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Pedro Conceição
Director of the Human Development Report Office, UNDP
Since 1 January 2019 Pedro has been Director of the Human Development Report Office and lead author of the Human Development Report. Prior to this, Pedro served as Director, Strategic Policy, at the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (from October 2014), and Chief Economist and Head of the Strategic Advisory Unit at the Regional Bureau for Africa (from 1 December 2009). Before that, he was Director of the Office of Development Studies (ODS) from March 2007 to November 2009, and Deputy Director of ODS, from October 2001 to February 2007. His work on financing for development and on global public goods was published by Oxford University Press in books he co-edited (The New Public Finance: Responding to Global Challenges, 2006; Providing Global Public Goods: Managing Globalization, 2003). He has published on inequality, the economics of innovation and technological change, and development in, amongst other journals, the African Development Review, Review of Development Economics, Eastern Economic Journal, Ecological Economics, Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, Food Policy, and Technological Forecasting and Social Change. He co-edited several books including: Innovation, Competence Building, and Social Cohesion in Europe- Towards a Learning Society (Edward Elgar, 2002) and Knowledge for Inclusive Development (Quorum Books, 2001). Prior to coming to UNDP, he was an Assistant Professor at the Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, teaching and researching on science, technology and innovation policy. He has degrees in Physics from Instituto Superior Técnico and in Economics from the Technical University of Lisbon and a Ph. D. in Public Policy from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied with a Fulbright scholarship.
Yanchun Zhang
Chief Statistician, HDRO/UNDP
Yanchun has more than twenty years of quantitative research experience on a wide range of economic and sustainable development topics. She has published articles on international macroeconomics, climate change and development, economic vulnerabilities and social protection in refereed academic and policy journals. Prior to HDRO, she served as Chief of the Commodities Branch at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva from 2019 to 2020, leading analytical research, which includes a biennial statistics report State of Commodities Dependence, and capacity-building projects in a dozen of commodity dependent developing countries in Africa and Asia. Prior to that, she was Chief of the Commodity Policy Implementation and Outreach Section from 2014 to 2019, in charge of formulating demand-driven technical cooperation initiatives, mobilizing multilateral and bilateral funding sources and coordinating the preparation of publicity materials and press releases for outreach efforts. Before UNCTAD, she had worked at UNDP in New York from 2007 to 2013 as a Policy Specialist, conducting original research on emerging development topics that are strategically important for the organization. From 2003 to 2006, she was an assistant professor at San Francisco State University, teaching and researching on econometrics, statistics and macroeconomics. Prior to her academic career, she also worked for the World Bank's Development Research Group. She holds Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in Economics with specializations on econometrics, development economics and international economics from University of Virginia, U.S.A, and a B.A. degree in Economics with honors from Shanghai Fudan University, China.
Heriberto Tapia
Research and Strategic Partnership Advisor
Heriberto Tapia is the Research and Strategic Partnership Advisor of the Human Development Report Office (HDRO), leading both areas. He has been a senior member of the HDRO research team since 2014. Previously, he served in the Executive Office of UNDP and in the Economic Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean. He has been lecturer at Columbia University (New York), University of Chile (Santiago) and University Diego Portales (Santiago). Heriberto holds a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University, and a Master's degree in economics and a Commercial Engineering degree from the University of Chile.
Nasantuya Chuluun
Nasa worked as Operations and Implementation Support Advisor in Multi-Country Office in Fiji since January 2019. Prior to that she was Programme Implementation Team Leader and Operations Specialist in Myanmar and DPR of Korea. Nasa joined UNDP, Mongolia as National Governance Officer in 1997, moved to the field of Operations in 2002. She also served in HQ in Office of Human Resources and Learning Resources Centre for eight years. Nasa started her professional career with Mongolian Customs Administration where she grew in ranks from Inspector to Deputy Director of Customs Administration. She received her bachelor's degree in international trade economics from Budapest Economics University (Hungary) and graduated from Duke University (USA) with MA in International Development Policy/Public Administration.
Admir Jahic
Advisor, Digital, Data and Knowledge Management
Admir has over 20 years of professional experience in global project and programme management, strategic leadership, innovations, and digital transformation. His passion is in leveraging design thinking and innovation to address challenges and build products, strategies, and environments for high impact and sustained results. Since joining HDRO in 2014, Admir has led knowledge products, digital platforms and transformation, and innovation. Before joining UNDP, Admir worked in the corporate sector at Goldman Sachs, starting as a data analyst and later managing business solutions and knowledge products. Admir has a Masters's degree in Computer Engineering and Renewable Energy Engineering from Colorado State University in Fort Collins.
Policy Specialist
Jon has been thinking about how to quantify – and influence - national development since 2000. His 2002 work for the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Measuring Australia's Progress won a national award as the "smartest" social project of the year. From 2005 – 2009 he led a project at the O.E.C.D promoting these ideas around the world and since 2012 has been working on strengthening national human development reporting. Jon has a masters degree in applied statistics and econometrics, and another in public service administration. He has lectured in over 50 countries and has a particular interest in measuring happiness. In 2013 he was one of ten "global opinion leaders" to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss his work.
Tasneem Mirza
Tasneem is a member of the research and writing team for the Human Development Report and the Multidimensional Poverty Index Report. At UNDP, Tasneem also worked with the SDG Integration Team supporting countries to make progress on the Sustainable Development Goals, and the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific, providing policy and advisory services to country offices. Prior to UNDP, Tasneem worked at the Asian Development Bank Headquarters in Manila, where she initially joined as a Young Professional. There she supported projects and programs to promote trade and economic integration in South Asia and managed the Secretariat for South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation jointly with the Governments of Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Bhutan. During her graduate school years, Tasneem worked at the Center for Global Trade Analysis Projects (GTAP) at Purdue University, where she also completed her Ph.D. in Economics. At GTAP, she supported the development of the GTAP model/database and studied the impacts of trade facilitation on employment, poverty, and income, among others.
Brian Lutz
Brian is a member of the research and writing team, where he focuses on overall narrative development, as well as health, climate and inequality. Prior to joining HDRO in 2019, he served in UNDP's Executive Office and, before that, on UNDP's HIV, Health and Development team. His work on the development dimensions of health has been published in AIDS and The Lancet, among others. He was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company before joining UNDP. Brian holds a MSc Environmental Change & Management from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Marshall Scholar, and a MSc Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He has a BS in Mathematics.
Cecilia Calderon
Statistics Specialist
Cecilia's topics of research include the calculation of the Multidimensional Poverty Index for all countries, with particular interest in analyzing multidimensional poverty in children, the Human Development Index, inequalities in income and education and gender inequalities. Before joining HDRO, Cecilia has worked at the Population Council, the Inter-American Development Bank and the Center for Distributive, Labor and Social Studies at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (CEDLAS), Argentina. Cecilia holds a Ph.D. and a Master in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master in Economics from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina. Her Ph.D. dissertation analyses the relationship between the nutritional status of the mothers and its impact of the growth and development of their children.
Christina Lengfelder
Research Specialist
Christina Lengfelder is a member of the HDRO's research team, where she has co-authored global Human Development Reports since 2014. Before joining HDRO, Christina lectured on social policies, international relations, and qualitative & quantitative research methodology in Santiago de Chile. She also worked as a knowledge manager for the Inter- American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington D.C., consulted for UN ECLAC in Trinidad and Tobago and Santiago de Chile, and interned with the Mexican Government's Secretariat for Human Development. Christina comes from a multidisciplinary background, holding a PhD in Political Science (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile) with a focus on development cooperation, research methodology, and international relations. She also earned two master's degrees, one in International Development Economics (HTW Berlin), and another in Political Science (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile). Her academic career started with a dual bachelor's degree in International Business Studies (Mexico and Germany). Christina's research interests lie in human development, multidimensional inequalities, social policies, and, more recently, mental health. She has published her work in several UN publications, book chapters, and peer-reviewed journals.
Yu-Chieh Hsu
Statistics Analyst at the Human Development Report Office, UNDP
Yu-Chieh joined the HDRO as a Statistics Postdoctoral Consultant in 2014. Before coming to UNDP, she was a Senior Research Analyst at the National Opinion Research Center (NORC). During that time, she was jointly appointed as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. Yu-Chieh graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a PhD and MPhil in Public Policy and Management. She also holds a Master's Degree in Statistics from Columbia University. Yu-Chieh's PhD dissertation focused on demography and applied statistics. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals including Demography, Population Studies, and Journal of Health Economics.
Fe Juarez
Operations Associate
Prior to her post in HDRO, Fe held positions of Programme Associate at the United Nations Capital Development Fund and Programme/Administrative Assistant at the Sustainable Development and Poverty Elimination Division of the Bureau for Development Policy. Her background are on finance, human resources and procurement. Before joining UNDP, Fe has worked at various private companies in the Philippines performing functions in office administration. Fe holds a bachelor's degree in office administration from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines and received a strategic diploma on public procurement from the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply.
Executive Associate
Ana has over 10 years of experience working as an Executive Associate at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, including at the Permanent Mission of Spain. She has extensive experience working in multilateral settings; where she has been providing organizational and logistical support to high-level diplomats, preparing programs, and coordinating the visits to the United Nations by heads of State/Government, cabinet ministers and other senior officials, ensuring that appropriate protocol is observed. Prior to joining HDRO, Ana worked at the Permanent Mission of Spain to the UN and as a freelance Spanish Interpreter for the Board of Elections of the City Of New York. Ana holds a master's degree in Translation and Interpreting from the University of Salamanca and has been appointed as an official sworn translator by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She also holds a United Nations Protocol certification course.


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Q: Null reference when trying to use localstorage service in mainlayout I am trying to impliment a darkmode toggle in a blazor webassembly app.
I inject the localstorage and it works on other pages that use local storage but when trying to impliment it on the main layout oninitalized method I get a null reference error on load.
public partial class MainLayout
{
[Inject]
    protected ILocalStorageService localStorage { get; set; }
protected override async Task OnInitializedAsync()
    {
        _darkmode = false;
        try
        {

            if (await localStorage.GetItemAsStringAsync("theme") == null) return;
            var mode = await localStorage.GetItemAsync<string>("theme");
            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(mode))
                _darkmode = mode == "darkmode" ? true : false;

            Themer.SetTheme(_darkmode);
            StateHasChanged();
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            _darkmode = false;

        }

    }
}

This is the error I get as soon as I have anything to do with the local storage in the main layout.
crit: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.WebAssembly.Rendering.WebAssemblyRenderer[100]
Unhandled exception rendering component: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at SeekaPortal.Client.Shared.MainLayout.BuildRenderTree(RenderTreeBuilder __builder)
at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.ComponentBase.<.ctor>b__6_0(RenderTreeBuilder builder)
at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.Rendering.ComponentState.RenderIntoBatch(RenderBatchBuilder batchBuilder, RenderFragment renderFragment)
at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.RenderTree.Renderer.RenderInExistingBatch(RenderQueueEntry renderQueueEntry)
at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.RenderTree.Renderer.ProcessRenderQueue()

A: Blazor has some odd startup sequenceing behavior due to it rendering while pages are still running their startup logic (good old async, await...). Not sure if this is your issue or not. This is what I had to do
@if (BootComplete) {
    <Router AppAssembly="@typeof(App).Assembly">
        <Found Context="routeData">
            <RouteView RouteData="@routeData" DefaultLayout="@typeof(MainLayout)" />
            <FocusOnNavigate RouteData="@routeData" Selector="h1" />
        </Found>
        <NotFound>
            <PageTitle>Not found</PageTitle>
            <LayoutView Layout="@typeof(MainLayout)">

Sorry, there's nothing at this address.

            </LayoutView>
        </NotFound>
    </Router>
}
@inject IJSRuntime JS
@inject SavedData Saver

@code
{

    // boot code. By hiding everything nothing starts until bootcomplete is set to true
    // that is done after the successful exit from OnInitializedAsync
    // App.Boot has to be async becuase it does 'IO'

    bool BootComplete = false;

    protected override async Task OnInitializedAsync() {
        EarWorm.Code.Util.Init(JS);
        await Saver.Boot();
        BootComplete = true;
    }
 }

ie hide the UI until all injects, inits, reading of state etc had completed. I did it for the entire app (as you can see this is App.razor) maybe you need it for a few pages.

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The Ireland abortion referendum: Who's voting yes, who's voting no, and who's likely to win.
Helen Vnuk
Contributor - News and Parenting
Video by SBS
This Friday, May 25, Ireland will vote on whether to keep abortion illegal. It looks like it could be a very close vote. Here's everything you need to know.
What's the current Irish law on abortion?
Abortion is illegal in Ireland unless the woman's life is at real and substantial risk. That means it's not even legal in cases of rape, child sexual abuse or incest, or where the foetus has a fatal abnormality. Back in the early 1980s, pro-lifers in Ireland were afraid that their country's courts might follow the example of Roe vs Wade in the US and lift restrictions on abortion. So they pushed for an amendment to the constitution which would give the foetus a "right to life" that was equal to that of the mother. The amendment was passed by a referendum in 1983, with a majority of 67 per cent.
What's the penalty for having an abortion?
We #Greens are together for YES with our Irish friends ahead of Friday's vote to allow #abortion. Everyone should have safe, affordable and legal access to abortion #DDD4C #Together4Yes #Repealthe8th @greenparty_ie
A post shared by Janet Rice (@janetricegreens) on May 22, 2018 at 7:14pm PDT
Currently, anyone in Ireland found guilty of procuring an abortion faces a prison sentence of 14 years. Even women taking abortion pills risk 14 years in prison.
What's this week's referendum about?
A "yes" vote would repeal the amendment to the constitution. That would mean that the government could make abortion legal. The proposed legislation would allow abortion on request up until the 12th week of pregnancy. Abortion would be allowed after the 12th week if the foetus had a fatal abnormality or if the woman's health was at risk of serious harm.
What happens currently when girls and women in Ireland want an abortion?
Every year, more than 3000 girls and women head to the UK to have an abortion there. Another 1500 take abortion pills, which they've illegally bought online, without supervision. Around two to three per cent of those who take pills develop medical problems – for example, if they have an ectopic pregnancy but aren't aware of it.
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Why is a referendum being held now?
In 2012, Savita Halappanavar, an Indian-born dentist living in Ireland, was miscarrying and asked for an abortion. However, staff at University Hospital Galway refused to give it to her. Her husband says they were told it wasn't allowed because there was a foetal heartbeat. Halappanavar developed sepsis and died. Candle-lit vigils were held for her, and the push to legalise abortion grew.
Thinking of Savita Hallapanavar tonight. May she Rest In Peace. I hope, as her family does, that her death was not in vain. #repealthe8th #humanrights #savitahalappanavar Artwork @shiranibolle
A post shared by Maeve Higgins (@maeveinamerica) on May 13, 2018 at 2:45pm PDT
In the same year, Amanda Mellet took her story to the media. Mellet found out when she was 21 weeks pregnant that the foetus had a fatal abnormality. She was forced to go to the UK for a termination, and had to return just 12 hours after the procedure because she couldn't afford to stay any longer. Mellet and her husband took their case to the United Nations Humans Rights Committee.
Who is in favour of changing abortion laws?
Both the Taoiseach (prime minister), Leo Varadkar, and the opposition leader, Micheal Martin, are on the "vote yes" side, but some members of their parties feel differently.
Pro-choice student unions at British universities are paying to fly Irish students home to vote yes. Other Irish citizens living overseas are also flying home to try to get the yes vote through.
Who is against the change?
Pro-life groups – some of them receiving support from the US. There's controversy over Americans using Facebook to try to sway the vote, launching co-ordinated attacks.
What are the polls saying?
When the campaign started, the "yes" vote was well ahead. However, more recent polls are suggesting that it's on a knife edge.
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Q: how to populate textbox with the database value based on combobox change in access I am new to Access and vb and i have failed to get the result what i am thinking to get ,hope i will resolve with your help guys
->my access database contains one table with following fields
                    firstname lastname middlename phone
I have two combo boxes and two textboxes

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*combobox- it populates firstname and based on this selection the other combo box has to fill with last name which i did successfully with the help of Me.Combo2.Requery

but i dont know how to fill middle and phone in textboxes
here i am failing in mapping recordset and connectionstring with my table and getting result to textbox value can any one help on this

A: You still have not said where the connection string comes from or why. The big advantage of Access is that it is fast and easy, for the most part, you do not need connection strings.
First, select your table, then choose create form. This will create a single form bound to the table. You could have created a query first and chosen that instead.
That is it. You have a form that displays your data. The key to this is the property sheet for the form, which you can find by switching to design view and double-clicking the small square at the top left of the form just under the form name. The property sheet will show the name of the table or query on the Data tab under the Record Source propery. You can, of course, set this property manually.

You can now add a combobox to select records, but you do not have to, there are navigation buttons at the bottom of the form.
To add a combobox that selects records on your form, you must have first bound a recordset to your form using the steps above. Next, ensure that the wizard is selected for the toolbox. Unless you have unselected it, it will be selected. Now choose combobox from the toolbox, it will open the wizard.

Choose find a record on my form and press next to choose the relevant ID field / column and any other fields that you need. When the wizard completes, in MS Access 2010 (and probably in 2007) it will add an embedded macro that finds your record and in earlier versions it will add code. Other properties set by the wizard will look something like this:
Row Source : SELECT ID, Firstname, Lastname FROM Table1
Column Count : 3
Column Widths : 0cm;2.54cm;2.54cm

Your table should have an ID, add one before you start, if it does not. The wizard will not add a Control Source when this option is selected because it is not needed, in fact, it would be a disaster to add a Control Source to a combo that finds records. Once again, you can do this manually. The code to find a record might look something like:
Private Sub MyCombo_AfterUpdate()
    With Me.Recordset
        .FindFirst "ID=" & Me.MyCombo
    End With
End Sub

This works because the bound column of the combo is set to 1, the first field of the select statement, which is ID.
The combo includes two other fields / columns and you can refer to these in a textbox by setting the control source of the textbox to:
= MyCombo.Column(2) ''Lastname

Where you count columns from zero:
Row Source : ID (0), Firstname (1), Lastname (2)

Cascading combos are another story altogether, and you can read it here How to synchronize two combo boxes on a form in Access 2002 or in Access 2003 and here Is there a simple way of populating dropdown in this Access Database schema?


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The Dodgers are "Hundreds of Millions in Debt" after reaching $1 Billion in Player Spending
By TheNaturalMevs on November 27, 2016
The Los Angeles Dodgers have been spending too much money on baseball players, especially since 2013 when Guggenheim Baseball Management assumed control of the team. The Dodgers have spent $1.181 Billion in those four years on player salary, an average of around $295 Million annually.
So the crazy spending must stop, and one might think that it becomes a hinderance of their ability to compete in 2017 and the years following. But the Dodgers are falling back on one key thing: the development of young talent coming out of their minor league system which has been fruitful of late.
So while the Dodgers would have to pay big in order to keep established stars such as third baseman Justin Turner and closer Kenley Jansen from signing elsewhere as free agents, the club says it otherwise is able to operate more efficiently because it has a minor league system that is churning out the young, relatively inexpensive talent necessary to sustain a perennial contender.
It's improbable that the Dodgers are able to keep both Turner and Jansen. One of them will get an offer elsewhere that the Dodgers cannot sensibly match. For shit's sake, they're paying Alex Guerrero some insane amount of money next season to go play in another country (he's not a Dodger anymore after being released). There just are so many poor crooked numbers and players on the Dodgers books that were needlessly put there, and it's felt that way for a while.
They're going to start behaving differently, if the LA Times report by Bill Shaikin has wheels.
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Whales and their watchers stars of documentary shot on the North Coast of B.C.
Dana Gee More from Dana Gee
Janie Wray, lead researcher, B.C. Whales, and co-founder of the Cetacea Lab, is seen here observing humpback whales on the North Coast of B.C. National Film Board / PNG
The Whale and The Raven is a beautiful and cinematic must see
The Whale and the Raven
When: Jan. 10-16, 2020
Where:Vancity Theatre
Tickets and info:viff.org
Director Mirjam Leuze's new documentary The Whale and the Raven is a cinematically calm, beautiful movie that speaks volumes about the risks whales on B.C.'s North Coast face from a growing gas industry.
At the heart of the German/NFB co-produced feature-length film is the work being done by researchers Janie Wray of the Fin Island-based B.C. Whales and Cetacea Lab at Whale Point (Gil Island) head researcher Hermann Meuter.
The film lands at Vancity Theatre Jan. 10-16, 2020.
"I wanted to get out the beauty of this place and the fascination. And I wanted to get it out in a very sensual way," Leuze said recently over the phone from Germany. "I wanted people to feel this place."
Leuze, herself, had a "feel this place" experience that reassured her this film at this time was the right move.
"I was sitting on the rocks of Fin Island and hearing and feeling in my body the vocalizations of humpbacks. This was a moment that I knew this was such a special place and there were not many places in the world where you can experience something like this," said Leuze.
"That was the moment that I thought 'wow this is so magical, so special.' This is great to bring this film and this place out into the world."
By doing so Leuze hopes to remind the public that the No. 1 concern for the North Coast ocean ecosystem, especially in and around the Kitimat fiord system, is the planned increase of liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker traffic.
This type of battle is not new for the area as back in 2006 it was selected to be a route for the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline project — a proposed pipeline and oil tanker project that would ship Alberta oilsands via Kitimat. That project was stopped but soon after LNG showed up.
Despite protests the tanker traffic is green lit and, according to Wray, will begin in late 2023 or early 2024.
"Noise pollution is huge," said Wray who has been working in the area for close to 20 years. "It can interfere with them finding their prey, which is huge. There's communicating with each other. But the other thing especially when you are talking up north and you're talking about humpback whales and fin whales it is also vessel strikes. That's a huge, huge issue."
Humpback whales seen here off of Gil Island on the North Coast of B. C. As mentioned, this is a quiet film that manages to draw the viewer into the environment.
"I really felt that she captured something different. She captured the connection between people and place, which I think is very important and she just caught those silent moments with the humpbacks," said Wray, who spends about eight months out of the year in the field.
"I mean, look at the first scene where you come in with the drone and there is a humpback sleeping which is a very unusual thing for people to see. I don't think they realize that up there these humpbacks actually float on the surface — which puts them at risk.
"When you are standing on land and these large beings are sleeping (they do so anywhere from five minutes to two hours at a time) just metres away from you, well, it's just such a unique experience and you feel connected in a different way," added Wray who with Meuter long ago received permission from First Nations to work in their territory and have since included members of the Gitga'at in the research process.
Janie Wray, lead researcher, B.C. Whales, and co-founder of the Cetacea Lab on a whale research excursion in the waters off the west coast of British Columbia. National Film Board of Canada / PNG
The film, shot over six months from spring to late fall in 2017, focuses much of its time on the remote Gil Island and Fin Island.
"It was challenging. Especially in autumn when the storms were coming in," said Leuze who calls Cologne Germany home.
Leuze came to tell this story through what she calls a couple of coincidences. First, when she was a teenager in the early 1980s, she visited an uncle who had moved to Kitimat decades earlier. A further connection to the North Coast came when it turned out her husband Cyrill Tjoa's university friend and fellow whale enthusiast was Meuter.
"Both of them went for a world tour for one year following the whales," said Leuze. "Hermann happened to fall in love with orcas on the West Coast of British Columbia."
The rest they say is history as Meuter and Wray, who were together at the time, went on to found the Cetacea Lab.
"We helped Hermann and Janie build their own structure in 2003. So that's how I got introduced into this area," said Leuze. "In 2008 I heard through Hermann and Janie about Enbridge and I followed the story very closely. That was the first moment when I thought someone has to tell that story — to tell the story from Hermann and Janie fighting together with the Gitga'at First Nation against tankers.
"Then everything changed from oil to gas, everything got really complicated, but yes that was the first moment, 2008, when I thought this should be a film."
After Wray's and Meuter's relationship ended in 2016, Wray went on to build the Fin Island station and the B.C. Whales organization.
"We do things very differently and I think that is a good thing. It compliments both sides of things that need to be done," said Wray who focuses on humpbacks while Meuter has orcas in his sights.
Hermann Meuter, whale researcher at Cetacea Lab, at Whale Point on Gil Island, monitors the underwater noise generated by a passing tanker in an effort to collect data demonstrating the impact of increased tanker traffic on the wildlife living in the area. Courtesy of National Film Board / PNG
While the current reality is LNG and increased tanker traffic is part of the area's future, Wray isn't completely without optimism.
"I always believe there is still a little window of hope. I will always stand on that until I actually see a tanker," said Wray. "I still have a glimmer of hope that it might not happen, probably more due to economics. I still think there is a hope for that."
Right now Wray is in her usual winter mode of conferences and grant proposal but she admits every year she pines for her life of watching over the gentle giants of the sea.
"I don't think I could choose," said Wray when asked about her favourite part of her job. "I guess because I wake up every day and I am truly filled with love. I just love it. I can't even imagine not doing it.
"We all have days when we wake up and things aren't as bright as they should be and I just think about this opportunity and it brings me up every day. When I am going through a bad time or a hard time it just pulls me up because I feel like I have a purpose. It gives me purpose. There it is."
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Thing the Second: Love this article about the bacteria that live on and in our bodies, especially the information about how we get that bacteria. I'm a big proponent of breastfeeding - although Baby M was never able to do so, she was fed breastmilk by tube and bottle for four and a half months before we had to switch her over to formula for medical reasons. I knew it was good for a lot of things, but I love the idea that my pumping helped set her up with healthy gut bacteria for life!
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Turkey's June unemployment slightly up at 13.4%
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People wearing face masks for protection against the coronavirus walk in a busy street, in the capital Ankara, Turkey, May 5, 2020. (AP Photo)
Unemployment in Turkey rose to 13.4% in June, up 0.4 percentage points from the same month last year, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) said Thursday.
The number of unemployed persons age 15 and over slipped by 152,000 year-on-year to 4.1 million by the end of June.
On a monthly basis, June's figure also rose 0.5 percentage points, as unemployment in May stood at 12.9%.
TurkStat data showed the employment rate reached 42.4%, falling significantly by 4 percentage points on an annual basis.
"The number of employed persons decreased by 1.98 million to 26.5 million in June 2020 compared with the same period last year," it said.
Nonagricultural unemployment increased by 0.6 percentage points to 15.9% during the same period.
The youth unemployment rate, including people age 15-24, was 16.1% in June, an increase of 1.3 percentage points on a yearly basis.
The labor force participation rate also declined by 4.3 percentage points year-on-year, falling to 49% in the month.
The labor force participation rate for males dropped 4.8 percentage points to 67.6%, and for females it was 30.8%, an annual decline of 3.9 percentage points.
TurkStat also reported that the rate of unregistered employment – people working without social security related to their principal occupation – was 31.3% in June, marking a 3.9 percentage point decrease from June 2019.
The Turkish government targets an unemployment rate for this year of 11.8% as laid out in its economic program. Unemployment is projected to drop gradually to hit 9.8% in 2022 as part of the program.
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Khakpari (, also Romanized as Khākparī) is a village in Poshtkuh-e Mugui Rural District, in the Central District of Fereydunshahr County, Isfahan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 31, in 7 families.

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All in all a highly recommended day out in the mountains.
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Posts Tagged 'SXSW'
Bill Murray Bartending at Shangri-La during SXSW 2010
Bill Murray is always cool.
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Skeletons – Trailer for surreal comedy
Davis and Bennett are a mismatched pair of traveling salesmen in the business of cleaning skeletons out of closets. Together they travel across Britain, performing 'the Procedure' whereby secrets and lies are exposed.
Bennett is a stickler for the rules and finds that Davis has been using their special procedure illegally to reconnect with comforting moments from his past.
Their boss, The Colonel assigns the pair to their biggest challenge yet, a graduation test that could see them moving up the company ladder. But when they arrive at a remote family home and can't get the job done, they discover that you can't always get away from your own skeletons and you can't always leave and never come back.
Posted in Film, news, Trailer | Tagged: news, Skeletons, SXSW, Trailer | 1 Comment »
SXSW – A Nightmare on Elm Street – New Poster
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Thunder Soul – Awesome high school funk documentary
"The Kashmere Stage Band was one of the greatest bands ever. Not just a high school band, not just a stage band, but a one of a kind, unique mixture of talent, attitudes and creativity. It was fostered in an environment where the administration realized the importance of music and instrumental music in the schools and in the community. It was able to become an icon for the school, the community and the city as well." – Craig Green, Drums, KSB member 1972-73
I love the poster and it sounds like a great documentary.
Thunder Soul follows the extraordinary reunion of alumni from Houston's storied Kashmere High School Stage Band, who return to their school for the first time in 35 years to pay tribute to their beloved leader – the 92 year-old "Prof" – who transformed the school's mediocre jazz band into a world-class funk powerhouse in the late 60s and early 70s. Conrad Johnson passed away in 2008, only a few days after this reunion.
Directed by Mark Landsman and premiered at SXSW today.
Check out the official site.
Posted in Documentary, Film, music, news, Poster | Tagged: Documentary, Mark Landsman, news, Poster, SXSW, Thunder Soul | 1 Comment »
Skateland – Poster
t's 1983, and Skateland, the roller rink and local hangout of a small town, is becoming a fading memory of an earlier time, when disco and roller-skating were king. The party scene is getting stale, and 19-year-old Ritchie's romantic life is as cloudy as his future. He struggles to make sense of it all, and decisions do not come easily to the carefree young man. When tragedy strikes his friends and family, Ritchie must face the music—and make the biggest decision of his life.
Without the benefit of a studio budget or name casting, Anthony Burns and Brandon and Heath Freeman capture the '80s in startling detail. The result: a cinematic scrapbook of a time and place, a visceral visual, and an aural experience that reclaims the decade for those of us lucky enough to have lived through it once. While the atmosphere is time specific, the themes of the joys and pains of growing up are universal.
Shiloh Fernandez, Ashley Greene, Heath Freeman, Taylor Handley, AJ Buckley, Haley Ramm and David Sullivan.
Check out my interview with David Sullivan, one of the stars of Skateland.
Posted in Film, news, Poster | Tagged: Anthony Burns, Brandon Freeman, Heath Freeman, news, Poster, Skateland, SXSW | Leave a Comment »
Jimmy Tupper vs The Goatman of Bowie
A cool sounding film by writer/director Andrew Bowser this is showing at the 2010 SXSW Film Festival. According to Dread Central it is the beginning of a The Goatman trilogy. It stars Pedro Gonzalez, Chris Jones, Michael Eller, Tim Kuczka, Micah Terrill, Rose Rodkey, and Brittany Latorre.
I love the title, the poster is a lovely piece of art and the trailer is below.
"Part modern horror documentary and part old school monster movie, JIMMY TUPPER VS. THE GOATMAN OF BOWIE is an innovative and quirky film that challenges the notion of found footage and what it means to be scared in the woods. Jimmy Tupper (Andrew Bowser) is a no one; he's nothing. He spends his days working at a Starbucks in suburban Maryland and his nights drinking and playing Rock Band. His friends see him as the resident stoner and waste of space. One night they decide to pull a prank on poor Jimmy, and while he is passed-out drunk, they leave him in the middle of the woods of Bowie, Maryland.
The next day Jimmy is nowhere to be found. When he finally emerges from the woods, he is beaten and bloodied and making outlandish claims. He says he's seen a monster, the famed "Goatman" of Bowie. His friends believe this to be the drunken ramblings of an overexcited nitwit, but Jimmy knows better. He heads to the woods determined to capture footage of the elusive creature and prove what he knows to be real.
Was Jimmy only dreaming? Did he really see a monster? Only time, and Jimmy's video camera, will tell."
Posted in Film, Horror, news, Poster, Trailer | Tagged: Andrew Bowser, Brittany Latorre, Chris Jones, Horror, Jimmy Tupper, Micah Terrill, Michael Eller, news, Pedro Gonzalez, Poster, Rose Rodkey, SXSW, Tim Kuczka, Trailer | Leave a Comment »
Earthling – Full trailer for Clay Liford's indie sci-fi
A new, full trailer has been released for Clay Liford's independent sci-fi film, Earthling. It debuts at the 2010 SXSW Film Festival and we spoke to Clay a while back about the film and his love of sci-fi (check out the interview).
Here's the trailer for it and it looks very nice indeed.
After a mysterious atmospheric event, a small group of people wake up to realize that their entire lives have been a lie. They are in fact aliens disguised as humans. Now they have to make a choice. Live amongst men, or try to find a way back home.
Source: Quiet Earth
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Barry Munday – Trailer for missing testicle film starring Patrick Wilson, Judy Greer, Chloe Sevigny, Jean Smart, Malcolm McDowell, Cybill Shepherd & Billy Dee Williams!
That's a hell of a cast and the film will premiere at the 2010 SXSW Festival. Written & directed by Chris D'Arienzo and based on the book "Life is a Strange Place" by Frank Turner Hollon.
Barry Munday (Patrick Wilson – Watchmen), a suburban wanna-be ladies man, wakes up in the hospital after being attacked in a movie theater, only to realize that he is missing one of his most prized possessions… his testicles. To make matters worse, Barry learns he's facing a paternity lawsuit filed by a woman he can't remember having sex with.
With this being Barry last chance to ever be a father, Barry reaches out and embraces the journey of parenthood and the onslaught of bumps that face him along the way.
Filled with an ensemble of unusual characters, "Barry Munday" is the surprisingly heart-warming tale of a guy who finds it took losing his manhood to be a better man.
Posted in Book, Comedy, Film, news, Photos, Trailer | Tagged: 2010, Barry Munday, Billy Dee Williams, Book, Chloe Sevigny, Chris D'Arienzo, Cybill Shepherd, Frank Turner Hollon, Jean Smart, Judy Greer, Malcolm McDowell, news, Patrick Wilson, SXSW, Trailer, Watchmen | Leave a Comment »
Predators – First look at Rodriguez and Antal's film at SXSW. Jason Statham's 13 to premiere there.
Rodriguez: Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox
The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival has announced Austin-based filmmaker Robert Rodriguez and director Nimród Antal will present a "First Look" at their upcoming motion picture Predators, at SXSW on March 12, 2010. SXSW also announced the world premiere of Géla Babluani's 13, the previously announced Super Secret TBA as part of the SX Fantastic midnight section. The 2010 event will take place March 12 – March 20, 2010.
The special presentation of Predators will take place at the Alamo Ritz Theater in downtown Austin, at 10:15pm. Doors open at 9:45pm, and the special event is only open to SXSW Badge-holders on a first-come, first-served basis. An audience Q&A follows the unveiling. SXSW Badges are still available for purchase at http://www.sxsw.com/attend.
A bold new chapter in the Predator universe, Predators was shot on location under Rodriguez's creative auspices at the filmmaker's Austin-based Troublemaker Studios, and is directed by Nimród Antal. The film stars Adrien Brody as Royce, a mercenary who reluctantly leads a group of elite warriors who come to realize they've been brought together on an alien planet… as prey. With the exception of a disgraced physician, they are all cold-blooded killers – mercenaries, Yakuza, convicts, death squad members – human "predators" that are now being systemically hunted and eliminated by a new breed of alien Predators. In addition to Adrien Brody, the film stars Topher Grace, Alice Braga, and Laurence Fishburne. Co-starring are Walton Goggins, Danny Trejo, Oleg Taktarov and Mahershalalhashbaz Ali.
Predators was written by Alex Litvak & Mike Finch based upon characters created by Jim Thomas & John Thomas. The producers are Robert Rodriguez and Elizabeth Avellàn. Twentieth Century Fox releases Predators in theaters everywhere July 9, 2010.
Commented Robert Rodriguez: "My director Nimród Antal and I are excited to bring this first look at Predators to Austin's SXSW Film Festival, an event that's become vital to the filmmaking scene. Austin is my home and I'm proud that Predators was conceived and filmed here."
Said Film Conference & Festival Producer Janet Pierson: "Robert Rodriguez and Troublemaker Studios are a continued fountain of filmmaking creativity and innovation here in Austin, TX. We couldn't be more proud to present the unveiling of Predators at our 2010 event."
13: Courtesy Magnet Media Productions
Additionally, SXSW has revealed the identity of the Super Secret TBA in its SX Fantastic section – the anticipated world premiere of Géla Babluani's 13 will take place at Midnight on Saturday, March 13 at the Alamo South Lamar Theater.
13, a remake of the 2005 French film 13 Tzameti, also directed by Babluani, stars Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke, Ben Gazzara, and Alexander Skarsgard. The thriller follows the story of Vince, who unwittingly becomes involved in a degenerate, clandestine world of mental chaos behind closed doors.
2010 marks the second year of the SX Fantastic section, a series of mind-bending international midnight films at SXSW programmed by Tim League, founder of the Austin-based Fantastic Fest. This year features a diverse slate of five action, thriller, sci-fi and just plain fantastic films from all corners of the world. For more information on the SX Fantastic section, as well as the rest of the Festival program, visit www.sxsw.com/film.
Over the course of nine days, the 2010 Festival will host a total of 134 features, including 64 world premieres, and will open with the world premiere of Kick-Ass, directed by Matthew Vaughn and starring Aaron Johnson, Cholë Grace Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Nicolas Cage. SXSW will also host more than 80 Film Conference panels, which will take place Friday, March 12 – Tuesday, March 16. For the complete program of films and panels, as well as schedule information, visit http://my.sxsw.com.
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SXSW Film Festival – Chris Morris' Four Lions will close the festival
The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival has announced Chris Morris' pitch-black satire Four Lions as its Closing Night film, to play on Saturday, March 20 at the Paramount Theatre in Austin, Texas. SXSW also released additional feature and short titles or the 2010 event, which will take place March 12 – March 20, 2010. The festival will open with the world premiere of Kick-Ass, directed by Matthew Vaughn and starring Aaron Johnson, Cholë Grace Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Nicolas Cage.
SXSW will also host more than 80 Film Conference panels, which will take place Friday, March 12 – Tuesday, March 16. Previously announced participants for the 2010 SXSW Film Conference include Michel Gondry (The Thorn in the Heart, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds), David Gordon Green (Eastbound & Down, Pineapple Express), Jeffery Tambor's Acting Workshop, and Academy Award-winning Argentine composer, solo artist and producer Gustavo Santaolalla, among many others. For full panel descriptions and participants, as well as the complete film lineup and schedule, visit http://sxsw.com/film/.
Additional Feature Films in the 2010 SXSW Film Festival include:
Four Lions (United Kingdom)
Director: Chris Morris. Screenwriters: Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, Simon Blackwell and Chris Morris
Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point. Cast: Riz Ahmed, Arsher Ali, Nigel Lindsay, Kayvan Novak, Adeel Akhtar
SPOTLIGHT PREMIERES
American Grindhouse
Director: Elijah Drenner. Screenwriters: Calum Wadell and Elijah Drenner
This feature documentary chronicles the history of the American Exploitation Film. It digs deep into this often overlooked category of U.S. cinema and unearths the shameless and occasionally shocking origins of this popular entertainment. (World Premiere)
Cargo (Switzerland)
Directors: Ivan Engler and Ralf Etter. Screenwriters: Johnny Hartmann, Thilo Röscheisen, Patrik Steinmann
Cargo is an intelligent science-fiction thriller that puts an electrifying, futuristic spin on present-day preoccupations like flight from reality, and destruction of the environment. Cast: Anna Katharina Schwabroth, Martin Rapold, Claude-Oliver Rudolph, Pierre Semmler (U.S. Premiere)
Haynesville: The Hunt for an Energy Future
Director and Screenwriter: Gregory Kallenberg
Haynesville documents the discovery of the largest natural gas field in the nation, its momentous impact on three people's lives, and the affect this historic find could have on our energy future. (North American Premiere)
EMERGING VISIONS
A NY Thing
Director & Screenwriter: Olivier Lecot
A French romantic follows his object of desire to New York where over the course of 3 crazed and ardent days he must convince her of the authenticity of his love in a comic and melancholy journey where love reveals its peculiar nature. Cast: Jonathan Zaccai, Fanny Valette, Greta Gerwig, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Leo Fitzpatrick
(North American Premiere)
LONE STAR STATES
Director: Anthony Burns. Screenwriters: Anthony Burns, Brandon Freeman, Heath Freeman
In the early 1980s, in small-town Texas, dramatic events force a 19-year-old skating rink manager to look at his life in a very new way. Cast: Shiloh Fernandez, Ashley Greene, Heath Freeman, Brett Cullen, Melinda McGraw, Taylor Handley, Haley Ramm, and A.J. Buckley
24 BEATS PER SECOND
Beyond Ipanema
Director: Guto Barra. Writer: Guto Barra and Béco Dranoff
From Carmen Miranda to Bebel Gilberto, from Tropicália to Favela Funk, Brazilian music has been influencing the world for 70 years. The global love affair with Brazil is revisited by the ones who lived it.
Strummerville (United Kingdom)
Director: Don Letts
Joe Strummer's untimely death sent shockwaves around the music world and beyond. In this documentary, Grammy winner Don Letts shows how Joe's spirit lives on through a charity set up in his memory, Strummerville. (World Premiere)
This Movie is Broken (Canada)
Director: Bruce McDonald. Screenwriter: Don McKellar
On a hot summer's night in Toronto, a Broken Social Scene show tops all expectations and resonates deep into the morning, into the lives of two close friends & closer than they knew (World Premiere)
When You're Strange – a film about the Doors
Director: Tom DiCillo
Narrated by Johnny Depp, the first feature documentary about The Doors provides a previously unseen view of the legendary quartet, comprised entirely of historic archival footage shot between 1965 and 1971.
SX GLOBAL
The Sound of Insects – Record of a Mummy (Switzerland)
Director: Peter Liechti
A cinematic manifesto for life, challenged by the main character's radical renunciation of life itself.
FESTIVAL FAVORITES
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Director: Don Hahn
From 1984 to 1994, a perfect storm of people and circumstances changed the face of animation forever.
TONY (UK)
Director and Screenwriter: Gerard Johnson
A week in the life of Tony, an alienated psychopath with severe social problems, an obsession for action films and a horrible moustache. Cast: Peter Ferdinando, Ricky Grover, George Russo, Francis Pope, Neil Maskell, Lorenzo Camporese, Vicky Murdock
MIDNIGHTERS
SUCK (Canada)
Director and Screenwriter: Rob Sterfaniuk
Suck is a rock and roll vampire movie that follows "The Winners" on their final doomed tour down a highway to hell. Cast: Rob Stefaniuk, Jessica Pare, Dave Foley, Moby, Iggy Pop, Henry Rollins, Dimitri Coats, Alex Lifeson with Alice Cooper and Malcolm McDowell. (US. Premiere)
Additional Short Films in the 2010 SXSW Film Festival include:
NARRATIVE SHORTS
Successful Alcoholics
Director: Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Drake and Lindsay are successful alcoholics who may need to rethink their definition of "success."
Director: Anne Lewis
An over-scheduled, guilt-ridden and totally self-absorbed daughter comes to visit Mom at the retirement home and withers from the contempt that she's certain the staff and other residents have for her. Plus, she "just knows" that they prefer her dashing, bachelor brother to her.
DOCUMENTARY SHORTS
Robin Hood Gardens
Director: Martin Ginestie
An investigation into the debate surrounding the fate of Robin Hood Gardens, controversial East London housing estate described as a dilapidated concrete eyesore by some and a masterpiece in Brutalist architecture by others.
Star Wars: Retold
Director: Joe Nicolosi
An animated retelling of the original Star Wars trilogy, according to a girl who's never actually watched Star Wars. Her rendition, pieced together from pop-culture references and Kevin Smith jokes, offers a fun glance at the cultural impact Star Wars has had on those who haven't watched the films.
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For developers only. Windows 10 demo application for the open source NFC / NDEF library. Demonstrates the usage of NFC functionality on the device with the library - including reading tags and receiving messages, as well as writing tags and publishing messages to other devices.


Below are three long-term charts, from Doug Short's blog post of August 30 titled "ECRI Recession Watch: Weekly Update" These charts are on a weekly basis through the August 30 release, indicating data through August 23, 2013.
This entry was posted in Economic Forecasts and tagged ECRI on August 30, 2013 by Ted Kavadas.
This entry was posted in Economic Forecasts and tagged Economic Forecasts, economic indicators, STLFSI on August 30, 2013 by Ted Kavadas.
In the last post ("2nd Quarter Corporate Profits") I displayed, for reference purposes, a long-term chart depicting Corporate Profits After Tax.
This entry was posted in Business and tagged Business on August 29, 2013 by Ted Kavadas.
Today's GDP release (Q2, 2nd Estimate) was accompanied by the BLS Corporate Profits (preliminary estimate) report for the 2nd Quarter.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Consumer Confidence on August 27, 2013 by Ted Kavadas.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged economic indicators on August 27, 2013 by Ted Kavadas.
Below are three long-term charts, from Doug Short's blog post of August 23 titled "ECRI Recession Watch: Weekly Update" These charts are on a weekly basis through the August 23 release, indicating data through August 16, 2013.
This entry was posted in Economic Forecasts and tagged ECRI on August 23, 2013 by Ted Kavadas.
This entry was posted in Economic Forecasts and tagged Economic Forecasts, economic indicators, STLFSI on August 22, 2013 by Ted Kavadas.
Each week I have been posting two charts of the St. Louis Fed's Financial Stress Index (STLFSI), which is supposed to measure stress in the financial system.
This entry was posted in Economic Forecasts and tagged ANFCI, economic indicators, NFCI on August 22, 2013 by Ted Kavadas.
With regard to our current economic situation, my thoughts can best be described/summarized by the posts found under the 27 "Building Financial Danger" posts.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged current economic situation on August 22, 2013 by Ted Kavadas.


GORHAM, Maine --- The Becker College women's soccer team lost 3-0 at the University of Southern Maine Huskies on Saturday afternoon at Hannaford Field in Gorham, Maine.
• With the win, Southern Maine extends its winning streak to four games and improves to 4-0. The Huskies last started a season undefeated through four games in 1989, under the direction of then head coach Ed Flaherty, current Huskies' baseball coach. Becker suffered its first loss of the season and is now 1-1-1 overall.
• Southern Maine dominated play, holding a 28-3 advantage in shots and a 4-1 lead in corner kicks. Asserting themselves early, the Huskies took the 1-0 lead in the sixth minute on a Berthiaume's third goal of the season. Using a strong individual effort, Berthiaume carried the ball down the left side and cut the ball twice beating a pair of defenders before rocketing in a shot to the far post. USM broke through for a 2-0 lead in the 33rd when junior Emma Cost (Waterboro, Maine/Massabesic) collected a loose ball outside of the box and lofting in a far post upper ninety goal.
• With a two goal advantage in hand, Southern Maine added a late goal on a well-paced through ball from senior Emma Dennison (South Portland, Maine) to Berthiaume in the 79th for the 3-0 final. Berthiaume now has four goals on the season, while Dennison has three assists.
• Becker goalkeepers freshman Lyndsey Cobb-Wilkins (Elmira, N.Y.) and senior Jordyn Martel (Chicopee, Mass.) split time in goal. Cobb-Wilkins mad seven saves and allowed a pair of goals, while Martel turned back eight shots and allowed one goal. Senior Taylor Canastra (Fairhaven, Mass.) mad one save to preserve the clean sheet. Canastra now has six wins via shut out in her career.
Becker is back on the field on Sunday when they travel to Thomas College of Maine for an 11:00 a.m. game.


Get used to seeing this a lot more often on Legends of Tomorrow next season.
Summon the nastiest demon you can find and give them a high five, because John Constantine will board the Waverider permanently for Legends of Tomorrow's fourth season. Here's the catch though: Legends has to be renewed for a fourth season first.
The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline are reporting that Matt Ryan will be promoted from recurring to a series regular, having made his debut on the show in the currently-airing third season. But, the promotion is contingent on Legends actually returning for a fourth season. The CW has yet to officially announce any renewals for its cadre of DC Comics shows just yet, so it's essentially a waiting game for now.
If Legends gets renewed—fingers crossed, but it's very likely—this marks the culmination of a long road for Ryan's take on the chain-smoking magic-wielder that started, and nearly ended, with the launch and rapid cancellation of Constantine on NBC. Since the show fizzled out, Ryan's wholehearted embrace of the character has lead to appearances in DC animated movies and eventually a return to TV in the form of a guest appearance on Arrow. Last year the CW even announced a new animated series for its CW Seed service with the character, but at least we know he's getting his dues in the live-action realm too.
Are you excited for more Constantine?


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An expert in Māori medicine has come out in support of legalising cannabis for medicinal use.
It comes off the back of a call for a referendum on the issue, raised by former trade unions boss Helen Kelly who is battling cancer.
This is the massaging technique romiromi, a Māori health remedy practiced by Awhitia Mihaere for over twenty years.
Mihaere says, "When doing romiromi you can see the different diseases in the liver and you can tell when it's cancer."
As a number of cancer sufferers' plea for medical marijuana to be legalised, Awhitia Mihaere supports them wholeheartedly.
"I absolutely support the idea of legalising medicinal cannabis. Who are we to silence and judge those in need if there are benefits in it for them?" she says.
Although cannabis has never been something Awhitia has worked with, she has seen it in practice, particularly through the use of marijuana oil for massaging those who are ill.
"I saw marijuana being used in oil for massage. It relaxes and eased the body of an elderly woman, and she cried very deeply because she felt her body and soul were rejuvenated," Mihaere adds.
She hopes MPs will consider the request by Helen Kelly for a national referendum on the issue.
"It's for medicinal use only, not to take at parties and to cause violence and what not. This issue is about supporting those who are very ill," she says.
This weekend marks the beginning of the political calendar, where it's hoped the issue of medicinal cannabis will be debated.


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Beyrichia är ett fossilt släkte av musselkräftor som levde under paleozoikum, särskilt under yngre silur.

Beyrichia förekommer i Sverige bland annat i fossil i Skåne och på Gotland. I lösa block av kalksten från yngre silur på den nordtyska slätten är olika arter av Beyrichia vanliga, och bergarten kallas därför Beyrichiakalk.

Källor
 Svensk uppslagsbok, andra upplagan 1947
 Beyrichia, The Paleobiology Database, läst 30 december 2014.

Musselkräftor