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Jamaica Baldwin
Nina Simone Sings the Blues (RCA Victor, 1967)
Series editor's note: In Jamaica Baldwin's "Windfall," the self is buried beneath layers and layers of internalized memories, becoming an ocean of worlds. But instead of resting there, the self is forced to make many crossings, reminded of its past, of the cruel ways in which it is continually defined and contained within language, standing in a lighthouse, both warning and light. But Baldwin's beauty is not seeped in despair; instead, the poet extracts the self, to question the language used to describe us, Black folk: how can we be a thing to fear when we are filled with light, when we are light itself? How does one reconcile this about oneself, the perceived identity the world imposes on us, instead of the one we know deep in our hearts? And how does one find home amidst all this chaos, how does one reach a clearing without being lost, which compass points to a light free of the language of dread and fear? Here is where you'll find a map of sorts, layered beneath worlds of oceans, where the poet seems to say, we are perfect beyond what the light reveals; hear us, this is real, we are real, can't you see already. – Mahtem Shiferraw
by Jamaica Baldwin
Sometimes, I am reminded that so many of the references I carry
in my body are occupied by white women and I am lost
in an ocean of memories, worlds beneath worlds
of ocean that should be kept hidden, as all sacred things
we want to keep from being policed must be kept hidden. Like
language. Once, I learned Morse code. Spent a weekend
at Pidgeon Point Lighthouse with a ham radio, tapping greetings
to kids in Russia then waiting for their response in return.
When I think about lighthouses, I think of us eager to reach across
borders, or that Sinéad O'Connor song about the woman forever
waiting for her man to return from sea, but when I think of men
who disappear, never to return, there's always the image of my father
who made a practice of it until leaving was the one thing he perfected.
In death he's become a soft-spoken man, not silent, but quiet.
Not a whisper, but a windfall. When he speaks, I'm only a kid reaching.
I'm a woman alone in a lighthouse with underwater memories, always
waiting. Some nights, I search my body with a flashlight for signs of a future.
Light, we've been taught, is how we find each other in the dark,
the omnidirectional lens guiding boats away from dangerous edges,
the North Star, the moonlight: a point of reference to cling to
in the dark emptiness of night. Dark. Empty.
The language they ascribe to our bodies is made of the same shadow, and
warning. It's no wonder they fear us, no wonder my father at sixty-three
was a miracle, no wonder night, like his body, has been riddled
with the language of dread. But light isn't the surest way home.
We've grown accustomed to the ease of it, as if ease was the point
of living, grown idle in our new skins, forgetting our nocturnal ways.
Every now and then in a dream, I remember what it felt like to see
in the dark beyond what the light reveals, to see how perfect we all are
in the absence of its confidant gaze. I've never seen a night unpolluted
by light, never loved a body that wasn't held up to light's scrutiny,
but I'm learning. Last night I ate in the dark. Closed the blackout
curtains and touched my body in new ways. Remembered to be grateful.
Remembered what Toni Morrison said about impenetrable whiteness,
that such allusions are only sinister and lazy. I remembered that shadow
is only ominous because language made it so. I swear to you, listening
to Nina Simone in the assiduous dark will shatter you on a cellular level.
This is real. This is the ocean of what we've lost inscribed in night's
unfolding, not an eek, but a bellow, a darkness so rapturous it blinds.
Editorial note: Black Voices is a special series guest-edited by Mahtem Shiferraw and sponsored by the WLT Puterbaugh Endowment, which makes possible the biennial Puterbaugh Lit Fest.
Jamaica Baldwin (@jamaicabaldwin) hails from Santa Cruz, California, by way of Seattle. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Prairie Schooner, the Adroit Journal, the Missouri Review, Guernica, and TriQuarterly, among others. She was the winner of the 2019 San Miguel de Allende Writers' Conference Contest in Poetry and runner-up for the 2020 Tupelo Press Berkshire Prize. Her writing has been supported by Hedgebrook, Furious Flower, and the Jack Straw Writers program. Jamaica is currently pursuing her PhD in English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
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To Impeach, Or Not to Impeach
The United States House of Representatives recently voted on whether or not to allow an effort for impeachment of the 45th President of the United States to continue at this time. In response to this it should be made clear that whereas Donald J. Trump's actions and behavior is clearly unbecoming of the office of which he holds, it is critical to give deference to the rule of law and await the forthcoming findings of the independent investigation headed by Robert Mueller.
While I am equally outraged by the behavior and conduct of Donald J. Trump, we must respect the Constitution, despite Trump's own lack of respect for the document and our values. Impeachment should come based on full review of evidence and Special Counsel findings. It would be a waste of time and resources to proceed without strong evidence to earn warranted bipartisan support. Impeachment will not happen without irrefutable facts so clear - they will garner Republican acknowledgment and votes to succeed.
Let there be no mistake about this. An impeachment is a painful process which divides, and must only be used in the most severe circumstances. The Republican Party has turned a blind eye to even the most horrific allegations against Donald J. Trump. While unfortunate, this mandates clear and undeniable evidence. I believe this evidence will be forthcoming, regarding Donald J. Trump's actions throughout the 2016 campaign and his tenure in the White House. However, we must ensure that once begun, justice is clear and swift, so the healing process may begin without delay and we may restore the power to the American people.
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223 U.S. 59 - Quong Wing v. Thomas B Kirkendall
223 US 59 Quong Wing v. Thomas B Kirkendall
QUONG WING, Plff. in Err.,
THOMAS B. KIRKENDALL, as Treasurer of the County of Lewis and Clark, State of Montana.
Argued December 18, 1911.
Decided January 22, 1912.
Messrs. Charles E. Pew, Ira T. Wight, and M. S. Gunn for plaintiff in error.
Messrs. W. H. Poorman and Albert J. Galen for defendant in error.
Mr. Justice Holmes delivered the opinion of the court:
This is an action to recover $10 paid under duress and protest for a license to do hand laundry work. The plaintiff got judgment in the court of first instance, but this judgment was reversed by the supreme court of the state. 39 Mont. 64, 101 Pac. 250. The law under which the fee was exacted imposed the payment upon all persons engaged in laundry business other than the steam laundry business, with a proviso that it should not apply to women so engaged, where not more than two women were employed. Rev. Codes, § 2776. The only question is whether this is an unconstitutional discrimination, depriving the plaintiff of the equal protection of the laws. U. S. Const. 14th Amend.
The case was argued upon the discrimination between the instrumentalities employed in the same business and that between men and women. One like the former was held bad in Re Yot Sang, 75 Fed. 983, and while the latter was spoken of by the supreme court of the state as an exemption of one or two women, it is to be observed that in 1900 the census showed more women than men engaged in hand laundry work in that state. Nevertheless we agree with the supreme court of the state so far as these grounds are concerned. A state does not deny the equal protection of the laws merely by adjusting its revenue laws and taxing system in such a way as to favor certain industries or forms of industry. Like the United States, although with more restriction and in less degree, a state may carry out a policy, even a policy with which we might disagree. McLean v. Arkansas, 211 U. S. 539, 547, 53 L. ed. 315, 319, 29 Sup. Ct. Rep. 206; Armour Packing Co. v. Lacy, 200 U. S. 226, 235, 50 L. ed. 451, 456, 26 Sup. Ct. Rep. 232; Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe Co. 184 U. S. 540, 562, 46 L. ed. 679, 690, 22 Sup. Ct. Rep. 431. It may make discriminations, if founded on distinctions that we cannot pronounce unreasonable and purely arbitrary, as was illustrated in American Sugar Ref. Co. v. Louisiana, 179 U. S. 89, 92, 95, 45 L. ed. 102, 103, 105, 21 Sup. Ct. Rep. 43; Williams v. Fears, 179 U. S. 270, 276, 45 L. ed. 186, 189, 21 Sup. Ct. Rep. 128; W. W. Cargill Co. v. Minnesota, 180 U. S. 452, 469, 45 L. ed. 619, 627, 21 Sup. Ct. Rep. 423. It may favor or discourage the liquor traffic or trusts. The criminal law is a whole body of policy on which states may and do differ. If the state sees fit to encourage steam laundries and discourage hand laundries, that is its own affair. And if, again, it finds a ground of distinction in sex, that is not without precedent. It has been recognized with regard to hours of work. Muller v. Oregon, 208 U. S. 412, 52 L. ed. 551, 28 Sup. Ct. Rep. 324, 13 A. & E. Ann. Cas. 957. It is recognized in the respective rights of husband and wife in land during life, in the inheritance after the death of the spouse. Often it is expressed in the time fixed for coming of age. If Montana deems it advisable to put a lighter burden upon women than upon men with regard to an employment that our people commonly regard as more appropriate for the former, the 14th Amendment does not interfere by creating a fictitious equality where there is a real difference. The particular points at which that difference shall be emphasized by legislation are largely in the power of the state.
Another difficulty suggested by the statute is that it is impossible not to ask whether it is not aimed at the Chinese, which would be a discrimination that the Constitution does not allow. Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 118 U. S. 356, 30 L. ed. 220, 6 Sup. Ct. Rep. 1064. It is a matter of common observation that hand laundry work is a widespread occupation of Chinamen in this country, while, on the other hand, it is so rare to see men of our race engaged in it that many of us would be unable to say that they ever had observed a case. But this ground of objection was not urged, and rather was disclaimed when it was mentioned from the bench at the argument. It may or may not be that if the facts were called to our attention in a proper way the objection would prove to be real. But even if, when called to our attention, the facts should be taken notice of judicially, whether, because they are only the premise for a general proposition of law (Prentis v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. 211 U. S. 210, 227, 53 L. ed. 150, 159, 29 Sup. Ct. Rep. 67; South Ottawa v. Perkins, 94 U. S. 260, 24 L. ed. 154; Telfair v. Stead, 2 Cranch, 407, 418, 2 L. ed. 320, 324), or for any other reason, still there are many things that courts would notice if brought before them that beforehand they do not know. It rests with counsel to take the proper steps, and if they deliberately omit them, we do not feel called upon to institute inquiries on our own account. Laws frequentry are enforced which the court recognizes as possibly or probably invalid if attacked by a different interest or in a different way. Therefore, without prejudice to the question that we have suggested, when it shall be raised, we must conclude that so far as the present case is concerned, the judgment must be affirmed.
Mr. Justice Lamar, dissenting:
I dissent from the conclusions reached in the first branch of the opinion, because, in my judgment, the statute, which is not a police but a revenue measure, makes an arbitrary discrimination. It taxes some and exempts others engaged in identically the same business. It does not graduate the license, so that those doing a large volume of business pay more than those doing less. On the contrary, it exempts the large business and taxes the small. It exempts the business that is so large as to require the use of steam, and taxes that which is so small that it can be run by hand. Among these small operators there is a further discrimination, based on sex. It would be just as competent to tax the property of men and exempt that of women. The individual characteristics of the owner do not furnish a basis on which to make a classification for purposes of taxation. It is the property or the business which is to be taxed, regardless of the qualities of the owner. A discrimination founded on the personal attributes of those engaged in the same occupation, and not on the value or the amount of the business, is arbitrary. 'A classification must always rest upon some difference which bears a reasonable and just relation to the act in respect to which the classification is proposed.' Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe Co. 184 U. S. 560, 46 L. ed. 690, 22 Sup. Ct. Rep. 431.


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"The Servant Girl Annihilator" first aired on December 2, 2015.
The Servant Girl Annihilator Edit
Nic digs into the history of Austin, Texas, where a string of violent murders in 1885 attributed to "The Servant Girl Annihilator" failed to yield evidence pointing to any one individual, though authorities at the time felt it prudent to look for a group of people committing the crimes, as the notion of a serial killer at this time was yet unimaginable.
One Nathan Elgin was suspected after being shot and killed by police while assaulting a girl with a knife. People at the time claimed seeing a "yellow man" and another man wearing a Mother Hubbard-style dress. However, Nic is particularly interested in a Malay cook named Maurice, who had worked on a variety of ships prior to arriving in Austin, and who also spent a great deal of time in the Pacific Northwest.
Nic's Mysterious Followers and The Skype Call Edit
MK investigated the profile linked to the license plates of the cars that were waiting for Nic at the end of the last episode, the cars the unknown Skype Caller warned Nic about. They were registered to a numbered company, a shell for a maze of other corporations. While the numbered company appeared to be associated with an unmarked building in an industrial complex, MK used a nearby CCT camera to zoom in on undeliverable mail sitting outside, and several items were addressed to Parzavala Communications, which is the defunct internet service provider mentioned on the Fish and Tackle online bulletin board.
Nic plays the recording of him meeting the Skype caller in the parking ramp. He is approached by the woman--revealed to be Morgan Miller--and Sam Reynolds, Tara Reynolds' brother. They warned Nic to stop his investigation into Tanis, as his pursuit is jeopardizing Tara's safety and her return. Morgan told Nic if he didn't stop someone else would force him to, like the Cult of Tanis.
Nic explains after the recording that Morgan told him Pacifica came from her dream journals that she adapted into Firefly fanfiction, and that after the Avery Ellis scandal, she noticed she was being followed and so went underground. She was working as a server in Pittsburgh when Sam Reynolds tracked her down and asked her to help him find Tara.
Karl van Sant Edit
Nic calls Geoff van Sant to clarify how he found Nic's craigslist ad looking for a runner. He tells Nic that he received an email alert from Karl's email address after he had died, containing only a link to the ad. Geoff chalks it up to someone "messing around", and offers to send Nic the information police were able to link to Geoff's online presence (i.e., email passwords). Nic checks Karl's email after Geoff passes him the information, and notices that his Gmail account was mysteriously reset. MK points out that it's not that the account was shut down and re-established, but that someone had managed to take his profile seemingly back in time to when it was first set up. MK calls it a "perfect source reset", and brings new information to Nic regarding the Skype profile on his work computer: she had tracked the IP address to the Ukraine, where the unidentified user was also looking into the death of Karl van Sant.
Parzavala Communications Classified Ads Edit
While Nic and PNWS staff were at the library researching references to the TeslaNova Corporation, an intern found a classified ad from a newspaper in Coeur d'Alene stating, "Join Parzavela Communications for our annual corporate retreat. Reply per instructions." They had found back issues of the paper and discovered a similar notice had been placed every year. Nic called the number in the ad and got a recording of his phone number on a continuous loop. When MK runs Nic's number, she sees it's listed as Parzavala Communication's technical support.
MK ends their conversation by mentioning that she couldn't find any record of Strange Worlds magazine existing after the first issue that Nic has in his possession, and the cover artist can't remember the issue on Nic's copy being used for anything. Nic tracks down information on the magazine, and discovers that they were bought out and shuttered after the first issue by an unknown company.
Carmen Pardo Edit
Nic interviews Carmen over the phone after MK traced Vincent Pardo's sister to Olympia. Carmen says Vincent had cancer, and she understood Karl van Sant was promising Vincent a miracle cure at an expensive cost. When he ran out of money Vincent approached Carmen, and when she wouldn't accommodate his request, Vincent became angry, saying he "was going somewhere special", and that Karl would be his "runner" on the journey. After Nic expresses his condolences for her loss, Carmen explains Vincent's cancer was actually in remission, and that he was killed in a hit-and-run which she doesn't believe was accidental.
Journal Entry Day 2 Edit
Alex reads the second entry in the unidentified journal, where the author continues on their journey. He or she mentions getting little sleep for the noises in the night around their tent, and they describe their surroundings as smelling like "a singular kind of humidity". They note that something feels different this morning, that the other members of the party have changed somehow. The runner returns from wherever she was, and they resume their journey.
Recurring Characters Edit
Nic Silver, producer and host
Sam Reynolds, Tara Reynolds' brother
Carmen Pardo, Vincent Pardo's sister
Morgan Miller, author of Pacifica
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Aegis 2000
maxgross
The Aegis 2000 is no longer sold, but I am wondering if the plug-in will support it.
THANKS for a great plug-in!
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Rick Tinker
I am not as familiar with the Aegis models as I am the HAI and OnQ ones, but if the 2000 is what was roughly equivelent to the Omni Pro, and if the 2000 is the one that has been around for years, then yes, it will work and will continue to work. Any new features put into the plug-in requiring a firmware upgrade will of course leave the Aegis 2000 behind, but hopefully that won't happen!
I stopped to see Aegis at CEDIA but despite having a large display wall in a booth, there was nobody around to talk to, so I could not get an update on the product line as it has apparently made the move to new owners from Home Systems Plus.
The Aegis is supported in the HAI plug-in, not the OnQ version.
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Case: Julia Junge and Richard Junge, v. Geron Corp. and John Scarlett, No. C 20-00547 WHA (N.D. Cal.)
Court: United States District Court for the Northern District of California
Class Period: March 19, 2018 - September 26, 2018
Attorneys: Robert N. Kaplan, Jeffrey P. Campisi, Laurence D. King, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , Blair E. Reed
JULIA JUNGE and RICHARD JUNGE, on behalf of themselves and a class of similarly situated investors,
Plaintiffs,
GERON CORPORATION and JOHN A. SCARLETT,
Case No.: 3:20-cv-00547-WHA
(Consolidated with Case
No. 3:20-cv-01163-WHA)
(Related Cases:
No. 3:20-cv-02823-WHA
No. 3:22-mc-80051-WHA)
SUMMARY NOTICE OF (I) PROPOSED SETTLEMENT AND PLAN OF ALLOCATION; (II) SETTLEMENT FAIRNESS HEARING; AND (III) MOTION FOR ATTORNEYS' FEES AND LITIGATION EXPENSES AND SERVICE AWARDS TO LEAD PLAINTIFFS
To: All persons who purchased Geron Corporation ("Geron") common stock during the period from March 19, 2018, to September 26, 2018, inclusive (the "Class Period"), and who were damaged thereby (the "Class").1
PLEASE READ THIS NOTICE CAREFULLY, YOUR RIGHTS WILL BE AFFECTED BY THE SETTLEMENT OF A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT PENDING IN THIS COURT.
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED, pursuant to Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and an Order of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, that the Court-appointed Lead Plaintiffs and Class Representatives, Julia Junge and Richard Junge, on behalf of themselves and the Court-certified Class in the above-captioned securities class action (the "Action"), have reached a proposed settlement of the Action with defendants Geron Corporation ("Geron") and John A. Scarlett ("Scarlett", and together with Geron, the "Defendants") for $24,000,000 ($17,000,000 in cash, and $7,000,000 in Settlement Stock and/or cash, at Geron's option).2 The Court has given preliminary approval to the Settlement, but has invited your comments and objections and would like to take into account the Class members' views of the Settlement before making a final decision on March 30, 2023. If the Settlement is approved by the Court, it will resolve and dismiss with prejudice all claims in the Action.
A Settlement Fairness Hearing will be held on March 30, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time, before the Honorable William Alsup, either in person at the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco Courthouse, Courtroom 12 - 19th Floor, 450 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94102, or by telephone or videoconference (in the discretion of the Court) to determine: (i) whether the proposed Settlement should be approved as fair, reasonable, and adequate; (ii) whether the Action should be dismissed with prejudice against Defendants, and the Releases specified and described in the Stipulation and Agreement of Settlement ("Stipulation") dated September 2, 2022 should be granted3; (iii) whether the proposed Plan of Allocation should be approved as fair and reasonable; and (iv) whether Lead Counsel's application for an award of attorneys' fees and payment of Litigation Expenses should be approved, as well as the application for service awards to the Lead Plaintiffs.
Lead Counsel Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer LLP (also serving as Court-appointed Class Counsel), has been prosecuting the Action on a wholly contingent basis, has not received any payment of attorneys' fees for their representation of the Class and have advanced the funds to pay Litigation Expenses necessarily incurred to prosecute the Action. Lead Counsel will apply to the Court for an award of attorneys' fees in an amount not to exceed 18% of the Settlement Fund, or $4.32 million, plus interest. In addition, Lead Counsel will apply for payment of Litigation Expenses in connection with the institution, prosecution, and resolution of the Action in an amount not to exceed $1,140,000. Lead Counsel will also apply for up to $12,500 in total service award payments for the Lead Plaintiffs. Any fees, Litigation Expenses and/or service awards approved by the Court will be paid solely from the Settlement Fund. Class Members are not personally liable for any such fees, Litigation Expenses or service awards. The estimated average cost for such fees, awards and expenses, if the Court approves Lead Counsel's fee and expense application, including the service awards to the Lead Plaintiffs, is $0.04 per affected share. Based on Lead Plaintiffs' damages expert's estimate of the number of shares of Geron common stock purchased during the Class Period that may have been affected by the conduct at issue in the Action, and assuming that all Class Members elect to participate in the Settlement, the estimated average recovery (before the deduction of any Court-approved fees, Litigation Expenses, awards and costs as described herein) is $0.17 per affected share.
If you have not yet received the full printed Notice of (I) Proposed Settlement and Plan of Allocation; (II) Settlement Hearing; and (III) Motion for Attorneys' Fees and Litigation Expenses and Service Awards to Lead Plaintiffs (the "Settlement Notice") and the Claim Form, you may obtain copies of these documents by contacting the Claims Administrator at Geron Securities Litigation, c/o Epiq Class Action & Claims Solutions, P.O. Box 4574, Portland, OR 97208-4574, 1-844-754-5537, or at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Copies of the Settlement Notice and Claim Form can also be downloaded from the website for the Action,
The Settlement Notice and Claim Form may also be viewed on this website at the links below through the date of the Settlement Fairness Hearing:
NOTICE OF (I) PROPOSED SETTLEMENT AND PLAN OF ALLOCATION; (II) SETTLEMENT FAIRNESS HEARING; AND (III) MOTION FOR ATTORNEYS' FEES AND LITIGATION EXPENSES AND SERVICE AWARDS TO LEAD PLAINTIFFS
PROOF OF CLAIM AND RELEASE FORM
If you are a Class Member, in order to be eligible to receive a payment under the proposed Settlement, you must submit a Claim Form either online to the Claims Administrator at www.GeronSecuritiesLitigation.com or send it by First-Class U.S. mail (and if mailed, postmarked) by no later than midnight Pacific Time on February 16, 2023, in accordance with the instructions set forth in the Settlement Notice. If you are a Class Member and do not submit a Claim Form with all required information and supporting documentation, you will not be eligible to share in the distribution of the Net Settlement Fund, but you will nevertheless be bound by any judgments or orders entered by the Court in the Action, including the Releases specified and described in the Stipulation and Settlement Notice.
If you are a member of the Class and wish to exclude yourself from the Class, you must submit a request for exclusion and submit it either online to the Claims Administrator at www.GeronSecuritiesLitigation.com or send it by First-Class U.S. mail (and if mailed, postmarked) by no later than March 9, 2023 at midnight Pacific Time, in accordance with the instructions set forth in the Settlement Notice, unless you have previously submitted a request for exclusion in response to the Original Class Notice. If you properly exclude yourself from the Class, you will not be bound by any judgments or orders entered by the Court in the Action and you will not be eligible to share in the proceeds of the Settlement or to object to the Settlement.
Any objections to the proposed Settlement, the proposed Plan of Allocation, and/or Class Counsel's application for attorneys' fees and payment of Litigation Expenses or service awards to Lead Plaintiffs, must be received by the Court no later than March 9, 2023 at midnight Pacific Time (the "Objection Deadline"), in accordance with the instructions set forth in the Settlement Notice (which notice provides options available at the Court for Class Members to file the objections electronically on the docket for the Action by the Objection Deadline, to visit locations of the Court to file the objections by the Objection Deadline, or to mail the objections to a designated contact point and address at the Court, with the mailing postmarked by the Objection Deadline.
Please do not contact the Court, the Clerk's office, Defendants, or Defendants' Counsel regarding this notice. All questions about this notice, the proposed Settlement, or your eligibility to participate in the Settlement should be directed to the Claims Administrator or Class Counsel.
Please note that the Court may change the date and time of the Settlement Fairness Hearing without further notice to the Class, and Class Members should check www.GeronSecuritiesLitigation.com or the Court's PACER website to confirm that the hearing date has not been changed. Information and further guidance on how to access the Court's case docket or PACER is contained in the Settlement Notice. You may also visit Judge Alsup's webpage on the Northern District of California website at https://www.cand.uscourts.gov/judges/alsup-william-wha/, where there is a link to view the schedule for upcoming hearings and other information.
Requests for the Settlement Notice and Claim Form should be made to:
Geron Securities Litigation
c/o Epiq Class Action & Claims Solutions
Inquiries, other than requests for the Settlement Notice and Claim Form should be made to Lead/ Class Counsel:
Laurence D. King, Esq.
KAPLAN FOX & KILSHEIMER LLP
1999 Harrison Street, Suite 1560
Jeffrey P. Campisi, Esq.
Questions? Visit www.GeronSecuritiesLitigation.com or call 1-844-754-5537
1 Certain persons and entities are excluded from the Class by definition and others are excluded pursuant to request. The full definition of the Class, including a complete description of who is excluded from the Class, is set forth in the Settlement Notice referred to herein.
2 No Settlement Stock will be issued to Class Members. Rather, Settlement Stock will be sold and the proceeds maintained as part of the Settlement Fund for distribution as ordered by the Court.
3 All capitalized terms herein have the same meaning as set forth in the Stipulation.
Kaplan Fox is the court-appointed lead counsel in this securities class action on behalf of all purchasers of Geron common stock between March 19, 2018 and September 26, 2018, inclusive (the "Class Period"), who were damaged thereby (the "Class"). The claims asserted herein are alleged against Geron, and the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer ("CEO") John A. Scarlett ("Scarlett"), and arise under Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act"),15 U.S.C. §§ 78j(b) and 78t(a), and SEC Rule 10b-5, 17 C.F.R. § 240.10b-5, promulgated thereunder. A copy of the Amended Consolidated Complaint can be found here.
On April 12, 2021, the Court granted in part and denied in part Defendants' motion to dismiss. A copy of the Court's order can be found here.
A copy of the court's April 2022 decision certifying the class can be found here.
The Claims Administrator Contact Information:
c/o Epiq Class Action & Claims Solutions P.O. Box 4574 Portland, OR 97208-4574
Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Summary Notice of Proposed Settlement
Notice of Proposed Settlement
www.geronsecuritieslitigation.com


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This page is a time-line of published security lapses committed by governmental entities in the UK, including data security breaches.  This article does not attempt to capture security vulnerabilities.

Timeline

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 December 2004 - An undercover journalist reportedly entered restricted areas and walked unchecked and unnoticed around passenger aircraft due to take off from London Heathrow airport. The journalist also entered British Airways offices and other out-of-bounds areas at the London airport which housed confidential security documents.
 April 2007 - Medical Training Application Service (MTAS) was an on-line application system for the selection of junior doctors, and allocating them to jobs in the UK. Personal details (including phone numbers, home addresses and sexual orientation) of junior doctors became publicly available for several hours to anyone with the right URL. It was also reported that applicants had been able to see each other's files by changing two digits in the personalised web address given to each individual, and the MTAS system was eventually suspended.
 July 2007 - Newcastle City Council admitted that personal data and payment card details of up to 54,000 local residents had been downloaded from an insecure server to an IP address outside the country. The stolen data included names, addresses and card details from transactions between February 2006 and April 2007, mainly for payment of council tax, business rates, parking fines or council housing rent.
 October 2007 - A laptop containing sensitive financial details of up to 400 customers of several financial institutions was stolen from the car of an HM Revenue and Customs employee the earlier month  The laptop was protected by "a complex password and top level encryption". The theft also involved a printout of some names and financial details.
 November 2007 - Two discs containing information on 25 million British Citizens disappeared after being sent through the courier used by HM Revenue and Customs office. A junior bureaucrat sent the discs in the post from HM Revenue and Customs to the National Audit Office in London. The discs were believed to contain names, addresses, dates of birth, national insurance numbers and in some cases banking details for 25 million adults and children.

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Chess calendar 2016-2017 virginia scholastic chess tournament calendar. this calendar is intended to be a resource for virgina scholastic chess players & parents.
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Douglas Rayner Hartree
Born: 27 March 1897 in Cambridge, England
Died: 12 February 1958 in Cambridge, England
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Douglas Hartree's parents were Eva Rayner, who played a major role in public life being president of the National Council of Women and mayor of Cambridge, and William Hartree who taught in the engineering laboratory a the University of Cambridge. Eva and William had three sons; Douglas was the oldest and both of his two younger brothers died before reaching adulthood.
Douglas's school education was in Cambridge and Petersfield. It was at Bedales school that he first became interested in mathematics and this was due to the excellent teaching of the subject at that school. He entered St John's College Cambridge in 1915 but World War I interrupted his studies and he joined a team studying anti-aircraft gunnery.
He returned to Cambridge after the war and graduated in 1921 but, perhaps because of his interrupted studies, he only obtained a Second Class degree in Natural Sciences. However he went on to obtain a doctorate in 1926 and, after being a Fellow of St John's College (1924-27) and Christ's College (1928-29), he was appointed professor of applied mathematics at the University of Manchester. During his studies at Cambridge he married Elaine Charlton of Keswick in 1923. They had one daughter and two sons.
Hartree held the chair at Manchester from 1929 to 1937 when he moved to the chair of theoretical physics. After undertaking work with the Ministry of Supply during World War II, he was appointed Plummer Professor of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge in 1946. He held this post until his death.
Hartree was basically a theoretical physicist, and he developed powerful methods in numerical analysis. His initial interest in numerical methods arose from his work on anti-aircraft gunnery in 1916-18. However Niels Bohr gave a lecture course in Cambridge in 1921 and Hartree was much influenced, working on applications of numerical methods for integrating differential equations to calculate atomic wave functions.
Hartree learnt of a differential analyzer being developed by Vannevar Bush in the USA. This machine, first proposed by Lord Kelvin (William Thomson), performs integration with a wheel rolling on a rotating disk. Hartree visited Boston to learn about the workings of the differential analyzer, then returned to Manchester and built his own.
The differential analyzer was soon to be replaced by electronic computers and when John Eckert set up ENIAC, Hartree was asked to go to the USA to advise on its use. He showed how to use ENIAC to calculate trajectories of projectiles. In his inaugural address on his appointment to the chair in Cambridge in 1946 he said:-
It may well be that the high-speed digital computer will have as great an influence on civilization as the advent of nuclear power.
In addition to applying numerical methods to ballistics, Hartree applied them to the physics of the atmosphere and to hydrodynamics. He wrote a number of important books including Numerical analysis in 1952 which became a classic of the subject. In this book he writes:-
Anyone intending to undertake a serious piece of calculation should realise that adequate checking against mistakes is an essential part of any satisfactory numerical process. No one, and no machine, is infallible, and it may fairly be said that the ideal to aim at is not to avoid mistakes entirely, but to find all mistakes that are made, and so free the work from any unidentified mistakes.
One of Hartree's strengths was in the breadth of his research knowledge. He was also an outstanding lecturer, able to sum up the level of his audience with his intuition, and brilliantly pitch his explanations for maximum effect. He had many interests outside mathematics, especially music with both his piano playing and conducting an amateur orchestra. Another interest, which he had from boyhood, was railways, particularly in the problems of signalling. He put his mathematical skills to good use in this hobby later in his life when he advised railway companies on their traffic problems.
He is described in [2] as follows:-
The kindest of men, he set up or recognised no barriers between himself and others; differences in age, in particular, meant nothing to him and men a fraction of his age felt at ease in his presence.
List of References (5 books/articles)
A Poster of Douglas Hartree
Additional Material in MacTutor
Jean Bartik's comments on her colleagues
Obituary: The Times
A picture of ENIAC
Multiple entries in The Mathematical Gazetteer of the British Isles
Honours awarded to Douglas Hartree
(Click below for those honoured in this way)
1. Fellow of the Royal Society 1932
Dictionary of National Biography
JOC/EFR © October 2003
https://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hartree.html


A project you will be working on in the future, Project #3 (see Anthropological Research Methods–Project #3: Group Poster Presentation), will have you analyze cross-cultural data using SPSS 10 and report your findings in the form of a research poster. Before you can undertake this project, you need to develop a cross-cultural data set. That is the main goal of this project. In order to attain this goal, you first need to generate hypotheses that can be tested with cross-cultural data, and develop conceptual and operational definitions of the hypotheses' variables.
You will work in pairs. Start by looking at the following cross-cultural data set called the Standard Sample-Probability Sample Data, Revised (see * below). A link to this data set is found by accessing the syllabus for this course from my website (http://huberb.people.cofc.edu/www/) at College of Charleston. This is an SPSS 10 data file. You'll be able to open this link because our campus' computer labs have SPSS 10 installed on them.
Note by the editors: The following instructions are specifically for College of Charleston students. Performing these exercises requires the statistical software program SPSS version 10 for other users.
You will see that this data set has lots of variables already coded. To see that these variables deal with different characteristics of cultures, select the "Variable View" tab at the bottom of the page, and look at the "labels" and "values". An even better way to look at all of the variables is to return to the "Data View" and select "Utilities" and "File Information". (After you do that, I suggest you right click on the "List of Variables on the working file", and scroll down to the "SPSSrtf document object", and then click "open". You should be able to scroll all the way down to Variable O914 if you want to. I caution you against printing out the entire list of variables since that would use up a lot of paper. For your convenience, you can look at the variable list by clicking a link found on my online syllabus called, "Standard Sample-Probability Sample, Revised Variable List".
Now that you have familiarized yourselves with this data set, randomly select 30 of 39 cultures. Then delete the 9 cultures that were not randomly selected. Afterwards, save the file under a new name like, "PROJECT3.sav". Eventually you will be adding 4 of your own variables to this data set, but that comes later, in Project #3.
*What is a data set? In a nutshell, it contains ethnographic data of all sorts for the 39 societies that are found in both the Standard Cross Cultural Sample and the Probability Sample. No variable in this data set has more than 30% of its cases missing.
1) All of your hypotheses should deal with different aspects of the same topic, e.g., different aspects of marriage or food production or medicinal plant use. Select a topic that you are very interested it.
2) Each of the four hypotheses should contain two (2) and only two variables. One of the variables in each hypothesis should come from those that are already in the "Standard Sample – Probability Sample data" file. You create the other variable. It should deal with an aspect of a culture that interests you. See also Basic Guide to Cross-Cultural Research.
Your project consists of you and your partner jointly turning in Parts 1-6 below. One copy of your work with both of your names on it is sufficient. Parts 1, 2, 3, and 5 must be typed and double-spaced. You can use a pen or pencil for Parts 4 and 6.
1) Clearly state four (4) RELATED hypotheses.
2) Give conceptual ("dictionary") definitions of each of your eight (8) variables. Four variables will come from the pre-existing data set. The other four (4) will be created by you.
a) You will use the information you collect from the eHRAF to assign values to your variables for each of the 30 societies in your sample. See pp. 38-40 of Bernard's book titled Social Research Methods text for ideas.
b) Some concepts are much more difficult to operationalize than others using ethnographic data. This is because ethnographers do not attend to some subjects at all or because they pay little attention to some topics, e.g., few ethnographies contain information on the pH of the soil.
c) Concepts may be difficult to operationalize because they are quite abstract, like the concepts of "community solidarity" or the "relative status of women". My advice is for you to develop definitions for specific variables. For example, instead of "relative status of women" look at "number of political offices women are reported to hold".
d) Designing operational definitions requires some trial-and-error. You can expect to develop a tentative definition and discover that you can't find that kind of information in the eHRAF files. This means that you will need to revise your definition.
For a discussion of operational definitions see Bernard's book titled Social Research Methods and the Basic Guide to Cross-Cultural Research.
4) Systematically collect and record information for the four (4) variables you created using a code sheet similar to the one in the sample project. Then use this information to assign values/codes to all 30 cultures for all four (4) variables. This is a very time consuming process but it is made easier if the four variables you selected are very specific.
5) Now that you've come up with operational definitions for your variables, and have collected and recorded information on them, be sure to indicate whether they are at the nominal, ordinal, interval or ratio level of measurement.
6) Using a chart, enter the values for all four of the variables you created for all 30 of the societies you randomly selected. See the example of a chart at the end of the project. Values can be either letters or numbers, but I very strongly suggest that you use NUMBERS. Values are ideally assigned on the basis of good, clear, unambiguous operational definitions.
1999 Social Research Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches. Sage Publications Incorporated.
Check to see how much variability is in your variables. Your values should not all be the same. If there is little variability, this is reason for concern. Come talk to me if you encounter this problem.


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West Plains ist eine Stadt innerhalb des US-Bundesstaates Missouri und der Verwaltungssitz des Howell County. Gemäß Volkszählung aus dem Jahr 2020 hatte die Stadt 12.184 Einwohner.

Geschichte
Die Geschichte von West Plains lässt sich bis ins Jahr 1832 zurückverfolgen, als der Siedler Josiah Howell (nach dem das Howell County benannt ist) die erste Siedlung in der als Howell Valley bekannten Region gründete. West Plains wurde so genannt, weil die Siedlung auf einer Prärie in westlicher Richtung von der nächstgelegenen Stadt, Thomasville, lag. Die Lage von West Plains führte aufgrund der Nähe zur damaligen Grenze zwischen der Union und der Konföderation zu nahezu ständigen Konflikten. West Plains wurde größtenteils niedergebrannt, und das gesamte Howell County wurde verwüstet. In West Plains oder Howell County kam es zu keinen größeren Schlachten, aber ein Großteil der Verwüstungen war auf einen ständigen Guerillakrieg zurückzuführen.

Demografie
Nach der Volkszählung von 2020 leben in West Plains 12.184 Menschen. Die Bevölkerung teilt sich im Jahr 2019 auf in 96,9 % Weiße, 0,2 % Afroamerikaner, 0,7 % amerikanische Ureinwohner, 0,3 % Asiaten, 2,0 % mit zwei oder mehr Ethnizitäten. Hispanics oder Latinos aller Ethnien machten 1,6 % der Bevölkerung aus. Das mittlere Haushaltseinkommen lag bei 36.865 US-Dollar und die Armutsquote bei 27,6 %.

Verkehr
Das Gebiet von West Plains wird von der U.S. Route 63 erschlossen, die am westlichen und südlichen Rand der Stadt entlangführt. Mit dem West Plains Regional Airport befindet sich hier auch ein Regionalflughafen.

Söhne und Töchter der Stadt

 Dick Van Dyke (* 1925), Fernseh- und Filmschauspieler
 Porter Wagoner (1927–2007), Country-Sänger

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Modern marketing methods should be employed.
Gone are the days when traditional methods of informing people about your business would be your only option. These days, non-traditional methods of advertising your wholesale sunglasses business are not only available, but they are also proving to be quite effective. Get the Internet, social media, and email to be your friend in getting more customers. These days, if you don't use these "modern" methods of marketing, your competitors will.
The transition from "working in" your business to "working on" your business.
The problem with most business owners is that they love taking responsibilities for all facets of making their business that they assume the role of being the employee. If you really want to progress your business and bring it to the next level, then you would need to assume lesser roles and oversee rather than being busy with each and every detail of the business. Been too busy working in your business will not allow you to see the big picture, and chances are, you will miss opportunities for growth and other larger issues.
You need to secure funding to let your business afloat for the next two years, at least. The thing is, any business will be out of the red by that amount of time. If you don't have that enough funding to last you that long, your business will not progress. That is not to say that you should be confident because you have funding to last you that long, but you would need to be sure that there is enough money for you to realize plans of expansion or growing. Otherwise, your business will be in a stagnant state.
Make sure that financial projections and plans are strategic and feasible.
If you want to have a scalable business, you need to study trends and project on how your business will fare in the next year or two. "Playing it by ear" and "going with the flow" will not get you a scalable business. You need to know how financially sound your business is and will be so you can expand and grow.
As a business owner do you know why you should have a good business card? It gives your business, a complete professional look. Through this card, you tend to make a strong and lasting impression on your clients and prospective customers. Hence designing your ID card properly with all the required information on it is very essential to impress your clients and enhance your business and make it more profitable.
Now let's concentrate on some important tips, which can help you design the ideal ID card or business card.
1. Don't opt for a cheap method for designing your card. It will create a wrong impression about your business to your first time customers or clients. Hence, by going cheap you are not doing any kind of favor to yourself. Chances are that you are missing out on opportunities which ultimately could have helped you to enhance your scope in your business.
2. Take help from professional designers to design your business card, unless you can enough to design it yourself, and give all the important details in it. Design it in such a way that it can create a positive impact about your business in the clients' minds.
3. Try to keep your business card simple. The conventional size of a business card is 3.5″x 2″, so hardly there remains space to work on. So one has to put information very judiciously so it doesn't look clumsy. Don't make the logo too big. And keep the size of the type in such a size that it becomes comfortably legible. Keep good extent of white space.
4. For making your business card memorable to the clients, you can design it in round, oval or any other shape instead of the conventional rectangular shape. But you must keep in mind that round or other shaped cards won't fit in a regular rectangular card holder.
5. Only give important information on the card like your name, company name, company logo, phone, fax and mobile numbers, email address, company's website address, your company's address. A simple and clean card is always desired. So don't use all the white space. And try to keep the back of the card absolutely clean with only the main tagline of your company.
6. You can consider using membership card software to design such cards. There are a lot of professional membership card software's that are used to create ID cards for your business and for managing the organization. Membership Card Maker is one such software which can create a multi layered membership card.
7. Businessmen use loyalty programs to make the clients and the customers to get back to their business all the time. In America if a business person is into marketing more than 65%, then he is possibly using loyalty program. While designing your own business ID card you can use loyalty program software for creating a feeling of loyalty in the hearts of your customers.
Keep all these above points in mind and these will ultimately help you to successfully design ideal ID cards for your business.
If you are thinking about starting your own business online, then you must first consider developing a proper business plan, and make sure you document it carefully. Since starting an online business does not require much investment, many entrepreneurs overlook the importance of creating business plans.
Well, they are bound to fail, because a carefully documented business plan is not an option. Even if you do not require a plan for securing finance, it will still come handy while making business proposals or presentations to your prospective clients. Most importantly, it will help you in measuring your business progress, and also keep you focused on the right direction.
Please be reminded that the plan that you create should make room for scalability, growth, and changes whenever required. If some strategy is not giving you the kind of breakthrough or result that you expected, then you might have to rethink over it again. Business plan should be flexible for changes.
If you do not have much idea about how to write a business plan, then you could look for software applications that are available on the net. By using such planning software, you will be able to get the skeletal structure of your document, which you can customize according to your business type and goals.
Business summary – Here you will need to describe your business type, mission, vision, goals, products or services, customers, etc.
Business name - You will need to choose a name that will help you in branding your business effectively and for building credibility with your customers and stakeholders. Of course, business names can be changed, but it will involve a lot of procedural works. Also, it could slow down the progress. Hence, make sure that you choose a business name that you would want to stay for good.
Identify your niche customers or clients – You will need to describe your products or services in such a way that they appeal to your prospective customers. Speak about what you can give to your customers that your competitors cannot. At the same time, you can also look at your products or services critically, in order to identify the areas where you can improve their quality.
Analysis and assessment – Obviously, there will be investments involved, but before spending money, you will need to conduct a proper assessment, and analyze if the business is feasible or not. Here you will need to list out your strengths, limitations or weaknesses, opportunities and threats, and then analyze them closely to come up with strategies to overcome the limitations, and minimize the threats.
Goal setting - Here, you will need to list out both the long-term goals, and the short term goals. Each of your goals should have proper timeframes for completions.
Marketing plan – The success of your business will ultimately depend upon how many customers or clients you get. Internet offers plenty of opportunities for everyone to market their businesses and make money online. You can easily reach out to thousands of prospective customers or clients without spending too much money.
You can also find a lot of resources on the net that can give you ideas about how to make money online. Alternatively, you could hire a professional internet marketing company to help you promote your business effectively.
If you are able to attract targeted traffic to your business website, and if you keep working on improving the sales conversions, you will surely get excellent returns on your investments.


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Even more Beautiful returns
Australia's Beautiful Girls return to Whistler for two shows at GLC
by Nicole Fitzgerald
"There needs to be more rockin'." Matthew McHugh,
Who: The Beautiful Girls
When: Aug. 27 & 28
Where: Garibaldi Lift Company (GLC)
With a new skin basher Australia's The Beautiful Girls – which is a band of blokes – have another direction to take their award-winning music.
"He's an old friend of ours," frontman Matthew McHugh says of new drummer Bruce Braybrooke.
"He's great to have on tour," said McHugh, who was reached on the band's touring bus making its way from Portugal to Amsterdam. "As a drummer, we've got a lot more we can do. It can go anywhere now. There needs to be more rockin'. We can take it on any tangent we want because he can technically pull anything off. It's a great thing."
One tangent the band will be taking is to Whistler, for two shows at the Garibaldi Lift Company, Aug. 27 and 28.
The new band member also marks the end of an era for Australia's number one band as well as a new beginning; one McHugh aims to capture on the band's next album, a live recording mix from concerts around the world.
"With a new drummer, things are sounding a little different," McHugh said. "We've been wanting to do a live album for a while now."
The trio of McHugh, Braybrooke and bassist Clay McDonald are reaching a turning point in their career with their music stretching outside of their home turf with sold-out tours through Europe and North America.
The Beautiful Girls are just wrapping up the last stop on their European tour, closing out in Belgium with Los Lobos.
"I really love Europe," McHugh says. "It's good to get out for Australia's winter."
The band was also recently nominated for two 2006 APRA Song Awards, the Australian equivalent of Canada's Juno Awards.
"It's done really well," McHugh said of the band's most recent album We're Already Gone , which departs from acoustics and moves forward with electric guitar, keyboards, brass and even harp solos.
"I think the record is more about what we wanted to write and play; it doesn't matter what instruments are there," McHugh said. "The criteria has always been to do whatever we want to do. We make that the number one priority, otherwise you just end up repeating yourself – creating what you think people want. It's creative suicide."
From the desperation of blues and sensitivity of soul to big bass lines of dub and classic lines of rock 'n' roll, The Beautiful Girls style and content transcends boundaries.
"We are starting to get a name," McHugh said. "It's been kind of an underground thing. In Australia, it's crossing over to mainstream. I think it's all hinging on the next record. I think the next one is really important for us."
The Beautiful Girls will bring almost two albums worth of new music in their suitcase to Whistler, although McHugh says they don't want to give it all away.
"It's like opening your Christmas presents before Christmas; you want some element of surprise," he said.
Sample the boys' tracks at www.thebeautifulgirls.com.
The Beautiful Girls will be joined by an opening performance from singer/songwriter Hayley Sales. The Universal recording artist is currently promoting her new album, Sunseed .
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I appreciate having a desk job (although I miss the nightly workout).
There were nights that the task list in my head was large enough that if someone asked how they could help, it was easier just to turn them down flat. All I really needed was to get to the computer.
If you've worked in the restaurant industry, you remember the feeling of waiting for a computer and strongly considering bumping ahead so you could get a drink order in that you just pretended you didn't forget about (even though you did). Think about how essential the computer was for operations. It was the hub that allowed you make just about everything happen.
As a manager, I knew the factor that likely affected servers the most was not knowing the computer screens. I may be referencing the restaurant industry here, but I think the same concept can be applied to most any job. Usability of the technology that we work with on a daily basis is one of the single largest factors in the underlying success of our employees. Let's look at this through the eyes of an event professional, shall we?
It's easy to think that spreadsheets and original documents can be the solve-all solution to your business needs. Each field that is entered is created by the user. There's hardly any adaptation in making it work because it's custom. There are certain downfalls with using this as a services solution, however: multiple users create multiple versions, an unstable file size, human error, etc. The drawbacks far outweigh the benefits: custom, available and (essentially) known by everyone.
On the other hand, you've got event management solutions touted as "best-of-breed" options that are focused on one or two specific functions. Although they seem to include most of the features you think you need up front, it often doesn't take too long to notice shortcomings. Why? Wasn't this software supposed to be the best option for you?
When event professionals have been using the same system for a long time, whether that be spreadsheets, a binder of notes, a wall calendar, and so-on, it can be hard to shake the habit. I mentioned the restaurant industry earlier because I can recall a time when we changed the POSI-touch system that was on our computers. Although the interface and usability features were comparable, there was one thing that was not: terminology. What were once called beverages were now listed as drinks, and although the difference seems subtle, it can be enough to throw an employee off her game (even if just for a moment).
Most of the best-of-breed solutions aren't going to allow this level of customization. What one may call a "hold" another may refer to as "pending." However, these small nuances can make a dramatic difference in usability and adoption rates. When management has the ability to dictate these custom-fields, implementation is a much smoother process.
This is but one small consideration when making a software infrastructure decision. We've discussed in great detail the other considerations that need to be made in Part 1, Software Decision: Best of Breed or Integrated Solution & Part 2, Software Decision: Infrastructure of our blog series by Ungerboeck's Executive Director for Customer Success, Ken Treadway. Stay tuned for Part 3 in which we'll discuss the value proposition of software selections.


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Who is Natalia Veselnitskaya: Five Fast Facts You Need to Know
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The Russian lawyer at the center of the Donald Trump Jr. meeting controversy has been described as a Kremlin insider, a low-level lawyer, and everything else in between. Just who is Natalia Veselnitskaya? Four Fast facts you need to know:
1) Business Class:
Veselnitskaya is hardly a Kremlin VIP. She spent most of her law career litigating business disputes in the suburbs surrounding Moscow. Notwithstanding, Natalia had taken on a notable case that aligned with the goals of the Kremlin and became increasingly friendly with Russia's most powerful government prosecutor.
2) Passion for Magnitsky:
The Magnitsky Act passed in 2012, imposed sanctions on Russia for the death of a Russian lawyer in prison for whom the act is named. Veselnitskaya was the attorney for the defendant, Denis Katsyv, who was charged with laundering money from a $230 million tax fraud discovered by lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who later died in prison. She was passionate about getting The Magnitsky Act repealed, and in turn, having Russia lift the ban on adoption of Russian children by Americans. The meeting with Donald Trump Junior may have been her way of trying to bend a sympathetic ear to a cause near to her heart.
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3) Say What?
The email sent to Donald Trump Jr by Australian publicist, Ron Goldstone, suggested this Russian lawyer had the goods on Hillary Clinton. During the brief meeting, no goods were delivered. Natalia contends that no one in the Russian government had anything to do with setting up this conference. "My meeting with Trump's son was a private one," she said, "no one in the government had anything to do with it."
4) Social Media Trail
According to social media posts and photographs, Veselnitskaya attended at least two Anti-Trump rallies and was interested in American politics. She was also linked to the Democratic psyops research firm, Fusion GPS. President Trump's legal team put out this statement: "We have learned that the person who sought the meeting is associated with Fusion GPS, a firm, which according to public reports, was retained by Democratic operatives to develop opposition research on the President and which commissioned the phony Steele dossier." These facts have led some to speculate that Trump Jr. was set-up by Ms. Veselnitskaya and some in the Democrat party.
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5) Obama's Special Access
Natalia Veselnitskaya received a waiver to enter the US from the Department of Justice — during the Barack Obama administration. According to The Hill's John Solomon:
The Russian lawyer who penetrated Donald Trump's inner circle was initially cleared into the United States by the Justice Department under "extraordinary circumstances" before she embarked on a lobbying campaign last year that ensnared the president's eldest son, members of Congress, journalists and State Department officials, according to court and Justice Department documents and interviews.
This means it was Obama's Justice Department headed by Loretta Lynch, who enabled the woman at the center of this controversy to enter the country without a Visa. With both her Visa denied and parole expired, what was Veselnitskaya still doing in the US in June? She may have been in the US illegally.
Is Natalia Veselnitskaya an innocent lawyer who lied her way into the Trump campaign to advocate for a cause? Or, is Natalia Veselnitskaya a shady operative working for the Democrats or as a spy for a foreign government?
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Will Wall Street set more records today? Here's everything you need to know.
Target's stock price could rise as much as 5% this year, according to an analyst.
Top Wall Street strategists are wasting no time predicting some mind-blowing deals in 2018. Two predictions already making the rounds include Apple buying Netflix and Amazon scooping up Target.
The push for $15 an hour as a starting wage for low-income workers began in New York City in 2012 and has spread to 300 cities on six continents.
Holiday shopping isn't over until you've returned unwanted gifts. Here's how to navigate retailers' varied and confusing holiday return policies.
Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne is now focused on shaking up how Wall Street does business. His approach: tapping in the power of blockchain technology.
The nation's struggling retailers look to have scored a nice gift from Santa Claus: strong holiday sales. On the other hand, Apple's holiday season may not have been too merry.
Have Tax Cuts Stolen Santa's Rally This Year?
This late December-early January move usually does work, but you have to wonder this time.
Judging by the performance of several retail stocks since Black Friday, Amazon's wrath may not have been so severe this holiday season.
Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne has made headlines lately for trying to sell his company to invest in blockchain. Is he closing in on a big deal for the internet retailer? Byrne talks with TheStreet about the move.
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The internet retailer is on a mission to sell itself, freeing CEO Patrick Byrne to pursue a very different mission.
Target is set to move higher, just in time for the holidays.
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One of the most acclaimed Naval scientists in U.S. military history has stated unequivocally that the Roswell crash of 1947 was not of a balloon nor was it a hoax. Based on evidence he had seen in an official capacity, the Commander was instead convinced that the crash represents an event with deep implications for all of mankind. Universally acknowledged as the "grandfather" of satellite technology - and a close associate of Dr. Werner von Braun - Commander George W. Hoover has revealed that the truth about Roswell is far stranger that we have ever dared to think.
Commander George W. Hoover was long associated with the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR). He was also a space program pioneer and innovator of numerous avionic and astronautical devices. Hoover was highly awarded for his technical achievements including the Aviation Week Laureate Award, the American Astronautical Society's Space Flight Award, the Legion of Merit and the British Interplanetary Society's Bronze Medal.
Hoover made enormous contributions to atmospheric balloon research leading to Project Skyhook; the X-15 Jet Aircraft (in developing the D-558-1) and to Werner von Braun's Project Orbiter (resulting in the launch of Explorer I, the first American satellite.) When retired from service, Hoover was a leading consultant to organizations including NASA (providing human standards development for Apollo) General Dynamics, McDonnell Douglas and Curtis Wright. Hoover was also instrumental in the development of the first advanced flight instrumentation and of the first flight simulators. A highly decorated pilot as well, he personally logged over 5,000 flight hours in over 100 types of aircraft.
Dr. Werner von Braun said of Hoover in the early 1950s, "Everybody talks about satellites, then nobody does anything. George Hoover's contribution should never be forgotten." Vice Chief of the Navy, Admiral Harry D. Felt said of Hoover that he offered "the driving spirit, organizing genius, imagination and foresight which set in motion the mighty effort toward the first man-made earth satellite, man's first step toward space flight."
Hoover was not only a technical genius, but also a scientist with far-ranging interest, including studies in cosmology and philosophy. Hoover also had developed theories on the technical feasibility of lunar and Mars bases with the likes of Harvard astronomer Fred Whipple, Arthur C. Clarke and German scientist Krafft A. Ehricke. Hoover's interest extended to the subject of UFOs.
Developing evidence shows that Hoover may well have been assisting Fred Durant of the early UFO government study group "The Robertson Panel" as well as on other official UFO studies with others.
His private interest in such things though is demonstrated in a strange "side" episode in his career: In 1957, Admiral N. Furth (who helped lead the Office of Naval Research) had received in the mail in a manilla envelope a copy of the book "The Case for the UFO" by astronomer Morris K. Jessup. The copy made its way to Major Darrell L. Ritter of ONR. Ritter presented George Hoover and Captain Sidney Sherby with a copy of the book. The version of the book sent to ONR, however, had handwritten comments on the top, bottom and margins of the pages. Now known to have been the scrawls of a dubious character named Carlos Allende, the annotations were nonetheless "interesting." Though clearly amateur, they did in fact speak coincidentally to some of the very areas of technical and theoretical development that George Hoover himself was then engaged. This included notes by Allende about "magnetic fields" "gravity fields" "cosmic rays" and "cloaking technologies." Because of this, Hoover reviewed the material (in a strictly personal capacity) to see if anything of any value could be culled. Of course there was not, but the strange episode demonstrates that Hoover was one of the Navy's foremost "outside of the box" thinkers. Hoover reported back that Allende's wild ideas of naval ship "invisibility" likely found their impetus in routine ship degaussing exercises made at the time.
THE COMMANDER'S NAMESAKE SON: "WHAT HE TOLD ME ABOUT ROSWELL"
George W. Hoover Jr. is the namesake son of Commander George Hoover. Hoover Jr. is himself highly accomplished. He is Berkeley-educated and degreed in Engineering Physics with an MBA from UCLA and a JD from Loyola Law. Hoover Jr. is today a Partner with one of the most prestigious and successful patent law firms in the nation. Hoover Jr. holds US Patents in technologies as far ranging as Energy Storage and 3-D Mapping. Prior to this, Hoover Jr. was a Senior Manager in Advanced Control Systems for Hughes Aircraft.
· Hoover related some of this information to Hoover Jr. as early as the 1960s!
· Hoover told his son "on a number of occasions" the he had personally "seen the evidence about the Roswell crash event that convinced him that it was neither a balloon nor a hoax"
· Hoover Sr. had "both a personal and a professional interest in UFOs"
George Hoover Jr. confirms that his father spoke of the Roswell crash - by name - as early as the 1960s. This is yet another powerful example of people privately speaking of the Roswell crash well before "all of the hoopla" of media attention in beginning in the 1980s and 1990s.
Hoover Jr. also confirms that his father was "professionally" involved in the study of UFOs while at the Navy. He further confirms that his father knew positively - by personal examination of evidence that he deemed conclusive - that the Roswell crash was not resultant from the crash of a balloon and that it was not a hoax. Just what exactly it was though, Hoover Sr. did not seem to want to tell his namesake son.
This author reached out to Fred Durant to see if any more information could be obtained on this. Durant is the former Secretary of the CIA's UFO study group "The Roberston Panel" of 1952, resulting in what is sometimes called the "Durant Report." Fred Durant and George Hoover were very close for a very long time, including when both were at the ONR.
Durant is now 94 years old and living in North Carolina. He is still well-spoken and sharp, but very guarded. He was extraordinarily evasive with me in both emails (sent through his assistant, as Durant is now nearly blind) as well as in phone conversation. Durant still speaks like a spook. The former CIA Agent qualified his responses to me several times and prefaced his answers with seemingly well-rehearsed phrases common to those in Intelligence: "I have no reason to believe" and "To my knowledge."
When asked about what Durant felt about the true nature of the Roswell crash, Durant replied, "To my knowledge, all investigations of Roswell were concluded years ago." Later he stated "to my knowledge, the story of the Roswell crash was one of misidentification of a Mogul balloon." Finally on the matter he said, "I do not believe that any evidence of unknown phenomena was obtained."
Durant spoke fondly of Hoover and confirmed to me that he worked with him and had known him well. He also agreed that Durant was trustworthy and he added that Hoover "sold his concepts well" at the Navy. He also lauded Hoover as playing a role in the development of early space flight and satellite technology.
However, when I asked Durant why Hoover would say that Roswell was not a balloon and not a hoax, he replied, "I have no reason to believe the posthumous claim that George Hoover was aware of any factual information about the Roswell incident." When I told Durant that Hoover's own namesake son said differently, Durant wanted to know "where Hoover's papers are kept." He simply did not want to hear what Hoover's own family and others were saying about this, and seemed more concerned about locating any extant professional or personal papers of Hoover's. Durant, even at 94, proves rather clearly that some of these men take the Oath of Intelligence to their graves.
In 1995 George W. Hoover Sr. left his testament for history with an associate of the History Channel. Some of Hoover's hints about Roswell that he had made to his own son were later corroborated in private, off-the-record conversations that Commander Hoover had with researcher William J. Birnes PhD, JD.
This included a visit by Birnes and others to Hoover's home in Pacific Palisades, CA. Birnes had sought out Hoover for information on a design issue for a technical "cockpit display project" that Birnes was working on at the time. The talk at some point turned to UFOs. In correspondence with this author, Birnes detailed his experience with Hoover to me and indicated that Hoover was lucid, articulate and serious.
· Roswell was in fact a crash event of "visitors from somewhere else"
· The entities were "not so much interplanetary as much as they were literally also time travelers." They are extra-temporal.
· The visitors are clearly "from the future." There is reason to believe that they may even be "us" from a future Earth.
· These "future humans" have the ability to "manipulate reality around us."
· The government feared the intentions and abilities of the "visitors"
· We human beings are far more powerful in potential than we ever dreamed that we are. We don't yet comprehend our extraordinary future capabilities.
Hoover appears to have been fairly sparse in his comments to Birnes (just as Hoover was with his namesake son) but his insight still speaks volumes. We learn that the truth about UFOs is held in secret. Roswell really happened. The visitors manipulate time and matter, perhaps as future humans. The role that can be played by fields of consciousness upon technology -and upon reality itself- is difficult to comprehend. And there have been efforts at replication of the crash debris by the U.S. Navy. When Birnes' interview of Hoover was related to his son Hoover Jr., the son replied that he was unaware that his father had said this, but neither did he discount it.
Hoover died at age 83 in 1998. In his decades of service to our country, the Commander helped to provide to mankind the vision to go beyond our planet Earth. He aimed to take us high and far to the stars. This is because Hoover knew that we can be so much more. We have the potential to be at once an Interstellar and a Hyper-Dimensional race. We will one day manipulate and morph the very fabric of space-time and matter itself. We too will traverse the vast cosmos in an instant. When that day comes, the Navy Man tells us, we will no longer fear the Alien. We will realize that we are the Alien.


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The Bravo All Stars were a pop supergroup, who came together for a one-off single titled "Let the Music Heal Your Soul". The group is named after a German publication called Bravo, which is one of the world's best-selling youth magazines. The band consisted of: Touché, The Boyz, Caught in the Act, The Moffatts, Scooter, Aaron Carter, Backstreet Boys, Mr. President, 'N Sync, Sqeezer, Blümchen, R'n'G and Gil.
"Let the Music Heal Your Soul" was released as a single on 18 May 1998. The idea behind it was conceived by Alex Christensen, to benefit charity. The lyrics were written by Christensen, and Frank Peterson arranged and composed the music. Each artist took turns singing two lines from each verse, while all of the singers sang the chorus together. "Let the Music Heal Your Soul" reached #36 on the UK Singles Chart in September 1998.
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Oh if someone writes a song
With a simple rhyme
Just a song
Where his feeling show
And if someone feels the same
About the simple song
Oh sometimes
You can hear them sing
Music gives you happiness or sadness
But it also, it also heals your soul
Let the music heal your soul
Let the music take control
Let the music give you
The power to move any mountain
Oh if someone plays piano
With some simple chords
So melodic
And endearing, too
And oh if someone plays guitar
With the old piano
And maybe
Oh oh yes
Let the music take control / (in your soul)
Let the music heal your soul / (heal your soul)
Let the music take control / (let the music take control)
Let the music heal your soul / (yeah)
Let the music take control / (oh yeah)
Let the music heal your soul / (everybody sing yeah)
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