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Magical Realism: European, Latin American and Indian
Shreepad Halbe's office is at Hutatma Chowk, the central business district of India's commercial capital — Mumbai. The office is situated in an old building of the Raj period, populated by the numerous offices, mostly table spaces. The tiny office is equipped with an air-conditioner, a computer and telephone abd there are some office assistants, too. I wonder how Shreepad, a tall man, manage to enter the office and settle on the chair. His is a consultancy firm in finance, company law etc. He is a voracious reader. Politics and literature are his favourite subjects.
He gave me Carols Feutes's book and there I found the mention of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It was in 1985, nearly 18 years after the publication of his masterpiece, OneHundred Years of Solitude. I was then involved in the production of a Diwali Special Number. In Maharashtra sweets, gifts and reading of Diwali Special Number are embodied in the celebration of festival of lights. Since, Shreepad gave me a clue, our group sought an article from a well-known poet-critic in Marathi, Prof. Vasant AabajiDahake. We asked him to introduce Marquez to the Marathi reader. He wrote a nice piece on the Spanish master's two novellas — Chronicle of a Death Foretold and No One Writes to the Colonel. I went around in bookshops in Mumbai but could not find any of Marquez's book. I had to buy a pirated copy of One Hundred Years of Solitude from the pavements of the central business district.
I settled down in Mocambo, a modest restaurant in the busy Fort area and ordered a bottle of mild beer. I started reading the book completely forgetting the divine golden drink on the table. Since then, I have been reading Marquez.
Kishor Kadam, an intelligent actor on the Marathi stage, who has also worked with noted film directors like Shyam Benegal, met me accidentally in a dingy bar located on the outskirts of the island city. Our group was discussing some Marquez story and voices went up.
Kishor took it as an invitation and joined us. Later, Kishor told me that Hindi novelist Uday Prakash is deeply influenced by Marquez, particularly his magical realism. Kishor also said that he was to stage Tirichh, a short story by Uday Prakash. I read some of the stories of Uday Prakash. I found him quite interesting. He might have derived some inspiration from Marquez but anti-colonialism seems to be his major concern.
Harish Nambiar and Sunil K Poolani are my two journalist friends. They are from Kerala. Harish understands Malayalam but can't read and write. Sunil can read and write in his mother tongue but his medium of expression is English. Both of them told me that magical realism was invented much before Marquez in Malayalam literature. They referred to the Malayalam novelist and cartoonist late O V Vijayan. Maybe, I said, as I don't understand that language.
Recently, Ashok Shahane, one of the founders of the Little Magazine Movement in Marathi literature in the sixties, said in informal chats with me over a cup of strong coffee that considering the rich treasure of mythology, some Indians should have had discovered magical realism. Ashok has to his credit prognosis of the changing li terary sensitivity in the sixties and also publications of select Marathi titles, particularly the works of Arun Kolatkar. Still, I could not agree with him.
The word Magical Realism appeared in Marathi criticism in the seventies. Vilas Sarang, a noted novelist and critic told the Marathi readers (Sisyphus AaniBelaqua) that the term was first used in Europe to the term Sarang had referred to Kafka's Metomorphsis, the short story that inspired Marquez. It appeared to me that Kafka's magical realism has sprang up from the necessity to depict the repressive system vis-à-vis the individual.
In the European civilization, individual is almost at the centre since the rebellion of Martin Luther I and the Emergence of Protestant Ethics, although the tradition can be traced from Immanuel Kant's writing. Milan Kundera's Joke is all about the repressive system that fails to understand a simple joke and results in the sufferings of an individual, the protagonist.
In the case of Marquez it's the other way round. He has employed Magical Realism to underline the solidarityof an individual with the society. Solitude is are current theme in Marquez's work only to emphasise that individual, when isolates himself from the society (for variety of reasons), can't escape the sufferings.
The last sentence of the Solitude… proclaims that "races [the Buendias] condemn to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth." Obviously, Marquez has distanced himself from the classical European cultural tradition. "…imagination is just an instrument for producingreality," says Marquez while discounting fantasy.
Still most of his admirers get carried away by his 'fantasy'. Indians are no exception. Particularly, in Marathi literature where Bhalchandra Nemade, the noted novelist, critic and poet, held sway connoisseurs crib about the Nemade style realism-nativism for they believe that it had stagnated the novel. Their apprehensions though justifiable should not entail that India with unfathomable treasure of mythology should have rediscovered the magical realism. In fact this burden of the past does not allow Indian writers to explore their own mythical past.
In India mythology is so well defined that it does not allow the individual to explore his own mythical past. Indians are so certain about their identity that they don't need to discover it in every generation. The continuation of culture is the uniqueness of India and is also the hindrance for the writers from successfully employing magical realism in Indian context.
Vinod Kumar Shukla's Hindi novel, Diwar me Khidki Hoti Thee, has successfully employed the imagination to liberate the Indian novel from the influence of nativism-realism cocktail. Interestingly, the technique invented by Shukla does not resemble to Marquez or any other Latin American writer. Shukla creates his own space that lifts him and his readers from the wretched reality. His magic reinforces the traditional Indian faith in co-existence not only with humans but also with nature that includes the flora and the fauna. He does not talk of solidarity but of integrity with the nature and other human beings without getting into the mythical past.
Naresh Dadhich, a scientist of repute who heads the Inter-Universities Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, is a Rajsthani by birth and is fluent in Hindi, Marathi and English. He contended that magical realism is an universal trend born out of a dominant idea of the time. A good creative artist of any discipline does need a free space of its own in which he is the supreme creator. It's the use of this free space which really determines the strength and greatness of the artist. The only guide he has in this space is his historical/mythological anchoring.
According to Naresh, Saul Bellow uses this space wonderfully to uplift oneself from the wretchedness of the immediate reality — exactly in the sense of Bhakti and Sufism where one focusus on something beyond the immediate reality and tend to believe that is the real reality.
— Sunil Tambe
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На Олимпиаде 2000 года в Сиднее Лоуни победил чеха Марека Швеца, россиянина Гоги Когуашвили, грузина Геннадий Чхаидзе, но уступил будущему чемпиону этой Олимпиады шведу Микаелю Юнгбергу. В утешительной схватке американец одолел грека  и завоевал бронзу Олимпиады.

На Олимпиаде 2004 года в Афинах Лоуни на предварительной стадии проиграл кубинцу , венгру Лайошу Вирагу и выбыл из борьбы за медали, заняв в итоге 19-е место.

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Q: How to get the Hololens Locatable Camera view and projection matrices out of the WinRT Windows.Media API The documentation for the Hololens gives an example of how to extract the Locatable Camera view and projection matrices using the Media Foundation API here: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/mixed-reality/locatable_camera#locating_the_device_camera_in_the_world.
It claims that this is also possible with the WinRT API, and links to this documentation reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/Windows.Media.Devices.Core.CameraIntrinsics.
However, this class does not seem to have any API to retrieve the extended Hololens attributes, only the default Windows Phone ones like the distortion matrix and pinhole properties.
Is the Hololens documentation incorrect and is it simply not possible to retrieve the Locatable Camera metadata in the WinRT API? Or am I missing something?
The Spatial Coordinate System (3rd and last extended sample metadata attribute) does seem to be available as MediaFrameReference.CoordinateSystem (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.media.capture.frames.mediaframereference), which makes this even more confusing...

A: You can cast the captured CapturedPhoto object to IMFGetService interface. Then, you can call IMFGetService::GetService method with MF_WRAPPED_SAMPLE_SERVICE as the service GUID and that will give you the native IMFSample. From that, you can retrieve those 3 camera attributes (coordinate system, view transform and projection transform) as outlined in the documentation.
Now, you could try writing doing all that in C# by manually declaring those interfaces, but it would be way easier to do in C++.

A: I just had the same problem. The spatial coordinate system of the camera is available through the MediaFrameReference.CoordinateSystem. But the projection matrix is not offered in the MediaFrameReference class. I solved the issue by looking up the projection matrix in the MediaFrameReference.Properties map. The basic idea is shown here however i needed to adapt the code for UWP. My working code is shown below.
EXTERN_GUID(MFSampleExtension_Spatial_CameraProjectionTransform, 0x47f9fcb5, 0x2a02, 0x4f26, 0xa4, 0x77, 0x79, 0x2f, 0xdf, 0x95, 0x88, 0x6a);

MediaFrameReference^ frame = ...; // your frame
auto projectionTransformProperty= (Windows::Foundation::IPropertyValue^)frame->Properties->Lookup(MFSampleExtension_Spatial_CameraProjectionTransform);
Platform::Array<unsigned char>^ projectionMatrixByteArray = ref new Platform::Array<unsigned char>(4*4*4);
projectionTransformProperty->GetUInt8Array(&projectionMatrixByteArray);
float* projectionMatrixValues= reinterpret_cast<float*>(projectionMatrixByteArray->Data);
//projectionMatrixValues now contains the 16 entries of the projection matrix

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Los enoplos (Enopla) son una clase del filo Nemertea caracterizados por presentar una probóscide compleja dividida en tres regiones especializadas y provista generalmente de un estilete venenoso. La boca está situada por delante del encéfalo y forma un orificio común con el orificio de la probóscide. Los cordones nerviosos están situados en el mesénquima bajo la musculatura de la pared el cuerpo.

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Delores "Dee" Jubinville, 60, of Fort Lupton died Sunday, Oct. 3, in Arvada.
She was born May 22, 1944, in Denver to Floyd and Elizabeth (Bodnar) Reedy.
She is preceded in death by her parents, Floyd and Elizabeth Reedy; and a daughter, Elizabeth (Little J.) Jubinville.
Memorial services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Bostick Funeral Home. Interment will be at Lafayette Cemetery at a later date.
Memorial gifts may be made out to Bostick Funeral Home to help pay for services.
Lawrence "Larry" J. Wernsman, 77, of Greeley, formerly of Haxtun, died Sunday, Oct. 10, at his home.
He was born April 22, 1927, in Haxtun to Theodore E. and Mary (Hoefler) Wernsman.
Mr. Wernsman graduated from high school in Sterling.
On June 4, 1947, he married Elsie Mar Knaub at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Holyoke.
He served in the Army in Germany during World War II. He farmed for more than 50 years in Haxtun and came to Greeley in 1989. His hobbies were fishing and hunting pheasants.
He was a member of the VFW of Fleming, American Legion Fred Leman Post #137 of Haxtun, he served nine years on the co-op board in Haxtun, and was a member of Christ Our King Catholic Church in Haxtun and of St. Peter's Catholic Church in Fleming.
Survivors are his wife, Elsie Wernsman of Greeley; a daughter, Carolyn J. Isbell and husband Jerry of Greeley; four sons, Gary R. Wernsman and wife Barbara of Haxtun, Robert A. Wernsman and wife Joyce of Peyton, Dennis L. Wernsman and wife Debbie of Greeley, and Alan V. Wernsman of Sterling; two sisters, Helen McGinnis of Loveland and Mildred Hargis of Thornton; a brother, Julius B. Wernsman and wife Mitz of Haxtun; 13 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. He is preceded in death by two daughters, Kathryn M. Anderson and Jacqueline A. Dillmon, and two brothers, Cletus and Joseph Wernsman.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at St. Mary's Catholic Church. Interment will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Riverside Cemetery in Sterling. Military honors will be provided by the American Legion Fred Leman Post 137 of Haxtun.
Visitation will be from 1-7 p.m. Wednesday at the West Chapel.
Contributions may be sent to the Diabetes Foundation in care of the Adamson West Chapel. Condolences may be sent to the family at http://www.adamsonchapels.com.
Ralph Edgar Daniels, 79, of Greeley died Saturday, Oct. 9, at Kenton Manor Health Care Center in Greeley.
He was born Feb. 1, 1925, in Battle Creek, Mich., to Edgar H. and Ethel Emily (VanSickle) Daniels.
Mr. Daniels has been in ill health for two years.
He received his education from several different schools in Battle Creek.
In March 1948, he married Betty Mowery in Michigan. They moved from Michigan to Colorado twice, the first time moving to Boulder and the second time to Greeley. He was a warehouse manger for Mr. Steak Inc. in Denver. He had also worked for Dreamers Furniture Store in Michigan, retiring in 1989.
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Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Allnutt Funeral Service, Macy Chapel. Burial of cremains will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Sunset Memorial Gardens in Greeley.
Visitation is from 3-8 p.m. today at Allnutt Funeral Service, Macy Chapel.
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He was born Oct. 15, 1955, in Denver to Noman and Barbara (Gates) Diviney.
Mr. Diviney lived in Colorado all his life and worked as a night manager and auditor at the Holiday Inn that is now the Red Lion Inn in Denver. He loved the outdoors, fishing and walking his dogs.
Survivors are his father, Norman Diviney of Florida; his grandmother, Vivian Gater of Lakewood; a sister, Stacey Diviney Murphy of Memphis, Tenn., and many friends. He was preceded in death by his mother Barbara Diviney.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at First United Methodist Church.
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For over two decades Marine Contractors Inc. has been providing western Newfoundland with just about every kind of heavy and civil construction service possible, literally paving the way for progress. The company is co-owned by Glynn Pike and his partner Daryl Bennett. "We have come along way since starting the company in 1989. We established a strong reputation by executing our projects on time and within budget, all while adhering to quality control measures," says Pike.
The firm, based in Pasadena, Newfoundland, has grown to be a substantial employer in the province. "We have more than 200 employees right now," says Bennett, who oversees project and office management. As the years progressed the company diversified its operations and has become one of the bigger construction companies in the region.
More recently, Marine Contractors was also contracted to work on a major development for the province, which is aimed at increasing tourism to the area. The company completed a lot of work at the Deer Lake Airport in 2009. The airport runway was ultimately expanded from 6,000 feet to 8,000 feet, enabling it to handle larger aircrafts and, hopefully, attract more flights.
Even with impressive projects, Marine Contractors hasn't been immune to the unstable global economy. However, the company's wide range of services has kept it busy, and the firm is increasing its scope of operations and gearing up to facilitate growth in anticipation of a stronger economy on the way.
"We're in the process of moving into a new facility in Corner Brook, because we're just running out of space," says Bennett. The new location at Watson's Pond Industrial Park will provide the firm with enough space for both offices and a mechanical shop. The move will allow the firm more room to grow and it will provide a central location close to many nearby projects and suppliers.
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Electric Hand Pruners - expensive, but worth every dime !!
Discussion in 'Tree Care Equipment' started by mdvaden, Feb 24, 2019.
I will use the tool mostly for fruit trees and certain other things. But the huge arbor I shared a fraction of in the image above is something where the electric pruner has an extra advantage. I got on top and needed to maintain safe position and balance. That meant reaching for certain cuts where I couldn't hand hold and cut with Felco 2's in a way that allows all my hand strength. But with the electric tool, if I can manage to get the blade in a decent cutting position, as long as the trigger can be squeezed, 100% of its power is still available for the cut.
This image is a drop in the bucket, merely using Stihl extended shears to drop some mass on the skirt. 90% of the pruning was done from the top side. Google' Earth's ruler and scale shows the entire arbor to be 370 feet long. I was surprised to learn that it's all 4 x Port Orford cedar.
work that needs handpruning not shearing or loppers.
Only thing that's ever bothered me over the thirty years I've been doing this is a slight temporary "carpal tunnel" from lots of vibration from some cheap handheld equipment. Usually slightly bent shafts and what not.
I've had trouble with my cyatic nerve three times since 2004 that maybe lasted a week each time.
I've done this type of work nearly my entire life, grew up on an orchard/farm. I was learning pruning and ID before I was 12.
I carry a knife, leatherman and a pair of pruners every day it's not snowing, there's not a day that goes by in the season I'm not using them.
Likewise I know guys in their 70s who are biathletes and martial artists, masons, plumbers and even roofers, they're still doing it because they have always done it.
As you do this you increase in strength, endurance, cardio health etc.
American Indians ran across the plains as a means for communication with other settlements.
They did it all the time , the human body actually uses the same energy to walk as it does run; so when in shape running is more efficient.
The more you do something the better you are at it, not worse.
The body breaks if you do two things, neglect it or abuse it.
The jysbkes haven't worked the body can't keep up.... typically about three weeks of repetition and your body will adjust.
Just like it does to temperature/climate.
Emotionally/psychologically people break themselves down.
And this may be true.
If you don't want to do something anymore, don't.
But if you're running a hand pruner you're whole life you're not going to wear out.
Running a jack hammer? Probably - at least for most people.
I work on people daily with everything from full thickness rotator tears to cubital tunnel syndrome and your run of the mill pulled muscles. Even your sciatic nerve patients from ruptured discs to entrapment as it passes thru the belly of the piriformis causing sciatic type conditions. This stuff isn't new to me.
It might not be a hand pruner that wears them out. maybe it's a diabetic neuropathy. Maybe it's RA. Maybe is a reaction to a medication after an aortic valve transplant. Weird things in life happen and sometimes things that don't wear out one person will another after 30 years because they broke their wrist when they were 6 and altered the biomechanics of their hand and wrist.
I've seen the human body react in so many different ways to the same stresses, if this helps reduce the wear and tear or lengthens one's career, good for them.
Mow-Daddy.com and rlitman like this.
To be successful a product needs to appeal to masses. Especially when that product is expensive.
You need to show case how/why the product is worth the money , not just say it is.
Why are most people going to buy it? What does it do for them?
Display to them why they want to pay a lot of money to wear a battery pack instead of just using hand pruners?
If you only sell 2 or 3 or 10 units to the special needs crowd that might be aware of them and can afford them, what does that mean for your product? How long will it be around, can you continue to sell a product without a sufficient customer base?
Focus on what is going to sell units, show people why they need this... not "your hand might get tired" that shows you don't know or understand the bulk of your target customer base of their daily work very well.
If you do that, they will mentally dismiss your product because it's not aimed at them.
This is why you see products or businesses disappear, they failed to establish or maintain a customer base.
most people aren't. Most people don't need it. I have no idea what it's like in the pruning business. Much of it's specialized, it's not going to be sold at The Home Depot for homeowners.
For example, this is one of the best laser range finders ever made, originally in the range of $3000. Masses don't need it and masses don't buy it. Only people who need the best of the best for measuring trees and forest. It was a very successful product alongside other successful products.
I have two sets off these pruners one very similar to the one posted and one cordless with a lithium ion battery. Both are hands down better, easier, faster and more efficient than hand pruning. The cordless are for obvious reasons my go to. They cut much larger branches than traditions hand pruners and make cleaner faster cuts. I paid around $500 for each which in this industry is a minor expense compared to all the other equipment I have. Not only do I take large pruning jobs I normally would not the small ones are much more enjoyable and quicker.


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April 2, 2013 by Editor Health News
As US celebrate the start of National Public Health Week, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius emphasised the benefits of the Affordable Care Act to advance the public's health, which started 3 years ago in America under the leadership of US president Barack Obama.
The nation's public health affects and connects us all. The Department of Health and Human Services protects public health in many ways; from tobacco control to vaccinations to preventive care and wellness, making health care more accessible to all Americans and ensuring that we have safe water and food.
Three years ago, the Affordable Care Act ushered in a new day for health care, especially for prevention. This year's theme, "Public Health is ROI; Save Lives, Save Money," is consistent with the Affordable Care Act's focus on preventing illness and keeping people healthy.
Americans have stronger, more reliable health care coverage to help them get or stay healthy. Because of the health care law, about 71 million Americans with private insurance now have expanded coverage of preventive services, such as flu shots and recommended cancer screenings, without paying a dollar out of pocket. More than 34 million seniors and people with disabilities on Medicare have used at least one free preventive service. But that's only the beginning. Thanks to the health care law, starting October 1, 2013, millions of qualified individuals will have access to quality health insurance to begin January 1, 2014, including critical preventive services, through the new Health Insurance Marketplace.
The National Prevention Strategy, called for by the Affordable Care Act, lays out how we can work together to improve health and quality of life by moving the nation from a focus on sickness and disease to one based on prevention and wellness.
The health care law is also investing in public health strategies to improve the nation's health by promoting wellness, preventing disease, and protecting against public health emergencies. States and communities are using Prevention and Public Health Fund dollars to help control the obesity epidemic, reduce chronic disease risk factors, and increase public health programs' effectiveness and efficiency.
For example, last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched the second phase of its national media campaign, "Tips from Former Smokers," which last year prompted more than 200,000 additional calls to the 800-QUIT-Now quitline and more than 500,000 visits to a cessation support website when the campaign was aired. As a result, thousands of lives and millions of health care dollars will be saved.
Also, Million Hearts is a national initiative to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes over five years. Co-led by the CDC and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and alongside other federal, state and local agencies, community organizations, and private partners, Million Hearts is empowering people to make healthy choices and improving care in order to address the major risk factors for cardiovascular disease and help prevent heart attacks and strokes.
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These initiatives and the health care law's investments in public health are focused on keeping people healthy, intervening early to address chronic disease risk factors, and demonstrating how public health can show ROI-a return on investment.
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My Last Movie Star	Martha	2018-02-14T13:05:22+00:00
Dog Man : The Ruins of California : The Buddha From Brooklyn : My Last Movie Star
My Last Movie Star, a novel
By 1996, I had profiled a lot of movie stars. (See the list on the articles page.) It wasn't how I pictured spending my life, or my career. So as a swan song, I sent my editors at Esquire a parody of a celebrity road-trip profile for their amusement. It was meant as an affectionate joke and, perhaps, a way to unleash my frustration at the celebrity profile genre. In it, I profile a fictional It Girl named Allegra Coleman, a sumptuous young actor drawn from life and imagination. The piece ends with a James Dean-like car crash in which, presumably, Allegra is killed.
My editors surprised me by asking if it could be published – and by hiring Ali Larter, an unknown model at the time, to pose for the cover. There was only one change they wanted made: Allegra couldn't die.
As it turned out, she didn't. Allegra became my first novel. The story begins with the car crash and unfolds from there. The journalist who is interviewing Allegra, and traveling with her, is named Clementine James, a sardonic celebrity profiler on her last assignment for Flame. After Allegra crashes the 1956 Porsche she's been driving across the California desert, the It Girl promptly vanishes while Clementine winds up in the hospital – blinded yet newly endowed with the power to speak to the dead.
A beguiling, ghostly parade of movie stars — all screen sirens of long ago – visit Clementine and tell the stories of their lives, their loves, their deaths, and often complain about where they are buried.
Film, like Buddhism, can be a beautiful thing. But the people involved can sometimes cloud the beauty.
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UChicago and MBL Announce First Recipients of Lillie Awards for Collaborative Research
March 13, 2014 by Gina Hebert
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Erik M. Jorgensen and Clare Waterman are the first two recipients of the Frank R. Lillie Research Innovation Awards. The awards will provide funding for scientists to develop novel, collaborative projects based at the MBL that will lead to transformative biological discoveries.Waterman photo, credit: Tom Kleindinst/MBL
MBL, WOODS HOLE, MA—The University of Chicago and the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) today announced the first two recipients of the Frank R. Lillie Research Innovation Awards.
The newly established grant program honors Lillie, the early 20th-century embryologist who served as the MBL's second director and as chair of UChicago's Department of Zoology, and represents the first formal research opportunity between the University and the MBL since their affiliation in 2013. The awards will provide funding for scientists to develop novel, collaborative projects based at the MBL that will lead to transformative biological discoveries. Scientists throughout the MBL's worldwide research community were eligible to receive the awards.
One grant was awarded to University of Utah neuroscientist Erik M. Jorgensen and his colleagues, who will address the fundamental question of how high-level brain processes such as memory are related to changes in the structure and function of neural connections.
Another grant was awarded to Clare Waterman of the National Institutes of Health. Waterman and a multidisciplinary team of cell biologists and experts in advanced microscopy will investigate basic molecular mechanisms of cellular movement, shape, and form, which are critical to understanding human disorders like cancer.
"This is innovative research by scientists who are leading their fields," said Joan Ruderman, MBL President and Director. "They are asking bold questions that have the potential to change the way we understand fundamental biological processes. Frank Lillie was a visionary and these awards are visionary on the part of the University of Chicago and the MBL. The science has the potential to transform the understanding of basic biology and human health."
"The collaborative advances that will emerge from these awards show the immense potential of the affiliation between the MBL and the University of Chicago," said Neil Shubin, the Robert R. Bensley Professor in Organismal Biology and Anatomy at UChicago and senior advisor to the President and to the Vice President for Research and for National Laboratories. "These projects will bring together scientists who might not have interacted otherwise, with powerful benefits for our community of researchers and educators."
Jorgensen and his colleagues from the University of Utah and Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, one of the largest university hospitals in Europe, will use novel electron microscopy imaging techniques to investigate the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying synaptic plasticity, a fundamental property of the nervous system. Synaptic plasticity describes the changes to structure and function that occur where nerve cells connect in the brain and is thought to underlie learning and memory. Abnormal synaptic plasticity is linked to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease.
"One of the great remaining mysteries in neuroscience surrounds the issues in the brain that make us uniquely human—how we think, sleep, learn, and remember things," said Jonathan Gitlin, MBL's Deputy Director for Research and Programs. "Memory is one of the most vibrant and important functions in the human brain, yet we don't know how it works at a fundamental level. How can we approach diseases of memory? This is the frontier, and the new project brings forward cell biology and imaging, which are areas of incredible focus for our partnership with UChicago."
Waterman's research team includes scientists from the NIH, Harvard Medical School, the National Center for Biological Sciences in India, and investigators from the MBL's Cellular Dynamics Program. They will use new technologies in polarization microscopy developed by MBL scientists to study molecules important to cell structure, movement, and form. Cell migration is critical for wound healing, immune response, and development.
"In human disorders like cancer, you want to inhibit cell movement, while in infection, you want to move it along," says Gitlin. "The fundamental aspects of knowing how cells take shape and move are critical to understanding the cell biological basis of human health and disease."
Several of Jorgensen's and Waterman's team members have long histories with the MBL, having served as faculty members in MBL courses and as visiting investigators. In addition, both projects were seeded at the MBL in previous summers. Jorgensen and fellow team member, Shigeki Watanabe spent three summers at the MBL developing the imaging techniques featured in their project. Waterman initiated her project with colleague Satyajit Mayor as part of an MBL Physiology course in 2012 while she was serving as course director and he as an instructor. Two other team members obtained preliminary data for the project while participating as students in the course.
The Lillie Awards will support two years of research for a total of $125,000 per award. Jorgensen and Waterman and their teams will initiate their projects this summer. A complete list of research teams and their affiliations is listed below.
"Ultrafast endocytosis of AMPA receptors during long-term synaptic depression"
Erik M. Jorgensen, Professor, University of Utah; HHMI Investigator; MBL Neurobiology course faculty (2004-2008); MBL Visiting Investigator, (2008-2010)
Co-Investigators:
Christian Rosenmund, Professor, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin; MBL Neurobiology course faculty (2008)
Shigeki Watanabe, Post-doctoral fellow, University of Utah; MBL Visiting Investigator (2008-2010)
Benjamin R. Rost, Post-doctoral fellow, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
"Integrin activation and organization by actin dynamics during cell migration"
Clare Waterman, NIH Distinguished Investigator, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health; MBL Physiology course student (1993); Physiology course instructor (2003-2007); Physiology course director (2008-2013)
Timothy Springer, Latham Family Professor, Harvard Medical School
Satyajit Mayor, Dean and professor, National Center for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India; MBL Physiology course instructor (2012-2013)
Tomomi Tani, Associate Scientist, Cellular Dynamics Program, MBL
Rudolf Oldenbourg, Director, Cellular Dynamics Program, Senior Scientist, MBL
Vinay Swaminathan, Post-doctoral fellow, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health; MBL Physiology course student (2012); MBL Physiology course teaching assistant (2013)
Pontus Nordenfelt, Post-doctoral fellow, Harvard Medical School; MBL Physiology course student (2012); MBL Physiology course teaching assistant (2013)
Joseph K. Mathew, Graduate student, National Center for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India; MBL Physiology course teaching assistant (2013)
Shalin Mehta, Post-doctoral fellow, Cellular Dynamics Program, MBL
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is dedicated to scientific discovery and improving the human condition through research and education in biology, biomedicine, and environmental science. Founded in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, in 1888, the MBL is a private, nonprofit institution and an affiliate of the University of Chicago.
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Toys Were Us: The Perils of Debt
Mary Childs
In a world awash with money, Toys "R" Us ran out of it.
The company spent 12 years backed by some of the top deal makers. It used every financial-engineering move in the book, deploying them into one of the friendliest credit markets in history.
And somehow, the last hope for Toys "R" Us, which filed for bankruptcy in September, may be a crowdfunded Hail Mary by a billionaire toy maker.
Toys like Hasbro's Mr. Potato Head will miss Toys"R" Us's Geoffrey the Giraffe.
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When Bain Capital, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, and Vornado Realty Trust teamed up to buy Toys "R" Us for $7.5 billion in 2005 during the megabuyout boom, they invested $1.3 billion and charged much of the balance to the company, saddling it with expensive debt.
Over the years, the competition and the creditors changed, but the original sins persisted: Toys "R" Us wasn't making enough money, and owed more than it could afford.
"The seeds were in the buyout," says Moody's Investors Service analyst Charlie O'Shea. "Debt has a way of winning. You try to outrun that, and sometimes you can, and sometimes you can't."
The demise of Toys "R" Us—recounted here based on company and bankruptcy filings and interviews with people close to the situation—is a sobering lesson for investors seeking opportunity in risky credits. Superlow interest rates had allowed many companies to buy time, and produced returns for investors willing to take a chance. But the liquidation is a sign that the era of forgiving financing has ended.
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The amount of money that needed to be refinanced to stave off bankruptcy was arguably small: just some $400 million, compared with a total debt burden of about $5 billion. Still, that was enough to "upset the apple cart," according to O'Shea. The lending environment had changed, the lenders had changed, and the retail landscape had changed.
Today, Toys "R" Us stores are papered over with "Everything Must Go" signs. Customers can no longer return purchases. Bed Bath & Beyond (ticker: BBBY) was accepting Toys "R" Us gift cards for BB&B store credit, at 64 cents on the dollar, until Friday.
In 2005, Toys "R" Us was already in a battle with Walmart (WMT) and Target (TGT), and needed a shake-up. But there were bright spots: Its international businesses were growing, and the retailer was expanding offerings for babies.
In 2010, the private-equity sponsors sought to sell the Wayne, N.J.–based company in an initial public offering, but then sales started flagging, and they shelved the IPO plan.
Competition was intensifying. Amazon.com became the margin-eating juggernaut it is today. While competitors were investing to improve technologies and slashing prices, Toys "R" Us was stuck with $400 million in annual interest payments.
The company "didn't have a ton of capacity to invest back in the business," says Citigroup's Jenna Giannelli. It fell behind on improving its website to bolster online sales, trimming the cost structure, and improving the in-store experience.
Toys "R" Us did try to make itself and its wares more appealing: Under a "clean and bright" initiative, the company redid the lamps in stores, brushed up inventory, cleaned the floors, and replaced the cart corrals outside the stores. It showcased products tied to hit movies, and ramped up experience-focused in-store offerings like "Geoffrey's Birthday Club" parties, free "build-and-take toy" events, "collect-and-trade days," and toy demonstrations.
"It was too late," Giannelli says. "The issues were deeper-rooted."
The company lost $1 billion in its fiscal-2013 year. Its debt ratio ballooned back to buyout levels, according to Moody's.
"The buyout financing required—and this is where the company got stuck—almost serial refinancing of the capital structure," O'Shea says. "Almost every year, 18 months, there was meaningful debt to refinance."
Toys "R" Us kept having to cajole credit investors to lend it money. It pulled every lever it could—moving assets, selling real estate, and leasing it back to itself, creating new entities, swapping debt—to extend whatever maturity was staring it down. The cost of all that refinancing adds up, from pledged assets to higher coupons and stricter covenants. It also changes who is lending.
By 2017, the toy merchant's obligations, and thus its fate, was in the hands of distressed-debt investors, hedge funds that trawl credit markets for bargains: bonds trading at pennies on the dollar, issued by companies running out of options. They amass positions at relatively little cost, buying a seat at the negotiating table. Their job is to recoup money.
And Toys "R" Us' ugly capital structure resulted in disparate units with stakeholders asserting claims on a finite pile of money and assets. That made coming to an agreement more challenging.
Last summer, Toys "R" Us was putting together a prepackaged bankruptcy filing. When new of that leaked, it started a debilitating chain reaction.
The timing was awful. In late summer and fall, retailers are preparing for the do-or-die holiday season, buying and receiving products.
Vendors are skittish about retailers' financing stress; they think they have more certainty of getting paid back in bankruptcy. Rattled by the news reports, some stopped shipping to Toys "R" Us. So, just as the company was negotiating with litigious creditors, it was also frantically trying to repair a fractured supply chain.
Toys "R" Us filed for bankruptcy in September. All told, the private-equity sponsors had poured $3.5 billion into the company, partially offset by the roughly hundreds of millions in fees and expenses they paid themselves. They did refrain from paying themselves dividends.
The creditors now had to work out how best to extract value: Slim the company and build a leaner, cleaner, more competitive version, or liquidate.
Toys "R" Us had a fair amount to sell: inventory, real estate, data, intellectual property, website licensing, and income-generating international units. Lenders driving the bankruptcy process seemed constructive.
They tried to work it out: The company said it would close almost 200 stores and was looking for solutions.
As the holiday sales figures came into focus, the support evaporated, giving way to a harsher analysis: The company was out of money. No one wanted to give it more.
The holiday shortfall triggered defaults. Some lenders, trying to protect themselves from losses, imposed new restrictions, further crimping liquidity. And six months after filing, the company still hadn't delivered a new budget proposal that could help it exit bankruptcy, and it said it couldn't.
The parties were at an impasse: U.S. operations would run out of cash in May, the creditors said. The best way to wring out what they could was to liquidate inventory and wind down the business.
That was a huge hit to the toy industry. Toys "R" Us was not only a big retailer; it was also the best testing ground for toy makers to try out new products—one of the few places where smaller players could start out. Hasbro stock (HAS) has dropped 10.4% since reports surfaced that Toys "R" Us could liquidate, and Mattel (MAT) has tumbled 17.9%.
Still, there is some hope.
Isaac Larian, CEO of toy maker MGA Entertainment, wants to cobble together money for a bid for some of the company's assets. With $100 million of his own money and $100 million from others, he started a crowdfunding campaign last month, #SaveToysRUs.
So far, his GoFundMe has raised an additional $56,000, rewarding donors with prizes from #SaveToysRUs bumper stickers to MGA-manufactured toys and factory tours. Larian is aiming to raise $1 billion by May 28.
He has put together an investment team and worked through due diligence with the company. But he has yet to submit a formal bid, and time is running out.
His campaign has attracted more than 1,800 donations, of varying sizes, like those from 23-year-old Matthew Arenson, a toy collector who has given a total of $45.
"I don't really care about the stickers," Arenson says. "I care more about trying to save something that was a big part of my childhood, and I think should be a part of other kids' childhoods."
Toys Were Us: The Perils of Too Much Debt


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Jennifer Thorne
Jennifer Thorne is an author of books for adults and young readers. Her adult debut, Lute, will be published by Nightfire in Spring 2022. As Jenn Marie Thorne, she is the author of the YA novels The Wrong Side of Right, The Inside of Out, and Night Music. Her short fiction will appear in the anthology Battle of the Bands, forthcoming from Candlewick in 2021. She is also the author of the picture book Construction Zoo. She received her BFA in Drama at NYU-Tisch, and currently lives in Gloucestershire, England with her husband and two sons.
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Jennifer Thorne's Lute, which follows an American expat-turned-Lady, now of the remote, idyllic island of Lute, on the cusp of what locals call "The Day"–a once-every-seven-years event of strange rites, horror, reckoning and grief, to Daphne Durham at Nightfire, in a good deal, in a two-book deal, for publication in spring 2022, by Katelyn Detweiler at Jill Grinberg Literary Management.
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Ruby has always been Ruby Chertok: future classical pianist and daughter of renowned composer Martin Chertok. But after her horrendous audition for the prestigious music school where her father is on faculty, it's clear that music has publicly dumped her. Now Ruby is suddenly just . . . Ruby. And who is that again? All she knows is that she wants away from the world of classical music for good.
Oscar is a wunderkind, a musical genius. Just ask any of the 1.8 million people who've watched him conduct on YouTube—or hey, just ask Oscar. But while he might be the type who'd name himself when asked about his favorite composer and somehow make you love him more for it, Oscar is not the type to jeopardize his chance to study under the great Martin Chertok—not for a crush. He's all too aware of how the ultra-privileged world of classical music might interpret a black guy like him falling for his benefactor's white daughter.
But as the New York City summer heats up, so does the spark between Ruby and Oscar. Soon their connection crackles with the same alive, uncontainable energy as the city itself. Can two people still figuring themselves out figure out how to be together? Or will the world make the choice for them?
Praise for Night Music
"Ruby and Oscar's sweet and intense romance sparkles. Readers will root for them not just as a couple, but as individuals trying their best to understand their gifts and passions while facing pressures from the adult world. A smart, funny, engrossing romance with a social conscience." –Kirkus, starred review
"A dreamy summer rom-com that'll make you believe in love again." –Bustle
"Thorne presents a careful examination of privilege. . . . A thoughtful, nuanced romance." –Booklist
The Inside of Out
When her best friend Hannah comes out the day before junior year, Daisy is all set to let her ally flag fly. Before you can spell LGBTQIA, she's leading the charge to end their school's antiquated ban on same-sex dates at dances—starting with homecoming. And if people assume Daisy herself is gay? Meh, so what. It's all for Hannah, right? It's all for the cause. What Daisy doesn't expect is for "the cause" to blow up—thanks to Adam, the cute college journalist whose interview with Daisy for his college newspaper goes viral, catching fire in the national media. With the story spinning out of control, protesters gathering, Hannah left in the dust of Daisy's good intentions, and Daisy's attraction to Adam practically written in lights, Daisy finds herself caught between her bold plans, her bad decisions, and her big fat mouth.
Praise for The Inside of Out
"Nuanced . . . Thorne writes engagingly about complicated relationships, the importance of communication in understanding others' perspectives, and the blindness of privilege. This book will fly off the shelves to a broad range of teens who will enjoy the humor and drama that Thorne brings to this story." –VOYA, starred review
"Thorne expertly drops plot twists like bread crumbs . . . Although it takes on some heavy subjects, the work remains light through its [humor] . . . Teens will enjoy reading about Daisy's good intentions gone wrong as well as the bumpy love stories . . . Recommend to fans of John Green and David Levithan's Will Grayson, Will Grayson and Kris Dinnison's You and Me and Him." –School Library Journal
The Wrong Side of Right
Kate Quinn's mom died last year, leaving Kate parentless and reeling. So when the unexpected shows up in her living room, Kate must confront another reality she never thought possible—or thought of at all. Kate does have a father. He's a powerful politician. And he's running for U.S. President. Suddenly, Kate's moving in with a family she never knew she had, joining a campaign in support of a man she hardly knows, and falling for a rebellious boy who may not have the purest motives. This is Kate's new life. But who is Kate? When what she truly believes flies in the face of the campaign's talking points, she must decide. Does she turn to the family she barely knows, the boy she knows but doesn't necessarily trust, or face a third, even scarier option?
Set against a backdrop of politics, family, and first love, this is a story of personal responsibility, complicated romance, and trying to discover who you are even as everyone tells you who you should be.
Praise for The Wrong Side of Right
"Both intelligent and heartfelt, as Kate finds unexpected love as well as unimagined courage. . . . Not only does Thorne give readers a moving coming-of-age story, but casts a critical eye on the state of American politics." –Booklist, starred review
"Absorbing and timely." –Kirkus
"Smart and well-executed . . . It is easy to like strong, intelligent Kate . . . and the adults in her life are realistically complicated. Fans of Sarah Dessen and Jenny Han will appreciate this well-crafted story about love and family." –School Library Journal
Construction Zoo
It's a quiet morning at the zoo, until some strange new creatures roll in—trucks and bulldozers and wrecking balls! They're tumbling, digging, and roaring alongside the animals. Giraffe, rhino, the monkeys, and the tigers watch the new creatures and, soon, are playing with their new friends. It's party time at the Construction Zoo! But…what happens when the construction is over? Will the party be over, too? The clever rhyming text and simple, bold art will appeal to both kids and their parents.
Praise for Construction Zoo
"Readers will love seeing animals and vehicles juxtaposed throughout… A great read-aloud." –Booklist
"The hitherto-unseen alliance of dual toddler obsessions comes together at last. Its bounce makes this ideal storytime fare, and it rhymes perfectly….consider this a one-stop shopping source when zoo and construction needs must be simultaneously met." –Kirkus
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Congratulations, you switch 65 and are eligible for Medicare. Your monthly benefits from the Federal Government include social security and also deductions for Medicare part a and B of Medicare. Below we're going to give you a brief synopsis and direct you through the first steps of knowing the Medicare options available for your requirements. Under no circumstances is this an intensive review. In order to completely understand the benefits you will receive under Medicare, look at comprehensive brochure for seniors "Choosing a Medigap Policy: Strategies for Health Insurance for People with Medicare".
As we know it, there are 3 parts to Medicare-Part A, B and D. Managed with the Federal Government, Part A (hospital insurance) covers inpatient hospital costs and helps cover skilled nursing facilities, hospice and some home medical costs. Medicare Medicare part b covers physicians and services, outpatient care plus some preventative services to assist maintain your health when you're ill. The premium for Medicare part a is $443.00 monthly and unless you are disabled or have survivor benefits from a spouse who was simply covered by Social Security, these pricing is the same for everyone and the main benefit. Part B premium starts at $96.40 (cost more depending on your annual income) and is withdrawn directly from your social security check. You'll be able to opt out of Medicare part b coverage if you choose. Both A (hospital benefits) & B (Physician and medical benefits) have deductibles, co-insurance/co-payments, and maximum benefits with extra lifetime reserve days. You can find gaps in the government plan and payments you'll be directly responsible to pay for. Selecting a supplemental plan from the private insurer can cover part of these gaps.
Section D, added to law effective January 1, 2006, was enacted under the Bush administration which is funded with taxpayer dollars. Should you have had a Medicare plan before January 2006, you may have a Medicare Supplement policy that includes drug coverage. If you might be new to Medicare, you could possibly select a separate policy for drugs. There are two approaches to buy a Drug plan-as part of a Medicare Advantage Plan or even a separate Medicare Medication Plan. Since Part D provides basic coverages with large deductibles and co-payments, besides premium differences, these drug supplemental policies must offer Formulary or Generic Drugs in every category of treatment. Deciding which drug program's best for you may be challenging. Knowing your drugs and dosages before selecting the plan is helpful. For approved drug plans browse the department of insurance site where you live.
Contained in the description of Medicare is an element C, which you might assume is another benefit you receive –it's not. Part C is coverage you can select instead of traditional Medicare. Provided by private insurance companies, Medicare Advantage Plans (MA) are private plans which can be approved by the federal government. Deciding on a MA plan means you may decline coverage through traditional Medicare. The insurer has rigorous rules and regulations to follow and can be suspended for misleading material or infractions. An independent agent must be certified separately to sell Medicare Advantage Plans as they are perceived to be an extension from the Federal Government. These plans can be HMO (Health Maintenance Organizations), PPO (Preferred Provider Organizations), PFFS (Private Fee for Service), MSA (Medical Savings Accounts, or SNP (Special Needs Plans). With MA plans, you'll not purchase a Medicare Supplement plan considering that the supplemental benefits will probably be included in the Part C, MA plan.
Which program's best for you? Listed below are many of the differences between Medicare Advantage (MA) and Medicare Supplement (a.k.a. Medigap) plans.
Your real choice using a MA versus a traditional Medicare Supplemental program's to make sure you get the doctors and hospitals you want. Most MA plans are regional along with the insurance company may not provide a MA plan inside your zip code but may give you a Medicare Supplement plan in your area. MA plans designate a medical facility and the doctor you must see. If you like HMO plans, you would probably be satisfied with a MA plan. If you prefer to select your own doctor and hospital, you'd best be served which has a PPO/Medicare Supplement plan. Many doctors will take Medicare patients but aren't on the list to take Medicare Advantage patients. Research your options first and find out which kind of plan your doctor will honor.
A law strictly regulated with Medicare is Guaranteed Issue. You can get Medicare, Medicare Supplement or perhaps a Medicare Advantage plan in case you have health problems (preexisting conditions) the initial month that you are qualified for be covered under Medicare Medicare part b age 65 or older. However, this guaranteed issue right is wonderful for only 6 months after you are eligible. After that the insurer can underwrite your medical history and you can be turned down, excluded for preexisting conditions or surcharged. If you're covered under a group medical insurance program at your work you're now eligible for Part B, you'll be able to wait until your group plan's over before you select a supplement or MA plan, guaranteed issued. You are required to provide proof of enrollment of Medicare Medicare part a and B so that you can purchase a supplement. (There are some other exceptions for guaranteed issue.) No matter the reason, if you plan on choosing a supplemental plan to fill in the gaps of Medicare or else you wish to take a bonus plan, you are far better to choose the coverage when you're first eligible or when group benefits end along with your employer.
Medigap policies are available to fill out the gaps of traditional Parts A & B. Efforts are standardized and called Plans A through L and ought to offer the same benefits, no matter what company sells the master plan. Not all companies sell A – L. Premiums and contracted doctors and hospitals are usually the major differences in these plans. Plans F & J provide the riches coverages for Medigap plans as well as cover foreign travel emergencies which may be important if you travel beyond your US. The Department of Insurance in your area can provide a list of companies that provide Medicare Supplemental plans. These supplemental plans are usually less than $180 per month with regards to the company you select and a lot doctors that accept Medicare accept the supplemental plan benefits you ultimately choose as long as the plan isn't an HMO or MA plan. Again, talk to your physicians billing department to make sure your plan will be accepted before any selection.
You will find benefits not paid by Medicare. These include: Long Term Care, Vision, Dental, assistive hearing aids, eyeglasses, and private duty nurses during recovery from illnesses. As you approach age 65, your mailbox will explode with offers for Medicare Advantage and Medicare Supplement plans. Marketing material from your.A.R.P. as well as other senior organization can be confusing. Understanding the differences will save you time and money. Choosing an impartial agent who is contracted to market both Medicare Supplement and Medicare Advantage Plans is usually to your advantage. Call or contact our agency for more information and for your free self-help guide to "Choosing a Medigap Policy: Helpful information for Health Insurance for People with Medicare".


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Along with the York School District, the H.O.P.E. organization is also serving as a sponsor for the Summer Feeding Program in Rock Hill.
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Het Bisdom Kreta, soms ook Bisdom Candia (Latijn: Dioecesis Candiensis; Grieks: Μητρόπολη της Κρήτης) is een katholiek bisdom, dat het eiland Kreta omvat. De bisschopszetel gaat terug tot in de oudheid. In de middeleeuwen waren er op Kreta vanaf 1213 verschillende bisschopszetels, tijdens de Venetiaanse overheersing had het elf bisdommen. In Candia/Iraklion bevond zich een aartsbisschoppelijke zetel. De hiërarchie werd onderbroken door de Turkse bezetting. Sinds 28 augustus 1874 is de bisschopszetel van Kreta hersteld, die suffragaan is aan  het aartsbisdom Naxos-Tinos. Zetel van de bisschop is in Iraklion (de historische naam Candia duidt zowel Iraklion als het eiland Kreta aan).

Het bisdom telt ongeveer 3500 katholieke gelovigen, ongeveer 0,7% van de totale bevolking. Drie paters zijn werkzaam in de zielzorg.

Bisschoppen van Candia
 1910-1926: Francesco Giuseppe Seminara OFMCap
 1934-1935: Lorenzo Giacomo Inglese OFMCap
 1952-1974: Georges Xenopulos SJ (apostolisch administrator)
 1974-2014: Franghískos Papamanólis OFMCap (apostolisch administrator )
 2014-heden: Petros Stefanou (apostolisch administrator)

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Zhang Xun
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EXP : 100
Subject: Zhang Xun Sat Sep 26, 2015 5:24 pm
Full Name: Zhang Xun
Birthplace: Earth Kingdom
Position: Naval officer
Tactics and strategy (Expert)
Sailing (Expert)
Earthbender (Intermediate)
Navigation (Intermediate)
Personality: (307)
Being a quiet, cold, and calculating individual, Zhang Xun is usually quiet around others and prefers "thinking over talking", as he likes to put it. Neither does he have anyone that he considers to be a friend, and, outwardly, appears to be a quiet and unfeeling person. The earthbender rarely raises his voice and usually speaks with the same impassive tone. The man is very organized and tends to plan ahead, whether it is in a battle or in a civil matter. Zhang Xun is constantly analyzing whatever situation he may find himself in, plotting how he could turn it in his favor, and thus being a good tactician as well as strategist. He is also highly ambitious, planning to reach the rank of admiral.
Despite his cold and emotionless appearance (being quite used to hiding his emotions), Zhang is not entirely unfeeling. He cares for the lives of his fellow sailors and tries to ensure that they all survive. That being said, the man can be cruel and uncaring when the situation calls for it, usually not showing mercy to his enemies.
He was raised by his parents to be patriotic, and he has become an Earth Kingdom nationalist, viewing the country to be superior to the Fire Nation, Water Tribes, and Air Nomads. He is highly loyal to the throne particularly, being a staunch monarchist. The man also is loyal to the Earth Kingdom Navy, which he is part of, and loves the military life. Zhang Xun also personally looks down on those who constantly about bending skill with contempt. Although he himself is a an earthbender, he prefers using smarts to defeat his opponent rather than brute force. The man also is not against negotiation and diplomacy, first preferring to see if there are other alternatives to fighting rather than rushing into a battle.
Abilities: (251)
Zhang Xun can earthbend at an intermediate level, being capable of defending himself, and having received military training. But earthbending is actually not his primary strength. Zhang looks down with contempt on those who rely on brute force to win in battles and prefers to outsmart is opponents. The man is intelligent, and is considered by his colleagues in the fleet to be a skilled tactician and strategist. He excels particularly in naval tactics. During his time fighting against the Fire Nation, he served aboard a cruiser as the first officer, and became a tactical adviser to the captain of the ship. His advice was implemented on several occasions, generally producing successful results.
But he is pragmatic enough to have accepted training in some hand-to-hand combat styles to optimize his self-defense skills. He knows the basics of unarmed combat and may get involved in a brawl with other seamen every once in a while to keep his abilities at some level. The earthbender nonetheless prefers to leave the "dirty work" to his subordinates. If he had to get into a one-on-one fight with a skilled soldier, he is likely to lose. In that situation, Zhang would most likely have to use the speed and agility granted to him by his thin form to get away.
Coming from a family of fisherman, he is an experienced sailor and navigator, having spent much of his life traveling the seas aboard ships. Being at sea is where Zhang Xun feels the most "at home."
Appearance: (217)
Height: 189 centimeters
Weight: 86 kilograms
Eyes: Green
Skin: Fair
With flawless pale skin and brown hair, Zhang Xun has the look of an aristocrat, a fact that helped him on more than one occasion. He also possesses green eyes, traits that are all common to citizens of the Earth Kingdom.
Being an Earth Kingdom naval officer, he typically wears a green, brown and grey naval uniform, sporting the insignia of a captain. It is similar to the uniforms worn by Earth Kingdom Army soldiers, but is lighter and has very little armor, allowing the wearer to swim and move around on the deck of a ship quicker rather than be weighed down. The shoulders and collar are made of a light metal and are there to show rank rather than protect the wearer. Zhang has three bars on the metal shoulder epaulets, signifying his captain's rank.
He does not have any birthmarks or scars to speak of, and has a thin form. Although he does not use earthbending that often, the man does have a considerable amount of muscle from military training and conditioning, but, again, he prefers to stay out of direct combat when he can.
Since he is a sailor, Zhang Xun usually does not carry weapons, especially since he has had no real training in the usage of swords, spears, or other weapons.
History: (560)
Born to a middle class family of fishermen in the town of Garsai of the western Earth Kingdom, Zhang Xun's family had served the Earth Kings of eras long past by joining the military and fighting under their banner. As a result, Zhang's parents are both highly patriotic, and raised their son to be the same. He was never really close to them, though, due to the fact that they spent much of their time away from each other while on fishing or other trips, and their relationship was a bit icy. The young man spent much of his youth enjoying sailing.
He was also an earthbender, which he found out at the age of seven, but he never spent much time practicing the art, being at an intermediate level. He thought that it was best to defeat his opponents by outsmarting them rather than by relying on brute force. So, as a result, he just learned the minimal amount of skills in earthbending necessary for being able to defend himself in fights with those not particularly skilled in the art, such as thugs, pirates and the like. Zhang did not get any training with weapons, such as swords, at all, not seeing it necessary.
At the same time, the young Zhang was too ambitious to remain in the lowly position of a fisherman and had no intentions of remaining with the family that he didn't care for very much anyway. Having learned much about sailing and spending much of his time at sea over the years while fishing with his father, Zhang became a capable sailor. It was that and his patriotism which caused the young man to leave his family and enlist in the Earth Kingdom Navy at the age of eighteen.
It did not take long for him to rise through the ranks and become an officer in the Fleet due to his experience as a sailor and tactical ability. Lieutenant Zhang Xun served aboard an Earth Kingdom cruiser during battles with Fire Nation vessels in the Mo Ce Sea, and was promoted to lieutenant commander in the final stages of the conflict. The man served as a tactical adviser to the cruiser's captain, who quickly found out to listen to Zhang's advice. He also became a proponent of modernizing the Earth Kingdom Fleet, witnessing first hand of the inferiority of their ships to those of the Fire Nation.
He proved to be a capable tactician during the war, resulting in a promotion to commander, and later, to captain. But the commanding officer of the squadron Zhang was part of, a rear admiral, was envious of the man's successes, and used his influence to have him transferred to what he thought would be a "dead end" position for the officer. That position was to serve as an adjutant on the staff of the admiral commanding the fleet at Chameleon Bay, the body of water leading to Ba Sing Se, away from the action.
But Captain Zhang Xun saw being transferred to this position as an opportunity rather than a punishment. He proved to be a reliable adjutant, becoming the right hand man of the admiral commanding the fleet at Chameleon Bay, and, after working in that capacity for several years, was given his first command: a cruiser part of the fleet stationed on the western coast of the Earth Kingdom.
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HÀ NỘI — According to new data, Việt Nam's richest citizens can earn roughly 5,000 times more money in an hour than the poorest Vietnamese spend in a day.
The data, revealed on Thursday at an event held by Oxfam Việt Nam in Hà Nội, shows how big the inequality gap between the richest and poorest has become in the country.
The report, compiled by Oxfam's Nguyễn Trần Lâm and his colleagues, said the richest man in Việt Nam earns in a day more than the poorest Vietnamese earn in 10 years. His wealth is so huge that he could spend US$1 million every day for six years before exhausting it.
In 2014, there were 210 super-rich individuals (each owned property valued over $30 million), and their combined wealth was around $20 billion, equal to 12 per cent of the country's GDP and a half of HCM City's GDP.
The number of the super-rich individuals is predicted to reach 403 by 2025, under London firm's Knight Frank's estimation.
Reasons for the inequality include economic development and ineffective use of funds to reduce poverty, participants at the event said.
According to the report, economic inequality has triggered inequalities of voice and opportunity.
Babeth Ngoc Han Lefur, Country Director of Oxfam in Việt Nam, said the inequality has made ethnic minorities, small-scale farmers, migrant workers and women more likely to be poor, more likely to suffer the most from discrimination and more likely to be unable to access to public services or participate in decision-making processes.
There are significant disparities between ethnic groups. The Kinh majority has tended to have higher living standards than others. Other ethnic groups only account for 15 per cent of the country's population but make for 70 per cent of the country's extremely poor.
Unequal access to health service is also holding back disadvantaged groups. For example, pregnant women from poor households are three times more likely to go without antenatal care compared to other pregnant women.
Research from the report also showed that disadvantaged citizens lack information and skills to understand tax processes, budget issues and other economic decisions.
In addition, Kinh public health services staff often showed discriminative attitude toward ethnic minority users, the report said.
"Increasing inequality is threatening decades of progress in Việt Nam," Babeth said.
Ngô Trường Thi, chief of the National Co-ordination Office for Poverty Reduction, said inequality between the rich and the poor is a common issue many countries in the world are facing.
In Việt Nam, the National Assembly has realised the situation and issued many policies to help people escape from multidimensional poverty for years.
Thi said to fix the inequality, the NA should focus more on reducing poverty in mountainous areas, effectively use the fund for poverty reduction and give more rights for localities to run programmes related to poverty reduction.
Nguyễn Hoàng Mai, vice chairman of the NA's Committee on Social Affairs, said the NA has made bold decisions in an attempt to tackle inequality. For example, it recently decided to cut State budget allocations to HCM City and pour more for underprivileged localities.
"But we have a lot of works ahead to tackle inequality," Mai said.
In term of policy, it needs to be designed to ensure every person has a chance to access basic services, especially education and healthcare, he said.
In term of participation of people in economic and cultural decisions, it should establish groups of experts, on behalf of people, to analyse and comment on decision-making processes, he said.
For instance, the groups could send their comments to NA deputies to discuss this at NA sessions, he said.
Lê Quang Bình, head of the People's Participation Working Group (PPWG), advised the NA to approve the Law on Associations so that people can be given more chances to involve in the country's decisions.
Bình also said raising awareness about inequality is now important.
Currently, many people think that inequality is the inevitable consequence of economic development, he said.
"If we have the attitude of not accepting inequality, our society will become more fair and equal," he said.