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The Three Little Pigs (Story) (Spoken) Why don't you, sit right back, and I, I may tell you, a tale. A tale of three, little pigs, and a big, bad wolf Well the
Fifer manages to escape and hides at Fiddler's house. The wolf continued down the lane and he passed by the second house made of sticks; and he saw the house, and he smelled the pigs inside, and his mouth began to water as he thought about the fine dinner they would make. said the wolf who was a very big, bad, and a greedy sort of wolf. The first two pigs still get their houses blown down, but escape from the wolf. When the Nazis began expanding the boundaries of Germany in the years preceding World War II, the song was used to represent the complacency of the Western world in allowing Adolf Hitler to make considerable acquisitions of territory without going to war, and was notably used in Disney animations for the Canadian war effort. The dog catcher makes several failed attempts to destroy the house and catch the pups. said the third little pig. The short won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.{/INSERTKEYS}{/PARAGRAPH} This story is featured in our Favorite Fairy Tales and Children's Stories. The wolf was coming down the chimney. And he huffed, and he puffed and he blew but nothing happened. The wolf opened his jaws very wide and bit down as hard as he could, but the first little pig escaped and ran away to hide with the second little pig. The pigs and the Big Bad Wolf also appear at the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts as meetable characters. Animator Chuck Jones said, "That was the first time that anybody ever brought characters to life [in an animated cartoon]. Both of these cartoons were directed by ex-Disney animator Friz Freleng. The pigs' houses are made either of mud, cabbage, or brick. In one Shining Time Station episode, Schemer's Alone, Midge Smoot reads a version of this story to Schemer who paid her an IOU instead of real money, despite the fact that he's tricking his friends. The wolf hadn't eaten all day and he had worked up a large appetite chasing the pigs around and now he could smell all three of them inside and he knew that the three little pigs would make a lovely feast. John Rambo is dispatched to the scene, and kills the wolf with a machine gun. Without caring in his undressed situation, the Wolf jumps on the roof to enter the house by the chimney. So the little piggy put on the cover again, boiled the wolf up, and the three little pigs ate him for supper. The wolf drives a Harley Davidson motorcycle, the first little pig is an aspiring guitarist, the second is a cannabis smoking, dumpster diving evangelist and the third holds a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University. Das Three Little Pigs Hostel befindet sich aufgrund der zentralen Lage in dieser Zone. They all set to work and by nighttime the house of straw and the house of sticks were built but the house of bricks was only just beginning to rise above the ground. The third little pig worked hard all day and built his house with bricks. Variations of the tale appeared in Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings in One starlit night, soon after they had settled in, a wolf came out looking for food. A nose, glasses and beard disguise also remained. Practical, on the other hand, "has no chance to sing and dance for work and play don't mix," focusing on building his strong brick house, but his two brothers poke fun at him. At last, he was so out of breath that he couldn't huff and he couldn't puff anymore. Here, Practical Pig builds his house out of Canadian war bonds, and the Big Bad Wolf representing Nazi Germany is unable to blow his house down. The phrases used in the story, and the various morals drawn from it, have become embedded in Western culture. So when they were old enough, she sent them out into the world to seek their fortunes. Shop a fun and creative range of baby, toddler and children's toys and gifts as well as mum to be must-haves. Build learning around creative resources. This page was last edited on 22 October , at The wolf chased them down the lane and he almost caught them. The story of The Three Little Pigs featured here has been adapted from different sources and from childhood memory. Also in , Tex Avery did a Droopy cartoon, "The Three Little Pups". The antagonist of this version is a fox, not a wolf. The wolf was very angry and getting even bigger and even badder by the minute. Introducing Nadnilu's beautiful range of organic and ethically produced T-shirts for mums and kids. The short contained several gags but at the time failed to repeat the commercial success of the original. We are happy to offer gift wrapping at no additional charge. やっと訪れることができたラーメン屋らしからぬラーメン屋さん。 After these incidents, Bugs decides to help the wolf and get revenge on all three pigs, who are now at the brick house. He crept up to the door and called: 'Oh no, not by the hair on my chinny chin chin! In , the Flemish company Studio created a musical called Three Little Pigs Dutch: De 3 Biggetjes , which follows the three daughters of the pig with the house of stone with new original songs, introducing a completely new story loosely based on the original story. {PARAGRAPH}{INSERTKEYS}Yleinen Fandom may earn an affiliate commission on sales made from links on this page. Order by It parodies both the Disney version, and Fantasia itself. Learn more about KidsOut, the fun and happiness charity. The story has been somewhat softened. He thought the pig would make a mighty fine meal and his mouth began to water. See more ideas about Three little pigs, Little pigs, Three little. フォロワー 1,人, 以前からBMしていたお店。 Big Pig builds a brush house, Little Pig builds a stick house, Speckle Pig builds a mud house, Blunt builds a plank house and Runt builds a stone house. It looked like it could withstand the strongest winds. Should you require your purchases gift wrapped, please request by ticking the box during the checkout process. His last failed attempt ends with him "going into television" where he is playing a cowboy on the TV show the pups were watching. Airings on American television have edited this further by using the Fuller Brush Man footage and redubbing the Wolf's voice so that he does not sound stereotypically Jewish. said the wolf. Meanwhile, Fiddler and Fifer Pig offer to escort the Red Riding Hood to her grandmother's residence. Other versions of the tale were also made. 続きを読む, 店舗にご登録いただいた情報を掲載しています。感染症対策の実施状況詳細やご不明点については、店舗までご確認ください。, 思わず写真を撮りたくなる自慢のラーメンやカリフォルニアロールなど様々なメニューとラーメンの競演が楽しめるコースになります。, 2,ログ Modern audiences have found it entertaining enough but still inferior to its predecessor. The musical was specially written for the band K3, who play the three little pigs, Pirky, Parky and Porky Dutch: Knirri, Knarri and Knorri. Kids' concept store. The plot was fairly simple. One of Uncle Remus' stories, "The Story of the Pigs" alt. The children's book The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig inverts the cast and makes a few changes to the plot: the wolves build a brick house, then a concrete house, then a steel house, and finally a house of flowers. A Walt Disney classic Silly Symphony the Three Little Pigs. This is actually the only known work the Disney studios has made for another cinematographic company. A new character, Lil Bad Wolf, the son of the Big Bad Wolf, was introduced in subsequent Disney comic books. フォロワー 人, 日進竹の山にあるおしゃれな ペットOKなテ Free next day delivery. Smart Practical Pig takes off the lid of a boiling pot filled with water to which he adds turpentine under the chimney, and the Wolf falls with his naked lower in the pot. said the third little pig, while the first and the second little pigs hid trembling under the stairs.
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The 356 can fairly be described as the car that put Porsche on the map, its unconventional rear-mounted flat-four engine starting a tradition that continues to the present day. The earliest 356s were somewhat underpowered and very primitive in terms of equipment but, by the late 1950s, had matured into an altogether more sophisticated sports car, with plenty of creature comforts. In September 1959, the most radical development of the 356 was announced at the Frankfurt Motor Show, with an entirely restyled body - designated the T5 - featuring different bumpers and revised front wings with the headlamps mounted higher up. In 1961, Porsche announced a Roadster variant to fill the gap between the spartan Speedster and the more luxurious Cabriolet, joining the existing Coupe. The chassis also underwent some revision and the tendency towards oversteer was reduced (radial tyres as standard fitment helped in this regard), while the floorpan was altered to increase rear passenger space. The new 356B was available with three different pushrod engines, the 1600 and 1600S continuing unchanged but with the addition of the new Super 90 featuring twin-choke carburettors, larger inlet valves and a reworked cylinder head to increase power output. The brakes were improved, with better friction linings and the drums now had 72 light alloy ribs to keep them cool.


The future of the future often begins with products announced or presented at the CES technology trade show in Las Vegas. What's coming? Devices with better chips and faster communications which may end the use of a USB cable.
Uh huh. OK. Today's cables are used to power and connect devices. What will make it obsolete? 5G networks and ultra powerful, ultra small, and low power chips. From Qualcomm.
Qualcomm makes many of the chips to connect devices to networks, and makes many of the chips that run the devices.
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Water temperatures in Australia and Oceania and other information about traveling to Australia and Oceania.
Sea temperatures for 277 travel destinations and 24 countries on continent Australia and Oceania. The average temperature in Australia and Oceania is 27.8°C. The highest current temperature on the continent according to our data, is in Rotuma (Fiji) where water has 30.8 degrees celsius. On the other hand the lowest temperature is in Campbell Isl (New Zealand) where water has 10.5 degrees celsius. This means the difference between the warmest (Rotuma) and coldest (Campbell Isl) place in Australia and Oceania is 20.3 degrees celsius.
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Q: How do I append an item to an array in a pipeline? This script should simply add a value to an array through a loop and then show all items of an array.
#!/bin/bash

data_file="$1"
down=()
counter=0

cat $data_file | while read line; do \
    isEven=$(( $counter % 2 ))
    if [ $isEven -eq 0 ]; then
        down+=("$line")
    fi
    (( counter ++ ))
done

echo ${down[@]}
exit

But all I see is empty string:
host@user$ sh script.sh data_file

host@user$

The data_file contains this:
81.11
11.63
81.11
11.63
81.11
11.63
81.11
11.63

Where's my mistake? Thanks.

A: You cannot refer variable updates made in the child process (pipe connected while block).
Instead, feed data using input redirection like this:
#!/bin/bash

data_file="$1"
down=()
counter=0

while read line; do
    isEven=$(( $counter % 2 ))
    if [ $isEven -eq 0 ]; then
        down+=("$line")
    fi
    (( counter ++ ))
done < $data_file

echo ${down[@]}
exit

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Waterloo – Crafts, games, sports, outdoor play – and plenty of learning about psychology and the brain. That's what BrainWorx, a unique summer camp at Wilfrid Laurier University's Waterloo campus, offers children aged six to nine.
BrainWorx is run by Professor Kim Roberts, director of Laurier's Child Memory Lab and a member of Laurier's departments of Psychology and Criminology. Campers will have a chance to participate in studies that explore how children learn, remember and differentiate information. In the process, they learn how research works and about the areas being researched – all while having fun.
BrainWorx provides an unusual opportunity for young children to learn about psychology, which can have concrete benefits. Learning about behaviour helps children build self-regulation skills and learning about areas such as gender differences and memory can help them understand themselves and the world more accurately.
Though children's participation in studies is always voluntary – parents must also give informed consent – most enjoy the one-on-one time with adults they've come to know. Many children are also pleased to learn that they are participating in work that could benefit other kids.
"For example, if it's a study on language, we might be able to show them a language program we've put together based on the findings of previous studies," said Roberts, who is running the camp for the fifth time since 2010.
This year's studies include one that seeks to determine how children differentiate between sources of online information and others that focus on children's memories of events. The research will serve to write guidelines for professionals, such as teachers, social workers and judges, who often need to interview children.
Other activities, such as building models of the brain and making slime, teach kids about science more generally. A lot of just plain fun is built in too. Campers take trips to the pool and climbing wall, as well as play outside daily. With only about 30 campers a week, kids get to know each other and the staff well.
BrainWorx runs July 9-13 and July 16-20, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at a cost of $170 per week or $310 for both weeks. Children can be dropped off between 8:45 a.m. and 9 a.m. and additional supervision until 5 p.m. is available for an additional charge of $30 a week.


By Rorer, Mrs. S. T.
Philadelphia: W. Atlee Burpee & Co.. Good; Rear cover missing. Front cover chipped, owner name and date on . front free endpaper.. 1892. Third Edition. Softcover.  pages of publisher ads at rear. An antiquarian and early cookbook by Sarah T. Rorer, then Principal of the Philadelphia Cooking School. Contains many 19th century American recipes for vegetable cookery, including Oyster Plant Soup, Stewed Celery, Small Ears of Corn Pickled, Cucumbers Fried in Batter, Poke Stalks, and other old-fashioned delights. ; 182 pages .
Chicago: The Ross Manufacturing Company. Fair; Covers soiled, and covers and pages grease-stained.. 1952. Softcover. Promotional cake decorating instruction book for Chefmaster products. Stapled photo-illustrated booklet. Many thumbnail photos. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 14 pages .
London: The National Trust. Very Good with no dust jacket; Page tops foxed.. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 0707801281 . Pictorial hardcover. A book of tea-time baked treats, with many regional specialities. ; 160 pages .
Southeast Louisiana Girl Scout Council. Very Good; Covers lightly soiled.. 1989. Second Edition. Spiral bound. Tan illustrated card covers with gold spiral binding. Illustrations. ; 90 pages .
Eugene, OR: Alfrahaugr Publishing Society. Very Good; Covers foxed.. 1988. Softcover. Tan illustrated card covers with black plastic comb binding. Recipes, cookbook reviews, and articles about medieval cooking culled from the quarterly publication for the Guild of the Black Kettle of the Kingdom of An Tir of the Society for Creative Anachronism. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 101 pages .
South Brunswick: A. S. Barnes. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket rubbed, toned, and . price-clipped.. 1970. Hardcover. 0498074862 . 137 pages .
Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Gift inscription on dedication page, . jacket price-clipped and rubbed, some dog-eared pages.. 1990. First Printing. Hardcover. 0316545198 . Index, bibliography. Author photo on rear jacket flap. Includes special holiday desserts, biscotti, cannolis, pistachio couscous, fried pastries, ricotta and sour cherry strudel (using homemade ricotta) , and the other sweet delights of the traditional Italian table. Red cloth binding. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 276 pages .
Circleville, OH: Calvary United Methodist Church, the Crusader Sunday School Class. Very Good. 1982. Softcover. Printed stapled orange card covers. Recipes for pumpkin from the annual Circleville (Ohio) Pumpkin Show. ; 92 pages .
NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Fair dust jacket; Jacket price-clipped and heavily tattered.. 1966. Thirteenth Printing. Hardcover. 0394401557 . The culinary classic that got America really cooking and what was later deemed to be Volume One of a two volume masterpiece. Index. Illustrations by Sidonie Coryn. Pictorial boards. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 684 pages .
Ipswich, MA: Self Published. Very Good; Wraps toned and soiled, longitudinal crease, edges chipped. 1877. Softcover. Original printed gray wraps. 6 x 9 inches. 1952 typed book purchase receipt laid in from Mass. Horticultural Society with offsetting to inside cover and title page. Bound in at rear is printed slip advertising Haskells selection of 30 grape vine cuttings for $100. The author describes his efforts to grow and hybridize grapes on his coastal Massachusetts estate, including his efforts to collect wild grape specimens, grafting native and foreign vines, and cross-fertilization. Also describes forty of his successful varieties. Gabler 23350. Amerine & Borg 1656. OCLC locates 15 copies. Only one other copy noted for sale in the trade at time of listing. ; 18 pages .
Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket soiled and tattered.. 1969. Later Printing. Hardcover. Many photos and illustrations. Discusses foraging for wild foods, campfire cookery, and other backwoods wisdom. ; 256 pages .
Franklin, PA: Presbyterian Ladies of Franklin, PA.. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn and soiled, hinges cracked.. 1916. Hardcover. Yellow cloth with titles in black on front boards. Recipes, menus, health and household hints, recipes for household cleaners and toiletries, index. ; 222 pages .
NY: Random House. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Owner name on front free endpaper, jacket . tattered.. 1984. Third Printing. Hardcover. 0394530942 . A wonderful classic cookbook for anyone who loves to garden and cook (or shop seasonally in a farmer's market and cook) from one of America's best chefs. Red cloth. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 196 pages .
Helsinki: Otava Publishing Company Ltd.. Very Good with no dust jacket; Covers rubbed.. 1998. Hardcover. 9511154427 . Photo illustrated boards. A fish and seafood cookbook from the chefs at Helsinki's Havis Amanda restaurant. Many color photos and illustrations. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 96 pages .
NY: Greenberg. Good in Good dust jacket; Boards foxed, jacket tattered and taped at spine.. 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Gray illustrated cloth with black cloth spine. Several pages of black and white photos. Index. 266 recipes for oyster dishes by the Master Chef. ; 175 pages .
NY: A. S. Barnes and Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn and sunned.. 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth binding. Front flyleaf has author's stamp noting that this book is presented Christmas 1968 and another stamp noting that the book is compliments of DVA, signed Joseph P. Canuso, Pres. A chronology of recipes for each month of the year from the files of the South Philadelphia's author's maternal Italian-American grandmother. Errata slip laid in. ; 136 pages .
NY: Knopf. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket chipped and waterstained at . backstrip.. 1982. First Printing. Hardcover. 0394524004 . A collection of twenty food essays, including some never previously published, about such topics as her California childhood, the train station at Lyon, France, sea travel and Provence. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 261 pages .
NY: Penguin Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Remainder stripe on page bottoms, . jacket rubbed.. 2010. First Printing. Hardcover. 1594202591 . Index, notes, recipes, bibliography. ; 323 pages .
NY: Workman Publishing. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Boards and jacket lightly rubbed.. 1992. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. 1563053152 . x, 518pp, index. Pictorial boards. A vibrant Asian fusion cookbook by the late San Francisco restaurateur Barbara Tropp. .
NY: McGraw Hill. Very Good with no dust jacket; Covers lightly worn.. 1979. Revised Edition. Hardcover. 007044871X . Pictorial hardcover. Printed on tan paper. Comprehensive cookbook by the test kitchens of McCormick & Company, spice purveyors. ; 431 pages .


I am surprise of the workshop because the first day I requested to the senior instructor to divide the people according to their level. I thought was the same to the seminars that I attended and Experiencing how difficult for the attendees who are not educated. The instructor was humbly obey to my instruction.
if you are educated or not . Because I am a pastor the stories that we study like Abraham about his wealth I preach many times to the people and I was taught that I am a good teacher but when I heard from the instructor when he gave the full model I was shy and convicted the way I preach those stories.
I experienced more deeper understanding to the word of God listening to voice God by doing sts way. I am thankful to God sending STS team in my place and I wanted to continue more to study this system so that I can share it to others also. God bless my heart hearing all the stories again convicted and I cry.
I pray that Ptr, EB will consider us to have bible school as what he called mobile bible school because I have 7-ptrs with me. I really use it when I am in my ministry I see in very eyes that some of the church members are giving their treasures with tears in their eyes unlike before I see that people are sleeping inside of the church.
"STS has impacted the way I read the scriptures, prepare my sermons, and in my delivery of the sermon. My congregation is growing both spiritually and numerically as a result. I sometimes launch into a true STS style, but more often the insights I glean, the more "telling the story" way I communicate biblical truth helps the congregation capture the heart of what the Spirit is revealing to their hearts.
"I am now often told that my sermons are impacting because they are so "down to earth" and easily understood and applied.
"Our Sunday School teachers are trained in STS and find it effective in communicating the stories of the Bible. Of course, student participation is greatly enhanced.
[If you would like to contact Pastor Chris to find out more on use of STS in a church environment, send an email us and we will endeavor to forward your request. Put in the subject line, "Want to contact Chris Johnson."
"I have been impacted by the STS. Before I was telling stories but not like the way you have trained us. Our community is an oral one and they pass information to each other in story forms. STS is very ideal for us.
"I want to request that you help us in this kind workshop in other places we have planted churches. We have 332 churches in 7 different villages. I will take you to all of them to have the same workshop. We need this to help us evangelize the Mus.lims.
"I don't know where you have been that you did not come to us before. We could have gone far than where we are now. I need this in all 332 churches and I am sure we will take the villages.
"I have been to several of these trainings and taught [STS now to] several to pastors/teachers on the mission field and in churches in the USA for Sunday school teachers. I feel it is one of the most effective ways to find treasures from God's Word.
"As I learned and practiced and taught STS, I found that in my 40 years of Bible study I had missed many of the wonderful treasures God had put there for me.
"STS is very effective for ages 7–97 and from illiterate to PHD education levels. Amazingly all that mixture of age and education can be effectively taught in the same class. It's a highly motivational teaching technique for missions around the world and especially for the generation who are more impacted by interactive stories than lectures in our USA churches.
"I recently taught Bible stories using STS to my young grandchildren and I was moved by their ability to find spiritual treasures for their lives."


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One smart cookie: Edmonton girl guide sells out of cookies near cannabis store
Nine-year-old Elina Childs. THE CANADIAN PRESS
EDMONTON — She's being called one smart cookie.
As people lined up to buy cannabis at one of six Edmonton cannabis stores that opened Wednesday a small entrepreneur stood ready to capitalize on what could be expected to be customers' future need for a sweet snack.
Nine-year-old Elina Childs had a wagon full of Girl Guide cookies for sale.
"My dad asked me if I wanted to sell cookies and I said yes," she said in an interview after school Thursday. "So we started selling cookies there and they sold out very quickly."
Her father, Seann Childs, said they sold cookies going door to door in their neighbourhood last year, but people often weren't home or there would be big dogs in the yards.
"We thought, 'Where can we go to sell them?'" he said. "It just so happens that legalization was coming up in a couple of days."
When Elina got home from school Wednesday, she grabbed some change from her piggy bank. She and her dad loaded up a wagon with three cases of Girl Guide cookies and they walked a few blocks to the nearby cannabis store.
She started walking up and down the lineup.
"It was well received," said Seann Childs.
Elina said people told her "it was a smart idea and that they'd like to buy some cookies."
Her dad said some cars even stopped on the street to buy a box.
"It was really something else," he said. "I'd never seen anything quite like that."
Childs said he expected it to go well, but he never thought she would sell out of all the cookies they had left in the three cases — about 30 boxes — in 45 minutes.
"We were sold out in no time," he said.
An official with the Girl Guides praised Elina's strategy.
"Good on her and her family for thinking of it," said Edmonton commissioner Heather Monahan. "It's fun and it's different and what better way to get rid of cookies."
A social media post on Elina outside the pot store went viral and Monahan said they started getting questions from other parents about whether it was allowed.
"Why wouldn't it be?" she said. "It wasn't like she was in the store — that would be a whole different ball game.
"I think it's wonderful."
To make it even better, Elina's parents were able to use the experience as a teaching moment for their daughter.
"She actually has cystic fibrosis, so we encourage her to get out there and do things and be active," Childs said. "Girl Guides is one part of that."
He noted that smoking is usually harmful to her.
"This was one day she could benefit from smoking," said Childs. "We saw that as an opportunity to get out there and teach her a little about what cannabis is.
"Obviously she's not going to be using it before she's 18, I hope, but we like to have frank discussions with her, so she understands what it is and take away that mystery behind it — just to show her people of all ages and all walks of life are doing this and it's legal in Canada now, just demystify it for her so it's not a big deal for her."

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By Wavefunction on Wednesday, May 23, 2012
"Chemophobia" is the name of the exasperating phenomenon in which every material substance is branded as a "chemical" and made to look dangerous irrespective of context. Since everything in the universe is supposedly material, by definition chemophobia extends to everything. The media in particular has eagerly latched on to this idea, forgetting that almost everything (not just chemicals but life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness) is dangerous in the wrong quantities and context and harmless in the right ones.
Matt Hartings at Sciencegeist had the excellent idea for us bloggers to do our part in dispelling chemophobia. He wants us to write about our favorite toxic chemical compounds. This will not only give us an opportunity to explore the many incarnations of toxicity but will also help inform the public about the highly context-specific safety and toxicity of chemicals.
My fellow bloggers have done a great job so far in documenting the various facts and myths about toxic molecules (you can find summaries on Matt's blog). A resounding theme in their posts is that "the dose makes the poison". It's an idea which goes back to Paracelsus in the 15th century and sounds intuitively true (consider the widespread injunction against gluttony), but which seems surprisingly recalcitrant to being universally accepted. This dose-specific toxicity especially makes its appearance in medicine, with unfortunate reports of celebrities fatally overdosing on prescription drugs regularly appearing in the news media. Strangely, the same media which readily accepts the fact that prescription drugs are safe as long as they are not abused in large quantities abandons its critical attitude when talking about "chemicals" in our food and clothing.
Dose-specific toxicity is indeed of paramount importance in medicine, but if you delve deeper, the common mechanism underlying the toxicity of many drugs often has less to do with the specific drugs themselves and more to do with the other major player in the interaction of drugs with the human body - proteins. Unwarranted dosages of drugs are certainly dangerous, but even in these cases the effect is often mediated by specific proteins. Thus in this post, I want to take a slightly different tack and want to reinforce the idea that when it comes to drugs it's often wise to remember that "the protein makes the poison". I want to reinforce the fact that toxicity is often a function of multiple entities and not just one. In fact this concept underlies most of the side-effects of drugs, manifested in all those ominous sounding warnings delivered in rapid fire intonations in otherwise soothing drug commercials.
What do I mean by "the protein makes the poison"? Almost every drug demonstrates its effects by binding to specific proteins which may be involved in particular diseases, and the goal of pharmaceutical research is to find molecules that target and inhibit or activate these proteins. There is of course much more to a drug than just inhibition of a protein, but that's the fundamental challenge. This goal was delineated during the turn of the twentieth century in Paul Ehrlich's notion of a "magic bullet", a compound that would hit only the rogue protein and nothing else. We are still trying to implement Ehrlich's program and in the process have discovered how hideously complicated the process is.
The thing is, in spite of much progress we still understand woefully little about the human body. When we design a drug to inhibit one protein, it has to contend with the thousands of other proteins in the body which perform crucial functions. Making a drug that binds to a protein is essentially like designing a key to fit a lock. Even if you think you have a perfect key that fits only one lock, the number of locks with similar structures is so large that it's very likely for parts of the key to fit other locks. And if these other locks or proteins play fundamental roles in normal physiological processes, you may be in trouble. In fact there's a name for this group of unwanted proteins - antitargets - and there are entire books written on how to avoid them.
Ideally you have to contend with every other protein when your goal is to target only one, but somewhat fortunately, the history of drug research has found out a handful of key proteins which seem to be often hit, leading to side-effects. In this post I will focus on two, and I will illustrate both through the example of the drug terfenadine (illustrated on top). Interestingly, the story of terfenadine reinforces the idea about both dosage and protein-specific toxicity.
Terfenadine was introduced in 1985 as an anti-allergy drug. Things seemed to be going well for its maker Hoechst Marion Roussel until 1990 when troubling reports emerged of a serious and potentially lethal side effect. This side effect was a perturbation of the heart's rhythm. It can be of several types, all of which are usually lumped under the title of "arrhythmias". In particular, terfenadine caused two phenomena with the impressive names of QT prolongation and torsades de pointes.
The heart is a pump, but it's also a kind of electrical motor with its own electrical cycle. This cycle is governed by the influx and outflux of various ions into heart cells; most commonly, sodium, potassium, calcium and chloride. The cycle shows up as peaks and troughs in electrocardiograms (ECGs). Each peak is alphabetically labeled, and the interval between the trough Q and the peak T is particularly important. It turns out that several drugs including terfenadine prolong this interval, essentially throwing the heart's rhythm out of sync. It is not hard to see that the consequences of disturbing this very fundamental rhythm of life can be catastrophic; the heart can stall, go into cardiac arrest and kill the unfortunate victim. QT prolongation can also be part of a larger indication called torsades de pointes, characterized by a specific shape of the ECG.
But what's responsible for this effect at the molecular level is a unique protein called human ether a-go-ho (hERG). The protein is an ion channel conducting potassium ions through heart cells, thus its crucial significance in maintaining heart rhythm should not be surprising. Terfenadine and several other drugs (most notably some antidepressants and antipsychotics) bind to this protein with high affinity and can even block it. The amusing name of the protein points to an amusing origin. The protein was a product of the human analog of genes discovered in fruit flies by researchers at the University of Wisconsin who were studying mutations in these genes. They found that the mutant flies' legs started to shake when they were anesthetized, making the insects look like entomological versions of Elvis. Another scientist at the City of Hope remembered where he had seen humans doing a similar dance; at the Whisky a Go Go nightclub in West Hollywood. It was the ultimate in anthropomorphization. Here's what part of the protein looks like.
When the FDA found out about the dangerous side effects that terfenadine mediated through the hERG ion channel, they sent a letter to doctors who were prescribing the drug and issued a black box warning. In 1997 the FDA finally withdrew terfenadine; after all there were several anti-allergy medications out there and there was no need to market an especially dangerous one. Since then, testing potential drugs against hERG is a mandatory part of seeking FDA approval and there is much research dedicated to finding out specific molecular features of drugs which may turn out to be hERG blockers; one common determinant seems to be the presence of a positively charged basic nitrogen atom. There are entire lists of drugs including marketed ones that can cause QT problems to varying extents under different conditions.
So there it is, toxicity mediated not just by a particular "chemical" but by its interaction with a particular protein. But the story does not end there. Toxicity problems with terfenadine seemed to occur - you guessed it - only at high dosages. The dose indeed made the poison. But there was an added twist. Some patients experienced hERG blockage only when they were taking other drugs, most notably the antibiotic erythromycin. Surprisingly this also happened when they were drinking quantities of, of all things, grapefruit juice. Grapefruit juice has also turned out to be important in the effects of other popular drugs like statins for heart disease.
What was going on? When terfenadine is administered, like any foreign molecule it has to first get through the gut wall and the liver to enter the bloodstream. And it's in the liver that it encounters a protein called cytochrome P450. This crucial protein is the great gatekeeper of the human body, denying entry to thousands of molecules which it deems to be poisonous. It is responsible for the metabolism of about 75% of all drugs. It served a necessary function during evolution when organisms had to keep potentially poisonous chemicals out, but it haunts drug discovery scientists in their dreams because of its ability to affect drug structures in unexpected ways. The centerpiece of P450 is an iron atom that oxidizes electron-rich bonds in molecules. Most of the times the protein induces an oxidation reaction in a drug that changes it to something else. As a further testament to the complexities of drug development, that "something else" itself can be toxic, beneficial or neutral. In case of terfenadine there was a stroke of good luck; cytochrome P450 was transforming the compound into another drug called fexofenadine. Chemists will recognize the small difference in the structures - a single carboxylate group at the terminal end.
But as is often the case in the wonderful world of pharmacology, this tiny difference had momentous consequences; fexofenadine no longer bound to hERG with high affinity to cause QT-prolongation. What happened at high doses was that terfenadine saturated cytochrome P450 and some of it made its way into the bloodstream without being transformed into fexofenadine. Similarly the compounds in grapefruit juice preferentially bound to cytochrome P450, again allowing terfenadine to get past the protein. And this terfenadine which escaped the clutches of cytochrome P450 blocked hERG. One thing is clear here; it is chilling to contemplate the effects of terfenadine had it not been metabolized to fexofenadine by P450 in the first place.
This fascinating (at least for me) story of terfenadine drives home many important points regarding toxicity. Firstly, it takes two to tango, and toxicity is always a function of a drug and its target and not just of the drug alone. Secondly, we again had a case where "the dose made the poison". And thirdly, the reason this was true was because of a guardian angel, a protein which changed terfenadine into something else that was not toxic; a corollary of this point is that it takes a tiny change to turn a toxic compound into a non-toxic one.
There should be little more evidence needed to prove that toxicity is a many splendored, context-specific thing.
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Labels: chemophobia, drug discovery, hERG, toxicity
Chemjobber 12:19 PM, May 23, 2012
I love this post. A great explanation of HERG and how CYP450 does its thing, and the subsequent chemistry that happens...
Wavefunction 6:38 PM, May 23, 2012
Thanks CJ, just following the example of some great names in the chem blogosphere...
Carmen 1:38 PM, May 23, 2012
Agreed- a great story. And another great name to add to my list. Human ether-a-go-go-- I'd love to read about the experiments that led folks to coin that.
Carmen, I think it would be fantastic if someone could interview the original researchers. Or maybe it's already been done.
Anonymous 3:45 AM, May 24, 2012
This story had me wondering if people know botox is chemical as well... And if they would still undergo plastic surgery if it would be sold as such
Wavefunction 6:47 AM, May 24, 2012
Botox is the quintessential example of context and dose-specific toxicity. Hope someone blogs about it for the carnival. It is indeed amazing to see people have no problems with injecting themselves with one of the deadliest poisons known to man even while they cheerfully campaign against "chemicals" in milk.
partial agonist 3:29 PM, June 01, 2012
Thanks for this wonderful post.
I was a chemist at Marion Merrell Dow when the terrific late great medicinal chemist Bert Carr and co-workers made, studied, and patented terfenadine, and later fexofenadine.
The toxicity didn't show up at all in clinical trials, since by and large only healthy people (though allergy-sufferers) were selected, and they tended to not take a host of CYP450-inhibiting drugs.
I recall that alcoholics were also prone to the arrhythmias, since cirrhosis lowers CYP450 levels.
The metabolite, fexofenadine, is sold as "Allegra" these days. Very safe compound.
Wavefunction 6:56 PM, June 03, 2012
Thanks for the story, must have been interesting working there then.
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That's the big three: project-based learning, technology and enthusiastic teachers. To put it another way, that's the Holy Grail of education that all good teachers (including Indiana Jones) aspire to.
What I find fascinating about that accurate observation is that, if push came to shove, the magic could happen with just one of the three elements in the classroom: the technology. The enthusiastic teacher could be somewhere else, connected to the students through technology. That's certainly not ideal, but it's certainly possible.
Let me go farther out on the limb and assert that at least some of the other participants in the project-based learning could and should be scattered across the globe. Now that we have technology that does not respect walls or require face-to-face contact, we would be foolish not to take advantage of it.
And that's my fear — namely, that adults will create some stupid requirement that all three elements — enthusiastic teacher, project participants and technology — must be contained within and limited to one classroom.
When the goal is deeper learning, having those three elements is pretty close to being essential. Right now we are looking for outstanding examples of deeper learning, stories we can tell our PBS NewsHour audience that will make them wish they could be kids in school again.
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I am an advisor d(teacher) at Avalon School, where our students engage every day in deeper learning through project based learning. In our high school, students work within multi-age advisories where they design and launch projects around their interests and passions, which help them meet state graduations standards. Students identify their goals, their method, and most importantly, their 'deliverables' that will prove they have learned something!
During their senior year, students at Avalon undertake amazing 300+ hour senior projects. Each senior has a committee for support consisting of parents/guardians, two advisors (teachers), a community expert, and a younger Avalon student. Topics range from building a cello to undertaking school reform.
Here is the recap in numbers of one of our seniors from 2012. In the course of her project on school reform she: drove 9000 miles (mostly to and from the state capitol), spent 800 hours working on the project, cited 262 sources in her 45 page research paper, attended 32 legislative committee meetings, lobbied 27 politicians, wrote 5 reports, visited 5 other schools, gave testimony 4 times, and changed one law and got one statute instated! And what type of reform did she find needs to happen? Learning needs to be individualized, project-based, and done with the support of engaged, excited teachers.
None of this was assigned to her. We just assigned her to undertake a senior project that would have meaning to her and provide a challenge.
This is just one of many examples of deeper learning happening at Avalon all the time!
I just wanted to add to Gretchen's post. I also work at Avalon. The senior project she mentioned was one of the best ones at our school, and what I would add to her comment is that how we help students do amazing work is by building a strong school community. Through our advisory model, each advisor works with 21 students and checks in with them each day. We support their learning through independent projects, but we also support the development of their interpersonal skills as they learn to work with and understand the other students that they share a space (and an advisor) with. Because of a daily check in with a talking piece in which all students contribute to the conversation and listen to each other, our students feel the support and have the confidence to explore their own learning.
For example, one boy in my advisory was so anxious last year at his previous school that he struggled with attendance problems. When he arrived at Avalon and connected with the advisory, he missed only one day for the rest of the year and now with the support of other staff is exploring music as a way to both manage his anxiety and express his creativity.
We are proud of the work we do and would love to have a visitor!
I am Alysia Krafel, one of the founders of Chrysalis Charter School in Palo Cedro California. We are one of the schools studied in the Trusting Teachers book.
What if you do a show on very few schools in our nation that Trust the Teachers? What if you do a show about the spark? About the magic? About how freedom liberates everything. You will see engaged, enthusiastic teachers, technology, projects and excited, engaged students and families and the rich amazing connection between them. What if you challenge the notion that the very opposite of any prescriptions is what is really needed to improve our schools. This is America. We already know what freedom can do. Why do we not trust it?
More detail. The most important factor deep learning is an engaged, enthusiastic learner who is seen as an individual being who is able to connect to a teacher who is allowed to respond to the excitement, questions, gifts and psychological needs, of the learner before her/him. The magic happens in the space in between the souls of a learner and teacher (who can be anyone, any where); the spark is nourished by bringing in whatever resources, projects or experiences the student needs to feed the delight in that moment in time. What is needed will vary by age, ability, inclination and a host of things that cannot be listed because deep learning/opportunistic learning is unique to every situation. It is essentially human and therefore complicated. This is why Trusting Teachers is critical. Teaching is an art, a gift, an empathy that guides the knowing of what is needed in the moment for each child – every day!. It might be a project, or access to technology, or a host of other things. What enthusiastic teachers provide to students is experience, rich contact with the world so that their curiosity about what is possible is excited. What is provided by technology is access to all the amazing stuff and people out there. Information, projects, field trips, experience in nature, experiments…… real stuff of the world is the fuel. The spark is what starts the fire and you just never really know when or where it will happen. I can tell you what great, engaged teachers do best, we blow on that tiny flame and feed it where ever it shows up. That is what makes teaching really, really fun. Which is why we do it for so little money, even when we are being abused. We live for the magic. That is the story that needs to be told. That is what will be killed if we stay on our present course and what will grow like a forest fire if teachers are trusted, if kids are trusted, if our very nature as human beings is trusted.
You are right to worry about adults trying to create prescriptions because no matter how good something is, if you give it to everyone in the same package, at the same time, in the same context, it will hardly ever be right on for most of the people at any one time. Our system resists trusting people to do the right thing and tries to standardize everything – from above. This will never work in nourishing deep learning.
Chrysalis Charter School in California is one of the most teacher-led/autonomous schools in the country. Our mission statement is to encourage the light shine brighter in every student. Teachers are charged with creating an exciting, engaging, safe and loving environment where deep learning can thrive. Kids love to come to school. Teachers like their jobs (even though they are highly underpaid). You can read our website to learn about how we teach math for understanding, get kids out in nature regularly, go on lots of field trips etc. But what makes us really important is Trusting Teachers.
When we decided to make a follow-up film to AUGUST TO JUNE, it was to show how meaningful teaching can look in an urban school. The comments above are exactly what we ended up finding to be vital: supporting teachers, keeping their fires alive, nurturing their growth and giving them the freedom they need to address the actual children they are teaching, not some composite imagined by a text book company. There are two projects coming out of this that we hope you will keep your eye out for: A Year At Mission Hill is a ten part internet series that will be on many websites starting at the end of January (short list: IDEA, Edweek, Edutopia, WKCD, Ashoka…) A separate hour long film is in the works for the fall, called Good Morning Mission Hill. Both are based on Mission Hill School in Boston, where teachers deserve and have the trust they need to teach well.
I am also an advisor (teacher) at Avalon School. Like Chrysalis Charter School, Avalon School was also featured in the book Trusting Teachers because of our teacher led model. This morning with my advisory, I asked my students which community organizations support their independent projects. Surveying 15 students, I found students volunteer with the following organizations; Driftwood art gallery, Open Book, the Walker Art Center, the History Center, Independent Film Project, KFAI radio station, the Children's Hospital of Minneapolis, 360 Journalism, the Children's Home Society, Leonardo's Basement, St. Paul Parks-Canvass, and an organization that trains service dogs. This list only scratches the surface of the vast community connections and community experts we use as a school to support student learning. Avalon School truly embraces the vision that enthusiastic teachers, project based learning, and technology is not contained in a single classroom.
I am the parent of a current Avalon senior. My son has been a student since 7th grade when we pulled him out of the school he was attending (due to our concerns over his performance) and enrolled him at Avalon. He was resistant at first, but after just one day was clearly more enthusiastic about the school structure and environment.
My son has always been a self-learner, from a very young age. He would learn absolutely everything there was to know about any subject that interested him. He is clearly very gifted and creative, but the traditional school model was leaving him behind. He was not engaged. He did not have teachers who were invested in making sure that he was succeeding or in finding ways for him to succeed. At Avalon, those teachers–Advisors–are with him daily helping him to find his own best practices and to take responsibility for making them work.
He has flourished at Avalon and has embodied the project learning model, creating amazing projects on everything from career development (a detailed, unique deliverable on criminal psychology), to the history of comedy (an exhaustive timeline of comedy from Greek comedies to current comediens and theiry styles), to an interpretive dance for his drug use awareness for a health standard. In all of these projects and others he learned far more about the subject and about putting information together than he would have listening to a lecture or reading a chapter in a textbook. This is learning–learning that will last far past the chapter or semester exam.
At Envision Schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, our students work on project-based assignments that challenge them to gain the 21st Century skills of thinking critically, solving problems resourcefully, and collaborating productively. We know that students need these skills in order to be successful in college and in life. At the end of the year, 10th and 12th grade students must "show what they know." Students assemble a portfolio of their best work, which they must "defend," dissertation-style, in front of an audience of educators, peers, and community members. Students must present a defense of their work at the end of 10th grade, and, for seniors, passing the college success portfolio defense is a requirement to graduate from an Envision School. The defenses must include evidence of subject matter knowledge, leadership skills, and a discussion of what they learned through a required workplace learning experience with a local business. Many of our kids come in to the schools below grade level, and to see at the end of the year how well they can explain their work, answer tough questions, and reflect on how they have grown is truly inspiring.
You will find that this kind of approach not only gets an overwhelming response from the students but also from the teachers, who find technology far easier and more effective as a teaching tool.
The Nate Silver story is a self taught amateur, armed with numbers, beats the professional pundits who've spend a lifetime in politics.
The Moneyball narrative is the same.
And the hidden "wow" finding of the Gates MET study was along these lines.
Some interesting narratives here I can imagine….
I am an advisor (teacher) at EdVisions Off Campus (EOC). EOC is an online charter school in Minnesota that combines the "big three" you have listed. We are a project based school and we work through video conferencing software with our students on a daily basis. Using technology, we rely on building relationships with our students while stressing the concept of finding your passions and learning through hands-on work and individual learning. Each student in grades 7-12 has an individual learning plan which includes basic skills, life skills (also known as 21st century skills in some circles), and future plans. Students are required to meet the Minnesota State standards, but by working closely with students, advisor support their students in learning through their interests and experts in various fields. All standards are met through project work. By the time our students have graduated they have faced their challenges and completed a 300-500 hour senior project.
Students work from their homes, public libraries, and other locations that they have access to the internet. Our students come from many different types of backgrounds and rely on the technology provided to access help from adviosors as well as resources for their project work. Technology is a very important part of their education.
Teachers (called Advisors) are more than "the figure at the front of the room," they are counselors, advisors and support for students. Teachers work together to help students and to run the school. EOC runs in a shared leadership model through the use of teams for decision making from the year round calendar, to the seminars offered each school year, the annual budget, and every thing in between. EOC was also included in the book "Trusting Teachers" mentioned by Avalon and Chrysalis.
In case of e- learning, a very important tool can help us in reaching out to teachers worldwide through internet. The tool is called virtual classroom and you can have a look at the tool at http://www.wiziq.com/virtual_classroom.aspx. They also offer 30-day free trial. Over 150,000 teachers and 2 million learners are already using WizIQ for this purpose.
For online learning, a very helpful tool is available online. The tool is called virtual classroom and you can have a look at the tool at http://www.wiziq.com/virtual_classroom.aspx. They also offer 30-day free trial. Over 150,000 teachers and 2 million learners are already using WizIQ for this purpose.
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Royal, P.C.
Royal, P.C. is a woman-owned law firm that exclusively represents and counsels businesses.
Our attorneys are licensed in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
We know business matters because representing businesses is all we do. Our attorneys have received local, regional, and national recognition for their leadership and professional excellence. We have earned the confidence of highly sophisticated clients through our preventive work as well as our dedication to aggressive representation when disputes arise.
We represent a wide range of businesses throughout the New England states and nationally, from small non-profit organizations to Fortune 500 companies, and our clients operate businesses in fields such as human service, health care, manufacturing, construction, oil and gas, automotive services, legal services, food service, transportation, retail, and education. We are approved panel counsel for several insurance companies that provide employment practices liability insurance to employers.
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ADR/Arbitration
Class Actions / MDL
ERISA Immigration / I-9 Compliance
Labor /Union
Leave and Pay Acts (e.g. FLSA / FMLA / Service Contracts Act / Davis Bacon Act / Walsh-Healey)
Regulators/Regulations (e.g. DOL, NLRB, OFCCP, OSHA, OWBPA, SOX,)
Health and Healthcare Law
Royal, P.C. is a boutique, woman-owned law firm that only represents companies. Our specialty is management-side labor and employment law. Our labor and employment law practice can be divided into three main categories: employment litigation; labor relations; and preventive services for litigation avoidance. In addition to our labor and employment practice, we defend companies in a multitude of litigation cases and provide counsel on a number of corporate transactional matters.
The Royal law firm is certified as a woman/minority business vendor with the United States Federal Contracting Program, the Massachusetts Supplier Diversity Office, the Women's Business Enterprise Council, and the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms (NAMWOLF). Serving the New England states, our offices are centrally located in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Vermont.
We represent a wide range of businesses, including various Fortune 500 companies. We take great pride in representing and forming business relationships with local businesses in Western Massachusetts. Through this representation, Royal attorneys have received local, regional, and national recognition for their leadership and professional excellence in the areas of labor and employment law.
In a nutshell, Royal has:
Big city law firm trained lawyers who provide advocacy with the efficiency, responsiveness, and personalization of a smaller, boutique law firm.
A successful track record of representing employers in all types of employment litigation in state and federal courts throughout New England.
Extensive experience practicing before various state and federal agencies that oversee the workplace, particularly the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities, the Vermont Human Rights Commission, the Rhode Island Commission for Human Rights, and the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission as well as the National Labor Relations Board.
Proficiency in guiding our unionized clients through a myriad of union grievances, matters involving contract interpretation and employee discipline or discharge, labor negotiations and collective bargaining, and union organizing and NLRB elections.
Skill in developing alternative dispute resolution strategies during mediation and arbitration.
Experience in developing pro-active training sessions for management and implementing other preventive measures and best practices to minimize legal exposure.
Royal Experience
Employment Litigation:
We have comprehensive experience handling all stages of litigation from inception through appeal. Indeed, our employment litigation experience includes managing all aspects of fact investigation, pleadings, non-expert and expert discovery, motion practice, including successfully drafting and arguing dispositive motions, settlement, pretrial, trial through verdict, and appellate work.
Our experience includes representing employers in the following claims:
Individual and class actions arising under the Fair Labor Standards Act
Sexual and other unlawful harassment
State employment discrimination laws
Intentional interference
Restrictive covenant enforcement.
Labor Relations:
Royal has an extensive record of solely representing management in the area of labor relations before state and federal courts and administrative agencies by guiding our unionized clients with union grievances, by advising clients during mediations and arbitration actions, and by leading clients through labor negotiations and collective bargaining as well as union organizing and NLRB elections. In addition, Royal advises non-union clients on developing best practices for maintaining a union free workplace.
Preventive Services for Litigation Avoidance:
Advice on local laws
Many New England states, especially Massachusetts and Connecticut, have quirky state and local laws and ordinances that bear on the employment relationship. Royal attorneys regularly help our national employers in understanding and navigating these unique laws, providing recommendations on implementing the requirements under them. For example, Massachusetts has a number of unusual leave-related laws, such as paid sick leave, domestic violence leave, parental leave, and small necessities leave. Massachusetts also recently enacted the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which creates atypical obligations for Massachusetts employers. In addition, Massachusetts has several pieces of legislation that have gained momentum relating to paid family and medical leave. Likewise, Connecticut has a number of distinct state-specific laws affecting employment, such as the "ban the box" law, paid sick leave, and family and medical leave. We assist employers in not only complying with these state-specific laws, but also in helping them align the requirements of such laws with company-wide, national policies.
Seminars and training programs
We offer a variety of training programs for supervisory and management personnel from standard sessions in topics such as anti-harassment and anti-discrimination and effective discipline and documentation to more specialized workshops and programs. For example, we put together and conducted a tailored training session for senior leadership at Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. in Bentonville, Arkansas last fall that addressed the legal implications of managing workplace appearance and dress.
We also have trained company leadership, including in-house counsel departments, in the following areas:
What to expect at the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, as this particular state agency differs significantly from other state anti-discrimination enforcement agencies
Creating an inclusive work environment
Implementing various state-specific laws, such as the Massachusetts Pregnant Workers Act; Connecticut and Massachusetts paid sick leave; Connecticut family and medical leave; Massachusetts parental leave; Massachusetts domestic violence leave; and wage and hour laws in the New England states.
Discrimination laws based on transgender status or gender identity.
In addition, we have created a workshop series for supervisors, which covers the trickiest aspects of the state-specific laws they encounter and must deal with daily. Through these hands-on programs, we provide supervisors with the right tools for making the right decisions under certain state laws. Recent topics include what a supervisor can do and say regarding a request for paid sick time or domestic leave and how to identify and handle a request for a workplace accommodation.
Royal attorneys have significant experience in the preparation, review, and analysis of a multitude of commercial and corporate contracts. Our contract review and drafting includes the analysis of all terms, clauses, conditions, stipulations, obligations, and liabilities to determine any pitfalls or issues, outlining and negotiating them for our clients. We carefully analyze every word choice and contingency within an eye to practicality as well as to the forum state's controlling law to make sure the contract does not contain any problematic language or unintended consequence or result. We propose and negotiate revisions where appropriate and help our clients reach sensible results.
Royal attorney's contract law experience includes the preparation and review of comprehensive contracts involving vendors, business partners, and employment relationships. We have prepared a multitude of service agreements, branding agreements, licensing agreements, hosting agreements, affinity agreements, and collaborative agreements. In performing such work for our clients, we have crafted detailed statements of the work and services to be performed therein. We have also advised on and negotiated issues related to contract renewals and the termination of contracts. Specifically, Royal attorneys have prepared hosting agreements and complex agreements related to the maintenance of medical records and electronic billing, which included the parameters and precautions involved with data backup and confidentiality concerns for large health care and information technology organizations. Royal has prepared affinity agreements between banking associations and financial services institutions and higher education. Royal has also prepared important collaborative, partnership, and branding agreements on behalf of a Fortune 500 Company, including the launch of a new business line for them. One of our attorneys is a tenured law professor who has been instructing lawyers on how to prepare concise and comprehensive agreements over the last four decades in both the J.D. and L.L.M. programs. Business and educational organizations have engaged our attorneys to present seminars to other attorneys on topics such as Drafting Contracts, Representations and Warranties, Indemnification Provisions, Non-Competes, Drafting in Anticipation of Future Litigation, and Contract Ethics.
Litigation/Trial Law
Royal attorneys have substantial litigation experience. Our attorneys have litigated a myriad of employment law matters in both state and federal court and before administrative agencies. For example, all of our attorneys regularly appear before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and have prepared innumerable position statements, responses to requests for information, and responses to other discovery requests. At the administrative agency level, we have represented clients through all phases of the administrative process and, in doing so, have handled countless investigative and conciliation (mediation) conferences, public hearings, and appeal hearings.
Special Services for our Business Clients
Business Success Planning
High Net Worth/Commercial divorces


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BIRKS BOVAIRD
Birks Bovaird, ICD.D,
For a majority of his career, Mr. Bovaird's focus has been the provision and implementation of corporate financial consulting and strategic planning services. He was previously the Vice President of Corporate Finance for one of Canada's major accounting firms. He is Chairman of Energy Fuels Inc. (TSX:EFR and NYSE:UUUU) ). He is an independent director of Noble Mineral Exploration Inc. (TSX.V:NOB) where he is a member of the audit committee and chair of the compensation committee and he serves as Chairman of Buccaneer Gold Corp (TSX.V:BGG). Mr. Bovaird has previously been involved with numerous publicly traded companies, both as a member of management and as a director. He is a graduate of the Canadian Director Education Program and holds an ICD.D designation.
Brian Crawford, CPA,
CA-Chief Financial Officer and Director
Mr. Crawford has over thirty years experience as a financial officer and director of private and public corporations as well as being a former partner in a national public accounting firm. In addition to being a founder of the Company, he is the Chief Financial Officer and Director of several other Reporting Issuers including Green Swan Capital Corp., Falcon Gold Corp., and Tempus Capital Inc. Mr. Crawford is also CEO of a private corporate finance company and the CFO of a private data marketing company.
JULIO DIGIROLAMO
Julio DiGirolamo, CPA, CA
Mr. DiGirolamo is a Chartered Accountant with over 21 years of senior-level public company experience including, half of it in the mining sector, and most-recently four and a half years as CFO for Carlisle Goldfields Limited until its acquisition by Alamos Gold Inc. in January 2016. He currently serves as the CFO for Canuc Resources Corporation. Over his career, he has served on the boards of various public corporations and non-profit organizations. Among his areas of knowledge, Mr. DiGirolamo has experience in corporate governance and regulatory matters.
Peter m. Clausi
Peter M. Clausi, BA, JD
Mr. Clausi is an innovative general counsel, investment banker and executive. A graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School called to Ontario's bar in 1990, Mr. Clausi has extensive experience in finance, shareholder rights, securities class actions, proxy battles and corporate growth. He makes frequent appearances as a shareholder rights and board governance advocate. In 2016, he orchestrated the first successful flowthrough crowdfunded financing in Canada. He is President and CEO of GTA Resources and Mining Inc.; an independent director and audit committee member of Camrova Resources Inc..; and, CEO for CBLT Inc.
WAYNE REID
Wayne Reid, B.Sc.
VP, Exploration
Mr. Reid has in excess of 30 years experience in exploration and mining geology, spanning a variety of geological terrains, from Newfoundland to Northern B.C. and Alaska. He has held senior positions with Noranda Exploration, Hemlo Gold Mines, Echo Bay Mines and St. Andrew Goldfields. Mr. Reid was part of the team involved in the discovery of the Brewery Creek Gold Deposit in the Yukon Territory and the Boundary Massive Sulphide Deposit / Duck Pond Mine in Central Newfoundland. His experience includes gold, base metal and uranium/REE exploration in most geological environments in North America. Mr. Reid holds a BSc. in Geology from Memorial University in Newfoundland and has a Professional Geologist designation from the Association of Professional Geologists of Ontario and Newfoundland and Labrador. He is currently a director with Metals Creek Resources and a past director and officer with Ucore Uranium and Rare Earth Metals


An all Black version of Hans J. Wegner's Elbow chair, model CH20 is finished in smooth black lacquer over solid beech. Upholstery is in either Halingdal fabric or Thor leather.
The CH20 is a simple half industrial design that Wegner originally drew for Fritz Hansen who never produced it. Similar to Wegner's earlier Heart Chair the CH20 has a solid wooden top rail machined from a single piece of timber. The simple construction contain the chairs proportions within the footprint of the seat. It is a strong practical chair that is stackable.
Design Studio provided the solution. As early as 1994 Marianne Wegner had suggested an early design by her father, a little stacking chair designed but never produced by Fritz Hansen, for a large project we were working on with Getama in Central London.