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FDA Approves Brexafemme
FDA Approves Brexafemme (ibrexafungerp) as the First and Only Oral Non-Azole Treatment for Vaginal Yeast Infections
JERSEY CITY, N.J., June 02, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Scynexis, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCYX), a biotechnology company pioneering innovative medicines to overcome and prevent difficult-to-treat and drug-resistant fungal infections, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Brexafemme (ibrexafungerp tablets), for oral use in patients with vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC), also known as vaginal yeast infection. Brexafemme, which represents the first approved drug in a novel antifungal class in more than 20 years, was approved based on positive results from two Phase 3 studies in which oral ibrexafungerp demonstrated efficacy and a favorable tolerability profile in women with VVC. Scynexis has partnered with Amplity Health, a leading global contract commercialization organization, to support U.S. commercialization of Brexafemme, with commercial launch scheduled in the second half of this year.
"The FDA approval of Brexafemme is the culmination of years of work and a significant milestone for Scynexis, marking our evolution to a commercial-stage antifungal company. We are pleased with the approved label, highlighting the unique attributes of Brexafemme, and thrilled to be able to offer a new treatment option to women with vaginal yeast infections," said Marco Taglietti, M.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of Scynexis. "We believe ibrexafungerp has significant commercial potential. This first approval in the U.S. is a major step towards building the ibrexafungerp antifungal franchise as we intend to leverage an extended 10-year period of regulatory exclusivity and 14 years of patent protection. We are in a strong financial position to execute on our commercial plans and are committed to advancing our hospital programs to maximize the broad potential of this novel therapeutic class to help patients with serious and often resistant fungal infections."
David Angulo, M.D., Chief Medical Officer of Scynexis, added, "We are pleased to bring this much needed innovation to the antifungal field and to offer a new one-day oral antifungal treatment for vaginal yeast infections to millions of women who could benefit from a new therapeutic option. Brexafemme has a differentiated fungicidal mechanism of action that kills a broad range of Candida species, including azole-resistant strains. We are working on completing our CANDLE study investigating ibrexafungerp for the prevention of recurrent VVC and expect we will be submitting a supplemental NDA in the first half of 2022. We thank all the clinical investigators and patients who participated in our VANISH clinical trials who made this significant advancement possible."
Ibrexafungerp benefits from both Qualified Infectious Disease Product (QIDP) and Fast Track designations granted by the FDA for the treatment of VVC and prevention of recurrent VVC. Under QIDP designation, Brexafemme is expected to receive ten years of market exclusivity in the U.S.: five years of new chemical entity exclusivity plus five additional years of exclusivity extension due to the QIDP designation. Brexafemme is also protected by multiple patents, including a composition-of-matter patent covering the ibrexafungerp molecule. With patent term extension, this patent is expected to expire in 2035, providing 14 years of protection in the U.S.
About Vulvovaginal Candidiasis
VVC, commonly known as a vaginal yeast infection due to Candida, is the second most common cause of vaginitis. Although these infections are frequently caused by Candida albicans, infections caused by fluconazole-resistant and non-albicans Candida strains, such as Candida glabrata, have been reported to be on the rise. VVC can be associated with substantial morbidity, including significant genital discomfort (pain, itching, burning), reduced sexual pleasure and activity, psychological distress (stress, depression, anxiety), embarrassment, reduced physical activity, and loss of productivity. Typical VVC symptoms include pruritus, vaginal soreness, irritation, excoriation of vaginal mucosa and abnormal vaginal discharge. An estimated 70-75% of women worldwide will have at least one episode of VVC in their lifetime, and 40-50% of them will experience multiple episodes.
Currently approved treatments for VVC include Brexafemme (ibrexafungerp tablets), several topical antifungals, and oral fluconazole, which is the only other orally administered antifungal approved for the treatment of VVC in the U.S. and which has typically accounted for over 90% of the prescriptions written for this condition every year.
About Brexafemme® (ibrexafungerp tablets), for oral use
Brexafemme is the trade name for ibrexafungerp, a novel oral antifungal approved for the treatment of vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC), also known as vaginal yeast infection. Its mechanism of action, glucan synthase inhibition, is fungicidal against Candida species, meaning it kills fungal cells. The New Drug Application (NDA) for Brexafemme was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on June 1, 2021. The NDA was supported by positive results from two Phase 3, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multi-center studies (VANISH-303 and VANISH-306), in which oral ibrexafungerp demonstrated efficacy and a favorable tolerability profile in women with VVC. Brexafemme represents the first approved drug in a new antifungal class in over 20 years and is the first and only treatment for vaginal yeast infections which is both oral and non-azole. For more information, visit www.brexafemme.com.
Brexafemme is a triterpenoid antifungal indicated for the treatment of adult and postmenarchal pediatric females with vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC).
The recommended dosage of Brexafemme is 300 mg (two tablets of 150 mg) twice a day for one day, for a total treatment dosage of 600 mg. Brexafemme may be taken with or without food.
Brexafemme is contraindicated during pregnancy and in patients with a history of hypersensitivity to ibrexafungerp
Brexafemme administration during pregnancy may cause fetal harm based on animal studies. Prior to initiating treatment, verify pregnancy status in females of reproductive potential and advise them to use effective contraception during treatment
When administering Brexafemme with strong CYP3A inhibitors, the dose of Brexafemme should be reduced to 150 mg twice a day for one day. Administration of Brexafemme with strong CYP3A inducers should be avoided
Most common adverse reactions observed in clinical trials (incidence ≥2%) were diarrhea, nausea, abdominal pain, dizziness, and vomiting
To report SUSPECTED ADVERSE REACTIONS, contact Scynexis, Inc. at 1-888-982-SCYX (1-888-982-7299) or FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 or www.fda.gov/medwatch.
About Scynexis
Scynexis, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCYX) is a biotechnology company pioneering innovative medicines to help millions of patients worldwide overcome and prevent difficult-to-treat infections that are becoming increasingly drug-resistant. We are developing our lead asset, ibrexafungerp (formerly known as SCY-078), as a broad-spectrum, systemic antifungal for multiple fungal indications in both the community and hospital settings. The New Drug Application (NDA) for Brexafemme (ibrexafungerp tablets) was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on June 1, 2021. For more information, visit www.brexafemme.com. We are also continuing late-stage clinical development of ibrexafungerp for the prevention of recurrent VVC as well as the treatment of life-threatening invasive fungal infections in hospitalized patients. For more information, visit www.scynexis.com.
Statements contained in this press release regarding expected future events or results are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including but not limited to statements regarding: the commercial launch of Brexafemme is scheduled in the second half of 2021; the commercial potential for ibrexafungerp; expected duration of commercial exclusivity; Scynexis' financial position will enable it to execute on its commercial plans; and Scynexis' expectation that it will be submitting a supplemental NDA in the first half of 2022 for the use of Brexafemme for the prevention of recurrent VVC. Because such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited, to: Brexafemme may not be accepted by physicians and patients at the rate Scynexis expects; risks inherent in Scynexis' ability to successfully develop and obtain FDA approval for ibrexafungerp for additional indications; unexpected delays may occur in the timing of acceptance by the FDA of an NDA submission; the expected costs of studies and when they might begin or be concluded; Scynexis' need for additional capital resources; and Scynexis' reliance on third parties to conduct Scynexis' clinical studies and commercialize its products. These and other risks are described more fully in Scynexis' filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including without limitation, its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, including in each case under the caption "Risk Factors," and in other documents subsequently filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date on which they were made. Scynexis undertakes no obligation to update such statements to reflect events that occur or circumstances that exist after the date on which they were made.
Source: Scynexis, Inc.
Posted: June 2021
Scynexis Announces FDA Acceptance and Priority Review of New Drug Application for Oral Ibrexafungerp for the Treatment of Vaginal Yeast Infections – December 7, 2020
Scynexis Announces Submission of New Drug Application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for Oral Ibrexafungerp for the Treatment of Vaginal Yeast Infection – October 14, 2020
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Andrew Edward Tollerton, 1914-1941
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Born 23 Apr 1914 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England to Alfred James Tollerton and Rose Hannah Brumby. Andrew was the youngest of seven children. A Labourer at an RAF Station in Lincoln, he was married on 31 Mar 1938 to Elsie Louise Lincoln and they had a daughter named Elsie Gwendoline Rose Tollerton who sadly died with her father on 9 May 1941 in an enemy air strike on their home town. They died at 26 Westwick gardens which was their home address. They were buried together at Canwick Road New Cemetery on 13 May 1941. Andrew had another daughter with Elsie that he never met as she was born shortly after his death. She was called Christine Mary Joy Tollerton. Andrew's wife Elsie remarried to a man named Cyril Pinnington.
Arthur Worrell, 1909-1941
Born 24 Feb 1909 in Waddingham, Lincolnshire, England to George William Worrell and Mary Harrison. He was a Ball Bearing Machinist living at Chestnut Cottages in Nottinghamshire shortly before death. He was married to Audrey Wright and they had one son named Geoffrey A Worrell. One of his brothers, Thomas William Worrell had already lost his life in 1917 during World War 1 and Arthur was now a casualty of war despite being a civilian. He lost his life on 7 Mar 1941 at Ransome and Marles, Beacon Hill, Nottinghamshire. His wife Audrey remarried a few years later to a man named Peter Reilly.
Bernard James Staveley, 1916-1941
4th cousin twice removed (Paternal)
The only son and one of two children in total born to John James Staveley and Carrie Lonsdale. Born in Sculcoates, Yorkshire, England and husband to Joan Marguerite Dunling who is also listed on this page. Bernard and Joan were newlyweds celebrating their first year of marriage. They were living at 17 Braemar Avenue, Endike Lane in Kingston-upon-Hull when they both lost their lives n 13 Mar 1941. They both died at the rear of Braemar Avenue. Bernard was 25 and Joan was 22.
Elsie Gwendoline Rose Tollerton, 1838-1941
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Born 16 Oct 1938 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England to Andrew Edward Tollerton and Elsie Louise Lincoln. Elsie was only two years old when she sadly lost her life during an enemy air strike along with her father on 9 May 1941 at their family home of 26 Westwick Gardens in Lincoln. She never lived to meet her younger sister who was born later that same year. She was buried alongside her father in Cannock Road New Cemetery on 13 May 1941.
Emily Ann Holt, 1894-1940
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Daughter of Edward John Wells Holt and Hannah Walton. Born 10 Jan 1894 in Plaistow, Essex, England and first wife of Reginald William Flack, a Tailor and Royal Air Force Man from Cambridgeshire. They had two daughters together – Kathleen Joan and Winifred Mary Flack. At the time of Emily's death, she was living with her husband Reginald and youngest daughter Winifred in Wandsworth, London at 112 Alderbrook Road and her husband was working as a Driver for the London Passenger Transport Board. Emily was killed on 14 Oct 1940 at Balham Tube Station along with her daughter Winifred. She was 46 years old and her daughter was 20. She was buried at Wandsworth Cemetery and is also one of the names listed on the Roll of Honour to the civilian dead in St George's Chapel, Westminster Abbey. Her husband re-married the following year to a woman named Mary Day.
Heather Overfield, 1936-1941
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Born 15 Aug 1936 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England to Kenneth Leonard Overfield and Ivy Louisa Clements. She was their only child and Heather at only four years old lost her life along with her mother Ivy on the night of 17 Mar 1941 at her home address of 1 Sydenham Road, Cotham, Gloucestershire.
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Born 21 Dec 1905 in Woolwich, Kent, England to William Charles Clements and Emily Louise Tucker. She married Kenneth Leonard Overfield on the 24 Dec 1933 in Redfield, Gloucestershire and they had one daughter together named Heather. Sadly, both Ivy and their daughter Heather lost their lives on 17 Mar 1941 at their home address of 1 Sydenham Road in Cotham, Gloucestershire. As with all the other civilian casualties of WW2, their names lie on the Roll of Honour to the civilian dead in St George's Chapel, Westminster Abbey.
Joan Marguerite Dunling, 1918-1941
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Born 12 Dec 1918 in Sculcoates, Yorkshire, England to David Dunling and Clarice M Savill. In 1940 Joan was married to Bernard James Staveley who is also listed above. They had only been married for a year when they both lost their lives together on 13 Mar 1941 in Kingston-upon-Hull at the rear of Braemar Avenur where they lived. Joan was the only daughter for her parents and had two brothers.
Malcolm Scott, 1939-1944
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Malcolm was the first of four children born to Ralph Scott and Margery Wilkinson. He was born 13 Apr 1939 in Freckleton, Lancashire, England and he was just 5 years of age when he lost his life in the Freckleton Air Disaster of 1944 in which an American Bomber ran into trouble on a routine test flight and crashed over the village of Freckleton destroying the reception class of the school that Malcolm was in attendance at killing him and 60 other individuals predominantly children. An online article remembering the disaster can be read HERE. All of the victims were buried together in a mass grave at Holy Trinity Churchyard in Freckleton and a memorial was erected bearing all their names.
Mary Ann Mullen, 1882-1943
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Mary was born 19 May 1882 in Inverness, Scotland to William Mullen and Mary Ann Williamson. As far as I can tell she was one of seven children and was the former wife of a Lauchlan Bruce who had passed away in 1914. In 1923. She became the third wife of Richard Kelbie, son of Francis Kelbie and Elizabeth Ironside and was living at 33 Charles Street in Aberdeen when she was killed around the 21 April 1943. She was 59 years of age.
Olive Mary Caffyn, 1914-1944
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Olive was the youngest of three daughters born to Archibald Charles Caffyn and Nellie Flaxman Towner. She was born 18 Jul 1914 in Windsor, Berkshire, England. Her father had served on the home front as a Corporal with the Army Pay Corps during World War 1. Olive died at 142 Uxbridge Road on 21 Jul 1944, aged 30. She had never married. She was buried in the same grave as her parents at the New Cemetery in Ealing, Middlesex, England. Her name is amongst those listed in the Civilian War Dead Roll of Honour that lies in St George's Chapel in Westminister Abbey, London.
William Atkinson Shaw, 1900-1941
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One of five sons born to Thomas Shaw and Fanny Atkinson. Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England. One of his older brothers Albert Edward Shaw had lost his life at aged 19 in 1917 during World War 1. In 1939, William was living at 14 Cheltenham Terrace in Newcastle and was working as an Electrician. He was killed at Cheltenham Terrace on 25 Apr 1941 whilst performing his duties as an Air Raid Warden. Another brother, Thomas Shaw, also an Air Raid Warden lost his life that same night making it a total of 3 brothers lost to this family as a result of war. William was aged 40 at his death and had never married.
Winifred Mary Flack, 1920-1940
Winifred was the younger daughter of two born to Reginald William Flack and Emily Ann Holt. She was born 14 Apr 1920 in Marylebone, London, England. Just prior to her death, she was living with her parents at 112 Alderbrook Road in Wandsworth, London and was working as a Wool Shop Assistant. She was 20 years old and single. She died along with her mother Emily on 14 Oct 1940 at Balham Tube Station. She is buried in Wandsworth Cemetery and is remembered on the Roll of Honour at St George's Chapel in Westminster Abbey.
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A young man's dashing attempt to passionately consummate a Friday-night fling has been dashed on the rocks, after his overexcited, misguided text of 'On my way on a Lime scooter!' revealed him to be a massive, massive dork.
With his bulky white helmet on, and his white knuckles wrapped around the handle of a Lime S-1 Scooter, Commerce student Jack Cotterman (20) had a heart full of desire as he zipped along the streets of Brisbane at no more than the legally-mandated 27km/h. After all, he'd just received confirmation from a young lady that a hookup could be on the cards.
The young lady, who will remain nameless, wrote to Jack in a text stating 'Come over now!' It was if almost nothing could go wrong.
Buoyed by the opportunity to break a four-month dry spell, Jack left his mates straightaway upon receiving the text, and found the nearest Lime he could (which wasn't very far away, seeing as they are an extremely convenient mode of transport).
And then, as if in Act III of a five-act Shakespearean epic, or about one-third into a 20-minute sitcom episode, disaster struck. Tragedy reared its ugly head. A complication arose.
The silence from the other end of the phone was deafening. Four fateful minutes passed, Jack's heart sinking as he gazed upon the complete absence of a reply. And then, a handful of dots indicated she was typing.
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"One of the pieces of these conversations that's so critical for us to give voice to is just saying the term breadwinner, saying the term stay-at-home dad, sole breadwinner, primary parent. My husband says he's retired. It took us a while to figure out what's the right language and verbiage was to describe our family." – Bethanie Baynes
Bethanie Baynes is the Director of Strategic Partnerships at Google and has been with the company for 15 years. She's worked to overcome gender bias in tech and is a strong female advocate. She's also a breadwinning woman and has, what she calls, a Flip Family. When her husband was laid off, it felt natural for him to become a stay-at-home dad. They soon realized that many of their friends and family saw it differently. In her efforts to create a community for fellow female breadwinners, Bethanie founded the Breadwinning Women at Google.
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So sorry for late post. Anyway, Stardoll released new floor of Windows on the World, Ramadan themed.
Prices range from 3 to 26 stardollars, except the interior which costs 30 stardollars. There are 2 starcoin items, one superstar only item (McQueen inspired beaded bag), and one royalty only item (Choo style silver heels).
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After a successful year of fundraising in 2018, St Johns will be teaming up with AMS Ltd and EDSB to complete the 12km Total Warrior!
Although mental health is becoming more of a talking point, there is still a stigma attached to it, we want to be part of the movement that ends that stigma.
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Scheer vows to nix carbon tax and 'secret' clean-fuel standards
Scheer says the new standards could increase the cost of gas by at least four cents a litre over and above the government's carbon tax
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OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is promising to scrap new standards that will force cleaner-burning fuels in addition to eliminating the federal price on carbon if his party wins the fall federal election.
In a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday, Scheer surmises the new standards could increase the cost of gas by at least four cents a litre over and above the government's carbon tax.
The national price on carbon adds about four cents per litre, and will rise to more than 11 cents per litre by 2022.
On June 28, Justin Trudeau quietly implemented a secret fuel tax that will increase the cost of gas by at least 4¢/l. It's not just gasoline, either. It will apply to home heating too, on top of the carbon tax. Today, I sent him this letter demanding he come clean about the cost. pic.twitter.com/G4FeY0ayaN
— Andrew Scheer (@AndrewScheer) July 8, 2019
Scheer's letter brands the new fuel standards as a "secret fuel tax" and calls for Trudeau to scrap the regulations.
"While you have never had to worry about paying more at the pump, for some families living paycheque to paycheque, an extra $100 a month matters," Scheer wrote in his letter to Trudeau.
The clean fuel standard is meant to reduce overall emissions by 30 million tonnes a year, a portion of the nearly 200 million tonnes Canada has to erase to meet its commitment under the Paris climate change accord.
A draft of the regulations isn't expected until 2020. The details would then be finalized in 2021, but the rules would won't come into effect until 2023 — one year later than originally planned.
Andrew Scheer told Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a letter, he's cutting the carbon tax if elected. Sarah Silbiger / Bloom
"I can assure you that this October, a new Conservative government under my leadership will scrap your carbon tax and your secret fuel tax, leave more money in Canadians' pockets and let them get ahead," Scheer pledged in his letter.
Environment Minister Catherine McKenna took aim at Scheer's pledge on Twitter, calling his position "another glaring example" of Scheer "wanting to do less and less for the environment." The clean fuel standards, she tweeted, would "complement carbon pricing by spurring investment" in low-carbon fuels and technology.
In June, the government set a 2030 goal of cutting emissions from one litre of gasoline or diesel by 10 to 12 per cent through the fuel standards. Much of that drop would be accomplished by mixing cleaner fuels like ethanol and biodiesel into traditional gasoline to lower the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases produced when fuel is burned.
While you have never had to worry about paying more at the pump, for some families living paycheque to paycheque, an extra $100 a month matters
The Conservatives' climate action strategy says the party would focus more on voluntary investments in renewable fuels to reduce emissions.
In April, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce said that a federal carbon price and a clean fuels standard amounted to "double-dipping" by charging businesses twice for every tonne of emissions. The chamber estimated that by 2025, the clean fuel standard would add 1.5 cents to a litre of gasoline and 3.7 cents for a litre of diesel.
In a cost-benefit analysis released by Environment Canada in February, the department acknowledged the costs of implementing the standard "would likely be passed" on to consumers, households and industrial users. But the analysis did not suggest what that cost would be.
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By G.F. Skipworth in General Discussion, Golf Articles, Latest Golf News
Sandy LaBauve's Vision for Girls in Golf is Booming
It may not be news to anyone but me, but reading Mark Lampert's article on Sandy LaBauve and the ongoing LPGA-USGA Golf Program for Girls stuck a dagger in the heart of the "Golf is Dying" movement. I'm sorry if courses have become too congested as owners need to push more foursomes through per hour. I'm sorry if they make us play too fast or let us play too slow, depending on the person you ask. I'm sorry it's gotten so expensive, and that the driving range is sometimes a better bargain than the fairways. However, the woeful prophets who suggest that no one is riding over the hill to "save" the game are wrong. I don't know about the 'saving' part, but yes, they are – and they're girls, thousands and thousands of them.
LaBauve was introduced to golf by her parents in a way that maximized the fun of the game. Interesting, quirky drills were inserted, and austerity was not a central component. She didn't need to play the whole round, or even keep score – just have fun. She loved it so much that in 1989, she founded a complete program for the advancement and development of golf for girls under the banner of the LPGA and USGA. The effort began with a modest ten programs. Lampert points out that the LaBauve idea has gone pretty well, growing by 1,400% in the years between 2010 and 2017. In the past year alone, 80 new programs have been established. In the year of 2010, 4,500 girls were involved, and by the end of last year, the number reached 72,000. Of interest is that with almost three decades of success behind the programs, a number of leading tour players in the LPGA count themselves as alums. Not surprisingly, LaBauve didn't just assemble this program, give it a shove and walk away. She has occupied virtually every important function and membership status pertaining to girls' golf, is a prominent author for Golf Digest Woman and numerous other publications,and is one of the leading teaching pros in the United States. Incidentally, she brought the fun with her, making the process more than eye for an eye competition, more than tournaments. Every chance she could think of to make the game fun for girls between the ages of six and seventeen, she employed, including separate tees so that a player not yet physically mature could go home and say she parred a hole instead of scoring an 11. Remembering those days myself, I suspect that the same would be invaluable for boys.
In 2018, LaBauve was named as one of the official "pioneers" of golf for girls, being selected for the honor with Amy Alcott and Susie Maxwell Berning. The qualities specified for such an honor were as follows: (a) to venture into unknown or unclaimed territory (b) to open a new area of thought, research and development (c) display the characteristics of pioneer spirit, a la the early settlers, and (d) to forward the development and enhancement of the LPGA.
Of the present ambassadors for LPGA-USGA Girl's Golf Programs, Brittany Lincicome is one of the most ferociously committed. Only a child at the idea's first experiments, she is stunned to see "thousands of new girls…every year." Lincicome finds it difficult to believe that she is now in her thirties, acting as an ambassador for such a program. At any rate, the "golf is dead" folks are not throwing off much credibility where the girls are concerned. The LPGA has developed into one of the most prosperous and healthy golf organizations under the protection of the USGA, and another generation is coming. It's a big one, it plays a good game of golf, and thanks to Sandy LaBauve, it's having a lot of fun.
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British GP: Qualifying notes - Manor
Congratulations Rio. A strong qualifying performance for you today.
Rio Haryanto: "Yes, I'm quite happy with that performance. We always knew that this track would be more difficult for us, but personally, for me, it was a strong and consistent lap."
You also managed to keep Sauber behind you?
RH: "Yes, we managed to beat the Sauber, but we're not as close to Renault as we would like. Hopefully we will be a little stronger in the race tomorrow, as our long run pace is better."
On the face of it, a more disappointing day for you, but then you did come into the weekend predicting a more difficult time.
Pascal Wehrlein: "I'm disappointed of course, but not surprised. I've been very aware that this is a very different circuit. We've been struggling with tyre temperature here again and we tried many different things with the set-up to try to progress. I just wanted us to improve step by step but we didn't manage to find a solution unfortunately."
What about the race tomorrow? Could that be a better story?
PW: "In dry conditions, I'm afraid we don't have the car to do what we did in Austria. Our long run pace is a little better and then there's the weather forecast, which is quite unpredictable. Of course, we hope for crazy weather to work in our favour, because what last weekend showed is that we can make the best of situations. I'm looking forward to it, as always, and I'll do my best for the team's home crowd. I'm expecting a challenging day though."
Dave Ryan, Racing Director: "After the highs of Austria last weekend, today's performance probably feels quite disappointing. However, we've kept our own expectations in check all weekend and we were right to be more cautious here. This is not the same circuit and the track conditions are very different here at Silverstone. We managed to get the tyres working well in Austria and the warm ambient temperatures helped that, but today we've struggled to keep temperature in the tyres. Unfortunately, that's as we predicted. Of course, we're hopeful of better things in the race tomorrow and that's what we'll be pushing for."
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Two Possible Futures for Northwest Oil Refining
One bleak, one hopeful, both dependent on our choices today.
Author: Eric de Place and Zane Gustafson
(@Eric_deP) on September 29, 2021 at 9:31 am
This article is part of the series Transitioning From Puget Sound Oil Refineries
Thinking too deeply about climate change can be bleak, and it can be hard to imagine what successful climate mitigation might look like. Thankfully, we have an example right in the heart of Seattle: Gasworks Park.
In 1906, the Seattle Gas Light Company built a coal gasification plant1Coal gasification is the process of transforming solid coal into gases (hydrogen, methane, ethylene) used as fuel for lighting and heating.
on the peninsula jutting into Lake Union. Much of the original plant was replaced in 1937 when the plant switched to making gas from petroleum. It closed for good in 1956.
Seattle Gas Company plant, Lake Union, July 5, 1935. MOHAI, 1983.10.17694
Fifty years of gasification was hard on the land. According to UW historian Thaisa Way, the soil was "totally unproductive. It had char bubbling up; it had oil spills all over it." The entire site was contaminated by sulfur, arsenic, and coal tar. Intending to demolish the physical structures and create a park, the City of Seattle bought the land in 1962. However, landscape architect Richard Haag proposed keeping some of the industrial buildings and incorporating them into the design of the park. His design was chosen, and eventually the work to detoxify the land began. The transformation took six years and included extensive and pioneering bioremediation techniques. By mixing organic matter with the contaminated dirt, most of the land was detoxified, and the most toxic materials were "put in a large pile and capped with 18 inches of hard-packed clay." That pile is now known as Kite Hill, a defining feature of the park. The Department of Ecology monitors the park to this day and conducts additional clean up measures as necessary. Gasworks Park finally opened in 1976, twenty years after it ceased its carbon emitting and toxic function.
The story of Gasworks Park is illustrative of the immense opportunity of refinery retirement. In the span of 20 years, Gasworks went from a polluting eyesore to a beautiful community space. This story also illustrates how arduous the transition will be. A gasification plant from 1956 is miniscule compared to the scale of five oil refineries in 2021.
Gasworks Park, February 20, 2010. Image by Tony Cyphert
But for a moment, set that aside. Imagine what it will be like if we did it, if we are successful…
It's 2050 and, though it seemed almost impossible at times, the Northwest actually managed to decarbonize. Step by step, we trimmed our pollution in ways big and small. We converted our buildings from natural gas to clean electricity. Through a next-generation electric grid, solar and wind farms in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana are connected to population centers west of the Cascades. At the same time, our fleet that was once composed of millions of gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles gradually but inexorably gave way to new generations of electric cars and trucks. We altered our farming and forestry practices to soak up excess carbon from the atmosphere, and we saw technological breakthroughs that completely reformed industrial manufacturing of things like cement, steel, and glass. Thanks to breathing clearer air, people are healthier. The Salish Sea is less polluted, and the orcas and salmon are thriving.
At least, that's one way the next 30 years could go.
Of course, there is another scenario too, in which we make only halting progress on achieving our climate goals. In this future, we continue to power our cities and our transportation systems with mostly dirty energy. Annual wildfires grow ever more destructive as our last salmon runs dwindle and once-lavish ecologies like Puget Sound are degraded, acidified, and emptied of life.
No one wants this future. It is, we hope, avoidable.
At the time of this writing, in the summer of 2021, there are signs of both hope and doom. We have the power to choose our climate path.
On the one hand, the International Energy Agency is predicting that 2023 will set new records for global greenhouse gas emissions with no peak in sight. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau continues to back construction of a large new oil pipeline to the Pacific Coast that is now 30 percent complete. And US oil exports are hitting record highs after the Obama Administration lifted a longstanding ban on the practice.
Yet at the same time, many energy analysts now think that global oil consumption has already peaked and has entered a period of long, slow decline. According to the oil giant BP, total world energy consumption cratered by 4.5 percent in 2020, yet renewable energy capacity grew at the fastest pace ever. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that, "some of the world's biggest car companies are sending the combustion engine to the scrap heap and are pouring billions of dollars into electric motors and battery factories. Instead of powertrain specialists, they are hiring thousands of software engineers and battery experts."
In the US Northwest, there are signs that the oil industry is in trouble. After decades of relentless expansion, opponents seem to have fought the industry to a standstill. Apart from the Trans Mountain Pipeline in Canada, the oil industry's recent expansion schemes in the Northwest have foundered. Plans to build a huge oil-by-rail facility in Vancouver, Washington failed disastrously and probably helped usher in a more progressive local government. So did oil train projects that were proposed for Grays Harbor, Longview, and the Shell refinery at Anacortes. Increasingly, tribes and environmental advocates are looking to further constrain and diminish the industry's footprint in Cascadia.
In Whatcom County, home of the region's biggest refineries, the county council recently enacted a set of land use policies that will prohibit new refineries and other fossil fuel developments. Meanwhile, the Tacoma City Council continues to extend a moratorium on new fossil fuel projects in that city. And nearly a half dozen other local governments have banned at least some kinds of oil infrastructure, including Portland, Hoquiam, Vancouver (Washington), and King County.
There is now reason to think that much of the Northwest's oil industry could be dismantled, including the five refineries that are its biggest financial assets and its most prominent physical manifestation. Washington State passed new legislation in 2021 to reduce the carbon intensity of liquid fuels, over strenuous objections from the oil industry. And the industry's woes now extend to the private marketplace where investors are increasingly skeptical of oil's long-term viability. Companies like Shell are looking to radically reduce their holdings of refineries, selling as many as half of them. In fact, Shell sold its only refinery in the Northwest in 2021 for $100 million below its assessed value, perhaps a harbinger of trouble.
Key components of the Northwest oil industry may already be illegal. The two refineries at Anacortes sit on land that may actually belong to the Swinomish Tribe, as delineated in their treaty that is protected by the US Constitution. The Swinomish Tribe is likely to succeed in its lawsuit to stop oil trains from running over its land and the courts have found that the pier for tankers at the BP refinery in Whatcom County was built illegally.
So, there is good reason to believe that the Northwest oil industry will diminish in the coming years. That would mean the reversal of decades of steady growth and it would be unprecedented for a titanic industry that, for more than a century, has become accustomed to getting its way. It is unlikely that Big Oil will go quietly into the night.
The future will be shaped by the plans we make today. The Northwest is moving forward with a decarbonization plan that, if successful, would render the refineries obsolete in their home markets. A transportation sector comprising a fleet of electric cars powered by renewable electricity would almost eliminate oil demand in the Northwest. And if local oil demand disappears, there is no reason for the refineries to exist.
The future for oil is highly uncertain, and there remain many important questions for which there is no public discourse, let alone a well-thought-out plan.
What if the Northwest stops using petroleum products, but the refineries keep running? Would Washington simply become a major fossil fuel exporter, green at home but dirty abroad, much like British Columbia is today? Or, what if the refineries stop refining oil and simply converted into giant export facilities, shipping raw crude oil from North America to foreign markets?
If the refineries do close, how would that work exactly? Refinery workers and tax revenue are undeniably important to local economies, but to date there is no published analysis that even attempts to understand what a transition might look like for these communities. If one or more of the facilities closes, would workers simply be laid-off en masse, a catastrophe for their families and localities? Or could some be employed to cleanup, repurpose, or dismantle the existing infrastructure? If so, what might that look like?
There is a tangle of other questions too. In a future without petroleum, who would pay for toxic cleanup in the Sound, an endeavor now that is largely underwritten by Big Oil? Without refineries, how would county governments manage their diminished property tax rolls?
Our opinion is the refineries should close, and quickly. The imperatives of decarbonization, ecological protection, and longstanding justice all demand a speedy transition to a clean energy future. Whatever causes the refineries to close, whether environmental policy or free market economics or something else entirely, it is vital that Cascadia begins planning for the future.
As far as we know, there is only one serious analysis of what oil refinery retirement could mean, a 2020 study published by Communities for a Better Environment in California. The Northwest deserves something comparable. So, in this series, Sightline will attempt to address many of the major questions about the future of Northwest oil refining.
We acknowledge that many of our answers are incomplete. And, we expect that many in the region will disagree with us or have perspectives that we do not adequately represent. So, it is our strong belief that the right way forward involves serious and systematic planning for what an oil-free Northwest looks like. In our view, that planning should start with the region's First Peoples and it should include many others: union refinery workers and climate champions; local government officials and environmental justice activists; leaders of the region's biggest businesses and the kids who will call this region home for the next sixty or seventy years.
We invite you to join the conversation.
Eric de Place, Senior Fellow and former director of the Thin Green Line program, spearheaded Sightline's work on energy policy for two decades. Known as a leading expert on coal, oil, and gas export plans in the Pacific Northwest, he is considered an authority on a range of issues connected to fossil fuel transport, including carbon emissions, local pollution, transportation system impacts, rail policy, and economics. Find his research here.
Zane Gustafson
Zane Gustafson, senior research associate, researches and writes for Sightline's Thin Green Line and Democracy programs. He believes a healthy physical world and robust, democratic political system make for a vibrant society. He was born and raised in Pierce County, Washington, and is a graduate of the University of Washington Evans School of Public Policy and Governance. Find his full bio here. Email: zane [at] sightline [dot] org.
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I'm flummoxed disappointed that your piece did not once invoke reducing fossil fuel use through building walking, biking, transit that even electeds use, and parking policy changes as the fastest way to get us off fossil fuels. This is especially true considering Sightlines knowledge due to its series, "Parking: Lots".
Scott, we quite agree that there are a million and one things that the region can do to reduce carbon pollution. No question about it. That's part of why we're glad to see both OR and WA move toward aggressive decarbonization plans.
But then what? Should we eliminate our homegrown carbon consumption and keep the refineries running? Should the NW become a petroleum exporter to the world? Should we care about the profound impacts that the refineries have on the Salish Sea and indigenous peoples? Should we worry about might happen to the workers and communities that have long depended on the oil industry? We think all these questions are vitally important. And, frankly, we're alarmed that no one is talking about them.
Sightline has written literally thousands of articles about ways we can reduce our carbon emissions. It seems like writing ten or twenty articles about oil refineries — which manufacture about half of the region's carbon products — is important too.
Thanks to Lin Hagedorn for supporting a sustainable Northwest.
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At the edge of a mountain in Nevada sat the little town of Bancroft, hardly known elsewhere by hint or whisper because it was so small, so quiet there, and had no law officer, neither sheriff nor deputy. Nestling was apparent to those living there against the mountain at their backsides, under that scarp of protection; love and luck induced each one of them.
As it was, Tick Anders tried to keep things in order, like land lines, rights of way, fence restrictions, voting lines, and the like, without a legal foot to step on, but his word on the matter as one man with a level head on his shoulders. and an ability to make his words carry enough weight to be believed. He was admired by all who knew him, meaning Bancroft to its roots no matter which way one could look, East, South or West, but not over the mountain carrying several names at the time. Folks, some said, might end up calling it Mount Tick.
Tick had not been anyplace but there in Bancroft, but was an avid reader of newspapers and books that arrived in town in various ways that would not really make a list: someone's relative on a visit, a stranger coming around the mountain looking for water, and a drink, for if Bancroft had little to boast of, it had its own saloon, The Broken Ribbon, and smack against the cliff face; there was no back door to slip out of, because the mountain was in the way, so entrance and exit were made through the swinging doors out front, all customers in command of the view all other customers coming and going. Part of the local history that there were few secrets kept hidden.
Locals continually told the story of a stranger coming into The Broken Ribbon and demanding a room with company, and was ushered out by Tick and a few others as undesirable company, his demands too heavy for the traffic in the saloon, then too neat, manageable, and quiet as the cemetery, of course, to the point of no return once you're on site.
Tick, in his own way, never caused excitement, broached anybody's nerves, or did harm to man or animal, a few mines being the hope of Bancroft's existence; strikes were made perhaps once a year, but never collected a gang because nobody carried out the word of a hit; small, they all thought, was best.
When Jaegger Martins rode into town, as quiet as mesquite because there was none around the town against the mountain, he must have carried some knowledge of Bancroft toted by the wind, or the woes of another horseman. There was no doubt that he knew something of value to bring him to this one spot in all the West where there was little to gain for the eyes or the senses otherwise.
By sitting in the saloon every day since his arrival, Martins got to know every man in town and got to know their families by listening to every word he could hear. He, too, thought he could write a book about Bancroft if he was a writer, which he was not; but a listener he was, A to Z, first word heard to the last word of a day, declaring, by doing so, that he was more than a piece of furniture.
When the one-door bank, in its own one-door tight squeeze, was robbed late in the night, or early in the next day, few knew it, then, with speed, was known by all in almost the same breath. The old timers, quiet as broken whistles, said not a single word about suspects, but sat aside waiting for the robber to give himself away. It seemed that secrets did not have free reign in Bancroft, but were communal possessions, and that included points of law and arrest, there being few, if any, for the longest stretches imaginable, like communal property, a lesson in life.
When Tick took his turn at the bar of the saloon, a regular once-a-week assignment as a volunteer spigot dealer, he brought chatter and joy with him, more contagious than was released by others; his way in life, his twist for a good heart and its welcome in the world, small as it was in Bancroft.
Things vaguely new, whispered kind of as asides in their conversations, had a hard time getting footholds on the customers who often said, "We only listen with our good ear, and then only when it comes full-blown and universal to all in the room. We have such little room for tales, stories, make-believe entries, that we can't abide such mean issues as whispers, state secrets at this low level pinning us against the mountain and any one of us looking for a cheap shiver."
"If one digs deep enough, everything would somehow blossom into true fact somewhere along the line, and how would that add to today's truth of the matter, as any judge would advise even if asked? News needs room, and we just don't have enough room to carry noise and such other rabble that might be unloaded on the unsuspecting in the lot of us."
Proof of that could be gained if a person had a need for such, but who among us would enter such territory; if it don't teach, it ain't news, just blabber and gum-washing, rinsing out any old and useless junk. News had to be electric before Edison could run with it, as all would say and agree in the saloon, the real heart of news rooms the world over, first arrived, heard, and never stopped moving out the doors from then on, each item, each queen of the saddle by name or barn or cabin site, the true love-lights of the dark world of loneliness and the true hunger of man for woman. How many knew, it says?
As it was, heaven was there in Bancroft, all the way, until the big rumble started its move, shaking the Hell out of everything and everyone in the whole town, the whole mountain caught up in a out-worldly attraction, perhaps the moon in an odd twist, or a star caught on its own edge, or a whole group of stars loose in the all-forever and then none, when the mountain, or much of it, lost its grip on what it held to itself, but suddenly let go, came crashing down, taking every ounce of Bancroft with it, every ounce, and Tick Anders without a word said on the matter.
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Remember when you could eat ice-cream cake and entire packages of Oreos with abandon? You were, what, eight? Well, you're no longer a kid anymore (technically speaking), and know how bad a ton of junk food can make you feel. But now that the holidays have struck — with their nonstop party canapes, office-conference-table spreads, and group dinners — how are you going to manage all the temptation? Here's tips on what to grab, what to skip, and how to make healthier DIY variations that aren't a nutritional wash.


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iZombie S1.06 – Virtual Reality Bites
By Greg Barton
Our hero zombie Liv Moore has been comfortable surviving on the steady supply of brains from the recently deceased sent to the medical examiner's office where she and her friend, Ravi, work and try to determine causes of death. But this week, Detective Clive Babineaux and his team discover Simon Cutler, a person who has been dead for 10 days. His neighbors had noticed that no one had been picking up the mail at Simon's house and called the police.
Simon had collapsed on his basement stairs, and his tongue is noticeable swollen. Because it has been so long since the time of death, his body has decayed quite a bit and this includes his brain. Liv hopes that his death can be explained away by anything non-homicidal so that she doesn't have to do the unthinkable. No luck. Clive determines that Simon was a cyber-bully and hacker, and probably had many enemies. So Liv does her best to disguise Simon's pungent, deteriorated brain as a milk shake and regretfully chokes it down for the good of the case.
Almost immediately Liv starts taking on Simon's eating habits as she begins to crave doughnuts. This leads Liv to a brain flash and after putting the clues together, Liv and Clive surmise that that Simon had a violent allergy to peanuts. A birthday card had been mailed to Simon that burst out confetti laced with peanut old. This sent Simon into anaphylactic shock, and he died before he could get upstairs to an epinephrine pen. This is cool because once they quickly figuring out how Simon was killed, the episode can focus on who dunnit.
So, in what I think is a hilarious serious of events, Liv uses her memories and experiences from Simon to become an expert in on-line multiplayer role-playing games. Ravi is of course super-engergized that he can assist Liv in his geekdom universe, and logs in to help. The muscle memory she gained from Simon allows her to log into his laptop, and assume his role in the game. Then she starts binge eating on snacks and drinking sodas incessantly. At one point, Liv barks at another player in the game saying "I will crush you. I will drive you into the sea and hear the lamentations of your women." This is just as Liv's Mom walks in the room, confused, but glad to see Liv so engaged.
Another side effect of taking on Simon qualities is that Liv experiences agoraphobia. She finds it too difficult to leave her house right when she has a date with her new boy-interest Lowell Tracy. She met Lowell in last week's ep while solving the mystery of a college friend's death. Lowell, being a zombie himself, already had a similar experience with a brain previously, and thoughtfully stops by to bring Liv some anti-anxiety medication.
Lowell and Liv spend some time sharing zombie origin stories. Liv, though, explains how she is not ready to move on from her relationship with Major even though she feels she can't be with him. Lowell, who is really into Liv, shares that he can no longer play guitar for crowds because the adrenaline rush before concerts sends him into "full-on zombie mode." (For the zombies in this show, the eyes turn red, they get super strength, and can lose control over their brain cravings.) Lowell's story engenders compassion and empathy from Liv and in the moment he leans in for the kiss. Liv draws back and this sends Lowell awkwardly out the door as Liv returns to the investigating the case.
Liv's reaction to Lowell's kiss attempt is confusing. Earlier in the ep, Major had come into the ME's office and was having his wounds from last week stitched up by Ravi. When Liv takes over the stitching, Major tries to calm Liv's outrage at Major recklessness by saying "Who's your buddy? I'm your buddy." That kind of made me think that Major has already put Liv in the friend zone. And later, Ravi has to stop Major from dropping in on Liv by revealing that Liv is with Lowell. Major doesn't seem to be bothered by this so I guess I have to say no more "Team Major" only "Team Lowell." But just as I think Liv seems to be holding on to something with Major, she later plants one on Lowell and the mixed signals even have me confused.
By the end of the episode we find out the entire gut-wrenching story with Simon Cutler. A young women had taken Simon Cutler's phone call to a customer service department. He went on a tirade during the call because he had to wait 45 minutes before someone was available to help him. The customer service rep posted the irate call on her home page and Simon, in retribution, used his hacker skills to destroy her life. He bullied her, hacked her tax records, stole her identity, put her on no-fly lists, added her to sex offender lists, and systematically caused her to lose her job and her relationships. After a year of this, she took her own life. Her brother set out to find out who did this too her sister and worked tirelessly until he was able to get employed by the very dough nut shop that delivered to Simon's house. This gave him the opportunity to exact his revenge.
My sentiments were reversed this week. This time I ended up hating the victim and felt sorry for the perpetrator. Simon Cutler may have been an overweight, agoraphobic slob, with a peanut allergy, who guzzled gallons of soda while playing on-line games, but he had no right to use his computer skills to make life hell for other people. He was so good at covering his tracks, there was no way to get justice for the young woman. In my opinion, he deserved what he got. The sad thing is, that the women's brother traded his whole life to get revenge on Simon, and will probably spend the reset of his life in jail.
On other fronts, Jackie, Blaine's customer and lover, gets her brain food delivery messed up. She loses control, kills the delivery boy and eats his brain. This sends Clive to Blaine's butcher shop to investigate. Blaine tries to lure Clive into an ambush in the back room, but a phone call from Liv calls Clive away at the last minute. The added attention from the police annoys Blaine and he responds by putting a drill through Jackie's head (which is apparently how you get rid of the undead permanently).
Major's investigations of his missing wayward teens, reveal a picture of Blaine next to the guy that beat him up. Liv now realizes that Blaine is not grave robbing for his craving, but taking people off the street. But unbeknown to Liv, Liv's Mom stopped into Blaine's shop and ask for a job application for Liv's brother, Evan. That's getting too close for comfort, and Even may be in danger very soon.
This show is so entertaining. It's makes you laugh, pulls on your heart strings, makes you hold your breath in anticipation, and leaves you caring about the characters. I also think the writing in this ep is so spot on. At one point, Liv says that she uses a "SQL Injection" to hack the web site of one of the doughnut shops to get a list of employees from a database. They definitely did their research on this one. This is a common attack on poorly secured web sites containing forms that may be tied to a back-end database.
Everything keeps me coming back for more. Can't wait to see how all of this plays out? Keep watching.
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"Emanuel" Screens at 2018 Heartland International Film Fest
There are films at the 2018 Heartland International Film Festival that will entertain you.
There are films at the 2018 Heartland International Film Festival that will deeply move you.
There are films at the 2018 Heartland International Film Festival that will make you laugh or make you cry or make you angry or make you run out on the streets and fight for justice.
There are a lot of amazing films at the 2018 Heartland International Film Festival, but there's really only one Emanuel, a life-changing cinematic experience that will linger in your heart and in your mind for a mighty long time after you've had the good fortune to watch it.
Emanuel will change you.
Written and directed by Brian Ivie, Emanuel tells a story that we know but, of course, we don't really know. It tells a story that we read about in the headlines, but for most of us that's where it stopped.
Of course, there's always more.
On June 17, 2015, 21-year-old white supremacist Dylann Roof walked into a bible study inside Charleston, South Carolina's Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church and, as we know, he opened fire during their closing prayer and left nine African-American worshippers dead.
Emanuel features never before seen interviews with survivors and family members of the victims, telling their painful stories from a personal perspective but never presuming to do what would be impossible to do - make sense of it all.
There are some things in life that just don't make sense.
Emanuel journeys through the murders that shocked a nation increasingly numbed out to extreme violence, yet Emanuel doesn't stop there as Ivie weaves the transparent humanity of the families, at various points in their healing journeys, into a film that is, with remarkable respect and poignancy, more about healing and forgiveness, justice and faith, and even love and hate than it is about the unimaginable violence of one man whose actions continue to ripple in the lives of survivors, families, friends and the community.
A mesmerizing film to watch, Emanuel is an immersive experience often owing to Daniel Stewart's stunning cinematography and the editing work of Ivie with Jonathan Cipiti. There's a meditative quality present within Emanuel, yet there's also an emotional and physical urgency that makes you feel each and every moment.
Again, Emanuel is a film that lingers within your heart and mind long after the closing credits have rolled.
Emanuel picked up the Jury Award for Best Doc Feature at the Bentonville Film Festival and is screening as an Official Selection at Indy's 2018 Heartland International Film Festival. As a longtime attendee and media rep at Heartland, there's simply no question that Heartland audiences will fall in love with this film.
Truly, it's unforgettable.
Emanuel has three screenings scheduled during the Heartland International Film Festival including:
Oct. 12th @ 10:30am at AMC Castleton Square
Oct. 13th @ 8:15pm at AMC Castleton Square
Oct. 20th @ 3:15pm at The Toby at Newfields
For ticket information, visit the Heartland International Film Festival website.
© Written by Richard Propes


This time of year we get to talk to a lot of really nice people who are getting started in the goat business for the first time. Most of the time they have a lot of really good questions, but there are some things that you could only know to ask by experience. That's why we always try to give them a few pointers to help them avoid the mistakes we made when we were first starting. So that got me to thinking, what would I tell myself if I had to start over in the goat business?
For starters, I would tell myself to do a lot more research and talk to a lot more people about what they thought would and wouldn't work. For example, when we first started, we had the great idea of using the plastic orange construction site fencing as a sort of mobile-goat-pen. What a disaster! Let me tell you, it didn't seem like nearly as great of an idea when we were chasing goats around on the blacktop trying to get them back to our property. If only we'd talked to someone who had been in the goat business for a couple years! They could have quickly told us what a goat pen ought to look like (and that ours didn't fit the bill)!
I would also tell myself to be much more selective about where I purchased my goats. Our first goat herd came from a herd dispersal. With goats like these, there was a reason this guy was getting out of the goat business! These were definitely not the goats to start the high quality, low maintenance goat herd that we had envisioned. As it turned out, many of these does were not capable of giving birth or even just staying alive without drastic human assistance. If I could tell myself to do anything different when I started in the goat business, I would have started with goats from someone who was breeding for the same thing we wanted!
If I were just starting in the goat business again, I would tell myself to go to more goat seminars! A couple years after we bought our goats, we started going to seminars. Oh how much easier life would have been if we had just learned a little more about simple things like internal parasites and goat minerals before we'd bought our goats!
If I could give myself advice for starting in the goat business, I would tell myself to keep some good records. Even if I was pretty sure that "the brown baby with the white spots belongs to one of those white does that hangs out by the water trough a lot", I might not be able to put all of those pieces together after a a couple weeks have gone by! A few ear tags go a long way for being able to identify the strengths and weaknesses of your livestock later on.
Also, using the criteria of "well that goat looks pretty healthy to me" would not be my recommended way of deciding whether or not a goat needs to be taken to the sale barn. If I could give myself some advice for starting in the goat business, I would tell myself not to be afraid to cull the goats that need to be culled (by taking them to the sale).
So those are the trade secrets! If you are starting in the goat business for the first time (or you're just stubborn old-hand like me) these tips will make your life a little bit easier. If I had to start over in the goat business, this is definitely the information I would want to know!
Your goat kids are finally here; they look great, but they may be in danger. Coccidia is a parasite that is probably in their systems already - preparing to strike. We suggest feeding minerals that contain Rumensin for a couple of months before weaning to prevent the little ones in your herd from getting infected!


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Security Researchers Find RSA Even More Completely Compromised By The NSA Than Previously Thought
from the setting-the-decryption-standard dept
Mon, Mar 31st 2014 11:06am — Tim Cushing
Last December, Reuters broke the news that RSA had received $10 million from the NSA to push a weakened crypto standard as the default. This resulted in an incredible amount of backlash against RSA, resulting in many security researchers pulling out of the RSA's conference (which itself was met by a protest conference).
There's more bad news ahead for the RSA, again delivered by Reuters.
Security industry pioneer RSA adopted not just one but two encryption tools developed by the U.S. National Security Agency, greatly increasing the spy agency's ability to eavesdrop on some Internet communications, according to a team of academic researchers.
Reuters reported in December that the NSA had paid RSA $10 million to make a now-discredited cryptography system the default in software used by a wide range of Internet and computer security programs. The system, called Dual Elliptic Curve, was a random number generator, but it had a deliberate flaw - or "back door" - that allowed the NSA to crack the encryption.
A group of professors from Johns Hopkins, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Illinois and elsewhere now say they have discovered that a second NSA tool exacerbated the RSA software's vulnerability.
The professors found that the tool, known as the "Extended Random" extension for secure websites, could help crack a version of RSA's Dual Elliptic Curve software tens of thousands of times faster, according to an advance copy of their research shared with Reuters.
As Reuters notes, Extended Random has not been widely adopted (and now won't be), so the real story here is how the NSA undermines companies (and their aims) under the name of "advising on protection."
Rather belatedly, RSA officials are developing a sense of skepticism towards the NSA's motives.
"We could have been more skeptical of NSA's intentions," RSA Chief Technologist Sam Curry told Reuters. "We trusted them because they are charged with security for the U.S. government and U.S. critical infrastructure."
As has been shown numerous times over the last several years, the government would rather make the connected world less secure -- by stockpiling exploits and preventing holes from being patched -- in the name of "security." There's more than one kind of security, and the definition that works for most normal people runs contrary to the NSA's desire to exploit and collect everything it can.
The NSA has refused to comment on the story and the RSA, for its part, has not disputed what researchers have uncovered. Dual Elliptic Curve is the NSA's $10 million baby, and the addition of Extended Random does nothing more than make the next set of random numbers easier to predict.
Johns Hopkins Professor Matthew Green said it was hard to take the official explanation for Extended Random at face value, especially since it appeared soon after Dual Elliptic Curve's acceptance as a U.S. standard.
"If using Dual Elliptic Curve is like playing with matches, then adding Extended Random is like dousing yourself with gasoline," Green said…
The academic researchers said it took about an hour to crack a free version of BSafe for Java using about $40,000 worth of computer equipment. It would have been 65,000 times faster in versions using Extended Random, dropping the time needed to seconds, according to Stephen Checkoway of Johns Hopkins.
This is what happens when you allow the NSA to not only play with the toys, but to also design them. "Security," in terms of the RSA's chosen standard, is now nothing more than a buzzword appended to its product line. The company learned far too late that the intelligence agency has little need for solid encryption, viewing it as an obstacle to be surmounted rather than a defensive tool that might make computing more secure -- for everybody.
The agency wants it all and it wants to gather it with the least amount of effort possible. While it may have little desire to turn its weapons on Americans ("incidental collections" will still continue, of course…), it has exactly zero compelling legal reasons not to weaponize crippled encryption against the rest of the world. RSA's credulousness (and perhaps $10 million) apparently silenced its better judgement, and now the connected world is open not only to the NSA's exploits, but anyone else with the desire to open the agency's backdoors.
Filed Under: compromised security, dual elliptical curve, encryption, extended random, nsa, security, surveillance, trust
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The scary part of this...
...is not that these cryptographers discovered this problem. It's not even that the NSA has been exploiting it for who-knows-what.
The scary part is that maybe someone else did. A long time ago. And elected to do something with it that didn't include publishing in academic journals or talking to reporters.
—Rich Kulawiec
Anonymous Coward, 31 Mar 2014 @ 11:19am
Fuck the NSA
Can anyone cite five things that have benefitted the people of These United States of America on behalf of the NSA?
As a follow up question, how much taxpayer money was used (including such bribes as the $10 million mentioned in this blog) to get this benefit?
Time to end the NSA! They are completely misguided and worthless.
Geno0wl (profile), 31 Mar 2014 @ 11:20am
Even IF, which it is a big if, the NSA didn't have "malicious" intent it would be an absolutely terrible idea to put a backdoor into the crypto.
I mean it only takes one clever person(or a jaded ex-NSA contractor...) to bring that whole house of cards down. Then not only did you just shoot your company in the foot but you also compromised EVERYBODY else.
At this point I don't know why anybody in their right mind would use any RSA products if they could go somewhere else, and RSA has nobody to blame for it than themselves.
mcinsand, 31 Mar 2014 @ 11:25am
class action suit time?
At what point could customers have grounds for a class action suit? Customers pay RSA to enhance security, not to sell it out.
carlosjii (profile), 31 Mar 2014 @ 11:28am
Re: Fuck the NSA
Hey the NSA and the FBI/CIA kept us safe until 9/10/2001
Congress can de-budget them anytime and would except NSA has so much stuff on Congress
Mark Wing, 31 Mar 2014 @ 11:30am
"To serve America" is really just a cookbook.
ChurchHatesTucker (profile), 31 Mar 2014 @ 11:30am
Paging Carmen Ortiz
Can we prosecute the people who are an actual threat?
nsa is going to single-handedly put this country on its knees.� to borrow from a great man we wish we still had among us, 'you have to stand in awe.'
DannyB (profile), 31 Mar 2014 @ 11:35am
But look at the benefit to the RSA
But the NSA give RSA $10 Million for compromising crypto!
Wouldn't this be an immediate and justifiable reason for RSA to bend over for the NSA, take the money and run?
Isn't short term benefit always more important than long term benefit? Look at Nokia signing an assisted suicide deal with Microsoft. Look at Oculus Rift being acquired by Facebook.
DV Henkel-Wallace (profile), 31 Mar 2014 @ 11:43am
Can EMC sue?
Since the government impaired the value of RSA (which was purchased by EMC) could EMC sue the government for destroying their asset? Seems like this would fall after the last clause of the fifth amendment: "nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation"
John Fenderson (profile), 31 Mar 2014 @ 11:44am
RSA is done for
I don't see how any RSA products can be trusted at this point. The first strike? Very worrisome and cause for extreme caution. The second strike? Indicative that there is likely to be other problems that have yet to surface. It's now far too risky to give RSA any trust at all.
Re: Can EMC sue?
"without just compensation"
The $10 million doesn't count as just compensation? RSA seems to have thought it did.
Ninja (profile), 31 Mar 2014 @ 11:53am
Are we seeing the first major death caused by the NSA in the tech sector?
Re: What were they thinking?
All it takes is one foreign agent inside NSA to hand a foreign power the same ability. The question should be how badly have they been compromised by foreign agents?
Point EMC in the direction of investor state dispute resolution, that way it bypasses the US courts.
Rich Kulawiec, 31 Mar 2014 @ 12:02pm
Eric Stein, 31 Mar 2014 @ 12:05pm
(gasping sound)
Wait, the NSA will do the taking, and no compensation will be given. The $10M seems like a drop in the bucket compared to the losses sustained by people and companies unfortunate enough to use RSA products, yet what has the NSA gained for this deadly (the bodies will be found eventually) sabotage to the US economy. If your job is to protect the country and you think that ruining the economy in a necessary step towards that goal, aren't you now the mad-dog agency. Here's another piece: what do you do with tame dogs if you work for US LE?
Anonymous Coward, 31 Mar 2014 @ 12:05pm
No, that would be Skynet. Luckily, NVidia revived it for next year.
If this were any other company put in charge of product creation they'd be sued to no end and promptly removed from any and all other contracts and projects.
these people need to be removed from their posts and locked away.
Re: The scary part of this...
nah, there is no chance of it. at all. I mean that would be illegal and nobody would ever do something if it is illegal, right?
Rikuo (profile), 31 Mar 2014 @ 12:22pm
Like others have told me, you can sue for anything, but winning in the actual lawsuit? Different story altogether.
If the US government even allowed the case to move forward, they would just argue that nothing was taken, that RSA still has the standard and can still promote and sell their products, that it's all legal, blah blah blah.
Coogan (profile), 31 Mar 2014 @ 1:05pm
Give RSA some credit - they got $10 million bucks. That's substantially better than the 30 pieces of silver Judas got.
Then again, Judas had enough remorse to return the silver and hang himself. Your move, RSA.
Personanongrata, 31 Mar 2014 @ 1:23pm
If you don't have anything to hide, you have nothing to fear.
The US government made over 95 million derivative classification decisions in 2012.
Apparently the US government has a lot to hide and is mighty fearful of the truth.
http://www.archives.gov/isoo/reports/2012-annual-cost-report.pdf
madasahatter (profile), 31 Mar 2014 @ 3:10pm
Re: Re: What were they thinking?
Or somebody work in a foreign intelligence agency discovering the problem and not talking. The only reason anyone knows about this is the people who discovered these flaws published their results. I would love to know if the Russians or Chinese have been using NSA funded backdoors on the US government.
zip, 31 Mar 2014 @ 3:35pm
RSA - world's most gullible people?
It's always amazed me that an organization that specializes in building encryption algorithms would knowingly take advice from an organization that specializes in breaking encryption algorithms -- and never suspect any monkey business.
But of course feigning ignorance serves as better damage-control than the alternate possibility: that RSA knew the deal smelled fishy, but chose to take the money with one hand while holding their nose with the other.
Feldie47 (profile), 31 Mar 2014 @ 3:46pm
Hmmm. Should I think twice the next time I bank online, or buy something online? RSA broken? Credit card encryption still valid? Did the NSA get to do what so many hackers failed to do? Bring down all monetary transactions on the internet? Remember the discussions decades ago about breaking the encryption? 64 bits then 128, then 256. Where exactly does that put us now?


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