These are the minutes of the IEEE Task Force on Process Mining Meeting at BPM 2010 September 15th 2010, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken NJ.
Although the meeting was running in parallel with other sessions (including presentations of task force members and process mining related demo's), it was well visited. About 20 people attended.
Wil van der Aalst introduced some basic facts about the task force which was established in 2009. Alessandro Sperduti played a key role in the creation of the task force and Wil van der Aalst has been chairing the task force since its inception. The task force groups various organizations: software vendors (Pallas Athena, IDS Scheer/Software AG, Futura Process Intelligence, HP, IBM, Infosys, Fluxicon, Businesscape, Iontas, Fujitsu, Business Process Mining), consultancy-related organizations (some of the above and ProcessGold, Business Process Trends, Gartner, Deloitte), and universities (TU/e, University of Padua, University of Catalunya, New Mexico State University, Technical University of Lisbon, University of Calabria, Penn State University, University of Bari, Humboldt-Universität, Stevens Institute of Technology, University of Haifa, Seoul National University of Technology, Cranfield University, K.U. Leuven, Tsinghua University, Innsbruck University). The goal of the Task Force is to promote the research, development, education and understanding of process mining.
The Task Force will collect a set of case studies on the IEEE website. These should convince potential users that process mining is no longer experimental but can be applied in many settings. There will be a template to describe such case studies and the members will contribute.
There will be a "Process Mining Manifesto" by the Task Force. All task force members, but also other participants of the meeting will be invited. The goal of the manifesto is to provide a clear definition of process mining. Process mining is not limited to process discovery, but also includes conformance checking, performance diagnosis, organizational mining, prediction, recommendation, etc. The key requirement is that analysis is based on "facts" (event log) and that process models play a role (either discovered or modeled) in this.
The goal is to also have a blog that is open to all task for members and visible for the whole world. The blog should be broader than a particular organization/tool and visible for anyone. Christian Guenther will come with a proposal for this.
All members should try to effectively use the label of the Task Force in their communication. This is encouraged. At the same time Alessandro Sperduti suggests that it is wise to become a member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society in such situations.
Event logs used in academic or industrial case studies should be made publically available as much as possible, preferable using DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers), such that data can be referenced. Where applicable, anonymization should of course be applied. Boudewijn will take the lead in developing the necessary tool support and infrastructure.
The task force adopts the XES standard and will use it as a tool to promote the topic.
Keith Swenson will discuss the topic within the WfMC. He supports the goal to replace Business Process Analytics Format (BPAF) by XES (while adding extensions if needed). There is no point in having two standards.
There will be a defined process for handling extensions (review cycle, request for proposals). TU/e will come with a proposal.
Boudewijn will write down the arguments for not using XML schema (based on discussion).
In the more open discussion the role of process mining and how to "sell it" is discussed. Joseph Carmona stresses that process mining should not be limited to business processes. There is consensus on this. At the same time, it is clear that the topic will be driven by successes and real-life applications. A final topic is the promotion of process mining by adding a competition element to the BPI workshop. Boudewijn van Dongen and Barabara Weber will come with a proposal. The goal would be a to appoint to Competition Chair and learn from other conferences where this is common. Alessandro Sperduti will provide some pointers on this.


U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) and a group of Florida lawmakers sent a letter to Gov. Rick Scott Thursday urging him to designate communities in Florida facing the greatest amount of economic hardship as "opportunity zones," to encourage more private investment and economic growth in those areas.
"One thing we should all be able to agree on is that more needs to be done to help expand economic opportunity in the state, particularly in those communities with limited access to affordable healthcare, quality education, and affordable housing," the lawmakers wrote.
Under the tax code, governors can designate up to 25 percent of eligible low-income communities in each state as opportunity zones—whereby investors can get a tax break if they invest in the area.
There are over 1,699 low-income community census tracts in Florida, allowing Gov. Scott to designate more than 400 communities.
In addition to Nelson, the letter was signed by Florida Reps. Charlie Crist, Kathy Castor, Val Demings, Alcee Hastings, Al Lawson, Stephanie Murphy, Darren Soto and Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Following is text of the letter and a .pdf copy is available here.
We are writing about the designation of opportunity zones in Florida and the need to help communities facing economic hardship. One thing we should all be able to agree on is that more needs to be done to help expand economic opportunity in the state, particularly in those communities with limited access to affordable healthcare, quality education, and affordable housing.
As you know, many parts of Florida have not fared well over the last several years, including many rural areas and communities of color. Over 2.9 million Floridians live in poverty, including 21 percent of children in the state. Meanwhile, over 2.4 million Floridians lack health insurance and around 52 percent of the state is burdened with student loan debt, amounting to about $80 billion in total outstanding debt. Around 70 percent of low-income renters are stuck paying more than 40 percent of their income to rent, over 32,000 Floridians are known to be homeless—living on the street, in shelters, or in places deemed uninhabitable for humans—and far too many homeowners in the state still have underwater mortgages. All the while, since 2015, there's been over 250 mass layoffs.
Federal law gives you the opportunity to fix this and finally give these communities the attention they deserve. Under the new tax law, you can designate 25 percent of eligible census tracts as opportunity zones—where investors can earn investment income tax-free and, in the process, help these communities emerge from years of neglect. Regardless of how you feel about the new tax law, we believe it's important to work together to ensure the law is working in the best interests of those most in need, and not just for the well-connected.
Therefore, we ask that you designate areas as opportunities zones based on the amount of economic hardship they face—with special consideration for Historically Underutilized Business Zones (HUBZones), areas with attractive private investment opportunities that can leverage existing assets such as transit infrastructure and access to other investment incentive programs, areas with a readily retrain-able workforce, economically-depressed rural areas, and other areas that have not benefitted from some of the decisions made by state officials in recent years. In making this decision, we also ask that you listen to local leaders, who know their communities best.
We greatly appreciate your attention to this matter and stand ready to help you build a better and brighter Florida.


Daree explains how she came up with the book concept.
We had a deep and lively discussion about relationships, coparenting and fatherhood with our simultaneous live TweetChat.
We raffled off a t-shirt, a book, and a 30-day marketing package from The Survival Radio Network.
And since we held this event at a restaurant/lounge, we ate good all the while!
With so much positive feedback and requests to make this a series, I may hold events on a quarterly basis depending on interest. We need to keep the dialogue going. And we need more input from single fathers.
Amazon (if it shows this title as out of stock–you can still get yours from me directly (with my autograph).
I'm excited to announce that my book What's Wrong With Me? is available on Kindle for FREE for four days this week (April 8-11, 2013 only) as my first Kindle promotion. My ebook is available in all formats, but when I read about the benefits of KDPSelect for authors, I had to take advantage of it. (Amazon is known to frequently change their policies, and not always in favor of independent authors/publishers).
Will You Help a Sista Out?
Ending the Blame Game: New Book Coming Soon!
In 2011, my cousin asked me if I would write a book that gives black men a voice in relationships and allow them to speak out, uninterrupted.
Ending the Blame Game is compiled from interviews from of educated black men who are single, divorced or remarried with one thing in common: they have experienced single fatherhood and desire to lead a loving black family, and they want to share their voice. Their stories give women insight into the minds of single black fathers who want to be a part of a cohesive family unit, and just want to tell their side of the story. Who says men don't want to talk? Whether its infidelity, lack of father figures, child support, divorce, breakdown in communication and overall attitudes about the black male-female dynamic, they've got it covered.
In their own voices, each single father featured shares and discusses what they perceive as obstacles to healthy, committed relationships; instilling their own confidence as men; ways that black women can be supportive of them; how to foster better communication; and how to create a nurturing environment for healthy relationships. But that's not the end-all-be all: at the end of each chapter is an expert's analysis, tips, and suggestions for solutions.
Special thanks to all of my friends who gave me input on various book cover mock-ups last month. I'll give you all updates and what to expect over the coming months.
I like the number 23 simply because it's my birthdate–it has nothing to do with Michael Jordan's number or the Brothers Johnson classic song, Strawberry Letter 23. But when I am in the car around 8 am on a Mon-Thurs, I have enjoyed the Strawberry Letter portion of The Steve Harvey Morning Show on the radio–even though it seems that many of the writers of those letters have no common sense.
During part of my road trip for the holidays, I listened to a couple of audiobooks. One of them was The Strawberry Letter by Shirley Strawberry, a radio vet and one of Steve's co-hosts on his show.


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Don't Panic! We're From Poland
Designer and artist Karol Stryjeński was an extraordinarily skilled organizer of cultural life, and a renowned bon vivant. He was also among the outstanding creators of Polish decorative art of the 1920s – and of the national trend in art déco.
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Karol Stryjeński, 1923, H. Schabenbeck / Tatra Mountains Museum in Zakopane
Karol Stryjeński
Architect, designer of interiors, furniture and kilims.
The Stryjeńskis were a family who made remarkable contributions to Polish culture in the latter half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. Karol, the son of Tadeusz Stryjeński, a famous Cracovian architect, followed his father's example and also studied architecture. Upon his return from Zurich to Kraków, he found work in a design studio. In 1912 he took part in a competition for residential homes with gardens, and in the Polish Exhibition of Architecture and Interiors in a Garden Environment in Kraków. The Stryjeńskis received the two top awards for their shared designs of houses with affordable apartments.
At the end of 1913, while in Paris studying sculpture at the École des Beaux-Arts, Stryjeński entered the Kraków Workshops Association (formed in his absence), and worked there as a designer of furniture and kilims. He worked in carpentry, founding a part of the Workshops for ex-legionnaires, established to create employment for war invalids in a professional capacity. He met his future wife, an artist named Zofia Lubańska, at the Workshops in 1916. Beginning in 1917 the Stryjeńskis became involved in the formist movement, then fermenting in Krakow, which was related to futurism, cubism, and expressionism. He joined other artists in decorating the interiors of the futurists' club (the Gałka Muszkatołowa, i.e., "Nutmeg") and Krakow's "Esplanada" cafe. A year later, Stryjeński won first prize in a competition organized by the Bureau of the Wood Industry for his design of "peasant" furniture. Jerzy Remer wrote: "He breathed visible imagination of material and technique into applied forms. While keeping within the framework of mechanical production, he emphasized the character of contemporary forms."(1) In this era which sought to create a specifically Polish interior, Stryjeński, striving for the synthesis of arts, put forward a unified concept in which the integrated whole of a piece was created by the notion of "localness." The furniture he designed was inspired by folk art, in particular highland art, and referenced Polish handcrafts traditions.
Stryjeński's life was linked with Zakopane from the early 1920s onward. In 1922 he won a competition for a locality's "regulation plan." He presented a bold vision of changing Zakopane into a modern health resort, with an infrastructure adapted for leisure and sport functions. He proposed restricting the zones of packed small-town construction in favor of freestanding buildings with Podhale-region attributes that harmonized with the landscape. The plan was never executed, but the ideas it contained were often resuscitated.
After taking on the position of director of the Zakopane Wood Industry School in 1923, he introduced a fundamental reform, discarding the academic emulation of classic patterns, and emphasizing the development of his pupils' individual skills. In wooden sculpture, his pupils – including Antoni Kenar and Marian Wnuk – betray the influence of cubism and formism, while taking inspiration from Podhale folk art. These compact sculptures with cubist/geometrical syntheses are characteristic examples of the Polish decorative art style of the 1920s which triumphed at the Paris Exhibition in 1925. There, the "wood school" run by Stryjeński received two main prizes – for education methods and for woodcuts – as well as the gold medal in the sculpture field. Among his students' sculptures, including those by Zofia Stryjeńska, were also folk-style fairground toys designed in the Krakow Workshops.
The summit of Karol Stryjeński's work occurred during his participation in the International Exhibition of Decorative Art in Paris. Irena Huml describes the Polish Pavilion as a "synthesis of national decorative styles (…) practically a temple of decorative art, erected by its more fiery adherents;"(2) and Stryjeński's benches and table, designed for the honorary salon of the Pavilion, as some of the finest examples of furniture made in the Krakow Workshops style. These monumental, compact pieces of geometrically-shaped furniture roughly decorated with thick cuts, were clearly inspired by the Podhale folk crafts. In her book on the Krakow Workshops, Irena Huml has noted that this furniture so clearly emphasizing the form was designed according to architectural principles. Precision and structure were also essential in inspiring the designer of folk art. In addition, Stryjeński designed two small commercial objects for the exhibition: a kiosk bearing the Lajkonik [an emblematic Polish figure of a man on a horse – trans.], and a cafe with a stage for the Attractions Area of the Invalids' Promenade, utilizing the trademark crystal art déco forms. He and Wojciech Jastrzębowski also co-designed the Polish exhibition in the mezzanine of the Grand Palais.
In Zakopane, Stryjeński worked extensively in architecture, both wooden and stone, running a design/construction office with his partners, architects Jan S. Meyer and Franciszek Kotkowicz. After designing Dr. Nowotny's villa in Gubałówka, Stryjeński was named the "first revisionist of the Zakopane style."(3) His revision of the neo-vernacular style of Stanisław Witkiewicz involved the combination of highland constructions with modern architecture. In 1923 he published an article called On Building Hostels in the Tatra Mountains, wherein he declared that the form of the hostel should be integrally linked with the upper mountain landscape. As might be assumed, he admired ideas of organic architecture in the spirit of Frank Lloyd Wright.(4) Stryjeński's theories were realized in the hostel in the Valley of the Five Polish Ponds (1924–1931, no longer in existence) built by students of the Wood Industry School. He also designed the hostel at the Ornak Hall (never built) and the interiors of the Murowaniec Hostel at Gąsienicowa Hall, in the spirit of the Polish art déco folk movement. He designed the Great Krokiew – a ski jump opened in 1925. A year later he designed the granite Jan Kasprowicz Mausoleum in Harenda. Stryjeński's extraordinarily wide-ranging activities in Zakopane thus included city planning, architecture, interior design, art, and arts instruction.
In 1926 the Krakow Workshops disbanded, and the Ład Artists' Cooperative was born in Warsaw, which went on to shape Polish interior design and decorative art in the 1930s. One of the founders was Karol Stryjeński, who in 1927 became professor at the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In the geometrical furniture of Ład, with its legible construction and clearly visible joiners, the grain of the wood (the veneer) formed the decoration. In 1929, on commission from the Ministry of External Affairs for Diplomatic Centers, Stryjeński designed a "cubic" bedroom, while still maintaining the "1925 style," with its characteristic geometrical decor with crystal forms. That same year, Stryjeński initiated the birth of the Forma Sculpture Cooperative (modeled on Ład), which gathered together professors and students from the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
The following year saw the creation of an important institution for the Polish artistic life of the 1930s – the Institute for the Promotion of Art in Warsaw, which was meant to oppose the conservative Zachęta Fine Arts Association. Karol Stryjeński became a member; then in 1931, he became vice-chairman of the Institute Board, and in January 1932 he became its director. He died the same year. For all his short life he was known as a splendid organizer, filling key positions, and also as a member of the artistic bohemia in inter-war Krakow, Zakopane, and Warsaw.
Karol Stryjeński (1887– 1932) was an architect, a designer of interiors, furniture, and kilims, an artist, a teacher, and an organizer. He studied architecture at the technical academy in Zurich (1907–1911), and sculpture at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris (1913). From 1913 onward he was affiliated with the Krakow Workshops, with which he designed furniture, kilims, and toys. In 1923 he took up residence in Zakopane, where he held the position of director and led a reform of the Wood Industry School. His designs included the hostel in the Valley of Five Polish Ponds (1924), the Wielka Krokiew ski jump (1925), and the Jan Kasprowicz Mausoleum in Harenda (1926). In 1927 he moved to Warsaw where he became professor of sculpture and metal techniques at the School of Fine Arts. He co-founded the Ład Artists' Cooperative (1926) and the Forma Sculptors' Cooperative (1929), and was co-organizer (1930) and director (1932) of the Institute for the Promotion of Art in Warsaw.
Author: Janusz Antos
Text originally published in Out of the Ordinary. Polish Designers of the 20th Century, edited by Czesława Frejlich and published by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute (Warsaw, 2011) in cooperation with the Karakter publishing house. Translation by Søren Gauger, edited for the purposes of Culture.pl by Agnieszka Le Nart.
For more information on the book, see: www.karakter.pl
(1) J. Remer, Nowe kierunki w sprzętarstwie, "Rzeczy Piękne" 1918, no. 1, p. 21.
(2) I. Huml, Polska sztuka stosowana XX wieku, Warsaw 1978, p. 72.
(3) H. Kenarowa, Karol Stryjeński – pierwszy rewizjonista stylu zakopiańskiego, "Wierchy" 1975, pp. 65–68.
(4) M. Kulig, Architektura tatrzańskich schronisk górskich Polskiego Towarzystwa Tatrzańskiego w dwudziestoleciu międzywojennym, Warsaw 2003, p. 36.
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Modern weddings can be elaborate, time-consuming, and downright costly. Couples are investing thousands of dollars to create a once-in-a-lifetime experience not just for themselves, but for their loved-ones as well.
According to a 2016 survey conducted by The Knot, "the overall cost of a wedding has soared to new heights, with a national average of $35,329." And that's excluding the honeymoon! For such a costly endeavor, it makes sense why some couples choose to spend a couple hundred extra dollars on wedding insurance.
Wedding insurance can protect you from a multitude of unexpected disasters that could ruin your perfect day. Protection from the unknown might just be a smart investment, especially if you're forking over thousands of dollars in nonrefundable deposits for vendors. What if your caterer doesn't show up? What if your wedding venue floods before the big day? What if your DJ's equipment breaks? Or your photographer fails to deliver your pictures? These scenarios are not as far-fetched as they may seem. According to NerdWallet, the most common wedding insurance claims are vendor issues, which make up 30% of all claims. Protecting the investment you make in your vendors could save your wedding day – and your budget – from unforeseen circumstances.
It's no secret. The weather is impossible to predict a year or even a few months in advance when you have to start booking vendors. Which means you are at the will of Mother Nature when you plan for your big day. Some wedding insurance policies will cover your investments in the event you have to reschedule due to extreme weather conditions. This typically includes hurricanes, tornados, blizzards, and earthquakes. Unfortunately, rainy or gloomy skies do not fall into this category. But if you're planning a special day during hurricane season (June through November – aka the most popular months for a wedding), you may want to strongly consider this kind of coverage due to the recent influx of hurricanes.
In times of illness or injury, the last thing on your mind may be canceling or rescheduling a costly wedding when medical bills are looming over you. However, wedding insurance may give you some peace of mind knowing that you and your partner are covered. In case you have to postpone the wedding due to unforeseeable illness, injury, or even death, insurance companies will reimburse the cost to reschedule your wedding. The majority of wedding insurance policies typically cover the bride, groom, and members of the wedding party.
Take some time to research other couples' stories and how your plans might go awry. If you're planning a costly wedding, insurance could save you big time. Problems can arise at any time. Don't add to your burden by forgoing wedding insurance. Put your mind at ease and rest assured that your special day is covered.


My 10-year-old neighbor Eden is determined to find out the worst thing I've ever done. It's a question she apparently asks anyone who sits still near her for longer than a minute.
Outside a morbid curiosity or boredom, I have no idea why Eden wants to know this sort of thing. Maybe it's what kids learn from social media.
Despite repeated requests and abject pleadings, Eden only knows the 19th-worst thing I've ever done, which was to put 40 rounds of .308-caliber ammunition through the unoccupied car of a guy who was bullying me in high school.
Note: Oh, calm down. It falls under natural law. A guy who sticks a smaller guy's head in a toilet shouldn't leave his ride in an unpopulated area.
I don't look at this as a confession. I only admitted it to Eden because she kept bugging me. But 19 is all the further we're going on the scale of my personal crimes.
Do I feel bad about it now? No. I'll tell you what I do still feel bad about. It's having that @*$#*! and his buddy forcibly pull down my pants in a crowded hallway.
The good news is that not everyone thinks like me.
Approximately 80 years ago, a kid stole a stop sign in Midvale. Today, he still feels so bad about it that he recently mailed an anonymous letter of apology to Midvale from Texas.
I can't even begin to imagine following this guy's example. I'd have to spend every dollar I earned and every day I have for the rest of my life to even make a dent with this kind of restitution.
Since I'm not going to, there'll be a lot of things the Lord will have on me when I'm dead. Either that or a lot of my past (and current) behavior will have to be summarily dismissed.
For starters, I can't remember most of the bad things I've done that are bad. Things as insignificant as stealing a municipal sign wouldn't even register on my radar anymore.
The earliest bad thing I remember intentionally doing was when I was 7. Mom caught me trying to get my 4-year-old brother to try out a parachute I'd made from a tablecloth.
Even though we were only on the second or third floor of the apartment building we lived in, she was mad and sent me to my room for the rest of the afternoon.
Seething with the unfairness of it all, I perched a large metal can filled with Tinkertoys on the top of the door and called my brother in. The can hit him in the head (I think he still has the scar) and he screamed about as loud as I thought he might if the chute had failed.
It took me years to feel bad about that, but I do now. It's a rotten thing to do to someone I was supposed to care about.
I have to admire the guy from Texas. The point is that all of us — especially if you're like me — should try a little harder to make some kind of amends to the people we've thoughtlessly hurt.
For that, I'll have to start making another list.


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Another major social media platform Twitter remained up and running, with the users taking to the micro-blogging website to troll Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
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Stephen Ira Adams, who owns an insurance agency in central Louisiana, has gone viral since a feature on his unlikely relationship with a young Ghana was broadcast on CBS Mornings.
According to him, in 2016, he got a call that unexpectedly moved him. He heard a pain that he knew all too well. "Something in that young man's voice, I felt like I could hear him through the phone that he was a broken person," Adams told "CBS Mornings" lead national correspondent David Begnaud.
"The love he showed me, it's overwhelming": When Stephen Ira Adams got a scam call in 2016, he didn't hang up. Instead, he encouraged the man on the other end of the line, Prince Anderson, to call him later — and the two formed an unlikely friendship. pic.twitter.com/vyk0pkxtOG
— CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) January 13, 2022
The man on the other end was at a call center in Ghana, Africa. He asked Adams to purchase a gift card.
"I said to him, 'What you're doing right now is a scam. You know, you are targeting elderly Americans and it's not right,'" Adams said. "And I said, 'When you get off, call me.'"
The man called him back. "He did not ever ask me for any money ever again. Nope, he did not. He asked me for mosquito nets, malaria drugs, educational things," Adams said.
That man was Prince Anderson, who is from a small village in Ghana. As the oldest son in the family, he took on the duty of caring for his sick mother and supporting his younger brother through school after his father died.
It's now been five years since Adams and Anderson first spoke and they still keep in touch via FaceTime.
"The kind of love he showed me, the things he sends me, the money, and the care and love with my mom and everything — the love he showed me, it's overwhelming," Anderson said.
Adams, a 41-year-old father of two boys, said he sees himself as a father figure to 25-year-old Anderson.
"I told him to quit that call center, and he never went back because he found out what it was about," Adams said. "Some of the people working there, I found out, don't even know what's going on. His next job after he quit that call center, he was washing windows at the airport."
But it seems there is a different account to the story that has gone viral, and Stephen Ira Adams may be on to something deceitful.
After we shared the video from CBSMornings on Instagram, an account under the name "Bossc_hairman" commented on the post denying Adams' story. The account went ahead to post the conversations that ensued between Prince and Adams via social media in 2016.
According to the screenshots, Prince reached out to Adams after seeing details of him on the website of Northwestern State University. There was no phone call to scam Adams as he suggested in the interview.
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Alberto Fernandez tops Erik Varga and claims his second world title
52nd ISSF World Championship All Events · Changwon, KOR
The Spanish Trap shooter crushed 48 of his 50 targets, equalling the World Record he set at last year's World Cup Final and climbing atop the World Championship podium for the second time in his career.
The fourth and conclusive event of the day at the ISSF World Championship in Changwon (KOR) crowned 35-year-old shooter Alberto Fernandez of Spain, who won the second world title of his career.
Fernandez, who previously won the World Championship in Munich (GER) in 2010, only missed two of his 50 targets, prevailing over Slovakia's two-time World Champion Erik Varga, who instead missed three clays.
"I feel delighted after winning my second World Championship and the Olympic quota place," said the Spanish shooter, who finished the match with 48 hits and equalled the World Record he set at last year's World Cup Final in New Delhi (IND). "I have a lot of people supporting me and this makes me very happy."
Varga crushed 47 total targets, adding a silver medal to the two World Championship golds he won in Granada (ESP) in 2014 and Lonato (ITA) in 2015. Kuwait's Abdulrahman Al Faihan, Junior World Champion in Zagreb (CRO) in 2006, completed the podium in 3rd place, taking bronze with 32 hits out of 40 clay targets.
Participating in the first final match of his career in the Trap Men event, Australia's 22-year-old James Willett — a four-time World Cup medalist in the Double Trap Men event — placed just outside of the podium, hitting 28 of his 35 targets and finishing in 4th position.
The four Olympic quotas for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games were awarded to Spain, Slovakia, Kuwait and Australia.
After surviving a never-ending shoot-off at the end of the qualification round, where he shot more than 40 additional targets to enter the final, Italy's Mauro De Filippis — gold medalist at this year's ISSF World Cup stage in Changwon — concluded his match in 5th place with 23 crushed clays out of 30.
Despite earning himself the higher qualification bib, United States' Walton Eller left the match after only 25 targets missing eight of them and placing 6th with 17 hits.
Along with the individual bronze, Kuwait also won the team gold medal with 360 total hits; the silver and bronze medals was awarded to the United States of America and Italy, who also finished with 360 hits, but took 2nd and 3rd place according to the countback rule.
Provisional medal standings
1 CHN 2 3 1 2 3 1 6
1 IND 1 2 1 1 1 2 3 1 6
3 KOR 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 6
4 RUS 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 5
5 ITA 1 1 1 2 1 3
6 KUW 1 1 1 1 2
7 ESP 1 1 1
8 CRO 1 1 1 1 2
8 USA 1 1 1 1 2
10 SVK 1 1 1
11 GER 1 1 1
11 UKR 1 1 1
The ISSF World Championship in Changwon will continue tomorrow with two more finals: the 10m Air Pistol Women, scheduled at 1:15 pm (UTC+9:00), and the 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team Junior, taking place at 2:45 pm.
Footage of the Olympic events will be distributed worldwide via EBU and broadcasted live on the ISSF website, on the Federation's Livestream channel and on its official Facebook page.
Live results, news and updates will be available on www.issf-sports.org and on all ISSF social media platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Weibo and Youku.
RESULTS - Trap Men
1. FERNANDEZ Alberto
2. VARGA Erik
3. AL FAIHAN Abdulrahman
VIDEO - Final Trap Men
Interview with Alberto FERNANDEZ (ESP)
PHOTOS - Final Trap Men
CHANGWON - SEPTEMBER 3: (L-R) Silver medalist Erik VARGA of Slovakia, Gold medalist Alberto FERNANDEZ of Spain and Bronze medalist Abdulrahman AL FAIHAN of Kuwait pose with their medals after the Trap Men Final at the Changwon International Shooting Range during Day 2 of the 52nd ISSF World Championship All Events on September 3, 2018 in Changwon, Republic of Korea. (Photo by ISSF Photographers)
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The decision about the 2021 European Championship 10m Air Rifle/Air Pistol
Important decision regarding participation in Grand Prix in Morocco and World Cup in Egypt
The Organizing Committee decided to cancel the 2021 10m European Championship in Lohja, Finland
The Cyprus Grand Prix Shotgun in Cyprus has been postponed
The ISSF opens pre-Olympic season of 2021
ISSF President Vladimir Lisin held meetings with the Continental Confederations
XXXII Olympic Games (Shooting Sport from 23.07 till 3.08)
Tokyo, JPN, 2021
Anna Korakaki was the first to receive the flame for the Tokyo Olympics lit in the traditional ceremony!
ISSF World Cup Shotgun
Nicosia, CYP, 2020
Final Skeet Men
QUALIFICATION AND TRAINING DAY
Final Trap Mixed Team
Final Trap Women
Precisely aiming at the new Olympic year!
New trend for shotgun range
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Sport democracy:)
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This visual recap of what happened in the Kairos network in 2015 shows established churches were trained, planters were identified and launched new churches, and more people were meeting in new churches than ever.
Each number on this report represents a story–a life changed, a donor deciding reaching new people in new places for Jesus is worth writing a check for, a planter leaving security and home for the sake of spreading Good News.
Click here to view a pdf of the annual report.
We are thankful to God for each of these stories. And we are thankful to you for your prayers, your support, and your belief that God's lost people are worth it.


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Wow, my life has sure been busy lately. Seems like forever since I added a post to my blog. Hopefully that trend is changing! As I sit here at my desk, merrily typing away, I can see… yes once again… snowflakes fly past my window. I hate to admit it, but it's depressing. Welcoming snow in March is oh-so-very-hard-to-do. Especially when a person must drive in it…. All I can say is I hope it ends soon, and I hope the prediction of up to 5 inches is incorrect. What the heck – in a week and a bit, dear hubby and I will be trekking to the land of warmth and sunshine ~ Florida. I simply cannot wait to feel the sun on my face. But enough about that for now.
Last week I made it over the mountains (between storms, thankfully) to visit my Dad, Brother, dear Son #2 and dear daughter-in-law (aka: DIL!). It's a four hour drive, but so totally worth it. My brother helped me figure out some important stuff about our taxes; I got to hang out with Dad and cook him a few tasty dinners; I got to meet my new grand-puppy, LUCY; I got to spend the evenings with DS and DDIL; I got to spend most of one day doing some "retail therapy" with DDIL — OH what fun that was! Only moms who never had daughters (and women who didn't have a sister – like me) can understand what a special treat it is to have a very special female family member to go shopping with. We sort of celebrated a late Christmas as well, since nobody was going anywhere last December (due to very nasty weather). Now for some photos!!
little Lucy. Who can resist a beagle puppy? SO CUTE!
Here's a picture of my Dad. He is now 94 years old, and we are SO BLESSED to still have him. He lives at home, although my brother now lives with him. Dad still has all his wits and brains, and LOVES to talk politics! I love this guy – and always have. He is "multi-tasking" in this picture… listening to his favorite TV show (typically something on the Fox News channel) with his headphones, and reading the paper!
As mentioned, my dad and brother live together. My brother is a CAT-lover (so am I!). Here is a snapshot of one of my brother's four fantastic cats! They are all SO MUCH FUN. Just glad I don't have all that fur to deal with! I think one cat will have to do for us for now.
This is "Red". What a happy cat!
Since we "sort of celebrated" Christmas… I want to share with you my gift. Something I really wanted but never dreamed I'd get! A panini grill!! WOOHOO! I had to try it out this week, and the next pictures will show my first (but hardly my last) attempt at making yummy sandwiches.
New panini grill with first sandwich on board.
Ham & Provolone with pineapple. YUMMY!
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Cute beagle! Yummy lunch! Lucy is so cute!! You need to let her parents know about Happy Tails Beagle List.
It's a fun place to meet other beagle owners.
My other dog is named Lucy and she's an 11 yr old Aussie Kelpie.
XOXOXO sent to Lucy, the baby beagle.


[C1q tumor necrosis factor-related protein 6 (CTRP6) inhibits the proliferation and migration of ovarian cancer cells].
Objective To explore the role of C1q tumor necrosis factor-related protein 6 (CTRP6) in the proliferation and migration of ovarian cancer cells.
Genetic Determinants of Enterovirus Infections: Polymorphisms in Type 1 Diabetes and Innate Immune Genes in the MIDIA Study.
The most significant association was with two T1D SNPs, rs12150079 (ZPBP2/ORMDL3/GSDMB region) (enterovirus frequency: AA 7.3%, AG 8.7%, GG 9.7%, RR = 0.86, overall p = 1.87E-02) and rs229541 (C1QTNF6/SSTR3/RAC2) (enterovirus frequency: CC 7.8%, CT 9.7%, TT 9.4%, RR = 1.13, overall p = 3.6E-02), followed by TLR8 (rs2407992) (p = 3.8E-02), TLR3 (1914926) (p = 4.9E-02), and two other T1D SNPs (IFIH1 rs3747517, p = 4.9E-02 and PTPN22, rs2476601, p = 5.3E-02).
Knockdown of CTRP6 inhibits adipogenesis via lipogenic marker genes and Erk1/2 signalling pathway.
C1q/tumor necrosis factor-related protein 6 (CTRP6), an adipose-tissue secretory factor, plays an important role in inflammatory reaction and carcinogenesis.
C1q/tumor necrosis factor-related protein-6 attenuates post-infarct cardiac fibrosis by targeting RhoA/MRTF-A pathway and inhibiting myofibroblast differentiation.
C1q/tumor necrosis factor-related protein-6 (CTRP6) is a newly identified adiponectin paralog with modulation effects on metabolism and inflammation.
CTRP6 is an endogenous complement regulator that can effectively treat induced arthritis.
Here we show that C1q/TNF-related protein 6 (CTRP6; gene symbol C1qtnf6) expression is elevated in mouse rheumatoid arthritis (RA) models.
A combined approach identifies three mRNAs that are down-regulated by microRNA-29b and promote invasion ability in the breast cancer cell line MCF-7.
We further confirmed the activities of three target genes, C1QTNF6, SPARC, and COL4A2, by luciferase reporter analyses and invasion assays.
Cross-contamination of a UROtsa stock with T24 cells--molecular comparison of different cell lines and stocks.
DNA methylation of RARB, PGR, RASSF1, CDH1, FHIT, ESR1, C1QTNF6, PTGS2, SOCS3, MGMT, and LINE1 was analyzed by pyrosequencing and compared with results from the cell lines RT4, T24, HeLa, BEAS-2B, and HepG2.
Depletion of mitochondrial DNA stabilizes C1qTNF-related protein 6 mRNA in muscle cells.
Recently, we demonstrated that C1qTNF-related protein-6 (CTRP6) is involved in fatty acid metabolism in muscle cells.
Expression of a secretory protein C1qTNF6, a C1qTNF family member, in hepatocellular carcinoma.
C1qTNF6 is overexpressed and possibly contributes to tumor angiogenesis by activating the Akt pathway in many hepatocellular carcinomas.
Epigenetic modification of retinoic acid-treated human embryonic stem cells.
Combined analysis of methylation and expression data revealed that 19 genes (STAP2, VAMP8, C10orf26, WFIKKN1, ELF3, C1QTNF6, C10orf10, MRGPRF, ARSE, LSAMP, CENTD3, LDB2, POU5F1, GSPT2, THY1, ZNF574, MSX1, SCMH1, and RARB) were highly correlated with each other.
C1qTNF-related protein-6 increases the expression of interleukin-10 in macrophages.
However, the functional role of CTRP6 remains poorly identified.
UBASH3A (P=1.26x10(-9)), and C1QTNF6 (P=2.21x10(-16)).
C1qTNF-related protein-6 mediates fatty acid oxidation via the activation of the AMP-activated protein kinase.
CTRP6 plays a role in fatty acid metabolism via the AMPK-ACC pathway. The globular domain of CTRP6 mediates the phosphorylation and activation of the 5'-AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) in skeletal muscle cells.
A marker at one other locus, C1QTNF6, previously associated with T1D, showed nominal association with RA in the current study but did not remain statistically significant at the corrected threshold.
We obtained further support for 4q27 (IL2-IL21, P = 1.9 x 10(-8)) and, after genotyping an additional 6,225 cases, 6,946 controls and 2,828 families, convincing evidence for four previously unknown and distinct risk loci in chromosome regions 6q15 (BACH2, P = 4.7 x 10(-12)), 10p15 (PRKCQ, P = 3.7 x 10(-9)), 15q24 (CTSH, P = 3.2 x 10(-15)) and 22q13 (C1QTNF6, P = 2.0 x 10(-8)).


The Church is open to visitors every day from 9am till 5pm. Why not come inside and have a look at this beautiful late Victorian building? It is a very peaceful place simply to sit and pray.
We will be holding our Annual Plant Sale at St Andrew's Church on Saturday 27th April from 10am to 12 noon. Everyone welcome!
Taking place on Juiper Park in Allelsey Green on Monday May 6th from 1-5pm.
If you missed our Sunday Sermon, or would like to listen to it again, please click in this link.
Why not embrace our Lenten challenge to rid your life of unnecessary plastic?
A new group begins on Tuesday 26th February at 12 noon for those who have recently been bereaved.
Lunch n Chat (mark II) provides a well cooked meal and friends who have been through a similar experience. Cost is £2 per person.
(please put your names on the list in church).
Service of reflection and meditation at 7pm.
Passion Praise at 7pm. Music and reading for the Passion season.
Footwashing and vigil at 7pm.
Worship 4 All at 10am.
Walk of Witness at 11.30am from Sutton Avenue shops to Tile Hill.
Service of Unity on the green at Tile Hill at 12 noon.
Hour at the Cross at 2pm.
and changed its name to Tots Praise!
and doors still open at 8.45am.
If you arrive between 8.45am and 9.30am there will be time for some tea, toast and toys followed by the same style baby/toddler service full of action songs, instruments, a bible story, prayers and ending with a craft activity which ends the service.
Tots Praise is a perfect way to introduce babies and toddlers to church whilst sharing such precious times with your little ones.
Every second, third, fourth and fifth Sunday of the month from 14th January 2018 at West Coventry Academy in the Performance Studio.
Allesley Green Prayer The small group who meet to pray for Allesley Green on the fourth Tuesday of the month welcomes new members. Venue 27 Polperro Drive. All welcome.


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Trees are like love
by Dr Marina Nani
in Letter from the editor, Sustainability
Home Letter from the editor
What is the average time a tree takes to grow?
A tree never stops growing, they grow every year, from being a baby tree into a 25 years old tree or 1000 years old tree. Adding each year another circle of growth until they die. It is fair to say that there are no final forms of trees. Planting trees when fire after fire are burning down pristine forests, is one step forward we all can take, to create new beginnings.
A forest big enough to fill a football pitch is destroyed every minute. Children around the world lead a climate change strike and more climate protests are expected. Heart breaking news are keep coming from the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil. Can't help the feeling of sadness and loss and start thinking that must be a silver lining.
Can we regrow what has been lost?
Reforestation is the new beginning, and restoring ecosystems concerns us all.
Can we all take a vital step and help return natural systems and food chains to balance? Sovereign joined a reforestation project which is to be spread out over different locations in Amazon Rainforest countries over the coming months and years. For each page, we plant a tree.
Foundation of this life as we know it, trees protect the soil and create homes, food, and jungle gyms, a vital medium for all living things to blossom. Trees are like love. Without trees, there is nothing.
I was looking at the recent G7 Summit and this year I asked myself different questions than last year, or the years before. What is the role of women in climate change? Where are the women? While the wives of the G7 leaders were present to support and accessorise their husbands' image, I expected more women actively leading this year…
Seems that purposeful female leaders with a hunger for social change are only permitted for a meteorically visit in the political sphere, and it will take many Light Years of wonder outside the orbit before being allowed to take political rain. Recent years have shown politics to be more unpredictable than ever and the only certainty is that the electorate has an unfounded, growing hunger for hope and heroes, who could eventually make things right again. But do they?
This question triggers a wave of awareness amongst the realm of businesswomen, who are tired of waiting for others to make good choices for them. Both at home and away, exceptional businesswomen take control of the boardroom and bring prosperity beyond expectations.
How acceptable is to be told what to think, who to be or what to do?
This fall brought us a wave of extraordinary rising businesswomen, who are not ready to settle for less. As Autumn sets in and Summer leaves us behind until next year, leaves have a change in colours. So do we! Sovereign matured it's colours and now is the best season to take our journey together into holistic wealth, as we take in a breath-taking array of autumnal shades from this month's edition. I decided to be more daring than usual, and asked our Autumn's Cover Girl to share with us a day in her life. We went behind the scenes and find out what a day in the life of Evelyn Okpanachi looks like.
Successful people are generously giving away their wisdom and Evelyn is no exception. She is graciously open about how she invests her time and energy in helping others, hopelessly in love with the potentiality that is so evident in every woman, before they can see it themselves. If anything, Evelyn is known for helping others become more– while wrapped up in her deep respect for time and being on time, no matter what, all part of her trademark and personal charisma. As I am writing this letter, Evelyn called me to say that she is about to enter Enfield Mayor's office to interview her for the new Sovereign podcast series, TLC- Infinite Wealth Mastery.
Looking into our new columnists' content, I can't help but notice that Sandra Deira is giving our feelgood- daily- choices her undivided attention. An internationally recognised wellness specialist, whose passion for health inspires us all, Sandra is known for pushing the boundaries of creating better habits, making us aware of that there are things that producers will never "say" it on the tin. Well aligned with her own values for sustainable wellness, she looks at the contrast between healthy and toxic choices, with a fresh pair of eyes. While her solutions are exclusive to her company and not likely to be purchased at your local market any time soon, becoming aware of these choices, as part of a global shift that is taking place in our society and defines wellness as a new lifestyle.
Taking the less travelled road from consumerism to wellness, changing habits, changing perception, becoming aware of what is available, becoming aware of who we become, are big steps into holistic wealth.
There is a lot to learn from The Amazon Rainforest's disaster: it is never been a better time for planting new trees and new thoughts. On reflection, women and trees are like love. Without them, there is nothing.
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Trees are like love. We plant a tree for each page Editor's letter, October 2019 by Dr Marina Nani A forest big enough to fill a football pitch is destroyed every minute. Children around the world lead a climate change strike and more climate protests are expected. Heart breaking news are keep coming from the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil. #forest #reforestation #women #climatechange #climatechange #protest #life #sustainability #letter #politics #leadership #rainforest #amazon
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Xinhua Hua Agency recently published an investigation report on China's Initial Coin Offering (ICO) ban. The investigation report says that there is a way around for the companies and investors to bypass the ICO ban in China.
The report shows that the companies have been able to find different ways to conduct the ICOs even after the strict rules framed by the Chinese government on illegal ICO financing. There are still a few ICO projects in China which run under the cover of "Foreign shell" companies, among other ways.
One of the insider sources of the news agency says "It seems that the entire process platform does not violate the relevant policies, but the over-the-counter transaction[s] [have] actually opened a hole in the ICO token transaction."
After China's strict rules on ICOs and virtual currencies to stop the various scams happening in the name of crypto, China's local cryptocurrency exchanges shifted their operations to overseas countries. The companies did shut down their services in China, however, the domestic users can still register and trade on the exchanges without any issues.
The investigation report highlights Malta explicitly as the foreign country for these ICO projects because of the growing usage of Chinese language versions in the websites of Malta-based companies. The report also says that these companies are making use of social messaging services like Telegram to form groups to coordinate with the domestic China users. One of the insider sources of the news agency says "It seems that the entire process platform does not violate the relevant policies, but the over-the-counter transaction[s] [have] actually opened a hole in the ICO token transaction."
China banned crypto related trading plans in last year September.
The government authorities have even blocked internet access to the ICO project companies inside China, but still, the companies are finding a way around by using Virtual Private Networks. The News Agency also says that there are a few self-media public companies which are involved in promoting ICO projects to China investors mainly.
China banned crypto related trading plans in last year September. After that, now the People's Bank of China released a document on its official website which states that it will continue to guard against ICOs and Crypto-related investments.
According to a recent press release published on PRNewswire, FedEx, the American courier delivery..
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security(DHS) is seeking to analyze blockchains and to..
Ethereum seems to be at a very critical point as the bearish sentiment of the market is not showing any signs of relenting in the short term.


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'The Two Popes:' Baloney, brilliantly acted
Understanding the debate about celibacy
Skip this year's resolutions, focus on 24 hours
Catholic education helps kids break chains of poverty
Catholic judges under the microscope
Nine ways to have an eco-friendly new year
You can freeze embryos, but not consciences
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By Richard Doerflinger • Catholic News Service • Posted March 15, 2018
Days apart, clinics offering in vitro fertilization in Cleveland and San Francisco had malfunctions in their storage tanks, endangering thousands of frozen eggs and embryos.
Women's Health magazine called it a "fertility clinic nightmare" that may deprive hundreds of women of their chance for a child. We can all sympathize with their plight, and pray they will find a way through their crisis.
The president of the San Francisco clinic told The Washington Post that resulting discussions with families have been emotional. "Anger is a big part of the phone call," he said. "We need to think: If this tissue doesn't work, what are the next steps, and have you not feel defeated."
The clinic told news media there is still some "viable tissue" in its tank. The clinic in Cleveland says it is investigating which "specimens" were affected.
I don't think these families were angry about losing "tissue" or "specimens." Some of the embryos were frozen in the 1980s, and families kept paying hundreds of dollars a year for storage after their reproductive years had likely passed.
When embryonic stem cell research was debated nationwide almost two decades ago, Americans found that hundreds of thousands of embryos were in frozen storage. Scientists and politicians said families should be encouraged to donate the embryos for stem cell research that destroys them.
They forgot to ask: Why were so many preserved this way in the first place? The answer is that many parents cannot bring themselves to end their lives, or even stop paying the storage fee. They see the embryos as their newly conceived children, not "tissue."
That insight also drove one stem cell researcher to a discovery that may help millions. When Dr. Shinya Yamanaka of Japan was considering pursuing embryonic stem cell research, this father of two girls viewed an embryo under a microscope at a fertility clinic.
"When I saw the embryo, I suddenly realized there was such a small difference between it and my daughters," he later told The New York Times. "I thought, we can't keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way."
He discovered how to alter ordinary adult cells to act like very versatile embryonic cells — a discovery that revolutionized medical research, winning him a Nobel Prize in 2012. And we no longer see such fierce campaigns to destroy embryos for their stem cells.
Why are in vitro fertilization clinic personnel blind to such insights? Because if they saw embryos as children, they could not do their jobs. They use eggs and sperm to produce embryos in the inhospitable environment of a petri dish, selecting the "best" embryos for trying to start a pregnancy.
Usually they transfer two, three or more embryos to a woman's body, hoping that one survives. Usually none of them do. Occasionally more than one survives, and many clinics offer "selective reduction" to families that want one child at a time. Over 80 percent of the embryos die, and freezing poses additional risks — even without a malfunction.
The Catholic Church warned against this approach decades before it brought any child to birth. Pope Pius XII saw that if you depersonalize procreation — if you divorce it from the union of embodied love between husband and wife — you undermine respect for the resulting new life.
In vitro fertilization children are as fully human and as worthy of respect as any of us – and that is why we need better ways than in vitro fertilization to help families with fertility problems. The clinics' cavalier references to "tissue" and "specimens" invite us to reflect on the wisdom of what the church has said all along.
Doerflinger worked for 36 years in the Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. He writes from Washington state.
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The Hawthorne Ghost Tour is a fun, exciting, and educational adventure through the heart of East Portland's old red light district. This is a walking tour that takes between 1.5 and 2 hours, during which we will walk approximately a mile and a half.
We have frequent stops to tell spooky and real-life stories about Portland and the Pacific Northwest, and we attempt to make contact with the hereafter at two separate locations, weather permitting.
The tour meets at the SE corner of 37th and SE Hawthorne, outside the historic Bagdad Theater. We have tours at 7:30 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. As one of the most popular tours in the Southeast, we do not accept walk-ups. We take most major holidays off.
Tickets are $20 for adults, $10 for kids 7-12, and $12 for seniors and veterans. Call Marina at 714-675-1124 or email [marina [at] mtourguideforhire [dot] com](mailto:marina@tourguideforhire.com) for booking info. We take cash, Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover and PayPal.
We recommend leaving 15 minutes earlier than navigation software suggests; parking is sometimes hard to find. Please have your tickets available for the guide to check.


The Solar Torch Light With Flickering Flame is an innovative light that is a safe alternative to the real "flames". It collects solar energy all day, then turns on automatically at dusk. This ambient lighting ideal for your patio, deck or garden. The light runs on solar power, so you can place it anywhere! Makes a great gift!
Ling Lasting: Built-in rechargeable Li-ion battery (2200mAh). Light up 10 hours after fully charged.
*Kindly note: Before using this product, you can turn off the light and expose it under sun to fully charge it for 2 more days in order to maximize the battery. As a solar powered product,the working time is weather sensitive.


How long before a birthday party should a balloon arch be made?
I am asking how long before because I am wondering if it can be made the night before or should it be made the day of the party? I'm making it myself and trying to figure out how much time I need.
This depends on what type of balloon arch you are going to make.
If it's a helium filled arch, like a String-of-Pearl Arch, it's best to do the arch on the day of the birthday party.
Helium filled latex balloons only float well for about 10 to 12 hours. If you want to do your helium-filled arch the night before the event, I highly recommend you treat your balloons with hi-float.
If you are planning to do an air-filled arch, then it's fine to create the arch the day before.
Hope that helps! Good luck with decorating the birthday party.


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Bleached Film Screening
By Terrapin Frazier
Movie poster for Bleached.
"Say goodbye to dark skin in eight weeks" advertises a skin-lightening cream that Lenny, a high school aged Filipino girl, is forced to use by her mother in award-winning short film, Bleached.
The film was presented by filmmaker Jess dela Merced as part of Ally Week and concurrent with South Asian Middle Eastern Asian Pacific Islander (SAMEAPI) Awareness Month at Mills. The event was co-hosted by the department of ethnic studies at Mills, the Social Justice Resource Center (SJRC), and the Office of Student Activities (OSA). The screening took place on April 18.
Set in modern day San Francisco, Bleached follows the journey that Lenny, played by Merced, undergoes after she succumbs to her ex-pageant queen mother's request that Lenny use skin lightening cream. Lenny's sense of self shifts as she begins to embody her mother's "skewed sense of beauty." Throughout the rest of the 12-minute film, Lenny rediscovers her own sense of beauty and plays a humorous yet powerful trick to get revenge on her mother.
Following the showing of Bleached, Kenyan-Mexican Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o's brief speech, which addressed beauty and societal pressures to be light-skinned, was shown. The event concluded with a question and answer style "talk-back" led by Merced that centered around identity and colorism.
In the talk-back, Merced described her experience with skin bleaching and the desire to have lighter skin.
"When I was growing up, my mother would come back from the Philippines, and she had these lightening soaps. She never forced me to use them, but I was always curious about them," Merced said. "I was little, but I remember very clearly that I tried using it, and I was like 'I don't see a difference,' so I stopped using it, but I really wanted it to work. This film was the exploration of why I was having those feelings as a very small kid."
DeeAnn Williams, a senior biopsychology major and Filipino-American, reacted favorably to Bleached. Like Merced, Williams's experience of skin bleaching was firsthand.
"I thought Bleached was subtle but powerful — it was brilliant," Williams said. "This is something I've dealt with throughout all the generations, all the relatives and especially my mother. So this has been my life experience. Bleached has been my life in a lot of ways."
Merced also addressed the prevalence of skin bleaching on an international level, a reality she faced in her travels.
"I lived in Japan for a year, and they were white as snow, but they still put that stuff on," Merced said. "I went to Korea; it was there, too. I just got back from Abudabi; it's there as well. Even in San Jose, there was an article, maybe a year ago, about how there was mercury in those creams and this Latino community was getting sick."
Audience members and organizers acknowledged the pertinency of Bleached and the larger issues at play in the film. Rachel Russell, coordinator of diversity and social justice resource center programs, said she enjoyed the film, particularly because of the intersectionality of ideas it addressed.
"I liked that it brings up so many different issues," Russell said. "There's colorism, there's things about race, gender identity, sexuality — a lot of different issues."
Jenn Wells, director of the office of student activities at Mills, said she appreciated the portrayal of social dilemmas throughout the film.
"What I really love about Jess's film is that it highlights the day-to-day experience around oppression, if you will, and how it affects our relationships with one another and our self-image," Wells said. "It's really important for us to engage as scholars, but also to take a kind of self-inventory of what we are experiencing day to day and how societal pressures affect our experiences. Art can be a healing medium to productively look at oppression and societal pressures around beauty."
Until Bleached has finished circulating film festivals, it will be unavailable in full online. A trailer for the film is available at vimeo.com/17138437.
Watch the trailer here:
BLEACHED OFFICIAL TRAILER from Jessica dela Merced on Vimeo.
SAMEAPI will simultaneously be hosting several events this week and throughout the month of April. For more information, visit www.mills.edu/academics/undergraduate/eths/sameapi.php.
Bleached Film Screening was published on April 21, 2014 in Arts & Entertainment, Features


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A Cook's Story - C&C.
After longstanding collaboration with chef Scott Pickett, we were delighted to be part of the intimate team producing his debut book, A Cook's Story. Part narrative and part cookbook, the stories and recipes span Scott's culinary life from childhood to the opening of his second restaurant.
For the chapter heads, we sat Scott down and asked him to hand draw the trajectory of the time in his life each chapter described. The result was a line that is carried through the entire book – sometimes wavy, sometimes jagged but generally travelling upwards. We employed classic typefaces based on French lettering as a nod to Scott's heavyweight training within the likes of Bocuse d'Or. The cover simply features Scott's monogram embossed on beautiful matte paperstock.
A Cook's Story was written with Rita Elrich.
Credits: Folio photography by James Morgan. Event photography by Dominique Cherry.


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Ars Natura: Magical Plastiquarium
David Edgar's colorful marine creatures give new form and meaning to product packaging.
I recently met Beth Terry, the author of a great blog on plastic pollution called Fake Plastic Fish (and a definitive resource on our culture's obsession with plastics) at a very sobering event – the return from an expedition to Midway Island with photographer Chris Jordan, who traveled there with a film crew to document the "plastic graveyard." Midway is literally "midway" from......read more
'Halo' Sustainable Infrastructure
Visionary architectural concept from Holland, so advanced we don't understand it.
In Holland, forward-thinking design is basically a cultural imperative. So no one's going to be surprised that this hyperadvanced infrastructure concept—a floating, multi-purpose structure designed to the highest standards of sustainability—is a Dutch initiative. Envisioned by DHV Architects for a major Dutch causeway that separates the saltwater North Sea from a freshwater lake,......read more
Rasmus Norlander
Clean, sharp architectural and landscape work from the Swedish photographer.
What better day than Monday to look at some cool, detached images of lonely landscapes and dormant machines? Swedish photographer Rasmus Norlander, whose main subject is architectural, actually has a deep and diverse body of work. We're feeling it. Check out his site for more. (Via But Does It Float)...read more
Chrysalis Sky Floor Lamp
Nature-infused lighting design makes use of delicate, highly renewable material—silk cocoons. $1,114.00
Angus Hutcheson's exquisite Chrysalis Sky floor lamp is as elegant as sustainable design gets. Conceived as a surreal glowing orb for the living room, the lamp's diffuser is made from randomly configured silk cocoons, each attached to a hand-soldered wire matrix. Produced by Hutcheson's lighting Argo brand, the lamp continues with the brand's design narrative of fusing nature......read more
Solar City Tower
Design unveiled for gigantic artificial waterfall in Rio.
Rio de Janeiro is famous for its beaches, its carnival celebrations, its rich musical traditions, and the massive Christ the Redeemer statue that overlooks the whole city. For environmentalists, Rio is remembered as that hosted the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit, a landmark in global environmental awareness. When the coastal Brazilian city hosts the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, a gigantic......read more
Living Light
Seoul's smart city shelter displays air quality in real time.
What if buildings could talk? David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang (aka "The Living") answer the question, helping lead the burgeoning movement of interactive architecture, which seeks to engage citizens with environmental and other issues. Living Light is a permanent outdoor pavilion in the heart of Seoul, Korea with a dynamic skin that lights up to show real-time air quality data in the......read more
Farmers Market of the Future
Visionary design unveiled for historic district of Toronto.
In Toronto, local architects recently won a design competition for a new farmers market building in the historic part of the city. The building is four stories tall with a roof covered in skylights and green vegetation. It utilizes a geothermal heating and cooling system, in addition to natural daylighting and ventilation. The structure will be built to the Toronto Green Standard, and shows that......read more
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Oil gushers and global warming: The New Republic asks why we stink at dealing with ecological catastrophes. GOOOAAAAAL! Scoring green at the FIFA World Cup 2010. Tunto Design modestly describes its wooden LED1 lamp as "the best lamp in the world." It's hard to disagree. The hybrid goes virtual: Honda's CR-Z sport hybrid coupe makes debut at E3 video game expo. Gehry vs.......read more
Fish House
Elegance and sustainability make friends at a seaside home in Singapore.
The work of Singapore-based Guz Architects, who specialize in the design of tropical, eco-friendly buildings and homes, is informed by the firm's earth-focused philosophy. Fish House, designed last year for a seaside location in Singapore, is a nice expression of the company mission. With a fluid structure that creates plenty of open space, encouraging natural ventilation and offering views......read more
Nearly invisible, mirrored tree house opens as part of Swedish "Treehotel."
A central tenet of eco-tourism is that it should keep disturbances to the local ecosytem to an absolute minimum. "Mirrorcube," one of the six rooms at the newly opened Treehotel just south of the Arctic Circle in Sweden, takes that concept to the extreme. The structure is suspended on a tree and completely covered in mirrors, making it nearly invisible. As hotel owner Kent Lindvall......read more


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Home More Women Majority of UK Young women face sexual harassment
Majority of UK Young women face sexual harassment
Sradha Meloot
In a rather shocking survey, almost every young woman in the United Kingdom is a victim of sexual harassment. The survey by the UN Women UK pointed out that 97 per cent of the girls between 18 and 24 years had faced sexual harassment.
Afraid to go out in dark and in winter
The survey said that 87 per cent of the women reported of harassment in public places. The younger women said that they faced harassment and objectification on a regular basis. The older women who also participated in the survey pointed out that they were afraid to go out after dark. The participants said that they were also afraid to go out in daytime during winter.
LOSS OF FAITH
Moreover, the survey by the UN Women UK also exposed the loss of faith in the judicial system against such crimes. About 45 per cent of the women pointed out that they did not register any complaint about the sexual harassment. They said that they knew that nothing was going to happen.
Women modify their behaviour to avoid any attack or sexual harassment.
The survey also notes that most of the people who were groped, followed and pressured into sexual activity did not find their experience to be "serious enough" to report.
ISSUE NEEDS IMMEDIATE ADDRESSING
Meanwhile, lead author and executive director of UN Women UK Claire Barnet called it a human rights crisis, which needs addressing at the earliest. One should never think that it is too difficult a problem to handle, Barnet added.
The author also noted that the women were constantly modifying their behaviour to avoid any attack or harassment.
The survey is not the first to talk about sexual harassment against women. It shows how a progressive nation is behaving towards its women citizens.
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Las Vegas police release images of possible suspect in reporter's death
Published September 6, 2022 at 1:34 AM EDT
K.M. Cannon
Jeff German, host of "Mobbed Up," poses with Planet Hollywood, formerly the Aladdin, in the background on the Strip in Las Vegas, June 2, 2021.
LAS VEGAS — Police released surveillance images Monday of a possible suspect in the fatal stabbing of a Las Vegas newspaper's investigative reporter, although the images don't show the person's full face.
The images distributed Monday by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department show a person wearing a wide straw hat, bright orange reflective long-sleeve shirt, blue jeans, gray shoes and carrying a black or dark blue shoulder bag.
Police are asking for the public's help finding any additional surveillance footage as they continue to search for a suspect in the killing of Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German.
German, 69, was found stabbed to death outside his home around 10:30 a.m. Saturday after authorities received a 911 call.
German died of "multiple sharp force injuries" in a homicide, the Clark County Office of the Coroner/Medical Examiner said Sunday.
It appears German was in an altercation with another person that led to the stabbing, according to police.
Police believe the suspect was casing the neighborhood to commit other crimes when German was killed.
"We take this case very seriously and our investigators have been working non-stop to identify and apprehend the suspect," Capt. Dori Koren, a police spokesperson, said in a statement.
Glenn Cook, the Review-Journal's executive editor, said German had not communicated any concerns about his personal safety or any threats made against him to anyone in the newspaper's leadership.
German joined the Review-Journal in 2010 after more than two decades at the Las Vegas Sun, where he was a columnist and reporter who covered courts, politics, labor, government and organized crime.
He was known for his stories about government malfeasance and political scandals and coverage of the 2017 mass shooting at a Las Vegas music festival that killed 60 people and wounded more than 400 others.
According to the Review-Journal, German held a master's degree from Marquette University and was the author of the 2001 true-crime book "Murder in Sin City: The Death of a Las Vegas Casino Boss," the story of the death of Ted Binion, heir to the Horseshoe Club fortune.


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Brain tumors are the most common solid tumors in childhood and while different treatments achieve increased rates of survival in cases such as medulloblastoma in other brain tumors such as gliomas the survival rates are unacceptably low. Radiation therapy is one of the most successful treatments for brain tumors. However, brain radiotherapy elicits an acute and long-term inflammatory response, which is a hallmark of radiation toxicity. Further, radiation therapy for some tumors is associated with declines in intelligence on the order of 15 IQ points over 4 years. This irreversible change in cognitive functioning ultimately impacts educational and occupational success, and could be prevented by improved treatments, such as those investigated in this proposal. We intend to investigate the strategy of blocking part of the action of one of the main inflammatory molecules secreted in the brain in response to radiation. We contend that this will abrogate the observed inflammatory cascade initiated by the radiation treatment and hence protect the vasculature (in the tumor as well as in normal tissue) from radiation damage. This will in turn increase the oxygen levels in the tumor rendering the tumor more sensitive to radiation damage and at the same time protect the normal tissue from the propagation of damage over time fuelled by the inflammatory cascade. We have designed experiments to test if blocking such inflammatory molecule will: (1) increase tumor vascular perfusion, increasing the amount of oxygen available to the tumor and hence enhancing tumor radiosensitivity, (2) protect the blood brain barrier (which controls the entrance of substance to the brain tissue) from radiation-induced damage restoring the controlled environment of the brain tissue and reducing late radiation sequelae, and (3) attenuates radiation-induced cognitive impairments.


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Molly Durand is a professional, up-and-coming session/studio singer based in Los Angeles with an added specialty gift of being able to write catchy Top-lines in a pinch. Her hit single "You Can't Hide" was featured on AXSTV and XFactor and was commissioned to Molly last minute. She was given the track and a stylistic direction and then came in with Melody & Lyrics 10 hours later to create a song that has a growing fan-base and consistent revenue. Molly is able to do on spot 3-6 part harmonies due to her Professional Classical-Choir training. She has relative pitch and rarely needs any post pitch adjustments.
Her chameleon -like versatility are hard to believe and exactly what most producers need. She can go from an Operatic Angelic vocal fantasy line to a Christina Aguilera riff in minutes. She enjoys writing in all styles too such as Country, Soul, R&B, jazz, blues, rock and folk
Her Solo Artist tracks have sold to TV, several films, commercials and have been a part of live Theater Performances from new Playwrights inspired by her work.
Her original music can be bought for Film & TV placement. She is registered with BMI and has the copyright to all her work.
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TOPLINE SAMPLES PERFORMED BY MOLLY DURAND:
You Can't Hide 3:18
Tequila 2:39
A Curious Thing 3:18
Gold Bones 3:05