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Medical experts have acknowledged that the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. has jeopardized physical and mental health for many. Among the behavioral health issues that have risen to alarming levels is eating disorders, especially among youth, with calls to the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) helpline up 40% since March 2020.
Eating disorders are not uncommon, though their exact cause is not fully understood. Research suggests a combination of genetic, biological, behavioral, psychological, and social factors can raise a person's risk. An estimated 20 million women and 10 million men in the U.S. will have an eating disorder during their lifetime, according to NEDA.
Pandemic disruption increases factors for illness
Increased disordered eating in youths during the pandemic has been fueled by isolation caused by physical distancing and quarantine that has interfered with emotional and social development. Social media platforms can be a way to safely connect with others during times of physical distancing, but such platforms also allow for body comparisons, which can cause low self-esteem, negative body image, cyber-bullying, and an unrealistic standard of what is real.
Eating disorders can affect anyone
Eating disorders can affect people of all ages, racial/ethnic backgrounds, body weights, and genders. Although eating disorders often appear during the teen years or young adulthood, they may also develop during childhood or later in life (40 years and older).
Eating disorders can affect a person's physical and mental health and, in some cases, can be life-threatening. With treatment, people can recover.
How to identify signs of an eating disorder
The best chance for recovery is early detection and treatment. Someone struggling with an eating disorder doesn't always fit into a neat checklist. Some potential warning signs include:
- Concern with body size and shape
- Extreme mood swings
- Withdrawal from friends and activities
- Uncomfortable eating around others
- Food rituals like excessive chewing
- Obsessive-compulsive tendencies
- Noticeable fluctuations in weight, both up and down
- Digestion complaints
Where to find help
If you or a loved one is experiencing signs of an eating disorder you may feel unsure of what to do next. One place to start is the NEDA online screening tool, which can help determine if it's time to seek professional help. NEDA's helpline can also help you or your loved one find the help they need, Monday through Friday via online chat, calls, or text.
Regence members can access a spectrum of behavioral health resources
Whether you need occasional emotional support or ongoing mental health care, Regence has a variety of programs to prevent, identify and treat mental health and substance use disorders. Regence members who want to understand what is available under their health plan can sign in to their account on regence.com, or call us for help finding the right behavioral health resources.
If you are interested in learning more about how the team at Capital Benefit Services can help you and your employees contact us by phone at 425-641-8093.
Disclaimer: This information is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice. Please seek the advice of a qualified medical professional before beginning or ending medical treatment or if you have questions regarding a medical condition.


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It is under the subtle title 'Même pas peur !' ('Fearless') that the Fondation Bemberg has the privilege of presenting for the first time ever (from 29 June to 30 September 2018) the Baronne Henri de Rothschild's unique collection, generously loaned by the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. A superb selection of ancient and contemporary works on the theme of vanities will complete the scope of the collection and enrich the exhibition itinerary.
The amazing collection that once belonged to the Baronne Henri de Rothschild (1874–1926) comprises around 200 pieces, mainly miniature skulls, some of which are embellished with precious stones, smoking cigars, or designed to be used as a tie clip. There are also skeletons, amulets, rosary beads, trinkets, and ivory, wood, and marble engravings; there are all sorts of sacred and secular objects, most of which originate from the West and some from the Far East.
The Baronne Henri de Rothschild bequeathed the collection to the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, which was founded 150 years ago. Sophie Motsch, Conservation Assistant at the prestigious museum, is its eminent specialist and emphasises the unique nature of this collection—with its particular theme and because it was assembled by a woman, which was extremely unusual at the time.
To highlight the presence and symbolism of the skull in art from the Renaissance to the present day, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century paintings and contemporary works—by artists such as Gerhard Richter, Niki de Saint Phalle, Annette Messager, Brassaï, and Miquel Barceló—will provide an insight into past and contemporary representations of the allegory of vanity.
'Vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas': 'vanity of vanities, all is vanity' is the phrase in Ecclesiastes. The Fondation Bemberg commissioned the scenographer Hubert le Gall to evoke the fragility of the human condition, the passing of time, the vacuity of power, and the accumulation of possessions. He is responsible for conveying both the more fantastical side of this collection and its invitation to live life to the full.
Via this fourth summer exhibition, the Fondation Bemberg, under the presidency of Alfred Pacquement, aims once again to pay tribute to collectors, including, as in this case, those who are quite unusual, while pursuing a policy of openness and sharing with respect to the general public, as advocated by Georges Bemberg.


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Coordinating, Developing, and Delivering Highway Transportation Innovations
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With a large portion of the national highway system at or beyond its original design life, pavement rehabilitation has come to the forefront as a key activity for highway agencies. The magnitude of the challenges faced by agencies as they pursue the rehabilitation of our highway system is tremendous. LTPP analysis has begun to provide some of the many answers that highway agencies need as they address this challenge. The following re key findings from several LTPP analyses of pavement rehabilitation.
The primary objective of the SPS-6 experiment (rehabilitation of jointed PCC pavements) is to examine the effects of different rehabilitation techniques on JPCP or JRCP. Based on pavement preparation, the rehabilitation techniques investigated can be separated into three pavement categories: exposed PCC, AC overlay of non-fractured PCC, and AC overlay of fractured PCC. Within each category, direct comparisons of performance based on distress are described below.
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This is the built-in help made by Microsoft for the command 'Stop-RDVirtualDesktopCollectionJob', in PowerShell version 5 - as retrieved from
Windows version 'Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard' PowerShell help files on 2016-06-23.
For PowerShell version 3 and up, where you have Update-Help, this command was run just before creating the web pages from the help files.
Stops a job on a virtual desktop collection.
Stop-RDVirtualDesktopCollectionJob [-CollectionName] <String> [-ConnectionBroker <String>] [-Force] [-Confirm] [-WhatIf] [<CommonParameters>]
The Stop-RDVirtualDesktopCollectionJob cmdlet forcibly ends a job that the server is currently running, or that is scheduled to run, on a virtual desktop collection. You can
use the Get-RDVirtualDesktopCollectionJobStatus to get status information for the most recent job on a virtual desktop collection.
Online Version: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=294272
Example 1: Stop a virtual desktop collection job
PS C:\> Stop-RDVirtualDesktopCollectionJob -CollectionName "Virtual Desktop Pool" -ConnectionBroker "rdcb.contoso.com"
This command stops a job on the virtual desktop collection named "Virtual Desktop Pool" that is associated with the RD Connection Broker server named "rdcb.contoso.com".


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Poll: What Will Tony Do Tonight at the Alicia Keys Concert?
1. Play it cool, like a ninja?*
2. Scream like a 13 year old girl at a Jonas Brothers concert?
**Which may or may not entail me going shirtless**
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1984 – William Klein
By now most people are aware of the uproar that accompanied publication of the Aperture monograph on William Klein: Klein attempted to stop publication, Aperture sued; claim and counterclaim followed in rapid succession. If Klein were a minor photographer or Aperture a minor publisher, the matter might have been forgotten and the book remaindered, but the book is still around (in all its oversized, overpriced glory), and doubtless Klein still feels as if his work has been seriously misrepresented.
This situation is regrettable, for Klein remains one of the major photographers of the last three decades. Some justice was recently done, however: in May and June of last year the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris mounted an extensive Klein exhibition that occasioned release of a new book, published jointly by the Centre Pompidou and Éditions Herscher.
The latter book, which can sometimes be found this side of the Atlantic, is everything the Aperture volume was not, although for the most part it reproduces the same photographs, often in similar order. For one thing, Herscher published the book in an intelligent size and paid considerable attention to reproduction quality as well as layout and sequencing. For another, Klein's work in other media (painting, design, film) is represented in reasonable proportion to his photography and is unobtrusively integrated into both text and reproductions. And for a third, the introduction (free-form interview excerpts, in French) by Carole Naggar is interesting, informational and accurate in addition to being engaging and spontaneous; and the book contains an excellent bibliography/filmography.
Klein's photographic career has been meteoric: between 1956 and 1964 he published four books (New York, 1956; Rome, 1958; Moscow, 1964; and Tokyo, 1964), all of which remain out of print classics. Since 1962 he has made thirteen major films and collected awards including the Grand Prix du Festival International de Tours and the Prix Jean Vigo. In 1978 he began exhibiting still photographs once again, and has had twenty-four exhibitions since that year (in France, Holland, the U.S., England, Italy, Switzerland, Sweden and Ireland), the majority of which have occurred since 1980. It seems appropriate that his interest should shift back toward still photography, and the reappearance of his work after twenty years gives an entirely new audience access to his vision — a vision which remains as startling and fresh as it was in the 1950s and 1960s.
In the post-Robert Frank era of photography, all the attention given to the snapshot aesthetic and all the critical and material success achieved by the likes of Garry Winogrand and Elliott Erwitt is perhaps inevitable. But if one measures the work of the latter photographers against Klein's output, by any objective standard Klein emerges as the more versatile photographer, the more thoughtful artist and by far the more acute observer of society and behaviour. Erwitt may possess a keener sense of humor; Winogrand may be a sharper social critic; but Klein's work has a breadth, a daring, an insight and a raw energy that legitimately set his photographs apart from the work of so many of his contemporaries, both well-known and otherwise. This is superb photography, interesting and challenging, and it is published in a format that does it credit. If you are interested in Klein, this volume will provide considerable reward; if you aren't, you may find yourself pleasantly surprised.


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In this regular column, we'll bring you all the latest industry news centered around our main topics of focus: big data, data science, machine learning, AI, and deep learning. Our industry is constantly accelerating with new products and services being announced everyday. Fortunately, we're in close touch with vendors from this vast ecosystem, so we're in a unique position to inform you about all that's new and exciting. Our massive industry database is growing all the time so stay tuned for the latest news items describing technology that may make you and your organization more competitive.
dbt Labs Launches Python Support to Expand What Data Practitioners Can Accomplish with dbt
dbt Labs, a pioneer in analytics engineering, announced that it has added support for data transformation in Python to dbt. This will supplement existing SQL capabilities and allow data teams to tackle new categories of problems, including statistical analysis and predictive modeling. dbt users will now be able to deploy Python and SQL from within the same workflow without the need for additional infrastructure.
"We created dbt to harness the power of the modern cloud data platform and empower all data practitioners to participate in the data transformation process. Six years ago, that meant working exclusively in SQL, the native language of the warehouse," said Tristan Handy, Founder and CEO of dbt Labs. "Today, with advancements across data platforms, we're excited to bring the power and accessibility of dbt to a new set of data workloads."
SoundHound Launches Breakthrough Intelligent Transcription Service that Brings New Levels of Meaning and Structure to Conversations in Real-Time
SoundHound AI, Inc. (Nasdaq: SOUN), a global leader in voice artificial intelligence, announced the launch of Intelligent Transcription, a real-time voice AI transcription service that goes beyond previous solutions by accurately capturing, identifying and attributing meaning to conversations. SoundHound's proprietary Speech-to-Meaning® system fuels its voice AI technology, going beyond sounds and words to better understand meaning and intent of human speech. With Intelligent Transcription, the system not only generates the text of a conversation in real-time, but simultaneously structures it and tags key topics and entities from which it infers the speaker's meaning and intent.
"In a fast-paced environment, real-time transcription can be invaluable. But often it's difficult to identify key topics or important information in the flow of a conversation," said James Hom, Chief Product Officer at SoundHound. "Not only is our new transcription service extremely accurate, it's powered by advanced AI technology that gives shape and structure to dialogue. This makes new information from live conversations more easily actionable, drawing the agent's attention to meaning and details that may otherwise be missed. The net result is that Intelligent Transcription equips agents with more intelligence to take the right actions, faster."
Uniphore Announces Industry's Most Comprehensive Platform to Transform Customer Experience and Virtual Sales Engagements
Uniphore, a leader in conversational AI and automation, announced the release of its enhanced Uniphore X platform, the industry's most comprehensive platform that enables brands to accelerate and improve two key areas of their business: Customer Experience and Sales. With the latest enhancements to the platform, the conversations that happen between live or virtual agents as well as those happening between sales and prospects are more effective and with minimal friction. Complete with conversational AI, emotion AI, knowledge AI, computer vision and robotic process automation (RPA), the power of the X platform lies in its intuitive architecture and the long-term investment it offers customers. From designing frictionless customer journeys to enabling virtual sales scenarios, customers can expect the X platform to help them realize ROI in these markets as well as others to come in the future.
"With our customers top of mind, our focus from the beginning has been to build a powerful platform that delivers the latest and most beneficial innovations in conversational, video and knowledge AI, and automation all in one place," said Umesh Sachdev, CEO and co-founder of Uniphore. "Today's release, announcing our X platform, the full integration of knowledge AI in our platform, as well as advancements in both our U and Q for Sales family of products, marks a new era of digital transformation for customer service and revenue teams."
TigerGraph Announces Commitment to Support openCypher in GSQL
TigerGraph, provider of a leading advanced analytics and ML platform for connected data, announced its commitment to support openCypher, a popular query language for building graph database applications. Developers can now access a limited preview translation tool to learn how openCypher support will appear in TigerGraph's flagship graph query language, GSQL. Support for openCypher will give developers more choice to build or migrate graph applications to TigerGraph's scalable, secure, and fully managed graph database platform.
"Our mission at TigerGraph has always been to bring the power of graph to all, and our support for openCypher helps us do just that. We are empowering enterprises to accelerate their graph technology adoption via our advanced graph analytics and ML platform," said Yu Xu, CEO and founder of TigerGraph. "With openCypher support, we are pushing the bounds of graph innovation and arming developers with another way to adopt and expand their use of graph to find competitive insights in their data."
Pega Expands AI Capabilities so Enterprise Users can Work Faster and Smarter to Drive Real Results
Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), the low-code platform provider that builds agility into the world's leading organizations, announced the latest edition of its Pega Infinity™ software suite to help transform how organizations quickly deploy apps, create smarter workflows, and deliver better experiences for employees and customers. New features empower brands with enterprise-wide AI that works behind the scenes to increase efficiency, speed innovation, and improve customer interactions for optimal results.
"AI is no longer a buzzword business leaders can ignore – it's an essential change agent in driving transformation," said Don Schuerman, CTO, Pega. "Enterprises need pragmatic AI-powered decisioning that enables more efficient work, hyper-personalized customer engagement, and better employee experiences. At Pega, we want AI to be more accessible, transparent, and functional to help all departments within an organization make faster, better decisions that get results for the greater good of the business and its customers. New Pega Infinity updates help users apply AI to how they build low-code apps and automate their workflows, opening new paths for innovative experiences that deliver real results."
Syniti Introduces Syniti Match, the Industry's First AI-Driven Matching Solution to Support Both Party and Operational Data
Syniti, a global leader in enterprise data management, announced the upcoming availability of its fully cloud-native Syniti Match, the most rapid and precise AI-powered data matching software on the market that supports both party and operational data. Enterprise data is often riddled with errors and consistencies like typos, missing fields, duplications, and name variances. Those errors are compounded when dealing with multiple systems which is increasingly common as organizations continue to modernize legacy operations. Syniti Match is purpose-built to handle data complexity, no matter the shape, source, or type of enterprise data, including customer, ERP, supply chain and business data.
"Organizations today simply can't afford to base any decisions on poor quality data," said Kevin Campbell, chief executive officer, Syniti. "At Syniti, we keep finding new and innovative ways to enable our customers to achieve the accurate and trustworthy data they need to run and growth their businesses."
Symbl.ai Enhance Conversation Intelligence Accessibility With Managed Libraries and Recommendations
Symbl.ai, a developer-first platform providing best-in-class conversation intelligence (CI), has announced two new breakthrough features designed to make the technology more accessible for developers with little to no expertise in conversation AI or machine learning. Symbl's CI platform allows users to track a wide array of actionable insights from conversations, both in real-time and asynchronously. These insights include topics of discussion, questions raised, action points, as well as tone, sentiment and intent, all of which can be used to provide automatic summaries of conversations, score leads, train staff and more.
Users can define their own groups of keywords and phrases with similar meanings known as "trackers", which the technology then uses to provide actionable insights. Previously, the onus was on businesses themselves to create and grow their library of trackers, resulting in a "cold start" problem for those with limited resources or experience. To grow its tracker library, a company would need to invest a great deal of time watching, listening or reading through conversations to grow their tracker library manually, resulting in missed tracker opportunities and slow time to market. Symbl.ai has now rolled out a verticalized "managed libraries" feature which eliminates the "cold start" problem and allows businesses to start using CI functionality out of the box with a predetermined and constantly updated library of trackers. Companies can select a library that best suits their industry and get started immediately, adding their own tracker groups in just a few clicks.
Digital.ai Introduces New Version of Its AI-Powered DevOps Platform That Empowers Large Organizations to Innovate Through Global Economic Shifts
Digital.ai unveiled the Banff release of its AI-Powered DevOps Platform, featuring expanded intelligence, automation and collaboration, to further help companies accelerate digital transformation. The new version makes it possible for public sector and enterprise organizations to accelerate delivery while managing risk, all with a focus on driving maximum value from software investments.
At the heart of the AI-Powered DevOps Platform is its Intelligence capabilities which aggregate customer data spanning the entire software development and delivery lifecycle, automatically creating an industry-leading DevOps data lake. This data lake creates a single source of the truth for an organization's software investments across the full lifecycle from planning and into production. Customers gain real-time insights, historical trend analysis and predictability in augmented analytic dashboards. This contextual data allows organizations to observe top level trends across the enterprise and quickly drill down to the team and individual levels to drive successful business outcomes. This release includes further expansion of Digital.ai's machine learning and artificial intelligence solutions, allowing customers to move past historical trends to predictive, actionable insights.
"Software strategy now underpins every business strategy and business leaders need to navigate global economic uncertainty with agility, automation and security," said Stephen Elop, CEO of Digital.ai. "We are truly excited to be delivering to our customers our latest release that removes the mystery and complexities in mapping software investments to topline business goals and priorities. Digital.ai believes that the future of enterprise DevOps is being able to turn data into actionable, predictive insights."
Alteryx Announces New Analytics Cloud Capabilities and Enterprise Readiness Enhancements To Enable Analytics For All
Alteryx, Inc. (NYSE: AYX), the Analytics Automation Company, revealed new enhancements to enable cloud analytics and enterprise readiness. Businesses are embracing modern data architecture and cloud data warehouses like Snowflake to empower everyone in their organization to deliver data-driven insights from anywhere. In response, Alteryx is introducing new developments on the Alteryx Analytics Cloud platform, which provides unified and approachable end-to-end analytics in the Cloud.
"Putting powerful machine learning tools in the hands of everyone and making data science accessible is core to solving the biggest challenges in business today," said Suresh Vittal, chief product officer at Alteryx. "At Alteryx, we are excited these new product enhancements will help essential in-department knowledge experts to make valuable contributions to the business by delivering outcomes that drive the innovation needed to succeed in hypercompetitive landscapes."
Seek AI Launches to Automate Access to Organizations' Data
Seek AI, a developer of AI-powered intelligent data solutions, announced the launch of its new B2B SaaS platform that automates the mundane, repetitive work that data professionals perform within many organizations. Seek AI allows data teams to automate and oversee database query projects, thereby dramatically improving productivity, especially for sales and marketing purposes. Seek AI uses complex deep-learning foundation models with hundreds of billions of parameters. These models are the technology behind Open AI's DALL-E and GPT-3, and are powerful enough to understand natural language commands and generate high-quality code to instantly query databases.
"We've built a platform that uses artificial intelligence to reduce inefficiencies in accessing data," says co-founder and CEO Sarah Nagy. "Currently, data scientists and business analysts waste time manually writing repetitive code. We've automated that process with sophisticated natural language processing and machine learning."
Weights & Biases Bolsters Developer-First MLOps Platform with Major Updates, Including ML Workload Orchestration and Enterprise ML Lifecycle Management
Weights & Biases announced significant enhancements to its developer-first Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) platform. The latest additions will accelerate ML activities for enterprises and ML practitioners, providing a seamless, end-to-end MLOps experience from model prototyping to production. There seems to be a new large ML model grabbing headlines every week. Whether it's OpenAI's big releases like GPT-3, Dalle-2, or Whisper, or one of the many open-source projects generating state-of-the-art models, like Stable Diffusion, OpenFold, or Craiyon, these models have found their way into the mainstream. All of the ML teams developing these models use Weights & Biases to debug their models, collaboratively improve them, and accelerate their work.
"As enterprises invest heavily in machine learning infrastructure and workflows become more complex, today's ML practitioners need a platform that will work across the entire ML lifecycle," said Shawn Lewis, CTO and Co-Founder, Weights & Biases. "We're committed to making machine learning work in the real world, all within a platform that will increase productivity and output. By expanding use case coverage, offering new deployment options, adding ML workload orchestration, increasing security investment, and much more, the latest enhancements build on our mission to help all customers succeed with ML."
John Snow Labs De-Identification Solution Enables Data Monetization and Healthcare Innovation
John Snow Labs, the Healthcare AI and NLP company and developer of the Spark NLP library, announced improvements to its automatic de-identification solution. The company recently established a new state-of-the-art record on the n2b2 standard de-identification benchmark, achieving an F1 score of 96.1%, and decreasing its error rate by 33%. By enabling organizations to automatically de-identify large datasets, John Snow Labs empowers product innovation and cost savings for healthcare organizations worldwide.
"Natural language processing has made it possible to automatically de-identify valuable, but otherwise unusable, unstructured patient-level data, like clinical notes, images, and scanned documents," said David Talby, CTO, John Snow Labs. "Once de-identified, the datasets can be shared more safely and easily with researchers and builders, ushering in a new generation of accurate and innovative healthcare solutions. Without large-scale automatic data de-identification, this would not be possible at scale."
Striim Announces the First High Performance, Fully Managed Real-Time Streaming and Integration Service for Google BigQuery
Striim, Inc. announced Striim for BigQuery, the streaming SaaS solution that uses change data capture (CDC) technologies to integrate and replicate data from enterprise-grade databases such as Oracle, MS-SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL and others to Google Cloud BigQuery enterprise data warehouse. Customers can quickly build a new data pipeline to stream transactional data from hundreds and thousands of tables to BigQuery with sub-second end-to-end latencies to enable real-time analytics and address time-sensitive operational issues.
"Fresh data is essential for enterprises to make the right business decisions at the right time," said Alok Pareek, Executive Vice President of Engineering and Products at Striim. "Our customers are increasingly using BigQuery for their data analytics needs. We have designed Striim for BigQuery for operational ease, simplicity, and resiliency so that our customers can quickly and easily extract business value from their data. We have automated schema management, snapshot, CDC coordination, and failure handling in the data pipelines to deliver a delightful user experience. "
Introducing The Data Productivity Cloud from Matillion
Matillion, a leader in data productivity, announced a platform and ecosystem designed to get data business-ready, faster – The Data Productivity Cloud. As cloud data grows, organizations must adopt fresh approaches to achieve a greater level of data productivity. In parallel, the pace of change is faster than ever, and businesses must be ready to navigate unprecedented, disruptive moments like pandemics, severe weather, and supply chain issues more frequently. Overburdened data teams are hampered by brittle data infrastructure resulting from antiquated data integration methods, legacy ETL, or point solution ELT technology. Matillion's Data Productivity Cloud helps teams get data business-ready, faster, accelerating time-to-value and increasing the impact data can have. Users load, transform, synchronize, and orchestrate data on an integrated platform. These workloads improve productivity and efficiency for data teams.
"Data productivity is an important factor for driving a modern business. Enterprises need to harness the power of their data, or they risk losing their competitive edge," said Ciaran Dynes, chief product officer at Matillion. "Matillion puts data teams at the center of driving competitive advantage by helping them to deliver business-ready data, faster. The Data Productivity Cloud is designed to meet data practitioners wherever they are – at their skill level, for their data stack, and to suit their current and future ambitions."
DataStax and Intel Collaborate to Advance Apache Cassandra and Apache Pulsar-based Technologies on latest Intel Xeon Scalable Processor Family
DataStax, the real-time data company, announced a strategic collaboration with Intel to enhance the performance of technologies built on the open source Apache Cassandra® database and the Apache Pulsar™messaging and streaming technology on latest Intel Xeon Scalable processors. The companies plan to deliver enterprise and cloud solutions built on these powerful open source projects as well as contributing advancements to the respective open source projects. DataStax has been selected for the Intel Disruptor Initiative, where Intel collaborates with select cutting-edge companies that are pushing the limits of innovation.
"Cassandra powers many of the world's most demanding workloads, and Intel has always been a big supporter of the Cassandra project," said Ed Anuff, DataStax chief product officer. "We're excited to work with Intel to further optimize performance of both Cassandra and Pulsar-based services on Intel's powerful technologies."
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April 02, 2020
FDA announcement on all Prescription and Over-the-Counter (OTC) Ranitidine products
On April 1, 2020, the FDA announced that it is requesting manufacturers withdraw all prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) ranitidine drugs from the market immediately. The FDA said it had determined that NDMA in some ranitidine products increases over time and when stored at higher than room temperatures, resulting in consumer exposure to unacceptable levels of the impurity.
What do I need to know?
- Express Scripts will be sending letters to impacted patients.
- The FDA is advising consumers taking OTC ranitidine to stop taking any tablets or liquid they currently have, dispose of them properly and not buy more; for those who wish to continue treating their condition, they should consider using other approved OTC products
- Patients taking prescription ranitidine should speak with their health care professional about other treatment options before stopping the medicine, as there are multiple drugs approved for the same or similar uses as ranitidine that do not carry the same risks from NDMA.
- To date, the FDA's testing has not found NDMA in Famotidine (Pepcid), Cimetidine (Tagamet), Esomeprazole (Nexium), Lansoprazole (Prevacid) or Omeprazole (Prilosec).
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the FDA recommends that you do not take your withdrawn medication to a drug take-back location, but instead you can safely dispose of the unused medication in your household trash by doing the following:
- Mix the pills/liquid with an unappealing substance such as dirt, cat litter, or used coffee grounds; do not crush them.
- Place the mixture in a container such as a sealed plastic bag.
- Throw away the container in your trash at home.
- Remove or delete all personal information on the prescription labels of empty medication bottles or packaging, then throw them away or recycle them.
Why is this medication being removed from the market?
- This is the latest step in an ongoing investigation of a contaminant known as N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) in ranitidine medications (commonly known by the brand name Zantac). The agency has determined that the impurity in some ranitidine products increases over time and when stored at higher than room temperatures and may result in consumer exposure to unacceptable levels of this impurity.
- Any suspected adverse events that may be related to the use of these products should be reported to your doctor. You can also report adverse events that may be related to this recall to FDA's Med Watch Program either online, by regular mail or by fax.
- Online: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/medwatch/index.cfm?action=reporting.home
- Regular Mail: Use postage-paid, pre-addressed Form FDA 3500B available at: https://www.fda.gov/media/85598/download. Mail to the address on the pre-addressed form.
- Fax: 1-800-332-0178 (toll free)
Last updated: August 28, 2020


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Employment Agreement between the Company and Adrian Woolfson, effective January 21 2019
Employment Agreement ("Agreement") made as of the 18th day of November, 2018 by and between Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), and Adrian Woolfson ("Executive") (collectively, the "Parties").
WHEREAS, the Company desires to employ Executive, and Executive desires to be employed by the Company, on the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises set forth herein, the Parties agree follows:
The Company hereby agrees to employ Executive and Executive hereby agrees to accept such employment, on the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, with a start date of January 21, 2019 (the "Effective Date").
2.At-Will Employment.
Executive shall be employed on an at-will basis. Either Executive or the Company may terminate employment at any time, with or without cause, and with or without advance notice.
3.Position, Duties and Obligations.
(a)Executive shall be appointed as the Executive Vice President, Research and Development. Executive shall serve in such position, and in such other positions as the Board and the Company may from time to time reasonably determine, subject at all times to the direction, supervision and authority of the Chief Executive Officer. During his employment, Executive shall report solely and directly to the Chief Executive Officer.
(b)During Executive's employment, Executive shall perform Executive's duties faithfully and to the best of Executive's ability and shall devote substantially all of Executive's business time, attention, knowledge, skills and interests to the business of the Company (and its subsidiaries).
(c)During Executive's employment, Executive shall not, whether directly or indirectly, render any services of a commercial or professional nature to any other person or organization, whether for compensation or otherwise, without the prior written consent of the Chief Executive Officer.
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(d)The foregoing in this Section 3 shall not preclude Executive from serving on any corporate, civic or charitable boards or committees on which Executive is serving as of the Effective Date and discloses to the Chief Executive Officer prior to the Effective Date or on which Executive commences service following such date with the Chief Executive Officer's prior written approval, so long as such activities do not interfere with the performance of Executive's responsibilities hereunder.
(e)Executive's principal place of business will be located in Brisbane, California.
(f)Executive represents that Executive may enter into this Agreement, and as of the Effective Date, 1) accept employment with the Company under the terms of this Agreement, and 2) perform the duties and responsibilities contemplated by this Agreement without violating any other agreement or agreements with other parties including but not limited to and any prior employers.
4.Compensation and Benefits.
(a)Base Compensation. The Company shall pay to Executive an annual base salary of four hundred seventy-five thousand dollars ($475,000), prorated for any partial employment period and payable in equal monthly installments in accordance with the Company's payroll schedule. The Compensation Committee of the Board shall annually review the then-current level of Executive's base salary (for increase only) to determine the amount, if any, of change to such salary.
(b)Annual Performance Bonus. Executive is eligible to earn an annual performance bonus commencing with the 2019 calendar year performance period. The target amount of Executive's annual cash bonus shall be forty percent (40%) of Executive's annual base salary. The Board shall have sole discretion to determine whether any annual cash bonus will be paid based upon achievement of both corporate objectives and Executive's personal objectives, and the reasonable discretion to determine that actual amount of any such bonus. Executive must be an employee in good standing on the date that the Board makes such determination in order to earn any such bonus, which determination shall be made by the Board no later than March 31 of the calendar year first following the performance period calendar year. The actual bonus may be more or less than the target amount based upon the Company's achievement over the year. Any bonus to which Executive becomes entitled for a particular calendar year shall be paid in accordance with the terms of the applicable bonus plan, but in no event later than the second payroll period following such Board determination. The Compensation Committee of the Board shall annually review Executive's then target amount for the annual cash bonus (for increase only) to determine the amount, if any, of change to such target amount.
(c)Executive Severance Plan. Executive shall be deemed an Eligible Employee and an Executive Officer and entitled to receive certain severance benefits under the Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc. Executive Severance Plan dated March 14, 2017 (the "Severance
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Plan") subject to the terms and conditions of the Severance Plan. A copy of the Severance Plan has been provided to Executive concurrently with this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that the Company withdraws this offer after it is signed by Executive or terminates this Agreement prior to the Effective Date for any reason other than Executive's failure to successfully pass the requirements for a background check clearance, satisfactory reference check, and satisfactory proof of Executive's legal right to work in the United States required under Section 8(a) herein, then Executive shall be entitled to severance under the Severance Plan as though his employment was terminated by the Company other than for Cause to the same extent as he would otherwise be entitled had such termination occurred after the Effective Date; provided, however, that Executive shall not be entitled to such severance if he has not notified his current employer of his intent to resign his employment at the time the Company informs him of the withdrawal or termination of this Agreement.
(d)Retention Bonus Advance. Executive shall be advanced a retention bonus (the "Retention Bonus") in the amount of one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000), payable in the first regularly scheduled payroll after the Effective Date. Although the Retention Bonus is advanced at the beginning of Executive's employment, it is expressly conditioned on Executive not terminating employment prior to the first (1st) anniversary of the Effective Date under any circumstances other than a termination that would entitle Executive to receive benefits under the Severance Plan, and such advanced Retention Bonus shall not be deemed earned by Executive until such service condition has been met. If Executive's employment terminates at any time prior to the first (1st) anniversary of the Effective Date and Executive is not entitled to receive benefits under the Severance Plan (such termination, a "Disqualifying Termination"), then, Executive shall at the time of such Disqualifying Termination promptly repay the full Retention Bonus to the Company. In the event Executive does not earn and fails to promptly repay the Retention Bonus in connection with a Disqualifying Termination, then the Company shall be further entitled to recover from Executive its costs and expenses incurred in enforcing Executive's repayment obligation, including reasonable attorneys' fees and costs.
(e)Benefits. Executive will be entitled to the employee benefits generally provided to other executive officers of the Company pursuant to the terms of the applicable benefit plans. Under the Company's vacation policy, Executive will have 10 sick days, 15 vacation days and 10 Company holidays per year.
(f)Equity. Effective as of February 25, 2019 or the trading day immediately preceding February 25, 2019 in the event February 25, 2019 is not a trading day (the "Grant Date"), the Compensation Committee of the Board shall grant Executive a non-statutory stock option to purchase up to 250,000 shares of the Company's Common Stock with an exercise price per share equal to the fair market value of the Company's Common Stock on the Grant Date (the "Option") under the Company's 2018 Equity Incentive Plan (the "Plan"). The Option will be evidenced by the standard stock option agreement under the Plan and will be subject to the terms and conditions of that agreement and the Plan, with one-quarter of the Option shares vesting twelve (12) months from the Grant Date and the remainder vesting in equal monthly installments for thirty-six (36) months thereafter, provided Executive remains a full-time employee through
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each such vesting date. Vesting of the Option and any subsequent equity grants will cease upon termination of Executive's service by either party for any reason.
(g)Clawback. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, all compensation paid to Executive by the Company (whether payable pursuant to this Agreement or otherwise) will be subject to reduction, recovery and/or recoupment to the extent required by any present or future law, government regulation or stock exchange listing requirement (or any policy adopted by the Company which ensures compliance with the requirements of any such law, government regulation or stock exchange listing requirement).
(h)Resignation from Positions. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, upon any termination of employment (whether voluntary or involuntary), Executive, upon written request from the Board, shall immediately resign from any positions Executive has with the Company (or any subsidiary), whether as an executive, officer, employee, consultant, director, trustee, fiduciary or otherwise.
5.Confidentiality. Executive agrees to abide by the terms and conditions of the Proprietary Information, Inventions and Materials Agreement between Executive and the Company, a copy of which is attached as Exhibit A. Executive further agrees that at all times both during Executive's employment by the Company and after Executive's employment ends, Executive will keep in confidence and trust, and will not use or disclose, except as directed by the Company, any confidential or proprietary information of the Company.
6.Tax Withholdings. Any and all cash compensation and other benefits (including without limitation, base salary, annual bonus and sign-on bonus) paid to Executive under this Agreement shall be subject to all applicable tax withholding requirements, and the Company shall make such other deductions as may be required and/or allowed by applicable law and/or as authorized in writing by Executive.
7.Arbitration. Any dispute, controversy, or claim, whether contractual or non-contractual, between Executive and the Company shall be resolved by binding arbitration before the Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Service (the "JAMS"), in accordance with the JAMS Employment Arbitration Rules and Procedures, available at www.jamsadr.com. Executive and the Company each agree that before proceeding to arbitration, they will mediate disputes before the JAMS by a mediator approved by the JAMS. If mediation fails to resolve the matter, any subsequent arbitration shall be conducted by an arbitrator approved by the JAMS and mutually acceptable to Executive and the Company. All disputes, controversies, and claims shall be conducted by a single arbitrator, who shall: (i) allow discovery authorized by California Code of Civil Procedure Section 1282, et seq., or any other discovery required by applicable law; and (ii) issue a written award that sets forth the essential findings of fact and conclusions of law on which the award is based. The arbitrator shall have the authority to award any relief authorized by law in connection with the asserted claims or disputes. Judgment upon the arbitrator's award may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof. If Executive and the Company are unable to agree on the mediator or the arbitrator, then the JAMS shall select the mediator/arbitrator. The resolution of the dispute by the arbitrator shall be final, binding, non-appealable, and fully
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enforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction under the Federal Arbitration Act. The arbitration award shall be in writing and shall include a statement of the reasons for the award. The arbitration shall be held in San Francisco, California. The Company shall pay all JAMS, mediation, and arbitrator's fees and costs, irrespective of who raised the claim and the outcome of arbitration.
(a)Conditions to Agreement. This Agreement is contingent upon a background check clearance, satisfactory reference check, and satisfactory proof of Executive's legal right to work in the United States. Executive agrees to provide any documentation or information at the Company's request to facilitate these processes.
(b)Governing Law. This Agreement shall be interpreted, construed, governed and enforced according to the laws of the State of California.
(c)Attorneys' Fees. In the event of any controversy, claim or dispute between the parties, arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the breach hereof, or the interpretation hereof, each party shall bear its own legal fees and expenses. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event of a finding by any court having jurisdiction over such matter that any party initiating an action under this Agreement failed to have a reasonable prospect of prevailing on its claim, the arbitrator shall have discretion to award the prevailing party attorneys' fees and costs incurred by it with respect to such claim or action. The "prevailing party" means the party determined by the arbitrator to have most nearly prevailed, even if such party did not prevail in all matters, not necessarily the one in whose favor a judgment is rendered.
(d)Amendments. No amendment or modification of the terms or conditions of this Agreement shall be valid unless in writing and signed by the Parties hereto.
(e)Severability. If any provision of this Agreement as applied to any party or to any circumstance should be adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction (or determined by the arbitrator) to be void or unenforceable for any reason, the invalidity of that provision shall in no way affect (to the maximum extent permissible by law) the application of such provision under circumstances different from those adjudicated by the court or determined by the arbitrator, the application of any other provision of this Agreement, or the enforceability or invalidity of this Agreement as a whole. Should any provision of this Agreement become or be deemed invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction by reason of the scope, extent or duration of its coverage, then such provision shall be deemed amended to the extent necessary to conform to applicable law so as to be valid and enforceable or, if such provision cannot be so amended without materially altering the intention of the parties, then such provision will be stricken, and the remainder of this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect.
(f)Successors and Assigns. The rights and obligations of the Company under this Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and shall be binding upon the successors and
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assigns of the Company. Executive shall not be entitled to assign any of Executive's rights or obligations under this Agreement.
(g)Entire Agreement. This Agreement, along with any other agreements set forth herein, including without limitation, the Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreement, constitutes the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the employment of Executive.
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By: | /s/ Sandy Macrae Name: Sandy Macrae, MB, CH.B, Ph.D | |
/s/ Adrian Woolfson |
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How do you feel about the appearance of your smile? Do you ever see dental discoloration or perhaps a misshapen tooth and wish for a more attractive one? We understand, and offer an array of unique treatments designed to improve the beauty of your smile, and often, the health and function as well. In today's blog, your Richardson, TX, dentist will talk about our cosmetic treatment options, and how we can help you start your journey to a stunning, shining new smile!
The Cosmetic Consultation
First, we need to find out exactly what kind of treatment your smile will need. When you schedule your visit, we will let you know about our new protocols and procedures to ensure that when you see us, you're safe from the spread of COVID-19. From keeping the waiting room free of crowding and taking temperatures to employing advanced technologies to scrub air and surfaces throughout the day, we put your health and safety first!
When we do examine your smile, we will employ advanced digital technology to assess the factors behind your cosmetic issues, and also choose the most appropriate treatment options. We also want to hear from you about your smile goals. Once we create a personalized treatment plan, we can start you on the path toward a brighter and more attractive smile!
Teeth Whitening
For many with stained teeth, our professional teeth whitening options offer a road toward a brighter smile, with results that last far longer than those obtained with store-bought strips or toothpastes. We have two options available. The one we use in-office involves coating the teeth with a powerful bleaching gel and then activating the gel with a light, breaking up stains and brightening teeth in as little as one to two hours.
Our at-home option, which can correct more severe staining and also prevent tooth sensitivity, starts with a single office visit. During your visit, we take detailed impressions of your smile with digital technology to create a set of trays. We send these custom trays home with you, along with a bleaching gel. From the comfort of your own home, you will fill the trays with gel and wear them for about a half hour a day, over the course of about a week. Afterward, you could see teeth brightened by several shades! The trays and leftover gel can be employed months down the road for touch-ups as needed.
Bonding and Contouring
Dental bonding involves using a composite resin material, a metal-free blend of glass and acrylic, to repair damage or mask esthetic issues. We simply apply the material in several layers, sculpting the tooth as we cure the material under a light. In one visit, we provide a lifelike solution to permanent teeth stains (which may not respond to our whitening treatments), chipped or cracked teeth, worn down teeth, or smiles with gaps or black triangle spaces between teeth. With contouring, we gently sand and buff away outer structure to correct esthetic issues. Contouring often means we can correct chipped teeth, reshape malformed or overly large teeth, dull pointed teeth, or remove any rough patches, pits, or grooves in the surfaces of the teeth. Both of these options can be done in one visit, in fact we could complete both in the same visit!
Gum Contouring
We've talked about how we brighten and correct teeth, but what about the gums? Too much gingival tissue could make the teeth appear small or uneven, or display too much gum when you smile. Fortunately, we have a cosmetic treatment to correct this in one visit. With advanced laser dentistry, we can gently and carefully remove excess tissue and reshape the gum line with accuracy and precision, improving smile symmetry!
What if you have uneven teeth? To correct crooked, crowed, or overlapping teeth doesn't mean rely solely on metal braces. In fact, a series of custom-made Invisalign® aligners could shift the positions the teeth and improve smile alignment in as little as a year for most adult patients, or up to 18 months for our teen patients. The aligners will fit comfortably, be crafted from a clear plastic to limit visibility, and can be removed before meals or prior to brushing and flossing your teeth. In as little as one year you can enjoy a straighter smile!
Lifelike Dental Restorations
Now, what if you have tooth decay, dental infection, or severe damage to your smile that is beyond the cosmetic treatments we've discussed today? For a purely cosmetic issues to damaged and misshapen teeth, we can place thin porcelain veneers. These cover the front and sides of the teeth to instantly improve the shape and color. In addition, we can repair teeth with custom-made porcelain crowns, which we create and place in only one visit. Both options will be crafted from durable and lifelike materials, custom-made to ensure a proper fit and an attractive appearance.
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What's in a rose? The University Gallery's latest exhibition may have some answers for you.
Accumulate, Classify, Preserve, Display: Roberto Obregón Archive from the Carolina and Fernando Eseverri Collection features over three hundred works from the late Venezuelan artist in what marks his first solo exhibition at an arts institution in the United States. Curated by University Gallery Program Director Jesús Fuenmayor, this exhibition pays homage to Obregón's research and production process through its namesake title.
Fuenmayor collaborated with School of Art + Art History Professor Kaira M. Cabañas, who served as faculty co-curator, and María Paula Varela, an art history doctoral candidate who worked as curatorial assistant to the exhibition.
Curated by School of Art + Art History faculty Jesús Fuenmayor and Kaira M. Cabañas with assistance from art history doctoral candidate María Paula Varela, this exhibition pays homage to Obregón's research and production process through its namesake title.
"Accumulate, Classify, Preserve, Display were the archival strategies the artist used when conceiving his work, demonstrating how he was a pioneer for research driven artistic practice," Fuenmayor said.
These strategies were also the driving force in designing how Obregón's work could best be displayed, resulting in a transformation of the gallery to look and feel less like a traditional museum space and more like an immersive museum storage space.
"Instead of a standard exhibition with all the works hanging on the walls, every visitor will have the opportunity to create their own narrative of the artist's ideas and intentions as they go through the 350 works displayed in the twelve specially designed and fabricated cabinets, making meaningful every single visit to the show," Fuenmayor said.
The custom-made display cabinets act similarly to workbench stations, providing a sense of organization to the extensivity of works varying in type and relation to a limited set of real roses, eighteen of which are part of the exhibition, according to Fuenmayor.
"As curators we didn't want to exclude any of the pieces in the archive that are related to these sets of roses, and we included all of them, following the artistic logic of creating a system where everything has a value," Fuenmayor said.
The Harn Museum of Art is also showcasing a portion of this exhibition as another opportunity for the Gainesville art community to experience more of Obregón's works. In 2020, it will be traveling to other institutions, like the Frost Museum at Florida International University in Miami where it will be the first UF University Gallery exhibition to travel to a top-five art museum in Miami.
"We are so thrilled to be the first venue for this thoughtful and engaging exhibit of Roberto Obregón's work," said Lynn Tomaszewski, director of the School of Art + Art History. "We are grateful to Carolina and Fernando Eseverri for entrusting their collection to us and for Jesús, Kaira and graduate student María Paula Verela for presenting the work so sensitively. This exhibit, together with the public lectures and gallery talks, embody the University Galleries' vision that the galleries serve as a platform for relevant and experimental art research that brings people together around art and ideas."
So, what's in a rose? You have until February 14, 2020, to find out.
Accumulate, Classify, Preserve, Display: Roberto Obregón Archive from the Carolina and Fernando Eseverri Collection, curated by Jesús Fuenmayor and Kaira M. Cabañas, is Roberto Obregón's first solo exhibition at an arts institution in the United States. This late Venezuelan artist is a key figure of global conceptualism. The exhibition features over three hundred works from the artist's extensive archive that is now part of the Eseverri's collection in Caracas. Included are multiple drawings, paintings, sketches, collages, photographs, manipulated photocopies and other objects.
Visit the event website to see public programming.
The exhibition was generously sponsored by the Carolina and Fernando Eseverri Collection in Caracas, including the specially produced cabinets; shipping and transportation, insurance, graphic design and illustrated exhibition catalogue, which currently under production.


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Two Baltimore schools recently received good and bad news respectively with regard to their accreditation status. Without accreditation, schools are not eligible to receive federal financial aid dollars and their classes will not transfer to other institutions. When a school loses accreditation, it generally marks the end of the institution.
Baltimore City Community College (BCCC), which was placed on warning by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE) in 2014, was able to show that it was once again in compliance with all 14 of the commission's standards. MSCHE removed the college's warning and reaffirmed its accreditation on June 25.
"The affirmation of accreditation means that the future is bright for BCCC," said President Gordon F. May in an email.
May said that the warning status made recruiting students to the college more difficult. "However, we continued to enroll students in line with other Maryland community colleges," he said of the period in which it was on warning status. The school has run into accreditation issues in the past ― in 2011 the school was put on probation for issues with student-learning evaluations and received a warning in 2004.
BCCC has on average about 18,000 students enrolled students a year. It is too early to say how the renewed accreditation will impact enrollments for this fall. Mays said that recruiting students was one of the school's priorities going forward. He also noted that the school created new degrees in certificates in areas such as cybersecurity, paramedicine and actuary science.
Another Baltimore institution, Sojourner-Douglass College, lost its accreditation on June 30. Without accreditation, the college cannot accept Pell Grants funds or other federal financial aid. The majority of students were Pell Grant recipients, meaning that without the prospect of that revenue stream, the college's doors are now closed.
The fate of Sojourner-Douglass' students and building remains unclear. Sojourner-Douglass filed a lawsuit against MSCHE on June 29. According to the Baltimore Sun, the lawsuit said that "negotiations fell through" between Sojourner-Douglass and two other institutions of higher education.
In April, the Baltimore Sun reported that Stratford University and Sojourner-Douglass signed a memorandum of understanding. According to the MOU, Stratford would take over at least one campus and establish a Sojourner-Douglass Center. A Coppin State University representative confirmed on Thursday that former Sojourner-Douglass students will enter the school in the fall. Morgan State University public relations representatives could not be reached for comment.
The Sun also reported in May that Sojourner-Douglass students would transfer to Morgan State and Coppin State.
A MSCHE representative said in an email that the commission could not comment on the situation due to pending legal action.
Staff writer Catherine Morris can be reached at [email protected].


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11th March 2015 | by MFC Team
An aspirin a day may help some women carry their babies to term
For a British couple, an aspirin a day did more than keep the doctor away – it helped them conceive and become parents to son Alfie.
After two miscarriages and seven unsuccessful IVF cycles, Sarah and Chris Broadfield were told by their doctors that Sarah's miscarriages were likely caused by Antiphospholipid syndrome (AS) an rare immune system disorder that causes an increased risk of blood clots. Individuals with AS can develop deep vein thrombosis and artery clots, and pregnant women with AS can experience multiple miscarriages. Doctors suggested that Sarah take an aspirin a day in order to thin her blood and reduce the risk of miscarrying again.
After receiving this advice, Sarah underwent another round of IVF and began taking aspirin and an anti-clotting injection daily. Initially pregnant with twins, the couple was relieved that one of the babies developed normally and went full term. Sarah gave birth to their son Alfie in August 2014.
Read more about the story here.


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automobile, sidewalk, crowd
I barely noticed that they placed me in a flag-draped automobile and that, accompanied by an escort, it progressed slowly down a wide avenue, while crowds of people on the sidewalks, children and adults, cheered enthusiastically. --We drove through a large park, many times larger than Kongens Have ("The King's Garden", a park in Copenhagen), and here, too, there were rows upon rows of people, and finally we stopped in front of a statue - and lo and behold, it was myself, and looked just like me, sitting with a young swan at my feet. -- Then my heart melted, then all the memories of hardship disappeared, all of the fears and old sorrows fled my mind, and I felt humble, grateful, deeply moved, but also joyful and consoled. My poor efforts of the pen had been successful after all; even here in the fairytale land of the wild redskins was I known and understood.
Recommended Citation
Larsen, Birgit F.
"Hans Christian Andersen's Statue In Lincoln Park, Chicago,"
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The SECURE Act, which got made into law in 2019 and became effective on January 1, 2020, changed the rules about contributions to Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs). As with other changes to federal law, the SECURE Act is complicated. You might want to talk to a California estate planning attorney about how the SECURE Act could affect your finances and estate plan.
An Overview of the SECURE Act
The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Act (SECURE Act) is a bipartisan effort to make it easier for people who are not wealthy to save for retirement. Here are some of the key provisions of the Act:
- A person can continue to contribute to an IRA after the age of 70 ½ years. The individual does not have to be still employed at that point, but they must have earned income, as opposed to entirely passive income.
- People used to have to take Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs) from their defined contribution or defined benefit plan at age 70 ½ – or more precisely, by April 1 of the year after they turn 70 ½. The SECURE Act makes the RMD age 72 for everyone who turned 70 ½ after December 31, 2019.
- The amount that a person contributes to an IRA after the age of 70 ½ will reduce the amount of the annual qualified charitable distribution that an individual can make during that tax year. The standard annual qualified charitable distribution limit is $100,000.
- The SECURE Act created the "10-Year Distribution Rule." Other than a surviving spouse, everyone who inherits proceeds from a traditional IRA or a Roth IRA must take a distribution of the entire account within 10 years of the death of the person who owned the retirement account. This rule does not apply to minor children until they reach the age of majority, people who are disabled or chronically ill, or beneficiaries who are within 10 years of the age of the deceased IRA owner. Beneficiaries used to be able to stretch out their distributions based on their life expectancy if they elected to do so.
These changes could have an impact on the tax brackets of beneficiaries and IRA owners.
What Happens When Congress and the IRS Disagree
Although Congress wrote the SECURE Act, other government agencies can get involved after the legislation goes into effect. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Congress do not always see eye-to-eye on changes in the law. In the situation of the SECURE Act, the IRS issued rulings that minimized or took away some of the benefits of the new law about IRAs.
Here are a few examples of rulings the IRS issued that take some of the wind out of the SECURE Act's sails:
- IRA custodians (banks and other financial institutions) do not have to accept IRA contributions from anyone over the age of 70 ½. The custodian of the IRA does not have to give a reason for the denial, and there is no circumstance in which the individual who owns the IRA can force the financial institution to accept the contribution.
- The IRS imposed extra work on IRA custodians who want to accept contributions to IRAs from people over the age of 70 ½. The bank will have to amend the IRA contract and update the disclosure agreements.
A California estate planning attorney can help you evaluate whether you should make adjustments to your estate plan because of the SECURE Act. Contact us today.


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The way you provide feedback has the potential to strengthen (or destroy) creative concepts and your agency relationship. Approach giving feedback in three ways:
- First impressions: During the presentation, be engaged enough to say "I like that" or ask a question.
- Clear direction: Focus on what's working and how to make it better. Focus more on the concept you like first, and then move to the ones you don't like, with less detailed feedback
- Ask for a day to prepare your Detailed Direction on how to make it better. Moving the details (copy points, placement, colors) to the next day helps focus the immediate comments on big picture items and gives you 24 hours to digest all the little details that need to be included.
- Focus on direction, not specific changes: Feedback is about static opinions, but direction includes action and decision making. Speak on behalf of your audience and your brand, this isn't about what you (or your mom) would like best.
ABCS: A Proven Framework to Review Creative and Provide Feedback
Too many marketing professionals sit in creative presentations, brief in hand, unsure of whether they like the creative, not sure whether the ideas will drive their business, and unsure about how to give feedback to get what they need. Here are the four questions you should be asking:
- Does this attract Attention? (A)
- Does this showcase the Brand? (B)
- Are we Communicating our main benefit? (C)
- Will this work Stick in the minds of the target audience? (S)
(A) How to Earn Attention:
- Be Different: Many brand leaders are afraid of this, because they feel it exposes them and is too risky. Blending in means being invisible. If you want a high score on "made the brand seem different," it starts with acting different.
- Resonate: Connect with the target audience in the way that they see themselves or their truth about how they interact with the brand.
- Entertain: Strike an emotional cord by making your audience laugh, cry, or tingle. The audience interacts with media to be 'entertained', so entertain them.
- Be Art : As much as movies, TV, and music continue to evolve, so do ads. As much as your art has to express your strategy, it needs to reflect current trends to capture your target's attention.
- Be where they are: Be where your target audience is open and willing to listen. Media choices impact attention. Make sure your creative makes the most of that media choice.
(B) Brand It:
- Be Part of the Story: How do you tell a story using your brand? It's not how much branding you use, but rather how closely connected the brand is to the main point of your creative.
- Tell the Truth: If there is a disconnect between what you say and what you are then the brand connection won't be there and, worse, could lead to distrust.
- Own the Idea: Be different—make sure that what you do sets you apart from everyone else.
- Repeat: The simplest way to build your brand is to consistently repeat your key differentiators.
(C) Communicate It:
Communicating is not what is said, but what is heard. The best way to communicate is through storytelling that involves the brand. The modern-day world of digital media allows richness in storytelling.
- Start a Dialogue: If you can do a good job connecting with the target , the branding idea can be a catalyst that enables you to converse.
- What Are You Selling? Keep it simple, focus on one message, and keep asking yourself, "What are we selling?"
- Powerful Expression: Try to find one key visual that can express what you are selling. This visual can be leveraged throughout your marketing.
- Sell the Solution—Not the Problem: Brands get so wrapped up in demonstrating the problem, when really it is the solution that your target audience wants to buy.
(S) Be Sticky:
We all want our creative to endure. The best way is to have an idea that is big enough. Consider these five approaches:
- Have a Dominant Characteristic: Things that are memorable have something that dominates your mind.
- Include a Big Idea: It's proven that a goldfish will grow bigger with a bigger bowl. The same is true for ideas.
- Tell Stories: While visuals are key to communicating, in the end people remember stories—that's how we are brought up—with ideas and morals that are designed to stick.
- Always Add a Penny: With each execution, you have a chance to add something to your brand. Avoid duplicating what you've done … and try to stretch as much as you can.
- Know Your Assets: There has to be something in your creative that sticks. Know what that is and then use it in other parts of the marketing mix.
You invest time and money to select and hire an agency. They deserve a client who can review their work professionally, strategically and consistently. Use the ABCS model or one you prefer.
Just don't wing it.
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Longmen Grottoes is one of the treasures of Chinese stone carving art. It is now a world cultural heritage, a national key cultural relic protection unit, and a national AAAAA class tourist attraction. It is located in Longmen Mountain and Xiangshan Mountain on both sides of Yihe River in Luolong District, Luoyang City, Henan Province. Longmen Grottoes and Mogao Grottoes, Yungang Grottoes and Maijishan grottoes are known as the four most famous Grottoes in China.
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Longmen Grottoes were excavated during the reign of Emperor Xiaowen in the Northern Wei Dynasty. After 400 years of continuous large-scale construction in the Eastern Wei, Western Wei, Northern Qi, Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties and Song Dynasties, the Longmen Grottoes is now 1 kilometer long in the north and the south. Today there are 2345 caves, more than 100,000 statues and more than 200 inscriptions on steles. Among them, "Twenty Dragon Gate Works" is the essence of calligraphy and Wei stele, and "Yique Buddha Gong Stele" written by Chu Sui-liang is a model of the early Tang Dynasty regular script art.
The Longmen Grottoes lasted for a long time and spanned many dynasties. With a large number of physical images and literary materials, they reflected the development and changes of many fields in ancient China, such as politics, economy, religion and culture, and made great contributions to the innovation and development of Chinese grotto art. In 2000, it was listed as a world cultural heritage by the United Nations Scientific, educational and cultural organization.
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Persian cat girl (white) and furniture are set, so you can play immediately with just this set. The elevator moves up and down as you turn the handle, and the door automatically opens and closes when you reach each floor. Persian cat girl (white), table and chair are included. Combining with the optional First Sylvanian Family, Big House with Red Roof and House in Kiichigo Forest, you can make a very big house. Set content Main body, 3rd floor, fence x 2, squirrel, pillar, pointed roof, Persian cat girl (white), table, chair x 2 (total number of parts: 11) with forest story.North America Central America Middle East AU, NZ. If there is a problem with the item please inform me within a week. International Buyers - Please Note.
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Marjory Saves the Everglades: The Story of Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Author: Sandra Neil Wallace
Illustrator: Rebecca Gibbon
Published September 22, 2020 by Simon Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Summary: From acclaimed children's book biographer Sandra Neil Wallace comes the inspiring and little-known story of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, the remarkable journalist who saved the Florida Everglades from development and ruin.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas didn't intend to write about the Everglades but when she returned to Florida from World War I, she hardly recognized the place that was her home. The Florida that Marjory knew was rapidly disappearing—the rare orchids, magnificent birds, and massive trees disappearing with it.
Marjory couldn't sit back and watch her home be destroyed—she had to do something. Thanks to Marjory, a part of the Everglades became a national park and the first park not created for sightseeing, but for the benefit of animals and plants. Without Marjory, the part of her home that she loved so much would have been destroyed instead of the protected wildlife reserve it has become today.
About the Author: Sandra Neil Wallace hopes that her stories inspire readers as much as they inspire her. Her book The Teachers March! How Selma's Teachers Changed History was written with her husband, Rich Wallace, and has received three starred reviews to date. Between the Lines: How Ernie Barnes Went From the Football Field to the Art Gallery received the Orbis Pictus Book Award, was an ALA Notable Book and a Booklist Top 10 Biography for Youth. Formerly, Sandra was an ESPN reporter and was the first woman to host an NHL broadcast. She continues to break barriers as co-founder of DailyGoodNH.org and lives with her family in New Hampshire. To learn more, and to download free activity kits and other resources, visit SandraNeilWallace.com.
Facebook: Sandra Neil Wallace
Twitter: @SandraNWallace
On Instagram: @sandraneilwallace
Praise: "Marjory Saves the Everglades will inspire children of today and tomorrow to be persistent and follow their dreams to create a better world. Sandra Neil Wallace captures Marjory's passionate commitment to justice for our natural world and all of its inhabitants."
Review: Marjory Stoneman Douglas is such a special person to us Floridians, even before the tragedy at the school named for her. Marjory changed the course of history here in Florida helping establish our very own ecosystem where amazing wildlife live. We'll forever be grateful for her, and I am so happy for this beautiful biography commemorating her life and teaching even me more than I knew about her.
Wallace did a fantastic job choosing which parts of Douglas's amazing life to share, going through much of her life without overloading the narrative, while also showing how important the Everglades are.
The illustrations are perfect because they are so detailed and engulf you when reading about the Everglades. Also, they are so colorful bringing to life all of the amazing wildlife!
Teachers' Tools for Navigation: This picture book biography will be perfect for older elementary and secondary classrooms! I would love to see it being used when speaking about humans/women who made a difference or wetlands, so it'll be a perfect cross-curricular read hitting science, social studies, and reading.
There truly is so much that can be done with this picture book. While reading, I found many differen sections I could stop and do a lesson about an aspect: transportation over time, women's right history, onomatopoeias, article writing, women in military, women during WWII, expansion of the USA, poaching, National Park history, swamp vs. Everglades, animals of the Everglades, effects of pollution, Friends of the Everglades, and more!
The back matter of the book also offers great opportunities to diving deeper including articles to learn more about Marjory and a mentor text timeline.
Discussion Questions:
- How did Marjory's persistence show that anyone can do anything they put their mind to?
- How did Marjory change the world?
- How can we keep the Everglades safe?
- What birds and wildlife live in the Everglades that live no where else?
- How is the Everglades unique?
- What adjectives would you use to describe Marjory?
- Before saving the Everglades, what else did Marjory do that she should be honored for?
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**Thank you to Blue Slip Media for providing a copy for review and Simon & Schuster for providing a copy for giveaway!**