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Lassa fever belongs to the same class of hemorrhagic fevers as Ebola. Like Ebola, it has been a major health threat in Western Africa, infecting 100,000-300,000 people and killing 5,000 per year. A new vaccine against both rabies and Lassa has demonstrated effective protection in animal models of disease, according to research publishing in the journal Nature Communications, on October 11th. The research also points to a new way to test for protection against the virus, a finding that could significantly speed vaccine development in humans.
"This two-component vaccine showed good protection from exposure to both virus types in preliminary animal studies," said senior author Matthias Schnell, Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Jefferson (Philadelphia University + Thomas Jefferson University) and Director of the Jefferson Vaccine Center. Because the vaccine is inactivated and based on a rabies vaccine that has been used for decades, the safety profile of the combination vaccine is excellent and likely safe enough to administer to pregnant women, who have a high risk of miscarriage when infected with Lassa virus. In addition, it can be likely produced in a stable lyophilized format that is easy to use in clinics that lack refrigeration.


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Paul Madonna and Ian Huebert at Electric Works
There's more than a touch of melancholy on display at Electric Works this month; something I would argue is in keeping with the overall influence of comix (á la Art Spiegelman) on Paul Madonna and Ian Huebert. Spiegelman used the word 'comix' because he wanted to stress that his creations were not just humorous illustrations, but a new narrative technique: a 'comix-ture' of words and images that relied on the tension between what was being said and what was being illustrated.
I doubt that Speigelman was the first graphic artist to whom this occurred, but he managed to combine this insight with the idea that comix could broach material just as serious as any other novel, and arguably reinvented the comic book in America. He also introduced notes of irony, self-consciousness and melancholy that still permeate the genre, and it's this tone that marries Madonna's Album 01: In Which Era Will You Get Stuck? exhibition with Huebert's Drawing from the Plains.
Madonna's drawings are supporting documents to a limited-edition book, also called Album 01, published jointly by Electric Works and the Paul Madonna Studio, and I think the show feels a little rough around the edges for this reason. The book is more coherent than the gallery installation -- for example, it includes most of the stages that Madonna's drawings underwent, providing a larger frame of reference for the artist's ideas. "Balsa Planes 1 - 5," which is currently my favorite piece, went through four iterations before it became the drawing that hangs on the gallery wall.
"Balsa Planes 5" (2009), Paul Madonna, image courtesy Electric Works
While the final image is evocative on its own, when you see the entire five-panel series of wooden gliders and their paper plane counterparts playing out an ambiguous scene that could be a battle (or not), "Balsa Planes 1 - 5" becomes a meaningful synecdoche for the tension present in the rest of Album 01.
Despite the playful colors and the fact that many of Madonna's images involve toys, my overall read is of a narrator continually under attack.
"Creature" (2009), Paul Madonna, image courtesy Electric Works
Attacked by what, I'm not exactly sure -- memories, expectations, and nostalgia are my best guesses, and I think the role that commodities play here is interesting -- but it's a curiously indirect and persistent threat, one that shows up in the form of broken toy parts or bad dreams, at least until the final page of the book, when the narrator is accidentally poisoned by a cupcake that contains a dose of medicine for the family dog -- mildly poisoned, that is, nothing fatal. A gentle melancholy. A familiar threat.
Ian Huebert's is the stronger installation, which makes sense given that there is no book involved, and nothing meant to bundle the concept of the work other than the room in which it sits. Huebert is meticulous -- you can tell by his rendering style -- and I was impressed by the number of different media and techniques he put together, from hand-drawn, multi-panel serials to a re-appropriated table.
"FASPA" (2009), Ian Huebert, photograph by Danielle Sommer
If comix is the art of juxtaposition, or the art of the interval, then Huebert moves this juxtaposition out of the realm of solely text and image and into the multi-modal conversation of contemporary art, where many of his peers are also attempting to harness the same interval.
Huebert's images are, as the title suggests, 'from the plains:' big, sturdy women and teenagers, endlessly flat horizons, haystacks, corn and gun cartridges. He's from Nebraska, but anyone who has clocked time in this country's agricultural centers will recognize his landscape, and not just formally, but emotionally. There's a bleak strip called "Freezer King" that I can't get out of my mind: a woman stripping corn of its kernels and immediately putting them on ice, in Ziploc bags labeled "July."
"Freezer King" (2009), Ian Huebert, photograph by Danielle Sommer
My parents used to do this with the pulp from the persimmons that they harvested off our tree down in the South Bay; in our world, it was a way of making a season's flavor last just a little bit longer, of storing a favorite experience with the expectation that it could be brought out at another time. In Huebert's world, the gesture takes on a special kind of bittersweetness, of a summer (and perhaps a way of life) put on ice.
Paul Madonna's Album 01: In What Era Will You Get Stuck? and Ian Huebert's Drawing from the Plains are on view at Electric Works until January 9, 2010.
Electric Works will be hosting a book signing for Paul Madonna on December 19, 2009.
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This text examines our need for Redemption, and presents how the salvific promise made to our first parents is fulfilled by Jesus Christ. It discusses the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Christ and its application in the life of each Christian. It also discusses how the Holy Mass is a perpetuation of the Paschal Mystery in our lives.


The state Department of Justice Office of School Safety will be hosting a second free (no cost) day-long training session on school violence threat assessment for school officials on August 9 at Nicolet High School in Glendale. Interested school officials can find a link to register for the training here.
Registration for the initial school violence threat assessment training scheduled for Madison on July 27 (see previous post) is closed as that session is full and no spaces are available. Additional free 8-hour threat assessment training sessions are planned for various locations around the state.
Among the DOJ's goals are to have a school safety team assembled in every school district–including administrators, school counselors social workers and security personnel–that has been trained in threat assessment.
In addition, the Wisconsin School Safety Coordinators Association (WSSCA), is offering training in digital threat assessment on July 25 at the Waukesha County Technical College campus. This day-long training aims to help attendees understand the current social media world, give them tools to be able to proactively identify student safety concerns and strategies for dealing with online situations as they arise. A limited number of spaces are still available. Click here for a link to register.


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Updates to make Hillsboro's sidewalks safer
By ALEXANDER SIMONE
Sidewalks at D and S. Ash Sts. in Hillsboro are being widened, and city administrator Matt Stiles hopes the upgrades will make the area more accessible to people with disabilities.
The goal is to make the intersection safer and decrease the likelihood of an accident like in June when a boy was killed when he ran into a semi. The improvements also will meet Americans with Disabilities Act requirements, Stiles said.
"We know there are some access issues with the ADA part of it," Matt Stiles said. "You always want to bring it up to ADA compliance."
The first upgrades are on S. Ash St. along the west side of Great Plains Federal Credit Union. The widened sidewalk will ease traffic flow. Similar improvements will be done to other sections of the intersection.
"We're evaluating sidewalks and trying to take care of the biggest issues first, then go back through and look at where we have money," Stiles said. "There's not really a formal process that we're going to do this intersection next and then that one."
Elizabeth Wine of Great Plains Federal Credit Union already has fielded questions from customers wondering about the work being done.
"They've been wondering what we've been doing," she said. "It's like, well the city's changing the sidewalk out, making it a little easier for people in wheelchairs or pushing strollers so they aren't running through the drainage."
The changes won't affect access because there is no entrance on the credit union's west side. It could increase congestion for people using the drive-through, but the city is working with Great Plains FCU to minimize inconvenience.
The update required multiple trees along the west side be cut down, which Wine expressed no qualms about.
"If it makes it easier to do this then be my guest and take them out," she said. "I was looking at having to take them out 10 years from now."
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CONVERSATION "WOMEN IN FILM"
As part of the special project #FFFMILANOFORWOMEN we presents a conversation dedicated to the theme of female representation in the world of cinema. The meeting, which will be attended by Chiara Sbarigia, President of Cinecittà, Lisa Immordino Vreeland, filmmaker and writer, Alessandra Cardone, writer and director, and moderated by the journalist Marta Stella, will be an opportunity for debate and discussion on the em- powerment of women in the Italian and international film industry.
Chiara Sbarigia, President of Cinecittà
Chiara Sbarigia is the President of Cinecittà S.p.A.
Born in Rome, she graduated with honours in Literature, and she is an expert in the field of Italian and international audiovisual production. She has been the operations manager of the Roma Fiction Fest and the International Audiovisual Market for several editions. She started her professional career in 1994 with APA, the largest association of audiovisual producers, of which she was appointed general director in 2003, then president of APA Service in 2020 and treasurer of the European Coordination of Independent Producers (CEPI). She has also been a juror at recent editions of the Monte-Carlo Television Festival.
Lisa Immordino Vreeland, writer, director and producer
Lisa Immordino Vreeland has been immersed in the world of fashion, art and culture for the past 25 years. Her first book was accompanied by her directorial debut of the documentary of the same name, Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel (2012).
The film had its European premiere at the Venice Film Festival and its North American premiere at the Telluride Film Festival. It went on to win the Silver Hugo at the Chicago Film Festival and the fashion category for the Design of the Year Awards—otherwise known as "The Oscars" of design—at the Design Museum in London.
Her second film, Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival (2015) and had its European premiere at Art Basel. Her second book, Love, Cecil came out in October 2017 to accompany the film Love, Cecil that premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in 2017. Immordino Vreeland curated and directed the award-winning short film series called Art of Style, for the digital fashion network, Made to Measure. The films explored the creative expression of innovative designers and captured their strategy of style. She continues to create work for collectors, galleries, and museums. Her fourth film, Truman & Tennessee : An Intimate Conversation was accepted at the 2020 Telluride Film Festival, winner of Best Documentary Feature at the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival and winner of Best LGBTQ Film at the Key West Film Festival. It was purchased by Kino Lorber in the US and is currently streaming on the Criterion Channel, and distributed theatrically in June 2021.
Alessandra Cardone, writer and director
Alessandra Cardone is a writer and director, who, before focusing exclusively on film, worked as a copywriter for big advertising agencies, such as TBWA and Euro RSCG (Havas Group). After studying screenwriting with Gaetano Sansone, she shot her first short film Waiting for Hollywood (Aspettando Hollywood, 2006) selected by many festivals. She won a Special Mention at Nastri d'Argento for Boxing Paradise (2007) screenplay. She went on shooting commercials, directed and often written by her, documentaries and short films screened by various festivals, including My Friend Johnny (2012), selected at Venice Days (Venezia Film Festival). She conceived the series The Wine Stories, of which she wrote and shot the first episode The Madeleine and the Stranger ("La Madeleine e lo Straniero", 2018), awarded in many festivals all over the world and purchased by RAI Cinema. Currently, she is writing the docu-series The Wine of the Champions (produced and directed by Julio Sonino, KrH Media, Miami-U.S) for the American market.
Selected by Torino Film Lab (June 2018) with the feature film The Blunder ("L'Abbaglio"), she won the Apulia Development Film Fund, and will film it next March-April 2022 with Scirocco Films.


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Ironic Seattle Icons
Looking for Seattle's quirky side? Here are a few sights not to miss.
Fremont Troll (Fremont)
Hidden under the Aurora Avenue Bridge, this 18-foot-tall, shaggy-haired, one-eyed creature appears to be lying in wait for inattentive drivers. (In his left hand, he's crushing an old Volkswagen.) Created by four local artists out of rebar, wire, and two tons of ferroconcrete, the Troll is perfectly harmless, known to devour more film than anything else. Troll Ave N and N 36th.
Lenin Statue (Fremont)
Said to be the largest Lenin statue in the U.S., this sculpture was salvaged from a Russian scrap heap by a local teacher. Like many of Seattle's statues, it's often adorned and decorated: during Gay Pride Week, Lenin has even been dressed in drag. Evanston and N 36th St.
Seattle P-I globe (Seattle waterfront)
Perched atop what used to be the Seattle Post-Intelligencer building, the 18.5-ton, 30-foot P-I globe was built in 1948 by Pacific Car and Foundry and Electrical Products Consolidated for nearly $26,000. 2601 Elliott Ave.
Pink Elephant Car Wash (South Lake Union)
Erected in 1956, the pink elephant is undoubtedly Seattle's most flamboyant piece of neon. Built out of 70 separate pieces of neon, the large sign (a smaller version sits 100 yards back) features 380 blinking bulbs. 616 Battery St.
Hat & Boots (Georgetown)
Originally part of a 1950s gas station that fell into disrepair after the late '80s closure of the "Premium Tex" cowboy-themed station, the Hat & Boots were moved to Oxbow Park in Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood in 2003, where renovation began. Today both the Hat (which measures 19 by 44 feet) & Boots (which once housed bathrooms for cowboys and cowgirls) have been fully restored. 6430 Corson Ave S.
The Gum Wall (Pike Place Market)
Located at the Market Theatre under Pike Place, this brick wall boasts inches of multicolored, ABC gum (extending 15 feet in height and 50 feet in length.) Deemed an official Seattle tourist attraction in 1999, it also holds the distinction of being named among the Top Five Germiest Tourist Attractions in 2009 by TripAdvisor.com. Post Alley, between Pike and Union.
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"Dew" is defined by Merriam-Webster as "moisture condensed upon the surfaces of cool bodies, especially at night." The meteorological phenomenon has been co-opted by the beauty industry to describe a very particular type of shine — one that's sparkly, glossy, and wet all at the same time. The term has become so popular that a handful of brands have incorporated it into marketing strategies, launching products like Marc Jacobs Beauty's Dew Drops, Arcona's Eye Dew, and One Love Organic's Skin Dew Coconut Water Cream.
The problem with dew, however, is that it's by nature, wet. And wet products, especially those designed to lend a moist effect to a makeup look, tend to be sticky and don't last long. Take eye glosses for example, no matter how beautiful they may appear on, every single time I wear one I wind up with a creased, goopy mess all over my lids.
That's why Stila's Heaven's Dew All Over Glimmer is so unique. The cream-to-powder glitter gives off a dewy sheen, but since it's a powder, it doesn't migrate. According to Stila's creative artistry director Sarah Lucero the glitter gives off a sheen akin to light dancing off water — and she's not wrong.
Sure, Heaven's Dew has the perfect amount of non-glossy shine, but it's the texture that has me so enamored with the stuff. In the pan, it looks like any baked shadow, but when you touch it, your fingers melt into a pillowy shadow. It feels like a cream at first, but transforms into a powder the moment you swipe it on.
Layered over one-shadow looks or a cat-eye, Heaven's Dew serves as the perfect topper that'll take a simple makeup look into bolder territory in a few seconds. That, coupled with its finger-friendly texture, makes it ridiculously easy to use. There's one caveat though, the shadow's texture is so fun to play with, it's easy to go overboard on the face. Unless you want to wind up looking like a disco ball, I'd recommend exercising some self control — or at the very least, a light hand.
Stila Heaven's Dew All Over Glimmer, $25, available in June at Sephora.


The strategic guidelines of the MP are set on the basis of: the world tendencies and the international experience in this field; the characteristics the outstanding universal value of the property; the priorities, strategic objectives and specific tasks of the Plan.
On the basis of this are set nine strategic guidelines that correspond to the objectives and tasks of the Plan can be implemented by the responsible national and local authorities.
In this connection, it must be stressed that the MP, being a strategic document, does not propose concrete operational decisions, which are on the basis of other operational instruments (conservation prescriptions, spatial plans, conservation plan, municipal ordinances, etc.). In separate cases the Plan recommends some exemplary options for concrete actions but these are not proposals for decisions which will become compulsory after the adoption of the project of the MP. They only aim at clarifying the respective guidelines and to facilitate the preparation of the future operational instruments.
Development of programmes for future actions that will provide reasonable planning of these activities, without any risk for the property.
The programmes are presented in indicative tables and are included in PART VІІ of the Plan. In the present summary the main programme activities, for the sake of convenience, are listed by the presentation of each of the respective guidelines.
To the MP is also attached (in Volume 3) a series of specific pilot products, which are planned to immediately affect the present situation. These products are not part of the MP but are elaborated in parallel and in direct relation to it as a step towards the realisations of the proposed strategic guidelines. What is more, still in the working process of the MP were really implemented in practice some of its measures (for instance in the field of management, organisation of movable trade, promotion, etc.). These are real practical contributions of the Plan, set by the great responsibility of the public authorities to the future of the property. The acute problems established by the World Heritage Committee require urgent measures.


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Campaign Honors 'The Help' For Domestic Awareness The Help has become a box-office smash, and the National Domestic Workers Alliance is using the film to raise awareness for real-life Aibileens and Minnys via its "Be The Help Campaign." A series of viewing parties across the country on Oscar night is designed to support the actresses who, with their work, honored domestic work and made it visible. NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates reports.
The Help has become a box-office smash, and the National Domestic Workers Alliance is using the film to raise awareness for real-life Aibileens and Minnys via its "Be The Help Campaign." A series of viewing parties across the country on Oscar night is designed to support the actresses who, with their work, honored domestic work and made it visible. NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates reports.
It's WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Guy Raz. It's Oscar night in Hollywood, and that means glamorous parties all over the city. But this year, a particular group of women will be hosting parties to cheer on two nominees: actors Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer who portrayed maids in the film "The Help."
As NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates reports now, those parties will try to raise awareness for the rights of domestic workers.
KAREN GRIGSBY BATES, BYLINE: "The Help" is a movie about black maids in segregated Mississippi who make the lives of their white employers easier by doing their household work. Here's Viola Davis' character, Aibileen, describing her job.
AI-JEN POO: There are Aibileens and Minnys in every town and every city. And each one of us has a role to play in really bringing respect and dignity to their work.
BATES: That's Ai-jen Poo, director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, a network devoted to securing rights for the nation's estimated two million housekeepers, nannies and home caregivers. After a six-year grassroots campaign, Poo successfully got a Domestic Workers Bill of Rights passed in the New York state legislature.
The bill was the first of its kind in the country. It regulated working hours and work conditions and mandated that employers pay the legal minimum wage. Now, Poo has her sights on California.
POO: We call it the Wild West because it's so unpredictable. And oftentimes, what you're looking at is the situation where workers are highly vulnerable to abuse.
BATES: A California bill similar to the one in New York was passed in the state assembly and will soon go to the Senate for a floor vote. But, as with New York, there has been resistance. Opposing lawmakers say regulating hours, overtime and other workplace conventions for domestic workers means many working families will not be able to afford the nannies and housekeepers they rely on.
Anticipating that, the National Domestic Workers Alliance has created a campaign called Be the Help to raise public awareness of the value of domestic work. They're keying off the current craze for the movie to remind employers that they are able to do their jobs because of the help they have at home.
Jennifer Bernard has been a New York nanny for 20 years and wants "The Help" fans to keep this in mind.
JENNIFER BERNARD: I want them to really remember that the domestic worker is an important person and - in their home, that we take care of their most prized possession every day. And if they go out to seek a job, they want to be treated in a special way, and we want to be treated the same.
BATES: Bernard will be at one of the scores of viewing parties being held on Oscars night to emphasize the importance of domestic work. She hopes if Octavia Spencer wins an Oscar, she'll repeat her moving speech from the Golden Globes.
OCTAVIA SPENCER: You know, with regard to domestics in this country now and then, I think Dr. King said it best. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance, and I thank you for it.
BATES: And Bernard hopes the movie will continue to raise awareness so that California and other states will pass laws aimed at giving domestic workers many of the same protections that govern others in the workplace. Karen Grigsby Bates, NPR News.


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Dakota Access Pipeline plan still on despite protests across the US and world
Rallies are taking place over $3.8bn North Dakota pipeline, which the Standing Rock Sioux tribe says threatens their water supply and cultural heritage
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Protesters demonstrate against the Dakota Access oil pipeline, in Los Angeles, California, on Monday. Photograph: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters
The company behind a controversial pipeline project near native American land in North Dakota has vowed to press ahead, despite the plan sparking protests across the world on Tuesday.
Protests are taking place in the US, Europe, Japan and New Zealand over the $3.8bn Dakota Access Pipeline, which the Standing Rock Sioux tribe claims threatens their water supply and cultural heritage. Rallies have taken place in cities including New York City, Los Angeles and London, where an anti-pipeline banner was dangled in front of the Palace of Westminster.
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In one of 100 protests across the US, Senator Bernie Sanders, CNN pundit Van Jones and Native American leaders are to address hundreds of people gathered outside the White House. Sanders said the pipeline must be stopped "once and for all".
On Friday, a federal judge rejected a legal attempt by tribal leaders to stop work on the 1,170-mile pipeline, which will funnel oil from North Dakota to Illinois. Shortly after the decision, however, the federal government said it would stop work that occurs on federal land to see whether it should "reconsider any of its previous decisions" to allow the project to proceed.
But Kelcy Warren, chief executive of Energy Transfer, the company behind the pipeline, insisted that the project would continue.
"We intend to meet with officials in Washington to understand their position and reiterate our commitment to bring the Dakota Access Pipeline into operation," Warren said.
"We respect the constitutional right of all assembled in North Dakota to voice their opinions for or against projects like ours. However, threats and attacks on our employees, their families and our contractors as well as the destruction of equipment and encroachment on private property must not be tolerated."
Protesters demonstrate against the Dakota Access pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in Cannon Ball, North Dakota, on 9 September 2016. Photograph: Andrew Cullen/Reuters
Warren said the pipeline was designed with "tremendous safety factors" that negate any risk to the water supply from an oil spill. He added that Energy Transfer "values and respects cultural diversity" but that no sacred Native American items have been found along the route of the pipeline.
Dozens of different tribes have gathered at a protest camp near the pipeline construction site in North Dakota, which has led to occasional clashes with police and security guards. Several arrests have been made, with journalist Amy Goodman issued with a warrant after she went to the camp to report on the protests.
In total, the pipeline will make 200 river crossings, including the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, in four states. The US army corp of engineers, which has jurisdiction over pipelines that cross major waterways, approved the Dakota Access plan despite warnings from the Environmental Protection Agency that leaking oil could pollute the rivers.
The pipeline was originally meant to run near the city of Bismarck, which has an overwhelmingly white population, before objections resulted in it being relocated to a site near Native American land.
Dave Archambault II, chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, said the pipeline has "already led to the destruction of our sacred sites".
"It is unfortunate that the corporate world chooses to ignore the millions of people and hundreds of tribal nations who stand in opposition to the destruction of our lands, resources, waters, and sacred sites," he said.
"Energy Transfer Partners has demonstrated time and time again that the bottom line for them is money. The bottom line for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe is and will always be protecting our lands, people, water and sacred sites from the devastation of this pipeline.
"Our fight isn't over until there is permanent protection of our people and resources from the pipeline."
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A Long Walk to Water Paperback Book (720L)
The New York Times Best Seller A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two 11-year-olds in Sudan: a girl in 2008 and a boy...
A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story by Linda Sue Park
The New York Times Best Seller A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two 11-year-olds in Sudan: a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is a two-hour walk from her home; she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the "lost boys" of Sudan, refugees who cover the African continent on foot as they search for their families and for a safe place to stay. Enduring every hardship from loneliness to attack by armed rebels to contact with killer lions and crocodiles, Salva is a survivor, and his story goes on to intersect with Nya's in an astonishing and moving way.
Topics covered in this book include survival, war and peace, orphans and foster homes, and Africa and Sudan.
Lexile Measure: 720L
Attention: Please preview. Many novels contain topics, themes, and language that you, students, parents, or school administrators may deem inappropriate.
©2010. Middle school. 5 x 8 inches. Softcover. 128 pages.
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It Could Have Been Me Poster


It was towards the end of April, and London was under cow parsley. As if they were in their twenties, Molly Cadwalader and Susan Thress moved in together. Molly brought her beach chairs, her boxes of pieces of clay pipe and bones; Susan her piano. The piano had an enviable solidity—broad slings and six strong arms were needed to carry it across the threshold—whereas the beach chairs were a portable kind, hollow-strutted, ready to take down to the river; and the expectations Molly Cadwalader brought with her were wisps, a feeling something was vaguely around the corner. There would be someone, man or woman, on the Thames walk, at Hogarth's house, the TESCO express, on the platform at Barnes Bridge. She would invest energy in reaching this nebulous corner, put the disastrous affair with Hal Hammond behind her. She would join clubs and activities, mingle with the celebrities of Chiswick.
——Or, Susan, we'll make our own things happen. Find and take in that escaped monkey (the monkey, a tama-something, that was in the Evening Standard).
——No, we won't be taking in anything.
Having put her foot down, Susan swivelled square-on to the piano.
——We're so close to the river. I will do river tunes.
After all the discussions about living together, here they are. Molly looking as if she's come in from the rain, Susan at her piano.
—She plays a song of the river, a short piece after Beethoven.
—Rattling to an end (those ageing wires) the piece is followed immediately by a Bach something. Typically—was it typical? Molly was not yet sure—Susan races, and surges, but steadily. Through the window the next aircraft approaches Heathrow. Everything is steady: the aircraft, the way Hal's hair stayed, the piano, Susan. Molly grows envious of this assuredness at the keys, when the tune tumbles to a close in a rush of notes.
—When Susan claps down the lid a petal falls from a rose on the piano top. One of the removal men must have put it there. What was that all about, Molly wonders.
——So. Come on Molly, we can't sit on orange crates all day.
——It weighs less than a little packet of sugar. It would be a toy in your hand.
——No pets. Is it true you've kept mice?
——What if I did? Oh Susan don't worry, it's not as if speaking the words can make a monkey appear.
——430 grammes it says, while you have your ton of piano.
——Ton? A ton of piano would be quite a piano. Are we going to see the Boat Race or not?
—Molly takes a cap from a box. Susan calls it jaunty. Don't say that Susan, you make us sound old. They leave the beach chairs propped by all the boxes. They will walk alongside the Overground to get a riverside view of the eights (Susan calls them eights; Molly thought she said aches). They pass cow parsley behind the row of houses and cow parsley behind railings and cow parsley beside the meadows and cow parsley by the Health Club and more cow parsley by the rail tracks.
—They sit on a concrete wall by Barnes Bridge. A girl with a tray of Mars bars passes. As they wait for the eights to shoot by, Molly still hears the piano. She hears the lid shut. The water is dark. She wonders how cows swim.
——Remember Hal Hammond and the Liquorice Angus?
——Hal Hammond. Who is Hal Hammond?
—Molly flaps her cap at Susan's knees.
——Oh him, says Susan. That little country outing. Him with the hair.
——Yes with the hair, that looks like the monkey I'm going to get us.
——Like the monkey you're not going to get us. Besides, those monkeys are almost extinct.
——Oh really, are they now?
—… shut that door, get him out of your system. Have a Mars bar, get your teeth in it, and cheer like mad when they go by.
——Why? Why should we cheer?
——To let it out. Forget him.
——It's so hard, hard to forget.
—Damn Hal Hammond. She was constantly reaching out from under his shadow, but his shadow was large, larger than she ever thought possible.
—If the black and white blotches on cows in a field put him in mind of liquorice and he said the cows were Liquorice Angus, then for Molly they were, as a fact, were and always would be. After he said they were called Liquorice Angus she saw them everywhere. Following, grouping and re-grouping like Travellers, roaming the country, chewing their parsley. And so casually. Knees knocking and hooves going tonk at tree trunks and gateposts. Resting their heads on SUVs. About to appear again, at any moment.
—As they wait by the black water, she imagines cows, the cows, gathering at the back of the Health Centre. About to cross in single file over Barnes Bridge. Looking over the back fence of their newly acquired property. Leaning on the fence so it collapses.
—There had of course been more searing, more personal instances of the word-thing, in which—simply—he had pointed out where he found her wanting. It had begun sweetly in June. By November all was sour. Her admiration had peaked, and flipped: she feared his words. Damn Hal Hammond: casting such a shadow. He wasn't even a looker.
—Leaving him in the clatter of Chelsea, where nothing ever stopped or was quiet—youth and crime at every corner—Molly had struck out with her new friend Susan Thress.
—Susan had hesitated—when she heard Molly had bones in boxes; had kept an animal skull in her bathroom, better to observe the maggots. Oh well, Susan had said, it doesn't sound life-threatening. They agreed a quiet week to consider before signing, contracting themselves to equal responsibilities.
—In that time Molly contemplated the pleasure of hearing Susan enter the keyboard—as it felt. In she went, inside the music, in the piano. She liked her habit of clapping down the lid on finishing. At each thud Molly felt she could start anew, from that point.
—Now there's a rumble from the Barnes side. Will she wave her cap, she's not sure. A growing rumble. There they are. The eights are coming up fast. The dark blues seem ahead. All is dark for a moment, dark overhead and over the river.
——I know a shady little pet shop, Susan. They'll get me one. I'll call it Hal.
——In exorcism? Is that how it works?
——Yes, she says, in exorcism.
—On the way back it drizzles. There is cow parsley on the river bank, cow parsley around the car park. The drizzle thickens. The Liquorice Angus behind the Health Club will be sheltering in the squash court.
—Hal the monkey would be made to feel at home, provided they found somewhere for it to swing in. They would have to raise him not to stray. To depend on them.
——We'll have irresistible food, says Molly behind Susan at the door. The glass door-pane reflects the next aircraft coming in to land.
——He will come scampering at the sound of his name.
—Susan puts the kettle on. Molly flops on the sofa, closes her eyes and murmurs to herself.
—I hear no snakes. What about you, Hal? There are no snakes. Hawks. What's that? Sh. Chichichichichichichi.
—There are seeds on the floor there, Hal are you blind? There, by the window.
Molly opens her eyes to take the mug of tea from Susan, who takes her own to the piano.
She plays the river piece again. This time the lid closes gently.
——Sh, can you hear a snake?
—Hal's on edge, Susan. Switch on a light and he jumps. He can't understand electricity.
—Are you suggesting we don't switch lights on any more?
—Susan blows on her tea.
—I tell you Molly, Susan would say: that monkey has got claws. He's been ripping the curtains. He saw me drawing them, now he's doing it himself.
—He's not a monkey, he's Hal.
—And his hairs are everywhere.
—I know. Even in the air.
—He's all over the place. I wish he wouldn't climb over everything.
—He just wants more flies. But he's yours, Molly, you get them. It's no trouble. The cows leave so many.
—The cows have moved on, haven't you noticed? You've been in your piano so much.
—He's saying something else now. Look at those whiskers. That quivering. He loves you, Molly.
—Hal? No way, not Hal Hammond. He wasn't capable. He never loved me, never will. That's not what he's saying to me now.


Italian glass processing technology returns to Brazil. Gimav, the Italian Association of Glass Processing Machinery and Accessory Suppliers, is coordinating the group participation of its members in the flat glass sector at the 10th edition of Glass South America – on the calendar for May 16th to 19th, 2012 in São Paulo.
South America is undoubtedly a valuable market for exports in this sector, as confirmed by Renata Gaffo, Director of Gimav: "Brazil and South America in general show their appreciation of the high quality technologies inherent to our made in Italy products. Exports of Italian flat glass processing machinery to this area are constantly increasing. Of course, Brazil drives the entire area, but Argentina also makes a good showing, and Peru is quickly adding itself to the list".
Therefore, participation in the show is strategic for Italian businesses. The Gimav group is impressive -- the 16 members on hand at the event will occupy a surface area of about 1,000 sq meters, that will also host the local sister companies of Gimav member firms.
Italy's glass processing machinery and accessories industry has always held a leadership position on a global level. The machines designed in Italy, known and appreciated around the world, have a competitive edge in the international marketplace, thanks to the winning combination of technological innovation, product quality, and swift technical assistance.
"The South American market is constantly developing, and prospects for the future are excellent. Thanks to their distinctive qualities, Italian-made machinery has earned the trust of industry professionals. This is the reason our hopes for the outcome of the show are more than positive" acknowledges Renata Gaffo.
Gimav at Glass South America 2012: stand 228.


The principal of Stuart Cove's Dive Bahamas yesterday blasted "ridiculous" bank lending attitudes for delaying his firm's $4m Coral Harbour relocation ahead of his landlord's anticipated sale.
Stuart Cove revealed to Tribune Business he had wanted to move last Christmas from his present South Ocean site to a three-acre property he has already acquired, but was "messed up" by the reluctance of Bahamas-based banks to provide the necessary credit.
Disclosing that they had financed the property's purchase, Mr Cove said he was at a loss to explain their unwillingness to aid renovation plans that include converting it into a "dive lodge" similar to the bonefishing lodge concept found throughout the Family Islands.
Questioning why lenders would take such a stance given his "perfect track record", and the fact they are "full of money" with over $1.5bn in excess liquidity, he added that he likely had no choice but to now seek out foreign funding sources.
Mr Cove explained that his desire to move was being driven by a combination of wanting to escape the "exorbitant rent" he is paying at South Ocean and to get ahead of the likelihood that the 363-acre property may soon be sold to new developers.
Multiple Tribune Business sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, this week said Albany's developers were again exploring options for a deal to acquire a resort property that has experienced numerous near misses and false starts on efforts to re-open it since South Ocean was closed in 2004.
"I'm planning on moving again and am just waiting for financing," Mr Cove told Tribune Business of his world-renowned dive operation. "I've secured the property at Coral Harbour in anticipation of a sale.
"I just can't get anything out of the banks. They lent me the money to secure the property, but have not given me the money to build. It's a big piece of land with a big condo building on that we're going to renovate.
"I had hoped to move at Christmas last year, but the financing messed me up. I'd move right away, but I need to build the facilities. I've got the property and all the permits, the zoning changes. All the groundwork is done," he added.
Mr Cove said Stuart Cove's Dive had also qualified for tax breaks and incentives available under the Hotels Encouragement Act, "so I don't have to pay tax on the goods we're using for building, and don't have to pay real property tax for 20 years.
"We've been approved for that," he added, "and had the property rezoned as commercial permanently, with the previous multi-family use expunged from the record. I think we could build in three months - a swimming pool, docks, bulkheads, 16 hotel rooms in the building. We will have a dive lodge, as well as a dive shop, and a restaurant and bar, which we have the licence for.
Giving more detail on his investment plans, Mr Cove told Tribune Business: "We're looking at a phase one total of $2m, and looking at buying a property across the road to build cottage for people to stay. That will be another couple of million.
Mr Cove said he had heard "nothing formal" about a potential sale or redevelopment of South Ocean, which continues to be owned by the Canadian Commercial Workers Industry Pension Plan (CCWIPP). The fund took over ownership of the 363-acre property around two decades ago after developer Ron Kelly defaulted on loans he had borrowed from it.
However, multiple sources this week confirmed that there is renewed activity and interest in South Ocean. They suggested it was being led by Albany's developers, who include the Tavistock Group, the vehicle for investments by Lyford Cay-based billionaire, Joe Lewis, and world-renowned golfers Tiger Woods and Ernie Els.
Albany's developers have been involved in bids or joint ventures to acquire South Ocean, the last available parcel of land for mega resort development on New Providence, at least twice before. However, their last attempt was defeated when CCWIPP elected to go with an offer from controversial Lyford Cay resident and Austrian financier, Dr Mirko Kovats, which ultimately failed to seal a deal.
Albany's continued interest in South Ocean's fate remains obvious, though, not least because the two sites are next-door neighbours, and the former will want to ensure that whatever development takes place there matches the high-end luxury standards it has set.
Given that it has been closed for 15 years, South Ocean's remaining value largely rests with its latent casino licence, which kicks in once the property reaches a certain number of rooms. Its golf course, too, was rated as the best in New Providence by many golfers.
"The value of my property is the canal entrance. They've already dug into the bedrock," Mr Cove told Tribune Business. "They could go through my property, open up the canal and make a large marina. It makes sense for Albany to do it.


A number of governance measures have been proposed to the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA)by a newly formed independent governance committee warning the association of its weak anti-corruption controls.
Mark Pieth, a professor of criminology at the University of Basel who spearheads the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's bribery working group (OECD), was recently appointed to lead an independent multi-stakeholder committee to shed a crucial light on FIFA's poor governance practices.
In the 36 page report to FIF A, Pieth criticizes some of the international soccer body's existing practices that paved the way for a series of alleged corrupt practices that led to the dismissal of four executive committee members this year.
(v) Restrict the convergence of certain departments such as the finance and audit committees and the disciplinary and ethics committees.
In August, Transparency International (TI) released a report suggesting that an independent group of outsiders should be formed to ensure 'good governance' measures are implemented at the organization. Earlier in the year, Chuck Blazer, the US member of the executive committee, turned in other officials for allegedly conspiring to purchase votes from Caribbean Football Union officials in a June 1 presidential election.


The legend of Peng Zu — a figure who some claim lived more than 800 years — inspires Suncoast's new 1,950-square-foot Peng Zu Asian Cuisine. The restaurant combines herbs and spices that promote long life and good health.
Black Pepper Steak at Pengzu.
The exterior of Peng Zu is seen Dec. 12, 2017. It is the newest restaurant to join the Suncoast.
The interior of Peng Zu follows traditional Asian decor.
Featured soup at Peng Zu.
Menu items include lettuce wraps, coconut shrimp, potstickers, eggrolls, chicken wings, Vietnamese beef pho, wor wonton, oxtail and miso.
Also on the menu are wok specialties such as orange peel beef, honey-glazed shrimp, Hong Kong chow mein, Cantonese lo mein, BBQ pork noodles and pad Thai.


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Different biology and clinical outcome according to the absolute numbers of clonal B-cells in monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis (MBL)
Andy C. Rawstron, Tait Shanafelt, Mark C. Lanasa, Ola Landgren, Curtis Hanson, Alberto Orfao, Peter Hillmen, Paolo Ghia
The biological and clinical relationship between Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia (CLL) and Monoclonal B-cell Lymphocytosis (MBL) has now been reported in some detail. This review investigates associations between biology and disease activity as they relate to the absolute numbers of abnormal cells. The clonal B-cells in CLL-type MBL are indistinguishable from CLL with respect to surface phenotype and the presence of chromosomal abnormalities. However, the majority of CLL-type MBL cases in the general population have very low numbers of clonal B-cells, typically in the range 0.1-10 per μL, and such cases use different IGHV genes than higher-count CLL-type MBL cases and often show intraclonal heterogeneity. Cases with higher counts are biologically similar to CLL although there is a relationship between the CLL cell count at presentation and the likelihood of further clonal expansion. Individuals presenting with CLL cell counts above 2,000 per μL are more likely to have gradually increasing B-cell counts over time and although the risk of requiring treatment for progressive CLL remains low there may be impaired normal B-cell activity.
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Cytometry Part B - Clinical Cytometry
https://doi.org/10.1002/cyto.b.20533
Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia
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Dive into the research topics of 'Different biology and clinical outcome according to the absolute numbers of clonal B-cells in monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis (MBL)'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
Lymphocytosis Medicine & Life Sciences 100%
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B-Lymphocytes Medicine & Life Sciences 58%
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Rawstron, A. C., Shanafelt, T., Lanasa, M. C., Landgren, O., Hanson, C., Orfao, A., Hillmen, P., & Ghia, P. (2010). Different biology and clinical outcome according to the absolute numbers of clonal B-cells in monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis (MBL). Cytometry Part B - Clinical Cytometry, 78(SUPPL. 1), S19-S23. https://doi.org/10.1002/cyto.b.20533
Different biology and clinical outcome according to the absolute numbers of clonal B-cells in monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis (MBL). / Rawstron, Andy C.; Shanafelt, Tait; Lanasa, Mark C.; Landgren, Ola; Hanson, Curtis; Orfao, Alberto; Hillmen, Peter; Ghia, Paolo.
In: Cytometry Part B - Clinical Cytometry, Vol. 78, No. SUPPL. 1, 2010, p. S19-S23.
Rawstron, AC, Shanafelt, T, Lanasa, MC, Landgren, O, Hanson, C, Orfao, A, Hillmen, P & Ghia, P 2010, 'Different biology and clinical outcome according to the absolute numbers of clonal B-cells in monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis (MBL)', Cytometry Part B - Clinical Cytometry, vol. 78, no. SUPPL. 1, pp. S19-S23. https://doi.org/10.1002/cyto.b.20533
Rawstron AC, Shanafelt T, Lanasa MC, Landgren O, Hanson C, Orfao A et al. Different biology and clinical outcome according to the absolute numbers of clonal B-cells in monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis (MBL). Cytometry Part B - Clinical Cytometry. 2010;78(SUPPL. 1):S19-S23. https://doi.org/10.1002/cyto.b.20533
Rawstron, Andy C. ; Shanafelt, Tait ; Lanasa, Mark C. ; Landgren, Ola ; Hanson, Curtis ; Orfao, Alberto ; Hillmen, Peter ; Ghia, Paolo. / Different biology and clinical outcome according to the absolute numbers of clonal B-cells in monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis (MBL). In: Cytometry Part B - Clinical Cytometry. 2010 ; Vol. 78, No. SUPPL. 1. pp. S19-S23.
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PART ONE George Eliot
"Poor little thing!" said Godfrey. "Let me give something towards finding it clothes."
He had put his hand in his pocket and found half-a-guinea, and, thrusting it into Silas's hand, he hurried out of the cottage to overtake Mr. Kimble.
"Ah, I see it's not the same woman I saw," he said, as he came up. "It's a pretty little child: the old fellow seems to want to keep it; that's strange for a miser like him. But I gave him a trifle to help him out: the parish isn't likely to quarrel with him for the right to keep the child."
"No; but I've seen the time when I might have quarrelled with him for it myself. It's too late now, though. If the child ran into the fire, your aunt's too fat to overtake it: she could only sit and grunt like an alarmed sow. But what a fool you are, Godfrey, to come out in your dancing shoes and stockings in this way--and you one of the beaux of the evening, and at your own house! What do you mean by such freaks, young fellow? Has Miss Nancy been cruel, and do you want to spite her by spoiling your pumps?"
"Oh, everything has been disagreeable to-night. I was tired to death of jigging and gallanting, and that bother about the hornpipes. And I'd got to dance with the other Miss Gunn," said Godfrey, glad of the subterfuge his uncle had suggested to him.
The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie.
Godfrey reappeared in the White Parlour with dry feet, and, since the truth must be told, with a sense of relief and gladness that was too strong for painful thoughts to struggle with. For could he not venture now, whenever opportunity offered, to say the tenderest things to Nancy Lammeter--to promise her and himself that he would always be just what she would desire to see him? There was no danger that his dead wife would be recognized: those were not days of active inquiry and wide report; and as for the registry of their marriage, that was a long way off, buried in unturned pages, away from every one's interest but his own. Dunsey might betray him if he came back; but Dunsey might be won to silence.
And when events turn out so much better for a man than he has had reason to dread, is it not a proof that his conduct has been less foolish and blameworthy than it might otherwise have appeared? When we are treated well, we naturally begin to think that we are not altogether unmeritorious, and that it is only just we should treat ourselves well, and not mar our own good fortune. Where, after all, would be the use of his confessing the past to Nancy Lammeter, and throwing away his happiness?--nay, hers? for he felt some confidence that she loved him. As for the child, he would see that it was cared for: he would never forsake it; he would do everything but own it. Perhaps it would be just as happy in life without being owned by its father, seeing that nobody could tell how things would turn out, and that--is there any other reason wanted?--well, then, that the father would be much happier without owning the child.
Page by Page Books.TM Silas Marner


You'll learn a method to understand and document changes in a group's equity and, in particular, in consolidated reserves.
Interactive work: attendees establish the consolidated shareholders' equity and explain changes. This case study covers a few transactions, including a capital increase, the acquisition of companies, a dividend distribution and intra-group profit.


After a series of washouts in Round 2, teams will be hoping the weather holds up this weekend as many look to kick start their seasons.
Sydney FC are looking for their first win of the year as they take on Marconi Stallions in the Match of the Round, while Blacktown City FC will be hoping to extend their lead at the top of the table with a strong result against a tough Sydney Olympic outfit. APIA and Marconi both play for the first time in 2019.
Sydney FC fell to Manly United last weekend, losing 3-2 at Cromer Park to remain on a solitary point heading into the third round of the season.
This week they welcome Marconi to Lambert Park; the Stallions raring to go in what will be their first game of 2019. With their Round 1 fixture rescheduled and their Round 2 match washed out, Marconi have yet to kick a ball this season, and remain something of an unknown quantity.
The hosts ran out 4-0 winners when these sides met in Leichhardt in 2018. They'll be keen to kick start their current season with a similar result when they face Marconi on Saturday afternoon.
Sutherland rallied for their first win of 2019 in Round 2, and will be looking to string a few results together when they take on APIA Leichhardt on Saturday afternoon.
The Sharks beat Hakoah Sydney City East 2-1 last weekend, while APIA are playing their first match of the year after taking part in the Viareggio Cup.
Saturday's match gives the Tigers an opportunity to demonstrate early improvement this season, having lost this fixture 4-1 in 2018.
Manly United picked up three points last week with a thrilling win over Sydney FC. Goals from Jack Berte, William Martin and Maximilian Rogers gave Manly their first win of the year, sending them into Round 3 confident of going back-to-back.
Their opposition this week is Mt Druitt Town Rangers, who travel to Cromer Park after their Round 2 match with Olympic was washed out. With a tough run of fixtures ahead, Mt Druitt will be keen to start picking up points to avoid sinking to the back of the pack.
Sydney Olympic's match with Mt Druitt Town Rangers was washed out last week, giving the hosts extra time to prepare for the visit of Blacktown City in Round 3.
Blacktown sit in first place after the first two weeks of the season, having managed to play their game last weekend and record a second win of 2019.
This is a fixture Blacktown won 5-1 at Belmore Sports Ground last year. Olympic will be eager to stop them from pulling away at the top of the table when they meet on Sunday afternoon.
Rockdale take on Hakoah Sydney City East on Sunday, after their Round 2 match against Marconi Stallions was washed out last weekend.
The visitors come into their match at Ilinden Sports Centre on the back of a 2-1 defeat to Sutherland Sharks, with last year's champions able to hold off a spirited Hakoah outfit.
They travel to Rockdale to play for their first win of the year, while the hosts could potentially move into first place depending on results elsewhere. It ended 3-2 to Hakoah when these sides met in 2018, and it would seem similarly difficult to predict one way or the other.
Sydney United 58 host Wollongong Wolves for the first time since their meeting in the first week of the finals last season.
United blew Wollongong away at Lambert Park in 2018, with a 3-0 win in the elimination finals.
Both teams come into this match in decidedly different form, with United beaten 4-1 by Blacktown City last weekend.
Wollongong's Round 2 match was washed out, robbing them of the opportunity to build on an impressive 2-0 opening round win over Manly United.
Still, they sit second behind Blacktown having played one game fewer, and a result here could put them top if Sydney Olympic can beat the leaders.


Yorkshire's identity cannot be denied, nor can it be trumped by appeals to an economic model that does not deliver for enough people, says an expert on English devolution.
The professor's article has been welcomed by Yorkshire Party Leader Stewart Arnold, who said: "Prof John Tomaney has been commenting and campaigning on regional devolution in England for many years and knows what he is talking about.
The Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at University College London analyses what is at stake in the debate and the background to it.
"New research suggests that large cities are not always the most dynamic engines of growth, and that some smaller and medium-sized cities and rural areas have outperformed them.


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Pensions August 11, 2020
CDPQ Loses 2.3% in First Half of 2020, Misses Benchmark
However, the C$333 billion pension beat its benchmark over the past five and 10 years.
The C$333 billion ($249.4 billion) La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), which manages funds for Canadian public pension and insurance plans, reported a 2.3% loss in the first half of 2020. The fund underperformed its benchmark, which returned 0.8% during the same time period, due to overexposure to shopping center investments and underexposure to tech stocks.
"The exceptional monetary policies of central banks, coupled with historic support plans deployed by governments, have made it possible to prevent the recession from turning into a depression," Charles Emond, CEO of CDPQ, said in a statement. "But there is a growing dichotomy between the real economy and the financial markets."
Over the past five years, CDPQ earned a 6.3% annualized return, edging out its benchmark's return of 6.2% over the same time span. And over the past 10 years, CDPQ's annualized return is 8.7%, compared with its benchmark's 10-year annualized return of 8.4%.
The pension's equity investments posted annualized five-year returns of 7.9%, surpassing its benchmark index's five-year return of 6.9%, while its fixed income investments earned an annualized return of 4.5% over five years, ahead of the 3.8% its benchmark index returned during the same time period. And during the first six months of the year, equities lost 5%, while fixed income generated a 4.1% return in a falling-rate environment.
CDPQ's real asset investments, which are comprised of its real estate and infrastructure portfolios, had an annualized five-year return of 5.4%, well off its benchmark's five-year annualized return of 7.4%. And during the first half of the year, the asset class lost 7.3%, while the benchmark lost only 1.5%. The pension attributed the underperformance to its poorly performing investments in shopping centers and office buildings.
The real estate portfolio earned an annualized five-year return of 3.5% but tumbled 11.7% during the first half of the year. CDPQ said its property management subsidiary Ivanhoé Cambridge will transform its portfolio of shopping centers, which it said will require specific solutions for each of the assets, as well as its repositioning in market segments.
And CDPQ's infrastructure portfolio posted a five-year annualized return of 8.2%, while losing 1% during the first half of the year. The pension said that the portfolio is showing resilience despite its exposure to the transport sector, where some facilities, including airports, grinded to a halt during the crisis.
"The quality of assets in sectors such as renewable energies and telecommunications, as well as the continuous support of portfolio companies since the start of the crisis, has enabled the portfolio to significantly limit the impacts of COVID‑19," said CDPQ.
Canadian United Nations Ambassador Chosen to Head CDPQ Global
CDPQ Reports Solid Year of Progress Despite Missing Return Target
Charles Emond Named CEO of Quebec Pension Fund CDPQ
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Biography – POTE, WILLIAM – Volume III (1741-1770) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography
POTE, WILLIAM, surveyor, ship captain; b. 15 Dec. 1718 at Marblehead, Massachusetts, son of Captain William Pote and Dorothy Gatchell; date of death unknown, but dead by October 1755.
William Pote became a sailor and by 1745 held command of the merchant vessel Montague. In that year John Henry Bastide, chief engineer at Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, engaged him to carry supplies there. Pote's vessel was boarded at Annapolis on 17 May by a mixed party of French and Indians, part of a force headed by Paul Marin de La Malgue. Pote was captured with five of his crew, and was later allocated to a group of Hurons from Lorette, near Quebec. He was taken to Quebec via Chignecto, and the Petitcodiac, Saint John, and St Lawrence rivers. Along the way he was badly beaten at different camps by the Indians. At Aucpac (near Springhill, N.B.) on the Saint John River, some Malecites wanted to kill Pote and other captives in retaliation for the slaying of members of their tribe by Captain John Gorham's rangers the year before.
After four months of travel Pote reached Quebec, where he was kept in confinement and had little freedom of movement over the next two years. During the voyage to Quebec and throughout his imprisonment Pote kept a journal of his experiences which includes first hand accounts from fellow prisoners of events in King George's War. There was much sickness among the prisoners and Pote's journal is full of notices of their deaths; over 75 prisoners died during his stay in Quebec. Pote also described in part the defences of Quebec and commented on the mood of the French settlers, who were "Under Continual aprehensions of ye English paying them a Vissite both By Land and Sea. . . . Several farmers have made no Scruple to Let us know they would turn to ye English In Case they Should Come against ym Rather then Loose their Estats as they have no Intrest In old france nor are their Indians much to be Depended on for they have often told me in Case ye English Should Come they would be on ye Strongest Side."
Early in June 1747 Pote and some of his companions learned that they would soon be sent home. Before departing he gave his journal to a woman prisoner to carry to Louisbourg, Cape Breton Island (Île Royale) "Under her peticoats," lest it be confiscated. Pote left Quebec on 30 July 1747 aboard the Saint-Esprit and in mid-August reached Louisbourg, where he reported to Bastide for employment. He continued his life at sea, commanding a merchant vessel as late as 1752. Neither the place nor the circumstance of his death is known.
George MacBeath
N.B. Museum, Webster coll., pkt.242. [William Pote], The journal of Captain William Pote, jr., during his captivity in the French and Indian war from May 1745, to August 1747, ed. J. F. Hurst and Victor Paltsits (New York, 1896). New Eng. Hist. and Geneal. Register, XIV (1860), 146. W. O. Raymond, The River St John, its physical features, legends and history from 1604 to 1784, ed. J. C. Webster (Sackville, N.B., 1943). G. T. Bates, "John Gorham, 1709–1751: an outline of his activities in Nova Scotia, 1744–1751," N.S. Hist. Soc. Coll., XXX (1954), 49.
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George MacBeath, "POTE, WILLIAM," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 3, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed January 31, 2023, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/pote_william_3E.html.
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Review – Ashes of Time Redux
Ashes of Time Redux – Hong Kong, 1994/2008
The root of man's problems is memory. If there were no memory, no past, every day would be a new beginning. These are the thoughts of Huang Yaoshi (Tony Leung Ka Fai), a wandering swordsman who once a year visits his old friend Ouyang Feng (Leslie Cheung) in a desert mountain region somewhere in China. On this particular visit, he brings his friend a bottle of wine, a gift from a woman in the village he has just arrived from. The wine is said to be magical, causing whoever drinks it to gradually begin to forget the past. Huang seems likable enough, but his association with Ouyang and the speed with which he reaches for the wine hint at a life full of regret.
Whether the wine is truly magical or not is inconsequential. What seems significant however is the fact that Huang proceeds to visit people he wronged in the past. He does not apologize for the things he did while he is there; rather, he seems to be trying to understand the consequence of his actions and to possibly begin to lead a better life. It's a noble pursuit, but noble pursuits rarely mix well with alcohol, and soon Huang, drunk and flirtatious, is offering to marry the sister of a rather feminine-looking man named Murong Yang (Bridget Lin), who claims to be son of the Murong Clan. When Huang doesn't keep that promise, the man asks Ouyang to arrange for Huang to be killed in as painful a way as possible.
In most movies, such a set-up would lead to a violent and bloody confrontation. However, Wang Kar-Wai's Ashes of Time Redux, a remastered and slightly-altered version of his 1994 film Ashes of Time, does not follow conventional formulas. Therefore, instead of acting on Yang's request, Ouyang examines the motives of his visitor, especially after the arrival of the man's sister Murong Yin, a woman whose resemblance to her brother is uncanny. Yin offers to double her brother's fee if Ouyang spares Huang and kills her brother instead. A bit intrigued, Ouyang asks questions and studies the answers he receives. In Yang and Yin, he sees the possible affects of unrequited love: shatter dreams, infatuation, impulses of revenge, and possible mental illness. And then just as mysteriously as they came into his life, they are gone. It's doubtful that Huang ever learns of the effect he has had on them.
There are other visitors - a poor woman whose brother was killed by thugs, a semi-blind swordsman waiting for the arrival of a group of bandits, and a barefoot swordsman trying to make a name for himself. Each of them will enter Ouyang's life for a brief period of time, bringing with them emotional stories of loss and death, and, on occasion, requests for revenge. To each of these visitors, Ouyang remains emotionally detached, explaining that he is just a middle man responsible for ensuring that his clients receive payment for services rendered. His visitors' plights are not his, and therefore, he sees no reason to personalize them. Eventually each one of them will leave, allowing him to return to his life of solitude unchanged. If only life and love were that simple.
I'm of two minds about Ashes of Time Redux. On the one hand, I found each of the characters, in particular, Ouyang, the woman he loves (Maggie Cheung), and Huang, fascinating, and I found myself anxious to see what fate would eventually befall each of them. It also doesn't hurt that each of the scenes takes place in a stunning locale surrounded by breathtaking scenery. On the other hand, the film is at times hard to understand, and while each of the characters is interesting, I'm not sure all of them move the story along well enough to justify their inclusion in the film. I suppose one could argue that each characters affects Ouyang in a different way, and that his later actions are the result of the cumulative affect that these characters had on him, but I suspect this viewpoint would be hard to prove, as Ouyang appears to be wrestling with his past throughout the film and not just as a result of each of his visitors.
I suppose that there is a grander message to Ashes of Time Redux somewhere, something about the need to atone for one's previous actions or how people can be haunted and change by the mistakes they have made. These are universal themes that never fail to resonate with audiences, and so when they are alluded to toward the end of the film, they do create the sense that this was what the film had been leading up to all along. I admit that during a pivotal conversation in the film I experience one of those "Ah ha!" moments, as if everything in the film now made sense, yet at the same time I couldn't shake the feeling that it simply wasn't enough, that something was still lacking in the film.
Ashes of Time Redux is based on Louis Cha's four-part "The Eagle Shooting Heroes," which has been described as the Chinese "Lord of the Rings." If this series is in fact similar in style and ambition to Tokien's trilogy, then it's easy to see why some viewers may not be completely satisfied with Wang's adaptation of it. At just ninety-four minutes long, it just doesn't have the running-time needed to adequately convey the complexities and intricacies of such a series or to fully connect or conclude each of its storylines. Therefore, Ashes of Time Redux never becomes the universal masterpiece it so yearns to be. It remains a somewhat fascinating, but slightly elusive film that could have been so much more. (on DVD)
*Ashes of Time Redux is in Cantonese with English subtitles.
*For a second opinion, please check out Jamie S. Rich's review at http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/35157/ashes-of-time-redux/
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Q: Postgres connection actively refused I am having a problem connecting to postgres from my java app.I am able to login from pgAdminIII using postgres role and the right password
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but when I try to connect from the app I am getting the following error:

could not receive data from client: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.

I haven't changed pg_hba.conf, by default it has the following parameters:
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I also tried to disable Windows Firewall, nothing happened. It is really strange as I used to connect without a problem. If anyone can help it will be very much appreciated.
I am using postgres 9.4.
I have already checked the related question but none of them solves my problem.

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If SMMEs are the key to economic growth, why are they battling to secure funding?
While the failure rate of small businesses in the country is high, they remain the backbone of the economy, providing the majority of the job opportunities and contributing significantly to GDP. With the recent announcement of government job cuts over the next three years – and with only 22% of corporate CEOs being "very confident" of their company's growth in the next 12 months – the country is depending on the small business sector to deliver jobs.
To achieve this, a supportive environment must be created to bolster small business survival and to facilitate growth. Access to finance is a critical component of this survival and growth and is one that needs urgent attention.
Finfind published South Africa's Inaugural SMME Access to Finance Report last year. The report, sponsored by the SA SME Fund, details the SMME access to finance landscape in the country and identifies the lack of skills by micro, small and medium-sized business owners as a substantial challenge to accessing finance.
A free copy of the report can be downloaded from www.accesstofinancereport.co.za.
"Many business owners lack the skills required to find the right funders and to identify the appropriate finance product that matches their particular funding need," says Darlene Menzies, CEO of Finfind. "Many also struggle to prepare the relevant business documentation required by finance providers and lack the know-how to ideally present their business funding case in a way that will enable them to access the finance they need.
"While access to the funding is crucial for business sustainability and growth, sadly many applications are rejected due to poor financial skills and lack of funding experience by the business owner," adds Menzies.
"Funders need to determine that the business applying for finance is bankable, meaning that it is a viable business that is going to generate future income," adds Menzies. "Funders also have to assess that the business can afford the funding so that it will be able to repay the money it is applying for. To do this, the funder needs to examine documents such as the SMME's business plan or project plans, their income projections, outstanding debtors, latest annual financial statements, latest VAT statements, up-to-date management accounts and latest bank statements.
Stay on top of your business cash flow management so you apply for funding a few months before they actually need it, as opposed to when you hit a cash cliff.
There is a definite disconnect in the industry between the amount of money available to SMMEs from funders, and the number of SMMEs successfully securing these funds. There are over 200 funders with more than 500 different finance products available for SMMEs.
"Business owners need to upskill themselves and get the basics in place and funding will become easier. Very few funders offer support to become funding ready, the onus is on the business owner to properly prepare their application and their supporting documents and present their case to the funder.
"Business owners are advised to seek assistance from small business accountants and business advisors when it comes to preparing and submitting funding requests. To find out which funders and finance products they should apply for, they simply need to go to the Finfind website (www.finfind.co.za)," concludes Menzies.


After I finished, I ran through the game again. I was able to follow the story that time, but it still felt much too compressed to be a plausible romance.
In fact, although it's an unfortunate comparison, I felt this game had the same basic problem as 1-2-3: I saw characters relating to each other, but I never felt they were behaving like real people. Well, that's not totally true. The minor character relationships made sense -- just not, you know, the main one.
I liked the wide and subtle range of variant endings (although I certainly never saw them all).


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Since he described even the relatively mundane as such, I do not think it would be a stretch to say that Otto Preminger (aka Mr. Freeze) would describe the Market action of the week as "Wild"! Unfortunately the action was quite negative. Whipsaw action was the theme of Wed. and Thursday when a significant gain on Wed. was completely wiped out on Thurs. Action turned even uglier for the Nasdaq on Friday with a huge loss on very heavy volume.
A previous post discussed the importance of reviewing not only the price action of your holdings (the stocks you own) but also the volume, which provides clues to what institutions (e.g. mutual funds, hedge funds, pension funds etc.) are doing. I do not claim to be a market prognosticator and feel the post was a bit premature, as the market was quite agreeable for the past 2 months. However, it may not have been if any of your holdings were displaying characteristics discussed. Additionally, the maddening thing about the market is a nice gain of several weeks can evaporate in just a few rough sessions (which is not uncommon for growth stocks). The upward momentum prior to this week coincided with below average volume. I think that is why we witnessed such a significant drop this week – the buying existed but with lackluster conviction. Without strong conviction, institutions will not aggressively step in to support their positions, or worse, they may become sellers. Review of your current holdings is warranted in this environment.
Please note, I speak in terms of growth stocks only, with small to medium market capitalization (not Value or Large Cap stocks). I am also not a licensed financial consultant, so use this as you see fit.
I got to see Otto in action in an old Batman episode this summer (check the link above - not mine). His catch phrase left an indelible impression on me to the point where I spent a few days referring to most everything as wild. Fortunately, my wife and boys shut me down. This was best, since amusement had turned into compulsion.


With property owners continuing to file Hurricane Harvey insurance claim lawsuits, trash is building up in neighborhoods as residents continue to repair and rebuild from Hurricane Harvey damage. The city has been receiving calls from customers who say they are following the rules for heavy trash pickup, but the city is just leaving it where it sits.
At the curbs of many of Houston's residences remains massive amounts of reminders of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Harvey. Mattresses, furniture, toilets and exercise equipment continue to pile up around the city as homeowners wait for waste management trucks to come and haul it all away.
The Solid Waste Management Department acknowledges it's behind in picking up large items across the city and says it already has crews working six days a week. Normal trash pickup just started in April, and the city hasn't been able to catch up. The department says that picking up the increase of waste and debris is slowing down their progress.
Houston City Council approved plans to buy a $40 million fleet of new trucks as many of the city's 600 trucks are broken down making it difficult to handle the sheer amount of waste.
More than 650,000 commercial and personal property damage insurance claims were filed with the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association, private insurance providers, and the Texas Fair Access to Insurance Requirement Plan – the FAIR Plan by late January 2018.
About 354,000 of those claims were filed by homeowners for property damage, with an additional 203,000 automobile damage claims. Commercial property owners filed about 37,000 claims. 66,000 flood claims were also filed.
Were Your Claims Denied, Delayed, or Underpaid?
If your property was damaged in Hurricane Harvey and your insurance provider needlessly delayed, unfairly denied, or short-changed your payment, contact us now. We have fought for the rights of property owners for decades, and we will fight for you. Contact one of our Hurricane Harvey Insurance Claims Attorneys today to learn more about Hurricane Harvey damage insurance claims, your rights by law, and whether you are entitled to compensation for your losses.