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YMCA Receives $1M Face Cover Donation to Support Communities In Need Nationwide, from MISSION®, with Partner and NFL Champion Drew Brees
HAWTHORNE, N.Y., Dec. 1, 2020 -- MISSION Opens a new window®, the preeminent innovators of temperature-regulating textile technologies, along with Partner and NFL Champion, Drew Brees, today announced it will donate $1M of MISSION Gaiters to the YMCA to provide much-needed face covers to communities in need across the United States.
MISSION®, the preeminent innovators of temperature-regulating textile technologies, along with Partner and NFL Champion, Drew Brees, today announced it will donate $1M of MISSION Gaiters to the YMCA to provide much-needed face covers to communities in need across the United States. For more information, visit www.mission.com and follow us @missioncooling on Instagram and Facebook.More
True to its name, MISSION has been giving back throughout the pandemic, and is not slowing down. The company donated 1 million meals through Feeding America and over $250,000 of MISSION Cooling Gear to help the Gulf Coast front-line workers clean up after the Hurricanes in the brutal heat; and is now announcing its latest giveback by donating $1M of MISSION Gaiters to the YMCA to provide face covers for underserved communities across the country.
Throughout the pandemic, the YMCA has worked to meet the needs of the more than 10,000 communities it serves across the United States, providing childcare for children of first responders and essential workers, feeding children and families in need, sheltering at-risk populations, conducting wellness checks on isolated seniors and creating safe, supportive environments for school-aged children who are learning virtually.
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Yee-Haw! It's a new week and that means a new Iconic movie car! This week I bring the 1969 Dodge Charger from The Dukes of Hazard to the table. The show aired on American television from 1979 to 1985 on CBS. I'm sure if you mention the General Lee to anyone of that time they will know exactly what show you are talking about. Even now most people know exactly what the General Lee is and what show it is from.
The Dukes of Hazard follows "The Duke Boys" on their weekly adventures. They live In a rural part of a fictional town called Hazard County and constantly ruin the dark plans of crooked county commissioner Boss Hogg. Luke and Bo duke were previously sentenced to probation for illegally transporting Uncle Jesse's moonshine; their Uncle Jesse made a plea deal with the U.S. government to stop brewing moonshine in exchange. Although on probation this doesn't stop the Duke boys from getting into mischief and other fun things! The one staple of the show is their 1969 Dodge Charger knows as the General Lee. The car was built was a race car so the doors are welded shut and the windows are always open. There was an estimated 309 chargers used during the filming of the show and 17 are still known to exist. The General Lee also had the iconic Dixie horns installed after a passerby had sounded the horn, the crew chased him down to find out where he had gotten he horn and then installed it into the General Lee.
In 1968 the charger was redone from its earlier brothers, it is known as the B-body lineup. This was a redesign to change what the whole body looked like and the interior didn't share anything with its earlier models. The 1969 model had two different 383 motors available, a 2-barrel and 4-barell. The 2-barrel was rated at 290hp and the 4 was rated at 330hp this was identified as the "pie tin" on the air cleaner as "383 / FOUR BARREL". The 330hp option was unique to the Charger model in 1969. This engine was available with an un-silenced air cleaner option. The 1969 model also had different grilles and new longitudinal taillights, both designed by Harvey J. Winn. A new trim line was introduced this year, known as the Special Edition (SE). This could be chosen alone or with the R/T option thus making it the R/T-SE. The SE added leather inserts for the front seats only, chrome rocker moldings, a wood grain steering wheel, and wood grain inserts on the instrument panel. Total production was 89,199 units.
The 1969 Charger and General Lee were beautiful cars! I would love to have a 1969 Charger right now that I can just jump in and have a great time with! Or even a General Lee all my own, with welded doors, a Dixie horn, and me trying to jump in through the window, which would be a hilarious feat all by itself. I know whenever I see one of these on the road I always have to snap my head around to give it a good luck. Even when I attend a car show I love trying to find one to just gawk at. I mean, how many of you would love to have a 1969 charger all your own? One that you can cruise down the highway with the windows down enjoying the sound of the motor as you cruise! I give the 1969 two thumbs up for the years of service it gave the Duke boys and a moment of silence for the 309 or so cars that were destroyed during filming…………….Thank you for your years of service and entertainment 1969 Charger and General Lee!


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Konrad Wilhelm Albrecht Thaer (6 de agosto de 1828 - 13 de diciembre de 1906) fue un agrónomo, botánico alemán.

Biografía
Hijo mayor de Albrecht Philip Thaer y nieto de Albrecht Daniel Thaer.

Su carrera académica comenzó en 1846 como estudiante de ciencias naturales en la Universidad de Heidelberg. En 1847 se trasladó a la Academia de Agricultura de Möglin, y desde 1848 estudió ciencias naturales y economía en la Universidad de Berlín. Allí defendió en 1851 una tesis sobre el campo de la zoología para el doctorado. Luego trabajó durante dos años como agrónomo práctico en Inglaterra y Escocia. En 1853 se hizo cargo de la gestión de las dos fincas de su padre.

De 1859 a 1861, fue profesor en la Academia Agrícola de Möglin. En 1860 obtuvo el título de profesor de la Facultad de Artes de Berlín para el campo de la agricultura. Desde 1861 fue profesor, y desde 1866 como profesor asociado en el Instituto de Capacitación Agrícola en Berlín. En 1866 fundó en Berlín el después famoso Club de agricultores.

Desde 1871, tuvo una cátedra en la Universidad de Giessen, siendo profesor titular del Departamento de Agricultura y nombrado director del Instituto Agrícola recién formado. Durante 30 años, hasta su jubilación en 1901, trabajó allí como un buen maestro e investigador. Dio conferencias en todas las ramas de la ciencia agrícola. De acuerdo con sus planes de un laboratorio agrícola, se lo construyó y equipó en un campo de pruebas.

Thaer desarrolló una actividad científica y periodística animada. Ciencia Históricamente destacable es su 1871 su conferencia académica inaugural "Die Landbauwissenschaft als Universitäts-Disziplin" ("La ciencia a la agricultura como una disciplina universitaria"). Entre sus publicaciones más importantes, el libro publicado por primera vez en 1877 fue "System der Landwirthschaft" ("Sistema de la agricultura") resultante de conferencias sobre la economía total de la tierra. En varias otras publicaciones, se ocupó de temas históricos agrícolas. Ampliamente utilizado en la práctica agrícola era su libro "Die landwirthschaftlichen Unkräuter" ("Malas hierbas económicas en agronomía").

Fue en el año académico 1884-1885 rector de la Universidad de Giessen y titular de consejero privado desde 1896.

El 6 de octubre de 1853 se casó en Berlín con Adelaide Clementine Mannkopf (1829-1896). La pareja tuvo siete hijos, entre ellos el reformista de la escuela de Hamburgo Wilhelm Albrecht Thaer.

Algunas publicaciones
 Über den Anbau der Lupine. Berlín 1859.

 Die Wirthschaftsdirection des Landgutes. Berlín 1861; 2ª ed. 1879; 3ª ed. 1896 = Thaer-Bibliothek v. 50. 136 p.

 Die Landbau-Wissenschaft als Universitäts-Disziplin. Academische Antrittsrede gehalten am 6. Mai 1871 in der Aula der Ludwigs-Universität zu Gießen. Berlín 1871.

 Ueber ländliche Arbeiter-Wohnungen. Deutsche Zeit- und Streit-Fragen. Ed. Habel, 1872, 36 p.

 System der Landwirthschaft. Berlín 1877; 2ª ed. 1896.

 Die altägyptische Landwirthschaft. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Agricultur. Berlín, 36 p. 1881.

 Die landwirthschaftlichen Unkräuter. Farbige Abbildung, Beschreibung und Vertilgungsmittel derselben. Berlín 1881 52 p. 2ª ed. 1893; 3ª ed. 1905; 4ª y 5ª ed. de von Otto Appel ebd. 1923 u. 1927.

Literatura
 Albert Orth. Albrecht Thaer †. 13. Dezember 1906 zu Gießen. Gedächtnisrede gehalten am 25. Februar 1907 im Berliner Verein Deutscher Landwirtschaftsbeamten. En: Nachrichten aus dem Klub der Landwirte zu Berlín 503, 1907, p. 4644-4649.

 Ph. Walther. Zum 100. Geburtstage von Geheimen Hofrat Prof. Dr. Thaer. En: Deutsche Landwirtschaftliche Presse 55, 1928, p. 457-458

 Albrecht Conrad Thaer. Zu seinem 100. Geburtstage. En: Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Literatur der Landwirtschaft 27, 1928, p. 23-25.

 Eduard von Boguslawski. Konrad Wilhelm Albrecht Thaer (1828-1906) / Professor der Landwirtschaftswissenschaft. En: Gießener Gelehrte in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Ed. de Hans Georg Gundel, Peter Moraw & Volker Press. Tl. 1: Veröffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission für Hessen 35. Lebensbilder aus Hessen v. 2. Marburgo 1982, p. 955-959.

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Botánicos de Alemania del siglo XIX
Agrónomos de Alemania
Alumnado de la Universidad de Heidelberg
Alumnado de la Universidad Humboldt de Berlín
Profesores de la Universidad de Giessen
Profesores de la Universidad Humboldt de Berlín
Profesores de la Universidad de Jena

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Heritage Global Capital -- A Unique Approach to Financing M&E
By: ABL Advisor Staff Writer
Date: Oct 26, 2015 @ 07:00 AM
Filed Under: Company / Executive Profiles
Related: Asset Based, Association for Corporate Growth, Commercial Finance Association, Forbearance, Nations Equipment Finance, Textron Financial, Transamerica, Turnaround Management Association
In July, Heritage Global Inc. announced the formation of Heritage Global Capital (HGC), in what was described as a fixed asset financing services division. Joseph Upson, whose career has spanned nearly three decades, was named as managing director of the new venture. ABL Advisor caught up with Upson to find out more about HGC. In the following Q&A, Upson shares this new entity's vision and intent.
ABL Advisor: Joe, we note the release announcing the formation of HGC mentions that this new entity will provide alternative financing solutions to businesses unable to access more traditional financing options. Please describe the risk profiles of HGC's targeted clients and how this will differentiate the company from traditional lenders and lessors.
Joseph Upson: A majority of the clients we will be looking at will be non-bankable and many of these credit profiles will be in forbearance with banks. Essentially, we are approaching this type of business as collateral lenders. By virtue of having, internally, the support of both Heritage Global Valuations -- our appraisal group -- as well as Heritage Global Auction -- our asset recovery and disposition group -- we feel that we are well position to provide financing for transactions that are heavily collateral dependent. Additionally, our parent company provides a wide variety of services that will provide a "suite" of products for our clients. For example, Heritage Equity Partners, our investment banking division, can help them raise money, restructure debt, or find a suitable partner or buyer for the business.
While we won't be doing deals in which there's the potential for a day one default, in the majority of cases, we will be lending against the day one liquidation value. Of course, we will be looking at cash flows to determine whether or not the credit is going to be able to service its debt. But the added value that we bring is we can come in and be a dependable source of alternative financing, especially as it applies to credit challenged entities. That's because we understand equipment and we know how to get rid of it, so we are able to be aggressive in lending against it.
While I'm not saying we will be overly aggressive, as asset-based lenders call on us to do a bifurcated deal, we may be a little more aggressive than most, because we feel comfortable with the liquidation strategy. In the majority of the situations we will be involved with -- especially when it comes to refinancings -- we will be structuring sale/leasebacks so that we retain title to the equipment. Working with us poses, potentially, an ideal situation for asset-based lenders because, in most situations in which we refinance assets under a lease, we will not impose covenants. In those situations, asset based lenders and borrowers will not have to worry over an additional set of covenants that does not mirror those of the working capital facility thereby potentially preventing a cross-default.
ABL Advisor: According to the announcement, HGC will be pursuing transactions ranging from $1 million to $20 million for both new equipment acquisitions and refinancings. Please tell our readers about the asset categories the group will be pursuing. Are there any primary asset categories and on the flip side, any that will be "off limits?"
Upson: Let me begin by saying we won't be targeting any restaurant or hospitality assets. We will target manufacturing facilities specifically focused toward certain industrial sectors. I like to call them "old economy" sectors like manufacturing … assets that have remaining long useful lives. On an independent basis –- and by that I mean outside of the manufacturing sector -- we will finance assets like yellow iron, rolling stock, rail and other heavy assets.
We will also do real estate meaning we'll finance manufacturing facilities that are owner occupied. Those are going to be three-to-five year facilities. Since we are an auction house, we will routinely come in and auction off an entire manufacturing facility –- the real estate as well as the equipment –- and especially the equipment. We don't have any hesitancy in doing this and we actually prefer to come into one location that houses all of the assets in which we can conduct an auction.
In short, my job will be to make sure that I structure the deals, most of which will be refinancings, against forced liquidation value from the very beginning of the deal. Most of these deals will go out for three to four years, or with a tenor that will ensure collateral coverage at all times in the event we have to liquidate.
ABL Advisor: How will Heritage Global Capital source its transactions?
Upson: I'm a banker with 27 years of experience and I have an expansive network of professionals that I've worked with over the years. I've been in the Atlanta market since 1986 and I was with Textron Financial's asset-based lending group, so I have experience there as well. I know a number of asset-based lenders, investment bankers, turnaround consultants as well as other intermediaries. Those professionals are going to be my primary source of marketing. Heritage Equity Partners division is constantly made aware of businesses that need new financing, so we expect to see some deal flow from them as well.
As we grow, we will build out our dedicated business origination team. But for now, we are in our infancy. I will emphasize, we are going to look for opportunities to work with asset-based lenders to come in and do bifurcated deals.
ABL Advisor: What made this opportunity to launch Heritage Global Capital appealing to you after having spent so many years as a traditional banker?
Upson: This was a perfect fit for me. I've worked with distressed situations and now I have a situation in which I can bring my origination skills and product knowledge to structure deals in an innovative way. At Heritage Global, I have a very well-known asset valuation and asset recovery group at my disposal. These powerful tools made this an enticing opportunity to do something different.
About Joseph Upson: Joseph Upson brings over 27 years of experience in the corporate leasing and financing industry. He most recently served as Senior Vice President for Nations Equipment Finance in Atlanta. Before Nations, he was a principal at CompanionWay Capital, a senior secured lender focused on the middle-market sector, as well as Commenda Capital, a registered broker dealer focused on advisory work for small-to-middle sized companies. His diverse financial background includes strategic positions with Textron Financial, GMAC Financial, Transamerica Financial, SunTrust Bank of Atlanta, Bank of Boston and DeNovo Capital, LLC; a financial advisory and syndication firm he founded in 2002.
Upson has originated and arranged over $1.5 billion dollars in various financial instruments over his career and is well known for his capital markets expertise. His product background includes mortgage financings, sale-leasebacks, bridge loans, term loan facilities and working capital facilities collateralized by equipment and real estate.
Upson is a member of the Commercial Finance Association, the Turnaround Management Association and the Association for Corporate Growth.
ABL Advisor Staff Writer

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End PFI - Start a Scottish National Investment Bank and Scottish National Infrastructure Company
It began with our 2016 paper "Banking for the Common Good"
Our successful campaign for a Scottish National Investment Bank (SNIB), can help transform the Scottish economy.
The bank can deliver public investment, as part of a strategy to replace costly public-private partnerships.
Our report estimates that the Scottish Government would have saved a total of £26 billion if the projects financed through Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and Non-Profit Dividend (NPD) schemes had instead been financed by a SNIB.
The bank is set up with the purpose of lending to invest, not lending to speculate. It will invest to improve Scotland and it's economy, not to maximise shareholder profits. SNIB will be run with full financial rigour but would be driven by a different ethos: providing long-term, patient funding for projects that meet social and environmental, as well as economic, criteria.
In October 2016 we published a detailed blueprint for setting up a SNIB which you can read here.
The campaign has not been easy. The Scottish Government initially knocked us back without seriously considering the idea.
But we persevered and we took the idea to the grassroots whilst still working constructively with the experts and civil servants who would be charged with setting up and running the SNIB. Teams of our local activists successfully lobbied their local representatives and their party branches and over the subsequent months they built the case and generated the demand for this approach to investment in Scotland. This culminated with a vigorous debate at the SNP's 2017 Spring conference and the unanimous adoption of the SNIB as party policy. This was coupled and strengthened by the Labour party also adopting the policy at Scottish and UK level.
Building on the success of the SNIB campaign, in February 2017 we launched a campaign to create a Scottish National Infrastructure Company. The SNIC would work with the Scottish National Investment Bank to provide sustainably financed, locally procured infrastructure that would remain in public hands throughout. By focusing on sustainability and longevity rather than profit margins, the final constructions would save money in the long run. Finally, the Scottish National Infrastructure Company would act as a centre of excellence to provide training and guidance to enable companies involved in the supply chain to be able to provide the materials and skills required to successfully bid for public contracts. The Scottish National Infrastructure Company can leave a legacy of world-class public facilities for us and generations to come.
This policy was adopted unanimously by the SNP's Spring 2018 conference and will be considered as part of the Scottish Government's 2018-2020 Infrastructure Commission.
In the cases of both the SNIB and the SNIC, Common Weal remains a recognised key stakeholder and we continue to work constructively with the relevant teams to ensure that these campaigns achieve the best possible results.
Scottish National Investment Bank: Submission to Consultation
Building Scotland's future now: A new approach to financing public investment
Blueprint for a Scottish National Investment Bank
Investment in Scotland: A Common Weal Approach


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A Member of Parliament has come up with a Bill that seeks to anchor the implementation of the Jubilee Government's Big Four agenda in law.
Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria has crafted the Implementation of Key Priority Projects Bill, 2018 which provides for a framework for implementation of key priority projects, especially those related to the Big Four agenda.
Big Four agenda is President Uhuru Kenyatta's ambitious plan to ensure that all Kenyans have access to healthcare, jobs, are well fed and have decent housing by 2022 when he leaves office after his second term.
"President Uhuru Kenyatta's Big Four agenda risks being one big phantom project if it is not anchored in law," said the fiery lawmaker.
He noted that the plan needs to have legal structures which would enable every elected leader or technocrat to be cognizant of its implementation.
"That is why I am coming up with this Bill to have the Big Four agenda well outlined," said Kuria.
The Bill establishes an authority to oversee the implementation of key priority projects as well as a committee to oversee the implementation of the projects at the constituency level.
However, by denying counties any role in the implementation of the Big Four, the Bill is likely to create friction between county governments and members of the National Assembly, with the former likely to feel slighted by being left out of these key projects.
Mr Kuria, however, insisted the Bill does not contain any provisions limiting any fundamental rights or freedom.
So dear is the Big Four agenda to President Kenyatta that on Friday, he ordered a freeze on all new projects except those related to his pet project.
"There will be no project that will be embarked until you complete those that are ongoing," said the President, noting that only the Big Four projects are exempt from the freeze.
For the financial year 2018/19, the Government has poured billions into kick-starting the Big Four projects, including Sh57.5billion for enhanced security for investment, growth and employment as well as Sh20.25 billion to enhance food and nutrition security to all Kenyans by 2022.
National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich also set aside Sh44.6 billion for the provision of universal health coverage and Sh6.5 billion for the provision of affordable and decent housing for all Kenyans.
Treasury estimates that the country needs at least Sh200 billion every year to finance all the projects under the Big Four agenda, money that the Government does not have, particularly after it ran out of wiggle room for further borrowing. As a result, the Government is enlisting the help of the private sector in the realisation of President Uhuru Kenyatta's dream.
"In order to realise this agenda, the Government is cognisant of the fact that it will need to deploy both physical infrastructure and technical expertise across all 47 counties. This will be a capital-intensive venture that we cannot hope to finance through the national budget alone," said Mr Rotich when he unveiled the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Disclosure Portal.


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A small blue heron catches a fish in the Florida Everglades. J Pat Carter/AP
Why Planned Oil Drilling in the Everglades Has Florida Cities Worried
A Florida appeals court has approved exploratory oil drilling in the Everglades, prompting worries about Miami's water supply and risks to the wetland ecosystem.
On April 23, 2003, hundreds of Miami residents pulled underwear from their washers to find that it had turned pink.
No, the city didn't collectively forget a red sock in their load of whites: The United States Geological Survey had performed a test.
On the previous morning, scientists had drilled a well near a protected area west of Doral, which was meant to insulate the area's water supply from contamination. The scientists injected rhodamine, a harmless dye, into the limestone. They believed that the dye would slowly work its way into the local water supply—but they were wrong. It traveled so fast that residents noticed traces of the dye before the day was over. Panic ensued.
It's no surprise, then, that many Floridians reacted with dismay earlier this month, when an appeals court ordered the state to grant a permit to a real-estate company that wants to drill an exploratory oil well in the prized marshland of the Everglades. The five-acre drilling area lies close to Miami's northern suburbs. In greater Miami, most drinking water comes from the Biscayne Aquifer, which is porous and close to the surface, making it vulnerable to contamination—as shown by the USGS's unintentionally prank-like test. Florida hasn't permitted any new oil or gas drilling for decades.
Tourists ride an air boat in the Everglades. The proposal for new oil drilling is opposed by politicians and environmentalists. (Lynne Sladky/AP)
On February 5, the Florida First District Court of Appeal overturned a decision made in 2015 by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to bar Kanter Real Estate from drilling on its land near the city of Miramar. In the initial ruling, FDEP Secretary Noah Valenstein rejected claims made by Administrative Law Judge E. Gary Early that the prospective drilling area is environmentally degraded and isolated from surface water and groundwater. The appeals court has now dubbed those claims "factual findings," and is partially basing its overturn of the 2015 ruling on their improper rejection.
Broward County is planning legal action to block Kanter from drilling. On February 19, officials from South Florida municipalities and conservationists held a news conference urging Governor Ron DeSantis to intervene to stop it.
In his 2015 recommended order, Judge Early argued that potential harm to the public water supply from any drilling done by Kanter Real Estate would be "insignificant."
Matthew Cohen, a professor of forest water resources and watershed systems at the University of Florida who studies the ecohydrology of the Everglades, sees the matter differently.
"The water that people use, that they draw out of the Biscayne Aquifer, is all interconnected with the water that's flowing through the Everglades," said Cohen. "Any contaminant that gets into the water is transported. … Because the Everglades is a flowing system, any water-quality problem that shows up in one place ends up impacting areas downstream."
Even though the proposed well will plunge deep underground—beneath a thick carbonate platform of limestone—to the Sunniland shale formation, Cohen and other experts worry about the effects that drilling might have closer to the surface.
"Because the Everglades is a flowing system, any water-quality problem that shows up in one place ends up impacting areas downstream."
"If something goes wrong, you have the potential to foul drinking water," said Rob Jackson, a professor of Earth system science at Stanford University.
Asked about the potential environmental impacts of the project, John E. Kanter, president of Kanter Real Estate, told CityLab, "We have been committed from the very beginning to act responsibly and in accordance with the letter of the law. Our focus has always been to conduct this project in a manner that would be highly protective of the environment."
Florida has more than 1,000 active oil and natural-gas wells. (Texas, by comparison, maintains more than 180,000.) Florida hasn't created any new oil-well fields since 1988, and the state produces less than 2 million barrels of oil per year.
To put that in perspective: The U.S. uses nearly 20 million barrels of oil per day. "So, in a year, [Florida wells] produce a couple hours-worth of oil, as opposed to Texas, which produces a billion barrels; North Dakota, 400 million," Jackson noted. Based on Florida's relative inexperience in regulating drilling, Jackson believes that mishaps such as spills might be more likely. "Florida has very little infrastructure, very little oversight of oil and gas activities, compared to other states," he said.
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Contamination isn't the only way that new drilling might affect the region. The Everglades spans almost 2,000 square miles and much of it is untouched. Any human involvement in the area can have a lasting impact.
"The part of the Everglades that they're proposing to drill in, which is the Eastern part of Water Protection Area 3A, is by many accounts the best-conserved part of the Everglades," Cohen said. "It's the part of the Everglades that probably looks closest to how the Everglades used to look."
The Everglades used to flow like a shallow river for miles at the southern portion of the state. Impediments to that flow can change the area's hydrology, causing some land to be too wet and other patches to be too dry. The hydrology has already been altered by the construction of I-75 and the Tamiami Trail, a highway that connects Tampa to Miami through the Everglades.
Hindrances to the flow of the Everglades have contributed to harmful algal blooms in recent years, and possibly to the red tides that plagued Florida in 2017 and 2018. In response, Governor DeSantis outlined in January a hefty environmental budget that includes $360 million earmarked for Everglades restoration.
"The Everglades is ... one of the crown jewels of ecosystems in the world," said Jackson. "Why risk that system for a little bit of oil production that would benefit so few people?"
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Rebecca Renner is a freelance writer and editor living in Boynton Beach, Florida.


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The show focuses on the debate between the notion of Intelligent Design and the Theory of Evolution and to do so uses the 2005 trial Kitzmiller, et. al. v. Dover School District, et. al. Most simply, Ms. Kitzmiller and 10 other parents of children in the Dover school district in Dover, Pennsylvania sued the school board for ordering science teachers to read a statement stating that there were gaps in Darwin's Theory of Evolution, and that the idea of "Intelligent Design" (ID) was a viable alternative. Kitzmiller, the science teachers, and others believed that Intelligent Design was nothing more than Creationism using different terminology. If the trial proved them correct, Intelligent Design would not be allowed to be discussed in the classroom as it represents a violation of the Constitution's Establishment Clause (the separation of church and state).
Darwin's theory argues that over the course of an exceedingly long period of time life on this planet grows and changes. These changes occur in animals as a result of mutations, and beneficial ones tend to allow an animal to live longer and thereby reproduce more and more successfully. As animals with these changes reproduce more, the changes are, over several generations, incorporated into the population of the species as a whole. Intelligent Design, on the other hand, argues that some things are just so complex that there had to be an "intelligent agent" that designed (ID proponents prefer the use of the word "design" to "create") them. Followers of ID use the term "irreducible complexity" to describe certain things found in the world. One of the things often pointed to as system with irreducible complexity is bacterial flagellum. As explained in the Kitzmiller trial by Dr. Michael Behe (a believer in ID), the structure that allows bacteria to move, the flagellum, is hugely complex (there are dozens of pieces involved) and it would not work at all if just a single piece were missing. Therefore, the argument goes, the individual pieces would not have evolved over time because there was no benefit to the individual pieces, the entire system had to have been created as a single unit (something that would not happen within Darwin's theory).
That makes perfect sense, right? The only way the bacteria can move is via the flagellum, and the system by which the flagellum works requires each individual part of the system to be present. Remove one part and the bacteria can't move. Evolution argues that it would never have simply appeared, and there is no advantageous reason for only part of it to exist. Thus, it was created via an intelligent designer.
Sure, it sounds great, Darwin's theory certainly would not state that the entire apparatus would simply sprout up in one generation. The problem, as shown in the Kitzmiller trial, is that many of th e parts of the flagellum do in fact appear in other things and, while they don't allow for movement, they do make other processes possible. Thus there is an explanation of the evolution of bacterial flagellum if one cares to examine it.
Outside of using innumerable scientists to show the basis for evolution, explaining that in science the use of the word "theory" does not have the same meaning it does to laypeople, Kitzmiller's lawyers and experts examined draft copies of a book Of Pandas and People, that was "anonymously donated" (as it turns out members of the school board had a strong hand in the donation) to the Dover school district as a textbook on Intelligent Design. The textbook, which was being written prior to, but only published after the 1987 Supreme Court decision contained some interesting facts. For instance, prior to the 1987 decision, Of Pandas and People didn't mention "Intelligent Design" (the term had not yet been coined), it was about Creation and defined the term specifically. After the 1987 ruing the book discussed "Intelligent Design" and defined it in the exact same way it defined Creation, changing "intelligent Creator" to "intelligent agency" of course.
The school board's assertion in all of this is that they began looking into Intelligent Design because they wanted to present alternative theories to evolution and were upset that the biology textbook was "laced with Darwinism." However, as Behe (a defender of ID) pointed out at the trial, the same definition he uses to define science, one that might make ID a scientific, also makes Astrology a science as well as other disproved theories (like the ether theory of the light).
Nova goes to great pains to recreate scenes from the trial using the transcript (cameras were not allowed in the courtroom) as well as interviewing people that took part on both sides of the case (though many people on the ID side declined to be interviewed). The episode goes into great depth as to what happened in Dover, why, and the ramifications of the Judge's decision. It is well thought out, well presented, and about as even-handed a presentation as one could hope for. The Dover school district would do well to adopt it as a required part of their curriculum.
Nova – "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial" airs on PBS November 13 at 8pm ET/PT. Check your local listings however, because you won't want to miss it.


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What is a Tubo-Ovarian Abscess?
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A tubo-ovarian abscess is an infected, pus-filled lump located in the ovary or Fallopian tube. It is commonly caused by infection moving up the reproductive tract from the vagina, and typically forms part of what is known as pelvic inflammatory disease, where bacteria multiply inside the pelvic cavity affecting structures such as the womb and ovaries. Occasionally this disease can be a result of infection spreading from nearby organs, in an illness such as appendicitis, but more often it is associated with sexual activity. A tubo-ovarian abscess usually appears in the later stages of pelvic inflammatory disease, and although the illness can be life-threatening if it is left untreated, it usually responds to antibiotics, with surgery being used if necessary.
A tubo-ovarian abscess may occur as the result of infection spreading from nearby organs, such as the appendix.
Most often, a tubo-ovarian abscess occurs in young women who are sexually active. An increased risk is also present in women who have been fitted with an intrauterine contraceptive device, or IUD. There are a number of different organisms which can be involved in the infection, with common examples being the bacteria that cause chlamydia and gonorrhea.
Symptoms of a tubo-ovarian abscess may include abdominal pain.
Symptoms which may be experienced as a result of this kind of abscess can include pain in the lower abdomen and fever. Sometimes unusual bleeding or discharge from the vagina is seen, and there may be discomfort when urinating or passing stools. The areas around the reproductive organs may feel tender when examined by a doctor. Occasionally there are no symptoms at all and the tubo-ovarian abscess may be found by chance on an ultrasound scan.
A tubo-ovarian abscess may be discovered through use of an ultrasound.
Diagnosing a tubo-ovarian abscess is important, in order to distinguish it from other masses such as cancers and cysts. Ultrasound imaging is generally used but MRI, or magnetic resonance imaging, may be useful if the ultrasound findings are unclear. The abscess typically appears on an ultrasound scan as a lump which has thick walls and is filled with fluid and debris.
An MRI may be conducted to diagnose a tubo-ovarian abscess.
As is the case for other types of pelvic abscess, the treatment of a tubo-ovarian abscess involves a stay in the hospital while antibiotics are administered intravenously. If the abscess does not respond to antibiotic treatment, or if it is extremely large, it may need to be drained surgically. This can be carried out with a needle, using ultrasound imagery to guide the surgeon to the correct location, or the abscess may need to be cut. Occasionally it might be necessary to treat a Fallopian tube abscess or ovarian abscess by removing all of the affected tube or ovary.
Treatment of a tubo-ovarian abscess involves an administration of intravenous antibiotics.
A tubo-ovarian abscess occurs in a fallopian tube of the ovary.
An increased risk of tubo-ovarian abscess is also present in women who have been fitted with an intrauterine contraceptive device, or IUD.
Tubo-ovarian abscesses typically occur in young women who are sexually active.
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I recently was hospitalized for this and was given antibiotics. the pain was tremendous. I didn't finish the medication.
I was hospitalized and had the pus drained out with antibiotics. The pain was so severe that my stomach started to swell to where I looked pregnant. I am worried now that I am trying to have another baby it is always impossible since I have been trying for almost a year now.
I had this happen to the point I was hospitalized and the only symptom I had was a really strong smell even after a shower. Should've gone to the doc when I noticed that.
I've recently had a recurrence, five years later in the same ovary. I tested negative each time for STDs. It's painful and can escalate quickly. The first time, within a few days, it blew and I went into sepsis and they had to carry me into the hospital. I'm lucky in that I responded to the antibiotics.
Intervention radiology (draining it with a needle) is shifty sometimes because of the proximity to the intestines. This is no joke, and after you come home, you'll be on antibiotics for several weeks. Expect to be lethargic and to not have a fabulous appetite. Following up is important. Pelvic sonograms will assess its demise.
I had one of these when I was fourteen, before I was sexually active. It burst and I was a week from death when I had emergency surgery, where I had my right ovary, right fallopian tube, and appendix removed along with a good two cups of pus.
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@Monika - Glad your friend is OK.
Conditions like this really highlight the usefulness of medical imaging. The symptoms of a tubo-ovarian abscess are so similar to other medical condition that medical imaging is the only way to know for sure what's going on.
A friend of mine developed a tubal ovarian abscess in high school. She ended up in the hospital for quite awhile because she waited a long time to get treatment. She didn't want her parents to know she was sexually active so she ignored her symptoms for quite awhile until she was in so much pain she her parents noticed.
She's fine now but things were strained between her and her parents for a long time after that.


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AUTHOR Q&A: Dana Vachon
By Marie Claire
When I meet Dana Vachon for coffee at a café in the West Village, he's wearing a suit. Not surprising, considering he worked on Wall Street for three years. In fact, everything about him indicates that he was bred for banking-from his calm blue eyes to his soothing, if formal, Connecticut accent. But behind his upper-crust facade, the 28-year-old has something other financiers don't: a sense of irony, which was helpful when he decided to expose the absurd world of Wall Street, Devil Wears Prada-style, in his debut novel, Mergers and Acquisitions.
MC: This book is a thinly veiled account of your experience at J.P. Morgan. When did you know you were going to write it?
VACHON: The first day I was there. I felt like a kid in a candy store. People on Wall Street don't have senses of humor.
MC: Just how true to your life is it?
VACHON: Most everything in the book happened, but not necessarily to me and not in that order. For instance, one group really did once spend a million dollars taking their clients to Macchu Pichu.
MC: What other over-the-top expenditures didn't make it into the book?
VACHON: Someone once spent $25,000 buying two courtside U.S. Open tickets for a client who complained that the corporate box didn't offer the sort of view he was after. That, however, is nothing compared to the $20 million given to Chase CEO Bill Harrison simply for buying J.P. Morgan. That's like giving the Navy Cross to the skipper of the Exxon Valdez.
MC: Speaking of bonuses, how much was your first one and what did you spend it on?
VACHON: They sent me $15,000 as a sign-on while I was still a senior at Duke. If I recall correctly, I spent that money principally on wine and rides on airplanes.
MC: It seems it wasn't your dream to work on Wall Street. How did you end up there?
VACHON: I think I was always expected to work on Wall Street, but I always wanted to write a novel. I had no skill at doing finance.
MC: Yet you were able to keep your job for three years.
VACHON: It was hilarious. If you take a job you're not fit for, you can't go in and be like, "Hey, I'm not competent." You have to pretend. I would go to these dinners and spend weekends with these people, just waiting for the men to come and kick me out at any moment, but they never came.
MC: Is anyone going to stop talking to you when this book is published?
VACHON: My father was quite disturbed by it. Also, the character Roger Thorne is an amalgam of my friends, but I modeled his voice after one specific guy. He called me and said, "Dude, this isn't going to hurt my marriage, is it?"
MC: If the book gets bought by Hollywood, who would you want to play you?
VACHON: Three words: Haley Joel Osment. Once he gets this DUI thing expunged, H.Jo's gonna be unstoppable.
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Isotonic regression and an alternative nonparametric trend test plus a parametric version
There are two nonparametric methods which test to see if a single response is ordered with respect to groups which have an assumed apriori ordering.
Isotonic regression finds the best fitting model which has an unknown number of changepoints (also called 'knots') separating linear fits. An alternative nonparametric approach, the Jonckheere-Terpstra test, compares the ordering in the groups to that which would be expected by chance.
Both these tests may be fitted in the statistical package, R, using code here. The specific code of interest is listed here. The more recent ISOREG procedure in R will also perform an isotonic regression. In either case a p-value is produced to assess whether the groups form an ordering with respect to the observed response. The basic isotonic regression model fitted in R pools means of responses at particular time points until they form a strictly increasing set of means with respect to the categories. The least squares fit from these poolings is then compared to that using the grand (overall) mean (and hence no changepoints) to assess the improvement in fit.
Jonckheere's trend test is also fitted in the analyse>nonparametric tests procedure in SPSS. Further details of Jonckheere's Trend Test with an example, are also given.
There is also a parametric version which fits linear regression lines and finds the minimum residual sums of squares to determine the location of a fixed number of changepoints. R code for one and two changepoint examples are given here.
Howell (2013, p.646-9) illustrates a related issue allowing the fitting of separate slopes and intercepts for baseline and intervention trials on each of four single cases using a standard regression analysis of phase (baseline or intervention), trial number and phase by trial interaction.
In addition a comprehensive suite of changepoint programs with R code are illustrated here (or here if the link is not working) in a pdf file. The programs obtain locations of changepoints using information functions which minimize lack of fit using likelihood functions which assume different distributions of the data and use a penalty function which favours models with smaller numbers of changepoints. A selection of references is also given in the pdf file for further reading. Such a penalty function is needed for example using the residual sum of squares for Normally distributed data which would trivially reduce as more changepoints are added.
Howell, D.C. (2013). Statistical methods for psychology. 8th Edition. International Edition. Wadsworth:Belmont,CA.
Kashlak, A. (2019). A wonderful night for Oscar speeches. Significance 16(1) 24-27. R code (using the cpt.meanvar routine in the changepoint library by Killick and Eckley (2014)) used in this article is available from the author's website at bit.ly/2AUL3Yw. This assesses location of changepoints dividing time points into groups having different means.
Killick, R. and Eckley, I. (2014). changepoint:An R package for changepoint analysis. Journal of Statistical Software 58(3) 1-19.
SPSS Version 3 reference manual. To be confirmed.
Tan, X., Shiyko, M.P. and Li, R. (2012). A time-varying effect model for intensive longitudinal data. Psychological Methods 17(1) 61-77. SAS macro and other code for fitting models with an unknown numbers of changepoints allowing for quadratic change.
Zou, C., Yin, G., Feng, L. and Wang, Z. (2014). Nonparametric maximum likelihood approach to multiple change-point problems. Annals of Statistics 42(3) 970-1002. A nonparametric approach to detecting change over time. Illustation in Haynes K. (2016) The Fitbit generation: from couch potato to marathon runner. Significance 13(1) 24-25 (See pdf copy here).
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You Belong Everywhere – A Chat with Poet Derrick C. Brown & Filmmaker Stephen Latty – UPDATE
Posted by Kim Ohanneson on April 11, 2012 April 13, 2012
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Update! The time of YOU BELONG EVERYWHERE screening has been changed
"You are a poet, invited on tour by a popular rock band. Europe!! There will be large audiences. They might be drunk. They might get loud. They might not understand English. It's the opportunity of a lifetime…. Now what?" (From the press release for You Belong Everywhere.)
If you are Derrick C. Brown — electrifying performance poet, former 82nd Airborne Paratrooper, President of Write Bloody Publishing, and one of America's top five poets according to National Poetry Slam founder Marc Smith — you invite your friend, documentary and commercial filmmaker Stephen Latty (Drums Inside Your Chest) to document your career-defining tour opening for Cold War Kids.
Smart choice. The result, You Belong Everywhere, is a compelling, dynamic, you'll-laugh-and-cry, rock 'n roll poetry concert film.
And just in time to celebrate National Poetry Month!
The film, which is produced by actress and fellow poet Amber Tamblyn, screens this Friday, April 13th at 8:00 p.m. at the Echo Park Film Center with a performance by L.A. poet Brendan Constantine.
There will also be a Q&A with Derrick and Stephen after the Echo Park Film Center screening of You Belong Everywhere. After reading the artists' immensely entertaining interview below, conducted by email during the hustle and bustle of the tour, you'll want to see You Belong Everywhere and ask them more questions yourself.
Hilarity may ensue.
Ms. Go Go: Stephen, you've written that "It is a really interesting time for poetry. Young poets are starting to be able to make a living as poets – not as musicians, or screenwriters, or greeting card writers, or insurance salesmen, but as poets." Derrick, do you agree and if so, why do the two of you think poetry is becoming a viable way to make a living?
Stephen Latty: When I first met Derrick, he was in his early thirties working at a small production company making Sunday school videos for kids – very weird and very funny Sunday school videos. The strangeness he brought to it was fantastic…gigantic hot dog men in space talking about God and telling bible stories with dead fish.
Stuff like that. He was definitely pushing the envelope in that medium, which I didn't even know was possible. Anyway, the job seemed pretty ideal – I think it paid okay and he was able to take off for months at a time to do poetry shows around the country. So when he quit that job, I had a feeling poetry was becoming something much more sustainable for him, otherwise I think he'd still be doing it. There's nothing like slightly warping children's minds. I should mention that Derrick introduced me to other poets who also make a living writing and touring as poets – Beau Sia, Mindy Nettifee, Mike McGee, Buddy Wakefield…those are just the people I know pretty well as friends. The list Derrick could give would be a lot longer. The only reason it seems to me that poetry is becoming a viable way to make a living is that I see these poets doing it. I admire them all. I believe in that fight to make a living doing what you want to do.
Derrick C. Brown: It is not as viable as advertising for cruise ships, prestidigitation or even mowing lawns. But it is more possible than ever to use the rock and roll model to hit the road, sell t-shirts off your fancy website, offer to perform weddings, work with orchestra's etc. It all depends how disciplined and organized an artist can be.
MGG: What did you think was going to be the biggest challenge about making YBE and what actually was the biggest challenge?
SL: I thought the biggest challenge would be to shoot the film. I was following the tour by train with my girlfriend at the time, who was instrumental in helping me get the project started, and the two of us wore ourselves out getting to each city, figuring out where Derrick was, shooting something in the afternoon, setting up in a theater, hooking up an audio recorder, charging the batteries, etc. On a fifteen-day 'European' shoot I think we went out to eat together once – at a horrible café in Paris. There was zero time for relaxation, which I've come to believe may be the only way to actually make a decent film.
The actually most challenging part was editing the film. There was no post-production budget, so I cut it myself, and that took a long time. I had a much bigger scope in mind at first – Derrick reading poetry throughout the world, showing more of his life, meeting his family. We shot a lot of other material, which is all really interesting, but there is something really unique about the Cold War Kids tour. Derrick really seemed to be exploring new ways of dealing with negative energy in the audience. Plus, Cold War Kids often performed with him on stage, which was often very wonderful. I really admire the spirit in that band. It still took me a long time to see that the material from this tour worked best isolated in its own film…editing.
DCB: For me it was wondering if we were capturing the most bizarre, stressful and exciting moments. I wonder if the movie makes it seem too easy or way too hard to hit the dirt.
MGG: What was the biggest surprise of the tour?
SL: Derrick has an old poem about how much he hates Paris, which he wrote after a really horrible poetry show he did there. After reading that poem, I expected the show in Paris was going to be really bad. But it turned out to be the opposite. The audience was totally in it – laughing, shouting, gasping at surprising lines. It changed Derrick's attitude completely. That was really beautiful to see. It's the performance with which the film opens.
DCB: That you get sick of beer and whiskey when it is constantly dumped upon you and you can no longer sneak it into your backpack or luggage. I was also surprised at how incredible the French response was. I performed in their world of spoken word and it wasn't as wild and blissful as doing poetry when people only expected rock and roll.
MGG: Were there any off-camera moments that you really wished you'd captured on film?
SL: The show before I joined the tour, a number of young women at the front of the audience apparently reached out and grabbed Derrick's testicles as he tried to read a poem. Repeatedly. I would've liked to 'capture' that.
DCB: Yes. So many. We were limited to one camera though. The fist fight. The 3 aggressive women in Berlin. The bottles thrown. I am glad we even got some on such a small budget generously donated by the incredible amber tamblyn, a real pusher of poetry.
MGG: Before You Belong Everywhere, the two of you collaborated on Drums Inside Your Chest. Is that how you met?
SL: No, we met because I started working at that same production company! I graduated from film school and needed a job, and that was the most interesting one I could find. Way better than shooting porn.
So Derrick and I shot a bunch of Christian video skits together before we did any poetry films. He actually played the gigantic hot dog man from space, and I shot it. We had a lot of fun seeing how far they let us push things. I remember in one script we wrote had Moses yelling, "Get your freak on!" before the Israelites attacked Jericho. They cut that one.
DCB: I think we met in a sweat lodge, that I thought was a sweet lodge sponsored by See's candy. I thought he looked better than average for a boxer from the 1930's. And he had candy. The only one.
MGG: Had the two of you discussed doing another movie together before the Cold War Kids tour was offered?
SL: We first started writing some feature scripts together. Horror stuff. One was about these kids who bring their dead friend to the desert to burn him in the blue cougar mascot suit he was wearing when he died during a school football game. The friend comes back to life and terrorizes them wearing that outfit the whole time. I
still like that idea.
I started shooting Derrick's poetry shows around Los Angeles as a favor, or maybe he paid me a little bit. I don't remember. Our friend Amber Tamblyn, who I also met through Derrick, liked what I was doing with that and asked me to shoot some of her poetry shows. That's how we came to make Drums Inside Your Chestand You Belong Everywhere, both of which Amber executive produced.
We started shooting You Belong Everywhere before Drums Inside Your Chest, however. YBE just took me a lot longer to finish.
DCB: We used to work on a kids show together. I directed the shoots and the graphics department.
MGG: Derrick, you describe Strange Light, the 40 minute poem that you wrote as part of a multi-media collaboration with the Dutch contemporary dance company Noord Nederlandse Dans, as your "final book" of poetry. Why is it your "final" book?
DCB: I am going to try and trick people into coming to my poetry shows by calling them plays.
MGG: Stephen, what is the particular challenge of making films about poets?
SL: It's like filming a wizard casting a spell and expecting the same spell to be cast every time somebody watches it back. That's just not how magic works. So you have to find a way to cast your own spell with the film, itself. Assuming you believe in poetry.
MGG: Finally, Derrick, how did being a paratrooper prepare you to become a poet?
DCB: It made me clean my room, fold my shirts before I began to create. It helped me be an artist with a survive at all costs mind-set. I'll eat your pants for 5 dollars.
YOU BELONG EVERYWHERE w/ poet Brendan Constantine — Friday, April 13 @ 7:30 pm; $8 – Echo Park Film Center, 1200 No Alvarado St LA 90026
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UPDATE! Filmmaker Stephen Latty will be doing the post-film Q&A solo; poet Derrick C. Brown will not be at the event.
This update also gives the correct time for tonight's show.
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The ZTVA and ZTSA programmes have a great deal of potential. UNHCR has recognised the value of this model in settings outside of South Africa. Within South Africa, Chief Kennedy Tshivhase in Vhembe was so impressed by the success of the programme in one of his villages, he asked that it be rolled out to all 100 villages under his leadership. Unfortunately, we have been unable to accommodate his wishes because of funding and resource constraints. In addition, to increase the sustainability of the programme, the original model recommended bringing all communities in the alliance together once a year in a retreat-type setting to discuss the current state of their villages and share ideas for continuing to foster an attitude of zero tolerance for abuse and discrimination. Again, funding constraints have forced us to abandon this part of the model, but as more schools and villages join, we see this as a necessary step to sustain the programme.


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Information on Wladyslaw Kunda, Polish Army
Discussion in 'Allied Units - Others' started by mykid, Sep 18, 2013.
mykid Member
I am trying to find any information on Wladyslaw. He was in the Polish Army I think from 1939 to the end of the war, he was in France, Greece, Romania and latterly Scotland, not sure of dates.
I think he was in the Polish Armoured Division and I think he had something to do with tanks. He married a local Scottish girl from Chirnside, Berwickshire. If any one has any information or can point
us in the right direction of where to search, we would be very grateful, thank you.
mykid, Sep 18, 2013
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Hello mykid
the below might help you
APC Polish Enquiries
RAF Northolt
West End Road
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http://www.wwiipolishlhg.org/about5.html
CL1, Sep 18, 2013
thanks Clive, will follow it up
gunengraver1 New Member
Hi mykid,
Yes he was in the Polish Armoured Division and was based in Scotland after escaping from Europe. He saw action directly after the D-day landings and think he was injured around this time but soon returned to his unit. Wladyslaw married Margaret Purves Clark from Chirnside and moved to Hemyock, Devon shortly after the war. He purchased Simmons Burrow farm which he farmed until around the mid 80's. He was born 28.4.11 and passed away on 24.8.03.
gunengraver1, Jun 25, 2015
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There is a family tree for him on Ancestry:
Wladyslaw Kunda
Birth: 28 Apr 1912 - Poland
Death: Aug 2003 - Taunton, Somerset
Name: Wladyslaw Kunda
Birth Date: 28 Apr 1912
Date of Registration: Aug 2003
Registration district: Taunton
Inferred County: Devon, Somerset
Register Number: B88B
District and Subdistrict: 724/1B
Entry Number: 220
This is interesting, could this be his father? - as he is noted as a 'labourer' in 1907, 5 years before our man was born
Port of Departure: New York, New York, United States
Arrival Date: 31 Mar 1907
Port of Arrival: Glasgow, Scotland
Ship Name: Caledonia
Search Ship Database: Search for the Caledonia in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Shipping line: Anchor Line
Official Number: 121218
Last name on the sheet
From the sheet it looks as though he travelled alone as there are no other Kunda's listed.
Tricky Dicky, Jun 25, 2015
His DOB shows 28.4.11 but I take nothing for granted.
I noted that as well, but the info is only on his death details, so whoever gave them or wrote them down may have it wrong by 1 year.
Margaret Purves Kunda (nee Clark)
Name: Margaret Purves Kunda
Date of Registration: Feb 1991
Registration district: Taunton Deane
Inferred County: Somerset
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Hello Mykid,
I think you got the order the wrong way round. He would have fought in the September Campaign then crossed into Romania and travelled via Greece to France from where he came to Britain (Scotland).
After that, he would have continued with his war, through the D-Day landings and on through Europe. That was, more or less, the way the Polish land forces progressed through the war.
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By Melinda Welsh
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Published March 4, 2019 in the Los Angeles Times
Trump Hates Science. Sad!
Like many girls growing up in the late 1960s, I was intimidated by math and science throughout my school years and into college, where I avoided lab units in biology and chemistry whenever possible. But something happened that made me a late-blooming science fan. At age 57, cancer hit.
As I've written about before in the Los Angeles Times, I underwent the standard healthcare regimen for my condition (surgery, chemo and radiation), but the cancer metastasized anyway and I was given a "yearish" to live. Then, in July of 2015, I became a human science project, a participant in clinical trials at UC San Francisco, one of the top cancer research centers in the world. Today, I'm well past my overdue date, as are many of the other Stage 4 cancer patients, thanks to breakthroughs in immunotherapy and cutting-edge treatments that arrived courtesy of tenacious researchers, the lives of many mice and the evidence-based, peer-reviewed work of medical science.
All this is to explain my ever-increasing alarm at the level of scorn the findings of science now attract in the realm of public policy. President Trump and members of his revolving-door Cabinet have shown no let-up since 2017 in their disdain for scientific truths, mischaracterizing them as opinions that are somehow partisan in nature and expendable.
"The State of Science in the Trump Era," just published by the Union of Concerned Scientists, says it all. "The administration is radically weakening processes that guide the use of science in policymaking," it states. The report goes on to detail how U.S. scientists are being excluded from decision-making, removed from advisory committees at agencies such as OSHA, the FDA and the EPA, hampered in the collection of data and, generally, treated with hostility by leaders of the government. In the budgets Trump has proposed, he has asked for deep cuts in science, technology and health programs and research, especially at the National Institutes of Health and the Environmental Protection Agency; science fans in Congress, however, have prevailed.
Climate change offers the best (worst) example of Trump's dismissive approach to empirical data and scientific expertise. Trump considers the threat of human-made global warming as something one can believe in or not, like the Easter Bunny. An alarming series of scientific reports on the climate crisis were published in 2018, including the two-volume "Fourth National Climate Assessment" in November, in which hundreds of scientists from 13 U.S. agencies predicted across-the-board devastation in the near future caused by climate change. A month earlier, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change painted an equally fearsome global picture of the consequences of global warming. Its assessment is known as the "Doomsday" report — a handle that speaks for itself.
Presented with these findings, Trump's response was: "I don't believe it."
When he called for a U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement in 2017, he was just getting started. On Feb. 20, his administration doubled-down on this obstinacy by announcing the convening of a White House "select" panel on the climate that clearly will seek to undermine the overwhelming scientific evidence that the planet and its residents are in serious trouble. Princeton physicist William Happer, a climate-change denier, will spearhead the team.
The late, great neurologist Oliver Sacks sums up our situation in a recent essay published posthumously in the New Yorker: "I revere good writing and art and music, but it seems to me that only science, aided by human decency, common sense, farsightedness, and concern for the unfortunate and the poor, offers the world any hope."
As a living, breathing science experiment myself these past years, I consider myself unthinkably lucky to have a front-row seat for this ultimate reality series. As of December, thanks to immunotherapy and gene-based treatments, I'm officially considered to be in remission and "cancer free" though I paradoxically carry a prognosis of metastatic cancer. My testimony, my life can serve as a reminder of the contrast between the evidence-based, problem-solving approach that may one day change outcomes for millions more cancer patients, and the anti-science, hubris-laden posture evident in the halls of power in America.
In October a pair of gifted scientists — James Allison and Tasuku Honjo — won the Nobel Prize for their work in immunotherapy. The day after the announcement I hunted down email addresses and sent them both congratulations with the subject head "Thank You For Saving My Life." I got lovely messages from both of them. I was elated when Allison responded within hours: "Dear Melinda, thank you. Your message is worth more than any prize."
Brilliant and modest. Persevering. Dedicated to using reason, testable data and the scientific method to systematically tackle seemingly impossible problems. Imagine what it would be like, at this moment in history, to see men and women with qualities like these empowered by the White House instead of ignored and dishonored. As Sacks reminds us, it's science alone that offers us any real hope.
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Lotus v. Borland: A Case Study in Software Copyright
Ben Sobel, under the supervision of Jonathan Zittrain
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Intellectual Property | Internet & Society | Legislation & Regulation
In 1996, the Supreme Court heard a landmark case on software copyright. Lotus Development Corporation had sued Borland International, Inc. for copying the names and hierarchical structure of the menu commands in Lotus's blockbuster spreadsheet program, 1-2-3, and offering them in Borland's competing Quattro Pro software. However, the Supreme Court did not make binding precedent in Lotus v. Borland. One justice's recusal left the remaining justices in a 4-4 tie, and so the Court let stand, without opinion, the First Circuit's judgment that the names and hierarchical structure of the menu commands in Lotus 1-2-3 were uncopyrightable.
Nearly twenty years later, similar questions of software copyright remain unresolved. A high-profile case involving copyright in computer programs, Oracle v. Google, was denied review by the Supreme Court in late June of 2015. Google's petition for certiorari to the Supreme Court maintained that Oracle v. Google "directly implicates the unanswered question in Lotus..." and its outcome will exert "enormous" influence over innovation in the computer business. Lotus v. Borland is an essential piece of context in the contemporary debate over digital intellectual property—a debate that has persisted for decades without definitive resolution by the Supreme Court. Studying the case can offer a practical immersion in legal doctrine, litigation procedure and tactics, policymaking, and business strategy.
This case study contextualizes Lotus v. Borland in order to analyze the issues of jurisprudence, policy, commerce, and legal practice that the case implicated. Students study internal government documents—made public during Justice Elena Kagan's confirmation hearings—that give insight into the rarely seen debates that shape the government's official position on pending litigation. By providing important legal and historical context, this case study challenges students to examine Lotus v. Borland's influence on the contemporary software ecosystem.
This case study is based on the syllabus and pedagogy of "Anatomy of a Copyright Case," a course taught at HLS in Spring 2015 by Henry Gutman, who argued Lotus's side before the Supreme Court.
Discuss software copyright from legal, commercial, and policy perspectives.
Understand legal and business strategies in copyright litigation.
Practice argumentation and brief-writing in a variety of legal, governmental, and commercial roles.
Copyright, Legislation and Regulation, Intellectual Property, Legal Writing
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Published September 2015
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