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Transportation from the airport to Kowloon or Central Hong Kong by ultra high speed train (tickets and instructions included). If you arrive early in the day, take a stroll in any direction and encounter a cross-section of Hong Kong's colorful history, from colonial-era facades and sky scraping architectural fantasies, to neon-splashed canyons of commerce and housing developments. Our local guide is available to join you for dinner and introduce you to the local gay scene tonight or on another night during your stay (Friday or Saturday nights are busiest).
One of favorite Hong Kong highlights will be the fabled Star Ferry from Hong Kong Island over to the Kowloon side of the harbor to ogle the electric fantasia of Hong Kong Island's skyline. gay nightlife on Hong Kong Island orbits the outrageous Lan Kwai Fong entertainment district where you can hop onto the world's longest escalator for a ride up to the gay bar area in Central or the international restaurant district of Soho.
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Many first-timers will want to head up to the top of Victoria Peak , via the vertiginous Peak Tram, to the highest spot on the island for incredible views of the city and harbor. Antique aficionados will love to poke around Hollywood Road in Central.
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If you have visited Hong Kong before, another option is to travel by ferry to one of the nearby islands. On these automobile-free islets you can see a slower, quieter side of daily life in South China and sample some of the best seafood around.
Day Three: Stay Longer or Find Another Adventure?
Extend your stay another day to visit the fabulous old Portuguese enclave of Macau . Otherwise, explore Vanishing Hong Kong in the morning or enjoy the free time until your departure for the airport for flights onward.
A quick taxi ride takes you to the train station in either Kowloon or Hong Kong Island. Your airport check-in desk is just a few steps from the curb. Collect your boarding pass on the spot. Leave your luggage with the airline's check-in desk and you won't have to touch it again until you arrive at your destination. It's the perfect ending to a fun visit to Hong Kong .


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Vol. 15 Nbr. 8, November 2010
Middle East label markets: the region's sustained growth is fueled by a growing urban population and an increased demand for consumer goods.
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Author: Katz, Steve
There is no place on earth like the Middle East. Populated by diverse and sometimes polarizing cultures, the atmosphere is intense. Religion, politics and economics are always hot topics, and the region perpetually makes headlines. And when it comes to the label industry, the Middle East is emerging, like Latin America and Asia, yet also is somewhat insulated from the Western world. That is a differentiating factor, and perhaps one that fuels growth and protects the region from some of the economic problems that have confounded Europe and North America in recent years.
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According to Pira International, a strategic consulting firm for the global paper, packaging, printing and publishing industries, the label business in the Middle East has increased from about $150 million in 2000 to $225 million in 2009, and generally remained stable in the face of the global recession between 2008 and 2009. Regarding the label industry, Pira reports: "Continued growth is anticipated in the sector over the next five years with total expenditure expected to reach almost $340 million in 2015, measured at constant 2009 prices. Saudi Arabia will account for about half of this market."
In general, the firm says that demand for labels in the region is seeing sustained growth, fueled by a number of factors, including an increasingly urbanized population, and growing demand for processed foods. Also, "the ongoing modernization of traditional retailing and a number of government incentives to promote non-oil industries are in turn encouraging growth in the food and FMCG industries," states Pira International.
With the growing label market, there is also an increasing demand for higher quality graphics, the firm reports, which is not only to satisfy more discerning local consumers, but also in export markets where products compete for global shelf space in the world's supermarkets. "In this respect," Pira reports, "traditional print processes such as offset, gravure and flexography currently dominate the higher graphics end of the market, although advances in electrophotographic and inkjet technology will see this dominance eroded over the medium to long term."
Equipment and processes
Some suppliers, and even some of the region's converters, attest that specific areas of growth in the Middle East can be difficult to quantify. However, professionals within the region, as well as abroad, concur that the growth is real, and hard evidence can be found in equipment purchasing.
"The label market has been experiencing year over year growth and equipment sales have soared almost 100 percent," says Diana El Kara, press officer for Dynagraph, a printing equipment supplier headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. She also notes that growth has taken place in countries where it was least expected, namely Jordan and Lebanon. "Dominant players in the Middle East are Mark Andy, Gallus and Nilpeter. Others are present, however, and their impact on the industry happens to be regional-for example, Gidue leads the Jordanian market with its Combat press."
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NRA Museums Receives Pioneering Woman Shooter's Pistol
by NRABlog Staff - Monday, February 29, 2016
In the late summer of 2014 the international pistol community lost one of the foremothers of their sport when Lt. Col Sallie Carroll, USA (Ret.) passed away. Sallie began her decorated military career in 1952 with the US Army Air Force before becoming a commissioned officer in the US Marines and finally retiring as a US Army Lt. Colonel in 1975. She served in Vietnam April 1971 - April 1972 and received a Bronze Star for "meritorious achievement during operations against an armed emery of the U.S."
Sallie was a vital member of the US Army Marksmanship Unit, winning numerous national and international shooting awards, and helped pioneer the elite group's inclusion of women shooters. She won the NRA Women's Pistol Championship four times, the World Ladies Air Pistol Championship, and was on the gold medal teams of the 1970 World Championships and 1979 World Air Championships, to scratch the surface of her success.
In 2006 Sallie was inducted to both the USAMU Hall of Fame and International Pistol Hall of Fame for her incredible accomplishments. Those who knew her described her as a friend, mentor, and "a woman of a different caliber." Her involvement with the Vietnam Women Veterans Association, Women Marines Association, Women of the Air Force Association, American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Disabled American Veterans, is a testament to her compassion and desire to help others. Sallie's Place, an affordable housing development in Phoenix, Arizona, for homeless and near-homeless mothers who are veterans single veterans, will be opening later this year.
From the early 1960s until the 70s, Sallie hosted women's pistol clinics at the National Pistol Championships at Camp Perry, Ohio. Ask anyone who attended one of the events and they'll probably still be able to recount one of Sallie's favorite sayings when instructing women, "Watch your front sight, squeeze the trigger, and don't wear a boat neck blouse unless you plan on doing the hot brass shuffle."
This Fienwerkbau Model 65 .177 air pistol was used by Sallie Carroll to great effect in international competition and was donated to the NRA National Firearms Museum by her estate this past January. It will soon be proudly placed on display alongside other firearms owned by the most impressive competition shooters our country has ever seen.
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To the OP, I've given up on discussing this very issue with my fundamentalist friends.
One is an incredibly intelligent woman, who is agile and flexible on any matter except her religion. Which she advocates with an endless series of biblical quotations. When such a topic arises, I can see the glaze appear in her eyes, her voice rises, and she begins quoting verse after verse...and substantiates their literal authority by saying that the Bible is the Word of God and cannot be abridged, related, interpreted, colored, considered, contextualized (see how that word plays per the above) except as literal.
Oh, and when I used to point out an inherent contradiction in verses, she rolls her eyes and replies something like, "Well, of course the real meaning of the verses removes any contradiction." Fruitless.
It is as if the Bible consists of a collection of very large number (∞) of randomly independent verses by different authors who have no connection to each other or to any overarching thread.
So, I avoid Biblical discussion (wrong word -- listening to an endless, repetitive monologue is more accurate) with her and her ilk.
No, Denise Dee, you are simply wrong here. You are conflating two distinct usages of 'literal,' one pertaining to the exact meaning of individual words, the other pertaining to the interpretation of texts. The literal meaning of 'pull' and 'leg' is 'drag' and 'lower appendage.' But the literal interpretation of "you are pulling my leg" is not "you are dragging my lower appendage" but "you are joking [with me]." Because when we literally interpret a text, we are interpreting the text as a whole, and looking for its meaning. That is what literal interpretation means. This is textual, and not just biblical, interpretation 101.
Doom is speaking of the interpretation of a phrase used in a text or in a conversation and you maintain, wrongly, that literal interpretation is about interpreting each word individually, out of context. That is not now, and has never been, the case.
If there were only one "literal" meaning, there would be no thesauri. Or brontosauri. And the word "synonym" would be bereft of meaning. Plus "in other words" would not be much used.
Doom is speaking of the interpretation of a phrase used in a text or in a conversation and you maintain, wrongly, that literal interpretation is about interpreting each word individually, out of context. That is not now and has never been, the case.
That is a good explanation.
In the realm of "for what it's worth," the older sense of "literal interpretation" Doom, CC, and others are using is conveyed in the literature I've ready over the years by the term "primary meaning." The term "literal", especially sense Frege, has so many nuances in so many cases that it's all but useless. It is argued, for instance, that if I point to someone and say, "He is thirsty," and the person really is thirsty in the ordinary sense, my words still are not "literal" because "literal" is to be understood as meaning derived exclusively from the conventions of the particular language. So "he" in English is a demonstrative pronoun that does not, by convention, refer to any particular person. So you need further distinctions, because no one would really want to say that "he is literal" is then in some sense figurative.
In my own assessment, this entire discussion is a bit of a tempest in a teapot. Doom just used a term ("literal") in a particular way following a particular, even if ancient (and largely sectarian), school of thought. The way he used the term is decidedly not how it is used in popular speech, and so CC's defense, on one hand correct, is overstated when claiming that DD's usage has "never" been the held. DD's use is, in fact, the popular use, even if it isn't the on that either modern linguistics or classical philosophers use. I find myself in exactly the same place when I use words like "potentiality" or "final cause" in philosophical discussions. I'm using such words in a particular way, and if someone complains I'm using the word in the wrong way, it's my role to simply point out the tradition in which I am using them and in what words they ought to understand my meaning. The conversation about whether or not the word is "right" or "wrong" is entirely beside the point.
Here is a picture of a very cute kitten. It is, by far, the most important thing posted in this entire thread, and it should make everyone feel better.
And here is another picture of a cute kitten with a funny (because of it's incongruence) text included.
The second pic is literally captivating.
I prefer puppies. Let the contention continue.
I am scared of cats and dogs.
What happened is that he used the word in a way you didn't expect. That doesn't make it wrong. That means you can ask for an explanation, say, "Oh, okay, I wasn't expecting that, but I see what you mean," and move along.
For example, if I say 'you are pulling my leg', the literal interpretation of this expression is 'you are teasing me or telling me a joke', however, if you think it means that I am accusing you of grabbing one of my appendages, you aren't being literal, you are being literalistic.
Ask any English teacher. To refuse to acknowledge that it is wrong is verging on gaslighting, but I have enough knowledge of the English language not to be misled.
Could we try it a fifth?
Always enjoy quoting myself. But I have to consider the source.
Upon reflection, those puppies literally melted my heart.


In 1991, the French film critic Serge Daney – one of the last representatives of a cinephile tradition marked by the experience of the Second World War, now in full acknowledgement of his imminent death – founded a new magazine called Trafic. The magazine's mission statement expressed its dedication "to the circulation of jotted-down parcels of experience, whose common trait is their mutual origin in the existence of cinema as an art-form. Nothing more, nothing less." Daney's attempt to document those experiences, together with his recoupling of cinema and the 'outside world', was clearly meant as an act of opposition. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the very age that had celebrated both the advent of post-history and the collapse of political polyphony also proclaimed the death of cinema as such. With these dark clouds gathering above him, Daney yet dared to make a hopeful proposition: "Is there, between the spectacle of images and the absence of images, a space left for 'the art to co-exist with images' – this by demanding the human comprehensibility of those images (lest we gain better understanding of them, of who made them and how, what they are capable of, and how they resonate with our world) while simultaneously preserving their inhuman, bewildering, ambiguous, and transgressive residue?" The very act of writing about cinema fosters the act of talking about cinema, as a way to relate to cinema, to share cinema, and thus to see cinema. We take in more from things when we feel capable of putting them into words, or when we suddenly feel ourselves able to recall them in our memory. In similar fashion, the 'Prisma' – a short series of apercus jointly published by the film magazine Filmmagie and the online platform Sabzian – aims to track down remarkable moments in contemporary film culture. As a format, it remains averse to projected certainties, treating these moments as if they were tidings from a constant history of forms and fictions. They thereby imply a vision of cinema as a prism that may break up light, but equally disperses it; curves it, but also steers it in a determinate direction; catches it, only to finally release it.
This Prisma was published as 'Prisma #1' in Filmmagie #671, january 2017.


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Carlito Thomas, professionally known as Freak Nasty is an American hip hop recording artist and record producer from Atlanta, Georgia. He was raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is best known for his Top 40 single "Da Dip" released in 1996 which was a sleeper hit, and ultimately went mainstream in the summer 1997; it later peaked number 15 on the Hot 100. Later he released "Do What U Feel" from the album Which Way is Up, but it failed to reach the success of the previous song, making it to 87 on the Hot R&B charts.
Freak Nasty began his career as a DJ and a hip hop producer. He was one of two, in a group called PMW. He then found success in Atlanta, Georgia with his first album Freak Nasty, selling close to 300,000 units. His next album Controversee... That's Life... And That's the Way It Is, was a much bigger hit and sold over 5 million units, mainly due to his smash hit single "Da' Dip", which peaked at number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2007, the single "Do It Just Like a Rockstar", peaked at number 45 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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[Nas]
Peace, how you?
I ain't mean to be late, it was my night to watch my little girl.
It's chilly out here.
What happened, you crying?
Y'all got into it again, huh?
See you gotta let em know, from the jump, I don't care who they are, or who they with.
Yeah, I know they know we talking.
Why don't they just leave us alone?
I know it's hard for them to understand people like us can love each other.
Come on, stop cryin' now.
Oh, there's something I gotta tell you, I heard they watching you, yeah they watching you.
They watching me too.
But there ain't no reason to get low, I'm proud, I'm here.
You know, I'ma stand up for you, no matter what; and I know you'll stand up for me.
I don't have no doubt about you being true to me.
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So study, be strong, don't cry no more.
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Connie Britton Had to Be Talked Into Returning for the 'Nashville' Series Finale
Wendy Hermanson
Wendy Hermanson Published: July 28, 2018
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When Connie Britton made a touching return to Nashville in the very last minutes of the series' finale on Thursday night (July 26), appearing to Charles Esten in a flashback as his character Deacon Claybourne is preparing to take the stage at the Ryman Auditorium, fans were wildly moved by the plot twist that ultimately reunited the entire cast.
However successful this proved to be with viewers, Britton herself had some hesitations. The actress admits that she had to be talked into doing it: Her character, Rayna Jaymes, was killed off in a car accident during Season 5, and Britton wasn't totally keen on playing a spirit.
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"I'll admit: When they first called me to do it, I was a little against it," she relates to TVLine. "Because I thought, 'Rayna's gone. And I don't like the idea of having her come back as a ghost."
Series creator Callie Khouri was able to get Britton to come around, after discussing various ways Rayna's character could be included in the finale. The very final scene featured the entire cast, past and present, reuniting for a live performance of "A Life That's Good," and that angle convinced Britton.
"[Khouri] told me about the last moment on the Ryman stage, and I loved the idea of that," Britton says. "So we made it happen."
After a bit of scheduling trickery to work around Britton's time constraints (she's currently in production for the upcoming series Dirty John), she shot her scenes in two days, and everyone involved was thrilled with the results.
"I think you'll agree that that stage wouldn't have been the same — especially the gang's all here [number] — without Connie," notes Esten.
Britton played Jaymes on Nashville's first four seasons on ABC. The character was a fading country superstar trying to stage a comeback while raising her kids, and also juggling a complicated love life and starting her own record label.
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I am a big fan of the different signs and art used on the Dukes of Hazzard. I hope to one day meet the set designers that created the graphics and signs used on my favorite show! In this post, I wanted to feature some of the different mail boxes seen throughout the series.


U.S. Border Patrol Agent Juan David Ortiz, who confessed to shooting four women in the head and leaving their bodies on rural Texas roadsides, has been indicted on a capital murder charge.
A grand jury decided to upgrade the charge to capital murder against Juan David Ortiz, said Webb County District Attorney Isidro Alaniz at a news conference.
"The reason we are pursuing the death penalty ... is based on the horrific nature of the murders and his complete disregard for human life," he said. "... Ortiz preyed on the sick, the weak, the vulnerable. San Fernando was his hunting ground. What does that make him? That makes him a predator."
The victims were Melissa Ramirez, 29; Claudine Luera, 42; Guiselda Cantu, 35; and 28-year-old Humberto Janelle Ortiz, Alaniz said.
Alaniz added that Ortiz only faced one count of capital murder instead multiple counts because of the way the murders were connected. They each held a common "scheme."
Ortiz was also indicted on one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, one count of unlawful restraint with reckless exposure to serious bodily injury and evading arrest or detention, a second-degree felony, third-degree felony and class A misdemeanor in Texas, according to a news release.
Ortiz, 35, was arrested Sept. 15 in the border town of Laredo.
According to Alaniz, Ortiz's motive was "to clean up the streets of Laredo by targeting this community of individuals he perceived to be disposable — that no one would miss, and that he did not give value to," he said Wednesday.
On Sept. 14, Juan David Ortiz picked up another woman, Erika Pena. After Pena was assaulted by Ortiz, she fled and found a state trooper at a gas station in Laredo, according to a news release.
It could be a year before Ortiz faces a judge, Alaniz said.
U.S. Border Patrol agent Juan David Ortiz has confessed to killing four people and is currently in jail being held on a $2.5 million bond. Citizens in Laredo reflect about the crimes and about Ortiz, who authorities call a serial killer.


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The soldier's best friend: 9 ways that militaries use dogs for missions
Caitlin Foster
Tech. Sgt. Manuel Martinez/US Air ForceUS Army Special Forces soldier jumps off the ramp of CH-47 Chinook helicopter with his military working dog during training in 2011.
When the members of the Navy's elite SEAL Team Six launched their raid into Osama bin Laden's compound, Cairo was one of the first to hit the ground.
The Belgian Malinois, one of the military's favourite breeds, went into battle outfitted similarly to his human counterparts, donning body armour, and high-tech eye wear called 'doggles.'
Cairo, like the SEAL team he served alongside, gained immediate media attention. But he wasn't the first canine to join soldiers in battle; dogs have been an integral part of military units throughout history. Their natural skills and instincts, honed through intense training, make them proficient at locating bombs, weapons and drugs and, at times, finding and supplying wounded soldiers on the battlefield.
Here's a look at the ways militaries have used canines for operations, from aiding wounded troops to sniffing out bombs.
'Canine couriers' carried messages from one post to another during World War I.
Hulton Archive/GettyA German Shepherd messenger dog sets off from its German observation post circa 1916.
This majestic-looking pug was given his own tiny pair of glasses and binoculars.
Henry Guttmann/GettyA German Army dog from World War I wears a hat and glasses while carrying binoculars.
Dogs were also trained to locate wounded soldiers on the battlefield.
Hulton Archive/GettyIn this undated photo, a military dog finds a wounded soldier in France.
Supplied with their own gas masks, they could bring supplies or rations to wounded soldiers.
Fox photos/Hulton archive/GettyTwo Airedale Terriers attend canine training camp in Surrey, England during World War II. One wears a special gas mask while the other carries rations for a wounded soldier.
Dogs are part of the team — they don't get left behind.
Terry Fincher/GettyUS Marines and their dog run towards a Bell Huey helicopter in the Tay Ninh area of Vietnam.
They do get their own pair of 'doggles.'
Spc. Aubree Rundle/US ArmyRronnie gets her own 'doggles' while her handler prepares her to be hoisted by a helicopter near Bagram, Afghanistan, in 2007.
Dogs and their handlers are hoisted onto helicopters as a pair.
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Can you tell us what your average day involves?
My day begins at 8am. Working in this specialty is relatively unique in that I work both in the hospital laboratory looking at the tests sent not only for my own patients, but also for those across the hospital; and I also work on the wards and in the outpatients department looking after patients with blood disorders. As a result, my days are very varied, but usually start with taking my children to school and nursery, before heading to my desk to deal with any correspondence and to look at any worrying blood films that were made from blood samples overnight.
Mornings usually then involve either heading to the outpatients department to see new patients and those returning for monitoring, or visiting the ward to do bone marrow tests on inpatients or those attending our day ward. Most afternoons involve seeing more patients on the ward as a formal ward round, or in the day unit, to discuss their diagnosis and plan their treatment.
I was fortunate enough to work under Dr Richard Grace, a consultant haematologist in Eastbourne, who helped me understand the complex nature of blood disorders, and who really leads by example when it comes to excellent patient care. I found haematology to be a specialty where you could form rewarding professional relationships with your patients, where many treatments and diagnostic tests were at the cutting edge of medicine, where you could both diagnose and treat patients yourself, bridging the gap between the hospital and the laboratory.
What many people don't realise is the extent to which other specialties rely on haematologists for advice, which ends up with the haematologist knowing nearly all the other doctors in the hospital, making it quite a sociable specialty! Some of the conditions that we treat as haematologists are very obscure, and one of the privileges of the specialty is that we are often asked by our colleagues for advice when their patients present with unusual symptoms, or where the diagnosis is not entirely clear. This can be both enjoyable but also challenging and mentally stimulating.
What do you enjoy most about your job and specialty?
As already mentioned, in haematology you get to know your patients well, sharing in their highs and lows, tailoring their treatment to their own personal circumstances. This privilege can be very rewarding, but can also make it tough when people don't do as well as you had hoped. Haematology is also very varied from day-to-day, and you can get involved in aspects of medicine, surgery, obstetrics, paediatrics and more, meaning that you are constantly being updated in all fields of medical practice.
What's a highlight of your role?
In the field of haematology I have been able to help teach medical students, lecture to the general public at Gresham College, act as a representative for trainees in both London and the South East with the London Deanery, and the rest of the UK with The Royal College of Pathologists. A career in medicine can be very varied and rewarding!
Do you take part in other activities that allow you to share and explore your skills and knowledge?
Working in all branches of medicine there are numerous opportunities to get more involved in one's specific specialty or other topics such as medical education. I have been lucky enough to get involved in medical education through the Royal Society of Medicine, and as an Advanced Life Support Instructor for the Resus Council.
I have also had the opportunity to write a large portion of an undergraduate textbook (100 Cases for Medical Data Interpretation), and get involved as a Deputy Editor for the Journal of Medical Case Reports.
What advice would you give to students looking to enter your field?
Don't be put off by the thought of working in the laboratory – it's a fascinating place to work, and gives you great insight into investigating illnesses and managing them. You also only spend around 10% of your time there – the remainder being mostly direct clinical care.
To be a haematologist you need to be a good communicator, and be able to develop a rapport with your patients, but you also need to have a good scientific mind to be able to understand the science behind blood disorders, and the science behind the ever-expanding list of treatments available.
It is an extremely rewarding career, and is perfect for those who enjoy many different medical specialties, but are not keen to continue the general medical on-calls. As a specialty it also lends itself well to less than full time training.
Interested in pursuing a career in haematology? Learn more about the work environment, how to train and the skills you'll need.
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The formal study of criminal behavior in relation to law enforcement, incarceration, and social patterns is largely rooted in the 19th and 20th centuries. Therefore, the majority of influencers who helped to establish this as both a field of academic inquiry and an educational program for those in pursuit of careers in criminal justice are generally concentrated in this period. Using the historical parameters of 1800 to 2020, the following figures ranked as the most influential in the criminal justice discipline
Cesare Lombroso was an Italian criminologist, phrenologist, physician, and founder of the Italian School of Positivist Criminology who rejected the established classical school, which held that crime was a characteristic trait of human nature.
Jock Young was a British sociologist and an influential criminologist whose ethnographic research on drug use in Notting Hill, West London led him to develop the concept of moral panic.
Edwin Sutherland was an American sociologist from the interactionist school of thought and is best known for defining white-collar crime and differential association, a general theory of crime and delinquency.
Eliot Ness was an American Prohibition agent and leader of a famous team of law enforcement agents from Chicago, nicknamed The Untouchables, best known for his efforts to bring down Al Capone and enforce Prohibition in Chicago.
Freda Adler is a criminologist and educator, currently serving as Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University and a visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
Paul L. Kirk was a biochemist, criminalist and participant in the Manhattan Project who specialized in microscopy.
Ernest Burgess was a Canadian-American urban sociologist, an urban sociologist at the University of Chicago, and 24th President of the American Sociological Association.
Travis Hirschi was an American sociologist and an emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Arizona who helped to develop the modern version of the social control theory of crime.
Robert Ressler was an FBI agent and author who played a significant role in the psychological profiling of violent offenders in the 1970s and is often credited with coining the term "serial killer."
James Q. Wilson was an American conservative academic, political scientist, and an authority on public administration who spent most of his career as a professor at UCLA and Harvard University.
Now that you have a bird's eye view of some of the most influential criminal justice influencers of all time, explore these pioneers and others in more depth
The following are the top criminal justice influencers in the field today according to our machine-powered Influence Rankings, which are drawn from a numerical score of academic achievements, merits, and citations across Wikipedia/data, Crossref, and an ever-growing body of data.
Lawrence W. Sherman has conducted extensive research into restorative justice, experimental criminology, and crime prevention, and his work has demonstrated how social science can be instrumental at the core of badly needed police reforms.
David Weisburd currently holds joint appointments as the Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and Criminal Justice at the Hebrew University Faculty of Law in Jerusalem, Executive Director of the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy, and Distinguished Professor at George Mason University, and has conducted meaningful research into white-collar crime, as well as the micro-geography of crime.
Christopher Uggen served as University of Minnesota Sociology Department chair from 2006-2012 and is best known for his work researching felon disenfranchisement and employment and crime.
Jerzy Sarnecki is a professor of criminology at Stockholm University and a researcher of juvenile delinquency for the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention.
Richard Rosenfeld is on the Science Advisory Board of the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, has been the Criminologist in Residence with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department since 2012, he has conducted research on crime control, criminal justice policy, the social sources of crime and the statistical trends of criminal justice in the United States.
Kevin Beaver is the Judith Rich Harris Professor of Criminology at Florida State University's College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, director of the FSU Distance Learning Program, the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Drug Issues, and an expert in biosocial criminology.
Lorraine Mazerolle is chief investigator for the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Experimental Criminology, affiliate professor at the Institute for Social Science Research, professor at the School of Social Science at the University of Queensland, and an expert in the areas of drug law enforcement, experimental criminology, policing and crime prevention.
Paul Rock is an Emeritus Professor of Social Institutions at the London School of Economics, a founder and member of the National Deviancy Conference, and is best known as a professional scholar of public criminology.
Daniel Nagin is the Teresa H. John Heinz III University Professor of Public Policy and Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College, a statistician and criminologist who is best known for his research into the deterrence effect of criminal punishments, especially capital punishment.
Daniel Mears is the Mark C. Stafford Professor of Criminology at the Florida State University College of Criminology & Criminal Justice, and a fellow of the American Society of Criminology whose research has explored criminal justice policy involving juveniles, immigrants, and supermax prisons.
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Dr. Paul Rock discusses the evolution of criminology and its roots in sociology as well as the psychiatry of deviant behavior in our interview, How criminal justice has grown as an academic field.
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Dr. David Weisburd discusses the Minneapolis Hot Spot Experiment and the day-to-day life of a criminologist in our interview, Is Hot Spots Policing Effective?
Dr. Lorraine Mazerolle discusses criminology careers, police partnerships within schools, and ways to build trust between the police and the community in our interview, What is the role of police?
The following are the most influential books in the field of Criminal Justice today according to our backstage Ranking Analytics tool, which calculates the influence of various sources in both academics and popular culture using a numerical scoring of citations across Wikipedia/data, Crossref, and an ever-growing body of data.
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander argues that the laws passed during the 1980s and 1990s under the guise of a "war on drugs" and being "tough on crime" constituted an intentional effort to control black males—a continuation of Jim Crow–era segregation by other means.
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces by Radley Balko investigates the development of America's urban police forces over the past few decades into highly armed, paramilitary organizations, which are alienated from the populations they are pledged to serve and protect.
Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison by Piper Kerman is a modern-classic memoir about the American prison system as seen by a rebellious young woman from a middle-class background who served a year in a federal women's penitentiary for transporting drugs and laundered cash in her luggage on several trips to Asia and Europe.
Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire by Robert Perkinson studies the Texas prison system from the point of view of its impact on other prison systems throughout the country.
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote is a pathbreaking classic, which almost single-handedly invented the genre of the "nonfiction novel"—journalistic reportage written with the pacing, point of view, and narrative arc of literary fiction.
This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner is a meticulous account of a real murder trial that occurred in Australia, in which a father was accused of having murdered his three young sons by driving the car containing them into a reservoir.
Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District by Peter Moskos is a memoir of the author's time in the police academy and on the beat, describing life on the streets from both points of view—that of the cops themselves and that of the population mired in poverty and crime that the police are sworn to serve.
Live from Death Row by Mumia Abu-Jamal depicts the cruelty and despair endemic to America's prison system, in general, and death row, in particular, and decries the inherent injustice of the US system of jurisprudence due to what he maintains is its institutionalized racism.
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a marvelously astute psychological study of the mind of a poor university student, Raskolnikov, who convinces himself he has the "right" to rob and murder an old moneylender because he will make better use of the money than she will.
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town by John Grisham is a work of true-crime reportage describing an erstwhile small-town hero fallen on hard times, who is made the scapegoat by the local powers that be for a lurid murder he did not commit.
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The field of criminal justice is deeply prone to controversy. As an aspect of society that invokes issues of power, disenfranchisement and inequality as well as issues of public safety, civil order, and correctional rehabilitation, criminal justice generates a wide range of competing views. Often, these views provoke heated debate with real consequences in the everyday lives of Americans. Read on for a look at some of the top controversies connected to the criminal justice discipline.
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AR Rahman's mother Kareema Begum passes away
Oscar and Grammy-winning composer AR Rahman's mother Kareema Bagum passed away in Chennai on Monday (December 28).
The music composer shared a picture of her mother on his social media page and confirmed the reports. It is said that Kareema Begum passed away due to age-related ailments.
According to sources, her cremation will take place later today.
Kareema Begum was married to Rajagopala Kulashekharan, an Indian music composer who worked mainly for Malayalam movies. He composed music for 52 films (23 in Malayalam with 127 songs), and was the music conductor for more than 100 films. His debut song as a music director was 'Chotta Muthal Chudala Vare', which was a big hit in Kerala. This was composed for the film 'Pazhassi Raja'.
AR Rahman was believed to be extremely close to his mother. In fact, he had on several occasions spoke about her role in shaping up his career. Rahman, born Dileep Kumar, was raised by Kareena Begum, originally named Kashturi Sekhar, after his father RK Shekhar passed away when he was only nine-year-old.


Christian Reconstruction is a call to the Church to awaken to its biblical responsibility to revival and the reformation of society. While holding to the priority of individual salvation, Christian Reconstruction also holds that cultural renewal is to be the necessary and expected outworking of the gospel as it progressively finds success in the lives and hearts of men. Christian Reconstruction therefore looks for and works for the rebuilding of the institutions of society according to a biblical blueprint.
Christian Reconstruction is also an attempt to answer the unprecedented threat facing the Church of Jesus Christ in the 20th century resurgence of secular humanism and parallel rise of statism. The state threatens to swallow the Church by such actions such as property taxation, zoning laws, and direct court action, all directly contrary to the Word of God. In one case, a church was taken to court for dismissing a practicing homosexual from its staff. In another, the church was padlocked by police for operating a Christian school without a licensed teacher. This is only the tip of the iceberg; there were several thousand civil cases pending against churches in 1985.
There are two fatal errors facing the Church as it is being called upon to respond to this threat.
Retreat is failing to apply the Word of God to society and culture. It seems as though many Christians are guided more by Plato in some aspects of their thinking than by Christ. They tend to deny the application of scripture to the secular. They fail to recognize that every sphere is spiritual and subject to the Word of God.
This shows up in a studied indifference to biblical teaching on civil law, economics, government and other cultural applications. It is pietism as opposed to true piety. There was, for example, little response to the abortion holocaust from the evangelical Church for over 10 years after the 1973 Supreme Court ruling.
Accommodation is misapplying the Word of God in society and culture. This is by far the more subtle error. One glaring example would be "Christian socialism" like that espoused by Ron Sider in Rich Christians In An Age of Hunger. This perspective down plays biblical charity and poor laws (such as gleaning) in favor of the anti-biblical "solution" of government taxation and redistribution of wealth.
By way of contrast, the truly biblical welfare is local, personal, voluntary and usually requires the poor to work (2 Thes. 3:10).
The Christian Reconstruction movement has been raised up by God to awaken the Church to the reality of these two fatal errors.
Christian Reconstruction is a call to return to the vision of the Reformation, where men sought to restructure every sphere of life according to the Word of God. This is true biblical revival. Every example of revival in Scripture extended beyond individual repentance to impact every facet of culture. For example, rediscovery of the Law by King Josiah (2 Kings 22,23) produced a reformation (but not a revival) leading to reconstruction of the entire Hebrew culture. In the New Testament, proclamation of the crown rights of King Jesus resulted in changes to all life, it being said that the world had been turned upside down (Acts 17).
Christian Reconstruction rests on one solid foundation stone: the sovereignty of God. Sovereignty refers to God's supreme power and rule. His reign and control extends into every sphere of life, here and now, not just in eternity. To defer His Kingship is to deny His Kingship. The Bible contains the directives of the King of kings for every area of human activity, including civil government, economics, art, science, family, church, and more. Activity in each sphere is to be governed by the Law of God, with minimal interference from civil government. There are no neutral zones.
God exercises His sovereignty through many secondary agencies. For example, civil government is responsible to God to bear the sword, executing God's wrath against violators of His Law. The Church, as the depository of the Law of God, is to provide Biblical instruction for every sphere, including civil government. She is not to control civil government, but rather to provide expert legal counsel (Deut.17:8-13). Many of her sons are expected to assume the mantle of civil leadership.
This is the sovereignty of God in salvation. All men are disobedient and worthy of eternal separation from God in Hell. But Jesus Christ, the perfect man, died as a substitute for sinners. Because Christ shed His blood in their stead, God justly pardons everyone who believes the Gospel, granting them eternal life. This is called justification (Rom. 6:23).
Justification is accomplished entirely by the grace and mercy of God. Sinful man, being totally depraved, is utterly dependent on the provision of God for salvation, including the ears to hear and even the faith to believe the Gospel. Salvation does not rest primarily on the "decision" of a particular man for God, but rather on God's decision to save that particular man. Jesus said: "Ye have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you …" (John 15:16).
Christian Reconstruction upholds the authority of the Law of God in every sphere of society. This is the sovereignty of God in ethics. 1 Tim. 1:8 implies a lawful and an unlawful use of the Law of God. It is unlawful to seek acceptance with God by trying to obey the Law of God, the ceremonial law, or any manmade additions to the Law. We are justified by faith alone (Ephesians 2:8). On the other hand, man must look to the Law of God as his guide for holy living and civil statutes. The perfect standard of the Law shows us how we are to live, how far short we fall and how much we need a Savior.
"We know that the law is good if anyone uses it lawfully" (1 Tim. 1:8).
Therefore, "not under the law" means that we are no longer condemned by the Law of God since we are justified by faith. It does NOT mean we are no longer ethically and morally bound to obey Old Testament law. Legalism results from a misapplication of God's moral Law or from traditions added to the Law. Simple childlike obedience to the Law of God does NOT equal legalism.
The faulty interpretive principle of Old Testament law is to assume the the Old Testament in invalid unless confirmed by the New Testament.
The faithful interpretive principle is to assume that the Old Testament is valid and still in effect unless specifically changed by the New Testament.
Covenantal shifts have occurred in areas such as sacrificial laws, ceremonial laws, Sabbath laws, dietary laws and agricultural laws. 1 Timothy 1:9 goes on to list a category of civil crimes that the Law of God is to restrain under the New Covenant: murder, kidnapping, adultery, perjury, etc. Therefore, one useful use of the Law of God is to restrain evil doers in society.
The theological name for this approach is "theonomy," from the Greek words "theos" meaning God and "nomos" meaning law. When men reject the Law of God as a standard, they are left with autonomy (self-law). This takes many forms, including common sense, pluralism, natural law, democracy (law of the people), and statutory law. The result of rejecting God's absolutes is always chaos.
When the Church rejects God's Law, it usually adopts what it calls the "law of love" in its place as the guide to action. Often this is a love devoid of content, that exalts unity over truth to avoid confrontation. But true biblical love goes hand in hand with the Law. Jesus said, "If you love me, you will keep my commandments" (John 14:15,21). By rejecting the standard of God's Law, the Church has nothing of substance to offer the world and becomes irrelevant.
Presuppositionalism is the self-sufficiency of an authoritative Bible. This is the sovereignty of God in revelation. Pesuppositionalism defines our approach to the sovereign Word of God. Too often Christians try to "prove" the Bible to the natural man by presenting evidences from creation or logic. They assume the problem is merely intellectual and that belief will flow naturally from an airtight presentation of the facts.
But the Bible says that natural man willfully suppresses the truth (Rom. 2:15). The problem is not, therefore, a lack of evidence, but the basic tendency to set oneself up as the ultimate judge of truth. The heart of Eve's sin lay in exalting herself as the judge of what God had said. (Gen. 3:5,6).
These presuppositions radically alter our approach to the non-believer. If our defense of the faith consists solely of presenting evidences to his supposed independent reason, we are simply encouraging his independence. Instead of a focus on persuasion with facts and logic, Christian Reconstruction challenges the natural man, who presumes himself to be the ultimate judge of truth. The sword of the Spirit does not need to be proved, it needs to be used. We presuppose that the sword of the Spirit will penetrate the hearts of natural men knowing that the Law of God in their hearts confirms its truth.
This is the sovereignty of God in history. The Bible insists that God's Law is to hold full sway in every sphere of earthly activity, in history as well as eternity (Mat. 6:10). God's sovereignty ensures it will hold sway. He has commanded His Church to carry His gospel ("teaching them to observe all things" – Matt. 28:20 includes God's Law) to the nations. He has given us power for this task. The only hindrance is a faithless Church that can only see giants in the promised land of earthly victory.
Some Christians say God has turned world rulership over to Satan until the second coming of Christ. But this denies God's explicit claim to ownership (Ps. 24:1) and the decisive work of Christ in destroying the power of the devil (Col. 2:15, 1 Jn. 3:8).
This view overlooks the various meanings of the word "world" (Compare John 3:16 with 1 John 2:15). Satan may be the god of the world system that opposes God, but to grant him a sovereignty that belongs to God alone borders on blasphemy.
In The American Covenant, Marshall Foster observes that the implications of which view you hold are profound.
1. Your commission is to subdue the earth and build Christian nations through evangelizing and discipleship.
2. You see Christian culture to be the only acceptable culture and you see all others as aberrations.
3. All of God's world is holy and every activity in life is a religious activity to be seen as a spiritual work for God.
1. You must just concentrate on saving souls from this evil world.
2. You see Christian culture as a counter-culture, a persecuted minority in an evil world.
3. Church activity is primary and spiritual, while worldly pursuits are secular and to be dealt with only as a necessity.
4. Reformation is impossible and suspect, since things must get worse before Christ returns.
The above dichotomy illustrates the importance of ideas in determining consequences, because to the degree Christians have abdicated their leadership role and denied the "crown rights of Jesus Christ," to that degree the humanists have filled the void.
In summation, Christian Reconstruction is the only view that biblically answers the question of how Christians should relate to their culture.
Not RETREAT, that fails to apply the Bible to the problems of society (Fatal Error #1).
Not ACCOMMODATION, that misapplies the Bible to endorse various forms of humanism (Fatal Error #2).
Individual salvation is the necessary priority, but Christian Reconstruction teaches that cultural renewal is an expected outworking of the Gospel. When Jesus said "make disciples of all nations," He meant it literally. The very cultural/governmental fabric of the nations is to be transformed by the preservative effect of their Christian citizens. This is the vision of the Reformers, the Puritans and the Pilgrims. This is the vision that we must rekindle anew today.
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Iam in the process of being raised up in these last days with a garment of Boldness.We as leaders must stand up and speak Gods word fearlessly.As the hate crimes bill approaches, if I'm put in jail, so be it.Iam waiting for the lord to place me.I do know i'll be a part of the final reformation of the church..Keep up the good fight and race.
Praise the Sovereign Lord in His victorious Amazing Grace that will allow His to persevere to the end. So that He will be Glorified and enjoyed forever! Lord thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven!
A Psalme of Dauid of prayse. O my God and King, I will extoll thee, and will blesse thy Name for euer and euer. I will blesse thee dayly, and prayse thy Name for euer and euer. Great is the Lord, and most worthy to be praysed, and his greatnes is incomprehensible. Generation shal praise thy works vnto generation, and declare thy power. I wil meditate of the beautie of thy glorious maiestie, and thy wonderfull workes, And they shall speake of the power of thy fearefull actes, and I will declare thy greatnes. They shall breake out into the mention of thy great goodnes, and shall sing aloude of thy righteousnesse. The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great mercie. The Lord is good to all, and his mercies are ouer all his workes. All thy workes prayse thee, O Lord, and thy Saints blesse thee. They shewe the glory of thy kingdome, and speake of thy power, To cause his power to be knowen to the sonnes of men, and the glorious renoume of his kingdome. Thy kingdome is an euerlasting kingdome, and thy dominion endureth throughout all ages. The Lord vpholdeth all that fall, and lifteth vp all that are ready to fall. The eyes of all waite vpon thee, and thou giuest them their meate in due season. Thou openest thine hand, and fillest all things liuing of thy good pleasure. The Lord is righteous in all his wayes, and holy in all his workes. The Lord is neere vnto all that call vpon him: yea, to all that call vpon him in trueth. He wil fulfill the desire of them that feare him: he also wil heare their cry, and wil saue them. The Lorde preserueth all them that loue him: but he will destroy all the wicked. My mouth shall speake the prayse of the Lorde, and all flesh shall blesse his holy Name for euer and euer.


I'm recently got obsessed with bitmoji, where you can transform yourself into an animated character and get apt reactions for different situations of life. So I decided that it would be fun to incorporate them in my post.
So running between our 9-5 job, family responsibilities and chores and days passing in a jiff ... I kind of feel that most of us are missing to take time out for ourselves.
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, make sure your gulp down a glass of water and enjoy your breakfast like a queen... Make sure to eat it up within 2 hrs of your waking up.
Multitask option looks great on our phones, but in reality, multitasking never leads any productivity instead focus on one goal at a time or as I say "slay one dragon at a time".
It's good to move your body if you are going to say that you don't have time do it thrice a week or just opt steps for the elevator. but make sure you are giving enough exercise to your body.
There is a smart way of working and hard way of working, never stress yourself with work pressure, sit down and make a plan to make you work easier, break complex tasks into simple ones and make a to-do list and accomplish them at the same time never over list tasks in a day.
Hydration is the key for the active body, glowing skin and perfect health... So have your water breaks to keep your body from getting dehydrated. For a post on how water can help you read Best drinks for weight loss.
With our busy lives, we tend to eat at irregular timings, but we need to stop doing that, make a habit of eating at the right time. Make sure you eat home-cooked meals more than outside food. Incorporate more greens, fruits, and veggies.
Relax up your body book yourself a spa appointment and enjoy yourself.
Try to say No to things that you don't like or don't want to be a part of. It's not a crime to do what you want.
Have a diary and write down your thoughts, ideas, and feelings, it helps to lessen the emotional burden. You don't have to write every day, you can do it whenever you feel you have something and no one to share.
Success never comes instant, I know sometimes we feel exhausted of trying and want to quit. But if you seriously want it never quit... keep working and have patience.
The most important thing we are forgetting to do is self-love and appreciation. Always remember "no one is perfect but the important thing is how you overcome your flaws and present yourself.
We all want to splurge money on thing we want, but it will be a wise idea to save some greens ($$$) for rainy days or emergency situations.
I know its a long post overdosed with bitmojis but hey ... it's fun.


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Florida shooter Nikolas Cruz shared a trait with most mass killers: he abused women
Broward County School District Superintendent Robert Runcie said yesterday that they had no "warnings" or "signs" that former student Nikolas Cruz would kill 17 kids at his old school. But Cruz shared at least one trait with most mass killers in modern America: He abused women.
The 19-year-old was abusive towards his ex-girlfriend and was expelled after getting in a fight with her new boyfriend, one student told the New York Times (paywall). He was taken with another student "to the point of stalking her," his former math teacher said (paywall). Another student said he had been close friends with Cruz but cut him off after he started "going after" and "threatening" a female friend of his.
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The various W-Fest areas around Waregem Expo have now been drawn up. The green zone is camping. All the rest is W-Fest experience.
Buy your tickets for the concerts of Der Klinke, A Slice of Life, Dead High Wire and Hatchling here!
Der Klinke will also be playing for us this year at W-Fest, on the 15th of August in our Wave Cave.
The Woodstock goodies are also available now!
For the Woodstock event on 14 August - in honor of 50 years of Woodstock Amougies in 1969 - some goodies are now available.


We wanted to send a few of the pics taken while attending the Deuce Day - Northwest show in Victoria, Canada, July 28 & 29, 2007. The show was put on by Al Clark of Deuces Northwest at no cost to the participants. There were nearly 500 1932 Fords in attendance and may very well have been the biggest showing of Deuces anywhere. The show also included assorted other rods (and stockers) through 1951. The total cars at the show was about 800. We have never attended a better show anywhere.
Thank you Dan and Linda for the pictures.


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New Medical & Scientific Advisory Board Member
Synergy WorldWide, along with Nature's Sunshine Products, is happy to announce that Dr. Sang Geon Kim, Ph.D. has joined our its Medical and Scientific Advisory Board. As a professor currently based in Seoul, Korea, Dr. Kim brings with him a wealth of global experience and expertise. It is a privilege to have him as part of the Synergy team.
The addition of Dr. Kim to our Medical and Scientific Advisory Board "will help drive our product development strategy of leveraging science-based intellectual property to solve mega-trend health problems," said Gregory L. Probert, Chairman and CEO of Synergy/NSP. "We believe that Dr. Kim's vast research in the field of metabolic dysfunction will allow him to be a terrific asset in terms of our product development. We're excited about this partnership and look forward to the expertise that he brings to our company."
Dr. Matt Tripp, Synergy/NSP's Chief Scientific Officer, added, "Dr. Kim's extensive research background and knowledge will be of great value in helping guide us to new discoveries and innovations."
Dr. Kim's accomplishments are many. In 2010, he was honored by the President of the Republic of Korea, Ministry of Health and Welfare. Earlier that year, he was named the "Scientist of the Month" by the Ministry of Science and Education. He also received the Best Pharmacologist Award from the Korean Society of Pharmacology in 2008, among other honors. Dr. Kim has been published in peer reviewed journals more than 200 times. He has personally trained in his lab over 100 graduate students pursuing masters, doctoral and post-doctoral degrees.
Dr. Kim currently serves as Vice Director of the Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea. He is also the Director of the Innovative Drug Research Center for Metabolic and Inflammatory Disease (IDRC) at Seoul National University and maintains a professorship in the College of Pharmacy at the university. In addition, he sits on the Toxicology Advisory Board for the Korean Food and Drug Administration. Previously, he served as the Director of the Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources and as the Associate Dean of the College of Pharmacy, both in Seoul.
Dr. Kim earned his Ph.D. from Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago. He earned both his master's degree in Pharmacology and his bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea.
"I'm thrilled to team up with Nature's Sunshine Products and accept a position on their Medical and Scientific Advisory Board," Kim said. "I'm eager to share my research in metabolic dysfunction and know that it can play an integral role in the development of cutting-edge products that can help improve the lives of millions of people across the globe."
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21st Century Tank Girl is back in issue #3. Like issue 1 and issue 2, #3 is a cornucopia of stories, posters, and quotes, each overflowing with an abundance of adventure and chaos for our favorite Australian renegade and her pals.
The issue begins when hungover party-goers go on a heist for God's tighty whities (seriously). The story ran a bit long for my liking, but random drawings in the margins (including charicature cameos by Andy Warhol, a setient hamburger, and Cheech Marin) kept my interest when the somewhat predictable story could not. With a character as wacky as Tank Girl, I was surprised and somewhat disappointed that this story had so many "spy movie" tropes. I hope they were just paying homage and poking fun at the hokey genre, because otherwise there is no excuse for being cliche.
Other stories included a local Ma and Pa shop has been taken over by BALL-MART, a "cereal-ously" ridiculous problem when Booga trades in the group's life savings to invest in Super-Krunchy Booga Flakes, and an Evel Knievel-esque stunt beautifully crafted to look like something straight out of the Sunday funnies.
While 21st Century Tank Girl #3 had some hits and misses, I still had fun reading the issue. I do recommend that you pick up a copy of the comic in stores, as it comes with a poster. Also, there were a few stand-alone pages with gorgeous art and inspiring quotes that were so empowering they deserve to be framed and hung!


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Ballot and voting information for Madera County.
California State Court of Appeals
Justice, District 1, Division 1
Justice, District 5
Proposition 1 Affordable Housing Bonds
Proposition 2 Mental Health Housing Program
Proposition 3 Water Bonds
Proposition 4 Children's Hospital Bonds
Proposition 5 Property Tax Rules
Proposition 6 Transportation Taxes and Fees
Proposition 7 Daylight Saving Time
Proposition 8 Kidney Dialysis Clinics
Proposition 10 Local Governments and Rent Control
Proposition 11 Ambulance Employee Breaks
Proposition 12 Farm Animal Cages
Kevin de León
Jessica Morse
Elizabeth Heng
Andreas Borgeas
Paulina Miranda
Anna Caballero
Rob Poythress
Frank Bigelow
Carla J. Neal
Justice, California Supreme Court
Leondra R. Kruger
Carol A. Corrigan
Review candidates
Justice, District 1, Division 1, California State Court of Appeals
James M. Humes
Sandra Margulies
Marla Miller
James A. Richman
Peter John Siggins
Alison M. Tucher
Jon B. Streeter
Barbara Jones
Justice, District 5, California State Court of Appeals
Charles S. Poochigian
Donald R. Franson, Jr.
Kathleen A. Meehan
Thomas Desantos
Bruce Smith
Mark W. Snauffer
Proposition 1 — Affordable Housing Bonds
Authorizes $4 billion in general obligation bonds for existing affordable housing programs for low-income residents, veterans, farmworkers, manufactured and mobile homes, infill, and transit-oriented housing. Fiscal Impact: Increased state costs to repay bonds averaging about $170 million annually over...
Proposition 2 — Mental Health Housing Program
Amends Mental Health Services Act to fund No Place Like Home Program, which finances housing for individuals with mental illness. Ratifies existing law establishing the No Place Like Home Program. Fiscal Impact: Allows the state to use up to $140 million per year of county mental health funds to repay...
Proposition 3 — Water Bonds
Authorizes $8.877 billion in state general obligation bonds for various infrastructure projects. Fiscal Impact: Increased state costs to repay bonds averaging $430 million per year over 40 years. Local government savings for water-related projects, likely averaging a couple hundred million dollars annually...
Proposition 4 — Children's Hospital Bonds
Authorizes $1.5 billion in bonds, to be repaid from state's General Fund, to fund grants for construction, expansion, renovation, and equipping of qualifying children's hospitals. Fiscal Impact: Increased state costs to repay bonds averaging about $80 million annually over the next 35 years.
Proposition 5 — Property Tax Rules
Removes certain transfer requirements for homeowners over 55, severely disabled homeowners, and contaminated or disaster-destroyed property. Fiscal Impact: Schools and local governments each would lose over $100 million in annual property taxes early on, growing to about $1 billion per year. Similar...
Proposition 6 — Transportation Taxes and Fees
Repeals a 2017 transportation law's taxes and fees designated for road repairs and public transportation. Fiscal Impact: Reduced ongoing revenues of $5.1 billion from state fuel and vehicle taxes that mainly would have paid for highway and road maintenance and repairs, as well as transit programs.
Proposition 7 — Daylight Saving Time
Gives Legislature ability to change daylight saving time period by two-thirds vote, if changes are consistent with federal law. Fiscal Impact: This measure has no direct fiscal effect because changes to daylight saving time would depend on future actions by the Legislature and potentially the federal...
Proposition 8 — Kidney Dialysis Clinics
Requires rebates and penalties if charges exceed limit. Requires annual reporting to the state. Prohibits clinics from refusing to treat patients based on payment source. Fiscal Impact: Overall annual effect on state and local governments ranging from net positive impact in the low tens of millions of...
Proposition 10 — Local Governments and Rent Control
Repeals state law that currently restricts the scope of rent-control policies that cities and other local jurisdictions may impose on residential property. Fiscal Impact: Potential net reduction in state and local revenues of tens of millions of dollars per year in the long term. Depending on actions...
Proposition 11 — Ambulance Employee Breaks
Law entitling hourly employees to breaks without being on-call would not apply to private-sector ambulance employees. Fiscal Impact: Likely fiscal benefit to local governments (in the form of lower costs and higher revenues), potentially in the tens of millions of dollars each year.
Proposition 12 — Farm Animal Cages
Establishes minimum requirements for confining certain farm animals. Prohibits sales of meat and egg products from animals confined in noncomplying manner. Fiscal Impact: Potential decrease in state income tax revenues from farm businesses, likely not more than several million dollars annually. State...
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