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pondering main line revisionist history…in ardmore
Posted on August 14, 2018 by carla
"Lake Ardmore" sent to me today by Ardmore Shutterbug
The other day I wrote about Viking Pastries, one of the last remaining old school old Ardmore businesses closing. Yesterday, Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Vinny Vella reported on it.
As new apartments rise in Ardmore, two nearby businesses fall
Updated: AUGUST 13, 2018 — 4:44 PM EDT
by Vinny Vella, Staff Writer vvella@phillynews.com
Two well-known businesses in Ardmore have shuttered in recent weeks, and their owners cast at least some of the blame on a loss of parking to make way for new housing.
Viking Pastries, a 62-year-old sweet shop, and the Party Place — located around the corner from each other in the borough's downtown — stood in the shadow of One Ardmore Place, a long-embattled residential project expected to open early next year. Work on another mixed-use complex, the Cricket Flats, is set to begin across the street.
While the owners acknowledged that the construction isn't the sole reason for the downturn, they say it played a major role. Local commerce groups, however, contend that the majority of businesses in Ardmore have been thriving while the cranes tower overhead….In a twist of irony, Viking Pastries took part in a groundbreaking celebration for One Ardmore Place last June called "the Big Dig," in which customers decorated cookies shaped like dump trucks…..Compounding the lack of parking was the sale of the building where she leased her storefront. Petrone said that she couldn't afford the increased rent from her new landlord….
"A lot of times, people think the solution to parking is putting in more lots," said Philip Green, the Main Street manager for Ardmore Initiative.
"People….expect to walk a few blocks past stores and other businesses that will interest them. Here, we have beautiful architecture and sidewalks. That's the appeal of a historic downtown….Ardmore Initiative, a pro-development organization, has been working with Lower Merion Township and the borough's business association to produce parking guides to assist visitors during construction. …."
Taken by me back when Clover Market was starting. They left Ardmore too, didn't they?
In Lower Merion this article has caused quite a kerfuffle and chatter on social media forums. The article is not fair. Why didn't the article mention other stores, it's biased. Blah Blah Blah. Oh Yawn. After all these years, they can't come up with anything more original?
In Ardmore, in Lower Merion Township, the faces of the cheerleaders may sometimes change but the cheerleaders in a sense remain exactly the same. Also amusing and sort of related was a Facebook group thread where comments were shut down that were felt to be negative about this project and parking (or lack thereof) and did that have anything to do with the fact that one of the group administrators sits on the board of the Ardmore Initiative? And another possible topic for another day while we are talking Ardmore is all of the nonsense keeping people up at night in North Ardmore, but I digress…and that is North Ardmore Civic's tale to tell.
This is one of my most favorite photos I took myself. Ardmore Initiative has gotten years and years of use out of it. They are welcome. Ironically once Godzilla is finished, you will never have this scene again. Godzilla will be behind it.
The Inquirer article is neither biased or not comprehensive, as some in these Facebook forum comments are not so subtly suggesting . The reporter had ONE story to write about businesses which were closing. I wonder if any of these article critics actually know how reporting works? It wasn't supposed to be yet another fluffy piece on Ardmore placed by publicists. There have been so many of those, after all….
Further and to the point, I was around and active long before most of them were on the scene, sadly.
Suffice it to say, the faces change, yet the blind faith township cheerleaders down there remain the same. Some throw that "we" word around rather liberally but sadly I do not remember them when Ardmore was fighting eminent domain? Or truly community volunteering? And then there are the ones who will tell you how much they did to champion Ardmore and how wrong you are, how bad you are not to share their opinion. (Mind you these are the types who never do or say anything unless they benefit somehow, but I digress.) Maybe they fancy themselves local authorities and love to play the deflect blame game but let's all not fall victim to revisionist history since there were way too many of us around who remember how it actually rolled. And went down.
Did Viking have money problems? Start with how many small businesses DO NOT have money problems from time to time? Especially when they have jacked up rents they have to meet monthly along with everything else?
Ardmore Shutterbug photo. Is this really what "progress" looks like? Are they sure it's not really the Temple of Kermit the Frog? Sorry not sorry, but how is that in keeping with the size and scale of Ardmore? Why does suburbia have to look so urban?
Mark my words, more businesses will fail before this apartment Godzilla on the old movie theater lot is finished. So many of the cheerleaders think all this hideous infill development will pave the roads with gold bricks, but sadly, will it? I do not think so. And I never have.
Ardmore's largest impediment will always be the fact that Lower Merion Township's township seat and building are there. And some who are new will say things "How can you say things like that?" or "Never heard that before, why are you saying this?"
I say it because if you lived in Lower Merion Township long enough, you know it is the sad truth. Politics, deals, more politics, backroom boardroom dancing, and so much more go into being a First Class Township doesn't it? Why do people think back in the day we flipped half of the board out of office? Because they were so resident-minded?
People also don't like it when I take the Ardmore Initiative to task. If they were actually truly independent from the township, I probably wouldn't. But at the end of the day, in my opinion, they are just another appendage of Lower Merion Township. I find what that Philip Green said basically idiotic. He has obviously been in Ardmore about five minutes and is young, because he doesn't get that small town centers without sufficient parking long term are small town centers which will continue to fail. Maybe not all in one week, one month, one year but the more urban it becomes in suburbia, will ultimately not be positive. And THAT is what we are seeing with Party Land and Viking Pastries closing now, and those who went before them.
Suburbia is not Manayunk and Passyunk Avenue. Whether they drive a Prius or a Range Rover, they want to drive their cars. They want convenient parking. They don't want hellacious city- traffic. And what happens when they get any of the above? They shop and go elsewhere. Just ask the residents in Lower Merion who now avoid Ardmore like the plague. It's not rocket science.
Building lots and lots of overpriced teeny boxy apartments is not going to bring people in droves. Look at all the housing stock up and down the Main Line, King of Prussia, Conshohocken, and out to Chester County where the same old mixed use fairy tale is unfolding as well. Is everything filled to capacity? Are there NO empty store fronts?
Were the ratables worth it?
Take East Side Flats in Malvern Borough for example:
$60,000: East King Revitalization's Impact on the Borough
The new apartments and businesses won't be a windfall for the borough.
By Pete Kennedy, Patch Staff | Jun 27, 2012 8:34 pm ET | Updated Jun 29, 2012 3:38 am ET
During a discussion of the police services and budgeting at the of Malvern Borough Council, resident Joan Yeager asked a related question:
"Once the King Street project is completed, how much additional money is going to come into the borough? In taxes and all," she said.
"Something in the neighborhood of $60,000 a year," council president Woody Van Sciver said…"That's it?" Yeager replied, expecting a bigger payoff from the several new businesses and hundreds of new residents that will be moving to the east end of the borough.
Some folks like to say the beginning of this part of Ardmore where Viking Pastries building sits was caused when Gillaine's closed. Actually, it's when that behemoth of a Godzilla apartment building was approved and is now rising behind where the former movie theater/public parking lot is now rising that has done this. That is my personal opinion, and many share that even if they won't verbalize it. After all, during the days of eminent domain we learned the price of activism and doing the right thing, didn't we?
Those of us who were the ORIGINAL Save Ardmore Coalition (we did all the heavy lifting for years before the last folks who assumed the mantle made the group look silly with litigation a decade too late IMHO) predicted things like this years ago. No parking, lots of construction issues, no real support of businesses from the township and this downtown is simply not sustainable.
After all for how many years did a very small band of volunteers led by Sherry Tillman put on First Friday Main Line? And that was done without any real help of the township every single month. All they tried to do was put up impediments and it was amazing free publicity of a positive kind that they literally couldn't pay for that we provided.
And while they would provide some kind of insurance (I don't remember which kind) under some umbrella with the township and all sorts of help for those Bryn Mawr twilight concerts, First Friday Main Line had to pay for everything on their own. I was just looking through photos of First Friday Main Line the other day looking for more photos of Viking Pastries. First Friday Main Line inspired lots of other events on and off the Main Line. It was amazing. And the events were not dependent on alcohol, either. People came for the art, music, and sense of community.
Why Ardmore has the issues it does can be laid right at the steps of the township building.
And people like to forget the days of eminent domain. And abuse we received at the hands of the township and their cheerleaders an even paid publicists.
When Lower Merion Township first started that eminent domain debacle it was the whole block from Pennywise down to the corner of Station Rd where Radio Shack was. They wanted EVERYTHING.
Then with the help of folks like the Institute for Justice we defeated that. But it was exhausting, debilitating, time consuming, and took years. However, that was worth it. Eminent domain for private gain is disgusting.
And does anyone remember from where Ardmore went off the rails to eminent domain in the first place? Some commissioners wanted a new train station. Then other suggested improvement upon the idea of a train station and it morphed into a bloated ridiculous eminent domain-laden plan.
After eminent domain there was no rest for the weary, Lower Merion Township put Ardmore and township residents through the whole insanity of RFPs for development around the train station post-eminent domain (which included a new train station to this day no one has ever seen.) We sat through meeting after meeting for a couple of years and some of us (myself included) got roped into this phony blaoney "Ad Hoc Ardmore Committee". I resigned from all of it in 2011 when I got my breast cancer diagnosis and I am so glad. Dealing with Lower Merion Township and trying to actually SAVE Ardmore from greed and stupidity was exhausting. And in retrospect, ultimately futile.
In the end there is NO new train station just that hideous Godzilla apartment tower and other bad infill development on the old movie theater side of Lancaster Ave. You see they also allowed poorly executed zoning overlays which in my opinion were essentially developed to give the developers more leeway at the expense of residents and businesses. In Ardmore it was called MUST or Mixed Use Special Transit. At the time we changed the acronym to mean More Unfair Special Treatment.
So again, if you want to talk about the beginning of the end, the beginning starts with Lower Merion Township and their elected and appointed officials.
I am glad I don't live in Lower Merion any longer. It's futile – IMHO they are screwing up the entire township not just poor Ardmore. This is also why I hate going to any township or borough meetings anywhere.
Enjoy the photos that are part of my memories of the Ardmore I loved so much once upon a time. Thanks for the memories, Ardmore.
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Cook, Bonnie on August 14, 2018 at 9:55 pm said:
Christine Kantrowitz on August 14, 2018 at 9:58 pm said:
Carla: Love this, one of your best pieces, because YOU WERE THERE! It is such a cautionary tale for those further west on Route 30 now, but I wonder if they recognize that? "…So again, if you want to talk about the beginning of the end, the beginning starts with Lower Merion Township and their elected and appointed officials…" Just put a blank where you've written "Lower Merion" and fill it in as you wish…but ultimately, the story ends the same way, doesn't it?
carla on August 14, 2018 at 10:03 pm said:
Yes and this is why I hate going to meetings

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Based on this historical Buddha there developed a Buddha — concept in which the human Buddha got gradually transformed into a super-human being and in later Buddhism ending up as a metaphysical concept, the ultimate reality of the world- the Dharmakaya.
The uniqueness of the virtues with which the Buddha was endowed, some explanatory utterances of the Buddha himself concerning his personality, the rich imagination of his devoted followers, analysis of the Buddha personality by his metaphysically bent disciples popular beliefs, specially, those pertaining to 'Great Beings' that were prevalent at the time and such other numerous factors contributed to this transition. This process of transition which started while the Buddha was living, got accelerated after his passing away.
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The Buddha, unlike most of the other founders of religions, was a human being , one among us, who rose, from ordinary worldling level to that of a noble being. He, himself being a man, emphatically stated that man is supreme and that there is no higher being or power that controls and directs his deeds and sits in judgement over his destiny.
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Q: jquery onblur menu hide works in firefox not in chrome Hi, I have some code which displays a drop-down menu when the button is clicked:

<button id="friend-requestButton" class="ui-button-icon-only ui-corner-all ui-state-default"></button>

        Friend Requests See All

    Menu Item

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$('#friend-requestButton').click(function () {
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The problem is that the drop-down disappears perfectly in Firefox but not in Chrome. I'm not sure if it's important, but it's basically a toolbar and the z-index value is at about 100. Here is the actual page, the script contains jQuery and some plugins src'ed and the rest -> The actual code I wrote...(I'm aware it doesn't work in IE, but in Chrome the onblur for the buttons on the left of the search bar does not work, but it works in FF5, so it must work in lower FF's too.
Thanks a lot for the help :D

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<button id="friend-requestButton" class="ui-button-icon-only ui-corner-all ui-state-default"></button>

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This code works for me in Google Chrome.
What I found from researching is that your .effect('fold') does not exist in JQuery. The way you use 'fold' is within a .hide/.show like I have in my edit of your code:
$('#friend-requestMenu').css('display', 'none').hide("fold", {}, 1000);
Here's a link that show's this functionality: Fold
You may also want to rewrite your .effect('fade') since I only see these effects on the JQuery API: .fadeIn(), .fadeOut(), .fadeTo(), and .fadeToggle(): Effects
This is my first post so if I am wrong, let me know. This solution works for me in Chrome.
Any questions, let me know.
Thanks,

A: @anonymouslyanonymous I apologize for never getting back to you on this and am sure you have moved on to bigger and better things, but I wanted to put this answer here for anyone that may stumble upon this thread in the future.

That is the edited code that I got to work correctly in Chrome as of today. The .show(#) and .hide(#) methods allow for one to create blur effects of varying speed, etc.
I hope this helps.
Thanks.

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Caseworker for starved Pa. teenager gets 11 years
The morals of social workers who routinely skipped home visits to Philadelphia's most troubled families, leading to a disabled girl's starvation death, reminded a federal judge today of the "banality of evil" practiced in Europe during the Holocaust.
U.S. District Judge Stewart Dalzell sentenced the family's caseworker and another employee of a social-services contractor to 11 years each for fraud and obstruction.
Witnesses this week called the pair and their seven convicted co-defendants — who include a former missionary nun and doctoral-level social worker — good people for whom the charges are anomalies.
The comments reminded Dalzell of Nazi Party members who were kind to neighbors and dogs.
"'The banality of evil - isn't that what's going on here?" Dalzell asked, citing a phrase coined by political theorist Hannah Arendt. Arendt, a German Jew, argued that the great evils in human history are committed not by psychopaths, but by ordinary people who accept the status quo.
Dalzell presided over a harrowing five-week trial this year that laboriously detailed the slow, painful demise of 14-year-old Danieal Kelly. She had cerebral palsy but had once thrived in the care of her father and his attentive girlfriend in Phoenix. A photograph from that era taken on a class trip shows a bright-eyed girl in pigtails grinning broadly for the camera.
But when his relationship failed, Daniel Kelly left Danieal with her unfit mother in Philadelphia, who was raising eight children in a squalid two-bedroom home.
By the time Danieal died in August 2006, starved and dehydrated, she weighed 42 pounds and had maggots crawling in her deep bedsores. She had not been to school or seen a doctor in the previous 10 months, despite being on the city's radar.
The city was paying a startup firm called MultiEthnic Behavioral Health Inc. $1 million a year to focus on its neediest social-work cases.
But the politically connected firm — led by experienced, Ph.D.-level social worker Michal Kamuvaka — frequently skipped home visits, assigned student interns to the Kellys and other complex cases, and furiously forged documents to try to cover their tracks after Danieal died.
"'Dr. K' had a dozen people who just think she's a saint. But we know just the contrary. We heard it over five weeks," Dalzell said today. A day earlier, he had sentenced the 61-year-old Kamuvaka to 17-1/2 years in prison, despite pleas from friends and proteges.
Caseworker Julius Juma Murray, 52, of Upper Darby, was supposed to be the final safety net for the long list of people who failed Danieal. But Murray — hired despite his lack of social work training — skipped visits as Danieal wasted away.
Andrea Kelly is serving 10 to 20 years for third-degree murder, and Daniel Kelly is charged with endangerment for allegedly abandoning her.
In all, nine MultiEthnic workers were convicted in the case, including caseworker Mariam Coulibaly, sentenced Thursday to 135 months. Coulibaly, 41, a mother of three from Brookhaven, had no role in Danieal's death but helped forge documents, lied to the FBI and hid $50,000 after the verdict to shield it from the court-ordered restitution.


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The Landing: An Interview Series seeks to gain insight into the diverse creative processes of some of our favorite writers with the hopes that we can inspire others through this sharing. Each quarter we will highlight one previously published poem in a short interview.
LISA MARTIN is the author of the poetry collection One crow sorrow (Brindle & Glass, 2008) and co-editor of How to Expect What You're Not Expecting: Stories of Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Loss (Touchwood, 2013). Her work has won the Alberta Literary Award for Poetry, an IPPY award in the Parenting category, and a National Magazine Award for Personal Journalism. She teaches literature and creative writing at Concordia University of Edmonton, and is currently at work on a novel, intermittent essays, and a new manuscript of poetry. You can find her online at www.writerinresidence.ca.
Poem: "If You Really Aren't a Racist Take This Online Test" by Lisa Martin, published in Rattle.
In the wake of outcry—first Beirut's tragedy being passed over for a more western Paris in the news, then the retaliating wave of outcry at the outcry—many pieces I read seemed more interested in laying judgment. In your notes about the poem, you write, "I'm interested in the ways we talk to one another about peace, about war, about justice. A lot of public discourse (on all sides) around these events lacks critical nuance and sounds to me like intolerant moralism. So this poem is, in part, a response to that as well." What place, do you think, writing has in this conversation? And how does one approach writing responsibly about these topics?
I often feel that public conversations about complex problems can quickly become more focused on the speaker's position—i.e. the speaker's desire to locate herself on the "right" side of an issue—than on a more collaborative intent to seek the truth of a situation. I tried to get at something of this problem, a bit satirically, but also with gravity—and with some sincerely offered alternative postures—in this poem. Literary writing doesn't always have to go at things directly, but can come at them obliquely or laterally, so it can create a bit of space where something doesn't have to be right or wrong—a handy trick.
I think writing responsibly about these topics probably requires that a writer attempt to cultivate humility before the lived complexities of systemic inequity among human beings, as well as before the radical dignity of every individual's lived human experience, no matter which side of this inequity they live on. This is not the same as believing that every way of thinking or behaving is equally legitimate. Rather, it's the narrative writer's honour of the basic fact and dignity of point of view, the practice of attempting to see the humanity of the "other" on the other person's own terms. Not easy, but important, and potentially transformative. I think a good poem should feel like it has been working to listen just as hard as it is working to speak.
Rattle's Poet's Respond requires an immediacy with the news—the turn-around time for a poem to be written and then published is usually within a couple of weeks, if not much less. How did this prompt publication shape your writing and drafting of "If You Really Aren't a Racist..."? [If at all]
This poem came together in a very short time—a few days from start to finish. Publishing anything this quickly—and especially online, because of the potential for so many readers and such an immediate response—seems to me to produce a different kind of work, almost a sub-genre of work: something more like a very carefully held conversation than a poem, in some ways, or closer to slam poetry or improvisation, maybe. A form with advantages (e.g. relevance and immediacy) and disadvantages (e.g. missing out on the slow/long work of revision).
This poem, especially the first stanza, probably would have slimmed down given time. But would it still have felt as vital or been as interesting, later on? That's the balance. Rattle's Poets Respond is a cultural space for poets—the people whose role in the culture is to seek wisdom and fluency in equal measure—to actually speak up and be heard in a timely way. So Rattle has created a way for poets to influence our collective understanding of events as they unfold, our mythology. To publish a poem on Poets Respond is to be poet laureate for one day, one significant event: a cultural moment. How important to the poet, as well as to the culture, to have the work one does—if briefly—matter!
I don't know if he is looking for evidence
of brutish truth or proof of his own flesh
or resilience in the face of it.
What were you looking for when you wrote "If You Really Aren't a Racist Take This Online Test" and did you find it?
I was looking for a bit of quiet inside of the noise, which I often am. In particular, with this poem I was looking for a place from which to hold together a lot of difficult fragments, and also to honour what is radically inalienable in principle if too often radically alienated in practice: our shared humanity. Every poet knows form is just as important as content. I wanted, in writing this poem, to make a plea for the way we hold these conversations to enact the ideals we say we are committed to: I/Thou instead of Us/Them, e.g.. Or, even more simply: Me, too. I think I did find what I was looking for, for myself, at least—some kind of peace and integration, a way of being with the difficulties at hand without ignoring them or thinking I can single-handedly solve them (a posture which seems to lead to aggression, including self-aggression).
The revision process, for me, is often about checking to see if the poem has really got a lock on something I was looking for, in the first place. Sometimes a poem finds something else I also want to find, instead. Sometimes it gets lost in language, or takes other detours.
What advice do you have for poets interested in writing topical poetry?
Oh, it depends who they are and what they want to achieve, what they're interested in! But I guess I would say: pay attention and know what you think. Educate yourself about the things that most engage you. Listen to other people and consider things from their point of view. And get curious and interested about why you think and feel the way you do, about why other people think and feel the way they do. Read, read, read: long-form journalism, Facebook rants. You can learn from anything, anyone. But sometimes you need to turn down the noise and tune into your own, slowly-yielded understanding. Find a tree-line or a coast to walk along. Slow down. Watch the wilder creatures. Be silent. Return.
Interview by Rhiannon Thorne.


I recently spent another full day walking around Vancouver with my little Fuji X100s…15km of walking around as a matter of fact!
It is is pretty cliche to shoot a homeless person when first learning to do street photography. I think it is the urge to seek out things that are "different", and try to capture it in an image. I feel now that there is a time and a place to do so: either because you have spent time with that person, bought them lunch, learned their history…. or perhaps because there is a story to tell in the image.
This scene caught my eye right away: The gentleman in the picture lying under this beautiful, happy mural. Not only is there instantly a dichotomy between the scene depicted in the mural and the homeless gentleman, but the mural almost has a "water line" and the gentleman is deeply beneath it. There is a metaphor for society here for sure.
I decided to stop for a bit and pan a few images.
Nerd speak: Shutter speed is a measurement of how long light is allowed to hit the sensor of your camera. Very fast shutter speeds are required to "freeze" action, which tends to give you a sharp image from corner to corner but doesn't always give a sense of motion. Panning is done by slowing your shutter speed and actually turning with the subject of your photograph as you click the sensor. If you time it right you get a subject in focus, but the act of you turning blurs anything that is stationary in your frame…. Implying a sense of movement.
Two very different images, with very different feelings to them.
My travels through the city this day took me to Stanley Park, down Denman to English Bay, around the water to Yaletown, through the city to Chinatown and Gastown, and back to Waterfront to head home.
I hadn't been in Chinatown for quite some time and was pleasantly surprised with many of the old architecture and colours I had forgotten about.
And, finally, these street photography days are always about the human element.
One of the hardest parts of street photography is stopping strangers on the street and asking to take a portrait of them. Many street photographers don't, they simple stick a camera in your face and take their picture. While they are totally in their legal right to do this I don't just want the image…. I want to meet people and find out about them.
This young lady laughed when I asked. As it turns out I was not the first photographer to ask her for a portrait.
This gentleman was promoting his religion and stopped me to talk. He was very nervous, and was fairly new to being out on the street promoting and discussing his religion. He was very hesitant when I asked for a portrait, but was a good sport and had a great energy to him.
This gentleman was in the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Gardens and was a character to talk to. He has visited these gardens almost daily for years and was a plethora of knowledge about the area.
And finally, a couple of quick candid grabs from Gastown on my way to the train.
Ansel Adams, a very famous photographer, once said his goal was to produce 12 great photographs per year. When it comes to street I'm not sure if I've made any great ones yet, but each day out is a learning experience.


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O baclofeno é um relaxante muscular de ação central usado para tratar espasmos, soluços persistentes (singulto) e neuralgias. É um derivado do GABA (Ácido gama-aminobutírico), que atua como agonista do Receptor GABAB.

Mecanismo de ação
Baclofeno é um agonista direto nos receptores GABA. O mecanismo preciso de ação do Baclofeno não é totalmente conhecido. É capaz de inibir reflexos monossinápticos e polissináptico no nível da coluna vertebral, possivelmente por hiperpolarização de terminais aferentes, embora ações em locais supraespinhais também possam ocorrer e contribuam para o seu efeito clínico.

Farmacocinética
Baclofeno administrado por via oral é absorvido rápido e completamente, porém a taxa e extensão da absorção são inversamente proporcionais à dose. Alcança nível sanguíneo máximo em 2 a 3 horas. É amplamente distribuído por todo o corpo e apenas uma pequena quantidade atravessa a barreira hemato-encefálica. A ligação às proteínas plasmáticas é de 25-30%. Apenas 15% é metabolizado no fígado, enquanto 80% da droga é eliminada inalterada na urina. A semi-vida é de 2,5 eliminação a 4 horas.

Efeitos adversos
Entre seus efeitos adversos se encontram a sonolência, náuseas e vômitos, confusão mental, vertigem, hipotonia, cefaleia, tremores, reações alérgicas e efeitos paradóxicos.fraqueza muscular

Contra-indicação
Não se deve administrar por via intravenosa, intramuscular, subcutânea nem subdural. Precaução ao usar com insuficiência renal.

Interação
A interação medicamentosa do baclofeno envolve sua aplicação injetável concomitante com a morfina administrada pela via epidural. É potencializado por antidepressivos tricíclicos.

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Agonistas do receptor GABAB
Bloqueadores dos canais de cálcio
Análogos do GABA
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Willie nelson and snoop dogg song
Snoop Dogg Bought Willie Nelson The Cutest Sweater Like I Can't
Matthew McConaughey & Snoop Dogg Cover Willie Nelson
Did you see what Snoop Dogg gifted Willie Nelson for Christmas?
"Snoop Lion" talks Willie Nelson and pot
and the get with it must have been love movie
Friends come in different shapes and sizes and they say that an unlikely friendship is the one that lasts. So today, we are going to look into the story of the year-old country singer from Texas and the year-old gangster rapper from California. Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson established their bond in the Netherlands and of course, well, you guessed it� strengthened by the haze of pot. On April 20, , Willie Nelson had a concert in Amsterdam. Snoop Dogg called Nelson and asked if he wanted to make a song together. When Nelson agreed, Snoop decided not to wait for the end of the tour, but flew straight to Amsterdam and joined Willie for the concert.
Snoop Dogg has his own line of marijuana. So does Willie Nelson. Melissa Etheridge has a marijuana-infused wine.
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It was a fitting Christmas present from one world renowned pot enthusiast to another. The country music legend Willie Nelson lit up social media this week when he tweeted a photo of himself in a red and green sweater depicting a marijuana leaf adorned with lights and a star and "smoke weed everyday" printed in white letters. And, indeed, the sweater was a gift from the rapper himself. Thank you SnoopDogg for the Christmas Sweater pic. While the exchange may have been, by some appearances, a lighthearted attempt to plug Snoop Dogg's clothing line when he reposted the picture of Nelson on Instagram, he linked to his online store , it was nothing out of the ordinary for the two artists.
He regaled reporters with mostly NSFW stories about time the pair spent together in Amsterdam, sharing their mutual love of music, marijuana and fried chicken. The always lighthearted Snoop also got serious when talking about his friendship with Nelson and the year-old singer's unique role as a musical ambassador. I made a couple of country records and was a part of his album and went to the Country Music Awards and worked with Brad Paisley , went to Johnny Cash 's house. I was getting heavy into it and finding country music is a form of hip-hop music. It's the same thing.
Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson are fond of each other, and it's not hard to guess why. They are perhaps the greatest living cultural icons of their respective musical genres, but more significant to their relationship is their standing as the world's most prominent weed smokers.
From Louis Armstrong to Lady Gaga, countless musicians have gone on record about their love for weed. Smoking can help with creativity, aid in relaxation, even expand the mind. Here are the 20 best weed-themed songs of all time. I kind of liked marijuana. This is not a bad idea.
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solr-map-reduce-example
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This project is meant to provide an example of how to build Solr indexes with MapReduce.

The main part is the script called run-example. This script will download Hadoop and Solr and start both of them. It will then run a map-reduce job and build an index from the included sample twitter data. Finally, the indexes will be deployed to the Solr cluster via the GoLive feature.

The script is meant as both a way to quickly see something working and as a reference for building Solr indexes on your real Hadoop cluster.

This is not an example of good production settings! This setup is meant for a single node demo system.

Running the Example
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Download the repository files using the 'Download ZIP' button and extract them to a new directory. From that directory, run the included run-example.sh script and sit back and watch.

      bash run-example.sh

Stopping the Example
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Run the included stop script.

      bash stop-example.sh

Files
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run-example.sh - the main script that downloads and runs everything

stop-example.sh - a script to stop the services started by run-example.sh

log4j.properties - the log4j config file attached to the map-reduce job

readAvroContainer.conf - a Morphline for reading avro files

sample-statuses-20120906-141433-medium.avro - sample Twitter format data

schema.xml - a schema for the sample Twitter formated data

Software Versions
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This is currently using:

Hadoop 2.6.0

Solr 5.2.1

Web URLs
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Solr http://127.0.0.1:8983/solr
NameNode http://127.0.0.1:50075
Yarn http://127.0.0.1:8042

Links
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Running Solr on HDFS - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Running+Solr+on+HDFS

Morphlines - http://kitesdk.org/docs/current/kite-morphlines/index.html

Errata
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Most logs and files will be created in /tmp/solr-map-reduce - anything not found there should be under the Solr-map-reduce-example directory itself.

There are two inefficient waits in the script - after we start HDFS and after we start Solr, we naively wait.


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100 paint balls and all equipment provided for a brilliant event.
Head to nightclub after your paintballing adventure from £5 per person.
Price £4.95 with accommodation, £14.95 without accommodation.
Free tea and coffee is provided all day. All Delta Force Paintball Centres provide a hot and fresh 9" personal pizza for lunch (cost £4.99).
Players should wear old, comfortable clothing and may also want to bring a change of clothes for the conclusion of the game. We strongly recommend boots with ankle support and deep tread/rubber soles - it can be muddy, wet and slippery in the woodlands. Cash for extra paintballs.


This is a thread for people looking to start a feud to find each other. If you're looking for a feud just make a post or look for someone else who has made a post. If you find someone you might want to feud with, you can just send them a PM and try to set one up!
Ric Flair is taking rivalry considerations.


Facebook is full of recipes lately. So today for my Tuesday recipe(s) I chose two of them. Usually I choose recipes that I have used for years and I am familiar with. Yesterday I made was a chicken recipe reposted by my husband. I guess it looked good to him and he wanted me to try making it. It doesn't appear to be very healthy but he said it was delicious. I only ate a bite and it was pretty good. I'm not a vegetarian, but I am not crazy about meat and eat very little.
Mix together cream cheese and green onions ( I used cream cheese with onion and chives) and spread cheese mixture over one side of chicken breast.
Roll the Chicken breast up to conceal cream cheese.
Place on baking sheet and bake for about 30 minutes at 375.
Broil for about 5 minute to crisp bacon if necessary. Mine was brown enough after 30 minutes. You can make one or as many as you choose.
This is a really ugly presentation with all the white food on a white plate. I should have used a bright colored plate or added the vegetable before I took the photo. Lots of butter and lots of bacon, oh dear.
The next Facebook recipe I made this week was the microwave cake. Now usually these cakes in the microwave baked in a cup recipes, do not turn out. This one is different. It works beautifully. I was very surprised. All you do is mix one box of angel food cake and one box of a flavor. I used devils food cake mix .
Two boxes of cake mix, dry from the box.
Mix in a gallon size plastic storage bag or another container.
Sometimes you just want a little sweet treat. When you want a small piece of cake, just mix 3 Tablespoons of dry mix and 2 Tablespoons of water in a coffee cup. Stir it up and put it into the microwave on high for 1 minute. Take it out of the microwave and let it rest and cool for about 15 minutes. Turn over on a plate. Eat is plain, put some canned frosting on it or a dollop of whipped topping. It really works and you don't have a whole cake to eat.


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Thatababy Geeks Out!
by Paul TrapPaul Trap
NOOK BookDigital Original (eBook - Digital Original)
Sometimes he's Thatababy Jones, venturing bravely into the Closet of Doom. Other times he's Superbaby, on a mission to improve any household object by outfitting it with a superhero's cape. Whatever world Thatababy inhabits, his imagination runs wild as he investigates important questions, such as: How many action figures does it take to clog a toilet? What are the hidden dangers of a prank call to the moon? And which makes a better imaginary friend: a tortoise, a raccoon, or the alien from Alien?
This e-book only collection of Thatababy's geekiest adventures features the crisp art and clever writing that earned the strip critical acclaim and a finalist's spot in Amazon's Comic Strip Superstars contest. It is the brainchild of Paul Trap, a freelance computer graphics illustrator and editorial cartoonist for Baseball America magazine.
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Paul Trap is a freelance writer and illustrator working out of his home office in his underwear with the radio up loud. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife raising a "Thatababy" of their own.Paul serves as the editorial cartoonist for Baseball America magazine. His illustrated commentary on America's favorite pastime appears in print and on baseballamerica.com.Paul is also a contributor to USA Today and McClatchy News Service, illustrating weekly features for kids and adults that appear in newspapers worldwide. Other freelance clients include Kellogg's, 3M, AOL, National Geographic and Fidelity Investments.


Can you commit suicide by drinking 1/2 a bottle of Bactine? Prominent medical experts say no way. But Baltimore Police insist that is what caused the death of 16-year-old Annie McCann.
Who isn't looking at reality here? Annie's parents or the PD?
How did 16-year-old honor roll student Annie McCann die? Her parents have been agonizing over that heart wrenching question for too long. Definitive answers have been few but these determined parents refuse to give up asking.
On October 31, 2008 Annie left a note in her bedroom which mentioned suicide but she had also added the hope-filled line, "But I realized I can start over instead. . . . If you really love me, you'll let me go." Then, she inexplicably ran away, taking $1,000 in cash, jewelry and the family Volvo. It was a shock to Dan and Mary Jane McCann whose daughter was a devout Catholic, quiet and studious -- a child who had never given them any trouble.
Two excruciating days later the McCanns got a phone call informing them Annie's body had been found at a housing project in Baltimore, Maryland about seventy miles from their home. They were dumbfounded.
The Maryland medical examiner ultimately declared Annie's death was due to lidocaine poisoning and concluded she had ingested the bottle of Bactine she carried to treat her newly pierced ears. The company that makes Bactine, along with a well-known medical examiner, Dr. Michael Baden, would both later declare that drinking one bottle would never be fatal.
After reviewing the autopsy and other reports prominent psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow concluded, "It strains the imagination ... to believe that a person intent on dying would choose this obscure and extremely uncertain method of attempting to take her life."
While the official cause of Annie's death is still listed as "undetermined" Baltimore P.D. spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told me this week, "Police believe it was a suicide." Translated: While the case is listed as "pending" it might as well be closed.
The McCanns hired a private detective to figure out how Annie -- who always had a lousy sense of direction and hadn't been driving that long -- got all the way to Baltimore. P.I. Jimmy Kontsis followed the lead of a fingerprint found on the window of the McCanns recovered car. That led to a group of local teens who admitted one of their group, a kid named D.J., had stolen the McCann's car. But each of them insisted Annie was already dead in the back seat so they tossed her body and took a joyride. Police said they could find no evidence to charge them in Annie's death and auto theft charges were never pursued either.
Noting that Annie's autopsy remarked on, "fresh injuries to her face and head," Dr. Baden suggested Annie might have died from homicidal suffocation. Was she victimized for the $1,000 she took with her? Police made note of Annie's clean white socks but could never find her shoes. Might they have been left at the same place she ingested the lidocaine?
"That's the mystery!" Kontsis told me. "Even the police were, like, lidocaine? They didn't get it either." Drug addicts have been known to try to smoke lidocaine but Annie likely never experimented with drugs, since classmates called her sheltered and naïve.
Kontsis canvassed people at spots where Annie had been -- her church, a Virginia Costco, even a pastry shop in the Little Italy section of Baltimore. He discovered a consistent description of an older, apparently homeless Hispanic woman seen speaking with Annie at all three locations. A sketch of the mystery woman (who claimed to be from Honduras and was seeking immigration information) brought in no helpful information.
And then, last November the teenager known as D.J. -- real name Darnell Kinlaw, now 21, -- was arrested in Baltimore for murdering a woman and stealing her car. It was revealed that Kinlaw's extensive police record lists eight charges of auto theft. Annie's parents figured it was the perfect time to get more information from Kinlaw about the day their daughter died.
The McCanns traveled to meet Baltimore police and while they were treated politely they feel they have been lied to and ignored. Police say they are sympathetic but maintain they've already conducted a thorough investigation.
Look, maybe Annie McCann did manage to get a stash of lidocaine and poisoned herself. But, that seems unlikely, and after researching this case and counting up the loose ends -- the odd trip to Baltimore, the missing money, the mystery woman and Kinlaw's past -- I can't help but feel that in the absence of concrete evidence Annie's half-used Bactine bottle gave police a convenient reason for her death. Easier to declare it a suicide and move on. Left in the wake of that decision are Dan and Mary Jane McCann who cannot find peace. They still wonder why they never got Annie's clothes back and why no one will tell them whether she had been raped the day she died. They also wonder why they had to bury their daughter without her internal organs as the medical examiner reported they were somehow "lost."
The sad fact is there are countless families mourning the loss of their murdered children every day in America. They are Black, Hispanic, Asian and, in the case of Annie McCann -- White. Their tears are all the same color.
In the end, it really isn't race or ethnic background that matters when a child is murdered. It is the feeling families often get that no one cares enough to find the truth -- that there will be no justice -- that hurts so much.
Maybe our overburdened, understaffed police departments can find some way to work on making families feel more included in the heart-breaking process of homicide investigation.
Diane Dimond may be reached through her web site: www.dianedimond.net Her latest book, "Cirque Du Salahi" -- the inside and untold story of the so-called White House Gate Crashers -- is available through Amazon.com.


There have been daffodils flowering on a verge in High Lorton since New Year and I understand they have featured on the BBC Weather!
Christmas and New Year seem a long way past now. All the family came to stay at Foulsyke which was lovely particularly with the two new arrivals. I am now extending my range of walking to those that are buggy friendly and we tested Ella and Poppy's buggies to their limits – and beyond!
We walked down to Crummock on Christmas Day (along with many others) but the buggies were too wide for the bridges so we had to take the wheels off to get across! Another day we had a lovely walk along Derwentwater shore returning along the Catbells terrace path: this included a picnic with a view! However on New Year's Day we got somewhat bogged down on a rather heavy path at Wasdale Head!
On the Cottages front, I had my annual inspection in December: I maintained my Five Star status with Gold Award in all cottages and again scored 100% for cleanliness. When the inspector went into Buttermere bathroom she declared that she didn't think she had ever been in such a clean bathroom! However we are now into January and working on the Cottages before the start of this year's season. The main focus is on Buttermere and downstairs in Loweswater which are being redecorated and having new carpets and heaters.
Judy and I had a wonderful experience on Thursday on our first walk of the year: we had decided to walk up to Angle Tarn Pikes and Brock Crags from Patterdale. We walked up to Boredale Hause in cold mist and as we reached the hause we came out into sunshine with the cloud below and suddenly as we walked across the top we were aware we were experiencing brocken spectres – amazing! I had never seen one before and it was so exciting!
The rest of the walk was good too as the cloud inversion was extensive and very beautiful and we sat and ate our lunch in glorious warm sunshine on the top of the Pikes.


The Adolescent Chemical Dependency Inventory (ACDI) is a self-report computer-scored test specifically designed for juvenile (12 to 17 years) assessment.
The ACDI contains 105 items, takes 15 to 20 minutes to complete and can be administered individually or in groups. Reports are available on-site within two or three minutes of test completion.
The ACDI screens substance (alcohol and other drugs) abuse, overall adjustment and troubled youth concerns. The ACDI is particularly useful in schools, adolescent counseling and juvenile chemical dependency treatment programs.
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Southeast University Press Publishes Commemorative Book on Williams Poem
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo., July 17, 2008 — The story of a William Carlos Williams poem donated last year to Southeast Missouri State University has been published in a commemorative volume issued by the University's Press.
"About a Little Girl": A William Carlos Williams Poem and Its Legacy, by Michael Lund and Robert Hamblin, includes a facsimile of Williams' text, an essay on the history of the manuscript by Lund, a critical commentary on the poem by Hamblin, photographs of the principal figures, and brief essays by two of Williams' granddaughters, Suzy Williams Sinclaire and Daphne Williams Fox.
The typed manuscript of the poem was donated to the University last year by Lund, a retired Virginia professor and author of a highly popular series of Route 66 novels, and his brother Carl, a retired physicist who lives in Albuquerque, N.M. Williams had written the poem in 1921 for Ethel Woodruff Macy, the Lunds' grandmother who was a close personal friend of Williams and also a fellow poet.
The little girl in the poem is Ethel's daughter, Marian, whom Williams, a family physician in East Rutherford, N.J., as well as an internationally renowned poet, had diagnosed as dying of leukemia. The diagnosis proved incorrect, however, and Marian lived until 2002, just short of her 92nd birthday. Much of her life was spent in Rolla, Mo., as the wife of a professor at the Missouri School of Mines.
Lund remembers the framed manuscript of "About a Little Girl" hanging on a hallway wall in his boyhood home in Rolla, but he did not recognize the significance of the document until he studied Williams' poetry in an English class at Washington University, Hamblin said.
The Lunds made their decision to donate the poem to Southeast following a visit to the University's Rare Book Room, where they admired the Louis Daniel Brodsky Collection of William Faulkner materials housed there, Hamblin said.
Williams, who lived from 1883 to 1963, played an important role in the early 20th-century modernist movement in literature. His major work, Paterson, is an epic treatment of the history, people, and personality of Paterson, N.J. His most frequently anthologized poem is "The Red Wheelbarrow."
Ethel Woodruff Macy was also an accomplished poet, with her poems appearing in Poetry and other leading periodicals of her day. Lund and Hamblin believe the publication of this book, in addition to providing new information about Williams' life and career, also will revive interest in Macy's poetry.
The book is available to the public for purchase at http://www6.semo.edu/universitypress.


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DealBook Briefing: Billionaires Pledge Hundreds of Millions to Save Notre-Dame
April 16, 2019 Business, Finance
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French billionaires vow to help rebuild Notre-Dame
The catastrophic fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris yesterday badly damaged the 850-year-old building, but some of France's richest moguls are stepping up to pay for repairs.
Around 500 firefighters battled the blaze for nearly five hours, Adam Nossiter and Aurelian Breeden of the NYT write. By 11 p.m. Paris time, the structure had been "saved and preserved as a whole," the city's fire chief, Jean-Claude Gallet, said. But two-thirds of the roof was destroyed and the main spire collapsed. So far, it's unclear both how the fire started and how much survives of the interior, but nobody was killed or injured, officials said.
"We will rebuild Notre-Dame," President Emmanuel Macron said last night. "Because that is what the French expect."
So far 300 million euros, or $339 million, have been pledged for rebuilding, Bloomberg reports:
• François-Henri Pinault, the C.E.O. of the luxury goods conglomerate Kering, and his father, François Pinault, will donate €100 million from their investment company, Artemis.
• The Arnault family, which runs the rival luxury goods conglomerate LVMH, responded with a pledge of €200 million, plus its architectural and design resources.
If you want to donate, Fast Company explains three ways.
More: An algorithmic error by YouTube served up information about the Sept. 11 attacks alongside live video of the fire.
Today's DealBook Briefing was written by Andrew Ross Sorkin in New York, and Michael J. de la Merced and Jamie Condliffe in London.
It's the latest effort to gain insight into Mr. Trump's financial records, as the president resists demands for access to his tax returns and other documents.
Lawmakers also subpoenaed records from JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup related to potential money-laundering in Russia and Eastern Europe, the NYT reports.
"The potential use of the U.S. financial system for illicit purposes is a very serious concern," Representative Maxine Waters, the chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, said in a statement.
Deutsche Bank says it's cooperating. "We remain committed to providing appropriate information to all authorized investigations in a manner consistent with our legal obligations," a spokeswoman for the firm said.
But the Trump Organization condemned the moves. Eric Trump, one of Mr. Trump's sons, called the subpoenas "an unprecedented abuse of power." A lawyer for the company said it was considering options for preventing Deutsche Bank from complying.
More: Two Pulitzer Prizes were awarded yesterday to reports investigating Mr. Trump's finances. The NYT won for its investigation into how the Trump family avoided paying a half-billion dollars in taxes, while the WSJ was recognized for revealing hush-money payments made to two women who claimed to have had affairs with Mr. Trump.
The I.P.O. calendar is getting crowded
This year promises to be one of the biggest for public offerings in recent memory. And that's created a scheduling problem, Erin Griffith and Michael de la Merced of the NYT report.
If all the big tech I.P.O. candidates went to market, they could issue over $100 billion in new stock, according to Renaissance Capital. At the peak of the dot-com era, in 2000, the figure was $96 billion.
I.P.O.s are already running into each other. Pinterest wanted to go public before Good Friday — and wound up scheduling its offering on Thursday, the day also chosen by the video conferencing company Zoom. Uber ensured that there were at least 30 days between Lyft's prospectus filing and its own.
"I do think there's going to be some potential indigestion," Kathleen Smith of Renaissance Capital told the NYT. Barrett Daniels of Deloitte added, "There could end up being I.P.O. fatigue because it is going to be overwhelming."
Uber is a special concern. Its offering is expected to to be the biggest in years, raising $10 billion — which bankers working on rival offerings fear will suck the air out of the markets that week. They're giving it a wide berth.
Perfect timing could be important, because some bankers worry that a single bad debut could taint the batch. Lyft's shares popped straight after their I.P.O., but two weeks later they're down 22 percent. We'll see if that is destined to hurt other unicorns when Pinterest goes public this week.
Europe is split over starting trade talks with the U.S.
France and Belgium refused to support a new round of trade negotiations between the European Union and the U.S. yesterday, suggesting a bumpy road ahead for those discussions.
It's a striking break in European unity. Trade measures normally pass unanimously. The European Commission had initially proposed a new round of trade talks in January.
French and Belgian officials cited climate change, and specifically the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris climate accord, as an objection.
But the talks are expected to proceed anyway, with a focus on eliminating tariffs for industrial goods, excluding agricultural products, and making it easier for U.S. and E.U. companies to meet the other side's technical requirements.
Expect agriculture to be a point of contention. Congress and Mr. Trump both say it has to be addressed; but Cecilia Malmstrom, the E.U.'s chief negotiator, has called it "a red line for Europe."
Want to earn a C.E.O. salary? Work for 1,000 years
U.S. companies are disclosing the pay ratio between bosses and median workers in proxy filings for the first full year since the S.E.C. demanded the metric. The FT and Equilar, a compensation consultancy, dug into the numbers, looking at the 100 largest companies by revenue that had published 2018 data by April 1, the midpoint of the annual reporting calendar. Three notable findings:
• "Of the 100 CEOs, 11 made more than 1,000 times as much as their median employee."
• "Elon Musk was paid 40,668 times more than the median Tesla worker," though that company was not part of Equilar's analysis.
• "Warren Buffett earned less than seven times as much as the median Berkshire Hathaway employee."
Skepticism remains about the usefulness of the metric. It might cause a day or two's bad publicity, critics say, but it will have much less effect on companies' compensation decisions than their financial results.
VW's ex-chief is charged with fraud
German prosecutors filed aggravated fraud charges yesterday against Martin Winterkorn, who was Volkswagen's C.E.O. when it deceived regulators about emissions levels, Christopher Schuetze of the NYT writes.
• "The charges are the first criminal indictment in Germany against an individual in connection with the diesel scandal."
• The indictment "includes charges of breach of trust, tax evasion and false certification, either directly or by aiding in such crimes. If convicted, Mr. Winterkorn could be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison."
• "In charging Mr. Winterkorn and four Volkswagen managers whose names were not released, the public prosecutor's office in Braunschweig tied the five to events reaching as far back as 2006."
• "The timeline is significant because it rejects initial claims by Volkswagen that senior management became aware of the so-called defeat devices used to cheat emissions tests only after being confronted by the United States environmental authorities in 2015."
• "Even after paying $33 billion in fines and settlements related to the scandal, the carmaker continues to face legal challenges and investigations from authorities in the United States and Germany."
Revolving door
Best Buy named Corie Barry, its chief financial officer, as its next C.E.O. The current C.E.O., Hubert Joly, will become executive chairman.
The P.R. firm Prosek Partners plans to announce this morning that it has hired David Wells, who most recently led marketing and communications for Goldman Sachs's consumer and investment management division, as a partner.
Daniel Daniel, a former senior investor at BlackRock, has left to start Twenty Acre Global, an investment firm that will take stakes in tech companies.
BlackRock has reportedly moved to hire Tang Xiaodong, most recently a senior executive at GF Securities, to oversee its mainland China operations.
The speed read
• AT&T sold its 9.5 percent stake in Hulu back to the streaming service at a $15 billion valuation. (WSJ)
• Deutsche Bank reportedly expects to lose up to $1.7 billion in revenue if it merges with Commerzbank, when customers reduce their exposure to the combined lender. (Bloomberg)
• When Anadarko agreed to sell itself to Chevron for $65 a share, it reportedly cut off talks with Occidental Petroleum about an offer in the mid-$70s. (CNBC)
• Salesforce agreed to buy its philanthropic arm, which also sells the company's software to nonprofits, for $300 million. (Business Insider)
• Venture capitalist firms foresee a windfall in astrology start-ups. (NYT)
• Senator Bernie Sanders released 10 years' worth of tax returns yesterday, revealing that he's in the top 1 percent of taxpayers. He defended his wealth, but demurred on whether he should be paying more. (NYT)
• President Trump's personal lawyer urged the Treasury Department not to release his client's records. (NYT)
• The Interior Department's new secretary, David Bernhardt, faces an ethics investigation by its inspector general. (NYT)
• Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York, reportedly declined meetings with top banking executives after harshly criticizing the industry. (Fox Business)
• The Justice Department said a redacted version of Robert Mueller's report would be released on Thursday. (NYT)
• American Airlines plans to give its pilots more simulator training for 737 Max jets. (WSJ)
• U.S. efforts to tighten sanctions on Iranian and Venezuelan oil might push up energy prices. (NYT)
• OPEC has gotten unexpected help from a longtime frenemy, Russia. (WSJ)
• President Trump insists that the U.S. will "win either way" in its trade discussions with China. (Reuters)
• Britain's foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, said a top priority is reaching a Brexit deal in time to avoid the U.K. holding European elections. (BBC)
• Germany's foreign minister says that Britain shouldn't get another Brexit extension. (FT)
• Some British companies are enjoying a pre-Brexit boom — but they're worried about what comes next. (FT)
• Huawei says it has secured 40 commercial contracts to build and operate 5G wireless infrastructure, but it has not discussed 5G chipsets with Apple. Also: China is investigating a Huawei rival, Ericsson, over its technology licensing practices. (Reuters, WSJ)
• SpaceX is seeking another $500 million in funding, but there are internal questions about the viability of its plans for a satellite-based internet business. (WSJ)
• Ecuador said it had been hit by 40 million cyberattacks since Julian Assange was arrested last week. (AFP)
• Big companies thought their insurance covered the 2017 NotPetya cyberattack. Maybe not. (NYT)
• Uber is really worth about $60 billion, according to Aswath Damodaran, NYU's valuation expert. (CNBC)
• The first opinions on Samsung's folding-screen phone? It might just be worth the $2,000 price tag. (Gizmodo)
• Lori Loughlin and her husband pleaded not guilty in the college admissions scandal. (Bloomberg)
• Citigroup and Goldman Sachs both delivered better-than-expected earnings yesterday, but investors were still disappointed. (Bloomberg)
• UniCredit pleaded guilty to U.S. charges that its German division let some Iranian customers violate sanctions. (Bloomberg)
• Expectations for America's first quarter G.D.P. growth are increasing. (Axios)
• Greece wants to repay its €10 billion loan from the I.M.F. early. (Sky News)
• Supreme Court judges are torn about whether a clothing company's name is too obscene-sounding to trademark, but united in not saying it aloud. (NYT)
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Domtar: How the paper industry overcame the 'sins of its past'
Submitted: The Two Sides Team October 22, 2013
Montr'al-based Domtar Corp. brands itself "The Sustainable Paper Company." It is fast becoming a wood fiber innovation engine using sustainability as the foundation of its business transformation. David Struhs, Domtar's vice president of sustainability, explains how co-generation, new manufacturing and attention to market niches are some of the ways the company is pursuing this vision.
via Green Biz – 21 October 2013
It is fast becoming a wood fiber innovation engine using sustainability as the foundation of its business transformation. David Struhs, Domtar's vice president of sustainability, explains how co-generation, new manufacturing and attention to market niches are some of the ways the company is pursuing this vision.
David Kiron: You use the phrase "virtuous circle of sustainability" in talking about your strategy. That's a good phrase. Do you see giving younger workers something interesting to do as contributing to their well-being?
David Struhs: I think so. I know it's the case with me. I'm 53 and I've done lots of different things in my life, and I still love going to work in the morning. I think one of the reasons is that, at the end of the day, I feel like I've actually done something that might make a real positive difference, whether it's something as simple as collaborating with NGOs and customers to coming up with a way of getting more landowners to certify their fiber supply and adhere to certain good practices for forest management. It can be something even bolder, like reimagining what value we might extract out of something like a tree. I think lots of folks feel the same way.
One of the things that might be unique to our industry — because it's such an old industry — is we're able to overcome some of the sins of the past. Let's be honest, in our lifetime the pulp and paper industry was not a good environmental actor. It did not have the ethos of manufacturing efficiency, and if you look at what they did to rivers and streams, and in some cases forests, it was reprehensible.
But if you look at how the industry has been transformed and the transparency it now exhibits, there's a positive story to tell. I think people who have spent a long time in this industry feel like they have a new lease on life. Almost as important, they have a new reputation.
Kiron: So, let's talk about this new lease on life and how long this life is going to go for. Domtar has a sustainability strategy that goes out to 2020, which is a substantial amount of time.
Struhs: Well, any number that you put out there as a planning horizon is by definition arbitrary, and we recognize that. There is a certain ring to 2020. But at a more practical level, we felt that it was a reasonable timeframe, given the capital intensity of our industry. We have harvest cycles that extend 40 or more years in some cases. Because of the investments required to build and the operating costs to maintain this very capital-intensive industry, there's no room for decisions that lack a view of the long horizon.
That doesn't mean that we aren't going to hold ourselves accountable on a routine annual basis, reporting progress where it's good and where it's bad, but we think it's important to view it in that longer-term context.
In some ways, what sustainability is serving as a counterweight to the quarterly nature of American capitalism, where everything's about what's happened this quarter or what's going to happen next quarter. If you believe sustainability is a natural counterweight to that phenomenon, then I think it's actually appropriate to have a 2020 horizon out there.
Kiron: Give us an idea of some of the big goals of this 2020 strategy.
Struhs: It starts with the fiber, in our case. When people think about our industry, most often they think first about the responsible utilization of fiber resources. This is also where Domtar began as it started along its sustainability path. So, that's almost foundational.
Beyond that, it's looking at the environmental footprint of our operations. This includes the efficiency with which we use energy, water, chemicals and wood. It also includes recovering and recycling what once was considered waste and putting those materials to productive use. And when we've run out of those options, the goal is to minimize our footprint as much as we possibly can, and to do it in a way that is somewhat aspirational. It's more than a lot of lay-ups; we set markers that require us to actually rethink our progress.
Beyond the environmental footprint, it's the products. We need to ask whether we can really integrate sustainability into the development of new fiber-based solutions that take advantage of a renewable resource. Can we make products that are lighter, cheaper, faster, better and ultimately renewable — whether they're fuels, whether they're plastics, whether they're substitutes for carbon fiber?
And then finally — and equally as important — we need to consider the communities in which we find ourselves. Ultimately, sustainability is about fitting in, and doing so in a way that creates a net positive benefit in the community in which we operate, whether it's water, air, employment, taxes, health, or safety. And it's really just the basics of good corporate citizenship and recognizing that part of what we have to maintain for our sustainability is our license to operate.
This article is adapted from David Kiron's "Old Industry, New Tech: Domtar's Focus on Sustainability," which was originally published by MIT Sloan Management Review.
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Commentary: Living With Rivers
by Lori Pottinger
"The river runs through me like blood in my veins. If you dam the river, it is like stopping the blood that gives me life." Raul Rocco, Argentinian fisherman
Raul Rocco lives with a river. Not beside it or near it, but with it. He is a fisherman, and the river he lives with - the Paraná in northeastern Argentina - provides him and his family with food, a livelihood, water for drinking and washing, inspiration for their songs, their poetry, their lives. The river in fact defines their lives. Rocco cannot conceive of life without this river, his people's river, which they have lived with for generations.
But he has recently learned that there are a surprising number of people around the world who have their eye on the Rio Paraná, people who have never visited his home or even seen the river. Hailing from Washington, DC, Chicago, Moscow and Rotterdam, this international cadre of engineers, manufacturers and politicians envision the river trussed up in concrete and steel and "harnessed" to create electricity. The Paraná Medio Dam, as proposed by its backers, would create one of the largest reservoirs in the world (at 760,000 hectares, it would be 40 times bigger than Buenos Aires), displace thousands of people, flood productive land, destroy fisheries and a diverse ecosystem. And as usual, people like Rocco will be the last to learn the details - in fact will likely be left out of the planning process entirely.
Rocco has decided not to wait to see how the dam will affect his community and way of life - he has begun to take action. At the first International Meeting of People Affected by Dams held recently in Brazil (see page 1), Rocco told of his travels by canoe along 1,000 kilometers of the Paraná to tell people living along its banks about the proposed dam. He used poetry and street theater to convey the message. After the conference, Rocco's story was taken back to Lesotho, Thailand, Russia and Chile, where it will be retold, along with dozens of other stories about people standing up for their rivers. The retelling of these stories will give strength to those who hear them, people who are themselves fighting large dams.
This special issue is full of stories like Rocco's. These stories share a common thread, one that runs through the stories of most people affected by large dams. It goes like this: a poor, rural community suddenly learns about a dam project that is to be imposed upon it and which will forever change its way of life; the community has no resources to fight the project and even less political power to wield against it; the project is being promoted by a well-connected "hydromafia" of government officials, bankers and multinational corporations intent on building it. But if there are harsh similarities to these stories, there are also echoes of hope as communities unite to keep their homelands dam-free. The move to dam India's Narmada River (see story on page 4) gave rise to one of the most inspiring pro-river, anti-dam movements ever formed. Today, the Save the Narmada Movement continues its struggle to stop the ill-conceived project, and to inspire other river communities around the world.
The Declaration of Curitiba (page 9), which was written by delegates at the Brazil conference, offers a shared vision for the world's rivers from people who have had to live with the consequences of large dams. It insists that local people be active participants in the planning and development of rivers and watersheds. The declaration will provide a starting point for the next generation of people confronting megaprojects in their watersheds.
Dam-affected people are also heard by telling their stories to the international institutions behind the projects. Local people have brought their concerns about World Bank-funded dams to the Bank's Inspection Panel, which investigates violations of Bank policy. Three Latin American dams have come before the Inspection Panel recently; read about these cases on pages 10-11. Because almost half the cases so far brought before the Inspection Panel have been large dams, the World Bank is becoming ever more hesitant about funding large, destructive river projects.
As the stories in this issue illustrate, the voices of people affected by dams are growing louder. We will continue to retell their stories, and work toward a day when they do not have to be repeated.


Donna J. Jodhan, Founder and President of Barrier Free Canada / Canada sans Barrières, Recognizes Professor Donna Saccutelli, Seneca College, Jessica Cooper and Mind Vault Solutions, Ltd. for Their Roles in Supporting the Continued Growth of the Barrier Free Canada / Canada sans Barrières Website at http://www.BarrierFreeCanada.org/ - Mind Vault Solutions, Ltd.
Alt: Image of a light blue maple leaf with a white diagonal section of the leaf missing, giving the appearance of a circle with a line through it that bans what is on the inside. This maple leaf is intended to ban inaccessibility. To the right of the light blue maple leaf are the words, 'Barrier Free Canada' and 'Sans Barrière Canada'.
I would like to personally thank Professor Donna Saccutelli who was absolutely instrumental in getting the faculty of Inclusive Design at Seneca College (http://www.senecacollege.ca/) to have their students design the new logo for the Barrier Free Canada Website.
Barrier-Free Canada / Canada Sans Barrieres (BFC / CSB) advocates for the Canadian Parliament to enact a strong and effective Canadians with Disabilities Act (CDA) to achieve a barrier-free Canada for all persons with disabilities.
As if that weren't enough, Professor Saccutelli then asked one Jessica Cooper, a former student of hers, to assist us in refreshing the Barrier Free Canada / Canada sans Barrières website. To which she so graciously agreed, and did such an amazing job. I have known the professor for a few years now, and both she and Jessica have always shown a sincere and motivated interest in helping us to move the Barrier Free Canada / Canada sans Barrières website forward, for which I am so very grateful.
Recently Jessica moved on in her work and career and I found myself in need of a new website administrator for the Barrier Free Canada / Canada sans Barrières website in a hurry.
Having worked with Aaron Di Blasi and Mind Vault Solutions, Ltd. since early 2012 on one of my other websites, http://www.donnajodhan.com/, I immediately sent an email, explained my situation, and as is always the case with Mind Vault, found myself on a conference call with Aaron not more than 12 hours later. I provided him with the credentials for the site, he looked it over briefly and said, "no problem Donna. I think we can do more than just administrate this. I think we can help you to grow it." And so, this is indeed what we plan to do.
We have some other enhancements in the works as well so please stay tuned.
Until then, we look forward to keeping you informed.
Donna J. Jodhan is the Founder and President of Barrier Free Canada / Canada sans Barrières. Barrier-Free Canada / Canada Sans Barrieres (BFC/CSB) advocates for the Canadian Parliament to enact a strong and effective Canadians with Disabilities Act (CDA) to achieve a barrier-free Canada for all persons with disabilities.