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Global conference: pressure is on for outbound innovation
"The enterprise that doesn't innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change, such as the present, the decline will be fast."
So said the management consultant Peter Drucker, and it should be a warning to the finished vehicle sector, according to Kirk Williams, president of car haulier Proficient Auto Transport (pictured left).
Speaking at the Automotive Logistics conference in Detroit, Williams said that there are a number of pressures facing the finished vehicle sector that make innovation a priority in the current climate. At the same time, however, there remains a reluctance to take the risk because the rewards of radical innovation are uncertain.
One of those pressures where innovation needs to be applied is capacity. Glenn Clift, president and CEO of Glovis America, the logistics arm of the Hyundai Group. Clift said the industry needed to think about a change in ownership of railcars, for example, even suggesting that carmakers and the wider logistics industry might consider buying them, perhaps in joint venture with TTX, which manages the pool of cars between railways.
"The rail companies don't provide them for free," he said. "We should start buying them as an industry; we should have a big pool."
But he also pointed out that it was the velocity of railcars that was the issue rather than the number of them being built.
Bill Pawluk, CEO of Covertible Trailer Manufacturers Worldwide (CTM) also had capacity on the mind and has done for a number of years now. According to Pawluk, today's road carriers are running empty 40% of the time. His answer is the convertible trailer, which can haul vehicles and convert into a number of combinations able to haul mixed cargoes. According to Pawluk, Jack Cooper is running prototypes in the US. Meanwhile, CTM developed a prototype in Europe with equipment maker Lohr Industries, which will be on show at the IAA commercial vehicle show in Hannover at the end of September as well as at the ECG conference in Amsterdam in October.
As this publication has widely reported, CTM has a legislative issue in the US and Canada as it currently illegal to convert the truck portion of a car carrier with a stinger to carry other freight. Pretty much any other combination is allowed and Pawluk called on the industry to join him in exerting pressure to change the law.
Kirk Williams also had concerns about the law and saw collaboration with other industry players as a good way of bringing change and innovation. The high level of regulation in the trucking industry was considered an issue where change brought inevitable cost. So was the "sue-happy" culture fuelling the litigation plaguing the sector in the US, said Williams.[sam_ad id=6 codes='true']
Millenials at the wheel
The human element was also a priority for Williams, who noted an ageing driver workforce, with the average driver being in their mid-50s. There is an image problem with the profession according to Williams.
"The trucking industry has done a bad job of making it a desirable career path," he said. "For the next 18 years there will be a lot of retirement. The [American Trucking Association] says it is 30,000 short on drivers [across the trucking industry]."
Part of the problem is a narrowing wage differential. Finished vehicle hauliers used to earn twice what a normal hauler gets, now its only 20% more.
Williams said the important thing was to understand the thinking of a new generation and get them interested in the profession.
"By 2025, 75% of the workforce will be millenials and they have different approaches," he said. "We need to understand the millenials, there is a big difference in the thinking now."
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Is change in the air?
Glovis America's Glenn Clift took delegates through a quick history of some of the leaps made in the past, both as an inspiration to think outside the box and as a lesson to show that innovation for its own sake can be a costly enterprise and needs careful consideration.
Clift reminded the conference of Project Callisto, a GM initiative from the mid-80s, which saw the carmaker ship Cadillac Allante frames from Detroit to Italy for Pinanfarina to modify before shipping them back to the US for final assembly – all done by air freight.
"GM wanted a halo effect with the vehicle, including the logistics," said Clift, adding that the company converted three 747s to each carry 56 vehicles. The total cost of logistics was sky high, at $24m, an unconscionable sum in this day and age.
On the other hand he lamented the loss of the Vert-a-Pac railcars first used in the 1970s, which were originally used to vertically load Chevy Vegas, achieving 30 vehicles per wagon rather than the standard 18. The company sold 2m of that model and Clift wondered what had made it redundant (although there have been many reports that moving the cars vertically was bad for the vehicles).
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SA Politics thread
Rinkals
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Sards wrote:
Rinkals wrote:
but some measures surely need to be in place to counter the dominance of whites in business.
Dude....you need to rethink your logic....What you are saying is that if one demographic has the ability to rise above another demographic to create employment they need to be suppressed and another demographic allowed to take over even though they are not driven or as capable as the more dominant demographic....that is fu cking insanity son.....
That's not what I'm saying at all.
I have no idea why you are BEE registered, but most companies I work with here are not .
Who is suppressing who? and how?
ox wagon
Ox, I respect your views and I'm aware that you are interested in the political undercurrents, but I feel that the DA has gone as far as it can in terms of appealing to the white electorate. If it needs to expand it's base beyond what it had in 2016, it has to appeal to black voters.
Unfortunately, it has suffered a lot of infighting and the de Lille affair has damaged the party.
Like you, I fear that the DA will lose ground in May, but whether this will be due to the internal struggles on these matters or to their support of BEE will probably never be known.
I hope both of us are wrong and the DA consolidates and improves it's support in May.
If they lose support, we'll know where it's gone, by which of the smaller parties grow and which don't. Well also know if people just stop voting at all if those parties don't grow.
People have over thought this "grow the party get black voters" thing. They need to differentiate from the ANC, they need to be setting out a position that doesn't amount to "we're also the ANC". If ANC policies are the best I can just vote for the ANC.
I think they've underestimated "Afriforum fluffers" (Afriforum is actually the same size or bigger than DA, but Afriforum isn't dependent election results). If they just throw minority voters under the bus, that's circa 3 million votes gone. A massive hole to fill. It would be such a body blow it would end them. I don't expect them to lose them this election, but they need to sort their shit out before it's too late, these changes happen slowly.
ox wagon wrote:
Agree they need to differentiate between themselves and the ANC, however, I feel that you are forgetting the Zondo commission and other inquiries into corruption essentially by ANC bigwigs.
I have no idea of the impact that this will have on rural voting, if any, but if your average voter is taking any notice at all, then the ANC must lose support. The danger is that the support goes to the EFF, but in view of the revelations concerning the VBS, that may not be (hopefully) the direction voters go.
Just to add that I feel that Afriforum is not part of the solution, but part of the problem.
Theirs is a very narrow agenda which is quite confrontational and very much one side of the racial divide, so they cannot expand very much past their current base (which must be experiencing some strain due to immigration of whites).
assfly
Location: Kenya
What is the consensus on BEE - has it been a complete failure so far, or are their signs of the policy actually working?
Zondo makes it look like the ANC is cleaning up, they're not because no one is in jail. But it plays out as a positive for Ramaphosa.
It's large and growing. Probably around 5% of whites are members now (sometimes a family are members, but only the father is a paid up member). It's quite an extensive network now, that grew from the Solidarity trade union. The Afriforum NGO (which is said to be the largest African NGO) is just one arm of it. The people behind it aren't stupid. Not really true they only focus on whites, they've taken up legal cases on behalf of a broader range than that.
Doesn't really matter if you think it's a positive or negative. Like the EFF it's a fact. The problem for the DA is it's targeting their entire base, and making an environment quite hostile to the stuff the DA are saying.
Whether the Zondo commission is a "show trial" (which I personally doubt), the fact is that the information on how many ANC bigwigs were bribed and part of corrupt practices is being aired and is out in the open.
Even if nobody is prosecuted (which I doubt), this will have tainted the ANC.
The DA will also have lost coloured supporters to de Lille, so if you're correct and they are losing whites to Afriforum, then it makes even more sense to broaden the base.
Bokkom
I think this is where the DA have got it wrong, and probably where the EFF and Afriforum and others have got it right. This isn't a game being played under normal rules. It's basically impossible to beat the ANC at national level, everyone reading this could easily go their entire lives and never see it beaten.
You say "broaden the base", what do you think the DA has been trying to do? It hasn't worked because people just don't care/aren't interested. Most people love the ANC, and that's who they vote for. What the DA does is almost irrelevant. It's not a game being played under normal rules, so Zondo helps the ANC which is now polling very well.
If the DA throw their actual supporters under a bus it's going to harm them and not help "broaden" anything. They're also going to look profoundly untrustworthy, as who is going to be under the bus next.
The DA need the calm the fudge down, understand they're getting nowhere near the presidency for at least another decade. And make some actual policies that work and are their own, not parrot ANC shit. If they can't do that, they'll fail and disappear.
I won't be surprised if the ANC actually gains support this time around.
This is the thing. The DA used to be a Classical Liberal party but started drifting on principles in order to gain votes; betraying ideological voters.
A political party (like a business) at some point needs to make a decision; represent their ideology and grow market share by convincing voters that their ideology is the best on offer; not perfect, but the best...or change your principles and business model; alienating your old base but attracting a new one that might have vastly different expectations.
They've gone for the latter in a desperate bid to gain power; and it will backfire come the next elections. They are going to lose their traditional votes to the FF+ and ACDP and they are not going to get the take-up from disgruntled ANC voters that they were hoping for. It will be interesting to see if Maimane is austed after the failure and if the DA will course correct or double down.
Bokkom wrote:
Oh, by all means, please state your superior insights into the Zondo commission. Or is it the NPA's new NDPP who arouses your scepticism?
Blake wrote:
As far as I'm concerned, the thing that the DA should push is Good Governance.
Clearly the ANC are tainted by Zuma's years, and the DA should be making the most of this, but instead they are fighting amongst themselves.
I tend to agree that the DA will probably not perform as well as they did in 2016, but I would say that this is more likely due to infighting and an inability to present a unified front coupled with the loss of de Lille's supporters in the Cape.
BEE is very much part of the business environment now and I very much doubt that committing to scrap it will get them more votes than it will lose them.
People don't respond to that. It's a loser from the get go.
Voters are energised by big, bold policy ideas.
Good governance is expected to be a given and you can only use it in a negative way to tar and feather the incumbent. It makes you look petty and weak won't convince a prospective voter in a soundbite. Given enough one-on-one interaction you can explain how better managed schools and infrastructure and business climate will improve somebody's life, but it is a long discussion with nuance. It doesn't fit on an election poster or newspaper headline or tweet.
The infighting isn't helping, but that is because they are ideologically confused. The leadership isn't united because they don't really know how they are going to get where they want to go, so they are shotgunning. They have tried this in the past and they are just not good enough at negative campaigning. Their messaging as a party has become sloppy and disjointed ever since they let Gareth van Onselen go because he was calling this shit out 8 years ago. They should focus on shaming the ANC and EFF leaders, while at the same time making 100% sure their own house is in order.
"Julius is wearing 3 RDP houses on his wrist...Zuma is living in 3000 RDP houses...etc"
"The Guptas stole free University education for this generation and the ANC were complicit"
That should be the narrative.
Then the big, vague promises.
We will do it better. Corrupt officials will go to jail; etc etc.
They should avoid the wedge issues like BEE as much as possible. Don't promise to eliminate it, don't promise to make it more pervasive. Rather focus on the fact that the ANC hasn't been able to make it work for anybody other than themselves and political elite. This is where their governance track record should be used as a strength but ONLY when pushed to elaborate on the matter. From a general perspective they should just campaign on managing and implementing it "better". White voters have comfort that it won't get worse, black voters have a hope that it will finally start to benefit them...somehow. Embarrassing headline / soundbite / tweet averted.
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The DA always had two strands of liberalism, the social liberals and the classical liberals. Traditionally classical liberals were the weaker of the two. But it's a bit pointless getting caught up in it, in practice it ends up much the same. In modern times what has happened to the Unis and English speaking media (both big liberal institutions historically) has probably hurt the DA. New institution building hasn't happened from SA liberals, it's almost all eggs in the DA basket and not much else (total opposite to the Solidarity/Afriforum crowd).
I think seeing it as a business, is where they're going wrong. It's not just a marketing exercise, people invest their identities into a political party. It's not like a rebrand of a product and targeting a new market or whatever. It looks very dodgy if a political party starts flip flopping, and endorsing the policies of other parties, it loses trust. Politics is far closer to religion or a sports team, than selling sports clothing or something.
I'm expecting the DA to take a hit, not a big one though. Things typically change slowly in politics (a bonus for the DA is there's no obvious alternative to vote for, it's a measure of how terrible they've been anyone is even contemplating it). This slowness of change, tends to make the foolish more complacent than they should be.
If the DA lose anything at all to other parties, it's the thin end of the wedge and handing momentum over to those parties. The state the DA is in, I'm not even sure they will recognise it as such. Supporting BEE is saying goodbye to the vast majority of their current voters long term, the most basic rule of voting, is turkeys don't vote for Christmas. They've put themselves into this really shit position, because they've become trapped by ANC policy. They're so muddled they've forgotten what the point of an opposition is.
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beachboy
Agreed. I am a disillusioned old Prog. I actually dont want to vote for the DA this year but I dont seem to have a choice. There are no other real options and the last thing I want is more ANC corruption in the W/Cape. I would love to give my vote to someone else to send the DA a message of how unhappy I am. Maimane is the only reason I can find to justify voting for the DA. My biggest fear is that the EFF are going to surprise and take a lot of the new /young voters and the DA and ANC will stagnate.
I think seeing it as a business, is where they're going wrong. It's not just a marketing exercise, people invest their identities into a political party. It's not like a rebrand of a product and targeting a new market or whatever. It looks very dodgy if a political party starts flip flopping, and endorsing the policies of other parties, it losses trust. Politics is far closer to religion or a sports team, than selling sports clothing or something.
I don't vote on habit...I vote for what appeals to me....ANC voters vote against the Groot Gevaar and for " free stuff "...not good governance
The infighting isn't helping, but that is because they are ideologically confused. The leadership isn't united because they don't really know how they are going to get where they want to go, so they are shotgunning. They have tried this in the past and they are just not good enough at negative campaigning. Their messaging as a party has become sloppy and disjointed ever since they let Gareth van Onselen go because he was calling this shit out 8 years ago.
You may be right.
However, I do think that Good Governance is more of an issue than you think: I just wish it was better accentuated.
Here in Craighall Park we have just had the entire street re-tarred over 4 or 5 months. It was, admittedly pretty ropey with pervasive potholes, but it was certainly drivable. I would have preferred for the millions spent to have been used in Alex or somewhere where it would have been better appreciated.
On the other hand, under the previous ANC, the local hockey astro in Randburg was due to be refurbished and, ironically, the project was cancelled by the incoming DA coalition.
I just feel that, under the DA, spending should be targeted at benefiting the majority, and they need to do this consistently to get the message across.
I really do feel that the biggest problem for the DA (apart from their propensity to discharge both barrels into their feet) is that the ANC find it so easy to label them as the direct descendants of the National Party.
(Sorry, if the above sounds disjointed - trying to do some work...)
beachboy wrote:
I'm in a similar boat; except that I really dislike Maimane. I know who I won't vote for but that's as far as I have gotten
I'll probably wait for number 99 to make my decision. I really want to send the DA a message, but I also don't want to hurt them in the long run as don't think our political system will ever become healthy unless we establish a culture of peaceful transitions of power on all levels of government. It's a tricky proposition chasing that lofty goal whilst not shooting yourself in the foot along the way.
They are damned if they do and damned if they don't.
Rich (predominantly white) suburbs pay the majority of the rates and taxes used to manage and improve infrastructure. If they neglect those areas their base will abandon them; and if they don't show tangible results in the poor (predominantly black and coloured) areas they are accused of not caring and not delivering on election promises.
The DA have actually done a terrible job at effectively communicating their successes. I'm sure many people in the richer suburbs feel the same way, and the best way to keep them happy (other than keeping their infrastructure pristine) is to actually SHOW them how and where their tax contributions have been used in poorer areas.
I know that the City of Cape Town has actually given away swathes of land deeds along with the houses that were built on them; but those are 1 day news stories and then quickly forgotten; which is a massive shame.
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Rich (predominantly white) suburbs pay the majority of the rates
Maybe so, but they also generally understand the need to spend disproportionately on poorer areas.
The DA have actually done a terrible job at effectively communicating their successes.
Agreed. and this is the issue. The DA generally are better at good governance and this needs to be the clear blue water (to borrow from Thatcher) between them and the ANC.
ANC will grow
Both the DA and EFF will drop.
The black middle class who voted for the DA against Zuma will vote ANC. The white middle class will not vote DA as they have gone down the road of BEE and land expropriation.
Those who voted EFF will go back to the ANC now that they have approved the land expropriation etc.
Chilli wrote:
DA as they have gone down the road of BEE and land expropriation.
DA/Cope/FF+/ACDP are the four that have never supported expropriation without compensation. IFP did at first, then seemed to decide it was an ANC con job, so now also don't.
All the other parties support expropriation without compensation.
Lemoentjie
Afriforum is not a part of the problem, it is the main group working to protect whites from the inevitable EWC. It's only a problem if you support EWC.
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Lemoentjie wrote:
Afriforums protects whites and the EFF protects blacks. That is the narrow minded view that the supported have of these two organisations, and they have no time to see a broader picture. EFF and Afriforum are one in the same, they just swap the words white and black in their individual statements. Both aim to fight racism with racism and use fear mongering and populism to gather support.
(to many to quote) I have also been pissed off by the DA over the past year, especially Johan Steenhuizen trying to beat the EFF in their game in disrupting Parliament with idiotic statements, and also their broad ranging misguided statements from colonialism to BEE. However, I travel to the Western Cape regularly for work it is apparent that there is a world of difference between a DA government and a ANC government. Traveling from Bloemfontein to Cape Town is like traveling from Mogadisu to New York.
I cant see any other party that has the capacity and competence to change the current situation in South Africa (unless Ramaposa gets rid of the Magasule gang after the election), and don't see how individual DA comments or controversial policy can change that.
You guys have a democratic right to vote for whom ever, but EFF will be disastrous, FF+ is a fart in the wind (you cant fix potholes with Afrikaans and religion) and COPE is a party headed by black man that is trying to get votes from Afrikaner Nationalist (Do you guys really think Steve Hofmeyer will vote for Lekota )
Anyhoo, rather look at the broader picture, rather than focusing on the rhetoric.
DraadkarD wrote:
Complete kak. When has an Afriforum member said anything even close to the constant 'kill all the whites' rhetoric that comes out of many EFF top people's mouths.
I said racism not a call for genocide. Please watch your language.
The problem with this argument. Is it that is has been true for years and years, it hasn't changed many minds (it also ignores some stuff regarding De Lille). Freestate is one of the strongest ANC provinces, 70% ANC even under Zuma, the ANC aren't going to lose nationally either.
This is why principles and policies do actually matter.
Banging on about size will not work, especially with DA supporters, some of us remember when the DA was a nothing party.
If none of these opposition parties are going to win, and the DA isn't either. And the ANC don't have the easy target of JZ anymore. Then what parties actually stand for, their actual principles, starts to matter. This is exactly how the DA became the official opposition, the official opposition at the time stopped standing for anything other than "we do services better than the ANC" and became an easy target.
The EFF have some principles, they're shit but they're there. The EFF almost beat the DA in Freestate and Mpumalanga last time, and actually did beat the DA in Limpopo and North West. That's what standing for something and having some principles can do, service delivery and their track record has no input into their platform at all, their supporters do not care about it. The DA has forgotten about what politics is about, and now just lists the amount of toilets they've built etc.
I can't see how the DA are going to grow. Could easily lose to the EFF in four provinces.
That saves me quite a bit.
Look, the DA has been their own worst enemy in terms off of PR and even trying to portray unity is its ranks, however, I think they will still pack a punch in this year, growing their base. I think issues like load shedding and suburban service delivery will play a big part in how choose to vote, especially in the middle class and educated youth (I know they have a huge EFF following, but think that's only an illusion created by twitter).
I at one stage last year was really conflicted if I wanted to vote DA (I did not have a alternative). But, if I have to choose a party that will probably better the situation in the country, for the people and for me, the DA is the only option and I think many other South Africans will also see that. It's about a good government track record. That's all.
I predict 30%
There's no way chief. This is the most disorientated I've ever seen them. Listing stuff about corruption, or potholes filled, or toilets built, isn't politics and clearly not what most vote on.
The EFF have ranted about nationalising everything for years. The DA never really explained in simple terms why that's bad. Never released a pamphlet explaining why it's bad and what they would do. They just seem to think people can work it all out on their own, and everyone knows what they stand for. They've had an open goal for 5 years and ignored it. They just sat and watched as the EFF grew.
They're going to be doing really well to get the 22% they got last time. Could easily go below 20% if their campaign is limp. 30% isn't possible this election.
There's a lot in what you say, particularly when referring to open goals (which, Draad has referred to already; in fact I think we all have).
It's difficult to predict what the electorate will do, but I suspect that the ANC cannot count on continued loyalty as the party of liberation.
Killface
Election manifestos update:
ANC: https://www.politicsweb.co.za/documents ... -manifesto
DA: https://www.politicsweb.co.za/documents ... ge--mmusi-
EFF: https://www.politicsweb.co.za/documents ... anifesto-i
FF+: https://www.politicsweb.co.za/documents ... -manifesto
Feel free to add others.
Under the EFF government, the economy will grow at 6% in the first two years and 10% in the remaining three years. To achieve this growth, the EFF government will take the following key steps:
Is it acceptable to ask everyone who they will be voting for?
handyman wrote:
I would be interested as I have not got the foggiest clue at this point
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July 28, 2015 1:03pm PT by Eriq Gardner
Bill Cosby's "Media Blitz," "Narcissistic View" Attacked in Court
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The attorney for Andrea Constand tells the judge that confidentiality is "unenforceable" and bemoans double standards.
The release of a decade-old Bill Cosby deposition continues to reverberate, with attorneys for the comedian and rape accuser Andrea Constand pointing fingers at each other over which side is violating the confidentiality provisions of a settlement.
Last week, Cosby submitted a motion to enforce the agreement and identified tweets and an interview with the Toronto Sun that allegedly crossed the line. In one tweet, Constand wrote, "I won't go away, there is a lot more I will say."
On Tuesday, Constand's attorney Delores Troiani hit back with a blistering response.
"In his narcissistic view of the world, [Cosby] believes that [Constand's] every Tweet must be about him," she writes. "He is as perceptive in this belief as he claims to be in his interpretation of non-verbal cues from women he wants to seduce. The Tweets do not include any hashtags and were sent during the time period that there was extensive publicity about gay marriage. As defendant admits in his deposition, despite his talent for interpreting female reactions to him, he did not realize Plaintiff was gay until the police told him."
As for the press interview, Troiani says her client was ambushed by a reporter and cameraman.
"He tried to ingratiate himself with her, claiming he had photos and information of Defendant's sexual misconduct in Canada," states Troiani's brief. "It is only the skilled celebrity, who has been in show business for 50 years who can avoid these traps."
Troiani, concerned that some of the unsealed court documents don't tell the full story, is now pushing to have the full deposition released. The New York Times and a couple of other media outlets obtained copies of the transcript from the court reporter, but those news outlets haven't published them in full despite calls from others to do so. After Cosby's attorneys started questioning whether the release of the deposition was a breach of agreed-upon confidentiality, the court reporter asked the judge for some clarity before further distribution.
Cosby's side is opposing further release of the deposition, wants disputes over the settlement referred to a private mediator and on Monday appealed the judge's unsealing order to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Meanwhile, the sides do battle over public comments being made.
If Cosby's legal team is upset over tweets, a Toronto Sun "interview" and the way the deposition got into the hands of The New York Times, Constand's lawyer has her own points regarding how Cosby may be violating the agreement on confidentiality.
The first breach cited is a July 6 statement from Cosby's camp to ABC News stating, "The only reason Mr. Cosby settled was because it would have been embarrassing in those days to put all those women on the stand and his family had no clue. That would have been very hurtful."
Cosby later told the judge that this statement was "at worst, an inconsequential error," but Troiani says the comedian can't just "bury that admission in a footnote."
"Even more disturbing, is defendant's 'media blitz,' " she adds.
The same day last week that Cosby filed a motion to enforce confidentiality, his new lawyer Monique Pressley began doing media rounds. On Thursday, for example, she told ABC's Good Morning America, "There are a thousand-plus pages that are available of Mr. Cosby in his own words, and what we're seeing so far are headlines that are grabbing one excerpt or two and misinterpreting them."
Noting this, Troiani tells the judge, "That statement certainly appears to be an invitation for the world to read the transcript Defendant bemoans was released. Again, it is evident that Defendant believes [that] he is free to comment about Plaintiff and the [Jane Doe] witnesses but that Plaintiff is violating the agreement if she makes a fair response."
Troiani asserts that the confidentiality portion of the agreement "has proven unenforceable" and demands the opportunity to respond to Cosby's "spin machine." She also accuses Cosby's lawyer of using the "court system to wage a battle in the court of public opinion" by filing a "bad faith" motion to strike. She's demanding Cosby pay her attorney's fees.
In her new brief (read in full here), Troiani also talks about some of the challenges she's been put through by this ordeal. She discusses what it was like to find out from newscasters that criminal charges wouldn't be pursued against Cosby and how she had to do a "frantic search" to find Constand to tell her.
In another example, a few months ago, a news outlet came to her, looking to confirm the identity of a Cosby accuser who participated in the Constand case. Troiani says she didn't recognize the name. Troiani could have stayed silent, but worried how Cosby's side would portray this. She identified the women. She later wrote one of Cosby's lawyers, saying, "Confidentiality is one thing, but permitting someone to make a public allegation I knew was not true is not in my ethical playbook. I have no intention of participating in whatever scheme that person was doing, even though I believe your client is a serial molester."
Now, expressing fatigue at how things have gone in recent months, and being hit with a demand for sanctions from Cosby's side, she writes that Cosby "appears to be the victim of the old adage, 'Be careful what you wish for, you may get it.' "
Eriq Gardner
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function [model] = vol3d(varargin)
%H = VOL3D Volume render 3-D data.
% VOL3D uses the orthogonal plane 2-D texture mapping technique for
% volume rending 3-D data in OpenGL. Use the 'texture' option to fine
% tune the texture mapping technique. This function is best used with
% fast OpenGL hardware.
%
% vol3d                   Provide a demo of functionality.
%
% H = vol3d('CData',data) Create volume render object from input
%                         3-D data. Use interp3 on data to increase volume
%                         rendering resolution. Returns a struct
%                         encapsulating the pseudo-volume rendering object.
%                         XxYxZ array represents scaled colormap indices.
%                         XxYxZx3 array represents truecolor RGB values for
%                         each voxel (along the 4th dimension).
%
% vol3d(...,'Alpha',alpha) XxYxZ array of alpha values for each voxel, in
%                          range [0,1]. Default: data (interpreted as
%                          scaled alphamap indices).
%
% vol3d(...,'Parent',axH)  Specify parent axes. Default: gca.
%
% vol3d(...,'XData',x)  1x2 x-axis bounds. Default: [0 size(data, 2)].
% vol3d(...,'YData',y)  1x2 y-axis bounds. Default: [0 size(data, 1)].
% vol3d(...,'ZData',z)  1x2 z-axis bounds. Default: [0 size(data, 3)].
%
% vol3d(...,'texture','2D')  Only render texture planes parallel to nearest
%                            orthogonal viewing plane. Requires doing
%                            vol3d(h) to refresh if the view is rotated
%                            (i.e. using cameratoolbar).
%
% vol3d(...,'texture','3D')  Default. Render x,y,z texture planes
%                            simultaneously. This avoids the need to
%                            refresh the view but requires faster OpenGL
%                            hardware peformance.
%
% vol3d(H)  Refresh view. Updates rendering of texture planes
%           to reduce visual aliasing when using the 'texture'='2D'
%           option.
%
% NOTES
% Use vol3dtool (from the original vol3d FEX submission) for editing the
% colormap and alphamap. Adjusting these maps will allow you to explore
% your 3-D volume data at various intensity levels. See documentation on
% alphamap and colormap for more information.
%
% Use interp3 on input date to increase/decrease resolution of data
%
% Examples:
%
% % Visualizing fluid flow
% v = flow(50);
% h = vol3d('cdata',v,'texture','2D');
% view(3);
% % Update view since 'texture' = '2D'
% vol3d(h);
% alphamap('rampdown'), alphamap('decrease'), alphamap('decrease')
%
% % Visualizing MRI data
% load mri.mat
% D = squeeze(D);
% h = vol3d('cdata',D,'texture','3D');
% view(3);
% axis tight;  daspect([1 1 .4])
% alphamap('rampup');
% alphamap(.06 .* alphamap);
%
% See also alphamap, colormap, opengl, isosurface

% Copyright Joe Conti, 2004
% Improvements by Oliver Woodford, 2008-2011, with permission of the
% copyright holder.

if nargin == 0
    demo_vol3d;
    return
end

if isstruct(varargin{1})
    model = varargin{1};
    if length(varargin) > 1
       varargin = {varargin{2:end}};
    end
else
    model = localGetDefaultModel;
end

if length(varargin)>1
  for n = 1:2:length(varargin)
    switch(lower(varargin{n}))
        case 'cdata'
            model.cdata = varargin{n+1};
        case 'parent'
            model.parent = varargin{n+1};
        case 'texture'
            model.texture = varargin{n+1};
        case 'alpha'
            model.alpha = varargin{n+1};
        case 'xdata'
            model.xdata = varargin{n+1}([1 end]);
        case 'ydata'
            model.ydata = varargin{n+1}([1 end]);
        case 'zdata'
            model.zdata = varargin{n+1}([1 end]);
    end

  end
end

if isempty(model.parent)
    model.parent = gca;
end

[model] = local_draw(model);

%------------------------------------------%
function [model] = localGetDefaultModel

model.cdata = [];
model.alpha = [];
model.xdata = [];
model.ydata = [];
model.zdata = [];
model.parent = [];
model.handles = [];
model.texture = '3D';
tag = tempname;
model.tag = ['vol3d_' tag(end-11:end)];

%------------------------------------------%
function [model,ax] = local_draw(model)

cdata = model.cdata;
siz = size(cdata);

% Define [x,y,z]data
if isempty(model.xdata)
    model.xdata = [0 siz(2)];
end
if isempty(model.ydata)
    model.ydata = [0 siz(1)];
end
if isempty(model.zdata)
    model.zdata = [0 siz(3)];
end

try
   delete(model.handles);
catch
end

ax = model.parent;
cam_dir = camtarget(ax) - campos(ax);
[m,ind] = max(abs(cam_dir));

opts = {'Parent',ax,'cdatamapping',[],'alphadatamapping',[],'facecolor','texturemap','edgealpha',0,'facealpha','texturemap','tag',model.tag};

if ndims(cdata) > 3
    opts{4} = 'direct';
else
    cdata = double(cdata);
    opts{4} = 'scaled';
end

if isempty(model.alpha)
    alpha = cdata;
    if ndims(model.cdata) > 3
        alpha = sqrt(sum(double(alpha).^2, 4));
        alpha = alpha - min(alpha(:));
        alpha = 1 - alpha / max(alpha(:));
    end
    opts{6} = 'scaled';
else
    alpha = model.alpha;
    if ~isequal(siz(1:3), size(alpha))
        error('Incorrect size of alphamatte');
    end
    opts{6} = 'none';
end

h = findobj(ax,'type','surface','tag',model.tag);
for n = 1:length(h)
  try
     delete(h(n));
  catch
  end
end

is3DTexture = strcmpi(model.texture,'3D');
handle_ind = 1;

% Create z-slice
if(ind==3 || is3DTexture )
  x = [model.xdata(1), model.xdata(2); model.xdata(1), model.xdata(2)];
  y = [model.ydata(1), model.ydata(1); model.ydata(2), model.ydata(2)];
  z = [model.zdata(1), model.zdata(1); model.zdata(1), model.zdata(1)];
  diff = model.zdata(2)-model.zdata(1);
  delta = diff/size(cdata,3);
  for n = 1:size(cdata,3)

   cslice = squeeze(cdata(:,:,n,:));
   aslice = double(squeeze(alpha(:,:,n)));
   h(handle_ind) = surface(x,y,z,cslice,'alphadata',aslice,opts{:});
   z = z + delta;
   handle_ind = handle_ind + 1;
  end

end

% Create x-slice
if (ind==1 || is3DTexture )
  x = [model.xdata(1), model.xdata(1); model.xdata(1), model.xdata(1)];
  y = [model.ydata(1), model.ydata(1); model.ydata(2), model.ydata(2)];
  z = [model.zdata(1), model.zdata(2); model.zdata(1), model.zdata(2)];
  diff = model.xdata(2)-model.xdata(1);
  delta = diff/size(cdata,2);
  for n = 1:size(cdata,2)

   cslice = squeeze(cdata(:,n,:,:));
   aslice = double(squeeze(alpha(:,n,:)));
   h(handle_ind) = surface(x,y,z,cslice,'alphadata',aslice,opts{:});
   x = x + delta;
   handle_ind = handle_ind + 1;
  end
end

% Create y-slice
if (ind==2 || is3DTexture)
  x = [model.xdata(1), model.xdata(1); model.xdata(2), model.xdata(2)];
  y = [model.ydata(1), model.ydata(1); model.ydata(1), model.ydata(1)];
  z = [model.zdata(1), model.zdata(2); model.zdata(1), model.zdata(2)];
  diff = model.ydata(2)-model.ydata(1);
  delta = diff/size(cdata,1);
  for n = 1:size(cdata,1)

   cslice = squeeze(cdata(n,:,:,:));
   aslice = double(squeeze(alpha(n,:,:)));
   h(handle_ind) = surface(x,y,z,cslice,'alphadata',aslice,opts{:});
   y = y + delta;
   handle_ind = handle_ind + 1;
  end
end

model.handles = h;

function demo_vol3d
figure;
load mri.mat
vol3d('cdata', squeeze(D), 'xdata', [0 1], 'ydata', [0 1], 'zdata', [0 0.7]);
colormap(bone(256));
alphamap([0 linspace(0.1, 0, 255)]);
axis equal off
set(gcf, 'color', 'w');
view(3);

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A few years later, she graduated with a Master's Degree of Arts in Spanish Language and Culture. In 2004, Lidia moved to the United States where she continued her studies and became a College mathematics and Spanish Instructor at Florida State College in Jacksonville, Florida.
Soon she realized that the food, water and home products she had been using were filled with chemicals and caused her to feel ill. It was at that moment she renewed her commitment to health by allowing God to be her healer and give her wisdom in how to recover.
Lidia's journey was very interesting and full of rewards. Because of the changes made in diet and lifestyle, in just a few years Lidia was able to recover at 41 years old and give birth to a healthy baby. With that, she thought her goal was accomplished but God had a different.
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Q: Is there a way to use modern Nvidia drivers for Intel-Nvidia hybrid notebooks? I'm reading that modern Nvidia driver installations for mobile cards don't support the Intel-Nvidia hybrid mode. For those who don't know about it, it's designed to save notebook battery charge by switching to Intel's slower and less energy demanding graphics system with a hotkey.
Several user-modified releases of video drivers exist of newer driver releases that are aimed to fully support all the features of this hybrid graphics system. But I'm not interested in all that. I'm only interested in Nvidia part of this hybrid system, since it's performance I'm after, not energy saving.
The thing is that the latest officially supported drivers are pretty old and I'd like to get the more recent version, and without the "unofficial support" by community that comes with another set of problems.
Is there a way to install newest Nvidia mobile graphics drivers ignoring the Intel part of the equation? Specifically, I'm looking for solutions for my Asus UL30VT with G210m Nvidia graphics, but I'm still interested in answers for all Nvidia mobile graphics.

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Playtests
Persona 5 Characters to Appear in m HOLD'EM Poker Game
Four characters from Persona 5 Royal will make an appearance in SEGA Sammy's Texas Hold 'em mobile game m HOLD'EM. Joker, Panther, Mona, and Violet will be available from the in-game gacha from December 6, 2021 until December 19, 2021. Players can win a number of avatars and fully-voiced stickers, while daily tournaments will award Persona 5 Royal collaboration cards to skilled players. Those who simply log in during the event period will get a Mona avatar.
Check out the collaboration trailer for the event:
m HOLD'EM launched in Japan in July 2021. The game is a spin on traditional Texas Hold 'em, featuring artwork from popular illustrators along with characters and voice actors from anime, manga, and video games. Sammy intended for the game to help Japan become more involved in esports, with the championship prize pool sitting at 1 million yen and the finals offering well over 3 million yen to the winner. The game is free-to-play and holds qualifiers for its live events.
Sega Sammy Holdings was formed in 2004 after the merger of Sega with amusement company Sammy. In May, the company announced that Sonic the Hedgehog and Persona, two flagship franchises, has sold over 7.4 million copies during the 2020 fiscal year.
The Persona 5 Royal Poker collaboration with m HOLD'EM will run from December 6, 2021 until December 19, 2021.
Carley Garcia
Carley is a JP-EN translator, writer, and RPG lore addict. She's played Dragon Age: Inquisition 13 times, loves walking sims, and wants to be your friend in Final Fantasy XIV.


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Go behind the headlines: From the economy and healthcare to politics and the environment - and so much more - On Point talks with newsmakers and real people about the issues that matter most. On Point is produced by WBUR for NPR.
As MLK High's Class of 2012 graduates, progress seen at once-troubled school
It was a day before they would don caps and gowns and become the Martin Luther King High School graduating Class of 2012.
Inside Temple University's Liacouras Center, on the floor under banners honoring basketball teams from 1938 to 2001 and beyond, soon-to-be grads heard their names called on Monday.
They walked up on stage, shook hands with first-year Principal William C. Wade. Then, they practiced receiving a diploma and smiling for cameras that would be flashing when they did the same thing in front of a crowd the next night.
Then, after hearing warnings that they were to be punctual, leave their handbags with parents, headphones or other musical devices at home and to be ready to "go forth and conquer," they rehearsed their recessional march.
A surreal moment
Even on Graduation Eve, Wade and graduating seniors Navette Patterson-Downey and Daryl Harmon could hardly contain their pride.
"I've waited my entire life, well, as long as I can remember, for this day," said Patterson-Downey, who will start studying early childhood education at Lock Haven University in just a few weeks. "To be a role model for my siblings, to my cousins, it makes me proud."
Harmon, who will also attend Lock Haven University, where he will study civil engineering, said it means a lot to graduate since he comes from a family that prides itself on education.
He said that under Wade's leadership, the vibe at MLK High had changed for the better. In fact, neither he nor Patterson-Downey could name the previous principal off the top of their heads.
"Mr. Wade is more involved. You see him walking the halls. You can go to him if you have a problem," Harmon said. "He keeps it real with you, won't sugar coat anything, but he'll help you work through anything."
"He always has your back," added Patterson-Downey, who admitted she was a bit nervous the day before such a momentous life event. "He's there for you every step of the way."
First in a three-year improvement plan
For his part, Wade acknowledged it was a year of transition for the Promise Academy, but that he'd seen progress in the first year of what normally takes three years to effect change.
The Class of 2012 graduated 157 students on Tuesday night, and those numbers were bolstered because of teachers and administrators committed to helping kids on the brink of failure realize they should strive to succeed, Wade said.
To that end, he said "serious incidents" were down while attendance was up. While 80 percent of ninth graders were off-track when it comes to graduation last year, 85 percent were on track this year.
During rehearsal, he rued the fact that he would have to ask Liacouras Center staff to remove rows of chairs because there weren't enough graduates to fill all that were set up. He vowed to "fill those chairs" in upcoming years' ceremonies.
"We don't allow them to fall by the wayside," Wade said. "MLK was on life support when we took over, but things are turning around."
The $1,000 bonus is available for any lifeguard who submits their completed application by Apr. 15 and works throughout the summer season.
An agenda advocacy organizations launched Wednesday includes restructuring the city's waste operations and rebuilding public trust around recycling.
The board also asked the city at its biannual meeting to provide parking for teachers near some schools to address safety concerns.


Located in southern Ontario, the Hamilton-Brantford-Cambridge trail is a scenic relic that weaves through the economic heartland of Canada. Over 80 kilometers (50 miles) of paved and gravel pathways take you through an urban and rural adventure on this rail trail.
To the east, the wide rail trail runs through the scenic Dundas Valley Conservation Area, a sanctuary along the Niagara Escarpment.
To the west, the Cambridge-Paris rail trail follows the Grand River through a thick forest. Scenic lookouts along the way remind hikers and cyclists what most of southern Ontario used to look like.
The trail is open to biking, hiking and, in the rural areas, even horse-back riding and has plenty of access points along the way. In winter, this becomes a popular ski trail for cross-country skiers. The Grand River Conservation Authority has more details about the HBC trail.
No matter where you start along its length, the Hamilton-Brantford-Cambridge Trail, is a quiet retreat from the hustle and bustle of the Golden Horseshoe.
Like all rail trails in Canada, these pathways are for everyone to enjoy and it takes everyone's effort to protect it for future generations.
When passing, verbally alert the slower party or ring a bicycle bell. Slow traffic should keep to the right and cyclists should yield to pedestrians and horse riders.
Respect the surrounding properties. Adjacent landowners are usually good trail stewards.
Keep dogs under control at all times and pick up after them, even if the equestrians don't (that's mainly grass anyways).
This 80 kilometer (50 mile) rail trail is actually the creation of two abandoned rail lines and the extensive city-wide municipal trails through Brantford. Together, they make up a part of the much larger Trans Canada Trail.
This rail trail is the abandoned remains of the old Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Railway that ran in southern Ontario from 1890s to 1987.
Only the branch line from Hamilton west to Brantford was converted into the rail trail. The other line, from Hamilton to Welland, was integrated into the CPR and is still in use today by locomotives.
Known as the SC Johnson Trail, after the corporate sponsor, this 10 kilometer connector follows the old rail line of the Lake Erie & Northern Railway.
This portion of the trail was also created from the abandoned rail lines of the Lake Erie & Northern Railway. It follows the Grand River and offer excellent bird watching opportunities.
The Hamilton-Brantford-Cambridge Trail (also known as the Cambridge-Paris-Brantford-Hamilton Trail) is one of the best ways to discover the backcountry of Canada's Golden Horseshoe.
Check out other adventures and things to discover in Ontario.


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Elements of inspiration
By Bill Griffith2011-01-05T11:29:13+00:00
Unerring in her enquiry and not afraid of hard work, Marie Curie set a shining example for generations of scientists. Bill Griffith explores the life of a chemical heroine
On 10 December 1911, Marie Curie was awarded the Nobel prize in chemistry for 'services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium'. She was the first female recipient of any Nobel prize and the first person ever to be awarded two (she, Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel had shared the 1903 physics prize for their work on radiation). Such was Marie's impact on the scientific world - and the role of women within it - that one of the four stated goals of the 2011 international year of chemistry is to celebrate the centenary of her prize.
She was born Maria Salomea Sklodowska on 7 November 1867 in central Warsaw, Poland. Both her parents were teachers (her mother died when Maria was 10) and she was highly motivated and well educated. Poland was then a subject state of Russia and women were excluded from advanced study, so in 1891 she joined her sister Bronia in Paris, enrolling at the Paris Sorbonne University and taking her physics and mathematics degrees with outstanding grades in 1893-4. She met Pierre Curie in the spring of 1894, and they married in 1895 at a civil ceremony in Sceaux in the Parisian suburbs. They were both rather shy and unworldly, caring little for material things; their chief recreation was cycling, but they shared too a deep appreciation of science and an obsessive dedication to it. Their first daughter Ir?ne was born in 1897.
Pierre's work on piezoelectricity, crystal symmetry and magnetism at the Municipal School of Industrial Physics and Chemistry (EPCI) in Paris is still fundamentally important, especially the concepts of the Curie temperature (above which magnets lose their magnetism) and the Curie law relating magnetism and temperature. Marie published her first paper in 1897 on the magnetisation of steels but looked for a new research topic, which she found in radioactivity. A year after Wilhelm R?ntgen's observation of x-rays in 1895, Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity of uranium from photographic plates which, when wrapped in black paper close to uranium or its salts, showed images when developed.
Marie was allocated a damp room of the EPCI for her doctoral research, and showed that among a wide variety of inorganic materials, uranium and thorium were the only elements then known to exhibit radioactivity. Her samples were placed on a condenser plate charged to 100 Volts and attached to one of Pierre's electrometers, and thereby she measured quantitatively their radioactivity. She found the minerals pitchblende (UO2) and chalcolite
(Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2.12H2O) to be more radioactive than pure uranium, so reasoned that they must contain other, stronger radioactive constituents. On 12 April 1898 she presented her findings, writing that 'these minerals may contain an element which is much more active than uranium'.1 She and Pierre decided that she would concentrate on the chemical aspects of element separation, while he would study their radiation properties.
Polonium and radium
Source: © THEODORE GRAY
The Curies isolated traces of radium and polonium from tonnes of pitchblende uranium ore
In April 1898, Marie dissolved pitchblende in HCl and treated the solution with H2S; uranium and thorium remained in solution, but the precipitated sulfides remained highly radioactive. After further manipulation this radioactive material was found to co-precipitate with bismuth. In July she and Pierre published a paper (coining the word 'radio-active' in its title), presented by Becquerel to the Academy of Sciences - founded in 1666, this institution was as prestigious in France as the Royal Society in Britain. They suggested, for the first time, that radioactivity was a phenomenon associated with the atom, and proposed that the new element, once its existence was confirmed, should be called polonium.2
They realised that pitchblende must contain yet another highly radioactive material, not precipitated from its solutions by H2S, (NH4)2S or ammonia, having a water-insoluble carbonate akin to BaCO3 and a chloride slightly less soluble than BaCl2 which acted as a carrier for it. This they named radium, publishing their results on Boxing day 1898;2 French spectroscopist Eug?ne-Anatole Demar?ay found a new atomic spectral line from the element, helping to confirm its status. Since it was much more radioactive than polonium the Curies concentrated their efforts on it. It was clear that much more pitchblende was needed to obtain significant quantities of radium, and they eventually obtained some 8000kg of waste ore from Austria. They worked for the next four years under appalling conditions in a leaking unventilated shed, freezing in the winter and dreadfully hot by summer. Marie wrote: 'I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as large as myself. I would be broken with fatigue at the day's end'. Nevertheless she described life in 'this miserable shed' as 'the best and happiest years of our life', and was much honoured when Lord Kelvin and other famous scientists visited her there.
They worked with 20kg batches of pitchblende: grinding, dissolving and refining them to small quantities of solutions. In 1902 they isolated 0.1g. of anhydrous RaCl2 after thousands of recrystallisations from the more-soluble BaCl2 in HCl, measuring the atomic weight of radium as 225.
In 1901 Pierre and Becquerel published a paper on the physiological effects of radioactivity, and Pierre showed, with medical collaborators, that radiation from radium (and subsequently from radon gas which it and other radioactive elements emit) could destroy cancerous cells.
The physics Nobel prize
In June 1903 Pierre came to the UK to give a discourse at London's Royal Institution. Many eminent scientists were present including Sir William Crookes, Sir Oliver Lodge, Lord Kelvin and the physicist William Ayrton. Ayrton's wife Hertha, a remarkable scientist in her own right, and Marie became firm friends.
Marie completed her doctoral thesis in June 1903. Later the same day Ernest Rutherford (himself to become a chemistry Nobel laureate in 1908) met the Curies for dinner; Marie trusted him and they formed a lasting friendship. That evening, when Pierre showed him some radium glowing blue in the dark, Rutherford noted that Pierre's fingertips were raw and inflamed, as indeed were Marie's. Others had observed that both Curies had burns, which must have arisen from their handling of radium. This and inhaling radon formed from radium's decay almost certainly adversely affected their general health. After the first world war in particular there were increasing reports of illness and sometimes deaths amongst those who had worked with radium salts for cancer therapy, as paints for luminous watches, and in quack 'cures' for a host of ailments.
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Outside of the laboratory, Pierre and Marie were keen cyclists
In November 1903 the Curies and Becquerel were awarded the physics Nobel prize for their work on radioactivity. Becquerel attended the Stockholm ceremony, but neither of the Curies went: Pierre was ill and overwhelmed with teaching duties and Marie was recovering from a miscarriage. It was a mixed blessing - financially helpful (70,000 francs), but it exposed them to international acclaim and scrutiny. Marie later wrote that 'the overturn of our voluntary isolation was a cause of real suffering for us'.
A professorship was created for Pierre at the Sorbonne with an accompanying post for Marie; that year Pierre was elected to the Academy of Sciences and in June he gave his Nobel lecture in Stockholm. In December 1905 their second daughter, Eve Denise, was born.
On 19 April 1906, Marie left the Sorbonne to give the children their lunch; Pierre walked in the rain to meet his publishers. When crossing the cobbled Rue Dauphine he was run over by a horse dray and instantly killed. Marie was devastated. He was buried in Sceaux and later Marie and her children moved there.
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Marie toiling to extract radium from pitchblende in her 'hut' - as portrayed in a modern theatre production
Marie was given Pierre's Sorbonne chair, thereby becoming the first female professor in France. That year Lord Kelvin wrote to The Times newspaper suggesting that radium was a compound of lead containing five helium atoms, but Rutherford robustly disagreed, saying that radium fulfilled every test required of an element. Marie resolved to prove that this was so. In 1907 she made 0.4g of RaCl2 and re-determined the atomic weight as 226.45. In 1910 she isolated radium as a shiny-white metal by electrolysing RaCl2 in mercury and distilling off the latter from the amalgam.3
Paul Langevin, a pioneer in magnetochemistry, one-time student of Pierre and long a friend of the Curies, succeeded Pierre as professor of physics and chemistry at the EPCI. Although married with four children he was separated and had a small apartment near Marie's laboratory where they sometimes met. In 1911 his study was burgled, letters from Marie stolen and published. They were mainly domestic in nature, Marie advising him about how to deal with his marital problems, but the press made much of them. Opinions differ as to whether they were lovers in this brief affair, but there is no evidence whatsoever that she had enticed him from his wife. Langevin challenged the publisher of the letters to a duel; pistols were drawn but neither duellist fired, and with this farce public interest waned and the affair ended. Much later Marie's granddaughter H?l?ne married Langevin's grandson.
The chemistry Nobel prize
In 1910 Marie was proposed for election to the Academy of Sciences. Had she been elected she would have been its first female member, but in 1911 she lost by one vote to the inventor Edouard Branly. She was deeply upset and never applied again; for years she stopped publishing in the society's journals.
On 8 November 1911 she was awarded the Nobel prize in chemistry for discovering polonium and radium. This time she went to Stockholm to receive it, taking her sister Bronia and elder daughter Ir?ne, and in her acceptance speech mentioned that she alone had coined the term radioactivity but that polonium and radium were joint discoveries with Pierre.
In 1912 the Pasteur Institute and the Sorbonne decided that an 'Institut du Radium' be established in the newly-named Rue Pierre Curie, and Marie became director of its Curie laboratory. At the outbreak of the first world war, using her knowledge of x-rays, she set up a Red Cross radiology unit. Her daughter Ir?ne, now aged 17, helped her and nursed on the front lines. In 1920 she met the influential American journalist Marie Meloney who persuaded her to visit the USA in 1921 to raise money for radium research. There she met the president Warren Harding, and returned to France with a gram of radium and a generous research grant.
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Marie's mobile x-ray vans brought radiology to the front lines in the first world war
Her eyesight now deteriorated badly from cataracts, and her general health, never very good, worsened. In March 1925 Ir?ne presented her doctoral thesis on a -radiation at the Sorbonne, and in 1926 married Fr?d?ric Joliot, a physicist at the Radium Institute. From 1932 Marie's health declined further - though she continued working - and she died on 4 July 1934 from leukaemia (Ir?ne was to die later from the same disease, aged 59). Marie was buried at Sceaux with Pierre, and Polish soil was scattered over her coffin. Her remains and those of Pierre were later re-interred in the Panth?on in Paris, France's national burial place for the famous, as was Langevin.
Marie Curie was a truly remarkable woman. Despite the exhausting labour of her early work with pitchblende and bringing up two children, she was physically quite frail and became more so, probably due to radiation exposure. In Pierre she found a partner who shared her obsessive love for science and aversion to publicity. She was never a feminist, though she believed strongly that men and women should have equal opportunities in education and work. Albert Einstein, who knew her well, wrote: 'Marie Curie is the only one whom fame has not corrupted'.
The Curie legacy
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Marie has been commemorated in stamps, banknotes and in this stained glass medallion by Polish artist Jozef Mazur
The extended Curie family won no less than six Nobel prizes - in addition to Marie and Pierre's three, Ir?ne and Fr?d?ric Joliot-Curie won the chemistry prize in 1935 'in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements', and Eve Curie's husband, Henry Labouisse, received the 1965 peace prize on behalf of Unicef. The Joliot-Curies worked at Marie's Radium Institute from 1934 on
-particle bombardment of elements, transmuting these to radioactive products (for example converting aluminium to radioactive phosphorus). Although Rutherford and others had earlier transmuted stable light elements, these were the first transformations to produce radioactive isotopes. In 1939, Marguerite Perey, a student of Marie's at the Radium Institute, discovered francium as a radioactive decay product of actinium, and in 1962 she was elected as the first female member of the Academy of Sciences, the honour so shamefully denied to Marie in 1911.
The Curie name lives on in many ways, including the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris; the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland; the Curie Institute (from the earlier Radium Institute) in Paris, and the Marie Curie charities. Also named after the Curies were the element curium, the Curie (Ci) unit of radioactivity and the minerals curite, sklodowskite, and cuprosklodowskite. But perhaps Marie's most lasting legacy is the inspirational example set to generations of scientists - both male and female - that rigorous and determined investigation can lead to remarkable discoveries.
Bill Griffith is professor of inorganic chemistry at Imperial College London, UK
1 M Sklodowska-Curie, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci., 1898, 126, 1101
2 P Curie and M Sklodowska-Curie, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci., 1898, 127, 175 (Po); P Curie,
M Sklodowska-Curie and G Bémont, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci., 1898, 127, 1215 (Ra)
3 M Curie and A Debierne, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci., 1910, 151, 523
A Romer, Radiochemistry and the Discovery of Isotopes. Dover, New York 1970 - contains translations of (1) and (2) and some other papers
R Reid, Marie Curie. Heinemann, Collins, London 1974
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Trace but not delay fear conditioning requires attention and the anterior cingulate cortex
Han, C. J. and O'Tuathaigh, Colm M. and van Trigt, Laurent and Quinn, Jennifer J. and Fanselow, Michael S. and Mongeau, Raymond and Koch, Christof and Anderson, David J. (2003) Trace but not delay fear conditioning requires attention and the anterior cingulate cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 100 (22). pp. 13087-13092. ISSN 0027-8424. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:HANpnas03
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Higher cognitive functions such as attention have been difficult to model in genetically tractable organisms. In humans, attention-distracting stimuli interfere with trace but not delay conditioning, two forms of associative learning. Attention has also been correlated with activation of anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), but its functional significance is unclear. Here we show that a visual distractor interferes selectively with trace but not delay auditory fear conditioning in mice. Trace conditioning is associated with increased neuronal activity in ACC, as assayed by relative levels of c-fos expression, and is selectively impaired by lesions of this structure. The effects of the ACC lesions are unlikely to be caused by indirect impairment of the hippocampus, which is required for mnemonic aspects of trace conditioning. These data suggest that trace conditioning may be useful for studying neural substrates of attention in mice, and implicate the ACC as one such substrate.
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Copyright © 2003 by the National Academy of Sciences. Edited by Larry R. Squire, University of California, San Diego, CA, and approved August 14, 2003 (received for review May 1, 2003). We thank E. Chiang, W. Lerchner, R. M. Carter, H. Lester, M. A. MacIver, G. Mosconi, and M. R. Tinsley for support and assistance throughout the development of this work. This research was supported by California Institute of Technology, the Moore Discovery Award, The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the W. M. Keck Foundation fund for Discovery, and the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Science Foundation under Award Nos. EEC-9402726 and IBN-0091487. D.J.A. is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. This paper was submitted directly (Track II) to the PNAS office.
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A Rutherglen-born woman who lost her dad in a devastating fire has been instrumental in organising a 50th anniversary service to remember those who perished.
The young dad of four, including daughter Joyce who was then aged just eight, was never to return, trapped behind barred windows that blocked escape routes as flames ripped through the furniture factory building and former whisky bond, killing 22 people.
The efforts of 86 firefighters were hampered by steel doors and the intense heat from the blaze.
A lorry driver and three workers – including 16-year-old storeboy Gordon Paterson – were the only ones to escape from the three-storey building, whose wooden stairs and floors ignited an inferno in minutes.
Henry's daughter, Joyce Davies, who's now 58 and living with husband David on Shetland, says the fire had a profound impact on her and left her seriously traumatised.
"I was only eight," said former Stonelaw High School pupil Joyce, who grew up in Farme Cross and Eastfield.
"I do have vague memories of my dad. I can remember waiting on a wall in Eastfield for him coming home on the bus from work, and of holidays in Saltcoats.
"I also have memories of the day it happened – the media coming to the house, traumatic memories and seeing things on the news, people asking questions and muttering, 'These are the children whose dad died'.
"It massively influenced me in every way you can imagine, through my friendships and education.
As the 50th anniversary approaches this weekend, Joyce has devoted many hours researching the fire and its causes and the names and stories of those who, like her father, left for work that fateful day and didn't come home.
Unlike in 2010 when a granite memorial stone was unveiled on the banks of the Clyde to mark 50 years since 19 people were killed in a whisky bond blaze on Cheapside Street, Glasgow, Joyce was shocked and saddened to realise that the city where her father lost his life had no plans to mark the James Watt Street tragedy and remember those who perished.
The mum-of-three set about writing a series of letters to key influencers in the hope of bringing to the forefront the seemingly forgotten fire and prompting Glasgow to mark the 50th anniversary of the disaster.
Appealing for some kind of service to acknowledge the anniversary of the tragedy, Joyce wrote to Lord Provost Eva Bolander, Archbishop of Glasgow the Most Rev Philip Tartaglia, and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, but as time passed she began to give up hope of receiving any reply.
Joyce and David will fly to Glasgow on Friday to meet their three daughters and lay flowers at James Watt Street in tribute to all those who died.
Although relieved that the anniversary will not go unmarked, the memorial mass at noon on Sunday will not bring closure for Joyce.
She is determined it will be the catalyst that will help her and other victims' families unlock answers about why their loved ones were killed in the blaze.
Joyce's mum, Mary Dunlop – who was left to bring up her four children alone – was so stricken by grief following her husband's death that she and other heartbroken family members couldn't bring themselves to speak of Henry.
Mary took memories of her husband to her grave when she passed away four years ago.
And it's only in recent months that Joyce has learned details about her late dad through the National Records of Scotland, even information as simple as the date of his birth.
Along with Henry and other workers from Rutherglen who died, documents examined by Joyce revealed that the blaze had claimed the life of a trainee machinist, who was killed the day before her 15th birthday.
She discovered that not only did two of her uncles sit through the fatal accident inquiry into the deaths of 20 workers from Stern and two employees of glass manufacturing firm G. Bryce, they were instrumental in bringing the probe about.
Speaking of her hopes for Sunday's service – which will be attended by the Lord Provost and MSP Sandra White – Joyce said: "I hope we can somehow reach the families concerned.
"There were a couple of people who got out of the building, including a 16-year-old boy and there is a chance he will still be alive.
"There are questions I want to ask but I will leave them until after the event.


"The country's largest physician group on Tuesday endorsed a ban on assault weapons as part of a sweeping package of measures aimed at combating the epidemic of gun violence.
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Gramps' Story
We sold our California farm in the late 1970's with the intention of moving to Australia. After a number of trips to Australia we finally found a farm that we felt would work for us. We made the purchase in 1980 and our son-in-law and daughter moved over to start operating the farm. My wife and I, and the rest our family, came over in 1983 to become permanent residents. By this time there was a new Australian grandson born here, so with our move our numbers came up to seven. A year or two later another son and his new bride joined us, so now our family in Australia numbered nine.
The family has continued to grow through marriages and births, and the number now stands at twenty seven over three generations. Within the family there are teachers, tradies and nurses, and at least six self-employed businesses which have created over one hundred and twenty jobs. It appears that this trend will continue into the future. So far, no one has any interest in going back to the United States to live. One of our granddaughters has renounced US citizenship, and a number of others would like to, but are unable to, for various reasons.
It constantly concerns me that all of our family members will be greatly affected by the FATCA Agreement and US Taxation on Australian Superannuation Funds. Most of the grandchildren think that having dual-citizenship is a good thing. I do as well, so long as one of the countries is not America.
My wife and I had a retirement fund that was started when we were young in America. We never paid much attention to it after moving to Australia, but when we checked it out we found that it had grown significantly. Upon further checking we found that we should have been paying taxes on the growth, and also found that there would have been penalties for early withdrawals, so this was a big mess. We ended up moving the money to Australia, and into our Superannuation Fund here, but the US Tax implications thereon are no better for it here, than when it was in America. I have learned one thing, and that is that there is no legal way to establish a retirement program if you are a self-funded expat.
I would like to mention here that we have sought and received professional advice on everything that has been done during our time in Australia. KPMG and Grant Thornton are the two big companies that we have used. We have also had an Australian accounting firm since day one, taking care of the Australian tax side of our business and personal affairs. My wife and I have always filed US tax returns.
I need to stress that these issues have had a very large emotional and financial impact on our lives, with no end in sight. I expect that the financial cost of solicitors and accountants may have been more than the tax paid (maybe we have created jobs for people who already had a good income). I would also like to stress the fact that this affects the lives of people who make jobs. Some of our grandchildren have business with Australian partners who probably have no idea that the US government knows all about their banking details. These issues also affect how our Wills are structured. My concerns are real when it comes to my family's future in Australia.
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Ok. So if you enjoyed Film Set Humor – Part 1, You are sure to enjoy Film Set Humor Part 2.
Here's a few jokes by departments jokes.
Two producers are sitting on a park bench. A beautiful girl walks by. The first producer says "Man, I'd like to screw her".
How can you tell when a producer is lying?
What's the difference between a producer and a coconut?
You can get a drink out of a coconut.
What do you call a plane full of producers that is about to crash?
Because it takes them 6 hours to light it.
What is the difference between a DP and God?
What is the difference between a grip and a camera operator?
A Camera Operator can read.
What is the difference between a camera operator and a DP?
How do you spot an AC at the airport?
What's the heaviest thing, a camera assistant has to carry?
Why do sound guys only count to two when checking a mic?
Because you lift on 3….
Why does thunder always come after lightning?
Even God has to wait on sound.
How tall are sound mixers?
I don't know, I've never seen one standing.
How do you make a location sound mixer mad?
What's the difference between a Sound guy and a generator?
The generator stops whining after the shoot.
Why was the dolly invented?
To teach grips how to walk upright.
How can you tell the difference between a grip and an electrician?
The electricians take the dishes out of the sink before they pee in it.
What's another name for an apple box?
What do you call a grip without a girlfriend?
What do you call a Grip in a suit?
What did the key grip get on his IQ test?
How are Grips and Electricians the same?
Grips don't want to be electricians either.
What is the main difference between grips and electricians?
Electricians know who their father is.
How can you spot a teamster's kid on the playground?
His is the only one off to the side, watching the other kids play.
How can you tell when a teamster is dead?
The doughnut falls out of his mouth.
How do you tell if a teamster's truck is leveled?
They've got drool coming out of both sides of their mouth.
What does an AD use for birth control?
How do you get the attention of four aspiring actors?
How do you know if a filmmaker is at a party?
Don't worry, he'll tell you.
What's a film school graduate call a high school drop out?
What do you call an out of work director?
What do you call an out of work actor?