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L'Oréal Announces Q1 2022 Sales
Jacquelyn Mueller, associate editor, Global Cosmetic Industry
Maybelline New York and NYX Professional Makeup experienced successful launches in Q1 2022 for Colossal Curl Bounce mascara and Bare With Me Concealer Serum.
L'Oréal has announced its first quarter 2022 results that showed group sales were €9,060.5 million, compared to €7,614.5 million in the previous year.
First quarter sales for the professional products category was €1,041.3 million, compared to €848.3 million in the previous year.
Hair care was still the main growth driver, largely thanks to Serie Expert by L'Oréal Professionnel and Prescriptions by Redken.
Kérastase continued its upward trend with the successful launch of Chroma Absolu one of the main highlights.
The successful performance in hair color was largely due to the sustained growth of Shades EQ by Redken and Inoa and Dialight by L'Oréal Professionnel.
First quarter sales for the consumer products category was €3,302.9 million, compared to €2,973.3 million in the previous year.
The acceleration of the division was driven by the strong upswing in brick-and-mortar sales, while e-commerce continued to grow.
L'Oréal Paris enjoyed strong momentum in hair care, with the success of Hyaluron Plump, and in makeup, with True Match serum.
The brand also gained more ground in emerging markets and especially in South Asia, with the launch of Glycolic Bright. Garnier showed a significant acceleration in skin care, buoyed by the global success of Fast Bright and its Vitamin C Brightening Serum.
Both Maybelline New York and NYX Professional Makeup experienced successful launches for Colossal Curl Bounce mascara and Bare With Me Concealer Serum.
L'Oréal Luxe
First quarter sales for the L'Oréal luxe category was €3,463.7 million, compared to €2,769.7 million in the previous year.
The couture brands Yves Saint Laurent, Giorgio Armani, Prada and Valentino grew significantly faster than their markets.
There was rapid growth in collection fragrances such as Maison Margiela Replica and Armani Privé.
In skin care, the division's performance was driven by the ultra-premium segment, including Lancôme Absolue and Helena Rubinstein, with newly acquired brands Takami and Youth to the People showing real promise.
Shu Uemura and Urban Decay recorded strong growth in makeup.
Active Cosmetics
First quarter sales for the active cosmetics category was €1,252.7 million, compared to €1,023.3 million in the previous year.
Online sales growth continued while brick-and-mortar outlets saw a sharp upswing, driven by professional channels.
La Roche-Posay's strong performance was fueled by the ongoing success of Cicaplast and Effaclar and boosted by the launch of its UVmune sun protection.
CeraVe maintained successful momentum in all zones. Growth at Vichy was fueled by Dercos and a solid performance in sunscreens.
Nicolas Hieronimus, CEO of L'Oréal, said:
Against the backdrop of the invasion of Ukraine and strengthened sanitary measures in China, L'Oréal had a strong first quarter, with strong growth in sales, at +13.5% like-for-like and +19.0% reported.
In the first three months of the year, the growth trend continued in the global beauty market, with consumer purchasing behavior unaffected by inflation. L'Oréal pursued its premiumization and innovation strategy and continued to outpace the beauty market across all zones and divisions, recording strong growth by volume and value. L'Oréal luxe, professional products and active cosmetics all achieved double-digit growth, and our consumer products division again outperformed the market despite supply-chain challenges. We made the most of our omnichannel strategy, with a clear revival in offline sales while e-commerce continued to grow, representing 25.8% of sales.
Our growth was balanced across all geographic ones, with continued outstanding momentum in North America, double-digit growth in mainland China, and an acceleration in emerging markets as well as in Europe, where growth was muted by a number of lockdowns in early 2021.
In these challenging times following the invasion of Ukraine, I would like to express our support for all our Ukrainian employees, whose protection remains our absolute priority.
Thanks to the unrelenting efforts of our teams across the world, we will pursue our strategy of harnessing cutting-edge innovation and investment to drive the growth of our brands and enhance their desirability going forward.
While mindful of volatility and uncertainty, we remain optimistic about the outlook for the beauty market and confident in our ability to outperform the market in 2022 and achieve another year of growth in sales and profits.
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Fresh Film Award for Gortskehy Pupils
Posted by Máistir Ó Beirn On April - 6 - 2012
In this week's (April 3rd) Western People and Mayo News, Cróna Esler and Ciara Moynihan respectively have written two lovely articles covering our recent award at the Fresh Film Festival in Limerick. The film "Job Done" can be viewed here at the bottom of our FÍS Film Project page.
Job Done as Gortskehy filmmakers take top prize
Western People, April 3rd 2012, Cróna Esler (page 4)
"It seems there's no end to the talents of the students at Gortskehy National School, writes Cróna Esler. This week the children have yet another reason to celebrate, having been presented with the Ireland Young Filmaker Award in the junior category (age seven to twelve years) at this year's Fresh Film Festival.
Pupils from fifth and sixth class produced a film based on a short story about a tiger kidnapping. They were highly commended for the visual style of their film, Job Done. For the last 16 years, the Fresh Film Festival has celebrated young filmakers aged 18 and under. It has showcased their work, celebrated their achievements and chosen Ireland's Young Filmmaker of the Year.
The filmmakers submit movies they have made themselves and have the opportunity to see their work on the big screen at four locations in heats around Ireland. Many winners of the competition have gone on to successful careers in the film industry and each year the awards uncover a wealth of new filmmaking talent.
This year's festival celebrated Made in Ireland films and record 400 entries were received. The festival strives to ensure it is engaging, relevant and challenging and has continued to develop links with other organisations and filmmakers from outside of Ireland. Louis Lovett [best known as Dieter in Killinaskully] was in attendance to present the awards to the winners at the ceremony in Limerick."
Job well done for Gortskehy NS students
Mayo News, April 3rd 2012, Ciara Moynihan (page 34). Ciara has also posted the film here on the Mayo News website.
"Fifth-and sixth-class students from Gortskehy National School in Annfield, Hollymount, were among the winners at Young Filmmaker of the Year Awards at this year's Fresh Film Festival. Actor Louis Lovett was in attendance to present the awards to the winners at a glittering ceremony in Limerick last Wednesday, March 28.
This year's festival theme was 'Made In Ireland', and a record 400 entries were received. The Gortskehy NS students were Highly Commended for Visual Style in the Junior Category (7 to 12 year olds) for their film 'Job Done'. Based on a short story by Patrick Hession and James Frizzell, the plot centres on a tiger kidnapping.
Patrick Hession and Diane Tierney turned in great performances as the balaclava-wearing raiders, while Orla Beddows, Toni Burns, Mollie Higgins and Nicola Hession were convincing as the terrorised family members, tied up in their own front room. Rachel Hession shone as a little girl hiding under the stairs. The film is a thriller laden with suspense – will the raiders discover the girl, and what would they do with her if they do? The eerie music and cinematography add to the mood.
Behind-the-scenes expertise was provided by camera operators James Frizzell and Justin Commins, and costume and props people Amy Frizzell, Rebecca Flanagan, Marie Mulhern, Thomas Higgins, Conal Beddows and Enda Hession. 'Job Done' was skillfully directed by James Frizzell – could he be another James Cameron in the making?
For the last 16 years, Fresh Film Festival has celebrated young filmmakers aged 18 and under. The festival has showcased their work and celebrated their achievements. The filmmakers submit movies they have made themselves and have the opportunity to see their work on the big screen as the movies are screened at four locations in heats around Ireland. Many winners of the competition have gone on to successful careers in the film industry, and each year the awards uncover a wealth of new filmmaking talent.
For more information on the Fresh Film Festival, visit www.freshfilmfestival.net. This is not the first award that 'Job Done' has received – last year it was named Best Horror Film at the Fís Film Festival awards, attended by President Michael D Higgins."

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Suburbia and Surveillance: Political and Social Development in the Soviet Union and North Korea
Brian Benoit
In this month's highlights from Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) Reports, 1957-1995, we consider suburban development in the Soviet Union, the means by which that development is accomplished, and what happens to those who fail to sustain that development, or seek to escape from it.
Satellite Towns
State Publishing House of Geographical Literature, Moscow, 1961
A few years after Nixon and Khrushchev's 1959 "Kitchen Debate," which took place in a model single-family American house created in Moscow for a cultural exhibition, the Soviet people experienced their own version of the American post-war suburban movement. In the Soviet case, however, the wholesale resettlement of millions of people was proposed. This was admitted to be an "acute and extremely complex" problem. And in place of the prototypical tract-home development common in America at the time, the Soviets envisioned higher densities in four-to-five-story residential complexes.
This report considers suburban development throughout the Soviet Union and provides a fascinating look into aspects of central planning that touched the daily lives of many Soviet citizens.
The Post of Planning Commissar is a Precarious One
Die Zeit (Time) – 27 July 1962
GOSPLAN was the commonly used name for the State Planning Committee in the Soviet Union. This short report describes what happened when the GOSPLAN officials in charge of carrying out large-scale development programs did not live up to the challenge. "Again and again," Wolfgang Leonhard writes, "the Soviet party leadership has made attempts to control its economic difficulties through changes and reorganization of the planning head office and through the nomination and dismissal of the responsible directors of this agency." He notes that the present cycle marked the sixth time the head of GOSPLAN had been replaced since Stalin's death in 1953.
Leonhard's description of the contradictions inherent in central planning strikes at the heart of the communist dilemma between economic development and political orthodoxy.
The Duties and Functions of the Public Procurator's Organs in North Korea
Collection of Treatises on Jurisprudence, 1958
In North Korea, political orthodoxy was enforced through the office of the Public Procurator, which was viewed as "…an inevitable requirement for the functions of economic systematization and cultural enlightenment" and was based on a Soviet model. Although the report does not say how often such officials were replaced, the reader can easily imagine how difficult and politically fraught the work of this office might be.
E ast German Refugees from Helsinki Youth Festival Tell their Stories
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"Everyone Had to Spy," reads one headline. Another account tells how these dancers, wrestlers and musicians were told, "If anybody should get the stupid idea here that he could succeed in deserting then he should know that one of these days socialism will triumph even in West Germany." Despite a heavy authoritarian presence and the students' privileged position among their communist peers, they did exactly that.
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TN farmers demand annual de-silting of water bodies
R. Ilangovan and P S. Selvaraj of the Cauvery Delta farmers association, told IANS: "Most of the water bodies in the state have not reached their full capacity even during the heavy rains as desilting is not being done. Anothe major issue is the removal of illegal encroachments on water bodies and government must use a iron hand to remove such encroachments ".
15 Dec, 2022, 6:04 am
CHENNAI: With most of the water bodies in Tamil Nadu not reaching their full capacity even during the monsoon season, farmers have demanded the state government to conduct annual desilting to increase storage.
Farmers have also demanded the construction of more check dams to control water flow and conserve soil.
They also suggested the building of more pumping stations along with canals and pipelines to transport this water during droughts.
Krishanswamy.G, a farmer based out of Tiruchi, told IANS: "The (state) government must upgrade existing reservoirs, tanks and small ponds across the state to develop water storage facilities ."
The ruling DMK had in its election manifesto had announced construction of 1,000 check dams and barrages across Tamil Nadu in the next 10 years to recharge ground water.
A senior official of the state Water Resources Department told IANS: "We have commenced construction of check dams as promised by the Chief Minister. However we need more funds for this and have submitted a proposal to the government."
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LOS ANGELES - A controversial, estrogenlike chemical in plastic could be harming the development of children's brains and reproductive organs, a federal health agency concluded in a report released yesterday.
The National Toxicology Program, part of the National Institutes of Health, concluded that there is "some concern" that babies, fetuses, and children are in danger because bisphenol A, or BPA, harms animals at low levels found in nearly all human bodies.
An ingredient of polycarbonate plastic, BPA is one of the most widely used synthetic chemicals in industry today.
It can seep from plastic beverage containers such as baby bottles, as well as liners in cans containing food and infant formula.
The federal institute is the first government agency in the United States to conclude that low levels of BPA could be harming humans.
Its findings will be used to help regulators at federal and state environmental agencies develop policies governing its use.
The draft report followed an 18-month review that was fraught with allegations of bias, heated disputes among scientists, and the firing of a consulting company with financial ties to industry.
Some scientists suspect that exposure early in life disrupts hormones and alters genes, programming a fetus or child for breast or prostate cancer, premature female puberty, attention deficit disorders, and other reproductive or neurological disorders.
In its new report, the National Toxicology Program, which reviewed about 500 laboratory animal experiments, concluded that there is "some concern" that fetuses, babies, and children are at risk from BPA.
It rated as "negligible" the concern for adults.
When animal fetuses or newborns are exposed, BPA "can cause changes in behavior and the brain, prostate gland, mammary gland, and the age at which females attain puberty," the agency's draft report says.
"These studies only provide limited evidence for adverse effects on development, and more research is needed to better understand their implications for human health," it says. "However, because these effects in animals occur at bisphenol A-exposure levels similar to those experienced by humans, the possibility that bisphenol A may alter human development cannot be dismissed."
Plastics industry representatives stressed that the agency found "no serious or high-level concerns."
They call the lab animal experiments inconclusive and flawed.
Steve Hentges, representing the American Chemistry Council's plastics group, said the findings "provide reassurance that consumers can continue to use products made from bisphenol A."


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How to Scale AI in Your Organization
AI is beyond the hype and entering a phase of industrialization. The belief about the imperative of AI is widespread— universally across industries. However, only about 5% of global enterprises is ready for industrialized growth of AI. To reap the real benefits, organizations need to be able to scale AI solutions. This all sounds obvious: everybody talks about AI and scaling is the name of the game.
But what does scaling AI mean exactly? And what requirements does that pose to an organization's data and technology stack? How is that different from most legacy infrastructures? And how do you build the technical capabilities to meet these new requirements?
Scaling AI
Scaling AI isn't easy. Getting one or two AI models into production is very different from running an entire enterprise or product on AI. And as AI is scaled, problems can (and often do) scale, too. For example, one financial company lost $20,000 in 10 minutes because one of its machine learning models began to misbehave. With no visibility into the root issue — and no way to even identify which of its models was malfunctioning — the company was left with no choice but to pull the plug. All models were rolled back to much earlier iterations, which severely degraded performance and erased weeks of effort.
Organizations that are serious about AI have started to adopt a new discipline, defined loosely as "MLOps" or Machine Learning Operations. MLOps seeks to establish best practices and tools to facilitate rapid, safe, and efficient development and operationalization of AI. When implemented right, MLOps can significantly accelerate the speed to market. Implementing MLOps requires investing time and resources in three key areas: processes, people, and tools.
Processes: Standardize how you build and operationalize models.
Building the models and algorithms that power AI is a creative process that requires constant iteration and refinement. Data scientists prepare the data, create features, train the model, tune its parameters, and validate that it works. When the model is ready to be deployed, software engineers and IT operationalize it, monitoring the output and performance continually to ensure the model works robustly in production. Finally, a governance team needs to oversee the entire process to ensure that the AI model being built is sound from an ethics and compliance standpoint.
Given the complexity involved here, the first step to making AI scale is standardization: a way to build models in a repeatable fashion and a well-defined process to operationalize them. In this way, creating AI is closely akin to manufacturing: The first widget a company makes is always bespoke; scaling the manufacturing to produce lots of widgets and then optimizing their design continuously is where a repeatable development and manufacturing process becomes essential. But with AI, many companies struggle with this process.
To standardize, organizations should collaboratively define a "recommended" process for AI development and operationalization, and provide tools to support the adoption of that process. For example, the organization can develop a standard set of libraries to validate AI models, thus encouraging consistent testing and validation. Standardization at hand-off points in the AI lifecycle (e.g., from data science to IT) is particularly important, as it allows different teams to work independently and focus on their core competencies without worrying about unexpected, disruptive changes.
People: Let teams focus on what they're best at.
AI development used to be the responsibility of an AI "data science" team, but building AI at scale can't be produced by a single team — it requires a variety of unique skill sets, and very few individuals possess all of them. For example, a data scientist creates algorithmic models that can accurately and consistently predict behavior, while an ML engineer optimizes, packages, and integrates research models into products and monitors their quality on an ongoing basis. One individual will seldom fulfill both roles well. Compliance, governance, and risk requires an even more distinct set of skills. As AI is scaled, more and more expertise is required.
To successfully scale AI, business leaders should build and empower specialized, dedicated teams that can focus on high-value strategic priorities that only their team can accomplish. Let data scientists do data science; let engineers do the engineering; let IT focus on infrastructure.
Tools: Pick tools that support creativity, speed, and safety.
Finally, we come to tools. Given that trying to standardize production of AI and ML is a relatively new project, the ecosystem of data science and machine learning tools is highly fragmented — to build a single model, a data scientist works with roughly a dozen different, highly specialized tools and stitches them together. On the other side, IT or governance uses a completely different set of tools, and these distinct toolchains don't easily talk to each other. As a result, it's easy to do one-off work, but building a robust, repeatable workflow is difficult.
Front running organizations that are able to industrialize AI at scale do the following three things exceptionally well:
They set direction and follow course. AI adoption is a journey that is completed step-by-step. It requires vision, strategy and a game plan that combines quick wins with a route to scale. Sustained commitment from senior leadership is key to long term success. You have to go all in, but with smart focus and grit.
They have a playbook for AI solution development and implementation. AI-powered business innovation follows a typical life-cycle from idea or proof of concept to a tested prototype, MVP and eventually production-grade solution that is implemented. A proven approach to doing this repeatedly enables to gradually develop and scale new AI opportunity areas and become a truly AI-powered organization.
They have a technology platform that supports AI at scale. AI solutions pose new requirements for technology architecture. Companies that manage to scale AI have developed standardized platforms that allow rapid development of AI solutions in a robust and sustainable manner.
When picking MLOps tools for your organization, a leader should consider:
Interoperability.
More often than not, there will be some existing AI infrastructure already in place. To reduce friction in adopting a new tool, choose one that will interoperate with the existing ecosystem. On the production side, model services must work with DevOps tools already approved by IT (e.g., tools for logging, monitoring, governance).
Whether it's friendly for data science as well as IT.
Tools to scale AI have three primary user groups: the data scientists who build models, the IT teams who maintain the AI Infrastructure and run AI models in production, and the governance teams who oversee the use of models in regulated scenarios.
Of these, data science and IT tend to have opposing needs. To enable data scientists to do their best work, a platform must get out of the way — offering them flexibility to use libraries of their choice and work independently without requiring constant IT or engineering support.
Collaboration.
MLOps tool must make it easy for data scientists to work with engineers and vice versa, and for both of these personas to work with governance and compliance. In AI product development, while the speed of collaboration between data science and IT determines speed to market, governance collaboration ensures that the product being built is one that should be built at all .
With AI and ML, governance becomes much more critical than in other applications. AI Governance is not just limited to security or access control in an application. It is responsible for ensuring that an application is aligned with an organization's ethical code, that the application is not biased towards a protected group, and that decisions made by the AI application can be trusted.
Five principles to build a scalable AI platform
On the highest level, the scalability of AI requires platform capabilities that combine two previously separated domains in data architecture: the operational or transactional side of data and the analytical use of data for analysis or modeling. Below are five principles to build a scalable AI stack.
1. Algorithms as micro-services
The classical way to put a machine learning model into production is to build a pipeline that ingests the latest input data, runs the model with that input, and stores the output in a database. The application(s) using the predictions can subsequently fetch the data from this database. Although there is nothing inherently wrong with this approach, it is not very scalable. Modern ML use cases require predictions on demand, potentially with thousands of requests every second. So the prediction pipeline cannot be scheduled in advance. Moreover, it needs to be able to scale rapidly depending on the workload.
2. A factory approach to building and managing algorithms
Producing algorithms as micro-services requires an assembly line with proper quality management and control mechanisms. Sort of a six sigma methodology for the production of algorithms:
Standardized & automated workflow.
Instead of building a specific workflow for each individual use case, a standardized workflow (assembly line) is needed to enable scalable production of algorithms. Consider that models are not developed one off, but require ongoing maintenance and retraining. Hence, doing this at scale repeatedly for thousands of models requires a fully standardized and automated assembly line that can be replicated for any new AI solution.
Performance monitoring & inventions.
Six sigma aimed at reducing variance in the manufacturing process: the upper and lower limits of quality have to lie beyond 6 times the standard deviation, implying a defect rate of 3.4 in a million. Similarly, model predictions will fall within a bandwidth. Monitoring this out of sample performance, how the model performs in practice rather than on historic data, is critical to keep algorithms in check.
Traceability.
In Europe, new legislation requires organizations to be able to explain algorithmic decisions if they impact the customer. Responsible AI is becoming a hot topic. Therefore, the ability to trace back model versions, including the accompanying training data, is becoming a sine qua non. Like equipment and manufacturing parts have serial numbers, algorithms require a transparent and traceable production flow. The model assembly line therefore needs to store all relevant artifacts (inputs, outputs and scraps) in an organized manner.
3. Multiple data integration routes
The previous two principles are fully new and inherent to the arrival of AI. The third principle relates to data management and is often a source of struggle with legacy environments.
Innovation with AI requires more flexibility in data integration than most data architectures traditionally allow. Enterprise data warehouses are set up to provide a single source of truth on which data products can be built. The high integrity and efficient re-use of data comes at the cost of rigidity and high upfront investment.
4. Multi-pattern data exchange: from batch to event-based
Another key feature of the data architecture for scalable AI deployment is the support for multiple data exchange patterns, in particular for the use of real-time data. This is where traditional data architecture for IT integration — connecting the application landscape — merges with modern use of data for analytical purposes (providing real-time BI or AI).
5. Leverage cloud components for agile development
The fifth principle is to apply agile development methods to your platform infrastructure. Legacy data architecture and infrastructure is characterized by monolithic, vendor-based systems that were meant to function as one-size-fits-all platforms. These infrastructures have been notoriously behind the curve — rapidly becoming outdated or even obsolete even before they were fully implemented. Never ending platform migrations with nirvana end-state views became the norm.
In the race to scale AI and realize more business value through predictive technology, leaders are always looking for ways to get ahead of the pack. AI shortcuts like pre-trained models and licensed APIs can be valuable in their own right, but scaling AI for maximum ROI demands that organizations focus on how they operationalize AI. The businesses with the best models or smartest data scientists aren't necessarily the ones who are going to come out on top; success will go to the companies that can implement and scale smartly to unlock the full potential of AI.
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The Habitat III Africa Regional Meeting took place February 24-26, 2016 in Abuja, Nigeria. Africa's population is projected to double from 1 billion in 2010 to 2 billion in 2040. Photo by pjotter05/Flickr.
From February 24 – 26, 2016 African ministers and stakeholder representatives from numerous civil society organizations gathered in Abuja, Nigeria to discuss African priorities for Habitat III, the U. N.'s 20-year urbanization conference that takes place in October.
Moving forward, how can the New Urban Agenda incorporate the Abuja Declaration and make an ambitious, actionable statement for the future? The agenda will need not only to include conceptual statements but also to set forth commitments and targets that inspire actions from urban, regional, national, private sector and civil-society actors.


I'm recycling this post as, well, in a world of constant change, some things stay the same. The CRIL (Centre de Ressources Internationales et Linguistiques), aka "The Lab", in room S09 (in the basement, so "business as usual" in case of an air strike) is open and ready to receive you for tutorials. While the information about the tutors on our TUTORATS page is being updated I'd advise you to look at the actual schedule (https://celsalangues.wordpress.com/tutorats/) or send us an email at celsaaccents@gmail.com to ask about languages available then reserve a 30-minute session. This is the place to come if you feel you need more language practice than you can get in class, sharpen your skills, practice for a presentation, work on language aspects, train for the TOEFL, prepare for an interview, check a cover letter or CV, etc (though we are not a translation service…).
We look forward to seeing you and all the best for the new academic year.
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The SET Plan helps students structure their learning around their abilities, interests and ambitions and outlines the individual student's aspirations and desired learning pathway.
Year 10 students are given the opportunity to attend a Work Experience placement in their chosen area of interest during Week 3 of Term 3. Participation in the Work Experience program is integral to effective SET Planning.


The Korean Workers Project, a collaboration between the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) and YKASECEmpowering the Korean American Community, announced today a back-wage settlement of $17,500 on behalf of a former nail salon worker from Flushing, Queens.
AALDEF Attorney Steven Choi and YKASEC Program Associate Kathy Chae introduced Mr. Lee, an immigrant from Korea who was obligated by his employer, a nail salon in the New York metropolitan area, to work 13-hour days, six to seven days a week for nearly a year, without receiving overtime or spread-of-hours wages. Although he was employed as a driver and as a worker for the nail salon, Mr. Lee worked mornings and evenings without breaks, and did not have access to any records of his hours.
The Korean Workers Project provides traditional direct legal services free of charge to low-wage Korean immigrant workers through AALDEF, in conjunction with YKASECEmpowering the Korean American Community, offers community education and outreach efforts. By combining these two approaches, the Korean Workers Project seeks to protect the rights of these Korean immigrant workers and to help them achieve social and economic justice.


Giulia Baita lives in the Mediterranean, on the beautiful island of Sardinia. She has a degree in History of Contemporary Art and is passionate about painting and drawing. Along side traditional art, Giulia is a big advocate of mobile photography and mobile art. This led her to found the MAG Mobile Art groups on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter in March 2017. The purpose of MAG is to promote mobile art as a contemporary art form.


Business owners, freelancers and agency owners: your Instagram scheduling is about to get a whole lot easier.
You can now schedule Instagram Stories in advance with Later.
Yep, you read that right. I'm not talking about scheduling the posts in your feed, but your actual Stories.
This is huge for any business that's embraced the power of storytelling and connecting with their audience through Instagram Stories.
It's also massive news for anyone running multiple Instagram accounts.
When it comes to managing a handful of Instagram accounts inside my agency, I've always been a big fan of scheduling posts in advance.
In fact, it's essential to keep all the client accounts running happily.
So when Later approached me to be an early beta tester of their new Story scheduling feature, I jumped at the chance.
I'm a HUGE fan of scheduling my Instagram posts from my desktop – so this new feature is one more reason to not be hunched over my phone.
From the Later desktop app, I can pre-schedule all the images, videos, captions and links for my upcoming Stories. And then when it's time to post, my phone receives all the content and all I have to do is hit publish.
If you know me and have been to this blog before, then you'll already know I'm a believer in the magical powers of Instagram Stories and how they grow my business, drive traffic to my website, and how hosting a Stories takeover is truly a win-win situation for all involved.
Instagram Stories is where the party's at in 2019.
Check out the blog posts I linked above that cover why Instagram Stories are indispensable to my business and then come back to finish reading this article.
Instagram Stories are The Spot™ where brands and businesses get raw and authentic with their followers, where real relationships and trust are formed, and where you can finally get 1:1 face time and eager engagement with your followers.
Now that we're on the same page about Instagram Stories, let's get down to business and talk scheduling.
In this blog post, we're going to cover how to schedule Instagram Stories and my own personal findings from using the feature as an early beta tester.
As business owners, we often get overwhelmed by the multi-layered world of social media. There are just so many social channels, and each channel needs its own strategy, its own content plan, its own engagement — it almost seems never ending, doesn't it?
This is what I would look like 24/7 if I didn't have apps like Later helping me handle all of my many social media accounts.
That's why I'm so hyped about Instagram Stories scheduling.
Instagram Stories scheduling means we can take even more time off of unplanned Instagramming and make the time that we do spend inside Instagram more productive.
The point of using Instagram for your business is not to spend 3 to 4 hours a day inside the app, checking up on comments, posting fresh Stories, cranking out fluffy posts, and getting caught up on what others are doing.
The point of using Instagram for your business is to make your life EASY… to make finding new clients and customers easy, and to make your Stories and feed sell FOR you — regardless of how long you spend in the app each day.
Instagram Stories scheduling takes us one step closer to this.
Drive more traffic to our websites, products, services, videos, courses, or anything else that we sell through more consistent, planned and strategized Story posting!
Let's get to the how behind it all!
Instagram Stories scheduling is a brand new feature from Later that allows us to pre-schedule our Instagram Stories in advance, using their scheduling app (available on desktop and mobile).
Here's how it works in the Later web app.
Open up the Later desktop app. If you don't have an account with Later yet, head here to set up your account.
Click the Stories button on the top right of your Calendar view.
Upload your images or videos to the Media Library, and drag your media items (AKA whichever graphics you want to post to your Stories) to the Timeline.
By the way, scheduled Stories can be dragged to a different time once saved, as well!
Hot Tip: Later just published a blog post on the best times to publish content on Instagram for 2019 based off of 12 million posts! Check it out and schedule your stuff accordingly to ensure views and clicks galore.
At this time, publishing is available via mobile push notifications only.
Make sure you have iOS 5.3.6 and above or Android 5.6.2 and above in order to publish using the Later mobile app.
When the scheduled time comes, you'll get a push notification from Later to your phone; all you have to do then is click it open, let Later guide you to Instagram and then publish your Stories!
Here's what that looks like, step by step. Once you get the push notification, just click on it to open up Later, and follow Later's link to Instagram to publish your Stories!
And there it is: your Instagram Story gets published for your followers to see. You have successfully scheduled and posted your first Story on Instagram!
So thanks to the lovely people at Later, I was asked to be an early beta tester for this Story scheduling feature.
I decided to take this new feature for a test drive and play with it over the holiday break.
Not sure about you, but for me, the holidays can get super hectic with so many family events, so much good food to eat, and so many cute dogs to pet. I knew I wanted to be present and enjoy my holiday break, and I definitely didn't want to be on Instagram all day.
With the help of my team who created some cool Story graphics for my Bali retreat, I went into my Later scheduling app, added the Story graphics and the swipe up links, and scheduled them out for the week over the holidays.
Over the holidays, I was able to kick back on the couch, chill and not stress about my IG Story game.
Later told me when and what to publish… and Holiday-Elise (who's mostly thinking about food and family, and yes, in that order) was very grateful to Instagram Stories scheduling, to say the least.
Is scheduling your Instagram Stories worthwhile? Does it save you time?
Any time I got a notification from Later, all I had to do was head on over to the Instagram app and hit publish. Easy peasy.
That's a total win in my books.
Want to nab yourself this feature from Later and make your Instagram Stories more effective?
Join Later on any paid plan and grab it for yourself!
Play with it, test it out, and report back to me your own findings on whether you like it and whether you've noticed any differences in your Stories analytics!


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International bank regulation has ramped to prominence over the past two decades, as nations and the global economy have lurched from one financial crisis to another. The current global financial crisis has brought unprecedented general attention to the subject. It is possible that we will witness fundamental changes in the way nations cooperate in the regulation of their financial institutions. Major reform efforts are underway. Yet international bank regulation has unusual characteristics and does not fit easily within the traditional framework of international law. The emerging system is also extremely fluid and complex-matching an extremely fluid and complex system of international finance. Interesting features have begun to emerge, suggesting that the time has come to recognize international banking regulation as an example of a complex adaptive system of the type that attracts the application of complexity theory. This paper outlines the features of the subject and the elements of complexity theory that seem helpful in elucidating the internationalization of international bank regulation.


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Nessus 8 delivers new Live Results to virtually eliminate time to assess vulnerabilities
By APSM on	 October 3, 2018 Case Studies, Cyber Security, Information, Movers & Shakers, Reports, Security, Technology, Virtualisation
Tenable has announced enhancements to its market-defining vulnerability assessment solution, Nessus® Professional, designed with a singular focus on helping security practitioners ease and accelerate the time to identify, prioritise and remediate cyber exposure issues.
Nessus 8 will introduce Live Results, a new intelligent vulnerability assessment feature which will provide real-time updates into where an organisation may have vulnerabilities, inferred based on scan history, even when disconnected from the network. By presenting potential vulnerabilities into the security practitioner workflow, it provides a quick and easy way to detect potential vulnerabilities, validate if they exist in their environment and prioritise remediation efforts.
Nessus 8 customers will also benefit from Grouped View, a new feature designed to help practitioners simply and easily focus their efforts by grouping together similar issues, categories of vulnerabilities and systems or assets into a single thread. Users will be able to "snooze" specified issues until they are ready to address them, minimising information overload and better managing workloads. Nessus 8 will also offer scaling improvements, with an emphasis on Windows OS, for faster vulnerability assessments.
Nessus 8 is the latest release of Nessus Professional which has cemented its position as one of the most widely adopted security solutions in the world, with the industry's lowest false-positive rate and six-sigma accuracy. Nessus is also number one in coverage with more than 100,000 plugins for more than 45,000 CVEs, and new plugins released within an average of 24 hours from the time of vulnerability disclosure. Earlier this year, new research by Cybersecurity Insiders, Application Security Report 2018, found that Nessus is the industry's most widely used vulnerability assessment solution for applications, with nearly twice as many security teams using the solution as any other competitive offering.
These new enhancements to Nessus 8 come on the heels of a recent report from Tenable Research which quantified the window of opportunity cybercriminals have to weaponise vulnerabilities. This research report found that cybercriminals have a median seven-day window during which they can exploit a vulnerability to attack their victims before organisations even take the first step to determine their Cyber Exposure and whether they are at risk. Given the rapid pace of attacks, Nessus 8 was designed to help solve this problem for customers by minimising the time to detect vulnerabilities and reduce cyber risk.
"In March we announced the expansion of our research team, with the goal of translating data into meaningful insights which help our customers and the industry at large implement best-in-class vulnerability assessment programs on the path to Cyber Exposure. Nessus 8 is a great example of the power of quickly turning insights into product innovation," said Renaud Deraison, chief technology officer and co-founder, Tenable. "Nessus leads the market by each of the key measures of adoption — accurate and comprehensive assessment — and we intend to continue leading the way through continued investment in product innovation to help our customers solve some of the hardest challenges facing them today."
Nessus 8 will be available later in October 2018.
Learn more about Nessus 8 here.


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BIFF: Terror Nullius (2018)
davecrewe / October 17, 2018
White Australia is a prime target for satire. You don't have to dig particularly deep to found countless examples over the last few years of Australian politics to find examples of the deeply-rooted nature of our nation's racism, sexism and homophobia. Our political instability feels like an aftershock from an increasing public recognition of our inherent ideological pollution clashing with a political class content to blithely celebrate surface-level Australiana without any sense of perspective.
Our politicians indulge in reviews of 'religious freedom' that endeavour to further enshrine extant homophobic legislation in law, while trumpeting divisive and harmful marriage equality plebiscites. The leading party votes in favour of white supremacist motions in the Senate while exhibiting a flagrant disregard towards indigenous incarceration and abuse – and that's not even scratching the surface of our treatment of refugees. Our deputy prime minister is accused of sexual harassment while women are murdered daily by their partners, yet productive policy seems impossible.
All this means 2018 is perfectly positioned for a film like Terror Nullius. A collage of (mostly) Australian films and television by 'art collective' Soda_Jerk, Terror Nullius refashions our cultural artefacts and ephemera into a searing critique of Australian hypocrisy. It's toured film festivals this year to widespread acclaim, playing Brisbane earlier in the year at Queensland Film Festival, and returning with two screenings at BIFF. Having seen clips and read glowing reviews, I expected a truly vital document of our modern nation.
Unfortunately, what I was treated to failed to live up to the hype. Terror Nullius certainly addresses the core failings of modern Australia, chronicling the aforementioned sexism (most prominently through the figure of once-disgraced, now-celebrated Mel Gibson), racism (showcasing indigenous Australians and asylum seekers) and homophobia (weaving Priscilla and Please Like Me together) in a crowd-pleasing mashup. The environment gets a look-in too; there's enough animal carnage here to feel like a remake of Long Weekend (which, of course, makes an appearance).
But good satire is more than plastering messages on a screen for an audience of converts. Good satire makes you feel uncomfortable; Terror Nullius is pitched primarily at middle-class left wing viewers (guilty) and allows them to exit with their opinions cheerfully reinforced while laughing (just a shade too loud) at all the references they understood. Meanwhile, those inclined to challenge these messages – whether through dyed-in-the-wool conservatism or 'she'll be right mate' obliviousness – are unlikely to walk out thinking they've seen anything more than engaging propaganda.
While I didn't hate the film – if nothing else, it's a breezy 55 minutes that oft impresses with its juxtapositions – my issues with it can be boiled down to a single diagnosis: it's too fucking obvious. Soda_Jerk opts for an overtly comedic editing style (occasionally obscured by an oddly languorous pacing, presumably inherited from the sedate rhythms of the Australian New Wave), which tends to over-emphasis every joke and every critique. There's no subtlety that would leave you contemplating the issues or editing after the fact, but rather an attempt to earn a quick gasp or giggle that's soon forgotten.
The overtness of the political messages – look, Pauline Hanson, Tony Abbott and a Southern-Cross-tatted John Howard are at the helm of The Road Warrior's horde of barbarians – is perhaps best suited to an installation, as have, for instance, screened at the Sydney Film Festival Hub at the past. For a captive audience, it's a bit much. Nor does it help that what Soda_Jerk are doing, in many instances, are taking the subtext of the sampled films and simply underlining, highlighting and capitalising them. Classic Aussie films like Wake in Fright and Picnic at Hanging Rock are already critiques of Australian masculinity and whiteness, respectively, making their inclusion feel superfluous.
Certainly, this is a more effective – and accessible – medium than a dry video essay identifying these themes, or a John-Pilger-esque-documentary relentlessly unpacking our sins as a country. Perhaps I'm projecting, but the waves of praising crashing against Terror Nullius' shores seem to come from the exact audience already aware of – and concerned with – Australia's fundamental flaws. I don't mean to get all Helen Razer on you, but it's not hard to imagine a better version of Terror Nullius that acts as more of a call-to-arms; less preaching to the converted, more evangelising them to actually do something about our fucked-up nation rather than laughing about it at a film festival.
October 17, 2018 in Extended Cut, Film. Tags: biff 2018, brisbane international film festival 2018, film, john howard, long weekend, mad max: the road warrior, pauline hanson, picnic at hanging rock, please like me, qff, queensland film festival, review, soda_jerk, terror nullius, the adventures of priscilla queen of the desert, tony abbott, wake in fright
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Olga Aguilar was born and raised in Los Angeles, California to Salvadoran parents. Olga is the youngest of three siblings. At a very young age, Olga began to sing and dance in school as well as family gatherings, which sparked her interest in performing arts. As a teenager, Olga began to study acting and decided to make it her career. She continued to study performing arts by obtaining a bachelors in Theatre Arts and Central American Studies from California State University, Northridge and later, a Master degree in Acting from DePaul University, in Chicago, Illinois.
Olga is known for roles on NBC's "Chicago Fire" and HBO's "Westworld" among others. Olga's first television appearance was on Chicago Fire, which led to 3 episodes in the NBC Chicago drama and is followed by more television roles including Nickelodeon's "Instant Mom," Amazon's "Good Girls Revolt," Showtime's "Shameless," HBO's "Westworld", and her most prominent role to date, TNT's Animal Kingdom. Recently, Olga premiered her first feature film role in "20 Weeks" at the Los Angeles Film Festival.
She also speaks fluent Spanish.


In the background, I stamped some flowers from the Water Blooms set and added a few pearls and rhinestones. People always ask me about the inks I use, and I really should be better about listing that in my posts. The pink I used here is Bubblegum by Mama Elephant and the sentiment is done in Versafine Smokey Grey (perfect color when you want a soft black).
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"forever baby". Love that Schwarzenegger-sounding quip coming from those sweet little tweets!
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Precigen Announces Clearance of IND to Initiate Phase 1/1b Study for PRGN-3007 UltraCAR-T® in Advanced ROR1+ Hematological and Solid Tumors
- PRGN-3007 is the first of the next generation UltraCAR-T, incorporating intrinsic PD-1 checkpoint inhibition in addition to the three effector genes used in the first generation UltraCAR-T technology -
GERMANTOWN, Md., Oct. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Precigen, Inc. (Nasdaq: PGEN), a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the development of innovative gene and cell therapies to improve the lives of patients, today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Investigational New Drug (IND) application to initiate the Phase 1/1b clinical trial of PRGN-3007 in advanced receptor tyrosine kinase-like orphan receptor 1-positive (ROR1+) hematological and solid tumors. PRGN-3007 is a first-in-class investigational therapy based on the next generation of Precigen's UltraCAR-T® platform and incorporates intrinsic programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) blockade. This first-in-human investigator-initiated study of PRGN–3007 will be conducted in collaboration with the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute.
ROR1 is overexpressed in various cancers with minimal expression in healthy adult tissues. ROR1 is aberrantly expressed in multiple hematological tumors, including chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), mantle cell leukemia (MCL), acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and solid tumors, including breast adenocarcinomas encompassing triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), pancreatic cancer, ovarian cancer, and lung adenocarcinoma.
PRGN-3007 UltraCAR-T is an investigational multigenic, autologous CAR-T cell therapy utilizing Precigen's clinically validated advanced non-viral gene delivery system and the well-established overnight, decentralized manufacturing process. Precigen has further advanced the UltraCAR-T platform to address the inhibitory tumor microenvironment by incorporating intrinsic checkpoint blockade without the need for complex and costly gene editing techniques. PRGN-3007 is engineered using a single multicistronic transposon plasmid to simultaneously express a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) targeting ROR1, membrane-bound interleukin–15 (mbIL15), a kill switch, and a novel mechanism for the intrinsic blockade of PD-1 gene expression.
The PD-1/programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) pathway plays a vital role in how tumor cells evade immune response. While the blockade of the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway has demonstrated considerable benefit for treating various cancers, the use of systemic checkpoint inhibitors can lead to side effects associated with autoimmune response. The innovative design of PRGN-3007, where the blockade of PD-1 expression is intrinsic and localized to UltraCAR-T cells, is aimed at avoiding systemic toxicity and the high cost of checkpoint inhibitors by eliminating the need for combination treatment.
The Phase 1/1b clinical trial is an open-label study designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of PRGN-3007 in patients with advanced ROR1+ hematological (Arm 1) and solid (Arm 2) tumors. The target patient population for Arm 1 includes relapsed or refractory CLL, relapsed or refractory MCL, relapsed or refractory ALL, and relapsed or refractory DLBCL. The target patient population for Arm 2 includes locally advanced unresectable or metastatic histologically confirmed TNBC. The study will enroll in two parts: an initial 3+3 dose escalation in each arm followed by a dose expansion at the maximum tolerated dose (MTD). Arm 1 and Arm 2 will enroll in parallel.
"ROR1 is an attractive target for treatment of multiple hematological and solid tumors due to its high expression in cancer and minimal expression in healthy adult tissues," said Javier Pinilla-Ibarz, MD, PhD, Senior Member, Lymphoma Section Head and Director of Immunotherapy, Malignant Hematology Department, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, and Principal Investigator for the PRGN-3007 clinical study. "Preclinical studies of PRGN-3007 UltraCAR-T indicate the potential for improved efficacy by specific targeting of ROR1 combined with intrinsic blockade of PD-1 expression and we look forward to investigating the potential in this first-in-human clinical study."
"ROR1 expression is thought to be a potential adverse prognostic factor in TNBC patients," said Hatem Soliman, MD, Medical Director of the Clinical Trials Office, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, and Principal Investigator for the TNBC cohort of PRGN-3007 clinical study. "Given the aggressive nature of TNBC and the need for additional treatment options, we are eager to investigate PRGN-3007 in this setting."
"This is the first study of our next generation UltraCAR-T, which adds checkpoint blockade to our non-viral, multigenic UltraCAR-T platform," said Helen Sabzevari, PhD, President and CEO of Precigen. "PRGN-3007 eliminates the need to combine an antigen-specific CAR-T with a separate checkpoint inhibitor, which has the potential to avoid systemic toxicity and reduce cost. This new study is a big step toward our UltraCAR-T library approach, which aims to deliver personalized autologous UltraCAR-T therapies based on a patient's cancer indication and biomarker profile using overnight manufacturing at the patient's medical center."
About Receptor Tyrosine Kinase-like Orphan Receptor 1 (ROR1)
ROR1 is a type I orphan-receptor that is expressed during embryogenesis and by certain hematological and solid tumors but is undetectable on normal adult tissues.1-3 ROR1 plays an important role in oncogenesis by activating cell survival signaling events, particularly the non-canonical WNT signaling pathway.4 Aberrant expression of ROR1 is detected in multiple hematological malignancies including CLL5, MCL6, ALL7, and DLBCL.8 Elevated ROR1 expression is detected in various solid tumors, including breast adenocarcinoma encompassing TNBC, pancreatic cancer, ovarian cancer, Ewing's sarcoma and lung adenocarcinoma.9-14 Many human breast adenocarcinomas express high levels of ROR1, which is not expressed by normal breast tissue.15
Precigen: Advancing Medicine with Precision™
Precigen (Nasdaq: PGEN) is a dedicated discovery and clinical stage biopharmaceutical company advancing the next generation of gene and cell therapies using precision technology to target urgent and intractable diseases in our core therapeutic areas of immuno-oncology, autoimmune disorders, and infectious diseases. Our technologies enable us to find innovative solutions for affordable biotherapeutics in a controlled manner. Precigen operates as an innovation engine progressing a preclinical and clinical pipeline of well-differentiated unique therapies toward clinical proof-of-concept and commercialization. For more information about Precigen, visit www.precigen.com or follow us on Twitter @Precigen and LinkedIn.
Precigen, UltraCAR-T and Advancing Medicine with Precision are trademarks of Precigen and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Some of the statements made in this press release are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based upon the Company's current expectations and projections about future events and generally relate to plans, objectives, and expectations for the development of the Company's business, including the timing and progress of preclinical studies, clinical trials, discovery programs and related milestones, the promise of the Company's portfolio of therapies, and in particular its CAR-T and AdenoVerse therapies. Although management believes that the plans and objectives reflected in or suggested by these forward-looking statements are reasonable, all forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, including the possibility that the timeline for the Company's clinical trials might be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and actual future results may be materially different from the plans, objectives and expectations expressed in this press release. The Company has no obligation to provide any updates to these forward-looking statements even if its expectations change. All forward-looking statements are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. For further information on potential risks and uncertainties, and other important factors, any of which could cause the Company's actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see the section entitled "Risk Factors" in the Company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
1 Balakrishnan, A., et al., Analysis of ROR1 Protein Expression in Human Cancer and Normal Tissues. Clin Cancer Res, 2017. 23(12): p. 3061-3071.
2 Green, J.L., et al., ROR receptor tyrosine kinases: orphans no more. Trends in Cell Biology, 2008. 18(11): p. 536-544.
3 Rebagay, G., et al., ROR1 and ROR2 in Human Malignancies: Potentials for Targeted Therapy. Front Oncol, 2012. 2(34).
4 Zhao Y, et al., Tyrosine Kinase ROR1 as a Target for Anti-Cancer Therapies. Front. Oncol, 2021.
5 Baskar, S., et al., Unique Cell Surface Expression of Receptor Tyrosine Kinase ROR1 in Human B-Cell Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. Clin Cancer Res, 2008. 14(2): p. 396-404.
6 Hudecek, M., et al., The B-cell tumor–associated antigen ROR1 can be targeted with T cells modified to express a ROR1-specific chimeric antigen receptor. Blood, 2010. 116(22): p. 4532-4541.
7 Enayati H, et al., Expression of ROR1 Gene in Patients with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. IJBC 2019; 11(2): 57-62.
8 Ghaderi, A., et al., ROR1 Is Expressed in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL) and a Small Molecule Inhibitor of ROR1 (KAN0441571C) Induced Apoptosis of Lymphoma Cells. Biomedicines, 2020. 8(6).
9 Zhang, S., et al., The onco-embryonic antigen ROR1 is expressed by a variety of human cancers. Am J Pathol, 2012. 181(6): p. 1903-10.
10 Zhang, S., et al., ROR1 is expressed in human breast cancer and associated with enhanced tumor-cell growth. PLoS One, 2012.7(3): p. e31127.
11 Potratz, J., et al., Receptor tyrosine kinase gene expression profiles of Ewing sarcomas reveal ROR1 as a potential therapeutic target in metastatic disease. Mol Oncol, 2016. 10(5): p. 677-92.
12 Zheng, Y.Z., et al., ROR1 is a novel prognostic biomarker in patients with lung adenocarcinoma. Sci Rep, 2016. 6: p. 36447.
13 Choi, M.Y., et al., Pre-clinical Specificity and Safety of UC-961, a First-In-Class Monoclonal Antibody Targeting ROR1. Clin Lymphoma Myeloma Leuk, 2015. 15 Suppl: p. S167-9.
14 Balakrishnan, A., et al., Analysis of ROR1 Protein Expression in Human Cancer and Normal Tissues. Clin Cancer Res, 2017. 23(12): p. 3061-3071.
15 Zhang S. et al., ROR1 is expressed in human breast cancer and associated with enhanced tumor-cell growth. PLoS One, 2012, 7:e31127.
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not sure where to share these but 4.3mb fle loaded right up! (Galaxy S5).
Why do I need to purchase my own build after I add more than two imports?
you could always just reconnect the phone to the computer and replace the two .3dt files with two other ones. Having more than two is an option.
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Ben Folds By Track – Track #9
Robert	Ben Folds, Ben Folds by Track, Blogging, Music and Concerts, The Archives	 November 11, 2010 April 23, 2014 2 Minutes
See here for the idea behind this series of blogs. Here we go onto the next tracks from the Ben Folds (Five) catalog. The Tracks Nines were a bit stronger than I was anticipating, which made ranking them slightly more difficult. It almost ended up being a three-way tie for third.
"Best Imitation of Myself" from "Ben Folds Five" – Sad female story of this blog: Being as how I really started listening to BFF with "Whatever," this album was largely unknown to me at the time. What introduced it to me, somewhat pathetically, was a quote that some girl had on her Bolt.com profile, which was a very early version of a social media site. She quoted a line from this song and for some reason I had to pick up the album. No regrets on that at all. However, for some reason, I remember that her screen name was "AdrienneC" and that she was from Connecticut. And, no, she is not the person that I met on that site that would later cause me to move to CT, get married, and get divorced. Just an odd coincidence I suppose.
"Steven's Last Night in Town" from "Whatever and Ever Amen" – One of my favorite BFF songs. Has one of the best openings of any BFF in my opinion. You could ask my friend Megan about this, since when I made a mixed tape for her back in high school; I kept repeating the beginning before getting on with the song on her tape. Epic. I told my high school band teacher that I would have been in jazz band if we played a song like this. Alas, he said no.
"Brainwascht" from "Way to Normal" – Another song that was previously a "Song of the Week" back in the day. I'll let you check that link out to check out some other links as to what this song is about. Another good song from this album.
"From Above" from "Lonely Avenue" – The first "official" single from this album, and probably for good reason. Though if you don't listen to adult contemporary or some other kind of station, you'd probably hear it. If it was me, I would have chosen the next song off this album as the first single, but that's just me.
"Not the Same" from "Suburbs" – A song about a man climbing a tree while tripping on acid and becoming a born-again Christian. A very good song, and seems to be popular when played at concerts. Also on the "University A Capella" album, with what I think is a wrong word, but I digress.
"Regrets" from "Reinhold Messner" – I like some of the percussion on this song, and the song is about regrets from growing up. It fits well with the past few tracks of this album.
"Sentimental Guy" from "Silverman" – The second half of this album overall is not that great, but it's alright. If anything, this song displays the range of Folds' singing voice.
Average ranking by album to this point, even though by this point I think "Suburbs" is going to "win":
"Rockin' the Suburbs" – 2.3 (21)
"Whatever and Ever Again" – 3.4 (31)
"Way to Normal" – 4.1 (37)
"Ben Folds Five" – 4.2 (38)
"Songs for Silverman" – 4.4 (40)
"Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner" – 4.6 (41)
"Lonely Avenue" – 4.8 (43)
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Q: Why doesn't translit work? setlocale(LC_ALL, 'en_US.UTF8');
$string= 'ṃỹṛèşưḿĕ';
echo iconv('UTF-8', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', $string);

makes error...
should print: myresume

A: It depends on the iconv library.
In Ubuntu 10.10, I get this:
$ php -i | egrep "iconv (implementation|library)"
iconv implementation => glibc
iconv library version => 2.12.1
$ php a.php
myresume

But on another machine using the GNU iconv:
iconv implementation => libiconv
iconv library version => 1.11
# php a.php
Notice: iconv(): Unknown error (88) in /tmp/root/a.php on line 5

The transliteration done by iconv is not consistent across implementations. For instance, the glibc implementation transliterates é into e, but libiconv transliterates it into 'e.
Until we have support for ICU transliterators in PHP (due for the next version), there won't be a realiable way to reliable do these transformation (though if you only want to remove marks, there are other solutions). In the development version of PHP, with the intl extension, it's possible to do this:
<?php
$t = Transliterator::create("latin; NFKD; [^\u0000-\u007E] Remove; NFC");
echo $t->transliterate('Ναδάλης ṃỹṛèşưḿĕ');

which gives
Nadales myresume

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The Panasonic Light ID app was developed to help Panasonic showcase their Light ID technology at the ICOM Milano 2016 Museum Conference.
With Panasonic's Light ID technology information is transmitted by modulating the light in LEDs. When the user points their camera at the light the app can use this information to determine which exhibit the camera is pointing at and then display relevant content about it.
it allowed Japanese and English versions of the app to be built quickly.
it shows how the Situate platform can be used as the basis with which to create an app with non-standard features. So, if you need a location-based app that includes particular functionality not included as standard, Situate would be an excellent choice.
Light ID technology works differently to the other triggers we use in Situate. iBeacons and GPS are more passive and can automatically prompt the user with new content. Light ID on the other hand requires a more proactive interaction from the user.
Light ID could work alongside iBeacons and GPS. For example using iBeacons to detect when a user has entered a particular gallery, and then using Light ID to provide information on individual exhibits in the gallery. Light ID can differentiate between objects that are close together (even less than 0.5m).


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Iolanthe : or The Peer and the Peri EPUB
by W.S. Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan
The partnership between William Schwenck Gilbert and Arthur Seymour Sullivan and their canon of Savoy Operas is rightly lauded by all lovers of comic opera the world over. Gilbert's sharp, funny words and Sullivan's deliciously lively and hummable tunes create a world that is distinctly British in view but has the world as its audience. Both men were exceptionally talented and gifted in their own right and wrote much, often with other partners, that still stands the test of time. However, together as a team they created Light or Comic Operas of a standard that have had no rivals equal to their standard, before or since. That's quite an achievement. To be recognised by the critics is one thing but their commercial success was incredible. The profits were astronomical, allowing for the building of their own purpose built theatre - The Savoy Theatre. Beginning with the first of their fourteen collaborations, Thespis in 1871 and travelling through many classics including The Sorcerer (1877), H.M.S. Pinafore (1878), The Pirates of Penzance (1879), The Mikado (1885), The Gondoliers (1889) to their finale in 1896 with The Grand Duke, Gilbert & Sullivan created a legacy that is constantly revived and admired in theatres and other media to this very day.
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Fourth Sunday in Lent – Laetare Sunday
ST. JOSPEH - ST. PATRICK – ST. PHILIP NERI
For our meditation of today I would like to depart from our Lenten meditations and consider two saints whose feast will soon occur, this week St. Joseph and St. Patrick. The Feast of St. Patrick is kept on Saturday, March 17th.
The Solemnity of St. Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary is kept on the 19th of March. Although it occurs in Lent the priest puts away the somber violet of this season and wears the joyful white vesture. The Gloria, absent since Ash Wednesday, is prayed at the Mass.
As we all know, St. Joseph was chosen from all eternity to be the guardian of the Redeemer. Although he was not physically the father of Our Lord Jesus Christ, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary, in every other way he was a father to Our Lord. As he was the protector of the Holy Family on earth, so is he the patron of the Universal Church. We should pray to St. Joseph each day to help us in every need both in the spiritual order and the material order.
Very often we may see paintings and images of St. Joseph which depict him as elderly. This depiction, while well intentioned, is very far from accurate. At the time of Our Lord's birth St. Joseph would have been about 19 years old, in the full vigor of manhood and strength. After all, God Our Lord would never have entrusted His Divine Son to the care of one who would not have been physically capable of fulfilling his mission as Guardian of the Redeemer. We understand why pious artists would have depicted St. Joseph as elderly – it would have been to emphasize the perpetual virginity of Our Blessed Mother. But we must always remember that Holy Purity is a virtue not only for the elderly, but for the young also. Holy Purity in fact leads to one always being young of heart and filled with physical strength and strength of will. I will go unto the altar of God; the God who gives joy to my youth!
St. Joseph was not physically the father of Our Lord Jesus Christ, but in every way, other than the physical, he was a father to Our Lord. The way Our Lord held the hammer, the way he planed the wood, the way he finished off a cabinet – these all reflected the influence of St. Joseph. I once remember asking a contractor why he hammered the crown molding in a certain way that I had never seen before. He did not give me a lengthy or complicated answer. He simply said, because that is the way my master taught me. And Our Lord would have done his work as his master and guardian, St. Joseph, taught Him.
St. Joseph has always been the intercessor and protector of Christians. Blessed Pope Pius IX proclaimed him the Protector of the Universal Church. Pope Saint John XXIII placed his name in the Roman Canon and the present Holy Father, Pope Francis, placed his name in all the Eucharistic prayers of the Church. The Little Sitters of the Poor, with whom I lived for 13 years, had such confidence in St. Joseph that they would simply write on a piece of paper what it was they needed to care for their dear old people, and place the note under the statue of St. Joseph, and he would always grant their prayer, whether it was a spiritual need or a material need. Whenever storms approached, they placed the statue of St. Joseph in the window looking out. We now follow that custom at the rectory and I would recommend that practice to all of you.
To many of the saints God has given the grace to assist us in various ways. But St. Joseph assists and protects us in every way. In my 33 years as a priest he has helped me in innumerable ways, particularly at the time of his feast day, March 19th. Each Wednesday is dedicated to St. Joseph and the entire month of March is dedicated to him.
As everyone is well aware on Saturday we will celebrate the Feast of St. Patrick a saint very dear to us. I have always had a special veneration for St. Patrick and have visited many places associated with his life both in France and in Ireland.
Many think of St. Patrick as a mythic figure, but he was a true and living person. St. Patrick was born and raised in a Christian family on the west coast of Britain in what is today Wales. He was a citizen of the Roman Empire and his first language was Latin. At a young age he was captured in a raid upon his beloved
British coast and taken to Ireland. At the time Ireland was not a part of the Roman Empire and had not embraced the faith. St. Patrick was treated in a cruel manner by those who had captured him. However, this did not fill him with bitterness and hatred but brought him closer to God. He learned the language of the people, and vowed to God that he would work for the conversion of the Irish peoples if ever he had the opportunity to do so. He understood that much of their cruelty was borne of the fact that they had not come under the Mercy of God and of His Beloved Son.
Patrick eventually escaped from Ireland and made his way to the island of Lerins off the coast of Marseilles in France. There he remained for two years praying and studying at a Cistercian Abbey. He was ordained a Bishop there. I have visited that abbey which is still in existence and there is a beautiful memorial plaque to St. Patrick on the island declaring, From hence did Blessed Patrick depart to convert the Irish People.
After returning to Ireland, Patrick did great penances on an island at Lough Derg. I myself have visited the island. The custom even to this day is to remain there for three days doing penance. The pilgrims are barefoot and fasting for three days. The first night is spent in vigil but one is permitted to sleep during the second night.
Finally, St. Patrick, seeing his wonderful work of bringing the grace of the redemption to the people of Ireland fell asleep in the Lord in 461 in Downpatrick in what is now Northern Ireland. I have prayed at his tomb which is on the grounds of the Protestant Cathedral. Dear St. Patrick, pray for us and give to us the grace never to become bitter in the hardships of life, but rather ever to rejoice in the gift of the redemption.
On Friday of this week, March 16th, we also commemorate one of the great miracles of St. Philip Neri. On March 15, 1588, the saint raised Prince Paolo Massimo from the dead. To this day the Massimo family opens their palace in Rome to all visitors who may see the room in which this great miracle occurred. St. Philip Neri, Pray for Us.
LENTEN REMINDERS
The Highlight of Lent for us will be our parish Lenten Evening of Recollection sponsored and hosted by the Marian Guild and preached by our beloved Bishop Andrzej on Wednesday, March 21st at 7.00PM. Bishop Andrzej is the Bishop's Vicar for the Western Vicariate (our parish is in the western vicariate) of the Diocese of Rockville Centre. The whole evening will be one hour. Confessions will be heard that evening. I would encourage everyone to come to the Lenten Evening of Recollection and through the teaching of St. Paul to come to know and love Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Two other Lenten Highlights will be the Glenn Mohr Chorale production of It Is Finished. This is a beautiful and very uplifting musical play that portrays the last days in the earthly life of Our Lord. It is filled with beautiful music, choral pieces. costumes and sound. Come and see Pilate and his wife, the High Priests, the Apostles, Our Blessed Mother, the Roman soldiers and Our Lord Himself. This will be Sunday March 18th at 3.00PM in the Church.
The other Lenten Highlight will be our Bread and Soup Supper on Friday March 23rd. We ask all families to come to this penitential, but nonetheless joyful evening with other parishioners. Our Squires will prepare and serve the meal. We ask that what a family would save on their supper that evening be given to outreach to feed the hungry in our own community.
During Lent we will have the Stations of the Cross and Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament on each Friday at 7.30pm. Please make every effort to walk with Our Lord as he carried the Cross.
Please make a Holy Lent and try to instill into your children the importance of doing penance. How pleased is Our Lord when the little ones give up candy or cookies for love of Him.
Please save the date of Monday May 7, 2018. It will be our annual Outing and Awards Dinner at the Nassau Country Club. Golf and tennis are available during the day and our honorees are John and Joanne Schmitt, who will receive the Msgr. Mario C. Costa Award and Brother Joseph Bellizzi, S.M., who will receive the Sister Regina Kraft Award.
In Jesus and Mary,
Monsignor James F. Pereda
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Best Buy Launches Club Beats With Monster And Beats By Dr. Dre
Posted: Nov 9 2009, 8:20am CST | by Luigi Lugmayr, Updated: Aug 11 2010, 5:21pm CDT, in Portable Devices
Best Buy today announced the introduction of Club Beats, a new in-store destination created in partnership with Monster and Beats by Dr. Dre.
Launching in Best Buy stores nationwide, Club Beats provides customers with a backstage pass to the latest and greatest in entertainment technology, exclusive events, and access to today's hottest music artists.
"Entertainment has long been the heart and soul of Best Buy. Our customers have always looked to us as a resource for music in a variety of formats," said Brian Dunn, Best Buy's CEO. "With Club Beats, the latest in sound quality and music technology will be available to all of our customers who want to bring music to life in a fresh way and unleash their inner DJ."
Existing in concert with many Best Buy Musical Instrument stores, Club Beats offers a full service entertainment experience that encourages interaction with the latest and greatest in music, audio, entertainment and technology products including DJ equipment, Beats by Dr. Dre headphones and in some locations, the newly introduced HP Envy 15 Beats Limited Edition laptop. Club Beats will be staffed by Best Buy's Blue Shirt employees, who share a passion for music and are equipped with the tools and knowledge to help customers listen and create music in new ways.
Best Buy is kicking off the Club Beats experience by hosting several celebrations across the country with today's top music talent, including:
November 13 – Miami Local DJs; major artist TBD
November 16 – Minneapolis LMFAO
November 17 – Houston
November 19 – New York City Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine, Will.i.am, David Guetta, Major Lazer and DJ Diplo
November 21 – Las Vegas Robin Thicke
November 23 – Los Angeles Lady Gaga
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RMS Girl's Volleyball Wins Championship!
The AAA Middle School Girls Volleyball Final took place March 7 at Kezar Pavilion with Roosevelt downing Lawton 2-0. The Trojans jumped out to a quick lead in the first set en route to a 25-12 win. Lawton woke up in set number two taking a 13-7 lead, however Roosevelt stormed back with 8 straight points then cruised to a 25-19 win and a sweep of the previously undefeated Lions. The Trojans victory earns the Richmond District school their first ever volleyball title! The Flo Hyman award was also presented to the top players from each team as voted on by the league coaches in attendance. This year's winners (pictured above) are Kristen Zee of Roosevelt and Gianna Shami of Lawton. Congratulations to both girls on their exemplary play and to both teams on very successful seasons!


I'm hoping you are all having a great start to the New Year, not long now until pay day and then the shopping sprees can start again!
I've found some great articles that I know you'll love, so take some time out, grab a cuppa and have a read of some of these!
Selfridges has this great article about "10 commandments for radiant new year skin" and at No. 3 is a product I tried summer last year, The Super Elixir by WelleCo, which really helps to give you energy by having a highly specialised alkalising greens supplement with vitamins and minerals. The only downside to this product is the cost £££! Take a look for yourself and check out Sefridges' other recommendations here.
Caroline Jones from Harpenden is wearing charity clothes 24/7 throughout 2015, to help raise funds for Cancer Research UK, in memory of her mother. I love the name of her Facebook page "Knickers Models Own" as she states "My knickers are always my own." I've donated £10 for this great cause because it's a wonderful way to raise money and you know her mother would be so proud! After I donated, I got this message from Caroline which I thought I would share with you: "Remember, looking good makes you feel good. Dress up in something that makes you feel happy, gets you noticed, reminds you of a loved one and then get out there and live your life. Caroline x" To have a peek at here outfits click here or to donate click here.
I'm loving this article by Natalie Kingham, who writes for the Fashion section in the Telegraph, on "How to pack stylishly for a work trip". She has some really smart tips; if your like me having to pack light on business trips then Natalie shares some great advice about selecting clothes that are versatile and light-weight. One I'm thinking of using is travelling wearing a hat rather than having to use an umbrella, she explains that this can be difficult if you have lots to carry! Take a look for yourself, here.
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Jenyne Butterfly is a fantastic and incredibly beautiful pole dancer who lives and performs in Las Vegas. Jenyne has won numerous competitions (reigning U.S. Pole Dancing Champion) worldwide and she is a huge inspiration for thousands of amateur and professional pole dancers all around the world. She also teaches workshops internationally and is a huge profile in the pole dancing community.
Jenyne Butterfly is one of the most popular names in the pole dancing industry. She was the first to win the US Pole Dance Federation (USPDF) Championship held on March 19, 2009 and later on became one of the most famous and sought after aerialist and pole dancer. She now lives in Las Vegas and has several performances there and teaches pole dancing workshops in the international level. Butterfly is also considered as a pole dancing goddess having won a lot of pole dancing titles over the past years and several championships to add to her accomplishments.
At present, there are plenty of video clips centered on her live performances that circulate the web with her signature moves and stilettos. Jenyne Butterfly teaches interested individuals the tricks of pole dancing. From her videos alone, you can be able to learn all the basic moves as well as other complex routines you only watch from other non professional dancers online or read from e-books about online pole dancing tutorials. The presence of Jenyne Butterfly's pole dancing videos will definitely save you a lot of money on payment for professional trainers' fee. Most of her pole dancing videos offers comprehensive instructions that are not only easy to follow but to execute as well.
Jenyne Butterfly video clips will allow you to have a sneak preview on the correct technique for every dance move to ensure safety and no injuries will occur. For instance, executing climbing moves is very dangerous especially when you are not doing it properly. But Butterfly does it easily and you also do it even without the help of a step by step video instruction. When you learn from the expert, you can have a more comfortable and safe way of executing even your most complex pole dancing moves.
Majority of the pole dancing moves showed by Jenyne Butterfly become complicated when she combine it with other more advanced pole dancing moves especially those from her live performances. However, there are some basic and intermediate routines that Butterfly uses during the intro of her pole dancing performance and novice pole dancers can benefit from this as well.
Pole dancing moves has a lot of variations but Jenyne Butterfly puts something new to it to make it look better. For example, spin variations range from ankle spin also known as corkscrew to attitude heel spin or hurkey pinwheel ankle. Other spinning variations include the Hollywood, backward hook, backward stag, pinwheel knee, and basic cradle or Venus spin, knee spin, toe spin, side spin or side princess, forward hook, jump tuck, and reverse among others.
Jenyne Butterfly's moves and pole dancing styles will never remain the same because her artistic execution of all these intermediate and advanced pole dancing moves is flawlessly natural. In addition, she usually creates her own signature moves by fusing an existing pole dancing routine and including her own improvisations to create an entirely new dance move and style that can only be attributed to her.


Regis seeks a qualified candidate to join its faculty as a part-time Arts teacher with instruction in music and graphic design beginning August 26, 2019 for the Academic Year 2019-20. Salary is very competitive for the New York City area and is commensurate with experience. The 2019-2020 school year for faculty members ends on June 12, 2020.
will be generally available to the students in his/her assigned office through the school day when not teaching class; further, is to have one hour after school availability weekly, according to a schedule subject to the approval of the Principal.
Interested applicants should submit a cover letter, resume, statement of educational philosophy, and a list of three references by email to Ms. Silvia Gerber, Secretary to the Search Committee, employment@regis.org. Qualified applicants, when all their required documents are submitted, will be contacted regarding next steps. Regis is an equal opportunity employer.


Beautiful as this is, I have seen and marvelled over the delicate veins so many leaf skeletons that they have become almost commonplace. It is, however, one of the most noticed and remarked upon objects collected in the shed. We all occasionally need a reminder to be amazed all over again.