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Co-Diagnostics Completes Submission of CE Mark Registration for Tuberculosis Screening Test
SALT LAKE CITY–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Co-Diagnostics, Inc. (Nasdaq: CODX), a molecular diagnostics company with a unique, proprietary platform for the development of molecular diagnostic tests, announced today that its Logix Smart™ MTB Test technical file has been submitted for registration with the European Community, and that the CE marked in vitro diagnostic ("IVD") is expected to be available for purchase early in August in markets that accept a CE mark as valid regulatory approval.
Dwight Egan, Chief Executive Officer of Co-Diagnostics, commented, "The CE marking of the Company's tuberculosis test, our flagship product for infectious disease, represents a major milestone for Co-Diagnostics. This newest iteration of our MTB screening test has been tailored to target detection of the two genes present in a broad range of tuberculosis infections, to greatly mitigate the potential of false negatives and improve the diagnosis and prognosis of patients afflicted with this disease worldwide. Being built on Co-Diagnostics' proprietary CoPrimer™ design platform also means that 'primer-dimers,' the often-occurring phenomenon that leads to false positives in these types of diagnostics, are virtually eliminated."
The technical file dossier includes a description of the test to support conformance to the CE marking standards, which will confirm that the test meets the Essential Requirements of the European Community's In-Vitro Diagnostic Medical Device Directive (IVDD 98/79/EC). The registration process is expected to be complete by the end of July, at which point sales of the product may commence as an IVD with the CE marking included. The Logix Smart MTB Test detects DNA of mycobacteria tuberculosis (MTB) complex members and functions via real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to detect and amplify the IS6110and MPB64regions of the MTB genome.
Symptoms of tuberculosis may be mild or non-existent early on, and many affected people seek a diagnosis too late after the disease has advanced, which is then more difficult to treat and more likely to be fatal. In some regions, cost prohibits residents from seeking a tuberculosis diagnosis.
Mr. Egan continued, "The key component to battling tuberculosis is an early, accurate, and affordable diagnosis. We are confident that the time we have taken to ensure this test meets our high standards of quality and performance will allow us to better meet the global demand for detection of a disease with 99.9% of infections occurring outside of the United States, and that causes over 1.5 million deaths per year. Roughly 95% of these deaths occur in low and middle-income countries, which includes those in Eastern Europe in addition to many across Central America and the Caribbean basin. In the case of the latter, the Departments or Ministries of Health recognize clearance by the European Community as valid regulatory approval to allow sale of CE marked products throughout their jurisdictions."
Co-Diagnostics will manufacture its Logix Smart MTB test in the Company's ISO 13485:2016 facility for development and manufacture of IVD Medical Devices located in Utah, USA, and at this time is not seeking approval by the FDA for sale in the United States due to the low domestic rate of tuberculosis incidents.
Co-Diagnostics, Inc., a Utah corporation, is a molecular diagnostics company with a proprietary diagnostic testing technology and development platform that intends to manufacture and sell reagents used for diagnostic tests that function via the detection and/or analysis of nucleic acid molecules (DNA or RNA), and license the use of its platform to other non-competing developers.
This press release contains forward-looking statements.Forward-looking statements can be identified by words such as "believes," "expects," "estimates," "intends," "may," "plans," "will" and similar expressions, or the negative of these words. Such forward-looking statements are based on facts and conditions as they exist at the time such statements are made and predictions as to future facts and conditions.Readers of this press release are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements.The Company does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement relating to matters discussed in this press release, except as may be required by applicable securities laws.
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Dantas began his career in mixed martial arts in 2007 with the Brazilian section of the Japanese Shooto organization. Dantas won his first two matches, both by decision of the judges; fights third meeting for the organization Fight Cassino, a meeting he lost by disqualification, as regulation could not launch soccer kick, which was used by "Dudu" Dantas during the match. In November of that year he had the opportunity to fight in Japan against Shooto bantamweight champion Shinichi Kojima for the title winning by unanimous decision.
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Dantas would defend his belt against friend Marcos Galvao at Bellator 89. They both train together at Nova Uniao but put their friendship aside in a fight for the belt. He would finish Galvao in the second round. He would defend the belt again at Bellator 111 against Anthony Leone picking up the second round submission victory.


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Confirmations Expectations for the Rest of the 116th Congress
COMMENTARY Courts
Aug 29th, 2019 2 min read
Deputy Director, Center for Legal and Judicial Studies
Thomas is the Deputy Director of the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies and a Senior Legal Fellow.
What kind of judicial-confirmation progress should we expect during the rest of the 116th Congress? mj0007/Getty Images
The confirmation push in July means that, for the first time, judicial vacancies today are below their level when President Donald Trump took office.
12 percent of the judiciary is empty, compared with an average of 10 percent under the previous five presidents at this point.
The judiciary remains in its longest period of triple-digit vacancies in nearly three decades.
The Senate will soon return from its August recess. What kind of judicial-confirmation progress should we expect during the rest of the 116th Congress?
Senate Democrats are sure to claim that the so-called "Thurmond Rule" requires the confirmation process to shut down early next year. Here's a close look at this claim; it's not a rule, and it did not originate with Senator Strom Thurmond (R., S.C.). In fact, even calling it an informal tradition is too strong.
A more important consideration is also the most practical: the work that needs to be done filling judicial vacancies across the country. As if it needs to be said, the judiciary cannot do its work without judges.
Here's where we stand today. The confirmation push in July means that, for the first time, judicial vacancies today are below their level when President Donald Trump took office. Still, 12 percent of the judiciary is empty, compared with an average of 10 percent under the previous five presidents at this point. The judiciary remains in its longest period of triple-digit vacancies in nearly three decades.
The federal judiciary's administrative office designates certain vacancies as "emergencies" because they have been open so long and have a negative effect on judicial caseloads. More than 55 percent of current vacancies are in this emergency category, compared with an average of 41 percent at this point under the previous several presidents. Vacancies are 54 percent above the level Democrats said was a "crisis" under a Democratic president.
With the urgent need to fill vacancies in mind, the appointment process under previous presidents can provide markers for nominations, Judiciary Committee hearings, and Senate confirmations.
In the final 16 months of their first terms, for example, presidents Bill Clinton to Barack Obama made nominations for an average of 76 percent of the vacancies that existed at this point. That would amount to nearly 80 additional nominations by the end of next year.
During this period, the Judiciary Committee held an average of 20 confirmation hearings for an average of 65 judicial nominees and continued hearings into the final months of each president's first term. Under Chairman Patrick Leahy (D., Vt.), for example, the committee held a confirmation hearing on December 12, 2012, more than a month after Obama's reelection.
From the Reagan years through Obama's first term, the Senate confirmed an average of 7 percent of the judiciary during a term's final 16 months. Confirmations continued into October, November, and even December. During the Obama administration, for example, there were 93 vacancies in September 2011, and the Senate confirmed 78 more judges, or 9 percent of the judiciary, over the next 16 months. With vacancies 10 percent higher today, that would translate into the Senate confirming at least 80 judges by the close of the 116th Congress.
During the entire first term of the previous five presidents, the Senate was forced to take a separate vote to end debate on a combined total of 14 of the 939 judges it confirmed. That's about 1.5 percent. Democrats have already forced the Senate to take such a separate vote on 109 Trump nominees.
In 1997, with a Democrat in the White House, Leahy said that "confirming federal judges should not be a partisan issue." If that's true, then we now have a sense of how the judicial-appointment process should operate for the rest of Trump's term.
This piece originally appeared in National Review
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Bill seeking special status for Lagos passes Second Reading
Posted by News Express | 8 December 2016 | 1,908 times
The House of Representatives has passed through second reading a bill seeking to grant special economic status to Lagos State.
The bill if passed into law would ensure that the state receives the necessary support from the Federal Government to develop critical infrastructure and cater to its rising population.
A similar bill suffered defeat in the Senate, but was repackaged in the House of Representatives to include consideration for special status to Kano and Anambra as well as states with cities within the threshold of ten million inhabitants, which meet the criteria for megacity by the United Nations.
The bill also seeks to ensure that any state with Special Consideration Status will be entitled to 20 per cent of all proceeds accruing to the Federal Government from the state, to mitigate the pressures of urbanisation, overcrowding and decaying infrastructure.
Leading the debate on the bill, the Sponsor of the bill, Representative Babajimi Benson, told other lawmakers that the 20 per cent would assist in the revival of the economic potentials of such states to contribute significantly to economic prosperity in Nigeria. (Channels TV)
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Report: Jack Rodwell set to follow Nick Montgomery to Australia
Ever wondered what Jack Rodwell was up to after leaving Sheffield United in the summer? Probably not (unless you're my Dad), but I'm here anyway to tell you he's got his next career move lined up.
Jack Rodwell was signed by Chris Wilder on a free transfer in the January transfer window of 2020. At the time, Wilder defended the former Everton man, who had come under fire from Sunderland fans for his big contract and lack of games on Wearside.
However, despite being seen as potential challenger to Chris Basham's slot on the right side of the back three, it just never happened for Rodwell. He played just two games for United, with just 15 Premier League minutes coming in a 1-1 draw with Burnley.
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But according to the Sunderland Echo, Rodwell is close to finding his next destination. They report states he is set to move to Australia and join Western Sydney Wanderers. Of course, he won't be the only ex-Blade Down Under, with Nick Montgomery doing well out there already.
Once again, it looks like Rodwell is looking to kickstart his career. Albeit, a few thousand miles away this time.
Our View: What was Wilder thinking with Jack Rodwell?
A few weeks ago in an interview, Chris Wilder admitted to some mistakes while in charge. Surely, this is one of them? Why oh why he signed Rodwell, will always remain a mystery.
Wilder will have had his reasons. Versatile, a bit of a punt, and someone who clearly had enormous talent at one point. But like the Ravel Morrison signing, it was a gamble that just didn't pay off.
Rodwell, to his credit, didn't seem to cause any issues with the Blades. He liked being at the club, and won't have been on huge money either. But in terms of signings, he has to rank up there with the worst of Wilder's era.
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CUTLINE: Jimmy Clay, William Woods University vice president of recruitment, and Kristen David, admissions representative, show off the plaque they received from FFA.


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Gates: "No Deadlines" on Afghan Withdrawal
Defense Secretary Robert Gates is playing down President Obama's vow to begin withdrawing troops in July 2011. Speaking before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Gates said that there are "no deadlines in terms of when our troops will all be out." Gates also said a US withdrawal would probably take two to three years whenever it begins. Meanwhile, the top US commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, appeared before Afghan lawmakers in Kabul.
Gen. Stanley McChrystal: "I think we now have clarity on our mission that we never had before. I believe we have clarity on our partnership better than we've ever had before. I believe we have capabilities, not just the additional forces, but also the improved partnership, the improved way in which we conduct operations, our improved understanding. I believe we have a commitment that is more clear."
Pelosi Rejects War Surtax to Fund Afghan Escalation
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has rejected a proposal to create a "war surtax" to fund the escalation of the Afghan occupation. The tax had been proposed by House Appropriations chair David Obey, who opposes the escalation.
Report: US Expands Pakistan Drone Strikes
The New York Times is reporting the Obama administration has approved an expansion of US drone attacks inside Pakistan. The move coincided with Obama's announcement of more troops to Afghanistan earlier this week. The White House is said to be in talks with Pakistani officials on launching the drone attacks inside the Baluchistan region for the first time.
Top Climatologist Hopes Copenhagen Talks Collapse
The global climate change summit in Copenhagen begins on Sunday. In advance of the meeting, one of the world's top climate scientists is claiming he hopes the talks result in failure. In an interview with The Guardian, NASA climatologist James Hansen said any agreement to come out of the talks will be inadequate in averting climate catastrophe. Hansen says negotiations should instead be started from scratch. Hansen has called for more substantial emissions cuts than those on the table, as well as a carbon tax on major polluters. Earlier this week, Hansen addressed demonstrators at a climate action in New York.
James Hansen: "As long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, they're going to continue to be used and their use will increase. So we have to put a price on carbon. And the money that is collected from this price must be returned to the public 100 percent, either as a monthly dividend or a payroll tax deduction or a combination of those. If we do those things, the problem becomes solvable. If we don't, it is the biggest inter-generational injustice in the history of the world. We'll be leaving our children and grandchildren with a situation out of their control. So we've got to begin to influence the polices that are being talked about. And what is being talked about in Washington now and in Copenhagen now is totally inadequate. It's greenwash. It's cap and trade with offsets, which will be just like the Kyoto Protocol. It will do nothing to reduce global emissions."
India Unveils Proposal to Reduce Emissions
India, meanwhile, has unveiled a proposal to cut emissions relative to the size of its economic growth. On Thursday, India said it would reduce its carbon intensity 20 to 25 percent by 2020. The Indian government says the pledge won't be legally binding or subject to international monitoring.
23 Killed in Somalia Attack
In Somalia, at least twenty-three people were killed Thursday in a suicide bombing in the capital Mogadishu. The dead included three government ministers. Another forty people were wounded.
Comcast Reaches Deal for Majority Stake in NBC Universal
The nation's largest cable television company Comcast has struck a deal to buy a majority stake in the television and movie giant NBC Universal from General Electric. If approved, the merger would give Comcast control of the NBC network, the Spanish-language Telemundo, cable channels including MSNBC, dozens of local television stations and the Universal film studio. Media democracy advocates have widely criticized the merger.
Jeff Chester, head of the Center for Digital Democracy: "This is a real political litmus test for the Obama administration. Frankly, they should just have their FCC and their Department of Justice, or FTC, say no to this deal. There's nothing in the Comcast-NBCU mega-deal that will benefit the public interest, consumers or competitors. The Obama administration has a chance now to put its foot down and say 'no more media consolidation in the United States.'"
Senate Rejects Amendment to Undo Medicare Cuts
On Capitol Hill, the Senate began voting on the first major amendments to a healthcare reform measure Thursday. Republicans lost an attempt to undo $500 billion in Medicare cuts that Democrats say are essential to expanding health insurance. The Senate also approved an amendment that would ensure women younger than fifty can receive coverage for undergoing mammograms.
House Votes to Extend Estate Tax
The House, meanwhile, has voted to make the estate tax permanent. The vote would keep the estate tax at its current rate of 45 percent on inheritances above $3.5 million. Progressives had called for restoring the tax to its higher rate of 55 percent from before President George W. Bush took office.
NY Court Rejects Columbia University Eminent Domain Claim
Here in New York, a state appeals court has rejected a government attempt to invoke eminent domain to seize property in Manhattan for a proposed expansion project by Columbia University. In a three-to-two ruling, the court criticized what it called the government's "idiocy" in declaring the neighborhood in question "blighted" to justify the takeover.
Self-Proclaimed FBI Informant Claims He Spied on Mosques
In California, a judge has lifted a seal on court documents allegedly detailing how the FBI recruited an informant to spy on several mosques. The alleged spy, Craig Monteilh, is seeking $10 million in damages from the FBI, which he says never fully paid him for his work.
Texas Prisoner Executed Despite Claims of Mental Retardation
In Texas, a forty-four-year-old man was executed Thursday despite arguments he was too mentally impaired to be put to death. Test scores have shown the prisoner, Bobby Woods, had an IQ at or below seventy, the cutoff point for mental retardation. Woods was killed by lethal injection less than an hour after the Supreme Court refused to halt his execution.
Musician Stevie Wonder Named UN "Messenger of Peace"
And the music legend Stevie Wonder has been named a United Nations "messenger of peace." Wonder, who is blind, will focus on people with disabilities.
Stevie Wonder: "It is truly an honor, beyond any that I have ever imagined would happen in a lifetime, to be able to be pinned and given the opportunity to spread the message of 'love is truly in need of love today.'"


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Google cuts down services to improve Google +
Google has announced in a statement the closure of several services following the launch of Google +. The Internet company hopes to enhance its social network.
The Buzz social network will be the first to be axed. Buzz disappears because of Internet users' indifference. The closing will occur in the coming weeks. Buzz members can view their content posted on their Google profile, and download them with Takeout.
Google will also close Code Search, a search engine for open source creations, on January 15. On the same day, Google will say goodbye to the Finnish version of microblogs that sought to take Twitter's throne, Jaiku.
iGoogle and The University Research Program will also be disabled in January, joining the anticipated closure of Google Labs, opened with the intention of allowing test ideas and prototypes.
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Iraq's Drone and Rocket Epidemic, By the Numbers
by Michael Knights, Crispin Smith
Michael Knights
Michael Knights is the Boston-based Jill and Jay Bernstein Fellow of The Washington Institute, specializing in the military and security affairs of Iraq, Iran, and the Persian Gulf states. He is a co-founder of the Militia Spotlight platform, which offers in-depth analysis of developments related to the Iranian-backed militias in Iraq and Syria.
Crispin Smith
Crispin Smith is an associate at a Washington-based national security law group. His research focuses on Iraqi security, human rights, and law of armed conflict issues. He is a co-founder of the Militia Spotlight platform, which offers in-depth analysis of developments related to the Iranian-backed militias in Iraq and Syria.
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Attacks on coalition points of presence are increasing in quantity and quality, making U.S. fatalities increasingly likely unless deterrence is restored.
The U.S. airstrike on Iraqi militia bases in the early hours of June 28 (local Iraqi time) came in response to a growing epidemic of drone and rocket (i.e., indirect fire) attacks on U.S. and Iraqi targets. This short report summarizes the key trends in such attacks over the past year.
Trend 1: The muqawama are escalating, deterrence is deteriorating.
Indirect fire trends in Iraq spiked at 13 a month in January 2020 after the U.S. killing of Qasem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, then dropped to as low as 2. They spiked again at 12 in August 2020, then dropped off to 1-2 per month as U.S. retaliatory threats intensified and the muqawama (resistance factions) declared a "conditional truce." Now they are heading up again, with a major qualitative jump as drones outnumber rockets for the first time. Deterrence has very clearly deteriorated since January 2021, which may coincide with the end of the Trump administration's threat of disproportionate retaliation. In the past, such escalation of indirect fire has typically resulted in U.S. deaths and has only stopped when deterrence was firmly reimposed.
Figure 1: Rocket and drone attacks on coalition points of presence.
Trend 2: The muqawama are accepting a greater risk of killing U.S. persons.
It is instructive to look at the percentage of muqawama attacks that have targeted "points of presence," meaning sites at which coalition personnel are actually present. Until summer 2020, all muqawama attacks were rocket strikes aimed at such points, an inherently risky tactic that could cause American casualties and draw U.S. retaliation. From July 2020, the "convoy strategy" saw the muqawama largely transfer their kinetic activities into a "safer" space, attacking Iraqi-manned logistical convoys that contain no coalition personnel—a strategy that Militia Spotlight has characterized as "fake resistance."
This trend may now be changing again. A key question for analysts is whether the growing number of drone and rocket strikes on coalition points of presence (making up nearly a third of attacks in May-June 2021) is a return to more risky and genuine resistance tactics. Unguided rockets are still being fired, with the inherent risk of killing personnel; drones are more controllable but are still not assuredly nonlethal, being guided by GPS waypoints as opposed to realtime television imagery.
Figure 2: Percentage of attacks targeting coalition points of presence. Raw numbers of attacks increase, but the percentage of attacks temporarily shifts toward convoys with no coalition personnel onboard.
Trend 3: Militia drone attacks are growing rapidly in quantity and quality.
There have been more drone attacks and finds in Iraq than U.S. government metrics suggest. By Militia Spotlight's count, 10 drone attacks have been launched in 2021 against targets inside Iraq (plus one drone strike originating in Iraq and striking Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).
March 4: Drone penetration of leadership complexes in Baghdad and Erbil
April 14: Strike on U.S. hangar in Erbil International Airport
April 28: Strike on a coalition site
May 8: Strike on al-Asad Air Base
May 11: Strike on a coalition site near Erbil
June 6: Two-drone strike on al-Asad Air Base
June 9: Strike on Baghdad International Airport's coalition site
June 15: Two-drone strike on Baghdad International Airport's coalition site
June 20: Strike on al-Asad Air Base
June 27: Four-drone strike close to leadership complexes in Erbil
The strikes have employed three main types of drone: the main variant is a so-called KAS-04 or Sammad fixed-wing drone first employed by Iranian-supplied Houthi forces in Yemen. The June 9 and June 15 drone attacks against the coalition annex in Baghdad International Airport used smaller drones that appear to be reverse-engineered U.S. Switchblade and Coyote loitering munitions, which militias have captured in Syria. The June 27 Erbil attacks involved a third family of drones to be exposed this year in Iraq, which marry warheads bearing Iranian manufacturing labels with a variety of body, wing, and motor components. All of the drones appear to be GPS-guided with a preprogrammed set of waypoints. The drones also show signs of being very precisely targeted on coalition intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) assets and missile defenses, which is likely an effort to drive these assets out of Iraq.
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Growing Up in Working Class Youngstown — Village of Poland
Old Stone Tavern (Fowler's Tavern), built in 1804 in Poland, Ohio. Note that William McKinley, later president, enlisted into the Union Army here in 1861.
If the naming conventions used to name other villages and townships in Mahoning County had been followed, the village would have been called either Kirtland or Fowler (and yes there are towns in Ohio that have these names). Kirtland would be for Turhand Kirtland, who was the Connecticut Land Company agent who surveyed this part of the Western Reserve. It is the southeasternmost part and was designated "Town 1, Range 1" which may be seen on signs for the village and township to this day. Fowler was Jonathan Fowler, Kirtland's brother-in-law and the first settler, with his wife Lydia in the township, coming there in 1799. A daughter, Rachel, was born to them in 1800, the first child born in the township. He built a sawmill and gristmill in 1801 and what is now know as the Old Stone Tavern (then Fowler's Tavern) in 1804. Poland served as the gateway for many coming through Pennsylvania to the Western Reserve, up the Beaver and Mahoning River. Fowler's Tavern was a good stopover, before going on to Warren or Cleveland or other places in the Western Reserve. Sadly, Jonathan Fowler drowned on the Beaver River in 1806 while engaged in merchandise trade that took him as far as New Orleans.
Location of Poland Township
So how did the village and township get the name Poland? For a time it was known as Fowler's Place. It has to do with two statues commemorating the Revolutionary War heroes, Thaddeus Kosciuszko and Kasimierz Pulaski. As I understand it, this is the only place, in Peterson Park, where the two are depicted together. Kirtland and Fowler decided to name the township "Poland" in honor of these heroes' country of origin. And so it is to this day.
Poland's second resident was John Struthers, who settled on 400 acres of land along Yellow Creek a few months later in 1799 than Fowler. He was involved with the second owner of the Hopewell Furnace, but business losses necessitated the sale of his land. He lost his wife and two daughters. His son, Thomas Struthers, prospered in a law practice, and recovered the land John had lost and eventually formed the new town of Struthers, down river from Poland.
For a small village, it has a lot of history associated with it. In addition to the many century-or-more-old homes, it was where William McKinley lived for a time, and, as noted above, it is where he enlisted to serve in the Union Army during the Civil War. After the war, he returned to Poland for a time to read law, and then went to Albany to complete his legal training before moving to Canton, Ohio.
McKinley graduated from Poland Academy, which later became Poland Seminary in 1859. Poland Seminary was home for a time to a woman who eventually became one of America's outstanding journalists, Ida M. Tarbell. Tarbell, investigated John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil and her stories contributed to the breaking up of his monopoly.
In the late 1800's, the seminary struggled. In 1895 portions of its building collapsed. In 1909, the remaining facilities where sold to the local school district with the provision that the name "Seminary" be retained in the high school's name, which is true to this day.
Poland Library, (c) Robert C Trube, 2014.
Poland wasn't formally incorporated as a village until 1866, which means in 2016 that it celebrated 150 years. In 1938, the village acquired Poland Municipal Forest, a 265 acre park. In 2010, its population was 2,555. Along with Canfield, it is considered one of the best places to live in the Youngstown area, with good schools, a quaint town center, a gorgeous library, and parks and lots of history.
To read other posts in the Growing Up in Working Class Youngstown series, just click "On Youngstown." Enjoy!
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How about a bit of history on the nearby city of Campbell? And btw, this was fascinating.
I do have posts on the East Youngstown Riots and on James Anson Campbell, after whom Campbell (formerly East Youngstown) was named.
Bob Campbell
That's a lot of very interesting history in a small space. The tie-ins with the Kirtlands and the Struthers families was a nice nugget. I sometimes forget how the towns would, by necessity, tend to develop first along the system of rivers and creeks. In modern times, those rivers and creeks become just that water under the bridge we're crossing over it on. Thanks, Bob.
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I like the name Poland — it is the only town or place in the U.S. so-named that I have ever visited — and I have always liked the way it is pronounced and how it rolls off the tongue and into the conversation. I was not sure how the town got its name, but am not surprised to find Mr. Pulaski and Mr. Kosciuszko were involved. They were heroes of our American Revolution and have had a number of sites and landmarks named after them.
I was curious as well, which led to writing the article. Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
Loretta Ekoniak
Seminary, at that time, meant a school that educated both boys and girls. Growing up in Youngstown I was very familiar with Poland but until I began teaching at the new high school on Dobbins Rd where there was a plaque on the wall from the old high school that explained the meaning of this term. As a matter of fact, our track and field team were invited to be in a tournament in KY (I think) at a Christian High School because the other school thought Poland Seminary was a boys school and were rather shocked when the team from Poland showed up!
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Do you know of any History of " The Tally Ho " Tavern in Poland Village?
Not really!
I appreciate this good article. Wondered many times, working at Mahoning National Bank, Downtown, about that area, Struthers-Poland ( we had a branch bank in that area.) The definition of the word, Seminary, in it's original form, meant a School for boys and girls. Most folks associate "seminary" with a masculine definition, not so. Interesting. Thanks again. For God & Country
Thanks, Ruth!
Loved growing up in Poland, you could ride your bike everywhere, there was a bike rack at the library and it was always full. You could be out until dark, no one locked their doors, you could play in the creek…good times!
Chuck McGowen
Bob, another theory as to Poland's name had to do with the regular "cattle" drive from Cleveland to Pittsburgh that came through and stooped over for the night in Fowler's Village. The particular "cattle" being driven and giving up the name to the little settlement were Poland White pigs. Having lived and practiced medicine in Poland for 34 years, I prefer the heroes to the putative pigs narrative.


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African Players Banned For Betting During 2020/2021 Season
By Ndagi Suleiman
28-year-old Ghanaian Alexander Djiku will miss Strasbourg's match away to Ligue1 champions Paris Saint-Germain when the French league resumes on December 28.
The defender was handed a 1-match ban as he and 76 others were sanctioned following an investigation by the Professional Football League (LFP) for their involvement in betting during the 2020-21 season.
Football coaches, players and officials are not allowed to take part in betting on any matches.
Cameroon defender Jean-Charles Castelletto is among the players sanctioned and the Nantes centre-back will serve a four-match suspension.
Castelletto and Djiku featured for the Indomitable Lions and Black stars respectively at the 2022 World Cup.
As stated in the LFP press release:
"These offences were committed even though, together, the LFP and the UNFP (the players' union) have carried out awareness or information campaigns with the clubs on a daily basis,"
"The Commission recalls that the actors of the competitions organised by the FFF or the LFP (in particular the players, coaches, managers of professional football clubs) have a general ban on betting, online or in physical networks, on all football competitions, whether domestic or foreign."
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The fact that a large number of cabinetmakers working in Paris during the eighteenth century were of German origin is well known. It is therefore surprising that there has never been research on the lives and work of these more than one hundred craftsmen. This talk will present various aspects of a project currently being undertaken by Dr. Ulrich Leben and Miriam Schefzyk on these craftsmen and provide insight into archive-based research in France and abroad exploring questions regarding social, economic, and cultural circumstances. A major goal of this project is the publication of a dictionary of these craftsmen that will be a tool for further work in the field.
E. Ulrich Leben is an independent art historian based in Paris and Associate Curator for the Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire. He teaches classes on French and German decorative arts and interior architecture for the European programs of Parsons, The New School. From 2010 to 2015 he was Visiting Professor and Special Exhibitions Curator at Bard Graduate Center, where in 2013 he co-curated the exhibition Salvaging the Past: Georges Hoentschel and French Decorative Arts from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. After an apprenticeship as a cabinetmaker in Germany he studied the History of Art at the École du Louvre in Paris and received his PhD at the Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelm Universität in Bonn. He is the author of numerous articles and exhibition catalogues on the history of French and German interiors and furniture design.


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As Elgar headed towards his 50th birthday, he took up cycling and started work on a major new choral project. Presented by Donald Macleod.
Elgar emerged onto the scene at a time when Britain was still described as 'a land without music'. He played a central role in reviving this country's musical reputation, and his success won him fame, honours and a place at the heart of the cultural establishment. Nevertheless, he cast himself as an outsider throughout his long career.
Orchestra: English String Orchestra. Conductor: William Boughton.
Singer: Rebecca Evans. Singer: Paul Groves. Singer: Jacques Imbrailo. Singer: David Kempster. Singer: Brindley Sherratt. Choir: Hallé Youth Choir. Choir: Hallé Choir. Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
Choir: Finzi Singers. Conductor: Paul Spicer.


A graduate from the Academia de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro", La Habana, in 1993 and the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), La Habana, 2000, Martínez has taught two graphics workshops, first at ISA and then at the Museo de la Estampa y el Diseño Carlos Cruz Diez in Caracas. He was a resident at the Art OMI International Artist Residency, New York and his work has been exhibited in 16 solo shows in Cuba, the USA, Germany, and England, and in 104 group shows in Cuba, Germany, England, the USA, Brazil, Spain, Venezuela, Mexico and Japan. He lives in Havana, Cuba.


A windmill and a faint rainbow below a cloud illuminated by warm morning light at Riserva Naturale dello Stagnone near Marsala. Marsala is in the western part of the Mediterranean island of Sicily, Italy. This photo was taken in the morning of a sunny day in April of 2017. This photo was taken with a digital camera.


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IS THERE A SILVER LINING IN THIS RECORD HEAT WAVE?
By Annelise TappeJuly 22, 2021No Comments
If you live in the Western United States, we don't need to tell you about what the last week has been like.
From Montana down to the Mexican border, stretching as east as Nebraska, the recent heat wave is unlike anything we've seen in a long time, if not ever.
Sacramento hit a record of 110F
Salt Lake hit a record of 107F
Palm Springs hit a record of 123F
Billings Montana hit a record of 108F
Las Vegas was one degree shy of its record at 116F
The big culprit here was a Heat Dome that formed over the Southwest. It was one of the biggest, most expansive, stronger such domes ever recorded. Essentially what happens is a ton of high pressure air spirals up top, and this pushes warm air down and traps it. This is then compounded by a record drought we are in, which means the ground does not have moisture to evaporate and help cool. Here is a link to get a deeper breakdown on the Heat Dome.
Global warming is all too real and this is sadly just a taste of what's to come.
Let's Throw in a Record Drought as Well
As if this wasn't bad enough, we are in a drought that many scientists believe is the worst we've been in for nearly 1,200 years!
Yeah, you read that correctly.
The Hoover Dam Reservoir sits at just 37% full, the worst ever seen. California Hydropower is 70% lower than the 10 year rolling average. Droughts cause all sorts of problems. One of them being drying up hydropower energy, which accounts for 52% of our renewable energy in the US and 7% of our total energy altogether.
They are also causing havoc for farmers and ranchers. In California wells are drying up for local communities. And with hotter and drier conditions come wildfires. California is seeing wildfires one month earlier than last year, and last year was a record breaking year by a crazy order of magnitude.
Many climate scientists are saying "I told you so", but more shockingly, they can't believe the worst case scenarios of their climate models are coming to fruition much sooner than they had expected.
Throw Me a Bone
Ok we don't want to be all doom and gloomy. There is something positive to take away from this.
A recent study was done that found hot weather is the most effective for getting people to talk about global warming and acknowledging climate change. So if this study has legs, then at least we are getting a dose of some effective talking points right now.
This goes to show that many people only care about issues when it directly impacts them in a material way, such as extreme discomfort from record high temperatures.
But seriously. Between last years wildfires, the Texas Freeze in February, and now this record heat wave, if anyone in your life is still questioning the crisis of climate change or sense of urgency to do everything we can to combat it, please just let them hang out outside in the sun in the Southwest US right now and ask them how they feel about it.
A LITTLE KNOWN LIZARD SHEDDING LIGHT ON QUESTIONABLE PRACTICES FROM ZOOS
Oh, zoos. A few of you seem to get it, but the majority kill the reputation for the whole bunch.
It seems for every positive report of a major Zoo doing something pro-conservation there are two reports that bring zoo practices back in jeopardy. One of those latter reports was just published last week in Nature Conservation by Vincent Nijman.
He traced back the origins of dozens of earless monitor lizards and found that all but one was linked back to illegal, commercial trade of these extremely protected species being trafficked from the wild.
Earholes & Loopholes
The earless monitor lizard is a relatively unknown species to the common person, but is big time amongst traders. In the last few decades it has become a very sought after exotic pet, due to its manageable size, unique appearance and charismatic personality.
Here is a little info about them.
The species is only found in Malaysia and Indonesia, and is originally endemic to the island of Borneo. They are now heavily protected because of dwindling numbers, well, sort of protected.
From 2013 to 2016, over 200 of these critters ended up with collectors and zoos, and today there are a total of 70 in zoos in Europe and the US.
So, how did they get there?
While every single zoo said they got it from a permitted source on grounds of protecting the species and saving an animal otherwise in peril, Nijman dug in and found a lot of loopholes to call that in question.
For one, it seems these lizards pass hands very fast initially. i.e, they go from commercial trade to unaccredited zoo to accredited zoo 1 and then to accredited zoo 2 in a short time span. That way, by the time they get to accredited zoo 2, that facility can rightfully claim they got it from another accredited zoo and there are many steps to trace it back to commercial trade.
Other times, they are trafficked from the wild and then forced to breed, and then the offspring is classified as "bred in captivity", often in another country such as Japan, which does not have the same restrictions as a previously wild lizard.
Another loophole – the species is referred to by different names in different countries and languages. So quite literally commercial traders simply use the alternate name that is internationally known but not protected in that location. It's absurd this is a viable loophole but Nijman seems to have found cases where this was used.
Legal vs. Ethical
The larger challenge here seems to be around legal vs. ethical guidelines.
In nearly all of these cases, none of the zoos currently holding earless monitor lizards acquired it illegally due to some of the loopholes explained above. So for them, they did nothing wrong, broke no laws, and abided by the rules set out in moving this species.
In a critique of Nijman's study, one zoo official in Europe said: "He makes a broad statement that says zoos have a higher obligation than compliance with the law," [But legal compliance] "is the way we combat trafficking," and Nijman "is not showing that anyone has not complied with the law."
However, critics say that zoos should dig deeper. They should take it on themselves to look into the supply chain of a highly endangered species before taking it in and putting that work in. That this is the ethical thing to do.
And some zoo officials agree with this position. "Zoos and aquariums, as part of their due diligence, have a responsibility to avoid supporting illegal export of animals," says Danny de Man, the deputy executive director of the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA), the accrediting body for European zoos. "I welcome this paper, because I think this publication will help us look at our policies and procedures and, if need be, fine-tune them."
Our stance: zoos absolutely are capable of doing a lot of good. They can serve as a valuable bridge for a species near collapse if they plan from the start to successfully reintroduce that species back into the wild. A great example of this the California Condor, which was saved by captive breeding in the 1980s.
However to restrict their live species to these specific cases, zoos would be much smaller and have far fewer live attractions. If they replaced this with a new wave of virtual and augmented experiences that still offer that immersive, wild experience and limit live specimens to those truly in need and are very restrictive on their access to the public so they are putting conservation first and entertainment second, there is a way to modernize zoos that allow them to succeed financially and serve conservation ethically.
The problem – as long as there are many zoos not willing to go that route and drawing consumers in with the most exotic of species such as the earless monitor lizard, the ones trying to do it correctly will struggle to compete. So we need a larger industry wide change and we likely need regulations to assist in getting us there.
UNRAVELING MISINFORMATION BETWEEN ENERGY PRICES AND PROGRESSIVE ENERGY POLICY
You're likely aware that in the last 4-8 weeks, gasoline prices have soared as have the home energy bills for many Americans.
There are plenty of factors here that we plan on outlining for you, however, none of them are related to any link to Biden's clean energy and climate policy despite a ton of misinformation out there and inflammatory social media posts. These price hikes have as much to do with Biden's Energy and Policy as Jewish Space Lasers have to do with US Wildfires.
In fact, moving faster into renewable energy with battery holdings would likely mitigate such scenarios from happening in the future. So let's briefly dig in.
Low Down on Prices
Let's first recognize that prices are up.
Gasoline per gallon is sitting today at $3.07 vs. $2.17 for the annual average of 2020.
Natural-Gas Futures are at $3.21 per million thermal units, which is a 96% increase from a year ago and the highest price heading into the summer since 2017 (prices always much higher in winter).
On gasoline prices, they have long been rising long term and fluctuating short term, as evidenced by this annual chart dating back to 1990.
The main cause of this is the pandemic. During the pandemic, natural-gas and oil demand plummeted. As people went into quarantine, cars came off the road, air travel disappeared, big energy office buildings went unused….energy demand went down in a big way.
As a result, natural gas and oil suppliers cut off their supply. At one point, oil futures went below $0 as you will see here:
Many experts urged these fossil fuel companies to keep supply coming to prep for the rebound, but they had short-term shareholder demands to focus more on profitability than long term supply.
Now with the pandemic winding down, people are traveling at record rates and we just had one of the harshest heat waves EVER that shoots up energy use for cooling. Energy providers are scrambling to catch up and ramp up supply, and as a result, prices are up!
Keystone XL & How Renewables Can Help
Those in the anti-renewable energy and climate denial camp, which we like here at Animalia to call its own idiodic movement rather than painting it as "right-wing" since it's time we acknowledge there are plenty of conservative folks who recognize and want to fight the climate crisis, just with different tools perhaps than those on the left, are using for example Biden's shutdown of the Keystone XL Pipeline in January as an example of what is causing this price hike.
That's about as accurate as stating Jewish Space Lasers caused many US Wildfires last year. The Keystone Pipeline was far from operational, and so it has absolutely zero impact on short term supplies. It would however impact long term supply.
So how about them renewables? And how might they mitigate challenges of such steep changes in supply and demand like we've seen with the pandemic?
For one, they don't have as high of a variable cost of operation and extraction as fossil fuels. Wind, solar, and hydro are much more automated once they are set up, meaning they don't need to be "turned on and off" in the way fossil fuel does. (Of course per our earlier story, things like record breaking droughts can impede hyrdo)
The key of course is the declining costs and increasing efficiency of batteries. The Achilles Heal of renewables is the lack of control, and the "off-hours' when the sun is not out or the wind is not blowing. They can produce more than we need in peak hours and far less than we need in off-hours. Battery storage solves for this.
We also hope that we continue to see a mix of private and public investment in renewables, vs. the primarily private only nature of fossil fuels, so that we can balance needs for things like profits and long-term supply / safe keeping.
Finally, we've said it many times before here and we'll say it again, nuclear has to be part of the solution. Renewables + Nuclear can get us off of fossil fuels, but renewables can't do it alone.
NEW STUDY SHOWS LINK BETWEEN LAND MANAGEMENT & MARINE ECOSYSTEMS
We are learning more and more every year about how what we do on land impacts life in the ocean.
We know how this works when it comes to plastics and pollution and global warming causing the ice caps to melt leading to rising coastlines and ocean temperatures.
What might not be so obvious is how something like livestock can greatly impact and even wipe out entire marine ecosystems.
That link was recently unearthed by paleontologist Susan Kidwell from the University of Chicago
A Lost Marine Ecosystem in Southern California
Kidwell and her team were shocked when they found artifacts from an ocean ecosystem off the coast of Los Angeles that once flourished with scallops, barnacles, and brachiopods (ancient creatures also called lamp shells) disappeared at a surprising time.
These species thrived on the rocky floor off the coast, and she expected they had been extinguished over hundreds of years of fluctuating sea levels.
What she found however was that they were alive and thriving as recently as 150 years ago, and then completely disappeared before the urbanization of LA in the late 1800s and early 1900s would have contributed to their demise.
The culprit? Livestock. The only major change to Southern California's ecosystem between 1750 and the late 1800s was the arrival of livestock.
Livestock as we know now today, greatly impact soil via their grazing, causing soil to compact. In a semi-arid climate like So Cal, when the heavy rains do come this compacted soil runs off into the ocean as sediment at a much higher rate.
This in turn essentially buried this ecosystem in mud, killing off these species that relied on the rocky coastal floor.
What This Link Means
We are not sharing it to shame cows or cattle or even livestock owners, although we would like to see that industry shrunk a great deal for a number of other reasons namely their enormous greenhouse gas emissions.
Rather, it's critical that we understand all the ways our land management, land use, and activity impacts something as critical as the ocean and marine life.
It's a bit cliche to say "these are all so interconnected", but they really are. We should account for these impacts when making decisions such as land concessions for ranching, and one day, hopefully those industries have to account for the true costs of doing their business, which should include short and long term impacts to coastal ecosystems.
"You have to connect the hinterland of a coastal system with the marine ecosystem," he says. Similarly, Kidwell believes these two cases illustrate how far the human imprint on a landscape can spread. "This demonstrates the ability of land use to impact not only local lakes and lagoons but the open continental shelf," she says.
Let's keep the information flowing and keep asking questions.
You can read more on the study here.
Some Dope Upcycled Jackets and Totes
Here is a company making some upcycled jackets and totes called Arc'Teryx
Now, they still sell original source products with synthetic, petroleum derived fabrics. But at least they are putting real effort into upcycling, and hopefully as soon as non-petroleum derived fibers are ready at scale from folks like Kintra, they will make the switch over.
Most of all, they aren't actively engaged in greenwashing like North Face.
Drone Army Vs. Ocean Plastic Pollution
Our world's dirtiest confession is no secret: We have a massive plastic problem. Our oceans are no exception to this problem, and some may even argue that the problem is worse there than on our lands, given the high volume and direct impact plastic pollution has on marine life and its ecosystems. Many animals such as seabirds, turtles, fish, whales, rays and others often find themselves tangled in ocean plastic waste, which can often be fatal if left untangled. Some animals, like turtles, will even mistake certain plastics for food, ingest it and suffer severe health issues resultantly. And those are just the BIG plastics. Our oceans also contain microplastics, or tiny little pieces of fragmented plastic less than 5mm in length. They enter natural ecosystems from a variety of sources, including cosmetics, clothing, and industrial processes, and make their way up the food chain (yes, eventually ending up in human bodies). It's estimated that there are 14 million tons of microplastic on the ocean floor alone.
The Mighty Impact of Microplastics
And unfortunately none of that data even begins to scratch the surface. As many as 91 million metric tons of litter entered the oceans between 1990 and 2015, as much as 87% of which was plastic, according to research. An estimated 5.25 trillion particles of litter are currently floating in the oceans today. Recent funding and focus has been primarily allocated towards banning single use plastics, however many conservationists point out that there has already been a lot of damage done that needs addressing, too.
So, what is being done to solve this plastic problem? The answer is similar to that of many other world issues…. robots, of course! While around 80% of ocean plastic pollution projects are focused on monitoring only, the remaining 20% are aimed at the actual clean up. Still, the number of methods has increased exponentially recently, with 73% of all methods having been developed in the past four years alone. So you can say there has been a huge tech boom in the ocean clean-up sphere, which is great, although we do have to note that the plastic problem was reasonably understood by the late 1980's, and we are just now seeing action (better late than never?).
Drone Army….Assemble!
Ok, so now for the whole robot/drone part. With new funding and much needed focus on the plastic pollution problem, the robot army is resultantly rising. Various robots have been developed recently, all with the purpose of clearing plastic from our oceans. Note: this mainly tackles the large plastics, and not microplastics.
Among these inventions is the sea garbage bin, which is a giant plastic-collecting barrier, and a marine drone that floats and collects garbage through a wide opening that mimics the mouth of a whale shark.
Another litter clearer is the BeachBot, a garbage collecting rover (designed after the Mars rover), that collects small trash like cigarette butts, single use utensils or plastic caps from beaches.
While these robots sound great (and kind of adorable?), many can't help but wonder how much of a dent these will truly make in the insane mass of plastic in our oceans. Plastic production and waste accumulates faster than the inventions to reduce it. By some calculations, it would take about a century to remove 5% of plastics currently in the oceans using only clean-up devices.
We have a feeling this is just the beginning of robot solutions like this being implemented to assist with environmental issues. And while we look forward to seeing further developments, we also simultaneously continue to stress that the world also needs some serious behavior changes from a preventative standpoint if we ever want a chance of actually tackling the plastic.
Annelise Tappe


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