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Integrating PrEP into HIV services in Kenya proves a success
Real-world study with 25 public HIV clinics increased PrEP uptake 20-fold – but are the right people being reached?
When staff from 25 public HIV clinics in Kenya were trained to provide PrEP it increased uptake 20-fold in two years – but are the right people being reached?
What is the research about?
Between 2017 and 2019, researchers worked with 25 busy public HIV clinics across the country to see how feasible it is for staff to provide PrEP alongside other HIV services.
Nurses, clinical officers and HIV counsellors were trained on PrEP demand creation, risk assessment, prescribing, counselling and retention activities. They received technical support from the study but no extra staffing or resources.
Why is this research important?
Declines in HIV infections have been slower than expected over the last decade. So there is a need to focus more on HIV prevention, including PrEP.
To increase access to PrEP for people who are most at risk of getting HIV, successful and sustainable ways to provide PrEP are needed.
In many African countries, public HIV care clinics have been successful in scaling up antiretroviral treatment (ART). This means they are an attractive choice for PrEP delivery. But testing whether these clinics can successfully provide PrEP is crucial for understanding whether this option will work in reality.
What did they find out?
1. PrEP uptake increased more than 20-fold
Just under 5,000 people started using PrEP during the study. Each clinic started an average of 7.5 people on PrEP each month, which was a 20-fold increase.
Of those starting PrEP, 54% were women, the average age was 31, and 84% had a partner with HIV.
People starting PrEP reported other HIV risk behaviours, including inconsistent or no condom use (58%), not knowing the HIV status of their partners (16%), and having sex with multiple partners (12%).
2. Retention in care was mixed
People who had a high risk of getting HIV due to multiple risk behaviours were more likely than others to still be taking PrEP after three months. But, overall, only 34% of people who had started PrEP were still using it after 6 months and 23% after 12 months.
Among those who said why they stopped taking PrEP, over half said it was because they were less at risk of getting HIV (for example, because their partner was now virally suppressed). But 84% of people who stopped taking PrEP did not give a reason. It is possible many found it difficult to take PrEP every day but this is unknown.
3. People on PrEP took it consistently
Over the course of the study, 70% of participants self-reported good adherence to PrEP. This was backed up by random blood tests, which found PrEP drugs in 96% of samples. This is encouraging, as good adherence is needed for PrEP to work.
4. Some people stopped then restarted PrEP
About one in ten people who did not come for their arranged refill did return for a refill after that. This suggests that people continued to think about their HIV risk and resumed PrEP when they needed to.
5. HIV infections were low
During the study, six people became HIV positive. This represents a 90% reduction when compared with a predicted incidence rate for people whose partner has HIV but there is no access to PrEP or ART.
What does this mean for HIV services?
That public HIV clinics in Kenya can successfully provide PrEP – but to certain groups and with certain limitations.
This evidence will be used to inform policy in other countries in East and Southern Africa that are considering national PrEP programmes. This means that access to PrEP may become more widespread in the region in the next few years.
Most people using PrEP in this study were in a relationship with someone with HIV. Although this is an important group, it is young women who are the primary target group for PrEP in the region. Often, young women do not know whether their partner has HIV.
The average age of people taking PrEP was 31. But evidence suggests HIV infections are highest among young women aged 15–24 and men aged 20–29.
This means that providing PrEP in public HIV clinics did not reach people who face the greatest risk of getting HIV, who often do not see themselves as being at risk and so are not motivated to use HIV prevention services.
People from communities that are marginalised and criminalised, such as gay people and sex workers, are also much more likely than others to get HIV. But these groups were not a focus of the study.
If you are working with young women or men in their 20s, making them aware of their HIV risk and the existence of PrEP when it becomes more widely available will be important. Doing community outreach in places such as youth clubs, schools or universities could help increase demand.
Given the stigma many at-risk groups experience, community-led sensitisation of healthcare providers in public HIV clinics will also be needed. Without it, young people and those from marginalised communities may not feel comfortable to ask for PrEP.
If your country is involved in PrEP rollout plans, now is the time for advocacy to ensure the needs of people most at-risk of HIV are considered. This could include a push to provide PrEP in places such as family planning clinics and wider sexual health services, so that more at-risk people are reached.
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Written by Hester Phillips
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as the cubs get ready to wrap up this appalling may which so completely ended their 2006 season, having just played their 50th game, this page thought perhaps some context for their putridity might provide whatever perspective might be needed to assess what has just happened.
the cubs are 6-21 (.222) this may through memorial day, the 29th, and rest at 19-31 (.380), chasing pittsburgh for the central cellar.
there have only been a handful of months comparable to this may since the founding of the chicago national league baseball club. others in which the total of wins amounted to less than seven: june 1954, april 1962, april 1966, april 1981, april 1997, august 1999 and september 2000. note the preponderance of aprils -- this is because of the smaller number of games historically played during this first month of the season. excluding april, then, there have been only three in 130 seasons of baseball. should the team lose their next two and end may at 6-23, their .207 winning percentage for the month will fit neatly among these.
notably, every one of the above mentioned teams lost 90 or more games -- and two of them more than 100. this team appears more with every passing day to be headed to at least the lesser of those two dubious levels of distinction. the average winning percentage for these clubs was .392 -- an approximate record of 63-99.
as to the overall record of 19-31 on may 29, the cubs have been within percentage points in 2000 and 1997, but one has to go back to 1981 to find a cub team in a worse position on may 29. prior to that, 1966, 1962, 1961, 1960, 1957, 1956 and 1953 have been at least as bad. the average winning percentage of these last eight is .390 -- 63-99 in a 162-game season.
this page has long understood this year to be sold as "back-loaded" -- the hopeful strategy held in mind by many fans and perhaps even management was to hold out until better, healthier days arrive later in the year. and that may yet happen (though a winning season is now all but out of the question).
but we would be remiss if we did not note that similar utterances were probably on the lips of the rationalizing faithful in many of those ghostly years past -- only to have these last futile hopes dashed as the season progressed, as new injuries and new disasters made themselves apparent.
the harder probability to accept is that these 2006 cubs are very much like those cubs of 1981, 1966 and 1962 -- and that this club stands a reasonable chance of making a charge to join them among the worst cub teams of all time and becoming just the third cub club to lose 100 games.
this writer, while conceding 90 losses as all but unavoidable -- the team would now have to finish the string at least 54-58 to do better -- still would like to think that, somehow, this stinking mire is not yet so deep as that. however, the possibility is no longer so remote as to be inconceivable. to the contrary, in fact, this team has shown itself to be altogether capable of such ineptitude.
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Prior to 2002, Mr Treacy served as director of Virginia's department of environmental quality, held several positions in the private sector and also served as assistant attorney general in the natural resources section of the Virginia attorney general's office.
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Dean George Slagel
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Dean George Slagel, 92, Elkhart, died 8:15 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019 at Hubbard Hill Living Wisdom Community. He was born Dec. 17, 1926 in Flanagan, Illinois to George & Clara (Guth) Slagel. On June 18, 1948, he married Dorothy Lucille (Schrock) Slagel at Metamora Mennonite Church, Metamora, IL, and she died Dec. 22, 2018. Surviving are 2 daughters, Sharon Rose Berkey, Indianapolis, Annette Kay Slagel, Baldwin, MI, 3 sons, David Dean Slagel, Ocala, FL, Paul Allen (Kristi Sommer-Slagel) Slagel, Bristol, Sanford Lee (Linda) Slagel, Goshen, 9 grandchildren, 7 great-grandchildren and 2 great-great-grandchildren. Preceding him in death are his parents, wife, Dorothy, an infant sister and a brother, Duane Slagel. Dean was a 1944 graduate of Flanagan High School; attended Ball State University, Butler University, Goshen College and received his master's from Western Michigan University. He served during WW II in the U.S. Army and was discharged in 1946. Dean was founder of Slagel & Son Insulation. He taught school at Honeyville, Ligonier, Morgan Town and Goshen. Dean was a former pastor at Mt. Pleasant Mennonite Church, Martinsville, North Goshen Mennonite Church and a member of Walnut Hill Mennonite Church, where he was a team pastor. He was Sunday School Superintendent of Conference of Indiana. Visitation will be 10 a.m.-12 p.m. (noon) Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019, with the service following at 12 p.m., all at Hubbard Hill Living Wisdom Community, 28070 CR 24, Elkhart. Pastor Tim Henke and Chaplain Dave Severance will officiate. Graveside services for Dean and his wife Dorothy will be 12:45, Wednesday, September 25, 2019 at West Goshen Cemetery. Memorial donations may be directed to Hubbard Hill Living Wisdom Community. Rieth-Rohrer-Ehret Funeral Home, Goshen, is handling arrangements and online condolences may be sent at www.rrefh.com
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2. Milwaukee Brewers 87 75 4
3. St. Louis Cardinals 77 85 14
4. Pittsburgh Pirates 77 85 14
5. Chicago Cubs 73 89 18
6. Houston Astros 60 102 31
Dusty Baker's teams have a tendency to win when his job is on the line or his contract is coming to a conclusion—and this is the final year of his contract.
GM Walt Jocketty made a bold move in trading a large portion of the Reds' farm system to get an ace-quality starter in Mat Latos and bolstered his bullpen by signing Ryan Madson and trading for Sean Marshall.
Offensively, the Reds have some question marks but were second in the National League in runs scored last season and first in 2010. Scott Rolen's injuries are an issue and shortstop is likely to be manned by a talented rookie Zack Cozart.
But with a deep starting rotation; a very good bullpen; Joey Votto in the middle of the lineup; the emerging Jay Bruce and Drew Stubbs; and the additions from the winter, the Reds are a championship threat.
If Mat Gamel hits and Aramis Ramirez posts his normal numbers, they'll have enough offense without Prince Fielder. Alex Gonzalez is a good pickup offensively and defensively to replace the limited Yuniesky Betancourt; Zack Greinke is sure to have a big year heading towards free agency; and the bullpen is superlative with Francisco Rodriguez and John Axford.
The questions surrounding the Ryan Braun failed drug test and technical knockout of his 50-game suspension are not going to go away.
Braun has to hit from the beginning of the season to the end and he's still going to be hounded with a press contingent waiting for a reasonable answer as to how he failed the test in the first place. A slow start will be the death knell to his season and probably the Brewers' playoff hopes.
And don't forget how much vitriol their arrogance engendered throughout baseball last season. When the world-at-large was pulling for a Tony LaRussa –led team, you know their oppenents were despised.
There's a 2006 Mets feeling about the Brewers that they missed their chance and we know what happened to the Mets in the aftermath of their upset loss to the Cardinals.
It's idiotic to base one's hopes for a repeat championship on the idea that losing the generation's best manager (Tony LaRussa); hitter (Albert Pujols); and a magician of a pitching coach (Dave Duncan) are going to be easily covered with Mike Matheny (never managed before—ever); signing Carlos Beltran and shifting Lance Berkman to first base (they're older players); and Derek Lilliquist (um…).
You cannot dismiss the contributions of those three men—all of whom are Hall of Famers.
As respected and well-liked as Matheny is, there's a learning curve to manage.
The Cardinals have starting pitching, but their bullpen is still a question mark and Matheny's handling of said bullpen is going to be an issue.
Beltran and Berkman will make up for Pujols's production to a degree, but if you're banking your hopes on David Freese being the same star he was in the playoffs and Rafael Furcal, Jon Jay and Skip Schumaker, you're dreaming.
This team is rife for a big fall and major turmoil.
We'll never know what the Pirates' 2011 season would've become had they not been so horribly robbed in that play at the plate and egregious call by Jerry Meals in the 19-inning game against the Braves in late July. Those who think that an entire season can't hinge on one game are wrong.
The Pirates did many good things mostly as a result of manager Clint Hurdle's simple mandate of discipline and not taking crap.
They've locked up key players Andrew McCutchen and Jose Tabata and acquired cheap, high-ceiling veteran starters A.J. Burnett and Erik Bedard.
They're not ready to contend, but they're getting better and if things go well, they have a shot at third place.
Those expecting a Theo Epstein arrival/revival and immediate rise to championship-level status as happened when he took over the Red Sox need to take a step back.
The Red Sox had a lot of talent and money to spend when Epstein took over in 2003; the Cubs are trying to clear onerous contracts of declining veterans like Alfonso Soriano and already got rid of Carlos Zambrano (and are paying him to pitch for the Marlins).
A large part of my analysis isn't simply based on what a team has when the season starts, but what's going to happen as the season moves along. The Cubs are going to be ready to deal with Carlos Marmol, Ryan Dempster and Marlon Byrd possibly on the move.
It's not going to be a quick fix to repair this organization.
There's a perception that simply because they hired a stat-savvy GM in Jeff Luhnow and he's at work rebuilding the system that the Astros are "guaranteed" to have success in the near future.
Are you aware of what happened to similar thinking baseball people like Paul DePodesta and Jack Zduriencik?
The Astros neglected their minor league system for so long that they're tantamount to an expansion team. Luhnow brought in high-end talent like Fernando Martinez cheaply; he's scouring the scrapheap with Livan Hernandez for big league competence while he cleans up the mess; and he's hired like-minded people to help him.
But it's not a guarantee and his "success" with the Cardinals minor league system is based on perception depending on your own beliefs and/or biases on how to run a club rather than bottom-line reality.
Here's what we can agree on: in 2012, they're going to be terrible.
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The Anonymous Met and the Fallen Prospect
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An "anonymous Mets player" published this piece in New York Magazine that slams the franchise for pretty much everything. From being willingly oblivious to the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme to the firing of Mookie Wilson, there's a "woe is me" retaliatory tone sprinkled in with the righteous indignation that tells me it's probably not a current player who said these things. You can speculate on your own and leave your suspicions as to who it is in the comments section.
I don't see what firing Mookie has to do with anything. Everyone likes Mookie, but one of the things that has consistently gotten the Mets into trouble has been being too nice and doling out severance jobs and contracts to people who might not deserve them. Perhaps Terry Collins and the front office wants a better first base/baserunning coach than Mookie. They don't have to give a reason when they fire someone and a player from the 1980s shouldn't have a job just because he's a player from the 1980s.
It's a combination of maudlin reminiscing for years gone by with pleas of loyalty and comparisons to the positive aspects of the Yankees without the negatives.
What's most galling isn't what's said—he's entitled to his opinion—but that it's hidden behind the veil of anonymity and not, I suspect, because it's a current Mets player or employee, but because the person wants to maintain the possibility of having a job with the organization in the future.
And that's weak.
On another note, the Mets waived former top outfield prospect Fernando Martinez to make room on the 40-man roster. Because Martinez is only 23 and has a minor league option remaining, someone will claim him.
Given the Mets current circumstances in being unlikely contenders and that they're looking for cheap talent, they wouldn't have dumped F-Mart if they expected anything out of him.
This isn't an indictment of the Mets insomuch as it's indicative of the fleeting nature of "top" prospects. Some make it, some don't and every team has situations like this where a youngster is overhyped and falters.
Looking at F-Mart's minor league numbers, injuries and Angel Pagan-style displays of rockheadedness, the performance and substance weren't there to warrant taking up a roster spot; those who are criticizing this move as a Mets-style bit of short-sightedness are basing that on nothing. Common sense says the Mets tried to trade him before waiving him and if no other team wanted him, it's more telling on the player than anything the Mets have done. This front office watched him and determined that he was no longer worth it; that they wouldn't be able to pump his value to get something for him, so they cut the ties.
If he somehow gets through waivers unclaimed, he'll go back to the minors and keep trying. Just don't expect him to suddenly stay healthy and fulfill that potential that may have been limited in the first place.
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The Mets Have To Get Better Players
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It's unfair to compare the rebuilding Mets under a first year front office that's diametrically opposed to the previous one and the Phillies who are in the midst of a run of excellence they haven't enjoyed since the late 1970s-early 1980s, but it's instructive to look at the two teams to understand why the Phillies are where they are and what the Mets need to do to get there.
Draft, scout and develop.
The Phillies have benefited from a strong farm system in a multitude of ways. Chase Utley, Ryan Howard, Jimmy Rollins, Cole Hamels, Ryan Madson, Vance Worley and Carlos Ruiz all came up through the Phillies organization; Shane Victorino was found in the Rule 5 Draft; Roy Halladay, Roy Oswalt and Hunter Pence were acquired in trades because the Phillies had prospects other clubs coveted; Raul Ibanez, Cliff Lee and Placido Polanco were signed as free agents; and even Wilson Valdez, a journeyman castoff from the Mets, has been a valuable utilityman standing in at various times for the injured Utley, Polanco and Rollins.
The Mets have some players from their system with promise. Jonathon Niese, Lucas Duda, Ruben Tejada and Bobby Parnell all have potential. They also developed Jose Reyes and David Wright. but others have failed for one reason or another. Fernando Martinez can't stay healthy; Josh Thole isn't going to hit enough; Ike Davis is hurt. The Mets didn't have the prospects to trade for veterans as the Phillies did and their rampant dysfunction in recent years made them an unappealing destination for players with choices. Players will want to go where a team appears to have its house in order or will pay them more money than anyone else. That's essentially how the Mets got Jason Bay, Francisco Rodriguez and Johan Santana. While the Phillies have gotten production from their free agents, the Mets haven't.
Role players should be role players.
When talking about Phillies utilityman Valdez, it's instructive to look at the Valdez-type players the Mets have and see that they're playing more frequently than would be optimal for a good team.
Justin Turner, Scott Hairston, Dillon Gee, Jason Isringhausen, Pedro Beato—all have use on a limited basis—but the Mets are utilizing them as regular, key players. When limited players are playing almost every day, they're going to be exposed for what they are; and when 4-5 of them are playing every single day, it's going to catch up; that's what's happening to the Mets.
They're not a good enough team and they don't have enough good players. The only reason they've stayed as close to .500 as they have is because the rest of baseball is so laden with parity that no one can tell which teams should be bad and which should be atrocious.
Play the game correctly.
It was laughable when, in the waning days of the 2010 season, Utley took Tejada out on a play at second base and the Mets reacted like a bunch of Southern women at a church social, indignant that such a thing would occur. There was talk of retaliation and the team taking a different approach to plays on the bases and at the plate.
Different approach? How about playing the game correctly without it being a response?
It was about time the Mets decided to stop being so nice to their opponents and let them have it when the opportunity arose. Following Utley's take-out of Tejada, Carlos Beltran slid hard toward Utley and, in typical Mets fashion, missed him completely.
Had Utley been knocked into left field, he wouldn't have said a word about it because he's old-school, keeps his mouth shut and plays the game the right way.
You want to send a message? When Utley blocks second base with his knee as an opponent is stealing second, drive your spikes so hard into his leg so to break the skin. You don't like him standing so close to the plate, dawdling and messing with the pitchers' heads? Hit him in the back.
It's called doing something about it other than yapping.
This is playing the game the way it should be played and is one of the reasons the Phillies are where they are and the Mets are where they are.
Be aggressive, smart and lucky.
This isn't to imply that the Phillies do everything correctly because GM Ruben Amaro Jr, has made some horrible gaffes and silly free agent signings in his time as GM; it's been glossed over by the way the team has played and that he rectified the bigger mistakes by trading for Oswalt a year ago and getting Lee back via free agency last winter; but those two deals stemmed from the fact that both Oswalt and Lee were willing to join the Phillies because the Phillies were contenders and in an atmosphere the players wanted to be a part of. Neither Oswalt nor Lee wanted to join the Mets because the team was in such disarray and the club's reputation has taken a brutal beating due to the off-field mishaps and lawsuits surrounding team ownership.
But the Phillies weren't exactly the bastion of cohesion until they started winning. In fact, they were a joke for 14 years from 1994 through most of 2007 before the Mets collapse and Phillies rise.
These things change quickly. The Mets have a new drafting style, a top-down chain of command that won't be usurped as it was with Tony Bernazard running roughshod over the organization, a plan of attack and a GM able to express himself coherently—all of this gives them every chance to turn things around within the next three years.
All they have to do is adhere to the principles elucidated above.
They have to be a more than a little lucky.
They have to get better players and not use roster-filler on a daily basis in key roles.
It's that simple. And that difficult.
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The Story Behind the Song – "For What It's Worth"
The song that put Stephen Stills and his band, Buffalo Springfield on that map was inspired by the now almost-forgotten Sunset Strip riots of 1966.
By the mid-sixties, L.A.'s Sunset Strip had become the nucleus for the emerging rock & roll nightclub scene. The area was attracting large numbers of teenagers, many of whom simply loitered around the street, not really patronizing any of the clubs.
Local business leaders, not pleased to have so many young people using the Strip as a hangout enacted a 10 p.m. curfew. Resistance to the curfew was almost immediate. A local radio station called for a peaceful rally at one of the clubs, Pandora's Box (appropriately named, as it turned out), to peacefully protest the curfew. The rally was anything but peaceful. It turned into a riot with kids smashing store windows and car windshields and the police smashing the protesters.
These nightly riots stretched on for weeks, capturing national attention. American International Pictures, always quick to capitalize on anything they thought their teenage drive-in audience wanted to see, even made a quickie picture about the phenomenon called (what else?) Riot on Sunset Strip.
Stills, whose band was part of that emerging scene, thought the whole thing was absurd. The kids were hopelessly outmuscled by the police. So he wrote "For What It's Worth" as a way to urge his peer group to chill out and think before they got themselves really hurt.
The song became a huge success when it was released on Atco Records in 1967. It's notable also as one of the few hit records whose title is never mentioned in the lyrics of the song.
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Priority Midland is focus of chamber's 'State of' luncheon
By Stewart Doreen, MRT.com/Midland Reporter-Telegram
Published 8:59 pm CST, Wednesday, November 6, 2019
John Trichitti, III, from left, Tracee Bentley, Bobby Burns, Larissa Minjarez and Grant Billingsley discuss the State of the Economy on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019 at the Bush Convention Center. Jacy Lewis/Reporter-Telegram
John Trichitti, III, from left, Tracee Bentley, Bobby Burns, Larissa Minjarez and Grant Billingsley discuss the State of the Economy on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019 at the Bush Convention Center. Jacy
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Priority Midland can play a pivotal leadership role as the community moves into important times.
The Midland Chamber of Commerce held its State of the Economy luncheon Wednesday, and Priority Midland was front and center at the Bush Convention Center.
On a panel were Midland Development Corp. Executive Director John Trischitti, Permian Strategic Partnership director Tracee Bentley, Midland Chamber of Commerce President Bobby Burns, Recurso Hispano President Larissa A. Minjaez and Scharbauer Foundation Executive Director Grant Billingsley. They talked about the community's transitioning from typical boom-and-bust cycles, the confidence each has in the current economy, Priority Midland's role in helping taxing entities prioritize, the Perryman report that looked at the implications of Midland's anticipated growth, current resources and the need for the community to take a look at how it views taxes.
Taxes are the price of a civilized society, and how civilized does Midland want to be is what Burns said as the conversation transitioned to Priority Midland's role in helping taxing entities determine which initiatives would come before the public. The panel discussed how Midland ISD had the opportunity to put its bond on November's ballot without other initiatives from the city or hospital district because of conversations that took place within Priority Midland. Trischitti said prioritization gave the bond a better chance for success (as of Tuesday night, the $569 million bond referendum had 12 more votes "for" than "against").
The conversation about taxing entities included terms such as "working in silos," but Billingsley said what entities need right now and what Priority Midland is trying to do is focus the discussion, in a thoughtful, reasonable manner, on the entire community and what needs to happen.
"I like the tag line for the school bond proposal, 'We Choose Our Future,'" Billingsley said. "That applies to everything we do."
Midland leaders have talked about community needs and some of those were again mentioned Wednesday: the financial issues with the hospital district, the water issues in part of Midland County, infrastructure and road needs inside the city and potential growth. They talked about how Priority Midland can play a role in making the best use of resources. Billingsley talked about financial resources that "can be reallocated," and how entities can help one another. He also said Midland's advantage was addressing challenges during a time of economic growth and not retraction.
"Is there an opportunity for taxing entities to work together and come to community with a plan that makes sense," Billingsley said.
Billingsley also told those in attendance that Midland's debt per capita is lower than other comparably size communities. The Perryman Report, citing statistics from 2018, showed Midland's debt per capita at $985, which trailed eight of the 10 communities in the comparison. They included Denton ($5,325), Waco ($3,072), Abilene ($2,554), Pearland ($2,540), Round Rock ($1,477), Carrollton ($1,273) and Mesquite ($1,296). McAllen was the only community with a lower debt per capita ($638). Midland also trailed only Pearland in income per capita (from 2017) among the 10 communities. Billingsley said Midlanders have become accustomed to times when Midland wasn't growing. That, based on Midland's population surge of the last decade, has changed.
As far as the current economy is concerned, Bentley said the proof of the commitment of the oil industry is in the investments they have made in Midland and the rest of the Permian Basin. The PSP is comprised of oil and gas companies that are funding certain long-term projects in the city and around the region. Project areas the PSP has impacted include education, workforce and transportation funding.
"Our companies have invested and doubled down," Bentley said. "(Their investment) is a sign we are here to stay, and the economy will continue to grow."
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Charise will be appearing in episode 2 of season 6 with Sutton Foster, Hilary Duff, and Miriam Shor as Laurel in Younger
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Charise will be recurring as the Lobster Roll server with Dominic West and Julia Goldani Telles in episode 7 of season 5 of The Affair.
Charise coached Charlie Hunnam in ADR for Triple Frontier.
Five former Special Forces operatives reunite to plan a heist in a sparsely populated multi-border zone of South America. For the first time in their prestigious careers these unsung heroes undertake this dangerous mission for self instead of country. But when events take an unexpected turn and threaten to spiral out of control, their skills, their loyalties and their morals are pushed to a breaking point in an epic battle for survival.
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Charise coached Willem Dafoe in ADR for The Lighthouse, the story of an aging lighthouse keeper named Old who lives in early 20th-century Maine.
The Sunlight Night
Charise coached Alex Sharp in ADR for The Sunlit Night. Set between New York City and the far north of Norway, The Sunlit Night follows American painter Frances and émigré Yasha as an unlikely pair who find each other in the Arctic circle. Frances has arrived to jumpstart her career while Yasha has come to bury his father in the land of the Vikings. Together under a sun that never quite sets, they bury the past and discover the future, and family, they didn't know they had.
Charise coached Darlene Hunt in Season 1 of Dickinson, an inside look at the world of writer Emily Dickinson.
Charise coached Andrew Scott in Season 1 of Modern Love, a TV series based on the New York Times' column that explores relationships, love and the human connection.
The Danger: A Homage to Strange Fruit
Written by: Stacey Rose
Directed by: Tiffany Nicole Greene
Charise will be playing the role of She.
The Danger: A Homage to Strange Fruit is a theatrical symphony in four movements that contemplates the legacy of violence against Black bodies in America. Inspired by the mysterious hanging death of 17-year-old Lennon Lacy in 2014 in Bladenboro, NC, this dystopic ghost play follows the interracial couple He and She into the world of The Station, a long ago abandoned rail station waiting room, an in-between place that houses Black souls who left the earth in violent ways and who constantly seek their way home. In 2015, Rose received NYU's Rita Goldberg Prize for The Danger — an award recognizing the best play by a graduate or undergraduate student.
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Public Property
A pregnant New Yorker braves the outdoors.
Written by: Charise Greene
Directed by: Alex Morf
Starring: Charise Greene, Jimmy King, Michael Cox, Brian Keane, and Phyllis Somerville.
"Time is Just a Piece of Paper" written by: Erik Della Penna
Director of Photography / Colorist: Ben Yannette
Edited by: Michael Cox
Score by: Adam Matlock
Produced by SmartMouth Productions, in association with Rye Productions.
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Salome, by Oscar Wilde
Charise is acting in Oscar Wilde's Salome, directed by James Rutherford.
A cloud cuts across the face of the moon. A woman dances to kill. A clown king's rule begins to crumble.
Rarely performed and relentlessly misunderstood, SALOME is Oscar Wilde at his most vulnerable, impenetrable, honest, mystifying. Written in raw, simple French, then dismally translated by Wilde's lover Bosie, for years the play was largely dismissed as a Victorian oddity, an excuse to show some skin. But in this new translation by director James Rutherford, SALOME reveals itself as a tragic parable of queer longing. Pouring his own doomed desires into the imprisoned prophet Iokanaan, the mercurial princess Salome, and even the vulgar paranoid Herod Antipas, Wilde explodes a Biblical footnote into a surreal moonscape of alienated passion.
Eerily prescient, utterly mysterious, SALOME is a prophecy of social destruction, a parable of what nightmares erupt when we demonize desire, criminalize otherness, and look but never see.
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Jenn Haltman, Becca Schneider, & Charise Greene of "Cannibal Galaxy: a love story"
Listen in as Cannibal Galaxy: a love story playwright Charise Greene, along with the duo behind the producing company Between Two Boroughs—the show's director, Jenn Haltman, and Becca Schneider, who plays "Claire"—discuss impossibility in the theater, finding communal experiences in the wake of trauma, "the relationship between violence, science, and spirituality in our country," embracing the structural elements of a space, galactic cannibalism, magical realism, irrevocable change, and where creativity and violence collide.
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CANNIBAL GALAXY: a love story, written by Charise Greene
Charise's play, "CANNIBAL GALAXY: a love story" is getting its world premiere at The New Ohio Theatre in NYC June 8 – 17, 2018.
Produced by the all female-run company, Between Two Boroughs and directed by Jenn Haltmann, the play was an EST Sloan Finalist, it was workshopped by Fault Line Theatre, and it received prior production at Xavier College.
It's business as usual at the Washington D.C. Science Museum where the employees' personal lives keep getting in the way. Jo wants a child but is unable to secure an inseminator. Chet longs to make love, but dating kinda sucks and gaming is way more awesome. Claire searches for purpose by digging directly toward the center of the earth. Vadim prioritizes the needs of others but wouldn't know his own if they crawled into bed with him. Eloise lives in a treehouse and brushes her teeth with space particles. When chaos ravages a perfectly average day, these co-workers are flung into a cosmic galactic shift, rearranging their internal cartography. "CANNIBAL GALAXY: a love story" is a new play about how we keep breathing as America eats itself alive.
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Get Christie Love, Pilot
Charise is coaching former "Pitch" star Kylie Bunbury in the title role in "Get Christie Love", an hourlong drama from "Power" creator/showrunner Courtney Kemp and producers Vin Diesel, Debra Martin Chase and Shana C. Waterman, which has a pilot production commitment at ABC.
The new "Get Christie Love", written by Kemp, is an action-packed, music-driven drama that centers on Christie Love (Bunbury), a female CIA agent who leads a highly trained elite ops unit. Beautiful and charismatic, Christie transforms into whoever she needs to be in order to get the job done especially when it's down to the wire and the stakes are life and death.
Quantico, Season 3, Episode 11
Charise is coaching Priyanka Chopra in Season 3, Episode 11 of Quantico on ABC.
After clearing her name, saving millions of lives, and discovering the mastermind behind it all was the very man who had trained her at Quantico, American hero Alex Parrish was given a shocking reward: she was fired by the FBI. But now she has been given the chance to serve her country again: in the clandestine ranks of United States' top intelligence agency, the CIA.
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Charise's strength as an acting coach lies in her ability to free up the body and voice, resulting in emotionally committed, theatrically daring story-telling. Focusing on specificity and ease, she helps bring the actor's individual choices to the surface, allowing the imagination to activate and inspire. Charise holds an MFA in Acting from the Brown/Trinity Rep Consortium (Stephen Sondheim fellow), a BA in Theater from UC Berkeley, and a certificate of completion from The Studio New York.
Charise is a voice and dialect coach for film and television to such actors as Ruth Wilson, Willem Dafoe, Andrew Scott, Dominic West, Kylie Bunbury, Jennifer Saunders and many others and for past productions at The Public Theater, The Atlantic Theater Company, The Flea, Fault Line Theater, NYU's Stella Adler Studio, and Drew University. She taught a master class in Shakespeare and the Voice at UNC Chapel Hill and an audition workshop at the University of New Haven. Charise has been on faculty at Barnard-Columbia, Clark University, the Tom Todoroff Conservatory, ACTeen and Child's Play NY. Over the course of many years, she taught the following classes in the undergraduate department of theater at Barnard and Columbia: Advanced Acting, Acting Chekhov, Acting the Contemporary Scene, Acting Comedy, Audition Workshop, Introduction to Acting, and Senior Acting Thesis Advisement (performance and research).
Charise most recently directed Shakespeare's "Pericles, Prince of Tyre" with a cast of 17 at Barnard-Columbia, with original music by Alaina Ferris.
Click here to view Charise's Voice/Dialect Coaching Resume
For a Directing/Teaching CV, email a request to charisegreene@gmail.com
*References available upon request. To book a coaching session, email her at charisegreene@gmail.com
"Charise is an exceptional coach because she not only knows how to articulate coherently the specific obstacles that I individually face in my acting, but also understands the value of positive feedback and honest encouragement in my learning. I respect Charise tremendously for her expertise in guiding an actor's natural tendencies to become intelligible acting choices. She wholeheartedly collaborates with her students to discover, harness, and highlight the unique voice of each actor. I could not recommend a more kind-hearted, inspirational, and skilled coach than Charise Greene, with whom I have had the pleasure and blessing to work on many occasions."
- Jin Ha, Hamilton
"Charise is one of the warmest teachers I've had the opportunity to work with. Generous with her time and advice, she is as thorough as she is nurturing. She has this incredible way of equipping her students with a keen awareness of their instrument in order to help them shed inhibiting habits and truly grow. She is, in a word, wonderful!"
-Victoria Pollack, Juilliard
"I was struggling with my monologues for a big audition, and luckily found Charise. She is such a kind, smart, intuitive person so was able to get to know me very quickly. She saw which of my pieces showed the widest range of my acting, and freed up my characters so the monologues were bold and nuanced. She taps into the little ways you connect with your characters, and pulls them out so you feel and discover things you never would have thought of. I worked with Charise only twice, and walked away with pieces that grew enormously, feeling completely confident and ready for my audition. She is a wonderful person and a truly great coach."
- Julia Valen, Tisch
"Charise is a truly special acting teacher. Her class is a process of release and discovery (as opposed to pressure and expectation) and the results are tremendous. In Charise's class, you not only learn how to make great theater, it happens through you and your classmates."
-Lorenzo Landini, The Old Globe/USD
"I was dreading an upcoming audition for a prestigious study abroad program, and past experience had left me feeling inadequete as a performer. I turned to Charise. Her immediate enthusiasm and commitment to my work and my improvement was exciting and touching. I did not have room to doubt myself in the presence of Charise's unending energy; she worked with me until I was at my best. I am thrilled to report that I was admitted to the program. Every day I am struck with how lucky I was to have been coached into not only a stronger performer, but also someone who believes in herself. Some people are made to inspire. Charise Greene is one of those people."
-Christina McCarver, Columbia College
"Coaching with Charise has helped me free both my body and voice from tension when acting, thus increasing my concentration allowing me to make bolder choices in the moment. Charise will take you to the next level in your work (whatever that may be). She is fiercely intelligent with a huge heart.
-Jaclyn Bishop, Actress and Singer, NYC
"Charise creates a safe environment where actors can take the risks necessary to let their performance turn from ordinary to miraculous. We worked on everything from age to working class London dialect, demonstrating a wide range of vocal expertise. Her knowledge of period and style put everyone at ease in the rehearsal room, and I'm certain I'll keep her on speed dial for future projects."
-Douglas Widick, Stella Adler Company, North Coast Improv
"What Charise offers the actor is unmatchable. She is not just a good coach, she is a lively spirit and an intelligent theatre-maker, and I can honestly say that I was never so confident in myself, as an actor and a person, as I am after just five months under Charise's tutelage."
-Yasmeen Jawhar, Barnard College
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Blindspot, Season 3
Charise is coaching Luke Mitchell's South African dialect on Season 3 of Blindspot.
A beautiful woman is found naked in Times Square, her memory erased, her body covered in a series of coded tattoos. But as "Jane Doe" and the FBI team who discovered her work to decipher, investigate and solve the complex treasure map of her body, an ever-widening web of conspiracy and corruption is revealed, as is the truth behind Jane Doe's real identity and the identity of the people who sent her to the FBI in the first place.
But what does this nefarious group really want? And can Jane and her teammates stop them in time?
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Madam Secretary, Season 4
Charise is coaching various dialects on Season 4 of Madam Secretary.
Madam Secretary stars Téa Leoni as Elizabeth McCord, the shrewd, determined Secretary of State who drives international diplomacy, battles office politics and circumvents protocol as she negotiates global and domestic issues, both at the White House and at home. A college professor and a brilliant former CIA analyst who left for ethical reasons, Elizabeth returned to public life at the request of President Conrad Dalton, who values McCord's apolitical leanings, deep knowledge of the Middle East, flair for languages and ability to not just think outside the box, but to not even acknowledge there is a box.
McCord's team includes chief of staff Nadine Tolliver; policy advisor Jay Whitman; speechwriter Matt Mahoney; press coordinator Daisy Grant; and charming assistant, Blake Moran. As McCord debates third world problems, finesses foreign dignitaries at work and does battle with the president's combative chief of staff, Russell Jackson, that's just a warm-up for when she goes home to her supportive husband, theology professor turned intelligence operative Henry, and their three children, where "politics" and "compromise" take on new meaning.
A Walk With Mr. Heifetz
Charise is dialect coaching "A Walk With Mr. Heifetz" with Primary Stages, running at Cherry Lane Theater January 31 – March 4, 2018.
In this inspiring new play by award-winning Gramophone and Time Magazine journalist James Inverne, discover how music helped Israel find its cultural identity during its formative years. In 1926, an unforgettable event occurred when Jascha Heifetz, the most celebrated violinist in the world, played a concert in pre-Israel Palestine. People flocked from all over the globe to see this performance, including Yehuda Sharett, composer and brother of future Israeli Prime Minister Moshe Sharett.
Legend has it that after the performance, Heifetz and Yehuda walked together and shared a remarkable conversation that resonated twenty years later when, in 1945, Moshe echoed Heifetz's experience with his brother in a similar exchange that changed the world as we know it.
Charise's play, "CANNIBAL GALAXY: a love story" received its world premiere at The New Ohio Theatre in NYC June 8 – 17, 2018.
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Cannibal Galaxy: a love story, written by Charise and performed at The New Ohio Theater
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Bring a Weasel and a Pint of Your Own Blood
Cannibal Galaxy: a love story, written by Charise
workshopped at Xavier University in Cincinnati, OH
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Darleen and Trent Go to Raj Palace
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Charise is directing "Pericles, Prince of Tyre" at Barnard/Columbia
Tickets now on sale
$12, $6 with BC/CUID
Thursday, March 2, 2017 at 8 PM
Friday, March 3, 2017 at 8 PM
Saturday, March 4, 2017 at 3 PM
Minor Latham Playhouse
Milbank Hall, Room 118, Barnard Campus
Barnard College Department of Theatre
Columbia University Major in Drama & Theatre Arts
Incest and intrigue, pirates and prostitutes, bitter revenge and providential reunions: Shakespeare's collaborative Pericles was popular in its day, scorned by Shakespeare's great rival Ben Jonson, and mysteriously omitted from the 1623 collected edition of his plays. Shakespeare's first, experimental foray into stage tragicomedy, Pericles embodies the attractions of early-modern popular theatre, and provides a uniquely challenging work for contemporary performance. We are delighted to welcome back Charise Greene, to direct Pericles in spring 2016, the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death in 1616.
Scenic Design by Robin Vest
Costume Design by Lacey Bookspan
Lighting Design by Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew
Sound Design by Avi Amon
Music by Alaina Ferris
Assistant Direction by Lauren Cannon
Stage Management by Daphne Liu
With Barnard and Columbia students
Releasing on October 28th on Netflix, just in time for Halloween, this beautiful feature directed by Osgood Perkins is not to be missed. Charise coached Ruth Wilson in her chilling dialect for the film.
"This is not a movie of gore or plot. Instead, voice-over in lyrically written prose from the nurse guides viewers on a meditation through the haunted house while we watch her fix the carpet that's always somehow folding over (even though she's the only one who's walking around) or run her finger over a bubble under the whitewashed walls of the pristine colonial home of her new patient, the elderly horror novelist Iris Blum (Paula Prentiss). The bubble begins to rot, infecting the panels with a bloom of black mold — the devil is in the details."
- April Wolfe, LA Weekly.
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The Affair, Season 3
Charise dialect coaches Dominic West and Golden Globe winner Ruth Wilson in Season 3 of Showtime's "The Affair." This season she's also coaching Irène Jacob and Catalina Sandino Moreno.
Don't miss the season premiere of this Golden Globe winning drama on November 20th.
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Agreed. He's *totally lost* about Mauro's work.
> stuff did never happen.
For sure, there are people here trying this every single day.
people that are working hard in their spare time.
> care themselves for at all, including patch reviewing in many parts.
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Implementation of the Galactic calculator exercise using TDD and my best knowladge of software principles.

## How to run

The galaxy tool can be executed using the gradle application plugin. To do that we just need to clone the project into a local folder and run the following terminal commands:

```
    cd <project folder>
    gradle run -Dexec.args="testInput.txt"
```

Or alternatively configure a Run execution in the IDE tool with the argument:
```
    testInput.txt
```

The output test data is written in the console and also an output file is generated at the following path.
```
    build/resources/main/testOutput.txt
```
To run the test suite of Unit and Integration tests from gradle. Open a terminal and use the following commands:

```
    cd <project-home>
    gradle clean test
```

### Set up project

1. From IDE import project as Gradle project.
2. Import all gradle dependencies.
3. Execute Gradle task "build".
4. Run test cases with Gradle task "test".
5. Enjoy :-)

### The solution design:

There is a [Umlet](http://www.umlet.com/) diagram in the root folder called "UmlLet_model.png" with the main class diagram of this solution.

Update: The diagram is not up to date with the last implementation. I am working on it to add the last modifications.

# Problem Three: Merchant's Guide to the Galaxy

You decided to give up on earth after the latest financial collapse left 99.99% of the earth's population with 0.01% of the wealth. Luckily, with the scant sum of money that is left in your account, you are able to afford to rent a spaceship, leave earth, and fly all over the galaxy to sell common metals and dirt (which apparently is worth a lot).

Buying and selling over the galaxy requires you to convert numbers and units, and you decided to write a program to help you.

The numbers used for intergalactic transactions follows similar convention to the roman numerals and you have painstakingly collected the appropriate translation between them.

Roman numerals are based on seven symbols:

Symbol

Value

I 1

V 5

X 10

L 50

C 100

D 500

M 1,000

Numbers are formed by combining symbols together and adding the values. For example, MMVI is 1000 + 1000 + 5 + 1 = 2006. Generally, symbols are placed in order of value, starting with the largest values. When smaller values precede larger values, the smaller values are subtracted from the larger values, and the result is added to the total. For example MCMXLIV = 1000 + (1000 - 100) + (50 - 10) + (5 - 1) = 1944.

The symbols "I", "X", "C", and "M" can be repeated three times in succession, but no more. (They may appear four times if the third and fourth are separated by a smaller value, such as XXXIX.) "D", "L", and "V" can never be repeated.
"I" can be subtracted from "V" and "X" only. "X" can be subtracted from "L" and "C" only. "C" can be subtracted from "D" and "M" only. "V", "L", and "D" can never be subtracted.
Only one small-value symbol may be subtracted from any large-value symbol.
A number written in Arabic numerals can be broken into digits. For example, 1903 is composed of 1, 9, 0, and 3. To write the Roman numeral, each of the non-zero digits should be treated separately. In the above example, 1,000 = M, 900 = CM, and 3 = III. Therefore, 1903 = MCMIII.
(Source: Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals)

Input to your program consists of lines of text detailing your notes on the conversion between intergalactic units and roman numerals.

You are expected to handle invalid queries appropriately.

Test input:

glob is I

prok is V

pish is X

tegj is L

glob glob Silver is 34 Credits

glob prok Gold is 57800 Credits

pish pish Iron is 3910 Credits

how much is pish tegj glob glob ?

how many Credits is glob prok Silver ?

how many Credits is glob prok Gold ?

how many Credits is glob prok Iron ?

how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood ?

Test Output:

pish tegj glob glob is 42

glob prok Silver is 68 Credits

glob prok Gold is 57800 Credits

glob prok Iron is 782 Credits

I have no idea what you are talking about

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Timothy Wisniewski ensures that the work of Johns Hopkins' pioneering medical faculty lives on
As visual projects archivist at the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives, he transforms analog materials for use in the digital age
Image caption: Timothy Wisniewski with a small fraction of the films belonging to JHMI's Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives.
Credit: Will Kirk / Johns Hopkins University
By Bret McCabe
/ Published Aug 29, 2018
Authors, filmmakers, and researchers frequently turn to the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions when they're working on book or documentary film projects. From Alfred Blalock, Helen Taussig, and Vivien Thomas' trailblazing research that went into the "blue baby" heart surgeries to Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist Daniel Nathans' identification of restriction enzymes' role in analyzing DNA fragments and mapping genomes, the Chesney Archives contains the personal papers of a number of pioneering Johns Hopkins doctors, scientists, and technicians, along with various audio recordings, photographs, and film/video documentation. And when those analog materials need to be digitized to be included in a book or documentary film, people go to Timothy Wisniewski, who has been the visual projects archivist at the Chesney Archives for the past 12 years. We sat down recently to talk with Wiseniewski about the audiovisual collections of the archives, which are housed on the Johns Hopkins at Mount Washington campus.
What does a visual archivist do?
Meet the people who help make Johns Hopkins run
I manage the audiovisual collections and the photographic collections at the Medical Archives. The photographic collections are primarily photographs taken by the Hopkins medical divisions over the years. Since the founding of the institution, there was clinical photography, portrait photography, photography for educational purposes. Starting around the 1920s, you start seeing filmmaking happening around the medical campus. Researchers and clinicians were doing experiments with film, using time-lapse cinematography in experiments, filming surgeries, those sorts of things. These filmmaking practices gave birth to the film and video collections that we now have. I also assist our patrons who are interested in researching these collections. So essentially, processing the collections, digitizing collections, dealing with the reference requests that come in.
Is all of that archival material housed here?
Only about a third of our total holdings are actually here on-site. Most of the photographs, and all of the film, are here, but over 7,000 videotapes and hundreds of sound recordings are stored off-site.
When the Archives decides to digitize a film, photos, or sound recordings, what is that process like? Are some digitization efforts the result of specific projects or research grants? Is it mostly an on-demand service? I ask because I imagine the work is both labor-intensive and resource-intensive.
It depends. Sometimes we get grant funding to digitize entire collections, either internally or through a foundation—for example, there may be interest in funding the collection of an influential physician. In other cases, we might receive donor funds to digitize an institutional collection, such as photographs from the public relations department, or an individual clinical department might have a run of their annual group portraits that they want to have digitized, so they'll pay to have that done. We also do a lot of work on demand for historians and other scholars. A patron could be interested in a specific set of photographs for an article or a book or a documentary film. Then we'll do just a small set of on-demand digitization.
Of the entire AV collection, how much of it is currently digitized?
Close to 8,000 photographs, 300 sound recordings, and 200 films and videos, which is less than 1 percent of the photograph collections and about 2 to 5 percent of the AV collections.
How did you get into doing AV archival work?
I came to AV archival work from an arts background. I studied photography and video during my undergrad at MICA, and after graduation I worked in darkrooms doing custom black-and-white printing for years. That's where I began printing a lot of archival work for local museums and historical societies. I was also always into classic cinema and fascinated by the medium of film. The Enoch Pratt Free Library has a great circulating 16mm film collection, which I routinely borrowed from for shows and screenings around town. Eventually, I came to the realization that there were tons of film collections like this out there in libraries, schools, and other institutions that needed to be preserved. I decided to go to library school at the University of Pittsburgh to get into archival work, and from there I gained experience working with various archival film collections before coming to Hopkins.
What is your typical day like?
I usually start the day responding to reference requests and other emails, and assessing any work that needs to be done right away. I might have a morning meeting with staff to discuss various issues and projects, such as our website, which we are currently redesigning. Then I'm working with our student employees or volunteers to process and catalog new collections. After lunch, I'm probably digitizing photographs or videos for patrons and uploading new content for public access. I'm also usually working on one or two long-term projects, like fixing up an older collection that isn't properly organized or doesn't have adequate description, in order to make it more accessible.
Once a set of photographs, a recording, or film/video has been digitized, is it made available for future use by other departments or researchers? Are items that have already been digitized searchable online?
Whenever possible, and it usually is, the answer is yes. We make digitized photos, films, and sound recordings available via our online catalog and our Flickr, YouTube, and SoundCloud pages. The main exception is when an item is restricted due to its containing protected health information as defined by HIPAA, the federal health privacy law. An obvious example would be a photograph in which a patient's face is clearly visible. Considering the health care context of our content, it is perhaps surprising that a majority of our visual collections do not contain protected health information.
Is it fun to go through some of these collections and see what people were working on over the years at Johns Hopkins?
Yes, one interesting thing that I recently discovered is that there was a heart sound laboratory here at Hopkins in the early '50s. They were doing sound recordings of hearts with some early tape machines. They were recording different heart conditions and using these tape recordings to train students on how to listen to and diagnose different heart conditions. They recorded all these heart sounds, and then they would play them back through a sound spectrograph and plot spectrographic recordings of the heart sounds. And they would show slides of the spectrographs to the students while they played back the tape recordings to visually pinpoint different conditions—like, "right here, that's a murmur." That was really cool.
And I'm working on quite a few things right now. I am digitizing some film footage and a bunch of photographs for a documentary project on the history of genetics. Victor McKusick was a physician at Hopkins for a very long time and was one of the movers and shakers in the international medical genetics movement. He was also a chronic photographer—he had a camera on him all of the time. And there are tons of photographs in his collection of famous geneticists, different genetic conditions, and things like that. So there's a very large collection that the documentary film project has been looking through and requesting. I'm searching the collection, which is largely unprocessed, and using McKusick's handwritten index to find photos associated with the different subjects they're interested in.
How labor-intensive is the digitization process?
With audiovisual digitization, everything happens in real time, so a recording that lasts hours takes hours to digitize. So it can be labor-intensive, just in terms of the time it takes. It can also be labor-intensive in terms of the condition of the media. Sometimes there are tapes that need to be baked. Old tapes can acquire what is called sticky shed syndrome, where, essentially, the tape binder becomes sticky because it's absorbed the hydration from the air, which causes serious problems during playback. What we actually do is stick the tapes in a food dehydrator, and they sit in the food dehydrator for about 24 hours, and then after they've baked and have re-acclimated to room temperature, you can play them. It's a long-established method in AV archives, and it works really well.
Given your knowledge of the AV collection, are there items that you hope to digitize in the future, just to make them more available to researchers?
Yes. Sometimes I'll pre-emptively digitize items. For example, I've decided to systematically digitize all of the oral history tapes in our collection. We have oral history tapes dating from the 1970s to the 2010s. These are alumni and other people associated with the medical divisions who were interviewed over the years. Some of the tapes in our legacy collection are with living individuals, such as people who were interviewed in the '90s, but we don't have any releases or paperwork on them, or they are restricted for a set number of years, so we're sitting on those for the moment. But there are many more to be digitized before these, and for people who are currently being interviewed with digital recorders, we are getting releases signed so we can make their interviews available as they come in.
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Nabors sees operating profit of up to $170 million
By Simon Kennedy
Published: June 20, 2011 6:27 a.m. ET
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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Nabors Industries Ltd NBR, +1.37% said Monday that it expects second-quarter operating profit to be in the range of $165 million to $170 million, due to lower-than-expected results from its pressure pumping, U.S. offshore and international divisions. The drilling services company said severe weather had impacted some operations, while unrest in Saudi Arabia, Iraq and other countries, along with delays to contract awards, has hurt its international arm.
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TotalEnergies, Novatek to work on decarbonising LNG production
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June 4 (Renewables Now) - French oil-and-gas major TotalEnergies SE (LON:TTE), formerly known as Total SA, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Russian natural gas producer Novatek PAO (MCX:NVTK) to jointly work on reducing CO2 emissions resulting from the production of liquefied natural gas (LNG).
The French company said Thursday that the partners would explore and develop projects to decarbonise the LNG value chain using renewable sources of power, carbon capture and storage (CCS), energy efficiency and clean hydrogen and ammonia.
The pair intends to leverage the significant low-cost resources of the Yamal and Gydan peninsulas, both on the Siberian cost, and their large potential for geological storage, TotalEnergies said.
TotalEnergies holds a 19.4% stake in Novatek and a 20% stake in the Yamal LNG project.
TotalEnergies' announcement was made on the same day Novatek said it had signed a MoU with Finnish energy company Fortum Oyj (HEL:FORTUM) to source wind power for its Vysotsk LNG plant.
Published Jun 04, 2021 12:26 CEST
Author Sladjana Djunisic
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Sladjana Djunisic
Sladjana has significant experience as a Spain-focused business news reporter and is now diving deeper into the global renewable energy industry. She is the person to seek if you need information about Latin American renewables and the Spanish market.