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Jason Betts
Jason is an Australian disputes partner specialising in class action litigation.
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Jason holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) and a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the University of Sydney, as well as a Master of Laws from the University of Virginia, where he specialised in class action defence.
Jason is one of Australia's premier class action lawyers and also specialises in complex litigation, crisis management and regulatory investigations and prosecutions.
Jason has acted in Australia's largest class actions, including the majority of Australia's major securities litigation. He lead the defence of Australia's largest ever product liability class action and acted in the seminal decision on third party litigation funding in Australia – Fostif.
Jason has been recognised in Best Lawyers for the "Litigation", "Class Action Litigation" or "Product Liability" categories each year since his admission to partnership (2010 - 2016). He has also been recognised in Chambers Asia Pacific in 2015 and 2016 as a notable practitioner/leading individual with HSF's Dispute Resolution - Band 1 ranking.
In 2012, Jason co-authored the second edition of "Class Actions in Australia", the country's leading text on class action law and practice.
Jason's experience includes the following matters:
acting for OZ Minerals in three shareholder class actions, the most recent arising out of the merger between Oxiana and Zinifex
defending Newcrest Mining Limited in one of Australia's largest shareholder class action regarding disclosures associated with Newcrest's FY14 gold production guidance
defended DePuy and Johnson & Johnson in Australia's largest products liability class action in respect of hip replacement prostheses, culminating in a 19 week trial in the Federal Court of Australia
defended Centro in several funded shareholder class actions alleging contraventions of Australian securities laws regarded as one of the most complex class actions in Australian history
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Will America's Captive Chimpanzees Become Relisted As "Endangered?" (Video)
Posted by Arnold Carreiro on July 19, 2013
While the common chimpanzee is classified as an endangered species in its native Africa, chimps living in the United States are currently listed as "threatened." The federal wildlife agency recently proposed cataloging all chimps to be endangered species. But why?
Chimpanzees are the only animal listed under the Endangered Species Act with more than one conservation listing, but for a good reason! In the 1990's, chimpanzees were an important lab animal in regards to HIV and other medical research projects. Chimpanzees raised in captivity were labeled as threatened to ensure that there was a high population of available research animals and to ensure that chimps living in the wild would be left alone.
After a fresh look at the ESA law, some people believe that the bill does not legally allow any species to have more than one conservational listing. Note that legally changing the law to enforce the protection of chimpanzees as an endangered species has merely been proposed, and that it could take over a year before we see any concrete changes to the law regarding the breeding, sale, exportation, importation and care of chimpanzees in America.
While we don't know when this large change would go into effect, or how this would directly affect chimpanzees working in the entertainment industry, it would certainly require anyone looking to perform animal testing, research, and trade chimps to acquire special licenses to work with endangered species. Either way, the government's environmental agencies will have plenty of time to collaborate with the National Institutes of Health, Association of Zoos and Aquariums, expert medical researchers and leading entertainment industry to estimate the outcome of revising the conservation status of America's chimpanzees.
Sources: Mother Nature Network, HuffPost Green, Scientific American
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Governor pledges help for steel revitalization
David Cooper
TUSCALOOSA - Speaking before local members of the United Steel Workers of America on Friday, Gov. Don Siegelman promised help toward passage of the Steel Revitalization bill now in Congress that would halt the dumping of foreign steel in the United States.
In return, Siegelman asked that the union members begin pushing legislators for new reforms that will lead to a rewritten constitution.
"We need every local to push their representative for changes in the constitution and not to duck the issue," Siegelman said before the early morning gathering of Local 351 members at the Sheraton Four Points Hotel. "It's not going to be easy to ask the Legislature to give up some of its power - in fact, a lot of their power."
Siegelman credited the union movement for its assistance in passing Amendment One in last November's election for the repair of what he said will be 2,500 bridges. He later said the same organized effort must be made to voice the demand for a rewritten state constitution.
"Rewriting the constitution can't be from the top down; it's got to be a grass roots effort," he said. "The call has to be from the coffee shops, barber shops, steel mills and auto dealers. The people have got to see and feel the need of legislative reform.
"If you look at this legislative session, to find more financial support for schools, more than half the bills passed were local bills."
The meeting had been planned to bring Siegelman together with Leo Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers International, and discuss the Steel Revitalization Bill (H.R. 808), which primarily calls for the cutting of illegal foreign steel imports, consolidation of industry companies and protection of retiree health benefits.
Instead, Gerard was called to Washington, D.C., for meetings with steel company presidents and President Bush. Executive vice president John Sellers took his place.
"We've got to keep the pressure on," said Sellers after his remarks to the group, primarily made up of BF Goodrich employees. "We're not just talking about a labor standpoint but a national issue to preserve our steel industry. I cannot envision any country that would be a world power without a business core of manufacturing industries.
"The dumping of foreign steal on our market has made it impossible for our industry to not only compete but also operate properly."
Siegelman mentioned automotive job growth in the state and the pressing need for education reform as issues relating to union members' lives. As for the steel industry's request for relief from foreign steel, the governor promised continued effort on its behalf.
Siegelman said he has written other governors to elicit support for HR 808. And citing the closing of Gulf States Steel in Etowah County in the past two years, he likened saving industry jobs to efforts to save the state's economy.
"My priority is to get steel workers back to work at a good-paying job so you can get back to enjoying this great state and having the financial resources to plan for your family's future," he said.
Passage of the bill with its aid for area steel mills like Corus Tuscaloosa and Birmingham Steel needs to come quickly, he said.
"The sooner the better," Siegelman said. "We've got to treat the steel industry as a national priority. It's a fact you don't have national security if you don't produce your own steel."
With many steel companies already in bankruptcy, the competition is getting even uglier, said Sellers. The union's role, he added, will be to watch and see that the industry remains mindful of its workers while supporting companies' campaigns for more regulation of foreign companies.
"It's no secret some of them want to see the others go under so they can gobble the rest up," Sellers said.
"There's anywhere from 12 to 17 national steel companies that are now bankrupt. We have been driving steel companies into supporting 808. But their support has been lukewarm, especially in regard to legacy clauses, for protecting pensions and benefits."


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Trump hires DOJ prostitute to pee on Obama's legacy
*With sincere apologies to prostitutes.
Is there a sadder human being on the planet right now than Jeff Sessions? He's allowed his boss to mercilessly bully him only because he loves that his job gives him endless opportunities to humiliate those less fortunate. That's the pitiful tale of every bully ever — Dad beats me up, so I'm going to whale on the shy foreign exchange student.
Yesterday, Sessions took Trump's strap-on dildo out of his mouth long enough to shatter the dreams of 800,000 hardworking young people, and word is that he was instrumental in nudging Trump in the direction of more racism — which, granted, is the easiest job in the world this side of whatever Ivanka does.
In his speech announcing the rescinding of DACA, Sessions made a show of respecting the rule of law and our tripartite government, but his words rang hollow.
He called Obama's DACA program "an unconstitutional exercise of authority by the executive branch."
It's not unconstitutional. "Unconstitutional" means different things to different people — and the courts (part of our tripartite government, by the way) ultimately decide who's right — but it sure as hell doesn't mean "everything Obama did for the past eight years."
Does this mean Trump is going to finally stop bragging about how many executive orders he's signed?
What kind of asshole kicks hundreds of thousands of young people out of the only country they've ever known? It's like blindfolding Trump and dropping him somewhere other than a Wendy's or a golf course.
And on a mostly unrelated note, if you've placed your bet in Vegas on "hell yes there's a Trump pee tape," you'll be heartened by this story, which is currently percolating up from the rich loamy soil of the not-quite-mainstream media.
Here's just a taste to whet your appetite:
The so-called "pee tape," an alleged video recording of Donald Trump in a highly compromising situation with prostitutes in a Russian hotel room, may actually exist and multiple witnesses say so — according to a bombshell report by award-winning BBC correspondent Paul Wood in an article published in August, but just receiving widespread notice today.
Take it with a very large grain of salt, but if Trump ultimately is undone by a golden showers scandal, imagine the possibilities it will open up for new statues down South. Now that would be a part of history worth preserving. Indeed, if we're really lucky, in 100 years "pee" and "Moscow hookers" will be the only three words Americans ever think of when
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Dogs are animals of integrity. We have much to learn from them.
Learning from Dogs
Dogs & integrity
Protect dogs in this hot weather.
It's all too easy to forget that a dog can't cope with hot weather.
As in too hot. Especially in a car!
I want to republish a post that appeared on The Dodo blog site recently. It is about a dog trapped in a car when it was far too hot.
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Guy Sees Puppy In Hot Car And Realizes What He Has To Do
Photo Credit: Jason Minson
Jason Minson, an Army veteran who runs a landscaping business, was out on a job in Norfolk, Virginia, on Tuesday when the first of several unusual things happened.
Minson was inspecting a tree in a yard when he heard a bang on the street.
When he went to check, he realized that a car driving by had bumped another car parked on the street. If that hadn't happened, Minson probably never would have approached the parked car and discovered what was inside.
A black Labrador puppy was sprawled out on the floor of the vehicle — the noise and shudder seemed to have woken him up for a moment.
And he was incessantly panting.
"It was the kind of panting that was the last effort a dog does to try to cool himself off," Minson told The Dodo.
Minson immediately called 911.
The police dispatched a unit to come help the dog — but they also informed Minson that breaking the window of the car to free the dog is a crime. (The law varies depending where you are.)
Minson watched the panting puppy from behind the pane of glass. He brought one bottle of water to the sliver of opened window and the dog jumped up on the seat and started drinking from it.
The dog went through the whole bottle. And then another.
"I'm usually a pretty cool, level-headed person but I was kind of fed up," Minson said.
An animal control officer arrived and she started to try to pry the door open, but it wasn't working. And nearly 20 minutes had passed since Minson had found the dog — and he was worried they were already out of time.
"The dog had laid back down on the floor of the car and wasn't panting as quickly," Minson said.
"I honestly didn't think this pup was going to make it," Minson wrote.
That's when he took matters into his own hands.
"Charge me," he can be heard saying in one of the videos he shot, "I don't give a sh*t at this point."
Using the baton from the animal control officer, Minson smashed the window and opened the door.
The animal control officer rushed the dog over to her van and took him to the vet for urgent care. And the owner of the dog was charged by the police. Minson received a call from the police, too — but to be a witness at the hearing about the incident.
The following day, Minson went to visit the pup at the facility where he's recovering. Already, the dog seemed to be much stronger.
Minson, who has a Great Dane, hopes that if someone saw his dog in trouble in any way that they would do something about it.
"This is REAL talk people," Minson wrote on Facebook after the dog was saved. "It's hot out and if you leave an animal in your car [he's] going to die from the heat … Take care of your fur babies."
I can't think of a more dramatic way of telling you about the perils of dogs in cars in hot weather!
It really does kill dogs!
Core thought
Jason Minson
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Susan Leighton says:
When I hear of stories like that, I want to lock the owners in a car in the middle of the desert with no air. Sorry if that is harsh but it is how I feel. Glad the pup was saved.
Susan, I share your feelings. But the truth of it is that 99% of dog owners care for their dogs and it is only ignorance of the dangers of hot cars that leads to such calamities.
You would think Paul with all the attention given to dog owners about leaving dogs in locked cars on hot days would had sunk in by now.. Given the amount of deaths these poor animals have had due to the irresponsibility of dog owners.
Thank goodness for kind hearts such as Jason with his alertness to the situation and then taking the situation into his own hands.
Unfortunately its not always the general public at fault.. Here in the UK several years ago one very hot summer Two Police dogs died after being neglected in the back of their police van while officers were inside the station..
So sad.. people never seem to learn.
One would like to think so, Sue. Maybe half the problem is that the sun moves, 15 deg. an hour, and cars go from being in the shade to being in the sun and get hot very quickly. Just a thought!
No, people should know NOT to leave pets in car ovens it can be hot even in shade..
No excuses ;-(
its well publicised about the risk to pets.. They should know better,
MargfromTassie says:
This happens far too often. Its so distressing that it's made me quite afraid to go shopping in hot weather in case I encounter this sort of thing. (In fact, during the summer months I only go shopping at night!) It shouldn't be a crime for a person to smash a window or force entry to a vehicle in these circumstance, but it should definitely be a crime to leave an unattended animal in a car over a certain temperature.
Many years ago, I came across a baby in a hot car. It was vomiting. No mobile phones then. I asked a passerby to race into a nearby store to get help. I had just retrieved something heavy from my car to try to pry the door or to smash the window with, when the baby's father came back to the car. I was so upset and disgusted that I couldn't say anything, but he saw the look on my face…..
That's quite a story, Margaret. Dogs and babies! How does it happen? Over here, whilst today is a cool one, next Tuesday they are forecasting 102 deg. F and that is Hot! Even for here!
Belinda Blauer says:
I would like to think that the police could call any locksmith or towing company to open the door because sometimes seconds count. Then take the dog or baby, leave a notice on the car, and when the owner came back they would have to retrieve the dog or baby wherever they were taken and pay a huge fine. Maybe that is a pie in the sky idea, but it is a helpless life that their owners are responsible for. In the warmer weather I would like to think that anyone would check on a dog that they heard barking in a car.
Belinda, welcome. Or is it welcome back, I can't recall. Anyway, to the comment! That's a very good idea. Whether or not the authorities in any state will take up idea remains to be seen!
Tails Around the Ranch says:
The penalty for that owner can't be severe enough in my books. {growl}
I can fully sympathise with what you are saying. It was a preoccupation with other things rather than the dog.
Bela Johnson says:
Especially here. We once had a Lab lose the skin on his paw pads from the hot baked earth. It did grow back but we felt terrible. Imagine how he felt!
Ouch! That must have been painful!
Poor dude 🥺
Knotty Toys for Good Dogs says:
HuMom wouldn't hesitate to help a dog even if it meant getting in trouble🐾
She would accept the consequences if it meant saving a life🐾
💜nose nudges💜
Absolutely! I'm sure thousands of others feel the same way!
colettebytes says:
If people can't keep their dogs with them, they should leave them in the cool of the house. There is no escape from heat in a hot car. People wouldn't leave a child alone in a car. It should be the same with fur friends.
It's very difficult, Colette, to understand the mind of a person who takes a dog out in a car in hot weather.
Yes… And who knows why the dog was left for so long on its own. I am sure the owner wasn't meaning to be unkind. Some dogs don't like social situations, or aren't allowed in stores, and so it seems logical to leave it in a familiar safe space. But it is not safe in a car on a very hot or cold day…
Totally agree!
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I guess I must have had a quilting hangover last week, cause I totally missed our party. Actually nothing really quilting related happened because I was too busy real life-ing...sometimes that's the pits. But I'm quilting sober now and all ready to go!
Operation #SlashThatStash is back in swing! Though it's been more sorting and pressing than actual slashing. I have pulled out the small yellow tote of fabric to work on with the browns and it hit me...do something cool with your fat quarters!
So I pulled all the green, yellow and brown fat quarters, unfolded them from what ever form of folding they were in and pressed them. I then folded them uniformly and began storing them in this thrift store shelving unit my mom got me for Christmas last year.
I LOVE it! I can't wait for all of the fat quarters to start living here.
Remember my stack of basted quilts? Well I have finally started quilting on one of them. I pulled out some spools of Aurifil thread and let the threads and quilt top speak to me.
Overwhelmingly they all yelled radiating lines! I have to say I agree with them.
My plan is to take a walk around the quilt top with my walking foot, then break into some free motion quilting in all the fun fire bursts. I better get my act in gear...I still have four more of these quilts to quilt.
Now let's see what fun stuff you had for the last UFO party. This week I am highlighting/celebrating some awesome quilting finishes. First up we have Gail at Quilting Gail and her Fireburst Mystery Quilt finish. I know, I know. I'm a bit biased when it comes to this quilt since it is the pattern brain child of myself and Dave the Quilt Engineer....but just look at that quilting!
Gail did a fantastic job quilting this piece. If you haven't seen the front you need to get over there now and check it out.
Next up we have my dear friend Sandra at mmm!quilts and her finish of Cindy at Stitchin at Home's pattern Outside Stars. Sandra calls hers Fallen Sky and it was her Island Batik challenge for the month of October.
I'm not going to lie, the quilting on this quilt left me all hot and bothered. WoooWeee! Sandra did an amazing job quilting this one. All that yummy dot to dot quilting and creating ghost squares when there were none. It completely changes the look of the quilt. Get on over to her page and check out her quilting. I'll warn you, a quilting cold shower will be needed afterward...just saying. Orgasmic quilting...can I say that?
I would also like to highlight/talk about Jan at The Colorful Fabriholic's post on saying goodbye to UFO's. Sometimes you have to evaluate the quilt tops you have on hand and have a heart to heart with yourself. That's just what it sounds like Jan did. She did the most amazing thing, and contacted Sarah at Confessions of a Fabric Addict about sending her some UFO quilt tops for Sarah to finish for her quilt ministry. Sarah does an amazing job sending out quilts to those in need. Please stop by and visit both ladies to read about this story and Sarah's work.
Now let's see what you've been up to this week. Link up below and tell us what has your quilty heart going pitter patter.
I will leave you with a quilt that has haunted me for years. Every so often someone tags me in a picture of this quilt or sends it to me in messenger saying I should make it. I never have. It's called Labyrinth Walk. I discovered while going through my magazines, I actually own the pattern. Who knew? So this week I decided to take advantage of a sad yet major sale happening at my local quilt shop. Unfortunately she has made the decision to close up shop, but right now all her fabric is priced to sell. I knew that the bolts where thinned out and majorly picked from.
Luckily, I was able to find a light, medium and dark blue that I thought would work perfectly. So for my peeps of Facebook, you asked and eventually you will receive...I am making the most requested quilt ever. I think it might be fun to donate it to my daughter's archery team as a raffle quilt next year. Momma needs to get to work!
Your fat quarter folding is looking fabulous! That labyrinth quilt tempts me, too! I'm sad to hear about your local quilt store having to make the tough choice to close.
Oh I just LOVE that quilt, and have ogled it for some time now on Pinterest. (We will talk my friend...) Thank you so much for the feature... orgasmic quilting - grin!
Well, with friends egging you on, how can you refuse! And when bolts offer themselves up at a discount, you are doubly cursed, blessed? Your top is going to be interesting with those radiating lines, can't wait to see it done.
I recently did the same thing with my fat quarters-they were all shapes and sizes. Wonder who figures out all the fancy shaped folds for quilt shops? Whatever you make using the dark blue with swirly feathers has to be gorgeous-the fabric sure is! Mind if I ask the manufacturer?
Great job putting up your fat quarters and sticking with your personal challenge to gain control over your stash. I just don't seem to have the patience, so instead, I just decided to pull out a basket of scraps and make something, one basket at a time. Of course, that just generates more scraps, but then they are more manageable and take up less space. Your little quilt will be beautiful all quilted up.
I have to clean up my stash and put it away properly. I like the idea of radiating lines. I might borrow that for one of my quilts.
I wish there was a small size of that Labyrinth quilt. I'd love to make it too, but it's king size. Yikes! Too big for boat quilting.
One of the women in our quilt group made a Labyrinth quilt, and it is so cool. It's on my bucket list to make for my son when he gets a place of his own. I want to just sit and look at those yummy yellow fabrics! Great idea on the fat quarter storage. My scrap slashing is on hold. I still haven't emptied the basket next to my sewing table! I need to remember to do a bit each day and work that into my sewing routine. I've been a little distracted sewing tomten lately. Haha! You certainly have been busy behind the scenes, Tish! Fun to see what you are working on, and how you are quilting Fireburst. I'm still pondering.
I love that it looks complicated but is pretty easy. Can't wait to see how yours turns out!
Hi Tish: I hope things settle down for you and that you are no longer dealing with things that are the pits. I'm rooting for you. Sorry I haven't been checking in as often as I should. I'm still working on your quilt along...almost all done the top. Have fun basting and sorting.
Your quilting looks beautiful and I have fallen in love with your shelf. It will be fun to see it filled with fabrics!
Sandra's quilt is to die for! Thanks for sharing it with us!
I love how you feature other quilters' work. It's so inspiring. Be careful with Labyrinth Walk. I've heard these is a mistake in pattern as it was published in the magazine. I don't know what it is, but you may want to google it. It IS a very cool quilt.


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Q: Website zoomed by default by Chrome I'm struggling to understand why my website is rendered as zoomed with Chrome (OsX and Linux). I'm able to reproduce the issue only if I visit in incognito mode.
This is the website: https://botsociety.io
Screenshot of the incognito homepage:
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Screenshot of how it's supposed to look not zoomed:
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This weird thing happens even if:

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*I deactivate JS execution (so it's not our JS)

*I remove the meta viewport attribute or change it

The issue seems to happen only with Chrome as Safari does not have this issue
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Baring Pixar's Soul
Spoilers throughout.
Soul may be a children's movie, but two weeks later, I am still trying to figure it out. Granted, I overthink everything. But I like director (and Pixar creative chief) Pete Docter's willingness to tackle abstract concepts (Up, Inside Out) so I want to know what he is saying.
The hero, a middle-school music teacher who lives for gigs playing jazz piano, steals my heart fast. When Joe, his head in the clouds because he has just gotten a gig playing with one of jazz's greats, falls down a manhole, I am almost as disappointed as he is. I wanted this film to be about jazz, and the kind of soul privileged white girls who sing off-key can only see from a distance, because we think too much and suffer too little.
Instead, Joe misses the gig of his life, and his soul lands in the body of a therapy cat. Finally, Pixar has its first Black lead, and they turn him over to a cat?
This is a larger problem than me missing Joe. This is something that happens again and again with characters of color: They get turned into something else. A.O. Scott offers a jolt of a list: "The Emperor's New Groove transmutes an Incan king into a llama, Brother Bear morphs an Inuit leading character into a grizzly, and Will Smith's character in Spies in Disguise changes into a pigeon. Most infamously, Disney's The Princess and the Frog transforms Tiana (the studio's first-ever Black Disney princess) into a frog for the majority of her story."
Another sharp criticism for Soul is that its Black lead has to be rescued by a White woman. This is not entirely fair, at least within the movie's frame, because the character voiced by Tina Fey is not yet gendered, and its race at the moment is Blue-green. It is known only as 22 and confides, early on, that it has chosen its high squeaky voice just to annoy people. Yet because we know and love Tina Fey the actress, viewers instantly assume that a White woman is rescuing Joe.
Given people's inability to suspend disbelief when a celebrity is involved, it would have been smart to cast someone nonwhite as 22. While obnoxious at the outset, the Blue-green ungendered soul does end up helping, and we have had enough of White rescues, which imply that one cannot reach an epiphany without the White imprimatur.
With his body comatose on Earth, Joe's soul, desperate to avoid death, skids into the Great Before, a sort of corporate training center for life on Earth. Alas, its counselors are still riddled with human flaws, fake in their palaver, craven in their need for praise—another disappointment. A place full of souls ought to be beyond such bullshit.
It also ought to be represented in a way that suggests spirit. One critic dismissed the two-dimensional soul counselors as "squiggles," but I like that they are outlines without substance, so all we see is motion. That seems a lot closer to the point than the blobby, Pillsbury doughboy souls.
But setting all that aside, I need to figure out the whole soul, spark, purpose thing—for myself as much as for the movie. Souls wait in the wings for their stint on Earth, their basic temperament already hard-wired. They await only one thing: the spark that will connect them to Earth. Before the soul is ready to live life, it must experience some love or joy or passion that until now, 22 has been too cynical (and perhaps a wee bit too sociopathic?) to experience. This makes lovely sense: They need an animating principle, if you will forgive the pun. Something akin to the quickening, in religious terms, or to Aristotle's efficient cause. Something that will bring them into being, the way God breathed life into dusty Adam.
Instead of waiting for 22's spark, though, Joe and 22 wind up coming to Earth without it. This is where it gets tricky, because they confuse spark with purpose. It turns out Joe has spent too much time obsessed by his spark (playing jazz piano), and there is a danger of getting Lost in the Zone. The film defines the zone as the space between the physical and the spiritual, which feels exactly right. But I shudder at the notion that those in the zone are not so different from lost souls.
As far as I am concerned, Joe's time in the zone is the best part of the film. He is transported by his music, lifted above space and time, carried away in flow. I hope for such moments daily, like a surfer trying to catch a big wave. But because Joe has been obsessed with his spark, he has failed to appreciate his middle-school students and his friends and the sheer joy of being alive. So in essence, this is a film about the Romantic artist losing sight of the practical, everyday joys of life on Earth.
I remember once, after working an inhuman number of hours at a job I loved, standing in front of Dierberg's deli counter in tears because I was so frazzled and hungry and it was already dark and I could not even figure out what to bring home for our dinner. We do have to be careful, those of us who love our work, that it does not drown out everything else worth loving. Free time, with its relaxed hours of just plain living and loving, is packed with more meaning and spirit than any masterpiece, let alone the usual slog that pulls us under.
Anyway, now that Joe's soul is inside a cat and 22's soul is inside him, balance is about to be restored. The transformation reminds me of those romantic montages, everything hazy and backlit as 22-in-Joe tastes life in a New York neighborhood and watches a maple tree's seedpod spin in the sunshine. At last, 22 falls in love with life on Earth, all on the strength of a slice of pizza and a whirligig.
On second thought, there is also a friendship developing between 22 and Joe, and it is in savoring the parts of Joe's life that Joe forgot to savor that 22 becomes capable of humanity. We live through one another more often than we know. We also pull each other back to life, just as, when it is 22's turn to get lost in the zone, friends come to the rescue in a pink pirate ship.
In the end, after a few pangs of regret, Joe moves to altruism, because he now realizes that he has lived a full life after all. But wait—this question of purpose still hangs in midair. Because of his altruism, Joe is granted a reprieve, and you know damned well he's gonna go back to Earth and look for a gig. Should he be careful to keep his rediscovered life in better balance? Sure. But I feel obliged to point out that he would not be nearly as fine a musician if he had spent a ton of time with the whirligigs.
Or is that just me, trapped by the Romantic myth? Does excellence require obsession? Do people have to give up nearly everything for their art, or their Olympic sport, or chess, or their inventions? I would love to say no, because such a life is both wonderful and terrible, consuming you and destroying proportion and perspective. But I have interviewed too many brilliant artists, athletes, and thinkers to believe they could have attained the same heights if they were laidback and well-rounded.
Is Joe's purpose to be soulful enough to sacrifice his life for 22's sake, or to be an amazing jazz musician, or just to live a full and balanced life? Maybe this is a movie about Aristotelian moderation—which is hardly as sexy as souls being chased by pirate ships and humans transported into ethereal bliss. If I were a kid watching the bliss of the zone, I would try to lose my soul.
"Those really aren't purposes," 22 is told about his newfound sparks. "That's just regular old living." I guess the message is to chill about purpose—it is enough just to be alive. Still, this is Pixar, for God's sake, and meant to have a moral, and I end the film not sure whether I should applaud Joe's jazz or bemoan all that he lost by focusing on it. Maybe the point is that experience must be the ground of art; that abstract musicianship is not enough; that relationship is the antidote to becoming monomaniacal. But I am afraid I just made all that up. Once again, I am overthinking—one of those dangerous obsessions the movie mistrusts. No one else seems fussed, which is probably why Soul was described as one of Pixar's finest and "most ambitiously existential" films, and at last check, Rotten Tomatoes listed an approval rating of 95 percent.
In Variety, Peter Debruge predicted that this film would "leave audiences young and old imagining their own souls as glowing idiosyncratic cartoon characters." I can hear my favorite rabbi's weary sarcasm: "This is a good thing?" But as confusing and flawed as it is, Docter's gentle version beats old-time Christianity's vaguely holy ghost and bleak purgatory, with the flames of hellfire licking our insubstantial toes.


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20 May Originally published in German in and touted more recently as a feminist's Robinson Crusoe, this somber classic from prize-winner. 1 Apr Summary: Separated from the dead outside world by a huge transparent wall we experience the life of the last living human. This story is about. 13 May - 2 min - Uploaded by Music Box Films Based on Marlen Haushofer's eponymous classic novel, The Wall is a gorgeous.
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Beautiful 7-11 cashier: Where are you from?
7-11: No... black hair, why? Canada people have brown hair.
Me: No, many different colours are possible. Blond hair, black hair, brown hair.
The story arc of our lovable hero in 2012 saw me wrap up my humanitarian activities in Mumbai and relocate to Seoul to resume my career in the ad industry. I stopped over in Singapore on the way to Seoul, spent several days in Tokyo to pick up my South Korean work visa, and visited an old friend from high school in Taiwan.
The bulk of my travel this year was in the Old World. I scratched my European itch and emptied my bank account with four separate trips to the continent. This caused great consternation among Korean beauties, as it hampered my ability to buy them luxury handbags and gourmet coffee. While on my company trip, we spent a day exploring Munich in Germany before crossing over the border and the Alps into Austria. I also visited the Vatican from Rome.
I set foot in the Middle East for the first time, albeit unplanned, as a missed flight connection gave me the opportunity to spend a day in Bahrain. The Naminara Republic became the first micro-nation that I made my way to. The privately owned island declared its independence from South Korea in 2006, primarily to attract tourist attention.
This year I stayed overnight in 31 cities, spread out over 10 nations. A couple of countries and many cities are unaccounted for on this list, as I did not spend a night in them. South Korea is a geographically small nation with an efficient transportation system, so most places in the peninsula can be visited on day trips from Seoul.
K-girl: My English is awful. I hate English! You should learn Korean.
Me: Your English is pretty good.
K-girl: Pretty girl? Thank you.
Multiply the number of people living in a city as populous as Mumbai by the number of their clothes that need to be washed every day. The amount is staggeringly high, like the percentage of women in South Korea who have had plastic surgery. An elaborate system has evolved over the years to handle the needs of masses to have their garments washed efficiently and economically.
Delivery boys pick up clothes from homes and stores across town and bring them to dhobis to be washed. Dhobis wash clothes for a living, often manually. Once the clothes have been washed, dried, and ironed they make their way back into the hands of their respective owners. Rarely does a garment end up in the wrong hands.
In the apartment I shared with at least 13 other men, there was always a heap of clothing in the living room. Whenever anyone wanted something washed, they could add their clothes to the pile. A few days later the clothes would be washed and pressed. I would pay a few rupees to the landlord or one of his many acolytes, and would collect my clothes.
The largest concentration of clothes washers in Mumbai is found at Dhobi Ghat, located beside the Mahalaxmi railway station. The world's largest open air laundromat is quite popular with tourists and filmmakers alike, providing an unforgettable glimpse into what makes India a place like no other. The dhobis start their work early in the morning, following the daily rhythms of washing, drying, and ironing with orchestral precision.
As an international heartthrob, it is not out of the ordinary when I am stopped on the street for a quick photo by people I do not know in places such as China and Korea. One day, I looked out my office window in Seoul and caught sight of a beautiful girl across the street. She was holding a camera, with the lens pointed in my general direction.
Me: Look! That girl is taking my picture.
German colleague: Arnab, Arnab, Arnab. Sometimes I wonder what is wrong with you?
Korean colleague: Or what is wrong with the girl?
While spending a few days in Kuala Lumpur with some old friends from my Beijing days, we went on a drive to Putrajaya. Located 25km away from Kuala Lumpur, the planned city is meant to function as the administrative center of Malaysia's federal government. Putrajaya is like Canberra with flair, as the architecture blends Islamic motifs with modern design patterns.
The city is well laid out with wide roads and ample open spaces. The buildings primarily serve administrative, religious, or residential purposes, with the Putra Mosque and the Palace of Justice among my favourites. I did not see many areas set aside for commercial activity, but then that is not the primary motivation for the construction of this city. A neighbouring planned community called Cyberjaya will be geared towards enterprises.
First established in 1995, the idea behind the founding of Putrajaya was to relieve the congestion in overcrowded Kuala Lumpur by relocating the government servants to a nearby locale. It is named after Malaysia's first prime minister, but the literal translation of Putrajaya is prince's victory. As I saw my handsome visage reflecting on the shimmering waters of the lake in the middle of the city, there remained little doubt that a prince was indeed present.
It is very hard to talk to Korean bombshells. Although I am a distinguished conversationalist, I find it difficult to engage K-girls in dialogue. Most of the time it is because their breathtaking beauty has rendered me speechless. Many times it is because their nondescript boyfriend is standing right beside them. Other times it is because they cannot or will not speak to me in English. Sometimes it is because we literally have nothing to say to each other.
K-girl: I stay at home.
Me: What do you do there?


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Kiatisak Senamuang (Thais: เกียรติศักดิ์ เสนา เมือง, Udon Thani, 11 augustus 1973), ook Zico genoemd, is een Thaise voormalig voetballer. Hij was een van de beste en populairste spelers in Azië. De bijnaam "Zico", gebaseerd op de bekende Braziliaanse speler Zico, kreeg hij vanwege zijn trucs en dribbelvaardigheid. Tegenwoordig is hij hoofdcoach van de Thaise eerstedivisieclub FC Chonburi. Zijn grootste doel is om zich ooit als coach te kunnen kwalificeren bij het Thaise nationale voetbalteam voor een wereldbeker. Als speler werd deze ervaring hem ontzegd.

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Over the course of season 1994/95 Tadek Kopszwa wrote a series of 17 articles for the East Stirlingshire FC club programme detailing the club's 1st ever Division Three Season in 1923/24. Tad was writing during the 1st season of the current 4 Division set up of the Scottish League and Shire were playing in the 3rd Division for the 1st time since 1923/24.
The following are scans of all 17 articles from the programme covering the club's 1923/24 season.


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SJC Faculty Member to Lead Film Discussion
PATCHOGUE, N.Y. July 1, 2013 St. Josephs College (SJC) faculty member Dr. Peter Mascuch will host a discussion on the 2012 dramatic comedy, Frances Ha on Thursday, July 11 beginning at 7:30 p.m. The discussion and screening will take place at the Plaza Cinema & Media Arts Center (MAC) located in downtown Patchogue, as part of its ongoing Film Discussion Series.
Frances Ha follows the story of an awkward young woman who lives in New York, but doesnt have an apartment, and is a dancing apprentice, but doesnt really dance. The film shows the friendships and hardships of Frances, and her ability to throw herself into her dreams until they fade and reality breaks through.
"From his first film, Kicking and Screaming, in 1995, to the previous decade's trilogy of familial dysfunction comedies: The Squid and the Whale, Margot at the Wedding and Greenberg, writer-director Noah Baumbach has proven to be one of contemporary American cinema's most distinctively witty and observant social satirists, along with establishing himself as one of its few authentically "independent" auteurs, said Peter Mascuch, Ph.D., associate professor of English and American studies and coordinator of the film media studies program at SJC. "I can't wait to see his latest movie at Plaza MAC and get the chance to discuss it with that venue's smart and discerning audience.
The Film Discussion Series at Plaza MAC has included discussions by SJC English and Writing Professor Thomas Grochowski for the Academy Award winner, Searching for Sugar Man and SJC Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies Thomas Petriano for Terrence Malicks To the Wonder and the Academy Award nominee, 5 Broken Cameras. Peter Mascuch has also led film discussions on The Shining, Room 237 and the 2013 Academy Award winner, Amour.
Tickets for Frances Ha and the film discussion are $10 for the general public and $7 for students with a valid ID. For more information, visit www.plazamac.org.
ABOUT PLAZA CINEMA & MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Plaza Cinema and Media Arts Center is a non-profit public charity organization dedicated to bringing the magic and power of movies and filmmaking to the hearts and minds of the community. On a weekly basis, the Plaza provides the Patchogue community with current, quality independent films from around the world while offering special films for children and cultural programming such as broadcasts of operas and ballet from the world stage. Starting in 2013, the Plaza will be offering classes in screenwriting, editing and film production.


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How Africa Can Embrace an AI-enabled Future
By: Zoaib Hoosen, Microsoft Managing Director.
It's no longer news that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be a driving force behind the Fourth Industrial Revolution, with the global economic returns of this revolution expected to be in the region of about $16 trillion.
Along with these returns, AI is also expected to create 2.3 million new jobs by 2020, according to Gartner.
However, if we look at previous revolutions, history shows us that these revolutions have always been accompanied by a brief transition of temporary job loss followed by a period of recovery where job creation moves into more positive territory.
This means that we all need to take steps now to prepare AI in the future.
Leapfrogging aboard the AI train
Currently, no African country is among the top 10 countries expected to benefit most from AI and automation. But, the continent has the potential to catch up with the rest of world if we act fast.
To play catch up, we must take advantage of our best and most powerful resource – our human capital. According to a report by the World Economic Forum (WEF), more than 60 percent of the population in sub-Saharan Africa is under the age of 25.
These are the people who are poised to create a future where humans and AI can work together for the good of society. In fact, the most recent WEF Global Shapers survey found that almost 80 percent of youth believe technology like AI is creating jobs rather than destroying them.
Staying ahead of the trends to stay employed
AI developments are expected to impact existing jobs, as AI can replicate certain activities at greater speed and scale. In some areas, AI could learn faster than humans, if not yet as deeply.
According to Gartner, while AI will improve the productivity of many jobs and create millions more new positions, it could impact many others. The simpler and less creative the job, the earlier, a bot for example, could replace it.
It's important to stay ahead of the trends and find opportunities to expand our knowledge and skills while learning how to work more closely and symbiotically with technology.
Another global study by Accenture, found that the adoption of AI will create several new job categories requiring important and yet surprising skills. These include trainers, who are tasked with teaching AI systems how to perform; explainers, who bridge the gap between technologist and business leader; and sustainers, who ensure that AI systems are operating as designed.
It's clear that successfully integrating human intelligence with AI, so they co-exist in a two-way learning relationship, will become more critical than ever.
Combining STEM with the arts
Young people have a leg up on those already in the working world because they can easily develop the necessary skills for these new roles. It's therefore essential that our education system constantly evolves to equip youth with the right skills and way of thinking to be successful in jobs that may not even exist yet.
As the division of tasks between man and machine changes, we must re-evaluate the type of knowledge and skills imparted to future generations.
For example, technical skills will be required to design and implement AI systems, but interpersonal skills, creativity and emotional intelligence will also become crucial in giving humans an advantage over machines.
"At one level, AI will require that even more people specialise in digital skills and data science. But skilling-up for an AI-powered world involves more than science, technology, engineering and math. As computers behave more like humans, the social sciences and humanities will become even more important. Languages, art, history, economics, ethics, philosophy, psychology and human development courses can teach critical, philosophical and ethics-based skills that will be instrumental in the development and management of AI solutions." This is according to Microsoft president, Brad Smith, and EVP of AI and research, Harry Shum, who recently authored the book "The Future Computed", which primarily deals with AI and its role in society.
Interestingly, institutions like Stanford University are already implementing this forward-thinking approach. The university offers a programme called CS+X, which integrates its computer science degree with humanities degrees, resulting in a Bachelor of Arts and Science qualification.
Revisiting laws and regulation
For this type of evolution to happen, the onus is on policy makers to revisit current laws and even bring in new regulations. Policy makers need to identify the groups most at risk of losing their jobs and create strategies to reintegrate them into the economy.
Simultaneously, though AI could be hugely beneficial in areas such as curbing poor access to healthcare and improving diagnoses for example, physicians may avoid using this technology for fear of malpractice. To avoid this, we need regulation that closes the gap between the pace of technological change and that of regulatory response. It will also become essential to develop a code of ethics for this new ecosystem.
Preparing for the future
With the recent convergence of a transformative set of technologies, economies are entering a period in which AI has the potential overcome physical limitations and open up new sources of value and growth.
To avoid missing out on this opportunity, policy makers and business leaders must prepare for, and work toward, a future with AI. We must do so not with the idea that AI is simply another productivity enhancer. Rather, we must see AI as the tool that can transform our thinking about how growth is created.
It comes down to a choice of our people and economies being part of the technological disruption, or being left behind.
ADC Editor
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Wharton's 2010 Business Plan Competition: Health Care Innovations Dominate the 'Great Eight'
May 12, 2010 • 12 min read
Ever since the dot.com bubble burst a decade ago, many students in Wharton's Business Plan Competition have turned their attention away from the Internet to other fields. This year was no exception, with six of the eight finalists presenting plans related to health care and the other two related to retail. The ideas included a cervical cancer screening device, an antibiotic to treat infections caused by drug-resistant bacteria, a private sales club for students and a healthy beverage for bottom of the pyramid markets, among others.
Ever since the dot.com bubble burst a decade ago, many students in Wharton's Business Plan Competition (BPC) have turned their attention away from the Internet to other fields. This year was no exception, with six of the eight finalists presenting plans related to health care and the other two related to retail. The ideas included a cervical cancer screening device, an antibiotic to treat infections caused by drug-resistant bacteria, a private sales club for students and a healthy beverage for bottom of the pyramid markets.
Competing for more than $75,000 in combined prizes and in-kind legal/accounting services, the finalists presented their plans recently to five judges and an audience of venture capitalists, business leaders, faculty and students. The year-long competition — managed by Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs — is open to any University of Pennsylvania student.
This year, perhaps due to an improving economic environment, interest in the competition was significantly higher than in recent years. More than 230 teams entered the competition compared to 162 last year and 145 the year before. More than 250 judges were involved in the various phases of the competition, which begins in the fall with the initial submission of students' business concepts. Over the year, the entries are whittled down until eight finalists remain to compete for the grand prize at the Venture Finals. The judges at the Venture Finals this year included representatives from CoActive Health Solutions, Karlin Asset Management, Trevena, First Round Capital and Merck. After hearing 10-minute presentations from the student teams, the judges interviewed the students about all aspects of their plans, such as market size, funding, time lines and intellectual property.
The team deemed to have the most viable business plan was named the first-place winner, receiving the $20,000 Michelson Grand Prize and $10,000 in legal and accounting services. The team in second place received $10,000 and $10,000 in legal and accounting services, and the team in third place received $5,000 cash as well as $10,000 in legal and accounting services. A People's Choice Award of $3,000 also was presented.
Listed below, in alphabetical order, are overviews of the business plans presented by the finalists. See if you can guess the winner (revealed below):
CADIA Technologies: Should patients bet their lives on a 60-year-old medical technology that is inaccurate for one in five patients? According to team leader Greg Millhauser, a second-year Wharton MBA student, that is what women do every year when they rely on the Pap test to screen for cervical cancer.
He explained that CADIA's CerviProbe offered a better alternative, as it uses a probe to immediately diagnose cancer with more sensitivity than the Pap test. Although the probe can be used on any mucous membrane in the body, the team chose to focus on its use for cervical screening based on the size of the market opportunity. In the United States, more than 50 million women receive Pap tests every year.
The CADIA team, which recently was named a finalist at the Rice University Business Plan Competition, plans to price the device at $3,500 and the separate sheath used in each procedure at $15. They intend to launch the business with high-volume physicians in six states by 2014. In the meantime, their plan involves continuing R&D, building a commercial prototype and seeking FDA approval by 2013.
Cellulosic Biotherapeutics: For five million people in the U.S., back pain is part of life. The only treatment option is pain killers, and many people eventually undergo spinal surgery. Cellulosic proposes a solution in the form of a biomedical device called the CelluloDisc. The device allows regeneration of the core part of the spinal disc using variants of a naturally occurring polymer to produce scaffolds for tissue regeneration. The injectable liquid would be the first spinal regenerative approach in the market, said Sigal Saar, the team leader and a first-year Wharton MBA student. Patients would recover in just three months.
The Cellulosic team, which received funding from the National Science Foundation, plans to finish the R&D and proof of concept phases by 2012 and clinical trials by 2018, at which time there would be a partnership opportunity with a major medical device company. The group expects a product launch in the European Union in 2014 and in the U.S. in 2018.
Cortical Concepts: To stabilize segments of the spine during back surgery, doctors insert rods and screws to hold the spine in place until it heals, which can take six to nine months. However, if the patient suffers from osteoporosis, a common disease among older patients, there is a high tendency for those rods and screws to pull out. Team leader Stephanie Huang, a first-year student at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine, explained that the process in those cases is like trying to hang a picture in drywall.
Because one in four patients undergoing this surgery has poor bone quality — a statistic expected to increase with the aging of the population — this is a significant problem. To solve it, Huang's team proposes to develop the Cortical Anchor, which applies the dry wall anchor concept used for securing pictures to the spine. The device expands as the screw is inserted into the bone, negating the presence of osteoporosis conditions.
Cortical Concepts says the market for the device is 720,000 units or $300 million a year. The team, which was named a finalist in the Tulane University Business Plan Competition, proposed aggressive promotional marketing to create customer interest and already has lined up 25 surgeons from Johns Hopkins University who are ready to use the technology. With a provisional patent filed, Cortical Concepts projects an acquisition value in year five of $180 million.
First Stage Diagnostics: Team member Manish Maheshwari asked the audience members to think about the four most important women in their lives. Chances are, he said, that one of them has dense breast tissue and a 50% chance of having a tumor missed on a mammogram. To solve this problem, his team proposes a portable, low-cost breast cancer screening device called the Piezo Sensor that uses piezoelectric technology, or the ability of some materials to generate an electric field in response to mechanical stress.
Maheshwari noted that there is a $1.1 billion market opportunity, as the current practices to detect tumors are hard-to-read mammograms, expensive MRIs and ultrasounds that are prone to false positives. The Piezo Sensor, he said, can locate tumors as small as 1 mm in size and is radiation free. The technology comes from Drexel University where the research team has won two awards totaling $400,000. With a prototype already developed, the group intends to start a pilot study this year.
Hector Beverages LLC: Priced at just 18¢, Hector's PowerWater is currently sold at the lowest price among branded beverages in India and is the only widely available health-oriented drink in that market, said team leader James Nuttall, a second-year Wharton MBA student. With a unique pouch package, the product is extremely low cost to make and stands up to the rigorous logistics systems in India, going to locations that purveyors of bottled beverages cannot reach.
According to Nuttall, PowerWater will be positioned as a healthy alternative to juices and soft drinks offered by the large multinational companies. With the beverage market in India worth $2.2 billion and annual sales growth of 30%-40%, Nuttall expects Hector's revenue to exceed $100 million within its first five years.
As for competitors, Nuttall told the judges that when he approached large multinationals with this concept, they were interested but not prepared to be the first mover. So he expects larger beverage companies to come "knocking on his door" after the business is more established.
Kembrel.com: While there are 16.5 million U.S. college students who spend over $200 billion annually, particularly on brands they perceive as elevating their social status, students usually have a limited budget. This presents a problem for producers of consumer goods because it's difficult to build loyalty and give students the prices they want without diluting company brands. The solution, according to team leader and first-year Wharton MBA student Aymeric de Hemptinne, is Kembrel.com, an invitation-only online private sales club for college students.
The online club seeks to provide heavily discounted items from desirable brands. For suppliers, the site would help them sell excess inventory by providing discounts that are not available to the general public. With similar shopping clubs such as Gilt Groupe and Rue La La making millions in revenue, there is a significant market opportunity for this type of business, said de Hemptinne.
The business would have low operating costs because students would be involved with all aspects of the site — from modeling and writing content to serving as campus sales representatives. With 10 brands on board, the team reported that site was host to 17,000 unique visitors in the last four weeks. A winner of a $10,000 Wharton Venture Award, team members have turned down internship offers to build the company over the summer with plans to continue after graduation.
NanoLab: Imagine going to a doctor's appointment where the nurse not only takes your blood pressure, but also swabs your cheek as part of the routine protocol. By the time the doctor walks into the room 15 minutes later, he knows if you are at risk for heart disease, have influenza or even if you have cancer. According to team leader Michelle Gaster, a first-year Wharton MBA student, this scenario could become a reality with a device the size of a handheld calculator that uses magnetic nanotags to simultaneously detect the presence and concentration of up to 64 different proteins in the body.
Team member Christopher Fortier, a first-year Wharton MBA student, said NanoLab would begin by targeting high-value diagnostics such as screening for cardiac markers, a common test conducted in emergency rooms with a $1.2 billion market. After cardiac enzyme panel tests, the next markets would include tumor and infectious disease screening. NanoLab won the IEEE Student Humanitarian Supreme Prize in 2009. The team also recently competed in Stanford's Business Plan Competition.
R2R Therapeutics: Two years ago, second-year Wharton MBA student Ben Rhee almost lost his wife to a bacterial infection that followed the removal of her wisdom teeth. Fortunately, antibiotics worked to fight off the infection and saved her life. However, deadly superbugs are becoming more common and because they are resistant to most antibiotics, even drugs of last resort often won't work or cause toxic side effects.
Rhee's team proposes a novel cationic steroid antibiotic called R2R-1 to combat these superbugs. With a global antibiotic market worth $25 billion, the team's plan involves focusing on treating hospital-acquired infections. Rhee explained that pharmaceutical companies tend not to be active in this area, as the targets quickly mutate to become drug resistant. R2R-1 would provide a solution by disrupting the cell membrane and killing the bacteria, meaning that the target should change less often.
So far, the team reported that R2R-1 appears to be resistant to resistance, safe and highly potent. Using technology discovered at the University of Pennsylvania, the group's plan involves operating as a virtual company, outsourcing as much as possible to keep operating costs low, and hiring a CEO and CFO to take the company forward.
And the Winner Is …
Cortical Concepts, won the Michelson Grand Prize. Second place was awarded to NanoLab, and R2R Therapeutics won third place. The People's Choice Award went to Kembrel.com.
Jason Hsu, a Cortical Concepts team member and graduate engineering student at Johns Hopkins University, said that the idea for the plan began two years ago as an undergraduate class assignment at Johns Hopkins with team leader Huang. This year, Hsu and Huang, who own the IP, were joined by other engineering graduate students at Johns Hopkins, where they continued to develop the technology. The team is currently looking for licensing partners and has already seen strong interest from spinal device companies.
"It's a single product that would work better in someone else's pipeline where they already have distribution, sales and marketing in place. It makes sense for us to find someone in the industry to take on our product," said Hsu, who graduates in May and is planning to work at a medical technology company. "We'll use the prize money to complete our R&D and round out testing to show that we have a better product to offer companies."
As for NanoLab, the team is interested in further developing the venture and building a prototype. The engineering work, said Gaster, will be done by the inventors — who happen to be her twin brother, Richard Gaster, and his colleague Drew Hall at Stanford University. Meanwhile, the Wharton MBA students on the NanoLab team plan to reach out to VCs and develop relationships with distributors and manufacturers in order to see if the business is a viable option to pursue after graduation.
Rhee of the R2R Therapeutics team said that their technology isn't far enough along to seek funding so instead the team members, who are all second-year Wharton MBA students, are planning to work as consultants, or for pharmaceutical companies, after graduation. They intend to continue discussions with advisors to see if there is a path forward for the company, such as finding an experienced entrepreneur to come on board or conducting more experiments to validate the technology.
Since the Wharton business plan competition began 12 years ago, participants have tended to do quite well with their ventures. Companies such as InnovaMaterials, Petplan, PayMyBills.com, Integral Molecular and DealMaven all started out as competitors in the BPC and at least seven of the past grand prize winners are still in business.


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Transferring Development Rights in New York City: Previously-Granted Variances
May 29, 2015Michael A. Smith
While transferring unused development rights can potentially enable construction at otherwise prohibited densities, such transfers often introduce issues that, if unaddressed, can derail a project long after money has changed hands. This article focuses on one such issue, namely that discretionary New York City Board of Standards and Appeals (BSA) approval is required before transferring unused development rights to, or from, sites benefiting from variances that were previously granted by the BSA. For example, in Bella Vista v. Bennett, 89 N.Y. 2d 565 (1997), the sending site (seller) benefitted from a BSA variance, but the parties purported to effect the transfer without obtaining the necessary BSA approval. The receiving site (purchaser) was later denied a building permit to use the subject development rights, and then sued the City (wherein ultimately, the purported transfer was invalidated, because the required BSA approval was not obtained).
New York City regulates development intensity, including by limiting the square footage of zoning floor area (ZFA) (i.e., so-called "development rights") permitted without discretionary zoning approval. A site's maximum ZFA depends on its applicable lot area, which sometimes can be exceeded using ZFA from another, adjacent zoning lot. The most common way is by a zoning lot merger, whereby adjacent zoning lots (with consent from owners, lenders and other interested parties) are combined into an enlarged zoning lot, with a maximum ZFA equaling that of the sum of each of the individual constituent zoning lots. Unused ZFA can be reallocated to a specific site in the new zoning lot that is targeted for future development.
BSA APPROVAL
While otherwise not required to transfer unused development rights by "traditional" zoning lot merger, BSA approval is needed where a newly-enlarged zoning lot would include a site that has previously been granted a BSA variance. The appropriate BSA application is to reopen, and amend, the original variance. BSA's approval is not automatic, but rather a circumstantial inquiry of whether the variance would be undermined. See, e.g., BSA Cal. No. 885-78-BZ (2009) (citing Bella Vista).
Before transferring unused development rights in NYC, confirm whether any relevant site benefits from a BSA variance. If so, review any underlying BSA documentation to evaluate the likelihood of BSA approval. Responsibility should be allocated (between a seller and a purchaser) for pursuing any necessary BSA approval. A well-drafted agreement can establish crucial protections, including deadlines and consequences.
While this article focuses on one discrete issue, there are many considerations in transferring unused development rights in New York City, the failure of which to evaluate could be problematic.


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Acquisition of S-400 Defence System Has Emboldened India, Rattled Pakistan: Islamabad Admits
Indian acquisition of Russian S-400 air defence system last year has rattled Pakistan and emboldened New Delhi, with Foreign Minister Shah Mohammed Qureshi describing the S-400s as destabilising weaponry which could affect the South Asian stability. EurAsian Times stumbled upon an article from the Sputnik News.
US Makes Last Strong Pitch To Turkey; Dump Russian S-400 for US' Patriot and F-35
Expressing his apprehension about the arms purchase by India, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mohammed Qureshi has called on global powers to be "mindful" of their responsibility in terms of arms supplies to the region.
"The introduction of new destabilising weapon systems, such as the S-400 anti-ballistic missile system, could further accentuate challenges to strategic stability. They can encourage a misadventure by an adversary, under a false sense of security," FM Shah Mohammed Qureshi said on Wednesday in Islamabad.
Last October, India inked a $5.43 billion defence contract with Russia to purchase of five S-400 air defence systems despite the threat of US sanctions. Pakistan has immediately reacted by claiming that the purchase "is a part of their efforts to acquire a Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) System through multiple sources," adding that the move could destabilise strategic stability in South Asia. India has denied the accusations, deeming the purchase as necessary for national security.
Israel Concerned By Russian Aggression in the Lucrative Indian Defence Market?
India's massive acquisition of conventional arms coupled with offensive doctrines, such as Cold Start, and its expansion of strategic assets, including nuclear submarines, Rafales are developments with serious security implications for Pakistan and the region, Qureshi opined.
He also mentioned that the recent ASAT test conducted by India on 27 March raised concerns in Islamabad. Qureshi warned the international community against providing concessions and sharing high-end technology with India.
"The country-specific exemption by the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), has had negative implications for strategic stability in our region," Qureshi stated.
Qureshi urged global powers to remain mindful while dealing with countries in the region as the strategic stability of South Asia is impacted not only by regional developments but also by the approach of the international community.
As per the foreign minister, Pakistan had demonstrated its commitment to peace and stability by putting forward a proposal for a Strategic Restraint Regime (SRR) — based on three interlocking elements of conflict resolution: nuclear restraint, missile restraint and conventional balance. He said the proposal remains on the table and if pursued could lay the foundation for lasting peace and stability in the region.
The crisis between the two nuclear-armed nations escalated after the Pulwama terrorist attack in which 40 Indian soldiers were killed. Tensions were further heightened on 27 February when the two air forces got embroiled in a dogfight — their first ever in the last five decades — in retaliation to a "non-military pre-emptive" air strike conducted by the Indian Air Force against apparent terror infrastructure in Pakistan's Balakot on 26 February.
Pakistan claimed that it shot down two Indian fighter jets in the dogfight, while India refuted the claim and said that the second downed fighter jet was a F-16 of the Pakistan Air Force which was shot down by an IAF MiG-21 Bison.
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František Josef Dusík (v německých pramenech Franz Benedikt Dussek, v Itálii znám jako Cormundi), (22. března 1765, Čáslav – po r. 1816, Stična ve Slovinsku (v sousedství obce Ivančna Gorica)) byl český hudební skladatel.

Život
Pocházel z rozvětvené hudební rodiny. Jeho otcem byl čáslavský kantor a hudební skladatel Jan Josef Dusík a starším bratrem slavný klavírní virtuóz a rovněž hudební skladatel Jan Ladislav Dusík. I jeho matka Veronika rozená Štěbetová byla dobrá harfenistka a zpěvačka. Od dětství se učil na klavír, housle a violoncello a často zastupoval otce u varhan. V roce 1782 byl přijat do nadace kláštera ve Žďáru nad Sázavou. Ve studiu pokračoval v Praze, kde byl žákem Augustina Šenkýře a již během studií se stal varhaníkem v benediktinském klášteře v Emauzích.

Po studiu byl přijat do služeb hraběte Lützowa, s jehož podporou se dostal do Itálie. Působil jako koncertní mistr v Mortaře, v divadle S. Benedetto v Benátkách a roku 1786 dokonce i v milánské opeře La Scala. Od roku 1790 byl vojenským kapelníkem v Lublani a v Benátkách. V Lublani se i oženil. Jeho manželkou se stala Anna Fokke, jejíž bratr byl úředníkem Kontrolního úřadu ve Stičně. Okolnosti posledních let života nejsou příliš jasné. Je známo, že byl v Lublani varhaníkem a má se za to, že zemřel ve Stičně někdy po roce 1816.

Dílo

Opery
Seznam jím napsaných oper:
 La caffeteria di spirito
 La ferita mortale
 La feudataria (provedena 14.8.1806, Milán, La Scala)
 Infortunato successo
 L'impostore (uvedena v Teatro di Brescia, 1806)
 L'incatesimo senza magia
 Matrimonio e divorzio in sol giorno ossia Angiolina
 Voglia di dote e non di moglie
 Roma salvata (opera seria)
 Ombra ossia il revedimento (opera farsa)

Ostatní skladby
 Gerusalemme distrutta (oratorium)
 Sinfonia (archiv Gaeta)
V Českém muzeu hudby jsou uloženy:
 Trio G-dur für drei Flöten (Allegro-Menuetto-Rondo)
 Trio d-moll (Adagio-Romance-Rondo)
 Serenata für zwei Violinen, 2 Hoboe (Klarinette), 2 Waldhörner, Bratsche, Violoncello e Basso

Reference

Literatura
 Barbo, Matjaž: František Josef Benedikt Dusík. The Biography of an Eighteenth-Century Composer. Wien: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag 2011.
 Československý hudební slovník I (A–L), 1963, SHV, Praha
 Jitka Snížková: František Josef Benedikt Dusík, Univerza v Ljubljani, Muzikološki zbornik, 1990, letnik 26
 Jitka Snížkova: František Josef Benedikt Dusîk (Cormundi) — obdivovatel Mozartův, Bertramka, Věstník Mozartovy obce, Praha, 1988
 S. Hipman: Dusíkovská kapitola, Pamětni tisk, Čáslav, 1960.

Externí odkazy

 Seznam oper Stanford University
 Italská opera (it)

Skladatelé klasické hudby
Klasicistní skladatelé
Čeští operní skladatelé
Čeští hudební skladatelé
Čeští varhaníci
Čeští dirigenti
Narození 22. března
Narození v roce 1765
Úmrtí v roce 1816
Muži
Narození v Čáslavi


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