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Newsletter explores African issues
The implications of the Panama Papers for Africa, a flashback on the 1880s Berlin conference that divvied up Africa among European powers, the advantages of population growth and how this can be good for Africa, the need to reform the Nigerian economy: these are just some issues explored in the May issue of the Unleash Africa newsletter.
John Akhile, head of Unleash Africa, announces that "African countries are disproportionately represented in the roll-call of corrupt leaders around the world" and that "it is important that the perpetrators are prosecuted, as a deterrent to others."
The Panama Papers are a set of 11.5 million leaked documents detailing attorney-client information for more than 214,000 offshore companies associated with the Panamanian law firm and corporate service provider, Mossack Fonseca. It details how wealthy individuals, including public officials from more than 40 countries, hide assets from public scrutiny.
Eron Henry, media coordinator, said the decisions made by the European powers in the 1885 conference and subsequent actions, continue "to undermine many African countries" and that African nations "have yet to transcend the history of divisions and conflicts bequeathed by Europe."
Omono Juliana Eremionkhale, a freelance writer from Nigeria, wrote a piece titled, "Contrary to Popular Belief, Population Explosion in Africa Can Work to Our Advantage." She said although high population growth "has been referred to as having catastrophic ramifications for people all over the world…. population growth in countries like the United Kingdom in the 19th century, made the industrial revolution possible."
A population advantage can redound to the good of Africa, Eremionkhale explains. "If we do decide to fully industrialize our continent to ensure our economic prosperity, our numbers will definitely come in handy, as we have many people strong enough and willing to engage in various tasks to build, sustain and control our own resources and products when we trade with other continents."
Akhile insists on the need for Africa's largest economy, Nigeria, to be reformed, because, he said, the country "has done very little with very much." Akhile declared it "time for Nigeria to rise up and work her way out of the abyss of poor management, bad cultural habits, and boneheaded decisions."
The latest issue of the Unleashed Africa newsletter can be read at http://bit.ly/1Ty0w0p.
Unleashed is available for purchase at Amazon.com.
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Newsletter focuses on African development and historical tragedies
Old Press Releases
NGOs undermining African countries, April 11, 2016
Nigerian-born entrepreneur urges African countries to rethink trade policy, March 08, 2016
Major economists endorse book promoting export-led growth for Africa, February 22, 2016
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GAME REVIEW: Aliens: Fireteam Elite
Warning: the following review for Aliens: Fireteam Elite contains some spoilers regarding gameplay and story. There will be warnings within the article, which will allow you to skip sections if so desired.
I'll be honest. I'm a die-hard, lifelong Aliens fan; I've been crazy about this franchise since my childhood, watching the films on repeat as a kid growing up in the 80s and 90s. So yes–that does make me biased, and I'll own that up front. On the other hand, that gives me some serious Aliens cred when it comes to reviewing this game. I've played or owned nearly every Alien and Aliens video game ever made, recently completing my collection with Aliens: Infestation for the Nintendo DS. For more on my obsession with games from this franchise, read here.
Caution: this trailer does contain spoilers.
For years, Aliens fans have longed for a game that truly matched the experience of the film, arguably the most celebrated sequel of all time. James Cameron took the science fiction / horror masterpiece created by Ridley Scott and turned it into a full-scale action classic. Not everyone was a fan of the genre change of course; to this day, many still prefer the unstoppable terror produced by the first film, for which the Xenomorph seemed nearly unkillable rather than a bug needing extermination–and that's fine. Personally, I love what both films have to offer and will happily take more of each. (Perhaps we can all hold hands and grieve the abomination that is AVP, but that's for another article).
A similar divide exists within the gaming world. In 2014, Creative Assembly and Feral Interactive created the definitive Alien experience in the survival horror masterpiece Alien: Isolation. Finally, the paralyzing fear of facing the unstoppable Xenomorph had been captured in a game. The way Alien: Isolation forces players to outsmart and outmaneuver the creature, along with the impeccable dedication to the 1979 visual effects, captured the soul of the Alien film and immersed the player into the iconic story-verse.
Alien: Isolation (2014)
While fans of Alien finally had their game, Aliens fans were stuck arguing over Aliens: Colonial Marines and Alien vs. Predator. No game had yet captured that epic feeling of battling Xenomorphs within an inch of death's door, only to be saved by the courage and valor of warrior companions. No game, that is, until Cold Iron Studios released Aliens: Fireteam Elite.
Aliens: Fireteam Elite released August 24, at last giving Aliens fans the game of their dreams. From the dark, atmospheric missions to the faithful inclusion of the franchise's lore, the game absolutely delivers. Battling wave after wave of Xenomorphs while pressing deeper into aging labyrinths where unknown dangers await, players feel the same beat-your-chest adrenaline inspired by the iconic film while also carefully advancing as a fireteam like survival depends upon it–because it most certainly does.
Aliens: Fireteam Elite does for Aliens fans what Alien: Isolation did for fans of the original horror film. It is now clear that the franchise has two viable branches, tactical action shooters and survival horror. It is my sincere hope that developers and company executives will continue producing both kinds of games, much in the same way that franchises like Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda, and Metroid all offer 2-D and 3-D versions of their brand. Aliens: Fireteam Elite proves that there's room enough, and demand enough, for both within the legendary science-fiction franchise.
The following section contains plot and story spoilers. If you wish to avoid these, skip down to the "Gameplay" section.
Story and Lore
One of the factors that makes Aliens: Fireteam Elite so fantastic is its dedication to the lore of the franchise. Unlike Aliens: Colonial Marines (which at times directly contradicted the second film), this game makes it very clear that it is aware of its place in the cinematic universe and shows great respect and care as it forges its own story within that world. Each of the four major campaign missions addresses a unique part of the Alien films' mythology.
Working Joes present a sneaky threat if left operational.
The mainline story takes place 23 years after the original Alien trilogy, but makes numerous references to those films while also acknowledging later installments in the franchise as well. Players first deploy to the Katanga orbital mining facility, built by Seegson (Attention Alien: Isolation fans!). The company was one of Weyland-Yutani's chief competitors until it was bought out by the infamous corporation; players will notice a heavy Seegson presence in the game, most notably the iconic Working Joes. (For those interested, Titan Books published a prequel to the game called Alien: Infiltrator, written by Weston Ochse). In typical Aliens fashion, the facility has become unresponsive due to a Xenomorph outbreak; but this is where things begin to get interesting.
Players work to rescue a lead researcher, Dr. Hoenikker, who was forced to be a part of the Weyland-Yutani's experiments to develop new bio-weapons, breeding new Xenomorphs by using wildlife from LV-895 and humans as hosts. After being rescued, Hoenikker remains aboard the USS Endeavor, where he offers insight and information as part of the game's storytelling through dialogue strategy. He is a constant source of lore references, specifically name-dropping characters from Prometheus, as well as other recent films.
Aliens: Fireteam Elite is full of allusions to franchise lore.
In the missions that follow, players are deployed to the surface of LV-895 where they search for survivors at Weyland-Yutani's research facility. This is when the game really begins to shine. In addition to facing the Xenomorph threat, players are confronted with powerful Combat Synthetics guarding the secrets of what lies beneath the planet's surface. The combat experience shifts dramatically with these enemies, something I'll explore more in-depth later.
After dealing with the source of the Synthetic menace, players descend beneath the surface of the planet, where a much darker threat awaits. This section of the game is most heavily inspired by Prometheus and Alien: Covenant. The presence of the "Black Goo," the mutagen from these recent films, allows for fresh storytelling in a portion of the game that might otherwise become stale. By this point, players have had extensive experience battling Xenomorphs, and just when the experience might become too repetitive, monsters of a very different kind close in on the Colonial Marine fireteam.
After surviving the depths of LV-895, players make a final return to the Katanga, which has now transformed into an Xenomorph hive. Revisiting familiar landmarks that have become infested is an incredible experience. The fireteam repeatedly attempts to assist another squad, but always arrives moments too late and eventually must pursue the mission into the very heart of the Xenomorph hive. Fans of the film Aliens can likely guess what awaits the fireteam there.
No major cut-scenes are used in the game's storytelling, with developers instead preferring a truly immersive experience that at times feels just as much a space marine simulator as it does a shooter. Talking with other characters, exploring areas for intelligence reports, and even soaking in the environmental storytelling will allow players to enjoy what is a surprisingly intricate narrative. Some might feel disappointed by the lack of a cut-scene or major film clip at the resolution of the final mission; however, the game's storytelling method remains consistent throughout the game. When players finish the mission, they should report to their commanding officer for a debriefing as expected.
The final opportunities for dialogue with commanding officers and crewmates strongly suggests that future DLC and more missions are to come. In many ways, it feels like the game's conclusion is really the end of an opening act to a much larger drama. If what lies ahead is in line with the experience Aliens: Fireteam Elite has initially offered, you can count me in!
While some might not appreciate the passive storytelling of Aliens: Fireteam Elite, the gameplay is undeniably stellar. The game offers a variety of play methods, but for the campaign, there are two main options: solo and co-op. For those wishing to brave the hordes alone, the game provides two Combat Synthetics, Alpha and Beta, who round out the fireteam. They are adequate help for the early missions, but players will want to significantly level up (requires a lot of grinding) or team up with human players when attempting later missions.
For co-op play, there are also two options. Players can form a private party and play exclusively with friends or join the public lobby and be matched up with players from around the world. The game allows for a number of customizations for matchmaking, which some will want to investigate before playing a public mission. (In my first experience, I forgot to turn off challenge cards, which my fireteam squad mates immediately used, making my game experience more difficult than I was prepared for).
After players complete the campaign, a new mode of playing becomes available, "Horde Mode," in which players must survive increasingly difficult waves of enemies. As with the campaign, this may be done in solo or co-op play.
Playing with friends is the best way to enjoy Aliens: Fireteam Elite.
Playing with other human players is where this game becomes truly memorable. Collaborating with other people who have different play-styles and class specializations is incredibly fun. For those who own the game or plan on buying it, I'd go so far as to say that your experience is incomplete without trying co-op play. My only criticism is that Cold Iron Studios launched the game without fixing some major matchmaking bugs. For the first few days after release, public and private matchmaking was nearly impossible, particularly for those on Xbox. Thankfully, a patch has since been released and the game runs fairly well now.
Variety and Customization
With only 12 levels available in the game at launch, replayability is what gives this game life. The levels constantly change when replayed and players have so many opportunities to level up or try new skills that no two playthroughs should feel the same. Hidden in-game loot caches randomly spawn at a variety of hidden locations, as do the release points of enemies, making play unpredictable and fresh.
There exists a wide range of enemies within the game with 20 different enemy types, and specifically 11 different Xenomorphs. While games like Alien: Isolation excel due to high enemy AI and a single indestructible creature, Aliens: Fireteam Elite maintains excellent gameplay by the manner in which enemies work together to defeat your fireteam's tactics.
Smaller Xenomorphs called Runners wear players down, draining health and ammo and softening defenses, which creates vulnerabilities that the more dangerous Xenomorphs exploit. Drones, Warriors, and the dreaded Praetorian Xenomorphs will charge at weakened or distracted players and deal heavy damage; they will also target certain defenses like sentry turrets and destroy them before slipping away and waiting for another moment to strike. Spitters often hide behind barriers and spray acid at moments when players are overwhelmed by Runners or not carefully guarding sentry turrets. Bursters will make a suicide charge into a defensive perimeter and explode with acid, causing heavy damage to marines and defensive equipment.
It is in this sense that battles in Aliens: Fireteam Elite are as much a match-up of military tactics as they are a shooter experience. There are no safe rooms, no opportunities to pause and catch your breath. There are instances when the game allows you to prepare a defensive parameter before a major battle, but no moment is truly safe. As you prepare your defenses, Runners will periodically attack; you must execute your game plan and stay frosty. It's the hive mind against you and your fireteam; and just when you think you've finally got it figured out, the entire paradigm gets turned on its head when you fight Combat Synthetics, which fight more like traditional human enemies and also come in a wide range of classes. Good luck, marine.
Loadouts
There are 4 main classes players can choose from at the start of the game: Gunner, Technician, Demolisher, and Doc; upon beating the game, players unlock a fifth marine classification–Recon. Players can choose among 30+ weapons (many taken directly from the films) and 70+ modifications or attachments. Players have the ability to specialize buffs as they advance in rank, carefully arranging perks on a puzzle-like Perk Board.
Players can rearrange buffs on a Perk Board, a clever upgrade design that allows players control and creativity.
Personally, I became obsessed with the Technician class and primarily played with that loadout for most of the campaign. As I progressed in rank, I was able to equip my personal sentry turret with a flamethrower modification, which was so much fun. I loved using my charged coils to slow advancing Xenomorphs, controlling the flow of battle by funneling enemies into my flamethrower sentry turret. Partnering with someone who is advanced in either the Gunner or Demolisher class was especially successful.
If I had any criticisms of the game, it would be the lack of cut-scenes. It would have been nice to build that in somewhere; I understand the storytelling strategy developers chose to take, but I feel like there ought to have been something at the end of the campaign as a reward for players. Still, the end of campaign reward was more gameplay options, which is clearly the focus of the game. It's hard to argue against that–developers had a clear sense of the game's identity, and they didn't veer away from that.
I know that modern games don't launch as perfect, complete packages. Yet, I can't help but feel frustrated that a game built upon collaborative online play had so many matchmaking problems at launch. It feels like that should have been a focus in development. Ultimately, they did release a patch, so I'll yield my criticism.
The campaign is disappointingly short; however, the replayability more than makes up for that and it seems clear that a lot more DLC is planned. I will reserve my judgement on the mainline story until we end up with a definitive edition. For now, I'll just say that I enjoyed myself immensely playing Aliens: Fireteam Elite.
As someone who has played Aliens video games my entire life, I can honestly say this was the game I've always wanted. Not only is it atmospheric and steeped in lore, it's an absolute blast to play with friends. Playing with my gamer friends or working through the campaign with my son created memories I'll never forget. As someone who has Alien: Isolation in their list of top 5 video games of all time, I'm happy to report that Aliens: Fireteam Elite holds its own against the 2014 game. As a lifelong fan of the franchise, I truly hope we get more of each.
David Lasby is the Editor-in-Chief for Boss Rush Network. His favorite video games are The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, and the Aliens franchise. You can find him on Twitter to talk all things Nintendo, sci-fi / fantasy, and creative writing.
Sources: Cold Iron Studios, Xbox, Focus Home Interactive, Xenopedia
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really injoyed this game! i played none stop when it came out and i finished it 3 days after it came out they did so well on this game i graphics were amazing! battling working joe's and fighting words of Aliens was really fun!
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Talking to People About Falun Dafa and Tuidang
A Tuidang volunteer from Guangdong Province, China | Minghui
A poster in Huaihua City, Hunan Province, that explains how the communist party has been harming people for decades and why one should quit the regime.
I began Falun Dafa cultivation practice in 2012, my husband had already been a practitioner for many years.
I talk to people about the Tuidang movement, Falun Dafa and the persecution by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) almost every day.
Police Officer Quits the Chinese Communist Party
One morning, a young police officer sat next to me as I finished my breakfast in a restaurant. He cheerfully told the restaurant owner that his baby was now one month old. I congratulated him, and he thanked me.
We chatted a bit, and I asked if he had heard of Falun Dafa. He said their office fax machine receives information about Falun Dafa and the persecution almost every day, and the landlines and cell phones ring off the hook with such information as well.
He had been reading the information but had some questions. I cleared up all his questions for him and he smiled as he nodded his head that he now understood.
The I asked if he was a Communist Party member. He said he was, and I asked if he had considered quitting. He said he knew the CCP was rotten and had been wanting to quit. I offered to help him with that and he agreed.
A Visit to my Hometown to Help People Quit the CCP
I visit my hometown every winter and summer. While there, I help distribute Falun Dafa informational materials. It is a large and populated area, but with very few practitioners.
We go to rural areas that are far away and concentrate on places with crowds of people. We answer questions about Falun Dafa and the persecution, and then encourage the villagers to quit the Party and its affiliated organizations.
We visited several villages one morning, ran into a group of students later, and helped 43 people renounce the Party's organizations. We went to eight villages in the afternoon and assisted 36 people in quitting the Party.
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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Friday the country's mining industry pays too little in tax and not enoughpensation for any environmental damage.
IN THE more rugged, poor and far flung areas of the vast archipelagoes of Indonesia and the Philippines, mining is one of the few industries that shows much promise.
Glencore's copper assets include majority or full ownership stakes in Katanga Mining Limited in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Mopani mine in Zambia, the Cobar mine in Australia, and the Philippine Associated Smelting and Refining Corporation.
Lifting the ban on open pit mining would favour, among other big ticket projects, the Tampakan copper gold project straddling four provinces in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao.
The Philippines produces around 50 metric tons of silver per annum, entirely as a by product of gold and copper mining. Like gold, silver is widespread in the country, although the ratio of gold to silver in various deposits exhibits a wide range.
Overview of mining operations in the Philippines. The Philippines is rich in mineral deposits. According to estimates, the Philippines have the fifth largest reserve of gold and copper in the world.
Officials with the Philippine governments Mining and Geosciences Bureau, the national agency that authorizes mining projects, canceled a scheduled interview for this story and declinedment.
The Philippines holds the world's second largest gold reserves, and applications from foreign mining firms are piling up to tap that plus a list of other metals that basically just sit under the ground now.
Apex Mining Co., Inc. AMCI is a proudly Philippinepany, run by Filipinos, with origins in the Maco Gold Minepostela Valley, Province of Mindanao in the Southern Philippines.
The Philippines is one of the countries with vast amounts of mineral resources, including large reserves of metallic and non metallic minerals such as gold, nickel, iron, copper, limestone, and marble.
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Minerals the Mining Industry Posted in July 2009. The Philippines has substantial copper, chromite, and gold deposits, and the country also is rich in many other minerals, including coal, cobalt, gypsum, iron, nickel, silver, and sulfur.
Facility Pasar Copper Smelter is a plant deposit site in Leyte, The Philippines. It is a deposit, considered to be of world class significance. 1 Copper, sulfur, sulfuric acid, and gypsum anhydrite deposits are documented at Facility Pasar Copper Smelter.
Thepany Philex Mining Corporation and its subsidiaries are involved in mining business and energy business. Philex Mining Corporation was founded in 1955 and listed in the Philippine Stock Exchange in 1956.
Atlas Consolidated Mining And Development CorporationATLAS was incorporated in 1935. Atlas is listed on the Philippine Stock Exchange PSE and was, until May 1995, listed on the American Stock Exchange AMEX.
Sabena is a past producer deposit site in Philippines Territory, The Philippines. It is a deposit, located in the New Bataan Prov mining district and is considered to be of world class significance. 1 Copper and silver deposits are documented at Sabena.
Mining gold in the Philippines can be difficult. The countrys mining sector remains largely untapped, and much of that has to do with political turmoil and controversy.
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The Philippines is endowed with US$ 1.4 trillion in mineral reserves, including gold, copper, nickel, aluminum, and chromite. The mining potential is one of largest in the world being second in in gold and third in copper resources.
Browse copper mineral deposits in The Philippines by regionincluding Benguet, Cebu, Asia. The Philippines Copper Deposits In The Philippines Discover mining activity in your area and find new regions of opportunity. Read More. About. Getting Started.
In terms of copper production, Carmen Copper Corporation reported the largest output equivalent to 46 per cent of total copper production, followed by Padcal Copper Gold Project of Philex Mining which is an underground mine, Toledo Copper open pit mine and Didipio Copper Gold Project of OceanaGold Philippines also an open pit mine.
Aug 25, 2016· Philippine mines are among the worlds biggest suppliers of gold, copper, and nickel. The mining industry is an important source of foreign revenue in the fast growing nation of 102 million people, and it employs 235,000 workers.
Marcopper Mining was a Canadian corporation that officially started its copper mining operations in 1969 at the Mt. Tapian Ore Deposit on Marinduque Island in the Philippines. When the Mt. Tapian reserve was depleted in 1990, Marcopper moved its operations to the San Antonio copper mine, three kilometers north of the Mt. Tapian site.
Below is a list of key things to know about the mining industry in the Philippines: 1.The Philippines is the fifth most mineral rich country in the world for gold, nickel, copper, and chromite.
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Our first annual kickoff party!
TICKETS are 10$ in advance. You will be able to purchase them sometime starting this week through myself, Dfresh, and Lucyford (we will name a date), or at Top of the World starting this weekend.
All proceeds go back to the club, to make weekly bus trips and other events like rail jams cheaper throughout the year.
We have LOTS of prizes to give away, which range from new Liberty skis, to goggles, to outerwear, to lots of other various schwagggg.
DL Incognito, hometown show, whaaaat??
And Jonas Bonnetta, our very own beloved Lanemeyers on NS, playing his second show in Ottawa in a month?? Don't miss it.
We wouldn't be able to do this without our nice sponsors and partners at Nine Planets Hip Hop, Taktikal, Kapacity Entertainment, Technine, Finger on da Trigger Productions, Sunset Films, Plehouse Films, Level 1 Productions, Top of the World, CUSA, Oliver's Pub, Newschoolers.com, Salomon, Liberty Skis, and Planet Advance Printing. The flyers will be posted tomorrow, explaining everything.
Daly B, Joel P, and Darina N.
That should be wicked. Its sick that its in a bar too!! cuz getting fucked up and watching ski movies is a great combo!
This is gonna be amazing! I hope I win stuff!
ha, and somwhat unlike last year, we HIGHLY encourage you to get trashed. it helps us out for sure.
If doors are at 7, what time does the first vid go on at? 8? What's the headline vid? Shanghai?
ima be there at 6.
so apparently my parents are making me stay in toronto this weekend so im sorry to everyone that i wont be able to make it!
^were going to miss your crazy loud drunken rampage though.
thats alot of time to be drunk. im gonna be mad if i pass out befor dl.
wow salomon is sponsoring this party?
that's pretty cool that their are getting more involved in local events!


Quite often, anxiety and public speaking go together. Many people experience sweaty palms, a racing heart and shallow breathing whenever they have to speak in front of an audience. The scientific term for this fear is glossophobia.
However, public speaking doesn't have to be that way. With practice, you can turn your anxiety into pleasure and excitement, and overcome your fears. Here's a great app created by Florian Mueck and my husband, John Zimmer, that will help you practice your speaking skills with family, friends and colleagues. And, you will have fun in the process!
My friend and business partner, Florian Mueck and I are thrilled to announce the launch of the app for Rhetoric – The Public Speaking Game™. It has been an incredible journey.
A few years ago, we looked for board games specifically designed for public speaking but could not find any. Because public speaking is such an important skill, we thought, why not create something that helps people improve and makes the experience an enjoyable one? And so RHETORIC, the world's first public speaking board game, was born.
The first edition, released in 2011, was a big success, selling out completely to people around the world. The second, limited edition was released in 2015 and it has been just as popular. RHETORIC is now played on all continents and is used by business people, high school teachers, university professors, trainers, Agile learning coaches and people who want to have a unique experience with friends and family.


1. How to make use of the card Context menu?
The card Context menu provides quick access to many functionalities in the software.
To open the Context Menu, please right-click on a card.
Comment – this is a shortcut to the Comments tab of the card where users can review/edit/create a task-related comment or mention another user in Kanbanize.
Subtask – this is a shortcut to the Subtasks tab of the card, where users can create/edit/delete subtasks or checkmark finished ones.
Link/Copy – allows users to create a hierarchy and order between new and existing cards via parent/child/relative/successor/predecessor relation. With the "Simple Copy" option, you can easily create a card copy.
Permalink – use it to copy the unique card URL for reference. Just click the Permalink and then use the keyboard shortcut to paste it.
Watcher – watching cards allows users to receive notifications for any changes that have been made on a certain card, even if you are not subscribed to get notifications from the board where the card is located. From the card Context menu, you can only assign yourself as a card watcher. If you want to assign a different user, please use the feature from the Card fields section.
Log time – users can log time at a card or subtask level.
Assignee - use this shortcut to quickly assign cards without opening them.
Color - use this option to change cards' color.
Deadline - set up a deadline for the task from the calendar picker.
Priority - select/change card priority.
Size - input card size value.
Tag - input a tag value.
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Mary Ann Hogan: 1951-2019
Posted on June 18, 2019 by Colleen Fitzpatrick
Editor's note: Mary Ann "ma" Hogan, a career coach with the Chips Quinn Scholars Program who mentored hundreds of scholars from 1997 to 2012, died June 13, 2019. She was 67. This is her obituary, written by her before she died.
Read the appreciation.
Read Andrew Ba Tran's (Spring 2006) essay on what Mary Ann's mentorship meant to him.
Mary Ann Hogan and her retriever Joe
Mary Ann Hogan, longtime journalist and beloved writing teacher, crossed over Thursday, June 13 in the Mill Valley home she cherished, after a year-long tango with a rare form of lymphoma. Her husband, her two sons, and her dog were with her. Mary Ann saw death not as an ending, but rather as the beginning of the final, infinite chamber in the nautilus shell of a creative life.
Mary Ann did not follow the rules. She followed her instincts, enthusiastically pushing the boundaries of teaching, writing, cooking, singing, gardening, living – whatever she took on. She raised a family and made friends with the same artistic passion.
After graduating from the University of California at Santa Cruz, Mary Ann started writing freelance for the Washington Post and the San Jose Mercury News. She then became an award-winning staff writer for Bob and Nancy Maynard's Oakland Tribune.
"Mary Ann made me a better editor," recalled Sarah Pollock, who was Hogan's editor at the Tribune and a longtime journalism professor at Mills College. "She taught me to listen with imagination and heart."
"Mary Ann would arrive at my desk trailing a ten-foot-tail of dot-matrix printer paper filled with anecdotes and descriptions and questions and wonderful leaps of imagination," she said. "We learned together how to collaborate … and the stories she created were beautiful. Many went viral, as we would now call it, reprinted in newspapers all over the country."
Mary Ann left daily journalism to raise her two sons, William and James. She began to teach, both at San Francisco State University and in private writing groups. She continued to freelance, her stories appearing in most of the nation's major newspapers. For six years, she wrote personal essays that were nationally syndicated by the Los Angeles Times.
Her stories explored the human condition, with headlines such as: "Why We Harp and Carp" or "Twigged Out: the Nesting Instinct."
One day, Mary Ann got a message at an old email address from a nun asking "Are you the author who wrote this story about 'Why We Cry' ? If so, can you please send me a new copy? I have been Xeroxing this one for 10 years for my workshops for homeless women and can no longer read the type." Mary Ann sent the story – and then flew to Southern California to lead one of the nun's workshops.
In 1994, she followed her husband, digital news futurist Eric Newton, to Virginia. There, she took on a new challenge as the primary writer for the history exhibits at the original Newseum in Arlington, Va. The news museum's popular history gallery was conceived, written and edited using her "Whole Story" writing method.
In Virginia, she also began a 15-year tenure as a writing coach with the Chips Quinn Scholars program, training hundreds of young journalists of color, many of whom went on to stellar careers.
"Mary Ann was a gift and my guide. She made me shine," said Tonya Alanez, who covers crime and breaking news at the South Florida Sun Sentinel, where she was part of the team that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
From the time she was an intern, Alanez was coached by Hogan, first through the Chips Quinn and later when Mary Ann was the Sun Sentinel's writing coach.
"She taught me to connect the dots rather than line them up," Alanez said, "to strike a chord, an emotional chord … to write with heart."
When the family moved to Florida, Mary Ann took her coaching to the national stage, training thousands of professionals from hundreds of publications via the American Press Institute, Poynter Institute, Maynard Institute and many other organizations, including the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. At Poynter, her online class, "News Sense," was one of the most popular self-directed courses for a decade.
Hogan was born in San Francisco on Sept. 1, 1951 into a newspaper family. Her father, William Hogan, a Stars and Stripes correspondent during World War II, spent more than 40 years as book and drama critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. Her mother, Phyllis, joined the Chronicle during the war as the chief "copy boy" in the newsroom, later becoming a writer and teacher.
Like her parents, Mary Ann met her future spouse in a newsroom. In 1979, she was a feature writer at the Oakland Tribune when Eric, her husband-to-be, was a "copy boy." Married 32 years, they were each other's best editors, between them polishing Mary Ann's writing method and working together on everything from plays and books to interactive games and retail products.
In middle age, Mary Ann opened another unexpected door, earning a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Florida Atlantic University. For seven years, she taught freshmen English at FAU and Palm Beach State College. One of her greatest joys was watching her students suddenly come alive as writers, and she relished hearing how far those skills had taken them.
Mary Ann and her husband returned to California in the spring of 2016, back to the Mill Valley home where she grew up. She started a new private writing group for women, wrote a local column for the Marin Independent Journal and built a California garden in her hillside backyard.
She attributed much of her success to the generous hand of mentors along the way. Early on, she promised to spend her life mentoring others – and she did.
Mary Ann leaves to this life her husband, Eric Newton of Mill Valley; her sons, William Newton of San Francisco and James Newton of Mill Valley; her sister, Michele Liapes of San Francisco; her brother, Dennis Hogan of Laytonville, and his wife, Beth; her niece, Annika Hogan and her husband, Dusty Hughston, of Miranda, Ca.; great nephews Shade, Asher and Haze, and her flatcoat retriever, Joe.
And she leaves with this thought, from her favorite Stanley Kunitz poem, "The Layers" — "I am not done with my changes."
The family prefers donations to The Hogan-Newton Fund for up-and-coming journalists at the Miami Foundation; the Mill Valley Public Library; the Marin Humane Society and the Southern Poverty Law Center. A private memorial is forthcoming.
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Victor Kulkosky on June 21, 2019 at 2:44 pm said:
When I was a Chips Quinn scholar in 1997, working at the News-Journal in Delaware, Mary Ann said of my lead to one story that it was "sheer genius." I haven't gotten a complement like that again. The story was about a family owned sanitation business selling out to a larger company. The founder of the company happened to be around when I interviewed his son. Here's that lead (as far as I can remember it): "When E. Thomas Harvey Jr. first started hauling neighbors' trash to the town dump, all he needed was a wagon." "People would ask, 'How's business?' and I'd say, "Pickin' up.'" We also worked together on a comment I wrote about the 9-11 attacks. We weren't in touch much after that, but I'll always remember her warmth and gentle way of guiding us all to improve our writing.


Plans to support more than 1,000 innovative businesses as part of a £70million research-led regional collaboration have been showcased to a Government minister.
Seven hundred jobs are being created as a result of the New Keele Deal – which is seeing Keele University work with Staffordshire County Council, Stoke-on-Trent City Council, Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council, the Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Local Enterprise Partnership and University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust to stimulate growth of the knowledge-based economy in the Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire region.
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"The Keele Deal is delivering a unique programme of business support, development and growth within the local area. The collaboration is supporting businesses to access the University's world-class research and facilities, providing training in innovation leadership and facilitating supply chain development across a range of sectors.
Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Local Enterprise Partnership chairman David Frost CBE said: "Stimulating investment and innovation is crucial for the future prosperity of our economy. Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire has a strong track record of excellence in innovation and now the New Keele Deal is playing a major role in building on our region's recognised strengths in key areas of new technologies and advanced manufacturing.
Staffordshire County Council leader Philip Atkins said: "This Deal is demonstration how we are working closely together in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent to fully utilise the knowledge and expertise we have to improve productivity, innovation and employment opportunities for our residents.
"This approach means we can play an integral part in developing the UK's emerging Industrial Strategy. Improved innovation in business leads to greater productivity which is essential for economy and for a stable future for business.
Newcastle Borough Council leader Simon Tagg said: "The borough council promotes growth, especially in jobs and skills, and is therefore proud to continue supporting this investment as part of the Keele Deal innovation.
Photo caption: (left to right) Staffordshire County Council deputy leader Alan White, LEP partnerships manager Peter Davenport, LEP chairman David Frost, Andrew Griffiths MP, LEP board member Wendy Dean and Professor Trevor McMillan, Vice Chancellor of Keele University.


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Junior Professor (f/m/d) in "Computational Methods in Modeling and Analysis of Learning Processes" (W1 - with Tenure Track W2)
Published 11 October 2019 (101 days ago)
Deadline for applications 28 October 2019 (84 days ago)
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The University of Duisburg-Essen is in search of the brightest minds
We are looking for outstanding young researchers, to whom we offer the best opportunities for their academic and personal development. We provide individual early career support through the Graduate Center (GC Plus), the Tenure Track Programme (TT Plus) and the Human Resources Development Programme (PE Plus). Wherever bright minds connect and collaborate, everyone involved will benefit. That is why we join forces and share qualification and guidance programmes for career development with the Ruhr-University Bochum and the TU Dortmund University as part of the Research Academy Ruhr (RAR).
Within the framework of the "Bund-Länder-Programm zur Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Na-chwuchses" - the Tenure Track Programme of the German Federal Government and the Federal States - 21 tenure-track junior professorships will be advertised. Currently, we are in search of eligible candidates for the following tenure-track junior professorship at the Faculty of Engineering:
Junior Professor in
"Computational Methods in Modeling and Analysis of Learning Processes"
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Candidates for this position should be able and well prepared to represent the area of "Education in a Digital World" in academic teaching and research from the perspective of Computer Science. We are seeking persons with an excellent, internationally recognized record in the development and application of computational methods for the modeling and analysis of human learning processes. The following subfields are of special interest: Learning Process Modeling / Learning Design, Educa-tional Data Mining, Sensor Technology and Analytics in the context of monitoring and steering of learning processes (both, e.g., using eye-tracking), Semantic Technologies for Knowledge Modeling and Knowledge Diagnosis.
This junior professorship is part of the Engineering Faculty and is linked to the recently formed re-search platform "Education in the Digital World" (ForBild)in which researchers from Computer Sci-ence, Psychology, Educational Sciences and the Humanities cooperate closely on an interdisciplinary basis. In this dynamic, cross-faculty working context, the professorship develops its research ap-proaches creatively and contributes actively to the strengthening of the research platform from the Computer Science perspective. The professorship should also cooperate with the DFG-funded Re-search Training Group on "User Centred Social Media" with a strong interdisciplinary orientation between Computer Science and Psychology. Accordingly, we expect a specific interest in interdisci-plinary research as well as the willingness and competence to combine approaches from Computer Science with psychological/empirical research methods.
The professorship should substantially contribute to complementing and deepening the existing teaching portfolio in the area of developing and analysing interactive and cooperative learning envi-ronments. Course offerings should particularly reflect the needs of the established study programs KOMEDIA and Applied Computer Science and should include practice projects.
Publications in the field of expertise in peer-reviewed journals are expected, especially in leading international journals.
Experience in the procurement of competitive third-party funding, involvement in international research and international experience are desirable. Furthermore, leadership experience in research is beneficial.
The University of Duisburg-Essen places great emphasis on excellence in teaching. Candidates must present their teaching concepts, showing their relevance to the research profile of the University of Duisburg-Essen.
Applicants must show aptitude for participation in academic self-administration.
The hiring requirements comply with § 36 of the Higher Education Act of North Rhine-Westphalia (HG).
Teaching requirements currently are four hours of teaching during the first, and five hours of teach-ing during the second employment stage of the Junior Professorship. Employment is contingent on the presentation of the corresponding requirements for temporary civil service. The duration of employment complies with § 39 Sect. 5 HG.
The University of Duisburg-Essen promotes the diversity of its members (https://www.uni-due.de/diversity). It strives to increase the percentage of women in its academic staff and therefore emphatically invites qualified women to apply. In the case of equal qualifications, female candidates will be considered with preference (Equal Opportunities Act). As per § 2 Sect. 3 SGB IX, applications by candidates with a disability or equivalent status are especially welcome.
Applications with the usual documents (CV, list of publications, documentation of academic and professional development, copies of relevant documents and certificates, an exposé of the applicant's research profile with reference to its relevance for the University of Duisburg-Essen, a list of successful external grant applications, a list of courses taught and a teaching philosophy, an enumeration of experience in academic self-administration) should be sent until 28-10-2019 to the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering:
Dekan der Fakultät für Ingenieurwissenschaften der Universität Duisburg-Essen
Herrn Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dieter Schramm
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(dekanat@iw.uni-due.de)
Further Information on the University of Duisburg-Essen and the Faculty of Engineering can be found under:
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Current search terms: Computer Sciences, Professor, Science, Research and Higher Education, IT, Telecommunication, North Rhine-Westphalia, University, Full Time
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Ngā Kete Wānanga was opened in 1999 for Manukau Institute of Technology's students and staff. It incorporates a wharenui (Te Kete Uruuru Matua), a wharekai (Tahua Roa), classrooms and offices. Te Kete Uruuru Matua is the centre of the marae complex and features 75 individual carvings by Ngati Porou master carver Dr Paakariki Harrison.
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Squat Of The U
Spring is filled with practice superstars, ridiculous 40 times, and the overblown weight room numbers.
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It's spring football season which means it's time for practice superstars, ridiculously impossible 40 yard dash times, weight gain, body fat percentage loss, and big time weight room numbers. But is there a point when fake 40's (remember all of those Virginia Tech 4.2 40's and at the NFL Combine, not so much?) and chasing weight room numbers becomes a detriment to the athlete? Yes, I believe through my research and certification training- there is.
There's a baseline strength needed and it's far below 555 for a RB ♂ just getting slower at this point
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Don Chaney Jr. is a 210 pound 'second year' (are we even using classes post COVID?) running back at the University of Miami. After reading research from Dr. Matt Rhea (Alabama), Cal Dietz (Minnesota), Kurt Hester (Louisiana Tech), Mike Boyle (Body By Boyle), Zach Dechant (TCU) and Anatoliy P. Bondarchuk (Soviet Olympics) I believe there is a point of baseline strength, by position, for specific sports (ie. American Football) that constitutes being 'strong enough.'
From Kurt Hester
Above- You can see the baseline strength required in three lifts by position from Kurt Hester (posted online at some point). In Hester's book, Rants of a Strength and Conditioning Madman, he says, "The pursuit of max strength is detrimental to an athletes' speed, explosiveness, and his health at some point (p42)." Hester also added, "I will train my athletes to become better skilled players by position and y'all can train your football players to become really adept at throwing around heavy loads (p42)." That's the same La Tech team with one four-star who beat Manny Diaz's Miami Hurricanes who had 30+ four-stars in a bowl game two seasons ago.
Mike Boyle, the author of Functional Training for Sports, discusses the back squat versus the unilateral split squat. Coach Boyle discusses the philosophy of bilateral deficit, unilateral squats vs. bilateral squats, and orthopedic issues from heavy back squats on the podcast Just Fly Sports on episode 65. Regarding 'tall guys' having it easier at lifting heavy, Boyle says, "The shorter you are the easier it is, the taller you are the harder it is" to squat.
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"Not only is the value of deep squats questionable, but so is the claim that double leg squats are particularly suitable for improving strength in the legs. Strength in the back muscles may be the limiting factor, rather than strength in the legs, and so double leg squats may in fact be a maximal strength exercise for the back muscles"
Above- In the world of Bondarchuk, I would define a max effort bilateral squat, regarding football, being a GPE or General Preparatory Exercise. The non-olympic exercises should be done unilaterally once GPE has been met. If the event is played on one-leg, American Football players need to do more work unilaterally, and again the coefficient of transfer becomes minimal over 1.7x body weight on a back squat.
Do you need to be strong? Hell yeah! And a 357 pound bilateral back squat is a lot of weight. The residual for absolute strength is around 35 days. So once you've hit that 357 pounds, you don't have to come back to absolute strength for over a month.
According to Cal Dietz on many podcasts, his book Triphasic Training, and his coaching courses on CoachTube- the closer to the sports season that an athlete gets the more an athlete needs to be producing speed on the field and in the weight room. The closer to the season, the stress actually needs to drop below 55% of your max effort.
S&C coaches now need to analyze how to get to peak. According to Dietz you want to peak heading into camp, the first game of the season, conference play, and the bowl game or playoff. Dr. Rhea and Coach Ballou came to Alabama from Indiana, before that they were at IMG.
Nick Saban on the 'Bama duo from a piece on TDA: "He said the tandem of Ballou and Rhea are 'light years' in advance of what a lot of people are doing at their programs." Ballou and Rhea use an individualized approach that focuses on the weaknesses and strengths of the individual athletes. It's a power and speed focused program, versus a strength and conditioning focused program.
Example: We don't usually do the 110 test. Coach has done it for a long time and been quite successful. He asked us what we thought and we laid out a process that would help players be at their best for the season and peak for the playoffs instead of for the test. No 110 test!
— Matt Rhea, PhD (@MattRheaPhD) February 23, 2021
Tony Holler's #FeedTheCats method asks the question: what else do we do at 10 meters per second besides sprint? Nothing. While the power clean and power snatch have the closest coefficient to speed, it's still difficult to get close to max effort sprinting.
Strength should be a focus (not THE focus) in training for speed until that point. After which, strength may continue to increase as a by product of training for power and neuromuscular coordination but does not need to be focused on in order to improve speed.
— Matt Rhea, PhD (@MattRheaPhD) May 24, 2020
Above- Dr. Rhea is describing getting to that 1.7x line, and then seeing strength increase due to the focus on speed, rather than increasing strength because that is not going to increase speed.
College strength coaches only get so many minutes with athletes both because of actual time and because of the amount of stress one can put on the central nervous system (CNS) in order to see growth as an athlete. If you are to train absolute strength and power at the same time, the body will get confused.
Increasing strength will only increase speed to a point. Bondarchuk, Dietz, Hester, Boyle, Dechant, et al are either wrong in their statements that movement means more than maxes, and that there is a baseline strength necessary for sport and/or position, or they're right and "how it's always been done" is wrong.
As Cal Dietz and Matt Van Dyke said in their article "Balance of Power," "It's no secret that making athletes stronger is not the key factor in enhancing their performance. It's about making them more powerful." From strength comes power, but strength is just a part of the puzzle. Once that 1.7x is hit it's time to move towards power, speed, and peak.


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Barratt reports record profits for fourth year in row
Pre-tax profits up 9% to £835.5m bolstered by Help to Buy and average selling price rising from £275,200 to £288,900
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Coalville's Barratt Developments has seen profits jump more than 9 per cent in the last year as demand for new homes grows.
Britain's biggest housebuilder put up 17,579 homes in the 12 months to the end of June – around 1 per cent up on the same time last year and almost 30 per cent up on five years ago.
It was the highest number of completions for the builder since the Credit Crunch a decade ago.
Management said Government support to tackle the housing shortage would continue to boost the business.
John Allan, who chairs the business, said: "While political uncertainty continues around the country's departure from the EU and ministerial changes in the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, the board remain confident in the strong fundamentals of the housing sector and our business."
Pre-tax profits for the year were £835.5 million, compared to £765.1 million a year ago, partly bolstered by Help to Buy and the average selling price of new Barratt homes rising from £275,200 to £288,900.
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Turnover was £4.875 billion – almost 5 per cent up on 2017.
Chief executive David Thomas said: "The group has had another outstanding year delivering a strong operational and financial performance, and our highest volumes in a decade.
"As the UK's largest housebuilder we are helping to address the country's housing shortage – creating jobs and supporting economic growth whilst continuing to lead the industry in quality and customer service.
"The group starts the new financial year in a good position with a strong balance sheet, healthy forward sales and robust consumer demand supported by a positive mortgage environment."
David Thomas, the chief executive of Barratt Developments
Chairman John Allan added: "2018 marks Barratt's 60th anniversary and we are proud to have built more than 450,000 homes across the country since we began in 1958.
"As the largest housebuilder in the UK, we delivered 17,579 homes in the year, the second highest annual figure in our 60 year history.
"The group performed well again this year against key financial and operational metrics.
Leicester Mercury 2018 Top Companies breakfast event at Mercure Grand Hotel hailed a great success
"We also continue to lead the industry in quality and service and reported record profits for the fourth year running.
"At the heart of our business is a commitment to quality and service.
Work starts on £7m primary school on huge Lubbesthorpe estate near Leicester
"Home buyers have the right to expect the highest quality and service.
"We strive to deliver this right across our business. This commitment to quality and service is recognised widely across the industry."
Sold Out: The Millstones in Queniborough was built by David Wilson, part of Barratt Developments
Russ Mould, investment director at stockbroker AJ Bell said it was still hard to say whether investors should buy or sell shares in big housebuilders.
He said that while companies such as Barratt were chalking up solid earnings, its order book was being "propped up" by affordable housing and joint venture developments, rather than the core private development sales which account for the bulk of its profit.
He said: "Speculation over the future of the Help to Buy scheme, which expires in 2021, is also clouding the outlook for the sector.
"This is unsurprising given how helpful the initiative has been in recent years.
"Investors may get some clarity on this issue when the budget is released in November."
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Q: Are there some other ways to deduce resistance from current, than Ohm's Law (e.g. because why'd we assume a linear relationship?)? Are there some other ways to deduce resistance from current, than Ohm's Law (e.g. because why'd we assume a linear relationship?)?
Also, are Kirchoff's laws usually often in conjunction with Ohm's Law, because aren't
$$\sum I=0, \sum V=0$$
slightly useless for practical purposes on their own (without adding Ohm's Law to the above)?

A: Kirchhoff's laws (two h's in Kirchhoff) are relationships that hold, in the quasi-static limit, between voltages and currents in a circuit, regardless of the nature of the elements in the circuit. Whether you have a circuit composed of resistors, capacitors and transistors, and one composed of potatoes, carrots and bananas, Kirchhoff's laws hold.
Ohm's law is a so-called constitutive equation, that is, a relation that specifies the behaviour of a certain circuit element; in this case, the two-terminal linear resistor. From the point of view of circuit theory, Ohm's law actually defines the linear resistor: it is that element for which the voltage across its terminals is directly proportional to the current crossing the element, and the coefficient of proportionality is called resistance.
Therefore, you "deduce" or, rather, you directly calculate, determine or measure the resistance by employing its very definition, as you would do for any other quantity.

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Rochester High School. Graduating Exercises of the Class of '86, Hayes' Opera House, Wednesday, June 23, 1886. Rochester, N. H.
Names in this online transcription include Austin, Blazo, Chase, Collins, Cullen, Hughes, Jackson, McDaniel, Meader, Meserve, Peavey, Plumer, Shorey, Walker, Wilson.
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This edition of Pulse Extra highlights the highest-paid people working for advocacy groups in 2017. To be included, individuals must have been employed at a tax-exempt organization that filed a Form 990 for 2017. The lists include officers, trustees, directors and employees reported by each institution. To search within a table, use the box in the upper right corner.
Home Care Association of New York State - Officers, directors and trustees
Cash compensation
From org.
From related orgs.
Other compensation
Joanne Cunningham1 president $245,793 $245,793 $0 $31,049
Alfredo Cardillo2 executive vice president, policy and program services $173,527 $173,527 $0 $22,045
LeadingAge New York - Officers, directors and trustees
James W. Clyne Jr. president and chief executive $340,071 $166,635 $173,436 $42,620
Daniel J. Heim executive vice president, policy $194,420 $174,978 $19,442 $34,310
Denise Mitchell Alper executive vice president $173,307 $76,255 $97,052 $32,134
Karen Lipson executive vice president, innovation strategies $161,399 $140,416 $20,983 $35,567
Amy J. Schnauber vice president, advocacy and public policy $115,093 $115,093 $0 $35,084
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1- Cunningham left in August 2018. 2- Cardillo became president in October 2018.


The Palo Alto will consider creating a permanent cap on office development, but exempt small office projects with floor areas of less than 2,000 square feet. Weekly file photo.
Nearly three years after Palo Alto first adopted an annual cap on office development in three prominent commercial areas, the city is preparing to modify the restriction and to make it permanent.
The City Council is scheduled to adopt on Monday an ordinance that would cement the annual office cap as a tool for limiting commercial growth in three prominent areas: downtown, California Avenue and El Camino Real. The council first adopted the cap in the fall of 2015 and has passed several interim ordinances since then, extending the limit.
For those who believe commercial growth needs to be curtailed, the cap has been a great success. In each of the past three years, new office growth in the three districts had fallen below the 50,000-square-foot limit established by the cap. According to the new report from the Department of Planning and Community Environment, office growth in the three regulated areas totaled 40,863 square feet in the year leading up to March 2016. Over the following year, the city didn't receive any applications for qualifying projects. And as of March, the city had three projects on file, totaling 16,790 square feet.
Others believe that the lack of commercial growth is a sign that the cap is no longer necessary. That's the argument that Susan Monk, vice chair of the Planning and Transportation Commission, made at the commission's review of the ordinance on Feb. 14. Monk argued that there "hasn't been any building boom that's justifying an annual permanent cap."
"Also, it's the wrong tool to solve our traffic and parking problems," Monk said, noting that the cap was adopted to address these issues, rather than the "actual housing of businesses in the office space."
Monk and two of her colleagues, Michael Alcheck and William Riggs, supported adding a sunset clause to the new ordinance so that the commission would revisit it again in a year. That proposal fell by a 3-4 vote.
Riggs made a case for not renewing the cap at all and argued that the cities "do a terrible job predicting the market." He called the cap a "bad idea."
But the majority of the commission recommended adopting the cap on a permanent basis, a recommendation that is largely in keeping with the council's direction. In September, when the council last discussed the cap, members agreed to maintain it, with some revisions. The most significant option, which was proposed by Councilman Greg Scharff, would allow developers to "roll over" unused floor area from one year to another.
The new ordinance would also exempt small office projects with floor areas of less than 2,000 square feet, as well as medical- and nonprofit offices with floor areas of less than 5,000 square feet.
The new ordinance would also scrap the "beauty contest," a competition that the council had planned to use to judge which projects to approve in years where total development exceeds 50,000 square feet. The competitive process, which had never been used, would be dropped. Instead, the city would evaluate projects on a first-come, first-served basis.


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Christopher Andrew Egan (* 29. Juni 1984 in Sydney, New South Wales) ist ein australischer Schauspieler.

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Egan besuchte bereits als Jugendlicher eine Schauspielschule, es war dieselbe, die auch sein späterer Serienkollege Zac Drayson besuchte. Er versuchte sich zunächst als Musiker; er nahm sogar ein Demoband mit dem von Frank Sinatra gesungenen Fly Me To The Moon auf. Allerdings entschloss er sich bald darauf, nur mehr als Schauspieler tätig zu sein.

Egan trat im Glen Street's Theater in Les Miserables auf und später im Musical West Side Story. Sein Filmdebüt gab er 2000 in der Rolle des Nick Smith in der australischen langlebigen Seifenoper Home and Away. Die Rolle verkörperte er bis 2003. Hier traf er auch auf seinen Studienkollegen Zac Drayson. Egans internationaler Durchbruch erfolgte 2005, als er die Rolle des Agrippa in der Miniserie Empire übernahm. Im Dezember 2006 war Egan als Roran in der Fantasyverfilmung Eragon – Das Vermächtnis der Drachenreiter zu sehen. Ein Jahr darauf übernahm er eine Rolle in Resident Evil: Extinction. 2009 spielte er in der Fernsehserie Kings die Hauptrolle des David Shepherd. 2010 wurde er im Film Briefe an Julia als Charlie Wyman neben Amanda Seyfried und Vanessa Redgrave bekannt.

2003 ist er nach Los Angeles gezogen.

Filmografie (Auswahl)
 2000: Home and Away (Fernsehserie)
 2005: Empire (Miniserie)
 2006: Eragon – Das Vermächtnis der Drachenreiter  (Eragon)
 2007: Virgin Territory
 2007: Resident Evil: Extinction
 2009: Crush
 2009: Kings (Fernsehserie, 13 Episoden)
 2010: Briefe an Julia (Letters to Juliet)
 2014–2015: Dominion (Fernsehserie)

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US congressional investigators have questioned whether Russian mafia money may have been used by President Donald Trump's family business to finance Doonbeg golf resort in Co Clare.
A newly released transcript of sworn testimony given by Glenn Simpson, the former Wall Street Journal reporter whose research on Mr Trump led to a controversial dossier about his links with Russia, show that he investigated whether his Irish and Scottish golf courses were funded with Russian mafia money.
Mr Simpson's findings are based on his suspicions based around Mr Trump's financial statements filed in Ireland and the UK and the property developer's alleged connections with Russian mafia figures.
The transcript was released by the House of Representatives intelligence committee which is investigating alleged ties between Trump campaign aides and Russian agents during the 2016 election based on claims by US intelligence agencies that Russia helped sway the election for Mr Trump.
Mr Simpson testified that his firm Fusion GPS, which had been hired by Mr Trump's opponents to find damaging material on him during the 2016 campaign, investigated a claim by his son Eric Trump that the Trump Organisation had access to tens of millions of dollars in Russian funding for their golf courses.
Referring to Trump's alleged business dealings with Russians and organised crime figures, Mr Simpson said that the president's golf courses in Ireland and Scotland were "concerning to us".
His firm examined financial statements filed for Doonbeg in the Companies Registration Office in Dublin and the New York property developer's golf courses in Scotland, he said.
Mr Simpson was asked by Congressman Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California, whether he saw Russian money involved in Mr Trump's Irish and British golf courses.
Mr Simpson said that based on the suspicions around whether Mr Trump is in fact a billionaire, as the Republican president has claimed to be, there was "good reason" to believe he did not have the money for his Irish and Scottish golf courses and that he would need "outside financial support".
"Because of what I do, it's sort of in this middle area where we mostly are working off public records. A lot of what I do is analyse whether things make sense and whether they can be explained. And that didn't make sense to me, doesn't make sense to me to this day," the former reporter said.
His testimony generated interest from House committee member, Tom Rooney, a Republican congressman from Florida.
The Republican, however, questioned whether the findings of Mr Simpson's months-long investigation into Mr Trump's business dealings were true.
"Sometimes you do find proof of criminal activity in an investigation, but more often than not you find things that are suggestive or raise questions," replied Mr Simpson.
Mr Trump's Irish golf course has yet to turn a profit.
The latest accounts for the Irish company behind Doonbeg, signed off by Eric Trump and a fellow director in November 2017, show that €8.6 million was spent on improving the golf course and hotel in 2015 and 2016 and that the resort made a loss of €2.2 million on a turnover of €6.3 million in 2016.
Mr Trump bought the resort of almost €9 million in 2014, the year before he announced his candidacy for the US presidency, and promised to invest €45 million in the business.
This was the second transcript of congressional testimony by Mr Simpson to be released after he gave evidence to the US Senate's judiciary committee.