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BIOV News
BIOVAXYS VACCINE PLATFORM STIMULATES ROBUST T-CELL RESPONSE AGAINST VIRAL ANTIGENS
BVX-0320 Activates immune system Memory 'helper ' CD4+ and killer CD8+ T-cells against SARS-CoV-2
PotentIal for longer-term viral protection
Vancouver, BC – December 21, 2020 — BioVaxys Technology Corp. (CSE: BIOV, FRA:5LB, OTC:LMNGF) ("BioVaxys") announced today that further analysis of the data from a preclinical animal study (also known as the "murine model study") of its haptenized viral protein vaccine technology show that BVX-0320, its Covid-19 vaccine candidate based on the Company's haptenized viral protein platform, elicits a robust T-cell response against SARS-CoV-2.
Using a technique called flow cytometry, the BioVaxys team found that its haptenized SARS-CoV-2 s-spike vaccine activated CD4+ helper T cells and CD8+ killer T cells that express the activation markers, CD69 and CD25. This result indicates that immunization with BVX-0320 at two different dose levels of 3µg or 10µg stimulated immune system memory 'helper' T-cells as well as killer T cells. CD4+ T-cells are crucial in achieving a regulated effective immune response to viral pathogens, and are central to adaptive immune responses. Generated following an immune response, memory 'helper' CD4+ T-cells retain information about the virus, which enables them to respond rapidly after viral exposure. CD8+ T cells have the capacity to kill cells infected by the virus, thereby stopping viral replication in those cells.
BioVaxys Co-Founder, President and Chief Operating Officer Kenneth Kovan says "This is an exciting development not only in the COVID-19 vaccine field, but potentially for other viral vaccines. Post-vaccination generation of antibodies is no doubt critical and garners much attention. However, antibody levels can quickly become undetectable after just a few months, leading to the conclusion that anti-viral immunity has waned." He goes on to say that "a robust CD4 and CD8 T-cell response, such as that we are seeing, has potential to confer much longer protection."
Recent data from the preclinical study, which began in September 2020 and was conducted by leading independent contract research organization ("CRO") Charles River Laboratories, Inc. under contract with BioVaxys, evaluated the anti-virus immune response elicited by BVX-0320 in a controlled murine model by measuring the development of antibodies to the protein that binds the virus to human cells. Following two injections of BVX-0320 together with the immunological adjuvant, QS21, to 28 mice at four dosage levels, 96.4% developed positive antibody responses detected at week 6. Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer David Berd, MD, says that "Stimulating a 96.4% antibody response is an excellent development, but we believe that activation of T-cells is even more important. A post-SARS2 infection T cell response appears to be a defining characteristic following recovery in COVID-19 patients. Seeing activation of CD4 and CD8 T-cells differentiates our approach from some other COVID-19 vaccines." Dr. Berd adds that "a duration of immunity that cannot be guaranteed past a few months is really not useful protection. Activation of a T-cell response may be the critical determinant for effective long-term protection."
A separate study sponsored by BioVaxys is underway at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, where the mouse sera (collected from the test animals) is being tested for the ability to inactivate live SARS-Cov-2 virus. Results are anticipated later this month.
James Passin, the CEO of BioVaxys, stated, "The outstanding results from the Murine Model Study of BVX-0320, including robust T cell and antibody results and an excellent safety and manufacturing profile, evidences the value of our haptenized viral protein vaccine technology platform and should support ongoing discussions with potential pharmaceutical partners. We are excited to continue to leverage this scientific momentum, as well as to continue advancing our novel Covid-19 T-cell diagnostic, a low cost and scalable tool which may assist public health authorities in the distribution of scarce vaccine resources, as it should not be a priority to immunize individuals presenting T cell immunity to SARS-CoV-2."
BioVaxys's product pipeline includes BVX-0918A, an IND-stage haptenized cancer cell vaccine for treating late-stage ovarian cancer. In Phase I and Phase II clinical studies previously conducted by BioVaxys, co-founder and Chief Medical Officer, Dr. David Berd, using an earlier generation of the BioVaxys cancer vaccine on nearly 500 patients with melanoma or ovarian cancer, the haptenized cell platform showed significant clinical promise.
BioVaxys has developed its vaccine technology platforms based on the established immunological concept that modifying proteins with simple chemicals called haptens makes them more visible to the immune system. The process of haptenization "teaches" a patient's immune system to recognize and make target proteins more 'visible' as foreign, thereby stimulating an immune response.
For greater certainty, BioVaxys is not making any express or implied claims that it has the ability to treat the SAR-CoV-2 virus at this time.
David Berd, M.D. the Chief Medical Officer of BioVaxys, has reviewed and approved the scientific disclosure contained in this press release. Dr. Berd is a medical oncologist with a lifelong record of clinical research in medical oncology and cancer immunotherapy. Dr. Berd received his BS from Pennsylvania State University and his MD from Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University.
About BioVaxys Technology Corp.
Based in Vancouver, BioVaxys Technology Corp. is a British Columbia-registered, early stage biotechnology company that is developing viral and oncology vaccine platforms, as well as immuno-diagnostics. The Company is advancing a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine based on its haptenized viral protein technology, and is planning a clinical trial of its haptenized autologous cell vaccine used in combination with anti-PD1 and anti-PDL-1 checkpoint inhibitors that will initially be developed for ovarian cancer. Also in development is a diagnostic for evaluating the presence or absence of a T cell immune response to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. BioVaxys has two issued US patents and two patent applications related to its cancer vaccine, and pending patent applications for its SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) vaccine and diagnostic technologies. BioVaxys common shares are listed on the CSE under the stock symbol "BIOV" and trade on the Frankfurt Bourse (FRA: 5LB) and US OTC: LMNGF.
Signed "James Passin"
James Passin, CEO
Andrea Vuturo
biovaxys@dittopr.co
Cautionary Statements Regarding Forward Looking Information
This press release includes certain "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" (collectively "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of applicable Canadian and United States securities legislation including the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included herein, without limitation, statements relating the future operating or financial performance of the Company, are forward looking statements. Forward-looking statements are frequently, but not always, identified by words such as "expects", "anticipates", "believes", "intends", "estimates", "potential", "possible", and similar expressions, or statements that events, conditions, or results "will", "may", "could", or "should" occur or be achieved. Forward-looking statements in this news release relate to, among other things, completion of the murine model study, regulatory approval for a Phase I study of its BVX-0320 Vaccine Candidate in humans and the overall development of BioVaxys' vaccines, including any haptenized SARS-Cov-2 protein vaccine. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, and actual results and future events could differ materially from those expressed or implied in such forward-looking statements.
These forward-looking statements reflect the beliefs, opinions and projections on the date the statements are made and are based upon a number of assumptions and estimates, primarily the assumption that BioVaxys will be successful in developing and testing vaccines, that, while considered reasonable by the Company, are inherently subject to significant business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties and contingencies including, primarily but without limitation, the risk that BioVayxs' vaccines will not prove to be effective and/ or will not receive the required regulatory approvals. With regards to BioVaxys' business, there are a number of risks that could affect the development of its biotechnology products, including, without limitation, the need for additional capital to fund clinical trials, its lack of operating history, uncertainty about whether its products will complete the long, complex and expensive clinical trial and regulatory approval process for approval of new drugs necessary for marketing approval, uncertainty about whether its autologous cell vaccine immunotherapy can be developed to produce safe and effective products and, if so, whether its vaccine products will be commercially accepted and profitable, the expenses, delays and uncertainties and complications typically encountered by development stage biopharmaceutical businesses, financial and development obligations under license arrangements in order to protect its rights to its products and technologies, obtaining and protecting new intellectual property rights and avoiding infringement to third parties and their dependence on manufacturing by third parties.
The Company does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking statements of beliefs, opinions, projections, or other factors, should they change, except as required by law.
Source: BioVaxys Technology Corp.
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Q: What does it mean for a function to be Mapping from $\mathbb R^k$ Space to $\mathbb R^1$ Space If a function maps from $\mathbb R^k$ Space to say $\mathbb R^1$ Space
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A: It means that the function takes $k$ real numbers (which correspond to one point in $\mathbb R^k$) and gives you one real number (which is a point in $\mathbb R$).

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QB Daniel Jones exceeding Giants' expectations
Giants.com Senior Writer/Editor
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – The Giants will hold their first full-squad training camp practice tomorrow, three months to the day since they selected Daniel Jones sixth overall in the NFL Draft.
Coach Pat Shurmur will certainly discover much about Jones' capabilities in the days, weeks and months to follow. But after leading his second and final workout this morning for rookies and other young players, Shurmur said he already knows much more about Jones than he did on draft night.
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"I've learned quite a bit," Shurmur said. "None of it really surprised us in a negative way. He's very smart. He's one of the first guys in, one of the last guys to leave. He gets it from that standpoint. He throws the ball well, moves around well, he executes at a high level out there on the practice field. Training camp is the next step as we prepare for the preseason games and getting him ready to play so that he's ready to go when it's his time."
When that will be is, of course, uncertain. Eli Manning begins his 16th Giants training camp as the starter, a title he expects to keep for the foreseeable future. Both quarterbacks will be closely scrutinized throughout camp. Shurmur did not reveal whether Jones will work exclusively with the second team, or if he will get reps with the starters.
"We'll see how that goes," Shurmur said. "We have a plan for that. It'll sort of reveal itself."
As the coach noted, Jones has impressed since his arrival, throughout the spring workouts and in the two days of rookie camp.
"In my mind, he has exceeded expectations," Shurmur said. "He's very smart. I think as everybody gets to know him…We had more of the information about Daniel Jones than some of the people that covered him. We're less surprised about things than maybe some other people are because we knew he could throw the ball. We knew he could move around. We knew he was smart. We knew he was tough. So we knew all of those things, and he hasn't disappointed us in any of those areas."
Asked specifically how Jones has exceeded expectations, Shurmur said, "We really haven't seen anything that he can't do in terms of playing quarterback. Now it's just a matter of going out and doing it."
What does Shurmur wants to see from Jones in camp and the team's four preseason games?
"Well, continue to grow," Shurmur said. "I think it's important that he learns something new every day. A lot of what he's doing, he's doing for the first time. And it's really a process. You go from not even practicing against a defense, to against your own defense, then you put the pads on, and then you're involved in preseason games. As we go through all of the steps, see him have success."
*Shurmur said tackles Nate Solder (ankle) and Mike Remmers (back), who did not participate in the spring after undergoing surgery, will be on the field tomorrow, though he did not specify to what extent.
"Solder and Remmers will be going," Shurmur said. "I don't see any of those guys, as we develop our list of guys that you're curious about, that it'll be any extended time (off the field)."
*Wide receiver Darius Slayton, the second of the Giants' two fifth-round draft choices, did not practice this morning.
"He just tweaked his hamstring a little bit (yesterday)," Shurmur said. "Nothing serious. He'll be back soon."
*Shurmur listed numerous benefits he expects to derive in his second season as the Giants' coach.
"I have a better idea of our team and how our team responds to adversity," Shurmur said. "How they push through. I have a lot better feel for my coaching staff and I have a lot better feel for our opponents that we're going to play on a yearly basis. We have a better feel for that. We feel like we're developing a winning team. We'll just go out and get to work."
*The Giants exchanged rookie tight ends on their roster, signing Isaiah Searight of Fordham and waiving Eric Dungey, the former Syracuse quarterback.
Searight, who was with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from May 10-21, was a three-time All-Patriot League selection for the Rams. In four seasons, he caught 89 passes for 1,119 yards (12.6-yard avg.) and 10 touchdowns. As a senior in 2018, Searight had career-high totals of 42 catches and 479 yards, and tied his career-best with four touchdowns. Searight went to Monmouth Regional High School in Tinton Falls, N.J., located about 50 miles from MetLife Stadium.

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Leopards' history
Leopards Basketball Club – the full history
September 8, 2020 September 3, 2020 hersey427
"The Voice" of Leopards 1994-2003
One of the first things people heard when they made their debut visit to the original Leopards was Simon Mattick on the microphone. Having previously been involved at the club's predecessors Kingston and Guildford, but not quite old enough to have been around when the club started pre-World War II as Central YMCA.
i was privileged to be asked by Ed and Annie-T Simons (the owners) plus Barry Dow (RIP) to be the match day announcer for the new Leopards BBL franchise which was established at The London Arena for the 1994-5 season, following the demise of the Guildford Kings and was fortunate to enjoy their nine season journey in the BBL, meeting some wonderful people and watching some fantastic basketball along the way and I have some great memories of that period.
I was privileged to have seen some fantastic, some charismatic and some great "stalwart" players in action wearing the Leopards colours, starting with Adrian Cummings (RIP), Carl Miller, Karl Brown, Robert Youngblood and Ronnie Baker in that first season. David Attewell, Rico Alderson, Rod Brown, Eric Burks, Tim Davis, Martin Henlan, Rashod Johnson, Jason Kimbrough, Michael Martin, Brian Moore, Steve Ogunjimi, Mo Robinson, John Tresvant, John White, Yorick Williams, among many others, were to follow
It was a pleasure, too, to watch the coaches at work: Billy Mims with Mark Clark and Rohan Thompson; Bob Donewald Jnr,; Chris Pullem; Mike Taylor
Obviously the "golden" seasons of 96/97 (BBL League Champions and Cup Winners, Play Off Runners Up) and 97/98 (BBL League Champions) were particular high spots, alongside the intense rivalry between Leopards and London Towers, with Billy against Kevin Cadle (RIP). Team sport at its best. So many nail biting encounters….one of my favourite games was at Wembley Court when Leopards came back from 22 points to win (96/97 season, I think). If anyone has any Sky footage of that, I'd love to see it again !!
The 1999/2000 season saw the club move to Brentwood. The 2000/01 season was eventful and memorable for many other reasons, not least the fact that Leopards ended at least 4 matches with less than 5 players on court….
Sadly, the BBL Franchise ended at the end of 2002/03 season. There was no Leopards in the 2003/04 season but, with great efforts from a hardcore of Leopards fans, and after a timely exchange with Mark Clark (then Ware Rebels Director of Basketball), the Rebels EBL franchise was secured and "Essex & Herts Leopards" were born for the 2004/05 season and became regulars in Division One playing games at various venues across East London, Essex and Hertfordshire. Key honours were the Div One League, Play Off and Cup "treble" in 2011/12 and the League title in 2014/15. 'Blood, Ronnie B ant Steve O all returned to play their parts at some stage in the second phase of the club. Even though I wasn't involved with the club, I still followed their progress with keen interest.
Anyway, a big thank you from me to everyone who was involved in any way at Leopards – owners, players, coaches, staff, supporters, sponsors – and best wishes for the future to Oakland Wolves!"
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Analysis on how technology impacts society from around the web, by The Sociable
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Darren McCarra 9 years ago
Mashable co-editor, Ben Parr, and Google's European marketing director, Dan Cobley, are among the first confirmed speakers at the Dublin Web Summit this March in Trinity College Dublin.
Labour party turn to QR codes to bolster numbers
Earlier this week we asked the question - Are QR codes ready for mainstream adoption? Labour, the centre-left Irish political party, would appear to believe so as they introduced the technology to their website last week.
USI to register 50,000 student voters for #ge11
The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) will launch a campaign titled "Your Future, Your Vote" tomorrow outside Leinster House with the intention to registering 50,000 Irish students to vote in the upcoming general election.
Is Google rolling out an improved search interface?
Piers Dillon Scott 9 years ago
Google appears to be in the process of rolling out an improved search interface for US (.com) users. The new design features a larger search box as well as a gray navigation box at the top of the screen. While Google has had a top navigation for some time it has never been this prominant or stylised.
The Pirate Bay to launch dedicated music sharing project in April
Notorious torrent site The Pirate Bay is working on new dedicated music sharing project, entitled "The Music Bay", which will instill further fear into the heart of the phonographic industry. The Pirate Bay is currently used by millions to facilitate sharing of (mostly pirated) music, movies, and software.
National Geographic's '7 billion' goes viral, highlights global issues
If global climet change, economic collapse or ancient Mayan prophesies don't scare you than the National Geographic's latest viral video will. The video, which went online just before New Year's, points out that by the end of 2011 there will be 7 billion people living on the planet.
Top 3 free music streaming services available in Ireland
With the introduction of another music streaming service, we7, to Ireland earlier this month, it's time to write a best of post and consider the three best free music streaming service options available to choose from.
BBC iPlayer viewership increases significantly, particularly on the PS3
TechRadar are reporting that viewership of the BBC's video on-demand service, BBC iPlayer, is continuing to soar, reaching a record high of 145 million people using the catch-up service in December 2010 alone.
Social search with Irish start-up HeyStaks
HeyStaks, a University College Dublin (UCD) web start-up that allows people searching the web to collaborate with friends as they search online in a bid to increase productivity, have opened their service to the public.
Google, Facebook, and Yahoo! commit to 24-hour IPv6 test flight
Google, Facebook, and Yahoo!, along with the Internet Society, have joined forces and announced a 24-hour test flight for the next generation of the internet, IPv6, that they will all take part in on June 8th, 2011.
German fallout with Google over analytics privacy concerns
Data protection authorities in Germany have ended year-long talks with Google over concerns that they have with the data that Google Analytics gathers on website visitors. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, German companies may face legal action if they are found to be using the free service from Google.
Fine Gael's website hacked
The website of Irish political party Fine Gael has been hacked by a group calling themselves 'Anonymous'. The attack took place yesterday evening, with the website still not operational.
Irish Times website traffic up 82%
Traffic to The Irish Times website has seen an increase of 82% for the twelve months prior to November 2010, when compared to the previous year. This figures highlights the growing trend of users wanting to source news information online.
The Internet Explorer weekend exodus
Looking at statistical web browsing data from StatCounter GlobalStats, a phenomenon quickly becomes evident where users migrate from Internet Explorer in their droves at weekends, and resume the familiarity of browsers like Firefox and Chrome that they've become accustomed to.
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Chinese to overtake English as the dominant language of the internet
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North eastern America and Canada are suffering some of the worst winter storms in decades this week. NASA has already released satellite imagery of the continent blanketed in snow and several areas have already declared a state of emergency. Many parts of the New York, Philadelphia and Boston have seen 29 inches (73CM) of snow and to put this into context Vimeo user Michael Black has published a timelapse video, recorded over a 20 hour period, of the swathe of snow covering the States.
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Racing edging closer to Top 14 rugby title
By Rugby Week on 28th October 2010
Racing-Metro won five French rugby titles under their previous guise as Racing Club de France, the last in 1990, but their recent form suggests a sixth title is not far away.
Under the experienced gaze of former France and Italy coach Pierre Berbizier and the lavish finances of real estate mogul Jacky Lorenzetti Racing-Metro exited controversially to eventual champions Clermont in last season's semi-finals.
However, they have shrugged off that misfortune and maintained their form this term and host Perpignan on Friday with the chance of at least temporarily returning to the top of the table – they only trail present leaders Montpellier on head to heads.
The present Racing side have eschewed the antics of their predecessors, whose players headed by former greats Franck Mesnel and Laurent Cabannes were not averse to running onto the pitch in berets or sporting pink bow ties – or drinking champagne at half-time as they did in the 1990 final.
That was, though, in the amateur days and there is no room for such high jinks in the hard nosed professional circuit and it was illustrated in their businesslike if unspectacular 15-9 victory over Bayonne last Friday.
It was in stark contrast to the spectacle that Perpignan provided with Toulouse on the Saturday as the 2009 champions raced into an early lead only to be defeated 38-29.
Perpignan are already six points adrift of their opponents and defeat could see it stretch to at least 10, but one of their former stars Racing-Metro scrum-half Nicolas Durand whilst admitting his former team-mates have not yet hit top form is not taking victory for granted.
"I would say that they have had a very difficult period," said Durand.
"They at one point had a peak of 18 injured players. However, it is a team that has shown its mettle in adversity by taking points – even if they were not maximum points.
"It is a team that is in the process of restoring some offensive qualities.
"They have to, though, find a good balance. They remain all the same a solid outfit and difficult to push around.
"Toulouse had to play out of their skins to get the result they did against Perpignan last weekend."
Toulouse, like Racing-Metro, are on 32 points and host Toulon this Saturday with the visitors bidding to rebound from two successive defeats – a European Cup mauling by Munster and then a narrow defeat by Stade Francais last Saturday in the Top 14 clash.
The visitors will do well to avoid a third successive reverse if Toulouse repeat their stunning display from last Saturday whose highlight was a superb individual try by former All Black star Byron Kelleher which turned the match finally his side's way.
The 34-year-old scrum-half says that it has not just been shedding several kilos and reacting to some lively competition for his position that has rejuvenated him.
"If I was that good last Saturday then it is more down to the other players on the team than myself," the 57-times capped Kiwi said graciously.
"I have had to develop my style of play but it is never too late to do that.
"This competition inside the club, has been a stimulant for me to do so."
Clermont seem to have suffered an adverse reaction after at last putting to rest their chokers tag in lifting the French title – but they are only eighth ahead of Saturday's home clash with Stade Francais after suffering five defeats in their 10 matches so far.
Coach Vern Cotter admits that they are not at their best and wants to stop the rot of two successive defeats in its tracks.
"We are trying to put things in place so that our style of play becomes more coherent," said Cotter.
"We are aware that we are not playing anything like at 100percent of our abilities.
"There is a little bit of frustration but I don't think there is a crisis because frankly we have been training well…little by li
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Church Planting Movements are changing the spiritual landscape among many poor populations. The intention for such movements to be self-funding through bivocational leadership suggests a natural synergy with "Business For Transformation" (B4T).
Could Church Planting Movements be peculiarly suited for synergy with business models for delivering clean water to the poor?
In recent years these compelling benefits have stirred aggressive charitable efforts to provide clean water—both secular and faith-based. Yet the vast majority of those who still lack clean water are also the poorest people on the planet (see sidebar).
improve local access to clean water.
Competition arises where limited water is available for drinking, irrigation and industry. Those in power control water resources, and the poor lose when the supply is reduced.
When disasters compromise community water treatment,12 portable filters can continue serving in an evacuation.
and "fail-safe" (plug up rather than allowing pathogens through).
Large-scale efforts to address poverty can be hindered by corruption at high levels and/or spiritual forces which rob the poor of their initiative and creativity. The collective discipling, personal transformation and trust relationships which develop in Church Planting Movements (CPMs) produce the kind of "spiritual capital"16 necessary to sustain businesses that break the poverty cycle.
CPMs are flourishing among the poor, and the relational discipling of CPMs creates an ideal environment for the propagation of literacy and hygiene education. Even before the advent of CPMs, Frank Laubach is credited with bringing literacy to a hundred million people through his emphasis on How to Teach One and Win One for Christ; Christ's Plan for Winning the World (Zondervan, 1964). How much more will God do in our day as we encourage and assist CPMs to be active in lifting their members and their communities out of poverty?
sustainably reduce the local cost of goods.
selling clean water to others at a reduction of their current cost.
filters rapidly enough for on-demand use.
The other filter mentioned above, the Berkey®, removes a much wider range of EPA recognized dissolved contaminants17 and still costs less than 2¢/gallon for replacement filters. Both companies are owned by Evangelicals, but Sawyer® is more aggressively pursuing sustainable business models for providing the world's poor with clean water.
Retired missionary Lou Haveman is coordinating Sawyer®'s global distribution. To learn more visit Business-Connect.net/water-business.
Note: As of this writing, none of the authors of this article have a financial interest in Sawyer® filters. However Nick's business sells 40+ other brands of filters, including Berkey® filters, and will soon be carrying Sawyer® filters as well.
Toward experimenting with business models that reward everyone's involvement, Robby and Nick have worked out a deal for interested individual missionaries and their friends to share in a group discount on Berkey® filter systems and portable water bottles, plus a commission for referring others. See the paid ad for Berkey® filters on page 13 of the PDF version of this issue.
Next Generation Business Strategies for the Base of the Pyramid: New Approaches for Building Mutual Value by Ted London and Stuart Hart (FT Press, 2010), and The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits by C. K. Prahalad (Pearson Prentice Hall, 2009).
The difference between biological and other contaminants is comparable to the difference between a pipe bomb and a nuclear bomb. Biological contaminants multiply and spread, while other contaminants (such as the Chlorine often used to control pathogens) only affect the one who ingests them.
From 2002–2005, Mission India provided literacy training for 74,000 people with an initial average daily income of 77¢—well below the U.N. poverty standard of $1/day. Through this one-year, two hour/night training, average income rose by an average of 57%, as reported in Is Hearing Enough? Literacy and the Great Commandment (WCL, 2010), pp 76-77.
"Cell phones increasingly make banking and other key services available to the very poor, along with information to guard them from price-gouging."—Gary Edmonds, former secretary-general of the World Evangelical Alliance, and president of Breakthrough Partners.
Even in the U.S., centralized treatment can fail. In 1993 403,000 people became ill and 69 died when a Milwaukee treatment plant became infected, costing $32 million for medical care and $65 million in lost productivity.
Similar but less suitable filters discovered in our research include reverse osmosis, Katadyn®, and Lifesaver®. Nick and my wife independently researched filtrations options and, like many missionaries, settled on Berkey® filters for our home use.
See Spiritual Capital by Ken Eldred in this issue.
i have been working in the slums fore almost 25 years now. there are statistics showing that more people die from dirty water than from wars and other violent causes. national geographic's last article on the issue advocated for filtered water. but WHO articles point more to running water as more effective than all of the above. the reason is because collected water accumulates e-coli and other waterborne diseases. despite available good drinking water, the system of washing with collected water and using a dipper still outweighs the gains of good drinking water. running or tap water automatically removes half of morbidity in the slum community.
Thank you for sharing from your experience. Running water is a great goal, But how do you propose to develop the necessary infrastructure, and what do you propose for those who are waiting?
Running water does indeed have many benefits, but these benefits complement "point of use" water purification rather than making it irrelevant.
Note that tap water does not guarantee removal of water-borne bacteria; any water source or storage can become contaminated. Here in the U.S., one of the two treatment plants in Milwaukee got infected some years ago, leading to the death of 69 people, the illness of 403,000, and CDC estimated medical expenses of $32,000,000 plus lost productivity of more than $65,000,000 <http://cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol9no4/pdfs/02-0417.pdf>.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has evaluated 7,500 microbes and chemicals, but regulates fewer than 100. Thus even in the U.S. it is wise to use "point of use" purification as a backup to municipal water treatment.
Unfortunately most popular filtration in the U.S. is overpriced and only corrects for taste rather than a broad spectrum of toxins (microbes, the toxins introduced in disinfecting water, and the wider ocean of toxins). All the brands reviewed by Aquasana (including their own) are more expensive per gallon and do less than the Black Berkey purifiers which they ignore.
This is why our family uses a portable Berkey purifier at home, and self-purifying water bottles when we go out (in which one $16 filter purifies 250+ gallons, replacing 2,000 disposable bottles). This is also why I have arranged for a rebate for MF readers interested in counter-top water purifiers or self-purifying water bottles. (Those interested in the rebate can explore 911Water.com and then email me for the rebate details.
Running water for slums is certainly a goal to be pursued, but until such running water is available, and even afterward, it appears to me that "point of use" purification makes personal, ministry and business sense, here in the U.S. and even more where water is not as thoroughly treated.
P.S. More damaging than relying on tap water without personal purification is the popular belief in the U.S. that bottled water is better than tap water. Not only is bottled water less regulated and monitored than tap water, with between 25 and 45 percent of the bottled water sold in the United States originating as tap water (see also The Facts about Bottled Water), but 60 million or more water bottles are discarded EACH DAY in the U.S., creating a huge environmental burden.
I have grown up in the family business. We are municipal water treatment specialists. I carry a class C license in water treatment and a class 2 water distribution license and work in the state of Colorado. Aside from my formative years I carry thirteen years of working experience. I have turned ashen sloppy mud from the burned forest floor into drinkable water with the technology we have.
The current approach to bringing water to the nations has been half hearted at best. I do believe that centralized water can help many and reduce death and disease considerably. When the people of New York needed good water they didn't yell for pails of water and more wells. They hated it! The neighborhood well and pail system had led to self renewing disease in that city. Recent history clearly shows that treated central water works. The situation in Milwaukee was learned from and is a big part of water operator 101 in the US. This sad situation led to the standards that your (quite good) Berkey filters follow today. "Water for Gotham" is a great book that can illustrate some of the issues we have overcome in our society. Many of the people we go to are in very similar circumstances to those in Europe and the US in the early 1800's.
Wells can be constructed in a fashion using clays and gravel that will remove many of the parasites and some bacteria before the water enters the pit. After this point your water is run through the final filter and to a faucet in the center of camp. You can make this run from a hand pump and the "storage" could be the well itself. You must cover and protect the well of course. This tiny system can be maintained by my ten year old.
Don't forget Hosea 4:6. On the other side we need to educate these people on how to spot contaminated water and good water and how to properly rid of their waste. It worked in the United States and is why you often do not have to fear our water, though I still urge caution. We can help these people.
We commonly must send temporary solutions and in some regions we could do a lot better. We need a missionary force of well drillers and treatment and distribution specialists like me. Not engineers! People that do this every day should be doing it and there are thousands!. Our history of water is a history of blessing and we should share our knowlege and ability with others. Sadly I have never heard of a water centralization and treatment mission.
Belated thanks for your excellent input! Please forgive my late response.
I agree wholeheartedly with your appeal for a water centralization and treatment mission.
I would welcome suggestions for how to move forward with something along those lines.
Point of use filtration can help, but cannot compare with what can be done on a centralized basis.
The problem I hear from those setting up wells on the field is that our charity model for funding wells leaves the local community lacking a feeling of ownership and thus neglecting the well, so that the average life of a well is about 7 years even though, as you suggest, a 10 year old could maintain it.
Jane, Thanks for all the great tips!


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Q: Rails: How to run javascript when the controller render action For the sake of argument, we have "new product" form.
I use some javascript libraries for html form elements (e.g. icheck, select2, wysihtml5). These form elements needed to be run with their associated js library functions to show properly (e.g. $(".checkbox").iCheck({...}) ) before rendering the HTML page.
If there is validation errors on submitting the form, Rails will render action "new" to reshow "new product" form with errors (exactly in the "Create" method in "ProductsController").
The problem is Rails will not execute associated javascript files (e.g. products.js.coffee) again in this situation. Then, the javascript based html form elements cannot be shown properly as they should be (because $(".checkbox").iCheck({...}) does not get executed).
How can I resolve this problem?

A: This could be a turbolinks problem. Look at the jquery-turbolinks gem, or try the following:
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$(document).ready(ready)
$(document).on('page:load', ready)

You could also try and disable turbolinks to see if it is, in fact, the issue.


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As the Governor's Proclamations unfurled towards the May 4th expiration of his "Stay Home, Stay Healthy" order, the prospects for renewed cannabis policymaking remained uncertain.
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On Tuesday at 10am PT, the weekly Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board (WSLCB) Board Caucus was scheduled to recur.
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The Board last convened in caucus on Tuesday April 14th. At publication time, the last time the Board physically met in-person was Tuesday March 10th.
Governor Jay Inslee's Proclamation 20-28 issued on March 24th temporarily modified the Open Public Meetings Act to prohibit agencies from conducting in-person public meetings through April 23rd. Inslee's Proclamation 20-25.1 issued on April 2nd extended his Stay Home, Stay Healthy proclamation's constraints on public movement through May 4th. And as WSLCB "Headquarters Building is currently CLOSED to minimize the spread of COVID-19," the agency will not convene a public meeting in person for the foreseeable future.
A close reading of Proclamation 20-28 indicates that only two of four sections were automatically rescinded on April 24th, both describing specific modifications to the Open Public Meetings Act (OPMA) and Public Records Act (PRA). The other two sections established more general prohibitions on the activity of agencies subject to the OPMA.
The first provided an open-ended prohibition against hosting public meetings in person:
Any public agency, subject to RCW 42.30, is prohibited from conducting any meeting, subject to RCW 42.30 unless (a) the meeting is not conducted in-person and instead provides an option(s) for the public to attend the proceedings through, at minimum, telephonic access, and may also include other electronic, internet or other means of remote access, and (b) provides the ability for all persons attending the meeting to hear each other at the same time.
The second proscribed the "action" agencies subject to the OPMA could take prior to "regular public participation" becoming possible once again:
Subject to the conditions for conducting any meeting as required above, agencies are further prohibited from taking "action," as defined in RCW 42.30.020, unless those matters are necessary and routine matters or are matters necessary to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak and the current public health emergency, until such time as regular public participation under the Open Public Meetings Act is possible.
At publication time, Cannabis Observer was not aware of any formal action by the Office of the Governor to extend or modify the dated provisions of Proclamation 20-28.
On Tuesday April 21st, the Governor announced "Washington's Recovery Plan" which provided the broad outlines of a "safe, healthy path back to normal" that "will look more like a turn of the dial than a flip of the switch" [ video ].
The State aspires to take a data-driven approach to evaluate the lifting of sanctions which assumes the availability of widespread testing for COVID-19 infections. The Governor's address claimed "a variety of barriers to accessing the necessary supplies have prevented Washington from processing more than 4,000 tests a day" although the Department of Health Coronavirus website reports cumulative daily test results reaching between 4-5K as early as mid-March.
The State aspires to conduct analytical tracing of proximity contacts with persons infected with COVID-19 which would require "processing between 20,000 and 30,000 tests a day" to prove helpful. Towards that end, the Governor penned a letter to U.S. Vice President Mike Pence making specific recommendations for federal testing support and mentioned Washington was attempting to procure "2.5 million test collection kits to support optimal testing levels."
Contact tracing was conducted by state and local health authorities throughout Washington in the early days of the outbreak, but that prevention activity was sidelined when limited resources were re-prioritized as the pandemic escalated. Inslee called for renewed and increased reliance upon contact tracing to target specific individuals for testing and quarantine, aiming to increase a contact tracing "fire brigade" to 1500 dedicated professionals by mid-May, including a request for the assistance of 500 National Guard reservists.
The Washington State Department of Health has been in consultation with tech giants Apple and Google, which have partnered to develop an opt-in framework for allegedly anonymized contact tracing based on the recording of Bluetooth identifiers typically broadcast by mobile phones. The University of Washington has worked with volunteers from Microsoft to develop a similar app called CovidSafe.
While the observation of Bluetooth identifiers has long been used as a corporate surveillance technique developed for advertising purposes, the potential marriage of state and corporate surveillance infrastructures in the name of public health is a novel development.
The Governor's plan does not foresee a return to "normal" until a COVID-19 vaccine is developed and made widely available: "Even after the order is lifted, workplaces will continue to look and operate differently until a COVID-19 vaccine is available. Continued physical distancing, teleworking and other measures will continue to be necessary to keep workers and customers safe."
The first federally-sponsored clinical trial of the first COVID-19 vaccine candidate was launched in Seattle at the Kaiser Permanente Health Research Institute on March 16th. Although recently expanded, "Development of a vaccine typically takes up to 18 months."
On Wednesday at 10am PT, the bi-weekly WSLCB Board Meeting was scheduled to recur.
The last five regularly scheduled board meetings have been cancelled. The agency last convened a board meeting for formal rulemaking on Wednesday February 5th. The agency called a first irregularly scheduled Special Board Meeting on Friday March 27th to conduct emergency rulemaking enabling retailers to defer excise tax payments and withdraw the CR-102 to pause the Quality Control (QC) Testing and Product Requirements rulemaking project. The agency called a second irregularly scheduled Special Board Meeting on Monday April 6th to conduct emergency rulemaking claiming a specific authority to suspend licenses to enforce Governor's Proclamations, and delegated that authority to the Chief of Enforcement.
On Wednesday at 1:30pm PT, the three-member Board and agency leadership were scheduled to convene their weekly WSLCB Executive Management Team (EMT) meeting.
The last ten regularly scheduled EMT meetings have been cancelled. The EMT last convened on Wednesday February 12th.
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Netflix has mastered the skill to target the bull's eye, which is viewers in their case. It does not have only kept its viewers base intact but has managed to increase it exponentially. They have got the key to do it which is releasing the shows in multiple seasons, releasing season after season of their successful shows.
In the context, the third season of The Sinner is all set to mark its presence in the USA based streaming platform. It was announced in March this year.
Insights of the plot for the third season.
This season will feature a brand-new case. There won't be any back linkages from the previous seasons. Detective Harry Ambrose (Bill Pullman) could be seen investigating a fatal car accident that took place in New York. The whole setting of the season is likely to be around this accident cases. The previous two seasons also focused on particular cases.
The Sinner is based on the novel of German author Petra Hammesfahr. It was originally considered as a confined show.
The Sinner season 3 Star cast
Bill Pullman will be seen playing the protagonist that is the role of Detective Harry Ambrose in The Sinner season three. Matt Bomer is a new entrant to the show and is expected as cast opposite to Pullman.
Homer could be seen as Jamie, who is the father of the dead person. He will ask Pullman was out for his help to get such victims. Bomer will be playing Neil Caffrey.
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The third season was announced way back in March this year. There's no official confirmation still as per the sources, it will be aired in the second half of 2020. But remember these are the release date for the USA Network. The series will be available to the Netflix users a year after its release on USA Network.
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Boissezon est une commune française située dans le département du Tarn, en région Occitanie. Elle fait partie du parc naturel régional du Haut-Languedoc. Sur le plan historique et culturel, la commune est dans la Montagne Noire, un massif montagneux constituant le rebord méridional du Massif Central.

Exposée à un climat océanique altéré, elle est drainée par la Durenque, la Durencuse, le Ruisseau d'Issalès, le ruisseau de Rieugrand, le ruisseau du Bouyssou, le ruisseau du Doul et par divers autres petits cours d'eau. Incluse dans le parc naturel régional du Haut-Languedoc, la commune possède un patrimoine naturel remarquable composé de trois zones naturelles d'intérêt écologique, faunistique et floristique.

Boissezon est une commune rurale qui compte  en , après avoir connu un pic de population de  en 1831. Elle fait partie de l'aire d'attraction de Castres. Ses habitants sont appelés les Boissezonnais ou  Boissezonnaises.

Géographie

Localisation

Communes limitrophes

Voies de communication et transports
La commune est desservie par la ligne 106 du réseau urbain Libellus.

Hydrographie

La commune est dans le bassin de la Garonne, au sein du bassin hydrographique Adour-Garonne. Elle est drainée par la Durenque, la Durencuse, le ruisseau d'Issalès, le ruisseau du Bouyssou, le ruisseau du Doul, un bras de la Durenque, la Durencuse, le ruisseau de la Blazié, le ruisseau de la Font de Rieutran, le ruisseau de Puech du Fau, le ruisseau de Puech-Pitou, le ruisseau de Rivaillou et par divers petits cours d'eau, qui constituent un réseau hydrographique de  de longueur totale.

La Durenque, d'une longueur totale de , prend sa source dans la commune du Bez et s'écoule d'est en ouest. Elle traverse la commune et se jette dans l'Agout à Castres, après avoir traversé .

La Durencuse, d'une longueur totale de , prend sa source dans la commune du Bez et s'écoule d'est en ouest. Elle traverse la commune et se jette dans la Durenquesur le territoire communal, après avoir traversé .

Le ruisseau d'Issalès, d'une longueur totale de , prend sa source dans la commune et s'écoule du nord-est au sud-ouest. Il se jette dans le Thoré à Pont-de-Larn.

Climat
Le climat qui caractérise la commune est qualifié, en 2010, de « climat méditerranéen altéré », selon la typologie des climats de la France qui compte alors huit grands types de climats en métropole. En 2020, la commune ressort du type « climat méditerranéen » dans la classification établie par Météo-France, qui ne compte désormais, en première approche, que cinq grands types de climats en métropole. Pour ce type de climat, les hivers sont doux et les étés chauds, avec un ensoleillement important et des vents violents fréquents.

Les paramètres climatiques qui ont permis d'établir la typologie de 2010 comportent six variables pour les températures et huit pour les précipitations, dont les valeurs correspondent à la normale 1971-2000. Les sept principales variables caractérisant la commune sont présentées dans l'encadré suivant.

Avec le changement climatique, ces variables ont évolué. Une étude réalisée en 2014 par la Direction générale de l'Énergie et du Climat complétée par des études régionales prévoit en effet que la  température moyenne devrait croître et la pluviométrie moyenne baisser, avec toutefois de fortes variations régionales. Ces changements peuvent être constatés sur la station météorologique de Météo-France la plus proche, « Burlats », sur la commune de Burlats, mise en service en 1980 et qui se trouve à  à vol d'oiseau, où la température moyenne annuelle est de  et la hauteur de précipitations de  pour la période 1981-2010.
Sur la station météorologique historique la plus proche, « Carcassonne », sur la commune de Carcassonne, dans le département de l'Aude, mise en service en 1948 et à , la température moyenne annuelle évolue de  pour la période 1971-2000, à  pour 1981-2010, puis à  pour 1991-2020.

Milieux naturels et biodiversité

Espaces protégés
La protection réglementaire est le mode d'intervention le plus fort pour préserver des espaces naturels remarquables et leur biodiversité associée.

La commune fait partie du parc naturel régional du Haut-Languedoc, créé en 1973 et d'une superficie de , qui s'étend sur  et deux départements. Implanté de part et d'autre de la ligne de partage des eaux entre Océan Atlantique et mer Méditerranée, ce territoire est un véritable balcon dominant les plaines viticoles du Languedoc et les étendues céréalières du Lauragais

Zones naturelles d'intérêt écologique, faunistique et floristique

L'inventaire des zones naturelles d'intérêt écologique, faunistique et floristique (ZNIEFF) a pour objectif de réaliser une couverture des zones les plus intéressantes sur le plan écologique, essentiellement dans la perspective d'améliorer la connaissance du patrimoine naturel national et de fournir aux différents décideurs un outil d'aide à la prise en compte de l'environnement dans l'aménagement du territoire.
Trois ZNIEFF de  sont recensées sur la commune :
 la « forêt du puech du Fau et du Baile de Sarrettes » (), couvrant  du département ;
 les « sagnes du Pas des bêtes » (), couvrant  du département ;
 les « sagnes du Rieu Grand » (), couvrant  du département ;

Urbanisme

Typologie
Boissezon est une commune rurale, car elle fait partie des communes peu ou très peu denses, au sens de la grille communale de densité de l'Insee.

Par ailleurs la commune fait partie de l'aire d'attraction de Castres, dont elle est une commune de la couronne. Cette aire, qui regroupe , est catégorisée dans les aires de  à moins de .

Occupation des sols

L'occupation des sols de la commune, telle qu'elle ressort de la base de données européenne d'occupation biophysique des sols Corine Land Cover (CLC), est marquée par l'importance des forêts et milieux semi-naturels (71,9 % en 2018), néanmoins en diminution par rapport à 1990 (76,1 %). La répartition détaillée en 2018 est la suivante :
forêts (70,7 %), prairies (16,7 %), zones agricoles hétérogènes (11,3 %), milieux à végétation arbustive et/ou herbacée (1,2 %).

L'IGN met par ailleurs à disposition un outil en ligne permettant de comparer l'évolution dans le temps de l'occupation des sols de la commune (ou de territoires à des échelles différentes). Plusieurs époques sont accessibles sous forme de cartes ou photos aériennes : la carte de Cassini (), la carte d'état-major (1820-1866) et la période actuelle (1950 à aujourd'hui).

Risques majeurs
Le territoire de la commune de Boissezon est vulnérable à différents aléas naturels : météorologiques (tempête, orage, neige, grand froid, canicule ou sécheresse), inondations, feux de forêts, mouvements de terrains et séisme (sismicité très faible). Il est également exposé à un risque technologique, le transport de matières dangereuses, et à un risque particulier : le risque de radon. Un site publié par le BRGM permet d'évaluer simplement et rapidement les risques d'un bien localisé soit par son adresse soit par le numéro de sa parcelle.

Risques naturels
Certaines parties du territoire communal sont susceptibles d'être affectées par le risque d'inondation par débordement de cours d'eau, notamment la Durenque, la Durencuse et le ruisseau d'Issalès. La cartographie des zones inondables en ex-Midi-Pyrénées réalisée dans le cadre du  Contrat de plan État-région, visant à informer les citoyens et les décideurs sur le risque d'inondation, est accessible sur le site de la DREAL Occitanie. La commune a été reconnue en état de catastrophe naturelle au titre des dommages causés par les inondations et coulées de boue survenues en 1982, 1992, 1999, 2012 et 2020.

Boissezon est exposée au risque de feu de forêt du fait de la présence sur son territoire. En 2022, il n'existe pas de Plan de Prévention des Risques incendie de forêt (PPRif). Le débroussaillement aux abords des maisons constitue l'une des meilleures protections pour les particuliers contre le feu.

La commune est vulnérable au risque de mouvements de terrains constitué principalement du retrait-gonflement des sols argileux. Cet aléa est susceptible d'engendrer des dommages importants aux bâtiments en cas d'alternance de périodes de sécheresse et de pluie. 28,1 % de la superficie communale est en aléa moyen ou fort (76,3 % au niveau départemental et 48,5 % au niveau national). Sur les  dénombrés sur la commune en 2019,  sont en en aléa moyen ou fort, soit 37 %, à comparer aux 90 % au niveau départemental et 54 % au niveau national. Une cartographie de l'exposition du territoire national au retrait gonflement des sols argileux est disponible sur le site du BRGM.

Par ailleurs, afin de mieux appréhender le risque d'affaissement de terrain, l'inventaire national des cavités souterraines permet de localiser celles situées sur la commune.

Risques technologiques
Le risque de transport de matières dangereuses sur la commune est lié à sa traversée par des infrastructures routières ou ferroviaires importantes ou la présence d'une canalisation de transport d'hydrocarbures. Un accident se produisant sur de telles infrastructures est susceptible d'avoir des effets graves sur les biens, les personnes ou l'environnement, selon la nature du matériau transporté. Des dispositions d'urbanisme peuvent être préconisées en conséquence.

Risque particulier
Dans plusieurs parties du territoire national, le radon, accumulé dans certains logements ou autres locaux, peut constituer une source significative d'exposition de la population aux rayonnements ionisants. Certaines communes du département sont concernées par le risque radon à un niveau plus ou moins élevé. Selon la classification de 2018, la commune de Boissezon est classée en zone 3, à savoir zone à potentiel radon significatif.

Toponymie
Le nom de la localité est attesté sous les formes Buxadono en 1069, Boxazonem en 1112, de Boissado en 1165.

D'après Ernest Nègre, son nom serait issu du latin Buxus, signifiant « ensemble de buis ». Mais Boissezon ne vient ni de *Buxadunum, ni de *buxetone, qui auraient abouti à *Boisseau et à *Boissedon.

Histoire

 À l'époque médiévale, Trencavel, vicomte d'Albi, construit un château à l'emplacement de l'église actuelle.
 À la fin du , les Boissezon, châtelains de Lombers, sont des seigneurs importants de la région. Alazaïs de Boissezon, femme de Bernard de Boissezon, est célébrée par le troubadour Raimon de Miraval. Sur la foi de celui-ci, le roi Pierre d'Aragon se serait épris de la beauté d'Alazaïs et serait venu lui faire la cour.
 En 1280, Jean de Montfort donne la seigneurie de Boissezon aux Burlats.
 À l'époque moderne, Boissezon est désigné sous le vocable Boissezon d'Augmontel, pour le distinguer de Boissezon de Matviel, actuelle commune de Murat-sur-Vèbre.
 Lors de conflits du , le château est occupé successivement par les troupes protestantes du duc de Rohan, et les troupes catholiques du duc de Montmorency. Il est finalement rasé par le Vicomte de Paulin, à l'exception de la tour du guetteur conservée jusqu'à nos jours.
 Pierre Borel décrit au  une nymphe vivant aux environs de Boissezon, vêtue d'une robe plissée, avec des pieds et des bras très longs, rencontrée par un dénommé Séve qui, une fois arrivé à Boissezon, raconta son aventure aux habitants. Une légende locale mentionne la Salimonde, belle femme aux longs cheveux, qui n'apparaissait qu'à la Chandeleur, mangeant une pomme si la récolte de l'année allait être bonne.
 En 1714, la marquise de Saint-Chamond, héritière de Louis de Cardaillac, vend sa part de la seigneurie de Boissezon à noble Barbara de La Belotterie.
 En 1768, Boissezon est victime d'une inondation.
 En 1789, Boissezon appartient à la sénéchaussée et au diocèse de Castres.
 En 1792, lors du recrutement des bataillons de volontaires du Tarn, Boissezon est tenu de fournir 25 volontaires.
 En 1790 est créée la municipalité de Boissezon d'Augmontel, chef-lieu de canton comprenant les communes d'Augmontel, Boissezon d'Augmontel, Cambounès, Saint-Julien de Gaïx (aujourd'd'hui Lagarrigue) et Valdurenque.
 Le 20 mars 1830, la section de Payrin-haut, enclave de Boissezon, est réunie à la commune d'Augmontel.
 Le 12 juin 1833, une ordonnance redélimite les communes de Boissezon et de Castres.
 Le 22 juin 1889, la commune de Boissezon est diminuée de la paroisse de Saint-Salvy-de-la-Balme, érigée en commune.
 le 14 mars 1928, malgré un avis défavorable du Conseil d'État, la commune est à nouveau diminuée de la paroisse de Noailhac, à son tour érigée en commune.
 Le 3 juillet 1973, la commune de Boissezon est rattachée au canton de Mazamet-Nord-Est.

Politique et administration

Démographie

Économie

Revenus
En 2018, la commune compte  fiscaux, regroupant . La médiane du revenu disponible par unité de consommation est de  ( dans le département).

Emploi

En 2018, la population âgée de  s'élève à , parmi lesquelles on compte 74,2 % d'actifs (62,3 % ayant un emploi et 11,9 % de chômeurs) et 25,8 % d'inactifs. En  2018, le taux de chômage communal (au sens du recensement) des  est supérieur à celui du département et de la France, alors qu'en 2008 la situation était inverse.

La commune fait partie de la couronne de l'aire d'attraction de Castres, du fait qu'au moins 15 % des actifs travaillent dans le pôle. Elle compte  en 2018, contre 71 en 2013 et 69 en 2008. Le nombre d'actifs ayant un emploi résidant dans la commune est de 143, soit un indicateur de concentration d'emploi de 38 % et un taux d'activité parmi les 15 ans ou plus de 51 %.

Sur ces 143 actifs de 15 ans ou plus ayant un emploi, 35 travaillent dans la commune, soit 24 % des habitants. Pour se rendre au travail, 83,6 % des habitants utilisent un véhicule personnel ou de fonction à quatre roues, 1,4 % les transports en commun, 4,1 % s'y rendent en deux-roues, à vélo ou à pied et 10,9 % n'ont pas besoin de transport (travail au domicile).

Activités hors agriculture
36 établissements sont implantés  à Boissezon au . Le tableau ci-dessous en détaille le nombre par secteur d'activité et compare les ratios avec ceux du département.

Le secteur des autres activités de services est prépondérant sur la commune puisqu'il représente 25 % du nombre total d'établissements de la commune (9 sur les 36 entreprises implantées  à Boissezon), contre 9 % au niveau départemental.

Agriculture

La commune est dans la Montagne Noire, une petite région agricole située dans le sud du département du Tarn. En 2020, l'orientation technico-économique de l'agriculture  sur la commune est la polyculture et/ou le polyélevage. Huit exploitations agricoles ayant leur siège dans la commune sont dénombrées lors du recensement agricole de 2020 (24 en 1988). La superficie agricole utilisée est de .

Culture locale et patrimoine

Lieux et monuments
 Le militarial, musée-mémorial pour la paix.
 Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Boissezon.

Personnalités liées à la commune
 L'abbé Gustave Farenc, archéologue et écrivain occitan (7 mars 1878 - 11 juin 1972). Auteur d'une Flore occitane du Tarn, publiée par Ernest Nègre, Agen : Cap e cap, Agen, 1973.
 Pierre Bernard, footballeur, né à Boissezon.
 Hervé Larrue (1935-), joueur international de rugby à XV et de à XIII, né à Boissezon.
 Paul Vidal de la Blache (1845-1918), géographe, et son gendre Emmanuel de Martonne (1873-1955), également géographe, sont propriétaires d'une maison dans le hameau Rusquerolles (aujourd'hui Ruscayrolles) situé aujourd'hui dans la commune de Saint-Salvy-de-la-Balme.

Héraldique

Pour approfondir

Bibliographie

Articles connexes
 Liste des communes du Tarn

Liens externes

 Histoire de Boissezon

Notes et références

Notes et cartes
 Notes

 Cartes

Références

Site de l'Insee

Autres sources

Boissezon
Via Tolosane
Commune membre du parc naturel régional du Haut-Languedoc
Aire d'attraction de Castres
Famille Barbara de Labelotterie de Boisséson

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Diamond and Silk: Zuckerberg Lied, 'We Have Not Been Contacted'
By Debra Heine Apr 12, 2018 5:37 AM ET
Scroll to the bottom for an update from Facebook.
Popular pro-Trump sisters Diamond and Silk Wednesday night claimed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg lied when he told Congress his team had gotten in touch with them to correct an "enforcement error."
During hearings on Capitol Hill Tuesday and Wednesday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) grilled Zuckerberg over reports that Facebook had deplatformed the outspoken duo for being "unsafe for the community."
When Blackburn asked him if Facebook was manipulating algorithms to prioritize or censor speech, Zuckerberg answered that there are types of speech — like terrorism — that Facebook is "very proud" to have removed from its site.
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"Let me tell you something right now," Blackburn interjected. "Diamond and Silk is not terrorism!"
Later on, Rep. Barton read Zuckerberg a letter from a constituent voicing concern over Facebook's treatment of the conservative women and asked the tech giant for his response.
"Congressman, in that specific case, our team made an enforcement error and we have already gotten in touch with them to reverse it," he testified.
Diamond and Silk, whose real names are are Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson, appeared on Fox News' The Ingraham Angle for the second day in a row to discuss Zuckerberg's testimony to lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
The women vehemently denied that anyone from Facebook had gotten in touch with them.
"No!" the sisters replied in unison, when Ingraham asked. "We have not been in communication with Facebook. We have not been contacted. We have not spoken with anyone over the phone, so that was a lie," Diamond added.
Ingraham pointed out that Zuckerberg's testimony Wednesday marked the second time in two days he had claimed the problem had been dealt with.
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"If you go to the site of our Facebook page right now, you will see where people are still having issues with liking and following our page," Silk insisted. "Nothing has been resolved and no one has been in communication with Diamond and Silk."
Diamond said they were happy Zuckerberg admitted that Facebook had made a mistake by deplatforming them, but added that they still want to talk directly with him so he can "rectify" the situation and "make this right."
Diamond and Silk say Facebook has contacted them through Twitter:
UPDATE: Facebook has finally reached out to us through Twitter, we will keep you posted!
Posted by Diamond And Silk on Thursday, April 12, 2018
A spokesman for Facebook admitted to PJ Media that the social media giant had "mishandled communication with Diamond and Silk for months" and said they "understand how frustrated they may be" and are "very sorry."
He said that "the note they were sent last week was incorrect and not reflective of the way we seek to communicate with our community and the people who run Pages on our platform."
The spokesman also told PJ Media that Facebook reached out to Diamond and Silk through both email and comments on their Facebook page on Monday and Tuesday of this week and provided a screenshot of one of the comments.
Here is what the spokesman said happened:
In September 2017, we updated policies around how Pages like Diamond and Silk could monetize their content – we did not properly communicate these policies to them.
As a result, they could not have known that they may face new guidelines around what content they could monetize.
When they reached out to us to learn more about these policies, the team they spoke to did not bring in the team with the most knowledge of this situation.
Separate from this issue, we know that many Page admins have questions around the distribution of their content in News Feed given the updates we've made in News Feed to help people meaningfully connect with friends and family – these changes include:
We've made recent changes to News Feed that affect the reach of public Pages. As News Feed shifts to prioritize posts from friends, public Pages of all types are more likely to experience declines.
Further, we have had a policy in place since 2016 to reduce stories from sources that consistently post clickbait headlines. We've posted publishing best practices to which Page owners can refer to avoid issues like this.
"Facebook is a platform for political voices from across the spectrum and we have vibrant and growing conservative communities and many conservative political leaders and commentators thrive on Facebook," the spokesman said.
He quoted Zuckerberg's words from the hearing yesterday:
"I'm very committed to making sure that Facebook is a platform for all ideas. That's a very important founding principle of what we do. We're proud of the discourse and the different ideas that people can share on the service, and that is something that as long as I'm running the company I'm going to be committed to making sure is the case."
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Debra Heine is a Catholic, mom of six and long time political pundit. She has written for several blogs including her own, Nice Deb, and Breitbart. Conservative libertarian. Never Hillary.
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Manifold Garden Review: Gravity doesn't exist and maybe I don't either?
If you've ever thought an M.C. Escher painting would make a fantastic puzzle game, stop what you're doing and go get Manifold Garden. That's it — that's all you need to know. It's as cool as it sounds (and honestly even a little better than that). For everyone else, feel free to read a few hundred more words on why Manifold Garden belongs in your library.
It's hard to believe that an incredibly beautiful game like Manifold Garden was developed and self-published by a single person, but it's not like this was William Chyr's first foray into interactive media. Initially released in 2019 on Epic and Apple Arcade and in 2020 on pretty much every other platform available, Manifold Garden has captivated thousands, receiving the highly coveted Overwhelmingly Positive rating on Steam with 2,203 reviews at the time of this writing. Available for a reasonably priced $19.99, Manifold Garden asks players to "cultivate a garden to open new paths forward, where an eternal expanse awaits."
Players aren't given any real information on the world they've found themselves in, but one thing soon becomes clear: this is Escher's world, not Newton's, so gravity doesn't work as we've previously known it. Say you're in a box — in the real world, there's a floor, a ceiling, and four walls, each clearly defined and unchanging due to the Earth's gravity and basic physics. In the world of Manifold Garden, players can walk up to any surface — vertical, horizontal, or something in between — and right click to shift the gravitational pull, turning a wall into a floor, a ceiling into a wall, etc. Soon, the human perspective loses all meaning, and a single room suddenly holds an infinite amount of possibilities.
If you love abstract, geometric aesthetics, Manifold Garden is a dream. It doesn't matter where you look, every single angle is a joy to behold. Some areas more logically fit a human, like a building or stairwell, while other places simply devolve into kaleidoscope goodness. And with a soothingly hypnotic soundtrack to match, it's easy to get lost (in more ways than one) in the world of Manifold Garden.
Manifold Garden's puzzles intuitively use the world around players to force them to think outside the box — literally. Players will be presented with cubes and areas to place said cubes to unlock pathways to the next level. It's not just a matter of simply pressing a button to open a door or placing the proper cube through the proper hole; players will have to manipulate gravity in an effort to make these puzzles work. For example, placing a box on the floor in the right spot of the floor becomes a shelf when you rotate the room to shift gravity, allowing you to place a box on top of that shelf in a series of steps to get it where you need t0 go. Writing it out is making it more complicated than it needs to be — as a game, the experience is quite intuitive, making players feel smart and capable for figuring things out on their own.
After the glorious first impressions of Manifold Garden's visuals wear off, some players may feel like there isn't enough direction or that the puzzles feel a bit too repetitive. From a mechanics perspective, a lot of what it wants to accomplish is done within the first hour of gameplay. Because the world of Manifold Garden isn't organic, there's never really a point in time where you'll feel comfortably human — like the world never seems to accommodate for a living creature and is instead a stunning purgatorial state. While this can reduce the urge to truly explore every nook and cranny for some, for others this will be an unforgettable experience unlike any other.
Manifold Garden is a serotonin-inducing triumph of a puzzle game that will captivate anyone who loves abstract aesthetics. Every single frame of this game is a screenshot, and every puzzle one that challenges the brain to think of the world in a more incorporeal manner. If M.C. Escher is your favorite MC, Manifold Garden is an absolute must-play, and I cannot envision a better platform for this geometric garden than PC.
Final Verdict: 4/5
Available on: PS4, PS5, Switch, XBox One, XBox Series X|S, Apple Arcade, PC (reviewed); Publisher: William Chyr Studio; Developer: William Chyr Studio; Players: 1; Released: October 20, 2020; MSRP: $19.99
Editor's note: This review is based on a retail copy of Manifold Garden provided by the publisher.
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