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Using Javascript objects
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We have to handle the transition period when Brython is going to coexist with
Javascript ;-)

### Accessing Brython objects from Javascript

By default, Brython only exposes two names in the global Javascript namespace:

> `brython()` : the function run on page load

> `__BRYTHON__` : an object used internally by Brython to store the objects
> needed for scripts execution

Consequently, by default, a Javascript program cannot access Brython objects.
 For instance, for a function `echo()` defined in a Brython script
to react to an event on an element in the page, instead of using the regular
javascript syntax:

    <button onclick="echo()">

(because the brython function _echo_ is not accessible from Javascript), the
solution is to set an id to the element:

    <button id="mybutton">

and to define the link between this element and the event _click_ by :

    from browser import document
    document['mybutton'].bind('click',echo)

Another option is to force the introduction of the name _echo_ in the
Javascript namespace, by defining it as an attribute of the object
`window` in module **browser** :

    from browser import window
    window.echo = echo

NOTE: This method is not recommended, because it introduces a risk of
conflict with names defined in a Javascript program or library used in the page.

### Objects in Javascript programs

An HTML document can use Javascript scripts or libraries, and Python scripts
or libraries

The names added by Javascript programs to the global Javascript namespace are
available in Brython scripts as attributes of the object `window` defined in
the module **browser**

For instance :

>
>
>

Javascript objects are converted into their Python equivalent in this way :

Javascript object (js\_obj)	Python object (window.js\_obj)

DOM element	instance of `DOMNode`

DOM event	instance of `DOMEvent`

Collection of DOM elements	list of `DOMNode` instances

`null, true, false`	`None, True, False`

Integer	instance of `int`

Float	instance of `float`

String	instance of `str`

Array	instance of `list`

The other Javascript objects are converted into an instance of the class
`JSObject` defined in module **javascript**. They can be converted into
a Python dictionary by :

>    py_obj = window.js_obj.to_dict()

If the Javascript object is a function, the arguments passed to the Python
function are converted into Javascript objects, using the reverse of the
above table.

Take care, a Javascript function can't be called with keyword arguments, this
raises a `TypeError` exception : if the function is defined by

>    function foo(x, y)

and if it is called from a Brython script by

>    window.foo(y=0, x=1)

passing the arguments in the excepted order is not possible, because the
Brython script doesn't know the signature of the Javascript function.

### Using Javascript constructors

If a Javascript function is an object constructor, that can be called in
Javascript code with the keyword `new`, it can be used in Brython by
transforming it with the function `JSConstructor()` defined in module
**javascript**.

`JSConstructor(`_constr_`)`

> returns a function that, when called with arguments, returns a Python object
matching the Javascript object built by the constructor _constr_.

For instance :

### jQuery example

Here is a more complete example of how you can use the popular library jQuery:

Click here

to iterate through

these divs.

### Other examples

You will find in the [gallery](../../gallery/gallery_en.html) other examples
of how to use Javascript librairies (Three, Highcharts, Raphael) in Brython
scripts.


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Megan Fox set to make her Broadway debut
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HollywoodNews.com: Megan Fox is headed somewhere a little unexpected as she will soon be making her debut on Broadway. In November, Fox will be involved in the annual "24 Hour Plays" project that benefits the Urban Arts Partnership, states UsMagazine.com. The project will team up 24 stars with six writers, six[...]
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The benchmark Nikkei 225 was down 0.47% at 20,466.45 points, reports BBC.
Last week, the Nikkei marked its longest rising streak since a 13-day run in February 1988.
In Australia, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index was down 0.96% at 5,723.80, following the US trend.
Meanwhile, South Korea's benchmark Kospi index was down 1.17% at 2,090.02 points after a private survey showed manufacturing activity in the country contracted in May for the third month in a row.
Official data also showed the country's exports in May were down 10.9% compared to a year earlier, while imports were down 15.3%.
The numbers fuel concerns over South Korea's faltering economic recovery.
In China, Hong Kong's Hang Seng index was down 0.61% at 27,256.70, while the Shanghai Composite was bucking the regional trend in early trade, up just 0.10% at 4,616.19.
Fresh official numbers from the mainland showed activity in some of China's big factories had increased slightly in May, in line with expectations.
The country's official purchasing manager's index (PMI), which measures items including new orders, showed an expansion from 50.1 in April to 50.2 in May.
A reading above 50 indicates expansion in the month, while a reading below 50 means there has been a contraction in the period.
Mainland shares had rattled global markets last week, falling as much as 6% on Thursday.
Analysts said there were a number of reasons for the falls, including brokerages tightening lending rules on margin financing.
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France Spurns Call To Take Over STX's Saint-Nazaire Shipyard
PARIS (Reuters) – France's government dismissed a call to nationalise the Saint-Nazaire shipyard on Saturday but said it was committed to the survival of the facility after a South Korean shareholder threatened to sell its stake.
The Korean company, STX Offshore & Shipbuilding, has been hurt by a shipping industry downturn since the financial crisis and may also sell shipyards in Finland and China.
The French government came to Saint-Nazaire's rescue at the end of 2012, helping it win new contracts to stave off the threat of bankruptcy, including a 1 billion euro ($1.31 billion) contract to build the world's largest cruise liner.
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The government already holds 33 percent of STX France, the company that owns and operates the Saint-Nazaire site.
President Francois Hollande does not want another manufacturing failure on his hands as he struggles a year into his term to make good on a campaign pledge to pull French industry out of the doldrums.
In a joint statement, French industry and finance ministers dismissed talk that Saint-Nazaire and the jobs of its 2,000 employees were under threat and said the government would continue to support its development.
"STX France has strengthened its business in the past few months, thanks to winning big contracts, in particular on the export side," the ministers said. "Saint-Nazaire is therefore not threatened at all by the events in South Korea."
Saint-Nazaire will begin building a cruise ship in September for Royal Caribbean Cruise Line, to be delivered in 2016.
Industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg told French daily Le Monde that nationalising the site would serve no purpose.
"The Saint-Nazaire shipyard needs more orders, not a new shareholder, because the site is working well," Montebourg said. "We met the conditions in December 2012 to land an order for a giant liner and we continue to work to ensure the long-term future of the site."
The yard built famous cruise liners such as the Queen Mary 2, commissioned in the early 2000s to sail between Europe and the United States. ($1 = 0.7624 euros) (Reporting By Muriel Boselli; Editing by Tom Pfeiffer)
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Die Confederação Geral dos Trabalhadores Portugueses — Intersindical Nacional (CGTP-IN, dt.: Allgemeiner Zusammenschluss der Portugiesischen Arbeiter – Nationaler Gewerkschaftsverbund), auch CGTP oder Intersindical genannt, ist ein portugiesischer Gewerkschaftsbund mit Sitz in Lissabon. Die CGTP steht der Kommunistischen Partei Portugals nahe und gilt als größte Gewerkschaft des Landes, vor der UGT. Beide Gewerkschaften gehören dem Europäischen Gewerkschaftsbund an.

Geschichte

Vorgeschichte bis 1969
Erste Arbeitervereine, zur gegenseitigen Hilfe oder auch zur Weiterbildung, gründeten sich im Klima der Liberalen Revolution in Portugal bereits seit den 1820er Jahren. 1853 entstand mit dem Centro Promotor do Melhoramento da Classe Laboriosa (deutsch etwa: Aktionszentrum zur Verbesserung für die arbeitende Klasse) die bedeutendste Vereinigung. 1875 wurde mit dem Partido Socialista Português eine erste sozialistische Partei gegründet. Zwischen den verschiedenen Arbeitervereinigungen traten nun erste Konflikte auf, als sich die einen anarchistisch und die anderen sozialistisch orientierten. Die Zahl der Vereine nahm indes weiter zu. 1889 zählte man 392 Vereinigungen mit etwa 130.000 Mitgliedern im Land, vor allem in Lissabon und Porto.

1876 bestanden bereits 24 Gewerkschaften, die bis 1904 auf 135 anwuchsen, während die Arbeiterhilfsvereine im selben Zeitraum von 65 auf 590 anwuchsen. Der Anarchosyndikalismus war die bestimmende Strömung in der portugiesischen Arbeiterschaft. 1908 erschien eine erste eigene Zeitung, A Greve (deutsch: Der Streik). 1909 fand in Lissabon der erste Gewerkschaftskongress statt (Congresso Sindical Cooperativo), der mit einer Spaltung zwischen Anarchisten und Sozialisten endete.

Nach Abschaffung der Monarchie und Ausrufung der Portugiesischen Republik 1910 erlebten die gewerkschaftlichen Vereinigung weiteren Zulauf, insbesondere durch die weiter zunehmenden sozialen Spannungen. Trotz allen Differenzen wurde 1914 mit der União Operária Nacional (UON, deutsch etwa: Nationale Arbeiter-Union) ein erster Dachverband für alle, sowohl sozialistische als auch anarchistische Gewerkschaften gegründet. Als die Repressionen der republikanischen Regierung gegen die Gewerkschaften weiter zunahmen, brachen diese mit den politischen Parteien. Die Gewerkschaften fühlten sich dem Zimmerwalder Manifest verbunden und lehnten den Eintritt Portugals in den Ersten Weltkrieg 1916 ab. Als in Folge des Kriegseintritts die Preise in Portugal stark anstiegen und die Versorgungssituation sich deutlich verschlechterte, organisierte die UON 1918 einen ersten Generalstreik, der sich zudem gegen den rechten Putsch durch Sidónio Pais Ende 1917 richtete. Nach dem tödlichen Attentat auf Pais Ende 1918 fürchtete die republikanische Regierung eine erstarkende monarchistische Reaktion, und sie näherte sich den Gewerkschaften mit Zugeständnissen an. So wurde 1919 unter anderem der 8-Stunden-Tag eingeführt. Auf ihrem Kongress in Coimbra im gleichen Jahr nannte sich die UON in Confederação Geral dos Trabalhadores (CGT, dt.: Allgemeiner Zusammenschluss der Arbeiter) um.

In Folge der Oktoberrevolution 1917 kamen nun kommunistische Strömungen in der CGT auf. Die Kommunistische Partei Portugals (PCP) gründete sich 1921, doch blieb die CGT mehrheitlich anarchosyndikalistisch und sozialrevolutionär ausgerichtet. Sie unterhielt enge Verbindungen unter anderem zur amerikanischen Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) und der spanischen Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT).

Dem Militärputsch 1926 von rechts folgte 1932 die Errichtung der korporativen, semifaschistischen Estado Novo-Diktatur durch Salazar. Waren die gewerkschaftlichen Strukturen seit 1926 schon stark bekämpft und beschnitten worden, so wurde 1933 jegliche gewerkschaftliche Betätigung außerhalb der gleichgeschalteten staatlichen Gewerkschaften (Sindicatos Nacionais) verboten. Ein letzter erfolgreicher Streik im Januar 1934 löste eine verstärkte staatliche Repression aus. Die nunmehr illegale CGT war weiterhin anarchosyndikalistisch dominiert, befand sich fortan jedoch in Auflösung und konnte kaum noch Widerstand leisten. Die im Untergrund erstarkende, seit 1934 ebenfalls verbotene PCP versuchte vergeblich, eigene Aktivisten in die staatlichen Arbeitnehmerorgane zu bringen. Bis 1969 kann dann nicht mehr von nennenswerter gewerkschaftlicher Aktivität in Portugal gesprochen werden, obwohl einzelne kleinere Initiativen im Untergrund bestanden, vornehmlich nun kommunistisch orientiert.

Von 1970 bis heute
Am 1. Oktober 1970 gründete eine Gruppe gewählter Funktionäre illegaler Gewerkschaften und inoffizieller Gruppen innerhalb der gleichgeschalteten Gewerkschaftsstruktur der Diktatur die Confederação Geral dos Trabalhadores Portugueses (CGTP), portugiesisch für "Allgemeiner Zusammenschluß der portugiesischen Arbeiter". Sie fühlten sich dazu ermutigt durch einige 1969 durchgeführte Reformen des Salazar-Nachfolgers Marcelo Caetano, der damit Hoffnungen auf eine Öffnung des Regimes nährte. Die CGTP-Gründer kamen aus den Bereichen Versicherung, Banken und Handel, aus der Metallindustrie, Textilindustrie und Handelsmarine, dazu kamen Technische Zeichner, Transportarbeiter, Kraftfahrer und andere, alle überwiegend aus dem Großraum Lissabon. In den Jahren 1970 und 1971 fassten sie verschiedene Grundsatzbeschlüsse, zu Themen wie Wochenarbeitszeit, Löhnen, Versammlungsfreiheit, interne Demokratie u. a.

Die Hoffnung aller Oppositioneller zerstreute sich jedoch durch die wieder zunehmende Härte des Regimes, vor allem durch verstärkte Aktivität der Geheimpolizei PIDE. In der Folge konnte die weiterhin illegale CGTP keine Initiative entwickeln. Mit dem Ende des Regimes durch die Nelkenrevolution am 25. April 1974 begann die CGTP dann umgehend, öffentlich aufzutreten und sich zu organisieren. Mit dem Gesetz Nr. 215-A/1975 wurde die CGTP auch formal legalisiert.

Die CGTP entwickelte sich nun in Richtung einer Einheitsgewerkschaft, als Zusammenschluss aller Gewerkschaften des Landes. Sie unterstützte die Regierung bei den Verstaatlichungen der Schlüsselindustrien 1975. Ab 1976 gerieten sozialdemokratisch und konservativ gesinnte Minderheiten innerhalb der CGTP dann zunehmend in Konflikt mit der kommunistisch orientierten Mehrheit. Sie gründeten die Plattform Movimento Autónomo de Intervenção Sindical – Carta Aberta (dt. etwa: Unabhängige Gewerkschaftsbewegung – Offener Brief), mit der sie sich für unabhängige Einzelgewerkschaften statt einer Einheitsgewerkschaft für alle Arbeiter in Portugal aussprachen.

Nachdem die Verfassung Portugals von 1976 den Grundsatz freier Gewerkschaftsarbeit festgeschrieben hatte, wurde mit dem neuformulierten Gewerkschaftsgesetz 1977 der Pluralismus auch im Bereich der Gewerkschaften verankert. Auf dem CGTP-Kongress im gleichen Jahr kam es daraufhin zur Abspaltung. Während der linke Flügel der sozialistischen Gewerkschafter, die katholischen Gewerkschaftsgruppen, und linke Gewerkschaften zusammen mit der kommunistisch orientierten Mehrheit in der CGTP verblieben, beschlossen diejenigen, die der Sozialistischen Partei und der konservativen Sozialdemokratischen Partei nahestanden, einen eigenen Gewerkschaftsbund zu formieren, die 1978 gegründete UGT. Die CGTP nannte sich fortan Confederação Geral dos Trabalhadores Portugueses – Intersindical Nacional (CGTP-IN) (deutsch etwa: Allgemeiner Zusammenschluss der Portugiesischen Arbeiter – Nationaler Gewerkschaftsverbund).

Einen ersten Kongress zu Frauenrechten und zur vollständigen Gleichberechtigung hielt die CGTP 1978 ab, und im November 1981 veranstaltete die eigene Gewerkschaftsjugend Juventude Trabalhadora (dt. etwa: Arbeiterjugend) ihren ersten Kongress, um sich insbesondere für ein Ende jeglicher Kinderarbeit in Portugal einzusetzen.

1995 wurde die CGPT-IN mit dem Portugiesischen Verdienstorden ausgezeichnet.

Struktur

Büros
Mit 22 Distriktbüros (Uniões distritais) und dazu fünf lokalen Büros (Uniões locais) ist die CGTP-IN in ganz Kontinental-Portugal, den Azoren und Madeira vertreten.

Leitung
Nachdem Manuel Carvalho da Silva von 1986 bis Ende 2011 Generalsekretär der CGTP-IN war, war dies seit Januar 2012 Arménio Carlos. Am 14./15. Februar 2020 wurde Isabel Camarinha als erste Frau in der portugiesischen Gewerkschaftsgeschichte zur neuen Generalsekretärin gewählt.

Mitglieder
121 Einzelgewerkschaften und einige Zusammenschlüsse aus dem ganzen Land sind in der CGTP-IN organisiert. Mit zusammen etwa 750.000 Mitgliedern (2010) ist die CGTP der bedeutendste Gewerkschaftsbund in Portugal.

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Gegründet 1970
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In the fifth year of its international tour, "David Bowie Is" ends its journey at The Brooklyn Museum. It is fitting that the exhibit, which originated at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, should have its last stop in New York, Bowie's long-time home.
The exhibit was enthralling and completely unlike any other museum experience I have had. This is partly due to the Sennheiser noise-cancelling headphones that each guest is provided with. As you go through the space, instead of having to plug in numbers at various intervals, the sound adjusts as you move. It knows where you are in the space and changes to play clips of Bowie's music and audio of the many interviews, music videos, and movies that are featured throughout. It made the entire experience almost other-worldly, as you felt completely in your own mind as you moved through, hearing nothing but the intended audio feature.
What struck me the most was how incredibly creative Bowie was. Between the audio portion and the costumes, drawings, song lyrics, and other memorabilia, it was almost sensory overload. However, that feeling is in line with the exhibit's subject who was known for his 'out-there' personas and uncompromising eccentricity. But what the exhibit showed so clearly was Bowie's creative process. You could see how careful he was with each and every project he worked on and how invested he was in the minutiae of everything he produced, whether it was singing and songwriting, producing videos, laying out stage direction and lighting for live performances, acting in play and movies, or drawing and designing. He did it all, and this exhibit lets you see it all.
What I would suggest is familiarizing yourself with Bowie (if you aren't already) before going, as there is so much information it can be overwhelming. I had done some baseline research on Bowie's life and career before attending, and I'm happy that I did. The exhibit was mostly about his creative process and his art itself, rather than a biographical timeline of the artist. I appreciated this approach, and am very happy it was curated in this way. However, I was also happy to have some background information I could plug in along as I moved through the pieces of Bowie's creative life.
The exhibit closes July 15, so get there soon!


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100 neurology nurse specialists needed as waiting lists exceed 23,000 – David Cullinane TD
25 January, 2022 - by David Cullinane TD
Sinn Féin spokesperson on Health David Cullinane TD has called on the Minister for Health and the HSE to ensure the recruitment of 100 specialist nurses in neurology as recommended by the HSE's own model of care.
Following meetings with the Neurological Alliance of Ireland and the Cork branch of the Parkinson's Association, Teachta Cullinane has called on the Minister to ensure that there are no obstacles to the HSE in drawing down funding to train and recruit nurses into these posts.
"By the HSE's own reckoning, we only have about 30% of the specialist neurology nurses that we need, which is making their job extremely difficult. We need 100 more.
"Budgets over the last two years have promised thousands of staff which have not materialised.
"It is vital that these 100 nursing posts are allocated and filled. Specialist nursing staff are needed to manage long-term neurological conditions, monitor patients and adjust medication amounts, and prevent unnecessary hospital admissions.
"Having this level of nurse capacity in the system to support consultants would reduce the need for outpatient consultations and free up staff time to get through waiting lists.
"There are more than 23,000 patients on neurology waiting lists, yet only 16 of these nursing posts have been sought to be filled this year. That is not good enough.
"The Minister and the HSE need to ensure that there are no obstacles to drawing down the full required funding to train and recruit nurses into these posts."


Joining two of life's great pleasures together – putting paint to canvas and wine glass to mouth – Cork & Chroma has officially swung open its studio doors.
Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best, and Cork & Chroma director Hillary Wall's lightbulb moment was a particularly bright one. Her newly opened South Brisbane 'paint and sip studio' space encourages lovers of art and wine to bring a bottle or two in hand, and enjoy an evening of colourful creating.
Forfeit a night at the bar and take your choice of drop along to Cork & Chroma, where you'll find all the necessary art supplies on hand – as well as a local artist who can provide his or her guidance, if required. The relaxed setting welcomes people of all artistic levels, and all wine preferences. Following a night at Cork & Chroma, you can take home your very own magnum opus and feel a little pride each time you pass by the mantle.


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Place maker
Bill Robertson planned national parks and drew international borders.
Hunt for the wilder places
New Zealand's 11 wilderness areas offer adventure, solitude and a glimpse of the world as it was. But what does the future hold for what one tramper termed our "hunting grounds for the imagination"?
Out of the frying pan: Into oblivion
In recent decades an estimated 20 per cent of the world's freshwater- fish species have become threatened, endangered or extinct. Extinction rates in fresh water seem higher than in terrestrial and marine environments. But New Zealand's only extinct freshwater fish—the grayling or upokororo— was probably long gone before the current mass obliteration of species.
The common Jibe of the dance to anyone who seems to know anything is that they are a "walking encyclopedia". And true enough, reading an encyclopedia isn't everyone's idea of nirvana. Traditional encyclopedias tend to be heavy dust-gathering repositories of knowledge consulted only as a matter of last recourse. Many are text-rich, image-poor and quickly become out of date. But in the digital age there are new possibilities for the transmission of knowledge. In a way, the inter-net is a vast uncensored, unedited encyclopedia. Search engines allow us to access information on almost anything in a matter of seconds. But how reliable is it? How complete and authoritative? What institution is responsible for publishing it? A modicum of mistrust is not out of place in cyberspace. Enter Te Ara—the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, an electronic online publication designed to go some way towards addressing these issues. "Te ara" is Maori for "the pathway". On February 8, Helen Clark launched the first leg at a function held at Te Papa, in Wellington. The encyclopedia is produced by a team known as the Reference Group at the Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Some members worked on the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, originally a print publication but digitised in 2002 . Over the last two years, writers, editors, web designers and image researchers have joined the group, and the enlarged team has worked on the content of the encyclopedia in tandem with website-design firm Shift and IT firm Optimation, which provided the content-management system for the website. Unlike the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, for which anyone can write an entry, the writers of Te Ara are a mixture of external experts and in-house writers and (to ensure readability) editors. Their guiding principles are clarity, telling a story and factual accuracy. In pursuit of the last of these there is rigorous checking. The text for Te Ara undergoes a level of scrutiny similar to that applied to print publications in the most reputable publishing houses. As the encyclopedia is a digital publication, entries can easily be revised in the light of new knowledge, and any errors and typos periodically corrected. The last official Encyclopedia of New Zealand was A.H. McLintock's three-volume 1966 effort, which featured rather too many biographies of dead men interspersed with brilliant eclectic entries on topics such as New Zealand's history of duelling and unsolved crimes. All three volumes of McLintock's alphabetically organised publication have been digitised and launched in tandem with the first section, or theme, of Te Ara—"New Zealanders". This contains 96 entries on the peoples of New Zealand. All the major iwi feature, along with the various peoples who migrated here following European discovery. There are also entries on such topics as when New Zealand was first settled and migrating here on a sailing ship. "New Zealanders" is the first of nine themes, the remaining eight of which are to be published over the next eight years. An encyclopedia that is only one-ninth finished may seem rather unsatisfactory, especially to an international audience unfamiliar with New Zealand's setting and history. To tide users over the period of incompletion, eight concise entries entitled "New Zealand in Brief" provide a broad overview of the country. To give some idea of the depth of the site, if all the material in the first theme were printed it would fill some 6500 pages. There are some 337,000 words in the main text and 197,000 words in the captions. The large amount of text dedicated to explaining and interpreting images reveals one of the most distinctive features of the encyclopedia—the richness and variety of its graphics. The first theme features a wide range of illustrative material from 2394 different sources, including documents, maps, letters, diaries, photographs, artworks, moving images and sound files. These items occupy individual web pages alongside the relevant main-entry text. There are also a myriad ways in which to navigate the site, including using a search engine, which will become increasingly important as the site grows. The eight themes still to come will follow at the rate of one a year, with the last due in 2012. Next to be published will be "Earth, Sea and Sky"— geology, the marine environment and climate. Following this will be "The Bush"—New Zealand's terrestrial life. When the nine-year project is complete, the encyclopedia will be a comprehensive guide to all things New Zealand. Writing an encyclopedia is all about drawing lines where none exists in the real world; hence, each theme is split into around 100 entries. Try fitting all there is to say about New Zealand's geology, marine life and climate under 100 headings without missing out anything important and you will begin to understand some of the challenges the Reference Group faces. How many words do sharks get? Do you provide more text on topics with popular appeal (earthquakes, say) or those which are economically important but unglamorous (such as crushed rock)? These are the types of issues discussed at regular Group meetings. Trying to describe a website in writing is a bit like telling someone how a song goes without singing it. You really have to take a tour yourself. The text has also been checked, peer-reviewed and tweaked so that it tells the rich tale of what makes New Zealand unique in an accurate, literate and colourful way. You can now believe at least some of what you read on the internet.
Taranaki—the shadow speaks
For years the mountain was no more to me than a waypoint on the flight to Auckland, and an invisible one at that. The view was always obscured by cloud, or it was night. The nearest I came to seeing it was late one afternoon. We flew right over the top. I cursed the flight path. Straining, I could not quite see. The mountain lay directly below the aircraft. But I saw its shadow, a triangle stretching across farmland.
Beachcombers and castaways
Rakiura's western shoreline is the flotsam-and-jetsam coast. Here the detritus of human endeavour mingles with nature's dead—albatrosses, whales, kelp, fish. It is the dune coast, too, where a beachcomber can follow kiwi tracks through hillocks of sand or pause to watch a wolf spider transporting her young. It is a place apart.
Rakiura: The Third Island
Granite citadels stud the seaward face of the Ruggedy Mountains, in north-west Rakiura/Stewart Island, an area as grand and remote as any in the country. Almost all of New Zealand's third island is wilderness—unbroken swathes of forest or shrubland which run from summit to coast. In recognition of its unspoiled landscapes and biological uniqueness, most of the island is being preserved as a national park—a development many islanders view with mixed feelings.
Keas - In the Land of the Kiwi
Gypsies, tramps and thieves—in some measure, New Zealand's swaggers were all of these things. They were opportunists in a society that idolised hard work and conformity. Their vagabondage earned them few friends and little respect, but—like our cheeky alpine parrot—they added a dash of colour to rural life.
The rocks of Castle Hill
Nestled among the eastern ranges of the Southern Alps, an hour's drive from Christchurch, lies a gentle basin bulging with huge boulders and rock outcrops. The area, known as Castle Hill or Kura Tawhiti, is a Mecca for rockclimbers and skiers, but long before Europeans and their sheep appeared, Maori appreciated that the place had a special magic—one that not even the snows of winter could shroud.
On the metal - the tin miners of Port Pegasus
A tramper's headlamp arcs a trail through the subterranean recesses of New Zealand's southern‑most mine. The 85-metre tunnel, driven into solid granite, survives as one of a handful of relics from New Zealand's only tin rush—a stampede of ill-prepared men into the miserable weather and impenetrable scrub of southern Stewart Island.Despite high hopes and extravagant claims little metal was ever recovered.
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Groupe Renault sees 9.8 per cent sales rise in first half of 2018
GROUPE Renault saw sales of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles (LCVs) increase by 9.8 per cent in the first half of 2018, with a market share of 4.3 per cent.
The group as a whole sold 2,067,695 vehicles in the first half of the year, with the Renault brand selling 1,378,583 units and Dacia achieving 378,095.
Non-UK brands Renault-Samsung and LADA also saw increases 26.9 per cent and 24 per cent respectively, while the group also took into account sales of Jinbei and Huasong models, which accounted for more than 85,000 units.
Registrations were up 4.4 per cent in Europe, where the market grew 2.8 per cent with 1,070,718 units registered in H1. The group took a market share in this region of 11 per cent.
The Renault brand alone grew by 1.1 per cent for a market share of 8.1 per cent in Europe, with the Clio 4 being the second-best selling vehicle in the continent, the Captur the number-one crossover in its segment and and the Scenic the top-selling model in its category.
Renault also took the top spot in terms of electric vehicle (EV) sales, with 21.9 per cent of the market share. Sales volumes increased 11.6 per cent, with Zoe registrations up 1.1 per cent, Kangoo Z.E. up 125 per cent, with the latter now holding 38.9 per cent of the LCEV market.
Dacia posted a half-year sales record in Europe with 281,225 sales and a 2.9 per cent market share, while Alpine saw its first registrations in 22 years with more than 4,800 models being registered since launch.
Thierry Koskas, executive vice president of sales and marketing at Groupe Renault, commented: 'For the third consecutive year, we have set a new sales record, with nearly 2.1 million vehicles sold in the first half [of the year].
'In Europe, the group continues to gain market share, while internationally we are posting excellent performances, notably in Latin America, the Eurasia region and Africa.'
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The struggle in a world becoming your village.
I was so bad at languages at school. For French, I am native Flemish-speaking, I sat next to Catherine who spoke French at home. Every test she helped me willing or unwillingly so I could pass. Even English was a burden although you think it will be easy, it wasn't. I remember going on an adventure to Paris for a German company to set up a distribution for scanners. I so failed in the first months as my French was nowhere good enough and Catherine was not sitting next to me anymore. Luckily I could hire an Algerian assistant who spoke and wrote better French than any Frenchman. In France, English is only for tourists, like 5 words and that's it. Even my German counterpart was only German, except for the boss and his wife. And my language struggle continues. After I managed to speak 3 languages fluently I now struggle width Turkish. My eagerness for exploring the world was always met with language barriers.
I see the same struggle in Now Sprint Accelerator where teams have to leave the program because of the lack of English. They are probably very talented but today English in the startup world is simply a must for many reasons. I am very lucky I was born in a multilingual country as it confronts you immediately with the language barriers. My father insisted that I spoke French fluently. He only spoke a flemish dialect and was very frustrated by that. The fact that English made it as the international language probably comes from the fact that the US has a market of 400 million people speaking the same language and their openness to being innovative and great entrepreneurial spirit.
In developing countries, not to mention the underdeveloped countries, the language barrier is a struggle to connect with the fast speed of the developed countries and we point to globalisation as the problem. Education and political choices are in my opinion way more important in creating a counterbalance. Romanticism in the 18th century created nationalism and we have seen terrible things born out of that. The result we see today, where the most talented people who have the means move out of countries that are using language, in many forms, and land at places where another language is used that inspires and challenges in a positive way.
I only recently discovered Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown on Netflix. The poor man is not anymore but what an amazing way of discovering cities and countries through the language of food. He prefers, of course, to speak to locals who also speak English and therefore most of the time have a better view of how to place the local dishes in a historic context that goes further than "this is our national specialty" as it almost always comes from a mix of influences. Language as a bridge should always be the aim.
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Hospital Leadership and Board of Directors: MedStar St. Mary's Hospital
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About MedStar St. Mary's
Hospital Leadership & Board of Directors
Nursing at MedStar St. Mary's Hospital
MedStar St. Mary's Hospital
MedStar St. Mary's Hospital Administrative team
Mimi Novello, MD, MBA, FACEP
President and Chief Medical Officer, MedStar St. Mary's Hospital
John Greely, FACHE
Vice President, Operations
Michael Meisel, MBA, CHFP
Vice President & Chief Financial Officer,
Dawn Yeitrakis, MS, BSN, RN, NEA-BC, CEN
Vice President & Chief Nursing Officer
The Board of Directors at MedStar St. Mary's Hospital is a volunteer body dedicated to fulfilling the mission, vision, and values of the hospital. The board consists of community members, MedStar Health leaders, and representation from our Medical Staff.
Board members have experience on other boards or public committees, many related to the healthcare industry. They also have extensive professional and business achievements, as well as strong leadership skills. Their objectivity, commitment of time, and dedication to the community all play an important role in the success of the Board of Directors and MedStar St. Mary's as a whole.
Since its inception, the board has guided the hospital toward many important goals. At the recommendation of its members, the hospital has expanded the array of medical specialties on staff and directed the hospital toward the acquisition of many cutting-edge technologies, such as our fully integrated electronic medical record system.
MedStar St. Mary's Hospital Board of Directors
Jennifer Blake
Chair of the Board of Directors
Jennifer Blake is the Director of the Digital Department for Commander, Fleet Readiness Centers at the U.S. Navy Naval Air Systems Command. A graduate of Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts, Blake holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in economics and Spanish literature as well as a master's degree in business administration from The George Washington University. She is a graduate of both the Federal Executive Institute's Leadership for Democratic Society and the Naval Air Systems Command Senior Executive Management Development Program. Blake has been a member and chair of the St. Mary's Hospital Foundation, as well as a member and current chair of the MedStar St. Mary's Hospital Board of Directors.
Bonnie Bowes
Bonnie Bowes is a managing director in the SAP Public Sector practice of Deloitte Consulting LLP. She is responsible for and involved in a wide range of consulting assignments covering business strategies; stakeholder relationship management, business process improvements; and enterprise resource planning implementation and sustainment. She has held positions at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Navy as the SAP Center of Excellence (CoE) subject matter expert responsible for leading efforts to standardize support processes enabling those agencies to receive CoE certification. She is a certified Project Management Professional with a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems Management from the University of Maryland Baltimore County and a Master of Science in Systems Management from the Florida Institute of Technology.
Anna H. Choi, MD
Dr. Anna Choi is Director of Breast Imaging at MedStar Washington Hospital Center. A graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Medicine, Dr. Choi completed her internship at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, followed by a residency and fellowship at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Center. She is board certified in diagnostic radiology.
James Damalouji, MD
Dr. James Damalouji is an emergency medicine physician and chair of the Department of the Emergency Medicine at MedStar St. Mary's Hospital. Dr. Damalouji holds a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Pittsburgh. He is a lifelong resident of Southern Maryland and has been a member of the hospital's Medical Staff since 1987.
Karen Garner
Karen Garner is chair of the Philanthropy Committee, a member of the Quality and Safety Professional Affairs Committee (QSPAC), and serves on the Board of Directors of MedStar St. Mary's Hospital. She was previously president of Rational HealthCare, which focuses on improving the integration of humans and technology to reduce health care costs and increase safety, until retirement in 2016. Garner co-founded Research and Engineering Development, Inc., a defense company specializing in industrial engineering and was president of RED-INC for 18 years. She retired as an engineering psychologist after 25 years supporting the U.S. Navy. Garner holds an associate degree in Business Administration from the University of Maryland University College and a Bachelor's Degree in Human Development from St. Mary's College of Maryland.
Tracy Harris, PhD
Dr. Tracy Harris is vice president of student equity and success for the College of Southern Maryland, overseeing admissions, recruitment, registration, transfer and articulation services, financial aid services, disability support services, Title IX administration, and veteran affairs, among many roles. Dr. Harris has served and presented on leadership, enrollment management, student assessment, and stress management on state and national levels, and published peer-reviewed research articles on the persistence of first-year college students, among other topics. He holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in Community College Leadership from Walden University; a master's degree in public administration from the University of Pittsburgh with certification in personnel and labor relations; and a bachelor's degree in administration of justice from The Pennsylvania State University.
John Harvey, MD
Board-certified Vascular Surgeon and General Surgeon with MedStar Shah Medical Group, also serving as Vice Chief of Staff at MedStar St. Mary's Hospital
Dr. John Harvey is a board-certified vascular surgeon and general surgeon with MedStar Shah Medical Group, also serving as chief of the medical staff at MedStar St. Mary's Hospital. After earning his Bachelor of Science in biochemistry and his medical degree from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, Dr. Harvey completed his residency in general surgery at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. His fellowship in vascular surgery was completed at Englewood Hospital & Medical Center in New Jersey.
Glen Ives
Glen Ives currently serves as chief operating officer of Castellum, Inc. and chief executive officer of Corvus Consulting, LLC, a subsidiary of Castellum. He formerly served as president and chief executive officer of Sabre Systems, Inc. A graduate of the United States Naval Academy and United States Army War College, he served as a naval officer and naval aviator deployed globally and nationally prior to joining Sabre. His last Navy assignment was in Southern Maryland as commanding officer of Naval Air Station Patuxent River. In addition to his role on the Board of Directors at MedStar St. Mary's Hospital, Ives serves on the Board of Directors of the Professional Services Council, the Board of Trustees of St. Mary's College of Maryland, and the Advisory Board for the University System of Maryland at Southern Maryland. He is a graduate of Leadership Maryland and previously served as president of the Southern Maryland Navy Alliance.
Dr. Mimi Novello is president and chief medical officer of MedStar St. Mary's Hospital. Prior to her arrival at MedStar St. Mary's in 2022, Dr. Novello served in numerous leadership positions at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, most recently as Vice President of Medical Affairs and Chief Medical Officer from 2017 to 2021. During her 22-year tenure at MedStar Franklin Square, Dr. Novello oversaw quality, safety and risk management, clinical process improvement, programmatic growth, physician strategic development, Graduate Medical Education and Continuing Medical Education, and medical staff relations for the hospital. As the Chief Medical Information Officer, she managed the implementation of Information Technology (IT) applications, including MedConnect, MedStar Health's electronic health record. Board certified in emergency medicine, Dr. Novello was also an attending physician in the hospital's Emergency Department. She is a graduate of Washington University School of Medicine, completing her internship at Rhode Island Hospital and her residency at Medical College of Pennsylvania.
Sonya Pollock
Sonya Pollock is a supervisory human resources specialist for Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division. She holds a Master of Science in human resources development from Towson University, and a bachelor's degree in public policy analysis from the University of Maryland Global Campus.
Michael Sachtleben
Michael Sachtleben is senior vice president and chief operating officer, Washington Region, for MedStar Health, as well as president of MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. Sachtleben serves as strategic market lead for the Washington Region, coordinating execution of MedStar Health strategic objectives while supporting day-to-day operations to deliver patient care across the region's six hospitals and rehabilitation services systemwide. A graduate of the University of Maryland at College Park, he earned a Master of Healthcare Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health. Sachtleben also holds a certificate in leadership from Georgetown University Center for Professional Development and is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives and Leadership Greater Washington.
Tara Saggar, MD
Dr. Tara Saggar is Assistant Vice President of MedStar Primary Care for MedStar Health, providing clinical leadership oversight of all MedStar Health Internal Medicine and Family Medicine primary care operations. Dr. Saggar earned her Doctor of Medicine from Saba University School of Medicine and completed her Internal Medicine Residency at West Suburban Medical Center. She holds a Master of Science in Biological Sciences from Wright State University and a Bachelor of Science from Miami University. In addition to her role on MedStar St. Mary's Hospital's Board of Directors, she is a committee member for the Maryland Primary Care Program Care Transformation Organization. Dr. Saggar holds a Lean Six Sigma green belt certification and is a board-certified diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine.
Kenneth Samet
MedStar Health President and Chief Executive Officer Kenneth Samet is responsible for a $6.5 billion not-for-profit, healthcare delivery system. Samet provides strategic oversight and management for MedStar Health—the largest healthcare provider in Maryland and the Washington, D.C., region. Prior to becoming MedStar Health's president and chief executive officer in 2008, Samet served as the system's first chief operating officer since MedStar Health's inception in 1998. Samet has dedicated his career to health care, serving as president of MedStar Washington Hospital Center, one of the nation's largest tertiary care hospitals, in the District of Columbia from 1990 to 2000. From the mid-1980s to 1990, Samet held a variety of leadership positions with the Medlantic Healthcare Group, which merged with Helix Health in 1998 to create MedStar Health. He holds a master's degree in health services administration from the University of Michigan.
Stephen Schmeiser
CAPT Stephen A. Schmeiser, USN (Retired) has lived and worked in Southern Maryland for many years, retiring from his post as Commanding Officer of the Patuxent River Naval Air Station in 2011. During his 27-year career with the U.S. Navy, Schmeiser attended the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School before studying Systems Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, and a Master's Degree in National Resource Strategy from the Eisenhower School/ICAF, Washington, D.C. A certified Project Management Professional, he is an operations manager with the Northrop Grumman Corporation.
Yahia Tagouri, MD
Dr. Yahia Tagouri is a pathologist and current vice chief of the medical staff at MedStar St. Mary's Hospital.
Vince Whittles
Vice chair of the Board of Directors
Vince Whittles is the owner of SERVPRO of St. Mary's and Calvert Counties, a Lexington Park-based cleanup and restoration business serving the community for more than 35 years. A graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park, Whittles previously served as a member of the St. Mary's Hospital Foundation and chair of the Philanthropy Committee of the Board of Directors.
Philanthropy Committee of the Board of Directors
The Philanthropy Committee of the MedStar St. Mary's Hospital Board of Directors serves as the fundraising arm of MedStar St. Mary's Hospital. Since 1912, MedStar St. Mary's Hospital has been dedicated to meeting the healthcare needs of our community. The hospital is a not-for-profit facility offering a full range of inpatient and outpatient services, health education and community outreach The Philanthropy Committee, formerly the St. Mary's Hospital Foundation, raises private funds to support capital expansion projects, advanced medical technology and programs. Since 2001, it has awarded scholarships to more than 140 individuals pursuing education in nursing and healthcare fields.
The Philanthropy Committee is comprised of community volunteers who recognize the positive impact of philanthropy on the hospital and our community's health. The committee appreciates your continued support of our hospital and wants you to know that your participation at any level matters. The Philanthropy Committee offers several events and opportunities throughout the year, including the annual MedStar St. Mary's Hospital Gala.
Learn more about ways to give to MedStar St. Mary's Hospital
Philanthropy Committee members include:
Karen Garner, chair
Pamela Jamieson
Jeff Jeffries
Conor Loughran
Karla Matthews
Dana McPherson
Dr. Mimi Novello
Nick Stellway
Yahia Tagouri
Leslie Taylor
Lea Weaver
Healthcare Scholarships
Since 2001, the MedStar St. Mary's Hospital has been awarding scholarships to Southern Maryland candidates interested in pursuing a healthcare career. The Committee accepts applications from individuals interested not only in nursing, but also in the growing field of allied health. These allied health professionals are involved in many aspects of health care, including but not limited to:
Each of the scholarships awarded cover payment for tuition, books, and fees associated with the degree or certification.
Scholarship Application Requirements:
Scholarships are only for residents of Southern Maryland: St. Mary's, Charles and Calvert counties
You must have at least a 3.0 high school GPA if applying within four years of high school graduation
If it has been more than four years since high school graduation, please submit an ACT score or proof of degree from another school. (This program is not exclusively focusing on high-school aged students; many receive a scholarship as a second career)
In return for receiving the scholarship, recipients will commit to working at MedStar St. Mary's Hospital for at least one year if a position is available
For more information on the scholarship program, please click here.
Medical staff leadership
Chief of the Medical Staff
Vice Chief of Staff
Tushar Samdani, MD
Department Chiefs
Anesthesiology: Nyles Burton, MD
Emergency Medicine: James Damalouji, MD
Family Medicine: Karen Bauer, MD
Medicine: Jean Pierre El Khoury, MD
Obstetrics/Gynecology: Arthur Greenwood, MD
Pathology: Yahia Tagouri, MD
Pediatrics: Naveen Minumula, MD
Psychiatry: Stephen Durrenberger, MD
Radiology: Alan Ost, MD
Surgery: Emmanuel Atiemo, MD


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LONDON, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Standard Chartered's landmark attempt to claw back bonuses paid to staff deemed responsible for its current woes could be fraught with practical and legal difficulties, lawyers and investors said.
Winters' announcement of "robust accountability reviews" came as StanChart reported its first annual loss in 26 years, with bad loans jumping from $7.5 billion at the end of 2014 to $12.8 billion by the end of 2015.
"It is a very reasonable idea, but probably a nightmare to enforce," one senior manager at a fund that owns Standard Chartered shares told Reuters, while a second investor said it may be more practical to design stricter remuneration structures than to try and claw money back.
Britain has among the world's toughest rules on banker pay, introduced following public and political anger over lenders being bailed out by taxpayers in the crisis and bankers pocketing big payouts at a time of austerity for many people.
Lawyers familiar with laws governing banker pay said the key distinction was between so-called malus - the cancellation of an intended future payment - and clawbacks, where a bank tries to recover monies already paid out.
"Even if you have a very well crafted clawback clause, it can be hard in practice to demonstrate that an individual's behaviour has led to a particular result," said Anna McCaffrey, senior associate in the employment practice at Taylor Wessing.
The Bank of England proposed new rules in January to close the loophole for such so-called "roving bad apples" but they are not yet in force so would not apply to the StanChart plan.
"We haven't seen a big legal fight about clawback yet, and no one really knows how these arguments will play out," said Jon Gilligan, partner at GQ Employment Law.
StanChart CEO Winters said on Tuesday that some former senior executives at the bank had already paid a price for the lender's problems, without naming them.
Long-term share incentives awarded in 2013 expired worthless after some senior executives failed to meet performance targets, the bank's annual report said. Former finance director Richard Meddings and former consumer banking head Steve Bertamini were among those who failed to meet performance measures and saw those incentives lapse, according to the report.
StanChart has also held back a total of $61 million worth of unvested shares pledged to senior managers and "risk takers" such as traders and loan officers in 2015 due to 'performance adjustments,' according to a Reuters calculation from the company's annual report. Unvested shares are those that will be awarded at a future date, subject to conditions.
Among the most high-profile StanChart bankers at risk of clawback is Mike Rees, the 26-year veteran of the bank and former deputy CEO, who will leave the bank at the end of this year. StanChart said on Jan. 7 that Rees's unvested share bonuses "remain subject to ... potential clawback".
Rees was key to the shaping and execution of the bank's strategy under former CEO Sands.
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"Pressure may be coming from shareholders, who have lost a lot of money recently, and it's unlikely you will be able to claw back anything like what they have lost, but it is a symbolic action," said GQ Employment Law's Jon Gilligan.


On a bus headed from New York to Boston as the "spare bed tour" moves north. In the U.S. you can ride a bus with an Internet connection. Bolivian buses don't have Internet; they have Jackie Chan movies dubbed in Spanish. It's a tossup. But New York has bagels so you have to factor that in too.
We began our work here on Monday, which was technically supposed to be a holiday, but no such luck. I went to the lower Manhattan studios of Grit TV for a panel discussion on U.S./Latin America relations. You can see the short program at this link or just by clicking on the screen above.
In the near term, I think the Obama administration is unlikely to give Latin America much attention at all. For good reason it will focus on the global economic crisis and the twin wars he inherited in Afghanistan and Iraq. In mid-April, however, he is likely to attend the Summit of the America in Tobago, along with other Presidents from the region. We'll see then what he has to say, who he poses with for photos, and how wide he smiles at their side. But as a colleague of mine close to the new administration on Latin American issues told me, it may be better now for progressive Latin American governments to propose an agenda for change to President Obama, instead of waiting for the U.S., to take the lead.
Tuesday I spent the day at Drew University in Madison NJ, asked by the faculty there to give three talks, beginning with comments in the Drew chapel (the University has a special focus on people training to be ministers). In the pulpit I tried to find a religious connection. I told the story of how the day before I accidently got on an express subway that whisked me all the way to 125th when I wanted to get off sixty blocks earlier. The whole way there I was stuck two feet from a man screaming far too loudly about Jesus.
At one point he demanded of the passengers in the crowded train (in Spanish), "Raise your hand if you believe in Jesus! Raise your hand!" I explained how close I had come to answering back, "I believed in Jesus until 72nd street, but now I am an atheist." My offering to the pastors-to-be – if you want people to listen to what you have to say, try some humility, a softer voice, and speak in a language people understand.
Tuesday night Melissa, Roberto and I were at New School in the West Village. A good crowd of 70 or so showed up, students, faculty, and kind readers of the Blog who have come to all of our events so far. Roberto explained the complex system that the World Bank, IMF, and foreign corporations had spent two decades setting up to structure their influence over Bolivia's economic decisions – bonus payments to political officials, investments laws, and the like. "It is against this system that our people rebelled and dismantling that system is hard." Melissa spoke of her friend Casimira Rodriguez, and of a life that went from the isolation of being an enslaved 15-year-old maid in Cochabamba to helping organize a justice movement for these women worldwide – the flipside of globalization. The globalization of solidarity.
Wednesday morning, while my cohorts set off for a talk at Brooklyn College, I traveled to the Canal St. firehouse where Amy Goodman and Democracy Now broadcast to thousands of people all over the U.S., a dedicated following that includes many of our readers. Her crew tortured me first with make-up (and hairspray!). On the set Amy asked me if people tell me I look like John Kerry.
"Only in the U.S.," I told her.
We spent 25 minutes speaking about the book, about Bolivia and about what the future might hold with a new U.S. President. The interview will air in the next few days. Watch for it here.
Last night we wrapped up our New York visit with an appearance at the Brecht Forum along the banks of the Hudson. The forum is a meeting point for progressive activists who briefed me on everything from events in Gaza to a new film on the recent rebellion in Oaxaca, Mexico. Before an audience of activists who already knew much of Bolivia's own rebellions, I took the opportunity to go beyond the myths and legends.
So now Providence slides by out our window, snow covers the ground. We have two back-to-back events today waiting for us up the road in Boston – first at Harvard then at Boston University. Tomorrow we have two more. I'll put the remaining schedule for the tour below.
Thank you to those who made our visit to New York so super, sleepless as it was. Thank you Nancy and Lew for lending us the third floor of your Brooklyn gray stone. Thank you to the wonderful people at New School and NACLA, at Brooklyn College and the Brecht Forum who hosted us. And thank you to the great friends, new and old, who braved cold weather to come out and hear us.
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Introduction to a Special Issue of the Journal of Immunological Methods: Building global resource programs to support HIV/AIDS clinical trial studies.
This Special Issue of the Journal of Immunological Methods includes 16 manuscripts describing quality assurance activities related to virologic and immunologic monitoring of six global laboratory resource programs that support international HIV/AIDS clinical trial studies: Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD); Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI); External Quality Assurance Program Oversight Laboratory (EQAPOL); HIV Vaccine Trial Network (HVTN); International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI); and Immunology Quality Assessment (IQA). The reports from these programs address the many components required to develop comprehensive quality control activities and subsequent quality assurance programs for immune monitoring in global clinical trials including: all aspects of processing, storing, and quality assessment of PBMC preparations used ubiquitously in HIV clinical trials, the development and optimization of assays for CD8 HIV responses and HIV neutralization, a comprehensive global HIV virus repository, and reports on the development and execution of novel external proficiency testing programs for immunophenotyping, intracellular cytokine staining, ELISPOT and luminex based cytokine measurements. In addition, there are articles describing the implementation of Good Clinical Laboratory Practices (GCLP) in a large quality assurance laboratory, the development of statistical methods specific for external proficiency testing assessment, a discussion on the ability to set objective thresholds for measuring rare events by flow cytometry, and finally, a manuscript which addresses a framework for the structured reporting of T cell immune function based assays. It is anticipated that this series of manuscripts covering a wide range of quality assurance activities associated with the conduct of global clinical trials will provide a resource for individuals and programs involved in improving the harmonization, standardization, accuracy, and sensitivity of virologic and immunologic testing.


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Yakima Valley Spirits & Hops Trail Blog
Alexander Graham Bell, Hops and the Yakima Valley
The creation of the Yakima Valley Spirits and Hops Trail reminded me of the Yakima Valley's connection with Gardiner Greene Hubbard, the founding president of the National Geographic Society and President of the American Telegraph Company, and his son-in-law, Alexander Graham Bell, who is credited with the successful introduction of the telephone. Like other investors in the 1880s, Hubbard and Bell saw the Yakima Valley as a new frontier, having just been linked by railroad to markets in the Eastern United States. In 1884, they established the Moxee Company on land purchased just east of present-day Yakima. Their intent was to create a model agricultural operation that would attract families to move into the Valley and produce commercially viable crops. By 1888, the company was raising cattle and had 1,000 acres under cultivation, including 140 acres of barley, 35 acres of hops, 30 acres of wheat, 35 acres of corn, 50 acres of oats, 240 acres of alfalfa, 78 acres in timothy hay, and 25 acres in tobacco. Hops, tobacco, and sugar beets became the most successful crops.
Tobacco growers from Kentucky were recruited to develop a locally grown leaf that could be hand-rolled into locally-produced cigars; but the combination of disease in the form of a leaf blight and the inexperience of Kentucky farmers in growing irrigated tobacco ended this crop in the Valley. Sugar beets suffered a similar fate, first through a blight in the period 1910-1920 and then through better production elsewhere in the country. However, hops have survived, perhaps because the Moxee Company is responsible for encouraging French-Canadian families living in northern Minnesota to move west to the Yakima Valley. Thirteen families, consisting of 52 individuals, came in 1897, and another wave in 1902. These families—Gamache, Champoux, Brulotte, LaFramboise, LaBissonaire, Regimbal, Desmarais, Desserault, Beaulaurier, Belair, Morrier, Sauve, Fourtier, Riel, Houle, Patnode, and others—became the core of the Yakima Valley's hop industry by the 1910s.
Like all industries, however, there have been good and bad times for hops. One of the more interesting periods was when there was an enormous scare caused by the passage of the Volstead Act in 1919. The Act prohibited the manufacturing, sale, or transportation of beer and other intoxicating liquors in the United States. Local bankers, upon whom hop ranchers depended for financing, assumed the brewing industry was dead and refused to lend money. They would not advance farmers the cash needed to hire labor to pick their crop in the Fall of 1919. But those farmers who were able to harvest and store their crop were able to cash in on the brand-new demand for hops—the home-brewing industry. By the early 1920s, hop growers were getting some of the highest returns that they had ever received to date—proving the Volstead Act was not the death blow bankers had projected. Furthermore, blight in the 1930s on the hops grown on the western side of the Cascades near Puyallup eliminated regional competition. By this time, however, the Moxee Company had sold most of its holdings to the individual farmer and eventually discontinued business entirely. However, without the impetus of Gardiner Hubbard and Alexander Graham Bell, it might have taken the hop industry in the Yakima Valley much longer to become established and such an important part of the local economy.
John Baule, Director, Yakima Valley Museum
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Bale Breaker Releases HIGH CAMP WINTER WARMER
High Camp Winter Warmer, the newest seasonal release from Bale Breaker Brewing Company, will be hitting the slopes at White Pass Ski Area this winter, as well as at restaurants and bars in our hometown of Yakima and select locations throughout eastern Washington and northern Idaho.
Having learned to ski at White Pass, the team at Bale Breaker Brewing Company designed this beer with two of their favorite things in mind – skiing and, well, beer. Additionally, the name is a nod to our taproom's first employee, who manages High Camp Ski Lodge at White Pass during the winter months.
ABOUT THE BEER: High Camp Winter Warmer – 8.2% ABV | 70 IBU – Named for the ski lodge atop our local White Pass Ski Resort, High Camp Winter Warmer takes Bale Breaker's signature hop-forward style to a slightly darker side. Perfect for the season, this winter beer hits first with a malty backbone of spice and chocolate. Dry-hopped with Cascade, Centennial, and Mosaic™, the hop character in High Camp bursts with pine and grapefruit. And at 8.2% ABV, this fireside sipper is sure to warm from the inside out.
On your next trip to White Pass, be sure to stop in for pint at the on-hill ski lodge that this brew was named after!
Website Dedicated to Local Yakima Valley Products Launched
The Yakima Valley Visitors & Convention Bureau (VCB) has launched a new program just in time for holiday shopping. Yakima Valley Made is a website that provides the public a directory of more than 100 Yakima Valley based farm products, hand crafted consumer goods and local food or beverage products. "With the rise of so many hand crafted artisan goods we saw a need to develop a central source for those products," stated John Cooper, President & CEO of the VCB. "The site is a work in progress as vendors and locally crafted products are identified and added to the website."
A number of the products listed on the website are available at the Yakima Valley Visitors Information Center at 101 N. Fair Avenue in Yakima. To view the site visit www.yakimavalleymade.com. Yakima Valley businesses producing locally grown or made items sold directly to consumers that want to be on the website should contact Laura Rodriquez at laura@visityakima.com
Funding for the project came through a grant from HUD Office of University Partnership at Heritage University with technical assistance provided by Yakima County Development Association/New Vision.
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Meta-analyses have been carried out to quantify the effect of dietary vitamin E on α-tocopherol accumulation and on lipid oxidation in porcine M. longissimus. Published results of 13 (vitamin E accumulation) and 10 (lipid oxidation) experiments respectively were used for the analyses. After a number of standardization procedures, a nonlinear relationship was found between the supplementary vitamin E and the accumulation of α-tocopherol in pork which approached a maximum value of 6.4 μg/g tissue. Pork lipid oxidation levels were described in terms of Thiobarbituric Acid Reacting Substances (TBARS) values. The statistical analysis revealed significant effect of vitamin E dose, muscle α-tocopherol concentration and supplementation time on TBARS, resulting in two prediction models for lipid oxidation. Meta-analysis has proven to be a valuable tool for combining results from previous studies to quantify the effects of dietary vitamin E. Further studies, carried out with standardized experimental protocols would be beneficial for model validation and to increase the predictive power of the derived models. © 2010 The American Meat Science Association. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.


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