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Houthi rebels threaten Israel in statements to Arab media
The statement come amid continued threats emanating from Houthi militias following the seizure of a ship that was carrying missile components from Iran to Yemen.
Supporters of the Houthi movement shout slogans as they attend a rally to mark the 4th anniversary of the Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen's war, in Sanaa, Yemen March 26, 2019.
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Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have continued to issue threats against Israel, after a senior commander of Ansar Allah, General Mohammed Nasser al-Atifi, told the Arab media outlet Al-Medean that they have "a bank of targets, both land and sea-based, at which it can strike the Zionist enemy." The senior Houthi commander added that "[they] will not hesitate to attack them if the leadership decides to do so. Our military forces are prepared for this kind of attack."
The statements came amid the seizure of a ship that was carrying missile components from Iran to Yemen, according to U.S. forces stationed in the Persian Gulf. A press briefing given by U.S. Special Representative for Iran, Brian Hook, revealed that American forces had "interdicted a significant hoard of weapons and missile parts evidently of Iranian origin." He added that "the seizure includes sophisticated weapons."
Ongoing threats have continued to emanate from Houthi militias in recent months. In November, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said that Yemen will "provide an appropriate response to the regime in Tel Aviv if the Israeli army acts aggressively. Israel has regional objectives in the area, but we will not hesitate to response to Israeli evil."
The comments came following an alleged Israeli strike on Iranian military facilities in southern Syria, aimed at numerous targets, including military infrastructure in Damascus and the Golan Heights, which are believed to be operated by Hezbollah and the Syrian Army. Sources estimate that as many as 23 combatants were killed in the strike.
The Israeli attack was in response to a missile that was fired from Syria a day earlier, which was intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system.
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Harry Connick, Jr. transported the Tanglewood audience Saturday night from the high land overlooking Lake Mahkeenac to the Ninth Ward below Lake Pontchartrain by way of a concert/seminar of nearly two and a half hours that included a second-line parade through the Koussevitsky Music Shed.
Is it a coincidence that America's sole contribution to the world of art – jazz, encompassing the blues (or vice versa) has its origins in the capital of the slave trade, America's original sin? Probably not, since the two are inextricably linked; my guess is that one is compensation for the other, as if the beauty and transcendent power of jazz is how the universe seeks atonement for the horrors of slavery.
We Tanglewood patrons are likely to know as much about life in Latvia as we do about life in New Orleans; thanks to the musicianship and generosity of Mr. Connick and his band, we've gotten a taste of life in the Big Easy, without having to pay the dues required to make a living there. Perhaps most poignant tonight was Mr. Connick's show-and-tell tribute to his childhood piano teacher James Booker, who got the gig thanks to the unconventional administration of justice by the District Attorney, Harry Connick, Sr.! After showing us how Booker taught him the rudiments of "stride" piano playing, he played a wistful Hear Me in the Harmony in tribute.
Other highlights from this show included solos and duets by Johnathan DuBose, Jr. on guitar, Arthur Lantin on drums, Lucien Barbain on trombone, and an amazing display of tap dancing by Mike Hawkins. Allen Touissaint's infectious Yes We Can Can was a party. An over-introduced Gospel segment preceded the band's foray into the audience, for chorus after chorus of When the Saints Go Marching In, with umbrellas waving in genuine second-line fashion.
Harry Connick, Jr. spent a summer honing his classical chops here as a teenager, as did fellow New Orleanian Wynton Marsalis (Tanglewood Music Center Fellow 1979). Another denizen of the Crescent City, Louis Armstrong, held forth just down the road during Folk and Jazz Roundtables hosted by Stephanie and Phil Barber, which led to the brief but critically important Lenox School of Jazz – the first of its kind in the world.


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Call of Duty's Mobile season 11 will be available to players on December 16, and is labeled as the Final Show
This picture shows the Season 11 battle pass. Photo Source:Twitter
Much-anticipated and full of unique features, Call of Duty's Mobile season 11 will be available to the players on December 16, and is labeled as the "Final Snow".
The new season is also available to the players on Android and iOS smartphones.
The Final Snow season will bring two new operators, two new weapons, a new operator skill, new weapon blueprints, and much more
Meanwhile, by the launch of this unique item, the players will be able to unlock some amazing characters like Atlas, Crash, Soap, Cliffhanger as well as some of the brilliant weapons including PKM, Boru, KN-44, and Frosted Spikes.
And more importantly, with the winter season also beginning, there will be three Icy maps, the Icebreaker from Black Ops 4, Holiday Raid, and Nuketown Russia in the Final Season.
The new product also includes harder enemies, while the players will also have the opportunity to earn special rewards through this event.

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Not All Arsenic Tests are Created Equal
Study Can Improve Water-Quality Measurements for Private Wells
The reliability of arsenic testing for drinking water in Minnesota depends on how and when well water samples are collected, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey and the Minnesota Department of Health study, which highlights ways to improve the accuracy of arsenic tests for private wells.
In 2014-2016, the USGS and partners sampled study wells in northeast, northwest and central Minnesota—areas that commonly have elevated arsenic concentrations in well water—and examined the effects of various water-sampling methods for each of the wells. The researchers found that arsenic levels were most reliable when they were filtered, collected from household plumbing instead of from the drill rig pump or collected several months after well construction and installation.
"Improving the reliability of arsenic tests can help protect the health of people who drink well water in Minnesota by ensuring that residents receive the best possible information about the quality of their water," said Melinda Erickson, a USGS hydrologist and the lead author of the study.
Chronic exposure to high levels of naturally occurring arsenic through drinking water is a human health hazard that can cause certain cancers, skin abnormalities and other adverse health effects. Minnesota state code requires that all new potable drinking wells be tested for arsenic. However, the code does not specify how to best collect samples for testing, and test results can vary depending on which sampling methods are used.
Particles and fine sediments within well water samples can result in inconsistent arsenic concentration measurements. The new study found that reducing the amount of sediments in water samples used for testing can improve the precision and consistency of arsenic measurements for private wells.
"Establishing guidance for drillers that includes specific sampling protocols for the filtration of water samples and/or collection of samples from household plumbing would improve the reliability of information provided to well owners because those samples have less undesirable sediment," Erickson said.
Public water supplies are regulated by the U.S. EPA, but maintenance, testing and treatment of private water supplies are the sole responsibility of the homeowner. The maximum arsenic level allowed for public water supplies is 10 micrograms of arsenic per liter. In Minnesota, arsenic concentrations exceed 10 micrograms of arsenic per liter in about 11 percent of newly constructed private wells, and in certain counties, more than 35 percent of tested wells exceed the benchmark.
The USGS partnered with the Minnesota Department of Health on the new study, which is published in the journal Groundwater. The research was funded by the State of Minnesota Clean Water Fund through the Minnesota Department of Health and the USGS Cooperative Matching Fund. The work was also supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program and an internship provided through the Graduate Research Internship Program.
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"I grew up in Great Neck, New York, moved to Sherman Oaks, California at 15, college in San Diego, married my husband at 27. Two kids by 30. Worked as a retail buyer and manager, but opted to stay at home and raise my kids. Now I'm a blogger and about to turn 50.
If only it were that simple. History can haunt us, make us long for the past or want to forget it all together. Pockets of time, days and months and, for some, even years, disappear from our memory, our history along with it. Some history we remember because its monumental – the day I moved across the country, the night I met my husband, the mornings my two children were born. One person's history is defined by another's, entwined in ways we may not even know – how important are we in someone else's historical narrative?
What happens to history if no one re-tells it? Does it cease to have any meaning, or is it there, an undercurrent to the lives of those who are connected to a particular moment?
Some history is unbearable. I do not watch or read anything about the Holocaust, the history of that event so painful for me to dwell on and think about. Thankfully there are others who have made it their life's work to keep the atrocities of those years front and center in our collective historical perspective, because I for one do not have the strength to do so.
Some history is enchanting – sometimes to our detriment – calling us to a time with music, or books, or fashion, or a face. A time before this one transitions to something more alluring, but the present is always filled with the day to day, the difficulties and struggles. Only in recollection can we see how particularly beautiful a moment was.
I have a ninety-seven year old grandmother. All of her history is now in her heart and mind, as everyone she knew when she was young has died, leaving her to carry the stories of her husband, her family, her parents and brothers and sisters, her friends, acquaintances. All of them gone. I listen to her tell her stories over and over, knowing that she is sharing them so I will remember, telling them to keep them here with her. She gave me a packet of letters her father had written, letters she had written so I could take them home and scan them into my computer, and then return them to her. She did not understand what "scanning" meant, and was adamant about me carrying the letters on the plane, rather than checking them with my bag, for fear that they would be lost. For me, those letters were physical evidence of my history, the history of my family, and I read them as I scanned them, hearing the long gone voice of my great -grandfather, and the youthful voice of my 23 year old grandmother. I understood more than ever how precious these letters were to her. They were physical evidence of the history of her life, and she treasures them as some treasure a family portrait or heirloom jewelry. I sent them back as soon as I could, knowing how they made her feel connected to herself, to those she loved so much.
History is who we are. We can change the present, dream about the future, but we are forever indelibly connected to the past and those who came before us. Our history is written on our faces, heard in our voices, felt in the china as we set the table, the ring as we put it on our fingers. We are human because we have a history.


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Baltimore, MD – Disability Rights Maryland's (DRM) clients Keyonna Mayo, Susan Goodlaxson, and Janice Jackson, who filed a class action lawsuit with the Image Center against Baltimore City for safe and equal access to the City's sidewalks and streets for individuals with mobility disabilities, have been named the recipients of DRM's 2022 Excellence in Advocacy Leadership Award, which will be presented to them at the 2022 Breaking Barriers Awards Gala on Thursday, May 12, 2022.
Excellence in Advocacy Leadership awardees are DRM community partners, who, in collaboration with DRM, act as agents of change through legislative, policy or litigation initiatives. They demonstrate outstanding determination and resolve in defending and enhancing the rights of people with disabilities to full inclusion and community access. Awardees bravely, selflessly, and publicly, leverage their own personal experiences to rectify the inequities of discrimination against people with disabilities by taking on the "system" fearlessly to secure equitable participation in all aspects of society.
Keyonna Mayo, Susan Goodlaxson, and Janice Jackson, are on the forefront of citizen-based disability advocacy to make Baltimore's sidewalks accessible to all residents. "Two years ago, only 1.3% of our more than 37,000 City curb ramps were in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act," stated Robin C. Murphy, DRM Executive Director. "The work to provide people with disabilities their basic right to freely travel outside of their home is well past due, 30 years overdue."
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First impressions are important. Not only do we prevent bad habits and promote excellent hygiene but we also understand that the dentist can sometimes be a scary place for children. This is why we strive for a positive, safe and friendly experience. Healthy kids are happy kids.
Since January 2014 the Child Dental Benefits Schedule (CDBS) has provided basic dental and children's dentist services—examinations, X-rays, extractions, fissure sealing and root canals—to 3.4 million children aged 2-17. The total benefit entitlement is capped at $1000 per child over a two-year period.
The CDBS has a means test and the pre-requisite is either Family Tax Benefit Part A (FTB-A) or a relevant Australian Government payment. Please note that orthodontic and cosmetic dental work is not covered under this scheme.
If your children are eligible for CDBS, confirmation via post, please ensure that you let our friendly receptionists know and remember to bring the letter and Medicare card to the dentist appointment.
We are preferred providers for all major health funds including Medibank and Bupa. Your children may be eligible for up to two check-up and cleans annually by our children's dentist, which may be completely or partially covered by insurance.
Prevention generally trumps treatment because children who regularly visit the dentist for check-ups tend to have fewer dental problems.
An infant's first primary tooth usually erupts at about six months of age but this can occur as early as birth or as late as the child's first birthday. Parents should start cleaning their child's teeth immediately by brushing gently with a soft-bristled baby toothbrush and a pea-sized portion of toothpaste. Baby teeth should be brushed in the morning and just before bed time.
The Australian Dental Association recommend that a child should see a children's dentist either within their first 12 months of age or shortly after the eruption of the first tooth.
All twenty baby teeth will have usually broken through the gums by the age of three. Children start losing their teeth from the age of four onwards and our dentists encourage your child to gently wiggle 'wobblers'.
If your five-year-old complains of pain in the back of their mouth it may be due to 6-year molars coming through. Alternatively, it may also be a cavity so it is best to seek professional medical advice.
The new teeth may look bigger, especially those first few, but that's because they are! Adult teeth also tend to be less white than baby teeth and have pronounced ridges because they haven't been used yet for biting and chewing.
Sometimes, not often though, several new teeth can come in before the old ones are gone, creating two rows of pearly whites ('ugly duckling' stage).
Brushing is now more important than ever. You'll probably need to supervise the process until your child is at least seven. Always use a soft, age-appropriate, toothbrush. Colgate, Oral-B and Macleans offer toothpaste formulas with less fluoride that are recommended by dentists and suitable for children.
Children under the age of ten are not as dextrous as adults and need help from parents and guardians with flossing to prevent cavities forming between teeth. If you have difficulty flossing your child's teeth please let us know—our children's dentist may be able to discuss other options.
Children usually do not lose all their baby teeth until they are 11-14 years-old. We recommend regular check-ups at least every six months so that we can: check and clean, prevent disease and intervene early, if required, to ensure a smooth transition from baby dentition to permanent dentition.
At Greenvale Dentistry we use digital dental X-rays to check for cavities in teeth before they are visible in the mouth. This is vital for children's oral health because dentists can determine the presence or absence of adult teeth by approximating how long a baby tooth has until it is likely to exfoliate. It's also a great opportunity to examine teeth alignment to assess whether orthodontic intervention is recommended.
Maintaining excellent oral health during pregnancy might be the last thing on your mind as you deal with food cravings, morning sickness and other stressful obligations. It is important, however, to look after yourself and bub.
Routine dental treatment is safe during pregnancy so please check in. Just let one of our friendly staff know when you're booking an appointment or when you arrive at our surgery.
Set a good example for your children, friends and colleagues by visiting a dentist on a regular basis. Practice good oral hygiene before and after your baby is born.
A dental/fissure sealant is a preventative treatment that seals the deep grooves on the top of the back teeth to help protect them. A thin resin containing fluoride, to strengthen the tooth, is painted over the chewing surface of the tooth, which flows throughout the fine grooves making the tooth easier to clean and less likely to decay.
Fissure sealants do not require drilling. The surface of the tooth is simply cleaned and then the grooves are covered by the protective sealant. The resin is set via a light–activation system. This means, as soon as there are done, your child can eat, drink or clean their teeth immediately.
Why Would Your Child Need a Fissure Sealant?
The biting surfaces of your back teeth contain a complex pattern of pits and fissures. Pits are deep indentations in your tooth and fissures are grooves or valleys. If the pattern is quite simple and shallow and you are able to keep it clean easily with your toothbrush then a sealant is not generally needed.
If the fissures are deep and narrow they can provide a sheltered place for bacteria to grow. The bristles of your child's toothbrush may not be able to reach the plaque and food debris can lodge in these areas. Over time this can lead to dental decay.
When Should My Child Have Fissure Sealants?
Dentists generally place fissure sealants in the mouths of children and teenagers.
The best time to place the fissure sealant is when the adult tooth has just erupted or within two years because this is when the enamel is at its weakest (enamel is considered 'immature' because it has not been exposed to fluoride for a long period of time to strengthen). For the first permanent molar this would be around the age of six; the second permanent molar at 12-years-old.
How Long Does Fissure Sealant Last?
Sealant usually lasts for many years, but needs to be checked regularly to make sure that the seal is intact. If the sealant wears over time it can be replaced or supplemented to prevent decay.
At Greenvale Dentistry we are pleased to offer professional custom mouthguards for adults and children. Mouthguards are an easy and comfortable way to protect your teeth and your children's teeth and can help absorb and spread the impact of a blow to your face, which might otherwise result in an injury to your mouth or jaw.
The process is as simple as a quick visit to take an impression of your teeth and you can even order matching team colours. Timeframe to receive custom mouthguards is usually within seven days.
Custom-fitted mouthguards should be worn while playing and training for any sport where there is a possibility of contact. Some examples of these sports include hockey, netball, baseball, basketball and even skateboarding and skiing. Just like having the correct shoes and sporting equipment, all people playing these sports should wear a custom-fitted mouthguard.
The Australian Dental Association recommends investing in a custom-fitted mouthguard made by a qualified dentist. Mouthguards should then be checked at your regular dental visit.
Over-the-counter mouthguards are far less effective than custom-fitted solutions. Stock mouthguards are set by biting into the mould—The Australian Dental Association does not recommend over-the-counter mouthguards simply because they do not provide enough protection against injuries to your teeth, mouth or jaw.
Speak to a children's dentist today to discuss how to best manage your child's oral health. From teaching good habits to addressing issues, early intervention is always best. Book an appointment today.


My husband and I spent 4 months living and working high up in the Rocky Mountains in Canada. I worked as a cook and my husband worked as a horse wrangler.
We saw some incredible sights: the Northern Lights, mountains and glaciers, bears and moose, wolves, chipmunks, and so much more!
Below is a selection of my favourite photos from our time ... hope you enjoy them!


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MNOK 50 subscribed in Lytix Biopharma
December 4, 2013 /in News, Oslo Cancer Cluster /by oslocancer
Oslo Cancer Cluster member Lytix Biopharma AS has completed a successful issue that was subscribed shares of over 50 million NOK.
It was signed for in total 71,670 shares at a subscription price of NOK 700 per share. The company will, after the capital increase is registered in the 'Business Register', have 207 shareholders. CEO Unni Hjelmaas is delighted with Lytix Biopharma now having secured funding for the implementation of the company's exciting plans within infection and cancer research through 2014.
"We are pleased with the interest the company has been shown in the challenging capital market", says the chairman Knut Eidissen.
Lytix Biopharma's board considers listing the company on the Oslo Stock Exchange, including the optimal time for this, and what type of listing which is most suitable.
Lytix Biopharma includes first patient in cancer study
The company recently started the recruitment of patients in a new clinical study of its cancer drug candidate LTX-315, targeting various kinds of cancerous tumors. The objective of the study is to demonstrate that LTX-315 is safe and activates the patient's own immune system to kill cancer cells, a treatment called Immunotherapy. Up to 80 patients will be enrolled in the study, which is expected to be completed within 2015.
Lytix Biopharma's CEO Unni Hjelmaas says, "This is a milestone in the development of the LTX-315. The study will demonstrate if the immunotherapy can be documented in cancer patients. We are pleased that the first patient is recruited at Oslo University Hospital – the Norwegian Radium Hospital".
This study will include patients with different types of cancerous tumors located just under the skin. Four cancer hospitals in Europe are participating in the study – Oslo University Hospital – the Norwegian Radium Hospital (Norway), Jules Bordet and St. Luc (Belgium) and Guy's Hospital (UK). The study is approved by the health authorities and ethics committees in the respective countries.
Lytix Biopharma's cancer drug candidate has the potential to be a novel cancer immunotherapy. Immunotherapy is expected to induce the long-term survival due to the durable immune response. Preclinical data has shown that direct injections of LTX-315 into tumors mobilizes the immune system to kill cancer cells (see the video here) and prevent recurrence of cancer. Immune activation and shrinkage of treated tumors were observed in a first clinical study with LTX-315 in patients.
About Lytix Biopharma
Lytix Biopharma AS develops novel drugs for the treatment of resistant bacterial and fungal infections, as well as first-in-class oncology treatments. The Lytix anti-cancer drug is a mimetic of membrane-active host defence peptides and causes tumor necrosis and release of danger signals leading to an induction of anti-tumour immune responses. Lytix is developing synthetic peptides that take advantage of the characteristics of the innate immune system to produce an entirely new class of cancer therapeutics.
In the issue the following insiders have been allocated shares:
Picasso Kapital AS, controlled by chairman Knut Eidissen, 5760 shares
Steinar Hoeg, Director, 1,200 shares
Unni Hjelmaas, CEO 143 shares
Fazenda Securities has been the advisor and lead facilitator of this issue, and Sparebank1 Market has been co-facilitator.
Photo: Cancer Cell, Gerd Berge, UiT.
Horizon 2020: Major possibilities
November 27, 2013 /in News, Oslo Cancer Cluster /by oslocancer
Horizon 2020 is the new European Framework Program for Research and Innovation. Oslo Cancer Cluster encourage our members to take a closer look at the possibilities Horizon 2020 represents for funding R&D oncology projects and also taking part in international networks.
Norwegian participation in the EU framework programs has been of critical importance to Norwegian research, enabling Norwegian researchers, research institutions and companies to take part in larger international networks.
The Norwegian Research Council has recently been touring most of Norway hosting information meetings on Horizon 2020. The program will take effect from January 2014 and the budget is of around 70 billion Euros over a seven year period. This is a large increase from the last framework program.
Horizon 2020 incorporates three overall areas of funding – and there is a specific focus on SMEs and also on academic-industry collaboration within the program:
Funding for basic research to support curiosity-driven, innovative research and large-scale cooperation on research infrastructure
Funding to strengthen industrial leadership and competitiveness with the help of effective industry-oriented funding instruments
Funding for research and innovation activities to solve shared societal challenges
Under the topic "Health, demographic change and wellbeing", there are seven focus areas:
1. Understanding health, ageing & disease
2. Effective health promotion, disease prevention, preparedness and screening
3. Improving diagnosis
4. Innovative treatments and technologies
5. Advancing active and healthy ageing
6. Integrated, sustainable, citizen-centred care
7. Improving health information, data exploitation and providing an evidence base for health policies and regulation
More information may be found here:
The Norwegian Research Council webpage
Draft Work Programs 2014-2015
Newsletter – Program for Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Important deadlines:
Horizon 2020 national launch events: October 2013 to January 2014
Adoption of work programme and publication of first calls for proposals: December 11 2013
Expression of interest: Medio January 2014
Background material presented by the Research Council on the information meeting in Oslo in November 2013:
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Inven2 strike major deal
Inven2 grants exclusive worldwide license to its epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitors patent portfolio to Merck. Researchers and clinicians at Sørlandet Hospital have discovered that the EGFR inhibitors may play a vital role as a pain reliever for so called neuropathic pain. This is a potential novel use of the growth factor inhibitor that up until now have been used in cancer treatment, stagging cancer growth.
Inven2 AS, the entity commercializing early stage inventions from the largest University and Hospitals in Norway, announced on November 22 2013, that an exclusive worldwide license agreement was signed with Merck for its patent portfolio related to a potential novel use of EGFR inhibitors in the treatment of neuropathic pain.
"We are encouraged with the progress of our ongoing exploratory clinical trials and are excited about further investigating EGFR inhibitors for this use," says investigator Dr. Christian Kersten at Sørlandet Hospital.
One of Norways largest biotech deals
Under the agreement, Inven2 will get an upfront payment from Merck, and potentially receive a total of € 100 million in development milestones depending on the number of EGFR inhibitors being launched. In addition, Merck will pay Inven2 tiered royalties on net worldwide sales. In exchange, Merck will gain exclusive worldwide rights to develop and commercialize the portfolio. This means that this is one of the largest biotech deals ever made in Norway at this point.
"We believe that Merck is an ideal partner for us as they are clearly committed to take the lead position in the EGFR inhibitor drug class segment, and they have a profound knowledge of this area. This agreement validates the high potential the drug class has in new indications driven by their high unmet medical need," said Ole Kristian Hjelstuen, CEO of Inven2
About Inven2 – Oslo Technology Transfer
Inven2 is the technology transfer office for the University of Oslo, Oslo University Hospitals and all hospitals in the South-East region of Norway. Inven2's mission is to turn excellent science into products mainly in the field of life sciences.
The various institutions together, disclose around 200 unique inventions annually. In 2013, Inven2 is on plan to deliver 60 new patent filings, 35 license agreements, and 5 start-up companies. As of today Inven2 has a portfolio of 27 technology start-ups and a range of licensing agreements with the discovery of the biomarker NT-proBNP (Elecsys "Roche") as the biggest commercial success at present.
Inven2's other business area is clinical contract partnerships with the Oslo University Hospital and South-Eastern Health Municipal.
For more information, please visit www.inven2.com
Photo: The team of doctors at Sørlandet Hospital that have discovered the novel use of EGFR inhibitors, together with the life science team from Inven2 securing the deal with Merck.
Bayer with marketing approval in EU for Algeta-developed drug
Algeta and Bayer have received marketing authorisation from the European Commission for Xofigo® for the treatment of prostate cancer patients with bone metastases.
The marketing authorization provides approval for the commercialization of Xofigo in all 28 countries of the EU, and in Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein following national approval. This decision follows a positive recommendation from the European Medicines Agency's (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) in September of this year.
Major milestone for Algeta
Andrew Kay, Algeta's President & CEO, said: "Today's decision by the European Commission to approve Xofigo in the EU is another major milestone achieved for Algeta. It marks the start of what we hope will become an important royalty stream based on Bayer's ex-US sales, in addition to the 50% share of the profits we expect to receive from the co-promotion of Xofigo in the US. Our partnership with Bayer is proving to be very productive and we are delighted with the progress being made."
"Prostate cancer is the commonest cancer in men, and often spreads to the bones," said Christopher Parker, MD, Principal Investigator of the ALSYMPCA trial and Consultant Clinical Oncologist at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, and Honorary Reader in Prostate Oncology at The Institute of Cancer Research, London.
"Bone metastases lead to pain, fracture and other complications that can significantly impair the patient's health and well-being. Xofigo targets bone metastases, delivering a localized effect to offer patients prolonged survival, making it an exciting advance in the treatment of this cancer."
About Xofigo® (radium Ra 223 dichloride)
Xofigo® is an alpha particle-emitting pharmaceutical. Xofigo's active moiety mimics calcium and selectively targets bone, specifically areas of bone metastases, by forming complexes with the bone mineral hydroxyapatite. The high linear energy transfer of alpha emitters (80 keV/micrometer) leads to a high frequency of double-strand DNA breaks in adjacent tumour cells, resulting in a potent cytotoxic effect.
Additional effects on the tumour microenvironment including osteoblasts and osteoclasts also contribute to the in vivo efficacy. The alpha particle range from Xofigo is less than 100 micrometers (less than 10 cell diameters), which minimizes damage to the surrounding normal tissue.
Xofigo is approved in the US for the treatment of patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer, symptomatic bone metastases and no known visceral metastatic disease.
In September 2009, Algeta signed an agreement with Bayer for the development and commercialization of radium-223. Under the terms of this agreement, Bayer will develop, apply for health authority approvals worldwide and commercialize Xofigo globally. Algeta is eligible for royalties and milestones based on Bayer's sales of Xofigo outside the US, and Algeta US, LLC is co-promoting Xofigo with Bayer in the US.
About Algeta
Algeta is a company focused on developing, manufacturing and marketing novel targeted therapies for patients with cancer. The Company is headquartered in Oslo, Norway, and has a US subsidiary, Algeta US, LLC, based in Cambridge, MA performing commercial marketing operations in the US. Algeta is listed on the Oslo Stock
Exchange (Ticker: ALGETA). For more information please visit www.algeta.com.
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	usr, err := user.Current()
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("error: %v", err)
	}
	resourceFile := path.Join(usr.HomeDir, ".config/powermonius/resources.yaml")
	resources := loadResourceFile(resourceFile)

	// Monitor for battery changes and update resources
	monitor := NewMonitor()
	monitor.SetResources(&resources)
	go monitor.Listen()
	defer monitor.Stop()

	// Listen for reload, interrupts and quit
	sigCh := make(chan os.Signal)
	signal.Notify(sigCh, syscall.SIGINT, syscall.SIGTERM, syscall.SIGUSR1)

	for {
		select {
		case sig := <-sigCh:
			log.Printf("Received signal: %v", sig)
			if sig == syscall.SIGUSR1 {
				log.Printf("Reloading configuration")
				resources = loadResourceFile(resourceFile)
				monitor.SetResources(&resources)
				onBattery := monitor.CheckDBus()
				monitor.UpdateResources(onBattery)
			} else {
				return
			}
		}
	}
}


Bhubaneswar: In the 9th Ruchi Odia Film Fair Award (OFA) held at Exhibition Ground in Bhubaneswar last evening, Tarang Cine Productions' movie 'Prem Kumar' bagged the Best Film award.
Veteran actor Uttam Mohanty was conferred the Lifetime Achievement award for his contribution to Odia film industry.
"I am obliged to receive the lifetime achievement award," said Mohanty after receiving the award.
While Babusan Mohanty won the Best Actor Award, Shivani received the Best Actress Award. The Best Music Director Award was given to Prem Anand. The awards were given in 25 categories.
"I am lucky to receive the best actress award for Prem Kumar and I feel happy to take away the golden lady. I thank Odia Film Fair Awards, Tarang Cine Productions and all the members of Prem Kumar for whom I could achieve the feat," said a delighted Shivani.
"I am happy to receive the award. At least 36-40 films were released in a year and Prem Kumar was named the best among them. I thank my team for the success," said dialogue writer of the movie, Debidutta Mohanty.
Noted comedian Johnny Lever and the winner of Miss Asia Pacific 2018-19, Nibedita, graced the occasion as chief guests.


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Brady's Irish music agency Terms and Conditions
Terms and conditions for booking acts and PA Hire*
To comply with DTI regulations every entertainment agency and business must publish its Terms and Conditions.
Please read our terms and conditions fully before confirming your booking.
We made every possible effort to word and phrase the following terms and conditions in clear and plain English.
Detailed clarification of the various clauses is included where necessary.
If however, you do not understand any part of these terms, please don't hesitate to contact us for clarification or feel completely free to seek legal advice.
Any booking whether confirmed electronically, in writing or verbally, shall be subject to a legally binding contract containing the following non-negotiable terms and conditions of booking:
* For the purposes of PA Hire please observe that definition 'ACT' applies to the engineer who is booked via Brady's for the purpose of PA Hire.
Something not clear enough? We want you to understand and feel comfortable with the terms of any booking made through us, so please don't hesitate to contact us for any clarification required.
ACT - Any act, artiste, performer, entertainer, dancer, musician, or group of, with whom you contract or wish to contract in relation to (or a series of) engagements.
BOOKER - Any venue, individual, company or organisation responsible for hiring an ACT.
ENGAGEMENT - Any booking made between 'booker' and 'act' for the services of an 'act'.
THE AGENT - Brady's Irish Music Agency.
This booking contract is negotiated by Brady's Irish Music Agency (the 'agent') between the 'booker' and the 'act'.
In this capacity Brady's Irish music agency cannot be held responsible in any way for non fulfilment of bookings or non payment of fees. However, Brady's Irish music agency undertakes to make every reasonable endeavour to protect the interests of both 'booker' and 'act'.
For the purpose of complying with DTI Regulations (The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003) we confirm that we act as an employment agency and do not operate as an employment business.
We are mediators between 'booker' and 'act'.
We are not authorised to enter into or sign any agreement with you on the Act's behalf.
We will not enter into agreements with the Act on your behalf.
We will negotiate and agree with you the terms on which the 'act' will perform any Engagement(s) and draw up the agreement between you and the Act.
2. Confirming the booking:
A) 'Confirmation' will mean any electronic, written or verbal acceptance of this booking by both the 'booker' and the 'act'.
B) All bookings are effective immediately upon 'confirmation'.
C) Failure to sign or return this written contract is not acceptable as cancellation of the booking or acceptance of these terms.
Upon 'confirmation' of the booking, Brady's Irish Music Agency will issue a contract to the 'booker' for signature which must be returned within 72 hours. A copy of this contract will be forwarded to the 'artist' for signature immediately, to be signed and returned within 72 hours.
Both the 'booker' & the 'act' may keep one copy of the contract for their own records. (Further copies are available on request)
Brady's Irish Music Agency will hold the signed contract(s) for safe keeping and will act as the 'agent' negotiator and mediator between both parties for the period up to and including the date of the event, and for 18 months after the event.
3. Alterations to contract: The agreed booking and or engagement fee(s) may be subject to alteration (in agreement with both the 'booker' and the 'act') if any details on the contract are changed. All changes to the contract must be agreed and arranged via Brady's Irish Music Agency in advance of the event.
4. Payment of fees: The agreed booking fee or deposit is due strictly within 7 working days of confirmation of the booking or sooner where necessary or required, for example: Where the booking is within 7 days. Deposit may be paid by BACS transfer, cheque, (as stated on your contract & invoice.) or in certain circumstances via credit card or debit card through PAYPAL. Unless otherwise agreed by the 'act' and Brady's Irish Music Agency specifically in writing in the wording of your contract, the balance is payable to the 'act' in cash or via cheque on the day of the event, either prior to, or on completion of the performance, as specified in the wording of the contract. If, in exceptional circumstances, any fee which the 'booker' has agreed to pay prior to the event has not been received at least 7 working days before the event, the 'act' has the right to cancel this booking without penalty and the 'booker' will forfeit any other fees paid previously, and remain liable for any cancellation fees due (see clause 5.)
5. Cancellations: Cancellation by the 'booker': Cancellation by the 'booker' is not permitted for any reason other than circumstances covered by 'force majeure' (see clause 14.) In the event that the 'booker' cancels the booking, the 'booker' agrees to inform Brady's Irish Music Agency immediately. Brady's Irish Music Agency agrees to inform the 'act' of the cancellation immediately. In the event of cancellation of an engagement by the 'booker' the following fees will be payable:
Where the 'booker' cancels the event within two days of confirming, no fee will be payable and any booking fee or deposit already paid will be refunded 100% less 15% administration costs, unless the engagement is within seven workings days of the confirmation in which case the full fee will be payable and will result in loss of any booking fee or deposit paid.
Other than in circumstances stated above, where the 'booker' cancels 90 days or more prior to the date of the engagement, this will result in loss of any booking fee or deposit paid and up to 50% of the remaining balance.
Where the 'booker' cancels within 90 days prior to the date of the engagement, this will result in a loss of any booking fee or deposit paid and 100% of the remaining balance due.
Cancellation by the 'act': Cancellation by the 'act' is not allowed for any reason except circumstances covered by 'force majeure' (see clause 14.) In the event that the 'act' cancels the booking, the 'act' agrees to inform Brady's Irish Music Agency immediately.
Brady's Irish Music Agency agrees to inform the 'booker' of the cancellation and make all reasonable attempts to find a suitable replacement 'act' of similar standard and style, at no extra cost to the 'booker'.
Should a suitable replacement not be found, Brady's Irish Music Agency agrees to refund the 'booker' their deposit plus any other booking fees already paid in advance. Should the 'act' cancel a booking under circumstances not covered by 'force majeure' (see clause 14) the 'booker' may seek damages from the 'act' as they see fit.
The 'act' also agrees to pay Brady's Irish Music Agency an administration fee equal to the booking fee or commission due on the engagement (referred to previously as the 'deposit') and this must be paid to Brady's Irish Music Agency within 7 working days.
There will be no refund given to the 'booker' against the booking deposit already paid, and no 'administration charge' will be made to the 'act', if a replacement 'act' of similar value can be arranged by Brady's Irish Music Agency and agreed by the 'booker'. However, should a replacement 'act' charge a much lower fee, the 'booker' will be refunded a proportionate amount of their booking deposit and the replacement 'act' will be due their usual fee.
Where possible, the 'booker' and 'act' will be contacted to agree this in advance. If a replacement 'act' is required at short notice (within 24 hours) and the 'booker' will not accept the replacement act, they must not allow the replacement 'act' to perform. If the replacement 'act' is allowed to perform, their full fee will be due.
6. Failure to pay or late payment of booking fee or deposit: Failure by the 'booker' to pay the booking fee or deposit within the terms specified will result in 'booker' being in default of contract. The booking will be cancelled and the 'booker' will be bound by the cancellation clauses in part 5 of these terms and conditions.
7. Complaints: Should the 'act', through fault of their own, not fulfil part of the engagement schedule or break the terms of this contract and the 'booker' would like to claim a reduction on the 'acts' fee, a complaint must be made in writing to Brady's Irish Music Agency no more than 30 days after the event. Full payment must still be made to the 'act' as agreed in the contract. Withholding payment is illegal. Failure to pay the 'act' may render the 'booker' subject to prosecution. Whilst Brady's Irish Music Agency cannot be held responsible for the behaviour of either the 'booker' or 'act', or failure of either the 'booker' or 'act', to honour any part of this contract we will make every reasonable effort and endeavour to settle disputes without the need for either party to take legal action against each other. Once a written complaint has been made by the 'booker' or the 'act, Brady's Irish Music Agency will contact the both 'booker' and 'act' to discuss the complaint and request a written statement detailing their version of events. Brady's Irish Music Agency will act as mediator between 'booker' and 'act' in order to come to an amicable agreement over any refund or expense which may be due. If Brady's Irish Music Agency cannot settle the dispute to the mutual satisfaction of both 'booker' and 'act', both parties must settle the matter directly via their own legal representatives. Any dispute between the 'booker' and 'act' that relates to changes to the terms that were originally agreed by both the 'booker' and the 'act', but not contained within this contract and not confirmed by Brady's Irish Music Agency in writing, must be settled between the 'booker' and the 'act' directly. Brady's Irish Music Agency will not be able to mediate over any such changes.
8. Delays and extra engagement costs: If an engagement schedule is altered by the 'booker' and is not the fault of the 'act', resulting in the 'act' not being able to perform their contracted performance time within the schedule outlined in this contract, there will be no reduction in the 'acts' fee. If the engagement runs late and the 'act' agrees to finish later than the finish time in the booking contract, any extra fees must be negotiated and agreed by the 'booker' and 'act' and paid to the 'act' in cash or by cheque on the day. The 'act' is under no obligation to perform outside of their contracted times and shall be paid their contracted fee without penalty.
9. Re-booking of the 'act': The 'booker' agrees to negotiate all future bookings of the 'act' with Brady's Irish Music Agency and not with the 'act' directly. This remains in force from the date of issue of this contract until 18 months following the event date on this contract. The 'act' agrees not to supply to the 'booker' any direct contact details other than those of Brady's Irish Music Agency for future bookings. If directly approached or propositioned, the 'act' must inform the 'booker' or any connected party or person to contact Brady's Irish Music Agency. Should an 'act' dishonour these terms of this contract, they will cease to be used by Brady's Irish Music Agency and become liable for commission on any bookings obtained from such contravention.
10. Rider - Special Conditions: This contract may, where appropriate, be subject to a 'rider' and where listed 'special conditions', containing the 'acts' requirements for food, accommodation, changing rooms, technical specifications, transport, etc (please see full 'act rider' and 'special conditions' on the front of this contract)
11. Expenses: If the 'booker' has agreed in the wording of this contract to cover additional expenses incurred by the 'acts' (i.e.: travel, food, hotel, flights) the 'acts' must provide receipts and an invoice to the 'client' within 30 days after the event. The 'booker' must reimburse all expenses to the 'acts' within 7 days of invoice.
12. Act performance and behaviour guarantee: The 'act' agrees to supply all equipment required to undertake this performance, unless the equipment has been contractually agreed to be supplied by the 'booker' or an appointed supplier. It is the 'acts' responsibility to ensure the safety and good working order of their own equipment, and to obtain all necessary insurances & certification to make such equipment fully compliant with all legal requirements. The 'act' agrees to provide a performance that is to the best of its ability. The 'act' will make every effort to ensure their performance is first class, comply with the 'booker's' directions within due reason, be courteous, civil and polite with the booker, their staff, customers or guests and to be on their best behaviour at all times. The 'act' agrees that their fee is inclusive of all expenses (except where stated otherwise on the front of this contract), and includes any payments whatsoever due to other members of the 'act'. The 'act' will refrain from excessive drinking and will not under any circumstances partake of any illegal drug use on the day of the event, before, during or after the performance at any time when the 'booker' or their customers or guests are present. The 'act' will not engage in anti-social, illegal or in any way that will reflect badly upon Brady's Irish Music Agency, the 'booker' or themselves. The adjustment of the volume and sound level of any equipment shall be subject to the approval of the 'booker'. The 'act' at the time of agreeing to or signing this contract undertakes that they are not tied to any contract to a third party that would prevent them from fulfilling the booking. The 'act' is not employed by Brady's Irish Music Agency and they are fully responsible for their own accounting and payment of TAX, VAT & National Insurance contributions. The 'act' accepts full responsibility for maintaining their own Public Liability Insurance (which should be to a minimum of £1,000,000 cover) their own equipment insurance, vehicle insurance and for carrying out the P.A.T. testing of their equipment.
13. 'Act(s)' instruments and equipment: It is agreed by the 'booker' and the 'act' that the equipment and instruments of the 'act' are not available for use by other performers or persons except by specific permission of the 'act'.
14. Force Majeure: In cases of 'Force Majeure' which shall be known as war, fire, death, illness and/or any other incapacity certified by a properly qualified medical practitioner or by an order of Government or local authority having jurisdiction in the matter, pandemic, accident, civil commotion, national calamity, changes in law, foreign government policy, or act of God, which is/are not attributable to any failure to take preventive action by the 'act' or 'booker', then the 'act' or 'booker', may cancel this booking without penalty. The booker may use the original deposit against a booking for a later date for an indefinite period.
15. Public liability and health and safety at venue: To comply with an 'acts' public liability insurance terms and conditions and to adhere to legal and obvious health and safety issues, it is the responsibilty of the 'booker' to ensure that the venue provides a safe setting up and performance area for the 'act'. This requires a safe distance and separation between the peformance area/stage and performer(s) that does not involve potential infringement by guests within their workspace or close proximity to their equipment or instruments, thereby protecting both performers and guests from possible injury.
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booking process?
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which act?
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"Thank you very much for last night. A great success. Everyone enjoyed it enormously and there were no problems".
"Many many thanks and please tell them all that the bride and groom are so happy with their performances".
"I just wanted to say a really Big Thank you for you and Daithi performing at Dad's Wake. The bagpipe music was just so beautiful and emotional going into the church and was very poignant to the occasion".
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First things first, my experience with flex. I have extensive experience with flex 1.5, some two and a half years of work in flex 1.5. I have also worked on a number of projects in flex 2, not quite as much as in 1.5. I have also had the misfortune of working in flex 3 ("air" in my case).
So what is so bad with flex then?
If it was just a single thing it would be okay, but it just adds up.
Flex is awfully slow. I know what disillusioned flax fans now say.. "Yes, Flex 1.5 is Actionscript 2 and it is slow, but Flex 2, 3 and air is Actionscript 3 and it is faster". True it is faster but still not fast. As seen in the graph below where I compare the execution of the same set of instructions between a number of languages, My experience is that Java is between 2 and 10(!) times faster than flex 3! My tests are not complete benchmarks but they give a good indication of the crawling speed of flex.Java is not one of the fastest languages around, and it wins this benchmark hands down. Speed is not everything but it all ads up in the end.
In all these charts shorter bars are better.
I find that the smallest file size you can get out of a flex application is very big. You can not get it under 100k in my experience. Adding styling and other "features" makes it larger again. In my experience Flex 2 generates larger files than Flex 1.5. I wrote a little Java program just showing a label in a window. Nothing else, it ended up being 588 bytes compiled. The same with flex ended up being 130 548 for Flex 1.5 and 152 332 bytes for Flex 2. Considerably larger.
The official documentation for flex is a joke.Not only is it of very poor quality, but it also fails to inform you of important quirks, features (or whatever you want to call it). Let me give you an example. I was working with a list that had tool tips (datatips in flex lingo), for each of the entries. Well it was supposed to have datatips for each of the entries. I did everything according to the documentation for list, but the tooltips did not show up. I read further in the documentation, nothing. I simplified my function that returned the string to display so it always displayed the same text ("test"). Now it worked! I put the original code back in and it did not work. Something wrong with my code you say, no it was not.. but it took me a while to figure out. I spent quite some time to to through my code trying to see where it was failing, I could not find anything wrong. I then made the function return the same text for every entry but the text returned was one of the list entries. All of a sudden the tooltips were showing, BUT not for the one it should. It turns out that if the text for the tooltip is the same as the list entry no tooltip is shown. This should have been mentioned in the documentation! Simply adding a space to the strings returned by my function solved the problem. Now this is not one isolated instance of documentation being bad. The documentation is really, really bad. In fact when speaking to a senior flash developer I said something like "But it says in live docs it should work like this." (Live docs being the name for the documentation for flex/flash), and he replied "Just because it is in live docs does not mean it is so. I wouldn't trust live docs." This speaks volumes of the quality of the documentation. It is just appalling.
The tools available for flex development is substandard as well. Flex builder 3 is based on Eclipse, while I do not like Eclipse very much it is a good tool for development, my reasons for not liking it is my own. It seems they've taken Eclipse and ripped out all the tools that are not required and left in only the tools they had to. It is buggy, and expensive (I know, you can say that just about everything coming out of Adobe lately).For Flex builder 3 you have to pay AUD 475! This is for software that essentially someone else wrote for Adobe, as they are using the open source Eclipse platform and add just their bits and pieces. I am sure they have a legal right to do what they do, but it just seems wrong to pay so much for a tool that is, lets face it, so crap. I have not used Flex builder 3 for a while now, so I'm starting to forget all the bad things in it, one thing I remember is the fact that there are no refactoring options. Another thing is that it is very difficult to import sources that is in a different structure than the one assumed by FB3. If you for reasons related to version control or otherwise would like to have your source in a different directory, well you'll have to struggle to get that done!
Flex require the flash player, and currently there is no player for 64 bit browsers. This is pretty slack, considering we've had 64 bit operating systems for more than 6 years now, so if you are using a modern PC you can not use Flash (which may be a good thing, really). The solution offered by Adobe is to run a 32 bit browser, which is just annoying as you all of a sudden have to support two sets of dependencies. There is now an alpha version of a 64 bit player for Linux, considering that the production releases are usually pretty bad, I would not touch an alpha release from Adobe with a stick.
I find flash has so far to prove itself to be useful. In my experience there are very, very few cases where flash is a good solution, most of the time it is just an annoying extra. It is mainly used to deliver ads. While I understand the need to have advertising on the web, flash offers very little that can not be done in a different way. I have for the past year blocked all Flash content across all sites I visit, and guess what, the sites load faster, the browser is quicker to respond, and only in very few cases have I had to enable flash to make use of the site (Youtube is of course one of those that require the flash player). Flash most of the time is an annoying distraction that serves little or no purpose.
I know, I know, Flex 2 and 3 are supposed to be stronger typed than Flex 1.5, the operating word here is strongER. It is still not strongly typed. You can still do really strange things and make the code very unmaintainable. I have seen lots of this in my work with Flex. Sure it is "powerful" to be able to create new variables at runtime. But it is actually not very good. Your code will compile fine, and your testing will work fine, but when someone does something you did not expect it breaks. Even Adobe admitted that when they moved the Flex libraries to Actionscript 3 they found code that they wondered how they could have shipped it. The compiler is your friend, and you want the compiler to help you with as much checks as possible. A strongly typed language forces you to write more solid code, because the compler will not let you create a new variable in say a string. Which brings us to my next point.
The call to service.function(params) returns an AsyncToken. The thing is that AsyncToken does not actually define the properties resultHandler, nor faultHandler. So we can not actually make the type of the variable the type we get back, instead we upcast it to an Object assign a new varaiable to it. This is very bad practise, very bad practise indeed, if this came from a school project I could forgive it, but in an official Adobe framework?! No way, this is just sloppy design and an engineering nightmare.
I believe it was Karsten Lentzsch (author of JGoodies among other things) that said "A good framework makes it easy to do the right thing and hard to do the wrong things". I could be wrong about my sourcing, but the quote holds true anyway. I find that Flex promotes bad design ideas and generally bad design. A look at Caringorm as mentioned above just confirms this fact. Doing things the "right way" with inheritance and other language structures actually becomes hard in Flex. Not impossible but harder than it should be. It is hard to do the right thing so instead Flex users often revert to doing the easy wrong thing, Like adding a variable, at runtime, to a type that does not have that value.
This is a very personal point of course, but I do not like the syntax of Actionscript. I find it annoying I have to type "private var temp:Object" where I think that a simple "private Object temp" would do. This is of course not the only example of the syntax I dislike but there is no point in me spending too much time on all the points of the syntax I dislike. Syntax preference is personal and I do not like the one used in Actionscript.
I find that the way Adobe encourages it's users to use flex, and also use it themselves is bad. Following in Adobe's footsteps you end up with HUGE applications that take up the entire browser window. It takes a long time (see the point about it being slow) to do just about anything. You can not close it when you do not need it because the start-up takes too long. Instead you end up with a browser eating huge amounts of ram. Flex can possibly be useful in some cases and those cases are always when it is used as a small part of a website, not the website itself.
Flash in general is very poorly written from a user perspective. If Flash is busy you can forget using that browser. This is just poor form. Ever heard of threading? One process should not lock the entire browser (not just the window currently open). I find this totally unacceptable in today's world with multicore processors, and operating systems that can handle more than one thread there is no excuse for this stupidity. Respect the user more than lock their browser down. When I was doing most of my Flex development I often ran the Flex application in FireFox and used SeaMonkey for our bug tracker. That way I could use the bug tracker while the Flex application was misbehaving.
Flex, and Flash to some extent, promotes bad user interface design. Flex is all about the "cool" effects, you have animations and effects, but if you are doing something serious this just gets in the way. The first time it is cool after that it is no longer so cool, and starts getting annoying. I want a clean good looking user interface where each and every animation actually serves a purpose. No more "blur" or "accordion" animations when I click buttons or dialogues appear. It is just bad. I know this is all Flex has to offer so if you remove these things you end up with something that is pointless, which makes, as I have already pointed out, Flex pointless.
Flex or more accurately flash has no support for you as a programmer to handle threads. This may be seen as a good thing, and generally it is not a problem, but there are a number of times where it is a problem. First is if you have lengthy computation (well, actually any time you want to do something not trivial it will be lengthy because it is so damn slow) you have to do it on the main thread, leading to the problem above with browser locking. Second without proper locking you can not write safe applications as threading exists under the hood for you, called "asynchronous" requests, like waiting for a network response. Since you can not do locking you end up with race conditions, and Flex is plagued by them. Most of the time things will run fine but sometimes the "asynchronous" thread will observe your object in an inconsistent state and make modifications to it. I've had a number of these happen. It seems it is in the Flex libraries you have race conditions. Without proper locking there is nothing you can do.
Flex claims to be object oriented, but it is not really. It is still a highly sequential language. One thing that really strikes me is that you can pass "function objects" or as most of us programmers know them as "function pointers". This is how you get around the problem of not having objects in a sequential languages, but in Flex you still have it. "Oh but it is so powerful" the fans claim, all I say is "no, it only leads to bad design". As you may just as well pass the object around, since we are dealing with pointers here anyway the size of an object passed (not the actual object) is 4 bytes (32 bit system implied), and a function pointer is 4 bytes. Same size, it serves very little purpose, and just makes the code hard to maintain.
Flex and flash fails silently, in most languages you get either a stack trace or the dreaded "seg fault". Flex fails without saying anything, making it very hard to find the unhanded error. In Flex 2 and 3 this has been greatly improved with debug versions of the swf showing a bit more help, but still not enough to make it really helpful.
Security of any flash objects is, hmm, if it was not such a serious matter I'd say laughable. Flash suffer from serious design flaws, Adobe is supposedly trying to fix these but it all boils down to the exporter of the swf setting options that does not seem related to security. Flash suffer from "Security as an afterthought", meaning that security was never considered important until it became essential, but then it is too late to fix it. There are several security holes that are currently available in the flash architecture. Adobe is handling this their usual way, meaning they won't say anything about it, and not fix it for several months. For your own security I'd disable Flash in your browser and only run Flash content from trusted sources, and at that only Flash content you really need to run.
If I get requests for the sources for my tests I can provide them.
So as a last note I can only say that I well and truly think Flex is pointless and as a former colleague of mine said "I wish Flex would crawl into the corner and die", I could not agree more. It brings nothing new to this world, it promotes bad ideals and bad code, none of this is needed.


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Q: Verifying statement with Bayesian inference In class we were told we could use Bayesian Inference to verify the following information.

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*99% neonatal deaths in the first four weeks occurs in underdeveloped countries.
Though around 90% of all births take place in underdeveloped countries, so the chances of a newborn dying is "only" 11 times greater there.

I am not sure how to show this using Bayesian Statistics to verify such statement.
How can we determine this probability without being given survival rates?
Thanks

A: Let $D$ be the event that an infant dies and $U$ be the event that a person is born in an underdeveloped country.
Then $$P(D|U)=\frac{P(U|D)P(D)}{P(U)}$$
and
$$P(D|\lnot U)=\frac{P(\lnot U|D)P(D)}{P(\lnot U)}$$
Calculate each one as a multiple of $P(D)$ and compare the results.

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Trump plane makes emergency landing In Nashville
Plane of presidential candidate, Donald Trump, was diverted to Nashville International Airport after reporting engine problems.
The Trump Boeing B757 landed at Nashville International Airport around 4 p.m. A statement from officials with the Federal Aviation Administration said they would be investigating.
The plane was on its way to Little Rock, Arkansas for a rally when the starboard engine experienced a mechanical issue 50 miles outside of Nashville.
A source close to our Scripps affiliate NewsChannel 5 said the pilots reported an Alert 2 situation, which constitutes a potentially serious problem. Sources said one of the engines was sticking in neutral.
Trump was on the plane, and boarded another one shortly after landing. Trump's plane remained at Nashville International Airport after the mechanical issues.


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Panel: What about Bugs? Why Insects Urgently Need Human Empathy & Action
October 21, 2020 - 12:15pm
Pre-registration is required for this event. You will receive an email confirmation with the virtual event details after registering.
Co-sponsored by the Yale Sustainable Food Program, the Yale Animal Law Society, The Yale Environmental Law Association, the Yale Peabody Museum, and the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies.
About the Speakers
Many studies from Europe, North American, and most recently the tropics, are reporting worrisome insect declines. Even insects that humans care for directly–honeybees, butterflies, and other pollinators–have been suffering their own public health crises. The reduction in bug populations amounts to an excavation at the base of the food web that could unwind ecosystems around the world. Behind the question of what to do about the "insect apocalypse" lurks another challenge–how can entomologists and writers convince people to preserve such alien creatures? This panel will discuss the state of the world's insects and how to write about it for a popular audience.
Brooke Jarvis
Jarvis is a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine and The California Sunday Magazine and author of The Insect Apocalypse is Here cover story in the New York Times Magazine.
David Wagner
Wagner is an entomologist at the University of Connecticut, involved with invertebrate conservation and the study of insect population decline.
Dunn is an applied ecologist at North Carolina State University, author of Never Home Alone.
DeAnna Beasley
Beasley is an ecologist at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, uses insects as a model species to examine adaptations & biodiversity in urban environments.
Moderated by Noah Macey, programs fellow at the Law, Ethics, & Animals Program.
This event is presented as part of the Law, Ethics, & Animals Program's One Health speaker series.


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Space Shuttle:
Readiness of the Transoceanic Abort Landing Sites
NSIAD-89-22: Published: Dec 16, 1988. Publicly Released: Dec 28, 1988.
Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO assessed the operational readiness of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) transoceanic abort landing (TAL) sites to support space shuttle missions.
GAO found that NASA: (1) currently has one TAL site each in Morocco and Gambia and two in Spain; (2) completed operational readiness inspections of the sites, focusing on navigational and communications equipment installation and testing, availability of trained personnel for mission support and operations, rescue personnel, plans and procedures, and security arrangements, all prior to the September 29, 1988, shuttle mission; (3) identified security problems at the Moroccan site and problems with the installation of an arresting barrier at the Gambian site; (4) provided 33 security personnel to cover the shuttle launch through an interim agreement with Morocco, although Morocco later provided 135 additional security personnel; (5) believes that Morocco will require it to fund only the 33 security personnel agreed upon in the negotiations and has renewed its efforts to negotiate a long-term security agreement for future shuttle launches; (6) completed the installation of the arresting barrier at the Gambian site; and (7) is exploring the possibility of stationing a NASA-supported official in Morocco to administer its local affairs.


Label: Serious Business Records Website: Myspace Arriving late to the fuzzy-pop psychedelic party, no doubt with acknowledging glances to Crystal Stilts and Wavves as they entered, The Octagon deliver a satisfying record. The New York trio have perfected the art of sounding like an ill Hold Steady recorded on a mobile phone (or a true cynic could say they shamelessly emulate Guided By Voices: because they do) and seem to equally enjoy letting a tune fall apart as they do crafting it in the first place. As important as it is not to judge a book by its cover, those rules go out of the window for cute seals, and The Octagon enter the cute-seal-on-the-cover charts at number one. To see sixteen tracks, most clocking in at around two minutes and fifty seconds, on the listing hints at the scatterbrained approach; while pacing, structure and even volume see them racing in opposite directions, not one of them lies outside of the lo-fi fog. Opener 'Suicide Kings' starts abruptly, leaving you suspicious that it's been playing minutes without you, then, true to the immediately established form, the verse exits early and before you know it you're caught in a delightful chorus both tuneful and discordant. Only for the song to cave in on itself, seeming as though they were so keen to play the awesome chorus that they didn't really consider what would follow. This is the first glimpse of the strangely endearing ethics at the heart of The Octagon, an enthusiastic sloppiness that is the musical equivalent of colouring with crayons and crossing the lines. An ethic that happily parades around for the next couple of tracks, waving harmonies and breakdowns at all and sundry, in a charmingly upfront, simple Weezer-ish way. Admittedly, Weezer minus a lot of polish and pop nous. Fourth track 'Radio Days' reins thing in a bit with a loosely post-punk sound and 'Hound Adams' has a witty stab at Nirvana, in an unremarkable mid-section to the album. 'Stop Snitchin'' is the first song to recover the catchiness and momentum of the opener, even while keeping up the drunken flirt with a fuzzy chaos. In a surprising turn 'Tommy Bones' comes across as a more sincere sounding Kings of Leon around the time of 'King of the Rodeo' with, needless to say, that familiar haze added. Penultimate track "One Five Five" bears witness to the most obvious attempt to build a song, but promptly abandons that for blurry guitars and slurred vocals. The biggest flaw to be found within 'Warm Love and Cool Dreams Forever' is its sheer sameness, lacking any real landmarks to separate a slew of similar songs. The second biggest flaw is that it never harnesses its sound, it's lo-fi almost out of sheer laziness and impatience. The way that Mclusky, Girls and Blank Dogs have used those rough edges to enhance their sound, even to such different ends, is an achievement I can never see The Octagon making, in fact I doubt they want to. That said I'm glad they lack the pretension of The Black Lips and several other similar sounding bands, it leaves this album as something to enjoy at face value. The confidence to just let an album be what it is; an attribute rarely seen, but 'Warm Love and Cool Dreams Forever' has it in abundance, remaining content to be as fun, dumb and confused as the seal on its cover seems. Maybe that makes it at times stubborn and difficult, even disappointing, but more often than not it makes it loveable and admirable, just not necessarily impressive or brilliant.


The Master of Science in IATOM is a two year-degree accredited by the French Ministry of Education for those students who hold a Bachelor degree in a relevant subject. Located in Toulouse, a major centre for science and technology and the European aviation capital, ENAC is a gateway to air transport worldwide, recognised by ICAO and major civil aviation organisations as one of the world's leading air transport educational institutions.
The MSc in IATOM has been designed to emphasise the application of up-to-date engineering and management concepts or methods of the aeronautical and aviation industry.
The full-time two-year Master in IATOM aims at providing the technical and management expertise necessary to a future manager in an international company. It provides graduates with in-depth knowledge in aeronautical engineering, aeronautical project management and technology management, to be able to meet the aeronautical industry demands in terms of the innovative engineers they need to strengthen and develop their business.
The Master in IATOM offers a comprehensive teaching programme with a strong scientific background, aeronautical and aviation engineering, legal, social environment, the economy and project management enabling graduates to get junior management positions in the aeronautical industry, airlines, airports or civil aviation authorities: flight operations engineer, aircraft performance engineer, maintenance manager, airlines operations planning, marketing manager, etc.
Project management currently forms the backbone of the Master IATOM concerns.


Many Maya sites ruled through dynastic families. Tombs for male and femalerulers have been found, including those of the so-called "snake dynasty", named for the snake-head emblem associated with its house. The family dominated the region for decades in the seventh century, and shifted capital cities over time. Awe said the newly discovered hieroglyphic panels could prove "even more important than the tomb", by providing clues to the dynasty's history.
Helmke said the panels "tell us of the existence of a king of the dynasty that was murky figure at best, who is clearly named as Waxaklajuun Ubaah K'an" .This ruler reigned sometime between 630 and 640AD, and may have been a half-brother related to the dynasty.


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Daniel Pool (born 1999) is a Scottish indoor bowler.

Bowls career
In 2021, Pool was selected for the Scotland under 18s squad. He is twice the World Indoor U25 Champion after winning the title at the 2022 World Indoor Bowls Championship and the 2023 World Indoor Bowls Championship. He defeated fellow Scot Darren Weir in both finals.

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The TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE will be having a hiring event at Workforce Solutions of West Central Texas on Monday , April 15, 2019 from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm at 500 Chestnut Street Suite 1100.
The Sweetwater Workforce and Abilene VR offices will be open on Friday, April 19th. The Abilene, Snyder, and Brownwood offices will be closed.


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Four Tennis Legends Try Pickleball — $1 Million
Pickleball becomes popular across America
Pickleball Is Popular Nationwide
Former tennis stars John McEnroe, Andre Agassi, Andy Roddick and Michael Chang will return to the court this April to battle for the $1 million prize, but this time they will be playing a different sport. Become.
The tennis legend swaps rackets for paddles at the inaugural Pickleball Slam on April 2nd at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida. announced.
Horizon Sports and Experiences Co-CEO David Levy said:
The Slam organizers have entered into a multi-year, five-event partnership with Hard Rock. 4.8 million US active players
"Pickleball is nothing short of a cultural phenomenon, with exponential growth across genders, age groups, geographies and income levels," says Levy.
The tournament features singles matches between two Legends: Roddick vs. Chan and McEnroe vs. Agassi. The Legends then play again in the final doubles match (McEnroe and Chang vs. Roddick and Agassi) to determine the split of the $1 million prize pool.
Each former tennis player has a pretty impressive track record, so the competition is going to be fierce. McEnroe is his seven-time Grand Slam champion and Agassi is his eight-time Grand Slam champion. Roddick is a world number one and has won a Grand Slam, while Chan became the youngest player to win a major tennis title when she won the 1989 French Open at just 17 years old.
Slam will also give amateur pickleball players the chance to enter challenges on March 31st and April 1st. Up to 96 doubles teams will compete on a first-come, first-served basis for a $10,000 prize pool. He will take on two of his tennis legends before a televised match on April 2nd.
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pickleball-andre-agassi-john-mcenroe-andy-roddick-michael-chang-1-million-prize/ Four Tennis Legends Try Pickleball — $1 Million


What metal fabrication services does Laser Precision offer besides laser cutting?
Laser Precision is a full-service, metal fabricator. In addition to laser cutting, we also offer CNC machining, forming, certified welding (mig, tig, resistance), powder coating, turret punching, grinding, finishing, freight management.
Laser Precision has developed an innovative new platform for the procurement of metal parts and assemblies. Utilizing "State of the Art" data management technologies, Laser Precision has developed a proprietary ecosystem that allows the entire value stream to be synchronized to the customer's demand requirements. We call it Synchronized Sourcing and it is the technology that drives our Performance Metrics.
With Synchronized Sourcing, all elements of demand are synchronized, Material Procurement, Part Specifications, Sub-vendor demand, Order Entry, Order Scheduling, Order Expediting, Machinery and Labor Allocation, Quality Requirements, Finishing Requirements, Packaging, Shipping Coordination, Electronic Ship Notification, Electronic Invoicing. All value stream elements are defined and coordinated into an electronic demand profile. This profile is continuously updated and refined to insure customer requirements are met, on-time, to your exacting specifications. This process is fully automated and is accomplished with virtually no human intervention.
Is Laser Precision EDI compatible?
Yes, Laser Precision is fully EDI compatible. In fact, EDI is what drives our Synchronized Sourcing platform. Our EDI platform supports Electronic Orders, Schedule Changes, RFQ, ASN, Invoicing, and other information as defined by the customer. The difference is Laser Precision can electronically coordinate and reschedule up to 4800 modifications daily with virtually no human intervention. Automated systems automatically modify schedules, material requirements, priorities, capacity plans, and synchronization all elements of the electronic demand profile match the customer requirements for success.
What Quality certifications does Laser Precision currently hold?
Laser Precision is ISO 9001:2015 Certified.
While we are proud of our Certifications and view them as a fundamental element of our success, we recognize certifications are only as good as the performance they engender. At Laser Precision, we have integrated the disciplines of certification into "World Class" Performance achieving best in class performance with virtually every customer we support.
What are the most common materials Laser Precision fabricates?
Laser Precision commonly works with carbon and alloy steels up to .750″ thick, stainless steel up to .500″ thick, and aluminum up to .250″ thick. Generally, individual part sizes vary but can be as large as 60″ x 120″. Assemblies can be significantly larger. Our largest press brake is capable of forming up to 14 feet and large machining centers accommodate sizeable work. Powder coating can accommodate part envelopes up to 120″ x 72″ x 48″ (L x H x W).
Laser Precision has also processed in "exotic" materials including hastelloy, titanium, inconel, nickel, and other aerospace alloys.
What does virtual manufacturing mean?
All production processes are controlled electronically with machine set-ups performed in "virtual" space prior to any materials processing. Adjustments to the electronic manufacturing plans are stored and deployed to the work stations in real-time. Virtual set-ups allow operators to load manufacturing parameters directly into the processing equipment from the manufacturing servers, saving time, and eliminating errors.
How does Laser Precision automate cost out of the value stream?
Laser Precision electronically coordinates and reschedules up to 4800 order and schedule changes daily with virtually no human intervention. Production schedules are evaluated and updated every 90 seconds based on real-time customer demand modifications and electronic capacity allocation. Design elements are continuously evaluated to determine economies of scale that might be achieved with effective production grouping. The Synchronization platform automatically performs yield management functions to insure that raw material is utilized in the most economic manner possible. Virtually all inspection is done "in-station" and is performed by the same qualified technicians that produce the work. Laser Precision has no in-process inspectors, thereby avoiding the cost and delays of independent internal quality surveillance. Comprehensive in-station quality management has dramatically driven down costs, and improved overall quality performance to World Class levels. Metrics regarding quality performance are collected, analyzed, and incorporated into the overall process control parameters of the enterprise.
What quality controls do you have in place? Is there a difference between what quality controls are in place, how they are implemented and the mindset of employees through a corporate culture?
The entire production process is controlled by an AIAG compliant Control Process. All process failure modes are identified and addressed during the electronic development of the part. The process criteria, specifications, and safeguards are electronically identified and deployed to the specific workstations that are responsible for failure avoidance. Virtually all inspection is done "in-station" and is performed by the same qualified technicians that produce the work. Laser Precision has no in-process inspectors, thereby avoiding the cost and delays of independent internal quality surveillance. Comprehensive in-station quality management has dramatically driven down costs, and improved overall quality performance to World Class levels. Metrics regarding quality performance are collected, analyzed, and incorporated into the overall process control parameters of the enterprise.
Can non-technical companies work with you? How will this impact cost, timing, etc.?
Laser Precision routinely works with companies that do not have extensive electronic data transfer protocols. While these associations are very valuable to us, and comprise some of our oldest and dearest customers, leveraging the electronic capabilities of our infrastructure is the way to best utilize our capabilities.
How would you describe the companies you work best with and deliver the greatest value?
The Synchronized Sourcing platform was developed to service all of our customers. However, several elements of the system make it particularly well suited to significant O.E.M. purchasers. The system is best suited to companies who have an integrated EDI process through which they can transmit demand electronically. Furthermore, it is usually important to have a fairly robust MRP platform to generate the demand information.
Customers who have fairly extensive outsource programs where significant numbers of parts are purchased usually see the most benefit. This is due in large part to having a sufficient universe of parts to allow automated yield management. In addition, customers who have an integrated quality management system are best suited to the implementation of the program since the quality parameters need to be identified and quantified to allow for electronic deployment.
How is Laser Precision different than other metal fabricators that have EDI, ERP and MRP?
Synchronized Sourcing utilizes elements of EDI, ERP, and MRP together with proprietary software to synchronize demand elements throughout the value stream. Compared with stand alone ERP systems, the synchronized sourcing platform is more comprehensive, and incorporates all aspects of demand, coordinating and deploying information into the value stream to assure a successful outcome. Internal and external communication and collaboration are electronically hard-coded into the system to facilitate timely transfers of information.


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Jouni Salmi
Partner, Helsinki
Private Equity , Private M&A , Public M&A
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Jouni Salmi is Head of Roschier's Private M&A practice and co-Head of the Public M&A practice in Finland. He has extensive experience in complex multi-jurisdictional transactions, including industrial carve-outs and divestments, involving both industrial clients and private equity sponsors. Jouni has acted for numerous listed companies, private equity sponsors and multi-national corporations, and he has in-depth knowledge in a wide variety of industry sectors such as forest, telecommunications and payment industries. His previous work experience includes working as in-house counsel for a major telecommunications operator in Sweden and Finland.
Jouni has extensive knowledge of both the Finnish and Swedish M&A market, and he has completed numerous deals in Finland and Sweden as well as in other jurisdictions. He is a member of the Bar Association in both Finland and Sweden, and holds an LL.M degree from the University of Brussels.
Jouni is ranked Band 1 in Corporate/M&A in Finland by Chambers Global and Chambers Europe. He is also recognized as one of the leading experts in corporate/M&A in Finland by international legal directories such as The Legal 500, IFLR1000 and Who's Who Legal.
Clients say that Jouni is "very responsive and very dedicated to clients; he listens to the client's needs and is very analytical" (Chambers Global, 2022). They describe Jouni as a "solid general advisor, excellent at driving project forward" (The Legal 500, 2020). He is "very engaged, responsive and with good industry knowledge" (Chambers Europe, 2020) and has a "pragmatic and deal-driven approach" (Chambers Europe, 2020). Jouni is further described as "a deal maker who is able to take a really commercial view from the outset" and as "absolutely fantastic" (Chambers Global, 2017). He receives praise for having "strong technical skills" (The Legal 500, 2020), being "easy to communicate with" and for his ability to "explain difficult legal aspects in an understandable manner" (Chambers Europe, 2021). Clients comment that his "experience, strategic view and vision makes him stand out from the others" (The Legal 500, 2022).
Work highlights
Jouni Salmi's experience includes advising:
Vipps in its business combination with MobilePay, creating one of the largest mobile wallets in Europe;
Outokumpu in the divestment of the majority of its Long Products business operations to Marcegaglia Steel Group;
InfraVia Capital Partners in the sale of Aurora Infrastructure Oy to the funds managed by Equitix;
Neste in the establishment of a joint venture with Marathon Petroleum for production of renewable fuels;
Telia in the SEK 5,500 million sale of 49% stake in its towers business in Sweden to Brookfield and Alecta;
IK Partners in the acquisition of Renta Group Oy from Intera Partners;
Wolt in the EUR 7 billion sale of the company to DoorDash;
Telia in the EUR 722 million sale of part of its tower business in Norway and Finland;
Suomen Autokauppa (Saka) in connection with Ilmarinen's and ELO's investments in Saka;
First Sentier Investors in the sale of 40% interest in Caruna to Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board and KKR;
Akzo Nobel N.V. in its EUR 1.4 billion public competing proposal for a tender offer for all shares in Tikkurila Oyj;
Neles in Alfa Laval's EUR 1.7 billion recommended public cash tender offer for all the shares in Neles Corporation;
Boels Group in its public cash tender offer for Cramo Plc;
A-Katsastus Group and Bridgepoint in the sale of A-Katsastus Group to MB Funds;
Loxam S.A.S in its EUR 970 million public tender offer for Ramirent Plc;
Cognizant in the acquisition of Samlink;
Telia Company in the legal separation of Telia's Finnish tele and data communication infrastructure into a separate company, Telia Towers Finland Oy through a partial demerger;
Investor consortium led by ANTA Sports Products Limited in the EUR 4.6 billion public offer for Amer Sports;
A-Katsastus Group Oy and Bridgepoint in the sale of A-Katsastus Group's business operations in Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Poland to IK Investment Partners;
Funds managed by CapMan Buyout in the sale of their holdings in Walki Group to One Equity Partners;
First State Investments in the sale of Digita Oy to Digital Colony;
Nets in the recommended all-cash takeover offer for Nets A/S by Evergood 5 AS, a newly formed company controlled by funds managed and advised by Hellman & Friedman LLC.
Roschier (2006-), Partner since 2010
TeliaSonera AB, Corporate Counsel (2003-2006)
Sonera Corporation, Senior Legal Counsel (2000-2003)
Law clerk, trained at the Bench (1998)
Brander & Manner Law Firm, Associate Lawyer (1997-2000)
Sampo Insurance Company, Claims Manager (1996)
Member of the Finnish Bar Association
Admitted to the EU Register of the Swedish Bar Association
University of Brussels, LL.M. (1997)
University of Turku, LL.M. (1996)
English, Finnish, Swedish
Very responsive and very dedicated to clients; listens to the client's needs and is very analytical.