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Narciso the Painter and Padma the Perfumer
The Wayuu Taya Foundation that aids Latin American indigenous communities was the brainchild of Venezuela-born model (and star of The Mummy) Patricia Velasquez. So members of one of New York's native tribes, known as fashionistas, came out in force for the organization's big fund-raiser last night.
And we were delighted to find that some members of the New York fashion tribe are improving their lives by learning new skills, just like the indigenous villagers in Venezuela! Narciso Rodriguez gets his hands soiled in his garden. "I have a big garden on the rooftop. It's planted with lots of white flowers," Rodriguez told us. "It's peaceful out there. It's where I get to paint." Yes, Narciso Rodriguez is a painter (mainly abstracts). "Not a whole lot of people know," he told us. Plans for a gallery show are far in the future. "Maybe one day, when I'm very, very old," he said.
Padma Lakshmi, meanwhile, breezed into the gala smelling divine, wearing her homemade scent she says she mixes in her kitchen sink. "It's made of neroli and rose and ylang-ylang," the Top Chef queen said. She buys the organic essential oils online from Neal's Yard in London and then mixes them at home. "It's such an artisanal thing that it comes out a little different every time," Lakshmi explained. She wants to keep it homemade, something she does for herself and for friends. "Not everything needs to be a business," she said, and then paused. "But there's a big perfume company that's been hounding me about it." — Bennett Marcus

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We are happy to announce the new member in the Barhoum Family.
Basel, (with "s" sounds as in sea) a baby boy, was born to Naeem & Erini on June 25th at 05:15 a.m. weighing 3,150 gr.
Both Erini and Basel are doing great and they are back home now.
Praying that Basel, Anis and Sari will grow up to be men of the Lord.


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Ariel does Bambi eyes for Sebastian. How can anyone resist?
Eric sees Ariel for the first time.
Eric: "Wow, you must've really been through something."
Scuttle and Flounder give Ariel encouragement.
Of all places in the palace Sebastian had to end up in, it had to be the kitchen, didn't it?
Grimsby: "Isn't she a vision?"
Sebastian watches the dinner preparations. This scene is purely for comic relief and doesn't contribute to the story in any way, yet has succeeded in becoming memorable. Perhaps it foreshadows the unaddressed problem in the love story: How will Ariel adapt to life on land?


On January 14, 2010 I saw this truth played out in the 2-hour sentencing hearing of Benedict Krawczak, age 30, in Judge Wallis' Orange County courtroom.
Krawczak was charged with 1st Degree Murder and Aggravated Child Abuse in the May 2007 shaken-baby syndrome death of his girlfriend's thirteen month old daughter, Willow Brady. Krawczak pled to 2nd degree murder in September and Assistant State Attorney Linda Burdick dropped the child abuse charge in exchange for the plea. There was no agreement as to what the sentence would be, except that the State would not seek more than 40 years.
The hearing began with testimony from the defendant's father, Ken Krawczak, phoned in from Michigan. Dad requested leniency from the court and asserted that if anything happened to the child, it was entirely accidental. He testified that Benedict sought out relationships with women who had children because he loved children so much.
It's been my experience that many abusers intentionally seek women with children because the mother often welcomes the assistance that a man offers (financial, emotional, and in caring for the children). The more dependent upon him that they become, the more able he is to control the family.
The elder Krawczak stated that his son had been hospitalized as a teenager for mental health issues because he had problems with authority figures. Burdick's cross examination of Mr. Krawczak demonstrated not only that he was out of touch with his son's life, but that he had been abusive to his son when Benedict was a child - admitting to having spanked and slapped him. He also admitted that the Michigan counterpart to DCF had been called against him when Benedict was a child, as well as against Benedict when he became an adult. He had no knowledge of his son's 19 documented incidents of misbehavior and violence since his incarceration in Orange County. His last visit with his son occurred prior to his arrest in May, 2007.
Defense Counsel Michael Nielson presented seven letters from family and friends to the Court. All of the writers extolled his virtues and asserted that he was not a violent person. Yet from what I could see, no friends, nor anyone from his family, was in attendance. Psychiatrist Dr. Jeffrey Danzinger took the stand and based his expert testimony upon an interview with defendant and medical records from the last of three residential treatment facilities to which Benedict had been hospitalized at ages 6 (for 2 years), 11 (for a year) and 15 (for 18 months). After lengthy testimony, Danzinger ultimately recommended that the defendant requires a structured setting and medication because "when not controlled, he will engage in dangerous, problematic behavior."
In addition to the abuse to which the elder Krawczak admitted, Benedict testified that his first two hospitalizations followed attempts to commit suicide. At age 6, by hanging. At age 11, by cutting his wrists. He said, "I've had things happen to me all my life." He recounted that his father had beaten him with a 2x4 when he was 9 years old. Between the ages of 9 and 15 he was bounced back and forth between his parents' homes. At age 17 he was homeless. He subsequently spent five years in a Michigan prison for theft charges and moved to Florida in January, 2007 at age 27 - just a few months before Willow's death.
Yes indeed, things have happened to him all his life.
Yet he is now an adult and must be held accountable for his actions. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear as though his father ever was held accountable for his own.
Heart-wrenching testimony from Willow's great-grandmother, great-aunt, and mother told two tales.
One was of the family's grief over the loss of this baby. And how her older brothers, ages 4 and 9, are coping poorly with having witnessed the defendant's actions that fateful day. Her great-aunt summed up the loss by testifying about how much she enjoyed playing with Willow and that "now all we have is an urn." Her mother shared that Willow died on Mother's Day and that she never heard her say "Mommy."
The other tale emphasized how the defendant parented the children. Willow's great-grandmother testified that Krawczak treated all three children sternly - sometimes forcing the boys to sleep on the floor. Her mother testified that DCF once investigated an allegation that "I do not listen to my parents" was written on one son's forehead.
Prosecutor Linda Burdick reminded Judge Wallis of the severity of the child's injuries by having him review the photos. She argued that the baby was not merely shaken, but held by her ankles, grabbed by her face, bruises were on her torso and back, and strangulation marks were noted on her neck. She agreed that his intent was not to kill, but to silence her cries. She emphasized the defendant's lengthy history of acting violently when he doesn't get his way and indicated that it makes sense to "warehouse" him until he's old enough to no longer be a danger to others.
The minimum guidelines called for a sentence of 21years & 2 months.
Judge Wallis sentenced Krawczak to 28 years in the Department of Corrections and ordered him to serve 5 years of probation upon his release.
Tragically, this young man grew up in an obviously abusive home. Even more tragically, a baby is dead because he never learned how to deal with others in an effective manner.
Thankfully he won't be able to seek relationships with another woman with children for a long time to come. Let's hope the generational curse ends here.


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Punta dei Cors (pronuncia francese cor; in francese e ufficialmente Pointe des Cors - detta anche Punta Gastaldi) è una torre rocciosa di 3849 metri che s'innalza sulla cresta principale delle Grandes Murailles tra la Valtournenche e la Valpelline.

È formata da roccia molto friabile, soprattutto nella parte sommitale.

La prima ascensione è stata fatta da Giuseppe Corona con Jean-Pierre Maquignaz (guida di Valtournenche) il 27 luglio 1877.

Bivacchi
Per facilitarne l'ascesa, lunga ed impegnativa, poco sotto la vetta in prossimità del Col des Cors, è stato posto il Bivacco Ratti. Il piccolo Bivacco Balestreri e il Bivacco Tête des Roéses, recentemente ristrutturato, servono come punti d'appoggio rispettivamente per i versanti di Valtournenche e di Valpelline.

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Montagne delle Alpi Pennine
Tremila delle Alpi Pennine
Montagne della Valle d'Aosta

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"The need to achieve lowest possible delivered electricity prices for the required level of security demanded by consumers, both small and large, seems to have become a secondary issue in this years election" observed Ralph Matthes, Executive Director of the Major Electricity Users' Group (MEUG) today. He believed that was a mistake.
"We've made good progress in the last 18 months in particular, but the policy makers and end consumers themselves cannot be complacent that the momentum for change will continue.
"MEUG has therefore today released three policies that we believe are necessary if consumers are to benefit from reforms of the power industry.
 An efficient wholesale electricity market structure developed by stakeholder self-regulation and effective management of conflicts of interest.
"The common theme of these policies is the need to ensure consumer rights are maintained by closing the gaps on anti-competitive behaviour that restricts consumer choice and facilitating a framework that enables consumers to understand the methodology and agree charges for monopoly services.
 The Electricity Industry Reform Act 1998 facilitated the breakup of ECNZ and hence competition in the wholesale market – this has been a major reason why wholesale electricity prices this year were more than a third lower than any of the previous three years winter months.
 The Act also required ownership separation of line and energy businesses – this has removed some of the barriers to competition and cross-subsidies to retail and generation businesses that the vertically integrated companies previously practiced.
 The announcements last year of a 20% reduction in Transpower's asset value, a lower target cost of capital and reduction in operating costs will lead to longer-term lower transmission costs – similar reductions in asset values and operating costs are inevitable for local distribution line companies.


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Governor Ron DeSantis Visits Caloosahatchee River to Highlight a Leading Israeli Company Working with the State to Combat Blue-Green Algae
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ALVA, Fla. – During a visit today to the W.P. Franklin Lock and Dam (S-79) Structure, Governor Ron DeSantis received a briefing on an innovative technology treatment being deployed in the Caloosahatchee River to combat blue-green algal blooms. The treatment is being performed by BlueGreen Water Technologies, a leading Israeli algae mitigation company. At the direction of Governor DeSantis, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and South Florida Water Management District continue to actively assess and address critical blue-green algal conditions in South Florida while expediting large-scale Everglades projects.
"I have directed all of my state agencies to take an 'all hands on deck' approach to improve water quality and address active algal blooms," said Governor Ron DeSantis. "In addition to deploying innovative technologies, at my direction, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and the South Florida Water Management District continue to prioritize expediting crucial Everglades and water quality projects including the EAA Reservoir, Caloosahatchee (C-43) and C-44 Reservoirs and other key projects to reduce harmful discharges and send water south."
"Governor DeSantis understands the importance of the environment to our state, and his strong leadership continues to lead to water quality improvements for our waterways," said DEP Secretary Noah Valenstein. "In addition to investments in innovative technologies to mitigate algal blooms, under the Governor's leadership, the state is also expediting Everglades restoration projects like the EAA Reservoir through sound science and project collaboration, putting the state on track to complete key projects over the next two years, including C-44 and Caloosahatchee (C-43) Reservoirs."
"No matter what environmental challenges face our state, Governor DeSantis has continued to ensure the necessary resources are in place to respond," said SFWMD Governing Board Chairman Chauncey Goss. "In partnership with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, the South Florida Water Management District is tackling blue-green algae while actively expediting long-term solutions to our water challenges. A suite of Everglades restoration projects, including the critically important EAA Reservoir, will allow more water to be directed south while protecting our coastal estuaries from harmful Lake Okeechobee discharges."
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ESD Experts Discuss Major Chicago Energy Changes
Energy+Eco, Technology
Chicago is a leader in sustainability. Within the past year, the city has experienced a couple of new updates relating to building energy including changes in ENERGY STAR scores and Chicago's new energy rating system.
Samantha Davidson and Marie Curatolo explain the importance of these changes in "Let's Talk Energy: ENERGY STAR Ratings and City of Chicago Energy Rating System" on the BOMA Chicago Web site. They explain why most commercial office buildings throughout Chicago may have been hit harder than expected with their new ENERGY STAR scores, details regarding the Chicago Energy Rating System and why it's being implemented, and how buildings can take action moving forward.
A Practical Guide to Retro-Commissioning in the Age of Climate Change
Sustainability in the built environment is an expansive industry and currently enjoying its time in the spotlight due to increased pressures from communities and governmental bodies to combat climate change. From building design initiatives such as net zero and electrification to renewables and green building certifications, it can be a complicated and overwhelming field to navigate. (Learn more about the sustainable retro-commissioning.)


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Author Archives: Lisa Locker
Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
by Lisa Locker February 16th, 2001 August 29th, 2020
TO MARCH 3 Look at your hands: Underneath that bad manicure and the calluses, those poorly maintained extremities are, in fact, tools that we humans have used since before the […]
Lillo Bartoloni: An Artist's Homage to Isaac Bashevis Singer
by Lisa Locker December 15th, 2000 August 29th, 2020
True Love Always
by Lisa Locker September 22nd, 2000 August 29th, 2020
Thingy
by Lisa Locker July 7th, 2000 August 29th, 2020
Friends of Dean Martinez
by Lisa Locker April 28th, 2000 August 29th, 2020
"Socrates Cafe: Where Ordinary People Discuss Philosophy"
National Conference on Civil Disobedience
by Lisa Locker January 21st, 2000 August 29th, 2020
Alhadj and Harold
by Lisa Locker October 22nd, 1999 August 29th, 2020
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Remembering Maya Angelou
You may write me down in history….With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt….But still, like dust, I'll rise. Maya Angelou's story awed millions. A childhood victim of rape, she broke through silence and shame to tell her tale in one of the most widely read memoirs of the 20th…
You may write me down in history….With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may tread me in the very dirt….But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Maya Angelou's story awed millions. A childhood victim of rape, she broke through silence and shame to tell her tale in one of the most widely read memoirs of the 20th century. A black woman born into poverty and segregation, she recited the most popular presidential inaugural poem in history.
"I'm not modest," she told The Associated Press in 2013. "I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned behavior. But I do pray for humility, because humility comes from the inside out."
Angelou, a renaissance woman and cultural pioneer, died Wednesday at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was 86.
"She lived a life as a teacher, activist, artist and human being. She was a warrior for equality, tolerance and peace," said her son, Guy B. Johnson.
Tall and regal, with a deep, majestic voice, she was unforgettable whether encountered in person, through sound or the printed word. She was an actress, singer and dancer in the 1950s and 1960s and made a brave and sensational debut as an author in 1969 with "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," which became standard (and occasionally censored) reading and made Angelou one of the first black women to enjoy mainstream literary success.
"Caged Bird" was the start of a multipart autobiography that continued through the decades and captured a life of hopeless obscurity and triumphant, kaleidoscopic fame.
The world was watching in 1993 when she read her cautiously hopeful "On the Pulse of the Morning" at President Bill Clinton's first inauguration. Her confident performance openly delighted Clinton and made publishing history by making a poem a best-seller. For President George W. Bush, she read another poem, "Amazing Peace," at the 2005 Christmas tree lighting ceremony at the White House. Presidents honored her in return with a National Medal of Arts and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian honor. In 2013, she received an honorary National Book Award.
She called herself a poet, in love with the "sound of language," "the music in language," as she explained to the AP in 2013. But she lived so many lives. She was a wonder to Toni Morrison, who marveled at Angelou's freedom from inhibition, her willingness to celebrate her own achievements. She was a mentor to Oprah Winfrey, whom she befriended when Winfrey was still a local television reporter, and often appeared on her friend's talk show program. She mastered several languages and published not just poetry but advice books, cookbooks and children's stories. She wrote music, plays and screenplays, received an Emmy nomination for her acting in "Roots," and never lost her passion for dance, the art she considered closest to poetry.
"The line of the dancer: If you watch (Mikhail) Baryshnikov and you see that line, that's what the poet tries for. The poet tries for the line, the balance," she told The Associated Press in 2008, shortly before her 80th birthday.
Her very name was a reinvention. Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis and raised in Stamps, Arkansas, and San Francisco, moving back and forth between her parents and her grandmother. She was smart and fresh to the point of danger, packed off by her family to California after sassing a white store clerk in Arkansas. Other times, she didn't speak at all: At age 7, she was raped by her mother's boyfriend and didn't talk for years. She learned by reading, and listening.
"I loved the poetry that was sung in the black church: 'Go down, Moses, way down in Egypt's land,'" she told the AP. "It just seemed to me the most wonderful way of talking. And 'Deep River.' Ooh! Even now it can catch me. And then I started reading, really reading, at about 7 1/2, because a woman in my town took me to the library, a black school library. … And I read every book, even if I didn't understand it."
At age 9, she was writing poetry. By 17, she was a single mother. In her early 20s, she danced at a strip joint, ran a brothel, got married and then divorced. But by her mid-20s, she was performing at the Purple Onion in San Francisco, where she shared billing with another future star, Phyllis Diller. She also spent a few days with Billie Holiday, who was kind enough to sing a lullaby to Angelou's son, surly enough to heckle her off the stage and astute enough to tell her: "You're going to be famous. But it won't be for singing."
After renaming herself Maya Angelou for the stage ("Maya" was a childhood nickname, "Angelou" a variation of her husband's name), she toured in "Porgy and Bess" and Jean Genet's "The Blacks" and danced with Alvin Ailey. She worked as a coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and lived for years in Egypt and Ghana, where she met Nelson Mandela, a longtime friend; and Malcolm X, to whom she remained close until his assassination, in 1965. Three years later, she was helping King organize the Poor People's March in Memphis, Tennessee, where the civil rights leader was slain on Angelou's 40th birthday.
"Every year, on that day, Coretta and I would send each other flowers," Angelou said of King's widow, Coretta Scott King, who died in 2006.
Angelou was little known outside the theatrical community until "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," which might not have happened if writer James Baldwin hadn't persuaded Angelou, still grieving over King's death, to attend a party at the home of Jules Feiffer, a cartoonist and writer. Feiffer was so taken by Angelou that he mentioned her to Random House editor Bob Loomis, who persuaded her to write a book by daring her into it, saying that it was "nearly impossible to write autobiography as literature."
"Well, maybe I will try it," Angelou responded. "I don't know how it will turn out. But I can try." Angelou's musical style was clear in a passage about boxing great Joe Louis' defeat in 1936 against German fighter Max Schmeling: "My race groaned," she wrote. "It was our people falling. It was another lynching, yet another Black man hanging on a tree. One more woman ambushed and raped. A Black boy whipped and maimed. It was hounds on the trail of a man running through slimy swamps. … If Joe lost we were back in slavery and beyond help."
Angelou's memoir was occasionally attacked, for seemingly opposite reasons. In a 1999 essay in Harper's, author Francine Prose criticized "Caged Bird" as "manipulative" melodrama. Meanwhile, Angelou's passages about her rape and teen pregnancy have made the book a perennial on the American Library Association's list of works that draw complaints from parents and educators. "'I thought that it was a mild book. There's no profanity," Angelou told the AP. "It speaks about surviving, and it really doesn't make ogres of many people. I was shocked to find there were people who really wanted it banned, and I still believe people who are against the book have never read the book."
Angelou appeared on several TV programs, notably the groundbreaking 1977 miniseries "Roots." She was nominated for a Tony Award in 1973 for her appearance in the play "Look Away." She directed the film "Down in the Delta," about a drug-wrecked woman who returns to the home of her ancestors in the Mississippi Delta. She won three Grammys for her spoken-word albums and in 2013 received an honorary National Book Award for her contributions to the literary community.
Back in the 1960s, Malcolm X had written to Angelou and praised her for her ability to communicate so directly, with her "feet firmly rooted on the ground." In 2002, Angelou communicated in an unexpected way when she launched a line of greeting cards with industry giant Hallmark. Angelou admitted she was cool to the idea at first. Then she went to Loomis, her editor at Random House, who was concerned the project would "trivialize" Angelou, whom called "the people's poet."
"And then I thought about it. And I thought, if I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in the people's hands — and I hope in their hearts. So I thought, 'Hmm, I'll do it.'" She had been a professor of American studies at Wake Forest University since 1982. She was also a member of the board of trustees for Bennett College, a private school for black women in Greensboro. Angelou hosted a weekly satellite radio show for XM's "Oprah & Friends" channel.
She remained so close to the Clintons that in 2008 she supported Hillary Rodham Clinton's candidacy over the ultimately successful run of the country's first black president, Barack Obama. But a few days before Obama's inauguration, she was clearly overjoyed. She told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette she would be watching it on television "somewhere between crying and praying and being grateful and laughing when I see faces I know."
Active on the lecture circuit, she gave commencement speeches and addressed academic and corporate events across the country. Angelou received dozens of honorary degrees, and several elementary schools were named for her.
There are many things that a life like Maya Angelou's teaches us who are left behind. But I believe her most enduring legacy is that she gave us a perfect formula for resilience. For getting back up again and again no matter what. She taught us that a caged bird sings, not because he knows how or because he expects to be set free, but because he simply has a song in his soul. So it is with us. Many of us live as caged birds, waiting to sing. Waiting for the doors to be unlocked. To be set free. When in reality what we need is to sing loudly in the midst of our captivity. To raise our voices. Lift our souls. And share our song with the world.
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The human figure was Francis Bacon's principal object of study throughout his career. This picture belongs to a series of eight paintings, which began as a portrait of Bacon's friend and biographer David Sylvester but became, in the final project, studies of a seated pope. Inspired by Eadweard Muybridge's sequential photos of the human body in movement, Bacon made his figures more and more agititated until, in the final painting, the pope is convulsive. Here his ambiguous facial expression rests somewhere between the grimace of Portrait V and the horrific scream of Portrait VII. This painting is one of the first Francis Bacon paintings acquired by an American museum.


Good evening and happy Forstval everyone!
This year's event ran surprisingly smoothly, except for a single minor issue.
Many gifts include the name of the sender, and sadly I didn't have the time to view them before a couple of days ago, when it was a little bit too late.
Therefore, you may find it easier to guess who made your gift than you'd expect!
As usual, I really enjoyed hosting the event. It was great to see all of the community's wonderful artists contribute to someone they maybe never talked to before, and I had a lots of fun!
I digs it. I should get back into Dragonfable sometime.
Can I know who made it?
@Exodus Winter: I really hope you liked it, as it was my first time I wanted to add the frostval of my character with the Moglins frost. I'm glad you liked.
As for who made the present frostval for me? I loved it, I loved the work, the art is a spectacle, and the story told about my character really encatador, congratulations to whoever it is, and if you have a Twitter account I'll put a piece of history as a description.
@PyroPuppy I want to do this more time, thanks for making our Frostval / Christmas happier.
Friends have a Happy Frostval in Dragonfable, A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, Come 2017 with lots of adventures and amusements by the Df team and Artix in general.
Thank you my Secret Santa!
And that hippopotamus... I never expected that I would find any kind of hippos lovely and cute.
Thankt you very mch to whoever made this wonderful gift to me. Reminds me of one of my favorite anime "yamato nadeshiko" . Happt Frostval to you all!
@Samira: That was me :D Glad you liked it! My Twitter is on my profile.
By the way, while stalking your profile and post history, I think you have your Dragonfable ID wrong in your profile.
Thank you PyroPuppy for hosting this event!
To my secret santa Bruextian, thank you for the drawing I really like it, the hair is EPIC.
Lastly, Xelessarx I'm very happy you like the pic I drew for you!


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20201020 CSL's Annual Research and Development Day Briefing
CSL's Broad Response to COVID-19 and Advancements Across the Company's Strategic Scientific Platforms are the Focus of Annual R&D Day
MELBOURNE, AU and KING OF PRUSSIA, PA; October 19/20, 2020 -- In its annual R&D briefing to investors today, CSL Limited (ASX:CSL; USOTC:CSLLY) demonstrated how the company is advancing a novel research portfolio across four strategic scientific platforms (Plasma Fractionation, Recombinant Technology, Cell and Gene Therapy, Adjuvanted Cell and Egg-based Vaccines) across six therapeutic areas (Immunology, Hematology, Respiratory, Cardiovascular and Metabolic, Transplant, Influenza Vaccines) and two businesses (CSL Behring and Seqirus) to help patients lead full lives, protect public health and drive future business growth. It's this scientific capability and diverse portfolio that positioned the company to quickly respond to the COVID-19 public health crisis.
"CSL's acumen in vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, recombinant technologies, manufacturing capabilities and external partnerships, along with a therapeutic area focus and insight that includes Immunology and Respiratory, has supported the growth and progress of our pipeline and has also enabled us to respond quickly to the need for potential solutions in the world's fight against COVID-19," said Bill Mezzanotte, MD, MPH, Executive Vice President, Head of Research and Development and Chief Medical Officer. "Right across the spectrum of infection and disease, CSL has taken on projects we think make sense both scientifically and that fit our capabilities."
The company's efforts in the fight against COVID-19 include:
Accelerating the development, manufacture and distribution of a vaccine candidate pioneered by researchers at the University of Queensland in Australia in collaboration with the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness. If the vaccine development is successful, CSL anticipates producing the vaccine for Australia and distribution to global markets via the COVAX facility toward the end of 2021. And CSL is also working with AstraZeneca to manufacture, if successful, approximately 30 million doses of its vaccine candidate under development with the University of Oxford (AZ1222) for supply to Australia.
Co-founding the CoVIg-19 Plasma Alliance, an unprecedented industry partnership of more than 12 plasma industry companies, to develop a hyperimmune for treating COVID-19. The phase 3 study in which the CoVIg-19 Plasma Alliance is participating. enrolled its first clinical trial participant in early-October. The study will take several months to complete, but if successful, will be the basis for regulatory submissions.
Developing an investigational, anti-SARS-CoV-2 plasma hyperimmune product for the Australian market to treat people with serious complications of COVID-19. The company is currently manufacturing its therapy for the clinical trial.
Conducting a Phase 2 study to assess the safety and efficacy of garadacimab (Factor XIIa antagonist monoclonal antibody) to treat patients suffering from severe respiratory distress, a leading cause of death in patients with COVID-19 related pneumonia. The first patient was enrolled in July.
Additionally, the company is partnering with SAb Biotherapeutics to manufacture clinical and early commercial supplies of SAB-185, a potential novel immunotherapy targeting COVID-19, produced without the need for blood plasma donations from recovered COVID-19 patients. SAB-185 is currently in early phase development.
"The same collaborative mindset with which CSL has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic is also reflected in how we are advancing our pipeline," said Andrew Nash, PhD, Senior Vice President, Head of Research and Chief Scientific Officer. "Across therapeutic areas, strategic platforms and geographies we continue to grow our footprint and capabilities so that we can deliver a significant benefit to patients around the world."
Other advancements in CSL's R&D pipeline in the last year include:
Setting the pace in Plasma Product development:
CSL is continuously improving current plasma fractionation processes and developing new therapeutic options, which has shown major relevance in the fight against COVID-19 and is also evident in other therapeutic areas. For example:
The company continues to advance its AEGIS-II Phase 3 study of CSL112 (ApoA-1), for potential treatment of acute coronary syndrome. More than 10,000 patients have been enrolled to date.
CSL has initiated the subcutaneous immunoglobulin 20% Dermatomyositis RECLAIIM phase 3 trial. Dermatomyositis is a severe autoimmune disease where there is high unmet need.
Advancing its Cell and Gene Therapy research by:
Agreeing to acquire exclusive global license rights to commercialize an adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapy program from uniQure. The EtranaDez (AMT-061) program, currently in Phase 3 clinical trials, if successful, could be one of the first gene therapies to provide potentially long-term benefits to patients with hemophilia B. The deal is subject to regulatory clearances.
Commencing a Phase 1 trial of CSL200, a stem cell gene therapy for the potential treatment of sickle cell disease.
Collaborating with Seattle Children's Research Institute to develop a stem cell gene therapy for primary immunodeficiency diseases -- a rare disease area where the company has industry leading capabilities.
Building momentum in Recombinant Technology:
CSL has established a highly differentiated preclinical and clinical stage pipeline of recombinant proteins and monoclonal antibodies from its proficiency in protein biology and innate cell immunity. In addition to using this technology against COVID-19, the company is studying:
Garadacimab as a new type of once-monthly subcutaneous prophylactic treatment for attacks related to hereditary angioedema (HAE), for which it has received Orphan Drug Designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The company shared the encouraging phase 2 study data in June and is preparing for the start of the VANGUARD phase 3 trial. Additionally, garadacimab is showing promise beyond HAE, notably in fibrotic, cardiovascular and inflammatory diseases.
Acquired Vitaeris Inc., which included clazakizumab (CSL300), an anti-interleukin-6 monoclonal antibody in the IMAGINE Phase 3 trial for the potential treatment of chronic active antibody-mediated rejection, the leading cause of long-term rejection in kidney transplant recipients.
About CSL
CSL (ASX:CSL) is a leading global biotechnology company with a dynamic portfolio of life-saving medicines, including those that treat hemophilia and immune deficiencies, as well as vaccines to prevent influenza. Since our start in 1916, we have been driven by our promise to save lives using the latest technologies. Today, CSL — including our two businesses, CSL Behring and Seqirus - provides life-saving products to more than 70 countries and employs 27,000 people. Our unique combination of commercial strength, R&D focus and operational excellence enables us to identify, develop and deliver innovations so our patients can live life to the fullest. For more information about CSL Limited, visit www.csl.com.


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The problem is the media, not false rape allegations
Commentary, Sexual Assault
by Meghan Murphy
When I was in journalism school I was told, not just to find the story, but a compelling narrator to tell that story. We were to personalize issues so that, I suppose, the audience could or would relate. This bothered me, not just from a political perspective, because individualizing systemic issues is not always helpful in terms of addressing the larger systems, contexts, and issues at play, but because I generally find that kind of reporting to be kind of, well, cheesy. It's also the kind of reporting journalists are encouraged to do by most mainstream outlets.
It feels like Hollywood movie-style journalism, wherein all news must be spoon-fed to the consumer in an entertaining, easy-to-digest way. There have to be characters and plots, climaxes and conclusions. And while, undoubtedly, those kinds of stories can be useful and there is absolutely nothing wrong with capturing an audience or with being engaged or entertained by a story, seeking to turn issues and events into a dramatic personal narrative isn't always the best way towards accurate and ethical coverage. Certainly it isn't the best way to affect change.
Because I am a feminist journalist, I don't see gendered issues as simply personal stories, despite the fact that women's personal stories are of utmost importance. I see individual stories and experiences within a larger context and always as political. I see my own personal stories as political and generally try to show the ways in which these experiences are shaped by larger systems of power and by socialization in a capitalist patriarchy. In other words, "the personal is political" isn't just a saying. It is true and it is imperative in terms of our fight towards an equitable world.
But mainstream media loves a good story. And it's clear that journalists are pressured to find these — the most dramatic, the most emotive. Rather than be pushed to look at systemic factors to explain the personal stories they find so riveting, they are pushed to do the opposite. And that's how we end up with Jackie's story — the now infamous subject of the Rolling Stone article intended to expose an insidious rape culture on college campuses. In fact, this is how we end up with most stories of rape and assault that are covered by the media. It's why male violence against women is predominantly understood as "stranger danger" — why we see predators as lone crazies instead of as our neighbours, our friends, our boyfriends, our fathers, our employers, or our classmates. It's why we don't understand that women experience oppression and abuse in much less exciting and dramatic ways than the salacious ways depicted on television, which is to say that it's simply and for the most part happening in our homes, on a daily basis. Strange men are dangerous to women, but no more so than the ones they already know, are related to, or are already living and sleeping with. The media seeks out particular stories and particular victims, often, not for educational purposes or for the social good, so much as because they know these stories of victimization will pull in an audience and simultaneously feed stereotypes audiences are already comfortable with.
Robert Jensen summarized this fact well, in a piece for teleSUR, pointing out that the mainstream media ignores the context of patriarchy when covering sexual assault (they also tend to consistently ignore the context of colonialism and capitalism in most news stories — systems that work in favour of mainstream media and against the marginalized).
That's the context that mainstream news media ignores and the evaluation they run from. Instead, the focus tends to be on individual victims/survivors and individual perpetrators. The more dramatic the story, the more likely it will be covered by journalists, and the less likely we'll learn much about society. "Routine" rapes are so routine that most aren't reported in our anti-feminist culture, which means they are largely invisible to journalism. And, most important in this case, the all-male institutions that serve as rape factories, such as fraternities, are rarely the subject of serious reporting absent this kind of sensationalized case.
What Sabrina Rubin Erdely, the journalist who wrote the Rolling Stone story did, in all likelihood, was to follow her training and, in many ways, journalistic standards. Yes, of course they should have fact-checked the story and looked for other sources, that is inarguable. But I think what really needs to be under investigation here is the way we train journalists and the way in which the media covers stories — particularly stories that deal with systemic power, violence, and inequality. Stories of poverty that focus on individuals overcoming their circumstances, stories of addiction that ignore histories of colonialism or abuse, stories of prostitution that ignore the same, stories of murdered women that ignore male power and masculinity, stories of police violence that ignore racism and poverty… I could go on. We're bolstering the neoliberal American dream that feeds us the lie that hardship can be overcome through perseverance, faith, or pure luck. This story is America's favorite one for a reason: it masks the depressing reality that class mobility is a myth and that no amount of positive thinking will erase race and gender oppression.
So the details of Erdely's story are unverifiable. But what does this mean? What have we learned from this situation? Well, we've learned that a few people failed to do their jobs properly. We've learned that there are "discrepancies" in Jackie's story. And we've learned nothing about rape and rape culture. There are "discrepancies" in any story. People have pretty unreliable memories when it comes to details. While we don't know what happened to Jackie, "discrepancies" and a failure to properly fact-check a story, confirm details, or follow-up with other sources does not mean a rape didn't take place. In fact, based on the details, it sounds like Jackie was assaulted by more than one man, the night she claimed she was, though the specifics of exactly how that assault went down are very blurry.
Catherine Porter wrote, for the Toronto Star, about the way in which the media's desire for the "perfect victim" erases "bad victims," in turn contributing to dangerous and inaccurate myths about rape. But it's that search for a "good story" that gets us here. It's that desire to find a compelling, "relatable" (who can relate to the chosen narrators is something else to consider, when we're casting white middle class people in starring roles), personal narrative — one with likable characters and plotlines we are comfortable with — that leads journalists to find and center stories like Jackie's. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with telling Jackie's story. Her story, whatever it is, should be told. But rape shouldn't need a compelling narrative or a likeable star in order to be reported on. What we should be concerned about, with regard to irresponsible journalism, is the media's (and media-consumers') aversion to politicizing and contextualizing that which can only truly be understood by doing both.
The thing is that Jackie isn't the only one. She wasn't the only one who was (probably) raped in a fraternity and she is not the only victim of sexual assault, more generally. She is one of many. And because we've invested so much in her story, which has (for now) proved unprovable, the thousands of other victims — even if we are only looking at victims on college campuses — are rendered invisible. "Find the story" isn't a useful framework for journalists to work with if the story begins and ends with an individual and doesn't move beyond the personal narrative, precisely because individuals can be unreliable narrators. But unreliable narrators do not negate the very real, widespread problem that is violence against women. And blurry, imperfect stories and victims do not mean that rape culture on college campuses is not ubiquitous.
Tags: journalism, mainstream media, neoliberalism, Rape, Rape Culture, Rolling Stone, Sabrina Rubin Erdely, stranger danger, University of Virginia, Violence Against Women
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Can Theater Speak to a Modern Audience Without Showing Screens?
POSTED BY: Jim McCarthy
Theater people think and talk a lot about being relevant to a contemporary audience, and that's a good thing to think about.
But when you consider the way young adults (and really everybody) use smartphones and computers now as key parts of how they interact with others, it leads me to a question: Can theater possibly speak to a modern audience without a good way to depict phone and computer-based interactions?
Of course, there are workarounds, but they sound, look and feel just like that. If a character is reading a text message aloud, that's OK, but that kind of thing has its limits. And yes, people also communicate naturally. I'm not saying it's only people texting and Skyping.
But what I am saying is that if the goal is to express something truly contemporary, it's impossible to ignore the five hours and 46 minutes a day that people spend with digital media, much of it communicating with other people.
This is a technical problem, and a conceptual problem. I can't help you there, except to point it out. It's also a problem of will. In other words, this is a tough problem for which maybe there aren't any good solutions yet. But shying away from it is already and will increasingly make theater content look different from our actual lives. I'm not saying do it because it's hip. I'm saying do it because if you want to reflect reality, you can't very well do that anymore if you're not showing people texting, browsing and webcamming.
It would be much easier to set everything in the '70s and go for that retro vibe, or on the exact day in 2007 before the iPhone was launched, thus making it as modern as possible while also plausibly ignoring the topic. That'll work for another couple of years.
Or solve it. That would be cool.
For a few thoughts about how movies have dealt with this, watch this:
A Brief Look at Texting and the Internet in Film from Tony Zhou on Vimeo.


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Autumn Fallin' is the debut album by American singer-songwriter Jaymay. It was released by Heavenly Recordings in the United Kingdom on November 12, 2007 and by Blue Note Records in the United States on March 11, 2008.

The track "Sea Green, See Blue" was used in the 2010 film The Switch, a 2009 episode of ABC's Brothers & Sisters, and the second season finale of the CBS TV series How I Met Your Mother.

Track listing
All songs written by Jaymay
 "Gray Or Blue" - 3:24
 "Sycamore Down" - 2:17
 "Blue Skies" - 3:56
 "Sea Green, See Blue" - 6:17
 "Autumn Fallin'" - 2:44
 "You'd Rather Run" - 9:50
 "Hard to Say" - 1:57
 "Big Ben" - 3:30
 "Ill Willed Person" - 3:19
 "You Are the Only One I Love" - 4:57

Credits

Musicians
Jaymay - All instruments, with:
Jonathan Ahrens - Bass on 5, 7 and 9
Ryan Anderson - Clarinet and vocals on 10
Jared Engel - Various instruments on 1
Nico Georis - Keyboards and accordion on 5, piano on 7, keyboards on 9, piano solo on 10
Bobby Hartry - Guitar on 5 and 9
Julian Raymond - Bass on 3
Louis Schefano - Various instruments on 6 and 10, drums on 3, vocals on 8
Aaron Sterling - Drums on 5, drums and percussion on 7 and 9
Julia Singleton, Calina de la Mare, Sally Herbert and Gini Ball - Violins on 3
Dinah Beamish, Emily Burridge and Rory MacFarlane - Cellos on 3
Samantha Seerman, Cassandra Seerman, Dave Seerman, Diana Seerman, Reed Seerman, Chubs Seerman, Susan Seerman, David Seerman, Alexandra Rappaport, Rex Rappaport, Katharine Rappaport, Dorothy Ann Rappaport, Stephen Rappaport, Luke Mitrani, Jack Mitrani, Liza Mitrani, Cindy Mitrani, Al Mitrani, Duke Sarnataro, Rosalie Sarnatoro, Traci Sarnataro, Dane Sarnataro, Frank Sarnataro, Dorothy Sarnataro, Jack Frederick, Kate Tubbs, John Gasper - Vocals on 10

References

2007 debut albums
Jaymay albums
Blue Note Records albums
Heavenly Recordings albums


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New York – Today, the NY Department of Health released the draft regulations for the medical marijuana program. While full analysis of the regulations is still underway, an initial review suggests New York will be one of the more restrictive programs in the country, which could inhibit patients from obtaining the relief they need. For instance, the draft regulations restrict the number of brands of medical marijuana to five initially without any clear rationale.
There is a flurry of news media accounts that the United States and Cuba are in talks to restore diplomatic relations. One hopes that such negotiations prove fruitful, thus ending a quarrel that has lasted some fifty-five years and benefited neither country. Restoring diplomatic ties would pave the way for ending the long-standing U.S. economic embargo against the island nation, and that move could be the catalyst for a commercial bonanza. Cuba would become a vacation destination for tens of thousands of American tourists, as it was in the decades before Fidel Castro's communist revolution. The route between Miami and Havana could become a busy air corridor for commercial flights. Thousands of Cuban exiles and their families in the United States have a powerful incentive to travel back to the island for both business and personal reasons. Without the arbitrary interference resulting from the diplomatic feud and the accompanying U.S. embargo, the two countries are natural economic partners.
Cuba would be the principal beneficiary of normalizing relations. The opening of trade and investment with the vast U.S. economy would make it possible for Cuba to enter the twenty-first century. No longer would images of the island be those of a country stuck in a time warp, with the streets of Havana and other major cities currently being notable for the presence of automobiles from the 1940s and 1950s. Although economic mismanagement by Castro and his associates is the principal reason for that unhappy development, U.S. hostility and the vindictive policies it generated also have played a major role. Normalization of relations would enable Cuba finally to become something more than a large used car museum.
But while Cuba would benefit greatly from the end of the bilateral cold war with Washington, the United States would also benefit. The economic gains to America, while relatively modest in the context of a $17 trillion-a-year economy, would be significant. More important, though, normalizing relations with Havana could be an important step in ending a counterproductive approach in overall U.S. foreign policy that has lasted for more than a century.
President Barack Obama used negotiations over bringing home a couple of imprisoned Americans as an opportunity to refashion the entire U.S.-Cuba relationship. He's aiming to reopen the embassy, relax trade and travel restrictions, and improve communication systems.
Of course, sustained caterwauling began immediately from the usual suspects, hardline Cuban-Americans, Republican neocons and uber-hawks, and obsessive Obama-haters. The president wasn't just aiding the Castros. He was hurting America, they claimed.
It's an astoundingly silly claim. If Sen. Rubio hasn't noticed, America has engaged in years of on-and-off discussions with North Korea's Kim dynasty stretching back to the Clinton administration. Under President Obama Washington has been negotiating with Iran's government for months: most people recognize that a diplomatic settlement, no matter how difficult to achieve, would be better than war. And it's hard to fathom exactly how the national wreck known as Venezuela could hurt the U.S.
Yet Rubio and others charge the administration with appeasement and even surrender.All because the president is proposing to treat Cuba like the U.S., under Republican as well as Democratic administrations, treats China, Vietnam, Uzbekistan, Eritrea, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and a host of other repressive states. President Obama suggests that government officials talk to one another. And that peoples visit and trade with one another. Nothing more.
Republicans once attempted to present themselves as the Daddy Party, the serious folks who got things done and accepted the world as it was, rather than treated it as they wished it to be. They set priorities and made tough choices. They adapted their approach as circumstances warranted. And they adopted policies which actually achieved what the stated objectives.
Well, no longer, if ever. And certainly not in Cuba today.


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Energy Alabama, Center for Biological Diversity, and Appalachian Voices Call for Inspector General Investigation into TVA's Membership in Utility Air Regulatory Group
Energy Alabama, the Center for Biological Diversity, and Appalachian Voices are calling on the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) to open an investigation into TVA's membership in and use of ratepayer dollars for the Utility Air Regulatory Group (UARG) and other unincorporated trade groups including the Utility Solid Waste Activities Group (USWAG), and Utility Water Act Group (UWAG).
To view the full document calling for the investigation, click here.
In a letter to the TVA OIG, advocates are voicing serious concerns about the use of ratepayer dollars for use in litigation and/or lobbying by UARG and its sister organizations. Any such activities would be in direct violation of TVA's board-approved policy, which stated, "These organizations will not lobby on behalf of TVA or represent TVA in litigation without specific authorization to do so".
TVA has repeatedly claimed the dues paid to UARG and related groups have not been used for litigation or lobbying. TVA's own records demonstrate that its 2017 UARG dues were substantially higher than what UARG claimed went to technical expenses. TVA paid $462,967 to UARG in 2017, almost double the $265,721 UARG claimed was spent on technical expenses.
A reasonable observer can only conclude the difference of TVA's dues were in fact spent on lobbying and/or litigation, which UARG described as "legal" expenses. TVA either gave permission to use ratepayer money for legal expenses or UARG broke its agreement with TVA.
In light of the facts outlined above, TVA appears to be in direct violation of the policy adopted by the TVA Board of Directors on November 10, 2016.
Therefore, TVA either provided specific authorization to UARG to lobby or litigate on its behalf, while refusing to disclose such authorization to the public, or TVA has violated its Board of Directors' directive.
"What troubles us the most is that TVA forced its customers to make political speech by taking money from their utility bills and using it for DC-based lawyers," said Daniel Tait, Chief Operating Officer of Energy Alabama. "Most Alabamians don't like an arm of the federal government taking their money meant to keep the lights on in order to sue another arm of the federal government."
"UARG and its secretive affiliates sue the federal government on behalf of polluters with the sole goal of weakening bedrock environmental protections," said Howard Crystal, Senior Attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. "It's appalling that TVA customers are being forced to subsidize these dirty efforts through their rate payments, which put utility profits above the public interest."
TVA's stated mission is to improve the quality of life throughout the Tennessee Valley through the integrated management of the region's resources. This mission makes no provision for using ratepayer money to fund lobbying and/or litigation activities in the pursuit of regulatory rollbacks.


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Bambermycin is a performance-enhancing antibiotic intended and available solely for use in animal nutrition. Its mechanism of action is to inhibit the synthesis of the bacterial wall. Bambermycin is predominantly effective against Gram-positive pathogenic bacteria. However, it does not have significant action against Lactobacillus, Bifidobacterium, and other protective bacteria.

Bambermycin has no precautions or warnings to humans on its label pertaining to mixing and handling and is non-hazardous when used according to label directions.  Bambermycin has no withdrawal requirement. Bambermycin is not absorbed by the intestine and no measurable residues are found in edible tissues even when fed at up to 50 times the normal recommended dosage.

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R&D plays a major role in the continuous improvement of new and highly innovative technologies across all our market segments. Our Research & Development department is responsible for creating new products and maintaining and improving existing products. Bringing new and innovative products to the market in a fast and robust way, should keep Malvern Panalytical one step ahead of the competition. To succeed in Malvern Panalytical's R&D department, you will need to be curious, proactive and creative in thinking both inside and outside the box. You will also need a passion for technology and have the drive and eagerness for continuous improvement and innovation. Are you a passionate and driven about software, hardware, or mechanical engineering and do you want to be part of our Global R&D network?
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Mechatronics Trinational is a degree programme in technology and business spanning the frontiers of Switzerland, Germany and France in the border triangle region. The programme covers technical project management in the field of mechatronics together with special training elements in the fields of management and communication.
The degree encompasses three disciplines – mechanical engineering, information technology and electrical engineering – and has a strong international orientation. The programme is delivered by three universities in the three countries with lessons being taught in German, French and English. From the very beginning, intercultural training elements foster team-building, allowing the class to come together and be guided through the degree programme as a unit.
A particularly special feature of the degree is the practical training periods integrated into the programme; these training periods can also be completed abroad if so desired. These periods offer an excellent opportunity for students to apply the knowledge that they have acquired from the programme in a commercial environment. Thanks to these extensive industry training periods, the Mechatronics Trinational degree is also open to secondary school leavers who have not completed an internship beforehand.
Job opportunities and career prospects for graduates are excellent because they combine first-rate technical expertise with well-developed intercultural and language skills.
The trinational degree programme is extremely varied in terms of both the technical information and interpersonal skills that it imparts. I would not miss the international camaraderie I have enjoyed for the last three year for the world.
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The degree programme begins at the University of Upper Alsace (UHA) in Mulhouse (F).Industry training period I then follows . The objective of this period is for students to become better acquainted with the a business environment in a different cultural area in and, in particular, to develop their language skills. The second semester takes place at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) in the municipality of Muttenz in the canton of Basel (CH). The Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW) in Lörrach (D) delivers the third semester.
The same cycle takes place from the fourth to the sixth semester, interrupted by industry training period II. This training period involves students dealing with a conceptual theme in practice, whereby knowledge acquired as part of the degree is applied in a practical manner.
Industry training period III completes the degree programme (the bachelor's thesis is written in the seventh semester). This last training period sees students dealing with a comprehensive topic from the Mechatronics Trinational programme within a company or other institution. Because this period is a lengthy one , students often combine it with a stay abroad.
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Technical subjects take up slightly more than half of the study time. They are complemented by subjects from the fields of management and communication, which account for around a fifth of the programme. These subjects include project management/systems engineering, process management, intercultural management and quality management.
Language training as part of the "communication" element is another component of the programme. German-speaking students take a French course and French-speaking students take a German course. Students can study English as a second foreign language.
A key part of the degree is the integrated practical training periods, which are closely monitored by advisers from the respective universities.
Furthermore, study trips lasting one or more days take place in various companies with a view to familiarising students with the respective company and acquainting them with current business challenges.
A detailed description of the modules that can be taken as part of the Mechatronics Trinational degree programme can be found in the module table (German).
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Oklahoma County has record numbers of felony cases filed in 2015
by Kyle Schwab
Published: Sun, January 17, 2016 12:01 AM
Oklahoma County saw a record high number of felony charges filed in 2015 and the district attorney says his lawyers are "maxed out."
"I think we're about as high as we've ever been," District Attorney David Prater said. "We have to prioritize ... When we are in an emergency situation, like we are now with increased case loads and decreased lawyers due to decreased state appropriations, we have to attempt to carefully prioritize our efforts."
Prater, his prosecutors and prosecutors with the Attorney General's Office filed 9,171 felony cases last year, 407 more than in 2014. A list dating back to 1990 shows 2015 had the highest amount of felony filings in more than 25 years. The lowest number was 6,761 felony cases filed in 2001.
Prater said the high number of felonies is concerning because "our budgets continue to be more and more underfunded to the point where we are 10 lawyers fewer than a year ago and our support staff is down, as well.
"Addressing a greater number of felony filings with fewer staff is almost unsustainable."
Prater noted Oklahoma County's quickly increasing population as an obvious contributor to the rising numbers of felony filings. But he also pointed to two areas with a lack of resources that contribute to the crime rate.
"I attribute the high number of criminal filings in this county to the fact that we have too few resources to address mental health and substance abuse issues in our state because those issues drive the majority of the criminal behavior in our communities," Prater said.
He said there were very few murders last year that were not somehow related to either narcotics, alcohol or mental health issues. More than a hundred pending murder cases are awaiting trial. Oklahoma City police reported 89 homicides last year.
"We're looking at not just increased felony filings, but also a decrease in the appropriations coming to our office which means there will be fewer and fewer attorneys to assign to those increased case loads," he said. "We're going in the wrong direction on both ends of this deal regarding resources being applied to the criminal justice system and then the number of cases being filed."
Prater said that dividing more than 9,100 felony cases among 50 lawyers, along with assigning attorneys to thousands of misdemeanor cases, "can affect public safety." He said appropriations have been falling since 2008.
"We lost $167,000 just in the last 6 months of this fiscal year when state government asked us to decrease our funding by 10 percent," Prater said. He expects more losses this coming fiscal year.
Data shows the second highest year for felony cases was 1994 with 9,006 cases.
Misdemeanor charges were down last year with 3,850 filings. In 2014, 4,120 misdemeanors were filed.
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There were 25,471 small claims civil cases filed last year. Since 1990, the most small claims filed in a year were in 2006 with 28,744. The last time the county saw less than 20,000 annual small claims was in 1990.
Civil cases concerning damages in excess of $10,000 are at a record low, according to the 25-year data provided. Those civil cases reached 7,034 filings last year. In 2009, the last year of the nationwide recession, the county saw 12,637, its highest number of these types of civil cases.
The number of 2015 traffic cases reached 32,715, down from the year before.
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Kyle Schwab has been a reporter for The Oklahoman newspaper since 2013. He currently covers Oklahoma City courts. He graduated from the University of Central Oklahoma with a major in journalism. He lives in Edmond. Read more ›
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Medicare cuts could devastate access to cancer care
The impact of the proposed Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services payment cuts to radiation oncology could severely impact community-based cancer care across the country, according to a recent survey from the American Society for Radiation Oncology.
The July 6, 2012 CMS Medicare physician fee schedule proposes to significantly cut the reimbursement rate for radiation oncology services, beginning Jan. 1, 2013. These cuts represent a 15% reduction in overall payment, nearly a $300 million loss for cancer care services. Community-based radiation therapy clinics would be most affected by these cuts, with a 19% reduction hitting these centers, according to ASTRO.
In statement, ASTRO said it is working with radiation oncologists and cancer team professionals to protect patient access to care by preventing the proposed cuts.
The organization conducted an online survey in July, garnering nearly 600 responses. The projected impact of the proposed cuts includes the following:
Access to care for Medicare patients could be limited: 70% of ASTRO members reported they might have to limit Medicare patients, and 49% said they may be forced to no longer accept Medicare patients, resulting in access-to-care issues for these patients.
Cancer centers may close: 35% of respondents in free-standing centers said they may close their practice; 64% could have to consolidate practice locations, which would lead to longer travel times for patients to get daily treatments.
Communities may experience economic loss: 53% of community-based practices may lay off physicians, and 81% of community-based practices may lay off professional staff such as nurses.
Access to state-of-the-art technology could be impacted: 93% could delay or cancel purchasing new, state-of-the-art technology, which would affect treatment options for these patients.
"This survey underscores that these cuts would be a severe setback in our fight against cancer," said Leonard L. Gunderson, MD, chairman of ASTRO's board of directors.
A bipartisan group of members of Congress have also expressed their concerns about the proposed radiation oncology cuts. Reps. Joe Pitts (R-PA) and Frank Pallone (D-NJ), the respective chairman and ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee health subcommittee, with support from Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), are circulating a letter among their colleagues that ultimately will be sent to the administration. A similar bipartisan letter is being drafted in the Senate.
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"There'll be Bluebirds over the White Cliffs of Dover ... ."
If you were around in 1944 you might remember that WW2 song. Well, these are not Bluebirds and they don't live in Dover, England - but they do live within about 75 miles of those White Cliffs of Dover. These little babies live at East Tilbury, Essex, England. And who knows? Someday they might really fly over those White Cliffs.
Hello world! May 24, 2008.
Wonder what's out there? May 29, 2008.
Growing up. June 4, 2008.
Hey! Me too! June 4, 2008.
A good thing about raising birds during these difficult economic times - they don't eat much.
And who knows? One day they just might make that flight over those White Cliffs.


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Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Monday hosted United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at his residence during Ban's final scheduled visit to Israel as the U.N.'s leader.
Rivlin used the opportunity to ask Ban for assistance on securing the return of the bodies of two Israeli soldiers who were kidnapped and killed by Hamas in Gaza in 2014, in addition to the return of two Israelis who are currently believed to be held captive by Hamas.
"On the humanitarian side, Hamas still refuses to give—even to the Red Cross—information on the fate of two of our [slain] soldiers, Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul. At the same time, we are very worried about two Israeli citizens both suffering poor mental health, one Muslim and one Jewish. They are being held by Hamas after crossing into Gaza two years ago. Again, Hamas has refused to give details about their wellbeing or where they are held. I ask you to do all you can to bring an end to this pain," Rivlin told Ban.
Ban offered his condolences for the four Israelis killed in the shooting terror attack at Tel Aviv's Sarona market earlier this month, and urged Israel to work with the French-led initiative to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
"Stabbings, shootings, and bombings will not achieve anything because violence is never a solution. Such acts are precisely designed to breed fear as uncertainty. They eat away at trust and hope, and drive Palestinians and Israelis further apart and strip away any sense of empathy for one another," said Ban.
"I encourage Israeli and Palestinian leaders to engage with the [Middle East] Quartet on its recommendations and on creating the conditions for the resumption of meaningful negotiations. Let me assure you, Mr. President, that the United Nations stands ready to support all efforts in achieving this goal," the U.N. leader added.
Both Rivlin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have publicly rejected the French-led peace initiative, which excluded both Israeli and Palestinian representatives at its global summit in early June.