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HomeLaw and OrderFederal and InternationalWyeth and Pfizer Agree to Pay $784.6 Million to Resolve Lawsuit Alleging That Wyeth Underpaid Drug Rebates to Medicaid
Wyeth and Pfizer Agree to Pay $784.6 Million to Resolve Lawsuit Alleging That Wyeth Underpaid Drug Rebates to Medicaid
April 28, 2016 Press Federal and International
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 27, 2016. The Department of Justice announced today that pharmaceutical companies Wyeth and Pfizer Inc. have agreed to pay $784.6 million to resolve allegations that Wyeth knowingly reported to the government false and fraudulent prices on two of its proton pump inhibitor (PPI) drugs, Protonix Oral and Protonix IV. Pfizer, which is headquartered in New York City, acquired New Jersey-based Wyeth in 2009, approximately three years after Wyeth had ended the conduct that gave rise to the settlement.
"This settlement demonstrates our unwavering commitment to hold pharmaceutical companies responsible for pursuing pricing schemes that attempt to manipulate and overcharge federal health care programs – programs that protect the poor and disabled – for drugs sold to commercial customers at much lower prices," said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Benjamin C. Mizer, head of the Justice Department's Civil Division.
"This significant settlement illustrates that the government will not permit drug companies to dodge their obligations to the Medicaid program or create elaborate pricing schemes to deceive Medicaid into paying more than it should for drugs," said U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz for the District of Massachusetts. "This settlement, after years of hard-fought litigation, shows our commitment to ensuring that healthcare businesses do not take advantage of the federal health insurance programs which serve those who need assistance most."
PPI drugs are used to treat symptoms of, among other things, acid reflux. In a complaint filed in 2009, the government alleged that Wyeth failed to report deep discounts on Protonix Oral and Protonix IV that it made available to thousands of hospitals nationwide. As part of the settlement, Wyeth and Pfizer do not deny the government's allegations.
According to the government's complaint, Wyeth sold Protonix Oral and Protonix IV through a bundled sales arrangement in which a hospital could earn deep discounts on both drugs if it placed them on formulary and made them "available" within the hospital. Through this bundled arrangement, Wyeth sought to induce hospitals to buy and use Protonix Oral, which hospitals otherwise would have had little incentive to use, because other pre-existing oral PPI drugs were priced competitively and were considered to be as safe and effective. Wyeth wanted to control the hospital market because patients discharged from the hospital on Protonix Oral were likely to stay on the drug for long periods of time, rather than switch to competing PPIs, during which time payers, including Medicaid, would pay nearly full price for the drug.
Under the Medicaid program, which is the nation's provider of health insurance to the poor and disabled, drug companies must report to the government the best prices they offer other customers for their brand name drugs. Based on these reported best prices, the drug companies pay rebates to the state Medicaid programs so that Medicaid, a large purchaser of drugs, receives the benefit of the same discounts drug companies offer to other large customers in the marketplace.
The government alleged that Wyeth hid from Medicaid the bundled discounts Wyeth gave to hospitals on Protonix Oral and Protonix IV. As a result, Wyeth wrongfully avoided paying hundreds of millions of dollars in rebates to Medicaid during the period from 2001 to 2006. Under the terms of today's settlement, Wyeth will pay $413,248,820 to the federal government and $371,351,180 to state Medicaid programs.
"When we make agreements with others we expect follow-through," said Special Agent in Charge Phillip Coyne of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG). "Similarly, taxpayers rightly expect large pharmaceutical companies will not falsely report prices to boost profits. Any drug company shirking those responsibilities can expect to be held accountable for its deception."
"This litigation and settlement demonstrate the commitment of my office and other state attorneys general across the country to ensuring that pharmaceutical companies live up to their obligations to the Medicaid program," said New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman.
The settlement resolves allegations filed under the False Claims Act by Lauren Kieff, a former hospital sales representative for the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, LP, and William St. John LaCorte, a physician practicing in New Orleans, Louisiana. Under the False Claims Act, private parties may sue on behalf of the government for false claims for government funds and to receive a share of any recovery. The relator share in this case will be $98,058,190 and will be paid from the proceeds of the federal and state settlements.
The settlement was the result of close cooperation between the Civil Division's Commercial Litigation Branch, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts, the state attorneys general and other law enforcement entities including Medicaid Fraud Control Units, and the HHS-OIG.
This settlement illustrates the government's emphasis on combating health care fraud and marks another achievement for the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT) initiative, which was announced in May 2009 by the Attorney General and the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The partnership between the two departments has focused efforts to reduce and prevent Medicare and Medicaid financial fraud through enhanced cooperation. One of the most powerful tools in this effort is the False Claims Act. Since January 2009, the Justice Department has recovered a total of more than $29 billion through False Claims Act cases, with more than $17.5 billion of that amount recovered in cases involving fraud against federal health care programs. The case is captioned United States ex rel. Kieff and LaCorte v. Wyeth and Pfizer, Inc., Nos. 03-12366 and 06-11724-DPW (D. Mass.).
Source: http://www.justice.gov
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Jamaicas riksvapen är med smärre ändringar detsamma som det vapen som infördes av britterna 1661. På vapenskölden visas ananas som är en av landets viktigaste produkter. Sköldhållarna är två araukaner, den ursprungliga indianbefolkningen.

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Riksvapen i Nordamerika
Jamaicas nationalsymboler
Heraldiska vapen med hjälmar
Heraldiska vapen med pilbågar
Heraldiska vapen med kors
Heraldiska vapen med frukter
Heraldiska vapen med människor
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No matter whether you stay in an apartment or a studio all rooms are light with coloured walls, wooden furniture, tiled floors and balconies overlooking the countryside of Thassos.
Studios sleep up to 3 and apartments sleep up to 4, with double beds and double sofa-beds.
Studio with double bed sleeps up to 2 and has a kitchenette with 2 electric rings and air-conditioning at a charge.
Studio sleeps up to 3 and has a kitchenette with 2 electric rings, extra bed and air-conditioning at a charge.
1 bedroom apartment sleeps up to 4 with 1 double bed and a double sofa-bed.
Kitchenette with 2 electric rings and air-conditioning at a charge.


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1958 Mercedes-Benz 190SL
Original Factory Hardtop
For those insufficiently wealthy to afford its hyper-expensive, race-bred sports car – the 300SL – Mercedes-Benz offered the less exotic but no less refined 190SL. Announced in 1954 and based on the 180 saloon, whose all-independently-suspended running gear it used, the 190SL did not enter production until January 1955, the delay being caused by alterations aimed at strengthening the saloon's shortened platform to compensate for the open body's reduced stiffness.
"Very few new sports cars have been so eagerly awaited or so long in coming as the moderately priced SL version of the Mercedes-Benz," observed Road & Track magazine.
Mounted on a detachable subframe along with the four-speed manual gearbox, front suspension and steering, the power unit was a 1,897cc overhead-camshaft four, the first such engine ever to feature in a Mercedes-Benz. Breathing through twin Solex downdraft carburetors, this M121 power unit produced 105bhp at 5,700rpm, an output sufficient to propel the 190SL to 100km/h in 14.5 seconds and on to a top speed of 171km/h. The fact that the 190's ride was more boulevard than sporting, and that many contemporary sports cars could outperform it while costing a good deal less, did nothing to deter sales. The model was a big hit in the US, where a good percentage of the slightly fewer than 26,000 produced between 1955 and 1963 found homes.
Finished in the very desirably colour combination of Silver over Red, this stylistically evocative 190SL is truly difficult to fault. Restored as a labour of love by its current private owner, this 190SL has had a vast amount of work done including the fitment of an electric fuel pump for ease of use.
Its bare metal respray has been done to a high standard and included in the cars history file are numerous invoices from Mercedes specialists, previous title documents, its original books and manuals.
With prices on the mainland reaching astronomical figures, this represents a fantastic opportunity to purchase a competitively priced and ready to go example.
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It's August 8, and we're six weeks away from our first retreat of the 2015 season.
Our South Dakota retreat begins Friday, September 18 at Custer State Park, Stockade Lake (South) Campground. We're excited to have brothers from all over join us for a spiritually uplifting weekend. Matthew Allen will be the speaker again this year. We'll be focusing on Finding Victory Over the Flesh, from Galatians 5. It's not too late to participate in this retreat. Spots are still available! Reserve yours today!
Our Ohio retreat begins Friday, October 9 at Rocky Fork Lake in south central Ohio. Like last year, we'll be staying at the Blueberry Hill Cabins. We're excited to have brothers from Ohio, Ontario, Indiana, and Kentucky join us again. Frederic Gray will be our speaker. He'll be encouraging us to seize the great opportunities we have as men and fathers to find victory over our flesh and be the leaders God has called us to be. Make your reservation today!
For more details, don't hesitate to contact me.


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Elysia Chuquimia Paula Crampton is an American electronic musician, producer, poet, and composer. Her work touches upon themes of Aymara survival and Latino culture, LGBT and Aymara femme heritage, science fiction, references to Christian faith and ontology, and frequent utilization of samples and arrangements from varying sources.

Career
Elysia Crampton began making music under the name E+E ("And & And" in Spanish) in the early 2000s. E+E consisted of several performers and contributing writers, editors, and DJ mixes made with a keyboard, acapellas, and a sampler.

In 2015, Crampton ceased using the E+E alias and released her first studio album, American Drift, under her real name. The album took three years to make and was made as a way to describe her unique experience of finding a home in Virginia in the aforementioned years. The album was released on August 7, 2015, and was met with critical success. The music review website Pitchfork gave the album an 8.1 out of 10 and said, in praise:

The Virginia producer Elysia Crampton's debut album is only four songs long, but it represents a monumental undertaking. She has described it as an exploration of Virginia's history as well as a meditation on brownness, on being Latina, and as a kind of geology. Her epiphanies feel hard-won, and they shine all the more brightly for it.

Crampton released her second album, Elysia Crampton Presents: Demon City, on July 22, 2016. It was a collaboration with friends/peers including Houston producer Rabit, Danish producer Why Be, London producer Lexxi, and Alabama producer Chino Amobi. Music review Web site Tiny Mix Tapes gave the album a 4.5 out of 5, while Pitchfork said: "Demon City, Virginia producer Elysia Crampton's follow-up to her sumptuous debut American Drift, is a wonder of concision and represents another massive leap forward in her growth," of the album.

Crampton's physical output to date has consisted solely of project studio or home studio recordings, with her first two LP's The Light That You Gave Me To See You (2012) and American Drift (2015), as well as EP's Bound Adam 2011 and Moth/Lake (2015) all being recorded in her Ford Ranger truck.

Musical style
Crampton's music is notable for drawing from an eclectic and wide variety of influences, including cumbia, and Andean music like huayno and tarqueada, as well as American genres like crunk, metal, ambient, R&B and minimalism. However, her eclecticism is owed to her understanding and incorporation of Aymara ontology in her music, specifically the concepts of taypi and ch'ixi. As a way of summing up her intent to a style, she has used the tags prog and folk to describe her music.

During the time of the making of Elysia's album American Drift, she was living in rural Virginia and being inspired by the expansive local geographical features around the area, described as "wild Southern surroundings", in the area, one of which was the Shenandoah Mountain. She previously made journeys around it, with one inspiring track two of American Drift, 'Petrichrist'. Elysia is heavily inspired by varying forms of cultural music and the interesting sound design that often accompanies them, although her upbringing and roots in music that have influenced her show their presence. In an interview, she remarked that "the older I get, the uglier I want my music to feel, to be".

Through music, the post-colonial divide between Peru and Bolivia was bridged for me, and I was allowed to glimpse an ancient, illusive moment of my heritage that barred nationalistic dividings. The mixture of electronic and acoustic sounds, especially in huayno, provided inspiration that has stuck to this day. The incorporation of these textures into my own voice never had to be deliberately sought out; these ancestral/familial narratives, languages, tones, colors… moved with me as I musically came of age.

Crampton also cited many individuals as influences for her 2015 album American Drift, including José Esteban Muñoz (a noted Cuban-American queer theorist), black pianist Margaret Bonds, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (a writer and professor in Medieval studies) and queer performance artist, photographer and close friend Boychild.

Crampton has said that her 2016 album, Elysia Crampton Presents: Demon City, was written in the style of a musical epic poem. She said that the album was inspired by Aymaran revolutionary Bartolina Sisa, who is often remembered in indigenous history. The album is a companion piece to Crampton's theatrical production & DJ set, Dissolution of the Sovereign: A Timeslide into the Future, written and performed as both a 'visual & performative essay', a sci-fi style play, and an ontological coda to Sisa's story with a narrative revolving around her severed limbs.

An album of Native American classical and folk, "Quirquincho Medicine", was released under Crampton's native name, Chuquimamani-Condori, on Bandcamp on July 25, 2019.

Personal life
Crampton took piano and keyboard lessons as a child, but later started taking music seriously after her teenage years, around 2007 to 2008. She was born and grew up in the desert outside Barstow, California. Crampton lived a nomadic lifestyle, moving between the United States, Mexico, and Bolivia for most of her life. After finishing up her first studio album, American Drift, Elysia returned to  Bolivia, to care for her grandmother Flora.

Discography

As E+E

Full-length albums
 E&E (2008, self-released)
 The Light that You gave Me to See You (2013, self-released; rereleased by Total Stasis in 2016)

Extended plays
 Bound Adam (2011, self-released)
 Smile (2012, self-released)

Compilations
 Edited/Remixed [2008–2012] (2014, self-released)

As Elysia Crampton

Studio albums
 American Drift (2015, Blueberry Recordings)
 Elysia Crampton Presents: Demon City (2016, Break World Records)
 Spots y Escupitajo (2017, The Vinyl Factory)
 Elysia Crampton (2018, Break World Records)
 ORCORARA 2010 (2020, PAN)

Singles
 Moth/Lake (2015, Boomkat Editions)
 Flora's Theme (2016, Williams Street Records)
 Final Exam ft. Kelela (2016, The Vinyl Factory)
 Solilunita (2018, Break World Records)

As Elysia Crampton Chuquimia

 Selected Demos & DJ Edits [2007-2019] (2020, self-released)

As Chuquimamani-Condori

 Quirquincho Medicine (2019, self-released)
 Uta Pachanqiri (2019, self-released)
 3 Demos (2020, self-released)

References

1986 births
Living people
American LGBT musicians
LGBT people from California
LGBT people from Virginia
LGBT Native Americans
LGBT Hispanic and Latino American people
American people of Bolivian descent
American electronic musicians
Bolivian people of Aymara descent
Hispanic and Latino American musicians
People from Los Angeles
American women in electronic music
Transgender women musicians


One day this summer my younger son Oisín and I strayed from a heavily wooded trail on the Muckross peninsula in Ireland's Killarney National Park and entered a narrow limestone cave. The entrance was fringed with vegetation, a pelt of moss on the rock, tendrils of tree roots exposed, so that entering that cave felt like climbing into the bearded mouth of a living thing.
We paused a moment in the gloam just as I had done 30 years before, when I visited for the first and only other time. Then we began a shallow descent into a throat of absolute darkness. When I first slipped into this cave all those years ago, I was claustrophobic and the pressing of our small group of youthful conservation volunteers panicked me. Their stops and starts, their mirthful howls as they feigned mild terrors ahead, made me anxious to turn back. But I was sandwiched between my peers and my only option was to stumble on. Fortunately, after no more than 100 lightless metres, an opening became visible, the cave being actually a passageway, and I pushed those ahead of me until we spilt back into the day. Perhaps it was the panic and the feeling of having been spat back into the world that made that woodland appear to me like no other. It seemed to be a forgotten world, like those beloved by our science-fiction writers.
For this is indeed a landscape like few others. It is Reenadinna, one of the planet's few remaining yew woods, a virtual monoculture of coniferous yew trees (Taxus baccata). They grow here on thin mossy soil, though in some places they drape directly over bare limestone bedrock. The light is green-soaked and dim beneath the crowded canopy: it looked no different this summer than it did 30 years before. Of course, three decades is a short time in the life of a yew wood, where an individual tree can live thousands of years. But it looked no different this summer than it would have done in September 1776, when Arthur Young, the great English writer on rural affairs, visited the region and exuberated on the wooded Muckross peninsula. And by the calculation of Fraser Mitchell, a botanist in Dublin's Trinity College, it has looked that way for millennia.
The stability of this ancient yew woodland, capable of rebuffing storms, insect outbreaks and other moderate disturbances, embodies an original tenet of ecology going back to the late 19th century. I'm talking about the so-called 'balance of nature'. Henry David Thoreau coined the word 'succession' to describe the predictable and progressive development of vegetation from the weedy colonisation of newly exposed rocks to the stable and balanced state of a mature system. Bare ground is colonised by a few hardy plants. These give way to a new suite of species, which in turn can be superseded by yet more species. At last, mature vegetation (forest trees, for instance) establishes itself and persists, generation after generation. Succession was ecology's first significant conceptual scaffolding. Upon this, the young scientific discipline was built. Nature in this view of things is stable and balanced until humankind, that agent of derangement, interferes with it, after which it can wither away.
The term 'balance of nature' raised the hackles of some scientists as early as the first decades of the 20th century. The Oxford ecologist Charles Elton forcefully claimed in his book Animal Ecology (1927) that 'the balance of nature does not exist, and perhaps has never existed'. Nonetheless, it remained central to the highly influential systems thinking of the late and celebrated American ecologist Eugene Odum. Think of an ecosystem as something like an individual organism: the adult develops in an orderly, predictable way from the child. Similarly, Odum argued, the trajectory of natural systems was preordained too.
In the mid-20th century, Odum modernised the concept of succession, so central to early ecology. He turned it into a mechanistic account of how organisms and their environments interact to produce orderly and predictable results. He identified 24 trends that might be expected to develop as ecosystems mature, each of which was like a physiological marker of a functioning organism. One of these was 'overall homeostasis' — the ability to retain equilibrium in the face of change, just as our bodies keep a stable internal temperature. The 'development' of a mature ecosystem led to a stable whole. When severely disturbed, the system would simply rebound to balance.
One of Odum's favourite catchphrases was that 'the whole is greater than the sum of its parts'. Complex ecosystems contain surprises just as living organisms do — this explains some of the force of the superorganism analogy. Due to its complexity as a system, a living body has qualities that its constituent parts cannot have. If you can't imagine emergent properties, think of a carcass that has lost the body's lustre and, with it, the emergent properties of the living.
Odum was explicitly committed to the idea of a balance of nature. Stability and equilibrium were at the heart of his ecological thinking. But it hovered in other, less obviously philosophical, ecological thinking too — such as the theory of island biogeography posited in 1967 by Robert MacArthur and EO Wilson. This theory predicts that the number of species on an island will be the outcome of a dynamic balance; an equilibrium, that is, between immigration to an island and extinction rates of those populations.
The trouble was, an attachment to ideas of balance and stability didn't seem to match the messy dynamic reality of nature. And, increasingly, ecologists were troubled by what it all meant. Daniel Simberloff, a former graduate student of EO Wilson's, was the one to pull the old 'balance of nature' idea to pieces. His work in community ecology, looking at the distribution and diversity of species, led him to see it as hardly a scientific idea at all.
In 1980 Simberloff published a formidable and hugely influential paper called 'A Succession of Paradigms in Ecology: Essentialism to Materialism and Probabilism'. It was a biting critique of the holistic concept of the ecosystem. Simberloff wondered why ecosystem ecology has been so seductive when, as far as he could tell, it simply did a bad job of explaining the observables of nature. Is it, he wondered, because it legitimated the notion of a self-regulating market in 'unfettered capitalism' — an invisible hand predictably driving a system to a preordained end? Noting the impeccable Marxist credentials of many ecologists, he conceded that this might not be the reason. No, he argued, chief among the reasons for the continued appeal of ecosystem ecology was that 'it accords with Greek metaphysics'. The holistic ecosystem reflects the idealism of Plato and the essentialism of Aristotle. Because Odumite ecosystem ecology was rooted so profoundly in ancient world views, in notions of nature in balance, it would not, warned Simberloff, vanish easily. Nevertheless, it should be grubbed out of the science of ecology wherever possible. Metaphysical assumptions had no place in a respectable science.
If 20th-century ecology was marked by an infatuation with balance, then our era is one of disturbance, disruption, non-equilibrium, stochasticity, chaos, and randomness. This new ecological world view extends not only to semi-arid grasslands such as the shortgrass prairies of western America or the Mongolian steppes — systems that have long been recognised as turbulent — but also to old-growth forests long seen as stable. Viewed from the long-time perspective, Reenadinna yew woods are evanescent, emerging only a few thousand years ago from a prior woodland dominated by pines, oaks, elms, and hazel. It looks as though the popular idea that ecology is about intricately balanced, harmonious and stable systems is completely out of step with the science. But has something been lost in the process?
A few years ago, this time with my friend and colleague Randall Honold, I travelled to a remote ecological reserve at the confluence of the Western and Eastern Ghats in south India. We were there primarily to look at wildlife, for these mountain ranges are exceptionally rich in species, many of which are found nowhere else on earth. The Western Ghats are one of the world's dozen or so global hot spots for biodiversity. They were declared a World Heritage Site earlier this summer, around the time of my visit back to Ireland's yew woods.
The Biligiriranga Hills Reserve is a day's drive from Bangalore. As a place, Bangalore is all people, buildings, blatant smells, and phonic surprise. The Ghats, by contrast, are calm and subtle. Their demeanour is patient, abiding. It was months after the monsoon. The soils were dry and the air was clear when we travelled with three Soliga tribal guides into the heart of the reserve. The mammals of this reserve include deer — barking deer, sambar, and chital — as well as tigers and, famously, a herd of elephants.
We were made aware of the elephant population in an especially terrifying way. An agitated female charged us. She broke from the brush at dust-billowing speed, her ears flaring. Just when impact seemed inevitable, she swerved behind our white jeep. Before us was a lake. Behind us was an irate animal. The forest was hushed. With nowhere to go, we waited.
The elephant, viewed in the rear-view mirror, was all but motionless, although a tiny swaying of her body suggested that she was trying to resurrect an anger requisite to finish what she had started. Randall snapped a picture: 'Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear.' We sat more or less frozen, for this was the advice of our guides, one of whom later said that this was the closest he'd come to death-by-elephant in 40 years. Perhaps it says unflattering things about me that I felt bored, impatient even, in these minutes waiting for my demise. I cast a minuscule glance around the forest and noticed that the wall of vegetation from which the animal had exploded was made up of Lantana camara. This is an especially aggressive exotic shrub which has become a management nuisance throughout the Western Ghats. Spanish Flag, as it is commonly known, is native to the American tropics and is regarded as one of the world's most invasive plants. Its flowers, as I noticed then, are exceptionally pretty. Having spent half a lifetime combating non-native shrubby vegetation in Ireland and in the American Midwest, it seemed fitting, though ultimately a little dispiriting, that a non-native shrub had just disgorged the raging agent of my death.
After 30 minutes, the elephant retreated, as did we. Later, how we laughed. A leading hypothesis of our Soliga friends was that my hair, an outmoded snowy-white hank, had enraged the animal. A year later, when we revisited the field station at the Biligiriranga Hills Reserve with a group of students, the 'elephant and the hair' story was still going strong.
Stories persist. Ecosystems, however, do not. By this time the elephants had left this part of the reserve and were seen neither that second year nor the year after. The walls of Lantana had become even more pronounced. Vigorous before, the invasion had reached that critical point where, in some places at least, the plant was occupying so much space that wildlife was being crowded out. Along with the spread of the invasion, the diversity of plants is changing as well. And perhaps, if we embrace an ecological paradigm of disturbance and change, this is simply the way nature works, and nothing to be done about it. Or is there?
In its brief history, the science of ecology appears to have smuggled in enough ancient metaphysics to make any Greek philosopher nod with approval. However, the question remains. If the handsaw and hurricane are equivalents in their ability to lay a forest low, it is hard to see how we can scientifically criticise the human destruction of ecosystems. Why should we, for instance, concern ourselves with the fate of the Western Ghats if alien introductions are just another disturbance, no different from the more natural-seeming migration of species? The point of conservation in the popular imagination and in many policy directives is that it resists human depredations to preserve important species in ancient, intact, fully functional natural ecosystems. If we have no 'balance of nature', this is much harder to defend.
If we lose the ideal of balance, then, we lose a powerful motive for environmental conservation. However, there might be some unintended benefits. A dynamic, 'disturbance' approach has fostered some of the most promising new approaches to environmental problems such as urban ecology and restoration ecology. That's because it is much less concerned with keeping humans and nature separate from one another.
The thing is, both balance and flux are undoubtedly aspects of nature. A new view of nature that combines them in a way that both scientists and the public find compelling is needed. We should bridge the present disparity between ecology as a science and ecology as a romantic idealism about nature, not only for intellectual reasons but for the sake of robust public policy. Ecology, after all, needs to explain both the stability of a yew grove (a woodland that persists for more than 3,000 years commands attention), as well as the rapid transition of forest in the Western Ghats.
One promising middle path that integrates balance and disturbance has emerged in recent years. Referred to as 'resilience thinking', it builds on the work of the Canadian-born ecologist CS Holling and has been developed in recent years by an international collaboration called the Resilience Alliance. Resilience thinking assumes that change and disturbance are an integral part of every system, but that some systems are more resilient to destructive change than others. This might seem a subtle point, but if we understand the processes that promote or restore resilience, we have a much better chance both of mopping up after ecological catastrophes – or of avoiding them altogether.
Resilience thinking can be applied to economics (the capacity of financial markets to absorb shock), friendship (the capacity of our loved ones to tolerate our nonsense), and nature (the capacity of ecosystems to endure disruption). One of the striking findings is that diversity is crucial to success. When an ecological system is managed for just one factor (say, a single crop) or where a nation's wealth is dominated by a single economic sector (say, the housing market before the 2008 global financial crisis), the result is a loss of resilience. Resilience thinking ultimately theorises about the limits of a system's capacity to endure. Financial markets collapse, crops fail, love blanches, ecosystems unravel, and death, alas, is a part of every life.
What of the resilience of the two woodlands we have visited? The Killarney yew wood has been stable for a long time, but the oak woods that surround them have been inundated with invasive shrubs. The next time I pass through the limestone passage on the Muckross peninsula, the yews might have been overwhelmed. It seems that excessive deer browsing is preventing them from regenerating. Managers in the National Park are attempting to fence out the deer population.
The montane woodlands of Biligiriranga Hills Reserve are in even more rapid transition. That's partly due to the invasion of the Lantana, which sheltered our charging elephant. A Soliga colleague of mine claims to have seen an elephant walk along the top of huge Lantana hedges — a thought that had made me smile while I waited, motionless, for our elephant to leave. The entire landscape is being changed by this invasive species, affecting vegetation, animals and human livelihoods alike. One experimental solution is that the Soliga use the plant in their woodcraft. However, once the resilience of a system has been breached, it is very difficult to return it to its original state: it might have crossed a threshold that cannot be recrossed. Ecosystems that have been damaged are often damaged irreparably. The cost of restoration projects, we know, is very high, so if we value the diversity of the Western Ghats, we need to prevent this switch from ecological delight to impoverished catastrophe. The idea of resilience provides an ecologically accurate, powerfully intuitive reason for protecting species and habits everywhere, from Ireland to India.
Good management of these ecosystems will require extensive knowledge of those ecological forces (competition, predation, mutualisms and so on) that create the natural patterns we see. Managers also need knowledge of those disturbances — fire, pest, storms — that have historically rejuvenated the forests. What precisely we do with this knowledge calls for ethical judgments of the most practical kind. This is a conversation that involves all of us, scientist and layperson alike.
My son tells me he wants to revisit the yew woods in a few decades. I hope they endure. And if he ever visits the Biligiriranga Reserve Hills, I hope the elephants have returned to the heart of the reserve, if only to teach him that some cataclysms are worth avoiding.


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There's a Voting Rights Forum in Phoenix This Week So (Unlike in March) Upcoming Elections Go Smoothly
Posted By María Inés Taracena on Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 3:00 PM
In response to the state's shit show of a presidential preference election back in March, U.S. Reps. Ann Kirkpatrick and Ruben Gallego, alongside several community advocates, will host a voting rights forum in Phoenix on Wednesday.
To refresh your memory: Thousands of voters, mostly in Maricopa County, were either turned down at polling places because they were incorrectly registered as independents, or waited for hours and hours due to a massive cutback in voting locations.
At the panel, Kirkpatrick, Gallego and representatives of the African-American, Latino/Mexican American communities, the state's Department of Education, as well as other statewide leaders will discuss the need for local, state and federal efforts "to fully engage voters and prevent the March debacle from repeating in November's general election or in future election years," a press release from Kirkpatrick's office says.
The forum will also address the need for restoring the Voting Rights Act, which was weakened in 2013 by the Supreme Court's ruling in Shelby County v. Holder—a ruling that has been called "a dagger in the heart of the Voting Rights Act." In that decision, Chief Justice Roberts acknowledged the persistence of voter discrimination and invited Congress to come up with a new coverage formula based on current conditions. Two bipartisan bills in Congress would do so, but leaders in the House and Senate will not take up either bill.
Among the panelists are, Cloves Campbell Jr., executive director of Arizona Commission of African-American Affairs, Debora Colbert, chair of Rep. Gallego's African-American Advisory Council; Alex Gomez, co-director of Living United for a Change in Arizona, Dr. Ann Hart, chair of Women in NAACP, deputy associate superintendent of Arizona Department of Education
Francisco Heredia, national field director for Mi Familia Vota, John Lewis, former executive director of Intertribal Council of Arizona, and Daniel Ortega Jr., civil rights attorney and former chair of National Council of La Raza, according to the press release, which adds that the lineup is still being worked out.
Tucsonans, if you're able to attend, do so.
The forum takes place Wednesday, June 29 from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at Greater Bethel A.M.E. Church, 7040 S. 40th Street (remember, this is in Phoenix).
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Livestream gaming 101: an innovative and new fundraising tactic
By Jack Little & CJ Orr
Photo by JESHOOTS.COM on Unsplash
The gaming industry is one of the fastest growing and most profitable. With 1.5 billion active gamers worldwide, it is estimated to be a $90 billion market by 2020. While gaming is thought of as a hobby by many, some nonprofits have taken notice of this industry as a new and unique opportunity for fundraising. In fact, over $22 million was raised in 2018 by gamers, live streamers, and enthusiasts alike. This is a new space in philanthropy and it is just getting started. But first, let's dive deeper into what livestream gaming is.
What is livestream gaming?
Simply put, livestream gaming is exactly what it sounds like; a person (aka gamer or live streamer) plays a video game and livestreams the gameplay for their fans to watch. These gamers use livestreaming platforms such as Twitch, YouTube, or Mixer, where fans watch them play and learn gaming tips. In return for streaming their gameplay, skills, and banter, live streamers usually ask fans to donate to causes through an integrated button on their stream.
Twitch, one of the most popular streaming platforms, has 15 million active daily viewers that watch an average of 1.5 hours per day. That is more active daily viewers than ESPN, CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News combined. With a forecasted increase of 50 percent in users over the next year, Twitch's strong fan base allows some of the top live streamers to make hundreds of thousands of dollars per month. Now that we know what livestream gaming is, what does it look like when fundraising is thrown into the mix?
A typical setup
Charity streams are similar to telethons—live streamers broadcast themselves playing video games and ask viewers to donate to charity. These streams can happen in a variety of ways—some include streamers discussing the issue and urging viewers to make donations in real time; others include streamers giving viewers incentives to donate. Whatever the case may be, live streamers and charities have built and utilized this model to make fundraising engaging and fun for the viewers. While it is interesting to see how gamers have adapted their streams to raise money for charity, what is even more interesting is how nonprofits are leveraging charity steams to unlock new opportunities in fundraising.
How nonprofits are leveraging livestream gaming
Livestream gaming, when done right, can be a highly effective fundraising platform. For example, Direct Relief, a humanitarian nonprofit, believed it to be so effective that they hired a live streamer named Matthew Moffit as a "gaming production specialist." Moffit and his team brought in $1.6 million for Direct Relief through livestream events in just two years. To put this into perspective, Moffit's livestreams generated 73,000 online donations, just 7,000 fewer than the total generated through Direct Relief's website. Direct Relief is just one of many examples of nonprofits leveraging gamers and charity streams.
Another way nonprofits are leveraging livestream gaming is through the use of third-party organizations such as DonorDrive—an enterprise fundraising platform that empowers people to raise more for the charities they care about. For example, DonorDrive has a feature that allows nonprofits to connect to streams on Twitch, YouTube, or Mixer, and link it directly to their fundraising page.
"Live fundraising enables nonprofits to provide content creators, donors and partners with a cohesive charity streaming solution that leads to a highly engaging fundraising experience," said Nik Stephens, DonorDrive's chief technology officer. "Broadcasters can quickly connect their fundraising page to their stream and see donations and comments live with a real-time activity feed. When nonprofits leverage cause branded fundraising pages and Twitch Extensions that are tightly integrated to their website, donors are confident their gifts go directly to the charity."
As one of few fundraising platforms that empowers livestream fundraising, DonorDrive helped produce one of the largest livestream fundraising events to date—Extra Life. This is a 24-hour livestream gaming fundraiser that supports Children's Miracle Network Hospitals and connects thousands of gamers around the world. Since the event's inception in 2008, Extra Life has raised over $50 million for sick and injured kids.
Why is livestream gaming effective fundraising?
Simply put, livestream gaming allows organizations to generate revenue in different and new way vs. traditional fundraising tactics. The ability to raise large amounts of money is a short amount of time makes it an effective and innovative fundraising tool. For example, a famously generous YouTuber named Mark Fischbach made history by raising $500,000 in under 24 hours for a nonprofit called My Friend's Place. The previous year, the organization raised $2.2 million. Mark raised a quarter of that in one day. In addition to the high returns, livestream gaming comes with a relatively lost cost to the organization.
Fan-based loyalty and trust also sets livestream gamers apart from your average fundraiser. Since gamer content is not as curated or refined as other kinds of content, its fans tend to feel more connected to it on a deeper level. As a result, fans trust gamer endorsements, whether they be products or charities.
Nonprofits can benefit from livestream gaming in a variety of ways. The consumer pool of livestream gaming is a relatively untapped fundraising market. With a viewer audience made up mostly of Millennials and Gen Zers, nonprofits have a unique opportunity to tap into a demographic of donors that have been traditionally hard to reach. The digital environment is becoming increasingly more powerful in its capacity to fundraise and nonprofits should be prepared to change and adapt to ensure they capitalize this major philanthropic force.
Jack Little
Intern, Orr Group
About Jack Little
John "Jack" Little is a junior at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, where he is studying anthropology and sociology with a minor in environmental studies. Jack has interned at Orr Group for the past two summers, where he worked on various client projects. During his internships, Jack was responsible for building donor profiles, conducting prospect and peer-organization research, and drafting and reviewing content for fundraising appeals. He also assisted with several client events.
CJ Orr
Chief Operating Officer, Orr Group
About CJ Orr
As chief operating officer of Orr Group, CJ Orr is responsible for a portfolio of work that includes operations, business development, and partner relationship management.
On the operations side, CJ is responsible for setting and driving achievement of Orr Group's financial targets and overseeing office real estate and management. Additionally, CJ leads and supports the efforts of Orr Group's sales and marketing team to identify and cultivate new business opportunities and build relationships with nonprofit partners, ensuring that the services offered are best aligned with our partners' needs.
CJ has a broad background in fundraising and development, strategic planning, campaigns and event management. He has led strategic initiatives and fundraising for several large galas and campaigns. As a project and relationship manager, he executes on the development of strategies and tactics to ensure highly memorable events and campaigns that meet or exceed fundraising targets.
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Q: How to do shared element transitions in React Native Web? I'm using react-native-web to develop a web&mobile application. I've reached the point when I'd like to introduce better transitions between the screens, and for that reason I'd like to do shared element transitions like the one below:

Because I started with @react-navigation/stack for my routing, I wanted to use a library that would support the same structure I have. It took me quite some time to get the react-navigation-shared-element library working, but it has finally compiled. Unfortunately, the animations aren't looking like I wanted them to:

As you can see, there is no animation really. It simply switches the page. I've spent weeks on this issue attempting different config, libraries, and generally everything, and I have nearly given up and started looking for web-only libraries to split the code into two different versions.
Therefore, I kindly request assistance to get the code working with one library or, if you think there are better solutions, an alternative selection of web-only and mobile-only libraries which I could use to keep roughly the same codebase (for example by wrapping library components into something I can use in the code).
Here's the code I have for my current animation:
import React from 'react';
import {NavigationContainer} from '@react-navigation/native';
import {createSharedElementStackNavigator, SharedElement} from 'react-navigation-shared-element';
import {View, TouchableOpacity, Text} from 'react-native';

const Stack = createSharedElementStackNavigator();

function A({navigation}) {
  return (
    <View>
      <TouchableOpacity onPress={() => navigation.navigate('B')}>GO</TouchableOpacity>
      <SharedElement id={'shared'}>
        <Text style={{position: 'absolute', top: 50, background: 'yellow'}}>Start screen</Text>
      </SharedElement>
    </View>
  );
}

function B({navigation}) {
  return (
    <View>
      <TouchableOpacity onPress={() => navigation.navigate('A')}>GO</TouchableOpacity>
      <SharedElement id={'shared'}>
        <Text style={{position: 'absolute', top: 100, background: 'yellow'}}>Start screen</Text>
      </SharedElement>
    </View>
  );
}

export default function App() {
  return (
    <NavigationContainer>
      <Stack.Navigator>
        <Stack.Screen name={'A'} component={A} />
        <Stack.Screen
          name={'B'}
          component={B}
          sharedElements={(route, otherRoute, showing) => {
            return [
              {
                id: 'shared',
                animation: 'move',
              },
            ];
          }}
        />
      </Stack.Navigator>
    </NavigationContainer>
  );
}

Here are the relevant libraries I am using:
"@react-navigation/native": "^6.0.2",
"@react-navigation/stack": "^6.0.7",
"react-native-shared-element": "^0.8.2",
"react-navigation-shared-element": "^3.1.3"

And, finally, here's my webpack config, which I added it only to support the shared elements library, so I have no idea if it's good or not. I'm quite new to React, so I don't know if there are things like loaders or presets required to support the shared elements animations missing.
const webpack = require('webpack');
const path = require('path');
const HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
const Dotenv = require('dotenv-webpack');

const appDirectory = path.resolve(__dirname);

const babelLoaderConfiguration = {
  test: /\.js$/,
  include: [
    path.resolve(appDirectory, 'src'),
  ],
  use: {
    loader: 'babel-loader',
    options: {
      presets: ['module:metro-react-native-babel-preset'],
      plugins: ['react-native-web'],
    },
  },
};

const imageLoaderConfiguration = {
  test: /\.(gif|jpe?g|png|svg)$/,
  use: {
    loader: 'url-loader',
    options: {
      name: '[name].[ext]',
      esModule: false,
    },
  },
};

module.exports = {
  entry: path.resolve(appDirectory, 'src', 'index.js'),
  output: {
    filename: 'bundle.web.js',
    path: path.resolve(appDirectory, 'build'),
  },
  devtool: 'source-map',
  module: {
    rules: [babelLoaderConfiguration, imageLoaderConfiguration],
  },
  plugins: [
    new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
      template: path.resolve(appDirectory, 'public', 'index.html'),
      filename: 'index.html',
    }),
    new Dotenv({
      path: path.resolve(appDirectory, '.env'),
      safe: true,
    }),
  ],
  resolve: {
    alias: {
      'react-native$': 'react-native-web',
    },
    extensions: ['.web.js', '.js'],
  },
};

A: Try to use minus margin with useState in one component :
LIVE example  - https://snack.expo.dev/8ZCuner6B
import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { Alert, Button, Text, TouchableOpacity, TextInput, View, StyleSheet } from 'react-native';

 const App = () => {

   const [animationStyle , setAnimationStyle] = React.useState({
    width: 200,
    fontFamily: 'Baskerville',
    fontSize: 20,
    height: 44,
    padding: 10,
    borderWidth: 1,
    borderColor: 'white',
    marginTop:30,
    marginVertical: 10,
    zIndex:2,
  })

  const frogotPasswordHandler = () => {
  let margin = 30;
  let step = 3.5
  const timerId = setInterval(() =>{
    if (margin > -50){
      margin = margin - step
      updateMarginStyle(margin);
    }
    if (margin < -50) {
      console.log("cleared")
      clearInterval(timerId)
    }
  } , 2);

  }

  const updateMarginStyle = (num) =>{
    setAnimationStyle({
    ...animationStyle,
    marginTop:num,
  })
  }

    return (
      <View style={styles.container}>
      <Text style={styles.titleText}>Hi, Welcome To</Text>
        <Text style={styles.titleText}>Momento</Text>
        <View    style={styles.textWrapper}>
        <TextInput
          keyboardType = 'email-address'
          onChangeText={(email) => this.setState({ email })}
          placeholder='email'
          placeholderTextColor = 'white'
          style={styles.input}
        />
        </View>
        <TextInput
          onChangeText={(password) => this.setState({ password })}
          placeholder={'password'}
          secureTextEntry={true}
          placeholderTextColor = 'white'
          style={animationStyle}
        />

        <TouchableOpacity
          style={styles.forgotButton}
          onPress={frogotPasswordHandler}
       >
        <Text style={styles.defaultText}>Forgot password</Text>
       </TouchableOpacity>

        <TouchableOpacity
          style={styles.button}
       >
         <Text style={styles.buttonText}> Sign Up / Login </Text>
       </TouchableOpacity>

      </View>
    );

}

export default App;

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    alignItems: 'center',
    justifyContent: 'center',
    backgroundColor: 'salmon',
  },
  textWrapper:{
    backgroundColor:'green',
        zIndex:10,

  },
  titleText:{
    fontFamily: 'Baskerville',
    fontSize: 50,
    alignItems: 'center',
    justifyContent: 'center',
  },
  button: {
    alignItems: 'center',
    backgroundColor: 'powderblue',
    width: 200,
    height: 44,
    padding: 10,
    borderWidth: 1,
    borderColor: 'white',
    borderRadius: 25,
    marginBottom: 10,
  },
  buttonText:{
    fontFamily: 'Baskerville',
    fontSize: 20,
    alignItems: 'center',
    justifyContent: 'center',
  },
  input: {
    width: 200,
    fontFamily: 'Baskerville',
    fontSize: 20,
    height: 44,
    padding: 10,
    marginTop:20,
    borderWidth: 1,
    borderColor: 'white',
    marginVertical: 10,
  },
  defaultText:{
  },
  forgotButton:{
    backgroundColor:'gray',
    marginBottom:20,
    marginTop:10,
  }
});

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Helping founders with courage build the future.
Trifecta Capital partners with founders engrossed in transforming existing ways of work or life. We don't care about credentials or previous titles the founder may have had. We do care enormously about how founders think and obsess about their customer, as well as their ability to thrive and triumph in games where the odds seem stacked against them.
We like founders that don't outgrow their wonder years.
We believe that the end game for pattern matching in venture means missing the black swans and reinforcing past biases. Therefore, even though we learn from the past, we anticipate a future that looks very different. The founders, markets, products and services of the future may seem astonishing and peculiar when compared with those of today and yesteryear.
Open-mindedness and a willingness to roll up our sleeves and reach out to founders we think are building cool stuff is core to Trifecta Capital's ethos. We aren't an elitist venture capital firm. We want to be perceived as part of the team in the journey and someone you can trust.
We value intellectual flexibility, a bias for action, pragmatism, independent thought & strong mission alignment.
We partner with startups starting at the seed stage and across industries with an initial $125k-$250k investment. We allocate 5% of Trifecta's return in each portfolio company to a philanthropy of that founder's choice. Why do we do this? We believe the best founders are mission- driven.
We help founders with hiring, fundraising, strategy, and partnerships. We also believe in being a sounding board and supportive shoulder to lean on. Empathy is critical.
Most of all, we are grateful to be part of the journey. We don't take the responsibility lightly. We have a duty to our founders. We are in for the long-haul.
Founders & Companies
Trifecta Capital has partnered with the following companies at the seed stage, often when the team is just one or two founders. In aggregate, Trifecta Capital portfolio companies employ hundreds of people and serve a global market for their product or service.
EquipmentShare is a peer-to-peer equipment rental marketplace that also offers telematics and equipment utilization services.
Founders: Jabbock & Willy Schlacks, Jeff Lowe, Brad Siegler, Matthew McDonald
UpKeep is a mobile-first maintenance management software program that helps users keep track of work orders and assets.
Founder: Ryan Chan
Second Spectrum is focused on the development of machine learning, computer vision, big data, augmented, and virtual reality technology solutions for the sports industry. Its technology solutions are applied in mobile apps, touch screens, smart TVs, and more.
Founders: Rajiv Maheswaran, Yu-Han Chang, Jeff Su
Human Interest helps small businesses set up and manage 401(k)s for their employees.
Founders: Roger Lee & Paul Sawaya
Moltin provides developers with the building blocks needed to build headless eCommerce websites and mobile applications through a simple API.
Founders: Adam Sturrock, Chris Roach, Jamie Holdroyd
Wheelys is a chain of organic bicycle cafés and shops, enabling people to start their own businesses.
Founders: Per Cromwell, Tomas Mazetti, Maria De la Croix
Acerta is a machine learning platform for vehicle data to detect anomalies and predict failures.
Founders: Greta Cutulenco, Sebastian Fischmeister, Jean-Cristophe Petkovich
Plato helps engineers become better managers through a community of experienced mentors.
Founders: Quang Hoang, William Polet, Jean- Baptiste Coger
Guilded helps gaming teams recruit, improve and compete. Founder: Eli Brown
Meya.ai is a developer focused platform for developing best in class conversational interfaces.
Founders: Erik Kalviainen, Amanie Ismail
CognitionIP is a tech-powered patent law firm that leverages technology for superior quality and efficiency.
Founders: Bryant Lee, Andrew Tjang
Computer vision company that aims to make America safer through a commercial smart alarm/camera system.
Founders: Lisa Falzone, Chris Ciabbara
Cyral enables companies to guard against data exfiltration without requiring any agents or app modifications. The Cyral service is easy to use and plugs seamlessly into an infrastructure-as-code framework. The Cyral founding team has deep expertise in building databases, compilers, and proxy-based distributed services.
Founders: Manav Mital, Srinivas Vadlamani
We are proud that —like our founders— we are a venture capital firm that is backed by a founder that is not of the status quo.
Veronica Mittal
Founding Managing Partner
Veronica previously apprenticed in venture at S-Cubed Capital under Mark Stevens, former Managing Partner at Sequoia Capital. While at S-Cubed, Veronica sourced deals in Second Spectrum and Embark (acq. by APPL). She attended board meetings for Elemental Technologies (acq. AMZN), Zapproved, Deal Decor and Second Spectrum. Previous to venture, she launched a dairy farm while living in rural South Africa. She graduated Summa Cum Laude with a degree in finance from the University of Southern California at the age of 20. While in college she conducted research on the financial crash, executive compensation and published her honors thesis on the impact of microfinance on inequality. During college she started a couple of businesses including a second hand marketplace for women's clothing and a photo editing/ filtering business.
musings.
On diversity... Trifecta's portfolio doesn't consist of cookie-cutter founders and I'm not a cookie-cutter investor. Over the past 5 years investing I've realized I'm not drawn to the conventional or average.
Most underrated role of an investor? empathy- leading an early stage start-up is mentally arduous.
Intellectual flexibility comes from growing up and living in a lot of places— from the English countryside, to Mpumalanga, South Africa, to Washington DC— it enables me to take a unconstrained view on markets and founders. I'm not what most people expect as a "venture capitalist" and I think the best founders also defy expectations. It's ok if you've never felt "normal."
Change always favors the upstart. It's spectacular how rapidly technology, markets, demographics and psychographics are shifting. Not being tethered to a pre-existing technology, business model or mindset is a super power. Be audacious to try things others say won't work.
Words to live by. Live life with gratitude, sincerity and joy.


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Cinema + Conversation: Black Panther
Sunday, February 11, 2018 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm
Venue: African American History and Culture Museum Event Location: Oprah Winfrey Theater Cost: Free and open to the public. Registration required. Registration does not a guarantee seat. Please arrive 30 minutes prior to program. Get Tickets: https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/5409998/cinema-conversationblack-panther-w... *** All seats for this program have been reserved. Unfortunately, our theater can only accommodate 350 people. *** The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture's Earl W. & Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts (CAAMA) presents a special advance screening of Black Panther directed by Ryan Coogler. Marvel Studios' Black Panther follows T'Challa who, after the death of his father, the King of Wakanda, returns home to the isolated, technologically advanced African nation to take his rightful place as King. But when a powerful old enemy reappears, T'Challa's mettle as king—and Black Panther—is tested when he is drawn into a formidable conflict that puts the fate of Wakanda and the entire world at risk. Faced with treachery and danger, the young king must rally his allies and release the full power of Black Panther to defeat his foes and secure the safety of his people and their way of life. All program attendees must enter on the Constitution Ave NW entrance. Cell phones will not be allowed in theater under any circumstance. You must have a photo ID that matches the name on registration. Tickets are not transferable and cannot be resold.
The People's Holiday
Monday, January 18, 2021 | 5:15pm
Artful Observations
Wednesday, January 20, 2021 | 5:00pm
Artists at Home: School Outreach
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Project leaflet
by Andrea Zanni
This seems very interesting... https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project_Leaflets Aubrey
OCR for Persian
by Amir Ladsgroup
Hello, I have access to huge resources of old books in Persian (some of them are even typed) and almost all of them can be imported to Wikisource but the problem is I don't have (or know) any OCR for Persian, Do you know which OCR software supports Persian (supporting Arabic is not enough; I checked several programs) texts? Best -- Amir
Interwiki link to other language wikisource
by Jane Darnell
Quick question for all of you sorcerers: How do I link to a book in a non-English wikisource from an English Wikipedia article? I can't remember how to do this and don't know where else to look Thanks, Jane
Integrating academic works into Wikisource
by Daniel Mietchen
Dear all, today, we posted a proposal to the English Wikisource about automated import of Open-Access articles: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium#Automated_import_of_o… In parallel, I uploaded an important zoological work (the first monograph to use Linnean taxonomy for animals; written in Swedish and accompanied by a Latin translation) to Wikimedia Commons and posted about this at the Swedish and Latin Wikisources: https://sv.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:M%C3%B6tesplatsen#Svenska_spindlar https://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Vicifons:Scriptorium#Aranei_Svecici . In both cases, the aim is to bring more scholarly content onto Wikisource, and the idea is to scale things up if that works well. Feedback of any kind is most welcome. Thanks and cheers, Daniel -- http://www.naturkundemuseum-berlin.de/en/institution/mitarbeiter/mietchen-d… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Publications http://okfn.org http://wikimedia.org
At Wikimania, having a WS chat about Cirrus Search might be useful
by billinghurst
Not sure what others think, or how many will be at Wikimania. I know that I haven't done enough playing with Cirrus Search functionality, and I am not sure what those WSes (other than enWS) have done to have a more sophisticated offering to users. Might be useful if we could find half an hour during WM2014 to throw some ideas around, and maybe whiteboard what we would like CirrusSearch to do for us (if anything). After reading some of the wikitech-ambassador email today, I know that I stumbled over some documentation/thought boxes at http://git.wikimedia.org/tree/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FCirrusSearch.git/mas… which while providing detail, doesn't gel for how we might implement things in a better way. Regards, Billinghurst
Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] The Wikipedia Library: New Free Accounts Available
by Luiz Augusto
May will be useful also to found some PD-old scans to proofread? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jake Orlowitz <jorlowitz(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 6:00 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] The Wikipedia Library: New Free Accounts Available To: Wikimedia & Libraries <Libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, North American Cultural Partnerships <glam-us(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, cultural-partners(a)wikimedia.ch, wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org The Wikipedia Library has new, free research account signups available: New * British Newspaper Archive <http://enwp.org/WP:BNA> (50 accounts) * Keesing's World News Archive <http://enwp.org/WP:Keesings> (25 accounts) Expanded * Credo Reference <http://enwp.org/WP:CREDO> (200 new accounts) * JSTOR!! <http://enwp.org/WP:JSTOR> (400 new accounts). Medical * BMJ <http://enwp.org/WP:BMJ> (25 accounts) * Cochrane Library <http://enwp.org/WP:Cochrane> (100 accounts) Other *Questia Online Library <http://enwp.org/WP:Questia (500 accounts) *HighBeam Research <http://enwp.org/WP:HighBeam (500 accounts) Sign up! Accounts are available to ALL global editors with a 1 year old account and 1000 edits. Please notify your local community about the signups. You can signup today on English Wikipedia. But! If you have started a local Wikipedia Library branch you can host signups on your local Wiki (Arabic, Chinese...). To set up a Wikipedia Library branch email Ocaasi at jorlowitz(a)gmail.com. Thanks! Jake Orlowitz (Ocaasi) The Wikipedia Library <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
Fwd: [Chapters] Fwd: Reminder: Tools only on Tool Labs from July 1
Hello everyone. I would like to remind all that the toolserver will stop working in July (see forwarded mail). Does anybody know about the status of migration of Phe's statistical tools? http://toolserver.org/~phe/statistics.php?diff=1 They are really important and I would love to have them on Labs :-D Aubrey ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nicole Ebber <nicole.ebber(a)wikimedia.de> Date: Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 10:42 AM Subject: [Chapters] Fwd: Reminder: Tools only on Tool Labs from July 1 To: Wikimedia Chapters general discussions <chapters(a)wikimedia.ch> Dear Wikimedia friends, My colleague Birgit Müller, our new Community Liaison, asked me to forward this email to the international Chapter sphere. It would be lovely if you help us to spread the word about the upcoming deadline for the migration from Toolserver to Tool Labs among your local communities. Toolserver will stop operating on June 30, all tools that have not been migrated by that date will stop working. We need tool developers and users to support the transition and make it as smooth as possible. More information in the following mail. Please don't hesitate to contact Birgit (birgit.mueller(a)wikimedia.de) in case of any questions or feedback. Thanks a lot for you support and best regards from Berlin, Nicole ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Birgit Müller <birgit.mueller(a)wikimedia.de> Date: 4 June 2014 10:13 Subject: Reminder: Tools only on Tool Labs from July 1 To: Nicole Ebber <nicole.ebber(a)wikimedia.de> Cc: Silke Meyer <silke.meyer(a)wikimedia.de> Please spread the word: Tools only on Tool Labs from July 1 About one year ago, we, Wikimedia Deutschland e. V., announced June 30th as the deadline of the Toolserver migration (Roadmap at [1]). This deadline is approaching. The Toolserver will stop working on June 30th. What will happen afterwards? Background information The Toolserver is a community based infrastructure that hosts software supporting Wikipedia and its sister projects. Over the years many active volunteers have developed helpful and great software tools that are running on several Wikimedia projects. The Toolserver is operated by Wikimedia Deutschland with assistance from the Wikimedia Foundation and several chapters. For many reasons, the Toolserver will be discontinued and replaced by Tool Labs [2], a platform operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. Please see the reasons at [3]. For more than one year Wikimedia Deutschland has been coordinating the migration of software tools from Toolserver to Tool Labs. What editors should know The toolserver is a community-driven project. The tools shall be migrated by the developers resp. maintainers themselves. Many of them have already migrated their tools or have indicated that they will do so before the end of this month. We have a special agreement with the OpenStreetMap projects and with the developer of Merlbot [4] to ensure these tools don't stop working. All other tools will stop working by July 1st. What editors can do On Tool Labs [2], you can look up if the tools that you use and need have already moved there. Talk to the developers of your favourite tools: It is important to let them know how much you appreciate their tools and that you need them to do your work. Contact us if you don't know who these developers are or if you have any questions or if you want us to forward wishes or requests to tool developers. Contact information is given at the end of this text. Information for tool developers If you are still facing the migration of your tools, please keep in mind that lots of people use your tools. They are a great support for their daily work and will be missed when they fail. Please take the time to migrate them or poke us: WMDE can still support you during migration - what we can't do is maintain abandoned tools in the long run. >From July 1st on, the toolserver admins will still hand you over your backups upon request and create redirects to Tool Labs for you. You won't be able to log in to the toolserver anymore though. If anyone wants to have and reuse other people's code, we recommend to seek approval from them directly, even if from a legal point of view there is no problem. Don't hesitate to talk to us if you need a contact person. Here is a collection of the relevant links for you again: Tool Labs: http://tools.wmflabs.org Tool Labs help pages: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Tools/Help How to create redirects to Tool Labs: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/.htaccess#.htaccess Magnus Manske's migration manual: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/Migrating_from_tools… Scripts to clean up your toolserver account]] after migration: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Main_Page Mailing list Labs-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l IRC channel #wikimedia-labs: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-labs Marc-André Pelletier (Coren) and Andrew Bogott (andrewbogott) are the WMF Tool Labs ops. Petr Bena (petan) and Tim Landscheidt (scfc_de) are voluntary Tool Labs admins. We invite you to join our IRC office hour in #wikimedia-office on Wednesday, June 11th, at 5 p.m. UTC. Contact: The migration is coordinated by Silke Meyer (WMDE). Birgit Müller supports her in communications. The two toolserver admins Marlen Caemmerer und Alexander Mette are glad to help you with advice. Marc-André Pelletier can answer all questions concerning Tool Labs. Contact us at Silke: silke.meyer(a)wikimedia.de, Talk page at [5], IRC: Silke_WMDE Birgit: birgit.mueller(a)wikimedia.de, Talk page at [6], IRC: Birgit_WMDE We hope that the transition will happen as smoothly as possible! [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tool_Labs/Roadmap_en [2] http://tools.wmflabs.org [3] https://toolserver.org/ [4] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:MerlBot [5] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer_Diskussion:Silke_WMDE [6] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer_Diskussion:Birgit_Müller_(WMDE) -- Birgit Müller Team Communitys Community Liaison Volunteer Support Department E-Mail: birgit.mueller(a)wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. -- Nicole Ebber Leiterin Internationales Head of International Affairs Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49 30 219158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Chapters mailing list Chapters(a)wikimedia.ch https://intern.wikimedia.ch/lists/listinfo/chapters
Subpages on Wikidata
I don't recall what is the current stage of consensus regarding Wikisource subpages on Wikidata, but because while playing "The Game" [1] I keep getting this kind of item (mostly from es.wikisource), I've managed a way to at least track those stuff [2] I didn't did an exhaustive search for such items and I keep finding new, but at this momment it returns 2k of items. [1] - https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/ [2] - http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/autolist.html?q=CLAIM%5B31%3A1715235…


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