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Blues Clues for Success - AchieveMax® Top Ten Book Review
Blue's Clues for Success: The 8 Secrets Behind A Phenomenal Business by Diane Tracy
In a previous book review, I warned readers not to judge a book by its cover. I feel compelled to once again issue that warning.
When you first spot this bold blue cover, you see the name of a popular children's cable TV show accompanied by the blank stare of an animated puppy who appears to be in search of the nearest fire hydrant. That's two good reasons for me to question the position of this particular book in the business section of my favorite book store and to keep browsing for something of more substance. However, I strive to walk my talk, when possible, so I delved a little deeper. In addition, I must admit that I did recognize both the name and the animation as a result of long conversations with my eight grandchildren. I must also admit that I still struggled to make a connection between this Nickelodeon icon and useful business wisdom. My curiosity led to investigative browsing, purchase of the book, and an enjoyable and enlightening read.
To my pleasant surprise, this wasn't a revealing expose' of an animated puppy and her 20-something live male sidekick. Instead, I found a blueprint for achieving phenomenal success if you simply "clue into" your mission, customer, research, technology, work processes, brand, leadership, and culture!
I guess my next question dealt with my motive for seeking business wisdom from a team of young people who have turned a children's television program into an extraordinary business triumph. It didn't take me very long to answer that question.
Blue's Clues, which hit the airwaves in 1996, now has over 13 million viewers in 60 countries and had earned about $1 billion in licensing products in the year 2000 alone. More than 8 million kids and parents tune into Nickelodeon each week to watch Blue's Clues. Today this same business is generating over $3 billion in merchandising various products. This business has also spawned several best selling books, videos, CDs, and thousands of other consumer products. It's a business that reaches millions of people in more than 60 countries each week. It's a business that has changed the lives of its customers in a positive, educational way. This magical business is not a fantasy. Since 1996, Nickelodeon's Blue's Clues not only has become one of the most popular and successful shows for preschoolers in television history, it also has literally changed the way children watch television with its interactive approach.
Such success provides much rich case study material. Executive coach Tracy presents a hybrid case study/business guide based on the creative culture of Blue's Clues. The show employs a deceptively simple concept, yet its creators succeed by expertly doing what cutting-edge management books say to do: walk the talk, live the vision, and discipline yourself to be the best in every aspect of your business.
Readers will learn:
What can happen when leaders of an organization put their egos and self-interests aside for the accomplishment of a worthy mission.
The power of relationship, and how trust in one another, from the top down, can break through enormous barriers.
How a clear, grounded vision can allow individuals to push through their own personal barriers and limitations to create something truly phenomenal.
Author Diane Tracy reveals the eight principles behind the success of this amazing show for the business community. She will take you into the Blue's Clues' offices and studios and introduce you to the creators, the animators, the live host, the writers, the producers, and the executives who have turned this show into a phenomenal success.
Blue's Clues for Success provides the eight clues to achieving phenomenal success. Learn why the following clues are fundamental to business success and how to apply them:
Mobilize the energy in your organization by turning your MISSION into a "mantra."
Know your CUSTOMER, love your customer, and make them the focus of everything you do.
Stay connected to your customer through RESEARCH-and lots of it!
Be the master of, not a slave to, your TECHNOLOGY. Use it creatively.
Create WORK PROCESSES that serve your customers and enable your people to do their best.
BRAND your product or company. Know what you want to be and live up to it.
Provide LEADERSHIP that meets the needs of people, so they can meet the needs of customers.
Consciously manage your CULTURE the way you manage every other aspect of your business.
One intriguing thread to this book is the level of balance that the Blue's Clues team seems to have across all of these clues. If companies could harness the imagination and creativity of the "child within" their people, they would have no competition. Blue's Clues for Success will help organizations and individuals tap into this energizing resource to realize their potential and lead more profitable, satisfying businesses.
At some level this book represents an interesting case study of how living out these clues can contribute to a vibrant business. Equally interesting is that each business must search for the answers to these clues and they will be different for each business. To be effective these clues must be answered with the specifics of your mission, business, customers, technology and processes.
More than 100 business book reviews written by Harry K. Jones are available at www.AchieveMax.com/books/index.htm">http://www.AchieveMax.com/books/.
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Marone Memoirs: An Immigrant Story - Review By Amanda Evans
Marone Memoirs - An immigrant Story by author Sarah E. Lingley is the story of her great grandparents Raffaele and Rosa Marone and their voyage to freedom in America.
Young, Fabulous and Broke? Suze Orman Has Debt Relief & Financial Freedom Advice Books for You!
Are you a parent that has all the financial responsibility in the world on your shoulders and living paycheck to paycheck? Does it seem like there is no way out of this endless cycle of working just to pay your bills? Well, I certainly felt this way. I have been in consumer credit counseling, which was very helpful, but I still felt like a financial idiot.
IZEE Growing Up In A Logging Camp: Reality Intertrude Insert Between Ch1 and Ch2
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Amapola - Book Review
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Moon Child - Book Review
Moon Child by Simone Maroney is a larger sized adventure, fantasy novel with 55 chapters. The story line involves complex relationships between six main characters, which are delicately balanced leaving room for intrigue.
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Review for Broken Angel, by SW Vaughn
Broken Angel, by SW Vaughn, breathes with an insistent life of its own, pulling readers along through the dark underworld of barbaric fight clubs and prostitution.The story unfolds as twenty-two year old Gabriel Morgan, destitute and starving, discovers a lead to his missing sister's whereabouts deep in the seedy underbelly of Manhattan.
Thinking for a Change - AchieveMax® Top Ten Book Review
John C. Maxwell is back again in Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work to add to his more than 30 previous titles with his encouraging tone and down-to-earth writing style.
The Leadership Pill - AchieveMax® Top Ten Book Review
The Leadership Pill is another volume for those of you anxious to add to your library of "mini-books." Ken Blanchard, a veritable self-help book-writing machine, partners with co-author Marc Muchnick to create this 112-page parable that every leader will want to read and share with those he/she mentors.
Dragon Tales - Book Review
Dragon Tales by Mary C. Fairbanks is truly and entertaining book, chock full of twenty-four dragon stories.
ARTURO EL REY - Book Review
This large (about 378 pages), fantasy-adventure novel should give best selling authors like Stephen King heavy competition. Fantastically interwoven with elements of King Arthur's realm, including a little Arthurian romance, Arturo el Rey will keep the reader captivated.
What Really Works - AchieveMax® Top Ten Book Review
If you watch television, read the newspaper and/or magazines, frequent the Internet, or simply move in any kind of a business circle, you must have, at one time or another, pondered the following:Why do some organizations consistently outperform their competitors?What do managers at the best companies know-and do-to keep their organizations on top?When it comes to implementing management practices that can propel a company to lasting success ..
The Demon Plague - Book Review
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Spiders Big Catch
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The path is tiring but "ordinations open the way to hope"
Forty-nine Legionary priests were ordained by Cardinal Velasio De Paolis this December 12 in the Basilica of St. John Lateran. The ceremony is recorded in this video.
After expressing his gratitude to the Legionaries families for regarding their son's vocation as a gift, Cardinal De Paolis emphasized that the ordination of 49 new priests is "a reason for consolation on the path of rediscovering the congregation's mission. The path is at times tiring, but you are walking it with trust in the Church." "This moment is one of consolation for the Legion. These vocations open the way to hope and make us look to the future," he said.
Among the 49 newly ordained Legionaries of Christ, the youngest is 29, and the oldest is 35. The new priests come from seven countries: the United States (15), México (20), Brazil (5), Colombia (5), Italy (2), Spain (1), and Hungary (1).


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 Surprise Package (gunship), the second iteration of the Lockheed AC-130 gunship program

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Found this today in my travels. Car is bad order for gates, which can be fixed. CSXT has decided not to repair and will scrap. Anybody want it? OK, let me rephrase, anybody willing to PURCHASE it - I can probably broker a sale on it - probably looking $10-11 K range as is where is. Can arrange repairs and transport too.
How much for you to save the logo only? Torch cut around it maybe?
Or are you not the scrapper?
Found this car on a NB CSX freight here on the CE&D sub. There is also a B&O one running around. I'll have to pass on your offer Scrap!
Why not buy it and re-purpose it scrap? A little C&O in your fleet sounds good to me!
... Anybody want it? OK, let me rephrase, anybody willing to PURCHASE it - I can probably broker a sale on it - probably looking $10-11 K range as is where is. .
I was, until I saw the "K" in the price. I though 1:87 scale prices were high. Oh well, back to reality.


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Changes in responsibilities for Asos directors
25 August 2012 By Catherine Neilan
Etail giant Asos has rejigged some of the responsibilities held by directors Caren Downie and Robert Bready.
Although their job titles remain unchanged, womenswear buying director Downie has seen her remit shift to a more focused role, concentrating on special collections and projects.
As a result, she is relinquishing some of her commercial responsibilities - completing a transition brought about by the appointments of trading director Maria Hollins and womenswear buyer director Emma Fox in the past six to 12 months.
Additionally, product director Bready - who last month sold shares in Asos worth £2.6m, a move widely seen as a precursor to his departure - is understood to have taken a step back from his day-to-day work.
A spokeswoman was unable to comment on Bready's role, but stressed that he remained at the company. She confirmed the changes to Downie's role, but added that some of her work would still "overlap" with Hollins and Fox.
Alongside these internal changes, rumours have resurfaced that Kate Bostock is set to join Asos after her gardening leave ends next year. Speculation as to the next step of the outgoing executive director of Marks & Spencer has regularly placed Bostock at the etail giant, despite chief executive Nick Robertson's assertion that he was not looking for a managing director.
Regarding the most recent rumours, Robertson said: "We are always looking for talent and can't comment on individual cases."
Asos sales continue to soar
Sales at Asos continued to soar as retail revenues rose 31% year-on-year in its last quarter with the etailer now boasting five million active customers.
Asos appoints chief growth officer
25 November 2019Isabella Fish
Asos has announced the appointment of Robert Birge as its first chief growth officer.
Significant investment 'disrupts' Asos profits
16 October 2019Isabella Fish
Profit before tax at Asos dropped by 68% year on year to £33.1m in the year to 31 August, following "significant" investment in its warehousing and sustainability credentials.
Drapers Awards 2019 winners revealed
21 November 2019Jill Geoghegan
Primark swept the board at the Drapers Awards 2019, picking up the prizes for Best Fashion Marketing Campaign (£100m-plus turnover), Best Store Design (over 50,000 sq ft) and Fashion Retail Business of the Year (over £500m turnover).
Black Friday 2019 deal tracker: the latest discounts
28 November 2019Grace Whelan
With Black Friday around the corner, one by one retailers are unveiling their discounts. Drapers brings you a round-up of the latest offers.
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Музе́й и худо́жественная галере́я Де́рби () — музей, основанный в 1836 году совместно с Центральной библиотекой Дерби в специально построенном здании по проекту Ричарда Нилла Фримена () и пожертвованный городу Майклом Томасом (). В музее представлено множество картин Джозефа Райта (в музее хранится более 300 его эскизов, 34 картины маслом и документы), продукция Royal Crown Derby. Кроме того, в музее собраны коллекции археологических (вытесанный челнок из Хенсона, кувшин из Дербского ипподрома), естественнонаучных (напр., Аллентонский бегемот, солнечные часы «Уайтхёрст и сын», кусок матлокита, изделия из эшфордского чёрного мрамора, гербарий Джозефа Уайттекера), исторических (напр., чучело The King of Rome, или доска, на которой был казнён последний человек, обезглавленный топором в Великобритании), геологических и военных объектов, а также коллекция фарфоровых изделий из Дерби и его окрестностей (например, Пинкстонский фарфор, продукция Denby Pottery Company), картины Луизы Рэйнер, её отца Самуэля Рэйнера, Эрнста Таунсенда, Альфреда Джона Кина, Эрнста Эллиса Кларка, Дэвида Пейна, Джорджа Тёрнера, Уильяма Кофе, Джона Хаслема, Клауда Томаса Стенфилда Мура, Джорджа Хольцендорфа, Рональда Поупа, Бенджамина Уэста («Генерал Джонсон спасает раненого французского офицера от томагавка североамериканского индейца»), Генри Ларка Пратта, Франка Бересфорда, Кристофера Хофланда, Джебуса Шеннона, Альфреда Уолмарка, Томаса Кресвика и других. В коллекции есть и объекты, не связанные непосредственно с историей региона — например, маски Татануа.

Историю музея можно отсчитывать от основания «Городского и графского музея и естественнонаучного общества Дерби» (Derby Town and County Museum and Natural History Society) 10 февраля 1836 года, первым президентом которого стал Джордж Харпер-Кру. Изначально это было закрытое сообщество, основанное на подписке его членов (в 1856 году директор музея, Уильям Манди, предлагал выставить коллекцию для горожан, но тогда это предложение было отвергнуто). В коллекцию изначально были внесены минералы и чучела птиц. В 1964 году музей и арт-галерея были переведены в новое здание, но здание библиотеки продолжает быть разделено с этими организациями.

В 2011 году Фонд Викимедиа и Музей Дерби и художественная галерея открыли совместный проект по улучшению Википедии, в рамках которого за написание и улучшение статей, связанных с музеем, весной-летом 2011 года будут вручены призы. Тексты написанных в рамках проекта статей будут доступны посетителям музея через QR-коды с помощью системы QRpedia.

Полковой музей 9/12 Принца Уэльского Королевского Уланского полка
В рамках музея работает полковой музей 9/12 Принца Уэльского Королевского Уланского полка. Вход в него — бесплатный, хотя принимаются пожертвования на поддержание коллекции. В современный вид галерея была приведена на средства гранта от Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) совместно с 9/12 Принца Уэльского Королевским Уланским полком, городским советом Дерби и подразделениями Derbyshire Yeomanry, Worcestershire и Sherwood Foresters. Открытие обновлённой галереи состоялось 25 октября 2008 года. Было выставлено около 200 новых объектов, включая макет башни танка, оружие, медали (напр., кресты Виктории Роберта Келлса, Давида Спенса, Уильяма Гоата, Фрэнсиса Гренфелла), полноразмерные реконструкции уланов времён Первой мировой войны и небольшой кусочек траншеи тех же времён вместе со звуковыми эффектами. Экспозиция сопровождена аудио-видео гидом.

Комната Красавчика принца Чарли

В музее находится реплика комнаты Эксетер-Хауз, в которой Карл Эдуард Стюарт во время Второго якобитского восстания проводил свой военный совет в 1745 году во время движения на юг для захвата британской короны. Обшивка комнаты происходит из оригинального дома, разрушенного в 1845 году: перед сносом дубовые панели были куплены музеем, который вслед получил связанные с комнатой предметы в дар. Королева Виктория в 1873 году прислала оригинал письма принца из своей собственной коллекции, а граф Стенхоуп Честерфилдский прислал якобитскую медаль в хорошем состоянии.

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Leeds United latest: controversial West Brom win, Arsenal FA Cup draw reaction, starlet's new deal
A round-up of the headlines you need to catch up on
Joe MewisLeeds United editor
Leeds have landed a huge FA Cup tie
While Marcelo Bielsa and his Leeds United team will have all eyes on Saturday's West Yorkshire derby against Huddersfield Town, there was plenty of news to devour on Monday.
An FA Cup draw, a new contract and West Brom's game in hand meant Monday was a busy day at Elland Road - and here are all of the latest headlines.
Leeds handed Arsenal test
THe draw for the FA Cup took place last night, with Leeds United being handed a plum draw away to Arsenal.
Recap the draw in full here and you can see how Whites fans reacted to news of the tie here.
West Brom return top - in controversial fashion
West Brom went into last night's clash at Preston needing a win to overhaul Leeds United at the top of the table.
And that's what they did - although in late and controversial fashion when Charlie Austin scored a 90th minute penalty after Declan Rudd was adjudged to have brought down Kyle Edwards.
The Baggies are again two points clear of Leeds at the top.
Austin converts from the spot in the 90th minute after Rudd was harshly adjudged to upend Edwards!
Should #WBA have been awarded a penalty?
Follow all the action from the @SkyBetChamp clash between @pnefc and @WBA live on Sky Sports Football here: https://t.co/03DSvKLS62 pic.twitter.com/1pmyofVGlb
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Stevens pens new contract
Jordan Stevens has penned a new deal (Image: Leeds United)
Leeds United have announced that Jordan Stevens has put pen to paper on a new contract extension with the club.
Stevens, who made his first-team debut at Stoke in January, has agreed fresh terms on a deal that will keep him at Elland Road until the summer of 2022.
The 19-year-old arrived at Elland Road in 2018 from Forest Green and played a big part in the under-23s title success last week and has been on the fringes of Marcelo Bielsa's first team for several months.
Here's what the teenager had to say.
Micah Richards opens up on staying out of trouble in Chapeltown and growing up playing football in Leeds
What appearing on Leeds United's new Centenary Wall means for players past and present
Fanzine raises £30k for local charity
A group of Leeds United fans have raised over £30,000 following an auction for a signed centenary shirt.
Fans have had the chance to win the special shirt in honour of United's 100th birthday, signed by the Leeds squad and Marcelo Bielsa himself.
The Square Ball fanzine has managed to raise more than 20 times their original target of £1,500 by putting together the charity raffle at £5 per entry, with the lucky winner due to be announced in the coming days.
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The 22th of november, from 9.30 am to 5:30 pm, will be held at the Department of Engeneering of "Università degli Studi ROMA TRE "(room N14, building ex OMI –at Via della Vasca Navale 79 or Via Vito Volterra 62)the only stop in the Lazio of Campionato Universitario Makers, the first italian hackathon on Internet of Things organized by Math2B and sponsored by Università degli Studi di ROMA TRE.
Form a team with 2 colleagues and challenge the other teams with electronic components Arduino e Texas Instruments provided by the organization!
You are alone? No problem, we'll find you a team!
>>> WHAT DOES IT DO?
for possible internship and collaboration proposals. At the moment their presence has been confirmed by companies of the caliber of ENEL and QiBit.
Students, undergraduates and new graduates, three-year and magistral, Ph.D. of ENGINEERING, INFORMATICS, PHYSICS and MATHEMATICS max 29 years old(born between 1989 -1999) fromUniversità degli Studi Roma Tre, Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza andUniversità degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata. The race includes max 60 partecipants, grouped in teams of 3 units, which will present their outputs to the managers of the companies that will want to intervene. Participation is FREE.
in front of the most important companies in the IT world and open innovation. Nice stage prizes are also planned for the 2nd and 3rd place teams!
>>> WHAT IS THE NATIONAL FINAL AWARD?
1st prize: Visiting at the EMEA Headquarters of Texas Instrument sa Freising-Munich!
2nd prize: Visiting at the F1 Toro Rosso Scuderia in Faenza!
Live a unique experience and unleash your talent!
under the heading "eventuali note" and you will definitely be selected to participate in the stage even if in excess.


The scars of a life find their way from the depths of the abyss, inscribed on the fluke of the leviathan, into our space. Dumas chooses the tail of the cetacea as her muse, an appendage that is already used by marine biologists to identify individual animals. The tail is a tabula rasa covered with the marks of shark attacks and fisherman's hooks. Every one is different.
The artist retranscribes this natural calligraphy onto a layer of clay and pigment, where it takes on a glyphic quality like the images and markings on Paleolithic cave walls, undecipherable but still dripping with meaning. While monochromatic, the depth of the scratches in the clay surface hold the eye and lead the viewer through the artist's narrative: all three monumental Whale Fluke paintings, Le Grande Bleu, Night, and Large Whale (all 2018), are interpretations of the same creature, a fact that becomes apparent to us as we learn to read flukes.


the Metagenomic Forensic Challenge – now with multiple data sources!
the Hi-Res Cancer Data Integration Challenge – now with 300Mb of novel human genomic sequence and read level data for splice events!
the CMap Drug Safety Challenge – now with more cell-lines, high-content screens, and chemical structures!
CAMDA encourages an open contest, where all analyses of the contest data sets are of interest, not limited to the questions suggested here. There is an online forum for the free discussion of the contest data sets and their analysis, in which you are encouraged to participate.
We look forward to a lively contest!
MetaSUB is building an international metagenomic map of urban spaces, based on extensive sampling of mass-transit systems and other public areas across the globe. In a strategic partnership new data from global City Sampling Days is first introduced through the annual CAMDA contests. CAMDA delegates thus receive access to hundreds of novel MetaSUB samples, comprising several gigabases of whole genome shotgun (WGS) metagenomics data. The primary data set covers multiple cities around the world, with tens of samples per city, providing a unique resource for the study of biodiversity within and across geographic locations.
Further extended global coverage is achieved by complementary 16S rRNA studies contributing thousands of samples, the Earth Microbiome Project and A global atlas of the dominant bacteria found in soil. For a range of MetaSUB Boston reference samples we now provide both WGS and 16S profiles, allowing a first systematic link of WGS and 16S resources.
Please visit and participate in the open CAMDA meta-genomics forum for free discussion related to this contest.
How can we exploit metagenomic fingerprints for identifying the origin of a sample?
How reliable are such predictions of sample origins?
The primary data set is now available. This contains: i) the 16S sequencing-based OTUs for thousands of soil samples from two mentioned project from allover the world, ii) hundreds of samples with WGS raw reads from urban locations from MetaSUB Consortium.
The set of mystery samples are now available and consist of further tens of samples with WGS raw reads.
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Individual human genomic sequence not found in the standard reference genome - We provide reads matched to the standard reference genome plus over 300Mb of novel human genomic sequence.
High resolution expression profiling - Anonymized read level data allow the exploration of aberrations in splicing and regulation of alternative gene transcripts.
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What known and new disease mechanisms can you identify?
How can the integration of matched molecular profiles and patient data yield a more meaningful readout, including likely causal changes?
What can we learn about the role of aberrant splicing and regulation of alternative gene transcripts in cancer?
How can individual human genomics sequence aid Precision Medicine and the development of personalized rational drug treatment plans?
Can we apply approaches and insights developed from one type of cancer (e.g., a common, well studied cancer) to other diseases (e.g., less-well studied cancers)?
How large a distortion is observed from restriction of gene expression readout to the standard human reference sequence (vs mapping to individual human genome sequences)?
Contest data comprises raw and pre-processed data from matched molecular profiles with complementary clinical information.
For convenience, we provide a local copy of the data. In addition, anonymized RNA-seq read level data are now available.
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Attrition in drug discovery and development due to safety / toxicity issues remains a significant concern, and there are strong efforts to identify and mitigate risk as early as possible. Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is one of the primary problems in drug development and regulatory clearance due to the poor performance of existing preclinical models. There is a pressing need to evaluate alternative methods for predicting DILI, with great hopes being placed in modern approaches from statistics and machine learning applied to genome scale profiling data. A critical question thus is if we can better integrate, understand, and exploit information from cell-based screens like the Broad Institute Connectivity Map (CMap, Science 313, Nature Reviews Cancer 7, Cell 171).
This CAMDA challenge focuses on understanding or predicting drug induced liver injury in humans from cell-based screens, specifically the CMap L1000 gene expression responses of thirteen different cancer cell lines to 1,314 drug compounds, greatly extending last year's challenge data set (common cell lines: MCF7 & PC3, new cell lines: A375, A549, ASC, HA1E, HCC515, HEPG2, HT29, NPC, PHH, SKB, VCAP). To also support supervised approaches, we provide clinical DILI results as training labels for 233 drugs (21 high concern, 62 less concern, 35 no concern, and 55 ambiguous) .
In addition, we now provide chemical structures (SMILES codes) for all drugs, and annotated images from cellular assays (Journal of chemical information and modeling (to appear), Nature Protocols 11, GigaScience 6) for a subset of drugs and cell lines. Please read and accept the data download agreement for access. Please visit and participate in the open CAMDA toxicogenomics forum for free discussion related to this contest.
Integration of molecular and cellular assays. Assessment of the relative values of the complementary data types for prediction.
Contest data comprise raw and processed expression profiles from the Broad Institute Human L1000 epsilon platform, Complementary information includes like cell line names, drug concentrations, etc. as well as the chemical structure (SMILES codes and PubChem IDs) and Cell Painting images. Toxicity labels were compiled by the US FDA.
A local copy of relevant subsets of the data is now available (images will be added from mid February).
Independent validation labels for additional chemical compounds will be provided middle April.
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Nature's Scitable: Going Mobile
Why Scitable Chose a Mobile Web Strategy Over a Mobile App Strategy for Its First Mobile Initiative
What's the best mobile strategy to embrace if you want to reach mobile users around the world and get optimized search placement? That's the question Nature Education's Scitable division tackled as they embarked on their first mobile web initiative. They chose a mobile web approach over a mobile apps approach in order to reach cell phone users on basic phones as well as smart phones.
Nature Education's Scitable.com is an innovative platform that provides authoritative and free scientific educational materials to students and faculty around the world. Many of Scitable's users are located in developing countries and/or in rural areas where direct Internet access from a computer is problematic. That's why in 2010 the Scitable team decided to add a mobile delivery strategy for its scientific content: Let students around the world access this valuable content via their mobile phones.
How did the Scitable management, development, and editorial teams decide which mobile strategy to pursue first? Why did they choose to roll out a mobile web strategy instead of creating mobile apps for their first efforts? And, having decided to go with a mobile web approach, why didn't they create special-purpose Mobile web sites? That's what most businesses do. The answer: Scitable didn't want to adversely impact its search rankings by diluting its "Google Juice" across multiple, nearly identical, sites.
Accessing Scitable.com from Different Mobile Phones
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The Scitable web site is designed to be really fast and functional on all of these different form factor phones. It's a single web site. But each phone/browser combination is detected "automagically," and the right format and image resolution and video formats are served up.
SCITABLE.COM: REPLACING SCIENTIFIC TEXTBOOKS WITH INTERACTIVE DIGITAL TOOLS & CONTENT
Interactive Web Site Is a New Way to Access Scientific Learning Materials
Scitable.com was launched in 2009 to revolutionize the scientific textbook publishing industry. Instead of buying $150 textbooks for each university science course, Nature Education offers students and professors a free resource of authoritative, up-to-the-minute, and well-designed learning materials. Scitable.com provides self-guided learning paths, online classrooms, and a community of scientists and researchers who answer students' questions. Today, university, college, and high school students from almost 200 countries use Scitable's authoritative and current material to learn about genetics and cell biology. Over the next several years, Nature Education plans to release learning materials for all of the life sciences and many of the physical sciences.
One of the early learnings for Nature Education was the appeal of its content to a global audience of professors, researchers, undergraduate students, and graduate students. Of the tens of thousands of people who have signed up to use Scitable.com, the majority of them are not in North America—roughly a third of the faculty and students who use Scitable.com come from Asia, Africa, South America, and the Middle East.
Scitable.com is currently funded by corporate sponsorships. The sponsors are interested in creating brand awareness among life science students; not in selling promoting products to them or in influencing the content. Vikram Savkar, SVP of Nature Education and Publishing Director of Scitable, explains: "The sponsors want to create brand awareness; not to sell their products. The section on the site where we thank our sponsors explains that sponsors have nothing to do with the content. We make sure that we avoid any controversy. It is incumbent upon us to be transparent." Current sponsors include: Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Intel, New England BioLabs, Roche Applied Science, and Tata Consultancy Services.
Do Students Need Access to Online Learning Materials from Their Mobile Phones?
What made the Scitable team think that faculty and students needed mobile access to Scitable's resources? "We stake our identity on pushing worldwide science education. Accessibility is key. There is no access to computers in rural areas in poorer nations. But the students do have mobile phones in the developing world. To be truly global is to be mobile," Vikram explained.
Vikram also told me that mobile is increasingly important in the U.S. as well. For example, many of the students who use Scitable in their studies in the U.S. are parents who spend much of their days driving their kids to and from school and to various after school activities. Many of these parents are also taking courses in order to improve or to switch their careers. These parents spend a lot of time in their cars—often waiting for kids in the parking lot. If they can do their homework by reading course material on their mobile phones while sitting in a car, that's precious time that would otherwise be wasted.
THE DECISIONS THE SCITABLE TEAM NEEDED TO MAKE ABOUT THEIR MOBILE STRATEGY
One of the things I learned from talking with the Scitable team is that if you are planning or refining a mobile strategy for your content or your web site, there are a number of key decision points. I suspect that these decision points (and the order in which you need to address them) may be similar for most people contemplating their mobile strategies. Here are some of the decisions that Vikram Savkar; Michael Powers, Scitable's Executive Product Manager; and their team of developers and editors had to make along the way...
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I admire how Vikram and his team really focused on how his customers use the information rather than just layering on the newest and sexiest technology.
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In Charlottesville, @JackSock92 and Aleks Vukic Early @CMPChallenger Winners, Face Each Other in Quarterfinals Tomorrow
Posted by Admin on November 4, 2021
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Jack Sock and Aleks Vukic Early Charlottesville Challenger Winners, Face Each Other in Quarterfinals Tomorrow
November 4–Jack Sock is so loose. While others would be pre-gaming with their headphones and getting in the zone before a match, today Sock was seen casually scouting his next round opponent in street shoes during the first two sets and then sauntering off to shoot hoops in the third. He was on the basketball court just a couple of minutes before strolling onto Brenda Myers Court at the Charlottesville Men's Pro Tennis Challenger.
And that lack of tension helped propel him to a 6-2, 6-3 victory over Cedric Marcel-Stebe in an hour and twelve minutes to set him up with that scouted opponent–Aleks Vukic– in a quarterfinal tomorrow.
As far as his clear mind and confidence, he told me "it's where I'm at in my career. I know there's a lot more going on than tennis," he said. "This is what I love to do. I love to compete and play but life is always a little bigger than tennis."
"I like to keep it loose. I've got my own family now, and my wife and my dogs. I've got a great support team around me, with my family back home and my coach Alex (Bogomolov)", he continued. "So, I've got to keep it loose. If I'm not loose, I'm not going to be playing very good. I can lose to anybody, not put on a good show and turn out some rough matches."
Aleks Vukic
Former Illinois All-American Aleksandar Vukic completed an admirable three-set comeback against Tung-Lin Wu of TAIWAN (that's right) in the first match of the day by a score of 3-6, 6-3, 6-2. Vukic is happy to be back on American soil and made a bold prediction today.
On his return to American indoor tennis he told me that "it feels good. I was playing in Europe pretty much the whole year and I love playing back in the U.S. I went to college at Illinois, I just feel way more comfortable here on the hardcourts. It's a nice swing coming up for sure."
He still awaits his first Challenger title and he's more than ready for it.
"It's a tough field here, but I want to get one in these three weeks," he predicted. "I don't know if it's going to be this week. Everyone's very strong, so I'm going to recover and prepare and focus on the next match," he said.
Emilio Nava, @BraydenSchnur Advance to Quarterfinals at @CMPChallenger in Charlottesville
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Emilio Nava, Brayden Schnur Advance to Quarterfinals at Charlottesville Challenger
November 3—Emilio Nava had a storied career in juniors, yet he always felt that he was never favored to win. That's changing.
After surviving three sets against the Charlottesville Challenger's defending champion yesterday, he scored a comeback win against Go Soeda to advance to the quarterfinals of this event in Central Virginia today.
"I've been fighting these guys for a while and playing a lot of Challengers this year, In the beginning, I was always the underdog, and I still keep that mentality in every match I go to," he told me after the 2-6, 7-6, 6-2 win in the round of 16.
Even though the crowd was sparse, Nava made up for it as a crowd of one. He was juiced up on every point.
"Obviously, a crowd helps a lot, but when I'm in there, I'm all by myself, like a Gladiator down there," he said.
"I'm fighting for myself. If there's one person or a thousand or even a million, I'm always going to be the same way."
Former North Carolina star Brayden Schnur survived a tricky Christian Harrison to book his spot in the quarterfinals. Despite four Challenger finals appearances and a 2019 final appearance at the New York Open (ATP 250), he's still waiting to be called a champion. A runner-up here in Charlottesville two years ago, he's now three wins away from walking away with the big hardware.
Though their next opponents are yet to be determined, both men will be on court for Friday's quarterfinals.
"Absolutely Asinine": @USOpen Decision to Lock Fans Out of Qualifying Puzzles Players and Fans
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"Absolutely Asinine": US Open Decision to Lock Fans Out of Qualifying Puzzles Players and Fans
Steve Fogleman, Tennis Atlantic
(AUGUST 12)—Of all of the great things about summer, one thing regional tennis fans have on their list is the US Open. Whether you attend qualifying rounds or main draw play, it's always a great time. And the best part about the US Open is that it allowed fans of all budgets to walk through the metal gates and into a Tennis Wonderland. Hundreds of thousands of students, families and neighbors of the surrounding boroughs have attended qualifying matches for years at the US Open. Qualifying in New York is an event that is truly egalitarian, as millionaires stand next to those who can't afford a $75 ticket(master) grounds pass for the opening rounds or a $2,800 luxury experience box seat in Arthur Ashe Stadium. Entire junior tennis programs load up buses and head to Flushing for the experience. Without needing to shell out big bucks for a ticket, a fan could feel indulgent and buy a $15 beer or a $40 ball cap and call it a good day.
Those good days are off the calendar for 2021 unless you can afford a ticket to the main draw. The USTA, in a "heartbreaking" move, has called qualifying off-limits to the general public but are prepared to welcome you with open arms and 100% capacity for ticketed main draw rounds. Also scrapped was the phenomenally popular Arthur Ashe Kid's Day, where $10 bought you a ticket into the greatest stadium in sports along with top-notch entertainment talent.
The reason, according to the USTA, is to protect the players. But many of the players I spoke to at Citi Open last week didn't understand the logic and had fond memories of attending qualifying as a kid and a fan. No one in the press room last week asked the players about US Qualifying but yours truly and not the talent who reads the transcripts and then reads a teleprompter for Tennis Now. She wasn't in the house. But once she put my questions out there, it was about time to post my findings, which I was working on for next week. The only reason that the Q&As were in the transcripts is because the ATP wouldn't let me do one-on-one interviews to ask the players that single question, which would have kept the question and their answers out of the public sphere until my post. In all fairness, I'm glad a bigger media outlet is now, after all of my public questions, covering this matter.
The comments section on the video were almost universally against the fan lockout. Longtime tennis fan Chris Rapseik of Chester, New Jersey was not happy. "As someone who has attended qualifying for many years, I find this decision hypocritical," he said on Youtube. "I planned to buy tickets for the next week when I attended qualifying, now that is not happening. Yes, there are some costs to allowing fans to see qualies but the fans love the opportunity. So the US Open is not considering the fans, who they want for two weeks, to be able to watch qualies. Shame on them."
What was most puzzling about the answers I heard at Citi Open evidenced that many of the players I spoke with last week were not aware of the policy, even though it was done to protect "the players." Which made me wonder if "the players" were even consulted at all about a policy designed to protect "the players" themselves.
"I mean, if you think about that, it seems like there's that discrepancy or there's like a double standard as far as what's allowed and what's not allowed," Tennys Sandgren told me last week. "I mean, if you're allowed to be there for main draw, why shouldn't you be allowed to be there for qualifying? If you're going to do one, then you do the other," he added. "If you're not going to do one, you wouldn't do the other. That's I guess my first reaction to that, would be I don't really get it. But there's a lot of this stuff I really don't get honestly, so it wouldn't be the first time I felt like there was a double standard or discrepancy there that just doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me."
When I asked Brandon Nakashima about it, he was diplomatic about the protocols of the past year before concluding "I think if they're able to have fans come in during the main draw, I see really no reason why they shouldn't be able to come into the qualies as well."
Denis Kudla agreed. "I feel do they really protect us if (the crowds) showing up three, four days later, it's going to be packed four days later?" he mused. "I don't really think that makes sense. Keep it open. We're not going to be in a bubble. We're going to be roaming around New York City. We're responsible for our own health. I don't see how that's really making sense. If you're going to do full bubble, nobody, or just leave it completely open," he added. "All this kind of half and half things, certain rules for certain people, I don't think it makes sense in general. So, yeah, that's pretty much my answer. I think people should be allowed in qualies. I think it's a huge opportunity for families who can't spend a bunch on tickets, have an opportunity to watch top guys practice and the future of the sport."
Steve Johnson is always a straight shooter in press and he didn't disappoint when I asked him the question last Wednesday. "I'm not the arbitrator of what's fair and not fair," he said with a smile. "Me, my perspective, look, we've had a lot of confusing COVID rules the last 18 months, especially last six months. I've stopped really trying to guess because half the rules make absolutely zero sense, it's strictly an optical thing that I think is absolutely asinine really," he added. "I mean, I'm the right guy to probably get a quote from, but I'm the wrong guy to give an impartial decision. Look, I think there should be fans at every stadium. I think we've shown in the States that you can do it and it's safe," he continued. "There should be fans. Everybody knows the risks. Everybody is willing to do what they want to do. That's what makes America America. Everyone has their own choice to do whatever they want. If they want to come watch tennis, they should be allowed to. If they feel unsafe, they shouldn't. There should be fans there the entire time. Again, it's one of those questions why week one and not week two? Why is it any different? I've stopped trying to get those answers because it just makes me more confused than anything."
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In fact, the only player who didn't express concern was Reilly Opelka. He was having no part of it. "I don't want to bite the hand that feeds me, you know? They've been great to me," he said, referring to his benefactors. "The USTA has been great to me. That's all funded by the US Open. There's flaws in everything. They've been great to me. Martin Blackman and Kent Kinnear, my coach Jay Berger, even Pat McEnroe has been beyond generous to me. There's nothing negative I can say because they've changed my life for the better," he concluded. He's one of the nicest guys on tour, but it was clear that he could not be critical in any way of his White Plains Overlords.
Like a good blogger, we reached out to White Plains yesterday to make some sense of this decision. We asked USTA Communications Director Chris Widmaier a few questions by email and followed up with a call to his cell phone, specifically inquiring the following:
1) You must be aware of the crowd size differential between qualifying rounds and the first round of main draw play. Is it fair to say that you expect far more attendees on August 30 and 31 than you would for any day of US Open qualifying in the past?
2) How much money do you expect US Open vendors and partners to lose as a result of the USTA's decision to close qualifying to the public?
3) Are you aware of the impact of the decision on the thousands of attendees who come to qualifying from struggling neighborhoods all over the region? Will there be widely-advertised discount programs to allow low-income fans to attend the main draw in lieu of free qualifying?
4) Did you consider opening up qualifying for attendees who could provide proof of vaccinations?
5) Was the USTA provided with specific public health guidance that 0% capacity at qualifying would protect players and/or that requiring proof of vaccination for attendees at main draw rounds would be beneficial to the players?
Widmaier called me back. He explained that the decision was "heartbreaking and not an easy decision" for the USTA, and was made several months ago "based on expert medical advice at the time." He described the Open as a "mega global event" and that all such decisions had to be made in advance for logistical purposes. He acknowledged that the USTA communicated the call to the ATP and WTA, and that he expected that they would have informed the players. "There are never more players on site than during qualifying," he said. "You have the 256 singles entrants and the qualifying field here at the same time." According to Widmaier, that medical advice included advising the US Open to build out expanded player areas, including gyms and dining areas to promote social distancing, which they have done.
To quote John McEnroe, "Let's be honest." It sounds to me like it was a call that was made, and it's a call that can't be challenged or reversed because it's too late to get security and infrastructure in place for thousands of extra people to show up. Optics are everything, and some feel it's time to stop blaming COVID-19 for decisions that make little sense except the most obvious—to make a buck and/or keep expenses down, just like a Fortune 500 company beholden to shareholders. It also seems that the last thing the USTA wants is to have to kick fans out after the tournament starts due to an outbreak, which would blow another hole in the organization's finances after a disastrous 2020.
Perhaps accidentally, though, it feels like the USTA may have missed the mark on its mission statement on this one: "Include all people on a non-discriminatory basis, and make diversity and inclusion an embedded part of USTA." Because this decision is a heartfelt blow to everyone except the sad rich people in those lower boxes on Ashe. Or as Emma Lazarus, the poet laureate of the Statue of Liberty might say, "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, not right now, but certainly before 2023."
2021 @CincyTennis Approaching Irrelevance as Major Stars Withdraw
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CINCINNATI (Aug. 11, 2021) -Rafael Nadal (foot) and Milos Raonic (heel) have withdrawn from the Western & Southern Open. Nadal was the 2013 Western & Southern Open champion and Raonic was the 2020 runner-up. Daniil Medvedev, who won the 2019 Western & Southern Open when it was last held in Cincinnati, will be the tournament's top men's seed as the No. 2 player in the ATP Rankings.
CINCINNATI (August 10, 2021) Three players have withdrawn from the women's field – Sofia Kenin (foot), Serena Williams (leg) and Venus Williams.
CINCINNATI (Aug. 9, 2021) -Novak Djokovic has withdrawn from the Western & Southern Open. A two-time tournament champion, Djokovic won last year's staging of the event that took place in New York.
A 20-time Major champion, the World No. 1 Djokovic has won the first three Grand Slam events this season.
CINCINNATI (Aug. 5, 2021) – Seven-time Western & Southern Open champion Roger Federer has withdrawn from the 2021 tournament due to a knee injury. A 20-time Major champion, Federer is the winningest player at the Western & Southern Open with a 47-10 record.
It's Hardware Sunday at @CitiOpen
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It's Hardware Sunday at Citi Open
Steve Fogleman in Washington
Sunday caps off one of the most exciting years yet for the 52-year-old Citi Open in Washington, as a week of frenetic play under pristine August weather comes to a close with hardware handed out for singles and doubles champions and finalists. In a perfect world, Rafael Nadal would appear at tonight's singles final and bite the winner's trophy to guarantee its authenticity, but it is not to be.
(Photo by Peter Staples)
Jannik Sinner and Mackenzie McDonald have both played a high level of tennis all week long and deserve to be on the stage today. Sinner's the prohibitive -380 favorite in Vegas, but McDonald is far and away the sentimental favorite.
McDonald's press conference gave us a peek into the troughs of pro tennis. After 2019 injuries and COVID-19 sidelined and then isolated him, he could put no positive spin on it. "No. Honestly, it was a really painful time, really super tough," he said forlornly. "It was really rough. I had no idea what to expect. I didn't know. I was away from family, too. I was lucky. My girlfriend's father was able to spend time with me, he's retired, and helped me. I couldn't walk and drive myself and do anything", he continued. "I had an apartment on the third floor and no elevator. It was pretty shitty. So, yeah, I didn't know where I was going to be two years later. Like I said, I have always worked hard, always put in the work. A little bit older, too, and it's helping."
You just don't hear real-life stories like that every day. He's playing for his first ATP tour level title with his heart on his sleeve. Meanwhile, Sinner vies for his biggest trophy to date, having notched 250 titles in Sofia and Melbourne Park. Given the emotion that McDonald's playing with like house money and the stingy odds on Sinner, the only punt to make today is for the American.
And Then There Were Four: @CitiOpen Semifinals Feature Young Talent and One @KeiNishikori
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Photo by Mike Lawrence for the Citi Open
And Then There Were Four: Citi Open Semifinals Feature Young Talent and One Kei Nishikori
It's been a week of upsets at the Citi Open in Washington all the way to the semifinals with only one seeded player remaining. I'm feeling that the upsets end today with two favorites advancing to tomorrow's ATP 500 final.
(Photo by Peter Staples, Citi Open)
Jenson Brooksby continued his march through Washington on Friday night by doing to John Millman what he's been doing all week: baffle top talent. Asked if he is surprising other players, he said, "I don't know exactly what goes through their minds. I'm not surprising myself, but I think — I mean, I think they, by now, people know what to expect in general, but, I mean, I think I still am surprising them."
Should we add Jannik Sinner to the list of those who aren't ready to beat Brooksby? Sinner's aware of the threat. "I think he's a very tricky player," he said yesterday. "He is maybe in the best moment of his young, young career, you know, playing the best tennis. He is, yeah, in confidence."
Sinner hits the practice courts after matches and skipped the Olympics in order to improve his game in time for the big US Open Series tournaments in August. I predict Brooksby's amazing run through the top brass ends today on the racquet of the Italian.
Kei Nishikori flew in from Tokyo and did a lot of damage to his opponents all week. In prior editions of the Citi Open, Kei has been the superstar of this event and is a 2017 champion here. That's why it seemed so strange this week as he practiced, played and won in an under-the-radar fashion thanks to the Rafa Effect. That jet lag is long gone which means Nishikori's game is getting better every day.
"I was a little bit tired after coming from Japan," he said in post-match press last night, "but I had a couple days' rest. It wasn't easy, obviously. I had only maybe three days or four days to play first match, but I able to manage, you know, fight through first couple rounds. Now I'm feeling good again."
I'm picking Nishikori to advance to tomorrow's final. We'll see you then.
It's Back to Business as a Normal ATP 500 for @CitiOpen
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Well, the Rafael Nadal hangover is still around, if only for a day. After Nadal's exit from the Citi Open in Washington last night, there's a collective sense of loss and exhaustion from the electricity he brought to this ATP 500 event. However, there are eight excellent quarterfinal matches on tap today and storylines still abound.
Let's stat with Denis Kudla. On Monday, he said that he'd underachieved in his career. Three wins later and Kudla is looking to make his first hometown tournament semifinal today. He went through a tortuous period from 2008-2017, where the DC local went 0-8 in qualifying and first round losses. To make his first ATP Tour final in DC would be a real silver lining for him and the Citi Open. After beating Brandon Nakashima, who'd been playing near perfect tennis, I predict that he will be the semifinalist from this All-American match.
Steve Johnson has been beating the odds all week, first by taking out tournament #3 seed Alex DeMinaur and following it up with a lights-out win over Ricardas Berankis yesterday. Today, he'll face longer odds as he tries to unseat the highest remaining seeded player, #5 Jannik Sinner, to book his third Citi Open semifinal. That may be a tall order for Johnson, as Sinner looks unbeatable.
Jenson Brooksby continues to dazzle. Jenson's July was only a pretext of what was to come here in Washington. He has knocked off #16 seed Tiafoe and #2 seed Felix Auger-Aliassime and today he faces #11 seed John Millman. Brooksby hasn't dropped a set all week, but today I am predicting that Millman will end Brooksby's impressive Citi Open run.
Photo: Christopher Levy, @Tennis_Shots
Finally, Kei Nishikori and Lloyd Harris square off for the last semifinal berth. This one is a big question mark as both players may begin to feel some exhaustion set in after last night's three set wins. Harris looked great out there, but will there be a letdown coming off of his greatest win yet? Kei Nishikori, who has been the rockstar of Citi Opens past, is a bit of an under-the-radar player this week. That said, I'm going to tip his way to reach the semis.
A @CitiOpen Loss For @RafaelNadal
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A Citi Open Loss For Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal's comeback tour hit a speed bump tonight with a 4-6, 6-1, 4-6 nail biter with Lloyd Harris at the Citi Open ATP 500 in Washington. Harris was 1-5 against top 10 opponents with his best result against #4 Sascha Zverev, so it's the biggest result of his singles career. After the match, Nadal said that his nagging foot pain felt better today and lamented that "the most painful thing is to not be able to be on court in front of this amazing crowd no?."
We asked whether he was exhausted from last night's incredible win over a motivated Jack Sock in three sets.
No way, he replied. "No, I was ready. The most positive thing is my foot was better today than yesterday,
so that's the best news possible. I played against a player that played well."
"So that's the sport. You can't have mistakes in the key moments, and in the key moments I think in the last game, yeah, I was a little bit more nervous. My serve was not working the proper way. And that's it. Yes, well done for him. Is a great victory for him. I wish him all the very best."
—S. Fogleman
2021 @CitiOpen Women's Invitational Starts Tonight
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2021 Citi Open Women's Invitational Starts Tonight
WASHINGTON-AUGUST 5—Starting tonight, Coco Gauff, Victoria Azarenka and Jessica Pegula will compete in the Citi Open Women's Invitational, a special, round-robin singles event as part of Citi Open week. Pegula and Gauff were crowned singles and doubles champions, respectively, in the WTA Tour's 2019 Citi Open.
The inaugural champion will receive $25,000 in prize money. The Women's Sports Foundation will be the beneficiary of the tournament and will receive a $50,000 donation from the Citi Open, Citi and the Mark and Sally Ein Foundation.
WTA No. 25; 2019 Citi Open women's doubles champion; 5 WTA titles (2 singles, 3 doubles); 2021 French Open quarterfinalist
Current WTA No. 15; Former World No. 1; 30 WTA titles (21 singles, 9 doubles); 2012 and 2013 Australian Open winner; 2012, 2013 and 2020 U.S. Open finalist
Jess Pegula, 2019 Citi Open (Photo: Mike Renz)
Jessica Pegula
2019 Citi Open women's singles champion; Current WTA No. 28; 2021 Australian Open quarterfinalist
Thursday, August 5 (Following tonight's. match on Stadium Court)
Coco Gauff vs. Victoria Azarenka
Friday, August 6 (Final day session match on Stadium Court)
Victoria Azarenka vs. Jessica Pegula
Saturday August 7 (Following 7 p.m. match on Stadium Court)
Coco Gauff vs. Jessica Pegula
The format is best of 3 sets, regular scoring, with a 10-point super-tiebreak to decide the third. The player with the best record will be crowned the champion. In the event of a tie, the champion will be decided by most sets, or if necessary, most games won.
It's R16 Thursday at @CitiOpen
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It's hard to bust through Nadal's wild opening win in Washington last night, but many other players advanced to the Round of 16 yesterday at the Citi Open and they're ready for battle today in what is traditionally the best day of this tournament. Eight singles matches will determine the warriors of the weekend with the right to claim an ATP 500 title.
American players are common at American events, and that should surprise no one. In recent years, though, most of them are knocked out in early rounds by higher-ranked international players. This year is different Of the 15 Americans in the draw, seven advanced to the third round – the most at the Citi Open since eight in 1993. You can't ask for more than that as a local fan. and you still have a chance to see six Americans in the quarterfinals and guaranteed to have one American in there as countrymen Denis Kudla and Brandon Nakashima do battle today for one of those spots. Nakashima is 10-2 since July 19.
Brandon Nakashima (Photo by Peter Staples, Citi Open)
Other opening matches today include Steve Johnson against Ricardas Berankis and Next Gen stars Jannik Sinner taking on Sebastian Korda, who are collectively aged 40 years.
Late afternoon matches feature Kei Nishikori against Cameron Norrie, Reilly Opelka facing off against John Millman, and another Next Gen showdown with a pair of 20-year-olds: #2 seed Felix Auger Aliassime and Jenson Brooksby. Ilya Ivashka and Mackenzie McDonald will fight for a quarterfinal berth in the early evening match before all eyes turn to Stadium Court for Rafael Nadal and Lloyd Harris, the #14 seed.


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Election Tribunal: No plan to lead protest over server -Atiku
Atiku Abubakar
Success Nwogu, Abuja
The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2019 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on Sunday said he has no plan to lead a street protest in the event that the election petition tribunal ruled against him and his party on the issue of the Independent National Electoral Commission's server.
Atiku's Media Adviser, Paul Ibe, said the statement attributed to Atiku is the handiwork of mischief makers to mar his pro-democratic record, and lay the groundwork on false charges against him.
Ibe in a statement issued on Sunday said, "I wish to emphatically state that such a statement did not emanate from Atiku Abubakar or his privies. It is the work of mischief makers who want to mar his spotless pro-democratic record and lay the groundwork for their threatened actions against him on false charges of being a threat to national security.
"For the avoidance of doubt, Atiku Abubakar believes in the Rule of Law and in the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. In his almost four decades in politics, he has never taken action or spoken words against democracy and will not start now.
"Atiku and his team have confidence in God and thus call on those bent on mischief to have the fear of God and retrace their steps. Democracy has come to stay in Nigeria. The culture of fear being created now cannot rein in our democracy. Nigeria and Nigerians have a consistent history of outlasting tyranny and will continue to do so by the grace of God."
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Former Pak PM Nawaz Sharif sentenced to 7 years in jail, 25 million USD fine in Al-Azizia Steel Mills corruption case.
Former prime minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif has been sentenced to seven years in jail in Al-Azizia Steel Mills corruption case. The accountability court, which acquitted Sharif in the second graft case related to Flagship Investments hill metal case, has also asked him to pay 25 million USD fien for alleged graft in the Al-Aziza matter.
Last week, Judge Muhammad Arshad Malik of Islamabad-based accountability court had reserved the judgment after completion of hearing in the Flagship Investment and Al-Azizia cases against 68-year-old Sharif.
Three cases - Avenfield properties case, Flagship Investment case and Al-Azizia steel mills case - were launched by the National Accountability Bureau on September 8, 2017 following a judgment by the apex court that disqualified Sharif.
In July, 2018 Sharif, his daughter Maryam and his son-in-law retired captain Mohammad Safdar were sentenced to 11 years, eight years and one year respectively in prison in the Avenfield properties case related to their purchase of four luxury flats in London through corrupt practices.
However, the three were bailed out by the Islamabad High Court in September.
Sharif, who religiously followed the proceeding by appearing before the court for at least 78 times, told the media after the court reserved the judgment last week that he not committed any corruption.
"Not a penny of corruption has been proven against me…I am very happy that I have done my duty, and I think that since I have stepped in politics I have never indulged in corruption nor have misused my power," he said.
Veteran politician Javed Hashmi on Saturday predicted that Sharif will be convicted in the Flagship and Al-Azizia case as "the institutions won't let these (cases) prove false".
Talking to the media in Multan, he said that the purpose of the NAB was to make politicians change their political loyalties.
"I will not accept this decision as Nawaz Sharif will be convicted at any cost," he was quoted as saying by Dawn newspaper.


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Pear Therapeutics Announces First Patient Dosed in Part II of Pear-006 Feasibility Study to Treat Depressive Symptoms in People with Multiple Sclerosis
Dosing and Patient Engagement to be Evaluated for Novel Prescription Digital Therapeutic
Product Candidate
Boston, December 17, 2019 – Pear Therapeutics, Inc. today announced the first patient dosed in part II of the first clinical study evaluating Pear-006, a digital therapeutic product candidate for addressing depressive symptoms in Multiple Sclerosis (MS). The randomized controlled trial will enroll approximately 30 patients with Relapsing MS for eight weeks treatment with digital therapy and evaluate dosing, patient use, engagement, and other clinical outcomes. Pear-006 is designed to deliver specific cognitive behavioral therapy, cognitive restructuring, and other neurobehavioral mechanisms of action, to address depressive symptoms in people with MS. Pear Therapeutics is developing Pear-006 in collaboration with Novartis under the terms of an agreement announced in March 2018.
"Between 35-50% of people with MS have symptoms of depression[1], yet only inadequate treatment options remain to improve quality of life. Pear Therapeutics understands the importance of not only addressing this unmet need, but doing so in a way that would allow easy access for patients," said Yuri Maricich, M.D., Chief Medical Officer at Pear Therapeutics. "As pioneers in prescription digital therapeutics, we take pride in leading the first decentralized trial for a digital therapeutic in this patient population, further exploring the potential of this novel therapeutic modality and advancing research for the MS community."
Prescription digital therapeutics represent a new treatment class in healthcare that blend the iterative design and development agility of software and deliver scientific mechanisms of action which are developed with scientific rigor and evidence-based process required by the FDA for class II A medical devices. Pear-006 has been developed based on valuable insights from patients, scientists and neurologists.
The study began with a part I feasibility study in May 2019, which reported encouraging findings, and further studies on efficacy will be pursued next pending the outcomes of this trial.
About Pear Therapeutics
Pear Therapeutics, Inc. is the leader in prescription digital therapeutics. We aim to redefine medicine by discovering, developing, and delivering clinically validated software-based therapeutics to provide better outcomes for patients, smarter engagement and tracking tools for clinicians, and cost-effective solutions for payers. Pear has a pipeline of products and product candidates across therapeutic areas, including severe psychiatric and neurological conditions. Our lead product, reSET®, for the treatment of Substance Use Disorder, was the first prescription digital therapeutic to receive marketing authorization from the FDA to treat disease. Pear's second product, reSET-O®, for the treatment of Opioid Use Disorder, received marketing authorization from the FDA in December 2018. For more information, visit us at www.peartherapeutics.com.
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[1] "Prevalence of depression and anxiety in multiple sclerosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis," https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28017241


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Home » Corporate » RGE Directors Named to Wharton "40 Under 40" List
RGE Directors Named to Wharton "40 Under 40" List
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Having grown up being exposed to RGE's operations including spending school holidays immersed in verdant plantations in Pangkalan Kerinci, Riau, the affinity for the businesses that their father RGE Founder and Chairman Sukanto Tanoto established was nurtured early in RGE directors Imelda Tanoto, Belinda Tanoto and Anderson Tanoto.
Today, Imelda, Belinda and Anderson work alongside a dedicated corp of professionals at RGE, whose companies' assets exceed US$18 billion and collectively employ more than 60,000 across operations in Indonesia, China, Brazil, Spain and Canada.
On Oct 20, 2017, the three siblings were named to their alma mater, The Wharton School's prestigious "40 Under 40" list. Started three years ago, the Wharton "40 Under 40″list seeks to "recognize some of the brightest stars in a vast galaxy of impressive young Wharton alumni."
Describing his family and business in a profile piece in the latest edition of the Wharton Magazine, Anderson said, "We call ourselves a business family—not a family business. We're in a resource-based valley, but we're also a global company with assets in excess of $18 billion. So it's very important to be close to our raw materials, but also close to our consumers and customers."
Sharing her perspectives on how as the second generation they have observed up-close the evolution of the company, Imelda offered, "Because we've always been part of this business, we understand how it has grown over time. You make sure the right people are in the right roles, with the right tools."
Belinda, who has a special interest in the mission of Tanoto Foundation, has been working on a holistic approach to improving the livelihoods of some of society's poorest. "Poverty is a multi-dimensional issue, and it can't be solved by just our foundation," said Belinda, who recently collaborated with major philanthropists and various aid agencies, including the United Nations Development Program, on a landscape mapping of regional efforts.
All three agree that it's a willingness to adapt to a changing environment that will preserve the company's DNA moving forward.
"What sets us apart is being unafraid of challenges and instead finding opportunity in them," says Imelda. An excellent case-in-point is the company's ongoing journey toward sustainability and renewable resources as institutionalised in the RGE 5Cs business philosophy: Good for Community, Country, Climate, Customer, and only then is it Good for Company.
"Companies can produce, but they can also protect conservation forests in the process," added Anderson, who spearheaded a US$100 million pledge to restore and protect one hectare of forest (or about 2.5 acres) for every hectare of plantation that is embodied by the Restorasi Ekosistem Riau project aimed at restoring and conserving ecologically important peat forest areas in Indonesia's Kampar Peninsula.
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Unlocking the Rural Potential in Indonesia
Indonesia, Southeast Asia's largest economy continues to see growth momentum despite the slowdown in the global economy. The World Bank expects Indonesia's GDP to expand to 5.2 percent this year,...
Asian Agri Gives IDR 4.3B of Profits to Partnered Smallholders
Continuing the unique tradition of rewarding its RSPO-certified smallholder partners, Asian Agri recently shared with them profits from the sale of certified sustainable palm oil. Premium Sharing Since 2014, the...
Sukanto Tanoto announces Fourth C | WEF Davos highlights & behind-the-scenes
RGE Chairman Sukanto Tanoto was in Davos last month to attend the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2016. Sukanto Tanoto: "Good for Climate" RGE Chairman Sukanto Tanoto...