The 81-year-old didn't run rack in high school, but took it up via the West Sound Winter Games and has now won 62 national championships.
Who locally has been a professor and vice president at major universities, been a gold miner, worked for legendary actor Marlon Brando while living in Tahiti, and has 62 individual Masters national track and field championships?
Oh yeah, he also is 81.
It is Roger Vergin of Poulsbo, an adventurer who late in life found out he could do something he never would have imagined. Vergin is recognized as one of the premier USA Track and Field Masters athletes in the country. His picture was on the cover of the August issue of National Masters News.
What is amazing is that Vergin never got a chance to make an impression on the track and field team at Washington High School in Brainerd, Minn.
Disgruntled, he played golf the next two springs and became a two-time district champion.
Vergin has since shown that the rejection was a big mistake.
He had started running long distances in his mid-30s, but not to any great success.
He was basically an average long distance guy who would sometimes put in 100 miles of running a month. But when he started competing in senior games, he discovered he was not too shabby in the shorter distances and jumps and pretty quickly a masters star was born.
In his first West Sound Senior Games, Vergin won the 50, long jump and triple jump and placed third in the shot put in his age group (70-74) and he was off and running into history.
The last weekend of July, Vergin competed with Club Northwest in the USATF National Masters Championship at Eastern Washington University in the 80-84 age bracket. He won eight events – long jump, triple jump, pole vault, 200 hurdles, pentathlon and he was on three winning relays. He likely would have won the 80 hurdles, because he is ranked No. 1 in the country, but he was 15 minute late for entering it.
Vergin also took second in the 100 and high jump and third in the 200 and javelin. Of the 951 athletes who competed over the four days of the meet, he won the most national championships and medals. He now has won 17 national championships this year and 62 for his career in events like the decathlon, heptathlon, indoor pentathlon, outdoor pentathlon, 200, 400, 80 hurdles, 200 hurdles, 300 hurdles, long jump, triple jump, pole vault, and weight throw.
Vergin went on a different track in college. He went to the University of Minnesota and earned his BA in industrial engineering and business, then continued on to earn an MBA and a PhD in business administration, which would come in handy when he met up with Brando.
First, though, Vergin became a professor teaching business at California-Berkeley from 1963-'66 and then at the University of Washington from 1966-'71. He then went to Simon Fraser in Vancouver, B.C where except for one year he taught there until 1983.
He was introduced to Brando at a meeting and the two-time Oscar winner (1954 for "On the Waterfront" and 1972 for "The Godfather") asked him if he would come to work for him and rescue a resort venture he had started on the island of Tetiaroa just north of Tahiti's main island. Brando had purchased the island in 1968 and was trying to develop commercial businesses, including a lobster farm, on it. It was not working well, so Vergin agreed to become his business manager and see if he could turn it around.
Vergin and his family left the island (which today is a resort called "The Brando") after one year because one of his sons got ill and Brando insisted he take the boy to what is now the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. Vergin's wife did not want to go back to Tetiaroa, so he returned to Simon Fraser.
But it was so memorable that Vergin wrote a book about it – "Brando with His Guard Down" – that was published in 1997 and is still available through Amazon.
After leaving Simon Frazer, Vergin got into gold mining at Empire Mine in California.
The man who sold Vergin a percentage of the business was not entirely on the up and up and eventually Vergin wound up with the business.
"It provided a good income for a couple years," said Vergin, who left gold behind in 1990 to teach at the Great Valley campus of Penn State located just outside of Philadelphia, where he was the chair of the business department. He helped turn a struggling MBA program into, he said, "the largest graduate program in the entire university system with about double the number of students at the main Penn State campus at University Park.
After 10 years, later spent a year as vice president at Heald college in San Francisco, then was executive vice president and director of academics at the American College in Bryn Mawr, Penn., before retiring for good and moving to Poulsbo in 2005.
All during his long and winding professional journey, Vergin was running long distances and lifting weights and working out. It didn't dawn on him until he saw that T-shirt in the gym that he could compete as an older adult in competitive races, especially shorter ones that he discovered he was good at.
He has competed in 24 states and has the second-highest score in the world in the heptathlon and fifth-highest in the world in the indoor pentathlon.
Last year in the Washington State Senior Games, he won all eight events he entered – 50, 100, 200, 400, long jump, triple jump, high jump, and standing long jump – and set records in every one of them.
Does Vergin look back at his high school days and wonder what could have been if he had only been given the chance?
The journey for Vergin, who has wintered in Fort Myers, Fla. the past six winters, is far from over. He plans to continue on and make some more history.


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Music Bank () é um programa musical sul-coreano que vai ao ar todas as sextas-feiras às 17:00h KST na KBS2. A partir de 2015, o programa também foi transmitido em mais de cem países por meio da KBS World. Os episódios são filmados no KBS New Wing Open Hall em Yeouido-dong, Yeongdeungpo-gu. O programa também organiza a turnê global Music Bank World Tour.

História
Antes do Music Bank, Top 10 Songs (가요톱10) estreou em 1981, indo ao ar ao vivo às 18:30h (KST) nas sextas-feiras e foi ao ar até 1998. Nos primeiros meses de 1998, o programa Bravo New Generation tomou seu lugar, mas devido à baixa audiência, foi  rapidamente substituído pelo Music Bank em 18 de junho de 1998. O formato de gráfico usado desde o Top 10 Songs foi abandonado no final de 2001 devido à polêmica e foi alterado para um formato de solicitação.
Wonyoung do Iz*One e  Sunghoon do Enhypen são os apresentadores desde outubro de 2021.
Em 2005, o programa foi transferido para as tardes de domingo ao 12:45h (KST) e tornou-se uma transmissão gravada. Devido à queda na audiência, em setembro de 2007, o programa voltou ao seu horário original de noites de sexta-feira às 18:30h (KST) e voltou ao formato ao vivo. Os charts foram revividos como charts baseados em categorias.

Em janeiro de 2008, os charts baseados em categorias foram combinados no K-Chart, que é o chart de contagem regressiva familiar e o único programa a fazer isso. Em junho de 2008, o programa se estendeu para 70 minutos, indo ao ar das 18:30h (KST) às 19:40h (KST), tornando-o o mais longo programa de música no ar. Em novembro de 2008, como parte das mudanças de formato de outono, o programa começou a ser exibido das 18:40h (KST) às 20:00h (KST) por 80 minutos. Em maio de 2010, como parte das mudanças de formato da primavera, o programa começou a ir ao ar das 17:50h (KST) às 19:10h (KST) por 80 minutos.

Em 27 de agosto de 2010, o Music Bank começou a ser transmitido ao vivo para 54 países diferentes ao redor do mundo por meio da KBS World e incluiu novos recursos interativos para telespectadores internacionais por meio do Twitter.

Em 11 de novembro de 2011, como parte das mudanças de formato do outono, o programa começou a ser transmitido por 105 minutos, das 18:10h (KST) às 17:55h (KST), seguido pelo KBS News 6.

Em agosto de 2012, o canal de televisão a cabo Myx TV começou a transmitir a primeira versão dublada em inglês do Music Bank.

Desde 25 de outubro de 2013, o programa começou a ser exibido por 80 minutos das 18:30h (KST) às 19:50h (KST), seguindo o KBS Global 24, que foi transferido do KBS1 com efeito a partir de 21 de outubro de 2013.

Desde outubro de 2021, o programa é apresentado por Sunghoon do Enhypen e Wonyoung do Ive. Apresentadores anteriores incluem Song Hye-kyo, Rain, Ji Sung, Song Joong-ki, Uee, Yoon Bo-ra, Park Seo-joon, Irene, Park Bo-gum, Choi Bo-min e Shin Ye-eun, entre outros.

Apresentadores

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! Data
! Apresentadores
|-
| 1998
| Ryu Shi-won, Kim Ji-ho
|-
|rowspan='3'| 1999
| Ryu Shi-won, Hwang Yu-sun
|-
| Kim Seung-Hyun, Hwang Yu-sun
|-
| Ju Young-hun, Hwang Yu-sun
|-
|rowspan='3'| 2000
| Ju Young-hun, Kim Gyu-ri
|-
| Lee Hwi-jae, Song Hye-kyo
|-
| Lee Hwi-jae, Lee Na-young
|-
| 2001
| Lee Hwi-jae, Kim Bo-kyung
|-
| 8 de novembro de 2001 - 18 de abril de 2002
| Lee Hwi-jae, Gyu-ri Kim
|-
| 25 de abril - 24 de outubro de 2002
| Lee Hwi-jae, Kim Min-jung
|-
| 31 de outubro de 2002 - 30 de janeiro de 2003
| Rain, Shoo
|-
| 6 de fevereiro - 19 de junho de 2003
| Jun Jin, Shoo
|-
| 26 de junho de 2003 - 11 de junho de 2004
| Choi Jung-won, Park Jeong-Ah
|-
| 18 de junho - 5 de novembro de 2004
| Ji Sung, Park Eun-hye
|-
| 12 de novembro de 2004 - 29 de abril de 2005
| Nam Gung-min, So Ee-hyun
|-
| 8 de maio - 30 de outubro de 2005
| Ji Hyun-woo, Kim Bo-min
|-
| 6 de novembro de 2005 - 12 de março de 2006
| Kang Kyung-jun, Park Kyung-lim
|-
| 26 de março - 19 de novembro de 2006
| Kang Kyung-jun, Jang Hee-jin
|-
| 26 de novembro de 2006 - 1º de abril de 2007
| Ha-ha, Lee So-yeon
|-
| 8 de abril de 2007 - 1º de fevereiro de 2008
| Ha-ha, Lee Hyun-ji
|-
| 15 de fevereiro - 16 de maio de 2008
| Tablo, Kim Sung-eun
|-
| 23 de maio - 8 de agosto de 2008
| Tablo, Min Seo-hyun
|-
| 29 de agosto de 2008 - 9 de janeiro de 2009
| Yu Sae-yoon, Seo In-young
|-
| 16 de janeiro - 31 de julho de 2009
| Yu Sae-yoon, Park Eun-young
|-
| 7 de agosto de 2009 - 19 de novembro de 2010
| Song Joong-Ki, Seo Hyo-rim
|-
| 3 de dezembro de 2010 - 21 de outubro de 2011
| Hyun Woo, Kim Min-ji
|-
| 28 de outubro - 11 de novembro 2011
| Hyun Woo, UEE
|-
| 18 de novembro de 2011
| Tim, Sohee, Sunye
|-
| 25 de novembro de 2011
| Shindong, Sohee, Sunye
|-
| 2 de dezembro de 2011
| Minho, Sohee, Yeeun
|-
| 9 de dezembro de 2011
| Minho, Sohee, Yubin
|-
| 16 de dezembro de 2011
| Shindong, Sohee, Yubin
|-
| 23 de dezembro de 2011
| Jung Yong Hwa, Choi Siwon, Yoon Doo-joon, Jeon Hyun Mu
|-
| 6 de janeiro de 2012 - 29 de março de 2013
| Lee Jang-woo, UEE
|-
|5 de abril de 2013
|Lee Jang-woo, Kang Min-kyung
|-
|12 de abril - 4 de outubro de 2013
|Jeong Jinwoon, Park Se-young
|-
|6 de setembro de 2013
|Jo Kwon, Park Se-young
|-
|11 de outubro de 2013
|Seulong, Park Se-young
|-
|18 de outubro de 2013
|Jo Kwon
|-
|25 de outubro de 2014 - 24 de abril de 2015
|Park Seo-joon, Yoon Bora
|-
|1º de maio de 2015 - 24 de junho de 2016
|Park Bo-gum, Irene
|-
|4 de dezembro de 2015
|Park Bo-gum, V, Him-chan
|-
|1º de julho - 4 de novembro de 2016
|Kang Min-hyunk, Solbin
|-
|15 de julho de 2016
|Kang Min-hyuk, Solbin, Son Dong-woon
|-
|11 de novembro de 2016 - 11 de maio de 2018
|Lee Seo-won, Solbin
|-
|18 de maio de 2018
|Solbin, N (VIXX)
|-
|25 de maio de 2018
|Solbin, Son Dong-woon
|-
|1 de junho de 2018
|Solbin, Taemin (SHINee)
|-
|8 de junho de 2018
|Solbin, Jin (BTS)
|-
|15 de junho de 2018 - 28 de junho de 2019
|Kei, Choi Won-myung
|-
|5 de julho de 2019 - 17 de julho de 2020
|Shin Ye-eun, Choi Bo-min
|-
|24 de julho de 2020 - 1 de outubro de 2021
|Soobin (TXT), Arin (Oh My Girl)
|-
|8 de outubro de 2021 - Atualmente
|Sunghoon (Enhypen), Wonyoung (Iz*One)
|-

K-Chart

2018

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2019

2020

{| class="sortable wikitable"
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! Episódio
! Data
! Artista
! Canção
! Pontuação
|-
| 1.010
| 3 de Janeiro
| rowspan="2"|Red Velvet
| rowspan="2"|"Psycho"
| 7.465
|-
| 1.011
| 10 de Janeiro
| 6.649
|-
| 1.012
| 17 de Janeiro
| SF9
| "Good Guy"
| 5.185
|-
|
| 24 de Janeiro
| Red Velvet
| "Psycho"
| 4.594
|-
| 1.013
| 31 de Janeiro
| rowspan="2"|Zico
| rowspan="2"|"Any Song"
| 5.469
|-
| 1.014
| 7 de Fevereiro
| 4.490
|-
| 1.015
| 14 de Fevereiro
| GFriend
| "Crossroads"
| 4.888
|-
| 1.016
| 21 de Fevereiro
| Zico
| "Any Song"
| 4.006
|-
| 1.017
| 28 de Fevereiro
| rowspan="4"| BTS
| rowspan="4"| "On"
| 9.785
|-
| 1.018
| 6 de Março
| style='background: #ffebd2;| 11.957
|-
| 1.019
| 13 de Março
| 9.188
|-
| 1.020
| 20 de Março
| 5.696
|-
| 1.021
| 27 de Março
| NCT 127
| "Kick It"
| 6.915
|-
| 1.022
| 3 de Abril
| Kang Daniel
| "2U"
| 6.826
|-
| 1.023
| 10 de Abril
| Suho
| "Let's Love"
| 8.177
|-
| 1.024
| 17 de Abril
| (G)I-DLE
| "Oh My God"
| 5.831
|-
|-
| 1.025
| 24 de Abril
| Apink
| "Dumhdurum"
| 5.600
|-
| 1.026
| 01 de Maio
| GOT7
| "Not By The Moon"
| 7.308
|-
| 1.027
| 08 de Maio
| NCT DREAM
| "Ridin'"
| 9.123
|-
| 1.028
| 15 de Maio
| Oh My Girl
| "Nonstop"
| 5.922
|-
| 1.029
| 22 de Maio
| NU'EST
| "I'm In Trouble"
| 9.167
|-
| 1.030
| 29 de Maio
| NCT 127
| "Punch"
| 5.474
|-
| 1.031
| 05 de Junho
| Baekhyun
| "Candy"
| 8.236
|-
| 1.032
| 12 de Junho
| TWICE
| "More & More"
| 9.408
|-
| 1.033
| 19 de Junho
| TWICE
| "More & More"
| 4.791
|-
| 1.034
| 26 de Junho
| IZ*ONE
| "Secret Story of the Swan"
| 7.890
|-
| 1.035
| 03 de Julho
| Seventeen
| "Left & Right"
| 11.579
|-
| 1.036
| 10 de Julho
| Blackpink
| "How You Like That"
| 4.981
|-
| 1.037
| 17 de Julho
| Red Velvet (Irene & Seulgi
| "Monster"
| 6.467
|-
| 1.038
| 24 de Julho
| EXO-SC
| "1 Billion Views (ft. MOON)"
| 6.431
|-
| 1.039
| 31 de Julho
| Blackpink
| "How You Like That"
| 6.082
|-
| 1.040
| 07 de Agosto
| Hwasa
| "María"
| 3.889
|-
| 1.041
| 14 de Agosto
| Kang Daniel
| "Who U Are"
| 6.248
|-
| 1.042
| 21 de Agosto
| Hwasa
| "María"
| 3.498
|-
| 1.043
| 28 de Agosto
| ITZY
| "Not Shy"
| 6.843
|-
| 1.044
| 04 de Setembro
| rowspan="5"| BTS
| rowspan="5"| "Dynamite"
| 6.569
|-
| 1.045
| 11 de Setembro
| 7.454
|-
| 1.046
| 18 de Setembro
| 6.963
|-
| 1.047
| 25 de Setembro
| 7.099
|-
| 1.048
| 02 de Outubro
| 6.341
|-
| 1.049
| 09 de Outubro
| Blackpink
| "Lovesick Girls"
| 11.562
|-
| 1.050
| 16 de Outubro
| NCT U
| "Make A Wish"
| 7.876
|-
|-

Conquistas por artista
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Sistema de pontuação: digital music charts (60%), vendas de álbuns (15%), número de acessos na TV (15%), e viewers choice charts (10%)

Sistema de pontuação: digital music charts (60%), vendas de álbuns (10%), número de vezes transmitido na TV / rádio (20%), e viewers choice charts (10%)

Sistema de pontuação: digital music charts (65%), vendas de álbuns (5%), número de vezes transmitido apenas no canal da KBS (20%), e viewers choice charts'' (10%)

Ver também
 SBS Inkigayo
 Mnet M! Countdown
 MBC Show! Music Core
 MBC Music Show Champion
 SBS MTV The Show

Ligações externas

Programas da Korean Broadcasting System
Programas musicais da Coreia do Sul
Programas de variedades da Coreia do Sul
Programas de televisão da Coreia do Sul que estrearam em 1998
Programas de televisão em língua coreana

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Birkbeck Graduate Research School (BGRS)
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'Waiting Times' Wellcome Trust funded PhD Studentship available
'Waiting Times' Wellcome Trust funded PhD Studentship
The Department of Psychosocial Studies has announced a fully-funded three-year doctoral studentship to work on 'Waiting Times'. The project will be supervised by Dr. Lisa Baraitser and will begin in Autumn 2018.
About this 'Waiting Times' project
'Waiting Times' is funded by a Wellcome Trust Collaborative Research Award held by Dr. Lisa Baraitser (Birkbeck) and Professor Laura Salisbury (University of Exeter). Its remit is to investigate the relation between time and healthcare in the modern period. Spanning both Medical Humanities and Social Sciences, the project brings together and interdisciplinary team of eight researchers, to investigate waiting as a cultural and psychosocial concept, and an embodied and historical experience, in order to understand the temporalities of healthcare in the current climate of 'crisis' in the health service.
Under supervision, the successful candidate will devise and undertake a qualitative investigation of 'watchful waiting' as used by general practitioners as a practice of care. Data collection will take place across two GP practices in Hackney, London and Silverton, Devon.
Applications will be considered from candidates with an interest in qualitative research in health and social contexts, where an interest in issues of time and temporality can be demonstrated. All academic disciplines/backgrounds are eligible.
The studentship will consist of a fee waiver up to the value of the full-time home/EU rate for MPhil/PhD degrees, plus a studentship stipend based on current Wellcome Trust rates.
To apply, prospective students are strongly advised to make informal contact with Dr. Lisa Baraitser (l.baraitser@bbk.ac.uk) prior to the deadline.
They should then send the completed Wellcome Studentship Application Form to l.baraitser@bbk.ac.uk with an expression of interest (no more than 1000 words) and a CV. The successful candidate will then be asked to apply for a full-time place on the MPhil/PhD in the Department of Psychosocial Studies.
Deadline for applications: February 12th, 2018
Interview date: Tuesday 27th February 2018
Further information about the Waiting Times project are available here.
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Brief profiles of two MRC-funded Doctoral Training Programme students
Evgenia Markova and Laura Pokorny are PhD students who joined the UCL-Birkbeck MRC funded Doctoral Training Programme in Autumn 2016. PhD students on this programme complete rotation projects in year 1 before choosing and developing their PhD project. Both Evgenia and Laura are looking forward to increasing opportunities to engage with new intakes of students.
This post is part of a series about Doctoral Training Programmes which offer funded PhD studentships at Birkbeck. Many thanks to Laura and Evgenia for taking part.
Evgenia Markova
I obtained a BSc in Genetics from the University of York and during the course of my degree I completed summer internships in the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and in Genika, a genetic medico-diagnostic laboratory. It was at this point that I started considering a career in science, as I was surrounded by experts in their respective fields who warmly welcomed me into their research environment. I also completed a year-long placement in a biotechnology company, Heptares Therapeutics, where I discovered a passion for biochemistry and structural biology, which ultimately determined my choice of a PhD topic.
Rotation Projects (Year 1)
'My choice of PhD project emerged through engagement with rotation projects which took my research in novel directions. This flexibility to develop and mould the final project has been a great opportunity.'
Rotation 1: My first rotation project 'Structural elucidation of a component of the COPII secretion system' was with Dr. Giulia Zanetti (ISMB, Birkbeck) where I encountered electron microscopy for the first time and obtained preliminary structural information on a component of the COPII secretion system.
Rotation 2: My second rotation 'Age-dependent neuroinflammation in the brain of a Wnt signaling pathway mutant' was with Dr. Patricia Salinas at the MRC LMCB and utilised immunofluorescence to study the time-dependent brain inflammation profile of a Wnt signalling pathway-defective mouse model.
Rotation 3: Finally, I spent my third rotation 'Single-molecule fluorescence investigation of the COPII coat assembly' in Dr. Alan Lowe's lab in (ISMB, Birkbeck) where I studied the dynamics of an endoplasmic reticulum membrane model as remodelled by purified COPII proteins.
'The ISMB has excellent facilities which provide access to structural biology and cryo-EM. It has been easy to move between facilities at Birkbeck and UCL as part of the jointly run ISMB.'
PhD Project: The Kinetics and Assembly of the COPII Secretion System (Year 2 onwards)
The intracellular trafficking of biomolecules is an essential property of eukaryotic systems. The COPII vesicular transport system is responsible for anterograde intracellular transport processes at the ER membrane, where COPII component-lined vesicles incorporate protein and lipid cargoes. My project aims to investigate the mechanisms of COPII budding and coat assembly, which are currently poorly characterised. I will study COPII assembly and dissociation using an established membrane model,
Giant Unilamellar Vesicles, a common membrane model, as visualised through the incorporation of a fluorescent lipid into the mixture used for their formation.
Giant Unilamellar Vesicles (GUVs), and the mammalian COPII proteins, as expressed and purified from insect cell culture. I will utilise cryo-electron microscopy and single-molecule fluorescence in the study of the COPII coat assembly through in vitro reconstitution. My PhD supervisor is Dr Giulia Zanetti, ISMB, Birkbeck.
I studied for an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at the University of York. In the summer between my second and third year I carried out a 2 month research placement in Paul Pryor's lab at the Centre for Immunology and Infection at the University of York, where I was identifying chlamydial effector proteins involved in disrupting the trafficking of the bacterium to the host lysosome. I really loved working in a research setting and this was when I realised I wanted to do a PhD and pursue a career in research.
Rotation 1: My first rotation 'Manipulation of Nuclear Function by Chlamydia trachomatis' was in Dr Richard Hayward's lab (ISMB, Birkbeck). Previous research in the Hayward lab had identified alterations in nuclear architecture during infection by C. trachomatis. Namely, the nuclear shape becomes distorted in infected cells, lamin A/C is decreased at the inclusion distal face of the nucleus, and there was a degradation of nucleoporins at the inclusion proximal face of the nucleus. I confirmed these findings by aiming to understand the mechanism underlying the lamin A/C decrease.
Chlamydial inclusions (green) and lamin A/C on the nucleus (red) of inclusions which are 48 hours post infection.
Caspase 6 is a candidate for the degredation of lamin A/C due to the fact that lamin A/C is degraded by caspase 6 during apoptosis. By treating infected cells with a drug which inhibits caspase 6, I was able to block the lamin A/C decrease in infected cells. This was shown by confocal microscopy and by western blot.
Rotation 2: My second rotation 'A novel mechanism of targeting and transport of a P. falciparum protein down the secretory pathway' was in Dr Andrew Osborne's lab (ISMB, UCL). The mechanism leading to protein transport, and in particular trans-membrane protein transport, in P. falciparum is not completely understood. Proteins destined for export must cross many membranes of the parasite before entering the host cell. Models have proposed whereby TM proteins are extracted from membranes at various stages of the secretory pathways and trafficked via chaperones (Papakrivos, Newbold and Lingelbach., 2005; Kneupfer et al., 2005; Gruring et al., 2012). However, the concept of pulling proteins out of membranes during protein export is unsupported outside the Plasmodium field. Recent work in the Osborne lab and others has provided evidence that the PNEP protein Pf332, which has a single TM domain, behaves in line with this extraction model. I used yeast as a model organism and showed that, when Pf332 is expressed in yeast, there is a subset of soluble protein. This suggests that the machinery needed to pull the protein out the membranes is conserved in eukaryotes. In this rotation I used techniques including western blotting, parasite culturing, cloning, and florescence microscopy.
Rotation 3: In my third rotation 'Single-molecule studies of the molecular mechanisms of the nuclear pore complex during C. trachomatis infection' in Dr Alan Lowe's lab (ISMB, UCL) I used super-resolution microscopy to gain images of the nucleoporin degradation seen in my first rotation, and to learn more about the kinetics of importin-beta transport in the nucleus during infection. I used the technique of photoactivated localization microscopy (PALM). In short, PALM imaging uses the principle of stochastically activating, imaging and photobleaching photoswitchable fluorescent proteins in order to temporally separate closely spaced molecules (Betzig et al., 2006). The resolution achieved in PALM imaging is over an order of magnitude higher than the diffraction limit of light. By transfecting infected cells with importin-B (nuclear transport receptor) tagged to a photoswitchable fluorescent protein and imaging by PALM, we could gain a much higher resolution picture of the organisation of the nuclear pores, and could follow the kinetics of transport via single-particle tracking.
'Working within the ISMB environment has been a great way to find out more about the work of other PhD students and staff through weekly presentations during term time known as Friday Wraps'
PhD project: Studying Vaccinia virus fusion using a minimal model system (Year 2 onwards)
Vaccinia virus (VACV) is the prototypical Poxvirus. Poxviruses enter cells by acid mediated fusion, using the most complicated virus fusion machinery identified. Whilst genetics indicates that poxvirus fusion relies on 12 viral proteins, to date the organisation of this machinery, its mechanism of fusion, its fusion peptide, and the structural and molecular details of poxvirus fusion remain a mystery. Therefore to address this lack in our knowledge, I aim to develop a new minimal model system to study VACV entry and fusion. This system will be amenable to super-resolution imaging studies allowing us an unprecedented view into the biological requirements of viral entry. My PhD supervisor is Dr Jason Mercer LMCB.
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New AHRC CHASE Training Opportunities
The following training opportunities are available to all Arts and Humanities research students at Birkbeck.
Thought and Image: Processes of Reciprocity
Friday 2 February 2018 | Goldsmiths, University of London
The process by which an idea becomes an image and an image an idea is by no means straight forward, nonetheless this alchemy is the key task Audio Visual PhD students must perform. We are happy to announce this programme of Master Classes with leading artists who will talk about the generation of ideas and artworks in their current practice. By taking advantage of the collaborative nature of this venture between Goldsmiths, LUX and Birkbeck we will present a wide variety of subjects and approaches from both UK and internationally based artists.
The first event features Alia Syed, a London and Glasgow based filmmaker who has been making experimental films for over 25 years.
Find out more and apply
Researching Popular Music: Methods, Debates, Publics
Friday 2 – Saturday 3 March 2018 | Goldsmiths, University of London
Students are investigating music-making communities, musical-cultural identities and histories, modes of musical production and dissemination, theories of sound and sonic practice, and other musical topics. What ties almost all of these projects together is some idea of the popular: of music's publics, and its modes of everyday musical participation. But the popular music studies canon cannot always provide methodological models for what is a set of highly innovative PhD studies. To address this, Researching Popular Music will bring together students across the CHASE institutions to present and discuss their work, both with each other, and with invited speakers working at the forefront of music and sound studies.
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From an email's distance, Jeff Catalano and his dealership High Water Sound seemed an enigmatic business, selling esoteric hi-fi from a downtown NYC loft. So, I was a little intimidated to visit his room. To my surprise, Catalano is as non-elusive as you can get, beaming with joy about hi-fi and music and even wearing a Triumph shirt(!), the true sign of an everyman. Catalano is committed to selling gear that brings the most emotion out the music.
The first record I put on his TW Acustic Raven Black Night turntable ($40,000) was Egberto Gismonti's Sol a Meio Dia, which instantly caught everyone's attention with its varied instrumentation and rich dynamics. Through the Cessaro Affascinate I SE loudspeakers ($62,000/pair) pumped with life by Tron amplification that rested silently on SRA stands, Ralph Towner's guitar came off across with a little too much body, but his and Gismonti's guitar pinpointed into the corners of the room from left to right and the discordant woodwind bursts were breathy and palpable without edge.
This system's ability to reproduce low bass while still extending to higher frequencies without strain led me to put on Teddy Pendergrass's "Love T.K.O." again hoping to make audiophiles swoon. This system, again with its stable imaging, brought out the thick chorus of background harmonies in the back right, highlighting each individual voice as part of a larger force of sweet sound.
The gorgeous Cessaro Affascinate I SE loudspeaker enclosures and horn are made of birch plywood and finished with a rare Zyricote finish. At 100db sensitivity, these speakers accurately reproduced the Native American woodwinds and horn instruments from Los Jaivas' Alturas de Machu Picchu and gave this recording an honest re-representation of the new heights Los Jaivas were trying to achieve: a resuscitation of the glory and wonder that was Machu Picchu.
...Sol Do Meio Dia in years. What a great album. Gismonti's Dança Das Cabeças is one of my favorites.
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This wonderful image of an African bush elephant or African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) was published in the British daily newspaper The Times on 3 January 2019. The UK Times featured this photograph of a Kariega elephant taken by talented photographer and field guide Brendon Jennings. Brendon has been a guide at our malaria-free South African safari reserve for many years, and managed to get closer than most to photograph this African elephant bull.
Elephants are largest the world's terrestrial mammals and belong to the family Elephantidae. There are three species of elephants: African bush elephants, African forest elephants and Asian elephants. The largest of these is the African bush or savannah elephant which are regularly seen by guests on safari at Kariega Game Reserve.
The African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) is only found in the Congo Basin and the endangered Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) is found in very few locations, including small areas in India, Sumatra, Borneo and Sri Lanka.
Both species of African elephant are listed as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The Asian elephant is classed as endangered. According to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), there are less than 400,000 elephants left in Africa. This number has dropped dramatically in less than 100 years due to poaching and conflict for land. In 2016, the IUCN reported that Africa's elephant population had seen its worst decline in 25 years, mostly as the result of intensified poaching for ivory.
The tusks of an elephant are their elongated and continuously growing front teeth or second incisors. African elephants start growing tusks when they are about 6-12 months old and they continue to grow at a rate of about 15 centimeters (6 inches) per year. The tusks of an African elephant grow outwards on both males and females.
African elephant tusks have many uses including moving trees and branches, marking trees, protecting their trunks, stripping bark, digging for roots and water. Bull elephants also use their trunks to attack and defend when fighting for territory or females. It is wonderful to watch a herd of African savannah elephants browse and graze for food on the African plains while on safari at Kariega.
Elephant tusks can reach over two meters (6.5 feet) and can weigh over 50 kilograms (110 pounds) each.
Elephants can be right or left-tusked, just like humans are right or left-handed. The preferred tusk is known as the master tusk and is usually slightly shorter, rounded at the tip and more worn down.
One of the biggest threats to African elephant populations is the illegal ivory trade, as the animals are poached for their tusks. Despite recent moves to close it down, the United States of America (USA) still has the second largest domestic ivory market behind China. Hong Kong remains the world's largest market for ivory.
An elephant's trunk is a wonderfully versatile tool that is used for breathing, smelling, touching, grasping, and making sounds. While on a Kariega safari we hope that you saw (or will see) elephants using their trunks to eat and smell. You may not get as close as Brendon did when he photographed the Kariega elephant smelling his camera!
Read one of our most popular blogs about five interesting facts about elephant's trunks.
We have a number of talented guides and photographers at Kariega Game Reserve. A photograph of two elephant with their trunks locked in an embrace was also featured in the Australian Daily Mail. See the photograph here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-2995763/Elephants-lock-trunks-affectionate-display-Kariega-Game-Reserve-South-Africa.html.
We would love to see your Kariega elephant photographs and videos. Please share them with us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.


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You may remember Wale's "Groundhog Day", released back in December, which served as a response to J. Cole's "False Prophets". The MMG rapper decided to take the track and create an extended spoken word version.
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Nashville Angels: Nashai leverages China ties and consumer health interest
CROM CARMICHAEL's Nashville business network led to his taking a minority stake in Nashai Biotech. It's the only one of his dozens of Angel portfolio investments that has a cross-border footprint.
Though he recently told VNC he'll be exiting "7 to 10" of his many portfolio investments by 2016, Carmichael said he has no plans to exit Nashai.
In the U.S., Nashai markets direct to consumers its TeaFlavin brand tea extract in softgel capsule form, as a dietary supplement for reducing cholesterol. The product is known as Choleve® when marketed for incorporation into functional foods and drinks.
Nashai was founded in Nashville in 2001 and subsequently established an office in Shanghai. The company's name was created using syllables from "Nashville" and "Shanghai."
In 2002, Nashai obtained both the first health-food license granted by the Chinese government, and the first Chinese license issued for the use of theaflavins active ingredients from tea, according to its website. Its theaflavins-blending processes are protected by China and U.S. patents, and it has patents pending elsewhere.
Such cross-border businesses don't merely pop-up spontaneously. They're often a result of entrepreneurs tapping layers of personal networks.
Now age 65, Carmichael's dozens of Angel investments and family ties to local businesses and to Vanderbilt University probably helped to ensure he'd hear early-on of the idea that would become Nashai.
Here's how it worked, this time: China native and now Irvine, California resident Jian Zhao is Nashai's founder, majority owner and chief financial officer.
Earlier in his career, Zhao was among investigators collaborating with long-time Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Prof. David J. Maron, M.D., on research into possible cardiovascular benefits of theaflavins. Carmichael said Maron is not an investor in Nashai.
The potential significance of that research on theaflavins came to the attention of Mike Hassell, then associated with the erstwhile Chancellor's Fund at Vanderbilt University and more recently co-founder the chief investment officer for Conduit Corporation, a local seed investor and business incubator that got some of its early impetus from the Chancellor's fund.
Hassell, who was also previously an executive with Carmichael's Knowledge Products publishing company, soon enlisted Carmichael and others in a $500,000 capital raise to raise approximately $500,000 to underwrite work needed to gain regulatory approval for its theaflavins-based offerings in China.
It has six employees and generates "nice sales and reasonable profits" in the U.S. by selling its TeaFlavin® branded extract of green tea to consumers online; and, via its key contract with its only B2B customer, retailer Amway, Carmichael told VNC.
With Nashai's 13th corporate birthday approaching, the company recently mandated a broker to help forge new relationships with U.S. makers of food bars and other products, which could lead to inclusion of Choleve into functional foods and beverages, Carmichael told VNC.
Meanwhile, in China, Nashai continues to pursue regulatory approvals need there prior to commercialization. It hopes to receive government approvals during 1H 2014, after which it would recruit a China bottler and begin marketing a beverage containing Choleve, he said.
Nashai buys fresh green tea from China growers; and, relies on Century Bio-pharmaceutical Co. in Wuxi to blend and package raw materials into Choleve capsules. Choleve is a blend of tea extracts enriched by theaflavins. Wuxi is about a three-hour drive from Shanghai.
Nashai has self-affirmed that Choleve is Generally Regarded as Safe (GRAS), an assertion it made in keeping with U.S. regulation, following review of related research and toxicology reports by an independent panel assembled by industry specialist Cantox, according to Nashai's website.
Though Carmichael currently has no other investments in companies with off-shore offices, he is an investor in Nashville-based TrackPoint Systems.
TrackPoint solutions enables customers with trucking operations in the U.S. and in other nations to track the locations of their trailers, using GPS-enabled systems, said Carmichael. More on his portfolio here. V
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With the help of block diagram explain DES?
Issued in 1977 by the National Bureau of Standards (now NIST) as Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 46
Was the most widely used encryption scheme until the introduction of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) in 2001
Algorithm itself is referred to as the Data Encryption Algorithm (DEA)
Data are encrypted in 64-bit blocks using a 56-bit key
The algorithm transforms 64-bit input in a series of steps into a 64-bit output
The same steps, with the same key, are used to reverse the encryption
there are two inputs to the encryption function: the plaintext to be encrypted and the key. In this case, the plaintext must be 64 bits in length and the key is 56 bits in length.
The processing of the plaintext proceeds in three phases.
First, the 64-bit plaintext passes through an initial permutation (IP) that rearranges the bits.
This is followed by a phase consisting of sixteen rounds of the same function, which involves both permutation and substitution functions. The output of the last (sixteenth) round consists of 64 bits that are a function of the input plaintext and the key. The left and right halves of the output are swapped to produce the preoutput.
Finally, the preoutput is passed through a final permutation [IP -1 ] that is the inverse of the initial permutation function, to produce the 64-bit ciphertext.
With the exception of the initial and final permutations, DES has the exact structure of a Feistel cipher.
The right-hand portion of Figure shows the way in which the 56-bit key is used. Initially, the key is passed through a permutation function. Then, for each of the sixteen rounds, a subkey(Ki ) is produced by the combination of a left circular shift and a permutation. The permutation function is the same for each round, but a different subkey is produced because of the repeated shifts of the key bits.
As in Feistel cipher, decryption uses the same algorithm as encryption, except that the application of the subkeys is reversed. Additionally, the initial and final permutations are reversed.
Explain RSA algorithm with example ?
Draw the block diagram of Cipher block chaining mode(CBC) in Block ciphers. Give one of its advantage compared to Electronic code book(ECB)?
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Mazār-i-Sharīf (Dari and Pashto: مزار شریف; [mæˈzɒːre ʃæˈriːf]), also called Mazār-e Sharīf, or just Mazar, is the fourth-largest city of Afghanistan, with a 2015 UN–Habitat population estimate 427,600.[2] It is the capital of Balkh province and is linked by highways with Kunduz in the east, Kabul in the southeast, Herat in the southwest and Termez in Uzbekistan in the north. It is about 55 km (34 mi) from the Uzbek border. The city also serves as one of the many tourist attractions because of its famous shrines as well as the Islamic and Hellenistic archeological sites. The ancient city of Balkh is also nearby.
The name Mazar-i-Sharif means "Tomb of the Prince", a reference to the large, blue-tiled sanctuary and mosque in the center of the city known as the Shrine of Ali or the Blue Mosque. Some people believe that the tomb of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, is at this mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif, after Ali's remains were transferred to Mazar-i-Sharif as per request of Ja'far as-Sadiq.[citation needed] This is however rejected by other Muslims, as the majority believe he is buried in Najaf, Iraq.
The region around Mazar-i-Sharif has been historically part of Greater Khorasan and was controlled by the Tahirids followed by the Saffarids, Samanids, Ghaznavids, Ghurids, Ilkhanates, Timurids, and Khanate of Bukhara until the mid-18th century when it became part of the Durrani Empire after a friendship treaty was signed between emirs Murad Beg and Ahmad Shah Durrani. Mazar-i-Sharif is also known for the famous Afghan song Bia ke berem ba Mazar (Come let's go to Mazar) by Sarban.[3]
Mazar-i-Sharif is the regional hub of northern Afghanistan, located in close proximity to both Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. It is also home to an international airport. It has the highest percentage of built-up land (91%)[4] of all the Afghan provincial capitals, and it has additional built-up area extending beyond the municipal boundary but forming a part of the larger urban area. It is also the lowest-lying major city in the country, about 357 metres (1,171 ft) above sea level. The city was spared of the devastation that occurred in the country's other large cities during the Soviet–Afghan War and subsequent civil war, and is today regarded one of the safest cities in the country.[5]
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Thesis Title: Modelling flow and mixing in the proximal small intestine.
The small intestine is the primary site of enzymatic digestion and nutrient absorption in humans. Intestinal contractions facilitate digesta mixing, transport and contact with the absorptive surfaces. Motility patterns consist of two types of contractions when the intestine is filled with digesta: longitudinal (peristaltic) contractions that propel digesta towards the colon and segmentation contractions that mix the digesta. The role of the different motility patterns in the mixing and emptying of food contents remains poorly understood. In addition, the effect of digesta rheology on flow is also not well understood. Existing computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models of small intestinal mobility use artificial and simplistic geometries and mechanical contractions (boundary condition) for the fluid simulations. This thesis will develop new CFD simulations that will be based on realistic anatomical geometry and mechanical contractions derived from electrophysiological recordings. Such models can be used to facilitate the design of "functional foods" for targeted delivery of nutrients and/or treatment of diseases and to provide an improved understanding of intestinal flow.


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Cassatt, Ascential team up
By David Perera
"5 tips for better business cases"
"Know your data"
Silicon Valley start-up company Cassatt and data integrator Ascential announced plans to offer a combined package of software for enterprise data management.
"Information sharing has to be scalable," said Mark Forman, Cassatt executive vice president and former Office of Management and Budget administrator for e-government and information technology.
Cassatt software allows a large number of commodity IT servers to focus on data storage and network needs. The recent computing trend favors a network of Linux-based commodity servers rather than single high-priced hardware systems, Forman added. "Wall Street overnight moved from Solaris and Unix to Linux," he said while making a presentation in Washington, D.C., Feb. 17.
Software-enabled grid computing allows customers to take advantage of better data management solutions, Ascential officials said. The company creates software for the automatic or manual association of data elements based on probabilistic match technology originating from the Census Bureau, said Bill Smith, Ascential's federal division director.
The companies develop and sell their software independently, but it's just a matter of time until they more closely integrate their applications, Smith added.
The partnership is not a merger, and Forman said he has no plans to return to Washington.
David Perera is a special contributor to Defense Systems.


Students competed in wrestling, hockey, bowling and boys basketball.
Monroe County: Greece Olympia at Honeoye Falls-Lima, Irondequoit at Webster Thomas, 7:15 p.m. Webster Schroeder at Fairport, Spencerport at Gates Chili, 7:30 p.m. Greece Odyssey at Batavia, Penfield at Hilton, 7:45 p.m.
RCAC: Edison at Monroe, 5:45 p.m. East at Leadership, 6:15 p.m.
Livingston County: Warsaw at Pavilion, 7 p.m.
Finger Lakes: Honeoye at Marcus Whitman, Mynderse at Waterloo, 7:30 p.m.
Non-league: Wayne vs. Bishop Shanahan at Orlando Convention Center, 2 p.m. Lima Christian at Mount Morris, 5:30 p.m. Pembroke at Akron, 6 p.m. Wilson at Greece Athena, 6:45 p.m.
Monroe County: Hilton at Penfield, 7 p.m. Churchville-Chili at Spencerport, 7:15 p.m. Brighton at Eastridge, Brockport at Greece Arcadia, Batavia at Greece Odyssey, Honeoye Falls-Lima at Greece Olympia, Webster Thomas at Irondequoit, Fairport at Webster Schroeder, 7:30 p.m.
RCAC: Rochester Prep vs. School of the Arts at School No. 33, 6 p.m.
Genesee: Alexander at Byron-Bergen, Pembroke at Holley, Batavia-Notre Dame at Kendall, Wheatland-Chili at Lyndonville, Attica at Oakfield-Alabama, 7 p.m.
Finger Lakes: Honeoye at Marcus Whitman, Dundee at South Seneca, Mynderse Academy at Waterloo, 6 p.m. Naples at Bloomfield, Harley-Allendale Columbia at Romulus, Newark at Wayne, 7:30 p.m.
Wayne County: Red Creek at Marion, 6 p.m. Clyde-Savannah at Gananda, 7 p.m. North Rose-Wolcott at Sodus, 7:30 p.m.
Non-league: LeRoy at Elba, 6:30 p.m.
Monroe County: Webster Schroeder vs. Penfield at AMF Empire Lanes, Greece Athena vs. Brockport at Brockport Bowl, Gates Chili vs. Hilton at Pleasure Lanes, 3:45 p.m.
Monroe County: Canandaigua at Victor, 4:30 p.m.
Non-league: World of Inquiry at Eastridge, Greece Arcadia, Greece Athena, Greece Odyssey, McQuaid at Greece Olympia, 4:30 p.m.
Non-league: Batavia-Notre Dame vs. Webster Thomas at Falletti Ice Arena, 6 p.m. Brighton, East Rochester, Honeoye Falls-Lima vs. Aquinas at Lakeshore Hockey Arena, 7 p.m. Brockport vs. Geneseo at SUNY Geneseo Ice Rink, 7:15 p.m.


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A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 1.4 per person, per night for adults; EUR 0.7 per night for guests aged 12-17 years old. This tax does not apply to children under 12 years of age.
Amazing service! We showed up WAY early and only expecting to be able to drop our bags off, we we're surprised to be able to actually check into our room! The staff was extremely friendly, provided us will all the information needed to enjoy our short trip to the city and even provided us a ride to the airport!
Great stay with a wonderful host. Easy to find and sitting on the steps with a bottle of wine made us feel like locals.
A very clean bright and cheerful apartment with a small fridge. The alley is fairly steep with quite a number of steps, and then more into the building, but the apartment is situated in one of the quieter sections of the Old Town which can be very crowded and noisy. It is extremely convenient for restaurants and all the main sights. Check-out time was 10 a.m. but we were able to leave our luggage which was very helpful. We also appreciated the phone call saying they had found our car keys and would keep them safe until we returned later in the day.
We loved our stay at Apartments Kerigma and felt like locals (and a bit like the Game of Thrones cast)! The apartment is a studio flat but very spacious and charming with rustic details. All necessary amenities were included and the host was extremely kind and helpful. One thing to note is that parking is ultimately non-existent in the Old Town, so we parked on the street in a neighbouring town and got a cheap Uber back to the Old Town. I would highly recommend doing this unless you want to pay 10 euros per hour in public parking in Dubrovnik!
Give the bed a mass!
Really nice room, very clean and functional. However let down by no cups or glasses (despite there being a kettle) these were supplied on request. Biggest issue was very poor bed which basically kept colopasing.


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Irrigation Scheduling with the Neutron Probe
In 1981, the Imperial Irrigation District in cooperation with the United States Bureau of Reclamation started a demonstration irrigation scheduling program on 15,000 acres (6,075 ha)....
Optimization of Irrigation Distribution System Operation
The initial phases of the Federal Central Arizona Project (CAP) are nearing completion and in the latter part of this year the long-awaited delivery of Colorado River water will become...
Water Losses from an Irrigation Canal-Ditch-Dugout System
The general limitations of and requirements for accurate determination of water losses from an irrigation distribution system have been identified. A hydrologic water balance technique...
Foreshore Treatment as a Method of Coastal Protection
This paper describes the damages sustained by a small section of the Vancouver, British Columbia coastline during the passage of a storm in December, 1982. This stretch of protected coastline...
Feasibility Assessment, Planning and Programming of Downtown People Mover Installations
Based on the author's personal experience, this paper sets forth suggested guidelines for progressing from initial feasibility studies through implementation of automated...
How Will People Movers Affect Downtown Areas?
The year 1980 was a pivotal one for the downtown automated people mover development process in both Detroit and Miami. In that year both cities completed their preliminary engineering/environmental...
Planning-Miami Downtown People Mover
This paper presents the Miami Downtown People Mover Story, now officially called METROMOVER. METROMOVER is a fixed, elevated, fully automated people mover, which was developed as a feeder-distributor...
The Planning of an Automated Rapid Transit System in Vancouver
BC Transit is building a 13 mile (22 km) rapid transit line in Vancouver that incorporates Heavy Rapid Transit, Light Rapid Transit and Automated People Mover concepts. The bus sized lightweight...
Status of Tampa's Downtown People Mover
There are currently three People Mover Systems either in the planning stage, construction stage, or operational stage in Tampa. Tampa International Airport has had a Westinghouse Shuttle...
Lille DPM System & VAL Family
This document provides a brief description of the different steps from the beginning to the total completion of the Lille downtown people mover (DPM) program in France. The system performance...
Iterative Design and Evaluation of APM Alternatives
This paper addresses the wide range of cost, performance, and impact criteria which are important in the assessment of automated people-movers in major activity centers. Utilizing a detailed...
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City of Pittsburgh Horizontal Elevator Experience: A Unique Application
The City of Pittsburgh is developing a unique and innovative application of horizontal elevator technology for use as downtown people-movers. The paper reviews the horizontal elevator...
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An overview of the fifteen stations in the first phase of Vancouver's new automated light rail transit system is provided. Decisions related to station locations and types,...
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TBILISI, Sep 8 2014 (IPS) - Georgia's LGBT community is sceptical that recently-introduced anti-discrimination legislation hailed by some rights groups as a bold step forward for the former Soviet state will improve their lives any time soon.
The law, which came into effect in May this year, is ostensibly designed to provide protection for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in a country where homophobia is deep-rooted at all levels of society and LGBT groups face daily discrimination.
But activists in Georgia say that introduction of the legislation has actually hardened attitudes against the LGBT community and that there are serious concerns over how effectively it can be applied.
Irakli Vacharadze, head of Identoba, the Tbilisi-based rights organisation, told IPS: "Since the law was passed, things are actually worse now for LGBT people. When they make a complaint about something, people just say, 'what more do you want? You've got your rights now in law'. It's really obnoxious.
With a deeply religious society – 84 percent of the population identifies itself as Orthodox Christian – attitudes in Georgia to anything other than traditional heterosexual relationships are deeply negative among much of the population.
LGBT people say that they are often refused service by businesses and hospitals, bullied in school, and harassed by the police. Meanwhile, the Orthodox Church, which has a hugely influential role in society, has denounced LGBT equality and described support for LGBT rights as the "propaganda of sin".
A 2013 survey by Identoba revealed how entrenched anti-LGBT sentiment is in society – 88 percent of respondents said homosexuality could "never be justified".
A peaceful gay rights march marking International Day Against Homophobia last year ended in violence as protestors from a rival church-led counter-demonstration attacked and beat LGBT demonstrators.
But the country's pursuit of closer ties with the European Union forced political parties, which had previously been at best apathetic towards the LGBT community, to address the issue.
As a condition of being granted coveted visa-free travel to EU countries, the government was told it had to implement anti-discrimination laws, including legislation specifically on gender expression and sexual orientation.
And although fiercely opposed by the Church, they were passed with the general support of all political parties.
However, LGBT people in Georgia remain far from convinced that, in its present form, it will help them. Although welcomed as a step forward, rights groups have criticised the fact that a devoted enforcement body was not approved and instead cases will go to the Ombudsman for Human Rights.
They say that the Ombudsman's office lacks capacity and that effectively dealing with complaints will be compromised. They have called for the passage of additional measures to ensure enforcement of the law.
The Ombudsman's office has yet to set up a department to deal with anti-discrimination complaints brought under the new legislation and one will not be functional before January.
Meanwhile, faith, or rather lack of it, in the country's justice system is also likely to limit its effectiveness.
But the introduction of the legislation has already had at least one potentially positive effect. LGBT people say a profound ignorance of their gender expression and sexual orientation and their lifestyles contributes to the widespread antipathy towards them in Georgian society, but passage of the laws has at least promoted vitally-needed public discussion of the LGBT community.
Vacharadze told IPS: "The law alone will not change society's attitudes towards LGBT people, it won't get rid of homophobia. It won't do anything to deal with the ignorance about LGBT issues and the community.
The laws also have a wider significance in that they stand in stark contrast to the repression of LGBT communities in other former Soviet states, most notably Russia which is increasing its persecution of homosexuals through repressive legislation.
Just this week, the senior political figure in recently-annexed Crimea typified the Russian political stance to non-heterosexuals when he attacked LGBT people at a government meeting.
He also said that "Crimean children should be brought up with a 'positive attitude to family and traditional values'," and that Crimea had "no need" for gays and lesbians.
Some observers say that the passing of the laws in Georgia, at a time when neighbours and other former Soviet states are attacking LGBT people, is proof that the country is set on moving closer to Europe and putting as much political distance between it and Russia, which has annexed some of its territory in recent years.
Indeed, as political parties debated the anti-discrimination laws, Davit Usupashvili, the parliamentary speaker, described the bill as a choice between Russia and the European Union.
Campaigners say that the government's desire to cultivate closer and closer ties to the EU means that the legislation will, in time, become effective.
Ursu told IPS: "In the next year or so, the Georgian government should look to strengthen the law and try to prove that it is functioning simply because it remains under the scrutiny of the EU.


If you caught Wednesday's episode of "Love & Hip Hop Atlanta," chances are you witnessed Kirk Frost swab his infant son on national television with the intent of establishing paternity of the child. It's no secret that Kirk, for whatever reason, had doubts about whether or not Rasheeda had been faithful to him. But seeing him swab baby Karter for the world to see was a bit much. According to Kirk, he has been through a paternity mix-up before and simply wished to avoid going through it again.
The reality stars also confirmed recent rumors that producers have beefed up security during "Love & Hip Hop Atlanta" filming sessions.
"Our job is crazy, you're going through metal detectors," said Kirk.
Rasheeda has really tough skin. That's all I'll say.
Watch part one of their interview below. Check the next page for part two.


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NATO, Macedonia Sign 'Historic' Pact, Paving Skopje's Way To Membership
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, 3rd right, and Macedonia's Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov, 3rd left, pose for photographers with NATO permanent representatives after they signed the "accession protocol" at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Feb. 6, 2019.
NATO's 29 members have signed an accession agreement with Macedonia, a key step toward Skopje becoming the military alliance's 30th member.
The move on February 6 followed a historic deal between Macedonia and Greece that removed Athens' objections and normalized relations between the neighbors.
Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov signed the agreement along with representatives from the current 29 NATO member countries during a ceremony presided over by the alliance's chief, Jens Stoltenberg.
"Today is a historic day. All #NATO Allies have signed the Accession Protocol with Macedonia, which will bring more security & prosperity to the whole region. I look forward to the day when 30 flags will fly outside NATO HQ," Stoltenberg tweeted after the ceremony.
Macedonia and Greece last year approved an agreement under which the former Yugoslav republic agreed to change its name to the Republic of North Macedonia, paving the way for the country to join NATO and the European Union.
Speaking at a joint press conference with Stoltenberg, Dimitrov praised the leadership of Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and his Greek counterpart, Alexis Tsipras, to resolve the name dispute.
"It was easier to sit in the trenches of history. It was easier to even score political points by maintaining the dispute. But what they dared to do was invest political capital for the benefit of the two peoples of the two nations and the whole region and NATO as a family, as an alliance," he said.
Zaev tweeted that it was a "great, historic day for all our citizens. Today the largest security alliance in the world, NATO, has welcomed us."
Macedonia has said it expects Greece to be the first NATO member to ratify the accession protocol, after which the country will begin to call itself by its new name.
Since 1991, Greece has objected to the name "Macedonia" because it has a northern province with that name.
The name change deal, dubbed the Prespa Agreement after the border lake where it was signed last year, ends a 27-year dispute between the two neighbors.
In Athens, the speaker of Greece's parliament, Nikos Voutsis, said a ratification bill would be submitted to lawmakers on February 7 and would be voted on by February 8.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has also warned NATO against cultivating closer ties with Ukraine and Georgia, two ex-Soviet republics that also aspire to join NATO, which is headquartered in Brussels.
After the Macedonia signing protocol, Stoltenberg praised Georgia, an ex-Soviet republic that also aspires to join NATO, despite Russia's vehement opposition.
"We are very encouraged by what we see in Georgia, their commitment to reforms, the commitment to strengthening defense and security institutions, transparency, judiciary reforms," the NATO chief said.
"We will continue to support Georgia as it moves towards NATO membership," Stoltenberg also said.
With reporting by AP
Macedonia Moves Closer to NATO Membership
Macedonian PM Says Joining NATO Will Assure Peace in Balkans
Greece to Ratify Macedonia's NATO Accession in 'Coming Days'


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Dance Hall è un film del 1929 diretto da Melville W. Brown. La sceneggiatura si basa sull'omonimo racconto di Viña Delmar pubblicato su Liberty il 16 marzo 1929.

Trama
Al Paradise Dance Hall, Gracie - una hostess del locale - una sera viene molestata da un camionista ubriaco. Ted Smith, un bell'aviatore, la difende e Tommy, l'innamorato di Gracie, si dimostra grato per l'intervento del giovane pilota. Così, non ha problemi a lasciare che Gracie si presenti a una gara di ballo in coppia con Ted. Ma la ragazza finisce per innamorarsi del suo compagno, con gran disperazione di Tommy. Quando l'aereo di Ted ha un incidente, Gracie sembra impazzire e tenta inutilmente di mettersi in contatto con l'amato. Tommy scopre che, invece, è proprio lo stesso Ted che rifiuta di rispondere a Gracie. Furioso, Tommy affronta il pilota e i due vengono alle mani. Gracie si rende conto dell'amore che Tommy prova per lei e si riconcilia con lui.

Produzione
Il film fu prodotto dalla RKO Radio Pictures.

Distribuzione
Il copyright del film, richiesto dalla RKO Distributing Corp., fu registrato il 14 dicembre 1929 con il numero LP935.

Distribuito dalla RKO Radio Pictures, il film uscì nelle sale cinematografiche statunitensi presentato in prima a New York il 14 dicembre 1929.

Note

Bibliografia
 Richard B. Jewell, Vernon Harbin: The RKO Story, Arlington House, 1982 Octopus Books Limited - ISBN 0-517-546566

Voci correlate
Filmografia della RKO Radio Pictures

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