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Hollywood Radicals
Nov 19, 2015 | Pop Culture |
In an extraordinary development in the 'War on Terror', a number of top Hollywood and showbiz celebrities have reportedly 'declared war' on terror group ISIS, condemning the organisation for its recent deadly attacks on civilian targets in Paris. In a now removed You Tube video, a masked figure, rumoured to be one of tinsel town's biggest stars, berated the Islamic fundamentalists for killing over a hundred ordinary French citizens without warning. "It is utterly outrageous that they should be targeting normal, insignificant, people who are just going about their mundane lives," the figure reportedly ranted. "These people are nobodies – killing them will achieve nothing! And why Paris, the capital of the most hated country in the world? The rest of the globe will just think that they deserve everything they get, the arrogant bastards, always looking down their noses at the English-speaking world! Quite frankly, it is an insult to the most talented artists in the world that ISIS have failed to target Los Angeles – a city full of top celebrities! Believe me, if they want publicity, all they have to do is off a single movie star and the world will keep talking about it for decades!"
Ralf Halberd, who claims to have seen the video before it was pulled from the video sharing site, told the Cricklewood Reporter, his local newspaper, that the mystery figure claimed to be representing a group of top US celebrities disgruntled at the fact that terrorists had consistently ignored them as potential targets, despite their financial worth, global fan bases and undoubted political influence. "He ranted on for ages about how important to the global economy mega stars like him and his friends were and how half the world looked to them as moral and ethical role models, so it was just offensive that the terrorists were ignoring them," the twenty six year old shop assistant claimed. "He went on the say that they were declaring war on ISIS in retaliation, claiming that his group had plenty of combat experience – I assume that he meant all those action films they'd made." Halberd told the newspaper that he thought he had recognised the masked man's voice, but couldn't entirely sure as to his identity: "At first I thought it might be Charlie Sheen, but when I thought about it later, it could have been Robert Downey Jr. Either way, it would mean that the video couldn't be taken seriously – it would mean that it was either a piece of desperate attention seeking or an exercise in ego preening."
Although experts in both the UK and US have cast doubt on the legitimacy of the video, with some even questioning its existence, pointing out that Halberd is, so far, the only person who claims to have actually seen it, former showbiz agent Jake Pike has sensationally claimed that it isn't the first time that Hollywood stars have reacted badly to an international terrorist attack. "Back in 2001 a petition signed by over five hundred film stars, directors, writers and assorted hangers on was allegedly sent to Osama bin Laden in the wake of 9/11, condemning his terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, as these had caused severe trauma to their egos by implying that Hollywood was utterly insignificant," he told the Cricklewood Reporter. "Just like this latest video, the document called upon Al Qaeda to consider Los Angeles as a future target, due to its greater concentration of important public figures essential to the US' cultural existence." According to Pike – who represented such talents as 'Long' Rod Thrust, star of such hits as Ramrod Boys Meet the Corn Hole Brothers, in a career spanning more than forty years – the petition was hushed up by worried movie moguls and the Screen Actors Guild, fearing that it could seriously damage the reputations of many top actors.
"The Guild moved quickly to scotch reports that many of its members had suffered breakdowns and had been forced back into therapy, their sense self-worth destroyed by the terrorists' decision to ignore them," explained the former agent. "The Guild also denied that several of its members had campaigned against Guantanamo Bay, demanding that they be incarcerated there for their anti-war stances." Pike claimed that the agents of George Clooney, Barbara Streisand and Sean Penn, amongst others, poured scorn on claims which had surfaced in some supermarket tabloids that their clients had written to the government, complaining that the authorities' failure to arrest them was an insult to their radical politics and part of a conspiracy to marginalise left of centre political activity in the US. "One highly placed source in the film industry told me that Matt Damon claimed that he deserved to be locked up in Camp X-Ray as making films like Syriana was every bit as subversive as blowing up buildings and hijacking airliners," Pike confided to readers of the local newspaper. " Obviously, Damon's agent denied it completely, adding that at no time had his client complained that the government was undermining his credibility by denying him the chance to become a martyr for his 'art'."
Pike has some sympathy for the stance taken by the stars in relation to terrorist atrocities such as those in Paris or the 9/11 attacks. "You can hardly blame them, can you?" he mused. "They're the centre of the entertainment universe, yet these things never happen in their backyard – first of all its New York, then there was 7/7 in London and now this business in Paris – but never LA! When are they going to get their opportunity to show the world their compassion and fortitude in the face of disaster? Can you blame them for now turning on and vowing to destroy the terrorists who have so undermined their sense of self worth?" Ralf Halberd, however, remains unimpressed with the threat of celebrity retaliation against ISIS. "That's really going to defeat the Jihadists, isn't it? A bunch of pretentious fantasists threatening them," he mused in the pages of the Cricklewood Reporter. "It's like that video Anonymous put out, declaring war on them – I bet that had them quaking in their boots, the prospect of a bunch of spotty nerds in their bedrooms hacking their websites and writing rude words on their message boards! Now its a bunch of poncey actors – they probably won't even fight ISIS themselves anyway, they'll just send their stunt doubles instead."
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For a meaningful comparison, let's put the figures in Year 2000 dollars. In his first year, Obama spent $2.8 trillion, thus completely eclipsing the record set for first year spending by George W. Bush. Bush spent $1.8 trillion, which only modestly broke Bill Clinton's record of $1.6 trillion.
You have to go back to Gerald Ford to find a president who spent less than a trillion bucks during his first year in office. He spent $982 billion in 1975 (again, in Year 2000 dollars). And the last president actually to spend less than his predecessor during the first year was Dwight Eisenhower, who spent a miserly $556 billion.
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David Brennan, chief executive officer of pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, is taking the company on a new course towards biologic drugs.
David Brennan finds his job as CEO demanding but rewarding
For the chief executive officer (CEO) of a major pharmaceutical company, which generated sales of almost $24 billion (?12.6 billion) last year, AstraZeneca's David Brennan has a surprisingly modest office. I was expecting something occupying the whole floor of AstraZeneca's corporate head office in London, similar in size to the cavernous office possessed by Montgomery Burns in The Simpsons. But, instead, I'm ushered into a standard-sized corner office with just enough space for a desk and a small, round meeting table.
Maybe Brennan doesn't go in for grandiose working environments or ostentatious displays of standing. Or maybe it's just that he doesn't want to get too comfortable in his new role as CEO, which he officially took over at the beginning of 2006, following the retirement of Sir Tom McKillop.
Being the head of a major pharmaceutical company is an increasingly risky and precarious position, with a number of bosses, including Pfizer's Henry McKinnell and Bristol-Myers Squibb's Peter Dolan, having lost their jobs in the past few months. The potential precariousness of his new role is not lost on Brennan.
'When I first got appointed in the US into the CEO role, I was running through the office and my CFO [chief financial officer] said to me ''How long are you going to be here,'' meaning I need to see you sometime today. I stopped, looked into his office and said "The betting money says I won't last until Christmas". Who knows how long I'm going to be here.'
But Brennan knows that the length of his tenure will depend primarily on his success at meeting the challenges the company faces over the next few years. These include developing the next generation of blockbuster drugs, defending AstraZeneca's existing drug patents from an increasingly aggressive generic pharmaceutical industry, and taking advantage of the rapid market growth in certain developing countries.
'When you see the kind of turnover that we've seen in the industry leadership in the last few weeks and in the last year or so, I think it just points out the expectation the financial community, shareholders and employees have of leadership,' he says.
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Brennan's current role is the culmination of over 30 years spent in the pharmaceutical industry. He joined Merck in the US in 1975 straight out of university, after being advised to consider the pharmaceutical industry by his older brother, who is a medicinal chemist. After spending 10 years in a variety of sales and marketing positions in the US, he joined Merck's international division and ended up as the general manager of Chibret International, a French subsidiary of Merck specialising in ophthalmology.
In the early 1990s, he was asked to join a new US joint venture that Merck was setting up with Sweden's Astra. 'Merck had the obligation to put some executives in it and Astra had the obligation to provide products,' explains Brennan. By 1998, AstraMerck, as it was called, had around 2500 employees and was generating sales of over $4 billion a year.
David Brennan is based at AstraZeneca's headquarters in London, UK
In 1999, Astra merged its worldwide operations, including AstraMerck, with the British pharmaceutical company Zeneca to form AstraZeneca, and Brennan came as well. In 2001, he was appointed as head of AstraZeneca's North American business, a position that he held until becoming AstraZeneca's CEO.
Brennan believes that his career's unique mix of management positions within a large pharmaceutical company and entrepreneurial experience of setting up a new business should stand him in good stead in his current role. Nevertheless, he has found that it's still a big step up from any of his previous positions. 'There are a lot of similarities in having been the head of the North American business and being the head of the global business, but the expectations are very different,' he says. 'It's a lot more responsibility.'
Hectic schedules
At the moment Brennan is enjoying his new role, which he describes as 'demanding and rewarding'. It also seems to be pretty hectic, comprising a whirlwind of meetings, official openings and transatlantic flights.
In the week before our interview, Brennan had opened two new laboratories in the UK - an oncology chemistry building at AstraZeneca's research facility in Alderley Park, Macclesfield, and a biology building at its Charnwood research facility in Loughborough - as part of which he had also met employees, attended business meetings and evening dinners, and been interviewed by the local press. The following day, he spent a couple of hours in the London office, before flying off to Washington DC, US, for a dinner meeting and then attending a roundtable discussion sponsored by the US Institute of Medicine on evidence-based medicine in clinical practice.
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AstraZeneca recently opened a new biology building at its Charnwood site in Loughborough, UK
With these kinds of full and varied working weeks, keeping on top of everything is a challenge in itself. 'It's easy to get side-tracked if you're not diligent about the agenda and making sure you know what's really important and then programming it on to your calendar,' admits Brennan. 'You run out of time at the end of the day.'
For as well as being the external face of AstraZeneca, Brennan also needs to provide the necessary leadership. 'There's a tremendous amount of demand internally to both be present in the organisation and to figure out what are the things in the organisation that need to be changed and how do you go about doing that.'
He has already highlighted the company's discovery and development operations as one area that needs to be changed. 'Our future success will be based on our ability to improve productivity in our research and development organisation, and that includes early-stage discovery right on through to late-stage development,' he says. 'I mean we have to improve all of that, because the life blood of a pharmaceutical company is the pipeline.'
Natural defence
Brennan is implementing changes to push up the number of external research agreements that AstraZeneca sets up with small biotechnology companies and increase its emphasis on biologic therapies, which stimulate the body's natural defence systems.
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These changes were reflected in its announcement back in May that it was acquiring the UK biotechnology company Cambridge Antibody Technology (CAT) for over ?700 million. Since 2004, it had been collaborating with CAT on the development of novel treatments based on human monoclonal antibodies.
But this is just the first step. '[I want] to really put the platform in place for us to build future technologies that just go beyond monoclonal antibodies, to protein fragments and to some of the new potential technologies that can emerge in the next several years.' And this means obtaining many of these technologies from small biotechnology companies. 'We've entered into several [research agreements] already this year and quite frankly we will continue to look very aggressively for more opportunities.'
This doesn't mean, however, that AstraZeneca will be reducing its in-house research activities, which, according to Brennan, will continue to develop the majority of AstraZeneca's new products. 'We have the capacity to spend more money in research and development than we have been spending. That gives us some flexibility in how we allocate [this spend].'
It also doesn't mean that AstraZeneca is turning its back on small-molecule drugs; it is also looking to establish research agreements in this area. It's just that the company wants to use both chemistry and biology to fight disease. 'When we have a target and see something that we want to try to develop a compound for, it gives us two different ways to get an answer, rather than just having one,' says Brennan.
Nevertheless, AstraZeneca plans to make biologic drugs an increasingly important part of its portfolio. By 2010, Brennan hopes that 20-25 per cent of its candidate drugs will be derived from its biologics platform. 'If we get somewhere between 25 and 30 [candidate drugs] a year on average that suggests seven to nine biologics a year potentially going into early stage development,' he says.
In addition to small biotechnology companies, AstraZeneca is also starting to collaborate with its fellow pharmaceutical majors. In September 2006, it entered into an alliance with the German pharmaceutical company Schering to develop jointly a treatment for breast cancer. According to Brennan, AstraZeneca is willing to collaborate with any companies, large or small, working in any areas where it has an interest and expertise.
He hopes that these developments will help AstraZeneca to meet the most important challenge facing the pharmaceutical industry: 'to bring forward medicines that are differentiated and that matter to payers and patients'. In particular, AstraZeneca is looking for the next generation of drugs that will replace its current blockbuster products, which include its anti-stomach ulcer drug Nexium and its anti-psychotic drug Seroquel.
But Brennan is confident about AstraZeneca's prospects. 'There's lots of unmet medical need and we're very well positioned in a number of different therapeutic areas to have new products in leading roles in the future.'
If this proves to be the case and Brennan's still around at Christmas, perhaps he'll succumb and treat himself to a big new office.
Jon Evans is a science writer based in Chichester, UK
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ForceField Energy (OTCMKTS:FNRG) and Kraton (NYSE:KRA) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk and institutional ownership.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares ForceField Energy and Kraton's top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
ForceField Energy N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Kraton $1.96 billion 0.32 $97.54 million $2.85 6.93
Kraton has higher revenue and earnings than ForceField Energy.
This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for ForceField Energy and Kraton, as reported by MarketBeat.
ForceField Energy 0 0 0 0 N/A
Kraton 1 2 1 0 2.00
Kraton has a consensus target price of $45.67, suggesting a potential upside of 131.34%.
Volatility & Risk
ForceField Energy has a beta of -68.16, indicating that its share price is 6,916% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kraton has a beta of 1.74, indicating that its share price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
96.1% of Kraton shares are held by institutional investors. 26.3% of ForceField Energy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of Kraton shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
This table compares ForceField Energy and Kraton's net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
ForceField Energy N/A N/A N/A
Kraton 5.87% 14.83% 3.48%
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ForceField Energy Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides lighting products and solutions for enhancing energy efficiency in China and the United States. It distributes light emitting diode, and other commercial lighting products and fixtures. The company was formerly known as SunSi Energies Inc. and changed its name to ForceField Energy Inc. in February 2013. ForceField Energy Inc. was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in Coconut Creek, Florida.
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Kraton Corporation manufactures and sells styrenic block copolymers and other engineered polymers in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It operates in two segments, Polymer and Chemical. The Polymer segment offers performance products, including styrene-butadiene-styrene and styrene-isoprene-styrene; and specialty polymers, such as hydrogenated styrenic block copolymers, as well as isoprene rubber and isoprene rubber latex for use in medical and personal care products, adhesives, tackifiers, paints, and coatings. The Chemical segment provides pine-based specialty products that include rosin-based tackifiers for packaging and pressure-sensitive adhesive applications; terpene-based tackifiers for bookbinding, hygiene, and pressure-sensitive adhesive applications; alpha-methyl-styrene (AMS) resins for bookbinding and pressure-sensitive adhesive applications; and hot melt polyamides for flexible packaging. It also provides rosin-based binders for the thermoplastic pavement marking submarket; sells tall oil fatty acids for the asphalt paving market; and produces rosin esters and insoluble maleic-based tackifiers, as well as bitumen additives. In addition, this segment offers terpene-based tread enhancement resins and AMS-based tread enhancement additives, as well as distilled tall oil and rosins for enhancing the performance and manufacturing of high performance, winter, and all-season tires. Further, it provides dimer acids, tall oil rosins, and terpene fractions for fuel additive, oilfield chemical, mining fluid, coating, metalworking fluid and lubricant, and other applications. The company sells its products through various channels, including direct sales force, marketing representatives, and distributors under the Kraton and Cariflex brands. The company was formerly known as Kraton Performance Polymers, Inc. and changed its name to Kraton Corporation in September 2016. Kraton Corporation is based in Houston, Texas.
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 A debug flag to inform the view it is supposed to load its data not from the Trusted Shops production backend
 but the QA backend instead.

 Use this during development. (Note: The URL opened in Safari when the user taps the view
 does NOT go to the QA backend even if this flag is set. This is fine since shops on QA usually also exist
 on PROD and you can't mess up anything by simply displaying a certificate anyways. Just don't be confused it the
 grade displayed on PROD differs from what a view shows when `debugMode` is set to `YES`.)
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@property (nonatomic, assign) BOOL debugMode;

/**
 The overall mark as it was calculated for this shop in the Trusted Shops database. This is `nil` before
 `loadShopGradeWithSuccessBlock:failureBlock:` or `loadShopGradeWithFailureBlock:` is called.
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@property (readonly) NSNumber *overallMark;

/**
 The total number of reviews for this shop in the Trusted Shops database. This is `nil` before
 `loadShopGradeWithSuccessBlock:failureBlock:` or `loadShopGradeWithFailureBlock:` is called.
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@property (readonly) NSNumber *totalReviewCount;

/**
 A human readable, localized description of the overall mark for this shop. This is `nil` before
 `loadShopGradeWithSuccessBlock:failureBlock:` or `loadShopGradeWithFailureBlock:` is called.
 */
@property (readonly) NSString *overallMarkDescription;

/**
 Loads the grade data from the remote API.

 This method fetches the needed data from the Trusted Shops backend and must be called for the view to actually
 show anything. Be sure to set the view's `tsID` and `apiToken` properties before calling it.

 @param success A block that is executed on the main thread once the view has loaded its data. If you haven't
 added it to a view hierarchy you should do so here.
 @param failure A block that is called on the main thread if the loading encountered an error. See `TRSErrorCode` for
 the error codes provided by the `error` parameter of the block.
 */
- (void)loadShopGradeWithSuccessBlock:(void (^)(void))success failureBlock:(void (^)(NSError *error))failure;
/**
 Loads the grade data from the remote API.

 This method simply calls `loadShopGradeWithSuccessBlock:failureBlock:` with a `nil` for the `success` parameter.
 Be sure to set the view's `tsID` and `apiToken` properties before calling it. Also note that if you add the view to
 a hierarchy before loading it will appear empty until it is loaded.

 @param failure A block that is called on the main thread if the loading encountered an error. See `TRSErrorCode` for
 the error codes provided by the `error` parameter of the block.
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- (void)loadShopGradeWithFailureBlock:(void (^)(NSError *error))failure;

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Controlled Bulk Properties of Composite Polymeric Solutions for Extensive Structural Order of Honeycomb Polysulfone Membranes
Microencapsulation by Membrane Emulsification of Biophenols Recovered from Olive Mill Wastewaters
10.3390/membranes6020028
Fernández-Barquín, A.
Casado-Coterillo, C.
Valencia, S.
Irabien, A.
Mixed Matrix Membranes for O2/N2 Separation: The Influence of Temperature
by Ana Fernández-Barquín 1, Clara Casado-Coterillo 1,*, Susana Valencia 2 and Angel Irabien 1
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Universidad de Cantabria, Av. Los Castros s/n, Santander 39005, Spain
Instituto de Tecnología Química, Universitat Politècnica de València—Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Av. de Los Naranjos s/n, Valencia 46022, Spain
Academic Editor: Tahar Laoui
Membranes 2016, 6(2), 28; https://doi.org/10.3390/membranes6020028
Received: 29 March 2016 / Revised: 2 May 2016 / Accepted: 10 May 2016 / Published: 16 May 2016
In this work, mixed matrix membranes (MMMs) composed of small-pore zeolites with various topologies (CHA (Si/Al = 5), LTA (Si/Al = 1 and 5), and Rho (Si/Al = 5)) as dispersed phase, and the hugely permeable poly(1-trimethylsilyl-1-propyne) (PTMSP) as continuous phase, have been synthesized via solution casting, in order to obtain membranes that could be attractive for oxygen-enriched air production. The O2/N2 gas separation performance of the MMMs has been analyzed in terms of permeability, diffusivity, and solubility in the temperature range of 298–333 K. The higher the temperature of the oxygen-enriched stream, the lower the energy required for the combustion process. The effect of temperature on the gas permeability, diffusivity, and solubility of these MMMs is described in terms of the Arrhenius and Van't Hoff relationships with acceptable accuracy. Moreover, the O2/N2 permselectivity of the MMMs increases with temperature, the O2/N2 selectivities being considerably higher than those of the pure PTMSP. In consequence, most of the MMMs prepared in this work exceeded the Robeson's upper bound for the O2/N2 gas pair in the temperature range under study, with not much decrease in the O2 permeabilities, reaching O2/N2 selectivities of up to 8.43 and O2 permeabilities up to 4,800 Barrer at 333 K. View Full-Text
Keywords: zeolites; Si/Al = 5; poly(trimethylsilylpropyne) (PTMSP); Rho; chabazite; LTA; temperature; oxygen; nitrogen zeolites; Si/Al = 5; poly(trimethylsilylpropyne) (PTMSP); Rho; chabazite; LTA; temperature; oxygen; nitrogen
Fernández-Barquín, A.; Casado-Coterillo, C.; Valencia, S.; Irabien, A. Mixed Matrix Membranes for O2/N2 Separation: The Influence of Temperature. Membranes 2016, 6, 28.
Fernández-Barquín A, Casado-Coterillo C, Valencia S, Irabien A. Mixed Matrix Membranes for O2/N2 Separation: The Influence of Temperature. Membranes. 2016; 6(2):28.
Fernández-Barquín, Ana; Casado-Coterillo, Clara; Valencia, Susana; Irabien, Angel. 2016. "Mixed Matrix Membranes for O2/N2 Separation: The Influence of Temperature." Membranes 6, no. 2: 28.
Note that from the first issue of 2016, MDPI journals use article numbers instead of page numbers. See further details here.
Membranes, EISSN 2077-0375, Published by MDPI AG


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The data are stored as 2-byte and 4-byte integers in fixed-length records. The choice of this simple format means that it should be a relatively simple matter to read the data on a variety of different computer set-ups and operating systems. Software is provided on the CDs to read and plot the data. (1)
Sea Surface Temperatures from the Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR-1) - 1991-1995
The data on this 2 CD set was derived from the the first Along-Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR-1) which was a four-channel, dual-view, infra-red radiometer capable of measuring Sea Surface Temperature to very high accuracy (better the 0.3K). The instrument was launched on the ESA remote sensing satellite (ERS-1) in July 1991. The dataset consists of two types of data product: (a) Spatially averaged sea surface temperatures (ASSTs) and (b) Time averaged global maps. The ASSTs are provided daily in half-degree cells together with with temporal and positional confidence information. The time-averaged global maps are provided at half degree resolution averaged over 5 day and 1 month periods. The data on the CDs cover the four year period from August 1991 to July 1995 inclusive. The Principal Investigator for ATSR-1 is Chris Mutlow at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL).
VIRTEM: Fourier Transform spectrometers measurements at CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Molecular Spectroscopy Facility (MSF)
Validation data for the IASI (Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer) satellite instrument. IASI was a moderate resolution (0.25cm^-1) Fourier Transform spectrometer which was scheduled for flight in 2002 on the European METOP satellite. IASI delivered vertical profiles of temperature and humidity data with a resolution of 1km. VIRTEM was an EU project to validate the instrumentation and retrieval methods to be used on IASI. This file contains a summary of the measurements, pressure and temperatures.
Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR-1) data from the European Remote Sensing satellite (ERS-1)
An infra-red radiometer capable of measuring sea surface temperature to better than 0.3K. The cd-rom dataset consists of two data products: (a) Spatially averaged sea surface temperatures (ASSTs) and (b) Time averaged global maps. The ASSTs are provided daily in half-degree cells together with temporal and positional information. The data cover the period August 1991 to July 1995.
RAL 78GHz Cloud Radar Data from the NERC Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere (MST) Radar Facility
The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) Cloud Radar was deployed at the Natural Environment Research Council's (NERC) Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere (MST) Radar Facility, Capel Dewi, near Aberystwyth in West Wales from April 2005 to June 2006. These data are restricted to registered users for these data only.
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) Molecular Spectroscopy Facility (MSF) Data
These data are held by the BADC for the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Molecular Spectroscopy Facility (MSF). MSF provides world-class scientific equipment and support for infrared (IR),visible, and ultraviolet (UV) spectroscopy. The MSF laboratories are used by many UK and international customers in a wide range of research and development programmes. The data are spectra of various atmospheric gases. These data are public. The data held covers the following areas: Water vapour line parameters Molecular oxygen absorption cross-sections Molecular oxygen/nitrogen absorption cross-sections Hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) infrared absorption cross-sections Perfluorocarbon (PFC) infrared absorption cross-sections Computer software
VIRTEM: Aircraft and Laboratory Based Spectroscopic Measurements
The new satellite instrument, IASI (Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer), is a moderate resolution (0.25 cm-1) Fourier Transform spectrometer launched in 2002 on the European METOP satellite. This instrument offers more spectral channels at a considerably higher spectral resolution than HIRS (High Resolution Infrared Sounder) - the instrument which it replaced as the operational infra-red sounder. IASI delivers vertical profiles of temperature and humidity data with a resolution of 1km compared with approximately 4km from HIRS. Translating the improvement in the spectral resolution of the instrument into improvements in the accuracy and height resolution of the temperature, humidity and ozone profiles is dependent on a detailed knowledge of the spectroscopy of the atmosphere in this spectral region. The aim of the Validation of IASI (Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer) Radiative Transfer Experiments and Modelling (VIRTEM) project was to make the improvements to the spectroscopy necessary to make full use of the increased spectral resolution of IASI. The primary objectives of the VIRTEM project were: *To generate a detailed set of atmospheric observations of radiances and supporting in-situ data. *To analyse and validate the current spectroscopy using state of the art line-by-line radiation models. *To generate an improved spectroscopic database. VIRTEM was an EU project to validate the instrumentation and retrieval methods to be used on IASI. Data in this dataset collection include both aircraft based and lab based spectroscopic measurements.


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From Japanese
Midori is a Japanese word that expresses the color of shoots, young leaves, or whole plants. It also is used for representing forests, nature or the environment.
It is said the word midori first appeared in the Japanese history during the Heian Period (794-1185/1192). Midori originally represented "freshness" and the meaning developed to signify the color of verdure.
It is also said that midori not only represents specific colors but also "pure" or "painted all in one color" atmospheres.
Incidentally, "green" in English was derived from the same word origin as "grass" or "grow". In this sense, "green" is the same as the present Japanese "midori".
In kanji characters, midori is represented as "緑", "碧" or "翠". "翠" originally represented the color of kingfishers' feathers (Alcedo atthis). "碧" or "翠" represents bluish green. For Japanese people, "green" in English evokes a brighter and more vivid green than midori in Japanese.
The word midori is also used for representing the dark blue color of the sea as a poetic or literary expression. Midori not only means onshore nature but also the sea as a source of life.
Midori also represents fresh life such as in newborn babies (みどり児, midorigo), or the shiny black hair (みどりの黒髪, midori no kurokami) of women. These are examples representing original meanings of midori.
As such, "midori" is not just a word for representing specific colors. It deeply penetrates in Japanese people's minds as a word expressing images of abundant nature or freshness. Through knowing about the meanings of "midori", we can learn more about the history of how Japan's inhabitants have thought about life and lived with nature. Accordingly, the word midori can be a hint for us in considering future biodiversity.
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Mark J. Gilbert, M.D. is the chief medical officer at Juno Therapeutics, where he joined in March 2014. Prior to joining Juno, Dr. Gilbert served as an interim chief medical officer and consultant in strategic drug development and portfolio management in medical oncology for several U.S. biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.
Previously, Dr. Gilbert served as vice president, head of global clinical development, therapeutic area oncology, at Bayer Schering Pharmaceuticals. Prior to Bayer Schering, Dr. Gilbert held several executive positions with Berlex Pharmaceuticals as well as at its parent company Schering, AG, as vice president, head of global medical development group, oncology. Dr. Gilbert joined Berlex from Immunex, where his responsibilities included development and medical affairs for leukine and mitoxantrone in hematology, oncology, Crohn's disease and multiple sclerosis.
Prior to his executive positions in biotech and oncology companies, Dr. Gilbert was a faculty member at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington in Seattle and trained in the laboratory of Dr. Phil Greenberg, one of Juno's scientific co-founders.
Dr. Gilbert earned a bachelor of science degree in biochemistry from the University of Iowa and a medical doctor degree from the University of Iowa Medical School in Iowa City, Iowa. He trained in internal medicine, infectious disease and medical oncology at the University of California, San Francisco, and at the University of Washington in Seattle.
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CarSharing Firm Turo Is Battling Traditional Rental Companies In Utah
A battle looms in the Utah Legislature between traditional car rental companies and an online car-sharing firm called Turo — akin to clashes between Uber and taxi companies or Airbnb vs. hotels.
Car rental companies are pushing lawmakers to force the San Francisco-based Turo to pay all the taxes they face, complaining it now escapes many and thus can offer lower-cost rentals.
Turo says it isn't a car rental company — and should not be taxed like one — but rather is a different car-sharing platform that connects owners (usually of luxury cars) and renters for a fee. Turo provides insurance coverage for owners and other services that it says car rental companies do not face.
So is Turo a car rental company?
The slogan on its website this week was "Rent Better Cars." Its online listings this week offered rentals in Salt Lake City ranging from a low of $23 per day for a Toyota Scion tC to a high of $508 per day for a BMW M4.
Turo notes that it allows drivers to book rentals, chat with car owners, arrange pickup and drop-off spots, and make payments through its app. Renters skip airport counter lines or attempted up-sales by agents.
Lou Bertuca, senior government relations manager for Turo, explained to a panel of state lawmakers why it uses that "car rental" wording while it contends it is different from Hertz or Budget.
"Alaskans have 100 different words for snow. I wish that there were more words for getting a car and having it come up on a Google search," he said. "You have to have a marketing term in there, and that marketing term is 'rent.' But nowhere on our site do we say we are a car rental company."
Rep. John Knotwell, R-Herriman, called it "a distinction without a difference. I think it's relatively meaningless, to be honest."
But Mike Taylor, vice president of Budget Rent A Car and president of the Car and Truck Rental and Leasing Association, told lawmakers Turo is using its purported distinction to escape tourism and sales taxes along with airport fees.
"I am very concerned that we would even discuss the situation of taking one competitor and giving them a 30 to 50 percent advantage over other competitors," he told lawmakers. He said local governments stand to lose tax revenues if Turo does not collect the same taxes.
What makes Turo different?
But Bertuca says Turo's model is far different from that of companies like Budget.
For example, he says, Turo owns no cars. Rental companies do. By law, they do not pay sales tax when they purchase their fleets. Instead, they collect sales tax from drivers who rent their cars or from those who eventually buy them at the end of a car's rental career.
Bertuca says the car owners who use Turo paid sales tax when they bought their vehicles, so they need not charge it to renters now.
Sen. Curt Bramble, R-Provo, co-chairman of the Business and Labor Interim Committee, asked if car rental companies would rather have their exemption removed when they buy fleets, and quit charging sales tax instead to renters.
"Can I do backflips for you?" Taylor said, adding it would likely greatly reduce what renters pay and make car rental companies more competitive.
Contrasts in insurance
Bertuca says Turo has other differences. He says car rental companies by law are not liable for any damage caused by renters — the renters are on the hook, and they must buy insurance or pay for damages out of their own pockets.
Turo's agreement with each owner says "that if anything were to happen to his or her car, we will cover the damage to the car up to the replacement cost and repair," Bertuca said. It is a cost that rental car companies do not cover.
But Jesse Hubbard, president of Rugged Rental and Sales in Salt Lake City, said Turo does sell additional insurance to renters to cover potential damage they may do to others cars and individuals.
Hubbard's company rents four-wheel-drive and similar vehicles, and must pay a 10 percent Salt Lake City International Airport fee "just to drive out and pick up a customer." He complains that people making money through Turo do not do that.
"What we are asking for is simply a level playing field for all the car rental companies," he said.
Bertuca insisted to lawmakers, "We are not a car rental company." While others argue that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck, Bertuca said, "A platypus is not a duck" — and insisted Turo is that different.
"We don't want to throw a wet blanket on this emerging technology," he said.
Bramble said his committee held an initial hearing to understand what the different sides are contending. He added he's optimistic the companies and lawmakers can find ways to allow all sides to operate — as happened in earlier fights over Uber and Airbnb.


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Q: Single callback in Router, to access previous/current url + Route information? I've been looking around on Google and Stack Overflow for an answer to this: with Ember-cli 2.10, how can I set up a single callback in the Router, which gives me information about the previous and current URL, as well as the name of the Route about to be called? I'd like to pass all 3 of those to an analytics platform.
Every example I've found has either depended on deprecated Ember features, or just plain hasn't worked as expected. Love to hear an answer on this. Also happy to hear what a better design might be, given the above analytics requirements.

A: All your requirements will be covered in Public Router Service pull request. It includes properties currentRouteName, currentURL, location, rootURL and transitionTo method.
It's in canary build, not yet production ready. to play you need to enable this feature config/environment.js
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You can just inject router service anywhere and get the properties.
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Q: Fast screen capture and video recording Has anyone worked on capturing screen to video stream (to store in local file or send to network)?
I understand how it can be done, and have several test solutions working - but we have trouble achieving decent performance. We need to capture about 4 megapixels screen space of changing text and vector graphics, on a computer where CPU is already heavily utilized.
Acceptable (though far from desired) performance is achieved by sending uncompressed BMP frames to network, but for many reasons at least some compression on-site is important.
Any suggestions on how to encode using as little processing power as possible: May be a very fast codec? Or some tricks to avoid copying images in memory? Is capturing screen with DirectX  (most of screen is in WPF) worth doing?

A: Ok... this is a wild guess because I've never tried it... but it seems plausible. I think you should use Nvidia CUDA. For example:
I was thinking you can create textures from the image (in memory) and compress it afterward. In the CUDA SDK there is a sample for DirectX Texture Compressor (DXTC):

High Quality DXT Compression using CUDA. This example shows how to implement an existing computationally-intensive CPU compression algorithm in parallel on the GPU, and obtain an order of magnitude performance improvement.

You can store a number a textures in memory (depending of the amount of video memory) and write them to disk/socket on another thread.
This is only a suggestion... I think the best way is to implement an encoding algorithm (see TMPGEnc) using CUDA to move the load from the CPU to GPU, but this is tricky and requires a lot of work.

A: I just ran into this while searching for CUDA and screen capture and thought I should add my experience.  I've created a solution in the past using VNC and FFMPEG.  If you have a look at the VNC protocols, you'll see that it does its transmissions based off of delta windows with a new image. Basically, previous screen + changes = new screen.  The only thing that needs to be transmitted are the changes.  You'll find lots of tricks to minimize transmission cost and lots of different payload extensions to transfer the data and it's a great resource even if you decide to roll your own with the knowledge gained.  Once we were using VNC to move the pixel data, we found that raw pixel data was more expensive to our cpu than the jpeg data because the buffer copies were more expensive than the compression.

A: many softwares does that with a graphical interface like xvidcap or camstudio, but ffmpeg may be have a good solution for you ...

A: for me using ffmpeg+directshow screen capture device + huffyyuv uses little cpu.  But tons of disk/bandwidth :)


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In the database that you want to secure the VBA code go to Tools » Macro » Visual Basic Editor or press Alt + F11 to open the Visual Basic Editor.
Check the Lock project for viewing checkbox.
In the Password box, type in your chosen password and then tab to the Confirm Password box.
Type in the password again to confirm and then click on OK.
The password has now been set. This will become active next time that the database is opened.
Choose File » Close and Return to Microsoft Office Access. Close the database and exit Microsoft Access.
The password is only required to be entered once whilst the database is open, not each time you need to access the code window. If the database is closed and re-entered, the password is required to access the project.
To remove the password protection from the project, go to the Tools menu to open the properties dialog window back up.
Select the Protection tab as previously and clear the Lock project for viewing checkbox. Remove the two sets of passwords (indicated by the asterisks) and click OK.
Close the Visual Basic Editor and close the database. Next time you enter the database, you will not be prompted for a password to open the project.


What's the best way to accessorize a crop top on the red carpet? According to Lily Collins, it's with a gold Pluma Italia chain necklace and matching gold statement cuff watch.
At the Germany premiere of her latest film, "The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones," she donned a surprisingly sultry ensemble, which included an itty bitty top by Paper London and a floor-grazing, voluminous Halston Heritage skirt. The actress swept her hair back in a chic low chignon and rocked a smoldering smoky eye, which enhanced the overall edgy look.
Collins isn't just brave off-screen, either: The actress told MTV News that while playing Clary Fray in "Mortal Instruments," she had to run in high heels.
"It was difficult [running in heels], but I never fell once" she told the source. "But I am having wardrobe talks for the next one, and I am probably going to request a little shorter heels or a little less revealing."


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A mysterious death in Pāʻia: What happened to Mana Foods baker John Palicki?
By Cammy Clark
July 4, 2022, 6:00 AM HST
* Updated July 25, 8:21 AM
John Palicki was captured on a Mana Foods' surveillance camera at 7 a.m. on May 29, the day he was supposed to be working. Screen shot courtesy: Mana Foods
John Palicki and his father, also named John Palicki, were reunited on Maui in 2019. Photo Courtesy: Erin Palicki
John Palicki was described by friends and family as having a good sense of humor and being a bit of a jokester. Photo Courtesy: Erin Palicki
John Palicki (right) is with his uncle-in-law, Jerry Kenney, and Kenney's grandson, Ethan Kenney, in 2017 on Maui. Photo Courtesy: Patricia Kenney
John Palicki and his Aunt Patricia Kenney in photos decades apart. Photos courtesy: Patricia Kenney
Mana Foods' cook Brian Borgman looks at an area along the Pāʻia bypass where his friend John Palicki was found dead on Memorial Day. Photo Credit: Cammy Clark
On Memorial Day, as the sun was rising over Pāʻia, a nude man was found unresponsive in a cane field alongside the town's bypass and near a homeless encampment.
A crew from the Maui Fire Department arrived first, determining the man was dead at 6:47 a.m.
At the scene, Maui police did not find any personal effects near the unclothed body to immediately make an identification. But locals quickly figured out who the man was: beloved 51-year-old John Palicki.
The "sweet" and "big-hearted" Palicki was well-known in the small town of Pāʻia. For nine years, he worked as a baker at the nearby community grocery store Mana Foods. And for eight years, he lived in a house with four roommates on Baldwin Avenue, just a 5-minute walk from his workplace.
His body was found about one to two football fields away from his home.
"The person who found the body [the boyfriend of a Mana Foods' cook] said he saw a red heart tattoo on the right arm, with a small ribbon on the bottom and the word Fuggit," said Misty Gonzalez, Palicki's motherly boss at Mana Foods. "We knew it had to be John."
Speculation that Palicki had been murdered circulated in Pāʻia, but Maui Police Department spokesperson Alana K. Pico said in an email that the preliminary investigation showed no signs of foul play. So far, no evidence has come to light in the ongoing investigation to change that assessment, police say.
Rumors about multiple murders around Pāʻia, which have caused fear in the town, also are false, according to MPD. In an email, Pico stated only one homicide has occurred in Maui County this year — the June case of Angela Johnson, who was dropped off dead at Kula Hospital. Brian Sherrell was arrested for Johnson's murder.
But what happened to Palicki remains a mystery.
The May 30 case summary of the Palicki case, provided by MPD, redacted all names: the reporting party, the victim and 10 "involved, other" people. The one-paragraph "public narrative" said the cause of death "is unknown at this time."
Maui police declined to provide further information or provide an interview with the detective assigned to the case, Jeremy Pallone-De La Torre.
Palicki's family members, who live on the U.S. mainland, are frustrated the police have kept them in the dark.
"They're not telling us anything," said Erin Palicki, John's stepmother who lives in Missouri. "Getting information out of them is like trying to pull a hen's tooth."
Palicki's aunt, Patricia Kenney, said a detective named Jeremy could only tell her they were waiting for toxicology results that would take six to eight weeks. Palicki's sister, Patty Palicki, said all she was told was that an autopsy was conducted.
"We can be patient and wait, but we just want the truth," Kenney said. "If it was suicide, OK. We just want to know."
The not-knowing has been difficult for the family. They have been getting most of their information — and not knowing how reliable it is — from Palicki's coworkers, friends and housemates. During a phone conversation, the elder John said: "Basically he was murdered."
His wife, Erin, chimed in: "I'll be honest, we still don't know what the cause of death is. But we definitely think there was some kind of foul play or something. We just don't think it was natural causes or he did this to himself."
The elder John's belief that something nefarious had happened to his son was reaffirmed after looking at black and white autopsy photos provided by the Maui County medical examiner, who needed a family member to make the official identification.
"He looked like he had been in a fight," the elder John said. "It definitely looked like he had bruises on his face."
Palicki's Pāʻia ʻohana first became worried about Palicki on May 29. That morning, he did not show up for his 6:30 a.m. shift at Mana Foods. While Palicki has been late to work before, it was not like him to not show up at all, said Mana Foods general manager Tara Sellars.
Mana Foods' surveillance camera caught footage of Palicki casually walking on the sidewalk in front of the store on May 29 at 7 a.m., wearing a black T-shirt, tan shorts and brown slippers. He seemed to be mumbling to himself. Why he did not go to work is unknown.
He had been a chef at places on the U.S. mainland, including a Morton's Steakhouse, before moving to Pāʻia, family and friends said. His Mana Foods supervisor, Gonzalez, said he was a good baker, making sourdough, ciabatta, focaccia and other bread, as well as a daily pizza special. She said he didn't want to work on the sweets side because it was too much of a headache: "He was my bread guy."
After a mini-investigation, Sellers said the last person she could find who saw Palicki alive was a housemate at about 9 a.m. on May 29.
On the same day, stepmom Erin Palicki said she got texts from one of Palicki's roommates and his landlady saying he had come home acting strangely.
"One text said he had left the house without his shoes and without his ID, too," she said. "He had not had a cellphone since September. They did not know where he went and wanted us to tell them what to do. I said, 'Call 9-1-1'. And he became a missing person."
Palicki's friend and Mana Foods co-worker, Brian Borgman, said Palicki was "kind of depressed" on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, partially due to an incident with one of his male roommates that made a pass at him and because his rent was being raised.
"But suicidal, not really," Borgman said, although he added that about a year and a half earlier Palicki had "delusions and hallucinations, a psychotic breakdown."
Borgman pointed to the modest house on Baldwin Avenue where Palicki lived. He said they hung out together in the garage to drink beer, smoke pot and play music — sometimes talking about starting a band. Palicki loved to play guitar.
Palicki's housemates could not be reached for comment, despite calls and repeated trips to the Baldwin Avenue house, where only a white cat was home.
Family and friends said Palicki had a big heart, often feeding the homeless with leftover food from his workplace or with food he bought himself. He also fed goats across the street from where he lived, sending his father and stepmom a picture of them.
He is described as having a great sense of humor and being a bit of a jokester. Sister Patty Palicki recalled the time during a road trip when he made a horn in a Volkswagen bus blast nonstop at a gas station. "Everyone turned to look at us," she said. "He thought it was funny."
Stepmom Erin Palicki remembered when her husband and stepson tried to pay for a meal with a Craftsman Tool Card. "The poor waitress tried to run the card," she said. "They both laughed."
But family members said Palicki would go years being estranged from the family who loved him.
Kenney said her nephew just wanted to go away and live his life: "He was one of those people."
Patty Palicki said her brother blended well with most situations he came across in life: "I always thought if he was thrown out of an airplane wherever, he would land on his feet, like a cat."
Every couple of years family members would Google his name to try to figure out where he was. One year they learned a John Palicki had won a costume contest on Maui. But they hit the jackpot when his name showed up in a news story about a murder trial.
Palicki testified in 2016 against Mana Foods co-worker Steven Capobianco, who was accused of murdering his pregnant girlfriend Carly "Charli" Scott.
"The prosecutor said he was gainfully employed at Mana Foods," Kenney said. "I called Mana Foods and John answered. … I said, 'This is your Aunt Pat'."
She told him she would be on Maui and would love to see him and buy him dinner, "No strings attached." They reunited in October 2017 for a "wonderful" four-day visit.
"He jumped in the pool with his clothes on and it made my grandson laugh," Kenney said. "He was just a lovely man. So handsome, like a movie star. And as sweet as can be and very sensitive. I just know something bad happened to him. He didn't commit suicide naked in a sugar cane field."
Aunt Pat reconnected Palicki with his only sister, who reconnected him with their dad. In December 2019, Erin and John Palicki flew to Maui to see the younger John. Although Palicki had to work a lot during their visit, the couple said they spent quality time with him, including going on a whale watch.
Erin said Palicki pointed out where celebrities lived, including the home of Willie Nelson.
Palicki also told them he once talked on the phone with the billionaire who owns most of Lānaʻi.
"He said Larry Ellison called about ordering pies. And John said, 'Sorry we don't take pie orders, but you can come in and buy them,'" Erin recalled.
Then there was the time Palicki told them some blond singer almost ran him over in a car.
"He said it was either Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera," Erin said. "We said, 'John, you live a weird life.'"
Palicki replied: "I'm poor, but I live in paradise."
It was the last time they saw Palicki.
Now they are working with funeral homes to have his cremated remains returned to Missouri.
"We all are devastated," Erin Palicki said.
Patty Palicki said it has been difficult for their elderly mother: "She is putting on a brave face, but how could you not go into pieces. He's definitely her pride and joy."
For now, all Palicki's family and Pāʻia ʻohana can do is wait for the toxicology results, final autopsy report, and answers from the Maui Police Department.
"Weʻre trying to be realistic about it," Erin Palicki said. "We know it is not like TV and happens fast. But we hope it does not drag on for months."
Patty Palicki said: "We just want the police to know people care about him. He has a family. We know they need time to do their job. But all the scenarios are going through [our heads]. We just can't hop in the car and show up. It's hard."
Cammy Clark
Cammy Clark works for Maui Now as a news reporter. She has more than 30 years of journalism experience, previously working for the Miami Herald as the Florida Keys Bureau chief and sport writer, the Washington Post, St. Petersburg Times, United Press International, the Orange County Register and WRC-TV/George Michael Sports Machine. She grew up in New Hampshire and studied print journalism at American University in Washington, D.C., where she was the sports editor for the college newspaper, The Eagle.
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