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Willie Nelson honored, API Co-Founder Saul Walker awarded technical Grammy, and Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing renews partnership with archive and preservation company Iron Mountain
Mix Staff ⋅ Feb 4, 2019
Willie Nelson Honored as Part of Grammy Week Celebration
Music industry icon Willie Nelson will be honored by the Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing during the 12 annual Grammy Week celebration with an event at The Village Studios in West Los Angeles. This event will celebrate the artistic achievements and creative genius of Nelson, and also acknowledge the overall industry contributions of the Producers & Engineers Wing's more than 6,400 professional members. The 2019 Grammy Week culminates with the 61st Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, February 10.
"Willie Nelson has inspired generations of musicians and fans, and continues to set precedents of excellence within the music community," says Neil Portnow, president/CEO of the Recording Academy. "We are privileged to pay tribute this year to an industry pioneer who perfectly embodies the tireless efforts of the Producers & Engineers Wing as we continue to raise awareness of the ever-evolving climate of sound quality and the increasing interest in the preservation and integrity of recorded music."
With a six-decade career and more than 200 albums, Nelson is the creative force behind historic recordings such as "Crazy," Red Headed Stranger, and Stardust. He has earned innumerable accolades as a songwriter and musician, while also amassing admirable credentials as an author, actor and activist, and he continues to thrive as a relevant and progressive musical and cultural force.
Willie's Grammys
Willie Nelson has won eight Grammys and been nominated 51 times! Here is a rundown of the times he took home the award.
1975 BEST COUNTRY VOCAL PERFORMANCE, MALE
1978 BEST COUNTRY VOCAL PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP
"Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys"
1980 BEST COUNTRY SONG
2002 BEST COUNTRY COLLABORATION WITH VOCALS
"Mendocino County Line"
2016 BEST TRADITIONAL POP VOCAL ALBUM
Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin
A leading figure in outlaw country music, he is also known for his hugely successful collaborations with Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Julio Iglesias and with the Highwaymen supergroup (Johnny Cash, Jennings, Nelson and Kris Kristofferson). Never one to play it safe, his distinctive style combines elements of jazz, blues, swing, honky-tonk, traditional pop, folk and rock.
During the past 10 years, Nelson has delivered 14 new albums, released the Top 10 New York Times bestselling book It's A Long Story: My Life, and continues to headline Farm Aid, an event he co-founded in 1985. Additionally, Nelson has headlined three years of the ongoing Luck Reunion food and music festival at his ranch in Luck, Tex., during SXSW, announced the launch of his cannabis company Willie's Reserve and graced the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.
Nelson continues to record more new songs for upcoming projects as well as touring throughout North America. His latest 2018 release is a tribute to the songs sung by Frank Sinatra, titled, fittingly, My Way; and he just recently debuted a new single, "Vote 'Em Out." In addition to eight Grammy Awards, Nelson has been recognized by the Recording Academy with the President's Merit Award (1986), Grammy Legend Award (1990) and Lifetime Achievement Award (2000).
"Each year, the Recording Academy's Producers & Engineers Wing annual Grammy Week event honors members of the recording community who exhibit exceptional standards of integrity, creativity and sonic quality," says Maureen Droney, managing director of the Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing. "We are thrilled to pay homage to Willie Nelson, an undeniable icon with an incomparable—and uncompromising—body of work."
API Co-Founder Saul Walker Awarded Technical Grammy
API co-founder Saul Walker (1927–2016) will be receiving the Recording Academy Technical Grammy Award as part of this year's ceremony.
Starting in 1969, Saul Walker transformed the audio world with products like the API 312 mic preamp, 325 line driver, 512 mic preamp, the 550 EQ and 1604 console. All of these products used Walker's world-renowned 2520 op amp and created a unique, warm analog sound. Walker's talent and creativity established API as an industry powerhouse, and even after 50 years, his groundbreaking designs remain the sonic backbone of API.
Walker was tremendously respected in the pro audio industry, both as an innovative designer and engineer, and as an influential teacher and mentor. Students, colleagues and customers alike remember him as an exceptionally brilliant, kind and gifted man.
Related: A Conversation With Michael Abbott, by Mix Staff, Feb. 6, 2019
Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing Renews Partnership with Archive and Preservation Company Iron Mountain
The Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing has renewed its partnership with Iron Mountain Incorporated Entertainment Services. As an official P&E Wing Sustaining Partner, Iron Mountain provides title sponsorship for professional development events and serves as a member of the P&E Wing Manufacturer's Council, a diverse array of audio-related companies that function as a creative think-tank to address industry issues, including technical best practices, new technology development, preservation of recording assets and creative rights. Iron Mountain is also serving as premier sponsor for the P&E Wing Grammy Week celebration.
"Over the last eight years, we have relied on Iron Mountain as a sustaining partner, and we thank them for their continued support," says Maureen Droney, recording academy managing director, Producers & Engineers Wing. "Our organizations both advocate for best practices in preservation and the recording process, all with the goal of passing on our cultural heritage to future generations. Iron Mountain continues to be the industry leader in music archiving, restoration and transfer, which are cornerstone projects for the P&E Wing. We look forward to continuing this work together."
"The P&E Wing is one of our close relationships, and we are proud to continue our coordinated efforts," adds Greg Parkin, VP/GM, North America, Iron Mountain Entertainment Services. "As Iron Mountain continues to innovate in our preservation endeavors, both in the physical and digital domain, our relationship with the P&E Wing gives us a key seat at the table in advising on, and advocating for, the latest best practices in asset preservation and creative rights management."
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Politicians
Tom Nolan (Irish politician) (1921–1992), Irish Fianna Fáil politician
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Thomas S. Nolan (1856–1944), American  politician

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Tom Nolan (footballer, born 1909) (1909–1969), English footballer
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American Pie manuscript fetches $1.2 million at New York auction
Don McLean's American Pie lyrics have sold for $1.2 million at a New York auction.
The 16-page original manuscript had been expected to fetch as much as $1.5 million at the Christie's sale.
Don McLean, 69, had hinted in February the original manuscript would reveal the song's lyrical meaning – which had always been kept a mystery.
"The writing and the lyrics will divulge everything there is to divulge," he said.
Don McLean previously acknowledged the beginning of the song is about the death of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper – Jiles P. Richardson – in a plane crash, but has remained elusive about the rest of the track.
The mystery has made American Pie one of the most debated songs in music history.
Don McLean said writing the song was "a mystical trip into his past".
The singer said he decided to sell the manuscript, which includes multiple drafts with handwritten notes and deletions, on a whim.
Eight-minute American Pie was No 1 in the US for four weeks and reached No 2 in the UK singles chart in 1972.
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Thursday 3\27\03 - 11:14 AM GMT
Rev. Smith today gave a fiery speech denouncing the practice of animal husbandry in all its forms. "I'm not some kind of pervert, so I don't know what exactly this whole 'animal husbandry' thing is, but it sounds very wrong to me," said Smith, "very wrong." He went on to say that he was "pretty sure" it was also an abomination against God. "I understand that in many foreign countries, this so-called 'occupation' is the number one form of employment. Well, if you ask me, that's just fucking gross."
Sunday 3\23\03 - 7:21 PM GMT
Extra security at Oscars frustrates terrorists
Terrorist organizations worldwide expressed great frustration today at the plan for heightened security at this year's Oscar Awards show. The US government has long known that anti-US terrorists want nothing more than to strike at America's most precious resources, it's movie stars. "These celebrities must be protected at all costs," stated Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge. "We are pulling security away from other potential terrorist targets all over the greater Los Angeles area," said LA Police Chief William J. Bratton. "No rogue nation or militant group is going to harm our country's superstars tonight."
Wednesday 3\19\03 - 11:45 PM GMT
Jesus gives final approval, war begins
After nearly two thousand years of espousing a strict policy of neighborly love and nonviolence, going so far as to recommend we "turn the other cheek" when struck by an enemy, our lord and savior Jesus Christ this evening revealed that he is in full support of the United States in making a massive preemptive attack on Iraq. In a cabinet meeting tonight, Jesus himself delivered the go-ahead for war directly to US president and born-again Christian George W. Bush with two words: "let's go."
Saturday 3\15\03 - 5:12 PM GMT
Bush to fix economy with start of new war
US President George W. Bush today revealed that over the past six months he has been secretly investing billions and billions of taxpayer dollars into gambling on the precise date the war on Iraq will begin. Having used hundreds of trusted private citizens as proxies to place thousands upon thousands of separate bets with Internet-based gambling agencies and private bookies, Bush declared that when US planes begin bombing the bajeezus out of Iraq and its citizens in the upcoming weeks, "everybody wins."
Brick Testament: rebellion & repercussions
The Brick Testament celebrates its 100th illustrated Bible story today with the unveiling of nine new stories from the Israelites' continued wanderings in The Wilderness. Join the increasingly hopeless Chosen People as they desperately rebel against God and then face the devastating wrath of the most loving, caring, and merciful being in the universe.
Tuesday 3\8\03 - 3:22 PM GMT
The Rev. Brendan Powell Smith reported today that he is seriously considering getting laser eye surgery. "I read this pamphlet about it at the mall, and it seems pretty cool," said Smith. "I've always wanted to have a laser eye." Smith went on to describe the new things this surgery would allow him to do. "I could shine it on the movie screen when I'm at the theater. OK, that's pretty lame," said Smith, "but I bet it could also work as a can opener if I shoot the laser around the edge of the can." Smith later added that he would try to use his new powers "only for good".
Terror alert: green
The US government today put Rev. Smith's personal terror alert at "green", which indicates that there is no immediate danger of a terrorist attack against Smith. "As long as he stays out of major metropolises, especially New York and Washington, DC, the terror outlook for Rev. Smith looks quite good. Nothing to worry about," said an aide to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Earlier in the month, Smith's terror alert was briefly bumped up to "blue", or "slightest possibility of danger", when Smith entered his local town hall to pay his electricity bill.


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The price of compressed natural gas at six San Diego-area clean vehicle fueling stations will drop by $0.26 per gallon starting Monday.
Through a California Public Utilities Commission approved program, SDG&E can offer lower prices for compressed natural gas by returning revenue generated from the sale of Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credits.
The LCFS program is administered by the California Air Resources Board and seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuels by 20 percent by 2030. Under the program, fuels that help lower GHG emissions, such as natural gas, generate LCFS credits.
Cleaner and More Affordable Fuel
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The average pump price at utility compressed natural gas stations was $2.37 per gallon in February, whereas the average cost of gasoline in California was $3.24 per gallon, and the average cost of diesel was $3.73 per gallon, according to the Energy Information Administration.
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A clip of Cardi B singing the CTRL track caught SZA's eye.
SZA performed a cover of "Bodak Yellow" and it was clear that Cardi B was delighted. Cardi reposted the clip on her social media accounts saying "Gotta thank @sza for showing BODAK YELLOW some love. Means soo much."
It seems the love has come full circle. After a clip of Cardi B singing "Love Galore" from SZA's album CTRL, was posted to Twitter, SZA took notice.
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"People is my Power. People I love, People I cooperate, People I collaborate, People I do things with them.Even my studies background agrees with Charles Darwin's quote "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change" (...fast, very fast - I add!), my psyche supports the idea that during our pass on earth we must go beyond survival. We have to thrive as human creatures .
Understanding that each of us is a dot in multilevel human networks and tribes (clusters), my art is to connect all those dots for progress and prosperity.


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The Last of the LaSallettes
In New Hampshire. I made a youth retreat at the now closed school in the early 1970's, even then it was in decline--in some way I was surprised to hear that they still exist at all.
From The Concord Monitor:
The order was started after the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared before two young shepherds, a teenage boy and girl, in the tiny alpine village of La Salette, France, on Sept. 19, 1846. Mary, according to believers, came to the children weeping and lamenting that Christians had strayed from the word of God. She implored them to spread the message that believers had to return to the basic tenets and practices of Christianity, including daily prayer and worshipping on Sundays. After speaking to them, she walked up a narrow path and ascended to heaven.
After several years of investigation, the Catholic Church deemed the shepherds' claims to be true and in 1852 a bishop founded the order based on the message delivered to them. La Salette missionaries first arrived in the United States in 1892, settling in Hartford, Conn. In 1898, the order established a college seminary and, within a decade, had to build two additions to the Connecticut school.
In 1924, a center was opened in Altamont, N.Y., and three years later the order purchased Shaker land and buildings in Enfield. The shrine, a replica of the meeting between the shepherds and Mary, was built in 1951.
There are several centers and shrines across the country and many more around the world, including in Africa, India and Latin America, where the order continues to grow.
Father Leo Maxfield, who is 77 and came to the seminary high school in Enfield from Leominster, Mass., said that at one time there were about 100 boys enrolled in the high school and living in its dorm. There were about 15 priests who served as teachers and an additional 12 to 15 brothers - who take similar vows as priests but do not perform church rites and rituals - who worked on the order's farm and ran the household.
He said that shortly after he arrived in 1944, there were only two priests buried in the Enfield order's cemetery. There are now more than 80 La Salettes, as the members are known, buried at the site. He says he loves the Enfield shrine, which is bordered by Mascoma Lake on one side and thick forests on the other and is saddened by thoughts of its future.
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Could the frenzy of private equity-fueled media deals be over for now? That's what some analysts and participants seem to feel.
With capital cheap and money chasing deals, "private equity was consistently beating companies that had synergies" in purchasing media and entertainment companies that were for sale, according to Steven Price of private equity investment firm Centerbridge Partners, Monday's Convergence 2.0 conference from The Deal.
But with the credit crunch well in swing, buyouts are getting harder. "Sellers are unlikely to put their assets on the blocks, even if there are synergies. They want private equity to drive up the price," he continued. If the seller does put together a deal, the financing for private equity that's available is at a pretty unattractive price, he said.
He also said the market was more "bifurcated" than he's seen in the 20 years since he started doing this kind of work. Corporate America thinks things are going fine, but banks are in trouble, and credit is very tight. "It's not clear if the liquidity problems are going to turn into operating problems." Maybe it's just a matter of time.
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Q: Change color of a particular RelativeLayout Android I have a RelativeLayout:
   <RelativeLayout
        android:id="@+id/my_id"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:background="@drawable/my_shape" >

The my_shape.xml is this:
<stroke
         android:width="1dp"
         android:color="#FFF"/>
      <solid android:color="#000"/>

So, from my activity, i would change the color of this RelativeLayout.
I've tried with
RelativeLayout tvCard = (RelativeLayout) findViewById(R.id.my_id);
tvCard.setBackgroundColor(color);

N.B. color is an input color!
By this solution, the RelativeLayout is completely draw of red! How can i do to change color of it without change the "stroke color"?
Thank you.

A: try to create ShapeDrawable in java code.
like this:
ShapeDrawable sd1 = new ShapeDrawable(new RectShape());
sd1.getPaint().setColor(0xFFFFFFFF);
sd1.getPaint().setStyle(Style.STROKE);
sd1.getPaint().setStrokeWidth(1);
// sd1.getPaint().somehow_set_stroke_color?

ShapeDrawable sd2 = new ShapeDrawable(new RectShape());
sd2.getPaint().setColor(0xFF000000);
sd2.getPaint().setStyle(Style.STROKE);
// sd2.getPaint().somehow_set_stroke_color?
// sd2.getPaint().somehow_set_gradient_params?

layers[0] = sd1;
layers[1] = sd2;
LayerDrawable composite = new LayerDrawable(layers);
tvCard.setBackgroundDrawable(composite);

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The TS Partners Team
Thomas M. Steinberg
Thomas M. Steinberg is Founder and CEO of TS Partners, an international, diversified investment firm with real estate, private equity and venture capital holdings.
Prior to founding TS Partners, Tom spent 22 years with Tisch Family Interests which he joined as Managing Director in 1991, and where he became President in 1996. Tom was responsible for a wide range of investment activities for the families of Laurence A. Tisch and Preston Robert Tisch including management of portfolios that included public equity, private equity, debt and alternative investments.
With the Tisch Family, Tom was involved in a number of notable projects including acting as a lead underwriter for the Canary Wharf Development in London and development of MetLife Stadium, home to the New York Giants and New York Jets. His responsibilities also included oversight of family office activities including accounting, tax planning and reporting functions, as well as portfolio management responsibility for a significant portion of the Tisch family's non-real estate assets.
From 1982 to 1986, Tom was one of four Vice Presidents at Goldman Sachs & Company in New York responsible for all real estate acquisitions of the company including pension fund, syndication and partnership accounts. He also provided Goldman clients with financing, structuring and valuation advice.
Tom serves as one of six trustees and heads the investment committee of Seritage Growth Properties (NYSE:SRG), a publicly-traded REIT with a market capitalization in excess of $1 billion. Seritage owns approximately 250 real estate assets that were spun off from Sears Holding Corporation.
Tom is also a member (formerly Chairman) of the Board of Directors of Gunther International, formerly a Nasdaq company. In addition, he serves on the board of directors and/or advisory boards of a number of privately held companies in various industries including Telecommunications, Information Services, Commercial Lending, and Venture Capital.
From 1994 to 2005, Tom was a member of the Board of Directors of NYSE-traded Catellus Development Corporation, a spin-off of the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe Railroad's real estate holdings, and one of the largest landholders and real estate development companies in the country. He has also served as a director of Cellegy (Nasdaq:CLGY), a specialty pharmaceuticals company.
Tom graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University in 1978 where he was awarded distinction in Economics. He received an MBA from Stanford University in 1982.
Tom's writing has been published in the Harvard Business Review. He also has been an active member in several professional and community organizations including the following:
Urban Land Institute - [1982-2006]
New York Coordinating Council on Jewish Poverty – Board Member [1995-2006]
New York Coordinating Council Development Corporation – Chairman [1996-2006]
New Seed Foundation – Board Member [1994-Present]
Meor, Inc. Chairman of Board of Directors [2005- Present]
Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations - Investment Committee Member [2016 - Present]
Joseph Shmidman
Joseph Shmidman is a Managing Director at TS Partners and is responsible for management of the firm's investments. His 25 year professional career includes experience in finance, operations, investments, consulting and law.
Joseph has led and advised companies in a wide-range of industries from inception to maturity. Among his previous roles, Joseph was the CEO of IDT Corporation's (NYSE:IDT) Business Process Outsourcing division, which he developed into a diversified global business. He also served as the General Manager of WorldQuant Research (Israel) Ltd., a subsidiary of WorldQuant, LLC, a US-based, global investment management firm, where he led the company's Israel presence, growth and operations.
As a strategic consultant, Joseph assisted a number of early-stage and established businesses in a wide range of industries including legal services, travel and tourism, and eco-friendly products, in developing their product/service focus, optimizing operations, sourcing capital, and identifying and penetrating new markets.
Mr. Shmidman began his professional career as an attorney with Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson in New York, and subsequently worked as an investment banker and investment manager in the US and Israel offices of international firms.
Joseph earned his Juris Doctor degree from Columbia Law School and his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Yeshiva University.
Adar Breuer
Adar is the Director of Operations at TSPartners and is responsible for the company's day-to-day operations. Her responsibilities include: ongoing monitoring of existing investments; oversight of outside property managers and vendors; management of investment and internal financial and technical operations; cash management and banking relationships; research and presentation of new investment opportunities; and investor relations and communications.
Prior to joining TSPartners in 2018, Adar was the Director of Operations at Meor, Inc., a $10 million non-profit organization focused on Jewish Leadership and Israel Advocacy, that engages with more than 4,000 US college students annually. In that role, she coordinated with and provided operational support and reporting for 40 educators and hundreds of volunteers in multiple locations across two continents.
Among her roles at Meor, Adar also organized semi-annual staff development forums; helped to plan and run fundraising events; managed logistics and technical planning for international trips for groups of 250+ students; and led the set-up of Meor's initial office and infrastructure.
Adar received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Touro College.
Sarah Greenwald
Sarah has been involved in real estate investment, management and development for more than 10 years. Her real estate activities have focused primarily on land development and residential projects.
Sarah is also a seasoned entrepreneur with a diverse range of successful startups and endeavors. She began her career by founding and heading PP and Co Pharmaceuticals, a nutraceutical company, where she successfully marketed the company's products through pharmacy networks. She has also developed and registered two patents related to nutraceutical innovations. In addition, Sarah created and managed a business involved in importing and marketing fine silver jewelry.
Sarah received her MBA from Bar Ilan University.
Rob Steinberg, FAIA
Rob Steinberg is an internationally recognized architect with an expertise in design, urban planning, hospitality, and mixed-use projects. He has been awarded numerous national and international design awards and is frequently published in industry journals and publications. Rob is a frequent lecturer and presenter at many universities and design conferences around the world. Some of his most notable projects are the San Jose Civic Center; the Changsha, China city master plan (80 million sf); The Tech Museum, San Jose and the Taube Koret Center for Jewish Life, Palo Alto.
He is active in a number of academic and real estate related organizations including his role as Urban Land Institute Governor, Executive Board Member of SPUR - The San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association, and Policy Advisory Board Member at University of California, Berkeley Fisher Center for Real Estate & Urban Economics. Rob began his professional career as a filmmaker in New York and Hollywood, garnering international awards for his documentary films.
Rob received his BFA from New York University in Motion Pictures and Television, his Master of Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, and has done Post Graduate Management Studies at Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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Over the weekend you should make sure that you are up to date on your reading in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as well as reading and annotating Malcolm X's "Learning to Read". This article is available in 50 Essays or at this link. As you read the piece, you may find it productive to concentrate on the ideas of learning, power, and language. Consider the role of Jim as you read this as well as Huck - their power as well as their abilities in the society. This is also a very good piece for you to use for your vocabulary bookmarks.
On Tuesday you'll be getting back your essays on In Cold Blood as well as your timed writings. Timed writing assignments are not available to be resubmitted; however, your essays can be resubmitted if you are not happy with your performance. Some of you may find it helpful to conference with us before moving forward on your resubmission. It is important that everything be settled by Monday the 24th as we need to finish the gradebook for the first quarter within that week.
Next class we will be returning to the computer lab to finish working on our skit scripts, costumes, props, and backgrounds. You may continue to work on this over the weekend if you feel like you need to. The main priority that you have over the weekend is to use your progress report to finish any missing assignments. If you have been absent and there are assignments that you need to complete, those have been marked with zeroes. Please make sure to get the assignments from us and get them turned in no later than Monday the 24th so that we can finish your grades for the quarter.


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Featured Nigeria
Ekiti stat Gov Fayose has become a legend in Nigerian politics – By Ex governor of Kano State, Ibrahim Shekarau
Former governor of Kano State, Ibrahim Shekarau, says "the humane nature and policies" of Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose, has endeared him to the people while "his political achievements have made him a legend."
Shekarau, also a former Minister of Education, said the affection the governor shows to the people can be seen in the "numerous humane policies and projects Fayose is executing in the state."
According to a statement on Saturday by the Chief Press Secretary to Fayose, Idowu Adelusi, Shekarau spoke during a visit to Ado-Ekiti.
Shekarau, who was taken round some projects by Fayose, said he was overwhelmed by the close relationship between Fayose and the people of Ekiti.
He charged Nigerian leaders to emulate the Ekiti governor by identifying with their people and meeting their needs.
His words: "I am not surprised by the great performance of Governor Ayodele Fayose in Ekiti State.
"We were governors at the same time in 2003, though we were in different political parties, he did wonderfully well then too.
"I am impressed by the projects being executed by the governor despite the recession in the country and the small statutory allocations coming to the state".
Similarly, Deputy Governor of Gombe State, Charles Yau Ilya, said he was happy at the projects and that what he saw on ground confirmed that the Ekiti governor was a true and real friend of the common man.
"This is my first visit to Ekiti State and I have heard a lot about Governor Ayodele Fayose.
"I am really happy that the governor is a living legend, whose love for the people of the state is duly reciprocated by the people who are showing their love for him too," he said.


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Q: Inconsistent Bash history On this Debian Jessie installation, Bash history seems to be behaving inconsistently in Gnome Terminal:
$ echo $USER
me
$ echo $HISTFILE
/home/me/.bash_history
$ grep browser ~/.bash_history
browser-sync start
$ history | grep browser
 2071  grep browser ~/.bash_history
 2073  history | grep browser

The browser-sync line from the ~/.bash_history file is quite old: much older than the current Terminal session. Why isn't it showing up in the results from history | grep browser?

A: By default, ~/.bash_history is written to disk when an interactive session terminates.  This means that if you have concurrent shells open, only the most recently terminated shell session has its history written to disk.
(technically, all sessions are written to disk, but two concurrent sessions don't know about the others' histories, so when one exits, it writes what it thinks the new history to be, and then when the other exits, it writes its history)
See https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/1292/20246 for more details.

A: The $HISTSIZE variable has too low a value. The apparent inconsistency can be resolved by sufficiently increasing the value of $HISTSIZE.
The Bash manual doesn't explain it very well:

HISTSIZE
The maximum number of commands to remember on the history list. If the value is 0, commands are not saved in the history list. Numeric
  values less than zero result in every command being saved on the
  history list (there is no limit). The shell sets the default value to
  500 after reading any startup files.

Here is a better explanation:

The default value for HISTSIZE (500) would load only a fraction of the
  saved history [if the saved history is greater than 500 lines].


Jumanji is a 1995 film based on Chris Van Allsburg's beloved children's book about two kids who play a magical, jungle-themed board game with a host of dangers that can only be stopped if the game is finished. It was directed by Joe Johnston.
Directed by Joe Johnston. Written by Chris Van Allsburg and Greg Taylor.
In the jungle, you must wait, until the dice read 5 or 8.
I've seen things you've only seen in your nightmares. Things you can't even imagine.
STOP GIVING ME THINGS THAT COME APART!!!
I've got it! Colonel Mustard in the library with the wrench. [laughs] Clue.
You think monkeys, mosquitoes, and lions are bad? That's just the beginning. I've seen things you've only seen in your nightmares. Things you can't even imagine. Things you can't even see. There are things that hunt you in the night. Then something screams. Then you hear them eating, and you hope to God that you're not dessert. Afraid? You don't know what afraid is. You will not last 5 minutes without me.
Judy: We barely even knew our parents. They were always away. Skiing in St. Moritz, gambling in Monte Carlo, safariing in darkest Africa. We didn't even know if they loved us. But when the sheik's yacht went down, they managed to write us a really beautiful goodbye note that was found floating in a champagne bottle amongst the debris.
Carl: [after a jungle vine takes his car away] FINE!! TAKE IT!!
Alan: What year is it?
Alan: No. What year is it?
Carl: You got some ID? Oh, lemme guess, you probably left it in the other Tarzan outfit, right?
Alan: [to himself] 26 years!
Carl: Are you from around here?
Alan: I was. But I've been in Jumanji.
Judy: Indonesia. He was in the Peace Corps.
Carl: [about Alan] Is this man related to you?
Judy: Yes, sir. He's our... uncle.
Carl: Does he always dress like that?
Judy: Well, yeah. He's a... vegetarian.
Alan: GET OUTTA THERE!!! [screeches and makes monkey noises; to Judy, Peter, and Carl] Monkeys! Monkeys!
Carl: Is he all right upstairs?
Judy: He suffered a head injury a few months ago.
Alan: WHY DIDN'T YOU GRAB THE GAME, PETER?!
Sarah: Just ignore him, honey. He's a libra. [to Alan] Where are you going?!
Alan: He'll head for water!
Peter: I thought I could end the game myself. I was only 10 spaces away.
Judy: [reads a notice in the center of the board] A law of Jumanji having been broken, you will slip back even more than your token.
Sarah: You tried to cheat?
Peter: No! I tried to drop the dice so they'd land on 12.
Sarah: Oh, okay, honey. Well, that would be cheating.
Carl: No, it's not a church anymore. Now it's a Speedy Burger. Or at least it was. I don't know what's left of it. People in this town are goin' loopy.
Sarah: Alan, you wrestled an alligator for me.
Alan: It was a crocodile. Alligators don't have that little fringe on their hind leg.


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Nuclear Cardiology Fellowship
The Nuclear Cardiology Fellowship Program provides training in all aspects of nuclear cardiology practice, including cardiac PET, stress performance and interpretation and image analysis and interpretation.
Email: vdistefano@mgh.harvard.edu
Valerie DiStefano
Fellowship Program Coordinator
Explore This Fellowship
The Nuclear Cardiology Fellowship Program provides training in all aspects of nuclear cardiology practice, including cardiac PET, stress performance and interpretation and image analysis and interpretation. This fellowship is a one-year non-ACGME training program with an optional second-year focusing on advanced training in PET. Currently, the laboratory has six SPECT cameras and two PET cameras and performs over 7,500 imaging procedures per year. The laboratory is located in the main campus at Massachusetts General Hospital and performs tests on both outpatients as well as patients admitted to the hospital.
In addition to providing clinical evaluations, the laboratory is involved in a multi-center trial involving the evaluation of a new tracer for myocardial autonomic function, quantitative physiologically oriented PET studies of the coronary circulation, as well as other clinical investigative protocols both multi-center (ex: new adenosine analog) and individual investigator initiated (ex: neural network analysis of myocardial perfusion images, PET studies of peripheral vascular disease and plaque inflammation).
Ahmed Tawakol, MD
Requirements of the Nuclear Cardiology Fellowship include:
Completion and passing of all three USMLE steps
ABIM board certified or board eligible
The accepted applicant must obtain a full Massachusetts license (limited license if on visa)
A valid ECFMG certificate for all foreign medical graduates
Only J1 visas accepted
Completion of an internal medicine residency is required. The completion of previous cardiology fellowship training is preferred.
Exercise Testing
To understand the indications and contraindications for cardiac stress testings, as well as learn the normal and abnormal hemodynamic and electrocardiographic responses to exercise and pharmacologic stress tests
To be able to take a directed cardiovascular and pertinent medical history and physical examination for patients presenting to the lab
To become proficient in the safe performance, monitoring and interpretation of exercise and pharmacologic stress tests
To understand the indications and protocols, for myocardial perfusion imaging, differences amongst various perfusion imaging agents including the physical characteristics, dosimetry, strengths and limitations of each
To understand the indications and strengths and limitations of PET myocardial perfusion and metabolism imaging for cardiac disease
To gain proficiency in the interpretation of normal and abnormal gated myocardial perfusion studies, radionuclide angiography, and PET studies of myocardial perfusion and metabolism
To learn the safe handling of radioactive material and appropriate immediate responses to radiation emergencies
To learn the basic physics of nuclear cardiology, gamma cameras, quality control, SPECT acquisition and reconstruction protocols
Fellows will be instructed in the medical evaluation and performance of both pharmacological as well as exercise stress testing, including indications, contraindications, safe performance, and treatment of complications, including cardiac and respiratory collapse and resuscitation. It is anticipated that fellows will complete approximately 500 to 750 stress tests during the course of the fellowship.
Fellows will learn the safe handling of radioisotopes, ALARA principles, the proper administration of radioisotopes for diagnostic procedures, as well as handling of radioactive spills and mis-administrations. This information is provided in a required though separate nuclear medicine physics and instrumentation course offered at another Mass General Brigham affiliated hospital or other non-Mass General Brigham affiliated institutions in Boston. It is expected that the fellow will have sufficient experience in tracer administration, acquisition and processing of imaging data during the fellowship to qualify for ACC/ASNC Level III certification.
Fellows will be instructed by staff faculty (both cardiologists and nuclear medicine physicians) in the interpretation of myocardial scans (rest/redistribution thallium for myocardial viability; rest/ stress perfusion imaging for diagnosis of coronary artery disease; radionuclide ventriculograms, gated perfusion imaging, and PET scans for both perfusion and metabolism) The fellow will read approximately 600 scans/mo during the fellowship year under direct attending supervision. Whenever possible, and in the great majority of cases, the scans will be correlated with clinical, other non-invasive, coronary angiographic and operative (CABG or PCI) findings.
(8:00 am to 1:00 pm) The fellow will be responsible for obtaining a directed history and physical examination of patients presenting to the lab; determine the suitability for the ordered test; and medically clear the patient for the test. The fellow will discuss the case with the attending physician, if necessary, and after appropriate training perform the study on his/her own. After completion of the stress test, the fellow will analyze the hemodynamic and EKG response and review them with the attending physician at the afternoon readout session. The fellow will work with a team of RN's and NP's who perform the majority of the stress tests. The fellow is expected to serve as a consultant and back-up to the nurses when needed.
(1:00 pm to 5:00 pm) The fellow will participate actively in all afternoon scan readout sessions with the attending physicians. It usually will be possible to excuse the fellow twice/wk for one hour to attend cardiac cath conference (Tue, 0730-0830) and cardiac grand rounds (Wed, 0800-0900) during the academic year.
The fellow will participate in the weekend ETT on-call schedule. In general, this involves taking and approving requests for both imaging and non-imaging stress tests on both Saturday and Sunday as well as Monday holidays (Christmas and New Year's Day are exempt). The fellow then communicates these requests to the on-call team of technologists and to the attending cardiologist for the weekend. The fellow supervises the test and remains in the lab until all patients have been returned to their ward (out patients are not done on weekends). The intent of the weekend program is to reduce hospital length of stay for those who require stressing for discharge or who will have to have a stress test prior to surgery or cardiac catheterization the following business day.
The nuclear cardiology fellow will prepare and present a conference on the first Thursday of the month (at noon) on a topic relevant to nuclear cardiology or stress testing. This conference along with cardiac grand rounds and cardiac cath conference are the major teaching conferences of the section. Considerable teaching also occurs during the daily readout session in which the fellow is asked to give his/her interpretation of the images before the attending physicians render an opinion.
Two attending physicians are present for every read-out session. All clinical, hemodynamic, EKG and imaging and available catheterization information is reviewed. In addition, attending physicians are active in a variety of basic and clinical research programs and welcome fellow participation in these activities. The American Society of Nuclear Medicine website, as well as Mass General Brigham websites, feature sections from Mass General and Brigham and Women's on teaching cases which provide an excellent opportunity for self-teaching, and of course can be reviewed with attending staff to answer questions.
Licensure/Certification
Those fellows interested in Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensure and/or nuclear cardiology board certification are encouraged to discuss this with the director of the lab early in the first year. Licensure and certification require specific tasks and course work above and beyond what fellows receive on the general rotation.
Interested applicants should send their CV, personal statement and three letters of reference via e-mail or fax to:
Mass General Hospital
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Learn more about the faculty of the Nuclear Cardiology Fellowship Program.
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package dotgit

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"sync/atomic"

	"gopkg.in/src-d/go-git.v4/plumbing"
	"gopkg.in/src-d/go-git.v4/plumbing/format/idxfile"
	"gopkg.in/src-d/go-git.v4/plumbing/format/objfile"
	"gopkg.in/src-d/go-git.v4/plumbing/format/packfile"

	"srcd.works/go-billy.v1"
)

// PackWriter is a io.Writer that generates the packfile index simultaneously,
// a packfile.Decoder is used with a file reader to read the file being written
// this operation is synchronized with the write operations.
// The packfile is written in a temp file, when Close is called this file
// is renamed/moved (depends on the Filesystem implementation) to the final
// location, if the PackWriter is not used, nothing is written
type PackWriter struct {
	Notify func(h plumbing.Hash, i idxfile.Idxfile)

	fs       billy.Filesystem
	fr, fw   billy.File
	synced   *syncedReader
	checksum plumbing.Hash
	index    idxfile.Idxfile
	result   chan error
}

func newPackWrite(fs billy.Filesystem) (*PackWriter, error) {
	fw, err := fs.TempFile(fs.Join(objectsPath, packPath), "tmp_pack_")
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	fr, err := fs.Open(fw.Filename())
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	writer := &PackWriter{
		fs:     fs,
		fw:     fw,
		fr:     fr,
		synced: newSyncedReader(fw, fr),
		result: make(chan error),
	}

	go writer.buildIndex()
	return writer, nil
}

func (w *PackWriter) buildIndex() {
	s := packfile.NewScanner(w.synced)
	d, err := packfile.NewDecoder(s, nil)
	if err != nil {
		w.result <- err
		return
	}

	checksum, err := d.Decode()
	if err != nil {
		w.result <- err
		return
	}

	w.checksum = checksum
	w.index.PackfileChecksum = checksum
	w.index.Version = idxfile.VersionSupported

	offsets := d.Offsets()
	for h, crc := range d.CRCs() {
		w.index.Add(h, uint64(offsets[h]), crc)
	}

	w.result <- err
}

// waitBuildIndex waits until buildIndex function finishes, this can terminate
// with a packfile.ErrEmptyPackfile, this means that nothing was written so we
// ignore the error
func (w *PackWriter) waitBuildIndex() error {
	err := <-w.result
	if err == packfile.ErrEmptyPackfile {
		return nil
	}

	return err
}

func (w *PackWriter) Write(p []byte) (int, error) {
	return w.synced.Write(p)
}

// Close closes all the file descriptors and save the final packfile, if nothing
// was written, the tempfiles are deleted without writing a packfile.
func (w *PackWriter) Close() error {
	defer func() {
		if w.Notify != nil {
			w.Notify(w.checksum, w.index)
		}

		close(w.result)
	}()

	if err := w.synced.Close(); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	if err := w.waitBuildIndex(); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	if err := w.fr.Close(); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	if err := w.fw.Close(); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	if len(w.index.Entries) == 0 {
		return w.clean()
	}

	return w.save()
}

func (w *PackWriter) clean() error {
	return w.fs.Remove(w.fw.Filename())
}

func (w *PackWriter) save() error {
	base := w.fs.Join(objectsPath, packPath, fmt.Sprintf("pack-%s", w.checksum))
	idx, err := w.fs.Create(fmt.Sprintf("%s.idx", base))
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	if err := w.encodeIdx(idx); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	if err := idx.Close(); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	return w.fs.Rename(w.fw.Filename(), fmt.Sprintf("%s.pack", base))
}

func (w *PackWriter) encodeIdx(writer io.Writer) error {
	e := idxfile.NewEncoder(writer)
	_, err := e.Encode(&w.index)
	return err
}

type syncedReader struct {
	w io.Writer
	r io.ReadSeeker

	blocked, done uint32
	written, read uint64
	news          chan bool
}

func newSyncedReader(w io.Writer, r io.ReadSeeker) *syncedReader {
	return &syncedReader{
		w:    w,
		r:    r,
		news: make(chan bool),
	}
}

func (s *syncedReader) Write(p []byte) (n int, err error) {
	defer func() {
		written := atomic.AddUint64(&s.written, uint64(n))
		read := atomic.LoadUint64(&s.read)
		if written > read {
			s.wake()
		}
	}()

	n, err = s.w.Write(p)
	return
}

func (s *syncedReader) Read(p []byte) (n int, err error) {
	defer func() { atomic.AddUint64(&s.read, uint64(n)) }()

	s.sleep()
	n, err = s.r.Read(p)
	if err == io.EOF && !s.isDone() {
		if n == 0 {
			return s.Read(p)
		}

		return n, nil
	}

	return
}

func (s *syncedReader) isDone() bool {
	return atomic.LoadUint32(&s.done) == 1
}

func (s *syncedReader) isBlocked() bool {
	return atomic.LoadUint32(&s.blocked) == 1
}

func (s *syncedReader) wake() {
	if s.isBlocked() {
		//	fmt.Println("wake")
		atomic.StoreUint32(&s.blocked, 0)
		s.news <- true
	}
}

func (s *syncedReader) sleep() {
	read := atomic.LoadUint64(&s.read)
	written := atomic.LoadUint64(&s.written)
	if read >= written {
		atomic.StoreUint32(&s.blocked, 1)
		//	fmt.Println("sleep", read, written)
		<-s.news
	}

}

func (s *syncedReader) Seek(offset int64, whence int) (int64, error) {
	if whence == io.SeekCurrent {
		return s.r.Seek(offset, whence)
	}

	p, err := s.r.Seek(offset, whence)
	s.read = uint64(p)

	return p, err
}

func (s *syncedReader) Close() error {
	atomic.StoreUint32(&s.done, 1)
	close(s.news)
	return nil
}

type ObjectWriter struct {
	objfile.Writer
	fs billy.Filesystem
	f  billy.File
}

func newObjectWriter(fs billy.Filesystem) (*ObjectWriter, error) {
	f, err := fs.TempFile(fs.Join(objectsPath, packPath), "tmp_obj_")
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	return &ObjectWriter{
		Writer: (*objfile.NewWriter(f)),
		fs:     fs,
		f:      f,
	}, nil
}

func (w *ObjectWriter) Close() error {
	if err := w.Writer.Close(); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	if err := w.f.Close(); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	return w.save()
}

func (w *ObjectWriter) save() error {
	hash := w.Hash().String()
	file := w.fs.Join(objectsPath, hash[0:2], hash[2:40])

	return w.fs.Rename(w.f.Filename(), file)
}


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Massachusetts Court Blocks ExxonMobil Attempt to Thwart Climate Change Lawsuit
Ryan J. Farrick — May 24, 2022
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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court said that ExxonMobil's anti-SLAPP defense is inadequate.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled against ExxonMobil, saying the oil company must face a lawsuit filed by the state's attorney general.
ExxonMobil had sought to have the lawsuit dismissed under a state law protecting civil defendants from lawsuits intended to silence their freedom to speech.
This type of law—referred to as an anti-SLAPP statute—is typically intended to protect journalists and media organizations from reporting wrongdoing.
Writing on behalf of a unanimous 7-0 court, Justice Scott Kafker said the provision of the statute cited by ExxonMobil only applies to private lawsuits—not attempted government enforcement actions.
As LegalReader.com reported last year, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has accused ExxonMobil of misleading the public about the role fossil fuels play in climate change.
Healey claims that ExxonMobil as adopted tactics "reminiscent of the tobacco industry's long denial campaign about the dangerous effects of smoking," despite having had early access to climate change data.
For years, ExxonMobil maintained that its products were—at the very least—not overtly harmful.
Healey says that the company's public relations have effectively misled its own investors as well as the general public.
An image of Exxon Mobil's Baton Rouge refinery. Image via Wikimedia Commons/user:WClarke. (CCA-BY-4.0).
Nevertheless, ExxonMobil had earlier issued a statement saying that its public remarks on climate change "are and have always been truthful" and that it has "long acknowledged the reality and risks of climate and change," devoting "significant resources to addressing those risks."
But in here complaint, Healey asserts that Exxon engaged in a "sophisticated, multi-million dollar campaign" to sow doubt about climate change science, all while "greenwashing" its own activities to seem more environmentally conscious.
"Rather than honestly disclose and mitigate climate change risks, ExxonMobil's misrepresentations about and failures to disclose those risks have delayed the needed transition to clean energy around the world and make these existential climate-driven threats to the global economy more likely to occur," the lawsuit states.
Healey has praised the Supreme Judicial Court's ruling as a "resounding victory" in Massachusetts' efforts to hold ExxonMobil accountable for its role in global warming.
"Exxon's repeated attempts to stonewall our lawsuit have been baseless, and this effort was no different. We look forward to proceeding with our case and having our day in court to show how Exxon is breaking the law and to put an end to the deception once and for all," Healey said in a statement.
WBUR notes that the ruling constitutes the latest "twist" in the battle between Massachusetts and ExxonMobil, with ExxonMobil earlier launching and losing its own lawsuit against the state.
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package org.highj.data.transformer.free_arrow;

import org.derive4j.hkt.__;
import org.derive4j.hkt.__2;
import org.highj.data.transformer.FreeArrow;
import org.highj.typeclass2.arrow.Semigroupoid;

import static org.highj.Hkt.asFreeArrow;

public interface FreeArrowSemigroupoid<F,ARR> extends Semigroupoid<__<__<FreeArrow.µ,F>,ARR>> {

    @Override
    public default <B, C, D> __2<__<__<FreeArrow.µ, F>, ARR>, B, D> dot(__2<__<__<FreeArrow.µ, F>, ARR>, C, D> cd, __2<__<__<FreeArrow.µ, F>, ARR>, B, C> bc) {
        return FreeArrow.compose(asFreeArrow(cd), asFreeArrow(bc));
    }
}


We form a valuable cross-sector network for our members. We are a strategic cornerstone of the Executive MBA program. We play an active, formative role among UZH's alumni organizations.
We are proud to be graduates of the UZH Executive MBA program.
actively support the University of Zurich in the acquisition of suitable individuals for participation in the Executive MBA program.
We aim to increase the number of members on a lasting basis by means of focused member management. To this end, we endeavor to acquire both students and graduates as members and to retain existing members. The attractiveness and value of the membership must be increased overall. In general, dialog between members and with the Alumni Board is to be intensified and promoted. An up-to-date, user-friendly member database enables our members to contact each other quickly and efficiently.
We offer an attractive annual program that consisting of knowledge-sharing, experience-based and networking activities. The annual program consists of exclusive events for our members (one "lighthouse event," the Netzpunkt event series and the General Meeting of Members) and OEC ALUMNI events. In addition, an increasing number of attractive events will be organized by the alumni.
We also enter into cooperation agreements, particularly in the area of further training, utilizing synergies with the Executive MBA program and the University of Zurich in the process. The event program is planned on a long-term basis. Our events are at a high level and are professionally organized, especially in terms of concept, marketing, organization and follow-up.
We offer our members a small but exclusive range of benefits..
We promote interaction and dialog with our members through the targeted use of social media and utilize synergies with the Executive MBA program.
We maintain an up-to-date, relevant and inspiring website and exert an active influence to ensure that a needs-based platform and member database is in place for UZH alumni.
For our events, we attach importance to appealing invitations, professional acquisition and attractive post-event reporting.
We make the attractiveness of our network visible by enlisting successful and well-known members for events.
We use the Alumni Award to position ourselves and the Executive MBA program in the media and vis-à-vis the public in general.
We use the available opportunities to position ourselves as a successful alumni organization vis-à-vis the University of Zurich and the other alumni organizations.
The members of the Alumni Board maintain regular personal contact with members outside of the events.
The success of the UZH Executive MBA program is key for our organization and for preserving the value of our educational offering.
We actively use the alumni organization's representation on the Executive Committee to position ourselves as a strong organization and to optimally safeguard the interests of graduates.
We participate in the positioning and marketing of the Executive MBA program and play an active role in the acquisition of future students.
We maintain close contact with the Coordination Office and the Administrative Head in order to utilize synergies and provide ad hoc support with strategic and concept-related tasks.
Diversity (gender, profession, age) must be safeguarded. The recruitment of new Alumni Board members is focused on the required skills/the post in question. The Alumni Board conducts regular self-evaluations and addresses the issue of succession planning, giving particular consideration to new graduates in the process. Although no explicit restriction on the period of office will be defined, the principle of rotation is followed to ensure regular renewal and members are generally expected to be replaced after six years.
To ensure knowledge retention and continuity and ease the burden on the Alumni Board members, administrative and organizational tasks will be assigned to the Coordination Office or third parties.


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Cybersecurity hiring levels in the ship industry rose to a year-high in February 2022
The proportion of ship equipment supply, product and services companies hiring for cybersecurity related positions rose significantly in February 2022 compared with the equivalent month last year. Credit: GlobalData.
The proportion of ship equipment supply, product and services companies hiring for cybersecurity related positions rose significantly in February 2022 compared with the equivalent month last year, with 46.8% of the companies included in our analysis recruiting for at least one such position.
This latest figure was higher than the 32.3% of companies who were hiring for cybersecurity related jobs a year ago and an increase compared to the figure of 42.6% in January 2022.
When it came to the rate of all job openings that were linked to cybersecurity, related job postings rose in February 2022, with 1.6% of newly posted job advertisements being linked to the topic.
This latest figure was the highest monthly figure recorded in the past year and is an increase compared to the 1.1% of newly advertised jobs that were linked to cybersecurity in the equivalent month a year ago.
Cybersecurity is one of the topics that GlobalData, from whom our data for this article is taken, have identified as being a key disruptive force facing companies in the coming years. Companies that excel and invest in these areas now are thought to be better prepared for the future business landscape and better equipped to survive unforeseen challenges.
Our analysis of the data shows that ship equipment supply, product and services companies are currently hiring for cybersecurity jobs at a rate lower than the average for all companies within GlobalData's job analytics database. The average among all companies stood at 3.1% in February 2022.
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OU Enters Bedlam Week As Favorite
Monday, December 1st 2014, 7:54 pm
The Sooners are the heavy favorite against Oklahoma State on Saturday.
Associated Press North Korea fired two suspected ballistic missiles into the sea Monday in its fourth weapons launch this month, South Korea's military said, with the apparent goal of demonstrating its military might during paused diplomacy with the United States and pandemic border closures.
New Study Reveals Stark COVID-19 Risks For Unvaccinated Pregnant Women And Their Babies
Associated Press A study looking at health data across the entire population of Scotland found that pregnant women who had not been vaccinated against COVID-19 and caught the disease were much more likely to suffer severe complications — for themselves and their infants — than those who had been vaccinated and got COVID. Yet despite the growing evidence, vaccination rates among pregnant women remained much lower compared to the general population.


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Italian Life in Lockdown
It was early February. We were sitting in a bar in Hoi An, Vietnam, sipping a bloody mary, watching the superbowl without a care in the world, other than the 49ers defense. It was mid-way through our five week trip through Southeast Asia, where we were meeting activity partners and visiting boutique hotels to include in our Custom and Designed Trips. We were gearing up for a very busy 2020 - travel felt accessible and adventure was calling.
The week before, we had read about Coronavirus, but it wasn't a reality until a couple days later, when we met our friend Nhi for a coffee. She owns a boutique hotel in Hoi An and said that they were seeing a spike in cancellations as China and South Korea started to restrict travel. The potential effect that loss in tourism could have on small businesses and communities started to feel real. As the trip continued, the concern about the virus in Southeast Asia grew. We began wearing masks on the plane and in Ho Chi Minh City, Kuala Lumpur and Colombo, we passed through temperature checks at customs. Still, the number of cases outside of China was relatively low and we happily continued our adventures through Sri Lanka, hand sanitizing along the way.
Soon after we arrived home to Lucca, Italy, we learned that the virus was spreading in the region of Lombardy, just a few hours north. Within a few days, social distancing measures were implemented and the pasta (not toilet paper!) aisle at the grocery store was empty. But for the next two weeks, life generally felt pretty normal. People were out and about, drinking cappuccinos at bar counters and cycling around the Lucca walls. In the background, the virus must have been spreading south because before we knew it, we were locked down.
The lockdown restrictions in Italy were super strict right out of the gate. We were not permitted to leave our house unless to go to the supermarket or the pharmacy, and only one person could go at a time. We were allowed to walk outside, but only 200 meters from home. Without warning, everything was closed. No more cappuccinos, no takeout food, no Amazon deliveries, niente. It was an abrupt change and a big adjustment, but we were (and continue to be) happy that the government took such decisive action early on, especially as we watched the virus spread and the death toll rise in our new home country.
During our first week of lockdown, videos circulated of people singing and playing music from their balconies. Every morning we walked past signs reading "andra tutto bene" - it will all be okay - hanging in our neighborhood windows. We started going to the supermarket every 7-10 days, stocking up in true American style, after waiting in an eerily quiet line for over an hour and getting temperature checked before entering the store. It was all very zombie-apocalypse like, lacking the joyful (and loud) Italian greetings we'd come to appreciate.
Our work came to a rolling stop, once trips were sadly rescheduled. We did our best to stay motivated, using the time to work on projects and develop strategic plans for the rest of the year. We redesigned all 15 of our Designed Trips, implemented a new booking policy and started planning Guided Trips that we hope to lead in 2021. It was a roller coaster of emotion - there were days we felt isolated and missed our family and friends. Days when our hearts ached for the world. And days when we felt a real sense of sadness for the time and growth of our business lost. But we also started to feel more at home in our new house. We took some time to do things we might not otherwise do. We tried new recipes, studied Italian (and attempted to chat with the neighbors), started a daily yoga practice, grew cilantro seeds, binged some Netflix, and made a music video for our nephew's 10th birthday. We started to feel more comfortable here, and when a neighbor arrived home after over a month in the hospital with the virus, we joined the applause and impromptu dance party at the end of our driveway.
And now, after 50 days in lockdown, we're starting to feel hope. Each day the numbers across Europe are improving. We're seeing leaders roll out plans to reopen, and some countries already successfully enjoying life post quarantine (shout-out to our friends in Denmark - we're right behind you!). Next week in Italy, restaurants will open for take-away, parks will be accessible, and we'll be able to freely drive and exercise. Hopping on our bikes to ride to the center for a gelato will feel nothing short of amazing.
Spring has sprung in Tuscany and our semi-rural neighborhood is full of vegetable gardens, olive groves and fields of yellow mustard seed flowers. There's a palpable hope in the air. And we think - we hope - that travel and exploration, even if it looks a little different at first, will follow soon.
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Ryan & Megan, Cohica Travel
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11 April 2017 at 4:24pm
Pensioner struck down by 'hit and run' motorcyclist
Photo: Google Earth.
Pensioner mown down by hit and run motorcyclist performing 'wheelies' outside Moseley pub
A pensioner was struck down by a 'hit and ru'n motorcyclist allegedly performing stunts, including 'wheelies' outside a pub in Moseley.
The man, aged in his 70s, was rushed to hospital after being injured near the One Trick Pony in Alcester Road on Sunday afternoon.
Witnesses said two bikers wearing balaclavas were performing stunts moments before the man was stuck by one of the bikers at around 3.50pm.
Members of the public ran to his aid to carry out first aid treatment and Paramedics continued to attend to him at the scene, before he was taken to Heartlands Hospital with minor neck, leg and arm injuries.
It was understood he was released soon afterwards.
One witness said:
"The two bikers had been riding down the road performing tricks and both were wearing balacalvas. Then one rider lost control and crashed into the man walking across the road. The biker then ended up crashing into a taxi, before getting back and riding off. It was shocking to watch. I am just so relieved the man didn't receive more serious injuries."
– Witness.
A spokeswoman for West Midlands Ambulance said:
"We were called to reports that a man had been struck by a motorbike. The patient, a man in his 70s, had received neck, arm and leg injuries but was awake and conscious. Paramedics treated him at the scene and he was taken to Heartlands Hospital. It is believed two men were riding down the road when one of them hit a pedestrian and fell off his bike. It was reported he did not stop and carried on riding off down the road. The man was taken to hospital for a check-up, but did not require treatment. Anyone with information is asked to call police, who have launched an investigation, on 101."
– West Midlands Ambulance.
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$5,000 Reward Offered for Information Leading to Arrest and Conviction in Raccoon Cruelty Case
Adult male raccoon with five aluminum bolt darts from a crossbow in West Oakland.
Contact: media@aldf.org
Oakland, CA – The national nonprofit Animal Legal Defense Fund is offering a $5,000 reward for any information leading to the arrest and conviction of the perpetrator(s) who shot an adult male raccoon with five aluminum bolt darts from a crossbow in West Oakland.
The 15lb animal was found in a church parking lot at Center Street and 10th Street on Sunday morning, January 4, 2015. Good Samaritans documented his injuries on video and brought him to WildCare, a Marin-based urban wildlife hospital and animal rescue.
WildCare's medical staff tried to save the raccoon but his injuries were too severe and he was euthanized to relieve his suffering. The raccoon's body was sent to Ca. Dept. of Fish and Wildlife for a necropsy.
It is against the law in California to intentionally inflict cruelty against any animal. Under California Penal Code § 597(a), anyone who "maliciously and intentionally maims, mutilates, tortures, or wounds a living animal" can face misdemeanor charges—one year in county lockup and/or a $20,000 fine—or felony charges amounting to up to three years imprisonment and/or a $20,000 fine.
The raccoon was found stumbling in the parking lot, with fresh wounds that indicate the attack happened relatively close to the church. 4 high-impact aluminum bolt darts were removed from the soft tissue of the raccoon's body. The injury from the fifth dart, removed from his skull, was not a survivable injury.
"This is one of the more traumatic and malicious injuries I've seen," said Kelle Kacmarcik, of WildCare. "One of WildCare's primary goals is to provide nonlethal, humane options for coexisting with wild animals like raccoons, not shooting them with crossbows."
"People who harm animals often go on to harm humans as well," says Stephen Wells, Animal Legal Defense Fund executive director. "We call on anyone with knowledge of this cruel act to come forward for the safety of other animals and the people of this community."
Photos of the injured raccoon at WildCare are available here (warning: graphic images).
If you have information relating to the identity of the person or persons who shot this raccoon, please contact Oakland Animal Services 510-535-5602.
$5,000 Reward Offered by Animal Legal Defense Fund in Case of Illegal Coyote Trapping
The Animal Legal Defense Fund, the nation's preeminent legal advocacy organization for animals, is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or people responsible for illegally trapping a coyote in Essex County, Massachusetts.
September 15, 2020 Press Release
Animal Legal Defense Fund and Humane Rescue Alliance Offer $10,000 Reward in Case of Dog Stabbing
The Animal Legal Defense Fund, the nation's preeminent legal advocacy organization for animals, and Humane Rescue Alliance (HRA) are offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or people responsible for the abandonment and stabbing of a senior-aged dog named Ladybell on July 12, 2020.
August 4, 2020 Press Release
Animal Legal Defense Fund Offers $5,000 Reward in Case of Turtle and Rabbit Shot with Crossbow
The Animal Legal Defense Fund, the nation's preeminent legal advocacy organization for animals, is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or people responsible for the shooting of a turtle and rabbit with a crossbow on the week of June 1, 2020.
June 16, 2020 Press Release