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EDMONTON—A new research centre at the Lois Hole Hospital for Women in Edmonton will play a key role in closing a gender gap in medical research, said Sandra Davidge, executive director of the Women and Children’s Health Research Institute.
“We are very unique, and the only ones in Canada who have dedicated research and research integration into a hospital that is focused on women’s health in all ages and all stages,” said Davidge, who is also a professor of obstetrics, gynecology and physiology at the University of Alberta in an interview with StarMetro Wednesday.
The ribbon was cut at the Lois Hole Hospital Research Centre this week, marking the official opening of a dedicated research space inside the Lois Hole Hospital for Women.
The research centre — which has interview rooms and study areas outfitted with ultrasound and other medical equipment — will allow clinicians to take research “from the bench to the bedside and back again,” focusing on a variety of women’s health issues including complex pregnancies, menopause, mental health, ovarian and gynecologic cancer, the “whole gamut of women’s health,” said Davidge, who is also and Tier I Canada Research Chair in Maternal and Perinatal Cardiovascular Health
Davidge says the space will focus on women’s health at every stage, something that has often been missing from other medical research.
“There is a gap, for sure, but we are closing that gap and we are able to close it here because of the community support that says how important women’s health is for us as a community,” said Davidge.
Kate Chidester, vice-president of advocacy, health and research with the Heart and Stroke Foundation in Alberta, said women are underrepresented in research, leaving holes in understanding about how women may experience medical health issues such as heart disease and stroke that can negatively impact their health outcomes.
“We have found that two-thirds of heart disease and stroke clinical research focuses on men. Historically, that means that less than a third of patients involved in clinical trials have been women. Of those, only 31 per cent of studies that did involve women reported the outcomes on sex or gender,” said Chidester. “It makes it very difficult to draw conclusions on the effects and risks of therapies on women.”
Recent reports from the Heart and Stroke Foundation, including the Heart and Stroke 2018 Heart Report and 2018 Stroke Report, highlighted the issue of a lack of women’s participation in clinical studies, with the 2018 Heart Report saying women are “under-researched, under-diagnosed and under-treated, and under-supported during recovery.”
“These diseases do tend to manifest differently in women than in men. Hormonal changes, pregnancy and physiology combine to put women at risk for female-specific conditions that really haven’t been adequately researched to date,” said Chidester.
Chidester said there are a number of reasons why women have traditionally been excluded form clinical research.
Researchers are reluctant to include women who are within childbearing years, said Chidester, for fear of unintended consequences should a participant be or become pregnant, and have also historically excluded women as hormonal changes women naturally experience can complicate trials.
“Caution is not a bad thing, but we need to look at that more closely so that we can learn how to involve women in research,” she said.
Women are also less likely to apply to be part of clinical research, Chidester said, something that having a research centre located within a hospital could help change, said Davidge.
“This gives an opportunity for women to take control of their health care, in a sense, by giving back by being participants in research studies,” said Davidge.
The consequences of not understanding differences in how women experience symptoms and respond to treatment can be at best detrimental and at worst dangerous to women.
According to the 2018 Heart Report, heart disease is the leading cause of premature death for women in Canada, while early heart attack signs were missed in 78 per cent of women.
Chidester said symptoms of heart attack and stroke can be more subtle in women, meaning women delay going to the emergency room and physicians can miss the signs.
“Women aren’t being recognized at the point of care, and they are also not recognizing themselves and being aware that they are at risk of heart disease and stroke. It’s everyone together being more aware that women’s symptoms may be a little more subtle, a little different than men’s symptoms and we need to be learning more about this together,” Chidester said.
Davidge said good research is a “hallmark of the best clinical care,” and hopes research conducted at the new Lois Hole Hospital Research Centre will create positive health outcomes for women.
The new facility is as a partnership between the Women and Children’s Health Research Institute, the Lois Hole Hospital for Women, the Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation, the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry and Alberta Health Services.

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Members: JOHN DAVIS, HARRIS KLAHR, CHRISTOPHER RICHARDS
Q and Not U,comprised of John Davis, Harris Klahr and Chris Richards,
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USA v. Matthew Evans
United States Court of Appeals
For the Seventh Circuit
No. 08-2424 U NITED S TATES OF A MERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. M ATTHEW E VANS, Defendant-Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. No. 07-CR-159-BBC-04--Barbara B. Crabb, Chief Judge.
A RGUED JANUARY 5, 2009--D ECIDED A UGUST 13, 2009
Before E ASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and P OSNER and W ILLIAMS, Circuit Judges. P ER C URIAM. The defendant was convicted of armed bank robbery and related crimes and sentenced to 382 months in prison. The sentence was within the guidelines range, but only because the district judge deemed the defendant's previous conviction of aggravated battery in violation of Illinois law a "crime of violence" within the meaning of section 4B1.2(a) of the
federal sentencing guidelines. The appeal challenges that ruling. Under Illinois law, "a person commits battery if he intentionally or knowingly without legal justification and by any means, (1) causes bodily harm to an individual or (2) makes physical contact of an insulting or provoking nature with an individual." 720 ILCS 5/12-3(a). He commits "aggravated battery" (so far as relates to this case) if in addition he "knows the individual harmed is pregnant." 720 ILCS 5/12-4(b)(11). The defendant had been indicted for having "knowingly and without legal justification, made contact of an insulting or provoking nature with April Lauderdale, in that the defendant pushed April Lauderdale, knowing April Lauderdale to be pregnant." He pleaded guilty, admitting the following facts: at 10 p.m. one night he entered the apartment of Lauderdale, four months pregnant by him, and accused her of sleeping with other men. He began carrying things out of the apartment, including a television set. She locked the door to keep him from returning and taking more stuff out but he kicked in the door, "grabbed Ms. Lauderdale by the face and pushed her down to the floor. He then yelled for the two girls [who had accompanied him on the visit to the apartment, but were outside] to come inside and, quote, kick this bitch's ass." Lauderdale grabbed a knife and stabbed the defendant, and he left, saying, "I pushed her down, and she stabbed me." So was his conviction of "aggravated battery" a conviction of a "crime of violence"? It was if the crime
of which he was convicted has "as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person of another," U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(1), or is "burglary of a dwelling, arson, or extortion, involves use of explosives, or otherwise involves conduct that presents a serious potential risk of physical injury to another." § 4B1.2(a)(2). (These definitions are identical to those found in the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B), another basis for increasing a federal defendant's sentence because of previous convictions, except that the statutory definition leaves out "of a dwelling.") The crime of which the defendant had been convicted does not fit the first subsection quoted above. The use, etc., of "physical force" is not an element of that crime, since all that that crime requires is proof of making an "insulting or provoking" physical contact with a woman known to be pregnant. The question is whether the defendant's crime fitted the second subsection ("conduct that presents a serious potential risk of physical injury to another"). The terms "insulting" and "provoking" are taken from the common law tort of battery, which requires only an offensive contact--the sort of thing that might provoke a breach of the peace, as it did here: the provoker was stabbed by his victim. Spitting on a person is the usual example given of a provoking act that amounts to battery. E.g., Alcorn v. Mitchell, 63 Ill. 553 (1872); Cohen v. Smith, 648 N.E.2d 329, 331-33 (Ill. App. 1995); Caudle v. Betts, 512 So.2d 389, 391-92 (La. 1987); see also W. Page Keeton et al., Prosser and Keeton on the Law of Torts § 9, p. 4142 (5th ed. 1984); Restatement (Second) of Torts § 19 and
comment a (1965). And so if you deliberately spit on a pregnant woman you are guilty of the crime of aggravated battery in Illinois, People v. Dorn, 883 N.E.2d 584, 588-89 (Ill. App. 2008); People v. Johnson, 807 N.E.2d 693, 695-97 (Ill. App. 2004); People v. Peck, 633 N.E.2d 222 (Ill. App. 1994), even though spitting does not involve "physical force" or inflict bodily harm. Garcia-Meza v. Mukasey, 516 F.3d 535, 537 (7th Cir. 2008). To fall under the second subsection of section 4B1.2(a) of the guidelines, the crime must be similar to the offenses listed in that subsection--similar, that is, to burglary of a dwelling, arson, extortion, any crime that involves the use of explosives, or any other crime that presents a serious risk of physical injury. Begay v. United States, 128 S. Ct. 1581, 1585 (2008); James v. United States, 550 U.S. 192, 203-09 (2007). Merely careless (even though criminal and dangerous) conduct will not suffice, however. Begay v. United States, supra, 128 S. Ct. at 158688; United States v. Woods, No. 07-3851, 2009 WL 2382700, at *7-8 (7th Cir. Aug. 5, 2009). That is not a problem in this case; the Illinois statute requires that the defendant's "insulting or provoking" physical contact with the victim be intentional or, what amounts to the same thing, knowing. See, e.g., United States v. Holland, 831 F.2d 717, 722-23 (7th Cir. 1987). But an "insulting or provoking" physical contact, though intentional, could be no more violent than spitting, and a battery that consists merely of deliberately spitting on someone is not comparable to burglary, arson, extortion, or a crime involving the use of explosives. Nor could it be said to present a serious risk of physical injury, United States v.
Jones, 235 F.3d 342, 346-48 (7th Cir. 2000), though some courts would disagree, most clearly the Tenth Circuit. See United States v. Paxton, 422 F.3d 1203, 1205-07 (10th Cir. 2005). Although the words "insulting or provoking" make it sound as if all that the Illinois legislature had in mind is the kind of light offensive touching familiar from civil battery cases, the Illinois courts have held that it embraces more forceful blows as well, the kind that as in this case can knock a person to the ground. Allstate Ins. Co. v. Kovar, 842 N.E.2d 1268, 1270-71 (Ill. App. 2006); People v. Young, 840 N.E.2d 825, 832-33 (Ill. App. 2005); cf. People v. Reynolds, 832 N.E.2d 512, 517 (Ill. App. 2005). Were it not for this judicial gloss, the aggravatedbattery statute would fail to reach a class of batteries that is at least as serious as the ones it does reach. Kissing a pregnant woman knowing she didn't want to be kissed is an aggravated battery. But if the statute is confined to physical contacts that, like kissing, do not inflict any bodily harm, then if the defendant's victim did not belong to any of the vulnerable groups enumerated in 720 ILCS 5/12-4(b) he would not be guilty of aggravated battery even if instead of kissing her he beat her up, provided only that he did not cause "great bodily harm, or permanent disability or disfigurement." § 12-4(a). Thus, the same statute, the same form of words, embraces two crimes: offensive battery, and forcible battery. If the two crimes were in separate sections of the battery statute (or within the same section but listed separately, Nijhawan v. Attorney General, 129 S. Ct. 2294,
2299 (2009), as would be the case if the same section punished "insulting a pregnant woman" and "beating a pregnant woman"), and the defendant were convicted of violating the section punishing forcible battery, the fact that another section punished a battery that was not forcible and therefore not a crime of violence under federal law would be irrelevant. But in United States v. Woods, supra, another panel of this court has held that when a statute fails to place the crime that is a crime of violence, and the crime that is not a crime of violence, in separate sections (or in a list of separate crimes in the same section), the defendant cannot be given the crime-ofviolence enhancement. There is an exception if the "generic" crime (that is, the crime of conviction, here an insulting and provoking physical contact with a pregnant woman) as generally committed is violent. See id. at *7. But the government doesn't argue that most insulting or provoking conduct with a pregnant woman is violent, as the conduct in the present case was, and so the sentence cannot be upheld on that basis. Woods was circulated to the full court in advance of issuance, and a majority voted not to hear the case en banc. Woods governs, and requires that the defendant be resentenced. His sentence is therefore V ACATED .
POSNER, Circuit Judge, with whom Chief Judge E ASTERBROOK joins, concurring. The Woods decision compels reversal, but I do not agree that the rule it lays down is sound. The rule is that if a statute punishes two crimes, one a crime of violence, one not, under the same name (in this case, "aggravated battery" defined as intentionally or knowingly making physical contact of an insulting or provoking nature with a pregnant woman), the defendant cannot be given the sentencing guidelines' crime-of-violence enhancement unless the statute is generally violated by the crime of violence. It is not enough that, as in this case, as the per curiam opinion makes clear, the defendant committed the "crime of violence" version of the statutory offense, the statutory defense being battery of a pregnant woman. A sentencing judge is not permitted to base a recidivist enhancement on conduct that violates a statute other than the one the defendant had been charged with violating. The judge is not to base the sentence on his "own conception of the offense actually constituted by the defendant's conduct." Stephen J. Schulhofer, "Due Process of Sentencing," 128 U. Pa. L. Rev. 733, 757 (1980). He is not to "consider the nature and characteristics of the criminal conduct involved without regard to the offense charged." Michael H. Tonry, "Real Offense Sentencing: The Model Sentencing and Corrections Act," 72 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 1550, 1555-56 (1981) (emphasis in original). Suppose, therefore, that Evans had been indicted and convicted of simple larceny based on his theft of Lauderdale's television set, and at the guilty-plea hearing the
prosecutor described the circumstances surrounding the theft, including the pushing of Lauderdale, and the defendant admitted under oath that the circumstances had been exactly as the prosecutor described. Nevertheless the district judge, in applying the guidelines in the present case, would not have been authorized to treat the defendant's conviction of simple larceny (akin to stealing a bicycle from a bicycle stand, the owner being nowhere in sight) as a conviction of a crime of violence within the meaning of the sentencing guidelines. He would have to treat it as a conviction for a nonviolent crime because that was the only crime the defendant had been convicted of. See United States v. Lewis, 405 F.3d 511, 513-15 (7th Cir. 2005); United States v. Bartee, 529 F.3d 357, 360-61 (6th Cir. 2008). Having determined that the defendant had been convicted of a nonviolent crime, the judge could not go on to consider how the defendant had committed that crime, and, if he had used violence in the commission of it, enhance the sentence accordingly. But since the statutory term "insulting or provoking" covers a range of kinds or concepts of battery, some of which create a serious risk of injury and some of which do not, and the indictment or other charging document does not indicate where in the range the defendant's conduct fell, we can look at the record of the guilty-plea hearing to disambiguate the application of statute to the case. In Shepard v. United States, 544 U.S. 13 (2005), the Supreme Court ruled that if burglary under state law includes entry into a boat, but "crime of violence" for purposes of the Armed Career Criminal Act requires
entry into a building, the sentencing judge can, and in fact has to, look to the guilty-plea hearing to determine whether the defendant admitted to entering a building. See also Taylor v. United States, 495 U.S. 575, 602 (1990); Chambers v. United States, 129 S. Ct. 687 (2009); United States v. Smith, 544 F.3d 781, 786-87 (7th Cir. 2008); United States v. Rodriguez, 523 F.3d 519, 524 (5th Cir. 2008); United States v. Rosa, 507 F.3d 142, 151-54 (2d Cir. 2007). Shepard was a case in which the same state criminal statute punished both conduct that was not a crime of violence under federal law and conduct that was: punished, in effect, two crimes, and the question was which the defendant had committed. To answer that question required knowing what the defendant had done. Admissions in a guilty-plea hearing, being judicial admissions, bind the defendant in subsequent proceedings and so avoid any occasion for the federal sentencing judge to determine contested facts regarding an earlier crime for purposes of deciding which niche it fits in--the offense that is not a crime of violence or the offense that is, both being covered by the same statutory language. Brown v. Green, 738 F.2d 202, 206 (7th Cir. 1984); Huerta-Guevara v. Ashcroft, 321 F.3d 883, 888 (9th Cir. 2003). The making of such a factual determination would be objectionable as requiring trials within sentencing hearings and (if the result was to increase the maximum punishment of the defendant) infringing the right to trial by jury conferred by the Sixth Amendment. Taylor v. United States, supra, 495 U.S. at 600-02; United States v. Shannon, 110 F.3d 382, 38485 (7th Cir. 1997) (en banc); United States v. Browning, 436 F.3d 780, 780-82 (7th Cir. 2006); United States v. Rosa, supra,
507 F.3d at 152-53. The question in this case as in Taylor is not what the defendant did--that is not in dispute--but what crime he was convicted of. "Congress intended the sentencing court to look only to the fact that the defendant had been convicted of crimes falling within certain categories, and not to the facts underlying the prior convictions." 495 U.S. at 600. It is the same here. A single statutory provision creates crimes both within the federal domain and outside it. In Chambers v. United States, supra, the two crimes were breaking out of a jail and failing to report for weekend confinement, and the Court held that the latter was not a crime of violence. In this case, the two crimes are a battery that causes or threatens physical injury and a battery that involves just an offensive touching and is punished not because it causes or even creates a risk of physical injury but because it might provoke a breach of the peace by the victim. The former but not the latter offense fits the definition of violent felony. I cannot see what difference it makes that these crimes are not in separate sections of the battery statute. The division of a statute into sections has never been regarded as having substantive significance; it is merely a device for ease of reference. No Supreme Court decision attaches significance to the presence or absence of sections. If the same section covers two crimes, the court can look at the conceded facts of the defendant's conduct to determine which crime the defendant committed. The "categorical" approach requires the court to identify the crime committed by the defendant and to
stop there and not consider how he committed it--whether for example he committed a crime in a violent manner though violence was not an element of the crime. That limitation upon the court's inquiry does not make "category" a synonym for "section." Since the indictment doesn't indicate which kind of battery the defendant committed, we may look behind the indictment to the factual allegations that the defendant admitted in pleading guilty, and when we do this we learn that he not only shoved a pregnant woman to the ground but by shouting for "the girls" to beat her up made her fear a more serious physical injury--and the combination of physical force and fear of serious injury could induce a miscarriage. Cf. Brownback v. Frailey, 78 Ill. App. 262 (Ill. App. 1898); Engle v. Simmons, 41 So. 1023, 1023-24 (Ala. 1906); Whitsel v. Watts, 159 P. 401, 401-02 (Kan. 1916); Kirby v. Jules Chain Stores Corp., 188 S.E. 625 (N.C. 1936). In the language of the guideline, the defendant created "a serious potential risk of physical injury to another." In Taylor the Supreme Court said that "in a State whose burglary statutes include entry of an automobile as well as a building, if the indictment or information and jury instructions show that the defendant was charged only with a burglary of a building, and that the jury necessarily had to find an entry of a building to convict, then the Government should be allowed to use the conviction for enhancement." 495 U.S. at 602. If for "burglary" we substitute "battery," for "automobile" a merely "offensive" touching, and for "building" creating
a risk of physical harm by shoving a pregnant woman to the ground, we have this case. Both in Shepard and in Chambers the two crimes that the Supreme Court considered were found in the same statutory section. 720 ILCS 5/12-4(b)(11) likewise punishes two separate crimes (so far as bears on this case)--offensive physical contact with a pregnant woman that does, and that does not, inflict bodily harm, We need to look to the charging document and the guilty-plea hearing to determine, on the basis of the defendant's admission, which crime he was convicted of. As shown in the charging papers and plea colloquy, he was convicted of the type of aggravated battery under Illinois law that fits within the generic federal definition of crime of violence. His sentence was therefore proper. But since a majority of the court has voted not to rehear Woods, I bow to its precedential force and thus agree that the defendant's sentence must be vacated.
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I’m in my mid-thirties. When I grew up, there was only one Star Wars trilogy. We followed Luke Skywalker and company as they sought to rid the galaxy of the evil empire. Our heroes remained heroes until the last rolling credits. Only one villain, the fearsome Darth Vader, found redemption. By this point, we all knew Darth was really Luke’s father and that at some point he had been a hero. So having him find redemption gave a sweet bookend to a beloved trilogy of movies.
Twenty-two years later, George Lucas decided to let us all see what happened to poor Anakin.
For those of us old enough to have been around the first time, it was a chance to see what the fall of Anakin Skywalker was all about, and to see the fabled Clone Wars. We knew and understood what we were watching.
For those younger, new, fans, they watched the movies from episode one to six, and understood the story as that of Anakin and his children.
Now my six year old son is a fan of the animated series, Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Anakin, clone troopers and Chancellor Palpatine, he sees them as the “good guys”. Trying to explain to him that these soldiers who fight and die so valiantly next to the jedi will, upon a single command, turn around and murder all of them, is tough. Every time the topic comes up, I can see injury in his eyes to think that the heroic Anakin will become a monster.
I wonder if George Lucas thought about that. I wonder if he considered even for a moment how he would injure young fans by creating a series like Clone Wars. I wonder if he thought what kind of position he would put parents into by having love be the thing that drove Anakin to the dark side.
When I was a kid, Star Wars was a sci-fi fairytale. The good guys stayed good. I’m not against the anti-hero. I’m not against a hero who falls and then finds redemption. But introducing series after series that features villains, then the villains before they were villains, who then become villains, who are then heroes again, is confusing for adults, let alone six year old kids.
So why am I rambling? Because stories should have a logical order. There is a danger in prequels. There is a danger in prequels, then doing prequels to the ending of the prequels. An audience can be alienated, especially if the differing stories are aimed at different demographics.

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Access to the Coast Guard Beach in Eastham will be closed Tuesday, May 21.
Access to the Coast Guard Beach in Eastham will be closed Tuesday, May 21, from 6:00 AM to 3:00 PM so seashore staff can create an accessible path in advance of the summer season.
Storm damage, construction affecting access at seashore locations; reduction in programming
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A Public Forum - Herring Cove - Where is the Sand Going and Where is it Coming From
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Wednesday May 27, 2009 from 5:30 to 7 PM, Larkin Hall, Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies, 5 Holway Avenue, Provincetown (behind the Provincetown High School).
The Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies, the Provincetown Conservation Commission and Cape Cod National Seashore announce a public forum on the sands of Herring Cove. The stretches of beaches extending from Race Point to Wood End in Provincetown are part of a sediment system, a conveyor belt of moving sand. Recent measurements by Graham Giese of the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies and Mark Adams of Cape Cod National Seashore shed new light on the rate of erosion and deposition of sand within the system. Many people value and use these beaches for swimming, fishing, walking, or watching the sunset. Come hear a summary of what we know and bring your questions.
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The Herring Cove Beach Area is a popular spot for residents and visitors year-round. The National Park Service is seeking funding for a future planning effort, which will include community members, to replace aging facilities and continue to serve beach users. Information gleaned from this important study will help to inform this planning process.
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The Children's Book Of Christmas Stories - The Original Classic Edition
"Many librarians have felt the need and expressed the desire for a select collection of children's Christmas stories in one volume. This books claims to be just that and nothing more. Each of the stories has already won the approval of thousands of children, and each is fraught with the true Christmas spirit." By the editor of this collection of stories, Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner.
The Children's Book of Christmas Stories - The Original Classic Edition written by Various Authors of the 19th Century is written and published in the English language.
The book consist of thirty six short sorties written by classic authors such as Charles Dickens, Hans Christian Andersen, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Olive Thorne Miller, Ruth Sawyer Durand, Raymond McAlden, Winifred M. Kirkland, Anne Hollingsworth Wharton just to name a few.
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Well, I am a nearly 15-year-old ABBA fan. How come? I watched Mamma Mia! the movie and then searched for ABBA songs. It's been a year now, I've listened to all of their songs and I love nearly all of them. They are delightful. And yet I only own ABBA-The Albums, Arrival Deluxe Edition, The Album Deluxe edition and now this.
The original album is just brilliant. Every single song is a treasure on its own. The usual bonuses, i.e. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! and Lovelight, are a huge magnificent single and a moderate B-Side.
Also what can I say about the real bonuses (or 'boni' maybe)? Summer night city is such an upbeat beautiful song and the intro is just what was missing from the short version. Dream World is an incomprehensively-not-released-at-its-time song. It would have been a hit.
I guess I would agree that the Spanish versions should be included and even Just A Notion, which has to be released at some point of time and this was a great chance.
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CLEARWATER, Fla. — Odubel Herrera will play the outfield on Friday for the first time this spring, after being limited in camp with a sore shoulder.
The Phillies used caution with Herrera, knowing that camp was elongated this season, with 31 games over six weeks. The centerfielder has not thrown from the outfield during pregame workouts and played in his first three games as a designated hitter.
Manager Gabe Kapler said during the workouts that he was not concerned and that Herrera was fine. He will return to the field with nearly four weeks remaining until Opening Day.
Nick Pivetta failed to finish the second inning in Thursday's 6-4 home loss to the Yankees, marking the third-straight day a Phillies starter left the game before completing his expected two innings of work. Pivetta had a great first inning, and his fastball touched 96 before he ran into trouble in the second. Pivetta said his main concern was that he felt healthy.
Kapler met with Pivetta in the manager's office for five minutes after the game. The conversation, Kapler said, was "awesome."
"There's a quote in my office ["Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."] that he pointed out about preparation and this spring training being part of the preparation," Kapler said. "He understands that it's not going to happen in the first outing or the second outing. It's going to take a little bit of practice. We expect it to take practice, and that's what spring training is for. It's for refining our pitches. It's for refining our approach, and it's for building up. The expectation is not for everybody to be perfect the first week of games."
It felt good to wear a Phillies uniform again, Bobby Abreu said as he rejoined the Phillies for a week-long stint as a guest instructor.
Abreu watched batting practice before sitting in the dugout for the game. During his nine seasons with the team, Abreu reached base at a high rate and regularly worked deep counts. Both are traits that the team's front office values, as shown in their signing of Carlos Santana. Abreu said he's here to pass on some knowledge.
"I was looking always to be on base, because I think when you get on base, no matter what, you can score," Abreu said. "You can help the team when you're always on base. Even a walk, you can start to produce or start a rally that way."

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GenZ asks young people questions to try and secure answers about the media we need. Yet questions need to be anchored in ‘real life’ if they are to help us navigate to media solutions.
On 19th November 2021, a Times of Malta journalist recorded a disconcerting incident in Valletta on his phone. Within an hour, there was a story on the mainstream media news outlet together with the video footage. The reaction on social media was visceral with seemingly everyone wading in, including the former President of the Republic. The media that broke the story was also, in turn, accused of triggering a moral panic.
In the above video post on Instagram, Dr Alex Grech, Director of the 3CL Foundation and a University of Malta academic, reflects on how an unsavoury ‘local’ incident should also get us to think about media decisions:
How did the private turmoil of a citizen become a media story?
What responsibilities do ordinary citizens have when they have access to devices that can record and publish events in real time?
What role does social media play in circulating a media story?
What lessons can we take about the state of media freedoms in Malta?


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Converting aluminium oxide into pure aluminium is hugely expensive. In a large bath, a powerful electric current is passed through the oxide to smelt out the pure aluminium. Each year, this process uses three per cent of the world’s electricity and costs in the region of US$10 billion. Energy and money could be saved if the baths were bigger. But in bigger baths, the process is destabilised and interrupted as rotating waves start to form in the bath.
Professor Sergie Molokov, Director of the Applied Mathematics Research Centre at Coventry University has figured out a theoretical way to suppress the unstable waves with an alternating magnetic field. With colleagues at Warwick University, the theory is being tested in a…

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User Problems with Access to Fictional Characters and Personal Names in Online Public Access Catalogs
Reference librarians in libraries with online public access catalogs were polled to determine what indexes they thought most patrons would use to look for fictional characters. Most thought users would choose a name index over a subject index, but that they would choose a subject index over an author index. In addition, reference librarians were asked their own preferences. They said that the best kind of index to give users for such searches would be a general index in which no particular kind of search need be specified. Based on the descriptive statistics from this research, current system design practices for online public access catalogs and current tagging practice in the MARC format are evaluated, and recommendations are made for modification of those practices.


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Where do writers find good stories?
March 18, 2015
I’M OFTEN ASKED where ideas for a book come from. For a writer—at least once he or she really gets into the routine of writing—ideas are everywhere. The newspaper and TV news programs are full of ideas. My 94,000 word novel The Silver Medallion was the result of reading a two paragraph article in the Los Angeles Times.
A few years ago, a number of churches in east Texas were burned. The police finally caught the two young men who were setting the fires. But no real motive came out. It appeared to be a prank to see if they could get away with it. I thought about the fires and began to wonder what motive a person might have to burn several churches. Out of that came Cleansed by Fire, a novel now in paperback, e-book and audio.
William Carl wrote his first novel, The Prize, based on some of his experiences as a chemist. He said he introduced a murder to make it more interesting, but the basics of the story were similar to his real life. Another of his books, Daring to Love, was a fictionalized version of a real-life drama he watched while he was in management.
Sunny Frazier has written several books in which the protagonist works in the office of a police department and has a strong interest in astrology. Sunny herself worked in law enforcement for many years. And she has been a serious student of astrology even longer.
Walt and Ann Davis took a trip, visiting every Texas county that touched the border of the state. Out of that came their illustrated book Exploring the Edges of Texas.
Our youngest daughter, , a well-published writer of middle grade and YA books, sang in a chorus that placed fifth in the International finals of the Sweet Adelines. We decided that would be a good setting for a murder mystery. was published by Wayside Press.
Some time back, I read an interesting folk tale about Texas before it was an independent country. I don’t write historical novels. So, I wondered how that folk tale could affect life in the twenty-first century. resulted from reading this folk tale. The book is 90,000 words long; the folk tale was four pages. Clearly, long novels can come from small prompts.
, a Los Angeles Times bestseller, writes true crime. He searches for some crime already resolved and researches all the facts. He then weaves those into an interesting book. Obviously, they are popular books.
Take a story from the day’s news and ask the famous writer question: what if? What if the crime had not been solved? What if the police made a mistake and arrested the wrong man? What if the victim had been a celebrity, or not a celebrity? What if the girl had gotten on the wrong bus and this handsome man had helped her find her way back? What if the boy’s dog had been hit by a car and wasn’t there to defend the little boy? What if you gave a mouse a piece of chocolate? What if the President ‘s daughter, just as a lark, escaped from her bodyguards? What if the star quarterback broke his thumb before the big game with all the scouts present? What if you were writing your memoir and discovered a family secret that (pick one) shocks, amazes, terrifies, enlightens, changes your view on …? What if you find some letters from your grandmother that no one else has seen? What if your reclusive neighbor suddenly needs your help and must explain why he lives as he does?
Then, let your mind tumble ideas and see where they lead. Nothing is impossible. Outlandish things can happen. The range of things people are capable of, good or bad, is unbounded. And no character you can dream up is beyond reality. You cannot make your characters bigger than life. But you can make them bigger than normal, bigger than those around you, bigger than you have in previous writings.
Fiction is without bounds. Let you imagination run wild on story and characters. Do not be afraid to write an outlandish story. As unbelievable as you might think it is, it is not stranger than real life. There is only one restriction on you.
You must write it well.
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|Meditation helps us visualize what we want to achieve, but the most valuable spell is the one that teaches us about the actual process of new beginnings. Patience is the key word here.
Fill a clay flower pot with a good potting soil. Choose seeds that have a special meaning to you. It doesn't matter whether you use herb, or flower, or even a vegetable seed, the point is to prepare a place for a seed to grow. Plant the seeds, water them well, and place them somewhere they will receive warmth. Yes, the ideal would be in direct sunlight, but you can also put the pot on top of your refrigerator. Have you ever noticed what a warm surface that is? Water the seeds gently each day and watch for the sprouts to start.
At some point, you will probably have to "thin" the planting. I know that is hard to do, but this process teaches us that in order for a healthy plant to survive, we must be able to remove some shoots. We should also realize that as we undertake a new project, or a new job, or a new home, or a new partnership, there will be things we'll have to "cut out" in order for our new beginning to flourish and bear fruit. This is a simple lesson-in-life spell you can do anytime to remind yourself of what can become real if you simply nourish and protect your efforts.

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Some 50 editors working for MSN, Microsoft’s news operation, have learned their contracts won’t be renewed and their jobs will be performed by artificial intelligence software, according to multiple news reports.
The contractors hired through staffing agencies Aquent, IFG and MAQ Consulting were notified May 27 that their services would not be needed beyond June 30, The Seattle Times reported last week.
There was no mention of artificial intelligence in a statement provided to TechNewsWorld by company rep Tayor Jerue.
“Like all companies, we evaluate our business on a regular basis,” Microsoft stated. “This can result in increased investment in some places and, from time to time, re-deployment in others. These decisions are not the result of the current pandemic.”
All full-time news producers working at MSN, whose duties are similar to those of the contractors, will remain with the company, the Times reported.
MSN will use AI to do the jobs of the editors, which include identifying trending news stories, rewriting headlines, and adding photos and slideshows to stories, the paper said, citing anonymous sources.
The contractors also planned content, maintained editorial calendars, and assigned content to partner news websites.
Weird, Boring Stories
“What Microsoft is doing doesn’t sound that different from what Google News does,” said Dan Kennedy, professor in the School of Journalism at Northeastern University in Boston.
“The human editors at Microsoft were doing what Google News has been doing automatically for years,” he told TechNewsWorld, “which is aggregating stories into a page of news.”
There have been efforts to use AI to take over some functions of journalism for quite a few years, but they haven’t been all that successful so far, Kennedy noted.
The Associated Press, for example, uses software to generate coverage of quarterly earnings reports for about 3,700 companies. In that case, though, the AP is using AI to broaden its coverage, since it doesn’t have the resources to cover the earnings reports of so many companies.
One experimental approach was to have stringers feed data about local sports events into a program that then writes a story about the event.
“It’s very limited, and the stories are kind of weird and boring,” Kennedy said. “There is no substitute for the judgment of a good human editor.”
Machine-written stories may not be a good idea from a journalist’s point of view, but media owners bent on reducing payroll may have a different perspective.
“It’s one thing when Google or Microsoft does something in this area, because you don’t think of them as news companies — but if this is successful, it could bleed over into real news companies,” Kennedy said.
“That will mean not only fewer jobs for journalists, but a diminished editorial product,” he pointed out, “because you’re eliminating a layer of human judgment.”
However, journalists shouldn’t be threatened by AI in the near term, said Kennedy.
“The technology isn’t good enough, yet — but that could change,” he continued. “I suppose it’s going to get better, and at some point it will present a real threat to not only jobs but the whole philosophy of having human editorial judgment applied to journalism.”
Anyone who has had a post deleted by Facebook knows the pitfalls of using algorithms to make editorial judgments, Kennedy added. “You can’t argue with them. You can’t reason with them. You can’t get them to change their mind. The fewer humans you have in the process, the more diminished the journalism is.”
Gaming the AI
Artificial intelligence systems eventually might start writing stories, but that would be a mistake, said Bill Ostendorf, president of Creative Circle Media Consulting in Providence, Rhode Island.
“Once it’s discovered how the AI is writing a story, it can be manipulated to hide data or omit it,” he told TechNewsWorld.
One area where AI is a journalist’s friend, though, is in processing massive amounts of data. “AI is good at hunting and finding data in databases,” Ostendorf said.
If AI makes any inroads in journalism, it’s likely to be with large news outfits with deep pockets.
“Ninety percent of newspapers don’t even have the resources to do an infographic, so AI is going to be out of their reach,” Ostendorf noted.
It’s common when selling change to the rank and file of an organization to sell it as a way to help employees do a better job. That’s the case with AI for journalists, too. It’s supposed to free them up to do more high-value stories.
“Developers may genuinely believe their software is going to make a person’s job better,” Ostendorf said, “but for management it’s usually about reducing headcount, not making anyone’s job better.”
Americans Skeptical of AI
AI performs many journalistic tasks that would go undone without it, such as writing thousands of earnings reports, wrote business journalist Mikael Törnwall in a report prepared for multinational networking and telecommunications company Ericsson, based in Sweden.
“Yet it would be naive to believe that media companies will not also use technology to cut costs by reducing staff,” he wrote. “In this sense, artificial intelligence is both an opportunity for journalism and a threat to journalists.”
As part of the report, a survey was conducted by Kantar SIFO of more than 4,000 people in Sweden, South Korea, Brazil, and the United States about AI and journalism. Of the four nations, U.S. citizens were the most skeptical of AI.
Asked if algorithms would be choosing all or some of the news they consumed in the future, 83 percent of South Koreans said yes, followed by 72 percent of Brazilians, 49 percent of Swedes and 46 percent of Americans.
The survey group also was asked if software would write articles in place of journalists. Eighty-one percent of Koreans believed machines would be writing news stories for them in the future, followed by 63 percent of Brazilians, 53 percent of Swedes, and 47 percent of Americans.


The U.S. Federal Reserve has extended a loan to Deutsche Bank, the bank that helped finance President Donald Trump’s presidential bid.
Deutsche Bank’s president, John Cryan, said the loan was approved on Thursday.
It will be repaid in full in 2019.
Cryan said the bank would continue to invest in the U.N. and the Trump Organization.
Trump has been critical of Deutsche Bank and the bank’s CEO, John Varvatos.
Cryans company has been criticized for a range of financial misdeeds.
He took a $25 million stake in the struggling retailer Macy’s in 2009, and later sold the shares for a profit, then spent millions on other companies, including the real estate and retail conglomerate Trump Hotels & Resorts, that he says were sold at below market value.


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From Silver and Gold Podcast episode 29:
It’s back to classic Booster Gold with “Fresh Start” by Dan Jurgens, Bob Lewis, Albert DeGuzman, and Barbara Randall from Booster Gold (vol 1) #16. Booster moves into his new mansion/headquarters and ticks off no less than three people.
Then we cover “Quantum Mechanic” by Cary Bates, Greg Weisman, Will Conrad, Ivan Nunes, Saida Temofonte, Kristy Quinn, Jim Chadwick, and Steve Rude from the penultimate issue of The Fall and Rise of Captain Atom. Nate finally meets his son, confronts Ultramax, and we learn a little more about the bastard that is General Eiling.
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Renowned English singer Adele has opened up about the brutal backlash she faced after she decided to postpone her Las Vegas residency.
In January, the Hello crooner surprised fans when she made the announcement before opening night that she had shifted the residency indefinitely.
Speaking via a recent interview, Adele disclosed that she felt everyone's disappointment and that it left her devastated as she was afraid to let them down.
"I definitely felt everyone’s disappointment and I was devastated and I was frightened about letting them down", she dished to BBC's Desert Island Discs host Lauren Laverne.
"I was a shell of a person for a couple of months. I just had to wait it out and just grieve it, I guess, just grieve the shows and get over the guilt, but it was brutal."
Adele added that she did not regret postponing the shows because she had it in mind to give her fans the best experience.
"I thought I could pull it together and make it work and I couldn’t, and I stand by that decision.
"I’m not going to just do a show because I have to or because people are going to be let down or because we’re going to lose loads of money. I’m like, the show’s not good enough", she stated.

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People often ask, “Is China’s Constitution Democratic?”
Here’s what China’s constitution says about democracy in China:
The National People’s Congress and the local people’s congresses at various levels are constituted through democratic elections. They are responsible to the people and subject to their supervision. All administrative, judicial and procuratorial organs of the State are created by the People’s Congresses to which they are responsible and by which they are supervised.
Most legislation receives ninety-percent support in Congress but does this make the NPCC a ‘rubber stamp,’ as critics claim?
How Democratic Is China’s Constitution?
The ‘rubber stamp’ misunderstanding arises because Chinese policy development is managed like double-blind, randomized clinical trials, called Trial Spots. Congress has been evaluating Trial Spot data for thirty years.
Policy proposals are tried in villages first, then towns or cities. Most experiments fail there, just as most scientific experiments fail, but the successes have created the most trusted government on earth. Venture capitalist Robin Daverman describes the process at the national level:
China is a giant trial portfolio with millions of trials going on everywhere. Today, innovations in everything from healthcare to poverty reduction, education, energy, trade and transportation are being trialled in different communities. Every one of China’s 662 cities is experimenting: Shanghai with free trade zones, Guizhou with poverty reduction, twenty-three cities with education reforms, Northeastern provinces with SOE reform: pilot schools, pilot cities, pilot hospitals, pilot markets, pilot everything. Mayors and governors, the Primary Investigators, share their ‘lab results’ at the Central Party School and publish them in their ‘scientific journals,’ the State-owned newspapers.
Beginning in small towns, major policies undergo ‘clinical trials’ that generate and analyze test data. If the stats look good, they’ll add test sites and do long-term follow-ups. They test and tweak for 10-30 years then ask the 3,000-member People’s Congress to review the data and authorize national trials in three major provinces. If a national trial is successful the State Council [the Brains Trust] polishes the plan and takes it back to Congress for a final vote. It’s very transparent and, if your data is better than mine, your bill gets passed and mine doesn’t. Congress’ votes are nearly unanimous because the legislation is backed by reams of data. This allows China to accomplish a great deal in a short time, because your winning solution will be quickly propagated throughout the country, you’ll be a front page hero, invited to high-level meetings in Beijing and promoted. As you can imagine, the competition to solve problems is intense. Local government has a great deal of freedom to try their own things as long as they have the support of the local people. Everything from bare-knuckled liberalism to straight communism has been tried by various villages and small towns.
Congress is no pushover. Congresspeople visit, inspect and audit Trial Spot cashflows, calculate affordability and debate scalability and national impact. For example, when Beijing proposed to fund the Three Gorges Dam, Congress refused, because of China is a Constitutional Democracy
The dam’s cost and scale were beyond members’ imagination, retired engineers and foreign experts damned it, and a million people in its path criticized it so loudly that legislators demanded a similar dam be built nearby to demonstrate its feasibility. So the government built the Gezhouba Dam downstream.
But when planners presented the funding request again, only sixty-four percent of delegates supported it and, when the government decided to proceed, people loudly accused it of ‘ramming the bill through with an insufficient majority.’
Is China Authoritarian?
China’s Constitution is Democratic, though China’s process is neither fully scientific nor totally democratic, labeling it ‘authoritarian’–a Western concept–also misses the point. China’s reliance on data for course corrections is its greatest strength, though even solid data does not guarantee smooth sailing. Fifty percent of legislation is not passed within the planned period and ten percent takes more than a decade, thanks to the Peoples Consultive Congress, a gigantic lobby of special interest groups–including peasants, indigenes, professors, fishermen, manufacturers and Taiwan’s Kuomintang Party–who ensure that pending legislation does not damage their interests. Legislators must use both trial data and political tradeoffs to craft the laws which, by the time they emerge, have almost unanimous support. Even then, legislation is issued ‘subject to revision’ because data collection continues after implementation, too.
Congress commissioned the Guangzhou-Shenzhen high speed rail Trial Spot in 1998 before voting to fund today’s massive HSR network. In 2016 the administration advanced legislation permitting genetically modified food crops because they had promised that GM maize and soybeans would be in commercial use by 2020. Two years later–after an intense public education campaign–a survey found half the country still opposed to GM, ten percent were supportive and eleven percent considered GM ‘a bioterrorism weapon aimed at China’. Legislation was shelved.
Read this account of China’s constitutional democracy.
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Man City in race against time to land £35m Porto pair Mangala and Fernando
- Title chasers hope to bring in Eliaquim Mangala and team-mate Fernando
- Move for Mangala could see Joleon Lescott join West Ham
- Manuel Pellegrini has wanted a centre back since missing out on Pepe
- Race to tie up duo before window shuts at 11pm on Friday
- Sergio Aguero faces race to be fit for Barcelona Champions League tie
Manchester City are in talks over a £35million deal to sign Porto centre back Eliaquim Mangala and his team-mate Fernando.
They may struggle to pull off the double transfer before Friday’s 11pm deadline but City are determined to seal the deals no later than this summer.
They have been encouraged by a significant shift in Porto’s position over the last 48 hours after the cash-strapped Portuguese club indicated they are willing to reduce the asking price if it means having the money in the bank now.
Top targets: Fernando (left) and Eliaquim Mangala (right) could join City before the transfer deadline
Hitting the heights: Frenchman Mangala has been tracked by City for some time
City have been tracking Mangala, 22, for some time knowing the buyout clause in the Frenchman’s contract is £37.8m. Porto value Fernando, 26, at £7m even though the defensive midfielder from Brazil will be a free agent in the summer.
However, it is understood that a joint figure of £35m could be agreed if City are prepared to do business before Friday's deadline.
That would be another remarkable statement of intent by Manuel Pellegrini’s side, who have taken the Barclays Premier League by storm after spending more than £100m on new signings last summer.
Mangala has interested a number of top clubs including Manchester United, Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain, but Pellegrini identified the former Standard Liege defender as his top target some time ago.
The City manager has been in the hunt for a new centre back since last summer, when he failed to sign Pepe from Real Madrid and then compromised by bringing in Martin Demichelis from neighbours Atletico.
The uncertainty over the Mangala deal is believed to be the reason why Joleon Lescott’s future at City has been left in the balance.
A deal is in place for Lescott to join West Ham, with the England defender desperate for regular first-team football to safeguard his World Cup hopes. Equally, the bid for Fernando will cast further doubt over the City futures of Jack Rodwell and Javi Garcia, neither of whom has impressed since arriving in 2012.
Wanted: Mangala has shown his talents this season with the Portuguese giants
In tow? Fernando (right) could be on his way to the Etihad for £7million
Strengthening: Manuel Pellegrini (left) was hoping to bolster his defensive options at City
Future partner? Vincent Kompany may still get to line up alongside Mangala in the City back line at some point
Meanwhile, Pellegrini is set to be without top scorer Sergio Aguero for Monday’s match with Chelsea at the Etihad after the Argentina striker limped out of Wednesday’s 5-1 win at Tottenham with a hamstring injury.
Aguero could face a race to be fit for the Champions League showdown with Barcelona next month.
Uncertainty: Joleon Lescott (right) may now stay at City
The competition: Martin Demichelis (left) and Matija Nastasic (right) have been rotated this season
SO, WHO IS ELIAQUIM MANGALA?
At £28million, Eliaquim Mangala seems rather pricey for an unknown centre half currently playing in Portugal?
Maybe, but believe it or not, City are getting him on the cheap. The 22-year-old’s buy-out clause at Porto is £37.8m, and only the attraction of up-front cash from Manchester is persuading them to let him go for less.
He began his career with Standard Liege in Belgium — is Vincent Kompany set to welcome a fellow countryman to the Etihad?
No, Mangala is actually French. Born in the Parisian suburb of Colombes, his family moved to Belgium when he was five to live in the French-speaking town of Namur. Mangala qualified for a Belgian passport, but elected to answer a call-up from France’s Under 21 squad after making his name at Liege, and won his first full cap in a friendly against Uruguay last June, two years after his £6.5m move to Porto.
He’s used to moving around then?
Yes, off and on the pitch. He began life as a striker growing up in Belgium, but switched to left back when he joined Liege. He then shone as a deep-lying midfielder, but eventually ended up as a stylish central defender.
Does he have any previous experience of English football?
He certainly does. At the age of just 18, Mangala scored Standard Liege’s first ever Champions League goal, in September 2009, against Arsenal. He’s been on the radar of the Premier League’s big boys ever since.
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“Very interesting day indeed for Termax! I want to thank Mike and Bill Smith for the opportunities provided some over years ago to work with them and be a part of growing the company as it is today and has been a great ride working with them. Wishing them the best as they move onward, and we will all continue to work diligently to carry on the torch for Termax with the same principles and values as they instilled upon us!”
– Chad Rickwood, Vice President of Sales
LISI Group announces the signing of an agreement to acquire the remaining 49% of TERMAX LLC’s equity. This transaction, initially planned for the first quarter 2021, enables LISI Group to become the sole owner of TERMAX LLC as of July 1st 2020.
“With TERMAX LLC, LISI AUTOMOTIVE has extended its global footprint in clip-fastening solutions in a lasting manner. The commercial and industrial synergies between our Clipped Solutions Business Group and Termax will continue to bear fruit. They will allow us to bring to a wider customer base the best development and production capabilities to offer innovative solutions in the areas of weight reduction, electrification and autonomous vehicle equipment”, said François LIOTARD, Chief Executive Officer of LISI AUTOMOTIVE.
For our customers in North America and our employees, Termax will continue to operate under the Termax brand and under current management 100%, whilst being 100% part of LISI Automotive and able to offer the full range of Clipped Solutions products to its customers in North America and worldwide.


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***Spoilers ahead for the Game of Thrones season 5 finale***
Season 5 has ended, and being Game of Thrones, there have been some truly shocking developments.
If you’ve seen it, you’re probably like us: worried at the blinding of young Arya Stark, satisfactorily shaken at the slaughtering of Meryn Trant, shocked at the shameful events experienced by Cersei Lannister, and, perhaps most importantly, devastated at the apparent death of Jon Snow.
Kit Harington has spoken to EW about the shocking final moments of season 5, which saw his character attacked by fellow members of the Night’s Watch. One dagger after another plunged into Jon Snow, until young Olly delivered the final stab.
“Like every season, you read something in the script and go, ‘Oh f–k.’ I kind of knew it was coming. I didn’t read [George R.R. Martin’s novel] A Dance with Dragons. But I read the other books and I had heard this is what happens. So I had an inkling it should be this season,” Harington said, adding that not knowing his death would be the final shot of the season made it all the more special.
“I dunno, I loved it. I loved how they brought Olly in to be the person who kills me. I love how the storyline with Thorne was wrapped up. I think it was really well crafted by [showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss]. It felt like the right way for it to happen.”
It is a shocking turn of events indeed, but, as Harington said, “…we have to go by what Thrones does. And Thrones treats drama as real life. And people die and don’t accomplish what we think they’re meant to in real life.”
Of course, fans would be remiss if they didn’t have hope that Snow could come back at a later stage. Yep, that includes us, so here’s the kick in the guts: “I had a sit-down with Dan and David, we did the Tony Soprano walk [letting an actor know they’re being whacked]. And they said, ‘Look, you’re gone, it’s done.’ ”
It can’t be, we hear you saying. While we’re not ready to lose hope either, Harington’s pretty adamant about what he’s been told.
“They sat me down and said, ‘This is how it is.’ If anything in the future is not like that, then I don’t know about it – it’s only in David and Dan and George’s heads. But I’ve been told I’m dead. I’m dead. I’m not coming back next season. So that’s all I can tell you, really.”
Harington’s Snow was a crowd favourite and it felt as though much of the character’s arc was still to come, so here’s hoping whatever is in David, Dan and George’s heads involves bringing him back somehow in the future.


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There is an enormous gender gap in venture capital funding in the United States. Female entrepreneurs receive only about 2% of all venture funding, despite owning 38% of the businesses in the country. The prevailing hope among academics, policy makers, and practitioners alike has been that this gap will narrow as more women become venture capitalists. However, homophily does not seem to be the only culprit behind the funding gap. Over the past several years, the U.S. has seen an increase in the number of female venture capitalists (from 3% of all VCs in 2014 to an estimated 7% today), but the funding gap has only widened. This research offers new evidence as to why female entrepreneurs continue to receive less funding than their male counterparts.
Harvard Business Review.. June 27, 2017.

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Jumei.com, China's largest online beauty products retailer, announced terms for its IPO on Tuesday. The Beijing, China-based company plans to raise $195 million by offering 9.5 million shares at a price range of $19.50 to $21.50. At the midpoint of the proposed range, it would command a fully diluted market value of $3.3 billion.
Jumei.com, which was founded in 2009 and booked $483 million in sales for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2013, plans to list on the NYSE under the symbol JMEI. Jumei initially filed confidentially on January 30, 2014. Goldman Sachs (Asia), Credit Suisse and J.P. Morgan are the joint bookrunners on the deal. It is expected to price next week.
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