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How Do Solar Cells Work?
What is the difference between the valence band and conduction band?
Why are semiconductors doped?
What is the difference between conductors, insulators, and semiconductors?
Solar cells convert light directly into electricity through some interesting atomic and quantum physics.
Atoms consist of a nucleus made up of protons (positively charged) and neutrons (no charge) surrounded by electrons (negatively charged). The electrons are in specific locations called shells. The outermost shell is called the valence shell. There are between one and eight electrons in this outer shell. In general, atoms combine by sharing electrons in such a way that they completely fill their valence shell.
Electricity is just the flow of free electrons – electrons which are not bound in the valence shell.
The range of energy holding the electrons in the valence shell is called the valence band. The range of energy of freely moving electrons is called the conduction band. In metals, the valence band and conduction band overlap, so electrons easily move from the valence band into the conduction band. Without an electric field to guide them, the electrons don't move very far.
In insulators, the energy distance between the valence band and the conduction band is very large, so electrons never move from the valence band into the conduction band. Since there are no electrons in the conduction band there can be no flow of electricity.
In semiconductors, the distance between the valance band and conduction band is very small. Sometimes, electrons randomly move into the conduction band and are free to flow as electricity – if there is an electric field to move them.
Semiconductors like silicon have four electrons in their valence shell and form crystals by sharing electrons with four neighbours – thus filling their valence shell. Pure semiconductor crystals are not very useful, so impurities are added to them. This is called doping.
Adding an element like phosphorus, which has five electrons in its valence shell, to the silicon crystal results in the extra phosphorus electron being weakly bound. This type of material is called n-type (negative-type) because it has an "excess" of electrons.
Adding an element like boron, which has three electrons in its valence shell, results in a crystal with missing electrons in the valence shell. This type of material is called p-type (positive-type) because it has an "excess" of "holes" (places where electrons can fill the valence shell).
When n-type and p-type materials are sandwiched together, the "excess" electrons move to fill the holes. This creates a depletion zone. The n-side has a small positive charge (because electrons moved into the p-material) and the p-side has a small negative charge because it has an excess of electrons. This creates an electric field between the two materials – but not a flow of electricity.
When a photon with enough energy enters the depletion zone and is absorbed by an electron in a valence shell, it will knock the electron out of the valence shell and into the conduction band. At this point, the electric field between the n and p material will accelerate the electron and it will move. Moving electrons are electricity.
The outmost shell of an atom is called the valence shell.
Electricity is only generated in the depletion zone of a solar cell.
Electricity is simply the flow of electrons.
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Colonial Beach is a quaint little town located on the northeastern tip of the Northern Neck in Virginia. Sitting along the Potomac River, it was known for its gambling back in the 1950's. Today visitors can still get a taste of betting at Riverboat on the Potomac which features betting on horse races as well as both Virginia and Maryland lottery, Keno and card game tournaments.
Colonial Beach is a great place to go swimming. The town features a large beachfront for swimming and wading along the Potomac on its east side.
Boating and other water sports are also very popular in this small town that boasts many areas for docking. Numerous marinas line the protective waters of Monroe Bay on the town's west side.
A free and newly renovated public boat launch is located on the southern tip of Colonial Beach along Monroe Bay Avenue. Inexpensive spaces to park vehicles and boat trailers are also available while you spend the day on the water.
A trolley system runs during the summer accessing every area of Colonial Beach or visitors can call one of the local cab services. Colonial Beach is a golf-cart community, sharing the road with vehicles and bicyclists. The downtown area features medium box stores with a mix of small quaint shops, including golf cart rentals, thrift stores and gift shops throughout.
A large population of artists have settled in Colonial Beach and the town has become a hub of local and visiting artists featured at various shops in town.
Nightlife in Colonial Beach is laid back and grown up, with a large variety of restaurant-style bars and pubs, many featuring live entertainment year round.
The town also has local private clubs such as the Moose lodge, American Legion, VFW and the Eagles. There is also a local group for boy scouts, girl scouts and Colonial Beach venture crew.
Colonial Beach is home to a host of large birds of prey, such as osprey, eagles and the occasional hawk.
Cranes, blue herons, swans, geese, ducks, seagulls, loons and a variety of small birds also reside year-round in Colonial Beach.
Blue crabs are plentiful in summer and oysters in winter thanks to conservation efforts that have brought back these local delicacies. Beginning in July area restaurants will also feature Snakehead fish. Many who have tried it, say it is just as tasty as Cod, Rockfish or Flounder.
Colonial Beach also offers many tackle shops to accommodate fishermen and the Potomac River Fisheries Commission is located in the downtown area on the corner of Taylor and Wilder Avenues.
Annual events include the Father's Day Car Show, Potomac River Festival and Bike Fest. Potomac River Festival features The Firemen's Parade, Grand Parade, fireworks and a carnival.
People come from miles around for the whole day to enjoy 4th of July fireworks.
Whether you come for a day, the weekend or a week, you're sure to fall in love with this little slice of paradise and come back again and again.


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Why American money is green
Esther Crain,
LearnVest
Mar. 17, 2017, 3:11 PM
It's a constant battle.
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Why don't we pay for things with, say, purple or red money?
Turns out making money green was a late 19th century way to thwart counterfeiters. In the decades leading up to the Civil War, currency was printed by state-backed and private banks in a variety of sizes and denominations.
Then in 1861, the federal government began issuing its own currency to help finance the war. Counterfeiting was rampant at the time; clever thieves would often scratch off faded ink from bills and change the dollar amount, or they would photograph them and pass the photos off as the real thing.
To prevent this, one side of these new bills was printed in a green-black ink, which was less likely to fade, says Mark Anderson, numismatic consultant at the Museum of American Finance in New York City (hence the greenbacks nickname). And since green wouldn't show up on the black-and-white-only photos of that era, it was easy to distinguish between a real bill and a photographed copy.
When the feds standardized the look of paper bills in 1929, the green on the back remained because green ink was plentiful, durable and associated with "the strong and stable credit of the government," according to the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Bureau of Engraving and Printing, which designs and produces money.
Of course, if you've taken a close look at your cash lately, you'll have noticed that bills produced in the last decade or so have splashes of subtle background color: purple, orangey copper, even blue. Did the Treasury Department hire fashionistas to spruce up our dollars? Not so much — it's part of the ongoing effort to thwart increasingly sophisticated counterfeiting methods.
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Sanjeev Kapoor, celebrity Chef and entrepreneur said, "I am happy to associate with The Akshaya Patra Foundation yet again on the launch of their seminal movement 'Feed The Future Now' after a successful Boston Benefit Gala fundraiser held in California in May this year. Akshaya Patra is all about giving nutritious food to children. My own journey of cooking food for my family and friends and presenting it to millions of viewers on television is in absolute sync with the Foundation's - the joy of giving is much more than the joy of receiving. We, especially our strong chef community across the globe, must all strive to make nutrition our agenda to make Feed the Future Now a mass movement and commit to the cause wholeheartedly.
Based on three pillars – Awareness, Nutrition and Education, the campaign will create a rallying call-to-action and promote policy advocacy as well as behavioral change on the twin issues of nutrition and education.


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Small-molecule inhibitors of the pseudaminic acid biosynthetic pathway : targeting motility as a key bacterial virulence factor
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Helicobacter pylori is motile by means of polar flagella, and this motility has been shown to play a critical role in pathogenicity. The major structural flagellin proteins have been shown to be glycosylated with the nonulosonate sugar, pseudaminic acid (Pse). This glycan is unique to microorganisms, and the process of flagellin glycosylation is required for H. pylori flagellar assembly and consequent motility. As such, the Pse biosynthetic pathway offers considerable potential as an antivirulence drug target, especially since motility is required for H. pylori colonization and persistence in the host. This report describes screening the five Pse biosynthetic enzymes for small-molecule inhibitors using both high-throughput screening (HTS) and in silico (virtual screening [VS]) approaches. Using a 100,000-compound library, 1,773 hits that exhibited a 40% threshold inhibition at a 10 μM concentration were identified by HTS. In addition, VS efforts using a 1.6-million compound library directed at two pathway enzymes identified 80 hits, 4 of which exhibited reasonable inhibition at a 10 μM concentration in vitro. Further secondary screening which identified 320 unique molecular structures or validated hits was performed. Following kinetic studies and structure-activity relationship (SAR) analysis of selected inhibitors from our refined list of 320 compounds, we demonstrated that three inhibitors with 50% inhibitory concentrations (IC50s) of approximately 14 μM, which belonged to a distinct chemical cluster, were able to penetrate the Gram-negative cell membrane and prevent formation of flagella.
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Why do hospitals and physicians have so many problems in capturing charges? On the surface, it sounds like it would be so easy to do. After all, these people know the work they did, and they want to get paid for what they do. If not them, then someone in the hospital should know what they did and how to capture that revenue, right?
It turns out that life, even for healthcare entities, just isn't like that. Some people have this misperception that hospitals are perfect, or are supposed to be perfect. That's not close to the case. After all, hospitals are run by people, and people aren't perfect. Processes aren't perfect, equipment isn't perfect, so things don't run perfectly all the time. And physicians aren't perfect either.
What's the issue here? The issue is that, unless a facility has someone specifically hired to review it, there's no one to regularly review the charge capture process. Let's think about it this way.
A hospital has many different ancillary (departments that create revenue) departments. Each one of those departments is stocked with personnel who went to school to get specifically trained on how to do something. If someone works in the lab, they got trained on how to work the equipment, how to measure out and store samples, how to read results, etc. What they weren't taught was how to capture charges; that has to be learned once they get into a hospital setting. And who teaches them that? Someone else who had to learn once they got into the hospital setting. And what often happens when someone is taught how to do something that isn't really their primary job? They learn one thing, one way, and that's it. They don't often ask further questions, so things start to stagnate.
Now, let's suppose that what they were taught was fairly accurate as far as the process goes. Then they'll at least know how to capture those charges that are on their charge sheet, or in their system. What happens when new charges are created by the AMA (American Medical Association) or CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)?
Many times, the people doing the actual work don't know that there are new charges, only that there are new procedures. They know that because physicians will request these tests be run, and the staff has been told that there are new tests that they will run. But they don't always put two and two together and realize that they're suddenly doing something that they can't charge for properly. So they'll do one of two things; they'll either not charge, or they'll pick something that's not legitimate, which is fraud; not good.
Now, maybe when they learn about these new items they should tell someone; however, more often than not, they either don't think about it much, or they're not quite sure who to tell. They believe it's either billing or medical records. Let's take a quick look at these two areas.
Billing, patient accounting, patient financial services; pick your term. They're responsible for making sure the bills go out, and most of their work is in trying to correct bills that come back unpaid for some reason. Billing doesn't always know much about charges, or how the charging process goes. They may know a little bit about CPT-4 (procedure) codes, ICD-9 (diagnosis) codes, or revenue codes, but only enough to try to get a claim paid. The billing department overall rarely keeps up on new charges and the like because they don't care; they're thinking that the departments are the ones doing it. For the most part, no one in the billing area knows anything about how to create new charges, or where they go in the computer system. They don't really care either; they have their own issues.
Medical records is in a similar position, only in a much different way. Medical records often knows where there are new procedures, but, for most outpatient services, they don't care because they don't usually code those services as far as procedure codes go. Medical records usually handles diagnosis coding across the board, but when it comes to procedures, they usually only know about those procedures they have to code on inpatient claims and surgery related claims, as those codes will have a significant impact on reimbursement. They don't keep up with the procedure codes for lab, radiology, physical therapy, etc, unless there's something really critical about those codes that have to go with other provided services.
The one department not mentioned here is IT or IS, Informational Technology or Informational Services, which many people just refer to as the "computer people". In many facilities, they're the ones who might add the charges onto the charge master, but they're the technical people. They don't come up with descriptions, prices, or codes; they only input them if necessary.
As for physicians, well, most of the time their charging process is fairly simple, but that's what gets them into trouble. Most physician billing has to do with what we refer to as visit charges, or office visits. These are fairly simple because they're based on time, and the categories are much simpler to deal with: is it a new or established patient; is it an inpatient or an outpatient; are you consulting or the primary physician.
It's when they have to bill for other services that problems start to occur; the same goes for nursing homes. In today's world, there are many services that physicians are billing for that they're really not allowed to bill for, and insurance companies are starting to take some of that money back. There are some services that are supposed to be billed along with other services that both physicians and hospitals miss; sometimes insurance companies will pay because they know they're getting off cheaply, and sometimes they'll just deny the claim and tell you that you didn't bill for everything, but may not tell you what was missed.
What can be done in helping hospitals and physicians take care of these issues? Let's talk only hospitals first. Any hospital that has more than 50 beds should have a charge master person of some sort on their staff. This person should be entrusted to keep the charge master up to date, reviewing all information that comes from all the insurance companies, and pass it along to all the ancillary departments affected by these changes. A good charge master person will increase your revenue and keep it at optimum performance, and hospitals will get as big a benefit from someone whose only job, or primary job, is working on the charge master, as they get from the people working in billing.
Now, if this person knows something about revenue and charge capture also, they're worth being paid more because this is your hospital's opportunity to work at optimum performance. Hospitals budget everything once a year. Hospitals also do a cost report for their major insurance payers each year. If your costs can reflect all the revenue that your hospital can possibly generate, you're likely going to get a higher percentage on your Medicare payments because more revenue helps reflect your costs better. Also, more revenue ends up meaning more cash; who doesn't want that?
When we talk about physicians, it's more critical to have someone to come in and review your revenue and billing processes, and less with charge masters, per se. This isn't a position that would benefit most physicians, but having a review of their revenue and receivables processes can only enhance their practices, especially as profit margins are decreasing and having a hard time keeping up with the rising costs of malpractice insurance, and the decreasing insurance reimbursements.
And just what do these positions, or reviews cost? You know what; it almost doesn't matter what it costs, because both entities are going to benefit more than the cost of either hiring a person or bringing in someone to do the review. I know some hospitals that are able to hire a charge master person for around $25,000 a year, and others who have to spend upwards of $100,000 or more a year for the same position. It depends on the size and location of the hospital.
The same goes for having a charge master or revenue/charge capture review. Depending on the size and the types of services offered by the hospital, a charge master review could cost anywhere from $10,000 to $50,000, sometimes more. Having someone come in to do a revenue review could cost anywhere from $25,000 to $500,000; those are large hospitals. Physicians will pay lower for reviews, around $5,000 to $15,000 for a review, based on the size and specialty of the practice.
What are the differences, and why can prices go to high? With a charge master review, usually someone reviews the charge master and the revenue report, comes in and meets with the departments just to ask some more questions and verify some other things, then produces a report of recommendations. That's pretty valuable,… but only if the facility has someone to implement the changes, which doesn't always happen. Now, if the hospital asks the person who reviewed the charge master is requested to implement the changes, it will cost more.
The same sort of thing happens with a revenue review, only the process is much more comprehensive. With a revenue review, the charge master is a part of the process, but more emphasis is placed on the full charge capture process, which is where hospitals and physicians are missing more of their revenue. In a revenue review, the recommendations are usually the beginning of new processes that every department will begin to implement, or at least they and administration becomes aware of what needs to happen. They also get an idea of what kind of revenue might be getting overlooked. And, if a hospital or physician decides to ask the people doing the review to actually work with them over the course of weeks, months, or even a year, of course the costs will go up.
Benefits are dual. One is information. If your operation is doing well and the review proves that, then you know that there are other changes and ideas that have to be brought in to help make things better. If your operation isn't doing well, then the benefits aren't only informational, but revenue and cash both increase, and your operation starts looking much better, because it is.
Every hospital, physician's group, nursing home, or FQHC (federally qualified health center) we've ever been in have shown drastic growth in both revenue and reimbursement. For one physician's office, his cash increased almost 100% with a quick review of his charges. For every hospital we've worked with, revenue has increased at least 30%, and during our last assignment the hospital increased its daily revenue rate by more than 100%, which translated into a 35% increase in payments. On another project, we were able to increase their revenue to a point where the average over the course of the year would have been 60%, and that was with taking some charges away that were being improperly charged.
Having either charge master or revenue process reviews is imperative to the operation of your facility or practice, especially since averages show that many hospitals have reviews of this type only every 3 to 5 years; one facility I worked with hadn't had their charges reviewed for almost 7 years. Think about how much money was lost during that period, and how much possible fraud was committed, which will get you on the back end. The costs may sometimes look prohibitive, but who in business wouldn't pay upwards of 10% to increase by 50% or more? In this case, the costs might end up coming close to .5%, if that.
To me, this is a no-brainer. But sometimes, there are misperceptions and expectations that some facilities and physicians might have before following through on hiring a company to do this for them. Hopefully, decisions will be made that will, ultimately, be to the benefit of each.


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510. (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), a petition in relation to a company may be presented by all or any of the following (separately or together):
(a) the company;
(b) the directors of the company;
(c) a creditor, or a contingent or prospective creditor (including an employee), of the company;
(d) a member or members of the company holding at the date of the presentation of the petition not less than one tenth of such of the paid-up share capital of the company as carries at that date the right of voting at general meetings of the company.
(2) Where the company referred to in section 509 is the holding company of an insurer, a petition may be presented only by the Central Bank, and subsection (1) shall not apply to the company.
(3) Where the company referred to in section 509 is—
(a) the holding company of a credit institution, or
(b) a company which one or more trustee savings banks have been reorganised into pursuant to an order under section 57 of the Trustee Savings Banks Act 1989,
a petition may be presented only by the Central Bank, and subsection (1) shall not apply to the company.
(4) Where the company referred to in section 509 is a Schedule 5 company, the following provisions shall apply:
(a) a petition may be presented by—
(i) any of the persons referred to in paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d) of subsection (1) (including by one or more of such persons acting together);
(ii) the Central Bank; or
(iii) one or more of such persons and the Central Bank acting together;
(b) if the Central Bank does not present a petition—
(i) the petitioner shall, before he or she presents the petition at the office of the court, cause to be received by the Central Bank a notice in writing of his or her intention to present the petition, and shall serve a copy of the petition on the Central Bank as soon as may be after the presentation of it at that office;
(ii) the Central Bank shall be entitled to appear and be heard at any hearing relating to the petition.
(5) In this section "Schedule 5 company" means a company falling within any provision (in so far as applicable to a private company limited by shares) of Schedule 5.
Modifications (not altering text):
Application of Part modified (1.01.2022) by Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Act 2019 (47/2019), s. 56(1), (2)(b), S.I. No. 728 of 2021.
Examinership: modification of Part 10 of Act of 2014 for purposes of application to AHBs
56. (1) For the purposes of the application of Part 10 of the Act of 2014 to a company that is an AHB, that Part shall apply to such a company subject to the modifications specified in subsection (2) and any other modifications necessary for those purposes.
(2) ...
(b) in section 510, the following subsection is inserted after subsection (5):
(6) Where the company referred to in section 509 is an approved housing body, the following provisions shall apply:
(i) any of the persons referred to in paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d) of subsection (1) (including by any one or more of such persons acting together),
(ii) the Regulator, or
(iii) one or more of such persons and the Regulator acting together;
(b) if the Regulator does not present a petition—
(i) the petitioner shall, before the petitioner presents the petition at the office of the court, cause to be received by the Regulator a notice, in writing, of the petitioner's intention to present the petition, and shall serve a copy of the petition on the Regulator as soon as may be after the presentation of it at that office,
(ii) the Regulator shall be entitled to appear and be heard at any hearing relating to the petition.


"You eat with your eyes first" is more than just a phrase. The Culinary Institute of America points out that food plating is the main focal point for restaurant guest. Plating supplies "drama, excitement, and interaction," and the CIA states that is is the chef's responsibility to make food that is eye-catching and attractive.
It's clear that chefs can bring the flavor, but an "attractive plate" is an ever-changing idea. Check out some techniques used to add visual appeal.


Rose Elizabeth Bird served as the first woman on the California Supreme Court, becoming the chief justice of one of the most prominent appellate courts in the United States. Bird became a controversial figure during the 1980s, as her adamant opposition to capital punishment drew fire from political conservatives. In 1986, these views led voters to remove her from office. In her nine years on the court, however, Bird led a liberal majority that strengthened environmental laws, consumer rights, and women's rights.
Bird was born on November 2, 1936, in Tucson, Arizona. She spent her childhood in Arizona and New York, where she graduated from Long Island University in 1958. She attended graduate school in political science at the University of California at Berkeley in 1960 but switched her career path to law when she entered Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law in 1962. After graduation in 1965, Bird was admitted to the practice of law in California.
public defender of the appellate division. As head of the appellate division, Bird oversaw all public defender criminal appeals to the California Courts of Appeal and the California Supreme Court. In addition to these duties, Bird served as an adjunct professor of law at Stanford University Law School from 1972 to 1974.
Bird's eventual rise to the California Supreme Court began when she became the chauffeur during Democrat Jerry Brown's campaign for the governorship in 1974. Following his election, Brown appointed Bird to his cabinet as secretary of agriculture. She spent most of her time in that office working to settle a series of ongoing disputes between growers and farm unions. Moreover, she drafted reforms to the state's farm labor law and to consumer legislation.
In 1977, after twenty-two months in the cabinet, Governor Brown appointed Bird, then age 40, as chief justice of the California Supreme Court. She gained immediate national prominence because she was the first woman to serve on the state's high court. As a member of a liberal majority, Bird established herself as a brilliant and combative judge. During her tenure, the court issued decisions that promoted environmental regulation and civil rights for racial minorities and women. Other decisions gave tenants more rights and poor women the right to have a state-funded abortion.
Coming from the public defenders office, the large corporate law firms and influential bar associations viewed her as an outsider. Bird signaled her disdain for the "old boys" system of privilege by selling the chief justice's Cadillac and by staying at inexpensive motels rather than at expensive hotels while on state business. She also exercised strong leadership over the administration of the courts. Bird promoted racial and gender diversity on the bench. During her tenure, more than one-thousand judges were appointed who were either persons of color or female. In addition, she led the court system to change its rules to allow cameras in the courtroom. Finally, she initiated a study of gender bias in the courts, a groundbreaking effort that was adopted by many other state courts during the 1980s and 1990s.
career. California reinstated the death penalty in 1977 over the veto of Governor Brown. Thus, Bird took the bench at the same time that death penalty appeals would return to the state supreme court. Although Bird never discussed her personal views while on the court, she voted to overturn all sixty-four death sentences under her consideration.
By the mid-1980s, conservative political leaders began attacking Bird and members of the liberal majority who regularly voted against the death sentence. In 1986, Republican Governor George Deukmejian, along with local prosecutors, led a hard-hitting campaign to remove Bird and fellow justices Cruz Reynoso and Joseph Grodin from the court. They became the first judges in state history to be removed from office in a retention election. A retention election allows citizens to vote to retain or oust the judge in which there are no opposing candidates. Governor Deukmejian then appointed three justices to fill the vacancies.
Following her defeat, Bird dropped from the public scene. She volunteered at a Palo Alto legal aid office, doing clerical work because she let her bar registration dues lapse. She also worked at a local food bank, taught for a short time in Australia at the University of Sydney, and lectured occasionally around the country. She died on December 4, 1999, in Palo Alto from complications related to breast cancer.
Beck, Susan. 1998. "Justice on the Run." American Lawyer (September): 76.
Cooper, Claire. 2000. "Rose Bird: The Last Interview." California Lawyer 20 (February): 38.
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Gatsby -- my favorite novel!
The Great Gatsby is one of the few "classic" novels I've read multiple times. I can't wait to see the latest movie version of this story. The reviews are not good, but I want to see it and decide for myself.
Look what I found on the Internet about F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, the 2013 movie, the 1920s fictional characters and the actors who play Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, Nick and Jordan.
My parents were young adults in the 20s, but I always viewed their younger selves as . . . boring. They weren't rich. Apparently the rich people -- the other half -- were having a wonderful time . . .
thanks loved all these facts. I loved the first Great Gatsby (mostly because of Robert Redford) so much that I didn't think I wanted to take a chance on the new one, but, these facts have intrigued me so much that I want to see it with Leonardo!!
Thank you Margie. I have heard a couple of bad reviews and and also a favorable one for this movie. So I will have to see this. I love 20s music. It's great dancing music. JayZ has a hand in this! Yikes!


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Yankees Surge Past Royals, 7-3
A slumping Chase Headley homered for his first extra-base hit this season, helping the New York Yankees beat the Kansas City Royals 7-3.
NEW YORK — Chase Headley can only hope one successful swing leads to a lot more.
Stuck in a deep slump, Headley homered for his first extra-base hit this season, helping the New York Yankees beat the Kansas City Royals 7-3 on May 12.
"It's been a long time," Headley said. "Felt like it's been a really long time."
Headley ended a drought of 170 at-bats since his last home run, dating to last year. That from a guy who hit 31 homers with 115 RBIs for San Diego in 2012 and still is counted on to provide some power.
Headley has been working long hours in the batting cage lately and seeking advice from many hitters, including Yankees Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson.
The third baseman began the day batting just .178, although his recent swings had Manager Joe Girardi thinking "he was starting to look like the Chase Headley we knew."
Headley and Didi Gregorius hit two-run homers, and Starlin Castro added a solo shot to boost the Yankees.
Kansas City dropped three of four at Yankee Stadium and has lost 12 of 16 overall.
"I'll just be happy to get home. It seems like we haven't been home in a year. We have a real comfort level there and enjoy playing at home," Royals Manager Ned Yost said.
Nathan Eovaldi (3-2) worked around eight hits in five innings, and overcame getting struck on the leg by Lorenzo Cain's hard one-hopper at the outset.
On Eovaldi's last pitch, Salvador Perez nearly launched a go-ahead, three-run homer, but right fielder Carlos Beltran caught the ball at the top of the wall. Eovaldi wiped his brow as he walked off the mound while Perez put both hands on the top of his helmet.
"Luckily, he was able to make the play," Eovaldi said.
Relievers Kirby Yates and Dellin Betances each followed with a perfect inning to hold a 5-3 lead. After the Yankees scored twice more, Andrew Miller worked a 1-2-3 eighth and Chasen Shreve threw a scoreless ninth.
Alex Gordon hit a solo home run and an RBI single for Kansas City. The Royals outhit the Yankees 9-7.
Ian Kennedy (4-3) lost in his first game back in the Bronx since the Yankees traded him after the 2009 season.
Castro homered in the first, then Headley connected in the second.
"A step in the right direction," Headley said. "Still got a long way to go."
Gregorius hit a two-run drive in the fourth.
Chien-Ming Wang, another former Yankees pitcher, gave up an RBI single to Castro and a bases-loaded walk to Brian McCann in the seventh.


Compared to growing an audience on social media, email marketing can seem daunting. For starters, there are so many steps: finding an email provider that you like, building out your subscriber lists, designing an email template and coming up with a solid targeting strategy.
From there, the real work begins: winning over subscribers to grow your email list!
• If Facebook and Instagram shut down today, how would you get in touch with your audience?
• Where else in the digital space can you reach your audience where there are no other distractions like Instagram posts or sponsored content?
• Where else on the internet do others deliberately opt-in to receive specialized communications from you?
If you have an email account with a provider like Mailchimp or ConvertKit, but haven't honed in on a growth strategy just yet, I want to talk about one thing: freebies. Because let's face it – we're humans that like things, and free things? Sign us up.
One value-add freebie that I've experimented with lately that I'm loving are quizzes. Not only are quizzes fun to complete (I can't be the only one addicted to Buzzfeed's quizzes…), but when they're crafted around your business they can help serve your audience in a major way.
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Interact makes it easy to build quizzes that will not only engage and entertain your audience, but will also give back to your audience by serving them with a relevant quiz result. You may have caught the "What's Your Brand Aesthetic?" quiz on my homepage, which is exactly what I'm talking about.
Interact makes it easy to capture leads through your quizzes by connecting your email service to the platform. In my case, connecting Mailchimp took all of about...3 minutes! When connecting your email service, I recommend creating an entirely new email list to build upon, so that a new quiz-taker audience segment is built for you. From there, all quiz takers must enter their email address to receive their quiz result, which will instantly be added to your newly created email list.
If you know me, you know that staying on-brand is important. Interact doesn't miss a beat, as you can personalize your quizzes with branded header images, logos and fonts that fit your style. You can even include photos for each quiz question. Hello, photographers! How great would it be to put together a quiz where your potential clients can take a test to determine their ideal photography style by clicking through your photos that appeal to them most? Not only would you capture a lead, but you'll also have a better idea of what they're looking for before you connect. Pure magic.
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1. Why Does Protein Aid In Weight Loss?
The supplement of protein powder has been gained its popularity in enhancing people's health condition because of its huge benefits. Nowadays, protein powder has been included in many diets and challenged your body after performing workout. Since protein powder plays a critical role in assuring muscle growth and recovery, it helps many people shedding their weight also. If you want to try a new method of reducing fat, don't look way since this article will show you some best tasting protein powder for weight loss that is highly advised by many health experts.
Interestingly, protein powder works well for those who have a passion for building muscle and getting recovered from hard training workouts. Nowadays, it is regarded as potential supplement to aid for somebody's weight loss.
In fact, protein can keep you feel full and provide with a metabolism boost; however, improper or excessive intake of protein powder cannot guarantee for helping people to slim down. You are highly suggested to use protein powder occasionally for each dietary supplement, not just the core of your weight loss plan. Do remember that taking more exercises combining with a balanced eating habit brings you a healthy weight  .
Why Does Protein Aid In Weight Loss?
It seems that protein powder is a new thing to many people. When searching for products on the Internet, you might get noticed of protein powder but do not know exactly what it is. You can easily find protein powder that is sold in packets or tubs at some gyms, health food stores or big grocery chains. The powder comes from both plant and animal source and is commonly found in whey derived from milk. Others include soy, egg white, brown rice or casein.
Basically, consuming enough protein plays a critical role in shedding some weight. It helps you feel full and thereby preventing spikes in the blood sugar that often triggers craving . When you cut down on calories as well as exercises, an adequate intake of protein will strongly support the lean muscle mass maintenance.
As you can create a deficiency of calories, in other words, when burning more calories than you are eating, weight loss occurs. In case you perform this without exercises, the body automatically uses your lean tissue for the fuel; hence, much weight you lose is muscle mass. Enough intake of protein as part of the daily diets assists in discouraging the effect.
Under an issue of the British Journal of Nutrition which was published in 2012 showed that eating a higher than recommended 0.55 grams each pound of protein daily is a possible treatment for metabolic syndrome and obesity, including excess belly fat, blood lipids and high blood pressure . About 99 grams of protein per day is suitable for a 180-pound woman. Protein powder can let you reach this high level of protein intake if you cannot get it enough from the whole foods.
Basically, best tasting protein powder for weight loss is an excellent source of low calories and nutrients. The body highly requires protein to get recovered after doing workout. However, it does not need many calories since they can reserve your attempt in directing into the workout.
Therefore, to achieve positive and consistent outcomes, some best tasting protein powder can totally make a difference. Health experts strongly recommend a ratio of 4:1 protein per carb in just 30 minutes right after exercising to help stimulate greatly your strength.
Lots of protein powders floated on the market cover whey protein as their main ingredient. This is considered as one of the most major properties that can aid in facilitating your smooth digestion . Whey protein is able to foster and enhance muscle growth as it is incorporated with frequent training exercise sessions as well as proper nutrition.
You should be aware of the fact that your meals high in protein are often suggested for controlling a healthy body weight. Currently, consuming whey protein is advantageous of reducing fat, thereby safeguarding the muscle tissue.
Protein powder can replace whole foods as you choose a portable protein or as you are in a hurry, however, tempeh, fish, meat, eggs or beans are all the best to fulfil the calorie you need. Although whole protein sources are packed with nutrients, they are not as highly processed as protein powders.
Protein powder can be used before or after workout snack to help foster the muscle development and as a way of repairing. You can eat protein when it comes to the end of your exercises training session to maximize the benefits. A whole chicken breast in your gym bag is not always useful. Protein powder in fruit juice or smoothies with almond or berries milk is an ideal breakfast when you want to skip a meal or preparing for a doughnut or white bagel that can help spike the blood sugar and keep you stay hungry soon.
Breakfast – the most effective time. You have not been eating for about 8 hours, then a protein shake is perfect.
After work-out: This is one of the most vital times because after performing exercises, your body, especially the muscle need to be rebuilt as well as repaired. On the other hand, protein shakes at that time can have a great impact on recovery, achieving muscle growth or preserving muscle mass, typically in the combination with carbohydrate. Protein shakes are beneficial since solid foods or protein can take much time to be digested.
Before work-out. By reducing exercises which is induced catabolism (known as muscle breakdown), serving protein shake at this time can preserve muscle tissues. This also helps to provide a small amount of energy.
Before going to bed. Opting for a protein shake at that time can minimize the protein breakdown which happens naturally during your sleep. In fact, this is just a normal physiological process. But if you are building muscle mass, you might want to try to reduce any losses .
You can add more carbohydrate and calories content by combining protein powder with some milk or juice rather than with water and mixing it with other various ingredients.
You can make your protein shake in blender at home by inserting some ingredients, including fruit juices, fruits, skim milk, nuts, yogurt as well as low-fat ice-cream to protein powder to make it more delicious. If you feel hungry, you can take it for your breakfast.
Mix protein powder with psyllium husks to increase the amount of fiber content in the shake.
Choosing a banana as a good base for your protein shakes. The reason is calories and fat content in bananas are extremely low. It is also an excellent source of protein.
Increase the amount of protein content by insert some egg whites. You can enhance the taste of protein shake by mixing it with some ingredients.
In case you have flavor or calories increased, do not hesitate to use more honey, maple syrup, caramel, cocoa powder, cinnamon, chocolate syrup or peanut butter in a moderation.
In order to keep the calories low, you had better mix more egg whites with some ice cubes and water with protein powder to create a low calorie protein shake. To enhance the taste, you can add low-fat yogurt and fruits for sugar flavor.
To help boost the nutritional content, you should add some essential fats that are used for improving the protein shake because it can provide you with a sustained release of the protein, hence, keeping nitrogen balance positive for longer. Also, you can give yourself a try by adding chlorella, lecithin or spirulina.
Another best tasting protein powder for weight loss is using protein powder to make protein shakes. However, it is not always feasible to create a protein shake as you need, making you spend more time preparing the protein shake long before you consume it. For instance, you can opt for mixing a protein shake every morning to consume it at work or even post work-out at your gym. Ideally, protein shakes need to be taken in as soon as possible right after they are prepared.
You should remember that the longer your protein shakes are well-mixed, the more possible they are invaded by bacteria and contaminants. Hence, when you are running, let's use a shake bottle and then add protein powder in it. As you get ready for the protein shake, you just need to add water, then shake and consume.
When it comes to best tasting protein powder for weight loss, don't forget to equip yourself with some protein shake recipes. The reason is this is one of the best ways to satisfy you with a food craving without transferring the blood sugar through your ceiling while still nourishing your body with lots of healthy unsaturated fat and protein at the same time. You just simply add all of the following ingredients, then blending, whipping and serving.
Combine all of them in a blender until you have smoothies to drink.
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This is one of the most highly recommendations from health experts because it is mainly targeted for vegans. If you really want to opt for best tasting protein powder for weight loss, then, this is for you. The consistency of the protein shake is quite thick. In case you love a smoother texture, add plenty of water. Also, you can mix this protein powder into milk or other liquids. It turns smooth and does not encompass a chalky texture.
Serving this for your breakfast is a great choice to start your new day or even after your workout. This plant based protein does not include any of dairy, gluten, soy, manufactured flavors or any sweeteners.
Body fortress super advanced protein powder is another top choice for best tasting protein powder for weight loss. This product can guarantee that your body can receive a good blend of proteins and amino acids. The action, then, accelerates the muscle growth and helps you get recovered after performing workout. In addition, this encloses more than 18 non-essential and essential amino acids. It is prettily easy to get protein powder mixed. Regarding its taste, this product is quite good, however, it is up to each user. Take this consider before purchasing it.
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Sacco and Vanzetti Yesterday and Today's Immigrants
On August 23, 1927 Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco were executed by the state of Massachusetts for, allegedly, the robbery and murder of two factory paymasters on April 15, 1920 in South Braintree, Massachusetts. In the eighty five years since the electrocution of these men, despite literally hundreds of books, articles and theses by journalists, scholars, attorneys authors and jurists neither the guilt nor the innocence of these men has been definitively established and probably never will be.
I am not going to focus on the facts of the case nor am I going to argue their guilt or innocence.
Rather, I want to examine the climate and the context in which the trial, the sentence and appeals took place, and their relevance to today.
Sacco and Vanzetti were Italian immigrants, anarchists and unskilled workingmen.
Three years before their trial an event occurred which sent tremors and shock across the entire western world, the Russian Revolution.
In the years immediately before the trial, a wave of massive strikes took place across the United States. Steelworkers, lumber and shipyard workers, miners and others went on strike. Here in Boston the police went on strike in 1919.
Although most of these labor actions were brutally suppressed, they provoked another great tremor. The ruling classes and their political allies hysterically denounced the Red Tide that was sweeping the nation. They were, of course, fully supported by the media, which declared that 'foreign agitators' were responsible.
This Red Scare meshed neatly with the xenophobes, nativists and reactionaries who loathed and feared the masses of immigrants coming from Southern and Eastern Europe. In the public view these were the 'great unwashed', Catholics, Orthodox and Jews, people who spoke no English, who had no skills or education, uncivilized heretics, pagans and Christ killers who would sap the few existing social services, cause taxes to rise and take jobs from the 'real Americans'.
Therefore, these two Italians were guilty even before the trial began. Judge Webster openly expressed his bias, as did prosecutor Katzman. While the defendants, during the trial, were confined in a barred metal cage.
A reporter for the Boston Transcript commented, "there's no story, just a couple of wops in a jam"! Some jurors, during the trial, openly expressed hostility toward the defendants.
In spite of worldwide protest at the unfairness of the trial, these men were put to death.
How strangely reminiscent are today's events. Arabs, Latin@s, Haitians and Caribbeans are kidnapped from their streets and confined in secret prisons where they rot without hearing or trial. We do not even need the sham trials of Sacco and Vanzetti.
In addition, our xenophobes in Congress and the press announce that yesterday's Italians are today's Latino, Haitian and Caribbean immigrants. They come here, we are told, to draw our resources, to burden our schools, to overwhelm our services and to collect welfare. Paradoxically these "lazy immigrants" are taking all of our jobs.
However, we do not hear about CAFTA (Central American Free Trade Agreement), NAFTA (The North American Free Trade Agreement) and similar agreements which have a devastating impact on Latin America's economy, pushing tens of thousands into abject poverty, forcing millions of small farmers off the land driving them to leave home and family in order to survive.
In addition, we are not told that they pay taxes, provide necessary and mostly menial labor and contribute disproportionately little to social disorder.
Under the current administration ICE raids and deportations have increased sharply, and in many instances, leaving children without their parents, and women and men without their companeros/as.
And, to this day, the location and condition of more than half of the detainees are unknown to their families. Today's Globe has an article, which focuses on the deportation of minors numbering upwards of 11,000.
As Congressman Luis Gutierrez of Illinois has said the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) is "essentially a Gestapo-type agency where those who work the longest hours at the most undesirable jobs are treated like terrorists, simply for waking up and going to work".
Yesterday's Italians are this year's Latin@s, Haitians and Caribbeans.
As that great Philosopher, Yogi Berra, said "its déjà vu all over again".
We must demand:
An immediate halt to ALL raids and deportations
An end to the brutal separation of parents and children.
The Labor Movement rise to the defense, support and inclusion of ALL THOSE WHO COME TO THIS COUNTRY TO FIND WORK!
The President and the congress of the United States of America to ratify the "United Nations Convention on the protection of the rights of all migrant workers and members of their families".
This Convention has been ratified by over sixty nations. Please go online to sign, download/print and circulate these petitions. You can sign petitions online at www.bostonmayday.org
In response to the increasing raids, deportations, anti immigrant legislation and related workers rights we must re-establish a rapid response hotline.
Sacco and Vanzetti live in every immigrant/migrant worker, their families and in us. We too must continue to stand against the exploitation and oppression of workers until we are ALL recognized as "workers of the world" and travel across continents without barriers or walls to seek work and better lives!
NO WORKER IS ILLEGAL
NO HUMAN IS ILLEGAL
UN PUEBLO UNIDO JAMAS SERA VENCIDO
ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE
Boston, August 26, 2012


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A hyperloop in Missouri? A new study says it's feasible, but not necessarily affordable
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By Andrew J. Hawkins,THE VERGE
Is a hyperloop in the US feasible? Skeptics doubt whether the futuristic transportation system can ever become a reality, but a new study supported by Virgin Hyperloop One finds many possible benefits of a high-speed route between St. Louis and Kansas City.
A coalition of Missouri business leaders and government agencies joined with the Los Angeles-based company a year ago to kick off a feasibility study of a hyperloop in their state. Released today, the study examined where the ultrafast transportation system should be built (along the I-70 corridor), how many riders it would attract (6,000 during peak hours), and how much money it could save commuters who rode the high-speed transit system ($410 million per year).
But there is one important thing missing from the report: how much it would cost to build a hyperloop in Missouri.
When Elon Musk conceived of the hyperloop in 2013, he estimated that a route from Los Angeles to San Francisco would cost about $6 billion, or $11.5 million per mile. Leaked documents from 2016 show that Virgin Hyperloop One — then just Hyperloop One — was estimating the cost of a potential 107-mile Bay Area project to be somewhere between $9 billion and $13 billion, or $84 million to $121 million per mile. Since then, the company has been mum about per-mile costs.
Those projections were left out of the Missouri report because there are still so many uncertainties. For example, local leaders would need to figure out where to build the hyperloop stations, or "portals," within the cities themselves and how to connect it to regional transportation hubs, said Ryan Kelly, head of marketing and communication at Virgin Hyperloop One.
"Depending on where our coalition stands on where those [portals] should be and the demand, making sure we're in a place where people can come to the station, is really going to affect cost," Kelly said.
St. Louis to Kansas City is a 248-mile route that takes around three hours and 40 minutes by car, or about 55 minutes by plane (not including time spent traveling to the airport, security lines, etc.). Virgin Hyperloop One says the trip would take just 31 minutes using its system of aerodynamic pods traveling through nearly airless tubes at speeds of up to 700 mph. That depends on building hundreds of miles of tubes on pylons along a highway like I-70, which the study identifies as the ideal location.
"In the United States, I-70 is one of the strongest corridors we've seen," Kelly said. "Not only do you have the right-of-way, but it's relatively straight and flat, which is perfect for the first hyperloop system."
The study, conducted by engineering firm Black and Veatch, found that travel time savings of a Missouri hyperloop would amount to $410 million annually. And the reduction of automobile accidents along I-70 could put $91 million back in people's pockets every year.
But without cost projections, the study amounts to a little more than a glossy marketing tool that Virgin Hyperloop One can brandish as it pitches its 700 mph vision to Missouri's leaders. The company says it will rely on its coalition of supporters to spearhead the project. And to be sure, government agencies love the idea of cost savings and economic stimulus, which is what the report suggests a hyperloop could bring to the state.
The linear infrastructure cost of a hyperloop would be 40 percent less than high-speed rail around the world, the report finds. The study authors examined high-speed rail projects in the US and around the world to make that determination. The bullet train in California is projected to cost $77 billion, up 20 percent from two years ago. But it still doesn't tell us much about the costs of the St. Louis-Kansas City hyperloop.
Whatever the final price tag, Virgin Hyperloop One wants it to be shared between public and private entities. "Our private partners want to make sure that we're economically viable and we're not a sinkhole infrastructure project that isn't going to make money back," Kelly said. "Local governments want to see that, too."
Kelly said 2017 was all about proving the technology of the hyperloop. The company built a 500-meter test track in the desert outside of Las Vegas. There, it has conducted several high-speed tests last year, the most recent of which sent its carbon-fiber pod prototype through a nearly airless tube at a top speed of 240 mph. Musk's original concept theorized speeds of up to 760 mph.
Virgin Hyperloop One hopes to break ground on its first commercial route in India in 2019. The company had also hoped to conduct a feasibility study in Saudi Arabia, but the kingdom reportedly pulled the project in retaliation for criticism by Virgin Group CEO Richard Branson over the disappearance and alleged murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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REVIEW: Pirates of the Caribbean 5: At Least it's Shorter
Posted by Jorge Ignacio Castillo | May 26, 2017 | Film
Jack Sparrow was once a character. Now is a series of twitches.
The weakest of all Disney franchises -at least creatively-, the Pirates of the Caribbean saga is better known for being a bloated mess than delivering any narrative satisfaction. Once Pirates' saving grace, Johnny Depp's perennially sauced Captain Jack Sparrow has become a handful of annoying tics. The actor's image problems of late are not doing the character any favours.
Yet, of all the franchise's wobbly wheels, none is more problematic than Terry Rossio. A writer in every Pirates of the Caribbean movie, Rossio's penchant for byzantine plots and arbitrary character development has made the films a challenge to watch (Geoffrey Rush's Barbossa has been good, bad or dead for no other reason than to patch a leaky script).
Here is the good news: Rookie directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg (the duo behind Academy Award nominee Kon-Tiki) nearly save Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales from marooning in convoluted storylines. The film in the end comes up short, but at least the visual spectacle is there.
From what I gathered, the plot goes like this: Early on in his career as an outlaw, Jack Sparrow lead fanatic anti-piracy zealot Captain Salazar (Javier Bardem, actively chewing the scenery) and his men to the Devil's Triangle, where they were turned into ghosts. Understandably, Salazar wants to get back at Sparrow, but is imprisoned in the area by a curse. It's always a curse.
In classic Pirates fashion, Salazar's thirst for vengeance intersects with other characters' agendas: Henry Turner (the son of Orlando Bloom's character) wants Poseidon's Trident to free his father from the curse that has him living under the sea. A comely young woman accused of witchcraft may know where to find it, but first must avoid the authorities (she is not a wiccan, she is just smart. Girl Power!). Lastly, Sparrow himself wants the trident to gets his mojo back or something of that order.
The film takes nearly half its length establishing characters and alliances. Sparrow takes the back seat to Henry Turner and the presumed witch, which is just fine: too much Jack is unpalatable. The Norwegian directors came up with rather original action sequences (Sparrow and the guillotine is a showstopper) and execute them fluidly. Not only that, Rønning and Sandberg cut a lot of the fat of previous entries, thus making Dead Men Tell No Tales is the leanest chapter in the saga at two hours ten.
Sadly, the main course is underwhelming. The ridiculous contrivances the heroes must solve in pursuit of the trident are more exasperating than fun. A medium size plot twist is shoehorned artlessly hoping to inject some emotion to the proceedings. The result, however, underlines the mainstay characters' maddening inconsistency. Sparrow, who at times can be the Columbo of the Seven Seas, is particularly inept this round. He just stumbles in and out of the action and may not affect the story at all (I would confirm it, but I can't bring myself to watch this movie again).
Like is now tradition in tent-pole films, there is a post-credit scene hinting at a sixth feature. There are only so many directions the franchise can go, and it has already used every PG pirate storyline at least twice. Seriously, how many supernatural rogue ships could possibly roam the Caribbean Sea? 2/5 planets.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is playing everywhere.
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Goodnight STEM Coaches Pay It Forward
July 23, 2021 | Anthony Olaiya Wright
A part of the mission of the Goodnight Scholars Program is to "…invest in students from low- and middle-income families in North Carolina studying in STEM or STEM education disciplines". While this investment is most notable with the current scholars in the program, it also pours directly into the public school system of the state of North Carolina. One of those ways this happens is through the STEM Coaching initiative hosted by the Goodnight Scholars Program.
During the 2018-2019 school year, the Goodnight Scholars Program identified a gap in its offerings to the greater North Carolina community. While established leadership opportunities like the Goodnight Ambassador program primarily had connections with prospective high school and community college students, there was a sense that more could be done to introduce younger kids to STEM related subjects who may not have the opportunity to experience so otherwise.
Bailey Craddock, Program Coordinator of the Goodnight Scholars Program shared more about why this type of outreach is important for the program. "We really wanted to address that achievement gap that exists within our own Wake county and rural counties as well, and allow students to see themselves in STEM and see themselves being successful in STEM."
The STEM Coach initiative was developed as a way to address this opportunity area for the program. During that year, 9 Goodnight Scholars volunteered their time and knowledge to 11 different community partners through 43 different project-based learning experiences across the state, working directly with students in the K-8 age range. These activities included projects ranging from learning more about entomology by "building" their own bug, to exploring what it means to be a mechanical engineer through the construction of a boat.
"That's something that our partners echo…their students love the activities that we bring, but they're also secondary to [the students] being able to form relationships with the STEM coaches and meet students at NC State," Bailey shared.
By the 2020-2021 school year, the initiative had 25 STEM Coaches and well established partnerships with 12 schools and organizations from across the state. Due to the impacts of COVID on safety and in-person interactions, the involvement of STEM coaches at these locations had to shift, but fortunately it didn't stop. Instead of visiting every site, the STEM Coaches prepared over 900 individually packaged activity bags for students to keep the learning going on their own.
"The STEM Coaches were really instrumental in suggesting ideas on how we could adapt, to still serve the students that we've formed these great relationships with, quite possibly when they needed it most" said Bailey. "We'd get together and package these bags and send them to the sites…[and] provided instructional materials to the teachers and Boys and Girls Club leaders to do these activities with the students". For partners who were allowing in-person deliveries, the STEM coaches would drive the activity bags to their sites for them to then distribute to their students.
While in-person engagement with the students is always ideal, the shifts made during this past school year have exposed the program to new ways to expand its reach while remaining true to the core values of the initiative. Bailey and the STEM Coaches recognize the opportunity to continue offering these do it yourself learning experiences and hosting mass activity bag packing parties to serve program partners in additional ways, even as the state continues to open back up.
"Realistically, we are limited by driving distance…there is simply no way to reach western North Carolina on a Wednesday afternoon. But can we create videos and mail 200 bags to a school for a teacher to lead with? Absolutely. It's really opened our eyes to how we can reach rural counties without having to be physically present".
With the growth of programmatic offerings also comes the expansion of the STEM Coach team. In the 2021-2022 school year 29 current Goodnight Scholars will serve as STEM Coaches to the now 13 partners across the state; both the largest totals in the history of the Goodnight Scholars Program. Bailey looks forward to bringing in this innovative approach into the new school year and is excited to continue developing the STEM Coach initiative in the future.
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History of Barnsdall Art Park
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Bill Macomber, President
Bill Macomber has led the Barnsdall Foundation board since 2016. He has also served on the board of the Silver Lake Jewish Community Center and Side Street Project, with an emphasis on financial accountability and development.
In his professional life, he is the CEO of Fancy Film Post Production and is a film producer. A graduate of Wesleyan University, Bill has lived in the Silver Lake area since 1997.
Christopher Alexander, Vice President
Christopher James Alexander is the Principal of CJA Creative Collaborations LLC. His Los Angeles-based practice works with architects, designers, artists, authors, and cultural organizations to develop and implement compelling business initiatives, strategic communications plans, and innovative research and design projects.
During his ten years as a curator of architecture and design at the Getty Research Institute, Alexander co-curated numerous internationally acclaimed exhibitions including, Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940–1990; Julius Shulman's Los Angeles; Julius Shulman, Modernity and the Metropolis; and the Getty's installation of Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky. He is the co-editor of the award-winning publication, Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940–1990; author of the popular book, Julius Shulman's Los Angeles; co-creative director, co-managing editor and contributing author of Amplified Urbanism; and co-creative director and managing editor of Personal Space: The Drawings of Lawrence Halprin.
Alexander earned his Master of Architecture degree from the University of California at Los Angeles and Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Arts and Art History from George Washington University.
Janice Engel, Vice President
Award winning filmmaker and show-runner, Janice Engel wears many hats. Here are few… She has created numerous documentaries, non-fiction specials and television series for over 25 years including: Jackson Browne: Going Home, (Cable Ace-Award), Ted Hawkins Amazing Grace, (Rose D'Or Special Jury prize for the film that best reflects human values); and, the provocative docu-series, Addicted, (recipient of a 2011 Prism Award for Accuracy in Depiction of Drug Addiction).
Under her own banner, Two Rivers Productions, Janice co-created What We Carry, an ongoing, multi-media documentary series dedicated to preserving Holocaust survivors' stories for future generations to come. Premiered at The Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles and subsequently presented Yad Vashem in Israel in 2014, What We Carry has been viewed by some 35,000 people over the past three years.
The common thread through much of her work is her passion for political activism, speaking truth to power and advocacy. Currently she is directing and producing a documentary, RAISE HELL: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins, on one of the most provocative and courageous American journalists of modern times.
A graduate of USC School of Cinematic Arts, Janice is now a professor at Academy of Art University, San Francisco, where she teaches documentary film and shares her many stories to eager students from around the globe.
A longtime resident of Los Angeles, California, she is a member of the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences and relishes her tenure as Vice-President of the Barnsdall Art Park Foundation. In her spare time she lives with her wife and three dogs, where she tends her urban garden and cooks for her extended beloved family.
Don Seligman, Treasurer
Dr. Donald Seligman was born in Los Angeles in 1940 and attended Los Angeles and then Culver City schools. He attended Cornell University as an undergraduate and he received his Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from the University of Southern California in 1965. He spent the next three years in a dental internship in Zürich, Switzerland, before returning to the United States to open a private practice in 1968. He retired from over 20 years of general practice in Venice, California in 1990.
Dr. Seligman was on the faculty of the Division of Oral Biology and Medicine, Section of Orofacial Pain at the School of Dentistry, University of California at Los Angeles from 1979 until 2007, and achieved the position of Adjunct Associate Professor in 1998. In this capacity, he has written dozens of research papers and clinical publications, including chapters in textbooks, and lectured extensively around the world. In 1995-1996, he was President of the American Academy of Orofacial Pain and he was made a Diplomat of the American Board of Orofacial Pain in 1994.
Dr. Seligman joined the Los Feliz Improvement Association (LFIA) after moving to Los Feliz in 1981, and has been a member of its Board of Directors since 2006. He was the Chief Editor of the LFIA newsletter, "The Observer" from 2007 to 2014, and was elected LFIA President in 2009. He has long held a strong interest in Los Angeles history and recently wrote "Los Feliz: An Illustrated Early History" which was published in 2009 by the Los Feliz Improvement Association. He authored a second book, "Los Feliz and the Silent Film Era" which was also published by the Los Feliz Improvement Association in 2013. He has served as Treasurer of the Los Feliz Improvement Association since 2014.
Dr. Seligman joined the Barnsdall Art Park Board of Directors since 2009, and was Second Vice-President from 2012 until 2015. He was elected as Treasurer 2017 and serves as Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee.
Dr. Seligman was appointed to the newly formed Griffith Park Advisory Board in 2014, and has served as Vice-Chair from 2014 until today. He has also long held a strong interest in the Los Angeles cultural scene, and is a Founder of the Music Center. He is married to Dr. Jon Zimmermann and they celebrated their 46th anniversary in 2016.
Judy Kim, Secretary
Judy Kim is President of Trigold Entertainment, and her unique career as both a studio executive (Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros.) and independent filmmaker (PATIENT, BETWEEN US, SAVING LINCOLN) gives her an unusual insight into both worlds.
With a background as an entertainment lawyer, Judy is able to provide both producing services and business affairs advice to maximize opportunities for the film projects she takes on. Most recently, Judy was a Co-Producer and Business Affairs executive for an animated feature film franchise, "THE LAND OF ELYON: The Dark Hills Divide," a U.S.-China co-production based on an award-winning 5-book series. Judy has worked as an Executive Producer or Producer on numerous independent feature films and a variety of tv pilots, shorts and commercial video projects, including for companies such as Disney XD and Sam Raimi's Ghost House Mobile.
Judy came to film through dance and music, and she still loves all forms of performing arts. She is excited to be working with the Barnsdall Art Park Foundation and furthering its mission of bringing the arts to the community.
Claudia Glenn Barasch, Events Co-Chair
Claudia Glenn Barasch is the co-founder and co-president of the non-profit youth organization Leave Out The Violence, U.S. (LOVE, US). LOVE is an award winning, grass roots organization creating a youth led movement against violence. LOVE was founded in 2000 in Montreal, Canada, and now has a strong presence and programming throughout Canada from Nova Scotia to Vancouver. There have been LOVE satellite offices in Eilat, Israel, and Uganda. LOVE U.S. was founded in 2002. Between LOVE Canada and LOVE US we work with thousands of youth annually.
The LOVE mission is to reduce violence in the lives of disenfranchised inner city youth ages 11 to 21 and in our communities by building a generation of youth who communicate a message of non-violence.
Claudia is also the founder and president of Claudia Glenn Events, Inc., an event production company since 1995. Claudia Glenn Events produces corporate, non-profit and social events in the NYC tri-state area as well as South Florida and greater Los Angeles.
Claudia is an avid motorcyclist along with her husband and their children. She was case as one of six women int he documentary "Motorcycle Women," produced by Original Films and directed by Janice Engel for the Discovery Channel. In 2002 Claudia founded the Lady Liberty Ride motorcycle fundraising rally, which she produced for seven years. The Lady Liberty Ride had as many as 1000 co-ed riders participating in a round trip ride from NYC to Bear Mountain State Park promoting and supporting women in motorcycling of which all of the proceeds were donated to LOVE.
Prior to starting her company, she worked at Sotheby's Auction House for 15 years in several capacities including cataloguing Antique Jewelry, and special events.
Claudia received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and the Ecole de Louvre in Paris with a concentration in music and art history. She is graduate of the WUJS Ulpan/Aliah program in Arad, Israel, attended Interlochen Arts Academy as a music and dance major, and is a graduate of classical piano from the Hoff Barthelson Music School conservatory. Currently, Claudia is a Masters Candidate at New York University Silver School of Social Work.
Claudia is married to Sheldon Hirshon and they reside in Los Feliz, since arriving here in January 2015. They have three adult children.
Diane Barber
Diane Barber is an Independent Curator with more than 20 years of experience in the Visual Arts. Projects include major exhibitions with an international roster of artists presented in arts organizations, galleries, universities, schools, and other public spaces and institutions.
Most recently, Barber served as Director of the East End Foundation, the organizing force behind the East End Cultural District, a state-designated creative hub in Houston, Texas comprised of 20 non-profits, 6 studio compounds, 3 theaters, 6 music venues, 9 galleries, 3 makerspaces, 2 urban farms, 14 historic sites, and the largest collection of outdoor murals in the city.
Prior to that, Barber served as Co-Director/Visual Arts Curator of DiverseWorks ArtSpace (Houston, TX). During her 14-year tenure, Barber curated more than 65 exhibitions for DiverseWorks giving particular emphasis to commissioning new works and site-specific installations and to developing programs with charged cultural and political undertones.
Barber also previously served as Exhibitions & Publications Coordinator for FotoFest International, the largest photography biennial in the United States.
Professional affiliations include the Warhol Initiative, NPN's Visual Arts Network, the NAMAC 2009 Leadership Institute, the Advisory Board of FotoFest, the Board of Directors of the Friends of Women's Studies at the University of Houston, and ArtTable. She is past board president of the National Association of Artist Organizations and former Chairman of the Houston Coalition for the Visual Arts. Barber is also a founding board member of the Independent Arts Collaborative, a Houston-based organization responsible for the creation of MATCH a multi-tenant arts complex in Houston's urban core.
Megan MacEachern
Megan MacEachern is an entertainment industry veteran with over two decades of career victories that showcase her strategic vision and creative flair in building national, as well as global, brands.
Her philosophy and approach to the business have been held in high regards by an impressive roster of consumer brand leaders, including Hard Rock Cafe International, Clear Channel, A&M Records, AOL, Virgin Atlantic, The Food Network and iconic Southern California landmarks The Hotel Lautner, The Los Angeles Athletic Club, Hollywood Tower and of course Barnsdall Art Park.
Shelah Lehrer-Graiwer
As Executive Director of Barnsdall Arts/Friends of the Junior Art Center, pro bono, for over ten years, Shelah Lehrer-Graiwer has restructured the organization leading it from a failing institution to fiscalresponsibility and a reputation for excellence, innovation and creativity in arts education. It currently serves over 160,000 people with extensive citywide programs and exhibitions in schools, museums, parks, hospitals, libraries, social service agencies and community festivals.
In 2014-2015 over 2375 classes/workshops were conducted for over 10,800. Her work was celebrated in a Resolution of Recognition from the Los Angeles City Council in June 2015. She grew up in Los Feliz attending Franklin, King and Marshall. She took classes at Barnsdall as did her four children who all are involved in the arts. For over a decade she served as Chairperson of the Board of Directors of BA/FOJAC and was a founding member of the Barnsdall Art Park Foundation. She was also on the Board of Trustees of LEARN: an early educational reform movement in LAUSD where she designed the arts curriculum. She continues to reside in Los Feliz along with her extended family who are deeply involved in the community.
She earned her BA at UCLA: summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa and Woodrow Wilson Fellow. She received an MA and completed all but thesis PH.D in Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History at U.C. Berkeley as a Regent Fellow.
Ron Pomerantz
Ron Pomerantz lives in Silver Lake with his husband and 2 dogs. Ron is a two time Emmy winner, multi-platform brand marketer, creative director, producer, content creator, and strategist. Ron's expertise is in managing departments specializing in defining, promoting and strategizing the launch of series, brands, networks, cause marketing initiatives, product and films.
Ron has led the launch of TV Guide Network, Fox's In Flight Network, FX, FXM: Fox Movie Channel, ScreenTV, Tech TV, HBO Family, SOAPnet, Playhouse Disney, The Disney/ABC TV Anywhere APPS, The Global Launches of Disney Junior and Disney Channel.
Marcus Spiegel
bio coming soon
Kathleen McCafferty
Kathleen McCafferty has over 25 years of experience in marketing for private businesses, corporations, and nonprofits. In particular, she has had substantial experience in fundraising, marketing, information management and program development for arts-related nonprofit organizations.
She has also assisted private entities in their coordination of philanthropic efforts to benefit arts organizations, notably those involved in film, music, theater and art.
She has served as a board member of the Silverlake Film Festival, Monday Evening Concerts, Barnsdall Art Center Student Advisory Committee and Barnsdall Art Park Foundation.
Kathleen has an undergraduate degree in art and a graduate degree in Information Science from UCLA.
Connie Czerwinski
Barnsdall Art Park
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Acrobatics and Tumbling
Censorship on campuses?
Onkar Ghate - Staff Wtiter
The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, according to many college professors, have claimed another victim: free speech on campus. They contend that a chilling climate has arisen, in which they hesitate to voice ideas critical of America for fear of reprimand by university officials.
At the University of Texas, for instance, when the administration criticized a professor for accusing America of terrorism, his colleague described the faculty's reaction: "There was a very clear message that if you stick your neck out, [the administration] will disown you."
Blaming a nationwide climate, the general secretary of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) said a "distrust of intellectuals has always lurked beneath the surface of American popular opinion. Now it has begun to leak out again." AAUP's director of public policy claims there "are some things here that harken back to McCarthyism."
We must, the professors insist, return to the day when a professor could express any view, no matter how unpopular.
But in reality the professors are concerned not with defending free speech, but with retaining control over the universities.
Freedom of speech is an individual's right to express ideas without coercive interference from the government. Free speech does protect an individual who voices unpopular ideas, but it does not require that others support him. If an individual wants others to finance the expression of his ideas, he must seek their voluntary agreement. To force another person to support ideas he opposes violates his freedom of speech.
A journalist, for instance, has the freedom to write what he pleases, but has no right to demand that Time magazine publish it. That decision belongs to the head of Time. Similarly, a professor has the freedom to teach any view he wishes but has no right to demand that Harvard employ him. That decision belongs to the head (or governing body) of Harvard.
Freedom of speech is not the right of a Ph.D. to have others provide him with a university classroom.
Yet that is precisely what these professors are demanding.
They maintain that no matter how much the trustees of a university disagree with a professor's views, they should not be able to fire him. The owners of a university are to be stripped of their right to choose which ideas their wealth supports. Why? So that professors who consistently teach the evil of individualism, capitalism, the profit motive-and Americans espouse their views without the burden of having to seek the voluntary consent of those forced to sponsor them.
Under the guise of championing free speech, therefore, these leftist professors are actually demanding its destruction (which is consistent with their advocacy of speech codes and "sensitivity training" on campuses).
What makes them think they can get away with this?
Most universities today are public institutions. Critics of the academic left have been calling for the firing of professors who broadcast anti-American ideas, since such views are odious to most taxpayers. But subjecting speech to majority rule, the left correctly argues, obliterates freedom of speech. Thus, it concludes, we must leave college professors alone.
This is a false conclusion. The truth is that public education as such is antithetical to free speech. Whether leftists are forced to pay taxes to fund universities from which their academic spokesmen are barred, or non-leftists are forced to pay taxes to fund professors who condemn America as a terrorist nation, someone loses the right to choose which ideas his money supports.
To protect free speech, therefore, universities would have to be privatized. The owners of a university could then hire the faculty they endorsed, while others could refuse to fund the university if they disagreed with its teachings. But since privatization would threaten the left's grip on the universities, it vehemently opposes this solution. In the name of free speech, the left denounces as "tyranny of the almighty dollar" the sole means of actually preserving free speech.
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Home » Webinars » OIG Changes to Anti-Kickback Safe Harbor Provisions and the CMP Beneficiary Inducement Prohibition
OIG Changes to Anti-Kickback Safe Harbor Provisions and the CMP Beneficiary Inducement Prohibition
Conducted on Wednesday, November 1, 2017
This CLE webinar will provide guidance to healthcare counsel on the the new Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) safe harbors and the changes to the Civil Monetary Penalty Law (CMP) beneficiary inducement prohibition. The panel will discuss how hospitals, healthcare providers, and others in the healthcare industry can take advantage of the changes and ensure compliance.
The U.S. DHHS Office of Inspector General amendments to the AKS regulatory safe harbors became effective in 2017. The amendments add protections for certain payment practices and business arrangements under the beneficiary inducement provisions of the CMP.
The rules impact a variety of business practices in the healthcare industry. Protection under the AKS safe harbors is extended in certain circumstances to cost-sharing waivers by pharmacies and for emergency ambulance services, remuneration between Medicare Advantage Organizations and federally qualified health centers, certain drug discounts, and free or reduced cost local transportation services.
In a recent advisory opinion, the OIG clarified the warranty safe harbor. Under the federal AKS, a pharmaceutical manufacturer can offer physicians, hospitals and clinics free replacements of products that become spoiled. The warranty safe harbor applies more broadly than the traditional product defect settings in prior OIG guidance.
Attorneys advising healthcare facilities, providers and others in the healthcare industry must fully understand the changes to ensure clients are in compliance.
Listen as our authoritative panel examines the new safe harbors as well as the changes to the CMP beneficiary inducement prohibition. The panel will discuss how hospitals, healthcare providers, and others in the healthcare industry can take advantage of the changes and ensure compliance.
AKS safe harbors
CMP beneficiary inducement prohibition
Impact of the changes
What providers and counsel need to do to ensure compliance
How do the safe harbor changes impact local transportation? The Medicare coverage gap discount program? Cost-sharing?
What is the impact of the changes to the definition of remuneration under the beneficiary inducement CMP provisions?
What must providers and others in the healthcare industry do to ensure compliance with the new rules?
Clinton Mikel
The Health Law Partners
Mr. Mikel has practiced in almost all areas of healthcare law but has focused his practice on compliance with federal... | Read More
Mr. Mikel has practiced in almost all areas of healthcare law but has focused his practice on compliance with federal and state health care regulations and transactional matters. He specializes in HIPAA and state privacy laws, federal and state information breaches (strategic investigations and disclosures), state and federal telehealth/telemedicine issues, federal and state self-referral laws, including Stark, federal and state anti-kickback laws, and information technology issues. He represents a variety of health care providers, including telemedicine providers, physician groups, hospitals, large health systems, critical access hospitals, rural health centers, and sleep laboratories.
Charles B. Oppenheim
Hooper Lundy & Bookman
Mr. Oppenheim's practice includes all aspects of transactional, operational and regulatory healthcare law,... | Read More
Mr. Oppenheim's practice includes all aspects of transactional, operational and regulatory healthcare law, including mergers & acquisitions, affiliations, joint ventures and the formation of integrated delivery systems. Among his clients are many of the largest healthcare companies and hospital systems in the U.S. A nationally-recognized expert on anti-kickback and Stark Law issues, Mr. Oppenheim wrote the 2014 American Health Lawyers Association Monograph on Stark. He has served as an expert on anti-kickback and Stark Law issues in arbitration and litigation, in both civil and criminal proceedings. In addition, he creates and implements compliance programs, investigates compliance issues, responds to government enforcement actions, and negotiates settlements for many types of healthcare providers.
Jill S. Wright
Ms. Wright's practice focuses on healthcare fraud and abuse and compliance issues, including the federal... | Read More
Ms. Wright's practice focuses on healthcare fraud and abuse and compliance issues, including the federal Anti-Kickback and Physician Self-Referral/Stark laws, civil monetary penalties law, false claims and overpayments, government investigations, and exclusions from federal healthcare programs. She was formerly a senior counsel for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General, where she represented the OIG in cases involving civil monetary penalties and the False Claims Act, including matters premised on allegations involving the Anti-Kickback and Stark laws, and quality of care issues. Ms. Wright also has experience conducting investigations and negotiating settlements and corporate integrity agreements.
Health Law Advisory Board
Lowell C. Brown
Arent Fox
Jennifer L. Evans
Ryan S. Johnson
Fredrikson & Byron
Karen S. Lovitch
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo
David A. Manko
Proskauer Rose
John J. Miles
Baker Donelson
J. Peter Rich
Donald H. Romano
Judith A. Waltz
John R. Washlick
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney
Jesse A. Witten
Joseph N. Wolfe
Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman
I liked that the slides automatically moved along with the presentation of each speaker.
Ann Marie Henderson
Staten Island University Hospital
I felt the program offered a good mix of business and legal concerns.
David Crapo
Barry Jasilli
CVS Caremark


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