On Nov. 2, Wright Medical announced a $240 million hip replacement settlement that resolves 1,292 lawsuits filed over the Conserve, Dynasty or Lineage metal-on-metal hip implants. Plaintiffs in the litigation allege that the hip implants led to complications, such as pain, swelling and metal poisoning (metallosis) led to an early revision surgery, which is when the implant is surgically removed. The settlement offers $170,000 to each claimant suing over the Conserve and $120,000 to each claimant suing over the Dynasty or Lineage hip implant.
Parker Waichman LLP personal injury attorneys are well-versed in the metal-on-metal hip implant litigation involving various manufacturers, including Wright Medical. The firm represents numerous clients in metal hip replacement lawsuits and continues to offer free legal consultations.
According to the announcement, Wright will be paying for the settlement through $180 million cash on hand. The remaining $60 million would be funded through insurance recoveries. The settlement includes hip replacement lawsuits filed into the Wright Medical Conserve multidistrict litigation (In Re: Wright Medical Technology, Inc., CONSERVE® Hip Implant Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2329) as well as lawsuits consolidated in California state court (In re: Wright Hip System Cases, Judicial Council Coordination Proceeding No. 4710).
The Wright Medical Conserve hip system consists of the Conserve Femoral Surface Replacement, the Conserve Plus Total Resurfacing Hip System, the Conserve Total A-Class Advanced Metal and the Conserve Total Hip System.
Plaintiffs involved in either the MDL or the California litigation can opt-in to the settlement if they underwent a revision surgery within eight years of implantation. The settlement agreement is contingent upon 95 percent of eligible plaintiffs opting-in. If plaintiffs received a bilateral hip replacement, they can count as two claims so long as both hips meet eligibility requirements on their own.
Wright Medical announced the settlement during the third quarter, and reported a net loss of $52.7 million, or 51 cents per diluted share.
Plaintiffs suing over metal-on-metal hip implants similarly allege that they suffered injuries and complications stemming from the metal-on-metal design of the hip implant, which allegedly causes metal particles to be released into the body when the surfaces of the implant rub against one another. Allegedly, this can lead to a host of problems such as tissue death, pain, swelling, difficulty walking and metallosis.
Federal lawsuits alleging injuries from the Wright Medical Conserve metal-on-metal hip implants were transferred to a federal multidistrict litigation in 2012. The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) centralized Conserve lawsuits to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia before U.S. District Judge William S. Duffey. The Conserve MDL was the third MDL established over metal-on-metal hip injury claims, Parker Waichman notes.
Wright Medical has also faced personal injury lawsuits over its Profemur metal hip replacement.
MDLs are a type of mass tort that bring similar lawsuits together in one court. One judge presides over the litigation. Although the claims are brought under one court, lawsuits in an MDL remain separate from one another. It is not the same as a class action lawsuit. The purpose of an MDL is to streamline complex litigation and make proceedings more efficient, as it avoids duplicate discovery. The first several lawsuits in an MDL to be tried are referred to as "bellwether cases"; they are the first to be heard before jurors and cases selected as bellwether cases represent most of the litigation. The outcome of a bellwether trial can have important implications for the rest of the litigation. For example, a metal hip manufacturer may be more inclined to a settlement if jurors award large verdicts to the plaintiff.
Wright Medical was hit with an $11 million verdict in the first bellwether case that went to trial. The verdict consisted of $10 million in punitive damages, which are awarded when jurors feel that the liable party should pay extra as punishment. Punitive damages are meant to hold parties liable and discourage similar behaviors from occurring in the future. The punitive damages were later reduced to $1.1 million. The $1 million in compensatory damages, however, was unaltered.
The first bellwether trial involved a lawsuit that was filed in 2013. The plaintiff was a woman who was implanted with the Conserve in April 2006 and underwent revision surgery after only six years. According to her lawsuit, surgeons discovered fluid buildup, dead tissue and tissue damaged by the presence of metal debris when removing her failed implant. The plaintiff, who had been a ski instructor for over 47 years, alleges that the Wright hip implant complications impeded on her quality of life and caused financial burdens. She alleges that Wright failed to warn her or her doctors about the risks associated with the Conserve hip implant.
In awarding the verdict, the jury found Wright's actions to be willful and malicious, finding that the company was intentionally fraudulent and showed a knowing and reckless indifference towards the plaintiff and others in a similar position. The Conserve metal-on-metal hip implant was found to be defectively designed and unreasonably dangerous.
Wright Medical is not the only manufacturer to face litigation over metal-on-metal hip implants. In fact, the devices first came under public scrutiny when DePuy Orthopedics issued a worldwide recall for its ASR hip implants in 2010. The metal-on-metal hip replacements were recalled because they were failing at a higher rate than expected. DePuy subsequently faced thousands of personal injury lawsuits. Stryker Orthopedics has also been involved in metal-on-metal hip implant litigation following the recall of its ABG II and Rejuvenate hip implants.
Metal-on-metal hip replacements use all-metal surfaces, and were thought to be more suitable for younger, more active patients when they were first released. Throughout the years, however, there have been concerns about the devices shedding metal debris into the body if the surfaces of the implant rub together. Hip replacements are expected to last 10 to 15 years, but plaintiffs in the hip implant litigation allege that they had to undergo revision surgery much sooner.
Parker Waichman has had years of experience representing clients in numerous metal-on-metal hip implant lawsuits. The firm continues to offer free legal case evaluations to anyone with questions about filing a lawsuit over the Wright Medical Conserve or another metal-on-metal hip replacement. For more information, fill out our online form or call 1-800-YOURLAWYER (1-800-968-7529).


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Arts, Attractions, Community, Entertainment, Events, News, Theatre November 30, 2019
Venardos Circus and its namesake ringmaster Kevin Venardos (veh-NARR-dos) will debut a new cast, show and music in a return to the St. Augustine Amphitheatre for a third seasonal stint beginning in December. There will be 32 shows over three weeks in the intimate red-and-white striped tent, set up in the Amphitheatre parking lot, from December 18, 2019 through January 5, 2020. Tickets for this event are on sale now. GET TICKETS HERE
The traveling troupe of performers has had successful stints in the St. Augustine/Jacksonville market on three separate visits since January 2018, totaling more than 15,000 attendees over 55 shows, most of which have been sellouts. The upcoming shows are projected to be complete sellouts, including "Holiday Family Packs" for shows on Christmas Day, during Christmas week and on New Year's Day.
Guests can expect to be transported back in time to the center ring of a centuries-old tradition, but one that has been reinvented for the next generation. With an amazing assortment of aerialists, acrobats, juggling, hand-balancing/contortion, comedy, daredevilry, magic, musical production and much more, with no animals, this amazing circus experience will truly delight adults and kids of all ages. Venardos Circus proudly features its own custom-made big-top, a classic red-and-white striped tent, with an intimate feel and limited seating. The circus performers also are the crew in this traveling tour who are completely self-contained, much like the original circus tradition. A new cast was recruited this fall and will make its debut in St. Augustine where attendees can park for free in the Amphitheatre parking lot and walk a short distance to the tent.
An interactive pre-show party begins one hour before each show time with opportunities to meet the cast, snap selfies and play games. Classic circus treats like popcorn, nachos, fresh-made cotton candy and natural pink lemonade and more are available. The main event lasts approximately 90 minutes, with a brief intermission. Complete show schedule available at www.VenardosCircus.com.
Tickets for Venardos Circus at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre are on sale now and available online at www.VenardosCircus.com; Tickets free for babes in arms (24 months and younger), $25 for adults and $15 for youth under age 12. Premium Reserved seating is priced from $35 to $45.
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Home Search GetRecord Humphrey Searle Collection (1936-58)
Collection Title
Humphrey Searle Collection (1936-58)
Add. 71832
A collection of handbills and programmes for concerts including music by the English composer Humphrey Searle (1915-82), given at various venues in the United Kingdom, Germany and Switzerland between 1936 and 1958, arranged in a largely chronologically order as the first of three volumes of concert programmes within the Humphrey Searle Collection.
This volume also includes four programmes/programme fragments, for which no venue can be identified.
Items are listed here alphabetically by venue, divided as follows:
1. London venues
2. Other venues in the United Kingdom
3. German venues
4. Unknown venues
- Academy Hall, 163 Oxford Street
2 March [1948]: Institute of Contemporary Arts 2nd Concert of Contemporary Chamber Music, given by Frederick Grinke (violin), Watson Forbes (viola), Alec Whittaker (oboe), Frederick Thurston (clarinet) and John Alexandra (bassoon). All of the works presented in this concert were being performed for the first time, including Searle, Quartet for Violin, Viola, Clarinet and Bassoon, op. 12.
- Broadcasting House, Concert Hall
17 May [1949]: London Contemporary Music Centre, including the first performances of the following works: Wilfrid Mellers, Two Motets in Diem Pacis, for chorus and brass; Constant Lambert, Trois Pièces Nègres sur les Touches Blanches, for piano duet; and Searle, Gold Coast Costumes (Poem by Edith Sitwell), for Speakers, Male Chorus, Chamber Orchestra, Two Pianos and Percussion.
- Chelsea Town Hall
13 May 1947: Leighton Lucas Orchestra with Frederick Thurston, conducted by Lucas (with historical and descriptive notes).
- French Church, Leicester Place, Leicester Square
12 July 1956: Concert Spirituel given by the Tension Music Club as part of the Soho Fair 1956, with the Dorian Singers, the Elizabethan Singers, the London Bach Society and the Morley College Choir, and Alan Harverson (organ) (with historical and descriptive notes).
- Kensington, Town Hall
31 May [1949]: London Symphony Orchestra chamber ensemble.
- M.M. Club, 14 Argyll Street
25 February 1940: An Informal Concert of Chamber Music by Humphrey Searle, given by John McKenna (tenor), Daphne Blackwall (harpsichord/piano), Trude Huttenbach (violin) and Otto Huttenbach (cello) with the Macnaghten Quartet (double-sided handbill).
- Morley College: Holst Room
27 November 1954: Morley College Concert given by the Wind Ensemble (directed by Peter Racine Fricker), Madrigal Choir (directed by John Gardner) and the String Orchestra, directed by Peter Racine Fricker and Humphrey Searle (single-sided programme).
- Odeon Cinema, Leicester Square
18 November 1958: Antarctic Crossing (premiere), with music composed by Humphrey Searle.
- Palace Theatre
16 November 1952: London Symphony Orchestra with Edith Sitwell and Dylan Thomas (speakers) and Gordon Watson (piano), conducted by Robert Irving and Humphrey Searle, including the first performance of Searle, The Shadow of Cain (with words, historical and analytical programme notes by Richard Gorer, a list of the orchestral ensemble and a photograph of Searle). This document also includes 'A Note on The Shadow of Cain' by the author of the poem, Edith Sitwell.
- Queen Mary Hall
4 May 1946: Ninth Experimental Rehearsal of new orchestral works, presented by the Committee for the Promotion of New Music and given by a section of the London International Orchestra, conducted by Walter Goehr (Invitation with programme).
- Queensbury Place, South Kensington
21 February 1958: Heure Musicale given by Margaret Kitchen (piano) and Amaryllis Fleming (cello) and entitled Musiciens Anglais et Francais d'Aujourd'hui, including the first performance of Searle, Suite, op. 29.
- R.B.A. Galleries, Suffolk Street, Pall Mall
24 April 1951: London Contemporary Music Centre concert no. 5 (29th season), including the first London performances of: Iain Hamilton, Three Nocturnes for Clarinet and Piano; A. Schoenberg, Fantasia for Violin and Piano op. 47; and Denis Apivor, Concertante for Clarinet, Pianoforte and Percussion.
- Royal Albert Hall
6 November [1946]: Festival of Music: a tribute to British composers and musicians, given by the London Symphony Orchestra with members of the Goldsmiths' Choral Union, including Constant Lambert and R. Vaughan Williams conducting their own works (with historical and descriptive notes by Stephen Williams).
11 September 1947: Henry Wood Promenade Concert (43rd season), given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, with Mewton-Wood (piano), conducted by Sir Adrian Boult (with historical and descriptive notes by Hubert Foss).
24 January [1947]: London Symphony Orchestra with Colin Horsley (piano), conducted by Charles Hambourg, including the first concert performance of Searle, Piano Concerto in D minor (with historical and descriptive notes and a list of the orchestral ensemble, 2 copies).
14 August 1956: Henry Wood Promenade Concert (62nd season), given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, with Clive Lythgoe (piano), conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent and John Hollingsworth, including the first public performance in London of Searle, Concerto No. 2 for Pianoforte and Orchestra (with historical and descriptive notes by Scott Goddard and a list of the orchestral ensemble). Bound into the programme are a number of newspaper cuttings offering reviews of the Searle work.
- Royal College of Music
4 February 1944: 2nd Experimental Rehearsal of new orchestral works, presented by the Committee for the Promotion of New Music and given by Gareth Morris (flute) and Franz Osborn (piano), with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Constant Lambert (Invitation and programme including a list of the Committee members and a statement regarding the aims of the organization).
- Royal Festival Hall
21 and 22 November 1958: Hoffnung Interplanetary Music Festival 1958, being 'an extravagant evening of symphonic caricature devised by Gerard Hoffnung, aided and abetted by John Amis, Malcolm Arnold, Ernest Bean, Colin Graham, Ian Hunter, Lawrence Leonard, David McBain, Humphrey Searle and Eric Thompson, with Dame Edith Evans, the Hoffnung Festival Opera Company and Chorus, the Hoffnung (alias Morley College) Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Norman del Mar, the Band and Trumpeters of the Royal Military School of Music and the Dolmetsch Ensemble' (with biographical, historical and descriptive notes and caricatures of the performers and composers). The concert included world premieres of pieces by Francis Baines, Joseph Horovitz, Elizabeth Poston, Francis Chagrin, Malcolm Arnold, Matyas Seiber, P. Racince Fricker and Bruno Heinz Jaja. Also, the first British performance of a piece by Copland.
- Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
1, 5 and 13 March 1956 and 1 June 1956: Sadler's Wells Ballet, including Searle, Noctambules.
- St. James's Church, Piccadilly
9 June [1956]: Tension Music Club, given by the Elizabethan Singers with Alan Harverson (organ) (with historical and descriptive notes).
- Wigmore Hall
16 September 1943: Walter Goehr and Concert Ensemble, led by Maria Lidka, with Norman Lumsden (bass), presented by Musical Culture Limited (with historical and analytical notes, 2 copies).
26 April 1944: 8th Boosey and Hawkes Concerts (3rd season), given by the Boyd Neel String Orchestra (conducted by Boyd Neel), with Peter Pears (tenor) and Dennis Brain (horn), including the first performance of Humphrey Searle, Ostinato for String Orchestra and the first English performance of Honegger, Symphony of Strings (double-sided programme with historical and analytical notes). This collection also includes a single document providing outline programmes for the performances given on 26 and 29 March and 26 April 1944 as part of this series, some of which were given at the Royal Adelphi Theatre.
15 February 1946: Third Edward Clark Concert, featuring Emelie Hooke (vocal) and Kendall Taylor (piano), with the London Orchestral Players and Boyd Neel String Orchestra, conducted by Edward Clark (with historical and analytical notes by Julian Herbage and a list of the orchestral players).
4 February 1947: London Contemporary Music Centre concert no.3, given by Sophie Wyss (soprano), Norman Franklin (piano) and the Blech String Quartet, including the first performance of Arnold Cooke, Two Soldier Songs, and Willi Burkhard, Six Songs by Christian Morgenstern.
7 January and 31 March 1948: Lunch Hour Concerts (single document, with a list of the 'Artists in Present Series' provided on the reverse).
24 January and 14 and 28 February [1958]: Friday Concerts by the Virtuoso Ensemble of London (single document). Each performance included a 'world premiere', presenting works by Humphrey Searle, Peter Racine Fricker and Gordon Jacob respectively.
2. Provincial venues
- Cardiff, Cardiff College of Music and Drama: Examination Hall
3 November 1955: Concert of Contemporary Music, presented by Aberystwyth Music Club and given by students of the Cardiff College of Music and Drama, under the direction of Alun Hoddinott (single-sided programme with brief notes).
- Cambridge, King's College, University of Cambridge
5 May 1955: Concert of British Chamber Music, given for the delegates of the Conference of the Conseil Internationale des Compositeurs by Emelie Hooke (soprano), Herbert Downes (violin) and Margaret Kitchin and Wilfrid Parry (piano), including the first English performance of Searle, Three Songs to words by Jocelyn Brooke (with words).
- Cheltenham, Town Hall
8 July [1951]: Boyd Neel Orchestra (conducted by Neel), including the first performance of Philip Sainton, Serenade Fantastique for Oboe and Strings (Leon Goossens, oboe) and the first English performance of Searle, Poem for Twenty-two Strings.
11-22 July 1955: with the Melos Ensemble, Peter Katin (piano) and the Hallé Orchestra (prospectus).
Both documents relating to the Annual Cheltenham Festival of British Contemporary Music (nos. 7 and 11) and both programmes include biographical, historical and descriptive notes, with photographs).
- Gowerton, Tabernacle
31 May 1956: Alun Hoddinott and Students, presented by the Tabernacle Ladies' Guild and given by Avril Herbert (soprano), Robin North (piano), Ivor Bosanko (trumpet and piano) and Frank Kellerher (clarinet), conducted by Dr. T. J. James.
- Liverpool, Philharmonic Hall
11 December 1956: Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Tuesday Subscription Concert, with Clive Lythgoe (piano), conducted by John Pritchard (with historical and analytical notes by A. K. Holland and a list of the orchestral ensemble).
20 October 1958: Musica Viva, presented by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society, conducted by John Pritchard and Zubin Mehta, including the first performance of Searle, Symphony No. 2 (with historical and descriptive notes by A. K. Holland and Basil Horsfield).
- Liverpool, Playhouse
12 February 1957: Liverpool Repertory Company presents Favonia, with music by Humphrey Searle, recorded by the Sinfonia of London. The document also includes a Musical Programme, detailing pieces to be played by Ronald Settle and Joan Ovens (pianos) at various stages in the evening.
- Nottingham, Playhouse
5 October 1952: Gala Performance, including a musical setting by Searle of The Owl and the Pussy Cat by Edward Lear (Souvenir Programme).
- Nottingham YMCA Hall
9 November [1953]: Poetry Reading by Valentine Dyall and Daphne Slater, with Ian Wallace (speaker), George Crozier (flute), Freddie Phillips (guitar) and Joy Hall (cello), including an Interlude of Comic Verse set to music by Searle. This performance was presented by the Arts Council of Britain and the programme indicates that it was repeated from 10-13 November at the following venues: Art Gallery, Leicester; Wolfrun Hall, Wolverhampton; The Art Gallery, Birmingham; and The Grammar School, Kettering.
- Oxford, Carfax Assembly Rooms
8 November 1936: Franz Liszt Commemoration Concert, including the first performance of Czardas Macabre and Romance Oubliée arranged for string quartet and piano by Searle (with Searle, piano), conducted by Constant Lambert (with brief descriptive notes and a list of the orchestral ensemble).
- Porthcawl, Nottage School Hall
2 November 1956: Porthcawl and District Music Club, given by artistes from the Cardiff College of Music and Drama.
3. European venues
- Bad Oeynhausen, Kurhaus Concert Hall
18 and 19 February 1945: Buckeburg Symphony Orchestra with guest conductors Gerald Irvin and Humphrey Searle (with brief historical and descriptive notes).
- Basel, Musiksaal
11 February 1949: Basler Kammerorchester concert no. 3, directed by Paul Sacher, including the premiere of G. Francesco Malipiero, Sinfonie Nr. 6 für Streichorchester, and works by Henri Gagnebin, Searle and Albert Moeschinger being performed for the first time in Basel.
- Darmstadt, Stadthalle
31 July 1948: Kammerkonzert III, given as part of the Internationalen zeitgenössischen Musiktag, including the first German performance of Searle, Ballade für Klavier (with biographical notes on Die Komponisten featured both in this concert and in the remainder of the Festival).
Dusseldorf, Die Brüke
27 April 1954: Zeitgenössische Musik, given by Rolf Ermeler (flote) and Maria Ermeler-Lortzing (piano).
- [Hamburg]
12 October 1953: Studioveranstaltungen des Nordwestdeutschen Rundfunks Hamburg Opening Concert, entitled Das Neue Werk im IV. Jahr, given by the Sinfonieorchester des NWDR-Hamburg and the Chor des NWDR-Hamburg, directed by Hermann Scherchen, including the premiere of Searle, Symphonie in einem Satz, op. 23 and pieces by Nikos Skalkottas and Alberto Bruni Tedeschi.
Given (with brief notes).
- Köln, Grossen Sendesaal
20 April 1956:Musik der Zeit concert no.4, given by the Westdeutschen Rundfunk Koln with Ilse Wallenstein (soprano), Clive Lythgoe (piano), Der Züricher Kammersprechchor and Das Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester, directed by Ernest Bour, including the first German performance of Searle, Zweites Klavierkonzert, op. 27 (with words and brief biographical notes on the composers).
- Oldenburg, Die Brüke, Gartenstrasse 5
4 September 1953: Kammermusikabend von Rolf Ermeler (flute) und Maria Ermeler-Lortzing (piano).
4. Unknown venues/programme fragments.
[May 1947]: two-part concert of music by Lutyens and Searle, presented by the London Contemporary Music Centre and featuring Parry Jones and Norman Allin (vocal), Peter Stadlen (piano), and John Alexandra (bassoon) with the BBC Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Edward Clark), the Boyd Neel Orchestra (conducted by Constant Lambert), the Chamber Ensemble of the French National Orchestra (conducted by Rene Leibowitz), the Women's Chorus and Chamber Orchestra, the Dorian Singers and the Philharmonia Orchestra.
[November/December 1948]: London Symphony Orchestra Ensemble with Liza Fuchsova (piano), Emelie Hooke (soprano) and Margaret Kitchin (piano) (fragment, page 2).
28 September and 5, 14, 22 and 28 October 1955: Bela Bartok (prospectus).
[April 1956]: Searle, Put Away the Flutes (with words, fragment).
Date range of collection
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Züricher Kammersprechchor -
Wyss, Sophie -
Wood, Henry -
Whittaker, Alec -
Watson, Gordon -
Wallenstein, Ilse -
Virtuoso ensemble of London -
Vaughan Williams, Ralph -
Thurston, Frederick -
Thompson, Eric -
Tension Music Club -
Tedeschi, Alberto Bruni -
Taylor, Kendall -
Tabernacle Ladies' Guild -
Stadlen, Peter -
Skalkottas, Nikos -
Sinfonia of London -
Seiber, Mátyás -
Searle, Humphrey -
Schoenberg, Arnold -
Scherchen, Hermann -
Sargent, Malcolm -
Sainton, Philip -
Sadler's Wells Ballet -
Sacher, Paul -
Royal Military School of Music -
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra -
Promenade concerts -
Pritchard, John -
Poston, Elizabeth -
Porthcawl and District Music Club -
Phillips, Freddie -
Philharmonia Orchestra 1945 -
Pears, Peter -
Parry, Wilfrid -
Osborn, Franz -
Nordwestdeutschen Rundfunks Hamburg -
Neel, Boyd -
Morris, Gareth -
Morley College -
Mewton-Wood, Noel -
Melos Ensemble -
Mellers, Wilfrid -
Mehta, Zubin -
McKenna, John -
McBain, David -
Malipiero, Gian Francesco -
Macnaghten String Quartet -
Lythgoe, Clive -
Lutyens, Elisabeth -
Lumsden, Norman -
Lucas, Leighton -
London Symphony Orchestra -
London Orchestral Players -
London International Orchestra -
London Contemporary Music Centre -
London Bach Society -
Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra -
Liszt, Franz -
Lidka, Maria -
Leonard, Lawrence -
Leighton Lucas Orchestra -
Lambert, Constant -
Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester -
Kitchin, Margaret -
Katin, Peter -
Jones, Parry 1891 - 1963
JaJa, Bruno Heinz -
Jacob, Gordon -
Irving, Robert -
Irvin, Gerald -
Institute of Contemporary Arts -
Huttenbach, Trude -
Huttenbach, Otto -
Hunter, Ian -
Horsley, Colin -
Horovitz, Joseph -
Hooke, Emelie -
Honegger, Arthur -
Hollingsworth, John -
Hoffnung, Gerard -
Hoffnung Interplanetary Music Festival -
Hoffnung Festival Opera Company -
Hoddinott, Alun -
Harverson, Alan -
Hamilton, Iain -
Hambourg, Charles -
Hallé Orchestra -
Hall, Joy -
Grinke, Frederick -
Graham, Colin -
Goossens, Léon -
Goldsmiths' Choral Union -
Goehr, Walter -
Fuchsova, Lisa -
Fricker, Peter Racine -
French National Orchestra -
Franklin, Norman -
Forbes, Watson -
Fleming, Amaryllis -
Evans, Edith -
Ermeler-Lortzing, Maria -
Ermeler, Rolf -
Elizabethan Singers -
Edward Clark Concerts -
Downes, Herbert -
Dorian Singers -
Dolmetsch Ensemble -
del Mar, Norman -
Crozier, George -
Copland, Aaron -
Cooke, Arnold -
Committee for the Promotion of New Music -
Clark, Edward -
Cheltenham Festival of British Contemporary Music -
Chagrin, Francis -
Cardiff College of Music and Drama -
Burkhard, Willi -
Buckeburg Symphony Orchestra -
Brain, Dennis -
Boyd Neel Orchestra -
Bour, Ernest -
Boult, Adrian -
Boosey & Hawkes Concerts -
Blech String Quartet -
Blackwall, Daphne -
Bean, Ernest -
BBC Symphony Orchestra -
Basler Kammerorchester -
Bartok, Bela -
Baines, Francis -
Arts Council of Great Britain -
Arnold, Malcolm -
ApIvor, Denis -
Amis, John -
Allin, Norman -
Alexandra, John -
Aberystwyth Music Club -
Associated Places
Academy Hall, 163 Oxford Street
Art Gallery, Birmingham
Art Gallery, Leicester
Broadcasting House
Cardiff College of Music and Drama
Carfax Assembly Rooms, Oxford
Cheltenham College
French Church, Leicester Square
Grossen Sendesaal, Köln
Kettering Grammar School
King's College, University of Cambridge
Kurhaus, Bad Oeynhausen
M.M. Club, 14 Argyll Street
Morley College
Musiksaal, Basel
Nottage School Hall, Porthcawl
Odeon, Leicester Square
Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool
Queen Mary Hall
Queensbury Place, South Kensington
R.B.A. Galleries, Pall Mall
Royal College of Music
Royal Festival Hall
St. James's Church, Piccadilly
Stadthalle, Darmstadt
Tabernacle Independent Chapel, Gowerton
Town Hall, Chelsea
Town Hall, Cheltenham
Town Hall, Kensington
Associated Times
20th century - mid 1931-1970
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List of orchestral players
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On Saturday communities from across Melbourne met at the state library to show a united face to the far right who marched recently in St Kilda.
Many unionists, including NUW members, were present - we are clear in saying that calling out racism and standing up to fascist ideology is union business. Throughout history workers have organised in their unions to challenge the divisive rhetoric of the right, and Nazis have always targeted unions by trying to turn working people against each other on the basis of ethnicity.
To allow for late submissions we've extended the deadline for our 'member's picture of the year' competition to Friday 11th January!
We've had some great snaps sent in so far. To be included in the chance to have your photo and the story behind it featured on our website and social media, share your picture and description in the thread below or send it via Direct message.
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"A Digital Pearl Harbor:" The Ways in Which the Vault 7 Leak Could Have Compromised US and British Assets' Identities
The Julian Assange extradition defense yesterday started presenting evidence that Assange suffers from conditions — Aspergers, depression, and suicidal tendencies — that would make US prisons particularly lethal. It's the defense that Lauri Love used to avoid extradition, and is Assange's most likely chance of success. And given our inhumane prisons, it's a perfectly fair defense against his extradition.
Before that, though, the most interesting evidence submitted by Assange's team pertained to the three charges that he identified the identities of US and Coalition (and so, British) informants in the Afghan, Iraq, and Cablegate releases. For each of those releases, Assange's team presented evidence that someone else — Cryptome, in one case, some Guardian journalists in another — released the informants' identities first. At one point, the lawyer for the US seemed to suggest that Assange had made such disclosures more readily available after the identities had already been published. But Assange can only be extradited for charges that are illegal in the UK as well, and while the UK's Official Secrets Act explicitly prohibits the publication of covert identities, it does not prohibit republication of names.
In other words, it's the one evidentiary question where I think WikiLeaks might have the better case (the government has yet to present its own counter-evidence, and Assange has to prove that the charges are baseless to prevent the extradition, so it's a high hurdle).
The question is particularly interesting for several reasons. Publishing the names of informants is the one charge specifically tied to publication, rather than conspiring to get Chelsea Manning to leak, making it dangerous for journalism in a different way than most of the other charges (save the CFAA charge).
But also because — in a Mike Pompeo screed that many WikiLeaks witnesses have cited completely out of context, in which the then-CIA Director named WikiLeaks a non-state hostile intelligence agency — he accused WikiLeaks of being like Philip Agee, a disillusioned CIA officer who went on to leak the identities of numerous CIA officers who was credibly accused of working with Cuban and Russian intelligence services.
So I thought I'd start today by telling you a story about a bright, well-educated young man. He was described as industrious, intelligent, and likeable, if inclined towards a little impulsiveness and impatience. At some point, he became disillusioned with intelligence work, and angry at his government. He left the government and decided to devote himself to what he regarded as public advocacy: exposing the intelligence officers and operations that he had sworn to keep secret. He appealed to agency employees to send him leads, tips, suggestions. He wrote in a widely-circulated bulletin quote "We are particularly anxious to receive – and anonymously, if you desire – copies of U.S. diplomatic lists and U.S. embassy staff," end of quote.
That man was Philip Agee, one of the founding members of the magazine CounterSpy, which in its first issue, in 1973, called for the exposure of the CIA undercover operatives overseas. In its September 1974 issue, CounterSpy publicly identified Richard Welch as the CIA station chief in Athens. Later, Richard's home address and phone number were outed in the press, in Greece. In December 1975, Richard and his wife were returning home from a Christmas party in Athens. When he got out of his car to open the gate in front of his house, Richard Welch was assassinated by a Greek terrorist cell.
At the time of his death, Richard was the highest-ranking CIA officer killed in the line of duty. He had led a rich and honorable life – one that is celebrated with a star on the agency's memorial wall. He's buried at Arlington National Cemetery, and has remained dearly remembered by his family and colleagues.
Meanwhile, Philip Agee propped up his dwindling celebrity with an occasional stunt, including a Playboy interview. He eventually settled down as the privileged guest of an authoritarian regime – one that would have put him in front of a firing squad without a second thought had he betrayed its secrets instead of ours.
Today, there are still plenty of Philip Agees in the world, and the harm they inflict on U.S. institutions and personnel is just as serious today as it was back then. They don't come from the intelligence community, they don't all share the same background, or use precisely the same tactics as Agee, but they are soulmates. Like him, they choose to see themselves under a romantic light as heroes above the law, saviors of our free and open society. They cling to this fiction even though their disclosures often inflict irreparable harm on both individuals and democratic governments, pleasing despots along the way.
The one thing they don't share with Agee is the need for a publisher. All they require now is a smartphone and internet access. In today's digital environment, they can disseminate stolen U.S. secrets instantly around the globe to terrorists, dictators, hackers and anyone else seeking to do us harm.
The reference to Richard Welch is inaccurate (in the same way the claim that WikiLeaks is responsible for release of these informants' identities could be too). Much of the rest of what Pompeo said was tone-deaf, at best. And that Pompeo — who months earlier had been celebrating WikiLeaks' cooperation with Russia in interfering in the 2016 election — said this is the kind of breathtaking hypocrisy he specializes in.
Still, I want to revisit Pompeo's insinuation, made weeks after the release of the Vault 7 files, that Julian Assange is like Philip Agee. The comment struck me at the time, particularly given that the only thing he mentioned to back the claim — also floated during the Chelsea Manning trial — was that WikiLeaks' releases had helped al-Qaeda.
And as for Assange, his actions have attracted a devoted following among some of our most determined enemies. Following the recent WikiLeaks disclosure, an al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula member posted a comment online thanking WikiLeaks for providing a means to fight America in a way that AQAP had not previously envisioned. AQAP represents one of the most serious threats to our country and around the world today. It's a group that is devoted not only to bringing down civil passenger planes but our way of life as well. That Assange is the darling of these terrorists is nothing short of reprehensible. Have no doubt that the disclosures in recent years caused harm, great harm, to our nation's national security, and they will continue to do so for the long term.
They also threaten the trust we've developed with our foreign partners when that trust is crucial currency among allies. They risk damaging morale for the good officers at the intelligence community and who take the high road every day. And I can't stress enough how these disclosures have severely hindered our ability to keep you all safe.
But given what we've learned about the Vault 7 release since, I'd like to consider the multiple ways via which the Vault 7 identities could have — and did, in some cases — identify sensitive identities. Pompeo's a flaming douchebag, and the CIA's complaint about being targeted like it targets others is unsympathetic, but understanding Pompeo's analogy to Agee provides some insight into why DOJ charged WikiLeaks in 2017 when it hadn't in 2013.
Vault 7, justifiably or not, may have changed how the government treated WikiLeaks' facilitation of the exposure of US intelligence assets.
Before I start, let me emphasize the Vault 7 leak is not charged in the superseding indictment against Assange, and Assange's treatment of Vault 7 may be radically different than his earlier genuine attempts to at least forestall or delegate the publication of US informant identities. Even if DOJ's understanding of WikiLeaks' facilitation of the exposure of US intelligence assets may have changed with the Vault 7 release, DOJ understanding may not be correct. Nor do I think this changes the risk to journalism of the current charges, as charged.
But it may provide insight into why the government did charge those counts, and what a superseding indictment integrating the Vault 7 leak might look like.
First, although WikiLeaks made a big show of redacting the identities of the coders who developed the CIA's hacking tools (as they did with the 2010 and 2011 releases), some were left unredacted in the content of the release. That may be unintentional. But the first FBI affidavit against accused Vault 7 leaker Joshua Schulte noted that the pseudonyms of the two other SysAdmins who had access to the files were left unredacted in the first release, something that suggests more intentional disclosure, one that would presumably require the involvement of Schulte or someone else who knew these identities.
i. Names used by the other two CIA Group Systems Administrators were, in fact, published in the publicly released Classified Information.
ii. SCHULTE's name, on the other hand, was not apparently published in the Classified Inforamtion.
iii. Thus, SCHULTE was the only one of the three Systems Administrators with access to the Classified Information on the Back-Up Server who was not publicly identified via WikiLeaks's publication of the Classified Information.
A subsequent WikiLeaks release (after the FBI had already made it clear he was a, if not the, suspect) would include Schulte's username, but I believe that is distinguishable from the release of the other men's cover names.
Schulte would later threaten to leak more details (including, presumably, either his cover or his real name) on one of those same guys, someone he was particularly angry at, from jail, including the intriguing hint that he had been exposed in the Ashley Madison hack.
At trial, Schulte's lawyer explained that the leaking he attempted or threatened from jail reflected the anger built up over almost a year of incarceration, but there's at least some reason to believe that the initial Vault 7 release intentionally exposed the identities of CIA employees whom Schulte had personal gripes with, or at the very least he hoped would be blamed other than him.
Then there's the damage done to ongoing operations. At trial, one after another CIA witness described the damage the Vault 7 leak had done. While the testimony was typically vague, it was also more stark in terms of scale than what you generally find in CIA trials.
After describing the leak the "equivalent of a digital Pearl Harbor," for example, Sean Roche, who was the Deputy Director for Digital Innovation at the time of the leak, testified how on the day of the first release, the CIA had to shut down "the vast, vast majority" of operations that used the CIA tools (at a time, of course, when the CIA was actively trying to understand how Russia had attacked the US the prior year), and then CIA had to reach out to those affected.
It was the equivalent of a digital Pearl Harbor.
A. Our capabilities were revealed, and hence, we were not able to operate and our — the capabilities we had been developing for years that were now described in public were decimated. Our operations were immediately at risk, and we began terminating operations; that is, operations that were enabled with tools that were now described and out there and capabilities that were described, information about operations where we're providing streams of information. It immediately undermined the relationships we had with other parts of the government as well as with vital foreign partners, who had often put themselves at risk to assist the agency. And it put our officers and our facilities, both domestically and overseas, at risk.
Q. Just staying at a very general level, what steps did you take in the immediate aftermath of those disclosures to address those concerns?
A. A task force was formed. Because operations were involved we had to get a team together that did nothing but focus on three things, in this priority order. In an emergency, and that's what we had, it was operate, navigate, communicate, in that order. So the first job was to assess the risk posture for all of these operations across the world and figure out how to mitigate that risk, and most often, the vast, vast majority we had to back out of those operations, shut them down and create a situation where the agency's activities would not be revealed, because we are a clandestine agency.
The next part of that was to navigate across all the people affected. It was not just the CIA. There were equities for other government agencies. There were, of course, equities at places and bases across the world, where we had relationships with foreign partners. People heeded immediately, were calling and asking what do I do, what do I say?
And the third part of that was to communicate, which was — in the course of looking at this as a what systemic issues led to the ability to have our information out there — was to document that and write a report that would serve as a lessons learned with the idea of preventing it from ever happening again. [my emphasis]
Notably, given that Assange could be vulnerable to Official Secrets Act charges in the UK if this leak affected any British intelligence officers or assets, Roche mentioned "foreign partners" twice in just this short passage. You don't get very far down the list of CIA's foreign partners before you've damaged MI6 assets.
Of course, shutting down ongoing operations would not have been enough to protect CIA's assets. It took just 40 days for Symantec and Kaspersky to publicly identify the tools described in the Vault 7 releases as those found targeting their clients. If the CIA (or its foreign partners) had used human assets to introduce malware into target computers, as a number of these tools required, then those assets might be easily identifiable to the organizations affected.
Part of that same leak Schulte attempted from jail explains how this might work. He described how a tool from a particular vendor (which he would have named) was actually "Bartender," by name presumably a watering hole attack, which had been released in Vault 7.
Had he succeeded in tweeting this out, Schulte would have identified either a cover organization or one in which CIA had recruited assets which was loading malware onto target computers while also loading some kind of vendor software.
I'm not defending CIA's use of such assets to provide a side-helping of malware when targeted organizations install real software, though all major state-actors do this. But what Schulte (without any known active involvement of WikiLeaks, though he did continue to communicate with WikiLeaks, at least indirectly, while in jail) was allegedly attempting to do was burn either a cover organization or CIA assets, who would have been immediate targets if not exfiltrated. And it provides a good example of what could have happened over and over again on March 7, 2017, when these files were first released.
But there's one other, possibly even more significant risk.
WikiLeaks has, in the past, preferentially withheld or shared files with Russia and other countries. Most obviously, at least one file hacked as part of the Syria Files which was damning to Russia never got published, and Emma Best claimed recently there were far more. The risk that something like that would have happened in this case is quite real. That's because the files were leaked at a time when WikiLeaks was actively involved in another Russian operation. There was a ten month delay between the time the files were allegedly shared (in early May 2016) and the time WikiLeaks published them on March 7, 2017. The government has never made any public claim about how they got shared with WikiLeaks. Details of contacts between Guccifer 2.0 and WikiLeaks demonstrate that it would have been impossible to send the volume of data involved in this hack directly to WikiLeaks' public facing submission system in the time which Schulte did so, and several people familiar with the submission system at the time of that hack have suggested it served more as cover than a functional system. That suggests that Schulte either would have had to have prior contact with WikiLeaks to arrange an alternate upload process, or shared them with WikiLeaks via some third party (notably, Schulte bragged in jail that compressing data to do this efficiently was one of his specialties at CIA).
At trial, even though the government in no way focused on this evidence themselves, there was (inconsistent) evidence that Schulte planned to involve Russia in his efforts to take revenge on the CIA. I've heard a related allegation independently.
Remember, too, that WikiLeaks has never published the vast majority of the code for these tools, even though Schulte did leak it, which would make it still easier to identify anyone who had used these tools.
So imagine what might have happened had Russia gotten advance notice (either via WikiLeaks, a WikiLeaks associate, or Schulte himself) of these tools? Russia would have had months — starting well before US intelligence had begun to understand the full extent of the election year operation — to identify any of the CIA tools used against it. To be clear, what follows is speculative (though I'm providing it, in part, because I'm trying to summarize the Vault 7 information so people who are experts on other parts of the Russian treason case can test the theory). But if it had, the aftermath might have looked something like Russia's prosecution of several FSB officers for treason starting in December 2016. And the response — if CIA recognized that its assets had already been compromised by the Vault 7 release — might look something like the Yahoo indictment charging one of the same FSB officers rolled out, with great fanfare, on March 15, just over a week after the Vault 7 release (DOJ obtained the indictment on February 28, after the CIA knew that WikiLeaks had the release coming and months after the treason arrest, but a week before the actual release). That is, Russia might move to prosecute months before the CIA got specific notice, using the years-old complaints of Pavel Vrublevsky to hide the real reason for the prosecution, and the US might move to disclaim any tie to the FSB officers by criminally prosecuting them and identifying many of the foreign targets they had used Yahoo infrastructure to spy on. Speaking just hypothetically, then, that's the kind of damage we'd expect if any country — and Russia has been raised here explicitly — got advance access to the CIA tools before the CIA did its damage mitigation starting on March 7, 2017.
This scenario (again, it is speculative at this point) is Spy versus Spy stuff, the kind of thing that state intelligence agencies pull off against each other all the time. But it's not journalism.
And even the stuff that would have happened after the public release of the CIA files would not just have exposed CIA collection points, but also, probably, some of the human beings who activated those collection points.
WikiLeaks would have you believe that nothing that happened after 2013 could change DOJ's understanding of those earlier exposures of US (and British) assets.
But the very same Mike Pompeo speech that they've all been citing explained precisely what changed.
Originally Posted @ https://www.emptywheel.net/tag/sean-roche/


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package com.rhcloud.analytics4github.service;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
import com.rhcloud.analytics4github.TestApplicationContext;
import com.rhcloud.analytics4github.domain.Author;
import com.rhcloud.analytics4github.dto.RequestFromFrontendDto;
import com.rhcloud.analytics4github.dto.ResponceForFrontendDto;
import com.rhcloud.analytics4github.exception.GitHubRESTApiException;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest;
import org.springframework.test.context.ActiveProfiles;
import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringRunner;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URISyntaxException;
import java.time.Instant;
import java.time.LocalDate;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;

import static org.junit.Assert.*;

/**
 * @author lyashenkogs.
 */
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@ActiveProfiles("test")
@SpringBootTest(classes = TestApplicationContext.class, webEnvironment = SpringBootTest.WebEnvironment.RANDOM_PORT)
public class UniqueContributorsServiceTest {
    private static final String PROJECT = "LyashenkoGS/analytics4github";
    private static final Author AUTHOR_1 = new Author("iivanyshyn", "");
    private static final Author AUTHOR_2 = new Author("lyashenkogs", "");
    private static final String UNIQUE_SINCE = "2016-12-01T00:00:00Z";
    private static final String UNIQUE_UNTIL = "2016-12-31T00:00:00Z";

    @Autowired
    private UniqueContributorsService uniqueContributorsService;

    @Test
    public void isUniqueContributor() throws Exception {
        assertTrue(uniqueContributorsService.isUniqueContributor(PROJECT, AUTHOR_1, Instant.parse(UNIQUE_SINCE)));
        assertFalse(uniqueContributorsService.isUniqueContributor(PROJECT, AUTHOR_2, Instant.parse(UNIQUE_SINCE)));
    }

    @Test
    public void getUniqueContributors() throws InterruptedException, ExecutionException, URISyntaxException, GitHubRESTApiException {
        Set<Author> uniqueContributors = uniqueContributorsService.getUniqueContributors(PROJECT, Instant.parse(UNIQUE_SINCE),
                Instant.parse(UNIQUE_UNTIL));
        assertEquals("[Author{name='Grog', email='grigoryi.lyashenko@heg.com'}, Author{name='vshpelyk'," +
                " email='vshpelyk@gmail.com'}, Author{name='iivanyshyn', email='iivanyshyn@gmail.com'}, " +
                "Author{name='naz1719', email='khimin1719@gmail.com'}]", uniqueContributors.toString());
    }

    @Test
    public void getAuthorNameAndEmail() throws InterruptedException, ExecutionException, URISyntaxException, GitHubRESTApiException {
        List<JsonNode> commitsPerMonth = uniqueContributorsService.getCommits(PROJECT, Instant.parse(UNIQUE_SINCE), Instant.parse(UNIQUE_UNTIL));
        Set<Author> authorNameAndEmail = uniqueContributorsService.getAuthorNameAndEmail(commitsPerMonth);
        assertEquals("[Author{name='Grog', email='grigoryi.lyashenko@heg.com'}, Author{name='vshpelyk'," +
                        " email='vshpelyk@gmail.com'}, Author{name='iivanyshyn', email='iivanyshyn@gmail.com'}, Author{name='naz1719', " +
                        "email='khimin1719@gmail.com'}, Author{name='lyashenkogs', email='lyashenkogs@gmail.com'}]",
                authorNameAndEmail.toString());
    }

    @Test
    public void getFirstContributionDate() throws Exception {
        LocalDate firstContributionDate = uniqueContributorsService.getFirstContributionDate(AUTHOR_1, PROJECT);
        assertEquals("2016-12-22", firstContributionDate.toString());
        LocalDate firstContributionDate1 = uniqueContributorsService.getFirstContributionDate(AUTHOR_2, PROJECT);
        assertEquals("2017-03-20", firstContributionDate1.toString());
    }

    @Test
    public void getFirstAuthorCommitFrequencyList() throws InterruptedException, ExecutionException, URISyntaxException, GitHubRESTApiException {
        List<LocalDate> firstAuthorCommitFrequencyList = uniqueContributorsService
                .getFirstAuthorCommitFrequencyList(PROJECT, Instant.parse(UNIQUE_SINCE), Instant.parse(UNIQUE_UNTIL));
        assertEquals("[2016-12-08, 2016-12-22, 2016-12-22, 2016-12-30]", firstAuthorCommitFrequencyList.toString());
    }

    @Test
    public void uniqueContributorsFrequencyByMonth() throws InterruptedException, ExecutionException, URISyntaxException, IOException, ClassNotFoundException, GitHubRESTApiException {
        RequestFromFrontendDto requestFromFrontendDto = new RequestFromFrontendDto();
        requestFromFrontendDto.setAuthor(PROJECT.split("/")[0]);
        requestFromFrontendDto.setRepository(PROJECT.split("/")[1]);
        requestFromFrontendDto.setStartPeriod(LocalDate.parse("2016-08-01"));
        requestFromFrontendDto.setEndPeriod(LocalDate.parse("2016-08-31"));
        ResponceForFrontendDto uniqueContributorsFrequency = uniqueContributorsService.getUniqueContributorsFrequency(requestFromFrontendDto);
        assertEquals("ResponceForFrontendDto{name='Stars', " +
                        "requestsLeft=0, data=[0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0]}",
                uniqueContributorsFrequency.toString());
    }

    @Test
    public void uniqueContributorsFrequencyByWeek() throws InterruptedException, ExecutionException, URISyntaxException, IOException, ClassNotFoundException, GitHubRESTApiException {
        RequestFromFrontendDto requestFromFrontendDto = new RequestFromFrontendDto();
        requestFromFrontendDto.setAuthor(PROJECT.split("/")[0]);
        requestFromFrontendDto.setRepository(PROJECT.split("/")[1]);
        requestFromFrontendDto.setStartPeriod(LocalDate.parse("2016-08-01"));
        requestFromFrontendDto.setEndPeriod(LocalDate.parse("2016-08-07"));
        ResponceForFrontendDto uniqueContributorsFrequency = uniqueContributorsService.getUniqueContributorsFrequency(requestFromFrontendDto);
        assertEquals("ResponceForFrontendDto{name='Stars', requestsLeft=0, data=[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]}",
                uniqueContributorsFrequency.toString());
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


The EU has expressed its support of France's sanctions on Iran. It resulted in increases in oil prices, with the January WTI crude up by 0.9 percent.
Markets around the globe are suffering through regular dips, and 2018 is possibly the worst year for most nations. Although it has been a rough year so far, countries still have the chance to end it on a good note to create some sort of momentum for them in the coming year. For the European Union, that slow climb might have just started.
According to MarketWatch, EU oil prices ended higher last Monday after news about the EU's support of the French government's plans to sanction Iran broke. The French government's actions were kick-started by a bomb plot in France that was later on linked to Iran nationals.
"Oil traders are now pricing in the possibility that the EU will join the U.S. in taking a tough stance on Iran, and maybe this time there will be no waivers or a way for Iran to sneak out [oil] supply," says Phil Flynn, a senior market analyst at Price Futures Group.
The December West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude settled at $56.76 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) after it dipped to as low as $55.08. Now that the December contract for the WTI has expired, the January WTI crude is now the standard contract, which settled at $57.20 after going up by 0.9 percent or 52 cents.
These new numbers were recorded after a rough October and early November for various oil markets worldwide. WTI prices dipped to as low as 6.2 percent last week which was the lowest closing price for a front-month contract in a year. Its losing streak was only broken after a late-week recovery which allowed WTI to settle at $55.69 on the Nymex.
The global standard, January Brent, gained 3 cents or 0.05 percent, settling at $66.79 per barrel during the same period. It was able to settle at $65.47 per barrel on ICE Future Europe last week.
According to USNews, the EU's foreign ministers were not fully vocal about their support for Iran's economic sanctions, but they were deeply in favor of it. This was after delegates from Denmark and France briefed them about alleged destabilizing schemes during a meeting in Brussels.
The EU's decision to support sanctions on Iran is a surprise move by the nation. For a long time, the EU has been withholding sanctions to punish Iranians that are allegedly tied to destabilizing plots in Europe and the Middle East. The EU had also been intent on upholding the nuclear agreement between Iran and other major nations. Instead of dropping sanctions, the EU held talks with Tehran instead.
The EU's decision to support France will certainly make an impact on Iran and other affected countries. This, added to the other countries' sanctions against Iran, would keep the latter's oil off the market significantly.


Chris Cooper and Rob Saunders, vine specialists in the Hutchinsons Horticultural Team, share their thoughts on vineyard priorities for February. The main task undertaken in the vineyard in winter months is pruning and how to reduce Grape Vine Trunk Disease (GTDs) infection.
Any open wound may be a portal for infection, but larger wounds of more than 15mm on the main stem are at greatest risk. Rain promotes spore release and dispersal, so ideally avoid pruning when heavy rain is forecast within the next 24hrs and use a wound protection product on the larger wounds.
Globally a lot of work is and has been carried out to identify infective agents and manage or prevent the infections from occurring. The consensus is that, of the products approved for use in the UK, those based on tebuconazole, such as Nativo or Unicorn, applied soon after pruning will give the best control. With tebuconazole undergoing an EU re-registration and its continued availability uncertain, Hutchinson's have been investigating alternatives.
BlocCade: is available to seal and protect the wound, either brushed on or sprayed on very soon after making the cut. This acts as a physical barrier. Apply before the sap is flowing; otherwise the product is pushed off.
Solufeed Garlic Wound Protection Paint: An Australian concept, it can be painted on and used in organic or conventional grown vineyards. Garlic, rich in thiols (sulphur compounds), is known to inhibit fungal infection, allowing wounds to callous over naturally. It is now in its fourth season of use and has worked well. Once again apply before the sap flow starts.
Chris says that Hutchinsons are working with the plant protection company Belchim trying to bring a range of products to the UK market for use on Wine Grapes. One these is a strain of Trichoderma atroviride, an organically based biological control agent, sold in continental Europe as Vinetec and hopefully available in the UK via Mutual Recognition by the 2019/20 pruning season.


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Cast: Jeff Beck, Roy Bittan, Jackson Brown, Lenny Bruce, Howlin' Wolf, Eric Clapton
Producer: Joel Gallen, Gary Goetzman
Nine	2009
Famous film director Guido Contini struggles to find harmony in his professional and personal lives, as he engages in dramatic relationships with his wife ... more »
Director: Rob Marshall
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sandro Dori, Nicole Kidman, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz, Judi Dench
Producer: Kelly Carmichael, John DeLuca
Writer: Michael Tolkin, Anthony Minghella
2007 American Music Awards	TV Show
The 35th Annual American Music Awards took place on November 18, 2007 at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was hosted ... more »
Director: Louis J. Horvitz
Cast: Akon, Christina Applegate, Ashanti, Natasha Bedingfield, Mary J. Blige, James Blunt
Producer: Don Harary, Melissa Watkins Trueblood
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Director: Kenneth Shapiro
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Cast: Garret Allen, Marc Anthony, Tony Bennett, Beyoncé, Mary J. Blige, Chris Brown
Producer: June Beallor, Richard Beckman
Writer: David Wild
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The 54th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 12, 2012, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles being broadcast on CBS. LL Cool J hosted the show. It ... more »
Cast: LL Cool J, Adele, Afrojack, Jason Aldean, Marc Anthony, The Band Perry
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The 2009 Teen Choice Awards ceremony was held on August 9, 2009, at the Gibson Amphitheatre, Universal City, California. The event was hosted by the Jonas ... more »
Director: Bruce Gowers
Cast: Shailene Woodley, Alexis Bledel, Hugh Jackman, Emma Roberts, Shia LaBeouf, Kristen Stewart
Producer: Bob Bain, Mark A. Baker
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Hippo Girlfriend
The sequel to 2005's "Madagascar", in which New York Zoo animals, Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe and Gloria the Hippo ... more »
Director: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath
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text:
<?php
namespace oxide\validation;

/**
 *
 */
class UriExistsValidator extends ValidatorAbstract
{
   protected
      $_defaultserver = null,
      $_errorMessage = "URI does not exist.";

   /**
    *
    * @param type $defaulthost if path is relative, the default host will be used
    * @throws \oxide\util\Exception
    */
   public function __construct($defaulthost = null)
   {
      parent::__construct();

      if(!function_exists('curl_init')) {
         throw new \oxide\util\Exception("UriExistsValidator requires curl extension");
      }

      $this->_defaultserver = $defaulthost;
   }

   /**
    *
    * @param string $url
    * @param ValidatorResult $result
    * @todo php header solution needs revision
    * @author found online
    */
   function validate($url, Result &$result = null)
   {
      $uri_parts = parse_url($url);
      if(empty($uri_parts['host'])) {
         $url = "{$this->_defaultserver}{$url}";
      }

      // curl solution
      // Initialize the handle
      $ch = curl_init();
      // Set the URL to be executed
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
      // Set the curl option to include the header in the output
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
      // Set the curl option NOT to output the body content
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Viene convocato per gli Europei 2016 in Francia.

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Presenze e reti nei club
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Q: How to display a GIF in a Service? I'm building an app similar to Facebook Messenger on Android and I would like to display a GIF as the chat head/bubble. I know the chat head operates as a service and found a way to display GIFs on activities (http://android-er.blogspot.ca/2014/03/play-animated-gif-with.html), but can't get it to work for a service.
Separate, but likely related issue: I'd also like to display GIFs in the popup window (after the chat head is opened).

A: Android actually can decode and display animated GIFs, using android.graphics.Movie class.
This is not too much documented, but is in SDK Reference. Moreover, it is used in Samples in ApiDemos in BitmapDecode example with some animated flag.
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Mini Taco Cups made with black beans and phyllo dough.
Appetizers are never out of season. I serve appetizers at just about every get-together we have and there are times when all I want for dinner are appetizers.
These black bean taco cups are perfect for a party or for just when you are craving appetizers.
I used phyllo dough to make these cups. They are super easy, stay extra crispy, and have a great crunch with every bite! Need I say more?
I started with phyllo dough and brushed seasoned melted butter between each layer. After four layers, I sliced the dough into 3 inch squares.
The squares were placed in mini muffin tins and baked.
You can make the cups ahead of time and then fill just before serving. I was a bit worried about the phyllo cups becoming soggy after adding the filling, but they stayed crunchy for a couple of hours!
For the filling of these crunchy taco cups, I used homemade guacamole, black beans, tomatoes, cheese and olives. You can easily add your favorite ingredients – like salsa or sour cream.
Remove 4 sheets of phyllo dough from package. Cover with a clean towel.
Mix melted butter and 1/2 teaspoon taco seasoning together.
Place one sheet of phyllo dough on a cutting board. Brush very lightly with butter.
Place another sheet of dough directly on top of the first sheet. Brush very lightly with butter.
Repeat with a third sheet.
Place fourth sheet on top, but do not butter.
Using a pizza cutter or a sharp knife, cut dough into 3 inch squares.
Grab each stack and place into a mini muffin tin pressing dough down into corners.
Bake in a preheated oven at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes until golden. When slightly cooled, carefully remove from muffin tins.
Pour beans into a colander and rinse to remove all sauce. Shake to remove any excess water. Pour beans into a bowl and mix in 1/2 teaspoon taco seasoning.
Add 1-2 teaspoons of beans to the bottom of each cup.
Add a small amount of cheese, tomatoes, guacamole so cups are full. Top with olives and fresh chopped cilantro.
Other ingredients to add: chopped onions, salsa, sour cream, slice jalapenos.
Phyllo cups can be made ahead of time and stored in an air tight container for up to one day.
These are so adorable! A second ago I didn't even know about mini taco cups with phyllo dough and now I am totally craving them. 🙂 Beautiful pictures, they certainly made me hungry!
Just a little warning…they are addicting!
I love all Mexican foods and these cute little appetizer cups look so good! Yummy!
Thanks, Elaine! They are really yummy!
These adorable taco cups look taco-licious, Kathy. Love the fact you used phyllo dough. Loving these beauties.
They are cute! The only problem is they disappear so quickly! Everyone love 'em!
This is a great idea. We like to have "Happy Hour" occasionally at our house. We serve "Mocktails", and have finger foods. I'm adding this to my menu plan.
Having a Happy Hour sounds like fun!
Say no more and count me in for some of these bite sized tacos!
Tacos are one of my favorite foods, but make them in bite sized and I love 'em even more!
You are totally right that appetizers never go out of style! No matter what time of the year, there's always an occasion for delicious appetizers. For me, this is college basketball food now that March is almost here. Love the bite-sized taco approach here. Yum!!
You'll be all set for March Madness with these appetizers!
Those cups are so dang cute! Im loving the bite sized goodness!
There is something about food in mini form! They just taste better!
You had me at taco cups! lol! I LOVE tacos or taco anything and I could eat these cups for dinner…or lunch…or breakfast. Perfect for meatless Monday today too!
Hey Kathy, these look great! I love the seasoned butter spread between the phyllo layers, what a great idea. I know these must be extra flavorful!!!
The seasoned butter does add a ton of flavor!
Tacos in bite sized form?! SIGN ME UP! These look awesome, Kathy! LOVE that you used phyllo dough for the cups! So crispy! I could totally eat an entire serving tray of these right now! Cheers!
Count me in for anything in a phyllo cup Cathy! These look delicious!
The phyllo has such a great, light, crunchy texture!
We often have appetizers dinners at our house. We love finger foods, like this one. Crunchy, tasty, beautiful!
I agree – appetizers are never out of season and like you guys hubby and I often have apps for dinner rather than a big meal. I love little bites of this and that. Get to try more than one thing that way and not feel too full. These cups are so cute! Love that you used phyllo dough. Quick to put together. What a great idea!
Thanks, Dawn! I think I need to put these on my dinner menu again soon!
I love appetizers for dinner, Kathy and these would be perfect way to end the day. Serve them with some guacamole and chips and I'd be a happy camper.
It's exactly what I love too!
Now those taco cups look good. Good enough to eat because now I'm hungry! Great tip about the phyllo dough. I never would have thought about that.
You don't have to wait for a party to eat these….just make a batch all for yourself and enjoy!
It is hard to stop eating these once you get started!
Kathy, These look so fun!!! I love little appetizer ideas to make for parties. These are perfect! ? ? ?
Thanks, Katie! I always like to have a variety of appetizers and finger foods for parties too!


Around the world, Passive Optical Local Area Networks (POL) are a vital component for smart buildings and smart campuses to enable the various communication and analyzation systems that supply data and optimize building performance. With POL in place, management and operations — as well as end-users — can take advantage of these valued services while being sustainable, secure, safe, reliable, and resilient. The smart buildings technology market is expected to grow 16.1 percent over the next five years from a 2018 market size of $30.5 billion, according to the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA).
With this in mind, the Association for Passive Optical LAN (APOLAN) has announced the top five trends driving the replacement of copper-based networks with POL to meet 21st century smart building demands.
IoT on the Rise: Smart buildings are defined by sensors, devices, and systems in the building connected to the LAN to operate more efficiently. However, classic LAN technology from the 20th century was never designed to support a network robust enough to stay ahead of the increasing device growth.
More information about POL and smart buildings can found in the recent "Smart Buildings, Smart Networks" webinar.


What is Gastroesophageal Reflux Surgery?
Gastroesophageal reflux surgery is the correction of gastroesophageal reflux disease, or GERD. Surgery can involve reinforcing the valve between the stomach and esophagus.
Gastroesophageal reflux surgery is performed in cases of gastroesophageal reflux disease, which involves partially digested liquids or foods traveling up into the esophagus from the stomach, resulting in heartburn and other symptoms.
Non-surgical alternatives to gastroesophageal reflux surgery include medications and lifestyle changes.
Gastroesophageal reflux surgery is performed under general anesthesia, which means that the patient is asleep and completely unaware during the procedure.
Possible risks following gastroesophageal reflux surgery include bleeding, infection, organ injury and a negative reaction to the anesthesia. It is also possible to experience temporary difficulty swallowing.
The prognosis for a positive end result following gastroesophageal reflux surgery is good.


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The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS) is the official reference work for the basic facts about ships used by the United States Navy.

When the writing project was developed the parameters for this series were designed to cover only commissioned US Navy ships with assigned names. If the ship was not assigned a name it was not included in the histories written for the series.
In addition to the ship entries, DANFS and the online links have been expanded to include appendices on small craft, histories of Confederate Navy ships, and various essays related to naval ships.

Forewords and introductions
Foreword and introduction passages for many editions were written by big names from naval command history from Arleigh Albert Burke to Elmo Russell Zumwalt, Jr. and others.

Authors

Publication data

DANFS was published in print by the Naval Historical Center (NHC) as bound hardcover volumes, ordered by ship name, from Volume I (A–B) in 1959 to Volume VIII (W–Z) in 1981. Several volumes subsequently went out of print. In 1991 a revised Volume I Part A, covering only ship names beginning with A, was released. Work continues on revisions of the remaining volumes.

Volunteers at the Hazegray website undertook to transcribe the DANFS and make it available on the World Wide Web. The project goal is a direct transcription of the DANFS, with
changes limited to correcting typographical errors and editorial notes for incorrect facts in the original.
In 2008 the NHC was re-designated as the Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC). It has developed an online version of DANFS (see External links section below) through a combination of optical character recognition (OCR) and hand transcription. The NHHC is slowly updating its online DANFS to correct errors and take into account the gap in time between the print publication and the present date. NHHC prioritizes updates as follows: ships currently commissioned, ships commissioned after the original volume publication, ships decommissioned after original volume publication, and finally updates to older ships. The NHHC has begun a related project to place Ship History and Command Operations Reports online at their DANFS site.

Reference use

As the DANFS is a work of the U.S. government, its content is in the public domain, and the text is often quoted verbatim in other works. Many websites organized by former and active crew members of U.S. Navy vessels include a copy of their ships' DANFS entries.

The Dictionary limits itself largely to basic descriptions and brief operational notes, and includes almost no analysis or historical context.

See also
List of sloops of war of the United States Navy
List of sailing frigates of the United States Navy
Bibliography of early American naval history

References

External links
Naval History and Heritage Command - Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships

1959 non-fiction books
Encyclopedias of the military
 Dictionary
United States Navy publications
Naval History and Heritage Command


Your Bibliography: Sydykov, Y.B. & Kurmanbaev, A.N.N.a.E.A. (2016). Kazakh Philosophy: from Abai to Shakarim. International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 11(10), 3661-3669.
Your Bibliography: Sydykov, Y. and Kurmanbaev, A. (2016). Kazakh Philosophy: from Abai to Shakarim. International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 11(10), pp. 3661-3669.
Your Bibliography: Sydykov, Yerlan B. and Abdumalik N. Nysanbayev and Erbol A. Kurmanbaev (2016). "Kazakh Philosophy: from Abai to Shakarim". International Journal of Environmental and Science Education 11 (10):3661-3669.
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Tapper, R. (2013). Tsars, Cossacks, and Nomads: The Formation of a Borderland Culture in Northern Kazakhstan in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. International Journal of Turkish Studies, 19(2), 263.
Ulbrich, B. (2014). Book review: The National Element in Hermann Cohen's Philosophy and Religion, written by Hartwig Wiedebach. European Journal of Jewish Studies, 8(1), 137-139.


The musical force that is John Cale releases his second EMI Records album 'blackAcetate:' on October 3rd, 2005. The follow-up to 2003's critically acclaimed 'Hobosapiens' album, 'blackAcetate:' is a much harder contemporary rock album than its predecessor and it sounds like a sonic masterpiece.
Working closely alongside Cale on 'blackAcetate:' are Herb Graham Jr (Macy Gray) and Mickey Petralia (Beck, Rage Against The Machine, Dandy Warhols, Eels). The powerhouse trio have come up with an album of incredible music and production values that surpass most recordings. It's a reflection of the standards Cale has always set: from his early work with the Velvet Underground; his 22 solo studio albums; production for Patti Smith, Nico, Squeeze, the Stooges and the Happy Mondays right up to his most recent offering, the starkly brilliant original score to the film 'Process' which has been earning rave reviews and is out now.
And so to 'blackAcetate': 13 new songs; a multitude of instruments; inspiration from Dre and Pharell, Erykah Badu, Gorillaz and Doves then back to Curtis Mayfield and beyond…; avant-garde rock; an amazing falsetto from the Welshman with the deepest of voices; inspiration, innovation, songs of fervour, distortion and atmosphere – a cutting edge album in every sense of the word and a very rewarding listening experience.
The first release from 'blackAcetate:' is 'TurnTheLightsOn' which is available as a digital download on July 25th, whilst a second single 'Perfect' gets a full commercial release in October. A video of 'Perfect' will be available from September. John Cale will be touring the UK and Europe around this time, dates to be confirmed shortly.


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T-Mobile and Crown Castle Expand Strategic Relationship With Long-Term Tower and Small Cell Agreement
Via Crown Castle
BELLEVUE, Wash. and HOUSTON, Jan. 06, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- T-Mobile US, Inc. (NASDAQ: TMUS) and Crown Castle International Corp. (NYSE: CCI) announced today that the companies have signed a new 12-year agreement to support the continued build-out of T-Mobile's nationwide 5G network with increased access to Crown Castle's towers and small cell locations. The agreement enables the Un-carrier to further expand and deepen the reach of its industry-leading 5G network to serve consumers across the U.S. while also realizing financial synergies following its merger. The agreement also helps Crown Castle generate long-term tower and small cell revenue growth.
"T-Mobile's expanded alliance with long-term partner Crown Castle will fuel acceleration of our nationwide network build and provide synergies that we can further invest into that build – all in support of our Un-carrier mission to truly deliver 5G FOR ALL," said Neville Ray, president of Technology at T-Mobile. "This agreement is another integral piece of T-Mobile's ongoing efforts to rapidly expand what is already America's largest 5G network. We won't stop focusing on reaching even more customers and delivering fast 5G speeds to more people – every day and into the future."
"We're excited to build on our long-standing strategic relationship with T-Mobile as we work closely with them to continue to deploy their next-generation 5G network," stated Jay Brown, Crown Castle's chief executive officer. "T-Mobile and Crown Castle are ideal partners for this next phase as wireless network architecture continues to densify. We believe T-Mobile's significant long-term commitment to utilize our comprehensive infrastructure consisting of towers, small cells and fiber will enable our collective teams to quickly meet future network demands."
T-Mobile is the leader in 5G with the country's largest, fastest, and most reliable 5G network, including nationwide Ultra Capacity 5G that delivers blazing-fast speeds to more people than any other provider. For more information on T-Mobile's network, visit T-Mobile.com/coverage.
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John Maxwell believes that the difference is what's on the inside of the man that makes him a great leader. A leader should always be courageous. One of the best ways to handle such a critical responsibility is through creativity and appropriate judgement. Reengineering Management: The Mandate for New Leadership. It is great if you can not only prove that you work hard, but also that you are fair and do not expect anything of your team that you are not willing to do yourself! Depending on the values that you were raised up on, the standards of good vary. For most activities done in an organization, a good manger has to elaborate the performance expectations to all employees in order to stimulate their contribution level. At Kwantlen, Barbara who was my accounting teacher uses these qualities to influence her students to achieve success.
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Cowards, who at the time of facing problems or troubles in their life try to blame and embarrass others can never succeed in their life. Apart from political leaders there are community leaders who primarily work for the development of the community. While some people are blessed with great leadership as well as management qualities, there are others who work hard on becoming the perfect boss. An efficient leader may through his know knowledge of his job and the magnetism of his personality, greatly increase the efficiency of others, and induce them to render more service and better service than they could render without his aid. Previously to Cassius even entering Brutus had said to himself that Caesar must die.
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Color is everywhere. In fact, it's so much a part of our lives that we sometimes don't even see it. Yet what a glorious kaleidoscope it is!
Do you ever wonder how to choose exactly the right palette for a project? It could be for a painting or picking the right Color Scheme for your living room.
These decisions can be super stressful! So much pressure to pick the right one. It seems overwhelming doesn't it?
Shirley Williams founder of ColorWheelArtist is an award-winning contemporary painter, workshop leader and speaker.
She is passionately inspired by the energy-buzz of color and loves to share her 25 years of knowledge and experience with others.
Her colorful abstract paintings are exhibited, published and collected worldwide. See her website for more.


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Medicine Matters Home › Research › Johns Hopkins Transplant Research Center
Johns Hopkins Transplant Research Center
We are excited to announce the formation of the Johns Hopkins Transplant Research Center (TRC), which will continue the multicenter epidemiologic and clinical trials research of our Johns Hopkins transplant team under the leadership of Drs. Christine Durand and Darin Ostrander from the DOM and Drs. Elizabeth King, Dan Warren from the Department of Surgery. The TRC brings together multidisciplinary experts from the Departments of Surgery and Medicine to provide a comprehensive research environment that encompasses all solid organ transplant research. The TRC will continue to serve as a cross-departmental resource for students, residents, fellows, and faculty as we continue to train the next generation of transplant experts.
We are excited to formalize this research center under new leadership and support the efforts of Betsy, Dan, Christine, and Darin to lead our program to even greater heights in transplantation research.
Meet the Johns Hopkins TRC Leadership Team:
Christine Durand, M.D.
Elizabeth (Betsy) King, M.D., Ph.D.
Division of Transplantation
Darin Ostrander, Ph.D.
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Peter LLoyd's Decision To Sue Kentish Town Gym For Female-Only Fitness Sessions Divides Twitter (POLL)
The Huffington Post UK
23/04/2013 07:01am BST | Updated May 1, 2013
Man sues gym for offering women-only hours
A recent editorial written by London gym goer Peter Lloyd, and published in the Daily Mail newspaper, has caused waves of confusion across Twitter.
Lloyd argues that women-only hours at his local gym in Kentish Town discriminate against men both economically and culturally.
Logically, the north Londoner argues that he's paying for 442 hours a year that he's not allowed to use.
However, as US-blog Jezebel points out: "Peter Lloyd doesn't even care about the pocket change he's going to make off this gym. It's the principle of the thing."
In the Daily Mail, Lloyd writes: "I'm suing the gym for gender bias. Not simply because their policy is unfair, but because it pathologizes masculinity while simultaneously repressing it."
"If these women have issues with their bodies, I truly sympathise - but it's their problem, not mine. Nor is it any other man's."
The Kentish Town Sports Centre website states that 'Women Only' sessions run in the Fitness Centre on Thursdays from 6pm to 7:30 pm.
According to HuffPost UK readers, the women-only sessions used to be run from 6pm-10pm, but have been reduced in length this year.
Interestingly, opinions on social media appear to be very divided Lloyd's actions, depending on whether the matter is perceived as an issue of negative gender bias, or unfair business practice.
Find out how people are reacting to Lloyd's stand..
Twitter Reacts To Female-Only Gym Sessions
According to the Daily Mail, in his initial complaint to the general manager, LLoyd asked the gym to offer one of these three alternatives
A) maintain a women's hour but introduce a men's alternative for fairness
B) keep women's hour (and only women's hour) but annually charge men less
C) scrap single-gender sessions altogether
A blog in AdWeek points out that while his column is generating praise from some equal rights campaigners, the tenor of his writing is far from diplomatic.
"The aggressiveness of his tone could also be seen as an argument in favor of keeping guys out of the gym on occasion.
Adding finally: "Will he be part of the solution or part of the problem?"
Visit the Daily Mail to read Lloyd's full response and to find out who else is lending him support.
Update: This story was updated on 25/4/2013 to correct information about the introduction of women-only sessions.
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