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Solidia Technologies Named a Global Cleantech 100 Company for Fourth Year
Submitted by Solidia Technologies
Solidia's technology saves concrete manufacturers time, water, and money
PISCATAWAY, N.J., January 6, 2021 /CSRwire/— Cleantech Group named Solidia Technologies® a 2021 Global Cleantech 100 Company, the fourth year the sustainable cement and concrete technology company was so honored. Considered amongst thousands of innovators from across the globe, the companies recognized each year on the Global Cleantech 100 list represent the private, independent and for-profit companies best positioned to contribute to a more digitized, de-carbonized and resource-efficient future.
2021 Global Cleantech 100 Badge
The 12th edition of the annual guide, this year's list includes innovators from 15 countries, with just over half located in the U.S. and the rest hailing from Asia, Australia, Europe and the Middle East. The sectors covered include: Agriculture & Food, Enabling Technologies, Energy & Power, Materials & Chemicals, Transportation & Logistics and Resources & Environment.
"We are thrilled to be recognized as a Global Cleantech 100 Company for a fourth year as we continue bringing one of the world's oldest and most ubiquitous industries into the 21st century with digitalization and production technologies that can move the needle on carbon quickly for the planet," said Solidia CEO Tom Schuler. "We have taken a very complex technology and made it simple, not only to ease adoption around the world, but also to provide the construction and building materials industries a real competitive edge, with immediate cost savings, improved production, and superior product performance that make embracing sustainable innovation a smart business move."
CO2-cured Solidia Concrete is available for precast applications in the US
By changing the chemistry of cement, Solidia's disruptive technologies both reduce carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions in cement production and consume carbon during concrete production by curing concrete with CO₂ instead of water. Combined, the processes reduce the carbon footprint of precast concrete up to 70% and enable up to 100% of the water used in production to be recycled, potentially eliminating 1.5 gigatonnes of CO₂ and saving three trillion liters of fresh water annually. Solidia's carbon-consuming curing process is a prime example of a companion technology to carbon capture, helping advance the growing trend towards carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technologies. Solidia's solution for ready-mix offers the potential to turn concrete carbon negative.
Solidia is pursuing the application of its technologies in the $1 trillion global concrete and $300 billion global cement markets. Solidia solutions for precast are in-market in the U.S. Launching later this year, the company's first solution for the ready-mix market, Solidia SCM, provides a low-carbon alternative supplementary cementitious material.
Solidia SCM will launch in 2021
The Cleantech 100 list combines Cleantech Group's research data with qualitative judgements from nominations and insight from a global, 91-member expert panel of leading investors and executives from corporations and industrials active in technology and innovation scouting. From pioneers and veterans to new entrants, the expert panel broadly represents the global cleantech community and results in a list with a powerful base of respect and support from many important players within the cleantech innovation ecosystem.
"We are delighted to welcome 50 companies for their first time on this year's new Global Cleantech 100. This replacement rate speaks to the healthy maturing of this innovation ecosystem and to some specific impacts of Covid-19," said Richard Youngman, CEO, Cleantech Group. "On the one hand, the 2021 list reflects the long-running mega-trends like decarbonization, digitization, electrification, and the ever-increasing volumes of deployed renewable energy. On the other, Covid-19's impact is evident – for example, in the uptick in automation and robotics-enabled solutions, in logistics and supply chain solutions, and solutions in the food chain to prevent, reduce and repurpose food waste. Resilience is a new critical factor at play."
For detailed information on Solidia's outlook as an innovator, visit Cleantech Group's market intelligence platform i3 and search for Solidia Technologies. Download the full 2021 Global Cleantech 100 report to see the 100 companies honored. The Global Cleantech 100 program is sponsored by Chubb, the world's largest publicly traded property and casualty insurance company.
About Solidia Technologies®
Based in Piscataway, N.J. (USA), Solidia Technologies® is a cement and concrete technology company that makes it easy and profitable to use CO₂ to create superior and sustainable building and construction materials. At scale each year, Solidia can eliminate at least 1.5 gigatonnes of CO₂, save three trillion liters of fresh water, reduce energy consumption equal to ~260 million barrels of oil, and eliminate 100 million tonnes of concrete landfill waste, while engaging industry in a rapid, globally scalable response to some of the greatest threats facing people and planet. Solidia's investors include Kleiner Perkins, Bright Capital, BASF, BP, LafargeHolcim, Total Energy Ventures, Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) Climate Investments, Air Liquide, Bill Joy and other private investors. Honors include: the 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2014 Global Cleantech 100; a 2020 and 2014 Best Place to Work in NJ; 2020, 2019 and 2018 BP Advancing Low Carbon accreditation; the 2019 Solar Impulse 1000 Efficient Solutions; 2017 ERA Grand Challenge (formerly CCEMC) finalist; 2016 Sustainia 100; 2015 NJBiz Business of the Year; 2014 CCEMC Grand Challenge finalist; 2013 R&D Top 100; 2013 Katerva Award finalist; and MIT's Climate CoLab shortlist. Follow Solidia on LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.
About Cleantech Group
At Cleantech Group, we provide research, consulting and events to catalyze opportunities for sustainable growth powered by innovation. We bring clients access to the trends, companies and people shaping the future and the customized advice and support businesses need to engage external innovation. Industries are undergoing definitive transitions toward a more digitized, de-carbonized and resource-efficient industrial future. At every stage from initial strategy to final deals, our services bring corporate change makers, investors, governments and stakeholders from across the ecosystem, the support they need to thrive in this fast-arriving and uncertain future. The company was established in 2002 and is headquartered in San Francisco with people based in London, Paris and Boston.
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Solidia Technologies® is a cement and concrete technology company that makes it easy and profitable to use CO2 to create superior and sustainable building and construction materials.
Solidia's patented processes start with an energy-saving cement that dramatically reduces CO2 emissions at the kiln. It then cures concrete with CO2 instead of water, reducing the overall carbon footprint of cement in precast concrete up to 70%.
At scale each year, Solidia precast can eliminate at least 1.5 gigatonnes of CO₂, save three trillion liters of fresh water, reduce energy consumption equal to ~260 million barrels of oil, and eliminate 100 million tonnes of concrete landfill waste.
Solidia's ready-mix applications go even further, offering the potential to transform concrete – the second most utilized material on the planet – into a carbon sink.
Produced using the same raw materials and existing equipment, Solidia products are higher performing and cost less to produce than traditional concrete, and cure in less than 24 hours. Solidia offers industry an easy-to-adopt, rapid and globally scalable response to one of the greatest threats to our planet.
Solidia Concrete for precast is currently available in the US. The ready-mix applications are currently in tests for infrastructure applications.
Based in Piscataway, N.J. (USA), Solidia's investors include Kleiner Perkins, Bright Capital, BASF, BP, LafargeHolcim, Total Energy Ventures, Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) Climate Investments, Air Liquide, Bill Joy and other private investors.
Solidia's R&D collaborators have included LafargeHolcim, Air Liquide, DOT's Federal Highway Administration, DOE's National Energy Technology Laboratory, the EPA, Rutgers University, Purdue University, Ohio University, and the University of South Florida.
Honors include: the 2020, 2019 and 2014 Global Cleantech 100; a 2020 and 2014 Best Place to Work in NJ; 2020, 2019 and 2018 BP Advancing Low Carbon accreditation; the 2019 Solar Impulse 1000 Efficient Solutions; 2017 ERA Grand Challenge (formerly CCEMC) finalist; 2016 Sustainia 100; 2015 NJBiz Business of the Year; 2014 CCEMC Grand Challenge finalist; 2013 R&D Top 100; 2013 Katerva Award finalist; and MIT's Climate CoLab shortlist.
Follow Solidia on LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.
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Los Angeles May Make Businesses Disclose NRA Ties
The LA City Council will consider a motion requiring businesses wishing to contract with the city disclose their ties to the gun lobby.
Saying the National Rifle Association is one of the biggest roadblocks to gun safety reform, a Los Angeles city councilman introduced a motion Friday that would require city contractors to disclose any ties they have to the organization.
Councilman Mitch O'Farrell's motion, if passed into law, would not ban NRA-connected contractors from doing business with the city, but require them through a new ordinance to disclose any contracts or sponsorships they have with the gun rights advocacy group.
The City Council approved a similar ordinance last year that requires contractors or prospective contractors to disclose that they have placed bids on President Donald Trump's border wall. Although it did not place a ban on them working with the city, the ordinance sent the message that Los Angeles would be unlikely to hire a contractor with ties to the wall.
"The National Rife Association (NRA) has been one of the most significant roadblocks to sensible gun safety reform at every level of government across the nation," O'Farrell's motion states. "In Congress, next to nothing has been done due to the NRA's stranglehold and propaganda machine. According to an audit obtained by the Center for Responsive Politics, the NRA's spending on political activities from 1998-2017 aggregated to over $200 million."
The motion says the city of Los Angeles historically has enacted ordinances in support of gun safety.
The motion notes there have been more than 1,600 mass shootings in America since the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting in 2012, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which quantifies a mass shooting as when four or more people are wounded or killed in a shooting, not including the shooter.
The NRA did not immediately respond to a request to comment.
"For the sake of transparency the city's residents and stakeholders deserve to know how the city's public funds are being spent, and whether taxpayer funds are being spent on contractors that have contractual or sponsorship ties with the NRA," the motion states.
Following a mass shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida on Feb. 14, a number of corporations that had offered discounts to NRA members cut ties with the organization, including Delta Air Lines, United Airlines and the Hertz rental car firm.
O'Farrell's motion does not state if the city currently has any contractors with ties to the NRA.`
4 comments on "Los Angeles May Make Businesses Disclose NRA Ties"
Mike McGill says:
What a load of crap. How about the city sticks to its job? We have crumbling roads and bursting water mains but let's play politics instead?
Ricardo Ortal says:
Does nothing to thwart gun violence in any way. California has become a land of ruled subjects. What happened the California of free citizens?

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This week's Agent Spotlight features Adriana Dominguez of Full Circle Literary.
Status: Accepting submissions and actively building her list.
Ms. Dominguez reports (via e-mail) she is actively seeking MG/YA historical fiction.
Full Circle Lit Publisher's Marketplace page.
Voces - Ms. Dominguez's blog.
There is list of select client titles on the website. Ms. Dominguez's clients include Alma Flor Ada, Reyna Grande, and Lorena Siminovich, among others.
As of this posting, Ms. Dominguez is listed on Publisher's Marketplace as having made 1 four-book deal in the last 12 months and 1 overall. Recent deals include 4 picture books.
NOTE: PM is usually not a complete representation of sales, and Ms. Dominguez reports she has sold six picture books/board books with more announcements to come.
Though information is limited, Ms. Dominguez's average response time on queries seems to be about 2 weeks and 1-2 months on requested material.
The buzz on Ms. Dominguez is quiet but positive. She's only been agenting since late 2009 but has over 10 years of experience in publishing, many in editorial positions. Full Circle Literary is a respected agency with a strong multicultural and green line, and Ms. Dominguez has made several sales as an agent. While she has a strong desire for multicultural projects, she also seems to be seeking contemporary, historical, and literary children's books.
Q&A with Literary Agent Adriana Dominguez at musings (05/2010).
Interview with Literary Agent Adriana Dominguez at examiner.com (09/2009).
Interview with Adriana Dominguez at BronzeWord Latino Authors (08/2009).
Interview with an Editor, Adriana Dominguez at Jeff Rivera Writing and Book Marketing Tips (10/2008).
2009 Wrap-up including Ms. Dominguez's favorite books of the year.
Follow the Full Circle Lit blog for client updates and news as well as Ms. Dominguez's blog for contests and Latino book happenings and news.
There is an Info and Upcoming Appearances page on the site worth checking out.
Full Circle Lit thread on AbsoluteWrite.
I had some information on her, but this really rounds out the details. Thanks, Casey!
I love how she says "glorious prose". I don't write literary fiction myself, but I sure enjoy reading it. TFS!
As always, you've provided a great profile, Casey. She's on my wish list!
Great profile. She sounds fabulous for someone who writes multicultural stories. I met Lilly Ghahremani, one of the founders of Full Circle, at an Ann Arbor Book Festival conference. She was so nice and gave a super workshop on how to write a query letter. Full Circle sounds like a great agency.
Thank you so MUCH FOR DOING this spotlight! I have been looking for an agent who specializes in multicultural interests for children. As a former teacher in the Bronx, my book is based on children from my old hood and we need more multicultural literature in the classrooms. I just queried her, I hope she requests to see some material. THANK YOU so much for posting on her! Great work, Casey!
Thanks for the profile, that's helpful.
Thank you for the great comments, everyone!
Good luck Ammie! I hope you have just the kind of project she's looking for.
Ms. Dominguez has reviewed her profile and made a couple changes. She IS looking for historical YA/MG as well as what's listed above.
Casey - your agent spotlights are so helpful. You rock! Thanks!
Thanks for linking to the Q&A on Musings. This is such a wonderful blog-I'm adding it to my resources for writers list at Musings!
Keep up the great work, I'm signing up for your RSS feed!


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Lisa Coca
Toyota Ventures
Lisa Coca is a Partner for Toyota Ventures where she leads the firm's Climate Fund, which focuses on investing in innovative solutions for carbon neutrality.
Prior to Toyota, Lisa served as a managing director and entrepreneur-in-residence with Intel's emerging growth and incubations division where she led teams creating disruptive new businesses. Lisa was also a founding member of GE Ventures, responsible for launching and leading the enterprise software investment practice, as well as the EDGE program, a platform for portfolio companies to leverage the global scale, expertise, and resources of GE.
Prior to joining GE Ventures, Lisa's professional career spanned a number of other disciplines including finance, sales and marketing, strategy, and business development at major financial institutions such as GE Capital, Bankers Trust, and Deutsche Bank.
Lisa serves on the boards of BizWorld and the Girls Middle School. She is also an independent board director for Broadscale Acquisition Corporation. Lisa graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with Honors, and earned an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Lisa served her fellowship at GE Ventures as a member of Class 21. Her mentor was Karen Kerr (Charter Class; Kauffman Fellows board member).


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Vaccines for Alzheimer's: exploiting similarities with Down syndrome
Allie Nawrat 20 September 2019	(Last Updated September 21st, 2019 09:50)
One approach to overcome continuing challenges facing drug research and development for Alzheimer's is a vaccine. Swiss AC Immune has developed an Abeta-focused vaccine called ACI-24, which has been both effective and safe in pre-clinical models. As well as studying ACI-24 in Alzheimer's patients, the company is investigating the candidate in Down syndrome patients who have a genetic predisposition to developing Alzheimer's and are a more homogenous patient group.
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Believed to be caused by the build-up of plaques in the brain consisting of fibrillary amyloid beta (ABeta) peptides and neurofibrillary tangles of tau proteins, Alzheimer's disease affects approximately 50 million people globally and is the leading cause of dementia.
Despite its prevalence, academic researchers and the pharmaceutical industry have struggled to develop effective therapies against Alzheimer's disease, with many drugs failing in late stage clinical trials. Research carried out between 2002 and 2012 concluded that the condition has a 99.6% trial failure rate.
Just this week, Biogen and Eisai announced they were discontinuing the Phase III trials of beta amyloid cleaving enzyme (BACE) inhibitor elenbecestat due to an unfavourable benefit-risk ratio. This was the second of Biogen and Eisai's drug studies to be discontinued in 2019; the clinical development programme for aducanumab was discontinued in March.
Current challenges in treating Alzheimer's
As a neurodegenerative disease, Alzheimer's creates access challenges for researchers seeking to better understand the condition, and thethe blood-brain barrier makes targeting the plaques with pharmaceuticals difficult.
Alzheimer's disease alsodevelops gradually over time, meaning by the time patients become symptomatic, their disease has progressed to such an extent that it is too late to try and break up these plaques.
This situation, combined with the growing prevalence and healthcare burden of this neurodegenerative condition – the Alzheimer's Association estimates there will be a 68% increase in global prevalence and burden of dementia by 2050 – has pushed some to consider whether preventative approaches to treatment could be the solution.
The leading approach is a vaccine; despite some candidates facing set-backs early on in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the theory that vaccination could prevent cognitive decline is gaining traction.
One company with a promising vaccine candidate is Switzerland based AC Immune; its therapeutic Abeta vaccine ACI-24 is currently being investigated in Phase Ib and II clinical trials.
Knock back for Elan's Alzheimer's vaccine
AC Immune CEO Andrea Pfeifer points out that the failure of Elan and Wyeth's vaccine candidate – AN-1792 – in the early 2000s due to safety problems is a key factor behind the relative lack of Alzheimer's vaccine research programmes today.
The Phase II study of the companies' AN-1792, which targeted Abeta peptide, was abandoned in 2002 after participants developed meningitis and inflammation of the brain.
Although researchers at the two companies identified why AN-1792 triggered inflammation and presented these findings at the Society for Neuroscience in New Orleans, US, allowing others to learn from the failure, Pfeifer states "this incident is still in the head of regulatory agencies" when considering new Alzheimer's vaccines.
"When we started our vaccine programme, we really had to show over many years to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and European Medicines Agency (EMA) that our product is efficient, and also safe."
Understanding ACI-24's mechanism of action
Pfeifer explains ACI-24 is developed using AC Immune's SupraAntigen technology to "anchor antigens on the liposomes", which are then injected into the patient.
The patient's body makes antibodies, which are "90% specific to the pathological Abeta protein", and will not target the normal Abeta peptides, allowing the vaccine to "dissolve plaques or inhibit the formation of plaques".
Pfeifer continues: "The product was so efficient in mice, it could completely restore the memory in this transgenic mice model." As well significantly reducing the plaques and restoring memory in pre-clinical models, ACI-24 had a favourable safety profile not linked to local inflammation because it targets the pathological Abeta protein "without activating the inflammatory pathways in the brain and activating T cells."
Following on from this impressive success in mice, ACI-24 is being investigated in Phase II clinical studies of mild to moderate Alzheimer's patients.
Pfeifer believes the only way to treat Alzheimer's is through prevention "early and safely" and that the best way to do this is through vaccination "20, 30, 40 years beforehand". Looking to the future she explains AC Immune's "goal is to have one injection per year after initial vaccination" for people at higher risk of developing Alzheimer's.
She explains risk could be identified genetically and through biomarkers. An example of a risk gene is apolipoprotein E-e, which has been shown to factor in around a quarter of Alzheimer's cases. Pfeifer continues the build-up of "tau [protein] in the brain seems to be a very high risk factor for these people to get the disease".
Investigating ACI-24 in Down syndrome population
In addition to studying ACI-24 in Alzheimer's patients, ACI immune are also studying the Abeta vaccine in the Down syndrome population "which was recently identified to have a lot of A beta protein and develop plaques very early in life". They develop Alzheimer's-like characteristics at between three and five times the rate of the general population, a phenomenon that for many years went unnoticed due to the high mortality rate of Down syndrome patients. As the prognosis for Down syndrome patients has improved, the Alzheimer's problem has become more apparent.
"At 20, [people with Down syndrome] have Alzheimer's signals, at 40 they have all Alzheimer's symptoms, and at 60 the majority have dementia," says Pfeifer. "Previously…people with Down syndrome died at 30 or earlier of heart disease, but now these…patients live a normal life and can live to 60 and beyond, [at which point] Alzheimer accumulation becomes a real issue."
The reason for the close association between Alzheimer's and Down syndrome is genetic because Chromosome 21, which Down syndrome patients have three copies of, carries the amyloid precursor protein (APP) gene. This gene plays a role in the build-up of beta amyloid protein and plaques in the brain, meaning that those with Down syndrome have more production of the beta protein from birth.
Benefitting both Alzheimer's and Down syndrome patients
Being able to study the vaccine in a "more homogenous environment" based on a genetic marker can help to overcome issues with discovering and developing Alzheimer's treatments, Pfeifer explains.
In addition to the difficulty with offering treatment before disease onset, these challenges include uncertainty in Alzheimer's patients about the mechanisms and timing of disease-induced brain changes, genetic and age-related variability and risks of including patients with other forms of dementia with different causes.
Pfeifer hopes ACI-24 can "make a difference in the lives of people with Down syndrome and Alzheimer's". She believes, if efficacious and safe, ACI-24 could be administered early in the lives of Down syndrome patients, preventing them from developing dementia; long term treatment with existing Alzheimer's drugs would be both expensive and "place a burden on the body".
Initial data from the Phase IB study shows ACI-24 was well tolerated at all doses, with no subjects being withdrawn due to serious adverse events, and a significant anti-Abeta immunoglobulin response being recorded.
Pfeifer wrote in a statement: "These initial interim Phase 1b data support the continued study of ACI-24 in this trial to treat AD-like symptoms in DS as well as in our ongoing Phase 2 trial in subjects with mild AD.
"[There is an] unmet need and the significant opportunity that exists for studying AD-like symptoms in this more homogeneous population, which may yield critical information for the potential benefit of DS subjects as well as the broader AD community."
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The Cyborg Superman lays out his plans for killing Superman and the motivations of Mongul, the Eradicator, Metallo and Blanque have for following him. Their next step; recruiting General Zod. Meanwhile Superman checks on Lois and Jonathan in Metropolis before heading to the Justice League's headquarters to use the equipment there to track his adversaries. He finds them at Belle Reeve Prison, headquarters to the Suicide Squad, and leaves to confront the Eradicator. At Belle Reeve the Eradicator and the Cyborg make their way through the Black Vault and the Cyborg relives the events that led to his current existence. Superman flies into the Black Vault as well and hallucinates that Jonathan and Martha are blaming him for their deaths. The Eradicator and Cyborg confront Superman and finally leave him trapped in the Vault with zombie-like versions of everyone he cares about telling him that everyone he lives will always end up dead.
Story - 5: After an obligatory but, to be honest, necessary for new readers introduction to the Revenge Squad this issue hit the right beats to make this story more than just a "let's team up a bunch of villains to pound on Superman" affair. I actually liked the first few pages because, as I have been writing about since REBIRTH started, it's great to see these characters in this context again. Mongul had been coopted by the Green Lantern office for years and while that makes sense considering the events of THE REIGN OF THE SUPERMEN he got his start and then continued being an adversary for Superman.
The Cyborg Superman's presence is welcome, which is odd to me because I'm the guy that thought that after SUPERMAN/DOOMSDAY HUNTER/PREY Hank Henshaw had diminishing returns as a villain. Time heals all wounds, I suppose. The fact that he was gone for so many years helps but like Mongul he got taken by the Green Lantern people for a time and now he is back as a for reals Superman villain. This reminds me how much of Superman's world was taken from him and given to other characters. I could go on about how unfair that was and how it was one of the factors that led to the almost decade's worth of bad decisions and bad stories but now is not the time or place for such a discussion.
Bottom line; it's great to have these characters back in Superman's world.
There was a lot of character work done in this issue and that continued to elevate this story from being a simple action piece. Jonathan's disappointment at having to move from the farm to the city is understandable and his arguments made perfect sense. Jurgens has had a great handle on the family dynamic of the Kents from the beginning of his run and that resonated in the conversation between Jon and Lois. The bit where Superman knows that Lois knows how much danger they are in was another reminder that a married with a kid Lois and Clark works when it is written by someone that is invested in the concept. The scene with Batman was also great. Their debate about the Suicide Squad was great and even though I sided with Superman I think that Jurgens didn't treat Batman as a straw man adversary. There's also something really cool about Superman taking a stand on an issue like this. He's not being a jerk about the situation nor is he saying that everyone should listen to him because he's Superman and that's that. He believes that Waller's Squad is a violation of the members' civil rights and no matter what good they do they are always doing it with a gun pointed at their head.
On an extremely petty level is was great to see Superman tell Batman that he could handle the situation with The Eradicator. It wasn't done in a mean-spirited way and the cameo worked well for the story but given how many times Batman has appeared in a Superman story as the guy Superman went to for help it's nice to see the Man of Steel say, "I got this."
Jurgens proved another myth about Superman to be false in the closing pages. Writers through the decades have said that Superman is hard to write because he's so powerful that coming up with a villain is difficult. This always misses the key strength to Superman as a character; it's not his powers that define him but his humanity. While it is exciting to see him throw down with Mongul or the Cyborg or Darkseid it's far more interesting to see him cope with his own emotions and feelings. As the movie said, all those things he can do and all those powers and he couldn't even save them. This is another reason why I'm not put out that in this new world Jonathan and Martha died years ago. I loved the stories where they were alive and they did provide an emotional support system that was vital to the Post Crisis Superman in his early years but on a dramatic level there is something to be said for having them on the other side of the veil. Again, if it's handled right it can lead to scenes like this where Superman is confronted by what he couldn't do, not what he can do.
It was also an unexpected way to end the issue. We nearly had a confrontation between Superman and the Cyborg and Eradicator but that was cut short by the Black Vault. It was a great cliffhanger to leave on and teased out the ultimate confrontation to come. Jurgens is pacing this story just right and I look forward to the next chapter.
Art - 5: Zircher continues to deliver exciting and engaging art. The zombie-like images of Superman friends and family at the end of the issue were creepy and he, along with the writing, made the expositional scenes not feel like your typical expositional scenes. I also continue to like how he draws Superman in flight. That's something that can get boring quick but the way Zircher composes those scenes are anything but.
Cover Art - 4: The cover is fine but I'm slightly put off that none of this happened in the book. It's not that the comic was a disappointment but having Zod and Harley on the cover indicates that they'll be in the story as well. It's slightly pedantic but if this is the only thing I complain about then I think the cover is still very well done.
Variant Cover Art - 5: That image is hysterical. A very good use of Harley on a variant cover. The Cyborg's normal emotionless face sells the gag beautifully.


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This thesis presents the benchmarking and development of a method to study ground state properties of hydrogen clusters using molecular dynamics. Benchmark studies are performed on our Path Integral Molecular Dynamics code using the Langevin equation for finite temperature studies and our Langevin equation Path Integral Ground State code to study systems in the zero-temperature limit when all particles occupy their nuclear ground state. A simulation is run on the first 'real' system using this method, a parahydrogen molecule interacting with a fixed water molecule using a trivial unity trial wavefunction. We further develop a systematic method of optimizing the necessary parameters required for our ground state simulations and introduce more complex trial wavefunctions to study parahydrogen clusters and their isotopologues orthodeuterium and paratritium. The effect of energy convergence with parameters is observed using the trivial unity trial wavefunction, a Jastrow-type wavefunction that represents a liquid-like system, and a normal mode wavefunction that represents a solid-like system. Using a unity wavefunction gives slower energy convergence and is inefficient compared to the other two. Using the Lindemann criterion, the normal mode wavefunction acting on floppy systems introduces an ergodicity problem in our simulation, while the Jastrow does not. However, even for the most solid-like clusters, the Jastrow and the normal mode wavefunctions are equally efficient, therefore we choose the Jastrow trial wavefunction to look at properties of a range of cluster sizes. The energetic and structural properties obtained for parahydrogen and orthodeuterium clusters are consistent with previous studies, but to our knowledge, we may be the first to predict these properties for neutral paratritium clusters. The results of our ground state simulations of parahydrogen clusters, namely the distribution of pair distances, are used to calculate Raman vibrational shifts and compare to experiment. We investigate the accuracy of four interaction potentials over a range of cluster sizes and determine that, for the most part, the ab initio derived interaction potentials predict shifts more accurately than the empirically based potentials for cluster sizes smaller than the first solvation shell and the trend is reversed as the cluster size increases. This work can serve as a guide to simulate any system in the nuclear ground state using any trial wavefunction, in addition to providing several applications in using this ground state method.


At 2108 Eastern Standard Time on 09 August 2005, a Boeing Company 737-700 aircraft, registered VH-VBD, completed a scheduled flight from Melbourne, Victoria to Sydney, NSW. The pilot then reported that the aircraft had 'heavy' flight controls. An inspection by maintenance engineers revealed that the left lower rear elevator cable was incorrectly routed around a stiffener and that the stiffener and cable section had been damaged as a result of contact between them. The aircraft was withdrawn from service for repairs.
In the last week of July 2005, a contract maintenance organisation had replaced eight elevator control cable sections during a scheduled heavy aircraft maintenance check. The cables were replaced to comply with Boeing Company service bulletin 737-27-1254 revision 1.
While preparing the rear elevator control cables for removal, a cable end was not secured at the lower left rear elevator input quadrant, before removing the cable keeper. When the cable keeper was removed, the unsecured cable section slipped from sight. While recovering the cable, it was inadvertently misrouted around a fuselage stiffener. When the new cable was pulled into place it followed the same incorrect route around the stiffener. This resulted in contact between the cable and the stiffener.
As a result of the occurrence, the contract maintenance organisation implemented a number of changes to improve maintenance planning and documentation.


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Give Your Problems to St. Joseph
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Entering Lent With Others
Dear Families, I am sure we are all familiar with the Catholic cliches that surround the season of Lent. I find myself saying more frequently to my own children and our students, "offer it up" or "carry your cross" in moments of angst or tribulation. But all kidding aside, there is nothing superficial about these statements. The readings for today set the tone for lent: if we want things to change, we need to focus on our own need to repent with a sense of urgency and authenticity that only seeks to please the maker of our hearts. There is no need to compare ourselves with others, but we do d...
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Students and Teachers Treasure Catholic Schools' Week Traditions at MRA
The students of Mount Royal celebrated Catholic Schools' Week with liturgical events, a schoolwide spelling bee, and two time honored traditions: a classroom door decorating contest and themed essay contest. Both contests were based on this year's Catholic Schools' Week theme: Mary, Queen of Peace and Mother of Hope. Each year, every class from Pre-K through 12th grade attempts to produce the most creative interpretation of the Catholic Schools' Week theme on their respective classroom door, and winners were announced at the conclusion of the week. In the elementary school, the 5th grade took...
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Teachers: Heart and Soul of Catholic Schools
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Dear Families, Today the Church celebrates the conversion of Paul. There is no otherliturgical event in which the conversion of a saint is honored, as the Churchtypically places the date of a saint's (or martyr's) passing into heaven as theopportunity to publicly recall the life of that saint. There is a simple reason for this: Paul's conversion marked the moment whereinGod used a broken human instrument to carry the Gospel to all people, not justthe people of the old covenant. The most striking feature of Paul's conversionis the reversal of expectations: how could a pharasical, judgm...
#WhyWeMarch
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The inaugural Bank of Ireland TCD Society pitching event took place at 2pm on 12th November.
This partnership sees BOI, the official bank of TCD, commit to supporting TCD societies for 2018/19.
Applications opened on 16th Oct and 34 societies applied for sponsorship. From the 34 applications 11 societies were selected and invited to pitch their ideas to a panel of four to compete for a slice of the funding.
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Jumping the shark
Posted on May 11, 2006 by manish
Goodness Gracious Me mastermind Sanjeev Bhaskar is now Sanjeev Bhaskar, OBE. Of the medal, Bhaskar wisecracked, 'As an Asian bloke, it's another thing I can stick on eBay.'
"It's great for my parents. They're of that generation that came over here with nothing. My ancestors would never have believed that their offspring would be at the Palace." [Link]
Sanjeev Bhaskar and Meera Syal, who recently had a baby together, are currently filming for the next series of Kumars at No 42… confirmed guests include Cybill Shepherd… [Link]
Life's sometimes ha-ha-hee-hee
No matter how much I love Bhaskar's stuff, once a comedian has been knighted, he's officially jumped the scepter. There's nothing mutinous about a medal of the British Empire, a street cred slasher. Whereas the medal goes well with Sir Kingsley's Shakespearean presence, even when he's playing a goofy vampyre king.
There is one thing I love about the award. Can you keep a secret? Many Bhaskar sketches make fun of English people and their stereotypes about desis (thanks, BB and ksk). Shhh, don't tell the queen.
Related post: Twee, innit?
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38 thoughts on "Jumping the shark"
Bong Breaker on May 11, 2006 at 1:14 pm said:
The main reason I want to be hideously wealthy and famous is so I can turn down a knighthood (or at the very least, a CBE) and say "ABOLISH THE MONARCHY!" However I've learnt masses of people turn down honours, but the Palace make sure they find out well in advance so there's no public humiliation for the gov't and the Royals. Bah.
I'm not specifically referring to Bhaskar, but since Blair arrived, the MBE, OBE and CBE have been so de-valued it makes me sick.
Dr1001 on May 11, 2006 at 1:24 pm said:
too many OBE's given out really? huh…
Well it must be still pretty cool having a title before the name i guess….
so does Meera become a dame by association??
Dholmatic on May 11, 2006 at 1:34 pm said:
Actually he's not going to be a "Sir", that's only when you are knighted. Here's an explanation for you clueless American desis, filched from the BBC website:
First comes a peerage ("Lord"), then a baronetcy, then the knighthood ("Sir").
The CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) is the most prestigious honour after a knighthood. The OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) is the next most important award. The MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) comes next.
Pay attention mutineers!
thekingsingh on May 11, 2006 at 1:36 pm said:
Sanjeev Bhaskar and Meera Syal, who recently had a baby together, are currently filming for the next series of Kumars at No 42Â… confirmed guests include Cybill ShepherdÂ…
Is it weird that he had a child with the woman who plays his grandmother?
Whose God is it anyways? on May 11, 2006 at 1:42 pm said:
in some places in the caribbean they live for the annual queen's birthday list honors and these obes, mbes. unfortunately everyone and their uncle is usually nominated for them and some truly questionable people are awarded them.
Baron Bong Breaker on May 11, 2006 at 1:42 pm said:
Dholmatic, no one said he's going to be a sir – bar dr1001 by implication. And I think she's British.
I want to turn down a KBE, which is what commonwealth non-British citizens get instead of a knighthood. e.g. Ravi Shankar, KBE. It looks cooler than all the rest, curse my British passport! Although…I do like the sound of LORD BREAKER.
Fuerza Dulce on May 11, 2006 at 1:46 pm said:
I still watch GGM to amuse myself – they're still just as funny. I had the opportunity to watch Anita and Me – based on a novel written by Meera Syal. If you can understand/tolerate the Brommie accent, I highly recommend it.
I am and I was being sarcastic….oh the brit humour…never mind.
taz on May 11, 2006 at 1:51 pm said:
Those clips of the show that you linked are HI larious. I've never seen the show before. I love it when they exotify the waiters "pasty" skin in the resteraunt. Why oh why is there not an American version of this show? A desi SNL skit show? Badmash needs to get on it…
Ok, need to get back to wasting my morning watching more YouTube…
Papal Mehta on May 11, 2006 at 1:52 pm said:
Dholmatic, no one said he's going to be a sir
Oi, let's be fair here. Manish initially wrote that Bhaskar was going to be a sir and that he was getting CBE. Maybe such corrections should parenthetically give props to whoever suggested the correction.
dr1001, don't try to take the 'British sense of humour' escape from an error. They get the British sense of humour here, they're not rednecks. Unfortunately for you, I know you all too well (AiM).
Oh I see, my apologies Papal and Dholmatic.
Lord Breaker is wicked, but Baron Bong Breaker just sounds freakin' legendary.
I despise the British honours system, and would turn down every single one. Even the "commonwealth" writers prizes. They all prop up an immoral and otudated conception of leadership: monarchy.
That said, I have to admit that there's something vaguely scary and deep about the letters OM after someone's name. That right there is the creme de la creme. Papal Mehta, OM.
The Congressional Medal of Honor/ the Presidential Medal of Freedom just doesn't give you the same vibe, does it?
Manish Vij on May 11, 2006 at 1:58 pm said:
Manish initially wrote that Bhaskar was going to be a sir and that he was getting CBE.
Actually I wrote 'Sir Sanjeev' and OBE. The Wiki article isn't very clear about those silly titles (thanks, Dholmatic). Brit edits needed.
Harsh, ok no need to jump down my throat ..sorry for any errors but i was being sarcastic
i know you know me…otherwise i'd have changed my username.
well whatever i'm happy for Sanjeev.
If you get your hands on GGM on dvd, please watch the first episode of the first season – by far one of my favorite episodes.
From the Delhi boardroom scene where they can't pronounce the new guy "Jonathon"'s name to the sketch where the Sikh guy is asking his parents to explain Sikhism to him and the whole basis for his identity as a Sikh and the only justification they can come up with is, "You are a man. You have a turban. So you are a Sikh man." to the sketch with the Maharishi Yogi quoting Queen lyrics.
I heart that episode. Really bad.
technophobicgeek on May 11, 2006 at 2:01 pm said:
A Sepia mutineer being conferred (and accepting) an OBE???? Ah, the irony…
Meena on May 11, 2006 at 2:02 pm said:
Personally I'm more disturbed that he has a relationship with a woman who plays his grandmother.
I agree Fuerza! And I think the boardroom scene IS the BEST of all their skits.
She plays it well too… lol
I love the one where the desi parents are aghast that their kid doesn't want to be an artist.
Chick Pea posted this link a week ago about 104 year old woman marrying a 33 year old guy. At least the Kumar's are merely acting- this s*** be real.
Techniphobicgeek: I think that boardroom scene set the perfect tone for the series. The thing I loved about GGM was not only their sketches that forced non-desis to explore their own stereotypes about desis, but the sketches that also forced desis to explore their own ignorance about their culture, and "western" culture, as well as the sketches that were just good ol' British "humour". The folks at GGM made fun of e'rybody, including themselves.
"Come on Binder, let's go pizza."
midwestern eastender on May 11, 2006 at 2:42 pm said:
I read a really cute interview with Bhaskar when they got married, saying that he thought it was cool because at least he knows what Meera's going to look like when she gets older!
ksk on May 11, 2006 at 2:44 pm said:
I found a website recently that has a lot of GGM clips. Funny stuff.
3 D on May 11, 2006 at 3:00 pm said:
My favorite Sanjeev Bhaskar line was when a group of newspaper and TV reporters and journalists and cameras greeted him as he came out of the entrance of the central London hospital in which Meera had just given birth to their son and when asked for a comment he said, 'It's a boy, and we've decided he's going to be a doctor or an engineer'
dhaavak on May 11, 2006 at 3:08 pm said:
you guys are killing me man… ) ohhh… man!!! that's insanely funny -wiping away tears- i've always wondered about that line – chakk dey phattey -
Jai on May 11, 2006 at 3:08 pm said:
There are too many superb GGM sketches for me to be able to list all those I really liked, although "Going for an English" is probably my personal favourite. From what I remember of the subsequent newspaper reviews here in the UK, apparently it was quite controversial because it was the first time that the tables had been turned and mainstream British television showed a bunch of desis ridiculing the white population (we'd all been on the receiving end of "humour" at the expense of desis for a very long time indeed beforehand).
Off the top of my head, another very astutely observed sketch was the one where the Indian son is trying to "come out" to his parents, and has even brought his live-in white boyfriend home. Regardless of the evidence he presents to them, his wonderfully-naive parents make excuse after excuse in order to rationalise the situation and the fact that (in their eyes) he can't really be gay, but at the end his mother slaps him and says:
Wait for it…..
"You couldn't find a nice Indian boy ?"
Absolutely classic
The Kapoors/Coopers stuff is also superb — and yes, there really are some desis like that here
Rahul on May 11, 2006 at 3:12 pm said:
I loved the clip where the realty agent shows a home specifically tailored for Indians, gardens uprooted and concretised and sofa sets with their plastic covers intact.
Bharat Homes, a pisstake of Barratt Homes.
Jeet on May 11, 2006 at 3:23 pm said:
Kumars is hilarious. One of the reason i watch BBC. Also, Coupling
Msichana on May 11, 2006 at 3:26 pm said:
Bong…Baron Breaker is cool but Lord Bong has a ring to it.
malfi on May 11, 2006 at 10:03 pm said:
Kumars is one fabulous show – the one with Michael parkinson ( the very first guest, i think) was one of the best. i wish i could remember enough of GGM to compare and contrast. Kumars seems broader and gentler – but laugh out funny anyway.
Neo on May 12, 2006 at 8:32 am said:
He's shamelessly plagiarizing my look from the third movie!
I cant get enough of this )) what have i been missing ,…!!! thank you thank you guys… the funny thing is i've seen some very very similar interactions take place at an airport.
badee sohnie twadi spaceship … second hand layee
once again, thank you )
Jugga on May 12, 2006 at 3:33 pm said:
Fuerza Dulce
You should get hold of a copy of Meera Syal's novel Anita & Me which the movie was based on. It was her first book and to me it is better than Life Isnt All Ha Ha He He which is a little bit too much chick lit for my liking, but still good in its own way. Anyway, Anita & Me is a sweet and funny novel about childhood, i reccomend it to everyone too.
Sanjeev Bhaskar starred in a TV movie a few months ago about a shambling Indian private detective based in east London. It was really good – I think it is being made into a series.
Jugga,
I believe you're talking about Chopratown.


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If my name is Alice, but Alice is already a registered username, what would be more correct? "iamAlice" or "itsAlice"?
I think I have never seen the former in the wild, while I have seen a few using the latter variant. For example, a coworker uses "itsBob" both in Telegram and Twitter.
So, my question is rather, is "iam" acceptable in this context? Or should I assume the same rules as when speaking over the phone, that we usually say, "it's Alice" instead of "I'm Alice"?

A: A friend of mine uses the "iam" prefix to her name, as a social media username.
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Germany.. Merkel's party wins Schleswig-Holstein state elections
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Conservative Prime Minister Daniel Gunther won, winning 42.6 percent of the vote, in his party's best result in decades.
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) won a landslide victory Sunday in regional elections in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein.
Unofficial partial results showed a major victory for former German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Party (CDU) in the elections to the parliament of the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein, German television Deutsche Welle reported.
In contrast, the party of the current German Chancellor Olaf Schulz, the Social Democrat, suffered an unprecedented loss in this state.
Merkel's party came in first place with more than 42.6 percent, while the Social Democratic Party (SDP) came third behind the Conservatives and the Green Party with about 16 percent of the vote, according to results announced by ard and ZDF.
The pro-environment and pro-immigration Green Party came in second with 17.5 percent.
If these results are confirmed, Daniel Gunter, the current head of government of the state, who belongs to Merkel's conservative party, will remain in office.
Elections to the Parliament of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein saw electoral participation drop by 61 percent from 64.2 percent in the previous election five years ago.
Elections to the local parliament in The State of Schleswig-Holstein began Sunday morning, with polling stations opening to voters at 8 a.m. local time (0600 GMT).
Some 2.3 million people in this state are eligible to vote.
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Infiniti has named Gaby-Luise Wuest its new Vice-President, Global Operations, effective September 1, 2014. In this capacity, she will have global responsibility for Infiniti sales and aftersales, fleet sales, retail network development, and sales & product training.
In addition, she will have full market responsibility for Infiniti's markets in the Asia/Oceania region with the exception of China. Wuest will be based at the company's global headquarters in Hong Kong and report directly to Johan de Nysschen, President, Infiniti Motor Company, Ltd.
She joins Infiniti from the BMW Group where she has most recently been the Regional Head of Mini Asia-Pacific and South Africa. Wuest succeeds Francois Goupil de Bouille who had earlier been appointed Infiniti Vice-President, Europe, Middle East and Africa.
"Gaby Wuest is a highly-experienced and talented business executive with experience in both headquarters and local operational roles," said de Nysschen. "As we transform our organisation and continue to implement every step of our growth strategy, her background with premium automotive brands will be an important asset for Infiniti. She will bring additional perspective and experience, and further strengthen our leadership team as well as the brand overall."
Wuest started her automotive career in 1994 with BMW in the young executive program for international trainees. She subsequently held various roles in Marketing, Public Relations and Sales within BMW before she moved to China in 2007 as the General Manager, BMW Group China Import Office. In 2010, she was promoted to Regional Head, BMW Group China and Coordination Joint Venture, BMW Brilliance Automotive, based at the company's Munich headquarters. In 2012, she was appointed to her most recent position in charge of Mini Asia-Pacific and South Africa.
A German national, Wuest has a degree in Business Administration and a Master of Commerce from the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel, Germany.


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Coronavirus Update: Nearly 8,000 Dead, 128,000 Cases; NJ 'Fiscal Disaster on the Doorstep'
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Governor Phil Murphy says the state needs federal aid, a savings drawdown, and borrowing to close an operations gap on a day in which he also announces students won't return to schools physically this year.
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Another 1,621 New Jersey residents have tested positive for novel coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the statewide total to 128,269 cases, Governor Phil Murphy reported Monday.
Sadly, 45 more residents perished from complications related to the virus, bringing the statewide death toll to 7,910 lives lost during the pandemic.
Both the numbers of newly reported cases and deaths is presumed to be artificially low, Murphy noted, due to a network outage that affected the state reporting systems overnight.
Throughout New Jersey, 5,972 people are hospitalized with a case of COVID-19, or while awaiting confirmation of their symptoms.
Of those, 1,610 are in intensive or critical care, and 1,189 are on ventilators, both numbers of which are on "a steady decline," said New Jersey Health Commissioner Judy Persichilli. In Camden County, new cases appear to be doubling every 19 days.
In the past 24 hours, hospitals admitted 362 new patients and discharged 335 others, either to a lower-acuity care setting or to their homes. Thirty-five patients are presently receiving care at one of the state's field medical stations, which have served 395 people in total. Two Central Jersey hospitals were on divert Sunday night, Persichilli said.
Statewide, 508 long-term care (LTC) centers have reported at least one case of COVID-19. Of 682 veterans residing in a state-run home, 360 residents have tested positive for the virus, and 123 have died from complications related to the virus.
At state-run psychiatric facilities, 163 of 1,250 patients have tested positive for COVID-19 and 10 people have died from complications related to the virus.
Governor Phil Murphy announces the closure of NJ schools for 2020. Credit: NJ Pen.
Schools stick to remote learning for the rest of the year, seek federal aid
The biggest announcement from Murphy's Monday briefing is the extension of statewide school closures for in-person instruction through the end of the 2019-2020 academic year.
Private schools with longer academic years will remain closed until at least June 30.
New Jersey becomes the 46th state to close its schools for the remainder of the year, the governor said, adding that keeping them open to in-person learning "felt like a bridge too far."
Asked to account for the reasoning behind the decision, Murphy cited the difficulty of creating a socially distanced learning environment, a lack of COVID-19 therapeutics or a vaccine, and the possibility that school-aged children could be asymptomatic carriers of the virus to more vulnerable populations.
He stressed that officials had put off Monday's announcement amid lengthy discussions about the possible mechanisms for reopening.
"We did want to give this every shot we could, particularly for the seniors," he said.
For the next six weeks or so, schools will continue with remote instruction to meet state minimums of 180 days, and districts are advised to discontinue spring sports.
Murphy said the state would continue working with districts to find "creative ways" to provide senior-year experiences like proms and graduation ceremonies for the Class of 2020, including possibly virtual or deferred ceremonies.
On the issue of reopening in the fall, the governor promised "an enormous amount of stakeholder engagement, including what the summer might look like in terms of enrichment opportunities" for parents of school-aged children.
New Jersey also applied for $310 million in federal funding through the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund, which is part of the CARES Act.
That money, if granted, could be used for: purchasing educational technology, sanitization, and cleaning supplies; mental health supports; summer school and after-school programs; meal distribution to needy students; and activities for special-needs students, among other approved uses.
"Federal officials have signaled that states can anticipate a rapid approval of applications for this stimulus funding," Murphy said in a statement.
Governor Phil Murphy – COVID-19 Briefing – May 4, 2020. Credit: NJ Pen.
A fiscal disaster 'on the doorstep'
The governor also said that the dire financial straits in which New Jersey finds itself amid the cost of battling the pandemic will require vetoing its previously budgeted, $1.276-billion surplus.
That figure "is no longer realistic," Murphy said, adding that "a fiscal disaster is not months away.
"These decisions will be on our doorsteps in a matter of weeks," the governor said. "Even if Congress delivers, it will still not be enough. We will need to borrow on a short-term basis to bridge immediate needs."
The decision reverses what had been one of Murphy's key budget policies: to re-establish the state's "rainy day" savings fund, as "right now, it's pouring," he said.
"We're on the brink of having to make very tough and very unpalatable decisions," including wide-scale layoffs of public-sector workers, which the governor said "are already happening at the municipal levels."
"This is not a theoretical argument," Murphy said. "I think it's going to be a question of scale whether or not this is here and there, or this is a massive, across-the-board reality."
To avoid that reality, the governor said he would veto a number of bills that have already passed the state legislature, including those causes for which federal dollars are or may become available, and "noble notion[s]" that can't be achieved under the present circumstances. (The full list of vetoes with accompanying statements is available here.)
"I pray that we get very good interpretation of the CARES Act, a big bucket of direct-cash, federal assistance from Congress, and the ability to borrow," he said.
The governor again stressed that New Jersey needs billions of dollars to support operational costs in its $45 billion 2020-2021 budget, not to deal with legacy financial issues, nor for a "bailout."
"These discussions aren't just happening here in New Jersey," he said; "they're happening across the nation. We need the federal government to step forward."
Finally, after the weekend's reopening of state parks, New Jersey State Police Col. Pat Callahan reported that only a few parking summonses were issued to nature-goers amid "really overwhelming compliance" with social distancing and parks that "hit capacity early.
"Shore towns saw an influx of vehicular and foot traffic," Callahan said, and "recreational boating was through the roof" amid temperatures in the high 70s.
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Democrats' submission splits several counties statewide, including York, Franklin and Dauphin.
Pennsylvania's House Democrats are the second political party to submit a proposed redraw of the state's congressional district boundaries in a high-stakes gerrymandering case.
Thursday is deadline day for Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf and others to submit maps of new boundaries that they want the state's Supreme Court to adopt.
The midnight deadline gives justices four more days to meet their own deadline to impose new boundaries for the May 15 primary election. A redrawn Pennsylvania map could help Democrats pick up seats in the U.S. House. Republicans control 13 of 18 Pennsylvania seats.
The Democratic-majority court last month threw out a Pennsylvania congressional map widely viewed as among the nation's most gerrymandered.
Republican lawmakers submitted a map last week and are threatening to challenge in federal court any map the state Supreme Court may produce.
It's deadline day in Pennsylvania's gerrymandering case for Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf and others to submit maps of new congressional district boundaries that they want the state's Supreme Court to adopt.
Thursday's midnight deadline gives justices four more days to impose new boundaries, just three months before Pennsylvania's primary elections.
A redrawn Pennsylvania map could help Democrats pick up seats in the U.S. House and dramatically change the state's predominantly Republican, all-male delegation. Republicans control 13 of 18 Pennsylvania seats.
The Democratic-majority court threw out Pennsylvania's congressional map last month, saying it violated the state constitution. The map was widely viewed as among the nation's most gerrymandered with contorted districts designed by Republicans to get Republicans elected.
Republicans are threatening to challenge the court's map in federal court.


Yesterday, I gave my ISTE 2014 Ignite talk in front of a few thousand of my closest friends and many more who were watching remotely. Though the experience was certainly terrifying, I am really glad I did it and the positive response to my message has been wonderful.
I'm including the transcript of what I had planned to say below. I know it didn't come out exactly as written. In the interest of time I had to cut one of my favorite lines, but it was also the one I stumbled on most in rehearsal, so I think I was meant to let it go. It was, "Yes, many of my predictions are my own hopes carved into prophecies by raw optimism."
As teachers we should predict the future, but we also have an influence in shaping it.
Hello, I'm Jen Roberts. I teach high school English with 1:1 laptops in San Diego. But before I taught high school, and way before my students had laptops, I taught 7th grade, and Edgar was one of my students.
When I taught Edgar and his classmates in 1999, dry erase boards were the latest technology, and my teacher computer weighed 60 pounds. But outside our classroom, Google was getting started, people were beginning to buy small computers called laptops, and Wifi was on the horizon.
Today, Edgar is a computer professional. I know because he is the webmaster at my son's preschool. The job he does today did not exist when he was in my class.
When I run into Edgar, I get a fresh reminder that we are preparing our students for their futures. As teachers, we should be futurists. That's the nature of the business. And predicting that future is not just our prerogative; it's our obligation.
Of course, our predictions won't be right all the time, or even most of the time, but that's not the point. Predicting the future is not about being perfect or even specific. It's about being open to possibility. You will be wrong, but by how much?
If I predict that my children will own electric, self driving, cars by the time they are 25 I might be right. I'm just extrapolating on existing data. It could happen.
If I predict that in ten years schools will have 100 times the bandwidth they have now, I might be wrong. But what if I'm right? In 1964 Isaac Asimov predicted that phone calls would become video calls by 2014. He was right! What comes after video calls? Imagine the possibilities for learning and human interaction.
And field trips are going to be a whole lot more interesting. Virtual Reality Headsets will let you take your class on a virtual field trip to any place in the universe and any point in time.
The price point on these will come down to the point that every school can have a cart of VR headsets.
I predict that wearable tech is coming to our classrooms, where it will initially be banned and then eventually accepted. Who would have guessed in 1988 that we would all be carrying cell phones today? Google Glass and others will become just as ubiquitous as cell phones have. What else is coming?
In 2013 I stepped into a 3D cave and an undergraduate at UCSD walked us through a hemoglobin cell. She estimated the setup cost about 1 million dollars. But a mass produced version of a 3D pod could be commercially available to schools for a fraction of that cost. And I want one.
As we move into an era where the common core is reshaping curriculum and 1:1 programs are putting a device on every student's desk, I'm concerned that we will see a growing tension between corporations who want to package and deliver content, and educators who want to create collaborative, productive spaces, for children to grow.
I' worried that the next educational divide will be between the students who have the privileges and autonomy to determine their own learning and those who don't.
I predict that climate change will impact our kids lives. But, It will also drive innovation as we adapt. It will become a wedge issue in politics because there is no compromise that will stop weather patterns from changing and sea levels from rising. Our students must be prepared to change and innovate to survive. They will need to make hard decisions when they choose who to vote for and where to live.
I predict that our world will become even more connected, driving the pace of innovation even faster. Students who are ready to join a connected community of innovators will have an exponential impact on the accelerated change coming in the rest of this century. Being a part of a connected classroom community and connecting across the globe with other classrooms is a good way to get started.
Yes, many of my predictions are my own hopes carved into prophecies by raw optimism. I have prophetic dreams, not the kind that show me the future while I am sleeping, but the kind that tell me that innovation and education are a human rights.
These are the dreams that tell me we can leverage technology to awaken the curiosity in our students and engage them in positive change. Our students are going to be living in the future for the next one hundred years. Predicting what that world will look like is not hard, and preparing them for it is the challenge we've already accepted.
I predict that many of you will tweet me your predictions for your students. I hope I'm right.
And by the way, I predict that ISTE 20-14 is going to be fabulous.


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Kidderminster Harriers are thought to have renewed their interest in Gloucester City's Ed Williams.
The National League North club were keen on the former Cheltenham Town player and current Hartpury student earlier in the season.
He was on target in Saturday's 4-0 home win over Hungerford Town, which kept Marc Richards' Tigers in with a chance of a late charge into the National League South play-offs.
Harriers are fifth in their division and well placed to challenge for a return to the top level of non-league football.
Williams, 22, is from Cheltenham and spent one year as a professional with the Robins, in 2013/14, but it was affected by injury and he did not make a first team appearance.
He has also played for Bishop's Cleeve and Cirencester Town on loan.
* Club secretary Shaun Wetson has stepped down from his role with Gloucester City.


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Black Greekdom Mourns the Killing of Kappa Alpha Psi's Devon Wade
The Black fraternity and sorority community is currently mourning the loss of Devon Tyrone Wade, a sociology doctoral candidate at Columbia University in New York City and member of Kappa Alpha Psi who was shot and killed by his boyfriend this Sunday night in Atascocita, TX.
28-year old Wade was a 2016 initiate of the Prairie View Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. and lived a life of achievement. He graduated with honors from LSU, was a McNair Research Scholar, a Harry Truman scholar and was pursuing his doctorate in sociology at Columbia University in New York City.
As a child, both of Wade's parents were in incarcerated and according to a 2016 interview with him by the MsVictoriaShantrell YouTube channel, this led him to focus on the prison system in grad school, researching inequality along racial and class lines as it pertains to criminality and urban areas.
"My research interests span many sub-fields of sociology, which includes race & ethic inequality, social mobility, crime and punishment, sociology of education and social psychology," his website states. "In my most current research project, I investigate the role of punishment and punitive environments and their implications for how we respond to mental health and trauma within the school context. The project seeks to interrogate core ideas about how social mobility and sorting functions within schools, particularly for vulnerable youth."
He was truly a brilliant mind, and was focused on understanding issues that disproportionately affect the Black community. In one of his interviews, Wade describes that he was researching "Not just what happens when we lock up individuals, but what happens to their families? What happens to those communities?"
LSU released the following statement about Devon Wade,
"The LSU community is mourning the tragic loss of alumnus Devon Wade. He was an accomplished student at LSU, participating in the Ronald McNair Research Scholars program and receiving the prestigious Truman Scholarship. We had been watching his academic career flourish as he pursued his Ph.D. at Columbia. He had a great future ahead of him and will be missed by all who knew him."
The McNair Research program released this statement on his murder,
"It is with deep sorrow we share the loss of LSU McNair Alumnus Devon Wade. It's so hard to come to terms with the loss of such rare, compassionate brilliance."
Wade self-described himself as "a thinker, someone who's always being reflexive about how I engage the world, engage individuals, engage relationships." This is something that people around him picked up on and cherished about him.
We ask that you keep Wade's family, friends, community and fraternity brothers in your thoughts.
We also ask that you leave your condolences and memories of him by sharing this on Facebook and letting others know how special he was to all of us.
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Rule #1 If you wear glasses, use frames to hide the bags under your eyes. But beware, your glasses might MAGNIFY your wrinkles and your crows feet…SCARY! Or your eyes could appear so big you will start looking like an owl. Rule #2 If you are going out with someone for the first time, leave your HurryCane and Life Alert at home. If you fall and you can't get up, hopefully your date will join you on the floor.
How can I tell if I've have had too much to drink? And when to stop before I totally embarrass myself?
#1 You think the vegetables in your Bloody Mary are as good as a salad, and therefore count as your dinner.
#2 You try to pee in the bushes, forgetting you are already wearing Depends.
#3 You wake up the next morning with a pair of lips tattooed on your neck.
I once worked with a woman who was from a small village in Peru. She told me she could always tell she had too much when she found herself riding home on her burro backwards!
How can you tell when you are getting old?
You'll know when you try to fill in information on your credit card on the web and your birth date appears in roman numerals.
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Dr Richard Collins has been an active and committed member of the water research team at Water Research Centre (WRC) for over twelve years. He prizes it as a place where expertise is shared to create good outcomes for a world with many problems. Formerly an Australia Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow, now a Scientia Fellow, Richard has a background in geology and soil chemistry. His overall ambition in life is to improve water and soil quality for Australian communities and presently his focus rests on the problems being faced by remote indigenous communities.
Water quality is a broad area of study and includes drinking water standards, how natural catchment and manmade farming systems work and how soil, water and vegetation interact. With a PhD in soil chemistry from Adelaide University and many years' experience in all these areas, Richard Collins is ideally suited to conduct longitudinal research projects with long lasting ambitions.
Over twelve years ago, with Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage support and in partnership with Tweed Council, Richard began investigating problems of soil acidity in the floodplains of Northern NSW. Entitled Exploiting Natural Processes to Effectively Remediate Acidified Coastal Environments this ongoing project seeks to discover the where and the why of catchment system failure. What began as an investigation into the acid sulphate nature of soils has broadened into enquiries about the nitrogen cycle. It is unusual for sugar cane acid sulfate soils to lose so much nitrogen. Labs at UNSW are being used to discover "if certain reactions are thermodynamically favourable, so we can then use that knowledge to shape onsite investigations into soil processes that lead to nitrogen loss."
This longitudinal study plays an important role in both defending the environment and helping agriculture industries to produce in a sustainable and profitable manner. Over the twelve years Richard has developed working relationships with the local people, with stakeholders and with the place itself. He is a researcher with the patient commitment needed for complex problems with complex solutions.
In 2012 Dr Collins won an ARC Future Fellowship to "investigate ways to remove naturally occurring uranium from groundwater with concentrations above drinking water guidelines in remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory." From a young age he has been excited by restoring and protecting the environment and while he says his youthful enthusiasm has become more tempered with maturity, the social and environmental importance of this work cannot be underestimated.
This is important work, with expansive possibilities. Other remote communities have major problems with the hardness or the fluoride contents of their water supply.
Australian Drinking Water Guidelines are produced by the National Health and Medical Research Council. They are "designed to provide an authoritative reference on what defines safe, good quality drinking water."[i] These guidelines are under constant revision, shaped by the latest scientific evidence and while their ethical intent is evident they are not mandatory.
It is estimated that there are 1200 small and remote communities across Australia and more than half of these rely on groundwater. Many are experiencing water supply problems which have been systematically unaddressed. Vast distances make external servicing solutions impossible and past technologies have often been unsuitable. There is a great need for regionally appropriate, cost efficient and user-friendly technologies that deal with the hardness and mineral content of bore water to make it a suitable and reliable household supply. Surely, this is the least any Australian citizen could expect.
Dr Richard Collins and the rest of his team: Dr Jinxing Ma and Scientia Professor David Waite, are extremely excited, hopeful and confident that a solar powered, portable, capacitance deionisation unit may help to solve some of these serious issues in remote communities.
Capacitance deoinisation, or CDI, has experienced a rapid growth in water research industries in the last 5 years. WRC have been investigating CDI for over 4 years now and this research puts it at the forefront of a burgeoning technological industry.
Electrosorption, or absorption at the surface of an electrode, is the underlying principle of CDI. It employs a low voltage direct current between two electrodes to convert, store or separate metals, salts or even designed molecules from a water supply. As only a low voltage is required CDI portable units, such as the one designed at WRC, can be run by solar power. Its small size, its portability, its user-friendly operation and its energy efficiency make this unit a potential technological blessing for remote communities.
The story of this project began in 2012 with Dr Collins' ARC Future Fellowship. The Northern Territory Power and Water Corporation had released figures that revealed just how many remote water supplies had high and soluble uranium concentrations. Richard Collins undertook on site bore testing and with careful clinical processes gathered some viable and revealing samples. "often samples collected in remote areas can sit and wait for delivery to a lab. We challenged and upgraded this practice by using special bottles and gases to keep the original sample chemistry intact."
"These samples revealed high carbonate concentrations and this solubilises uranium. While this may not cause acute toxicity, long term exposure has unknown chronic effects on human health as no research has been conducted."
Most of the uranium found in the water across multiple sites was neutrally charged. "As a result, we were unsure if CDI could work to improve water quality in these communities. But, in fact, CDI processes worked particularly well in removing this kind of uranium selectively and preferentially."
With this assurance, the WRC team has created a model groundwater that embodies the characteristics of water supplies from a wide number of sites and laboratory testing continues to show the efficacy of CDI. It is hoped that in partnership with the Global Water Institute pilot testing of the CDI units in these remote communities can begin in 2018.
Richard Collins personally hopes that the WRC can connect more fully with the communities it seeks to help. Some of these remote sites are hard to access because of bad roads. Some are fractured by social problems. But he seeks to fulfil the social contract of engagement that UNSW has articulated in recent years.
"This is important work, with expansive possibilities. Other remote communities have major problems with the hardness or the fluoride contents of their water supply. Certain West Australian communities are having to ship water in because of high nitrate levels. Infants especially could be affected by this unsuitable drinking water. But importing water is expensive and not sustainable." CDI units could be the answer here too.
Waste streams from CDI processes are one of the issues that will have to be dealt with in the future. Already Richard's WRC Colleague Dr. Ma is seeking to patent a process where CDI nutrient recovery is utilised as recycled fertiliser. The future questions are already being answered.
This CDI unit is the size of a small fridge but it could make a big difference. The solar powered units are particularly suited to our sunny Australian conditions. The potential widespread use in arid and unproductive areas will be facilitated as industrial partners become as excited and confident as the water researchers.
[i] https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/guidelines/publications/eh52


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Just another version of unusual horror playing project known as Five Nights at Freddy's 3 again surprises its followers with the change of rules and the way of behavior in the course of the game. No, the main character has not changed; he is still working as a night security guard in a mysterious city pizzeria. But sinister animatronics again changed their attack strategy.
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Alive toys are on the watch for the guard in the night restaurant. In this variation they decided to choose a leader which is deadly for a player. His name is Springtrap and he will do his best to terminate you. The other characters are presented like phantoms and cannot do you much harm, but they will put you off defending yourself. The cannibal will approach to you through the air-shafts, emitting a distinctive sound that will be detected by the alarm audio feed. And the phantoms will attack you and the cameras, disturbing you and putting the equipment out of order in sequence.
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The revelation comes as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is duking it out in the legal system over an August 2018 court ruling requiring the agency to finalize a the ban on chlorpyrifos that was originally proposed under the Obama administration, but overturned after Trump took office.
On September 24, the EPA—the agency charged with protecting us from environmental contaminants—asked the courts to rehear the case. The move means that chlorpyrifos is still being used while the request for a rehearing plays out in the courts. Organic Consumers Association is collecting signatures on a petition to the EPA, asking the agency to rescind its request for a rehearing, and ban chlorpyrifos now.
A neurological toxicant, chlorpyrifos damages the brains of young children: impacts of exposure, even at very low levels, include decreased cognitive function, lowered IQ, attention deficit disorder,and developmental and learning delays.
The data is of particular importance as it was used in the EU's decision to approve chlorpyrifos in 2006. The same studies were also submitted to officials at the EPA.
The study's authors attempted to replicate the findings in Dow's original study. But they discovered serious flaws, even omissions, in the company's analysis. The industry study found "no selective effects on neurodevelopment" in rats, even at high levels of exposure to chlorpyrifos. This contradicts mounting evidence linking chlorpyrifos to neurodevelopmental problems in developing fetuses and young children—even at very low levels.
"What type of society poisons its children?" said Andre Leu, author of "The Myths of Safe Pesticides," in an email to the Organic Consumers Association. "This shows the corruption of the Poison Cartels and how they are damaging the developing brains of children—they must be stopped!"