Bands of Wando received a proclamation from the CCSD Board of Trustees. Front row (L to R): Bobby Lambert, Bands of Wando Director; Chris Phillip, Wando band member; Anna Johnston, Bands of Wando Drum Major; Alexis Clark, Bands of Wando Drum Major; Savannah Mellichamp, Bands of Wando Drum Major; A.J. Johnston, Bands of Wando Drum Major; Dr. Sherry Epplesheimer, Wando High School Principal. Back Row (L to R): Laura Clark, Charms Administrator for Wando Boosters; E.C. Setser, President-Elect of Wando Boosters; Jay Johnston, President of Wando High School Band Boosters.
Bands of Wando received a proclamation from the CCSD Board of Trustees. Front row (L to R): Rev. Chris Collins, CCSD Board of Trustees Member; Chris Phillips, Wando band member; Anna Johnston, Bands of Wando Drum Major; Alexis Clark, Bands of Wando Drum Major; Savannah Mellichamp, Bands of Wando Drum Major; A.J. Johnston, Bands of Wando Drum Major; Dr. Sherry Epplesheimer, Wando High School Principal; Rev. Dr. Eric Mack, CCSD Board of Trustees Chair. Back row (L to R): Jeff Borowy, CCSD Chief Operating Officer; Bobby Lambert, Bands of Wando Director; Michael Miller, CCSD Board of Trustees Member; Joyce Green, CCSD Board of Trustees Member; Kate Darby, CCSD Board of Trustees Vice Chair; Priscilla Jeffery, CCSD Board of Trustees Member.
CCSD Board of Trustees member Michael Miller shakes hands with Anna Johnston, Bands of Wando Drum Major.
CCSD Board Chair Rev. Dr. Eric Mack shakes hands with Bobby Lambert, Bands of Wando Director.
The sweet sound of the clarinets flow as smooth as the musicians who maneuver throughout the field. Nearby, the tubas rumble and the horns flare. The color guard, in a vibrant mix of turquoise and pink threads, parade in grandeur.
A gathering of middle school musicians stare in awe from the stands, wide-eyed and anxiously awaiting their opportunity to one day don the garnet and black of their high school brethren. A group of boosters sit nearby, watching proudly with the alumni association as months of fundraising comes to fruition. Props team stands below, out of the line of sight, waiting for the final note and their cue to collapse the show without a trace and tuck it away into the awaiting semi-trucks.
It's these intricacies that have developed the Wando High School Band into a nationally recognized production. Of course, we all know hard work and dedication from the band directors and students build band programs each year. But it goes deeper than that. The foundation takes years to build with a sprawling network of loyal supporters, town and county leaders, parents and business partners. And more.
According to Don Johnson, president of Bands of Wando Foundation, it also takes feeder middle school band programs that excel. Cario, Laing and Moultrie Middle Schools all feed band students to the Bands of Wando. Cario band finished first in the county, region and in the state of South Carolina making Cario's band program No. 1 for the 18th straight year in 2018. They also had 21 first place finishes in All State.
Middle school students audition and are placed into one of four concert bands: Symphonic, Concert I, Concert II, or Chamber Winds. Percussion and color guard are separate. All the bands make up the marching band.
So each year Wando starts out with band students who have had excellent training and music backgrounds.
In 2017 and 2018 senior classes of Wando Band, students were awarded over $4.7 million in scholarships.
Families of the 255 band members make up the Booster Club at Wando. This well-oiled machine has branches for fundraising, props, uniforms, operations, ways and means, development and chaperones. The boosters do all sorts of things from building the props, travelling with the band, measuring and fitting uniforms, after school supervision, meals, and chaperoning.
The Development Committee raises money through the Harmony Business partnerships for expenses associated with traveling to competitions. And this year they bought new uniforms. Just imagine that each trip out of town requires six charter busses, two 52-foot tracker trailers, and two small pull-behind trailers. No small feat for logistics or expenses.
Rounding out supporters is the Wando Alumni Association.
Don Johnson, foundation president, saw a need to have a Wando Foundation three years ago and it is well on its way. The Beach Company recently gave the foundation a $5,000 grant which will be used for students in need of financial help for private lessons and/or band dues.
The Bands of Wando were honored by the CCSD Board of Trustees on Dec. 17. They were issued a proclamation for their achievements.
• 2018 finished sixth in the Bands of America National Marching Band Championship in Indianapolis, marking the fifth time the band has been a national finalist – the only band in the state history to accomplish that honor.
• The only band in state history to win multiple Bands of America Regional Marching Competitions.
• Most students of any high school in South Carolina to make the All-State Band for 13 consecutive years.
• Has had the most students in the All-State Jazz Band for 12 years.
• Most students of any high school in the nation in the Honor Bands of America in 2018.
• Only band in state history to have three concert bands accepted to the State Concert Festival.
• Won the State Marching Band Championship the last 11 years in which they competed.
• Senior classes of 2017 and 2018 won a combined $4.7 million in college scholarships.
• Wando Color and Winter Guard has won numerous State and Circuit awards.


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EP 151: Doing More With Less With SystemsRock Founder Natasha Vorompiova
Mindset & Identity, Product Development
Why Natasha sold her digital offerings business arm to focus solely on 1:1 work — and how she gained two clients through sending out an email
How she found ways to bring more of herself into her business
Why Natasha uses affirmations to become the best business owner she can be and what her daily routine looks like
Where she noticed limitations in her personal life and how they impacted her business
Natasha Vorompiova wants to help you amplify your impact through systems. That might look like organizing and optimizing your inbox or clarifying how your business operates. But Natasha isn't just passionate about systems: she's always looking for ways to optimize her own life and limitations to show up with more clarity in business. In this episode, she shares just how she does that through affirmations, paring down to just one-on-one clients, and much more.
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Bringing your whole self into business
"I've stopped separating who I am in life and who I am in business. I realize more and more, I'm just this one single person and my weaknesses, or things that don't go well for me as a person in my day-to-day life, those same things show up in my business." — Natasha Vorompiova
Separating yourself from your business is nearly impossible as an entrepreneur. Any shortcomings in your personal life show up in business just as much as your strengths. That's something Natasha recently learned and started to tend to more.
"I started looking for patterns," she says, "where things don't work overall in business or in my personal life. I started noticing what doesn't work and tried to concentrate just working on that element." For example, Natasha wouldn't voice her opinion with some individuals in her personal life. That bled into her business and she'd struggle with having an upfront conversation with a client.
True to her nature, Natasha decided to focus in on that personal shortcoming to see if she could improve it. And she did, making it that much easier to have tough conversations and ask her clients deep questions. "When I started to allow myself to ask questions that were a bit more confronting and not just systems focused, we are able to discover so much more," she adds.
Who do you need to be to achieve your goals?
"I started paying very, very close attention to who I need to be in order to achieve something. That's how I can then make sure that the action I take leads to the goals that I want to achieve." — Natasha Vorompiova
Have you ever felt like your goals were unattainable because of your (real or perceived) personal limitations? Without paying close attention to what you're aiming for, it's easy to slide off the path. That diversion comes by way of procrastination and avoidance, says Natasha.
"When I begin procrastinating or avoiding something, I know I need to confront that versus just pushing through it," she says. At the end of the day, "the goal itself or the money is not what we're after," says Natasha. "We're after what that goal represents or what it will allow us."
How about you? Is there somewhere in your life that bleeds into the way you operate your business that might negatively impact it? Is there a way that you can focus on it so that you're able to realign with your path forward?
Using affirmations to reach your goals
"The process of it made such a big difference and impression on me the very first time because I was able to feel and connect to that statement on a totally different level." — Natasha Vorompiova
Have you ever used affirmations as a mindset tool to reach your goals? For Natasha, it was something new — but something she was willing to try. She began using affirmations to set her frame of mind around growth, changing clientele, and the service that she aims to provide.
She reads the affirmations every morning before she starts her work day. It puts her in the right frame of mind, she says, and is her version of meditating. "It's my time and it's something where I feel I'm doing more with less," she adds.
Listen to this episode to hear more from Natasha Vorompiova from SystemsRock on how to do more with less, how and why she uses affirmations to prime her mindset before her workday, and how she sets goals.

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Women are at greater risk of dying from bladder cancer because it is easy to dismiss the signs and symptoms of the disease as a simple urine infection, experts have warned.
New research has revealed female patients are more likely to be diagnosed with the most advanced stage of the disease.
In addition, women are more susceptible to rarer forms of the disease.
Public Health England said survival rates for the disease in women are around 10 per cent lower than those of men.
Every year in the UK, 10,000 people are diagnosed with bladder cancer, and of that half will die from the disease.
In 2013, around 2,500 women in England were diagnosed with bladder cancer, with 1,500 dying from the disease.
Urine infections are common in women so bladder cancer can be difficult to spot as the symptoms are relatively similar.
'Visible blood in pee is the leading indicator, and we urge women to be vigilant and inform their GP as early as they can if this occurs.
» Should I have my gall bladder removed?
I think it's really important to push your GP for further help and tests if you have repeated urine infections My mother had bladder cancer, and she was lucky to survive it.
catheter users are among the high risk groups.
if i get a uti my docs all ways send it to a lab, did have a check for bladder cancer and thank the heavens the results came back normal but it was worrying waiting for the results.


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Scientific research into the causes of cancer has now demonstrated a whole new view of the underlying mechanism of how and why cancer develops. It has shown that cancer is a metabolic disease triggered by environmental toxins, poor diet and lifestyle. It is NOT preordained by our genetic code…it is reversible and preventable.
The traditionally held view or dogma is that cancer and many so called "incurable" diseases are genetic disease, but what Dr Warburg discovered is that they is really caused by a defect in the cellular energy metabolism of the cell, primarily related to the function of the mitochondria, which are the little power stations within each cell.
In my view, this information is the game changer that not only treats cancer but virtually every single disease known to man, because at the core of most serious ailments you find mitochondrial dysfunction.
A dogma is considered irrefutable truth, and that cancer and other incurable diseases are genetic disease is, no question, a dogma. The problem with dogma is that sometimes it blinds you to alternative views and sets up ideologies that are extremely difficult to change.
All of the major college textbooks talk about cancer as a genetic disease. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) website, the first thing they say is cancer is a genetic disease caused by mutations It permeates the pharmaceutical industry, academic industry and textbook industry, the entire knowledge base. There's very little discussion of alternative views to the genetic view. The argument now is that, yes, metabolic problems occur in cancer cells. No one denies that.
But these are all due to the genetic mutations. Therefore we must maintain ourselves on the established track that all of this metabolic stuff could be resolved if we just understood more about the genetic underpinning of the disease.
However evidence is accumulating that the mutations we see that are the prime focus and the basis for the genetic theory are actually epiphenomenal.
They're downstream effects of this disturbance in the metabolism.
The problem today is not that scientists and doctors cannot understand the science; it's that they cannot accept that this could be the truth behind the nature of the disease, because it changes how you approach treatment.
If defective mitochondria are responsible for the origin of cancer, and defective energy metabolism is responsible for the majority of the phenotypes, i.e., the observable characteristics of the disease that you see, then how do you treat the disease?
There is now a strong scientific foundation for the theory that cancer and other autonomic disorders are metabolic disease, not a genetic one, and that genetic mutations are a downstream effect of defective energy metabolism in the mitochondria.
What About BRCA1 and Other Inherited Cancer Genes?
At present, the cancer industry is focusing on the downstream effects of the problem, which is why the "war on cancer" has been such a miserable failure.
Modern medicines, checkpoint inhibitors, even most nutritional approaches to the treatment of cancer are basically looking at downstream effects of the disease.
Unfortunately, most of the cells in the tumour are all different from each other genetically. You're not going to be able to target all of the different cells using these kinds of approaches. Even though you may get success for a few months, or even a year in some people, the majority of people will not respond effectively to these kinds of therapies for the most part.
Cancer is not the only outcome when mitochondrial respiration goes awry. This kind of dysfunction also plays a role in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). It's also at play in seizure disorders, and in diabetes obesity, hypertension and hypercholesterolemia. Most of the major diseases we're currently treating with harsh and toxic drugs can potentially be solved with proper nutritional intervention that addresses your choice of cellular fuels.
In order to achieve nutritional ketosis, you need to reduce net carbohydrates (total carbs minus fibre) to less than 100 grams, probably less than 50 grams.
You also need to reduce your amino acid content. Glutamine is the most common amino acid in proteins, and besides glucose, cancer cells can use glutamine for energy and growth as well. The combination of both glucose and glutamine creates a really "supercharged system,".
In order to lower glutamine, you have to eat less protein. Also, there's a threshold for amino acids, above which you will simply stimulate the mTOR pathway, which in conjunction with insulin may wield a more powerful influence on mitochondrial dysfunction and mitochondrial biogenesis than insulin alone.
In every case of cancer there is an underlying cause…something which has disturbed the natural balance of the self-regulating system (Homeostasis ) and halted the natural healing process…something individual to each person. If at one time you didn't have these symptoms and now they do, obvious something has changed within your system. Cancer is merely a symptom of the underlying cause. To prevent and treat Cancer effectively and naturally we need to identify address the root cause. In this centre we specialize in root cause diagnosis of any health condition using our state of the art Meta Health Scan.
The Meta Health Scan is carried out utilizing the amazing diagnostic ability of Clinical Kinesiology. It is reliable, accurate and reproducible. The scan will reveal the imbalances unique to your body, and how these are affecting you. The scan reveals such issues as endogenous bio-toxicity, nutrient imbalances or deficiencies, sub-clinical infections, allergies and food sensitivities. It can also test for organ imbalances, hormone imbalance, and leaky gut. Any abnormality in these areas will easily be picked up during the Health Scan. We also examine your entire lifestyle, sleep quality and any emotional/psychological contributors to your condition.
Once your unique information is gathered this way we offer you an in-depth consultation to talk about your results, during which we discuss what has been revealed by the scan, where and how this has arisen, and how to remove or transform it, and reboot your system. I believe it is very important for each person to understand what has been going on in their body, how the condition has developed, and how to unravel and resolve it naturally. My intention is not just to teach you about your condition, but more importantly to empower you with understanding in order that you are able to take back control of your health.
Together we create an individualized tailored treatment plan for you to facilitate the reversal of the pathology which has already occurred, and optimize your healing process, thereby rebooting your system.. This may include some or all of there: a gentle detoxification protocol, dietary changes, specific supplements, life style changes, exercise, etc tailored to your specific needs. In the majority of cases treatment can be implemented by you at home without the need for repeated visits to the centre; however Health Coaching and support is built in to this package to assist you through your treatment.
and NLP coaching…all of which are on offer at this centre.
If you have any chronic disease, or wish to prevent yourself from getting ill, we have answers and strategies that work with your body to enhance your homeostatic process. In other words, we look at the big picture of why you are unwell, and reverse it using natural therapies, nutritional science and lifestyle changes.


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Penrith painter eclipses rivals with digital transformation
Penrith painter Richard Rossetto has no time to watch the paint dry after getting help from the NSW Government's Business Connect service to transform his business through the use of social media and digital marketing.
The 33-year-old has used digital media to get the jump on his business rivals with one Facebook post creating $11,500 worth of work from just a $125 investment.
He has now significantly reduced his advertising budget, chooses which jobs he wants to complete on a seasonal basis, and has employed sub-contractors to help with the workload.
Deputy Premier and Minister for Small Business John Barilaro, who has run a family business in Queanbeyan for 20 years, said the NSW Government's Business Connect program helped Mr Rossetto prepare his business for future growth.
"Western Sydney Business Connect Advisor Michael Todd has helped Mr Rossetto adapt his business to the digital age while also guiding him through potential roadblocks to success," Mr Barilaro said.
"Business Connect is a new $30 million statewide program that started this year and built on the strengths of the previous award-winning Small Biz Connect program that had supported nearly 40,000 small businesses since 2012.
"We have adapted the service to meet the changing needs of business including by developing a stronger focus on digital skills for our growing digital economy.
"Digital tools and innovation can drive business success and by investing in new specialists in digital marketing we are helping businesses embrace the digital economy to drive growth and create more jobs."
Mr Rossetto said he got "heaps" of work from a social media and digital marketing campaign because there were no other painters in the area that used social media.
"Not many painters have a website and social media strategy but after help from Business Connect it's the only marketing I use," he said.
"If I didn't go to Michael for this advice I would not have known to do any of this. Having a business advisor who knows the local area and knows the market is also a bonus. You can't put a price on it."
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What We Should Learn from Governor Cuomo
What lessons are clearly evident from New York State's management of COVID?
What we see starkly displayed in our country today is the best possible example of why large, powerful government always, always, always destroys everything good while producing immeasurable damage to nearly everyone and everything it touches.
Although there are multiple examples of the principle described above perhaps the most pronounced is Governor Cuomo. He is a textbook example of what happens when a person of low character is allowed to assume massive control over millions of people.
First, a bit of context. We hope government positions are filled with people who are wise and honest. Unfortunately, the more powerful the government the less likely that will be the case, as the greater the power the greater the corruption. The greater the corruption the more attractive government positions are to those who are dishonest, those who see the personal advantages available to persons in government positions. In other words, a powerful government will naturally attract not the most noble and wise, but the most ignoble, foolish, and self-serving.
Governor Cuomo obviously sought a high political office for the personal and professional benefits associated with that office, not as an opportunity to serve others. He has used that office to promote himself and to claim unlimited, and by the way unconstitutional, powers over the governed. His management of SARS-2 has been an unmitigated disaster for the people of New York, and instead of taking responsibility for his deeply flawed decisions he writes a book, using SARS-2 as the primary example, proclaiming his extraordinary leadership abilities. It is beyond comprehension that a person in the public eye can produce such obvious damage, including the indescribably bad decision to order elderly SARS-2 patients back into nursing homes and lie about the number of resulting deaths, to those he governs and stubbornly deny any wrongdoing. It is all, of course, the fault of former President Trump or some other villain.
It is worthy of note that Governor Cuomo's management of COVID is certainly not his only stark blunder. The businesses and schools he has kept closed for these many months has caused irreparable damage of other types as well. The flight of citizens out of New York communicate as well as any other factor the depth of his mismanagement.
Again, Governor Cuomo is far from the only example of the destruction a person of low character will produce when the reins of a too powerful government are placed in his/her hands. We have seen exactly the same scenario play out in Michigan with our own tyrant Governor, Gretchen Whitmer. The power so many in political positions have assumed in response to COVID 19 has presented an unmatched opportunity for us to understand the wisdom of the founders of this country. They carefully restricted the power of any element of government to avoid the very thing we have seen all around us these last twelve months. That is, unrestrained control over everyone within their reach without regard to individual liberty, personal choice, or the short or long-term effects of their policies.
It is not nearly enough to remove leaders like Cuomo and Whitmer from their positions. We must wake up to the truth that a government that has the power to give you everything also has the power to take everything from you. We have had twelve months of continual demonstrations of that indisputable principle.
Seems it is time to move to South Dakota or Florida. Leadership in those states understands the place of government and the value of personal liberty, and holds to those principles even in the face of withering attacks. Is it possible others will follow that example, rather than the example of Cuomo and Whitmer? Unfortunately, unless the role of government is largely redefined the example followed will be that of Cuomo and Whitmer rather than Governor Noem of South Dakota. Where great power is present great corruption will surely follow.
Just as it is best to choose a job working under the leadership of a competent, caring, honest boss, so it is best to choose to live in a part of the country guided by competent, caring, honest government. While at this point in time it is impossible to completely avoid the overreach of the Federal government and its agencies, I expect those of us who wish to live with personal liberty and responsibility and without tyrannical government will more and more relocate to places where the former is dominant and the latter minimized.
We can only hope other states will join South Dakota and Florida in pursuit of the best of government while avoiding the worst.
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Years ago, a precious friend of mine named Hildegard shared her most amazing pretzel bread recipe with me. She had tweaked this recipe based on the pretzel bread she remembered from Germany, and created this simple bread machine method for making delicious pretzel bread dough in the bread machine. She finishes it by hand in her oven.
I love a good, crusty bread.
Especially when it's a little salty.
Mmmmmmm. This is a family favorite now, thanks to my sweet friend.
Place all ingredients in your bread machine pan, with the liquids first, and yeast last. If you have a special yeast compartment on your bread machine, feel free to use it (I do!).
Set your machine to the dough setting, and keep an eye on the dough; I often find that I need to add a few more tablespoons of water to get a good-looking dough. It can be a little dry without the extra water, depending on your flour, so just keep an eye on it for the first few minutes and add a bit of water if necessary.
When the dough cycle is finished, turn the breach machine pan over and let the dough fall onto a lightly floured cutting board.
Gently lift the dough from left to right with a little shake, so that after a few shakes it forms a rectangular shape without tearing the dough.
Divide the dough into three sections (I use these kitchen "super shears" we bought from a friend to cut the dough into three sections).
Braid the dough, then tuck the ends under just a bit.
Gently move the bread to a cookie sheet.
Brush a whisked egg over the dough with a pastry brush. Sprinkle with kosher salt.
Bake at 400 for 30 minutes or until dark golden brown. Cool slightly before slicing.
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Dispatches with Jonny Eberle — Season 1, Episode 4 Transcript — Meet Your Host
[00:00:00] You're listening to Dispatches with Jonny Eberle.
[00:00:12] So, picture this, you're listening to this podcast. It's pretty good. And you're wondering to yourself, Wait, hold on. Who is this guy? Let's back up, do some introductions. I'm Johnny Eberly. I'm a writer, podcaster, filmmaker, photographer, and lots of other things, lots of descriptors. I live in Tacoma, Washington in a beautiful, 110-year-old house with my family dog, and three adorable typewriters.
[00:00:39] I've written short stories including Pyrocene, Firemaker, Bad Air and Bitter Herbs, How to Steal Copper Wire –which you heard in the last episode–The Disappeared, Inheritance, the Cannibals of Kitsap, and the Observable Universe, which have all been published by Creative Colloquy, Grit City Magazine or All Worlds Wayfarer. I'm also currently working on several short stories and a novel about the Las Vegas mob that I really should get back to.
[00:01:03] I'm passionate about storytelling in all its forms, whether it's through the written word, film photography, and most recently getting into audio dramas. My first foray into the medium of podcasting was through an audio drama I created called The Adventures of Captain Radio.
[00:01:21] It's a retro-futuristic science fiction serial and the style of the radio plays the 1930s and forties. It's been so much fun to do. I did that through my production company, Obscure Studios. We wrapped up season one earlier this year, and we're currently working on Seasons two and three, which will premiere in 2023.
[00:01:41] For now, though, you can listen to the podcast wherever you find your podcast, or you can find it either on the Obscure Studios website. That's obscurestudios.net or on my website, jweberle.com.
[00:01:56] So what is Obscure Studios? You're gonna hear me talk about it a lot in this podcast. It's been a really fun passion project of mine.
[00:02:03] I founded it in high school for a movie that we eventually never made, that my friends and I were going to make, but it lived on somehow beyond that wild hair of an idea that never came to fruition. We founded a YouTube channel. We made 90-plus episodes of an unscripted college satire, show called Reilly's Dorm, in which I also starred alongside my friend Will McDonald, who's been my longtime collaborator, for , geez, we're coming up on more than 15 years of working together. And our latest projects have been audio dramas, so The Adventures of Captain Radio, we're also working on developing a supernatural sci-fi fantasy, just overall kind of weird little show that's gonna be, actually set at a storage unit complex here in the [00:03:00] Pacific Northwest. I'm really excited for it. It's tentatively titled Belgrave and we'll have more information as we get closer to production on that as well. Sometime in 2023 is my hope, as well as some other ideas, that are kicking around, who knows what will be next.
[00:03:14] I'm a bit of a generalist. I bounce around different ideas, different mediums, but at the end of the day, I'm passionate about it. Storytelling. I really love to tell a good story and I'm really interested in all the different ways that we experience story, the different ways that a movie hits us, versus a book, versus a short story versus something that's only for our ears.
[00:03:38] There's different ways of telling stories that can really fire the imagination, and I love all of that. I've been blogging at jweberle.com for a long time, more than 10 years. So you can find a whole archive of posts there. I'll be adapting several of those, just the good ones, into podcasts on this feed. So keep an eye out for those.
[00:04:00] In addition to my creative pursuits, I also love to travel. My wife and I have been all over the world, and we have so many other places to go from the marble steps of the Parthenon to the windswept fjords of Patagonia and all sorts of places in between. I've got a whole lot of travel writing on my website and I'll be dropping some of those posts in the feed as well. They're sort of combo travelogues, but also some tips and guides if you decide to go where we're going.
[00:04:27] If you like what I'm writing, you can keep up with all of it by joining my monthly mailing list. I'll put a link in the show notes and you can find that on the website as well.
[00:04:35] You can follow me on Twitter. I'm dabbling and Mastadon on as well, and all over the internet. I really hope you enjoyed the podcast. And if you have ideas for, for topics you want me to cover, for, you know, other idea , different ways that we can interact through this audio medium, I'm really interested to hear those.
[00:04:53] So drop me a line and we'll talk. Thank you so much for listening to these dispatches, and I think there's a lot more good stuff to come. Stay tuned.
[00:05:11] This episode was written and produced by Jonny Eberle with music by Lofi Hour from Pixabay. If you enjoyed this, dispatch, please leave us a rating and review. You can also find more of Jonny's writing at jweberle.com. Thanks for listening


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Last month a select number of the team flew to Bologna with British Airways to enjoy a couple of days of Italian food and fun.
Last month, select members of the team were sent on an activity-packed weekend treat to Bologna, in recognition of their hard work.
Flying with British Airways, the trip began with a guided tour around Bologna and its various medieval towers, buildings and churches, followed by pizza at Pizzeria Belle Arti and drinks in a nearby square.
The following day, the team were driven to Maranello, home of Ferrari. Half the group visited the Ferrari Museum, charting the history of Ferrari, the winning cars through the decades and the drivers and their trophies.
The other group was taken on a bus tour of the Ferrari Factory and test track. After a delicious spaghetti lunch at Retrogusto Restaurant, it was time to experience the Formula 1 Ferrari simulator and compete in a virtual race.
In the afternoon, there was also a visit to family-run Vecchia Acetaia, a balsamic vinegar producer in the hilltop town of Castelvetro, in the Modena countryside, surrounded by vineyards. The production of the vinegar was explained, with a guided tasting session and a visit to the wooden casks, stored in a 16th-century tower.
In the evening, dinner was at Osteria De' Poeti, a traditional Italian restaurant in Bologna, where the team enjoyed lasagne and a meringue dessert, before enjoying drinks outside in the warm evening air at an Italian bar.
Pasta making was the highlight of the final day, with a visit to FICO Eataly World, a large food park celebrating Italian food. The group were tasked with making tagliatelle before taking a tour of the park and having a lunch of risotto and Parma ham at Ruliano Restaurant. After some shopping and gelato tasting, it was time to fly back to London.


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SceneAccess and NFOrce Under Pressure from BREIN
May 21, 2008 by Andy Maxwell
One of the most exclusive private torrent trackers, SceneAccess, has found itself hounded out of the Netherlands by anti-piracy outfit, BREIN. The site was hosted by NFOrce who handed over the owners details to BREIN who discovered them to be false. Worryingly, there are many other torrent sites hosted at NFOrce.
Anyone with an interest in BitTorrent sites will tell you that many of them are hosted in the Netherlands, due to what is perceived by many as a legal gray area. Dozens of sites inhabit the servers at hosts such as LeaseWeb, despite a few being kicked out or forced to move to other countries in recent months.
Known by most for its scene 'warez' release database hosted at NFOrce.NL, another major torrent site host is NFOrce, which gained mainstream notoriety after the OiNK tracker was busted while being hosted by the company. Now it seems that anti-piracy outfit BREIN – who received press this week for their announced legal action against BitTorrent giant mininova – has NFOrce and sites hosted there, firmly in its spotlight.
A few weeks ago NFOrce was approached by BREIN, who demanded the host to shut down SceneAccess (SCC) and hand over the identity of the site administrator. Initially, NFOrce did not respond to these demands, so in response, BREIN filed a preliminary injunction. A few days before this announcement SceneAccess mysteriously went down, with NFOrce claiming this was unrelated to BREIN.
Despite the fact that SceneAccess had moved to a new host outside The Netherlands, BREIN did not back off, and still demanded the customer information. Now, just days before the court hearing, NFOrce handed over the name and address information for the owner of SceneAccess which, luckily for them, turned out to be false.
The court case scheduled for today has now been canceled. BREIN claims that they are still owed costs relating to the case, but nonetheless, they are happy that their tactics of host-threatening are working, as other sites – and there are many of them – are said to be leaving NFOrce.
BREIN director Tim Kuik says that they don't want hosts such as NFOrce "to be a safe haven for sites and servers that illegally offer movies, music, games and other interactive software", whilst omitting to mention that BitTorrent sites host no infringing material. Going on to expand on the scope of operations, Kuik says: "These include bittorrent sites, edonkey, ftp servers and servers that carry out illegal activities. It is not the technology [at fault] but what those sites and servers do with that technology. If that is unlawful or invasive than we take action. The hosting provider will be asked to take the site or server offline, and tell us who their customer is."
BREIN would like to hold hosts liable for on-going damages if they keep torrent sites running when it becomes clear they are in possession of false contact details. NFOrce was encouraged to find additional information which would help in tracking down the owner of SceneAccess and hand it to BREIN, which it did. This information is still being checked, but will likely lead BREIN into another dead end, especially if the tone of the SceneAccess owner is taken into consideration:
"Well as some of you already know, BREIN threatened our host (NFOrce), and we had to move. We are currently on a temporary server, we will move to a new server (in a safe location) in the next few days. There's nothing to worry about, our database server wasn't on NFOrce, and we securely deleted (38 passes) all files from nforce before we left. We might have some downtime at some point (because of the move from the temp server to the new server) but keep seeding because, we are not going anywhere"
After the initial panic and worry of pending legal action, champagne bottles will probably be metaphorically cracked open but sadly for them, BREIN won't be getting drunk, at least not in celebration. SceneAccess is no longer hosted in the Netherlands, so BREIN can be congratulated for changing the location of the server, but without affecting the operational capability of the site – or identifying the owner.
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The New Unclaimed Property Act – 10 Questions Companies Ask About RUUPA
By: Cathleen A. Bucholtz Jim Sadik Robert M. Tucci Steven Swaigenbaum Troy R. Wangen Matthew B. Chenowth |
Recently there's been a number of states updating, or completely rewriting, their unclaimed property statutes. Often, changes to the statutes are described as being "based on RUUPA" or "using RUUPA-style language", leaving many companies wondering what "RUUPA" means, and more importantly, how will it impact them. Below, we've tried to briefly answer some of the more common questions most companies have about RUUPA.
1. First, what exactly is RUUPA?
The term "RUUPA" stands for the Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act. It is the most recent version of a model act, known as the Uniform Unclaimed Property Act, which was last amended in 1995. These Acts were developed and updated by the Uniform Law Commission ("ULC") to provide each state with a template for their specific use when drafting unclaimed property laws.
2. If it's just a model act, why should a company care about it?
Historically most states have adopted portions of the various Acts drafted by the ULC over the years. Therefore, although they have no authority until adopted by a state, the fact that so many states look to the Acts for all or part of their unclaimed property statutes means that companies should be pay attention the RUUPA to be aware of potential changes to state laws that could impact their businesses.
3. What is the ULC?
The ULC is one of the oldest state organizations designed to promote uniformity of laws among the states by providing states with non-partisan, carefully considered, and properly drafted legislation. It has commissioners from all 50 U.S. states and three U.S. territories who are licensed attorneys appointed by state governors or legislatures to draft consistent laws for use as model legislation.
4. How long have the model unclaimed property acts been around?
The ULC first drafted uniform state legislation on unclaimed property with the Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act of 1954, which was revised in 1966. In 1981 the ULC created the Uniform Unclaimed Property Act ("UUPA"), which was updated in 1995. Most states have adopted one or more versions of the Acts on unclaimed property as a basis for their own unclaimed property statutes.
5. Why did the ULC decide to initiate a revision to the 1995 UUPA?
Based on developments since 1995, it was determined that an update to the 1995 UUPA was needed. One reason was that as states adopted various versions of the Acts for their statutes, they made changes and revisions that resulted in state statutes that were inconsistent and sometime contradictory. However, one of the main reasons the ULC determined there was a need for an update was the many technological changes and new types of potential unclaimed property developed in recent years that were not addressed in the earlier versions of the Acts, such as stored value cards and pay-cards.
6. How did RUUPA actually get written?
It's a long story, but it really started in 2009 when the American Bar Association (ABA) proposed some revisions to remedy what it saw as defects in the 1995 UUPA, including the lack of a meaningful statute-of limitations for companies. By 2011, the ABA came up with some suggestions, but the ULC decided that it didn't agree with the ABA's suggestions and rejected their proposed changes. The ABA decided to draft is own unclaimed property model Act, and continued to work on it until 2012, when the ULC agreed to revise the 1995 UUPA.
The first meeting of the Drafting Committee was held in Washington, DC on February 21-22, 2014, with subsequent meetings held in November 2014 and February 2015. The first reading of the draft Act was held at the Annual Meeting of the ULC on July 10-16, 2015 in Williamsburg, Virginia, where many business advocates raised concerns with certain provisions in the proposed Act. However, the new Act was approved at ULC's Annual Meeting on July 13, 2016 and RUUPA was born.
7. What are some of the key provisions in RUUPA that would impact my company?
While there are many provisions in the RUUPA that could impact all companies, some of the more notable ones include:
No business-to-business (B2B) exemption is included in the RUUPA. Therefore, when Illinois adopted many of the provisions of the RUUPA, it actually eliminated its pre-existing B2B exemption.
Only optional exemptions for gift cards and in-store credits for returned merchandise. Many companies take advantage of state specific reporting exemptions for girt cards and store credits, so making these provisions optional in the RUUPA creates concern that many states may not elect this exemption.
Expressly requires companies to escheat stored value cards and virtual currency to the state.
Establishes 5-year statute of limitations if a company filed a non-fraudulent report; otherwise, 10-year statute of limitations. This change is actually good for companies, as many jurisdictions do not currently have a statute of limitations applicable to unclaimed property, or one that is very narrow, applying only to items specifically reported to the state.
Allows for estimation if the company fails to maintain records. While a company's state of incorporation will estimate potential liabilities where complete records are unavailable during an audit, the RUUPA specifically provides that a state has the authority to do so.
Authorizes escheatment of foreign-owned property. States are not uniform in their treatment of property payable to a foreign person or entity that is held by a company. Some states specifically exempt these items, while others require them to be reported to the company's state of incorporation.
8. So everyone agreed on the final version of RUUPA, right?
Well, no. After the ULC completed the RUUPA, it submitted it to the ABA for their approval. The ABA had a number of concerns with the RUUPA as it was drafted, and stated its concerns to the ULC. Ultimately, the ULC and the ABA were unable to reach an agreement on what should be contained in the RUUPA, and in early 2017 the ULC pulled the RUUPA for consideration by the ABA. Shortly after this, the ABA began to resume work on its own model unclaimed property Act, and on January 31, 2018, a draft of the ABA Model Unclaimed Property Act was published. In addition to objections from the ABA, sections of the RUUPA were also challenged by advocates, unclaimed property professionals, and organizations that support the unclaimed property holder community, such as the Unclaimed Property Professionals Organization (UPPO).
9. How many states have actually adopted RUUPA?
Currently, Delaware, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and Utah have adopted some form of the RUUPA. Remember, despite the ULC's urge for uniformity among the states, states typically modify the Act to suit their needs, or only adopt parts of the Act. As mentioned earlier, one of the most notable impacts of a state adopting RUUPA is in Illinois, where it resulted in the retroactive repeal of B2B exemption for companies.
In addition to the states that have actually adopted RUUPA, during 2017 and 2018 RUUPA style legislation was introduced in multiple jurisdictions, including Colorado, the District of Columbia, Idaho, Maine, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, Vermont and Washington. Currently, RUPPA style legislation is proposed / pending in Colorado, the District of Columbia, Minnesota, Nevada, South Carolina and Washington.
10. OK, this sounds important – what should I do?
The most important thing that any company can do relating to the RUUPA is to stay informed. First, make sure that your unclaimed property compliance team is aware of any recent or pending legislation that may impact reporting dormancy periods or exemptions. Next, keep track of key states in which your company may have significant unclaimed property reporting obligations, as well as your company's state of incorporation, to see if they are proposing RUUPA style legislation. Finally, reach out to unclaimed property professionals or organizations like UPPO to make sure that you are in compliance with the new laws and keep informed of changes likely to impact your company.
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Sitting Ducks in China's Bathtub – an Overture to World War III?
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By Doug Casey
It's always been true, as Bourne said, that "war is the health of the State." But it's especially true when economic times get tough. That's because governments like to blame their problems on outsiders; even an imagined foreign threat tends to unify opinions around those of the leaders. Since economies around the world are all weakening, and political leaders are all similar in essential mindset, there's good reason to believe the trend towards World War III is accelerating.
Many politicians and pundits in the U.S. blame "those damn Chinese" for taking "our jobs" by filling Walmart with tons of cheap goods, and the swarthy ragheads for making the price of oil too high (usually, but now too low).
The Russians, the Iranians, the Taliban (who will soon reconquer Afghanistan) and ISIS (which is carving out a new nation-state from the ruins of Syria and Iraq) are permanent members on the list of Bad Boys.
But now, since the Obama regime has decided to "pivot to the East," you can underline China's name on that list.
The "pivot" being the U.S. government's new focus on meddling in Asia, as opposed to meddling in the Middle East and Europe. U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter says the U.S. will be the principal security power in the Pacific "for decades to come." I'm sure the locals, including the Chinese, were thrilled to hear that.
It's said that the U.S. government has combat troops (or advisors, as highly trained special ops guys are usually euphemistically termed) in about 100 countries. It's hard to keep track of their latest "intervention"…although "interference" is a better word. Note that I said "they," not "us," in reference to Washington. The city has a life of its own and its interests are not necessarily those of the country it rules.
Let's see…sending arms to a puppet government in Kiev to help put down a secession in Donetsk and Lugansk. Sending jets, and now ground troops, to Syria, which will quite possibly create an incident with the Russians. 150 soldiers to Uganda to fight the Lord's Resistance Army and 300 to Cameroon to fight Boko Haram. And more troops to Iraq and Afghanistan to help out our "allies." For the moment, they're the best allies money can buy.
It's hard to keep track of them all, with something new almost every week. But, on the bright side, war is nature's way of teaching Americans geography.
So, with that in mind, we now have to learn where the Spratly Islands are. Let's start with a map.
Map of the South China Sea Region (Photo: John Bretschneider)
You'll note the red line. In 2012 China decided that the entire area, right up to the shorelines of Vietnam, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Brunei, was part of its economic zone. The governments of all those countries also have claims to parts of the South China Sea, and the Spratlys in particular. You'll also note the Paracels, another zone of contention, between China and Vietnam.
Believe it or not, from 1956 to 1972 (when he was jailed for his efforts) a Filipino businessman, one Tomás Cloma, also attempted to claim part of the Spratlys, and make it an independent country, Freedomland. This caught my attention, in that I was (very marginally) involved in three other island independence movements in the '70s: Nagriamel, Abaco, and Minerva. Those, however, are stories (all a mixture of tragedy, comedy, and pathos) for another day.
Until very recent times, the Spratlys were best known as a hazard to navigation, with about 750 islets, reefs, and sandbars, total land area about 1.5 square miles, spread over about 160,000 square miles of the South China Sea.
I've never been to the Spratlys. But their potential value is clear. It's said up to 30% of the world's fish catch comes from the South China Sea. And, almost needless to say, it's conjectured that the area contains a lot of oil.
So, you're probably asking yourself, "What is that to me?" The answer should logically be "Nothing, really, unless it's a question on a quiz show."
But the U.S. government, although it, as usual, has no dog in the fight, has decided to get involved. The catalyst for it acting now is that China is in the process of transforming at least seven reefs into usably large artificial islands, several with long airstrips.
I've looked at the history of who has used, and claimed ownership, of the islands over the centuries. All the adjacent countries have somewhat reasonable-sounding claims. And the Taiwanese, Filipinos, Malaysians and Vietnamese each have a military presence on one or more of the Spratlys. But only the recent Chinese efforts have drawn the U.S. government's attention. Recently, they sent a guided missile destroyer, the USS Lassen, within the 12-mile limit of Subi Reef, which the Chinese are currently expanding. Reports are conflicting whether the ship was just innocently passing through, or trying to create a precedent.
I'd like to ask, how do you, I mean you personally, feel about that? I'd like to know. Scores of millions of Asian locals, who'd previously never even heard of the islands, and certainly can't find them on a map, are getting worked up because their governments told them the islands were "theirs." And now the U.S. is further complicating the matter. But here's my take.
The Chinese seem quite out of line claiming the whole South China Sea as their economic zone. Shame on them. But how is that the problem of the U.S.? It's the problem of the locals. Should the Chinese be able to build artificial islands? That's a somewhat different question. I'd say, why not? Disputed or unclaimed land belongs to the person who uses it.
One thing is for sure: the U.S. government is asking for trouble flying military aircraft off the coast of China and sailing warships into waters they claim. How would the U.S. react if Chinese planes and warships were often seen off the West coast? Or if the Santa Catalina or San Juan islands developed independence movements that the Chinese backed?
The U.S. government feels pretty bold about its intrusion into the South China Sea, since no other government has a naval force even remotely comparable to its 12 aircraft carrier groups. But that boldness is foolish and unjustified. I've said for many years that those carriers are exactly analogous to battleships before World War II, or cavalry before World War I. They're essentially sitting ducks, highly vulnerable to all manner of cheap, accurate missiles, both cruise and ballistic, that could swarm them en masse.
It will be a huge embarrassment to Americans (but a treat to divers a couple generations hence) when they're sunk, and sprouting barnacles like the Japanese fleet in Truk Lagoon.
The U.S. knows that it's China's backyard, and they could sink any U.S. taskforce if they choose to. But they probably won't. Why start a war when your enemy has a superior military, but you are growing your economy several times faster than he is? It makes more sense to wait…so it's likely to remain a Mexican standoff, as opposed to an overture to World War III. But these things have a way of escalating unpredictably. In any event, it makes no sense to go to the other side of the globe just to provoke someone.
In the meantime, the U.S. carrier groups are prestigious, and great for sticking the U.S. government's nose into far-off places where it's not welcome. But they're hugely expensive, at about $6 billion a ship, plus another billion or two per copy for its half-dozen escorts, plus another $200 million for each of the 50 or so F-35 fighters they'll soon carry. Plus a few billion a year to keep each group operational. Not to worry on that score; the Chinese will surely lend the U.S. government more money to enable that.
There's plenty of reason to be concerned about the roughly $1 trillion a year the U.S. spends on the military and "security." Even though it's more than the next 28 countries combined, it's apparently not enough to keep America safe. In fact, it's actually making the country less safe, by provoking and threatening other powers.
And if it doesn't start a war in the short run, it's going to guarantee a U.S. bankruptcy in the slightly longer run. All the "hawks" running for president this year (which is to say, almost every candidate) seem oblivious to the fact that, in anything but the briefest conflict, economic power completely trumps military hardware.
In conclusion, whenever you see a mention of the U.S. Navy and the Spratlys in the same paragraph, you're seeing a reminder of an open vein helping to bleed America dry. And that's the best case.
International Man Editor's Note: Unfortunately, there's little any individual can do to practically change the trajectory of this trend in motion. The best you can and should do is to stay informed so that you can protect yourself in the best way possible, and even profit from the situation.
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These classy modules bring the best of Mr Neve's classic designs into the 21st century.
I've never borrowed a penny from Rupert Neve, but I owe him a great deal! A long time ago, I sat down behind a Neve console in the basement control room of a tiny, long–forgotten studio in an Edinburgh back street. That console was a 1970s,16:4 8014 Small Studio Console, loaded with 1073 mic pre/EQ input modules. I learned how to listen and how to engineer on that 8014 and, to this day, its sound remains etched on my aural memory. Two decades had to pass before I found myself in another long–gone studio, sitting in front of a 1970s Neve, this time around a fully rebuilt 32:16 8048 loaded with 24 1064 and eight 1073 modules.
Over 40 years after those two consoles were built, the sound that Rupert Neve pioneered and developed in his old rectory in Little Shelford still entrances recording engineers and producers. Although original 1073 modules are now relatively rare and savagely expensive, you'll find '1073' modules waiting for you, ranging from painstaking recreations by AMS–Neve and a handful of 'boutique' manufacturers, all the way down to DIY homebrew designs.
The Long Road To RND
It seems to me that Rupert Neve has never been one content to stand still and rest on his laurels. Having sold the company that still bears his name, he founded ARN Consultants in 1975. The end of his involvement in the ill–fated, original incarnation of Focusrite in 1989 was followed by a period of consultancy with Amek that culminated in the launch in 1993 of their System 9098 console. In 1994 Rupert and his wife Evelyn moved to Wimberley, Texas, where, in 2005, ARN began trading as Rupert Neve Designs (RND) and launched the first of the Portico product line.
Over the last 10 years, the engineering team at RND have released a steady stream of new products, all of which are based on the sonic principles of his classic design, but have been built for a world dominated by DAW software — so although you can clearly see their heritage, none of those products have been clones or copies of their ancestors.
With the launch of the Shelford Series 5051 EQ/Compressor and the 5052 Mic Pre/EQ, RND engineers have now cast their eyes back to the old rectory and have combined vintage design elements (from both the 1064 and the 1073) with concepts and components from the Portico series, to create a contemporary take on a vintage channel strip.
The Shelfords are handsome units, their thick steel front panels finished in the classic blue found on early Neve consoles. The rotary knobs are anodised metal, their colour following their function: red for control, black for selection, silver for anything else. Illuminated LED buttons indicate key active functions, and smaller white buttons handle any switching.
Although both the 5051 and 5052 can be fitted into the penthouse of an RND 5088 discrete analogue mixing console, they both require a ±24V external power supply and custom–sized racks for stand-alone use. RND supply two-, four- and nine–module racks, and five- and 25–way power blocks to satisfy those requirements.
Both the 5051 and 5052 feature Class–A, discrete–component, ±24V circuit topologies. Traditional transformer–coupled inputs and outputs are used in both, for technical as well as musical reasons. Their signal paths employ Class–A gain blocks, and use as few of them as possible to get the job done. This minimalist approach, coupled with custom–wound inductors and transformers, is designed to give both units the performance, sound and musicality for which the 1064 and, in particular, the 1073 are known.
The Equaliser
Both the 5051 and the 5052 are equipped with a three–band inductor–based EQ in which the use of Class–A, low feedback, discrete–component electronics plays an important role in preventing the sound being undesirably affected by low–level artifacts and harshness. History repeats itself with the use of a custom–tapped inductor and carefully selected capacitors in the mid–range. Inductors are also used in the high– and low–shelf EQ, where the shelf curves are based on those of these two vintage designs.
In some senses, this is a bit of a 'greatest hits' EQ, with the low–frequency band being based on that of the 1064, the 1073 supplying the mid-range's inspiration, and the high–frequency circuitry being a hybrid of the 1073's inductor and modern capacitor componentry. However, the EQ circuitry is no slavish copy of its antecedents: it's much more an update of the original designs, using components and design techniques that simply didn't exist when the 1064 and 1073 were being developed. The redesign has given RND's engineering team the opportunity to add flexibility to the original implementations.
The 5051 and 5052 both inherit many features directly from vintage Neve console modules, but also from the more modern RND Portico series. In the case of the LF band, which acts at the vintage frequencies of 35Hz, 60Hz, 100Hz and 220Hz, the addition of a peak filter to the original shelf filter makes available a bell–curve option, to give a total of eight different LF EQ response curves, adding a finer level of control to the 1064's signature bass sound.
The mid range remains true to the 1073's tonal heritage, but the frequency selection has been changed from the original five points (360 and 700 Hz, and 1.6, 3.2 and 7.2 kHz) to a six–point model (200, 350 and 700 Hz, and 1.5, 3 and 6 kHz). This produces a slight overlap at 200/220 Hz (often a problem area) and makes space available, if necessary, for the new mid-range 6kHz position to operate in conjunction with the new 8kHz HF setting.
The Q of this 1073–based mid–range EQ narrows as cut or boost increases and, conversely, widens as cut or boost decreases. Overall, the Q tends to be slightly wider at lower frequencies and slightly narrower at higher frequencies. In a deliberate design decision, the Q is also narrower for cuts than it is for boosts. This makes a lot of sense to me since, when particular frequencies are being cut, they are usually the ones causing problems. When engaged, the Mid Hi Q switch, which wasn't present on the original 1073, narrows the Q considerably, giving the 5051 and 5052 a finer frequency focus than was available on the 1073.
For the high frequencies, not only has a bell–curve peak filter been added alongside the original shelving response, but also the 1073's original fixed corner frequency of 12kHz has been replaced by a switchable choice between 8kHz and 16kHz to give a total of four different HF EQ response curves.
The one difference between the 5051's EQ and that of the 5052 is in the placement of the high–pass filter. In the 5051, the HPF is an 18dB/octave Butterworth filter, set at either 60 or 120 Hz, which sits inside the EQ between the mid-range and the HF and LF shelving circuits. This positioning is dictated by the fact that the EQ section in the 5051 can be switched pre– or post–compressor.
In the 5052, it's a 12dB/octave high–pass filter, and it's continuously variable between 20 and 250 Hz. This sits in the audio path immediately after the input gain and trim controls, a circuit position which is necessary because both the mic preamp and EQ have their own separate balanced XLR inputs and outputs — an HPF that was part of the EQ circuit would not be active unless the mic preamp was being routed through the EQ.
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Solidarity with the Palestinian political prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails
Today marks one month since around 1500 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails started a hunger strike, protesting the denial by Israeli authorities to respect basic rights, enshrined in international law, like access to medical care, against the torture and other forms of violence they endure and for the right to receive family visits, amongst other demands.
At a moment when, given the duration of their protest, faced with the inflexibility of the Israeli Authorities, the health of these prisoners further deteriorates, we divulge a statement in "Solidarity with the Palestinian political prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails" cosigned by peace movement organizations from several countries, demanding the respect for the rights and the liberation of these political prisoners.
The statement:
The undersigned organizations demand the respect for the rights and the release of all Palestinian political prisoners from Israeli jails, and state their heartfelt solidarity and strong concern for the health and well-being of the estimated 1500 of these prisoners on hunger strike since last April 17th.
The mass hunger strike, started on the International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli jails, is a protest against their unjust imprisonment and the inhumane conditions they are subjected to.
Over one million Palestinians have passed through Israeli jails since the beginning of the occupation, around 6500 are presently detained including political leaders and elected members of the Palestinian Legislative Council, 400 of these prisoners are under eighteen years old, 300 are being held without any charges, many have been imprisoned for decades.
Denouncing once more the policy of occupation, colonization, ethnic cleansing and terrorism by the State of Israel against the Palestinian people, with the support of US imperialism and EU complicity, we restate the Palestinian people's sovereign right to constituting their independent and sovereign state, within the borders prior to the 1967 war, with its capital in East Jerusalem and the respect of the refugees' right to return, according to the United Nations' Resolution 194
Signatory Organizations:
All India Peace and Solidarity Organization
Belgrade Forum for a World of Equals – Serbia
Brazilian Centre for Solidarity with Peoples and Struggle for Peace
Czech Peace Movement
Forum Against the War – Italy
INTAL – Belgium
Peace and Neutrality Alliance – Ireland
South African Peace Initiative
Swiss Peace Movement
United States Peace Council
Civic Association Soldiers Against War - Czech Republic
Association for the Defense of Peace, Solidarity and Democracy - Iran
British Peace Assembly
Romanian Peace Council
Mexican Movement for Peace


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Financing › Details
Turbine–SEVERAL: investment, 202211 financing round Series A €20m co-led by Merck GHI Fund + Mercia Asset Management
Predecessor Turbine–SEVERAL: investment, 202101 financing round pre-Series A €5.7m led by Accel
Money taker Turbine Simulated Cell Technologies Ltd.
Group Turbine (Group)
Money source SEVERAL
Product Simulated Cell™ technology
Product 2 venture capital
Person Rubin, David M. (Merck (US) 202211 Managing Director of Merck GHI Fund before Cognia Corp 200503 CEO)
Person 2 Tsoneva, Daniela (Mercia 202211 Investment Manager VCT Funds + Turbine 202211– Board Director)
Turbine Simulated Cell Technologies Ltd.. (11/22/22). "Press Release: Turbine Raises €20 Million in Series A Financing to Advance Programs & Partnerships Towards the Clinic with World's First Cancer Cell Simulation Platform". London & Budapest.
Turbine's Simulated Cell platform identifies novel cancer treatments and high unmet need patient groups to target where current experimental or computational approaches fail to succeed
Turbine, a company developing a cell behavior simulation platform today announced the closing of a €20 million Series A financing round. Mercia and MSD Global Health Innovation (GHI) Fund (MSD is the trade name of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway NJ, USA) co-led the financing, joined by Day One Capital and existing investors Accel, Delin Ventures, and XTX Ventures. In conjunction with the financing, MSD GHI Fund and Mercia Asset Management have delegated members to Turbine's new Board.
Turbine will use the financing proceeds to drive its next generation, potential first-in-class programs targeting DNA Damage Repair. These programs were the first ever to be selected using Turbine's proprietary Simulated Cell, which revealed relationships not described in public data before. Turbine leverages its technology at every stage of development, identifying associated biomarkers and combination strategies, as well as selecting in vitro and in vivo biological models for experimental validation. Turbine partners with biopharmaceutical companies seeking to deploy simulation to understand patients and overcome causes of resistance hindering drug development efforts in the clinic. Simulated Cells have already guided the pipelines of several global partners generating multiple predictions currently in clinical validation, including Bayer and two of the top 20 pharma companies by global revenue in 2021. Furthermore, the technology successfully identified dozens of clinically validated targets invisible to any other computational approach.
"MSD GHI looks forward to enabling acceleration of Turbine's growth and expansion," said David M. Rubin, Ph.D., Managing Director, MSD GHI Fund. "We believe Turbine's Simulated Cell has the potential to transform key aspects of the oncology drug discovery and development process, providing insight at scale that will shed light on even the most challenging biological mechanisms."
"While Mercia has a long track record of investing in companies using AI technologies for life sciences and healthcare, Turbine is one of our first investments in an AI platform designed to address historic challenges to drug development," said Daniela Tsoneva, investment manager, VCT Funds at Mercia. "Turbine's core technology is highly differentiated and already validated by early work with large pharma partners. We are excited to support Turbine as it advances the Simulated Cell, deepens our collective understanding of cancer biology, and makes drug development more efficient and more successful across the biopharma industry."
"The idea sprung from our frustration that conventional experiments frequently lead to expensive and time-consuming drug development failures," said Szabolcs Nagy, chief executive officer and co-founder, Turbine. "We've come a long way since 2016, when a handful of biologists and data scientists bootstrapped a technology to predict experiments better reflecting patients and more likely to translating in the clinic. With over 60 experts across the globe and the support of investors like MSD Global Health Innovation Fund and Mercia Asset Management, we're poised to demonstrate that simulations not only reveal new ways of treating cancer but increase the likelihood of success at every single step of the drug development process."
Osborne Clark LLP provided legal advice to Turbine on the transaction. Paul Hastings LLP and Green Shoots Consulting advised the MSD Global Health Innovation Fund and Eversheds Sutherland acted for Mercia.
About Turbine
Based in London, UK, with offices in Budapest, Hungary and Cambridge, UK, Turbine was founded in 2016 by Kristof Szalay, Ph.D., Daniel Veres, M.D., Ph.D., and Szabolcs Nagy to overcome the limitations of existing methods in identifying oncology treatments that truly benefit the patients who receive them by combining molecular biology and artificial intelligence (AI). Since its founding, Turbine has developed and validated the Simulated Cell, a proprietary and cutting-edge platform that runs billions of simulations prior to ever initiating preclinical development guiding real-life experiments with invaluable biological insights. This improves the likelihood of success for truly novel therapies and allows existing assets to be optimally targeted to patients most likely to benefit from them. Turbine's technology leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to build a constantly evolving, predictive simulation of cellular signaling. These virtual cells are used for in silico experiments having never been run in lab, capturing patient biology better than available experimental models and testing more drug-like effects than current high throughput screening approaches. Validating the uncovered mechanisms and using the resulting data as feedback further improves the model's capabilities to reveal novel biological mechanisms. Simulations have already been validated from target discovery to patient stratification and life cycle management in collaborations with multiple big pharma companies. Turbine is now leveraging the Simulated Cell platform to develop its own stream of programs; expanding from an early focus on overcoming resistance to DNA Damage Response (DDR) inhibitors, the company is pursuing multiple high unmet oncology needs. Turbine is also working with partners to extend its pipeline to various modalities and cancer mechanisms. For more information, visit www.turbine.ai.
About Mercia
Mercia is a proactive venture capital investor that aims to be the first-choice partner for growth. Mercia currently has c. £959million of assets under management and, since its IPO in December 2014, has a portfolio of over 400 start-ups from pre-seed to Series B and beyond. Mercia makes initial equity investments of between £250k and £10million across all sectors, specialising in Software, Consumer and Life Science investments. Within the Life Sciences sector, Mercia supports innovations in biotechnology, digital healthcare and medical devices, which enable efficiencies and deliver material improvements in the standard of care. The firm has nine offices in the UK and over 60 in its investment team, all drawing on their experiences as founders, PhD scientists, software engineers, corporate financiers and management consultants to help our partner companies successfully achieve their ambitions. Mercia's venture funds sit alongside the Mercia Group's wider private equity, debt and proprietary balance sheet capital, in order to provide a 'Complete Connected Capital' solution for our portfolio. Mercia Asset Management PLC is quoted on AIM with the epic "MERC". www.mercia.co.uk
More documents for Turbine (Group)
[1] Turbine Simulated Cell Technologies Ltd.. (11/22/22). "Press Release: Turbine Raises €20 Million in Series A Financing to Advance Programs & Partnerships Towards the Clinic with World's First Cancer Cell Simulation Platform". London & Budapest....
[2] Turbine Kft.. (1/7/21). "Press Release: Turbine Raises EUR 5.7M to Advance Simulation-first Oncology Pipeline". London & Budapest....


Hello lovelies. Today I thought I'd try something a bit experimental with my hair and road test this Umberto Giannini Festival Hair Styling kit.
You may notice the hair accessory from a previous OOTD post (see here).
So to start with my hair was two days old as I thought it'd work better, being less slippery than freshly washed locks. I then wet it down under the shower head and combed through before sectioning my hair off and rolling into the ribbons.
I left my hair to dry for roughly five hours and then removed the ribbons. I then used the comb in the kit to gently brush out the curls slightly as they were rather ringlet-ey afterwards. Below is the finished result!
I'm actually really please at the way they came out and I must admit when I was tying the ribbons I genuinely thought that it wasn't going to work! The kit is easy to use and great for heat free curls with a natural looks to them. My only critique is it claims to be a festival styling kit but I can't imagine any girl having the time or patience at a festival to roll their hair up into ribbons!? Unless practice makes you super quick, I can't see anyone doing it as it's a faff in a tent but for a festival look I'd say it's pretty bang on for textured easy curls.
I also did a tutorial on my YouTube channel which will show you how I put the ribbons in, taking them out and styling of the curls at the end. What do you think to this kit? Have you tried any of the other Umberto Gianni hair styling kits?


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Knight funds innovation and a push for media diversity at Hampton University
LINK: www.knightfoundation.org ➚ | Posted by: Justin Ellis | May 22, 2014
Knight Foundation is awarding $245,000 to Hampton University to help prepare journalism students at the historically black college to work in digital newsrooms. Knight has long been in the habit of funding journalism education programs and has been an advocate of the "teaching hospital" model of journalism education.
Knight funds collaborative reporting center in Georgia
The funding for Hampton's Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications fits in with that theme, with the money going towards creating a digital training program that helps students gain skills to help them enter news companies at a time of transition. But the Knight grant is also focused on addressing another pressing issue in the journalism business: diversity. Knight and Hampton hope the program will seed young journalists of color in newsrooms, specifically as digital-only organizations have gotten attention recently for lack of diversity in hiring.
According to Knight, the program at Hampton will launch this fall:
The Center for Innovation in Digital Media will allow Hampton University students to learn and explore new ways of gathering and distributing media content. Students will undertake digital media research projects, and produce business plans and media tools including apps; they will also attend cross-disciplinary classes. Additionally, the university will form partnerships with media corporations and place students in digital media jobs. The program will be open to an estimated 15 to 20 students each semester of the 2-year pilot period.
Brett Pulley, dean of the school of journalism at Hampton, said he hopes to raise $5 million to fully fund the center and build off the grant from Knight. (Disclosure: Knight has given Nieman Lab money, too.)
Knight Foundation
media diversity
Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Education
Ellis, Justin. "Knight funds innovation and a push for media diversity at Hampton University." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 22 May. 2014. Web. 1 Feb. 2023.
Ellis, J. (2014, May. 22). Knight funds innovation and a push for media diversity at Hampton University. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved February 1, 2023, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2014/05/knight-funds-innovation-and-a-push-for-media-diversity-at-hampton-university/
Ellis, Justin. "Knight funds innovation and a push for media diversity at Hampton University." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified May 22, 2014. Accessed February 1, 2023. https://www.niemanlab.org/2014/05/knight-funds-innovation-and-a-push-for-media-diversity-at-hampton-university/.
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