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The Guangdong Acrobatic Troupe of China was established in 1951, and since then has performed all over the world. The UK first saw the company's extraordinary version of Swan Lake three years ago, by which point it was already a YouTube sensation. The idea of creating a full-length acrobatic work to Tchaikovsky's score came about when two of the company's performers, Wei Baohua and his wife Wu Zhengdan, made a piece called Oriental Swan Ballet on Top of Head. This routine, in which she balances on pointe first on his shoulder and then, unbelievably, on his head, won the couple huge acclaim, and became the climax of the present production. Only Wei and Wu have the skill and strength to execute the sequence, and in consequence have done so at every one of the 150-odd performances of Swan Lake.
The production's choreographer and director is Zhao Ming, a graduate of the Beijing Dance Academy. He has conceived the work as a quest, in which the Prince (Wei) has a dream of the Swan Princess (Wu) and pursues his vision across a world full of bizarre marvels. Trapeze artists fly between poles on board a storm-tossed ship, acrobats go whirling past in giant wheels, and a scarlet-clad corps de ballet performs a hat-dance of fiendish complexity, culminating in a tongue-in-cheek series of fouettés. There's an especially delicious moment when, to the Big Swans music, the corps shimmy in on roller skates, dressed in long tulle skirts as if for Les Sylphides.
Nothing, however, impresses the lovesick Prince, who indicates these wonders with the distracted, world-weary air of a 19th-century Romantic hero. At one point, in a sly reference to the 1862 Petipa ballet The Pharaoh's Daughter, we catch sight of him on a camel, passing the Sphinx. It's a dazzlingly camp scene, with chiffon-clad lovelies writhing and juggling golden balls in the desert foreground, but the Prince's eyes have no time for the things of this world, and his face is etched with noble melancholy.
There's huge fun to be had in the contrast between Wei's angsty posturing and the knowing smiles and contemporary slickness of the ensemble. The exquisite and steely Wu is similarly unsmiling, and every inch the tragic heroine. Our first extended sight of her is when she's teetering along a tightrope on pointe, pursued by monkeys. There's no synopsis in the programme, so this particular subplot is never explained, but we do not question it, any more than we question why the court of the evil wizard Black Eagle (Chen Dong) should be staffed by unicyclists.
Not everything works perfectly. The cygnets, played by men in drag, are fairly inane (the Trocks do it much better). The straight ballet sections are a bit shaky. But overall you're enjoying yourself too much to care. Is any of it art? I doubt it, but then again, who cares? It's fabulous entertainment, and you can't always say that about Swan Lake.


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Best Standalone Memory Care Design of 2022: An 'infinity loop'… – Senior Housing News | NutSocia
January 24, 2023 by eboudaoud
Nestled in the outer suburbs of Greater Philadelphia is a memory care community where residents can enjoy the outdoors and walk to their heart's content.
The Meadowwood community in Lansdale, Pennsylvania recently expanded with a new 19,000 square foot memorial building that added 20 memorial care units and a variety of new resident amenities, including an "infinity loop" where residents can go for a walk in the sun without encountering barriers.
Although looping or circular pathways for wandering in commemoration are not uncommon, Meadowood's allows residents to look inward onto a courtyard, giving them an additional connection to the outside world where deemed important to residents' well-being.
Named the McLean Center and named after a generous donor, the building is close to Meadowood and its services, giving it a competitive advantage over other memorial buildings.
According to Eric McRoberts, partner at RLPS Architects, the community was designed to prioritize memory maintenance for residents by eschewing traditional residential floor plans.
The team behind the McLean Center faced logistical design challenges beyond those anticipated during the Covid-19 pandemic. Still, the community opened in the fall of 2022 and is ahead of its projected rental schedule.
The infinite design and prioritization of light earned the McLean Center and project team first place in the 2022 Senior Housing Architecture and Design Awards in the Self-Contained Memory category.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania-based architecture and design firm RLPS has completed many different memory preservation projects over the years — but according to McRoberts, no two projects are the same.
"It's one of the reasons we like working on these types of buildings," he said.
He added that the company evaluates each project about a year after occupancy to learn what worked and what didn't.
"Some things that you think are a great idea turn out not to be because they're perceived by someone with dementia or cognitive problems," McRoberts said.
McRoberts noted that the project to bring the McLean Center into the community, like many of his company's past memory care projects, brings some entirely new elements to the community. .
The project's design team wanted to ease residents' frustration and keep them happy even as they wander the community. So the RLPS and Meadowwood project team created a building that resembled a figure eight design, a concept dubbed the "Infinity Corridor."
"If you go through them [floor] plan, or you walk around the room, every time you come to an edge, the corridor doesn't stop," Kristin Novak, senior interior designer at RLPS, told SHN.
RLPS have set up engagement stations along the corridor, allowing residents to educate them about their surroundings and improve wayfinding.
In the center of the eight design are courtyards with gardens and year-round greenhouses.
RLPS based its design on research showing that gardens and natural light can improve mood and slow the progression of dementia in memory care residents
The courtyards were designed to give residents a natural orientation to the time of day and year, replacing more artificial circadian lighting, according to RLPS.
"When you leave a resident's room, you immediately have a view of an inner courtyard or some kind of green space," Novak said. "And these courtyards offer all sorts of growth opportunities like raised beds for different plantings, herb gardens and flower gardens."
The designers reinforced the identity of the different rooms of the Memory Care building through color, interior design and artwork.
For example, the dining and living rooms feature high ceilings to indicate that these spaces are intended for public activities, while private dining rooms have lower ceilings.
As with many projects over the past three years, RLPS and Meadowood had some issues during construction — but nothing too bad, according to McRoberts. Challenges included supply chain issues, labor disputes in construction and regulatory hurdles.
One of the biggest challenges was the campus itself, which had become overcrowded over the years as Meadowood expanded it.
"Obviously they wanted this building to be connected to some of their other components of the health center," Novak said. "So it was really a difficult side to work with her."
Meadowood, RLPS and contractor Benchmark Construction Company had to work together to redesign infrastructure elements such as utility lines and staff parking that were disrupted by this new building.
Still, the pandemic played a role. And indeed, the building still bothers. "[Meadowood – McLean] opened its doors in September and is still awaiting the arrival of some pieces of furniture that have been ordered for over a year," Novak said.
The community has gone over budget as a result of the pandemic, but that's not unusual, according to McRoberts.
The Completion
Residents first moved into Meadowood's McLean Memory Care building in September 2022, and the building is currently ahead of its leasing schedule, according to McRoberts.
Its 20 units are 18 composed of single occupancy units and two tandem or couple occupancy units, bringing the building's potential bed capacity to 22.
The Design Awards judges cited the project's biophilic design and infinite corridor as features that encourage resident engagement and a positive relationship with nature.
"Notable are the greenhouses/plant rooms that allow residents to experience nature even in inclement weather," said Cynthia Shonaiya, Principal of Hord Coplan Macht, who served as judge for the standalone Memory Care category.
The community's garden-filled courtyard is welcoming and relevant in all four seasons, and the on-site drawing room, drawing room, and dining facilities create space for multi-purpose events and programs
Proximity to Meadwood's on-site physicians and nursing team makes it a convenient place to live for residents.
Additionally, RLPS worked with the culinary staff of Meadowood Senior Living to create a memory care cooking and eating experience that rivals other acute levels in the senior care continuum.
"It's very special to have independently living residents who want to come and eat in your memorial care room," McRoberts said.
But perhaps the biggest testament to the Memory Care Building's appeal is the fact that it's not just Memory Care residents who want to spend time there. In fact, a Meadowood resident who recently moved to McLean had a group of friends from the senior living community visiting the memory care community.
"You just don't see a lot of IL residents wanting to come into memory care to spend time," Novak said. "Usually they take out one resident of the Memory Cultivation… so while this is a Memory Cultivation, it was designed to appeal to everyone."
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Textile engineering has had a rather interesting history as compared to other engineering fields in Ethiopia. It has its roots going back to the year 1963 when the former Bahir Dar Polytechnic Institute was founded to provide diploma level education in textile technology by affiliation with the other field of studies.
The degree courses in Bahir Dar University were instituted in 1997. The first M.Sc. course in textile technology started in January 2010. Recently, by the emphasis of Ethiopian Government to the textile sector the following textile departments are incorporated: Textile department of Aksum University, Textile department of Kombolcha University, Textile department of Dire Dawa University and Garment, Fashion and textile department of Wolkite University.
In Ethiopia, Wolkite University is an educational institution offering Textile Engineering; Garment Engineering and Fashion Design. The Textile industry has advanced rapidly in terms of the technology involved, materials produced and applications. Keeping these in mind, a B.Sc. program in Textile Engineering was introduced since 2008.
To help in building national capabilities in science, technology, Design, humanities, management, education and research.
Curricula is framed to establish and understanding of fundamental engineering & technology concepts. It will provide an opportunity for students to obtain a sufficient depth of fundamental knowledge to support lifelong learning in the field of study.
Providing our graduates with a strong competitive advantage with their unique background of Engineering fundamentals combined with practical knowledge and experience.
Provide quality under-graduate education in Textile Technology and retaining the accreditation from international bodies.
Special Lectures from well-known industrialist per year are to be organized to promote entrepreneurship drive among students.
Develop research programme that enable the competence Centre to achieve and maintain national prominence in areas that support its educational mission and in areas that are important to the economy of the country.
The main objectives of the textile-engineering program are to provide broad-based education and training in textile engineering; to enable graduates to be creative, adaptable, problem solver in the challenges of the engineering professions in rapidly changing environment that exists in the globe. These changes require the ability to apply existing knowledge in new ways thereby creating new systems and opportunities as well as adapting existing technology to local production conditions. Moreover, it aims to initiate, develop and sustain research activities that are critical for the conditioning of advancement of the Ethiopian textile industries.
Textiles are considered as one of the basic commodities in all parts of the world. The textile and garment manufacturing sector represents one of the major industries in Ethiopia. The Ethiopian Government aims to foster rapid export growth through production of high value industrial products and increased support to export oriented manufacturing sectors. Poverty reduction is the core objective of the Ethiopian Government. Therefore, the effort made to strengthen the agriculture sector; the industry development strategy has been designed as agriculture led industrialization. The industry development strategy emphasizes the need for sustained capacity building measures in terms of systems, institutions and individual targeted towards accelerating labor intensive, agriculture led and export oriented industrial development of the nation. Textile and garment sectors have a large number of employees and can be considered as a main strategic focus for the economic development of the country.
Ethiopia has good climate condition and 2,575,810-hectare potential land is available for cultivation of cotton. Adding value to cotton products and other textile materials is the way in which the textile manufacturing industries contribute to state and national economies. While 98 percent of agricultural production in developed countries undergoes industrial processing, nearly 30 present is processed in developing countries. There is an alarming gap between least developed and industrialized countries concerning the percentage of value addition through industrial processes.
Textile and garment sub-sector of Ethiopian industry is at the forefront of agriculture-led industrialization and export-oriented strategies of the Government of Ethiopia, which appears to be a better way of entering the value chain system. As a consequence to the change of industrialization the textile technology system demands a developing professional profile, which has to satisfy the need for modern industrialization. The link between traditional handcraft manufacturing and engineering capability and professional fields has to be built up.
Engineering is problem solving through design and science. By combining situational analysis and scientific principles, engineers strive to create something new, or modify something that already exists, in order to improve the quality of life. In their search for solutions, engineers must always consider safety, health, environmental impact, society's attitudes, time constraints, political opinions, and economic issues. Engineers learn about specifics of the world around them and strive to solve the physical problems that exist there. The training of engineers in Textile Engineering insisting on both quality and adaptability for various situations and skills which will be required of them is quite crucial for a country whose economy is agro-based and endowed with unexploited indigenous technology diversity waiting for research and development and upgrading to industrial scale.
.The weakness of conducting the basic sciences research and product development in industries or as an entrepreneur.
Therefore, the role of textile engineering in bridging the gap between technical, knowledge and managerial, problems existing currently in textile industries will undoubtedly lead to fundamental changes which are desired for the nation's development.
Basic knowledge of chemistry science leading to an understanding and modifying / optimizing of chemical processes.
Ability to computer application for data logging and analysis as well as utilization of software Communication skills and team spirit which enables to work with various Professionals including business men.
Skills in simulating industrial practice.
To run the program properly, the following number of staffs with the given level is required to the minimum.
Books about the machinery of textile finishing and wet processing, etc..
Test textile products to ensure accuracy and integrity of meeting customer requirements.
Identify problems and offer workable solutions in the short and long term.
Work with Engineers, Technologists and Experts from other disciplines (including those from Management Disciplines) for the development of textile.
The Textile Engineering program has set various objectives and learning outcomes whose attainment should be checked regularly by its constituencies. The constituencies of the program may include staff, students, alumni, employers, and eminent professionals.
Staffs and students of the program are responsible for making regular internal assessment of the program. Evaluation of the performance of instructors is being conducted regularly for all the academic staff members. The Institutes plan to make impact assessment of the program through systematic survey of their graduates and their employers every five years.
The relevance of the program in solving real textile engineering problems of our country as well as in keeping pace with advancements in science and technology should also be checked on a regular basis. The Institutes plan to implement this through qualified evaluators and prominent professionals.


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Q: What does the type parameter  in the method definition mean? public class GenericMethods {
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        System.out.println(x.getClass().getName());
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java.lang.String
java.lang.Integer
java.lang.Double
java.lang.Float
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Pippo Delbono on Europe
Galleryphoto. M. Zakrzewski
One of the most important performances in the theatre program was "Orchidee" directed by Pippo Delbono, who has been making theatre plays together with actors and amateurs subjected to different degrees of social exclusion. The play is the artist's personal expression in the context of the present situation of crisis in Europe, his own doubt, everyday struggle and attempts to find a purpose in his works and mission as an artist [go to image gallery and watch the film from the play]. According to Stefan Drajewski from "Głos Wielkopolski" the play is "on one hand a lament for a dying mother, and a comedy of the world on the other. Pippo Delbono invited us once again to his world in which the ridiculous mingles with the serious, naturalism with poetry, privacy with socio-political engagement".
We invite you for an encounter with Pippo Delbono's work during a retrospective of his films and theatre productions, which will take place on 21-31 July on the 16th MFF T-Mobile Nowe Horyzonty in Wrocław.
Coming up in Malta newsletters: memories from this year's Malta Generator, information about our plans for the summer months and years to come.
News New book HOUSE ON FIRE "Joined Forces. Audience Participation in Theatre" edited by Anna R. Burzyńska 23 / 01 / 2017


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Stars Announce 'No One Is Lost'
By Gregory Adams
Though the details are slim, Canadian indie rock institution Stars have announced that they're ready to release another LP. Dubbed No One Is Lost, the record can be found at stores October 14 via ATO.
The band announced the new LP, their first since 2012's The North, today on their website and via social media. Though details behind the recordings, from where it was recorded to the tracklisting, have yet to be delivered, the album cover has been unveiled.
As you'll see up above, the artwork puts an old-timey roller rink and a handful of four-wheel riders on display, with some neon graphics laid over top.
While Stars' last full-length arrived a couple of years ago, the band had unearthed a couple of outtakes from The North for a 7-inch release in 2013. You can stream the record's A-side, "Wishful," down below, where you'll also find some upcoming tour dates.
08/09 Niagara on the Lake, ON - Jackson-Triggs Amphitheatre
08/18 Stratford, ON - Knox Church (Stratford Music Fest)
08/30 Calgary, AB - Fort Calgary (Xfest)
08/31 Edmonton, AB - Northlands Park (Sonic Boom)
09/07 Toronto, ON - Riot Fest
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Stars Reveal Best-Of Collection 'LaGuardia'
Stars have announced a career-spanning best-of collection titled LaGuardia. The 20-track double gatefold vinyl will be released via Arts & C...
Hamilton's Supercrawl Unveils 2019 Lineup with Bahamas, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Bettye LaVette
Having celebrated a decade of music-making last year, organizers behind Hamilton's Supercrawl have now announced the first wave of artists f...
CBC Music Festival Unveils 2019 Lineup with Alvvays, Stars, Rhye
CBC Music Festival will return to Echo Beach in Toronto on May 25, and Alvvays have been announced as the fest headliners. On top of the...


A new year has arrived and we're excited about where it will take us! Take a tour of top travel destinations and bucket-list worthy experiences that will be trending across social media feeds in 2019!
Castles, RVs, treehouses, cabins, and luxury tents are just some of the unconventional – and totally instagrammable – accommodation options that will grow in popularity this year. A good place to find unique rentals is Airbnb which lists hundreds of one-of-a-kind housing accommodations for a weekend getaway or long-term stay that will take your vacation to a whole new level of memorable!
Millennials in particular are placing more emphasis and value on experiences rather than materials and objects. Gourmet cooking classes in Italy, snorkelling the Great Barrier Reef, horseback riding at a ranch, and meditation retreats are all trendy reasons to get away for a weekend or several days. These are experiences travellers are willing to pay for!
Travellers are more into authentic cuisine and cultural dishes than ever and are looking for a genuine tasting experience in each locale they tour. Another unique aspect is the fusion of different ethnic dishes to create a modern eating revolution that's perfect for sharing on social media!
Travelling solo is a rising trend that is surprisingly popular with women. Female travellers also enjoy women-only getaways and themed tour groups that connect them with other like-minded women and provide security while allowing for freedom and flexibility.
Weekend getaways – and even longer vacays – are becoming less planned, more spontaneous, and unconventional. Travellers are embracing a more care-free approach that allows for unexpected discoveries and authentic experiences.
Budget travellers have known this secret for years – travelling off-season, as opposed to peak season (when everybody's on vacation), is the best way to save money and skip the crowds while still enjoying nice (and sometimes better) weather.
I have to say that 2019's travel trends are pretty exciting! Which one(s) do you think you'll be trying?


Why is it that Jello shots hit each and every one of us right in the feels? The shot of choice for many a frat party from our formative college years checks all the boxes in terms of likeability: it's refreshing, it masks the taste of any alcohol, and it's way more fun to drink than a typical dose from a regular old shot glass.
Just think back to your college days: these epic, neon-colored shots were what made a good party great, and what made the morning after, well, let's just say we've all learned to manage our Jello shots since then.
But how do we continue enjoying Jello shots into adulthood, then? Surely cheap vodka mixed with strawberry powder will not win us any brownie points at our next dinner party, right?
Well, cheap vodka and strawberry powder might win you nostalgia points, but if you're dead set on really impressing with Jello shots, don't worry — it's totally possible if you have the right recipe, tools and ingredients.
1. In your small saucepan, combine your juice or tonic of choice with the gelatin and 1 1/3 cup water. Let it sit for 2 to 3 minutes.
2. Add the sugar and heat over medium, continue to stir until the sugar and gelatin have dissolved, being careful not to boil. Let sit for 1 minute.
3. Stir in your alcohol of choice, then pour the combined mixture into your muffin tin, refrigerating for 3-4 hours before serving. If you want your shots to look more refined, try adding the hot liquid to a cookie sheet to set, then, using a knife, cut the Jello into squares.
4. Add your various accoutrements — pop rocks, spiralized cucumber, etc — to the top of your Jello shots and serve to your unsuspecting guests!
If you're sticking to bulk in terms of presentation, feel free to stick with the traditional souffle cup for serving. They're quick to pass around, easy to store and transport and the perfect size for knocking back a shot.
OK so this doesn't help your case much in terms of serving refined Jello shots, but this party game is perfect for a backyard get-together or drinks with friends. It's built like traditional Jenga, but hidden in the tower are 15 blocks built to hold Jello shots. This could get messy, quickly, but it guarantees great memories and tons of laughs.
Whether you're preparing for a Halloween party, hosting a bunch of nurses or just want to creep out your friends (hey, more power to you), the Jello shot syringes are a unique and, honestly, quite fun way to serve your shots. Guests just have to lean back and squirt their shot down the hatch.
Cheekier still, who doesn't want alcoholic gummy bears? This silicone mold was made for chocolate, but can withstand past boiling point, making it perfect for Jello shots in the form of gummies.
The Dry Diaries: Is Sobriety Really Worth It?


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Chromadoridae is a family of nematodes belonging to the order Desmodorida.

Genera
Genera:
 Acantholaimus Allgén, 1933
 Actinonema Cobb, 1920
 Algoanema Heyns & Furstenberg, 1987
 Atrochromadora Wieser, 1959
 Chromadora Bastian, 1865
 Chromadorella Filipjev, 1918
 Chromadorina Filipjev, 1918
 Chromadorissa Filipjev, 1917
 Chromadorita Filipjev, 1922
 Chromanema Khera, 1975
 Chromasora
 Crestanema Pastor de Ward, 1985
 Dasylaimus Cobb, 1933
 Deltanema Kreis, 1929
 Denticulella Cobb, 1933
 Dichromadora Kreis, 1929
 Dicriconema Steiner & Hoeppli, 1926
 Endeolophos Boucher, 1976
 Euchromadora de Man, 1886
 Euchromanema Kulikov & Dashchenko, 1991
 Graphonema Cobb, 1898
 Harpagonchoides Platonova & Potin, 1972
 Harpagonchus Platonova & Potin, 1972
 Hypodontolaimus de Man, 1886
 Innocuonema Inglis, 1969
 Karkinochromadora Blome, 1982
 Macrochromadora Kreis, 1929
 Megadontolaimus Timm, 1969
 Neochromadora Micoletzky, 1924
 Nygmatonchus Cobb, 1933
 Odontocricus Steiner, 1918
 Panduripharynx Timm, 1961
 Parachromadorita Blome, 1974
 Paradichromadora Dashchenko, 1991
 Parapinnanema Inglis, 1969
 Portmacquaria Blome, 2005
 Prochromadora Filipjev, 1922
 Prochromadorella Micoletzky, 1924
 Ptycholaimellus Cobb, 1920
 Punctodora Filipjev, 1928
 Rhabdotoderma Marion, 1870
 Rhips Cobb, 1920
 Spiliphera Bastian, 1865
 Spilophorella Filipjev, 1917
 Steineridora Inglis, 1969
 Timmia Hopper, 1961
 Trichomadora
 Trichomadorita Timm, 1961
 Trichromadora Kreis, 1929
 Trichromadorita Timm, 1961
 Tridentellia Gerlach & Riemann, 1973
 Trochamus Boucher & De Bovée, 1971

References

Nematodes

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Therefore, we will be able to provide the full service, which the community was used to under ESMI, starting from 1. July 2107.


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REthink Council
Behind the Listing
The inside stories behind some of the world's most enviable properties.
Set against the backdrop of stunning homes and developments, Behind the Listing tells the engaging and relatable stories of sellers and the properties they've made home. A secondary voice of their Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices network agents adds narrative layers to the story, explaining how the agents expertise – backed by Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices tools and network – has helped guide the selling process.
Developing the City of Tomorrow
The skyline of Toronto is a work in progress, an ever-changing panorama of emerging modern structures set within a glorious greenbelt on the shores of Lake Ontario. With a booming population, developers and real estate professionals must consider who they are building for today—and what the city will become. "Toronto's one of the most diverse cities in the world," says Mark Wadden, CEO and Co-Founder of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Toronto Reality. "Real estate developers need to focus on what community means to Torontonians and how they can help current neighborhoods in the city evolve to house our residents."
Southern Living Luxury
"The luxury market in Atlanta is full of opportunity right now," says Bryan Schacht of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Georgia Properties. "It's really increased over the last few years, due largely to the entertainment industry moving into the area. We have direct flights out of Hartsville International Airport all over the country and all over the world. It's a city that is easy to get to, and we're seeing so much more high-end demand coming into not only Atlanta but also the metro area as well."
Building a Desert Oasis
"Architecture, design and finishes are what people are looking for—that's the big trend in Las Vegas right now," says Ivan Sher of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Nevada Properties. "Over the past few years there's been a new influx of custom home building. A lot of people are picking out lots and building architecturally relevant homes." Thanks to this custom building boom, there's more luxury inventory than ever before in the city. "In the past, only a few homes a year were listed for over $5 million or $10 million," Sher says. "But now we've doubled and tripled those numbers."
The Ultimate Coastal Retreat
"We found that a lot of people from the Midwest and the East Coast love coming out to Montecito and Santa Barbara," says Cristal Clarke of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties. "It's such a wonderful lifestyle, not only because of the warm weather but also because we have great cultural events. There's the beautiful ocean on one side and the mountains on the other. It's just a really amazing community, and people gravitate towards that. What initially is a second residence for buyers often turns into the main residence as the years go on."
Custom Built for the Florida Lifestyle
"The luxury market in Jacksonville has something for everybody," says Anita Vining, a top agent at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Florida Network Realty. "There are many gated communities that offer golf course and country club access. But what really sets us apart are the variety of waterfront homes the city has to offer. Jacksonville sits on the St. John's River and we're also close to the Atlantic coastline. You can be from center city to 'toes in sand" in less than 30 minutes."
Private Refuge in the Heart of the City
"Lifestyle is a huge factor for luxury buyers in London. They want amenities and easy access to all that the city has to offer," says Martin Bikhit, owner of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices London Kay & Co. "The developers I work with understand this and are bringing properties to market that meet the needs of buyers who crave everything from green space to private parking to concierge services. For international buyers in particular, they want all of these things, but also homes that have historical significance. London is a one-of-a-kind city, and here you can truly buy a piece of history."
A Four-Season Mountain Retreat
"Park City may be known as a ski town, but it's really a wonderful destination year-round," shares Debbie Sexton of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Utah Properties. "Because of that, the property market has really evolved over the past 10 years. We're starting to see buyers stray from the more traditional ski-lodge type style. Contemporary homes are becoming more popular—especially with those buyers coming from California and the West Coast. Newer homes in the area are starting to reflect that, with more open concepts and amenities and layouts that function across seasons, not just for the ski-in and ski-out crowd."
Behind the Listing has been named a Silver Winner in Online Commercials – General Real Estate in the 41st Annual Telly Awards.
The Telly Awards honor excellence in video and television across all screens and is judged by leaders from video platforms, television, streaming networks, production companies and including Dow Jones, Duplass Brothers Productions, Complex Networks, A&E Networks, Hearst Media, ESPN Films, RYOT, Vice+ and Vimeo.
Real Estate Brokerage Services are offered through the network member franchisees of BHH Affiliates, LLC. Most franchisees are independently owned and operated. Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices and the Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices symbol are registered marks of Columbia Insurance Company, a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate.
BHH Affiliates, LLC is a Delaware limited liability company. Its principal office is located at 18500 Von Karman Ave, Suite 400, Irvine, California 92612 USA.


Calico. Mostly white with dark tail and ears, has tan and dark gray spots on her back. Small; about 8-9 pounds. Missing tip of left ear. Very shy. May meow back or come to you if you meow at her or make kiss sounds. Please do not chase. Likes string toys, lasers, kibble and wet food. Likes scratches on the back of her neck.


Picobello 101 is a very efficient mechanical sweeper that sweeps sand, stones, glass and even wet leaves with ease. It can sweep up to 2100 sqm/h, and is therefore more than 10 times faster than a man with a broom. User just needs to push and all the dust, leaves and dirt are swept in easily.
It combines productivity with value for money. Low maintenance and long lasting. Made in Italy.
Picobello 101 is supplied complete with main brush, side brush and rubber flap kit.


Abstract: We put forward a new notion, function privacy, in identity-based encryption and, more generally, in functional encryption. Intuitively, our notion asks that decryption keys reveal essentially no information on their corresponding identities, beyond the absolute minimum necessary. This is motivated by the need for providing predicate privacy in public-key searchable encryption. Formalizing such a notion, however, is not straightforward as given a decryption key it is always possible to learn some information on its corresponding identity by testing whether it correctly decrypts ciphertexts that are encrypted for specific identities.
In light of such an inherent difficulty, any meaningful notion of function privacy must be based on the minimal assumption that, from the adversary's point of view, identities that correspond to its given decryption keys are sampled from somewhat unpredictable distributions. We show that this assumption is in fact sufficient for obtaining a strong and realistic notion of function privacy. Loosely speaking, our framework requires that a decryption key corresponding to an identity sampled from any sufficiently unpredictable distribution is indistinguishable from a decryption key corresponding to an independently and uniformly sampled identity.
Within our framework we develop an approach for designing function-private identity-based encryption schemes, leading to constructions that are based on standard assumptions in bilinear groups (DBDH, DLIN) and lattices (LWE). In addition to function privacy, our schemes are also anonymous, and thus yield the first public-key searchable encryption schemes that are provably keyword private: A search key sk_w enables to identify encryptions of an underlying keyword w, while not revealing any additional information about w beyond the minimum necessary, as long as the keyword w is sufficiently unpredictable.
Publication Info: CRYPTO '13. This is the full version.


This ladies' Seiko dress watch SUP264 is the perfect, elegant, statement piece on a confident woman's wrist. The polished stainless steel case has a two-tone rose colored bezel with genuine Swarovski stones intertwined within the polished stainless steel bracelet. The 30 meter water resistant case features a dazzling mother of pearl dial and a rose tone crown and bezel set with 32 crystals. The low maintenance, in-house, Seiko quartz movement is solar powered for long, low maintenance life. This feminine piece is secured with a bi-fold deployant clasp to stay secure.
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Quick tips: Dermatologists offer assorted array of practical pearls
Implementing a few simple ideas in clinical practice can have a significant impact in terms of saving time, saving money or improving patient outcomes. During a session at the 2011 Fall Clinical Dermatology Conference, members of the faculty offered a few personal pearls, each so easy and straightforward they could be encapsulated in a one-minute description.
Las Vegas - Implementing a few simple ideas in clinical practice can have a significant impact in terms of saving time, saving money or improving patient outcomes. During a session at the 2011 Fall Clinical Dermatology Conference, members of the faculty offered a few personal pearls, each so easy and straightforward they could be encapsulated in a one-minute description.
Daniel Siegel, M.D., M.S., clinical professor of dermatology, State University of New York at Downstate, Brooklyn, says that when a surgical wound won't stop bleeding, a pour-and-press powder (WoundSeal, Biolife) is his go-to solution.
Daniel Siegel, M.D., M.S.
The product comes in single-use packets and consists of a nontoxic hydrophilic polymer and potassium ferrate. When poured onto a bleeding wound, it creates an occlusive seal that stays in place and can function as a dressing until the area heals, he says.
An over-the-counter product also provided the solution to another challenging situation Dr. Siegel described that involved a patient complaining of intermittent severe pruritus of his instep. According to the patient, the itching worsened at bedtime and was more intense on the right foot than the left. There were no visible skin changes and multiple KOH preps were negative.
Dr. Siegel says he consulted itch expert Jeff Bernhard, M.D., who suggested the diagnosis of bilateral isolated sensory peripheral neuropathy of the medial plantar nerves and recommended topical capsaicin cream (Zostrix, Hi Tech Pharmacal). The itching resolved within two days of starting twice daily treatment, recurred within two days after stopping the capsaicin cream, and improved immediately when the medication was restarted.
Toxin tips
Mark Nestor, M.D., Ph.D., voluntary associate professor, department of dermatology and cutaneous surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, offered a series of tips for using multiple botulinum toxins in clinical practice. He recommends reconstituting with nonpreserved normal saline, as there is some evidence benzyl alcohol, found in bacteriostatic saline, may affect toxin activity.
Dr. Nestor also says that dermatologists using abobotulinumtoxinA (Dysport, Medicis), onabotulinumtoxinA (Botox, Allergan) and incobotulinimtoxinA (Xeomin, Merz) can avoid inadvertent dosing errors by selecting diluent volumes so that equivalent volumes of the reconstituted products contain equivalent doses. For example, assuming a 2.5:1 unit conversion between abobotulinumtoxinA and onabotulinumtoxinA, 20 percent more normal saline will be added to the 300 U vial of abobotulinumtoxinA than to the 100 U vial of onabotulinumtoxinA.
For example, if 2.0 mL is used to reconstitute onabotulinumtoxinA, 2.4 mL of diluent would be added to abobotulinumtoxinA to achieve a 2.5:1 ratio and use of equivalent volumes for injection, he says. "Then, even if the staff hands the doctor the wrong toxin, the dose is equivalent."
To inject the toxin, Dr. Nestor says he uses 0.3 cc, 31-gauge insulin syringes because they are inexpensive, costing only about 20 cents apiece, and very sharp, which makes the injection very comfortable for the patient.
"The botulinum toxin can be drawn up into these syringes after the vial is reconstituted and left ready to use in the refrigerator. This approach makes botulinum toxin treatments very efficient, easy and safe," Dr. Nestor says.
Infection prophylaxis
Dr. Nestor also reviewed recommendations for infection prophylaxis to point out that many dermatologists are prescribing antibiotics unnecessarily to prevent infective endocarditis or prosthetic device infections.
"Endocarditis prophylaxis is indicated only when operating on infected skin in high-risk patients, defined as those with a prosthetic heart valve, previous endocarditis, complex cyanotic congenital heart disease, or a surgically constructed systemic pulmonary shunt, and it is not recommended for incision or biopsy of clean, noninfected skin," Dr. Nestor says.
For patients with prosthetic joints, only those with a contaminated wound or infected skin whose prosthesis was implanted within the past six months are definite candidates for prophylaxis, while prophylaxis may be considered for those having clean-contaminated surgery or involving mucosa with recent prosthetic device surgery (less than six months).
"Patients with prosthetic devices are being seen more and more, and the guidelines for infection prophylaxis for these individuals are a little less clear than for endocarditis prophylaxis. However, there is no need to prescribe antibiotics if the skin is clean and intact," Dr. Nestor says.
Minding MRSA
Brian Berman, M.D., Ph.D., voluntary professor of dermatology and cutaneous surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, offered tips based on some recent literature. He says that in a patient who presents with a recurrent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection, clinicians might consider household contamination as the source.
A study investigating commonly touched surfaces in 35 homes isolated MRSA from sink faucets, door handles, bathtubs, dish towels and pet food dishes, suggesting targets for cleaning (Scott E, Duty S, McCue K. Am J Infect Control. 2009;37(6):447-453). Presence of a household cat was also highly associated with MRSA isolation, Dr. Berman says.
Results of a small, prospective, randomized, double-blind study suggest that oral zinc sulfate might be considered a simple and safe treatment for warts. The investigation Dr. Berman referred to assigned patients with multiple, recalcitrant warts to receive cimetidine 35 mg/kg/day (maximum 1,200 mg/day) or zinc sulfate 10 mg/kg/day (maximum 600 mg/day) for three months (Stefani M, Bottino G, Fontenelle E, et al. An Bras Dermatol. 2009;84(1):23-29). There were nine patients in each treatment group, all but one patient who was in the zinc sulfate group completed the study, and complete clearance was achieved by five of the eight zinc sulfate patients but none of the cimetidine-treated patients, he says.
A subsequently published open-label study enrolling 26 patients treated with zinc sulfate 10 mg/kg/day (maximum 600 mg/day) lends further support (Mun JH, Kim, SH, Jung DS. J Dermatol. 2011;38(6):541-545), Dr. Berman says.
Among 26 patients who finished the two-month course of treatment, 50 percent had a complete response and remained wart-free at six months. Complete response rates for common, flat and plantar warts were 57, 40 and 33 percent, respectively.
Phoebe Rich, M.D., adjunct professor of dermatology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, offered diagnostic and surgical tips for nail disease. She says that while surgery on an infected nail should be avoided whenever possible, if surgery is necessary, adding the antibiotic clindamycin to the local anesthesia used to anesthetize the digit is useful.
"Simply adding 0.15 cc of injectable clindamycin 150 mg/mL to a full unused 50 cc bottle of lidocaine offers a low-cost approach for local rather than systemic antibiotic prophylaxis during nail surgery," she says.
"The technique was described as a method for antibiotic prophylaxis in general dermatologic surgery wounds in an article published in 2002 (Huether MJ, Griego RD, Brodland DG, et al. Arch Dermatol. 2002;138(9):1145-1148)," she adds. "However, I find it very useful for nail surgery and keep a vial on hand in the refrigerator by mixing it up fresh every month.
For most nail surgery, a wing block around the nail provides rapid, effective anesthesia allowing painless surgery, she says.
Considering the tendency of delicate nail specimens to curl up when placed in a specimen bottle, which can confuse orientation, Dr. Rich recommends placing the specimen immediately onto a template created by drawing the nail unit on a piece of filter paper.
"This is also a nice tool to facilitate communication with the pathologist about the preferred method of sectioning, because the specimen will stay attached to the filter paper through processing and slide preparation," Dr. Rich says.
She also reminds colleagues to include common, benign and malignant etiologies in their differential diagnosis for red lines (longitudinal erythronychia) in the nails. There are multiple possible causes for the red bands, she says, including glomus tumors, onychopapilloma and squamous cell carcinoma, but it may simply be the result of a patient buffing or filing ridges on the surface of the nail plate, causing thinning that allows the underlying vessels to show through.
Disclosures: Drs. Rich, Berman and Siegel report no relevant financial interests. Dr. Nestor is on the advisory board and is a speaker for Allergan and Merz and receives research grants from Merz.


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Losing Faith and Breaking Bad
After binge-watching Breaking Bad in its entirety, I felt I had witnessed Walter White's Heisenbergian decline in such a short space of time that I had picked up on something. A theory: that Breaking Bad shows that there is no moral foundation for those without religious belief – especially not Walter White because science.
Breaking Bad is a show that follows its protagonist Walter White from hero to antagonist, unusually aligning the audience with a character who gradually becomes more immoral and unlikeable. Walt's descent is sparked by a lack of faith that leaves him with an amorality based in science. Essentially the first episode begins by establishing a loveable family man who suffers the toils of incredibly bad luck. This is in fact a retelling of the Story of Job which aims to explain why bad things happen to good people; a religious fable that reinstates the importance of faith.
This biblical story sees the first appearance of Satan as he is enlisted by God to look upon the righteous and pious Job as an example of someone holding perfect faith. Satan then challenges God's example, asserting that Job's faith is a result of living in prosperity. God then allows Satan to test Job's righteousness through trials of increasing torment: first smiting his crops and livestock to eventually riddling him with sickness and taking the lives of his wife and children. Throughout this ordeal Job is unwavering and states "The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord" (Job 1:21). The story serves to show the importance of faith even in times of great hardship.
Walter White is shown to go through similar trials though he has no faith to speak of. Where Job's crops were smited, Walt is cheated out of a company that he co-founded – now worth billions – and is working two jobs: one as an overqualified science teacher and the other a carwash assistant. Walt loses the latter job, putting further strain on his ability to support his family, while his wife Skylar is also jobless. Where Job's wife and children were killed, Walt is shown to have a son with cerebral palsy and an unexpected child on the way. The last trial, in which Job was plagued with sickness, is paralleled in Walt's diagnosis of lung cancer.
Without recourse to religious faith, Walt's trials cause him to act out of sheer desperation and self-preservation – stemming from, and utilizing, his scientific mind. The primary motivator as stated over and again by Walter White himself is to provide for his family. This reasoning seems to push forward a Darwinian selfishness, looking out for his kin with no remorse for his actions.
Typically in Hollywood cinema the audience is aligned with a hero who has faith, complete belief in the absence of evidence, which is shown to be a positive attribute. This is ultimately rewarded through the success of the heroes journey (See Job): this is known to be part of the monomyth as theorised by Joseph Campbell. Faith is a value that is fundamentally opposed to doubt – an attribute which has similarly been correlated as negative as it aims to undermine and challenge the hero. Where the hero has been associated with faith, that is at its core a religious value, doubt and scepticism have been embodied primarily by science.
The typically opposing forces of religion and science (as signified by faith and doubt) spawn many conflicting arguments, some of the most common relating to morality. Beyond the more well known arguments from morality is the idea posited that those who have no religious belief have no moral foundation and so are unbound by any written code or commandment. Where atheists would argue that morality is intuitive, and to base it on instruction is to undermine how you actually feel in spite of action, the religious deliberator would argue that if this moral intuition were somehow absent, there would be no saving grace if not for a set of moral principals to live by.
Creator of Breaking Bad Vince Gilligan has commented on the position of atheism, which reinstates the moral argument stated above:
"I'm pretty much agnostic at this point in my life. But I find atheism just as hard to get my head around as I find fundamental Christianity. Because if there is no such thing as cosmic justice, what is the point of being good? That's the one thing that no one has ever explained to me. Why shouldn't I go rob a bank, especially if I'm smart enough to get away with it? What's stopping me?" (2011)
This is a particular argument that has been debated over and over by numerous theologians and scientists, apologists and detractors, and though we are used to seeing the religious argument demonstrated in the narrative of popular American media through the typical journey of the faithful hero; it is a different angle that is presented by Breaking Bad – namely an unfaithful antagonist.
Breaking Bad begins with a hero in Walter White, having extremely bad luck and collecting our sympathy as a result. His first moral decisions are forced on him and move him away from empathy, conditioning him to be more resilient to pity and seeding a ruthlessness that will blossom over 5 seasons. Walter loses his faith and his moral foundation by proxy. A flashback in Episode 3 (…And the bag's in the river) shows that Walt has always been a materialist: when he talks to Gretchen about the elemental make-up of the human body, finding that a fraction of a percentage is unaccounted for, Gretchen asks "What about the soul?", his response is doused in flirtatious suggestion but confirms his materialist outlook, "There's nothing but chemistry here." When Walt loses his faith, he is left with his scientific values which seem to instill an objective stance with regard to morality, and reward him through competitiveness and selfishness as well as intellect.
The Last Walt – A moral decline
Shedding his faith, Walt grows callous and calculated as he becomes unsympathetic to those he views as threats, competitors, or even customers. His psychology seems borne out of a Darwinian mind-set as he first looks to protect his family unit, but as he gets a taste for power it seems to transform seamlessly into Social Darwinism before a full Messiah complex.
As the seasons progress Walt becomes more resilient to the death of people surrounding him. From the first murder that he commits in self-defense to poisoning a child in a move for loyalty, Walt appears to become increasingly ruthless in the pursuit of power.
Christian 'Combo' Ortega.. that's Christian.. dies. Walt's flippant response "Which one was that again?"
The people that Walt kills face to face tend to impose a threat to either himself, his family or Jesse. However as Walt transforms into his alter-ego Heisenberg he is able to order the deaths of those who merely threaten his business – from Gale to the brutal murder of several witnesses whom he has never met. Walt is shown to have traits that persist throughout the show: his egotistical stubbornness and willingness to lie and manipulate for gain. His problems with authority are clear from the very beginning with his boss at the carwash and later Mike. This is until Fring, when he sees an element of himself that he admires and intends to emulate. Thrown into this underworld of which he had no part in before, Walt takes a Darwinian approach to adaptation: learning characteristics that help him to thrive in the environment. He makes reference to Tuco's ruthlessness when trying to create a credible threat behind Heisenberg and learns from other dealers that children can be used for gain. His morality lowers to the level of those he intends to rival as Heisenberg.
Yeah Science
Once Walt gets a taste of power his original justification of security for his family once he dies is thrown out as it becomes a matter of greed and satisfying his ego. He has found something he is good at and forever wants more; an empire.
"You asked me if I was in the meth business or the money business. Neither. I'm in the empire business."
Gray Matter Technologies is the company that Walter co-founded with his friend Elliot Schwartz but sold his share of before it gained a net worth of over 2billion and won a Nobel prize. Walt checks the valuation of the company every week, growing bitter and resentful of what he could have had. Not simply the money but the prestige – both of which he finds in Heisenberg. In his quest for power Walt finds himself working with increasingly depraved types.
Eventually a deal is struck in which both Walt and Jesse work with Neo-Nazis. Perhaps the perfect symbol of how science can be harnessed as a force for evil, harking back to the invention of the atomic bomb, or in the case of Nazism through the works of Josef Mengele – The Angel of Death. Elliot and Gretchen are the other scientists. Out and out capitalists who live in a large mansion and drive high-end sports cars. They seem to match the level of greed in Walt but do so legitimately in helping others rather than harming them, with medicine as opposed to methamphetamine. Their estate seems to show that the dream of an empire is not far off and goes hand in hand with the scientific mind. That being said, Elliot and Gretchen are seen on television giving money to charity to offset the damage done by Walt. Perhaps there is a moral divide here that shows science is not a belief system that is intrinsically immoral; or they have so much money it doesn't mean anything to them, and they are going on television to clear their name and conscience.
Villains to the anti-hero
Initially we are on the side of the family-man teacher Walt, where the young drug-dealer Jesse is the antagonist. These roles are reversed throughout the show based on their morality through dealing with tragedy. Walt becomes ruthless, Jesse more empathetic. As Walt becomes a drug dealer, his own adversary is his DEA agent brother-in-law Hank. These two characters also have oppositional arcs: Hank initially has a glib response to death – casually joking about the deaths of drug-dealers and taking photos with corpses on his phone – though this jocular form of dealing with tragedy eventually manifests as post traumatic stress disorder. This is opposed to the increasingly cold-heartedness of Walt. Breaking Bad as a show appears to desensitise murder in general and not just from being aligned with an immoral, murderous protagonist. It delves into extremely dark situations but manages to skim over the true horror whenever it wants to. The pacing of events means that there is little time to dwell on the horrific before we are onto the next.
Breaking Bad seems to trivialise the affects of Crystal Meth, using addicts as occasional enemies who are unbound by morality themselves. The show, along with Walter White, does not care for those addicted to Crystal Meth. A telling moment that reveals Walt's callousness is when he first goes into the heart of a junkie-house to retrieve Jesse. This is the first contact he has with those who use his product and yet he is only concerned for Jesse and does not think about anyone else. They have made their choice and are expendable. Perhaps this is how Walt is so able to let Jesse's girlfriend die from an overdose: she made her choice and also tried to interrupt the plan. A reoccurring motif used in the series is to show the creation and distribution of the drug in montage with contrapuntal, up-beat music. Through this device the show is able to skip over the act and actually attach an entirely different tone. There is one scene that attempts to show the effects of coming off of the drug as Jesse runs from the door, imaging two bikers in place of Mormons on bicycles. A comic twist that undermines the seriousness of drug addiction. Nearer the end of the show we see Jesse in rehabilitation, which he uses at first as a way to find clients.
There is currently a wave of television shows that feature an antagonist/anti-hero – someone unlikeable that we are aligned with and root for to a certain extent; Breaking Bad stands out from others through its alignment with a protagonist turned antagonist. Though it differs in structure from the typical monomyth of a faithful hero, Breaking Bad is able to promote the same values but from a different angle. Without stating the need for religious belief overtly, the show enforces the need for faith by showing the demise and corruptibility of a purely scientific mind.
Posted in Favourites, Film Analysis, Holywood and tagged Atheism, Breaking Bad, Doubt, Faith, Monomyth, Relgion, Science, Story of Job, Walter White on June 23, 2014 by samcooney. 2 Comments
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10 4 Merck & Co., Inc.
12 8 Eisai Co. Ltd.
13 15 Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
14 9 Eli Lilly & Co.
18 12 Gilead Sciences Inc.
19 20 Daiichi Sankyo Co. Ltd.
20 18 Astellas Pharma Inc.
There are now five leaders with two companies out in front. Novartis retains first place, closely followed by Roche. Clear divides have opened up between the highest-ranking companies, those in the middle and those lower down. In 2016, companies were more tightly packed.
The five leading companies have company-wide strategies for improving access to medicine with clear objectives aligned to corporate strategies. They also take solid approaches to stakeholder engagement, typically disclosing both their selection processes and who they engage with.
Roche and Takeda have made significant rises through the ranking. Roche has increased transparency and renewed its access-to-medicine strategy. Takeda's Board is now responsible for access, and its governance structures have improved. Both companies show evidence of innovative practices.
Five companies actively measure the impact of at least one access initiative on society. Novartis has a best practice in this area: a methodology for measuring the impact of an initiative in financial, environmental and social terms. A further 11 companies report a general commitment to measure impact in the future.


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From Free Marius Mason
We would like to let everyone know that Marius Jacob Mason will no longer be using the name Marie, and will be using male pronouns. We hope that you will all join us in supporting Marius through this transition, which will no doubt be extra challenging within the prison system. Until his name is legally changed, any mail sent to Marius in prison will still need to be addressed to 'Marie Mason' on the envelope. This goes for donations also. Please write to Marius at this time! Receiving supportive and friendly mail makes a world of difference. Below is a statement read out by Moira Meltzer-Cohen, one of Marius' legal representatives, at a solidarity event organized by New York City ABC recently.
"My name is Moira Meltzer-Cohen. I'm an attorney working with a person of immense courage and integrity, someone who struggles for liberation and self-determination on behalf of other people, non-human animals, and life on Earth itself. This is someone whose courage and integrity are made even more salient by the fact that their own liberation and their own autonomy have long been severely circumscribed.
Even more than most people in prison, my client and those in their unit face rigid, arbitrary constraints on communication and expression that impact every part of their lives. But even more – I want you to imagine how difficult it would be if all your struggles toward liberation and autonomy were taking place not only in a prison, but in a world that always targets trans people for further violence, confinement, and abuse. (more…)
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Georgia's prison officials will have to explain themselves in court if they continue to refuse hormone therapy to transgender inmates, warns a letter delivered to the state's Department of Corrections on Tuesday by the Southern Poverty Law Center, an advocacy group based in Alabama.
Starting in 2012, department employees violated the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment by denying hormone treatment to Ashley Diamond, a transgender inmate who had received the treatment for nearly two decades before entering the prison system, the letter alleges.
If these allegations are true, the officials also breached the department's own policy, which calls for Georgia's prisons to provide hormones to all inmates who start taking them before their incarceration.
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Azma
Azma found the chaos and calamity which surrounded her a great source of comfort. By all reasonable measurements, her own fortunes were dire, her goals impossible to achieve, and her plans a failed and tangled mess.
None of that was true of course. Her fortunes were excellent by virtue of the fact that her goals were still well within her reach and her plans were proceeding as close to optimally as she could have hoped for.
Also, she was herself.
She didn't have problems.
Other people had problems, and she was typically the worst one.
"Our troops have finished the pacification of the [Stars Guards Fort], the [Bleakwater Basin], and the [Scouring Hellmaw]," Grenslaw said, entering the private, and tastefully appointed chamber, Penswell had set aside for their use. "The teams at [High Gutter] and [The Scarlet Cascade] are in place and awaiting orders."
"What were our losses in Stars Guard?" Azma asked.
"No fatalities, fifty three serious injuries, and two hundred and twelve minor wounds," Grenslaw said.
Serious injuries were annoying since it meant the troops in question were badly enough damaged that they wouldn't be available for further fighting until they'd been through tha rejuvenation/repair period and been properly rested. The minor wounds were less troubling, but still worth noting. She'd send those troops into lighter combat duty for the next cycle since, while they were still capable, their performance would be lower as they recovered from the non-debilitating but still potentially gruesome damage they'd suffered.
No fatalities was a cause for celebration though, as were the relatively low numbers over all. Her troops were more than doing her proud, they were fighting at a level no General could have asked for or expected. Just like she knew they could.
"Excellent! They exceeded their performance margin by fifteen percent. Mark them all down for the high performance bonus," Azma said. "Also, command the team at [High Gutter] that the town is no longer a hybrid area. They are free to proceed with a full burn cleanse of the area, but their injury metrics have been tightened to reflect the lower hazard of the operation."
Authorizing the [High Gutter] team to reduce the isolated defensive post to a heap of cinders and ash was a relief for which Azma felt she owed the local [Adventurers] a nod of thanks.
[High Gutter] had originally been a strongpoint fought over between two rival kingdoms in the area. Both kingdoms were under the subjugation of the [Consortium of Pain's] forces, which were in turn under the long distance control of the [Hungry Shadow].
Unlike on the Consortium ships though, the citizens of [High Gutter] hadn't been corrupted into mindless appendages of the [Hungry Shadows] will.
Which had meant that to secure [High Gutter] and block off both of the kingdoms from the rest of the region, penning in the Consortium's forces, they were going to need to either kill all of the locals, or fight around them.
Penswell had been surprised when Azma had put forth a plan to fight around them. It was a costlier approach, both in terms of resources required and troops that would be lost to the effort. Or it would have been costlier to anyone else.
Azma was the one who had designed the Consortium's strategy though and so she was keenly away of the importance of [High Gutter] and its weak points.
Saving the citizens within [High Gutter] wasn't charity though. The forces Azma had deployed to the kingdoms [High Gutter] sealed away were rife of Necromancers. Her original strategy with them had been for the units to be self sustaining by using the bodies of their fallen enemies to both demoralize the defenders and act as a shield for her own forces.
Reversing that strategy meant, in part, denying the Consortium forces access to both dead bodies.and lingering spirits.
Thanks to the local [Adventurers] though, the people of [High Gutter] had been rescued and moved to a safer, more secure location.
Which meant Azma's forces could simply annihilate the place.
It wasn't a fair method of fight by any stretch of the imagination, nor was it one which paid dividends later, or allowed for the cost of the operation to be recouped in loot or land value.
Azma was in the joyful position of being unconcerned about recouping costs though since, by all calculations, the world she was on would be reduced to free floating subatomic particles within the week.
"Shall I inform Strategist Penswell of the change in plans?" Ryschild asked.
"That won't be necessary," Azma said. "She understands our goals and for the time being they are aligned with hers."
Penswell had proven to be a delight. Where Azma was normally in the habit of unpacking her thoughts into diminished and more easily digestible chunks, with Penswell she'd been free to speak in something much closer to the shorthand which she thought in.
The need for pretense and artifice was largely absent as well, which was so refreshing Azma had given serious consideration to abandoning her other plans and simply remaining on-world after the current crisis was resolved in order to war against Penswell till they both got bored of whatever stalemate they worked themselves into.
In Penswell, Amza had found someone who understood their relationship, its boundaries, and opportunities without any need for Azma to spell them out or arrange for tedious object lessons.
They were both valuable to each other. They would extract what value was available, arranging at all times to place themselves in a favorable position in the long run, but – and this was the bit so many others failed to see – not mindlessly at the expense of the other.
It was fine for Azma to burn [High Gutter] to the ground. It was a loss for Penswell's concerns overall, and a mild gain for Azma's forces. In the long term though, the damage done to the holdings Penswell was responsible for was minor – nothing irreplaceable had been lost, and they had both gained a significant advantage over the Consortium forces in the region.
Penswell could trust that, for the time being, Azma would not injure her or her forces unless the injury paid a far higher yield for both of them since Azma needed Penswell and her forces to be as strong as they possibly could be if she was going to wield them as a weapon against her true enemies.
Azma turned to considering her forces around the [Scarlet Cascade] with that in mind. She refused to allow any fatalities, but with the exemplary performance of her other troops, she could risk a more aggressive posture against the [Battle Engines] at the [Scarlet Cascade].
The safe play was to disable the Consortium's giant war machines in a pre-emptive strike, but she was feeling greedy and her forces would be in a decidedly better position if the [Battle Engines] could be captured rather than destroyed.
She was weighing the possibilities when Penswell appeared in the seat on the opposite side of the table from her.
"The [Battle Engines] are a loss," Penswell said. No introduction, no prelude, no context setting at all really.
Azma nearly swooned.
"A new enemy has arisen?" Azma asked. It was the most likely scenario, despite it being unheralded and relatively implausible.
Had the machines been destroyed though, there would be no need to assault the [Scarlet Cascade] anymore and if the Consortium had received reinforcements to protect them, Penswell would have arrived with their layout and a gleeful expression at getting to crush such a concentration of the enemy all in one place.
"The local monsters are leveling up," Penswell said.
Azma took a moment to process that.
It hadn't been on her mental radar because it was apparently impossible in this world.
Quantized power rankings like "levels" weren't a unique thing. The Consortium dealt with any number of worlds were reality was ordered with powers available in discrete chunks. A common trait of those worlds was that some entities had a fixed power state while others were fluid. Generally the ones that could grow though, grew along predictable and limited paths. The fixed entities, by comparison, tended to enjoy a broader diversity of abilities and powers at the expense of remaining unchanged.
The "monsters' of this world were almost universally of the fixed power state variety, which meant they had a plethora of different abilities, though only a few manifested in each individual.
If those entities had gained the ability to increase their power states though…
"Have any broken the power cap for your [Adventurers]?" Azma asked. She could guess based on Penswell's expression but for something this critical it was worth being certain.
"Yes. We've lost three teams so far and the Total Party Kill count is in the hundreds already," Penswell said.
Ryschild and Grenslaw were both standing beside her, silent and watchful, though for a change Azma's suspected that was because they had nothing to offer, rather than the sense to wait to be asked for their suggestions.
Azma didn't blame them for that. She had to spend a few moments considering the implications of Penswell's news.
"Having any of them broken the power cap for the highest extant 'monsters'?" she asked, unsure which disastrous answer she would prefer.
"Unknown at present," Penswell said. "Two [Alliances] are probing the matter as we speak."
"At your request?"
"They began organizing before I learned of the situation," Penswell said.
Because [Adventurers] had, at best, a passing and hate-filled relationship with personal safety.
Azma hadn't counted on the extent to which that was true in her original plan to the conquer the world, which explained a rather large portion of the deviations in her initial assaults effectiveness. Seeing it in person, she was sure she could adjust her next attempt accordingly but also not looking forward to it overmuch.
Fighting foes that were effectively unkillable was one thing. Azma had managed that a number of times.
Fighting dealing with foes who were unkillable and extremely willing to throw themselves into a blender repeatedly was simply tiresome, as well as aggravatingly difficult to extract a profit from.
Azma was sure she could beat the combined forces of the world with her current nearly microscopic army. She was less sanguine about doing so without going miserably bankrupt in the process, and that was the sort of fight she tried to avoid at all costs.
"Either result represents an opportunity, but limited leveling would be preferable," Azma said.
"I'm adjusting the disposition of my troops to absorb either eventuality, but the [Confidence Rating] of my plans is dropping to unacceptable levels," Penswell said.
"Armageddon protocols?" Azma asked.
"Invoked and available," Penswell said. "Still in reserve though."
The newly empowered monsters might be limited to the power states already available in this reality or they might be capable of breaking all known limits and becoming mathematically unstoppable. In either case there was the possibility that they would overrun the world and destroy any hope of defending it, even apart the looming threat of [Hungry Shadow] or the potential arrival of a solar system destroying task force from the Consortium.
Should that happen, despite Penswell and Azma's best efforts to prevent it, they intrinsically agreed upon the proper course of action. Namely, that the last action they would take would be to ensure the rampaging monsters were aimed in the correct direction to destroy their other foes.
If they were going to be destroyed, there was no chance they were going down without sending out a retributive strike capable of shattering the heavens and ensuring that those ultimately responsible for their downfall suffered a far worse fate than the one Penswell and Azma had been consigned to.
But of course that wasn't going to happen.
"Good," Azma said. "Invoking them sends the proper message but they will never need to come out of your reserve."
"Of course not," Penswell said. "Alone, either one of us could ensure that."
Azma refused to cackle.
It was rather tempting though.
Whatever strange fates controlled this world, they had made the absolute worst possible mistake in giving her an equal to contest against.
Because Azma didn't fight against people like Penswell.
Not when allying with them would let her finally become the true master of her own destiny.
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