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Anjali Mehta
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Anjali brings over 10 years of nonprofit experience to rootid. In her time, she has built fundraising programs and internal organizational culture with equity in mind. In her work, she employs cross-collaboration, active listening, and problem-solving action. Often in her work, she references Tema Okun's White Supremacy Culture article to ensure harmful behaviors are not being perpetuated.
Anjali has a degree in Global Economics with an emphasis on Southeast Asian Economies from the University of California - Santa Cruz. In her spare time, you can find her trying a new recipe, gardening, listening to a great podcast, reading a book, or planning the next great adventure.
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Bob Gourley
(he/him) / Senior Web Developer
Bob Gourley started in digital media by moving his music 'zine Chaos Control online in 1993. This soon led to design and development work with music industry clients as they entered the then-emerging online world. Having shifted his focus to nonprofits, Bob strives to balance creative and technical needs and challenges, working collaboratively to find the best approach for a project. He is constantly on the lookout for new techniques and technologies to add to his toolset. Bob continues to do band/musician interviews for Chaos Control and other online publications when opportunities arise.
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Grace Yee
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Grace is a graphic designer who works primarily with local small businesses and nonprofits in San Francisco. She is simultaneously big picture-oriented and analytical and has worked in corporate, agency, freelance, and non-profit/cooperative settings. In her free time, she enjoys roller skating, gardening, photography, and making funny videos of her cat for the Gram. Grace finds inspiration in nature, music, and meaningful work that serves the greater good.
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Ian Madrigal
(they/them) / Communications Strategist & Facilitator
Ian Madrigal is the creative strategist best known for their viral Monopoly Man appearances in Congress, shaming DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen out of a Mexican restaurant over the child separation policy, and the literal "troll" of Mark Zuckerberg. A graduate of UCLA Law's Critical Race Studies program, Ian is also an attorney, organizer, filmmaker, and writer who has led national movements fighting corporate power through a racial justice lens. Their activism has been profiled in the New York Times, Washington Post, HBO, the Today Show, Fox News, NPR, and many more.
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Jason Mickela
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Jason Mickela has been a software developer for over 14 years working on enterprise level solutions for universities, banks and a Fortune 500 companies. Jason most recently comes from the University of Berkeley, working to build online solutions that boosted enrollment and programmatic marketing efforts. Though he focuses on Drupal, Wordpress and Django development, he knows 10+ programming languages and is always game to take on new challenges.
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Mabel is a UX & Service designer. She has worked in nonprofits offering opportunities and collaborating with community members to make important life decisions. While looking for strategic ways to solve problems, she fell in love with UX design. She enjoys that magic spot where open-minded collaboration and creativity fills a real and practical need. In her free time she enjoys baking, dancing and good tv.
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Marcus Cinque Harris is a professional creative & project manager with over a decade of experience engaging diverse communities and connecting people as an entrepreneurial artist & communications specialist. Marcus is a skilled strategist in managing teams, producing high-quality content, and facilitating campaigns. His projects creating impactful media by bridging art & activism have been acclaimed by AFROPUNK, NPR's Colorlines, and Complex magazine. An avid sports fan, coffee lover, and self-proclaimed "Afrofuturist", Marcus believes in working to build a better future by honoring the past.
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Sia is a visionary leader, bridge builder, and problem solver. Sia strategically connects nouns (people, places & things) by leveraging resources and executing collaborations between corporations, district leaders, community alliances, and nonprofit organizations. A former classroom educator, Sia has dedicated her life to informing, inspiring, and equipping the under-resourced with the information, and competencies needed to create 'a seat at the table'. Sia has a Bachelor's Degree in Communications from Bowie State University, a Master's Degree in Journalism from Florida A&M University, and an MDiv from Oral Roberts University. Sia currently serves on the board of the Silicon Valley chapter of the AFP (Association for Fundraising Professionals; and is an Executive Board Member of the Oaktown Futbol Club. Sia is a new mom, and an avid collector of Golden Girls swag.
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Soy Pak-Krisher
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Soy Pak-Krisher has been an art director/designer for branding and interactive for the past 18 years. She comes to Rootid with extensive experience in the corporate, entertainment, fashion and non-profit sectors, specializing in beautiful and usable interfaces. Soy has her MFA in Design and Technology as well as her Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice in Design certificate from Parsons School of Design and her BS in Environmental Design from University California, Davis. When not nailing deadlines and working hard whilst having fun, Soy can be found bellydancing, cooking or studying Kung Fu.
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The high cost of childcare forces a fifth of Britons to quit their jobs
New research finds that nearly one-fifth of parents in the UK have been forced to give up their jobs because of the high cost of childcare. The study by the pregnant and shattered group, found that 84% of childcare costs are high.
New research finds that nearly a fifth of parents in the UK have been forced to give up their jobs because of the high cost of childcare.
The study, conducted by pregnant and shattered groups, found that the high costs of childcare make 84% of families worried about their financial situation.
About 62% of parents said they were forced to work less hours because of the cost of childcare. The burden of childcare fees is often borne by women, which increases the gender pay gap and what is known as "maternity punishment," the researchers note.
The survey, which surveyed about 1,800 parents, came after the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development found that the UK was implementing one of the world's most expensive systems.
"I have two children. One is two and a half years old and twelve months old. I spend more than 50% of my salary on childcare costs every month," said Aseel Haddad, a spokeswoman for the Pregnant and Shattered group. Work is lucky because my income and my partner are fairly good. It has prevented many. The cost of childcare is a punishment for women and it is incapacitating. There is no point in working if it becomes expensive because of childcare. Professionally because childcare is too expensive, they cannot find flexible jobs and are therefore obliged to do so Part-time jobs and low wages to have time to care for children
"This is the reason for the gender pay gap. In most cases, if you are not working full-time, your chances of getting a higher pension, career development and even training in some cases are less. But in most cases, if you work part-time," she said. "You are seen as being less effective and less committed. We are limiting the potential of women and I find it frightening. We hear stories about women working as doctors and teachers and facing difficulties." Concerns about the cost of childcare are causing "stress" straining romantic relationships, she said, adding that "financial pressures" were a "huge reason" for the end of marriages and relationships.
Julie Brierley, who founded the Pregnant and Broken Group, called childcare costs "punitive," saying the current system disappointed parents, child care providers and care workers. "If we want to change the landscape for women, and parents, we need to provide properly subsidized childcare from nine months old. The government provided 'free' childcare for 30 hours a week starting at three years old, and exempted employees from paying taxes on But this is not enough, and it affects not only parents but also childcare providers because they are unable to cover the costs of providing the service. Women get one year maternity leave of which nine months are paid, so there are two years. Either the mother spends at home with her children to provide The high cost of child care or return to work and bear the burden of a huge bill, note that many hours of work in order to cut down on the balance achieve their ".
The Gingerbread Foundation for Single Parents noted that these parents were particularly dependent on "good childcare" so that they could work as "primary caregivers and primary income earners."
"For many, this is a huge burden on their finances," said Faye Goldman, a director at Gingerbread. Good business and financial difficulties until more support is given to low-income parents to help them effectively raise childcare costs. "
"We are investing record sums in childcare and early education, including around £ 3.5 billion earmarked for our free early education benefits this year alone," a government spokesman said. "In the first two years of the program, 600,000 children aged Three and four years of a 30-hour free course, working parents also receive help to cover childcare costs through tax exemptions and through the global credit system We want to support early care providers to provide quality care and education, which is why We recently announced an additional £ 66 million to increase the costs per hour of free hours provided by the government during 2020 and 2021. "
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Today's question: What do the biggest online businesses have in common?
They use other people's data for the content.
Look at Amazon.com the reviews, the product pictures, the product descriptions. Almost all are from sources besides themselves. Look at Google. They scrape data from everywhere to display to their users. Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, you name it. The biggest sites, are all either getting user submitted content or using other people's data.
So my interest is piqued when I see websites for sale that have found a way to capture content from their viewers and users. You might be surprised at the variety of sites that employ this technique. It is not just limited to social media. Consider sites where users upload graphics or designs, forum sites, classified ad sites, photography sites and writing sites just to name a few. Take not of sites that offer tools where users can create content that is then published to the site, especially when the content includes text which is loved by search engines.


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New Associate Announcement
We are very pleased to inform you that effective October 1, 2018, Keen Umbehr, II will be joining T-S Holdings, Inc., as our Corporate Vice President of Sales & Operations. As most of you are aware Keen has been a member of the Triple S family, serving as the V.P of Business Development, since February of 2018.
Keen has a proven track record in the areas of Sales, Operations and Administration. Keen gained his sales experience working as a Regional Manager for a wholesale distribution company and as the National Sales Manager for ABC Compounding. He further honed his sales skills and gained administrative and operational skills while assisting with a family business and during his time at Nissco. Keen joined Nissco as their VP of Business Development, was promoted to Executive VP after about 2 years and was then promoted to President and CEO 2 years later.
Keen is a highly energetic individual that is quick to engage and identify the fundamental tenets necessary for success. We are very confident that he will prove to be a valued asset as he provides support to our Branch Management, sharing best practices, from branch to branch, and optimizing our sales and operations platforms.
Keen obtained his Bachelor's Degree from Kansas State University and his post grad Masters in Business Administration from Texas A&M. He will continue to operate out of Alvin, Texas, where he resides with his wife Tiffany and their two young children. His new e-mail address will be keen@tsh-inc.com. He can also be reached by phone at 832-336-1109.
As we build out the Triple S Holdings corporate team, we are better able to drive the financial performance necessary to support our continued growth. Having Keen onboard and focused on our sales and operations initiatives will allow me to better focus on the administrative tasks required to support the continued development of the company as well as provide more time for the review and analysis of future acquisitions.
Please join me in welcoming Keen to the Triple S Holdings team.
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Over 30 seasons in Maggie Valley of Western North Carolina, J. Arthur's invites you to share in our hospitality, warmth, and excellence in food and service. Famous for our gorgonzola cheese salad, slow roasted prime rib, Maine lobster, and mouth-watering desserts. Bring your well behaved pooch along to dine on our patio on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.


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A Moagem da Companhia Insular de Moinhos é um edifício emblemático da cidade do Funchal, em Portugal, onde em tempos funcionou uma antiga moagem e fábrica de massas da Companhia Insular de Moinhos, localizado no quarteirão compreendido pelo Largo do Pelourinho, Travessa da Malta e Rua Visconde de Anadia. O edifício actual data de 1929-1930, tendo sido realizada uma profunda reforma em 1935. Nesse ano foi igualmente construída a sua alta chaminé do tipo fabril, constituindo-se desde então como referência na cidade do Funchal. Ao fim da tarde de 22 de Fevereiro de 2019 o edifício foi alvo de um violento incêndio que o destruiu parcialmente.

Características
O edifício da antiga moagem foi construído em 1929-1930, em alvenaria de pedra basáltica argamassada, com argamassa de cal. Compreende cinco largos pisos, marcados por um corpo central, assinalado por uma banda colorida com o nome da firma. O piso superior tem uma água furtada, que em tempos esteve equipada com um guindaste, hoje apenas apontado. As janelas apresentam quase todas molduras de cantaria articuladas, hoje isoladas com pintura, mas ainda com os restos da cantaria visíveis. O canto que deita para a Rua Direita é arredondado, ostentando ainda antigos ferros forjados. O edifício inclui uma alta chaminé fabril, com a indicação de Insular, constituindo-se como um dos pontos de referência dos funchalenses desde 1935.

Segundo José Alberto Pimenta de Franca, director do Laboratório Regional de Engenharia Civil, após o incêndio de 22 de Fevereiro de 2019 as paredes encontravam-se na sua maioria aprumadas, embora rachadas. A chaminé está desequilibrada, sendo possível que já o estivesse antes.

História

O actual edifício da Companhia Insular de Moinhos foi construído em 1929, destinando-se a albergar uma moagem de cereais.

Em 1930 a Fábrica dos Lavradores e Panificação, à Rua do Hospital Velho, fundiu-se com a Moagem da Companhia Insular de Moinhos Lda., passando a funcionar sob esta última firma, , levando à produção no ano seguinte ao denominado Decreto da Fome, sobre sobre o monopólio das farinhas, à Revolta da Farinha e a Revolta da Madeira. Em 1935, após a situação acalmar, a empresa reformulou o antigo edifício do Largo do Pelourinho, adquirindo toda a maquinaria da Fábrica de São Filipe, posteriormente conhecida como Socarma, que viria a ser destruída por um violento incêndio a 22 de Outubro de 1974. A maquinaria foi instalada na fábrica do Largo do Pelourinho, que ganhou assim grande capacidade de produção.

Em 2003 a Câmara Municipal do Funchal aprovou um projecto executado pelo gabinete do arquitecto João Francisco Caires para o edifício da antiga moagem, prevendo a sua reconversão num empreendimento imobiliário com apartamentos de luxo e lofts, à imagem das zonas históricas recuperadas em diversas cidades europeias e norte-americanas. Este projecto acabou por não seguir em frente, face ao interesse do Grupo Sá de juntar todo o quarteirão no mesmo projecto.

Em Abril de 2009 o Grupo Sá, proprietário do imóvel há vários anos, anunciou a intenção de adquirir todo o quarteirão delimitado pela Rua do Anadia, Travessa da Malta, Rua Direita e Praça do Pelourinho, declarando estar a negociar a aquisição de outros prédios, com um conjunto de diversos proprietários e inquilinos, contíguos à antiga moagens. Rui Sá, então administrador do grupo, afirmou a intenção de ali construir um complexo imobiliário de acordo com a traça actual, com diversas valências e áreas de serviços, com a ideia de criar uma nova centralidade na baixa do Funchal, implicando um novo plano de reconversão urbana de todo o quarteirão. Segundo Rui Sá, essa centralidade seria reforçada com a construção de um hotel de cidade naquele espaço, cujo desenho estava a ser executado, continuando nas mãos de João Francisco Caires. O administrador do grupo afirmou então, no entanto, que aquele não era um projecto prioritário, tanto pela situação então recomendar alguma cautela, como por o grupo económico da família, liderado pelo conhecido empresário Jorge Sá, ter então outras prioridades.

A Câmara Municipal anunciou então que a calçada da Travessa da Malta, retirada pelos funcionários camarários, seria reposta após a apresentação do projecto previsto para o quarteirão. O então vice-presidente da autarquia, Bruno Pereira afirmou então que toda a zona que seria intervencionada havia sido previamente fotografada para servir de comprovativo, após o que a câmara obrigaria o empresário a recolocar a calçada segundo o traçado existente antes das obras, explicando que as pedras da calçada se encontravam guardadas no armazém da Câmara, na zona da Fundoa, sendo provisoriamente colocado um pavimento de alcatrão.

Em 2017, o edifício e todo o quarteirão onde está implantado foi vendido pelo Grupo Sá, por escritura celebrada a 4 de Agosto pelo valor de 7,5 milhões de euros, ao Grupo AFA, que igualmente demonstrou intenção de requalificar o quarteirão e transformá-lo num hotel de cidade, cuja concretização estava prevista para 2020.

Em 2019 o edifício encontrava-se devoluto e degradado, sendo utilizado como local de pernoita por sem-abrigo. Segundo o presidente da autarquia, Paulo Cafôfo, entre Maio de 2018 e Fevereiro de 2019 o Grupo AFA foi notificado cinco vezes sobre esta situação, tendo sido efectuadas quatro vistorias ao edifício e tomadas algumas medidas preventivas com vista a evitar a intrusão de pessoas naquele espaço.

A 4 de Fevereiro de 2019 os condóminos do vizinho Edifício Ornelas 56, situado entre a Rua Dr. Fernão de Ornelas e a Travessa da Malta, alertaram a Câmara Municipal para o risco de incêndio nos edifícios devolutos circundantes, dada a facilidade de intrusão nos mesmos por marginais e toxicodependentes que nos últimos meses se reuniam na Travessa da Malta.

Incêndio

Às 19:15 da tarde de 22 de Fevereiro de 2019 foi dada nota de que um incêndio havia deflagrado no edifício. Poucos minutos depois, às 19:22, a primeira corporação de bombeiros chegou ao local. A redacção do Diário de Notícias, situada junto ao edifício em chamas, foi imediatamente evacuada. Pelas 19:30 o fogo encontrava-se descontrolado.

Ainda antes das 20.20 os bombeiros retiraram um homem do edifício com o auxílio de uma escada. Um outro indivíduo que se encontrava no seu interior na altura do foco conseguiu sair por seus próprios meios. Alguns pequenos fogos deflagraram em edifícios vizinhos à Travessa da Malta.

Às 21:00 horas o incêndio continuava activo no quarteirão entre a Travessa de Malta e o Largo do Pelourinho, encontrando-se no local duas corporações de bombeiros, os Bombeiros Voluntários Madeirenses e os Bombeiros Sapadores do Funchal, com o apoio de quatro viaturas autotanques e duas ambulâncias. À mesma hora, a Câmara Municipal do Funchal emitiu um comunicado pedindo à população que evitasse a circulação na baixa do Funchal, sobretudo na zona do Largo do Pelourinho. O Serviço Municipal de Protecção Civil encontrava-se no local a coordenar a operação em conjunto com os Sapadores do Funchal. Além dos Voluntários Madeirenses, participavam no combate ao fogo os Bombeiros Municipais de Santa Cruz, os Bombeiros Voluntários de Câmara de Lobos, a Polícia de Segurança Pública e duas guarnições da Guarda Nacional Repúblicana, com 24 viaturas no terreno e 63 bombeiros. A zona em redor foi evacuada, tendo sido instalado um perímetro de segurança que abrange a Rua Fernão de Ornelas, a zona do Mercado dos Lavradores e a Praça da Autonomia, encontrando-se a circulação interdita a pessoas e veículos.

Às 21:40 a Câmara Municipal do Funchal anunciou que o fogo se encontrava circunscrito, caso as condições meteorológicas não se alterassem, já não se observando a essa hora labaredas no edifício. Miguel Gouveia, vice-presidente da autarquia funchalense, anunciou que após a extinção do incêndio a área em torno do edifício ficará interdita à circulação de pessoas até ser feita uma vistoria à estrutura para avaliar a sua solidez, por forma a assegurar que não há risco da estrutura colapsar.

Às 22:00 a normalidade foi restabelecida no local, voltando a funcionar a redacção do Diário de Notícias, e regressando os moradores às suas habitações.

Embora as causas do incêndio sejam ainda desconhecidas, cinco suspeitos que na altura do sinistro se encontravam no interior do edifício foram interrogados, sendo depois libertados.

É esperada a 25 de Fevereiro uma avaliação técnica pelo Laboratório Regional de Engenharia Civil sobre a estabilidade do edifício.

Património edificado no Funchal
Indústria de alimentos
Incêndios em Portugal
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We will be discussing Trevor Noah's book: "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" Trevor Noah was born to a white father and an African mother in South Africa when such unions and their offspring were punishable by imprisonment. Forced to be hidden as a child by his mother, Mr. Noah explores this early childhood to the man through the collection of essays that make uf "Born a Crime." Mr. Noah is now the host of The Daily Show. His book may be best listened to in his own voice. The audiobook is available at the Gibbs Library.


This animated series relives the adventures of the wellknown hero Zorro during his younger years, and also introduces ''Little Zorro'' and friends… Zorro — the masked avengers — aids the oppressed and punishes the wicked, leaving behind his mark of ''Z'' slashed with his sword, just before riding offto avoid being identified. However, Zorro, is in fact none other than 18 years old Don Diego de la Vega scion of the local gentry. Don Diego shares his home with a cheerful 9 years old orphan named Bernard, the little helper fo Zorro.


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Data Safety instead of App Permissions
Google Play's app descriptions have a new Data Safety section now. We explain why this isn't such great news.
Enoch Root
Starting July 20, all developers who publish Android apps in the Google Play store must detail what data they collect and how they use it. However, this undeniably positive innovation has been rather overshadowed by the forces of "optimization": now, before installing an app, you have no way of knowing what data sources it's tapping. We give a brief overview of what's changed and explain how to assess the risks to your privacy going forward.
What's changed
In April of this year, Google implemented a new feature on Google Play to allow developers to specify what data apps collect and for what purposes. As of July 20, this option became mandatory: developers that don't add such descriptions risk having their apps removed from the store.
This description in the special Data Safety section on Google Play looks something like this:
Information about collected data can be viewed directly on Google Play before installation
You can also see a detailed list of collected data:
Developers are now required to disclose what data they collect
This positive change follows a similar move by Apple. Before, Google allowed you to assess an app's interest in your personal data only indirectly — by examining the list of permissions it requested. In the app settings in Android, these permissions look as follows:
Permissions describe the specific sources on your phone that the app will collect data from
Sometimes it needs permissions to function properly. For example, you can grant a mail app access to your contacts list. But you don't have to! And remember, most permissions given to apps can be revoked at any time. But don't be surprised if some features no longer work afterward.
On July 13, shortly before the introduction of the new rule for developers, someone tweeted about a small but significant change: the new Data Safety section was added in the app descriptions, but the app permissions list was removed at the same time. A somewhat controversial move, it can surely be said.
Why Data Safety is no substitute for App Permissions
Sure, the new section in the description can help you decide whether or not to install the app. For example, if a simple tool wants your name, e-mail address and access to photos, it makes sense to look for another one that will do the same job without asking for anything.
However, Data Safety and App Permissions are not quite the same thing. The former addresses the question: What data will be collected? The latter specifies the sources of this data. This can be important for assessing how critical this data collection is for you. Let's say that information about your contacts can be collected from your friends list in the app itself, or from the contacts list on your phone. Clearly, these can be very different lists — just imagine, for example, it's an online dating app.
And most importantly: Permissions in the description on Google Play were prescribed automatically, based on the actual features of the app in question. The Data Safety section, on the other hand, is filled out by the developers themselves, manually. Google can only hope they will do so in good faith.
How to live with the changes
The purpose of the Data Safety section is to provide users with more information about how apps affect privacy. At the same time, however, Google has reduced the amount of information for assessing this. When browsing apps on Google Play, you will no longer be guided by questions like "Why does an alarm clock need access to my photos and location?" Such data is no longer provided.
That said, for clarity's sake, we should point out that only the list of permissions in the app descriptions on Google Play has disappeared. The Android permissions mechanism has not gone anywhere. As before, you can still permit or forbid an app to access certain sources of information within the operating system: camera, geolocation, contacts list, etc.
Therefore, we recommend a two-step procedure for assessing the potential privacy risk on Android. First, take a close look in the Data Safety section on Google Play at what data the app will collect about you. If you're happy, install the app, then check what permissions it wants after installation. If something doesn't feel right, don't give unnecessary access to your data (or revoke it if already granted).
Bear in mind that neither Android's existing privacy controls, nor the above-described innovation will solve the (albeit rare) problem of malware on Google Play. Therefore, as ever, we advise installing a reliable security solution on your Android smartphone.
Why messenger mods are dangerous
Harly: another Trojan subscriber on Google Play
Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 262
Episode 262 of the Transatlantic Cable includes UK TikTok woes, Twitter 0days, Meta in trouble and crypto-exchange sanctions!
David Buxton


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NHL Playoffs to Resume with 3 Games Each Saturday, Sunday
Associated Press Published: August 28, 2020
The NHL's second-round playoff series will resume with three games each on Saturday and Sunday after players prompted the league to postpone two days of action to protest racial injustice. In the NHL's Eastern Conference hub city of Toronto, Tampa Bay and Boston will play Game 4 of their series on Saturday, followed by Philadelphia and the New York Islanders playing Game 3 at night. Vegas and Vancouver will play Game 3 of their series at night in the West hub city of Edmonton, Alberta. The postponements of four games have led the NHL to push back the potential completion of the second-round schedule by as many as two days should three of the series require a Game 7.
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Drinking in pregnancy: the right to record, or the right to privacy?
Posted on October 21, 2020 by philippa.gardom
Luisa Zuccolo , MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit and Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol
Cheryl McQuire, School for Public Health Research/Centre for Public Health and Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol
Follow Luisa and Cheryl on Twitter
Drinking alcohol during pregnancy continues to stir passionate and polarised reactions. The issue has once again come into sharp focus. In England, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is proposing to measure all alcohol use in pregnancy and transfer this information to a child's health records, without explicit agreement from the mother. The aim of the proposal is to ensure better diagnosis and support for those with lifelong conditions caused by drinking in pregnancy that can include problems with learning, behaviour and physical abnormalities, known as Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs). However, the NICE proposal has been met with strong opposition from some organisations, which say that this breaches pregnant women's right to medical privacy.
Benefits of introducing the proposed FASD NICE Quality Standards
It's important to remind ourselves why measuring and sharing information on drinking in pregnancy could be worthwhile, and who will benefit.
Information – the key to understanding
Official guidance recommends that it is safest not to drink at all during pregnancy, or when trying for a baby. But a quarter of people in the UK are not aware of this guidance and the UK has the fourth highest rate of drinking in pregnancy in the world. The new NICE quality standards propose to rectify this by making it compulsory for midwives (or other health care professionals) to have conversations about alcohol with pregnant women. The idea is to help women to make informed choices about drinking in pregnancy.
Information is in everyone's interest. We still don't know enough about the effects of different levels of alcohol use in pregnancy. This is a tricky area to study, in large part because we don't have enough information. If we don't measure, we can't fully understand the effects of alcohol in pregnancy (not even to confirm whether small amounts are safe). This has been our area of research for a number of years, and it is important both because many pregnant women drink alcohol, and because they should have the right to be better informed. Current abstinence guidelines are largely (but not solely) based on the precautionary principle. Our research has provided some evidence that even low levels of use (two drinks a week or fewer) can have negative effects, including smaller babies and preterm birth. We need more information to find out about the full extent of these risks – including whether the risks are genuinely there – to ensure that women can make informed decisions based on the best possible evidence.
Diagnosing fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD)
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders are severely underdiagnosed. They are characterised by lifelong problems with learning, behaviour and, in some cases, physical abnormalities. Contrary to what many think, these are common disorders. Our recent research suggests that between 6 and 17% of children in the UK could have symptoms consistent with FASD. Without good information on exposure to alcohol in pregnancy, many of these children remain 'invisible' to services and do not get the support that they need.
Concerns about the Quality Standards
Despite the potential benefits of these proposals, there are several unresolved issues that need tackling urgently.
Stigma and trust
If women feel stigmatised, they might lie about their drinking, invalidating any data collection. If they can't trust their healthcare providers, then we can't trust the data – so what would be the point of collecting it?
What would women be offered, in exchange for volunteering this information? What's in it for them? It would be unbalanced and probably unethical to request information about drinking in pregnancy, at the risk of stoking maternal anxiety, without explaining the reasons, or offering support if so desired. The treatment of pregnant women who smoke provides an appropriate model – information is recorded on antenatal notes, and support to quit is offered at the same time. We need to guarantee a non-judgmental and supportive approach to listening when it comes to alcohol too.
Women should be able to opt out. For those opting in, it should be made clear that the same high levels of confidentiality will apply as are already in place for current information from maternity notes and child health records. These new data on alcohol use should be no different and must be covered by existing guarantees.
So, where is the balance between the benefits and risks of the proposed changes? We often talk about burdening pregnant women with anxieties, but we neglect to talk about the lifelong consequences of emotional and behavioural problems arising from exposure to alcohol in pregnancy – these pose real everyday challenges for families, for many years to come. If on the one hand, maternal health is child health, then on the other child health is maternal health.
As we hear in these COVID-19 times, health is a marathon not a sprint
We need to continue shifting the focus from 'healthy pregnancies' to 'healthy families'. The former can be met with resistance by those evoking the dangers of the surveillance state and policing women's 'baby-making' bodies. The latter reminds us of the many individuals involved, all equally important, all of whom need support for the long term beyond those initial nine months. We believe that NICE should listen to the plurality of women and families' voices. The debate on recording alcohol in pregnancy will lead to constructive health gains that will benefit all.
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Visualising Brexit's Impact on Food Safety in Britain
Posted on October 6, 2020 October 6, 2020 by lindsey.pike
Written by Marina Vabistsevits and Oliver Lloyd, researchers on PhD studentships linked to the "Data Mining Epidemiological Relationships" programme at the MRC IEU.
Follow us on twitter – @marina_vab, @PlotThiggins
Leaving the EU presents many unique challenges to Britain, among which is the crucial task of maintaining our high levels of food safety. As a submission to the Jean Golding Institute's data visualisation competition, we briefly investigated the impacts that Brexit may have on British food supplies. The dataset used in this analysis was made available by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) as the focus of the competition, and all code used is freely available in our github repository.
The Need for Information Recompense
In the first part of the analysis, we explored cases where food imported to Britain led to an alert being raised. The two biggest sources for such alerts were Britain's internal alert systems (largely the FSA), and the EU's Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF).
Since Britain is on course to lose access to RASFF-supplied information once Brexit is finalised in early 2021, we created the visualisation below as a comparison of the FSA and the RASFF in terms of both the number of alerts raised and the corresponding food's origin country for each alert.
Alerts from the EU Alert System
The arcs show the countries of origin of imports that raised alerts, and the yellow-red density map shows the recorded hazard alert frequency from those origins. Interactive versions of the two map instances can be found by following these links: RASFF, UK internal alerts.
Alerts from the UK Alert System
If the UK does indeed lose access to the RASFF, the loss of food hazards information about our own imports will be tremendous. The burden then falls on the FSA to develop and extend their alert system (which currently focuses very little on internationally supplied food) to bridge this information gap and ensure food safety for globally imported goods. As of the time of writing we are unsure what steps are being taken by the FSA, or the government at large, to address this issue.
Post-Brexit Shifts in Food Hazard Threats
As an extension of this work, we turned our attention to tariffs and the effect they might have on whom Britain chooses to import from. Upon leaving the EU the UK will have to negotiate new trade deals with both EU and non-EU countries. Since the cost for EU-produced food is expected to rise for Britain after Brexit, we may indeed see Britain importing more from outside of the union, which would naturally bring a shift to the make–up of food hazards that our alert systems will need to detect. Anticipating this shift will allow us to better mitigate the accompanying risk if it does begin to materialise.
To this end, we explored the differences in food hazard threats posed by EU vs non-EU suppliers of Britain's largest class of imported food: fruits and vegetables. The plot below shows the relative change in frequency for each category of food hazard in the case that Britain switched from 100% EU imports of fruit and vegetables to 100% non-EU. The hazard categories that are likely to increase in non-EU imports are highlighted in red. Please note that this is the most extreme case possible and is unlikely to unfold to this extent in reality– this plot is therefore presented as a guide to the different food threats posed by EU vs non-EU imports.
Hazard alerts for fruits and vegetables: EU vs non-EU imports
Our full submission 'Too Much Tooty in the Fruity: Keeping Food Safe in a Post-Brexit Britain' can be found here, and includes a further breakdown of some of the categories of hazards displayed in the chart above. This work was awarded one of two joint runner-up prizes of the competition, tied with Angharad Stell's Shiny app: 'From a data space to knowledge discovery'. The winner of the competition was Robert Eyre, who produced this impressive visualization dashboard using D3. The Jean Golding Institute are hosting a showcase event on the 18th November, where all competition entries will be presented.
We would like to thank the JGI for hosting the competition, and our PhD supervisors, Prof. Tom Gaunt and Dr. Ben Elsworth, for encouraging us to enter.
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On Sunday evening David and I were invited to join 'The Gathering' at Methodist Central Hall Westminster to mark the 500th anniversary of the day, October 31st 1517, that Martin Luther posted his '95 Theses' or 'blog' on the doors of the church in Wittenberg, Germany.
Luther was a devout Augustinian priest who became very uneasy about some of the practices held by the Christian Church such as the sale of relics and favours and the restricted nature of its teaching.
A learned theologian, Luther was convinced that everyone had the right to know and experience the saving grace of God through Christ, that forgiveness and salvation could not be bought.
Translating the Bible into German, and using the newly discovered technology of the printing press, Luther enabled those who were literate to read the scriptures for themselves and for those unable to read, he circulated 'picture stories'.
Luther's teaching revolutionised Christian thought and tradition across Europe and was a major turning point in the development of different forms of preaching and worship.
'The Gathering' at Westminster included dialogue, drama, worship and preaching and was an excellent evening.
The story of Luther reminds us that we constantly need to test our Christian heritage against both the words of the Bible and developments in society and the world around us.
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The length of the forewings is 10–11 mm for males and 10.5 mm for females. The basal part of the forewings is white-tan, irrorated with brown spots and tawny suffusion. The hindwings are grey-brown. Adults are on wing from June to July.

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package org.springframework.lock.annotation;

import java.util.Collection;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.BeanDefinition;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.ImportAware;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Role;
import org.springframework.core.annotation.AnnotationAttributes;
import org.springframework.core.type.AnnotationMetadata;
import org.springframework.lock.LockService;
import org.springframework.lock.event.LockEventPublisher;
import org.springframework.lock.interceptor.LockInterceptor;
import org.springframework.lock.local.LocalLockService;
import org.springframework.lock.support.AbstractLockSynchronizationManager;
import org.springframework.lock.support.DefaultLockSynchronizationManager;
import org.springframework.lock.support.SessionTransactedLockSynchronizationManager;
import org.springframework.util.Assert;
import org.springframework.util.CollectionUtils;

@Configuration
public class ProxyLockConfiguration implements ImportAware {

   private AnnotationAttributes enableLock;
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      return advisor;
   }

   @Bean
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   }

   @Bean
   @Role(BeanDefinition.ROLE_INFRASTRUCTURE)
   public LockEventPublisher lockEventPublisher() {
      return new LockEventPublisher();
   }

   @Bean
   @Role(BeanDefinition.ROLE_INFRASTRUCTURE)
   public LockInterceptor lockInterceptor() {
      LockInterceptor interceptor = new LockInterceptor();
      interceptor.setLockAttributeSource(lockAttributeSource());

      AbstractLockSynchronizationManager synchronizationManager;
      if (enableLock.getBoolean("sessionTransacted")) {
         synchronizationManager = new SessionTransactedLockSynchronizationManager();
      } else {
         synchronizationManager = new DefaultLockSynchronizationManager();
      }
      synchronizationManager.setLockService(lockService);
      synchronizationManager.setLockEventPublisher(lockEventPublisher());
      interceptor.setSynchronizationManager(synchronizationManager);

      return interceptor;
   }

   @Override
   public void setImportMetadata(final AnnotationMetadata importMetadata) {
      enableLock = AnnotationAttributes.fromMap(
                                                importMetadata.getAnnotationAttributes(EnableLock.class.getName(), false));
      if (enableLock == null) {
         throw new IllegalArgumentException(
                                            "@EnableLock is not present on importing class "
                                                     + importMetadata.getClassName());
      }
   }

   /**
    * Collect any {@link LockService} beans through autowiring.
    */
   @Autowired(required = false)
   void setLockService(final Collection<LockService> lockServices) {
      if (CollectionUtils.isEmpty(lockServices)) {
         return;
      }
      if (lockServices.size() > 1) {
         throw new IllegalStateException("Only one LockService may exist");
      }

      lockService = lockServices.iterator().next();
   }
}

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Tri-Councils should learn from EMBO fellowships
BY DAVID KENT | JUN 05 2013
People often ask me what I would do if I were in charge of fellowships for Canadian trainees. In response, I will often slip into my usual refrain of making investment in people the basic tenet of any fellowship program. As it currently stands, the career track for academics artificially selects for those that can handle small amounts of stability and an incredible amount of career uncertainty. Many believe that a fellowship program that fights against this is dreaming a dream too big, but there is one organization working its tail off to combat the tide and Canadian funding agencies should be taking notes.
The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) is at the forefront in fellowship program design. Its long-term fellowship program for postdoctoral fellows has the following components:
useful eligibility rules
dependent allowance
travel allowance
part-time work policy (such that fellows can do 3 or 4 day weeks and remain funded)
private pension plan
And EMBO is not a boutique funding organization (the 2013 Spring competition awarded 100 fellowships) so they've clearly figured out a way to invest in a broad set of useful programs for the diverse life situations that young scientists find themselves in. For this post, I want to highlight three of these components as things which every major trainee funding organization should consider implementing straight away:
Useful eligibility rules:
EMBO is realistic about who it wants to fund and makes no bones about telling those that do not fit the criteria that their application will be thrown into the bin straight away. Statements like: "Applicants must have at least one first author publication accepted in press or published in an international peer reviewed journal at the time of application" make it very obvious that if you don't have a paper, you will not be getting a fellowship. This cuts down on wasted application time and reduces peer review burden.
Private Pension Plan:
One of the most drilled home messages of financial advisers is to start pension savings early. This is not only advisable for the Canada Pension Plan (where each year helps you earn more later), but also private pension plans where compound interest relies on early starts. Early career researchers, often located in foreign countries, will often not get enrolled into any sort of pension plan until their mid-late 30s due to the transience of academic training. EMBO therefore created its own, internationally transferable, pension plan for its fellows – genius.
One of the greatest travesties of the Canadian trainee funding system is the lack of connectivity that the funding organizations have with the recipients of their money. While former trainees will remain on mailing lists sometimes, that's about as good as it gets. After funding expires, fellows often drop off the face of the earth. EMBO, it seems, has figured this one out too – their FellowsNet is highly interactive and also appears to be for life (can someone confirm this?). It is not simply about record keeping, but rather is about creating a community of like-minded individuals who build lifelong friendships and collaborations.
From my own experience, my hat needs to be tipped in the direction of CIHR for their progressive research allowance policy. This funding allowed me to have decision making power over which conferences I attended and avoided many awkward discussions about where funding would come from. I can see the movement in the right direction at CIHR, and thankfully there are groups like EMBO doing the trail-blazing – all we need to do is follow along.
ABOUT DAVID KENT
Dr. David Kent is a principal investigator at the York Biomedical Research Institute at the University of York, York, UK. He trained at Western University and the University of British Columbia before spending 10 years at the University of Cambridge, UK where he ran his research group until 2019. His laboratory's research focuses on the fundamental biology of blood stem cells and how changes in their regulation lead to cancers. David has a long history of public engagement and outreach including the creation of The Black Hole in 2009.


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Bone, J. & Edwards, S. (2015). Connecting in rhizomic spaces : Peer-assisted learning (PAL) and e-learning in teacher education. Australian Journal of Adult Learning,55(1), 54-74.
A PAL (Peer-Assisted Learning) project supported research that focused on e-learning and Web 2.0 technologies as part of a pedagogical approach in the context of a tertiary institution. This project responded to a call for a rejuvenation of conventional approaches to pedagogy while teaching an early childhood unit in a large Australian university. In the project a variety of methods, qualitative (interviews and focus groups) and quantitative (on-line survey), were used in order to explore the possibilities involved in learning together in innovative ways. The PAL project is connected here to a 'rhizome' (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987). A rhizome is a form of network; it is multiple; and, it is capable of producing surprises. This is reflected in the findings that support the use of technology to create an effective collaborative space and also show that there are advantages to destabilising conventional student/lecturer positions. Finally, this narrative account contributes to a growing literature that connects Deleuze and Guattari's (1987) philosophical ideas to education.


Redness on the body can be due to several reasons; but, most importantly, it is a sign of unhealthy skin. Some common reasons for redness of the skin are reactions to chemicals, allergies, sunburn and even genetics. Skin redness can even cause itchiness, a burning sensation and pain, depending on the severity.
However, in order to avoid further reactions to chemicals, it is best to treat it using home remedies. Why to go for other treatments when you can have simple remedies at home, right?
So, here is a complete guide on some of the best home remedies to try to reduce the redness of the body. Take a look.
Aloe vera reduces inflammation of the skin, since it has anti-inflammatory properties.
Wash your body with warm water. Cut open an aloe vera leaf and extract the gel from it in a bowl. Apply the gel on the infected area and wait until it is dry. Wash it off with lukewarm water. For faster results, repeat this several times in a day.
Cucumber has hydrating properties that help in keeping the skin moisturised and hydrated. This will help in reducing the dryness and itchiness of the skin.
All you need is a chilled cucumber for this. Peel off the cucumber and grate it. Apply the grated cucumber as a mask on the body. Let it dry for about 30 minutes before washing it off. Do this every day for a month and you can see a huge difference.
An age-old solution for many skin problems, petroleum jelly helps in moisturizing the skin. Thus, it prevents the skin from drying and causing redness. However, this method is not recommended if you have an acne-prone skin.
Wash your body with normal water and pat dry. Apply some petroleum jelly on the inflamed area or the whole of the body and leave it overnight. Repeat this every day before going to bed for a month to see the results.
Green tea also has anti-inflammatory properties and skin rejuvenating properties that help in reducing the redness of the skin.
This is a very simple process. Make some green tea and keep it in the fridge to cool. After it's refrigerated, dip a cotton ball or a clean cloth into the green tea and apply it on the affected area. Repeat this thrice in a day for better results.
Coconut oil is the best natural moisturizer for the skin. This helps in keeping the skin hydrated and thus reduces the redness of the skin.
Wash your body thoroughly. Take some coconut oil and apply it on your body with a cotton pad. Gently massage it on your body. Wash it off after 30 minutes. You can repeat this twice in a day for a month to get faster results.
Oatmeal also has anti-inflammatory properties that can be a cure to itchiness, burning sensation of the skin, etc. Oatmeal is easily available in all the stores these days.
Take ½ a cup of oatmeal and powder it in a blender. Make a fine powder and add ¼th cup of water to make a paste. Apply this paste on the inflamed area and let it dry for 20 minutes. Wash it off after 20 minutes in cold water and pat dry with a cloth towel. Repeat this twice a day.


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Oracle Financial Services Releases "European Confidence Report" Research
October 21, 2010 by CRM Helpdesk Software
Research released today from Oracle shows that IT departments in financial institutions are unable to meet many key information demands, due to lack of access to the data or awareness of where it resides.
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The research provides key insights into the world of IT within Europe's Financial Institutions that sheds new light on the ongoing problem IT departments face every day with legacy systems and integration with the business.
The study, entitled "The European Confidence Report", also reveals that almost a quarter (24%) of financial respondents have lost revenue due to issues with IT systems.
The research, conducted by Vanson Bourne, surveyed the views and opinions of 222 IT professionals and 228 financial services professionals across Europe and is available here.
Over a third (37%) had issues with IT systems that made the business unable to evaluate investment risk.
38% of financial IT departments are asked for market risk information on a daily basis, yet only 17 % of those asked reported a demand for the information believe it is 100% accurate.
Legacy systems are a huge problem for financial institutions due to the complexity of integration and the need for future proofing. Four in five said that legacy systems are a barrier to system improvements.
Half (50%) of all respondents admitted to having to reach out to multiple sources/departments/contacts to get the required data to achieve corporate compliance.
The full findings and research data can be viewed here.
Supporting Quotes
"The informational needs of financial services institutions have become increasingly complex with new and emerging regulatory requirements. New compliance rules often require cross-functional computations and reporting that cannot be easily supported by existing siloed departmental and legacy infrastructures. A new approach to data sourcing and provisioning is required – one that is unified and begins with a clear understanding of the business use," said Nazif Mohammed, vice president EMEA, Oracle Financial Services.
"Despite financial institutions' awareness that IT agility is required for good business performance, many are unable to undertake the necessary changes to make it possible. With a quarter actually losing revenues because of IT systems, financial institutions need to act to integrate and transform business processes, to provide a single and accessible view of the business," said Senthil Kumar, vice president, marketing, Oracle Financial Services Global Business Unit.
Supporting Resources
• Download 'European Confidence Report'
• Watch the "Taking Risk Seriously" video
• Oracle solutions for Financial Services
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• Join the Oracle Financial Services Community on Facebook
• Subscribe to the Oracle Financial Services YouTube channel
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A look at the people who live precariously, but with an unusual level of resourcefulness and imagination, in four gigantic urban agglomerations: Mumbai, New York City, Moscow and Mexico City.
I was fascinated by this documentary and wanted to see more. Then the long, never-ending series of animal murders began. I am not an animal activist but I should be, because nothing bothers me more than to see a human being kill an animal. Those scenes made Hannibal Lector look like an alter boy.
The horror of it - I watched for 3 minutes or so and had to turn it off. Each animal saw and smelled all the death around him as he was dragged around in the mud, waiting his turn. The twitching bodies of those still not quite dead . . . too much. I realize that those people did it to feed and support themselves - but I will never forget those scenes. Maybe that was the point.


This three-day, highly practical course, will cover all essential aspects of the Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) of 2014-2020, in line with the European Commission Guide on CBA, published in December 2014 and its future in the next programming period 2021 – 2027.
It will be conducted by experts from the European Commission, JASPERS – the lead author of the CBA Guide and European Court of Auditors.
It explains why CBA is one of the most important tools in the programming period of 2014-2020, not only for beneficiaries of EU funds, but also for national and regional administrations in their decision-making process regarding investment projects. It also shows how the European Court of Auditors audits CBA.
You will improve your theoretical and practical knowledge of elaboration and assessment of CBAs prepared for EU Structural and Cohesion Fund investment projects conforming to the DG Regio requirements (the CBA guide, general and implementing regulations).
Divided in small working groups, you will practice all the elements with the direct involvement of EC, ECA and JASPERS experts. We will also provide you with the most relevant information about the future use of the CBA in the post 2020 perspective and its consequences.
We also offer an Advanced Course on CBA on 28-29 March 2019.
When you register for the two consecutive courses on CBA Why and How and CBA Advanced, you receive a discount of €200.


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Conference Tournament History
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PSU Women's Ice Hockey edged by Hamilton at St. Michael's Tourney
Hamilton (4-4-2) 1 2 2 5
Plymouth State (1-12-1) 0 3 0 3
1st - 16:50 - Steph DiPietro (Hamilton)
2nd - 01:28 - Kate Banys (Plymouth State)
2nd - 03:15 - PP - Olivia Leon (Plymouth State)
2nd - 11:01 - Teal Gosselin (Hamilton)
2nd - 18:23 - Katie Parkman (Hamilton)
3rd - 07:12 - Steph DiPietro (Hamilton)
3rd - 13:55 - PP - Hannah Bartlett (Hamilton)
G: Steph DiPietro - 2
A: 7 Players (#5, #7, #8, #9, #14, #16, #17) - 1
Sh: Hannah Bartlett - 7
Sv: Sam Walther - 15
G: Kate Banys - 2
A: 4 Players (#12, #18, #24, #28) - 1
Sh: Olivia Leon - 5
Sv: Mariah Trupp - 35
PowerPlays
Shorthanded Goals
Penalties (min)
Leon named to All-Tournament Team for Panthers
SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. – Freshman Steph DiPietro (Quincy, Mass.) scored two goals Saturday afternoon, including the game-winner, as Hamilton College defeated Plymouth State University, 5-3, on the second day of the Doubletree Women's Ice Hockey Classic at Cairns Arena, hosted by Saint Michael's College.
PSU led 3-2 late in the second period before the Continentals tied the score just before the second intermission, and then tacked on two third-period goals to pull out the win.
Junior Hannah Bartlett (Marshfield, Mass.) and sophomore Katie Parkman (Stratford, Prince Edward Island) both had one goal and one assist for Hamilton, which improved to 4-4-2. Senior Sarah Schuchardt (Verona, Wis.) made four third-period stops to nab the win after freshman Sam Walther (Gambrills, Md.) had 15 saves in the first 40 minutes. Parkman and sophomore Megan Ahern (Oswego, N.Y./Millbrook School) were both named to the all-tournament team.
Senior Kate Banys (Newburyport, Mass.) netted a pair of tallies for Plymouth State, while junior Olivia Leon (Natick, Mass.) also found the back of the net. Freshman goaltender Mariah Trupp (Topeka, Kan.) made 35 saves. Leon was PSU's representative on the All-Tournament Team.
Hamilton scored the only goal of the opening period with 3:10 to go, as DiPietro slid a back-handed shot from the slot that snuck past a screened Trupp. The teams combined for five second-period goals, with Plymouth State scoring the first two in a matter of 1:47. Junior Marisa Zamrock (Lewiston, Maine) made a pass from the left goal line extended into the slot to Banys, whose one-timer hit the upper right corner at 1:28. Leon put the Panthers in front during a power play, finding a rebound at the right post at 3:15.
Hamilton scored twice in the final 8:59 of the period, sandwiched around Banys' second of the game. Gosselin redirected a teammate's pass from the hash marks into the lower left side to knot the contest at 11:01, but Banys picked the upper left corner from above the right circle 2:49. At 18:23, the Continentals again tied the game, this time as Parkman sent a shot from the slot that was blocked into a Plymouth State skater, but as the Panther spun away, the puck was sent into the net.
The Continentals pulled out the win in the third period, as DiPietro one-timed home Ahern's pass just inside the left post 7:12 into play, and at 13:55, Bartlett netted a power-play marker, picking the upper right corner from high in the left circle.
Plymouth State, 1-12-1, returns to ECAC Women's East Conference action next Friday with a 4:00 p.m. face-off at Castleton State College.
(With contributions from Saint Michael's Sports Information)
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Sat, 02/16 | Women's Ice Hockey at Castleton L, 2-1 (Final) RC | BX
Sat, 02/09 | Women's Ice Hockey vs. Suffolk W, 3-2 (Final) RC | BX
Fri, 02/08 | Women's Ice Hockey at Salem State T, 3-3 (Final - OT) RC | BX
Tue, 02/05 | Women's Ice Hockey at Southern Maine L, 2-0 (Final) RC | BX
Sat, 02/02 | Women's Ice Hockey vs. UMass Boston W, 4-1 (Final) RC | BX


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Q: Event study - impact of Brexit idea I am doing about analysing the impact of Brexit on British stock market i.e. FTSE 100 and FTSE 250. I did run OLS for estimation window to find the market model for each company in FTSE 100 and FTSE 250. And then, I found the abnormal returns for each in the event window from day -7 to day 30 ( day 0 is 23/06/2016 - official date of referendum). After that, average abnormal return for each day in the event window and cumulative abnormal return (CAAR) for the whole period were computed. But the result I got was not as I expected, CAAR for both FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 are negative while in fact, there were a significant increase for both FTSE 100 and FTSE 250.
Does anyone know where is the problem in this case?
I thought the reason is that I calculated the abnormal return by using the market index. And the market index was impacted by Brexit too. So the result is not reliable because of the correlation. I am not sure.

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Look for addresses and contact numbers mentioned on the website and if possible, verify it as well.
Thoroughly go through the website. An authentic company pays attention to how its website looks and also posts comments and reviews by its users.
You could also look for the social media page/group or account of the company to see its online presence and go through the various comments and views of the people.
Another way to verify that the company is real or scam is to type the name of the company in the search bar of your search engine and add the word scam after it. If the company is fake in real, then comments made by people who suffered at the hands of this company will come up which they might have posted on various platforms on the internet.
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America's Great Outdoors Initiative
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On April 16, 2010, President Obama launched the America's Great Outdoors (AGO) Initiative and charged the Secretaries of the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality to develop a 21st-century conservation and recreation agenda that addresses these challenges.
AGO takes as its premise that lasting conservation solutions should rise from the American people—that the protection of our natural heritage is a non-partisan objective shared by all Americans.
The Initiative calls for a grassroots approach to protecting our lands and waters and connecting all Americans to their natural and cultural heritage.
AGO seeks to empower all Americans—citizens, young people, and representatives of community groups; the private sector; nonprofit organizations; and local, state, and tribal governments—to share in the responsibility to conserve, restore, and provide better access to our lands and waters in order to leave a healthy, vibrant outdoor legacy for generations yet to come.
1. What aspects of this story did you find most compelling? (ideas, feelings, perceptions)
2. What might be the lasting effects of this work?
3. What did you learn about multi-generational communities and their perception of public lands?
4. What does it mean to this case study that Jeremiah shares his personal story?
Initiative in Action
In 2012, Jeremiah Martinez, Supervisory Natural Resource Specialist, in Recreation, U.S. Forest Service located at the Conejos Peak Ranger District in Colorado, presented this case study to participants of the Partnership and Community Collaboration Academy.
Jeremiah's power point presentation made such a powerful impression; he was selected to record his case study of the America's Great Outdoors Initiative at the BLM National Training Center so that it could be more broadly shared with his partners in the community and future Academy participants.
Partnership and Community Collaboration
The partners that came together to give mean to the America's Great Outdoors Initiative included representatives of:
Southwest Conservation Corps, Costilla County, Conejos County, South Conejos School District, North Conejos School District, Centennial High School, Sanford High School, Sierra Grande High School, Trinidad Junior College, Adams State University, Ranchers of privately-held lands, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service and the area's youth.
Working together, they provide us with a stellar example of stewardship and a compelling story of the relationship between land and people.
Supervisory Natural Resource Specialist (Recreation)
Conejos Peak Ranger District, CO, USFS


Truckee, CA (UroToday.com) GTx, Inc. announced top-line clinical trial results demonstrating that a daily dose of enobosarm 3 mg (GTx-024) substantially improved (SUI) in women, as well as related quality of life measurements. In this open-label clinical trial, all 17 patients completing 12 weeks of treatment saw a clinically significant reduction (50 percent or greater) in stress leaks per day, compared to baseline. Mean stress leaks decreased by 83 percent from baseline over 12 weeks, and the reductions in daily stress leaks following completion of treatment have been sustained as patients are being followed for up to 7 months post-treatment to assess the durability of treatment effect. No patient has relapsed to her baseline levels. These results were presented at the International Continence Society (ICS) Annual Meeting currently being held in Florence, Italy from September 12-15, 2017.
There were no serious adverse events reported and reported adverse events were minimal and included headaches, nausea, fatigue, hot flashes, insomnia, muscle weakness and acne. Mild transient elevations in liver enzymes were observed, as well as reductions in total cholesterol, LDL, HDL and triglycerides. The abstract is available on the International Continence Society's website.
Based on the results from its enobosarm Phase 2 proof-of-concept study, the Company has initiated a randomized, placebo-controlled Phase 2 clinical trial to evaluate the change in frequency of daily stress urinary incontinence episodes following 12 weeks of treatment. The trial will evaluate the safety and efficacy of enobosarm (1 mg and 3 mg) compared with placebo in postmenopausal women with SUI. Enobosarm has previously been evaluated in clinical trials enrolling in excess of 1,700 patients, in which approximately 1,200 individuals received doses ranging from 0.1 mg to 100 mg, and has been observed to be generally safe and well tolerated.


This is the starting point, the moment when we realized this trip was going to be long and challenging. This is the first stone, the one on which all the other stones will be placed on. The symbolic meaning of this Podcast is huge to Planctoon!


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Mourning Betty
by Judy G. Russell | Feb 23, 2019 | General | 4 comments
We'll miss you, my friend
It started as one of those goofy things you do among friends.
It was May 2007.
The National Genealogical Society Conference was being held in Richmond, Virginia.
And just a few days afterwards a dear friend would be celebrating her 80th birthday.
So, of course, we told everybody — every day — that it was her 80th birthday.
At every meal. At every session. At every vendor booth in the exhibit hall.
Everybody knew that Betty Clay of Texas was turning 80.
Now The Legal Genealogist is not going to tell you that the joke didn't wear thin for Betty after a couple of days.
But I will tell you that she'd have sooner jumped off a bridge than spoiled the fun her friends were having with the almost-weeklong-celebration.
That's just who Betty was.
And it's that word "was" that hurts this morning.
Here in her long-time home state of Texas.
Here, this morning, as we ready ourselves to celebrate her life… and mourn her loss.
Here where, under sunny skies, we will lay her to rest.
Last week, just weeks short of her 92nd birthday, Betty passed away here in Texas, and her funeral is this morning at the Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth where she worshiped and sang in the choir for many years.
Like many genealogists, I first met Betty online: she'd been one of the sysops — called moderators online these days — of the genealogy discussion group on CompuServe along with Dick Eastman and others.
Online, she was larger than life: smart, funny, insightful and — above all else — helpful. She wanted everybody to understand genealogy and technology as well as she did and worked hard to bring everyone along.
Offline, when I met her for the first time on a Master Genealogist cruise, I found that she was still smart, funny, insightful and helpful. I still regarded her as larger than life. And that despite the fact that she turned out to be maybe five feet tall on the high side and might have tipped the scales at 100 pounds soaking wet in all her clothes.
Born 24 May 1927 in Little Rock, Arkansas, to Joseph Elemuel Hicks and Tressie Mae (Brockinton) Hicks, she'd lived in Texas since 1954, and taught math in the Arlington, Texas, public schools. She was instrumental in building genealogy's online presence, both on CompuServe and on AOL, and was deeply involved in GenTech — the first group working to integrate technology into genealogy.
Softspoken, all southern charm, full of stories of her beloved Richard, who predeceased her in 1991, and her children Laura and David, grandchildren Brittany, Bryan, Bryant, and Taylor, and great grandchildren Delilah and one known officially as "on the way," Betty was a delight to all who knew her.
She's one of the big reasons why I became a genealogy speaker. Because Betty believed in me and encouraged me — the way she believed in and encouraged so many genealogists and so many Texas schoolchildren.
All of us will miss her dearly.
Rest in peace, dear friend.
Cite/link to this post: Judy G. Russell, "Mourning Betty," The Legal Genealogist (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog : posted 23 Feb 2019).
Doris Wheeler on February 23, 2019 at 11:15 am
Thank you for a lovely tribute to our mutual friend, Judy. I first met her when I replied to her open call for a roommate to join her on a TMG cruise. We enjoyed that one and several more. You once included me in an invitation to dinner when we were all in New York City. Betty was a charmer — interesting, pleasant, always engaged. But she would never do a DNA test.:) I will miss her.
Judy G. Russell on February 23, 2019 at 4:20 pm
We will all miss her dearly, Doris… what a loss…
RhScribbles on February 23, 2019 at 11:35 am
May she Rest In Peace!
Bev Markowitz on February 23, 2019 at 6:06 pm
I did not know her but I wish I had. Thank you for a lovely tribute.


LAS VEGAS - On Saturday night, Floyd Mayweather Jr. bounded into the arena he called home for much of his career and where he won so many fights, and said he believes the fight with UFC superstar Conor McGregor can happen.
In an interview Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena prior to the featured title fight between Carl Frampton and Leo Santa Cruz, won by Santa Cruz, Showtime's Jim Gray put the question to Mayweather: Can and will that fight take place?
Said Mayweather, who turns 40 on Feb. 24: "Like I said before, he's a tough competitor. He has proved throughout the years in the UFC that he can fight standing up. We'll have to see what the future holds."
Responding to Gray's troll that McGregor said Mayweather, who retired in September 2015 with a 49-0 record, was the "scared side" and McGregor's the A side, Mayweather said, "Well, we'll just see. We know I'm the A side. It shows throughout the years (with) so many record-breaking numbers that we have done, me and my team. Hopefully, we can make the fight happen."
Gray then asked Mayweather, who looked in fighting shape as always, if he could meet McGregor in person, as he did with Manny Pacquiao that led to their May 2015 fight, the richest in boxing history but panned as an expensive disappointment.
"Can we make this fight happen? Absolutely. That's what everyone wants to see," Mayweather said. "Of course, Showtime is the biggest and best in the business. So with Showtime PPV, hopefully we can make it happen."
If they fought, Mayweather said, it would be at 147 or 150 pounds.
"I truly believe the fans want this fight," Mayweather said. "The fans have been asking for this fight. It's all about entertainment. He's very entertaining. He's very outspoken like myself, so let's give the fans what they want to see."
In an interview with MMAFighting.com's Ariel Helwani Saturday, McGregor said, "That fight is being more than explored - that fight has been in the works for a while now. It's a fight the people want, it's the fight I want."