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Sited along the road are fine examples of architecture built in the 1920s and 1930s including the former curved Telecoms Building which was previously known as the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company (1927), and later Cable and Wireless Building serving as the companys headquarters. The Telecoms Building was known as Telecommunications Authority of Singapore (TAS) Building before becoming The Ogilvy Centre today. Another revival in the area is the Lau Pa Sat (formerly the Telok Ayer Market), which is a fully restored and preserved monument and was renamed so in 1989. On this road also, for years the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) had its headquarters, and so did the Chinese daily, Sin Chew Jit Poh. Crosby House, a seven-storey office complex, is still a landmark at the corner of McCallum Street. It was the former home of Standard Chartered Bank before it was acquired by Singapore Telecom, which had turned it into its headquarters by April 1989. In December 2002, SingPost sold Crosby House to SingTel.
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Palpimanus transvaalicus est une espèce d'araignées aranéomorphes de la famille des Palpimanidae.

Distribution
Cette espèce est endémique d'Afrique du Sud. Elle se rencontre au Nord-Ouest, dans l'État-Libre, au Cap-Oriental, au KwaZulu-Natal, au Gauteng, au Mpumalanga et au Limpopo.

Description
Le mâle holotype mesure .

Étymologie
Son nom d'espèce lui a été donné en référence au lieu de sa découverte, le Transvaal.

Publication originale
 Simon, 1893 : Études arachnologiques. 25e Mémoire. XL. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'ordre des Araneae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, ,  (texte intégral).

Liens externes

Notes et références

Palpimanidae
Espèce d'araignées (nom scientifique)
Faune endémique d'Afrique du Sud

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On March 1, he joins Roy Edroso and the rest of the Village Voice staff here at Runnin' Scared.
Silicon Alley Insider, this is your cue to report this as yet more proof that Nick Denton is the Second Coming of Christ.
Around here, we're just looking forward to Foster joining us in the general madness.


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As I'm certain is the case with literally thousands of others, Roland Reiss has been a seminal figure in my development as an artist. I say this not simply because he was my teacher but because we have continued a relationship for some 30 years since I studied with him at the Claremont Graduate University. From 1971 through 2001 he was the chair and the driving force behind Claremont's graduate art program. During his tenure there, he shaped it into one of the most successful programs in the Los Angeles area today and in 2009 Roland received the College Art Association's Distinguished Teaching of Art Award.
What fascinates me most, however, is how our relationship has weaved in and out of my life and artistic practice. I suppose this bears out the adage that your teacher remains your teacher, long after class is over.
I met Roland in 1978 in the woodworking shop at CGU (formally CGS, the Claremont Graduate School). He was working feverishly to complete a life-sized installation piece, The Castle of Perseverance, along side student helpers known as Rolaids.
Conceived for an exhibition at the Newport Harbor Art Museum (now known as the Orange County Museum of Art) the piece seemed modest enough--except that every tiny detail was made of MDF (a type of particleboard).
I knew from the beginning there was nothing ordinary about this work. Like any conventional living room, the piece included a couch. I remember sitting on the couch in 1978 and again just a few weeks ago at Objct Gallery in Claremont, California, where The Castle of Perseverance is currently on exhibit. This sitting-on-the-couch moment reminded me how Roland, the artist, the person and the teacher, continues to impact my life.
After Roland left CGU he went on to found and direct Painting's Edge, an exceptional two-week residency program, hosted by the Idyllwild Arts Academy, in the mountain village of Idyllwild, California. The program existed from 2001 to 2008 and was designed specifically for painters. Participants applied and were accepted from all over the world. Renowned artists and critics were invited in from New York and Los Angeles to act as mentors and speakers, doing group and individual critiques in both formal and informal settings.
One year, I had the great privilege of being invited to Painting's Edge as a renowned artist and was handsomely paid to do so. I loved my time and participation there so much that I returned every year thereafter, uncompensated, until the program's closing. It was an incredibly charged environment, an environment influenced in large part by Roland. As is true I'm sure for many of the participants as well as myself, there were epiphanic experiences and insightful moments at Idyllwild that will stay with us forever.
Though Roland has created sculptural and installation work, by 1991 he returned to his true passion, painting. A current exhibition, Set Theory : Roland Reiss, curated by Max Presneill at the Torrance Art Museum, celebrates Roland as a central nexus-point artist and includes artists, like myself, who have had "overlapping personal dialogues" with Roland.
Roland maintains that "in the visual arts painting has a unique dialogue which should be celebrated" and I think this is where we found our deepest connection. He taught me that painting does have a unique dialogue, which is a different idea than other forms of visual art. In a way painting feels so solitary, so specific and so directly self-reflective. You are alone with it all the time--the it being none other than yourself. What could be more terrifying? And yet, for those of us that call ourselves painters, there is nothing more satisfying than the moments in which we are engaged in the activity of painting and things are going well.


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Aravind Adiga: The White Tiger
Balram Halwai narrates his life in a letter, written in seven consecutive nights and addressed to the Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao. In his letter, Balram explains how he, the son of a puller, escaped a life of servitude to become a successful businessman, describing himself as an entrepreneur.
Balram was born in the rural village of Laxmangarh, where he lived with his grandmother, parents, brother and extended family. He is a smart child but is forced to leave school in order to help pay for his cousin's dowry and begins to work in a teashop with his brother in Dhanbad. While working there he begins to learn about India's government and economy from the customers' conversations. Balram describes himself as a bad servant but a good listener and decides to become a driver.
After learning how to drive, Balram finds a job driving Ashok, the son of one of Laxmangarh's landlords. He takes over the job of the main driver, from a small car to a heavy-luxury described Honda City. He stops sending money back to his family and disrespects his grandmother during a trip back to his village. Balram moves to New Delhi with Ashok and his wife Pinky Madam. Throughout their time in Delhi, Balram is exposed to extensive corruption, especially in the government. In Delhi, the contrast between the poor and the wealthy is made even more evident by their proximity to one another.
One night Pinky Madam takes the wheel from Balram, while drunk, hits something in the road and drives away; we are left to assume that she has killed a child. Ashok's family puts pressure on Balram to confess that he had been driving alone. Ashok becomes increasingly involved in bribing government officials for the benefit of the family coal business. Balram then decides that killing Ashok will be the only way to escape India's Rooster Coop. After bludgeoning Ashok with a bottle and stealing a large bribe, Balram moves to Bangalore, where he bribes the police in order to help start his own taxi business. Ashok too is portrayed to be trapped in the metaphorical Rooster Coop: his family controls what he does and society dictates how he acts. Just like Ashok, Balram pays off a family whose son one of his taxi drivers hit and killed. Balram explains that his own family was almost certainly killed by Ashok's relatives as retribution for his murder. At the end of the novel, Balram rationalizes his actions and considers that his freedom is worth the lives of his family and of Ashok. And thus ends the letter to Jiabao, letting the reader think of the dark humour of the tale, as well as the idea of life as a trap introduced by the writer.

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Export of Parts for Spark-Ignition Aircraft Engines
Barbados - Export of Parts for Spark-Ignition Aircraft Engines
At $995 in 2018, the country was ranked number 122 among other countries in Export of Parts for Spark-Ignition Aircraft Engines. Barbados is overtaken by Bolivia, which was ranked number 121 with $1,000 and is followed by Dominican Republic at $586. Singapore topped the ranking with $274,561,567.95 in 2019, that is an increase of 5.6% compared to 2018. United Kingdom, United States and India respectively ranked number 2, 3 and 4 in this ranking. Tonga witnessed the best average annual growth at +449.8% per year, while Tanzania was the worst growing country at -83.1% per year.
How does Barbados rank in Export of Parts for Spark-Ignition Aircraft Engines?
274,561,567.95 2019 +5.6 % -9.2 % View data
93,098,819.64 2019 -2.2 % -4.3 % View data
1,000.00 2018 NA -39.7 % View data
586.00 2017 -99.4 % NA View data
How does Barbados perform in the Industrial Equipment industry?
Import of Parts for Mineral Sort, Screen, Mix Machines to Barbados
Import of Parts and Accessories of Data Processing Equipment to Barbados


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Q: Set margin on a custom toast I'm displaying a custom toast and need to apply a left and right margin on it. So far this is what I've tried:
JAVA
public void showCustomToast() {
    Toast toast = new Toast(context);
    toast.setGravity(Gravity.TOP|Gravity.FILL_HORIZONTAL, 0, 100);
    toast.setView(view);
    toast.setDuration(Toast.LENGTH_LONG);
    if (toast != null) toast.show();
}

Gravity.FILL_HORIZONTAL makes the toast fill the whole layout_width.
XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayoutxmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="80dp"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:padding="10dp"
android:layout_marginStart="200dp"
android:layout_marginEnd="20dp">

<ImageView
    android:id="@+id/imgTest"
    android:layout_width="40dp"
    android:layout_height="40dp"
    android:layout_marginBottom="8dp"
    android:layout_marginStart="8dp"
    android:layout_marginTop="8dp"
    android:contentDescription="@string/test"
    android:rotation="-50"
    android:src="@drawable/test"
    app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/tvTest"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:letterSpacing=".1"
    android:text="@string/test"
    android:textAppearance="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Medium"
    android:textColor="@android:color/black"
    app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"/>

</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

Specifying a definite layout_width, such as 100dp also has no effect since I'm using FILL_HORIZONTAL property. How can achieve the margins on the custom layout?

A: If you want to add margins to your custom toast who has FILL_HORIZONTAL attribute you can simply use two nested ConstraintLayout-s with padding added to outer layout.
Also make sure to add id identifier to root layout.
Example of my toast_custom.xml :
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout
    android:id="@+id/toast_root_layout"
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="100dp"
    android:padding="@dimen/large_margin">

    <androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:background="@drawable/custom_background">

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/toast_message"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="80dp"
            android:layout_margin="8dp"
            android:padding="8dp"
            app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
            app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
            app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
            app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />
    </androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>

</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>

then in code initialize your toast object :
    val inflater = layoutInflater
    val layout = inflater.inflate(R.layout.toast_custom,
    findViewById(R.id.toast_root_layout))
    val message = layout.findViewById<TextView>(R.id.toast_message)
    message.setText("Your toast message")
    val toast = Toast(applicationContext)
    toast.setGravity(Gravity.TOP or Gravity.FILL_HORIZONTAL, 0, 0)
    toast.duration=Toast.LENGTH_SHORT
    toast.view=layout
    toast.show()

Final result.

A: Maybe a bit offtopic but your custom Toast looks like you could just used Snackbar

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Stop The World
Demi Lovato-Solo (bass tab)
Demi Lovato-Back Around (chords)
Demi Lovato-Brand New Day (chords)
Demi Lovato-Cant Back Down (chords)
Demi Lovato-Daydream (chords)
Demi Lovato-Different Summers (chords)
Demi Lovato-Dont Forget (chords)
Demi Lovato-Every Time You Lie (chords)
Demi Lovato-Everything Youre Not (chords)
Demi Lovato-Falling Over Me (chords)
Demi Lovato-Fire Starter (chords)
Demi Lovato-Fix A Heart (chords)
Demi Lovato-For The Love Of A Daughter (chords)
Demi Lovato-Gift Of A Friend (chords)
Demi Lovato-Gonna Get Caught (chords)
Demi Lovato-Got My Girls (chords)
Demi Lovato-Heart Attack (chords)
Demi Lovato-Hold Up (chords)
Demi Lovato-How To Love (chords)
Demi Lovato-In Case (chords)
Demi Lovato-Lo Que Soy (chords)
Demi Lovato-Made In The Usa (chords)
Demi Lovato-Make A Wave (chords)
Demi Lovato-Middle (chords)
Demi Lovato-Mistake (chords)
Demi Lovato-My Love Is Like A Star (chords)
Demi Lovato-Never Been Hurt (chords)
Demi Lovato-Nightingale (chords)
Demi Lovato-On The Line (chords)
Demi Lovato-Open (chords)
Demi Lovato-Our Time Is Here (chords)
Demi Lovato-Really Dont Care (chords)
Demi Lovato-Remember December (chords)
Demi Lovato-Shouldnt Come Back (chords)
Demi Lovato-Skyscraper Live (chords)
Demi Lovato-Something That Were Not (chords)
Demi Lovato-Stop This World (chords)
Demi Lovato-Stronger (chords)
Demi Lovato-The Middle (chords)
Demi Lovato-This Is Me Acoustic (chords)
Demi Lovato-Together (chords)
Demi Lovato-Two Pieces (chords)
Demi Lovato-Two Worlds (chords)
Demi Lovato-We Cant Back Down (chords)
Demi Lovato-We Rock (chords)
Demi Lovato-Well Be A Dream (chords)
Demi Lovato-Whos That Boy (chords)
Demi Lovato-Without The Love (chords)
Demi Lovato-Wonderful Christmas Time (chords)
Demi Lovato-You Got Nothing On Me (chords)
Capo 6
G5 A5 F5
G5 A5 C5 F5
Ohh, ohh, whoa
I don't know why, I don't know why
I'm so afraid, so afraid.
And I don't know how, I don't know how
To fix the pain, fix the pain.
We're livin' a lie, livin' a lie
We just need to change, need to change.
'Cause we're out of time, we're out of time,
And it's still the same.
You can't stop the world,
But there's so much more that we can do.
You can't stop this girl from falling more in love with you.
You said nobody has to know if it's time to go and take it slow.
But I can't stop the world
If they finally let us be alone.
Let us be alone.
Hearin' the noise, hearin' the noise
From all of them , from all of them.
And I'm on the edge, I'm on the edge
Of breakin' down, breakin' down.
Like Bonnie and Clyde,
Let's ride...
And take this town.
So keep it alive, keep it alive
Don't make a sound.
If the world won't take that final blow,
I'll turn another page
It won't close the book.
Let us be alone...
Alone, ooh, ohh, weee-ah. Alone.


Established in Nicosia, Cyprus in 2011, under the name "Impalement" and as of 2017, Nekhrah, the 4-piece have distinguished themselves locally through their signature and unique blend of spine-crushing riffs and melody coupled with their vocalist's distinctive high-pitched snarls.
Nekhrah have released a home-recorded demo in 2014, under their former name and have currently completed recording their first full-length album entitled "Cosmic Apostasy" which was mastered by Alan Douches of West West Side Music.
The band name "Nekhrah" is an Anglicised version of the Greek word "Νέκρα" which means Death/Deadness and/or Emptiness in Greek.


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Ahead of UFC 172, Phil Davis promises to break Jon Jones apart 'like a sugar cookie'
April 21, 2014 7:45 pm ET
Phil Davis is going to let his fighting do the talking at UFC 172, but until he gets in the octagon, his talking isn't going to stop.
After defending himself this past week against one very prominent critic who questioned his championship heart, Davis briefly took over a UFC 172 teleconference to dog current titleholder Jon Jones, promising to "break him apart like a sugar cookie."
Davis (19-1 MMA, 13-1 UFC) clearly is taking to heart UFC President Dana White's recent comments that he is content with being the No. 4 fighter in the promotion's rankings. This past week, he told MMAjunkie he would prove the UFC executive wrong by delivering a decisive victory against Anthony Johnson (16-4 MMA, 7-4 UFC) in the co-headliner of Saturday's pay-per-view. But it also was apparent he was using his words to reflect a desire to beat Jones, who headlines the card opposite Glover Teixeira (22-2 MMA, 5-0 UFC) at Baltimore's Baltimore Arena.
Even before the call, Davis repeatedly has predicted Jones will withdraw from UFC 172 and give him an interim title shot. But on the line before reporters, he turned it up a few notches.
"I'm not giving up on you, Phil," Jones offered after Davis' initial volley.
"I'm not going to give up you either, sweetheart," Davis retorted.
"Mr. Wonderful" then spoke up, and spoke up often, as Jones marched uncomfortably through repeated questions about his most recent fight, a unanimous decision victory over Alexander Gustafsson. The outcome was fodder for several digs.
"Jon Jones came out doing his regular deal, and because Alex and I train together, I said, 'Alex, listen man. What you really need to do is you need to strongarm him like an American – hit him with a backhand pimp slap.' Alexander threw seven different kinds of smoke at this dude; Jon Jones didn't know up from down when he was fighting Alex. He didn't know what hit him. He didn't know why he hit him that hard, why he was hitting him so much. Honestly, I still don't understand how he lost, but I will say this: Jon Jones came back in the last two rounds, fought like a champion.
"Did he do enough to win? Absolutely not, but hey, you leave it to the judges, you leave it to the judges. Alex is going to come back stronger. But I'm going to tell you this: seven different kinds of smoke. Jon Jones was on fire. Seven different kinds of smoke, he had."
Jones couldn't let Davis go on forever, of course. He questioned the light heavyweight on which rounds Gustafsson won.
"I thought he won all the ones where he put them hot hands all over your forehead," Davis cracked.
"Oh, man," Jones groaned. "That's not nice, Phil."
"Hot hands! He put hot hands all over your forehead!"
At that point, Jones was one of the only conference call participants not laughing. Earlier this month during a media day, the light heavyweight champ was asked how he felt about being the verbal target of contenders looking to usurp him. He dismissed the attacks as an attempt by his competition to artificially elevate their status. On Davis' barbs, he said, "Good for him."
He probably strained to be a good sport when Davis interrupted questions to offer his own commentary and opinion on his performance against Gustafsson, noting at one point his frustration with the lack of questions directed at his upcoming fight.
"We all saw you were scared," Davis, adopting a reporter's tone, asked during a brief pause in questions. "What have you done to overcome your scared-ness? Did you get a nightlight? Do you sleep with a teddy bear now? What did you do?
"Ummm," Jones replied. "I actually do sleep with a teddy. I do sleep with a teddy, Phil. Does that answer your question?"
Davis didn't hear the answer, but no matter. When Jones continued on, talking about the challenges ahead with Teixeira, he found another reason to interrupt.
"The last time you said you could handle somebody in the striking department, Alex hit you so many times in the right eye, you almost turned into a pirate," Davis said. "How are you so sure you can be better than Glover standing up, because let me tell you, I've seen Glover before, and what are you going to do?"
This time, Jones' response wasn't heard – the line was overcome by what sounded like Internet static. But asked by MMAjunkie whether he was now more motivated to fight Davis in light of his comments on the call, the champ said his feelings are unchanged.
"It doesn't (motivate me more)," Jones said. "I have nothing to prove fighting a guy like Phil. I've already proven myself against a lot of amazing martial artists, and I think if anything, Phil is kind of embarrassing himself with all the antics. But it's what he's deciding to do today. I am a champion, and I fight the top dogs, and my whole career has been in the fast lane. I'm not going to sit here and belittle myself by entertaining Phil.
"At first, I thought it was funny, but it's just silly. I'm fighting Glover, and he's fighting Anthony Johnson. I need to stay focused on Glover, because Glover is a great challenge to me. I just think when you talk like that and you be so goofy, it puts more pressure on you.
"I mean, what if he goes out there and gets caught with one of those high kicks from Anthony and gets knocked out? It's going to be really embarrassing talking so much trash to me and getting knocked out by Anthony. So I'm going to keep my mouth shut and stay focused on what I'm here for, and that's Glover."
For more on UFC 172, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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Are You Sick of Hearing About Monsanto?
Are you sick of hearing about Monsanto? Or is Monsanto making you sick? Driving around the area, you see lots of corn fields. I can't help but wonder how much of it is genetically modified. Last week, while driving down FM 973, I saw a crop duster flying back and forth over the highway. It didn't seem to be spraying anything but I closed my vents just the same as I passed under it. It made me wonder about what kinds of stuff is being used on the fields around Coupland. Being a fledgling organic gardener, I don't relish the idea that pesticides are blowing around this beautiful countryside, especially considering our frequent strong winds. There are a lot of pros and cons to the issues of genetic modification and the use of herbicides and pesticides but regardless of where you stand on these issues, make sure you're standing on a solid foundation of knowledge. This compilation of Monsanto's history is revealing, to say the least. — Stewart Dale Spencer
Here is the direct link: Monsanto's Dirty Dozen
Did you know Monsanto got started because of an artificial sweetener? John Francisco Queeny founded Monsanto Chemical Works in St. Louis, Missouri with the goal ofproducing saccharin for Coca-Cola. In stark contrast to its sweet beginnings, studies performed during the early 1970s,* including a study by the National Cancer Institute in 1980, showed that saccharin caused cancer in test rats and mice.
And yet the damage persists: nearly 30 years after PCBs have been banned from the U.S., they are still showing up in the blood of pregnant women, as reported in a 2011 study by the University of California San Francisco.
In 1941, Monsanto began focusing on plastics and synthetic polystyrene, which is still widely used in food packaging and ranked 5th in the EPA's 1980s listing of chemicalswhose production generates the most total hazardous waste.
While glyphosate has been approved by regulatory bodies worldwide and is widely used, concerns about its effects on humans and the environment persist. RoundUp has been found in samples of groundwater, as well as soil, and even in streams and air throughout the Midwest U.S., and increasingly in food. It has been linked to butterfly mortality, and the proliferation of superweeds. Studies in rats have shown consistently negative health impacts ranging from tumors, altered organ function, and infertility, to cancer and premature death. Reference the above "GMO Risks" page which includes countless references to support these statements.
This genetically modified hormone was developed by Monsanto to be injected into dairy cows to produce more milk. Cows subjected to rBGH suffer excruciating pain due to swollen udders and mastitis, and the pus from the resulting infection enters the milk supplyrequiring the use of additional antibiotics. rBGH milk has been linked to breast cancer,colon cancer, and prostate cancer in humans.
In the early 1990s, Monsanto began gene-splicing corn, cotton, soy, and canola with DNA from a foreign source to achieve one of two traits: an internally-generated pesticide, or an internal resistance to Monsanto's weedkiller RoundUp. Despite decades of promises that genetically engineered crops would feed the world with more nutrients, drought resistance, or yield, the majority of Monsanto's profits are from seeds that are engineered to tolerate Monsanto's RoundUp—an ever-rising, dual income stream as weeds continue to evolve resistance to RoundUp.
Just like the early days of PCBs, DDT, Agent Orange, Monsanto has successfully fooled the general public and regulatory agencies into believing that RoundUp, and the genetically modified crops that help sell RoundUp, are "safe."
Except Monsanto has learned a thing or two in the past 100+ years of defending its dirty products: these days, when a new study proving the negative health or environmental impacts of GMOs emerges, Monsanto attacks the study and its scientist(s) by flooding the media with counter claims from "independent" organizations, scientists, industry associations, blogs, sponsored social media, and articles by "private" public relations firms—frequently founded, funded and maintained by Monsanto.
In the late 1990s, Monsanto developed the technology to produce sterile grains unable to germinate. These "Terminator Seeds" would force farmers to buy new seeds from Monsanto year after year, rather than save and reuse the seeds from their harvest as they've been doing throughout centuries. Fortunately this technology never came to market. Instead, Monsanto chose to require farmers to sign a contract agreeing that they will not save or sell seeds from year to year, which forces them to buy new seeds and preempts the need for a "terminator gene." Lucky for us… since the terminator seeds were capable of cross-pollination and could have contaminated local non-sterile crops.
P.S. Monsanto's not alone. Other companies in the "Big Six" include Pioneer Hi-Bred International (a subsidiary of DuPont), Syngenta AG, Dow Agrosciences (a subsidiary of Dow Chemical, BASF (which is primarily a chemical company that is rapidly expanding their biotechnology division), and Bayer Cropscience (a subsidiary of Bayer). View a complete list of companies doing genetic engineering on this website.
http://gmo-awareness.com/all-about-gmos/gmo-risks/
http://gmo-awareness.com/all-about-gmos/gmo-defined/
http://gmo-awareness.com/all-about-gmos/gmo-fda/
This entry was posted in Education and tagged genetically modified organisms, GMO, Monsanto on June 4, 2013 by Stewart Dale Spencer.


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International Cybersecurity Research Made in Hamburg
Breaking encryption
Advancing UN Cyber Norms (Part II)
Advancing UN Cyber Norms (Part I)
The Ukraine War and Dilemmas of Cybersecurity Governance (Part II)
The Ukraine War and Dilemmas of Cybersecurity Governance (Part I)
Regulating the Global Spyware Industry
What Can We (Not) Learn?
Cyber Operations and the Loss of Escalation Control
(Cyber) History does Not Repeat Itself
What (Not) to Learn from the Ukrainian Case
Workshop on Government Vulnerability Disclosure
Cybersecurity Chapter of the German National Security Strategy
Workshop on a Global Cybercrime Convention
Workshop on UN Cyber Norms
Workshop on Zero-Trust
The Role of Cyber Operations in War – Part II:
Mischa Hansel
Describing and understanding the puzzle are of course two different things, let alone deriving policy conclusions. In the second part of this post, I will argue that special, although not necessarily unique, strategic circumstances have contributed to the absence of more serious cyberattacks, particularly against critical infrastructures in the context of the Ukraine war.
Major factors that have contributed to the rather limited role of cyber operations within the Ukraine thus far might simply not apply to other conflict scenarios: strategic interests, decision-making styles, as well as offensive and defensive capacities differ from one context to another. Yet, even in this conflict there is always the risk of unintended escalation. In the following, I will explore four particular reasons that could be used to explain the absence of (the rather widely expected) large-scale cyberattacks.
Cyber – a Superfluous Domain?
One way to approach the issue is to take sophisticated Russian cyberattack capabilities for granted (as many have done) and look for reasons these have not been utilised. Given that the Russian leadership was willing to use physical violence in a non-discriminatory and reckless way, without apparent consideration for international humanitarian law, cyber operations might simply have not been considered necessary. Once somebody is willing to attack cities, power grids, train stations, and similar targets with bombs and artillery, why bother with the cyber domain, which requires complex preparations, involves major trade-offs, and is arguably far less reliable in creating physical effects. Physical violence, or even the threat thereof, is a far more efficient and effective means of coercion and destruction. Even rerouting and controlling local internet traffic can be achieved by physically taking over, as the intrusion and takeover of a Kherson-based Internet company showed, where all equipment was disconnected and operators were forced to switch to the Russian network.
In other contexts, however, where actors shy away from overt violations of international law, cyberattacks often promise the right balance between impact and plausible deniability – particularly within a grey zone between peace and war. Even against the backdrop of the current war in Eastern Europe, devastating cyber operations might yet be attempted at some later point. This will not be due to any political restraint on the part of Russia, but possibly in a trench warfare scenario, where cyber operation might provide an advantage over kinetic attacks by disrupting logistics and economic lifelines in non-occupied areas. In sum, the capability and readiness to use physical violence affects the relative utility of cyber operations.
A Lack of Planning?
Another reason why we have not seen any catastrophic cyberattacks thus far might relate to Russia's war planning. Most likely, very few senior decision-makers were involved in Vladimir Putin's decision to wage a full-blown invasion of Ukraine. In the absence of broader deliberations among decision-makers and experts with divergent viewpoints, group thinking likely affirmed the illusory belief of a quick victory and the fall of Kyiv. The more this was the case, the more likely it is that cyber operations were seen as unnecessary or even too risky: a full integration would have required war plans to be shared with cyber specialists, increasing the chances of leakage – either intentionally or not. At first glance, data from Microsoft appears to refute this theory. Russian threat actors positioned themselves in networks of Ukrainian energy and internet service providers that later became targets of cyberattacks back in late 2021. Yet this does not prove that the attackers, knew about the strategic context in which these tools might be employed, even if they were APTs affiliated with Russian intelligence services. Nor does it mean that their efforts were prioritised and resourced appropriately by state leadership. It does not even mean that the wiper attacks were originally intended to be used during war, particularly considering the fact that Russia has used various means to destabilise Ukraine before.
Your Infrastructure is Now Mine
Assuming there had been a belief in a quick victory, targeting critical infrastructures via cyberattacks, especially with destructive goals, would not have made much sense. After all, the very same infrastructure would soon be used by the Russian occupation force. The fact that Russian forces quickly switched to indiscriminate violence against civilian infrastructures in Ukraine does not necessarily disprove this theory. Integrating sophisticated cyber operations in military strategies and tactics on short notice is a very challenging endeavour and large-scale cyberattacks against high value usually take months, not weeks, in preparation. Thus, even if the Russian leadership reversed its decision not to conduct large-scale disruptive cyber operations after realising that the military campaign would not succeed anytime soon, the means to do so might not have been available or only of very poor quality. That would explain the rather unsophisticated code of IsaacWiper that Kaspersky characterised as a "product of rushed development" though it cannot explain the use of more sophisticated malware against other targets. Thus, the evidence so far is inconclusive and more data on the preparatory time and organisational efforts behind various Russian malware campaigns would be needed to provide more solid answers.
A Strong Defence
Finally, while assessing possible causes of the absence of catastrophic cyber incidents, we should not underestimate the strength of Ukrainian defensive efforts. The sheer number of malware campaigns detected prior to causing any substantial damage is already testimony to this. The years Ukraine has been used by Russia as a testbed for cyber operations seems to have had an unintended side effect: Ukrainian authorities have stepped up the country's cyber defences, also with the help of international partners and businesses. In the past five years, US agencies alone have provided over USD 40million in cyber capacity building. Since the start of the war, sharing threat intelligence, investigative methods, and cyber incidents response best practices with numerous Ukrainian government institutions and businesses has been stepped up even further. The most spectacular case of private sector help certainly was Elon Musk's provision of hundreds of Starlink internet service terminals. Altogether, the combined and sustained actions of all these international partners – as well as tireless efforts by Ukrainian authorities, businesses, and cybersecurity experts themselves – explains the remarkable resilience of the Ukrainian ICT infrastructure in the midst of the Russian invasion. Yet precisely because there was such an exceptional defensive effort, both in terms of coalition size and duration, the question arises as how replicable these conditions are in other cases where military escalations will be harder to anticipate or where fewer international partners have similar stakes involved. In other words: cyber attacks will probably have a much higher success rate in places that did not go through such a period of intense strategic learning or those that lack strong international support.
Coalitions Matter
International support or lack thereof is also key to understanding Russian decision calculus toward the employment of cyber operations against Western targets. In cyberspace, the country seems even more isolated than in diplomatic fora. For example, Chinese threat actors do not seem to support Russia's limited campaign against Ukrainian targets but have rather seized the opportunity to intensify their cyberespionage activities across the board. More importantly, a cyber-strike against critical infrastructures of NATO members would almost certainly lead to an even greater resolve to transfer weapons to the Ukrainian military, even in countries with a rather sceptical public opinion. Against this backdrop, there is little that Russia could possibly gain from further internationalising the conflict, neither in nor outside of cyberspace. This might change if President Putin's hold on power were to weaken due to domestic opposition at some point in the future. In this case, he might desperately seek another rally-round-the-flag effect by further escalating and internationalising the conflict with NATO.
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Selected Speaking Engagements
Miranda is a member of the firm's Litigation and Financial Services Groups. She maintains a broad litigation practice, with an emphasis on general commercial, restructuring and insolvency, and construction disputes. She appears regularly before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, including the Commercial List, the Bankruptcy Court and the Construction Lien Masters, and has appeared as counsel at all levels of the Ontario courts.
Miranda is a strong advocate who thrives in the courtroom and in negotiations with opposing counsel. She is a confident communicator who has a talent for breaking her clients' complex problems down into simpler parts, enabling her to fully understand her clients' goals, and develop effective solutions rooted in practical, business-minded strategy.
Miranda, who summered and articled with the firm, frequently acts as a mentor to the firm's summer and articling students, as well as to law students through the University of Toronto's alumni mentorship program. Her patient nature and understanding of the challenges associated with building a practice make her a valuable resource to students and new lawyers.
Commercial List Users Committee, Ontario Superior Court of Justice
Vice-Chair of the Insolvency Litigation Practice Group, The Advocates' Society, 2019-2020
Past member, The Advocates' Society's Young Advocates' Standing Committee
The Advocates' Society
Toronto Lawyers Association
Ontario Bar Association
Canadian Bar Association
International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation
Counsel to the court-appointed receiver of Astoria Organic Matters Ltd. and Astoria Organic Matters Canada LP ("Astoria") in successfully defending efforts by the purchaser of Astoria's assets to seek leave to sue the receiver.
Counsel to the beneficiary of an option to purchase the deceased's company in an application seeking directions regarding the terms upon which the option may be exercised.
Counsel to the senior secured creditor of A-1 Asphalt Maintenance Ltd. in an appeal addressing whether funds subject to Construction Lien Act statutory trusts may be excluded from distribution to creditors in an insolvency proceeding.
Counsel to a retailer who purchased the debtor's interest in certain leases out of a Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act proposal proceeding related to Aeropostale Canada Corp. in seeking a judicial determination of the scope of rights that may be assigned in such circumstances.
Counsel to a municipality in opposing an injunction brought by Hogan Pharmacy Partners Ltd., a former service provider, to compel the municipality to reinstate the service provider's contract with the municipality pending arbitration.
Counsel to a landlord with respect to concurrent receivership and Construction Lien Act proceedings involving Arc Productions Limited.
Counsel to the senior secured creditor in the receivership proceedings involving 1299746 Ontario Inc. o/a Compuquest2000.
Counsel to the debtor in the receivership proceedings involving Edgemere Estate Limited Partnership and Edgemere Estate Limited.
Counsel to a defendant real estate developer in a contractual dispute with its development partners, involving significant parcels of development lands.
Counsel to the applicant charity in an application for judicial review relating to decisions made by the CRA, in the context of the revocation of the applicant's charitable registration.
Counsel to the plaintiff employer in an action to enforce non-competition and non-solicitation provisions of an employment agreement.
Ontario counsel to the senior secured lender in the insolvency proceedings commenced by Laura's Shoppe (P.V.) Inc. under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act.
Canadian counsel to the Nortel Trade Claims Consortium in the cross-border insolvency proceedings commenced by Nortel Networks Corporation et al.
Counsel to the defendant partnership in an action for damages and other declaratory relief brought by a former alleged partner.
Counsel to the trustee in bankruptcy in the insolvency proceedings commenced by Casimir Capital Ltd. under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act.
Counsel to the plaintiff payment processing company in an action for damages against its colocation services provider relating to a loss of data.
Counsel to the plaintiff in an action to set aside an assignment of patent rights to a widely-used household product.
Counsel to the vendor take-back mortgagee in the enforcement of a mortgage by way of foreclosure, where the action was defended on grounds of misrepresentations in the agreement of purchase and sale.
Counsel to the respondent in an application seeking to invalidate a promissory note and related security granted in the context of a renewable energy project.
Counsel to the complainant in a lawyer misconduct matter before the Law Society Tribunal, where the defence engaged issues relating to the complainant's privacy.
Acted as the Independent Supervising Solicitor in the enforcement of an Anton Piller order made in the context of an action seeking damages for fraud.
Counsel to the plaintiff in an action for breach of copyright and related relief relating to industrial meat-processing equipment.
Counsel to the defendant in an action brought pursuant to the Fraudulent Conveyances Act.
Counsel to various parties to proceedings brought pursuant to the Construction Lien Act (Ontario), including general contractors, sub-contractors and owners.
Counsel to both landlords and tenants in actions seeking damages for breach of lease agreements.
Counsel to a variety of banks in relation to all aspects of the enforcement of personal guarantees.
Counsel to plaintiffs in collection actions, including the enforcement of judgments.
Selection of Reported Cases
Business Development Bank of Canada v. Astoria Organic Matters Ltd., 2019 ONCA 269
Muchmaker Estate (Re), 2019 ONSC 59
Business Development Bank of Canada v. Astoria Organic Matters Ltd., 2018 ONSC 6062
Hogan Pharmacy v. Municipality of Halton, 2018 ONSC 1442
Re Aeropostale Canada Corp. (Notice of Intention), 2018 ONSC 1468
Royal Bank of Canada v. DCM Erectors, Inc., 2017 ONSC 2580
Salus Capital Partners, LLC v. Shilon, 2016 ONSC 7799, 2016 CarswellOnt 21099
Nortel Networks Corporation (Re), 2016 ONCA 332
Royal Bank of Canada v. Lunardi, 2016 ONSC 2541
Fram Elgin Mills 90 Inc. v. Romandale Farms Limited, 2015 ONSC 7308
Green v. Green, 2015 ONCA 541
In the Matter of the Proposal of Casimir Capital, 2015 ONSC 2819
Poss Design Limited v. Beograd Machine & Tools Co. Ltd., 2015 ONCA 74
Business Development Bank of Canada v. Druckmann, 2015 ONSC 1517
King David Inc. v. Andrin Investment Ltd., 2015 ONSC 1935
Poss Design Limited v. Beograd Machine & Tools Co. Ltd., 2014 ONSC 3051
2026125 Ontario Limited v. Ashland Paving Ltd., 2014 ONSC 5173 (Div. Ct.)
Grossi Consulting Services Limited v. Premier Salons Ltd., 2014 ONSC 5028
Fernandez et al. v. Unique Auto Collision Network Solutions Corp. et al., 2014 ONSC 3642
Fernandez v. Unique Auto Collision Network Solutions Corp., 2014 ONCA 458
Indcondo Building Corporation v. Sloan, 2012 ONCA 502
Speaker, IWIRC Ontario Network Lunch & Learn: "All About Trusts and Competing Priorities," April 29, 2019.
Moderator, Insolvency Litigation Breakfast: "What I Wish I Knew," The Advocates' Society, April 12, 2019.
Speaker, "Annual Cross Country Check-Up (Ontario)," CBA National Insolvency Law Conference, September 14, 2018.
Moderator, IWIRC Ontario Network Lunch & Learn: "Key Insights Into Recent Construction and Real Estate Development Cases," April 24, 2018.
"Ontario Court of Appeal Provides Guidance on Vesting Orders in Receivership - And Beyond," Commercial Insolvency Reporter, August 2019.
"Clarity in Appeal Procedures Part II: The BIA Prevails – or Does It?," Aird & Berlis Financial Services Flash, April 10, 2019. Republished in Banking & Finance Law Review, July 2019.
"Clarity in Appeal Procedures: The BIA Prevails," Aird & Berlis Financial Services Flash, January 23, 2019.
"2018 Annual Cross Country Check-Up (Ontario)," Canadian Bar Association 14th Annual Insolvency Law Conference, September 14, 2018.
Publications Article Jul 17, 2019 Ontario Court of Appeal Provides Guidance on Vesting Orders in Receivership – and Beyond
Publications Article Apr 10, 2019 Clarity in Appeal Procedures Part II: The BIA Prevails – or Does It?
Publications Article Jan 23, 2019 Clarity in Appeal Procedures: The BIA Prevails
JD, University of Toronto, 2010
Sorbonne Law School (Universite Paris I), Student Exchange Program, 2009
BA (Hons.) (First Class), University of King's College, 2007


File System Forensics forms the root of any digital investigation process. Developing your skills in this area is sure to boost your confidence and propel you to navigate any investigation with ease. This course will make the esoteric nature of this topic coherent to a novice.
Why file system forensics and why ext4?
Why should you be interested in this right now?
Linux operating System is a ubiquitous one today. From servers, to desktops, to laptops, to tablets, to smartphones – Linux is everywhere. Underlying all that intelligent engineering is a file system that facilitates the handling of files on those devices. A file system is the container in any data storage device that handles file arrangement meaningfully. It is analogous to a well stacked, alphabetically sorted bookshelf. File System Forensics is the study about the existential behaviour of files on a storage device – which may undergo addition, modification or removal. One can think of it as a psychological study of the data storage container. This course primarily deals with forensics on the Fourth Extended File System (ext4), that is commonly used in Linux machines all over the globe. Ext4 file system is also found in a lot of IoT devices and in smart home devices. In the untoward occurrence of a forensic incident involving any such devices, the skills you get from this course would help you process them looking for evidence. File System Forensics is a sought-after skill in many investigative agencies. Here is your chance to become a "Forensics Yoda"!
I can hear you thinking already – should I invest my valuable time to learn file system forensics? Let me break it down for you. At present, in the realm of state-of-the-art technology, fancy entities like Internet of Things, smart homes, self-driving cars, etc., are sprouting like weeds. Despite that, for every "this is a new smart device", there is a "cyber-attack launched on smart device by anonymous hackers!" As much as a business mollycoddles their customers, there is a perpetual demand for adroit professionals who can ferret out the unfavourable work transacted by hackers. A cyber criminal always thinks he is one step ahead. They are usually skilled people who have spent a long time studying the technology on the attack surface. What if a forensic investigator is two steps ahead? Such a forensic investigator has a myriad of skills and I am offering you a chance to earn one. A new feather to your forensics cap!
Only with a deep insight of the conventional behaviour can forensics be done to identify abnormal behaviour. This module progresses into the internals of the Fourth Extended File System, thereby setting the tone to begin forensic procedures.
Exercise 1: Given a file system image, you will locate the different data structures.
We are habituated to looking at files and directories on our storage devices through a file manager on the Linux machine. In this module, we will see how to extract a small file, a large file, a directory – from a storage device, in a forensic manner. This will kickstart your journey into the magical world of bits and bytes. We will also cover extraction of deleted files and directories.
Exercise 2: Given a file system image, you will identify whether a file exists or if it has been deleted. If it has been deleted, is there a way to extract the file?
Description: Every file system has some unique features incorporated into its storage procedures. In this module, we will see the forensic impact of some features specific to ext4. We will observe these features as they would normally exist and in scenarios when the files/directories using these features undergo deletion.
Exercises 3: Given the file system image, you will interpret information from the features seen in this module.
Journaling is an important feature that was added to ext4 to aid in file recovery. We will see its impact on forensics. This module also teaches about how to use the information seen in this course in a forensic investigation.
Exercise 4: This exercise will focus on interpreting the journal on the given file system image.
FINAL EXAM: The final exam will be a multiple-choice test, to complement the modules' practical exercises. However, the exam would be child's play only if the candidate practices the exercises judiciously.


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Election workers sort vote-by-mail ballots for the presidential primary at King County Elections in Renton, Wash., March 10, 2020. (Jason Redmond/AFP via Getty Images)
The Tell
Wish you were voting
Old-fashioned postcards remain one of the best ways to get out the vote in underserved communities. Who knew?
I picked up this nugget while reporting a story this week about what Jewish groups are doing to get out the vote.
A number of Jewish organizations, preeminent among them the Reform movement's Religious Action Center and the Anti-Defamation League, have allied with African-American groups for years to protect voting rights.
There's added urgency this year because of the pandemic and President Donald Trump's explicit threats to limit mail-in voting.
Rabbi Jonah Pesner, the director of the Religious Action Center, told me that its partner this year in getting out the vote, the Center for Common Ground, found that postcards are still the most effective method to persuade voters in rural areas and African-American communities to cast their ballots. So the group has been "postcard banking."
Meanwhile, in Florida, activists with the National Council of Jewish Women are helping former felons determine whether they can vote without getting into trouble. And dozens of groups are lobbying Congress for federal support for mail-in voting.
Minimizing Minnesota's Melton-Meaux: Lots of action in Minnesota's 5th District this last week: Rep. Ilhan Omar published an internal poll showing her 37 points ahead in her bid to defend against a challenge in the Democratic primary from attorney Antone Melton-Meaux. The primary is Aug. 11.
Publishing internal polling is rare, but one likely reason Omar posted the results was to discourage Melton-Meaux's eye-popping fundraising: He pulled in $3.2 million last quarter to her less-than-half a million. A big chunk of Melton-Meaux's income is coming from pro-Israel groups unhappy with Omar, one of two Congress members who back the boycott Israel movement.
Melton-Meaux pushed back on Twitter with a critique of the poll. Left out of his takedown was the obvious question of why he's not publishing his own internals.
Melton-Meaux said in a campaign FAQ first reported by Jewish Insider that he was attracting pro-Israel support because Omar had wounded the Jewish community with some of her past comments. (She has apologized for some, but not all of her comments suggesting that pro-Israel influence in American politics was somehow untoward.) He also said that the money would not influence how he voted on Israel, and that he would oppose Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plans to annex parts of the West Bank.
There's been a lot of talk about the deliberately obscure outfits working for Melton-Meaux; Jacobin reports here. Their low profile is no surprise: Democratic Party leaders have said that they will freeze out anyone who works for a primary challenger. (Speaker Nancy Pelosi has endorsed Omar.)
That's one reason why Melton-Meaux has not attracted support from Jewish Democratic groups, notwithstanding pressure from the Republican Jewish Coalition. But he is getting support from local Jews — a Minneapolis rabbi explains here why he's going with Melton-Meaux.
(Late Thursday, Omar came under fire for a campaign mailer that names three donors to Melton-Meaux, all Jewish. See the story here.)
The RJC gives Q an answer: Republicans are not as strict about opposing incumbents. That's why the RJC was able earlier this year to join the successful bid to oust Steve King of Iowa, who was tainted by white supremacist associations.
This week, the GOP group announced another rare foray into primary politics, endorsing John Cowan against Marjorie Taylor Greene in a runoff for Georgia's open 14th Congressional District. Greene has been associated with the conspiracist QAnon movement and peddled anti-Semitic tropes. (The RJC hinted to me a month ago that an endorsement was coming.)
"Greene came to national attention for all the wrong reasons: repeatedly using offensive language in long online video diatribes, promoting bizarre political conspiracy theories, and refusing to admit a mistake after posing for photos smiling side by side with a long-time white supremacist leader," the RJC said.
The RJC is taking a risk with this endorsement, as Trump has indicated that he backs Greene.
Jewish Republicans have an elephant in the room: The Republican Jewish Coalition convened a town hall over the weekend to trash talk Joe Biden, but was diverted by the question of how to pitch Trump to a community that just doesn't like him.
Will he make "the Squad" the Squintet? Alex Morse, a gay Jewish progressive millennial trying to unseat an establishment Democrat, Richard Neal, in Massachusetts, has ambitions of becoming the first Jewish member of "the Squad," the anti-establishment quartet whose most well-known member is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New York Democrat who upset an establishment Democrat two years ago. Morse also bakes, he told my colleague Josefin Dolsten this week.
Remembering John Lewis: I wrote this week about six moments in the alliance between John Lewis and the Jews. Chabad.org found a seventh: The longtime congressman and civil rights icon was instrumental in 1994 in conferring a Congressional Gold Medal on Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher rebbe. And here's a remembrance by a Black and Jewish former elected official from Georgia who cites Lewis as a mentor.
At Moment Magazine, Mark Pinsky examines the pandemic-fueled feud between Florida's Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, and the state's Jewish agricultural commissioner, Nikki Fried, a Democrat. One sharp area of contention was when DeSantis tried to blame the spread of the virus on Hispanic agriculture workers.
Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, center, speaks with Cody Lastinger, left, and Jeff Kreiger at Corkscrew Grove in Estero, Fla., June 13, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Scott McIntyre-For The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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Don't tell me Shakespeare isn't relevant today Hamlet is a 30-something dude who can't commit to dating a girl who loves him he could be any white guy in a beanie living in Echo Park
— Dana Schwartz (@DanaSchwartzzz) July 22, 2020
Dana Schwartz, a TV writer, makes Shakespeare 21st century-relevant by crediting him with creating the worst boyfriend ever.
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Netflix doc: How the US courted Nazis, then destroyed the evidence
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Synagogues consider welcoming the stranger, and protecting their own


Discussion in 'Outskirts Battledome Archive' started by Endless Mike, Oct 12, 2006.
I'll clarify that the ritual is going to be pretty useless here.
I'd argue that Jason is more 'immortal' than Hidan. Look at Jason X -- his right side is blown out, his head decimated, and the nano-table confirmed him to be still alive, thus proceeding for Uber-Jason.
I don't think Hidan can even survive with his head blown like that.
Sorry, but Hidan's 'Voodoo no Jutsu' is hopeless against Jason as the guy doesn't seem to give a damn about pain or even the most horrific wounds so Jason X is overkill.
Jason has his usual machete, right?
Yes, but he can use anything else in the battlefield to help him (which is a warehouse full of farming equipment).
It's hard to choose because it looks like neither can be killed. If I had to though, i'd pick Hidan, just because he has a speed and power advantage.
Jason can be slow when he walks but he's incredible fast when he attacks. Jason x can bend solid steel with his hands , Hidan is nowhere near to his level of strenght.
its a fight of who can dismember(sp?) the other faster id pay to watch that hehe.
r u guys serious? u think jason is slow? have u not seen the movies!?! the victims are always running for like miles and miles and u see jason just calmly walking and then all of a sudden the victim trips and jason shunpos in front of them and slices their head off!
Is genjutsu involved? Because every Naruto character uses Genjutsu after all according to most of the Naruto fans in here.
So is someone gonna come in here and go "Hidan uses Genjutsu to lead Jason into the water thus beating him instantly?"
Jason vs Luffy would be pretty interesting though... I doubt Luffy could ever win that but I guess someone will need to make a thread on it.
Aah, I never saw Jason X. Never knew he could do that.
That's somewhat half-true. Jason is afraid of the act of drowing itself -- Freddy vs. Jason, Jason Takes Manhattan.
BUT, Jason is not afraid of water. He does kill victims in the water as well. He speared the guy underwater in the groin, he pursues after Tommy Jarvis in Friday the 13th Part 6. Despite drowning as a boy, Jason is able to swim.
I assume that's after Jason received his 'upgrade' to Uber-Jason.
The Naruto character loses, as always.
Hidan's head came off and he's still alive. I think they will both become very bored and become friends and tortue others.
Since when has Jason been friends with anybody?
i really think jason will win if he gets one critical shot with hidan but i guess thats impossible because hidan is too fast for jason.. so most probably, its a draw!!!


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Eleanor is fifteen and the new girl in town. Her home life is miserable and there is little money for things beyond the necessities. At school, she is teased for being overweight and for her unconventional and flashy style.. Although Park, who is one-half Korean, has lived his entire life in one place, he feels like an outsider. By chance, they sit next to one another on the school bus and slowly discover they both like comics and 1980s alternative music. Gradually, they be-come friends. But, Park's parents do not fully approve of Eleanor. Will Eleanor and Park's friendship survive despite her unhappy home life and his parents' disapproval?


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Lamont Calls For Scotland To Show Self-Belief
28 January 2016, 07:53 | Updated: 30 March 2016, 13:50
For too long Sean Lamont has been fed up seeing Scotland run out to face their rivals with defeat already etched across their faces before a ball is even kicked.
The father figure of Vern Cotter's Dark Blues squad believes the natural pessimism that comes with being born into this rain-soaked corner of the earth has done his nation down.
Where they have the talent, skill and physical attributes to match the best in the world, Scotland - Lamont claims - have been out-gunned when it comes to reserves of mental strength.
Last year's RBS 6 Nations whitewash is the perfect example.
There were bright starts in each of their first four clashes with France, Wales, Italy and England but each ended in narrow defeats before title-chasing Ireland dished out one last drubbing for good measure.
But the 35-year-old Glasgow wing believes an extra dash of self-belief could have made all the difference.
Asked to explain why the Scots have waited 17 years since their last Championship title - when the competition was still a five-team affair - he told Press Association Sport: "There are many reasons and unfortunately not many are an easy fix. But the biggest one for me is a lack of confidence and self-belief.
"Man-for-man we've got an equally-talented group of players. But people always expect us to lose - when everybody writes you off, sometimes these things creep in.
"It's a Scottish trait. We're very humble and self-deprecating as a nation. It doesn't matter who you are. If you're the best player in the world but lack confidence, you'll never do well.
"I've played in England and Wales and there is a different mentality down there. Up here, if someone makes a mistake they really beat themselves up over it.
"But I think the World Cup has definitely helped us with that. It's shown we can compete.''
The former Northampton and Scarlets veteran was part of a squad that shook off the shackles of Scottish gloom as they came within a whisker of a place in the semi-finals at England 2015.
Craig Joubert's controversial last-gasp penalty call ultimately gave Australia the last laugh but Lamont was at least pleased to see his side back themselves both physically and mentally.
However, he warned: "The World Cup was several months ago now and if we don't improve on last year's Six Nations then the World Cup means nothing.
"We know we're capable of doing well - now we just have to realise it.
"Last year's whitewash was one of the most soul destroying moments of my career. These things stay with you. They bloody hurt.
"If we suffer something similar this year it will mean we haven't moved forward at all in the last year and that will be hard to take.''
Lamont is just the second man to have ever earned 100 caps for Scotland but despite featuring in 10 Six Nations campaigns, the closest he has come to a winner's medal is the third-place finishes of 2006 and 2013.
Although he refuses to contemplate retirement from the international game, the prospect of going out on the back of a victorious campaign is an alluring one - and closer than ever, according to Lamont.
"We've managed to finish third a couple of times but nowhere near the top,'' he admitted. "Most of the time we've been floating about down the bottom of the table.
"A grand slam would be a dream come true - even a win. To be honest a damn good performance would be good enough for me.
"I want us to perform the way I know we can play. Unfortunately in the past, we've always fallen short.
"To top my career of with a win would be great, not only for myself but for the whole of Scottish rugby. That's our plan and it's just about getting everything right in each of the games.''


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RemoveDebris Mission Confirms Launch in 2017 using the ISS
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Surrey Space Centre and NanoRacks are pleased to announce the RemoveDebris mission will be deployed into low-Earth orbit from the International Space Station (ISS) using the NanoRacks Kaber Satellite Deployment System (Kaber).
Since the beginning of the space era, a huge amount of orbital debris has progressively been building up; from old rocket casings to dead satellites, there are almost 7,000 tonnes of it around the Earth. Active debris removal missions have been suggested as a way of limiting and controlling future growth by actively sending up spacecraft to capture and remove the debris from space – to date this has never been fully achieved.
The RemoveDebris mission, which started in 2013 and has more than 60 people assigned to the mission, draws on the expertise of some of Europe's most prominent space companies and institutions. The project is co-funded by the European Commission and the partners (the research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n°607099). The mission will launch a 100 kg satellite (designed by Surrey Satellite Technology Limited – SSTL, and Surrey Satellite Technology US LLC – SST-US) to demonstrate four different debris removal technologies. In the mission, CubeSats, provided by the Surrey Space Centre (SSC), will be ejected from CubeSat deployers (provided by ISIS – Innovative Solutions In Space) to be used as "artificial debris". Airbus DS France is in charge of the mission design and the system engineering.
Professor Guglielmo Aglietti, a Royal Academy Research Chair in Space Engineering at the Surrey Space Centre, and Principal Investigator for the mission, said: "The RemoveDebris mission, which captured the public's imagination at the "Cleaning up space junk" exhibit at the Royal Society in London recently, is a world-class endeavour and opens the possibilities for future debris removal missions."
In the two capture experiments a net (developed by Airbus DS Bremen) is fired at a CubeSat to demonstrate net capture in space, and a harpoon (developed by Airbus DS Stevenage) is fired at a deployable target plate to demonstrate safe grappling in orbit, without generating additional debris. The third experiment involves vision-based navigation (developed by Airbus DS Toulouse and Inria) which aims to demonstrate rendezvous navigation using cameras and a LiDaR (provided by CSEM). Finally, the mission will demonstrate de-orbiting using a large dragsail (produced by SSC). All parts of the mission will rapidly de-orbit, and thus will not contribute to space debris.
The RemoveDebris consortium has just finalised signing a launch contract with NanoRacks, a commercial company offering launch opportunities and satellite deployment services from the International Space Station (ISS), targeting a June 2017 launch. NanoRacks is able to offer this Space Station opportunity via the company's Space Act Agreement with NASA's U.S. National Labs. The unconventional launch sequence will involve the satellites on the Kaber platform being launched in a box to the ISS on-board an ISS cargo resupply mission, being unpacked by astronauts on the ISS then being attached to a slide table in the Japanese experiment module (JEM), finally being deployed into space.
The RemoveDebris mission should be the first of many active debris removal missions, and is a vital prerequisite to achieving the ultimate goal of a cleaner Earth orbital environment.
The RemoveDebris mission is being presented at the 67th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Guadalajara, Mexico from 26th to 30th September, 2016. The IAC is one of the largest space conferences in world and this year has attendees from 74 countries.
About the Consortium
RemoveDebris is a low cost mission funded jointly by the European Commission (EU) and 10 partners. Surrey Space Centre (University of Surrey) leads the consortium. The consortium consists of: Airbus Defence and Space (DS), the world's second largest space company; Airbus Safran Launchers (France); SSTL, a world leader in small satellites (UK); ISIS (Netherlands); CSEM (Switzerland); Inria (France); Stellenbosch University (South Africa).
About NanoRacks
NanoRacks LLC was formed in 2009 to provide commercial hardware and services for the U.S. National Laboratory on-board the International Space Station via a Space Act Agreement with NASA. As of July 2016, over 375 payloads have been launched to the International Space Station via NanoRacks services, and our customer base includes the European Space Agency (ESA) the German Space Agency (DLR,) the American space agency (NASA,) US Government Agencies, Surrey Space Centre, Planet Labs, Urthecast, Space Florida, NCESSE, Virgin Galactic, pharmaceutical drug companies, and organizations in Vietnam, UK, Romania and Israel.
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London A Primary Contributor in UK's Economic Proliferation
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Carolyn Fairbairn- British businesswoman and director-general of the Confederation of British Industry raised her opinion on the success of London influencing the growth of whole of the UK, at the CBI's annual Lunch, held at the IET London.
She said, "Success in London creates jobs and prosperity from John O'Groats to Land's End. But there seems to be a danger today, of the point being missed.
"A danger of the UK behaving as a nation of independent city-states all scrabbling for finite resources at each other's expense.
"If we're serious about succeeding post-Brexit not, just as a city but as a nation, then we must reject the false choice between London and the rest of the country.
"Because investment here means growth and investment across other regions too. And vice versa. And we need to do more to make that even truer.
"When London is properly linked to the rest of the UK via the flow of people, goods and services, every region benefits.
Mayor of London to Cooperate with other cities for growth
Carolyn Fairbairn also necessitated the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, to coordinate with the new cities, promoting investment and ideas that would help different regions of the country to develop and enhance their growth among all.
"Today, Sadiq Khan is almost exactly at the halfway point in his term as mayor," said Ms Fairbairn
"He became mayor at a time when the rest of the UK is asserting its right to decide its own affairs.
"I think there's a real opportunity here – for Sadiq to lead a new era of cooperation among new metro areas.
"To promote ideas and investment that help multiple regions. To make the UK more than the sum of its parts.
"The public would back him. Our cities would back him. Our members would certainly back him.
"It's an economic necessity. One UK, one strategy, with London as a jewel in everyone's crown."
Firm Infrastructure and Skills
Trade Union Congress (TUC), a federation of unions across England and Wales, its general secretary Frances O'Grady said, "This analysis shows that, with London and the South East dominating economic growth, too many people are missing out on the chance of a decent job just because of where they live.
"That's not sustainable, and it's why more than ever we need an industrial strategy that delivers good jobs where they're needed most."
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I choose to dry emboss. The patterned paper that I used didn't seem to like my embossing folder, no matter what I did it kept tearing the paper. I try putting paper on each side of the paper in the folder to protect it, making a different sandwich with my big shot. It was really starting to frustrate me, the piece that I finally used turned out pretty good it just looked a little vintage but I liked the effect that I got when I finished my card.
The image that I used is by Moon Cookie from Whimsy Stamps, a super cute image called Paisley 4. I love that you can resize the digital images so I did this one a little bit bigger than I typically do. I wanted it to take up more of the card , to really be the focal point.
You should jump over to the Whimsy Inspires blog to get inspired by the wonderful DT creations.
Here is my card, I hope that it will help inspire you to create a card or project, and play along with us or just to help you create a wonderful project for someone who you care about.
A close up picture of my colored image and embossing.
Supplies: Paisley 4 digital image from Whimsy Stamps, Copic markers, Bazzill cardstock, Fab Scraps patterned paper, Zva bling, Stampin up embossing folder, ribbon.
This is super super cute I just love what you have done here.
Nicely done, and I like that image....it is mighty pretty! Great job friend!


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The death of teaching: A race to the Bottom?
Written by: Joel Wirth | Published: 27 February 2019
Bottomed out? Reducing down complex topics – such as A Midsummer Night's Dream – in order to 'do' them in key stage 3 could be cheating our students (Image: Adobe Stock)
What classroom and teaching practices might we change in order to achieve better lessons and better teaching? In the final part of his series, Joel Wirth looks at key stage 3, which he fears is too often anodyne and pointless...
The discussion around the table was reasonably animated for a Tuesday afternoon at the fag end of April. As ever, year 11 had sucked up most of what heat and light the staff had mustered and spreadsheets had been extensively scrutinised.
At 4:10pm, the key stage 3 curriculum review session began (apologetically requesting just 15 minutes meeting time like the poorest of poor cousins). Ten minutes in and passions were running high on the subject of Shakespeare for year 7.
Macbeth was proposed, a lone voice advocated Henry V, the majority wanted to stick with A Midsummer Night's Dream, which had been trotted out in all its donkey-headed, fully-resourced-PowerPoint-a-thon glory for at least three years.
Understandably tired of endless years of change, voting teachers opted for the status quo. The logic seemed to go that year 7s are small, both physically and intellectually, and somehow "closer" to the world of fairies and periwinkles which had been equated with childhood because – well, just because. They will read a bit and then write something. The clock ticks round towards home time...
I can't resist this as among the finest examples from the many I could cite of the intellectual Race to the Bottom (I hope those of you familiar with the work of the Bard saw what I did there) that characterises so much of students' experiences at key stage 3.
Most English teachers know that A Midsummer Night's Dream is a complex play about creation and artifice, about love and its many delusions. "Doing it" in year 7 more often than not reduces it to a fairy story, and not a particularly good one. Bereft of its intellectual heft it is anodyne and, like so much of key stage 3, pointless.
Ask any child in years 7 and 8, or even year 9 (if you're not among the many schools who have responded to the fundamental inability of the profession to make key stage 3 meaningful by pretending that as much of it as possible is key stage 4). Ask your key stage 3 students why they're doing whatever they're doing. Ballads in year 8. The Elizabethan Age in year 7. Buddhism in year 9. It could be anything, the answer will be the same: "Don't know."
Some will tell you that it's on the test at the end of the year or that it will decide which set they go into next year. Both seem to me a distillation of the same thing: we don't understand the purpose of key stage 3 and, because we haven't invested time in solving its fundamental enigma, we feel free to fill it with GCSE-lite or (perhaps more neglectful but no less unimaginative) any old nonsense.
You could try asking the staff why we're doing this. I guarantee you that you won't get a satisfactory answer.
History provides the most egregious examples of this but you'll see it everywhere – maybe in your own classroom. If the last incarnation of the national curriculum (remember that?) showed us anything, it is that all knowledge, all subject content is contingent.
To many, the worst of the history strand of the national curriculum was its attempt to establish an unquestioning, partial, "pub quiz" national narrative. In itself, it represented a compelling invitation to the prairie-wide curricular freedoms of academisation.
And yet, those schools who adopted those freedoms all seem to have been suckered into the same functional approach. We know we need to do things that are academically challenging in key stage 3 but we don't trust ourselves or our students enough to engage with real thinking, with real intellect.
And so we are left with the bizarre spectre of students studying the industrial revolution in year 8 by producing a series of posters. Or, in RE, exploring spirituality through drawing a labelled picture (Tick. Smiley face stamp. Target. Flick). Or reading the play of Frankenstein in English so that we can somehow claim to have "done Frankenstein". Frankenstein's a novel exploring issues that have profound and lasting relevance beyond its mere plot. If we think it's worth doing, we should do it properly – exploring those themes through honest, intellectual graft – or not at all.
The ubiquity in key stage 3 of activities and practices such as these reflect the cowardice and the intellectual compromise which is so characteristic of school life for the average 12-year-old.
We were all children once and many of us are parents. I remember wishing away the sluggish days of being 13 so that I could get to the pastures of 18 and beyond. But I never felt that being 13 was a preparation for being 16. And as a parent, I want my 11-year-old's school to see that child for what they are, not for what they will one day be when they actually count on the figures. Being 13 is not a preparation for being 16: it's about being 13.
Ask those fundamental questions. Not "what should we do with year 7 in the spring term?' but "beyond mere 'facts', what do we want students to understand by the end of the spring term and how will we decide what to teach to deepen that understanding?"
The predominance of "doing" rather than "understanding" is key. Start with yourself. You are expert. You know why your subject is important. You also know how 12-year-olds work: you know what fires them and you will sure as anything know what turns them off.
Your best lessons will have seen them respond to challenges that are real and in which they have something invested. I have never met a child who doesn't want to be clever or do clever things. Kids respond best to issues that are richly intricate and challenging. Their boredom in lessons is more a reflection of the ease of what they are doing than its complexity.
If stuff is easy, why don't we just photocopy it and have done? If we're doing it, it should be because it is hard, because we're going to have to struggle for it and because, even after that crucial, productive struggle, we may not reach a neat end point that can be easily assessed. If yawning Beth in the third row was your own child studying this subject that you love, what would you want her to understand about this topic? If this topic were studied at A level, how would it be different?
Now, try teaching the A level understanding.
Celebrate being both clever and ignorant
I used to start my form time (average ability school) once a week by exploring topics chosen by the students. I asked them what they wanted to know or got them to identify a topic they were doing in any one of their lessons, then led a 15-minute presentation on that topic where we discussed issues.
We got three such sessions out of "Why do England fans at the World Cup wear Crusader costumes?" We covered Richard the Lionheart (and busted the myth of him as a great English hero), the identity of Saint George, Edward III and the birth of Chivalry, Arthurian legend and national identity.
The school was 30-plus per cent British, Asian which led to further, fascinating discussion of the whole etymology of the term "Crusades" and its (ab)use in the English language.
"This is my favourite part of the week," said one year 10 boy (an exhibitor of classic boredom-induced off-task behaviour around school). The questions they ask, the rabbits they set running, will reignite your love for learning and help you reflect on your own lessons. They will ask you stuff you don't know. Go find out or wait for that magical moment when the quiet kid provides an answer or, memorably, offers to start off the discussion next week with a PowerPoint they'd done themselves.
Key stage 3 is where we most indoctrinate students with the canon of unquestioned stuff – Battle of Hastings, Population Growth, Baroque Music – and where we hand to them the baton of precisely the kind of assumed narrative that the key stage 3 national curriculum for history represented.
Ask your head of department if you can try something else. If Klimt is worthy of study it can't be just because the department has always done it and have pre-ordered the gold paint. Be a student again and ask questions of what you teach. Identify the urgent, intellectual weight of whatever you are doing and devise a way of teaching that.
Real learning is hard. It will frustrate. But it will also prove that simple "truths" ("Britain won the Second World War") usually mask crucial nuances and that easy answers are the used car salesmen of the classroom. In a world bent on populist, easy read solutions, exploring the complexity of almost everything with students may be the most important thing you ever do for them.
Joel Wirth is a former teacher and senior leader who now works as a consultant headteacher. You can read the previous five articles in this SecEd series via http://bit.ly/2FERRgR


Leeds Neville Hill TMD. Previously thought to be ex B786161 but plate confirmed B786181 Feb 2013.
I was wondering what livery this is? Is it warning yellow?
Paint peeling a little now, this was previously thought to be ex B786161 but plate confirmed B786181 on this visit.
I am pleased that this vehicles' identity has been sorted out at last - because I spotted the body of B 786161 in the yard of a Sand & Gravel Company in Carmarthenshire back in April 2000 (the number was clear on the back of it).


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(Photo) Indonesia's Joko Widodo (C), who has won a second term as president, spoke to reporters with his running mate Ma'ruf Amin (R) in Jakarta three days before the official results were announced/AFP
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"Several years ago, I was offered a new job within my corporation. The job had a lot of positives for me as my current job involved a lot of traveling and I was tired of being on the road. The job offer looked appealing but I wasn't quite sure of whether to take it or not. I consulted with Martha as to what I should do. She led me through a guided meditation. In the guided meditation, I came to a fork in the road. She asked me to imagine that I was taking the path to the new job. While walking down it, did I notice any changes in the scenery, the path itself? What I saw in my mind's eye was the path beginning to narrow, brambles springing up by the side of the path, threatening to choke the path off entirely. The sky above was obscured by over hanging trees. It was all dark and gloomy. I didn't take the offered job and circumstances have confirmed that I made the right choice. With Martha's help, the Universe showed me the way."


Effective exchange rates such as CEER incorporate, into a single index, movements a country's bilateral exchange rates with its important trading partners. Such indexes help capture how an economy's exchange rate affects its competitiveness in global trade markets.
As highlighted in the January 2017 Monetary Policy Report (Box 3), the CEER index provides a more accurate measure of Canada's international competitiveness than its predecessor, the Canadian-dollar effective exchange rate index (CERI). It includes a broader set of countries and uses annually updated competition-based weights.
As such, the CEER addresses several drawbacks of the CERI, which has been published since 2006.
Until December 29, 2017, the Bank will continue publishing daily data for both CEER and CERI. As of January 2, 2018, only daily CEER data will be published.


The only way we are really going to make the future work is by allowing others to do their 'own thing' in their own way. Our future survival and evolution as a species will not be found in sameness, alikeness, similarity, or coercion.
Instead, we must build a new global civilization based on expanding diversity, variety, assortment and multiplicity. Yet, there is one fundamental condition - for it to be successful it must be achieved in harmony with others and our planet.
Creating Your Reality - Survivor, Sinner Or Saint?
We are the co-creators of our own reality experience and masters of our own destiny. Yet, many people create, attract and manifest unconsciously, instead of deliberately. This merely casts them in the role of ill-fated victim of their own circumstance, or misguided delinquent, or selfish evil-doer. Are you a survivor, or a sinner? Or are you a deliberate co-creator?


A $3 million gift from Macon and Joan Brock has established the M. Foscue Brock Institute for Community and Global Health at EVMS.
The Brock Institute will be the focal point for integrating EVMS' clinical, educational and research programs, enabling EVMS to take a major step toward its vision of being the most community-oriented medical school in the nation. The interdisciplinary institute will allow EVMS (1) to train the next generation of community-minded physicians and health care professionals, (2) to build a robust training program that will offer students meaningful community-service experiences and (3) to become a model for other medical schools throughout the country.
The donation from Macon F. Brock Jr., co-founder and chairman of Dollar Tree Inc., and his wife, Joan, is one of the largest individual gifts ever made to EVMS. Named in honor of Mr. Brock's father, who was a physician, the institute will allow the school's community-oriented programs to expand and deepen their impact on both local and global health issues.
"EVMS' vision of being the most community-oriented school of medicine and health professions in the nation helped us reach our decision to establish the M. Foscue Brock Institute for Community and Global Health," Mr. Brock says. "The Brock Institute gives EVMS the opportunity to significantly expand its efforts to address critical community health issues while also nurturing a lifelong commitment to community service, particularly among the students. It's rewarding to know that we can help EVMS improve health in communities throughout Hampton Roads."
Developing a strong, lifelong commitment to service among EVMS students, residents and faculty is one of the Brock Institute's core principles. To that end, significant enhancements will be made to EVMS' medical education curricula, including an innovative community-service requirement throughout the four years of medical school. The curricula will be progressive, building upon key core areas in the first year while expanding in future years with the culmination of a capstone project.
Dr. Brock, Macon's father, was a tuberculosis specialist in charge of Norfolk's Grandy Sanatorium for 29 years until he entered private practice in the early 1950s. Dr. Brock was a community service volunteer at the public-health center in Norfolk during his career and was a favorite family doctor to all he served.
"This is why EVMS was created — to improve lives in Hampton Roads," says EVMS President Harry T. Lester. "This gift will help us make people healthier right here in our backyard. Investing in our work shows just how much the Brocks care about this community. This is a wonderful way to honor Dr. Brock's legacy, and we're extremely grateful that his family has stepped forward in such an outstanding way."