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Our Team And The Power of imagination
Mehmood Khan, MD
Mehmood Khan, MD, is Chief Executive Officer and Board Member of Life Biosciences Inc. In his role as CEO, Dr. Khan provides strategic direction and operational oversight across the organization. His vision of a more efficient and effective drug development pathway will drive innovation in the science and technology that Life Biosciences advances. Dr. Khan previously served as Global Vice Chairman and Chief Scientific Officer of PepsiCo. He played a pivotal role in the company's global R&D efforts to create breakthrough innovations in food, beverages, and nutrition, including the incorporation of healthier and more nutritious offerings across its portfolio. Dr. Khan also oversaw their global sustainability initiatives. Prior to joining PepsiCo, Dr. Khan served as President of Global R&D at Takeda Pharmaceuticals, leading the global efforts of one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world by revenue. Before moving into industry, Dr. Khan had a distinguished medical career as a practicing faculty member in endocrinology at the Mayo Clinic and Mayo Medical School where he served as Director of the Diabetes, Endocrine and Nutritional Trials Unit. Dr. Khan is a member of the Board of Directors of Reckitt Benckiser and Indigo Ag. He is also a member of the Visiting Committee on Advanced Technologies at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Chair of the U.S. Council on Competitiveness in Washington, DC. Dr. Khan earned his medical degree from the University of Liverpool Medical School, England and completed a fellowship in clinical endocrinology and nutrition in the Department of Medicine and Food Science and Nutrition at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London, a Fellow of the American College of Endocrinology, and holds two ad honorem PhDs in humanities and international law. He has been exclusively featured in numerous publications including Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business.
John Amatruda, MD
President, R&D Operations
Throughout his 26-year career in drug research and development, Dr. John Amatruda has produced drugs that treat diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease and more. In addition to tenures as a professor at Yale University School of Medicine and The University of Rochester School of Medicine, he also co-founded the biotech company CohBar, served on numerous scientific advisory panels and Boards of Directors and was a Vice President at Bayer Corp and a Senior Vice President at Merck Pharmaceuticals. A prolific author, Dr. Amatruda has published over 150 papers, abstracts, reviews, and book chapters, primarily on diabetes and cardiovascular disease. He received a BA from Yale University, an MD from the Medical College of Wisconsin and completed clinical training in medicine and fellowship in endocrinology and metabolism at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Jennifer Cermak, PhD
Senior Vice President, Clinical Development
A seasoned leader in the research and development of drugs and medical devices, Dr. Jennifer Cermak has two decades of related experience. Having co-founded and managed multiple biotechnology startup companies, Dr. Cermak has successfully led every aspect of the production of life-changing pharmaceuticals from start to finish and brought them to market. She holds a PhD in pathology from Boston University School of Medicine, and she completed her postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.
Tristan Edwards
Co-Founder, President & Chief Investment Officer
Tristan Edwards is Co-founder, President, and Chief Investment Officer of Life Biosciences. He also sits on the Boards of Continuum Biosciences, Animal Biosciences, Senolytic Therapeutics and Jumpstart Fertility. Tristan brings extensive global financial capital markets, regulatory compliance and fiduciary oversight experience to the group, following a 16-year investment career spanning leading financial organizations across Australia, London, HK and Singapore. Having recognized the opportunity to leverage this experience in an entrepreneurial environment, he has subsequently moved to pursue his passion for helping create a scalable platform for financing and enabling the world's best scientists and thought leaders to create change. Tristan's professional background has been in senior investment roles at leading financial groups such as Goldman Sachs, Brevan Howard, Trafalgar Capital and Mosaic Asset Management. He started his career with the Australian Commonwealth Department of Finance. Tristan has a degree in commerce from the University of Tasmania and held the CFA, CMT and CPA designations.
Sree Kant, MBA, MPH
Sree Kant is focused on new scientific investments and strategic partnerships for Life Biosciences. Sree comes to Life with 18 years of varied healthcare and pharmaceutical industry experience. He previously was the head of early partnering strategy for Pfizer, working across different therapeutic areas/technologies and geographies with Academia, VCs/Banks, CROs, and other strategic partners. Sree was also a Principal at the Boston Consulting Group advising large pharma and biotech on R&D strategy as well as large M&A. He has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management and an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. Sree is an invited speaker at key industry events and conferences on subjects of R&D strategy, innovative partnering models, industry-academia collaborations, early-stage technologies and investments, etc.
Brian Malone, FCA
Brian Malone brings over 35 years of experience in financial services, working with investment firms in Ireland, London and Boston. Brian was the Chief Financial Officer of Longwood Fund Management and also served as the first CFO/COO of many of the companies that Longwood incubated including some that went on to be NASDAQ listed. Most recently, he was the Senior Vice President of Finance at Axial Biotherapeutics, Inc., where he was responsible for all aspects of finance, operations, and information technology. Brian has an Honors Degree in science from University College Dublin and is a Fellow of the Irish Institute of Chartered Accountants. He recently completed a post-graduate course in strategy for pharma and biotech industries.
Kimberly McGonagle
Director, People & Culture
Kimberly McGonagle has more than 13 years of experience in human resources across a breadth of disciplines such as talent acquisition, talent management and development, total rewards, labor and employee relations, compliance and HR information systems. Kim served as Human Resources Director for True North Venture Partners, a venture capital firm that invests in clean and sustainable technologies; she focused on their two east coast portfolio companies, Harvest Power and Nanostone Water. In this role, she served as the HR leader for over 400 employees throughout the US, Canada, Europe and China. Prior to this, Kim spent 10 years at ABM Industries where she held various roles within the HR team of the Fortune 500 facilities services firm. Kim has a BS in business and economics from SUNY Oneonta and holds PHR and SHRM-CP certifications.
David Setboun, PharmD, MBA
David Setboun brings 20 years of experience in general management and commercial for biopharma companies in Europe and Americas. Previously, he served as VP and General Manager for Biogen France. Prior to his work at Biogen, he held different senior executive positions at AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, and Sanofi. He brought to market numerous treatments and technologies across a broad range of therapeutic areas. He holds a PharmD from Paris XI University and an HEC MBA & Advance Management Program from Harvard Business School.
Amit Shashank
Amit Shashank is a strategically-oriented global leader, with more than twenty years of international experience in technology and business services organizations. As General Counsel, he oversees Life Biosciences's government affairs, legal, and compliance initiatives. Amit is a leader in navigating complex regulatory approvals and developing global strategic alliances that span mergers and acquisitions, commercial transactions, and all phases of corporation financings. On two separate occasions, Amit has led companies toward commercializing and liquidity events which include initial public offerings (IPO). Most recently, Amit served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Aricent, a global R&D engineering and design powerhouse, which under his leadership as part of the executive team, grew to over 10,000 employees. In 2018, Amit was instrumental in supporting KKR & Co. in the sale of Aricent to Altran Technologies (EPA: ALT) for $2 billion. Prior to Aricent, Amit served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer, and Secretary at ExlService Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXLS), an operations management and analytics company with more than 20,000 employees globally, where he led the IPO and NASDAQ listing of the company. Amit began his career at Shearman and Sterling LLP after graduating from The University of Michigan Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Michigan Journal of International Law. Amit is also a Rhodes Scholar and an adjunct professor at Columbia University Law School.
Michael Torres
Vice President, Global Corporate Affairs
Michael Torres is a senior corporate communications executive with more than 15 years of experience at several Fortune 500 companies. Most recently, Torres served as Vice President of Global Corporate Affairs for the Americas at InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), where he was responsible for providing strategic counsel that protected and enhanced the reputation of IHG and its family of 15 hotel brands within the company's largest operating region. As Senior Director of Global Corporate Communications at PepsiCo, Torres provided strategic internal and external corporate and executive communications as well as reputation risk/issues management counsel and direction for PepsiCo's $1 billion Global Research and Development Division. Before joining PepsiCo, Torres held several leadership positions at Anheuser-Busch and AB InBev, the world's largest brewer. He began his career in the public affairs practice at Fleishman-Hillard Inc., where he counseled senior management of Fortune 500 companies and supervised several critical communications projects. A native of Los Angeles, California, Torres holds a bachelor's degree in sociology from the University of California Los Angeles and is an alumnus of Anheuser-Busch's Leadership Development program, the AB InBev/Stanford University Graduate School of Business Advanced Marketing Executive Program and the AFL-CIO organizing Institute.
Nick Ventresca
Nick Ventresca brings over 20 years of experience in information technology for large multi-national organizations, mid-sized biopharmas and startup biotechs. Nick has broad international expertise implementing innovative scientific and patient-centric technology. Most recently, he grew strategic IT solutions for late-stage biotechs now commercializing. Previously, he served as CIO for high-profile organizations including Ariad (now Takeda), Genzyme (now Sanofi), Charles River Laboratories, Visiting Nurse Service of New York and Warner Lambert (now Pfizer), and was Chief Technology Officer for Pepsi Cola International. Nick is a graduate of Fordham University with a BS in biology and studied for two years at the La Sapienza School of Medicine in Rome, Italy.
Nir Barzilai, MD
Chief Medical Advisor
Dr. Nir Barzilai serves as director of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. In addition, he is a founder and board member of CohBar Inc. Listed on the Russel 2000 Index, it develops therapeutics based on mitochondrial-derived peptides. He is a renowned expert and scientist in the study of the biology and genetics of aging. He is leading the TAME (Targeting Aging with MEtformin) a multi-central study to show that aging can be a target in humans in support of changing the FDA indication that is relevant to targeting aging. Dr. Barzilai is the recipient of many awards including the 2010 Irving S. Wright Award of Distinction in Aging Research and is the 2018 recipient of the IPSEN Longevity Award. His work has been profiled by outlets such as the New York Times, BBC, PBS, and National Geographic. He received his MD from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
Ana Maria Cuervo, MD, PhD
Co-Founder, Selphagy Therapeutics
Dr. Ana Maria Cuervo is a Professor and Co-Director of the Institute of Aging Studies at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where her group studies the role of autophagy in aging and age-related diseases. She has received prestigious awards such as the P. Bensley Award in cellular biology, Vincent Cristofalo Award in Aging, the Saul Koreyin Translational Medicine and the LaDonne Schulman Teaching Award. Dr. Cuervo is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Spanish Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales. She has an MD and a PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of Valencia and received postdoctoral training at Tufts University. She is also a member of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences.
Evripidis Gavathiotis, PhD
Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Advisor, Selphagy Therapeutics
Dr. Evripidis Gavathiotis is an Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a faculty member at the Institute for Aging Research, the Gottesman Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine and other institutions. He is conducting innovative research on the role of proteins in cancer and other age-associated diseases, with the goal of developing new medicines through small molecule modulators. Dr. Gavathiotis has co-authored over 50 scientific publications and 15 United States patent applications and received numerous awards throughout his career, including the 2014 Young Chemical Biologist Award, the Irma T. Hirschl Career Scientist Award and the Pershing Square Sohn Prize. He trained at Rockefeller University and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and received his PhD from the University of Nottingham.
Kyle Hoehn, PhD
Co-Founder, Continuum Biosciences
Dr. Kyle Hoehn is a metabolic biochemist and physiologist conducting cutting-edge research on obesity and its related disorders including diabetes and obesity-related cancers. His work is focused on altering metabolism to treat disease and delay aging. He received a PhD in biochemistry from Colorado State University and completed postdoctoral training at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney. He is currently the Chief Scientific Advisor at Continuum Biosciences and holds professorship appointments at both the University of New South Wales and the University of Virginia.
Hayden Homer, MD, PhD
Co-Founder, Jumpstart Fertility
Dr. Hayden Homer is the director of Queensland's first research laboratory dedicated to understanding the molecular control of egg development, to which he brings vast experience in the field of fertility research. His research seeks to develop innovative interventions for reversing poor egg quality, the most challenging fertility problem that, at present, can only be circumvented using better quality eggs donated by other women. Dr. Homer's findings have been published in premier journals including Science, Genes & Development, Developmental Cell and Nature Cell Biology, and he has won over a dozen highly prestigious prizes and awards. He is a practicing fertility specialist, an accredited reproductive endocrinology and infertility sub-specialist with both the Australian & New Zealand and the British Royal Colleges of O&G and holds a PhD in egg biology research from the UK.
Doug Korn, MBA
CEO, Animal Biosciences
Doug Korn most recently served as Vice President of Strategy for Mars Petcare North America where he helped lead the $4B North American division of the world's largest pet care company, with over 3,500 associates and 20 manufacturing locations. During his seven years at Mars, the business achieved record performance with sustainable growth, improved earnings and market share growth. Doug was directly responsible for the company's strategic plan, corporate and portfolio strategy and business development. Prior to his time at Mars, he worked in sales and marketing at The Clorox Company and Procter & Gamble. He holds a BS in chemical engineering from Lafayette College, a MBA from Boston College and a ThM from Liberty University.
Marc Ramis Castelltort, PhD
Co-founder and CEO, Senolytic Therapeutics
Dr. Marc Ramis-Castelltort co-founded Senolytic Therapeutics, a pharmaceutical company that develops a novel class of medicines by targeting damaged cells. At Life Biosciences, he serves as an advisor in Europe, helping to scout novel aging-associated ventures. Dr. Ramis-Castelltort's experience spans academia and the business world. He has had an impressive and wide-ranging career, from co-founding and leading pharmaceutical, academic and venture capital firms, such as Senolytic Therapeutics, Cebiotex and Chasing Science, to working with premier research institutions such as Cancer Research UK, Oxford University Innovation and IRB Barcelona. The companies he has built and advised have created drug-delivery nano-systems for cancer, brokered corporate-academic partnerships and more. Dr. Ramis-Castelltort's academic degrees include a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Oxford, a Harvard Business School PLD Program, an MS in chemical engineering and a BS in chemistry from IQS in Barcelona.
Webster Santos, PhD
Dr. Webster Santos is currently the Cliff and Agnes Lilly Professor of Chemistry at Virginia Tech. As the inventor of over 13 patents, his research efforts include designing inhibitors of RNA involved in HIV-1, sphingosine kinase inhibitors, mitochondrial uncouplers and developing synthetic chemistry methods involving boron and silicon. He serves on the editorial boards of Medicinal Research Reviews and Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Innovators Award and an endowed Blackwood Faculty Fellowship at Virginia Tech. He received his BS and PhD at the University of Virginia, which was followed by an NIH postdoctoral fellowship in the department of chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard University.
Manuel Serrano, PhD
Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Advisor, Senolytic Therapeutics
Dr. Manuel Serrano is an internationally-recognized scientist who has made significant contributions to cancer and aging research. He currently works in the Institute for Research Biomedicine in Barcelona, where he conducts award-winning work around cellular senescence and reprogramming and how they relate to degenerative diseases with a focus on lung, kidney and heart. Dr. Serrano obtained his PhD in 1991 from the University of Madrid and conducted research in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, where he made some important discoveries concerning p16 with implications for cancer prevention and aging. He then led research groups in Spain at the National Center of Biotechnology and the Spanish National Cancer Research Center.
Simon Tucker, PhD
CEO, Jumpstart Fertility and Continuum Biosciences
Dr. Simon Tucker brings decades of experience in pharmaceutical research and development and management as CEO of both Jumpstart Fertility Inc. and Continuum Biosciences Inc. He previously worked at GD Searle, USA, helping make key discoveries leading to the development of a treatment for HIV infection. He was later Vice President of Research at Biota Pharmaceuticals (now Vaxart), where he was responsible for their entire intellectual property and research portfolio. In 2015, he founded and was CEO of the successful contract research organization, 360biolabs. Dr. Tucker has a BS in biochemistry from the University of Sussex and a PhD from the University of Reading.
Michel Wathier, PhD
Vice President, Chemistry Manufacturing and Control
Dr. Michel Wathier brings more than 20 years of experience leading the formulation development and manufacturing of complex drugs to Life Biosciences. He has a deep understanding and expertise in CMC program management, operation and regulatory. His experiences encompass devices, small and large molecules, combination products, and new modalities. Dr. Wathier has experience with regulatory environments in both the United States and internationally and has led 15 compounds through successful IND filings; he co-authored 20 patents and effectively moved numerous products from R&D to human clinical studies. His development work on devices led to Adherus and OcuSeal and their successful commercialization and acquisition in US and Europe. Dr. Wathier has a PhD in organic chemistry from Avignon University, France and completed his postdoctoral fellowship at Duke University working on biomaterials in the department of chemistry.
Lindsay Wu, PhD
Chief Scientific Advisor, Life Biosciences and Co-founder, Jumpstart Fertility
Dr. Lindsay Wu leads the Laboratory for Ageing Research at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, where he is developing new therapies to treat diseases of aging, such as female infertility. He sees this as an under-appreciated goal, which could help to relieve women of the societal pressures of having children at a young age. One of the companies he recruited for Life (and co-founded)—Jumpstart Fertility—is based on work done in his lab. As a prominent figure in the field of treating aging, Dr. Wu has been featured in the media many times and is the founding organizer of the Australian Biology of Aging Conference series. He holds a RD Wright Biomedical Fellowship from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia and was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Medical School.
Lawrence Gozlan
Lawrence Gozlan is the Chief Investment Officer and Founder of Scientia Capital, a specialized global investment fund focused exclusively in life sciences. With 18 years of experience in investing and banking, Lawrence has expertise in all areas of investment management and deep roots in the scientific and biotech communities. Prior to Scientia Lawrence was responsible for the largest biotechnology investment portfolio in Australia as the institutional biotechnology analyst at QIC ("the Queensland Investment Corporation"), an investment fund with over AU$60 billion under management. He previously worked as the senior biotechnology analyst in the equities team at Foster Stockbroking, and gained corporate finance experience advising life science companies at Deloitte. Lawrence currently serves as a Director on the Board of Nohla Therapeutics, Prana Biotechnology (NASDAQ: PRAN) and Ausbiotech, Australia's biotechnology industry association. He holds a BS with Honors in immunology from the University of Melbourne.
Michael Ringel, PhD, JD
Dr. Michael Ringel has 20 years of experience focused on corporate development, partnering and R&D innovation. He is concurrently a Senior Partner and Managing Director at The Boston Consulting Group, where he is the Global Topic Leader for Research and Product Development. Dr. Ringel is a frequent contributor to industry journals and a popular public speaker, including having a TED talk on biopharma R&D partnering. Dr. Ringel has a BA in biology summa cum laude from Princeton University, a PhD in biology from Imperial College and a JD cum laude from Harvard Law School.
David Sinclair, PhD, AO
Co-Founder & Chairman of the Board
David Sinclair PhD, AO is a tenured professor in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Co-Director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biological Mechanisms of Aging. Dr. Sinclair is regarded as one of the world's leading researchers on aging and age-associated diseases, with key contributions to understanding why we age and how to slow and even reverse the process. He has co-founded multiple biotechnology and genomics companies working on aging, neurological, metabolic, infectious and rare diseases. Dr. Sinclair's work has been featured in five books, two documentary movies, on CBS 60 Minutes, in Morgan Freeman's "Through the Wormhole" and more. He has received more than 35 awards for his medical research, innovation, and teaching. In 2014, he was named as TIME's "100 Most Influential People in the World" and in 2018 was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia. He serves on the non-profit boards of the American Federation for Aging Research and the Sanford Lorraine Cross Award.
CEO & Director
Bracken Darrell, MBA
Bracken Darrell is Chief Executive Officer at Logitech, where he brings more than twenty years of experience in business and brand management in successful global consumer companies, including Whirlpool, Procter & Gamble and General Electric. His broad executive management experience has spanned manufacturing, supply chain, product innovation, consumer services and marketing—targeting customers in mature and emerging markets. He has led growth and reinvention for iconic brands such as Old Spice, Braun, and Logitech. Bracken's prior roles included President of Braun within Procter & Gamble. He spent 12 years at Procter & Gamble in executive management positions as well as earlier years in brand management and five years at GE in general management roles. Bracken began his career with Arthur Anderson and then PepsiCo. Bracken holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in English from Hendrix College in Arkansas.
Ilan Stern
Ilan Stern is a representative of 166 2nd Financial Services with significant experience representing large family offices and institutional funds. He worked previously with General Catalyst and Soros Fund Management LLC.


A deft, almost spiritual return that examines a more transcendent kind of love.
After the heartbreak that formed her last album 'Vulnicura', Björk has already described her upcoming, as-yet-untitled new record as her "Tinder album". Perhaps that would lead you to believe that she'd be taking a more quick-fire approach to love and lust, but instead the first glimpse into her new record – aptly titled 'The Gate' – doesn't seem to concern itself with a superficial approach to romance.
Indeed, Björk herself claimed recently that 'The Gate' was a love song, but "in a more transcendent way". It's unsurprising then that it feels more like a spiritual rather than physical approach to the topic, taking its time to build from an opening coda whose deep melancholy is almost reminiscent of 'Vulnicura' to weaving fluttering synths, almost woodwind-like tones and hissing percussive elements.
It's often delicate and minimalist, but towards the middle of its six minutes it swells with deep pulses, glacial, warped electronica, and Björk's own chopped vocals as she repeatedly cries "I can care for you". As she sings about not wanting to be so needy and having "proud self-sufficiency", it's possible to think that, with its call for compassion in tow, 'The Gate' has formed something of a healing process for her own soul; the very first line even talks about "my healed chestwound". With its deft traversal between moody and transcendent melodies though, Björk manages to move past loss and further into even more bold new territory.
Tags: Björk, Listen, Have You Heard?


It is with traditional Medicare program that history of all types of Medigap plans tends to begin with. Medicare is a governmental program which offers seniors citizens with health insurance coverage. As both men and women reach 65 years of age, they become eligible to make applications for Medicare policy.
Although creation of Medicare has solved a good number of problems and helped the elderly and the disabled to get medical treatment, the truth this not everything is covered in it. Still 20% of medical expenses remain unpaid in the original plan which needs to be borne by the policy holder. This compels them to search for other viable insurance alternatives to cover the original Medicare uncovered portion, so as to avoid making payments from their pockets. It is for this reason, Medicare Advantage plans have come into vogue to fill up the gaps left out by original Medicare polices.
Medicare Advantageplans like L are standardized all over the country. If the plan is to buy Plan G from one provider or the other, the benefits offered by all of them are likely to be the same. Gaining knowledge on the same can prove to be a big benefit especially when shopping for the policy. At the same time, it will be essential to compare the plans and find out the kinds of benefits each one has to provide. But their prices are likely to be different depending upon the insurance providers. Hence, adequate and thorough research will be necessary on the different available Medicare Advantageplans prior to buying a policy.
It is easy to come across insurance companies offer Medigap or Medicare advantagepolicies. Going through online ratings of top insurance companies can prove to be more than useful. Reviews put up by previous users do offer good amount of precious information about the provider and the policies. Better insight can be derived about the company's past and their present reputation earned with clients. The insurance company should be more than happy to provide their prospective clients with free online quotes and answer all their queries and clear doubts promptly. Hence, premium based advantageinsurance policies can be availed at discounted rates with some serious comparison. It will be equally crucial to know the type of benefits to be derived and the amount in hand prior to doing the comparison, so as to get the best supplemental policy.


Earlier I had a quick think, and there are 10 linux programs which I can't live without. So, I thought I would post a quick blog to make sure you know about their existence.
This is more for the maths / science types. If you have used a computer algebra system before (like Maple or Mathematica) then you will realise that they are really useful. However they are also really expensive. wxMaxima is a great free CAS which comes with incredible documentation (avaliable here).
Internet browsers, I could write an entire blog on them. If not more than one. As for now I will just say, you really shouldn't use Internet Explorer, and choose between Firefox and Google Chrome. I use Google Chrome.
FileZilla is a powerful, but simple FTP client.
Microsoft Office isn't free, Open Office is.
The problem with giving you the terminal command to install open office is that there are lots of different parts, word processor, spreasheet application, presentaiton etc. etc. I recommend looking at the Add/Remove Software package manager and select the ones you want.
Amarok is the free version of iTunes. You can use it for playing all your music files on your computer, transfering music to your iPod, or other mp3 player, and subscribe to your favourite podcasts. Everything you could possibly want! Not to mention it has a brilliant Lyrics and Wikipedia tab!
This is the best program I have found for making DVD's! It is really simple to use, and will very quickly create an iso file that you can then burn with any major burning software. The thing I like most about devede is that when you add more files than should normally fit on a disk you can click 'Adjust Disk Image' which will lower the quality to fit all of them on. However I think you would only notice the lower quality if you watch everything in HD. I often put three films on one disk and don't notice any degradation in quality.
Finally, the program that everyone should have on their computer. No matter what the operating system. It basically plays every audio and video file you can throw at it with no issues. It's brilliant.
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Mortality from breast cancer is almost entirely the result of invasion and metastasis of neoplastic cells; therefore, understanding gene products involved in breast cancer metastasis is an important research goal. Prompted by a recent study showing increased expression of a DEAD-box family member, DDX20, in microarray data from lymphoma patients, a total of 194 breast tissue samples (97 breast cancers and 97 paired normal breast tissue) were retrieved. A high proportion of specimens show positive DDX20 (2+, 3+) expression in the tumor cores and negative (1+, 0) in their paired normal cores (p<0.001). Since positive MMP9 expression is closely associated with poor prognosis, same cohort was stained for MMP9. When grouping patients with positive DDX20 expression to MMP9 expression, Kaplan-Meier correlation analysis show patients with positive DDX20 and MMP9 expression have poorer survival outcomes (p=0.029). To explore a link between DDX20 and MMP9, we screened a panel of breast cancer cell lines for DDX20 and MMP9 expression. Interestingly, highly metastatic cell lines such as MDA-MB-231, BT549, and Hs578t have high expression levels of DDX20 and MMP9. Herein, we will present data for a functional consequence to decreased DDX20 in metastatic breast cancer cells. Together, our study identifi es DDX20 as a new prognostic marker that is needed to identify patients who are at the highest risk for developing metastases, which might enable oncologists to begin tailoring treatment strategies to individual patients. Th is work is supported by grants from National Medical Research Council of Singapore (Grant R-713- 000-119-275) and Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, Experimental Th erapeutics I Program (Grant R-713-001-011-271) to APK.


Rothrock is a vineyard in the Yakima Valley you've likely never heard of. But it's old. How old? Well, the current owner doesn't know, so I don't know either, but the estimates are that it was planted sometime between 1974 and 1978. So, about 40-year-old vines: ancient by Washington standards. There's nothing quite like old-vine material.
Our Chenin fruit was harvested on Sept 10, 2014, then whole cluster pressed and fermented with native yeasts in two used French oak barrels (and a little stainless for the leftover juice), then aged for 7 months with weekly battonage and no malolactic conversion this time. Finished alcohol was 12.6%, and finished residual sugar was 6.1 g/L.
The nose has a core of apple and pear fruit, dusted with a sweet-and-savory note unique to Chenin. It reminds me of malt powder (like the inside of a Whopper), but I've also heard it described as honeysuckle. That might be closer, since there is definitely something floral and apple-blossomy going on here. I like my Chenin just off-dry, and that's how this one drinks, the residual sugar perfectly balanced by Chenin's bright natural acidity. This one broadens out in the mid-palate with rich fleshy fruit before finishing more austere and minerally/savory. There's something deeply appetizing about this wine. The residual sugar cries out for something fatty (duck liver mousse) or spicy (Penn Cove mussels in green curry). I'm really pleased that we have a wine in the lineup that both I and my mom (who has a sweet tooth when it comes to wine) can love.


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Random SotU Thoughts
If mainstream, academic economists were as powerful as sociologists sometimes fear, the political debate right now would not be between a party that wants to freeze government spending and a party that wants to cut it.
Also, "winning the future" is really, really hokey. I am super curious to see if it flies. All I hear when I read that phrase is, "the country that gets the most victory points wins the future."*
Last, as always, the economist has my favorite commentary:
9:30: I cannot think of a worse model for future growth than the bygone space-race which was little more than hugely wasteful technological peacocking by cold-war superpowers.
10:15: Matthew Yglesias tweets this outstanding summary of Mr Obama's speech: "Gay soldiers will win the future by riding high speed trains to salmon farms."
10:30: Mr Ryan is continuing the proud tradition of sounding like a stilted animatronic puppet in the SOTU-response. It's hard to talk at a camera.
What did you all think?
*When teaching someone a new board game, I usually start with some variation on the phrase "The person who gets the most victory points wins."
by Dan Hirschman on January 25, 2011 • Permalink
Posted by Dan Hirschman on January 25, 2011
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My girlfriend made the point that the language of national unity is still very much cloaked in the language of competition and 'us vs them' (a la the space race reference). In 20 years will American movie villains be Chinese instead of Russian?
Obama made several references to needing to improve education, by which he meant (and explicitly cited) science and math. I'm tired of the overemphasis on science and math when talking about education. I'm certainly willing to agree that these are important facets of a good education, but the emphasis on them vs the humanities and social sciences is completely out of whack. The latter are consistently devalued, evidenced most recently in the UK. It seems to be the dangerous product of a utility-based (-obsessed?) society. Indeed, "For of the last stage of this cultural development, it might well be truly said: 'Specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved'"
This is Alex, by the way!
When teaching someone a new board game, I usually start with some variation on the phrase "The person who gets the most victory points wins."
That's because you're better at teaching board games than most of their instruction booklets.
It drives me *wild* how often they describe every detail of the play before explaining the basic objectives and other info that will let you organize what follows. I sometimes imagine dropping out of school and becoming a technical writer just. so. they. get. it. right.
Dan Hirschman
Elizabeth,
Thanks. We play and teach a lot of board &card games in my family, and we've developed a bag of tricks for doing so. That opening line (or really, the variant "The goal of the game is to get the most victory points.") is basically a joke to us.. but it's also the most important thing to know and it sets up the whole explanation of the rule (e.g. how to get victory points). It also distinguishes games that end and then someone wins (e.g. Ticket to Ride) from games that end when someone wins (Settlers of Catan, where "The first player to get 10 VPs wins").
All of this has very little to do with "winning the future" except to say that if we were to turn it into the board game, it's not at all clear how you would score VPs (except, I guess, by making sure China doesn't?).
Yeah, I get the joke, and I should've said, I find it very funny in the context of the SOTU.
That night, I told my roommate, "Obama wants you to win the future." She gave me the look that such a sentence deserves.

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Q: Representation theory for Lie groups vs for algebraic groups Maybe I am being stupid in my previous question.
Is the representation theory of Lie groups, and Algebraic groups the same for semisimple or reductive groups? I suppose the definition of a representation doesn't make use of the topology of the space, so they are?

A: A representation of $G$ consists of a finite-dimensional vector
space $V$ over a field $K$ along with a group homomorphism $G → GL(V )$.
In the case where G is a Lie group, however, we ask the map
$G → GL(V)$ to be a smooth map, and the field $K$ usually to be $\mathbb{R}$ or $\mathbb{C}$. So the topology is involved. For algebraic groups, arbitrary fields are possible. But the analytic techniques used for studying Lie groups must be replaced by techniques from algebraic geometry, where the relatively weak Zariski topology causes many technical complications. So representation theory is very different in this case.

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Portable Solar Generator Bakersfield
Portable Solar Generator Bakersfield – The United States of America (the U.S.A. or the USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a rustic primarily positioned in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, 5 major unincorporated territories, 326 Indian reservations, and some minor possessions. At 3.8 million sq. miles (9.8 million sq. kilometers), it's the world's third- or fourth-largest nation by whole space. With a inhabitants of greater than 331 million people, it is the third most populous nation on the earth. The national capital is Washington, D.C., and essentially the most populous city is New York City.
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The U.S. electric grid is so old and outdated it couldn't handle the influx of wind power and other intermittent renewable resources. Integrating such sources requires adapting a system that is finely tuned to steadiness the quantity of electrical energy being used with the amount of electrical energy being generated with fickle winds.
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Susan B. Glasser
Susan B. Glasser is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she writes a weekly column on life in Trump's Washington.
Glasser has served as the top editor of several Washington publications; most recently, she founded the award-winning Politico Magazine and went on to become the editor of Politico throughout the 2016 election cycle. She previously served as the editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy, which won three National Magazine Awards, among other honors, during her tenure.
Before that, she worked for a decade at the Washington Post, where she was the editor of Outlook and national news. She also oversaw coverage of the impeachment of Bill Clinton, served as a reporter covering the intersection of money and politics, spent four years as the Post's Moscow co-bureau chief, and covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. She is the author of "Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution," which she co-wrote with her husband, Peter Baker.
She edited Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper, early in her career.
Letter from Trump's Washington
The "Witch Hunt" Lives: Trump and the Investigation That Just Won't End
Will history remember the Russia investigation as a hoax or as a genuine scandal?
By Susan B. Glasser
Our President of the Perpetual Grievance
Even without the existential peril to his Presidency that Robert Mueller posed, Trump is still Trump, the same as he ever was.
"Trump Wins!": The President, the Mueller Report, and Our New Political Normal
Whatever is next, it's not impeachment—at least not on Russia charges.
Is America Becoming Trump's Banana Republic?
Although he acts like an all-powerful strongman, Trump could make himself the first President in decades to leave the office with less power than it had when he entered.
The "Enemies of the People" Have a Few Questions for the President
The array of subjects and controversies about which we lack even basic information shows just how much the public is losing because the White House has shut down legitimate, regular inquiries.
Donald Trump Went to Vietnam, and Michael Cohen Made It Hell
Rarely has a President been so publicly humiliated, in different settings and by such different actors, in so short a span of time.
John Dean, Michael Cohen, and Why the Watergate Precedent May Not Apply to Donald Trump
We may remember, correctly, Dean's revelations as the beginning of the end for Nixon, but it was an amazingly long ending.
Audience of One: Why Flattery Works in Trump's Foreign Policy
Ask Lindsey Graham.
The New Republican Strategy for Dealing with the Emergency That Is Trump: Pray
The President has dragged his party into a whole new fight.
Trump's Dark Preview of His 2020 Campaign
Why the President used his State of the Union address to claim that Democrats are going to turn America into a socialist hellscape.


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Recently, idol group Infinite has taken many small and big victories, earning them the nickname "trend-dol." They have grasped the higher ranks of various music charts through their previous title track "Be Mine" and their follow-up track "Paradise," as well as scoring first place in Mnet's M!Countdown twice and in SBS "Inkigayo" once with the two songs. In an interview, media site enews24 meets with the excited members of Infinite.
Currently, these "trend-dols" are working hard in Japan as well. Having held a showcase in Japan in July, they have also successfully held a solo concert. In November, it has been announced that they will release an official Japanese album. Although Infinite is a rare 'purely Korean' group with none of the members having overseas experience, they have worked that much harder for an international debut. As of now, the members have studied the Japanese language hard enough that it has become possible for them to converse in basic Japanese.


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Q: How to add a JQuery custom animation I want to get my <dev> blink for short, lets say the border red, with jquery like:
$(element).fadeOut( 10 ).delay( 300 ).fadeIn( 10 )

so it fades out(fast!), 300 ms wait then fades back in (again fast)
I would like to have (something like):
$(element).css('border-color','red').delay( 300 ).css('background-color','')

or:
$(element).highlight(0,'red').delay( 300 ).highlight(0,:off)

My investigation brought me to JQuerys:
// Generate shortcuts for custom animations
jQuery.each({
slideDown: genFx("show"),
... ,
}, function( name, props ) {
jQuery.fn[ name ] = function( speed, easing, callback ) {
    return this.animate( props, speed, easing, callback );
};
});

and now I lost the oversight.
Is there anybody who can help me further?
Please dont give me tips how to solve it "otherways" (timers et all), I want to understand JQuery better, and I think that i am not far away, but - as mentioned - got stuck
(somehow a) duplicate to: "How does slideUp() work in jQuery? I'm trying to make my own slideRIght()"
question update
My question is not how to animate the border, I understand, that jquery does not like to animate 'colors', I would like to somehow extend JQuery to get a 0ms "animation" (from red to green eg) that fits into the jquery delay logic:
like:
$('foo').fadeBorder('red', 0).delay(300).fadeBorder(:none,0)

second update:
what if i would try to extend JQuery to animate a color? (I am not asking for an color animation aglorithm), creating an animation like fadeOut just call it makeGreen

A: You could try something like:
$('selector').css('border', '0px solid red')
             .animate({borderWidth: 5}, 300)
             .delay(300)
             .animate({borderWidth: 0}, 300)

First set the border's properties, then animate it to 5px width, wait a bit, then animate back.
JSFiddle
You could make it a plugin too:
$.fn.borderFlash = function(width, color, time, delay) {
    if (width === undefined) width = 5
    if (color === undefined) color = 'red'
    if (time === undefined) time = 300
    if (delay === undefined) delay = 300
    return this.css('border', '0px solid ' + color)
               .animate({borderWidth: width}, time)
               .delay(typeof delay === 'undefined' ? 300 : delay)
               .animate({borderWidth: 0}, time)
}

$('#selector').borderFlash()

JSFiddle

A: jQuery queues its animations, but only if it knows them;
my first aproach:
$(element).css('border-color','red').delay( 300 ).css('background-color','green')

can't work, because .css() is executed immediately (to red to green then 300ms).
$(element).animate({borderColor: 'red}, time)

does not work because borderColor: is no valid animation (and red no valid value) so it 'falls through' off all animation logic.
The following are 2 working solutions, but i dont know if is recomended (allowed) to extend jQuery this way:
I extend jQueries jQuery.cssHooks with a set function for highlight
solution 1: Using CSS to control directly:
jQuery.cssNumber['highlight']=true // if not a number we get 'px' added to our 'state'
jQuery.cssHooks['highlight']={set: function (elem,state) {
      $(elem).css('border-color', state==1?'red':'');
      }
    };

$(element)
    .animate({highlight: 1},0)
    .delay(300)
    .animate({highlight: 0},0)

solution 2: Using a class name so I can control the "highlight" state via CSS:
jQuery.cssHooks['highlight']={set: function (elem,foo) {
    $(elem).toggleClass('highlight');
    }
};

$(element)
    .animate({highlight: 0},0)
    .delay(300)
    .animate({highlight: 0},0)

JSFIDDLE


Flatiron Self Storage is a 73,380 net rentable square foot facility located in Broomfield, Colorado. Phase I of the property was converted from an office building in 2015 and the second phase was recently completed in late 2017. The property features a total of 665 units that are primarily interior climate-controlled with a small drive-up component.
The property is located on Industrial Lane and has excellent visibility from Highway 36, a six-lane highway and primary route connecting Denver and Boulder, with traffic counts exceeding 90,000 cars per day. It sits just north of Interlocken, a 963-acre business park which is home to various well-known companies including Oracle, Vail Resorts and Level 3 Communications. The facility is also less than one mile north of Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport and one mile east of Flatirons Crossing shopping mall. There are approximately 56,971 people and 22,524 households within a three-mile radius with an above average household income of $117,353.
Flatirons Self Storage features an institutional quality management office, multiple loading bays, elevators to access the upper levels, and video surveillance throughout the property. It has high quality finishes that show very well from the road. There is also vacant land to the west of the property that is available for future expansion.
The facility is currently 53.9 percent physically occupied and 64.1 percent economically occupied. This is an excellent opportunity to acquire a newly constructed asset in the rapidly growing Denver metro market. A new investor can achieve upside by leasing the property to stabilization and would benefit from the implementation of advanced revenue management systems and increasing marketing efforts.


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Hannah by Ruth Fidler
Hannah's appearance in scripture is confined to 1Sam 1-2:21, the text that depicts the birth and early years of her illustrious son, the prophet Samuel. Nevertheless, Hannah has a role that is all but marginal. It is as though her voice breaks through the patriarchal frame of the story taking it to new levels of human sensitivity and narrative art.
What makes the story of Hannah unique among writings of its kind?
Hannah is one of the two wives of Elkanah, "from Ramathaim Zuphim in the hill country of Ephraim" (1Sam 1:1). Elkanah's lineage ("son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu," etc.) is followed by the wives' names and an important distinction between them: "Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children" (1Sam 1:2). The barren wife theme is shared by several birth stories of Israel's ancestors and heroes. Isaac, Jacob and Esau, Joseph, and Samson are all born to women who are labeled "barren," but with God's grace finally become mothers. The story of Hannah is special in its concern with the anguish of the barren wife, but it is unique in the direct communication it allows her with God, who "closed her womb" (1Sam 1:5).
Hannah's anguish becomes most poignant in the family's yearly pilgrimages to the shrine of Shiloh. Here the sacrificial feast exposes the rivalry between the wives: Hannah, more beloved by Elkanah, suffers the envious scorn of Peninnah who has a tableful of children. Hannah expresses her misery by crying and not eating. Elkanah tries to encourage her, suggesting that he is better to her than ten sons (1Sam 1:8). Elkanah is more empathetic to his wife's distress than Jacob is to Rachel's in similar circumstances (Gen 30:2), but both self-centered retorts have earned the arguable title "failed dialogues" (M. Gruber, 1998). In one sense however, they do not fail: moving the lonely, humiliated wife to independent action. Rachel offers her maid Bilhah to Jacob so that she "may have children through her." Hannah's struggle against barrenness goes further. Steadfast in her wish to become a mother she uses her voice, unheard so far, directly addressing the only one who can turn her fortune: "O Lord of hosts …" Following this is a vow in which Hannah requests the Lord's attention to her misery, offering him a deal that can hardly be refused: "if only you will look on the misery of your servant and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a male child, then I will set him before you as a nazirite until the day of his death. He shall drink neither wine nor intoxicants, and no razor shall touch his head" (1Sam 1:11 NRSV).
Strangely, Hannah's first use of her voice amounts to a voiceless prayer that is mistaken for drunkenness by Eli, the priest of Shiloh. God nevertheless hears her, granting her the child of her desire: 1Sam 1:19-20. Hannah then fulfills her part of the deal, devoting Samuel to God: 1Sam 1:21-28. She is later blessed with three more sons and two daughters: 1Sam 2:21.
The entire story thus revolves around Hannah's vow and its fulfillment, its various parts defined by her speeches: (1) her prayer and vow: 1Sam 1:11; (2) her defense against Eli's charge of drunkenness: 1Sam 1:15-16; (3) her naming of Samuel: 1Sam 1:20; (4) her announcement of her intentions to Elkanah: 1Sam 1:22; (5) her dedication of Samuel to God referring back to her prayer: 1Sam 1:26-28.
In her short presence in the Hebrew Bible Hannah turns out a game changer: a strong willed woman of faith, she rises above her pain to act towards her goal of becoming a mother.
Ruth Fidler, "Hannah", n.p. [cited 21 Jan 2021]. Online: http://bibleodyssey.com/en/people/main-articles/hannah
Ruth Fidler
Senior Lecturer, Gordon Academic College
Ruth Fidler is a senior lecturer in the Bible Studies Department at Gordon Academic College, Haifa, Israel. She is the author of Dreams Speak Falsely? Dream Theophanies in the Bible: Their Place in Ancient Israelite Faith and Traditions [Hebrew] (Jerusalem: Magnes, 2005) and of "A Wife's Vow—The Husband's Woe? (1 Samuel 1,21.23): The Case of Hannah and Elkanah," ZAW 118 (2006): 374–88.
Hannah, the mother of the prophet Samuel who grows up to anoint the kings Saul and David, transforms the traditionally passive role of the barren wife by talking to God and thus shaping her destiny.
The name Hannah is derived from a Hebrew root (ḥnn -חנן ) that suggests (divine) grace.
Hannah and Peninnah are introduced by their names, after Elkanah is introduced with his lineage—a feature the Hebrew Bible usually reserves for its male protagonists. Still, in being mentioned by name, Hannah fares better than women in some comparable stories, who remain anonymous, e.g., the wife of Manoah and mother of Samson in Judg 13 and the great woman of Shunem in 2Kgs 4.
The adjective for an infertile person appears in the Hebrew Bible mostly in the feminine form (Hebrew ʽaqārâh - עקרה ). Its single masculine appearance co-occurs with the feminine form in a conditioned promise of divine protection from infertility (Deut 7:14). Thus all the biblical protagonists that are labeled infertile are wives: Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, Manoah's wife.
The attribution of infertility to the wife (rather than to the husband) is understandable when the husband has children from another wife (Abraham, Jacob, Elkanah). Since this is not always the case (Isaac and Manoah), it seems that a potent narrative pattern stands behind stories on barren wives who became mothers.
Hannah's quiet prayer—"only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard"—was later espoused by Talmud sages (B. Ber. 31:1) and became customary in Jewish and other religious contexts. Rashi suggests that Eli, unfamiliar with this style of prayer, therefore took it as a sign of drunkenness.
The parts in Hannah's vow that declare her son's nazirite status and abstinence from wine and intoxicants do not appear in the Hebrew text. They are restored in NRSV, following current scholarship, from the LXX version of the vow and a Qumran text of Hannah's speech to Elkanah (parallel to 1Sam 1:22 in MT). The closest biblical parallel to prenatal nazirite consecration is the angel's instruction to Samson's mother in Judg 13:4-5.
Given the emphasis on Hannah's prayer and vow it is surprising to find in this woman centered story a reference to a vow of Elkanah (1Sam 1:21: "his vow") as a motive for the pilgrimage to Shiloh following the birth of Samuel. Since no vow of Elkanah is mentioned up to this point, it is possible that Hannah's vow is intended here. Its attribution to Elkanah is in line with later legislation that holds fathers and husbands responsible for the vows made by their daughters and wives respectively (Num 30:6-15; cp. Jer 44:17, Jer 44:25) and allows a father—but not a mother—to make a Nazirite vow concerning his son (m. Naz. 4:6).
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1Sam 1-2:21
Samuel's Birth and Dedication
1There was a certain man of Ramathaim, a Zuphite from the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah son of Jeroham son of El ... View more
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1Sam 1:1
2He had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
5but to Hannah he gave a double portion, because he loved her, though the Lord had closed her womb.
8Her husband Elkanah said to her, "Hannah, why do you weep? Why do you not eat? Why is your heart sad? Am I not more to you than ten sons?"
2Jacob became very angry with Rachel and said, "Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"
1Sam 1:11
11She made this vow: "O Lord of hosts, if only you will look on the misery of your servant, and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your ... View more
1Sam 1:19-20
19They rose early in the morning and worshiped before the Lord; then they went back to their house at Ramah. Elkanah knew his wife Hannah, and the Lord remember ... View more
21The man Elkanah and all his household went up to offer to the Lord the yearly sacrifice, and to pay his vow.22But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her hu ... View more
21And the Lord took note of Hannah; she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. And the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the Lord.
15But Hannah answered, "No, my lord, I am a woman deeply troubled; I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have been pouring out my soul before the Lo ... View more
20In due time Hannah conceived and bore a son. She named him Samuel, for she said, "I have asked him of the Lord."
22But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, "As soon as the child is weaned, I will bring him, that he may appear in the presence of the Lord, and ... View more
26And she said, "Oh, my lord! As you live, my lord, I am the woman who was standing here in your presence, praying to the Lord.27For this child I prayed; and th ... View more
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21The man Elkanah and all his household went up to offer to the Lord the yearly sacrifice, and to pay his vow.
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Pence's eight-car motorcade ruffles feathers on Michigan's Mackinac Island, where cars are banned
By Aris Folley - 09/22/19 02:43 PM EDT
Vice President Pence's arrival in Michigan with an eight-vehicle motorcade to attend the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference over the weekend ruffled some feathers on an island where cars are generally banned, the Detroit Free Press reported.
The conference took place on the state's Mackinac Island, which has a population of around 500 people, according to the 2010 census, that is known for its ban on vehicles. The ban first took effect in the late 19th century, Time magazine reported.
According to the Detroit Free Press, the vice president's motorcade is the first ever to arrive in the community, where residents generally commute by bike or snowmobile in colder weather. However, residents can be granted a temporary vehicle permit in certain circumstances.
It has long been custom for the president and vice president to travel with several armored vehicles by motorcade as a security measure.
However, the sight of the vice president's motorcade on Mackinac Island prompted some criticism from local Democratic leaders.
Former state Senate candidate Julia Pulver (D) tweeted a video of the vice president's motorcade and wrote, "For those not from MI, you should understand what a huge transgression this is."
"Our #MackinacIsland has been a car free haven forever, a piece of history frozen in time. Tell anyone from MI @VP just drove not 1 but 8 CARS on this island & watch their blood boil," she continued.
For those not from MI, you should understand what a huge transgression this is.
Our #MackinacIsland has been a car free haven forever, a piece of history frozen in time. Tell anyone from MI @VP just drove not 1 but 8 CARS on this island & watch their blood boil. #PureMichigan https://t.co/cjfXcygdzO
— Julia Pulver, RN (@VotePulver) September 22, 2019
Mark Brewer, who previously chaired the Michigan Democratic Party, shared a similar sentiment in a tweet earlier Saturday, writing, "Ridiculous, unnecessary Mackinac Island @VP Pence motorcade which is disrespectful of Mackinac traditions."
Ridiculous, unnecessary Mackinac Island @VP Pence motorcade which is disrespectful of Mackinac traditions https://t.co/Mjc8ZG6gZC
— Mark Brewer (@MarkBrewerDems) September 21, 2019
Rep. Rashida Tlaib Rashida Harbi TlaibHillicon Valley: Biden calls for revoking tech legal shield | DHS chief 'fully expects' Russia to try to interfere in 2020 | Smaller companies testify against Big Tech 'monopoly power' Michigan governor urges Zuckerberg to enforce community guidelines after hate speech, threats surface Ayanna Pressley's 'squad' of congresswomen offers support after she opens up about alopecia MORE called the vice president's motorcade "disgusting."
Disgusting. I am in such disbelief that this was allowed to happen. This Administration doesn't care about the law (you know, the U.S. Constitution), so it shouldn't surprise me so much that they don't care about our history or traditions. #MackinacIsland https://t.co/jvyMBCakrG
— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) September 22, 2019
Other social media users also commented on the motorcade, including former Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren.
A motorcade on Mackinac Island????????!!!!!! How can that be? Google Mackinac Island... https://t.co/ix9v0BYU4K
— Greta Van Susteren (@greta) September 21, 2019
For those unfamiliar with Mackinac Island, this is what it looks like every day of the year. No cars allowed. pic.twitter.com/lc0xLGEecn
— Michelle K Stenzel (@MichelleStenzel) September 21, 2019
What the holy what? You can walk the perimeter of Mackinac Island in like two hours without breaking a sweat. It's 4.53 square miles. Eight miles of coastline. Cars are banned for a reason. https://t.co/ISmgFBYBpO
— Amber Hunt (@ReporterAmber) September 22, 2019
As a Michigan native, I cannot express to you what an insult the sight of anyone in a car on Mackinac Island is to us. It's like putting your dirty shoes on someone's lovely dining room table during dinner. https://t.co/R9rHdmaQ1r
— joanna schroeder (@iproposethis) September 22, 2019
However, some noted that the motorcade was appropriate given security concerns.
Being from Michigan, the idea of cars on Mackinac Island makes me wince. But, I do recognize security issues like this may require them. Is there another way? Thoughts? https://t.co/tgAFI0VAuM
— Alicia Rancilio (@aliciar) September 22, 2019
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COLLEGE PARK – The Maryland Working Families board today endorsed Valerie Ervin for Congress in Maryland's Eighth District, citing her record of service for working families as a parent advocate, on the Montgomery County Council and as an innovative leader on social change campaigns.
Valerie was elected twice to the Montgomery County Council where her policy accomplishments included raising the minimum wage, expanding universal pre-kindergarten, establishing the nation's first county-wide food recovery network, increasing childcare subsidies, improving childhood nutrition and expanding universal breakfast programs and developing models for closing the academic opportunity gap. She served as Montgomery County Council President in 2011 and led the county's recovery following the financial collapse and recession. More recently, Valerie has become a national figure championing the issue of women's economic security and highlighting the need to change policies that keep women from lifting themselves and their families out of poverty.
Maryland Working Families staff and affiliates conducted comprehensive interviews with candidates who sought the organization's endorsement. Candidates, including Valerie Ervin, were also asked to sign the Maryland Working Families Candidate Compact (attached), pledging to lead on legislation and policies that affect families, including addressing and eradicating structural racism, reforming immigration policies, setting higher workplace standards, reforming criminal justice policies, creating a safer energy future, eliminating job-threatening trade policies and ensuring quality education.
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Bridging the Information Gap
Combating Illegal Logging in Indonesia
by Fred Stolle and David W Brown - October 2009
This Forest Note puts forward a systematic approach to analyzing the Indonesian forestry sector in order to identify which forest laws and regulations are being disobeyed and where.
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Spanning around 100 million hectares, the forests of Indonesia constitute 10 percent of the world's remaining tropical forests and provide people with a variety of benefits or "ecosystem services." For instance, local communities rely on the forests for food, medicine, fresh water, and building material. The global community relies on them for carbon sequestration, timber, and tourism. In addition, the forests of Indonesia are a biodiversity "hotspot," with new species discovered every year.
In view of the importance of its forests, Indonesia—both on its own and in partnership with donor countries and world experts—has incorporated themes of "sustainable forest management" and "combating illegal logging" into its forest governance since the mid-1990s. Despite these efforts, during the first half decade of the new millennium, deforestation rates increased year on year (from 0.2 million hectares in 2000/2001 to 1.2 million hectares in 2004/2005, the last year such data were reported).
The causes of Indonesia's forest loss are diverse, but it is widely recognized that illegal logging is a major contributor. Estimates of the scale of this illegal activity vary widely. One study found that three quarters or 40 million out of the 53 million cubic meters of logs consumed by Indonesia's mills (and mostly exported in the form of moldings, sawn timber, plywood, pulp, and paper) in 2003, came from unknown and/ or illegal sources. This equated to $1.4 billion in lost revenue to the government in 2003 alone. Moreover, this estimate did not include the additional volume of logs illegally exported from Indonesia, which another study estimated at 10 million cubic meters per year.
In order to pinpoint the identity of the actors perpetrating these crimes, and thereby reduce illegal trade, better information is needed in areas such as: changes in forest cover; timber concession and plantation boundaries; administrative boundaries; and sources of raw material for timber mills. Many stakeholders have recognized the importance of such information and several experts and policymakers have tried to develop such databases. However, forest data continues to be scattered throughout the archipelago and across different government departments and non-government organizations. Where information exists, much of it needs to be updated and improved.
Closing the Information Gap
The core purpose of this Forest Note is to put forward a systematic approach to analyzing the Indonesian forestry sector in order to identify which forest laws and regulations are being disobeyed and where. We introduce a matrix that provides simple step-by-step guidance on how to use existing data to understand the physical status of and changes in the nation's forests, in the forest production (logging) sector, and in the forest products manufacturing (milling) sector. Armed with this information, experts, policymakers, and citizens can have a more informed dialogue on the precise sources of threats to Indonesia's forests and what can be done to remove them.
This note builds on a gap analysis of forest information carried out in 2006 by WRI as part of the East Asia and Pacific Forest Law Enforcement and Governance (EAP-FLEG) initiative led by the World Bank and the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry. At the end of this note is an extended glossary, which explains the important terms and concepts utilized in the matrix and their importance for law enforcement.
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