in or about the City of Chicago which were then interrupted, or about to be interrupted, in their operation by labor disturbances.
Among other provisions of said Executive Order are the following: "The Director of the Office of Defense Transportation is authorized and directed, through or with the aid of any public officers, Federal agencies, or other government instrumentalities that he may designate, * * to operate or to arrange for the operation of the said plants, facilities, and transportation systems in such a manner as he may deem necessary for the successful prosecution of the war; and do anything that he may deem necessary to carry out the provisions and purposes of this order."
Pursuant to said Executive Order the Director of the Office of Defense Transportation, on May 23, 1945, issued a notice and order taking possession and control of the transportation systems of motor carriers subject to the Executive Order, and appointing Ellis T. Longenecker Federal Manager of such systems. His order of appointment provided:
"The purpose of possession, control, and operation of motor carrier transportation systems and properties by the United States, pursuant to said Executive Order, is to assure the maintenance of an effective system of transportation for the movement of troops, materials of war, supplies, and food for the armed forces and civilian population.
"To possess, control, and operate, or arrange for the operation of, each of the systems and properties taken hereunder in such manner as may be necessary for the successful prosecution of the war and maintenance of essential civilian economy and to accomplish the purposes of the Executive Order, through or with the aid of such public or private agencies, persons, or corporations as he may designate.
"Subject to the provisions of the Executive Order, to manage or operate, or arrange for the management or operation of said systems and properties under such terms and conditions of employment as he deems advisable and proper."
When the Federal Manager took possession and control of defendant's transportation system, he found the drivers and dockmen on strike.
On July 2, 1945, the appellant-defendant entered into a written contract with the plaintiff, The United States, whereby the carrier agreed to pay the Government for services rendered by drivers and dockmen furnished by the Government for use in the operation of the defendant's transportation system. The contract provided for the manner of determining the payment for such services, as well as the time and place for making such payments.
At the defendant carrier's request, the Government furnished 18 men who worked for a total of 230 hours in serving the carrier as drivers and dockmen. Computed on the basis of the contract, the services thus rendered amounted to $208.94, of which sum the carrier paid the Government $11.13, leaving a balance of $197.81.
Defendant stipulates that he signed the contract, and, that, at his request, services were rendered as claimed in the complaint, but contends that the contract is ultra vires on the part of the Government; that the employees furnished were soldiers who were performing military service on behalf of the Government in rendering assistance in the operation of defendant's transportation system, and that the Government has no right to make a profit for such services.
The record discloses that the drivers and dockmen furnished to the defendant by the Government, were in fact soldiers on active duty in the Army of the United States who were paid their statutory wages by the Department of War.
Appellant raises no question as to the power in the President to issue Executive Order No. 9554 to take possession and control of his system under the existing conditions in furtherance of the war effort. He makes no issue of the legality of using soldiers in executing said order. He does not complain that soldiers drove his trucks while his civilian drivers were on strike. In fact, he admits everything the Government charges, but seeks to have the contract he entered into declared unenforceable. He questions the power of the Government to enter into the contract we have before us.
The United States Government has a capacity to contract which is co-extensive with its duties and powers. In United States v. Tingey, 5 Pet. 115, 30 U.S. 115, on page 127, 8 L.Ed. 66, the Court said:
"Upon this posture of the case, a question has been made and elaborately argued at the bar, how far a bond, voluntarily given to the United States, and not prescribed by law, is a valid instrument, binding upon the parties in point of law; in other words, whether the United States have, in their political capacity, a right to enter into a contract, or to take a bond, in cases not previously provided for by some law. Upon full consideration of this subject, we are of opinion, that the United States have such capacity to enter into contracts. It is, in our opinion, an incident to the general right of sovereignty; and the United States being a body politic, may within the sphere of the constitutional powers confided to it, and through the instrumentality of the proper department to which those powers are confided, enter into contracts not prohibited by law, and appropriate to the just exercise of those powers. This principle has been already acted on by this court in the case of Dugan, Exec. v. United States, 3 Wheat. 172, 4 L.Ed. 362; and it is not perceived that there lies any solid objection to it. To adopt a different principle, would be to deny the ordinary rights of sovereignty, not merely to the general governments, but even to the state governments, within the proper sphere of their own powers, unless brought into operation by express legislation. A doctrine, to such extent, is not known to this court as ever having been sanctioned by any judicial tribunal."
It seems to us that the sole issue is whether the Government after rendering services to a private citizen in the operation of his business, and at his request, is precluded from enforcing a contract providing for payment of such services by the fact that they were rendered by soldiers in time of war. It should be noted that the Government does not seek recovery for services rendered in protecting defendant's property or in furnishing convoy escort to his vehicles.
Under the circumstances in this case, the Government was faced with a public duty and had the right to enter into a contract to carry out that duty. In United States v. Maurice, 1823, Fed.Cas.No. 15,747, Circuit Justice Marshall, in speaking of the power of the Government to contract, said: "that there is a power to contract in every case where it is necessary to the execution of a public duty."
The President had the power to issue Executive Order No. 9554, and had the power to delegate his authority, and did delegate that authority to the Director of Defense Transportation, who named a Federal Manager. The strike in the appellant's transportation system interfered with its operation and with the war effort. Civilian drivers and dockmen were on strike, therefore soldiers of the Army served as such under voluntary written agreement made with the appellant-defendant. The latter agreed to pay for such services. The Government had fulfilled its part of the contract in the execution of its duty and in furtherance of the war effort.
United States v. Coordinated Transport, Inc., D.C., 73 F.Supp. 176, involving substantially the same facts as are presented on this appeal, before the same trial judge, and with the same attorneys representing the defendants, was not cited by either party on this appeal. In that case the District Court found for the plaintiff as it did in the case before us.
Nevertheless, in appellant's brief on page 4, we find the statement: "So far as we have been able to find, the question here involved has not heretofore been presented to any court for decision." This is rather an extraordinary statement since the Coordinated Transport case had been decided and reported more than two years before the trial of the case here under review. Moreover, counsel for defendants in that case represent defendants in the case now before us.
After review of the record and consideration of the arguments advanced in appellant's brief, we find that the findings of fact made by the trial court are supported by substantial evidence and that its conclusions as to the law are correct.
The judgment of the District Court is therefore affirmed.


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South Plains Food Bank provides food to 20 counties
RAY WETBROOK
The Lubbock-based South Plains Food Bank distributes 6.5 million pounds of food a year to those in financial difficulty across a 20-county region.
Its food collections come from a variety of sources, including community food drives, contributions from individuals and businesses, and grocery store donations.
The annual December food drive, called U-Can-Share, is the largest food collection of the year, according to David Weaver, chief executive officer of South Plains Food Bank.
"Last year, we raised over 350,000 pounds of food and raised over $150,000 from the drive," he said.
"That food helps us make it into the spring. Then, the Letter Carrier Food drive starts picking up."
He said, "We get food from a lot of sources, but those food drives are really critical just to keep us going. They are the kinds of foods that we really need to put into our food boxes."
Referring to the region that the food bank serves, Weaver said, "Basically, we go up to Hale Center, to Muleshoe in Bailey County, over to Floyd County, then we go south down to Seminole, Seagraves and Snyder."
He said, "We work with about 160 different churches and social service agencies in those communities. In some of the communities, the churches will pick up food from us, and their church will make up their own food boxes."
According to Weaver, the food bank serves 28 communities. "We load up our trucks — we call them mobile pantries — and we go in once a month. We set up shop and distribute food for that location that day."
The food bank is diligent about checking out its clientele:
"Everybody who receives food from us has gone through a screening process, and that way we verify that they meet our guidelines for food assistance, to make sure that the people that need food are getting it," Weaver said.
Networking is a part of the food bank's operations, and food donations may go beyond the supplies that are given to individuals who come to the food bank with vouchers.
"We work with lots of different groups. Nearly all the United Way agencies are also members of the food bank. We work with Meals on Wheels and the Salvation Army. But we also work with other agencies and non-profits," Weaver said.
"We collect food and make it available to agencies. And if they can take advantage of what we have, it's a big cost savings to them."
One of the choice ministries of the South Plains Food Bank has been the Kids Cafe program.
"We work closely with the Boys and Girls Clubs. The number of Kids Cafes go up and down during the school year, but we have about 18 sites that we are providing food for," Weaver said.
"Most of them are in Lubbock, but some are down as far as Lamesa. We go to Abernathy and Shallowater. We have different ways of working with them."
Compassion is a part of the food bank routine for Weaver:
"I see people I've grown up with in Lubbock, and if you see the impact that food insecurity has on their lives … I always tell people that hunger robs you of your dignity and your well-being. I see that every day."
There is thanksgiving for the gift of food:
"I don't know everybody we serve, but the feedback we always get is one of gratitude. I always remember this little lady when we were at the old building. I was walking by, and she kind of motioned for me to come over, and enthusiastically said, 'Thank you!' And I said, 'Oh, you're welcome.'
"She said, 'You don't know what a difference you make to me and to my family, because we can sit together as a family and we can have a meal. We couldn't do that without you.'
"It really hit me."

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Review + Swatch | Anastasia Beverly Hills | Liquid Lipstick in Craft | Sheena V.
I know I have long been away.
Firstly, I had my exams. Then my exams ended and... my laptop charger broke. -_-"
The replacement part just came in so here I am blogging!
So anyway, I recently gave in to the Anastasia Beverly Hills Liquid Lipstick hype.
- The shades available from the initial release didn't really toot my horn so... Yeah.
For today, I'm only touching on the NEW Liquid Lipstick in Craft.
I love it so much that I wore it for consecutive days!
It's a deep mauve that I feel is extremely flattering on tan skin tones like mine.
It isn't loud but it still makes a statement. And it wears beautifully.
What more could I want right?
Craft has a smooth, creamy consistency on the thicker side without being lumpy. Once the liquid lipstick sets, it has a smooth, non tacky texture on the lips. Smacking of lips does not pull the lipstick apart.
The applicator included is a non-flexible, sponge tip, doe-foot applicator. On me, one dip sufficiently applied one layer, there was no need to go back for more. Despite the liquid being on the thicker side, it spreads out extremely well and is easy to control for precise application. It dries down within 2 minutes .
Considering the fact that I have dark brown lips, one layer is all I needed to get an opaque, even coverage.
Note: My review is based on only one layer of application, as that was all that I needed. However, I did put on another layer to experiment and I found that it won't dry completely and is not transfer proof, even without eating. You see the edges of the swatch above? You can see that it didn't completely dry despite 10 minutes having passed. Those bits will smudge upon contact. It also gets drying after the second layer. Hope that helps!
Perfect for Hari Raya, yes?
Although I do need to perfect the application on this lip look. I kinda overdid the glitter and had to cover it with more lipstick and you know what I said about multiple layers heh.
This shade left such a good impression that I'm contemplating getting the soon to be released shades!
Are you going to pic up any?
On a side note, I'm selling away my BRAND NEW Anastasia Beverly Hills Liquid Lipstick in Unicorn at S$32. No low balling okay guys, factoring in exchange rate and shipping cost to Singapore and you won't get it near as cheap as I'm offering, even if you bought it yourself.


A: Dave, For full disclosure, I'm a Snapdragon team paddler but I bought Snapdragon before I was sponsored, they make a great product.
I have multiple skirts that I choose depending on my activity/conditions. The most bombproof skirts are full neoprene, they are dry but also warm (not an advantage in the Florida heat).
If your priority is a solid seal (good for surf, rolling practice, rough water play, etc), then I recommend the Ocean Tour EXP Reinforced skirt; this neoprene skirt is dry and tough enough for heavy surf zones. If I had to pick only one skirt, it would be this one. I used this skirt for paddling around Iceland where it withstood the nasty dumping waves of the South Coast without imploding. It works equally as well with the dumpers we have at Canaveral on the East coast. If you don't need the heavy-duty rim guard and other extreme durability features then the Ocean Trek is a good choice, it's just as dry.
For touring in the Florida heat and in areas where heavy surf play is not expected, I prefer a skirt that can be adjusted for ventilation. I recommend the Glacier EXP Breathable Reinforced skirt. This skirt has an adjustable, breathable top tube (cooler in the Florida heat), and a neoprene deck (stays in place). I keep the top tube slightly loose and snug it down when conditions deteriorate. A fabric tunnel will not seal quite as effectively as neoprene for rolling practice but will be fine for the occasional roll. I find an adjustable top tube is also an advantage on trips lasting many days or months to help prevent skin irritations. This skirt was my choice on my Newfoundland circumnavigation.
For warm-weather paddlers in less demanding conditions, there are other options, including all nylon skirts. These are cooler, making them nice for touring, but aren't as secure on the cockpit rim and might "pop" if you roll.
While not a Snapdragon product, if you get heavy into Greenland rolling, consider a Brooks tuilik (traditional jacket/skirt combo). This is a very warm garment that is comfortable for Florida in Winter for rolling practice, however it's much too hot to use in Florida for touring. A tuilik offers extreme freedom of movement.


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PRSSA Teams up with "Run 4 Kelly"
October 11, 2013 The Stroud Courier Opinion 0
PRSSA Member, Breanne Scharpnick, helping decorate before the race began. Photo Credit / Samantha Swank
PRSSA Member, Breanne Scharpnick, helping decorate before the race began.
Photo Credit / Samantha Swank
BY KATHRYN BOCK
Forum Editor
Family, friends, and supporters stood at the starting line anxiously waiting for the horn to blow with one thought in mind "Run for Kelly." Kelly Golat was described by her loved ones as a writer, a runner, a traveler, a party-planner, and a connoisseur of fun.
However, at the age of twenty-three, Golat was diagnosed with melanoma. Melanoma is a tumor of melanin-forming cells, typically a malignant tumor associated with skin cancer.
On October 5, 2013, the 11th annual Kelly Golat Memorial Run was held at Notre Dame High School in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.
Kelly's family and friends host the Kelly Golat Run as a remembrance of the wonderful person she was as well as her struggle with melanoma.
Participants were invited to run in a 5k run/walk or a one-mile family fun race. Through the race, money is raised for melanoma research, something that Golat felt strongly about after she herself had been diagnosed with melanoma.
The family is also able to present a scholarship to a deserving student of Notre Dame High School thanks to the turnout of the run.
After registering, all participants were welcome to get a free melanoma screening by Dr. Wen Jen Hwu and her associates from MD Anderson Cancer Center of Texas.
Dr. Hwu was Golat's doctor and returns to East Stroudsburg every year to offer her services to participants of the Kelly Golat Run. The family and friends of Golat are happy to say they can offer participants the free scans and hopefully detect and prevent melanoma.
"It was truly amazing to see the turnout," said ESU Senior Karianna Simpkins.
Karianna is also the President of Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) here at ESU. Last Spring PRSSA took on the Kelly Golat Run as one of their clients. The Run for Kelly team expressed to PRSSA that they wanted the event to grow.
Through several meetings and emailing PRSSA executive board had the privilege of working with the Run for Kelly team.
Getting the team set up with a twitter account, an Instagram account, revamping their Facebook page, and helping spread the word through flyers was just some of the work PRSSA helped with.
"It was a great day," said Breanne Scharpnick, ESU Senior and PRSSA historian. "I'm truly grateful we got to be a part of it." Members of PRSSA were invited by Golat's family to attend the event held this past weekend. PRSSA members assisted the team in setting up for the event, directing runners on the course, and helping break down tables and clean up at the end of the event.
"Having the Golat family reach out to us helped us further our knowledge in PR field as a whole and that is something we were very excited about," said Simpkins. "But it was also exciting to know that we are helping a larger cause while doing so. The experience was very rewarding."
After the race all who attended were invited to enjoy a barbeque. The Kelly Run team expressed they were thankful for all who attended, their sponsors, and the success of the day's event.
Participants are invited to check www.run4kelly.com to see the results and photos from Saturday's race.
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While we applauded all of the year's major achievements, the most significant development is that the mainstream media now requires the term "Fiat" whenever comparing crypto to traditional currencies.
The inherent volatility of cryptocurrency is one of the reasons it attracts so much attention. It's not unusual to see one of the biggest cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, achieve a new high while losing 10% or more of its value in a single month or even a single week.
The major cryptocurrencies saw a number of booms and bust phases in 2021. This was usually because of third-party news. There have been a lot of news stories about Bitcoin this year. Elon Musk's tweets made the stock market go down. Tesla accepts bitcoin, and El Salvador recognizes it as legal cash. In 2021, people searched online how to buy bitcoins rather than buying equities on Google.
Major 2021 Crypto Market Highlights
Here's a quick rundown of the biggest market-moving events and headlines in the crypto realm in 2021, as well as the then-current price of Bitcoin, the largest and most well-known cryptocurrency, which raised some eyebrows:
Tesla Makes a $1.5 Billion Bitcoin Investment
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Bitcoin crossed $1 trillion in market value for the first time
Bitcoin's market value surpassed $1 trillion for the first time on February 19. The achievement occurred after the cryptocurrency received support from significant institutional investors and well-known financial firms early this year. Tesla, Square, and MicroStrategy, for example, have begun to buy bitcoin using their balance sheets.
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Every Cherub agent comes from somewhere. Dante Scott still has nightmares about the death of his family, brutally murdered by a biker gang. Dante is given the chance to become a member of Cherub, a trained professional with one essential advantage: adults never suspect that children are spying on them. But when Dante joins James and Lauren Adams on a mission to infiltrate Brigands Motorcycle Club, he's ready to use everything he's learned to get revenge on the people who killed his family.
Book 11 in the Cherub series kicks off with an introduction to a new character, Dante Scott, who we meet as a young child when his family are murdered by a gang of bikers. This sentence should be sufficient to make it clear this book is intended to be read by an audience who are capable of processing this sort of scene.
I was very pleased by how Muchamore structured this novel - the introduction giving little away as to where the book would go later on, and I was very impressed by one particular narrative device which occurred surprisingly far into the story.
It's another good adventure for the Cherubs, painting a fairly realistic picture of the world and inserting teenage secret agents into the mix. There are strong indications that the series is preparing to wrap up, and one thing I did find disappointing about this story was its conclusion, which didn't quite satisfy what I wanted from the end of the plot.


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At Funding Circle, we know what it's like to strive for more. We started with a big idea: to build a better financial world. Years ago our U.S. co-founders experienced firsthand how hard it is to access financing from the traditional banking system, even when you have a successful business that's well along its way. After being rejected or offered terms that simply didn't make sense over 96 times by traditional lenders, they set out to create a place where their fellow entrepreneurs could access the affordable, fast, and fair capital they deserve.
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Laura's Friends and Family Support Her as She Faces a Mayoral Recall Vote — and a Familiar Face Is Part of the Group Behind It
Wednesday, June 22, 2022: Today on General Hospital, The Friends of Port Charles cause quite a stir, Scott proposes to Obrecht, and Cyrus is transferred to Pentonville.
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Laura arrives at the hospital and says hello to Epiphany, Portia, and Britt at the nurses' station. Portia asks if they'll see her at the softball field later. Laura hopes they will. She heads off, and Britt comments, "You'd never know that was a dead woman walking."
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Sonny chats with Violet in the waiting area. Sonny hurt himself boxing, and Violet has a case of poison ivy that needs to be checked out. Finn approaches and reminds Violet not to scratch, and also tells Sonny he's advised him about his boxing. Laura arrives and says hello to everyone. Sonny and Finn both saw the piece in The Invader, and she assures them that she has everything taken care of.
Laura runs into Kevin, who asks how she's doing. She admits she's so nervous that she feels sick. Kevin tells her that she doesn't need a tidal wave of votes to know she's loved. They head into a meeting room, where Scott welcomes her to the first meeting of the committee to save her hide.
Laura explains the first order of business is to say goodbye to Mac. She can't have it look like impropriety is going on with him as a member of the PCPD. Sam notes she and Curtis are here to pick up the slack for Mac on the investigative front. Mac departs, and they get the meeting underway. Alexis apologizes for the story, but she had to run it as it was legitimate news. Scott can't believe there were enough people to sign a petition for a recall election. Scott reads the letter sent to the op-ed, blaming Laura for the surge of crime in the city among other things from a group calling themselves The Friends of Port Charles.
Laura asserts the anonymous writer had the right to voice their opinion, but Curtis points out it's not everyone's opinion. Scott has a four-point plan. First Laura will submit a rebuttal to the paper, and he and Robert will form a legal strategy to help her. Scott says they need someone to help win the townspeople over, so Kevin and Carly agree to work on that. Finally, Sam and Curtis will be looking into who this group The Friends of Port Charles are.
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Later, Carly and Sam arrive at the Quartermaine mansion where Ned has called a family meeting to strategize for the upcoming softball game. Carly and Sam accuse Ned, the former mayor, of being behind The Friends of Port Charles. Ned assures them that he's moved on from politics, and the family backs him up. Michael admits he could see how they might assume it was Ned though.
Back at the hospital, Laura thanks Scott for what he's doing. He tells her, "You're my friend, well, you are more than that." They flash back to their wedding.
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Earlier at Kelly's, Obrecht found a woman with the petition to unseat Laura. She said she wanted to sign it because there is someone feeding the pigeons outside, which she called a flagrant violation of the law. She dragged the woman off to show her. Scott then swooped in and took a photo of the petition.
In the present, Scott shows the list to Laura, with one particularly notable signature he circled. Laura is shocked. Scott says it's not what they are up against, it's who.
Laura walks into an office and asks Bobbie, "So, how long have you been waiting to settle the score." Bobbie says of course she wants payback after what Lucy did to her last year at the softball game. Laura is confused, shows her the petition, and asks if this is her signature. Bobbie explains she signed a petition to save the whales, and she would never agree to recall Laura. She thought they had gotten past their fighting over Scotty 40 years ago. They flash back to their fighting over Baldwin and laugh about it. Bobbie assures her that this group is just a loudmouth minority. She points out many of those people likely thought they were signing another petition. Laura knows that the op-ed was personal and dirty, and she wonders who would do this to her. She also apologizes for jumping to assumptions about Bobbie.
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Sonny and Curtis meet with Ms. Wu at Sonny's office. They ask if she knows her nephew was helping to spearhead a group to recall Laura. Wu admits she does, and she volunteered him for the job. Sonny explains Laura is a friend, so she needs to back off. Wu agrees, and Curtis asks for the name of her contact in the group.
At the Metro Court pool, Victor has assembled the family to dominate in the softball game today. Laura enters and says, "So the Cassadines are going to dominate the softball game? Like they once tried to dominate the world? Not while I draw breath!" Alexis asks Victor if he wrote the op-ed in The Invader. Victor scoffs that if he was to make a move against Laura it wouldn't be anonymous, and Nikolas notes it would cause them to unite against Uncle Victor.
Curtis calls Laura after following leads from Ms. Wu. He has news of who is behind The Friends of Port Charles, and she won't like it.
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Laura heads to Pentonville and visits Cyrus, who assumes she read his letter. She asks if he's the mastermind of The Friends of Port Charles. He insists he can't mastermind anything behind bars and he is only an advisor. She asks who is in charge. He explains it's a group of people who are disillusioned by the way she is running the town. He rants that the police department is corrupt, General Hospital is an aging money pit, and ELQ and Cassadine Industries get tax breaks at the expense of the little men and women. Laura wonders if these people are of such high morals then why did they hire a criminal like him as an advisor. He blasts her for condemning him when that is up to God and preaches she needs to turn back on the path of righteousness. She wonders where God was in that scathing op-ed of his filled with hate. She tells Cyrus she forgives him and thanks him for watching out for Port Charles. He's rendered speechless and on the verge of tears as Laura leaves.
Back at the hospital, Curtis drops by to give Portia news. Cyrus has been transferred back to Pentonville, and Jordan assures him he is locked down tight. Portia won't let that evil man ruin this beautiful day.
Back at Sonny's, Wu swears to Sonny that she never would have gotten involved in this group had she known Cyrus was part of it. Sonny is glad to hear that.
At Kelly's, Mac, Kevin, Scott, and Robert discuss the situation. Talk turns to teasing Scott, as the men wonder how Obrecht will react to Scott running to Laura's rescue. He assures them he can help Laura and still have Liesl as his girlfriend. They disagree.
Lucy brings Obrecht to the nail salon where they run into Laura, Felicia, Bobbie, and Anna. Lucy and Bobbie take verbal jabs at one another over last year's game in which Lucy struck Bobbie out twice. Bobbie advises Liesl not to turn her back on Lucy, because who knows when she'll steal another man.
Scott enters, and apologizes for interrupting their beautification time, but is glad he has an audience to witness what he's about to do. He gets down on one knee and announces he's laying his heart at Liesl's feet and asks her to make him the happiest man on the planet. Obrecht tells him with all her heart, "No!" She explains she's already his and they should leave marriage to other fools. She affirms they have each other and don't need anything more.
Laura and Maxie go to visit Elizabeth at Shadybrook. Liz enters the visitation room and she's surprised to see Maxie. Maxie explains she brought her a bunch of products from Deception and they wish her a speedy recovery. Liz hopes her boys aren't running Laura ragged. Laura says Carly gave them an open account at the Metro Court pool, so they are satisfied, and they send her a message to get better soon. Laura assures her that Scotty, Nikolas and Spencer, and Finn and Violet check in on the boys often, and she is so loved.
Laura heads to Charlie's, where everyone arrives after the softball games. The crowd rallies around Laura and tells her to hang in there. Alexis again apologizes for the letter, but Laura is ready to publish her rebuttal. Laura's voiceover notes The Friends of Port Charles weren't entirely wrong, and there will always be problems. However, everything they claimed was wrong with their town is what is great about Port Charles. She insists they are a strong community, and she is proud to be a member. They are not just a town, but a family who takes care of each other. Kevin proposes a toast to Laura, and everyone cheers. Laura continues that if she loses the recall then so be it. If the person who replaces her is a Port Charles lifer, as she is, then they'll continue to grow as a town.
On the next General Hospital: Britt admits to Brad she has ulterior motives. BLQ gloats to Chase that hers is the face that will fix everything. Jordan tells someone pressing charges isn't the answer. Dante confronts Cody about avoiding serious questions. Martin promises Valentin that his Victor problems are about to be over.
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When Dr. Steve Hardy hired Lesley Williams at General Hospital in 1972, her first patient was a woman named Florence Grey, who revealed that husband Gordon had had an affair with a student. Since there are no coincidences in Port Charles, that student, of course, turned out to be Lesley. And the baby that had resulted from the affair? Lil' Laura hadn't died, as everyone had believed, she'd been adopted by the Vining family.

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Once Lesley found out that Laura was not only alive but residing conveniently nearby, she insinuated herself into her little girl's life. "Maybe you could just un-insinuate yourself, eh?" replied the Vinings, who had no interest in giving up their daughter (then Stacey Baldwin). As a custody battle loomed, one thing (Lesley's then-husband Cameron Faulkner paid the Vinings to move away) led to another (RIP, Cameron) until finally, we were left with…

OK, so technically, Dr. Peter Taylor and Steve weren't relatives. And no one in this photo was ever allowed to be happy for long. But after Lesley got together with Dr. Rick Webber, he helped convince an older and more rebellious Laura (now Genie Francis) that her biomom had indeed cared for her when she was born. Soapy circumstances beyond Lesley's control had led to Laura making a starter family of the Vinings.

You were in the right place if you came to the Vinings' daughter, Amy. And even after Laura settled into Lesley's life, she remained close to her adoptive sister, who for years was a nurse at General Hospital — and the last person in whom you wanted to confide a secret! Even here, look at her, pretending she's not eavesdropping on Jessie Brewer and Bobbie Spencer when c'mon, we all knew that she was!

Laura was way too young to get hitched when she tied the knot with law student Scotty Baldwin. But there was no telling her that. Even if you'd set the aisle on fire, she was going to walk down it. Which is ironic, because the sweethearts' ill-advised marriage would soon go up in flames. After Bobbie weaponized brother Luke in hopes of making Scotty her own, Laura was sent careening toward…

The beginnings of Laura's relationship with Luke were problematic at best. You know all about that night at the Campus Disco. But since you do, you also know that somehow, the couple moved past it, embarking on a life together that was marked by feats of derring-do so unbelievable that action-movie heroes looked at them and went, "Dang!"

Despite the fact that ex-hooker Bobbie had moved heaven and earth — and raised a whole lotta hell! — to steal Scotty from Laura, once the blonde had married Luke, her longtime rival became her sister-in-law. "Would you please pass the butter — and the knife you stabbed into my back so that I can spread it on my dinner roll?"

There's nothing good to be said about Laura's abduction by and "marriage" to obsessed Stavros Cassadine with the possible exception of the fact that it left her with her firstborn child, son Nikolas. He shares the dark streak that is typical of the Cassadines but also has just enough of his good-hearted mother in him to make him redeemable. Er, most of the time.

Some would say that Spencer takes after his father, Nikolas, what with all the brooding and the conniving. Others would argue — perhaps rightly — that it's grandma Laura that he favors, given that when she was his age, there wasn't any kind of trouble that she could resist getting in. Us? We hope that he has enough of late mom Courtney Matthews in him to someday get (and keep) his act together.

Nikolas' latest wife, Ava Jerome, has been known to bend the truth until it was pretzel-shaped. Nevertheless, she's managed to form a strong bond with mother-in-law Laura, who's maybe just a teensy bit relieved that after losing both Courtney and Emily Quartermaine to the Grim Reaper, Nikolas has found a woman with a knack for cheating death. We'll drink to that!

Laura's firstborn with Luke has Dad's renegade spirit, sure. But whereas Luke sees rules as mere suggestions — and even then, suggestions that only apply to others — Lucky is a such a straight arrow that he become a cop. Come to think of it, we're pretty sure that the last time the PCPD made an arrest that stuck, he was playing detective in the town that for so many years he called home.

When they were kids, we were sure that they were lifers. Alas, Lucky's marriage to Elizabeth Webber didn't stand the test of time — or the test of her love affair with Nikolas. The union did leave them with an adorable souvenir, at least: son Aiden, who any second is sure to be SORAS'd into a troublemaking collegian.

Even if Laura didn't so closely resemble her daughter with Luke, you'd know that they were related. How could you not when Lulu shares her mother's spark, her love of adventure and, unfortunately, her appeal to the Cassadines. In fact, it was Stavros' interest in impregnating Lulu that resulted in the birth of her daughter with Valentin. And before you ask, can we just say one thing?

We could explain to you how Lulu wound up giving birth to Valentin's daughter, Charlotte, but it would only make your head hurt. And ours. So suffice it to say, yes, that happened. And once again, the Cassadines got to hang a branch from Laura's family tree.

Lulu was right on the verge of reuniting with former husband Dante Falconeri when — argh! What are the odds?!? — the Floating Rib got blown up by mobster Cyrus Renault, and she got blasted into such a long coma that her ex wound up beginning a whole new relationship with Sam McCall.

Why, we couldn't tell ya. But Laura's daughter just has never welcomed a kid into the world in what you'd call the old-fashioned way. Besides Charlotte, whose origin story might as well have been written by the Brothers Grimm, there's Lulu and Dante's son, Rocco. Who was initially believed to have been the son of Britt Westbourne and Patrick Drake. And then believed to be the son of Britt and Brad Cooper. Only in Port Charles, folks…

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Remember Cyrus, the aforementioned mobster whose criminal activities put Lulu in a coma? Against all odds, he was revealed to be Laura's half brother. It seems that when Gordon wasn't cheating on wife Florence, he was sleeping with her, resulting in the birth of the scourge or Port Charles as well as a fellow who struck as a "tad" familiar.

When Laura learned about her extended family via Gordon, she didn't just get Cyrus for a semi sibling, she also got his sibling, Martin Grey, the shadiest attorney this side of The Simpsons' Lionel Hutz. Maybe the shadiest on the other side of the cartoon lawyer, too; Martin's pretty shady!

Through thick and thin — unless it's one of those periods during which he's been replaced again by his evil twin, Ryan Chamberlain — Laura has by her side husband Kevin Collins, one of the leveler heads and opener hearts in topsy-turvy Port Charles.

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Toyota has confirmed four new eco-models within the next three years, one plug-in hybrid, one hybrid and two EVs. The models in question are the advanced 'plug-in' Prius, hybrid version of the forthcoming Yaris supermini, iQ city-car and RAV4 compact SUV EVs.
The plug-in Prius will be Toyota's initial lithium-ion powered hybrid, landing in 2012. Toyota said it will drink petrol at the rate of 2.6l/100km and emit a mere 59g/km of CO2 per kilometre.
The plug-in Prius won't be advertised as a "range extender" because, like the current Prius, it won't be a strict EV supported up by a generator. Though, it will be able to travel 12 miles on electric power alone.
In the same year, a nickel-metal-hydride hybrid Yaris will arrive on the market. It will be made in Valenciennes, France, alongside the regular Yaris, and is expected to use a smaller petrol engine – like the 1.0 VVT-i or 1.33 VVT-i – than the current Prius with CO2 emissions of 80g/km.
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Q: Delete SharePoint Modern Page comments using PowerShell I have a Site Pages library in Communication Site. I have to delete comments posted by 2 users on all the pages using PowerShell.
There are many solutions available which use REST but I prefer to use PowerShell.

A: I have used PnP PowerShell here,
$SiteURL="https://yoyo.sharepoint.com/sites/testsite"
$UserName="user@username.com"
$Password = "password"
$ListName = "Site Pages"
$deleteEmails = "baduser1@gmail.com","baduser2@yahoo.com"

$SecurePassword = ConvertTo-SecureString -String $Password -AsPlainText -Force
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AMBASSADOR SIMUUSA PAYS COURTSEY CALL ON MR. BAN KI-MOON
Ambassador Wylbur Chisiya Simuusa paid a courtesy call on Mr Ban Ki-Moon on Thursday 5th April 2018 at the Ban Ki-Moon Centre for Sustainable Development. The centre's role is to further interdisciplinary cooperation in the exchange of sustainable development goals-related data, research and education, pertinent climate change research, and involvement in Official Development Assistance (ODA) projects. He was accompanied by First Secretary (Political) Abiudy Mbewe, First Secretary (Tourism) Nthemba Kamanga-Minja and Liaison Officer Youngeun Jeong.
During the courtesy call, Mr Moon said that it was an honour to meet with Ambassador Simuusa who he described as a distinguished Ambassador who had gained diplomatic mileage when he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Zambia. He said he welcomed the appointment of Ambassador Simuusa stating that his appointment shows the great importance attached to the Korea-Zambia bilateral relations.
Mr Moon also recalled his visit to Zambia in 2012, when he met with the Late President Sata. He remembered President Sata fondly saying he had a strong and magical power to bring people together. He went on to describe Zambia as a home to Southern Africa's liberation movements.
Ambassador Simuusa thanked Mr Moon for making the time to meet him and his team and that he placed great importance to the meeting. He said that he hoped the meeting would build upon the existing relationship and he would better acquit himself with the activities that Mr Moon was currently perusing. He acknowledged that Mr Moon understood the relationship between Africa and Asia and called upon him to work together to help decrease the disparity that exists between Korea and Zambia. He further added that the Zambian Mission was making efforts to facilitate a State Visit for His Excellency Edgar Chagwa Lungu to which Mr.Moon mentioned his pleasure to be able to meet with President Lungu.
Ban Ki-moon was elected President and Chair of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) which is dedicated to supporting and promoting strong, inclusive and sustainable economic growth in developing countries and emerging economies. Ban Ki-moon began his two-year term in office as GGGI's President and Chair on 20th February 2018. The GGGI is a treaty-based international, inter‑governmental organization established in 2012, at the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. Founded to support and promote the mainstreaming of green growth, GGGI programmes and projects target economic growth that is environmentally sustainable and socially inclusive.
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Building Community Through Service: Bianca Jones Marlin on Volunteer Leadership
History of SfN: 50th Anniversary
When Bianca Jones Marlin started saying "yes" to service opportunities, she started giving to and building her community. "That's the way that the community grows," she says, "but also it brings me joy. It makes me happy to know that the work that I do, my voice and my presence, will help influence change for the better."
In this episode of History of SfN: 50th Anniversary, Jones Marlin, a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute and the incoming chair of SfN's Trainee Advisory Committee, talks about how she's found community within the Society and her involvement with the Trainee Advisory Committee.
History of SfN: 50th Anniversary is a limited series podcast highlighting stories from the history of the Society for Neuroscience, recounting groundbreaking moments in the growth of the Society from the perspectives of current, past, and future leaders.
In addition to explaining how the committee serves as the voice of the newest generation of neuroscientists, Jones Marlin shares her perspective on the rewards of volunteer leadership, how service can improve your scientific skills, and her aims for the future of volunteer leadership at SfN.
The views expressed in this interview are those of the individual and do not necessarily represent the views of the Society for Neuroscience.
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SWANSON: Neuroscientists are explorers, adventurers, boldly posing big questions and working to discover incredible insights about the least understood organ of the human body: the brain. For 50 years the Society for Neuroscience has celebrated these scientists and physicians and provided venues for them to explore together.
We'll discuss the most significant trailblazing moments in the history of SfN with some of our current, past, and future leaders. I'm your host, Dr. Larry Swanson, past president of the Society for Neuroscience and professor of biological sciences and psychology at the University of Southern California.
In this episode, we speak with Dr. Bianca Jones-Marlin, a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute and a Donald B. Lindsley Prize winner in 2016. Dr. Jones-Marlin serves as incoming chair of the Trainee Advisory Committee and is a member of the Online Program Steering Committee and the Leadership Development Program Advisory Group.
Taylor Johnson, SfN's multimedia manager, and Dr. Jones-Marlin talk over the phone about her involvement with the Trainee Advisory Committee, the joys of volunteer leadership, as well as her aims for the future of volunteer leadership at SfN.
Be sure to visit neuronline.sfn.org/listen to subscribe to our Podcasts and to tune into more of our audio content. That's N-E-U-R-O-N-L-I-N-E.org/listen. Without further ado, Taylor, take it away.
JOHNSON: Thank you, Dr. Swanson. Hi, everyone. You're listening to The History of the Society for Neuroscience. My name is Taylor Johnson. One thing as we've gone through this audio series — there's been a common thread besides, of course, the Society itself, and that has been volunteer leadership.
We've heard about that from a lot of the neuroscientists we've talked to, and volunteer leadership is actually the theme of this episode. Joining me for it is Dr. Bianca Jones-Marlin. She's a neuroscientist and postdoctoral fellow at the Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University. Dr. Marlin, welcome.
JONES-MARLIN: Thank you. Thank you for having me today.
JOHNSON: Well, we're really excited to have you, and again thanks for coming. Before we get into discussing volunteer leadership, I'd like to ask if you wouldn't mind giving us a bit of a primer on your academic background and the current research you're working on.
JONES-MARLIN: Yes. My research looks at parental behaviors and behaviors that are essential for survival in mice. My PhD work was with Robert Frank at New York University, and I looked at maternal behaviors, how I can essentially make low-performing moms into better moms. I looked at the "love drug" oxytocin and how that changes the way a mouse will perceive an infant crying.
That work led me into further investigating parental behavior. So now I'm a postdoctoral researcher with Richard Axel here at Columbia, and I'm looking at how a paternal experience could essentially be passed down through generations. It's called transgenerational epigenetic inheritance.
Essentially it changes around one's genome, around a mouse genome that will lead to a memory in the kids and the grandkids of that experience, and how that can be both beneficial but also toxic if it's a negative experience and it's no longer present in the kids and the grandkids.
JOHNSON: Wonderful. We can certainly touch on some of your current research later on, but that's great to hear about that. I know also you've been published in Nature and of course in the Journal of Neuroscience.
JONES-MARLIN: Yes. Thank you.
JOHNSON: Speaking of the Journal of Neuroscience , let's move on to the Society for Neuroscience. Now, when did you first join the Society, was that in 2012?
JONES-MARLIN: I first joined SfN in 2012 as a graduate student. A rule in our lab was that we could only attend SfN if we had a poster. I remember being really excited about finally getting the culmination of my rotation and diving into the first year of lab together.
I was a second-year graduate student at the time, and I presented a poster and since then I've been there every year since then, 2012.
JOHNSON: Wonderful. When you were learning about the Society of Neuroscience, was this something, when you started doing your graduate school work, were you aware, was this sort of a plan to join the Society? What was your impetus to join?
JONES-MARLIN: My impetus to join at the time was definitely the annual meeting. As I got to invest myself into meeting and then also the Society for itself, I realized the benefits of actually joining as a member, the Society for Neuroscience. And not just for the annual meeting, but for everything that's offered throughout the year. But I definitely was introduced to that at the annual meeting.
JOHNSON: The first annual meeting, which one was that?
JONES-MARLIN: This is 2012. Was that DC at the time? It may have been DC. I was there for New Orleans, but that may have been DC at the time. Oh goodness, you're going to have to tell me that one.
JOHNSON: I'll do some research. Are there any stories, maybe not necessarily from your first meeting, though if you have some stories from your first meeting that'd be nice too. But sort of like some of your first memories of the meeting. What struck you about these meetings, in the Society presenting this forum for neuroscientists to meet?
JONES-MARLIN: I remember being starstruck. The meeting sometimes has the title of being really big and very overwhelming. I've had the opportunity with the Society for Neuroscience to talk about a few ways that trainees and graduate students and postdocs can really take that overwhelming feeling and make it beneficial for them.
I remember thinking, There's so many people here. I was riding on the escalator reading people's name-tags and my hands were getting shaky and now because these are people whose papers I read, who I never thought I'd be riding the escalator with. Do I introduce myself or not? Do I just smile and not? And as I've gone year after year, I realize I've found small communities.
Those really, I think, developed from, as crazy as this sounds, the poster sessions. I love the poster sessions at SfN, the annual meeting because it's one-on-one conversation that you can't normally have after one of the talks. And it's hard to have on an escalator.
I remember my first year having people who were related to the work I was doing in maternal behavior and oxytocin come by my poster and that was my chance to actually speak with them. I was very junior. I asked them questions about what their opinions were, and they were able to give me feedback, and feedback that wasn't scary, because it wasn't in front of a large group of people and I didn't have to be defensive.
I could actually take that in, write it down and think about that. So I think my favorite part from that point forward has always been the poster sessions, because of the humanity associated with it.
JOHNSON: Did you find that you would see the same people each successive year, and did those poster sessions build relationships that you could continue throughout? Not necessarily just at the meeting but just throughout your relationship in the science but also with the Society?
JONES-MARLIN: Hands down. I believe that the actual annual participation, that number hasn't changed that much from over a span that I would note from 2012 to 2019, but it feels smaller, and I think it feels smaller now because of the people that I know. You know the poster session hall, you get to create as a family, because every year, year after year, if you're presenting a poster as it grows, you're around those same people.
I was a little bit heartbroken to change fields knowing that I wouldn't see the same auditory people at the pre-meeting and then around the poster session. Now I'm in olfaction and so it's seemingly a little bit larger now that I'm going into a new field. But I know that eventually it's going to have that same familiar feeling.
JOHNSON: Wonderful. Well, this is a perfect segue into talking about how you started as a volunteer leader with the Society, because obviously you've had a positive experience and it's meant a lot for your career.
I'm looking at, let's see, these various points here, and it's sort of like the acronym game. It looks like the Neuroscience Scholars Program, Online Program Steering Committee, Leadership Development Program, and of course the Trainee Advisory Committee. So we've got NSP, OPSC, LDP, and TAC. Am I missing anything?
JONES-MARLIN: Website Advisory Committee, WAC. But who's counting?
JOHNSON: Right. They are losing track of all this. Clearly you have gotten involved and obviously you were a member of the Society, but then you decided to get involved and volunteer your time. How did that start? What got you into wanting to volunteer your time and do even more for the Society?
JONES-MARLIN: I'd seen that a few PIs that I knew had served on-and-off at SfN outside of the actual annual meeting, and I believe that my name was suggested as someone to start for the Trainee Advisory Committee, TAC. And when I went to the first meeting — it's a two-year appointment — when I went to the first meeting, I was so impressed at a different element of neuroscience.
From what I'd observed as a trainee up to that point, you could walk into a lab with your jeans and sneakers and T-shirt, and you have your headphones on and you do your experiments, and then you head out. This was a formalized structure of neuroscience I had never seen before, and I found it very exciting to see how things happen in the backdrop before the annual meeting and to maintain the Society for Neuroscience as a whole annually.
The function of it, I was just fascinated, because it was the business component that I had never observed as a trainee. I assumed that all institutes have this business component, but as a graduate student, you don't see it at all. Maybe a formalized committee meeting, but that's about it. And so I was really impressed as to how we as a Trainee Advisory Committee come up with an idea after posing a problem.
The leaders of TAC, so it's Trainee Advisory Committee, TAC, we call ourselves, they would say, "There's a problem with membership." We would sit around and we would brainstorm, and people would take notes and we'd give suggestions and ideas, and the next meeting we would see actual results and what came to fruition from our conversation.
It was just so amazing to see that structure take place. And it is essentially how science works. I just had never seen it applied to people, for example, or large numbers to that manner. To make it happen. I think that was the biggest thing, to make change happen.
JOHNSON: I'd love to touch on that a little bit later. But I was curious if you could walk me through the progression since you've joined SfN, leading up to your position at TAC.
JONES-MARLIN: I think it started from me deciding that the Society for Neuroscience at the annual meeting was going to be my meeting of choice. I saw that many people, when you have the ability to, I know not every institute, every scientist, and every lab has the ability to choose a meeting to go to every year. But because of my location and because of what my lab could offer and the fellowship I was on, I decided SfN was going to be the one that I was going to continually attend. And so from 2012 attending, presenting a poster, I definitely did a minisymposium, nanosymposium. So I was able to give two talks at SfN. I think from there, establishing myself as someone who continually was presenting at SfN and being given the opportunity to start on TAC, I took that scene from being someone who was presenting to being someone who was presenting for other people presenting.
Giving the podcast or talking about the podcast — at the time this wasn't established then. So my name was suggested to take part in TAC, and once I was on TAC, that's when there were opportunities to say, "Would you like to be part of the Online Program Steering Committee, the OPSC? Would you like to be part of the Web Advisory Committee, WAC?" Like all these things came through taking that first step of joining TAC, and then from there you can say, "No, TAC is perfectly fine. That's where I want to stand." Or you can say, "Yes, these are the opportunities."
I started to say yes to them and here we are now. I was a Neuroscience Scholars Program associate, which gave me the benefit of attending the annual meetings. I wasn't part of the program, but the benefit of that is that I still got to meet the people who were actually in the program, and I was associated with it, so I got to go to their annual meeting, and that has been an amazing experience as well. I went back earlier after I had already become alum to speak to the Neuroscience Scholars Program.
It was just an amazing opportunity to be someone who benefited from it and now that was able to contribute to it. I think that's the beauty of volunteering at SfN, because it's not just what you get out of it, but it's what you can give to it as well and give to your community.
JOHNSON: We can take a step back from the Society specifically, but I was just curious about your philosophy of volunteering and volunteer leadership, and why it's important, whether it's for the Society or anything involving science and communities.
JONES-MARLIN: I know that I wouldn't be where I am right now, which is a postdoc here at Columbia in a position I'm very happy in, if it wasn't for people taking time outside of their life to invest in me. Not only is it an obligation I feel that we have as neuroscientists to make sure that we are giving outside of ourself and outside of our direct benefit to our community, because we know eventually this is going to come back to benefit us.
But in the meantime, it may be hard to train someone who's an undergraduate when you're a graduate student and you have a lot of papers to read and a committee meeting coming up, or you're a postdoc who's helping another postdoc over their fellowship and you have to apply for your own. But it's our onus as scientists to do it, because it builds a community. I firmly believe that.
Every step I would like the community to feel like a place that I am part of, that I am contributing to and I'm happy with. If there's something that doesn't align with that, it's a chance to invest in it for change. Lip service doesn't induce change. It's activity that induces change, and not everything needs to be changed — some things just need to be improved. There's always room for improvement. Not that things are bad, but in the spaces that they are, that's our job and that's our duty.
Part of it's payback, just because I think that's the way that the community grows, but also it brings me joy. It makes me happy to know that the work that I do, that my voice and my presence will help influence change for the better. That makes me happy. So I think it's two-fold: A, it's our obligation, it's our duty because it's the taxes we pay a scientist, but also it's a blast. Those two things really fuel me to continue to lead in service.
JOHNSON: Was there any kind of person or group of people that were particularly inspirational in striving to change for the better?
JONES-MARLIN: I think in every aspect of my career, there's always been someone who I say, "I admire that person. I admire the way they navigate this world." And I think a lot of that probably has to come or probably comes from the fact that they invested when they didn't have to.
I wouldn't say there's one person that's a pinnacle outside of my parents who definitely have dedicated their life in ways that not everyone does to benefit societies. Maybe we can talk about in the future. But nonetheless, I think from undergraduate all the way through graduate school to now, there's always been people who are doing above and beyond what they have to do, and it benefits me and they don't have to do that. They're not getting paid to do that. I just think that's something that's such an admirable trait. That is something I want to reflect.
I think when it comes to people who have put their foot down and put their money where their mouth is, when it comes to change, my parents are definitely people who have instilled in me the purpose of and the importance of contributing to their community. My parents are both foster parents, and so they took children in whose parents couldn't always take care of them a given moment in time for whatever, a series of reasons, and they invested in them.
I thought that was something that I wanted to do, even if it's not particularly with children but with my community. So I think that's something I found really admirable. There are people out there in the world to do it constantly, and I seem to find them in every step I stepped into.
JOHNSON: So earlier you mentioned about changing for the better within the Society and with within your role on TAC. And I kind of wanted to take a look at the developments and changes you've seen since being a member of the Society even before you were involved more, but sort of what you've seen at that point.
And then, after that I will ask what you'd like to see. So we'll start with the first part. What changes or developments have you seen since you became a member, including your involvement with the Trainee Advisory Committee?
JONES-MARLIN: I think one of the changes I was most impressed by, because just to see it come to its essence from a conversation, was the conversation of membership. We as Trainee Advisory Committee members, we advise committees specifically that go directly to the Committee on Committees, because there are a lot of committees and we provide the trainee perspective.
There was one element that came up, the conversation surrounding membership and maintaining membership throughout the year, and not just for this Society for Neuroscience, but all the benefits that SfN has and offers online, and meetings, et cetera, that could be maintained for membership throughout the year.
We broke up into groups and we had conversations and Trainee Advisory Committee, TAC. We came up with an idea of having extended membership — so on the website, instead of purchasing membership for one year, you can essentially subscribe for two years. That idea was noted, and that next meeting, it was established on their website.
Something as simple as what works for us — we are a generation, as trainees now, for most of the generations, in which we're tech-savvy. Our subscriptions for music and for the arts usually are serviced over two years. That idea came from us, came from our group.
To see our thoughts and ideas honored in that manner and then put into practice, it was just really cool, and we were able to look at the stats after that establishment. We saw that membership increased, and that means membership is going to increase for two years because it's a two year commitment to that membership. Seeing something like that happen in real time was really cool.
I'm currently here chatting with you about the podcast. That's something that we've been talking about for the last four years on TAC, knowing that the 50th anniversary was coming up, and so to chat about what that would look like on TAC and then now to be part of it is another one of those instances where things actually come from an idea to practice volunteering at SfN.
JOHNSON: So as you know, you really represent the next generation of volunteer leadership of course with your leadership role on TAC. As that takes shape, what are some of the developments that you're hoping to take forward with the Society?
JONES-MARLIN: Yes. I'm currently the incoming chair for the Trainee Advisory Committee, a position I'm really excited to serve on because as TAC, we're the voice of trainees, and that's such an important position to be in. Numerically, we represent the majority of the neuroscience community, and for a VPI, how many postdocs and graduate students, undergraduates work under a single scientist both in academia and also in industry?
To take on the ability to speak for my peers is just, I'm so excited to take part. I think one conversation that my ears are tuned to, is that not just for the scientists here in the US but the scientists abroad. The Society for Neuroscience is international, and to make sure that accessibility, that the conversations that we have are not just for American scientists but also for the scientists that are coming from other countries to America, and for the scientists who are not currently in the United States.
That we're still making sure that everything that we're providing can be accessible and attainable even with conversation and sensitivity of culture to them. I'm excited to do that. I am American, I'm trained here in America, but taking that thought process on really is a service that goes beyond me. I need to rely on my peers to give me information so that I can advise TAC and committee on committees about what that looks like. I'm proud to stand as a voice for my peers in that matter.
JOHNSON: That's great. Obviously we're looking at the 50th anniversary of the Society, and in this audio series we've talked about how the Society and neuroscience in general have grown up together. A lot has certainly changed in neuroscience as well as just in the world in general over the past 50 years.
What do you see as the future for the Society moving forward? Like let's think of it the next 50 years and kind of what you want it to be in terms of its membership and what other volunteer and future volunteer leaders can contribute to the society.
JONES-MARLIN: So as time goes on, technology becomes renewed and reestablished and strengthened. And so to develop alongside technology, I'm really excited to see what neuroscience is going to provide. But I think in the same essence, especially us as trainees, technology is essential, but we haven't lost the root of the questions that we asked.
I think those are very holistic, and so I'm excited to see over the next 50 years looking at how technology is used to go back to humanity, if that is clear. So using technology as a means to connect with our Earth, connect with our nature, connect with our mind, and just optimizing what technology can provide to answer the questions that we couldn't answer in the past.
I think that we are in neuroscience at a really exciting time, and the opportunity that we have as trainees — look back at old papers and during classes, et cetera, and how we've answered questions that we couldn't answer in the same exact way 50 years ago, but the questions are still the same. The questions are still there because we're still probing the brain and we just have different opportunities to do it now with technology. I think it's going to be really exciting for bringing it back to grass roots, as ironic as that sounds.
JOHNSON: Well, there's kind of an elegance in that that you had brought up as well. Earlier when you were talking about how the Society — it's an international organization, it matters to keep it global because science is global. And the future of the Society, I was wondering if obviously the technology can help bring the world together in terms of making it easier for us to collaborate.
JONES-MARLIN: Exactly, exactly, and the ease in which we now can speak to our collaborators across the globe and across time essentially is the beauty of what the annual meeting is, for example, which is sharing ideas and disseminating thoughts all in one local place. But the ability to do that throughout the area and with using different technologies is really going to edify the scientific process.
JOHNSON: Obviously the annual meeting has been referred to as the brick and mortar of the Society. But as technology gets better and if there's more of an emphasis on global collaboration that's not necessarily all in the same place, what do you see as the future of balancing the technology as well as the annual meeting? Because the annual meeting in a way is really a grassroots representation, if you will, of the Society.
JONES-MARLIN: Yes. Hands down. I don't think they will ever become so polarized or separate where it's one or the other. I think they work in fluidity. And so the ability to come to the annual meeting for those who can and those are who are here, it opens doors via conversation, via eye contact, via those amazing poster sessions that I chatted about earlier and how exciting those are.
And then to be able to go back to your respective institutions, share what you've learned at SfN and create connections there, that's when the magic starts. It's an opportunity to focus our time and energy and 30,000 people into one place for one period of time for one week, but that's just the seed that spreads the actual growth and tree of the connections and science.
And so we do need that root. That's going to be essential for knowing what's happening in other institutions across the world, but then those conversations can continue over the year and over years using the benefits we have with technology now.
JOHNSON: What do you see as challenges to the Society and working with its members around the world? Being an international organization but moving forward basically and into the next 50 years of the Society?
JONES-MARLIN: I think one of the most important parts of what the Society stands for and what we want to do and continue doing, I think it would be accessibility. The questions that we're asking in neuroscience shouldn't be for one particular people, group, country, socioeconomic layout, because we're looking at the brain and all humans have a brain. And so making sure that the accessibility to ask the questions that are pertinent to you is established, I think that's how neuroscience grows and blooms and that's how the Society grows and blooms.
I am focused on parental behavior because that's important for me as a mom, as someone who grew up with parents who are foster parents, as a former teacher. I bring a very unique spin into my research program, but that's just me and my contribution. My contribution is extremely important because of my unique life, but so is every other neuroscientist's.
Giving the accessibility to people to share their neuroscience, to get proper feedback, whether at the annual meeting or online, to have access to the online information that Society for Neuroscience provides. All of those things will help edify the neuroscience because everyone's unique perspective is essential for these things to run.
The people who are interested solely in optogenetics, their focus is essential for my research program. I may not be for theirs, but someone else's will be, and so us all focusing on our individual components, but having access to everyone else's components, that's where we really, really grow. And that's what I'm looking forward to in the next 50 years.
JOHNSON: Does that excite you? I mean does that excite you the most about the field, this blooming, expanding the field and the collaboration? What excites you most about the future of the field?
JONES-MARLIN: I'm so excited for this aspect. I can't wait until I have the opportunity to run my own research program where I can recruit my own trainees and then my own postdocs with the same mentality that each individual is going to bring their own unique perspective that's going to edify our lab's program, our institution's program, and the Society's program and the neuroscience as a whole, its program.
In that manner it's the one thing that keeps late nights in the lab, and papers upon papers and revisions upon revisions going, because we're contributing to something way bigger than what we do every day. And that's an honor.
JOHNSON: Thank you so much. That was really wonderful. Really a wonderful answer and really appreciate your thoughts on all of that. I think we're about ready to wrap up. Is there anything else that I missed or anything that you would like to talk about that's important to you that you'd like the audience to hear?
JONES-MARLIN: I think if I was to leave with one more message to people who are having the opportunity to listen, it would be the joy of serving and leadership positions with SfN. I know we as trainees are, we're sometimes overwhelmed. We have a lot of work to do in our respective programs and fields whether undergraduates, graduate students, or postdocs, or research assistants, et cetera.
We're training for the goal of being excellent neuroscientists, no matter what field we're going into — industry, academia, et cetera. Our main focus is the science, and it's very common that — I felt at times, and we can feel at times — that we don't have time to serve, it's not a paid position. It takes away from lab. If I could share one thing, it's being part of TAC, being a leader in the Society for Neuroscience is one of the most edifying things I've done thus far. It's perfected my science skills, the way I answer and ask questions, and the people I'm able to ask these questions to and meet with.
It really has changed my approach on science, and I'm looking forward to serving well into my future. So as overwhelming as it may seem at that period in time, it's worth it. Because change is happening on all fronts, not just with our science, but with where science is going. We're pretty much putting something back into the pot, and it's going to benefit us. So don't be overwhelmed or intimidated by serving. Not only is it our duty, but it's our joy and we should all optimize on that. If everyone can serve to the extent they can, whether it's at their own local institution or larger than that, they should, and we should.
JOHNSON: Wonderful. I can't thank you enough. That was an amazing answer and it's just great to hear your thoughts on all of this and we really appreciate you sitting down with us and talking about volunteer leadership and to the Society in general at this time of the 50th anniversary.
JONES-MARLIN: Yes, thank you very much. Thank you so much for having me.
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