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Katie Lee art – Exhibition in Manchester, UK
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Posted on: February 9, 2020 Posted by: Shirko Abid Comments: 0
Katie Lee recently hosted a small-scale art exhibition at LEAF in Manchester. On the 7th of February 2020 we were invited to attend an event she hosted called "Space Punk Art Show"; a title which perfectly characterises her unique style and vision.
Going by her moniker of The Social Butterfly North on Instagram, Katie is an emerging artist based in Liverpool, UK. She graduated with a Fine Arts degree and then embarked on a journey to succeed in the world of art. Like so many of her predecessors, she undertook smaller art projects with an aim to build notoriety for herself, piece by piece. In doing so, she spent a significant amount of time undertaking work in many places from restaurants, beauty salons and fitness studios, eventually establishing her brand as The Social Butterfly North. Currently she is hard at work in spearheading her new all female art collective; "Boss Babes", which had resulted as a rebuttal from her personal experiences in seeing a lack of female presence in art today.
The Themes of Katie Lee's Space Punk Art Show Manchester
As much as we would love to continue talking about her journey as an artist we would like to concentrate on the theme and style of her art show. Deeply rooted in modern art and containing traces of graffiti style and pop art we can see images of space, medication, themes of self-love and harsh contrasts of colours that form an almost neon-punk aesthetic. This definetly falls in line with Boss Babes' ethos of independence and artistic freedom.
A lot of my paintings have started as a way of dealing with different personal problems present in my life. One example would be anxiety.
Katie Lee Artist, Manchester 2020
With a background of exploring abstract expressionism, we wondered what inspired Katie to turn to figurative painting. She revealed that much of the exhibition is highly influenced by her past experiences at university, some of which being a witness to its drug culture. Having never took part, Katie gets her ideas from an outsiders perspective, using her friends' experiences of being under the influence as a way to interpret what they feel and perceive (which then gives rise to some of the more surreal nature of her work) in an attempt to understand.
While some paintings create a sense of wonder and curiosity from taking drugs recreationally there were also some illustrations that revealed the downside of dependence. Katie explained the origins' of one of her paintings, "Happy Pills", which was directly influenced by seeing a close associate of hers completely stripped of their required medication (by their own free-will) as means of taking back control. The painting itself displays a clear duality of two distinct states, with a medication tablet at the forefront to highlight the dependency that some are unfortunate enough to suffer and how large of a role it plays in some people's' lives.
All in all…
The creative vision Katie channelled to produce the artwork present at Space Punk Art Show at LEAF Manchester is not only produced as a cathartic experience from the past, but it actually represents revisited sketches drawn during that period of the time.
With unwavering determination, Katie Lee seems to bear the makings of an artist that is fuelled by clear passion for her vision and with the creation of her new art collective Boss Babes. She has proven that she is an individual who cares deeply for artists whose voices have been muffled by the world of art.
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The marine oil spill in has been contained, but the clean up could take days and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
A cargo ship has leaked oil into Fremantle waters, with authorities worried it could take days and hundreds of thousands of dollars to clean.
The alarm was raised at 1am on Saturday at Berth 11 at the north-eastern end of the Inner Harbour with oil spilling out of a Spanish-registered cargo ship.
Specialist teams laid absorbent booms at both ends of the ship to try and trap the heavy leak.
"It came through one of the strainer boxes from the sea chest. So again, where water is sucked into a ship they have a sea chest, and it was in that area," Deputy Harbour Master David Heppingstone said.
Mr Heppingstone confirmed the leak had been contained on Saturday afternoon with authorities praising the ship's crew for their cooperation.
According to 7 News, divers are expected to assess the cargo ship for a second time to make sure no more oil is leaking.
The Fremantle Ports Authority say the clean-up could take a couple of days and are urging the public to stay clear of the spill zone.
"At this stage no there has been no adverse affects on the marine environment," Mr Heppingstone said.


The amino acid substitution modification technique is a modification method in which one amino acid on a peptide chain of a protein molecule is replaced with another amino acid.
At a specific position of a protein molecule, the type and nature of the amino acid are specifically invariant. The amino acid substitution modification refers to changing a specific amino acid on the peptide chain to another amino acid, thereby changing the spatial configuration of the protein, thereby changing the enzyme. Certain biological properties of proteins, known as amino acid substitution modifications.
The amino acid substitution modification mainly plays a role in increasing the enzyme activity of the enzyme protein and increasing the stability of the enzyme protein; for example, after the third isoleucine on the molecule of the T4-lysozyme enzyme protein is substituted with cysteine, Cysteine can form a disulfide bond with the cysteine at position 97, which plays an important role in maintaining the spatial configuration of the enzyme protein. The enzyme stability is increased by maintaining the enzyme activity. Times. Amino acid substitution modification methods are mainly carried out by means of genetic engineering.
Studies have shown that covalent binding of cofactors to enzymes can produce new enzyme activities. In recent years, more creative work has been to develop new coenzyme analogs and introduce them into the active site of the enzyme to achieve cofactor remodeling of the enzyme, which is to solve the problem of expensive cofactors in the catalytic reaction system. Important progress. Using the solid phase synthesis technique, the 8th residue phenylalanine in the c-peptide chain of ribonuclease s is replaced with a natural amino acid, pyridinium phosphate (vitamin B6), and the recombined enzyme catalyzes the reaction rate. Increased by 7 times.
The most creative work of chemical modification is to make a catalyst with new catalytic properties by atomic displacement of the active site amino acid of the enzyme protein by a purely organic chemical reaction. The earliest example was the conversion of the serine active site of subtilisin to a cysteine residue, resulting in the loss of its initial aminohydrolysis activity, but still retaining the ability to catalyze the esterification reaction. It can therefore be used for the synthesis of peptides. The selenocysteine is introduced on the subtilisin to convert the aminohydrolase to an acyltransferase. They subsequently discovered that this selenium-based subtilisin has similar activity to glutathione peroxidase due to the presence of redox-active selenium atoms. Since then, other researchers have used this route for the modification of trypsin, which also has redox activity.
Directed evolution has evolved into a fairly mature protein and peptide modification technology in its short span of more than a decade. Its application has greatly promoted the development of other related fields such as enzyme engineering, metabolic engineering and medicine. With the joint efforts of many researchers, the field of protein directed evolution has made outstanding achievements, and there have been many successful examples of directed evolution applied to industrial biocatalyst transformation.
Directed evolution can be applied not only to the significant improvement of biocatalyst activity, thermal stability and performance of the operating conditions, but also to the vaccine and pharmaceutical fields, to modify vaccines and protein drugs, and to achieve significant evolution in various applications. Directed evolution has provided a powerful tool for biocatalysts from laboratory research to industrial applications. At present, the gratifying results of some enzymes (or proteins), arsenate detoxification pathways, radiation resistance, biosynthetic pathways, enantioselectivity, antibody libraries, and directed site directed evolution have Encouraged scientists in many related fields.
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DRESDEN, Germany, June 2, 2014 - The partners in the European research project "Verification for heterogeneous Reliable Design and Integration" (VERDI) are pleased to provide the Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) class library developed in the SystemC/C++ language to the Accellera Systems Initiative for further industry standardization and adoption. UVM-SystemC is the result of a three year collaboration to develop a system-level verification methodology to make integrated circuits and embedded systems more reliable and their development more effective. The project is funded by the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).
The Accellera Systems Initiative drives the UVM standardization and creation of the reference implementation based on IEEE Std. 1800-2012 (Standard for SystemVerilog-Unified Hardware Design, Specification, and Verification Language). The UVM-SystemC implementation is based on IEEE Std. 1666-2011 (Standard SystemC Language Reference Manual), which will make the verification methodology more language agnostic and thus truly universal. Various Accellera working groups, such as the SystemC verification working group as well as the multi-language verification working group, already expressed their interest in this development and welcome the donation of UVM-SystemC.
Unlike other initiatives to create UVM in SystemC, the proof-of-concept class library developed in the VERDI project uses identical constructs as defined in the UVM (SystemVerilog) standard for test and sequence creation, verification component and test bench configuration, and execution by means of simulation. This will facilitate a seamless introduction of UVM-SystemC for users familiar with either SystemC or UVM. The proof-of-concept implementation has been documented in a language reference manual, which describes all language constructs and semantics of the UVM-SystemC library.
"The donation of this UVM-SystemC class library to Accellera is a logical next step to further advance this system-level verification methodology for industry wide usage," said Karsten Einwich, VERDI project leader working at Fraunhofer IIS/EAS. "I would like to thank all partners in this project, NXP, Infineon, Continental, Magillem, and University Pierre and Marie Curie, which all contributed to the realization of UVM in SystemC, and the European Commission for funding this project."
The UVM-SystemC class library will be presented at the 20th North American SystemC User Group (NASCUG) meeting, which is co-located with the Design Automation Conference (DAC) on June 2, 2014. In a keynote speech held by Karsten Einwich, the concepts of UVM-SystemC are presented and it will be shown how they can be applied to real-world designs from the digital and mixed-signal domains. Registration for the NASCUG meeting is free of charge at www.nascug.org.
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UPMC is the leading scientific and medical university in France. It is now part of the Sorbonne University, one of the most comprehensive university centers in France. UPMC is involved in VERDI through the System on Chip (SoC) division within the Laboratory of Computer Sciences (LIP6), which is part of the French national scientific research center (CNRS). The research areas of the SoC division focus on algorithms, design methods and tools for heterogeneous systems on chip allowing embedded hardware/software applications. The LIP6 is leading the Master of Science on Electronics and Computer science at UPMC.
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As everyone says in Uganda to welcome each other, 'Praise God!'.
1) I have been fortunate to quickly form relationships with other lawyers in the office. After a couple of weeks of acclimatisation I have been trusted with more independent work. I have been invited for meals at colleagues' houses, and a colleague called Duncan has invited me to play football with him on a weekly basis. It's very different to Downing or the Wentworth though… It's like playing in a jungle, but with no grass, thousands of mosquitoes and some pretty reckless tackles!
3) I now attend Kampala International Church. It's a large bible-teaching church with people from all over the world. People are very welcoming too. I've been invited to many houses for Sunday lunch, and even to a men's church rugby match every Monday night. I'm awful and have absolutely no understanding of the offside rule – but it's nevertheless great fun. I now also attend a midweek Bible study with 4 Ugandans, a Kenyan, a German and a man from Reading. What a mix.
Frustrating but fruitful is not only some more convenient alliteration, but a good reflection of my experience of the legal work I have begun to get involved in. The first few weeks were an exercise in acclimatisation, spent learning Ugandan law, most of which is very similar to English law, and visiting courts, prisons and police stations with other lawyers at UCLF to see justice Ugandan-style. I was also asked to deliver some talks to university law students, encouraging involvement in legal aid work.
The last week or so has seen me conducting my first pieces of independent work.
Firstly, it has been incredibly frustrating. The Ugandan justice system is the slowest and most inefficient justice system I have ever experienced. I'll give you two examples: Last Monday I travelled for 2 hours to Kayunga. My task was to meet unrepresented suspects in the cell before their hearings to find out their details, offence, and how long they had been on remand. The objective was to advise them how to apply for bail, or for their case to be dismissed. This is vital in Uganda. Whilst Britain has a culture of 'investigate then arrest', Uganda's is the reverse. This, combined with a lack of finance and an engrained culture of corruption can leave suspects languishing for up to 6 years in prison without a trial. Prosecutors repeatedly visit court to tell the judge that investigations 'remain incomplete'. Last Monday however, after interviewing the suspects then waiting another hour or so for things to begin, a court official emerged to tell the awaiting lawyers and witnesses that the judge wasn't coming today. No reason given. Moreover, on Monday I travelled to Entebbe to advise suspects. Each criminal case for the whole morning was however, for a different reason each time, simply adjourned for two months later.
Secondly though, when you do see fruit and the hope the work can bring, this makes it all the more rewarding. I have had the privilege of interviewing some of Kampala's poorest individuals, both in the office and in police stations, courts and prisons. I have been struck by their determination, their love for their families, and their sense of being wronged, but also the extent of their poverty and how much worse their situation would be without legal aid. Last week I interviewed a man in Luzira Prison charged with murder. The death penalty is a possibility if he is eventually found guilty. However, investigations remain 'incomplete' months after arrest and with neither money nor legal knowledge, a several year pre-trial stretch awaits him. His wife and immediate family have died, leaving him with 7 children under the age of 13 which are currently fending for themselves with no government support. He is also suffering from Malaria. His situation seems pretty dire. Within a week though UCLF interviewed him, paid and filed his bail application and will represent him at the hearing.


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BOOKS & CATALOGUES
Museum Angerlehner / 2022
IAM Contemporary – The birth of interactions / 2022
Kristin Hjellegjerde – Uprising / 2022
Roman Road – TWO SISTERS / 2022
Des Bains – All that and a bag of chips / 2021
London Grads Now. 21 at Saatchi Gallery
MAFA international festival / 2021
Late at Tate – Tate Britain / 2020
The Cookhouse Gallery – Chelsea College of Arts / 2020
Südpol 13.0 / 2019
The work of Austrian artist Michael Dohr introduces a surprising visual vocabulary that draws its inspiration from the structures of the natural world as well as from the industrialized society that surrounds us. Dohr contemplates on the gradual process of influencing, controlling and manipulating nature on our path towards a digital and technological society. We seem to be right in the middle of a transitional period that is characterized by a dissolution of the organic on behalf of exponential technological progress. With scientific disciplines such as synthetic biology or bio editing pushing the boundaries of how we interact with living organisms, there is a large potential for an otherworldly sci-fi reality to be brought into existence.
In his work Dohr reflects on this manipulation of nature by creating landscapes depicting an ongoing process that involves notions of organic growth, change or materiality. Dohr uses casting moulds made of silicone and plays with the organic appearance of the material and the concept of an artificial replication of nature. By playing with double meanings and using a visual language that could relate to the organic and the technological world alike he tries to visualize the pressure our modern society exerts on natural systems. The artist creates rockets that could as well be interpreted as trees or nuclear fuel rods that might be regarded as rod bacteria.
In a process of imitating and simplifying natural structures, patterns or creatures and transferring them into a language of symbols and codes Dohr creates speculative worlds caught between an organic past and a technological future. His work has been included in the London Grads Now. 21 show at Saatchi Gallery (UK), Late at Tate at Tate Britain online and Postcards from London at Villa Arson (FR). He was awarded the Frank Bowling Scholarship in 2020.
© Michael Dohr 2021

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Not many of those in the first few years of longevity.
Guess that depends on your priorities . If you prioritize monthly schedule flexibility then you have BV days; if you want 4-6 weeks off straight you prioritize OCV. Individual decisions... sounds like something else I've heard somewhere. But I agree with you most choose max time off over schedule flexibility and that was your ultimate point.
It has nothing to do with priorities or individual decisions in the first few years. The days just aren't accrued.
I'd like to know how a new guy (less than 5 years) could drop a month of flying in ANC with 2 weeks or less of BV days, can you explain ? The question wasn't about dropping a few trips here and there in SDF for monthly flexibility.
I understand there is a limited amount of flexibility compared to some other airlines but if a guy needs some time off is there a way to drop a trip besides calling in sick? On the ANC 747 if a one month LOA was requested what are the odds of it being granted if outside of peak?
After a few years, I agree. OCV and BV days give you great options. I just didn't think BV days are the answer to this question for a new guy that wants ANC B747. You're probably right.
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I am admittedly not overly familiar with ANC 74 schedules and didn't realize that all of the scheduled trips are in excess of 2 weeks long; the question was how do I drop a trip (not a month of flying) without having to call in sick. If that trip is less than 2 weeks then one could use BV days in year 2, if they chose to put all of their days in BV.
that is a risky strategy because every day of the trip would have to be approved for BV use, which is not automatic.
you could post the trip on the board but longer trips are not as likely to be picked up.
I'd like to know how a new guy (less than 5 years) could drop a month of flying in ANC with 2 weeks or less of BV days, can you explain?
Line up a single-trip pay period with a pay period in which you have vacation, such that the vacation week is within 48 hours of the beginning or end of the trip. Elect for OCV, and also elect to not restore your pay deficit. Entire pay period off.
See page 2 of the latest IPA OCV Guide (ver.12).
Fine print: you lose pay, which you may choose to restore the next four pay periods, but you do indeed turn one week of vacation into four weeks off.
.. is there a way to drop a trip besides calling in sick ?
.. On the ANC 747 if a one month LOA was requested ...?
We basically have the option to work a lot (pick-up trips), or work very little (with OCV).
It takes a lot of seniority to have a small amount of schedule flexibility here. We can't even split trips on the trip board. It's an all or nothing system. At least its better than what we had before, but it compares poorly to other airlines.
I wonder how easily that could be done in ANC the first few years on property.
Great point, and very unlikely given 74 manning today; fact is not all ANC trips are two weeks long. I was being mildly sarcastic with my two week comment since we all know that there are 74 trips less than two weeks. The question wasn't about dropping a month it was about getting out of a trip without having to call in sick. Maybe I misinterpreted the question, but I read it to say "I'm trying to avoid a trip for a family event/appointment and don't want to have to call sick." So one could bid around it to minimize the TAFB and then BV it. As pointed out, that would be much easier for a non-international trip.


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Home LocalVoicesOpinions-Letters The serial untruths about President Trump
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The serial untruths about President Trump
by Santa Barbara News-Press Editorial September 18, 2022 0 comment
Purely Political, By James Buckley
I've taken the following from a letter I received about a month ago and have meant to respond immediately but … things happen. In any case, now seems an appropriate time to dispel some of the more egregious mistruths (lies?) told regularly about Donald Trump.
"You have every right to support the former president," says my "friendly" letter writer (who I've not named because I'm not sure he wanted his name attached to it), "but I'd like to tell you why I would never vote for him. I am a lifelong Republican until he came along. Trump is a serial liar."
After that humble opening, graciously allowing yours truly "every right to support" Mr. Trump, my "lifelong Republican" letter-writing friend lit out with a great number of "facts" that were simply not true. I can't go through every statement made (and there were many), but thought I'd challenge some of the misinformation being promulgated. Some are just silly.
For example, claiming that Donald Trump "laid the foundation of his first campaign on the 'birther' myth." The former president certainly expressed skepticism about President Barack Obama's birth certificate, as did many. Suspicion arose from publicist Acton & Dystel's 1991 brochure boasting that their new client — the young Harvard Law School grad and author Barack Obama who wrote "Dreams from My Father" — was "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii." Mr. Obama finally — reluctantly — produced his Hawaiian birth certificate to dispel the controversy.
Mr. Trump jumped into the birther issue with both feet but didn't "lay the foundation" of his run for the presidency on where Mr. Obama was or wasn't born. He had much larger issues in mind.
As for Mr. Trump's "lying" about the 2020 election, recent revelations about the role of the FBI and the Justice Department have put into serious question the integrity of that election. I too believe it was "stolen" and certainly can't fault Mr. Trump for coming to that conclusion.
Here are more charges worth disputing:
"He mocked a disabled reporter."
I remember the incident, and the president's explanation was: "If (Washington Post reporter) Mr. Kovaleski is handicapped, I would not know because I do not know what he looks like. If I did know, I would definitely not say anything about his appearance." The faces Mr. Trump used to illustrate the reporter's demeanor were unfortunate, but I have no doubt he had no idea what the man looked like.
"He mocked a Gold Star family."
Khizr Khan, the father in a Gold Star family, had been invited to and been given a place of honor at the 2016 Democratic Convention. His son had died fighting in Iraq, and Mr. Khan harshly criticized then-candidate Trump, who struck back, but never "mocked" a Gold Star family. President Trump has always shown much respect for military families, though he's been very critical of the military leadership.
"As a candidate, he advocated for the use of torture on prisoners."
He did no such thing. What he did do was ponder aloud what should and/or could be done if a prisoner had information that a nuclear device was about to be detonated and that tens of thousands of Americans were about to be incinerated. He then proffered that perhaps one may feel differently about "torture" under certain circumstances.
"He called on Russia to find the missing 33,000 Clinton emails and subsequently said that he would never ask for Russian help."
Anyone who watched the debates and saw or heard Mr. Trump's statements remembers quite clearly that he jokingly turned to face the cameras during one of the televised debates with Ms. Clinton during the 2016 campaign and asked (while smiling broadly), "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing." Apparently, no one on the Democratic side had any problem with Mrs. Clinton's destroying over 30,000 emails on the phones she used (with the use of Bleach-Bit, hammers, and other devices) that had been subpoenaed by Congressional investigators.
"He labeled Stormy Daniels 'horse face' and Rosie O'Donnell 'a pig.'"
Intemperate and certainly impolite, but honestly, both women — particularly Ms. O'Donnell — called Mr. Trump many worse names. It was a spitting match, and both sides hocked some lugers. Un-ladylike and un-presidential, but there it is.
"He indicated he was going to appoint his personal doctor, Dr. Ronny Jackson, as head of the VA despite him having no executive or administrative experience."
Dr. Ronny Jackson was the White House physician who'd also been President Obama's White House physician. As for "no executive or administrative experience," all I can say is you've got to be kidding.
"He did appoint his personal bodyguard to be head of White House security."
I don't know all the facts about this, but who could he trust more?
"When asked about John McCain being a hero, Trump said he liked people who weren't captured. When McCain died, Trump refused to fly the White House flag at half-staff."
Sen. John McCain was an American hero, so I take issue with President Trump's statement here, but Mr. McCain was also the "Republican" U.S. senator who single-handedly squashed the president's proposal to phase out Obamacare, a top priority and main campaign promise of the Republican Party and President Trump. The two men had little to no good words for each other.
"He dismisses the intelligence community's assessments offering no proof to his position. They cite facts; he doesn't cite anything other than his own position."
After learning what it has wrought in recent years, President Trump turned out to have made a 100% accurate assessment of the so-called "intelligence community."
"He doesn't believe that climate change is happening. He doesn't understand the difference between 'weather' and 'climate.'"
Now that California has determined it is in this state's best interest to shift to all-electric vehicles by 2030 without a commitment to expand and improve the electric grid and its power-generating capacity, the president was right to be both cynical about the climate change agenda and skeptical about the boneheaded "solutions" being proposed.
"When asked why he didn't go to pay his respects upon John Lewis's passing, President Trump replied that Lewis didn't go to his inauguration, so 'what the hey.' And he refused to admire Lewis' life of protesting for 'good trouble.'"
U.S. Rep. John Lewis was an extremely partisan Democrat politician who regularly expressed disdain for President Trump, and Mr. Trump treated him as such. He probably won't attend Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's, Speaker Nancy Pelosi's or former President Bill Clinton's funerals either.
And, finally, perhaps the things that really bug our "lifelong Republican" letter writer, who, I surmise, prefers President Biden's Angry Old Man act and insufferable incompetence:
"Unimportant reasons I dislike him: a) his hair, b) his tie is too long, c) when he comes on stage, he claps in response to the audience; as far as I know, only autocrats like Putin and Kim and Xi do that, d) he never buttons his suit jacket, e) the way he says 'CHI-na.'"
Aah, now we're getting down to the nitty gritty …
James Buckley is a longtime Montecito resident. He welcomes questions or comments at jimb@substack.com. Readers are invited to visit jimb.substack.com, where Jim's Journals are on file. He also invites people to subscribe to Jim's Journal.
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Q: Does this independence property hold? Let $x \sim N(\mu_x,\Sigma_x)$ and $v \sim N(0,\Sigma_v)$ be independent multivariate Gaussian random vectors, and let $$y = Ax + v$$ for some square matrix $A$ such that $y \sim N(A\mu_x, A\Sigma_xA^T + \Sigma_v)$. Now let $Z$ be a Bernoulli random variable with parameter $p_Z$, where $Z$ is marginally independent $x$ and marginally independent of $y$, such that the joint CDF of $x$ and $Z$ is equal to the product of the CDF of $x$ and the CDF of $Z$, and the joint CDF of $y$ and $Z$ is equal to the product of the CDF of $y$ and the CDF of $Z$. Let $F_{Z\mid x,y}(z \mid x,y)$ be the CDF of $Z$ conditioned on $x$ and $y$, and let $F_Z(z)$ be the CDF of $Z$. Is it true that,
$$
F_{Z\mid x,y}(z \mid x,y) = F_Z(z)
$$
In the following, it seems to be true as long as $x$ is conditionally independent of $y$ given $Z$:
\begin{align}
F_{Z\mid x,y}(z \mid x,y) &= \frac{F_{x,y,Z}(x,y,z)}{F_{x,y}(x,y)} \\
&= \frac{F_{x \mid y,Z}(x \mid y,z) \cdot F_{y \mid Z}(y \mid z) \cdot F_Z(z)}{F_{x \mid y}(x \mid y) \cdot F_{y}(y)} \\
&= \frac{F_{x \mid y,Z}(x \mid y,z) \cdot F_{y}(y) \cdot F_Z(z)}{F_{x \mid y}(x \mid y) \cdot F_{y}(y)} \\
&= \frac{F_{x \mid y,Z}(x \mid y,z) \cdot F_Z(z)}{F_{x \mid y}(x \mid y)} \\
\end{align}
However, I don't think I can reduce this any further.

A: In abstract, your question is "do $Z \perp X$ and $Z \perp Y$ imply $Z \perp (X, Y)$"? This is in general not true (pairwise independence does not guarantee joint independence). Your question re-examined this relationship after imposing more conditions on the joint distribution of $(X, Y)$.  For simplicity, consider the univariate case (the logic is that, if this conjecture cannot hold for the univariate case, then it won't hold for multivariate case):
\begin{align}
Y = X + V, \quad X \sim N(\mu, \sigma_x^2), V \sim N(0, \sigma_v^2), X \perp V. \tag{1}
\end{align}
$(1)$ implies that the joint distribution of $(X, Y)$ is $N_2((\mu, \mu)', \Sigma)$, where $\Sigma = \begin{bmatrix} \sigma_x^2 & \sigma_x^2 \\ \sigma_x^2 & \sigma_y^2 \end{bmatrix}$ and $\sigma_y^2 = \sigma_x^2 + \sigma_v^2$. So the problem reduces to if $Z$ is independent of every component random variable of a Gaussian random vector, is $Z$ also independent of the random vector itself?
Unfortunately, this is still not true.  To disprove, first note that
\begin{align}
& Z \perp X \iff Z \perp \sigma_x^{-1}(X - \mu), \\
& Z \perp Y \iff Z \perp \sigma_y^{-1}(Y - \mu), \\
& Z \perp (X, Y) \iff Z \perp \Sigma^{-1/2}
\left(\begin{bmatrix}X \\ Y \end{bmatrix}
- \begin{bmatrix}\mu \\ \mu \end{bmatrix}\right).
\end{align}
Therefore, for the counterexample, it is sufficient ($\dagger$) to construct a random vector $(X, Y, Z)$ such that $(X, Y), (X, Z), (Y, Z)$ are bivariate $N_2(0, I_{(2)})$ random vectors, but $X, Y, Z$ are not jointly independent.  The clever example provided by Dilip Sarwate in this answer then perfectly fits in.

$\dagger$: Whether $Z$ is binary is immaterial: to make $Z$ binary, you can use indicator functions after the Gaussian $Z$ has been constructed.

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A Tucson Checkup
New data shows that the health of Pima County residents is decidedly mixed
By Dave Devine and Molly McKasson
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For the past year, residents of Pima County—like all Americans—have been inundated with talk about our health-care system, its flaws, proposed reforms and its philosophical underpinnings.
However, much less has been said about how healthy we are as a community.
The absence of such conversations does not involve a lack of information. There are plenty of up-to-date statistics out there, including a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation report released in February that provides data for counties across the nation.
For Pima County, the latest health figures show decidedly mixed results, clashing with the century-old image that Tucson is a destination for wellness.
Back in 1890, a former assistant surgeon of the U.S. Army, Dr. C.L.G. Anderson, wrote: "I believe that the climate of Arizona presents every degree of elevation, temperature and humidity necessary for restoration and maintenance of health."
By 1922, Tucson's Sunshine Climate Club was using the community's healthy profile as an economic-development tool. It sold this area as a rejuvenating place for, among others, "the business man who is overworked, needs outdoor recreation, hunting, horseback riding, motoring and fresh air."
Gone are those idyllic days.
While the local cancer rate is relatively low compared to national figures, the overall premature-death rate is quite high; we have a somewhat low incidence of teen pregnancy, but one of the highest infant-mortality rates in Arizona.
We're not as troubled by adult obesity as some counties; on the other hand, a high number of people commit suicide here each year.
Alarmingly, the number of deaths in adults older than 45 due to lower-respiratory illnesses puts the kibosh on Pima County's longstanding reputation as a healing destination for those suffering from tuberculosis and asthma.
Despite these mixed health results, according to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation study, most Pima County residents feel upbeat about their physical condition. Between 2002 and 2008, on average, only 14 percent of those surveyed considered themselves in "poor" or "fair" health.
Sherry Daniels, director of the Pima County Health Department, appreciates the community's positive attitude, but says she's disturbed about some aspects of the county's checkup, including our high suicide rate, our high rate of premature death and our high infant-mortality rate.
"I don't know all the reasons (for Pima County's figures)," Daniels admits. "Some you can postulate on, and some, not so much."
Daniels is particularly puzzled by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation finding that Pima County is tops in the state regarding a combination of figures made up of four quantifiable criteria: health behaviors, clinical care, social/economic factors and physical environment—yet for health outcomes like length of life and quality of life, Pima County ranks sixth out of 15 counties, trailing Yuma, Santa Cruz and Maricopa counties, among others.
"That's sort of a conundrum," Daniels says. "You'd think they'd be closer together."
She's also concerned that the economic downturn is only going to make things worse across the board.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation report can be used to compare and contrast Pima County with other Southwestern communities.
On the minus side, one of the most disturbing local statistics is the rate of premature death, which is defined as number of deaths from 2004 to 2006 for those below the age of 75 per 100,000 people.
When compared in this category with six other Southwestern counties centered around major cities, Pima County placed fifth, with fewer deaths than only Las Vegas and Bakersfield, Calif.
An e-mail from Pima County Health Department division manager Diane Kerrihard says that Pima County's high minority population contributed to the numbers.
"In Arizona in 2008, Asians were on average eight years younger than white non-Hispanics when they died. Hispanics were 10 years younger. African Americans were 16 years younger, and Native Americans were 19 years younger," she wrote. "... Thirty-nine percent of Pima County's population is comprised of ethnic and racial groups with less than the 77.0 average lifespan."
Nancy Johnson, the chief operating officer of the El Rio Community Health Center, which has primarily served minority clients for decades, has a somewhat different vantage point on the issue.
"You need to look at health disparities when considering premature death," says Johnson. These factors include the percentage of uninsured people in a community, along with their education level, economic status, native language and health literacy.
Johnson points out that lifestyle also plays a key role in longevity. "What do people do to keep healthy?" she asks. "Who they hang out with is important. Are they exercisers or doughnut eaters?"
Dr. Luis Escobedo, regional medical director for El Paso with the Texas Department of State Health Services, says proximity to the border may help explain his border community's low number in the premature-death category: Because of close cultural ties to Mexico, people with terminal illnesses could cross the border, and thus wouldn't appear in El Paso's premature death figure.
"The statistics may underestimate results," Escobedo says.
In her e-mail, Kerrihard highlights a number of favorable Pima County statistics. For example, the area has a relatively low rate of both sexually transmitted diseases and vaccine-preventable diseases such as hepatitis A.
Arizona Pima County Maricopa County
Overall cancer death rate
(per 100,000 population)
Rate of hepatitis A
(per 100,000 population) 1.81 1.38 1.78
Respiratory disease deaths
(45 years old and above, per 1,000 people) 122.4 125.2 119.1
(per 1,000 live births) 6.3 7.2 6.1
Prenatal care in first trimester of pregnancy 79.40% 70.80% 83.10%
Pregnancies per 1,000 15- to 17-year-olds 34.6 31 36.8
Source: 2008 County Profiles Monitoring Progress Toward Healthy Arizona 2010 Objectives, Arizona Department of Health Services (azdhs.gov/plan/report/ahs/ahs2008/pdf/6b1_10.pdf)
On the other hand, 2008 health statistics for Arizona counties published by the Department of Health Services reveal the local infant mortality rate is high—7.2 deaths per 1,000 live births. This figure exceeds the state average and places Pima County ninth out of 15 counties.
This statistic bothers Daniels. "Too many babies are dying," she says, adding that she can't explain this disturbing and ongoing trend (see "Lost Angels," June 5, 2008), although she knows that fetal deaths are often related to a lack of prenatal care.
The same 2008 figures show that the proportion of women receiving care during the first trimester of pregnancy was low in Pima County—less than 70.8 percent, compared to 79.4 percent statewide, and 83.1 percent in Maricopa County. Not surprisingly, Phoenix had a lower rate of infant mortality—6.1 deaths per 1,000 live births.
"I don't know why we'd be different than Maricopa County," Daniels says, "and I'm surprised we haven't done better."
For Kathi Ford, who manages the county's Child Care Nurse Consultation Program, the situation is less opaque.
"Prenatal care is accessible depending on where you are, who you are and how much money you have," Ford says. "If an expectant mother is here illegally, she most likely doesn't feel safe seeking prenatal care from the government."
Ford also points out that a number of women are uninsured, yet make too much money to qualify for government health care. "We try to get these women plugged into low-income health insurance, but there are limits to that," she says.
So why does Maricopa County come out ahead of Pima County on a number of important health benchmarks?
"I really have no good answer for such questions," replies Dr. Bob England, director of the Maricopa County Department of Public Health. "I have no funds to look into the root causes (of these sorts of questions)."
According to England, his department is grossly under-funded for the number of people it serves. Local money, as opposed to state and federal funding, is the key to addressing health issues, he says.
"There, the national average is $15 per person, and Maricopa County receives $2," he says.
Pima County reportedly invests more generously, coming in at $7 to $10 local dollars, per capita. (However, Daniels points out that her department performs some functions, such as animal control, that the Maricopa agency does not.) Given that Pima County dedicates more local money to public health, shouldn't Pima County be doing better than Maricopa County?
Not necessarily, replies England. He says he's skeptical of statistics, regardless of their source. He considers the Robert Wood Johnson 2010 county rankings report as "low-hanging fruit" and encourages people instead to review the source data.
"You need to look at the confidence level. ... Unless every case is being counted (i.e., with death certificates), you might be seeing a random sampling that frequently gives you no better than a 95 percent confidence level.
"What I hate about the County Rankings Report," England continues, "is that often, there's very little difference between a county that ranks the best on something, and the county that comes in almost last. That gives a negative impression."
Like his counterpart in Pima County, England agrees that inadequate funding is the bane of his job, and he doesn't see that changing in the near future.
"Because we don't have near the funding we need, we network a lot and try to create community-based organizations that can then spin off and stand on their own," he says.
Under the rubric of Family Health Partnerships (FHP), Maricopa County has done just that. Rose Howe, manager of the program, recalls how one particular partnership started seven years ago.
"I remember how we were assessing the state of health in Maricopa County," says Howe, "and noticed that women, specifically Latina women, were not getting prenatal care."
As a result, they brainstormed and reached out into the community for volunteers and mentors to help alleviate the problem—and there was a strong outpouring of support from the Maryvale neighborhood.
"We partnered with the community," Howe says, "and today, they are a 501(c)3 nonprofit and affiliated with a national initiative called Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies.
"The group is trusted by the community and can do a much better job than we ever could have," Howe continues. "It's all about helping people to access the health care that they need."
What Howe has seen in Maryvale makes her confident that once women realize the importance of first-trimester prenatal care, they'll be willing to spend some money and change their lifestyles to ensure healthier babies.
A few years ago, the Maricopa County Department of Public Health also became concerned about another issue: the rising incidence of premature death in a particular segment of the community.
"We helped to start a group called Center for African-American Health," says Howe. "The impetus for this effort was a high rate of premature death in that population, including an increase in many chronic and disabling diseases."
Today, she credits the group with expanding its mission and offering health education and awareness to all residents, regardless of ethnicity. But Howe is fully aware that the effort is a patchwork endeavor.
"The center depends on lots of volunteers and grants to augment what funding they receive from the state and county," she explains.
Dr. England has nothing but praise for the community groups that have been fostered by the Maricopa County Health Department.
"We'd like to have a lot more of these in the future," he says. "We're focusing now with a group called Healthy Weight that is trying to come up with policy changes that might counteract the obesity trend. They are looking at simple things we can do, such as bike paths or leaving school playgrounds open after hours. These sorts of changes have more of an impact on health than all the health-education programs that we try to initiate."
According to the Johnson Foundation study, in 2008, Maricopa County had a slightly higher obesity rate in adults than Pima County.
England echoes a sentiment also expressed by Sherry Daniels, Pima County's health director.
"So much about health is out of our control," he says. "We do as much as we can."
Using statistics from various sources, the comparison of seven Southwestern counties that contain major cities reveals that Tucson generally falls somewhere in the middle of the data.
The local suicide rate is higher than that in some other places. Tyler Woods, who leads the support group, Survivors of Suicide Tucson, thinks there are two main reasons.
"First," Woods says, "we are a snowbird community, and the elderly suicide rate is pretty high. When someone looses a spouse, they might not choose to go on.
"Second," Woods continues, "our social-service network doesn't have great programs, and funds for mental-health care are constantly being cut. So we don't have the funding to help people and get the word out there."
Poor or fair health (1)
Premature death (1)
Adult obesity (1)
Albuquerque 15% 7,816 20% 175 17.6 17.8-23.2%
Bakersfield 24% 8,677 29% 303.4 11.1 17.8-23.2%
El Paso 26% 6,375 24% N/A N/A 30.0-46.9%
Las Vegas 18% 8,346 25% 238.5 17.9 17.8-23.2%
Phoenix 15% 6,978 23% 184.3 14.1 17.8-23.2%
Salt Lake City 13% 6,230 23% 164.4 15.5 13.9-17.7%
Tucson 14% 8,019 21% 181.2 16 17.8-23.2%
1. County Health Rankings, 2010, University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute for the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Premature death figures are per 100,000 population.
2. www.worldlifeexpectancy.com. Figures per 100,000 population.
3. "Health Insurance Coverage Estimates, Percent Uninsured, 2006," map produced by U.S. Census Bureau.
With the knowledge that some key indictors in Pima County appear to be heading in an unhealthy direction, what can we do to work toward better checkups in the future?
"If expenditure trends (budget cuts) continue, health education will be the first piece to go," Daniels says. "In some respects, that's the most important piece."
In March, the county was awarded a two-year, $15.75 million federal grant. The application was prepared by the UA College of Public Health, and according to a press release, the money will help "promote the adoption of healthy eating and active lifestyles, as a way to combat obesity in Pima County."
Daniels, like Dr. England in Phoenix, points to partnerships as the wave of the future.
"There are many advocacy groups and a strong connection with educational institutions ... and there is a growing link to places like the UA Medical School, the College of Public Health and the College of Nursing," she says.
Neither administrators at the UA nor the Pima County Health Department officials returned calls requesting specifics about health partnerships similar to those implemented in Maricopa County.
A story put out last year by the UA media-relations arm reported that two university programs were "providing training for promotoras, or community health workers, in the areas of environmental health and science, including asthma and allergies, fundamentals of toxicology, air quality and water infrastructure and sustainability."
Don Proulx, with the UA's Arizona Area Health Education Center Program, sees Pima County as a "resource-rich area with lots of services, educational and social." He focuses primarily on rural areas, "to teach neighbors how to care for themselves."
Across the board, people involved with health care in Pima County emphasize the importance of working together and integrating services.
"We need to work with a more integrated care system, including community health workers," says El Rio's Nancy Johnson. "To get our arms around the community, we need more (health-care) integration."
However, fiscal realities are bleak. In 2008, Pima County's rate of tuberculosis—a disease that once brought many people to Tucson for a cure—was below the state average. The Health Department's reward for doing so well was a decrease in state tuberculosis funding over the past few years.
"It's difficult, because sometimes when you do well in an area, you get less funding," Daniels says.
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Grand Junction, Colorado, December 2, 2016, Jo Shankel, Support Specialist II at HopeWest, has been recognized by Elite Women Worldwide, for dedication, achievement and leadership in health care.
Ms. Shankel brings 32 years of professional experience to her role as a Support Specialist II for HopeWest. Throughout her career, she has set herself apart as an expert in the field of information technology, and she uses her skills to improve the technical operations of Hopewest. On a daily basis, she is responsible for running reports and back-end duties, while also ordering supplies required to run the hospice.
Looking back, Ms. Shankel became involved in her profession because she was drawn to the medical field and started in a temporary position. To give back to others, she contributes to Relay For Life and the Veterans Committee. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, solving puzzles and spending time with her husband and cats.
Walnut Creek, CA, United States, September 14, 2016, Helena Gavilanes, Workstations Sales Specialist at HP. Inc., has been recognized by Elite Women Worldwide, for dedication, achievement and leadership in information technology.
Ms. Gavilanes was recruited to work for Hewlett-Packard while still studying in college. She started working for the company more than 23 years ago, and continued to work for them when moving from Madrid to the U.S. in 2006. As a workstations sales specialist, she shares in HP's vision to create technology that makes life better for everyone and helps them reinvent the world around them. With her ability to learn skills quickly and natural instinct for sales, she has steadily rose within the company.
To prepare for a career with HP, Ms. Gavilanes studied at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. It was not easy for her to move from Spain to the United States, but she relied on her strengths and knowledge to make the move with her family to pursue her career. Professionally, she endeavors to develop more business for the company, and move into a more senior role. She works hard to being a role model of an employee, and enjoys mentoring others to become successful in their careers.
Eveleth, MN, United States, August 1, 2016, Nancy Vlaisavljevich, Management Information System Clerk for the Northeast MN Office of Job Training, has been recognized by Elite Women Worldwide, for dedication, achievement and leadership in clerical work.
Modesto, CA, United States, July 28, 2016, Ellen Behrens, Software Developer Analyst III at the Stanislaus County Community Services Agency, has been recognized by Elite Women Worldwide, for dedication, achievement and leadership in web application design.
Chicago, Il, United States, July 27, 2016, Holly Ann Wells, Information Technology Finance Consultant and Entrepreneur for Eye Love Nature, has been recognized by Elite Women Worldwide, for dedication, achievement and leadership in information technology consulting and a sustainable living nonprofit.
Since 2006, Ms. Wells has provided consulting work for information technology companies primarily dealing in finance. She coordinates and directs various projects from development to design and execution. With her strong interpersonal and communication skills, she works with companies on strategy, quality control and organizational management. Recently, Ms. Wells has started a new chapter in her life, creating the environmental conscientious nonprofit Eye Love Nature. By creating a website for Eye Love Nature, she endeavors to bring awareness to the ways people can help respect and make the world a more sustainable entity. On the website for the nonprofit, she outlines the core values and provides event information for workshops such as yoga, meditation and healthy recipes.


Since I started attending press screenings of films, there has always been the odd film that the studios withheld from critics, afraid that bad advance reviews would be worse than no reviews. But 2006 has been a new low for Hollywood in this regard, with 11 films not screened, so far. And this weekend is a first, at least in my memory: two major studio films opening on lots of screens have not been seen by critics: Phat Girlz and The Benchwarmers.
To paraphrase Zaphod Beeblebrox, if the studios don't want me to see these movies that bad, then I want to see them ever worse. How bad can they be? I'm gonna find out today — I'm gonna see one after the other. It's not gonna be pretty. If you don't hear from me, send a search party.
There's lots of very good movies opening today too, and I'll get to covering those ASAP.


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Potassium and sodium ion complexes with a partial peptide of the selectivity filter in K+ channels studied by cold ion trap infrared spectroscopy: the effect of hydration†
Takumi Negoro,‡ab Keisuke Hirata, ‡ace James M. Lisy, *cd Shun-ichi Ishiuchi *ace and Masaaki Fujii *abc
a Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama, Japan
E-mail: ishiuchi.s.aa@m.titech.ac.jp, mfujii@res.titech.ac.jp
b School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
c Tokyo Tech World Research Hub Initiative (WRHI), Institute of Innovation Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama, Japan
E-mail: j-lisy@illinois.edu
d Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
e Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8550, Japan
Potassium channels allow K+ to rapidly diffuse, while the selectivity filter (SF) actively blocks Na+. The presence of water in the SF during ion translocation remains under debate due to the experimental and computational challenges in characterizing the interactions between water, ions, and the SF. Our bottom-up approach has been applied to a system composed of a partial peptide of the SF (Ac-tyrosine-NHMe) with a metal ion and a single water molecule to probe these interactions. The IR photodissociation spectra of M+Ac-tyrosine-NHMe(H2O) (M = Na, K) combined with quantum chemical calculations revealed that the water molecule binding sites are ion-dependent. In addition, the ion–peptide distances are elongated significantly for the K+ complex in comparison to the Na+ complex by the addition of a single water molecule. This striking structural difference with the water molecule is discussed in relation to ion selectivity and translocation within the K+ channel.
Potassium and sodium ion complexes with a partial peptide of the selectivity filter in K+ channels studied by cold ion trap infrared spectroscopy: the effect of hydration
T. Negoro, K. Hirata, J. M. Lisy, S. Ishiuchi and M. Fujii, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2021, 23, 12045 DOI: 10.1039/D1CP00936B
Takumi Negoro
Keisuke Hirata
James M. Lisy
Shun-ichi Ishiuchi
Masaaki Fujii


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The next great advance in biology will change more than science textbooks—it will revolutionize the way you live your life.
In the past, we've been taught that living beings are like machines run by biochemicals and DNA, explains Dr. Bruce H. Lipton. What we now know is that our entire biology is shaped by the intelligence of each of our 50 trillion cells. And the single most important way to influence them is through the energy of our beliefs.
On The Biology of Belief—an original author adaptation of Dr. Lipton's revolutionary book—this world-renowned cellular biologist explores the mysteries of:
Summarize the history of biological theory and how genetic determination became a dominant theory
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Since the publication of The Biology of Belief, Dr. Bruce H. Lipton has been widely embraced as one of the most accessible and knowledgeable voices of new biology. Now, join this pioneer of epigenetics as he takes you on a journey into the world under the microscope, through the ages of evolution, and into the miracle that is your own life.
Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized cellular biologist who taught cell biology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and later performed pioneering studies at Stanford University's School of Medicine. His breakthrough research on the cell membrane in 1977 made him a pioneer in the new science of epigenetics. He is author of The Biology of Belief and a sought after keynote speaker and workshop presenter, and has appeared on radio and television.
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We are enjoying the warm weather but it has made the Bear Cave so hot that our animals have spent most of the day in the River!
This being said, we are hard working animals and work has to continue as normal. So if you are reading this article, you'll have visited our brand new site, now fully transferred to Webflow. The site is much faster and slicker than before so we hope you enjoy the results of the hard work our paws have been putting in lately.
In other news, we are as always busy and are currently doing projects for Barcham Sewing Machines, Just Cool Services, Inspired Fostering and a great new band called Coalville.
We are also beginning numerous Webflow conversion projects, mainly taking old Adobe sites away from their dying platform and injecting a breath of new life into them under Webflow!


EXCLUSIVE: In a letter circulating union inboxes today, dozens of IATSE members have come to Matthew Loeb's defense over claims by the Motion Picture Editors Guild of recent "unprofessional and potentially illegal acts" and disparaging remarks by the International president. However, to paraphrase Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton, the signatories to this latest correspondence likely weren't in the room where it happened.
And, incorrect designation of Deadline as a "tabloid" aside, they seem to be right — but about the wrong meeting.
IATSE has been holding its regularly scheduled mid-summer meeting of its General Executive Board all this week at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel in Manhattan.
Seeking an apology and for Loeb to "withdraw your false statements," the original August 8 letter from attorney Michale Fienberg at Schwartz Steinsapir, Dohrmann & Sommers LLP on behalf of Local 700 wasn't specific about what meeting it was pinpointing when it detailed demeaning remarks allegedly made to and about Repola by the IATSE boss on August 6 in NYC.
In a response later that day, also exclusively obtained by Deadline, IATSE's General Counsel Samantha Dulaney called out the letter from the Los Angeles firm as "hasty, ill-informed, and inaccurate." Which is what the "Response to erroneous report at IA General Executive Board Meeting" headed letter of yesterday affirms in its own way.
Again, right but wrong meeting.
On a more looming note, the 40,000 member strong IATSE has a long history of crushing dissent. A backlash like this, based on half-truths being spread, would not appear to bode well for Repola or the Editors Guild, and could be the precursor to Loeb placing the guild into trusteeship.
In terms of ratifying the new proposed contract, no formal date has been announced and ballots haven't been sent out yet. When they are, everyone will want to be in the room when those ballots are counted.


Marcus Tullius Cicero is the father of modern law and politics. Cicero's influence was significant throughout subsequent European history, but never so much nor so directly as in the emergence of modernity and in the development of modern law and constitutional government. The early moderns became faithful apostles of Cicero's thought and ideals because their world and political circumstances were in many ways closer to those of Cicero than to those of any intervening centuries. The influence of Cicero's legal and political ideas on the modern world illustrates the decisive importance that the study of history can have on legal innovation and social change. The modern world would not have developed where it did, when it did, nor as it did were it not for the life and writings of Marcus Tullius Cicero.


To make this HCG diet recipe shred the chicken breast into small pieces. Then place the chicken breast shreds and HCG BBQ sauce in a bowl with a lid. Toss until the chicken is completely coated in the BBQ sauce. Place chicken on top of cut lettuce. Serve with a HCG safe grissini breadstick. The HCG Perfect Portion brand of BBQ sauce is considered a 'free' item on the HCG diet, so you may add more BBQ sauce as a HCG safe dressing on top of this HCG salad if you choose.
This HCG diet recipe is allowed on the VLCD phase of the HCG Diet (as known as Phase 2 or the 500 calorie phase). This HCG diet recipe equals 1 HCG diet serving of vegetables, 1 HCG diet serving of meat, and 1 HCG diet serving of 'carbs'.


Even in a country with the intense natural beauty of Chile, there can be few places as distinct as the stunning Siete Tazas (Seven Cups) rock formation situated in the Andes mountains around 200kms south of Santiago. The name refers to a canyon rich in dense vegetation that contains seven large and swirling pools in which crystal-clear water overflows from one into the other before cascading down into the Rio Claro (Clear River) and following a course down through the mesmerising landscapes of the area.
The Siete Tazas are part of an region that is well renowned for its beautiful scenery and the relative proximity to Santiago makes it an excellent spot for a weekend visit, but it is also good for a relaxing but active trip over longer periods. A number of protected parks provide trekking and climbing opportunities and the many rivers and pools flow with water that glistens in its clarity, and is a rich blue in the deeper parts It is cold, however, and causes grown men to grimace as they gingerly enter and to squeak as they submerge various body parts.
This is the Maule region of Chile and the cordillera here is covered in forest in its lower sectors before soaring away into rocky, snow-covered peaks. The bumpy road up to the Radal Siete Tazas National Park and beyond winds its way up the mountains from the town of Molina and passes through a couple of small villages, with camping and cabañas, before arriving at the majestic Velo de La Novia (The Bride's Veil), a waterfall that plunges fifty metres in a white spume from the forested mountainside into the blue depths below.
Legend has it that the name comes from the tragedy that befell a newly-married young couple as they admired the spectacular waterfall. The bride slipped and went over the edge. As she fell to her doom, they both shouted 'Te amaré para siempre' (I will love you forever) at the same moment, before the groom launched himself into the void and joined her in eternal companionship. Although nowadays the waterfall is off limits, it is said that couples who drink from its rushing waters will feel a passion as intense as the lost lovers. For the less suicidally romantic, there is a mirador that offers a great view of the veil.
Further up the road lies the entrance to the Siete Tazas National Park where in addition to the remarkable rock formations there is another waterfall which, although of lesser height than the Veil, provokes a wondrous gasp on first view. Largely due to its surroundings, it is reminiscent of the entrance to the secret lair of a James Bond baddie. This is El Salto de La Leona which crashes down into a pool of breathtaking sight, surrounded almost entirely by sheer, tree-covered cliffs, in which the pressure of the waterfall has pushed the earth up to create a beach on the pool's other side. It is a sight of such idyllic allure that your mind will be consumed by one thought only: to get to that beach.
Fortunately you can, although it's not the easiest access you'll ever encounter. Situated at the bottom of a ravine, to reach the Salto and the pool you must follow a well-marked but steep path down the cliff face and then climb over rocks for about 500 metres before you arrive at this majestic place and a very rewarding swim in the chilly water. It shouldn't prove too complicated for most people although young kids and those of a more respectable age might struggle getting over the rocks. And obviously you have to do the whole thing again on the way back, with the added bonus of going up the steep path this time. But you'll remember swimming here for the rest of your life.
A few kilometres past the Siete Tazas, you'll find El Parque Inglés (the English Park) which looks nothing like England but is supposedly named for the fog that often descends here in winter. There are four campsites as well as cabañas and a hostel, and this is the best place to base yourself for your stay. The campsites are very peaceful and shady, tucked away in the woods or on the banks of the sparkling water (try and pitch the tent here, it really is a special spot). Small fires are allowed with charcoal but not wood as this possesses a fire hazard. The simple life doesn't get much better than cooking over the coals to the sound of nearby running water and under a blanket of stars.
From the Parque Inglés, there are a number of treks you can do that range from one hour (a short circuit up to a viewpoint of the valley) to three days (to a remote mountain lagoon), plus swimming , horseriding and general do-nothingness. All along this stretch of the river you can find small coves with pools deep enough for a dip and a nippy squeal.
Whatever you're into, whether its minimal rock sprawling slovenliness to turbo-charged mountain conquering this is the place for you. There have been a lot of rumours floating around in recent times regarding the Siete Tazas and their accessibility, and whether or not they even contained any water following the 2010 earthquake, but the best advice, as is so often the case, is to ignore all that. This place is a gem, one of central Chile's most spectacular spots and an essential visit for anyone.
It is easy to reach the Radal Siete Tazas National Park by public transport from Santiago. First, take a bus to Curico (Pullman and Tur Bus run several services a day, 2.5 hours, $3000-4000). From the terminal at Curico take a local bus to Molina (30 minutes, $500) and from the Molina terminal Buses Hernandez run every hour and a half to the Parque Inglés (2 hours, $2500). In total, the journey from Santiago should take around five or six hours. By car the journey can be completed in less than four hours.
For further information check the Siete Tazas website.


Little miss River Genevieve was born ready. She was the bigger twin and had the bigger amniotic sac while in the womb. She was head down, ready to go when my contractions started at 28 weeks (sadly had to have a c-section because of Lydia's size and position). Even at a mere 2lbs 12oz, she impressed her doctors and nurses while in the NICU. She had 3 poopy diapers a few hours after being born. She learned to breathe on her own after only 2 weeks (at 30 weeks gestation), and successfully met every milestone while there, coming home at 35 weeks gestation, after a 49-day stay at the hospital.
She was always a lot more active than Lydia, staying awake, moving her little head around, and has always been great on her tummy. She always smiled more, started babbling first, and is currently rolling from one side of the house to the other in a mere minute. Yep. This girl doesn't stop. She loves standing up, so she hogs the Baby Einstein bouncer and goes nuts. She knows how to bounce herself in her little chair when it's not going as fast as she wants it to go. River stares at my breakfast sandwich in the morning, opening and closing her mouth. She's our little energizer bunny.
She is also the most demanding out of the twins. While Lydia can basically soothe herself by sucking on her thumb, River's cries will escalate to a full-blown, inconsolable tantrum if she's not tended to within a minute of being cranky. That not only means she gets fed first, it also makes my heart a little sad that I have to end up cutting short any cuddle time I have with Lydia. Most of the time, putting River on her exersaucer solves her inability to stop moving. The times when that doesn't work, though, we have to get creative with "flying baby" or "dancing baby" or just bounce her in our arms. Needy baby.
But just because she's an overachiever, it doesn't mean she's all caught up. She still cannot sit supporting herself with her arms, she has yet to coherently babble (Lydia actually babbles more and better than her now), and she still learning to eat from a spoon. Neither of them hold their bottles yet, though River has tried a few times. Even though she didn't qualify for Early Intervention services, she'll still be monitored and then reevaluated in a few months to make sure she's not falling behind. We'll see as time goes on.
I'm so proud of this little munchkin. She, like her sister, has surpassed our expectations for health and development, and we love our little Rolling Baby so much!


I just saw this tonight while browsing my "to-read" list on Goodreads! It's gorgeous! I still haven't read book two, Torment, which I've had since BEA, but I plan to get to it eventually.
Lauren posted it on her blog this afternoon, but I didn't see her post until after I posted this post. Check out her post!
Not sure I'm a fan of the 3rd cover – seems oddly too colorful compared to the first 2! Very out-of-sync unless it relates to how the story develops.