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Movie Review: Kill the Irishman
Posted by Doug at 8:00 AM
This review may contain spoilers. Readers beware.
"Kill the Irishman" is a movie that seems in danger of collapsing under the weight of genre clichés. The chronicle of Cleveland gangster Danny Greene (Ray Stevenson) is stamped with the usual mob-film hallmarks of bloody turf battles, exploding Cadillacs and debtors getting punched out to period music.
These shopworn gangster-flick themes, along with a host of recognizable faces from "Goodfellas" and "The Sopranos," cannot override what is a solidly performed and refreshingly unglamorous framing of the life of Greene, an upstart longshoreman and union rep who rose to infamous prominence in the world of organized crime during the 1970s.
Greene's story as told by director and screenwriter Jonathan Hensleigh is not as predictable as its genre chestnuts may lead viewers to believe. The filmmaker is more interested in the man than his legend, and this is where his movie succeeds. The hard-to-kill Irish thug's long-standing power struggle with the Italian mob ended in October 1977 with a car bomb outside of an office building in the Cleveland suburb of Lyndhurst, and with a few exceptions "Kill the Irishman" does not romanticize the harsh realities of a mobster's life and violent demise.
This premise is buoyed by Stevenson's finely layered performance. His Greene is fearless, intelligent and stubborn while also capturing the charismatic bravado that gave the real-life, self-proclaimed "Celtic warrior" an aura of invincibility in the mob underworld. Stevenson is surrounded by an able and surprisingly understated cast of veteran actors, including Christopher Walken as loan shark/nightclub owner Shondor Birns and Vincent D'Onofrio as weasely Mafioso John Nardi.
The only real missteps of "Kill the Irishman" are the moments when the fairly minimalist story meets Hollywood cliché: A scene where Greene's wise, old-country Irish neighbor tells him, "Ye have good in ye, Danny" kills the age-old "show, don't tell" narrative rule. Director Hensleigh drops an even bigger anvil later when a doomed Greene meets an admiring youth. Think that old Mean Joe Green Coke commercial, but more explodey.
For Clevelanders, it also may be a little disappointing that the movie was filmed in Detroit, and hence there's no real sense of place when neighborhoods like Little Italy and Collinwood are mentioned. More damningly for those of us who give a damn, the filmmakers decided to transport the suburban community of Lyndhurst to what looks to be a downtown street.
Unnecessary attempts to humanize Greene and geographical niggles aside, "Kill the Irishman" is an unvarnished glimpse into a man who simply refused to back down. Greene was many things, and this cinematic telling does well to explore all facets of a tragically complex life.
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The American Hockey League announced Thursday that the Chicago Wolves game scheduled for Friday night at Grand Rapids has been postponed due to league COVID-19 protocols affecting the Wolves.
This marks the first postponement for either the Wolves or the Griffins this season. The teams already are scheduled to play at Van Andel Arena on Tuesday, March 23, so there's potential to make up this postponed game shortly.
The Central Division-leading Wolves return to home ice at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 27, when they meet the Rockford IceHogs at the Wolves Training Facility in Hoffman Estates. All Wolves games can be seen on AHLTV. The league offers a wide variety of economical subscription packages at AHLTV.com.

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Allah, mighty and sublime is he, has ordered us to fast for His pleasure and as a fundamental part of our worship as Muslims, it is also a mercy and part of His system of forgiveness for us.
Allah commands us to praise and worship Him during the fast. This time of fasting should not be wasted sleeping or being lazy, Muslims are meant to continue engaging in work and worship. Shaykh Muhammad Ibrahim Shaqra explains in his book Irshad As-Sari that fasting has linguistic explanation and a Sharia explanation. Literally it means "to withhold from doing something." In Sharia the meaning is more complicated; it means to withhold from all the things that would break our fast from dawn until sunset with the intention of using that extra time and energy for worship. Therefore, according to a scholarly understanding of this principle, anyone who is not eating, drinking or any of the other things that break our fast but yet he or she is not engaging in worship; then this person is not actually fasting and will miss the rewards of the fast.
Avoid the things which ruin your fast such as eating, drinking, and sexual relations with your spouse.
Maintain the time from Fajr until Maghrib. Some Muslims have misunderstood and will continue sahur until sunrise is complete, but the prescribed time of fasting is from Fajr until Maghrib.


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Process efficiency is a key goal for biopharmaceutical production, focused on increasing the process' speed, keeping costs under control, and building flexibility into the process, all while maintaining the quality of the final product. In this article, several different approaches and technologies will be detailed that can significantly improve the efficiency of upstream processing, including cell line development, process development and process intensification, real-time analytics, and process integration.
Companies have been manufacturing biologics for many years, and until relatively recently the majority of these have been peptides, proteins, monoclonal antibodies, and antibody fragments. Biomanufacturing has largely been based around the use of stainless-steel bioreactors and fed-batch processes, with a conventional quality control (QC) and quality assurance (QA) routine used to release completed batches. The facilities have often been large, requiring high levels of investment, with a focus on fixed costs and a separation between upstream and downstream processing.
As the needs of the industry change, biomanufacturing will also need to evolve along with them Figure 1. Drug developers are increasingly looking to move toward a greater degree of flexibility and responsiveness. This is due in part to the increasing demand for more complex biomolecules, as bispecific monoclonal antibodies, antibody-drug conjugates, oncolytic viruses, CAR T cells, and RNA interference-based drugs move through the pipelines. This increase in heterogeneity is resulting in the need for more flexibility and responsiveness in biomanufacturing.
Other factors are also driving the need for greater flexibility and responsiveness. When drugs are in clinical trials, companies need differing amounts of product for the different stages of development. As the drug is approved and moves toward the market, supply chains will need to be put in place as quickly as possible. Once the drug is on the market, uncertainties in demand will remain. The uncertainties are driven by several different factors, including clinical outcomes; changes in dosage levels based on recommendations and clinical practice; the size of the patient population, which will change as new indications are approved; and levels of market uptake, which will depend on drug price and on competition.
There will also be a need to buffer against cost pressure. This could be because of drug exclusivity, high development costs, or health systems' budgets.
Creating a global presence can support flexibility and agility of response to sudden changes in demand, as well as meet the needs of countries where demands are increasing, such as India or China. Examples include creating smaller facilities using closed single-use systems at lower up-front and fixed costs in a number of different locations.
The goal, therefore, is to create a flexible, efficient, and cost-effective manufacturing program that users can easily scale up or duplicate at the same or a different site, allowing for increased capacity locally or globally. Building this platform relies on streamlining the process step by step, beginning with cell line development, the basis of all biologics manufacturing.
Traditional cell line development involves random transfection of cells, followed by cell sorting and evaluation of clones based on productivity and growth performance. The development can take around 40 weeks from start to finish. There are a number of potential approaches to enhancing the cell line development process.
The traditional screening process involves placing single cells into wells in 96-well plates, and then screening 50 to 100 plates and picking out the highest producer. Instead, rather than screening individually, the operator can place cells into mini-pools, and then select the highest-performing pool of cells. This smaller population is then screened to get to single cells. The selection system can also make a difference. For example, using fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS) in combination with the glutamine synthetase (GS) selection system speeds the process up further. Microfluidics can play a role in clone assessment and get results on proliferation rate and cell-specific productivities within five days.
Streamlining the cell line development process begins with transfection. Instead of relying on random events, target integration allows cell line developers to insert genes in predefined "hotspots." This specificity increases the creation of high-producing cell lines and reduces the amount of screening needed in the next step.
When combined, these steps can significantly cut timelines for cell development down to as little as eight or 10 weeks and have a major impact by reducing the time to toxicity studies for the target biologic.
The next stage of optimizing the process is moving into process development. This begins with the use of high-throughput systems such as plates, spin tubes, and microbioreactors, and then moves into parallel lab-scale bioreactor systems, from 250 ml up to 5 or 10 L scale bioreactors. These must reflect and predict the conditions and performance seen at pilot and production scale, in order for the scale-up process to be as smooth as possible.
In-process analytics play an important role and should be automated and integrated within the upstream process and instrumentation. These analytics will provide a large amount of very important data, for example, from raw materials such as cell culture media and chromatography resin, from the bioreactor and capture steps, and from the drug product. The challenge, however, is capturing and storing the information and then evaluating it. Data is only valuable if it can be analyzed and made relevant.
The process of data collection and analysis, from feeding all the data into one database or "data lake" through to the data analysis, is shown in Figure 2.
To get more from the data and its analysis, the analytics process needs to look not just at the outputs but at the interactions between the different subsystems. For example, real-time monitoring can be used to predict how a batch will develop and to detect any deviations. Then, by comparing the batch with other batches, the process developers can get a greater understanding of how to improve the process and reduce errors.
The closer analytics can be integrated into the process, the better. In an ideal world, real-time analytics both up- and downstream would mean the process can be modified "on the fly" from beginning to end, in order to improve quality and yield. The data feeds could include information from throughout the process, such as the raw materials going into the bioreactor, any chromatography data, and details from the purification and filtration steps.
Many biopharmaceutical companies seek the benefits of process intensification by focusing on the seed bioreactor (N-1 stage). Two additional approaches are also gaining interest as a strategy to improve volumetric production capacity. The first uses a high-density, high-volume cell bank vial, which is expanded in a single step. The vial is used to inoculate the rocking perfusion bioreactor of 1 to 10 L, expanding the cells to sufficient volume and density to inoculate a bioreactor of up to 2,000 L. The faster process takes two weeks or less, halving the process intensification time.
The second works by running the N-1 stage in perfusion to produce enough cells to inoculate the production bioreactor at a substantially higher cell density. As a result, the time in the production bioreactor can be shortened by about five days.
The biology of the cell, as influenced by the genome, the proteome, and the metabolome, has an impact on the outcome of the process. By modeling the pathways and feeding the learnings from this into process development, it is possible to use systems biology not only to improve the host cell lines but also to improve the process design and media development. As an example of this, making changes to the system and then analyzing the mRNA of the cells can show changes in the up- and down-regulation of cell pathways related to cell cycle metabolism. This information can then be used to modify the media, improving cell-specific productivity.
As outlined in the desired future state of manufacturing, QC and QA release is cumbersome and can have significant impact on timelines. Therefore, there is a need for methods that capture several quality attributes, and that can be run close online or at-line. Such rapid capture methods would also enable information on quality attributes to be fed back to the process.
Integrated analytics and optimized processes open the door to the potential of automated systems. Automated systems can detect and handle deviations in the process and make corrections without human intervention. The next evolution of this automation could be connecting upstream and downstream, creating an integrated continuous biomanufacturing platform (Figure 3). A fully integrated system, however, would require high levels of precision, control, and execution, along with robust protocols to deal with problems.
Cell line development, process development and process intensification, real-time analytics, process integration and automation are all important methods manufacturers are using to optimize process efficiency. These steps, along with better approaches to heterogeneity in the pipeline, reductions in costs, and more flexible and agile manufacturing, are all necessary to meet the changing requirements of the biologics industry. The greatest impact, however, is likely to come from taking the next step in the refinement of the processes – increasing the integration of upstream and downstream processing and moving toward greater automation. The eventual goal, which is coming closer to reality, is a fully integrated and fully automated process platform running from cells and media through to a product ready for formulation.


Poliomyelitis, commonly known as polio, is a highly infectious viral disease that can cause irreversible paralysis.
Polio mainly affects children under the age of five. Most infected children do not produce symptoms but can still spread the virus and cause potentially fatal cases.
According to the World Health Organisation, polio cases have decreased by almost 100 percent since 1988, from an estimated 350,000 cases to 39 reported cases in 2016.
Unless the virus is eliminated it will continue to spread, particularly in conflict zones and other areas where displaced people live in unsanitary conditions; the perfect conditions for the re-emergence and spread of the disease.
Polio has been identified recently in countries like Syria and Somalia, both of which were thought to be polio-free.
Supportive therapy can be given but there is no cure for paralysis. However, polio infection is preventable with vaccination and is essential to the global eradication of polio.
A young boy receives a vaccine from an MSF member of staff.
The polio virus can be caught from contact with an infected person. The virus enters through the mouth and multiplies in the intestine, spreading around the body by entering the bloodstream.
In some cases the virus can also infect the central nervous system, multiply inside nerve cells and destroy them. This leads to paralysis of the limbs, most often the legs. Of those people that develop paralysis from polio up to 10 percent die due to their breathing muscles failing.
Most people do not develop symptoms but can still spread the virus to others.
Typical symptoms are: fatigue, headaches, vomiting, stiffness of the neck and pain in the limbs. These symptoms often go away on their own and people make a full recovery.
Around one percent of polio cases cause paralysis of the limbs, and sometimes the breathing muscles.
There are two types of vaccine available for prevention: oral polio vaccine (OPV) and the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV). If enough people in a community are immunised, the virus will be deprived of susceptible hosts, preventing its spread and therefore dying out.
OPV is easily given, safe and provides potentially life-long protection. The vaccine also produces an immune response in the intestine, making it effective in preventing transmission of the virus within communities.
IPV is given in four doses as an injection. It is more expensive than OPV, produces a lower level of immunity, and does not stop transmission from person to person. OPV had therefore been the vaccine of choice in many countries.
However, because the oral vaccine contains attenuated (weakened) polioviruses, on extremely rare occasions, use of OPV can result in cases of polio. For this reason, as soon as a country has eradicated wild polio transmission (polio cases not related to OPV), it is asked to stop using OPV in its routine immunisation programmes.
In general, a bit of comfort is enough to make them forget the ordeal.
Weak health systems and infrastructure, conflict and poor sanitation have interfered with the eradication of polio in these countries.
Coordinated immunisation planning and high vaccination coverage is needed to stop the transmission of the virus within these countries and spread of the virus to others. Eradication strategy consists of not only vaccination programmes but also surveillance to find and report cases to be able to monitor potential polio outbreaks and provide immunisations.


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namespace Drupal\ctools\Plugin\Condition;

use Drupal\Core\Condition\ConditionPluginBase;
use Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityTypeBundleInfoInterface;
use Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityTypeManagerInterface;
use Drupal\Core\Form\FormStateInterface;
use Drupal\Core\Plugin\ContainerFactoryPluginInterface;
use Drupal\ctools\ConstraintConditionInterface;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerInterface;

/**
 * Provides a 'Entity Bundle' condition.
 *
 * @Condition(
 *   id = "entity_bundle",
 *   deriver = "\Drupal\ctools\Plugin\Deriver\EntityBundle"
 * )
 *
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class EntityBundle extends ConditionPluginBase implements ConstraintConditionInterface, ContainerFactoryPluginInterface {

  /**
   * The entity type bundle info service.
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   *   The entity type bundle info service.
   * @param array $configuration
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   *   by configuration option name. The special key 'context' may be used to
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   *   values keyed by context names.
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   * @param mixed $plugin_definition
   *   The plugin implementation definition.
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    parent::__construct($configuration, $plugin_id, $plugin_definition);
    $this->entityTypeBundleInfo = $entity_type_bundle_info;
    $this->bundleOf = $entity_type_manager->getDefinition($this->getDerivativeId());
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  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}
   */
  public static function create(ContainerInterface $container, array $configuration, $plugin_id, $plugin_definition) {
    return new static(
      $container->get('entity_type.manager'),
      $container->get('entity_type.bundle.info'),
      $configuration,
      $plugin_id,
      $plugin_definition
    );
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  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}
   */
  public function buildConfigurationForm(array $form, FormStateInterface $form_state) {
    $options = array();
    $bundles = $this->entityTypeBundleInfo->getBundleInfo($this->bundleOf->id());
    foreach ($bundles as $id => $info) {
      $options[$id] = $info['label'];
    }
    $form['bundles'] = array(
      '#title' => $this->bundleOf->getBundleLabel(),
      '#type' => 'checkboxes',
      '#options' => $options,
      '#default_value' => $this->configuration['bundles'],
    );
    return parent::buildConfigurationForm($form, $form_state);
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  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}
   */
  public function submitConfigurationForm(array &$form, FormStateInterface $form_state) {
    $this->configuration['bundles'] = array_filter($form_state->getValue('bundles'));
    parent::submitConfigurationForm($form, $form_state);
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  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}
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  public function evaluate() {
    if (empty($this->configuration['bundles']) && !$this->isNegated()) {
      return TRUE;
    }
    /** @var \Drupal\Core\Entity\ContentEntityInterface $entity */
    $entity = $this->getContextValue($this->bundleOf->id());
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  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}
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    if (count($this->configuration['bundles']) > 1) {
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      $last = array_pop($bundles);
      $bundles = implode(', ', $bundles);
      return $this->t('@bundle_type is @bundles or @last', array('@bundle_type' => $this->bundleOf->getBundleLabel(), '@bundles' => $bundles, '@last' => $last));
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    $bundle = reset($this->configuration['bundles']);
    return $this->t('@bundle_type is @bundle', array('@bundle_type' => $this->bundleOf->getBundleLabel(), '@bundle' => $bundle));
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   * {@inheritdoc}
   */
  public function defaultConfiguration() {
    return array('bundles' => array()) + parent::defaultConfiguration();
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  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}
   *
   * @param \Drupal\Core\Plugin\Context\ContextInterface[] $contexts
   */
  public function applyConstraints(array $contexts = array()) {
    // Nullify any bundle constraints on contexts we care about.
    $this->removeConstraints($contexts);
    $bundle = array_values($this->configuration['bundles']);
    // There's only one expected context for this plugint type.
    foreach ($this->getContextMapping() as $definition_id => $context_id) {
      $contexts[$context_id]->getContextDefinition()->addConstraint('Bundle', ['value' => $bundle]);
    }
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   * {@inheritdoc}
   *
   * @param \Drupal\Core\Plugin\Context\ContextInterface[] $contexts
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      $constraints = $contexts[$context_id]->getContextDefinition()->getConstraints();
      unset($constraints['Bundle']);
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  }

}

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The U.S. economy faces significant risks from unabated climate change. Every year of inaction serves to broaden and deepen those risks. Founded by co-chairs Michael R. Bloomberg, Henry M. Paulson Jr., and Thomas F. Steyer, the Risky Business Project examined the economic risks presented by climate change and opportunities to reduce them.
The changing climate will present new risks and new opportunities as we face the very complex task of producing enough food, feed, and fuel for a world on its way to nine billion increasingly prosperous people.
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Path to the Pros 2012: Melvin Ingram
STACK followed dozens of the NFL's top prospects as they hit the gym to get ready for the NFL Combine and beyond. In our Path to the Pros video series, we'll show you how these world-class athletes trained for the next level. Today's featured athlete is hybrid defensive end/outside linebacker Melvin Ingram from the South Carolina Gamecocks.
Two words that best describe Melvin Ingram's game: explosive and versatile. As he went through the NFL Draft evaluation process, the only question was, where would he fit best as a pro?
Melvin Ingram played multiple positions along South Carolina's defensive front.
At the University of South Carolina, Ingram wore several hats in the Gamecocks' defensive front seven. As a freshman, he played all 12 games at linebacker. After missing his sophomore year due to a medical redshirt, as a junior he was moved to the defensive line, where he was used as an inside rusher on passing downs in the team's nickel and dime defensive schemes—until, for the last few games, he was moved to defensive end, a position he took over full time during his senior year. In his final collegiate season as a DE, Ingram was as productive as any defensive player in the country, recording 10 sacks and 15 tackles for losses.
The concern about Ingram is whether, or how much, his physical limitations will hinder his ability to make an impact at the next level. Standing 6'1" (with a 31 ½" arm length), he is quite a bit shorter than the ideal height for an NFL defensive lineman. But after checking in for the Combine at 264 pounds, down roughly 12 pounds from his playing weight at South Carolina, Ingram displayed impressive explosive short-area power and body control in the Three-Cone Drill and the 20-Yard Shuttle.
One aspect of Ingram's makeup that will never be in doubt is his devotion to the game. "I'm a passionate player. I play football from the heart," he says. "This is what I love to do, this is all I know how to do, and this is what I was made to do, so I want to show these teams and coaches that I give 110 percent to everything I do as a football player."
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Zac Clark - Zac Clark is a freelance writer who formerly served as STACK's Custom Content Manager. Prior to joining STACK in 2008, he served as an editorial assistant for USA Hockey Magazine at the USA Hockey national headquarters in Colorado Springs. He graduated from Bowling Green State University with a bache
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Ivy Ruths is a clinical psychologist who specializes in treating severe anxiety disorders in children, adolescents, and adults. She works primarily with individuals with generalized anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, perfectionism, separation anxiety, phobias, and body-focused repetitive behaviors. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Houston in 2014 and has worked in different settings throughout her career.
Ivy grew up in Sugar Land, Texas, attended undergrad at the University of Texas at Austin. Ivy is mom to Colette, or Coco as she prefers to be called, a 7-year-old, happy, healthy first grader. She balances being a single, working mother, a daughter, sister, friend, and girlfriend by utilizing some of the same great practices she encourages her clients to use which include: daily personal time, using evidence to reframe her thinking and challenging herself to live a life based on her values, and not on her anxieties or fears (which just come with the territory of being a full-time working woman and are completely normal!).
She currently runs her own independent practice and serves as the middle school counselor at a Houston private school. In her free time she loves reading fiction, writing poetry, going to yoga.... and watching trashy reality television (guilty pleasures count as self-care!). She is excited to share her tips and ideas on balancing values, career, and all the roles and hats we women wear on a daily basis with Polished Houston.
Maintaining a healthy and balanced lifestyle has been a life-long pursuit for Taylor. Growing up in a health-conscious home and being introduced to the world of fitness and nutrition at a very young age is a large reason for why she is so passionate about helping others achieve the same.
Taylor received a Bachelor of Science degree in Nutrition from Texas Christian University and went on to pursue a career as a Registered Dietitian. She started her own private practice with a focus on one-on-one consultations as well as Corporate Wellness. She has since moved into a different realm of health and wellness as a Pure Barre studio owner in Houston, TX. She also has a thriving online global health and wellness business that allows her the opportunity to not only continue her passion in the field of nutrition, but also help others create a life by design.
Taylor is a native Houstonian, a wife, dog-mom, and a foster-dog mom. She enjoys making healthy meals, baking healthy treats, volunteering at the Harris County Animal Shelter, walking her dogs, and spending time with her family.
Teresa has been working in the fitness industry for almost 10 years, and is currently co-owner, along with her husband, of CrossFit Central Houston.
She began participating in sports at a young age, all the way through college as a heptathlete and hammer thrower on the Rice University track & field team. While at Rice, she earned 5 team WAC Championships and a BA in Health Science. She later went on to earn a masters in Education Psychology from the University of Houston.
Teresa found CrossFit in April of 2010 after searching for a fitness routine that would provide the intensity and fun that her solo workouts were missing. Since then she has fallen in love with the sport of competitive CrossFit. Teresa has competed at both a national and worldwide level, including twice at the CrossFit Games.
After spending 6 years as a middle school teacher, coaching CrossFit classes blends her two loves of teaching and fitness. She is passionate about helping others reach their goals and believes that CrossFit offers the physical and mental challenge that allows its participants to push themselves beyond what they thought possible. Teresa also feels a strong calling to show women, especially, the physical and mental benefits of weightlifting in particular.
Outside of CrossFit, Teresa is a regular worship leader at New Hope church. She and her husband live in Houston with their dog, Abby.
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Once a global conservation success story, New Zealand's black robin in trouble again
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Forty years ago, on a remote rocky island in the Pacific, 800km east of Nuova Zelanda, a conservationist set out to bring the rarest bird in the world back from the brink of extinction.
Don Merton, wearing a check shirt and shorts, climbed 200 metres up the rockface of Little Mangere Island, part of the Chatham Islands (Rēkohu in the indigenous Moriori language and Wharekauri in Māori), and laid a soft netted trap for the black robin, also known as kakaruia and karure – a tiny endemic bird that lives up to its name, with black plumage, black eyes and a little pointy black beak. Once captured, he gently placed the bird inside a wooden box, strapped it to his back, descended the cliff and jumped on a boat to the neighbouring island – Mangere, a larger, more verdant habitat.
The arrival of pests and settler-colonial farming practices had devastated the robin's population in the Chathams. Di 1976 there were just seven left, living in a tiny patch of bush on windswept Little Mangere.
Di quelli, one breeding pair remained: Old Blue, the matriarch, and Old Yellow. Merton came up with an idea to save the species – a high-risk decision where failure could expedite its extinction but success could secure its survival.
With few other options, and time running out, Merton threw the dice. The team began collecting their eggs and putting them into other birds' nests to be raised. After some trial and error, il little tomtit proved to be the best foster parent. On and on the volunteers, conservationists and scientists worked and the population has now reached about 280 birds across both Mangere and Hokorereoro/Rangatira Islands – all descendants of Old Blue and Old Yellow.
In giro 40 native New Zealand birds have become extinct since humans arrived in the country 1,000 anni fa. With no natural predators, the birds did not develop the same defences as their international cousins, and the introduction of pests devastated their populations. Not only are birds crucial for the ecostystem but they have enormous cultural significance to indigenous peoples.
The robin project has been lauded globally as a conservation success story. And for good reason, on Hokorereoro/Rangatira Island – one of two of the robin's habitats – the birds are flourishing.
But the work is not yet complete. Back on Mangere, conservationists are noticing a troubling trend – there are just 30 birds on the island, and the numbers are decreasing.
The project's lead at the Department of Conservation (DOC) Tertia Thurley first volunteered on black robin projects in 1986 and worked directly with Merton. But watching the population decline again in one habitat is "a real concern", Thurley says.
"We're not getting many juveniles, and there have been more males than females, but because we're not monitoring them through the breeding season, we don't know why that is."
Thurley feels a sense of urgency has been lost about the robin's survival, that perhaps it has become a victim of its own success story.
"That [urgency] sort of died off once the birds became well established on both the islands, which I guess is fair enough. It's only just recently that we've been raising alarm bells around the Mangere population. They still are a vulnerable species."
But this is about to change, with the first team deployed a few weeks ago to begin more intensive monitoring of the birds.
Katelyn Whittaker-Prendeville was part of that first cohort. She has just arrived back on mainland Chatham Islands after a three-week stint on Mangere, "a big rock with a lot of bush on it, where the bird life makes it come alive".
"At night, it's so noisy, it's like they are having a party that we didn't get invited to," lei ride.
For that period, she and a workmate spent time recording robin population numbers for the pre-breeding season census.
"We only found nine females. It's such a small population, such a small gene-pool and they are in-bred already."
Whittaker-Prendeville is the first DOC intern on the island who is also from the local Māori iwi (tribù), Ngāti Mutunga.
"I feel so privileged … The black robin comes from here, it's like our wee gift, our taonga (treasure)."
There are two indigenous populations represented in the Chathams – the original Moriori settlers, who arrived in the islands 600 per 1,000 anni fa, and the more recent Māori iwi, Ngāti Mutunga.
Ngāti Mutunga o Wharekauri Iwi Trust, which employs Whittaker-Prendeville, said having connection to indigenous knowledge and involvement was crucial for the robin's survival.
"[Indigenous people] may not have a PhD from university, but they can read the signs, they understand the seasons, the impact of the environment and the changes in the environment. You cannot beat local knowledge," the trust's Gail Amaru says.
Recentemente, the DOC held a consultation with iwi and imi (Moriori tribe) to discuss the black robin recovery programme.
Hokotehi Moriori Trust, which represents Moriori people, has a heavy focus on innovation and conservation. Its cultural projects manager, Susan Thorpe,said the recent consultation process was done extremely well, and no idea was considered "too crazy".
She says a huge amount of collaboration has occurred with research institutes, universities and DOC, but when it comes to the survival of the robin, it is now time to take some risks, just as Merton did 40 anni fa.
"They used brave, pioneering, methodology and we're not doing enough of that these days, with too much reporting and not enough doing."
"We feel that these birds need to move off a nature reserve into wider bigger habitats, for their own well being."
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Alice Chen is an American physician who is an assistant clinical professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She has previously been a Hauser Visiting Leader at Harvard Kennedy School Center for Public Leadership and assistant clinical professor position at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Chen was a founding member and former director of the nonprofit organization Doctors for America.

Early life and education
Chen is from the San Francisco Bay Area. She studied biology at Yale University. When she arrived at Yale, Chen played violin and piano but she picked up several more extracurricular activities including Russian and Chinese calligraphy during the course of her undergraduate studies. She lived in Morse College.

Chen was a student at Yale when she first became involved with campaigning, taking part in a protest on New Haven Green to stand against land mines. She moved to the Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University for her medical degree, and graduated in 2005.

In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, Chen volunteered as a caseworker for the American Red Cross. For the following six months she helped to lead the largest service center in Manhattan. Chen was an internal medicine resident at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Here she served as director of the UCLA residency program in Malawi.

Research and career
In the leadup to the 2008 United States presidential election Chen signed an open letter from Doctors for Obama calling for reform of the United states healthcare system. After the election of Barack Obama, the doctors regrouped and renamed themselves Doctors for America. The campaigning transcended Chen's personal and professional life, and she became an advocate for engaging members of the academic community in policy issues. Chen is an advocate for healthcare equity and has worked to ensure access to high-quality, affordable healthcare for all in the United States.

In 2011 Chen became the executive of Doctors for America, and led the organisation for six years. Doctors for America is a nonprofit who mobilise physicians and medical students to improve the health of people in the United States. In this capacity she was at the forefront of policy changes, such as the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. She called for mass shootings to be treated as a public health issue.

In 2017 Chen was appointed a Hauser Leader at the Center for Public Leadership, John F. Kennedy School of Government. During her position Chen studied the epidemic of loneliness, which was thought to impact almost half of American adults, as well as the health impacts of global warming. She also studied how public health policy changed in the post-Obama administration world.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Chen called for people who were isolating to remember to set aside time everyday to check-in with their friends and families, and to use their time in lockdown to find ways to help others. In an interview with CBC News, Chen said that the social isolation "can spiral into depression or anxiety, and this can have serious ramifications on a person's physical and mental health". Writing with her husband and fellow physician, Vivek Murthy, in The Atlantic, Chen argued that the lingering damage of breaking up communities would be more difficult to measure than the effect of SARS-CoV-2 on the economy. She was appointed to Kishan Putta's COVID-19 advisory board, which looked to advise the council member on how to handle the COVID-19 pandemic.

Personal life
In 2015, Chen married Vivek Murthy, M.D., Surgeon General of the United States. They have a son and a daughter.

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Kiwi start-up delivers knock-out blow at Samsung Springboard comp
"If our technology can help save one child's life on the sports field, than that's a job well done."
Martin Weekes - Chief Commercial Officer, CSx
James Henderson (Computerworld New Zealand) 09 November, 2015 06:28
Kiwi start-up CSx has taken out the top prize in the first ever Samsung Springboard competition, announced at the final pitching event held in Auckland.
The team at CSx presented the judging panel a high-tech solution that tackles the issue of sports concussion, particularly in rugby players.
As explained on the night, the concept uses an integrated technology platform and sensor for concussion management and monitoring of real time head impact.
As a result, CSx claimed the cash prize of $30,000, $10,000 worth of Samsung products, three Icehouse workshops and introductions to Samsung's global ventures team.
CSx Chief Commercial Officer, Martin Weekes, says the win will help the team provide technology to a broader range of athletes.
"We're all passionate rugby supporters, so anything we can do to improve safety at a grass root level is a priority for us," he adds.
"If our technology can help save one child's life on the sports field, than that's a job well done.
"Hopefully this will also give parents the reassurance to encourage their children to participate in all the sports we grew up with. We need future all blacks."
Six finalists got on stage at Auckland's Maritime Museum to pitch their ideas to a panel of judges comprising of some of New Zealand's most influential Kiwi business leaders.
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Judges included Managing Director of Samsung New Zealand, Kenny Yeon; CEO of The Icehouse, Cam Wallace; CEO of PowerbyProxi, Greg Cross; Enterprise Director of Samsung New Zealand, Verdon Kelliher; an d Dr. Michelle Dickinson (aka Nano Girl).
The finalists covered a wide range of savvy and innovative Kiwi tech leaders, encompassing a diverse range of industries and applications.
Samsung's Kenny Yeon says the judges looked for several criteria when making a final decision on the winner, looking at both original and innovative concepts and business capabilities to support global growth.
"CSx presented a very solid business model, but their idea has a unique kiwi flavour, honing in on a common yet serious issue affecting one of New Zealand's most loved sports," Yeon adds.
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"I'm excited to see how CSx will use this opportunity to develop their platform further, expanding out to other professional sport industries overseas and within a wider health setting."
Three special prizes were also awarded over the course of the evening.
I Measure U was awarded a second place prize of three months tenancy at Kiwi Landing Pad and flights for two to San Francisco for their idea of wearable devices designed to provide athletes with measurements to enhance their performance.
Auror, a platform created to provide better visibility of crime, was awarded the choice of $10,000 Samsung development funding or $10,000 Samsung technology.
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Winning the publicly voted People's Choice Award was MediKOL, who took home $1,000 of Samsung technology and a two-day workshop from The Icehouse.
Samsung launched the Samsung Springboard competition in partnership with The Icehouse, with the intention of developing a platform to help New Zealand tech start-ups secure the resources and network introductions to make the leap into global markets.
he Springboard Competition was conceived as a way to cast the spotlight on local business talent, and encourage New Zealand's emerging tech entrepreneurs.
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Artist's conception of dusitD2 The Fort, Manila, a teaching hotel under construction in the Philippines.
Dusti International is building a teaching hotel in Manila, the capital of the Philippines.
The Dusit Hospitality Management College (DHMC) will be fully integrated with the 125-room dusitD2 The Fort, Manila. It is scheduled to open in 2017.
Dusit already has one hotel in the Philippines: the Dusit Thani Manila. Another hotel in Davao will open soon.
DHMC will offer degree programmes in hospitality certified by École Hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL), a hospitality training school in Switzerland, as well as professional advancement and culinary programmes in collaboration with the Institut Paul Bocuse, a hospitality and tourism school in France.
Facilities will include practical kitchens, restaurants, and function rooms. Recreational facilities will include a swimming pool and fitness centre.
In addition to taking classes, students will gain work experience in various departments of the hotel.
Two tertiary institutions offer similar partnerships with hotels in Hong Kong.
Located adjacent to the main campus of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in the New Territories, the Hyatt Regency Hong Kong, Sha Tin, is a commercial hotel with teaching facilities in a building located next door.
The arrangement gives students at the university's School of Hotel and Tourism Management (SHTM) a chance to learn from Hyatt executives in specially designed training rooms.
Students in the programme also run and manage a café, which is located in the teaching facilities.
Thai-based hotel group Dusit International launched Dusit Thani College more than 40 years ago.
The college offers Bachelor's and Master's programmes as well as short public training courses and executive educational progrmames in various aspects of hotel and restaurant management.
There are campuses in Bangkok as well as the nearby beach resort of Pattaya.
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Pirates at sail in Germany.
by r------ Wed Apr 11th, 2012 at 08:19:09 AM EST
Today comes news, via Le Monde, that the Pirate Party has surged to third place in a major German poll in advance of next years elections:
Dans la foulée de ses très bons résultats aux élections du Land de Berlin, fin 2011 (8,6 % des voix), le Parti pirate allemand (PiratenPartei, PP) grimpe à grande vitesse dans les sondages. Pour la première fois, un sondage réalisé par l'institut Forsa pour le compte de RTL et du quotidien Stern place les Pirates devant les Verts, avec 13 % des intentions de vote.
Following its very successful election of Berlin, 2011 (8.6% of the vote), the German Pirate Party (Piratenpartei, PP) is rising rapidly in the polls. For the first time, a poll by Forsa institute on behalf of RTL and Stern peg the Pirates ahead of the Greens, with 13% of the vote.
The Berlin elections hailed the second electoral success for the Pirate Party, following the victory in Swedish European elections, where PP gained MEPs, though to date still has no representation in Sweden's legislative body, the Riksdag.
The popularity of PP's stances on intellectual property have provoked other parties in Sweden, notably the Left Party (which does have representation in the Riksdag), to adopt their position. Having surpassed on a membership basis the Green Party in that country in 2006, Swedish founder Rick Falkvinge may well be right to declare the Pirates to be the new Green movement.
And beyond Sweden and Germany, Pirates have grown further afield, even gaining a ministry in Tunisia.
Le PP reste loin derrière la CDU-CSU (36 %) et le SPD (24 %), mais devance dans ce sondage les Verts (11 %) et Die Linke (8 %) pour se hisser à la troisième place. La progression du PP a été très rapide : après avoir plafonné à 2 % des voix après les législatives de 2009, il est parvenu à dépasser le seuil des 5 % nécessaire pour obtenir des députés dans plusieurs élections partielles.
The PP remains far behind the CDU-CSU (36%) and SPD (24%) but ahead of the Greens in this survey (11%) and the Left Party (8%), climbing to third place. The rise of the Pirates has very fast: after reaching a plateau of 2% of the vote after the general election of 2009, it has managed to surpass the 5% threshold needed to be allotted MPs in several by-elections since.
It remains to be seen whether this advance will hold until next year's elections for the Bundestag, but were it to do so, the PP's entry into the German lower house would certainly be an historic event.
La croissance du PP semble se faire aux dépens des Verts et de Die Linke, avec lesquels le parti partage certaines positions sur les sujets sociaux et environnementaux. Il continue cependant de faire campagne principalement sur les thématiques de transparence gouvernementale, de réforme du droit de la propriété intellectuelle et de protection des libertés numériques.
Growth of the Pirate Party seems to be at the expense of the Greens and Left Party, with which the party shares some positions on social and environmental issues. However, it continues to campaign primarily on the themes of transparency in government, law reform and intellectual property protection of digital freedom.
This growing popularity is seen by some commentators as being a boon to the conservative CDU/CSU in Germany, though in truth, this depends a lot on how willing the putatively "left" parties in that government are willing to either adopt and co-opt their key positions or to create alliances with it.
Other observers, including many of the same, assume that the PP's successes are simply a temporary, unsustainable surge, and that they will disappear or become irrelevant after an election or two, much the same way the Hunter and Fisherman party in France has.
However, this misses the fundamental importance of the ideological terrain the Pirates are credibly occupying in the space of intellectual property, in opposition to what Zizek refers to as "the privatisation of the public intellect:"
When "immaterial work" (education, therapy, et c.) is celebrated as the kind of work which directly produces social relations, one should not forget what this means within a commodity economy: namely, that new domains, hitherto excluded from the market, are now commodified. When in trouble, we no longer talk to a friend but pay a psychiatrist or counselor to take care of the problem; children are increasingly cared for not by parents but by paid nurseries or child-minders, and so on. We are thus in the midst of a new process of the privatisation of the social, of establishing new enclosures.
To grasp these new forms of privatisation, we need to critical transform Marx's conceptual apparatus. Because he neglected the social dimension of the "general intellect," Marx failed to envisage the possibility of the privatisation of the "general intellect" itself - and this is what lies at the core of the struggle over "intellectual property."...within this framework, exploitation in the classical Marxist sense is no longer possible, which is why it has to be enforced more and more by direct legal measures...This is why, today, exploitation increasingly takes the form of rent...and this is why direct authority is needed: in order to impose the (arbitrary) legal conditions for extracting rent, conditions which are no longer "spontaneously" generated by the market. Perhaps therein resides the fundamental "contradiction" of today's "post-modern" capitalism: while its logic is deregulatory, "anti-statal," nomadic, deterritorialising and so on, its key tendancy to the "becoming-rent-of-profit" signals a strenghtening of the role of the state whose regulatory function is ever more omnipresent. Dynamic deterritorialisation co-exists with, and relies on, increasingly authoritarian interventions of the state...What one can discern at the horizon...is thus a society in which personal libertarianism and hedonism co-exist with (and are sustained by) a complex web of regulatory state mechanisms. Far from disappearing, the state is today gathering strength.
Slavoj Zizek, First As Tragedy, Then As Farce 2009, Verso, London, pp. 144-45.
Needless to say, while the state is growing more powerful, our people are not at the helm, and the state as guarantor of rent-seeking rather than solidarity is the order of the day. And this is precisely what we are up against, though it is also one of three main contradictions (the present system's inability to guarantee living conditions for those under its purview, and the environment joining the fight for the free sharing of the intellect in this regard) which are the current system's acchille's heal.
The left would do well to be mindful of the Pirates, whose aims may by many be considered "unserious". They occupy critical ideological terrain, which we should be sharing.
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Re: Pirates at sail in Germany. (4.00 / 2)
The Pirates in NRW support cutting the public debts: We find the debt brake makes a lot of sense. Morons. And it's federal law anyway, so they wouldn't have needed a position at all.
by Katrin on Wed Apr 11th, 2012 at 02:40:55 PM EST
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I reported on finding this in (one of) their manifestos month ago. That's the basis for a lot of my skepticism about them.
by gk (gk (gk quattro due due sette @gmail.com)) on Wed Apr 11th, 2012 at 04:57:59 PM EST
They want to appear serious.
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Apr 11th, 2012 at 06:41:51 PM EST
I think they are probably pretty economically illiterate, much like other parties which a borne out of the fact no existing party is occupying an important ideological space of the day. I don't know much about them in terms how they came to occupy that space but I also suspect their positions viz. intellectual property and the commons has no formal ideological basis either.
Probably their positions in other matters is improvised and, accordingly, reflects the prejudices of the class they come from, which to my mind is the first of three sectors of the popular class, knowledge workers, workers in the classical sense, and the excluded.
Knowledge workers are in the main a subset of a middle class which finds its position in society increasingly precarious (and therefore is progressively radicalising) and, given the countries we are talking about (Germany, Sweden), overwhelmingly white. So, what they are saying outside of the one issue they began with largely reflects what the press of the day is saying. It is where they are coming from, but probably not where they are heading to.
by r------ on Thu Apr 12th, 2012 at 03:13:48 AM EST
redstar:
I don't know much about them in terms how they came to occupy that space but I also suspect their positions viz. intellectual property and the commons has no formal ideological basis either.
I think from a marxist perspective the analysis is pretty simple. The main group are technical workers needing to preserve access to their means of production, ie computer programs, internet and the right to tinker.
It should be noted that at least the Swedish Pirate Party is more radical when it comes to patents (abolish) then copyright (limit to commercial rights for limited period) and trademarks (limit to ban against defrauding customers, in effect allowing knock-offs as longs as they are labeled as such). Patents are more intrusive in the engineers workplace, copyrights and trademarks are only intrusive when they are wielded to limit technology. The counter-parties in this battle about means of production are not singers, it is the promoters of the industrial order of the world, publishing houses and other gate keepers striving to maintain control and IP-lawyers who stands to benefit from an expanding job market.
So no, no formal ideological basis. A class basis, but you are unlikely to hear that.
I think they are probably pretty economically illiterate, much like other parties which a borne out of the fact no existing party is occupying an important ideological space of the day.
Yes. But if Veblen is right, the Pirate Parties should be easier then some to swing to socialism. Engineers and socialism and all that.
Citizen salary appears quite popular within the Pirate Parties as a rational solution to how to organise society to avoid anyone starving. I think the Berlin pirates included it in their plattform. MMT should appeal to engineers for its clarity, engineers often also hold disdain for NCE modelling. But yes, unless the effort is made to convince otherwise, the Pirates will hold positions reflecting the opinions of their core group.
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by A swedish kind of death on Thu Apr 12th, 2012 at 08:24:00 AM EST
On the one hand, you are definitely correct. When you have a radical proposition for society, it's often the case that your party adopts conventional thinking on lots of other issues, because that aids "electability."
Still, I think there is more to it than that and I'd add a nuance to this part of the Le Monde article:
Growth of the Pirate Party seems to be at the expense of the Greens and Left Party, with which the party shares some positions on social and environmental issues.
When we observe the political scene in most of the post-Communist countries, we notice that parties are formed around gaps in the idealogical spectrum, as redstar has noted. We also note that the voting support for the party often comes from those most interested in the main content of the "gap." Here that would be, according to whatever stats Le Monde is using, mainly young Greens and Lefties who are attracted by the core stance (privacy, technology/IP freedom.)
There is, however, another question - who forms the backbone of the political party? And here is where the post-Communist comparison comes in. Every new party does attract some new people into being "politicians" or "party administrators" but at the same time, what we observe is that most new parties draw quite a bit of vital human infrastructure from one or more existing political units.
Here, I have only anecdotal evidence, but in my extended network, I keep running across medium-young FDP types who see the Pirate Party as a new home. Many of them are "organising" types and I think they are currently influencing quite a bit economic debates in the German Pirate Party. Part of the reason is that it's one of those easy homespun analogies to say "IP should be free, privacy should be protected - this is about individual freedoms, including the freedom not to be in a union, etc. etc."
All anecdotal, but I do think this is a significant anchor pulling the Overton Window of the German Pirates to the neo-liberal economic side. It may be overcome by other PP members, but I don't think it will be an easy battle.
by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Fri Apr 13th, 2012 at 04:11:27 AM EST
Obviously also anecdotal but in German comment threads I mostly see the Pirates basic position framed as one of opposition to censorship, not to commodification of everything or rent extraction. Add to that the swarm of opportunists a rising party attracts and I can see how they are in danger of neoliberal infection.
by generic on Fri Apr 13th, 2012 at 07:11:10 AM EST
After all, it's the FDP collapsing, not the Greens or Left. So Green or Left sympathisers and especially activists already have a home.
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Apr 13th, 2012 at 07:28:00 AM EST
Looking at the polls those green supporters they lost never actually voted for them. They still poll higher than at the last election just no longer in the twenties.
I'm not so much cheering on the (none / 1)
emergence of the PP movement, as I am recognising the promise of the ideological space they are occupying and which itself is generating enthousiasm.
This is a key space: all the while our liberal elites expound upon the virtue of the open society, of free markets in goods (and in this case, services) and above all, the primacy of liberty, what PP is effectively pointing out is the internal contradiction inherent in the commoditisation of intellectual property: you need a strong, coercive state in order to make such commoditisation work (thereby of course undermining in-the-real the liberty they are talking out of the other side of their mouths) by enforcing the terms of rent-seeking on the newly formed commodities, via patents, copyrights and the legal enforcement thereof.
Why else the pursuit of people for file sharing? Why else the pursuit of people, ultimately, for what is for the most part mistakenly refered to as "hacking". Enforcement of rent-seeking. We make, it is a product of our intellect, but we do not own, nor is it now a part of the commons: it has for the most part been privatised, and the state is there to enforce that privatisation.
And we have not even touched upon where the core is heading, in the exploitation of the human genome and other forms of enclosure which go beyond that of the intellect and push right up to our very own genetic code.
Thus the importance of this ideological space. I personally do not think the PP movement will be up to the task to carrying it forward in societal discourse, it is for our parties to do so, which is why I don't bother with the rest of their programme. But this is all the same extremely important.
by r------ on Fri Apr 13th, 2012 at 07:26:05 AM EST
Just as clueless... (4.00 / 2)
...but far more dangerous.
Rather new elections (choices?) than new debt, that's my FDP
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
by Crazy Horse on Thu Apr 12th, 2012 at 06:07:01 AM EST
Re: Just as clueless... (none / 0)
Guess you have to be here in 'Schland to appreciate that photo.
by Crazy Horse on Sat Apr 14th, 2012 at 03:02:59 AM EST
The parallel between the neolib's hand gesture and Kasper's mitt is clear enough.
But I'm lacking the cultural associations of Kasper other than he's a clown.
guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Apr 14th, 2012 at 03:18:49 AM EST
Re: Just as clueless... (4.00 / 4)
The audience is part of the play. Kasper often turns round and asks for advice and help. The children will then for instance yell back he must watch out, because the robber is lurking behind the corner. Kasper would be lost without this help of the 5 year olds.
by Katrin on Sat Apr 14th, 2012 at 08:01:44 AM EST
The French equivalent, Guignol, is doing exactly the same: asking the children in the audience to help him escape the gendarme who's after him.
by Bernard on Sun Apr 15th, 2012 at 07:30:41 AM EST
You also need to have seen the original campaign poster. I read "Schulden" as "Schulen", which didn't seem to make sense, even for the FDP.
by gk (gk (gk quattro due due sette @gmail.com)) on Sat Apr 14th, 2012 at 03:45:28 AM EST
Is the FDP frontman called Kasper?
resigned former party sec Christian Lindner, now the up and coming face of the FDP. Neo-Randian, but charismatic enough to be dangerous.
by Crazy Horse on Sat Apr 14th, 2012 at 01:12:07 PM EST
This campaign vilifying debt costs the FDP about € 800,000. Donations for them have broken down of course. Guess where the funds come from...
We Are Winning: How Pirate Parties Are Changing The World - Falkvinge on Infopolicy
The Swedish Piratpartiet showed that success was possible in the European Elections of 2009, getting 25% of the under-30 vote and two Europarliament seats out of Sweden's 20. That was the proof of concept. We failed to convert these votes into votes in the general elections a year later because of a very simple reason - that we didn't have a full political platform. Answering "we have no opinion on that issue" for nine out of ten policy questions wasn't good enough. People wouldn't vote for parties that didn't, not in a general election, and there was no way the Piratpartiet could expand its policies by the necessary magnitude between the 2009 and 2010 elections. This was a painful but necessary and educational experience in growth pains. (The Piratpartiet is now in full swing in expanding to a full policy platform ahead of the next elections in 2014.)
The German Piratenpartei, meanwhile, benefited hugely from the Swedish proof-of-concept in 2009 and climbed from 1% to 2% in the three months between the European and the German elections, with all the media spotlight from a new political movement making its way to front row center, and this result also rendered them substantial funding. Then, the Piratenpartei had two years to broaden their scope - from the fall of 2009 to the Berlin elections of 2011 - and pulled it off beautifully, being rewarded with parliamentary seats as a result.
So, let's return to our five-step plan. We didn't get into the Swedish parliament in 2010. But Sweden is not a country of any particular political significance. Exaggerating just slightly, it is a frozen country the size of a shoebox on top of the Arctic Circle. In this plan, the Swedish parliament in step three was never meant as anything more than an igniting spark.
what would the greens not get on board with the PP? what's to lose? make the PP green, then bingo...
'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty
by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Sat Apr 14th, 2012 at 04:33:17 AM EST
what would the greens not get on board with the PP? what's to lose?
In my cynical opinion the Greens won't join the PP because it would diminish or eliminate the political power of the Green "leaders" and put Green party functionaries on the dole.
Never underestimate the petty-minded self-interest of political party insiders.
She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
by ATinNM on Sat Apr 14th, 2012 at 01:37:38 PM EST
ATinNM:
because it would diminish or eliminate the political power of the Green "leaders" and put Green party functionaries on the dole.
with respect, isn't that a bit zero-sum? the two could have dovetailing, if not identical platforms.
green issues should ideally be rooted in local as well as global action, and one of the biggest handicaps to living in a deeply rural environment is the lack of cheap, ubiquitous broadband, which could have life-changing impacts on rural communities, so far deprived.
first to banish some of the parochiality, second to enable cottage industry have access to regional and global markets. it's vital, imo.
and with greater broadband rollout you're going to have more file sharing issues come up, with either more draconian measures taken to criminalise copiers, (driving more to the PP), or more liberal policies, furthering the growth of info/knowledge/connectivity, leading more to question status quo, and awareness of how to band together for change.
there's no greater isolation-killer than the web, and it should be as amply given to the people, one of mankind's most impressive and democratising achievements. i just read somewhere today how many are giving up driving, because they're happier surfing the web. that's the future, imo, and there's no axiomatic conflict between the two aspirations that i can see, there's symbiosis begging to be born. peoples' craving to rise out of ignorance by their own intellectual bootstraps, and the support we need to give each other to ensure better environmental stewardship in the future, rolled into one.
there's a lot of cynicism that i share, but this is shaping up quite well, new undreamed of possibilities are opening up, and the political left of centre is a vast, yawning vacuum.
or is it the hopium talkin again? ;)
by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Sat Apr 14th, 2012 at 02:50:56 PM EST
with respect, isn't that a bit zero-sum?
Yes, and parochial too. That's ATinNM's point. Never underestimate how much apparatchiks think in parochial zero-sum games.
- Jake
Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.
by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Sat Apr 14th, 2012 at 02:56:49 PM EST


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NEW YORK--July 20, 2001--Macworld, the premier Macintosh magazine and Web sites, today announced the winners of the "Macworld Best of Show Awards," representing the most exciting new hardware and software products announced at Macworld Conference & Expo in New York. The awards were presented by Jim Dalrymple, News Director of MacCentral.com, Macworld's news site. "The Best of Show winners exemplify the tremendous commitment of developers to the Macintosh platform," stated Dalrymple. "I was particularly impressed with the way most of them are taking advantage of Apple's new operating system, Mac OS X." To be eligible for Best of Show consideration, products were either making their public debut at Macworld Expo or were recently introduced and likely to generate excitement on the show floor. In addition, the Macworld editors had to see the products in action, although some evaluations were based on beta versions or prototypes. "Macworld Best of Show Awards" represent a highly coveted honor within the Macintosh industry and are presented exclusively at the twice-yearly expo. The Macworld Best of Show award winners are: Apple OS 10.1 (apple.com) This update, due in September, will address many of the shortcomings found by Mac users since the initial release of the OS. Apple 866 MHz PowerMac G4 (apple.com) In addition to a significant increase in performance, the mid-range G4 now offers DVD-RW capabilities at a lower price point, making this technology available to a broader range of Macintosh users. Asante FriendlyNet Wireless Ready Cable/DSL Router (asante.com) This wireless router offers additional security for your network, including connectivity to the Internet, printers, files and other resources. Canon D2400UF (canon.com) This scanner goes far beyond typical text and graphics scanning capabilities to include a versatile, built-in, large format film adapter. DiamondSoft Font Reserve Server for OS X (diamondsoft.com) Font Reserve Server, designed for publishing work groups, provides effective font management across an entire organization. IBM ViaVoice for OS X (ibm.com) The new update to IBM's voice-activation software is faster and more efficient than the previous version. Micromat Drive 10 (micromat.com) Sporting a sleek aqua interface, this advanced disc repair and recovery product has been designed exclusively for Mac OS X. Microsoft Office 2001 for OS X (microsoft.com) Due this fall, the updated suite of business applications boasts some exciting and useful innovations. SmartDisk FireLite 5 GB FireWire Hard Drive (smartdisk.com) This 5 GB FireWire hard drive is one of the smallest and most portable external hard drives to enter the Macintosh market. Toon Boom (toonboom.com) Designed for animaters in the Mac community, this powerful software increases productivity when creating digital animation. Xerox Phaser 860 (xerox.com) This color laser printer is compatible with OS X over a network and produces prints of amazing quality. About Mac Publishing, L.L.C. Mac Publishing, L.L.C. publishes the world's leading independent Macintosh publication and Web sites. Every month the award-winning Macworld magazine reaches over 1.6 million influencers of computer purchases(1), while the Mac Publishing Web presence garners an average of 2 million unique visitors. The Mac Publishing sites include: Macworld.com, MacCentral.com, MacworldPriceFinder.com, and MacworldClassifieds.com. Headquartered in San Francisco, Mac Publishing is a joint venture between Ziff Davis Media Inc. and International Data Group.


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Home > Sports > Weightlifting
15 weight categories. 48kg to 105+kg. Power. Defiance.
Weightlifting requires gravity-defying strength, as male and female athletes heft huge weights into the air with every lift.
It is a competition of physical and mental toughness, where athletes compete according to 15 pre-determined body-weight categories and must record the biggest lift in their division to claim the Gold medal.
The Games will also include a Powerlifting competition for Para-Sport athletes, where weights will be bench-pressed into the air from a stationary position, with individual bodyweight and technique playing a major role in determining the overall medallists.
Spectators will experience the intensity and drama of this competition at the SECC Precinct.
Results and Schedule
Venue: The SECC Precinct [West End]
Watch out for: Nigeria pulled the biggest haul at Delhi 2010, and nations including Australia, England, Canada, India and Wales are usually among the medal winners. Watch out for big improvements from young up-and-coming lifters from nations within the Oceania, Asian and African regions.
International Federation: International Weightlifting Federation http://www.iwf.net
International Paralympic Committee: http://www.ipc-powerlifting.org
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No longer bound by the truthful representation of nature, yet without wholly relinquishing links to the real world, Franz Marc provides in The Dream a masterly reflection of 'the organic rhythm... of all things,' highlighting his awareness of Italian Futurist and French Cubist theories. The composition is structured around dynamic lines radiating outwards from the female figure in the foreground; naked and asleep, she becomes a symbol of the harmony between the human world and the animal realm. The varied creatures that surround her seem to be the product of her dream. Marc uses colours with symbolic meanings: blue, for example, represents what is masculine and intellectual, while yellow symbolises femininity and warmth.
The Dream was executed in 1912 in Sindelsdorf, where Franz Marc had taken up residence in 1909, attracted by the characteristics of this idyllic place. This village near the Bavarian Alps witnessed the birth of his true career as a painter, which was cut short in 1916, and the gradual shaping of his personal style after he met August Macke in 1910 and, above all, Wassily Kandinsky in 1911. Marc joined Der Blaue Reiter, established in Munich in 1911, and in 1912 played an active part in publishing the group's almanac, in which he expressed his artistic ideas. However, unlike Kandinsky, who soon intentionally shunned visual reality, Marc remained faithful to representing the world. His theories, which explicitly rejected the rigid ways of life in the city, were focused on the permanent pursuit of freedom of expression through a mystic vision of the natural world and the creation of new symbols appropriate to a new spirituality. Marc aspired to create a new paradisiacal realm in which man could achieve perfect harmony with nature. In this new Arcadia symbols took the form of a profusion of animals converted into mystic creatures imbued with allegories, which the artist himself referred to as the "animalisation of art."
However, the allegory represented by The Dream is not overly explicit. As Klaus Lankheit suggests, it is more of a poetic image without any rational meaning. The scene takes place in the middle of the night, as indicated by the marked blackness of the background sky. The yellow house on the left may symbolise the real world, while the rest of the composition is occupied by the scene of the dream. The naked female figure in the centre, who sleeps seated with her legs crossed and surrounded by animals, is perhaps the symbol of harmony between man and the animal world. In this Garden of Earthly Delights the animals enact the rhythms of nature and the colours are tinged with a symbolic meaning. In Marc's language, the blue of the horses symbolises the essence of masculinity, intellectual and spiritual; the yellow is the essence of femininity, kindly and sensual; whereas red is the colour that should be combated and defeated by the other two.
The influence of the Italian Futurists can be found in the rhythmic structure of the forms and in the lines of force that infuse the composition with movement. Also noteworthy is the mark left on the artist by the painting of Paul Gauguin, especially that of the Tahitian period, in his desire to show nature in its most primitive state. Peter Vergo relates this work to The Shepherds, which depicts a nude couple among animals, the horse and the female figure being very similar to those in the painting in the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection.
The Dream was a gift from Franz Marc to Wassily Kandinsky shortly after it was completed, in 1912 or early 1913. Kandinsky in return gave Marc his Improvisation 12. Rider. While Kandinsky was in Russia (from 1914 to 1921) the work remained in the care of Gabriele Münter and was shown, on the express wishes of Maria Marc, in the exhibitions held in Munich and Wiesbaden in 1916 to mark the painter's death. Years later, during Katherine Dreier's visit to Kandinsky in the Bauhaus, The Dream was selected for the International Exhibition of Modern Art of the Societé Anonyme shown in New York and several American cities during 1926 and 1927. In her introduction to the catalogue, the American author published an illustration of this painting and underlined Marc's influence on modern painting.
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Another innocent child dies in Israeli bombardment of northern Gaza
Defence for Children International-Palestine Section 11 April 2006
Palestinian mourns eight-year-old Hadil Ghaber during her funeral in Beit Lahia April 2006. Hadil was killed and 12 other people wounded yesterday when an Israeli shell struck a building in the northern Gaza Strip town. Seven family members were among the wounded from the artillery round, the sources added. (MaanImages/Wesam Saleh)
At 5.30pm on Monday 10 April 2006, at least six artillery shells fired by the Israeli military fell on the family house of Mohammed Rabe'eya Ghaban in Beit Lahiya, in the north of the Gaza Strip. Shrapnel from the shells pierced the skull of Mohammed's eight-year old daughter Hadeel, killing her instantly. The shelling also resulted in the injury of eight other family members, including Hadeel's brothers and sisters: Rawan Ghaban (18 months); Rana Ghaban (3); Munir Ghaban (4); Amneh Ghaban (9); Ghassan Ghaban (11); Bassam Ghaban (15) and Tahrir Ghaban (17).
The children's mother, 35-year old Sofia, was the eighth family member wounded in the attack.
Several neighbours were also injured including: Jaqueline Mo'ein Maarouf (11) and Mariam Maher Al-'Assi (15).
The killing of Hadeel and the wounding of her siblings and friends is the latest crime to come out of Israel's escalating aggression against the Palestinian population of the Gaza Strip. Despite the physical withdrawal of the Israeli military from the area in August 2005, Israeli occupation forces continue to exercise military control over the entire Strip — intensifying assassination attacks against Palestinian activists, shelling residential areas and imposing a virtual siege on the whole strip by sealing entry and exits points to goods and people.
Since the beginning of this year, 15 Palestinian children have been killed in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, including eight from the Gaza Strip. Four of the eight were passers by - killed in Israeli extra-judicial assassination attempts against Palestinian activists; two Gaza children were killed by gunfire; one by unexploded ordinance while Hadeel is the eighth Gaza child to die so far this year.
Defence for Children International/Palestine Section (DCI/PS) views with grave concern this growing list of child fatalities and this latest Israeli crime. The recent Israeli military activities, including the bombing of residential areas, preventing food supplies from reaching the population and carrying out extra-judicial killings are considered war crimes under international law.
As such, DCI/PS calls on the international community to assume its moral responsibilities and legal obligations under international law and to act immediately and effectively to stop these gross violations being perpetrated by Israeli forces against Palestinian civilians.
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Led by Beyoncé's former digital guru, Instagram wants to help artists make the most of its music-obsessed users.
In the wake of Tom Petty's death on Monday, in hundreds of remembrances and obituaries, the rock legend's songs have been called everything from succinct to great driving music.
Spotify's latest personalized playlist looks to capitalize on your nostalgic side. The music streaming leader has unveiled "Your Time Capsule," a 30-song playlist that gathers tracks it believes will transport you back to your teens and early twenties – a "trip down memory lane," as it were.
Two recent acquisitions in the live streaming world show how difficult the online streaming world can be.


The boxes on this site represent a small part of the designs produced by A.E. Jones Ltd. The following pages contain images and information on some of the other metalwork produced by the firm.
Select from the pictures below to view images and information on the designs under each category.
I would be very interested in expanding this website to contain items held by collectors.


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