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Four SBU Researchers Win 2020 Young Academic Inventor's Award
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The National Academy of Inventors, Stony Brook University Chapter (NAI-SBU) has awarded the 2020 Young Academic Inventor's Award to Michael Ferdman, Adrian F. Howansky, Peter Milder and Priyanka Sharma.
Michael Ferdman, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science (PhD 2012, Carnegie Mellon University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Research Assistant 2008-2012, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) won the award "for his inventions on the hardware accelerators for deep learning and the system design for servers and memories."
Adrian Howansky
Adrian F. Howansky, PhD, Medical Physics Resident, Department of Radiology, Stony Brook University Renaissance School of Medicine (PhD 2019, Stony Brook University, Biomedical Engineering) won the award "for his invention of new flat panel imagers involving multiple X-ray conversion materials."
Peter Milder, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD 2010, Carnegie Mellon University, Postdoctoral Researcher 2010-2012 in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University) won the award "for his inventions of optimized hardware designs for efficient signal processing and machine learning."
Peter Milder
Priyanka Sharma, PhD, Research Scientist, Department of Chemistry (PhD 2014, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune India) won the award "for her inventions leading to the development of nitro-oxidation method to extract nanocellulose from raw biomass, which drastically decreases the consumption of energy, chemicals and water."
The winners presented a short lecture of their invention at the Young Academic Inventor's Award Symposium via Zoom on May 20, 2020. They will be honored with a certificate and a $1,000 check each at one of the NAI-SBU Chapter and Office of Technology Licensing and Industry Relations joint meetings to be held in Fall 2020.
Priyanka Sharma
About NAI-SBU
The NAI-SBU was established in 2016 to recognize innovation and invention. Membership includes a track record of academic innovation including inventorship with at least one issued patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Members should enhance the visibility of university technology and academic innovation; encourage the disclosure of intellectual property; educate and mentor innovative students; and translate the inventions of its members to benefit society. Inventors truly should be recognized for their imagination and accomplishments, and called upon to share their special translational talents within the university and the wider community.
The NAI-SBU Chapter established the Young Academic Inventor's Award in 2017 to encourage younger inventors. Candidates are carefully evaluated in several stages by a panel of reviewers from the NAI-SBU Executive Committee.
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An Australian Achiever on the Cheap
The other day I decided to take a look at some Australian stocks. As luck would have it, I had only flipped through a few before landing on a company with an interesting name and line of business. A little more research revealed some eye-popping statistics.
How many companies anywhere in the world have managed this kind of performance?
5 Year Average Revenue Growth: 25.3%
5 Year Average Net Income Growth: 28.30%
5 Year Average EBIT Margin: 23.4%
5 Year Average ROE: 20.5%
5 Year Average ROIC: 16.6%
And all while paying a dividend and using modest debt.
What industry would you guess this company belongs to? Consumer electronics? Maybe a pricy teen retailer or trendy restaurant chain? Your guesses probably wouldn't include a provider of marine services to the oil & gas industry.
But that's what Mermaid Marine Australia (Australian Exchange ticker: MRM) is, and it is the largest provider in Australia. Mermaid Marine operates a fleet of 41 service vessels that support the offshore petroleum industry in Northwest Australia and Southeast Asia, as well as Africa and the Gulf of Mexico. These 41 vessels include tugboats, supply vessels, barges, accommodation ships and more. Basically, all the various vessels that keep massive offshore drilling rigs staffed, supplied and in good repair.
Mermaid also owns and operates two supply bases in Northwestern Australia. These are the wholly-owned Dampier Supply Base and the Broome Supply Base, a joint venture. These bases are strategically located next to the North West Shelf, a major oil and gas-producing region. These bases provide logistical support to ships that service the oil & gas industry, including maintenance and repairs.
Finally, Mermaid owns a slipway at its Dampier base, a facility used for docking ships for repair. The company notes that its slipway is the only such facility located in close proximity to the North West Shelf.
I've mentioned the North West Shelf a few times without explaining its significance. The NWS is Australia's most important and developed petroleum-producing region. Production has been ongoing since the 1980s, with the involvement of many of the world's foremost extraction companies.
Activity in the NWS and surrouding areas is strong and is expected to remain so. Tony Howarth, chairman of Mermaid, made these comments in the 2013 annual report.
"Activity in the Australian oil and gas sector remains strong with four major LNG projects currently under construction in the North West of Western Australia with a combined capital cost of $125 billion. Exploration activity is also buoyant with nine oil and gas companies currently undertaking drilling programs in the region and significant gas discoveries announced by Santos and Chevron during the year."
The four LNG ("Liquefied Natural Gas") projects under construction are extremely significant for Mermaid. Due to high regulatory burdens and construction costs for land-based LNG facilities, some extractors are turning to "Floating LNG" technology. Shell is in the process of building the world's first FLNG vessel, with BHP Billiton and Exxon Mobil to follow. These offshore LNG facilities will require the support services that Mermaid offers, and should provide revenues for decades to come. Exploration and production are also important opportunities for Mermaid. The company recently won its first drilling support contract, serving Santos's Ensco 109 rig.
Let's take a look at Mermaid's historical performance and see what insights arise. All figures are presented in millions USD, converted at $1.00 AUD: $0.94 USD.
Revenue, EBIT and net income growth are all strong since 2008. Margins have varied a few hundred basis points in either direction, but are consistently high. Free cash flow is negative on average, but that's not a bad thing. When a company has as many great investment opportunities as Mermaid does, I don't want it to produce free cash flow. I want it to use every dollar of operating cash flow and more to capture those opportunities. The success of these capex expenditures can be seen in the revenue, EBIT and net income lines. Spending far beyond annual depreciation on capital assets has clearly been a great use of shareholder capital.
While Mermaid's consolidated results have been extremely strong, these results have been generated by a changing mix of revenues. Slowing growth in the vessels division has been offset by rapid increases in supply base revenues.
Most of the revenue growth in Mermaid's vessel division was realized between 2008 and 2011. High utilization rates during those years pushed up EBIT margins, which have since declined. Additionally, vessels segment revenues and earnings growth have not kept up with asset growth, reducing profit per dollar of assets employed. The vessels segment is still a strong contributor, but is no longer the company's crown jewel.
That mantle has passed to the supply base segment. Though its 2013 revenues were only just over half those of the vessels segment, its EBIT was 18% greater. The company credits strong growth at the Broome Supply Base with the segment's remarkable 2013 performance. In 2013, the segment produced nearly 30 cents in EBIT for every dollar of assets employed, an impressive figure that has only grown over time.
The Dampier Slipway accounts for only a small sliver of revenue, but is a solid contributor in terms of EBIT and EBIT per asset employed.
So what must an investor pay for a such a high-achieving company with great prospects for continued growth? Answer: surprisingly little.
Mermaid Marine's trailing P/E is only 14.36, less than one must pay for the broad US and Australian indexes. I find it very hard to believe that Mermaid's future growth will trail the average company in either of these economies.
Mermaid's valuation may be weighed down by fears of a slowdown in the Chinese economy, and by fears that Australia's currency will continue its recent decline. I view both of these factors as short-term in nature and unlikely to interfere with Mermaid's long-term success. The most important factor in long-term equity returns is a company's ability to reinvest earnings at consistently high rates, and Mermaid has demonstrated its aptitude.
Finally, for income-oriented investors, Mermaid Marine Australia pays an annual dividend of 12.5 Australian cents, an increase of 13.6% over 2013. At current prices, this dividend is good for a 3.3% yield.
No position.
Author otcadventuresPosted on September 25, 2013
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Great rview.
Mermaide Marine is fairly priced. There is no MOS. Here's another simple check:
Assume go forward Roe = 20% p.a.
Assume go forward dividend payout = 50% of earnings as at present (1.e. 12.5c of 26c)
Fair market discount rate/cost of equity = 10% p.a
Current book value of equity = $1.26
Fair market intrisic value:
= $1.26 [(0.5 x 20/10) + (05 x {20/10}^2)]
= $1.26 [Dividend redturn multiple + Reinvestment multiple]
=$1.26 x 3
I find this quick check works consistenly to see if there is value terriory, over pice or under price.
That's an interesting approach, and if it's worked for you, I won't try to talk you out of it. But I think you've made a few mistakes.
First off, Mermaid's book value of equity is $1.75 AUD, not $1.26. Second, when using a dividend capitalization model, it's important to model in the convergence of ROE to the mean over time. Not even a quality company like Mermaid can maintain a 20% ROE with a 50% dividend payout forever. 10% annual growth sustained over decades would eventually lead to it surpassing the size of the whole economy.
For instance, let's say today's 20% ROEs continue for another 10 years, after which ROE drops to 15% for 10 years, after which it drops to 10% and remains there indefinitely. Dividend payout remains at 50%. (I think the terminal figure of 10% is too conservative, but that's what we want to be.)
Using those assumptions and a 10% discount rate, it's an easy matter to project dividends and the company's book value. The present value of the company will be the present value of the dividends and the company's book value in 20 years. (The company will be worth exactly its book value then because its ROE will equal the discount rate.)
Dividends start in year one at 17.5 cents and grow to 85.0 cents per share in year 20. The present value of these dividends at a 10% discount rate is $3.00. The book value of the company in 20 years would be $9.36, equal to a present value of $1.39.
Total present value of $4.39 is 18% above today's close.
Obviously, Mermaid's value depends on whether is is able to sustain high returns on equity for a long time. I think the chances are good and if it can, today's stock price is cheap.
MRM's share in the broome joint venture was over $3m in 2013. it's carried at less than $9m on the balance sheet… it is likely worth far more than this
interesting opportunity
Thanks for the comment. I agree, the Broom asset is worth far more than its balance sheet entry, justifying MRM's premium to book value.
Doe says:
Oh, I know one! It's EBIX. There's a lot of headline risk and overhang due to fluff lawsuits/investigations. If you can discount the issues into the price and stomach the inevitable volatility, there's a lot of value.
This is a good summary here: http://seekingalpha.com/article/1559172-ebixs-valuation-says-guilty-until-proven-innocent-worst-case-25-upside
I wish you luck with EBIX, but it's too dangerous for me. "Where there's smoke, there's fire" as the saying goes and I suspect the SEC will level charges against the firm and its executives. If the company is really so cheap/innocent, why are executives not buying shares?
There's definitely no telling what SEC will do here and there was no telling what SEC would do to IMAX, IBM, GM, DELL during their probes. And like Buffett said, if a cop follows you for 500 miles, you're going to get a ticket.
But the seminal question is whether the company is worth something or worthless. I think it's worth something if it (1). has generated cash in the past and (2). whether it will continue to generate cash 5 years from now.
Checking for the (1) is rather easy – one just has to check if their cash outflow (from buybacks, dividends & payment for acquisitions) exceeded their cash inflow (from issuing shares & debt). I did and see that difference closely matches the total cash generated from operations.
Checking for (2) should be answered by asking whether customers are leaving or staying. Their business model seems sticky so it's not easy to leave. Indeed, the revenues haven't dropped after the announcement of investigations. The company confirmed on the conference call that it has not lost a single customer because of the investigations. Just like the salad oil scandal of AmEx, it's the shareholders running away, not the customers.
As for "why are executives not buying shares?" CEO already owns 10% of the company. Incentives couldn't be more aligned.
Finally, the current share price already discounts a big fine and a sizable haircut to the future earnings power.
With that said, at what price would you be a buyer?
PJN says:
What do you think about the company issuing shares…and SIMULTANEOUSLY paying dividends…it's acting in a way that's totally opposite to what a undervalued company should act.
You're correct in that issuing shares and paying dividends is merely taking funds from investors only to give them back. But I don't believe Mermaid has been raising substantial capital through share sales. The dilution I see comes from options grants to executives and the dividend reinvestment program. For example, the most recent share issuance announced on October 1 is solely the result of dividend reinvestment.
Given the extraordinary success of the company, I don't begrudge the executives their share-based compensation. A large part of the expansion in shares outstanding comes from the excellent performance of the company's share price and the in-the-moneyness of executive options the rise has produced.
Are you still keeping watching this one? The market cap has dropped to 561.36M
I keep watching it. I am somewhat amazed at how far the price has fallen. I understand these are not the best times for the Australian resource complex, but some of these names are trading as if demand for oil&gas/ore has been permanently reduced, which I think is far from the case.
I continue to view management favorably, but this newly announced acquisition is large and will be tough to integrate. The price seems reasonable at 7.8x EBITDA pre-synergies, but we'll see if those synergies will materialize or not. Jaya's fleet appears to be attractive, very new and technologically advanced, and the acquisition may help Mermaid achieve global scale. The debt load will continue to be reasonable for the combined entity.
I hate the Mermaid sold shares so cheaply to pay for the acquisition. However, the combined enterprise looks cheap. Mermaid projects pro forma 2013 EBITDA for the combined operation of AUD $183 million. The post-transaction enterprise value is about AUD $1.16 billion, for trailing pro forma EV/EBITDA of 6.3.
So the valuation is still modest for a business that should enjoy good long-term growth. The high dividend yield may lend some support for shares at this level.
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KATHMANDU, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping is due to arrive in Nepal on Saturday for talks with Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli and is expected to sign a deal expanding a railway link between the Himalayan nation and Tibet, officials said.
Xi will be the first Chinese president to visit Nepal in 22 years and will arrive from India, where he held talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Landlocked Nepal, a natural buffer between India and China, has been trying to lessen its dependence on New Delhi.
The Chinese leader will meet Oli on Sunday and the two leaders are expected to sign a slew of deals, including the planned extension of the rail link from remote, mountainous Tibet to Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, officials said.
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These are some lies we made up about Saint Ann.
The spirit of a copper-miner is every now and then perceived in the backseat of a pickup by the driver observing the ghost in her rear view mirror on a dark night.
The phantom of a gentleman outfitted as a car mechanic has supposedly been witnessed on one or two instances by a person camping at a campground next to Saint Ann. One thing is for certain, this is an unpleasant ghost that you wouldn't wish to encounter late in the night.
The phantom of a gentleman in a police force outfit may once in a while be distinguished sitting on a stool in a house in Saint Ann.
A sizeable chilling beast was noticed in Appletree Park late at night going nuts.
The ghost of a security guard with a bullet hole in his forehead emerged hurling pebbles beside a lamppost in Saint Ann. This phantom is fantastically active in this area; there have been several additional accounts of this exact phantom.
The ghost of a guy dressed in a soldier's outfit was witnessed walking from apartment to apartment at midnight on a Saint Ann residential road. This is one of those phantoms that is distinguished frequently in the neighborhood. If you listen to what the people who live here assert, this ghost is in all probability the undeceased ghost of a local who used to dwell here in Saint Ann. In any case, it's a terrifying ghost that any sound person would not want to bump into.
A giant gnu appeared rummaging around in a refrigerator in the kitchen of a Saint Ann home before dawn.
A woman with a machete sticking out of her head was seen staring at folks in a Saint Ann apartment through a window. The viewer escaped after she witnessed the spirit. A lot of folks who live here claim this ghost is the struggling spirit of a former Saint Ann resident.
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Born in Sweden. Handcrafted in Kungsbacka.
Launched in 2019, with the aim of becoming a top-player among two-wheeler brands in the world. Through our wild ambitions and expertise, we plan to silence the streets and quickly expand in a fast-growing bike-tech market. Bound to disrupt the motorcycle realm, our designs are high-quality, timeless and packed with leading innovation. Engineered to give you power in every sense of the word.
Inspired by the new and improved, quieter metropolis of Beijing in 2018, serial entrepreneur Jonathan Åstrom explored a desire to silence city streets in the west. As a long-time motorcycle rider, he dreamt of a two-wheeler that would ignite the same freedom of traditional bikes, but with the innovation of today's most progressive cars. After shocking the market with a beautiful prototype, our founder and CEO launched RGNT in 2020 with the ambition for urban commuters to swap cars for electric motorcycles.
Since then every bike has been and will continue to be built by hand. Our designs resemble an era when bikes were robust, efficient and manufactured with high-quality materials. At RGNT we offer a classic look that can stand the test of time for generations to come. And while we remember the past aesthetically, we look ahead technologically. By working with innovative solutions, we've created an entire digital ecosystem for our riders; providing cloud connectivity, a user-friendly interface, an LCD touch display and zero maintenance.
We're serious about keeping things local. Because while building an electric bike is a conscious effort towards reducing toxic emissions, we're keen to keep our carbon footprint minimal. Our factory is home to Kungsbacka, Sweden and all suppliers are based a few kilometers away in Gothenburg. As part of our ambition towards productivity and improved serviceability, we've set up a lean production line ensuring efficiency, accuracy and speed.
Our vision continues to purvey a message of change. We aim to be a top-player across motorcycle brands in Europe and North America, while pushing the industry towards a cleaner and quieter future.
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This award, presented by Minnesota Business magazine, honors 100 Minnesota companies that have been deemed as the best places to work by their own employees, based on surveys submitted about their workplace.
This is a HUGE honor that would not have been possible to achieve without our team of dedicated staff who support the clients we serve!
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A 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck northern Peru
By Scott Matthews 2 months ago
A 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck northern Peru on Sunday, November 28, according to the United States Institute of Geological Studies. News agency
A 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck northern Peru at 5:52 a.m. (11:52 a.m. in Paris) on Sunday, November 28, United States Institute of Geological Studies (USGS). Peru's National Institute of Geophysics said the earthquake hit the forest in the north of the country as well as a large area near the central coast. The earthquakes injured ten people and caused material damage, according to preliminary information from the Peruvian authorities.
. Sismos_Peru_IGP reported a 7.5-magnitude earthquake that occurred 98 km east of Sta Maria de Neiva, Kondorkanqui – Amazo… https://t.co/mfiayrY0vF
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The Peruvian Institute locates the epicenter 98 kilometers east of Santa Maria de Neiva, the capital of the Condorcanque department in the Amazonas province, 860 kilometers northeast of Lima near the border with Ecuador, at a depth of 131 kilometers, which generally reduces the damage and the number of casualties.
Ten wounded and material damage
Santa Maria de Neiva is located in a sparsely populated area where the indigenous people live, on the banks of the Neiva River. In Barranca, the church tower collapsed. No tsunami warning was issued after the quake. According to the Civil Defense, the earthquake injured ten people and displaced 75 others, while homes were destroyed in the Amazonas region. Its president, Guillermo Laso, announced that the earthquake also caused damage to infrastructure in at least two provinces of Ecuador.
Almost half of the country, in the north and in the center, was shocked, particularly in regions such as Cajamarca, Piura, Tumbes, Lambayeq, Ancách, and in the capital. In Lima, located more than a thousand kilometers south of the epicenter, residents took to the streets of some neighborhoods. Power outages have been reported in the affected areas. The earthquake was also felt in Colombia.
Peru experiences at least a hundred earthquakes every year that can be observed by the population, as it is located on the Pacific Belt of Fire, an area of wild activity that stretches along the western coast of the continent. American.
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Diane was a 38-gun frigate of the French Navy, launched in 1796. She participated in the battle of the Nile, but in August 1800 the Royal Navy captured her. She was taken into British service as HMS Niobe, and broken up in 1816.

French career

She took part in the Battle of the Nile, managing to escape to Malta with . During the battle Rear-Admiral Denis Decrès was on board Diane in his capacity as commander of the frigate squadron. He would go on to become Napoleon's Minister of Marine.

In 1800, as she tried to escape from Malta, , , and HMS Genereux captured her. At the time she had only 114 men on board, having left the remainder at Malta to assist in its defense.

British career
The Royal Navy commissioned her as HMS Niobe, under the command of Captain John Wentworth Loring,  there already being an  in service.

On 28 March 1806, Niobe was off Groix when she captured the 16-gun , which had just separated from Leduc's division.

Niobe, still under Captain Loring, and , Commander James Stuart, captured the Danish ship  King of  Assianthe on 31 August 1807.

On 13 November 1810, off Le Havre along with Diana, Niobe sighted the 40-gun  and the 44-gun .  and  joined the chase, attacking the French squadron when it was anchored at Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue at the action of 15 November 1810. Eventually, Elisa was wrecked near La Hougue, while Amazone escaped to Le Havre. Four months later at the action of 24 March 1811, Niobe participated in the destruction of the French frigate Amazone near the Phare de Gatteville lighthouse, Normandy.

On 24 March 1811, she sailed with a squadron comprising HMS Berwick, , , and , again chased Amazone, which they trapped near Barfleur. Amazones crew scuttled her to prevent her capture.

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HMS Niobe was eventually sold on 31 July 1816.

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This is how writers communicate meaning, using images and symbols woven into their work.
Now, if you are sitting there thinking, "Geez, I need me some more semiotics," you probably don't. Most writers get their meaning across without thinking too hard about it. The real work of this is usually done in revisions, when you can pull back a bit and see connections where you hadn't noticed them when you first set them down, and build up any imagery or symbolism that's missing.
In fact, I'm going to suggest that this piece of advice is actually about avoiding semiotics. Stay away from the overt chore of any kind of inventory of symbols and images unless you need something to be up front throughout, in which case, do a little search of your document for words related to said image or symbol to check your pacing and see if you need more, or less.
My dear editor, Kelly, just told me to go through my manuscript and search for unicorn and take half of the mentions out. So, don't be afraid to semiotics all over the place, so long as you're willing to remove any blunt objects before publishing.


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That brilliant laugh: Elizabeth Pena, 1961-2014
Matt Zoller Seitz October 16, 2014
Elizabeth Peña, who died this week at 53, was a movie star with the career of a character actress. She enlivened many movies. She even rescued a few, by incarnating a semblance of a human being on a screen that was otherwise filled with types.
Peña grew up in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and studied acting at New York's High School of the Performing Arts. She came from a Cuban-American family. Her father was a playwright and actor. Her mother was an arts administrator who founded the Latin American Theatre Ensemble. Her first big role was in Cuban-American filmmaker León Ichaso's 1978 film "El Super." Her signature roles were the schoolteacher in "Lone Star" who has a deep and mysterious connection to Chris Cooper's sheriff; the maid who breaks up a rich white family in "Down and Out in Beverly Hills"; the therapist of the soon-to-be transsexual title character in "Transamerica"; the super-conservative eldest daughter in "Tortilla Soup," who gave up Catholicism and became an evangelical Christian; Mika, the wife of undercover drug agent in "Drug Wars: The Camarena Story"; and Lucy Acosta, the assistant to the title character on the short-lived, fondly remembered drama "Shannon's Deal."
As the above suggests, Peña spent much of her screen time in Hollywood trying not to succumb to stereotyping. It wasn't easy. If you look through her filmography, you see that easily a third of the roles, perhaps more, fall under the heading of "sexy Latina spitfire" or "maid" or some combination. This is no huge shock. Hollywood has always made a point of glorifying whiteness, or at least presenting it as the norm against which all other races, ethnicities and cultures are measured. In her essay "Made to be the Maid," part of the anthology "Contested Images: Women of Color in Popular Culture," Rosa Soto writes about how, in Hollywood movies, "Anglo-ness is presented as a standard," and the "exuberant sexuality" of characters like the ones Peña often played were in movies mainly to "expose the problems of the Anglo, middle- or upper-middle class family, thereby revealing that the seeming domestic bliss of the family is not so blissful after all."
But if the Oscar for Hattie McDaniel in "Gone with the Wind" demonstrates anything, it's that it's possible to rise above, as it were: to make art from something that's not terribly artful, and that may in fact be harmful. That's what Peña often did, whether playing the title character on TV's "I Married Dora," as a housekeeper from El Salvador who weds her employer to avoid deportation; a darkly sensual woman in the supernatural thriller "Jacob's Ladder' who seems to represent sin or temptation or maybe Hell itself; or the volcanically hot maid in "Down and Out in Beverly Hills" who tutors Bette Midler's character in food and language and shtups her husband, played by Richard Dreyfuss.
And as formidable as Peña was in less-than-savory roles, she was extraordinary in parts that gave her honest-to-goodness characters to play. Her work in "Lone Star" is gorgeous and heartbreaking (writer-director John Sayles was right to entrust her with that killer last line). She was subtly piercing as the mother of a gay son on Showtime's ""Resurrection Blvd." And she was an exuberant comedian, as "Beverly Hills" and "Tortilla Soup" and TV's "Modern Family" (as the mother of Sofia Vergera's character) and so many other plum roles proved. And after a certain point, she started to draw artistic and political lines, refusing to take roles in projects that seemed to have been conceived in bad faith. She was cast in Elizabeth in 1993's "House of the Spirits," but turned down the part when she saw the rest of the main cast come together sans a single hispanic name.
"I had read the the novel and I loved it," she told Out in Hollywood. "Now it comes time, they are casting it. They offered me a wonderful role, a whore. I was ecstatic! That's a great role. I was fine. But then I find out the only female hispanic in the movie is Catherine the whore! I'm sorry, but aren't all the characters hispanic?...I like to make money as much as the next person but I also didn't want to be an artistic whore."
Peña was funny. She was sexy in a real way. She radiated intelligence—so much so that the only time you had trouble believing her was when she played dumb. She had piercing eyes, and a sly way of looking at characters who weren't making sense, or who weren't as smart as her character, or who thought they could put a lie across without getting called on it.
She had a great voice (which got a spotlight in "The Incredibles," where she played the sultry Mirage). It was a 1940s movie star voice, Lauren Bacall-like, a little bit froggy; you heard that quality mainly when she laughed. A gently mocking laugh from Pena could light up a scene. A contemptuous laugh from Elizabeth Peña could save a scene. Sometimes when she laughed suddenly she'd snort a little bit, and it was endearing. That brilliant laugh saved a lot of scenes. You were never not glad to see her.
Matt Zoller Seitz is the Editor at Large of RogerEbert.com, TV critic for New York Magazine and Vulture.com, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism.
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ICDL Computing module set to nurture more young talents in Korea
Feb 2018 – As computational thinking and basic coding has become a trend and seemingly necessary basic skills for the new generation to have. ICDL Asia and Korea Productivity Centre (KPC) has successfully developed the ICDL Computing module (Korean version) for the students in Universities and International Schools.
Learning how to code is basically like learning a new language. In hoping to prepare for better livelihood and job opportunities, it has become more like a basic requirement in this digital age for employees and graduates to differentiate themselves.
Not just for the workplace, this trend has spread to the elementary school students and kindergarteners, creating a new requirement in Korea's private education market.
"In the past, coding was something that needed to be known only by few who specialize in it, but now, it is something that everybody should know, just like reading and writing," said computer science professor Seo Jung-yun at Sogang University in Seoul.
"Coding has become a basic grounding for our future generation," said Bae Jae-hyuck, head of Code Academy in southern Seoul, one of the private institutes providing coding courses for children.
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The Computing module is officially available from January this year and will seek to benefit and help nurturing talents; contributing to push the digital literacy level further up for Korea.


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A dream team of formidable female stars comes together in a hard-driving original approach to the globe-trotting espionage genre in The 355. When a top-secret weapon falls into mercenary hands, wild card CIA agent Mason "Mace" Brown (Oscar®-nominated actress Jessica Chastain) will need to join forces with rival badass German agent Marie (Diane Kruger, In the Fade), former MI6 ally and cutting-edge computer specialist Khadijah (Oscar® winner Lupita Nyong'o), and skilled Colombian psychologist Graciela (Oscar® winner Penélope Cruz) on a lethal, breakneck mission to retrieve it, while also staying one step ahead of a mysterious woman, Lin Mi Sheng (Bingbing Fan, X-Men: Days of Future Past), who is tracking their every move. As the action rockets around the globe from the cafes of Paris to the markets of Morocco to the wealth and glamour of Shanghai, the quartet of women will forge a tenuous loyalty that could protect the world—or get them killed. The film also stars Sebastian Stan (Avengers: Endgame) and Edgar Ramírez (The Girl on the Train). The 355 is directed by genre-defying filmmaker Simon Kinberg (writer-director-producer of Dark Phoenix, producer of Deadpool and The Martian and writer-producer of the X-Men films), from a script by Theresa Rebeck (NBC's Smash, Trouble) and Kinberg, and is produced by Chastain and Kelly Carmichael for Chastain's Freckle Films and by Kinberg for his Genre Films. The film is executive produced by Richard Hewitt (Bohemian Rhapsody).
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Thanks to a Dr. Weil article and a Ballard Street comic from Jerry Van Amerongen – this wellness coach asks you (and your female acquaintances) – is this a fitness wakeup call?
I note, and say hmmm to the non-result for prostate cancer, yet I as a Vermonter won't challenge a University of Vermont study.
More importantly ->the LOWERED chances for two types of the big C, and the HIGHER chances for beating a big C for elder men ARE related to aerobic fitness.
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HEADLINES: Immigration
About 350,000 more undocumented immigrants than previously thought could earn an extra two years in the U.S. when President Barack Obama's new Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program takes effect next week, according to the Migration Policy Institute. Under the program, students age 30 or younger who are enrolled in school on the day they apply will now be eligible for a two-year reprieve from deportation if they demonstrate that they came to the U.S. before their 16th birthday; lived there for the past five years; and have not been convicted of certain crimes or pose a national security threat. Obama's policy takes effect Aug. 15, and the government will begin accepting applications for deferral that same day. The application includes a fee of $465 used to fund the program, though exemptions will be provided for minors, homeless youth and youth with chronic disabilities that fall below 150 percent of the U.S. poverty level. [Associated Press] LIRS has collected resources on eligibility and guidelines here.
Activists Viridiana Martinez and Marco Saavedra were released by ICE last Friday after spending weeks implanted in immigration detention in the Broward Transitional Center in Pompano Beach. Once inside the center, the activists from the National Immigrant Youth Alliance collected information on the cases of undocumented immigrants whom they say should be set free according to the new Deferred Action guidelines recently announced by the U.S. government. The two "implanted activists" released last week from the immigrant detention center were then arrested in a protest while demanding the release of at least 100 other detainees. ICE spokesman Vincent Picard said that the undocumented students will not be placed under immigration orders. [Fox News]
Undocumented immigrants around the country have expressed worry that their ability to access healthcare will become more risky once President Barack Obama's healthcare law takes effect. The reform requires all U.S. citizens and permanent residents to obtain health insurance, either through the government-run Medicaid program for the poor or by purchasing private insurance via state exchanges starting in 2014. It also bars undocumented immigrants from participating. As more low-income citizens receive insurance, the fear is that many of the estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants will be easier to identify just because they lack coverage. Even though U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants are likely to be eligible for insurance, including the government-sponsored Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), many remain out of the system because of their parents' dread that the undocumented parent(s) will be identified and deported. [Reuters]


Welcome to the home of Long Plays of Our Lives! LPOOL is a weekly podcast co-hosted by David Bilbrey and Ryan Folks, during which two long-time friends and music nerds share their favorite albums with one another. While they have some overlap in their tastes (largely hip-hop) they have a wide variety of music to bring to the table and share with each other and their loving audience (their parents).
Every Tuesday, they'll run through an album track-by-track. Alternating between each others favorite albums, and then one they both mutually regard as an all-time classic, you're sure to hear albums from nearly every genre. Every so often they may have a guest join to share their absolute favorite album as well. It's a record-of-the-week club, but in podcast form!


The Gare Maritime is taking shape.
Extensa is proud to support the Brussels' first Cruyff Court in Molenbeek. A Cruyff Court is a modern vision of the timeless neighbourhood football pitch.The Cruyff Courts offer children a safe place to come together, play sports and incorporate at the same time central themes like respect, personal development and responsibility.


Habithacker's a free service to make household and workout routines easier so you have more time to be creative.
Habithacker believes the art of habit leads to the habit of art.
Habithacker thinks creativity thrives where clutter doesn't.
Create offers daily encouragement for your inner artist (everybody's got one, you know).
Nest puts domestic life on auto-pilot.
SOS, Sweat or Starve, helps you laugh your way to better health.
You can use HomeRoutines with any of these three streams, but here I'll just have a quick look at the Nest stream – the housework one.
Habithacker has a totally wizard new email subscription thingy – if you sign up here, you'll receive a Nest mission every day for the next 90 days. How cool is that? Alternatively, go to this page and scroll down to Nest Day One. The page builds up every month (you can't really skip ahead because the info comes and goes) so it's sort of tidier to start on the first of the month. I think the email version is the most awesome.
Follow the instructions as they come along to build up your routines.
Create your Brain on Paper routines using the routines in-app.
Build them up slowly as they occur in the Habithacker reminders, so you don't get overwhelmed.
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Canada's Investments in Science and Innovation: Is the Existing Concept of Research and Development Sufficient? - ARCHIVED
Articles and reports: 11F0027M2005032
Estimates of GDP are sensitive to whether a business expenditure is treated as an investment or an intermediate input. Shifting an expenditure category from intermediate expenditures to investment expenditures increases GDP. While the international guide to measurement (the SNA (93)) recognizes that R&D has certain characteristics that make it more akin to an investment than an intermediate expenditure, it did not recommend that R&D be treated as an investment because of problems in finding a "clear criteria for delineating [R&D] from other activities".
This paper examines whether the use of the OECD Frascati definition is adequate for this purpose. It argues that it is too narrow and that attempts to modify the National Accounts would not be well served by its adoption. In particular, it argues that the appropriate concept of R&D that is required for the Accounts should incorporate a broad range of science-based innovation costs and that this broader R&D concept is amenable to measurement.
Finally, the paper argues that failing to move in the direction of an expanded definition of R&D capital will have consequences for comparisons of Canadian GDP to that of other countries - in particular, our largest trading partner, the United States. It would provide a biased estimate of Canada's GDP relative to the United States. If all science-based innovation expenditures are to be capitalized, GDP will increase. But it appears that Canada's innovation system is directed more towards non-R&D science-based expenditures than the innovation systems of many other countries. If Canada were to only capitalize the narrow Frascati definition of R&D expenditures and not a broader class of science-based innovation expenditures, we would significantly bias estimates of Canadian GDP relative to those for other countries, such as the United States, whose innovation systems concentrate more on traditional R&D expenditures.
Author(s): Baldwin, John; Beckstead, Des; Gellatly, Guy
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Before the onset of the oncoming rains, many farmers, especially those keeping livestock, had a hard time getting fodder to feed their animals, having exhausted all their pastures and stored fodder. This lack of feed led to a decrease in milk production and less income for farmers. It is not only feed for livestock that is in short supply when the rains are inadequate, even food for people decreases. Farmers have abandoned traditional food crops that could grow even with less rain. Such crops could withstand pests and even diseases.
In view of the changing weather patterns, it is such food crops that people can turn to ward off food shortages and famine. Farmers need to change their attitude and start growing drought resistant crop varieties that can do well within a range of climatic conditions.
One such crop is sorghum!
A nutritious food cropSorghum is one of Africa's ancient food crops. Due to its ability to grow in many regions and soils, sorghum holds the key to Kenya and Africa's food security.
The crop is full of energy-giving nutrients, unlike other cereal crops such as maize and wheat. Sorghum has a high concentration of potassium and starch, it is less acidifying and is easily absorbed and tolerated by the sick and diabetics, adults and even children. Traditionally sorghum is used to make ugali and fermented porridge.
Sorghum can grow in areas with as little as 250 mm of rainfall although it can do better in areas with an average of 600 mm. But in its use as fodder for livestock that we shall look at in this issue. Changes in weather patterns have led to the failure of both maize and Napier grass as the source of fodder for livestock. In order for farmers to meet their fodder requirement they have to rely on drought resistant fodder crops, for instance sorghum. KARI, in collaboration with the ministry of agriculture has developed better varieties that can be grown as fodder and for human consumption.
Sorghum can do well in both high and low potential areas where crops such as maize and Napier grass cannot grow well. As fodder, it can be used in place of maize for making silage. The grain can be used for human consumption. When freshly chopped, this crop can be given to cows, goats, sheep, pigs, and even chickens because it has the same energy levels as maize and other cereals. Unlike old varieties, new varieties of sorghum are not poisonous to livestock but it is important to let it dry for one day before feeding it to livestock.
Sorghum can remain green in dry season when most of the other crops dry up because it can survive when the moisture levels are very low for any plant to grow. It can give farmers an adequate source of fodder when other fodder sources such as maize or even Napier grass fail.
Sorghum produces much more forage than maize. Unlike maize, its lower leaves do not dry out, as the plant matures-they remain green and have a higher crude protein content. The magic crop grows again after it is cut for use as fodder and harvesting of the grains, it therefore reduces the costs of replanting, land preparation and time.
For both forage and food varieties of sorghum, it is important to start preparing the land early before the rains following a crop season. The crop does well in fine soils. It can also be grown under minimum tillage conditions where the land is not ploughed and still grow well.
Farmers can plant sorghum at a seed rate of 2.4–3.3 kg per acre (6–8 kg/ha). Fodder varieties of sorghum should be planted at a spacing of 75 x 10 cm. Varieties meant for feed and grain (those meant for both human consumption and also for fodder) require a spacing of 60 cm x 20 cm. The spacing allows for a higher grain-fodder ratio.
Sorghum is planted at the beginning of the long rains. Plant the seeds along the trenches (furrows). Seeds should be 3 cm deep when dry planting to avoid germination in false rains, but 2 cm deep if the ground is wet.
Well composited manure should be applied during land preparation and worked into the soil.
Organic foliar feeds can be applied when the plant is knee high.
The crop should be thinned when it is 30 cm high or 30 days after planting, whichever comes first, to ensure a spacing of 10 cm between the rows for fodder sorghum and 20 cm between rows for sorghum meant for both fodder and food.
Hand weeding should be done at least twice during growing. A sorghum field should be kept weed-free especially at the early stages of growth.
especially when it is at milky stage, they prefer mostly the white-grained sorghum. Apart from pests, sorghum is fairly tolerant to diseases.
Sorghum meant for feed should be harvested at maturity stage.
That meant for fodder can be cut when still green and fresh. Leave it in the sun to wilt for at least 12 hours then chop and feed the animals. For sorghum meant for silage, start harvesting at dough stage (between milky and hardening stage).
For dual-purpose sorghum cut the head with a knife or use a combine harvester.
All sorghum varieties except E6518 can be grown for food and fodder.
Farmers interested in buying sorghum seed can contact KARLO, Lanet P.O. Box 3840-20100, Nakuru Tel. 0729 883 276.


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They confirmed the end of their romance back in July, but just a few days ago Megan McKenna and Love Island star Mike Thalassitis set tongues wagging as they were spotted on holiday together in Dubai.
And, while many held out hope that the couple were reuniting, it seems as though that simply isn't the case, as the 26-year-old former TOWIE star has confirmed that things haven't worked out between the pair, and that's it's time for her to 'move on with my life now'.
'Mike and I haven't been together for a few months. I was out in Ibiza at the season's closing parties and I did see him out there. We decided to go to Dubai together, just to see if we could make it work again,' Megan revealed in an interview with The Sun.
Ah, well we guess that's that then.
But, despite things not really working out for Megs when it comes to her love life, at least her music career is booming.
The reality star solidified her country singer status after she won an army of fans during her ITV show, There's Something About Megan.
Since then she has toured the country and even supported Michael Buble at British Summertime at Hyde Park.
And, it seems as though Megan has high hopes for her music career, despite her rocky road on reality TV shows such as, TOWIE and Ex on the Beach.
'I feel that the people that have known me from the beginning on TV. The people who've seen the highs and the lows. If they still like me after all of that, I think my music could really have a chance,' Megan explains.


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It takes pride in other philanthropic work as well and its alumni support various causes.
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Nizhny Novgorod region will get another tranche in the amount of 1.22 billion rubles this week.
Nizhny Novgorod region will get additional tranche in the amount of 1.22 billion rubles from housing reorganization support in cooperation with federal budget. These funds will be spent of settlement of people from emergency buildings. This resolution has already been approved by the government. 4 thousand people from 296 old buildings will be provided with new place of living. 1.32 billion rubles will be forwarded for these purposes.
This is the biggest tranche in Volga region followed by settlement support program. Kirovsky region will get 475 million rubles; the Mari El republic will get 109 million rubles.
Regions will get their second tranche due to second step of settlement support program which will last till 2017. 1.34 billion rubles was forwarded on implementing the first step of this program. This money was provided by Housing fund. 195 million rubles were taken from the federal budget and 952 million rubles from local regional budgets.


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Holtzer-Cabot Electric Company
In 1970, when the Boston Housing Authority converted the factory building at 125 Amory Street for senior citizen housing, it marked the end of the long history of one more manufacturing concern in Jamaica Plain. The building is now known as the Amory Street Apartments, but for fifty-five years it was the home of the Holtzer-Cabot Electric Company.
Industrial concerns are sometimes mysterious to their surrounding neighborhood. They usually do not sell any goods in the local area and display no products behind glass windows. But Holtzer-Cabot was a very well known company in its field, especially during its early years. It was an innovative company that produced both electrical communications devices and electric motors.
The Signal Department made communication apparatus such as fire alarm systems, watchman clocks, and telephones. The Motor Department produced speed reducers and small motors, usually less than one horsepower, for special uses. Electric coffee mills, envelope openers, and oil burners often used Holtzer-Cabot electric motors. This expertise in small motors, transformers and communication equipment evolved from the founding of the company.
Holtzer-Cabot Electric Company was started in 1875 in Brookline as the Holtzer Co. Charles W. Holtzer began the company to make simple electrical devices like doorbells, burglar alarms and electrical lighters for illuminating gas. By 1880, he was also operating the first telephone exchange outside Boston with one toll line to Boston and fourteen local subscribers. Since the telephone had been invented only in 1876, we can appreciate how progressive this commercial enterprise must have been.
Between 1880 and 1888, the firm was known as Seth W. Fuller & Holtzer, and then Fuller, Holtzer & Company when George E. Cabot joined the business. In 1889, Mr. Fuller left the company and the enterprise became Holtzer & Cabot and formally incorporated as Holtzer-Cabot Electric Company.
In 1891, the company built an electric carriage able to carry two people for Fiske Warren of Boston. This was one of the early automobiles in America, and a very early electric car. At this time, inventors were using steam, electricity or internal combustion to power the horseless carriages. This car was initially built for four passengers, but additional power was needed and more batteries were added in the back seat.
Although William Morrison in Des Moines, Philip W. Pratt of Boston, and John A. Barrett in Philadelphia had built earlier electric autos, this "Holtzer-Cabot" has been called the first successful electric vehicle built in the USA. It was one of the first to feature a steering wheel as it is used now; and it was manufactured as a commercial venture for a client, not as a demonstration vehicle for an inventor.
Mr. Warren scared everyone when he drove the car on the roads around his country house in Waltham, but it must have been successful because he ordered anther one built by Holtzer-Cabot in 1893. This one seated eight people, weighed 5100 pounds and could attain the speed of sixteen miles per hour. It seems to be the last electric car the company made.
The Company greatly expanded its telephone work from 1890 to 1915 and achieved success with the useful invention of noiseless generators for central telephone exchanges and other innovations. By World War I, their telephone apparatus was in telephone systems around the world and aboard ships and submarines of the US Navy. In 1912, a special Holtzer-Cabot generator allowed the first radio communication between an airplane and land. Mr. Holtzer, the founder and Chairman of the Board guided the creativity and expertise for these advances.
Charles William Holtzer had been born in Karlsruhe, Germany in 1848. He came to New York at eighteen years old, and six months later was working at E.S.Ritchie & Sons, Brookline. He started the electrical firm of Holtzer & Newell in 1874, then proceeded on his own in 1875 in a small building in Harvard Square, Brookline. The company expanded quickly, moving to Boylston Street in 1880 and then buying property on Station Street opposite the railroad station in 1885.
This building (still standing) was remodeled, added to, expanded, and rebuilt until 1915, when Holtzer-Cabot's new building was ready at 125 Amory Street, Jamaica Plain. He had chosen the area for its excellent transportation lines along Columbus Avenue, Washington Street, and the New Haven Railroad (now the Southwest Corridor). The area had abundant skilled help, and was in the heart of the Jamaica Plain German community.
The plant was six stories high, had 150,000 square feet of floor space and had room for expansion of four acres. Here Mr. Holtzer indulged in the benevolent management of his employees, with a Mutual Benefit Association, Savings Club, Shop and Management Committees and numerous extra-curricular activities. Sports teams of all sorts were well known in the city, and the daily band concerts at the Holtzer-Cabot bandstand every noon are still fondly remembered.
Mr. Holtzer died in 1927, and the company expanded during World War II. After ninety-seven years, the company closed. Its remaining lines were sold to Eastern Air Products in Dover, New Hampshire, which still carries the Holtzer-Cabot trademarks. The Boston Housing Authority bought the land and building for its renovation and reuse as housing. The building remains in our neighborhood, but nothing of the Holtzer-Cabot Electric Company has survived here - excepting perhaps its spirit.
Holtzer-Cabot Electric Co., Fifty Years 1875-1925, Boston, 1925; Automobile Quarterly, The American Car since 1775, New York, 1971; The Brookline Chronicle, April 7, 1925; Boston City Directory, 1905-1976. Photograph of battery powered car, early 1900's with Mrs. Charles C. Gates and friend, similar to electric vehicles produced by Holtzer-Cabot Electric Company. Photograph by Harry M. Rhoads courtesy of Western History/Genealogy Department, Denver Public Library.
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It's been a rainy day today and I can't think of a better look than something casual. A pair of jeans, a shirt and a sweater equals a great casual look. I styled the look on this post in two ways to showcase how you can style a pair of jeans for a day out or for a rainy day. The rainy day look includes rubber hunters' boots -amazing...definitely worth it and the original high gloss boots feels light and comfortable.
Hey Stella, happy new year. I love your casual look and I want to say your style is very inspiring. Keep up the good work.
I love the yellow hue against your skin tone! Those jeans hit perfectly at your ankles!