According to recent reports Atlético Madrid manager Diego Simeone has insisted Diego Costa and João Miranda must be at least 90 per cent fit to play against Barcelona. But the 43-year-old seems to have more important things on his mind right now than the second leg of Atlético's Champions League quarter-final.
The former footballer is currently looking into legally separating from his wife but bear no sadness for him! The Argentine manager has found love again and is currently said to be dating gorgeous Carla Pereira who is 16-years his junior.
The alleged couple was spotted having dinner recently and an article from Spanish mag "Salvame" published the images where the gorgeous Pereira was snapped next to her new beau and just as out of an add, she looks stunning with her wonderful smile, sitting blissfully next to her prince charming.
27-year-old Carla is also from Argentina but has been living in Spain for the past decade.
But this is not the first time we hear about her or her love life.
The model actually became famous for her romance with the Spanish ballet and flamenco dancer Joaquín Cortés, she was also romantically linked to PP politician Alejando Ballestero and she is also Antonio de la Rua's ex-girl.
Carla's new boyfriend is still married to his wife of 20-years, former model Carolina Baldini/Carolina Simeone with whom he fathered the couple's three children, 18-year-old Giovanni, 15-year-old Gianluca and 11-year-old Giuliano.
She began her modeling career at the age of 16 and tied the knot at the age of 21.
The couple's marriage has been plagued by infidelity rumors on both parts. Carolina has never resided in Madrid giving room for even more rumors about their strange relationship, they've had many ups and downs and in 2008 tired from all the controversy Baldini said publicly the open secret, that she and hubby had been spaced for some time.
That same year she retuned to modeling, having allegedly left her career aside to follow her husband, Diego "Cholo" Simeone, while he was still playing and help raise their three children. However, Baldini also known as "Morocha" has always expressed she feels extremely proud of the father of her children.
It's been reported the couple tried to rekindle their romance during a getaway to Milan but have decided to take separate ways.
What can surely be said about Simeone, is that he has fantastic taste in women.
See more pictures of Carla Pereira below!


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Covid Facts – The Inconvenient Truth – One bump too many?
national | rights, freedoms and repression | other press Tuesday September 22, 2020 23:05 by 1 of indy
This excellent report the Irish Sentinel exposes another propagandist pushing the Covid-19 narrative and slices through the constant 24 x 7 bullshit propaganda ....
Ciaran O'Connor, writing for the Journal.ie, claims to be a researcher and investigator with the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, (propaganda) a London-based think tank that works towards powering solutions to extremism, disinformation, and polarisation. (By lying about them)
https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/misinformation-far-right-ireland-5206178-Sep2020/
He is, in fact, nothing more than a pathetic propagandist playing cover for mainstream media lies and deception over the Covid-19 hoax pandemic.
He does this by using the age old technique of smearing anyone who believes in free speech, freedom and the right to make their own choices, right wing extremists. By that definition, he is therefore a right wing extremist as he believes in wearing masks, social distancing and in general the stripping away of all rights which every human being has. He has the right to voice that opinion and has done so publically, in an online mainstream virtual rag, to propagandise fiction over facts, whilst clearly hypocritically claiming to seek truth in media reporting.
This creature is a coward, something endemic in so called 'journalist' circles of our era. They are pathetic mouthpieces for tyrants and liars to the public and themselves. They do not care one iota about factual information, even when that factual information comes from their own 'authorised' sources.
On the issue of masks, to give just a very simple example, it states in English on the packaging that these masks DO NOT protect the wearer from viruses and should not be used for that purpose. Where is the ambiguity in that? Where is the right wing extremist diatribe? Where is the lie? Where is the misinformation/disinformation?
And it is necessary to include this important part too
Today's 'case' numbers from Ireland which are meant to terrify the public unless you can still do simple arithmetic, struggle to get the infection rate above 0.1%, and no deaths. As the government continues to reinforce the lie, backed by the likes of pathological liars and propagandists like O'Connor, that tests work and show the spread of Covid-19, it is a FACT that they do not work, they do not test for Covid-19, but are simply picking up traces of previous common cold infections, otherwise known as coronaviruses, as well as traces of previous flu vaccines.
The inconvenient truth for these useful covidiot liars is that there is no pandemic and there never was a pandemic.
The case for a pandemic has fallen apart quicker than cocaine disappearing up a media hack's nose.
Full report can be found at: http://theirishsentinel.com/2020/09/21/covid-facts-the-inconvenient-truth-one-snort-too-many/
Related Link: http://theirishsentinel.com/2020/09/21/covid-facts-the-inconvenient-truth-one-snort-too-many/
No pandemic?
by S - S Wed Sep 23, 2020 15:52
Over a decade ago, Indymedia had a consistently left-wing bent; anti-capitalist, anti-racist, environmental, anti-colonial etc. Now it's a sad shell maintained infrequently and only with Yellowvest/ant-vax/Qanon populist tabloid garbage for poorly educated angry suburban white people. It's fascinating that it is now for exactly the same people who read the Sun and the Mail.

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BEIJING — The National Intellectual Property Administration (NIPA) announced recipients of the 20th China Patent Award, the nation's top award for patents on Dec 25.
Altogether 40 patents, including 30 patents for invention and utility model and 10 patents for industrial design won the gold award.
As of the end of 2017, products and projects related to the 40 gold award winners had created 83.5 billion yuan (about $12 billion) of sales revenue, 13.9 billion yuan in profit and 18.6 billion yuan in exports.
More than 60 patents won the silver awards, which were included in this event for the first time to encourage more patent holders.
Shen Changyu, head of the NIPA, said China will continue to support higher-quality and high-value patents.
China Patent Award was co-organized by the NIPA and the World Intellectual Property Organization. More than 6,000 patents have been honored since the award was established in 1989.
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Library Culture Picks by Mike Duffy: March 2019
Published by Pauline Lemasson at 12 March 2019
The Library is pleased to present the Culture Picks for the month of March, curated, researched and written by Library volunteer Mike Duffy.
March Culture Picks by Mike Duffy brings us three artists, three eras and three movements. All three artists were interested in science and even what some call science fiction. Two thought deeply about how we see. Two developed theories about how colors communicate. Two are credited with starting movements in art and one is the epitome of his era. In the Renaissance Leonardo da Vinci labored to represent what he saw exactly. At the end of the 19th Century, Sérusier strove to convey his feelings about what he saw in vibrant color and helped launch the Nabi movement and, perhaps, all of what we call modern art. In the middle of the 20th Century Vasarely developed a visual language of abstract symbols and colors leading the way to Op Art and beyond. What a rich feast for this season.
As always, we've selected books from our collection to go with the cultural visits. These books are displayed in the Members' Lounge and available to be checked out.
Guest blogger: Mike Duffy lives in Paris following his retirement from a career in university teaching and management. He spent his first 30 years in Pennsylvania (born in Pittsburgh, college and grad school in Philadelphia), then spent a bit more than that in California where he taught accounting and finance at the Universities of California (Berkeley), Southern California and San Francisco. He can now be found in art museums, historic sites, and concert halls throughout the city.
VASARELY — SHARING FORMS
Through 6 May 2019
What can you say about an exhibition of 300 works by one artist who is not Picasso? In the case of Vasarely — Sharing Forms you can say, "Wow!" You can say, "What fun!" You can say, "How intriguing." This amazing, dizzying display at the Centre Pompidou invites all of these reactions. Vasarely's art sometimes dazzles, sometimes razzle-dazzles and sometimes is just plain fun. As was the case with several other modern artists (Warhol, for example), Vasarely studied graphic arts and designed marketing and advertising materials before turning full-time to being an artist. From that background he knew how to create with an audience in mind, how to catch the eye and how to repeat an image to make a point. All three of those insights appear throughout this exhibition which is truly a feast for the eyes.
Very early Vasarely showed an interest in visual perception. In the waving stripes of two rather fun pairs of zebras from 1936 and 1938, for example, you see the animals, but there are only waving stripes, no outlines. His 1947 Goulphar's very flat fields of black looking like a disassembled Calder mobile and the more organic shapes in Kerrhon (1953 – 1954) soon give way, however, to geometric pieces, for a long time only in black and white, which break traditional rigid grids with pulsating bubbles and warped surfaces. Along the way there is a small 1952 painting of the town of Gordes clearly showing his awareness of Cézanne's work with volumes and shapes followed by Cintra (1955 – 1956) which looks like a Mondrian on acid and Homage à Malévitch (1954 – 1958) in which he takes that painter's static squares of white and black and puts them at angles to create uncertainty and movement. In fact, Vasarely seems to have drunk deeply at the early 20th Century fountains of the Russian constructivists like Malévitch (theory based geometry), the Dutch DeStijl like Mondrian and the Bauhaus like Klee (repetitive formal structures with bright colors) and the Parisian painters Kupka and Robert Delaunay (colorful, geometric works which "move").
His own work moved into geometric abstraction, then increasingly into an abstraction of ideas and a concern for a universal form of communication. Eventually, he concentrated on designs using a limited set of forms and colors and believed that these could constitute a universal alphabet to create communication across cultures. There is a fine display of these forms and colors in one section of the exhibition including Étude 5 (Study 5, 1958 -1959/1975) and later many completed works utilizing his squares, circles, ovals and triangles. He turned to preparing formulas for works and having assistants create multiple variations in different materials. Some see this as an outsourcing which denies Vasarely the title of artist, while others see a prescient understanding of what will become computer generated art. Vasarely was interested in science throughout his life and his works are influenced by ideas about relativity and uncertainty that he gleaned from Einstein and Heisenberg who are both honored by pieces in this exhibition and his late works show a deep involvement with science fiction. He stated that "the two creative expressions of man, art and science, meet…to form an imaginary construct…" For Vasarely, his work was that imaginary construct. He was not an abstract expressionist looking deeply into his tormented soul, struggling to express his emotions. He was a rational, theory-based artist working on perception and perspective in a simplified but rich vocabulary of forms.
Over the course of a life which nearly spanned the 20th Century, Victor Vasarely (1906 – 1997) explored and exploited a myriad of materials and methods and became the progenitor of a global artistic movement which plays with optical illusions and optically complex designs. In fact, in Thames and Hudson's Dictionary of Art Terms, it is a Vasarely piece which defines Op Art. He worked with oil and acrylic on canvas, with paper, plastic and glass, with small ceramic dishes and massive ceramic walls, in two and three dimensions, in architecture, sculpture, collage, painting, posters, and prints. He willingly let his designs be exploited on book covers, plates and dishes, in fashion ads and just about anywhere they could be used. All of these uses are on display and the very nicely presented Gallimard book covers, for example, still look fresh and inviting. Especially interesting and worth a pause in the narrow area with slide presentations are the projects in which he cooperated with architects where the use of his circles and squares and bright colors bring both wonder and fun to the middle 20th Century bare concrete structures.
Vasarely wanted to share his designs everywhere and, in the 1970s, it seemed that they were. When I mention this exhibition to people who recall his designs when they were ubiquitous, I often get the reaction, "Oh, I don't think I like Vasarely.", but when I talk to anyone who has seen the works at the Centre Pompidou, I only hear how much that person enjoyed the show. Whether you are in the camp which is wary of Vasarely or if you don't know his work, you should visit Vasarely—Sharing Forms to be amazed at the chronicle of a lifetime exploring lines, color and shapes, a life of sharing the forms which fascinated this exceptionally creative artist.
Recommended books from the Library collection:
LEONARDO DA VINCI AND THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE—DRAWINGS FROM THE COLLECTION
BEAUX-ARTS DE PARIS, CABINET DE DESSINS
Through 19 April 2019
Kicking off the celebrations of the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci, Beaux-Arts de Paris presents an exceptional selection of Italian Renaissance drawings from its own collection. The 30 pieces show the range of the artists' goals and techniques as well as the abandonment of the Middle Ages' static view of people and the world. The genius of the age, Leonardo, is seen in four sheets of figurative and engineering work, while outstanding pieces by Rafael, Filippino Lippi and others who may not be household names impress with the vitality, the realism and the humanity which marked the last quarter of the 15th century, a time perhaps never equalled for breathtaking artistic achievement. It is surprising how well that amazing period in the history of Western art can be captured by drawings alone.
Italian Renaissance drawings appear to have had many possible uses — "appear" because there are often no records of how these individual sheets of paper were prepared, by whom or to what end. Fifteenth century painters often labored in workshops (atelier) under the direction of a master and very few of their drawings were considered finished, stand-alone works to be signed by an artist. Among the works in this exhibition are preliminary sketches for planned oil paintings or sculptures such as Leonardo's Head of an old man, three-quarter right profile (1490s?) which might have been a preparatory drawing for The Last Supper. It shows a finely detailed, very expressive visage, a confused or uncertain person, frustrated by events as are the Apostles at the Seder table with Jesus. Page of studies for the Adoration of the Magi (1480s?), another Leonardo, shows how seemingly quick sketching can capture posture and positioning of figures for a major piece (which in its never-finished state is one of the treasures of Florence's Uffizi Gallery). On the other hand, some of the pieces seem to be examples to be used by apprentices learning to be artists, such as the anonymous 15th century Five studies of the Virgin and Infant. Additionally, the truly great Two cloaked men (early 1480s) by Filippino Lippi illustrating the play of light and shadow on the garments' many folds and creases may have been prepared to preserve a session with live models for later use as examples for workshop assistants. One very practical use of drawings: Leonardo's pitching himself to one of the Dukes or Popes who ruled parts of the Italian peninsula through a demonstration of his engineering skills in exact drawings of implements of warfare.
The 30 drawings on display present an overview of the techniques that Florentine artists used to produce either highly detailed drawings with a silver pointed stylus or fluid sketches of figures with brushes or chalk. How to draw fine lines and precise details on white paper before the invention of the graphite pencil? Especially in the years 1480-1520 artists first colored paper (blue, brown, rose in this exhibition), then traced the lines using an instrument with a sharp metal point. The Rafael and Leonardo sketches of the wrinkled heads of older men translate careful observation into exact (and not idealized) pictures. Additionally, the Lippi figures in the drawing already noted and another of a seated man with two others standing show that true-to-life faces and hands could be rendered and realistic interplay of light and shadow could be illustrated in a silverpoint drawing highlighted in white. The studies of the Madonna by Rafael, of Saint Joseph and of the Deposition by Fra Bartolomeo, however, show how chalk or ink sketches could be made to experiment with positioning of figures and composition without perfecting the details of facial expression or the folds of clothing. The fluid beauty, though, of quickly drawn lines could also come from chalk alone as in Girolamo Genga's expressive Half Nude Man (1513?) done in that red chalk often called sanguine for its blood-like tint.
In the second half of the 15th Century, Florentine artists were moving far beyond the strictures of flat, anonymous Middle Ages' figuration to dynamic, very human portrayal of individuals rather than types. This was the Renaissance, the rebirth of the sensitivities and sensibilities of the classical era and the focus of artists was no longer only on religion or royalty. The drawings attributed to Andrea del Verrocchio or his entourage, particularly The Charity of Saint Martin (1480 – 1490), embody movement rather than the static presentations of Medieval and Byzantine predecessors. The musculature of the saint's horse and of the beggar are robust and real. Such fascination with muscles, movement and the use of shading lines to create almost three-dimensional figures mark a number of the studio drawings in this show, many of the great paintings of the Renaissance and, particularly, the work of Verrocchio's greatest apprentice, Leonardo.
This very fine exhibition brings you into L'École des Beaux Arts (at no charge) where you can enjoy the one-time chapel which houses interesting copies of Michelangelo works and excellent examples of Medieval sculpture as well as the grand courtyard with its classical statuary, painted frieze and lovely tile floor before entering the small dedicated space with room for only 19 people at a time to allow close examination of each of these exceptional works. This is an outstanding opportunity to enjoy a marvelous range of rare Italian Renaissance drawings.
SERUSIER'S THE TALISMAN, A PROPHECY OF COLOR
Through 2 June 2019
What was it about Pont-Aven in the last quarter of the 19th Century that motivated painters to work in a distinctly new way that we now recognize as modern? Was it the fresh, unspoiled scenery of Brittany unmarked by industrialization? Was it the people of the countryside still wearing regional dress? Was it the presence of churches, religious symbols, myths and stories? Maybe a bit of all of those, but mostly it was Paul Gauguin, and through Gauguin's teaching, advice or guidance—there are many versions of the story—Paul Sérusier (1864-1927) created a small painting which sparked a revolution among young artists in Paris. Formally titled Paysage au Bois d'Amour (Landscape in the Bois d'Amour, 1888), the work was seized on by a group which met every week to share one new, daring work by each member. The small work was brought to each session as a lucky charm and named The Talisman by one member and this talisman unleashed creative spirits which led to less and less realistic painting, more and more emotional, colorful and eventually abstract art. The exhibition at the Musée D'Orsay, Sérusier's The Talisman, a prophecy of color, pivots around this small painting to showcase Sérusier's work as well as that of the talented group called Nabis or prophets, all extending the lessons of Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) about art as expression of the artist's feelings and about the wonders of vibrant, rich color.
The 60 works on display put the artist at the center—that is, the artist's feelings, reactions and beliefs—as they present highly personal views of the natural world without concern for faithful presentation of scenes or scenery. Other 19th Century painters presented magnificent mountains, billowing clouds and lakes as signs of the spirit or power or deity behind creation, but there are few traditional landscapes or mountain scenes among the work of the Nabis. There may be a sense of a dreamy spirituality and mystery in, say, Madeleine au Bois d'Amour (1888) by Émile Bernard (1868-1941), and clearly there are religious elements in works such as Le Christ vert (The Green Christ, 1890) by Maurice Denis (1870-1943) who called himself a "Christian painter", but the cross and the figure of Jesus are green and Bernard's sister strangely lies prone in front of trees, water and a pink ground on a different scale. While some pieces link the material and spiritual realms, in Les Pins rouges (The Red Pines, around 1894 – 1895) by Georges Lacombe (1868 – 1916) with its red-barked tall trees running to the border of picture you see the more typical a-religous approach of these painters, a-religous and using nature to express oneself. Some years later, Denis would write,"Art is no longer a visual sensation that we gather, like a photograph, as it were, of nature. No, it is a creation of our spirit, for which nature is only the occasion." Nature is an occasion not the subject.
These painters rejected the realistic classicism of The Academy which ruled over official French taste and they similarly rejected the attempts of the Impressionists to capture the reality of light out of doors. No one could mistake Le Gaulage des pommes (Picking Apples, 1890) by Émile Bernard or his L'Arbre jaune (The Yellow Tree, around 1888) as being from either of those dominant schools of painting. In the first there are black outlines around the figures with indistinct faces and no shadows or shading; in the second, there is no perspective and no horizon while the colors create the forms. There is something Japanese and something very new in these paintings.
Bold, pure colors dominate. Séruiser, Denis and the others used color as the primary element of painting. In this initial period of excitement, color was more important than form, and composition came from arrangement of colors more than arrangement of figures. Around 1890 Édouard Vuillard (1868 – 1940) created a portrait called Le Liseur (The Reader), for example, with blotches of two shades of brown appearing as hair or hat with light and dark green areas making a jacket in front of flat pink, red and yellow planes. Denis wrote, "Remember that a picture, before being a battle horse, a female nude or some sort of anecdote, is essentially a flat surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order." Color remained central to the work of Sérusier as he moved on to develop his own color theory (as did other 20th century artists such as Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Victor Vasarely) as illustrated by Cercle chromatique (Chromatic Circle, no date) and Dissonance chaude / Dissonance froide (Hot Dissonance / Cold Dissonance, around 1921) and like Vasarely he created sacred, cosmic geometric shapes in color fields in Tétraèdres (Tetrahedrons, 1910). In two early 20th Century works of Charles Filiger (1863-1928) featuring kaleidoscopes of colors, there is a sense that colors have life and meaning of their own. Following the Nabis, artists called Fauves (Wild Beasts) would continue the use of bold colors in ways which shocked the public, Henri Matisse would make their bold colors and black outlines his own and artists would use flat, bold color fields on canvas, paper and metal throughout the 20th Century.
The Talisman is the first thing you see in Wikipedia's definition of synthetism, a term which describes works by, among others, Bernard, Gauguin and Sérusier. Its derivation gives it the flavor of combining elements to form something new, complex, different. The excellent paintings in Sérusier's The Talisman, a prophecy of color give life to that meaning. They are new, complex, different from what came before and prophecies of color-filled 20th Century art.
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Announcing the $10,000 Evo Scholarship Winners for 2012!
It took longer than we expected, but we have finally awarded the first ever Evo College Scholarship! The response was enormous; in our first year we received over 500 applications. Thankfully, the number of PPV viewers for Evo 2012 have allowed us to add one additional scholarship. So for 2012 we will grant two $10,000 awards, along with a special $500 creative grant! An enormous THANK YOU goes out to all our online viewers and to Capcom, Namco, Warner Bros, and Atlus for allowing us to run the PPV.
Students, this was an enormously difficult decision, so congratulations to our 2012 winners.
Dillon is a local Las Vegas player and a freshman at UNLV. He plans to major in Engineering or Computer Science and apply his education to designing games. In his essay, Dillon talked about how games have given him a positive outlet when dealing with some tough personal circumstances.
There are a million different reasons to play games, and everyone has their own unique story. I've had a tough childhood. My parents got divorced when I was just six years old and my dad hasn't been in my life worth mentioning ever since. … Throughout my younger years I was one of the most athletic people I've ever known. Injuries and family issues caught up to me, and sports faded out of my life.
For some people, games are just a way to pass time. Games for me have always meant just so much more than that. When I lost the ability to compete in sports, games supplied that thrill of competition for me. More than anything though, they allowed me to escape from life for short periods of time and kept me sane when things were difficult.
I'm majoring in engineering/computer science because games have done so much for me and I want to help design a game that could do the same for another kid. This scholarship would help me out a ton and I sincerely appreciate your consideration.
Here's a quick message from Dillon regarding his new scholarship.
Going to my first Evolution tournament was one of the greatest experiences I've had and I would definitely encourage everyone to make it out to Vegas for it in the future. Also, thanks to everyone who donated to the scholarship fund. I know many people weren't even watching the stream, or didn't care about the quality, and yet they still gave their money to the cause. I'd like to give a shoutout to Shrugu, Cartoon, Beto, Ruin, Zeromax, and the rest of the vegas scene. Big shoutout to Megaboy_BTP, who I've probably played 10,000 games against online. Also, Shoutouts to the whole FGC for making these games so enjoyable to play. It's the best scene in the world, there's just no other way to put it.
Andrew is a graduate student at Stanford University pursuing his Master's Degree in Computer Science. In his essay, Andrew discussed his lifelong interest in games and effect games have had in his life.
As I've grown, my games have grown alongside me, with new systems and underlying technology …Two things that have remained constant are my fascination with games and the pure joy that they give me. When I was younger, I would spend entire days progressing through the latest games I was playing.
My family has never been able to afford to travel, but games have allowed me to journey to countless new worlds and enjoy many new experiences. … As I've gotten older, I've become more interested in competitive gaming, and regularly bond with my friends over sessions of games like Counter-Strike or Street Fighter. I've made friends at tournaments that I never would've met otherwise.
Andrew would also like to thank everyone who made this scholarship possible.
I would like to give a special thanks to the fighting (and competitive) game community for helping to advance gaming's status in society further than that of a simple pastime.
Playing game was something that I could never imagine as a child. I grew up with my grandparents, while my parents were busy with their works.
I remember my parents destroying my computer and game CDs when I was junior in high school. Like typical Asian parents, they were disappointed at the fact that I'm wasting my time on gaming that I'm not taking my schoolwork seriously. They thought I was addicted like I'm on drug, while I was simply, exploring.
I took games as a form of art, which is a mixture of plenty of other types of art: It has scenarios like movies or plays, it has beautiful concept arts filled with brilliant imagination, beautiful renderings that are eye catching, and interesting interactive mechanics that attracts the gamers' focus. I didn't play the games because I was addicted to them. I played them to figure out why they are addicting and why they are special.
Now I'm Junior at Ringling College of Art and Design, studying Game Art and Design as my major. I'm proud of what I am doing and I would be happy to receive more encouragements.
Aside from Evo, this has been one of the most satisfying things for me personally that we have done here at Shoryuken.com Once again, thanks to everyone who helped make the scholarships possible!


When OEM Magazine spoke to a handful of North American machine builders about how they handle vendor managed inventory (VMI), it seemed there wasn't much to say. When dealing with nuts, bolts and other smaller machine components that OEMs have typically organized inventory with vending machines or designated bins monitored by the vendor. While a good VMI system keeps inventory stocked, shortens lead times and lowers overall component costs, OEMs wonder what an even better system could accomplish. Which poses the question: Are there any new innovations around VMI that can improve the way inventory is handled?
From digital inventory management systems to multi-product weigh scales and predictive replenishment, the VMI landscape—while seemingly stagnant—is ripe for revitalization. The OEMs that adopt VMI best practices will benefit from new-found inventory efficiencies, which ultimately leads to higher customer satisfaction.
Stan Wolf, branch manager at Motion Industries, a supplier of bearings, pneumatics, hydraulics and mechanical power transmission products, says that while nothing revolutionary has hit the market to date, new opportunities revolving around IIoT and remote monitoring are in the stars for VMI.
But perhaps making the most out of VMI is less about new innovations and more about how OEMs and suppliers are maximizing their supply chains and breathing new life into traditional VMI methods.
Kochar came to Pearson four years ago with a goal to shake up how the OEM looked at and managed its supply chain. With experience at highly supply chain-centric companies like Amazon and Dell, Kochar analyzed how he could bring a more streamlined supply chain into the packaging OEM's facility.
Working with Fastenal, a Winona, Minn.-based company that provides manufacturers with fasteners, tools and supplies, and its Smart Label program, Kochar created a VMI system for Pearson, which has helped the OEM adhere to quick lead-times and improve productivity.
Pearson's shop floor has 200 bins, each with its own component, and these bins are now organized by color-coded bays and lines. Until just a few months ago, if someone asked Kochar where a specific bolt was located on the plant floor, he didn't have a process in place to locate it. With the new Smart Label program, Kochar and other Pearson employees can easily locate the part by which bay it's located in.
But Kochar isn't stopping there. He envisions expanding the Smart Label system even further, while also using Fastenal's new Fast360 inventory monitoring program. In 2017, Fastenal launched Fast360, which has been engineered to give OEM customers insight into their organization's relationship with Fastenal. This Fastenal exclusive provides builders with critical supply chain information and insight. OEMs can search, compare and manage their supply chain with three easy to use modules that are directly incorporated within Fastenal's e-commerce platform, says LaDon Smith, one of Fastenal's district managers.
Coiled vending machines housing gloves, safety goggles, nuts, bolts and other components can be found throughout many OEM plant floors, but they aren't Kochar's favorite form of VMI.
"The drawback with these machines is that they only dispense one item at a time. So, when my assembly technicians need five things, they have to enter the part number five different times," Kochar says.
To improve productivity in this regard, Kochar turned to Motion Industries' secured, scale-based machine, which houses 30–40 different weighted bins filled with components. Engineers can scan their badge to open the machine's main door to access all of the components at once. Because the machine is scale-based, engineers can grab multiple items from different bins and the machine knows exactly what is taken. Once the employee closes the door and scans out of the system, the machine sends real-time stock level data to Motion Industries so they can predict when Pearson may need its stock replenished.
What about VMI for controls?
Because controls platforms often differ from assembly to assembly, a VMI system for controls components may not make the most sense. However, Rockwell Automation, Milwaukee, Wisc., introduced a platform called Design for Supply Chain, which isn't exactly VMI, but in a similar realm, it helps ensure OEMs have the products they need, without supply-chain interruption. The program involves reviewing an active customer's bill of materials to determine if they are using currently preferred, available products that are stocked by their distributor.
In collaboration with an OEM's distributors, Rockwell Automation reviews their customer's bill of materials once a year to evaluate the company's complete supply chain. By scrubbing the bill of materials, Rockwell Automation is able to identify if there are any opportunities to migrate the OEM using a product nearing mature lifecycle status over to an active, preferred and available product. The supplier has more than 33,000 preferred products that are available with quick delivery, which can help OEMs meet competitive delivery times and reduce the need to accelerate or expedite orders.
Some of the OEMs who have used Design for Supply Chain have reduced their part numbers, which saves them thousands of dollars every year in labor and procurement scheduling costs, Throne says. It's also helping them with their deliveries and staging.
ARPAC, based in Schiller Park, Ill., is an end of line packaging equipment manufacturer that assisted Rockwell in developing this program in 2010.
Since the inception of Design for Supply Chain, Rockwell has closely audited the impact the program has had on ARPAC. The most recent analysis identified very few long lead times. In addition, ARPAC's use of the platform has streamlined the machine building process.
For the past three years, Fastenal has offered a more hands-on approach to VMI through its on-site program where Fastenal invests in employees who actually become a part of an OEM customer's team. The employees then set up a shop in the OEM's facility and manage the customers entire supply chain. Fastenal owns and monitors all of the inventory, which is appealing to most OEM customers as it lines up well with customer's key performance indicators, says Fastenal's Smith. The program has been shown to improve on-time delivery, inventory accuracy, total cost of ownership savings and service.
So, while VMI may appear to be an ancillary aspect of the business, new approaches with supplier partners are streamlining the supply chain in a way that is increasing efficiencies and reducing costs for the machine builders and their customers. OEMs just have to think out-of-the-box when it comes to components in the bin.
OEMs and suppliers should have a monthly or quarterly meeting to make sure both parties are always on the same page.
An honest and transparent relationship keeps ARPAC and Rockwell tight-knit. When OEMs are reevaluating how much stock they do or don't need, suppliers should also be in on these conversations so they know what to expect.
Creating partnerships with suppliers and distribution channels allows OEMs to drive their labor, procurement and logistics costs down through continuous improvements of their supply chain efficiencies. Partnerships allow OEMs to focus on what they do best, which is manufacturing machines and innovating, and helps them differentiate in a globally competitive landscape, Throne says.
VMI should not be about driving down the cost of your suppliers, rather it should be more about looking at the overall cost and value.
In collaboration with an OEM's distributors, Rockwell Automation reviews their customer's bill of materials once a year to evaluate the company's complete supply chain. This is a screenshot from the company's Design For Supply Chain platform.
Prabh Kochar (pictured) checks in with his credentials and then grabs inventory from the Motion Industries' weigh scale Pearson has on its shop floor.


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by Charles Riley @CRrileyCNN August 9, 2013: 4:02 AM ET
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe must soon decide whether to proceed with a planned tax hike.
Talk about a lot of zeros.
Japan's finance ministry released data Friday showing that the country's debt burden has topped 1 quadrillion yen for the first time.
Yes, more than 1 quadrillion. If you want to get specific, Japan's central government debt at the end of June was 1,008,628,100,000,000 yen.
Here's another way to write that: 1,008.6 trillion yen. In U.S. dollars, it's $10.5 trillion.
While one quadrillion is largely a symbolic level, the eye-popping number underscores a real challenge for Japan, which has more debt as a percentage of GDP than any other developed nation.
Tokyo has now issued 830 trillion yen in government bonds, and the country's revenue collection has never kept pace. Japan's gross public debt is projected to hit 230% of GDP by 2014 after years of sustained deficits.
Japan has increased borrowing this year to spend more on the country's infrastructure as part of an ambitious program of economic stimulus aimed at ending decades of stagnation and falling prices.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has cautioned that Japan must do more to arrest rising debt. "Stopping and reversing the rise in the debt-to-GDP ratio is crucial," the organization has said.
It's the same story at the IMF: "Japan needs more ambitious plans to bring down debt, plus structural reforms to shift the economy into higher gear," IMF managing director Christine Lagarde said earlier this year.
Related story: Even Abenomics can't ignore Japan debt
Some help might be on the way, at least from next year.
The government is planning to double consumption tax to 10% by 2015. Paid by consumers when they buy goods or services, the tax will be increased in two stages, rising first to 8% in April 2014.
Related story: Japan's tough choice on tax hike
The country's leaders face a tough choice over how, or even whether, to implement the unpopular measure that could take a bite out of growth just as a bold economic stimulus plan appears to be bearing fruit.
Should the government follow through with the tax hike, it would help raise revenue and prove that Japan is committed to fiscal reforms. But the measure, as planned, would also slow the economy.
CNNMoney (Hong Kong) First published August 9, 2013: 3:51 AM ET


After two years of sweet family life Rob and I decided it's a high time to make our belated honeymoon come true. Curiosity for Southeast Asia and love for spicy food shifted the needle of our compass towards the distant lands of Bali and after a 16-hour journey up in the air we arrived in the peaceful Balinese world.
The endless sky, the blossoming green and the welcoming smile of the Balinese people promised well for our vacation. We were soon enjoying morning swimming in our private pool, afternoon walks along the beach, romantic dinning experiences, daily trips in the surrounding and dives in the Balinese cuisine.
One of the funniest and most vibrant experiences we went throughout was the Balinese cooking class in Kuta. At 7am that day we were already out and about driving to the local fruit and vegetable market in Kuta. Following a wind-up alley we reached the dim-lighted market hall, where life has been bustling since early dawn.
A companion of every Balinese dish, the fire-red sauce appears to be what salt is for the westerns. You can find it freshly grinded or cooked with variation of ingredients, but nevertheless the mixture of bird's-eye chilies, gingerl, galangal, shallots, kafir lime, salam (the Indonesian bay leaf) and shrimp paste deliberately blended in a Balinese mortar is the best way to taste Bali.
Coffee in Bali is good. No surprise since Indonesia is the fourth largest coffee producer in the world. The locals appreciate citrus flavoured blends which taste great, but what is even more interesting is the so called Kopi luwak made of the civet's poop. We visited a hidden coffee plantation not far from Ubud where we met the little fluffy creature with special ability to differentiate the good from the bad coffee seeds. I found the kopi luwak tastes a bit more pungent in taste, but definitely awakening.
A large part of lifestyle on the splendid island happens on a scooter. While traveling around one sees infants, pets, entire families moving around on two wheels. In Bali they drive on the left, but hey, if you are in a hurry with a scooter all directions are green.
All the sunsets we have witness during our stay in Seminyak were spectacular. For ten minutes beach life was slowing down to admire in silence the descending sun.
We had a wonderful stay in a huge executive villa in Uma Sapna. The place was really nice and clean. Privacy was before all and staff was beyond courteous.
My ultimate favourite restaurant I will continue craving for may be for a long time: Ginger Moon. Excellent selection of Indonesian and Southeast Asian dishes in a homey, but still elegant atmosphere. Their Bali nachos and soft shell crab salad were among the best!
The Coffee House. An interesting blend of a coffee shop and a Thai restaurant! No doubt why we were going there. Not a large choice, but the cook was great enhancing our dishes with mountains of chilies.
In case someone is in the mood for Bloody Sunday Mary, Laca Laca is the place. Colorful. Great patio. Mexican.
Нека съвместния ви живот е един безкраен меден месец какъвто сте изкарали със закъснение 🙂 Бъдете все така влюбени и щастливи !
Доре, много много ти благодаря за това хубаво пожелание!:) Прегръдки!
Awww! Jason, thank you so much! This was a bit belayed honeymoon, but gosh, when you love each other anytime feels fantastic!


Mr. William C. Weldon is Chairman at J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, NA, Independent Director at Exxon Mobil Corp., Independent Director at CVS Health Corp., Independent Director at JPMorgan Chase & Co., a Member at The Business Council, a Member at The Business Roundtable, a Member at Healthcare Leadership Council, and a Member at Joint Center for Political & Economic Studies. He is on the Board of Directors at HeartFlow, Inc., Exxon Mobil Corp., CVS Health Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Quinnipiac University, and CEO Roundtable on Cancer, Inc.
Mr. Weldon was previously employed as Chairman & Chief Executive Officer by JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA, Independent Director by The Chubb Corp., Chairman by Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America, Chairman by Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc., Vice President-Sales & Marketing by Janssen Pharmaceutical Products LP, a Managing Director by Ortho-Cilag Pharmaceutical Ltd., Executive Vice President & Managing Director by Korea Mcneil Ltd., and Chairman by Johnson & Johnson. He also served on the board at US-China Business Council.
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[Watch] "American Idol" Alum Trent Harmon Performs Stirring Rendition of "Her"
Annie Reuter
America first fell in love with Trent Harmon during Season 15 of American Idol in 2016, where the country singer was crowned winner. Two years later, the singer returns with his debut album, You Got 'Em All, and one of the standout tracks is "Her."
On the stirring ballad, Trent sings of an event that happened during his days filming American Idol in which he was propositioned by another woman. During the incident, he politely turned the woman down and explained that he had a girlfriend. In a new acoustic video for the song, the lyrics come to life with Trent's powerful singing at the forefront of the track.
"You could be fine / You could be sweet / You could be everything that I need / You could be the fix / You could be the cure / But whatever you are, girl / One thing's for sure / You'll never be her, her, her, her / You'll never be her, her, her, her," he sings on the chorus.
The five-minute, stripped-down song features Trent alone on vocals with his acoustic guitar in hand. Alongside delicate guitar picking, Trent's soulful voice shines. Trent co-wrote the powerful song with Jimmy Robbins and Laura Veltz. The singer penned eight of the 11 tracks on the album You Got 'Em All, released earlier this year.
The "Idol" winner is in the midst of his headlining tour with select dates throughout the summer. Additionally, he serves as an opener on Rascal Flatts' Back To Us Tour that runs through the fall.
Known for his blend of country and soul music, Trent won over viewers on American Idol performing covers by Lynyrd Skynyrd and Chris Stapleton including, "Tennessee Whiskey" and "Drink You Away." The Mississippi native was the final winner of American Idol before the show's reboot, which aired earlier this year, with judges Luke Bryan, Katy Perry and Lionel Richie.
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Joseph J. "Joe" McLaughlin
Obituary of Joseph J. McLaughlin
Joseph J. McLaughlin, 93, of Gladwyne, a banker and longtime supporter of the Catholic Church, died Thursday, August 19 with his children and caregiver at his side. Throughout his life, Mr. McLaughlin always instructed new friends and acquaintances to call him "Joe." Born in Southwest Philadelphia in 1928, Joe McLaughlin was one of four children. His father, Joseph, was an orphan and his mother, Mary Peters, was an immigrant from Germany. Their family lost their house on Greenway Avenue during the Great Depression and his father's employment was cut to one day of work per week so that his employer, a printing engraver, was able to retain as many employees as possible. The times were difficult and his family was given 30 days to evict their home. Miraculously, they found a home on the 5900 block of Chester Avenue to rent for $5 week. While the notice of eviction and the loss of their home created great anxiety for Joe's family, especially his parents, this event was foundational to Joe McLaughlin throughout the remainder of his life - both in his decision making as a future CEO, as well as his compassion for others, especially those in poverty. Joe attended Most Blessed Sacrament grade school which he claimed was the "largest grammar school in the World." His first grade class had 600 students overseen by six nuns. He learned first-hand that one nun for each classroom of 100 pupils was sufficient to educate grade school students in religion, math, reading and writing, yet maintain order and discipline. He also attended West Catholic High School for Boys, Temple University, and the Brown University School of Banking. Joe served his country in the US Army as a Corporal in occupied Japan – Post-WWII. However, he would often cite the service of his older brother Jack, who enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corp at the age of 17 and fought in the battle of Iwo Jima for 22 days, and survived. Joe married Agnes Small in 1954. Agnes was one of six children born to immigrants, Henry Small and Mary Agnes O'Neill, who fled from Northern Ireland in 1923. Joe and Agnes raised three children (Anne Kennedy, Joe McLaughlin and John McLaughlin) and were very proud of their nine grandchildren. Joe became a clerk for Beneficial Savings Bank at the age of 23 and was soon promoted to teller. He became President of the Bank in 1974 and served as its president for 20 years. Ultimately, Joe continued to serve as a member of the Board of Directors for another 20 years and retired from the Board well before the sale of the Bank to WSFS. Ultimately, Joe served Beneficial Savings Bank for nearly 65 years. However, after becoming President of the Bank in 1974, Beneficial Savings Bank faced its most challenging times since the Great Depression. "The Prime Rate reached a record high of 21 or 22 percent in 1980 which created an enormous amount of pressure on Beneficial and many other thrifts and savings & loans across the Country," said John McLaughlin, his youngest son. While many other banks were failing throughout the period due to extraordinarily high interest rates, Beneficial Savings Bank survived through a contrarian strategy of shrinking in size rather than growing. "Our father was encouraged by larger competitors to 'fold…sell the bank to us…you and Agnes will never have anything to worry about'. He received a letter on Christmas Eve 1983 by the US Bank Examiner insisting the bank cease to operate and seek an exit through merger. The letter made him sick to his stomach. He felt faint, but didn't share the letter with anyone until the holidays had passed," his son John added. "My father refused to sell the Bank as he had greater concern for the 500 employees of the Bank and their continued employment and livelihood. He knew the Bank was strong enough to survive, and he often cited his team and devotion to St. John Neumann as key elements of the Bank's survival and success," said his son Joe McLaughlin, Jr. "My brothers and I believe the loss of their home on Greenway Avenue during the Great Depression was foundational to our father's compassion and empathy for others and his actions as a CEO," said his daughter Anne Kennedy. "The Bank was founded by St. John Neumann in 1853 to hold money for immigrants. I would argue the Bank's survival was miraculous," she added. While President of the Bank, Joe McLaughlin was asked to meet with President Ronald Reagan for an hour at the Bellevue Hotel in 1983, given his involvement in the Citizen's Crime Commission. Thatcher Longstreth joined him. "In addition to discussing the Citizens Crime Commission, our father took this rare opportunity and implored President Reagan to revise regulatory barriers like reducing Federal Reserve lending rates, easing constricting bank regulation, etc. to aid the Savings & Loan sector," said his son John. Reagan responded by invoking his father's struggle with alcoholism and analogizing it to working with the Federal Reserve Bank. "Our father was fortunate enough to meet with Paul Volker in 1985, when Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank. Well prepared, our father imploring Chairman Volker to revise regulatory burdens," said his son Joe. Volker was considered at the time to be the 3rd most important person in the world. "Chairman Volker left the meeting saying to his aide, 'Martin, get these people some help!.' Not too long after the meeting, the Federal Reserve Bank began to ease interest rates and the regulatory burden faced by many thrifts and savings & loans began to subside," added his son Joe. As St. John Neumann was a founder of Beneficial Savings Bank, Joe and Agnes McLaughlin developed a great devotion to the Saint and the shrine in his name at St. Peter the Apostle Church at 5th and Girard Avenues in Philadelphia. "Our father was instrumental in what appeared to be a miracle at St. John Neumann Shrine in the 1980's," said his son John. For several years, the church and Shrine needed a new roof according to rector, Father Brown. The cost estimate at that time was $70,000 which was quite a bit of money, especially for an ailing parish. "Every so often, an officer of the Bank would give a talk regarding Bishop John Neumann's founding of Beneficial Savings Bank in 1853. On one occasion, our father gave a talk to about 50 individuals visiting the Shrine. A women approached our father after his talk and said, 'I have an old passbook account at Beneficial. Please take whatever is in the account and donate the entire balance to the Shrine.' Our father took the information back to the Bank. The passbook balance was $70,000. The outcome seemed miraculous to us and others." "Our parents often prayed the rosary and implored the intervention of St. John Neumann. Our mother was a cancer survivor for over 30 years…again, another seeming miracle," added his son John. Joe McLaughlin spent his remaining years in retirement with Agnes, traveling with friends and enjoying time with their nine grandchildren. Joe and Agnes were married for 61 years upon Agnes' passing in 2015. Joe McLaughlin served on many boards over the years including but not limited to: Philadelphia Electric Company; National Savings & Loan Association; Chairman of Magee Hospital; Jefferson University Hospital and Health System; Little Sisters of the Poor, Holy Family Home at 5300 Chester Avenue, Philadelphia; Catholic Philopatrian Literary Institute; Citizens Crime Commission; Immaculata University; Saint Joseph's University. Joe McLaughlin also served on the Finance and Audit Committees as well as the Real Estate Committee of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia for many years spanning the leadership of John Cardinal Krol to Archbishop Charles Chaput. He was given the titles Knight of St. Gregory the Great and Knight Commander of St. Gregory, the highest honor given to lay personnel by a pope. Joe McLaughlin was also recognized over the years by a number of non-profits and honored through fund raising efforts including but not limited to The National Coalition of Christians and Jews and The City of Hope Cancer Center Los Angeles, California. Mass of Christian Burial is scheduled for Friday, August 27, 2021 at 11am at St. John Vianney Church, 350 Conshohocken State Road, Gladwyne, PA; visitation will proceed the mass from 9am to 10:45am at St. John Vianney Church. The Mass of Christian Burial will be livestreamed on the St. John Vianney Parish website https://www.sjvgladwyne.com/ and at https://masslivestream.com/churches/sjvgladwyne Contributions in Joe McLaughlin's name may be made to: Little Sister of the Poor - Holy Family Home, 5300 Chester Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19143; The National Shrine of St. John Neumann, St. Peter the Apostle Parish, 1019 N. 5th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123


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After those three mandatory factors will come a series of 16 other voluntary factors, including ZIP code, marital status and school grades.
In addition to the three mandatory factors required in Proposition 103 -- miles driven, safety record and years of driving experience -- insurers are allowed to factor in the accident frequency and severity in different regions of the state," explained Dan Dunmoyer, president of PIFC.
If the three mandatory factors were all that could be used in rating auto insurance, good drivers in 51 of California's 58 counties would experience a 3 percent to 85 percent increase in their auto insurance rates according to the Personal Insurance Federation of California (PIFC).
The optional factors may be calculated into an insurance rate only after the three mandatory factors are considered.
The new rules require insurers to first consider three mandatory factors in accordance with Proposition 103 before calculating rates: the insured's driving safety record, the number of miles driven each year and the extent of driving experience.


Beyond a film about als, the devastating neurological disease that has spurred millions of Americans to dump buckets of ice water over their heads and donate money, George C. Wolfe's touching drama "You're Not You" (based on Michelle Wildgen's novel) is a compelling portrait of female friendship weathering the proverbial maelstrom of life.
"It's a non-romantic love story" says star Emmy Rossum, who plays Bec, an adrift twentysomething hired as the caretaker of Kate (Hilary Swank), a gifted pianist stricken with ALS. "It's about two women who become friends and realize they need each other and that they can learn from each other how to live. For me it was super powerful."
So taken with Rossum's performance, the sixth annual Carmel Inti. Film Festival is screening the film at 8 p.m. Oct. 16 and honoring the actress with its annual Breakthrough Award.
"A great film is when you can relate to it on a personal level and that's what that film did for me," says Thomas Burns, fest president and co-founder. "Both performances were remarkable, and, obviously, it's a very current topic, but I think it is about the relationship and that's what's appealing on a much broader basis. That's the mass appeal."
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The Truth about Agent Orange and other Herbicides in Thailand during the Vietnam War
A. The legal framework of the Vietnam presumptions.
In 1991, Congress passed the Agent Orange Act, which mandated that certain diseases associated with exposure to herbicide agents, including chloracne and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, be presumed service-connected. Section 1116 of title 38 of the United States Code and 38 C.F.R. § 3.307 and 3.309 provide the legal authority and framework for awarding benefits to Vietnam veterans with herbicide agent-related diseases. When Congress enacted this law, it stated, "the term 'herbicide agent' means a chemical in an herbicide used in support of the United States and allied military operations in the Republic of Vietnam during the period beginning on January 9, 1962, and ending on May 7, 1975." 38 U.S.C. § 1116. Figure 1.1 lists (and Figure 1.2 illustrates) the chemical composition of each of the herbicide agents as well as the time period in which they were used in Vietnam.
38 U.S.C. § 1116 is a dual-function statute titled: "Presumptions of service connection for diseases associated with exposure to certain herbicide agents; presumption of exposure for veterans who served in the Republic of Vietnam."
Figure 1.1 – Herbicides and their agents used in Vietnam during the Vietnam War
Code/Name Primary Agents in Herbicide Time Used in Vietnam
Pink 60% n-butyl ester of 2,4,5-T
40% isobutyl ester of 2,4,5-T 1962-1965
Green 100% n-butyl ester of 2,4,5-T 1962-1965
Pink-Green mixture 80% n-butyl ester of 2,4,5-T
Purple 50% n-butyl ester of 2,4-D
30% n-butyl ester of 2,4,5-T
Blue 100% sodium salt of cacodylic acid 1962-1971
Orange 50% n-butyl ester of 2,4-D
50% n-butyl ester of 2,4,5-T 1965 and after
Orange II 50% n-butyl ester of 2,4-D
50% isooctyl ester of 2,4,5-T 1965 and after
White 80% triisopropanolamine salt of 2,4-D
20% triisopropanolamine salt of picloram 1965 and after
Figure 1.2 – Visual representation of Figure 1.1
VA followed suit by drafting regulations to coincide with the statute by defining the term as follows: "'herbicide agent' means a chemical in an herbicide used in support of the United States and allied military operations in the Republic of Vietnam[,] . . . specifically: 2,4-D; 2,4,5-T and its contaminant TCDD; cacodylic acid; and picloram." 38 C.F.R. § 3.307(a)(6)(i). The important element of a successful claim for disability compensation based on exposure to herbicides used outside of Vietnam is demonstrating that the agent contained in the herbicide in one of those listed above.
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B. The military used the same agent-orange-and-herbicides in Thailand that were used in Vietnam.
The Rules of Engagement for Vietnam and Thailand were similar.
Thailand's strong connection to Operation RANCH HAND Demonstrates that its bases received a steady supply of agent-orange-and-herbicides.
The historical record reveals substantial herbicide use on bases in Thailand.
The Air Force developed a standard for herbicide use on Thailand bases.
C. VA should presume exposure to herbicide agents for all Thailand veterans.
Thailand veterans were exposed to the same agents as Vietnam veterans.
In Thailand cases, the VA faces the same challenges of determining exposure details as they did with Vietnam veterans which ultimately led to a legal presumption of exposure.
VA's illusory distinction between "commercial" and "tactical" agent-orange-and-herbicides is unlawful and arbitrary.
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A chance encounter at a party in Birmingham, Alabama, led Jolee Bollinger to a job interview in an office converted from an old convent space. That's where, in 2006, the legal leader met with the C-suite and Sisters of the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System (FMOLHS). Bollinger seized the opportunity to support the largest Catholic health organization in Louisiana, which has also provided $39 million in unreimbursed care. Now the general counsel and corporate integrity officer is uniting its network of hospitals, clinics, physicians, elderly housing, and information systems more than ever before.
As Bollinger guides the hospital network's transition into a more integrated health system, she's also ensuring FMOLHS doesn't leave behind the ministry created by its founding Sisters more than a century ago. Profile spoke with Bollinger to discuss how she balances operating the ministry in a commercial environment and how the recent movement toward an integrated health system will continue to serve communities in need.
Your organization certainly has a rich history. Did that attract you to the opportunity there?
It really did. Being able to translate my personal faith in this environment has been a really meaningful experience. The ministry isn't just posted up on the wall here; it guides our decisions and keeps our integrity in check in a very tough and changing healthcare environment. We emphasize to all of our team members that you are here because of a calling, and if you don't feel that calling, then this is not the place you should be.
When I think about how our health system has grown over the years—going back to the six sisters that left Paris to come to Louisiana to start our first hospital—we always try to make decisions that are respectful of that tradition and heritage.
Have there been significant changes at FMOLHS during your tenure?
While the health system was formed in the '80s, the hospitals have been operating for seventy-five to one hundred years as separate entities. And, when I joined as general counsel of the health system, each hospital still had its own legal function. Since then, we've consolidated legal, compliance, audit, and many other functions, such as risk management, finance, and human resources. We're still on the road to consolidating where it makes sense.
Another change that will take effect next spring relates to the sisters' sponsorship. To assure the continued Catholic identity of our health system and to implement the teachings of Vatican II, the sisters requested the Vatican to create a new sponsorship structure, which ensures involvement of laity and continuation of the Catholic identity.
What key considerations do you have for your team during this integration process?
Our main goal has been to preserve the stability of our facilities and our ministry so that we will continue for the next hundred years. To do so, we have grown the department with lawyers who are able to deliver service as business partners. You certainly need a technical skill set, but you also need the right personality so that the lawyer feels invested in the business outcomes. We have a very talented team that does amazing legal work, and they also are able to assist the business teams to achieve their goals. It is a partnership rather than a sterile lawyer-client relationship.
From a business perspective, what are the benefits of adhering to both legal and faith-based frameworks?
We recognize that we must operate in a commercial environment; that's the way that America works. But at the same time, we must assure we remain true to who we are in carrying out our mission. I've worked in both worlds—for-profit and not-for-profit healthcare. The outcome of decisions made between for-profit and not-for-profit entities may not be different, but the way the decision is made is extremely different. The discernment of who's involved and considered stakeholders is very different; we really see ourselves as partners with our communities rather than merely a service provider.
What's an example of how stakeholders are brought to the table at FMOLHS?
Before we transitioned a community hospital into a teaching hospital in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, we started with the hospital medical staff. We knew that if the physicians would not support the effort, then we would never be successful. We also spent a great deal of time with the community, with our local government leadership, to address how we would assure populations had appropriate access to healthcare services.
We have all the competitive pressures that impact any business, but with every decision, we focus on how we can best care for the patient.
Then how would you describe the cultural impact on the organization itself as it becomes more integrated?
It's big. We have about thirteen thousand team members system wide, and they are really energized by the message because it's providing an outward response to all the consolidations that are going on in healthcare. Instead of looking to partner with another system, we have decided to strategically grow ourselves to ensure stability. We have been a system of different hospitals in separate markets, and now we are continuing to coordinate that activity as an integrated system.
One of the most significant first steps was our conversion to the Epic electronic health record system wide. Additionally, our efforts to develop population health through our clinical network is extremely impressive. Our goal is to connect the dots to help patients navigate the complex American healthcare system to either maintain their best health or return to a functional state of health in the event of chronic illness.
What does the corporate integrity aspect of your title mean to you?
Those words are behind my name, but that's a standard that we place on every leader and every team member within our organization. I oversee many of the safeguarding functions, but corporate integrity more broadly assures that we are all operating in a way that displays personal integrity not only when we carry out our technical jobs, but also how we conduct ourselves—a higher level of professionalism and compassion for what people are going through as they walk in our doors every day.


Team members of the Uftring Auto Group's six Peoria-area dealerships joined together with other members of the community for the Take Steps for Crohn's & Colitis walk on June 25th at Bradley Park. One of our team members has been directly touched by Crohn's & Colitis and we enthusiastically showed our support at the early evening walk through Bradley Park. Even though there was some rain, a large group of Uftring employees and members of the Uftring Ambassador Initiative showed their support. The previous Friday, each Uftring Auto Group store held a Casual Day for a Cause to raise money for Crohn's & Colitis. Gary Uftring matched the employees donations, many of whom contributed more than the $5 minimum.


Washington, D.C. -- While voters across the nation have legalized varying forms of marijuana, Congress has largely been silent on the issue, which is why a new bill introduced today by New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker is turning heads. The Democrat's legislation would end the federal prohibition on marijuana and incentivize states to as well.The proposal, called the Marijuana Justice Act, removes marijuana from the federal list of Schedule I narcotics – think peyote, heroin and, yeah, weed – which is known as descheduling. It also punishes states that disproportionately lock up minorities and the poor for marijuana offenses, by cutting off some of their federal dollars for building jails and prisons, as well as other areas.
I am surprised at Sen. Collins, known as a "moderate", AND Sen. Feinstein, a so-called "liberal"!!! Whatsa matter with those two? Boy, if we can't count on people like these, what is a Legalizer to do? The "Orin Hatches of the World" are completely ignorant; I expected much more from Collins and Feinstein.
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and you are showing your ignorance on the facts:From previous article on Cnews: "Researchers studying the relationship between medical cannabis laws and opioid use have found that states with such laws have nearly a 25 percent reduction in opioid-related deaths. The contrast between opioids — which killed more than 33,000 Americans in 2015 — and cannabis could not be more striking."And Feinstein, citing the ultimate catch-22, we don't know enough (because the DEA won't allow studies, see sched. 1, etc. bla, bla, bla...) .Round and round we go...We have people in government/congress, that do not know what they are voting on or talking about, Sessions, Feinstein, Collins, etc. etc. and THEY are making OUR laws and THEY do not have a clue!


I am honored to receive such an award. I spent 19 years without peace or justice and had come to believe no such thing existed for me at least.
I know now that there are times that if you want peace you have to make it so and if you want justice it's a roll of the dice more times than not.
I started my blog to give voice to all the injustice victims of domestic violence suffer in hopes of helping to create peace.
My one and only desire today is to live in peace or at least a greater sense of peace than I've had in many years. Justice continues to hand in the balance and I have to believe justice will weigh out in our favor every day.
So many continue to battle the justice system for the protection, acknowledgment, and the rights we were all born with. It is our responsibility to help push that along. Without our voices, all is lost. Thankfully, there is a plethora of voices right here at WordPress who can out holler the loudest of neigh sayers and I am happy to be a part of that number.
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Thank you Americana for nominating me for this award. You are a jewel and I mean that.
Way to go Tee! Congrats!
Thanks, like I said, couldn't have done it without my supports here. You were on of the first I met and your encouragement gave me strength when I wanted to throw in the towel.
Congratulations Teela. With ever blog brings awareness and hope. With love and support.
Thank you. Your support has been a great help to me.
I've nominated you for the versatile blogger and inspiring blogger awards. I hope you will accept.
Thank you so much Teela. I am honored.
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Home National PML-N Senator Nihal Hashmi hosts Iftar-dinner
PML-N Senator Nihal Hashmi hosts Iftar-dinner
Sat, 25 Jun 2016, 10:15 AM
KARACHI, June 25 (APP): The PML-N Senator Nihal Hashmi on
Saturday hosted an Iftar Dinner at CAA Club here.
It was attended among others by Federal Minister for Ports and
Shipping, Senator Hasil Bizenjo, Minister for Privatization, Muhammad
Zubair, PPP Senator Saeed Ghani, PTI MNA Arif Alvi, MQM MNA Iqbal
Muhammad Ali besides PML-N local leadership.
Talking to journalists Senator Nihal Hashmi said that the political issues are resolved on negotiating table and not on `containers'.
He made it clear that there can be no `minus Nawaz Sharif formula'.
Nihal Hashmi said that the PML-N Government was committed to
resolve the problems of the people.
He said that mega development projects have been initiated under
the leadership of Prime minister Nawaz Sharif. These would benefit the
people of the entire country.
Nihal Hashmi further maintained that the China-Pakistan Economic
Corridor would prove to be a game changer and change of the fate of
the people of the country as well as those in the region.


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Students will observe and take notes on the demonstration of the "Myself Only Older" makeup. Everyone will get their first attempt at aging their own face next Tuesday.