Against claims of privacy violations, Google pushes higher.
On a day where much of the chatter is focused around the negative ad campaign being championed by Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) against Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL), the search giant is trading at new all-time highs. In what I believe has become emblematic behavior for Google shares, there has been little flash or show, just a solid march higher that is in keeping with how the company itself operates. The attack by Microsoft, while factually based, has been referred to as fear mongering. It certainly does, however, raise some questions about some of Google's business practices. It is too early to really know how the news will impact the company, but the stock seems unabashed on its quest for $800.
Hovering just below the $800, Google shares are already in record-high territory during Friday's session. Since the company released earnings, the stock has been edging higher. In addition to turning in solid results, Google recently announced changes to the way it runs certain search campaigns. As a result of the changes, a larger emphasis will be placed on the smartphone and tablet segments, showing how Google is forcing the mobile question to some extent. Under the new structure of the company's AdWords Enhanced Campaigns, a proprietary algorithm will direct how ads are sent out into the world.
While the announcement led to grumbling by various advertisers, the market has approved the move by taking the stock higher. One of the biggest concerns for Google has been falling cost-per-click statistics and the need to monetize the "mobile gap." The move addresses both of these issues and has been well received. A common element of the few complaints was the lack of any suggestion that those advertisers would leave Google -- just that the service would now cost more.
Microsoft recently released a highly negative ad campaign targeted against Google that is branded "Scroogled." The core of the message is that by reading users emails, the company is both violating your privacy and making a free profit along the way. From a functional perspective, the substance of the ads are accurate -- Google uses software to scan emails for various keywords that then allow its system to push ads that are more targeted toward your apparent interests.
One of the issues being taken with the ads is that much of the language used is intentionally vague or ambiguous, allowing for the interpretation that Google employees are sitting around reading emails and taking notes. In a recent piece, Dan Mitchell points out that the use of words like "go through" and "they" is central the mental image that is evoked by the ads. The reality that highly impersonal software is the actual perpetrator of the privacy violations is downplayed.
The added twist to the story is that Microsoft's ads direct individuals to a petition website called Care2. The site is run by an advocacy group that is dedicated to improving the world. In this specific case, consumers are directed to a petition titled "Tell Google to stop going through your email to sell ads." Since the push by Microsoft to get signatures for the petition, the company has considered changing its policies to make it harder for corporation to use the site for commercial ends. While there is an argument that Microsoft's action can be classified as consumer advocacy, this over simplifies the issue and is intentionally naive.
Stafan Weitz, Director of Online Services at Microsoft, advocates the use of Microsoft's Outlook, which he says provides a great email experience without "that invasion of privacy." Google's general position has always been that the functionality enhances the user experience and that because no human eyes ever read your email, private information is never exposed. The Microsoft response is that the fact that concerned users have no mechanism by which to opt out is some measure of proof that Google is putting its bottom line ahead of the needs and wants of its customers.
According to Weitz, most users are completely unaware of the practice by Google and, even if they were, do not have an easy means by which to protest. The Microsoft campaign, he claims, is simply a forum for the people to speak. It is hard, however, not to take note of the fact that Microsoft has perfectly aligned its interests with the needs of those it is purporting to protect.
Whether you take issue with having your email scanned or not, the reality is that Google is doing this and the issue has become very public. It is unclear how much the functionality benefits Google search's ability to target ads, but it will likely be discussed in coming weeks. In the meantime, as Google shares continue to tick higher, the company is quietly getting growing its business and succeeding. Even at a new high, I think Google has room to go higher.


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Milan, the capital of Lombardy, has a population of 1.3 million people. It is the biggest industrial city of Italy with many different industrial sectors. It is a magnetic point for designers, artists, photographers and models. Milan has an ancient city centre with high and interesting buildings and palazzos, which is why so many people from all over the world want to see the city of glamour. Shopping in Milan… Take you time and visit Milan city! Just one hour far from us by car.
Milan Climate
Italy's climate is predominantly Mediterranean: Alpine in the far north; hot and dry in the south. Winter in Milan is relatively mild but foggy, with temperatures ranging from zero to 8 degrees Celsius. Summer can be very humid with brief thunderstorms; temperatures range from 14 to 29 degrees. From March through April temperatures range from 6 to 18 degrees. From October through November they range from 6 to 17 degrees.
Milan History
Milan's origin goes back to 400 B.C., when Gauls settled and defeated the Etruscans.
In 222 B.C. the city was conquered by Romans and was annexed to the Roman Empire. After 313 A.D., the year of the Edict of Tolerance towards Christianity, many churches were built and the first bishop was appointed: Ambrogio was such an influential person that the church became the Ambrosian Church (7 December is a holiday to honour Sant'Ambrogio). In 1300 the Visconti family which are noblemen from Bergamo, Cremona, Piacenza, Brescia and Parma ruled and brought a period of glory and wealth to the city. The Duomo was built in 1386 and became the symbol of Milan.
The Sforza family assumed the Castle and the power of the Visconti family and finally Milan achieved peace after many years of war against Venice and Florence. Under the Sforza duchy the city began the development of sciences, art and literature. Ludovico il Moro (Ludovico Sforza) called Leonardo da Vinci and "il Bramante" to his court.
Why visit Milan city? Milan has always been a rich and important city. It has always been a place full of various famous artists and offers a particular assortment of churches, buildings and monuments. There was a change of culture and art in the Renaissance with big a contribution in the period of the neoclassicism. Milan offers a big variety of buildings, monuments and museums. The most important church is the Cathedral which is the third largest church in the world.
It is overall made of marble, with immense statues, arches, pillars, pinnacles. From the roof you can experience a beautiful panorama of the city. Santa Maria delle Grazie was built between 1466 and 1490 and modified by Bramante. In the Refectory there is one of the most famous paintings of Leonardo da Vinci: the "Last Supper". Milan has many historic palazzos like the Palazzo Reale (Royal Palace) which is situated in the south side of Piazza Duomo. The Sforza Castle is one of the symbols of Milan together with the Madonnina and the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II. All those sights together are just few reasons for a visit.
Milan is the centre of many financial businesses, and its so called 'hinterland' is an avant-garde industrial area.
Fiera Milano, the city's Exhibition Center and Trade Fair complex is one of the most important in the world. The new fairground, in the north-western suburb of Pero and Rho (opened in April 2005) is Europe's largest open construction project and makes Fiera Milano the largest trade fair complex in the world.
It is the biggest industrial city of Italy with many different industrial sectors as manufacturing of textiles and garments, car manufactory, chemistry, mechanical tools and heavy machinery. Why visit Milan city?Another important industry is tourism, shopping and of course fashion.
Events & Folkloristic
Festival of Sant'Ambrogio takes place once a year, on 7 December. Milan celebrates its saint who is Saint Ambrose (Sant'Ambrogio). This day, the day of Saint Ambrose, there is the fair called "O bei! O bei!" The festival overlaps the opening of the opera season at the Scala. The Carnival Ambrosiano is another event with a typical costume. There are also festivals like the Corteo dei Re Magi on 6 January, Tredesin de mars on 13 March or the Fair of Flowers.
Some Famous People
Alessandro Manzoni (1785 – 1873), Giuseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901), Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519), Brothers Verri: Pietro Verri (1728 – 1797) and Alessandro Verri(1741 – 1816), Cesare Beccaria (1738 – 1794), Carlo Porta (1775 – 1821), Alessandro Manzoni (1785 – 1873), Giuseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901), Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893 – 1973), Giorgio Strehler (1921 – 1997).
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Recently, Bitcoin.com ran an exposé on the OneCoin "cryptocurrency" project, calling out its smoke and mirrors operation. Afterwards, we got a lot of responses from the scam's victims, and even commentary from OneCoin leaders themselves. Now, more information has been revealed on how shady this business is, and how it continues to prey on the misinformed.
Last week, the hosts of Bitcoin Uncensored attended and recorded a OneCoin sales seminar in Miami to ask questions about the operation.
The video they released shows OneCoin leaders describing how people can get rich by investing in the operation and, come this October, their investments will rise in value because everyone's coins will be doubled.
The hosts of the show, Joshua Unseth and Chris DeRose, asked the speakers how easy it is to cash out of the system.
The answer: OneCoin is a long-term investment, and people just don't sell right away.
Bitcoin.com decided to get in touch with DeRose who gave us the inside scoop on the snake oil meetings OneCoiners are holding in the US and abroad. DeRose says he really likes discussing the issue and enjoys bringing more attention to it. In addition to this interview, the guys at Bitcoin Uncensored gave to us the unreleased audio of what took place when they crashed the Miami meeting.
Bitcoin.com (BC): How did you guys hear about the OneCoin event in Miami?
Chris DeRose (CD): We run the South Florida Bitcoin meetup group every week, and it seems that by doing so, these stories/people/events seem to come to us. It's not unusual for scams and shitcoin promoters to come out attempting to pump at our meetups, and really we encourage them to come so that we can examine their claims.
We've had a couple of OneCoiners come out in the past, but there's been one particular OneCoiner "OneCoin Bob" that's been pretty persistent. One night he showed us an ad for this event that was running in the Herald (not by him – but by a friend of his), and we decided we had to go check it out. We've gone to other, smaller such events in the past. But they were generally quite small, and their claims were less vulgar. So I think what's interesting about this excursion was the extraordinary nature of the one coin claims and the number of people that attended.
I think the community needs to police itself.
BC: What were your thoughts on the overall experience?
CD: Oh man, we were going to talk about that at length in a future BU, there's a lot of thoughts on this. I think I'm struck by how much of this scam 'we' as bitcoiners created. There seems to be this "get rich" narrative that altcoins, OneCoin, etc. are cultivating by citing both the success of Bitcoin and the rhetoric of bitcoiners. This is particularly pronounced in OneCoin, where there is literally no substance to the claims (i.e., "we'll double the number of tokens on the new blockchain, and thus double your stored value"). This is even further compounded by the blockchain hucksters who are showcased on the presentation literature ("Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase says blockchain will replace banks").
Also, watching the deference to oracles is kind of amazing. People decide that certain people are gods, and outsource their thinking to these people. Claims were being made to the effect that Ruja has a 200 IQ, extraordinary benevolence, and mental superpowers – and people were believing this. Ruja is a monkey just like the rest of us. She has no superpowers. Neither does Vitalik, or Larimer, or any of these people who are trying to separate people from their money. It seems to be a clever way to get people to stop thinking and believe in magic.
What's funny to me is that there's very little difference between OneCoin and most of the blockchain proponents, but that's probably an opinion for another article. Though, I'm about to upload an interview with Lawrence Lundy of Outlier Ventures that would suggest the mentality of a lot of these VCs is (IMO) pretty OneCoin-ish.
After a bunch of prodding, you'll learn that they're 'locked in' until about December, which is when I suspect many of them will pull out.
BC: Do you think a lot of people attending bought into the pitch they were selling and why?
CD: I don't know. I think a lot of them (40%) were already 'in' at a basic package before they got there. And I think most of those people were not persuaded by us. I know the organizers called up these people afterward and told them that we 'were sent by Bitcoin to disrupt the meeting.' Which might be true. Hahahaha.
BC: When you guys asked about 'cashing out' what was the response and what did you guys think of the responses given by OneCoin associates?
CD: So, I'm not exactly sure what's going on here, but what's very clear to me is that the OneCoiners aren't entirely honest about how they can cash out. They'll tell you that they believe in this so strongly that they don't want to cash out. However, after a bunch of prodding, you'll learn that they're 'locked in' until about December, which is when I suspect many of them will pull out. I also suspect that since this is the date they're being told – it's probable that OneCoin will crash just prior to this date.
BC: How did you guys feel about busting this OneCoin?
CD: Junseth and I had a whole discussion about whether and how to involve authorities. And we decided a couple things. 1. that's not our 'brand', we're anarchists, and I don't think I intend to be the person to get government agents involved. (Though I also don't care if someone else does) 2. I don't think the government can really do much here, because all the value is routing out of the country. 3. I think the community needs to police itself. Junseth and I are the scam-busters around here, but there's no reason for us to be the only ones. I think the community needs to be better about putting its foot down more often.
There seems to be a pretense amongst many bitcoiners that investment hawkers are 'innocent until proven guilty'. But given the inordinate amount of failures, scams, etc., in this space, it's very clear to me that no, solicitors are guilty until proven innocent, and we should be more vocal about that.
Thanks, Chris, for speaking with us about the OneCoin meeting. It's nice to see there are some scam-busters out there helping rid the community of shady setups like OneCoin.
What do you think about the OneCoin investment meeting? Let us know in the comments below.


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An Open Letter to Truthers
On September 11, 2012 By Tom LindsayIn 9/11, Politics
On this anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001, America pauses to remember those who died at the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and in the fields of Pennsylvania, at the hand of Islamic terrorists. Last year, I wrote about where I was on that day, so that's not my topic today.
Instead, I am going to put in print what I've felt for quite some time. Then, I won't speak of it again, because it doesn't warrant the energy or attention.
There are some people who believe that the attacks on our country on September 11 were part of some government conspiracy. Some believe, simply, that George Bush did it. I'm not going to discuss the reasons, because, frankly, it's not worth it.
Now, I'm not talking about the government having unconnected intelligence suggesting an attack was imminent. That's happened throughout history, at it's more a sign of human frailty than of conspiracy or malice.
No, I'm talking about people who believe that someone spent months and months planting explosives in buildings in New York, then set them off with national TV cameras rolling.
Here is what I want to say to those people:
If you honestly believe that the government of the country you live in would kill almost 3,000 of its own people, yet, you continue to live here, then you are either insane, lying, or a complete coward.
What do sane people do when they believe their government kills its own citizens? How can you find out? Go to south Florida and ask. There are strong, successful people there who believed that their government was killing its own citizens, and covering it up. Why did they believe that? Because, in Cuba, it happened. And they gave up everything they had, and got the hell out of their country as fast as they could, and moved their families here.
If I lived in a country where I believed the government was capable of half of the atrocious acts that some of the conspiracy websites spout, then I would do whatever it took, spend whatever I had, to move my family as far from this country as I could. I would leave behind everything. Because that kind of country isn't worth living in.
So, if you believe in a 9/11 conspiracy, and you still live here, I don't want to hear it. Move your sorry ass to South America. Until then, we have nothing to discuss.
For that matter, even after that.
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Well said. Well said.
And much more polite and civil than I could have put it. 🙂


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}

func derivativeStatusMulti(c *rest.Client) {
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Together we are Bloom North
We're on a mission to ensure women have equal opportunity in the communications industry, by harnessing the power of their real voices. We strive to spearhead industry change, futureproof women's careers and pay it forward for the next generation.
We can't prevent life's challenges, but we can keep growing through them. As individuals we continue to demonstrate resilience through adversity, and we aim to bring our connections together to support and lift each other up and use our collective power as a force for change.
Our 2021
We will deliver our 2021 program with thoughtful consideration of what our connections need whilst challenging the industry's gendered bias through initiatives, advocacy, awareness, and debate.
Viv Woodward
Client Director at The Guardian
Viv has worked in the media industry for 20+ years and has been part of the Bloom North Committee since its inception in 2018. At that time she jumped in at the deep end and managed Bloom's live events, having had no real experience at all in that area !!
Viv is incredibly proud and honoured to be working with such an amazing team of women, and to be part of Bloom's growth to become an open and supportive network offering relevant events, mentoring and supportive initiatives to over 400 + connections.
This year, Viv decided it was time to step up as President for 2021, having witnessed how much covid has affected and fragmented the media and comms landscape for so long, and more so for women. She wanted to dedicate her energy (she has quite alot of that) into ensuring that Bloom North helps bring the support and inspiration women need right now, aswell helping bring the industry together again. And like so many others, she's really looking forward to seeing some real faces again !
Laura Jane Sanderson
Director of Sales (UK Regions) at Teads
Laura's passion for creating a world where all women thrive is matched only by her love affair with coffee.
After a decade in the media industry, Laura believes the daily work we do to change and shape the culture in consumers lives opens the opportunity for us to reflect and do the same for those working within the media, communication and creative industries. This is why she has stepped up as Bloom North VP in 2021, believing it is time to move on from limited perspectives, and willing our connections and community to open up with courage to inspire action.
Her goal is to deliver a supportive and engaging 2021 program along with our President Viv Woodward, and the wider committee.
Charlotte Bowker
Social and Marketing
Business Director at Social Chain UK
Charlotte originally joined the Bloom North committee back in September 2019 to lead social media and support with their wider marketing efforts. She had only been recently introduced to the community and what became immediately clear was just how valuable it was for people across the comms landscape to have this open forum to talk, provocate and seek much needed support.
Charlotte loves being part of the Committee, and views it as a true privilege and source of inspiration every single day. What she appreciates most is how passionate the team are about empowering people at all stages of their career and supporting them with all aspects. Whether it's bouncing back from challenging times to celebrating a new promotion - Bloom North are always there.
Moving into 2021, Charlotte will be leading all of Bloom North's marketing efforts with an incredible team of creatives and content executives. Her role is to ensure that Bloom's connections and their needs are at the heart of all of their initiatives and communications over the next 12 months. She's really looking forward to seeing what this year beholds and what she, with the rest of Bloom North can go on to achieve together.
Lucy Gugas
Commercial Publisher at Woman & Home and Creative and Digital Director at Future
Lucy is the Commercial Publisher at Woman & Home and the Partnership Director at Marie Claire, MyImperfectlife and Fit&Well. With over twenty years in the media industry Lucy is committed to supporting women via mentoring and skill sharing. She is driven by inspiring women to join this incredible industry and educating the younger generation about the multitude of opportunities it has to offer. Lucy has been a part of Bloom North since it launched in 2018 and has seen first hand how collaborative and open the network is. The event program, mentoring scheme and thought leadership are best in class in the regions. With Viv and Laura at the helm Lucy is excited to be a part of Bloom North's 2021 progression.
Hannah Lynch
Group Agency Manager at Global
Hannah has always enjoyed being involved in Global events and with her relevant skills and experience was delighted to be an active part of the Bloom North committee to help drive open and honest conversations across the industry. She feels very passionately about being in a network that inspires women to achieve their career goals and enables them to flourish. Outside of the office Hannah enjoys an active lifestyle as a fitness enthusiast, dog & chicken lover and loves spending as much time in the sunshine as possible.
Gemma Inglis
Media Manager at PHD
Gemma has been working in the media industry for over 4 years. She started at Hearst UK as an Intern and worked her way up to Sales Manager in under three years before she decided to explore her interest in media planning and joined PHD as a Planning Manager in 2019. As a winner of the MPA Rising Star Award in 2019 she is very passionate about highlighting and developing new talent in the industry and is thrilled to be part of the Bloom 2021 Committee to help to continue to drive industry change.
Account Director, Strategy & Planning at Wavemaker North
Lisa has worked in the media industry at Wavemaker for almost 11 years. Lisa was really drawn to being an active member of the Bloom North committee in 2021 as she is hugely passionate about Diversity & Inclusion, an interest she unearthed completing her IPA Excellence diploma. Lisa really wants to pay it forward and helping organise training events allows her to do that. For her, it was also about being actively involved in a group that champions and empowers women not just in 2021 and beyond.
Helen Lee
Client Partner Lead at Microsoft
Helen is a Client Partner Lead at Microsoft and joined the business 12 months ago. Prior to this she worked in London for over 20 years and has experience across Magazines, Radio, Newspapers, Brand Management, TV, however, spent the last 14 years within Digital gaining specialism in mobile; native; video; social and content marketing. In her own words 'I love the industry I work in and I am passionate about improving it too!'
She became a member of Bloom UK in 2019 and as a consequence committed to mentoring people in the industry and was also part of the Bloom exchange program pilot, mentoring senior men. Having relocated back to her roots in the North, along with her 13 year old son and to be closer to her extended family, it made sense to migrate to Bloom North.
Having experienced a plethora of life's challenges, which she is happy to share, Helen hopes to enable others through difficult situations be it work related or otherwise.
Paula Norris
Regional Sales Director at Captify
After 17+ years in the media industry both agency and sales side Paula has been inspired by many women in senior positions, but also her peers. She feels incredibly proud to call some of the women she has met along the way really close friends and always uses them as a force of inspiration when she finds life tough. Paula feels that the talent and resilience in the industry is incredible, and wholeheartedly believes in Bloom's mission to use our collective power as a force for change. After attending a few of the events over the years and hearing about the network's mission, Paula felt inspired and in equal parts envious of all the team involved. After having left every event feeling rejuvenated, inspired and educated, she really wants to play a part in that feeling.
Prim Patel
Portfolio Finance Director at Regital
Prim joined Bloom North in 2019 as treasurer. She'd been to a couple of panel events and loved the atmosphere so jumped at the chance to join the committee. As well as the choice of topic and panellists, the events felt really inspirational and genuine to her. Prim strongly believes in women lifting up other women with the supportive ethos of Bloom North being very close to her heart. The one thing she really enjoys is seeing people succeed in their ambitions and feels honoured to play what she sees as a tiny part in helping that process.
Danielle Bromley
Sponsorships & Partnerships
Danielle spent over 20 years working in media sales across a variety of disciplines including Radio, Magazines, Newspapers, digital and ad tech. Within that time Danielle launched and ran her own independent sales house for 5 years, representing several London based publishers.
After a life changing event in 2018 which resulted in an enforced break from work, Danielle decided to launch a new business venture. Her love of business and helping others to grow and develop theirs lead to the launch of Danielle Bromley Business Development in February 2021.
Danielle has taken on many voluntary roles over the years and jumped to the chance to be part of Bloom North as Head of Sponsorship.
The team of women who are involved are incredible. Their drive & commitment to making a difference is inspiring. Danielle is passionate about helping young women to achieve their potential and is keen that everyone has access to the support they need to develop.
16 other women give their time and energy to ensure we create a vibrant and engaging network:
Sarah Fleming, Emma Mulcahy, Jenni Sanderson, Dominique Henshaw, Kally Boshnakova, Alicia Carroll, Georgia Penny, Sadie Teasdale, Sam Hall, Laura Walters, Caroline McKee, Lucy Quinn, Phoebe Bates, Natalie Green, Grace Teer, Ellie Smith, and Pippa Nixon.
Supported by our Trustees Nicole O'Shea, Danielle Sewell, Michelle Vint and Ffion Turner.
Become a Bloom North Connection
We want to include, connect and inspire as many people as possible. To enable us to do this we are inviting everyone to the Bloom North network as Connections, as opposed to membership, which means it is free to join!
As a Bloom North Connection, you'll be contributing to our commitment of an open and inclusive community. You'll also be the first to hear about our upcoming events, networking opportunities, workshops and other initiatives
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Each year the Foundation conducts an annual meeting, open to the public, to discuss its activities and how it supports FDA. This year's meeting takes place May 4th, from 10 a.m until noon, at the law offices of Alston and Bird (950 F St. NW, Washington, DC) and concludes with a period for brief comments from the public, which can be submitted in advance by emailing eshaefer@reaganudall.org.
After delivering a keynote address, current FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb will be joined by three former Commissioners for a panel discussion. All four speakers have played key roles in the evolution of FDA science and patient engagement and the biographies that follow outline a dedication to modernizing the Agency. Gottlieb served on the Senate Federal Health Technology Policy Committee. Califf led the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative, McClellan was instrumental in IMEDS and von Eschenbach worked on regulatory pathway modernization through the Critical Path Initiative and the Food Protection Plan.
-- was sworn in as the 23rd Commissioner of Food and Drugs on May 11, 2017. Dr. Gottlieb is a physician, medical policy expert, and public health advocate who previously served as the FDA's Deputy Commissioner for Medical and Scientific Affairs and before that, as a senior advisor to the FDA Commissioner.
-- is vice chancellor for health data science and director of Duke Forge – Duke's new center for actionable health data science. He is the Donald F. Fortin, MD Professor of Cardiology in the Duke University School of Medicine, and an advisor for Verily Life Sciences, a member of the Alphabet family of companies formed by Google. Dr. Califf served in the administration of President Barack Obama as Deputy Commissioner for Medical Products and Tobacco in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from 2015-2016, and as Commissioner of Food and Drugs from 2016-2017.
-- currently serves as President of Samaritan Health Initiatives, Inc. and as an Adjunct Professor at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. From September of 2005 to January 2009 he served as Commissioner of Food and Drugs where he championed an agenda to modernize the FDA by process improvement of the regulatory pathway for drugs and medical devices and by fostering creative projects, including FDA's Critical Path Initiative (designed to bring modern tools of science to the product development process); work plans like the FDA's Food Protection Plan; and most especially the nurturing of the workforce through initiatives, such as an Agency-wide fellowship program and development of a new integrated campus for the Agency in White Oak, Maryland. Under his leadership, the FDA experienced dramatic increases in resources enabling implementation of many new programs designed to strengthen the FDA in its mission to protect and promote public health. He has emphasized FDA's role in working with external partners to assure quality throughout the entire life cycle of the products it regulates.
Dr. von Eschenbach joined FDA after serving for four years as Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) at the National Institutes of Health where he set an ambitious goal to eliminate the suffering and death due to cancer by rapid acceleration and integration of the discovery-development-delivery continuum. While at NCI, he committed resources to ensure the application to oncology of nanotechnology, genomics, proteomics, bioinformatics, and other emerging technologies. At the time of his appointment by President Bush to serve as Director of NCI, he was President-Elect of the American Cancer Society. Dr. von Eschenbach entered government service after an outstanding career over three decades as a physician, surgeon, oncologist and executive that included numerous leadership roles from Chairman of the Department of Urologic Oncology to Executive Vice President and Chief Academic at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, an institution world renowned for the magnitude and excellence of its clinical and research cancer programs. An internationally renowned cancer specialist and author of more than 300 scientific articles and studies, Dr. von Eschenbach has served in numerous leadership roles, including serving as one of the founding members of the National Dialogue on Cancer.
-- is the Robert J. Margolis Professor of Business, Medicine, and Health Policy, and Director of the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University with offices at Duke and in Washington DC. The new Center supports and conducts research, evaluation, implementation, and educational activities to improve health policy and health, through collaboration across Duke University and Health System, and through partnerships between the public and private sectors.
Dr. McClellan is a doctor and an economist, and his work has addressed a wide range of strategies and policy reforms to improve health care. Before coming to Duke, he served as a Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution, where he was Director of the Health Care Innovation and Value Initiatives and led the Richard Merkin Initiative on Payment Reform and Clinical Leadership. Dr. McClellan is a former administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), where he developed and implemented major reforms in health policy.
Susan Dentzer is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the NEHI, the Network for Excellence in Health Innovation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization composed of more than 100 stakeholder organizations from across all key sectors of health and health care. She previously served as senior policy adviser to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Prior to that, she was editor-in-chief of the journal Health Affairs, and from 1998 to 2008, she served as the on-air Health Correspondent for the PBS NewsHour. Dentzer is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the Council on Foreign Relations. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Rescue Committee, a leading humanitarian organization; a member of the board of directors of Research!America, which works to advance research to improve health; and a member of the board of directors of the Public Health Institute. She is a fellow of the National Academy of Social Insurance and the Hasting Center, an institution dedicated to bioethics and the public interest. She previously served as a public member of the American Board of Medical Specialties.


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WELCOME BACK MY FRIENDS TO THE SHOW THAT NEVER ENDS [Author: wirehead]
December 31, 1999 Scott Jennings Uncategorized
Some of the banned are now talking lawsuit. Personally, since Origin reserves the right to boot someone for any/no reason and has since UO started it doesn't seem to have much chance, but hey, get twelve nimrods in a closed up room somewhere and you never know what might happen. Azile is telling folks to quit UO and stick it to Origin. (I guess she took my rant earlier about being able to comment on games one doesn't play to heart.)
On a happier note, some of the more obviously innocent folks who were banned got reinstated today. However none of them were from KoC, and it does seem that the entire KoC guild was blanket-banned. They get to join MDK and SUN in the Circle of Fame.
Pretty much everyone involved is spitting fireballs at me in e-mail, so I must be doing fairly well. It always worries me when news subjects like me.
Anyway, I've been playing Planescape: Torment, which isn't an Ultima and isn't an ORPG but is easily the best game of the year. If you thought to yourself, "Self, wouldn't a game with the rich plotline, non-linearity and twisted humor of Fallout, and the Baldur's Gate engine just RULE?", you are fairly sad for talking to yourself. But you'd also be right. Just this once though. And if you're playing Torment, you're staying the goddam hell out of my way, which as the calendar moves inexorably forward is more and more important to me.
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Protocol for Patch-Seq of Small Interneurons
Marcela Lipovsek, Lorcan Browne, Matthew S. Grubb
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xpro.2020.100146
Funding Information: This work was supported by a Leverhulme Trust Research Grant (RPG-2016-095) and a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (725729; FUNCOPLAN). We thank Andres Crespo for technical support; Iain Macaulay and James Lipscombe at the Earlham Institute for support with the G&T protocol; and Jonathan Mill, Aaron Jeffreys, and Karen Moore at the University of Exeter for support with sequencing. Conceptualization, M.S.G.; Methodology, M.L. and L.B.; Investigation, M.L. and L.B.; Resources, M.S.G.; Writing ? Original Draft, M.L. L.B. and M.S.G.; Writing ? Review & Editing, M.L. L.B. and M.S.G.; Visualization, M.L. and L.B.; Supervision, M.S.G.; Project Administration, M.L. L.B. and M.S.G.; Funding Acquisition, M.S.G. The authors declare no competing interests. Publisher Copyright: © 2020 The Author(s) Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
Marcela Lipovsek (Developmental Neurobiology)
Lorcan Browne (Developmental Neurobiology)
Matthew S. Grubb (Developmental Neurobiology)
Obtaining electrophysiological recordings and gene expression information from the same neuron (Patch-seq) brings forward a unique opportunity to study the transcriptional correlates of functional properties and vice versa. Here, we provide a detailed Patch-seq protocol tailored to the specialized demands of studying small interneurons. Focusing on the technically demanding process of transitioning between patch recordings and cell extraction, our protocol describes and troubleshoots steps for successfully collecting small interneurons, allowing for multi-modal Patch-seq interrogation of this crucial cell type.
Rapid presynaptic maturation in naturally regenerating axons of the adult mouse olfactory nerve
Browne, L., Crespo, A. & Grubb, M., 8 Nov 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Cell Reports.
Brief sensory deprivation triggers plasticity of dopamine-synthesising enzyme expression in genetically labelled olfactory bulb dopaminergic neurons
Byrne, D. J., Lipovsek, M., Crespo, A. & Grubb, M. S., Jul 2022, In: European Journal of Neuroscience. 56, 1, p. 3591-3612 22 p.
Brief sensory deprivation triggers cell type-specific structural and functional plasticity in olfactory bulb neurons
Galliano, E., Hahn, C., Browne, L., Villamayor, P., Tufo, C., Crespo Vieira, A. & Grubb, M., 17 Nov 2020, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Neuroscience.
Non-neuronal expression of SARS-CoV-2 entry genes in the olfactory system suggests mechanisms underlying COVID-19-associated anosmia
Brann, D. H., Tsukahara, T., Weinreb, C., Lipovsek, M., Van den Berge, K., Gong, B., Chance, R., Macaulay, I. C., Chou, H. J., Fletcher, R. B., Das, D., Street, K., de Bezieux, H. R., Choi, Y. G., Risso, D., Dudoit, S., Purdom, E., Mill, J., Hachem, R. A., Matsunami, H., & 5 othersLogan, D. W., Goldstein, B. J., Grubb, M. S., Ngai, J. & Datta, S. R., 31 Jul 2020, In: Science Advances. 6, 31, 20 p., abc5801.
Boosting adult neurogenesis to enhance sensory performance
Lipovsek, M. & Grubb, M. S., 15 Mar 2019, Wiley.
Developing and maintaining a nose-to-brain map of odorant identity
Dorrego-Rivas, A. & Grubb, M. S., 29 Jun 2022, In: Open Biology. 12, 6, p. 220053 1 p., 220053.
The axon initial segment as a source of neuropathic pain
Dorrego-Rivas, A. & Grubb, M. S., 1 May 2022, In: Brain : a journal of neurology. 145, 5, p. 1574-1575 2 p.
Development of the mammalian main olfactory bulb
Tufo, C., Poopalasundaram, S., Dorrego-Rivas, A., Ford, M. C., Graham, A. & Grubb, M. S., Feb 2022, In: Development (Cambridge). 149, 3, dev200210.
Differentiation of beta-like cells from human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived pancreatic progenitor organoids
Pedraza-Arevalo, S., Cujba, A. M., Alvarez-Fallas, M. E. & Sancho, R., 16 Sep 2022, In: STAR Protocols. 3, 3, p. 101656 1 p.
Integrating neuroimaging and gene expression data using the imaging transcriptomics toolbox
Giacomel, A., Martins, D., Frigo, M., Turkheimer, F., Williams, S. C. R., Dipasquale, O. & Veronese, M., 17 Jun 2022, In: STAR Protocols. 3, 2, 101315.
Homebrew: Protocol for glassmilk-based nucleic-acid extraction for SARS-CoV-2 diagnostics
Page, R., Scourfield, E., Ficarelli, M., McKellar, S. W., Lee, K. L., Maguire, T. J. A., Bouton, C., Lista, M. J., Neil, S. J. D., Malim, M. H., Zuckerman, M., Mischo, H. E. & Martinez-Nunez, R. T., 17 Jun 2022, In: STAR Protocols. 3, 2, 101300.
A protocol for extracting immunolabeled murine cardiomyocytes of high-quality RNA by laser capture microdissection
Shaalan, A. K. & Ellison-Hughes, G. M., 18 Mar 2022, In: STAR Protocols. 3, 1, 101231.
Isolation and freezing of human peripheral blood mononuclear cells from pregnant patients
Efthymiou, A., Mureanu, N., Pemberton, R., Tai-macarthur, S., Mastronicola, D., Scottà, C., Lombardi, G., Nicolaides, K. H. & Shangaris, P., 18 Mar 2022, In: STAR Protocols. 3, 1, 101204.


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Mood disorders and circulating levels of inflammatory markers in a longitudinal population-based study
J. Glaus, R. von Känel, A. M. Lasserre, M.-P. F. Strippoli, C. L. Vandeleur, E. Castelao, M. Gholam-Rezaee, C. Marangoni, E.-Y. N. Wagner, P. Marques-Vidal, G. Waeber, P. Vollenweider, M. Preisig, K. R. Merikangas
There has been increasing evidence that chronic low-grade inflammation is associated with mood disorders. However, the findings have been inconsistent because of heterogeneity across studies and methodological limitations. Our aim is to prospectively evaluate the bi-directional associations between inflammatory markers including interleukin (IL)-6, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α and high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) with mood disorders.
The sample consisted of 3118 participants (53.7% women; mean age: 51.0, s.d. 8.8 years), randomly selected from the general population, who underwent comprehensive somatic and psychiatric evaluations at baseline and follow-up (mean follow-up duration = 5.5 years, s.d. 0.6). Current and remitted mood disorders including bipolar and major depressive disorders (MDD) and its subtypes (atypical, melancholic, combined atypical and melancholic, and unspecified) were based on semi-structured diagnostic interviews. Inflammatory biomarkers were analyzed in fasting blood samples. Associations were tested by multiple linear and logistic regression models.
Current combined MDD [β = 0.29, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.03–0.55] and current atypical MDD (β = 0.32, 95% CI 0.10–0.55) at baseline were associated with increased levels of hsCRP at follow-up. There was little evidence for inflammation markers at baseline predicting mood disorders at follow-up.
The prospective unidirectional association between current MDD subtype with atypical features and hsCRP levels at follow-up suggests that inflammation may be a consequence of this condition. The role of inflammation, particularly hsCRP that is critically involved in cardiovascular diseases, warrants further study. Future research that examines potential influences of medications on inflammatory processes is indicated.
Shape Transitions of Self-Assembled Ge Islands on Si (001)
Armando Rastelli, Matthias Kummer, Hans von Känel
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 March 2011, N5.4
Coherently strained Ge islands were grown at a substrate temperature of 550°C by magnetron sputter epitaxy on Si (001) and studied by scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM). The shape changes induced by exposure to a Si-flux at 450°C were investigated as a function of the Sicoverage. During Si-capping, multifaceted domes were found to flatten and to transform into {105}-faceted pyramids and subsequently into stepped mounds through intermediate shapes. The observed sequence of morphological changes is induced by Si-Ge intermixing and is shown to be the inverse of that occurring during Ge or Si1-xGex growth on Si (001). The results are interpreted with a model in which the stable shape of an island mainly depends on its volume and composition.
Low Energy Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapour Deposition - Plasma Enhanced Deposition of Epitaxial Si and Sige
Carsten Rosenblad, Matthias Kummera, Hans-Rudolf Deller, Thomas Graf, Alex Dommann, Thomas Hackbarth, Georg Höck, Elisabeth Müller, Hans von Känel
Low energy plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition (LEPECVD) is a deposition technique developed for the epitaxy of Si and SiGe at ultra-high deposition rates. Due to a high current plasma discharge composed of low energy particles, a high plasma enhancement can be obtained without any accompanying plasma induced damage of the wafer surface. The most important application of LEPECVD so far is for compositionally graded relaxed SiGe buffer layers. Such relaxed buffer layers are demonstrated with end composition up to pure Ge and with a growth time below 1 hour. A p-type hetero-MOSFET formed in a SiGe channel compressively strained to a Si0.5Ge0.5 relaxed buffer layer, is demonstrated as one example where the high growth rates of LEPECVD allows the synthesis of devices which cannot be produced with an acceptable throughput with conventional deposition methods. The room temperature effective hole mobility of 760 cm2/Vs obtained on such devices demonstrates a high structural and electrical quality of the LEPECVD material.
Surface Reconstructions of Strained Epitaxial CoSi2/Si(100) Layers Studied by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy.
R. Stalder, C. Schwarz, H. Sirringhaus, H. VON Känel
Epitaxial single-domain CoSi2(100) layers were grown on Si(100) by use of a template technique. In-situ scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and reflection high energy electron diffraction (RHEED) were used for a detailed surface study. The (√2×√2)R45 reconstruction of the Co-rich "C-surface" and the (3√2×√2)R45 as well as a newly discovered (√2×√2)R45 of the Si-rich "S-surface" were resolved in real space and are discussed in detail. The transition from the C- to the S-surface above 500 °C is related to a (2×2) reconstruction.
Disorder and Strain Effects in the Optical Response of Thin CoSi Epitaxial Films on Si(111)
S. Bocelli, G. Guizzetti, F. Marabelli, C. Schwarz, S. Goncalvesconto, H. Von Känel
Thin (CsCl)CoSi films of thicknesses from 44 to 105 Å were grown by MBE at room temperature onto ultrathin annealed CoSi2 templates. Also two CoSi2 films of about 100 Å with the CaF2 structure and with the defected CsCl structure were obtained epitaxially.
Far infrared reflectance and transmittance measured on such samples show optical structures between 240 and 370 cm-1. In the range 1.4–5 eV spectroscopic ellipsometry was performed, too. A change in the optical response was revealed among the different samples, which can be ascribed to strain, roughness and/or disorder at the interfaces.
Phase Transformations in Layered Fe-Si Structures
M. Fanciulli, C. Rosenblad, G. Weyer, H. Von Känel, N. Onda, V. Nevolin, A. Zenkevich
The kinetics of the phase transformations of the Fe-Si system and the Si/Fe and Fe/Si interfaces have been investigated by 57Fe conversion electron Mössbauer spectroscopy (CEMS). Single crystalline Fe films grown on Si(111) by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and polycrystalline Fe films grown by pulsed laser ablation deposition (PLD) have been thermally treated in vacuum and the formation of the different silicide phases has been monitored as function of temperature and time by CEMS.
New Epitaxially Stabilized Silicide Phases
S. Goncalves-Conto, E. Müller, K. Schmidt, H. Von Känel
A new epitaxial CoSi2 phase has been synthesized on Si(111) by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) at room temperature (RT). Structural investigations revealed, that films grown onto an ultrathin CoSi2 template crystallize with the CsC1 structure with 50% vacancies on the cation lattice. The same is true for codeposited films nucleating from the amorphous phase at very low annealing temperatures (100–200 °C). Upon annealing a gradual transition to the stable bulk phase with the CaF2 structure takes place. For films grown onto a template, some grains of (CsCl)Co0.5Si remain stable up to at least 550 °C, while the films grown without a template are fully transformed.
Magneto-Transport Properties of Epitaxial Iron-Silicides
S. Goncalves-Conto, N. Onda, H. Von Känel
The phase-breaking time τφ'. in thin α-FeSi2 films was obtained from the analyses of the lowtemperature magnetoresistance (MR). The films were grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) on Si(111) and capped with epitaxial Si. The MR behavior is interpreted in terms of two-dimensional (2D) weak localization with strong spin-orbit interaction and electron-electron interaction (EEI). By fitting the MR data we obtained the temperature dependence of τφ. The results indicate the phase-breaking time to vary as T− over a large temperature range from 1.7 to 15 K, in agreement with the dependence predicted by the EET in 2D systems.
A Possible Production Technique for Modulation Doped Sige Heterostructures
C. Rosenblad, M. Kummer, E. Müller, T. Hackbarth, H. Von Känel
The SiGe graded buffer layer is one of the most promising virtual substrates for future Si based high speed devices. The production of the SiGe buffer layer is, however, hampered by the time consumed by the synthesis of the several μm thick epitaxial layer. Low energy plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition (LEPECVD) is a growth technique developed for low temperature epitaxy at high rates. Here we study the possibility to combine LEP-ECVD for graded SiGe buffer layer growth with other techniques for the growth of the electrically active layer.


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By Mohammad Mazhari
UAE-Israel normalization agreement pours salt on Palestinians' wound: Emirati activist
August 24, 2020 - 11:48
"It was a stab in the back of the Arab nations"
TEHRAN - Abdullah al-Tawil, an Emirati political activist, is of the opinion that "Emirates-Israel normalization agreement pours salt on Palestinians' wound and it is a bridge over the rubble of the Palestinian cause."
Israel and the UAE reached an agreement on August 13 that will lead to the full normalization of diplomatic relations between the two sides.
The deal came after a phone call between United States President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi.
Under the agreement, Israel has promised to suspend the annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank. However, just hours after the announcement Benjamin Netanyahu said he remained committed to the annexation plan.
In this regard, al-Tawil tells the Tehran Times that the agreement will not serve the Palestinians' interests and won't stop the annexation of the West Bank.
"This agreement pours salt on Palestinian's wound, and it is a bridge over the rubble of the Palestinian cause," says Al-Tawil.
Following is the full text of the interview:
Q: What are the causes or motives that prompted the UAE to normalize ties with Israel?
A: Firstly, I must record my personal position on normalization with Israel.
"The Emirati-Saudi alliance, in my view, is based on Mohammed bin Zayed's plan to push Saudi Arabia towards Yemen's swamp, and the ultimate goal was to weaken it politically and exhaust its economy." It was a stab in the back of the Arab nations. Israel denies clearly the rights of the Palestinians on their land and their just cause.
Regarding the UAE's reasons for overt normalization of ties with the Israeli regime, it must be pointed out that normalization was not a result of the moment, but rather it was passing quietly under the table.
Secret meetings were held in Abu Dhabi and Tel Aviv, as well as secret talks at a high level.
Besides the governmental level, there were plans to prepare Emirati people to accept the normalization by the public media and official statements on social media.
The Emirati regime pursues a policy of intimidating the Emirati citizens and restricting them with laws that criminalize the ruler's criticism accordingly.
The ultimate goal of normalization is to guarantee Mohammed bin Zayed's chance to reach power in a comfortable way after became notorious for hatching conspiracies and now looking for peace.
Given Turkey's growing political and military power in the Middle East (West Asia) and the failure of Qatar's blockade and undermining its mediatory role in the Palestinian cause, the Emirates feels need new allies to protect its interests.
Therefore, it believes in such a normalization agreement, which will form a strong ally for it to protect itself. This is in the level of politics, but economically the Corona crisis greatly affected the UAE's markets and trades, especially in the real estate field.
Thus, they resorted to Jewish investors and finally tried to satisfy the U.S. administration, whether Trump remains or not because Trump is a lifeline for the Emirati rulers, but if he loses the upcoming election, then they will find a return line to the American Democrats.
Q: How do you assess the reaction of the people in the Arab world, including those on the southern shores of the Persian Gulf, to the UAE's decision to normalize relations with Israel?
A: Arab people as a whole still love Palestine, and their hearts beat with hatred of the Zionist regime which has killed Palestinians and demolished their houses.
But we are talking about a policy of "destroying the awareness" practiced on the (Persian) Gulf peoples, especially the Emirati people when the Ministry of Tolerance was established.
The ministry tries to teach citizens the arts of tolerance with Hindu religions and Judaism in particular
So, temples were opened for Hindus and synagogues for Jews. We cannot say that reactions inside the UAE are non-existent, but we can confirm that there are many people who refuse normalization but fear to openly object or reject it, given that what awaits them is an unfair judiciary, secret prisons, and inevitably a large financial fine due to laws that criminalize freedom of opinion.
By the way, there are Emiratis who have created a "resist normalization" association which its aim is to educate the citizens and refuse to sign treacherous agreements and support the Palestinian cause.
As for the (Persian) Gulf states, there are a very large number of those who expressed their objection to normalization. In many countries, the activists have launched tags with their names to refuse normalizing ties with Israel, a very important matter. Awareness at this phase has a critical role, and we wish it will continue.
Q: Do you think that the Emirates' decision would serve the Palestinian people and the Palestinian cause?
A: Of course, this agreement pours salt on Palestinians' wounds, and it is a bridge over the rubble of the Palestinian cause.
This agreement will not stop the annexation of the West Bank as explicitly declared by Netanyahu, nor will it restrain the regime which commits crimes against the Palestinians, nor will it ever restore al-Quds (Jerusalem), nor will it give them an independent state. Rather, it is an explicit recognition of Israel over the Palestinian lands and legitimizing the occupier of Jerusalem and the Al Aqsa Mosque.
In short, it is an Emirati-Israeli agreement, and Palestine in this agreement was just a bridge to cross.
"Mohammed bin Zayed has succeeded in weakening Saudi Arabia by influencing Mohammed bin Salman, who transferred the Emirati experience to Saudi Arabia in the cultural and security level."
Q: Who actually rules the UAE? What are the main groups that govern the Emirates?
A: After the death of Sheikh Zayed, announcing his death was delayed for many reasons, including disputes among his sons.
I assure you that the phase that preceded the announcement of Sheikh Zayed's death was that Mohammed bin Zayed managed to rig the process of electing his successor, in which Sheikh Sultan was more entitled.
And according to Sheikh Zayed's will, Sheikh Khalifa became ruler of Abu Dhabi, and since then, Mohammed bin Zayed has messed with the country's policies.
In 2011, when the Arab Spring started, Mohammed bin Zayed exploited it to suppress freedoms and restrict society with strict laws.
Moreover, Mohammed bin Zayed ordered mass arrests of 94 Emirati citizens affiliated to the intellectual and academic classes, and that was to pave his way to fully control the reins of power in the country, especially after Sheikh Khalifa's illness and absence of him in the media and political scene.
So, the actual ruler in the United Arab Emirates is Mohammed bin Zayed, who controls the country and exerts his influence on all other emirates, whose rulers are unfortunately coward and fearful of his authority.
Q: What is the secret of the UAE-Saudi alliance? Would you expect Saudi Arabia and Bahrain to follow the example of the Emirates?
A: The Emirati-Saudi alliance, in my view, is based on Mohammed bin Zayed's plan to push Saudi Arabia towards Yemen's swamp, and the ultimate goal was to weaken it politically and exhaust its economy to undermine its influence after it was the most important state of the (Persian) Gulf.
Mohammed bin Zayed seeks greatness and fame. Unfortunately, he has succeeded in weakening Saudi Arabia by influencing Mohammed bin Salman, who transferred the Emirati experience to Saudi Arabia at the cultural and security level. Actually, the controls Mohammed bin Salman's childish impulses.
As for his involvement in the normalization, Mohammed bin Zayed challenged Saudi Arabia for his superiority over the Arab peace initiative that Saudis had signed it, as if he is saying, "Come with me for the peace agreement, Saudi agreement is out of date."
If Mohammed bin Salman remains in power, sooner or later, Saudi Arabia will, unfortunately, engage in the normalization process.
Bahrain is a dependent state and will inevitably be the first to sign the normalization agreement after the UAE.
We wish the other (Persian) Gulf states to be steadfast in facing pressures and to take a position that immortalizes in history, and when the grandchildren read it, they say that there are Arab countries who have betrayed and there are others that kept the covenant.
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The show "8 Masters of Latin American Art" from The Olsson Art Collection has now premiered at the Landskrona Konsthall in Sweden. Lots of people and good "stimmung" for the opening – a very good start. The show will be up and running until August 13th.
We decided to show 8 of our Artists in a retrospective view to emphasize the width of the Collection and its Artists. However, we also wanted to show that it is a living Collection by also showing some of the newest acquisitions. We included Raul Farco's drawings, most of them brand new and connected to his current construction project in Buenos Aires. Also included in the show is Henry Mujica's latest paintings after his move from Venezuela to Madrid showcasing the Spaniard lifestyle.
We also decided to show and point at the diversity of our Artists manifested by including sculptures of different kinds, from the terrific silver sculptures by Raul Conti and Raul Farco to the small but very interesting mixed media book sculptures by Gladys Triana. Fabio Herrera's tree trunk sculpture "The Collectors", made when he was visiting us in Sweden a couple of years ago, is always fun to show!


Been quite a week for all of us, with all the new snow that piled up day after day; and then with the two warm days over the weekend, the snow piles have melted away. Saturday was such a gorgeous day, we had some of the doors opened to let the sunshine in and it felt soooo good. Today, Sunday has been warm but gloomy with all the clouds hanging around and it goes along with my mood, GLOOMY! Today at our Church meeting our Pastor let us know that he will be leaving our church the end of June. Pastor Ed Sorrell has been with us almost 16 years at this time. A new year would begin in July. We are deeply saddened but we also realize that his new job is important to him and we all will wish him well. He just has to cut down somewhere. Also, we are in need of a new organist, we need someone for our Sunday service from 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. If you are interested call Merle at 326-4536 or me (Lois) at 326-4651.
2/14..Lise Gates and her crew prepared a delicious Valentine's Day Dinner for the all senior citizens that made reservations to attend. Thanks to Lise and all her helpers for a job well done. Lise said that she will have an Easter Dinner and date will be announced later.
2/16..The St.Onge family returned back home safe and sound from Jamaica, where they had gone to attend the wedding of Scott and Kristen (Harvey) St.Onge. They were enjoying nice warm weather while we were getting snow every day. It has been light stuff..therefore it has melted down rather rapidly.
Note: Reminder of the POT-LUCK suppers that will start on March 4 and every Saturday night during the Lenten Season, at St.lsidore's Parish Hall, hosted by the Knights of Columbus. Bring a favorite dish and come and join everyone for great food and fellowship, starting at 6:30 p.m.
I noticed that I got ahead of myself on my Birthday Calendar. Sorry!!
**This story was told to me by a local reader and I hope you see the humor as I did and so did she. I will call her Janet. She had planned to go out and do errands, shopping, banking, etc. This particular day was rather cold and she decided to wear her down-coat and keep nice and warm. Every place of business she went to, she noticed little feathers fluttering around, and Janet mentioned them as she was checking out at the third place of business. The clerk noticed that there was a small rip in the coat and mentioned to Janet that was probably where the little feathers were coming from. That was almost hysterical and had never occurred to Janet that they were coming from her coat. Janet has a great sense of humor and just laughed and thought it was funny. Yes, the coat got mended no more little feathers fluttering around. ** This is all for this week folks and remember if you have news and want to share it. REMEMBER ME at 326-4651 or email me at lois41@fairpoint.net. Thanks to D.C. for letting me know you enjoy this column and is a faithful reader. God Bless!!!


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Bisa Butler
Isabelle de Borchgrave
Isabelle de Borchgrave is a Belgian artist, designer, and interior decorator who paints intricate patterns on paper to make jewelry, decor, artifacts, lamps and most famously trompe l'oeil clothing. Her gorgeous and elaborate paper dresses, gowns, and costumes are modeled after garments seen in European paintings or in museum collections from around the world. Her creations look as if they are made from satin, silk, velvet, tulle, or lace, but they are made entirely out of paper.
When she was 14 years old she decided to forego traditional school to study drawing. She spent the next three years sketching nude models at the Royal Academy of Fine Art in Brussels and specialized in drawing and painting. She visited museums and developed an interest in fashion. She considers that her lack of formal training in fashion was an asset.
In the 1970s she created textile patterns for fabric producers and was known for her designs. When she started working with paper, the fashion world was first baffled but then impressed. She made hand-painted dresses for herself; later she made them for customers. In 1994, she visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art and saw the retrospective for French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent. This exhibit inspired her to think of the ways she could recreate certain designs on hand-painted paper.
The historical authenticity and beauty of her creations caused an overnight sensation when they were first shown in France as "Papiers a la Mode" her first sculpture series. To create this series, she collaborated with a theater costume designer to learn how to manipulate paper, paint, and glue to imitate historic fabrics and patterns.
Her elaborate gowns are appropriated from paintings of the Medici family in Florence during the Renaissance; Nicholas Hiliard's portrait of the Queen Elizabeth I; Francois Boucher's portrait of Madame de Pompadour; and collections of early 20th century modern couturiers such as the pleated and draped silk gowns of Spanish designer Mariano Fortuny. In addition, her "Kaftans" series was inspired by the Silk Road textiles of central Asia, and her "Les Ballets Russes" was based on the unconventional costumes worn by the dancers of the Ballets Russes founded in 1909.
Her "Fashioning Art From Paper" exhibition was shown at SCAD Fash Museum of Fashion + Film on Savannah Collection of Art and Design's Atlanta campus in 2019. In 2018, she exhibited at the Frick Art & Historical Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 2012, de Borchgrave made an installment for the Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens in Washington, DC. In 2011, she had a huge exhibit at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, a museum in San Francisco. Other exhibitions have taken place at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, the Palazzo Medici, Palazzo Strozzi, and museums in Sao Paulo, Luxembourg, Istanbul, Antwerp, Hokkaido, Osaka, Ontario, London, Antwerp, Boston, New York City, and others.
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Happy Saturday! What do you have planned for this sunny saturday? Maybe youre heading out for the day? Maybe you have a big date tonight? Why not get involved with the show and get some guidance!
Mark Room is joining us from 12-2pm, alongside Victoria Armstrong 2-4pm, And Hands of An Angel 4-6pm!


This inspection took place on 23 and 26 March 2018 and was announced. We gave the service 48 hours' notice of the inspection visit because it is small and the manager is often out of the office supporting staff. We needed to be sure that they would be in. The inspection was undertaken by two inspectors.
Prior to the inspection we reviewed the information we held about the service, including statutory notifications submitted about key events that occurred at the service. We used information the provider sent us in the Provider Information Return. This is information we require providers to send us at least once annually to give some key information about the service, what the service does well and improvements they plan to make.
During the inspection we spoke with four members of staff, the deputy manager and the registered manager and the nominated individual. We visited six people, spoke with two people and four relatives about their views on the quality of the care and support being provided. Some people using the service were unable to speak with us, therefore we observed interactions between staff and people using the service. We also spoke with two healthcare professionals.
We looked at care documentation relating to three people, four people's medicines administration records, four staff personnel files, staff training records and records relating to the management of the service including quality audits.


I'm in a funk. All week I've been working on a chapter I don't like. I mean, I would like it if it was any good, but it isn't. So I don't like it. The next chapter, which I just started even though the previous chapter is not yet finished, I also don't like.
Not to worry, of course. I usually hate my writing for a large portion of the process. Just, today I can't bring myself to stick with it. So a little bit ago I went outside and sat in the sunshine. I let my mind wander—Come back when you have some brilliant thoughts to show me, I told it firmly—but nothing happened. So I came back inside.
Thrilling stuff, this writing business.
In other news, last night a car crashed into our front yard. Nobody was hurt, but now we're short 30 feet of fence, a row of mailboxes, and a scrubby tree. Also, it poured—I mean, POURED—rain all night so I didn't get to go for my run, and then today we learned, via an x-ray follow-up, that my son's break has worsened and now he needs surgery to reset and pin it.
So yeah, I'm in a funk.
Picadillo is a Spanish-flavored meat-n-potatoes sauce. The first time I had this, years ago, was when we were visiting some friends. Our hostess had grown up in Mexico so Latin cooking was second nature to her. When I asked Marta for the recipe, she didn't have one. Which means this is the real deal!
We eat our picadillo over rice. It'd be yummy with toppings though, so feel free to add anything Mexican-ish. Cabbage slaw makes a great side, though broccoli will do in a pinch, and fresh tortillas for scooping are a must.
And now, this post written, I'm calling it quits. Off to the library I go! This sore brain is in desperate need of some high-quality entertainment. Else it just may explode. Or shrivel up. Wish me luck!
My notes were cryptic, but here's a recipe, more or less. Feel free to play.
Brown the ground beef, onion, potatoes, and carrot over medium high heat.
While the meat and veggies are cooking, measure the garlic, peppers, tomatoes, and broth into a blender and puree until smooth.
Add the sauce to the meat and simmer over medium heat for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Season with salt and pepper, and serve over rice.
If you want, dress up the picadillo with fresh cilantro, sour cream, green onions, salsa, hot sauce, avocado, cabbage slaw, warm tortillas, tortilla chips, olives, fresh cheese, boiled eggs, etc. The sky's the limit!
This same time, years previous: the quotidian (5.2.16), a simulation, stages of acting, the quotidian (5.4.15), the quotidian (5.5.14), depression chocolate mayonnaise cake, creamy avocado macaroni and cheese, baked-in-a-pot artisan bread, the definition of insanity. rhubarb daiquiri.
Sorry about your son. Glad nobody was hurt in the car crash.


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Social Movement: glo at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta
By TK Smith
Performance view of Supple Means of Connection at the High Museum of Art. (Image by CatMax Photography and courtesy the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.)
A bird flies into the room.
No! A bird flies into this room.
No! A woman flies into this room.
No! A tribe of women flies into this room.
These words are projected on the walls of the one of the galleries at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. What does it mean for a woman to fly free, as a bird flies? What does it mean for women and children to fly free within a museum?
In sometimes stifling institutional spaces, an action as simple as clapping your hands can constitute a political statement. When you disrupt the air and create the reverberating sound, the space changes. Supple Means of Connection—a series of performances, installations, and public activations by choreographer Lauri Stallings and the movement collective glo—similarly holds the potential to disrupt and transform the institutional parameters and operations of the High Museum of Art.
Choreographer Lauri Stallings (standing, left) and the movement artists of glo. (Image by CatMax Photography and courtesy the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.)
Supple Means of Connection is about how humans touch, the countless ways in which we caress and grate against each other. As a choreographer, Stallings is deeply invested in spatial transformation and placemaking. Prior to its five-week residency at the High, glo was based at the Goat Farm Arts Center's Goodson Yard since 2011. Stallings brought machinery, earth, and audio recordings of birdsong from Goodson Yard, incorporating them into the installations in the museum galleries. These include text-based neon sculptures, mounds of sod where visitors can lounge and bathe in artificial light, and booths and other pop-up structures for visitors to interact with and explore. Through these installations and the accompanying performances, glo has constructed new conditions of museum-going that break down the barriers between performers and viewers. The project functions as an invitation to interact with the artists, the institutional space they occupy, and other viewers in ways which were previously not possible at the High.
Stallings choreographed a suite of movements and live art installations that exhibit the technique, endurance, and power of the twenty-four moving artists who comprise glo. The intergenerational, interracial group performs for the duration of the museum's open hours for the length of their residency. Beyond the gallery housing the neon sculptures and other installations, the performers spread throughout the museum through activations such as Ceremonial Living Sculpture, which takes place in the atrium, and Mapping: Public Choreographies. The artists move in conversation with artworks throughout the museum and the architecture of the building itself, creating new associations with their bodies. This movement continues through the doors of the museum, beyond the paywall and security guards, out onto Peachtree Street. Stallings has created a performance that brings what's inside outside and vice versa, an interactive, democratic experience that playfully rejects the institution's largest accessibility barrier: the price of the ticket.
Performance view of Supple Means of Connection on the grounds of the High Museum of Art. (Image by Kristen Brown, courtesy the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.)
As critic Jordan Amirkhani wrote for this magazine in her review of Deborah Roberts's solo exhibition last year at the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, "The art museum… is a place where the 'unconsciousness' of Western (art) history and its roots in capitalism, racism, imperial colonialism, and heteropatriarchy can perpetuate and manifest unchecked, based on institutional presumptions of a white audience and white critical network amplifying and naturalizing a whitewashed cultural history."
Supple Means of Connection undoes these structural conceptions of the museum simply by inviting women and children to freely and deliberately take up space. Seeing groups of women move in concert across the gallery or along the grounds of the museum is striking; watching children idly move together in the gallery free of stanchions and corralling guards is freeing. These are powerful gestures that have intangible effects on how we see, interact, and place value within the very tangible museum. Stallings presents the female body not as a sitter, object, or subject, but as the artist. These women and children are not only inhabiting institutional space—they are transforming it, reconfiguring it to make room for their stories, experiences, and ideas expressed through movement. The performances that happen day after day, week after week, lay the foundation for a new type of intersectional institution where women, children, and people of color share access and proximity to the engines of cultural power. In Atlanta, at the High, this is a subtle act of decolonization.
As an institution with major impact on art communities in Atlanta, what a residency like this means for the High Museum of Art is that it cannot turn back. The space is changing and continues to change every time the performances begin. Supple Means of Connection reveals where museums fall short and opens a conversation on how institutions can become less guarded and restrained. It is rare that the orchestra steps outside of the concert hall, the play leaves the theater, or that you catch a graffiti artist between cans of spray paint, and even rarer that they invite you to create with them. Intentionally or unintentionally, Stalling's work is taking bricks from the boundaries that divide us. Through artmaking, we can tear down the walls of the museum and let everyone in.
The installations and activations comprising glo's Supple Means of Connection are on view at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta through September 8.


You may be looking to expand your horizons by switching up your choice of CNC engineering; most manufacturers or companies are probably aware of software engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and so on, so you're probably wondering what makes CNC precision engineering better and what the differences are.
Precision engineering was designed to concentrate on design fixtures and machines, in other terms one of the things precision engineering was designed for was to create a piece of machinery that would create other products. Precise engineering has been designed to be able to predict the behaviour of the machine as well as work at rates, precision and speed we could only imagine doing.
Using CNC engineering and machining really is an ideal choice for any company or manufacturer. Precision engineering can work with both metals and sometimes plastics which you may use depending on your field of work. Any manufacturer however always has one ultimate goal and that is to cut costs down, remove complications and errors, and make turnaround time as quickly as possible. If you are looking for something that will make your products repeatable and without error than precision CNC engineering is your best choice.
This industry has a list of goals and achievements on which it prides itself on; the list is a very impressive one so it really is no wonder why precision engineering has become so popular.
The work to reduce dispersion of the function of any part or product you may want to produce.
Reduce the risk of human error, and lower safety and injury risks in the workplace.
There is no wonder why CNC engineering has become so popular with precision engineering taking over so many aspects of the engineering industry. There are so many features and tools of precision engineering that are interchangeable so you don't need to use so much equipment to get the same job done. According to AllInformal, the whole goal of precision engineering is to provide as many machines or machine parts to as many companies and manufacturers as possible and they come in a wide range of metals including stainless steel, aluminum, lead, steel, titanium and many more. If you are looking for a way to up the efficiency of your business, consider CNC engineering today.


A lovely gift for you partner, best friend or anyone you love spending time with. The gift of a European city break is ideal for getting away for that much needed R&R, to see new faces, hear different languages and enjoy some beautiful European cuisine.
Paris is easily one of the most attractive cities. It is made up of multiple districts creating a vibrant collection of amazing areas. There are many impressive monuments and landmarks to be seen, but also a number of secret courtyards and parks for a more intimate experience. One of our favourite things is that as well as being a brilliant tourist destination, this city is also a home, you are guaranteed to interact the real Parisian people, whilst enjoying a coffee and croissant in a local café.
This tightly packet city is so rich in history, renowned for evenings of delicious tapas and flamenco. Seville is the perfect city break destination, we recommend staying in Old Town Seville, meander the cobbled streets of the Santa Cruz quarter and be sure to visit the Alcázar Palace. Enjoy a sunny walk or cycle along the banks of the Guadalquivir whilst drinking freshly squeezed Seville orange juice.
Amsterdam is a perfectly sized city, which means a long weekend is the ideal amount of time to make sure you see it all. You can walk or cycle all over the city, over beautiful bridges, visiting flea markets, coffee shops and tulip gardens. A brilliant destination for art lovers, with its many art museums and top rated orchestras. One of Amsterdam's biggest draws is that it combines delicate and beautiful scenery with a wild and rebellious underbelly.
So if you're after a lovely gift that's going to create brilliant memories and allow you to join in with the fun. A trip to one of these beautiful cities for two is the perfect answer.
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Police searching for Nigerian who allegedly committed murder in the UK and fled to Nigeria
The guy pictured on the left is Jeffrey Okafor, the UK police is searching for him over the 2009 murder of Carl Beatson Asiedu (pictured right - who is also Nigerian). He was stabbed to death in the early hours of August 1 2009 outside a night club after an argument with Jeffery and his friends. Jeffery then fled to Nigeria after the murder.
Beckham's 15yr old son gets his first girlfriend, and she's an actress
David Beckham's first son, 15 year old Brooklyn Beckham has finally gotten his first girlfriend...and If you think he would go for the girl next door for his first experience at love, think again. He went for a Hollywood starlet. Brooklyn is reportedly dating model/actress Chloe Moretz, who at 17 is two years older than him.
Justin Bieber makes out with mystery girl on luxury yacht
Justin Bieber may have 99 problems but Orlando Bloom isn't one.
Pic of 'ghost wielding axe' aboard old military ship
A photo showing a 'ghost wielding an axe' and peering around a doorway on board an old military decommissioned vessel has caused quite a stir. The photo was posted on Imgur by a dock worker named Stevgoldhound.
Native Doctor Confesses ''We Grind Human Heads To Make Powder For Ladies In Search Of Husbands''
A native doctor and suspected ritual killer arrested by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Lagos State Police Command has said that he grinds human heads into powder as charm for ladies who are looking for choice husbands and big contracts. Olasunkanmi Owolabi, a 43-year-old native of Oyo town, said the concoction is also used as cure for stubborn sores, mental illness, sickle cell anaemia and epilepsy. He also said had planned to establish a specialist native hospital if government gave him the approval.
NYPD Drag Naked Woman From Apartment, Leave Her Passed Out On The Floor
Once again showing their willingness to protect and serve, New York's Finest dragged a nearly naked woman from her apartment and left her passed out on the floor, reports the NY Daily News.
How London became the child abuse capital of the world
London has become the epicentre for a global trafficking enterprise involving thousands of children for exploitation, sexual abuse and even ritual voodoo killing, writes RICHARD HOSKINS.
Runaway Sierra Leone cyclist is found... but now their three relay squads go missing
A Sierra Leone cyclist who 'vanished' from the Commonwealth Games in an apparent bid to avoid going back to his Ebola-stricken country has been found - but several of his teammates do not want to return home.
It's a photo-Bolt!
Usain Bolt helped Jamaica to gold in the men's 4x100m relay at the Commonwealth Games tonight with a record time of 37.58 seconds.
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