As I write this note, I'm struck yet again how a different mood can coalesce in each issue of Galleries West. This time around, our stories seem to explore different aspects of contemporary angst.
For instance, poet Susan Andrews Grace notes themes of anxiety, addiction, escapism and environmental crisis as she writes about Deborah Thompson, an artist based in Nelson, B.C.
My story about Vancouver's Lori Goldberg reflects her concerns about the heavy toll of consumer excess and the rising tide of global waste.
John Thomson's story on the Vancouver Biennale focuses on Australian artist Patricia Piccinini, whose hyperreal sculptures of hybrid creatures gone awry are a creepy yet haunting commentary on the perils of genetic engineering. Her work speaks to contemporary anxieties about what it means to be human at a time of technological revolution and artificial intelligence.
Hot-button issues of gender and identity are at play in two other pieces. One is a review of a Winnipeg group show curated by Noor Bangu, described as an "all-around radical innovator" by writer Stacey Abramson. The other, written by Lissa Robinson, looks at a Calgary show by Tyler Bright Hilton, who portrays the varied adventures of his female alter-ego.
While my hand is evident in the magazine's editorial choices, I work with what's essentially an informal advisory group of writers, gallerists and others interested in the arts. They regularly drop me emails to let me know about shows and events that deserve coverage.
I accommodate as much as possible given our limited resources, mostly focusing my gatekeeping to reflect the diversity of art in Western Canada in a timely way, so readers can visit the shows that interest them. No editorial system is perfect, but I like to think Galleries West not only supports the work of artists and galleries, but also encourages dialogue about contemporary issues.
It's not surprising many artists are responding to our uncertain times. Lethbridge, Alta., writer Tyler J. Stewart sums it up in response to Kasia Sosnowski's emotionally resonant work: "In an increasingly polarized world, it often feels as if trauma awaits us at every moment. Daily reports of violence, sexual assault, hate speech and the like put us at risk for compassion fatigue, reducing our capacity to feel empathy and care for others."
Like many of you, I spent time recently watching the sneering rage of male entitlement via the U.S. Senate confirmation hearing for Brett Kavanaugh, as well as the distraught face of a brave woman whose life will surely be forever disrupted. It has prompted me to think about my own journeys through patriarchal structures, both professional and personal. No doubt, many of you are also weighing such memories.
It can be tempting to hide away, to seek escape, to bury ourselves in whatever solace we can find. And, yes, we must care for ourselves. But we must also keep sight of our responsibility to care for others by bearing witness, talking about difficult topics, and taking helpful actions to oppose injustice.
Art, with its mercurial ability to offer both comfort and challenge, can help us imagine new and better ways. It is vital in a troubled world.


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I'm reading – and enjoying – The Broken Eye by Brent Weeks and this great line jumped out at me.
Obviously I'm not as important as the character who said it in the story, but somehow it resonated. Does that mean I'm insecure?
I think writers from all walks of life can relate to that feeling. Insecure? Perhaps. I frequently have thoughts asking if what I write is actually my imagination, or if I am subconsciously rewriting something from someone else.


Following a meeting with Mental Health Minister Helen Morton, Mr Moore said he remained unconvinced the facilities were appropriately located.
'I understand the need for these types of facilities, but I cannot support the plan to build them in a high-density residential area, particularly on land so close to schools,' he said.
Ms Morton said the decision had been made and that the Government believed these centres were needed in Perth.
Mr Moore said while the people who would be housed in the facilities had a right to a secure environment, local residents who live in the area also had the right to live without their amenity affected by the effects of having the facilities in their backyard.
'Given the vast amounts of state-owned land and the selective planning criteria I, and local residents, find it difficult to accept the decision that Lockridge and Kiara are the best and only locations to develop these facilities,' he said.
Federal Labor candidate for Perth Alannah MacTiernan agreed and said it was unreasonable to put these two facilities in the one area without a transparent process where all options were canvassed and public submissions made on them.
'I think we need an independent assessment of where these places are, what the parameters are and then look at all possibilities in the metropolitan area and have a totally transparent process determining where they go,' she said.


Lowcroft has 6 state primary schools within a reasonable walking distance and a further 14 within driving distance. There are also several options for private education locally.
Woodlands Community Primary School is a state school that is rated good by Ofsted. You can read their report in full on the Ofsted site. The school is approximately 5 minutes walk. This is a mixed school accepting pupils between the ages of 3 and 11, with no particular emphasis placed on faith.
St James' Catholic Primary School, Skelmersdale is a state school that is rated good by Ofsted. You can read their report in full on the Ofsted site. The school is approximately 7 minutes walk. This is a mixed school accepting pupils between the ages of 2 and 11 of Roman Catholic faith.


Remember when The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air's Aunt Viv was all of a sudden…a different Aunt Viv?
Will also mentioned that he still plans on boycotting the Oscars and even jokes about possibly giving Jaden and Willow too much creative freedom.
The Age Of Adaline Might Be The Best Movie I've Ever Seen, Excluding Twilight.
And where would the world be without philosophical greats like Jaden Smith and DJ Khaled?
Watch Will's latest interview above.


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Man kills three daughters, hides bodies in refrigerator
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The Police Command in Enugu State has arrested one Ifeanyi Amadikwa, 52, in the Enugu metropolis for alleged murder and dumping in a freezer, of his three female minor children.
EFCC arraigns two for fraud in Makurdi
Bayelsa First Lady leads public campaign against ritual killings, cultism
Gunmen raid market in Niger community, kill 15 traders
The Command's Public Relations Officer, ASP Daniel Ndukwe, said in a statement on Wednesday that the suspect, Amadikwa, who lives in 74 Nkwubor Road, Emene near Enugu, was arrested on Jan. 4 at 7:30 p.m.
Ndukwe said that the suspect was arrested by police operatives attached to the Enugu Metro Police Area Command.
According to the police spokesman, his three female tender children he murdered are: Chidalum Amadikwa,11 (who is his step-daughter), Amarachi Amadikwa, 8, and Ebubechukwu Amadikwa, 4.
"Preliminary investigation showed that the suspect's wife and mother of the children, went to the market with her only male child on January 4th, leaving the others in the suspect's custody.
"She, however, came back in the evening hours of the said date and could not find any of the three children.
"But while searching for them, the suspect drew her attention to the said fridge he had brought back home from his shop on January 2nd and kept in their apartment's veranda.
"And on a closer observation, the lifeless bodies of the children were found in the fridge with bruises, suggesting that they might have been murdered and dumped in the fridge," he said.
Ndukwe said that the bodies of the deceased children were immediately moved to the hospital, where they were confirmed dead by medical doctors on duty and deposited in the mortuary for preservation and autopsy.
He said that the Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Lawal Abubakar, had commiserated with the mother, relatives and friends of the deceased children.
The police spokesman said that the commissioner had assured commitment to thoroughly investigate the case and ensure that justice prevailed.
"In view of this, the commissioner has ordered the Deputy Commissioner of Police in-charge of State Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department to conduct a conclusive investigation into the case and ensure everyone found culpable is brought to book," he added.

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Watch Beyond Rangoon
"Truth has a witness"
This drama, filmed on location in Malaysia, follows Laura Bowman as she travels to Burma to recover after her husband and son are murdered. A lost passport keeps her from leaving the country with her travel group, but she is befriended by a man who begins serving as her unofficial guide. But she is caught up in the violence created by the recent 8888 Uprising, and she is called upon to put her medical skills as a doctor to work when her companion is injured as they try to make their way back to Rangoon under difficult circumstances.
Beyond Rangoon is an Drama, Thriller movie that was released in 1995 and has a run time of 1 hr 40 min. It has received poor reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 6.6.
Where do I stream Beyond Rangoon online? Beyond Rangoon is available to watch and stream, buy on demand at Amazon, Vudu, Google Play, iTunes, YouTube VOD online. Some platforms allow you to rent Beyond Rangoon for a limited time or purchase the movie and download it to your device.
| 1995 | 1 hr 40 min | 6.6/10
Patricia Arquette, U Aung Ko, Frances McDormand, Spalding Gray
Executive Producer:, Sean Ryerson
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Why would anyone buy an ancient book on cryptography?
Here's why: Internet Cryptography presents crypto from a practical perspective. It explains the underlying issues and mechanisms behind classic Internet security technologies, from SSL to public keys to firewalls. The book is also part of the Common Body of Knowledge (CBK) used in the CISSP certification examination.
Using real-life case studies, examples, and commercially available software products, cryptography is presented as a practical solution to specific, everyday security challenges. And, much though we might wish that a magic bullet has since solved all of our security problems, many of the things we did in 1997 we are still doing today.
Materials from Internet Cryptography are copyright 1997, Addison Wesley Longman, and are reproduced by permission.


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Distinction of naive and memory BoCD4 lymphocytes in calves with a monoclonal antibody, CC76, to a restricted determinant of the bovine leukocyte-common antigen, CD45.
Howard CJ., Sopp P., Parsons KR., McKeever DJ., Taracha EL., Jones BV., MacHugh ND., Morrison WI.
A murine IgG1 monoclonal antibody (mAb), CC76, has been produced that, based on findings of the relative molecular mass of polypeptides that it recognized, staining of leukocytes in blood and tissues, and the biological properties of the T lymphocyte subpopulations with which it reacts, is considered to identify an isoform of the leukocyte common antigen (LCA) family of molecules in cattle. The mAb is more similar to human CD45R which detect products requiring the presence of the B exon within the LCA gene and to the anti-rat mAb MRC-OX22, than to CD45RA or CD45R0. mAb CC76 reacts with an antigen expressed by subpopulations of cells in bovine blood that express BoCD2 and either the BoCD4 or BoCD8 antigens. T cells that express the gamma/delta T cell receptor identified with mAb to BoWC1 antigen did not react with CC76. The molecule detected is expressed on B cells but not on monocytes or granulocytes. Only 2% of cells in thymic suspensions stained with mAb CC76. Immature cortical thymocytes that were BoCD1+ did not react with CC76 and 90% of the cells in thymic suspensions that were CC76+ had the phenotype of mature thymocytes. These cells were primarily in the medulla. The LCA isoform detected thus appears to be acquired by mature cells shortly before emigration from the thymic medulla into the periphery. Expression of the molecule detected by mAb CC76 on cells from lymph nodes was similar to that in blood, but expression on cells from the gut mucosa was quite different. Almost all, 95% and 93% respectively, of the BoCD4+ cells in the gut mucosa or discrete Peyer's patches were CC76-. A greater proportion of BoCD8+ cells from these sites, 35% and 26%, expressed the antigen. Lymphocytes from animals that had been immunized with Trypanosoma brucei were sorted into BoCD4+, CC76+ and BoCD4+, CC76- populations and cultured in vitro with the variable surface glycoprotein antigen from the parasite. Lymphocyte transformation responses were entirely within the CC76- population indicating that the mAb distinguished naive from memory BoCD4+ T cells in cattle. Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I-restricted cytotoxic precursor cells that expressed the BoCD8 antigen sorted from cattle that were immune to Theileria parva were both CC76+ and CC76- indicating that different isoforms of the LCA may be expressed on MHC class I- and class II-restricted memory cells and that BoCD8 memory cells are heterogeneous with respect to the LCA isoform that they express.
10.1002/eji.1830210933
Eur J Immunol
Animals, Antibodies, Monoclonal, Antigens, CD, B-Lymphocytes, CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes, Cattle, Epitopes, Flow Cytometry, Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Granulocytes, Histocompatibility Antigens, Immunologic Memory, Immunophenotyping, Intestinal Mucosa, Leukocyte Common Antigens, Lymph Nodes, Monocytes, Thymus Gland, Trypanosoma brucei brucei


Persson, Kristin. Materials Data on Pb2CCl2O3 (SG:127) by Materials Project. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.17188/1261814.
Persson, Kristin. Materials Data on Pb2CCl2O3 (SG:127) by Materials Project. United States. doi:10.17188/1261814.


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Shraddha Kapoor has shared the first poster of her upcoming film, "Haseena- The Queen of Mumbai" and her intense look in the poster suggests that her fans will get to see the actress in a never-seen-before avatar.
The film, which is based on Haseena Parkar, the late sister of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, will show Shraddha in a fearless and bold avatar, which has never been seen before. Her look in the poster is extremely fearless and bold, and you instantly forget how you have seen her in Bollywood so far.
Shraddha's role will showcase the life of Haseena from the age of 17 to 40. And if there is one thing that Shraddha regrets about her role, it is the chance of not having met Haseena herself who passed away in 2014.
Shraddha's real-life brother Siddhanth Kapoor will be playing the role of Dawood Ibrahim.
"Haseena – The Queen of Mumbai" is directed by Apoorva Lakhia also stars Shraddha's brother Siddhant as Dawood Ibrahim is all set to releases on July 14, 2017.
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President Trump's executive order blocking immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries is raising worries about how a Trump presidency will affect Wisconsin's workforce and visas that bring in skilled tech workers from overseas.
John Holevoet, director of government affairs for the Wisconsin Dairy Business Association, says the Trump administration's initial action isn't likely to affect many in-state workers. He pointed to some Somali workers working in Wisconsin and Minnesota as potentially being affected, but said he was generally skeptical about economic impacts. But he says he's "somewhat concerned" about restricting H-1B visas.
Kurt Bauer, (pictured here) president and CEO of Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, says WMC supports reforming the H-1B system to expand the number of visas given out. He adds that 64,000 H-1B visas is "probably not enough" for the growing needs of the American workforce, much less those of Wisconsin's.
He says that's bad for the Wisconsin workforce, which had 6,414 H-1B visa applications certified in 2015. The average wage offer for these visa holders was $74,696, according to DOL's Office of Foreign Labor Certification. Read the full story here.


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Q: Visual C++ 2010: argv[0] is full path in debug mode, but only .exe name in release mode In Visual Studio 2010 C++, I am reading argv[0] to get the working directory.
In debug mode it is definitely showing the full path of the directory and the exe file name itself (as expected)
In release mode it ONLY has the program .exe name, rather than the full working path.

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*why?

*How to get working directory?

A: MSVC will place the command used to launch the executable into argv[0] - this has nothing to do with the current working directory.
For example, if the command used to launch foo.exe is:

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*foo, and the executable i found by searching the path, argv[0] will be foo

*c:\foos-dir\foo, (the path will is not searched) argv[0] will be c:\foos-dir\foo

*foo.exe, argv[0] will be foo.exe
etc.
You should probably get the current working directory using the Win32 GetCurrentDirectory() API or the _getcwd() runtime function.
Here's a short example using GetCurrentDirectory():
TCHAR buffer[128];
DWORD const buffer_chars = sizeof(buffer)/sizeof(buffer[0]);

DWORD result = GetCurrentDirectory( buffer_chars, buffer);

if ((result == 0) || (result >= buffer_chars)) {
    puts("problem getting the working directory");
    exit(1);
}

printf( "Current working directory: %s\n", buffer);

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Belgium Moves Away From 19th-Century Style Partisanship
By Tom Cassauwers • APR 09 2018
With the breakdown of a long-standing social contract, expect churn in Belgium.
Veteran Belgian politician Mieke Vogels of the Groen! party is a child of the rebellious 1960s. But as Flemish minister of health and well-being between 1999 and 2003, her plans for reforms, she argues, were resisted by entrenched social pillars that have for over a century split Belgian life along political affiliations. Now, 15 years later, she spots cracks in that divide.
Starting in the 19th century, the country's three main political formations — the Socialists, Christian-Democrats and Liberals — each set up a range of civil society organizations that, in the words of University of Ghent political scientist Carl Devos, captured Belgians from "the cradle to the grave." Trade unions, health insurance, hospitals, newspapers, schools and even sports clubs associated with each party ensured that individuals and families stayed aligned with one of the three pillars of political thought throughout life.
The pillars have been tied to power for too long, and now they are impeding good governance in Belgium.
Mieke Vogels, Groen! party politician
But these pillars are slowly crumbling. Research shows that more and more Belgians are now choosing health insurance based on the quality of services offered rather than political affiliation. The numbers of such Belgians rose by 40 percent between 2012 and 2017, with the country's younger population leading the move away from rigid pillars. In parallel, parties like the Groen! and Flemish nationalists have started eating into votes of the traditional parties. During the 2014 elections, N-VA, a right-wing Flemish nationalist party, became the biggest party on the Flemish side of Belgium.
At the same time, civil society organizations that helped hold up the pillars have begun loosening ties with specific parties. The Liberal and Christian-Democratic unions have in recent years stepped up active resistance to policies of governments led by their parties. For the country's 2014 elections, the Socialist trade union called on members to vote for any left-wing party, not just the Socialists, as was the custom. According to Vogels, the pillars stopped being in the interests of Belgians a long time ago.
"The pillars have been tied to power for too long, and now they are impeding good governance in Belgium," says Vogels.
For many decades, the pillars were critical to the strengthening of Belgium's democratic processes, say experts. With the expansion of the right to vote in the 19th and early 20th century, the previously elite-based Christian-Democratic and Liberal parties and the new Socialist party mobilized citizens to participate in democracy. "For all the criticism they receive, I also see the emancipatory consequences the pillars had," says sociologist Jaak Billiet from KU Leuven University. Even Vogels, a trenchant critic of the pillars, concedes they once played an "almost revolutionary role."
But the social organizations the parties set up also ensured what Devos calls "segmented pluralism." Members receive social services and security and are mobilized within their pillar, but in turn, they submit to its social control. Both Devos and Billiet are critical of this social control. "They almost locked up people on their own ideological islands," says Devos.
Each pillar, in turn, receives state support and even takes over functions usually reserved for the state. A 1958 law even guaranteed children access to both a Christian and a state-sponsored school near them.
For sure, citizens have been individually breaking away from the pillars for years now. My grandfather was born into a Socialist family and became a member of the Socialist health insurance. Yet one day in the 1970s, he walked out of his house, angry because his insurance had been holding off on a back payment, found the Christian-Democratic health insurance recruiting next to the church of his village, and signed up with them.
The shift has now grown into a steady pattern that shows no signs of reversing.
Having existed for over a century, the pillars still retain significant influence, say both supporters and critics of the system. While consumers are picking services based on their quality, says Vogels, "back office" networks linked in the pillars remain "very strong." She argues that these networks are out of touch with young Belgians, including an increasing number with immigrant backgrounds for whom the birth-to-death ideological commitment doesn't make sense.
That doesn't take away from the benefits the pillars have also brought to Belgian society, experts like Devos and Billiet caution. The three trade unions pay out a section of the country's social security benefits (with government money), and Devos points to research that suggests they actually do this quite efficiently. With the disappearance of the pillars, "civil society gets fragmented and handed over to the market," says Billiet. "It signifies a certain loss of social values."
But the signs of change are clear. Louis Ide is a member of the European Parliament and general secretary of N-VA. A harsh critic of the division of society along pillars, particularly in health care, he sees the rise of his party as an example of the weakening of the power of the pillars. According to him, the push for change is coming principally from citizens themselves.
"They are not married anymore to one health insurance fund," he says.
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Q: Unable to install plugins in vim via PlugInstall I use windows. When I try to install nvim-comp using vim-plug it's giving me this error:
Cloning into 'C:\Users\ASUS\AppData\Local\nvim\plugged\nvim-comp'...
remote: Support for password authentication was removed on August 13, 2021. Please use a personal access token instead.
remote: Please see https://github.blog/2020-12-15-token-authentication-requirements-for-git-operations/ for more information.
fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://github.com/hrsh7th/nvim-comp.git/'

I went through this post. I know this might be the github issue but when I try to clone the repository it's working fine. Please help me out if you can.

A: It was a typo in plugin.vim. It's nvim-cmp.


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Environment targets for applicant states end up as an exercise in reality
Harding, Gareth
European Voice
Vol.7, No.23, 7.6.01, p16
By Gareth Harding
LISTENING to candidate country negotiators these days is a bit like eavesdropping on third-form literature students frantically trying to finish a novel they are about to be quizzed on. "How many chapters have you finished?" asks one. "Twelve, but they were the easy ones," comes the reply.
So far, Slovenia, Hungary, Estonia and the Czech Republic are the only states to have completed the environment chapter of arguably the world's most boring book: the Acquis Communautaire. They managed to do this so quickly because the European Commission has proved to be a more lenient examiner than many central and eastern European pupils feared.
A year ago, the EU's top environment teacher Margot Wallström was wagging her finger at wayward students like the Czech Republic and Poland for failing to do their homework on time. But now Günter Verheugen, her colleague in charge of expanding student numbers, is telling the wannabe members that they can hand in some of their exercises late as long as they show willingness to complete the course. "On environment, financially and technically the changes cannot be done overnight. If you say no to transition periods you're saying no to accession before 2010," he says.
Anyone who has read the Commission's Agenda 2000 enlargement blueprint knows that the Union was always going to have to confect some fudge to reconcile two opposing factors. On the one hand, the bloc has a political commitment to let the first applicant states into the EU in the short to medium term. On the other, adopting and implementing the Union's 300 environmental laws was always going to be a medium to long-term mission.
In time-honoured tradition, the Commission has got around this conundrum by allowing transition periods. So Slovenia and the other three states will be allowed extra time to meet exacting Union standards on packaging waste, sewerage treatment and oil reserves and other candidate countries are likely to be granted similar periods of grace.
Given the massive cost of implementing EU environmental laws - conservatively estimated at €120 billion - it is only natural that central and eastern European countries should be allowed extra time.
Officials in Brussels have also understood that it is difficult to scold candidate countries for not implementing legislation when most current member states have such huge problems doing so.
But the director of the Copenhagen-based European Environment Agency, Domingo Jiménez-Beltrán, believes that enlargement should not just be a painting-by-numbers exercise, but should be used as an opportunity to sketch out a new landscape in the former Soviet bloc. "If we just take compliance as a goal, the natural heritage of these countries will go down the drain," Beltrán told European Voice. The Spaniard says that enlargement provides a once-in-a-lifetime chance for the would-be members to avoid making the same mistakes as western European countries and to "leapfrog" into an era of sustainability.
Article forms part of a survey on enlargement.
Environment, Politics and International Relations


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Nine-year-old Sergio is the only child of his middle-class parents, Anna and Paolo, but he may soon be joined by a sibling. Anna is pregnant and she doesn't want to bring the unborn baby to term, especially now that her marriage to Paolo is going through a rough patch. Sergio, though well adjusted, is a solitary boy whose introverted habits have earned him the nickname Lone Ranger. During a long summer vacation in the country, Sergio first fiercely resists the prospect of a sibling, then battles with a terrible sense of guilt when his imaginary brother fails to materialize. The impish figment of his hyperactive imagination refuses to disappear, however, and comically becomes an inseparable if annoying companion.


Congratulations and good wishes have poured through the doors of the Jamieson Library and Trevelyan House, Penzance, at the announcement in the New Year's Honours List, of an award of MBE (Membership) for our former Director, who retired in November from her front-line post with the Hypatia Trust.
Melissa Hardie-Budden has been given the award in thanks for her 'services to Heritage and the Arts in West Cornwall.' Her intentions, of course, are not to 'slope off' to warmer, drier climes, though tempted!, but to explore some of the threads of thought revealed in the books she has so lovingly collected and nurtured. Melissa will continue to serve as Chairwoman of the Hypatia Trustees and participate in the work of sharing our Collections. Not especially good at sitting down (except at the desk), she will also continue as an ambassadress for the Trust and its missions.


Momentum – both economic and political – is shifting across the developed world. Europe started the year with the strongest growth outlook, but that has now shifted to the United States.
The January U.S. payroll report showed that wages had jumped 2.9% for the month. This, apparently, was the catalyst for a selloff in global equities. But are rising wages really a symptom of higher inflation to come? Discover our diagnosis in Viewpoints now.


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Guillaume Poitrinal, né le  à Châtellerault (Vienne), est un entrepreneur et chef d'entreprise franco-luxembourgeois.

De 2005 à 2013, il dirige le groupe Unibail-Rodamco. Il est le plus jeune dirigeant d'une société du CAC 40 quand le groupe intègre l'indice en 2007.

En 2014, il fonde Woodeum avec Philippe Zivkovic, un promoteur immobilier de logement bas carbone utilisant le bois lamellé croisé comme matériau de construction innovant, puis en 2017, WO2, promoteur immobilier bas carbone de bureaux de nouvelle génération.

En 2014 également, il crée un fonds d'investissement spécialisé dans l'immobilier européen, Icamap, qu'il préside toujours aujourd'hui.

Depuis 2017, il est le président de la Fondation du patrimoine.

Biographie

Jeunesse et études
Fils d'un chirurgien et d'une directrice de clinique, Guillaume Poitrinal fait ses études secondaires et ses classes préparatoires au lycée Henri- à Paris. Il est diplômé de HEC Paris en 1989.

Carrière
À 23 ans, il effectue son service militaire dans l'armée de l'air, comme sous-lieutenant affecté à la base aérienne 107 Villacoublay. Il est aujourd'hui colonel de la réserve citoyenne de la Gendarmerie nationale.

À son issue, il rejoint le département fusion et acquisition de Morgan Stanley comme analyste, de 1992 et 1995, à Londres puis à Paris.

En 1995, il est recruté par Léon Bressler, patron du groupe Unibail, comme chargé de mission. Il est promu en 1997 directeur du développement et de la planification. L'année suivante, il devient directeur financier, puis directeur du pôle Bureaux. En 2002, il est promu directeur général délégué chargé de l'ensemble des divisions et de la finance.

En , Léon Bressler quitte la direction du groupe pour en devenir président non exécutif et Guillaume Poitrinal devient directeur général. Au départ de Léon Bressler le , Guillaume Poitrinal devient président-directeur général du groupe.

Le , Unibail intègre l'indice CAC 40 et âgé alors de 39 ans, Guillaume Poitrinal est le plus jeune dirigeant d'une société du CAC 40.

Le , le groupe Unibail fusionne avec le groupe néerlandais Rodamco et devient une société anonyme à directoire et conseil de surveillance. Guillaume Poitrinal  évoque alors une « union logique ». Il devient président du directoire du nouvel ensemble, Unibail-Rodamco.

Il quitte le groupe le . Durant son mandat, la taille du groupe a été multipliée par quatre. Le cours de Bourse est passé de 93 euros à 175 euros et 80,3 euros de dividende par action ont été distribués, assurant une performance annuelle à l'investisseur de 15,1% en moyenne, contre +3,3% pour le CAC40 et +4,5% pour l'EPRA, l'indice sectoriel de l'immobilier en Europe.

Avec Philippe Zivkovic, il fonde en 2014, une société de promotion immobilière spécialisée dans le logement bas carbone en bois, Woodeum, puis en 2017, WO2, promoteur bas carbone de bureaux de nouvelle génération. En juin 2020, avec son fonds Icawood et WO2, il lance la construction d'Arboretum, à Nanterre Paris La Défense, le plus grand projet de campus de bureaux en bois du monde (126 000 m²).

Missions pour le gouvernement
Le , François Hollande le charge de piloter le choc de simplification. Il en sera président jusqu'en . Puis il assurera jusqu'en  la présidence de l'Atelier « aménager et construire », dont objectif est d'alléger les démarches administratives et fiscales auxquelles sont soumises les entreprises françaises.

En , la présidente de la région Île-de-France Valérie Pécresse le nomme président du Conseil stratégique pour l'attractivité et l'emploi. Il en sera président jusqu'à fin 2018.

En , il est nommé président de la Fondation du patrimoine, succédant à Charles de Croisset.

Sous la présidence d'Emmanuel Macron, il lance le projet de mécénat populaire « Loto du Patrimoine », en collaboration avec le ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, la Française des Jeux et Stéphane Bern.

Autres mandats
 Ancien-président de l'association des sociétés immobilières cotées en Europe (EPRA).
 Membre du comité d'éthique du MEDEF.
 Membre fondateur de BBCA (Association pour le développement du bâtiment bas carbone).
 Fondateur et gérant du fonds d'investissement ICAMAP.
 Depuis le , il préside la Fondation du Patrimoine.

Prix et distinctions
 Trophée d'honneur de la personnalité ayant marqué l'industrie des centres commerciaux en 2007
 Trophée CNCC de l'homme de l'année 2008 Trophée CNCC de l'Homme de l'année
 Pierre d'or professionnel de l'année 2008
 Prix HEC de l'année, décerné par l'association des diplômés HEC, en
 Médaille de l'académie d'architecture en 2012
 Chaque année de 2006 à 2013, Guillaume Poitrinal est élu « Meilleur président d'une société immobilière en Europe » par vote des investisseurs institutionnels interrogés par le magazine Institutional Investors
 Pierre d'Or, prix spécial du jury 2014
 Procos d'honneur 2014, remis par Procos, la fédération du commerce spécialisé
 Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur (2015).
 Médaille d'argent des Réservistes de la Défense et de la Sécurité Intérieure en 2022

Publications
Leadership : Perspectives sur l'exercice du pouvoir dans les entreprises - Éric-Jean Garcia, préface de Erhard Friedberg - Éditions de Boeck, 2011
 Plus vite ! La France malade de son temps, Paris, Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle, 2012
 L'immobilier demain : La Real Estech, des rentiers aux entrepreneurs - Robin Rivaton et Vincent Pavanello, Préface de Guillaume Poitrinal, Editions Dunod, 2017
 Les 100 mots du patrimoine - Guy Sallavuard, Préface de Guillaume Poitrinal, Editions Que Sais-je, 2021
 Pour en finir avec l'apocalypse - une écologie de l'action, Paris, Éditions Stock, 2022

Notes et références

Naissance en décembre 1967
Élève du lycée Henri-IV au XXe siècle
Élève de l'École des hautes études commerciales de Paris
Homme d'affaires français
Unibail-Rodamco
Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur

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LabCorp® and GENFIT have announced the signing of a licensing agreement between GENFIT and Covance, LabCorp's drug development business. The agreement will expand access to an innovative non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) liver diagnostic test for the clinical research market.
Founded in 1976, based in Burlington, North Carolina, LabCorp, is an S&P 500 company, and a leading global life sciences company that is deeply integrated in guiding patient care, providing comprehensive clinical laboratory and end-to-end drug development services. With a mission to improve health and improve lives, LabCorp delivers world-class diagnostic solutions, brings innovative medicines to patients faster, and uses technology to improve the delivery of care. LabCorp reported net revenues of more than $10 billion for 2017.
Founded in 1999, headquartered in the Greater Lille Area, France, GENFIT is a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing drug candidates and diagnostic solutions targeting liver diseases, in particular those of metabolic origin, and hepatobiliary diseases. GENFIT concentrates its R&D efforts in areas of high unmet medical need corresponding to a lack of approved treatments. With facilities in Lille and Paris, France, and Cambridge, MA (USA), the Company has approximately 150 employees.
NASH is a silent, asymptomatic disease that often progresses to more serious and life-threatening stages before a clinical diagnosis is made. Liver biopsy, a highly invasive procedure, is currently the clinical standard to formally diagnose NASH and stage fibrosis. Furthermore, there are currently no extensively validated non-invasive diagnostic tests in NASH to address evolving disease and therapeutic implications, providing clinical and market opportunities for new product innovations.
To address this pressing need, GENFIT has developed a novel, non-invasive test created specifically for NASH. This multi-parametric blood-based biomarker test, named NIS4, leveraged a rich biobank of samples from roughly 700 well-characterized patients to establish a novel combination of biomarkers to identify and monitor patients with NASH and significant fibrosis. The primary focus of the licensing agreement will be to deploy NIS4 in the clinical research space through Covance's central laboratories to further validate the test's use for better identification and characterization of patients, and to generate new biological insights on NASH disease pathogenesis.


Archer Daniels Midland is going merger wild – sort of. The $30 billion U.S. grain processor will pay about $3 billion for Wild Flavors, a Switzerland-based natural food flavoring and coloring specialist. Illinois-based ADM's biggest-ever deal is a departure from its core milling and trading operation. Picking up a small add-on business with similar customers in a sexier part of the food chain makes sense, but it's unlikely to change how investors see the firm any time soon.
ADM says it is valuing the privately held Wild Flavors enterprise at roughly 14 times expected 2015 EBITDA. That's expensive but not egregious for a company that bills itself as a kind of think tank for the food industry. Rival flavor and fragrance producers Frutarom and Givaudan trade on about 11 and 14 times expected EBITDA, respectively.
The anticipated $140 million of annual synergies help take the sting out of the deal price. Taxed and capitalized they're worth nearly $1 billion – although only a third of them come from potential cost cuts, with the rest relying on more elusive boosts to revenue.
Regardless of synergies, the deal is too small to make much impact on how investors view ADM. Like the larger, privately-held Cargill, ADM wants to diversify away from volatile commodity businesses into higher-margin products. But including Wild Flavors' $1.4 billion top line, food ingredients revenue of $2.5 billion will still be tiny compared with overall group sales of almost $90 billion last year. Even allowing for the flavor company's higher margins, it's hard to see that significantly boosting ADM's enterprise value-to-EBITDA multiple of around eight times.
Of course, Wild Flavors may only be a first step toward building – or buying – a much bigger ingredients business. But if today's investor preferences persist, that might bring calls for ADM to spin it off. Meanwhile, the company's last foray of similar size was last year's aborted attempt to buy Australia's GrainCorp, much more in line with ADM's core activities.
Monday's deal therefore raises the question of which way the company goes next. Its shares rose modestly after the announcement, but that may say more about the buoyant M&A environment than investors' faith in this particular deal.
U.S. agricultural processor Archer Daniels Midland announced on July 7 that it had agreed to buy Switzerland-based food flavorings and ingredients company Wild Flavors for 2.3 billion euros (about $3 billion), including 100 million euros of net debt.
The acquisition is ADM's biggest-ever deal, according to Thomson Reuters data.
Wild Flavors is 65 percent-owned by its founding family. Private equity group KKR owns the remaining 35 percent.
ADM's shares rose 1.2 percent in early New York trading on July 7.


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Cerebrolysin for vascular dementia
Vascular dementia is a common form of dementia caused by poor blood flow to the brain. There are currently no proven and licenced treatments for vascular dementia. Cerebrolysin is a medicine that is made from pig's brains and given as an injection. In some countries, Cerebrolysin is used as a treatment for vascular dementia. A previous summary from 2013 considered all studies of Cerebrolysin and vascular dementia. A definitive conclusion as to whether Cerebrolysin was beneficial could not be made.
Purpose of this review
We wanted to learn whether Cerebrolysin can benefit people living with vascular dementia. We were particularly interested in the effects of the medication on memory and thinking; daily functioning; side effects; and and quality of life for people with vascular dementia and their caregivers. As some time has passed since the last review of Cerebrolysin, we wanted to update the review with a search for any new studies.
We searched for studies that described the effect of Cerebrolysin in people living with vascular dementia. We searched databases of scientific studies, including resources from countries where Cerebrolysin is commonly used. To be included in our review, the studies had to randomly decide whether people were treated with Cerebrolysin or a comparison. We combined the results of the included studies to estimate the effect of Cerebrolysin. We also assessed how well the studies were conducted and how credible the results were. The evidence is current to May 2019.
We found six studies including a total of 597 people living with vascular dementia. The method of Cerebrolysin treatment differed across studies, with varying strengths of Cerebrolysin and treatment durations. The studies reported that Cerebrolysin had beneficial effects on memory and thinking and on daily functioning. There was no reported risk of side effects with treatment. None of the studies described quality of life of people living with vascular dementia or their caregivers.
Although the studies suggested a benefit of Cerebrolysin treatment, the results are not definitive. The included studies had several issues that may have led to misleading results. Even if the benefit reported in the studies is real, the effect was modest and may not be important to people living with dementia. There is a need for a large, well-conducted study to better understand if Cerebrolysin is a useful treatment for people living with vascular dementia.
Authors' conclusions:
Courses of intravenous Cerebrolysin improved cognition and general function in people living with vascular dementia, with no suggestion of adverse effects. However, these data are not definitive. Our analyses were limited by heterogeneity, and the included papers had high risk of bias. If there are benefits of Cerebrolysin, the effects may be too small to be clinically meaningful. There have been no new studies of Cerebrolysin in vascular dementia since the last Cochrane Review. Cerebrolysin continues to be used and promoted as a treatment for vascular dementia, but the supporting evidence base is weak. Adequately powered, methodologically robust trials are needed to properly assess the effects of Cerebrolysin in vascular dementia.
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Although vascular dementia is the second most common cause of dementia globally, evidence-based treatments are still lacking. Cerebrolysin is a porcine brain-derived preparation that is said to have neurotrophic and neuroprotective activity. In many parts of the world Cerebrolysin, given as a series of daily intravenous infusions, is used as a potential intervention for vascular dementia. A previous Cochrane Review on Cerebrolysin in vascular dementia yielded inconsistent results. We wished to update the review to add new studies from the international literature and employ contemporary methods for appraising the strength of the evidence.
This is the first update of a review first published in 2013.
Primary: to assess the effect of Cerebrolysin on cognitive function, global function, and all-cause mortality in people living with vascular dementia.
Secondary: to assess the adverse effects of Cerebrolysin and to assess the effect of Cerebrolysin on quality of life and caregiver burden.
Search strategy:
We searched ALOIS, MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO, CINAHL, ISI Web of Knowledge, LILACS, the Cochrane Library, ClinicalTrials.gov, and the WHO ICTRP on 16 June 2017, 9 May 2018, and 9 May 2019. We expanded the search by adding four Chinese databases, searched from 1 January 2012 to 19 May 2019. We checked bibliographies of relevant papers identified and contacted pharmaceutical companies, trial authors, and experts in the field to identify any additional published or unpublished data.
Selection criteria:
We included all randomised controlled trials of Cerebrolysin used in people living with vascular dementia. We applied no language restriction.
Data collection and analysis:
Two review authors independently selected trials for inclusion and evaluated their methodological quality. Data were extracted and analysed using mean differences (MDs) or standardised mean differences (SMDs) with 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) for continuous outcomes. We reported dichotomous outcomes as risk ratio (RR) with 95% CI. We assessed the strength of the available evidence using the GRADE approach.
Main results:
We identified six randomised controlled trials with a total of 597 participants that were eligible for inclusion in the 2013 review. No new studies were eligible for inclusion in this update. Participants in the included studies, where dementia severity was reported, had mild to moderate severity of vascular dementia (four trials). The included studies tested varying doses and duration of Cerebrolysin treatment. Follow-up ranged from 15 days to three years. Five of included studies were conducted in China (three studies), Russia (one study), and Romania (one study), while relevant information of other study was unclear. Where details of funding were available, all studies were supported by the pharmaceutical industry (three studies).
Cognitive function was measured using the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) or Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale Cognitive Subpart, extended version (ADAS-cog+). Combining the MMSE and ADAS-cog+ data (three studies, 420 people), there was a beneficial effect of Cerebrolysin (SMD 0.36, 95% CI 0.13 to 0.58; very low-quality evidence).
Global function was measured by Clinician's Interview-Based Impression of Change plus Caregiver Input (CIBIC+) or Investigator's Clinical Global Impression (CGI). We assessed response rates on these measures (the proportion of participants with a CIBIC+ score of < 3; or at least moderate improvement of the CGI rating at the last visit). There was a beneficial effect of Cerebrolysin (two studies, 379 participants, RR 2.69, 95% CI 1.82 to 3.98; very low-quality evidence).
Only one trial described mortality and reported no deaths. Four studies reported adverse events; data from two studies (379 people) were in a format that permitted meta-analysis, and there was no difference in rates of adverse effects (RR 0.91, 95% CI 0.29 to 2.85; very low-quality evidence). No studies reported on quality of life or caregiver burden.
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Health topics:
Mental health > Dementia & cognition > Interventions aimed at interrupting disease processes
Neurology > Dementia & cognition > Treatment aimed at interrupting disease processes
Cui S, Chen N, Yang M, Guo J, Zhou M, Zhu C, He L
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It's interesting how the voting works sometimes. I believe Rupkus is also a two-time conference POY; and team performance doesn't really factor in too much. If it were me, I'd pick Kevin Dennis over both of them. I imagine UAA POY Ryan Clamage had something to say about the results as well. Certainly not a two horse race.
I do not mind using seniority and career accomplishments as a tiebreaker, but previous season stats and awards are not my favorite way to determine this years awards. So, yes I agree Dennis and Clamage are very worthy of Region POTY, more so than Ed Rupkus based on the play this year. Also, team accomplishments for sure should play a role in voting, and it to the outside viewer, it appears that it plays some sort of role. It is another good tiebreaker when two players have pretty equal season stats. I know its not a perfect science, but this one was quite the surprise in my eyes.
Pretty sure Kevin Dennis wouldn't put up the numbers he did if he played in the SUNYAC. Morrisville is 3-10 against the SUNYAC since they left to join the NEAC. And yes one of those 3 wins was against Brockport in the NCAA tournament but Brockport's All American, Jon Ivy, never played in that game, as he was injured during the latter part of the regular season. The reason they left the YAC, along with SUNYIT, was to be a big fish in a small pond and make the playoffs. They were 2-30 in the 2 years they were in the conference.
And you're right Ryan it wasn't a two horse race. Jon Patron was so far out in front of the others he looked like Secretariat at the Belmont Stakes leaving Sham and the also rans 31 lengths behind.
It's true, you have to adjust the stats for the schedule, but he did put up 16 and 12 against R-MC in the tournament, while getting doubled a lot of time. He's a talented kid, as is Patron... and Rupkus... and Clamage. Patron's going to benefit when it comes to AA because he's a forward (and there's just less competition there), so that may provide some vindication.
Glad to see the coach's backed up our panel as well. Also glad you're going to war for your guy; that's the right thing to do.
As Ryan said, Patron a very worthy candidate and will almost certainly be an All-America selection.
What are the early projections for next season? Plattsburgh loses a ton. Oswego loses two of their top four. Cortland loses their top two. Oneonta returns everyone. Brockport reutrns a lot.
I'd hop on Oneonta or Brockport's bandwagon. Can't count out Oswego as Coach Leone keeps finding talent And Buffalo State, the best 16 loss team in the country, will return just abut everyone.
Returning in 19-20, 'Port has a first teamer in Summers and a Third Team is Hagins, plus Ashley, the ROY in the conference.
Oneonta has Bull and Mackin, a potent inside outside combination.
Oswego has Sanborn, and never count out a team with a gifted lead guard, and Gartland to complement him.
I think everyone else will have to catch up to those three teams.
"Just the Facts, Ma'am, Just the Facts"
Any word is Brockport's Tyler Collins is returning. He only played 8 games last season. He's listed as a senior.


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Europe's top 15 downloads on the Switch eShop for May 2020
In a recent news post sent out to Switch owners, Nintendo provided a listing of the top 15 European eShop downloads for May 2020.
This month, NBA 2K20 leads the way thanks to a big sale. We also see Minecraft Dungeons and Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition appear for the first time at #3 and #10 respectively.
The full list is as follows:
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Switch eShop charts – June 6, 2020
This week's Switch eShop charts are as follows:
Famitsu software sales (5/25/20 – 5/31/20) – Top 30
This week's expanded Japanese software sales are as follows:
1. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 03/20/20) – 102,749 (4,685,419)
2. [NSW] Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition (Nintendo, 05/29/20) – 90,789 (New)
3. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 10/18/19) – 39,518 (956,559)
4. [PS4] The Legend of Heroes: Ao no Kiseki (Falcom, 05/28/20) – 12,407 (New)
5. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 10,415 (2,965,844)
6. [NSW] Splatoon 2 (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 07/21/17) – 10,041 (3,437,424)
7. [NSW] Uta no Prince-sama: Amazing Aria & Sweet Serenade LOVE for Nintendo Switch (Broccoli, 05/28/20) – 9,216 (New)
8. [PS4] Bayonetta & Vanquish 10th Anniversary Bundle (Sega, 05/28/20) – 7,397 (New)
9. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 7,262 (3,711,072)
10. [NSW] Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition (Bundle Version Included) (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 6,714 (1,399,850)
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Famitsu sales (5/25/20 – 5/31/20)
The latest Japanese hardware sales from Famitsu are as follows:
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3DS eShop charts – June 3, 2020
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This week's 3DS eShop charts are as follows:
UK software sales – May 31, 2020 – Xenoblade debuts at #1, sold more than double the original
This week's UK software sales are in, revealing a strong debut for Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition.
In its first week, the game topped the charts and landed at the top spot. Although it sold slightly fewer copies than Xenoblade Chronicles 2 did at launch, sales were more than double the original on Wii.
Here's the full top ten:
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Switch eShop charts – May 30, 2020
4. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 8,974 (2,955,429)
5. [NSW] Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition (Bundle Version Included) (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 6,107 (1,393,109)
6. [PS4] Final Fantasy VII Remake (Square Enix, 04/10/20) – 5,902 (914,239)
8. [NSW] Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training for Nintendo Switch (Nintendo, 12/27/19) – 5,678 (234,735)
9. [NSW] Super Mario Party (Nintendo, 10/05/18) – 4,830 (1,451,093)
10. [NSW] Pokemon Sword / Shield (The Pokemon Company, 11/15/19) – 4,497 (3,602,252)
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UK sales for April 2020
New sales data is in from the UK for the month of April 2020.
During the month, over one million games were sold across all platforms, with Nintendo taking home a 21.5 percent share of all boxed titles sold. This was the most successful April for physical game sales since 2015. While down 13 percent from March, that was merely due to Animal Crossing: New Horizons moving on from its launch month.
All consoles – including Switch – have sold more units during the first four months of 2020 than they did during the same period in 2019. In total, 210,000 games consoles were sold during April. Between March and April, half a million game consoles have been sold in the UK for a 48 percent increase year-over-year.
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After studying at the academies of Drancy, Sceaux and the 6th arrondissement of Paris, Isabelle Durin entered the CNR of Versailles as a student of Alexandre Brussilovsky. She won her highest tribute as a violinist receiving her gold medal in 1996.
She studies for one year with Antoine Goulard, and later entered in 1997 the CNSM in Lyon in the class member of Jean Estournet and Kaziemierz Olechovski. In the same instance, Isabelle also obtained a Doctorate in philosophy in La Sorbonne.
In 1999, Isabelle toured the European round with Gustav Malher Jugend Orchester, under the baton of Franz Welser-Möst. In 2001, she obtained the DNESM of Lyon. In the same year, she was selected for the master's class of Shmuel Ashkenasi, at the Schleswig Holstein Muzik Festival of Lübeck. She advanced to a new level after studying with well-renowned violonists including Jean-Pierre Sabouret, Boris Garlitsky, Igor Volochin, Patrice Fontanarosa and Roland Daugareil. She continued her pursuit of chamber music under the direction as of Alain Meunier and Michel Strauss.
She became a member (2003) of the Orchestre National d'Ile-de-France, led by Yoel Levi and now Enrique Mazzola. Followed shortly after, in December 2003 she received a bronze medal of Société d'Encouragement au Progrès at the Senate.
Isabelle Durin actively performs chamber music concerts, with special arrangement in duet violon/piano: her first album "Hebrew melodies of the Romantic Era" makes her travel in Europe (Geneva, Rotterdam, Brussels, Amsterdam, Prague, Romania, and also in United-States and Colombia. Her new album "Mémoire and Cinéma"(Paraty/PIAS), with the pianist Michaël Ertzscheid has already led her in Germany (Essen), in Canada (Toronto) and in Paris, in the Shoah Memorial.
For the past four year (2002) she has been the Artistic director of the festival musical du château de la Légion d'honneur de Pouy-sur-Vannes (Aube) and now artistic director of Harminies Estivales in Villeneuve l'Archevêque.
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A Shooting Script 1987
by Inua Ellams
#After Seamus Heaney
They are riding from what might have been
towards what will come to be, in a locked shot:
Missionaries on bicycles greeting Muslim boys,
priming the eighties for the troubled future,
still pedalling out at the end of the lens,
circling the teens like ambushed prey.
Mix to desert dust floating in hot breeze.
An ominous long sequence. Pan and fade.
Then voices over, of different tribal dogma,
discussing politics, failed civilian rule, the pull
of Christian capital, dwindling grazing land,
occurrence of names like Matthew and Paul.
A close-up on the cat's eye of a white button
pulling back wide to a kaftan, black turban,
rifle, parched fields, herd of starving cattle.
Freeze his livid face. Let the credits run.
And just when it looks as if it is all over –
tracking shots of a mosque, the muezzin stands
for the call to prayer, sings over the young
interfaith couple washing off their hands.
#afterhours combines memoir, diary, poetry and doodle, drawing on the rich collections of the National Poetry Library at the Southbank Centre, London. From the judges: "An intrinsically generous collection which allows us in to the creative process, which is described unpretentiously... very inspiring."
Inua Ellams
Born in Nigeria in 1984, Inua Ellams is a poet, playwright, performer, graphic artist and designer. He is an ambassador for the Ministry of Stories and has published four books of poetry: Candy Coated Unicorns and Converse All Stars, Thirteen Fairy Negro Tales, The Wire-Headed Heathen and #Afterhours, shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. His latest book is The Half-God of Rainfall (Fourth Estate, 2019). His first play The 14th Tale was awarded a Fringe First at the Edinburgh International Theatre Festival and his fourth Barber Shop Chronicles sold out its run at England's National Theatre. He is currently touring An Evening With An Immigrant. He lives and works from London, where he founded the Midnight Run, a nocturnal urban excursion. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.


The number of skiers that used the Banadad this winter is way up. If I had to guess –it was all about having consistently great snow conditions all winter. Then, of course, the ski-season is not over yet! There is still 20 inches of snow on the ground and nary a bare spot along the trail. The trail is likely to see even more skiers yet this ski season.
Contributing to the large number of skiers, was this year's banner number of those skiing Yurt to Yurt. More skiers traveled the Bananad this year, in this program, then any other year since the program began in 1984. According to Barbara Young, Boundary Country Trekking, co-owner, "people are already scheduling the yurts for next winter and weekend dates are beginning to fill up. This means - if you are planning a Yurt to Yurt Ski trip for next winter you better make your reservations early." Contact 218-388-4487 for more information.
In late February, with the help of a grant from the Minnesota DNR, the Banadad Trail Association purchased a new snowmobile groomer -a very large Arctic Cat Snowmobile special design for grooming. One of the new machine's feature is a winch. Already the winch has come in handy when the new snowmobile got stuck in deep snow. According to Curry the groomer, "having the winch to pull the buried snowmobile out was greatly appreciated. It saved me a lot of work trying to dig the snowmobile out by hand"
Planned for this summer is the construction of a storage and maintenance building. With the construction of this building, repairs and maintenance will be done in a heated shelter instead of outside as it has been done for many years. The building will also enable us to store our grooming equipment inside and shelter from the elements during the non-snow months. Currently there are three snowmobiles and several goomers, used to maintain 'the Banadad that we plan to store in this new building.
Keeping the Banadad clear of down trees and brush is a never ending task. This fall the Banadad Trail Association is planning two maintenance projects.
Our Annual Volunteer Maintenance day is scheduled for Saturday October 27. This event will follow the Banadad Trail Association's Annual Meeting scheduled for the night before. Overnight lodging and meals are available for these events. If you would like to stay overnight a donation is requested for your lodging and meals.
This fall a new trail clearing project is planned. While the date has not be set, it will be a 3-4 day overnight BWCA canoe-in and camping trip. We will canoe into Rush Lake where we will camp. Then each day hike into a much neglected section of the trail just east of the Ham Lake Fire burn. A fee of $50 will be charged to cover the cost of canoes, camping gear and food, This project will likely be some time mid September. Stay tuned on this one.
Interested in participating in either of these Trail Maintenance Projects? For more information or to volunteer for either of these project contact 218-388-4487.


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Nova Scotia judge dismisses charges against three Mi'kmaw fishermen
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Moderate livelihood treaty right at centre of fishery trial in Nova Scotia
Opinion: Canadian implementation of the UNDRIP would benefit all treaty people in Atlantic Canada
In 2018, I taught a course at Cape Breton University on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples or UNDRIP. All of the students in my class were Mi'kmaq. Throughout the course, [...]
Photo Essay: Remembering the 215 children who lost their lives at Kamloops Indian Residential School
On May 30, 2021, more than 50 people gathered at the former site of the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School to mourn the recent discovery of the remains of 215 children on the grounds of the [...]
Mi'kmaw Family and Children's Services sues Sipekne'katik following order to leave community
An Indigenous agency that provides child protection and family support services to First Nation communities in Nova Scotia is suing the province's second largest Mi'kmaw First Nation after it was ordered to leave one of […]
Mi'kmaw fisherman to set date for trial on constitutional challenge in October
A Mi'kmaw fisherman who is fighting fishery charges against him on constitutional grounds will return to court in October to set a trial date. Cory Francis, 53, appeared before Judge Paul Scovil in provincial court […]
Mi'kmaw fisherman seeks court approval to fight fishery charges on constitutional grounds
A Mi'kmaw fisherman from Nova Scotia is seeking permission from a provincial court judge to challenge fishery offences against him on constitutional grounds. Cory Francis, 53, from the Acadia First Nation near Yarmouth, N.S. argues […]
Mi'kmaw play, KOQM, describes colonialism in Nova Scotia from a Mi'kmaw woman's perspective
Mi'kmaw poet and storyteller shalan joudry says she was inspired to write her play, KOQM, when she noticed the town of Annapolis Royal's plans in 2021 to celebrate 400 years of the signing of the […]
Mi'kmaw Language Act proclamation takes centre stage at opening ceremony of NS Mi'kmaw Summer Games
Mi'kmaw leaders and athletes from across Nova Scotia gathered in Potlotek Mi'kmaw Nation Sunday afternoon to celebrate the opening of the Nova Scotia Mi'kmaw Summer Games and the proclamation of the Mi'kmaw Language Act. The […]
Countdown for the 2023 North American Indigenous Games in Halifax begins
The official year-long countdown to the North American Indigenous Games in Halifax in July 2023 has begun. The NAIG 2023 organizing committee launched the countdown at an event along the Halifax waterfront on July 15. […]
Former AFN vice-chief not guilty of sex assault
A former Nova Scotia Mi'kmaw chief and Assembly of First Nations regional vice-chief has been found not guilty of sexually assaulting a woman at his home in We'koqma'q First Nation, N.S. in 2013. Judge Shane […]
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NASHVILLE—Tennesseans are asked to beware of letters suggesting they have won a prize in the popular lottery game Powerball. Several Tennessee residents have reported receiving such letters, which also include a request for the recipient to use an enclosed check to pay fees to claim their winnings.
Since the Tennessee Lottery began selling tickets on Jan. 20, 2004, it has raised more than $1 billion to fund specific education programs, including college scholarships, pre-kindergarten and after-school programs. For more information, please visit www.tnlottery.com. For information about Lottery-funded scholarships, visit www.collegepaystn.com.
Someone who knows they didn't play Powerball would also know that there is no way they could have won a prize and would not try to cash the check. But then this particular scam is less effective on honest people.
We've gotten the same type of warnings in FL. It's always best to check your tickets and your numbers on Lottery Post first!
Time*treat, what makes you think the people who fall for scams are dishonest? Someone who plays might get confused and fall for a scam.
You know, when you drop little phrases out of the statement, it materially changes the meaning. I haven't decided yet if you do this on purpose. I specifically said people who didn't play, and I said "less effective".
If someone asks you if an e-mail or letter is real, just tell them to go to www.usamega.com/lottery-scams.asp.
On a side note, there are fees. Its called Uncle Sam. He is always 1/3 partner for winners. I'd like to see his claim form though. And if he is a silent partner I want to claim him on my tax exemption form and send him a 1099 for looting from my overall winnings!
Thanks for this information, I didn't know about that site. When I got an email from NC lottery telling me that I had won a Carolina Hurricanes prize pack, I called the NC lottery and found out that it was a valid email. It came from a NC lottery survey I filled out on the Pick 3. The merchandise arrived in 3 weeks, I didn't have to pay a shipping fee (The gaming company did that) and let me say that it is quality merchandise that I would have spent hundreds of dollars for if brought separately.
Congratulations on your prize pack! And no on a legitimate win from a reputable sponsor you do not have to pay for shipping or any other fee, other than being responsible for taxes on it.
Excerpt from the Direct Marketers Association website.
* A "sweepstakes" is a game of chance one plays voluntarily and for which one is not required to pay anything to enter in order to win a prize.
5. A clear statement of the payment schedule of any prize. For example, if a $1 million prize is to be awarded in equal payments over 20 years, the disclosure should indicate that the $1 million shall be paid in equal amounts of $50,000 per year for 20 years starting in 2000.
4. Say anything to contradict or limit the rules of the sweepstakes or disclosures required by this law. ............."


All you need to do is email me with your order before 9.00pm Friday night and you'll still be in time. For every $100 you spend you get to choose one of the four limited edition stamps sets. The above card was made with Birthday Whimsy.
Don't forget too … you can make the most of the retirement list being announced early and grab some retiring sets before they go and at the same time earn yourself a free Sale-a-Bration set! It's a win/win time for stampers!!
It's time to revisit your Stampin' Up! wish list! Why? Because Stampin' Up! have released their catalogue retirement list a little earlier this year … and it's pretty long.
This is a card I made exactly from page 48 of the catalogue … Nice & Narrow stamp set … it's going to be gone!
This is a card I made using the same layout as the Nice & Narrow card (above) except I used other colour card stock and stamps from my own collection. One of the stamps I used was the cake from Bloomin' with Happiness (hostess set) … and that stamp set is going to be gone too!
Although we will all be sad to see so many products go, it is also an exciting time because it means our new catalogue, out on 1 April 2008, must be filled with some awesome and exciting new products!! I can't wait!!
So, have a browse at the list below and, if you really want something, order now before everything goes. The items on this list are only available until 31 March 2008 or until sold out, whichever is earlier. After that, they are gone forever (except perhaps on Ebay). The items listed in YELLOW have a limited quantity (already!!!) and may run out soon. Items in RED are no longer available (already!!).
The best advantage for you is , with the retirement list out now and Sale-A-Bration still running until 29 February 2008, you can order from the retirement list, spend $100 and receive a FREE Sale-A-Bration stamp set.
For my customers too, I'm offering 15% off all retiring items. So place your order with me today!
It really was so easy to do … pick two complementary colours, stamp one colour on a solid stamp and then use a Stampin' Around wheel inked up with the other colour and roll/twist it on the other stamp. Give a 'huff' and stamp on your cardstock. I chose Apricot Appeal and Real Red as my complementary colours. Would you try this technique?
I think the colours Pretty in Pink and Chocolate Chip look really lovely together. What do you think?
Well, it's not a 12×12 scrapbook! But I have scrapped my first ever 6×6 album. I wanted to start small before I tackle anything too big!
When I joined Stampin' Up! I chose the Stampin' Memories Add On … which meant for only $75 I received an alphabet stamp set, a linen 6×6 album, a Simply Scrappin' Kit, an assorted pack of 12×12 cardstock and a Stampin' Write black journaler. Truly, such awesome value I could not go past it.
And the gorgeous outfit? A special Christmas present from Aunty Iesha which was brought back from China for Bella.
Notice the car? A WRX, no less! A Christmas present from Grandma.
What do you think of my first attempt? Leave a comment!
Who wants to be organised for some birthday cards this year? Well, then, it's Stamp-A-Stack time!
What is a Stamp-A-Stack, you ask? Well, simply, we sit down and make a stack of 10 cards, 5 of 2 different designs.
How much will that cost? Well, how much do you pay for a handmade card at a card shop? $8-$10 or thereabouts? each card?? Well, for your very OWN handmade creations that are clearly more special to your friends and family than someone else's handmade creations … it will cost only $20 for 10 cards including all materials. An optional $3.00 extra is payable if you would like lovely envelopes to go with your cards that you can stamp to coordinate with the cards you have made.
Interested? Well, book Monday 25 February 2008 into your calendar … 7.30pm at my place, 7 Parklea Drive, Parklea.
The design of this card is completely inspired by Marelle Taylor, one very talented Stampin' Up! demonstrator. Thanks, Marelle!
And this is the other card … something completely different!
Bookings for my classes are essential.
Please contact me no later than Saturday 23rd February 2008 to ensure your place. Looking forward to seeing you at my place!
If you cannot make it, then why not organise a minimum of 4 people together (including yourself) and book me to visit your home for a personalised card making class? Contact me today to arrange a date!
Would you like to come but your diary is already booked that night? Well, subscribe to my blog to have your finger on the pulse and know when the next class you might like to attend is on. Thanks for looking!
PS. this is a card I considered for the SAS, but I think it would be a late night cutting out the cupcake five times … what do you think?
You can always tell when the new year has settled in … life gets busier. So, with a few workshops done recently and a few more on the way, here are some more thank you cards I have made for my hostesses. The card below uses the stamp set, Merci, which is one of the FREE Sale-A-Bration stamp sets you can only receive if you place an order over $100 BEFORE 29 FEBRUARY 2008.
Time is counting down for these sets to be gone forever … so if you love it and want it, order today!
The gorgeous Flirty pink ribbon and stunning chocolate/vanilla spotted paper will also be gone soon, but you have until 31 March 2008 to place your orders for them. A good reminder for your diary, the Summer Mini Catalogue ends next month!
Which thank you card do you like best? Leave a comment.


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Q: Problemas com GlassFish PermGen Space Possuo um projeto que executa um sistema web de controle, ele possui um web service rest para consultas e coleta de dados de dispositivos móveis.
Ele executa perfeitamente, mas o projeto está ainda em desenvolvimento. Já aconteceu três vezes, de o Glassfish travar e exibir a mensagem do erro PermGen Space. Mando ele reiniciar, mas ele fica tentando implantar e nada. Consegui resolver isso a primeira vez removendo o server, adicionando-o novamente, criando novo domain e criando um novo projeto com essa nova instancia do server. Mas se eu tiver que fazer isso todo dia, vai faltar HD e não termino o projeto.
Estou usando NetBeans 7.3.1 | JDK 1.7 | Glassfish 4.0
Preciso resolver urgente isso. Se alguem puder ajudar, ficarei agradecido.

A: Problema de memória Heap.

*

*No arquivo "domain.xml" presente no diretório
/glassfish/domain/domain1/config
encontre:
<jvm-options>-XX:MaxPermSize=

Atribua um valor 256m ou 512m

*Encerre o processo do Glassfish pelo terminal, exemplo o meu roda naporta 8080:
sudo netstat -npl | grep 8080
Isto deverá resultar alguma coisa tipo
tcp6 0 0 :::8080 :::* LISTEN **3312**/java

Então mate o processo:
kill -9 **3312** (note que 3312 é o numero do processo resultante acima).

Tente subir novamente o Glassfish.
No Windows não sei os comandos para encerrar, mas acredito que se reiniciar a máquina, consiga resolver, depois de acertar o arquivo xml no passo 1.


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Megaliths & Romans around Flor de Rosa
by Candy Blackham | posted in: Europe, Home, Portugal | 2
There are many megalithic sites around Flor de Rosa and if you are staying in the Pousada and enjoy exploring do search them out, and there are many more than I have so far found! Photographs here were taken over several years, with different cameras and at different levels of expertise, but I wanted to share with you the fun in searching for these sites. The Romans were also active in the area and in Crato there is a very nice, small Municipal Museum with information about both megalithic and Roman sites.
The museum is in a building which was clearly an aristocratic or wealthy man's mansion house, just round the corner from the palace of the Prior of Knights of St John of Jerusalem. This was the Order which built what is now the Pousada of Flor de Rosa.
Tablet from megalithic burial site
Roman jug
The Megalithic Portal is a fabulous site and here you can find all the sites in the district of Portalegre. The Anta do Tapadao is on the road between Flor de Rosa and Aldeia da Mata. I believe that burial sites like this were originally buried in the ground with a tunnel approach – you can imagine this if you look at the stones on the left of the uprights. The Anta of São Gens is in the countryside, near the Spa of Nisa.
Anta do Tapadao
Countryside around the Anta of Sao Gens
Anta of Sao Gens
Eastwards, towards Castelo do Vide there are at least 50 more sites – dolmens, antas, menhirs, and passage burial mounds. The Anta de Melrica is just north of Castelo do Vide; the Antas de Coureleiros are off the road to Póvoa e Meadas, an interesting group of five burial chambers.
Anta of Melrica, just north of Castelo do Vide
Antas de Coureleiros
The Necropolis of Boa Morte is a small group of graves next to the dam of Póvoa e Meadas, and also at the dam is the Chafurdão do Vale de Cales. The chafurdão are much later buildings, perhaps used by shepherds or herdsmen.
And further to towards the Spanish border stands the Menhir de Meada, the tallest in Portugal at over 7 metres in height. Rock art can be seen, just, at Gaviões, although that is some distance away.
And Roman bridges are everywhere! The Romans were in the Alentejo from 2C to the end of 5C and if you look you can find their bridges everywhere. There are two Roman bridges just below Crato, and another on a circular walk around Flor de Rosa. The most famous is the bridge over the River Seda at Vila Formosa. And between Flor de Rosa and Aldeia de Mata, on a back road, a small Roman bridge has now been bypassed with a new road.
Roman bridge of Choconal, below Crato
Choconal, Roman Bridge below Crato
Roman Bridge at Monforte
Roman bridge on walk around Flor de Rosa
Vila Formosa Bridge
Roman bridge near Pousada Flor de Rosa
I love searching out these sites which are often difficult to find and not really known to the Tourist Offices; you need to do some homework before visiting and then be prepared for a considerable search because maps can be variable as well. But the sense of achievement and wonder when you stand on a bridge which is 2,000 years old, or in a stone circle which may be 7,000 years old is considerable!
Municipal Museum in Crato and here
Information about Crato
Sites around Castelo do Vide
Alentejo, Anta, Castelo do Vide, Crato, Dolmen, Megaliths, Menhir, Portugal, Roman bridge
9th April 2018 | Reply
Hmm, perhaps there is something I need to improve on?
Third time lucky! I always seem to meander around your blogs as shown on your Gravatar. It's a .org so I'll try to remember that 🙂 🙂


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I'm trying to import information from a file with 331k lines. As the file size is about 20mb, I'm uploading the file in a Web Screen and waking a timer to process the file.
The file is a txt file with comma separated values.
I already checked other posts and I'm stuck.
have you tried debugging the timer with "Break on All Errors" to see if any error is being thrown ?
Maybe just a wild guess, but I would say that there is an Antivirus closing connections in your server.
There is no antivirus installed on server. I'll try Ricardo Silva approach and give feedback.
edit: Service Studio only indicates that it has stopped the debug session. It can take 5 min to break or 2 hours.
Increase the timeout of the timer?
Increase the priority of the timer?


The SX1261x devices expand network coverage while reducing the receive-mode power consumption to just 4.5 mA — 50 percent less than the previous generation. This capability not only extends the battery life of the LoRa-based sensors by up to 30 percent, but it also opens up many new uses for improved connectivity with Internet of Things (IoT) sensor applications.
Mouser Electronics is distributing the SX1261 and SX1262 LoRa transceivers from Semtech. Designed for extended battery life with just 4.2 mA of active receive current consumption, the SX126x sub-GHz radio transceivers are ideal for long-range RF wireless applications and are fully compliant with the physical layer requirements of the LoRaWAN specification released by the LoRa Alliance.
The Semtech SX1261x transceivers, available from Mouser Electronics, support LoRa modulation for low power wide-area network (LPWAN) applications, as well as (G)FSK/MSK modulation for legacy applications, and include a new spreading factor of SF5 for dense networks. The SX1261 can transmit up to +15 dBm, and the SX1262 can transmit up to +22 dBm with highly efficient integrated power amplifiers.
The devices offer global continuous frequency coverage from 150 to 960 MHz, covering all major sub-GHz ISM bands. Both radio devices are suitable for systems targeting compliance with radio regulations including but not limited to ETSI EN 300 220, FCC CFR 47 Part 15, China regulatory requirements, and the Japanese ARIB T-108. The SX1262 transceiver is supported by the SX1262DVK1CAS Development Kit, also available from Mouser.
Semtech's SX1261 and SX1262 LoRa transceivers are now available in a compact 4 mm × 4 mm package that is 45 percent smaller than the current generation.


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I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus är en amerikansk långfilm från 2002 i regi av John Shepphird, med Connie Sellecca, Corbin Bernsen, Cole Sprouse och Dylan Sprouse i rollerna.

Handling
Den 8-årige pojken Justin (Dylan och Cole Sprouse) ser sin mamma (Connie Sellecca) ge Justins pappa en kyss. Det enda problemet är att pappan David (Corbin Bernsen) är utklädd till tomte. Justin tror att tomten försöker att ersätta hans pappa, och Justin, som brukade vara snäll och duktig, blev helt plötsligt olydig och ganska elak, eftersom han ville att tomten skulle sticka iväg och lämna hans mamma i fred. Han kastar snöbollar, sätter upp fällor och sparkar tomten som han ser säga "God jul" till alla på gatan. Samtidigt skiljer sig föräldrarna till Justins kompis Bobby (Eric Jacobs) och Bobby, som brukade vara olydig och elak, blev snäll och duktig (Justins raka motsats) för att tomten skulle fixa så att hans föräldrar blev ihop igen.

Rollista

Källor

Externa länkar

Amerikanska familjefilmer
Amerikanska komedifilmer
Filmer 2002


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Hong Kong braces for cardboard pile-ups as recycling price falls in response to a major factory slashing payments and US-China trade war
Kanis Leung
South China Morning Post 4 June 2019
Hong Kong faces a build-up of cardboard on the streets and in landfill with recycling prices set to drop to a new two-decade low, putting the livelihood of frontline workers at risk.
A leading paper factory on mainland China has plans to cut the price it pays local waste exporters to HK$600 (US$77) per tonne, according to the Hong Kong Recycle Materials and Reproduction Business General Association, amid lower demand for cardboard among Chinese factories caught in the crossfire of the US-China trade war.
Jacky Lau Yiu-shing, the association's director, recalled the export price was about HK$1,100 to HK$1,200 per tonne last December, meaning cardboard collectors could sell what they gathered from the streets for about HK$0.7 to HK$0.8 per kilogram.
Prices have fallen since then, with those frontline workers now only receiving HK$0.4 to HK$0.5 per kilogram.
That is poised to tumble to HK$0.1 per kilogram on the back of the slump in export rate, the association said, the lowest for more than 20 years.
"After the price goes so low, those who work on the front line will stop picking [paper waste] because they cannot earn a living by it and buy a meal box through collecting waste," Lau said, adding it could force businesses to close.
He said local exporters could not survive being paid HK$600 per tonne, so his members had not signed new export orders at that price.
They were expected to finish their current deals, signed at a rate of around HK$900 per tonne, on June 15.
Lau said manufacturers making toys, clothes and electrical appliances required fewer packaging boxes and other paper materials amid the ongoing trade dispute between China and the US.
But he noted the tariff spat only had limited impact on the price drop because mainland factories still bought paper waste at around 1,900 yuan (US$275) per tonne from Chinese recycling businesses.
The major factor was the mainland factory cutting its buying price, he added.
"The US-China trade war has a little bit of effect because the demand would be lower. But this is not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is the mainland factory wants to earn more when it has a chance," he said.
She's 'very tired', but granny, 89, needs to sell cardboard to help family
Hahn Chu Hon-keung, director of environmental advocacy at The Green Earth, said elderly people who usually worked as cardboard pickers might not want to continue their collections given the low rates.
As a result, more waste paper would end up in landfill.
To tackle the challenges, he suggested big recycling exporters and companies cut their margins, so the industry could be sustainable.
"Those who suffer most or have the least bargaining power are the ones who work on the front line," he said.
He said big companies would also go under if those who work at the lower end of the supply chain could not survive.
To help small firms, he added, the government could provide temporary sites for local recycling firms to store their paper waste, so they could sell them when the price surged again.
Waste paper weighing tens of thousands of tonnes was collected every month from Hong Kong streets, according Hong Kong Census and Statistics, often by "cardboard grannies" who struggle to make a living.
Most of it was exported to the mainland.
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A few weeks ago Alex and I went on a weekend getaway to Spain. We actually took a bus, which in the beginning seemed like a great idea. Neither of us had to drive and we didn't have to worry about our hotel…but we traded that for an un-air conditioned 13 hour bus ride and extremely swollen ankles. Once we were there though, everything was pretty darn amazing.
My favorite part of travelling is always the food. Since we only had one day in Barcelona, we bought tickets to ride the Hop-On/Hop-Off bus tour. We got off on a random stop because we were starving and stumbled upon the Filburg Restaurant. We must have arrived just as they opened and had the whole place to ourselves. It really reminded me of the fancy burger pubs in D.C.
Everything we ate was amazing. Perfectly seasoned, super fresh and extremely flavorful.
Trio of House-Made Croquettes: Iberian ham, gorgonzola and walnuts. These were AMAZING. Soft and fluffy on the inside with a thin, crisp breading.
Focaccia Crostini, Fresh Squid, Braised Red Peppers and Caramelized Onions.
The Gras Burger: Caramelized onions, foie gras, arugula and balsamic cream with Pedro Ximenez reduction .
Molten Chocolate Cake: Usually I steer clear of this dessert (Every place I've ever worked has a version of this) BUT this one was fantastic. The cake was light and decadent at the same time. Totally on-point.
So seeing that all bets were off for dieting, we had to try the chocolate kebab. Basically, it was a dessert version of a gyro sandwich. Totally worth feeling like a blob afterwards…and seeing Alex eat like a 2 year old.
We have started a tradition in out travels. Everywhere we go we get a piece of art from a local artist. It's so much more interesting than a collectible spoon or snow globe, and we are supporting the creativeness of the locals.
Then there are all the random photo's of things that I just thought were pretty or interesting….or just silly pictures of Alex!