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Andrew Kyle McGregor, owner of the Hermit's Lamp shop in Toronto, Canada, has spearheaded a project called "Triumph of Life Tarot." The aim of the project is to bring together 78 artists to create and donate art for the cards, and eventually to sell the deck and donate the proceeds to cancer research foundations.
Most, if not all, of the participants have been touched by cancer in some way, directly or indirectly. I decided to participate, as cancer has certainly touched my family (my step-father is recovering from prostate cancer, one of my aunts suffered from breast cancer, my grandmother had uterine cancer, and my husband's brother and father both died of aggressive lung cancer). It's a destructive disease that impacts far too many people in our world. Below is the explanation of my process of creating my card for the deck. If you want to keep up with the development of this project there is a Facebook group, and as things come to fruition and are available for purchase I'll also post updates here!
|6 of Disks – Triumph of Life Tarot
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This is what I've created for the 6 of Disks, acrylic on canvas. First I will discuss color scheme, and to some extent the symbols, and then I'll discuss my thoughts/process: The 6 of Disks is associated with the Moon exalted in Taurus. Both the Moon and Taurus are also associated with color scales (Moon – blues and silvers; Taurus – red/orange, brown, indigo) so I've represented these scales throughout the image. Taurus colors are noted in the candle and the color of the woman's skin (the earthy, material elements), and the Moon in the blue and silvery qualities in the sky and moon itself. In Thoth the keyword for this card is "Success" – manifesting things on the material plane. In RWS this is a card of reciprocity, give and take, receiving assistance, guidance, generosity. In this image a woman sits next to an ancestral altar – a table covered with a white cloth, bearing a lit candle. She looks up at the moon in a deep blue sky. 6 comet-like rays descend toward her. In my spiritual/religious practice, ancestor-veneration is integral. Our ancestors and loved ones that pass on don't remain in the past; they are often here with us in the present. We welcome them into our lives, request their help and guidance, and honor them with physical offerings of candles, glasses of water, and even foods and drinks that they enjoyed in life. Even though we lose physical touch with our loved ones when they pass, they are always available to help support us and aid us in our physical lives, whether via the feeling of companionship, the sense of being grounded in family or spiritual heritage, or even through mundane-yet-important experiences such as looking for work opportunities. We request their help and open ourselves up to receive it. In this image the woman is alone, but surrounded in a golden glow representative of an ethereal embrace. She is aware of her ancestors, and they are aware of her. She's looking for a connection, her altar candle is burning, and all she has to do is ask. These comet-like rays fall upon her, representing those sparks of insight, gentle nudges, whispers from our departed loved ones as they support us and point us in the right direction on our earthly path. I asked my brother-in-law Manuel, who died of lung cancer, to give me my card for this project. Mañe (short for Manuel) was diagnosed with aggressive cancer and died before he was able to leave Cuba and reunite with us in the USA. It was one of the biggest blows to my husband (and to Mañe) because they were like soul mates. Mañe is still a part of our lives. We talk to him, honor his memory, ask him for guidance and assistance and clarity, request help with centering ourselves on our paths in order to achieve success in our lives. One story I can tell: After a year of asking for help conceiving our first child together (my husband was hoping for a girl), Mañe came in a dream and handed my husband a baby girl. The next day I took a pregnancy test and found I was indeed pregnant, and when all was said and done, it was a girl. The relationship that we have with Mañe felt like the perfect example of the energy of the 6 of Disks united with the questions posed by this project.
Our give-and-take crosses paths at the ancestral altar, and positively impacts the physical manifestation of success in our lives.


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A MAJOR revamp of a theatre due to reopen this weekend has been hit by a series of snags, council chiefs revealed today.
A delay in the completion of the £4 million makeover of the Palace Theatre meant bosses were forced to postpone a performance aimed at testing everything was in working order.
The delay in construction work meant staff were unable to complete their training time, pushing back the date of the test performance. But council bosses said they were confident the theatre would open at 6.30pm on Saturday.
The relaunch of the theatre will see residents being treated to a performance of the Irish dance show, Celtic Feet.
The Mayor of Redditch, Coun Diane Thomas, is due to attend the event and cut the opening ribbon at the theatre in Alcester Street.
Project manager Ken Watkins said audience safety was the first priority.
"The complete restoration of the theatre to its 1913 original design has been an ambitious and complex project to take on," he said.
"We are keen to welcome Redditch people back in through its doors, but we have had to hold back an early test performance because we were not able to guarantee visitor or artists' safety."
Mr Watkins added: "The team are now working closely with fire and safety officers to ensure that all relevant mechanical, electrical and evacuation procedures are in place."
The Palace will have the look and feel of the original theatre, but with the benefits of 21st century technology.
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Becan is an archaeological site of the Maya civilization in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. Becan is located near the center of the Yucatán Peninsula, in the present-day Mexican state of Campeche, about 150 km north of Tikal. The Maya sites of Balamku, Calakmul, Chicanna and Xpuhil are nearby. The name Becan was bestowed on the site by archaeologists who rediscovered the site, meaning "ravine or canyon formed by water" in Yukatek Maya, after the site's most prominent and unusual feature, its surrounding ditch.
Archaeological evidence shows that Becan was occupied in the middle Preclassic Maya period, about 550 BCE, and grew to a major population and ceremonial center a few hundred years later in the late Preclassic. The population and scale of construction declined in the early classic, although it was still a significant site, and trade goods from Teotihuacan have been found.
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Hi Brett,
According to your advice, I have excluded "Documents->Ninja Trader 7" folder in AVG's resident shield. As for Administrator rights, well - my account is of admin type.
One chart loads range bars for 7 days and the other chart loads 5 minutes candles for the last 15 days. Doesn't sound too demanding to me...
This issue is peculiar: the only consistency here is that some of the time it just gets stuck in the "Loading data" stage. The Dynamic SuperDom is working, the software is stable - the charts just sometimes get stuck at that stage while other times it works and loads fast!
If the data feed is good, I believe that there might be a bug in the charts data mounting / display functions (however your R&D guys call it).
Are there log files I might sent you that can help?
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Adminstrator does not help. Am using Mirus with Zenfire. I am using charts of 6A, 6E, 6S. Even the original connection takes a long time to connect, and then the loading gets stuck. If I delete the all the workspaces, including default, I can get a relatively fast connection, but then again if I try to bring up one chart of 1 minute 6E or 6A with from 1 day to 5 days it gets stuck loading.
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Please try right clicking on NinjaTrader icon to start it and selecting Run As Administrator. Does this make any difference?
Also, for the two cases still reported if not, what data feeds are you connected too, also how much data are you trying to download and for what type of chart?
I look forward to assisting you further.
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I do not have any anti virus running at all, so that rules it out. still getting stuck on loading
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Hmmm... I have admin privileges and my backup software (Acronis) is running its task at 3 AM so that there should no conflict between any programs, because I have started NT some hours after the backup was finished.
Maybe some other guys could add their experiences about this behaviour to solve the issue.
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If a load takes longer then 20 minutes as a general rule of thumb I would consider it dead in the water. This varies based on computer speed and ammount of data needed to load.
Also, please check to make sure you have admin privlidges, other software known to cause this issue is automatic backup software. Are you running any of this, Essentially we need to find something that could access the same file at the same time NinjaTrader would need to access it.
This would account for the random nature of this occuring.
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Hello Brett,
many thanks for the answers. I have already added a file path exclusion to my anti to virus software (Avira), before I posted this problem.
For 6 hours until now the software tries to load some data...
Unfortunately, I cannot say, when this happens.
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Guys, there is a known issue with this and Anti Virusus. Essentially the Auto Run Time File Scanning can cause issues with this.
Please add a file path exclusion in your AVG or other anti virus to the folder My Documents->NinjaTrader 7. This is not a program exclusion but a Resident Shield or RealTime Anti Virus to set a folder exclusion. So that it does not realtime scan this folder and cause issues with accessing the same file at the same time.
NinjaTrader needs to be allowed to create its caches and temporary files, if it is not you can get stuck on the Loading Data...
Also, please insure you are loading a reasonable ammount of data. Obviously loading 50 days or greater of Tick Data will take a while to download.
I look forward to assisting you further.
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Have the same problems with stuck "Loading Data" or sometimes "Saving".
I'm also using the 7.0.1000.1 version with Zenfire, Win 7 64bit, but IMHO this has nothing to do with a special instrument, operating system or Zenfire.
Restarting NT, the PC itself or deleting an old and creating a new connection doesn't help.
Any ideas NT guys?
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I also see occasional hangs while "Loading Data" (with 7.0.1000.1 and with the earlier Betas that I tried too.)
I'm also using Zenfire and it has happened with loading instruments ES, YM, TF and 6E (but not simultaneously) so I'd guess it's not instrument related.
Also, if I click "Abort" in the Control Center, sometimes it will not complete either.
How about adding a timeout and aborting the Abort if it doesn't complete in a reasonable amount of time (say a minute or two)?
Also, could a timeout be done for the "Loading Data", so if there's no activity for a while, then quit or retry or something?
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I get this same problem with Zenfire. Charts get stuck on loading. It happens all the time and then suddenly after an hour or so it can then just load normally. This happens almost every day.
Incidently if I load Kinetic connection for (EOD) I get connected within seconds and all charts are shown immediately. This could show that there is something problematic with Zenfire connections that cause the machine to freeze.Last edited by perryg; 12-12-2010, 10:12 AM.
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To add some other, maybe helpful info here. I had this issue today with 6E and NT7. I had charts open and live data, I changed the contracts and the new data loaded ok. My internet went out for about a minute so I got some coffee. Upon returning to the computer I had my connection back. I reloaded historical data to replace the missing data and when I tried it on the 6E chart it got stuck showing "Loading data" all day. My indicator icon was ghosted but I could add/remove indicators via right clicking on the chart. The chart was updating all day but portions of an indicator on that chart were missing, just a couple of plots. If I tried to reload historical it acted the same way, "loading data". Finally I closed the chart and opened a new one. This one stumped me.
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Thanks for your forum post.
What anti virus are you running? Or are you running any automatic backup software?
I look forward to assisting you further.
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Last month, we were pleased to be featured in an interview on BSD Now, a weekly podcast dedicated to BSD news, tutorials, and the community. We shared with hosts Kris and Allan an overview of the Backtrace platform, features specific to FreeBSD, and a live demo. We also discussed our first-class support for FreeBSD.
We'll be out at BSDCan in Ottawa this week for those that are interested in learning more about us. If you're attending, come stop by our booth. We'll have a sponsor table with a live demo that everyone can play with.
Here are some highlights from the podcast.
Backtrace Background
"Backtrace is a company that is aiming to improve how software is built, shipped, and maintained. Our thesis is a first step to doing that is improving the post-mortem debugging process."
"This is a huge problem and no one out there is actually working on it. A lot of folks are focused on metrics, analytics, etc., which is great but no one's really focusing on improving the technology which will directly help engineers get to the root cause in the cases where they do have panics and where they do have very hairy performance issues."
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December 2014
AS MANY as 700 delegates from across the world including leading AEC (architectural, engineering and construction) executives, infrastructure owner-operators, and 100-plus journalists attended a major infrastructure conference held in the UK where two Gulf projects emerged as finalists in the prestigious awards that were the highlight of the event.
The Year in Infrastructure 2014 Conference, which was held at the Hilton Hotel Metropole in London, was hosted by Bentley Systems of the US, which offers comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure lifecycle. The event included the Be Inspired Awards, which honour users of Bentley's building information modelling (BIM) software that achieve excellence in design, delivery, and operations of the world's infrastructure.
The conference featured a series of presentations and interactive workshops exploring technology and business drivers, and how they are shaping the future of infrastructure delivery and investment returns. It included summits on project delivery and infrastructure asset performance, and forums on building, the rail and road, oil, gas, chemical, and mining, EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) and architecture and engineering, utilities, visions for the future.
Special guest keynoters included Professor Andrew McNaughton, chief engineer and technical director of HS2, which is spearheading the development of Britain's $66.5-billion high-speed rail project.
At the conference, Greg Bentley, the chief executive officer of Bentley, indicated that of the top 500 owners of infrastructure around the world – with assets worth a total of more than $16.7 billion – some 385 are Bentley subscribers.
During the awards ceremony, 18 Be Inspired Awards winners and seven Be Inspired Special Recognition Awards winners were honoured.
Nine independent panels of jurors, comprising distinguished industry experts, selected the winners from 54 project finalists, which had been previously chosen from submissions by organisations in 49 countries.
Two projects in the Gulf that were among the finalists in the annual competition included the Fairmont Hotel in Abu Dhabi, UAE, work on which has earned recognition for leading UAE-based contractor Arabtec in the Innovation in Construction category and a proposed sports campus projects in Doha, Qatar, which put global consultancy firm Arup in the limelight in the Innovation in Land Development category.
Speaking to Gulf Construction magazine at the conference, Ahmed Balawi, BIM manager at Arabtec's Building Information Modelling Section, said Bentley's BIM software has enabled the company to integrate its own in-house designing software, while producing considerable savings in cost and time on the 30-month contract.
On the sports campus projects, meanwhile, which is still in the early design stage, Arup earned recognition for its innovative use of Bentley's BIM software, according to Oscar Julian Veneros, based at Arup's Madrid office. Work on the project is slated to start in 2016.
On the campus project, to modernise its project delivery, Arup decided to implement a BIM methodology that was not typically used for transportation-related infrastructure projects.
The Be Inspired Awards has recognised more than 2,000 of the world's most outstanding infrastructure projects since its inception in 2004. The programme boasts a unique competition – which is claimed to be the only of its kind that is global in scope and comprehensive in categories covered, encompassing all types of infrastructure projects.
Bentley is a global leader dedicated to providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure.
Its solutions encompass the MicroStation platform for infrastructure design and modelling, the ProjectWise platform for infrastructure project team collaboration and work sharing, and the AssetWise platform for infrastructure asset operations.
At the conference, Bentley unveiled the Connect Edition, its next generation of software for sustaining infrastructure and launched its new MineCycle software applications. The Connect Edition will support a hybrid computing environment for comprehensive project delivery – from desktop applications to Cloud services and mobile devices.
MicroStation Connect Edition has already been made available to 'early access' participants, and many of the ProjectWise Connect Edition services, along with the Navigator Connect Edition application, will be available for early access by the year's end.
The Connect Edition of Bentley's modelling applications and AssetWise offerings will be released throughout 2015 and 2016.
"Our conference this year has been filled with insightful presentations and productive dialogue about BIM advancements. The effective strategies behind these advancements are helping infrastructure organisations achieve better performing assets through increased depth of information modelling and better performing projects through increased breadth of information mobility," Bentley's CEO commented.


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It's The Most Wonderful Time of The Year, Right Parents?
Summer has been my favorite season my whole life. Even in my 40 somethings when I see the first back-to-school commercial I cringe. So in honor of the new school season Bachelor Degree Online has posted 10 of their favorite back-to-school commercials.
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My personal favorite is the Alice Cooper Staples commercial. Sorry kids!
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Erika Rowe
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"The immigration process can feel so overwhelming. Erika did a great job of explaining the K-1 visa process and completing the paperwork efficiently and quickly."
"I absolutely loved working with Erika! She was attentive to every detail of my case and responded quickly to my many questions and phone calls."
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Law Office of Erika M. Rowe, PLLC
Aug 2016 - Present
My immigration practice is focused on family based immigrant petitions including Adjustment of Status and Consular Processing, Removal of Condition, and Naturalization. I also do contract work for existing immigration law firms covering the full breadth of my experience which includes, Employment based petitions, both immigrant and nonimmigrant, Family, Naturalization, Deportation, and Removal.
Law Office of Robert J. Jacobs, P.A.
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This was a general immigration practice law firm where I directed and reviewed the work of Paralegals, receptionists, and outsourced work. I completed employment based petitions, both immigrant and nonimmigrant, including EB-1, National Interest Waivers, EB-3, Special Interest Petitions, H-1B, R-1, etc. I also completed Family Based petitions, Fiance, Naturalization, Deportation and Removal.
Law Firm of Robert S. Griscti
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Assisted in trial preparation for complex federal litigation for a high profile white collar crime case. I also researched and obtained third party electronic discovery company to load data, host an online review platform , and produce documents pursuant to subpoena.
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Immigration Case Manager
Oct 2010 - Jun 2011
This was a general immigration practice. I completed employment based petitions both immigrant and nonimmigrant, Family based petitions including adjustment of status and consular processing. I represented clients at USCIS marriage interviews in Norfolk, VA, Fairfax, VA, Baltimore, MD, and Durham, NC. I completed Naturalization Applications. Represented Clients in Master Hearings.
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Highpoint Center for Printmaking is very proud to announce the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) will be hosting an exhibition of prints created during Highpoint's first ten years (2001 – 2011). The show, Highpoint Editions – Decade One, will open on Saturday September 24 at the MIA and run through June 10, 2012. Thomas Rassieur, the John E. Andrus III Curator of Prints and Drawings at MIA, will curate the exhibition.
"In its first ten years, Highpoint has become a vibrant part of the Twin Cities art scene. Less well known is its national and increasingly international stature as a publisher of exquisitely made prints. Highpoint Editions – Decade One celebrates their professional collaborations with fine artists of many stripes. The diversity and the quality testify to Master Printer Cole Rogers and HP's talented staff ability to work with artists to bring their visions into material form. The MIA is delighted to salute Highpoint and to present highlights from its production to a broad public audience," said Rassieur.
The show will offer MIA visitors a captivating look at the world of contem- porary printmaking, viewed through prints created at Highpoint Editions by an intriguing mix of artists over the past ten years. Featured artists will include: Carlos Amorales, Santiago Cucullu, Mary Esch, Rob Fischer, Adam Helms, Joel Janowitz, Cameron Martin, Julie Mehretu, Clarence Morgan, Lisa Nankivil, Todd Norsten, Chloe Piene, Jessica Rankin, David Rathman, and Carolyn Swiszcz. Accompanying special public tours and programs will be announced in the coming months.
Since opening in 2001, Highpoint has been creating new prints in collaboration with local, national, and international artists. Highpoint Editions, the publishing arm of Highpoint, fosters emerging and established artists who benefit from a unique collaborative process as they experiment and discover new artistic avenues, with the support of a Master Printer and staff, in a print shop designed specifically for such work.
During Highpoint's first decade Highpoint Editions projects have been supported in part by The Patrick and Aimee Butler Family Foundation, HRK, Martin and Brown Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Moore Family Fund for the Arts of the Minneapolis Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andy Warhol Foundation, and many individuals.


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By Judith Mugeni,
July 4, 2016
The dictionary offers the following definition of an intangible benefit: Subjective benefits that cannot be measured in monetary terms (business dictionary). Really? Or is it a question of how do i turn those subjective elements into tangibles because they are important to this valuation?
So you have an amazing property/brand/offering/asset, you can probably put a rand /dollar value to the tangible elements (quantitatively), but what about the intangible elements? Fear not, you can add further monetary value to your property by accounting for both the tangible benefits and the "intangible" benefits, those elements that are "not definite or clear to the mind" (but should be very clear to you!)
The IEG valuation model, offers a way that a sponsorship property's intangible benefits can be measured (by professionals) by looking at 10 elements. You would be doing your asset valuation a disservice by not looking at these elements.
At a very simplistic level, the model requires you to derive a multiplier by scoring your asset on each of the 10 elements out of 10 , 1 being low and 10 being high (try it, its worth the exercise):
- Prestige of Property: how meaningful/relevant is your property/offering/asset to its audience?
- Recognition / Awareness: how familiar is your targeted audiences with your property/your offering/asset?
- Category Exclusivity: can a sponsor/partner forge a unique relationship with the property /your offering that sets it apart from its competitors?
- Level of Audience Interest / Loyalty: what is the propensity of your audience to actively support sponsors/partners because of their link to the property/offering?
- Ability to Activate: how easy will it be be for the sponsor/partner to promote its association with the property/offering?
- Limited Degree of Sponsorship Clutter: how many companies /partners are competing for share of voice related to the property/offering?
- Non-ambushability of Property: how well will you limit opportunities for sponsor/partner competitors to claim an association with your property/offering?
- Network Opportunities: what is the value of cosponsors/partnerships and is there opportunity for a sponsor to work with them?
- Newsworthiness: what is the ability of the property/offering to attract print and broadcast coverage
- Established Track Record: how well have you worked with previous sponsors/partners?
This is at least a start as opposed to the thinking that there's "no monetary value."
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Building on Success, Catholic Educators Press Their Case for Private-School Choice
Now, they say, Catholic educators appear poised to raise the stakes by working to muster grassroots support for including Catholic and other sectarian schools in any all of the various choice proposals and experiments developing around the nation.
" What we are working for is the right for all parents to choose the schools for their children," Sister Catherine T. McNamee, president of the National Catholic Educational Association, said in an interview at the NCEA's convention this month.
Catholic educators' desire to step up their efforts to push for the inclusion of Catholic schools in choice proposals is evident in several recent developments. For example:
- Catholic educators plan to make parental choice in education and the broadening of public and private financial support for Catholic schools a major theme at a "congress" they will hold in Washington this fall on the future of their schools.
- In passing a statement endorsing a continued commitment to Catholic schools, the nation's Roman Catholic bishops last November called for greater efforts to ensure that Catholic parents be able to send their children to Catholic schools, including the pursuit of public financial assistance for that purpose.
- Also at that meeting, the bishops provided $2 million in seed money for a national office to guide state and diocesan groups on such issues as choice and to establish a national Catholic parents' organization to lobby on the issue.
- At the NCEA's convention here, the choice theme resounded throughout numerous sessions and speeches.
"It's time to call in your debts," said A. Polly Williams, the nationally known state legislator from Wisconsin who helped adopt a voucher program for low-income Milwaukee children to attend non-sectarian private schools at state expense.
"All these bureaucrats and public school teachers have their children in your schools," she told a session at the NCEA convention. "You have to cut it as an empowerment issue. It's time to use your power, people."
Ms. Williams was heralded for her tough talk on shaking up the public-school bureaucracy and on using state funds to send poor children to private schools, even though no Catholic schools are involved in the Milwaukee experiment.
Another reform advocate who was enthusiastically received at the convention was Terry M. Moe, a professor of political science at Stanford University and a co-author of the controversial book Politics, Markets, and America's Schools.
In it, Mr. Moe and John E. Chubb, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, argue for a new system of public education built around parental choice and competition among schools.
The authors based their recommendations on their conclusions that private schools, including Catholic schools, have been able to function with more autonomy and 0 less political interference than public schools and have been more effective at raising student achievement.
Both the Milwaukee choice proposal and the publication of the Chubb-Moe book, among other recent developments, have been credited with reviving the prospects for private schools to be considered in virtually every level of the debate 0 over parental choice in education. (See Education Week, Feb. 20, 1991.)
"The Catholic schools are doing a tremendous job of educating children, but they are in a crisis," Mr. Moe said at the convention. "If they can get public money without major strings attached, then it would be advantageous" for them to support the choice-centered reforms described in the book.
A Constant Drumbeat
Over the past several years, Catholic educators have kept up a constant drumbeat for including private schools in discussions about choice, and their efforts, observers say, appear to be paying off.
Just two years ago, a White House conference on parental choice was confined to discussions of choice options involving the public schools.
Several weeks later, President Bush caused a firestorm when he pro claimed that he did not favor tuition- tax credits for parents who sent their children to private schools.
Support for such a plan had been part of the Republican platform in 1988 and had come to be identified with the more conservative members of the GOP.
Backpedaling, the White House said the President could not support tuition-tax credits at that time be cause of budgetary limitations.
The next June, Catholic educators pressed Mr. Bush for a stronger showing of his support, and, in their assessment, made progress at a meeting between the President and the top education officials of the country's largest dioceses. It was a good beginning, but we still have a long way to go," Sister Catherine said at the time.
The President's thinking on the is sue has apparently evolved further. In January, Mr. Bush proposed a $200-million plan to reward districts that develop parental-choice policies, including those that allow the participation of private religious schools.
Questions Remain
Despite their success in elevating the Catholic schools' visibility in the choice debate, Catholic educators acknowledge that questions remain about what they mean when they advocate "choice."
Many pronouncements from Catholic education officials at the national level have touted choice "for all parents" without elaborating on such issues as educational vouchers or tuition-tax credits.
"I don't think we have spelled out in our minds where exactly we want o go" by advocating choice, said L Frank J. Monahan, director of the office of government liaison of the United States Catholic Conference, the public-policy arm of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. Agreed Michael J. Guerra, executive director of the NCEA's secondary-school department: "What is really going on right now is a struggle for the language. Is there a commitment to a political tactic with a specific political product at the end of it? No."
"There are a variety of different ways in which choice can evolve," he continued. "There's much more to be done in sharpening the debate."
Vouchers Advocated
The ideal plan, in the eyes of many Catholic educators, would be a general voucher program at the federal or state level that would provide significant funding for parents to use at the private schools of their choice.
"But we haven't totally thought through the implications of a full voucher," Mr. Monahan acknowledged. If a general program of public assistance to private-school parents were to come about, he added, the Catholic- school community should be prepared to sacrifice some of its autonomy, such as control over admissions policies or limitations on discipline.
"There seems to be a rather naive belief among many Catholic educators that they could fully participate in a publicly financed program of choice and carry on with business as usual," Mr. Monahan writes in an essay prepared for the upcoming L congress on Catholic schools. "The one thing that history teaches about government-funded education is hat it brings a certain level of regulation and limitation with respect to how tax dollars are used." Most view the political prospects for adoption of a general voucher program as exceedingly slim, especially at the federal level.
Tuition-Tax Credit Eyed
The tuition-tax credit is a more viable alternative, many Catholic educators argue. At least two states, Minnesota and Iowa, give such credits to parents whose children attend nonpublic schools.
A federal tax-credit program nearly passed the Congress in 1972, until the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a broad program of aid for non public education that included tax credits. President Reagan also supported a tuition-tax credit, but was unsuccessful in getting a proposal through the Congress.
Mr. Monahan doubts that a tuition-tax credit that would benefit Catholic-school parents is likely to pass the Congress during times of a major federal budget deficit.
More likely are local plans, such as the one in Epsom, N.H., where town officials authorized tax abatements for property owners who sponsor a high-school student's private education. (See Education Week, Jan. 9, 1991.)
Catholic education officials also believe it may be easier to build support for choice proposals centered around program-specific vouchers, such as one that would allow low-income students to attend a Catholic school, or one that would pay for just one school program, such as Chapter 1 services.
Opposition Still Vocal
For the time being, some say, catholic educators need to focus on organizing greater grassroots support among Catholic parents for choice in general--an effort they argue will aid wider public acceptance of private-school choice.
"There is a real need to develop lay and parental leadership at both 0 the parish and diocesan levels," Mr. Monahan said.
John E. Coons, a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley and a strong choice advocate, argues in an essay for the Catholic-schools congress that parents are but one element of a coalition that must form behind choice.
Other groups needed, he writes, include representatives of business and private welfare groups, operators of child-care centers, and home schoolers.
Social science has confirmed, he argues, "that Catholic schools have most nearly solved the problem of teaching disadvantaged children. They have served the poor best of all."
Nonetheless, Catholic educators acknowledge that they will continue to face stiff resistance to any major program of tax support for nonpublic schools--both from the public-school establishment and, in the case of sec tarian schools, from advocates of strict separation of church and state.
Late last year, a coalition of 10 major public education organizations, including the National Education Association, the American Federation of Teachers, and the National School Boards Association, spoke out against private-school vouchers.
Groups such as Americans United for Separation of Church and State also closely monitor Catholic Church efforts to gain more public assistance.
"Most religious schools saturate their curriculum with religious views," said Rob Boston, a spokes man for Americans United. "When you start funding those schools with money from the general population, you are taxing people to fund religious endeavors. The Catholics want to evangelize non-Catholic families through the schools."
Vol. 10, Issue 30, Page 1, 16Published in Print: April 17, 1991, as Building on Success, Catholic Educators Press Their Case for Private-School Choice
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Dale (Philip) Bessire (1893-1974)
Spring Stream
Oil on Board
10 x 12 inches
Signed Lower Left
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Dale Bessire had a pretty predictable formula — large, pallete knife (and certainly brush) landscapes depicting simple, pastoral Brown County landscapes. Many of these reflect Autumn. Spring Stream (Bessire's title) breaks rank with what we often see — a cute little vernal landscape. It could be today in Brown County with the dogwood and the redbud just showing their colors. And I think, off to the left is that secret grove of morel mushrooms by the fallen Elm tree! Clean, perfect condition, original frame — a nice compact work.
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Dr. Naoki Tajiri, Assistant Professor in the School of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Sciences and the Department of Neurosurgery & Brain Repair, has been awarded a $25,000 grant by the USF Health Byrd Alzheimer's Institute for research on "Stem cell-paved biobridges in TBI with AD-like pathology." The award is being funded by the USF Health Byrd Alzheimer's Institute's small grant program.
Dr Tajiri has recently gathered data that recognizes patients, undiagnosed but likely suffering from moderate TBI, to display Alzheimer's disease (AD)-like cognitive impairments, suggesting a pathological overlap between TBI and AD. Results revealed that presymptomatic APP/PS1 AD-transgenic mice with experimental TBI exhibited significantly more errors in a cognitive task, coupled with significantly increased extracellular beta-amyloid (Aβ)-deposits in the cortex and hippocampus, compared to AD mice without TBI and wild type (WT) mice with TBI or sham surgery (Tajiri N et al., PLoS One. 8, e78851, 2013). These results demonstrate for the first time that TBI precipitates cognitive impairment in presymptomatic AD mice, while also confirming extracellular Aβ deposits following TBI. Interestingly, recent studies have implicated a key interaction between matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and Aβ-deposits in diseased brains, advancing the notion that dissecting this pathological link between TBI and AD should aid in understanding the disease pathology and developing novel treatments, i.e., stem cell-paved biobridges.


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This is a shared post, serving as a recommendation to go check out Spitalfields Market and some other places nearby and at the same time is a chance to give a shout-out to a really great book to take with you.
Taking its name from the hospital and priory, St. Mary's Spittel founded in 1197, Spitalfields lies in the heart of the East End of London and right beside Liverpool Street station.
At the opposite end lies Hawksmoor's Christ Church, consecrated in 1729 its striking white facade is due to the Portland stone that was used. Luckily this beautiful building has survived despite going through a period of neglect when the roof was declared unsafe and the then Bishop proposed its demolition in the 1960s.
Scattered about are interesting sculptures to look at. I Goat, won the Spitalfields Sculpture Prize in 2010, of a hand-sculpted goat standing on top of a stack of packing crates by artist Kenny Hunter.


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Co Longford VEC's Annual Second Level Awards Ceremony takes place at Ardscoil Phádraig, Granard on Monday, May 28 2012 at the Canon Kelly Community Sports Hall.
The ceremony acknowledges the work of second-level students from the four schools, Ardscoil Phádraig, Granard; Ballymahon Vocational School; Lanesboro Community College and Templemichael College, Longford. The Guest Speaker on the night will be Mr Joseph Donohoe, a native of Springtown, Granard, and a son of Thomas and Marie Donohoe. Joseph is a former student of Ardscoil Phádraig and is employed by Allied Irish Bank as a solicitor in its legal department.


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For junior inter students LATQ are generally given from units II, III and VI. So that the student can choose most important and important questions for study under this section.
For questions on morphology and modifications the student is expected to write the modification type, define, explain, give example and draw diagram for each type. (Practicing to write the answers in given time is necessary for this type of questions).
For questions on fertilization, embryo sac structure etc., the process should be explained in detail and the neat labeled diagram (diagrams) should be drawn. (usually 3 marks are allotted for diagrams in this section)
For senior inter students the 8 M questions are expected from units I, V and VI.
Questions from unit –I (Plant Physiology) like Glycolysis should be written in statements as well as equations and writing the flow chart is compulsory. (The content will be allotted 5 marks and flow chart or cycle will be given 3 marks). It is commonly observed that the students who performed the whole exam well forget or ignore to draw the flow chart (or cycle in case of Kreb's cycle or C-3 cycle) and lose 3 marks.
The questions of Unit V may be in the form of principles and processes of rDNA or tools of rDNA or applications of biotechnology in agriculture and other fields.
As the syllabus is revised this year much importance for applied botany is adhered to and hence questions on organic farming, bio-control agents, plant breeding, tissue culture etc are to be prepared with all precautions. If a student wishes to write extra questions he/she may attempt them after completing the compulsory questions i.e. 10 VSATQs, 6 SATQs and 2 LATQs. It is often observed that some students have the tendency to write all the 8 questions in section-II and then go for the third section which leads to shortage of time and they are prone to
loose marks in section III. The same way some students do not plan the time properly and take more than 30 minutes for each long answer type question and remaining answers are written in a hurry. So the student does not find time to revise and check the answers.
A perfect planning and preparation minimizes anxiety and fear in the examination. Incomplete preparation leads to confusion. Hence the students should plan, prepare and present perfectly for scoring better.


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(Recap Via TVGuide.com)
(If you want to watch, I've embedded the show from Hulu.com below)
In this hour, Jack continues to hunt down anyone responsible for Renee Walker's murder, while Logan and his underlings continue their hunt for Jack.
As the hour opens, Ortiz is brought in to identify the body of his former fiancée, CTU traitor Dana Walsh. When one of the on-scene cops asks, "Did you know this woman?" he hesitates tellingly before answering. It's hard to even imagine the mix of emotions he's feeling after the hellish 20-hour roller coaster he's been on, but at least it will all be over soon.
Meanwhile, Jack is high-tailing it over to the "workspace" of an old buddy, Jim Ricker (Michael Madsen), who first and foremost wants to know what the heck is going on, what with Jack's name all over the police scanners saying he killed some woman.
After a brief explanation that he accepts at face value, Ricker helps Jack identify a man seen talking with Walsh in a video found on the disk Jack took from her. And, surprise surprise, it's another Russian "diplomat" — which, this season, seems to be just another word for terrorist.
With hard proof of Russian involvement in President Hassan's murder finally in hand, Jack places a call to newspaper reporter (and former Hassan girlfriend) Meredith Reed, asking her to meet with him. And his simple argument proves convincing: "Miss Reed, yesterday I helped clear your name. Now I need you to help clear mine."
Unfortunately, one of Pillar's people is listening in on that call, which means President Logan and Novakovich are too — and now they've got a lead on Jack's whereabouts.
Elsewhere in CTU, though, Chloe is up to her old tricks, having realized that the cover-up Jack tried to convince her of is indeed real, and that Pillar's in on it. With Arlo's help (at least he finally gets something to do other than leer at Walsh), Chloe manages to sneak into the interrogation room where Ortiz is being held and get a tip that points her toward Ricker.
Ortiz also offers Chloe a little reality check about her old friend, telling her how Jack apparently executed Walsh with two shots at point-blank range. "There are no good guys here. Jack, Pillar, if they end up killing each other, maybe it's the best thing. … Everybody wants me on their side. Who am I fighting for?"
And Pillar does give killing Jack his best shot. As Jack is making his way through a crowded mall to meet with Reed, Russian sniper Pavel (Joel Bissonnette) is hiding in the air ducts, and is thisclose to putting a bullet in Jack's head when Ricker gets the drop on him.
He's not alone, though, as several other covert operatives come out shooting in Ladies' Fashions. Of course, Jack is able to neutralize them with relative ease and slip away, but Reed, Ricker and, most importantly, Pavel are in tow.
This does not sit well with Pillar's boss, President Logan — particularly when he advises Logan to distance himself from the treaty he helped keep alive in hopes of repairing his terrible, terrible reputation. But he can't distance himself, because in 20 minutes, President Taylor's press secretary will (at Logan's request) issue a statement talking up his involvement in the treaty.
So, once again, Pillar is ordered to take out Jack at any cost. But it seems he and his assistant, Eden Linley (Julie Claire), have some type of fail-safe plan brewing.
Whatever it is, they better act fast, because Jack is leaning hard on Pavel, who does not seem to have a good attitude. In response to Jack's first question, Pavel tells him to go to hell, to which Jack retorts, "You first."
Turns out this is the very same sniper who killed Renee — maybe that was supposed to be obvious, but all these Russian are starting to look the same to me — so hell is exactly where Jack plans to take him.
"I watched her gasping for air as the blood filled her lungs. She died in agony, which is exactly what's gonna happen to you unless you tell me what I wanna know," Jack tells Pavel before plunging a knife into his guts.
When Pavel still won't give up the names of his superiors, Jack gets out the blowtorch and goes to work, while spitting in his face, "All you had to do was leave us alone. Why couldn't you just leave us alone?" If it wasn't obvious before, his half-crazed delivery of those lines shows just how far over the edge Jack has gone this time.
Then he cuts the SIM card to Pavel's phone (which Pavel had stupidly swallowed, thinking Jack would never look there) out of his stomach. But when he puts the card back in Pavel's phone and dials the last number called, Jack finally gets the answer he needs and hears the words that may finally seal one very bad man's fate: "You've reached the mobile phone of President Charles Logan…"
Stray Observations:
• The new CTU offices haven't exactly been a fan favorite, but I have to admit, that little "glass shading" thing Pillar had Linley do with his office ("Can you make this room a little less public?") was pretty cool.
• When Chloe told Arlo, "We'll use this to create a mobile hotspot," I just knew it was gonna be followed by a gratuitous shot of some product adorned with the Sprint logo — and, ugh, there it was. That said, the product placement hasn't been quite as obtrusive this season as it was during the last couple.
• As a horror-movie fan, I have a pretty strong stomach for violence and gore, but the way Jack tortured Pavel was definitely pushing the limit, especially for prime time TV. With how far (and how low) the writers have taken Jack in these last two episodes, it will be interesting to see how they pull him back to humanity for the forthcoming feature film. Or maybe they'll just call it Saw VIII and really let Jack go to town.
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Simon Jones to star in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Show - Live!
- Kirstyn Smith
- 15 May 2012
Neil Gaiman and Billy Boyd to perform cameo roles
Life, the Universe and Everything are to be reimagined in a new stage production of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, touring to Glasgow's Theatre Royal this month. Original cast members from the long-running radio series reunite, alongside superfans in cameo roles, including Neil Gaiman and Billy Boyd for the Scottish dates. The protagonist, hapless, tea-lover Arthur Dent was originally written with actor Simon Jones in mind: he maintains that, while the touring show has a wealth of tricks up its sleeve, the more pernickety fans insist that certain aspects remain true to the original.
'A lot of people want to hear the lines repeated verbatim,' he says. 'It's important that the character is very much familiar to people, however it is fun to bring the show to a new generation.'
Whether a die-hard enthusiast or a new recruit, audiences can expect well-kent scenes interspersed with lesser-known scripts, a reimagined, less pessimistic ending and exciting stage chemistry, with a great deal of physical comedy and the occasional flying teacup.
'It's a rather nostalgic evening,' reflects Jones, 'but the audience will leave thinking seriously about the issues that Douglas raised: particularly the nuisance of everyday bureaucracy, albeit in fairly fantastical situations.'
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Global Hospital Cancer Immunotherapy Artificial Intelligence Market 2017-2023: Ability of AI Solutions To Discover Schemas in Large Databases
27 Oct, 2017, 13:30 BST
DUBLIN, October 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --
The "Artificial Intelligence for Hospital Cancer Immunotherapy: Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide 2017 - 2023" report from Wintergreen Research, Inc has been added to Research and Markets' offering.
Cancer immunotherapy hospital artificial intelligence market system shipments at $7.4 billion in 2017 are forecast to reach $49.4 billion dollars, worldwide by 2023
These artificial intelligence systems represent a very specialized type of care delivery. Steady growth is anticipated because the severely ill patients with advanced cancer disease can be treated successfully with immunotherapy.Automated cancer immunotherapies from IBM Watson are implemented with artificial intelligence that looks at patient samples to detect the genetic characteristics of the cancer and isolate the immune particularities of the patient. Systems are able to take a multi-disciplinary integrated approach to looking at imaging and scans. The analysis of patient records, looking for effectiveness of particular treatments is more work than a human can do, the quantity of data is too high, so the artificial intelligence is being used to do that.
Memorial Sloan Kettering physician-scientists are among leaders in the field developing groundbreaking immune therapies that are helping to treat several forms of advanced cancer that were previously untreatable. These scientists have played a lead role in developing and testing the immunotherapy drugs known as checkpoint inhibitors that release the brakes on the immune system.
Hospital care management can leverage artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence is useful for providing highly tailored insights about individual patients for the purpose of personalizing immunotherapy care delivery. Artificial intelligence is useful for helping providers effectively address healthcare delivery because it details genetic specificity regarding individual patients.
The intersection of healthcare and artificial intelligence represents a market opportunity. New strategies are being developed by companies to bring A.I. to healthcare. The business challenges around those efforts are being addressed collectively in partnerships and in forums to bring the technology into the market. Artificial intelligence has an impact on patients, doctors, hospitals, clinical facilities, and the healthcare industry overall.
The ability of an intelligent system to learn from data without upfront human intervention brings significant change to the healthcare delivery system. It relies on the use of unsupervised and semisupervised machine learning techniques. Segmentation, dimensionality reduction, anomaly detection and pattern recognition are replacing supervised manual techniques for diagnosis and care delivery.
Key Topics Covered:
1. Cancer Immunotherapy Artificial Intelligence Market Description and Market Dynamics:
1.1 Artificial Intelligence Very Big Breakthrough in Cancer Immunotherapy
1.2 Ability of AI Solutions To Discover Schemas in Large Databases
2. Cancer Immunotherapeutic Artificial Intelligence (AI) Market Driving Forces
2.1 Cancer Immunotherapeutic Artificial Intelligence (AI) Market Driving Forces
2.2 Artificial Intelligence Oncology Treatment Market Shares:
2.3 Cancer Immunotherapy Artificial Intelligence for Hospitals Market Forecasts:
2.4 Worldwide Checkpoint Inhibitor and Oncology Treatment Market Forecasts
2.5 Cancer Statistics
2.5.1 Cancer Among The Leading Causes Of Death Worldwide
2.6 Hospital Artificial Intelligence (AI) Challenges
2.7 Hospital Artificial Intelligence Software Prices:
2.8 Hospital Artificial Intelligence Regional Segments:
3. Cancer Immunotherapy Hospital Artificial Intelligence Products
3.1 Memorial Sloan Kettering
3.1.1 Memorial Sloan Kettering Parker Institute
3.1.2 CAR T Immunotherapy
3.1.2 T-Cell Therapies from Merck and Bristol-Myers Squibb
3.1.3 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Diagnostic Test, MSK-IMPACT
3.1.4 Memorial Sloan Kettering Intensified Tumor Testing
3.1.5 Memorial Sloan Kettering Effective Sequencing
3.1.6 Memorial Sloan Kettering Actionable the most important cancer geneTargets
3.2 MD Anderson Immune Therapy
3.2.1 MD Anderson Immune Therapy
3.2.2 MD Anderson Personalized Therapy TNBC Cancer Trials
3.3 Partners Dana Farber Immunotherapy
3.3.1 Advanced Melanoma Has Been The Test Case For The Study Of Immune Checkpoint-Inhibiting Therapy
3.4 Partners HealthCare, IBM, and GE Healthcare
3.5 IBM Watson
3.5.1 IBM Genomic And Immunotherapy Supercomputing for Patient Management
3.5.2 Mayo Clinic and IBM Watson
3.6 Google's AI Subsidiary DeepMind is Partnering With Another UK hospital
3.7 Prognos
4. Hospital Artificial Intelligence Research and Technology
4.1 IBM AI Research
4.1.1 Neural Representation of Sketch Drawings
4.1.2 IBM Watson Health And Broad Institute Launch Major Research Initiative To Study Why Cancers Become Drug Resistant
4.1.3 IBM and Quest Diagnostics
4.2 Research at Google
4.3 Google and Nvidia Artificial Intelligence
5. Hospital Artificial Intelligence Companies
5.1 Alphabet / Google
5.1.1 Google Artificial Intelligence Subsidiary DeepMind Healthcare Initiative
5.2 Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
5.3 Foundation Medicine, 88, ?, >120k, 88, ?, >30, 88, ?, >200
5.3.1 Foundation Medicine
5.4 General Electric (GE)
5.4.1 General Electric Revenue by Segment
5.4.2 GE Healthcare and Massachusetts General Artificial Intelligence
5.5 Gritstone Oncology
5.6.1 IBM Watson Health
5.6.2 IBM Active in BWH, MGH Partnership To Advance Artificial Intelligence In Health Care
5.6.3 IBM Watson Artificial Intelligence for Oncology
5.6.4 IBM Watson Genomics by Quest Diagnostics
5.6.5 IBM Watson Healthcare Revenue
5.6.6 IBM Watson Solutions Software Healthcare Revenue
5.7 Juno Therapeutics
5.7.1 Juno Therapeutics Power Of Individualized Cancer Treatment
5.7.2 Juno Therapeutics CAR and TCR Technologies
5.8 Myriad Genetics
5.9 Nvidia
5.9.2 Nvidia Revenue
5.7.3 Nvidia Customer HeartFlow Medical Technology
5.10 Pfizer
5.11 Prognos
5.11.1 Coding Healthcare Datasets Full Of Unstructured Text
5.12 Quest Diagnostics
5.12.1 IBM Personalized Healthcare: Watson Genomics from Quest Diagnostics
5.12.2 Quest Diagnostics Revenue
5.13 Safeguard Scientifics Announces Second Quarter 2017 Financial Results
5.13.1 Safeguard Scientifics Prognos DxCloud
6. Research Methodology
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CARLSBAD: Two arrested in stabbing, police say
Two people were arrested on suspicion of stabbing a man they knew early Tuesday morning in Carlsbad, police said.
Carlsbad police officers were called at 2:38 a.m. to a report of a stabbing victim being treated at Tri-City Medical Center, police said.
The victim told officers he had been injured near the intersection of Las Flores and Pio Pico drives in Carlsbad, police said.
Investigators interviewed the victim and identified suspects, who they tracked and arrested, police said.
Police arrested a suspect identified as Drew Davidson, 19, of Carlsbad, at 3:21 a.m. in the 6500 block of Paseo Frontera, said Jodee Sasway, a spokeswoman for Carlsbad Police Department.
About four hours later, police arrested a second suspect, identified as Dylan Maldonado, 20, of Carlsbad, in the 2300 block of Cipriano Lane, Sasway said.
Both suspects were jailed at the Vista Detention Center, Sasway said.
The suspects knew the victim, Sasway said. The reason for the stabbing was under investigation.
Police said the victim was treated and later released from the hospital.


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I know that it's been way too long since I've blogged, but between work, children, church & soccer I haven't had much time on my hands. I thought that I would just give a quick update on everyone, starting with hubs...
Hubs has started taking 2 classes online through our local community college (where he also works). When he came to me with this idea, I was a little hesitant. He decided to push through my hesitation and it was clearly God's will for him to go there. Hubs has a learning disability and since making the move, he has received LOTS of help with his studies, and he didn't even have to take the placement test. More importantly, he received enough financial aid to cover his tuition and books. He is doing great as well, having an "A" average in one of his classes.
Ms. Addison is doing so so great in kindergarten. First of all, she LOVES it, every aspect of it! She is even disapointed that she doesn't get to go to school on the weekends and she shouts out "That's my schoooollll" when we pass by. She even eats in the cafeteria a couple days of the week, which thrills my heart that she is trying new foods. The biggest accomplishment is that she has began to READ!! She came home with a bag of site words a couple of weeks ago, and she is doing so well with them. She is also playing soccer, her Dad is coaching her again. Our Saturdays are filled with going to the games and cheering her along from the sidelines.
Mr. Finn is also doing great in daycare. I really like his center and his teachers. I call and check on him several times a day and they always talk about what an easy baby he is ( I have to agree). He has started eating cereal each night and he doesn't like it very much, but I feel that he needs it because he has started getting up during the night to eat. He has also found his voice and loves to grab toys and chew on his toes -- which is the cutest thing ever!
I am also doing great, I can eat almost anything with my galbladder being gone, anything except fried foods. Work has been so so busy lately, but I still love my job. I am also still in love with my new home and I am looking forward to decorating it for fall and Christmas!!
Well, that's about it for us, hopefully I can blog more often!
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Hello! Here's what's happening on Wednesday.
1. One person is dead and four are injured in a shooting at YouTube's California headquarters. The shooter has been identified as 39-year-old Nasim Aghdam, who had previously criticised the video platform.
2. A YouTube employee had his Twitter account hacked to spread a hoax about the identity of the shooter. The company has been criticised in the past for promoting conspiracy videos that claim several mass shootings were a hoax.
3. US President Donald Trump rolled out a list of $US50 billion worth of Chinese products that will face new tariffs.Experts say Trump's decision will likely provoke a response from the Chinese and could push the two countries toward an all-out trade war.
4. British military scientists can't prove that the nerve agent used to poison ex-spy Sergei Skripal was made in Russia.Theresa May accused Russia of masterminding the assassination three weeks ago, and several countries have expelled their Russian diplomats in response.
5. North Korea appears to be preparing a satellite launch that could jeopardize US talks. President Trump has agreed to a meeting with North Korea, but his advisors may also be preparing for war.
6. President Trump is reportedly not considered a "criminal target" in the Russia investigation. Still, special counsel Robert Mueller remains focused on Trump, and has requested a sit-down interview.
7. US stocks rebounded as investors shook off a recent tech sell-off and trade war anxieties. The S&P 500 was up 1.15% following a strong production report form Tesla.
8. Facebook took down more than 200 accounts and pages run by a notorious Russian trolling group. Last year, Facebook admitted it had detected Russian activity on its platform that took place around the 2016 presidential election.
9. Saudi Arabia will fine couples $US130,000 for snooping through each others' texts. The anti-snooping laws are part of an increased focus on cyber crime and hacking under the Prince's Vision 2030 plan.
10. India's Prime Minister withdrew an order to crackdown on journalists accused of spreading fake news. The government previously said it would suspend journalists found guilty of producing fake news.
And finally …
A tragic day at YouTube: Photos show the chaotic scene as police responded to the shooting
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Ready meals supplier Bakkavor plans to name a former boss of toy shop Hamleys as its new chairman in preparation for a London listing that could value it at up to 1.5 billion pounds ($2 billion), a source close to the matter told Reuters.
The company, which counts Marks & Spencer and Sainsbury's as major customers for its sandwiches, salads, dips and ready meals, hired HSBC and Morgan Stanley earlier this year to lead its initial public offering (IPO). Barclays, Citigroup, Rabobank and Peel Hunt are also working on the deal.
The company's IPO announcement could come as soon as next week, the source said.
Lydur Gudmundsson, one of the two Icelandic brothers that founded the business 31 years ago, intends to step down as chairman ahead of the float and will be replaced by Simon Burke, according to the source.
The change of chairman could be disclosed at the same time as the listing plans, the source said, but also warned the timings of the announcements could change.
Gudmundsson holds a stake in Bakkavor with his brother Agust, who is chief executive of the company.
Gudmundsson will relinquish the chairmanship to ensure that Bakkavor, which is Britain's largest hummus maker, meets the U.K.'s corporate governance code that calls for an independent candidate to hold the role of chairman.
Burke is already familiar with Bakkavor, having been appointed to its board as a non-executive director in December.
The former accountant was previously the chairman and chief executive of Hamleys, the world's oldest toy shop which under his leadership was sold to Icelandic firm Baugur in 2003. Baugur later collapsed and Hamleys is currently owned by Chinese retailer C. Banner.
Bakkavor generated revenues of almost 1.8 billion pounds and pre-tax profits of 63.1 million pounds last year.
It started as a cod roe manufacturer and exporter before the Gudmundsson brothers expanded the business with acquisitions financed with debt, borrowings that meant the company became engulfed in Iceland's financial crisis.
Its founders, dubbed the Bakka brothers in Iceland, saw their stake in the company cut during Bakkavor's subsequent financial restructuring.
But the tycoons partnered with U.S. hedge fund Baupost last year in a deal that saw them retake control.
In 2014, Lydur Gudmundsson received a partially suspended prison sentence after he was found to have technically broken Icelandic company law during the 2008 crisis while he was chairman of Exista, an investment firm that held a stake in Kaupthing, the failed bank. He served his sentence by undertaking three weeks of community service. ($1 = 0.7540 pounds)
By Ben Martin
Source: Reuters
Cargill is investing $150 million in a new plant that produces advanced biofuels from waste and residues, in an effort to further promote circular economy.
The European Parliament has voted to reject the ban on plant-based products using names typically associated with meat products, but has voted in favour of a plant-based dairy ban.
Researchers have developed a portable device that detects how much capsaicin a pepper contains with the help of a smartphone.


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I've always loved New Year in the UK but after experiencing it in Thailand, it'll never be able to compare again.
Celebrated from 3-5 days in the middle of April, it is renowned for it's incredible festivities and if you are visiting Thailand I would very highly recommend trying to visit in April as it was honestly one of the craziest and most surreal experiences of my life. Only in Thailand could you find something this spectacularly hectic that's so much fun.
Although it's meant to be amazing all over the country, Chiang Mai is known for being one of the places where they really go all out so we opted to stay here over the festival.
We stayed right in the centre of the madness, near the river, so naturally we couldn't leave our hotel room without having buckets of dirty river water chucked over our heads.
This may not sound appealing but the atmosphere is absolutely electric and it's impossible not to get swept away in all the joy and frivolity of it.
There's the most epic street parties on every street, full of people drinking, dancing and shooting each other with water guns.
It's the most unique and exhilarating experience.
You know when you were young and the summer holidays felt never-ending and you'd have a huge water fight with all the kids on your street and you felt as if you could live in that moment of pure happiness forever… it's exactly that feeling. But amplified because it lasts 5 whole days!
For 5 days straight, we carried around water guns and buckets and felt like we were in a huge game with all the locals and all the tourists.
We also experienced an hour long journey in a pick up truck whilst locals lined the streets with hosepipes and ambushed the truck at every opportunity.
If you're wondering how the hell this all started, the Thai people believe that water purifies the spirit and cleanses you of bad luck and mistakes from the previous year, whilst also blessing you with prosperity and happiness for the coming year.
So every local that throws water over your head means it in the nicest way possible (although it doesn't always feel that way when you've just blowdried your hair!)
On actual New Years day itself we accidentally stumbled across the most insane parade, featuring a huge water blaster that everyone paraded through (assumedly to cleanse their souls).
One amazing group of lady boys twerked all the way through the water, whilst most people were drinking, dancing, and laughing their way through.
I'm not sure of the exact location and details of the parade as it was pure luck that we ended up there. I would strongly suggest that you ask your hotel when and where it is as you really don't want to miss this. Real once in a lifetime stuff.
It was honestly so beautiful to see and really embodied the positive spirit of the Thai people who are genuinely the most friendly, welcoming and content people ever.
When I looked through these pictures to start writing this blog post, I have to admit I got very emotional. The memory of how incredibly happy we were because of the simple pleasure of people coming together and laughing and playing in the water like children was magical. I need to go every year.
I would recommend this festival to absolutely anyone who enjoys life and likes to have fun.
I do have a few survival tips though…
- Wear clothes you don't mind ruining as we couldn't wash the smell of the dirty river water out of our clothes for absolutely ages!
- Keep your mouth and eyes tightly shut when people are throwing their water at you, soooo many people seem to get ill because obviously the water isn't safe for tourists to drink.
- Don't leave the house without a very waterproof case for your phone and money. They sell them super cheap in every shop leading up to the festival.
- Be prepared for the festivities to start the day before they're meant to in some places (like Chiang Mai). We saw too many unprepared people get their phones ruined!
- Don't waste time doing your hair or make-up, I can guarantee it'll be ruined within 5 seconds.
- Stay somewhere central and get as involved as possible!