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Hawaii Island police in search of missing 76-year-old man
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Published: Jan. 23, 2023 at 4:49 PM HST|Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 at 4:52 PM HST
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Hawaii County police are looking for a missing elderly man they believe could be in danger.
William Bishop, Sr., 76, was last seen Sunday around 2 p.m. near 22nd Avenue in Hawaiian Paradise Park in Keaau.
He commonly visits Keaau and Hilo.
Bishop is about 5-foot-8, 170 pounds, with gray hair and green eyes
He may be driving a silver 2019 Toyota Camry.
Call the Hawaii Police Department with any tips, (808) 935-3311.
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HomeCultureLooking for a New Year's Resolution? Support Local Businesses!
The first month of 2019 has already zoomed by and all of you resolutioners may have already quit your conquests of becoming a better you. This is not a pessimistic assumption either, as studies have shown that over half of resolutions are given up by midFebruary. As February looms and perseverance dooms, perhaps this article is the sign that you've been looking for in order to keep the overrated promises you have made to yourself in developing better habits. However, if you are part of the half of the population who's already given up, maybe I can persuade you into a new selfless resolution that helps others in your community and start by taking the initiative to support local businesses! Ever since the Industrial Revolution, corporate industries have controlled our societies, however, the movement for supporting local small businesses has been gaining traction over the past couple of decades and it is uplifting to see new local businesses pop up every month in Prince George. While we are constantly being told that it is important to shop local, perhaps you have never been informed the exact reasons as to why or maybe you don't even know of any in your neighborhood! Fortunately, in this article you will discover the main reasons as to why local businesses are good for communities and I'll even list off some Prince George businesses that I have personally had great experiences with. If you have never been provided with the proper evidence as to why supporting local businesses is good for the community, let me start by highlighting the obvious benefits such as a) keeping dollars within the local economy, that is, enriching the whole community as locally-owned businesses recycle a much larger share of their revenue back into the local economy compared to chain stores; b) creating more local jobs for members of the community; and c) building strong communities, therefore sustaining vibrant town centers, linking neighbors in a web of economic and social relationships, and contributing to local causes. There are also many more reasons to support local businesses that may not be as obvious such as d) maintaining local decision-making, as local ownership ensures that important decisions are made by people who live in the community and who will feel the impacts of those decisions; e) generating a competitive market, for a marketplace of hundreds of small businesses ensures constant innovation and low prices over the long-term; f) developing product diversity, as a multitude of small businesses who select products based on their own interests and the needs of their local customers, and not on a national sales plan, guarantees a much broader range of product choices; and lastly g) upholding environmental sustainability, by which local businesses help to sustain lively, compact, walkable town centers which are essential to reducing sprawl, automobile use, habitat loss, and air and water pollution. Alright, so now you should all be jazzed up to support local businesses, but perhaps you don't know of any in your area! Just this past month alone, I have had great interactions with the likes of Sonar Comedy and Night Club, Sarita Computer Repairs, Play Grounds Café, and Spicy Greens Restaurant. Having only been open for about a year, Sonar Comedy and Night Club is a refreshing new addition to Prince George's nightlife scene and provides another effort at revitalizing the downtown core. I must especially point out the innovation of bringing a comedy club to Prince George, as supporting local comedy is very important to me and even watching open mic nights can be a good time (if you're intoxicated enough) despite most amateur sets being a little rough. If you've never been to a comedy club, I highly suggest checking it out, but if it's your first time, maybe go when a professional comic is lined up. Sarita Computer Repairs is located in the heart of College Heights and provided me with some of the best customer service I have ever received with any business. With the horror of finding a chunk of dead pixels on my laptop screen, they provided quick service, cheap prices, were much friendlier compared to the other computer repair services I called around town, and (with my acknowledged bias) my technician was also a half-Asian beauty named Jade. Play Grounds Café is located on 18th and Quinn, just near the CN Centre, and is a rustic little coffee shop that has been serving the families of Prince George for the past 2.5 years. Serving coffee using locally-roasted beans, as well as amazing homemade soups, salads, sandwiches, and sweet and savoury crepes, this familyrun business just opened a new location in the Prestige Hotel and Casino complex! Lastly, Spicy Greens Restaurant is located in College Heights and serves authentic Sri Lankan food. 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Q: How do i convert all alphabets to uppercase using transform ignoring digits? I need to convert only letters in the string to uppercase and tried this piece of code which throws an error.
   s = "Dense-123-Sparse-999"
   std::transform(s.begin(), s.end(), s.begin(), std::toupper);

Expected Output: "DENSE-123-SPARSE-999"

"Error: non-void lambda does not return a value in all control paths [-Werror,-Wreturn-type]"

It's throwing an error since there are digits in the input string. How do I write a lambda function that converts characters to uppercase only if they are an alphabet and not a number?
something like this,
transform_if(s.begin(), s.end(), s.begin, [](char c){ if(isalpha(c)return toupper(c);});

since C++ doesnt have transform_if, i'm looking for a  one liner with any other commands.

A: use a Lambda or a function
char upperize(char c)
{
    return toupper(c);
}
transform(s.begin(),s.end(),s.begin(),upperize);

transform(s.begin(),s.end(),s.begin(),[](char s){return toupper(s);});
cout<<s;

you can use isalpha also in addition

A: Answering my own question, figured out transform and for_each with lambda code. works for letters without accents.
for_each(s.begin(), s.end(), [](char &c) { c = (isalpha(c))? toupper(c):c; } ) ;

or
transform(s.begin(), s.end(), s.begin(), [](char &c) { return (isalpha(c))?toupper(c):c ; });

Thanks to Basile's comments educating us on UTF-8,  my code failed for below case:
input: "èéêrię"

output: "èéêRIę" (wrong)

will need to get back and search for UTF-8 library usage

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Q: How to loop through requests and find the first error I am trying to write the javascript version of this Github bash script
I need a for loop to go through an API endpoint and find the first response with the result '0'.
The API URI stays the same but has an increasing query string salaryrange.
I have tried to code this but it appears to be in async.
function seekSalaryFinder() {
  var min = 30000
  var max = 200000
  var salary = min;
  for (t = 0; t <= 30; t++) {
    var salary = salary + 10000
    var apiEndpoint = 'https://chalice-search-api.cloud.seek.com.au/search?jobid='
    var jobId = 38300301
    var url = apiEndpoint + jobId + "&salaryrange=" + salary
    request.get(url, function(error, response, body) {
      var array = JSON.parse(body);
      console.log(array.totalCount)
    });
  }
}

Can someone please help me and explain to me what would be the best way to approach this?


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Beneficiary 1 (coordinator): IBEC
Beneficiary 2: TUE
Beneficiary 3: GRO
Beneficiary 4: BAS
Beneficiary 5: EDI
Beneficiary 6: TAU
Beneficiary 7: TEVA
Beneficiary 8: TAG
Beneficiary 9: BGX
Partner Organisation 1: CRUK
Partner Organisation 2: ESADE
Partner Organisation 3: UAB
ESR1 – Michela Vargiu (GRO)
ESR2 – Shreyas Wagle (TAU)
ESR3 – Krishna Vippala (TEVA)
ESR4 – Anjana Sathyan (TUE)
ESR5 – Stephen Croke (EDI)
ESR6 – Emmanouil Archontakis (TUE)
ESR7 – Alis Olea (IBEC)
ESR8 – Linlin Deng (TUE)
ESR9 – África Gálvez Flores (BGX/IBEC)
ESR10 – Boris Lozhkin (BAS)
ESR11 – Melissa van de L'Isle (EDI)
ESR12 – Maria Vlastara (TAG)
ESR13 – Daniel Rodriguez (TAU)
Dissemination & Communication
GENERAL PRESS ARTICLES
Training the new generation of scientists for side effect-free chemotherapies. Published on CORDIS Magazine, October 2020. https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/422368-training-the-new-generation-of-scientists-for-side-effect-free-chemotherapies/es
THERACAT Project: hitting cancer bull's-eye. Published on Eurekalert! platform, october 2022. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/969239
Proyecto THERACAT: dando en la diana del cáncer. Published on Biotech Spain online magazine (in Spanish). http://biotech-spain.com/es/articles/proyecto-theracat-dando-en-la-diana-del-c-ncer-/
THERACAT Project: hitting cancer bull's-eye. Published on Instistute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) website. https://ibecbarcelona.eu/theracat-project-hitting-cancer-bulls-eye/
THERACAT Project: hitting cancer bull's-eye. Published on University of Edinburgh website.
Developing Pd(II) based amphiphilic polymeric nanoparticles for pro-drug activation in complex media. Published on Nature Chemistry Community. https://chemistrycommunity.nature.com/posts/developing-pd-ii-based-amphiphilic-polymeric-nanoparticles-for-pro-drug-activation-in-complex-media?utm_source=like_mailer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=notify_author_of_like
Architectural Change of the Shell-Forming Block from Linear to V‑Shaped Accelerates Micellar Disassembly, but Slows the Complete Enzymatic Degradation of the Amphiphiles. Merav Segal, Lihi Ozery, Gadi Slor, Shreyas Shankar Wagle (ESR2, TAU), Tamara Ehm, Roy Beck, and Roey J. Amir (TAU). Biomacromolecules 2020, 21, 4076−4086. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.biomac.0c00882?ref=pdf
Transition metal catalysts for the bioorthogonal synthesis of bioactive agents. Melissa O.N. van de L'Isle (ESR11, EDI), Mari Carmen Ortega-Liebana, Asier Unciti-Broceta (EDI). Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 61, 2021, 32-42. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1367593120301307
Targeting Glioblastoma: Advances in Drug Delivery and Novel Therapeutic Approaches. Eilam Yeini, Paula Ofek, Nitzan Albeck, Daniel Rodriguez Ajamil (ESR13, TAU), Lena Neufeld, Anat Eldar‐Boock, Ron Kleiner, Daniella Vaskovich, Shani Koshrovski‐Michael, Sahar Israeli Dangoor, Adva Krivitsky, Christian Burgos Luna, Gal Shenbach‐Koltin, Miki Goldenfeld, Ori Hadad, Galia Tiram, Ronit Satchi‐Fainaro (TAU). Adv. Therap. 2021, 4, 2000124. https://doi.org/10.1002/adtp.202000124
Tuning the Reactivity of Micellar Nanoreactors by Precise Adjustments of the Amphiphile and Substrate Hydrophobicity. Shahar Tevet, Shreyas S. Wagle (ESR2, TAU), Gadi Slor, and Roey J. Amir (TAU). Macromolecules2021, 54 (24), 11419–11426. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.macromol.1c01755
Judging Enzyme-Responsive Micelles by Their Covers: Direct Comparison of Dendritic Amphiphiles with Different Hydrophilic Blocks. Gadi Slor, Alis R. Olea (ESR7, IBEC), Sílvia Pujals, Ali Tigrine, Victor R. De La Rosa, Richard Hoogenboom, Lorenzo Albertazzi (IBEC, TUE), Roey J. Amir (TAU). Biomacromolecules 2021, 22, 1197-1210. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.biomac.0c01708
Elucidating the Stability of Single-Chain Polymeric Nanoparticles in Biological Media and Living Cells. Linlin Deng (ESR8, TUE), Lorenzo Albertazzi (IBEC, TUE), and Anja R. A. Palmans (TUE). Biomacromolecules 2022, 23 (1), 326–338. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.biomac.1c01291
En Route to Stabilized Compact Conformations of Single-Chain Polymeric Nanoparticles in Complex Media. Stefan Wijker, Linlin Deng (ESR8, TUE), Fabian Eisenreich, Ilja K. Voets, and Anja R. A. Palmans (TUE). Macromolecules 2022, 55 (14), 6220–6230. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.macromol.2c00930
Design and Evolution of Chimeric Streptavidin for Protein-Enabled Dual Gold Catalysis. Christoffel, F., Igareta, N., Pellizzoni, M. M., Tiessler-Sala, L., Lozhkin, B. (ESR10, BAS), Spiess, D. C., Lledos, A., Marechal, J.-D., Peterson, R. L., Ward, T. R. (BAS). Macromolecules 2022 55 (14), 6220-6230. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41929-021-00651-9
Bioorthogonal Strategies for the in Vivo Synthesis or Release of Drugs. Lozhkin, B. (ESR10, BAS); Ward, T. R. (BAS). Med. Chem. 45 (2021) 11631. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0968089621003187?via%3Dihub
A Close-to-Aromatize Approach for the Late-Stage Functionalization through Ring Closing Metathesis. Lozhkin, Boris (ESR10, BAS); Ward, Thomas R. (BAS). Chim. Acta, May 2021, vol 104, issue 5. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hlca.202100024
Meet me halfway: Are in vitro 3D cancer models on the way to replace in vivo models for nanomedicine development? Sabina Pozzi, Anna Scomparin, Sahar Israeli Dangoor, Daniel Rodriguez Ajamil (ESR13, TAU), Paula Ofek, Lena Neufeld, Adva Krivitsky, Daniella Vaskovich-Koubi, Ron Kleiner, Pradip Dey, Shani Koshrovski-Michael, Noa Reisman, Ronit Satchi-Fainaro (TAU). Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, Volume 175, 2021, 113760. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0169409X21000983?via%3Dihub
Developing Pd(ii) based amphiphilic polymeric nanoparticles for pro-drug activation in complex media. Anjana Sathyan (ESR4, TUE), Stephen Croke (ESR5, EDI), Ana M. Pérez-López, Bas F. M. de Waal, Asier Unciti-Broceta (EDI), Anja R. A. Palmans (TAU). Mol. Syst. Des. Eng., 2022, Advance Article. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/ME/D2ME00173J
CONFERENCES, CONGRESSES AND SEMINARS
Michela Vargiu (ESR1)
The Netherlands' Catalysis and Chemistry Conference (NCCC) 2020, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands. Novel metal complexes and strategies for bio-orthogonal catalytic uncaging of prodrug. M. Vargiu and G.Roelfes. Poster, 02/03/2020 to 04/03/2020. https://www.vo.eu/event/nccc-conference-2020/
CHAINS – Chemistry as innovative science 2020, online. Functional Group Interconversion-to-Release: a new approach to bioorthogonal uncaging of prodrugs. M. Vargiu and G.Roelfes. Poster, 08/12/2020 and 09/12/2020. https://nwochains.nl/watch-chains2020/
Shreyas Wagle (ESR2)
The Israeli Chapter of the Controlled Release Society (ICRS) and the Polymers for Advanced Technologies Society (PAT). Elucidating the Effect of Hydrophobicity on the Kinetics of Bioorthogonal Pd-mediated reaction within micellar nanoreactors. Shreyas Wagle, Shahar Tevet, Gadi Slor, Roey Amir. Poster, 03/10/2021. https://icrs-pat2021.org.il/
13th Annual Meeting of Fred Chaoul Nano Center Community. Elucidating the Effect of Hydrophobicity on the Kinetics of Bioorthogonal Pd-mediated reaction within micellar nanoreactors. Shreyas Wagle, Shahar Tevet, Gadi Slor, Roey Amir. Poster, 13/02/2022. https://nano.tau.ac.il/sites/nano.tau.ac.il/files/media_server/Nano/FredShaul_Prog_Update.pdf
End of the year poster session in Tel-Aviv University. Studying the influence of polymeric architecture on the depropargylation kinetics inside palladium loaded micellar nanoreactors. Shreyas Wagle, Parul Rathee, Roey Amir. Poster, 09/06/2022. https://en-exact-sciences.tau.ac.il/chemistry/
European Polymer Congress EPF 2022. Studying the influence of polymeric architecture on the depropargylation kinetics inside palladium loaded micellar nanoreactors. Shreyas Wagle, Parul Rathee, Roey Amir. Poster, 01/07/2022. https://www.epf2022.org/
THERACAT – Final Meeting. Studying the influence of polymeric architecture on the depropargylation kinetics inside palladium loaded micellar nanoreactors. Shreyas Wagle, Parul Rathee, Roey Amir. Poster, 01/07/2022. https://theracat.eu/theracat-meeting-and-conference/
Krishna Vippala (ESR3)
13th Annual Meeting of Fred Chaoul Nano Center Community. Studying the effect of polymer architecture on reaction rate in organometallic micellar nanoreactors. Krishna Vippala, Shreyas Wagle, Bianca Avramovitch, Roey Amir. Poster, 13/02/2022. https://nano.tau.ac.il/sites/nano.tau.ac.il/files/media_server/Nano/FredShaul_Prog_Update.pdf
End of the year poster session in Tel-Aviv University. Studying the effect of polymer architecture on reaction rate in organometallic micellar nanoreactors. Krishna Vippala, Shreyas Wagle, Bianca Avramovitch, Roey Amir. Poster, 09/06/2022. https://en-exact-sciences.tau.ac.il/chemistry/
THERACAT – Final Meeting. Studying the effect of polymer architecture on reaction rate in organometallic micellar nanoreactors. Krishna Vippala, Shreyas Wagle, Bianca Avramovitch, Roey Amir. Poster, 07/07/22. https://theracat.eu/theracat-meeting-and-conference/
Anjana Sathyan (ESR4)
Colloquium at the TU Eindhoven (Eindhoven, THE NETHERLANDS). Single chain polymeric nanoparticles as catalyst carriers for prodrug activation. Anjana Sathyan. 14/12/2019.
CHAINS – Chemistry as innovative science 2020, online. Single chain polymeric nanoparticles for pro-drug activation. Anjana Sathyan, Anja Palmans. Poster, 08/12/2020 and 09/12/2020. https://nwochains.nl/watch-chains2020/
Brightland polymer days. Improving the efficiency of Pd (II) based amphiphilic polymeric nanoparticles for bio-orthogonal catalysis in complex media. Anjana Sathyan, Ana M. Pérez-López , Catherine Adam , Bas de Waal , Asier Unciti-Broceta and Anja R.A Palmans. Poster, 7/9-11-2021. https://polymerdays.brightlands.com/
CHAINS 2021. Improving the efficiency of Pd (II) based amphiphilic polymeric nanoparticles for bio-orthogonal catalysis in complex media. Anjana Sathyan, Ana M. Pérez-López , Catherine Adam , Bas de Waal , Asier Unciti-Broceta and Anja R.A Palmans. Poster, 7/8- 12-2021. https://nwochains.nl/
CHAINS 2021. Amphiphilic polymeric nano-particles as bio-orthogonal catalysts for pro-drug activation. Anjana Sathyan, Ana M. Pérez-López , Catherine Adam , Bas de Waal , Asier Unciti-Broceta and Anja R.A Palmans. Oral, 7/8- 12-2021. https://nwochains.nl/
ICMS symposium. Cu-SCPNs as versatile catalysts in water. Anjana Sathyan, Anja R.A Palmans. Poster, 24/03/2022. https://www.tue.nl/en/our-university/calendar-and-events/24-03-2022-icms-annual-symposium-2022/
FMS ANNUAL MEETING. Cu-SCPNs as versatile catalysts in water. Anjana Sathyan, Anja R.A Palmans. Poster, 13/05/2022. https://fmsresearch.nl/fms-annual-meeting/
THERACAT – Final Meeting. Developing Single-chain polymeric nanoparticles for bio-orthogonal catalysis. Anjana Sathyana, Anja Palmans. Poster and oral presentation. 01/07/2022. https://theracat.eu/theracat-meeting-and-conference/
Stephen Croke (ESR5)
Seminar at Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine (Edinburgh, UK). Targeting Cancer Through the Local Destruction of Proteins. Oral presentation, 21/01/2020.
THERACAT – Final Meeting. Exploring bioorthogonal approaches to activate PROTACS. Stephen Croke, Melissa van de L'Ilse, Mari Carmen Ortega-Liebana and Asier Unciti-Broceta. Poster and oral presentation. 01/07/2022. https://theracat.eu/theracat-meeting-and-conference/
Manos Archontakis (ESR6)
THERACAT – Final Meeting. Super-Resolution Microscopy on Catalytic Single-Chain Polymeric Nanoarticles: towards single-particle structure and function. Emmanouil Archontakis. Oral presentation, 01/07/2022. https://theracat.eu/theracat-meeting-and-conference/
THERACAT – Final Meeting. A Spectrally-resolved view at nanoparticle functionality. Emmanouil Archontakis. Poster and oral presentation. 01/07/2022. https://theracat.eu/theracat-meeting-and-conference/
Alis R. Olea (ESR7)
13th IBEC Symposium, online. Judging micelles by their covers: combining molecular precision and self-reporting mechanism for a direct comparison of dendritic amphiphiles with different hydrophilic blocks. Alis R. Olea, Gadi Slor, Sílvia Pujals, Victor R. De La Rosa, Richard Hoogenboom, Lorenzo Albertazzi and Roey J. Amir. Poster, 27/10/2020 and 28/12/2020. https://ibecbarcelona.eu/es/event/13th-ibec-symposium-bioengineering-for-future-and-precision-medicine/
THERACAT – Final Meeting. Tuning tumor penetration: dynamics of polymeric micelles inside an in vitro tumor-on-a-chip model with dual ECM. Alis R. Olea, Alicia Jurado, Gadi Slor, Shahar Tevet, Sílvia Pujals, Roey J. Amir and Lorenzo Albertazzi.Poster. 01/07/2022. https://theracat.eu/theracat-meeting-and-conference/
Linlin Deng (ESR8)
Colloquium at the TU Eindhoven (Eindhoven, THE NETHERLANDS). A study on the stability of single chain polymeric nanoparticles in complex media. Oral presentation, 17/02/2020.
CHAINS – Chemistry as innovative science 2020, online. Stability of SCPNs as a function of medium complexity. Linlin Deng, Anja Palmans. Poster, 08/12/2020 and 09/12/2020. https://nwochains.nl/watch-chains2020/
CHAINS 2021. Elucidating the Stability of Single-Chain Polymeric Nanoparticles in Biological Media and Living Cells. Linlin Deng, Lorenzo Albertazzi, and Anja R. A. Palmans. Poster, 7/8- 12-2021. https://nwochains.nl/
Brightland polymer days. Elucidating the Stability of Single-Chain Polymeric Nanoparticles in Biological Media and Living Cells. Linlin Deng, Lorenzo Albertazzi, and Anja R. A. Palmans. Poster, 7/9-11-2021. https://polymerdays.brightlands.com/
ICMS symposium. Elucidating the Stability of Single-Chain Polymeric Nanoparticles in Biological Media and Living Cells. Linlin Deng, Lorenzo Albertazzi, and Anja R. A. Palmans. Poster, 24/03/2022. https://www.tue.nl/en/our-university/calendar-and-events/24-03-2022-icms-annual-symposium-2022/
THERACAT – Final Meeting. Elucidating the Stability and functionality of Single-Chain Polymeric Nanoparticles in Biological Media and Living Cells. Linlin Deng, Lorenzo Albertazzi, and Anja R. A. Palmans. Poster and oral presentation, 01/07/2022. https://theracat.eu/theracat-meeting-and-conference/
Africa Galvez-Flores (ESR9)
Biomaterials Seminar Series at the Centre for the Cellular Microenvironment (University of Glasgow, UK). An In-vitro 3D Model for Chemotherapy Testing. Oral presentation, 26/11/2019.
Goodbye Flat Biology, Berlin, Germany. 3D Hydrogels and Bioinks for Realistic In-vitro Cancer Modelling. Poster, 11/11/2019.
Joint 3DBioNet IBIN Meeting, London, UK. 3D Hydrogels and Bioinks for In-vitro modelling in Advanced Therapies. Poster, 20/01/2020
THERACAT – Final Meeting. Suitability of 3D Fmoc-FF/S Hydrogels for anticancer drug discovery. Africa Galvez-Flores, Ewelina Morawska, Chris Allan, Laura Goldie, Matthew Dalby, Rein Ulijn. Poster, 01/07/2022. https://theracat.eu/theracat-meeting-and-conference/
Boris Lozhkin (ESR10)
22nd Tetrahedron Symposium. Catalysis for a Sustainable World. Artificial deallylase directed prodrug activation on tumor cells. Boris Lozhkin, Brett Garabedian, Alina Stein, Robin Vinck, Johannes Rebelein, Thomas Ward. Poster, 28.06.2022 – 01.07.2022. https://www.elsevier.com/events/conferences/tetrahedron-symposium
Maria Vlastara (ESR12)
Presentation at the Nuclear Medicine Department, Radboud University Medical Center (Nijmegen, The Netherlands). In-vivo click and click-to-release strategies for in vivo catalyst activation. Oral presentation, 28/05/2019.
THERACAT – Final Meeting. "Click-to-release" to Boost Tumor-Blood Ratios with trans-cyclooctene-DFO Functionalized Trastuzumab in Mice. Maria Vlastara, Raffaella Rossin, Freek JM Hoeben, Ron M. Versteegen, Henk ten Hoeve, Wolter ten Hoeve, Marc S. Robillard. Poster. 01/07/2022. https://theracat.eu/theracat-meeting-and-conference/
Daniel Rodriguez (ESR13)
ICRS-PAT 2021 (CRS Israel local chapter). Design of targeted PLGA-SO3 Nanoparticles encapsulating PARP and PD-L1i for BRCA-Mutated breast cancer therapy. Daniel Rodriguez Ajamil, Shani Koshrovski-Michael, Pradip Dey. Poster, 3.10.21-7.10.21. https://icrs-pat2021.org.il/
The 13th Annual Meeting of Fred Chaoul Nano Centre Community. Design of targeted PLGA-SO3 Nanoparticles encapsulating PARP and PD-L1i for BRCA-Mutated breast cancer therapy. Daniel Rodriguez Ajamil, Shani Koshrovski-Michael, Pradip Dey. Poster and oral presentation, 13.02.22-15.02.22. https://nano.tau.ac.il/events/13th-annual-meeting-of-the-fred-schaul-nano-center-community-11-1-2022
CBRC Virtual Seminars. Design of targeted PLGA-SO3 Nanoparticles encapsulating PARP and PD-L1i for BRCA-Mutated breast cancer therapy. Daniel Rodriguez Ajamil, Shani Koshrovski-Michael, Pradip Dey. Oral presentaion, 16.05.22. https://cbrc.tau.ac.il/events/cbrc-18th-virtual-seminar-dna-and-cancer-much-more-than-just-mutations-25-4-2022?instance=1650891600&gid=19
Israeli Society for Cancer Research (ISCR). Design of targeted PLGA-SO3 Nanoparticles encapsulating PARP and PD-L1i for BRCA-Mutated breast cancer therapy. Daniel Rodriguez Ajamil, Shani Koshrovski-Michael, Pradip Dey. Poster, 31.05.22. https://www.iscr.org.il/%D7%9B%D7%A0%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%9D/%D7%9B%D7%A0%D7%A1-%D7%94%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%92%D7%95%D7%9F-2022/
THERACAT conference. Design of targeted PLGA-SO3 Nanoparticles encapsulating PARP and PD-L1i for BRCA-Mutated breast cancer therapy. Daniel Rodriguez Ajamil, Shani Koshrovski-Michael, Pradip Dey. Poster ? Oral presentation, 01/07/2022. https://theracat.eu/theracat-meeting-and-conference/
CRS (Controlled Release Society) Annual meeting. Design of targeted PLGA-SO3 Nanoparticles encapsulating PARP and PD-L1i for BRCA-Mutated breast cancer therapy. Daniel Rodriguez Ajamil, Shani Koshrovski-Michael, Pradip Dey. Poster, 11.07.22 – 15.07.22. https://www.eventscribe.net/2022/CRSAnnualMeeting/
Stephen Croke (ESR5), Melissa van de L'Isle (ESR11) and Asier Unciti-Broceta (EDI). Short stay of High School student (Eva Russo) from Algeciras (Spain) that won a Diverciencia scholarship to visit EDI lab and learn on bioorthogonal chemistry (Edinburgh, UK). 02-06/09/2019. https://www.europasur.es/algeciras/omar-rodriguez-eva-russo-diverciencia_0_1360364158.html
Manos Archontakis (ESR6): Demonstration of microscope facilities for BSc students at TUE (Eindhoven, THE NETHERLANDS). 11/2019
Alis Olea (ESR7): Participation in «(Re)search4Talent» event for undergraduate and master students interested in a research career at IBEC (Barcelona, SPAIN). 21/05/2019
Africa Galvez (ESR9): Company Monthly Update: An Overview of the THERACAT Project. In this online talk of about 30 min she explained the THERACAT project to her Biogelx colleagues, with a presentation targeted to a general audience. 09/06/2020.
Boris Lozhkin (ESR10) and Thomas Ward (BAS). Chemistry Olympiad Workshop for gifted Swiss high school students (Basel, SWITZERLAND). 23/11/2019
Boris Lozhkin (ESR10): Practical courses in general chemistry for students of the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Basel, Switzerland. From 04.10.2020 to 23.12.2020
Boris Lozhkin (ESR10): Practical courses in general chemistry, during the period 01.03.2021 – 04.06.2021, for 9 students of the Faculty of Chemistry from the University of Basel, Switzerland.
Maria Vlastara (ESR12): Hands-on-sessions at the Radboud University Medical Center Summer school "State of the art Radionuclide Imaging and Therapy in Oncology" (Nijmegen, THE NETHERLANDS). 12-16/08/2019
Daniel Rodriguez (ESR13): Participation in the scientific outreach event from the CRS, the Controlled Release Society at Montreal, Canada (https://www.controlledreleasesociety.org/) to a young committee.
Mention in the description of beneficiaries' activities:
– https://nanomedspain.net/institut-de-bioenginyeria-de-catalunya-ibec/
Beneficiary EDI co-organised the Bioorthogonal & Bioresponsive 2019 Conference (Edinburgh, UK; 06-07/06/2019), having Asier Unciti-Broceta (EDI) as the Chair and Stephen Croke (ESR5) and Melissa van de L'Isle (ESR11) as delegates; this conference was attended by most of the THERACAT ESRs.
Interview ESR2 Shreyas Wagle (newspaper Loksatta), 18/10/2019: https://www.loksatta.com/viva-news/jagachya-pativar-article-shreyas-wagle-abn-97-1996446/
Fundraise event: Africa Galvez (ESR9) from BGX participated in a cancer-related charity event which started on 01/01/2020 and finished on 20/09/2020. Due to the pandemic situation the 2020 Scottish 10K Run itself was cancelled, but the fundraising activity took place in Africa's fundraising page for CRUK. https://fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/africagalv
Africa Galvez (ESR9) has been mentoring a MSc student from May to October 2021. She supervised the student's work, who actively participated on ESR9's work within THERACAT and used these results for her MSc Thesis.
THERACAT video: Anjana Sathyan (ESR4), Emmanouil Archontakis (ESR6), Alis Olea Rodica (ESR7), Linlin Deng (ESR8), Maria Vlastara (ESR12), Daniel Rodríguez Ajamil (ESR13) established a working group and created a video explaining the main goals of the THERACAT project and societal implications for a general audience.The video was launched in the end of December 2020 on the project website and on different social networks:
– IBEC Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpEygq-vNr8
– THERACAT Twitter account: https://twitter.com/theracatEU/status/1344584537549000711
– Linkedin post by Daniel Rodríguez (ESR13): https://www.linkedin.com/posts/daniel-rodr%C3%ADguez-ajamil_theracat-activity-6760151801216942080-T0kY
NEWS ON BENEFICIARIES' WEBSITES
http://www.ibecbarcelona.eu/training-the-next-generation-of-experts-in-bio-orthogonal-catalysis-for-cancer-therapy_/
https://www.biogelx.com/theracat-the-use-of-bio-orthogonal-catalysis-for-cancer-therapy/
https://www.biogelx.com/introducing-biogelxs-new-cell-biologist-africa-galvez-flores/
https://www.biogelx.com/the-theracat-project-gets-off-to-a-flying-start/
https://www.ed.ac.uk/cancer-centre/news-and-events/news-2019/european-funding-success
https://www.biogelx.com/goodbye-flat-biology-biogelx-tumor-model-for-chemotherapy-testing
https://www.biogelx.com/advancing-3d-models-for-defeating-cancer/
https://www.biogelx.com/biogelx-tumor-model-for-chemotherapy-testing/
https://www.biogelx.com/advanced-biomaterials-key-focus-in-development-of-bioorthogonal-and-bioresponsive-strategies/
https://www.biogelx.com/3d-hydrogels-and-bioinks-for-in-vitro-modelling-in-advanced-therapies-our-experience-at-ibin-3dbionet-meeting/
https://www.biogelx.com/new-side-effect-free-therapies-to-treat-cancer/
https://www.biogelx.com/new-case-study-for-cancer-models/
https://www.biogelx.com/case_study/3d-cancer-models-for-the-assessment-of-a-new-generation-of-chemotherapies/
THERACAT Twitter account (https://twitter.com/theracatEU): from November/2020 to January/2021 Krishna Vippala (ESR3), Shreyas Shankar Wagle (ESR2), Emmanouil Archontakis (ESR6), Alis Olea Rodica (ESR7), Africa Galvez-Flores (ESR9), Melissa Van de l'Isle (ESR11) and Daniel Rodríguez Ajamil (ESR13) were in charge to manage the account publications. More than 80 tweets were published and the account has gained more than 55K impressions.
Shreyas Wagle (ESR2) published some posts:
– https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:6872085349091332096?utm_source=linkedin_share&utm_medium=member_desktop_share&utm_content=post
– https://twitter.com/RoeyJAmir/status/1466088612899045376?s=20&t=tjHMUrnC9Dis-M8efSjypA-https://twitter.com/shreyaswagle93/status/1542876009065844736?s=20&t=tjHMUrnC9Dis-M8efSjypA
-https://twitter.com/shreyaswagle93/status/1542876009065844736?s=20&t=tjHMUrnC9Dis-M8efSjypA
Africa Galvez-Flores (ESR9) collaborated in the publication of several posts in social media accounts of beneficiary BGX:
– https://www.linkedin.com/posts/biogelx-limited_biogelx-tumor-model-for-chemotherapy-testing-activity-6597807130659684352-agGU/
– https://www.linkedin.com/posts/biogelx-limited_goodbye-flat-biology-2019-biogelx-tumor-activity-6597110360078192640-ZHeY/
– https://www.linkedin.com/posts/biogelx-limited_goodbye-flat-biology-2019-biogelx-tumor-activity-6600685886327918592-7k7S/
– https://www.linkedin.com/posts/biogelx-limited_advanced-biomaterials-a-key-focus-in-the-activity-6544558341656588288-ed5G/
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p48Un3EUR9Q&feature=youtu.be&utm_content=108117114&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin&hss_channel=lcp-3042346
– https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fbiogelx%2Fposts%2F1394863554031498%3A0
– https://twitter.com/biogelx/status/1111667118821519360
– https://twitter.com/morenorse/status/1199284377177464832
– https://www.linkedin.com/posts/biogelx-limited_hydrogel-cancermodel-drugtesting-activity-6760907282634092545-o-t8
– https://www.linkedin.com/posts/biogelx-limited_2dcellculture-3dcellculture-cancerresearch-activity-6671022782538690560-at_C
– https://www.linkedin.com/posts/biogelx-limited_2dcellculture-3dcellculture-cellculture-activity-6666715824646184960-wpbo
– https://www.linkedin.com/posts/biogelx-limited_cellculture-3dcellculture-2dcellculture-activity-6666715850780897280-IDIq
– https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-6764505861650976768-CMl-
– https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-6672081888699650048-Gs1C
– https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-6668077259892518912-5z1A
– https://www.facebook.com/donate/553542552202121/
Daniel Rodríguez Ajamil (ESR13) contributed with a Linkedin post:
– https://www.linkedin.com/posts/daniel-rodr%C3%ADguez-ajamil_theracat-activity-6760151801216942080-T0kY
– https://twitter.com/ajamil_d/status/1542799044694745088
https://youtu.be/zpEygq-vNr8
THERACAT Conference
Barcelona, 1st July
THERACAT
Bio-orthogonal catalysis for cancer therapy
MSCA-ITN-2017
European Training Networks
CORDIS Link
Coordinator: Dr. Lorenzo Albertazzi
Nanoscopy for nanomedicine Group
Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia
© IBEC 2018
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 765497
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Canada's Truth Commission provides much needed guidance for finding justice and reconciling a country's many historical narratives.
The use of Truth Commissions is typically associated with states transitioning out of periods of autocracy or violent political conflict. Commissions like the famous South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission are widely recognized as useful tools of transitional justice and are aimed at moving communities affected by mass atrocities and violence towards peace and democracy.
But not all Truth Commissions are focused on consolidating transitions. Some, like Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, are aimed at re-opening and unsettling the past.
As such, the recently released report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission may have lessons that resonate internationally and, in particular, in those members of the international community, like the United States and Australia, that forged nation-states at the cost of destroying native and indigenous communities. In particular, how can such states move forward by acknowledging and confronting a bitter and violent past?
The Commission outlined the Canadian government's 120-year policy of forcibly displacing tens of thousands of Aboriginal children and assimilating them via Residential Schools. Many were subsequently mentally, physically, and sexually abused. Some 6,000 perished. The odds of a child dying in a Residential School were greater than the odds of a Canadian soldier perishing in WWII.
But the Commission's report also exposes certain dilemmas and opportunities for a country confronting its violent past and reconciling uncomfortable facts with a vision and version of Canada that is widely seen as incommensurable with the systemic abuses perpetrated against Aboriginal communities.
Seeking justice for past crimes exposes a host of dilemmas. Amongst the most salient is how to effectively recognize both the individual and collective nature of the crimes committed. By virtue of the fact that all human life is social life, mass atrocities inevitably include some element of collective or communal violence.
In Canada, this has been recognized by the ongoing debate over whether the treatment of Aboriginals in the Residential School System constitutes "cultural genocide," a crime which necessitates an appreciation of not only the violence committed against the individual children who were torn apart from their communities but also the consequent and devastating tears in the social fabric of indigenous communities. The current discourse around the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's findings exposes the dual-nature of violations committed by the Canadian state against Aboriginal communities — the violation committed by the seizure and mistreatment of the child via the Residential School System as well as the residual violation incurred by the affected communities.
The complex nature of such crimes also makes them remarkably difficult to address. Beyond issuing reparations to affected individuals and communities, perhaps the most meaningful and long-lasting measure that Canada can take, and one described at length by the Commission, is to re-imagine how Canadians learn of the Residential School System and the wider oppression of Aboriginal communities.
The observation that Canada's education system has failed to adequately cover the history and treatment of indigenous peoples is, of course, nothing new.
Canadian students have regularly insisted that they don't learn or engage sufficiently with the historical abuses of aboriginal communities. Courses generally still privilege the successes of Canadian state formation, romanticize the emergence of a country via British-French military battle and political negotiation, elevate our country's growth as a power punching above its weight in the world wars and the post-WWII era, and celebrate our contributions to global democracy, human rights, and peacekeeping. Canada harnessed the wild and toiled in near-impossible circumstances in order to create a fair, equitable, and democratic state.
At best, the treatment and history of aboriginal peoples dips in and out of this dominant narrative. At worst, the role of indigenous peoples are relegated to the neglected footnotes and margins of this grand story.
Yet the solution to effectively educating students on the treatment of aboriginal peoples in the Residential Schools is not to (re)present it as a dark 'chapter' in our past. Indigenous history should not simply be castigated into a separate 'unit' in our history courses. Doing so risks presenting the violence and atrocities committed against aboriginals as an aberration, as a mistake, or as something that somehow and simply also happened alongside a growing, liberal and democratic nation. Put another way, it would send the message that nation-building and abuses of aboriginal groups happened rather than demonstrating the crimes were perpetrated because of the form that nation-building in Canada took.
Keeping the story of Canadian nation-building separate from the atrocities committed against Aboriginal peoples is yet another form of violence, yet another medium of alienation, and yet another in a long line of attempts to deny reconciliation.
It is remarkable and promising that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission has and continues to dominate headlines in Canada.
In many, if not most, states, mass atrocities are swept under history's rug — ironically, often in the name of 'reconciliation.' But acknowledging the past is one thing. It is something else altogether to take the steps necessary to ensure that it becomes impossible to deny or forget. That is a truth that all nation states that forged futures at the expense of their native communities would do well to learn.


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Holden Karnofsky's blog
by Holden Karnofsky Published December 18, 2019
Last year, the year before, the year before that, and the year before that, we published a set of suggestions for individual donors looking for organizations to support. This year, we are repeating the practice and publishing updated suggestions from Open Philanthropy program staff who chose to provide them.
The same caveats as in previous years apply:
These are reasonably strong options in causes of interest, and shouldn't be taken as outright recommendations (i.e., it isn't necessarily the case that the person making the suggestion thinks they're the best option available across all causes).
In many cases, we find a funding gap we'd like to fill, and then we recommend filling the entire funding gap with a single grant. That doesn't leave much scope for making a suggestion for individuals. The cases listed below, then, are the cases where, for one reason or another, we haven't decided to recommend filling an organization's full funding gap, and we believe it could make use of fairly arbitrary amounts of donations from individuals.
Our explanations for why these are strong giving opportunities are very brief and informal, and we don't expect individuals to be persuaded by them unless they put a lot of weight on the judgment of the person making the suggestion.
In addition, we'd add that these recommendations are made by the individual program officers or teams cited, and do not necessarily represent my (Holden's) personal or Open Phil's institutional "all things considered" view. Also, I just want to note that per our policy we're no longer publishing all potentially relevant relationships. [node:read-more:link]
We believe that every life has equal value — and that philanthropic dollars can go particularly far by helping those who are living in poverty by global standards. This year, we explored the high bar set by the best global health and development interventions. Currently, the best giving opportunities we've found in the Global Health and Development focus area are recommended by GiveWell, a nonprofit dedicated to finding outstanding giving opportunities and publishing its full analysis to help donors decide where to give. [node:read-more:link]
by Holden Karnofsky Published November 11, 2019
We are excited to announce a new co-funding partnership with Ben Delo, co-founder of the cryptocurrency trading platform BitMEX and a recent Giving Pledge signatory. In his Giving Pledge letter, Ben said his ambition is to do the most good possible with his wealth, in particular by funding work to safeguard future generations and protect the long-term prospects of humanity. He explained the reasons for his focus: [node:read-more:link]
Our Progress in 2018 and Plans for 2019
by Holden Karnofsky Published April 15, 2019
This post compares our progress with the goals we set forth a year ago, and lays out our plans for the coming year.
In brief: [node:read-more:link]
History of Philanthropy Literature Review: Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
We're now supporting History of Philanthropy work via a grant to the Urban Institute. One output of this project is a literature review on the social impact of - and role of philanthropic funding in - the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (sometimes abbreviated as "Pugwash"), which "brought together notable scientists from both sides of the iron curtain in order to discuss nuclear disarmament in an informal but serious atmosphere" starting in 1957. [node:read-more:link]


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Thomas Stapleton1
Last Edited=10 Aug 2009
Thomas Stapleton married Lucy Butler, daughter of Theobald Butler and Mary Anne England, in 1812.1
He lived at Callura, County Clare, IrelandG.1
Mary Butler1
F, #361762, b. 1730, d. 1753
Mary Butler was born in 1730.1 She was the daughter of James Butler and Mary O'Shaughnessy.2 She married Richard Wilson in 1750.1 She died in 1753.1
From 1750, her married name became Wilson.
Richard Wilson1
Richard Wilson married Mary Butler, daughter of James Butler and Mary O'Shaughnessy, in 1750.1
He lived at Belvoir, County Clare, IrelandG.1
Elizabeth Butler1
Elizabeth Butler was born in 1731.1 She was the daughter of James Butler and Mary O'Shaughnessy.2 She married, firstly, Patrick Fahy in 1754.1 She married, secondly, Captain John Baker in 1795.1 She died in 1800.1
From 1754, her married name became Fahy.1 From 1795, her married name became Baker.1
Margaret Butler1
F, #361765, d. 1802
Margaret Butler was the daughter of James Butler and Mary O'Shaughnessy.2 She married, firstly, James D'Arcy, son of Dominick D'Arcy and Elizabeth Butler, on 8 May 1760.1 She married, secondly, Dr. Andrew Hickey after 1772.1 She died in 1802.1
From 8 May 1760, her married name became D'Arcy. From after 1772, her married name became Hickey.
Elizabeth Jones1
Elizabeth Jones is the daughter of Henry Jones.1 She married Walter Blake Butler, son of Henry Butler and Ann Blake.1
Her married name became Butler.1
James D'Arcy1
James D'Arcy was the son of Dominick D'Arcy and Elizabeth Butler.2 He married Margaret Butler, daughter of James Butler and Mary O'Shaughnessy, on 8 May 1760.1 He died in 1772, without issue.2
Dr. Andrew Hickey1
Dr. Andrew Hickey married Margaret Butler, daughter of James Butler and Mary O'Shaughnessy, after 1772.1 He died in 1778.1
He lived at Drim, County Clare, IrelandG.1
Teresa O'Hogan1
F, #361769, d. 20 July 1809
Teresa O'Hogan was the daughter of Murtagh O'Hogan and Elizabeth Butler.2,1 She married James Butler, son of James Butler and Mary O'Shaughnessy, in February 1763.1 She died on 20 July 1809.1
Children of Teresa O'Hogan and James Butler
James Butler2 b. 1764, d. 2 Sep 1791
Mary Butler+2 b. 1765, d. 2 Dec 1829
Henry Butler+2 b. 1774, d. 14 Oct 1814
Teresa Butler2 b. 1775
Murtagh O'Hogan1
Murtagh O'Hogan married Elizabeth Butler, daughter of James Butler and Catherine Kirwan.1
He lived at Cross, County Clare, IrelandG.1
Child of Murtagh O'Hogan and Elizabeth Butler
Teresa O'Hogan+2 d. 20 Jul 1809


We are starting a series race every Wednesday starting 23rd March at 9.30pm GMT, this week will be LMP1 at Le Mans for a 60min timed race, there will be qualifying before and all assists will be allowed.
We have a 32 slot dedicated server and will take applicants on a first come first served basis, you are welcome to apply each week, it is not a league but a weekly one off which will be announced after the first race.
All we ask is that you race clean and respect other racers.
As Charger said if you want to take part on Wednesday, just make sure you have our TS details that are located on our website and also have given us a heads up by either here or our forums!
Drivers confirmed so far for Wednesdays event.
The next race will be 35 laps long, and signups are open now!
Great race last night, taking sign ups for next weeks Wednesday race, we had 16 in last night so a few places left.
Next race which is on the 20th (Tomorrow) is the DTM Mercedes and Hockenheim GP!


This project involved a 120,000-square-foot addition, adding a 3,500-seat sanctuary, classrooms, and commons areas. As a design assist project team member DynaTen constructed a chilled water central plant providing enough capacity for the chilled water air-handling units. DynaTen worked with Beck Architecture and DFW Consulting on this project.


Sky Blues' supporters spent the summer of 2008 eagerly anticipating the signing of Wolves' striker Freddy Eastwood. Prior to a lean spell at the Black Country club, he had scored a goal every two games for Southend United during his three seasons at Roots Hall and famously scored the winner against Manchester United in the League Cup with a fantastic free-kick (see clip below). His league debut saw him score after seven seconds and go on to complete a hat-trick in their win over Swansea. Chris Coleman's eventual capture raised fans' expectations after the near final day relegation at Charlton Athletic three months prior and we hoped we had finally landed that elusive 20 goal marksman, a rare breed at Coventry City.
Eastwood became the first player to score a hat-trick at the Ricoh Arena and the only Sky Blues player to score a home league treble since relegation. Peterborough were the visitors in December 2009 as Coleman's men won 3-2 and Craig Mackail-Smith scored twice for the 'Posh'before subsequently transferring to newly promoted Brighton last summer. In April 2012 the 'Seagulls' are on the verge of a play-off position while City's number ten has returned on loan to Southend as the 'Shrimpers'aim for a play-off spot in League Two. So why has Mackail-Smith progressed his career as Eastwood looks back on four underachieving seasons in sky blue?
With a great first touch, vision and passing ability, my first impression of Eastwood was 'well worth the entrance money'. On the minus side I noticed a lack of willing to harry opposition defenders and work for the team, a criticism I still levy to this day. While strike partner Clinton Morrison never stopped pressurising defenders, his fellow front man laboured, Stern John-esque, which used to infuriate the former Palace and Birmingham frontman during matches. Compare this with Mackail-Smith, a striker with a prodigious work-rate whose career has flourished by improving all aspects of his game. It is 118 games since a City player took home the match ball and what disappoints is the sheer weight of anticipation lauded upon his arrival which has been extinguished this season due to poor fitness levels. As with Kevin Thornton, when his name was read out over the PA system it brought cheers as City fans knew what he was capable of producing. The current side work tremendously hard for each other and each player puts in a shift, Eastwood would simply not fit in with this mantra. Craig Mackail-Smith stands on the verge of the Premiership while Freddy Eastwood will soon be on the PFA available list at the end of June. What a waste of a footballing talent.
Cody McDonald's goal at Hull was a magical moment, the away win finally secured and the relegation zone finally evaded, hopefully for good. Andy Thorn's side has improved immeasurably since the new year. When Peterborough beat us 1-0 on the 17th December we were eight points adrift and with our form in the second half of the season traditionally our downfall there was not too much to look forward to as a City supporter. Moving on from the Bristol City victory on Boxing Day we are in a position where our destiny is in our own hands. Coventry City never do things the straightforward way, yet two wins over the Easter period will simplify matters somewhat. We will be very much on our way to one of the greatest escapes of all time.


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Justia Patents Patents Assigned to Yamazaki Mazak Kabushiki Kaisha
Patents Assigned to Yamazaki Mazak Kabushiki Kaisha
Laser beam hardening tool
Abstract: A laser beam hardening tool is comprised of an engagement portion for freely engaging with a tool holding portion of a machine tool, a beam guide path which is a passage of supplied laser beam, and a torch portion for radiating laser beam which passed through the beam guide path on a workpiece, thereby executing hardening with laser beam inside the machine tool by installing the laser beam hardening tool in the tool holding portion of the machine tool.
Filed: April 4, 2005
Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
Assignee: Yamazaki Mazak Kabushiki Kaisha
Inventors: Tsunehiko Yamazaki, Naoomi Miyagawa
Plasma detector and laser beam machine with plasma detector
Abstract: Voltage fluctuating time integrating means integrates voltage fluctuating time when voltage of a sensor electrode fluctuates as a voltage fluctuation integrated time, and voltage fluctuation occurrence rate computing means computes a rate of occurrence of voltage fluctuation for time on the basis of the voltage fluctuation integrated time integrated. By doing so, quantity of generated plasma can be taken as the rate of occurrence of voltage fluctuation, and plasma detection judging means can easily detect large volume of generated plasma on the basis of the computed voltage fluctuation occurrence rate. Then, it is not necessary to provide a circuit for measuring electric resistance between the sensor electrode and a workpiece as a conventional way, thereby avoiding complexly structured plasma detector.
Filed: January 31, 2005
Date of Patent: August 12, 2008
Laser beam generating unit
Abstract: A laser beam generating unit has a semiconductor laser unit having a plurality of beam emitting portions located in the shape of a matrix, and a plurality of optical fibers for individually transmitting laser beam emitted from the beam emitting portions. An optical fiber bundle is formed by binding a plurality of the optical fibers on a side where laser beam emits, and laser beam is emitted through a taper adaptor provided on the side where laser beam emits. Then, laser beam can be transmitted by the optical fibers at a good condition, and can be collected by a beam transmitting path of the adaptor having the thinner diameter with high efficiency and the power density can be raised.
Filed: February 20, 2005
Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
Laser beam machine
Abstract: A laser beam machine can make quality of machining almost constant in such a manner that a first reflecting means in a first beam guide portion is moved and driven so as to maintain a length of an optical path of laser beam to be almost constant in spite of a moved position of a machining head. According to the invention, a second reflecting means for catching laser beam in a second beam guide portion is located at a position facing the first reflecting means, thereby relatively shortening a length of the optical path between the first and second reflecting means and shortening the whole length of the optical path, and maintaining quality of machining with laser beam good.
Filed: February 9, 2005
Abstract: Machining is possible in such a manner that an optional position of a workpiece is positioned just under a tool by rotation of a turn table in a C-axis direction, movement of the turn table in a Y-axis direction, and movement of a spindle in a Z-axis direction, so that a width of a main unit in a X-axis direction can be made shorter in comparison with machining by moving the turn table in the X-axis direction. Besides, the turn table located on a front side of the main unit, an ATC located on the rear side thereof, and a separated control panel located on the rear side of the ATC, independent from the main unit can also make the width of a machining center in the X-axis direction shorter.
Filed: April 21, 2006
Date of Patent: November 21, 2006
Assignees: Aisin AW Co., Ltd., Yamazaki Mazak Kabushiki Kaisha
Inventors: Takao Taniguchi, Toshiyuki Andou, Mitsuhiro Yamada, Kazutaka Murai, Yuichiro Yoshimura, Jiro Nishida, Atsushi Kohama, Shigeto Noma, Michio Norimatsu, Seiichi Kodama, Haruhiko Koike
Turret for turret lathe
Abstract: A turret body is provided with a tool spindle for detachably attaching a complex tool so as to be freely rotated with an axial center as its center. The turret body is provided with indexing means for indexing the tool spindle, and clamping means for clamping the tool spindle at an indexed position indexed by the indexing means. The turret body has a function for indexing the tool spindle for attaching the complex tool thereto and a function for clamping, thereby using the complex tool in a turret lathe.
Filed: June 26, 2003
Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
Inventors: Koichiro Katoh, Kazuo Kawasaki, Naoya Tanaka, Minoru Kitayama
Abstract: When exchanging a tool, a tool of a spindle is stored in an empty pocket of a tool magazine, and thereafter, upward movement of the spindle and rotation of the tool magazine are simultaneously executed. At this time, synchronous control is performed in order to prevent a collision between the spindle and the tool. When installing a next tool in the spindle, both downward movement of the spindle and rotation of the tool magazine are executed while synchronously controlling. The tool exchange time can be shortened with simultaneously executing the movements of the spindle and the tool magazine.
Filed: September 14, 2004
Inventors: Mikio Totsuka, Michio Norimatsu, Haruhiko Koike, Hideyoshi Kagohashi
Abstract: Machining is possible in such a manner that an optional position of a workpiece is positioned just under a tool by rotation of a turn table in a C-axis direction and movement of a spindle on a Y-Z plane, so that a width of a main unit in a X-axis direction can be made shorter in comparison with machining by moving the turn table in the X-axis direction. Besides, the turn table located on a front side of the main unit, an ATC located on the rear side thereof, and a separated control panel located on the rear side of the ATC, independent from the main unit can also make the width of a machining centre in the X-axis direction shorter.
Filed: July 15, 2004
Date of Patent: June 20, 2006
Machining simulation machine
Abstract: A model producing means for modeling a chip model at an edge of a solid model of a nozzle through a predetermined space in a three-dimensional virtual space, and a trace machining propriety judging means for watching a state of an interference between the chip model and the solid model of a workpiece at the time of simulation of laser beam machining program and outputting a predetermined signal when releasing the state of the interference are provided. If an inconvenient instruction wherein the nozzle and the workpiece do not face each other is included in the laser beam machining program, the chip model departs from the solid model of the workpiece and the trace machining propriety judging means outputs a predetermined signal, through which program error can be properly detected with no visual observation of an operator.
Three dimensional linear machining apparatus
Abstract: At the time of execution of concurrent six-axes cylindrical interpolation instruction wherein a start point, an intermediate point, an end point and feed speed are instructed in a machining program PRO, a machining data computing portion 59 computes angular velocity of first, second, and third rotational axis directions and moving speed of first, second and third axial directions so as to correspond the feed speed of a torch with respect to a workpiece with the feed speed instructed in the machining program PRO, and the machining control portion 55 simultaneously controls the first, second and third axes and the first, second and third rotational axes on the basis of the angular velocity and the moving speed which are computed so as to rotate a chuck holding the workpiece and to move the torch, so that machining on the workpiece is executed.
Inventors: Tsunehiko Yamazaki, Naoomi Miyagawa, Toshihiko Inoue
Method of controlling hardening with laser beam and laser beam hardening device
Abstract: A workpiece is irradiated by a laser beam scanned in an oscillating track as the workpiece is advanced along a feed path in a hardening process. Sinusoidal variations in scan velocity are offset by decreasing the laser beam power level at phases in the scanning cycles corresponding to high and low scan displacement peaks, where the scan velocity is least. The beam power is increased near the scanning center line where the scan velocity is highest. The beam energy applied per unit of area is thus equalized over the scanning cycle. The workpiece temperature can be sampled at regular phases by a non-contact temperature sensor in the optical path, and used to control beam power versus phase in a subsequent scanning cycle. Alternatively or in addition, a sinusoidal beam power pattern can be stored and used to offset scan velocity variations as a function of phase.
Filed: October 25, 2002
Inventors: Tsunehiko Yamazaki, Naoomi Miyagawa, Toshihiko Inoue, Toshihiko Asari, Masaaru Matsumura
Apparatus and method for aiding programming
Abstract: An apparatus for aiding a machinist in preparing a machining program. A machining simulator simulates a basic machining program. Values of machining variables are obtained during the simulation and stored in a simulation result data memory. A spindle load determiner, a cutting speed determiner, and a rotating speed determiner analyze the machining variable values of a certain machining process to determine the machining efficiency of that process. A navigation information memory stores a plurality of messages for giving advice on how to change the cutting conditions. A message, which depends on the analysis of the machining variable values, is selected from the memory and is shown on a display. Accordingly, an operator can easily modify the basic machining program by following the message on the display, even if the operator does not have much knowledge or experience.
Filed: March 22, 1999
Date of Patent: April 26, 2005
Inventors: Kenji Suzuki, Toshiyuki Muraki, Makoto Tanahashi, Hirokazu Yoshida
Tool holder for turret lathe
Abstract: A tool holder for attaching a complex tool having a plurality of kinds of cutting edges to a turret, has a base portion attachably and detachably formed at the turret. The base portion has a rotatable tool spindle attachably and detachably installing the complex tool thereon. The tool spindle is provided with indexing means for indexably rotating the tool spindle at an indexed position corresponding to each cutting edge of the complex tool. And, clamping means for clamping the tool spindle at a predetermined indexed position is provided. Indexing rotational function and clamping function owned by the tool holder makes the use of the complex tool in the lathe possible.
Filed: May 27, 2003
Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
Hardening equipment and hardening method
Abstract: A nozzle holding means (13) having a nozzle (19) being free to eject laser beam from its top end is provided being free to move along a guide means among a plurality of machine tools. Nozzle holding means operation control means (6, 33) for controlling hardening operation on a workpiece by the nozzle are provided, and communication control means (6, 33) are provided for exchanging information necessary for hardening operation on a workpiece to be machined with each machine tool between the control means and a control means of each machine tool. The nozzle moves among the machine tools and hardening operation is performed on workpieces (29, 30) in the respective machine tools, thereby it is not necessary to provide a hardening unit for exclusive use every each machine tool, and it is possible to provide a hardening equipment having high working ratio.
Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
Inventors: Toshihiko Inoue, Masaki Itoh, Toshihiko Asari, Naoomi Miyagawa
Laser beam hardening device
Abstract: A saddle 18 is movable along a guide means 16 provided, passing through an neighborhood of machining area MA of a plurality of machine tools 1, 2. The saddle 18 is provided with a machining head 33, being free to selectively insert in and retreat from the machining area MA, and a plurality of kinds of nozzles 48 for ejecting laser beam. The nozzle 48 suitable for a portion of workpiece 3, 4 to be hardened is selected so as to attach it to the machining head 33. When hardening is instructed, the nozzle 48 is moved to a desired position with respect to the workpiece 3, 4 in the state of the workpiece 3, 4 located on the machine tool 1, 2, and the laser beam 51 is ejected from the nozzle 48 so as to harden the workpiece 3, 4.
Abstract: A sharp corner judgment means judges as to whether a corner of cut shape in a workpiece is a sharp corner is not on the basis of a machining program. When the corner is regarded as the sharp corner, an additional locus producing means for producing sharp corner produces an additional locus for producing sharp corner when machining on the corner regarded as the sharp corner, and a sharp corner machining execution means executes machining on the corner on the basis of the produced additional locus for producing sharp corner. Then, the additional locus for producing sharp corner can be automatically produced for the sharp corner so as to execute machining.
Filed: June 2, 2003
Inventors: Tsunehiko Yamazaki, Naoomi Miyagawa, Toshihiko Inoue, Hikaru Iryoda
Complex tool
Abstract: In a complex tool to be installed on a machine tool capable of turning machining and milling machining operations, a main body is provided, and carries inserts for turning machining, inserts for milling machining and inserts for drilling machining. Turning machining and drilling/milling machining operations can be executed using the inserts installed on the main body, without the need for tool exchange, saving time and labor. The inserts as installed have opposite rotational cutting directions, and are placed on opposite sides of concavities that extend radially inwardly and axially back from the end of the main body. The inserts can be placed at the same or different cutting distances and can be brought into engagement with the workpiece by selection of the relative orientations of the rotation axis and the workpiece.
Filed: September 5, 2001
Inventors: Tsunehiko Yamazaki, Sadami Miyazaki
Control unit of machine tool
Abstract: A sensor 42d is provided for detecting release of a state of a workpiece fixed and held with workpiece holding members during rotation of a spindle 9. When the release of the state of the wokpiece fixed and held is detected, the sliding members are driven in a direction of an axial center (in a direction as shown by an arrow D) by a reciprocating drive means 42. Even if holding force, such as the oil pressure of the workpiece holding member, is lowered, the decrease of the holding force of the workpiece can be extremely avoided by moving the sliding members in the direction of the workpiece.
Inventors: Tsunehiko Yamazaki, Haruhiko Koike, Noboru Yamamoto
Chuck unit for machine tool
Abstract: A chuck unit for a machine tool is capable of holding a workpiece installed on a spindle by workpiece holding members that move in a radial direction with respect to an axial center. Workpiece holding rods are provided at the workpiece holding member and move radially. Screw operating portions are operated by a rotating operation jig at an outer peripheral side of the chuck unit. A workpiece end face abutment moves and holds the workpiece in the axial direction.
Filed: January 4, 2002
Date of Patent: January 20, 2004
Machining control system
Abstract: A machining control system maintaining optimum machining states and enhancing efficiency and reliability even when an actual machining environment fluctuates. The machining control system includes a machining information determination portion for determining initial machining conditions on the basis of information stored in a machining data base and in accordance with adaptive control characteristics defined by adaptive control modes and adaptive control parameters, and an adaptive control portion for controlling machining by changing the machining conditions in accordance with the machining states observed during machining with the initial machining conditions as an initial value of the machining conditions.
Filed: March 8, 2001
Assignees: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Mori Seiki Co., Ltd., Yasda Precision Tools K.K., Osaka Kiko Co., Ltd., Yamazaki Mazak Kabushiki Kaisha
Inventors: Yoshiaki Kakino, Tomonori Sato, Makoto Fujishima, Hisashi Otsubo, Hideo Nakagawa, Yoshinori Yamaoka


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Gbemi Saraki attacks Kwara governor for demolishing father's house
Funso Adekitan January 04, 2020 Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, Gbemi Saraki, national
The Minister of State for Transportation, Senator Gbemisola Ruqayyah Saraki, on Friday, berated the governor of Kwara State, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, for demolishing her father's property.
She accused the governor of rushing into an attempt to settle perceived old generational family political scores.
She said, "revenge cannot be a policy thrust of governance."
She said the use of force and violence that the governor chose to adopt was totally unwarranted.
She said if her father, Dr. Abubakar Olusola Saraki, were to be alive, he would have been saddened by the demolition of 'Ile Arugbo'.
She also said the demolition of her father's political base was "disrespectful" to her.
She warned that APC's victory in the state at the poll in the last general elections might be "short-lived or diminished" if care is not taken.
She said the likes of Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, who joined APC a few months to the last elections, should not be allowed to mess up the party's fortunes in the state.
She asked the Inspector-General of Police to call the Commissioner of Police in Kwara State to order.
The minister, who made her position known in a statement she personally signed, said the art of vengeance is not what President Muhammadu Buhari or the All Progressives Congress (APC) represents.
She said it was unfortunate that there are some elements in APC who wanted to change the O to ge narrative of the 2019 elections to be about the Sarakis instead of the failed administration of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State.
But she pleaded with the people of the state, especially her father's teeming supporters, to be calm and peaceful in the face of provocation by the governor.
The statement said: "At 3:00am Thursday 2nd of January 2020, the Governor of Kwara State, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, gave orders to the police to open fire on aged women at the contested welfare home, popularly known as 'Ile Arugbo' (home for the aged), owned by my father, Dr. Abubakar Olusola Saraki.
"As a staunch and loyal member of APC, I have kept quiet to date on the happenings in my state, Kwara State. I had done this for a number of reasons, including trying to "keep my head when all about me are losing theirs."
"But all in all, I had kept quiet, as being a loyal member and supporter of the party, I did not want to get into any squabble with the Governor despite so many provocations.
Again, as a loyal and dedicated daughter of my father, Dr. Abubakar Olusola Saraki, who I hold in very high esteem, I did not want to express my opinion on the propriety of the Governor's recent political actions as it would be seen as biased because the late Waziri is my father.
"However, given the turn of events and the violent nature of the Governor's position, it is only right for me to speak now."
The Minister cautioned Kwara APC against allowing some elements to turn governance into a personal vendetta.
She said: "There might have been some elements within my party, APC, who wanted to change the O to ge narrative of the 2019 elections to be about the Sarakis and not about what it was – the removal of a failing PDP administration.
"But clearly, by some recent steps taken, especially with Thursday's actions, Kwara State APC must be careful to not allow a few elements with their own agenda other than governance to turn their personal vendetta into the official position of APC in the state.
"They must not be allowed to hijack the narrative of what our party stands for.
"The APC has, since its inception, preached and worked earnestly for genuine good governance, security, increased welfare, progress and development of the people, as exemplified by President Muhammadu Buhari, who in the face of direct provocation and deep personal attacks, remains true to the oath he took to govern all Nigerians in spite of allegiances.
"That is why it is important that my silence is not misconstrued as tacit approval or support for the actions taken by the Governor.
"As stated earlier, I chose to refrain from commenting on the onset of this land saga and did so for three reasons:
(1) I believed that this was a matter that would go through the rightful forum and due process to ascertain and establish my father's legal rights or otherwise.
(2) My family individually and/or collectively has never derived and continues not to derive any commercial benefit from that piece of land. At the end of the day, what is on that land is nothing – no block of flats that the family is getting rent from, no office building, no factory or any other commercial venture; just a bungalow where the old women gather and get their basic needs attended to.
(3) Nonetheless, were my father alive today, surely, he would have been saddened to see bulldozers in Ile Arugbo.
The Minister said the governor cannot erase her father's legacies.
She said: "However, I am comforted by the knowledge that my father's good work and his respect, support and love for the aged, which was sadly lacking in the Governor's activities of Thursday, simply cannot be erased by demolishing a bungalow.
"When it comes down to it, Ile Arugbo is a piece of bare land that holds the symbolic value of what my father stood for – humanitarianism, and that doesn't start nor end with a building.
"But after the events of Thursday when the aged women were tear-gassed and shot at in the wee hours of the morning (3:00 am), I do not want my silence to be misconstrued, as mischief-makers have used that silence to attribute false statements allegedly made by me."
She condemned the violence against Sarakites and others who protested against the moves to demolish the bungalow.
She said it was disrespectful of the governor to have used the police to shell her personal home.
She said: "The level of force and violence that the Governor chose to adopt was totally unwarranted. What resistance to protest justifies firing live ammunition and tear-gassing old women?
"Even my own personal home was not left out of the attack as numerous empty bullet shell casings and dispersed tear gas canisters were found inside my home.
"I feel that at this point, not only as a child of the late Waziri but as a member of the APC, I need to speak.
"I do so not only as a daughter but as a member of the party, to ensure that those thousands of members of APC who are Sarakites that supported the O to ge movement are not alienated.
"In addition, I do so to ensure that the resounding victory that APC enjoyed in Kwara is not short-lived or diminished.
"Governments acquire properties, even compulsorily without necessarily resorting to unprovoked violent attacks in the dead of night.
"It is especially disrespectful to me personally as a member of the APC since 2015, who welcomed and supported those who only joined us a couple of months to the elections, which includes the Governor himself, that my position as a member of the party was not given any consideration and/or regard when approaching this issue."
What are your thoughts? Let us know in the comments section.
Gbemi Saraki attacks Kwara governor for demolishing father's house Reviewed by Funso Adekitan on January 04, 2020 Rating: 5
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