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gbNYC's Top 5 Stories in Green Building: 2008
posted on Monday, January 5, 2009 in Green Building, Legal Issues, Most Recent, Opinion
Before we get rolling in 2009, let's take a look at the five most important green building stories that we presented in one manner or another here at gbNYC during the course of 2008.
Before we get the ball rolling here at gbNYC in 2009, I'd like to wish all of our readers a very Happy New Year and thank you for continuing to make this site such a success during 2008.
A year ago, as 2007 drew to a close, we wrote that the New Year promised to be "fascinating" for green building, both locally and across the rest of the country. I think our prediction turned out to be an understatement for a variety of reasons, including the reaction to our analysis of the Shaw Development case and the ongoing credit crisis; 2009 promises to be no less of a wild ride.
We're looking forward to sharpening our focus here at gbNYC over the course of 2009 on the design and performance of green buildings while presenting the legal and regulatory aspects of sustainable design in much greater detail over at the Green Real Estate Law Journal .
That being said, I'd like to review what I think were the five most important green building stories that we presented in one manner or another here at gbNYC during the course of 2008. I chose both general and local green building issues that we reported on an ongoing basis which I believe will continue to be significant moving forward through 2009.
#1: Shaw Development v. Southern Builders : Green Building Law Practice Area Begins to Crystallize in Aftermath of America's First Green Building Litigation
Although the litigation itself did not commence in 2008, gbNYC did report the lawsuit for the first time back in August. Since then, much has been written across the legal community analyzing the dispute in more detail, and I think it's fair to say that 2008 will ultimately be considered a turning point for green building law as a practice area. Stakeholders are beginning to recognize the risks inherent with green construction, particularly where, as in Shaw Development, a project seeks to take advantage of (or is required to comply with) a particular green building regulation. Regulatory activity will only increase in 2009 and I suspect that Shaw Development is just the first of many litigations that will we see growing out of green construction projects.
#2: AHRI et al. v. City of Albuquerque : The First Shot Across the Bow of Green Building Legislation?
Back in the fall, the federal district court for the District of New Mexico granted a preliminary injunction in favor of the plaintiffs in AHRI et al. v. City of Albuquerque , a first-of-its-kind lawsuit that sought to bar the enforcement of local-level energy efficiency codes on the basis that federal standards preempted the application of the proposed local-level codes. In her decision, Judge Martha Vazquez noted that legislators were "unaware" of federal preemption doctrine when they crafted their proposed legislation. It is possible that other state- and local-level regulatory schemes that were similarly drafted without broader consideration of legal implications might be challenged in 2009, particularly if AHRI ends up standing for the proposition that stakeholders no longer fear backlash for attracting negative attention to green building by filing lawsuits.
#3: 11 Times Square Continues to Look for Tenants While Other Local Green Projects Stall During Fourth Quarter
While green building enjoyed a record year by the numbers (in terms of LEED and Energy Star applications, as well as the McGraw-Hill prediction that green construction will triple by 2013 to a $150 billion per year industry), a number of local projects either struggled or were canceled outright in the aftermath of the meltdown on Wall Street. Despite assurances that it would be well on its way towards filling 11 Times Square by the summer, SJP Properties ended 2008 without inking a single tenant for space in its LEED Gold hopeful tower on 42nd Street and 8th Avenue. Meanwhile, notwithstanding its striking green design, Vornado's planned Harlem Tower at the corner of 125th Street and Park Avenue fell through , and a number of green building projects across Brooklyn, include the Steelworks Lofts in Williamsburg, saw work halt because of the prevailing market conditions.
#4: LEED for Commercial Interiors Office Space Proliferates Across Manhattan
We wrote quite a bit here at gbNYC about LEED-CI projects in Manhattan, a number of which earned formal certification from USGBC during the course of 2008. Anecdotally, at least, we saw a significant uptick in the number of these types of projects that were reported over the last year, suggesting that tenants are not only seeing the financial advantages of greening their office space, but are serious about taking a leadership position in terms of demonstrating their commitment to environmental issues and green design to their clientele.
#5: Green Building Performance Is Still a Question Mark and Industry Experts Are Taking Note
In our article wrapping up last November's Greenbuild in Boston, we noted that the conference contained relatively little discussion of the performance failures of LEED and other green buildings that have been documented to date. A number of engineers- including New York City's Henry Gifford- have written extensively about the problems associated with basing a third-party certification, in part, on a building's projected (rather than actual) energy consumption. Gifford's critique was analyzed extensively by building science expert Joseph Lstiburek in an ASHRAE journal piece that was published earlier this fall. As USGBC prepares to roll out LEED 2009 and other organizations such as NAHB, and the Green Building Initiative continue to refine exactly how these ratings are conferred, it will be instructive to observe whether other building science experts join the discussion and help frame how next-generation green building guidelines are established, particularly as more governments incorporate such systems into legislation.
Finally, I'd also like to link you back to some of my favorite posts from 2008. Again, all of our best to everyone for a happy, healthy, and green 2009!
Carbon Neutral Nets Can't Offset Fan Skepticism
Modern Green Controversy in East Hampton
Nzinga Townhomes to Bring Green, Modular Construction to Bed-Stuy
Bachman-Wilson House: Green, Usonian Architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright
Credit Crunch Taking Bite Out of Manhattan LEED Buildings
2008 Idea House: Green Antiquing in Sagaponack
14 Wall Street Earns Energy Star Designation From EPA
Mitchell Joachim's River Gym: Do the Loco-Motion
Law Firm Purchases Manhattan's "Original" Green Building for $70M
New York City's First Green Billboard Set for Times Square
Green Construction Booming in Manhattan (Photos)
235 West 23rd Street: Communist Party USA HQ
Students Protest Lack of LEED in Design for CT Campus Building
Lever House Redux: Boston Properties' 250 West 55th Street
Thoughts on the Lucida & Cook + Fox' Platinum Offices: gbNYC Interviews Rick Cook
Green Design Features Announced for Mets' Citi Field
Historic Argonaut Building at 57th and Broadway to Undergo Green Renovation
The State of Sustainable Building: Ten Notable Green Quotables
Green Building Litigation in East Hampton Over Design for 132 North Main Street
CB Richard Ellis to Enroll 100 Buildings in LEED-EB Through Portfolio Program
gbNYC's First Quarter Review
Gotham's First Green Pizzeria to Open Ovens at 132 East 56th Street
AHRI et al. v. City of Albuquerque, gbNYC, green building 2009, green building news, green building performance, LEED, Shaw Development v. Southern Builders, USGBC
East Hampton Architectural Review Board Approves Bates Masi's 132 North Main Street
Cutsogeorge Tooman & Allen Architects & Dermot Seek LEED Gold for Lower Eastside Girls Club Community Center
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Should Your Client Pay For Ads (Or Should You?)
This question comes in from Jim and Jim asks, Is it better to use your own credit card with an upfront retainer when managing Facebook campaigns for a client or to use their credit card to manage their ad budget? Also, do you run the campaign under your own ad account to protect your methods so they don't copy what you do and the contract?
OK. Jim, lots of questions here to unpack and tell you, but all of them. And the first thing I want to talk about is trust. So usually the amount of skin you put into the game, which should be charging this on your own credit card and then rebuilding them and maybe floating their payment for a while, because your payment terms are 15 days after the end of the month. You know, that would mean that you're you're basically paying for the ads 45 days before you get paid.
You have a lot of trust to want to do that. Now, there are some advantages to trusting somebody that you would float 45 days of their ad spend, and that is that you might get the credit card points that come along with it, especially if you're in the U.S. or in certain areas where they have one point per dollar spent. You could actually make some, you know, get some travel out of it. That's actually what my company ended up doing. But the floating the money for the customer, even if they're trustworthy, can be really risky and so are one dollar spent, equals one mile credit card.
Benefits are really worth the risk of them defaulting or going bankrupt or going out of business, especially in these times, because you could basically be on the hook for it. And you're not merely going to Facebook or Google and say, hey, we want our money back. That customer is out of business. Go go after them and get to work. Basically, whatever credit cards in there is, what is going to be the one that suffers the risk? And so I would really reserve that as a later on thing. If you had the cash flow to handle it and you have a long term customer relationship and you're pretty sure that they're not going to go out of business and they'll pay.
And that's something you can do. Now, one other thing you can do with it is you can have them pay in advance. Now, people are hesitant to do this, but if they if you say, hey, we have a ten thousand dollar a month budget, give us a ten thousand dollar some you know, it's 10000 dollars at the beginning of the month as well as our retainer. And we'll just manage it for you. That that actually works to your advantage if you get paid up front, because a new float, things for a longtime as well. So the other thing about the credit cards is that usually your payment isn't due until later. Right? So it's usually do at the end of the 30 day period, plus at the end of the next 30 days or so. That's usually 60 days after the first of the month that you'd have to pay that. So this would be different. You'd actually get the money upfront and then you'd have two months to pay the bill.
So that can help really help you with cash flow. And so it goes both ways. It cuts both ways. And that's really I guess you have to figure out your own risk tolerance. Now, I can tell you that my company took out took on a lot of that risk because we had a very conservative projection on cash flows and we were very conservative with our spending. And so we had some cash sitting there that could handle that float. And we found it to be to our advantage to do that. And so that was where we came up with a method. Now, I don't know how many other people do that, but that's how I came up with that method for my company and how we continued to do that and and basically cover all of our travel for the year by by having these pass through expenses, going onto a credit card. So that's part one.
Part two is, you know, how much access should you give your client in general? And is there worry that they're going to take your intellectual capital, your property and move on? So first of all, you are getting paid for the service. And so if they pay you for something and then they move on, they paid you to do the work. Not you know, you're not actually doing something proprietary. You're doing work for them and you're getting paid for it. So really, if the client leaves, that's their legal right. In almost any country in the world to do that. And there's nothing you can really do about it. Of course. I have some safeguards that I.
That I use in order to make sure that doesn't really happen, that I don't do all the work up front and then never get paid. The first thing we do is we do a billed fee for any account we're doing, and that is usually the equivalent about two and a half months of the retainer. And so if you're on a two thousand dollar a month retainer to do Facebook ads, you might charge 5000 upfront to build things out just to get all the assets in place and to get everything going. And that's that initial work. And so say that you get that 5000 dollars upfront to do the build out or half of it upfront and then they walk. You've at least gotten something for your time. And so that's that's usually how I safeguard against that.
And honestly, if you start with a client and within 30 days of signing the contract, they walk on you and steal everything you have, then that's really hopefully not a common problem. And it's really a very a there's something really fishy going on beyond the ability to protect it by a contract or the, you know, the overall ability for you to figure out how to fix it, because that's not normal. That doesn't happen often or ever, you know, and that's you know, maybe you needed to weed out the client the first place. Maybe there's red flags all along. Maybe they were where you were working with an individual instead of a company or, you know, somebody who was the owner of the company.
And they weren't they didn't have good business practices. Those are things that you might want. You know, you got to vet out in advance to see are they a legitimate business or not? Have they been in business for a while? Are they a startup? Are they a serial entrepreneur? Or these things that people say that often mean that they're either unemployable or unworkable, frankly. And so that also comes down to your level of trust. And I think that what you want to do is you want to work with companies that have that level of trust back in you, that you know, that they're they're not going to walk away from it.
Now, if you if you use that employ that principle, I would say, at least from my experience, 99 times out of 100, you're safe and you don't want that. The worry about it that one percent of the time was inevitable, whether you had the best contract in the world or you were the best in the world at delivering your billed fee or anything happens or you know that nine ninety nine times out of one hundred or nine times out of ten, whatever you want to call it, that shouldn't be an issue. And so I don't like to punish the innocent for the guilty acts of one person. And so that's why I usually just give people the benefit of the doubt. And then also I listen pretty hard when we're doing the sales process to make sure they're sophisticated enough advertiser or sophisticated enough business that they're not looking at this thing as something they can take and run.
And so I try to protect myself by by weeding them out. And frankly, in the process so they never become a customer in the first place. And so that's how I go about this. And hopefully that's something you can do moving forward. And I think this answer should help you understand how to how to look at this. It's all about trust and how you trust them, how long you've been around them and making sure that they're in it for the same reasons you're in it. Thanks, Jim. Look forward to hearing your next question in the future.
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'Star Wars': Screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan on Why the Franchise Isn't Ready for a 'Guardians of the Galaxy' Tone
The long-time "Star Wars" scribe co-wrote the newest standalone film, but while he admires movies like "GOTG," he doesn't think it's the right tone for his franchise.
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In recent years, vast, interconnected, and constantly evolving cinematic universes have become some of the box office's most reliable winners, capable of spawning sequel after sequel, remake after remake, all in hopes of snagging a dedicated audience who can't stand to miss a single film. Look at the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which is now pushing up on 20 films told over a decade (total domestic take: over $6.5B), or the DC universe, which includes just five films so far, but already has over $1B in domestic dollars. Not even "Star Wars," still one of the most popular cinematic series of all time, can escape the allure of the sprawling series.
And yet, even as the franchise continues to announce new offerings, from a new animated series from Dave Filoni to a steadily-growing selection of so-called standalone films, one thing sets it apart: an on-screen chronology that hasn't wavered. While some aspects of the "Star Wars" canon, like "expanded universe" novels and early comic books, have changed over the years (when the film series kicked off again with "The Force Awakens," Lucasfilm was sure to announce what was and was not part of the new canon going forward), the first six films have always remained part of the official storyline.
That's a rarity in the cinematic landscape, and while "Star Wars" is recasting roles in new standalone films like "Solo: A Star Wars Story," the series is still maintaining the same continuity. This isn't Marvel's awkward handling of Spider-Man — three different stars, three different franchises, over the course of 15 years — and it's the kind of thing even its biggest competitors aren't always capable of doing.
That's not going to change anytime soon, at least according to long-time franchise screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan. IndieWire recently asked Kasdan if he thought "Star Wars" would ever fall into the recasting and reworking cycle other franchises sometimes fall prey to, and he was philosophical, but firm. In short, is "Star Wars" ever going to start over from scratch?
"Well, you know, anything can happen," Lawrence Kasdan said. "But I think it's really a nice quality of 'Star Wars,' that if you lay out all the movies, you can put them firmly in one chronology."
His co-writer (and son), Jonathan Kasdan, was equally sure it wouldn't happen, even in a franchise-mad culture. "I think it's part of [why] people who have enormous affection for this thing, or are passionate about it," Jonathan Kasdan said. "I think that would be to go further than anyone would allow, to start rewriting history on that scale."
But does that mean that the series doesn't have room for a canon film that's tonally different than its predecessors? When Phil Lord and Chris Miller originally came on board to direct "Solo," the expectation was that the comedic filmmakers would add a distinctly humorous flavor to the Alden Ehrenreich-starring prequel. A recent report from Wall Street Journal held that the pair were going for a "Guardians of the Galaxy" type vibe, one that was nixed when the pair were replaced by Ron Howard. The film still has moments of humor, but they're similar to those that pepper the rest of the franchise.
Personally speaking, Lawrence Kasdan isn't sold on the prospect of putting that kind of humor into the franchise. Asked if "Star Wars" might ever embrace a film like "Guardians of the Galaxy" or "Thor 3," and he was clear: that's not "Star Wars."
"It may be that the times and the zeitgeist dictate that at some point. But we're not at that point, in my mind," Lawrence Kasdan. "And look, I'm about through with 'Star Wars,' so maybe other people [involved in the franchise] will feel differently. But, I love 'Guardians of the Galaxy,' and I like that kind of movie. To me, it isn't what 'Star Wars' is."
The elder Kasdan, who has written four "Star Wars" movies so far, isn't totally ruling it out, however, because he dose realize that the franchise is now in the hands of other filmmakers who might have different ideas. He's still expecting them to hold true to the franchise that they grew up loving, though.
"A lot of these guys are my friends, Rian [Johnson] and [David] Benioff and [D.B.] Weiss, these are people that I know and respect and they share an emotional connection to the saga," Lawrence Kasdan said. "That doesn't mean they're going to make the movies just like the original movies, but it means that the spirit of the original movies impacted their lives. And I would expect that their movies would reflect that."
Jonathan Kasdan is already seeing some evolutions throughout the series, and while "Star Wars" may never veer as wildly as some of its other franchise brethren, that doesn't mean that anything is off the table.
"I admire the desire that Kathy [Kennedy] has, and that [franchise] filmmakers have, to push those boundaries, little by little, as they go," Jonathan Kasdan said. "And I think Rian made bold decisions [in 'The Last Jedi'], and Kathy will continue to encourage spreading of wings and stretching out in different directions. Where that will lead is very exciting, you know? As long as it's good."
"Solo: A Star Wars Story" will be released in theaters on May 25.
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Summary: This standard specifies the determination of antimony in food by hydride generation atomic fluorescence spectrometry. This standard applies to the determination of antimony in food.
This standard replaces GB/T 5009.137-2003 "Determination of antimony in food".
This standard compared with GB/T 5009.137-2003, the main changes are as follows.
--- reducing agent increased thiourea - ascorbic acid.
This standard specifies the determination of antimony in food by hydride generation atomic fluorescence spectrometry.
This standard applies to the determination of antimony in food.
3.1.6 Thiourea [(NH2) 2CS]. Analytical purity.
3.1.7 Potassium Iodide (KI). Analytical purity.
3.1.8 ascorbic acid (C6H8O6). analytical grade.
3.1.9 Potassium borohydride (KBH4) or sodium borohydride (NaBH4).
3.1.10 Potassium hydroxide (KOH) or sodium hydroxide (NaOH).
3.2.1 nitric acid - perchloric acid mixed acid (10 1). respectively, take 500mL of nitric acid and perchloric acid 50mL, mix.
3.2.2 hydrochloric acid solution (19). measure 50mL hydrochloric acid, add to 450mL of water, mix.
3.2.3 thiourea - ascorbic acid solution. were weighed 10g thiourea, 10g ascorbic acid, dissolved in 100mL water, mix.
3.2.4 thiourea - potassium iodide solution. Weigh 2g thiourea, 10g potassium iodide, dissolved in 100mL water, mix.
Potassium can also be replaced by sodium hydroxide.
With the current allocation. Potassium borohydride in this solution can also be replaced by an equimolar amount of sodium borohydride.
Antimony standard solution. 1000mg/L. Or other antimicrobial standard solutions that are certified by the State and are given a certain concentration of the standard substance certificate.
Constant volume to scale, mix.
Water volume to scale, mix.
Was 0. μg/L, 1.00 μg/L, 2.00 μg/L, 4.00 μg/L, 10.0 μg/L, 20.0 μg/L. Placed after 30min.
Note. According to the sensitivity of the instrument and the actual content of antimony in the sample to determine the standard series of antimony content in the concentration range.
Note. all glassware and tetrafluoroethylene digestion tank are required nitric acid solution (1 5) soak overnight, rinse with tap water, and finally rinse with water.
4.1 atomic fluorescence spectrometer, with antimony hollow cathode lamp.
4.2 balance. sense of 1mg.
Note. contamination should be avoided during sampling and sample preparation.
50mL ~ 100mL digestive container (conical flask), add nitric acid - perchloric acid mixed acid (10 1) 5mL ~ 10mL soaked overnight.
After the determination. At the same time do reagent blank test.
The amount of water rinse the digestion tank three times, the solution transferred to 10mL volumetric flask, add 2mL hydrochloric acid solution (19), with water to the volume.
10mL, shake, placed 30min after the determination. At the same time do reagent blank test.
Ascorbic acid solution 1mL, diluted with water to 10mL, shake, placed 30min after the determination. At the same time do reagent blank test.
Height, 8 mm; carrier gas flow rate, 300 mL/min. According to their respective instrument performance to the best condition.
The corresponding fluorescence value is the ordinate, draw the standard curve.
Note. If the automatic injection device, can also be used to automatically dilute the standard series to prepare.
The blank solution and the sample solution were introduced into the instrument under the same experimental conditions as those of the standard solution, and the fluorescence values were measured.


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Q: Compare arrays from mysql-colums then insert something in each row with same colum-array The situation:
A mysql-table has three columns Name, Areas and Type
Name contains one customer
Areas contains an array of locations (area1,area2,area3...)
Type is empty for now

If helpfull or needed:
All names(count: can vary) and areas(count: 50) are known, but the composition is unknown and can vary for each name

The goal:
To select the Name where all Areas are the same and then insert a letter in the Type column

ID = 1; Name = Name1; Areas = area1,area2;
ID = 2; Name = Name2; Areas = area1,area2,area3;
ID = 3; Name = Name3; Areas = area1,area2;
ID = 4; Name = Name4; Areas = area5,area8,area2,area4
ID = 5; Name = Name4; Areas = area6;

Name1 and Name3 Type = A
Name2 Type = B
Name4Type = C
Name5 Type = D

Things tryed so far
searching (found a few good ways to get close)
multi_array_search
get same values from array
crying in a corner and hope to find a solution
But it all fails when the arrays should check against each other for the areas.

Tryed foreach(x as xy) and then for ($i = 0; $i < count(xy); $i++)Maybe just this code is needed?

But nothing really worked out the way needed.

Any help is appreciated =)

If already asked sorry but I found nothing that really helped or searched/looked for the wrong terms.

A: Use this query:
SELECT id, areas
FROM YourTable
ORDER BY areas

Then in the PHP code, test when the areas value changes, and increment the type.
$type = '';
$last_areas = null;
$update_stmt = $pdo->prepare("UPDATE YourTable SET type = :type WHERE id = :id");
while ($row = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)) {
    if ($row['areas'] != $last_areas) {
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Top Cards on Twitter 2022: 6-10
by Cardinal70 on December 15, 2022
We're getting into the cream of the crop here. Nobody left shows up on less than 130 ballots. Nobody left gets less than 1,100 points. It's time for the big dogs to take their turn in the spotlight.
Number 10: Ben_Fred
Sports Columnist at St. Louis Post-Dispatch and @stltoday. Radio talker at @KTRS550. Instagram: benfredpd. Living one word to the next, one line at a time.
NEW at @stltoday: After beating Astros in bold strike for Willson Contreras, #STLCards should pivot to starter https://t.co/pEkvxmbMH9
— Ben Frederickson (@Ben_Fred) December 8, 2022
On Twitter since: January 2009
Number of Tweets: 62.6K
Following: 2,105
Average: 7.596
Number of ballots: 151
% that were 10: 22.52%
% that were 1: 0.66%
Ranking history: 50 (2016), 17 (2017), 15 (2018), 9 (2019), 9 (2020), 7 (2021)
I keep thinking of Ben Frederickson as "the new guy" but he's been around for more than half a decade. This is his fourth straight year in the top 10 and his coverage of all things St. Louis (and Missouri football counts, it seems) keeps him there. You'll find all of his links there plus he'll add some thoughts onto the timeline as well so it's not just a link/RT fest. If you enjoy his writing, well, you are probably already following him and know this is where to keep up with his stuff!
Number 9: VanHicklestein
hellsite captive #stlcards #stlblues
welcome! pic.twitter.com/6aMyh4pMEC
— VHS (@VanHicklestein) December 7, 2022
On Twitter since: February 2017
Followers: 7,654
Ranking history: 21 (2018), 22 (2019), 33 (2020), 16 (2021)
Funny. Cutting. No holds barred. Mix that in with some great gif work and the excellent use of alternate broadcasts (including the opposition's) over clips from the Cardinals broadcast and you've got a fan-favorite account. He also may have the most subtle adjustments to an avatar on the whole site. I have four years of these pictures and it's amazing just the little differences!
Number 8: QuinnSTLCards
@Diamond_Digest writer. I made Mike Trout laugh one time. Adam Wainwright has more Cy Young shares than Nolan Ryan. Yadi has more fWAR than Vladimir Guerrero.
I'm starting to think Arenado lost close to 9 figures by not opting out. I love that guy.
— Quinn (@QuinnSTLCards) December 7, 2022
On Twitter since: March 2018
Ranking history: 128 (2018), 37 (2019), 35 (2020), 9 (2021)
He may never top sending flowers to John Mozeliak after the Nolan Arenado deal, but Quinn's still putting up the great content and being a wonderful follow. You'll find a lot of good insight and commentary on what's happening not only with the Cardinals but with the minors as well.
Number 7: Cardinals
Official account of the 11-time World Series Champions | #STLCards Contest Rules: http://atmlb.com/2zyo9ce
We have selected RHP Wilking Rodriguez from the New York Yankees in the Major League phase of the Rule 5 Draft. pic.twitter.com/3S9bQOcu1s
— St. Louis Cardinals (@Cardinals) December 7, 2022
On Twitter since: July 2009
Followers: 1,394,192
Ranking history: 8 (2015), 6 (2016), 25 (2017), 12 (2018), 11 (2019), 14 (2020), 6 (2021)
It's the official account, so you know what you are going to get. While they've gotten more playful at times, you are still going to get the official news (and not until it's official–Willson Contreras's deal wasn't on the feed until well after the media reports) and some great highlights. It's one of those basic staples of Twitterdom–you like a team, you follow the official account for the news, even though you might wind up seeing it elsewhere first.
Number 6: AugieNash
➔ Your daily source for "On This Day" in St Louis Cardinals history | Posting vintage and rare #STLCards photos and memorabilia | Dizzy and the Gashouse Gang!
#OTD 1980 – Whitey Herzog and the Cardinals start to lay the foundation for "Whiteyball" when they trade Terry Kennedy, John Littlefield, Al Olmsted, Mike Phillips, Kim Seaman, Steve Swisher and John Urrea to the Padres for Rollie Fingers, Bob Shirley and Gene Tenace. #STLCards pic.twitter.com/TBatR3Vm9R
— Augie Nash (@AugieNash) December 8, 2022
Ranking history: 131 (2018), 32 (2019), 17 (2020), 12 (2021)
As Cardinals fans, we have a lot of history to celebrate and explore. There are a number of Twitter accounts out there that focus on that history, which is great, but at the top of that list is Augie. Augie's bringing you plenty of pictures and history every day that you might not have seen before. He's not all in the black and white of yesteryear, though, as he's got plenty of thoughts about what's going on in the here and now as well.
All right, one more day of this! The last group tomorrow morning and some assorted stats tomorrow afternoon. Come back for the big reveal!
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Asian Honey Bees
Biology, Conservation, and Human Interactions
Benjamin P. Oldroyd
Siriwat Wongsiri
Foreword by Thomas D. Seeley
36 halftones, 40 line illustrations, 20 tables
NATURE: Animals: Insects & Spiders
SCIENCE: Life Sciences: Zoology: Entomology
The familiar European hive bee, Apis mellifera, has long dominated honey bee research. But in the last 15 years, teams in China, Japan, Malaysia, and Thailand began to shift focus to the indigenous Asian honey bees. Benjamin Oldroyd, well known for his work on the genetics and evolution of worker sterility, has teamed with Siriwat Wongsiri, a pioneer of the study of bees in Thailand, to provide a comparative work synthesizing the rapidly expanding Asian honey bee literature. After introducing the species, the authors review evolution and speciation, division of labor, communication, and nest defense. They underscore the pressures colonies face from pathogens, parasites, and predators—including man—and detail the long and amazing history of the honey hunt. This book provides a cornerstone for future investigations on these species, insights into the evolution across species, and a direction for conservation efforts to protect these keystone species of Asia's tropical forests.


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Activists Fight to Keep Windsor's New Hospital in the Heart of the City
by Daniel Herriges
What are the essential services and institutions a city can't function without? Police and fire protection. Schools. And, without a doubt, health care. These things are non-negotiable.
We've been observers for years of the trend of cities hollowing out—in function if not in form—as these essential services decamp to the outskirts. The situation is especially dire in small and mid-size cities. Time to build a new high school? More often than not it's a massive campus on the edge of town—completely inaccessible to the community by walking, even as we pay lip service to "safe routes to school."
Other cities have sought to relocate government offices to the fringe. Or they've brought the suburban campus model into the heart of town, as is happening in Brainerd, Minnesota, where the school district plans to raze multiple blocks of a traditional urban neighborhood to provide—can you guess it?—parking.
Windsor, ON, as viewed from Detroit, MI. (Image via Wikimedia Commons)
These decisions are often motivated by a short-sighted concern for efficiency: acquiring land is often both cheaper and easier on the urban-rural fringe than in the heart of town, and such a location affords more design flexibility. But these decisions reinforce the destructive dynamic of the Growth Ponzi Scheme, in which a community chases short-term growth at the cost of assuming the long-term liability of maintaining all the brand new infrastructure required to serve a spread-out development pattern. Meanwhile, older neighborhoods languish and fall into decline.
One of the more dramatic ongoing stories of this sort is taking place in Windsor, Ontario, where a group of activists are engaged in a David-and-Goliath struggle to prevent the city's only hospital from being relocated to an essentially rural area outside of the city.
Their situation illustrates that building a strong town can't always just be about the feel-good work of supporting local businesses, rehabbing old homes and revitalizing neighborhood streets. Not when decision-makers, elected and unelected alike, can so easily undermine the integrity of your community with short-sighted actions whose effects will last decades. Sometimes it's going to take a political fight on the part of those who understand the importance of not abandoning a city's heart—especially when it comes to the institutions that keep its blood pumping.
The Story of the Hospital and the Beanfield
"One of the more dramatic ongoing stories of this sort is taking place in Windsor, Ontario, where a group of activists are engaged in a David-and-Goliath struggle to prevent the city's only hospital from being relocated to an essentially rural area outside of the city."
Windsor, Ontario is a city of 217,000 in a region of 400,000. It has been called "the end of Canada"—it's the country's southernmost city of any size, located across the Detroit River from Detroit, Michigan. Like Detroit, Windsor has a substantial automobile industry, and like Detroit, it's core neighborhoods have experienced disinvestment and population and job losses in recent decades. Even as recently as 2000, Windsor was at a record high number of 28,100 automotive jobs—but by 2007, the city had been buffeted by recession and that number had fallen to 18,200.
Windsor's population is aging, and growth is expected to be flat or declining after 2031. Given this situation, the smartest planning approach for the city would be to double down on its core strengths and prioritize essential maintenance of existing infrastructure and levels of service.
Instead, Windsor is short-sightedly chasing growth on its far suburban fringe—and a $2 billion new hospital is the wedge it's using to try to kick-start this growth.
Windsor has two acute-care hospitals, one downtown and one about 4 kilometers outside the core. They are run by the same entity, Windsor Regional Hospital (WRH), which is the region's second-largest employer, with about 4,000 employees. (In Canada, hospitals are funded by the provincial government, and an elected board runs each individual hospital much like a private business, with a CEO and administrative team.)
In 2012, WRH conducted a review of the two aging hospitals and determined it would be better to close them and consolidate their services into one new, state-of-the-art facility. In a series of town hall meetings, WRH went out to the community and talked up the benefits of a brand new hospital. Private rooms, the latest technology—what city wouldn't want that?
An aerial view of the Windsor area indicating the proposed hospital location relative to existing development. (Image courtesy of CAMPP)
The catch, though? With little apparent public input or debate, the hospital's 2012 review had determined that the new hospital would be built on "60 acres of greenfield land." The site ultimately selected was an area near Windsor's international airport, but far from the developed core of the city. Residents have taken to referring to the would-be hospital site as "the beanfield."
The rural road leading to the proposed location currently has no public transit service and will require major infrastructure upgrades to handle the anticipated traffic. The new location is closer to some suburban communities, but far from Windsor's most densely-populated and poorest neighborhoods. The plan replaces all hospital services in Windsor's urban core with only a proposed Urgent Care Center and mental health services. The resulting facilities will be unable to handle many life-saving procedures and will not be not open 24-7. The city's aging residents and those without ready access to a car will find their ability to access care greatly reduced.
Penny Wise But Pound Foolish
I spoke with Shane Mitchell, a Strong Towns member who is a founding member of CAMPP, Citizens for an Accountable Mega-Hospital Planning Process, the group of Windsor residents and businesses challenging the proposed hospital location. Mitchell explains that part of the problem is the conflicting priorities of different agencies:
The "beanfield" site where the new hospital is proposed. (Image: Google)
"The #1 site according to a ranking in the RFP [Request for Proposals], was in the city, but it would have cost of approximately $2 million more than the selected site. The committee instead moved on to the 2nd choice site because of a $2 million difference.
The infrastructure cost to serve the greenfield site is quoted at upwards of $200 million plus 2 million annually just to extend transit service to the area, but because the hospital is working in a silo separate from the city, they're effectively saying, 'We can save $2 million. Sure, the city has to spend $200 million, but it's not coming from our pot.'
The proposed hospital site lies in a designated "floodplain development control area," with official floodplain mapping yet to be done. The land development, including additional road construction and many acres of surface parking, will require an elaborate stormwater management system. This system is necessary to reduce flood risk to low-lying residential neighbourhoods to the north—an area that, in both 2016 and 2017, experienced 100-year rain events that resulted in extensive flood damage. Because of the site's proximity to Windsor Airport, specialized engineering will also be needed to prevent open pools of standing water that will otherwise attract waterfowl, an obvious danger to aircraft."
Why would the city go along with such a plan? One possible motivation is to lay the ground for suburban development. Specifically, a proposed 400 hectare (roughly 1.5 square mile) residential and commercial subdivision, which would lie south of Windsor Airport, near the proposed hospital, is contingent on the rezoning of the land and would seemingly need the mega-hospital project in order to kick-start the development. It would include room for 3,280 homes—roughly half of the total number of new homes Windsor anticipates needing in the next two decades, just in this one currently-agricultural area.
This is a costly, self-defeating way to grow—and all the more so for a city like Windsor that is far from booming. The city could easily accommodate its modest population increase in already built-up areas where no new infrastructure is required—and Windsor would be more prosperous and resilient for it.
Hospital-based services that are set to be lost from the center of Windsor. (Source: CAMPP)
Windsor Residents & Businesses Fight Back
In the summer of 2013, CAMPP was formed. Composed of mostly urban residents, the group began to meet on a regular basis with a goal of staving off the loss of the city's accessible hospital services. CAMPP began writing to officials and holding meetings with residents, hospital planners and politicians.
CAMPP argued that if WRH is going to close both existing campuses in favor of a new single site hospital, then it should be located on an urban brownfield site. There are 500 acres within the city of Windsor that could be developed tomorrow according to the city's own Brownfield Redevelopment Strategy, and such a site would be better for Windsor residents and for the city's financial future.
Unfortunately, there was never a robust public debate about the site selection, despite CAMPP's efforts. In 2014, WRH assembled a site selection committee comprised of hospital board members and select community representatives. In 2015, they announced the beanfield site. CAMPP has appealed the site selection through a process in Ontario, the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (LPAT), that allows citizens to appeal land rezoning if it is inconsistent with existing long-range plans.
The effort has received significant support from a number of prominent figures, including Toronto planner Ken Greenberg and the former CEO of Maple Leaf Sports, Richard Peddie, as well as media coverage including a favorable editorial in the Globe & Mail, Canada's premier newspaper. Jennifer Keesmaat, former Toronto chief planner, is the independent expert witness for the legal challenge.
In April of 2019, CAMPP was granted an oral hearing for its legal challenge. The group anticipates a long battle and more than $100,000 in legal fees. (You can learn more and donate to their effort here.)
Mitchell views CAMPP's underdog fight as part of a broader battle against local governments throughout Ontario still wedded to a discredited, 20th-century approach to growth: costly horizontal expansion at the expense of existing neighborhoods and residents.
"If we're doing these things, maybe we won't just change the decision happening in Windsor, but we can overturn this habit of building suburban shopping mall style hospitals and schools.
The city of Windsor has a billion-dollar infrastructure deficit. People complain every day that their own street is like the surface of Mars. But they don't see the connection with expanding our city onto farmland, when we don't have enough money to maintain what we already have.
We're really hoping we'll be able to overturn this. It could have a very positive effect on planning policy throughout the province."
We hope so too.
(Cover photo via Wikimedia Commons)
Robert Sulaski
Sacrifice a Historic Downtown Neighborhood for a Hospital? There's a Better Option.
When we do the math, we find that preserving historic buildings and districts is the best thing we can do for our cities' economic futures. Utica, New York should consider this when choosing where to locate a new hospital campus.
You Drive Your Kids to School Because the Neighborhood Doesn't Feel Safe. The Neighborhood Doesn't Feel Safe Because Everybody Drives.
School officials in my town claim our neighborhoods are too unsafe for their children to walk to school. Yet the actual key to safety lies in numbers. We need designs that make it so more, not fewer, people will choose to walk.
Context for the Nature Band Aid
Large surface parking lots do not make good neighbors.
Daniel Herriges (Twitter: @DanielStrTowns) serves as Content Manager for Strong Towns, and has been a regular contributor since 2015. He is also a founding member of the organization. Daniel has a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Minnesota. His obsession with maps began before he could read. His budding environmentalism can be traced back to age 4, when he yelled at his parents for stepping on weeds growing in sidewalk cracks. His love of great urban design and human-scaled, livable places has also been lifelong. Daniel has a B.A. from Stanford University in Human Biology with a concentration in Conservation and Sustainable Development. After college, he worked as an environmental activist for several years, in support of indigenous people's rights and conservation in the Amazon rainforest. He can often be found hiking or cycling. Daniel is from St. Paul, Minnesota.
Interested in writing for Strong Towns, or got a story you'd like Strong Towns to cover? Please email Daniel.
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tagged with Hospitals, Windsor, Canada, Growth Ponzi Scheme, public health, #OrderlyButDumb, impact


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Commentary| Volume 89, ISSUE 6, P718-721, June 2014
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Genomic Medicine and Incidental Findings: Balancing Actionability and Patient Autonomy
Jennifer B. McCormick, PhD, MPP
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evaluate, and report pathogenic or likely pathogenic variants in 56 genes and report these findings to the ordering clinician, who could then "contextualize any incidental findings for the patient in light of personal and family history, physical examination, and other relevant findings."
The 2013 recommendations did not provide guidance for laboratories to offer patients of any age the ability to opt out from the reporting of IFs. The 56 genes are associated with 24 genetic cardiovascular disorders or predisposition to cancers for which confirmatory diagnostic approaches are available as well as some preventive or treatment measures that can be offered. The ACMG recommended further that those who did not agree to learn of these IFs could choose to forego the entire test. These recommendations generated much controversy, most of which focused on patients' ability to opt out of receiving unwanted results.
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Illustrating its commitment to participating in broad, public discussion, the ACMG Board of Directors surveyed its membership in early 2014 to ascertain how the members viewed the 2013 recommendations. In addition, the ACMG surveyed attendees of the 2014 ACMG annual meeting. The responses suggest that most members support allowing informed patients to opt out of receiving information about some or all IFs (presented at the 2014 annual ACMG business meeting). The ACMG also held open forums to discuss the recommendations, including one at each of the 2013 and 2014 annual ACMG meetings. These activities resulted in the Board revising their 2013 recommendations to allow clinical laboratories and clinicians to offer patients the ability to pursue genetic testing but opt out of receiving results covering these 56 genes.
American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics. ACMG updates recommendation on "opt-out" for genome sequencing return of results [press release]. ACMG website. www.acmg.net. Published April 1, 2014. Accessed April 12, 2014.
In addition, the ACMG has established a new committee that will create a mechanism for evaluating changing evidence of genetic variants for inclusion on subsequent lists of actionable variants. Although challenges remain for implementing genomic medicine, including how to effectively and efficiently discuss IF options with patients,
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this new position by the ACMG acknowledges the importance of tailoring the reporting of results obtained from clinical WES/WGS of each individual patient. In this article, we describe the ethical and clinical rationale for our strong agreement with this position, highlighting how the ACMG's position more fully preserves patient decision making and autonomy in the era of next-generation sequencing (ie, massively parallel high-output sequencing of nucleic acids in which multiple DNA templates are sequenced simultaneously, enabling cost-effective analysis of large numbers of target sequences at one time).
The initial ACMG statement has been an important first step in developing national consensus on managing clinical IFs from next-generation sequencing. It generated an intense discussion about a patient's "right not to know" about IFs. The statement also established a starting place for considering what should be included in a list of clinically actionable genetic findings from WES/WGS. Although the discussion has been ongoing in the context of genetic and genomic research for more than a decade, with the rapid movement of next-generation sequencing into the clinical arena, initiating a broader conversation on how to handle clinical IFs is even more germane.
When the 2013 ACMG recommendations were released, commentators
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voiced concern about the lack of provisions for patient choice in decisions about the receipt of health-related information. These concerns were consistent with our experiences at Mayo Clinic's Individualized Medicine Clinic.
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In that context, we are conducting studies characterizing patients' preferences regarding IFs. Our findings reveal that those preferences are diverse.
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Annual ACMG meeting March. 2014; (Accessed May 7, 2014)
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That is, some patients do not want to know about findings that are unrelated to their primary condition, while others want to learn about all IFs, extending even to those findings that may not have apparent clinical implications. The contextual uniqueness of each patient can play a critical role in how individuals make decisions. In this sense, the initial 2013 ACMG recommendations appeared to be inconsistent with the heterogeneity and diversity of patient preferences with respect to receiving information on IFs and the importance many patients assign to individual choice.
The revised 2014 ACMG position places greater weight on patient autonomy and shared decision making. Many clinicians encourage patients to be actively involved in health care decisions, and many patients expect to play an active part in decisions concerning their health. Indeed, although the 2013 recommendations stated that "patients have the right to decline clinical sequencing if they judge the risks of possible discovery of incidental findings to outweigh the benefits of testing,"
this "all or none" approach about WES/WGS was incongruent with the spirit of individualized medicine. One can imagine that a patient may wish to undergo genomic testing for a specific indication, such as selection for an approach to cancer treatment, and yet may choose not to go forward with this approach once informed that additional unrelated information would also be disclosed.
The 2013 recommendations raised other concerns that the most recent revision has addressed. For example, the 2013 recommendations implicitly obligated clinical laboratories to search for pathogenic or likely pathogenic variants in the 56 genes identified by the ACMG. When ordering clinicians receive the results, they must determine how best to return these findings to the patient. Although the original recommendations duly noted that the ordering clinician could decide not to return these findings to the patient, placing the clinician in a gatekeeper role, the results of clinical testing would likely be entered into the patient's medical record, raising the potential for another clinician, unaware of the patient's wishes, to divulge that unwanted information to the patient. In addition, some clinicians may feel a legal responsibility to share IFs with the patient, especially once reported by the laboratory, creating a potential tension between their legal and ethical duties.
The 2014 revision also partly addresses the challenging question of what genes and diseases should be included on the list. For example, one could argue for the addition of genes such as CDH1 (associated with hereditary gastric and breast cancer) or PTCH1 (associated with Gorlin syndrome [basal cell nevus syndrome]) to the list but against TP53 (associated with Li-Fraumeni syndrome, a rare genetic condition that greatly increases the risk of several types of cancer but with limited genetic testing–related actionability for those cancers). Indeed, the original list contained 57 genes, and one (NTRK1, associated with familial medullary thyroid cancer) was removed shortly thereafter. With the inclusion of the opt-out provision, those patients who may have reservations about the implications of learning about some of the variants on the ACMG list have a way to proceed with WES/WGS. Still to be addressed is what to do for many other genes for which a limited degree of evidence exists or not as compelling data are available on their clinical importance and actionability. The pre-event probability of a given clinical outcome depends on the clinical scenario of the patient population seeking genome sequencing: currently, a substantial proportion of clinical WES is being conducted in the setting of advanced cancer with a life expectancy limited to 2 years or less. The likelihood that a pathogenic variant that has not yet manifested itself will subsequently do so in the short time remaining is likely small. For some patients as well as their families, learning about this information may create an unnecessary burden. No doubt, for others the information may be a way for the patient to pass a legacy of potentially useful information on to surviving family members. We allow patients to make decisions about other potentially lifesaving medical care, procedures, and treatments, and it seems the same choices should be provided for genetic information not sought by the patient.
The ACMG's initial statement and its subsequent revision have been constructive in focusing the national conversation on the ultimate goal of positively impacting patient care. In addition to prioritizing which genes may be of most benefit to patients, we believe it is feasible to allow personal choice in decisions regarding learning of IFs that exist in genomic analyses. Filters can be created and applied during bioinformatics data processing that can allow the data analysis to be conducted on the portion of the genome that the patient has chosen to learn about. These filters can be tailored to reflect patient choices. Much work is still needed on how to best elicit patient choices and how granular those choices can be in this complex arena. An unresolved dilemma is determining the best way to "bin" gene variants by disease type, actionability, or physical attribute.
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Binning could also decrease the amount of detailed information communicated to patients, making the situation easier and less overwhelming for them. As new methods for automated data curation develop, we need to examine in parallel the values and preferences that drive patient decision making and develop processes to facilitate meaningful conversations with patients about the types of IFs they want to be informed about. We have been piloting various mechanisms that can be used by clinicians and patients to facilitate decisions about what to learn or not learn based on one of these decision-aid tools, and we believe that methods can be refined to accomplish this.
Much is known about how individuals respond to learning about genetic risk information, but the bulk of those data is from individuals undergoing single-gene testing.
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These experiences with single-gene testing may not be a fair comparison to WES/WGS testing. With the former, a person knows what is being tested and has sought the test to determine his or her risk for carrying genetic variants causing the disease. In contrast, WES/WGS is not selective, and the results may reveal much more information than originally desired or anticipated. The landscape has changed appreciably, and it is no longer clear what it means to be well prepared to get results from clinical WES/WGS. These issues require additional study in well-designed clinical trials to understand more about the risks and benefits of receiving information on IFs. This is especially true for the release of IFs to children and their parents.
The vibrant discussions that have ensued since the release of the 2013 ACMG recommendations are encouraging, including those that the ACMG itself has hosted. It is important that these ongoing updates of the recommendations continue and that the discussions have input from all stakeholders including, but not limited to, patient advocacy groups, regulatory agencies, geneticists and genetic counselors, oncologists, hematologists, pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists, bioethicists, sequencing experts, and industry partners. The recent revisions to the ACMG's recommendations place greater weight on the diversity of patient interests and the importance of individual autonomy. As many have acknowledged, we need to develop new ways to assist patients in making informed choices that best fit their individual needs and better understand how individual patients perceive actionability. We believe an individualized, patient-centered approach to WES/WGS is necessary and attainable to realize the full potential of sequencing techniques to improve medical care.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2014.04.008
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The Tokyo Bitcoin Cash Meetup group, an influential gathering within the international BCH community, has declared it will officially remain neutral in the ongoing "hash war" and fallout from the recent hard fork. Supporters of the BCH main chain (sometimes called "BCHABC") and Bitcoin SV (BSV) remain welcome at the weekly meetup and its special events.
Why Is the Tokyo Meetup Group's View Important?
The Tokyo group's voice is relevant in the debate as its members have been particularly active (and successful) in lobbying local businesses to support BCH payments. In 2017 the group formed a new meetup night for Bitcoin Cash supporters after the 2017 BTC/BCH split led to arguments in the long-running Bitcoin Meetup group over who was still a "true" Bitcoin supporter.
The Tokyo group's organizers and founding members (Aaron Gutman, Juro Kurosawa, Akane Yokoo and Ken Shishido), posted a rationale on Medium, saying that BCH (in whatever form it took) still represented "peer-to-peer electronic cash" better than today's BTC, which has become "nothing more than digital gold".
That represents the main difference between the BTC/BCH divorce and the current chain split between "BCHABC" (currently the longest chain with most mining hashpower) and "BSV" (the "minority chain" supported by nChain, Dr. Craig Wright, CoinGeek and others), they said. For a Meetup group, retaining a civil social element was most important.
"BCH & BSV both still share the same original goals of Bitcoin," they wrote.
The Tokyo Bitcoin Cash Meetup group has members who favor each of the sides, or are still waiting to see what happens. While BSV may have "lost" the initial hash war after the fork, BSV still has a significant amount of mining support and a market value (at press time) of ~$1.57 billion USD (around $90 per coin).
Major pools mining on the BSV network include BMG Pool (27 percent), CoinGeek (25.7 percent) and SVPool (23 percent). According to Coin.dance, BSV is a tempting 54 percent more profitable to mine than BCH (1.6 percent). Since both (along with BTC itself) share the same mining algorithm, it's easy for ASIC farms and other miners to switch between the three networks.
What Is the 'Real Bitcoin' and Why?
Recent articles on CoinGeek have questioned whether BSV should still use the name "Bitcoin Cash" at all, since all parties claim to be the true Bitcoin in some way or another. Bitcoin (BTC) has the longest chain and highest market cap, but has added segregated witness (SegWit) and retained a roughly 1-4 MB transaction size limit. Bitcoin Cash (BCH) has the longest Bitcoin Cash chain, but no SegWit and has now added Canonical Transaction Order (CTOR) and a number of OP_RETURN codes designed to add functionality. Bitcoin SV (BSV), for its part, has "locked" the protocol in what its supporters say is closest to the original "Satoshi Vision" from which BSV takes its name.
All parties hope that, in the future, they will be recognized simply as "Bitcoin" together with Bitcoin's dominant market cap and the valuable BTC ticker symbol. Predictions and legitimacy claims vary depending on who is speaking.
Is the Tokyo BCH Meetup Group making a wise move? What do you think of the current situation? Let us know in the comments.


Lena Meyer-Landrut, even more simply known by the single name Lena was born in Hanover, 23 May 1991, and is a very famous German singer. She has won the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 in Oslo with the song Satellite after passing the national selections carried out through the television show Unser Star für Oslo. With its three individual Satellite, Bee and Love Me, sung in Unser Star für Oslo final, was the first artist to be able to place three songs in the top five best-selling singles in Germany. Satellite debuted in first place and received the award double platinum. In May 2010, Meyer-Landrut has released her first album, My Cassette Player, which debuted in first place in the ranking of best-selling albums in Germany.
Although devoid of a professional experience as a singer, Meyer-Landrut decided to participate in the talent show Unser Star für Oslo, a new national television program created in order to select the German representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 in Oslo. After her first appearance, singing My Same by the British singer Adele, she received much praise from members of the jury and was immediately considered one of the favorites. She reached the final mainly interpreting lesser known pieces by international artists such as The Bird and the Bee, Kate Nash, Paolo Nutini and Lisa Mitchell. In the final, held March 12, 2010, Meyer-Landrut sang three songs written specifically for the contest, Bee, Satellite and Love Me. Through televoting, the audience chose satellite as a song to be interpreted; in a second round of voting, Meyer-Landrut has been designated as the representative of Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 by beating Jennifer Braun. The Satellite's music video was shot during the night of the final and presented for the first time on German television channel four days later. May 29, Lena triumphed in Oslo totaling 246 points and detaching of 76 the turkish group maNga.
Her debut album, My Cassette Player, was released May 7, 2010, and includes Satellite, Love Me and Bee, as well as cover new and interpreted during Unser Star für Oslo. The album debuted in first place in the German ranking of best-selling albums, and the third both in Austria and in Switzerland, while it is placed in fifth place in the European Top 100 Albums of Billboard magazine. She represented Germany again in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011, held in Düsseldorf, with the song Taken by a stranger; on the same occasion with Stefan Raab she has reinterpreted the song Satellite in key rockabilly. Following the success encountered in Germany, Lena said that she would like a career as a singer or an actress, but she pointed out, "are not fixed to make music all my life." Said that originally had the intention to study acting after graduating school, but now it is not certain that the time available so permits. She stated that her musical influences include Adele, Kate Nash, Vanessa Carlton, as well as the German singer Clueso and German pop rock band Wir sind Helden. In May 2011 she won the Comet Award for best female artist.


James Ebert, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, led a two-day workshop on "Building Stronger Intro- and Upper-Division Courses" for the faculty of the School of Science and Engineering at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas on January 25-26. Participants included faculty from the departments of Geoscience and Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, and Agriculture.
Dr. Ebert led interactive sessions on backward design of courses, aligning assessment with learning objectives, active learning strategies, metacognition and the affective domain. The Angelo State University workshop was part of the Traveling Workshop Program sponsored by the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, the American Geophysical Union, the National Science Foundation, InTeGrate – the NSF STEP Center for the Geosciences, and Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College. Angelo State University also provided support.


[Wed, Mar 29, 2018] – Retail Leaders Conference is the flagship venture of LXY Global, Pakistan's leading conference management Company; a concept incubated in Pakistan with the objective to host top-level international and local executive retailers and brands. "Retail Leaders Conference" has always been the greatest platform where information is generated and shared, different views come together, and unlimited collaboration opportunities are created.
Pakistan's premier oil marketing company, Pakistan State Oil (PSO) partnered with LXY Global for organizing Retail Leaders Conference (RLC) 2018 (7th Edition). The conference was held at Pearl Continental Hotel, Lahore on March 28-29, 2018. Other prominent partners for the conference included RLI (Global Partner), Tang, MasterCard, Dolmen Mall, Keenu and Golootlo. RLC was an innovative platform to discuss the latest global trends in retail marketing, ever-changing customer expectations, and the role of technology in retail transformation.
PSO is on the journey of retail transformation and participated in the largest conference for retailers to seek opportunities to serve our valued customers better through our extensive network of more than 3,400 outlets from Nagarparkar to Sost. PSO is currently handling over 1.2 billion retail transactions in a year – a number that is ever increasing, which translates into over 3 million customers visiting its retail outlets every day. The retail giant believes in empowering the customer and making innovative products and services made available on our forecourts. This belief has led PSO to secure the largest fuel cards customer base in Pakistan. PSO is devoted to ensuring a wholesome experience by offering many Non-Fuel Retail services like convenience shopping, eateries, banking services etc. PSO showcased its recently re-launched convenience store brand "Shop Stop", and its Non-Fuel Retail and Fuel Cards businesses at the conference with an objective to invite potential business alliances to join hands and benefit from the 3 million customers visiting PSO's forecourts everyday!
He welcomed other retailers to partner with the largest oil marketing company and make use of its large retail footprint and large consumer footfall for reaching out to customers more effectively. He also said that our recent partnerships with banks, telecommunication companies, eateries, and other alliance partners for ATMs, branchless banking, Shop Stops, and quick service restaurants all have brought us closer to transforming PSO into a retail giant beyond the status of just an oil marketing company.
Pakistan State Oil is the largest energy company, which is committed to serving its customers with the most innovative product offerings.


Applications are invited from Indian nationals for selection as Undergraduate Associates (UGA) of Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP), Kolkata under the auspices of the Centre for Advanced Research and Education (CARE), SINP. The purpose of UGA programme is to identify budding scientists and provide them with the necessary resources/nourishment in order to motivate them to take up scientific re-search in Physical and Biophysical sciences as a career option. UGAs of SINP are expected to undertake studies/work in the broad areas of Physical and Biophysical sciences. For details, see http://www.saha.ac.in/ (look under Research).
Candidates from the first year of science undergraduate (B. Sc. in Physics/Chemistry/Biological Scienc-es) programme in 2014 who have se cured at least 85% marks in Science and Mathematics subjects individually and at least 80% in aggregate in Class XII Board Examination are only eligible to apply for the UGA programme for 2015. The final selection amongst the short listed candidates may involve an inter-view where the candidates need to display resourcefulness, passion for scientific research as well as mastery of scientific concepts.
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Mercedes Masohn (orthographié Mercedes Masöhn) est une actrice suédo-américaine, née le  à Linköping, en Suède.

Elle est notamment connue pour les rôles de Zondra dans la série télévisée Chuck, celui d'Isabel Zambada dans la série The Finder et plus récemment pour son interprétation du capitaine Zoe Andersen dans la serie The Rookie.

Biographie
Mercedes Masohn est née en Suède dans une famille d'origine suédoise et iranienne. À l'âge de , elle déménage avec sa famille aux États-Unis et ils s'installent à Chicago. Aujourd'hui, elle habite à Los Angeles avec son mari. Elle parle couramment l'anglais, le suédois, le français, l'espagnol et le perse.

Elle a épousé en , l'acteur David Denman. Ensemble, ils ont un fils né en .
Le 3 janvier 2021 elle annonce une nouvelle grossesse sur les réseaux sociaux. En mai 2021 elle accouche de son 2 ème enfant nommé Sagan Cyrus.

Carrière
Elle apparaît dans deux épisodes de la quatrième saison de la série télévisée Chuck.

En , après l'annonce du départ de Saffron Burrows du spin-off de la série télévisée Bones, Mercedes Masöhn est engagée pour interpréter un nouveau personnage. Elle incarne Isabel Zambada, une U.S. Marshall ayant une relation sentimentale compliquée avec le héros de la série The Finder. La série a été arrètée au terme des  de la première saison.

À partir de , elle sera l'un des personnages principaux de la série fantastique 666 Park Avenue de la chaine ABC<ref name=BuckleyMasohn> {{lien web|langue=en|auteur= Matt Webb Mitovich|url=http://www.tvline.com/2012/03/mercedes-masohn-robert-buckley-666-park-avenue/|titre=Pilot news: The Finder'''s Mercedes Masöhn, Tree Hill's Robert Buckley join 666 Park Avenue|site=TV Line|date=8 mars 2012|consulté le=11 mars 2012}}</ref>.

De 2015 à 2017, elle interprète Ofelia Salazar, un des personnages principaux de la série TV Fear the Walking Dead, série dérivée de The Walking Dead.

 Filmographie
 Cinéma
 Films
 2006 : La Rupture (The Break-Up) : Goblet Girl (non crédité)
 2009 : Dunes de sang (Red Sands) : une femme arabe
 2011 : En quarantaine 2 (Quarantine 2: Terminal) : Jenny
 2011 : Three Veils : Leila
 2012 : General Education : Bebe Simmons
 2012 : Slightly Single in L.A. : Stacey
 2014 : Sniper 5 : L'Héritage (Sniper: Legacy) de Don Michael Paul : Sanaa

 Courts-métrages
 2008 : Now and Nowhere : Delores
 2012 : Buds de Matthew A. Del Ruth : Angelique

 Télévision
 Téléfilms
 2009 : The Law : Theresa Ramirez (Pilote pour ABC jamais diffusé)
 2010 : All Signs of Death : Soledad

 Séries télévisées
 2005-2006 : On ne vit qu'une fois (One Life to Live) : l'infirmière en rouge / Neely
 2008 : Entourage : Kara
 2009 : The Closer : L.A. enquêtes prioritaires : Katherine Ortega
 2009 : NCIS : Enquêtes spéciales : officier de police Heather Kincaid
 2009 : Les Experts : Manhattan : Frankie Tyler
 2009-2010 : Three Rivers : Vanessa
 2010 : Castle : Marina Casillas
 2011 :  : Sherry
 2011 : Chuck : Zondra
 2012 : Wes et Travis (Common Law) : Ellen Sandoval
 2012 : The Finder : U.S. Marshal Isabel Zambada
 2012-2013 : 666 Park Avenue : Louise Leonard
 2014 : Californication : Amy Taylor Walsh
 2014 : Anger Management : Maggie
 2014-2019: NCIS : Los Angeles : Agent de la DEA Talia Del Campo / Nina
 2015-2017 : Fear the Walking Dead : Ofelia Salazar
 2018-2019 : The Rookie : Zoe Andersen
 2019 : How to Get Away with Murder : Cora
 2019 : The L Word: Generation Q : Lena
 2021 : American Horror Stories : Michelle

 Voix françaises
En France, Pamela Ravassard est la voix française la plus régulière de Mercedes Masohn.

Au Québec, l'actrice n'a pas de voix française régulière.

 En France
 Pamela Ravassard dans : (les séries télévisées)
 Castle The Finder Californication NCIS : Los Angeles Olivia Nicosia dans :
 Three Rivers (série télévisée)
 En quarantaine 2 et aussi
 Marie Diot dans 666 Park Avenue (série télévisée)
 Julie Cavanna dans Fear the Walking Dead'' (série télévisée)

 Au Québec

Notes et références

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Naissance en mars 1982
Actrice suédoise
Naissance à Linköping
Actrice américaine
Personnalité américaine née d'un parent iranien
Personnalité américaine née d'un parent suédois

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