On Tuesday, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern continued to demonstrate a masterful understanding of how to respond to terrorism in the age of social media. Recognizing that the shooter craves infamy and wants his rampage to go viral, she is refusing to say the name of the suspect who allegedly killed 50 people at two mosques in Christchurch on Friday.
A parliamentary meeting on Tuesday began with a recitation of passages from the Koran in both Arabic and English. Ardern then opened the Parliament with the traditional Arabic greeting "As-salamu alaykum," and detailed for lawmakers the steps she plans to take in response to the mass killing.
Lessons of #leadership and #inspiration in times of crisis.
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The suspect, a 28-year-old Australian national, has been charged with a single count of murder. Authorities said they are waiting for forensic work to conclude before filing charges in the other 49 deaths.
The killer livestreamed his attack for 17 minutes on Facebook. Since then, his supporters have repeatedly uploaded his video onto various social media sites. Ardern said she has been in communication with Facebook's Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg to shut down such efforts and ensure that the footage cannot be viewed on the platform.
The alleged murderer also published a 74-page manifesto in advance of the attack that appears custom-designed to spread online and through the media. It name-checks several media personalities with large followings, like conservative American pundit Candace Owens and YouTube star PewDiePie, presumably so they will publicly denounce him — thereby raising his profile even more.
Moreover, the suspect has fired his court-appointed lawyer so that he can represent himself, suggesting that he plans to use the trial as an opportunity to spout off about his extremist ideology.
In the meantime, Ardern is doing her part to make sure the killer never becomes a household name.


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Clareville PR acquired by CI Group
Paul Colston January 14, 2020 No Comments
International B2B and consumer PR consultancy Clareville, which boasts the IMEX Group and the German and Thailand Convention Bureaux among its industry clients, has been acquired by the CI Group.
The value of the transaction has not been revealed and Clareville will now become the CI Group's PR partner.
John Starr, Clareville
Clareville was established 30 years ago by John Starr and Val Mumby and is based in London with staff also in North America, Germany and the Middle East.
This acquisition takes the CI Group closer to its target of £20m (US$25.95m) a year turnover and £5m gross margin by the end of 2020.
It follows the earlier acquisition of data analytics consultancy Pearl Analytics and digital marketing specialists CI. Diginut.
The full-service integrated communications business now comprises six agencies and John Starr, co-founder and MD of Clareville told CMW Clareville would be joining the central London office of CI "shortly". He added that there would be no changes of staff as a result of the sale and that Alison Ledger would be joining part time, working on the Maritim, HBAA and Wyboston Lakes Resort accounts.
Starr added: "For quite a while we've been wanting to offer a wider range of services to the market by partnering with a bigger organisation with compatible but not competing skills.
"After working together with the CI Group agencies on projects on an informal basis for several months, we've formalised the arrangement and become part of the Group."
David Watt, CEO of the CI Group added (pictured top): "The Clareville team and their talents have added a new extra dimension to our wide range of communications expertise, skills that will be valuable to many of the Group's clients.
"It's an exciting addition but not, I expect, the last. We continue to search for talent, skills and expertise."
Corporate Innovations started 20 years ago when David Watt led the business specialising in live brand experiences. It quickly grew into an experiential, rewards and promotional business.
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UC Davis Previously Published Works
Development and characterization of a novel rat model of type 2 diabetes mellitus: the UC Davis type 2 diabetes mellitus UCD-T2DM rat.
Cummings, Bethany P;
Digitale, Erin K;
Stanhope, Kimber L;
Graham, James L;
Baskin, Denis G;
Reed, Benjamin J;
Sweet, Ian R;
Griffen, Steven C;
Havel, Peter J
The prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2DM) is increasing, creating a need for T2DM animal models for the study of disease pathogenesis, prevention, and treatment. The purpose of this project was to develop a rat model of T2DM that more closely models the pathophysiology of T2DM in humans. The model was created by crossing obese Sprague-Dawley rats with insulin resistance resulting from polygenic adult-onset obesity with Zucker diabetic fatty-lean rats that have a defect in pancreatic beta-cell function but normal leptin signaling. We have characterized the model with respect to diabetes incidence; age of onset; longitudinal measurements of glucose, insulin, and lipids; and glucose tolerance. Longitudinal fasting glucose and insulin data demonstrated progressive hyperglycemia (with fasting and fed glucose concentrations >250 and >450 mg/dl, respectively) after onset along with hyperinsulinemia resulting from insulin resistance at onset followed by a progressive decline in circulating insulin concentrations, indicative of beta-cell decompensation. The incidence of diabetes in male and female rats was 92 and 43%, respectively, with an average age of onset of 6 mo in males and 9.5 mo in females. Results from intravenous glucose tolerance tests, pancreas immunohistochemistry, and islet insulin content further support a role for beta-cell dysfunction in the pathophysiology of T2DM in this model. Diabetic animals also exhibit glycosuria, polyuria, and hyperphagia. Thus diabetes in the UC Davis-T2DM rat is more similar to clinical T2DM in humans than in other existing rat models and provides a useful model for future studies of the pathophysiology, treatment, and prevention of T2DM.
A GPU Multiversion B-Tree
Awad, Muhammad A.;
Porumbescu, Serban D.;
Owens, John D.
A resonant cockcroft-walton switched-capacitor converter achieving full ZCS and >10kW/inch3 Power Density
Ellis, N;
Amirtharajah, R
A Resonant Gate Driver with Variable Gain and a Capacitively Decoupled High-Side GaN-FET
Ellis, NM;
Sousa, E;
A Resonant 1:5 Cockcroft-Walton Converter Utilizing GaN FET Switches with N-Phase and Split-Phase Clocking
Reducing COSSSwitching Loss in a GaN-based Resonant Cockcroft-Walton Converter Using Resonant Charge Redistribution


Meet the Prospect: Could Dan Straily Offer Fantasy Appeal In 2012?
Listed at 6'2", 220 lbs.
Posted solid numbers in A+ in 2011, but nothing like what he's done so far in 2012, with a 3.87 ERA, 1.24 WHIP and 154 K in 160.2 IP (the same number as he has in 2012 in 42.1 more IP).
His stuff has improved big time this season, going from, as John Sickels said before the season, "He has a low-90s fastball (some reports have him in the mid-90s), a solid curve, and a changeup. While none of his offerings are truly outstanding, he throws strikes and was consistently effective in the California League last year. This doesn't guarantee success at higher levels, of course," to what Goldstein said in the quote in the intro.
On twitter Goldstein continued his praise for Straily when he answered a question Monday night asking if Straily was a potential #3 with "Yes, maybe even a bit more." That may not sound like a lot, but if you follow Goldstein, him projecting someone as even better than a #3 starter is very high praise.
Straily may have seemingly come out of nowhere, but he has developed his stuff greatly to the point where he went from being considered as a near non-prospect to a mid-rotation starter or possibly even better with, depending on who you follow, two or even three plus pitches. He's showing great strikeout stuff, even in a league that greatly benefits hitters: No team in the PCL has a combined ERA below 4 and eight of the 16 teams have an ERA above 4.90.
The A's haven't been afraid to advance Straily quickly, moving him up to AAA from A in just a season and a half. With them only 0.5 game out of the wild card spot in the AL, Oakland has incentive to promote him to the big leagues. However, Dallas Braden and Brett Anderson are both expected to be back in mid-August or early September.
Still, Straily could be worth a stash in deep leagues as he would be pitching in the pitchers park that Oakland calls home. Due to the risk involved in all pitchers acclimating to the majors as well as the pure risk involved with the chance that he gets the call-up, he's not for everyone.


Sunday blogging against racism #39–"a dull ache" | I wanna love You better whatever it takes . . .
I thought this entry was profound and worth reading . . .
and then, because I don't want to be accused of being stuck in power¹, I should also share this indictment of my whiteness . . . because I totally see myself in the woman he describes, although I'm not 100% sure I agree with the latter part of his post.
← as usual, someone else says it better . . .


I'm thirty-seven, but I feel like I'm in my twenties!
In the past I would work out and lose weight, but then something in life would always take me down and I would start feeling depressed. Then I would continue to eat more and more and gain the weight back. With TLS, now I feel like I am capable of anything! I'm thirty-seven, but I feel like I'm in my twenties! There were many obstacles to overcome, including not consuming alcohol, breads, sodium and sugar. It was difficult, but I knew my end results of a healthier lifestyle would be worth it. Plus, with my coach helping me, I knew that I always had someone supporting me. Now my eating habits have completely changed. I no longer feel like I'm missing out by not eating greasy fried foods on a daily basis and drinking beer every day. I re-discovered my love for the gym and found new ways to fit exercise into my daily life. My self-esteem and confidence is off the charts.


Gus is a beautiful example of the english lab. He is so loving and so eager to be involved in what ever you do. He loves to retrieve as long as you throw the ball. He loves the water so much its hard to keep him away from the pond or the water hose.


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The wireless home security systems have lots of advantages and these are such as the aspect of it being so portable, making it so easy for you to carry them with you whenever you happen to move or change location. On top of this is the fact that they are quick and easy to fix, in fact most of them will be so easily installed by the user on their own. On top of these is that the following are some of the top reasons why it will be advisable for you to have installed in your home the LifeShield home surveillance systems.
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If you've been reading here for very long, you know that I despise air travel – except for the part where you're somewhere different at the end of the trip. Well, because of my penchant for general ranting about the airlines, I thought it only fair to say that I had four flawless flights on this trip.
Of course they were miserable – how could they be anything else? And, I was herded like livestock as always. But, everything was on time, my luggage arrived on time and intact, none of my flights or gates were changed or cancelled and to top it off on one of them I met someone interesting.
During the flight from Chicago to DC I was seated next to a gentleman who works for Coleman. We had a wonderful chat. He was very, very pleasant. It always makes the time go quickly when you have an interesting seat mate. Unfortunately, that's rare. But, he was delightful – sort of the ultimate dad type – with a really interesting business perspective.
Yesterday I wasn't quite so lucky. On the DC to Chicago leg I was seated next to a guy who should have used more deodorant before boarding. On the Chicago to Wichita trip I was seated across the aisle from a body builder. I find the body builder look very creepy, but I guess some women go ga-ga over it. There's something weird about men who have used so many steroids that their veins look like they could burst through their skin at any moment. Yeah, a guy who's in shape is appealing, but there's a long way between in shape and that "my skin can't really contain my muscles anymore" look.
Of course, he was wearing shorts, so in case you didn't catch the veins in his forearms looking like they could explode if he moved his arm too much, we had a good view of his leg muscles that were like one of those drawings of muscles without the skin over them. I swear I expected them to be blue and red like the pull down charts your 8th grade health teacher had.
But, if you think that was the creepiest part, you'd be wrong. His wife and one of their kids sat in the row behind him so his mother could sit next to him. I looked over more than once to see his mother with her hand on his thigh – his inner thigh – near his crotch. (Apparently she doesn't know what steroids do.) Way creepy.
Of course, none of this was the fault of the airlines. It was just another part of the air travel experience. There's always an experience.


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Genesis in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE 3. Structure
III. The Structure of the Individual Pericopes. In this division of the article, there is always to be found (under 1) a consideration of the unity of the Biblical text and (under 2) the rejection of the customary division into different sources. The conviction of the unity of the text of Genesis and of the impossibility of dividing it according to different sources is strongly confirmed and strengthened by the examination of the different pericopes. Here, too, we find the division on the basis of the typical numbers 4,7,10,12. It is true that in certain cases we should be able to divide in a different way; but at times the intention of the author to divide according to these numbers practically compels acceptance on our part, so that it would be almost impossible to ignore this matter without detriment, especially since we were compelled to accept the same fact in connection with the articles EXODUS (II); LEVITICUS (II, 2); DAY OF ATONEMENT (I, 2, 1), and aIso EZEKIEL (I, 2, 2). But more important than these numbers, concerning the importance or unimportance of which there could possibly be some controversy, are the fundamental religious and ethical ideas which run through and control the larger pericopes of the [toledhoth] of Terah, Isaac and Jacob in such a way that it is impossible to regard this as merely the work of a redactor, and we are compelled to consider the book as the product of a single writer. 1. The Structure of the Prooemium (Genesis 1 through 2:3): The structure of the proemium (Gen 1:1 through 2:3) is generally ascribed to P. Following the introduction (Gen 1:1,2; creation of chaos), we have the creation of the seven days with the Sabbath as a conclusion. The first and the second three days correspond to each other (1st day, the light; 4th day, the lights; 2nd day, the air and water by the separation of the waters above and the waters below; 5th day, the animals of the air and of the water; 3rd day, the dry land and the vegetation; 6th day, the land animals and man; compare also in this connection that there are two works on each day). We find Exodus also divided according to the number seven (see EXODUS, II, 1; compare also Ex 24:18b through 31:18; see EXODUS, II, 2, 5, where we have also the sevenfold reference to the Sabbath idea in Ex, and that, too, repeatedly at the close of different sections, just as we find this here in Genesis); and in Lev compare chapters 23; 25; 27; see LEVITICUS, II, 2, 2; the VIII, IX, and appendix; and in Gen 4:17 ff J; 5:1-24 P; 6:9 through 9:29; 36:1 through 37 I (see under 2, 1,2,3,1)...


Lahore ring road. Photograph from Google Earth.
You can't see through cement – and neither can I. When I look at Lahore and the ways in which cement has cordoned off sight-lines, I see a city full of people blind-folded. The gated communities were the first variant – ghettos of the elite – where cement walls rose up to seclude and to protect. The Defense Housing Authority which emerged in the 90s on vast swaths of land confiscated, distributed and redistributed by the military junta. That military-gated community needed its own armies of servants, chowkidars, drivers who couldn't live too far, but not too close. So behind Defense was the soft settlement – corroded tin, bricks, mud. Then came the newer colonization – the Askari Housing Society. A new generation of military families, needing cheaper fabrics. So more empty and settled land had to be cleared off, parceled out, built. Then more roads added. Access roads.
Lahore used to be a city connected by neighborhoods, each reaching a tentacle into the next, linked by small roads and alleys. The arterial Mall Road or Jail Road or Canal Road were remarkable not for what they traversed but by how much of the city they left alone, untouched. To go from my house – at the far end of Cantonment to the Old City, say the Fort, took forever plus an hour. It used to feel good to me – this slow, fitful, crawl across Sadr, Mughalpura, Railway Colony, Landa Bazaar, Do Moria Pull, Bilal Ganj – to visit my friend L. The journey was its own event.
Now, I got on the Ring Road.
A thick toothpaste slathered across Lahore's exterior, the Ring Road horrified me. It cuts through arable land, dairy colonies, satellite townships – anything and everything. As we drove across, in silence, the road empty of other cars – I saw only those separated by this cement and concrete river, trying to swim to the other side. The eight-feet high wall of cement which frames the highway had been broken into – human shaped chunks torn through, where silhouettes gathered waiting to run and vault across. Single men. Women and children. Some carrying goods. Some empty handed. A donkey cart hesitant. Imagine if between your home and your grocery store was a major highway. You have to imagine it, because it is not your reality. Nor is it mine. I live inside the bubble. The nice people had built pedestrian bridges – 500 meters or so apart – high stairs. Imagine walking to one, climbing up the stairs and then down. Imagine if you have to do it 15 times a day. With weight of your livelihood. I saw one couple – him holding her hand; she carrying a child; they carrying cloth-wrapped bundles waiting for my car to whiz bye so they could cross. Hesitant.
But the torn fabric of these lives was not the full story. On other sections, as our car made its way towards Ravi, were other tableaus. Two kids – barely 12 – lying flat on the cement embankment, sunning. Their legs lazily entangled, their eyes chasing the clouds. At another moment, a group of men smoking on the cement wall. Gossiping. Perhaps these points existed as meeting places, and they were re-enacting a lost world. Perhaps the din of passing traffic provided its own pleasant soundtrack.
No matter what we do, we can never educate our people. There it is, the pedestrian crossing and look at our jahalat that we are jumping walls and sprinting through traffic, because we cannot simply follow the law and cross legally. There really is no hope for us, you know. In Germany, I bet no one would ever dream of such a horrendous way to cross a highway.
I replied that maybe in Germany they would not partition a neighborhood like this, but that seems a silly response to make in hindsight. I wanted to be angry. Because the Ring Road angered me. I wanted my indignation to be registered. How dare they create partitions. But, I can see partitions everywhere in Lahore. The walls have grown taller all across Lahore. Every house has its own, shielding its inhabitants. Every neighborhood its own. My anger at the Ring Road seems silly in one sense.
The convenience is really amazing.
In the last ten years, Lahore has finally had the immense migration which was long a hallmark of Karachi. Neighborhoods have changed – the new migrants bringing their own languages, their own habitations, their new economies. The Ring Road, the motorway, the heavy-cargo industry, all participate in this Lahore. I heard more Pashto in DHA than Punjabi. Yet social fabric of Lahore was tied intimately to the cartography of Lahore. To be from Lahore, was to answer with the name of a neighborhood. Samnabad. Garhi Shaho. Mazang Chungi. Each neighborhood an encoding of a particular genealogy, accent, attitude, charisma. As you moved slowly, were forced to, across Lahore you saw and heard all of this. The only sight you see from the Ring Road is cement. The only sound is the whoosh of the silent car.
Piece crossposted with Chapati Mystery. Part of an ongoing series on Lahore.


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Heinrich Coors * 1911
Am Frankenberg 22 (Harburg, Wilstorf)
HEINRICH COORS
IM WIDERSTAND
VERHAFTET 1942
HAFT IN HAMBURG
1944 NEUENGAMME
TOT 3.5.1945
NEUSTÄDTER BUCHT
Heinrich Coors, born 28 May 1911 in Harburg, drowned 3 May 1945 in the Bay of Lübeck
Langenbek, Am Frankenberg 22
Heinrich Coors, called Heico, was the second son of Lorenz Coors (*24 Aug. 1880 in Neuland near Harburg). He was a Communist, and had worked as a runner at the Phoenix rubber works since 1925. He was fired because of his political views in 1929, and after that scraped by with odd jobs. He lived with his father at Hohe Straße 2 until November 1932, then moved into his own apartment at Am Frankenberg 22. He was the leader of the Harburg chapter of the Young Communist League of Germany. After the Nazis came to power, he was arrested and sent to one of the Emsland Concentration Camps. He returned to Harburg in 1934, and was unemployed until 1936.
In 1934, the new housing developments Traun, Femerlings Erben, Penz, Wohlersweg, and Moorwiese were built in Neuland. Heinrich Coors lived at Moorwiese III, House 41. (The housing developments no longer exist. A few of the houses still remain on Wohlersweg). In 1936 Heinrich Coors found a job with the railroad, and then as a welder's assistant at the Eriksen machine factory in Winsen (Luhe). On 12 April 1939 he married Tabea (Semling) Nilges (*18 Mar. 1907 in Harburg). In 1939 he had a job at the Rami feed company on Blohmstraße, and from the autumn of 1939 until 9 August 1942 as a welder's assistant with the Harburg Mills.
A new Communist resistance organization had formed in Harburg in 1935, under the leadership of Felix Plewa (see Biographies, Felix Plewa). They received materials from the German Communist Party's Northern Bureau, in exile in Copenhagen. Heinrich Coors was an active member in one of the cells, although we do not know which one. Contemporaries claimed he was in the cell at the Phoenix works, but then he would have had to have been employed there. After the Wehrmacht invaded Denmark in 1940, the Gestapo was able to track down many former members of the Northern Bureau. The wave of arrests extended to many of the contact persons in northern Germany, including those in Harburg. The Gestapo arrested Felix Plewa and many other resistance fighters, including Heinrich Coors, on 9 August 1942. He was found guilty of "intent to commit high treason" by the Hanseatic District Court and sentenced to eighteen months in prison.
After serving his prison sentence he was sent to the Neuengamme Concentration Camp. His wife received the last letter from him on 11 February 1945. When the concentration camp was evacuated in the spring of 1945, most of the prisoners, including Heinrich Coors, were loaded into freight cars and sent to the Bay of Lübeck. There they were transferred to three ships: the Cap Arcona, the Thielbeck, and the Athen. The ships, carrying more than 7000 concentration camp prisoners, set sail, then anchored in the Bay of Neustadt for several days. On 3 May they were bombed by the Royal Air Force, which mistook them for German troop transports. The Cap Arcona and the Thielbeck capsized and sank. About 6600 of those aboard drowned. A few prisoners were able to swim to shore, but were immediately apprehended by the National Socialists in Neustadt. Heinrich Coors was among those killed. According to his wife, he was aboard the Thielbeck.
Translator(s): Amy Lee
Translation kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg
© Hans-Joachim Meyer
Quellen: VVN-BdA Harburg (Hrsg.), Die anderen, s. Personenverzeichnis; StaH, 351-11, AfW, Tabea Coors; StaH, 332-8 Meldewesen; StaH, Adressbücher Harburg-Wilhelmsburg und Hamburg; Holtz/Homann, Straßennamen; Bringmann, KZ Neuengamme; Totenliste VAN.


Samsung Galaxy Note lineup is a great success on the market, with millions of units sold every quarter. The South Korean firm has been improving its Note series since the launch day in an attempt to offer a better user experience and take on competitors out there.
Back in 2016, Samsung encountered its unprecedented recall of the Note 7 after reports of a battery flaw that caused some of the device to explode. The Note 7 fiasco had damaged Samsung's reputation and the company was working so hard to recover trust among users.
The South Korean firm took a big step to achieve that goal when it announced the Galaxy Note 8. Basically, the Note 8 was not a significant upgrade over its Note 7, but it helped Samsung recover reputation following the Note 7 disaster.
The Note 8 is one of the best-selling smartphones on the market. According to the latest reports, the South Korean firm shipped more than 20 million Note 8 in the second quarter of the year. The newly-released Note 9 is expected to follow the huge success of its predecessor on the market.
In reality, we heard a lot of rumors regarding the Note 9 prior to its official announcement. True to rumors and reports, Samsung introduced a lot of new things while adding more power to the phone's internal hardware.
In the section below, we have compiled a list of the best tips and tricks for your Galaxy Note 9. For some background, the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 has been available for purchase since August 24, sooner than we expected. Tech experts say that the early release of Note 9 shows that Samsung wants to beat Apple's upcoming iPhone models.
The S-Pen is among the best highlights of the Galaxy Note lineup, allowing users to take note or stretch their ideas directly on their screen. With the release of the Note 9, Samsung has taken the S-Pen to a whole new level.
The Samsung S-Pen is the first stylus to feature Bluetooth connectivity on the market. Basically, your S-Pen now can perform some magic tricks from up to 9 meters away like opening the camera app, flipping the camera to selfie mode, or controlling your music playback.
However, there is a handy S-Pen feature that you may not know about. Specifically, you can quickly unlock your phone with your stylus by performing a simple click of the button. To enable the feature, open Settings > Advanced Features > S Pen > Unlock with S-Pen remote.
Your S-Pen needs to be charged so it may work properly. Basically, it requires 40 seconds of charge time every time you embed it on your phone. The S-Pen is Samsung's answer to Apple Pencil on the market. However, Samsung's stylus is having the upper hand over its rival thanks to its Bluetooth functionality.
The Always-On-Display is insanely popular out there as it has become an essential part of smartphones. The adoption of the Always-On Display helps you quickly check notifications even when your screen remains black.
With the Note 9, Samsung allows you to customize your Always-On-Display to your liking. Specifically, Samsung has its own Themes Store that houses a wide range of themes that fit your needs.
To customize your Always-On-Display, you simply need to open Settings from your home screen, then select Wallpapers and Themes and select Always-On-Display. From here, you will be presented with a wide range of themes. Select your preferred one and finish the task.
There are a lot of things on your phone you don't want anyone else to see. With that in mind, Samsung introduced Secure Folder, a handy feature that helps you protect your sensitive information from the prying eyes.
Basically, Secure Folder automatically encrypts your files and ties them into Samsung's own security platform called Knox. Following this method, your files will be heavily secured with a PIN or password.
To access the feature, open the Settings, then select Biometrics and Security and tap Secure Folder. After that, sign into your Samsung's account and choose a security measure. Once you are done, you now can add files, photos or apps to your newly-created folder. Everything in your Secure Folder will be accessible to you only.
The Galaxy Note 9 offers multiple security measures. However, it seems that Samsung wants to enhance the security on your phone with the introduction of Intelligent Scan. Basically, Intelligent Scan combines face and iris scanning to add more security to your phone. Basically, the feature will authenticate your identity using both face and iris scanning if both fail to unlock your device.
The Samsung Galaxy Note 9 is the best Android phone you can buy right now on the market. The release of the Note 9 gives its competitors a driving reason to be innovative this year.


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La centrale del Mercure è un impianto a biomasse vegetali situato nel territorio di Laino Borgo al confine tra Calabria e Basilicata, eroga una potenza elettrica di .

Storia

Costruzione dell'impianto
I lavori iniziano nel 1962 in località Pianette, nel comune di Laino Borgo (CS) per risollevare le sorti economiche della Valle con il tentativo d'arrestare l'emorragia emigratoria. L'impianto è costituito da due sezioni di 75 MW complessivi, predisposte al funzionamento tramite lignite ed olio combustibile denso.

La prima unità viene avviata il 14 novembre 1965, la seconda unità il 16 febbraio 1966 sfruttando i giacimenti di lignite presenti in loco.

Prima riconversione
Nel 1970 i giacimenti di lignite sfruttati dalla centrale risultarono poco convenienti e nel giro di pochi anni quello di ''Pianette'' si esaurì e gli altri due giacimenti, il ''Caricchio'' a Castelluccio Inferiore ed il ''La Guardia'', vennero sfruttati fino a quando furono ritenuti non più convenienti dal punto di vista economico.

Queste circostanze spinsero l'Enel a valutare l'utilizzo di olio combustibile denso al posto della lignite.

Le tappe del percorso autorizzativo furono:
 nel 1984 la presentazione del progetto di trasformazione dell'impianto alle Amministrazioni comunali della Valle del Mercure calabresi e lucane;
 nel 1985 la trasmissione del progetto alle Regioni Calabria e Basilicata;
 nel 1986 la nomina di una Commissione scientifica per lo studio di impatto ambientale della centrale;
 1987 la presentazione, all'Enel, dello studio di impatto ambientale elaborato dalla Commissione scientifica.

Chiusura dell'impianto
I due gruppi produttivi vengono dismessi rispettivamente nel 1993 e nel 1997.

I due generatori,  anche a seguito allo studio della Commissione scientifica e del rapporto Costi/Benefici, vennero collocati a riposo, nonostante i vari e costosi interventi di ammodernamento effettuati nel corso degli anni.  Il primo gruppo viene disattivato e dismesso dal MICA (l'attuale Ministero dello sviluppo economico) il 1º ottobre 1993. Il secondo, il 1º maggio 1997 in quanto non adeguato dal punto di vista ambientale.

Seconda riconversione e riapertura
Il 3 ottobre 2000 e il 28 marzo 2001 ENEL presenta all'Ente Parco un progetto di riconversione a biomasse del gruppo 2 della centrale del Mercure.

L'autorizzazione che dà il via libera alla riconversione a biomassa è rilasciata in data 20 giugno 2002 dall'Ente Parco Nazionale del Pollino.

Nel 2005 la riconversione della centrale è praticamente ultimata ma impossibilitata ad entrare in funzione per mancanza delle adeguate autorizzazioni. Infatti, a seguito del braccio di ferro tra ENEL ed alcuni comuni del territorio, associazioni ambientaliste e comitati di cittadini contrari alla riattivazione per motivi di tutela ambientale, l'iter autorizzativo è lungo e tortuoso. Dopo 10 anni, l'iter sintetizzato in una Conferenza dei servizi, coinvolge tutte le istituzioni provinciali e regionali (Ente Parco Nazionale del Pollino, Provincia di Cosenza e Potenza, Regione Calabria e Basilicata), oltre che Consiglio di Stato ed il TAR di Catanzaro che si esprimono a rotazione autorizzando o bocciando la riapertura della centrale.

L'11 giugno 2015 il Consiglio dei Ministri autorizza l'avviamento della centrale che entra in esercizio.

F2i SGR subentra ad ENEL
A giugno 2018, F2i SGR, per conto del Secondo Fondo in gestione, ha sottoscritto un accordo con ENEL produzione che prevede l'acquisto della Centrale del Mercure. Il gruppo Enel colloca la cessione nell'ambito di una strategia di rotazione degli asset.

Il perfezionamento dell'operazione è subordinato al nulla osta dell'Autorità Antitrust tra il 2018 e il 2019.

A marzo 2019, F2i SGR ufficializza l'avvicendamento, tramite la controllata Mercure S.r.l..

Controversie
Dal 1993, con l'istituzione del Parco nazionale del Pollino, il territorio su cui è ubicata la Centrale venne sottoposto a misure di salvaguardia ambientali. Siccome la Centrale risultava preesistente al Parco, il D.P.R del 2-12-1997 stabilisce che l'area, anziche essere smantellata, venga sottoposta a manutenzione ordinaria.

Nel 2000 l'ENEL presenta all'Ente Parco un progetto di riconversione a biomasse che viene autorizzato nel 2002, anno in cui avviene la prima seduta della Conferenza dei Servizi presieduta dalla Provincia di Cosenza. Il Parco richiede all'ENEL ulteriori documentazioni sul progetto:
 uno studio di impatto ambientale, con riferimento al traffico veicolare e all'emissione di fumi;
 un piano sulla reperibilità del materiale oggetto di lavorazione.

Cronistoria delle controversie
2004. Il Dipartimento ambiente della Regione Calabria, dopo aver preso atto del parere della Commissione di valutazione d'incidenza, esprime parere favorevole.

Legambiente, WWF e Forum Ambientalista Nazionale annunciano ricorso al TAR, ed i comuni di Viggianello e Rotonda si oppongono alla dichiarazione del Dipartimento ambientale calabrese in quanto dalla relazione, secondo quest'ultimi, emergono varie incongruenze relative al reperimento delle biomasse, alle emissioni prodotte, ed a quelle dei camion per il trasporto le biomasse in loco.

2005. L'11 aprile 2005 la stazione dei carabinieri di Laino Borgo sequestra un'area di 7000 metri quadrati, dopo aver rinvenuto, sulle sponde del torrente Fosso Bongiorno, affluente del fiume Lao, una sostanza nerastra (probabilmente olio combustibile) che potrebbe aver causato la contaminazione delle falde acquifere. I risultati delle analisi chimiche, effettuate dall'Arpacal di Cosenza, rilevano la presenza di sostanze tossiche, come il nichel al 0,52% (quando il limite è dello 0,1%). Il sequestro viene poi esteso ad altre due aree, una interna al perimetro della centrale, e l'altra esterna. 2009. Numerosi abitanti ribadiscono la loro contrarietà al progetto di riapertura della Centrale, attraverso mobilitazioni e manifestazioni, di cui la più importante è datata 5 settembre 2009, che ha visto la partecipazione di circa 4.000 persone, 14 Amministrazioni comunali, 50 tra Associazioni e Comitati locali e nazionali, esponenti sindacali e politici di ogni schieramento. Gli abitanti sostengono l'incompatibilità della Centrale del Mercure da 41 MW con il Parco Nazionale, e sottolineano le possibili minacce alla salute, all'ambiente e alle attività produttive legate al territorio.

2010. Con un decreto, la Regione Calabria (13 settembre 2010 n.13109) autorizza l'Enel all'esercizio della centrale a biomasse.

2012. Ad agosto 2012, quando la Centrale è pronta a dare inizio alla sua attività, ma con la sentenza del Consiglio di Stato, annulla tutte le procedure e le autorizzazioni rilasciate.

Per scongiurare la chiusura definitiva, i lavoratori della centrale e della filiera delle biomasse manifestano il 7 agosto 2012 a Catanzaro davanti alla sede della Regione Calabria, dove i lavoratori chiedono di essere ricevuti dal Presidente Giuseppe Scopelliti. La Regione Calabria convoca in risposta una nuova conferenza dei servizi per il 10 settembre 2012.

Il 8 novembre 2012 avviene un'accensione momentanea della centrale.

Il 19 dicembre 2012 Regione Calabria emana il provvedimento che autorizza l'entrata in funzione della centrale riconvertita a biomasse. Cinque giorni dopo, il 23 dicembre, il Consiglio di Stato accoglie la richiesta di sospensiva presentata da ENEL consentendo la ripresa dell'attività all'interno dell'impianto fino alla sentenza definitiva.

2013. Il 21 dicembre 2013, il Tar di Catanzaro annulla il decreto autorizzativo emanato dalla Regione Calabria nel 2012, con cui si autorizzava la società ENEL alla riattivazione della centrale tramite l'utilizzo di biomasse, bloccando così la riattivazione.

2014. In nuovo incontro, tenuto presso il Ministero dello sviluppo economico il 14 gennaio 2014,  le regioni Calabria e Basilicata, l'Ente Parco, i sindacati, le istituzioni locali e l'ENEL discutono per arrivare all'accordo definitivo. Nell'accordo si prevede il rafforzamento dei meccanismi di tutela ambientale e di salvaguardia della salute. Vengono stabilite delle misure di compensazione economica pari a 15 milioni di euro da destinare agli enti coinvolti (comuni della valle, Ente Parco e regioni).

Il 10 febbraio la filiera dell'autotrasporto, incaricato al trasporto della biomassa,  manifesta rallentando il traffico tra gli svincoli di Mormanno e Lauria Sud in direzione nord dell'autostrada Salerno-Reggio Calabria.

Il 24 maggio 2014 si tiene l'assemblea per l'approvazione dell'accordo di compensazione. Su 40 amministratori presenti, 30 voti a favore, 5 voti contro, 5 non presenti.

2015. L'11 giugno 2015 il Consiglio dei Ministri autorizza l'avviamento della centrale.

Nello schema d'intesa vi sono assunzioni di impegni da parte dell'Enel e delle Regioni, in tre settori:

 ambientali (una riduzione del 20%, delle emissioni annuali della Centrale rispetto ai limiti autorizzativi);

 sviluppo dell'occupazione locale (assunzioni per i residenti nei comuni della Valle);

 sviluppo dell'economia locale (filiera corta della biomassa),

2016. Il 21 novembre il Tar della Calabria respinge tutti i ricorsi presentati (per ragioni procedurali quelli dei comuni di Viggianello e Rotonda), e sul merito quello presentato dalle associazioni ambientaliste.

2018. A seguito dell'operazione Stige, condotta dall DDA di Catanzaro il 9 gennaio, l'amministratore della seconda ditta fornitrice di biomassa (9.000 tonnellate) è finito in manette. Per tale motivo in una nota, ENEL produzione comunica di aver sospeso il contratto di fornitura.

Note

Voci correlate
 Lista delle centrali elettriche presenti in Italia

Altri progetti

Mercure

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Clinical Ink To Accelerate Innovation And Growth With Major Investment By NovaQuest Private Equity
-- NovaQuest Private Equity acquires majority interest in Clinical Ink; Silicon Valley Bank provides new credit facility; RTI International, a leading research institute, also provided a strategic co-investment --
NovaQuest Capital Management, L.L.C.
PHILADELPHIA and RALEIGH, N.C. and WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., May 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Clinical Ink, the pioneering provider of eSource and next-generation ePRO/eCOA solutions for clinical development, today announced that the private equity team at NovaQuest Capital Management, L.L.C. ("NovaQuest") has acquired a majority of the outstanding shares of the company from existing investors and provided a substantial infusion of additional growth capital. The deep clinical, operational, and financial resources of NovaQuest will allow Clinical Ink to aggressively pursue growth opportunities and fuel investment in new products and operational capabilities.
"The pharmaceutical industry is anxiously seeking technology solutions that reduce costs and simplify clinical trials for patients, sites, sponsors and CROs," said Ed Seguine, CEO of Clinical Ink. "Clinical Ink's new partnership with NovaQuest is a testament to our strong financial performance and validation of our approach to provide a better clinical trial experience. The landscape of emerging clinical technology companies is littered with unrealized potential and we now have the resources, expertise, and relationships to successfully compete with the entrenched legacy providers to establish a new business model for conducting clinical trials."
"Clinical Ink is uniquely positioned to address the most challenging problems associated with conducting clinical trials," said Michael Sorensen, Partner at NovaQuest. "NovaQuest's experience directly funding major clinical programs with the world's largest pharmaceutical companies affords us deep insights into the opportunities to fundamentally improve this complex process. The Clinical Ink management team has achieved notable success and the company is at a critical inflection point where NovaQuest's expertise and relationships can help the company accelerate growth and continue to innovate."
RTI International, a leading research institute, provide strategic co-investment in support of Clinical Ink, to help solve the problem of reducing the cost and complexity of clinical research for sites, sponsors and patients. "We are excited to be a co-investment partner with NovaQuest and extend our healthcare and life sciences expertise to Clinical Ink," said Matt Jenkins, vice president and head of corporate development at RTI. "This deal fits well with our philosophy of investing alongside strong management teams and investment partners in high growth markets with a connection to our core research work and mission."
In a related transaction, Silicon Valley Bank also provided a flexible credit facility to Clinical Ink.
Baird served as exclusive financial advisor to Clinical Ink while Hogan Lovells provided the company legal advice. Wyrick Robbins provided legal advice to NovaQuest.
About Clinical Ink
Founded in 2007, Clinical Ink is dedicated to transforming clinical development with innovative technologies that make clinical research easier for patients, sites and sponsors. Clinical Ink's SureSource® platform directly captures eSource, ePRO, and eCOA data and documents and facilitates risk-based monitoring. Our approach puts the focus on protocol execution by focusing on the critical moments that matter. Clinical Ink maintains offices in Winston-Salem, NC and Philadelphia, PA. Find more at www.clinicalink.com.
About NovaQuest Capital Management, L.L.C.
NovaQuest Capital Management is a leading investor in life sciences and healthcare through its Product Finance and Private Equity strategies. NovaQuest was formed in 2000 with the vision of building an investment platform to provide strategic capital to life sciences and healthcare companies. Today, NovaQuest Capital Management manages over $1.8 billion through its Product Finance and Private Equity strategies. The investment team consists of highly seasoned operational and investment professionals with significant investment experience and deep life science and healthcare expertise. Furthermore, NovaQuest benefits from an extensive network of industry experts and relationships that assist in identifying, analyzing and growing NovaQuest portfolio companies and investments. For more information, please visit www.novaquest.com.
About RTI International
RTI International is an independent, non-profit research institute dedicated to improving the human condition. Clients rely on us to answer questions that demand an objective and multidisciplinary approach—one that integrates expertise across the social and laboratory sciences, engineering, and international development. We believe in the promise of science, and we are inspired every day to deliver on that promise for the good of people, communities, and businesses around the world. For more information, visit www.rti.org.
Media Contact: Jessica Romero
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Edison Partners Announces Exit of Billtrust
Sale of firm's shares in payment cycle management solutions leader delivers 10x return
PRINCETON, N.J. (PRWEB) MAY 14, 2018
Edison Partners today announced it has completed the sale of its stake in Billtrust, the leader in payment cycle management, to New York-based private equity firm W Capital Partners. The sale generated more than an 10x return for Edison, the first institutional investor in Billtrust. Additional financial terms of the sale were not disclosed.
Founded in 2001, New Jersey-based Billtrust helps companies automate and accelerate their accounts receivable (AR) processes to increase cash flow, improve operational efficiency and drive customer satisfaction. Since Edison's investment, Billtrust has grown revenue 30x, built its workforce to more than 500 employees and acquired seven companies, including its most recent acquisition of Credit2B.
"Billtrust Founder and CEO Flint Lane was a visionary in 2001, continues to be the leading innovator in B2B billing payments, and pioneered payment cycle management today. He saw the opportunity in this market before the Fintech ecosystem declared enterprise-focused Fintech a 'cool' sector," said Chris Sugden, Managing Partner of Edison Partners, who led the investment. "Flint and the entire Billtrust team epitomize the founders, CEOs and growth-stage businesses we aim to serve."
"Edison's capital helped to finance our growth, while the investments from the Edison team, Director Network and the Edison Edge value-add platform helped us to scale our growth," said Flint Lane, Founder and CEO, Billtrust. "Chris' board leadership, mentorship and friendship has been invaluable to the business, and to me personally; and more recently, Kelly Ford's hands-on participation with our team and board has helped us evolve our go-to-market strategy to achieve the next level of scalable growth. I look forward to many more years working in close partnership with the team at Edison."
"While we at Edison strove to enhance Billtrust's business, Flint enhanced ours. He inspired our annual CEO Summit and the expansion of our Edison Edge platform," said Kelly Ford, Partner at Edison Partners and board member. "We thank Flint and the entire Billtrust team for their vision, tenacity and partnership, qualities that exceptionally position them for continued B2B billing and payment market dominance."
Robert Farrell, CEO of GlobalTranz and a member of the Edison Director Network, and Ford will both remain on the company's board of directors. Sugden had previously served on the company's board for more than a decade.
This exit underpins LendIt Fintech's recent recognition of Edison Partners as Fintech Equity Investor of the Year. The firm has financed and guided more than 200 private companies, including 40 Fintech companies. Noteworthy exits include EdgeTrade, FolioDynamix, GAIN Capital, Liberty Tax, OptionsCity, Princeton Financial and now Billtrust. Current growth equity investments include: Axial, BFS Capital, Clearpool Group, ComplySci, GAN Integrity, MoneyLion, Predata, Scivantage, Solovis and TraderTools.
About Edison Partners
For more than 30 years, Edison Partners has been helping CEOs and their executive teams navigate the entrepreneurial journey and build successful companies. Through the unique combination of growth capital and the Edison Edge platform, consisting of operating leverage, the Edison Director Network, and executive education, Edison employs a holistic approach to accelerating growth and creating value for businesses ($5 to $20 million in revenue) in financial, healthcare, and enterprise technology sectors. Edison investment objectives also include: buyouts, recapitalizations, spinouts and secondary stock purchases.
Edison's active portfolio has created aggregate market value exceeding $10 billion. Its long-tenured team based in Princeton, NJ manages more than $1 billion in assets throughout the eastern United States.
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About Jenny's Song Of The Month – You Knock Me Off My Feet
A note from Jenny Burton: "I watched Black Girls Rock! tonight and was thrilled to see the spark in the eyes of the young girls in the audience, surrounded by a message of unadulterated empowering! I am thrilled that the message they're getting is healthy and strong about who they really are and who they can become! I so wish that someone had done that for me. I share "You Knock Me Off My Feet" to celebrate and encourage the hopes and dreams of today's young girls!"
Few people know this, but for more than a decade, both Jenny and composer/lyricist/producer of this song, Peter Link, were a most successful team writing and performing inspirational songs for Fortune 500 companies on the lucrative corporate meeting circuit. Performing all over the world for the sales forces of Apple, Mastercard, Johnson and Johnson, Cadillac, and the list goes on and on, Jenny electrified these meetings of sometimes up to 25,000 people with songs written to stimulate company pride and build teamwork.
Peter was first hired because of his Broadway notoriety to write new words to a song called, "Hello Clairol" sung to the tune of "Hello Dolly". Feeling somewhat overly commercial and watching the sales force audience not really buy into the message of the song, he decided to never put a company name or product name into a corporate song he wrote, but instead, simply write strong messages of teamwork and inspiration. This decision worked and changed the industry. In over 15 years of countless corporate meetings, he cranked out and Jenny sang song after song of Gospel, R&B and Rock songs stirring corporate audiences into powerful reactions and fierce company pride.
This song is a typical example of one of those songs – a song that could be taken as a love song between two people, or a heartwarming moment between sales force and company.
Peter says, "I once did a song for a Pepsodent meeting and watched 2000 sales people from all over the country stand and sing together along with Jenny about their love for their work. My first thought was somewhat jaded. I thought, 'How stupid. They're all getting carried away and all emotional singing about toothpaste.'
"Then it came to me that it was so much more than that. It was their jobs, their livelihood, their families, their life ambitions that they were singing about. This is what I wrote about in my songs from then on. And it really worked. Jenny and I were the first call team for corporate meeting entertainment in the country for many Fortune 500 companies."
You knock me off my feet
Even in the toughest of times you're there
Lifting me back up
With the way you care for me
And the way you help me be
All I can be
When you listen to the song, try listening twice – once as a love song between people and another time as a love song between people and an idea.
Either way, it's a powerful song given a terrific performance by the inimitable Ms Burton.
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Historian Kevin Brown and Ecologist Scott Cooper marvel at our great pinecone discovery.
On a sunny autumn day in 2017, three ecologists and a historian stood at the top of Figueroa Mountain, a 4,534-foot peak in the Los Padres National Forest north of Santa Barbara. We should have been taking in the panoramic view, but instead we were staring up at a tall gray pine tree. How, exactly, would one go about extracting the nuts from cones 40 feet up in the canopy? It was a question none of us ever had asked before, and the obvious answer made me a little nervous. Further down the trail, a second gray pine saved us from ourselves. It had dropped a cone from high in its branches. The impact shattered its woody exterior, revealing the buttery nuts inside. This might have made a great snack for a grizzly bear.
On the day we found our pine nuts, we were gathering food specimens as part of our work with the California Grizzly Study Group. Our goal was to figure out what grizzlies ate, and thus what roles they played in California's ecosystems. In the library and online, we had scoured the historical literature for accounts of grizzly behavior. In the field, we were looking for nutritious snacks like berries, nuts, and roots that would be worth a grizzly's foraging time.
We know that grizzlies once roamed throughout California, including on Figueroa Mountain. Grizzlies are omnivores, and they probably ate a wide variety of foods. Some may have been mostly vegetarian, subsisting on grasses, tubers, fruits, and yes, pine nuts. Others may have been more carnivorous, fishing for salmon, scavenging on washed up marine mammals, or stealing deer and elk carcasses from the wolves and pumas that had done the hard work of hunting them. After 1769, grizzlies may also have feasted on Spanish livestock, which multiplied during the mission and rancho eras.
The truth, though, is that we know little about how grizzlies lived in California. They died out before most scientists could study them. And the grizzlies that live in North America today inhabit places, like Yellowstone and Denali, which are very different ecologically from the Golden State.
Understanding what grizzlies ate here is interesting from an ecological perspective; it is also essential for thinking about how to reintroduce and recover this species. If we were to bring grizzlies back to California, where would it be best to release them? How would they behave in the wild? Would they come into conflict with people? And would they survive?
To better understand what grizzlies ate in California, our group is using a powerful tool called stable isotope analysis. Here's how it works: Plants contain elements, such as carbon and nitrogen, in unique ratios depending the plant species and the environment where it lives. When animals eat plants, they incorporate these elements into their tissues—including hair, teeth, and bones. We can use the preserved body parts of animals to study the ratios of stable isotopes in them, and, by inference, the kinds of foods they ate. For our study, we are sampling bones and hair from California grizzlies, as well as some of the kinds of plants and animals these grizzlies may have eaten.
Alexis Mychajliw poses with Monarch, one of our sample bears, at the California Academy of Sciences.
In addition to working in the field, this project requires us to work in museums and laboratories. The first thing we need to do is find the specimens. While online collections databases make it easy to catch a first glimpse of the specimens available and where they're housed, many have only the most basic accompanying information. Grizzly Group team member Kevin Brown has used his expertise in historical methods to unearth previously unavailable information about California grizzly specimens, including who collected them, when, and where. Alexis Mychajliw, a Grizzly Group team member and postdoctoral fellow at the La Brea Tar Pits Museum in Los Angeles, says that finding grizzly specimens is like tracking down a long lost relative: you never know what you're going to get.
Sometimes the bears come to us. At the Tar Pits, Alexis often receives packages of dead animals. She opened one recent shipment to find half of a grizzly bear stuffed into two giant bankers' boxes.
After locating the grizzly we want to sample and receiving permission to use it, the next step is to collect a small portion of its bone using a tool that looks (and smells) like a dentist's drill. We try to damage the bone as little as possible. If we have a skull, for example, we may aim for the delicate, curly bones inside the nasal cavity. Drilling into the bone creates a powder that we collect on a piece of wax paper and place in a small tube. We may also sample claws, teeth, or hair, in which case we either pluck it or grip a clump of hair and clip it next to the root.
Then we go from the museum to the lab. We wash and dry the bear hair, and soak the bone in acid to extract the collagen. We also wash, dry, and grind our plant and insect samples down to a fine powder, either by hand with a mortar and pestle or with a ball mill. Once processed, our samples are ready to go into a mass spectrometer, which separates out the component elements and uploads the data. We then use models to identify patterns in our bear samples that match up with those in potential grizzly foods. These results should give us a better picture of what grizzlies ate in California prior to their extinction here almost a century ago.
From the breezy summit of Figueroa Mountain to high-tech campus lab and the dark corners of the La Brea Tar Pits museum, our work is bring a key part the California grizzly's story—how it lived and what it ate—back to life.
More than a century ago, grizzly bears roamed over most of California, from the sandy beaches of Southern California to the fertile Central Valley to the foggy northern forests. Today, you can find California grizzlies on the state flag, coffee mugs, college campuses, and T-shirts, but not in the wild.
It's a familiar story: people believed that grizzly bears threatened livestock and human safety, and they became a popular animals to hunt. It did not take long after the California Gold Rush of 1849 for grizzlies to disappear from the landscape—the last credible grizzly sighting in the wild was in 1924. Despite losing grizzlies in the wild, they've remained present in California's cultural landscape. And now, some groups are starting to think about bringing them back.
One does not simply drive a truck full of grizzlies into the state, throw open the door, and say, "Welcome to California!" There is a lot to consider when reintroducing a species—especially when we're talking about a 400-pound omnivore that has a long history of conflict with humans. One of the first questions we asked ourselves in the California Grizzly Study Group is: Where could a population of grizzlies survive in twenty-first century California?
Mapping potential habitat for grizzlies in California requires that we consider a range of complex issues.
As the most populous U.S. state, California boasts a human population of nearly 40 million. And these people like to drive. California has the second-most total road miles of any state, with almost 400,000. Bears and other wildlife face direct mortality from roads due to vehicle collisions. Roads also fragment habitat, breaking it up into smaller, lower-quality pieces, and enable people to access remote areas, bringing them into potential contact, and conflict, with wildlife.
These issues are all the more challenging in a state that hasn't had any grizzlies for nearly one hundred years. When biologists map suitable habitat for a species, they often use models based on data from living populations. If there are no living populations in the proposed recovery area, biologists use current data from similar landscapes where the species still exists, or historic data from before the species was lost. California poses a problem both because it has changed so much in the past 100 years, and because it is very different, ecologically, from other areas where grizzlies live today. This gives us relatively little information from which to draw when building our models.
What we do know is that grizzlies are ecological generalists that can thrive in a wide variety of environments. During the first half of the nineteenth century, grizzlies lived throughout the non-desert areas of California. Back then, most of the state was grizzly habitat. Today, large areas of the state—home to millions of people, acres of farms, and head of livestock—would be poor or unsuitable habitat, due to the high likelihood of these animals coming into conflict with people.
Any map of potential grizzly habitat must take into account these potential conflicts, particularly in areas used for grazing, agriculture, and recreation. Even if grizzlies were reintroduced to remote areas of national parks or forests, some may occasionally wander into more populated areas, such as drought years when natural food sources are relatively scarce.
Our method for identifying potential grizzly habitat thus focuses not only on ecological factors, but also on potential risks for grizzlies. To identify such risks, we are mapping rangeland, cropland, and roads, as well as natural vegetation. This integrated approach combines areas of ecologically viable habitat with areas of high risk for human-grizzly conflicts to produce a more realistic picture of where grizzlies might be able to live in California. It has the added benefit of identifying areas where social science research, public education, and infrastructure investments may mitigate potential conflicts.
Humans caused the extinction of grizzlies in California, and humans remain the limiting factor in their reintroduction. With our research, we hope to show how grizzlies might interact with—and perhaps even thrive in—our modern California landscape.
We expect to have results from our work in 2018.
California grizzly bears are extinct, but they are not gone. I've seen the bones. In a windowless, climate-controlled room at the University of California, Berkeley, grizzly skulls, jaws, boxes of ribs and vertebrate, claws, and even a single molar each rest neatly on rows of metal shelves. There is a skull with a bullet hole over its right eye, another missing the side of the cranium, and one box holds a scapula with a curious nickel-sized hole through its center. Few of these animals died of old age.
This room, at the university's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ), is a kind of evidence locker. It is proof of the violence that led to the grizzly's extinction. But it is also an amazing resource to answer questions about how California grizzlies lived their lives. The California Grizzly Study Group is attempting to answer one such question. Using a method called stable isotope analysis, our group is using small bits of bone and hair from museum specimens to determine what grizzlies ate in California and how their diets varied over space and time.
Before we were able to conduct our analysis, however, we needed to find a sufficient number of grizzly specimens. We also needed information about where and when these specimens were collected. This information is called "metadata." To find its specimens and metadata, the group called on historians, like me, who could serve as detectives.
Since January of 2017, this has been my job. After eight months of searching databases, archives, reports, and letters, and after contacting two-dozen museums, I've learned just how precious that evidence locker at the MVZ really is. Of all the grizzly bears that ever lived in California—one estimate puts their 1850 population at 10,000 individuals—I have found remains from fewer than 80 individuals held in museums around the world. Of these, I only know for sure where and when 30 of these animals died.
This is a frustratingly small number. How is it that so few representatives of California's official mascot—once the state's most abundant and formidable large carnivore—could just vanish? What happened to all the bodies?
In August of 2017, I visited the MVZ, which houses the remains of 20 California grizzlies, a quarter of all those I've found in museum collections. I spent my time there consulting the MVZ's records and files, and examining the specimens themselves. After two days of this work, I realized that I had been asking the wrong question. Rather than complain that so few grizzlies were preserved, I began to wonder how it is that we have so many.
During the 1910s and 1920s, Grinnell and his staff produced a stream of correspondence with old-timers, ranchers, hunters, game wardens, foresters, and park rangers—anyone who might know something about grizzly bears or their remains. Despite these efforts, only twice during Grinnell's tenure did the MVZ acquire a recently killed grizzly: once when the captive bear, "Monarch," died in 1911 at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, and again in 1916 when the museum acquired the skin of the "Sunland" grizzly, the last grizzly killed in Los Angeles County.
Most of Grinnell's grizzlies came from his detective work. In 1912, for example, he followed a tip all the way to the junction of the Tehachapi and San Emigdio Mountains in southern California. A rancher there told Grinnell that sometime between 1893 and 1896 a grizzly bear was shot and killed after it wandered onto his ranch. The shooter earned a bounty of $500, and the bear's skin was turned into a rug. Grinnell secured the rug's donation to the MVZ, where it is still catalogued as specimen #16615.
On another occasion, Grinnell acquired a bearskin from a grizzly that had been killed in the 1880s and displayed in a Yosemite area resort. Grinnell purchased both the skin and the story for $60. Even when he did not acquire a specimen, Grinnell often learned something new: the date of the last sighting in a particular valley, the method settlers used to hunt grizzlies, or the number of bears visible from a particular hillside in the 1850s.
The bear disappeared without a trace, and the sighting marked one of the last credible glimpses of a grizzly in California. But even though the bears did not endure, Grinnell's detective work represented a kind of salvage conservation. He could not prevent the extinction of grizzlies in California, but he could conserve some of the evidence they left behind.
All those skulls, skins, and bones numbered, tagged, and arranged on shelves at the MVZ are more than dusty relicts: they are the product of decades of hard-boiled detective work. If my own efforts as a grizzly detective add up to anything, I hope that rediscovering these collections and using them for the Grizzly Study Group will also be a form of conservation.
THIS IS THE FIRST in a series of audio, video, and text entries we will post on this website in the coming months by members and friends of the California Grizzly Research Network.
The purposes of this blog are to provide a space for our group's members to reflect on their experiences, and for readers to get a sense of what it's like to participate in this ambitious project—the first major study of grizzlies in California in more than 60 years.
To get us started, I thought I would offer a brief account of how this unique group came together.
In 2013, I published a book on the history of endangered species in California. My first chapter discussed the epic story of grizzlies in this state. I described the species' demise in California as a cautionary tale and a catalyst for other wildlife conservation efforts beginning in the early twentieth century. I did so, however, from the perspective of what I would now call "dead history." Dead history is when the past is portrayed as potentially interesting, but not really relevant to the present.
In the months that followed, I traveled around the state talking about my book. I was prepared to discuss desert tortoises, San Joaquin kit foxes, California condors, and delta smelts, but I was surprised when audience members began asking me about the prospects for bringing grizzlies back to California. The question seemed a little silly, but I decided that to put it to rest I needed investigate it further.
In 2014, I was busy studying grizzly history, science, and conservation when the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) submitted a petition to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list grizzlies in California and the Southwest under the Endangered Species Act, and launch a recovery effort. Currently, grizzlies are only listed in the Northern Rockies and North Cascades; they are extinct in California and the Southwest.
How were the Europeans able to conserve brown bears and other large carnivores in human-dominated landscapes? And could California someday replicate the relative success of European conservation?
Clearly, I had more to learn. I soon discovered, however, that my second question was impossible to answer because we had so little up-to-date information or analysis about grizzlies in California.
In the spring of 2016, I convened a meeting on my home campus, UC Santa Barbara, to gauge interest in a collaborative project. More than two-dozen students and colleagues—historians, geographers, ecologists, political scientists, anthropologists, and education and legal scholars—showed up. By the end of that meeting, we had founded the California Grizzly Study Group.
It has been just over a year since we began, and our group has made enormous progress. We have founded a diverse community of scholars able to support a civil, thoughtful, and evidence-based discussion on this topic. And we are working to provide a foundation of cutting-edge research for Californians interested in the past, present, and potential future of grizzlies in our state. We hope you return to this site regularly to get updates on our progress, learn about our results, ask questions, and make recommendations that will inspire further work.


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Third Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Suit Against Williams & Connolly Client Medco
Williams & Connolly represented Medco Health Solutions, Inc. and Express Scripts in qui tam litigation relating to purchase discounts Medco received from a pharmaceutical manufacturer. The Company moved to dismiss based on the False Claims Act's public disclosure and first-to-file bars. On January 5, 2017, the court granted the motion to dismiss on both grounds, without prejudice. The relator filed an amended complaint, which Medco again moved to dismiss, and on October 26, 2017, the court again held that the relator's claims were barred by the public disclosure bar and granted the motion to dismiss with prejudice. The court found that public disclosures of the alleged discounts predated the relator's claims, such that he was not the original source of the information in his complaint.
The relator appealed to the Third Circuit which, on June 19, 2019, affirmed the district court's ruling that the relator did not qualify as the original source of the information at issue.
The team representing Medco included Enu Mainigi, Craig Singer, Jennifer Wicht, Holly Conley, Benjamin Graham, and Keith Clouser.
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Synne Sofie Kinden Jensen (* 15. Februar 1996 in Oslo) ist eine norwegische Fußballnationalspielerin, die aktuell bei Real Sociedad spielt.

Karriere

Verein
Jensen startete ihre Karriere beim Gjelleråsen IF, bevor sie im Januar 2011 zum Lillestrøm SK Kvinner wechselte. Für diesen debütierte sie am 14. April 2012 (1. Spieltag) gegen Trondheims-Ørn SK in der Toppserien und bestritt bis Juli 2012 zwölf weitere Ligapartien, wobei sie zumeist in der Schlussviertelstunde eingewechselt wurde. Im August wurde sie an Zweitligist Linderud-Grei verliehen. Zur Saison 2013 kehrte sie nach Lillestrøm zurück und wurde danach vom Ligarivalen Kolbotn IL verpflichtet. Bei Kolbotn verpasste sie in den folgenden zwei Jahren keine einzige Ligapartie und war dabei mit 24 Treffern die beste Torschützin ihres Teams.

Jensen wurde 2015 von Bundesligist VfL Wolfsburg verpflichtet. Im Sommer 2016 wurde sie an den norwegischen Verein Stabaek Fotball Kvinner ausgeliehen. Zum 1. Januar 2017 erfolgte dann der komplette Wechsel zu Stabaek. Im Januar 2019 wechselte sie zum Ligakonkurrenten Røa IL, wo sie mit 16 Toren in 22 Spielen zweitbeste Torschützin der Toppserien 2019 wurde. Im Januar 2020 wechselte sie dann zum Vizemeister Vålerenga Oslo.

In der Winterpause 2022 wechselte sie nach Spanien zu Real Sociedad.

Nationalmannschaft
Jensen durchlief ab der U-15-Nationalmannschaft sämtliche Juniorinnenauswahlen des norwegischen Fußballverbands. Mit der U-19-Nationalmannschaft nahm sie zweimal an der Jahrgangseuropameisterschaft teil, wobei sie 2014 im eigenen Land das Halbfinale erreichte. Am 25. November 2014 gab sie im Freundschaftsspiel gegen die neuseeländische Auswahl ihr Debüt für die A-Nationalmannschaft. Zwei Tage später wurde sie gegen Neuseeland nochmals eingesetzt und dann auch im Januar 2015 bei einem Testspiel gegen Irland. Für die WM 2015 wurde sie dann nicht berücksichtigt. Im September 2015 kam sie dann zu ihrem vierten Länderspiel und wurde dann auch in vier Qualifikationsspielen zur EM 2017 eingesetzt. Im Mai 2017 wurde sie auch für den vorläufigen EM-Kader nominiert. Aus dem endgültigen Kader wurde sie aber gestrichen. Die Norwegerinnen schieden bei der EM aber ohne Torerfolg als Gruppenletzte aus. Nach der EM wurde sie dann sporadisch wieder eingesetzt, aber nur in einem Spiel der Qualifikation für die WM 2019. Ihre ersten beiden Länderspieltore erzielte sie am 23. Januar 2018 zum 2:1-Sieg im Testspiel gegen Island. Im WM-Jahr 2019 kam sie zu keinem Länderspiel obwohl sie mit 16 Toren zweitbeste Torschützin der Toppserien war. Erst beim Algarve-Cup 2020 kam sie im ersten Spiel gegen Dänemark, wo sie – neun Minuten nach ihrer Einwechslung – in der dritten Minute der Nachspielzeit den 2:1-Siegtreffer erzielte, und im Spiel um Platz 3 gegen Neuseeland, wo sie den 1:1-Ausgleichstreffer erzielte (Endstand 2:1), zum Einsatz.

Persönliches
Jensen besuchte von 2012 bis 2015 das Wang Toppidrett-Gymnasium in Oslo, wo sie von ihrer Nationalmannschaftskollegin Solveig Gulbrandsen trainiert wurde.

Erfolge
 Norwegische Meisterin 2012 und 2020
 Deutsche Pokalsiegerin 2016
 Norwegische Pokalsiegerin 2020 und 2021

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 Synne Jensen beim norwegischen Fußballverband
 Porträt von Synne Jensen bei Kanaripedia

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Fußballnationalspieler (Norwegen)
Fußballspieler (Kolbotn IL)
Fußballspieler (Lillestrøm SK)
Fußballspieler (Stabæk Fotball)
Fußballspieler (VfL Wolfsburg)
Fußballspieler (Røa IL)
Fußballspieler (Vålerenga Oslo)
Fußballspieler (Real Sociedad San Sebastián)
Norweger
Geboren 1996
Frau


Warrior running back Darshan Bolen tries to shake a defender.
Warrior Lane Johnson makes a catch.
Warrior quarterback Lane Schall looks for some running room.
ARLEE – The Arlee Warriors were the lone Mission Valley area high school football team to advance into the 2018 postseason, and they won against visiting Centerville Miners 36-32 in the opening round of the Class C 8-Man football playoffs last weekend, but they ended up losing to Fairview in another matchup.
Entering the game as the second-seeded team in West, the Warriors put the first points on the board with a 29-yard touchdown pass from Lane Schall to Chase Gardner against the Miners. Centerville scored the next two touchdowns taking the score to 14-6 with a first-quarter lead.
Defensively, Arlee held the Miners scoreless in the second quarter. Schall threw touchdown passes to Gardner and Colt Crawford to take an 18-14 half-time lead into the locker room.
In the third quarter, Arlee scored their fourth touchdown pass of the day, however, the Miners scored twice to end the third quarter with a 26-24 lead over the Warriors.
The fourth quarter saw the Warriors score twice to take a 36-26 lead. A late fourth quarter Miner touchdown and a missed two-point conversion ended the game with a 36-32 Warrior victory.
On Saturday, Arlee traveled 500 plus miles to battle the eastern top-seeded Fairview Warriors in a quarterfinal matchup. The undefeated Fairview team trounced Chinook 70-6 in their opening round of the playoffs. Fairview faced a much stiffer test against Arlee.
Arlee's offense has been explosive this season, scoring 50 points or more in six of its nine games so far this year, including hitting the 60-points or more mark twice.
Arlee scored the first points and held Fairview scoreless in the first quarter. In the second quarter, Fairview scored twice to take a 12-6 led over Arlee as both teams headed into the locker room at the half.
In the third quarter, Arlee scored on a 72-yard kick-off return, while Fairview countered with a score of their own to end the third with a 20-12 lead. The fourth quarter saw Fairview score two more touchdowns while holding Arlee to a later fourth-quarter score. Fairview's 32-20 win ends the Arlee season with an overall record of 7-3.