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News of the untimely death of Naya Rivera, the talented, African American, and Puerto Rican singer and actress, shook the entertainment world this week. The details of the tragedy have only made the pill bitterer—she used the last of her strength to save her four-year-old son, Josey, only to succumb to the waters of Lake Piru in Santa Clarita, California. The story was particularly sorrowful for Latinx people everywhere—used to being seldom represented in mainstream entertainment even in 2020, and having to experience the heartbreak of losing one of our own so suddenly.
Communities of color everywhere, though, have proven themselves resilient in the face of adversity. Grief, if anything, is part of our blood and culture. The solemn occasion made me feel thankful for Naya, the work she did in front of and behind the camera. It brought me conflicted joy to remember the work she did on behalf of troubled LGBTQ youth with the Trevor Project, her dedication to GLAAD, and other progressive charities. She was perhaps most famous for playing Santana Lopez, a lesbian cheerleader in the hit show “Glee.” But her life inspired beyond just her boundless artistic talent. Like so many admired Latinx stars, she led by example off-screen as well—a burden that many entertainers of color willingly embrace as it is almost always expected of them.
And the sadness made me thankful for others who came before Naya as well. Though a comprehensive list is impossible—I hope you have many others to add to it in the comments section of this piece—a few, mostly random but important names quickly popped into my head almost as a stream of tears slash consciousness as we remain grateful for those who have so ably represented our patchwork quilt of a community.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, my mind wandered first of all to Selena Quintanilla, the Chicana singer who inspired millions with her angelic singing until her own, way-too-early death in 1994. Not only did Selena arguably redefine Latin music—she brought it to the forefront for white audiences. And when she was not busy scaling the mountainous odds stacked against a Latina singer, Selena was actively involved in organizations aimed at keeping Latinx kids in school, among other philanthropic activities. (She was, of course, portrayed by Jennifer Lopez, the Puerto Rican singer, and actress in the film—a Latina trailblazer that needs no introduction).
As my associational chain continued, I remembered next Lupe Ontiveros, the Mexican-American actress most famous for playing Selena’s killer in the hit Warner Bros. film “Selena.” But Lupe was only a criminal for Hollywood. In real life, she had been a social worker for nearly 20 years, working to promote advanced educations for Latinx people and to raise awareness about the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and 90s. Lupe died relatively young herself, in 2012, reminding me for a third time in a row of the cruel irony at times of a Telenovela-like story arch for these Latina heroines.
I sought light out of this bittersweet tunnel and conjured up the image of Roy Haylock, better known to most of us as Bianca del Rio. Bianca, of Cuban and Honduran descent, rose to prominence when she won the sixth season of RuPaul’s drag race. But she was well-known to us New York City dwellers—or at least to those of us who frequent(ed) gay bars and drag shows in the 2000s. Bianca stood out for her talent in a profession that was made up then predominantly of white and African-American talent. Bianca is not only hilarious and inspirational to
gay nightlife mainstays, but has also donated a significant portion of her talent to fundraisers dedicated to international LGBTQ causes.
If one ever had a chance to interview Bianca, the obvious question would be about the inspiration for her stage name. One would want to think that perhaps it comes from Dolores del Rio, the Mexican actress who arguably became the first Latina crossover star in Hollywood, way back in the 1920s and 30s. Ms. Del Rio, at times called the “Mexican Greta Garbo,” was typecast in many films (the list of which is too long to adequately cover here).
That did not stop her from starring alongside the likes of Elvis Presley (“Flaming Star“), or to work with directors like John Ford (“Cheyenne Autumn” 1964). Her talent, though, was as boundless as her groundbreaking work on behalf of Latinx communities everywhere. She worked to protect the arts, impoverished children, and Mexican culture in the United States. In 1957, she became the first woman to serve on the Cannes jury. That’s a pretty good inspiration for a drag show if my theory is correct anyway.
To be fair to their male counterparts, there are plenty of inspiring Latinx men whose inspiring work eulogizes Naya. Speaking of LGBTQ stars, it is impossible not to conjure Ricky Martin, an international megastar who is still, to my mind, one of the most famous openly gay heartthrobs. Of course, we have Elton and Freddie. But Ricky was a soap opera star in Latin America and a sex symbol across the globe when he had the courage to come out. Few white leading men in Hollywood (think of the caliber of George Clooney or Tom Cruise) have dared that feat. And Ricky’s philanthropic work is as legion as his discography, including his own foundation and extensive work with immigrant-focused international organizations.
By now one feels at least a sense of solace, of hope that the work of Naya and her brethren has been important, life-altering, and made us proud. One can continue. Raul Julia, a Puerto Rican actor with a long list of film and theater credits to his name—including under the helm of some of his time’s most legendary names like Sidney Lumet and Francis Ford Coppola. Jose Ferrer, the Puerto Rican actor considered the first Latinx person to win an Oscar (“Cyrano de Bergerac“ in 1950). Rita Moreno—another one that needs no introduction (“West Side Story“).
But I would be remiss to let this column of luminaries go by without acknowledging the man of the moment, the man who arguably helped inspire an entirely new generation of entertainers of color with his immeasurable talent. I am referring to Lin-Manuel Miranda, whose blockbuster show “Hamilton“ propelled him to superstardom but whose talent had been on display to Latinx and white audiences since “In the Heights” and before. Lin-Manuel is an unapologetic political activist, most notably against gun violence.
His “Hamilton” show has been so successful and inspirational to our culture that I was amused to find it referenced in two landmark decisions by the United States Supreme Court this past term—including one on the Electoral College and another on the power of the New York County District Attorney to subpoena the President’s tax returns.
It is, indeed, Lin-Manuel’s Hamilton that reminds us that for as much sorrow as there is in tragedy, in the loss of an inspirational figure, the old saying “gone but not forgotten” does significant work. It applies, surely, to trailblazers who have come before Naya Rivera and to the departed actress herself. They were young and dreamt of glory, and now history has its eye on them—and on you, to remember and honor their legacies.


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The Supreme Court sided with Royal Dutch Shell plc (ADR) (NYSE:RDS.A) today in the landmark Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum case dealing with alleged corporate human rights abuses in the Niger River Delta. This decision constitutes a disgraceful victory for corporate impunity. Shell shareholders would be shortsighted to celebrate, and responsible investors have the power to do what the judiciary won’t.
Dismissed, but not innocent
To be clear, the Supreme Court did not find Royal Dutch Shell plc (ADR) (NYSE:RDS.A) innocent of the accusations against it. Those accusations are for crimes against humanity, including torture and extrajudicial executions. Rather, the court found that the case could not be resolved in U.S. courts under a federal law called the Alien Tort Statute (ATS), because Shell is a foreign company that allegedly committed acts against foreign victims on foreign soil. Never mind that Royal Dutch Shell plc (ADR) (NYSE:RDS.A) is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and earned almost 20% of its 2012 revenue in the United States.
In the past, activists have used the ATS as an accountability tool for the worst corporate human rights abuses. Indeed, the groundbreaking 1997 Doe v. Unocal case — which yielded compensation for victims of horrific abuse by security forces while working on a natural gas pipeline in military-ruled Burma — was brought under the ATS. Today’s result seriously curtails the future applicability of the ATS.
If your interest as an investor is purely in the bottom line, you might think this is a very good development. That kind of thinking could get you into trouble, though. I asked Bennett Freeman, senior vice president of sustainability research and policy at Calvert Investments, for his reaction to today’s judgment.
“What’s crystal clear here,” Freeman said, “is that this decision is going to make it very difficult, if not impossible, to use the [Alien Tort] Statute for this purpose in the future. This was a very significant ruling.” But Freeman emphasizes that the court’s decision should in no way be interpreted as undermining a consensus that the international community long ago established: Business has a responsibility to respect human rights. Indeed, this responsibility is embodied in the United Nations’ Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (link opens PDF).
A glimmer of good news
For as troubling as today’s decision is, it’s important to remember that Royal Dutch Shell plc (ADR) (NYSE:RDS.A) lost on some key points. The company had shamelessly argued that corporations are immune from the ATS, and the court didn’t buy that. It’s interesting how corporations want to enjoy the same rights as people when it comes to things like free speech, but none of the responsibilities of people when it comes to criminal liability.

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This newly released survival rogue-like action game developed by Wondersquad is free to play and is available to download from the Play Store. Your goal in IMAE Guardian Girl is to battle monsters and in doing so your character will become stronger.
The catch? Your character has lost her memory, so you will have to acquire memory fragments along the way to help her.
Table of Contents
The gameplay in IMAE Guardian Girl is really simple. Use the circle joystick on the left-hand side of your screen to run around the map, while avoiding the numerous monsters trying to attack you.
Your attack will be automatic, there is no icon on the screen to shoot. Monsters will appear in waves and if they touch you, you will lose health, and eventually die.
Additional items will become available during gameplay that will help you survive.
During gameplay, IMAE power replenishment icons will be displayed on your screen. These look like blue flames with eyes and will break if you continuously strike them. Running over it will replenish your IMAE power.
You are also able to replenish your IMAE power by tapping on the right-hand-side corner of your screen when you are running low, this will forfeit the buff, however, as you can only do this while the buff pop-up screen is displayed.
If your IMAE power has run out and you choose a skill, the failure rate will be displayed on the left-hand side of the pop-up screen. See the image below:
Small piles of blue dust will be dropped by monsters you have defeated; these will give you 3 buffs to choose from during gameplay, such as reduced cooldown speed for your skill, various attack modes, and speed increase. There are numerous buffs available to choose from.
When choosing buffs, it is important to take into account the type of weapon you have equipped. The more shots you are able to fire at once, the better your character will be able to survive the ongoing waves of monsters.
During IMAE Guardian Girl gameplay, use your secondary skill to help you throughout the game. This icon is displayed on the right-hand side of your screen while in you are in the attack zones.
As the waves of monsters increase, they become harder to defeat, and it will require you to choose buffs that have significant damage increases for your character.
On the Flourish map, a circle can be seen in the middle of the screen as indicated in the image below:
You are able to stand on this circle after defeating a certain number of monsters; this will increase gameplay speed and monsters will attack in earnest.
Be warned though, you should ensure you have the necessary weapons and buffs for this feature, as the monsters are ruthless!
Lanterns appear on the map at random and breaking these will give you health. A clock will give you more time if you pick it up. The clock drops after defeating certain monsters as well.
A sun icon, when destroyed, summons the next wave of monsters immediately.
Take note of red circles or lines that appear on the ground, these circles will deal significant damage to your character if you are standing in the circle.
These circles are most likely to appear when there is a big boss on the map, or monsters that are harder to kill. When a boss appears, the music playing will change and can be used as an indicator of when they appear.
When you reach level 3, the shop feature becomes available, as well as the summon feature. Level 5 opens the Moon Garden.
The Moon Garden enables you to choose a memory fragment that you have activated throughout the game; memory fragments are acquired by playing the Flourish map.
As you choose your buffs on a level, the game automatically saves the buffs as a memory fragment.
Moon Garden is not for the faint-hearted, wave upon wave of monsters will attack, and you will not be able to choose buffs during this gameplay.
Abyss of Paradoxes is similar to the Flourish map. There are 12 levels that will give you various rewards once you have completed the level.
You will be able to choose buffs and try and survive. The difference is the time limit required to vanquish the monsters. Each level has a time limit and if you are not able to complete the level in the allotted time given, you will not receive any rewards.
Flourish Map requires sun stone currency to play, you can obtain this by waiting for the timer or refilling with Elixer earned from completing quests or you can also use Jade pieces to buy an entrance.
Moon garden requires a moon to enter, you can also use Jade pieces to buy extra moons.
Abyss of Paradoxes requires keys to play, and you can also use Jade pieces to buy additional keys.
The practice mode is completely free to play and Is a good way to test your skills if you are unfamiliar with the game in the beginning.
In IMAE Guardian Girl, your equipment will help you progress and become stronger to take those monsters down!
You can gain equipment by using the summon feature. You are able to summon equipment using Jade pieces, as well as the currency required.
You are able to summon equipment of common variety, as well as uncommon, rare, epic, and heroic.
Your equipment will determine your character’s stats. Equipping rare and above will increase your stats enabling you to defeat monsters more easily.
- Talisman 1
- Talisman 2
Your equipped items will determine the following:
- Attack (ATK)
- Health (HP)
- Speed (SPD)
- Defense (DEF)
- Crit (CR)
- Critical Hit Damage (CHD)
Screen Display and Icons
The top-left-hand side of your screen displays your Name, Title, and experience. You will be able to change your Name and Title the first time for free, thereafter you will need to use Jade pieces.
Below this icon, you will find a help guidebook, as well as the skins available for your character. You can either purchase skins using real-time currency, or you can complete missions for certain skins.
On the bottom left-hand side of your screen, an icon showing the journeys is available. You are able to receive rewards by completing Journey quests.
Below that, you will find the following:
- Memory – Your currently owned memory fragments.
- Attribute – Level these attributes using coins in order to build your character up.
- Equipment – Displays the equipment you have available. Note that when you select this icon, the pop-up will also provide you with the synthesis option and proficiency option on the right-hand side.
- Shop – You are able to purchase items in the shop using real-time currency, as well as Jade fragments. The daily offer feature can be seen, battle pass, monthly fee, special offers, as well as attain package. You are able to watch an ad once a day to receive free items.
- Summon – Here you are able to summon equipment using the currency required.
On the top of your screen, the amount of sun stone you have available is displayed. Replenish these using Elixers.
Your coin coins and Jade fragments are also displayed here. Alongside these, you will find your ranking, mailbox, and settings icons.
On the right-hand side of your screen, your mission icon is displayed, as well as your stats icon.
On the bottom right-hand side of your screen, the play icon is displayed. You will be able to select Flourish mode, Moon Garden, Practise, or Abyss of Paradoxes.
IMAE Guardian Girl Skills
There are various skills you can attain in IMAE Guardian Girl, below we will discuss them in a bit more detail:
1. Attack Skills:
- Fire Amulet – Throw a burning amulet at monsters
- Phoenix Claws – Attack nearby monsters with searing flames
- Fire Flower – Creates a straight line of burning flowers
- Dragon’s Breath – Breathe scorching fire
- Icicles – Summons icicles on the map
- Ice Sword – A powerful explosion occurs around your character
- Frostweave – A transparent needle is applied to arrows
- Frostmourne – Gives your character a powerful hot and cold Aura
- Frostsword – Slash monsters with this sword
- Starfield – Fires high-velocity projectiles in all directions
- Shimmer – Fires shimmer in an X-formation
- Lightning Star – Powerful lightning strikes are released
- Celestial Spirit – Blinds monsters with light
- Shadow Slash – Slashing attack straight ahead
- Hell’s Abyss – Summons an abyss at the monster’s location
- Death Spirit – Spirits of death will hover around
- Twilight Arrow – Fires arrows on both sides of your character
2. Passive Skills:
- Increased ATK – Increases ATK %
- Increased HP – Increases max health %
- Increased Natural Restoration – increases the rate at which health is restored
- Increased SPD – Increases speed %
- Increased DEF – Increases defense %
- Increased Item Acquisition Range – Increases the area in which items will be collected by your character
- Increased XP – increases the amount of XP gained
- Increased CR – Increases the crit %
- CHD Increase – Increases the % of critical hit damage
- Increased ER – Increases the amount of health you have
- Fire – Increases the damage % of fire skills
- Ice – Increases the damage % of ice skills
- Light – Increases the damage % of light skills
- Twilight – Increases the damage % of twilight skills
- Melee – Reduces the cooldown time of melee skills
- Shooting – Reduces the cooldown time of shooting skills
- Zone – Reduces the cooldown time of zone skills
- Increased Max IMAE Power – Increases max IMAE power
- Increased IMAE Power Recovery – Increases the % in which your IMAE power regenerates
3. Special Skill:
These skills are used in battle and are dependent on the items you have equipped at the time.
- Jump – Jump over short distances
- Repayment – Summons 1 useful item during battle
- Summon – Summons a black hole that sucks up monsters
- Open – Increase speed for ten seconds and become invisible
- Absorption – Absorbs all EXP on the map
- Protect – Once you have been hit, block all damage for 5 seconds
- Enhancement – Enhances ATK for ten seconds
- Rampage – Unleashes continuous attacks on all monsters
4. Guardian Deity:
- Mang Ryang – Deals damage proportional to the monster’s health in the designated area
- Un Sa – Summons a crystal of mysterious clouds
- Yo Ho – Channel the energy of the phoenix for a moment and gain a powerful forward surge
- Seon Dol – Summons an exploding rock crystal
- Pung Baek – Summons a wind crystal that bounces at monsters
- Du Eok – Summons the evil spirit of Du Eok, with his sword
- Enhanced Guardian: Increased damage – Increases damage boost % of secondary skills
- Enhanced Guardian: Reduce Cooldown – Reduces cooldown time of secondary skills
- Enhanced Guardian: Increase CHC – Increases critical hit chance of secondary skills
- Enhanced Guardian: Elemental Alliance – When the number of elemental secondary skills decreases, the attack % increases
- Enhanced Guardian: Covenant – As the number of secondary skills decreases, the attack % increases
- Enhanced Guardian: Increased chance of Guardian Protection – Increases the chance of guardian skills
- Enhanced Guardian: Increase Guardian Damage – Increases the damage % of guardian skills
Moving On Up
There are various ways to give yourself an extra advantage in IMAE Guardian Girl. One of these is to procure decent equipment. Each item has various buffs that will help you become stronger.
With rarity playing a very important role in equipment, for example, it is better to have heroic items than equip an item that is rare.
Another way to make your character stronger is by leveling up your Attributes.
This is an important factor, as all leveling attributes are in any game. IMAE Guardian Girl is no different. A few of these attributes are HP, Attack, Exp, Skill damage (fire, ice, light, and twilight), and Critical Hit Chance, among others.
Leveling up your proficiency is based on leveling up your equipment. This helps boost your character’s HP, Defense, Attack, Experience, Crit, and Critical Hit Damage.
Equipment synthesis involves having 3 of the exact same rarity items and evolving them into a higher rarity level.
Each rarity item in IMAE Guardian Girl then gives you additional buffs, depending on which rarity level they are at.
For example, having an item at an uncommon level will only increase your attack by 15%, whereas having the same item at a rare level will increase your attack by 15%, as well as increase your damage skills by 10%.
IMAE Guardian Girl is by far a fun action game that will keep you on your toes, and I would recommend it to those gamers out there that enjoy using strategy techniques and fighting enemies!
Thanks for reading, and happy gaming!

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Sachin Tendulkar’s 200th Test: Sachin moments on Day 1
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New Delhi: Day one of Sachin Tendulkar’s 200th Test match had its own Sachin moments. From release of a special stamp to a special coin for toss, it seemed everything on-field was for Sachin. Read on.
# A postage stamp was launched to honour Sachin Tendulkar in presence of Minister of Communications and Information Technology Kapil Sibal, MCA president Sharad Pawar, and legendary batsman Sunil Gavaskar.
#MS Dhoni presented Sachin with a special cap that had 200 written on it, to mark his final Test.
# A specially minted Sachin coin was used for the toss today. It was presented to the match refree by BCCI chief N Srinivasan.
#After the customary huddle of the Indian team, today it was Sachin and not Dhoni who led the team to the ground.
#Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s decision to bowl first was booed by the audience; for they did not want to wait to see Sachin play.
#Bollywod actor and self-confessed Sachin fan, Aamir Khan went up to the commentary box and talked about his Sachin moments. He also intends to wear the same ‘lucky shirt’ which he wore during the 2011 World cup semi-final, for five days now.
#The first ball of the day, went to the fielding hands of Sachin Tendulkar at mid-wicket, much to the crowd’s delight.
#Chants of ‘We want Sachin’ are doing rounds at regular intervals at the Wankhede Stadium.
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GRITS (Girls Raised In The South): The Musical
“Girls Raised in the South-GRITS: The Musical” is holding auditions in Nashville, Tennessee on Monday, April 12th and Tuesday April 13th from 2pm-7pm by appointment.
Casting notice posted on auditionsfree.com, casting location: Nashville, TN
“GRITS: The Musical” is an original musical production that tours throughout the United States. It is based on the best-selling book, “GRITS: Friends are Forevah!” For more information about the production and video and audio clips of the show, please visit www.gritsthemusical.com
This production is produced by McGee Communications and Entertainment (www.mcgeecomm.net) and is in its second season of touring. It is a 4 woman show made up of monologues and songs all depicting different aspects of Southern women’s lives.
All positions are paid.
There are three roles available. Descriptions are as follows. Touring will begin late August and run sporadically throughout the fall and spring:
• Virginia- 50-ish Caucasian woman, soprano (as if she could have older children or possibly grandchildren)
• Florence-(sassy belter)40-ish African American woman, alto
• Charlotte-(bubbly and energetic, as if she was maybe just out of college) 20-ish Caucasian woman alto
Please prepare two songs, one upbeat and one ballad. Accompanist provided or you may use a CD. Please email us at email@example.com or phone at 704-819-5298 for an appointment time. Possible callbacks on Tuesday evening.
Casting Location: Nashville, TN
Contact email: firstname.lastname@example.org
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Considering it’s never been more than a few years between feature films for Jim Jarmusch, here’s hoping we get news about his next project soon. In the meantime, after many singles, EPs, and score contributions to his own films, Jarmusch and Carter Logan’s band SQÜRL is now set to release their first fully-fledged album. Titled “Silver Haze,” it’ll drop on May 5 via Sacred Bones and the first single “Berlin ’87” has arrived.
With a hat tip to Brooklyn Vegan, they report the Randall Dunn-produced album also features Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anika, and Marc Ribot. Jem Cohen has also directed the music video for the first single. “He’s one of our favorite filmmakers, and with his magical hands and eyes, he somehow captures the most evocative details that most people don’t even notice,” the band said. “The images he has chosen and shaped so perfectly evoke the feeling of our music, and then elevate it to another level.”
Jem said, “Roaming Central and Eastern Europe soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall, backpack crammed with Super 8 cameras, I was deeply moved by the landscape. I couldn’t have guessed some of the footage would surface over a quarter-century later in a film for Jim and Carter’s band. They work hard to forge their expansive sound, with its indomitable beat and secret harmonics. Glad I had that backpack, and to be of service.”
Check out the music video, tracklist, and album cover below.
1. Berlin ’87
2. The End of the World
3. Garden Of Glass Flowers feat. Marc Ribot
4. She Don’t Wanna Talk About It feat. Anika
5. Il Deserto Rosso feat. Marc Ribot
6. John Ashbery Takes A Walk feat. Charlotte Gainsbourg
7. Queen Elizabeth
8. Silver Haze
For more, check out a recently published chat that Jarmusch (the current face of Saint Laurent) had with Jonathan Ames.


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Ox reflects upon a stellar baseball career
Currently playing with KT Wiz in the Korea Baseball Organisation, Queenslander Chris Oxspring has enjoyed a lengthy and distinguished career at the highest levels in the sport.
Now a playing veteran at 37 years of age, Oxspring pitched professionally in United States – including a stint at MLB level with San Diego Padres – and he remains a revered figure in Asian baseball, having played at elite national level in Japan and Korea.
Along the journey, Chris Oxspring has been a regular Australian national representative – including two World Baseball Classic campaigns – and he was a star for our national team when it won the silver medal at the Athens Olympics in 2004.
At home, the right-armed hurler has helped raise the profile of the Australian Baseball League as a player and bullpen coach for Sydney Blue Sox, with whom he posted impressive pitching numbers.
Ever the consummate playing professional, Chris Oxspring sat down for a chat with Alumni Chairman Brett Ward in Korea just recently. The result is a compelling two-part interview that will be of enormous interest to any baseball person – though more especially to our younger brigade of players seeking to embark on a career in the sport.
Australian Baseball Alumni extends its sincere appreciation to Chris Oxspring for generously providing insights into the trials, the tribulations, the opportunities, the challenges and the rewards that a professional playing career has presented to him.
CHRIS OXSPRING: PART ONE
CHRIS OXSPRING: PART TWO

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SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Blasts Off
February 7, 2018
The private space company SpaceX launched its largest rocket yet
Tuesday, sending a sports car into orbit around the sun.
The Falcon Heavy rocket blasted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center
on the same launch pad from which NASA's Apollo 11 lifted off in 1969 on
the first mission that flew astronauts to the moon.
The rocket is equipped with
three boosters and 27 engines designed to provide more than 2 million
kilograms of thrust. If successful, it will be the most powerful rocket
in use today, and the most powerful used since NASA's Saturn 5 rockets
last carried astronauts to the moon 45 years ago.
The Falcon Heavy was first designed to send humans to the moon or Mars,
but Musk said Monday it is now being considered as a carrier of
equipment and supplies to deep space destinations.
such test rockets usually use items like steel or concrete slabs as
payload, a cherry red Tesla roadster electric sports car has been placed
on top of the rocket.
With a mannequin "Starman" sitting at the wheel, the plan is for the car
to be set in an orbit around the sun.
In a tweet last month, Musk said he loves the thought of a car driving —
apparently endlessly through space and, perhaps being discovered by an
alien race millions of years in the future.
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“The CMS Artificial Intelligence (AI) Health Outcomes Challenge is an opportunity for innovators to demonstrate how AI tools – such as deep learning and neural networks – can be used to predict unplanned hospital and skilled nursing facility admissions and adverse events.
Partnering with the American Academy of Family Physicians and Arnold Ventures, the CMS AI Health Outcomes Challenge will engage with innovators from all sectors – not just from healthcare – to harness AI solutions to predict health outcomes for potential use in CMS Innovation Center innovative payment and service delivery models.
- Use AI/deep learning methodologies to predict unplanned hospital and SNF admissions and adverse events within 30 days for Medicare beneficiaries, based on a data set of Medicare administrative claims data, including Medicare Part A (hospital) and Medicare Part B (professional services).
- Develop innovative strategies and methodologies to: explain the AI-derived predictions to front-line clinicians and patients to aid in providing appropriate clinical resources to model participants; and increase use of AI-enhanced data feedback for quality improvement activities among model participants.” Learn more about the challenge here.
Participant: Accenture Federal Services
Proposed Solution: Accenture Federal Services AI Challenge
Participant: Ann Arbor Algorithms Inc.
Proposed Solution: Generalizing Time-to-event Algorithms to Deep Learning-based Prediction for CMS Data
Participant: Booz Allen Hamilton
Proposed Solution: Booz Allen Launch Stage Submission
Proposed Solution: Healthcare’s Data Science Platform
Participant: Columbia University Department of Biomedical Informatics
Proposed Solution: The CLinically Explainable Actionable Risk (CLEAR) Model from Columbia University Department of Biomedical Informatics
Proposed Solution: CORMAC Response to Challenge Questions
Participant: Deloitte Consulting LLP
Proposed Solution: Further, Faster: The Deloitte Team’s Approach to Harnessing the Power of AI to Improve Health Outcomes
Proposed Solution: Reducing Adverse Events and Avoidable Hospital Readmissions by Empowering Clinicians and Patients
Participant: Health Data Analytics Institute
Proposed Solution: HDAI’s Analytic Platform Technology for Healthcare Improvement
Participant: HealthEC, LLC Proposed Solution: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Predict and Improve Health Outcomes, Maximize Quality Improvement, and Reduce Costs
Participant: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Proposed Solution: The Intelligent Risk Project
Participant: IBM Corporation
Proposed Solution: AI for Explainable Adverse Event Prediction: Empowering Beneficiaries and Providers to Improve Health Outcomes
Participant: Innovative Decisions Inc. (IDI)
Proposed Solution: Multi-Modeling with Augmented Datasets for Positive Health Outcomes (MADPHO)
Participant: Jefferson Health
Proposed Solution: Using AI to Improve Medicare Population Health, Optimize Ambulatory Scheduling, and Reduce Adverse Events at Hospitals
Participant: KenSci Inc.
Proposed Solution: Assistive Intelligence for Unplanned Admissions and Adverse Events Prediction
Participant: Lightbeam Health Solutions, LLC
Proposed Solution: AI Risk Predictions- preventing hospital, ER and SNF admissions
Participant: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Proposed Solution: The CPC+ AI Model by Mathematica
Participant: Mayo Clinic
Proposed Solution: Claims-based Learning Framework (CBLF)
Proposed Solution: Boosting medical error and readmission prediction by leveraging Deep Learning, Topological Data Analysis, and Bayesian modeling
Participant: Merck & Co., Inc.
Proposed Solution: Actionable AI to Prevent Unplanned Admissions and Adverse Events
Participant: North Carolina State University (NCSU)
Proposed Solution: Multi-Layered Feature Selection and Dynamic Personalized Scoring
Participant: Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (NGSC)
Proposed Solution: Reducing Patient Risk through Actionable Artificial Intelligence: AI Risk Avoidance System (ARAS)
Participant: Northwestern Medicine
Proposed Solution: A human-machine solution to enhance delivery of relationship-oriented care
Participant: Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI)
Proposed Solution: OHDSI Submission
Participant: University of Virginia Health System
Proposed Solution: Actionable AI

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Kartel, whose real name is Adidja Palmer, was escorted by heavy security to the Corporate Area Resident Magistrates court on Monday August 11th, for a conspiracy trial. The trial was postponed until Thursday.
Vybz Kartel sported a white T-Shirt saying “Life Isn’t Great,” a red cap and a crimson pants.
The imprisoned deejay was all smiles as he leaves court and escorted back to prison.
Vybz Kartel is currently serving a 35-years life sentence for the murder of Clive “Lizard” Williams.
The Jamaican entertainer is currently appealing the conviction.
See more exclusive photos of Dancehall star Vybz Kartel since going to Prison.


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The decision by new Watford coach Javi Gracia to advance his lines created enormous problems for Chelsea here on Monday evening, reports Efe news agency. I was playing in Barcelona, I played a lot of games.
With his side down to 10 men, Chelsea goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois came out against an onrushing Deulofeu and drew a foul.
But after agreeing a loan move to Vicarage Road in the closing days of the transfer window, Deulofeu will spend the next passage of his career linking up with Troy Deeney and Etienne Capoue.
Though Chelsea made adjustments, it took them until the 82nd to pull level, thanks to an outstanding individual effort by Eden Hazard. Watford climb to 30 points and sit 11th on the EPL table. "I am very proud of my players and very happy for our fans".
That being said, the experienced England worldwide called for unity in the face of the current adversity his teammates find themselves in, stating: "I've been here before at this club and we need to keep strong".
"We have to win, we play at home and we have to fight because Chelsea is a top team in Europe", Deulofeu said.
He said: "I know I can score goals, I did it in the past previous year against Chelsea as well".
And television cameras focused on a tearful Richarlison sitting on the home bench after he was replaced by Roberto Pereyra in the second half of the game.
"Last week in Stoke we had a good result, a point there, and three points today".
"We have to play more compact against Chelsea, they are a good team and they play well".
"We have a tough month coming up and we need to pick up points, the Champions League [last-16 tie with Barcelona] is coming soon and we have to continue to work". It is the same. Performance-wise, I didn't recognise us or myself. "I work every day and I give 120 percent, if this is enough, okay, otherwise the club can take a decision, but I'm not anxious", said Conte.


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“Cortez is phenomenal...," Mason said of the new Bulldogs' assistant coach. "...Cortez left Vanderbilt better than the way he found it. He recruited well. He coached well. His ability to get young men from the way they are to the way they need to be is why Georgia came and got him."
Appears that Coach Derek Mason was spot on with his remarks about Cortez Hankton. Coach Hankton, now UGA receivers coach, played a big part in the recruiting of RB John Emery Jr. Also speaks well concerning Coach Smart's selection of coaches.
Not to be forgotten, Dell McGee was heavily involved in Hankton's recruitment.


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George S. Abela, MD
Dr. Abela is a clinician scientist and is currently Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Cardiology Division and Director of the Fellowship Training Program at Michigan State University. While at Harvard Medical School he established an atherosclerotic model to evaluate plaque disruption and thrombosis and since then has focused his work on investigations related to unstable plaque causing heart attacks, strokes and other acute vascular events. His current research demonstrates that cholesterol expands in volume when forming crystals leading to rupture of fibrous membranes and atherosclerotic plaques. This has lead to an enhanced understanding of the mechanism of how cholesterol causes heart attacks and strokes. These studies have broad ramifications with respect to potential novel therapeutic approaches to treat atherosclerotic disease.
Stephan A. Carey, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM
Dr. Carey’s research interests involve the effects of environmental toxicants, drugs, and respiratory diseases on the morphology and structure of the respiratory system. He has extensive experience using state of the art methods in toxicology, digital histopathology, and stereology, to quantify the morphologic effects of diseases, toxicant exposures, and therapeutic interventions on nasal and pulmonary structure. His laboratory is particularly interested in experimental design and morphometric techniques to characterize and quantify nasal and upper airway injury induced by inhaled toxicants, drugs, or pollutants.
Mike Dority, MS
Mr. Dority is a collaborator with extensive expertise in infectious disease modeling and antimicrobial testing. He earned his B.S. in Biology from Michigan State University and his M.S. in Microbiology from the University of Maine. He helped develop novel antibacterial chemotherapeutics targeting gram positive and gram negative bacterial infections while working at a large pharmaceutical company. Subsequently, Mr. Dority established a CRO specializing in antimicrobial testing, serving as its Chief Scientific Officer. He now serves as the Program Administrator for the Host Microbiome Initiative at the University of Michigan Medical School.
Anne Dorrance, PhD
Dr. Dorrance’s research interests focus primarily on hypertension and stroke. Her lab uses a wide variety of in vivo and in vitro techniques to correlate the damage caused by an ischemic stroke with the structure of cerebral vessels.
Gregory Fink, PhD
Dr. Fink is an expert in experimental design and statistical analysis of research data. He has nearly 35 years of research experience in the fields of cardiovascular physiology, pharmacology, and disease. His laboratory has conducted numerous efficacy and safety tests on drugs under contract arrangements with a variety of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.
James Galligan, PhD
Dr. Galligan’s research interests focus primarily on neural control of gastrointestinal motility and blood flow. He has consulted for a number of pharmaceutical companies with interests in gastrointestinal drugs.
John Goudreau, DO, PhD
Dr. Goudreau’s research interests involve neuroprotective treatments in Parkinson’s disease. He has extensive experience with cutting edge basic neuroscience research, in vivo efficacy and safety screening of candidate neuroprotective compounds, and clinical trials focused on neuroprotective therapies for patients with Parkinson’s disease.
Darrin M. Karcher, PhD
Dr. Karcher is the poultry extension specialist at the University. He obtained his PhD in Animal Science from Purdue University. His research is targeted toward the turkey and layer industry focusing on nutrition, management practices, and skeletal issues. He is a member of numerous professional organizations including the Poultry Science Association, and the World Poultry Science Association, where he served on the Board of Directors.
Karen Liby, PhD
Dr. Liby is interested in the role of inflammation in chronic disease. She uses a variety of animal models to study inflammation and to evaluate new drugs and drug combinations for cancer.
J. Justin McCormick, PhD
Dr. McCormick’s major research interests and experience include cellular and molecular mechanisms of carcinogenesis, chemical and radiation carcinogenesis, mutagenesis and malignant transformation of human cells, anti-cancer effects of chemical agents, environmental toxicology, and DNA repair.
Bari Olivier, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM
Dr. Olivier is a board certified Associate Professor of Veterinary Cardiology. He has over 25 years of experience as a clinical cardiologist, over 20 years experience as a scientific investigator, and over 10 years of experience in clinical and experimental cardiac electrophysiology.
Stephanie Watts, PhD
Dr. Watts work involves understanding the mechanisms by which arteries and veins contribute to hypertension, investigating ‘nonclassical’ pathways of signal transduction mechanisms for smooth muscle contraction.
Robert Wiseman, PhD
Dr. Wiseman’s research interests focus on metabolism and metabolic dysfunction in skeletal muscle. He has applied non-invasive imaging techniques to investigate genetic diseases including type 2 diabetes in experimental models ranging from transgenic mice and rat disease models to human subjects. For over 20 years he has applied magnetic resonance, fluorescence, and near infrared optical techniques to the study of structural anatomy, metabolic flux, blood flow, and perfusion in response to both disease and exercise in peripheral muscle beds.

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BRATTLEBORO—At her second meeting since formation of a new Windham Southeast Supervisory Union school board, Chair Michelle Luetjen Green admitted that the hiring process to select a new superintendent raised “concerns that we did not secure a fair process for all applicants to be reviewed, assessed, and deliberated on.”
She told The Commons that her words are a “personal statement that I felt should be acknowledged sooner than later.”
Her comment came at the same March 30 meeting where parent Melany Kahn shared that current Interim Superintendent Mark Speno, who has received much vocal support for his permanent hiring, was offered the job, but with a caveat.
“He was offered a position and he said ‘no’ because it had the word ‘interim’ before it,” she said, as Speno sat silently listening.
“Take the word ‘interim’ away. Offer the guy a position,” Kahn continued. “That’s what everybody is begging you to do at this point. . .we’re liked mired in process where you have to have private conversations and the rest of us are really frustrated.”
For 45 minutes, Luetjen Green allowed questions and comments, bookended by executive sessions.
How the superintendent search unfolded
Despite a five-hour executive session on March 1, the Windham Southeast Supervisory Union (WSESU) Board did not reach a consensus in its Superintendent search before annual elections [“WSESU hiring process murky after marathon executive session,” News, March 16].
Now, a new board has been seated. Three of its members were part of the search committee; two are new to the board.
WSESU is comprised of the Vernon School District and the Windham Southeast School District. Vernon has a five-member board with one seat on the WSESU. The WSESD has a 10-member board and four seats on the WSESU (from Brattleboro, Dummerston, Guilford, and Putney).
On June 10, 2021, former Superintendent Andy Skarzynski announced he would step down as of June 30. The process to replace him started in earnest that August. Speno has been serving since then. His contract expires June 30 of this year.
On Jan. 24, 2022, the Supervisory Union board issued a press release that announced a new superintendent would be chosen “no later than early March 2022.”
Nine applications were presented to the Search Committee for review. The committee was advised on best practices to review them by a hired consultant.
Applicants were reviewed and analyzed in nine categories. Members used a “pro/con” method to share feedback. All members participated before the committee voted. Candidates were moved forward throughout the process by winning a majority vote.
Was the process fair?
Luetjen Green opened the meeting by entering into a short executive session to “review the superintendent’s search process and return to open session to share some of the information publicly.”
Board member Kerry Amidon and Leutjen Green both served on the previous board and shared an overview of the search process that proceeded for nine months, when the former board had to stop due to a new board being elected.
“We are still very much reviewing the process,” said Luetjen Green, explaining that “we were still in interviews on the last day the board met.”
Despite that meeting running for five hours, “there was no conclusion,” she said. “This is us trying to get enough information to find out what we can do next.”
Saying the meeting was “just a work session” and that she had been “urged to share what I can,” she also iterated “some of the process was complicated.”
“This is just where I am,” she said, reading her full statement. “As the work of the steering committee concluded, it became apparent in both practice and confidential reporting that there were concerns that we did not secure a fair process for all applicants to be reviewed, assessed, and deliberated on.”
From her perspective, Luetjen Green said, “this board is charged with a responsibility to oversee an independent evaluation to assess these concerns. These concerns did not immediately impact the assessment of final candidates or influence the decision of the last sitting WSESU board.”
Regional Food Service Director Ali West asked for clarification.
“You’re saying for the last nine months we have been doing this research, but the little 16 days between the two boards is what caused no decision to be made?” she asked. “In nine months, Mark Speno hasn’t proved he’s the perfect candidate? Wow.”
Leutjen Green said steering committee members had raised concerns about the process being fair, so a review of the process was “in order.”
“It’s important if you find out you can do better to correct course,” she said.
Asked if the search were being opened again, the chair said, “that’s to be determined.”
“I understand that it’s frustrating to the public,” said Vice Chair Kelly Young. “We recognize that.”
Young cited the need to bring the two new board members into the search process. “We are taking this seriously,” she said.
Sense of urgency
Lisa Ford, a member of the Brattleboro Union High School Leadership Council and chair of the Boys & Girls Club of Brattleboro’s board of directors, said that while she “definitely” felt for the new board, the old one was “irresponsible” in not making a decision.
Former Academy School Principal Andy Paciulli, a district mentor, said it would be “easy to start ripping the boards and have a lot of blame, but that’s not going to get us very far. I think it’s safe to say we’re at the beginning of a crisis. It’s safe to assume there isn’t going to be adequate time to conduct a search as we would like and come up with a qualified candidate.”
Paciulli said there is a “sense of panic” on the part of community and staff members, students, and parents.
“The way forward is to figure out how to facilitate that this is a community effort to get the best superintendent to move us forward for the next few years in this very important work,” he said, adding the last two searches were failures, so “let’s do it differently.”
“Let’s get as much involvement as we can and not let it fall on the five of you,” he said.
“I’m hoping tonight one of the aims is to develop a timeline when we can have those answers as to what the next steps will be,” said Hannah Rosinski via Zoom, noting that having firm dates for the process “holds everyone accountable.”
Peggy Maxfield, district math teacher and president of the Windham Southeast Education Association, the union representing 400 district employees, said a consultant for the superintendent search process “never recommended contacting the Association for representation in this process, nor did any of the board members.”
She asked that the Association, administration, and school communities be included “in an expedited process.”
Brattleboro Union High School Principal Steve Perrin also addressed a sense of urgency, as did district Business Administrator Frank Rucker.
“Not only is a lack of a superintendent hurting the district as a whole, it’s greatly impacting Green Street School and BUHS,” Perrin said, noting there are positions to be filled, including assistant principal, which can’t be advertised until a superintendent is named. “That means good, young candidates are finding positions elsewhere.”
Rucker also noted urgency around creating master schedules and making decisions with vendors.
“These are things that are [happening] today, tomorrow, and next week and if we don’t execute [them], we won’t be in as good shape as we should be come September,” he said.
“Mark is widely respected and he’s ready to go,” Rucker said.
A question of leadership
When Gilbert Green asked via Zoom whether Speno would be here next year and Luetjen Green replied that the board couldn’t “acknowledge or speak to” the question, Kahn spoke up.
“You can’t, but I can,” she said.
“I want to talk about how awkward this is for Mark Speno. The guy is so professional, so stand-up, and he’s been put through the wringer by a board we’re being asked to support, but he had a million people giving him so much support,” she said, referencing a meeting earlier in March at which hundreds turned out to lobby for Speno’s hiring.
“For whatever reasons — and to the public at this point [these reasons] look quite personal, to be honest — we have no information,” she added.
“It looks like you, David, and you, you, you have little vendettas,” she said, pointing to David Schoales and other board members. “And it’s really uncomfortable.”
Kahn then turned to the meetings themselves.
“You have got to read Robert’s Rules,” she said, addressing Luetjen Green. “You have got to learn how to run a board meeting, lady.”
“It’s my second meeting,” the chair replied.
“Exactly,” said Kahn, throwing up her hands. “And that’s the thing that you guys you love to say: ‘I’m so new here.’ Did Mr. Speno ever say that on his first day? ‘Oh, I’m so new here, I just stepped in for Andy who just, like, ditched us, but I’m so new here I don’t know what I’m doing.’”
“Like, stop saying that,” Kahn continued. “It’s embarrassing. Stop saying you’re new. Read the minutes, get up to speed. You ran for a position, do it.”
She then urged the five board members to “thank Mr. Speno for everything he’s done.”
Speno, who was present at the meeting, did not speak or otherwise dispute Kahn’s characterization of the negotiations. The interim superintendent has not responded to multiple emails from The Commons asking if he had been offered the job permanently.
“I hear everyone in this space, I respect everyone’s opinions,” said Luetjen Green, adding she’s had many emails from others who don’t support hiring Speno and who don’t “feel they can show their face” or who work in the district.
“You are dismissing 25,000 other people,” she said. “We’re taking opinions out of it. We’re going to continue to go forward and do the best we can and communicate with applicants and see where we are.”
As the meeting dissolved momentarily into many speaking at once, parent Robin Morgan said via Zoom that it was deteriorating into another “vitriol-filled mob,” referencing two earlier forums in March, one about mask wearing and the other when Speno supporters spoke by the dozens.
Morgan asked that the “mood” of the meeting return to a constructive conversation, adding “a very specific point of view feels empowering in these meetings” and saying that “creates an illusion” and results in “some [who] don’t feel safe to speak in this meeting.”
After about 45 minutes, Luetjen Green closed the question period and the board entered executive session “to review applicants and candidates and viable information.”


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Slains4 titles in series
The Winter Sea Publisher's Summary
When best-selling author Carrie McClelland visits the windswept ruins of Slains Castle, she is enchanted by the stark and beautiful Scottish landscape. The area is strangely familiar to her but she puts aside her faint sense of unease to begin her new novel, using the castle as her setting, and one of her own ancestors, Sophia, as her heroine.
Then Carrie realizes her writing is taking on a life of its own and the lines between fact and fiction become increasingly blurred. As Sophia's memories draw Carrie more deeply into the intrigue of 1708, she discovers a captivating love story lost in time.
After 300 years, 'Sophia's Secret' must be told.

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A curated database of candidate human ageing-related genes and genes associated with longevity and/or ageing in model organisms.
A curated database of genes associated with dietary restriction in model organisms either from genetic manipulation experiments or gene expression profiling.
Database of human genetic variants associated with longevity.
Database of human genes associated with cellular senescence.
Projects focused on gene expression profiling of ageing and of dietary manipulations of ageing, such as caloric restriction.
Information on developing genomic resources and methods for studying long-lived species.
Studies focused on cancer, in particular using genomics and bioinformatics approaches.
Software for ageing research, including the Ageing Research Computational Tools (ARCT) perl toolkit.
A curated database of compounds that modulate longevity in model organisms.
A curated database of ageing and life history information in animals, including extensive longevity records.
The benchmark genome assembly and annotation of the long-lived, cancer-resistant naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber).
A high-coverage genome of the bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus), the longest-lived mammal.
A portal of ageing changes covering different biological levels, integrating molecular, physiological and pathological age-related data.
An educational and information resource on the science of ageing.
The bibliographic library for ageing research.
The WhosAge database contains people and biotech companies that are contributing to increase our understanding of ageing and life-extension.
Our lab leads the upkeep and development of HAGR.


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Organ Transplant Surgery Has Advanced – Organ Storage Should Too
Hypothermic machine perfusion prolongs organ viability
The CEO of Organ Recovery Systems tells Medtech Insight that the latest technology in organ preservation and transport could mean greater access to viable organs and more saved lives.
Organ transplant surgery represents one of the most profound advances in modern medicine. Yet many donor organs are still packed using the same technology a fisherman uses for his catch – a box of ice.
“It’s dumbfounding,” said David Kravitz, CEO of Organ Recovery Systems (ORS), an organ preservation company based in Itasca, IL, whose LifePort Kidney Transporter mimics the human body for keeping the donor kidney as “alive” as possible.
As Kravitz explained to Medtech Insight, when a donor kidney becomes available, which is usually due to a traumatic death such as a car accident, the organ undergoes the sudden transition from its natural biological state inside a healthy human body to being plopped in a bag of cold solution then packed in ice – “like a beer cooler.”
This shock results in serious degradation of the organ. “It essentially stops performing,” Kravitz said.
By contrast, the LifePort system uses hypothermic machine perfusion (HMP) – an innovation in which an extremely cold preserving solution is pumped through the donor organ "as if it's still in the body."
When pumped through the kidney, the LifePort’s near-freezing solution introduces nutritional elements and anti-inflammatory agents the organ needs after having gone through the trauma of death.
“And what happens in that environment is the kidney relaxes and returns to a semi-functional state,” Kravitz said.
In what Kravitz referred to as the “agonal phase” of death – in which the kidneys and other organs are fighting to stay alive – they are flooded with chemicals that produce metabolites, essentially waste, that build up. These metabolites further degrade the organ when it’s put into static, cold storage.
The LifePort Kidney Transporter, however, flushes those metabolites out of the kidney, which Kravitz said is one of the key distinctions between machine preservation and the status quo.
The machine also prolongs the viability of the kidney, thus providing more time and opportunity to get the organ where it needs to go – and who it needs to get to.
The Clock Is Ticking
In organ transplants, each second is vital, and for Kravitz it’s when those seconds start ticking off that machine preservation really shows its worth.
For example, an otherwise healthy donor kidney packed in ice needs to be transported to the awaiting patient at most within 36 hours. In Kravitz’ experience, most surgeons do not feel comfortable implanting a donor kidney beyond 18 to 24 hours.
But the LifePort system extends that window significantly. “We've seen surgeons comfortable at 48 hours to 72 hours,” he said.
This added time becomes even more crucial, Kravitz said, when the donor organ comes from an “expanded criteria” pool, meaning the donor was unhealthy and the organ already less optimal at the time of death and when packed.
“When the organ is from an older, sicker donor, which tends to be a higher percentage of the donor population today, the preservation time of these more fragile organs is substantially extended in the machine versus the box of ice,” Kravitz said.
Adding precious hours to the life of the donor organ can also help address the worldwide organ shortage, which has resulted in accepting organs from less healthy donors.
“Transplant surgical communities blossom in adopting the machine perfusion technology, and with that, more patients are addressed in more communities.” – David Kravitz
Patients implanted with organs that are less healthy face a higher risk of dysfunction after surgery and less chance for long-term graft survival – a post-surgery concern even in the best-case scenarios.
Anywhere from 15% to 40% of those having kidney transplant surgery experience organ rejection, according to NephroSant, whose QSant test received Medicare coverage in October 2021. The QSant uses artificial intelligence to score the chances of organ rejection post-surgery, which could be a game changer for organ recipients. (Also see "Medicare To Cover At-Home Test To Detect Organ Rejection After Kidney Transplant Surgery" - Medtech Insight, 6 Oct, 2021.)
An Urgent Need
Tapping into the latest technology that increases the number of viable kidneys becomes even more pressing considering how many are in need. Of the roughly 121,000 patients in the US waiting on a lifesaving organ transplant, more than 100,000 need a kidney, according to the National Kidney Foundation (NKF), with the median wait time for a kidney being nearly four years.
And with 3,000 new patients being added to the kidney waiting list each month – or one new patient every 14 minutes – and 13 people dying every day while waiting, Kravitz said the time to put that technology into practice is now.
The LifePort system is catching on and starting to outpace traditional cold storage, according to Kravitz.
Though it received US Food and Drug Administration approval in 2003, it was after results from a clinical study were published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2009 that ORS was put on the map.
“The data was supportive of the fact that machine perfusion was more effective than static cold storage,” Kravitz said. “Surgeons buy the data, not the devices. They trust the New England Journal of Medicine. Many were then willing to take the chance, and we as a company tried to make it available as quickly as possible.”
Though cold storage is still used, the trend is moving toward machine preservation, according to Kravitz. “In 2021, 54% of kidneys transplanted were preserved by HMP,” he said, noting that the LifePort system has been implemented in more than 91% of organ procurement organizations in the US and in more than 40 other countries.
Not Just Kidneys
The technology behind the LifePort system, however, can address other organs, such as livers.
The ORS LifePort Liver Transporter has completed FDA clinical trials and is now in the final quarter of the agency’s review, Kravitz said, and has been granted continued access, which means hospitals that used the liver system in clinical trials can continue to do so.
Kravitz said ORS didn’t initially have the resources to develop machines for all organs, since each organ requires uniquely engineered specifications. That’s why the company focused on the kidney, the most transplanted organ.
Health Care Equity
Making more organs available also carries the potential to close gaps in health care equity, Kravitz noted. As with many diseases, minorities and lower-income Americans are often disproportionately affected with advanced kidney disease and less likely to receive a transplant or even get on a waiting list.
Black Americans, for instance, are four times more likely than Whites to have kidney failure, according to the NKF, while Latinos are 1.3 times more likely.
In total, some 37 million US adults have chronic kidney disease and nearly half of those are in kidney failure, meaning without dialysis or a transplant they will die.
But as more surgeons become familiar with the LifePort system and its capabilities to transport a wider pool of organs across further distances, the potential to change the status quo and produce better outcomes in organ transplants increases.
“Across the continuum of all types of donors, transplant surgical communities blossom in adopting the machine perfusion technology,” Kravitz said, “and with that, more patients are addressed in more communities.”


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Bach-Simpson's (Global Railway subsidiary) industry leading Crash
Hardened Event Recorders on board new commuter rail cars destined for
New York City, Chicago & Los Angeles areas
Stock Symbol: GBI
Listing: Toronto Stock Exchange
Outstanding Shares: 14.9 Million
Web Site: www.globalrailway.com
BERWICK, PA, March 27 /CNW/ - Global Railway Industries Ltd., -
(GBI:TSX): Global Railway Industries Ltd., www.globalrailway.com, ("Global" or
the "Company"), a leading North American provider of railway products and
service equipment, today announced that its Bach-Simpson Corporation
subsidiary ("Bach-Simpson"), has signed three contracts to provide Event
Recorders for new commuter rail cars being delivered to transit operators in
the New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles areas.
Under contract from various transit rail car OEM's (original equipment
manufacturers), Bach-Simpson will supply Event Recorders, spare parts and test
equipment for installation on new commuter rail cars for a combined value of
US $5.5 million. Deliveries will begin in late 2007 continuing through 2011 to
coincide with the delivery schedules of the new rail cars.
The orders include options for additional Event Recorder equipment valued
at US $1.3 million exercisable over the next five years for a total potential
value of about US $6.8 million.
"We are a leader in Crash Hardened Event Recorder technology, and offer a
very unique system that meets both IEEE and the latest FRA crashworthy memory
requirements. We are excited that we have been chosen to deploy our Event
Recorder systems on these contracts, and look forward to strengthening our
relationships in the transit market to expand our installed base," said Paul
Weber, President of Bach-Simpson.
Weber continues, "Bach-Simpson's Event Recorder technology is in use
world-wide and is already on board railcars used by various New York, Chicago
and Los Angeles area rail transit operators"
"Safety Boards both in US and Canada have begun to mandate the use of
crash survivable event data recorders aboard locomotives and transit cars,"
said Terry McManaman CEO of Global Railway. "Bach-Simpson's Event Recorders
equipped with a Crash Hardened Memory Module are the technology leader in this
Event data recording is a very effective technology that is currently
being deployed in the rail transportation industry. Recording vehicle data is
essential in operating and maintaining safe and efficient vehicles. Recorded
data provides vital information for accident investigations, train handling
studies, fuel conservation, vehicle performance, and preventative maintenance
About Bach-Simpson: Established in 1946, Bach-Simpson is a leading
supplier of electronic instrumentation and control systems for the rail and
transit markets. Visit Bach-Simpson at www.bach-simpson.com.
About Global Railway Industries: Global Railway Industries Ltd. is a
diversified rail product company serving the railway industry in North
America. Global Railway is a public company whose shares are listed for
trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) under the symbol "GBI". The
Company has a total of 14.9 million shares outstanding. For more information:
visit www.globalrailway.com or www.investorfile.com.
THIS NEWS RELEASE MAY CONTAIN FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION. ACTUAL FUTURE
RESULTS MAY DIFFER MATERIALLY FROM THOSE CONTEMPLATED. THE RISKS,
UNCERTAINTIES AND OTHER FACTORS, BOTH KNOWN AND UNKNOWN, THAT COULD INFLUENCE
ACTUAL RESULTS MAY BE SUBSTANTIAL AND INCLUDE THOSE DESCRIBED IN DOCUMENTS
FILED WITH REGULATORY AUTHORITIES, SUCH AS THE COMPANY'S MOST RECENTLY FILED
ANNUAL REPORT AND ANNUAL INFORMATION FORM. ACCORDINGLY, NO ASSURANCES CAN BE
GIVEN THAT ANY OF THE EVENTS ANTICIPATED BY THE FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
WILL TRANSPIRE OR OCCUR, OR IF ANY OF THEM DO SO, WHAT BENEFITS THE COMPANY
WILL DERIVE THEREFROM.
For further information:
For further information: Company Contact: Terry McManaman, President &
CEO, Tel: (570) 802-0366, E-mail: email@example.com, Web:
www.globalrailway.com; Investor Relations: Gerry Wimmer, INVESTORFILE.com,
Tel: (416) 360-8895, Toll Free: 1-888-894-8222, E-mail:
firstname.lastname@example.org, Web: www.investorfile.com


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Joining Two Photographs Together
The joining together of two separate and faded black and white photographic images into a single composition using Adobe Photoshop.
Hand Coloured Photographs – Tinting Black & White
This photograph was carefully repaired and hand coloured to achieve a highly impressive effect.
Photographic Repair – Old Image
Very little detail and low resolution. New facial regions were overlaid and distorted to match the characteristics of the original.
Technical Retouch of Audi
Highly stylised image of an Audi, produced from a non-professional shot. Airbrushed and textured background image.
Building Renovation – Image Retouch
Demonstration of retouching skills. Renovation of derelict building was produced in three hours.
Dashboard Flip for the Automotive Industry
Horizontally flipping a car interior using Adobe Photoshop – from a left to a right hand drive.
Statue Comes to Life!
Cold stone comes to life with this image manipulation, using Adobe Photoshop.
Restoration Of Water Damaged Photograph
Image badly damaged during a flood. Airbrush repair with grain added afterwards for a natural effect.
Hand Tint – From Black & White to Colour
Colour was added to create variances and reflections within this hand tint from black and white.
Repair: Crowded Photograph
It takes a lot longer to repair a crowd shot. Each face is important and must be retouched to a high standard.
Bad Composition Fix
Rotation issue was fixed and white regions airbrushed out. Crowd members were moved for a better composition.
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Clipping Paths & Perspective
Clipping path around a vintage car. Realistic mirrored reflection with perspective carefully considered.
Digital Restoration of Doom Painting
Digital restoration of one of the finest medieval doom paintings in Europe.
Architectural Image Retouch
Clients want to see their dream home without scaffolding and with a lawn in front of it.


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|SA Seasonal Rainfall Outlook: probabilities for October to December 2006, issued 26th September 2006|
Below average falls indicated for southern SA
There is a moderate shift in the odds towards drier than normal conditions for the December quarter (October-December) over the agricultural areas of South Australia, the Bureau of Meteorology announced today. Across the rest of the State, the chances are generally close to 50% for accumulating at least median rainfall during the coming three months.
The pattern of seasonal rainfall odds across SA is a result of higher than average temperatures in both the Pacific and Indian Oceans, the former of which has been warming strongly in the past few months.
Across southern SA, including southern parts of the Eyre Peninsula (see map), the chances of the accumulated rainfall totals exceeding median rainfall for the period October to December are between 30 and 40%. Looking at the flip-side, these probabilities mean that BELOW median falls have about a 60 to 70% chance of occurring.
So in years with ocean patterns like the current, about six or seven December quarters out of ten are expected to be drier than average in these parts of the State, with about three or four out of ten being wetter.
Outlook confidence is related to how consistently the Pacific and Indian Oceans affect Australian rainfall. During the December quarter, history shows this effect to be moderately consistent across the eastern half of SA, but only weakly consistent in the west (see background information).
The Southern Oscillation Index (SOI), negative for the fourth straight month, dropped from −9 in July to a low −16 in August. The approximate SOI for the 30 days ending 19th September was −4.
In addition to the low SOI, the equatorial Pacific has been warming and the Trade Winds have been weak. These ENSO indicators are all consistent with the development phase of an El Niño event, the likelihood of which has risen strongly in the past month. For routine updates and comprehensive discussion on the latest data relating to ENSO, together with details on what the phenomenon is and how it has affected Australia in the past, please see the ENSO Wrap-Up.
Click on the map above for a larger version of the map. Use the reload/refresh button to ensure the latest forecast map is displayed.
|More information on this outlook is available from 9.00am to 5.00pm (CST) Monday to Friday by contacting the Climate and Consultancy section in the Bureau's Adelaide Office: (08) 8366 2664.|
THE NEXT ISSUE OF THE SEASONAL OUTLOOK IS EXPECTED BY 26th OCTOBER 2006

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By Bernie Sargent
This month is a bit of a departure from the “older” history of El Paso and the surrounding area. I thought it might be fun to touch on a bit of our more recent history in lite of the recent loss of one of the music greats from El Paso, Rod Crosby. I asked a friend of ours to tell me about his journey through the music history from the 60’s to the present. Most all of us have heard of the tragic life of Bobby Fuller and his rise in the music industry. But few were closer to Bobby than Rod Crosby and my good friend, Rick Kern. While Rod knew and performed with the Bobby Fuller Five, the Bobby Fuller Five inspired and motivated Rick to pursue his own music passion, often traveling to the same areas that the BFF had performed with his group of local musicians. The following story shares with the readers how Rick began his dream which led to a pretty decent following, including his future wife, Sharon. So, please enjoy this piece of more recent history.
By Rick Kern
I was 13 when I saw my very first live El Paso band. The year was 1963. When Thursday nights rolled around it was a pretty regular routine that I would hop in my dad’s yellow International Scout I’d head out with dad, from our Lower Valley home, out to Northeast El Paso to the Skylanes Bowling Alley. I would sit behind him and watch him bowl. It was a bowling team sponsored by the El Paso Downtown Lions Club. The general rule was that I could wander around the bowling alley but not go outside, and look around for my friend, Mike McGill, whose mom was also in a weekly bowling league. We would usually hookup and go to the coffee shop and order french fries and a cherry coke. He was a bass player and I had just started playing drums a couple years before. We would sit around and share stories about the music we both liked. My favorites were drummers Sandy Nelson and Gene Krupa. As far as bands go, I was digging The Ventures and Dick Dale & the Deltones. I was lucky to have parents that supported my love of drums and music. The agreement was; Do your homework when, you get home from school and then I could practice my drums while playing along with my record albums. I’m sure it was probably annoying to them, but they never complained.
One of those Thursday trips with dad to Skylanes was a pivotal moment in my life. My friend Mike wasn’t there that night, so I went alone to the coffee shop. While on my stroll across the alley I heard some great music coming from the bar. It was called the Little Dipper Lounge. I was too young to go inside but I could hear real well right outside the door. The waitress coming in and out was really nice to let me stand there and listen. I was having my first live music experience that shook me to the core! There was a band playing songs that I had never heard before. There were two guitar players, bass and drums. The crowd response was almost as exciting to watch as the band. They were applauding and yelling for more. It was exciting to watch.
When dad finished bowling his four games that night, I told him about the band I had just heard. He walked over to the bar with me and said, “Do you want to go in and listen?” Sure dad! I said nest, remember sitting at a table right in front of the stage. It was really loud and cool being right there hearing this great music. I remember the band taking a break and when the drummer walked by, I told him “You guys are awesome!” I was in such awe that it was like being in front of Rock n Roll royalty. The band: The Bobby Fuller Four! It was Bobby Fuller, Randall Fuller, Dalton Powell and Jim Reese. I remember my dad asking me, “What do you think about them?” I responded with, “someday I want to be in a band just like this one!”
That night I dreamed about The Bobby Fuller Four and, yes, I wished to be in a great rock band like them some day.
My friend Mike McGill and I really had lots to talk about now as we watched this great band on Thursday nights. We had stories to tell at school and with the neighborhood kids from the block.
A couple years later, Mike and I were both in high school. He was at Burges, and I was at Ysleta. We decided to combine our talents and formed a band that wasn’t half bad. In fact, we played a few high school after game dances and homecoming gigs at Burges and Irvin High School. Bars were out of the question until I hit my 16th or so Birthday, when my mom would chaperone us. We played a bar on Dyer and later on downtown at the Golden Gate Club and maybe the Green Frog.
My freshman year at UTEP was in 1969. I remember distinctly my first day in the vocal music department. I met two guys that would become part of my music career for the next several years. One of them was a fine bass player/vocalist by the name of Gayle Hageman, and a keyboard player by the name of Dick Greco. We were all were studying vocal music and decided, since we also played instruments – we should maybe start a band. Gayle was eight years older than Dick and I and had played with several El Paso bands with greats like Frank Dove, Dub Purvis, Lloyd Dalton and other country western players. There was one thing I learned quickly from Gayle and that was it’s a lot about who you know to get the best gigs not always what you know. We added a guitar player and became The Basic Sound, the house band at El Paso’s only six nights per week club – The Knights Club at the Bassett Rodeway Inn! Texas Monthly named the club one of the top night clubs in Texas and we were there for three straight years! It was the best gig ever for me while getting my four years completed at UTEP! Oh, I need to tell you. Remember that wish I made in my dream about playing in a band like the Bobby Fuller Four? Our guitar player was Jim Reese from the Bobby Fuller Four! – yes, the same guitar player I saw that night with my dad!
Watch what you wish for….It just might come true.
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