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Personal Empowerment through Chakra Biohacking
Lani Reagan
I not only reclaimed my physical health but woke up from the level of deep delusionary spiritual sleep replete with all kinds of triggers, primarily by means of chakra biohacking and mental biohacking. It taught me that I was more than what I was conditioned to believe I was, and that I had the right to believe in me.
"You are so much more than you think you are. You just need to believe it."
~Sharath RK Teja
25 years ago I would have scoffed at anyone who claimed to know how to work with chakras to heal and transform, much less biohack them. But such is the state of hubris I had at being raised in a narrow-minded conservative Bible thumping culture that made zero room for other possibilities. Fast-forward to today and I'd say I'm a chakral bio-hacking ninja, fully equipped with laser crystal, rose quartz generator and a huge bottle of aura spray to finish off my ensemble.
How I found my personal power
How did I get blasted out of that old scene my karma had cast me in for the first part of my life? I suffered the path of waking up by getting sidetracked from a reasonably happy religiously devoted life, and redirected into an ultra focused self-healing journey. That led me to realizing the culture I was making my life all about, wasn't all I thought it was.
I chakra bio-hacked my way back to health and wholeness, and this gave me, a cult survivor, a definite edge over other cult survivors. I not only reclaimed my physical health but woke up from the level of deep delusionary spiritual sleep replete with all kinds of triggers, primarily by means of chakra biohacking and mental biohacking. It taught me that I was more than what I was conditioned to believe I was, and that I had the right to believe in me.
Now, I know all too well how crazy effective bio-hacking your chakras can be, only because it was the thing that gave me the strength to leave that cult and the humility to admit I had indeed been wrong and manipulated. You'd laugh seeing my old photos of me evangelizing and presuming to believe I knew how everything would go, from armageddon, to the new world. I still slightly cringe at remembering it. Though it seems like aeons ago. The thing is that biohacking my chakras and mental biohacking taught me that I was more than what I was conditioned to believe I was, and that I had the right to believe in myself.
Awakening healing energy in my life
Biohacking the chakras helped me to wake up to the old narratives I had been holding as true for myself that really kept me limited, small, and away from connecting deeply with others. In the process of biohacking my chakras, I learned how to help others heal from all sorts of traumas and emotional wounds and chronic pain, which gave me a deep sense of relief given I had spent decades in a bible thumping mindset imposing those ideas on many people in an effort to "save" them. It made me feel like I was correcting for possibly traumatizing others with the evangelist message of doom and gloom.
So I turned to devoting my life to helping others to biohacking their physical and emotional wounds and an amazing thing happened (or began happening again since my psychic skills were engaged in my childhood and melted away as I aged). I began to relate not just to people, but with them, through their chakras. That may sound odd, but really we are all swimming in a sea of energy, and our auras are interpenetrating the auras of others in our physical proximity and in our arenas of consciousness.
I began to see the old trapped energies of neurological connections in the brain and how they were impacting the chakras leading to different behaviors and causing people to say unkind or nonsensical things. I began to see below the layers of the things that confused people or caused them to act out, become paralyzed or give up. I could map how a certain negative program wound up imprinting itself on the neurological level by sensing into the chakras.
Today biohacking the chakras, to me, is the same thing as biohacking the brain, for the brain and the energy field are closely related. If you energetically biohack the chakras in charge of the brain, the excitation elicited in stress and alarm, become normalized and even. If I hadn't learned this first hand and used the techniques to wake myself up, I likely would have ended up leaving the cult eventually but been laden with layers of anger, betrayal, self-doubt and insecurities that might have held me hostage from living out my soul's destiny and life purpose.
But my story isn't likely all that unique, because I've observed, human woundedness is par for the course and no one escapes it. This is because, I believe it's inherent to the process of soul evolution, which means our triggers are rich with spiritual gold when it comes to biohacking the consciousness around these stressful states.
So what's your story? What triggers tend to get the better of you, that you can't seem to unhinge yourself from? What triggers tend to get worked out in making less than healthy choices for yourself or cause you to believe less than life affirming things about yourself? If you could get below those layers what could you imagine for yourself, that you can't imagine right now?
If you're going to use chakral biohacking it would be incomplete without the mental biohacking component, because energies are expressed in thoughts and words, mostly unspoken at the layer of the psyche or audio-digitally inside your head. Those thoughts and words have an impact on your chakras, so for the most transformative effect, I have discovered that teaching others how to mentally biohack the mind-stuff, has been instrumental in helping others make huge changes.
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I had one client who was resentful of his family name (due to past painful events), but was struggling to get his business off the ground. His resentment energy was causing the solar plexus chakra to be continually congested which prevented him from moving forward in making decisions in his work interests. He was riddled with self-doubt as a result of the indecision and it was a cycle that fed itself and would get him spiraling downward. Maybe you know the feeling. When we reached the part of his psyche holding resentment of his family name, after addressing the congestion in the solar plexus chakra, and unwound all of that, a very interesting thing happened. 3 weeks later he got a call from a friend who had a business idea that involved using the family name he had held resentment against, but since he no longer had the trigger he was able to move forward and follow through. Today he has a thriving business that's growing progressively year by year and the cornerstone of it is his family name!
Imagine if his trigger had not been cleared and instead of moving forward, he had pushed the opportunity away. He'd likely not have the amazing business that's given his whole life new meaning. Have you ever had a trigger that cost you in some way shape or form because the impulse either made you retract or push away? This is exactly why I believe it's so important to work with your triggers so you can stop missing out on the good the universe sends to you and so you can stop avoiding the things that you think are too dangerous, too hard or too scary.
If you'd like some help in mentally biohacking and to chakral biohack so you can get beneath your triggers I'm available via the Online Reader's Portal for chakral readings and biohacking and you can follow me on instagram to get mental biohacking tips to use on your own. My newest offering is a free Mental BioHacking Masterclass you can attend by asking for the link at checkout from the www.paradisefoundsb.com online shop. Either way, I'm wishing you every good thing to help you activate, achieve & attain!
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Commitment to service and passion for international studies drive former PIIRS Undergraduate Fellow Kate Maffey.
By Leda Kopach
When Kate Maffey '16 reached an impasse in the research she was conducting in Jordan for her senior thesis, "Women in the Jordanian Army," she did what most college students do — she started Googling.
"I was waiting to hear back from my contacts and started searching online in both Arabic and English," says Maffey, a former PIIRS undergraduate fellow who graduated last spring with a major in Near Eastern studies and a certificate in French. "I came across an article in 'Petra News' about a retired women's military association, a perfect source for my thesis. I took a chance and called the newspaper to ask if the reporter would be willing to contact the president of the association who was quoted in the article. A few minutes later, I had a phone number."
Shortly after that, she had an invitation to the woman's home followed by hours of invaluable conversation giving Maffey the vital background information she needed for her paper.
"She was incredibly helpful and very interested in my research," says Maffey, who is also a newly commissioned second lieutenant in the U.S. Army having attended Princeton on a ROTC scholarship. "We had a lot in common as women who are invested in the military, and because I speak Arabic, language wasn't a barrier; she trusted me."
Luck would have it that the woman's husband also happened to work in one of the largest military hospitals in Jordan, outside of Amman, so he was able to cut through some of the red tape Maffey was experiencing in obtaining interviews with military officials.
"Meeting her was such a windfall," she adds.
From a young age, Maffey set her sights far and wide. Raised in suburban Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, and homeschooled until her high school years, she credits the flexibility of her education in allowing her to pursue her many interests such as the Middle East and foreign languages. In eighth grade she convinced her mother to let her take Arabic lessons, and while she says she didn't retain much of the language — it wasn't offered in high school so she took French — she was hooked and determined to return to it in college. But first she had to figure out how to pay for school.
"Joining the military was always on the table," Maffey says. "My father had served for a few years and I have some cousins and uncles who have also served. I wanted to be in the military to help people. I see the military as a way to extend the influence of my skill set and affect more people than I could alone. I am glad that these two ideas aligned and grateful that it was an easy choice."
As an undergraduate, Maffey took courses in Arabic and French nearly every semester, later adding Persian when a professor suggested she diversify her studies. Coursework was balanced with her many extracurricular activities and ROTC commitments. Active in Princeton's Catholic Campus Ministry and Princeton Faith and Action, she also tutored in French and Arabic and served as a residential college adviser (RCA) in Whitman College her senior year. She took on leadership roles in her battalion, and was named its executive officer in her senior year. Because of her success in school and in ROTC, Maffey obtained her first choice of branch and was commissioned as a military intelligence officer, a position she hopes will benefit from her language skills.
Maffey was also able to travel extensively through ROTC and international programs such as the PIIRS Undergraduate Fellowship Program that funded all expenses related to her travel to Jordan for her senior thesis research, and other study abroad programs with the Office of International Programs.
The summer after her first year at Princeton she was chosen to participate in Project GO (Global Officer), a program for ROTC cadets from all branches that sends students abroad to learn critical languages such as Arabic, Hindi and Russian. She also taught English to French soldiers in Lille, France, while participating in the Cultural Understanding and Language Proficiency Program (CULP), another ROTC program that sends teams of cadets to other countries in partnership with foreign militaries and governments. During her sophomore year, Maffey returned to Jordan to spend a semester in an immersive language program in the northern town of Irbid.
"We took a 'language pledge' not to speak English for four months," Maffey says. "My Arabic went from intermediate low to advanced high, a huge jump for just four months. We also had weekly interviews with local women about topics such as marriage, divorce, clothing, etc., to learn more about their culture. Their responses were so interesting to me, and I realized that women's issues were something I wanted to further explore."
After writing one of her junior papers on women in the Middle East — the other was related to women who fought during the Algerian War for independence — she decided to return to Jordan to conduct field research for her senior thesis.
"I needed to go back and stay longer," Maffey says. "I'm grateful to PIIRS for funding it for me and for the support I was given throughout the year as I wrote my thesis. As a woman I've explored my own space in the military. I related to these women on so many levels."
Maffey says her greatest takeaway from her research was how grateful, enthusiastic and proud the military women were about the work they did.
The same can be said of Maffey.
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You are here: Home / Articles / Lifestyle / Culture / "Expat Language": What do YOU call yourself?
Expat, third culture kid, trailing spouse, international, what language do you use to describe yourself or your situation? Do you identify with any of these terms? Do you choose not to? Or perhaps you've struggled to find a term that describes your situation with all its nuances?
When it comes to discussing issues faced by "expats", finding language that is accurate, and shared and understood by us all, is something of a challenge; a challenge that is impossible to ignore with the growing phenomenon of globally mobile individuals and families.
For example, the term "international" can refer to any of the terms in the list below. The different "labels" also carry different emotions and may affect how we see our identity.
How can we make sure that we start our conversations on the same page?
A possible first step is to define the terms, meanings and references we use – find some helpful definitions below, as discussed at the FIGT (Families in Global Transition) Conference 2016 in Amsterdam. There are many more, of course, but we tried to make a small, comprehensive list with some of the most important definitions. By creating mutual understanding of common (and not so common) terms, there's less chance of the words getting in the way of real communication.
Expat/Expatriate Person who left his/her native country to live elsewhere.
Third Culture Kid (TCK)Third Culture Adult (TCA) Person who has lived in – or meaningfully interacted with – two or more countries for a significant period of time during developmental years, often coupled with High Mobility Patterns.Person (adult) who is not living in his/her home country.
Cross-Cultural Kid (CCK) Person who has lived in – or meaningfully interacted with – two or more cultural environments for a significant period of time during developmental years.
Trailing spouse / Accompanying Spouse or Partner Person following his/her spouse on assignment abroad.
Lovepat / Romantic Expat Made-up word to designate a person who followed a person of romantic interest abroad.
Repat / Repatriate A person who returned to his/her native country after living elsewhere.
Adult Third Culture Kid (ATCK) Person (adult) who grew up as a TCK.
Global Nomad Other name designating an Expat or TCK.
Orphan Spouse Person is in a relationship but his/her job(s) dictates separate lives to partner/spouse.
Immigrant Person who comes to a country to settle.
What does it mean for me/my identity/who I am?
How does the label feel to me?
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At a time when a group of political class under Maoist rebel is controlling political power denying to recognize the Monarchy, which ruled the country for two centuries, Poland's former president who led the reconciliation in Poland said that this situation will be likely to create chaos in the future.
Former president of Poland Alexksander Kwasnieski said that reconciliation among all the political forces is a key to make political transformation a success and peaceful.
Taking to media persons in Kathmandu, former president of Poland, who is currently in Nepal, said that South African leader Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu have shown how the reconciliation between apartheid ruler and black brought prosperity and economic stability.
"In Poland also, we have brought the former leaders of communist party and the new forces together for peace, prosperity and democracy," said president Kwasnieski, who ruled Poland for ten years as a president. "No one is left behind and everybody needs to be put in the same board," said Kwasnieski.
Equally important is justice to the victims of violence with the reconciliation of all the forces. "I have seen positive development in Nepal. Your Prime Minister has expressed his commitment to conclude the peace process providing justice to all," said Kwasnieski.
Led by former president Kwasnieski, a four-member team consisting of Teresita Deles, Presidental Adviser on the Peace Process in Philippines, Dr. Clem McCartney, Content and Policy Coordinator, Club de Madrid and Rafael Moreno López, WLA-CdM Program officer, was in Nepal from 28 January to 1 February.
President of the Poland (1995-2005) Date, Aleksander Kwasniewski studied Transport Economics and Foreign Trade at the University of Gdańsk.
Aleksander Kwasniewski joined the ruling communist Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) in 1977, and remained a member until it was dissolved in 1990. He was particularly active in the communist students movement, and worked as the editor-in-chief of the student weekly ITD magazine from 1981 until 1984, and of Sztandar Młodych from 1984 to 1985.
Kwasniewski participated in the famous "Round-Table" negotiations in Poland that finally brought the peaceful transformation of Poland and the whole Central and Eastern Europe from communism to democracy. Once the Iron Curtain had fallen, he co-founded the Social Democratic Party of the Republic of Poland (SdRP) and became its first chairman.
Aleksander Kwaśniewski won the Polish presidential elections in December 1995, defeating incumbent Lech Walesa. One of Kwasniewski's first great achievements was to bring about a new democratic Constitution in Poland, which became effective in July 1997. Highly popular in his country, he was re-elected in 2000 for a second and final five-year term. During his Presidency, he played a key role in the reconciliation between the Poles and the German, the Jewish and the Ukrainian people.
He further inspired the international mediation efforts during the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine, helping the young democracy to prevail. Finally, he also was a strong advocate of EU and NATO integration, and made Poland join both institutions during his tenure.
Kwasniewski was appointed Distinguished Scholar in the Practice of Global Leadership at Georgetown University, where, as a visiting faculty member, he teaches students in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Crisis Group, member of the Atlantic Council of the United States, member of the Bilderberg Group, Head of the Supervisory Board of the Amicus Europae Foundation in Warsaw, International Center for Political Studies in Kiev, Head of the European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation and Head of the Board of Yalta European Strategy.
Cassam Uteem was born in Port Louis (Mauritius) on March 22, 1941. He studied at Paris VII University where he received a Bachelor's degree in Art and a Master's degree in Psychology.
Teresita Deles, a peacemaker and an advocate on women empowerment, has pioneered and provided leadership to numerous national coalitions, community processes and international linkages and initiatives, covering issues of conflict management and transformation, constituency building for peace, poverty reduction, social reform agenda building, and political and governance reforms.
Dr. Clem McCartney is an independent research consultant on conflict and community issues. He is an associate of the Berghof Foundation for Peace Support and has contributed to a number of Berghof publications including the "Bergh of Handbook for Conflict Transformation", and one of its Dialogue Series on Security Sector Reform. He is also an associate of Conciliation Resources in London and has been consultant to their Comparative Learning Project, working in Colombia and the Philippines, and their Caucasus Program.
In 2013, Rafael served as Project Coordinator for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Mexico within the Project "Supporting the Strengthening of government institutions and civil society capacities to improve protection of vulnerable migrants in transit" funded by the Human Security Fund of the United Nations.


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Advanced energy sector continues growth trajectory
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The advanced energy sector expanded in 2020, and its growth is expected to continue into 2021 as the energy industry transitions to renewables.
"Advanced energy is growing by leaps and bounds in Arkansas," said Stephanie Osborne, executive director for Arkansas Advanced Energy Association (AAEA). "It is providing Arkansans a range of diverse options for their power needs."
She expects renewable energy to continue taking a leading role in the industry in 2021.
"You can't put this genie back in the bottle," Osborne added. "Renewable energy is clearly an important issue across the nation, and the incoming Biden Administration has repeatedly said environmental issues are one of their top concerns."
Osborne said an industry concern regards possible legislation to override the Arkansas Public Service Commission's decision on net metering. In December, Scenic Hill Solar and Central Arkansas Water announced a 4.8-megawatt DC solar array as the first net-metering project of its size to receive commission approval. In 2019, state legislators approved the Solar Access Act, now Act 464, allowing non-tax entities to receive third-party financing for solar projects.
Heather Nelson, co-founder and president of Seal Solar, said the company more than doubled its workforce in 2020 after adding 24 employees. In December, Congress included a two-year extension of the federal Investment Tax Credit (ITC), likely spurring additional investments and interest in solar.
Nick Gorden, co-founder and CEO of Shine Solar, said he expects the solar tax credit to be extended with Joe Biden as president. He also expects more competition in renewable energy, leading to reduced prices and improved service. It also will lead to job growth and acquisitions, he added.
"Because there's a high likelihood that this tax credit is going to be renewed … you're starting to see some of these investment capital and private equity firms and some of these solar finance companies taking off the gloves, and I think they are going to throw big money in 2021 to grow the industry as a whole," Gorden said.
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the company grew aggressively with business expanding about 40% in 2020, from the previous year, said Gorden, noting that customers want to be more self-sufficient and bought more whole home batteries. Since the company was founded in 2016, it had only sold a few home batteries, but since March, it has sold nearly 200, with 20% of customers opting for one, he said. Gorden expects more homeowners will purchase the batteries as they seek peace of mind and as prices fall.
The company has focused on the residential market but has some commercial projects in the works and continues to expand into new markets, serving customers along the Interstate 40 corridor, from Oklahoma City to Nashville, Tenn. It outgrew its existing office and moved into a 25,000-square-foot office in Rogers. In 2021, the company plans to offer its own financing for customers.
Today's Power Inc. (TPI) moved into a 34,222-square-foot office in North Little Rock and added staff during the pandemic. The growth is expected to continue into 2021, said TPI President Michael Henderson. Henderson said renewable energy, especially solar power, has helped offset peak demand in the summer and complemented other energy sources, such as fossil fuels. In 2021, renewable energy is expected to add more resiliency to the grid, and TPI will achieve this by coupling solar arrays with battery energy storage.
In the third quarter of 2020, TPI completed a solar array with battery storage in northeast Arkansas for Southland Gin, Delta Farms and Craighead Electric Cooperative as "one of the leading examples of using various technologies to help the agriculture industry continue to boost its sustainability," Henderson said.
"By the end of 2021, we will have a large portfolio of solar energy projects in the state of Kansas, and we expect battery energy storage to follow," said Henderson, adding that TPI recently began work on an electric cooperative project in Oklahoma as it continues to expand its footprint.
Henderson expects the expanded use of electric vehicles to drive growth in the electric industry; however, the lack of fast-charging infrastructure has limited their acceptance. TPI plans to introduce faster-charging methods in 2021.
Some of the largest renewable energy projects were announced or completed in 2020 as part of electric utilities' long-range plans. Entergy Arkansas will have 381 megawatts of solar generating capacity after it completes multiple solar projects while working toward its goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Southwestern Electric Power Co. (SWEPCO) is investing $1.01 billion for 810 megawatts of wind energy, which will come online in 2021 and 2022. Over the next 20 years, more than one-third of SWEPCO's energy source mix will comprise renewable energy.
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Nicolas De Santis, CEO of Corporate Vision and founder of the BRAND EU Centre (www.brandeu.eu), talked to CNBC about Brexit and the weak brand of the European Union. He told CNBC in London that Brexit, as a word, does not mean anything anymore as leaving the EU covers a very long timeframe, thousands of areas, immense legal issues and key citizen rights issues. His view is that many of the areas involved in Brexit can never be fully resolved in a globalised, interdependent world. "I think that a full Brexit will never happen" and soon we will see its terrible effects on the UK economy. Whatever happens now, will not be a full Brexit but arrangements and patches that will never be as good as being a full member of the EU. This, basically means that unless Brexit is stopped, the UK government will spend the next decade focused on carrying on the result of the EU referendum, instead of focusing on resolving more pressing national and global issues or building the future. The UK Government has become a slave to itself", he said.
De Santis also believes that the only way out of this situation is to have a new EU referendum. "I believe that as time progresses people will realise that leaving the EU is a utopia reserved for people that still believe that sovereignty in Europe (or elsewhere) is better protected by protectionism rather than full collaboration, cooperation and the sharing of sovereignty. We also have to remember that politicians in UK also lied to people during the EU referendum carrying out a 'character assassination of the EU' and its true role in bringing peace and prosperity to Europe and the world". De Santis explained that the EU did not defend itself properly during the EU referendum and that its weak brand continues to be disconnected from the EU citizens it represents. "Until the EU has a clear 'strategic' vision and a 'friendly' brand that connects with its citizens, the EU will always remain a project of the 'elites' and an easy target for national politicians to attack", De Santis said.


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Court rules against Dunkin Donuts over blind customer's access to website
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A federal appeals court overturned a lower court and ruled a blind plaintiff can pursue an Americans with Disabilities Act lawsuit against Dunkin Donuts L.L.C. for allegedly having an inaccessible website.
The case is part of a trend, with more courts ruling against companies over the issue of website accessibility, while the number of lawsuits alleging ADA violations related to website access grows dramatically.
The case decided Tuesday involved Dennis Haynes, who is blind and relies on screen reading software to use the internet, according to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta in Dennis Haynes v. Dunkin' Donuts L.L.C., a foreign limited liability company, DD IP Holder L.L.C., CashStar Inc.
Mr. Haynes sued Canton, Mass-based Dunkin Donuts in U.S. District Court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, claiming the company violated Title III of the ADA by not maintaining a website compatible with screen reading software.
The District Court dismissed the case, which was overturned by a unanimous three-judge appeals court panel. It appears Dunkin' Donuts' website "is a service that facilitates the use of Dunkin Donuts' shops, which are places of public accommodation," the ruling states.
Under the ADA, "whatever goods and services Dunkin' Donuts offers as a part of its place of public accommodation, it cannot discriminate against people on the basis of a disability, even if those goods and services are intangible," the ruling says.
Mr. Haynes could not access services offered online by Dunkin' Donuts', including information about store locations and the ability to buy gift cards online.
"The failure to make those services accessible to the blind can be said to exclude, deny, or otherwise treat blind people 'differently than other individuals because of the absence of auxiliary aids and services,'" said the ruling, in quoting the ADA and remanding the case for further proceedings.
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One children below the age of 05 yrs can stay free with their parents. However any forest dues if applicable will have to be paid Extra.
Children above 11 years will be regarded as adult.
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Rates includes Vehicle from ( Guwahati to Guwahati) with accommodation for 03 nights, daily one meal, one elephant safari and one jeep safari ( All Safari are depend on subject to availability).
Day 1 Meet and greet with our representative at Jorhat Airport/ Railway Station, proceed to Hotel, evening leisure and overnight stay at Jorhat.
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Day 3 Tucked in the mighty Brahmaputra, Majuli is the world's largest river island. Majuli is known the world over in academic circles for the Satras (monastery), which have preserved the Vaishnavite culture. The crops are sowed and they blossom. The people staying here know how to swim and row a boat even before they walk and talk. The island's beauty is its changing colors. Visit Satras and nearby places and overnight stay at Majuli.
Day 4 Morning after breakfast Half day Majuli sightseeing, after that proceed to Nimatighat, and take Ferry for Jorhat. Overnight stay at Jorhat.
Day 5 Airport / railway station drop. After Breakfast drive back to Airport/ Railway station for onward journey. Tour ends here…!
Rates includes Vehicle from ( Guwahati to Guwahati) with accommodation for 03 nights, daily one meal, one Elephant Safari and One Jeep Safari( All Safari are depend on subject to availability).
1st Meet and greet with our representative at Airport/ Railway station, check in Hotel and overnight stay at Guwahati.
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4th Morning proceed to The Ethnic village near Jatinga is a famous tourist attraction that has come up in Haflong. In this village one will get to see the blend of different cultures and traditions which make one's trip to this place very interesting. Main attraction is the traditional dorms and houses belonging to several tribal groups of Dima Hasao district. Overnight stay at Halflong.
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6th Morning drop to Airport/ Railway station for onward journey. Tour Ends Here…!


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Everything is possible: Seminars, conferences, weddings, company events, parties, anything! Stage and a dance floor are available upon extra cost, and the screens are placed for the best possible view. When you book the whole ballroom, you get the Ballroom Lobby to your use free of charge. In Ballroom Lobby we organize the catering breaks, and your conference partners can use that space to display their products. Maximum capacity in theater style is 250 persons, 150 persons in class form and 180 persons in round tables. The room has standard AV – equipment including basic microphones and a speaker´s podium.
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Acadia Plantation records, 1809-2004 (bulk 1940-1979). 49 linear ft., 30 volumes, 8 rolls. Location: 93:7-30; J:4; 75:; MAP CAGE (UNNUMBERED CASE); 1 NORTH (ON TOP OF MICROFILM CABINET). A working sugar plantation, Acadia Plantation of Lafourche Parish, Louisiana is comprised of three major properties originally known as Acadia Plantation, St. Brigitte Plantation, and Evergreen Plantation. It was acquired in 1875 by Edward J. Gay, became the residence of Representative Andrew and Mrs. Anna Gay Price. Records are comprised of correspondence, financial and legal documents, printed items, volumes, maps, plats, and photographs. Papers document business and legal affairs of the plantation owners and operators, as well as plantation operations such as sugar cane farming, the crops of tenant farmers on the property, and the planning and development of the plantation lands throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Mss. 4906.
Referenced in Guides: Sugar, Politics, Plantations, New Orleans to 1861, Transportation, Women, New Orleans 1866-, Business, Baton Rouge, Acadiana, African Americans, French, LSU
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Acy, William, b. 1822. Papers, 1844-1909. 2 linear ft. (655 items; 18 ms. Vols., 39 printed vols.). Location: E:1-2, F:1. Justice of the Peace in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, and plantation owner in Carroll County, Mississippi. Personal, legal, and financial papers; personal letters concern mainly relatives and friends in Baltimore, Maryland. Papers also include photographs, newspapers, and other printed items. Collection includes letters on legal matters from Francis T. Nicholls, governor of Louisiana and chief justice of the state Supreme Court. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 717, 722.
Referenced in Guides: Politics, Plantations
Agenda commercial de la Louisiane pour l'année, 1858-1877. 1 item. Location: Misc:A. Printed French journal book (1858) contains notes on the progress of the Civil War and the 'Trent Affair', a diplomatic incident between the U.S. and Great Britain. Other topics include poetry; songs; partial plays in commedia dell'arte style; notes on Renaissance Italian history and notes on Daniel Deronda by George Eliot. Also included are listings for businesses and consulates in New Orleans, and public officials in Paris. Alternate title: Anonymous manuscript volume. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 3545.
Referenced in Guides: Politics, Performing arts, New Orleans in the Civil War, New Orleans 1866-, Civil War, French, Literature
Alexandria, Louisiana photographs, 1920-1921. 5 photographic prints. Location: 65:5. Prints depict scenes around Alexandria: the Bolton High School girls' basketball team (1920); a state meeting of officials in protest of a phone rate raise (originally created by Bridendall, 1921); a truck owned by H.T. Cottam & Co. (1920); the Bernstein Buick Co. dealership displayng Franklin and Buick models (circa 1920); and a carnival in front of Alexandria City Hall. Mss. 3691.
Referenced in Guides: Politics, Transportation, Women, Business
Allen, Henry Watkins, 1820-1866, Broadside. 1 item. Location: OS:L. Lawyer of Mississippi who served in both the Mississippi and Louisiana legislatures. Allen served in the 4th Louisiana Regiment during the Civil War and was Confederate governor of Louisiana in 1864. Broadside announcing public speaking by Colonel Henry Watkins Allen and Thomas C. W. Ellis at the East Feliciana Parish Court House in Clinton, Louisiana, on October 4, by order of the American Party Central Committee. Part of the Louisiana Broadside Collection. For further information online catalog. Mss. 3705.
Referenced in Guides: Politics, Civil War
Allen, Henry Watkins, 1820-1866, Portrait. 1 item. Location: OS:A. Lawyer of Mississippi who served in both the Mississippi and Louisiana legislatures. Allen served in the 4th Louisiana Regiment during the Civil War and was Confederate governor of Louisiana in 1864. Etched portrait of Allen by Charles B. Hall, published in his MILITARY RECORDS OF GENERAL OFFICERS OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA (1898). For further information online catalog. Mss. 3620.
Allen, Henry Watkins, 1820-1866. Letter, 1863 June 13. 1 item [photocopy]. Location: Misc.:A. Lawyer of Mississippi who served in both the Mississippi and Louisiana legislatures. Allen served in the 4th Louisiana Regiment during the Civil War and was Confederate governor of Louisiana in 1864. Letter announces his departure for Bladen Springs, Alabama, to recuperate from leg injuries suffered in the burning of the Bowman house in Jackson. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 3053.
Allen, Henry Watkins, 1820-1866. Letter and related photograph, 1864 July 6. 2 items. Location: Misc:A. Lawyer of Mississippi who served in both the Mississippi and Louisiana legislatures. Allen served in the 4th Louisiana Regiment during the Civil War and was Confederate governor of Louisiana in 1864. Letter from Allen to William F. Lockwood, keeper of machinery of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, authorizes Lockwood to loan penitentiary looms to cotton planters in eastern Louisiana and includes instructions for loaning the looms. Included is a photograph of Lockwood. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 2867.
Referenced in Guides: Politics, Plantations, Civil War
Allen, Oscar K. (Oscar Kelly), 1882-1936. Letter, 1933 Mar. 27. 1 letter. Location: Misc. Governor Oscar K. Allen writes Birch-Field & Company of New York re unimportant business. Mss. 4158.
Referenced in Guides: Politics
Alley, Mary, Scrapbooks, 1843, 1862-1884, 1910.109 items, 3 vols. Location: Mss. Mf.:A. Baton Rouge native and wife of Charles Henry Jolly. Clippings from Baton Rouge papers on local and national issues at the end of the Civil War and early Reconstruction. Topics include politics, medicine, poetry, anecdotes, and deaths of Baton Rougeans. Other printed items include pamphlets on the dedication of St. Joseph's Cathedral and the history of the Catholic Church in Baton Rouge. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3570.
Referenced in Guides: Religion, Politics, Women, Civil War, Medicine, Literature
American Sugar Cane League. Letters. 1982 May 7-10. 2 items. Location: Misc:A. Advocacy group for American sugar producers. Letters signed by Kenneth H. Kahao as president of the league. One is addressed to President Ronald Reagan and expresses appreciation for his decision to impose import quotas on sugar. The other informs league members of Reagan's proclamations. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 3631.
Referenced in Guides: Sugar, Politics
Anderson McNutt. Estate Papers, 1868-1895. 42 items. Location: 32:81. Planter of Rapides Parish, Louisiana, and brother of Mississippi governor A. G. McNutt. Records of the disposition of McNutt's estate describe the founding of Vicksburg, Mississippi, and early Mississippi politicians; family history; and economic and political difficulties of Reconstruction. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 4187.
Anderson, Dupuy H. Papers, 1935-1996 (bulk 1958-1963). 0.3 linear ft. Location: W:97, OS:A. Baton Rouge dentist and civil rights activist. Collection consists of correspondence, photographs, political speeches, and printed items that relate to his personal and public life. Papers focus on his community service, candidacy for mayor-president of East Baton Rouge Parish, and his involvement in the integration of East Baton Rouge Parish public schools. Mss. 5114.
Referenced in Guides: Politics, Education, African Americans
Anderson, Harrod C. (Harrod Clopton). Papers. 1849-1888 (bulk 1885-1887). 6 items, 3 volumes. Location: F:1, Misc:A. Planter of Magnolia, Haywood County, Tennessee. Papers include a cashbook, photoprints, and diaries which discuss opinions on philosophical, religious, political, and Civil War issues. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm 5322: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 2, Reel 20. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 8, 490, 539.
Referenced in Guides: Religion, Politics, Plantations, Civil War
Anderson, Mollie E. Papers, 1863-1903 (bulk 1880-1889). 70 items. Location: B:16. Resident of St. Amant, Ascension Parish, Louisiana. Papers include letters (1880-1889) from the related Morgan family, farmers of Stonypoint, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. There are a few letters (1886) from Walton County, Florida, to Mrs. Mollie E. Anderson's husband, Daniel. Included is a political broadside by John Pickett to members of the Farmers' Union and People's Party relative to the lottery issue in the 1892 Louisiana gubernatorial campaign. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 2171.
Referenced in Guides: Politics, Women
Annotated political broadside, circa 1842. 1 item. Location: OS:G. An annotated political broadside, entitled GRAND FOUR MILE RACE, predicting the victory of B. A. Martel over Judge John H. Overton in an election for judge in the Fifteenth Judicial District of St. Landry Parish, La., on April 6, 1857. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 1150.
Anonymous letter from New Orleans, 1864 November 15. 1 item. Location: Misc.A. Letter from Sarah, apparently a young girl and resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, written upon her return from a trip to New York City, commenting on a minstrel show in New Orleans, Louisiana, and expressing interest in the New York presidential election returns. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 1418.
Referenced in Guides: Politics, Performing arts, Women, New Orleans in the Civil War, Civil War
Anonymous New Orleans scrapbook, 1861-1936. 2 volumes on 1 microfilm reel. Location: Mss.Mf:A. Miscellaneous newspaper clippings collected mainly from newspapers in New Orleans and Natchez include materials relative to Reconstruction, the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, the Chicago fire of 1871, and steamboats. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 2554.
Referenced in Guides: Politics, Transportation, New Orleans in the Civil War, New Orleans 1866-, Civil War, Natchez, Mississippi
Anonymous political scrapbook, 1830-1860. 1 volume. Location: F:2. Political scrapbook contains newspaper clippings of letters written to several southern newspapers. They express opinions on politicians, political parties and issues, with a particular focus on slavery and abolition. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 223.
Referenced in Guides: Politics, African Americans
Anonymous Reconstruction letters, 1875. 2 items. Location: Misc:A. Ensign stationed on the U.S. Flagship Worcester in New Orleans describes the chaotic conditions existing in the Louisiana legislature, and mentions orders to disperse the legislature. He also mentions national politics and his own naval experiences. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 2560.
Referenced in Guides: Politics, New Orleans 1866-
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In a new series on the blog, I will be asking George Lawrence about his collection of artwork created by a homeless U.S. Navy veteran whom he met whilst living and working in New York City. Lawrence has recently been delving deeper into the works he purchased from the artist in the late 1980's, and into the life of the artist himself, by studying the biographical information included in the images and text of the drawings.
This first post will introduce Lawrence's interactions with Landry, with subsequent posts looking in more detail at the content and style of Landry's work.
Kate Davey: Could you tell me about the first time you saw Clayton's work? What was the initial impact it had on you?
George Lawrence: I first encountered Clayton Landry around 1987 on the Lower East Side of New York City. I was working as a draftsman in a design office nearby. That area of the Bowery in the late 1980's was a mix of neglected properties, Lower East Side art scene, and encroaching gentrification. Many of the local buildings were being bought and renovated by small businesses, artists and speculators. Nearby was a homeless shelter and a few blocks away was the rock club, CBGB's.
At the time I met him, Mr. Landry was living at the shelter, but he spent his days writing and drawing, using the windshield or hood of a parked car as a drawing board. He worked with the regularity and commitment of a full-time employee. He was African-American, probably in his sixties and usually dressed in khaki pants and shirt and a knit cap.
Mr. Landry used pencil, chalk, colored pencil and crayon on paper that he collected from the neighborhood trash. He often drew on both sides of his pages. Some of the drawings were done on the green and white striped computer paper that was then the standard. Other drawings were sketched on the backs of discarded business letters.
I have always had a love for the work of folk artists and self-taught artists, so when I saw Mr. Landry's drawings I was fascinated by them and thought I recognized the raw work of a true 'outsider artist,' although I can't recall if I knew that term at the time. I had taken some art classes and art history courses as part of my architectural degree and several of my friends were artists trying to find their place in the Lower East Side art scene. Mr. Landry's drawings had a quality of uninhibited originality that I didn't see or feel in the more studied and self-conscious art I saw in the galleries. Coincidentally, I had recently been living in Brooklyn where my Puerto Rican landlord spent his spare time making art, using leftover house paint and scraps of Masonite. He would hang the paintings, which also looked like scenes from his childhood in Puerto Rico, in the hallways of the small apartment building. I admired in them the same vibrant, raw quality that I later saw in Mr. Landry's work.
Over the course of a year or so I purchased about 50 drawings from Mr. Landry and periodically I offered him paper and colored pencils, which he graciously accepted but did not seem to need. "I can find all the paper I need," he told me. The drawings are illustrations of memories from his life. Common subjects include a variety of Navy ships, submarines, details of daily life, illustrated recipes, animals, exotic destinations and curious inventions. I was amazed by the intricacy of the illustrations and the detailed descriptive notes on many of the drawings.
Image 2 – One of Landry's ship drawings – titled 'Knock Abouts' at the top of the drawing. I think this may be a fantasty drawing and not a representation of an actual ship. The horizon is labelled as the 'Equator Line' and word balloons hold the names of seas and oceans. From my research 'knock abouts' is a term for a small sailboat that could be handled by one person. I'm not sure why he would have applied the term to this image of a large complex ship.
Image 3 – One of the first drawings I purchased from Landry. This one is titled 'Knotsberry (sic) Farms' in the decorative border below. It features a chicken perched in a tree, surrounded on the grass below by chicks hatching out of eggs. A border below the tree reads 'Oh! Oh! What Happen.' Knot's Berry Farm is an amusement park that still exists in Buena Park, California. In a search on the web I found a comment thread with people reminiscing about the chickens that used to run loose on the grounds of the Knott's Berry Farm restaurant in the 1960s.
KD: When was the last time you can remember seeing Clayton in person?
GL: I don't recall the last time I saw Mr. Landry on the street outside my workplace. It would have been sometime in 1989. Over the course of a few days or weeks I noticed his absence. Someone told me that the nearby homeless shelter had been closed and was undergoing renovations. I assumed that the residents had moved to another shelter, but I never went so far as to investigate where in the city the other shelter might be, or what had become of Mr. Landry.
Around the same time that I lost track of Mr. Landry, I had begun to make plans to leave New York. Much of my activity outside of work revolved around advocacy work with environmental groups in the city. A friend connected me with a group who were planning a coast to coast walk across the United States called the Global Walk for Livable World. I began to attend the local meetings and decided to participate in the walk as a way of leaving New York and discovering a new "path" for myself. So I quit my job, and in February of 1990 I flew to Los Angeles and, with about 100 other activists, began a nine-month walk back to New York. We walked mainly along state highways and camped in tents at sites ranging from college campuses to state parks to private farms. We coordinated as much as possible with local environmental groups along the way to hold public events highlighting the challenges to the environment specific to that community, along with promoting environmentally sustainable choices and lifestyles.
Image 4 – George walking through Albuquerque, New Mexico on the Global Walk for a Livable World, April 1990.
One of our stops along the way was Santa Fe, New Mexico. We were in Santa Fe for a few days for the celebration of "Earth Day 1990" and during the visit I decided that I would like to relocate there at the end of the walk. After the amazing experience of the 3,000 mile trek, I walked into New York City at the end of October 1990. Shortly after arriving, I packed up my belongings, including Clayton's drawings, and moved to New Mexico.
Upon my arrival in Santa Fe, I made a conscious choice to shift my career direction and began to promote myself as an architectural illustrator. In hindsight I wonder if my impressions of Clayton doing his detailed drawings may have had an influence on my decision. In 1996 I began work with a local exhibit design firm where I was able to employ my design skills, my illustration work, and my interest in the environment, for the design and construction of interpretive exhibits for state parks and visitor centers across the country.
Often, on meeting someone who I thought would be interested, I would share the folder of Clayton Landry drawings. Many people over the years suggested that they would make an interesting exhibit or even a book, considering the connections to a variety of compelling issues, including the African American experience in the military, homelessness and of course, outsider art.
In 1997 one of my friends in New York who had seen my collection called to say that he had seen Clayton's name listed in an exhibition at an outsider art gallery in New York. The description, which had slightly misspelled his real name, described the exhibition as "Discovering the eccentric drawings of a lost New York Outsider Artist." I tried at the time to make contact with the gallery but after leaving a few messages I failed to connect with anyone. Over the next few years I checked the internet periodically to see if Mr. Landry's name had appeared elsewhere. There are two other listings that I found, one for a 2011 Art Brut group show at Halle St. Pierre in Paris and another listing of a piece in the Smithsonian Art Library. This indicated to me that other people had been collecting Mr. Landry's work, probably in the same way that I had, by approaching him on the street.
In 2013 I decided to put some real effort into uncovering more information about Mr. Landry's life. Many of the drawings are of Navy ships and scenes and have descriptive notes written across the pages and in the margins. I made notes from the drawings and sent the information to a website that offered to research and provide the public military records of armed forces veterans. For several months the researcher had no luck in locating Mr. Landry's name on any of the records from the ships I had listed. In the meantime I had been searching the military records available on Ancestry.com and I came across a very similar name on the "muster rolls" of a few of ships that Clayton had included in his drawings. I discovered that we had omitted one letter from the spelling of his (actual) last name. Once I was able to give the researcher the correct spelling, he was able to find and provide me with the military record through the Freedom of Information Act.
Even with all the information I have discovered about Mr. Landry, I have been unable to contact him or to determine if he is still living. If he is, he will be 91 years old in 2018.
The next installment in George and Clayton's journey will be published next month.


6 (5b) Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind (14) As one who is in the Lord Jesus, I am fully convinced that no food is unclean in itself But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean (16) Do not allow what you consider good to be spoken of as evil (22,23) So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the man who does not condemn himself by what he approves. But the man who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith and everything that does not come from faith is sin.
10 B. What does the passage teach us about how a Christian ought to act when faced with disputable matters? 1. Be fully convinced about the issue in your own mind before God, so that you do not sin and condemn yourself by what you approve 2. Act in love 3. Please others for their good, not yourself 4. Carry the burdens of the weak (v15:1) We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak.
12 B. What does the passage teach us about how a Christian ought to act when faced with disputable matters? 5. Accept the weak as Christ accepted you 6. Do not pass judgment on, look down on, or condemn other Christians or their views and practices (v1) Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters (v3) The man who eats everything must not look down on him who does not, and the man who does not eat everything must not condemn the man who does (v10) You, then, why do you judge your brother? Or why do you look down on your brother? (v13) Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another.
13 B. What does the passage teach us about how a Christian ought to act when faced with disputable matters 7. Abstain from doing anything that becomes a stumbling block or obstacle that causes another Christian to fall, destroys them, or destroys the work of God in their lives (13b) Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother's way (15b) Do not by your eating destroy your brother for whom Christ died (20) Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. It is wrong for a man to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble (21b) It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother to fall.
18 C. Why act with love towards weaker Christians in disputable matters? 3. Because All Christians belong to, are servants of, and are only accountable to God, their Lord or Master (v4) Who are you to judge someone else's servant? To his own master he stands or falls; (v7-13) For none of us lives to himself alone and none of us dies to himself alone. If we live, we live to the Lord and if we die, we die to the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living. You, then, why do you judge your brother? Or why do you look down on your brother? For we will all stand before God's judgment seat. It is written: " 'As surely as I live,' says the Lord, 'every knee will bow before me; every tongue will confess to God.' " So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God. Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another.
20 C.Why act with love towards weaker Christians in disputable matters? 3. Because All Christians belong to, are servants of, and are only accountable to God, their Lord or Master 4. Because it is God who can and will ultimately make weaker Christians stand, not us 5. Because true Christians are well-meaning (v6-8a) He who regards one day as special, does so to the Lord. He who eats meat, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains, does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. For none of us lives to himself alone and none of us dies to himself alone. If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord.
21 C.Why act with love towards weaker Christians in disputable matters? 4. Because it is God who can and will ultimately make weaker Christians stand, not us 5. Because true Christians are well-meaning 6. Because the kingdom of God is about righteousness, peace, and joy, rather than the many irrelevant things Christians fight over (v17,18) For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men.
23 In summary: Since God has accepted and died for all Christians. Since we all belong to, are servants of, and are only accountable to God. Since God ultimately makes Christians stand. Since true Christians are well-meaning. Since God's kingdom is about righteousness, peace, and joy. Since we find endurance and encouragement in the biblical examples of Christ and others. And since it brings praise to God… In disputable matters: Be fully convinced before God. Act in love. Please the weak for their good and not yourself. Carry the burdens of the weak. Accept them. Do not pass judgment on, look down on, or condemn the weak. Abstain from anything that causes their destruction or falling away. Build them up instead. And serve Christ by doing whatever leads to righteousness, peace, and joy.
24 May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you a spirit of unity among yourselves as you follow Christ Jesus, so that with one heart and mouth you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Funded PhD Opportunity Development of a pharmacogenomic model to predict efficacy or adverse events to cannabidiol treatment of arthritic pain.
The endogenous cannabinoid system modulates neuronal and immune cell function, both of which play key roles in Osteoarthritis (OA) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) pain. Cannabidiol (CBD) is a non-psychoactive compound extracted from cannabis. CBD binding of endogenous receptors can produce reliable anti-nociceptive effects in preclinical inflammatory and neuropathic pain models. However cannabidiol's safety and efficacy have not yet been studied independently by clinical trial for pain in arthritis. The ESCAPe (CHITIN) study proposed would be the first of its kind to investigate the safety profile and pain effects of CBD, in these conditions. CBD is metabolized in the liver by cytochrome P450 enzymes CYP2C and CYP3A converting it into 7-OH-CBD and 6-OH-CBD.
Of particular relevance to safety, CBD has potential to block cytochrome P450 metabolism of other co-medications in the liver, such as NSAID and opioid co-medications in arthritis patients. Therefore pharmacogenomic and pharmacokinetic studies will be conducted in parallel, to identify variants of cannabidiol metabolising enzymes and receptors which in combination could be carried by individuals more likely to respond or at higher risk of adverse events.
Aim: Discover genomic variant data that to stratify patients achieving pain reduction or at risk of adverse events, when treated with cannabidiol.
1. Perform pharmacokinetic analysis of CBD, NSAID and opioid metabolites in patients to measure any changes in metabolism attributable to CBD.
2. Data from a pharmacogenomic screen of CBD metabolising enzymes will be analysed for associations with CBD reduction in pain scores or adverse events.
a)Genomic analyses: DNA will be extracted from whole blood samples and targeted gene sequencing and variant calling will performed using TruSeq custom amplicon kits and an Illumina MiSeq instrument at NI Centre for Stratified Medicine (NICSM). Analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) with functional consequences for CBD metabolism or signalling will be focussed on CYP2C19 and CYP3A4 genes. The strength of associations between individual SNPs and drug levels or pain response scores will be assessed by multivariate regression modelling.
b)Pharmacokinetics: the metabolism of CBD and its metabolites will be analysed in blood plasma and urine samples for both Stage 1 and 2 studies. Samples will be centrifuged to remove cellular material and frozen at the recruitment site, sent to NICSM for analyses at the Mass Spectrometry Core Technology Unit at Ulster University. CBD, 7-OH-CBD and 6-OH-CBD, NSAID and opioid plasma and urine concentrations will be ascertained by a liquid extraction surface analysis (LESA)-nano electrospray ionisation triple quadrupole mass spectrometry method (ESI-QQQ MS) using.
c)Bioinformatic analyses: Statistical analysis will be performed by SPSS (version 24.0). Pre- and post-treatment outcome data will be will be analysed to examine any relationships between the specific genotype/drug meatbolite profile of a patient with their disease activity, demographics and clinically determined response to therapy. A patient stratification algorithm and model will be designed to detect associations between specific gene variants CBD pain response or adverse event.


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City Halts Parking Lot Contract Decision Following Discussion
Bids to be reviewed following discovery that winning company had been involved in revenue fraud case in Boston
By EDDIE RIVERA, Community Editor
Published : Tuesday, July 25, 2017 | 5:08 AM
In a dramatic, last-minute decision, the City Council Monday evening rejected a recommendation by the Transportation Department to award a $9 million-plus contract to LAZ Parking Services, a Hartford, Connecticut-based company, to manage and operate The Paseo Subterranean, Marengo, Los Robles, Holly Street, Del Mar Station, School House, Delacey, and Marriott parking garages, in and around Old Pasadena.
The Council decided not to act on the Transportation Department's recommendation following the presentation of additional information alleging that the selected company had been released from its contract with the Metro Boston Transit Authority in 2016, following an MBTA investigation into possible parking revenue fraud. Employees of LAZ were reportedly fired, and the MBTA contract was then put out to bid again.
In a statement Tuesday, attorney Chris C. Tsouros said any references to criminal wrongdoing by LAZ Parking are not true.
"As the attorney who as been representing LAZ Parking from the beginning of this matter, any statement that LAZ Parking has been convicted or even charged with any criminal wrongdoing is just plain wrong," Tsouros said. "This matter involved alleged thefts by a few low- level rogue employees at a limited number of cash lots. LAZ has committed to making full restitution to the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) for these unwarranted acts and the case has recently been settled."
The three Old Pasadena garages—Schoolhouse, DeLacey, and Marriott—are currently operated by Parking Concepts, Inc., under a contract with the Old Pasadena Management District on behalf of the City. Five of the six Civic Center garages (Holly, Paseo Subterranean, Los Robles, Marengo and Del Mar) are operated by Modern Parking, Inc., under contract with the City.
On October 20, 2014, a city audit recommended that the City should directly oversee garage revenue functions, both transient and monthly, to prevent any revenue loss. Currently, the City only oversees the revenue functions for the Holly, Paseo Subterranean, Los Robles, Marengo and Del Mar garages.
On February 27, 2017, the Department of Transportation released a Request for Proposals (RFP) to solicit proposals for parking garage management, operation and maintenance services at the eight City-owned garages for three years with an option for two additional one-year terms at the discretion of the City Manager. The new contract was expected to begin October 1, 2017.
On March 29, 2017, five companies submitted their proposals: LAZ Parking (LAZ), Los Angeles CA; Modern Parking, Inc. (MPI), Los Angeles CA; Parking Company of America (PCAM), Los Angeles CA; and Parking Concepts, Inc. (PCI), Los Angeles CA.
Parking Concepts, Inc. currently operates and manages the Schoolhouse, De Lacey, and Marriott City-owned garages under a contract with the Old Pasadena Management District. In the interest of ensuring impartiality in the selection process, the proposals were reviewed and evaluated by a committee made up of staff representatives from peer agencies. Both of the current operators, who both proposed on this RFP, have worked in their current capacities in Pasadena for many years.
An all-outside panel was used to reduce the potential for perceived bias in the selection process. The evaluation committee consisted of staff representatives from the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro), the City of Beverly Hills and Los Angeles County Department of Beaches and Harbors.
These proposals were evaluated based on the criteria outlined in the RFP, and weighted as follows: Criteria Weight Management, Operation and Maintenance Program, 30%; Price, 10%; Proposer's Attributes/References/Experience, 20%; Cash Management, Reporting, and Audit Program, 30%; Local Pasadena Business Preference, 5%; Small and Micro-Business Preference, 5%.
The City of Beverly Hills currently employs PCI and LA County Beaches and Harbors employs MPI. All four companies were invited to participate in an interview to determine the final rankings. City staff from the Department of Transportation participated in the interview process, but did not score the proposals.
The proposal by LAZ Parking was rated highest on the basis of the firm's comprehensive Management, Operation and Maintenance Program and Cash Management, Reporting and Audit Program. LAZ Parking was also awarded the highest score by each of the evaluation committee members. City Transportation staff recommended the award of the contract to LAZ.
Following a two-hour-plus discussion in which the appropriateness and qualifications of the "raters" of the various proposed parking companies were repeatedly questioned, the Council ended its discussion.
Then, during the public speaker portion of the agenda item, Gary Pitt, president of Modern Parking, Inc., one of the losing bidders, complained about the selection process, and claimed that the factors the RFP was structured upon were not adhered to by the raters involved. Pitts also claimed that one of the raters was a beach parking lot company, and had no knowledge or experience with regard to city parking structures.
Then Pitt took direct aim at LAZ, giving the Councilmembers two recent articles in which the LAZ operations in Boston were reportedly accused and then sued for fraud in their management of several parking lots owned by the Metro Boston Transit Authority (MBTA). [Editor's Note: see statement from Tsouros above.]
An article in the Boston Globe in April, 2016, said, "The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (popularly known as "The T") is investigating missing parking payments after officials discovered discrepancies between how many cars were parking in some of its lots managed by a contractor and how much money officials should have been collecting."
According to the article, "the MBTA, Transit Police, and the state Department of Transportation are focusing on three lots managed by LAZ Parking, a national parking management company that owns several large lots in the Boston area, MBTA officials told the authority's fiscal control board Monday. If the T is able to document that money is missing, LAZ would have to repay the T double the amount, plus fines, according to the T's contract."
"According to officials, T employees identified missing parking payments at three of the T's parking facilities managed by LAZ: North Quincy/Hancock, Lechmere, and Riverside. LAZ was alerted to the discrepancy in April and has fired two employees for not following proper procedures, according to John Englander, general counsel for the state transportation department and the MBTA."
An August 12, 2016 article in Commonwealth Magazine said that the MBTA had formally notified (LAZ Parking) that the company eventually breached its contract by failing to reimburse the transit authority for money stolen by employees.
"The notification, which came in a letter dated Thursday from MBTA General Counsel John Englander to LAZ Parking, is the first time the T has publicly identified employee theft as the cause of 'revenue discrepancies' at the agency's parking lots," the article read.
"The letter also implied that the theft could be massive in scope," said the article, adding that "In the past, officials have indicated the revenue discrepancies were confined to one or possibly two lots and involved relatively minor amounts of money. In his letter, Englander demanded that LAZ hire an independent auditor to track down missing parking revenue at 13 facilities going back to the beginning of 2013."
The City Council then stopped what would have been a routine vote.
Based on a recommendation by City Manager Steve Mermell, the City will now conduct an "internal review" of all the bids and proposals as well as the RFP itself.
According to Mermell, the City could, based on the review, "start all over again," or select a new contract winner, or go with the City staff's original recommendation. Mermell said that the internal review could take "about three months."
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