LAST GAME: NOV. 22 - NEW JERSEY 3 VS. VANCOUVER 2
New Jersey swept their season series with Vancouver (2-0-0) and improved to 13-5-4 overall and 6-3-2 at home. With the win, the Devils are now 7-1-0 (4-0-0 at Prudential Center) against the Canucks since the 2014-15 season.
The Devils opened the first half of their 5th of 16 back-to-back contests and are now 4-1-0 in first games of back-to-backs. The Devils are 3-2-2 (2-1-1 at home) against the Pacific Division and are 6-4-2 (3-2-1 at home) vs. the Western Conference.
New Jersey was 1-3 on the power play and 2-3 while shorthanded. The club is 4-16 (25.0%) in their last six games on the man-advantage. The Devils out-shot the Canucks, 26-25. New Jersey is 3-1-3 when they out-shoot their opponent.
Brian Boyle scored his second goal of the season on the power play at 10:17 of the second period and has two power play points (1G-1A) over his last two games. Boyle took the ceremonial face-off as part of the Devils Hockey Fights Cancer Night. The puck was dropped by Boyle's wife Lauren, his two children and a youth patient from the Valerie Fund Children's Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at Children's Hospital of New Jersey at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center.
Taylor Hall led the Devils with three points (1G-2A) and recorded his sixth multi-point game of the season. Damon Severson had the game-winning goal, his third of the season and the second game-winning goal of his career and currently has a two-game point streak (1G-1A). Will Butcher and Nico Hischier each had an assist in the Devils victory.
Cory Schneider stopped 23 of 25 shots (.920 save%) to improve to 9-4-3 this season and 6-1-2 in his career against his former team.
TONIGHT'S GAME AT DETROIT
The Devils will close out their 5th of 16 back-to-back sets (3-1-0 in second games of back-to-backs) when they face-off against the Detroit Red Wings at Little Caesars Arena for the first time in team history. New Jersey was 1-1-1 (1-1-0 road) against Detroit in 2016-17 and 13-20-2 at Joe Louis Arena dating back to the 1982-83 season. The Devils played the final game at Joe Louis Arena on April 9 and fell to the Red Wings 4-1. John Moore had New Jersey's lone goal in the defeat and had three points (2G-1A) in three games vs. the Red Wings last season.
New Jersey is 6-0-2 (3-0-1 road) against the Atlantic Division and 7-1-2 (4-0-1 road) vs. Eastern Conference Opponents.
Cory Schneider started all three games against the Red Wings last season, posting 3.97 GAA and .878 save%. Keith Kinkaid's only appearance against Detroit came on Nov. 7, 2014 in relief of Schneider, where he stopped all seven shots he faced in just under 17 minutes of action.
Drew Stafford leads the Devils in career points against the Red Wings with 13 (4G-9A) in 18 GP.


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In the growing trade standoff between the U.S., China, and Europe, spearheaded by President Trump, a number of automakers that manufacture thousands of vehicles in the U.S. are facing threats to their business on a global scale. German manufacturers BMW and Mercedes-Benz may face the greatest challenge going forward.
Three rows, seven or more seats, a 9-speed automatic, and an Acura badge will command at least $100 more Tuesday.
Our last drive of the 2018 Jaguar XF Sportbrake kept alive the dream that Americans would reject crossovers and flock en masse to gorgeous wagons.
2019 Genesis G70
From Motor Authority:
While I wait for my turn to attack the track at Tamworth, New Hampshire’s Club Motorsports in the 2019 Genesis G70, I notice some of the car’s details. The diamond-quilted nappa leather upholstery looks like it was sourced from a Mercedes-Benz S-Class. I shut off the traction control and turn the driver selector to Sport mode; its knurled metal dial clearly comes from the Bentley playbook. I grip the small-diameter steering wheel and realize it would look right at home in a Miata. This car mixes fine luxury and thoughtful sporty touches.
"It's not slow, it just isn't fast...it's kind of medium," are the words of 1977 Ford Bronco owner Dave Kunz. He's brought his bone-stock classic SUV over to Jay Leno's Garage so the comedian and car guy can take it for a spin.
Hyundai is close to finalizing a redesigned Sonata with styling inspired by the handsome Le Fil Rouge concept car (shown below) unveiled in March at the Geneva auto show.
Volkswagen ID Crozz concept
From Green Car Reports:
Volkswagen plans to build two of its upcoming electric cars in the United States.
A Volvo executive has revealed a few details of the Polestar 2, an electric sedan that will follow next year's Polestar 1 performance coupe.
Electric cars are showing up at races from mountaintops to drag strips to New York harbor.

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Cloning and porin activity of the major outer membrane protein P1 from Coxiella burnetii.
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Coxiella burnetii, the etiological agent of Q fever, is a gram-negative obligate intracellular bacterium. Two striking characteristics of this microorganism are its ability to thrive within a phagolysosome and its ability to persist in the environment outside a host cell. These abilities have been attributed to the existence of C. burnetii developmental cycle variants: large-cell variants (LCV), small-cell variants (SCV), and small dense cells (SDC). Variants differ in protein profiles, including differential expression of a major outer membrane protein (MOMP) of C. burnetii, designated P1. The approximately 29-kDa MOMP is highly expressed in LCV, down-regulated in SCV, and not apparent in SDC. We sought to characterize P1 through purification of native protein for N-terminal analysis, cloning, and functional studies. Highly purified P1, extracted from C. burnetii membranes by using the zwitterionic detergent Empigen, allowed the determination of N-terminal and internal peptide sequences. The entire P1 coding locus was cloned by PCR amplification based upon these peptide sequences, followed by inverse PCR. Comparison of the predicted P1 amino acid sequences among the C. burnetii isolates Nine Mile, Koka, Scurry, and Kerns indicated a high degree of conservation. Structural prediction suggests that the peptide has a predominantly beta-sheet conformation, consistent with bacterial porins. Typical porin characteristics were observed for native P1, including detergent solubilization properties, heat modification of purified protein, and channel formation in a planar lipid bilayer. Characterization of differentially expressed P1 as a porin increases our understanding of the function of morphological variants and their role in pathogenesis.
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Varghees, S., Kiss, K., Frans, G., Braha, O., & Samuel, J. E.
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Numerical simulation of combined adsorption desalination and cooling cycles with integrated evaporator/condenser
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The availability of potable water and cooling are becoming increasingly important to ensure good sustainability and quality of life. In this work, a new multi-cycle adsorption desalination and cooling system using AQSOA-Z02 has been developed for high water production and cooling rates using renewable and waste heat sources. It consists of two 2-adsorber bed cycles linked with integrated evaporator/condenser, one cycle uses the integrated evaporator/condenser as evaporator (upper) and the second one uses it as a condenser (lower). In this system low condensing temperatures can be achieved using the cooling effect from the evaporator of the lower cycle and the integrated evaporator/condenser thus enhancing the system performance. Also, the adsorber beds of the upper and lower cycles are heated in series during the desorption process using the same heat source. This system can operate in three modes depending on the desalinated water and cooling capacity requirements. Results showed that the specific daily water production ranges from 6.64 to 15.4 m3/tonne adsorbent/day while the cooling capacity reaches up 46.6 Rton/tonne adsorbent at evaporator temperature of 10 °C. The new cycle offers potential of simultaneously producing large amounts of desalinated water and cooling capacity (at 10 °C) compared to other cycles.
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“All true and I sympathize greatly. What to do about it and similar exploitation in Mexico, Canada, Guatemala, Peru, Finland, Russia, Japan, Mali, Palestine, Vietnam? When humans “grow up,” can/will we love one another as we want to be loved?”
James Anaya, the UN special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, said no member of the US Congress would meet him as he investigated the part played by the government in the considerable difficulties faced by Indian tribes.
Anaya said that in nearly two weeks of visiting Indian reservations, indigenous communities in Alaska and Hawaii, and Native Americans now living in cities, he encountered people who suffered a history of dispossession of their lands and resources, the breakdown of their societies and “numerous instances of outright brutality, all grounded on racial discrimination”.
“It’s a racial discrimination that they feel is both systemic and also specific instances of ongoing discrimination that is felt at the individual level,” he said.
Anaya said racism extended from the broad relationship between federal or state governments and tribes down to local issues such as education.

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No, of course not. Stop being ridiculous.
But since it was just announced by Variety that the stunning, Nordic-looking actress who portrayed Galadriel in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings is now joining the cast of Thor’s newest outing, I can’t help but wonder who she’s slated to play. The role is currently unspecified and the movie doesn’t release for another two years, so there’s no telling what the future may hold. And while Thor: Ragnarok’s apocalyptic storyline is bound to make it one of the darkest Marvel movies to date, the fact that comedic director Taika Waiti has been slated to direct will open the door for major rewrites. For all anyone knows, Blanchett’s character isn’t even in the current script.
Fortunately, it isn’t too difficult to speculate on this one. An actress like Blanchett won’t likely be playing a third-rate character, and Thor only shares his universe with a limited number of truly remarkable women. But since almost none of these women have made it into the MCU to date, I’ll have to cast a pretty wide net if I wish to stand any hope of guessing her character. Below are some of my best (and a few of my worst) guesses for Blanchett’s new role in Thor: Ragnarok.
This is based on a year-old rumor by Cinema Blend that almost definitely isn’t true. Still, I felt like I had to include it since the idea was actually proposed by Loki himself:
“In the myth, he has a wife called Sigyn who protects him from a poison serpent who is dripping venom into his mouth. And she has a bowl over his mouth and of course the bowl keeps filling up and she has to empty it, and so his damnation could be interesting.”
Tom Hiddleston must be doing some reading in preparation for this movie, because this is spot-on. In the original myth, Sigyn (whose name humorously means “victorious girlfriend”) is a goddess with pretty much no power whatsoever. All she does is save Loki from that snake venom, occasionally moving the bowl so that the venom hits him. The pain from the venom was actually said to burn so badly that Loki’s convulsions would shake the entire planet. In the myth, this actually preceded Ragnarok. But the Thor movies don’t exactly adhere to Norse mythology, so they could easily flip the script and have this be Loki’s punishment for causing it. And she actually did appear in the comics, although she hasn’t had a major appearance since the 1990s.
The problem is that Loki didn’t have a wife in the original movies. Plus, he’s tied up in pretending to be Odin. So unless some crazy storyline has him remarrying after the death of Frigga in Thor: The Dark World, the chances of Cate Blanchett playing Sigyn are pretty slim. It’s not impossible, but it would be a lot of extra story to include for the sole purpose of having Loki get drooled on by a snake.
This is another one that doesn’t quite fit the timeline, but would still be interesting to see. After the comic book version of Ragnarok finished up, Loki became a woman. Including this version of Loki in the movies would likely mean they’d have to adjust the timeline a bit, but it’s easy to see how they might do it.
Loki only became a woman in the comics by possessing another woman’s body. When the last movie ended and everyone saw Loki disguised as Odin, everyone questioned Odin’s whereabouts. But what if Loki isn’t pretending to be Odin? The common assumption is that his death at the hands of Algrim was a trick, but we don’t know that for sure. It could have been real, leaving him a bodiless entity that must resort to possession in order to survive. If so, a plot point in Thor: Ragnarok could have someone discovering the nature of his undercover status as Odin, forcing him to find a body.
This would be interesting, but there are three reasons you probably can’t count on seeing Cate Blanchett as Loki. First, it’s crazy how stupid that story would look in a movie that’s trying to take itself seriously. Second, she’d still have to be established as a character that he would want to possess for one reason or another. And third, Marvel would never give us this storyline unless they were trying to appeal to a very select population of fans who enjoyed the original design of Loki as a woman. And that design was based on Sif, the woman he possessed when this happened in the comics. So even if it does happen, Cate Blanchett likely wouldn’t be involved. Even Hiddleston agrees that Marvel should stick to the comic books if this storyline were ever used:
“We know that in the comics he comes back in the body of Sif. So I say the first obvious port of call is Jaimie Alexander.”
Amora the Enchantress
Hey, this is the first one that has a snowball’s chance in Hel of actually happening. I was thinking we’d never get around to one of those. What’s more, this one probably should happen. Amora has always been one of Loki’s greatest allies in the comics, even making the occasional video game appearance. Many fans have been waiting for her to show up, and Hiddleston has even pitched her himself:
“When I was first reading the comics, the relationship with the Enchantress was one of the really fun things I thought would be good to explore and may have even pitched it to Kevin Feige at some point.”
Not only is she a master of sorcery (making her an excellent ally to Loki), but the Enchantress is also a temptress of men. She has frequently played the role of seductress to Thor, which could make for an interesting love triangle between her, Thor, and Loki. And since her younger sister Lorelai has appeared in two episodes of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., her existence in the MCU seems like a given. If they decided to include Loki’s damnation as discussed above, she could even fill the role of Sigyn. It wouldn’t seem like much of a punishment for helping him spur the onset of Ragnarok, but being bound to one of the biggest jerks in the universe doesn’t exactly sound like a vacation. And besides, the MCU is kind of lacking in female villains right now. She’d be a big one.
But remember, we’re here to discuss Cate Blanchett. And while all of the above could technically take place, it’s hard to see Blanchett playing the role of Amora. The love triangle would seem like a stretch, since both Hiddleston and Chris Hemsworth are both in their 30s while Cate Blanchett is currently 46. I have no problem with that, but Hollywood might. They’d be more likely to cast a younger actress in the role of Enchantress, assuming she’s included at all. But whether she’s played by Blanchett or not, it’s due time for Amora to make her silver screen debut.
Karnilla the Norn Queen
Even if we rule out Cate Blanchett as the Enchantress due to her age, there’s a good chance that Karnilla could play at least a small role in the movie. As a powerful sorceress, she’s been a recurring villain in the Marvel universe for many years. And she actually has some big ties to Amora, having trained the Enchantress before ultimately deciding that the youngster was too much of a loose cannon to teach. If Amora were to appear in the movie, it could be an excellent demonstration of her power to see that even experienced villains find her to be dangerous.
The Norn Queen could also play into the mythological side of Thor: Ragnarok. In mythology, the Norns were goddesses of destiny and time. While Karnilla doesn’t necessarily control the Norns in the comics (her alias is more of a reference to her monarchy in the land of Nornheim), Marvel could easily decide to give her alias a bit more weight in the movie.
Not only would it make sense to include the Norns in a movie about the Asgardian apocalypse, but they could easily be used as catalysts to advance the MCU in a big way. Remember that the only Infinity Stones we have not seen to date are the Soul Stone and the Time Stone. Also bear in mind that each stone (with the arguable exception of the Power Stone in Guardians of the Galaxy) has been part of some other powerful entity—the Tesseract, the Aether, and most recently, Loki’s Scepter. Even Guardians included a containment unit for the Power Stone in the form of the Orb. Since the Norns weave destiny through the Threads of Fate, it could easily be revealed that the Threads are somehow powered by the Time Stone. This would also give Thor a way of reversing Ragnarok, although undoing the events of a movie presumably meant to change the landscape of Asgard within the MCU would be something of a wuss move.
This all seems a bit extreme, but it isn’t outside the realm of possibility. And while Cate Blanchett may not look much like Karnilla, she’s proven through her role as Galadriel that she has what it takes to fill the shoes of a queen. I don’t think this outcome is likely, but it’s at least plausible.
Brunnhilde the Valkyrie
The most common speculation right now seems to be that Cate Blanchett will be filling the shiny metal shoes of Valkyrie, a well-known character from the Marvel universe who will almost certainly be included in Thor: Ragnarok to fulfill her role as leader of the Valkyrior, Choosers of the Slain. True to the Valkyries of Nordic mythology, Brunnhilde and her warriors scour the battlefield for slain heroes, transporting the honored fallen to the realm of Valhalla upon death. And if you look closely at the above picture, you’ll notice that she was originally meant to appear in Thor: The Dark World.
If there’s one problem with the idea of Cate Blanchett playing Valkyrie, it’s that she doesn’t quite look like her comic book counterpart. Brunnhilde is often depicted with a rather young face, and in many cases looks more like the type of character Jennifer Lawrence would play. I’m not saying that J-Law is about to make an appearance in Thor: Ragnarok, but the point is that Marvel might opt for someone a bit younger than Cate if they decide to include this character.
There’s another reason I think Valkyrie will likely go to a younger actress, although you might not want to hear it. I won’t get into a big thing about whether or not comic books are sexist, because I believe the debate is tired and I’m not really in the mood for sparking controversy in an article on casting speculations. But whether or not they’re sexist, they do often strive for sex appeal. And casting an older (albeit gorgeous) woman in the role of a generally younger-looking warrior with all of the same toothsome qualities of other comic book femme fatales such as Scarlet Witch and Black Widow might not be their best move here.
Of course, they could always surprise us by bucking the Hollywood trends. But fans of the comics already know that Valkyrie is more than just a Viking psychopomp. At her best, Valkyrie will be a physically demanding role requiring a younger actress as she terrorizes the battlefield with her deadly spear and her enchanted sword, Dragonfang, all from the back of her winged horse, Aragorn. Wait, why does that name sound familiar?
Okay, you know what? Casting Galadriel in the role of Valkyrie might be awesome, just for the sake of that Aragorn reference. I don’t see Marvel casting Cate Blanchett for the sole purpose of turning her into an Easter egg, but the fans would certainly eat it up.
Nah, just joking. This is a role that almost definitely has to go to someone else, with most fans singing the praises of Vikings star Katheryn Winnick. It does seem like Carol Danvers could make an appearance in this movie, though. While Captain Marvel isn’t scheduled until March 8 of 2019, it seems like Marvel could consider revealing the character in an earlier movie. It’s the same approach they’re taking with Spider-Man and Black Panther in Captain America: Civil War, and that they’ve already taken with Luke Cage in Jessica Jones. And since James Gunn has no plans to include her in Guardians of the Galaxy 2, this might be the best bet for our intergalactic heroine.
Still, I see Cate Blanchett playing a character more suitable to the Thor universe itself. That’s why my best guess for her new role in Thor: Ragnarok is….
Hela is the Asgardian goddess of death, ruler of Hel and the ice world Nifleheim. In the comics, she is the daughter left behind after Loki’s death during the first Ragnarok. She also teamed up with her father to bring about a subsequent Ragnarok, the one with which most comic books fans are more familiar. In the movie, however, there is a good chance that Hela may be included as a character with more resemblance to Hel, the Norse goddess presiding over the underworld bearing her own name. Not everyone can make it to Valhalla, so it’s reasonable to expect that Hela and her eponymous land of the dead might be making an appearance.
There are numerous storylines in the comics that could provide excellent fodder for Hela’s involvement in the events of Thor: Ragnarok. One of them involved Hela transforming the Valkyries into evil fire demons while Odin was in the Odinsleep. Many have long suspected that the fire demon Surtur may play a role in the downfall of Asgard, and seeing him team up with a bunch of fiery lasses on flying steeds would certainly make for an excellent cinematic experience.
But this is not necessarily the role that Hela would play in this movie. As is the case with many Marvel villains, there are decades of storylines from which screenwriters Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost may have drawn inspiration. Newcomer Stephany Folsom may also have given the script a few more original touches. All we know is that, according to last week’s update by Variety, neither Earth nor Asgard will necessarily be the primary setting for this adventure. If Asgard falls early on, Hel would be a most suitable choice for the rest of the action, and Hela would therefore play a massive role. It’s also worth noting that the comic book version of Hela was born in Loki’s home world of Jotunheim, a setting that would bring the Thor trilogy full-circle.
Cate Blanchett would be perfect for the role of Hela, especially if the MCU decides to do away with her familial relationship to Loki. As I mentioned in my discussion of Karnilla, Blanchett’s work as Galadriel has more than prepared her for any role that casts her in the part of queen. It’s also interesting to note that the mythological version of the goddess was said to have bluish skin and something of a dark demeanor. We got to see something very similar from Galadriel in The Fellowship of the Ring, when she briefly went nutballs at the idea of taking the One Ring from Frodo.
Not that Hela has to be fully evil at all times. Her comic book counterpart is often a villain, but she is also a three-dimensional character who does her best at times to rule the land of the dead in the manner she believes is best for the balance of all things. If her character is to exhibit such depth in the movie, then a distinguished actress like Cate Blanchett would be one of the better possible casting choices.
In the end, we don’t know which of the above characters will be portrayed by Cate Blanchett. For all we know, her character will be completely unique to the MCU. Either way, it should be exciting to see the finished product when the movie finally hits theaters in 2017.
Thor: Ragnarok is scheduled for release on July 28, 2017. Until then, you can see Cate Blanchett tackle 13 different roles in the recently released Manifesto. She will also be lending her voice to the rock python Kaa in Jungle Book: Origins, slated for release on October 6, 2017.

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GAVIN HENSON is aiming for a “10 out of 10” performance in Wales’ Grand Slam showdown with France this weekend.
Henson boasts a remarkable record of winning every Six Nations match he has started.
If that run continues at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday then he will have played a central role in 10 straight championship victories and Grand Slam triumphs in 2005 and 2008.
“I am aware of that record,” he said. “I didn’t really want anyone to know until the end of the campaign but people seem to have picked up on it.
“I hope to make it 10 out of 10 this weekend. It has been a great campaign so far.
“There is one more to go and we all hope we can do it.”
Until Warren Gatland took charge of the national side, Henson had not started a Six Nations match for Wales since the 2005 Grand Slam.
But the Kiwi coach has included him in all the line-ups so far in this year’s tournament.
Victory for Wales on Saturday would hand them the Grand Slam, but even defeat by 19 points or less would still hand secure the Six Nations title.
Henson added: “It is great to be involved. There is a great feeling in the camp and confidence is really high.”
McBryde on Gatland – P46,47

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23-year-old Bachelor of Education student Courtney Webster has received the Premier’s Award for the Victorian Student of the Year 2017 – Internationalisation.
The award recognises outstanding achievement in engaging domestic and international students within the broader Victorian community.
Courtney, who is a volunteer mentor for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) and a VU international student host, says:
“I consider myself to be a student of life. Learning more has become something foundational to creating multiculturally-inclusive and engaging societies”.
Courtney was one of seven students from seven countries to be presented with an award. She was recognised for her academic achievements and her connection to the Victorian and global communities, through her mentorship at the ASRC and volunteer work welcoming VU international students.
Courtney also received a scholarship of $10,000 to put towards her studies.
Award recipients go on to become ambassadors for the government’s Study Melbourne initiative, which promotes Victoria as a leading study destination.
Minister for Trade and Investment Philip Dalidakis said: “Congratulations to this year’s recipients on their accomplishments. They are a great example of the talent and diversity within our local & international student ranks.”
Courtney is looking forward to becoming a teacher with an international and inclusive approach.
“I want to be a global thinker who is passionate about working with people from all ages, backgrounds and understandings.”
This award follows the success of two VU students being finalists in 2016, with alumnus Kashif Bouns receiving the International Alumnus of the Year award.

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Mathematical Model Answering the Research Question
Mathematical Model has become an integral part of in Engineering management. Mathematical approach to a research problem allows for the statistical comparison of data between two variables. In this case, we seek to compare genetically modified trees and the normal ones in an effort to depict how organizations can implement the findings for their growth. The results of this model can be applied in the production of pesticides a demonstrate how this research problem addresses policies in organizations can help in resisting negative impacts from both internal and external sources.
The initial field trial seeks to assess growth of the trees based on the measurement of the height of the stem and the diameter at breast. They are measured at planting time as well as the end of initial developing season. Damage measurements are carried out to identify which evaluated the badly dented leaf cluster. The second one damage to the entire tree. By measuring both the growth speed in the GM and resistance to attacks by beetle.
Plant Growth=Volume Index=stem height ×〖stem diameter 〗^2 (1)
The equation evaluates the general productivity of biomass, a substance that can be analogously compared to overall productivity of not only manufacturing, but also any organization aims to generating profits. In order to compute the volume growth of every sample, the difference between stem volume at the tail-end of the development and stem volume at planting time was calculated. On the other hand, badly damaged leaf cluster as well as whole-tree damage ratings were carried out after the growing season.
Damage Scores can be used to demonstrate that the control trees exhibit more damage than the transgenic trees. Similarly, as far as leaf cluster damage is concerned, about 97% of all transgenic trees exhibited a lower than 5% damage as opposed to more than 50% damage for the control group.
Model time step
The duration factor t to t+1 symbolizes the duration amid two immense wildfires instead of a predetermined period of time. It is presumed to be adequately lengthy for contention to happen amidst reforming seedlings in the wild stand and only a single recruit to control and engage every cell and achieve productivity. A single step might be in the form of 30 to 100 years. As much as the model may apparently be duplicated indistinctly, it may be a futile endeavor. An enduring character is not appropriate due to the lengthiness required in every tread. The presumption that the hereditary constitution of the forest might be maintained permanent by agronomics may not sustain for a long period of time since the requirements of the industry as well as diversities with distinct genes were commenced. Consequently, outcomes for only one-time step are demonstrated (Linacre & Ades, 249)
The affectation was done as indicated below. Every adult tree was chosen independently to represent the tree that is to be fecundated. The percentage of distinct forms of fecundate, genetically modified as well as non-genetically modified reaching that tree were unified in the air with trees away from the tree being fertilized donating little to the fecundate reserve. The possibility of selfing, as well as hybridding, was considered in that computation and the percentage of seeds of the distinct genetic constitutions was computed for every tree being fecundated.
Linacre, Nicholas A., and Peter K. Ades. “Estimating isolation distances for genetically modified trees in plantation forestry.” Ecological Modelling, vol. 179, no. 3, 2004, pp. 247–257., doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2003.11.011.

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Coronavirus in Ohio: UC Health lab now testing as DeWine scolds private labs as too slow
UC Health opened its own testing line Monday for the novel coronavirus, letting its laboratory produce results faster as public health and the hospitals seek better information on the progress of the infection.
The expansion of the Cincinnati area’s capacity came as Gov. Mike DeWine urged the state’s hospitals that are testing for the new virus to use academic or Ohio Department of Health laboratories for results. Private laboratories, which had promised a faster turnaround, are too slow, the governor said.
In another testing development Monday, Battelle and the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center said they have developed a COVID-19 test that produces results in five hours. The OSU hospital aims to start using its test at its lab.
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Testing for the novel coronavirus across the Cincinnati area is not available on demand. Public health officials say there still are not enough tests for everyone, and tests on hand are reserved for health care workers and the sickest patients.
To get a test, a patient must have a doctor’s order and an appointment.
The quality and quantity of testing for the highly contagious virus has been hampered for months in Ohio and the nation by delays and quality-control issues with the test units. Two weeks ago, the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine sent out an email for colleagues to go through supplies for components missing from the tests, which had come from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Monday, a UC Health statement said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had issued an emergency use authorization for the UC Health test, which is “a modification of the assay” from the CDC.
The laboratory at University Hospitals in Cleveland has been running its own testing for more than three weeks.
Dr. George Smulian of UC Health is director of the division of infectious diseases at the UC College of Medicine. In-house testing will improve the return of results and help long-term hospital planning, he said. “Expedited access to results also allows us to conserve our personal protective equipment by allowing us to use these resources when people truly need it.”
The UC Health statement said that for now, in-house testing will be limited to inpatients at University of Cincinnati Medical Center, West Chester Hospital and Daniel Drake Center for Post-Acute Care. The system will still use outside laboratories for other test specimens, the statement said.
In addition to testing samples collected within UC Health facilities, the health system also provides drive-thru sample collection on its Corryville campus.
For weeks, DeWine has said at his daily preparedness updates in Columbus that the lack of testing and the pace at which patients get results meant officials were flying nearly blind into the expected epidemic of COVID-19, a lung disease that can result from infection with the novel coronavirus.
On Feb. 29, the federal government permitted private laboratories to take on the testing. The national companies said they would test for COVID-19, as did small labs such as Gravity Diagnostics in Covington.
Public health officials hoped increased testing capacity in the private sphere would produce better information more quickly. But Monday, DeWine expressed frustration test results from some private labs are taking too long.
Speaking directly to the state’s hospitals, DeWine said that “clearly the right thing to do” is for them to send all testing either to another local hospital laboratory or to the Ohio Department of Health laboratory in Columbus.
“I don’t think it’s acceptable to be in a situation where we are waiting and people are waiting four, five, six days to be seeing something from the outside labs,” DeWine said, although he did not mention the labs by name. “There’s nothing wrong with the private labs. They go good work. But they are behind, and we are not.”
Battelle, the Columbus research behemoth, and Ohio State announced Monday that their researchers have been working since March 14 to build the laboratory that will handle testing. Ohio State processed the first 91 tests Wednesday.
Results of the Battelle-OSU tests can be available in as few as five hours, the institutions said. The system can handle 200 tests a day now and aims for more than 1,000 tests a day.


I enjoyed reading my brother’s Gas Engine
Magazine and the very good articles on flywheel engines,
homemade engines and tractors. I first picked up an interest in old
engines about 5 years ago.
In my spare time I decided to put my old basket-case John Deere
1-1/2 HP engine to use by building a tractor. I built my first
“Little Sod Buster” tractor in 2001, then decided to build a second
one in 2003 to make a matched set.
The frames were built from heavy-wall, 3-inch channel iron. The
front clip was narrowed and I added a grease zerk to the front
pivot point for smooth operation. I attached the front wheels via a
kingpin-type setup. The spreader wheels measure 24 inches in the
front and 36 inches in the rear.
I used Model 70 John Deere garden tractor transaxles, gas tanks
and steering boxes. The steering wheels are cast iron handwheels
from large gate valves.
The transaxle as well as the engine are installed backwards.
They have three forward speeds and one reverse. The clutch is set
up to be like a 2-cylinder John Deere. I modified the brake band to
use a lever on the left side.
To keep the drivetrain clean looking, I modified the crankshaft
in order to install a sprocket between the flywheel and main
bearing. Then I built a crankcase cover to cover the sprocket and
chain. I left the original gas tanks on the engines off to give the
needed clearance for the drive chains.
These tractors have been driven in a number of parades and have
been trouble-free. I probably had a little too much idle time on my
Contact engine enthusiast Jim Diebler at: 1990 290th
St., Garner, IA 50438; (641) 927-4606.


I am getting a new blower motor put in my gas furnace (Bryant 330AAV
upflow). The technician recommends changing the capacitor as well
since the blower motor will not spin freely, he says that the capacitor
has had extra strain on it trying to turn the blower. This makes sense
to me but I wanted to run it by some folks just to make sure I'm not
being snookered. Please comment, thanks
Okay, so it sounds like replacing the capacitor is a good idea, but I'm
still curious if the tech person was correct in stating that the
capacitor has endured undue stress while the blower motor wore out and
became progressively more difficult to turn until it (the blower motor)
finally crapped out. Any more opinions? Thanks!
My sense is the beerrings in the fan got worse and worse, until
the friction was greater than the motor's power.
In either case (if the chicken laid the egg, or the egg hatched
the chicken) replace the capacitor. They are cheaper than a house
call. Quit straining over pennies, and think for the long term.
Christopher A. Young
You can\'t shout down a troll.
First you have to know what the capacitor does. It is called starting
cap. When motor is starting receiving power, cap's job is sort of to
push start the motor going(called phase leading capacitor). Once motor
starts spinning, cap is out of circuit. He is pulling your leg, IMO.
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Saxophonist Boney James is on top of the hip heap these days.
A consistent leader in contemporary ratings. Heavy airplay of his first four albums on smooth-jazz stations. A hit across the nation, in the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan and Singapore. A tour with Al Jarreau. And a new Warner Bros. CD, Sweet Thing, just added to the record bins.
So why is the NAC hitmeister feeling like the Rodney Dangerfield of modern music?
Because, James says, he senses “a cultural stigma” attached to contemporary jazz, a denigration he believes is cultivated by many jazz critics.
James muses, “I don’t know why jazz critics don’t like contemporary jazz. I think a lot of them feel that (straightahead jazz) has to be championed by them. And I think there’s resentment involved that the kind of music I’m playing will sell more, and has more radio play.
“But to say that you don’t like that kind of music just because it IS that kind of music is silly. It’s a very big issue, a big controversy amongst jazz critics.
“There’s good and bad music in all genres. I would be the first one to admit that if you’re listening to some of the smooth-jazz radio stations, a lot of that music is boring. But not all of it is. And if I’m listening to a straight-ahead jazz station, not all of that is emotionally compelling either.
“If someone is critiquing the actual technique involved, that’s a whole other story. Mainly a lot of music critics have a tendency to just say they don’t like it,” he declares.
“It’s a cultural bigotry you sometimes encounter just because you’re playing for, essentially, a guy who doesn’t like Chinese food going to review a Chinese restaurant.
“I firmly ascribe to the concept that music is 100 percent subjective. If you’re hearing music and it sounds good and beautiful to you, then that makes it beautiful. It’s all within the listener. It’s not important for other people to tell you how they react.”
James, 35, has changed both his name and his musical tastes through the years. He grew up in Lowell, MA, as James Oppenheim, a student clarinetist who listened to Jethro Tull and Yes before shifting his ears to rock, R&B and then fusion.
He honed his chops playing in a series of R&B and funk garage bands, later playing fusion in the group Line One. He moved into studio and stage sessions, working with artists such as Randy Crawford, the Isley Brothers, Teena Marie and Bobby Caldwell.
The slim one’s odd nickname was created 11 years ago, while touring Scandinavia with Crawford in 1986-87. “It started with a joke. We spent a week in Oslo, Norway, a very expensive city. We were only getting $30 a day for food-and the beer was almost $10!
“So I was joking around and said to Wayne Lindsey, the keyboard player, ‘Oh, I just won’t eat for the next couple days.’
He said, ‘Shit, we’ll have to start calling you Boney James then. That’s going to be a good name for you, and I’m going to call you that from now on.’
“So he kept introducing me to people as Boney James, and over the years he and other musicians spread it around Los Angeles.
“When I was getting ready to put out my first album, the record company told me my name, James Oppenheim, wasn’t very marketable, and they’d heard of my nickname. It still took me a good two weeks to decide to use it. And all my writing credits on my albums are still my legal name.”
The Oppenheim family had moved to Los Angeles in 1975, his teen years when a favorite album was Stevie Wonder’s Innervisions. “And I used to drive around playing Earth, Wind and Fire’s Gratitude album. I had started playing saxophone, and a music teacher at school had a sampling of Grover Washington, Jr. playing ‘Mr. Magic.’
“Chick Corea’s fusion sound was my first entree to jazz, and when I heard Joe Farrell with him, I thought he was ‘the bomb.’ So I studied Grover, Joe and Gerry Niewood (of Mangione’s band), trying to sound like they did, not really thinking of a career in music. But all that stuff gets internalized into your identity.
“Touring with R&B bands, I was stylistically a combination of instrumental fusion with R&B influences-Grover, Ronnie Laws, The Crusaders. They all combined to make me sound a certain way, what I’m told is an identifiable voice.
“I think making music is removing the barriers from your inside and allowing that to come through your horn to the outside. I think I’m getting better and better at focusing on what it is I’m trying to convey when I’m playing. I think my style, playing-wise, is a little more direct, more identifiable, more communicative, more consistently me and less derivative.”
James was signed as a solo artist to the independent Spindletop Records label in 1991, releasing Trust the next year. In 1993 he moved into the majors with Warner Bros. Backbone was issued the following year, spending five weeks at the top of R&R’s NAC chart.
In 1995, Seduction rocketed James into major sales and airplay charts. It broke R&R’s previous NAC record with a run of 17 consecutive weeks in No. 1 place. On the Gavin Smooth Jazz and Vocals chart, it was on top 16 straight weeks. On Billboard’s Contemporary Jazz list, it remained in the Top Ten for an entire year.
Seduction also made history by placing four tracks from a single CD in the Top Five on national airplay charts. It gained a “Soul Train” nomination for Best Contemporary Jazz Album of the year. In 1996, James issued Boney’s Funky Christmas.
For Sweet Thing, the saxophonist composed one song and co-wrote seven others. Adding Jarreau’s vocals on “I Still Dream” was a collaboration that resulted in James touring with the singer.
Ideas for songs usually come to James while he’s riffling the keyboards or practicing his sax. “I’ll get a scrap of an idea, or a chord progression, and follow that seed of a song. The rest of it is just shaping it.
“The best quote about songwriting I ever heard, that I borrow to tell people, was from John Lennon, that it’s like a sculpture. You look at this block of stone and imagine that you can see some form within it, and you just keep chipping away until it is revealed.
“I’ll get a glimmer of an idea and the rest is just chipping away. It’s a long process, and most of my music undergoes many changes over the weeks or months that I’m writing. The songs change during touring, too, but the recording process always comes first.
“I also collaborate a lot with friends, like Darrell Smith, or Carl Burnett, or Paul Brown, my co-producer. Quite often it’s a jamming thing; we’ll just sort of hang, and come up with ideas, and if it’s something we like, we’ll hack away at it.”
Other Sweet Thing players include former Rufus guitarist Tony Maiden playing his Chaka Khan hit for the title track, keyboardist Darrell Smith, guitarist Paul Jackson, Jr., Anita Baker bassist Larry Kemper and Janet Jackson’s young stage drummer Li’l John Roberts. Also featured are percussionists Paulhino De Costa and Lennie Castro, with drum programming by Brown, James’ longtime producing partner and arranger.
The album features a Georgia O’Keefe-like photograph of a peach-half on the cover. “It’s so sunny and succulent and beautiful, it’s perfect to express the mood of the record,” says James.
“I’m always looking for a title to communicate something about the overall flavor of an album. And I like the covers to be symbolic-the naive quality of arms for the buoyant sound of Trust, the saxophone as a spine for the grittier edge of Backbone, a moth being drawn toward the light for the sexy sound of Seduction.”
James plans a year-long tour for the new album. “But I’m going to start writing again in September, between dates. I can’t write on the road, only at home. I go into my little hamster wheel, playing and going ‘Hmmm,’ then playing it live, which is really the greatest life.”
Tenor, gold-plated Selmar Mark VI; Alto, silver-plated Selmar Mark VI; Soprano, silver-plated Buescher; Reeds, Vandoren V16, 3-1/2 strength
James says he’s been so busy recording and touring that he hasn’t listened to anything in recent months. His longtime favorites include: Pat Metheny, Pat Metheny Group; Rufus, Stompin’ at the Savoy.


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19,000 and countingLayoff notices may continue to August
Wall Street has Black Monday, and now California teachers have Red Tuesday, so named because yesterday – Tuesday, March 15 – was code red for public education, the deadline for districts to issue layoff warnings to teachers. During a late afternoon news conference at Portola Elementary School in San Bruno, David A. Sanchez, president of the California Teachers Association, said they’d heard from 293 of the state’s 1,000 school districts and estimated that nearly 19,000 pink slips went out. He predicted that the number would rise to more than 20,000 by the time the final numbers are in. “In my 30 years as a kindergarten teacher, I have never seen such unprecedented cuts that are so deep and impact so many,” said Sanchez.
Whatever the final number released by the CTA, the actual figure will be even higher because the union only counts layoffs of permanent teachers, those who have been teaching for three or more years and have due-process rights. No one – not the CTA, not the State Department of Education or any of half a dozen agencies I called – keeps track of all the first- and second-year teachers who will be let go, and the temporary teachers working on one-year contracts as fill-ins and the like, even though they’re almost sure to disappear. A few phone calls to districts turned up some numbers: 164 in San Francisco Unified, 209 in Long Beach Unified, and 56 in San Jose Unified. Los Angeles Unified included temp workers in its 5,045 layoff notices.
“We’re here on a sad day,” said Tom Torlakson, the state Superintendent of Public Instruction, at yesterday’s event in San Bruno. Yet, the mood in the school’s small multipurpose room seemed more feisty than gloomy as parents, teachers, and children, most wearing red shirts, waved hand-lettered signs reading, “Where’s Our Bailout,” and “Stop the Cuts,” and speakers challenged state lawmakers to do a better job.
“I will tell you that sometimes it means you have to risk your own future, and if that’s what it takes, that’s what we demand they do,” said Jill Wynns, incoming president of the California School Boards Association, in a dig at the Republican legislators who are so far keeping the governor’s $12.5 billion tax extension off the ballot.
Without the tax extension, there’s no chance that Gov. Jerry Brown will hold to his pledge not to cut K-12 education next year. According to the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst, schools could lose $4.5 billion in a worst-case scenario; that’s on top of the $18 billion in cuts over the last three years. During that same three-year period 30,000 teachers lost their jobs, said Sanchez.
One of the big scares for next year, however, is that far fewer jobs will be saved than in recent years. For instance, 25,600 teachers received layoff warnings last year, but 10,500 of them were rescinded, in large part thanks to $100 billion in federal stimulus money to the states, which saved about a quarter-million teaching jobs nationwide. With that money gone, the doomsday scenario has moved in
This time around, some veteran teachers were caught off guard. “Three of us with tenure got pink slips,” said Kalasea Sanchez, a second grade teacher at Christopher School in San Jose’s Oak Grove School District. Sanchez is in her third year at the school, but has served on many committees and thought that experience might protect her. [Note: In Los Angeles Unified, the usual last in, first out procedure for laying off teachers was thrown out by a court for several dozen low-income, low-performing schools]. As of now, however, class sizes are heading up in Christopher School next year, going from the low 20s to 30 in kindergarten, first, second, and third grades. It’s a Title I school, more than half the students are English learners, and Sanchez says she’s always had some foster children in her classes.
“I was thinking today, I had this student last year who was taken away from his mom when he was about 4 for drinking a bottle of Gatorade with meth in it,” recalled Sanchez. “I spent a lot of time with him and bonded with him; his mom turned her life around. Today I saw him and he ran up and gave me a big hug.” He still has many challenges ahead of him, and Sanchez says she worries what will happen when she leaves and he’s in a larger class with a teacher who doesn’t know anything about him or his family.
Teachers who were pink-slipped will find out in two months, on May 15, if their layoff notices will be rescinded. But some districts are waiting until late summer to begin their layoffs. The State Education Code allows districts to lay off teachers between five days after a state budget is enacted and August 15, if the total revenue limit hasn’t increased by at least 2 percent. This hasn’t typically been a reliable fallback for districts because they cannot rely on the Legislature passing a budget on time.
But Proposition 25, approved by voters last November, requires only a simple legislative majority – 50 percent plus one – to pass a state budget. Raising taxes still requires a two-thirds vote, so even if the tax extension fails to make it onto the ballot or is voted down, the Democratically controlled legislature and the governor could pass a budget with massive spending cuts, which may force school districts to cut even more teachers just weeks before the start of the new school year.


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Everyone has that one pair of sneakers that’s marked with a certain level of true love. It’s the pair you can’t seem to stop wearing; the pair that works with everything; the pair that’s not going anywhere.
Nike and Foot Locker get that, and it’s that love for sneakers they aimed to celebrate in their “Home and Away” film campaign.
Playing homage to the distinct elements of local sneaker culture that color the under-represented cities of Detroit, Philadelphia, Seattle, Baltimore, and Dallas, the series is centered around two custom Nike Air Max sneakers crafted for each city, along with professional athletes, artists, musicians, trend-setters, and sneaker enthusiasts.
Director JB Carlin took to all five cities, shooting a constant stream of moments in order to capture the unique stories and physical essence of each place.
Carlin’s lens focused in on each city’s story by featuring lively round-table discussions that brought together key local celebrities who, through endless conversation points, quips, and undeniable pride, shared what makes their city the most Proud (Detroit), Obsessed (Philly), Underrated (Seattle), Raw (Baltimore) and Hungry (Dallas).
The vibrancy of each city shines through every frame as Carlin’s dynamic direction breeds a set of films ripe with authenticity and an undeniable spark of energy. Give the set of films a watch!


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Wood Duck Banding
Duke Energy’s East Bend Generating Station in Boone County, Kentucky partners each year with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife to band wood ducks. About 100 ducks are banded annually at a managed wetland area on the East Bend property.
Banding wood ducks is one of many methods used to improve waterfowl populations across the country. The process starts in late June with the Kentucky Fish and Wildlife preparing the site and Duke Energy employees baiting the area each day with corn. On the day of the banding, a biologist observes the bait site and triggers rockets to cast a net over the ducks. Employees safely retrieve the ducks from the net and place them in holding boxes where they are then taken, one by one, to the biologist for banding. Once the sex, age and other data are determined, the ducks are released unharmed.
“Each year, we gather more information about the wood duck during the banding operation at the station,” said Mike Laytart, East Bend Station employee and banding project coordinator. “As a sportsman, I appreciate this opportunity to help sustain the wood duck population in our area for future generations.”
The leg bands contain an identification number and a toll-free telephone number. When a hunter takes a banded duck during the hunting season, they may simply call the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to report the duck’s identification number. The information is gathered annually to draw a flight line showing when and where ducks were banded and harvested. This valuable information allows fish and wildlife services across the country to develop wetlands and refuges along the ducks’ flyway to aid in winter migrations.


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sufferer; and if God's hatred of sin be sions from the genial breathings of one so intense and overwhelming a thing, day, and the desolating simoom of the that, ere transgressors could be receiv- next. And though when I had thrown ed into favor, the Eternal Son inter- me down on an alpine summit, and lookposed and humbled himself so that an- ed forth on the clusterings of the grand gels drew back confounded, and en- and the lovely, canopied with an azure dured vicariously such extremity of that was full of glory; a hope, that my wretchedness that the earth reeled at Creator loved me, might have been gathe spectacle, and the heavens were thered from scenery teeming with imdarkened; why, shall there, or can presses of kindness, and apparently there, be harborage of the deceitful sending out from waving forests, and expectation, that if any one of us, the gushing fountains, and smiling villages, sons of the apostate, rush on the bosses the anthem of an acknowledgment that of the buckler of the Lord, and make God is infinitely beneficent; yet if, on trial for himself of the justice of the a sudden, there passed around me the Almighty, he shall not find that justice rushings of the hurricane, and there as strict in its works as it is stern in came up from the valleys the shrieks its words, prepared to deal out to him, of an affrighted peasantry, and the unsparingly and unflinchingly, the fiery torrents went down in their strength, portion whose threatenings glare from sweeping away the labor of man's hands, the pages of Scripture ? So then we and the corn and the wood which had may count it legitimate to maintain, crowned the fields as a diadem ; oh, that the truth of God being a just God the confidence which had been given is appreciated truth, and effective truth, me by an exhibition which appeared only in the degree that it is truth " as- eloquent of the benevolence of God. it is in Jesus:" and we add, conse- head, would yield to horror and trepiquently, new witness to the fact, that dation, whilst the Eternal One seemed the definition of our text describes walking before me, the tempest his truth accurately under its influential voice, and the lightning his glance, and and life-giving forms.
a fierce devastation in his every footWe may pursue much the same line print. of argument in reference to the truth But even allowing the idea gained, of the love of God. We may confess, that "God is love," there is no properthat he who looks not at this attribute ty of the Creator concerning which it through the person and work of the is easier to fall into mistake. We have Mediator, may obtain ideas of it which no standard by which to estimate dishall, in certain respects, be correct. vine affections, unless one which we And yet, after all, it would be hard to fashion out of the results of the work. prove satisfactorily, by natural theolo- ings of human. And we know well
God is love." John, 4:8. enough, that, amongst ourselves, an inThere may be a kind of poetical, or tense and overweening attachment is Arcadian divinity, drawn from the almost sure to blind man to the faults brightness of sunshine, and the rich of its object, or to cause, at the least, enamel of flowers, and the deep dark that when the faults are discerned, due blue of a sleeping lake. And, taking blame is withheld. So that, whilst we the glowing landscape as their page of have not before us a distinct exhibition theology, men may sketch to them- of God's love, we may fall naturally selves God unlimited in his benevo- into the error of ascribing an effemi. lence. But when the sunshine is suc- nate tenderness to the Almighty, and ceeded by the darkness, and the flowers reckon, exactly in proportion as we are withered, and the waters wrought judge the love amazing, that it will into madness, can they find in the wrath never permit our being given over to and devastation that assurance of God's torment. Hence, admitting it to be love which they derived, unhesitating truth, yen, most glorious and blessed ly, from the calm and the beauty? The truth, that the creature is loved by matter of fact we hold to be, that Na- the Creator, this truth must be viewed tural Theology, at the best, is a system through a rectifying medium, which of uncertainties, a balancing of oppo- shall correct the distortions which a sites. I should draw different conclu- depraved nature produces.
Now we maintain again that this would acquaint ourselves with the cha. rectifying medium must be the person racter of God. But we wave the furand work of the Savior. In other words, ther prosecution of our first head of we must make the truth of God's love, discourse, and ask attention to a few truth "as it is in Jesus,” and then, at remarks which have to do with the seone and the same time, we shall know cond. how ample is the love, and be guarded We divided truth into two great deagainst abusing it. When we observe partments; truth which relates to the that God loved us so well as to give his character of God, truth which relates Son to death for us, we perceive that to the condition of man. We proceed, the immenseness of this love leaves therefore, to affirm, in reference to the imagination far behind in her least-fet- condition of man, that truth, if rightly tered soarings. But when we also ob understood, or thoroughly influential, serve that love, so unheard of, could must be truth as it is in Jesus." We not advance straight to the rescue of find it admitted, for example, in most its objects, but must wait, ere it could quarters, that man is a fallen being, breathe words of forgiveness to the with faculties weakened, if not wholly fallen, the outworkings of a task of ig- incapacitated for moral achievement. nominy and blood; there must vanish, Yet ihis general admission is one of the at once, the idle expectancy of a ten- most heartless, and unmeaning things derness not proof against the cry of in the world. It consists with the hardespair, and we must learn (unless we boring pride and conceit. It tolerates wilfully close the mind against convic- many forms and actings of self-rightetion) that the love of a holy, and righ- ousness. And the matter-of-fact is, teous, and immutable Being is that that man's moral disability is not to be amazing principle, which can stir the described, and not understood theoreuniverse in our behalf during the sea- tically. We want some bold, definite, son of grace, and yet, as soon as that and tangible measurements. But we season have terminated, resign us un- shall find these only in the work of hesitatingly to the ministry of ven. Christ Jesus. I learn the depth to geance. Thus, take the truth of God's which I have sunk, from the length of love out of Jesus, and you will dress the chain let down to updraw me. I up a weak and womanish sympathy, ascertain the mightiness of the ruin by which cannot permit the punishment of examining the machinery of restorathe disobedient. But, on the other hand, tion. I gather that I must be, in the take this truth "as it is in Jesus,” and broadest sense, unable to effect deliyou have the love immeasurable in its verance for myself, from observing that stature, but uncompromising in its pe- none less than the Son of the Highest nalties; eager to deliver the meanest had strength enough to fight the batwho repents, yet nerved to abandon the tles of our race. Thus the truth of huthousands who die hardened; threat. man apostacy, of human corruption, of ening, therefore, the obdurate in the human helplessness-how shall this be very degree that it encourages the pe-understood truth and effective? We nitent: and when you thus contrast answer, simply through being truth truth" as it is in Jesus," with truth as "as it is in Jesus.” In the history of it is out of Jesus, you will more and the Incarnation and Crucifixion we more recognize the power and the read, in characters not to be misinterworth of the expression, that the Ephe- preted, the announcements, that man sians had been taught "as the truth is has destroyed himself, and that, what. in Jesus.”
ever his original powers, he is now void We might employ this kind of illus- of ability to turn unto God, and do tration in regard to other attributes of things well-pleasing in his sight. You God. We might show you that cor- do not, indeed, alter these truths, if rect and practical views of the truths you destroy all knowledge of the Inof God's faithfulness, God's holiness, carnation and Crucifixion. But you reGod's wisdom, are only to be derived move their massive and resistless ex. from the work of redemption ; and this hibition, and leave us to our own vague would be showing you that truth must and partial computations. We have nobe truth" as it is in Jesus,” if we thing practical to which to appeal, no
thing fixed by which always to estimate. which to read truth in the holy child Thus, in spite of a seeming recognition Jesus. Or, rather, we are ignorant of of truth, we shall be turned adrift on a the characters in which truth is graven wide sea of ignorance and self-sufficien- on the Savior: and therefore, though cy; and all because truth may be to us we may read it in books and manutruth as it is in moral philosophy, truth scripts, on the glorious scroll of the as it is in well-arranged ethics, truth heavens, and in the beautiful tracery as it is in lucid and incontrovertible of forest and mountain, we can never statements; and yet prove nothing but peruse it as written in the person and despised, and ill-understood, and pow. work of God's only and well-beloved erless truth, as not being to us truth Son. The mortification of the flesh"as it is in Jesus.”
the keeping under the body-the pluckWe add that the law of God, which ing out the offending right eye-the has been given for the regulation of our cutting off the offending right handconduct, is a wonderful compendium these, so to speak, are the processes of of truth. There is not a single working tuition by which men are taught "as of wickedness, though it be the light the truth is in Jesus.” Sanctification est and most secret, wbich escapes the conducts to knowledge, and then knowdenouncements of this law; so that ledge speeds the work of sanctification. the statute-book proves itself truth by We beseech you, therefore, that ye delineating, with an unvarying accura- strive, through God's grace, to give cy, the whole service of the father of yourselves to the business of putting lies. But who knows any thing of this off the old man. Will ye affirm that ye truth, unless acquainted with the law believe there is a heaven, and yet act as expounded and fulfilled by Christ ? as though persuaded that it is not worth Christ in his discourses expanded every striving for? Believe, only believe, precept, and in his obedience exhibited that a day of coronation is yet to break every demand. He, therefore, who on this long-darkened globe, and the would know the truth which there is sinews will be strung, like those of the in the law, must know this truth “as wrestlers of old, who saw the garlands it is in Jesus." He moreover, who in the judges hands, and locked themwould not be appalled by this truth, selves in an iron embrace. Strive-for must view it " as it is in Jesus.” Know the grasp of a destroyer is upon you, ledge of the law would crush a man, if and if ye be not wrenched away, it will unaccompanied by the consciousness palsy you, and crush you. Strive-for that Christ obeyed the law in his stead. the foe is on the right hand, on the left So that truth" as it is in Jesus,” this hand, before you, behind you; and ye is knowledge, and this is comfort. And must be trampled under foot, if ye finally-for we must hurry over ground struggle not, and strike not, as those where there is much which might tempt who feel themselves bound in a deathus to linger-look at the context of the grapple. Strive-there is a crown to words under review, and you will find be won-the mines of the earth have that truth “as it is in Jesus,” differs not furnished its metal, and the depths from that truth as it is out of Jesus, of the sea hide nothing so radiant as in being a sanctifying thing. The the jewels with which it is wreathed. Ephesians were “taught as the truth Strive--for if ye gain not this crown is in Jesus,” to “put off, concerning -Alas! alas ! ye must bave the scorthe former conversation, the old man, pions for ever round the forehead, and which is corrupt according to the de- the circles of that flame which is fanceitful lusts." Hence—and this after ned by the breath of the Almighty's all is the grand distinction--truth, "as displeasure. it is in Jesus," is a thing of the heart; Strive then, but strive in the strength whereas truth, as it is out of Jesus, is of: your risen Lord, and not in your own. a thing of the head. Dear Brethren, ye Ye know not how soon that Lord may cannot be too often told that without come. Whilst the sun walks his usual holiness “ no man shall see the Lord.” path on the firmament, and the grass Hebrews, 12, : 14. If no vigorous pro- is springing in our fields, and mer. cess of sanctification be going on with chants are crowding the exchange, and in, we are destitute of the organs by politicians jostling for place, and the
voluptuous killing time, and the avari- as truth which is soothing: terrible, for cious counting gold," the sign of the he shall be Judge as well as Savior; Son of Man," Matthew, 24 : 30, shall and ye cannot face Him, ye cannot be seen in the heavens, and the august stand before Him, unless ye now give throne of fire and of cloud be piled for ear to His invitation, “ Come unto me, judgment. Be ye then persuaded. If all ye that labor and are heavy laden, not persuaded, be ye alarmed. There is and I will give you rest.” Matthew, truth in Jesus which is terrible, as well | 11:28.
THE DIFFICULTIES OF SCRIPTURE.
“ In which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable
wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, unto their own destruction.”—2 Peter, 3 : 16.
The writings of St. Paul, occupying, handled, that the apostle's writings as they do, a large portion of the New should present greater difficulties to Testament, treat much of the sublimer the Biblical student. With the excepand more difficult articles of Christiani- tion of the Book of Revelation, which, ty. It is undeniable that there is a great as dealing with the future, is necessadeal made known to us by the Epistles, rily hard to be interpreted, the Epistle which could only imperfectly, if at all, to the Romans is probably that part of be derived from the Gospels. We have the New Testament which most dethe testimony of Christ himself that he mands the labors of the commentator. had many things to say to his disciples, And though we select this epistle as which, whilst he yet ministered on pre-eminent in difficulties, we may say earth, they were not prepared to re- generally of the writings of St. Paul, ceive. Hence it was altogether to be that, whilst they present simple and expected that the New Testament would beautiful truths which all may underbe, what we find it, a progressive book ; stand, they contain statements of docthe communications of intelligence trine, which, even after long study and growing with the fuller opening out of prayer, will be but partially unfolded the dispensation. The deep things of by the most gifted inquirers. With this the sovereignty of God; the mode of admission of difficulty we must join the the justification of sinners, and its per- likelihood of misconception and misapsect consistence with all the attributes plication. Where there is confessedly of the Creator; the mysteries bound obscurity, we may naturally expect up in the rejection of the Jew and the that wrong theories will be formed, and calling of the Gentile ; these enter erroneous inferences deduced. If it be largely into the Epistles of St. Paul, hard to determine the true meaning of though only faintly intimated by wri- a passage, it can scarcely fail that some ters who precede him in the canon of false interpretation will be advanced, Scripture. And it is a natural and un- or espoused, by the partisans of theoavoidable consequence on the greater logical systems. If a man have error to abstruseness of the topics which are maintain, he will turn for support to passages of Scripture, of which, the the whole Bible the wresting of the un. real sense being doubtful, a plausible learned and unstable. So that, when may be advanced on the side of his there is wanting that chastened, and falsehood. If, again, an individual wish teachable, and prayerful disposition, to persuade himself to believe tenets which should always be brought to the which encourage him in presumption study of Scripture, the plainest pasand unholiness, he may easily fasten on sages and the most obscure may be separate verses, which, taken by them- equally abused. After all, it is not so selves, and without concern for the much the difficulty which makes the analogy of faith, seem to mark out danger, as the temper in which the Biprivileges superseding the necessity of ble is perused. And if St. Peter's statestriving against sin. So that we can ment prove anything, it proves that find no cause of surprise in the fact, selections from Holy Writ, such as the that St. Peter should speak of the Epis- papist will allow, are to the full as tles of St. Paul as wrested by the "un-fraught with peril as the unmutilated learned and unstable" to their own de- volume; and that, therefore, unless a struction. He admits that in these man is to read all, he ought not to read Epistles "are some thin hard to be a line. We cannot but admire the manunderstood.” And we consider it, as ner in which the apostle has expressed we have just explained, a necessary himself. If he had specified difficulties; consequence on the difficulties, that if he had stated that it was upon such there should be perversions, whether or such points that St. Paul's Epistles, wilful or unintentional, of the writings. or the Scriptures in general, were ob
But you will observe, that, whilst Št. scure; those who are disposed to give Peter confesses both the difficulty and part, and to keep back part, might have the attendant danger, he gives not the had a ground for their decision, and a slightest intimation that the Epistles rule for their selection. But since we of St. Paul were unsuited to general have nothing but a round assertion perusal. The Roman Catholic, when that all the Scriptures may be, and are, supporting that tenet of his church wrested by the unlearned and unstable, which shuts up the Bible from the lai- there is left us no right of determining ty, will appeal confidently to this state. what is fit for perusal and what is not ment of St. Peter, arguing that the al- fit; so that, in allowing a solitary verse lowed difficulty, and the declared dan- to be read, we run the same risk as in ger, give the Apostle's authority to the allowing every chapter from the first to measure of exclusion. But certainly it the last. Thus we hold it clear to evewere not easy to find a more strained ry candid inquirer, that our text simand far-fetched defence. Had St. Peter ply proves the necessity of a right temintended to infer, that, because obscu- per to the profitable perusal of the Birity and abuse existed, there ought to ble. It gives no such exclusive characbe prohibition, it is altogether unac- teristic to the writings of St. Paul, as countable that he did not lay down the would warrant our pronouncing them inference. A fairer opportunity could peculiarly unsuited to the weak and ilnever be presented for the announce- literate. If it sanction the withdrawment of such a rule as the Roman Ca- ment of any part of the Bible, it im. tholic advocates. And the mere find- peratively demands the withdrawment ing, that, when an inspired writer of the whole. And forasmuch as it thus speaks of the dangers of perusal, he gives not the shadow of authority to gives not even a hint which can be tor- the selection of one part and the omistured into sanction of its prohibition, sion of another; and forasmuch, moreis, in itself, so overpowering a witness over, as it contains not the remotest to the right of all men to read the Bi- hint that danger is a reason for shutble for themselves, that we wonder at ting up the Scriptures; we rather learn the infatuation of those who can ap- from the passage, that free as the air peal to the passage as supporting a should be the Bible to the whole hucounter-opinion. You will observe that man population, than that a priesthood, whilst St. Peter speaks only of the wri- sitting in assize on its contents, may dole tings of St. Paul as presenting " things out fragments of the word, or keep it, if hard to be understood,” he extends to they please, undividedly to themselves.


By Kylee Hong
June 2019. Pride month. In Dallas, it wasn’t rare to spot rainbows anymore: in restaurants, storefronts, and many businesses. I remember my friend and I’s excitement over small free stickers at Buffalo Exchange: “Buffalo” repeated six times, each a different color of the rainbow.
By Jonathan Alderete Loussaief
I am reaching out because I need to locate more resources to secure my husband’s freedom. It seems as if we’re hitting brick walls at this point. My “husbear” has now been moved to an immigration detention center in Cleburne, Texas, where the conditions and treatment are deplorable. We’ve tried to work through the Bureau of Indian Affairs, but on April 17th they denied my husband’s appeal because they also do not believe he is a gay man. The lawyers have given up and apparently don’t know how to argue this case.
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During my Thanksgiving break, I visited the Stonewall National Monument in for the first time. During my visit, I drank a Brooklyn IPA out of a branded rainbow cup with the bar’s logo, saw people purchasing t-shirts, and advertisements for events held at the historic bar, using the history of the place to increase business.
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When the demographics of a group are so heavily tilted in one direction—North American males—it’s also easy to exclude others unintentionally. The Gay League has lost members for this reason, but it’s a situation that [Joe] Palmer and co-moderator Patty Jeres work hard to avoid.


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Brief solution: the typical guideline for FHA loans is 43% debt-to-income ratio. This implies your combined debts should utilize a maximum of 43percent of one’s gross income that is monthly after taking regarding the loan. But you can find exceptions. You could get approved with a ratio up to 50% if you have a lot of cash in the bank, and/or other sources of income,.
How Much Mortgage Do I Be Eligible For with FHA?
Eventually, it’s as much as the mortgage company to choose just how much of home loan you be eligible for aided by the FHA loan program. The guidelines that are official this system originate from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Nonetheless it’s the financial institution that determines simply how much of an FHA loan you’ll manage, centered on your income.
The mortgage lender will look to the official guidelines contained in HUD Handbook 4000.1, also known as the Single Family Housing Policy Handbook as a starting point.
Section II-A-5 of this handbook describes the ratio that is“approvable” for borrowers. The term “ratio” refers to the debt-to-income ratio (DTI) in this context. This might be merely an evaluation involving the sum of money you make during your income, plus the quantity you may spend each on recurring debts month.
The DTI ratio the most critical indicators that determines simply how much you’ll borrow with an FHA loan — and, by extension, exactly exactly how much home you are able to purchase. It is not the factor that is only. However it does play a large part.
Regarding FHA loans, there’s two essential ratios:
- Complete Mortgage Payment to Effective Income Ratio (PTI): This shows simply how much of your income that is monthly will going toward your housing expenses, primarily the homeloan payment https://speedyloan.net/payday-loans-nv/. It is also referred to as the “front-end” financial obligation ratio.
- Total Fixed Payments to Good Income Ratio (DTI): This quantity shows exactly how much of your earnings can be used to pay for your entire month-to-month debts — car payment, homeloan payment, bank cards, etc. It’s also known while the “back-end” financial obligation ratio.
The rule that is general FHA loan approval is 31/43. What this means is your homeloan payment should account fully for a maximum of 31percent of the month-to-month earnings, while your total debts should make use of a maximum of 43%. This can be partly exactly just just how mortgage brokers regulate how a lot of an FHA loan you are able to be eligible for.
Instance: a debtor possesses gross income that is monthly of6,000. The borrower’s total monthly debts (including the mortgage payment and other recurring expenses) should add up to no more than $2,580 per month in this scenario. The math seems like this: 6,000 x. 43 = 2,580. The total mortgage repayment in this scenario must not surpass $1,860 each month (because 6,000 x. 31 = 1,860). However in some cases, borrowers may have a total dti since high as 50% (see below).
That is simply the kick off point in determining how much of an FHA loan you’ll manage, predicated on your revenue. Nonetheless it’s certainly not emerge stone.
You can find exceptions into the 31/43 guideline. Many of those, really. In the event that mortgage company are able to find and document “compensating facets” that demonstrate the debtor is a solid candidate for the FHA loan, they are able to provide for a greater back-end DTI ratio. As much as 50per cent in some instances.
Compensating facets might add:
- Verified and documented money reserves,
- Minimal upsurge in housing re payment,
- Significant income that is additional mirrored in effective earnings, and/or
- Continual income.
Whenever you make an application for a loan, the financial institution will appear at a variety that is wide of. So that the simplest way to discover in which you stay is always to speak to a HUD-approved mortgage company. Question them right in advance: Exactly how much of a FHA loan may I be eligible for? They’ll glance at your earnings degree, your financial troubles situation, as well as your credit score to resolve this concern.
Exactly how much House May I Manage To Purchase?
We’ve covered the question that is first just how much home loan can I be eligible for, through the FHA program?
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Contrary to popular belief, it is feasible getting authorized for a mortgage that is too big for you (or the one that might be unaffordable later on, because of alterations in your situation that is financial). That is among the factors why individuals result in foreclosure circumstances.
In order to avoid economic stress in the future, you’ll want to generate a fundamental housing spending plan. This can assist you to regulate how house that is much can comfortably manage to purchase, by having an FHA loan.
“Comfortably” could be the key phrase for the reason that phrase. Preferably, you need to be in a position to protect your mortgage repayment every month, spend all your other recurring debts, whilst still being involve some money remaining.
Determining exactly exactly how house that is much are able with FHA:
- Begin by comparing your web income that is monthlyor “take-home pay”) to your current month-to-month costs.
- In this context, “expenses” refers to all the of this things you may spend cash on each thirty days that aren’t housing-related. Including gas, meals, credit card debt, car repayment, activity, family savings efforts, etc.
- Subtract your month-to-month non-housing costs from your own take-home that is monthly pay. The income remaining is what available for you to place toward home financing re payment.
- You don’t desire to use this whole quantity, because that would eradicate your crisis funds. Nonetheless it does provide you with a point that is starting determining your monthly home-buying spending plan.
The target is to have money that is extra over each thirty days, right after paying your mortgage repayment and all sorts of other regular bills. This may assist you to manage any unanticipated expenses that might arise — a hospital see, a car or truck fix, etc. In the event that you don’t account fully for such surprises in your budget, you won’t have the ability to pay for them once they show up. Therefore provide yourself some breathing room that is financial.
This is basically the way that is prudent work out how much household you’ll pay for with an FHA loan, or every other variety of home loan for example.
What Else Do i must Get authorized for an FHA loan?
Enough earnings the most things that are important person has to get authorized for the FHA loan. It’s additionally the factor that is main use whenever determining simply how much home loan an individual can be eligible for a.
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- Credit history: Relating to HUD recommendations, borrowers require a credit rating of 580 or maybe more to obtain authorized for an FHA loan with maximum financing (plus the 3.5% deposit). Loan providers often require greater ratings.
- Workable financial obligation: We chatted concerning the debt-to-income ratio above. It’s a different one associated with requirements that are key the FHA home loan system.
This informative article answers two questions that are common get from borrowers: (1) just how much of a FHA loan am I able to be eligible for a with my earnings? (2) simply how much of a home am I able to manage to purchase?
It’s important to think about these concerns individually, since they’re two various things. We encourage all borrowers to ascertain a fundamental housing spending plan, prior to starting the home loan application procedure.
Disclaimer: this short article supplies a basic breakdown of home loan certification facets and budgeting principles. Every financing scenario is significantly diffent, because every debtor differs from the others. Some of the concepts and guidelines mentioned above may not apply to your situation as a result. This short article is intended for an over-all audience and will not represent monetary advice.

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Global Genes Hosts 5th Annual Rare Patient Advocacy Summit and Tribute to Champions of Hope, Presented by PRA Health Sciences.
June 20, 2016
September 22 to 24, 2016, Hyatt Regency Resort and Spa, Huntington Beach, California.
The annual blue carpet event following the two-day patient summit honors scientists, advocates, and patients who are leading the fight against rare diseases and rare genetic disorders.
ALISO VIEJO, Calif. – June 16, 2016 – On September 24, 2016, over 700 attendees from around the globe will gather at the Hyatt Regency Resort and Spa in Huntington Beach, California, for the fifth annual Global Genes Tribute to Champions of Hope (Tribute) presented by PRA Health Sciences. The Tribute is preceded by the fifth annual RARE Patient Advocacy Summit (Summit) to be held on September 22 – 23, at the same location. These annual events bring patients, advocates, clinicians, biotech and pharmaceutical company leaders, rare disease researchers, celebrities, and philanthropists together for a motivational weekend.
The 2015 Tribute to Champions of Hope was a sold out success. Bryce Dallas Howard, Jurassic World, and Kit Hoover, Access Hollywood Live, were among the many celebrity supporters to celebrate and honor the fight against rare disease. Attendees witnessed Ben Lou’s extraordinary performance of “Titanium” accompanied by platinum recording artist, Kris Allen. Lou, then 12, moved the audience to tears as he sang in a reclined position due to his Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). In addition to the night’s touching performances, the Tribute was marked by awarding 15 RARE Champions of Hope.
This year, Global Genes continues to celebrate the groundbreaking achievements of individuals and corporations who are leading the fight against rare diseases and rare genetic disorders. Global Genes’ Tribute to Champions of Hope recognizes those who are uniquely attacking the challenges faced in the fight against rare diseases and rare genetic disorders; those who are thinking outside of the box and working tirelessly; not those focusing on what was, but those who set their sights on what is possible. The RARE Champions of Hope awards will be presented in six categories, including Collaborations in Science and Technology, Advocacy, Teen Advocacy, Collaborations in Advocacy, Science, and Medical Care and Treatments. Award recipients will be announced in June.
Scot “Froggy” Langley, co-host of the widely popular Elvis Duran and the Morning Show, will return as Master of Ceremonies. Langley is an avid supporter and advocate for the acromegaly and rare disease community. Global Genes has planned an exciting lineup of entertainment, as well as a very special presentation by Chive Charities and Global Genes, as part of this year’s Tribute. Help support the rare disease community by purchasing tickets or sponsoring the Tribute. Visit www.globalgenes.org/events to learn more.
Members of the rare disease community are encouraged to also attend the fifth annual RARE Patient Advocacy Summit September 22 – 23, preceding the Tribute. Over 75 speakers will share on a variety of subjects ranging from funding early research, developing a treatment, to advocating in rare diseases. Phil Reilly, MD, JD will have a book signing and discussion of Orphan: The Quest to Save Children with Rare Genetic Disorders. Mango Habanero, a San Diego world music band, will entertain guests at the Summit’s Friday evening reception on September 23. The Summit aims to educate and celebrate the 30 million Americans and 350 million global citizens affected by rare genetic diseases. Rare disease patients can apply for a travel stipend to attend the event. Visit www.globalgenes.org/events to register.
“There is nothing quite like the Tribute to Champions of Hope and the RARE Patient Advocacy Summit. This is a very special time for rare disease patients and advocates where they learn, share, support, and connect with each other through meaningful sessions, presentations and personal interactions. The impact that they have on our community is tremendous,” states Nicole Boice, Founder and CEO, Global Genes.
Global Genes is pleased to welcome PRA Health Sciences as the presenting sponsor for the 2016 Tribute to Champions of Hope. Since 2011, PRA has successfully managed over 160 rare disease trials in 11 therapeutic areas and has contributed to the successful market approval of 14 drugs. “While some diseases may be rare, hope for appropriate treatment doesn’t have to be,” says Kent Thoelke, Executive Vice President, Scientific and Medical Affairs, Safety and Commercialization Services. “PRA is excited to partner with Global Genes as both our organizations share a passion to accelerate rare disease clinical development. At PRA, we are committed to finding flexible, creative, and innovative solutions to meet the needs of rare disease patients.”
Proceeds from the evening will benefit Global Genes’ educational programs and the RARE Patient Impact Grant program, which was launched at last year’s Tribute. With these programs, Global Genes funded $100,000 in financial support to 18 deserving foundations and patient groups. Global Genes is determined to provide equipment, resources, and support to rare disease patients and their caregivers. Grant recipients were selected from a pool of 137 applicants, with requests totaling over $1.4 million. This year Global Genes hopes to increase grant funding to $125,000 or more. “Our goal is to fund more opportunities for grants that directly support rare families. It is that simple,” says Boice.
Presenting sponsor: PRA Health Sciences
To date the events’ sponsors include: Platinum Sponsors: Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Horizon Pharma, Genentech and Walgreens. Additional sponsorships provided by: Retrophin, Raptor, Genzyme, Amicus, Shire, Healthcare at Home, Pfizer, Novartis, Vertex, BioMarin, Mallinckrodt, Recordati Rare Disease, Inc, Biogen Idec, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Abeona Therapeutics, Chiasma Pharmaceuticals, Ambry Genetics, Akcea Therapeutics, Bluebird Bio, Janssen, Sigma Tau, Cambridge BioMarketing, Alnylam, Dohmen Life Sciences Services, BIO, Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK), Jazz Pharmaceuticals, IDIS, Third Rock Ventures, Voyager Therapeutics, RegenxBio, Marathon Pharmaceuticals, Illumina and Ultragenyx.
It is not too late to become an event sponsor. To learn more about Global Genes and event sponsorship opportunities, visit www.globalgenes.org/events.
About Global Genes
Global Genes is a leading rare genetic disease advocacy organization. We work to eliminate rare disease challenges by building awareness, developing patient-focused educational tools, and funding patient care programs and early investigative research. Recognized worldwide by the Blue Denim Genes Ribbon™, Global Genes is dedicated to connection. We unite experts, advocates and patients of all ages. Together, we actively seek treatments and cures for the 7,000+ rare genetic diseases that affect 30 million Americans and over 350 million people worldwide.
About PRA Health Sciences
PRA is one of the world’s leading global contract research organizations, by revenue, providing outsourced clinical development services to the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. PRA’s global clinical development platform includes approximately 70 offices across North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America, South Africa, Australia, and the Middle East, and 12,000+ employees worldwide. Since 2000, PRA has performed approximately 3,300 clinical trials globally and has worked on more than 100 marketed drugs across several therapeutic areas. In addition, PRA has participated in the pivotal or supportive trials that led to U.S. Food and Drug Administration or international regulatory approval of more than 60 drugs. To learn more about PRA, please visit www.prahs.com.
About Chive Charities
Chive Charities is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, which inspires a new generation to champion orphaned causes in need of public awareness and financial assistance.
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The Sports of May (Anonymous)
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Title: Sports of May, The
Description: Included in Warren's twelfth colection of glees and catches without attribution, this is one of those catches that is more lubricious in performance than the anodyne lyrics might suggest (although the mention of a character named Roger will have warned the seasoned catch-singer of the delights to come).
Original text and translations
Twas on a bright morning, a morning in May,
The lads and the lasses all went out to play;
The birds from each bush with a song did delight 'em,
The merry pipe and tabor to dance did invite 'em;
Then to it they buckled, each lad with his lass,
Led by Susan and Roger upon the green grass.


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