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"Moving America Forward," a national TV show hosted by William Shatner, to feature Fairfield
Fairfield to be featured on national TV
By ANDY HALLMAN for The Fairfield Ledger, Jan 30, 2014
Doug Llewelyn, left, interviewed Fairfield Mayor Ed Malloy, center, and Fairfield Iowa Convention and Visitors Bureau executive director Rustin Lippincott last week in Los Angeles for the television show, "Moving America Forward." The two men were interviewed as part of the show's episode on Fairfield's entrepreneurial spirit. The episode will air later this year at a time and channel to be announced. Llewelyn is perhaps best known to television audiences for hosting "The People's Court" with Judge Joseph Wapner.
In the past few years, Fairfield has been in the national spotlight as numerous television programs and magazines have publicized what makes this town such a great place to live.
This year appears to be no different. That's because Fairfield will be featured on a television show called "Moving America Forward," hosted by William Shatner. The show will focus on the town's entrepreneurial spirit and how this affects the residents' quality of life.
Fairfield Mayor Ed Malloy and Fairfield Iowa Convention and Visitors Bureau executive director Rustin Lippincott flew to Los Angeles last week to be interviewed for the show. Their interviewer was Doug Llewelyn, who is most famous for hosting "The People's Court" with Judge Joseph Wapner, which aired from 1981 to 1994.
The episode about Fairfield will air on YouToo TV this spring. After it airs on television, viewers can see it on the website YouTube.
Lippincott said he and Malloy chatted with Llewelyn for a few hours before taping began to give him an idea of what Fairfield is all about.
"We touched on what it's like to live in Fairfield, and we covered the areas that make us a great place to live," said Lippincott.
Fairfield will be the first town "Moving America Forward" has featured on its show, which normally highlights the accomplishments of individual business owners rather than whole cities. Lippincott said the show's producers heard about Fairfield through the Smithsonian Magazine, which in 2013 named Fairfield the seventh-best small town to visit.
"Fairfield was recognized for fostering the environment that helped these businesses grow," he said. "What makes this a unique recognition is we have 9,000 people but we have accomplished so much. That is, at its core, why we were recognized by 'Moving America Forward.'"
Malloy said he began talking to the show's senior producer Ruth Collins last year, who informed him Fairfield was a candidate for a spot on the show.
"She said they had done some research on our city and they found it fascinating, with all these different elements such as the entrepreneurship, sustainability and arts and culture," he said. "She said, 'We'd like to know more,' so we sent them links to some of our websites."
Collins said Fairfield was chosen from a pool of 70 candidate cities.
Malloy said Fairfield is often referred to as "Silicorn Valley," a play on "Silicon Valley" near San Francisco, for the numerous technology and computer companies that were born here. He said many of those businesses were started in the late 1980s by software engineers educated at Maharishi International University, now known as Maharishi University of Management.
"Everyone who came to study and wanted to stay had to bring their own livelihood with them," he said. "Because there were so many people who had a background in computers, there were a good dozen to 20 companies that were developing software. It became a phenomenon that these companies were originating from a small town in Iowa."
Malloy said a financial journalist was doing a story about the entrepreneurial boom in Fairfield at the time, and referred to this technological enclave as the country's "Silicorn Valley."
During their interview with Llewelyn, Malloy and Lippincott mentioned not only the town's strong IT sector but also its many other strengths such as manufacturing, tourism, education and agricultural economy.
The taped interview with Llewelyn lasted 15-20 minutes. Although Shatner is the host of the show, he was not on set for the interview. He introduces the clips and provides commentary throughout the show.
Malloy was filmed answering a set of questions about Fairfield. Shatner will be filmed asking those questions, and the two clips will be spliced together to make it appear Shatner is talking directly to Malloy.
Lippincott said the answers he and Malloy gave to the questions were not scripted, although the producer had an idea of what they would say from talking about their town with Llewelyn that morning.
In addition to the interviews with Malloy and Lippincott, the segment on Fairfield will include still photographs and silent camera footage of noteworthy places and events in town to be shown during the interviews. Malloy said he and others submitted videos to the producer, and the producers will get more video footage on their own later.
Even if residents miss the opportunity to watch the episode when it's broadcast on television, chances are they will be able to view the video later. That's because three Fairfield entities pooled their resources to purchase the video to use as a promotional tool once "Moving America Forward" is done with it.
Rights to the video cost $11,700, and the three entities who chipped in to purchase it were the city of Fairfield, the Fairfield Economic Development Association and the Fairfield Iowa Convention and Visitors Bureau. The three entities will own the video collectively.
Malloy said he felt the asking price to purchase the video was a bargain. He said he is glad the city will be able to show the "Moving America Forward" segment on the Fairfield Media Center's public access cable channel, FPAC–9.
Reprinted with permission from The Fairfield Ledger
Related articles on Fairfield, Iowa's entrepreneurial spirit:
@DMRegister's Rox Laird Features Fairfield, Iowa's Civic Collaboration and @MaharishiU's Sustainable Living Center
Des Moines Register: Oprah in Iowa: Fairfield meditation segment airs Sunday
The Iowan: Sizing Up Small Towns: Rethinking Success in Rural Iowa: Fairfield Thinks Inclusively
See an article on The Power of the Entrepreneurial Class: Turning Fairfield, Iowa into a Rural Renaissance City, by Burt Chojnowski, published in the Economic Development Journal.
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Grammy Award winner Omar Akram says TM brought him closer to his source of creativity
Enjoy this great interview Christopher Caplan conducted with Omar Akram, published June 25, 2013 at 12:15 pm in RYOT Reports. I was pleasantly surprised to learn how Transcendental Meditation freed the creativity of this Grammy award-winning composer and recording artist, and the respect he has for David Lynch and the David Lynch Foundation.
Q&A: Omar Akram, first Afghan American to win a Grammy, talks Transcendental Meditation
Omar Akram, 2013 New Age Music Grammy Award Winner
I recently sat down with Omar Akram, the first Afghan American to win a Grammy award to learn a bit more about his creative process. He has been referred to as a cultural diplomat by many, and the musical equivalent of Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner, in that he is (gradually) mending cultural differences between war-torn nations through art. His recent article on The Huffington Post bespeaks of a well traveled life in which he has mingled with Cuban dictators and contributed to peace in the Middle East. What's particularly interesting about Omar is the way he uses Transcendental Meditation in his creative process, as well as his support and admiration of the David Lynch Foundation.
Q: When and how did you first discover Transcendental Meditation?
I began using TM about 5 years ago. I was going through some creative blocks, so to speak, and a friend of mine suggested it. I'd known about it for years, but I had never taken the time to try it. I started to meditate slowly, and after doing it a few times, I got hooked.
Q: How has TM helped your creative process over the years?
I think it definitely brings you closer to the source of creativity. I feel this way almost every time. I remember David Lynch was talking about it. He said it was like "searching for the big fish," or in other words, reaching deep down. I can reach deep down inside of myself and get to the big fish — that big creative idea. That's what it's all about, the big creative idea, and TM helps me find this.
Q: Have you tried other forms of meditation?
Yes, I've tried straight meditation, on and off for many years. But five years ago I became a lot more serious about it.
Q: How do you feel about David Lynch's recent advocacy of TM?
I think what he's doing is fantastic because he is really trying to get it out to school kids and to people that have never been exposed to it before. I think that once people try it, I mean really try it, they realize how beneficial it is.
Q: How do you think TM can help children and students?
One thing that I know is that kids sometimes have a hard time focusing on anything. Especially nowadays because they are being bombarded with so much media. I think it's really helpful for kids once they give it a chance. They learn the value of meditation and focus. It will be hard in the beginning to understand what they're doing, but with proper guidance they'll learn. I think that not only will it help them become more creative, but they will improve in all aspects of schooling and self-esteem.
Q: Do you use TM when you are in the recording studio?
I try to do it a couple of times a day, once in the morning, and once in the evening. It has been really helpful both with creativity and dealing with the stress and deadlines of my upcoming album, "Daytime Dreamer." It kind of sets the course of my whole day. Once I'm in the studio, I like to take a few minutes, but it's hard to do it during the day, and that's my routine. When I do it the morning it helps me focus for the whole day, and shift everything so I have a clearer sense of what I need to do. In the evening I can absorb everything that I've done, and refresh my mind all over again.
Q: What do you see for the future of TM and its continuing acceptance in the mainstream?
I think the more people are exposed to TM the more they're going to realize the benefits of it. A lot of people are not aware of TM, and that's what David is doing, he's going around and introducing it to a lot of people that otherwise would never be exposed to it. The more people are exposed to it, the more practitioners there will be, and I think it's going to be huge. Guys like David Lynch are pioneers in that. I have nothing but respect for him, especially with what he's doing in schools. I think it'll make a huge difference.
posted by Omar Akram. Check out his blog: www.omarmusic.com.
RYOT NOTE: Transcendental Meditation not only helps to reduce stress, it also helps with clearing the mind and allowing people to be more creative. The David Lynch Foundation provides millions of dollars of free services every year, implementing these scientifically proven stress-reducing modalities for at-risk populations and communities. See other related articles on David Lynch from RYOT posted at the bottom of this article, and click the gray box to learn more, donate and Become the News!
You can read more about Omar Akram's background and musical influences in this PRWeb press release: Grammy Award Winning Artist Omar Akram Becomes Latest Entertainment Client to Join YM & Associates PR Marketing Firm at Beverly Hills.
In an April 29, 2019 interview in Thrive Global, Omar was asked:
Which tips would you recommend to your colleagues in your industry to help them to thrive and not "burn out"?
What helps me is meditation. I would highly recommend it to my colleagues. I've been doing Transcendental Meditation for many years and it has had a big difference in my life.
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kintsugi: japanese pottery inspires poetry
This poem was inspired by a tweet from @RobertYellin The art of making broken pottery more beautiful, kintsugi. pic.twitter.com/Q1ZLWzWQs
I replied @kenchawkin Wow! What a metaphor for turning obstacles into opportunities. Life's lessons build character.
I thought about it and made it into a haiku, then a tanka, and sent it as another reply to his tweet.
I also thought it was appropriate for a piece of Japanese pottery to have inspired a poem in one of the forms of Japanese poetry. I don't speak Japanese but am reading kintsukuroi as having five syllables.
Here is a link to Wikipedia explaining kintsugi or kintsukuroi. Read the explanation under the picture of the piece of pottery, then the poem.
kintsugi tanka
kintsukuroi
turning obstacles into
life's lessons build character
what was broken is now whole
Robert Yellin was featured on this blog before. See Takumi is not 'lost in translation' in this beautiful film about Japan's diverse artisan tradition.
Speaking of cracked things, Leonard Cohen said there's a crack in everything–how the light gets in. It came thru him & lit up a broken humanity.
Tags:"to repair with gold", artisan tradition, arts, broken pottery, building character, fixing broken pottery, Japanese Poetry, Japanese Pottery, kintsugi, kintsukuroi, Literature, making something broken more beautiful, metaphor for growth, Robert Yellin, tanka, Writing
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Haiku With My Muse, Sali, inspired by Paul Horn
Haiku With My Muse
You are my soul mate
With you, I can be mySelf
Together, We Are
© Ken Chawkin
With Sali at Parkview
See Celebrating Paul Horn and his Contribution to Jazz, World Music, Meditation and Spirituality.
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Canadian artist Greg Thatcher goes to Painswick every summer to paint its famous yew trees
Stroud News and Journal, 4:00pm Tuesday 7th August 2012 in News Canadian artist travels to Painswick every year to paint its famous yew trees by Hayley Mortimer, Reporter
A CANADIAN artist has travelled to Painswick to paint its famous yew trees.
Greg Thatcher, 63, who lives in Iowa, has been painting the trees at St Mary's Church for more than 20 years and works on location from June to August every year.
The yew trees were planted in the Middle Ages and Mr Thatcher says they form the most beautiful yew tree avenues in the world.
He first saw them in a travel brochure while working in Lancashire in 1991.
At first, he worked from photographs but after visiting the churchyard he was inspired by the different shapes and intricate details.
Mr Thatcher said: "I have been drawn to them. I just keep seeing deeper and deeper levels of where I can start. It is an ongoing relationship.
"The process is very stimulating and nourishing to my creativity and imagination.
"Even after 20 years I am still finding more angles and more information to work with.
"I love Painswick and enjoy coming back each year. My trips have been pivotal to my career. It has given me access to a unique and inspiring landscape."
Mr Thatcher spends between six and eight hours a day working on the drawings and many take more than 350 hours to complete.
He and his wife stay a mile away from the churchyard so Mr Thatcher can cycle to and from the site every day.
Mr Thatcher teaches art and art history to children aged 13 to 17 in a small school in Iowa.
He has a bachelor of fine art from the University of Victoria and a masters in painting and drawing from the University of Saskatchewan.
A series of drawings of the yew trees has been exhibited in the United States, Canada, England and France and his work hangs in corporate and private collections across the world.
For more information go to www.gregthatchergallery.com.
You can see photos of Greg, the trees, and his drawings in the online article bit.ly/Rg2k25, and in a pdf of Inspiration found under the boughs.
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William James College Pays $18M for Office Building
By CoStar January 19, 2016
William James College has flipped from tenant to owner after the graduate college of psychology, formerly known as Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, acquired the six-story, 85,788-square-foot office building at 1 Wells Ave. in Newton, MA from New England Development for $18 million, or about $210 per square foot.
The College first took occupancy at 1 Wells Ave. in 2012, initially occupying the first four floors before moving in to the remaining two floors in July 2015.
Chris Mullen at Transwestern RBJ represented the buyer in the transaction. Williams College secured tax-exempt financing for the acquisition through East Boston Savings Bank.

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Tesla didn't say that Earth is a vast reservoir of negative charge .. he said the Earth is a vast reservoir of negative electricity. The Earth's surface charge is a positive charge. Tesla was smart enough to realize this, that the negative pole of a battery grounded and formed a circuit to the positive charge of the Earth surface (ground). .... What he CLAIMED is that Earth is a vast reservoir of negative energy. Negative electricity is MUCH DIFFERENT than the negative electrical charge!
I'm borrowing a couple of images here, to illustrate how well known this technology is to one who does just a little bit of research and follows the synchronicities (trail of bread crumbs; one step leads to the next, etc), guided by their own inquisitive mind.
Here we see the MEG, and the Tesla coil, used in antigravity applications, just like how this website describes on the various pages like the Outer Ring page, and the Construction Blog page.
I'm including this article on this page because it relates to Tesla, who in conjunction with Townsend Brown are considered the fathers of electrogravitation.
You can click on these images for larger detail. The one on the left is similar to Tom Bearden's MEG (motionless electromagnetic generator), as seen on the various pages throughout this website (Construction blog, the Outer Ring page, and down below at the bottom of the Tesla Power article).
Here is the direct link to the MEG via the Tom Bearden website: http://www.cheniere.org/megstatus.htm
Also, Tom Bearden's 69 page "MEG paper" can be found on this link: http://jnaudin.free.fr/meg/meg.htm
Some of these types of systems used with an antenna and a ground can become self-oscillating for a while, after being disconnected from its power supply. In fact, several things will do that. The MEG made by my mentor did that, and Marko Rodin's systems have demonstrated a spinning magnet continuing to spin inside one of his toroid-shaped coils for a few minutes after the power has been turned off.
The image on the right is the Haunebu II ... It uses a Tesla coil system with electromagnets around the perimeter, similar to the OTC-X1 geometry, but providing vacuum lift up through the coil (similar to what is seen on the below articles on this page).
The Tesla coil will either draw energy up, or down, depending upon the polarity of a secondary actuating winding around the tall coil, in DC configuration (also shown on the Tesla Engineering Physics page). Superconductivity is demonstrated by using scalar negative energy, longitudinal waves able to travel at around 220,000 miles per second according to Eric Dollard and his team of HAM radio enthusiasts who have measured this speed of parallel and longitudinal waves.
The Tesla coil is the "magnet in the middle" similar to the MEG-like device on the left image, but it is acting as a static-magnet, however with a moving current.
Concerning a static magnet applied to building a Tesla system like mine: It's weird, the secret isn't in the math, but in the ability to physically feel the sensation of the light electric subtle wispy energy. When you start to feel it, then you can build upon it so that it's so big, anyone can feel it. Then you can bring it to life with a static magnetic current. A static magnet is the only way to describe it. It is a moving current, but you can set it in motion like how small fast gears turns a larger slower wheel. But when that large wheel starts to turn, there's tremendous force behind it.
A static magnet is a magnetic field combined with an electrostatic charge, but ....... don't confuse the term "static" with a meaning of "being in one place; immovable." Static charges is something you have to physical feel to understand. The best example is one of those plasma balls -- the glass globe with the plasma emanating from the center of a small sphere, seen in movies and at gizmo shops. When you put your hand on the glass outer sphere, you feel tingly electrical energy. That is static. A term Tesla used to describe as being "in the air." However as plasma is also produced in a near vacuum, static also exists in a near vacuum, convenient for usage of charging a spacecraft hull in a vacuum.
A static magnet however is softer than that, and sometimes it feels more like water than electricity, although there is a distinct electrical feel to it.
In the image on the right, you can see how lift is generated, similar to the impeller on the LAU-X4. It is also similar to the central accumulator of the OTC-X1. I wanted to share these relations to better illustrate the simple principles discussed in this website.
Also, similar to the original concept of the vertical cones approach, using a Tesla toroid on top, energizing the space of the cones inductively, what is happening in the image on the right is the outer hull being charged electrically, and the field shaped by the electromagnets (or resonance coils). Either resonance coils or electromagnets with a little thickness to them is how the OTC-X1 works. A spark collapse can still occur, although I am leaning toward electromagnets, because that is the common denominator with coils in the outside perimeter position.
You'll notice the similarities with Townsend Brown's little 3 foot disks in the Haunebu III. As seen on the Construction page (not the blog), that a dielectric and magnetic layered hull plating also works, which was also used by Tesla. The style of construction required to build "Townsend Brown / Tesla" style hull plating is found in the Townsend Brown section on the Construction page, with a link to tests achieved: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.02576.pdf
More about Townsend Brown can be seen at the bottom of the Updates and Design Improvements page. It's funny that "stressing the di-electric" easily applies to a Tesla coil as the di-electric.
Although I have never seen any flying Tesla coil, as I've said several times, the aeroframe is a necessary component, along with field coils and a central core. The bottom of the Tesla coil in the image on the right is a layered capacitor stack. That works similar to a secondary winding, but the charge is spread out along the plates, yet translates laterally and inductively to the vertical coil.
Things to note. The Tesla coil touches the airframe so you have the Tesla toroid on top and the whole thing sits inside a similar hollow metal scalar shape - the hull. Its known that the long vertical coil radiates longitudinal waves which is responsible for wireless transmission of power to say, light a lightbulb in a bowl of water 10 feet away. The scalar field is a superconductive field.
A spark gap has to be employed to change the nature of the energy in a Tesla coil. In the MEG, there doesn't need to be a spark gap.
This has its basis in the spark collapse of a collapsing electromagnetic field. Without the spark gap in the Tesla system, it does not produce scalar waves. The spark gap changes the nature of the energy from electromagnetic to magneto-electrostatic. This is another example of negative energy in use.
Notice the electrical geometry of the airframe shape in a sphere, containing the Tesla coil and capacitor cage on the bottom.
The "wings" are an important dynamic to shape the energy flowing over the hull.
Also, the outer coils connect to the airframe just like the output coils act in the MEG.
Mass is reduced with the outer electromagnets employed. The overall geometry of buildup of EM and collapse mimicks this structure: the outer electromagnetic field collapses toward the center superconductively and longitudinally, resonating with the central core.
Since mass is electromagnetic, this resonance action creates a negative mass field, or a negative energy field.
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This is the next step after the Tesla Ley-line. It's easy enough to do, basically get a mini Tesla tower to fly in a little disk. Powered from the spark derived from electromagnetic collapse. That is a specific type of energy. Your dealing with a collapse of electromagnetic space -- the volume of the electromagnetic field (AKA AMPERAGE), and at very high volts, whereas many people have videoed themselves physically touching this energy at the end of a copper or steel rod they hold in their fingers.
Its not the same energy that comes out of a Van der Graaff generator, which uses the build up of charge.
This stuff takes time to build, but a small little test disk to test antigravity and magnetostatic lift is something I can do myself on a limited budget. This is something ANYONE can do, just as long as they derive their power from a "spark collapse."
Two ways to tune frequency is to use an air variable capacitor, and a Tesla transformer (like an old radio coil tuner, with a bar magnet inside the coil for higher frequency resonance). It's all based on basic radio; old radio kits used to be for ages 12 and up.
Hey kids! There's a Tesla donut metal ring on top, a coil, and a capacitor stack on the bottom! Look FAMILIAR?? ... An array of 12 electromagnets goes around the perimeter of an aluminum air-frame. How simple is THAT?!?!
Go pick you up a decent store-bought induction coil and hook up a 6 volt lantern battery to it. That'll be good enough to get you a rapid sparky discharge at a workable frequency. Then tie in a couple of bare wires (like some 4 inch pieces of a wire clothes hangar) to the output terminals so the spark can arc between them. Connect your coil start and finish ends to your output terminals (positive and negative), or to the ends of the bare wires. ...
It's a simple matter to install air variable capacitors and a tuning coil (might have to make your own, like a good 2 foot tuning coil with a bunch of cylinder-shaped magnets stuffed inside the coil). Connect your output after that mess, directly to the little test craft.
It's so simple, that all you have to tell someone is "magnetostatic lift," and they'd be like, oh! like a charged feather hovering. ... if you tell people about mass reduction, and gravity cancellation, they'd think yer crazy
... I should note that the capacitor layer is using di-electric plates with thin magnet plates between them, as per the tests of the Townsend Brown effect in a vacuum, explained on the Construction page (not the blog page).
Further update; vacuum chamber testing:
Kinda like an electrostatic lifter but different. Put a digital clock inside see if it'll warp time ... that'll check to see if mass is being reduced.
Test it in a vacuum chamber to see if it works like the EM drive. This thing requires an airframe tho. The EM drive didn't. The EM drive didn't charge the outside of the hull but the inside. Although this should demonstrate mass reduction, whereas the EM drive didn't.
Could make this sucker air tight or add a double hull (another hull layer with air space in between the hulls so it has some air to work with in a vacuum). Give it a hollow space for air to flow around the hull then return up thru a central hollow pipe thru the capacitors and coil and out the top.
The EM drive worked in a vacuum chamber using microwave RF frequency. I think Tesla energy is a lot safer than microwaves.
It can just be treated like an engine, without having to worry about pilots. Put the top Tesla donut inside the aeroframe.
I give it two thumbs up for ease of construction (no moving parts), and viability.
The Otcx1 will not work as no one knows how to apply the laser they used on board the 45 foot model. Building a full scale model from his toy plans will cause that toy or full scale model to accelerate upward at great speed leaving orbit. Uncontrollable. It's been replicated.
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 5/22/18
This section is Current Research.
Now that the LAU-X4 is designed, and the OTC-X1 has been understood as using negative energy similar to the MEG, then even though it is relatively inexpensive for basic research into free energy, the Tesla energy system will ultimately produce developmental results to explain the characteristics of negative energy used in warp drive application.
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Although I have many links on my home page, and information disclosed on the Tesla engineering page, it is easier to make a separate page with free energy related links and information
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Is there any realistic probability of "unmanned LACs" controlled from starships or other, manned LACs?
Probably not. There will be an increasing use of remote platforms and drones, some of which will probably be operated from and/or in company with LACs, now that the Manticorans have introduced their teeny-tiny fusion power plants. I'm still playing with exactly where I want to take this, but I already have several applications sketched out, including some that will be basically remote weapons platforms. Trust me, there will be additional changes, although I doubt this particular concept -- at least in terms of a fully realized, remote-controlled LAC -- will be one of them.


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A few words about streaming (channeling): If you are new to streaming, it is helpful to demystify the mystery. The Charles Collective is a group of benevolent beings who are distinct from me as an individual but are part of the one consciousness that connects us all. The Charles Collective likes to say that we each have our own version of the Collective. Your collective will feel a little different than mine and have its own unique flavor.
The Charles Collective offers wisdom from Universal perspective that provides a framework to your individual experience. Their messages are loving, direct and funny. The CC has the ability to see you as the eternal, powerful being that you are without human form. They remind us of that knowing and help us to shift energetically, emotionally and mentally to a new perspective.
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Albireo Pharma announced that the first patient has been enrolled, a Phase 3 clinical trial (called PEDFIC-1) for patients with progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC), a rare and progressive liver disease, which typically leads to liver failure. In people with PFIC, liver cells are less able to secrete a digestive fluid called bile. The buildup of bile in liver cells causes liver disease in affected individuals.
PFIC is estimated to affect between one in every 50,000 to 100,000 children born worldwide and causes progressive, life-threatening liver disease. Moderate to severe pruritus is a common and problematic clinical presentation of PFIC that can severely diminish quality of life. In many cases, PFIC leads to cirrhosis and liver failure within the first 10 years of life, and nearly all patients with PFIC require treatment before age 30. There are currently no approved pharmacological treatment options for PFIC.
The Phase 3 program includes a single randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial designed to evaluate A4250 in 60 patients, ages 6 months to 18 years, with PFIC (subtype 1 or 2), elevated serum bile acid (sBA) levels and pruritus, and an open-label extension study to assess long-term safety and durability of response. Patients in the double-blind trial will receive a 40 or 120 μg/kg oral dose of A4250 or placebo once daily for 24 weeks. The primary endpoint for the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) evaluation will be an assessment of change in pruritus, and the primary endpoint for the European Medicines Agency (EMA) evaluation will be sBA responder rate.
A4250 has received orphan drug designation for PFIC in the United States and European Union, and has been granted access to the EMA's PRIority MEdicines (PRIME) program for the treatment of PFIC.
Signs and symptoms of PFIC typically begin in infancy and are related to bile buildup and liver disease. Specifically, affected individuals experience severe itching, yellowing of the skin and whites of the eyes (jaundice), failure to gain weight and grow at the expected rate (failure to thrive), high blood pressure in the vein that supplies blood to the liver (portal hypertension), and an enlarged liver and spleen (hepatosplenomegaly). There are three known types of PFIC: PFIC1, PFIC2, and PFIC3. The types are also sometimes described as shortages of particular proteins needed for normal liver function. Each type has a different genetic cause.
In addition to signs and symptoms related to liver disease, people with PFIC1 may have short stature, deafness, diarrhea, inflammation of the pancreas (pancreatitis), and low levels of fat-soluble vitamins (vitamins A, D, E, and K) in the blood. Affected individuals typically develop liver failure before adulthood. The signs and symptoms of PFIC2 are typically related to liver disease only; however, these signs and symptoms tend to be more severe than those experienced by people with PFIC1. People with PFIC2 often develop liver failure within the first few years of life. Additionally, affected individuals are at increased risk of developing a type of liver cancer called hepatocellular carcinoma.
A4250 has been granted orphan drug designation for PFIC in the United States and European Union. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has also granted A4250 access to the PRIority MEdicines (PRIME) program for the treatment of PFIC, and its Paediatric Committee has agreed to Albireo's A4250 Pediatric Investigation Plan. A4250 is currently being evaluated in a Phase 3 clinical program in patients with PFIC (subtype 1 or 2).


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Tremendous beer selection brings diverse clientele to local market.
For years, Valley Farm Market in Bethlehem has been known to provide some of the freshest produce in the area, but recently, it's also become known for something else: beer. The second-to-none beer selection at this local grocer is well-kept by beer manager Mikey Malone, who filled us in on how it has become a go-to beer spot.
Heady Times (HT): Is your customer base different from that of the grocery store?
Mikey Malone (MM): Oh yes, we have our own beer customer base. We're a beer destination; people know we bring in good stuff. The other day we had a few guys shopping around for over an hour and they ended up buying 15 6-packs!
HT: How do you keep the store shoppable with such a large selection?
MM: We are always adapting and trying new things in order to best serve our customers. In nearly three years, we've changed the store layout more than three times. It's all about finding a format that works at that time, and then changing as needed.
HT: How do you get the word out about your selection?
MM: We are listed on Untappd as a business. Every time we get a beer delivery, within an hour, the beers are uploaded to the app, and people are notified instantly on their phone. We always have a spot in the weekly local circular in the Morning Call. We have two pages for our beer selection. I decide which products to feature and include notices about upcoming samplings.
HT: Is there a downside to carrying such a large selection?
MM: You have to make sure the rotation is always right. To prevent the beer from sitting and getting old, we don't over-order. We map out the end cap displays and we keep a good mix of seasonal and core beers. Sometimes we have to discount beers that haven't sold as well as expected, but we usually still make money off them.


I am an avid collector. Whether it's autographs, replicas, figures, or Funko Pop Vinyls- I love to collect things from my favourite films and shows. The various Hot Toys, while I don't own many, are probably some of the best collectibles a fan can own. Over the years, Hot Toys have absolutely upped their game and have produced some beautiful figures. I remember getting my first Hot Toy at Christmas in 2016, it was the armored Batman from Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice.
Sticking with the theme of DC, Hot Toys have just teased the production of a brand new Hot Toy. I knew it was only a matter of time. We are finally getting a Shazam Hot Toy.
With the release of the film imminent, this was such a great way to celebrate the release of Shazam! and show off the teams amazing sculpting abilities. Although the final product has yet to be revealed, fans can expect a better look at the figure and all of its wonderful accessories and details within the coming weeks. Despite this being a prototype, I don't expect the figure to change too much. Take the Infinity War Thor figure for example. The only thing that really changed between the prototype stage and the final result was his eyes- the prototype showed him with his eye patch but didn't spoil Thor getting a prosthetic eye.
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This Family's Ferrari V8-Swapped Fiat 124 Spider Is Our New Favorite Project
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byStef Schrader| PUBLISHED Jun 22, 2020 3:30 PM
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Long before the Fiat 124 Spider was a prettier but worse Mazda MX-5, it was a brilliant little roadster. It handles well and it's full of vintage charm. It doesn't weigh much, so why not stuff a Ferrari V8 in the front?
Johnny Fargas-Diaz has a lovely 124 Sport Spider and a big ol' Ferrari-Maserati F136 engine. This particular 90-degree V8 was used in Ferraris, Maseratis and Alfa Romeos starting in 2001, dropping into everything from the Maserati Quattroporte to the Alfa Romeo 8C and the Ferrari 458. The F136 U going into this car was made for the Quattroporte.
Yes, they considered the oh-so-common LS swap. The $4,000 Ferrari engine won out on cool factor, sound and power in the end—as it should.
This Fiat-rarri—named "Tarantulo" after the bigger, beefier arachnid—is a family project, which is extra rad. The family who swaps Ferrari V8s together stays together, right? I think that's how it goes.
In stock guise, the Ferrari-Maserati F136 made anywhere between 385 and 597 horsepower, and according to his intro video, Fargas-Diaz is targeting roughly 500 hp for his 124 Sport Spider's engine. Maybe that sounds like he's holding back from the maximum of this engine's potential, but it's a huge improvement given that regular 124 Sport Spiders hovered around the 82 to 116 hp mark, depending on model year.
Somewhere along the line, this Fiat got a different 2.3-liter turbo engine from 1986, but that engine had been in there nearly 20 years and was tired. Clearly, it was time for a big change.
As far as the F136 goes, having to "make it fit in the Fiat" is a bit of an understatement—there's some cutting and fabricating involved here, including beefing up the chassis and other parts to cope with that 500-ish horsepower. Plus, they have to source the top of the engine separately. The radiator fits in the trunk. A T-56 six-speed manual transmission will eventually go in to handle the extra power, and the center console will be moved back to accommodate the new engine and transmission combo.
It's switching to throttle-by-wire, which makes sense given that there's a much more modern engine taking up way more space in the engine bay. As far as engine management goes, Fargas-Diaz says that the car runs using an Arduino now, but will eventually use a MicroSquirt 3.
There's a few visual mods on the outside—newer headlights and taillights, some fender flares and a wider stance, a custom badge and vents in the trunk—but unless the engine has to stick out of the existing hood (which is a possibility), this tarantula-inspired car should crawl under the radar.
It will have a very classic-looking feature under the hood, however: individual throttle bodies! Fargas-Diaz didn't want a plain ol' regular intake on the car, so they're adapting an intake from a BMW M3 V8 to use with carbon composite velocity stacks.
You can follow along with the build's progress here on Fargas-Diaz's YouTube channel, here on Instagram or through his posts in the Build Threads Communal Garage Facebook group here. This is definitely a project I can't wait to see in action.
[H/T Build Threads Communal Garage!]
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The Fordham Center for Nonprofit Leaders' Master's Program Grows in Popularity
Unique Program Challenges Nonprofit Professionals from Diverse Backgrounds to Improve Society
NEW YORK, NY, February 03, 2016 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The Master of Science program at the Fordham Center for Nonprofit Leaders aims to inspire students that are committed to social change. It gives them the essential knowledge and critical thinking skills needed to successfully manage nonprofit organizations. From Priscilla Garces, who was born blind, to Pastor R.C. Hugh Nelson, who leads a large congregation, students from every walk of life are acquiring the knowledge essential to launching their own, unique nonprofit programs to improve society.
"Most of our students have a personal connection to the causes they represent, making them extremely passionate about changing the status quo," said Allan Luks, the Center's executive director and one of its founding members. "Our Master's program gives them the tools and support they need, but we also provide a validation of their dreams. We show them that they can make a difference in society if they are committed to their vision."
Teachable Technology
Priscilla Garces is among the dedicated students at Fordham University motivated by her personal experiences to achieve social change. She became blind as a result of medical complications from a premature birth. Her parents immigrated to the United States in the hopes of providing her with a better education and an overall improved quality of life. Despite the odds, she excelled in school thanks to early exposure to various forms of technology and having supportive teachers.
Her personal experiences as an immigrant with a disability shaped her overall outlook and passion for creating social change. Recognizing the critical role technology played in her life, she is hoping to start a nonprofit that provides quality educational services, training and professional development for people with disabilities.
"Technology is a very useful and powerful resource for people with disability because it fosters the empowerment to lead a successful independent life," she said. "Yet, even with the various forms of technology available today, challenges still exist, and no tool is perfect. Dealing with the complexity of living with blindness has allowed me to find other innovative approaches to navigate through these challenges."
Garces added: "Having the appropriate support, tools, and drive for innovation is the key to empowerment."
As a pastor of a large congregation, hospital board trustee and president of Hope Center Development Corporation, a food pantry located in Brooklyn, R.C Hugh Nelson is no stranger to nonprofit organizations. Nelson joined The Fordham Center for Nonprofit Leaders to gain skills that will help him manage his own nonprofits and to build relationships with other students who share his passion for social change.
Nelson has seen firsthand that there is a serious problem of "father-absence" within numerous communities. His goal after completing the program is to establish a nonprofit to provide training and support for young fathers.
"Many young fathers would like to become involved more with their children, but lack the community support to do so. I hope to establish a program that will be there to guide and inspire them to take on the responsibility," he said.
Helping Forced Migrants
Jean Pierre Kamwa is founder of the nonprofit Espoir,Inc., which focuses on providing support to immigrant survivors of torture and violence and victims of human trafficking. He came to the United States seeking political asylum from persecution in Cameroon. He was attracted to the Fordham program's excellent integration of social justice and management into the curriculum.
"Social welfare policies that will help forced migration populations, including refugees, asylum seekers, trafficked population and other survivors of torture are extremely important in today's world," said Kamwa. "I plan to utilize the strengths, competences, resources and tools I've gained through Fordham to make the world a better place to live for all."
"Many of our students have ideas for nonprofits that are both practical, as well as extraordinary," said Elaine Congress, Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Social Service. "They see the role of the nonprofit as the public's conscience. They continually bring their inspiration and vision for a better future to Fordham, to New York City, and beyond. Our program helps them turn their vision into reality."
Sponsored by the Graduate School of Social Service and the Gabelli School of Business, the Fordham Center for Nonprofit Leaders offers a one-year, 30 credit Masters in Nonprofit Leadership. Its students, many of whom work in the nonprofit sector, are finding the knowledge gained at the school invaluable for helping them to launch their own social justice initiatives to achieve lifelong dreams of helping others. For more information, email nonprofits@fordham.edu or call 212-636-6676.
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Q: Scroll size changes while scrolling I have main.java
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"The question is not how fast tech companies will become car companies, but how fast we will become a tech company." This is how the board member of a global car company recently articulated the central issue facing most incumbents today: how to operate and innovate like a tech company.
The tech giants of today have been some of the most innovative companies in the past generation. A handful of industry leaders, such as Ping An and BMW, are fast joining their ranks by reinventing their core business around data and digital. What distinguishes these tech companies is that their technology allows them to move faster, more flexibly, and at greater scale than their competitors. IT is not a cumbersome estate "that gets in the way," but an enabler and driver of continuous innovation and adaptation.
The reason this is a competitive advantage for tech companies is because their IT is organized around a set of modular "platforms," run by accountable platform (or product) teams. Each platform consists of a logical cluster of activities and associated technology that delivers on a specific business goal and can therefore be run as a business, or "as a service," as technologists say. These platforms are each managed individually, can be swapped in and out, and, when "assembled," form the backbone of a company's technology capability. Just as important is that the business and tech sides of the company work closely together and have the decision-making authority to move quickly.
This is in stark contrast to the way large organizations normally act. Just establishing a business unit to manage a new offering or running a typical large IT project generally becomes a multiyear endeavor.
Platforms focus on business solutions to serve clients (internal or external) and to supply other platforms. They operate as independent entities that bring together business, technology, governance, processes, and people management and are empowered to move quickly. They are run by a platform owner, who takes end-to-end responsibility for providing the solution and operating it like a service. Platform teams are cross-functional, with business, IT, and anything else that is needed, such as analytics, risk management, and so on. (Some companies call this a "tribe.") They work in an agile manner, delivering the solution itself, enabling continuous business-led innovation, and developing and running all necessary IT.
A platform-based company will have 20 to 40 platforms, each big enough to provide an important and discrete service but small enough to be manageable. To simplify platform management, it helps to group them into three broad areas: customer journeys, business capabilities, and core IT capabilities (See Exhibit 1).
Oliver Bossert is a senior expert in McKinsey's Frankfurt office, and Driek Desmet is a senior partner in the London office.


Improved Synthesis of Chiral Pyrrolidine Inhibitors and Their Binding Properties to Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase.
Xue, F., Kraus, J.M., Labby, K.J., Ji, H., Mataka, J., Xia, G., Li, H., Delker, S.L., Roman, L.J., Martasek, P., Poulos, T.L., Silverman, R.B.
We report an efficient synthetic route to chiral pyrrolidine inhibitors of neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) and crystal structures of the inhibitors bound to nNOS and to endothelial NOS. The new route enables versatile structure-activity relationship studies on the pyrrolidine-based scaffold, which can be beneficial for further development of nNOS inhibitors. The X-ray crystal structures of five new fluorine-containing inhibitors bound to nNOS provide insights into the effect of the fluorine atoms on binding.
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It's refreshing to meet plastic surgeons with the gift of making patients look like themselves, only better. This is why I appreciate Upper East Side doc Andrew Jacono. You positively cannot tell that he has "done work" on his patients.
I recently ran into one of New York's most famous cases of socialite bad plastic surgery–probably the most famous case of it this side of Michael Jackson–and I thought, "She should have gone to Dr. Jacono!" The poor lady hid for years after making big-time press for bad face work and while she had it refined in recent years, she still had a Bride Of Frankenstein look. I would like to think that she still has time to go to Dr. Jacono even though she is getting up there in years!
I not only got to check out Dr. Jacono's beautiful new offices at 630 Park Avenue with an entrance just across from the now historically marked Andy Warhol townhouse (he is probably the only doctor with Damien Hurst art in the hallway and a VIP waiting room), but he personally showed me some of his before and after photos on his computer. I was totally floored. His facelifts are able to fill in those dreaded dark "hollows" as well as jowls that faces get as it loses collagen. I was most impressed by how Dr. Jacono is able to redefine jaw lines and remove jowls during a facelift. He "goes in" through the inner ear and one of his secrets is that he massages facial muscles during the facelift procedure. He has removed some of the most severe jowls I have ever seen, and those patients easily look 20 years younger. I had no idea that the key to "turning back the clock" is even more about a strong jawline and lack of jowls then it is about wrinkle free eyes or foreheads. I got a mini education in facelifts from Dr. J although I have to admit that some of the medical terminology goes over my head.
If you get a consultation with the dual-certified Dr. Jacono, he will also discuss lasers and dermal fillers with you and is brutally honest about how well they will work on you, the pain level and how long the results will last. Dr. J will tell you when surgery is a better option than a painful laser. I asked him about the use of Ulteraphy on "tree trunk lines" and jowls and he made it clear it was not worthwhile both in terms of pain level and how long the results last.
He is a master of subtle work with fillers–his "liquid rhinoplasty" gives your nose an instant lift. Few people realize that noses droop as we age and this is an instant pick-me-up that takes five to ten years off your appearance. In a nutshell, Dr. J uses injectable fillers and botulinum toxin to restore a more symmetric look to your nose. Controlled and precise injections can make the nose look more proportional and smaller in the facial frame. The results are instantaneous and there is essentially no recovery, unlike surgery. The most common filler used is Radiesse®, which is made up of calcium hydroxyl appetite crystals that are very similar to the mineral found in the bones of the nose. It is also ideal because it lasts twice as long as most other fillers (hyaluronic acids such as Restylane, Juvederm)–Dr. J says that patients get approximately one year's "wear" from this procedure.
Dr. J also creates something else that is remarkably fast, easy and effective–he calls it a "liquid facelift." He uses fillers such as Voluma, Restylane Lift, Radiesse, Belotero and Juvederm, Dr. Jacono creates a liquid facelift with a multi-layered, custom approach for each patient based on their specific goals and needs. Doctor Jacono does not overfill faces and is extremely conservative, adding less filler not more so that the result looks natural. Most of these fillers are made of Hyaluronic Acid and because of this they can be dissolved away and modified with an injected enzyme called Hyaluronidase. For the smaller fine lines and wrinkles, Dr. Jacono will use a neurotoxin such as Botox or Dysport to block the muscles that cause the wrinkles to appear. This is usually done for areas of the face such as the brow, eyes, and lips.
I personally got the "liquid rhinoplasty" as well as Voluma injected into my upper cheek area by Dr. Jacono and I swear that I need less makeup as a result–hard to believe but I feel like I am naturally "contoured" now! Just below you can take a look at some of the doctor's most dramatic non-surgical work! You can see a bump non-surgically "removed" from a young patient's nose with a few injections of Voluma. It looks like she got a full-on nose job! It's unbelievable!
For more info or to make an appointment, go to http://www.newyorkfacialplasticsurgery.com. It is very worthwhile to check out Dr. Jacono's third book which fully explains his philosophy towards creating natural facial results. It's called THE FACE OF THE FUTURE: Look Natural, Not Plastic and you can read about many of his procedures from lip augmentation to chin reshaping (you can order it through the website).
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First things first, meditation!!! I actually felt something. I let my thoughts melt away into obscurity and before I knew it, I felt this raw emptiness, a deep sinking feeling into the depths of my being. Its difficult to describe, I felt disconnected from my body but more aware of the space within my mind. As soon as I acknowledged this however, I felt my thoughts coming back to my mind and made conscious effort to let them gently float away. I felt myself coming out of meditation every time this happened but then sinking deeper into it when I was able to let it go. Instead of trying to replicate that feeling which is immediate instinct, I remembered the training not to force it and every stage of meditation is different. Some days you're on point, others you're disconnected or distracted, but accept where you are at that present moment. It felt really strange yet comforting to just let it all go.
The actual day itself has been a tough one for me. I had my first teacher training, we were doing a full hour and 15 minutes today and our two teachers were taking turns to spectate. I had it all planned out to perfection, minute by minute, the exact song when to switch from warm up to flow etc and although i was nervous I felt confident and strong in my practice. However, starting 15 mins late messed up my whole time planning and my warm up somehow took longer than I had anticipated before which the music for the sun salutations was on and I hadn't even done abs yet!! Inside i was panicking but on the outside I was cool and calm, until Vidya walked in. With her watching I got all tongue-tied and my flow was a little disjointed. I think overall it was a good experience but inside my mind it was pretty stressful and chaotic, how ironic considering my peaceful meditation literally a few hours earlier. We get another teaching opportunity in a few days, so I'll run through it myself again before I teach my second class.
We also had the afternoon free to work on our anatomy test (tomorrow) and our Sanskrit knowledge etc. I really did need a little release from the yoga world, so I watched a sneaky Gossip Girl episode, or two and have barely moved from my bed. My muscles are sore and my head is pounding away so I need a little release. This is the time where I would devour a grand meat filled dinner and a good few glasses of red wine, not to mention the wonderful company of either or both mum and Andrew. Talking of whom, Andrew is currently visiting Max at boarding school this evening. I think he's taking him to see "Avengers Assemble". I'm so happy for Max cause I know how much he adores Andrew, and I feel very lucky to have such a kind fiancé who truly cares about my amazing Max and drove all that way to visit him.
People are definitely starting to get very uptight and agitated at this stage. It is a lot of pressure, and everyone, including myself is much more abrupt then they previously were. I guess that is completely natural though as there's a lot of pressure and assessment/exam time is looming so I think practicing the yamas and niyamas I've mentioned in the last few blogs is integral to maintaining the good powerful energy we have built up so far.
As I was feeling a bit lethargic and down about my dicey lesson today, I knew deep down that I would feel much better if I went through my teaching practice again on my own tonight. I'm going to do that every night as I feel much more energised and ready for the next lesson, not to mention more centred in myself again. Its important that a teacher have their own practice as well as instructing so that the students can gain more benefit from the class and draw energy from the teacher.
So ready for bed now, I think I'm going to fall asleep as soon as my "cranium" hits the pillow!!!


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Niecy Nash: "When They See Us" Changed My Life
Niecy Nash as Delores Wise and Jharrel Jerome as Korey Wise in When They See Us. (Atsushi Nishijima/Netflix)
Since 1989, every time I came across the Central Park Five case in the media, I dropped what I was doing to pay attention. I had no connection to Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, Korey Wise or anyone involved, but I was captured by just how ugly the world treated these young boys from Harlem.
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When I found out Ava DuVernay was developing their story, I knew I wanted to be part of it.
In the new series When They See Us, I play Delores Wise, Korey's mother, who I had the privilege and opportunity to talk to and learn from directly.
Raymond Santana, Niecy Nash, President of John Jay College, Karol Mason, Kevin Richardson, and Yusef Salaam participated in a discussion at the Innocence Network Conference Panel in Atlanta in April 2019.
Korey was 16 when he was wrongfully arrested and sent away to Rikers Island while the others were placed in juvenile detention centers.
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He spent 12 years, the longest of all five men, in various maximum-security prisons, and he refused to admit guilt during any parole hearings.
Korey maintained his innocence through and through despite the daily tortures he endured behind bars.
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As a mother—both on and off set—it broke my heart to film the courtroom scene where Korey, brilliantly played by Jharrel Jerome, was taken away.
As a mother—both on and off set—it broke my heart to film the courtroom scene where Korey was taken away.
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Japan and Asean will call for freedom of airspace over the high seas in a communique at next week's Tokyo summit, a move directed at China's aviation defense zone.
TOKYO — Japan and the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations are set to call for freedom of airspace over the high seas in a communique at next week's Tokyo summit, a move directed at China's aviation defense zone, Kyodo news agency said.
A draft of the joint statement also expresses the resolve of Japan and Asean to bolster cooperation in maritime security, Kyodo said on Friday.
"The Air Defense Identification Zone is already an international issue. The meeting would lack edge if a strong message could not be issued [on the matter]," Kyodo quoted an unnamed Japanese diplomatic source as saying.
Japan and four members of Asean—Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei and Malaysia—all have territorial disputes with China in either the East or South China Seas.
The Tokyo summit to mark the 40th anniversary of Japan's ties with Asean comes after China last month declared an air defense identification zone in an area that includes islands at the heart of a territorial dispute with Japan, triggering protests from Tokyo, as well as Washington and Seoul.
In announcing the new air defense zone, China warned it would take "defensive emergency measures" against aircraft that failed to identify themselves properly in the airspace, raising regional tension.
Kyodo said a draft of the summit's statement stresses the importance of the freedom of aviation over the high seas and pledges Japan and Asean to contribute to the peaceful development of international aviation order. The three-day Tokyo summit is scheduled to start on Dec. 13.
Japan's ties with China deteriorated sharply in September 2012 when it purchased from a private owner three disputed islands in the East China Sea, called the Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China.
Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who returned to power last December for a rare second term, promising to stand tough in the island dispute, visited all 10 Asean nations over the past year, but has not held an official summit meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.


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Asian shares rally on China stimulus, UK fiscal U-turn hopes
Reuters / 02:43 PM October 14, 2022
SYDNEY – Asian shares extended gains on Friday as hopes of more Chinese stimulus and speculation of a British government U-turn on its fiscal plans supported risk sentiment, while the safe-haven dollar eased.
But long-term gains would be overshadowed by lofty inflation, with the latest U.S. consumer inflation report reinforcing bets that interest rates would stay higher for longer, hastening the risk of a global recession.
Asian shares tracked overnight gains on Wall Street and the optimism looked set to continue in Europe. The pan-region Euro Stoxx 50 futures rose 1.8 percent. Both the U.S. S&P 500 futures and the Nasdaq futures reversed earlier losses to be up 0.6 percent.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan advanced 2.6 percent on Friday. Japan's percent. Nikkei jumped 3.4 percent, enjoying the best day since March.
Chinese bluechips also rose 2 percent, marking the biggest gain since August, after the country's central bank governor promised stronger support to the real economy as COVID lockdowns spread ahead of the all-important Communist Party Congress.
The much anticipated U.S. data overnight showed core inflation – which excludes food and fuel prices – came in above forecasts at 6.6 percent, the biggest annual increase in 40 years, driven by large price gains in the services sector.
U.S. stocks, however, surged to close more than 2 percent higher on Thursday, as technical support and investors covering short bets drove a dramatic rebound from a selloff earlier in the day.
"The reversal in equities, that could have come about because there's perhaps a bottom-line moment when markets thought hang on, it's the same difference, nothing changes," said Vishnu Varathan, chief economist at Mizuho Bank in Singapore.
"So long as we don't shift to a point where it becomes a 100 basis point hike call. As long as it remains at 75, then OK… I think that's also why the dollar was put back from a position of strength because safe-haven demand for the dollar got overtaken by the risk-on drift out of long dollar positions."
Headlines that the British finance ministry Kwasi Kwarteng was cutting short a trip to Washington to return to London and work on the fiscal plan also helped sentiment, according to Varathan.
British government bonds have outperformed lately, with prices rising strongly on Thursday after reports that the government was considering a U-turn on some of the measures in its late-September "mini-budget" that triggered a historic gilts slump and concerns about financial stability.
Sterling, which surged 2 percent on Thursday on reports of the UK U-turn, held steady around its one-week high at $1.13.
Investors are also nervously awaiting an impending deadline for the end of the Bank of England's emergency bond-buying program on Friday.
"Despite the rally today, we have to recognize that we are in contractionary period of the economic cycle," said David Chao, global market strategist, Asia Pacific, at Invesco.
"I expect inflation to come down significantly on a year over year basis by the middle of next year. Typically, that creates a nice backdrop for equities and credit but there will be likely be more downside between now and then."
Following the strong U.S. inflation report, the markets have now fully priced in a 75 basis point hike from the Fed at its November meeting and a 71.5 percent probability for another jumbo rate hike in December.
Futures have also suggested that rates would now peak at 5 percent, bringing them to levels not seen since 2007.
The aggressive tightening from the Fed is putting pressure on central banks around the globe to follow. Singapore's central bank on Friday tightened monetary policy for the fourth time this year and warned more would be needed to tame inflation.
Global markets have been extremely volatile recently as investors worry rising interest rates could push major economies into recession before taming inflation, while there are concerns a strong dollar, buoyed by aggressive Fed tightening, could wreak havoc in emerging markets.
The dollar index retreated 0.2 percent to 112.34 on Friday, following a drop of 0.6 percent in the previous session.
The Japanese yen, on the other hand, touched a 32-year low of 147.67 per dollar overnight before stabilising around 147.4 on Friday. That is below the 145.9 level which prompted Japanese authorities to intervene last month to prop up the yen.
Oil prices fell. Brent crude futures were down 0.2 percent at $94.37 a barrel while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures fell by similar margin to $88.95 per barrel.
Gold was slightly higher at $1,667.48 per ounce.
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Q: Relative Layout inside a ScrollView - Not scrolling I have a relative layout as child of Scrollview. I already tried a bunch of answers in here but the scroll isn't working.
That's my xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:scrollbars="none"
    android:fillViewport="true"
    android:background="@drawable/home_bg_branco" >

    <RelativeLayout
        android:id="@+id/relative_categoria"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="vertical" >

        <ImageView
            android:id="@+id/categoria_placeholder_slider_listview"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginTop="-3dp"
            android:contentDescription="@string/home_placeholder_slider"
            android:src="@drawable/home_placeholder_slider"
            android:visibility="visible" />

        <ImageSwitcher
            android:id="@+id/home_imageswitcher_slider_listview"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="0dp"
            android:layout_alignBottom="@id/categoria_placeholder_slider_listview"
            android:layout_alignLeft="@id/categoria_placeholder_slider_listview"
            android:layout_alignRight="@id/categoria_placeholder_slider_listview"
            android:layout_alignTop="@id/categoria_placeholder_slider_listview"
            android:scaleType="fitXY" />

        <ListView
            android:id="@+id/listViewCategoria"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_below="@id/home_imageswitcher_slider_listview"
            tools:ignore="NestedScrolling" >
        </ListView>

        <ImageView
            android:id="@+id/categoria_cores_listview"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/categoria_placeholder_slider_listview"
            android:layout_alignParentEnd="true"
            android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
            android:contentDescription="@string/img_cores"
            android:src="@drawable/img_cores" />

        <ImageView
            android:id="@+id/categoria_destaque_listview"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_alignStart="@id/categoria_placeholder_slider_listview"
            android:contentDescription="@string/img_destaques"
            android:src="@drawable/img_destaques" />
    </RelativeLayout>

</ScrollView>

Another thing: i disabled the listview scroll to avoid conflicts.
Thanks in advance!

A: You should change layout_height of the RelativeLayout to match_parent:
<RelativeLayout
    android:id="@+id/relative_categoria"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    >

Also remove android:fillViewport="true" from ScrollView.
In my project I have several ScrollViews exactly like this, and they work fine:
<ScrollView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    >
    <RelativeLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        >

UPDATE
One last thing I can propose is to remove ListView from the ScrollView as it can interfere with layout and scrolling.

A: Add this line to your onCreate()
getActivity().getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_ADJUST_RESIZE|WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_VISIBLE);