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Al Gore and the Mission of the Nobel Prizes - American Thinker
Al Gore and the Mission of the Nobel Prizes
By John Berlau
<?xml encoding="UTF-8">Al Gore has won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. This choice, more than any other Nobel Committee selection, marks the end of a 105-year era. In direct contradiction of Alfred Nobel's last will and testament, the selection of Gore essentially means the Peace Prize can no longer be said to be an award for improving the condition of humankind. Looking at Gore's writing, it's far from clear that Gore even believes that humanity is his most important priority.
Not that there haven't been controversial or dubious selections before. Jimmy Carter was selected by the committee in 2002 in what was partly a political swipe at the Bush administration's foreign policy. Yasser Arafat was given the Peace Prize despite his ordering the killing of scores of innocent civilians.
But, at the very least, the stated aims of Carter and even Arafat were the improvement of human life. Gore, by contrast, does not even profess improving the human condition as his fundamental goal. Rather, his stated desire is to stop human activity that he sees as ruining what he calls the "ecosystem." Awarding the prize to Gore in 2007 is the equivalent of honoring the Luddites who tried to stop the beneficial technologies of Alfred Nobels's day.
A common theme of selection for the Nobel Peace Prize and the other Nobel awards has been the use of science and technology to overcome problems afflicting humans such as starvation and disease. This fulfills the vision of Swedish inventor and entrepreneur Nobel, who pioneered the product of dynamite. For the first time, an explosive device could be stored safely and detonate predictably on a large scale. Nobel's products were used for war, as even the most primitive explosives had been for centuries. But dynamite also vastly improved the 19th and 20th century standard of living through its use in the construction of buildings, railroad tunnels, and sea passages such as the Panama Canal.
In creating the annual prizes for physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and the promotion of world peace (roughly the same five fields for which Nobels are awarded today today), Nobel stated the desire in his will to honor
"those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind."
According to Alfred Nobel: A Biograpy by Kenne Fant, an earlier draft of Nobel's will stipulated that prizes in all categories should be
"a reward for the most important pioneering discoveries or works in the field of knowledge and progress."
But for Albert Gore, Jr. the fields of knowledge and progress are suspect, and so are many types of technology with benefits to mankind. This is a man who speaks despairingly of "our civilization" and sees as flawed man's attempt to rise above "nature." He describes global warming as "the category 5 collision between our civilization - as we currently pursue it - and the earth's environment."
He has been critical of "civilization" and human technological advancement even before global warming became his main issue. In the introduction to his 1992 book Earth in the Balance, Gore writes,
"In one sense, civilization itself has been on a journey from its foundations in the world of nature to an ever more contrived, controlled and manufactured world of our own imitative and sometimes arrogant design. And in my view, the price has been high."
But exactly what part of "controlling" and "contriving" does Gore object to? Does he really think the price of curing diseases through new drugs or feeding the world through advance farming techniques been too "high." In many passages of his writing, the answer seems to be yes. This puts him conflict with the vision of Nobel as well as that of many of the previous prize recipients honored for their pioneering achievements in agriculture or medicine.
Several Nobel prizes, for instances, have honored life-saving breakthroughs in stopping cancer. But in Earth in the Balance, Gore wonders aloud whether cancer treatments should be used if they would result in the harvesting of what he considers to be to be too many trees. On page 119 he writes:
"The Pacific Yew can be cut down and processed to produce a potent chemical, taxol, which offers some promise of curing certain forms of lung, breast, and ovarian cancer in patients who would otherwise quickly die. It seems an easy choice - sacrifice the tree for a human life - until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated."
As Gore's apologists have pointed out, he does later in the passage list one of his reasons as saving some trees for future generations. But there is no discussion in Gore's passage about a basic solution to this dilemma -- simply plant new groves of yews! Thus, he still seems to be giving the life of an old Pacific Yew a competing claim with a dying cancer patient.
But it's not just cancer patients that come into Gore's technological crosshairs. Gore also points out the supposedly dire effect on nature of growing more food to feed the hungry. Ironically, he blasts what is called the "green revolution," the high-yield farming and plant breeding that has made countries like India and Pakistan self-sustaining in agriculture. Norman Borlaug won the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for pioneering these techniques and bringing them to the Third World.
But in Earth in the Balance Gore decries "the much-heralded Green Revolution" as well as biotechnology that promises to further revolutionize agriculture. Gore concedes,
"To be sure, these same new 'miracle crops' ... have temporarily conquered hunger in a few of the Third World Nations."
But, he concludes,
"the higher yields made possible by genetically altered crop strains often cannot be sustained over time, as the pests and blights catch up to them and as overirrigation and overfertilizing take their toll on soil productivity."
Modern farming techniques, he writes, are
"a set of dangerous bargains with the future worthy of the theatrical legend that haunted the birth of the scientific revolution: Dr. Faustus."
This is an example of how Gore alarms and misleads at the same time. Yes, any agricultural improvement may have negative side effects that need to be fixed. But India's "temporary" conquering of hunger has lasted 40 years, and the nation is now a net grain exporter. Borlaug has also been honored by politicians of both parties, as he is a senior consultant to the Carter Center and was surrounded by President Bush and the House and Senate leaders Pelosi and Reid when he received the Congressional Gold Medal this July. Gore's disparaging of Borlaug's prize-winning achievement shows how far out of the scientific mainstream Gore is on this and other issues.
Unfortunately, Gore still has plenty of influence as an ambassador of science to the media and lay public, and a Nobel Peace Prize may magnify this even more. The results of honoring Gore's dishonoring of human progress could be tragic and devastating. Look no further than Gore's tirades against another Nobel-winning achievement: the life-saving insecticide DDT.
The Nobel Committee recognized DDT's immeasurable contribution to public health. In 1948, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Paul Hermann Muller, the Swiss chemist who discovered DDT's effectiveness at combating the insects that spread deadly diseases. As the Nobel web site entry for Dr. Muller states, "Field trials now showed it [DDT] to be effective not only against the common housefly, but also against a wide variety of pests, including the louse, Colorado beetle, and mosquito," The web site notes further that during World War II, DDT "proved to be of enormous value in combating typhus and malaria -- malaria was, in fact, completely eradicated from many island areas."
And after World War II, DDT eradicated malaria in vast areas of the world, including parts of the southern United States. But it was vilified in the 1962 book "Silent Spring" written by Rachel Carson, a woman Gore has called a heroine. As a result of the ensuing U.S. and worldwide near-prohibition on making DDT, several millions have died in Africa from mosquito-borne malaria that DDT could prevent.
Even after the turnabout by the World Health Organization, the New York Times and other establishment venues, Gore has never once said that Rachel Carson was wrong. As late as 1996, he called DDT a "notorious compound" that "presented serious human health risks." The tragedy is that on this issue, Gore could have used his tremendous political capital to make a difference in reducing malaria deaths.
And Gore is still hindering anti-malaria efforts by spreading misinformation about its main causes. In his movie and book An Inconvenient Truth, Gore blames global warming for recent outbreaks of malaria in the cooler regions of Kenya. But as I have reported in my book Eco-Freaks and elsewhere, the World Health Organization had documented epidemics in those very regions in the 1940s, long before global warming was on the radar screen. The malaria was wiped out there, as elsewhere, by DDT, and unfortunately, as elsewhere, has now returned in the absence of DDT's use.
Also unfortunate is that the establishment media for the most part has not seen fit to correct Gore on this and many other dangerous misstatements in An Inconvenient Truth. Now, they may be even less inclined to do so. Never before would the awarding of a Nobel Prize have to potential to due so much damage to public health and human progress. If the Nobel Committee goes with the "politically correct" winds, it is incumbent on every Nobel laureate who cares about the legacy of Alfred Nobel to denounce this terrible decision.
Updated 9:02 AM EDT
John Berlau is a policy director at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and author of the Amazon best-selling book Eco-Freaks.


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8 Takeaways from the Inaugural Microsoft Power Platform Conference in Orlando (2022)
Last week I had the privilege of attending the very first Microsoft Power Platform Conference in Orlando Florida. This in-person, three-day conference featured several keynotes from Microsoft leadership like Charles Lamana, Jeff Teper, and Scott Hanselman, 120 breakout sessions on all parts of the Power Platform, and even optional hands-on workshops to participate in. In addition to the fun I had, I've learned a lot and am documenting my top eight takeaways from the conference below.
1: Fusion development will become a major topic
I was surprised to see "pro-code" (the low-code community's term for traditional typed programming languages like C#, JavaScript, Python, etc.) have such a major role in a conference that is focused on the power of low-code/no-code development with the Power Platform. Fusion development, a growing topic, occurs when professional developers using pro-code languages unite with citizen developers using low-code frameworks to build solutions. The synergies of these fusion teams allow businesses to build better applications using both the technical expertise of the professional developer and the domain expertise of the citizen developer.
Fusion development was a major theme at the conference this year. Many of the conference's 120 sessions focused on the synergies between Azure & Power Platform together and the benefits of fusion teams. For example, some of the session titles:
Take advantage of Co-authoring via Git in Power Apps Canvas Apps
Better together: Power Platform + Azure
Power Platform for code-first developers & ISV's
Using custom connectors with PVA
Compliment Low-Code/No-Code with your Pro-Code Skills
ALM for Citizen Devs and Code-First developers
Given my background in traditional development, I was excited to see this and chose sessions that generally covered this topic. Besides the sessions, even the keynotes (every conference attendee attended) were heavily focused on both Azure and Power Platform: the It is a great time to be a cloud developer keynote that Scott Hanselman and Julia Kasper delivered to close the conference covered everything from Azure API Management, .NET MAUI, Azure App Service, the latest C# innovations, Power Platform custom connectors, and of course, Power Apps.
It was very clear to me that, while we work with the Power Platform, a low-code/no-code development framework, collaboration with pro-dev counterparts will allow us to achieve even more. "Fusion teams" will be commonplace in the years to come.
2: The future of Power Fx is bright
The most impressive session I attended was Best Practices for Using Power Fx in Power Apps and the Power Platform by Greg Lindhorst. Greg, a Principal PM Architect and one of the "Founding Fathers" of Power Fx at Microsoft, covered some best practices for using Power Fx, and detailed some of the exciting up and coming features of this growing "language".
A glimpse into the architecture of Power Fx
The benefits of Power Fx, as described by the team that developed it
Some incredible new features that Greg and his team described and will be coming soon:
Natural Language Support — instead of writing a formula, describe what you want. Greg gave the example of typing in "does customer start with bill?" to the formula bar. Power Fx used natural language processing to understand what you are describing, and suggested the formula StartsWith(Customer, "bill"). This is only a simple example, but it shows the direction in which Power Fx is going — even more accessible to citizen developers.
Smart Repair — ever get an error message but have no idea what you did wrong or how to fix it? Error messages will now learn what you are trying to accomplish and suggest a syntactically correct formula to use instead of the incorrect one you have.
Named formulas — like Microsoft Excel, Power Fx will now support named formulas. A "Formulas" property will now be available at the top-level of your app and will allow you to define formula variables that can later be used in the application.
Prefetching — Power Fx will now intelligently decipher a series of functions and will run calls concurrently, not one after another. For the developer and user, this means less loading time.
ParseJSON — Parsing JSON has never been possible in Power Apps… you would have to delegate the parsing to Power Automate and return the intended values to Power Apps. Now, Power Apps has it's own function, ParseJSON, for parsing a JSON document. The bottleneck that the Power Fx team had to address before they could address this was how one could handle untyped objects, or objects that did not have a definitive structure defined by a schema (like JSON). So, the team also added…
Untyped Objects — You have never been able to handle an unstructured object without a schema in Power Apps (i.e. a JSON document, YAML file, etc). Now the tools to do that exist, and they are called untyped objects. Using untyped objects, you can now reference properties of an object that have not been declared by a schema; in other words, you can reference properties that Power Apps isn't sure even exist! This is key for allowing Power Apps to parse JSON using the aforementioned ParseJSON function.
Also, Power Fx is now OPEN SOURCE! All of the source code that drives Power Fx is now available on GitHub. What is even cooler is the Power Fx team also released the Power Fx interpreter as a nuget package that you can download and consume in your own .NET projects. This means that you will have the ability to use the Power Fx interpreter and evaluation engine in your applications. Greg's team gave a short demo of using the interpreter in a C# console app:
Using the Power Fx engine in C#
Using Power Fx in a REPL (read-eval-print-loop) environment was also demonstrated via a console interface. I believe this was a console app that the Power Fx team set up that leverages the Power Fx library, but it also may have been a separate Power Fx app/CLI that they are working on… but more likely the former.
Finally, the team hinted that, despite ParseJSON being announced only recently, you would have been able to find unit tests of the function in the open-source repository on GitHub over 6 months ago. They hinted that you may find other future features if you watch the commit timeline closely…
3: Dataverse is evolving
Another of my favorite sessions was the Every System Connected session by Nirav Shah, the VP of Dataverse at Microsoft. Nirav spoke about the importance of data in today's organizations, highlighted a customer story, and the vision for the future of Dataverse.
The Dataverse team is investing heavily into improving the experience of using virtual tables. Virtual tables is not a new concept of Dataverse and has been around since the early days of Dynamics 365. This feature allows you to substitute another datasource for Dataverse while still using the same functionality you would benefit from in Dataverse: using it in Model Driven apps, forms, views, etc. This feature has often been overlooked and in the background as it has been seen only as a secondary functionality to Dataverse itself, the star of the show. However, the Dataverse team is changing this notion and investing into creating a new unified UI for establishing connection to other tabular data sources as part of the virtual table setup process.
With this new UI, you will be able to point Dataverse at your SharePoint list or SQL table, have it appear as a Dataverse table, and build an entire model driven app around it, as if it were an actual Dataverse table. This is nothing new, but Nirav went on to explain that their goal is the "virtualization of data", and for there to be a consistent API interface for everything, and Dataverse is that consistent API interface. In other words, Dataverse could serve as the enterprise's "front gate" for all data exchanges. Even if data ultimately lies in SQL or SharePoint, you can use the Dataverse API for all your CRUD operations.
Dataverse serves as intermediary for SharePoint and others
In addition to the virtual tables investment, the team debuted their new Formula column type. What was previously a calculated or rollup field, will now be a Formula Column. Using formula columns, you will be able to describe any unique calculation that Dataverse should perform on data in the row(s) and save to this column, the formula column. Just like Excel, you can use any operator (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) and leverage some simple functions or constants.
Dataverse's replacement for Calculated fields: Formula columns
4: Canvas & Model-Driven App Convergence: Custom Pages
At the Building Modern Power Apps session by Adrian Orth, Leon Welicki, and Ramiro Melgoza, the vision for and a demonstration of the convergence of Canvas and Model-Driven apps was shown. This is a topic that has been long discussed — what app should you build? Weighing the various benefits and downsides of each and choosing one for a particular function while having the other type for another. In the future, there will be only one single app type. Within that app, you will be able to create "custom pages", a reusable page that can be used across a model-driven app. These custom pages are designed in a familiar setting, using the same canvas maker portal you have already been using to make canvas apps.
Custom pages brings canvas into model
The team sees the following common scenarios, but we are free to dream big here!
Key data summaries/dashboards
Quick access to common tasks
Furthermore, the custom page can be placed anywhere within the app. A pop-up dialog can be a canvas page; or, you can "anchor" a canvas page permanently on the side of the application so it is ever there, ever present.
"Center Dialog" custom page (canvas)
Using a custom page as a docked email drafting dialog
5: Developers, developers, developers!
Whether you are a citizen developer or professional developer, it is clear that Microsoft's goal is to provide you with the absolute best tools in the market to develop your vision. I saw this at the conference along the entire development spectrum.
Microsoft is investing heavily into their business applications portfolio, and that is evident particularly in the Power Platform. In only a short 6–7 years, Power Apps (and the Power Platform) has evolved tremendously. The resources that have been allocated to this group has certainly risen since then and we will see their efforts materialize. The next 6–7 years could be even more game-changing than the last.
On the professional developer side, investments are being made, but this is nothing new for Microsoft. The quip that caught my attention the most is hearing the following repeated several times: We want .NET to be the best language for API's. I heard this several times and saw the new technology that is backing up this claim:
C# minimal API — Showed off in several sessions, including the Scott Hanselman keynote. This is the latest upgrade to ASP.NET that allows you to create an API endpoint with only a few lines of code. For example:
var app = builder.Build();app.MapGet("/", () => "Hello World!");app.Run();
You can read more about the C# minimal API here.
Port Tunneling — When testing an API that you are developing in Visual Studio or VS Code, the endpoint you will call will always start with something like this: http://localhost:7071. That is because your API is running locally. When it is running locally, this means you will be able to call it yourself on your computer, but another computer from a different network would not be able to call it because it isn't exposed publicly. After deploying to a service like Azure App Service or Azure Functions, you would be given a publicly accessible URL which serves as your API endpoint.
This always made it difficult for testing with cloud services like the Power Platform. You were unable to run an entire end-to-end test, from the Power App/Automate "front end" consuming the API, to the actual code that is running the API. Port Tunneling is a new feature which, instead of serving on localhost, gives you a publicly accessible endpoint with the code running in real-time on your computer! You can give the URL to a friend to try the service, insert a breakpoint in your code and see it being hit after being called (your friend would be awaiting a response in the meantime), or as shown at the conference, provide it to a cloud SaaS app/workflow to be tested on.
In the fusion team setting, this allows a citizen developer to collaborate in synchrony with a professional developer as that pro-dev developers an API for the citizen developer and tests it in their actual application in real-time. This is big!
6: A case study for Power Platform adoption at scale
Andrew Gaskins describes Lumen's journey on the Power Platform
Andrew Gaskins, the Global Power Platform Lead at Lumen Technologies, a global telecommunications company, was featured at the Every System Connected session by Nirav Shah, VP of Dataverse. Andrew told the story about his company's adoption of the Power Platform. Lumen's story provides us with a case study for how a large organization can use low-code/no-code to drive innovation at every corner of their business:
Lumen's journey with the platform began in 2017 when their very first Power App was made.
In 2020, interest in "Premium" connectors was shown from members of their business community.
In late 2020, Dataverse for Teams began to gain traction
In early 2021, Lumen and Microsoft team up and Lumen Makers, a community of Power Platform makers at Lumen that meets monthly, is formed.
In June 2021, Lumen secures enterprise-wide Power Platform licenses (every employee)
2022 — Dataverse takes hold at Lumen
Andrew spoke about the importance of their Lumen Makers community and how collaboration is facilitated: A monthly in-person meetup that is tailored for all experience levels, from makers that are brand new and curious, to the professional development veterans. A Microsoft Teams team was created for the community and a channel was created as a forum for each part of the platform — Power Apps, Automate, PVA, Dataverse, etc.
Andrew detailed the benefits and value that has been created for Lumen as they've adopted the platform:
Most value was realized after rolling out licenses enterprise wide. No longer did they have to worry about who is licensed and managing licensing when deploying an app. Despite the obvious cost of licensing the full organization, the most value was realized when everyone was licensed. This allowed them to easily roll out enterprise-wide apps like a COVID attestation app, without worrying about licensing.
What won them over was the "pro-dev" features of the platform that would allow their traditional developers to leverage the platform for traditional workloads as well. For example, using ALM practices with Dataverse. The major features that Lumen's traditional developers embraced was the ability to use the Dataverse Web API to read and write data to Dataverse from their own applications written in "pro-code". Citizen makers could easily write to Dataverse while professional developers could consume that data (and data schema) in their own .NET applications.
Lumen ❤'s Dataverse for it's: Performance, Security, and Governance
Andrew's word of advice for any organization embracing the Power Platform is to have a plan in place for two things: internal upskilling and environment strategy (governance).
7: Features & Functionality on my radar
There are several new-ish features that were mentioned, discussed, or demonstrated at the conference that I am excited to research further and learn more about:
Managed environments — Additional governance control over environments. New features include weekly digests, sharing limits, and data policies.
The Automation Kit for Power Automate Desktop, used in CoE scenarios.
Power Pages has a feature to open a site in VS Code, to allow for a pro-dev to edit the HTML/CSS/JS behind the site.
Querying Dataverse using T-SQL with SSMS
Power Platform Tools Extension for VS Code
Power Platform Command Line Interface (CLI) for various administrative tasks in the Power Platform.
Portals (Power Pages) web API, an API that can be used within a Power Pages site for doing things like CRUD operations on Dataverse, creating an account, update a contact, or changing table permissions
Power Fx Named Formulas — This was covered in depth at a session I described above
Power Up — Microsoft is investing into the upskilling and training of new makers with the Power Platform. This new program called "Power Up" is the place for anyone to start! Check it out: aka.ms/powerup.
8: It is a revolution
The sessions and speakers were fantastic, but I was even more impressed with the folks in attendance. It is clear that this is a platform that is very near to the hearts of many of us, but especially those that are brand new to development entirely. Many had come from different industries and different careers entirely. People from all stages of career, from all industries, are making the switch to becoming a full-time Power Platform developer.
During one of the keynote sessions with engineering leadership, one of the attendees approached the microphone and, emotionally, thanked the team for creating the platform which she is now basing her career on. She said something along the lines of "I'm 50 years old, have switched careers, and have FINALLY found my passion". Many shared similar stories.
You see here how the Power Platform embodies Microsoft's mission statement, To empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. The future is bright with no-code/low-code, and Microsoft's Power Platform is leading the way!
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Delaying programmed cell death of beneficial gut bacteria in microgravity using oxide and complex nanoparticles
Walk-in-interview will be held on 11 December 2019 at 10:30 a.m. at Agricultural & Ecological Research Unit (AERU) Seminar Room (2nd Floor, R.A. Fisher Bhawan) in the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata for recruitment of one (01) Project linked Junior Research Fellow purely on temporary basis in the Agricultural and Ecological Research Unit of the Institute, Kolkata.
Contact Person: Agricultural and Ecological Research Unit, 033-2575-3220.
Urbanization and scaling
Walk-in-interview will be conducted on 28 November 2019 at 11:00 a.m. at Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit (PAMU) Seminar Room, 7th floor of the A.N. Kolmogorov Bhawan of the Institute for the recruitment of one (01) Project linked person purely on temporary basis in the Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit of the Institute, Kolkata.
Contact Person: Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit, 033-2575-3037, sribbasu@gmail.com.
Understanding Genetics and Genomics of Gastric Cancer Patients in India
Walk-in-interview will be conducted on 06 December 2019 (Friday) at 11:00 a.m. at the Human Genetics Unit, A.K. Kolmogorov Bhavan, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata for recruitment of one (01) Project linked person purely on temporary basis in the Human Genetics Unit of the Institute, Kolkata.
Contact Person: Human Genetics Unit, 033-2575-3240
Modelling Transcriptional Dynamics with Gene Expression Data
Walk-in-interview will be conducted on 02 December 2019 (Monday) at 10:30 a.m. at the Human Genetics Unit, A.K. Kolmogorov Bhavan, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata for recruitment of one (01) Project linked person purely on temporary basis in the Human Genetics Unit of the Institute, Kolkata. The objective of the project is to develop novel statistical method for modelling transcriptional dynamics based on gene expression data and write computer programs.
Copula Functions in Analysis of Single Cell Gene Expression Data
Walk-in-interview will be conducted on 27 November 2019 at 11:00 a.m. at Machine Intelligence Unit (MIU), 3rd floor of the Platinum Jubilee Academic Building (PJAB) of the Institute for the recruitment of one (01) Research Associate purely on temporary basis in the Machine Intelligence Unit and Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning of the Institute, Kolkata.
Contact Person: Machine Intelligence Unit, 033-2575-3100
Applications are invited for recruitment of two (02) Project linked persons (one for each of) on purely temporary basis in the Interdisciplinary Statistical Research Unit of the Institute, Kolkata.
Contact Person: Interdisciplinary Statistical Research Unit, 033-2575-5054
The Institute invites applications from the Indian nationals for the position of Multitasking Staff (Electrician), Multitasking Staff (Electrical Attendant) and Multitasking Staff [Operator-cum-Mechanic (Lift)] on purely temporary basis in its Headquarters, Kolkata initially for 6 (six) months duration which may be extended or terminated earlier depending on availability of funds, performance of the candidate and the requirement of the Institute.


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You judge me by my size do you??
Admittedly this was likely too quick to include a Star Wars reference but hey this is me...all of me and Star Wars runs supreme in this household.
Although Yoda was talking about his height when he says " You judge me by my size do you?" this is a statement that I think many people can relate to. In today's world assumptions on health are often based on body size and shape. It is assumed that larger bodied people are lazy or overeat or "don't take care of themselves". This is often not the case. They may be living in bodies that showing the effects of medications or disease or effects of years of chronic dieting. Yet the point is that you do not know why their body is this shape. In my personal experience I have been questioned about my "dietetic intelligence" because I am not ... well I am not sure what size I am expected to be but apparently I am not the right size. I have had clients in the past flat out ask for the "thinner dietitian down the hall" as they might be a better help. Seriously! My body is my body. It is the size that it is because I am genetically built this way. It fluctuates a bit in size depending on whether I am running or not ( a post for another day) and the season, and whether I am getting enough sleep and for many other reasons but I can honestly tell you that it does not fluctuate based on how smart I am that day. My degree does not have my weight or my measurements on the back- it does however show that I worked very hard to earn these letters after my name.
I think we are often our own hardest critiques. Some people judge their worth by the numbers they see on a scale or the size of the jeans they put on that morning. You are so much more than that. You are thoughts and ideas and promises and hopes and dreams. You are someones role model, you are someones idol. You are you...not a number, not a size, not an apple or a pear. Your body is your earth suit. Take good care of it. Move it in ways that bring you joy, nourish it in ways that that make you feel good and if you can't love your earth suit yet start to acknowledge that it does some amazing things.
Yoda is only 2ft, 2inches tall and he helped take down an Empire...imagine what you can do if you let go of the negative dialogue in your head and move to the Light Side.


University Of Portharcourt (UNIPORT) has releases their Pre-Degree to Degree Programme admission list 2014/2015 and i am happy to inform any Applicants to rush now to check their own Admission status as the list is ready and can now be accessed on the school official website.
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Q: Elliptic : TypeError : Converting circular structure to JSON Relevant Information before starting : I've seached stackoverflow already, and have found similar title questions, but I don't believe they are duplicates of mine, because they have a key difference, they seem to have objects which contain a reference to themselves, causing the circle. I don't have that. <-- Please read this instead of instantly marking as a dupe - I need real help with this.
EDIT : I have found the answer, but stackoverflow wont let me post the answer for a few days, turns out elliptic can only accept hex values - meaning that you would have to call it like this :
this.keyPair.sign(dataHash).toHex();

Leaving question below for anyone else who might have this issue going forward.
I have this javascript object :
Transaction {
  id: '2ec34280-567d-11e9-9685-4903db7a1a5b',
  type: 'TRANSACTION',
  input:
   { timestamp: 1554343126696,
     from:
      '6db64cd01c27a723395a833d72b3cc81f9110b5ffb34429d91f45fcbfd87ec9b',
     signature:
      Signature {
        eddsa: [EDDSA],
        _R: [Point],
        _S: [BN],
        _Rencoded: [Array],
        _Sencoded: undefined } },
  output: { to: 'rand-address', amount: 9, fee: 1 } }

When I try to do a res.json on it, I seem to get this error :
TypeError: Converting circular structure to JSON

Some code that may be relevant :
// Endpoint that a user accesses (the start of the event)
app.post("/transact", (req, res) => {
  const { to, amount, type } = req.body;
  const transaction = wallet.createTransaction(
    to,
    amount,
    type,
    blockchain,
    transactionPool
  );

  res.redirect("/transactions");
});

the createTransaction method which is mentioned above, looks like this :
  createTransaction(to, amount, type, blockchain, transactionPool) {
    this.balance = this.getBalance(blockchain);
    if (amount > balance) {
      console.log(
        `Amount: ${amount} exceeds the current balance: ${this.balance}`
      );
      return;
    }
    let transaction = Transaction.newTransaction(this, to, amount, type);
    transactionPool.addTransaction(transaction);
    return transaction;
  }

the newTransaction method :
  static newTransaction(senderWallet, to, amount, type) {
    if (amount + TRANSACTION_FEE > senderWallet.balance) {
      console.log(`Not enough balance`);
      return;
    }

    return Transaction.generateTransaction(senderWallet, to, amount, type);
  }

Which calls the generateTransaction method below :
  static generateTransaction(senderWallet, to, amount, type) {
    const transaction = new this();
    transaction.type = type;
    transaction.output = {
      to: to,
      amount: amount - TRANSACTION_FEE,
      fee: TRANSACTION_FEE
    };
    Transaction.signTransaction(transaction, senderWallet);
    return transaction;
  }

Which in turn calls the signTransaction method :
  static signTransaction(transaction, senderWallet) {
    transaction.input = {
      timestamp: Date.now(),
      from: senderWallet.publicKey,
      signature: senderWallet.sign(ChainUtil.hash(transaction.output))
    };
  }

the chainUtil hash function looks like this :
static hash(data){
    return SHA256(JSON.stringify(data)).toString();
}

The sign method on the wallet class :
  sign(dataHash){
    return this.keyPair.sign(dataHash);
  }

they all return and I get the object I mentioned at the top of this question. I'm not seeing how the issue is a circular error at all. Please, educate me.

A: I have found the answer, Turns out Elliptic only allows you to work with hex strings... so the change to make this work was in my wallet code, as follows :
this.keyPair.sign(dataHash).toHex();

Instead of
this.keyPair.sign(dataHash);

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Well made, versatile, easy to assemble. Very pleased!
Works great, easy to install.
I set up this mount on a stand in a photo studio at the school where I work so students can rotate their images on a 42" LCD TV 90 degrees. The mount works great for this purpose. Instructions were clearly presented and most tools and all mount supplies were included. There was a TON of screws included with the kit, enough for whatever kind of TV you have. The mount appears One drawback was that some materials (screws specifically) seemed to be made from softer metals, and stripped easily with tools while setting up. When I had trouble locating a locking allen screw, I called a help number in the instructions and someone from the company was very patient and helped me find out where it was. (Right where the instructions indicated it was! Oops.) So great customer service and phone support if you need it. to be capable of adapting to just about any possible configuration.


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Diddy #1 on Forbes Hip-Hop Cash Kings List
Sep 22, 2015 cash king hip hop list, diddy
1. Diddy – $60 million
2. Jay Z – $56 million
3. Drake – $39.5 million
4. Dr. Dre – $33 million
5. Pharrell – $32 million
6. Eminem – $31 million
7. Kanye West – $22 million
8. Wiz Khalifa – $21.5 million
9. Nicki Minaj – 21 million
10. Birdman – $18 million
11. Pitbull – $17 million
12. Lil Wayne – $15 million
13. Kendrick Lamar – $12 million
14. J. Cole – $11 million
15. Snoop Dogg – $10 million
16. Rick Ross – $9 million
17. Tech N9ne – $8.5 million
18. Ludacris – $8 million
19. T.I. – $6 million
20. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – $5.5 million
Rick Ross facing Lawsuit after Woman said She Was Raped by His Associate
Drake & Future's 'What a Time to Be Alive' Projected for Huge Opening Week
2 thoughts on "Diddy #1 on Forbes Hip-Hop Cash Kings List"
Gradie Twyman says:
Jason Stephens Sr. says:
Well grindin with purpose, will get u there….


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B.C. Liberal leadership contenders Kevin Falcon and George Abbott.
Liberal membership swells amid irregularities
Party says close to 50,000 new members signed up
Jeff Nagel
Feb. 9, 2011 3:00 p.m.
B.C. Liberal party officials say nearly 50,000 new members were signed up by the Feb. 4 deadline for eligibility to help pick the province's next premier.
"This dramatic increase in new members has pushed our membership mark so it's now approaching 90,000," party president Mickey Patryluk said Tuesday.
"It's a clear signal of the enthusiasm that has been ignited by this leadership race."
Exactly how many new members were signed up by each campaign remains unclear.
Kevin Falcon's backers say they've signed up 17,500 and the Mike de Jong campaign is claiming more than 10,000. Christy Clark is expected to have the most new members, with reported estimates ranging from 20,000 to 26,000.
However those numbers don't square with any significant number of new members from the George Abbott campaign, or from Moira Stilwell and Ed Mayne.
Nor has an official detailed breakdown been released of where the members have been recruited.
Many are believed to have signed up in Surrey, where three campaigns were concentrating heavily on the South Asian community.
Still up in the air are the rules that will govern the Feb. 26 vote to select a new Liberal leader and premier.
Party delegates vote this Saturday on a recommended plan to give equal weight to each district across the province, rather than the one-member-one-vote system.
That would greatly water down the influence of thousands of members signed up in a handful of urban ridings, prompting speculation some forces in the party may seek to defeat the proposed voting reform, which needs a two-thirds majority to pass.
Party officials are also purging the membership list of new members signed up in contravention to the rules.
Random audits of new members are underway to try to eliminate memberships issued without the person's knowledge.
Under particular scrutiny are cases where multiple memberships came from the same address, particularly a business, or bearing the same phone number.
"Our party executive and staff take the integrity of our leadership vote process extremely seriously," Patryluk said. "We are committed to a fair and equitable process for all leadership contenders."
Among those memberships being deleted are those of several Kamloops Blazers hockey players who were signed up without their knowledge by a supporter of Kevin Falcon's.
Falcon's campaign manager said he notified party headquarters as soon as he learned of the invalid memberships.
Tom Gaglardi, majority owner of the Western Hockey League club, is a supporter of Falcon's leadership bid, and the Blazers' general manager took responsibility for what he called a "communication error" leading to the inappropriate sign-up.
That came after the Falcon team accused Clark forces of using large numbers of photocopied membership forms missing the required serial numbers, contrary to party rules that said only official membership books were to be used.
Clark's representatives dismissed the claim.
Before that, it was the case of a cat belonging to the Delta South riding association president, a senior Clark organizer, ending up on the membership list.
George Abbott then had to order a supporter to take down a satirical website called kitties4christy.com that attempted to exploit the cat incident.
Questions lingered when it was pointed out the web site domain name was registered three days before news of the cat sign-up broke. The Abbott campaign denied any involvement in the sign-up of Olympia the cat.
Clark issued a statement saying she is "disappointed to hear George Abbott admit his campaign was involved in negative campaigning" and called on candidates to focus on respectful policy discussions.
The Feb. 26 vote is a preferential ballot, meaning there will be considerable jockeying by the camps in the time remaining to convince members to list them if not first as their second or even third choices.
Clark rules out free vote on killing HST
Frank J. Mitchell scores well on report card


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Feature in Digital Arts Magazine on my AOI World Illustration Awards shortlisted project: https://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/features/illustration/aoi-nominated-phoebe-swan-depicts-diverse-london/
Fantastic news! King Leonard's Teddy is of the shortlist for the Little Rebels Award 2020! www.littlerebels.org Previous nominees include some of my all time picture book heroes, so I am completely honoured and flattered that King Leonard's Teddy has been chosen for this year's shortlist. It was always my intention to make a book that was both fun and relatable for young children and also had a strong environmental and anti-consumerist message so I am really happy that the message of King Leonard's Teddy has spoken to the radical ethos of the Little Rebels Awards.
You can hear me talk about how I came up with the idea, how I made the artwork and give a taster reading here:
Buy King Leonard's Teddy and other shortlisted titles from Letterbox Library
"King Leonard is so rich that he can buy whatever he wants. Anything old or broken is thrown onto the growing pile of trash outside his castle. But one day something breaks that can't be easily replaced. And what's worse, King Leonard can't find anyone who knows how to fix it…"
The story of King Leonard's Teddy is one which is both an enjoyable and relatable story for young children and their parents of a child's attachment to an irreplaceable and much loved toy. But it also carries an environmental message about the impact of over-consumption and waste. In this sense I believe it can be enjoyed by anyone, on different levels.
Young children will enjoy the story, and looking at all the detail in the pictures. Older children and parents will be able to appreciate the environmental message. There is also a page of activities at the back designed to act as a conversation starter for parents and teachers to help children take the message into their everyday lives.
The Little Rebels Children's Book Award is a prize for radical fiction aimed at children aged 0-12. Now in its 8th year, the Little Rebels Award is designed to recognise the rich tradition of radical publishing for children in the UK.
Letterbox Library is a not-for-profit, children's booksellers and social enterprise. They specialise in children's books which celebrate diversity, equality and inclusion. www.letterboxlibrary.com
Housmans Bookshop is one of London's longest surviving and last remaining radical bookshops and stocks a wide range of radical books and magazines, including children's and young adult books www.housmans.com.
Bloomsbury Market has been Shortlisted for the Association of Illustrator's World Illustration Awards!
I'm over the moon to discover that Bloomsbury Farmers Market has been long-listed for the Association of Illustrators World Illustration Awards. It is one of a series of three London crowd scenes I made for the consumer research company Decision Technology. Looking at them again now is making me nostalgic for London in a less socially distanced time, when public spaces bustled with the sounds, smells and colours of city life.
Bloomsbury Farmers Market © Phoebe Swan 2019
I was commissioned by the company to make three artworks for their new office on Tottenham Court Road. As they handle statistics from cross-sections of the population, the theme was 'diverse groups of people'. I also wanted the artwork to reflect the area local to the office and to make images that would be meaningful to the employees. They had seen an image I made a few years ago, Borough Market and wanted something similar.
After consultation with employees, I picked three areas of local interest for inspiration. Many staff members take lunch at Bloomsbury Market, which also attracts people of all different backgrounds such as students and tourists, so it was an obvious choice for the project. I spent time drawing and taking photographs in each location before composing the final designs using a mixture of printmaking and digital editing.
In making this series, I was inspired by the iconic lino prints by the great Edward Bawden. My London scenes, like his, depict public spaces like markets, train stations and parks. I enjoy contrasting the large architectural forms with the patterns created by people going about their lives below. I also like to create little narratives with the characters which I hope give viewers something interesting to discover each time they look at the image.
This commission was really important to me because it was the first project I completed since my son was born at the end of 2018. Snatching time during my maternity leave to go out and do the research drawing, alone, was glorious. I took out my folding stool and giant pencil case stuffed with equipment (although I almost always just use a 4B pencil) that I'd used for observational drawing while on my MA at Cambridge School of Art. With no baby in tow, I felt light, and more importantly was able to get into a creative flow uninterrupted.
Sketchbook images © Phoebe Swan 2019
Later in the year, when my partner took over the main child-caring role for a while and I went back to work full time I sat down with all my sketches to create my compositions. I used a similar layout to the Borough Market image, but I wanted to use a three-quarter viewpoint for all the images. So I had to take my sketches and reimagine them as if I had been sitting three feet in the air above where I had really been sitting.
Previously I made a lot of my work with lino print but recently I have made the move to fully digital and to help me in this transition I booked some tutorials with Orange Beak Studio. The wonderful book designer Ness Wood made the suggestion that I drop some of the heavy outlining that I had been using and work with flat blocks of colour instead, allowing the edges of objects to be created by the edges of the shapes. You can see how I overlay colours to build up the images in this animation of my photoshop layers.
I am really happy about how these images came together in the end and I'm now working on a new picture book which will feature more of these kind of scenes of city life. I hope that by the time that book comes out we will once again be able to enjoy the simple pleasures of mingling with others in public. Until then, stay safe!
King Leonard's Teddy Book Launch, Dalston Curve Garden
© 2020 Phoebe Swan


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Tatarstan's President Signs Cooperation Agreement With Crimea
March 05, 2014 17:10 GMT
Tatarstan's President Rustam Minnikhanov (right) in Simferopol on March 5.
The president of Russia's Republic of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, and the pro-Russian prime minister of Ukraine's Crimea, Serhiy Aksyonov, have signed an agreement on cooperation.
Minnikhanov told journalists after the signing ceremony on March 5 that the concrete details of the bilateral cooperation will be outlined in a month.
Minnikhanov is expected to meet with Crimean parliament members and leaders of the Crimean Tatar community during his one-day visit.
Tatarstan's Grand Mufti Kamil Samigullin met with Crimean Tatar leaders on March 2.
Last week, two delegations of Tatar lawmakers visited Simferopol for talks with Crimean Tatars.
That visit came after thousands of Crimean Tatars scuffled with pro-Russian demonstrators outside the Crimean parliament, preventing lawmakers from holding an extraordinary session to debate the situation after the ouster of Ukraine's pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych.
Based on reporting by Interfax and ITAR-TASS
Sketches From Simferopol
Fear Is In The Air Among Crimean Tatars
Crimean Tatar Leader Tells People To Stay At Home
In Crimea, A Simmering Cauldron


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Code: S0505-23
Sculptural Assemblage
Jul 3 - 7, 2023
The focus of this workshop is on the use of everyday objects to create sculptures, utilizing new, found, and repurposed objects to define form and convey meaning. Students are introduced to artists whose sculptural works exemplify the language of assemblage in art. Through presentations and demonstrations, participants are exposed to a variety of materials and techniques which highlight the use of the found object in sculpture. Students create sculptures of personal meaning while investigating design, form, structure, and ways in which objects can articulate content based on how they are configured and/or deconstructed.
Divergent materials, variety of found objects including old tools, furniture, toys, etc., construction, binding, wrapping and other ways of adhering and incorporating objects physically and visually, demonstrations, discussions
Arthur Simms
Arthur Simms is a professor of art and director of the art department at CUNY, LaGuardia in NYC. His numerous awards include the Rome Prize, Guggenheim, Tiffany, Creative Capital, Joan Mitchell, Pollock-Krasner, and American Academy of Arts and Letters. Exhibiting nationally and internationally, he represented Jamaica in the 49th Venice Biennial.
Arthur Simms, King, in Praise of the Father
Tuition: $1,150.00
Studio Fee: $175.00
Registration Fee: $45.00
Express your creativity and vision by exploring the limitless art of sculpture. At Anderson Ranch, our sculpture program offers a vibrant spectrum of workshops that reflect a variety of studio practices. At the confluence of tradition and technology, these programs are material and technique-rich, ranging from classical metal fabrication to experimental digital production.
Students work in communal and interactive studios designed for all levels of experience, supporting traditional and nontraditional methods. The sculpture studios are fully equipped with advanced machinery and offer additional outdoor covered workspace.
Our renowned sculpture faculty work closely with students through critical discussions, material demonstrations and individual assistance. Instructors encourage exploration and experimentation, emphasizing process and idea development. We complement this with a focus on process and sound construction. You leave with far more than finished pieces—you walk away with the tools and inspiration required to elevate your studio practice.
Many of the items you'll need are available in the ArtWorks Store. Please click "View Full Supply List" to see a comprehensive list of items you'll need for this workshop.
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Housing is limited and includes shared and private lodging options. Reservations will be managed on a first-come, first-served basis. The earlier you reserve housing, the better your chance of receiving your preferred option. Please note: Workshop costs do not include accommodations.
We have established a Business Safety Plan with added layers of precaution that prioritize the health and safety of our staff, students, faculty and guests while continuing to provide you with the Anderson Ranch experience that you know and enjoy.
The Ranch Café meal plan that is included with Room and Board fees strives to provide healthy, creative meals that will nourish your artistic creativity. The meal plan includes 5 days of continental breakfasts that will include a hot offering, 5 lunches with a selection of offerings, and 5 dinners.
Learn More About Lodging & Meals
Beginning February 2023, Anderson Ranch will no longer require proof of Covid-19 vaccination for studio and artistic program participants. For your own safety as well as the safety of our community, we highly encourage all program participants to be up to date with their vaccinations for COVID-19 as well as the flu vaccine. We also encourage you to carry health and traveler's insurance.
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Making Art Accessible
Applications for scholarship support are encouraged. Specific scholarships are funded by Ranch supporters, either through endowed funds or special gifts.
Many colleges and universities offer college credit for workshops taken at Anderson Ranch. Discounts are available for students and teachers.
Jun 5 - 9, 2023
The Brutal and the Delicate: Steel Combined with Soft Materials
Carl Reed
Code S0101-23
Throughout the history of art, steel is a material commonly associated with industry, violence, and strength. This workshop challenges such connections by investigating ways that steel can become visually delicate, and inventing new meanings and visual relationships through combining steel with materials that contain opposite characteristics. Exercises address both technical and creative inquiries regarding how steel is cut, shaped, and physically joined, as well as how to challenge material assumptions when steel becomes a secondary rather than primary compositional element. We explore the aesthetic and technical consequences of combining steel with soft, vulnerable, contradictory, and unexpected materials.
Jun 12 - 16, 2023
Materials Lab: Raw and Cooked
Lan Tuazon
Raw and Cooked is a materials lab exploring five techniques of material invention: densify, reconfigure, transform, design, and cultivate. This class encourages experimentation with traditional techniques of production including casting, papermaking, and weaving. Accompanying lectures on garbology, vernacular architecture, secondary-use design, and current industrial models of material manufacture help us to understand both physical properties and their interconnected social, political, and ethical meanings. Dispensing with the notion of nature as a standing supply of raw materials, this course exercises art in a circular economy by sourcing surplus, waste, and by-products as the resources for making which contain inherent potential for meaning.
Animist Assemblages of the Make Do
Massa Lemu
This workshop introduces students to contemporary animist assemblages of the make do. Participants experiment with processes of animating objects of everyday life and incorporating them as temporary bodily appendages, extensions, and assemblage. To reflect on how technological objects such as headphones, computers, and other gadgets have become extensions of the body, students experiment with animist assemblage as extensions of their own bodies. Borrowing from African animist strategies, the workshop focuses on the processing of objects and treatment of surfaces, creation of support, linking, and presentation.


Centaurs are half man and half horse. They appeared in Greek mythology about the same time that the nomads from the North started to raid on horseback. Some thought being that this was the first time the Greeks had seen someone riding a horse.
The biggest challenge was to recreate the same lighting conditions both days. The horse and man being shot two days apart about 6:00 to 6:30 pm. Sunset is at 7 and the light declines rapidly at that time.
Would like to do a Minotaur as well but so far have not found a cow that would cooperate and look in the right direction.


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On 27 March 1966, elections for members of the sixth legislative period of the Hamburg Parliament (Hamburgische Bürgerschaft) after the Second World War were held in the German state of Hamburg. There were 1,375,491 eligible voters.

Results
959,816 voters, meaning a turnout of 69.8%, gave 947,802 valid and 12,014 invalid votes.

Post-election
Herbert Weichmann continued to be the First Mayor of Hamburg.

See also
Elections in Germany
Hamburg state elections in the Weimar Republic
2001 Hamburg state election
2004 Hamburg state election
2008 Hamburg state election

References

1966
Hamburg

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You may meet the graduation requirements noted in the catalog in effect at the time you enroll at UNT, or the requirements in any later catalog published prior to your graduation. All requirements of you designated catalog must be met within eight years of publication. As degree requirements can differ each year, it is important to check your online audit or with an advisor for your catalog designation and follow all publications designated for that catalog. Note: Always verify that you are looking at information specific to YOUR catalog.
Prerequisites are subject to change. You are responsible for meeting course prerequisites as listed in the most recently published catalog before enrolling in any course. If you have not met the prerequisites, you may be dropped from the course. Always refer to the current online catalog.
All business students are designated as BUND (Business Undetermined) majors upon enrollment at UNT. All BUND majors are blocked from enrolling in junior/senior level courses until meeting pre-business requirements and filing for an official degree plan. In order to meet pre-business requirements you must have completed the Pre-Business courses which include: ENGL 1310 and 1320/TECM 2700, ECON 1100 and 1110, MATH 1190 or 1400(prior to Fall 2011), BCIS 2610, ACCT 2010 and 2020, and DSCI 2710 all with a grade of C or better, have a 2.7 UNT GPA, and a minimum of 45 semester hours must be completed.
The G. Brint Ryan College of Business requires a 2.7 UNT Cumulative (all courses at UNT), a 2.7 in the major (professional and supporting field courses), and a 2.0 Overall (all transfer and UNT courses combined).
The official degree plan/audit is prepared in the G. Brint Ryan College of Business Undergraduate Advising Office. It is the official document that lists all courses completed, courses not completed, and all other requirements for the degree sought. A BUND degree audit is not an official degree plan. Students must meet all the pre-business requirements (see above), meet with their advisor in order to select their Professional and Supporting Field (major) in business and file for the corresponding official degree plan/audit.
Continuing students can run their on-line audit at any time from http://registrar.unt.edu/online-degree-audit. While not an official document, the online audit is a useful tool for planning and registration purposes. For more information visit How To Run & Read Your Online Degree Audit.
BUSI 4940 is the graduating capstone course for all BBA majors and some BS majors (see individual BS degree requirements). BUSI 4940 must be taken your graduating semester (last 19 hours). All Business foundations courses must be completed with a C or higher prior to enrolling in BUSI 4940, there are no exceptions. For more information see the BBA degree requirements.
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Impossible Foods, the company who created a plant-based burger that "bleeds," sizzles on the grill, and browns as you cook, is expanding their operations in a big way.
They're currently building a factory that, once fully ramped, will be able to produce 12m lbs of burgers a year (250x more than they do today), to help them expand from their current 11 restaurants to 1,000 by the end of the year.
Lofty goals, but when your mission is to curb people off of meat by providing a tasty replacement, achieving scale is your only chance of success.
As beleaguered vegan mayonnaise company Hampton Creek knows first hand, the real fight will probably come from Washington D.C.
Recently, it surfaced that industry-funded "checkoff programs" are often used illegally to undermine the competition (e.g. the US Egg Board trying to get Whole Foods to stop carrying Hampton Creek's products).
See, these "checkoff programs" work with various agricultural commodities to pool resources and collectively promote the industry.
Those are ads strictly for generic products, the idea being if the general demand for milk goes up, all dairy farmers will sell more product.
Kind of like if every barber in the country put in $0.25 per customer so that they can launch a national ad campaign telling people to get more haircuts.
And because cattlemen have to contribute $1 from every cow sold to the Beef Checkoff Program, it makes it much more difficult for meat alternative companies like Impossible Foods to get a seat at the table.


GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Genmab A/S (OMX: GEN) announced today top line results from the concluded pivotal trial of ofatumumab in patients with fludarabine and alemtuzumab refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).
Ofatumumab was given accelerated approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on October 26, 2009 for the treatment of patients with CLL who are refractory to fludarabine and alemtuzumab treatment based on the interim results from this trial in 59 patients. On April 19, 2010, the European Commission granted a conditional marketing authorization to Arzerra™ (ofatumumab) for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) in patients who are refractory to fludarabine and alemtuzumab.
A total of 95 patients with fludarabine and alemtuzumab refractory CLL were treated in the study. The objective response rate (ORR), as determine by an Independent Review Committee, in the study was 51%. In addition to the 95 patients in the efficacy analysis, the study also included 128 patients with relapsed or refractory CLL, who were not refractory to both fludarabine and alemtuzumab.
There were no unexpected safety findings reported with the total study population (n=223). The most common adverse reactions (=10%) occurring in patients treated with Arzerra were pyrexia(21%), anemia (18%), diarrhea (17%), neutropenia, fatigue (16%), dyspnea (15%), pneumonia (15%), chills (13%), rash (13%), nausea (13%), bronchitis (12%), peripheral edema (11%), back pain (10%) and upper respiratory tract infection (10%).
Results from this concluded pivotal trial are consistent with the efficacy and safety data reported in the interim analysis and demonstrate the activity of single-agent ofatumumab in patients with fludarabine and alemtuzumab-refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Ofatumumab is a human monoclonal antibody. Ofatumumab binds specifically to both the small and large extracellular loops of the CD-20 molecule. The CD20 molecule is expressed on normal B lymphocytes (pre-B- to mature B-lymphoctye) and on B-cell CLL. In vitro data suggest that possible mechanisms of cell lysis include complement-dependent cytotoxicity and antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity.
ARZERRA can cause serious infusion reactions manifesting as bronchospasm, dyspnea, laryngeal edema, pulmonary edema, flushing, hypertension, hypotension, syncope, cardiac ischemia/infarction, back pain, abdominal pain, pyrexia, rash, urticaria, and angioedema. Infusion reactions occur more frequently with the first 2 infusions. Premedicate with acetaminophen, an antihistamine, and a corticosteroid Interrupt infusion for infusion reactions of any severity. Institute medical management for severe infusion reactions including angina or other signs and symptoms of myocardial ischemia In a study of patients with moderate to severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, an indication for which ARZERRA is not approved, 2 of 5 patients developed Grade 3 bronchospasm during infusion. Infusion reactions occurred in 44% of patients on the day of the first infusion (300 mg), 29% on the day of the second infusion (2,000 mg), and less frequently during subsequent infusions.
Prolonged (=1 week) severe neutropenia and thrombocytopenia can occur with ARZERRA. Monitor complete blood counts (CBC) and platelet counts at regular intervals during therapy, and increase the frequency of monitoring in patients who develop Grade 3 or 4 cytopenias. Of 108 patients with normal neutrophil counts at baseline, 45 (42%) developed =Grade 3 neutropenia. Nineteen (18%) developed Grade 4 neutropenia. Some patients experienced new onset Grade 4 neutropenia >2 weeks in duration.
Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), including fatal PML, can occur with ARZERRA. Consider PML in any patient with new onset of or changes in pre-existing neurological signs or symptoms. Discontinue ARZERRA if PML is suspected, and initiate evaluation for PML including consultation with a neurologist, brain MRI, and lumbar puncture.
Hepatitis B reactivation, including fulminant hepatitis and death, occurs with other monoclonal antibodies directed against CD20. Screen patients at high risk of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection before initiation of ARZERRA. Closely monitor carriers of hepatitis B for clinical and laboratory signs of active HBV infection during treatment with ARZERRA and for 6 to 12 months following the last infusion of ARZERRA. Discontinue ARZERRA in patients who develop viral hepatitis or reactivation of viral hepatitis, and institute appropriate treatment. Insufficient data exist regarding the safety of administration of ARZERRA in patients with active hepatitis.
Obstruction of the small intestine can occur in patients receiving ARZERRA. Perform a diagnostic evaluation if obstruction is suspected.
The safety of immunization with live viral vaccines during or following administration of ARZERRA has not been studied. Do not administer live viral vaccines to patients who have recently received ARZERRA. The ability to generate an immune response to any vaccine following administration of ARZERRA has not been studied.
In patients who received an infusion of 2000 mg of ARZERRA, the most common serious adverse reactions were infections (including pneumonia and sepsis), neutropenia, and pyrexia.
A total of 108 patients (70%) experienced bacterial, viral, or fungal infections. A total of 45 patients (29%) experienced =Grade 3 infections, of which 19 (12%) were fatal. The proportion of fatal infections in the fludarabine- and alemtuzumab-refractory group was 17%.


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Home » Theatre » Festivals » The Thyme Of The Season: Even Better The Second Thyme Around (Planet Connections 2010)
The Thyme Of The Season: Even Better The Second Thyme Around (Planet Connections 2010)
by Stephen Tortora-Lee on June 13, 2010
I've always been a fan of A Midsummer Night's Dream because (like the other plays by this Shakespeare fellow) it is well written, but unlike Hamlet or Macbeth it's a comedy making fun of all the foibles of humanity . . . rather than a tragedy about the consequences of all the foibles of humanity. But did A Midsummer Night's Dream end happily-ever-after or did it just seem that way? That is the question that The Thyme of the Season (written and directed by Duncan Pflaster) seeks to answer, all the while utilizing lots of funny jokes and allusions to our changing attitudes in the last few centuries in order to do it.
Tania Jeudy as Pumpkinseed, Michelle Ramoni as Titania (Photo Credit: Nancy Keegan)
The Thyme of the Season picks up 3 months after A Midsummer Night's Dream left off. (If you're unfamiliar with The Bard's original work, here's a quick and funny wrap up of Thyme's "back-story"). Dream ends with everyone getting what they "want" and living happily ever after . . . at least by the standards of Medieval morality plays. Pflaster has taken this ending and, with a light sprinkling of modern thinking and imagination, come up with new misadventures for the couples (faerie as well as human) to struggle with - truly giving the audience something to think about in terms of what it means to be happy if you really become aware of who you are and who you would really want to be.
The Thyme of the Season does a good job of illustrating what happens when you think you have everything - but really have just the first few steps in the direction of self-discovery.
When we catch up with the old gang things are as crazy as ever:
The fairies – Oberon (Ryan G. Metzger), Titania (Michelle Ramoni), Puck (Clara Barton Green) and Pumpkinseed (Tania Jeudy) - have to find a soul to give as tithe to Hades or face being banished to Hell.
Helena (Kelly Nichols) and Hermia (Rebecca Hirota) run into Bottom (Eric C. Bailey) on the street and then don costumes to become a troupe of Pirates and a witch. Lysander (Shawn McLaughlin) is quite gay but wants to be true to his wife. Demetrius (Matt Falber) is easily confused, and Puck (Clara Barton Green) is always sleepy because a spell was cast on him. Titania and Oberon fight and bicker and scheme and get depressed and then everything works out. A new character rounds out the cast – Pumpkinseed (Tania Jeudy) who is defined as a newly hatched fairy whose fresh energy moves the plot forward as everyone struggles against their own archetypes.
Live musical accompaniment during the scene changes – composed and performed by Matt Applebaum – sets just the right tone for this play and makes for an enjoyable transition. (Viola and Horn on various nights played by Michelle O'Connor and Jesse Neuman).
Ultimately, The Thyme of the Season succeeds in what it sets out to do – it's a great, colorful and worthy successor to the "prequel". From the costumes (Mark Richard Caswell), to the clever dialogue which stays faithful to the period while still advocating modern ideals (without creating jarring anachronisms). While fans of Shakespeare will recognize a lot of themes, you don't necessarily have to be a fan of the original to thoroughly enjoy this tale . . . moniker of "sequel" aside, Thyme is well developed enough to stand on its own and is an enjoyable piece of theatre. Definitely make the thyme to see it.
(Click here for Duncan Pflasters Q&A with THM)
THE THYME OF THE SEASON
Produced by Cross-Eyed Bear Productions benefiting Planned Parenthood
Written and Directed by Duncan Pflaster
Live Music composed and performed by Matt Applebaum
Costumes by Mark Richard Caswell
Running time: 90 minutes, no intermission
Venue: The Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street
Performance dates:
Sat 6/5 @ 1:30pm
Sun 6/6 @ 7pm
Tues 6/8 @ 9pm
Fri 6/11 @ 5:30pm
Sun 6/13 @ 11:30am
Fri 6/18 @ 5pm
Sat 6/19 @ 7pm
Wed 6/23 @ 5:30pm
Purchase tickets here
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Vernon E. Soeken, 79, of Rock Island, passed away Tuesday, April 2, 2019 at UPH-Trinity, Rock Island.
Funeral service will be held at 2:00 PM on Saturday, April 6, 2019 at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Rock Island. Visitation will be from 4 pm to 7 pm on Friday, April 5, 2019 at Wheelan-Pressly Funeral Home and Crematory, 3030 7th Ave., Rock Island. Memorials may be made to Immanuel Lutheran Church, Rock Island.
Vernon was born on November 21, 1939 in Lyons, KS, the son of Edward and Mildred (Voight) Soeken. He married Karen Hadden on January 25, 1964 in Menlo Park, CA. He attended the Concordia Teacher's College, Seward, NE before getting his Master's in Education from Washburn University, Topeka, KS. Vernon was the Director of Christian Education/Principal at Immanuel Lutheran School, Rock Island. He will be remembered as the beloved giver of the best underdogs during recess. He enjoyed being outdoors, especially fishing and camping. Vernon was a member of the Chordbusters Barbershop Chorus, and enjoyed playing the accordion. He was an active member of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Rock Island.
Vernon is survived by his wife, Karen Soeken, Rock Island; children, Kevin (Amy Jo) Soeken, Moline, and Lori (Eric) Gittinger, Alton, IL; grandchildren, Taylor and Makenzie Soeken and Gracie Gittinger; step grandchildren, Niccole Wilson and Sarah Armstrong; and step great grandchildren, Grant, Paige, and Hanna Wilson, Makenna, Brady and Jaemeson Armstrong. Vernon was preceded in death by his parents.


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No. 7 Creighton routs St. John's 97-79 without Zegarowski
Jan. 9, 2021 at 11:09 am Updated Jan. 9, 2021 at 12:23 pm
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Creighton's high-scoring offense didn't skip a beat even without its biggest star.
Denzel Mahoney scored a season-high 24 points to lead six players in double figures with Marcus Zegarowski out of the lineup, and seventh-ranked Creighton pulled away early in a 97-79 victory over St. John's on Saturday.
"The first 22 possessions we scored 40 points maybe with some of the most unselfish, best offensive basketball I've seen in a long time," coach Greg McDermott said.
The Bluejays (10-2, 6-1) won their sixth consecutive Big East game in the same season for the first time since joining the conference in 2013 and swept the two-game season series with St. John's. The Red Storm (6-6, 1-5) dropped to 0-4 on the road.
Zegarowski, the Big East preseason player of the year and the Bluejays' season scoring leader, was held out because of a hamstring injury suffered in the first half of Wednesday's game against Seton Hall. Creighton is off until next Saturday.
"We just didn't want to push it, especially with the week off coming after this game, so we thought rest was probably the right thing to do," McDermott said. "This is athletics and sometimes guys get hurt and someone needs to step up."
Shereef Mitchell made his first start of the season and had 10 points, three rebounds and a steal to go with three assists against just one turnover in 22 minutes.
Mitchell said he was told a couple hours before the game that he would start.
"When your name is called," he said, "just be ready to show out and play, and I think I did a pretty good job of that today."
Creighton's balance overshadowed Julian Champagnie's career-high 33-point, 10-rebound performance for St. John's.
Duke transfer Alex O'Connell came off the bench to score a season-high 16 points for the Bluejays. Mitch Ballock added 14 points, Damien Jefferson had 11 and Christian Bishop had 10.
The Bluejays led 56-39 at halftime, their most points in a first half as a Big East member and most against any Division I opponent in three seasons.
The bulge ballooned to 22 points in the middle of the second half before St. John's went on a 16-5 spurt to get within 11 in the last four minutes. Mahoney and Ballock hit back-to-back 3s as the Bluejays outscored the Red Storm 10-3 to end a game in which they had a season-high 16 3-pointers.
Champagnie said the Red Storm need to get better defensively. They're last in the Big East in field-goal defense and second-to-last in defending the 3.
"We can't rely on our offense to beat teams," he said. "I feel like that's where we are right now."
St. John's: Outside of Champagnie, the Red Storm don't have the firepower to hang with Creighton. Their most lopsided losses of the season have come against the Bluejays.
Creighton: McDermott has built a team that can survive and even thrive without its best player. O'Connell, who hit three straight 3s in the first half as the Bluejays built their big lead, introduced himself to the Big East in a big way in his sixth game since becoming eligible.
STAT PACK
Creighton had assists on 24 of 37 baskets and eight players had at least two assists, with Jefferson, Ballock and Antwann Jones passing for four apiece. … Freshman 7-footer Ryan Kalkbrenner blocked four shots, and three of his four field goals were dunks. … Champagnie was 13 of 21 from the field, including 4 of 6 on 3-pointers. … Marcellus Earlington came off the bench for St. John's to score 13 points, double his average.
St. John's hosts Butler on Tuesday.
Creighton visits Butler on Saturday.
More AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/college-basketball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25


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With the latest in smart phones, tablets and wireless web access, staying connected has never been easier. The power of wireless computing and communications puts information and resources just a click away at home or at our favorite coffee shop.
But a new survey of Washington web surfers shows the freedom and convenience of wireless access may come at a cost. Nearly half of Washington Internet users failed a quiz about online and wireless safety, while many admit to engaging in activity on their mobile devices that could put them squarely in the sights of hackers looking to steal their personal information.
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Legislation sponsored by Assembly Democrats Valerie Vainieri Huttle, Troy Singleton and Daniel Benson to help protect the rights of students with disabilities was advanced by an Assembly panel on Thursday.
The bill (A-1103) would establish the Office of the Special Education Ombudsman in the Department of Education. The office would serve as a resource to provide confidential information and support to parents, students and educators regarding special education rights and services.
"Parents of students with disabilities often don't know where to turn when they have a question or concern about their child's education, and so they find it more difficult to advocate on their behalf," said Vainieri Huttle (D-Bergen). "Creating an office dedicated to informing and advising parents, students and school staff on special education issues will help ensure that New Jersey can execute its mission of providing all students with a quality education."
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"Addressing the special educational needs of a child with a disability often requires an understanding of specific rights, services and programs that can be complex and overwhelming for parents who simply want the best for their children," said Singleton (D-Burlington). "This bill will help ensure that students receive the proper accommodations and can make meaningful academic progress."
"Every student has the right to receive a free and appropriate education. For students with learning disabilities, this may entail the school providing an assistive technology device or a team crafting an individualized education program," said Benson (D-Mercer/Middlesex). "By providing parents and guardians with an easily accessible, confidential one-stop resource for advice and support, the Office of the Special Education Ombudsman will play an instrumental role in ensuring that students with disabilities gain the skills they need to reach their full potential."
Under the legislation, the commissioner of the Department of Education is to appoint "a person of recognized judgment, integrity and objectivity," who is skilled in communication and conflict resolution as the ombudsman.
In addition to the aforementioned duties, the bill directs the ombudsman to report to the New Jersey Board of Education and the commissioner of the Department of Education annually regarding services provided during the year and recommendations to improve special education procedures and services.
The measure was advanced by the Assembly Education Committee.