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atai Life Sciences and Introspect Digital Therapeutics to test novel digital therapeutic approach in patients receiving ketamine for treatment resistant depression
BERLIN and SAN DIEGO, Sept. 09, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — atai Life Sciences (Nasdaq: ATAI) ("atai"), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company aiming to transform the treatment of mental health disorders, and its digital therapeutic platform Introspect Digital Therapeutics, Inc. ("Introspect"), today announced a usability study of Introspect's digital therapeutic (DTx) app technology in support of standard of care ketamine therapy for patients with treatment resistant depression (TRD) in collaboration with Kadima Neuropsychiatry. TRD impacts 100 million people globally, close to a third of the 300 million diagnosed with depression, many of whom are geographically restricted in their ability to access in-person psychological care.
Introspect's DTx app approach to supported treatment in mental health will be integrated across 3 cohorts, with Cohort 1 focusing on user acceptability, Cohort 2 examining the introduction of therapeutic content via the app, and Cohort 3 assessing set and setting of treatment.
"We're thrilled to be working with Kadima to test our digital therapeutic approach in a clinical setting with patients receiving with standard of care ketamine therapy," said David Keene, CEO of Introspect. "Our goal is to show that our novel DTx app can be used alongside a drug; that it is useful, usable and intuitive to patients and providers."
"The integration of Introspect's digital therapeutic in a clinical environment is a pivotal step towards developing potentially scalable care," said Florian Brand, Co-Founder and CEO of atai. "In our mission to improve the lives of millions living with mental health disorders, technology will be instrumental, ensuring that our pipeline of novel compounds can benefit patients everywhere."
Introspect believes that high-quality digital combination therapies have the potential to improve the safety and effectiveness of many mental health treatments. In addition, Introspect considers DTx to be vital to the mission of providing personalized and scalable treatment to those who might not otherwise be able to access high-quality psychological care.
About atai Life Sciences
atai is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company aiming to transform the treatment of mental health disorders. atai was founded in 2018 as a response to the significant unmet need and lack of innovation in the mental health treatment landscape. atai is dedicated to acquiring, incubating and efficiently developing innovative therapeutics to treat depression, anxiety, addiction, and other mental health disorders. atai's business model combines funding, technology, scientific and regulatory expertise with a focus on psychedelic therapy and other drugs with differentiated safety profiles and therapeutic potential. By pooling resources and best practices, atai aims to responsibly accelerate the development of new medicines across its companies, seeking to effectively treat and ultimately heal mental health disorders. atai's mission is to bridge the gap between what the mental healthcare system currently provides and what patients need. atai has offices in New York, London and Berlin. For more information, please visit www.atai.life.
About Introspect Digital Therapeutics
Introspect is a wholly-owned enabling platform company providing tightly integrated DTx on a shared architecture across all of atai's platform companies. Incorporating a DTx strategy from the very beginning of drug development, Introspect is dedicated to providing more comprehensive, personalized care management with potential to secure stronger IP protection. Introspect aims to develop digital biomarkers, which clinicians will be able monitor to predict patients' recovery pathways, limiting trial and error while simultaneously streamlining therapeutic impact. A key goal for Introspect is to provide great precision psychiatry and personalization to assist therapists in making the best decisions for their patients.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Any express or implied statements contained in this press release that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements, including without limitation statements regarding the support of clinical trials by Introspect Digital Therapeutics and future activities thereunder, the potential Introspect's digital therapeutics technology, and similar statements of a future or forward-looking nature. Forward-looking statements are neither promises nor guarantees, but involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected, including, without limitation, the important factors discussed under the caption "Risk Factors" in atai's prospectus pursuant to Rule 424(b) filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on June 21, 2021, as such factors may be updated from time to time in atai's other filings with the SEC. Any forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date hereof and accordingly undue reliance should not be placed on such statements. atai disclaims any obligation or undertaking to update or revise any forward-looking statements contained in this press release, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, other than to the extent required by applicable law.
Greg Weaver
Email: greg.weaver@atai.life
Anne Donohoe
KCSA Strategic Communications
Email: atai@KCSA.com
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MIF 13 Announce Newest Act
Collaboration between Massive Attack and Adam Curtis revealed
Written by Ben Robinson. Published on January 24th 2013.
THE latest big hitting addition to the Manchester International Festival 2013 line up has been announced today - 'Massive Attack v Adam Curtis'.
"A musical entertainment about the power of illusion and the illusion of power." Adam Curtis.
Virtually no details are known about the collaboration save for the fact that impassioned video journalist Adam Curtis will be joining forces with the pioneering 'trip-hop' Bristolians.
The only clues given as to the form of this specially commisioned show are given in the following two cryptic quotes:
"A collective hallucination." Robert Del Naja.
Filmmaker Adam Curtis
Intriguing. The event will be a world premiere with further collaboraters Felix Barrett, who worked on Curtis' previous MIF outing It Felt Like A Kiss, plus Es Devlin and UnitedVisualArtists featuring on the bill.
Performance dates for the show have been announced as: July 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 8.30pm, £36 (£31 concessions) inc booking fee but not transaction charge
Tickets for Massive Attack v Adam Curtis and previously announced MIF13 events, Macbeth and The xx in residence are scheduled to go on sale at 10am on Friday February 1 along via www.mif.co.uk / +44 0844 375 2013.
Manc GuyJanuary 24th 2013.
Massive Attack?...Brilliant! Adam Curtis?...Brilliant! Both of them together?...even Brillianterrr?
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EFF and California Law Firm Durie Tangri Defending Internet Archive from Publisher Lawsuit
posted by martyb on Monday June 29 2020, @07:28PM
from the when-elephants-fight,-the-grass-gets-trampled dept.
takyon writes:
EFF & Heavyweight Legal Team Will Defend Internet Archive's Digital Library Against Publishers
The EFF has revealed it is teaming up with law firm Durie Tangri to defend the Internet Archive against a lawsuit targeting its Open Library. According to court filings, the impending storm is shaping up to be a battle of the giants, with opposing attorneys having previously defended Google in book scanning cases and won a $1bn verdict for the RIAA against ISP Cox.
In March and faced with the chaos caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the Internet Archive (IA) launched its National Emergency Library (NEL). Built on its existing Open Library, the NEL provided users with unlimited borrowing of more than a million books, something which the IA hoped would help "displaced learners" restricted by quarantine measures.
After making a lot of noise in opposition to both the Open and Emergency libraries, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House filed a massive copyright infringement lawsuit against the Internet Archive.
[...] Last evening the EFF announced that it is joining forces with California-based law firm Durie Tangri to defend the Internet Archive against a lawsuit which they say is a threat to IA's Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) program. The CDL program allows people to check out scanned copies of books for which the IA and its partners can produce physically-owned copies. The publishers clearly have a major problem with the system but according to IA and EFF, the service is no different from that offered by other libraries. "EFF is proud to stand with the Archive and protect this important public service," says EFF Legal Director Corynne McSherry.
Previously: Internet Archive Suspends E-Book Lending "Waiting Lists" During U.S. National Emergency
Authors Fume as Online Library "Lends" Unlimited Free Books
University Libraries Offer Online "Lending" of Scanned In-Copyright Books
Publishers Sue the Internet Archive Over its Open Library, Declare it a Pirate Site
Internet Archive Ends "Emergency Library" Early to Appease Publishers
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As much as I oppose typical copyright lawsuits As much as I oppose typical copyright lawsuits (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2020, @07:41PM (9 children)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2020, @07:41PM (#1014226)
It's really hard to see how the IA is defensible here. Even the original program seemed legally questionable. Transforming a protected work from one medium to another is making a copy, lending a physical book is not. Unlimited lending doesn't seem to have any real distinction from just giving away a copy.
So I just assumed that the IA will lose this and I think that will be the right ruling. The more important question is what impact this will have on the overall operation of the IA, which is an incredibly important and valuable resource for the entire internet.
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Re:As much as I oppose typical copyright lawsuits (Score: 2) by takyon on Monday June 29 2020, @07:59PM
by takyon (881) <{takyon} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Monday June 29 2020, @07:59PM (#1014229) Journal
It's really hard to see how the IA is defensible here.
Might be worth skimming the motion to dismiss or other IA-filed documents as they come out. One of them should contain every conceivable argument in favor of the apparent infringement, if the lawyers are doing their jobs right.
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Re:As much as I oppose typical copyright lawsuits Re:As much as I oppose typical copyright lawsuits (Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2020, @09:00PM (6 children)
It's not that hard. The public has paid for x-number of books, stored in libraries and loaned out to the public. The government came along and locked away all those books for an unspecified period of time. The locking away wasn't unreasonable, given the pandemic, but thanks to the wonders of the internet, digital loaning could occur: the public could continue to enjoy the use of a resource they had paid for, with the Internet Archive acting as a digital proxy for the content. The Internet Archive made it clear that they were only granting short-term access to the books, loaning the digital content out only while the physical books remained inaccessible.
Were the publishers at all interested in doing the right thing, they might have provided numbers of books that libraries were known to have purchased so that IA could set limits on the number of each title loaned. Even without true counts, they could have worked with IA to establish reasonable estimates and IA could have used those as loan limits.
Instead, the publishers went straight to the nuclear option, suing IA for having the gall to grant the public access to resources that they had paid for.
Re:As much as I oppose typical copyright lawsuits Re:As much as I oppose typical copyright lawsuits (Score: 3, Insightful) by TheReaperD on Monday June 29 2020, @10:34PM (1 child)
by TheReaperD (5556) on Monday June 29 2020, @10:34PM (#1014283)
Trying to force people to pay for the same thing 2, 3 or 4 times is now standard operating procedure by the copyright cartels (aka publishers, in this instance, but applies to the industry as a whole). They decided that you paying once for an item is no longer sufficient. It won't be long until they start demanding a full repeal of the first sale doctrine [USA law backed by many court cases that once you pay for something, it's yours and the publisher no longer has rights to it] instead of just the limitations put on it by the DCMA [Digital Millennium Copyright Act] and demand that you start paying per-item subscription fees to all content, including content you already own.
Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit
Re:As much as I oppose typical copyright lawsuits (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday June 30 2020, @04:59PM
by DannyB (5839) on Tuesday June 30 2020, @04:59PM (#1014573) Journal
demand that you start paying . . . including content you already own.
Including content that you yourself created. Or that is a nature recording.
Shhhhh! Don't tell anyone . . . the microchips are not in the vaccine but are in the Ivermectin!
Re:As much as I oppose typical copyright lawsuits Re:As much as I oppose typical copyright lawsuits (Score: 1) by beernutz on Monday June 29 2020, @10:44PM (3 children)
by beernutz (4365) on Monday June 29 2020, @10:44PM (#1014286)
I think the counter-point that will be made has to do with regular libraries still offering online lending even while they were closed. While I wholeheartedly support the IA, and the incredibly important work they do, I really fear they will get stomped on this one. 8(
Re:As much as I oppose typical copyright lawsuits Re:As much as I oppose typical copyright lawsuits (Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Monday June 29 2020, @11:05PM (1 child)
Even if there is a strong legal basis for what AC says, and I doubt there is, the decision is up to a number of judges of varying quality and opinions.
On the plus side, if IA isn't dealt a death blow, they might end up weakening copyright instead.
Re:As much as I oppose typical copyright lawsuits (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday June 30 2020, @12:50AM
by fustakrakich (6150) on Tuesday June 30 2020, @12:50AM (#1014324) Journal
I hope there are many widely scattered mirrors to make it more robust
Ok, we paid the ransom. Do I get my dog back? REDЯUM
Re:As much as I oppose typical copyright lawsuits (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday June 29 2020, @11:38PM
by Runaway1956 (2926) on Monday June 29 2020, @11:38PM (#1014306) Homepage Journal
This is a political issue, as much, or more than, it is a legal issue. You can find the right judge to rule in favor of IA, you can find the right judge to rule against IA, at each and every step of the legal process. But, politics? I think IA is counting on support from EFF and others - and I think they are counting on some kind of grass roots thing happening.
With politics, you may very well lose the legal battle, but win the cultural war in the process.
It's anybody's guess at this point.
Taking bets: When does Biden's approval rating reach 15%?
Re:As much as I oppose typical copyright lawsuits (Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Monday June 29 2020, @10:51PM
by bzipitidoo (4388) on Monday June 29 2020, @10:51PM (#1014288) Journal
The indefensible is the publisher's preferred business model that is founded upon a scarcity that is wholly artificial. If the pandemic does nothing else good, it will at the least have exposed just how easy it is to forego the scarcity: do nothing. That's far easier than trying to enforce it, which requires all kinds of awkward and just plain odd and exhausting work to monitor, track, count, and process requests for access, as well as the impossible job of enforcement upon the unwilling.
And the reasons for desiring the scarcity are very bad. If it was possible to force scarcity of knowledge upon people, and totally control their education, it would be possible to found upon that a tyranny so evil that the Dark Ages would look enlightened by comparison.
You doubt the IA is within the law? It is far likelier that the publishers are overreaching. Again. They've done it so many times now, advanced ridiculously extreme interpretations of copyright, that there is little reason to show their notions respect, as you are apparently doing. They may be old and established, but that doesn't automatically make them venerable. To the contrary, it makes them highly suspect.
The world has changed. Copying now belongs to the masses. Yet publishers refuse to accept this new reality, instead feeling they're such grievous victims, of piracy (itself a very intentionally pejorative use), and one thing we've seen is that those who imagine themselves as horribly wronged are often the worst bullies, vandals, and criminals, thinking their imagined sufferings somehow justify their own excesses. They're still in the first stages of grief: denial and anger.
In short, publishers are Kopyright Karens.
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Q: How to adjust width of components in Angular while using Animations? I am trying to use Angular Animations to slide my navbar and it's working perfectly but I need to adjust the width of my other components automatically when the navbar is hidden. Like I want my other components to take the width of whole page when the navbar is hidden but some reason the width of my other components only gets adjusted after I click on any component. Can anyone please help me out and guide me how to adjust the width?
I am using ngIf to display and hide the navbar component. When I display and hide the navbar without animations, the width gets adjusted automatically. Any leads would be helpful. Thanks!
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Element containing nav and other elements needs to be display: flex, if the other element has flex: 1 it will take up any space thats available to it. So if the width of the nav shrinks, the other element will grow

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Academia, industry and government agencies need to join hands for working out a "roadmap" for making India a leading country in the field of cyberspace, a top defence official said Monday. Secretary, Department of Defence Research and Development and Chairman DRDO, G Satheesh Reddy, said this during a day-long conference on 'Cybersecurity - Challenges and Innovations', held here.
"The academia, industry and government agencies are all here as part of this conference. Cyberspace is becoming important day by day, most of the devices are connected to the network. And, even areas like artificial intelligence, big data analytics are very important and getting connected to it," he said.
The conference was organised by the Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) in partnership with Cyber Peace Foundation and Mumbai-based Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI).
"We need to work together, and work out a roadmap on how to make the country a leading country in the cyberspace area... I also very strongly feel that start-ups will play an important role in that," Reddy said.
Former DRDO chief and Chief Scienti-fic Advisor to Minister of Defence and current Member of Niti Aayog, V K Saraswat, in his address, emphasised how one can convert a challenge into an opportunity through innovation.
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National Cyber Security Coordinator, Gulshan Rai stressed upon the areas of strategic importance including artificial intelligence, robotics, virtual reality and augmented reality, Internet of things (IOT), which would be the driving forces in a tech-driven future.
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Western New Mexico University full accredited for business school
Western New Mexico University full accredited for business school Western New Mexico University full accredited for business school Check out this story on demingheadlight.com: https://www.demingheadlight.com/story/news/2018/07/04/western-new-mexico-university-full-accredited-business-school/757131002/
Headlight Staff Reports Published 10:00 a.m. MT July 4, 2018
Standards met for Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs
Associate Dean of WNMU's School of Business Dr. Miguel Vicéns accepts a certificate of Full Reaffirmation of Accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs at the accrediting body's conference earlier this month.(Photo: Courtesy photo)
SILVER CITY, N.M. – The Western New Mexico University School of Business has recently been granted Full Reaffirmation of Accreditation under the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP). This is the third reaffirmation of the WNMU School of Business, and the accreditation runs for ten years.
Associate Dean of the School of Business, Dr. Miguel Vicéns, attended the 30th Annual ACBSP conference to accept a certificate of WNMU's accreditation and continue learning with School of Business faculty from all across the nation.
"I am extremely happy to have achieved full reaffirmation of our accreditation. The ACBSP assures the quality of our degrees, as well as the international recognition of quality in our programs. As part of this reaffirmation, the School of Business has established a five-year strategic plan, a marketing plan, and an assessment plan to ensure continuity of quality programs," Dr. Vicéns said.
The ACBSP Baccalaureate/Graduate Degree Board of Commissioners examined the business programs at Western New Mexico University this spring, taking into account many factors, including program learning outcomes, stakeholder satisfaction, leadership and faculty qualifications.
Therefore, the ACBSP accreditation certifies that the teaching and learning processes within the undergraduate and graduate business programs offered through the WNMU School of Business meet the rigorous educational standards established by ACBSP, which accredits business programs at nearly 1,200 campuses in 60 countries.
The WNMU business programs were first accredited by ACBSP in 1997, and the university is required to go through the reaffirmation process every 10 years to maintain accreditation.
"Western New Mexico University has shown a commitment to teaching excellence and to the process of quality improvement by participating in the accreditation process," said ACBSP Chief Accreditation Officer Dr. Steve Parscale, who presented the Certificate of Reaffirmation of Accreditation at ACBSP Conference 2018 in Kansas City, Mo. "This reaffirmation of accreditation is evidence that WNMU is committed to maintaining the highest quality business education for their students for the next 10 years, just as they have done since 1997."
The WNMU School of Business received support from the local community, university administration, WNMU students and other stakeholders. "Many people participated of the accreditation process, and for that, I thank them. We couldn't have achieved this milestone without continuous support throughout the assessment process," Dr. Vicéns said. "We are committed to the continuous improvement of our academic offerings and to providing experiential learning opportunities to all interested stakeholders."
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Energy 'sector coupling' requires 75% more electricity, study says
By Frédéric Simon | EURACTIV.com
"As a quick definition, sector coupling really comes down to electrification" – both direct and indirect, according to Gregory Kay from BloombergNEF. [Shutterstock]
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This article is part of our special report Energy supply and end-use integration (sector coupling).
Direct and indirect electrification of transport, buildings and industry could deliver a 60% reduction in carbon emissions across Europe by 2050 – but that will require a massive upsurge in clean power output, according to BloombergNEF, a research company.
So-called "sector coupling" of gas and electricity networks could make a big contribution to the EU's objective of becoming the first climate-neutral continent in the world by mid-century, said the report, released on 11 March.
Transport, buildings and industry are the biggest consumers of energy in Europe, with heating alone responsible for almost half of the EU's energy consumption.
Yet these sectors operate in silos and continue to rely chiefly on fossil fuels, which are responsible for the bulk of human-made global warming emissions.
Linking them all together in a "hybrid" energy system combining gas and electricity is part of the latest thinking in Brussels to extract deep emissions cuts from transport, buildings and industry, which are considered "hard-to-abate" because they cannot easily be electrified.
But doing so will require massive investments in clean power generation and structural changes to EU energy market rules, the report states.
"It will be crucial that governments and regulators adopt an electricity market design that enables developers of wind and solar projects, and those planning battery storage plants or demand response services, to anticipate the level of returns that justify their investment," said Albert Cheung, head of research at BloombergNEF.
Although there may be diverging definitions of what sector coupling actually means, Gregory Kay from BloombergNEF believes it can be boiled down to simple terms. "As a quick definition, sector coupling really comes down to electrification" – both direct and indirect, he said:
Direct involves rolling out electric vehicles in transport, and spreading electric heating systems like heat pumps in buildings and some parts of industry.
Indirect involves a switch to 'green hydrogen' produced by electrolysis using renewable electricity as a fuel to provide heat for buildings and industrial processes.
'Sector coupling': The EU energy buzzword no-one can actually pin down
For over a year, one expression – "sector coupling" – has been on everybody's lips among EU energy policy observers in Brussels. The only problem is none of them share the same understanding of what it actually means.
75% additional power capacity needed
However, sector coupling will require building additional power capacity and related infrastructure – power lines, electrolysers and power-to-gas facilities – that will also entail additional costs.
By 2050, electricity demand in a country like the UK or Germany is expected to be "nearly double what it would be without sector coupling," the report says. Overall, BloombergNEF estimates that the power system will require "some 75% more generating capacity" by 2050 compared to what would be needed without the additional sector coupling.
Those costs are expected to be balanced to some extent by synergies in other areas, for example when heat pumps are used to cool a data centre and the excess heat is delivered to a district heating network.
Still, the scale of the challenge for the power system appears massive, the report notes, saying the success of sector coupling will depend on the uptake of new sources of demand-side flexibility, such as "dynamic" electric vehicles that recharge their batteries when demand for power is lowest, and other "smart" heating systems or household equipment that can respond automatically to pricing signals.
EU negotiators agree 'dynamic pricing' of electricity
Energy companies with more than 200,000 clients will be obliged to provide households with at least one offer comprising dynamic price contracts, under an EU-level agreement reached behind closed doors last week, EURACTIV.com has learned.
Future role of gas
The European Commission broadly agrees with this analysis. In its long-term climate scenarios for 2050, it said 53% of Europe's energy consumption will have to be met by low-carbon electricity generated from renewables and nuclear by mid-century – up from around 22% currently.
However, it seems the Commissions has other assumptions than BloombergNEF, saying the share of electricity in the EU's energy mix needs only to double by 2050 in order to meet the EU's climate-neutrality goal.
In particular, the EU executive seems to assume a bigger role for low-carbon gases such as hydrogen or biomethane by 2050.
"Sector coupling is not just a matter of electrification but more importantly how the sectors can interact with each other" in order to contribute to a more efficient and cost-effective energy system, said Costas Stamatis, a policy officer at the Commission's energy directorate, who spoke at the launch of the BloombergNEF report.
Earlier this week, the Commission announced the launch of an EU-wide Clean Hydrogen Alliance aimed at promoting home-grown production of clean gases in support of the bloc's objective of becoming the first climate-neutral continent in the world by 2050.
For the Commission, combining the electricity and gas infrastructure is clearly the way to go. "A hybrid system based on two pillars, in our view, is more resilient and would really add to security of supply," said Klaus-Dieter Borchardt, deputy director-general at the Commission's energy department at a EURACTIV event last year.
The senior EU official cited in particular "the storage capacity" of the gas system as an example of the future value gas can provide in a low-carbon economy.
The evolving role of gas storage in Europe
Departing from its usual supply security role, gas storage is vying for a central position in Europe's vision of a hybrid energy system combining renewable electricity and low-carbon gases like hydrogen. But getting there won't be a smooth run and regulators are watching closely.
BloombergNEF does not deny that gas will also play a key role, saying sector coupling will require a bigger network with more interconnections to the gas grid in the way of electrolysers and power-to-gas facilities.
"As hydrogen is crucial to sector coupling, energy policymakers and regulators should seek to facilitate the increased crossover between the power and natural gas systems, and work to reduce technical and regulatory barriers to the injection of hydrogen into the gas grid," the report says.
"There will still be a role to play for molecules," Cheung said in reference to the gas network. However, he added it was still unclear what the gas mix will be by 2050, pointing to new low-carbon gases such as biogas, synthetic gases, green and blue hydrogen.
What is clear, he said, is that growing amounts of small-scale renewables and electric vehicles connected to the grid will make network management a growing issue, especially at the distribution level.
"You're talking about a more complex and interconnected system" with more data exchanges that will be needed to manage the system efficiently, Cheung said.
Power and gas 'coupling' seen as key to EU's zero-carbon quest
As Europe moves towards net-zero emissions, policymakers are looking at all available sources of energy, including new low-carbon gases like hydrogen, to decarbonise at least cost. But direct electrification – of transport, industry and buildings – remains the top priority for the European Commission.
EU sector coupling strategy due in June
The relative importance of electricity and gas in the EU's 2050 energy mix has been a subject of intense debate – and lobbying – in Brussels over the past months.
But despite those uncertainties, the Commission has high hopes that sector coupling will eventually enable deep emissions cuts in hard-to-abate sectors of the economy.
"By June, we will put forward a strategy on smart sector integration. Electrification will play a key role in ramping up the use of renewables and we need to explore new low-carbon fuels like hydrogen," said the EU's Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson.
The strategy will aim to enable deep emission cuts "in a way that is affordable for people and businesses" in sectors where decarbonisation is not straightforward, Simson said, citing industry, transport, heating and cooling, and agriculture.
And as the debate over sector coupling progresses, the EU executive seems to have a clearer idea of where it wants to go. This was explained by Paula Abreu Marques, a senior official at the Commission's energy department, who spoke at a EURACTIV event on the subject last November.
First is direct electrification – of buildings, industry and transport – Marques said.
Second is indirect electrification – using excess renewable power from wind and solar to produce hydrogen and other synthetic gases.
Third is the circular economy, with waste gases from industry or excess heat from data centres captured and used for heating homes and businesses.
The fourth and last component is "linking all the dots," Marques said. This includes interconnecting distribution and transmission grids, as well as enabling "reverse flows" in gas and heat networks in order to allow the injection of locally-sourced biomethane and other waste gases into the grid, she explained.
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When you first catch a glimpse of the magical St. George's Monastery (Choziba) in the Judean desert, the Desert Fathers' Wisdom is brought to life in its uncompromising, breathtaking asceticism. This amazing cliff-hanging monastery, one of the world's oldest and definitely one of the most inspiring churches in the Holy Land, is a must-see for the desert / archeological fans / devout Pilgrims.
St. George Orthodox Monastery, or Monastery of St. George of Choziba is a monastery located in Wadi Qelt, in the eastern West Bank, in the occupied territories. The sixth-century cliff-hanging complex, with its ancient chapel and gardens, is active and inhabited by Eastern Orthodox monks. It is reached by a pedestrian bridge across Wadi Qelt, which many believe to be Psalm 23's Valley of the Shadow. The valley parallels the old Roman road to Jericho, the backdrop for the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:29-37).
St George's Monastery can be reached via the main Jerusalem – Dead Sea highway (Road 1). Take a left at Mitzpeh Jericho (or a right if you're coming from Jericho) and follow the brown signs for Wadi Kelt. You can hike the Wadi all the way to the monastery but it will take lots of hours of arduous trekking in the desert under the blazing sun! Up and down, for hours, a windy path! Not so easy for seniors or people with disabilities, but there are usually plenty of locals offering their donkeys for the ride (at a cost of course).
Check out the clip below for a real taste of the walk to St George's Monastery … When I look at these photographs or watch the videos, I cannot believe I did all this walking!
St. George's Monastery was originally started in the fourth century by a few monks who were looking to immerse themselves in the lifestyles and desert stories of John the Baptist and Jesus. The monks, and perhaps most notably the hermit John of Thebes, eventually settled on the spot around a cave where it is believed the prophet Elijah was fed by ravens (1 Kings 17:5-6). The traditions attached to the monastery include a visit by Elijah en route to the Sinai Peninsula, and St. Joachim, whose wife Anne was infertile, weeping here when an angel announced to him the news of Mary's conception.
The monastery became an important spiritual centre in the sixth century under Saint George of Choziba. Hermits living in caves in nearby cliffs would meet in the monastery for a weekly mass and communal meal.John of Thebes became a hermit and moved from Egypt to Syria Palaestina. The monastery was named St. George after the most famous monk who lived at the site. Destroyed in 614 A.D. by the Persians, the monastery was more or less abandoned after the Persians swept through the valley and massacred the fourteen monks who dwelt there. The bones and skulls of the martyred monks killed by the Persians in 614 A.D. can still be seen today in the monastery chapel. These 3000 and more martyrs' relics are so alive that during their Supplication canon every week an exquisite fragrance and raw smell of fresh slaughtered blood are alternately exuded from them!
The Crusaders made some attempts at restoration in 1179. However, it fell into disuse after their expulsion. In 1878, a Greek monk, Kallinikos, settled here and restored the monastery, finishing it in 1901. Father Germanos, born Georgios Tsibouktzakis, who came from Thessaloniki, Greece, to St George's in 1993 and lived there until he was murdered by Palestinian terrorists in 2001, was for many years the sole occupant of the monastery, he was named Abbot in 2000. Emulating the Wadi Qelt monks of late antiquity, Father Germanos offered hospitality to visitors, improved the stone path used by pilgrims to climb up to the monastery, repaired the aqueducts, and improved the gardens of shade and olive trees.
This is probably the most stunning discovery in the monastery: St. John Jacob (the Romanian) – a Hermit from the Holy Land with complete Incorruptible Relics! He was a great ascetic and a poet. He called himself "the child of zero" who "followed the One". After his all night- vigils, he would briefly rest in the verandah of the monastery and write his so moving poetry, sadly not translated yet in English. In the next days I plan to translate and post here some of his most moving autobiographical poems. This Saint is famous for his miracles, from the discovery of his relics to nowadays.
This discovery was even more stunning for me personally because my spiritual father had introduced him to me the last day before flying from Lancaster to Greece and then to Tel Aviv. He also gave me a tiny piece of a secondary relic of him. What a 'coincidence'! I knew nothing about him, other than his name, and then a brief google search, and here I found him most alive and incorruptible!
Let me close with Archimandrite Konstandinos, a holy Elder, very special in his hospitality and famous for his clairvoyance gifts.
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Mooseheads flat in 4-1 loss to Voltigeurs
Willy Palov (wpalov@herald.ca) The Chronicle Herald
Published: Nov 08, 2019 at 5:17 p.m.
Updated: Nov 08, 2019 at 10:22 p.m.
Attention to detail is often the difference between winning and losing in elite sports.
The Halifax Mooseheads learned that lesson against the Drummondville Voltigeurs Friday night at the Scotiabank Centre. The Voltigeurs got the best of the Mooseheads in all the small ways, which added up to a 4-1 win for the visitors.
"I thought we played a good first (period) and then I don't know what happened in the second. They were just all over us," said Mooseheads winger Maxim Trepanier. "Playing like that in front of our fans is kind of embarrassing.
"As a veteran group we need to lead the way. The kids are working hard ... it's going to come for them. But game after game, we need to show the way to those kids and play way better than that."
On paper, it was a fairly even match-up but the Mooseheads took some careless penalties, weren't sharp on special teams and seemed to have a hard time connecting on passes. It's not that they played horribly, there just was nothing crisp about their game.
The most noticeable difference was the Voltigeurs' effort on the puck. They were firmer with their sticks, won races and were more physically assertive in one-on-one battles.
"I don't think there was anything special they did to throw us off, we just slowed down our legs," said Halifax defenceman Jason Horvath. "We didn't bring the shots on net and a couple of mistakes helped them. That's what made us lose tonight.
"They just wanted it more tonight in the second and third. We've got to bounce back and start playing as a team. We need to start winning some games here."
The Voltigeurs opened the scoring 6:01 into the game but the Mooseheads tied it later in the period to make it 1-1 heading into the intermission.
Drummondville turned the game in the next period, outshooting Halifax 14-2 and scoring twice to take a 3-1 lead after 40 minutes.
The Voltigeurs put the game away with a power-play goal in the third period.
Fabian Hochegger, Nicholas Girouard, Isiah Campbell and Charles-Edouard Drouin scored for the Voltigeurs and Trepanier had the Mooseheads goal.
Alexis Gravel made 18 saves for Halifax and Anthony Morrone stopped 20 shots for Drummondville. The Mooseheads only six shots in the final 40 minutes.
"We had a lot of shots on net in the first period and I thought the momentum was going our way but then we slowed down in the second and third," Horvath said. "We had almost no shots on net and from there it just went downhill."
The loss is the Mooseheads' second in a row and drops their record to 8-10-1-0. The Voltigeurs improve to 14-7-0-0.
"We won against Bathurst last weekend and our last win before that was a long time ago," Trepanier said. "It's seven losses in eight games so it's not a good stretch for us, obviously. We came back this year with the mentality of going for it and we want another playoff run. If we want to have that, we need to be way better than that."
The Mooseheads' next game is at home on Saturday against the Bathurst Titan.
"They (the Titan) won their first game tonight so they'll be hungry," Trepanier said. "We beat them in their barn so we need to be ready for them. It's never easy against any team in this league so we'll need to be prepared."
Notes: Cole Foston (knee), Jared McIsaac (shoulder), Walter Flower (undisclosed injury), Cameron Whynot (World Under-17 Hockey Challenge) and Gavin Hart (healthy scratch) did not play for Halifax. ... Drummondville's top scorer Dawson Mercer did not play because he is serving a six-game suspension for a high hit in a game against the Val-d'Or Foreurs last week. ... Falmouth's Bailey Peach will miss the next month because of an upper body injury. The 18-year-old forward is in his third season with the Sherbrooke Phoenix. ... It was the annual Department of National Defence game so the Mooseheads wore special jerseys to recognize members of the Canadian military. ... Hockey Canada goalie consultant Fred Brathwaite was in attendance, presumably to get one more viewing of Gravel leading up to invitaions going out for the world junior team tryout camp.
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August 28, 2000 e-mail to a friend in need
Otherwise easygoing SF, 29, in urban environment near excellent day school and gourmet supermarket with world-class cheese selection, seeks 31 to 36 year-old, Ivy League grad (except Penn), at least 5' 10", maximum 180 lbs., manageable hair, Fight Club physique (pec to waist ratio .33). Fiscal conservative/social liberal. Profession: law, medicine, banking, Internet (post-IPO); company must have groundbreaking paternity leave policy. Acceptable college majors: Economics, East Asian Studies, Pre-Med (no Theatre). Hobbies: eastern philosophies, pan-Asian cooking, puppies (yet still masculine). Conversational/business Japanese a must; also, two romance languages and ability to recite by heart prologue of Canterbury Tales (Ellesmere manuscript). SAT score at least 1550 (math-to-verbal ratio .66). No family history of medical problems (hypertension, osteoporosis, myopia, anemia, acne vulgaris, orthodonture, lazy eye, scoliosis; tennis elbow ok) or mass-market inclinations (angels, "Jekyll and Hyde," Nicholas Sparks, waving outside Today Show). Must be civil to (but not "friends" with) ex-girlfriends (maximum: 2). Informed, witty, self-starter: equally comfortable chatting at state dinners or changing a tire. Please send letter, photo, high school and college transcripts, 3 recommendations (1 academic, 1 professional, 1 non-threatening yet savvy friend-girl) plus two 750-word essays on the topics: (1) "What Foucault's Pendulum Means to Me" and (2) "Why I Always Share My Feelings." As I have no time to date, let's meet and break up over macchiatos.*
Singles: Are We Really that Picky?
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Did you guys see Time magazine's cover story -- "Flying Solo" -- this week? [Direct link may be out of date by the time you read this.] ("More women are deciding that marriage is not inevitable, that they can lead a fulfilling life as a single. It's an empowering choice, but for many not an easy one.") Tamala Edwards reports that more than 40% of adult women -- up from about 30% 40 years ago -- are currently single; of course, that includes increasing numbers of women coming out (i.e. lesbians) and living in (i.e. sin). But still. Singles are adding up. And there's strength -- and culture -- and acceptance -- and hey! dollars! -- in numbers. This is good, mostly. (For BG's full rant on the remaining double stigmas of being single, click here.)
But here's what made me bristle: "'Marriage is not what it used to be, getting stability or economic help,' says the National Marriage Project's co-director Barbara Dafoe Whitehead. Marriage has become this spiritualized thing, with labels like 'best friend' and 'soul mate'.' Some sociologists say these lofty standards make sense at a time when the high divorce rate hisses in the background like Darth Vader. But others suggest the marriage pendulum has swung from the hollowly pragmatic to an unhealthy romantic ideal."
"Michael Broder, a Philadelphia psychotherapist and author of The Art of Living Single, decries what he calls the 'perfect-person problem,' in which women refuse to engage unless they're immediately taken with a man, failing to give a relationship a chance to develop. 'Few women can't tell you about someone they turned down, and I'm not talking about some grotesque monster,' he says. 'But there's the idea that there has to be this great degree of passion to get involved, which isn't always functional. So you have people saying things like, 'If I can't have my soul mate, I'd rather be alone.' And after that, I say, 'Well, you got your second choice'.' " Okay, ow.
And in a sidebar to the article writer Walter Kirn alleges that single women are walking around with ever-more specific shopping lists clutched in their ringless, age-spotted hands. "Now, it seems that what's wanted is a soul mate, a sort of buff Buddha who's terrific in bed, who's on top of his health, his finances and his emotions and can serve in a pinch as a spiritual adviser."
Well, duh.
So what do we want?
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March 09, 2020 | The Baltimore Sun
In Baltimore, Parents Owe Hundreds of Millions in Child Support. Here's How Other States Have Made Changes for the Better.
Yvonne Wenger
The Sun's analysis found that parents owe a collective $233 million in 10 city ZIP codes, money that is largely considered uncollectable.
At What Cost? For Baltimore's Poorest Families, the Child Support System Exacts a Heavy Price—and It's Hurting Whole Communities
The child support system that is set up to help children is also having a negative impact on poor families in Baltimore.
How Maryland's Child Support System Fails Families: Explore Findings From the Sun's Investigation
Baltimore Sun Staff
Maryland's child support system often sets up poor families to fail, pulling parents, kids and communities under.
June 13, 2019 | The Baltimore Sun
Cops and Robbers, Part III: Monsters
Justin Fenton
Wayne Jenkins was on a mission to find big dealers and steal their drugs and cash. Then the feds found him.
Cops and Robbers, Part II: Hunting
How a corrupt police squad scoured Baltimore streets in pursuit of black men to search, arrest—and steal from.
Cops and Robbers, Part I: The Rise of Wayne Jenkins
Ignoring warning signs of misconduct, Baltimore Police praised—and promoted—Gun Trace Task Force leader.
December 30, 2008 | The Baltimore Sun
A Few Are Willing to Risk the Return to Baghdad
JARAMANA, Syria -- Hasem Abed is thinking about going back to Iraq.
The small-time auto trader, 32, left Diyala earlier this year after members of a Shia militia destroyed his house.
He says this town outside Damascus has been more secure, but he has run out of money and has been unable to find work. He is thinking of trying his luck in Baghdad.
Hassam Abdul Rahman might join him. Life in Iraq, the 42-year-old mechanical engineer says, "is very bad." But he, too, has exhausted his savings in Syria.
It's not that Muhammad Shumri imagined building a new life in Baltimore would be easy. But he didn't expect it to be so hard.
The 48-year-old physician was a high-ranking official in the Iraqi Ministry of Health when a photograph that placed him at a meeting with U.S. officials was stolen from his computer. Soon he was receiving anonymous threats warning him to stop working with the Americans.
He moved his wife and five children out of Iraq, traveled alone to the United States and requested asylum. He planned to get a job, find a place to live and send for his family.
'You Cannot Turn Your Back'
WASHINGTON -- After a stranger snapped her photograph as she entered the Green Zone, Tina Raad's family begged her to get out of Iraq.
At first, she resisted. The Iraqi woman had sought work with the U.S. Agency for International Development in Baghdad because she wanted to join in the reconstruction of her country.
But in the eyes of Iraqi insurgents, such collaboration made her a traitor. Changing her dress, varying the route she took to work and altering her hours had not stopped their threats. When her mother and three siblings fled Iraq, she relented.
Roadblocks to Return
DAMASCUS, Syria -- Adnan al-Sharafy sees a few obstacles holding up the return of Iraqi refugees to their home country: the U.S. military, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and the news media.
Sharify, an official at the Iraqi Embassy here in Syria, helped to organize government-sponsored bus trips at the end of last year that he says carried 420 Iraqi families back to Baghdad. (The United Nations estimates the Iraqi population here at 1.2 million.)
More free rides home are planned, Sharify says. But finding takers is likely to remain a challenge.
US Slow to Meet Needs, Refugees Say
DOUMA, Syria - Mustafa Hamad Rassoul doesn't see how his family can survive.
Back in Baghdad, the 55-year-old Iraqi Kurd says, the money he made running a clothing shop was more than enough to house and feed his two wives and 10 children. But here in Syria, where he came last year after being threatened by the Mahdi Army, the food and cash assistance his family receives doesn't last the month.
Rassoul blames the United States.
Nostalgia for Saddam Hussein's Rule
AMMAN, Jordan - Najim Abid Hajwal has been having a difficult time renewing his passport.
He submitted his paperwork at the Iraqi Embassy here but was told days later that he was a wanted man back home in Iraq. It turned out that the Interior Ministry was after someone with a similar name. He submitted a new set of papers to prove his identity but was issued a passport with a wrong name.
It's enough to make an Iraqi nostalgic for the good old days.
"Under Saddam, a ministry was a ministry," Hajwal says. "It functioned. It served the people.


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Hospital error in plain sight
By Alan Zarembo
Every time a patient receives a CT scan, a mundane array of numbers appears on a computer screen before a technician.
The numbers include the radiation dose.
"It's in your face on the screen," said Dr. Donald Rucker, chief medical officer for Siemens, a manufacturer of CT scanners.
Beginning in February 2008, each time a patient at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center received a CT brain perfusion scan -- a state-of-the-art procedure used to diagnose strokes -- the dose displayed would have been eight times higher than normal. No standard medical imaging procedure would use so much radiation, which one expert said is on par with the levels used to blast tumors.
Somebody should have noticed. But nobody did -- everybody trusted the machines.
Late last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Cedars-Sinai revealed that 206 stroke patients who received scans at the prestigious Los Angeles hospital were overdosed with radiation. Now doctors and safety experts around the country face a troubling question: In an era of supposedly fail-safe medical technology, how did the problem go undetected for 18 months?
"It's pretty mystifying to me," said David Brenner, director of the Center for Radiological Research at Columbia University Medical Center.
The FDA and the state Department of Public Health are still investigating the overdoses. Cedars-Sinai has released only basic information, saying the overdoses stemmed from an error made when the hospital reconfigured a scanner to improve doctors' ability to see blood flow in the brain.
The CT machine in question performed several types of scans, each with its own set of computerized instructions, or protocols. To change the instructions for brain perfusion scans, the hospital had to bypass the protocol that came installed on the machine. Other types of scans were not affected.
In a statement issued Monday, hospital officials said they have "added double-checks to our process whenever a protocol is changed" -- raising questions about why such checks were not already in place.
Experts said it was just as worrisome that the hospital apparently missed opportunities to catch the mistake as possible stroke victims continued to be overdosed.
Asked how CT technicians could have missed the dosage levels on their screens, spokesman Richard Elbaum said that will be part of the hospital's investigation.
CT technicians are trained to monitor dose levels, and some hospitals conduct checks before every scan.
"There are other places where the techs might be operating more as button-pushers," said Dr. Geoffrey Rubin, a professor of radiology at Stanford University. "The user becomes a little blind to these numbers."
Najmedin Meshkati, a professor of industrial and systems engineering at USC, said the airline industry experienced a similar problem with the advent of automated cockpits. The operator must trust the machine, and "sometimes this trust may be misplaced," he said.
Meshkati said the overdoses point to a problem well-documented in medicine over the last decade -- the need for multiple backup systems to catch mistakes.
The overdoses are particularly troubling in the wake of another high-profile incident at Cedars-Sinai, he said. In November 2007, the newborn twins of actor Dennis Quaid, as well as another child, were given 1,000 times the intended dosage of a blood thinner.
The mistake, while unrelated to machines, resulted from multiple safety-check failures.
"Where are the lessons learned as a result of the Dennis Quaid incident?" asked Meshkati, who uses the case as an example in one of his classes on how systemic problems lead to mistakes.
As a result of the radiation overdoses, the FDA issued an alert warning of the possibility that CT scanners at other hospitals could be set wrong.
"If patient doses are higher than the expected level, but not high enough to produce obvious signs of radiation injury, the problem may go undetected and unreported, putting patients at increased risk for long-term radiation effects," the alert said.
Dr. Thomas Dehn, a radiologist and chief medical officer for National Imaging Associates Inc., which manages health plans for private insurers, suggested that imaging equipment should have a "radiation threshold" that cannot be exceeded without a person acknowledging that the dosage is intentional. Built-in alarms are another possibility.
The overdoses at Cedars-Sinai may be more significant for exposing a hole in safety procedures than for the risks they pose to the victims.
Brenner, the radiation scientist at Columbia, calculated that each overdose carried a 1-in-600 risk of causing a brain tumor. The risk is more significant in younger patients, since tumors take years to develop.
The median age of patients receiving the overdose was 70, according to the hospital, and it's more likely they will die of other causes.
Still, the issue of radiation exposure has been gaining attention. The number of CT scans has climbed to more than 70 million annually in the United States, and even a tiny risk translates to thousands of extra cancer cases.
CT technicians are not the only medical personnel who might have caught the problem at Cedars-Sinai. Radiologists might have seen the numbers -- but only if the hospital had elected to save the dosage data with the images. Rubin said that is standard procedure at his hospital, but not everywhere.
Even then, radiologists are unlikely to pay close attention to the dosage level once a scan is done, said Rucker, the Siemens doctor.
That is especially true for scan patients whose lives are in imminent danger and for whom the risk of radiation is negligible by comparison, he said. The vast majority of CT brain perfusion scans are for patients who arrive in the emergency room in poor shape.
The overdoses could also have been caught during periodic calibrations of the machines, when radiation levels are tested directly.
Ultimately, it was a patient who alerted Cedars-Sinai to the problem. In August, a stroke victim informed the hospital that he had suffered patchy hair loss after a scan.
When the hospital contacted the 206 patients who had received the overdose, it discovered that about 80 of them had also experienced hair loss.
Many of them told their personal doctors, but hair loss is such a rare side effect of scanning that apparently none of those doctors made the connection, said Elbaum, the hospital spokesman.
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Alan Zarembo is an assistant foreign editor for the Los Angeles Times.
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Matías Domínguez (born 9 September 1992) is a Chilean amateur golfer. In 2015, he won the first Latin America Amateur Championship at Pilar, Argentina, earning an invitation to the 2015 Masters Tournament. He played college golf at Texas Tech University.

Amateur wins
2011 Match Play Chile Championship, Golf Chilean Federation Championship
2014 Cachagua Open
2015 Latin America Amateur Championship

Results in major championships

CUT = missed the half-way cut

Team appearances
Eisenhower Trophy (representing Chile): 2010, 2014

References

Chilean male golfers
Amateur golfers
Texas Tech Red Raiders men's golfers
Sportspeople from Santiago
1992 births
Living people
21st-century Chilean people

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More On Geoffrey Owens, My Trader Joe's Hero
Patrice already has blogged on former "Cosby Show" star Geoffrey Owens, but I was so inspired by the response to Owens' story that I want to add a few words.
As Patrice recounted, Owens was "spotted" bagging groceries at a New Jersey Trader Joe's.
The immediate reaction was appalling. Instead of commending Owens,Daily Mail, which broke the story, quoted a woman who had witnessed the supposed degradation first-hand:
'It was a shock to see him working there and looking the way he did.
'It made me feel really bad. I was like, "Wow, all those years of doing the show and you ended up as a cashier."
Mr. Owens, for the record, looked fine in the accompanying photo but this woman's value system does indeed shock. "Ended up a cashier?" What kind of person even thinks this?
A tweeter suggested (without a shred of irony, given that the leading actor did something much worse than honest labor):
Cosby was proven right . . . elvin [the character Owens played] was not good enough to date his daughter.
And another ridiculer tweeted:
Cliff warned him not to leave medical school and start that wilderness supply store
The ridicule was infuriating, reflecting something I blog about from time: our loss of respect for work.
But then something wonderful happened. In response to the news reports and reidcule, people began to praise Mr. Owens and also to speak about the dignity of work. It made me feel that all is not lost.
Robin Roberts of Good Morning America interviewed Owens on the air--both were terrific advocates of honest work. Ms. Roberts talked about how Owens had been "job shamed."
Entertainment Weekly reported on the GMA segment:
Owens — who was proudly wearing his Trader Joe's name tag — said he was "really devastated" at first — until celebrities and fans alike jumped to his defense on social media.
"The period of devastation was so short because so shortly after that, the responses, my wife and I started to read [them] … and fortunately the shame part didn't last very long," he said. "It's amazing."
"It's really overwhelming, in a good way," he continued. "I kind of feel like that character in that Woody Allen movie that wakes up one morning and he's a celebrity all of a sudden … it came out of nowhere. I really want to thank everybody out there … for the incredible support, the amazing support and positivity that they've shown for me. It's quite astounding."
Owens went on to say that he hopes his experience will reshape "what it means to work, the honor of the working person, [and] the dignity of work."
"I hope that this period that we're in now, where we have a heightened sensitivity about that, and a reevaluation of what it means to work and the idea that some jobs are better than others — that's actually not true," he said. "There is no job that's better than another job. It might pay better, it might have better benefits, it might look better on a resume and on paper. But actually, it's not better. Every job is worthwhile and valuable."
"No one should feel sorry for me," he added. "I've had a great life. I've had a great career. I've had a career that most actors would die for. So no one has to feel sorry for me. I'm doing fine!"
CNN had a headline that said it all:
Geoffrey Owens' Message to Job Shamers: Honor the Dignity of Work
Tyler Perry offered Owens a job and celebrities took to social media to talk about the jobs they had had while pursuing an acting dream.
From time to time, we read about people who get on food stamps to tide themselves through a rough period.
Without commenting on that, can we suggest that the original shaming of Mr. Owens probably would not have occurred if he'd been "spotted" using food stamps?
But he got an honest job and ultimately showed us something about dignity.


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