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Connecticut Mentor Encourages Entrepreneurship
Connecticut mentor Dave Menard is passionate about fostering entrepreneurship. He has years of experience working with entrepreneurs from many industries. Dave is a partner at the law firm of Murtha Cullina and one of the hosts of the CTStartup Podcast.
Murtha Cullina's Innovation Team won a 2017 CT Entrepreneur Award for the community favorite "Corporate/Institutional" category. Dave Menard. center.
Innovation Destination Hartford Website Curator Nan Price met with Dave in October 2015, soon after the CTStartup Podcast had launched. (Read: Community Support for Connecticut Entrepreneurs.) She recently caught up with Dave to see what's new.
CTStartup Podcast
The CTStartup Podcast is currently in Season 4 and records every other Friday morning at District New Haven, where Murtha Cullina has a satellite office. IDH Website Curator Nan Price was recently a guest on the podcast; the episode should air in early December.
The CTStartup Podcast crew has evolved over time. Two people left and two have joined the podcast which, Dave points out, offers different affiliations and perspectives. "We knew we needed to professionalize the podcast more, so we brought on an official paid intern to produce the show."
The podcast is getting good reception with about 1,000 downloads a month and many listeners tuning in from outside the state. "It's great to make other states aware of the entrepreneurial and startup activity happening throughout Connecticut," notes Dave.
Like IDH, Dave confirms there is never a shortage of content. "We have a bunch of podcasts in the bank," he says.
Entrepreneurism has become a big topic―larger than it ever was―it used to be a fallback career, now it's a major. There's been a huge shift," Dave underscores.
As far as content, some podcasts feature the hosts sharing their experiences and some are recorded at live events. Many feature interviews with guests.
"There are always Connecticut companies to feature. I don't think people realize how many companies are built here, trying to start here, or looking for support," says Dave.
As far as growth, "the podcast has a good following, but we feel it could go up a level," he admits. "We give it so much time, we want it to succeed. Our goal is to reach 2,500 to 5,000 listeners a month. We're exploring ways to do that with ideas about sponsorship."
How Is Murtha Cullina Helping Entrepreneurs?
Murtha Cullina has several initiatives in place to help foster entrepreneurship in Connecticut.
The Murtha Cullina Emerging Companies Practice Group started as just Dave in 2011. It really took hold in 2013, after he became partner.
"The goal is to build entrepreneurial communities, and then we mentor and provide support for those communities. By helping people succeed, the communities become bigger and stronger," he says.
The Murtha Cullina Emerging Companies Practice Group, which is connected to the larger firm, now includes 13 attorneys who focus on business, intellectual property (IP), employment, and immigration law.
"Seeing the group grow has been an exciting transformation," says Dave. "People are enthusiastic about the work they're doing, which is reaffirming."
Murtha Cullina has also gained an entire Intellectual Property Practice Group, which has five full-time patent attorneys. "We're helping companies file patents and get their feet wet," Dave explains.
The firm encourages collaboration with other entrepreneurial resources. "The law only encompasses a portion of what entrepreneurs need," he acknowledges. "Entrepreneurs need the most amount of advice when they're least able to afford it, and sometimes they just want to know someone who knows someone. Part of our job as mentors is to try and connect people with best contact for need they have."
To that end, Dave works closely with reSET, The Connecticut Small Business Development Center (CT SBDC), CTNext, Crossroads Venture Group, and local accountants and insurance providers.
In other news, Murtha Cullina opened a satellite office at District New Haven.
"We call it The Law Lab. It's designed differently than a law firm—90% of the space is collaboration work space," describes Dave. "The whole point was to try doing something different. The space is staffed full-time, so people can stop by, talk to a lawyer, get instant feedback, and work out of the space," he adds. "We want to make it as interactive and community-based as possible."
Now through June, the Law Lab offers a monthly business lunch series covering a variety of topics including website privacy policies, intellectual property law, and equity financing.
Working with The Entrepreneur Community
Dave is very immersed in Connecticut's entrepreneurial and startup community. And he's very community-focused. "The best thing we can do for ourselves, both business-wise and personal health-wise, is to build a community," he emphasizes.
Dave is on the board of directors at reSET. "I've really enjoyed working with them and met many interesting companies, such as Noteworthy Chocolates."
He notes that innovation and entrepreneurship are arising from many fields—some unexpected.
As another example, Dave shares that he's recently met three companies in the firefighting space. "That's an area you don't think of as innovative," he acknowledges. "But they're all taking different approaches, which shows innovation is being implemented in all different industries."
Dave has also worked with startups coming out of University of Connecticut School of Nursing, including Brittany Molkenthin, who founded Lactation Innovations. "She isn't someone you'd see as a typical entrepreneur," Dave clarifies. "It verifies that entrepreneurship comes from all areas at UConn—not just the engineering and the high-tech areas."
Dave's advice for those starting out?
"No person is an island. Find and build a network of people you trust. Getting advice, referrals, and mentorship are invaluable in a company's development," he advises.
"As a corporate attorney working with entrepreneurs I feel good about what I'm contributing to the society. I like being able to say I've helped. The question is: How can I take what I'm good at doing and focus it into a better space—that's always been the goal for me," he adds.
"I'm really excited about the entrepreneurial environment in Connecticut right now," emphasizes Dave. "There's more going on than I can possibly keep in touch with. Every week I hear about something new. I cannot encompass all the entrepreneurs in Connecticut."
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A new way to see Laser Technology's TruPulse 200 laser rangefinder in action is thru the eyes of Rodolphe Cassan, or Rudy, a professional base jumper. In the video of his jump, Rudy states that he "uses the TruPulse laser rangefinder to analyze the height and conformation of the cliff in order to better prepare his jump and make sure it is feasible and secure".
Watch the video of Rudy jumping off a cliff on Maupiti, located to the west of the Leeward Islands in French Polynesia.
For more information on the TruPulse series and what other professional measurement applications it's used for, view LTI's Professional Measurement section and then call us at 1-800-OWN-A-LTI or e-mail us for a hands-on demonstration.


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Every year, the club raises money for a charity proposed by a club member and voted for at the AGM. The proposer then supports the fundraising activities through the year.
2021 Charity: The Cambridge Acorn Project
The Cambridge Acorn Project are a small charity working across Cambridgeshire to support young people and families facing mental health difficulties. The charity does therapeutic work in the areas of stress, trauma, attachment and social justice.
In Huntingdon, there is a current project in a nursery, working with a group of children that have been affected as a result of the covid pandemic. There is a further project working with children and young people together.
Matt Edge, COO and therapeutic practitioner for Cambridge Acorn Project said "Thank you so much for having us as your charity of the year – I cannot tell you how much this means to us. We are still fairly new, and small, and so this is actually the first time anyone has done anything like this to this degree for us".

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This is a piece I'm working on~ It's not done yet, I think It's gonna be a two part project. Maybe even four parts.
I've been really leaning towards ocean and nautical themes lately. Well, you know, I've always been really drawn to the ocean (even though I've been pretty deathly afraid of under ocean for a while), but I've never really done anything major in my art devoted to the sea.
I love sailor colors and all the designs that go into boats, and ships~, and the clothes people wear on the shore. Also, it's all about the light houses, baby.
I'm really excited to get started on more nautical-themed paintings and drawings.
And I'm also doing a lot to get over my fear of underwater. :) I've been looking at a bunch of pictures of octopus (SERIOUSLY, the source of my phobia) and under ocean scenes.
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Melbourne Cup is an annual horse racing event in Australia, one that is so heavily invested in that it is touted as 'a day that stops the nation'. Bars, clubs, hotels, workplaces and houses televised it, I personally could care less about gambling, horse racing and the getting caught in the hype. But watching and capturing the moments and reactions of those that did have some investment in this event made me excited too. It was contagious!
A spectrum of emotions experienced ranging from anxious anticipation to elation and celebration. The room was certainly alive and filled with cheer during the main race.
While most patrons lost their bets, some won their money back or made a little more, only 2 patrons picked the winning race horse and lots of loot.
Because The Vault Hotel is located in the CBD of Sydney. The patrons consisted of business people. The Vault Hotel had put on a special event for nearby organisations to have work functions and the women got dressed up, wearing their cocktail dresses, big, bright and bold hats and luscious red lipstick. Lunch was catered for while the races were projected onto the wall for the spectators. There was around 7 large groups while walk-in patrons turned up later towards the start of main race.
Because of the nature of the work functions, a lot of people didn't want their photos taken. Nor did I want to interrupt them during their lunches. Some groups snuck-out of work and didn't want their incriminating photos taken and posted on The Vault's website for the fear of their bosses catching them out later.
This was a challenge for me because there were times I felt like a pest and I also didn't want to dampen the patrons experience at The Vault, but I also needed to do my job, so I resorted to subtle candid and posed shots of the groups that allowed me to take pictures of them. After the main race had finished and the crowd was hyped up from cheering and celebrating, they were more open to photos.
What I took away from this experience is that a lot of times you will get rejected in these environments, people are a bit camera-shy during the day (or during work hours) and just want to enjoy their time out without the paparazzi invading their space (and that's completely understandable), whereas in night events, people start the night camera-shy but after having a few drinks, they usually can't get enough time in front of the camera!
You just have to shoot what you can without upsetting anyone.
A note on the gear used for this event: I packed very light because I knew it was going to be crowded so moving around with a backpack was not feasible. I took my trusty 'gripped' Canon 50D, a Canon 16-35mm f2.8L lens and an on camera Oloong SB690 speedlight packed into my medium Lowepro Toploader Pro AW 70 holster bag. In hindsight, I could've used my Canon 70-200mm for even better candid shots.
Seussical is a musical theater remix of the Dr. Seuss stories and features of course the Cat in the hat (played by Meg Day), Horton (played by Malcom Tuck), Mayzie (played by Tanya Boyle), JoJo (played by Duncan McDonald), Gertrude (played by Sally Redman) The Bird Girls (played by Adelie Battam, Claire Duffy & Veronica Alonso), and many other popular characters from the books.
This was the second musical I had the pleasure of shooting for The Regal's Musical Society. This time there was a huge cast of around 40 adults and children filling up the stage with charismatic energy. It is a family show with an entertaining story and light-hearted humour, having around 20 children performing really added to a cheery atmosphere.
Kenney Ogilvie (the director) had planned and executed his vision so well. Even making a believer out of me (and no doubt a few others) with his daring all-white stage design. When I initially heard of his plans, I was worried that it would be a bit lackluster, and the actors would really have to perform with conviction to keep the audience engaged. Thankfully the crew knew how to bring it and put on a good show!
The simplistic stage turned out to be sleek, modern and elegant, plus, once lit up by 'Rod's sound and lighting services', it was a delightful view with a beautiful display of colours and lighting effects against the cast's colourful and creative clothing designs and the white stage. When the scenes change, the set makes some subtle changes too. On another note, the music production was on point with every show and added to the perfection of the show.
I ended up with over 1200 photos from the shows, only to keep around 400. DVDs for the cast and production team members were also created for their own mementos and perhaps portfolios.
Well done again to Kenney, the production crew, orchestra and the cast for making it a grand spectacle!
Today's photo shoot took place at the Zenbu Grappling Dojo and was hosted by Studio 1A by Pania Newport and Christopher Getts (Thanks guys for this amazing opportunity!). The goal was to practice shooting indoor sports and capture the action using various techniques like hi-Speed photography with the on-camera flash to freeze the action, with panning and motion blurring as well.
I was so excited and grateful to do this shoot because of my previous experience practicing judo and keen interest in other martial arts. And also for the chance to meet and photograph the judo champion Mark Brewer and up-comer Oren Janiv with the Zenbu team of black belts training in their element. It is always nice to see the camaraderie and friendly competition between the judoka as man sharpens man.
Mark Brewer, a tall judo athlete with an intimidating physique currently ranking 25th in the world for the 81 kilogram weight division and is also a New Zealand, Australian & Oceania Champion. He recently won the Gold at the Australian International Judo competition and will be representing New Zealand at the Commonwealth games in Glasgow 2014 too "so best of luck to you Mark, I will be cheering for you!".


This picture is a re-post from a gallery of cloud pictures. I see why Captain Obvious found the best deals. From this vantage point he can see everything.
Thanks I took that in the summer and couldn't decide who it looked like .
Thanks. Truth is I really didn't know until I looked at a series of pictures, and thought who is that?
That has happened to me before as well. I still have to find that one picture I took a few years back. It was of a lake shoreline and I noticed nothing taking the picture. I thought it was cool but that was it. Later the physical photograph turned from a landscape into a portrait and what I saw was creepy and cool at the same time. The branches along the shoreline looked like a part of a skeleton with the alien like skull attached. I really have to find that picture.
I would like to see that one.


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Le bosquet de l'Obélisque est un bosquet des jardins de Versailles.

Localisation
Le Bosquet de l'Obélisque jouxte le Bosquet de l'Encelade dont il est séparé par l'allée de Cérès et de Flore. Il est également bordé par l'allée de Flore à l'Est et l'allée du Petit Pont au nord.

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Décoration

Histoire
Il a été créé en 1671 et restauré en 1704. Avant à sa place il y avait la salle des festins ou salle de conseils.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Jardins de Versailles

Liens externes
 Bosquet de l'Obélisque

Obélisque

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On this 14th Sunday after Pentecost, our Gospel (John 6:56-69) tells of the disciples being offended by Jesus's claim that his followers must eat his flesh and drink his blood. Jesus told them he is the bread that comes from heaven and whoever eats this bread will live forever. With that, Jesus gave his disciples a choice…turn away or follow him. Peter was the only disciple to ask what alternatives they really had; to whom else would they go?
Pastor David reminded us that we have already been chosen by God. And, in turn, we are invited to choose God over and over again. We make this decision many times a day. And often it is a difficult choice. But like Peter, in our hearts we know, the only real choice is the life-giving choice.
Click the link below to hear the Gospel reading and Pastor David's sermon, "Choose".


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All the President's Men to Open TCM Classic Film Festival
17 Mar 2016 - By TW Staff
The line-up's been announced for the 2016 Turner Classic Movies Classic Film Festival, and boy are you in for a treat.
The festival, which runs April 28 to May 1 in Hollywood, will open with a 40th Anniversary screening of the Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman political thriller All The President's Men. This year's festival will also include tributes to director-writer Carl Reiner and actor Elliot Gould, and appearances by Eva Marie Saint, director John Singleton, actor Stacey Keach and French actress Anna Karina.
Planned special events include the North American premiere of 1960's Holiday in Spain (aka Scent of Mystery, presented in "Smell-O-Vision"), and an opening-night poolside screening of Harold Lloyd's classic The Freshman.
Passes are on sale now, so be sure to visit filmfestival.tcm.com.
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E3 2013: Diablo 3 (console) hands-on
Diablo 3 makes a surprisingly graceful transition over to the console, but I still have my doubts about whether that'll be enough to attract an audience.
When Blizzard finally announced that D3 was headed over to the PS3 and Xbox 360, the first question that most Diablo fans asked was "How are you supposed to play that game with a controller?" The answer is simply "Surprisingly well."
The left analog stick controls your character, while the right analog stick controls your dodge moves, a-la God of War. The cross/A button does your basic strike, while pretty much every other button on the controller is a customizable "hotkey" that you can map your special skills, potions, or other items to. Obviously, a controller is never going to give you as many shortcut keys as a keyboard will, but the game played surprisingly well: there's enough hotkeys to give you access to all your essential skills during combat, and the dodge maneuver was actually a little easier to execute on the console than it was on PC.
New to the console version is the ability to have four players on one TV for local co-op. This sounds like a good idea on paper, but in practice, it was simply too chaotic: since all four players have to stay on the same screen, you couldn't split off and explore on your own, and when the screen became crowded with enemies and spell effects, it became hard to keep track of where my character was and what direction they were facing. On the plus side, the console versions will still feature the same online multiplayer that the PC version had (sans the real-money auction house,) so if want to play multiplayer but still want a screen all for yourself, you should opt for online rather than local co-op.
Blizzard has managed to pull off the impossible and has created a port of Diablo 3 that (besides for the local co-op,) works just as well on consoles as it does on PC. The question now is if anyone still cares: while Diablo 3 sold a lot on its initial launch, the game got a mixed reception from hardcore fans of the series, so sales quickly tapered off and the number of players still active on Battle.net sharply declined. Still, despite the game's mixed reputation, Diablo is still one of the biggest franchises in gaming, and it'll be interesting to see how console audiences receive it.
Diablo 3 will be released for the Xbox 360 and PS3 this September. A Playstation 4 version is also in the works, but a release date for that platform hasn't been announced yet.
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Jorinus van der Wiel (* 15. August 1893 in Utrecht; † 5. März 1960) war ein niederländischer Radrennfahrer.

Fünfmal wurde Jorinus van der Wiel zwischen 1915 und 1925 Niederländischer Meister im Straßenrennen und hält damit bis heute den Rekord. Zweimal belegte er den zweiten, einmal den dritten Platz. Ein weiterer Gewinn des Titels im Jahr 1926 wurde ihm verwehrt, indem er auf den zweiten Platz hinter Klaas van Nek zurückgesetzt wurde.

Anschließend ließ sich van der Wiel reamateurisieren und wurde 1929 nochmals Zweiter der Niederländischen Meisterschaften bei den Amateuren.

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Jhumpa Lahiri | Finding delight.
Mourning those Summer months? Me either! I'm too excited about wrapping up, burrito-style, in a fluffy blanket with a good book and something pumpkin spice close at hand.
But for real, what better reason than a temperature turn-down to share a few favorite books I think would be perfect for your Fall reading list.
Tina Fey's book is short, messy, and impossibly funny (an apt description of the comedian herself). From her humble roots growing up in Pennsylvania to her days doing amateur improv in Chicago to her early sketches on SNL, Fey gives us a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain of modern comedy with equal doses of wit, candor, and self-deprecation.
There's always something to be learned from the life experiences of fascinating (and funny!) people. This book provides a peek into the worlds of improv, SNL, and 30 Rock–all with Fey's famous humor.
Down the muddy waters of the Yangtze River, through the raucous glamour of prewar Shanghai and the bohemian splendor of 1920s Paris, and back to a China teetering on the brink of revolution: this is the epic story of Pan Yuliang, one of the most talented—and provocative—Chinese artists of the twentieth century.
Historical fiction so researched and rich in details that you will find yourself completely immersed in another time and place.
Antoine Rey thought he had the perfect surprise for his sister Mélanie's birthday: a weekend by the sea at Noirmoutier Island , where the pair spent many happy childhood summers playing on the beach. But the island's haunting beauty triggers more than happy memories.
A French family, a fascinating story, and an unraveling secret at the heart of it all that will keep you reading well past your bedtime. Beware: you may finish de Rosnay's mystery novel in one go!
Rather than follow a plot, this book follows a life. The resulting prose is breathtaking in it's beauty.
In this book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in a makeshift settlement near the Mumbai airport. Based on years of uncompromising reporting, it carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century's hidden worlds—and into the hearts of families impossible to forget.
True to the style of "embedded journalism," Boo embedded herself in a slum so readers could see, hear, and understand the residents and their challenges.
What are YOU reading this Fall? Share below!


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Platelets are one of the most common defects occurring in natural diamonds but their behaviour has not previously been well understood. Recent technical advances, and a much improved understanding of the correct interpretation of the main infrared (IR) feature associated with platelets (Speich et al. 2017), facilitated a systematic study of platelets in 40 natural diamonds. Three different types of platelet behaviour were identified here. Regular diamonds show linear correlations between both B-centre concentrations and platelet density and also between platelet size and platelet density. Irregular diamonds display reduced platelet density due to platelet breakdown, anomalously large or small platelets and a larger platelet size distribution. These features are indicative of high mantle storage temperatures. Finally, a previously unreported category of subregular diamonds is defined. These diamonds experienced low mantle residence temperatures and show smaller than expected platelets. Combining the systematic variation in platelet density with temperatures of mantle storage, determined by nitrogen aggregation, we can demonstrate that platelet degradation proceeds at a predictable rate. Thus, in platelet-bearing diamonds where N aggregation is complete, an estimate of annealing temperature can now be made for the first time.


Introduced to students by Stephanie Little, Upper School Art Instructor, students had the opportunity to meet Ms. London at a reception inaugurating her exhibit in the Blosser Gallery.
Ms. London's work will be displayed in the Blosser Art Gallery through March for students and faculty to enjoy.
Lower School students visiting Marlene London's exhibit.
Lower School artist working on their Marlene London-inspired sketch.
Middle School student working on a sculpture inspired by Marlene London.
Middle School student working on a painting inspired by Marlene London.
Middle School student shows off her Marlene London-inspired painting.


Discussion in 'Spigot Plugin Development' started by Aikar, Apr 19, 2017.
Does anyone know why people are getting this issue.
Sooo.... Could anyone help me please.
Thing is it only happens for one person, everyone else doesn't have this issues. Could it be that he is hosting his server from his pc?
Is there a way to use a string with multiple arguments? I know how to do it without ACF but how do I do it with ACF?
Can you expand upon that? What do you mean?
2) permissions on /root commands should now be implemented more reliably so that if a player doesn't have access to any subcommand, they shouldn't see it in tab, where as before it was iffy (it had some setting if the class file itself had a permission defined but it wasn't 'right'), but now it should be fairly logical on handling. bungee is still iffy due to bungee being limited on API for this.
3) fixed a bug per discussion with @TehNeon for CommandCompletionContext#getContextValue incorrectly parsing too many args, but that would only be applicable to you if you implement contextual completion handlers which is pretty advanced.
@Splodgebox build script? did you happen to relocate "co.aikar.timings" instead of "co.aikar.timings.lib"?
Shouldn't that be added to https://github.com/aikar/commands/wiki/Maven-Setup ?
ideally I want the acf jar that bundles minecraft-timings to already have it relocated.
So it's enough to relocate co.aikar.commands?
I just want to make sure I do it the right way before releasing the next update.
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Prosecutors have indicted a California man over his alleged involvement in an investment scam that bilked an ex-NFL player of $4.5M. Kenneth Ray Cleveland faces multiple counts of money laundering and wire fraud.
The 63-year-old money manager served as the NFL player's financial adviser for years beginning when the ex-pro athlete, who played with the Indianapolis Colts for several years, graduated college and joined the NFL. Court documents don't name the victim.
According to prosecutors, Cleveland used $2M of the ex-NFL athlete's funds to pay other clients in a Ponzi scheme he allegedly ran. The money manager used another $2M of the player's money to cover his own expenses, including his mortgage.
Cleveland purportedly told the ex-NFLer that his funds would be placed in conservative investments that would garner him significant interest each month without lowering the principal funds. The athlete reportedly gave the money manager millions of dollars to invest.
Prosecutors said that Cleveland told the client that the investments were doing well and that the money manager allegedly generating bogus financial statements. The fraud failed when the player requested the return of his money, which Cleveland could not do because he had spent the funds.
Unfortunately, too many professional athletes have become the victim of investment fraud. This can be detrimental to them and their families. At The SSEK Partners Group, we represent high net worth individuals, including professional athletes, in helping them to recover their losses. Contact our securities law firm today to request your free case consultation.
Another person indicted this month for bilking pro athletes is Leon Smith, who is the ex-Kentucky basketball director and a former NCAA employee. Smith operated Legacy Athlete Management and Legacy Pro Management Group.
According to his indictment, which lists 14 fraud counts, Smith defrauded athletes of almost $1.3M, as well as committed money laundering and aggravated identity theft. He allegedly moved their funds in to his own business accounts.
The indictment states that Smith misappropriated these investors' money between September 2011 through January 2015. Although the professional athletes aren't named in the indictment, Yahoo identified three of them as ex-NBA players Josh Harrellson and Darius Miller and Utah Jazz player Shelvin Mack. The athletes reportedly gave Smith the authority to perform financial transactions for them, and they had given him their account information, social security numbers, birth dates, and other pertinent information.


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07.13.2019 @ 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Join The Writer's Center and instructor Alexandra Viets to learn more about our upcoming year-long screenwriting workshop! This info session will allow interested screenwriters to meet Alexandra and ask questions about the program. For complete program details and how to apply, click here.
Screenwriting Intensive: A Year of Film
Fall 2019- Summer 2020
This year-long workshop will provide participants a structured setting to complete, revise, and workshop a feature-length screenplay under the direction of an award-winning professional screenwriter. Each participant will have the opportunity to present a total of 250 pages, to include an original draft and the completed revision of a feature script. The course will be limited to ten participants to provide an intensive, MFA level of discipline and rigor.
Other benefits include
Scene breakdowns with readings by actors from Acme Theater Corporation of Baltimore
Guest speakers presenting their experiences writing and taking a screenplay into production
A staged reading of participant scenes at The Writer's Center
Free access to a Workspaces at The Writer's Center during the full year (valued at $1,000)
The class will meet every other week for twenty-one sessions from September 12 –December 19 and again from January 9 – June 25, 2020.
Preference will be given to intermediate to advanced screenwriters who are already immersed in a screenplay project. Serious applicants should send a letter of interest along with a writing sample of a completed first act (approximately 25-30 pages) to laura.spencer@writer.org by August 2.
The workshop will include discussion of craft, including but not limited to filmic structure, character development, scene dynamics, and dialogue. A typical class will be divided between a craft lecture in addition to the workshopping of pages by two participants. Workshopping will involve the casting of parts among the group and reading scenes aloud prior to a critique. Through this process, the screenwriter is able to 'hear' their work before receiving both written and oral comments from the class. Craft discussions will incorporate screenings of film clips to help illustrate and identify a technique of particular interest and need.
In the fall, participants will work intensively on scenes with local actors from the Acme Theater Corporation of Baltimore to do character and scene breakdowns, including experimenting with different line deliveries. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss character biographies with actors and get feedback on how to deepen and further develop their vision. This same process with actors will be duplicated in late spring, before a revised screenplay is completed. Writing exercises will include establishing a memory-bank of character sketches that will be added to throughout the year. This will engage writers in the process of active listening and working to fictionalize characters drawn from everyday life—becoming a 'human ear.'
During the year, one or two guest screenwriters will present on the experience of writing a feature-length screenplay, including the process of taking the screenplay into production. Among those to speak will be Jeanine Dominy, a New York-based writer, whose feature screenplay, Dangerous Beauty (1998), was based on the true-life story of a 16th century Venetian courtesan and directed by Marshal Herskovitz. A screening of the film will precede her visit. Participants will also gain the practice of pitching their projects to a seasoned producer after a script revision has been workshopped. This will involve learning to speak fluently and convincingly about the completed script as part of its final presentation. At the end of the course there will be a staged reading of participant scenes at The Writer's Center.
About Alexandra Viets
Alexandra Viets is a screenwriter and journalist who received her M.F.A. from Columbia University. Her first feature-length screenplay, Cotton Mary, was produced by Merchant Ivory. Her most recent screenplay, Ask Me No Questions, won Best Screenplay for 2018 at the Auckland International Film Festival. She teaches at Johns Hopkins University. More about her at: https://alexandraviets.com/.
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Though I am serious about the end of posting about age, I agree with Dave that the conversation it sparked is the beginning of something. It always is.
So yes, Dave of course I'd love to learn more about Hypercamp, Checkbox News, Podcast Player and Social Camera.
This whole dustup reminds me of the time Jackson insulted Ethan in the comments to my Free Music post and by the end of that flame war they were trading CDs of bands they've recorded.
Blogging is the adult Facebook and Dave's search for an open network will start in the blogs. It already has.


Prayer is a commandment upon all Muslims. It is one of the 5 Pillars of Islam and forms the basis of our Deen. It is essential for all Muslims to perform Salat 5 times a day, and beyond this requisite, there are many other prayers for us to further enhance our faith through our worship and obedience to Allah the Almighty.
Are we able to perform our prayers adequately and sufficiently? Do we know the inner details of how to perform Wudhu, Salah and Ghusl? How do we perform the Forgetfulness Prostration (Sujud Sahwi)? What are the pre-requisites and practices for shortening or joining prayers for travel or rain?
These are just some of the topics and aspects surrounding prayers that we need to know and understand to perform our prayers effectively and accurately.
This course will discuss these topics in greater detail and further enhance the beauty of your prayers to Allah The Almighty, Insha'Allah. It is suitable for those who wants to learn how to perform the five obligatory Salah/Prayer, and it is also a recommended refresher course for Muslim parents and educators living in contemporary Singapore.
The Essentials of Prayers course consists of 6 lessons which covers the Theory and Practical aspects of Ablution/Wudhu' and Salah. Course Notes and a Prayer Book will be provided.
Ahmad Khalil received his early education from Madrasah Aljunied Al-Islamiah. He pursued his secondary education in Kuwait under a scholarship programme and now holds a degree in Comparative Jurisprudence from Kuwait University. While in Kuwait, he actively attended talaqqi classes with prominent scholars such as Sheikh Ahmad An-Nisf and Sheikh Ahmad Al-'Ubaid. Both were students of Habib Salim Bin Abdullah As-Syatiri, a teacher at Rubat Tarim as well as Habib Zein Bin Ibrahim Bin Semait, a Shafiee Shoghir (well-versed in Fiqh Shafiee) and one of the founders of Rubat Al-Jufri in Madinah Al-Munawwarah. His pursuit of knowledge persisted after graduation, and he consistently attends classes with local teachers and scholars in Singapore. He is currently a Senior Teacher at Andalus and teaches at SimplyIslam as well.


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Q: DataSet or Reader or What? When using a Class to get one row of Data from the Database what is best to use:

*

*A DataSet?

*A Reader and do what store the data in a Structure?

*What else?

Thanks for your time, Nathan

A: A DataReader is always your best choice--provided that it is compatible with your usage.  DataReaders are very fast, efficient, and lightweight--but they carry the requirement that you maintain an active/open db connection for their lifecycle, this means they can't be marshalled across AppDomains (or across webservices, etc).
DataSets are actually populated by DataReaders--they are eager-loaded (all data is populated before any is accessed) and are therefore less performant, but they have the added benefit of being serializable (they're essentially just a DTO) and that means they're easy to carry across AppDomains or webservices.
The difference is sometimes summed up by saying "DataReaders are ideal for ADO.NET ONLINE (implying that it's fine to keep the db connection open) whereas DataSets are ideal for ADO.NET OFFLINE (where the consumer can't necessarily connect directly to the database).

A: DataAdapter (which fills a DataSet) uses a DataReader to do so.
So, DataReader is always more lightweight and easier to use than a DataAdapter. DataSets and DataTables always have a huge  overhead in terms of memory usage. Makes no difference if you are fetching a single row, but makes a huge difference for bigger result sets.
If you are fetching a fixed number of items, in MS SQL Server, output variables from a stored proc (or parameterized command) usually perform best.

A: if you use a reader you must have a open connection to your database generally a DataReader is used for fetch a combo or dataGrid, but if you want to stock your data in memory and you close our data base connexion you must use Datatable
Note : excuse my english level

A: If you just want read-only access to the data, then go with a raw DataReader; it's the fasted and most lightweight data access method.
However, if you intend to alter the data and save back to the database, then I would recommend using a DataAdapter and a DataSet (even a typed DataSet) because the DataSet class takes care of tracking changes, additions and deletions to the set which makes saves much easier.  Additionally, if you have multiple tables in the dataset, you can model the referential constraints between them in the dataset.

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The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics was won by leaders of the Super-Kamiokande and SNO neutrino experiments, Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald, respectively. The Super-Kamiokande (Super-K) experiment in Japan showed that neutrinos oscillated, and therefore had mass. The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) experiment in Canada showed that detected solar electron neutrinos were a third of the calculated initial flux of solar electron neutrinos because they were oscillating, and reappearing as electron, muon and tau neutrinos. The sum of all neutrinos detected by their neutral weak currents was equal to the initial produced electron neutrino flux.
The Neutrino properties and the experiments are explained in the Physics Nobel Prize Popular Science Background, with the more advanced version in the Scientific Background.
UC Irvine has had participation in these experiments from their beginnings. Prof. Herbert Chen was the designer and initiator of the SNO experiment in 1984 before he passed away in 1987. Here is his Memorium by his UC Irvine colleagues. His UCI colleagues in the experiment were Peter Doe and John Lathrop. The idea of detecting the scattering of neutrinos off of deuterons or heavy water arose in its observation by the UCI neutrino group of Frederick Reines in an experiment at the Savannah River nuclear reactor. Herbert Chen was a co-spokesman at the start of the SNO experiment. This is noted on page 8 of the Scientific Background.
Herbert Chen's proposal began with his Physical Review Letter with him as sole author in Vol. 55, Number 14, 1534-1536, Sept. (1985). That article was titled "Direct Approach to Resolve the Solar-Neutrino Problem". He was an author of the "Proposal to Build a Neutrino Observatory in Sudbury, Canada" in Il Nuovo Cimento, Vol. 9 C, N. 2, Marzo-Aprile 1986.
The US contributions to the Super-K experiment are from experimenters at UC Irvine, Boston University, Duke University, and Stony Brook.
UC Irvine has played a leadership role in Super-K. Prof. Henry W. Sobel is co-US spokesperson, along with Jim Stone of Boston University. At UCI, the low energy analysis is headed by Michael Smy. At Boston University, Ed Kearns of Boston University and Takaaki Kajita of Tokyo University lead the high energy analysis.
At UC Irvine, Prof. Henry W. Sobel, Michael Smy, Bill Kropp, Shunichi Mine, Jeff Griskevich, Prof. Mark Vagins, are contributing to the planning and running of Super-K, and the analysis of its data.
The Nobel Prize for the 1998 Super-K discovery for the oscillation of atmospheric muon neutrinos was led by Takaaki Kajita. The UC Irvine group that worked on that were: T. Barszczak, D. Casper, W. Gajewski, P. G. Halverson , J. Hsu, W. R. Kropp, L. R. Price, F. Reines, M. Smy, H. W. Sobel, and M. R. Vagins. Their result was announced in the paper: Evidence for Oscillation of Atmospheric Neutrinos in Physical Review Letters, Volume 81, Number 8, p. 1562 of August 24, 1998.
This is a new photo of Henry Sobel, Michael Smy, and William Kropp in front of a picture of the photocells in the Super-K detector.
Last year I gave a course to the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UC Irvine on Neutrino Mysteries. It explained atmospheric neutrinos, solar neutrinos, and neutrino oscillations. It also showed the mysteries to be solved in the future.
Many thanks to Henry Sobel and William Kropp for the information for this article, and to William Kropp for the picture of Herb Chen.
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Coin Fire has learned exclusively that tonight during The Alex Jones Show on Chain Radio that controversial talk host Alex Jones will announce that his website InfoWars.com and the Info Wars Store will begin officially accepting Bitcoin in the next few weeks.
The announcement is expected to come at the beginning of the 3rd hour of The Alex Jones Show (tonight at midnight Eastern) this evening after some discussion regarding bitcoin near the end of the 2nd hour of The Alex Jones Show where he discussed bitcoin with Shooter Jennings, the son of country music legend Waylon Jennings, who is releasing a new album and came on the program to speak about it with Jones.
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I mean if you read I stated why but instead you wanted a 1 word answer....... I don't go straight agi. Then again if you want to learn then you have to read.
I don't gem haste over agility as explained in my last post responding to you.


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var express = require('express');
var session = require('express-session');
var bodyParser  = require('body-parser');
var fs = require('fs');
var app = express();
var user = {
    username: null,
    password: null,
    email: null,
    set(username: string, password: string, email: string) {
        this.username = username;
        this.password = password;
        this.email = email;
    },
    clear() {
        this.username = null;
        this.password = null;
        this.email = null;
    }
};

var port: number = 80;
app.listen(port, function () {
    console.log('Annapolis-forum app listening on port ' + port + '!');

});

const path = require('path');
//app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public'))); //<-- can be used if see OS dependent issues
app.use(express.static('./public/'));
app.use(bodyParser());

const dbErrorMessage = "Server is experiencing database connectivity issues. Please try again later.";
//Remember sending responses from different sources may need res.append('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*');

app.get('/api/recent-threads', function (req, res) {
    var queryString = `
    SELECT DISTINCT threads.thread_name AS name, threads.thread_id AS id, threads.author AS author,
        posts.post_text AS firstPost, MIN(posts.datetime) AS timestamp, COUNT(posts.post_id) AS size
        FROM annapolis_forum.threads
    INNER JOIN annapolis_forum.posts
    ON annapolis_forum.threads.thread_id=annapolis_forum.posts.thread_id
    GROUP BY threads.thread_name
    ORDER BY timestamp
    `;
    queryDB(queryString, function(err, result){
        if(err) {
            DB_log(err);
            res.status(500).json({"error" : dbErrorMessage});
        }
        else res.status(200).json({"data" : result, "error" : false});
    });
});

app.get('/api/search', function (req, res) {
    var params = req.query.params;
    try {var queryWords: string[] = parseQuery(params);}
    catch(err) {
        res.status(400).json({"error" : err.message});
        return;
    }

    //start on second word to avoid leading 'AND'
    var queryWordsSQL = "threads.thread_name LIKE '%" + queryWords[0] + "%'";
    for(var i = 1; i < queryWords.length; i++) {
        queryWordsSQL = queryWordsSQL + " AND threads.thread_name LIKE '%" + queryWords[i] + "%'";
    }
    var queryString = `
    SELECT DISTINCT threads.thread_name AS name, threads.thread_id AS id, threads.author AS author,
        posts.post_text AS firstPost, MIN(posts.datetime) AS timestamp, COUNT(posts.post_id) AS size
        FROM annapolis_forum.threads
    INNER JOIN annapolis_forum.posts
    ON annapolis_forum.threads.thread_id=annapolis_forum.posts.thread_id
    WHERE ` + queryWordsSQL + `
    GROUP BY threads.thread_name
    ORDER BY timestamp
    `;
    queryDB(queryString, function(err, result){
        if(err) {
            DB_log(err);
            res.status(500).json({"error" : dbErrorMessage});
        }
        else res.status(200).json({"data" : result, "error" : false});
    });
});

app.get('/api/thread/:id', function (req, res) {
    var threadId = req.params.id;
    var queryString = `SELECT thread_name AS name, author, thread_id AS id
        FROM annapolis_forum.threads WHERE thread_id=` + threadId;
    queryDB(queryString, function(err, result){
        if(err) res.status(500).json({"error" : dbErrorMessage});
        else res.status(200).json({"data" : result, "error" : false});
    });
});

app.get('/api/thread-posts/:id', function (req, res) {
    var threadId = req.params.id;
    var queryString = `SELECT post_text AS text, author, datetime AS timestamp
    FROM annapolis_forum.posts WHERE thread_id=` + threadId;
    queryDB(queryString, function(err, result){
        if(err) {
            DB_log(err);
            res.status(500).json({"error" : dbErrorMessage});
        }
        else if(result.length == 0) res.status(404).json({"error" : "Could not find thread requested."});
        else res.status(200).json({"data" : result, "error" : false});
    });
});

//optional to help with 404 redirects --
app.get('*', (req, res) => {
  res.sendFile(path.join(__dirname, 'public/index.html'));
});

//app.post('/api/thread/:id', checkAuthorized, function(req, res) {  <-- this can be used for auth
app.post('/api/thread/:id', checkAuthorized, function(req, res) {
    var newPost = req.body;
    //this try catch block is likely unnecessary - need to investigate SQL Injection Attacks more thoroughly
    try {newPost = cleanSQLObject(newPost);}
    catch(err) {
        DB_log(err);
        res.status(500).json({"error" : err.message});
        return;
    }

    var queryString = `
        INSERT INTO annapolis_forum.posts (thread_id, author, post_text)
        VALUES ('`+ newPost.threadId + `','` + newPost.author + `','` + newPost.text + `')`;

    queryDB(queryString, function(err, result){
        if(err) {
            DB_log(err);
            res.status(500).json({"error" : dbErrorMessage});
        }
        else res.status(201).json({"data" : result, "error" : false});
    });
});

//this end point makes 2 DB calls - the first creates the thread, the second logs the first post into that thread
app.post('/api/new-thread', checkAuthorized, function(req, res) {
    var newThread = req.body;
    try {newThread = cleanSQLObject(newThread);}
    catch(err) {
        res.status(400).json({"error" : err.message});
        return;
    }
    var queryString = `
        INSERT INTO annapolis_forum.threads (thread_name, author)
        VALUES ('`+ newThread.name + `','` + newThread.author + `')`;

    //splice new threadId between these once available
    var postQueryString1 = `INSERT INTO annapolis_forum.posts (thread_id, post_text, author) VALUES ('`;
    var postQueryString2 = `', '` + newThread.firstPost + `','` + newThread.author + `')`;

    queryDB(queryString, function(err, result) {
            if(err) {
                DB_log(err);
                res.status(500).json({"error" : dbErrorMessage});
            }
            else {
                //successful thread creation. Create first post.
                var newThreadId = result.insertId;
                queryDB(postQueryString1 + newThreadId + postQueryString2,
                    (err2, result) => {
                        if(err2) {
                            //in the unlikely event that the thread is created but not the first post, client can simply request a new thread
                            //db admin will need to clean out this dead thread later, since db is having issues right now
                            DB_log(err2);
                            res.status(500).json({"error" : "thread instatiated but first post lost"});
                            console.log("Failed first post on thead creation for threadId=" + newThreadId);
                        }
                        else res.status(201).json({"newThreadId": newThreadId});
                    });
            }
        }
    )
});

app.post('/api/login', function(req, res) {
    user.set(req.body.username, req.body.password, null);
    if (!checkAcceptedChars(req.body.username) || !checkAcceptedChars(req.body.password)) {
        res.status(401).json({"error" : "Invalid characters in username or password"});
    }
    else {
        var queryString = "SELECT password FROM annapolis_forum.users WHERE username='" + user.username + "'";
        queryDB(queryString, function(err, result){
            if(err || result.length == 0) res.status(401).json({"error" : "Username not found"});
            else if(result[0].password != user.password) res.status(401).json({"error" : "Password mismatch"});
            else {
                doLogin(user);
                res.status(200).json({"data" : result, "error" : false});
            }
        });
    }
});

app.post('/api/logout', function(req, res) {
    if (req.body.username != user.username) {
        console.log(req.body.username + " attempted to logout but was already logged out...");
    }
    doLogout();
    res.status(200).json({"data" : {"username": user}, "error" : false});
    user.set(null, null, null);
});

app.post('/api/signup', function(req, res) {
    //check if username is already in use
    if (!checkAcceptedChars(req.body.username) || !checkAcceptedChars(req.body.password)) {
        res.status(401).json({"error" : "Invalid characters in username or password"});
    }
    else if (req.body.email != null && (req.body.email.indexOf('\\') != -1 || req.body.email.indexOf("'") != -1) ) {
        res.status(401).json({"error" : "Invalid characters in email"});
    }
    else {
        var testUserExistsQuery = "SELECT 1 FROM annapolis_forum.users WHERE username='" + req.body.username + "'";
        queryDB(testUserExistsQuery, function(err, result){
            if(err) res.status(400).json({"error" : "Unexpected server error"});
            else if (result.length != 0) res.status(401).json({"error" : "That username already exists"});
            //Username does not already exist - create new user in db
            else {
                user.set(req.body.username, req.body.password, req.body.email);
                var queryString = `INSERT INTO annapolis_forum.users (username, password, email)
                    VALUES ('` + user.username + `', '` + user.password + `', '` + user.email + `')`;

                queryDB(queryString, function(err, result){
                    if(err) res.status(400).json({"error" : "Unexpected server error"});
                    else {
                        doLogin(user);
                        res.status(201).json({"data" : result, "error" : false});
                    }
                });
            }
        });
    }
});

function queryDB(queryString: string, callback: Function) {
    //should use pool to make this more dynamic & usable
    var dbConfig = require('./db-credentials');
    var mysql      = require('mysql');
    var connection = mysql.createConnection(dbConfig);
    connection.connect(function(err) {
        if (err) {
            console.error('error connecting: ' + err.stack);
            return;
        }
    });
    connection.query(queryString, function(err, result, fields) {
        connection.end();
        callback(err, result);
    });
}

function checkAuthorized(req, res, next) {
    if(session.user == null) {
        console.log("User attempting to post content without being logged in... Possible client-server misalignment");
        res.status(400).json({"error" : "Your login on the server has expired. Please refresh the page and log in again."});
    }
    else
        return next();
}

function doLogin(user) {
    session.user = user;
}

function doLogout() {
    session.user = null;
}

//This seems like duplicate code - could be consolidated with the functions below
//

//Escape all escape characters and single quotes to avoid DB malfunction
function parseQuery(params) {
    var newWord = '';
    var result = [];
    for (var i = 0; i < params.length; i++) {
        if(params[i] == ',' || params[i] == '\\') {
            result.push(newWord);
            newWord = '';
        }
        else if(params[i] == "'") newWord = newWord + '\\' + params[i];
        else newWord = newWord + params[i];
    }
    result.push(newWord);
    return result;
}

//Escape all escape characters and single quotes to avoid DB malfunction
function cleanSQLObject(object) {
    for (var key in object) {
        if (typeof object[key] === 'string') {
            object[key] = cleanSQLString(object[key]);
        }
    }
    return object;
}

function cleanSQLString(text) {
    var resultString = '';
    for(var i = 0; i < text.length; i++) {
        if(text[i] == "'" || text[i] == '\\') resultString = resultString + '\\' + text[i];
        else resultString = resultString + text[i];
    }
    return resultString;
}

function checkAcceptedChars(text) {
        for(var i = 0; i < text.length; i++) {
            if( /[^a-zA-Z0-9@.&\$\-]/.test( text[i]) ) return false;
        }
        return true;
}

function DB_log(newError: string) {
    var datetime = new Date();
    fs.appendFile("./db_communication.log", datetime + "--\r\n" + newError + "\r\n\r\n", null);
}

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candidates will be appointed in their own Block.
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in the field of tenders.
Salary: The salary will be at par industry segment.
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We are venturing into a new business where the manager has to go and meet entrepreneurs and business houses in cuttack . Has to get new business from them for a new line of business . He/she has to be fluent in English , Hindi and Oriya , pleasant personality and good selling skills and able to sell . Experienced people should apply only .


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By Scott Gottlieb
While going on rounds with one of my hospital's senior doctors back in 2000, I asked about an experimental drug being tested for treatment of serious blood infections. "Good drug," he said. "But patients on it seem to bleed a lot."
He was running clinical trials with the new medicine, so he knew what he was talking about. The Food and Drug Administration knew as well, because researchers like him routinely file secret reports with the agency, detailing any adverse events they encounter. It seemed as if the only people who didn't know about the problems were doctors like me, and our patients. But because I was accidentally privy to the same information the FDA had, when one of those patients started coughing up blood a few nights later, I knew enough to discontinue the medicine.
Two years later, information still is routinely withheld from thousands of doctors and their patients who are participating in clinical trials. The medical data are sealed up at the FDA, in the dense applications and interim reports that researchers must file before receiving the agency's approval to conduct trials or market new drugs.
These results are as important to portfolios as they are to patients. Consider the case of ImClone and its highly anticipated new drug Erbitux, one of a new class of targeted cancer drugs that disrupt the biochemical signals that catalyze tumor growth. Early results with the drug looked so good that ImClone's market capitalization rose to $5.5 billion, and Bristol-Myers paid $2 billion for a stake. But ImClone's stock plummeted when a secret letter from the FDA was leaked to a popular cancer newsletter, revealing that the agency had no intention of approving the drug.
There's good reason the FDA didn't want the letter circulating, since it revealed that the regulators trashing the trial's design had themselves approved that very same study design years earlier. While there are many interpretations of what went wrong, one of the issues disclosed by the ImClone debacle is the role that FDA information-hoarding has had on patients and on the markets that drug companies need to capitalize their life-saving research.
New-drug applications contain a truckload of information, revealing everything gleaned from the trials. But when that truck rolls through the FDA's door, the information on board is guarded by the agency's rules of secrecy, intended to give the experts quiet time to carefully review the data without the public's uneducated eyes peering in on them.
The agency should be posting the results from these filings as soon as it receives them or, better yet, releasing the progress reports that companies conducting FDA-sanctioned clinical trials must file annually. The data about a new drug's efficacy often is leaked, but important safety information remains bottled up until the bitter end. Participants in clinical trials especially deserve to see the investigational new-drug applications that companies file with the FDA before entering those studies. They should know the risks they may be taking.
The rapid release of these findings is growing more important as the FDA approval process becomes one big game. Companies like ImClone test drugs on terminally ill patients because such trials are easier to get past hospital review boards, easier to recruit patients for, and more easily prove marginal benefits. Then, once the drug is approved for some dreadful terminal disease, oncologists will use it "off label" for a variety of cancers, where they know tumor growth turns on a mechanism similar to that in the terminal disease.
On Wall Street, this information is valuable currency. Traders will go to great lengths to get market signals from medical researchers, and the tight lid the FDA keeps on clinical-trials data has spawned a thriving niche of boutique investment research firms that link money mangers with medical experts capable of giving investors a wink and a nod. The annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology -- this year's was held last month in Florida -- has become a holiday on Wall Street as word of the data being presented leaks to select investors a month in advance.
The drug industry is fearful of disclosing more information from any of these filings because the FDA has often mistakenly released sensitive trade secrets. But companies could bring their own lawyers to the task, steering the agency to sections that should be redacted to protect proprietary methodologies while releasing pertinent bottom line results.
Alas, the drug industry remains too focused on marginal gains to realize that the rapid release of test results would serve its long-term interests by embarrassing the agency into conducting speedier reviews.
If new-drug applications were released to the public right away, Wall Street would digest the information in a day and the public could ponder why it still takes the agency as long as a year and a half to reach the same conclusions.
It should also end the FDA's bad habit of talking out of both sides of its mouth, telling the industry one thing in private communications and another in its public documents. If information and communications between industry and the FDA were immediately released, the agency would have to stand by its word. Right now, the buzz in biotechnology circles is that the agency is giving companies "guidance" to dramatically increase the size of some Phase III trials in order to collect more safety data. It was whispered messages like these, gone unheeded, that sank ImClone.
A Congressional committee currently looking into ImClone's woes is finding just how tough it is to pierce the FDA's armor. The panel has taken the unusual step of sending subpoenas to some FDA officials to compel their testimony. The committee is exploring whether the FDA's secrecy laws make it easy for companies to mislead the public with overly optimistic pronouncements about their drugs' prospects.
All of this fits the larger pattern of a know-it-all agency suppressing the dissemination of important information like off-label uses for new medicines in order to protect its regulatory prerogatives. It fits the pattern of an FDA that has been slowly losing its collective mind, chastising companies for creating me-too drugs and rejecting a string of highly regarded medicines over marginal calls as it grows increasingly pusillanimous. A cold remedy turned down because a cold is not so bad. An anti-allergy drug rejected because we already have one. The Food and Drug Administration is supplanting its narrow mandate to make rulings based on science with its own peculiar market analysis -- deciding not what works, but what we need.
That presumption that we are incapable of independently interpreting medical information ignores the growing popularity of medical sources long thought intelligible only by doctors. People with non-medical backgrounds are the most frequent visitors to the British Medical Journals Website and the fastest-growing segment of the Journal of the American Medical Association's readers.
The FDA's job should be sound science, which requires the free flow of medical information. The excuse from the industry and from the agency -- that this kind of information only confuses ordinary people -- is a sure sign that the public ought to know it.
The FDA's reluctance to release data to the public can hurt patients ... and portfolios


Is virginity matters in a good marriage?
Virginity matters in principle but matters a lot to them who are curious to know the real fact of virginity of their spouse on the first night. Otherwise the meaning of virginity is nothing but to satisfy oneself.
I think only if one or the other doesn't have a very stable ego. I know in my own experience it hasn't mattered one bit -- my first husband and I were both virgins when we met, but it didn't stop him from later deciding that I must be eyeing every male in town just because he had a bad self-esteem. My current husband knows I'm not a virgin, obviously, since I have a son that's not biologically his, and he has four children from two previous marriages. However, it's this second marriage that has worked out very well, and where there is trust and happiness. I can see where someone wouldn't want to find out that their future wife/husband had slept with half the town, but in many cultures it doesn't seem to matter if there has been a previous lover as long as they are truly in the past. I know there are some cultures where this is considered unacceptable, but even then it seems like people should be able to acknowledge that their intended is human, and all humans learn through experience and mistakes.
How to start a good marriage.
What qualities make for a good marriage?
What qualities make for a good marriage?I've come up with two things:Fellow feeling (basically sympathy and empathy) with your partnerandAgreement on basic things like, broadly, how to raise kids what is important for you and your family.What have I missed and do you agree?
Now, married or unmarried yet, what is a sucessful marriage and how do you think it can be successful? What are the factors behind a successful mariage.............?
Can any marriage be saved?
Can any marriage be saved?Right now the divorce rate is up the roof. And people split up over nothing. Is it posible to save a relationship that is on the rocks?
"losing virginity before marriage should be legalized" Do you agree?


UGC NET 2015 Answer Key or CBSE NET 27th December Exam Answer Sheet/Paper Solution sets will be revealed soon to check along with expected Cut Off Marks at cbsenet.nic.in official website.
The Central Board of Secondary Education is all set to disclose UGC NET 2015 Answer Key for national level exam in short period on their authorized web portal. Well qualified and career oriented candidates in enormous numbers who were interested in grabbing teaching jobs have attended National Eligibility Test on 27/12/2015. Now examination is already over and all the contestants are keenly waiting for provisional paper solution sets i.e. Set A, Set B, Set C, Set D, etc. to release so that they can review their overall performance. Aspirants are advised to check or download CBSE NET Dec Exam Solution Paper pdf from the direct link provided below or by visiting main web page of board.
Central Board of Secondary Education is a National Educational Board in India that controls the education system of all its affiliated private and public schools. It was established on November 03, 1962 by the Central Government of India and headquartered at New Delhi. Ministry of Human Resources Development is a parent body of this organizational board. This board is entrusted with responsibility to conduct various recruitments, appointments and eligibility examinations such as CTET, AIPMT & NET. Annually six monthly in June and December on behalf of UGC it organizes the National Eligibility Test. In past, the University Grants Commission has announced that those aspirants who successfully clear NET exam would be qualified to crack jobs in any of the public sector undertaking (PSUs).
1.1 How to download UGC NET Dec Answer Key 2015?
Now per planned timetable on (Sunday) December 27, Central board has conducted University Grant Commission NET Examination for the recruitment of Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and Assistant Professor Post. Potential and eligible applicants around the country having qualification of Bachelor Degree or Post Degree in relevant discipline had attempted all three question papers that conducted by board. CBSE has hosted National Eligibility Test in different 83 subjects such as Computer Science, Commerce, Education, Mathematical, Environment Science, Social Science, Physical, Chemical Science, Life, Engineering and many more. This exam was well organized at 88 selected Cities throughout the India without any type of interruption.
According to sources, official solution key of UGC NET 2015 Paper 1, 2 & 3 will be published as per the schedule date within 10 days after its conductance. Candidates can download solved question answers of all papers in pdf files via online modes only after updated by board authority. As we know that answer key is a necessity for the contenders who had attend examination with dedication. It is a solution of the question paper that asked within test and through this process applicants can directly compare their answers. By this way candidates can predict what marks they are going to get within the exam.
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Home > International Finance > Asian Development Bank > Case Study: Why are the Farmers of a Power-Surplus State Like Tamil Nadu Resisiting High Tension Lines and Towers?
By Elizabeth Summers, Anuradha Munshi and Prarthana Gupta | August 9, 2018
The Transmission System Strengthening Project is a project to expand the interstate transmission network in western and southern India. The project, partly funded by ADB and AIIB (as co-financer) along with the Power Grid Corporation of India Limited, has serious environmental and social consequences — like the loss of livelihood, impact on agriculture— which has been completely overlooked. The case study shows how MDBs are finding new and indirect ways to continue supporting coal, in violation of their commitment to reduce and in some cases not support coal at all.
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I am one of a substantial number of people who consider Glastonbury and the Isle of Avalon as being more than an average World Heritage Site. The 5000+ year old ceremonial centre has been a place of pilgrimage since the time of the Celts and probably before. The hills are landscaped in such a way that Solar alignments are clearly marked and observable. The alignment of hills includes a ceremonial road from Wearyall Hill to Chalice Hill, a Winter Solstice viewing mound on top of St Edmunds Hill, and various sanctuaries and churches were built in and around the greater site.
Glastonbury was chosen by followers of Jesus to build what is undoubtedly one of the first Christian churches in the world. Archeology has established the circle of huts and central place of worship that was built as early as 37 AD and by 63 AD. This is confirmed by church and clerical writers and historical reports.
Glastonbury is visited by tens of thousands of people every year. People of almost every nation come to Glastonbury and to visit the Abbey and Glastonbury Tor.


The most successful content marketers are the ones that have executive buy-in for their efforts while those without complete support are still struggling to create the most comprehensive, winning strategies. Knowing that you need the nod from your management is one thing, knowing how to get it is another. On a recent episode of FOUND Friday, GinzaMetrics' COO, Erin O'Brien, and I discussed some specific tactics and strategies for getting your executive team on board.
Start with the facts. Let your executives know exactly where your marketing efforts are working and where your proposed approach will show improvement. Be prepared to back up your statements with data and research that you've already collected.
"Folks on the executive team are busy and typically focused on top-line goals,that 60,000 foot view of the organization, so it's really important to approach any conversation with them with a few things in mind," suggests Erin.
Having buy-in from members of other departments, or even other members of the executive team who already know the value of a content marketing program will help you make the case for your plan. Presenting a clear,unified message along with a defined path for moving forward will help you get what you need from busy members of upper management.
Use data to show that content marketing is the best way to get ROI for your efforts. Put your traditional marketing efforts to the same test as your content marketing efforts and put the data side by side. There's a lot of data out there, so make sure you're measuring your efforts in a way that can be quantified.
"I don't want to sound like a broken record, but I want to go back to what I said on previous episodes, which is that you need to be able to know what specifically about marketing is and isn't working. The way I like to approach this is with the medium, method, and message kind of methodology," stated Erin.
Medium: the channels where you distribute your content. To know if the method is working, distribute the same piece of content on various channels at the same time and measure which channels get the most conversions. For example: to measure the effectiveness of video distribution, put it on YouTube, your website landing pages, and Vimeo.
Method: the vehicles that carry your message. The types of content you use to carry your message may include videos, white papers, slide decks, case studies, e-books, advertising, and others. Put your message out in a variety of methods and measure which one brings the most traffic to your site.
Message: the specific verbiage, type of imagery, video style, tone, whatever it is that's included in all of your deliverables. Try your message in a variety of methods to see what resonates with your audience.
For more information about how to create effective measurement methodologies, click here.
Get the buy-in you n eed to launch a pilot program. Presenting your plan as a short-term pilot gives the executive team a chance to see some results and also to know that they have not signed on to a long-term program with no turning back. By its very nature, content marketing is more flexible than traditional marketing programs because adjustments can be made along the way without the costs associated with changing directions with some of the traditional marketing methods.
What a pilot program looks like in your organization and how you get buy in for it will depend on your organizational size and your place within that organization. Start now by communicating with other people within the organization to get their agreement and buy-in for what you are wanting to do. In some cases, you may be able to go ahead with a pilot program and show the results as a way to get buy-in for a larger program in the future.
"If you've got a department or a team that you manage and can start something up and continue to accomplish other organizational goals, I'd say go ahead and go for it with a small pilot or test campaign as long as you're not jeopardizing other programs that you are responsible for already," recommends Erin.
Set up your pilot program so that you can show some measurable results and show how that can be expanded. Be sure to build in all the measurement on the front end and come back with ways that you can show how this can be expanded to other areas of the organization. This is where getting those other team members on board can really help you to sell your vision to upper management.
When we think of marketing, we're focused on getting new customers and, of course, the goal of any marketing program is that of ROI and conversions. But often, the goal of a growing business or even large enterprises is that of attracting and retaining the best talent.
"Recruitment is often named one of the top challenges by executives and managers. It's time-consuming, it's frustrating, it requires patience. Having great content can definitely help, I would say, in two specific areas," Erin stated.
Helping prospective team members get to know your organization better. The type, amount, and tone of your content should help them understand how you see yourself as an organization, where your priorities are, and help get a feel of the culture.
A way to get new marketing members up to speed on existing content and familiar with the tone and messaging that they will be helping to create.
In addition to being a resource for prospects, your content can help attract people who are already active in your space and responding to your messaging. Being in touch with other departments in your organization, such as HR, can help you to create content that will capitalize on the reasons people seek out your organization for their employment, Those things that attract people as employees are probably also reasons that attract customers. Get your employees involved in your content creation and let them help you tell your brand's story. As an added bonus, you may find that involving employees as evangelists will improve internal moral.
The sales funnel is not gone, it's just deconstructed. Content marketing allows prospects to enter into your messaging at many different phases of the funnel. Marketing is no longer constrained to the top of the funnel.
"Content marketing is not a tactic. Content marketing is a strategic layer that touches all of your marketing efforts. Everything is content – e-mails, advertisements, videos, white papers, website landing pages, forms, FAQs, customer resources, whatever – that's all content and it's all measurable. So when you look at things from that perspective, you really see that this idea of content marketing is really touching every aspect of the customer journey," notes Erin.
Start an education program about content marketing for your executive team. Let them know how marketing can benefit every point in the sales funnel including awareness, lead generation, lead nurturing, trial, or final consideration, new customer, and then retention and, hopefully, evangelism and referral. Help your executive team to start to see content as an extension, a way to move people through the funnel.
It can sometimes help to use a visual, or a single example to explain how content can be used flexibly at many points in the sales cycle. For example, video has been typically used at the top of the funnel. However, video is something that works well all the way through the funnel. Here are some ways to consider video as an asset to deliver many different messages.