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Biography of Arthur Sullivan
Arthur Sullivan – English composer.
Name: Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan
Date of Birth: May 13, 1842
Place of Birth: Lambeth, London, United Kingdom
Date of Death: November 22, 1900 (age 58)
Place of Death: London, United Kingdom
Occupation: Composer
Father: Thomas Sullivan
Mother: Mary Clementina Sullivan
Early Life
An English composer who, with W.S. Gilbert, established the distinctive English form of the operetta, Sir Arthur Sullivan was born on May 13, 1842, in Lambeth, London, the younger of the two children, both boys, of Thomas Sullivan and his wife, Mary Clementina née Coghlan. Sullivan is best known for 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado. His works include 24 operas, 11 major orchestral works, ten choral works and oratorios, two ballets, incidental music to several plays, and numerous church pieces, songs, and piano and chamber pieces. His hymns and songs include "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and "The Lost Chord".
Sullivan showed musical talent from his early childhood, writing his first composition at the age of eight. At twelve, he joined the Chapel Royal as a chorister and received the Mendelssohn scholarship at fourteen, entering the Royal Academy of Music in the same year. After completing his education at the Leipzig Conservatoire at the age of nineteen, he returned to London to begin his career as a church organist and music teacher. In the same year, his graduation piece, 'The Tempest', was performed to great acclaim, establishing his reputation as a rising composer. Thereafter, he continued to work independently, earning great fame for his works. At the age of twenty-nine, he first collaborated with W. S. Gilbert, eventually creating fourteen operas with him and establishing a distinctive form of the English operetta. This apart, he also wrote two ballets, a number of choral and orchestral works as well as incidental music to various plays.
Sullivan's infrequent serious pieces during the 1880s included two cantatas, The Martyr of Antioch (1880) and The Golden Legend (1886), his most popular choral work. He also wrote incidental music for West End productions of several Shakespeare plays and held conducting and academic appointments. Sullivan's only grand opera, Ivanhoe, though initially successful in 1891, has rarely been revived. In his last decade, Sullivan continued to compose comic operas with various librettists and wrote other major and minor works. He died at the age of 58, regarded as Britain's foremost composer. His comic opera style served as a model for generations of musical theatre composers that followed, and his music is still frequently performed, recorded and pastiched.
Childhood, Family and Educational Life
Sir Arthur Sullivan, in full Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan, was born on 13 May 1842 in Lambeth, London. His father, Thomas Sullivan, a clarinetist, later became the bandmaster at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. His mother was Mary Clementina née Coghlan. Born the younger of his parents' two children, he had an elder brother named Fred.
While recognizing the boy's obvious talent, his father knew the insecurity of a musical career and discouraged him from pursuing it. Sullivan studied at a private school in Bayswater. In 1854 he persuaded his parents and the headmaster to allow him to apply for membership in the choir of the Chapel Royal. Despite concerns that, at nearly 12 years of age, Sullivan was too old to give much service as a treble before his voice broke, he was accepted and soon became a soloist. By 1856, he was promoted to "first boy". Even at this age, his health was delicate, and he was easily fatigued.
At 14, Sullivan won the Mendelssohn Scholarship at the Royal Academy, and in 1858 he went to study in Leipzig, where his teachers included Ignaz Moscheles and Julius Rietz. He studied piano with William Sterndale Bennett (the future head of the academy) and Arthur O'Leary. During this first year at the academy, Sullivan continued to sing solos with the Chapel Royal, which provided a small amount of spending money.
In 1858, when his scholarship was furthered extended, Sullivan moved to Germany to be trained in the ideas and techniques of Felix Mendelssohn at the Leipzig Conservatoire. He studied there for three years, completing his education in 1861. For his graduation work, he wrote incidental music to 'The Tempest'.
Personal Life
Sir Arthur Sullivan never married, but he had serious love affairs with several women. The first was with Rachel Scott Russell (1845-1882), the daughter of the engineer John Scott Russell. Sullivan was a frequent visitor at the Scott Russell home in the mid-1860s, and by 1865 the affair was in full bloom. Rachel's parents did not approve of a possible union with a young composer of uncertain financial prospects, but the two continued to see each other covertly. At some point in 1868, Sullivan started a simultaneous (and secret) affair with Rachel's sister Louise (1841-1878). Both relationships ended by early 1869.
His liaison with an American socialite, Mary Frances Ronald, a woman three years his senior, was the most notable. A married woman with two children, she never obtained a divorce from her husband. Sullivan and Mary became romantically involved in the 1870s and maintained a discreet, but close relationship until his death. Around 1889 or 1890 the sexual relationship evidently ended he started to refer to her in his diary as "Auntie" but she remained a constant companion for the rest of his life.
In 1896 the 54-year-old Sullivan proposed marriage to the 22-year-old Violet Beddington (1874-1962), but she refused him.
Arthur Sullivan loved to spend time in France (both in Paris and on the Riviera), where his acquaintances included European royalty and where the casinos enabled him to indulge his passion for gambling. He enjoyed hosting private dinners and entertainments at his home, often featuring famous singers and well-known actors. Sullivan was devoted to his parents, particularly his mother. He corresponded regularly with her when away from London, until her death in 1882. He was also very fond of his brother Fred, whose acting career he assisted whenever possible, and of Fred's children. After Fred died at the age of 39, leaving his pregnant wife, Charlotte, with seven children under the age of 14, Sullivan visited the family often and became guardian to the children.
Career and Works
In 1861 Arthur Sullivan became organist of St. Michael's, London, and in the following year, his music to The Tempest achieved great success at the Crystal Palace. Then followed his Kenilworth cantata (1864); a ballet, L'Île enchantée, produced at Covent Garden (where Sullivan was the organist for a time); a symphony and a cello concerto; the In Memoriam and the Overtura di Ballo overtures; and numerous songs.
Although Sullivan was till then an unknown composer and barely twenty years old, Grove was so impressed by the work that he arranged to have it performed at the Crystal Palace. Immediately, Sullivan began revising the work, extending it to twelve movements. Chorley wrote the linking narration. 'The Tempest' was performed in full at a concert on 5 April 1862 at the Crystal Palace. It was such a huge success that it was repeated in the following week and overnight Sullivan's reputation as a promising composer was established.
Sullivan took an early opportunity to compose several pieces for royalty in connection with the wedding of the Prince of Wales in 1863. With The Masque at Kenilworth (Birmingham Festival, 1864), Sullivan began his association with works for voice and orchestra. While an organist at the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden, he composed his first ballet, L'Île Enchantée (1864). His Irish Symphony and Cello Concerto (both 1866) were his only works in their respective genres. In the same year, his Overture in C (In Memoriam), commemorating the recent death of his father, was a commission from the Norwich Festival. It achieved considerable popularity.
Sullivan's first comic opera was his setting of Sir Francis Cowley Burnand's Cox and Box (1867). An operetta, the Contrabandista, also on a libretto by Burnand, was produced in the same year. Thespis (1871), the first work in which Sullivan collaborated with Gilbert, met with little success when produced at the Gaiety Theatre. It was Richard D'Oyly Carte, then manager of the Royalty Theatre, who brought the two men together again in 1875; the result was Trial by Jury, which was originally put on as an afterpiece to an Offenbach operetta; it won instant popularity and ran for more than a year.
Sullivan's first attempt at opera, The Sapphire Necklace (1863-64) to a libretto by Henry F. Chorley, was not produced and is now lost, except for the overture and two songs that were separately published. His first surviving opera, Cox and Box (1866), was written for a private performance. It then received charity performances in London and Manchester and was later produced at the Gallery of Illustration, where it ran for an extraordinary 264 performances. W. S. Gilbert, writing in Fun magazine, pronounced the score superior to F. C. Burnand's libretto. Sullivan and Burnand were soon commissioned by Thomas German Reed for a two-act opera, The Contrabandista (1867; revised and expanded as The Chieftain in 1894), but it did not do as well. Among Sullivan's early part songs is "The Long Day Closes" (1868). Sullivan's last major work of the 1860s was a short oratorio, The Prodigal Son, first given in Worcester Cathedral as part of the 1869 Three Choirs Festival to much praise.
In 1866, Sullivan had four of his well-known works premiered. Among them was 'Symphony in E', a work he started in 1863 while touring Ireland. Also known as the 'Irish Symphony', it was premiered on March 10, 1866, and well received by the audience, is performed several times during his lifetime. Apart from the 'Irish Symphony', two others of his important works also premiered in 1866: 'Overture in C, In Memoriam' and 'Cello Concerto in D major'. Among them, the former was written in memory of his father, who had died in September. Both these works were very well-received by the audience and the critics.
Sullivan's most enduring orchestral work, the Overture di Ballo, was composed for the Birmingham Festival in 1870. The same year, Sullivan first met the poet and dramatist W. S. Gilbert. In 1871 Sullivan published his only song cycle, The Window, to words by Tennyson, and he wrote the first of a series of incidental music scores for productions of Shakespeare plays. He also composed a dramatic cantata, On Shore and Sea, for the opening of the London International Exhibition, and the hymn "Onward, Christian Soldiers", with words by Sabine Baring-Gould. The Salvation Army adopted the latter as its favored processional, and it became Sullivan's best-known hymn.
Towards the end of 1871, Arthur Sullivan was commissioned to work on 'Thespis, or The Gods Grown Old ', a burlesque-style comic opera, in collaboration with librettist William Schwenck Gilbert, by John Hollingshead. Although their first venture was quite successful, they separated soon after its completion. After 'Thespis', Sullivan continued to produce a number of great works including 'Festival Te Deum' (1872) and 'The Light of the World' (1873). His incidental music for 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (1874) was also a great hit.
In 1875, however, the theater manager Richard D'Oyly Carte reunited the to compose an afterpiece for production of Offenbach's La Périchole. The result was Trial By Jury, a brief satire of the judicial process, featuring Sullivan's brother, Fred, in the lead. The afterpiece proved so successful that this time the partnership continued. In 1877, their full-length opera The Sorcerer premiered under Carte's auspices at the Opera Comique, followed by H.M.S. Pinafore in 1878. 'Sorcerer' was followed by 'H.M.S. Pinafore' (1878) and 'The Pirates of Penzance' (1879, New York City; 1880, London), taking their fame to international level. Meanwhile, Sullivan continued to work independently, writing incidental music to plays, choral and orchestral works.
During the 1870s, Sullivan received several conducting appointments and a teaching position at the Royal Academy of Music. In 1876, he became the first principal at National Training School for Music but left it in 1881 to concentrate on composing, collaborating with Gilbert on internationally acclaimed operas like 'The Mikado' (1885).
During the run of Patience (1881), Carte transferred the production to his newly built Savoy Theatre, where the later operettas were presented. These were Iolanthe (1882), Princess Ida (1884), The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu (1885), Ruddigore (1887), The Yeomen of the Guard (1888), and The Gondoliers (1889). The collective works of Gilbert and Sullivan became known as the "Savoy Operas."
In 1890, the collaboration between Sullivan and Gilbert broke down over a minor business deal concerning Carte. Thereafter, Sullivan continued to work independently, writing 'Ivanhoe', his only grand opera, in 1891. It ran for 155 consecutive performances, earning good reviews for its music. In 1892, the collaboration between Sullivan, Gilbert and Carte has resumed once again, leading to the production of 'Utopia, Limited' (1893). 'The Grand Duke', premiered on 7 March 1896 at Savoy Theatre, was their next work, after which the partnership broke down irrevocably.
During the run of Patience (1881), Carte moved his company from the Opera Comique to the Savoy; from then on, Gilbert and Sullivan's operas became collectively known as Savoy Operas. In these operas, Sullivan's unerring sense of musical parody, with targets ranging from Handel to Verdi, perfectly matched Gilbert's witty social satire.
Sullivan's more classical compositions included The Prodigal Son (1869), The Light of the World (1873), The Martyr of Antioch (1880), The Golden Legend (1886), and the "romantic opera" Ivanhoe, written for the opening of the Royal English Opera House built by Carte in 1891. They were not maintained in the repertory, though they were acclaimed in their day. He also wrote many hymn tunes, including "Onward! Christian Soldiers," and his song "The Lost Chord" attained great popularity.
In 1876 Sullivan accepted the principalship of the National Training School for Music (later the Royal College of Music), which he held for five years; he was active as a conductor, particularly at the Leeds Festivals from 1880 to 1898.
Even before the final dissolution of his collaboration with Gilbert, Sullivan had started working independently, producing 'Chieftain' (1894) with Burnand, basing the work on their earlier production, 'The Contrabandista'. After the dissolution, he started working on a grand ballet, 'Victoria and Merrie England' (1897), commemorating Queen Victoria's sixty years of reign.
In 1899, Sullivan set to music 'Absent Minded Beggar' by Rudyard Kipling for raising money for the benefit of the soldiers of the Boer's War and their families. It was an instant hit and raised an unprecedented amount of £300,000 for the cause. Also in 1899, he collaborated with Basil Hood to write his last complete opera, 'Rose of Persia'. Thereafter, they started working on 'The Emerald Isle'; but Sullivan died before he could complete it. In the last months of his life, he composed another great hit, 'Te Deum Laudamus-A Thanksgiving for Victory'.
Sullivan's tuneful score was well received, and the opera proved to be his most successful full-length collaboration apart from those with Gilbert. Another opera with Hood, The Emerald Isle, quickly went into preparation, but Sullivan died before it was completed. The score was finished by Edward German and produced in 1901.
Awards and Honor
In 1878, Arthur Sullivan was awarded the Légion d'honneur by the French government. On 22 May 1883, he received a knighted from Queen Victoria for his "services … rendered to the promotion of the art of music" in Britain.
Sullivan also received Doctor in Music, honoris causa, from the University of Cambridge in 1876 and from the University of Oxford in 1879.
In 1897, Sullivan was made a Member of the Fourth Class of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO).
Death and Legacy
Sir Arthur Sullivan's health was never robust from his thirties his kidney disease often obliged him to conduct sitting down. He died of heart failure, following an attack of bronchitis, at his flat in London on 22 November 1900. His Te Deum Laudamus, written in expectation of victory in the Boer War, was performed posthumously. Although he wished to be buried with his parents in Brompton Cemetery, he was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral by order of the queen.
Among Sullivan's collaborations with Gilbert, 'The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu' is perhaps the most famous. Premiered on 14 March 1885 at the Savoy Theatre, this comic opera ran for 672 performances, and by the year end, it was being performed by at least 150 companies throughout Europe and America. Among his serious works, 'The Golden Legend' is considered the greatest and most successful. The cantata, based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem of the same name, was premiered in October 1886. Soon it began to be performed so frequently that he was compelled to declare a moratorium on its performance.
Sullivan's operas have often been adapted, first in the 19th century as dance pieces and in foreign adaptations of the operas themselves. Since then, his music has been made into ballets (Pineapple Poll (1951) and Pirates of Penzance – The Ballet! (1991)) and musicals (The Swing Mikado (1938), The Hot Mikado (1939) and Hot Mikado (1986), Hollywood Pinafore and Memphis Bound (both 1945), The Black Mikado (1975), etc.). His operas are frequently performed, and also parodied, pastiched, quoted and imitated in comedy routines, advertising, law, film, television, and other popular media. He has been portrayed on screen in The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953) and Topsy-Turvy (2000). He is celebrated not only for writing the Savoy operas and his other works but also for his influence on the development of modern American and British musical theatre.
His most popular hymn was 'Onward, Christian Soldiers'. The words were written by Sabine Baring-Gould in 1865 as a processional hymn, but it did not gain in popularity until Sullivan composed and set it to tune in 1871. Later, it was adopted by the Salvation Army as their favored processional tune.
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From Local Similarity to Global Coding: An Application to Image Classification
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author = {Shaban, Amirreza and Rabiee, Hamid R. and Farajtabar, Mehrdad and Ghazvininejad, Marjan},
title = {From Local Similarity to Global Coding: An Application to Image Classification},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
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Amos volunteered at the church next door to the restaurant, the Agnes Memorial Church. The pastor's wife, Billie Jean Simmons, testified in court on Tuesday describing how her former friend would run the food bank program, tutor young people, help run a neighborhood barbershop and would drive around her husband, who is in a wheelchair.
"James had a heart for the young people," she said in the courtroom of Alameda County Superior Court Judge Trina Thompson.
But when prosecutor Danielle Hilton showed Simmons video surveillance of a man getting out of her husband's red mobility van in the parking lot of the Jack in the Box right after shooting at the restaurant, Simmons became emotional on the stand. Hilton asked her to identify who that man was, and she quietly said it was Amos.
"It's just all overwhelming and tragic," she said.
In the video, Duckett's arm could be seen hanging on the ground outside the doorway of the restaurant, the rest of his motionless body inside. What appears to be blood stains are on the ground.
One of Duckett's friends who was with him in the restaurant saw an older African-American man shoot inside, with what appeared to be a revolver, he testified on the stand.
Duckett was inside the restaurant ordering food and had allegedly gotten a call from Amos to meet there. According to court documents, Amos allegedly called a friend and admitted to the shooting. He was not arrested until February 2018, when U.S. marshals brought him back from Detroit, Michigan.
His defense attorney in brief opening statements on Tuesday said that there was a "rush to judgement" with the investigation, and not enough evidence to return a guilty verdict for his client.
Duckett was part of a motorcycle club, the Zodiacs, which he had joined just weeks before his death, said the club's leader and longtime friend known as "Mickey," who testified on Tuesday. A female friend who was with Duckett that day also testified that she heard Duckett get two phone calls before the shooting. One from the club's leader "Mickey" and another from an unknown person.
Some of Duckett's family members, wearing all black mourning-like clothing, sat in the front of the courtroom to observe the trial this week.
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IRVING, Texas – James Hahn leads Billy Horschel by one stroke at the AT&T Byron Nelson. Here's what You Oughta Know heading into the final round at the TPC Four Seasons.
• Hahn is seeking his third PGA Tour title and first since the 2016 Wells Fargo Championship. He can also become the second straight Korean-born player to win on Tour following Si Woo Kim's victory last week at TPC Sawgrass.
• The 54-hole leader/co-leader has won only four times in the last nine years at the Nelson – Adam Scott (2008), Jason Dufner (2012), Brendon Todd (2014) and Steven Bowditch (2015).
• The largest come-from-behind victory after 54 holes at the Nelson is four strokes, last accomplished by Keegan Bradley in 2011.
• Horschel is coming off four straight missed cuts, but thanks to three closing birdies Saturday he is in the final group and eyeing his first victory since the 2014 Tour Championship.
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• Jason Day hasn't won since the 2016 Players, but the 2010 Nelson champion is only two strokes back after shooting the low round of the day, a 7-under 63
• Jason Kokrak is also two back, and he can still win his first PGA Tour title on Sunday despite blowing a five-stroke lead in Round 3 with a triple bogey at the par-3 5th.
• Defending champion Sergio Garcia can capture his third Nelson win with another low round on Sunday. He closed with a 29 on Saturday and sits four strokes off the lead. If Garcia wins, he will become the first repeat winner at the Nelson since Tom Watson won three in a row from 1978-1980.


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Inspired by the Idia'Dega 7 Sunsets collection, the colors of the various sunsets in Pittsburgh, Oneida Indian Nation and Olorgesailie, Kenya - the locations of the women in their eco-design collaboration.
Holly Gibson of the Oneida Indian Nation designed and hand-made these earrings at the Oneida Indian Nation of New York. The Oneida's connection to Pittsburgh is that it is part of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Six Nations: Seneca (originally in Pittsburgh aka Diondega) is one of the Nations.
Material: glass beads & sterling silver posts
Length: 4"
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Created by Tereneh Idia of Idia'Dega in the Northside.
Tereneh collaborates with Oneida and Maasai women on her hand-crafted jewelry.


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I just don't have the time to maintain this blog to the level I used to which is evident in the fact that I haven't finished my story from new year!
So, in an attempt to continue with it I am going to try and post summaries of things I get up to. If you want more information you can always ask for it in the comments.
So that's the plan, we'll see how it goes!


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POS System : For each and every retail operation, keeping proper and accurate track of inventory is considered to be vital and also challenging. Irrespective of the type and size of the retail business, monetary value of all items present in the inventory is to be taken into account. To ensure accurate financial statements as well as to make informed business decisions, it is vital, as the same might impact success of the business.
For greater accuracy of inventory and to save precious time, there is required POS system which will produce automatically the financial reports required by the tax accounts, auditors and financial department every month. It should track information automatically required for inventory valuation and state the items remaining and what is used. Cost of inventory item is to be captured and value tracked. Meaningful reporting is to include stock status report, by department, item and total inventory on order and on hand, subtotals by department and with estimated cost.
Although gift shop inventory will be different from that of the grocery store, but the inventory tracking process is quite the same. Inventory entry of each item is to be made on non P.O. & P.O. and indicate pack quantities and size. Number of items to be ordered and received is to be verified and cost adjustments to be made for cost changes. It will be necessary to determine if price increase is to be passed onto customers or absorbed. Inventory items are to be placed into categories or departments, based upon how the items are to be organized that is being tracked, ordered and sold.
POS software is used by many retailers to save time and produce order recommendations through setting of reorder point that is item based. Therefore with proper and up to date inventory file maintenance, it becomes possible to evaluate trends in accounts receivable and inventory value as well as to ensure growth of both in proportion to sales and revenue.


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Philadelphia artists honor bicycling
Written by Alexa Bricker, Posted in Art, People, Tyler School of Art
In honor of the growing community of bicyclists in Philadelphia, the city's Arts, Culture and Creative Economy Department will be holding an art reception on Wednesday, April 9.
The reception is being held to highlight the work of winners from last summers competition, which was held by the department. The competition challenged artists all over the world to create intricate and creative bike racks.
After the winners were selected, artists from the greater Philadelphia area were also encouraged to submit their own pieces to help represent the bike culture of the city and sustainability.
Two of the artists chosen from Philadelphia include Donnell Powell and Eric Mozes, 2012 graduates of Temple University, whose mixed media sculpture entitled, "Boundaries Therefore We Brake", will be on display on the second floor of City Hall for the next four months.
The reception on April 9 will take place from 5 – 7 p.m. on the first and second floors, as part of the Art Gallery at City Hall.
Doors will officially open to the public starting at 6 p.m. but guests who arrive early may sign in at the northeast corner of the building, near the office of the Mayor.


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Muzaffarnagar (UP): Tension prevailed here when a group of Dalits was prevented by the district authorities from installing a statue in memory of a man killed during an agitation in 2018, police said Tuesday.
The incident was reported from Gadla village on Monday, Circle Officer Ram Mohan Sharma said.
According to police, the Dalits wanted to install the statue of Amresh at Sant Ravidas temple here. Ambresh was killed during Dalit agitation here last year. The group, however, was prevented from going ahead with their plans as model code of conduct is in place due to the upcoming general elections, Sharma said. Meanwhile, security has been tightened in the area, he said.


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Back row, left to right: Rachelle Houde-Simard, Frédéric Tremblay, Dominique Beaulieu and Josée Canuel. Front row, left to right: Manuel Ferrarini, François Canuel and Audrey Lefebvre.
Tam-Tam\TBWA has named a new leadership team as Martin Sansregret, the agency's long-time president, prepares for retirement.
Sansregret has spent more than 12 years at the helm at TBWA's Montreal operation, joining after leadership roles at agencies including Bos, Palm and Cossette. He will continue to advise the leadership team on a part-time basis until the end of the year as he transitions out of the agency, when he will begin focusing on speaking, conferences and mentorship work.
Taking over as president and CEO of the agency is François Canuel, who has been with the agency for nine years and was named VP and general manager in 2014, working closely with Sansregret on leading the office in addition to duties as client lead.
There have been a number of other changes within the agency's leadership. Audrey Lefebvre, who joined as a group account director in 2018, has been promoted to VP, director of operations and client lead, taking over several of Canuel's previous responsibilities. Manuel Ferrarini, VP and creative director, will now also take on leadership of the agency's studio division.
They will be joined on the new leadership team at Tam-Tam\TBWA by media group director Dominique Beaulieu, group account director Josée Canuel, strategic planning director Rachelle Houde-Simard and digital experience director Frédéric Tremblay.


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Cynergy Data Files Chapter 11…Ouch!!
I was surprised to see this one coming. Probably because they appeared more profitable than they actually were.
In an affidavit, Moore, a senior managing director of CM&D Management Services LLC, said he was hired after Cynergy discovered accounting errors in March 2009. He said these errors misstated revenue and expenses for 2007 and 2008, leading to a substantial drop in earnings following a restatement.
Makes me wonder if it was a real mistake.
Anyway, looks like the private investment firm ComVest will be taking over from here. ComVest owns controlling interests in a few other Bankcard companies like; Pipeline Data, CardAccept and SecurePay to name a few. They're obviously not newbies in this arena.
For those of you that are merchant's of Cynergy, don't sweat it, they'll be conducting business as usual. And once the deal goes through, which it probably will, ComVest will continue like nothing happened.
However, I would look into this whole "accounting mistake" if I was you. If they intentionally fixed the books to show higher gains, then we're dealing with a big problem here.


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Interview with a Fangirl: Michelle
I am continuing with my series of interviews with Fangirls that I have met through social media!
Today, it is a great pleasure to interview fellow Fangirl, Michelle, aka Missy K'ya!
I became aware of Michelle via the Skywalking Through Neverland Podcast and through interactions with her via Facebook.
Welcome Michelle to The Adventures of The Everyday Fangirl. Thank you for taking the time to answer these questions about being a Fangirl.
When do you realize you were a Fangirl?
I suppose I have been a Fangirl since I was 9 years old. I know that, at that age, I didn't realize that I was a Fangirl (or that there was such a thing). All I knew was that I was completely obsessed with Star Wars. I did realize that I was the only girl in my school that was passionate about it, but I simply didn't care what anyone else thought. By the time I was about 12 or 13 I realized that "fandom" was a thing, and that I was certainly a part of it.
How has social media helped or hindered you?
Social media was non-existent during my childhood, teens, and early adulthood. We met other fans at comic book stores, lining up for new Star Wars film releases (yes, even back then), or just through mutual friends. Since the rise of social media it has become so much easier to meet other fans, which is great ! I find that when there is some new, exciting Star Wars news that the people around me do not really care about, I can just turn to my social media friends and they are always there to share in my excitement.
When did you first see Star Wars or other favorite fandom, such as Star Trek, Lord of The Ring, etc. and did you love it right away or did this grow on you over time?
I saw A New Hope when it was first released in the theater. I had just turned 6 years old and it was love at first sight. I grew up in San Francisco and saw the movie at the Coronet Theater, which I was able to do for every single Star Wars film until The Force Awakens. Unfortunately, the theater closed before then and I was devastated. Now I have to see Star Wars films in other places, but the love remains. I believe my love for all things Star Wars continues to grow, and probably always will.
What have you learned from the Star Wars fan community or other fan communities that has had a positive impact on your life?
I have learned that there are so many people out there that feel the same way I do, and that these people come from so many different places, ethnicities, religions, and political points of view. Regardless of how different fans may be, we all share something. Through the connections we make in our fandom communities I have seen that we can respect each other's differences and not judge each other based on those differences or points of view. I find fellow fans to be far more accepting than other people in general. It seems that knowing what we share helps us to respect our differences.
What else do you Fangirl about?
Disney, Harry Potter, Twilight, Star Trek, LOTR, and Stranger Things.
Anything else you want to say to others about being a Fangirl?
I just want to express how happy I am that it has become much more acceptable for girls to be a part of the fandom communities. This generation is able to enjoy being fans regardless of their gender.
Thank so much Michelle for stopping by and letting us get to know you and your fandom better.
Michelle is a Northern California Fangirl mother and grandmother raising a 6 year old Fangirl with autism. You can connect with Missy K'ya via her Facebook or Instagram as a_mommy_and_a_mimi.


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WEST Cork businesses who employ up to 10 people are invited to apply for funds to help them add payment or booking systems to their websites for online trading and help them boost business during Covid-19.
Enterprises which previously benefitted from the trading online voucher scheme can now apply for a second voucher of up to €2,500, with co-funding of 10%. The voucher can be used to help, along with subscriptions to low-cost online retailing platform solutions.
A substantial reduction in interest rates on Microfinance Ireland loans has also been announced, by the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Heather Humphreys TD bringing the rate down to 4.5%, where applications are made through Local Enterprise Office Cork North & West.
Covid-19 business loans of up to €50,000 are available from Microfinance Ireland with no repayments and no interest charged in the first six months, for eligible businesses that employ less than 10 people.
Kevin Curran, head of enterprise, with Cork County Council's Local Enterprise Office Cork North & West said: 'For many local businesses, the options for trading are very limited as a result of Covid-19. However, there are a lot of opportunities in online selling and by accessing this trading online voucher scheme, small businesses can develop a sustainable strategy for
increasing sales.'
Mr Curran added: 'If your business needs access to finance, applying for microfinance loans through Local Enterprise Office Cork North & West will secure the lowest available rate and you will get valuable assistance in the application process and free one-to-one mentoring along the way.'
Meanwhile, the Business Continuity Voucher, worth up to €2,500 in third party consultancy support, is another new measure available for businesses through Local Enterprise Offices
It is designed for businesses across every sector that employ up to 50 people and can be used by companies and sole traders to develop short-term and long-term strategies.
The goal is to help companies make informed decisions about what immediate measures and remedial actions should be taken, to protect staff and sales.
More details about small business supports available through Local Enterprise Office Cork North and West can be found on our website www.localenterprise.ie/corknorthadnwest or contact us by email: [email protected]


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NATO member states have started supplying weapons to Ukraine, the country's Defense Minister said on TV. His comments came a few days after a similar statement by a Ukrainian presidential aide sparked a diplomatic scandal and a rash of denials.
In an interview with Channel 5, Ukrainian Defense Minister Valery Geletey said that he had held verbal consultations with the defense ministers of the "leading countries of the world, those that can help us, and they heard us. We have the supply of arms under way."
"This process has begun, and I feel that this is exactly the way we need to go," the minister said.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, who attended the Sept. 4-5 NATO summit in Wales, announced that he had negotiated direct modern weapons supplies with a number of NATO member states.
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Marriott International, Inc. is a global leading travel company based in Bethesda, Md., USA, with more than 6,000 properties in over 122 countries.
Industry : Other Industry
Department : Food and Beverage Service
Location : Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Level : Staff Line level
Posted : 24 Nov 2022
Job Role : Asst. Restaurant Manager
Recruiter : Marriott International
Job Ref : HOZ4018
Employment Type: Permanent
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Salary Range (monthly): USD 1 to 2,000
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Job Number 22204066
Job Category Food and Beverage & Culinary
Location Hong Kong Ocean Park Marriott Hotel, 180 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong VIEW ON MAP
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Serve food courses and alcoholic beverages to guests. Answer questions on menu selections. Communicate with the kitchen regarding menu questions, the length of wait, recook orders, and product availability. Follow cycle time guidelines for all meals. Maintain cleanliness of work areas throughout the day. Communicate additional meal requirements, allergies, dietary needs, and special requests to the kitchen. Inspect the cleanliness and presentation all china, glass, and silver prior to use. Monitor and maintain the cleanliness of assigned tables including ensuring courses are cleared and tables are properly crumbed. Communicate with guests and other employees and ensure staff is working together as a team to ensure optimum service.
Assist management in hiring, training, scheduling, evaluating, counseling, disciplining, and motivating and coaching employees; and serve as a role model. Follow all company and safety and security policies and procedures; report accidents, injuries, and unsafe work conditions to manager; and complete safety training and certifications. Ensure uniform and personal appearance are clean and professional, maintain confidentiality of proprietary information, and protect company assets. Welcome and acknowledge all guests according to company standards, anticipate and address guests' service needs, assist individuals with disabilities, and thank guests with genuine appreciation. Speak with others using clear and professional language. Support team to reach common goals. Ensure adherence to quality expectations and standards. Read and visually verify information in a variety of formats (e.g., small print). Stand, sit, or walk for an extended period of time or for an entire work shift. Move, lift, carry, push, pull, and place objects weighing less than or equal to 25 pounds without assistance and objects weighing in excess of 50 pounds with assistance. Grasp, turn, and manipulate objects of varying size and weight, requiring fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination. Move over sloping, uneven, or slippery surfaces as well as up and down stairs and/or service ramps. Reach overhead and below the knees, including bending, twisting, pulling, and stooping. Perform other reasonable job duties as requested by Supervisors.
Marriott International is an equal opportunity employer. We believe in hiring a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive, people-first culture. We are committed to non-discrimination on any protected basis, such as disability and veteran status, or any other basis covered under applicable law.
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Way before the people of the United States nominated its first woman to run as a major party's presidential candidate, CJE SeniorLife elected its first female Board Chair, Barbara A. Gilbert. Ms. Gilbert held this position from 1991-1993, almost the halfway mark in CJE's 45-year history.
Ms. Gilbert's impact on CJE's trajectory has been notable, and closely entwined, personally and professionally. In the early 1980s, she was immersed in a career as the Director of Beneficiary Education for Chicago's Medicare office, helping people file for their benefits. In this role, she was familiar with CJE's original walk-in center on Morse Avenue, where staff also provided free benefits counseling. It was bashert. As she gradually stepped back from her professional career to raise her growing family with her husband Howard, volunteering for CJE was a perfect fit: "I just knew I had to give back to the community and my heart naturally went out to the elderly." By 1983, she was asked to join CJE's Board of Directors and has held numerous leadership positions, mentoring dozens of new Board members and providing insightful counsel to staff.
To this day, Ms. Gilbert's voice softens when she mentions the late Joseph Gidwitz, CJE's founding Board Chair, who she acknowledges as her mentor. "He taught me a lot about strategic planning… how to be business-oriented… yet he was driven by incredible compassion for the elderly." She also recalls that in 1986, she and Mark Weiner, a fellow Board vice chair, were in charge of a facilitating a two-day Board Retreat in Woodstock. "Mark was considered a 'young leader' who was highly regarded for his dedication to our mission and his business knowledge." Mr. Weiner's early tenure on the Board became a predictor of his success as CJE's President and CEO since 2004. And when asked about Ms. Gilbert, he echoes the words of everyone who has had the honor of working with her: "Barbara has always offered great counsel and support… her commitment as a Board member is unmatched."
Regarding her legacy, Ms. Gilbert is especially proud of her work to develop the Weinberg Community for Senior Living in Deerfield. She stood beside Joe Gidwitz, shovel to shovel, at the groundbreaking in 1995. Her longtime vision, which was fully supported by the Jewish Federation and CJE's Board, was to ensure that older adults had options for housing, especially those who needed additional help to live with dignity and respect. Twenty years ago, Weinberg Community was acclaimed as the first licensed assisted living facility in Illinois.
"I just knew I had to give back to the community and my heart naturally went out to the elderly."
Since Ms. Gilbert is so closely identified with CJE, community members often call her first to get advice on how CJE can help their older loved ones. She is proud to recommend CJE's myriad of services… from short-term rehab at Lieberman to counseling to Adult Day Services. But she is also realistic. To provide a continuum of care for a growing number of seniors, CJE needs more resources. She would like to see young people get involved in our organization's work and is especially inspired by the growth of our Associate Board.
Since Ms. Gilbert's tenure as Board chair, two more women have been elected to this highest office: Mally Rutkoff and Judy Smith, CJE's current chair. Both have incredible respect for her leadership and devotion to the Jewish and larger community. Characteristically modest, Barbara feels that her biggest contribution was to provide them guidance on how to run a good, tight meeting with action items and deliverables. "Get people in… get 'em out. Everyone has important work to do."
In 1993, the theme of CJE's Annual Report was "A Salute to Leadership." The annual message, co-authored by Barbara Gilbert, Board Chair, includes the following paraphrased passage: "The leadership that molded and shaped CJE springs from the centuries-old tradition of concern that is part and parcel of Jewish communal life. The tradition binds the generations together. Needs move us to action and mobilizes support for addressing them. Problems are seen as challenges. Leadership responds by taking on the often arduous task of guiding others through complicated decisions and obtaining support."
During four decades of service to CJE, Barbara Gilbert has lived by these words and we are blessed by her actions. Her impeccable leadership and commitment to serving the elderly, infused with wisdom and grace, have had an immeasurable influence on CJE's enduring history.


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Short-seller Steve Eisman, best known as the star in Michael Lewis' The Big Short for his successful early bet against the subprime mortgage industry, has publicly blasted the for-profit education industry over the past year. And he hasn't been shy about his short positions on the stocks of for-profit colleges either. But the industry is fighting back hard.
"Eisman is a self-serving nutcase who got lucky," said Harris Miller, president and chief executive of the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities, which represents over 1,630 for-profit schools. "He's in the business of ruining the reputation of companies so he can make money when their stock prices drop."
Eisman's most controversial appearance was at a Senate committee hearing last June, when he warned that students from for-profit schools would default on $275 billion of loans in the next decade without new regulations from the Department of Education.
During the two-day hearing, stocks of large for-profit education companies including University of Phoenix operator Apollo Group, ITT Educational Services, and Corinthian Colleges fell between 2% and 6%, demonstrating Eisman's powerful influence.
APSCU has spent over $1 million in lobbying efforts over the past year in an effort to block rules being proposed by the Department of Education, which Miller said would result in undue consequences for some for-profit college programs and their students.
The most contentious rule would block federal aid for students who are enrolled in the most expensive programs. Proponents of for-profit schools agree that saddling students with debt is problematic, but they argue that the Department of Education's proposals aren't the answer.
"The proposed rules will not eliminate bad programs, but instead shut down programs like nursing and culinary arts," Miller said. "Since those programs are more expensive, students need to borrow money to enroll in them, but they also have some of the highest graduation and job placement rates."
Government watchdog groups are also raising eyebrows at Eisman's role in the regulatory debate, considering his hedge fund's investment stake.
Last month, left-leaning Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and right-wing National Legal and Policy Center, called upon the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate whether Eisman, a principal at FrontPoint Partners, has been "manipulating the market price" of for-profit education stocks.
The groups' request was based on email threads that suggest close ties between Eisman and top Department of Education officials and efforts by Eisman to influence the outcome of the agency's regulation for the for-profit education industry. The SEC declined to comment.
CREW said it is expecting to receive another 10,000 new emails at the end of the week through a Freedom of Information Act request.
"This is very much a developing story," Anne Weismann, chief counsel at CREW. "The most troubling aspect is the role of hedge funds in this major regulatory effort. We're trying to get our arms around that."
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18 September 2019 – The Because the Ocean initiative will shortly publish a report in response to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) landmark report on the Ocean and the Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC) to be released in Monaco on 25 September.
The new report, "Action to Address the Ocean-Climate Nexus: Options for Ocean-Related Measures that can contribute to Nationally Determined Contributions, National Adaptation Plans, Adaptation Communications and national policy frameworks" will provide a suite of options for positive action which governments can take to increase the resilience of the ocean.
Stemming from a series of workshops organized by the Because the Ocean initiative – in Santiago Chile (October 2018), Madrid Spain (April 2019), and Suva Fiji (May 2019), and in the margins of UNFCCC COP23 (Bonn, 2017) and COP24 (Katovice, 2018) – the measures described in the report are offered for possible inclusion in Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and other instruments under the Paris Agreement.
In accordance with the Paris Agreement, in 2020 Parties will submit updated and more ambitious NDCs with the aim of keeping global warming to 1.5ºC if at all possible, with an upper limit of 2ºC.
The report will be available online on the website of the Because the Ocean initiative at this URL: www.BecauseTheOcean.org, shortly after the SROCC is adopted and presented publically and following on from next week's UN Secretary General's Climate Summit in New York.
The report will contain a summary of some of the main findings of the SROCC, followed by pragmatic actions aimed at both mitigation and adaptation. These include enhancement of Blue Carbon in coastal areas, sustainable, ocean-based renewable "Blue" energy; marine and coastal adaptation measures, and hybrid action (contributing to both mitigation and adaptation) in the fisheries/aquaculture and shipping sectors.
Representatives from some 40 governments participated in the Because the Ocean workshops, together with nearly 60 experts and policy practitioners from international organizations, academia and NGOs. Many of them contributed to the review of the up-coming report prepared by the Secretariat of the Because the Ocean initiative, with support from the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation.
"After several years of discussion within the UNFCCC on how to incorporate the ocean in the work of the UNFCCC, we are glad to see the debate moving to what concrete actions and measures can benefit both the global climate and the global ocean," said Raphaël Cuvelier, Projects Coordinator of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation.
The next Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC (COP25) will take place in Santiago, Chile. Emphasizing the importance Chile pays to the ocean-climate nexus, COP25 President Carolina Schmidt, Environment Minister of Chile announced at the Because the Ocean workshop held in Madrid in April 2019 that she wants a "Blue COP," meaning to advance progress in protecting the ocean against adverse climate change impacts, and taking into account the role of the ocean in climate change mitigation.


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NICK JIMENEZ: Necessity of Prop. 4 questionable, but if it fires up voters, bring it on
Plenty of political commentators have said that Proposition 4 on the Nov. 5 ballot is nothing but a scare tactic. And it is, which why I support its appearance on the ballot.
Proposition 4 — there are 10 propositions on the ballot — supposedly would stop any effort to impose an individual income tax on tax-averse Texans, which we all are.
The proposition seems to imply that there are plans to sneak a personal income tax on us. Dadgummit, our tax-averse Texans supposedly murmur to themselves, I've to to go to the polls and stop this foolishness.
And there you have why I support putting that proposition on the ballot. Scaring the pants off voters, so to speak, might be one of the few ways to get unmotivated voters to be motivated to cast a ballot in a Texas constitutional revision election.
You shouldn't take the bait offered by Proposition 4. There are no plans afoot to impose a state personal income tax. The proposition is unnecessary and is nothing more than pandering to susceptible voters. Just vote "no" on this flim-flam. But if a scare tactic is what it takes to lure voters to the polls, then I'm for it.
Heck, I'd be for door prizes at the polls if I thought that would work to increase voter turnout and was constitutional.
Constitutional revision elections, which typically follow sessions of the Texas Legislature, have the lowest turnout of any of our statewide elections. Take the 2017 constitutional election. Barely more than 800,000 voters went to the polls. Compare that to the 2018 gubernatorial election in which better than 8 million voters cast a ballot.
Why do we even have state constitutional revision elections? Partly it is due to the creaky and overwritten Texas Constitution. The Founding Fathers of Texas didn't write a broad list of principles like the writers of the U.S. Constitution which has had to be amended only 27 times since its adoption in 1787.
The Texas Constitution, on the other hand, is very specific because the writers basically distrusted government so wanted to put the tightest reins on it. So as Texas progressed from horse and buggy days to streaming video, online banking, and all those other necessities of modern Texas, we've had to amend the Constitution over and over.
As of 2017, the Texas Constitution has had to be amended 498 times since its adoption in 1876, according to the Legislative Reference Library of Texas. It would have been easier to write the original with a pencil with a big eraser.
Then there's plain old political grandstanding, which I imagine is where Proposition 4 comes in. The Texas Constitution already includes a provision against an individual income tax. It would take a statewide vote to remove that prohibition and it would take a majority in the Texas House and Senate to send the question to the voters. Proposition 1 would require a two-thirds vote by the Texas Legislature. That's it. That's the only change.
Supposedly raising the bar to a two-thirds vote from a majority vote is the difference between a shot to the head and a wooden stake in the heart of the individual income tax monster.
Oh, yes, it allows every legislator who voted to put this scarecrow on the ballot to bellow just how much they oppose the individual income tax. And that may be the real purpose of putting Proposition 4 on the ballot. See, I really, really oppose an individual income tax.
More:Why should you vote? Here are the reasons the Nov. 5 election is important to Texans
We get it. Nobody is for an individual income tax. We'd sooner write "I love California" on the blackboard 500 times than to support an individual income tax. But 10 years from now, 20 years from now, somewhere down the line, would another generation of Texans be faced with circumstances in which they would want to consider passage of an individual income tax?
Passage would still require a statewide vote. If future voters see the need — not you and me, OK? — why hamper them with a two-thirds vote in the Texas Legislature? After all, even the U.S. Constitution has had to reverse itself on Prohibition.
But this is just me. Maybe you think different. There are nine other propositions that require your attention. One would make more money available for public education (Prop. 7), another would clarify that the tax on sporting goods should go to improve state parks (Prop. 5) and one would allow for the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, the second largest public funder of cancer research in the nation, to issue larger bonds (Prop. 6).
Early voting ends Friday, Nov. 1. Election Day is Nov. 5.
Nick Jimenez has worked as a reporter, city editor and editorial page editor for more than 50 years in Corpus Christi. He is currently the editorial page editor emeritus for the Caller-Times. His commentary column appears on Sundays.
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The Alliance for Cellular Signalling General Goals and Statement of Purpose
"The current and pending availability of complete genomic sequences inspires confidence that complex biological phenomena and systems can be understood completely. These feelings are heightened by rapidly expanding capabilities to manipulate gene content and expression in mammalian cells and organisms, detect protein-protein interactions, and quantify the activities of macromolecules in vivo. Such understanding implies the capacity to predict quantitatively the altered behavior of these systems that results from their genetic or environmental (including pharmacological) perturbation. We can envision, rather than simply imagine, the construction of a virtual cell."
The overall goal of the Alliance for Cellular Signaling is to understand as completely as possible the relationships between sets of inputs and outputs in signaling cells that vary both temporally and spatially. The same goal, stated from a slightly different perspective, is to understand fully how cells interpret signals in a context-dependent manner. This will involve identification of all the proteins that comprise the various signaling systems, the assessment of time-dependent information flow through the systems in both normal and pathological states, and finally the reduction of the mass of detailed data into a set of interacting theoretical models that describe cellular signaling."
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"For a brief period, supplying the data was enough. More genes meant more potential drug targets. But now the victims of the data flood are crying for help. Companies like Entelos, Inc. (Menlo Park, California) are coming to the rescue by building models that integrate all those data into a single, homeostatic, interconnected whole. The models allow researchers to run virtual drug trials to determine the best drug targets, treatment regimens, and patient populations."
Modelers feel that their time has come. "Leaders in the genomics field are all coming to this realization that model building is becoming the rate-limiting step," says Palsson. "There's a major shift taking place in the biological sciences." Math is back, he says, and "biology is going to become quantitative."Biospace Virtual Drug Development: Start-ups Put Biology in Motionredux [08.04.00]
"One way of animating our growing store of static information is through computer simulation. It is an area that is beginning to emerge slowly in the life sciences, with only a handful of academic and commercial players active in the area. But for a fledging discipline, there is a great variety in the scope of work being undertaken. While academic labs try to create accurate simulations of red blood cells and simple bacteria, the private companies are taking on bolder projects--simulating human organs and even human diseases in their entirety."
Science Revealing Uncertainties in Computer Models
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"Computer simulations give the impression of precision, but they are founded on a raft of assumptions, simplifications, and outright errors. New tools are needed, scientists say, to quantify the uncertainties inherent in calculations and to evaluate the validity of the models. But making uncertainties evident is a tough challenge, as evidenced by several recent workshops."
Software Carpentry Internet Groupware for Scientific Collaboration
"The Web was invented so that scientists could use computer networks to collaborate -- that is, exchange documents, discuss them, coordinate work, create and publish collective knowledge. It was, in other words, supposed to be a groupware application.
Despite the popularity of the Web -- or, perhaps, because of that popularity -- it has yet to fulfill that original mission. Today's Web is more like a shotgun marriage of electronic publishing and broadcast television than it is like an engineered solution for group collaboration. True, the Internet empowers today's working scientist in ways only dreamed of even a decade ago. Yet our use of it often remains rooted in pre-Web idioms and habits -- partly because we don't fully exploit today's Internet communication tools, but mainly because we're still missing key tools and infrastructure."
"The goal of Internet groupware should be to reclaim the original vision of the Web as a medium of collaboration. It's no accident that vision arose in a scientific milieu since the enterprise of science is so deeply rooted in collaboration.
This report ends with two final messages. First, we're closer to the two-way Web than we realize. Services such as TimeDance, QuickTopic, Manila, and Meerkat are already making it easier than ever to create and use shared information spaces. They aren't final solutions, but we should use them for all they're worth, and watch for new kinds of collaborative services that are emerging every day. Only by using these services in their current form will we discover, collectively, what they need to evolve into.
Second, the roadmap to the future is coming more sharply into focus. The first-generation Web, though remarkably powerful, is an awkward combination of many different protocols and data formats. The emerging consensus around XML, as a universal way both to interconnect services and to represent many different kinds of information, is the key to a next-generation Web that may finally start to deliver on the collaborative vision of the original. There's nothing magical about XML. It isn't pixie dust. It doesn't, in and of itself, help us collaborate. What will help is messages, documents, applications, and services that all agree on a standard way of representing data -- one that's richer than the line-oriented ASCII we've used so long and so well. That standardization is now occurring. We should welcome it, and we should demand that our tools respect and embrace it."
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ChLIA-based tests for detection of antibodies against Borrelia and Epstein-Barr Virus now available on EUROIMMUN RA Analyzer 10 System
Two new CE-marked chemiluminescence immunoassays (ChLIA) for the detection of anti-Borrelia (Lyme disease) and anti-EBV/EBNA (Epstein-Barr Virus) antibodies on the EUROIMMUN RA Analyzer 10 system are available now.
The system, used in conjunction with the ChLIA products, functions as a compact automation solution in small- to medium-sized laboratories, or complements high-throughput-devices in large-sized laboratories. Test- and lot-specific information, including stored standard curves, are imported into the database by means of an RFID code, enabling error-free and convenient loading, along with efficient and secure test evaluation.
The EUROIMMUN RA Analyzer 10 allows continuous loading—also as part of a testing line—to ensure every sample is processed with minimal effort and shorter reaction times as a single determination. The ChLIA technology further minimizes reaction times, with total analysis in 30 minutes or less. In addition, the preferred processing of emergency (STAT) samples gives laboratories with different requirements and sample volumes unparalleled flexibility in their laboratory routine.
"Lyme disease represents the most frequent tick-borne infection in the northern hemisphere, while EBV remains one of the most common human pathogens (herpesvirus 4) with a prevalence of up to 99%. Without treatment, Borrelia infections can lead to severe clinical symptoms. In case of EBV it is important to ensure early diagnosis due its high contagiousness," said Wolfgang Schlumberger, Ph.D., CEO of EUROIMMUN, a PerkinElmer company. "By introducing assays for the RA Analyzer 10, we've extended our already comprehensive portfolio of serological assays for Lyme disease and EBV diagnostics."
More information about the EUROIMMUN RA Analyzer 10 and ChLIA products can be found at www.euroimmun.com. Additional information about PerkinElmer is available at www.perkinelmer.com.


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Instagram is the new Facebook for college-bound students.
Facebook was originally designed to connect college students. The social network's audience now skews older, but that doesn't mean new students aren't still connecting online before they even get to campus.
Accepted students are now starting Instagram accounts for their class. A new crop of Class of 2023 accounts has just popped up on Instagram and admitted and prospective students are using them to make their final decisions, pick a roommate, and connect before classes begin in the fall.
With names like @penn2023_and @ugaclassof2023, these accounts are run by incoming students. They typically feature photos and selfies, submitted by other incoming students, with biographies of each person and their personal Instagram handle, The Atlantic reported.
The accounts, though not officially affiliated with the colleges and universities, often use Instagram Stories to answer questions, talk about orientation, and post announcements for the freshman class.
Claire, the 18-year-old who launched the @alabamaclassof2023 account, talked to The Atlantic about the account. She said she didn't know anyone else going to the University of Alabama when she committed in December. She used the account to follow other students who mentioned the school in their bio and soon a new way to virtually meet her classmates was born.
Claire has now found her roommates for next year through the account.
"Their Instagrams looked cute; I felt like we had a lot in common. I DM'ed them and … you could just tell it was a perfect match," she said. "Assigned roommates are sort of scary. You don't know who you're gonna get stuck with. So everyone really wants to choose people."
Mackenzie, a 17-year-old in North Carolina, told The Atlantic that the Class of 2023 Instagram for UNC Chapel Hill was a part of the reason she ultimately chose the school.
"It makes you want to go to a school more, because it becomes real," Mackenzie said. "You see faces and get to know people. It's more than just a campus tour. It influences your decision."
Ashley Dobson is NACAC's senior communications manager for content and social media. You can reach her at email@example.com.


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Bismarck-Mandan Best Bartender Mix Off Finale
For over a month we have been on the search for Bismarck-Mandan's best bartender with our Mix Off and we finally found him!
The Best Bartender Mix Off Finale went down at Borrowed Bucks Roadhouse on Wednesday, October 4th. Four bartenders from four different bars battled for the title of 'Best Bartender.'
The first matchup was Big Stace from Rusty's Saloon and Grill and Lee from Borrowed Bucks Roadhouse. The bartenders made:
- Signature Cocktail:
- Rusty's: Peach Kuchen
- Bucks: Arnold Palmer
- Classic Cocktail:
- Each bartender was challenged to an Old Fashioned
- Bartender's Choice:
- Rusty's: Apple Spiced Drink
- Bucks: Cherry Lime Mojito
Winner of round 1: Big Stace from the Rusty's.
Round two was between Josh from The Pond and Tye from Main Street Drive Thru Liquor and Coffee. The bartenders made:
- Signature Cocktail:
- The Pond: Bacon Infused Old Fashioned
- Main Street: FGS
- Classic Cocktail:
- Both bartenders were challenged to a Highball
- Bartender's Choice:
- The Pond: Cat's Pajamas
- Main Street: Key Lime Pie Martini
Winner of round 2: Josh from the Pond
The championship round was between Big Stace from Rusty's and Josh from the Pond. The bartenders made:
- Signature Cocktail:
- Rusty's: Fat Mama Keep Me Warm on a Cold Night
- The Pond: Gin Basil Smash
- Classic Cocktail:
- Both bartenders were challenged to a Manhattan
- Bartender's Choice:
- Rusty's: Chi-Tini
- The Pond: Grimace
The winner (by two points) of the Best Bartender Mix Off is...
Josh from The Pond!
Thank you to everyone who came out and to all of the bars for participating, Hansen's Mens Wear for the fantastic suit and Nightlife Limousine for the ride. We are already excited for next year!