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Nvidia jumps after beating on earnings and revenue
The company beat expectations on the top and bottom lines after providing updated guidance last month.
Nvidia's recent inventory issues appear to have worsened sentiment in the company supply chain.
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Shares of chipmaker Nvidia rose as much as 8 percent on Thursday after the company reported better-than-expected earnings for the fourth quarter of its 2019 fiscal year.
Here are the key numbers:
Earnings: 80 cents per share, excluding certain items, vs. 75 cents per share as expected by analysts, according to Refinitiv.
Revenue: $2.21 billion, vs. $2.20 billion as expected by analysts, according to Refinitiv.
Revenue was down 24 percent year over year in the quarter, which ended on Jan. 27, according to a statement.
Nvidia shares are up 15 percent since the beginning of the year, but in the past year the stock is down 36 percent.
"This was a turbulent close to what had been a great year," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in the company's press release. "The combination of post-crypto excess channel inventory and recent deteriorating end-market conditions drove a disappointing quarter."
The company disclosed excess inventory one quarter ago. On Jan. 28, Nvidia released updated fiscal fourth-quarter guidance indicating that gaming and data center revenue were below the company's expectations.
"Hyperscale and cloud purchases declined both sequentially and year-on-year as several customers paused at the end of the year," Nvidia's chief financial officer, Colette Kress, said on a conference call with analysts on Thursday. "We believe the pause is temporary."
The largest cloud providers, like Amazon and Microsoft, already offer Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs) that can be used to train artificial-intelligence models using lots of data. Now Nvidia is working closely with such companies on adoption of its GPUs for inference, a later stage in the AI process, Kress said.
Analysts from Raymond James said sentiment from the supply chain turned more negative.
"Gaming sales naturally continue to be impacted by the significant inventory overhang," the analysts wrote in a Jan. 28 note. "That inventory reduction has been impacted by slower sell-through, particularly in China."
In the fiscal fourth quarter Nvidia announced the availability of the GeForce RTX 2060 graphics card for PC gaming.
With respect to guidance, Nvidia said it's expecting $2.20 billion in revenue, plus or minus 2 percent, in the first quarter of its 2020 fiscal year. The midpoint is below the $2.28 billion Refinitiv estimate, and it would reflect a revenue decline of 31 percent.
The company believes fiscal year 2020 revenue will be "flat to down slightly." Analysts polled by Refinitiv were expecting a 7 percent revenue decline for that period. Kress said Nvidia expects the fiscal first quarter to be the bottom of the excess inventory issue for gaming GPUs.
Jim Kelleher, an analyst at Argus research, described Nvidia's situation as a "near-perfect storm," because of higher inventory, the launch of an expensive product and "a one-time runoff in crypto-related inventory." Kelleher has a buy rating on Nvidia.
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New Report Shows PennEast Pipeline Not Needed Under Any Scenario
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Tell Gov. Murphy: We don't need the damaging PennEast pipeline.
Far Hills, NJ (September 26, 2018) — The title of a new report from New Jersey Conservation Foundation (NJ Conservation) released today sums it up: The proposed PennEast pipeline is a solution in search of a problem.
The report, written by Barbara Blumenthal, Ph.D., research director, NJ Conservation, provides data and analysis showing that the pipeline isn't needed to satisfy need, to reduce natural gas prices, or to ensure reliability or a low-cost transition to a clean energy future.
"At this point," the report concludes, "building unnecessary pipelines will only increase costs and increase emissions, taking the state in the wrong direction."
Natural gas is now a major source of emissions in New Jersey, as it provides energy for electricity generation as well as for heating and cooling. The state has a legislative mandate to achieve 80 percent lower emissions by 2050, requiring a major decline in natural gas consumption across most sectors of the economy.
Instead, a smart combination of wind, solar, flexible load, storage, and stepped-up energy efficiency will not only heat, cool, and power New Jersey reliably, it will save money and support a vibrant economy.
"This report counters PennEast's misleading claims and scare tactics with hard facts and solid analysis and makes clear that building PennEast would only add to a glut of pipeline capacity while driving up costs and emissions," said Tom Gilbert, campaign director, NJ Conservation and ReThink Energy NJ. "The research shows that a clean energy future based on renewables will save money, reduce emissions, grow our economy, and improve community health and safety."
The report compiles and updates research from gas experts and includes these key points:
New Jersey currently has substantial excess pipeline capacity to meet its needs — even during extreme cold periods — and by 2030 will continue to have more than 1.3 billion cubic feet per day of excess capacity. PennEast would add another 1 billion cubic feet of unnecessary capacity.
Experts reconfirmed this finding of excess capacity using new data from the extreme cold period (referred to as the "Bomb Cyclone") from December 2017 through January 2018, stating: "This analysis shows that PennEast is not needed to meet peak winter demand, not even for a single day, even during extreme weather events."
There is even more than enough excess pipeline capacity to accommodate an increase in gas-fired electricity generation that could arise if the state's remaining coal and nuclear plants were to close.
The New Jersey Division of Rate Counsel concluded that the proposed PennEast pipeline's self-dealing contracts do not reflect genuine market demand, and no evidence supports PennEast's claim that its pipeline would increase pipeline grid reliability.
By creating a further glut of capacity, PennEast would increase costs to New Jersey consumers by $180 million to $280 million per year.
Independent research found that PennEast inflated its estimated job numbers by at least 66% and that the project would result in only 10 ongoing jobs in New Jersey. According to the research, PennEast would have an "infinitesimally small" contribution to the economy. On the other hand, clean energy jobs already employ about 52,000 New Jerseyans, and this number will grow significantly.
New Jersey must substantially reduce its use of natural gas, the primary source of emissions in the electricity generation, commercial, and residential sectors, in order to meet its Global Warming Response Act goals.
New studies that model electric grids each year until 2050 show that little-to-no-gas will be needed by 2050 if states support low-cost pathways with optimized clean energy portfolios.
The report contains in-depth explanations of these points and others, supported by citations from experts. It includes detailed analysis of energy capacity and demand in New Jersey, and explores various contingencies that could affect the state's energy situation for years to come.
A Fairleigh Dickinson University Poll conducted this month for ReThink Energy NJ shows that New Jersey voters embrace a clean energy future. Sixty-six percent do not consider natural gas to be "clean" energy, an astounding 23-point increase since 2016, and three of every four voters want New Jersey to reach 100 percent of energy from renewable sources by 2050.
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Stopping Violence against Women Now—and for Future Generations
Written by Sonia Lowman, Senior Communications Specialist
Violence against women is endemic in every corner of the globe. Rape and sexual abuse violate the bodies, minds and hearts of women and girls—and this tears at the fabric of households and communities wherever it occurs.
Though International Medical Corps works tirelessly to treat survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) in places where little to no such care exists, we know that no single organization can solve such a complicated problem. The true healing—and the necessary end to this violence—must come from within, through all of us working together.
To create lasting change with systemic implications and to multiply the impact of our humanitarian interventions, International Medical Corps embeds training, education and awareness-building into everything we do. For our GBV programs worldwide, this means sensitizing communities to the consequences of GBV, training frontline health workers to support GBV survivors, building the capacity of local and national institutions to respond to GBV, fostering economic empowerment for women, educating and engaging men and traditional leaders, and much more. As we transfer knowledge, skills and institutional capacity to local communities, we help to strengthen critical support systems for women and girls in radically underserved areas while challenging and changing the detrimental attitudes and behaviors that contribute to GBV.
Challenging Gender Norms in Conflict-Affected Ukraine
Conflict and economic uncertainty over recent years in Ukraine have exacerbated violence against women within a highly patriarchal culture where, according to our GBV Manager Enisa Eminovska, many believe that rape within marriage is not possible. Though sexual abuses here typically take the form of intimate partner violence, the high military presence in conflict-affected areas feeds the practice of "survival sex." International Medical Corps has been providing GBV programming in more than 30 extremely remote, conflict-affected villages in Ukraine since 2016, and is currently the only service provider in these areas.
Because fear of punishment can keep women in Ukraine from reporting sexual abuse, International Medical Corps has been working to create a national system for confidential reporting. In addition to direct services offered to survivors of rape and abuse, we provide psychoeducational services to adult women through a 16-week GBV program that covers such topics as women's health, self-love and self-esteem, gender stereotypes, causes and consequences of GBV, intimate partner violence and more. We also provide training on GBV core concepts and safe referrals for village council members, school staff, community club directors and others, aiming to sensitize people in positions of power about GBV while encouraging them to take a proactive role in prevention.
Meantime, our men's clubs engage men and boys in a 16-week program that helps them recognize stress factors and identify coping strategies, then helps them explore their roles as men and their responsibility to create safe environments for women by working to eliminate all forms of violence. We reach out to young people through programs that address gender roles and gender equality, date rape and other forms of violence, including violence in the home. Recently, local police reached out to our team for training on how to strengthen community-friendly policing, including visits by mobile patrol units to schools and sports events where officers speak with young people about how to report and end GBV and other violence.
To help raise awareness about GBV and how to end it, we train community outreach workers on how to speak with their neighbors about their needs and link them to our GBV services and programs, and how to create referral pathways that can be used once our programs end. Though it can be quite challenging to convince men about the importance of our GBV curriculum—particularly in the midst of war and a culture that enforces toxic forms of masculinity—according to Enisa, our most difficult work often involves changing the attitudes of women. Too often, a woman will tell her, "It is easier to lay down and let my husband get it over with, especially if he is drunk, than go through two hours of arguing and hitting in front of the children."
Changing harmful attitudes and behavior that have endured for generations is a long-term and complex mission. But we are making progress. At the end of each GBV training session, Enisa says that participants begin to question how they do things, support one another and encourage others to speak up when they see abuse or harassment. In turn, each of these people can reach out to others with critical messages that challenge toxic gender norms—affecting many more people than we would reach on our own.
Since 2016, International Medical Corps' GBV team in Ukraine has served 3,000 beneficiaries in more than 30 remote settlements on the frontlines of conflict.
Fostering Women's Independence in South Sudan
GBV prevention and response represents one of the largest programs implemented by International Medical Corps in South Sudan, where we have served conflict-affected populations and displaced people since 1994. According to Charles Oryem, our Economic Empowerment and Livelihood Program Manager in South Sudan, many rape cases occur when women leave the "Protection of Civilians Sites" (PoCs) to collect firewood and water, or when their husbands get drunk and turn violent. Women's economic dependency on men, combined with gender norms that dictate their subservience, leaves them largely powerless to hold perpetrators of GBV accountable.
To help GBV survivors and other vulnerable women create financial independence, our teams in South Sudan run economic empowerment programs that provide training on business management and leadership, followed by startup grants and ongoing mentoring. As a result of this training, women who previously depended on food aid gain the ability to support many of their families' needs, such as medication and school fees for their children. This in turn gives them more leverage within their households and makes them less vulnerable to violence from their partners.
In addition to economic empowerment, International Medical Corps provides gender discussion groups that engage both men and women in an effort to shift power dynamics in the household and mitigate the potential of escalating domestic violence, and offers medical treatment and psychosocial services for GBV survivors, along with women's safe spaces.
Charles works to train International Medical Corps staff as well as community members and leaders. Having grown up in Uganda during war, he says, "I want to bring change to people who are really suffering." He encourages the beneficiaries he meets to have hope that things will get better.
Though he acknowledges that changing the behavior that leads to violence against women takes time, during his time with the program Charles has seen significant changes within the community, particularly among women who "have come to realize that they have rights and they see they should not be experiencing violence." He concludes happily that, during our recent campaign for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, women in the PoCs and the surrounding community sang joyfully and told him, "We now know as women that we have rights and how to speak up for them."
Changing Traditional Practices to Address GBV in Pakistan
Addressing high rates of GBV in Afghan communities in Pakistan requires a good deal of awareness raising and training, given the highly patriarchal and religious Pashtun culture, which views the topic as largely taboo. Our teams in Pakistan formed and trained gender support groups (GSGs) composed of men and women of mixed ages to tackle harmful traditional practices that exacerbate GBV—including a practice that required the family of a perpetrator of crime to pay the victim's family in the form of a girl child. Another widespread practice of "bride payment" caused girls and women to be treated like servants in their new homes, where they face physical and psychological abuse from her husband and in-laws.
Over the past five years, in one of the refugee villages where we work, the GSGs have been successful in replacing the practice of paying a victim's family in the form of a girl child with a fine, and with replacing high bride payments with minimal dowries. In some of the refugee villages, GSGs are helping to enroll girls in schools. Central to these efforts have been religious leaders, who hold strong influence over communities. "The GSGs have been very successful and the community is very satisfied," Saida Inayat, our GBV Coordinator in Pakistan, reports. "They are change agents and helping the community to end violence against women and girls." We currently are running GSGs in nine refugee villages, each trained on basic GBV concepts, on providing psychological first aid to support survivors and on how to make referrals to available services.
When we form GSGs, we start by raising awareness about basic human rights, then move into more nuanced sessions on GBV and harmful traditional practices. Participants help our teams to identify community entry points, such as religious or traditional leaders, and to recruit other volunteers for GSGs. Once formed and built out, GSGs can conduct awareness sessions and provide psychosocial support to GBV survivors in their own communities.
It can be challenging to raise awareness about GBV and harmful traditional practices in these environments, given men's resistance to women's empowerment and women's overwhelming lack of social power. Further, women have requested higher male engagement in awareness activities, telling our teams, "We are becoming aware of our rights, but men don't respect them." Consequently, when we engage with men, we focus on the benefits to men of ending GBV, as well as on stories of male role models who are helping to create healthier and happier communities.
Finally, because the work can be mentally and emotionally draining for our staff and volunteers, Saida emphasizes the importance of ongoing coaching and guidance for those who provide GBV services. Such support helps remind our teams that, though the work is challenging and change takes time, their efforts are absolutely essential. We want them to know the huge difference they are making in the lives of the women and families they reach now, as well as the effect it will have on future generations.


Andy Atkins, his wife Jenny and their four-year-old son Logan miraculously escaped unscathed after their plane plunged into the sea – and doctors passing by in a boat jumped in to save them.
The Texas family was on a sightseeing flight along the coast of Roatan, off Honduras, when the plane's engine cut out and the craft plummeted into the sea.
There was panic as the plane was sucked under the surface, with Andy Atkins and the pilot desperately scrambling to save his wife and child.
"I dove back under looking for them, came back, got air, went immediately back down," Andy Atkins, an attorney from Dallas, told NBCDFW.com.
But he added: "We were all still in shock at that point.
Miraculously, a boat happened to be passing and several people jumped into the water to save them.
Several people on a nearby boat jumped in to save them.
Among the divers were a U.S. Navy doctor and another physician who immediately started treating Jenny Atkins and the boy, NBCDPW reported.
"They screamed that there's two doctors on board," Andy Atkins said.
The family members were later treated at hospital.
The Atkins family is planning another trip to Roatan this summer – and said the accident brought them closer to the island and the people there.
"It reaffirms your faith in people and humanity that so many people stepped in to help that didn't have to," Andy Atkins said.


In his first address to Northeast Ohio as governor, Mike DeWine's priority was a familiar one: improving the lives of the state's children.
DeWine, 72, spoke at the John S. Knight Center in downtown Akron to a sold-out crowd of about 900 people as part of the Akron Roundtable program on Thursday, three days after he was sworn in as Ohio's 70th governor at his family farm in Cedarville with his hand on a stack of nine Bibles held by his wife, Fran.
The Republican DeWine's 25-minute address, followed by a 20-minute question-and-answer session, highlighted what he's done so far in his short administration and his plans for the future.
DeWine said he met with General Motors CEO Mary Barra on Thursday morning — one day after traveling to the North American International Auto Show in Detroit to meet with auto executives — to discuss the auto manufacturer's decision to close its Lordstown assembly plant and cut about 1,600 jobs.
GM has said jobs will be added at eight other GM factories in the U.S., but Lordstown workers would have to move to Toledo or out of state to continue working for GM.
DeWine said during the private conversation, which he said was a "good, candid discussion," he urged Barra to look into staying in Lordstown in some capacity. He also said he told her the state would be partners with GM through the administration and JobsOhio if the company took that route.
DeWine said the state is also working with the United Auto Workers.
"I don't have a magic wand to wave and make things change, but what I do have is the ability to put the full force of the state government behind our effort to help our workers in Lordstown, help the Mahoning Valley," he said.
DeWine said the state needs to adapt to prepare for "jobs of the 21st century" and help fill a skills gap. Young people need to be aware of options other than four-year colleges, and employees need to have opportunities for further skill development, he said, adding that in his first year in office, the state will pay for 10,000 nanodegrees, industry certificates in areas where there's a need for workers.
On the state budget, which has to be presented to the state legislature by March 15, DeWine said "one huge gap" he wants to address is state funding for children's services, which are overwhelmed by the opioid epidemic.
"We're also gonna put our money where our mouth is," he said, adding that agencies will receive "significantly more" state funding.
To help address the state's drug epidemics, DeWine said he also plans to ensure K-12 children have age-appropriate education about drugs, alcohol and other addictions and establish multi-jurisdictional task forces in areas of the state that don't have them.
DeWine highlighted an executive order he signed Tuesday, creating the Governor's Advisory Committee on Home Visitation. The panel will make recommendations on how to increase Ohio's investment in home visitation programs, which he said can help reduce infant mortality and improve school-readiness.
DeWine, who recognized Akron Children's Hospital during his Thursday address, said Ohio's home visitation programs are currently reaching less than 4 percent of eligible families, a number he wants to triple.
Fran Buchholzer, former director of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, introduced DeWine, who also touched on transportation and environment, including protecting Lake Erie, as other priorities of his administration.
DeWine — who has eight children and 24 grandchildren, with a grandson born Wednesday — compared his goals for his administration to his grandfather planting trees until his death, even though he wouldn't live to see them, something DeWine said he didn't understand at first.


A concerned neighbour has launched a last-ditch attempt to save 45 trees from the chainsaw.
On July 11, St Margaret's Church in Arundel Road, Angmering, was given the go ahead from Arun District Council to cut down 45 western red cedar trees in the churchyard.
John Gibson from The Thatchway, Angmering, objected to the plans, claiming the trees were a haven for voles living in the stream nearby, which also runs through his back garden. He added: "They are a beautiful screen from car pollution and noise, and they must have been there for half a century.
On May 21, Ian Wieck, chairman of St Margaret's Building Advisory and Action Group, wrote to Arun advising them they would be chopping down the trees because they were 'restricting light to our neighbours', at risk of falling down in high winds and 'overhanging graves' – despite Mr Gibson pointing out trees nearby which are growing on top of headstones.
The church then planned to plant 'a hedge of mixed native English species', Mr Wieck wrote.
Mr Gibson raised his concerns at a meeting of Angmering Parish Council, where they also decided to object to the proposal.
In an inspection on July 6, Arun's tree officer Mark Warwick said the 'potential loss of such a group in a single operation is unfortunate', but their replacement with a hedge meant 'there should ultimately be no long-term dimunition of character in the surrounding area'.
After the decision was made, Mr Gibson, a retired senior valuation officer, contacted Natural England and a wildlife crime officer about the decision. On August 2, the Arthur Conan Doyle bibliographer emailed the parish secretary, urging them to save the trees from 'wanton destruction', describing them as the 'lungs of the village' – but got no further response.


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South of Seventh Neighborhood Walk, Saturday September 20
Put on your walking shoes this Saturday, September 20 from 6pm to 9pm and get ready to experience the inaugural South of Seventh Neighborhood Walk, a community collaboration hosted by four galleries on the border of the Los Angeles Downtown Arts District, Cerre, CES Contemporary, Little Big Man Gallery and Wilding Cran Gallery.
All four of the galleries just opened within the last year, and Saturday's collaborative event stroll marks first coordinated schedule of events and openings for the participating Arts District businesses and highlights the sense of community that is growing strong in the area south of Seventh Street. Here's what is on in these galleries which are uniting the South of Seventh community:
The Cerre, 801 Mateo Street Los Angeles, CA 90021
Cerre focuses on combining French elegance and tradition with effortless Californian style. The collection is comprised of clean modern essentials with an emphasis on the perfect leather jacket and paired accessories. The use of luxurious materials, subtle tailoring and exquisite couture like craftsmanship create a timeless wardrobe that is as sophisticated as it is wearable.
In July 2014 Cerre opened a new showroom / atelier concept in downtown Los Angeles. The appointment only space was designed by Cerre to engage the clientele in the world of the brand and the process of the collection which is designed and made by hand on site.
CES Contemporary, 709 & 711 Mateo Street, Los Angeles, CA 90021
CES Contemporary specializes in local and international emerging contemporary art. The gallery pursues and supports the development of young artists, with the mission to encourage and display works that are progressive, challenging and cutting edge.
"Arrangements," a solo exhibition of recent works by Stephen Eichhorn of hand-cut collages will be on view in the Main Gallery, and "here to go," a solo exhibition by Greg Stimac in the Focus Space will feature work from his Driving Photograph series. The pair of shows will be on view September 20, 2014 – October 26, 2014.
We have been covering the openings at CES Contemporary since they first opened in the Arts District, when they were located in Laguna Beach and on the art fair circuit.
Little Big Man Gallery, 801 Mateo Street, Los Angeles, CA 90021
Little Big Man Gallery is committed to exhibiting works by both established and emerging photographers. With a dedication to showing challenging photography that goes beyond the classification of often conventional Art or Documentary style photographs. The gallery is a natural extension to publishing at LittleBigMan Books breathing the same vigor that has been established with their books out onto the gallery walls.
"All In–Buying Into the Drug Trade" by photographer Graham MacIndoe will be on view from September 20 – October 31, 2014. This will be MacIndoe's first solo exhibition in the U.S. and also celebrates the release of a limited edition book by Little Big Man Books. Each image from All In is a variation on a single object: a small glassine heroin bag stamped with an exotic or bleakly satirical brand name, all collected by MacIndoe when he was an addict.
Wilding Cran Gallery, 939 S. Santa Fe Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90021
Naomi Wilding and Anthony Cran established Wilding Cran Gallery in 2012 as a virtual platform committed to supporting the practice of contemporary art by emerging, mid-career and established artists. In April 2014, the gallery launched a physical space in the Arts District of Los Angeles to connect with the growing art community and be a platform to present the gallery's expanding roster of contemporary artists.
Theatergarden Beastiarium, a new body of work by Vikky Alexander, will be on view September 20 – November 1, 2014. The exhibition marks Alexander's first solo show at the gallery. Theatergarden Beastiarium presents the artist's latest photo-collage work and explores her ongoing tension between nature and culture. Refreshments will be provided by neighboring restaurant Bestia for the Artist Reception during South of Seventh. Image on top by Vikky Alexander.
Stephen Eichhorn, "Succulent Cluster (Green) " from CES Contemporary
Graham MacIndoe, "So Amazing" from Little Big Man Gallery


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In December 2013, the government of Costa Rica initiated a new safeguard investigation.
On February 6, 2014, the Costa Rican Ministry of Economy, Industry and Commerce decided to initiate a safeguard investigation on milled rice (Resolution No. 01-2014, 06.02.2014). The investigation started on the day of the publication of the resolution in the Costa Rican Official Journal, i.e. on February 11, 2014.
The product subject to investigation is classified under the following HS codes: 1006.309091 and 1006.309099.
The complaint was lodged on December 20, 2013 by the National Association of the Rice Industry (Asociación Nacional de Industriales del Sector Arrocero - ANINSA) on behalf of the companies Cooperativa de Productores Independientes de Liberia R.L. and Corporación Arrocera Costa Rica S.A.
On August 8, 2014, the Costa Rican authorities issued their preliminary decision (Resolution No. DM-038-2014, 08.08.2014).
They came to the conclusion that there exist no clear proofs of a causal link between increased imports and the difficulties of the domestic industry. Hence, no provisional safeguard duty was imposed.
On January 5, 2015, the Costa Rican authorities decided to impose a definitive safeguard duty on imports of milled rice (Resolution No. DM-001-2015, 05.01.2015).
The rate of the duty is 24.88% during the first year, 18.66% during the second year, 12.44% during the third year and 6.22% during the fourth year. This measure entered into force on February 19, 2015.
According to the UN Comtrade Database, in 2013 the following countries exported goods classified under HS code subheading 1006.30 to Costa Rica with a trade value over the GTA threshold of USD 1 million: Nicaragua, Argentina, the United States of America, Uruguay and El Salvador.


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If you think you knew Amazon, things are about to change.
Amazon has built its business and reputation by becoming an e-commerce giant, but one of the company's top execs says that, in time, it will be all about the cloud and its division Amazon Web Services (AWS).
'This is a huge opportunity and as such Jeff Bezos, our CEO and founder, has said several times that he believes the opportunity is so big that maybe AWS, over time, may become bigger than the retail company," said Werner Vogels, Amazon chief technology officer told CNBC in an exclusive interview.
Amazon Thursday broke out the figures for AWS for the first time ever, and Wall Street liked what it saw. The division generated $5.16 billion in revenue last year and $1.56 billion in sales in the first quarter of 2015, up 49% from last year.
And this is just the start: investment analysis company Morningstar expects AWS could become a $15-20 billion business in the next three years, which would make it a substantial revenue stream for the e-commerce player. So big that the company may even spin it off one day, says internet analyst, James Cakmak of Monness Crespi Hardy.
Amazon's stock, after have a rough ride in 2014, is in rebound mode this year with shares up more than 20 percent. If Amazon continues to show investors that its North American retail division is doing well and that its investment in cloud is paying off, "the stock could get Netflixed," says Mark Mahaney, the analyst at RBC Capital.
Nonetheless, there are clouds on the horizon for AWS. A big one is competition.
Google and Microsoft are seen as the biggest threats. Analysts also see Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Rackspace and Terradata as a competitive threat to Amazon's success in cloud computing.
And there are many more start-ups and venture-backed firms that are making such big strides in cloud innovation, that analysts say could soon also steal a piece of the pie.
Further competition could result in Amazon and other players having to cut their prices. The fear is that over time, the cloud could become commoditized.
But Vogels doesn't agree, referencing AWS's differentiated product line.
"There's a difference between pricing, low pricing and commodity. If you look at sort of the wide range of services that we have available on AWS, if you look at the cloud in 2010, its almost the bottom layer of what Amazon is now.
"Sort of the basic servers, compute, storage, data bases and that's where most of the other cloud providers are at this moment. But we now have 45 different services whether it's around analytics, whether it's around mobile development, whether it's about innovative new virtual desktops or people services."
The other big threat is security. Twitch, a video streaming site Amazon acquired in 2014 was hacked earlier this year. If more and more companies use Amazon Web Services to develop software programs and store their data, the greater the need for a technology that is not susceptible to a cyberattack.
But Vogels is convinced his team at AWS is prioritizing safety and security though the use of innovation.
"[We're] building a whole range of new security tools that are unique in the industry and that nobody has ever seen before."
"If you want to have total control over who has access to your data, you have to store it on AWS because that's the best way to protect it," Vogels told CNBC.
Clarification: This article has been updated since first published to reflect that Vogels did not specify a time frame in his reply to a question on when cloud services could overtake e-commerce.


Every bridge you cross, plane you fly on, and computer you use wouldn't even exist if it wasn't for systems engineers. And, for those traveling in space right now, the International Space Station would certainly not be there if it weren't for leading-edge systems engineers and their ingenuity. No one can dispute the fact that the systems engineer job is one of the most important in the world.
Systems Engineer Day was only recently created by the folks at www.SystemsEngineerDay.com so we could have a way to say thank you to the men and women who sit at their computer terminals endlessly in order to make our lives that much easier and better. If you happen to be a systems engineer yourself – thank you! – you deserve to take the day off and do something other than stare at a computer screen. If you're not a systems engineer, but want to show your appreciation for one, then there are many ways you can do that. For example, if you are their boss, maybe let them take the day (or part of the day) off; invite them out and buy them a drink or two; bring them some drinks or eats into work; buy them movie or game tickets; send out a nice company notice (intranet post) that acknowledges the work they do.
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A three-toed wolf was terrorizing Luke Granger's sheep, and he was determined to put an end to it—that is, until Abigail Dayton, showed up from Fish & Wildlife, ranting about how wolves had as much right as sheep to protection. Luke felt a little predatory himself, whenever he was around her.
Abigail refused to back down. Just because the hot-tempered rancher was also rugged and handsome, didn't mean she was going to fall prey to his advances. She had an endangered species to protect, and she was determined to get the job done. But who would protect her from those steely, gray-blue eyes?
Abigail was mesmerized by the sight of Luke's body flexing as he stood and stretched like a wolf ready for the hunt. An instant later, that powerful body settled itself beside her on the couch. She looked into Luke's gray eyes and found a purely feral gleam.
The hairs prickled on Abigail's neck and goose-flesh rose on her arms. A wolf was on the prowl. And she was its prey.
"Uh . . . a little, " Abigail admitted. Suddenly she wasn't the least bit tired anymore.
Luke's hands moved up under Abigail's hair to massage her neck and sent a shiver down her spine.
"Caught a nerve?" he murmured in her ear.
Abigail shivered again and tried to laugh at her powerful reaction to his touch. Only her breath caught in her throat when Luke's hands lifted her hair away and his lips caressed the back of her neck.
Abigail shot off the couch as though she had been bitten, leaving Luke with his empty hands hanging in the air. "I think I'd better go to bed now," she said. Abigail started up the stairs without looking back, but had only gotten halfway up when she realized she had no idea which bedroom was hers. She turned around and found Luke on the step just below her.
Abigail put a hand on his chest to keep him where he was. The feel of hard muscle under her fingertips set her pulse to pounding. "Don't come any closer," she warned.
Abigail's knees felt wobbly. He had to stop doing what he was doing or she wouldn't be responsible for the consequences. "Please don't say things like that," she pleaded.
"We are," he said with a smile.
Abigail moaned as Luke took one of her fingers into his mouth and sucked on it.
"I don't even know you," Abigail said, her whole body trembling as Luke bit the pad between her thumb and forefinger.
"I doubt that," Abigail muttered.
Abigail breathed a sigh of relief.
"You don't have to act so damned happy about it," Luke snarled.
Abigail put a hand lightly on Luke's shoulder. "You'll thank me for this in the morning," she said.


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John Bourke, 9th Earl of Clanricarde1
M, #34741, b. 1642, d. 17 October 1722
John Bourke, 9th Earl of Clanricarde was born in 1642.1 He was the son of William Bourke, 7th Earl of Clanricarde and Lettice Shirley.1 He married Mary Talbot, daughter of James Talbot and Hon. Bridget Bermingham, in October 1684.2 He died on 17 October 1722.2 He died intestate and his estate was administered to his son, Hon. Thomas Bourke on 16 November 1734.2
He was created 1st Baron Bourke of Bophin, co. Galway [Ireland] on 2 April 1689.1 He gained the rank of Colonel of Foot.1 He fought in the Battle of Aughrim on 12 July 1691, where he was taken prisoner.1
He was attainted.1 He gained the rank of commander in the regiment of Infantry in the Irish Army of King James II.1 In 1702 he was acquited by an Act, and his titles and estates restored.1 He succeeded as the 9th Earl of Clanricarde [I., 1543] after November 1702.1 He succeeded as the 9th Baron of Dunkellin [I., 1543] after November 1702.1 He succeeded as the 7th Viscount Bourke of Clanmories, co. Mayo [I., 1629] after November 1702.1
Children of John Bourke, 9th Earl of Clanricarde and Mary Talbot
Lady Bridget Bourke+3 d. 16 Jul 1779
Lady Lætitia Bourke4 d. 29 Jun 1740
Hon. Ulick de Burgh5 d. 4 Dec 1762
Lady Honora Bourke+6
Lady Mary Bourke6 d. 1735
James Bourke7 d. Aug 1718
Richard Bourke7
Lady Margaret Bourke7
Michael Bourke, 10th Earl of Clanricarde+2 b. c 1686, d. 29 Nov 1726
William Bourke7 b. c 1686, d. 1703
Hon. Thomas de Burgh2 b. a 1687, d. Jul 1763
General Hon. Edward Bourke6 b. a 1687, d. 7 Mar 1743
Hon. William Bourke6 b. a 1687, d. 11 May 1745
Hon. John Bourke6 b. c 1695, d. Aug 1718
[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume III, page 233. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
[S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume III, page 234.
[S37] BP2003 See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
[S15] George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume II, page 253. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Baronetage.
[S21] L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, U.K.: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 71. Hereinafter cited as The New Extinct Peerage.
F, #34742, d. 27 June 1711
Mary Talbot was the daughter of James Talbot and Hon. Bridget Bermingham.2 She married John Bourke, 9th Earl of Clanricarde, son of William Bourke, 7th Earl of Clanricarde and Lettice Shirley, in October 1684.2 She died on 27 June 1711.2 She was buried on 28 June 1711 at Meelick Abbey, County Galway, IrelandG.2
From October 1684, her married name became Bourke.2 After her marriage, Mary Talbot was styled as Countess of Clanricarde.
Children of Mary Talbot and John Bourke, 9th Earl of Clanricarde
[S15] George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume II, page 253, calls her Bridget Talbot, but is probably confused with her mother. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Baronetage.
[S15] George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Baronetage, volume II, page 253.
M, #34743, d. 12 July 1691
James Talbot was the son of Sir Henry Talbot and Margaret Talbot.2 He married Hon. Bridget Bermingham, daughter of Francis Bermingham, 12th Lord Athenry.1 He died on 12 July 1691 at Aughrim, County Galway, Ireland, killed in action.3
He gained the rank of Colonel in the King James II's Army.3 He lived at Mount Talbot, County Roscommon, IrelandG.1 He lived at Templeogue, County Dublin, IrelandG.4 He fought in the Battle of Aughrim on 12 July 1691.3
Children of James Talbot and Hon. Bridget Bermingham
Mary Talbot+1 d. 27 Jun 1711
Bridget Talbot+2
[S47] BIFR1976 See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S47]
Lettice Shirley1
F, #34744, b. circa 1617, d. circa 22 September 1655
Lettice Shirley was born circa 1617.1 She was the daughter of Sir Henry Shirley, 2nd Bt. and Lady Dorothy Devereux.1 She married William Bourke, 7th Earl of Clanricarde, son of Sir William Bourke and Joan O'Shaughnessy.1 She died circa 22 September 1655.2 She was buried on 25 September 1655.2
Her married name became Bourke.1
Children of Lettice Shirley and William Bourke, 7th Earl of Clanricarde
Richard Bourke, 8th Earl of Clanricarde+2 d. 2 Feb 1709
Thomas Bourke3
John Bourke, 9th Earl of Clanricarde+2 b. 1642, d. 17 Oct 1722
Sir Henry Shirley, 2nd Bt.1
M, #34745, d. 8 February 1632/33
Last Edited=5 Apr 2011
Sir Henry Shirley, 2nd Bt. was the son of Sir George Shirley, 1st Bt. and Frances Berkeley.2 He married Lady Dorothy Devereux, daughter of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex and Frances Walsingham, on 1 August 1616.1 He died on 8 February 1632/33.3
He lived at Astwell, Hertfordshire, EnglandG. He succeeded as the 2nd Baronet Shirley, of Staunton Harold [E., 1611] on 27 April 1622.3
Children of Sir Henry Shirley, 2nd Bt. and Lady Dorothy Devereux
Lettice Shirley+4 b. c 1617, d. c 22 Sep 1655
Sir Robert Shirley, 4th Bt.+1 b. a 1623, d. 6 Nov 1656
Sir Charles Shirley, 3rd Bt.2 b. 9 Sep 1623, d. 7 Jun 1646
[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 250. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
Lady Dorothy Devereux1
F, #34746, d. 30 March 1636
Lady Dorothy Devereux was the daughter of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex and Frances Walsingham.1,2 She married, firstly, Sir Henry Shirley, 2nd Bt., son of Sir George Shirley, 1st Bt. and Frances Berkeley, on 1 August 1616.1 She married, secondly, William Stafford in 1634.1 She died on 30 March 1636.1
From 1 August 1616, her married name became Shirley.1 From 1634, her married name became Stafford.1
Children of Lady Dorothy Devereux and Sir Henry Shirley, 2nd Bt.
Hon. Albina Lucy Brodrick1
F, #34747, b. circa 1862, d. 16 January 1955
Last Edited=8 Nov 2014
Hon. Albina Lucy Brodrick was born circa 1862.1 She was the daughter of William Brodrick, 8th Viscount Midleton of Midleton and Hon. Augusta Mary Fremantle.1 She died on 16 January 1955, unmarried.1
She held the office of Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for County Kerry.1
Sir William Bourke1
Sir William Bourke was the son of Ulick Bourke, 3rd Earl of Clanricarde and Honora Burke.1 He married Joan O'Shaughnessy, daughter of Sir Dermot O'Shaughnessy.1 He died on 2 February 1625/26.2
He was also known as William de Burgh.1
Children of Sir William Bourke and Joan O'Shaughnessy
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Clanricarde+1 d. Aug 1666
William Bourke, 7th Earl of Clanricarde+1 d. Oct 1687
Joan O'Shaughnessy1
Joan O'Shaughnessy is the daughter of Sir Dermot O'Shaughnessy.1 She married, firstly, Sir William Bourke, son of Ulick Bourke, 3rd Earl of Clanricarde and Honora Burke.1 She married, secondly, Teige O'Brien, son of Conor O'Brien, 2nd Earl of Thomond and Una O'Brien, after 1625.2
Her married name became Bourke.1 From after 1625, her married name became O'Brien.2
Children of Joan O'Shaughnessy and Sir William Bourke
Mary Caroline Marsh1
F, #34750, d. 4 March 1886
Mary Caroline Marsh was the daughter of Reverend William Marsh and Maria Tilson.1 She married Reverend Francis Chenevix Trench, son of Richard Trench and Melesina Chenevix, on 6 December 1837.1 She died on 4 March 1886.1
From 6 December 1837, her married name became Trench. From 1873, her married name became Chenevix Trench.1
Children of Mary Caroline Marsh and Reverend Francis Chenevix Trench
Francis Trench2 b. 1846, d. 1847
Mary Melesina Chenevix Trench1 b. 1848
Richard William Francis Trench1 b. 2 Jun 1849, d. 12 Aug 1860
Maria Marcia Fanny Chenevix Trench+1 b. 1852, d. 7 Apr 1926
[S8] BP1999 volume 1, page 124. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S8]
[S2392] Letter from Lucy Trench (London, U.K.) to Darryl Roger Lundy, 7 August 2007; unknown repository (unknown repository address).


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This study presents an overview of distinctive features of America's first new waste-to-energy plant, which is a source of renewable energy and reduces greenhouse gas emission. With combustion and air pollution equipment designed and supplied by The Babcock & Wilcox Co. (B&W), the new facility addresses the pollution and cost issues that stopped municipalities from building waste-to-energy plants. It eliminates the burial of problematic wastes that routinely emit tons of volatile organic compounds and problematic chemicals. Waste-to-energy plants produce lower net greenhouse gas emissions than any landfill option. Not only do they displace fossil fuels to produce electricity, but also they effectively eliminate methane landfill emissions by burning the biodegradable landfill waste that forms methane. Test results show that the facility's emissions are, at their maximum, an order of magnitude lower than those limits. This makes it the best in class of any waste-to-energy plant in the world. Waste-to-energy plants give municipalities facing rising landfill costs an economically and environmentally sound alternative to consider.
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Harvard Law Bulletin
Alumni Focus
Credit: Leah Fasten
A Conversation with John F. Cogan Jr. '52
By HLS News Staff
Credit: Leah Fasten John F. Cogan Jr. '52
Jack Cogan '52 jokes that he resides "in the shadow of Harvard," having moved back to the Square after living in Lexington for years. A graduate of Harvard College ('49) and Harvard Law School, he's had a long engagement with the school and the university, serving on the Visiting Committee and supporting HLS—including most recently its international programs.
Cogan also has much experience advising HLS deans—from Al Sacks '48 to Martha Minow—and takes a long view of the school. When he thinks of the promise of today's Program on the Legal Profession led by Professor David Wilkins '80, for example, he recalls its antecedents in the early efforts by then-Dean James Vorenberg '51, including trips they took together to interest law firms in New York in support of this program. "They knew we didn't come from outer space," he recalls, "but the skepticism was pervasive."
Now of counsel at WilmerHale, he was named a senior partner in 1961 at the predecessor firm, Hale and Dorr, became managing partner in 1976 and served as chairman from 1984 to 1996. Cogan, who turns 84 in June, remains active in the financial services industry and is deputy chairman of Pioneer Global Asset Management S.p.A. (Italy) and president of the Pioneer Family of Mutual Funds (USA). During an afternoon in March, he spoke with the Bulletin before embarking on a four-mile run.
What is it about HLS that has elicited so much of your focus?
It's the school itself. To me, HLS is a place of enormous excitement, always. It's the sheer energy, and the spirit of inquiry—also the rigor. Of course, I'm proud to have graduated from the law school. Its impact on legal education and the profession has been profound, and I have been fascinated to watch the school evolve into a truly global law school.
What have you enjoyed most over the course of your career?
What I have enjoyed most was practicing law, but after becoming managing partner of our firm, I was able to do much less of it. In my beginning years, however, I did quite a bit of corporate work and some international work. I became interested in comparative law, in a very real, practical sense. What actions could you take under civil law that you could not under common law and vice versa? It was so different doing transactions in civil law South America from common law countries like India or Ghana. It was a very interesting time internationally because at first you were working in the closed Cold War environment and then, post-perestroika, you watched the opening up of Central Europe and Russia.
You participated on Russia's Foreign Investment Advisory Council soon after it was created. What was that like?
It was a unique experience. The council originally had 14 members representing companies from Western Europe, the United States and Japan. It was in the early '90s, when Russia was a wild and woolly place. Its closed society was trying to come of age in the world marketplace. Its large underground economy was reinforcing rampant corruption. Social, political and economic upheaval was everywhere. Yeltsin had regained the presidency after the attempted coup, but people tend to forget that the Communist Party was still in a position to block almost anything significant in the Duma that the government wanted to do. Thus, many of the economic, corporate law and accounting reforms recommended by the council to help make Russia more friendly to foreign investors were scuttled in the Duma.
There was so much to be done as Russia tried to slough off the inefficient Communist central control economy. The country had an archaic accounting system. Russia's whole statistical system was an unreliable government database with a propaganda slant to it, so you could not trust the data.
What have you found most challenging in your career?
One's integrity is always being challenged. You have to set high standards for yourself. I remember we had a large and important U.S. client seeking to set up a project in Nigeria. It was before the revolution that took place there in the '60s and before the much-needed U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act was passed in the '70s. The client needed government approval for a private sector project which was stalled. The client's local advisers kept suggesting the need for some "dash," the local word for bribes. While it was not my decision to make or to implement, I told the client if they followed that advice, I could no longer represent them. Fortunately, the client rejected the local advice, and finally, after a long wait, the project was approved.
I also think there's a certain humbling in practice. You can be involved in a problem and think you understand all four corners of it. Then sometimes in further discussions someone will make a point that makes you realize you've missed something.
What advice would you give to a graduating law student?
You can go anywhere. You know, it can be like putting a rucksack on your back and just taking off. You can go anywhere as a lawyer, be it as a lawyer in practice, public interest organizations, business or government service.
I know it's harder right now, because the job market is thinner, but for someone from this institution, it's not as thin as for others. You come out of Harvard Law School with a legacy of intellectual strength, of analysis, of understanding different systems, and people, and how they behave.
There are so many opportunities to make a difference in the world when you leave Harvard Law School. I think that it gives you a kind of tabula rasa. Thinking about the possibility of those opportunities still gives me a vicarious sense of excitement.
Any words of warning?
I must say this: The law itself is very demanding and enticing, and if you're a natural workaholic—which unfortunately I am, genetically, I guess—you must be careful not to be so drawn into your professional life that there is time for little else. It's as if you were in a giant centrifuge. You have to constantly try to avoid being drawn into the center and rather swim to the edge to reach other activities that enrich your life. It's an important perspective to have.
In addition to your support of HLS, you've served many other organizations, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Medical Center and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. How do you balance these efforts?
Well, to me, life is a balancing act. It narrows the amount of free time that one would otherwise have and often makes for long days, but the rewards in terms of enrichment and the expansion of my knowledge and interests have been great and personally satisfying. I've had a love of classical music for years and years—from early music forward to some of the contemporary pieces being composed today. It's been wonderful over the course of years to hear the Boston Symphony Orchestra's progression: Seiji Ozawa was a great conductor, but Maestro Levine has brought the orchestra to new heights. As to museums, I've also had a longtime interest in art, and museum visiting worldwide has been an important part of my life. While I'm not a collector in any significant way, I do collect contemporary paintings, works on paper and sculpture—some things that both my wife, Mary, an art historian by education, and I like.
What's one of your favorite pieces you've collected?
One is a large color field painting that my law partners gave me when I stepped down as managing partner, so it has special significance. I like it, but not everyone does. It's a [Jules] Olitski. And if you see it at a distance, it almost looks like a blackboard, but close up you see the textures and the subtle gradations of coloration.
Can you say something else about your long-term engagement with HLS?
It's been so enjoyable for me, especially, as earlier noted, watching the school evolve into a global law school. Anything I've done, in terms of giving to the school of time and resources, I've received back in so many different ways. And the school has had such a profound effect on my life, so I feel doubly rewarded. It's been glorious!
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Tiffany Faigus climbs the ranks at Disney.
The executive, which was previously VP, Alternative and Special Series, becomes SVP, Unscripted and Alternative Entertainment, ABC Entertainment and Walt Disney Television Unscripted.
She will be working both on the network and on Mouse House's new unscripted production division, overseen by Rob Mills.
Faigus was tasked with identifying new ideas and concepts, collaborating with talent, and overseeing the creative production of unscripted series and pilots. as the enlargement of the production unit team.
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Since joining ABC in 2015, Faigus has managed ABC stocks such as The Little Mermaid Live !, the Disney Family Singalong franchises, Jeopardy! Greatest Ever, Shark Tank, The $ 100,000 Pyramid, Holey Moley, The Chase and specials The Wonderful World of Disney: Disneyland 60, Mickey's 90th Spectacular and The magical celebration of the holidays.
Prior to ABC, Faigus worked at CAA before moving on to show production and creative production. She has worked across broadcast and cable, including series and specials for NBC, CBS, ABC, TBS, VH1, and HBO, with credits that include four broadcasts of NBC's Olympics, Presidential Debates in 2008 and the launch of the syndicated talk show. The Nate Berkus show.
"Tiffany has been my right hand man in expanding our unscripted roster at ABC and I couldn't be happier that she does so as we grow the business through Walt Disney Television," said Mills, vice -Executive Chairman, Unscripted and Alternative Entertainment, Walt Disney Television. . "Her deep roots in production and strong relationships within the business and industry make her the ideal person to promote the company's success in unscripted programming across the multiplatform landscape."
"It has been the most incredible experience and privilege to work alongside Rob over the past six years. He truly is one of the most genuine executives and human beings in our business, "said Faigus. "I am also grateful to Dana Walden and Craig Erwich for this opportunity. I look forward to creating a groundbreaking alternative, unscripted television in my newly expanded role, not only for ABC, but for our direct-to-consumer business.
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Mental health: it's not always good to talk
Dan Degerman, University of Bristol
by The Conversation January 20, 2023 January 19, 2023
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Few of us would question the need to break the silence around mental illness. Countless campaigns have drilled into us that such silence is harmful and that we should try to break it wherever we find it.
Britain Get Talking is one such campaign. It launched with a splash on Britain's Got Talent a few years ago when hosts Ant and Dec paused the show for a minute to allow viewers to talk to each other about their mental health. When the minute ended, Ant declared: "See, wasn't hard, was it?"
Doubtlessly, campaigns like this have helped many people open up about their mental health problems, particularly those who have stayed silent because of prejudice and stigma.
However, they can also feed misconceptions about silence in mental illness. They imply that silence in and around mental illness is always bad, rooted in fear and stigma, and any effort to break it is good.
In fact, silence in mental illness comes in many forms.
Some kinds of silence form part of mood disorders like depression. People who have written about their experiences of depression often describe losing their ability to form thoughts and feeling unable to speak.
For example, the author Andrew Solomon recalls that he "could not manage to say much". Elaborating, he writes, "Words, with which I have always been intimate, seemed suddenly very elaborate, difficult metaphors the use of which entailed much more energy than I could possibly muster."
This aspect of depression is well-known in mental healthcare. Thinking and speaking less are actually considered two different symptoms of depression. Some research even suggests silence is such a reliable symptom that it might be possible to develop automated tools that diagnose depression based on a person's patterns of speech.
The launch of Britain Get Talking.
If you're experiencing this sort of "depressed silence", being confronted with campaigns and people urging you to speak might not help, regardless of their good intentions. After all, the problem isn't that others aren't open to what you have to say or that they might react poorly to it. It is that you have nothing to say.
Other kinds of silence might be empowering. Some with mental illness are defiantly silent because the people around them ask unwelcome questions or give them unhelpful input. They might wisely choose to save difficult conversations for their therapist.
Such a choice isn't necessarily rooted in stigma. That someone is well-meaning and knows some facts about mental health doesn't mean they are the right person to talk to about mental illness.
Silence in mental illness can also feel good. While some people struggle to think and speak, others struggle with thinking and speaking too much.
That might, for example, be the case for someone with bipolar disorder, who experiences episodes of depression as well as mania, which often involves racing thoughts and a compulsion to speak. For such people, moments of peaceful silence can be a hard-won achievement, and sometimes they pay a tragically high price for it.
We rarely hear about these other sides of silence in mental illness. But therapists have recognised the role of silence in supporting mental health, at least since Donald Winnicott published his seminal paper The Capacity to be Alone. And silence in some form is a key element in meditation, which studies have shown can prevent the recurrence of depression.
The right circumstances
The silences I have described should perhaps be broken under the right circumstances. Since depressed silence seems to form part of the depressive illness, it may be something the patient has to break with the help of a mental healthcare professional as part of their recovery. Along similar lines, someone might benefit from breaking their peaceful silence in therapy, even if the silence feels good.
For whatever reason, many people won't find those circumstances with their family, friends, or colleagues, despite the encouragement of a celebrity on TV. The fact is that it is very hard to talk about mental health problems, even with people who love and support us. Sometimes that is because of stigma, but sometimes it isn't.
We should, of course, continue to strive to make it easier for people to open up about their mental health problems in the right setting. But we have to get rid of the rhetoric that pressures people to break the silence without regard for why they are silent or if speaking would benefit them.
Dan Degerman, Research Fellow, University of Bristol
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Dorsomorphin, DM
Formula:C24H25N5O
MW:399.5 Da
Appearance:Yellow Solid
Purity:≥98%
Dorsomorphin, AMPK Inhibitor
Dorsomorphin is a cell-permeable, potent, selective, reversible and ATP-conmpetitive inhibitor of adenosine monophosphate protein kinase (AMPK) (Ki=109 nM in the presence of ATP and no AMP). It does not display significant inhibition of JAK3, PKA, PKCθ, SYK and ZAPK. The selective compound suppresses fatty acid synthase and food intake in mice. By being competitive with ATP to AMPK, it downregulates the expression of SREBP-1, which is a lipogenic transcription factor, and have hepatocytes produce glucose.
Dorsomorphin also dose-dependently inhibits bone morphogenic protein type I of receptors (BMPR), such as ALK2, ALK3 and ALK6). BMP is required for iron metabolism and embryogenesis. In pluripotent embryonic stem (ES) cells of mice, this compound has been reported to induce cardiomyogenesis robustly. In addition, it also promotes significant neural differentiation in human pluripotent stem cells (hPSC).
• Inhibitor of adenosine monophosphate-activated (AMP) protein kinase (AMPK)
• Inhibitor of bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) receptors (BMPR)
• Inhibitor of fatty acid synthase
• Inhibitor of ACTR-1
• Inducer of autophagy
• "Dorsomorphin, a Selective Small Molecule Inhibitor of BMP Signaling, Promotes Cardiomyogenesis in Embryonic Stem Cells"
• "Dorsomorphin inhibits BMP signals required for embryogenesis and iron metabolism"
Not for human therapeutic use or for medicinal purposes. For research applications only.
BML-275; Compound C; AMPK INHIBITOR
6-[4-(2-piperidin-1-ylethoxy)phenyl]-3-pyridin-4-ylpyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine
C24H25N5O
399.5 Da
Yellow Solid
May be dissolved in DMSO (4 mg/mL, warm)
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Storage Temp
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BML-275 is a cell-permeable pyrazolopyrimidine compound shown to be an AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) and Fatty Acid Synthase inhibitor. Phosphorylation of AMPK occurs in vivo when energy sources are low and in-turn suppresses expression of SREBP-1. SREBP-1 is a key lipogenic transcription factor, and its suppression allows glucose production by hepatocytes. In mouse studies it has been reported that BML-275 rapidly reduces the level of the phosphorylated AMPK α subunit in the hypothalamus, in an ATP-competitive manner, therefore altering energy perception and affecting the physiological energy sensor of the body. Over-activation of AMPK has also been found to be deleterious in ischemic stroke conditions and inhibition of AMPK by BML-275 may provide a small level of neuroprotection. Additional research on zebrafish has shown that BML-275 also inhibits bone morphogenetic protein signals required for iron metabolism and embryogenesis. BML-275 is an inhibitor of ACTR-I, BMPR-IA and BMPR-IB.
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Senators Cardin, Menendez, Durbin, Kaine Statement on Protests in Peru
WASHINGTON – Senator Ben Cardin, Senior Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (D-Md.), joined Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va.) in releasing the below statement in reaction to violent anti-government protests across Peru:
"While we recognize Peruvians' frustration with their governing institutions' ability to improve their daily lives, the solution is neither violence nor the further erosion of the country's hard fought democracy. We urge Peruvians to express their political opinions peacefully, and we reject the ongoing acts of violence and regret the loss of life in Peru following President Castillo's unconstitutional attempt to dissolve the Peruvian Congress and his subsequent legal removal from office in December.
"We stand together in encouraging the broader international community and bodies including the Organization for American States to engage further to help the Peruvian government to address the country's long neglected social and economic divisions, as they play a critical role in supporting Peru's democratic institutions and efforts to ensure accountability for human rights abuses."


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An Evening with Aria Studios
On February 22, our Charity Partner, Aria Studios treated their 10 5th year Night High Scholars out to an evening of fun at the SM Mall of Asia.
The Aria Night High Scholars with their sponsors, Jay Kaneshige and members of Aria Studios.
Jay Kaneshige, President of Aria Studios, and other members of Aria flew in from Hawaii to attend to some business, but in the week that they were here, they took the opportunity to meet their Night High Scholars again and to spend some time with them.
Aria Studios has been sponsoring 10 Night High Scholars from Siena College, Taytay, Rizal for the past 2 years, at the end of this school year, their 10 scholars will be graduating from Night High School.
The 10 Aria Night High Scholars at the Ascott Hotel, Makati, with ABC Chairman Lew Edwards (far left), Jay Kaneshige, and members of Aria Studios
We brought the 10 Aria Night High Scholars to the Ascott Hotel in Makati, where members of Aria Studios were staying, and from there we they went together to the SM Mall of Asia for a special treat. The Aria Night High Scholars were surprised when their sponsors treated them to unlimited passes to the ice Mall of Asia ice skating rink. It was all their first time to ice skate, and they were thrilled!
Aria on ice! At the SM Mall of Asia ice skating rink.
After spending 4 hours skating, falling, and having a blast, Aria Studios treated their scholars to a delicious dinner of Japanese shabu-shabu – also a first for the scholars. The scholars were delighted with the concept of having to prepare and cook their own food.
Japanese hot-pot for dinner – a first for the Aria Night High Scholars!
Members of Aria Studios were scheduled to return to Hawaii the next day, and were happy to have had the chance to spend some time with their scholars, and the Aria Night High Scholars, likewise, were very happy to see their sponsors again. By the end of the night, everyone was full, tired, but happy, with lots of new memories to take home with them.


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It's Market Day at the Pajama Factory!
It's a warm, foggy morning here at the Pajama Factory, but at least the temperatures are above freezing, so be sure to stop by the Williamsport Grower's Market, Indoors at the Pajama Factory—the doors just opened!
We've got a small, but growing number of vendors, selling crafts, bakery items, bags, soaps, jewelry and more. Come down and support local artisans!