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Outlander - the book series
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The main problem is I
never have come across anything to indicate that the British military accepted
women who were not trained nurses to work as military nurses in any capacity.
Their nursing corps consisted of women who were already trained and qualified
nurses, and there was no reason for them to accept women interested in becoming
a nurse but needing the four years of training that would qualify them for that
role.
(They did rely on VAD volunteers, too, but these women were not trained
nurses and from what I understand not enlisted in the military. They did tasks
that were not reliant on nursing training, and they tended to be held in
disdain by the women who were qualified nurses. Also, from what I understand,
they were usually kept out of field hospitals very close to the front because
of this lack of experience. Based on what we know about Claire, I think it's
safe to assume she was not a VAD.)
As I mentioned
earlier, all British nurses, regardless of affiliation with the military, at
this time were required to do a standard 3 years of training in a hospital,
which included rotation through a variety of wards, and then they did a trial
year at a hospital. I didn't find any evidence of women receiving this initial
training in military hospitals, either—they did the training at civilian
hospitals.
Only then could nurses
take the exam that allowed them to become a SRN (state registered nurse).
Claire would have needed to be an SRN before she enlisted in the military, and
even then, I noticed in the memoirs/reminiscences I read that there was usually
a bit of lag time (a couple of months or a few weeks) between enlisting and getting
accepted, before undergoing an orientation period and being assigned to a
medical unit.
Because of these
requirements, the earliest Claire would have enlisted in the military is not in
the autumn of 1939, which is what the book/show strongly suggests, but rather
autumn 1943 if she immediately decided to become a nurse when war broke out in
September 1939. But that is assuming that she was accepted into a hospital
program without delay, did her training with no missed weeks (if you were out
sick, that time was not credited to you as being part of your training—you had
to do the full time), took her exam with no delay as soon as she was eligible,
and then was able to enlist immediately after receiving her qualifications, and
was called up straight away.
I think that timeline
is generous, though, because I can't think of any bureaucracy running that
smoothly, so I think it is more likely for Claire to have finished her nurse
training very late in 1943 or sometime early in 1944 and then she would have
had another couple of months at least of enlisting, waiting to hear back from
that, attending orientation, etc. This puts her actual military nursing career
starting in spring 1944, give or take a couple of months.
Now, there is a
possibility she was already in the middle of nurse's training when the war
started, so that would condense her timeline. However, that was not the
impression I got from the book or the show.
In any event, rather
than Claire having spent years working as a military nurse, I think it's more
likely that she would have spent about a year or a year and a few months as a
military nurse at most and probably would have been first deployed in the
summer of 1944 in the wake of D-Day.
This all leads to the second problem with Claire's war timeline—I don't have
the book with me, but I'm pretty sure it's suggested she achieves some level of
seniority during her time in the military. I can't remember what level of
seniority Claire was supposed to be, but I know being a "ward sister" was a
recognizable achievement, which involved overseeing more junior nurses. But it
was also a difficult one to achieve and required some years of proven
experience. I honestly don't see how Claire would have achieved that or even
maybe a lower rank of standing, given the amount of time she would have
realistically served. The British military had its own standing nursing force,
as well as reserve nurses. I find it hard to believe that Claire, fresh out of
her training and new to the military, would leap-frog over so many other nurses
with considerably more experience as nurses and military members to a position
of authority.
experience as a combat nurse also strikes me as a bit problematic, though I think
it is more plausible, given again a more realistic timeline for her
experiences. From what I understand, the nurses who served in field stations
near the frontline—Claire would not have truly been a combat nurse who saw
combat, though field stations were in danger of shelling and shifting
frontlines—were specially picked and the doctors in charge reserved the right
to pick their own nurses and also reject ones they didn't think were up to the
job. It was an honor to serve there (one reason why VADs weren't allowed
there.) Again, considering the many other nurses with more experience nursing
and in the military, I find it a little hard to believe that Claire would have
just vaulted into this position, new to the military and relatively new to
nursing. But that being said, if she had proven herself competent and cool
under fire, I could see her being snapped up for field hospital work for the
last few months of the war as much more likely than her being promoted to ward
sister or some other position of authority within a year of qualifying as a
nurse.
final problem I have with the timeline—and I know even Gabaldon herself has
acknowledged this as a problem—is exactly when Claire was demobilized. I must
confess when I read the book, I just couldn't let go of the incongruity of
Claire being out of the military and apparently having been for some time in
May 1945 because the war was still very much in progress. Though Germany
surrendered in May, Japan still held out for another couple of months. Everything
I have ever read indicates that, for the most part, people weren't being
demobilized until the summer or later when it was clear the war was truly over.
was especially true of British nurses—I've found that a lot of them stayed in
the military and overseas well into 1945 and even 1946 because their expertise
was still needed. Not only were they needed for the men in uniform who still
were in hospitals, but the Allied forces were also tasked with tending to
millions of Holocaust survivors, displaced persons, German civilians, and also
German prisoners-of-war, all while also contending with the fact that a lot of
Germany's infrastructure (like hospitals) was damaged.
factor too is that people tended to be demobilized based on time of service, so
those who had served longer (especially with extensive overseas postings) got
to go home first, in theory. Well, the way the series depicts her war
experiences, she probably would have been one of the first people home, but I
think given the more realistic timeline for her experiences (about a year of
nursing during the war), she probably would have still been serving in postwar
Germany as more experienced nurses with longer service records got to go home.
Actually, if Claire had stayed in Europe for several months longer than she did
in the series, I think it would have been more likely for her to get a
senior-ish nursing position, despite her relative newbie status, simply because
the more experienced nurses would have the option to go home, which might lead
to some openings.
know the show has Claire in Scotland in autumn 1945, which is a little more
reasonable, but even then, I don't know that she would have had been discharged
for a while at that point.
(I'm
also not sure Frank would have been demobilized for very long at this point,
either, or that his discharge would have so neatly coincided with hers. I don't
know anything about the intelligence service really, but the Allies were
contending with pro-Nazi operatives and also growing tension with the Soviet
Union in Germany after the war was over. Everything, for instance, I have read
about Berlin at this time sounds like something out of the Wild West, times
infinity, so I don't know that he would have been out of a job yet, depending on
whatever his specialty was.)
(cont).
those are my three problems with Claire's military service, as presented in the
book and show.
Now in the midst of
all of my critiquing, I should point out, in all fairness, a couple of things
the book/show got right. One is that Claire's basic background—early 20s,
married, from a respectable social class—was exactly what the British military
liked in its nurses.
They didn't want
overly young women—I don't know if there was an age requirement is for WWII,
but I know in WWI, they only accepted women over a certain age, mid-twenties, I
think —and they preferred married women and upper/middle class women, all
because they thought it cut down on shenanigans with the patients. So, even
though I don't see how she would have enlisted right away, I do think whenever
Claire did enlist, she would have been accepted pretty readily as a very
desirable candidate.
And also, though I
just don't buy her having so many years of military or nursing experience, I
wouldn't at all dismiss her experiences because she only would have seen about
a year of overseas service. She still would have definitely seen/experienced
some very disturbing stuff and worked with a lot of patients, not only during
her war years but also during her pre-military training because she would have
been doing that in the middle of the Blitz. And just living during the Blitz
would have taken nerves of steel, let alone working in a hospital during it! I
read some really harrowing—and also inspiring--stories about nurses during the
Blitz in London. Even if she wasn't in London, if she did her training in a
city of any size, she probably experienced her fair share of aerial bombing
long before she joined the military.
So, I definitely don't
want to imply that a more realistic timeline for her military service make her
somehow incompetent or inexperienced as a nurse. In fact, some of the nurses I
read about who served longer were not initially posted in war zones for the
first couple of years of their service, so the series' proposed backstory for
her doesn't necessarily guarantee her seeing more combat postings than a more
probable timeline does.
In fact, that's
something else that always bothered me in the book—I felt like the idea of
Claire as combat nurse was emphasized to the point that her basic
qualifications as a nurse who was trained to deal with a wide variety of
patients and cases was ignored, so it makes it seem, at least to me, that
Claire is someone who, when not working in a military posting or a trauma situation,
is not really as prepared for the job as a more general nurse would be, and
that just seems very inaccurate to me. It really stood out to me with Claire
claiming very little experience with patients in childbirth during Jenny's
labor, and I found that odd because, though she wouldn't have been a
specialized midwife trained to deal with complications and with lots and lots
of experience, she wouldn't have escaped some time working on maternity wards
during her training period. In fact, I feel like it would be more likely that
she would be nervous because her training/experiences were not something she
had enjoyed or that they had occurred a few years in the past and were not of
recent memory (or when Jenny's labor manifested complications, which she might
know of in theory but not have extensive experience in working with), rather
than she was lacking in basic experience with childbirth.
If you're interested,
I can recommend some of the websites and books I used when I was researching
the subject! It's not something I usually read/research, but it's a fascinating
topic! And if you've now read more than you ever want to know about it, that's
cool too. J
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I love both the show and the books. My Husband asked me how I felt about the differences and so I have thought a lot about this. When I read the books I have my own versions of the characters in my head and they don't match the tv version, all though there is a little crossing over in their personalities. I'm ok with having both versions and I think it is a testament to the writers that it works. I love TLO but agree it's silly to apply today's political correctness to a piece of historical fiction. I find 'dating naked'and the other types of tv stupidity much more offensive.
I fell out of love with the series when I realised Diana Gabaldon adores her own writing, and sometimes it feels like she's writing so she can read it herself later on. Book 5 was horribly boring, could've used serious editing (like half the book), but I would like to know what happens to Jamie and Claire, so that bit she got right. I don't know if I'll be able to make it through the whole series.
In terms of acting, I can see why Caitriona Balfe keeps on getting nominated and not Sam Heughan. He's eye candy, to be sure, but his acting skills seems a little, one dimensional? If you compare his acting skills to say, Tom Hardy's acting skills, you realise how mediocre of an actor he really is. And people are so enamoured with him in his role as Jamie (I daresay they're enamoured with Jamie more than Sam Heughan), that they cannot judge his acting skills objectively. He was very good in To Ransom a Man's Soul, but anything after that seemed a little trite?

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Bertie Ahern will step down as Ireland's Prime Minister on May 6, bowing to pressure for him to go early following a series of embarrassing appearances in the witness stand at an anti-corruption tribunal.
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One of Europe's longest-serving heads of government after almost 11 years in office, Ahern had previously said this would be his last term in office but that he did not intend to go until it ended in 2012.
"Having reflected on the need to ensure that the work of my ministerial colleagues is not distracted by incessant publicity about the tribunal, I have decided of my own volition to bring forward that date," Ahern said.
"It is my intention to tender my resignation to President McAleese on Tuesday May 6," he said.
Widely praised for his work with former British prime minister Tony Blair and former United States president Bill Clinton in bringing peace to Northern Ireland, Ahern's star has been on the wane after revelations about his personal finances.
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MDA supported development of utrophin-boosting compounds for years
TUCSON, Ariz. — The Muscular Dystrophy Association announced today that SMT C1100, an experimental drug for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), has been found safe in healthy human volunteers and reached blood levels potentially adequate for a therapeutic benefit. Next steps are to move into trials in people with DMD.
The drug is designed to increase production of the muscle protein utrophin, which can potentially compensate for dystrophin, the protein that's missing in DMD.
The Association has been supporting the development of SMT C1100 through a $750,000 grant to Summit PLC, a drug discovery company based in Oxford, U.K. The grant was awarded in 2011 by the MDA Venture Philanthropy (MVP) drug development program for testing of a new formulation of SMT C1100 in humans. (A previous formulation failed to reach adequate blood levels.)
In addition to the 2011 MVP grant, the Association has given $1.8 million since 1997 to geneticist Kay Davies at Oxford University for laboratory studies related to boosting utrophin levels.
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Summit's Chief Executive Officer Glyn Edwards said: "Utrophin upregulation is an important mechanism for treating DMD, as it is expected to have broad applicability for all patients regardless of the specific genetic fault causing their disease. We are highly encouraged that the new formulation of SMT C1100 shows improved bioavailability, as we believe it supports the progression of this potential breakthrough treatment into DMD patient clinical trials."
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MVP is the Muscular Dystrophy Association's drug development program, which operates within MDA's translational research program. MVP is exclusively focused on funding the discovery and clinical application of treatments and cures for neuromuscular diseases.
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Metabolomical Changes during Systemic Acquired Resistance and Some Novel Bioactive Compounds for Defense Responses in Arabidopsis.
Plants have evolved complex signal networks for defense responses to counter pathogen attacks. Systemic acquired resistance (SAR), one of well-known responses of plants, is an acquired plant immune response. The response is spread to un-inoculated distal tissues after local pathogen infection or specific activator treatment. It is believed that a mobile signal produced in the local infected tissues can be translocated to distal systemic tissues through the vascular system. Based on this possibility, we expect that a signal molecule(s) can be identified by analyzing the composition of petiole exudates from leaves infected with SAR-inducing pathogen. To pick out an unknown mobile signal molecule(s) for SAR, we collected petiole exudates from leaves of mock-treated and SAR-inducing pathogen-infected wild type Col plants. We applied these bacteria-free exudates into naive Col to verify the biological activity of petiole exudates for inducing defense responses. Petiole exudates from leaves infected plants were active, but exudates from mock-treated plants were not. Our finding suggests that petiole exudates from infected plants may have a higher level of a signal molecule(s) than mock-treated plants. The petiole exudates were subjected to gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) to compare metabolites between mock-treated and pathogen-infected plants. The comparative metabolomic analysis indicates that the metabolome of petiole exudates from leave is extensively reconfigured by SAR-inducing pathogen infection. In addition, we identified several compounds that may play key roles in defense responses in Arabidopsis. In the future, we will characterize the functions of these compounds in plant defense responses. This work was funded by a grant from The National Science Foundation.
Metabolomical changes and Bioactive compounds.


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Mobile COVID-19 testing vans to roll out soon
By STEPHANIE SALMONS Hawaii Tribune-Herald | Wednesday, October 28, 2020, 12:05 a.m.
Harry Kim
A mobile COVID-19 testing system is expected to be operational within the next two weeks, Mayor Harry Kim confirmed Tuesday.
Three vans, staffed with six individuals, will be provided and funded entirely by a "very gracious and generous benefactor," he said.
The mobile units will be at the county's disposal to use as needed.
"Now we can go and have the ability to send people out right away, almost like an ambulance-in-waiting," Kim said. "In regards to the teams we send out now, it takes at least a couple of days to mobilize people and resources we need to isolate an area and go there."
The mobile testing units will not only have the capability to take test samples, but can process and obtain the results on-site, which the county cannot do currently, he said.
Kim said there have been delays trying to find an approved testing agency and vehicles, but those matters have been resolved.
Premier Medical Group has been contracted to perform the testing.
"It's all in the works, and hopefully there will be a tremendous boost to us in regards to getting the tests to where it's needed," Kim said.
Email Stephanie Salmons at ssalmons@hawaiitribune-herald.com.
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Eagles beat Redskins to end disappointing season - The Morning After
By Steve Olenski at 1:05 am on Monday January 2, 2012
Morning campers and Happy New Year...
I want to wish each and everyone a prosperous and healthy 2012!
Ok enought of that warm and fuzzy crap...
No I kid, I really do wish and hope that all your dreams come true in 2012.
And speaking of dreams... how'd that whole "Dream Team" thing work out? Yeah I know Vince Young, the not-quite-ready-for-Mensa QB was the one who coined the now infamous and epic misnomer but... many, especially those in the media, bought into the hype.
Hell I seem to recall one Polish/Italian scribe foolishly predict a certain team in green would be hoisting the Lombardi Trophy at the end of the season. Hey, it may still be a team in green (bay), but there was very little doubt from say Week 5 or 6 that it would not be the Eagles needing to make parade plans.
Lord what was I thinking?
Oh yeah, as for the game yesterday...
Um, let's see, the Eagles needed to burn a timeout after a whole two plays had been run; a one-legged running back (Roy Helu) was last seen running unscathed for a long catch and run TD; another Redskins' RB sliced and diced his way through a porous Eagles' defense; Chad Hall was doing his best Rudy Ruettiger impression all over the field; Jeremy Maclin was dropping TD passes and bobbling others which could have been TDs; Jaiquawn Jarrett was showing another example of another failed high secondary draft pick (See Allen, Nate); Michael Vick was showing he still cannot handle a blitz, and DeSean Jackson was showing he is still very much a big play threat.
Does that amount sum it up?
By all means let me know if I missed something, because truth be told, MQ & I were flipping between the Eagles game and the replay of the Flyers/Rangers Alumni Game as part of this year's NHL Winter Classic.
And yes the replay was pound for pound more exciting...
NEXT QUESTION...
As I mentioned in last week's TMA, here's some of the key questions I see that need to be answered by next year:
Will Andy Reid be back?
This of course, trumps every other question bar none. For the answer to this question will impact all other questions. But allow me to quell any fears for any Reid supporters and crush the hopes of any Reid detractors... he will be back. Mark it down. Book it. The reasons are many but first and foremost is money. Jeffrey Lurie will not want to pay big name head coaches - one to coach and one not to. See if Lurie does fire Reid he will need a big name coach to placate the Eagles faithful who will surely not idly by while an inexperienced coordinator and college coach takes over.
As for me, I am in the camp who wants Reid gone. I hear all the "well who else is out there who is better than Reid?" nonsense and I am tired of hearing it to be honest with you. My retort to these folks is this: I don't know who else is out there, but that's not my job to know that. There surely has to be someone, the odds alone dictate it, who can do just as good a job as Andy Reid. You're telling me Reid is the ONLY person capable... of mismanaging a clok; of drafting pathetically bad players in the first three rounds; of failing to realize he has the leading rusher in the entire goddamn NFL so let's not give him the ball more; of hiring a defensive coordinator who not only had zero experience but was also being forced to adopt a scheme - the infamous Wide Nine - which of course spelled disaster from the get-go."
I could go on of course but you all know the Andy Reid saga.
Look I am not one of those who thinks Andy Reid is a horrible head coach who has done nothing right. Of course not. Those idiots are, well... idiots.
And clearly his team quit playing for him this year - at least when it counted most.
But enough about Reid... he will be back. Deal with it.
Will Juan Castillo be back?
In a word... let's hope not. Hey Juan's a great guy, we hear that all the time and I surely don't want to see the man lose his job. But put him back where he belongs, on the other side of the line. Call him an offensive assistant in charge of blocking dummies for all I care or some other title, I honestly don't care.
What I do care about is a woefully prepared and incapable defense which, for the better part of the season, was as bland, boring and vanilla as humanly possible. The Eagles' offense committed far too many turnovers but make no mistake about it, the Eagles' defense, more than any other aspect of the team, is the reason they will be home watching the playoffs.
And to be even more specific it was the play of the Eagles linebackers and secondary which can be labeled as the key culprit.
There is simply no defending (no pun intended) the decision to go to war with this group of linebackers AFTER having made the decision to install the Wide Nine along the front four. The Eagles defense was a laughingstock of the NFL. All their opponents had to do was essentially ram the ball down their throats and watch gleefully as the Jamar Chaneys of the world flailed helplessly trying to bring down an opposing running back.
Yes the Eagles' defense tightened up toward the end of the season, but it was of course too little, too late. Does the Seahawks game ring a bell? Marshawn Lynch is still out there looking for more Eagles' defenders to run over.
Since we've already established Reid - the man ultimately responsible for Castillo and the defensive shortcomings, will be back, we must surmise that a new defensive coordinator is on the horizon... God I hope so.
And please, spare me 'but Steve, the Eagles' defense finished in the Top 10 in overall defense in the NFL" nonsense.
If that stat alone is not the epitome of the fact many stats are completely overrated and meaningless I don't know what is.
Will DeSean Jackson be back?
This one's gonna get dicey in my opinion. Yes, the Eagles can franchise DeSean but my spidey senses tell me they (Reid, Banner, Roseman) see the future, and it doesn't include #10.
A game-breaker for sure, DeSean Jackson has also displayed the kind of petulance that caused him to slip out of the first round of the draft a few years back. Having two undersized starting receivers is not a recipe for success for any team that does not have a Tom Brady at QB. And we know Michael Vick is no Tom Brady.
Right now, at this time on this date, I do not think DeSean Jackson will be an Eagle next season but I reserve the right to change my mind, like say on the day the Eagles slap the franchise tag on him.
What do the Eagles need to do to return to NFL elite status?
The good news is the Eagles play in one of the weakest divisions in all of football, the NFC Least. To think 10 wins would have won this division this year... hard to believe, Harry.
Believe it not there were some bright spots this year most notably among them the coming together of a very solid offensive line. This group of 5 progressed quite nicely as the season went on.
Eagles' TE Brent Celek showed he belongs to be listed among the best tight ends in the NFC.
LeSean McCoy is clearly the Eagles' MVP and should get consideration for league MVP as he is fast becoming one of the best running backs in the entire NFL.
And of course the Eagles' defensive line got a lot of publicity for their gaudy sack totals - the Birds' finished tied with the Vikings for the most sacks in the NFL with 50.
The bad news is of course the other seven players that play behind the front four are, well... they're not very good to put it mildly. The linebackers, as previously mentioned, were pathetically overmatched. And as for Nnamdi Asomugha, the key free agent signing of the offseason... I laugh out loud when I hear the dopes on the local sports talk call in shows referring to him as a bust. If they knew anything about football they would know he played essentially the entire season out of position. Do you think he suddenly went from a Pro Bowl corner to the second coming of Izell Jenkins?
Assuming Jim Washburn and the Wide 9 remain in place next year the clear and present need is for a linebacker... or three. Linebackers who can take on a pulling offensive lineman especially the middle linebacker. Go get the biggest, baddest and meanest MLB this side of Dick Butkus.
Then there's the position of safety. Dangle Asante Samuel as trade bait and see if you can get a big hitting safety in return. I would say otherwise look to the draft but... based on their recent drafting prowess or lack thereoff (see above) if you do draft a safety make it in the 5th round or later... this way if/when he fails we won't be as disappointed.
The bottom line is this was of course an extremely frustrating and disappointing season on many levels. Expectations were very high, especially considering the way the Phillies season ended.
The Eagles were "all in" at least on paper. The problem was somebody called their bluff, namely the Cardinals, the Seahawks, the Bears, the Niners, the Bills... do I need to go on?
They will be back next year of course and so will I with The Morning After.
I may drop in from time to time during the offseason but until then...
Time's yours. Food's mine.
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The last time we checked in with Ohio's own (supreme lords of the underground metal scene) Norselaw (so named because of it's multi-talented front-man/musician!) we were treated to one of 2013's best album's in "Serpent In The Circling Sea" (http://metalmark.blogspot.com/2013/08/norselaw-serpent-in-circling-sea.html). Since then things seemed to be quiet...too quiet in fact (as those N.W.O.B.H.M. moments (by way of a noise-infused punk metal band) on said album were the stuff that heavy metal wet dreams are made of!) and I had almost given up hope on hearing from Norselaw (the man, the myth and the legend!) again. And then out of the blue I get a CD with a note from the band and my spirit is once more awakened! Up front Norselaw is Norselaw (vocals, guitars, bass and keyboards) and Jaime (drums) and "Kingslayer", which was mixed, mastered and produced by Norselaw(!), is just the latest in a string of well-received (if grossly ignored by the metal mainstream) releases. With "Kingslayer" Norselaw moves on from "Serpent In The Circling Sea" musically (if not even mythology-wise) by way of an (overall) darker essence which eventually bubbles over like some sort of primordial slime! With all sorts of (odd and yet captivating!) colors splashed across the sky "Kingslayer" offers up the likes of Raven, Venom, Cirith Ungol, Megadeth, Jimi Hendrex, Hawkwind, Black Sabbath, Manilla Road, S.N.F.U., Judas Priest, Butthole Surfers, King Diamond and Bathory over the course of this wildly-intriguing album! What's more those varies influences oftentimes come into play over the course of one song(!) and, in a few weird cases, it's like all of those different bands/artists are playing at the same time! It's true that at times it can all be a tad bit chaotic and that on more then one occasion I got the distinct feeling that it would all make more sense if I was to say, uh-hum, "partake" in recreation "activities". Not that I would do such a thing mind you (in case the NSA or, more importantly, Mom were to read this!), but for my readers out there if that's your king then this album could be your thing! For me though, clean-headed (if not necessarily sober!) this one smoked on it's own merits and with numbers that run well-past the 4-5 minute mark this was one album that threw down the gantlet and I early accepted it! File "Kingslayer" under all things METAL and all things HEAVY and by the gods of Heaven above and hell below play this BEAST like it was meant to be played-LOUD and "Kill 'Em All And Let The Reaper Sort 'Em Out!" PROUD!
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package org.kie.pmml.models.drools.ast.factories;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;

import org.dmg.pmml.CompoundPredicate;
import org.dmg.pmml.Predicate;
import org.dmg.pmml.SimplePredicate;
import org.kie.pmml.commons.enums.ResultCode;
import org.kie.pmml.models.drools.ast.KiePMMLDroolsRule;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

/**
 * Class used to generate KiePMMLDroolsRules out of a CompoundPredicate
 */
public class KiePMMLCompoundPredicateWithResultASTFactory {

    private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(KiePMMLCompoundPredicateWithResultASTFactory.class.getName());

    /**
     * Method to be invoked when compoundPredicate.getBooleanOperator() is SURROGATE.
     * Throws exception otherwise
     * @param predicateASTFactoryData
     * @param agendaActivationGroup
     * @param result
     * @param isFinalLeaf
     */
    public static void declareRuleFromCompoundPredicateSurrogate(final PredicateASTFactoryData predicateASTFactoryData,
                                                                 final String agendaActivationGroup,
                                                                 final Object result,
                                                                 boolean isFinalLeaf) {
        logger.trace("declareRuleFromCompoundPredicateSurrogate {} {} {} {}", predicateASTFactoryData, agendaActivationGroup, result, isFinalLeaf);
        // Managing only SimplePredicates for the moment being
        CompoundPredicate compoundPredicate = (CompoundPredicate) predicateASTFactoryData.getPredicate();
        final List<Predicate> simplePredicates = compoundPredicate.getPredicates().stream().filter(predicate -> predicate instanceof SimplePredicate).collect(Collectors.toList());
        simplePredicates.forEach(predicate -> {
            SimplePredicate simplePredicate = (SimplePredicate) predicate;
            PredicateASTFactoryData newPredicateASTFactoryData = predicateASTFactoryData.cloneWithPredicate(simplePredicate);
            KiePMMLSimplePredicateASTFactory.factory(newPredicateASTFactoryData).declareRuleFromSimplePredicateSurrogate(agendaActivationGroup, result, isFinalLeaf);
        });
    }

    /**
     * Method to be invoked when compoundPredicate.getBooleanOperator() is AND, OR or
     * <XOR>XOR</XOR>. Throws exception otherwise
     * @param builder
     * @param rules
     * @param result
     * @param isFinalLeaf
     */
    public static void declareRuleFromCompoundPredicateAndOrXor(KiePMMLDroolsRule.Builder builder,
                                                                final List<KiePMMLDroolsRule> rules,
                                                                final Object result,
                                                                boolean isFinalLeaf) {
        logger.trace("declareRuleFromCompoundPredicateAndOrXor {} {} {} {}", builder, rules, result, isFinalLeaf);
        if (isFinalLeaf) {
            builder = builder.withResult(result)
                    .withResultCode(ResultCode.OK);
        }
        rules.add(builder.build());
    }
}


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lawn care companies in the United States, he said, and 98 percent of them are owner-operator run with perhaps a crew of one or two people. "They don't have a lot of resources—no back-end offices, marketing, or invoicing," he said. "Lawn Guru improves their cash flow, gives them jobs in the area they live in, and adds transparency for customers."
Durrant said Lawn Guru providers fill out an application on the company's website and undergo a vetting process to ensure they meet basic requirements: They must have their own commercial-grade equipment and submit to a background check. "Once they're approved, it's really seamless," he said.
So far, Lawn Guru is operating only in a handful of metro Detroit cities: Brighton, Milford, New Hudson, Northville, Novi, South Lyon, Walled Lake, Whitmore Lake, and Wixom. And though the field is crowded with other companies trying to digitize lawn care—two that Xconomy has written about, LawnStarter and Lawn Love, come to mind—Durrant said expansion is imminent.
"We've gotten a lot of interest from VCs, and we're working on closing big partnerships with lawn care equipment manufacturers. We predict rapid expansion—first in Michigan, and then in the Southeastern part of the U.S."
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Josef Nágr (31. prosince 1918 Trnová – ???) byl český a československý politik Komunistické strany Československa, ministr zemědělství České socialistické republiky, ministr zemědělství a výživy ČSSR a poslanec Sněmovny lidu Federálního shromáždění za normalizace.

Biografie
Po provedení federalizace Československa byl ministr zemědělství České socialistické republiky v letech 1971–1976 v druhé vládě Josefa Korčáka. Roku 1976 pak přešel na post ministra zemědělství a výživy ČSSR, který zastával v letech 1976–1983 v druhé vládě Lubomíra Štrougala, třetí vládě Lubomíra Štrougala a čtvrté vládě Lubomíra Štrougala.

Ve volbách roku 1976 usedl do Sněmovny lidu (volební obvod č. 109 - Znojmo-Třebíč, Jihomoravský kraj). Ve Federálním shromáždění setrval do konce funkčního období, tedy do voleb roku 1981.

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DAWN - Features; 30 June, 2004
MMA and the NSC
By A.R. Siddiqi
The MMA's boycott of the inaugural session of the National Security Council remains a sort of a 'riddle inside an enigma'. How would the MMA be able to reconcile its support of the passage of the controversial (and basically undemocratic) Legal Framework Order (17th Amendment) with its boycott of the NSC - an integral part and off-shoot of the LFO? Regardless of polemics, the MMA marshalled its parliamentary vote for the LFO as an expedient pro-democracy measure, irrespective of the fact that the LFO tended to violate both the letter and the spirit of the Constitution.
How can a popularly elected parliament through a joint session at all allow an elected president to stay in his military uniform as army chief even for a short period of time? Ayub, Yahya and Zia all forged devices like LFOs and 'Continuance in Force' laws to legitimize their regimes by an extra-parliamentary executive fiat.
Ayub Khan and Ziaul Haq had their parliaments indemnify their constitutional violations to close the chapter of their coups. Only Yahya ended with his boots around his neck as a vanquished general.
Pliant and muted through Yahya's disastrous reign, the superior judiciary came into action only after his fall to brand him a 'usurper'. Never before, however, it fell to the sad lot of an elected parliament to vote for an army chief to combine in his person the brass and the bowler hat even as an expedient move.
Political pragmatism is not the same as party or individual opportunism. While the pragmatist knows where to stop, the opportunist fails to resist the fatal attraction of yet another chance, yet another pasture new around the corner.
The MMA's supreme council must ask itself whether or not by supporting the passage of the LFO they did indeed commit a terminal error of judgement. And whether they did not sacrifice their reputedly principled party politics at the altar of expediency and opportunism.
Worse still, they did so at the cost of the united front they had forged with such mainstream parties as the PPP and the Muslim League-N. A major compromise was made with Gen. Pervez Musharraf's regime, now invoking the NSC as the main plank of its future governance.
If such were to be the end of the military-mullah alliance, it should not be difficult to see who is the loser. The nexus has been a part of our history, either marginally as under Ayub Khan or covertly as under Yahya Khan or naked and deeply written into the system as under Ziaul Haq.
Ayub's secularism as part of the military culture of British Indian Army was like an open book without any fine print. Even the prefix Islamic attaching to the Republic of Pakistan was dropped until restored under the writ of superior judiciary.
That continued to be the case until the fateful day of 1965 when India attacked Pakistan along the international border, with Lahore as its principal target. Even in his first address to the nation within hours of the Indian invasion, Ayub went on to recite the 'Kalama-i-Tayyaba' in a stirring, emotion-choked voice.
His subsequent meeting with religious parties - mainly the Jamaat-i-Islami under Maulana 'Abul 'Ala Maududi - marked the beginning of the military-mullah nexus. Yahya would not have much to do with things spiritual until the induction of retired Maj.-Gen. Sher Ali Khan into his cabinet as minister in-charge of information and national affairs.
He initiated Yahya into ideological lore and saddled him with the mission of protecting the 'ideology of Pakistan and the glory of Islam'. Yahya's intelligence chief, Major-(later Lieut.) Gen. Muhammad Akbar Khan made no secret of his close liaison with the Jamaat-i-Islami especially in respect of its pro-active role in East Pakistan.
The Jamaat was to go even to the extent of certifying Yahya's draft constitution as Islamic. The draft was authored by Justice A.R. Cornelius, Yahya's law minister. As for Zia, he embarked on his Islamization programme even as he assumed his army command.
He gave the army the triple motto of 'Iman, Taqwa, Jihad fi Sibil Lillah'. Subsequently, as president, he introduced the Hudood Ordinance and collaborated with the Americans in projecting the Soviet-Afghan war as a jihad. The country continues to pay the bitter wages of Zia's jihad syndrome.
Gen Musharraf continued to recognize the Taliban's radical Islamic regime as a legacy of the Nawaz Sharif period and extend muted support to the Kashmiri mujahideen until 9/11.
That was the turning point and the defining moment for the future shape of relations between a para-secular government on the one hand and jihad-oriented, religious groups on the other.
Musharraf relented on his temporal stance vis-a-vis the religious group under the pressure of political necessity during the general election of October 2002. He placed the mullahs at par with university graduates to qualify for membership of his 'graduate' assembly.
The mullahs returned with strength sufficient to form coalition governments in the NWFP and Balochistan. Once in power they gradually and subtly clanged their religion-based stance into realpolitik where it suited their interest.
They supported the LFO to extract from Musharraf the promise that he would shed his uniform by the end of 2004. However, when it came to endorsing the NSC by an act of parliament, they abstained from voting.
Hence the present crisis. The MMA's Supreme Council, in no uncertain terms, declared its resolve to 'scrap' the NSC when it 'obtains a simple majority in the house'. The inaugural session of the NSC (June 24) was off to an unhappy and not a little ill-tempered start.
Chairing the session, the president was livid over the absence of the leader of the opposition, Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and NWFP Chief Minister Akram Durrani. He took particular note of the latter absenting himself as a government functionary - a somewhat strange observation to make about an elected public leader with a party mandate of his own.
The president spoke spiritedly and at some length on the rationale and functions of the NSC. Prior to the NSC, he said, there was no forum where 'key functionaries' including the opposition, provincial heads and armed forces chiefs could debate issues of national importance and 'exercise checks on each other and lend support to each other'.
Of course, the defence committee of the cabinet (DCC) was always there, but hardly as a body as comprehensive as the NSC. The question now is: what other body could be either more comprehensive and competent to discuss and resolve all issues of national importance than an elected parliament? Even in the context of a best-case scenario, it won't be easy to rule out a perpetually difficult relationship between parliament and the NSC.
- The writer is a retired brigadier of the Pakistan Army.
Keeping literary scene alive
By Hasan Abidi
A silence has settled on the literary zone of Karachi, partly because of the hot and humid weather and partly due to the law and order problems encountered almost daily by the citizens.
But the city is fortunate to have small cultural units such as Bazm-i-Adab and Halqa-i-Fikro Danish - in New Karachi, Federal B Area, Landhi, Malir, Drigh Colony and many other areas.
These organizations continue to slog on in the most trying of circumstances and manage to hold mushairas and literary sittings at weekends. Some popular poets are much in demand. After reciting a ghazal at one place, they rush to the other end of the city to participate in another mushaira. In this way, the poets keep the literary scene alive.
One literary body, Halqa-i-Fikr-i-Jadeed, even chose a weekday (Wednesday) to hold a mushaira in honour of a poet from the Northern Areas who was returning home the very next day.
Saima Ali, with a published poetry collection to her credit, is a teacher of mathematics at an institute. She recited her fresh ghazals, which drew applause from everyone, with her emphasis on the uncertainties of life and the unjust world order.
Other poets also took part in the evening's proceedings. Rehana Ehsan recited the following lines:
Ya rab ab mein zinda rehna chahti hoon
Merey ghar mein phoolon jaisey bachey haen
A couplet from Salman Siddiqui was much admired:
Yeh shaher hai ke koee zakham hai lagaya hua
Yeh zakham hai to issey indimal chaheye hai.
Appropriate advice to those in power came from Qamer Jamali:
Masley hal naheen hotey sharar afshani sey
Dil jhulas jatey hein nafrat ki farawani sey.
Mushairas have developed a strong institutional base. In a recent interview with an Urdu weekly, poet Wasim Barelvi spoke of how he kept himself awake in mushairas 20 to 23 nights a month. The practice, he said, he had been following for the last 35 years.
Thus, roughly three-fourths of Wasim Barelvi's conscious life has been devoted to mushairas. That at least testifies to the stamina of our mushaira poets. They also serve Urdu as they carry its message to the farthest corner of the world and thus expand the area of its popularity.
Whether this is contributing to the scope and richness of the language is a different question. Urdu continues to lack a strong economic and social base, and while poetry has its appeal, we need Urdu books on sociology, physical sciences and current affairs.
Something else that Wasim Barelvi said in the interview needs to be noticed. He said somewhat proudly that he had found his place in literature not through 'chai khanas' and 'qehva khanas', but through libraries.
His derisive assessment of tea houses and coffee houses may not be true. These have served as cultural centres in cities the world over, including Pakistan and India, and have stimulated intellectual activity.
In fact, the gradual disappearance of such cafes in our cities as gathering places for writers, poets and artists should be seen as one of the factors responsible for the decline in creativity and informed debate.
Coffee houses in Lucknow, Allahabad, Delhi, Lahore and Karachi of yore had their own fascination, intellectual charm and grace, adorned by the presence of poets, university teachers, politicians, actors and bureaucrats. Exchange of ideas among them, followed by heated arguments and light banter, provided a link between literature and the real life.
Lahore's Tea House over the years became an institution in itself. Nasir Kazmi, Ejaz Batalvi, Shohrat Bokhari and in later days Habib Jalib and Safdar Mir had enlivened the place with their presence.
Karachi's Coffee House had a short life. It was eaten up by the vicious and rapid growth of commercialization in the city, particularly in Saddar. The late story writer and television producer Hameed Kashmiri wrote a nostalgic play under the title of Coffee House about those days - days now almost forgotten, like the Coffee House itself.
Shansur Rahman Farooqui has been very much in the news lately. A revised edition of his book - Afsaney ki himayat mein - has just appeared in Karachi. Another, a collection of his letters, titled Shams-i-Kabir, has also been published. The letters were addressed to Kabir Ahmad Jaesi.
A poetry collection, Harf harf aaena, by senior poet Parveen Haider has also been recently published with comments from many stalwarts - Dr Farman Fatehpuri, Dr Pirzada Qasim, Prof Afaq Siddiqui, and others.
It seems most authors and poets are not always confident of themselves and want to have their success testified by winning favourable comments from the maximum number of colleagues.
Short story writer Ahmad Yusuf was in the city from India. Author of four story collections and a collection of reportages, he had visited Karachi a few years ago when in a small circle of writers, he had read out his story 'Aag ke hamsai' based on Indra Gandhi's emergency rule. It is a symbolic story, its contents craftily woven in simple prose, the author's hallmark.
Ahmad Yusuf began his writing career in 1947-48, when the progressive writers movement was at its peak. In 1960, he was one of the active members of the modernist movement. He was the guest at a couple of functions held in New Karachi.
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The Colonial Pipeline, which supplies oil to the east coast of the US, is said to have temporarily suspended all pipeline operations after the theft.
A pipeline operator in the United States has been forced to shut down the entire network following a cyber attack, the company said.
Colonel Colonel said a words late Friday that he was the victim of a "cybersecurity attack".
"In response, we took other offline systems to address the threat, which has halted all pipeline operations, and affected some of the IT's," it said.
The Colonial colonial network supplies oil from U.S. oil producers in the Gulf Coast to the eastern and southern United States.
The company delivers 2.5 million barrels a day of oil, diesel, jet fuel and other refined pipelines through 8,850km (5,500 miles) pipelines.
The colonial pipeline is said to export 45% of oil east of the coast.
Mike Chapple, a professor at Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame and a former computer scientist with the US National Security Agency.
This 2016 file photo shows cars near the Colonial Pipeline in Helena, Alabama [File: Brynn Anderson/AP Photo]
"The closure of the pipeline sends the message that major weapons in our country continue to be at risk of cyber threats," Chapple told Reuters news agency.
In a statement, the company said it had hired an independent business company to investigate the fraud and liaise with law enforcement officials and US officials.
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My target for 2007 is to have a 16 handicap.
Just started a Fantasy Golf League on Yahoo.
Never did golf before but lets see how it goes.
I play a lot of golf and have a handicap of about 8, the problem is that from October to the end of March you cant play around here because it is so feckin cold so I take the odd long weekend and head off to warmer climes to get to play a bit, now this really messes with your game and handicap because I would play off about twelve or thirteen in the winter months and I get back down to 7 or eight just as the season is coming to an end and that blows.
The great thing is that I can join a good club over here for $500.00 and play all summer long, I used to play warrenpoint back in the day and it cost me about 22 quid for 18 holes and I shudder to think what it costs now.
Thanks square ball. One of these years I am going to come home to play in the harps outing but I really want to play the point to see how much I have improved, the last time I played it I shot an 87 but I think I can do a bit better, it is a lovely course.
Armagh Golf Course is really getting worse, every time I go home I play there and it is in worse shape.
Bought the PING G5 driver last summer. Its the real deal. PLayed to about 5 shots below handicap after about 4 weeks.
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Chris J. Stewart July 9, 2020
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & MADRID–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Moderna, Inc. (Nasdaq: MRNA), a clinical stage biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines to create a new generation of transformative medicines, and Laboratorios Farmacéuticos Rovi, S.A. (BME: ROVI), a pan-European pharmaceutical company specializing and engaging in the research, development, contract manufacturing and marketing of small molecules and biological specialties, today announced a collaboration for large-scale, commercial fill-finish manufacturing of Moderna's mRNA vaccine candidate against COVID-19 (mRNA-1273) at ROVI's facility in Madrid, Spain.
As part of the agreement, ROVI will provide vial filling and packaging capacity by procuring a new production line and equipment for compounding, filling, automatic visual inspection and labeling to support production of hundreds of millions of doses of the vaccine candidate intended in principle to supply markets outside of the U.S. starting in early 2021. ROVI will also hire additional staffing required to support manufacturing operations and production.
"Moderna is committed to helping address the COVID-19 crisis. We are pleased to partner with ROVI to potentially supply hundreds of millions of doses of finished mRNA-1273, once approved, and help address the need for a vaccine against COVID-19 around the world," said Juan Andres, Moderna's Chief Technology Operations and Quality Officer. "ROVI's experience as a global manufacturer of drug product and expertise in fill-finish will be an important partnership for us to establish dedicated supply chains that can meet the needs of different countries and regions. I am delighted to be working with ROVI again."
"We are very happy about the collaboration with Moderna, whose vaccine against COVID-19 is one of the frontrunners in the race to solve this health crisis. We would be thrilled for ROVI to form part of the solution to this pandemic that is affecting all of us and to support Moderna in supplying it on a wide scale. Our proven experience and capabilities as a toll manufacturer of injectables has allowed us to reach this agreement, which would help strengthen our manufacturing area and would, in all probability, provide us with a significant growth opportunity in the area. Likewise, I would like to thank the Ministry of Health and the Spanish Medicines Agency for making themselves available and providing their support, which has been of fundamental importance, during this entire process," said Juan López-Belmonte, Chief Executive Officer of ROVI.
About mRNA-1273, Moderna's Vaccine Candidate Against COVID-19
mRNA-1273 is an mRNA vaccine candidate against COVID-19 encoding for a prefusion stabilized form of the Spike (S) protein, which was selected by Moderna in collaboration with investigators from Vaccine Research Center (VRC) at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). On July 8, the Company's Phase 2 study of mRNA-1273 completed enrollment. Moderna's Phase 3 study of approximately 30,000 participants, is expected to begin in July 2020.
About Moderna
Moderna is advancing messenger RNA (mRNA) science to create a new class of transformative medicines for patients and to protect populations from vaccines preventable diseases. mRNA medicines are designed to direct the body's cells to produce intracellular, membrane or secreted proteins that can have a therapeutic or preventive benefit and have the potential to address a broad spectrum of diseases. The company's platform builds on continuous advances in basic and applied mRNA science, delivery technology and manufacturing, providing Moderna the capability to pursue in parallel a robust pipeline of new development candidates. Moderna is developing therapeutics and vaccines for infectious diseases, immuno-oncology, rare diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, independently and with strategic collaborators.
Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., Moderna currently has strategic alliances for development programs with AstraZeneca PLC and Merck & Co., Inc., as well as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense, and Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), a division of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Moderna has been named a top biopharmaceutical employer by Science for the past five years. To learn more, visit www.modernatx.com.
About ROVI
ROVI is a pan-European pharmaceutical company specializing and engaging in the research, development, contract manufacturing and marketing of small molecules and biological specialties. The company, in a continuous international expansion process, has subsidiaries in Portugal, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy France and Poland, and has a diversified marketing portfolio of more than 40 products, among which its flagship product, Bemiparin, which is already marketed in 56 countries all over the world, should be highlighted. Likewise, in 2017, ROVI commenced the marketing of its in-house developed enoxaparin biosimilar in Europe. ROVI continues to develop the ISM® Platform technology, a leading-edge line of research in the field of prolonged drug release with proven advantages. For more information, please visit www.rovi.es.
Moderna's Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended, including regarding the Company's development of a potential vaccine against the novel coronavirus, the scope of the Company's manufacturing collaboration with ROVI, the potential number of doses to be provided under the collaboration, the timing of supply of mRNA-1273 outside of the U.S., and the timing of the planned Phase 3 study of mRNA-1273. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "will," "may," "should," "could", "expects," "intends," "plans," "aims," "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "predicts," "potential," "continue," or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology, although not all forward-looking statements contain these words. The forward-looking statements in this press release are neither promises nor guarantees, and you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements because they involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors, many of which are beyond Moderna's control and which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks, uncertainties, and other factors include, among others: the fact that there has never been a commercial product utilizing mRNA technology approved for use; the fact that the manufacturing infrastructure required to manufacture mRNA-1273 by Moderna is still being developed and implemented; the fact that the safety and efficacy of mRNA-1273 has not yet been established; potential adverse impacts due to the global COVID-19 pandemic such as delays in regulatory review, manufacturing and clinical trials, supply chain interruptions, adverse effects on healthcare systems and disruption of the global economy; and those other risks and uncertainties described under the heading "Risk Factors" in Moderna's most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and in subsequent filings made by Moderna with the SEC, which are available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Except as required by law, Moderna disclaims any intention or responsibility for updating or revising any forward-looking statements contained in this press release in the event of new information, future developments or otherwise. These forward-looking statements are based on Moderna's current expectations and speak only as of the date hereof.
ROVI's Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains forward-looking statements. Such forward looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which might cause the actual results, financial condition, performance, or achievements of ROVI or industry results, to be materially different from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward looking statements. These risks, uncertainties, and other factors include, among others: the fact that there has never been a commercial product utilizing mRNA technology approved for use; the fact that the manufacturing infrastructure required to manufacture mRNA-1273 is still being developed and implemented; the fact that the safety and efficacy of mRNA-1273 has not yet been established; potential adverse impacts due to the global COVID-19 pandemic such as delays in regulatory review, manufacturing and supply chain interruptions, adverse effects on healthcare systems and disruption of the global economy. The statements in this press release represent ROVI's expectations and beliefs as of the date of this press release. ROVI anticipates that subsequent events and developments may cause these expectations and beliefs to change. However, while ROVI may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, it specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing ROVI's expectations or beliefs as of any date subsequent to the date of this press release.
Colleen Hussey
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Lavina Talukdar
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Beatriz García Suárez
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Marta Campos Martínez
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Antonio Marquina Ospina
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Chris J. Stewart
Chris currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of Surgio Health as well as COO at Ortho Spine Partners. Chris has close to 20 years of healthcare management experience with an infinity to improve healthcare delivery through the development and implementation of innovative solutions that solve real problems that result in improved efficiencies, reduction of unnecessary financial & clinical variation, and help drive better patient outcomes. Previously, Chris was assistant vice president and business unit leader for HPG/HCA. He has presented at numerous healthcare forums on topics that include disruptive innovation, physician engagement, shifting reimbursement models, cost per clinical episode and the future of supply chain delivery.
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Michigan Becomes 26th State
On January 26, 1837, President Andrew Jackson approved Michigan's bid for statehood.
French explorer Étienne Brûlé was likely the first European to visit Michigan when he explored the area around 1620. In 1634, Quebec Governor Samuel de Champlain sent Jean Nicolet to search for a route to the Pacific Ocean. Nicolet sailed through the Straits of Mackinac and explored the Upper Peninsula. In 1660, Father René Ménard established a Jesuit mission at Keweenaw Bay. The first permanent settlement was created by Father Jacques Marquette at Sault Ste. Marie in 1668.
France and Great Britain struggled for control of North America during the late 1600s and 1700s. By 1763, France was defeated and forced to relinquish control of most of its North American colonies. That same year, the Ottawa Indian Chief Pontiac led an uprising and massacred the British at Fort Michilimackinac and attacked several other forts. Pontiac's forces laid siege to Detroit for five months, but were eventually turned away. In 1774, the British made Michigan a part of the province of Quebec.
After the Revolutionary War ended in 1783, America gained the Michigan area. However, the British kept control of Detroit and Fort Mackinac until 1796, to control the valuable fur trade. In 1787, Michigan became part of the first territory organized by the U.S. government, the Northwest Territory. A section of Michigan was organized as part of the Indiana Territory in 1800, and by 1803, all of Michigan was in the Indiana Territory. In 1805, Congress created the Territory of Michigan, which included the Lower Peninsula and the eastern portion of the Upper Peninsula. The British reclaimed Detroit and Fort Mackinac during the War of 1812. American forces took Detroit in 1813, but Fort Mackinac remained in British hands until 1814, after the war had ended. Many new settlers from the East came to Michigan when the Erie Canal was completed in 1825.
A constitutional convention was held, and on October 5, 1835, the people ratified the state's constitution. However, Congress delayed Michigan's admittance to the Union due to a dispute with Ohio over the Toledo area. Congress settled this in 1836 by giving the "Toledo Strip" to Ohio and the entire Upper Peninsula to Michigan. Finally, Michigan became the 26th state to join the Union on January 26, 1837.
In 1842, Michigan obtained Isle Royale and the Keweenaw Peninsula in a treaty with the Indians. It was discovered that the western portion of the Upper Peninsula was an important source of minerals. The Upper Peninsula quickly developed a thriving mining industry. The need to ship ore to the iron and steel centers on the Great Lakes resulted in the construction of the Soo Canal, which was completed in 1855. The Soo Canal allowed ships to pass between Lake Superior and Lake Huron.
In a thirty-year period, from 1870 to 1900, Michigan's population more than doubled. The lumber industry developed rapidly. Huge amounts of land were cleared as large numbers of farmers settled in the area. Then in the late 1800s and early 1900s, Olds Motor Works and Ford Motor Company transformed Detroit into the center of the nation's automobile industry. Later, during both World Wars, Michigan's industrial might aided the war effort greatly. Factories built trucks, armored vehicles, airplane engines, and more.
The April 4, 2002 release of the Greetings From America sheet marked the first time a U.S. postage stamp was issued on the same day in every state.
The Greetings from America stamps are reminiscent of the large-letter greetings postcards that vacationing tourists of the 1930s and 1940s sent back home. In addition to the state name, each stamp contains images identified with that state.
Michigan-native Henry Ford developed the assembly line system to mass-produce affordable automobiles. He helped make Detroit the "Automobile Capital of the World."
The state bird, flower, tree, capital, and date of statehood appear on the back of the liner release paper.
This is the fifth U.S. pane of 50 different stamps. The first to be issued was the State Flags pane in 1976, in honor of the nation's bicentennial.
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