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Few elected Republicans support giving gays the right to marry. The party's influential social-conservative wing sees "traditional marriage" as a defining issue. And while most major Democrats are rushing to embrace same-sex marriage, none of the most prominent potential Republican presidential candidates have taken that step.
But a powerful group of Republican donors, who see the GOP's staunch opposition to gay rights as a major problem, is trying to push the party toward a more welcoming middle ground — where candidates who oppose marriage rights can do so without seeming hateful.
The behind-the-scenes effort is being led largely by GOP mega-donor Paul Singer, a hedge fund executive whose son is gay, and former Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman, who revealed his homosexuality in 2010, long after he had left the GOP leadership.
Singer's advocacy group, the American Unity Fund, has been quietly prodding Republican lawmakers to take a first step toward backing gay rights by voting for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. The measure, which is expected to come to the full Senate for a vote as early as this month, would ban workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
Singer's group recently hired as lobbyists two former GOP lawmakers, Tom Reynolds (N.Y.) and Norm Coleman (Minn.), who say they oppose same-sex marriage but support workplace protections for gays.
Armed with new polling data and talking points, organizers are coaching lawmakers and potential candidates on politically smart ways to talk about gay rights to reassure general-election voters while not alienating core conservatives.
A softer GOP approach, they argue, would boost the party's chances with young voters, women and centrist independents, all of whom tend to be supportive of gay rights and have drifted away from the party.
One poll-tested sound bite being suggested to candidates references the Golden Rule — to "treat others as we'd like to be treated, including gay, lesbian and transgender Americans." The line, according to a memo from a GOP polling firm hired to guide the campaign, wins support from 89 percent of Republican voters.
"The Republican image, unfortunately, is one in which we have an empathy gap," Coleman said. "That impacts us across the board. An issue like this, which is about being against discrimination, feeds into the long-term future of the party. It addresses one of the negatives that we are facing today."
Some pro-gay-rights Republicans point hopefully to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie as a case study of a GOP politician who seems to be looking for a politically viable approach. The governor, expected to easily win reelection next month, is close to Singer, though aides to both men declined to discuss their private conversations about the issue.
Christie won praise from social conservatives last year for vetoing a same-sex-marriage bill. But he also routinely voices sympathy for gays; in a debate last week, for instance, he said that if one of his children came out, he would "grab them and hug them and tell them I love them."
Christie, who has said he does not see homosexuality as a sin, nominated an openly gay judge to the state Supreme Court and, in August, signed a law banning licensed therapists from practicing gay conversion therapy on minors. LGBT activists hailed an anti-bullying law he signed as one of the country's toughest measures protecting gay children.
Christie's opposition has not been enough to block same-sex marriage in New Jersey.
A state judge ruled last month that gay marriage should be legal, clearing the way for same-sex nuptials to begin this week. The Christie administration appealed. State supreme court oral arguments had been planned for January, but the justices ruled last week that weddings should be allowed to proceed immediately. On Monday morning, with weddings already taking place, Christie announced that his administration was dropping its appeal – in effect making same-sex marriage the law of the land in New Jersey.
Gay rights activists, meanwhile, are rallying votes in the legislature on a second track, to override the governor's veto of the marriage bill.
Troy Stevenson, executive director of Garden State Equality, said his group has a closer relationship with Christie than it had with his Democratic predecessors. Like other activists, he sees the governor's stance on marriage as an anomaly most likely attributable to calculations around his presidential ambitions.
"I honestly don't see what is holding him back" from supporting same-sex marriage, Stevenson said, "except for potentially politics."
Organizers of the pro-gay Republican effort say they remain committed to pressing for marriage rights, with Singer and Mehlman both backing a number of state-level campaigns — including the push to override Christie's veto.
"But we're telling Republicans, 'If you think you can't get there on marriage, here is a safe list of things you can support,' " said Jeff Cook-McCormac, senior adviser to Singer's advocacy group.
Organizers say they are confident that the Senate will pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). The Republican-led House, they say, is a taller order, though they note that Rep. Paul Ryan (Wis.), the party's 2012 vice-presidential nominee, has voiced support for workplace protections in the past.
Social-conservative leaders say the effort by gay rights backers won't work.
"Regardless of how much money [Singer and his allies] bring to the table, it is not to the advantage of Republican officeholders politically to support his agenda," said Peter Sprigg, senior fellow for policy studies at the Family Research Council, one of the major evangelical groups opposing the ENDA. "Particularly in Republican primaries, the Republican Party is still strongly socially conservative. These are core convictions that people have."
Sprigg described the ENDA as a "legislative way to declare that it's morally wrong to disapprove of homosexual conduct." The bill, he said, is a "direct attack against the moral convictions of social conservatives."
In their lobbying appointments and meetings with candidates and strategists, advocates argue that politicians need not fear a backlash should they decide to change course on gay rights issues.
"Because it's so personal, we are helping them through the process and helping guide them, and showing them that Republican support is there in the electorate, that they're not going to be punished," said Dan Meyers, a former RNC staffer who is president of Project Right Side, an advocacy group rolled out by Mehlman after the 2012 elections.
Increasing pressure is also coming from Republican donors who see gay rights as a determining factor in who gets their checks. The issue routinely comes up at New York GOP fundraisers, Cook-McCormac said, "always in the context of, 'The party's got to get over this.' "
New data being circulated by the campaign show that a clear majority of Republicans back the workplace anti-discrimination law. In contrast, though support for same-sex marriage has been rising among GOP voters, it remains a minority view in the party's electorate.
Reynolds voted against the employment-protections bill in 2007. At the time, he said, he saw it as a "trial lawyer bonanza." But similar state laws have not sparked frivolous lawsuits, he said.
"There just doesn't seem to be evidence of some of the concerns that were presented at the time," he said.
The outreach to GOP lawmakers is closely aligned with a $2 million pro-ENDA lobbying campaign being run by a new bipartisan coalition called Americans for Workplace Opportunity. Singer has forged an unusual partnership with a liberal Democratic donor, Jonathan Lewis, with each pledging $250,000 for the effort.
Singer said the ENDA is "an opportunity for Republicans to do what is right and reinforce the American principle that people should be judged on their merits."


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Who Uses Octave?
- Universities, as seen from this discussion.
- Companies, as seen from this discussion.
- People, at home, for whatever numerical purpose.
User experiences
At the AILab we use it as a tool for simulation (basic research and control oriented) and data analysis.
--KaKiLa 07:38, 16 January 2012 (PST).
The list of self-described user experience has been provided in 01/2008 by Steve Thompson on the help-octave mailing list:
I use it at the University of Pennsylvania for some of my research.
--Bill Denney
I use Octave, (together with MPITB on a 128 Intel Itanium II nodes cluster) at the Centre for Advanced Computational Technologies/ISUFI of University of Lecce (Italy) for my researches. I usefully use Octave on the above mentioned cluster (for parallel data processing) where Matlab does not work because it's not officially supported on IA64 platforms.
--Gianvito Quarta
We use it here in Chile, at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Chile, for research (myself) and we also teach numerical methods using Octave and C++ to our Physics students.
--Victor Munoz
I also did my entire thesis using octave, but I was one of the few people (despite my best efforts) in my department who even knew about octave. In my field (electrical engineering), most students are introduced to Matlab in an undergraduate course on signal processing. If professors were informed about octave, they could promote octave as an alternative--particularly to students who want to do work on their own computers without buying the crippled "student edition" of Matlab.
--Quentin Spencer
I feel like I am living proof of what Quentin has said. I am working on my MSEE right now and was introduced to Matlab in a third-year signal processing course. I thought it would be nice to work on my home computer if possible and ended up buying the student version later, only to find that features such as the Signal Processing Toolbox were available at additional cost. I discovered Octave on my own when I started using Linux and with some struggles (I liked to print plots by clicking on the printer button in Matlab) feel just as comfortable with it as I do Matlab. But never have I heard any of my professors mention Octave as a viable alternative to Matlab. I don't think a lot of them know it is out there.
--Ronald Crummett
Octave is installed in the server "pandora" at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if some else apart of me is aware of this. Sad thou.
--Diego Ruiz
At Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia, Octave is a integrated part of a civil engineering mechanics course by Dr. Andres Lahe (see http://staff.ttu.ee/~alahe/, http://staff.ttu.ee/~alahe/, http://staff.ttu.ee/~alahe/konspekt/myCD/sisukord.html, http://staff.ttu.ee/~alahe/konspekt/myCD/sisukord.html, it's written in Estonian, but the code isn't). He uses Octave for solid mechanics calculations, introduction to the finite element method and such. I personally and professionally have used Octave for the last 3 years.
--Radu Prekup
I teach Matlab in the School of Aeronautics in the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid in Spain. All the examples designed to be identical in both languages and to run identically in both interpreters. I encourage everyone to use Octave instead of Matlab in small scripts when no exotic toolbox is needed. The mean programming knowledge in the school is near to zero, this means that my course is more an introduction to scientific programming than an introduction to Matlab and Octave.
I also wrote some extensive lecture notes about Matlab and Octave in spanish to promote the use of Octave. I talked about them about one month ago in this list. The conclusion of the notes is: Matlab has more functions but Octave is a more interesting, enjoyable and powerful tool.
When I ask some feedback about Octave the complaints are always the same (the well known weaknesses of Octave) - No GUI (They are *not* used to the command line so they try to avoid it as much as possible) - Saving plots is difficult (idem) - Only a few use linux and Octave lacks some more system integration with Windows - etc...
I tried to distribute some live-cds with octave among the course attendants (quantian) but the effort was unsuccessful. Well, it's linux...
In the CFD lab. in the same university we use Matlab on Linux for data analysis (large turbulent channels), no VTK, no OpenDX?; just Matlab. The general thought is that Matlab is a better tool than Octave, we can use Matlab... Why should we use Octave? And of course, Matlab draws the 3D isosurfaces easily...
--Guillem Borrell Nogueras
I am currently transitioning from another product to Octave. Location: vet school Hannover, Germany
--Michael Grossbach
I used octave and maxima for my numerical and symbolic work at the University of Michigan Aerospace Engineering Dept. I advertise via word of mouth to my fellow graduate students and to any Professor who will listen, however I receive a lot of resistance.
--Pete Gustafson
I have used Octave since I discovered it, many years ago, after having appreciated the clean Matlab language. I have some of my students and colleagues use it. This is not a university, rather a research institute.
--Francesco Potortì CNR, Pisa
I teach at Fanshawe College London Ontario. We have about 30 students a year who use Octave. Mainly filter design, PID, Laplace and z space.
--Doug Stewart
Octave (w/ octave-forge) is used in an introductory course on programming, and in a couple of numerical analysis courses in the School of Engineering of Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina (http://www.efn.uncor.edu).
--Agustin Barto
Teaching: At the University of Applied Sciences Bern I teach a 2 hour class on using Octave for engineers. Find the corresponding lectures notes at (http://staff.ti.bfh.ch/sha1/Labs/PWF/Documentation/OctaveAtBFH.pdf) and the codes at (http://staff.ti.bfh.ch/sha1/Labs/PWF/Codes/). Feedback on the lecture notes is always welcome, I have to justify the time required to keep them up to date.
At the University of Bern in the Master program for Biomedical Engineering I use Octave to support the class on Numerical Methods (http://staff.ti.bfh.ch/sha1/NumMethods.html). The missing feature students are asking for is a GUI, I do not need a GUI, probably age related ;-)
Research: For the current research project of numerical simulations of the Novikov Veselov equations I use Octave to implement the finite difference methods and the spectral methods with great success.
--Andreas Stahel
Aside from using Octave for 90%+ of my own thesis work at the University of Colorado in Boulder, I have contributed to a project called CISM-DX. This is a collection of analysis and visualization tools based heavily on Octave and OpenDX? that is being developed as part of the NSF-funded Center for Integraged Space-weather Modeling (CISM). I don't think it (CISM-DX) has been used extensively in a traditional class setting, but it has been used in CISM's annual "summer school", a crash course intro to applied space physics held each year at Boston University. I wouldn't be surprised if others more familiar with CISM-DX are lurking about this list that could tell you more if they just spoke up.
--Joshua Rigler
We have just swapped our main Undergraduate teaching from Matlab to Octave with little problem. We also distribute a Live CD with Octave on, + an embryonic web based calculation package using Octave as the backend processor, See http://www-mdp.eng.cam.ac.uk, for further details and a slightly buggy on-line version.
--Peter Long
I'm at the University of Washington in Seattle and am just learning about Octave. I hope to use it for some of my thesis work. I know that the physics department here uses Mathematica and Matlab and C++ for their numerical methods classes, but they might be open to Octave. At this point though they are not too familiar with it. I don't know if any of the other departments at this school use it.
--Theresa Bullard
I adopted Matlab in 96, coming from C/C++ and Splus. In 97, I briefly tested Octave, on my Debian laptop, but kept using Matlab at work. In 98, during my PhD?, our Matlab license expired and the person maintaining it was unjoinable on long vacations. In order to keep working and to be sure this inconvenience wouldn't repeat itself, I decided to port all my work to a freely available language.
My choice boiled down to Octave and Scilab. A few language advantages (iirc, the 'keyboard' function, variable length arg and return lists), the GPL, and the feeling that Octave development was more active and would better stand the test of time made me choose Octave. I have used it for most of my work since then.
Afaik, few of my present or past colleagues use Octave - except perhaps Mai Zhou [1] at the math dept. of the U. of Kentucky, who maintains a web interface [2]. I will ask for his comments.
2008 addendum:
I now use Octave at work, at [Tyzx], for all sorts of numerical purposes, mostly computer vision. I also use it at home, to do computer-vision-as-a-hobby.
--Etienne Grossmann
I have been working on web interfaces lately. I am in the process of integrating the UKY code with something to interactively view space plasma time series. Here is an excellent interactive SVG plotter that I am modifying to receive the plot commands: http://www.codedread.com/displayWebStats.php.
I don't have anything general or ready for demo right now, but I just wanted to let you know of someone who is interested in web interfaces.
--Robert S. Weigel
I am using octave at Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland I am writing software for my B.A. in astronomy, using octave/C++/Fortran. There is another person, using octave for Celestial Mechanics.
--Marek Szczypinski
I found out about J-Sim (Simulink for Octave) some months ago but haven't had a chance to evaluate it; check it out...
--Paul Koufalas
I think FlowDesigner? is a great tool, http://freshmeat.net/projects/flowdesigner/ But extending it to use GNU Octave engine, and associated functions is non-trivial, but nevertheless doable. Of course its free [as in freedom] and licensed as Octave itself. So unlike the J-sim we dont need to ask anyof the folks for 'permission'. Also Flow designer is pretty good, from the demos Ive seen, http://robotflow.sourceforge.net/demo.html and has some external toolkits like the Robotflow.
--Muthiah Annamalai
I use GNU Octave for many reasons. First, it is powerful, stable and easy to use. My research involves extensive Monte Carlo simulation work, and GNU Octave definitely satisfies my needs. Second, GNU Octave is free software. It adheres to the basic principle of giving the user the ``freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software, as defined by the Free Software Foundation. Third, GNU Octave's community of developers and users is friendly, knowledgeable and helpful. A quick post to the help list usually results in a quick solution to a problem I may have.
Power, stability, freedom, and community---some of the reasons why I use GNU Octave.
--Steve Thompson
I use Octave (as well as Matlab) for my day-to-day work here at Glasgow University, doing automotive control system design. It is also a core element of the bond graph toolset "Model Transformation Tools" (MTT, http://mtt.sourceforge.net). MTT, and hence Octave, have also been used to good effect for modelling in the aerospace industry in the UK and US.
--Geraint Paul Bevan
Octave is used in the Fisheries Department of the Falkland Islands to process raw fisheries data and for fish stock assessment modelling.
--Ruben Roa
Here in BioControl? Medical we use octave for all of our analysis needs -- no matlab in sight!
We use octave for: ECG processing Statistics Neural simulations Electrostatic solver
--Shai Ayal
At MIST Technologies, a French start-up developping sound processing technologies, Octave is the main tool of the research team. It is used to develop algorithms which are converted in C/C++ versions by the development team once they are ok. Those C/C++ versions are automatically wrapped using a slightly adapted version of matwrap. Doing so, we can use the same algorithms in our C/C++ only applications and in octave functions used by our reseach team and so have to maintain onlye one version.
The reason we prefered Octave to other tools is that it allowed import of legacy matlab code when we started the company three year ago.
Octave is a great tool and we have only one (slight) problem with it : the fact that liboctave is licensed under the GPL rather than the LGPL : that forced us to redevelop some Matrix/Vector/... classes and to reimplement a couple of functions.
--Ludovic Pénet
In the context of civil engineering i use octave for signal processing of measurement data, further as an essential tool for a wide range of numerical investigations and typical engineering tasks, as model fitting, approximation, matrices etc... always trying to avoid the use of M$ excel ;)
--Andreas Naessl
I use Octave "elsewhere", namely at home on my laptop, for self-study of computational methods in finance.
--Paul Koufalas
I'm using octave to improve our production process. I'm working in a company with about 400 employees in switzerland! We don't use matlab
--Michael Schmid
I've written a series of six articles on applications of Octave to the solution of problems in radio, antenna, and transmission line design for QEX, an amateur radio magazine (http://www.arrl.org). Response indicates at least some degree of interest in applying Octave to such problems.
--Maynard Wright
I encourage both undergraduates and graduate students to use Octave as an alternative to MATLAB. We generally have people using both. Octave is installed on our campus computers; most students who use Octave are installing it on their own machines.
I also use Octave in my research work.
--A S Hodel, Assoc Professor Auburn University Dept. Elect and Comp Eng http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~hodelas
We use it for 2-3 different research projects in the LIMBS lab at Johns Hopkins. These are all on Linux machines. 1) Image capture, image processing, and control of a 6DOF robot arm for experiments in visual servoing
- Image capture and controlling stimulus apparatus for experiments on sensorimotor integration in weakly electric fish
- (In the works) Image capture and control algorithms for flexible-bevel tipped needle steering for percutaneous therapies
In general, people here use Matlab for simulations and most research work, because (1) they feel the plotting utilities are better (the recent work by a lot of people is quickly making that a non-issue), (2) they often use arcane functions in toolboxes not provided by Octave or OctaveForge, and (3) that is what they learned with and they are sticking to it.
However, when I was at Ball Aerospace, they never had enough Matlab licenses available and rather than wait around, I often used Octave when I couldn't get a license. I even convinced the controls engineer I was working with who (for many of the reasons listed above) *only* used Matlab to at least make their code compatible with Octave so I didn't have to make a bunch of mods every time I was using Octave.
--John Swensen
I am using Octave to develop algorithms for auto-scaling of ionograms.
-- Andrew Kelly, IPS Radio & Space Services, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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I've got two taxonomies: "type of guide", and "tools".
They look something like this:
Type of guide
- Article
- Video
- Cheat sheet
— Learning Management System
Quiz Tool
- Hide a grades column (article) - Creating a Gradebook (article) - Long Answer Question Steps (article) - Matching Questions (article) - True or False (article) - Using the Quiz Tool (video) - Using the Quiz Tool (cheat sheet)
Notifications tool
- Grades Tool
The screenshot outlines the problem perfectly: I need to limit that tax-query to include only items that are tagged with "Quiz Tool".
Screen: http://cl.ly/0t3J143q0A1X2w2y2X2n
I'm trying to do it with a tax_query, with an AND relation:
$args = array(
'tax_query' => array(
'relation' => 'AND',
'taxonomy' => 'guide-type',
'field' => 'slug',
'terms' => 'video'
'taxonomy' => 'tool',
'field' => 'slug',
'terms' => what do I put here to get the current tool (Quiz tool)?
$query = new WP_Query( $args );
But I just can't figure out how to limit to only list items that are tagged with "Quiz Tool". Note the, "what do I put here" part.
Help appreciated.
It just occurred to me that I don't have to query both taxonomies, instead exit the tax_query and use a 'get_the_category()' as part of the $args:
// The Query
$args = array(
'tax_query' => array(
'taxonomy' => 'guide-type',
'field' => 'slug',
'terms' => 'self-paced '
'category_name' => get_the_category()
Something like that? Any ideas how I could limit that 'category_name' to be the current one I'm looking at (Quiz Tool).


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What's an auto race, really, but a long, elliptical car chase? No wonder the sport is so well suited to movies. At least, the racing sequences themselves are. Once the drivers get out of the cars and have to interact with each other and with the women whose nervous warnings they routinely ignore, the movies tend to run out of gas.
Ron Howard's Rush, recounting the real-life rivalry between two top Formula One racers in the 1970s, is the latest test case to see if the drama off the track can match the drama of screeching tires and roaring engines. If Rush whets your appetite for racing movies, here are ten well-oiled competitors to feed your need for speed.
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Shoplifting is a crime. Just ask Winona Ryder. Yet, people still do it. They shouldn't, but they do.
The above jacket, while not designed for shoplifting, is destined to become primo shoplifting gear.
From cosplay costume maker Cospa, this black jacket has front pockets capable of holding laptops or even up to twenty thin magazines. There's also a huge pocket in the back.
While, Cospa is promoting it to manga otaku who are buying loads of comics at the Winter Comiket and don't want to be loaded down with shopping bags, I'm betting petty criminals like this guy see an entirely another purpose for it.
限定★ワッペンベース多機能ジャケット [Cospa via Gizmodo Japan]


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Reelz is planning a sequel to its 2011 miniseries The Kennedys.
The network has partnered with Muse Entertainment to develop an adaptation of J. Randy Taraborelli's bestselling book After Camelot: A Personal History of the Kennedy Family 1968 to the Present. There's no word on when After Camelot will premiere.
RIP Jelena and TomKat! Check out the most shocking celebrity splits
The original Kennedys miniseries, which starred Katie Holmes and Greg Kinnear, will be shown in its entirety twice on Thanksgiving Day on Reelz, starting at 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. ET.


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Matt Cover
February 22, 2013
American government agencies – state, local, and federal — made a record 13,753 requests to read emails or gather other information sent through Google's Gmail and other services in 2012, more than half without warrants, according to statisticsreleased by Google.
The total number of users about whom government agencies wanted information also set a record at 31,072, up from 23,300 in 2011, the first year Google began reporting the data. The discrepancy comes because government agencies request information on multiple users or accounts at the same time.
Most of these 13,753 requests, 6,542 of 8,438 in the latter half of 2012 alone, were done without a search warrant, Google data show. Google did not make available any detailed data prior to June 2012, nor did it make available which requests came from the federal government and which came from state or local law enforcement agencies, when asked by CNSNews.com.
Google spokesman Chris Gaither said the company only started tracking which type of legal authority – subpoena, court order, or search warrant – was used in the latter half of 2012. Google issues biannual reports on the requests for user data it receives from government agencies from around the world, including ones in the U.S.
This article was posted: Friday, February 22, 2013 at 11:43 am


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Eighteen months after Hurricane Katrina, American Red Cross Hawaii State Chapter volunteers are feeling the effects of the storm.
The Red Cross has mandated background checks for volunteers nationwide, including board members, after accusations of impropriety among volunteers surfaced in the aftermath of Katrina.
The new rule is unprecedented for one of the nation's most well-known charities, and officials of the Hawaii chapter are concerned that the organization will lose some of its 2,000 local volunteers over the issue.
"Some volunteers are worried about giving personal information out or are hurt by us asking," said Coralie Matayoshi, CEO of the Red Cross Hawaii chapter. "They're hurt because they know they're not a criminal."
"Some people really struggled with it," said Don Carroll, retired president of Oceanic Time Warner Cable and a board member of the Red Cross Hawaii chapter. "Given that we've had certain problems, at least on a national scale, it's probably just one of those governance issues you've got to deal with -- it's happening in the corporate world and nonprofit world. Life is changing."
The national organization's goal is to complete background checks on all volunteers by March, using a secure Web-based portal operated by a third-party company. The cost of a background check is $3.50 per volunteer. Individual chapters also may implement credit checks for volunteers in certain financial positions.
"These are changes that need to occur to ensure not only the safety of other volunteers, but the safety of the clients being served by the American Red Cross," said Jenny Carrick, a national Red Cross spokeswoman in Sacramento. "Anytime that you have change there's obviously going to be people who have concerns or don't want to be part of that change."
The Red Cross has 775 chapters nationwide, with 1.12 million volunteers and an annual budget of $3.4 billion. The Hawaii chapter has a budget of $4 million, which includes $3 million from annual donations.
"In these days (background checks are) necessary and it really gives our organization more credibility that we have volunteers who really are the right kinds of people," said Kathy Inkinen, president of Inkinen & Associates and a Red Cross Hawaii chapter board member. "It would be a catastrophe if we let that slip and then we have a volunteer who is not necessarily the proper kind of person."
Though many Hawaii charities do not require background checks on all volunteers, there is a heightened interest in accountability and transparency, said John Flanagan, president and CEO of the Hawaii Alliance of Nonprofit Organizations.
"The trend is that board members are having an increasing level of responsibility, and they're being held responsible more and more for financial reports and statements," he said.


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Category Archives: 64-Bit architecture
One of the flagship features of Apple's new iPhone 5s is that it has at its heart the 64-bit A7 chip. The launch of Apple's new iPhone 5S focused heavily on the handset's new 64-bit A7 processor. Is it really just a marketing stunt? Let's answer that question straight up front.
It's a first in mobile segment
Apple like bragging about being first. This is the first ever [64-bit processor] in a phone of any kind. The general consensus is that by bumping up the iPhone's processor to 64-bits Apple is making a play for the future.
The move allows for more RAM
The iPhone 5 is kitted out with 1GB of RAM, but a shift from a 32-bit processor to a 64-bit part paves the way for iPhones. 64-bit processors allow operating systems to use more than 4GB of RAM (the limit available to 32-bit operating systems) phones just don't have that much RAM yet.
Since Apple doesn't divulge how much RAM is baked into iPhones, but despite the shift to a 64-bit processor, I'm not expecting it to have 4GB, But the ability to access more RAM will definitely be necessary in the future. Apple is now ready for that day.
64-bit CPUs are better suited to some heavy computational tasks
There are some iPhone 5s features that could benefit from having access to a 64-bit processor. Extra registers let the A7 crunch numbers more efficiently, improving performance significantly for tasks like encoding and decoding video. The camera that can pick the best picture from a series of shots and allow you to fire off slo-mo video at 120 frames per second is one. Image processing is demanding, and the headroom offered by the A7 processor could lessen the workload.
Same goes for that fingerprint reader. If Apple is using heavyweight crypto behind that scanner, then this too would benefit from a 64-bit processor.
Android isn't ready for 64-bit
Apple has scored a win here over Android handset makers. The 64-bit chips for Android devices aren't ready, and neither is Android itself. It is likely that Android 5.0 will be the first version to fully utilize the new ARMv8 architecture.
For now, this gives Apple a clear lead over the competition, and the gap is unlikely to the closed until 2014 at the earliest.
It looks and sounds good
Making the leap from a 32-bit processor to a 64-bit processor looks and sounds good. This makes 64-bit technology sound like it's twice as fast as 32-bits. On top of that, Apple threw around the phrase 'desktop-class architecture' during the unveiling of the iPhone 5s, which also sounds pretty cool. When dealing with consumers, throwing in some numbers that are bigger than what the competition can manage – 1 billion transistors, 64-bit – helps sales.
Puts pressure on other chipmakers
Currently, CPUs for Mac hardware is supplied by Intel, but the A7 processor, with its billion transistors and 64-bit architecture, sends a clear message that Apple is serious about developing its own processors.
While I don't see Apple shifting away from Intel any time soon, the fact that the company is now a big player in the processor market helps even the playing field between it and Intel, and puts it in a stronger position when negotiating.
Unifying the iOS/OS X app codebase
Apple openly acknowledges that moving iOS up to 64-bit brings iOS and OS X apps much closer. Take this line from Apple's 64-bit iOS 7 documentation:
The architecture for 64-bit apps on iOS is almost identical to the architecture for OS X apps, making it easy to create a common code base that runs in both operating systems.
Bottom line
The bottom line is that there's a lot more to the iPhone switching to a 64-bit processor than hype. Most high-end Macs and PCs currently being sold already run on 64-bit operating systems and by switching their phones over now, Apple is preparing for a future where the same app runs on your both mobile and your laptop or desktop.
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Endangered Turtles' Trek Along Ocean Currents Revealed By Satellite
The site where Europes spacecraft are launched into orbit, the Atlantic shoreline of French Guiana, is also the starting point for another hardly less remarkable journey: the epic migration of the critically endangered leatherback turtle.
Scientists have been using tracking sensors to follow the long treks of individual leatherbacks, then overlaying their routes with sea state data, including near-real time maps of ocean currents gathered by satellites including ESAs ERS-2 and now Envisat.
They are working to uncover connections between the apparently meandering routes followed by turtles and the local ocean conditions, and so develop strategies to minimise the unintended but deadly threat posed to leatherbacks by deep-sea fishing.
These giant reptiles – known to reach 2.1 metres in length and weigh in at 365 kg – briefly come ashore to lay their eggs on beaches across French Guiana and neighbouring Suriname, the turtles last remaining major nesting sites in the Atlantic Ocean. Around nine weeks later the hatchlings emerge en masse and head into the sea, one day to return when they reach maturity and lay eggs themselves.
However each turtles return is by no means certain. While in open water the turtles have been known to dive as deep as 1,230 metres in search of food, most of the time they do not venture deeper than 250 metres down, leaving them vulnerable to the hooks of longline fishermen – hundreds of thousands of such hooks are deployed daily across the Atlantic.
Ongoing bycatching of leatherbacks by fishermen has left the 100-million-year-old species on the brink of extinction in the Pacific and Indian oceans. In the Atlantic their numbers are higher – partly due to a ban on longline US fishermen operating in the Oceans northern section – but the turtles are still being lost at an unsustainable rate.
A paper was recently published in Nature summarising the work done so far in tracking leatherbacks through the Atlantic, submitted by a team of researchers from Frances National Centre for Scientific Research in Strasbourg, neighbouring Louis Pasteur University, the French Guiana Regional Department of the Environment and the company Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS) in Ramonville, specialising in satellite-based systems for location-finding, data collection and Earth Observation.
Pacific leatherbacks follow narrow migration corridors. Researchers hoped that if their Atlantic counterparts acted in the same way then fishing could be restricted across these zones.
Starting in 1999 individual turtles were tracked using the CLS-run Argos system, based on radio-emitting tags whose position can be tracked worldwide to a maximum accuracy of 150 metres. Six American NOAA spacecraft currently carry Argos receivers, with ESAs MetOp series due to join the system following their initial satellite launch next year.
The turtles tracks were then overlaid with maps of sea level anomalies obtained by merging data with the radar altimeter aboard ESAs ERS-2 with another aboard the NASA-CNES satellite TOPEX-Poseidon.
ERS-2, like its successor Envisat, is part of the select group of satellites equipped with a Radar Altimeter (RA) instrument. By firing thousands of radar pulses off the surface of the sea every second extremely precise ocean height measurement is made possible. Height anomalies detected by this type of sensor are often indicators of the presence of ocean currents and eddies: warm currents can stand up to a metre above colder waters.
By merging multiple radar altimeter results together, the result is a more frequent and higher resolution measurement of sea level anomalies than any one spacecraft could achieve. For example, now that ERS-2s global mission is over, results from Envisats RA-2 instrument are being combined with similar data from the joint French-US Jason spacecraft and the US Navys GFO.
"The altimetry data has been very useful to our work because we have been able to check the turtles trajectory against ocean currents," said Philippe Gaspar, co-author of the Nature paper and Head of the Satellite Oceanography Division of CLS. "What we have found is that their relationship with currents alters considerably over the course of their journeys.
Unlike their Pacific relations, the Atlantic leatherbacks do not follow narrow migration corridors but disperse widely – to begin with, the leatherbacks carry out long nearly straight migrations either to the north or to the Equator, swimming across currents as they encounter them. One made it to within 500 km of West Africa before turning back, another came close to Nova Scotia.
"Then having either made it to the Gulf Stream area or to the equatorial belt, the turtles tend to slow down and follow the frontal areas associated with local ocean current systems, which are generally rich in marine life."
Unfortunately fishing fleets target these frontal systems for exactly the same reason, so these turtles are placing themselves in danger. This finding means limited closures of Atlantic fishing areas is unlikely to have much impact in turtle bycatch reduction, and other solutions will have to be considered, such as turtle-friendly fishing gear and hooks recently developed by NOAA and endorsed by the World Wildlife Fund.
Meanwhile leatherback tracking continues on an ongoing basis, Gaspar added: "We are now looking at estimating the swimming speed of turtles during their trips by obtaining their total velocity from the Argos receivers, then subtracting the current velocity made available to us by altimetry. This has never been done before and should provide us with useful information on the energy they expend throughout their migration."
French schools have been given the chance to take part as part of an educational oceanographic scheme called Argonautica, with classes participating in the Argo-luth project, analysing turtle movements against outputs from MERCATOR, a model that presently covers the North and Equatorial Atlantic Ocean and assimilates radar altimeter data on an operational basis.
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ROCKFORD — James Frisbee took over manager duties for the Rockford Aviators in early June 2013.
He saw talent on the roster, but not enough leadership.
So far, Frisbee has seen a lot more of what he's been looking for from his returning players heading into Friday night's opener.
"Early this year, even though we've only been together for about 13 days, I feel like our overall team leadership is very strong," he said. "Some of the experienced players are taking charge in there and saying some things.
"It's very encouraging to me."
Along with valued talent and experience from returners such as pitcher Nick Cicio and outfielders Jeff Kremer and Edgar Corcino, the Aviators have brought in a handful of newcomers with major league affiliate experience.
"They're very athletic and we have a competitive group with some good affiliated backgrounds or some really good Division I schools," Frisbee said.
Outfielder Jose Martinez has a wealth of experience as a Double-A all-star for the Atlanta Braves organization.
"He played about 136 games for them and we're very fortunate to have him on the club," Frisbee said. "He'll be playing either left or right for us. He's a big find."
Catcher Adrian Martinez from Missouri Baptist University joins the team after two seasons with the Sioux City Explorers of the independent American Association.
Cicio will be the opening day starter when the Aviators host the River City Rascals at 7:05 p.m. The left-hander finished 2013 with four wins and a 4.10 ERA.
Kremer nearly won the 2013 Frontier League Rookie of the Year award. The former Duke four-year starter had a .357 batting average with three home runs and 41 RBIs.
"He finished second in the league in batting average," Frisbee said. "He's a special player."
Kyle Brueggemann returns as the team's No. 2 pitcher along with starting pitcher Matt Frahm, who will begin the season on the disabled list.
Frisbee expects the Aviators to take a few games to get acclimated to each other, but thinks the team will be competitive in a tough Frontier League West Division.
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The project codenamed Gemini has an official name now: PowerPivot. The complete name should be "PowerPivot for Excel 2010", but PowerPivot is simpler. I didn't like that name yesterday, but today it seems better.
Microsoft announced this name at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 held in Las Vegas. As usual, demos are good and people are impressed. But, remember, this is a SharePoint conference, not a SQL Server (or Business Intelligence one). What I mean is that many of the demos shown this week are not so different from what have been shown 4 or 5 years ago. And, guess what? Microsoft never finished the job of the vision where UDM (Unified Dimensional Model) should have been the center of the universe and every reporting query should have posted to this central repository of information.
Today, the solution is giving power (using PowerPivot) to the end user, integrating the visualization with every single flavor of Office 2010 (Visio included!). You know, only SQL Server 2008 R2 has a Reporting Services component that makes it possible to display data in maps (something I did in 2000 with MapPoint – why they didn't implemented a simpler way to integrate geographical data of a cube in MapPoint 8-9 years ago?). A lot of things could have been possible in 2002, or at least in 2005, or with Excel 2007, but unfortunately many times I had to abandon a possible way to show data just because there was the lack of the "last mile" to show data. And this created a lack of credibility in the Microsoft client tools for BI.
So, to be honest, today I'm skeptical. I don't want to deceive my customers showing wonderful demos just to get customer complains when something will not work and MS Support answer will be "it's not a bug, it's by design". This time I'll wait and I will not risk my face. Probably, I'm wrong – but, you know, I don't see any evidence that grants me that this time things will be different. We still have a big wave of new Office products, the next one will be in 2013 or something like that and if something is not good in 2010, you will have to wait 3 years or you will have to write some work-around just to make your solution working. I mean, I can survive to a problem in Excel where the color of a border doesn't display well, but my customer will not be so happy if the drillthrough will not work as expected (it's just an example – not something that has real issues).
My hope is that PowerPivot will have a shorter release cycle, with a v2 in 2011 and a v3 in 2012 (or they could be deployed with Office 2010 Service Packs if there is some version dependency). But, at this time, we don't have any information about that. Technically, it should be possible to do, because it's an AddIn separated from Excel codebase. Thus, it's a "political" decision. I hope that a clear roadmap for PowerPivot will be announced. Shorter release cycle. Otherwise, too many missing feature will delay its adoption until (at least) the next version of Office.
Microsoft, please, don't repeat the same mistakes.
Be careful, Marco, you're beginning to sound like me!
Is anybody else concerned that PowerPivot is only available through SharePoint and Excel? Is there any way for other clients to use it?
PowerPivot without Excel doesn't make sense, at least from a point of view of licensing (nobody told anything, but I'd assume it will not have an additional license fee, at least for Excel desktop version).
I guess I am really asking about Gemini. The SQL R2 documentation makes it sound like the engine runs under SharePoint. I had read that Gemini is really just another storage mode. The documentation only mentions Gemini as a storage technology.
Gemini and PowerPivot are the same thing.
The engine can run locally (just as the local engine of Analysis Services that you use when you create an offline cube in Excel) or on the server (in that case, it's the engine used by SharePoint to display the excel file through Excel Services).
Technically, Gemini/PowerPivot should be a set of technology where the server part is an extension (a storage mode) of Analysis Services. However, the Analysis Services version will not make this storage mode available for general use in the next release (Kilimanjaro) and Microsoft still don't have announced plans for following versions of Analysis Services (i.e. version 11 - Kilimanjaro will be a 10.5 release).
Hi folks, if you want a place to ask questions and get answers from members of the PowerPivot team in an unofficial setting, feel free to drop in at http://powerpivotpro.com
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EISA is the largest editorial multimedia organization in Europe, with a membership of nearly 50 audio, video, photo and mobile electronics magazines drawn from 20 European countries. This year's award winners were selected after the deliberations of a judging panel comprising journalists and independent technical experts.
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Fast food chains have become so ubiquitous, and each franchise store so identical, that it is easy to forget their unique and often tumultuous beginnings. Kentucky Fried Chicken, now known simply as KFC, was founded in 1952 as a simple cafe by "Colonel" Harland Sanders. Since those early days, the chain has expanded to 15,000 locations in 105 countries. In Colonel Sanders and the American Dream, longtime food (and meat) author Josh Ozersky details the rise to fame of the fried chicken chain and its incredibly recognizable white-suited icon.
Harland Sanders was born into a poor family, and worked on his family's subsistence farm from a young age. But he had a keen eye for business opportunities, and soon made himself known as something of an entrepreneur. When he opened the Harland Sanders Restaurant, his focus was on good, fast service in a clean environment. He was one of the first to recognize that without linens, a full wait staff, and a big menu, restaurants could turn a tidy profit selling even humble dishes. His crispy fried chicken became the highlight of the menu.
Sanders contracted with one other restaurant in the area to make his fried chicken, for which he received a small royalty. But he hadn't thought of franchising, let alone creating a fried-chicken-specific restaurant, until he met Pete Harman. Ozersky attributes many of the unique successes of KFC—its small menu, recognizable name, and signature "bucket" serving size—to Harman's creative genius. Together, Harman and Sanders expanded the KFC brand and created a franchised restaurant.
At the same time, both men recognized that part of KFC's appeal was Sanders' southern, down-home appearance. When Sanders adopted his iconic white suit, cane and beard, the KFC brand was complete. Advertising for the restaurant was based around the Colonel's image for decades. The Colonel's friendly demeanor and persona of family values built a strong and loyal customer base.
As the company continued to grow and expand, the Colonel lost much of his power over its operations. As he aged, he was slowly pushed out of the executive offices and relegated to public appearances. But until his death in 1980, he remained the face of KFC.
Ozersky does a great job discussing the ups and downs of this chain's development. Creating a menu around one popular item was a risky move, but proved appealing to an increasingly mobile and wealthy middle class. The book describes both Sanders' personal life, and the increasingly impersonal, corporate growth of KFC. For any KFC fanatics, or even those marginally interested in fast food, this book is a quick and fun read.
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Bioniche Life Sciences Inc. Reports Fiscal 2013 Year-End Results Français
Sep 27, 2013, 17:00 ET
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BELLEVILLE, ON, Sept. 27, 2013 /CNW/ - Bioniche Life Sciences Inc. (TSX: BNC) (ASX: BNC), a research-based, technology-driven Canadian biopharmaceutical company, today announced financial results for its fiscal year ended June 30, 2013.
"The Company is undergoing a significant transition," said Graeme McRae, President & CEO. "The pending divestment of the Animal Health business and potential sale or partnering of the One Health/VMC business will change the face of the Company into a human pharmaceutical business with a Phase III bladder cancer product that could be selling in the market within the next two years. It should be noted that this is one of the few new bladder cancer technologies to have been developed in decades and it has been taken from inception to late-stage by our Company, and bladder cancer is the 4th most common cancer in North American men."
"The proceeds from the newly closed Canadian equity financing, along with additional funds to be advanced under the Paladin loan and cash in hand, will provide an approximate cash balance of $16 million," added Mr. McRae.
As a result of the Company's decision to divest the Animal Health business, the Fiscal 2013 year-end financial statements have been segmented into continuing operations (Human Health and One Health business units) and discontinued operations (Animal Health business unit).
Fiscal 2013 Financial Results Highlights
The Company's continuing operations recorded income of $82,000 in Fiscal 2013, related to research collaborations. This compares to $2.0 million from this source in Fiscal 2012. In Fiscal 2012, the Company received reimbursement from its former development partner for Urocidin™-related development costs. Such reimbursement was discontinued when the Company regained global rights to Urocidin™ in December, 2012.
Fiscal year-end cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments amounted to $4.2 million at June 30, 2013, as compared to $20.0 million at June 30, 2012, when the Company had just completed a US$20 million debt financing with Capital Royalty L.P. This reflects the debt from Paladin and the adjustment of the Capital Royalty loan following a renegotiation that was concluded in June, 2013.
The Company's total liabilities and shareholders' equity at June 30, 2013 is $61.5 million, as compared to $82.2 million at June 30, 2012.
The Company's consolidated cash flow used in operations for the year ended June 30, 2013 was ($15.7) million, as compared to cash used in operations of ($17.2) million in Fiscal 2012. The average monthly burn rate was $1.3 million for Fiscal 2013, as compared to $1.4 million for Fiscal 2012. Cash requirements to support financing have increased the Company's average monthly burn rate to approximately $1.6 million per month at the present time.
Administrative expenses for continuing operations were $6.3 million in Fiscal 2013, as compared to $7.2 million in Fiscal 2012. Marketing and selling expenses were $0.9 million in Fiscal 2013, as compared to $1.2 million in Fiscal 2012. Financial expenses were $8.5 million for Fiscal 2013, as compared to $3.1 million in Fiscal 2012. The increase in financial expenses relates primarily to the loss on extinguishment of the Company's debt with Capital Royalty, which was assumed by Paladin Labs on June 5, 2013.
Net research and development (R&D) expenditures for continuing operations were $16.3 million in Fiscal 2013, as compared to $14.2 million in Fiscal 2012. This includes the continued investment in the staffing and infrastructure associated with the GMP production of the Company's UrocidinTM bladder cancer treatment that is in Phase III clinical development. Until such time as the Company's Vaccine Manufacturing Centre in Belleville is making commercial product, the carrying costs associated with this facility are also accounted for under R&D. Fiscal 2013 includes a non-cash impairment charge of $3.7 million related to this facility.
Additional R&D resources are focused on the advancement of a second generation E. coli O157 cattle vaccine.
The basic and fully diluted net loss per share for the Company's continuing operations for Fiscal 2013 is ($0.32), as compared to a basic and fully diluted net loss per share of ($0.23) in Fiscal 2012.
Fiscal 2013 Financial Results Highlights - Discontinued Operations (Animal Health)
In May, 2013, the Company formally commenced the process to divest its Animal Health business and concentrate on becoming a Human Health company. The divestment is expected to be completed within the next 12 months. Revenues for this business unit in Fiscal 2013 were $31.5 million, as compared to $29.8 million in Fiscal 2012 with a net income in Fiscal 2013 of $3.3 million, as compared to a net loss of ($894,000) in Fiscal 2012.
The basic and fully diluted earnings per share for this business unit in Fiscal 2013 is $0.03, as compared to a basic and fully diluted loss per share of ($0.01) in Fiscal 2012.
Fiscal 2013 Summary
The Company has total Common Shares outstanding at September 26, 2013 of 140,113,142. In addition, the Company has 22,270,912 outstanding Warrants and 6,501,009 outstanding Options, exchangeable for one Common Share upon exercise.
More information on the Company's year-end financial results is provided in the Company's Fiscal 2013 Management's Discussion and Analysis dated September 26, 2013.
Corporate Updates
VMC Validation
The Company has successfully made three consecutive batches of sterile filtered media in the two fermentors in the VMC. The three batches were all found to be free of bacterial contamination, meaning that the fermentation area of the VMC has achieved GMP validation.
Normally, the next step in validation would be to validate the vaccine filling line in the VMC. However, the Company has elected to plan for the manufacture of an essential product component that is currently made at an external contract manufacturer in the filling area. This product component is diluent, and it is used in our top-selling animal health product, Folltropin®-V.
Our agreement with the contract manufacturer of diluent and two other animal health drug products expires in June, 2014, and it will not be renewed. The Company faced the choice of trying to find an alternative external manufacturer for these products or making them itself. By doing the work in-house, the Company will save money and have more control over supply.
Diluent does not require media fill validation since it is terminally sterilized by autoclaving. To qualify this product in our VMC filling line, the Company must produce three consecutive process validation batches and apply to Health Canada for a site change (establishment license), which will trigger a facility inspection. It is expected that the Health Canada application will be submitted by January, 2014 and an inspection would follow approximately three months later.
Assuming the inspection is successful and the establishment license is granted, the Company will return to validating the filling line for aseptic filling of Econiche® vaccine. This will mark the end of the GMP validation process for Econiche®.
The Company is also currently in discussion with companies who have expressed interest in the manufacturing capabilities of the VMC whereby the Company would act as a contract manufacturer.
Divestment of Animal Health Business
The Company engaged Evercore in May, 2013 to lead the divestment process. Interested parties have submitted non-binding expressions of interest from which a short-list of counterparties was chosen. Such counterparties are conducting due diligence on the business. Final binding terms are expected to be submitted to the Company by the end of October, 2013. The sale of Animal Health will be subject to, among other things, any applicable shareholder and regulatory approval and compliance with any applicable legal and regulatory requirements. Due to the current anticipated timing for receiving final terms, the Company anticipates that the proposed sale transaction will be presented to shareholders to vote on at a separate special shareholders meeting to be held after the date of the 2013 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. Such sale transaction is expected to be completed by early 2014.
Urocidin™ Partnering
The Company is focused on licensing Urocidin™ rights for major markets such as the U.S. and Europe, as well as preparations for its launch in Canada. The Company has recently completed a license agreement with Paladin for the Canadian, Mexican and South African markets which will require support to finalize the pricing and reimbursement strategy. For the U.S. and other market licenses, the Company began receiving unsolicited requests for information on possible regional licenses for Urocidin™ early in 2013. To date, the Company has a list of 9 companies in the U.S. and 18 companies in Europe that have requested to be considered as license partners for Urocidin™, and a list of 9 companies for smaller markets. The key to leveraging licensing opportunities is to have the regulatory pathway established for the U.S., at which point the Company will engage in more formal licensing discussions with an expectation that a license deal can be made for at least the U.S. in the next 12 to 15 months. Management anticipates spending between $500,000 and $1 million on licensing and launch efforts, mostly in early 2014.
About Bioniche Life Sciences Inc.
Bioniche Life Sciences Inc. is a research-based, technology-driven Canadian biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development, manufacturing, and marketing of proprietary and innovative products for human and animal health markets worldwide. The fully-integrated company employs more than 200 skilled personnel and has three operating divisions: Human Health, Animal Health, and One Health. The Company's primary goal is to develop and commercialize products that advance human or animal health and increase shareholder value.
For more information, please visit www.Bioniche.com.
Except for historical information, this news release may contain forward-looking statements that reflect the Company's current expectation regarding future events. These forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainties, which may cause, but are not limited to, changing market conditions, the successful and timely completion of clinical studies, the establishment of corporate alliances, the impact of competitive products and pricing, new product development, uncertainties related to the regulatory approval process, and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's ongoing quarterly and annual reporting.
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Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope. Habitat for Humanity does much more than build houses. We help local families become homeowners. Home ownership roots families in the community and creates stability in so many ways. Families don't have to worry about moving every year; they know where their children will attend school and what their monthly payments will be, year after year. Habitat homes are also structurally sound and here in Eagle County are built to LEED Certified Standards. This provides warmth in the winter and dryness when it rains offering not only physical comfort but also emotional reassurance.
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Once a family's basic need for housing is met they can begin to focus on bigger things like health, education and plans for a brighter future. Sixty percent of the school-age children of Habitat homeowners are on the honor roll and all of the recent high school graduates have continued on to college. We have several adult family members that have gone back to school to achieve a higher level of education. There have also been improvements in health including eliminated asthma attacks and lowered cholesterol. The research is clear: Decent housing positively impacts the health, education and future prospects of families. Additionally, homeowners take a more active role in the community than renters and are more likely to belong to a school or community organization.
Habitat for Humanity is definitely more than just a home builder. We also build a strong sense of community as it takes many volunteers, donors and partners to join together to execute these goals. Through our partnership with Vail Resorts Echo, Habitat for Humanity has been able to expand our impact in the community and increase our building capacity of LEED-certified homes in the valley. Through volunteerism, in-kind contributions and monetary investments, Vail Resorts Echo helps further our mission, which allows local families to realize their dream of homeownership.
Kristi Moon is public relations and marketing director for Habitat for Humanity of Eagle and Lake Counties. Through Vail Resorts Echo, Vail Resorts hopes to connect its communities to its efforts – from on the ground conservation programs to grants for local schools. Aimed at both protecting the natural resources that surround the resorts and helping build stronger communities where its employees live and work, Vail Resorts Echo encompasses three core efforts: environmental stewardship, charitable giving and community engagement. Learn more at http://www.vailresortsecho.com.
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Heavenly Father we thank you for allowing us see this year's end and enter into a brand new day, a day that allows us to experience the start of a new year. We're crossing over a brand new threshold filled with your possibilities and promises. We humbly come before you, like my Grandpop Ellsworth with his hat in hand! We too have hearts filled to the brim, with Thanksgiving for 2016's peak and valley experiences. Surely it was because of your magnificence-your outstretched hand that kept us. God you allowed us to witness your love in action and to realize "an in-spite of" growth! Through life's upsets we now have a new understanding that blessings delayed were and are not blessings denied! Thank you for the uncomfortable challenges, and adversity! You taught us patience and provided us with your unmerited grace. Your love is our elixir. We appreciate that your will is done in our lives and in those that matter to us.Yes Lord we will rely on you! We entrust our lives to you and will not be afraid! Give us greater wisdom and joy for our 2017 journey. We seek you and your kingdom as we declare:The LORD is my light and my salvation-- whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life-- of whom shall I be afraid? No weapons formed against us will prosper! We decree that we are victors in Jesus' mighty name. Amen.
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HLCP at its twenty-seventh session, in March 2014 had established, under the leadership of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), an ad hoc, time-bound Working Group on a New Urban Agenda in order to prepare a coherent input of the United Nations system to the third United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), which would be held in Quito from 17 to 20 October 2016. The Working Group had been tasked with developing a paper on urbanization and sustainable development as an input of the United Nations system to the New Urban Agenda and a proposal for a multi-stakeholder, issue-based partnership as a platform for contributing to the implementation of that agenda. In addition, the CEB/2016/43/8616-07566 Working Group had subsequently been requested to prepare a statement by CEB aimed at reaffirming the commitment of the system to the topic at Habitat III.
In introducing the submissions UN-Habitat, stated that they had been the outcomes of extensive consultations through the Working Group and fully represented the joint thinking of the United Nations system on the issue of sustainable urbanization. The paper on urbanization and sustainable development was accompanied by an annex that included detailed information on individual and collective initiatives on the topic. Outlining 10 guiding principles on how urbanization could contribute to sustainable development and 10 levers of change by which the United Nations system could turn the principles into action, the paper proposed a vision for sustainable urbanization and concrete steps for its implementation, including through a proposed multi-stakeholder partnership. Once finalized, the paper was to be presented to the Secretary-General of Habitat III for transmission to its preparatory committee. Given that the process of intergovernmental consultation on preparing the outcome document was still ongoing, the paper would be an important substantive input to those deliberations concerning the draft CEB statement, pointed out that the draft was structured around the three dimensions of sustainable development: economic, social and environmental.
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Many people assume that cars of that era were slow, but the truth is that many models were quite capable of today's highway speeds. In fact, the first car to ever reach 200 mph was in 1927. Sure it was using plane engines, but it does show that America was deeply craving high speeds. Almost every car in the 1930's could easily attain today's 55 mph speed limit, and many of the vehicles from the 1920's could too. Although these cars could clearly get up and go, their skinny tires, leaf spring suspension, mechanical drum brakes, and the dirt roads, made their stopping abilities less than stellar. Just imagine stopping your own "modern" car with nothing but the parking brake. That is similar to what many of the 1920's cars had. Compound that with solid steering columns, steel dashboards, lack of seat belts and safety glass, and you were in rough shape in an accident. So the next time you hop in your car, open your window, and give a quick shout-out to modern technology.