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Run (2014 film)
Run is a 2014 French-Ivorian drama film directed by Philippe Lacôte. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. The fictionalized account of the 2011 post-election upheaval in the Ivory Coast that killled 3000 people was first film from that country selected for Cannes.
|Directed by||Philippe Lacôte|
|Produced by||Claire Gadea|
|Written by||Philippe Lacôte|
|Starring||Abdoul Karim Konaté|
|Music by||Sebastian Escoffet|
|Edited by||Barbara Bossuet|
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The film was also selected as the Ivorian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards but it was not nominated. It received 12 nominations at the 11th Africa Movie Academy Awards but did not win any award.
- Abdoul Karim Konaté as Run
- Isaach de Bankolé as Assa
- Djinda Kane as Claire
- Christopher Vourlias (1 August 2014). "Once-glittering Côte d'Ivoire film industry hopes for a sequel: Local filmmakers try for a cinematic renaissance after years of civil war and win a spot at Cannes". Al-Jazeera. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
- "2014 Official Selection". Cannes. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
- "81 Countries In Competition For 2015 Foreign Language Film Oscar". AMPAS. 9 October 2015. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
- Essien, Iquo B. (9 October 2015). "Philippe Lacôte's Debut Feature 'Run' Is Ivory Coast's Best Foreign Language Film Oscar Entry". IndieWire. Retrieved 9 October 2015.


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In a collaborated effort, Senior Research Scientist Hiroshi Abe and Division Head Masatomo Kobayashi of the Experimental Plant Division, RIKEN BioResource Research Center (BRC), Senior Researcher Tamito Sakurai of the Central Region Agricultural Research Center (CARC), National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), the Kanagawa Agricultural Technology Center and the Hiroshima Prefectural Technology Research Institute, have announced a successful trial of an insect repellent against thrips. By boosting plant defenses against pests and repelling insects, it reduces crop damage and prevents the transmission of plant viruses by insects. The substance is not an insecticide, thereby mostly eliminating incidents of resistant insects. This breakthrough is expected to contribute to the sustainability of farming by reducing dependence on agricultural chemicals.
A growing major issue in agriculture in recent years is the increasing difficulty of bug control due to insecticide resistance arising from persistent insecticide use. One such insect, found domestically and overseas, is the thrip, which has developed strong resistance to insecticides and is of such a small size, of only 1-2mm, that it is very challenging to prevent from entering large-scale horticultural facilities including indoor farms. Thrips do not just reduce the value of crops they feed on, they also spread plant viruses across a wide variety of plants due to their indiscriminate parasitism, from brassicas to nightshades, cucurbits and Asteraceae.
The research group found that the protective plant hormones jasmonic acid and salicylic acid are especially strongly involved. When a plant is damaged it biosynthesizes jasmonic acid to repel harmful insects, and when it is infected with disease-causing pathogens it biosynthesizes salicylic acid and becomes more resistant.
The research group considered a trial to see whether they could expand the application of jasmonic acid analog Prohydrojasmon (PDJ), which is already commercialized as a plant growth regulator, to repel thrips. The work was undertaken with the support of the Cabinet Office’s Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program (SIP), "Technologies for creating next-generation agriculture, forestry and fisheries."
The trial started in 2014 to test the effectiveness of PDJ in repelling thrips in greenhouse tomato plots. The trial ran in eight greenhouses in different climates across Japan including Kanagawa Prefecture, Hiroshima Prefecture and Ibaraki Prefecture. Thrips were already present in the facilities, with the conditions of the trial altered to observe natural changes over time. For the PDJ, Jasmomate developed by Zeon Corporation was used.
Its effectiveness in repelling thrips was proven by 2017. By including phytotoxicity testing and two years of crop residue testing data, the requirements for application expansion were met so that in June 2017, an application was registered with the Food and Agricultural Materials Inspection Center for the use of PDJ as an effective repellent against thrips in tomatoes. Agricultural chemical registration was obtained from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on March 26 of this year.
The repellency of PDJ comes from the high sensitivity of thrips to jasmonic acid. It is dispersed around the time of planting at the outset, repelling insects or reducing the damage they cause. The trial also confirmed a reduced transmission rate of viruses via damage to the plants from thrip feeding.
PDJ is a jasmonic acid analog that is already approved as a plant growth regulator, and has been primarily used to promote coloration in fruit. It is a compound slightly different in its structure from jasmonic acid and is proven to repel thrips from thale-cress, as well as jasmonic acid, while suppressing fertility inhibition effects.
Abe explains that, "Currently, we are at the first step of application to tomatoes. We are hoping to now prove effectiveness in other plants and increase the crops it #Biologycan be applied to. We would also like to test its effectiveness and applicability to insects other than thrips."
This article has been translated by JST with permission from The Science News Ltd.(https://sci-news.co.jp/). Unauthorized reproduction of the article and photographs is prohibited.

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(VOA NEWS) – A Washington, D.C. transit policeman has been arrested on charges of attempting to provide support to the Islamic State (IS), the first time terrorism charges have been filed against a law enforcement officer in the U.S.
36 year old Nicholas Young, a 13-year veteran of the Metro Transit Police Department (MTPD), has been accused by the U.S. Department of Justice of giving 22 gift card codes, worth nearly $250, to an undercover Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent. The FBI said Young believed his contact had mobile messaging accounts that IS used to recruit members.
Young made his first court appearance Wednesday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia. Other than requesting a court-appointed attorney, Young said little else during the hearing, which lasted less than five minutes. He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
The affidavit said Young traveled to Libya once in 2011 and tried to visit there a second time. It also said Young met about 20 times in 2014 with an undercover FBI agent who posed as a U.S. military reservist of Middle Eastern descent and expressed a desire to travel abroad to join IS.
Young had been monitored by the FBI since 2010. Law enforcement authorities first interviewed Young in connection with an acquaintance, Zachary Chesser, who later pleaded guilty to providing material support to the foreign terrorist group al-Shabaab.
Young also held meetings with an undercover law enforcement officer in 2011, sometimes with another associate, Amine El Khalifi, who pleaded guilty to charges of planning to carry out a suicide bombing at the U.S. Capitol Building. READ MORE OF THIS REPORT

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Federico Paciotti, Giovanni Allevi and Sumi Jo met for 'Life is a Miracle', a song in support of scientific research. The song is accompanied by the video clip of the director Cristiano Riccardi. An exceptional trio to remember the victims of Covid-19 and support the work of the Foundation which bears the name of Professor Umberto Veronesi. Sumi Jo, South Korean soprano; Federico Paciotti, tenor and guitarist who started his career at the age of 13 with the pop band Gazosa; Giovanni Allevi, composer and pianist: three artists, three souls for a song of solidarity and resistance, because life remains the greatest miracle man witnesses. The song is available on the Bizart label (Sugar / Bizart editions, distributed by Artist First) and was written by Federico Paciotti with the contribution of Giovanni Allevi and the text by Tony Canto.
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With no easy fix, economist suggests adjustable-rate mortgage and upping one's income.
The rapid decline in home affordability took another hit this week, falling to the lowest level in more than a decade. By one measure, affordability has eroded faster than any other point in one key measure – the Real House Price Index issued by First American.
Mark Fleming, the chief economist at First American, broke down the statistics leading to the fast decline, including the US cities where affordability declined the most and the least.
“In April 2022, the RHPI jumped up by 45.6% compared with a year ago, accelerating faster than any other point in the 30-year history of the series,” Fleming said. “This rapid annual decline in affordability was driven by two factors: a 21.2% annual increase in nominal house prices and a 1.9 percentage point increase in the average 30-year, fixed mortgage rate compared with one year ago.”
Yet amid the grim stats, a glimmer of hope in the form of an envisioned rebalancing.
“Housing affordability is rapidly declining, and our preliminary nominal house price index estimates for May and June indicate that house price growth is already moderating as potential buyers are pulling back from the market,” Fleming said. “The pandemic-driven supply and demand imbalance that fueled historically strong house price appreciation is coming to an end as the housing market rebalances to a new normal. Yet, the rebalancing will differ from city to city based on localized shifts in supply and demand and income levels.”
Still, available options for homebuyers are increasingly scarce for the foreseeable future. The only way forward for many would-be homebuyers is an increase in income, the economist noted.
“For home buyers, there are few options to mitigate the loss of affordability caused by the increase in mortgage rates and home prices,” Fleming noted. “One way to offset the decline in affordability is with an equivalent, if not greater, increase in household income. Household income increased 5.0% since April 2021 and boosted consumer house-buying power, but even the strong year-over-year income growth was not enough to offset the affordability loss from higher rates and fast-rising nominal prices”
Short of that is the option of an adjustable-rate mortgage, Fleming suggested.
“Alternatively, another option for home buyers to mitigate the loss of affordability is to switch to an adjustable-rate mortgage with a lower rate than the fixed-rate benchmark,” he said. “In fact, the share of adjustable-rate mortgages relative to fixed-rate mortgages has grown as mortgage rates have increased in recent months.”
Fleming stressed each market is different, and an exploration into market conditions in various cities may provide a pathway to homeownership.
“In April, affordability on both a year-over-year and month-over-month basis declined at its fastest pace in the series’ history,” he said. “However, real estate is local and house-buying power and nominal house prices vary by city, so it’s helpful to know where affordability is declining the most and the least.”
Still, exploring other cities in which to buy properties yields no panacea: “Affordability declined year over year in all of the 50 markets we track in April,” Fleming noted. “Mortgage rates increased 1.9 percentage points relative to one year ago, which reduces affordability, all else held equal. Higher mortgage rates decrease affordability equally in each market as mortgage rates are generally similar across the country. However, household income growth and nominal house prices vary by market, creating the geographic variance in affordability. Faster nominal house price appreciation can erode, or even eliminate, the boost in affordability from higher household income.”
Nevertheless, the economist produced a list of the top five markets at both extremes of affordability. The top five cities where affordability declined the most year-over-year, in descending order, are:
Conversely, the top five cities where affordability declined the least are:
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Philanthropist of Chester County. Mormonism Unmasked, Showed to be an Impious Imposture, and Mr. Bennett’s Reply Answered and Refuted, 2–24. Philadelphia: T. K. & P. G. Collins, 1840.
IT is not because I considered Mr. Bennett’s Reply worthy of an answer, that I have undertaken to write again on the subject of Mormonism; nor is it, that I suppose I can by Scripture and ratiocination, produce acknowledged conviction in the Mormons, for they appear to have got far beyond the reach of the influence of reason and Scriptural argumentation; but it is in order more fully to acquaint the public with their ridiculous and astounding errors, blasphemies and wickedness.
A PHILANTHROPIST.
SOME time since, a tract was written by a Philanthropist of Chester County, being an impartial exhibition of the errors of Mormonism, as preached by their demagogues, in order to guard persons of honest and upright intentions, against the delusive enormities of this infatuated sect: since which time, a tract has been published, styled a Reply to the aforesaid tract, by S. Bennett, in which his intention is, as he in the title declares, to disabuse the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, of the slanders and falsehoods which he has attempted to fasten upon it. Perhaps, it might not be improper, to tell Mr. Bennett that the Church of Jesus Christ,* does not need such a mass of falsehood and slander as his tract contains, to undeceive it, and rescue it
*Mr. Bennett should here have said the church of Jo. Smith; for if Christ’s priesthood and covenant are abolished, and Smith’s established; then the Mormons should not use his name to deceive the unwary. from its mistakes as he imagines. For if this sect constitutes the church, and if it has the true priesthood, apostolical doctrine and only genuine form of worship, then to disabuse it certainly cannot be considered necessary. This is one proof among many, of the knowledge of unknown tongues, which the Mormon demagogues profess to have. That the Mormons have been slandered in said tract, is absolutely untrue. We can bring a number of respectable witnesses, if required, to testify to the truth of what has been said. It is so far from being true that they have been slandered, that but a part of the truth of their pernicious doctrines has been told. We are now, not only prepared to substantiate what has already been said, but to exhibit more fully a picture of their doctrines. I presume when the character of Mormonism is taken into consideration, that I will not be deemed unjustifiably severe by the public, in portraying it, when using in some places severe terms; since it is rather doubtful, whether language can furnish words too strong, to give adequate ideas of it. Three particular traits in the Mormon character, are slander,  imposture, and lying on every occasion, where it is judged convenient to screen them, and cover their errors. Prompted by a spirit of gall and wormwoo, malignant as that of a demon, and accompanied with the impudence of fiends, their intention seems to be, to prostrate Scripture, reason, truth, religion, and all authority except their own. The following lines, will perhaps, pretty appropriately describe the spirit of Mormonism.
A poisonous morsel in her teeth she chew’d, And gorg’d the flesh of vipers for her food, Which virtue loathing turn’d away her eye; The hideous monster rising heavily,
Came stalking forward with a sullen pace, And left her mangled offals on the place!
Soon as she saw the truth, in robes of light, She fetch’d a groan at such a cheerful sight.
Her looks were meagre, and her darkened eye, In foul distorted glances, turned awry;
A hoard of gall her inward parts possessed, And spread her greenness o’er her canker’d breast; Her teeth were brown with rust, and from her tongue In dangling drops, the stringy poison hung.
Watchful in spite, and restless to destroy, She pines and sickens at all others’ joy.
See MATTHEW xxiii, 15—33; and ROMANS iii, 13.
The Mormons essay to identify the opposition manifested against their pernicious doctrines, with the persecutions of the Christians, and thus they would insinuate that, because the community is not disposed to swallow their filthy stuff, and that because it is met with deserved censure and abhorrence, they are persecuted. That the Mormons are persecuted for righteousness’ sake no one will believe, who knows what righteousness is. And if they are blessed who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, surely they are cursed who are persecuted for wickedness sake. As well might a thief, or a murderer, who having been prosecuted, arrested, and confined in prison, attempt to justify his crime by asserting he was persecuted, as for the Mormons to attempt to cover up their turpitude, under the hypocritical outcry of persecution, persecution! Now let all who have any reverence for God, any esteem for the Scripture, any desire for salvation, and to escape the wrath to come; beware of the leaven of Mormonism, for it is tenfold worse than hypocrisy.
Mr. Bennett affirms, “That any one who has the slightest acquaintance with American antiquities, or Indian traditions, will find abundant evidence to establish the fact,” i. e., of the genuineness of the golden plates or Mormon Bible; and says, for confirmation of what he affirms, “See Priest’s American Antiquities, and A. Davis on the discovery of America by the Northmen.” A thousand opinions, sir, concerning the aborigines  of this country, is no proof of the truth of this book. And he who considers opinion sufficient to constitute a revelation, especially, when there is nothing in that opinion to that effect, may no doubt, find revelations in number as the sands of the sea.—Let those who wish to see, what abundant Mormon evidence amounts to, read the books mentioned above. This is one proof among many of Mormon veracity. If I was disposed to tell one of the most ridiculous falsehoods I could invent, I do not know how I could better accomplish my purpose, than by making such unwarrantable assertions as the above. To show how discordant the Mormons are in their testimony, I will mention one instance which I know. Mr. D. in a discourse at the Westnantmeal Seminary affirmed, “That when the golden plates were discovered, they were taken to professor Anthony, of New York, and he could make but little out of them; they were then taken to a man in Albany, but he could not even so much as make out a word of them. Then Mormon was endued with the gift of the interpretation of tongues, and translated the whole of them; according to which, Mormon must have lived since the discovery of the golden plates. Pratt in his Warning Voice, says that, “Mormon was a general in the army of the Niphites, about A. D. 450, and that he collected the prophecies of the Niphites, and concealed them in Cumora, to prevent their destruction by the Lemonites,” or in words to this effect: from which, the necessity of liars having good memories is obvious. But, perhaps, Mr. Davis then, had not read Pratt’s Warning Voice, and of course he must give some account to satisfy curiosity when required. The absurdity of supposing the Lemonites should intend the destruction of their own Scripture, I leave for Mr. Bennett to account for.
The Mormons affirm, “That the present Indians, are a part of the half tribe of Joseph, and that they sailed to this country across the Atlantic Ocean; being furnished with a compass by the hand of God.” We must of course presume that they were furnished also with a knowledge of navigation, reading, writing, &c. It is now nearly 350 years since this country was discovered; during which time, the Indians have had communication with English, French, Spanish, Dutch, &c., from whom they have procured guns, swords, axes, coins, &c. Some of these articles being lost long since, and recently found, are no doubt judged to be the work of the aborigines. But are there not mounds, forts, and the remains of towns, that show that the inhabitants of this country were once acquainted with the arts and sciences? I answer that these remains will not prove any greater degree of perfection in the arts, than that which was exhibited among the Mexicans, when first visited by the Spanish. No remains of antiquity, which can be proved to be the work of the inhabitants of this country, previous to its discovery, will constitute even so much as a shadow of proof, that the sciences of  reading and writing, much less, that of navigation and compasses were ever known here. The Israelites, so far as we are acquainted with their history, were versed in the arts and sciences: emigrating to this country (passing by the difficulties, attending their emancipation and marching in a body, through barbarous nations of people:) they would of course, not leave their useful knowledge behind them. We may reasonably presume, they would bring along with them the Scripture of the Old Testament; and by consequence, they would avoid the necessity of the Mormons counterfeiting a bible for them. Besides, as the Mormons tell us, that Jesus Christ was among the Indians here, and preached to them at the same time that he was among the Jews, they must have known something of the New Testament, of Christ’s mission into the world however. If I mistake not, I marked an account of seventeen great cities, which Pratt says existed in this country, and were destroyed in the 34th year. At which time, he says, the darkness was so great, that fire could not be kindled with fine dry wood. Every person who knows any thing of philosophy, knows that life cannot continue where fire will not burn. This must have been an age of miracles, like the present. However, we will now suppose, that about A. D. 450, this country had a vast multitude of Ephraimites in it, and that they had great cities, all kinds of tradesmen, and the sciences of navigation, reading, writing, arithmetic, and consequently the Scripture, particularly the Mormon Bible, and of course a multitude of other books. Why did not the Lemonites preserve a few of their books, at least a few copies of their Scripture, if not for their own instruction, to satisfy the Mormons of its truth. When did they agree to forget themselves? to forget who they were? When did they purpose to destroy their Scripture and all their other books? their schools, furnaces, forges, smiths, carpenters, masons, &c.? Would it not be impossible, to persuade us to destroy our manufactories, tradesmen, Scripture, books, schools, farmers, ploughs, harrows, wagons, axes, &c., &c., &c., and rush into a state of profound ignorance of every useful art and science of even ourselves? O says a Mormon advocate, Alexander Selkirk was in the Island of Juan Fernandez till he nearly forgot his language. I suppose it is hardly necessary to observe, that Selkirk was alone in this island, remote from books, and all means of improvement, and preservation of his acquirements; not so with the Ephraimites here; they were in society, and had every inducement and means to preserve their knowledge. Now Mr. Bennett, tell us how the Ephraimites acquired a knowledge of the Reformed Egyptian language? And why were the golden plates engraved in this language for Israelites? This is Mormon miracle all over, what astonishing believers the Mormons are!
Mr. Bennett in his Reply, says, “The authenticity of the book of Mormon rests exactly upon the same foundation, that  the communications of the Almighty to the human family, ever have rested in any age of the world, viz: the testimony of men of honesty and veracity.”
Whoever reflects upon the manner in which the Mormon bible was got up, will be convinced how much veracity there is in this fallacious assertion. The Mormon Bible was transformed, and got up altogether in the dark, represented indeed, as being accompanied with a multitude of miracles, but such as none but Mormons ever saw. In a word all the marks of imposture cluster round this criminal work of darkness. This abominable falsehood, is yet more evident, if we advert to the manner in which the law and gospel were given. See the 19th chapter of Exodus.
Here, in the presence of 600,000 men, besides women and children, there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, the voice of a trumpet exceeding loud, so that all the people in the camp trembled. Mount Sinai altogether in a smoke; the smoke ascending as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. There had been miracles achieved; stupendous, public and numerous; not such as no one ever saw. Ten of which had been performed in Egypt, and were witnessed by both Israelites and Egyptians. The red sea had been divided, and the cloudy pillar by day, and fiery pillar by night had gone before the whole congregation. The gospel also had preceded, accompanied, and succeeded by miracles, public, mighty and numerous. In the words of the gospel by Matthew, xv, 30—And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus’ feet; and he healed them; insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they SAW the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see. The dead were raised, the sun was darkened, the earth quaked, the rocks rent, and the graves opened: such mighty miracles has God been pleased, because he saw them proper to achieve upon the giving of the law and gospel, to authenticate them, neither of which dispensations, was to be increased or diminished. Now, Mr. Bennett, where is the authenticity for your Mormon bible? I unhestitatingly affirm that it has not a particle of it; and moreover, that by the introduction of your spurious bible, unauthenticated by any divine attestations, which you are attempting to palm on the world for revelation, you incur the terrible penalty denounced against impostors—Rev. xxii, 18, “If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book. The testimony of men, however honest they may be, is insufficient of itself to establish a revelation from God. To prove and establish, and show to the world its divine origin, authority and obligations, it must be accompanied by the achievement of works, public and seen, above all human and magical powers; such works as I have already showed, both Mosaic and Christian dispensations were accompanied with.—  And whoever essays to bring up revelations without such accompaniments, should be regarded, and in justice is regarded, as a criminal impostor, undeserving any credit, dangerous to the welfare of the community, and exposed to the punishment of hellfire. I have already given an example or two, to show how much the Mormons regard veracity, and before the conclusion of this work, I shall give many more. Perhaps, a little raillery here, may not be judged misplaced, particularly when we consider, that to “Answer a fool according to his folly,” is a Scriptural precept.
Beyond the bounds of truth and sense,
In dreams and smoke, and darkness dense,
We’ve travelled for a game;
Where ghosts and goblins stalk abroad,
And where there is a carnal God,
To magnify our name.
We’ll sport along, and gladly look,
To Spaulding’s Indian Mormon book,
Reveal’d to big Jo. Smith;
His handy craft, he’ll to us tell,
Which will our gloomy fears dispel;
We’ll glory in his pith.*
In hope of that great airy town,
In which we shortly shall sit down,
And lovely misses gain;
No human laws will then be found,
Which to our pleasures raise a mound;
They’ll bear without a pain.
We’ll sound the tidings, and we’ll tell To them whom we shut up in hell,
Enlighten’d by the flames;
Although surrounded by the smoke,
Which sometimes may our lingo choke,
We’ll wash away their stains.
*Strength, of which Smith boasted considerably.
We’ll give them signs and dreams enough,
And tales and stories of all stuff,
Which we have never seen;
And let the work their own faith do,
Or be undone ‘tis very true,
We’ve mighty power we mean.
There’s none but we, that’s right, we guess; We are the only ones that bless,
These fourteen hundred years;
You must believe, repent and turn To Mormon faith, or on you’ll burn,
In nothing more than fears.
Shall we have here in our enlightened country, a Mahomet and Koran? Let those who would be convinced of the effects of countenancing imposture, read an account of the state of those countries, wherein Mahometanism has prevailed, and I presume, they will not be much disposed to favor, or put their necks under the fell yoke of Mormonism, which if unshackled, perhaps, would be many degrees the worse of the two. . . .  . . .
I received from a friend, the testimony of two persons of Susquehannah county, given January 27th, 1840, viz: Ichabod Buck, and Nathaniel Banker, who declare upon oath, that they were acquainted with J. Smith, and that he commenced his Mormonism about four miles from the residence of said Ichabod Buck. That said J. Smith seduced Mr. Isaac Hale’s daughter, and ran away with her into the  State of New Yord; that in the opinion of all intelligent person, so far as they are acquainted, Smith is an impostor of the blackest kind; and that he was a cunning designing knave, whose moral character was bad in all respects; and that with most of his followers, the delusion has altogether subsided in this county, where it started. The deposition of Mr. Banker adds, that the Mormon testimony, in one of their bibles, which he then had before him, affirms that the golden plates, with their engraving, were brought by an angel, and laid before the eyes of Smith and eleven more, and that said Smith translated them.* Sworn and subscribed before SAMUEL W. TRUESDELL.
*Pratt, in his Warning Voice, says the golden plates were dug out of, or found in, a hill in the State of New York, originally called Cumora; see page 3.

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Claudio Reyna, who could be a key midfield player for the U.S. World Cup team, strained a right hamstring in practice and is expected to be out five or six days.
A magnetic scan of the injury revealed no serious damage, team spokesman Dean Linke said."I am not concerned," U.S. coach Bora Milutinovic said Friday. "He is young."
Reyna is expected to return to practice by Tuesday or Wednesday.


SIVASAGAR, Feb 3: The Congress party will get more than 100 seats in the next Assembly poll, claimed Member of Parliament Pradyut Bordoloi here.
The senior Congress leader was taking part in the central Me dam Me phi celebration in Sivasagar Boarding Field where he added that there were always some kind of lobby-centric politics in all political parties and the Congress is no different. Yet, he said there was no difference of opinion on key issues among all the leaders and workers of the party who are ready to challenge the ruling BJP in the elections as a strongly motivated and cohesive unit.
Asked about his opinion on alliance politics, Bordoloi said that the Congress from the very beginning has been calling upon all anti-BJP parties to come together, though to no avail.
He said that new political outfits like Raijor Dal and Asom Jatiya Parishad now appear to be the ‘B’ team for the ruling BJP. If these parties do not come together in the collective interest of ousting the BJP, the people of Assam and history will never pardon them, he said.
The MP said that the Congress never looked upon the AIUDF as a communal party and so an alliance with them cannot be unethical. He criticised the BJP for spending people’s hard-earned money extravagantly and announcing one scheme after the other on the eve of the ensuing election.
It goes without saying that the beneficiaries of the recently-declared schemes are all BJP members. He added that the BJP has hired four helicopters by spending public money at a time when the government is literally reeling under a debt burden of over Rs 86,000 crore.


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Ooni of Ife first saw Queen Naomi’s divorce notice on social media, says an aide.
Glamtush reports that the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, first saw the divorce notice by his estranged wife, Prophetess Naomi Silekunola, on social media, one of his aides told our correspondent.
According to the aide, Ooni slept with the mindset of rejoining the ongoing musical programme, ‘Memorable Moments With Music’, expected to end today.
The aide, who pleaded anonymity, said though there had been issues with Prophetess Naomi Silekunola and Ooni, the palace never expected such to lead to “a divorce that will first be heard on social media.”
He noted that many of Ooni’s aides believed that the misunderstanding between the monarch and his wife had been resolved before the notice surfaced online.
He said, “It was shocking to all of us. We slept very late yesterday trying to ensure that the grand finale of the ‘Memorable Moments With Music’ goes well today in Lagos.
“All of a sudden, we just saw the news that Olori has divorced Ooni. We couldn’t even tell him (Ooni) but he already saw the news first on social media and started receiving calls.
“He told one of the chiefs that he was surprised to see the divorce notice on social media. I am not sure he wants the queen to go.
“Even Moses (Olafare) – Ooni’s Chief Press Secretary – initially denied the news when journalists called him. He thought it was fake news. We sincerely thought the issues had been resolved. It’s painful.”
When asked if Ooni will still attend the music programme, he replied, “doubtful”.
On his part, Olafare said the palace is not aware of the divorce.
“The palace is not aware of the decision of Olori. Kabiyesi has not briefed me on the matter,” he said.


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On The Scene: Holy City Liberated
NAJAF, Iraq, April 3, 2003
Saddam's statue in Najaf's Saddam Square is gone, like the stranglehold that the Fedayeen, Saddam's paramilitaries, clamped on this town for years.
In the heart of Najaf, crowds celebrated outside the Tomb of Ali Mosque, a revered sanctuary for Shiite Muslims, Iraq's majority.
And here came a reminder that throughout Iraq, U.S. troops face a minefield of distrust, as suddenly, the mood grew angry.
U.S. troops were arranging a meeting with the mosque's cleric who had issued a decree urging Muslims to remain calm and not hinder U.S. forces.
He asked them for protection, and they moved toward his home.
But the crowd mistook that as U.S. troops about to storm the mosque, or target the cleric.
"City, okay ... mosque, no," said one Iraqi.
Commander Chris Hughes now faced a volatile standoff.
"Everybody smile. Don't point your weapons at them," he told his troops.
The biggest resentment for this crowd was the thought of U.S. soldiers carrying guns into the mosque. That's exactly what the Fedayeen had been doing for years.
To defuse a crisis, Hughes ordered his troops out.
"Withdraw from this situation straight back. All vehicles begin to move now. All the soldiers in 'no slack' begin to move now. Everybody back up. Turn back slowly and smile. These people don't understand he asked us to come in. Let them sort it out," he said.
Then Najaf's anti-Saddam insurgents came out, coaxed by U.S. commanders.
"We're here to support your efforts and provide you any support and protection you need," Hughes told them.
"Thank you very much," responded the leader.
This holy city feels liberated and likes that feeling. And the city wants the U.S. forces to stay.
"Yes, they want them to stay to protect them. But after that they want the government to be national. They want democracy," says Hussein Jasem, a Najaf resident.
This is a moment most of them have wanted for years: the chance to start again. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/...in547608.shtml
"Yes, they want them to stay to protect them. But after that they want the government to be national. They want democracy," says Hussein Jasem, a Najaf resident
"This is a moment most of them have wanted for years: the chance to start again. "
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Program Year: 2014
Grantee: National Museum of the Philippines
Grant Amount: US$300,000
Awarding Agency: Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (under the Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation Program)
Project Summary: The Project aims to conduct a partial restoration the church, which was severely damaged during Super Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013. Known for its coral construction and unique seashell interior decoration, the church is one of few in the Philippines to retain a high degree of architectural integrity, as well as its original retables and other furnishings. The original scope of work included feasibility and engineering studies as well as emergency stabilization measures to halt the deterioration of the coral masonry walls/interiors of both the church and the adjacent bell tower. In early 2016, the scope of work was amended, and activities were made to focus instead on the restoration and conservation of movable heritage such as ecclesiastical objects, ethnographic art, archeological artifacts, main and side altars, and ceiling paintings, among others.
Citation: The La Inmaculada Concepcion Church is listed as a National Cultural Treasure in the Philippine Registry of Cultural Properties.
Status: Ongoing (extended up to June 2018)

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A report by Hugh Macdonald
Sometimes it seems that we only hear the music of composers from beyond well-worn and familiar paths when there’s an anniversary to celebrate. But too often the celebration amounts to little more than a token gesture – a brief flurry of activity to mark a centenary, followed by a rapid slide back into obscurity. Happily, Erik Chisholm’s slow but steady recovery from neglect continues and the recent weekend of performances in Glasgow commemorating the 50th anniversary of his death will be remembered as an important staging post en route to his acceptance as one of the most significant artistic figures to emerge in Scotland in the 20th Century.
The Organ Symphony
The weekend was to have begun with the premiere of Chisholm’s early Hebridean Organ Symphony by Kevin Bowyer on the evening of Friday, June 5. Sadly, though, Kevin was ill and his recital in Glasgow University’s Memorial Chapel had to be cancelled. The organ symphony dates from the 1920s and is incomplete, consisting of one big movement lasting about 25 minutes. We don’t know for certain whether Chisholm ever performed it during the time in the late 20s when he was organist at St Matthew’s Church (now known as St Steven’s Renfield) in Glasgow, but it seems unlikely given that for one reason or another he never got round to composing the other movements. We shall have to wait a bit longer to hear it, but Kevin assured us that he hopes to reschedule it for a later date.
‘Chisholm the Modernist’ and the Concerto for Orchestra
Saturday, June 6 brought two events in one – the Glasgow University Study Day, with a lunchtime recital for two pianos scheduled in the middle of it. The Study Day, led by Trustee and Chisholm biographer John Purser and Professor Alan Riach had a smaller attendance than we would have liked, but the dozen or so people who came along enjoyed a fascinating series of talks focussing on Chisholm’s place alongside other Scottish modernists in visual art and literature. There was also a particularly compelling contribution from Morag Chisholm on her life with her father, and a talk by Hugh Macdonald on musical life in Glasgow during Chisholm’s early years in the city between the wars.
At lunchtime we moved from the university’s St Andrew’s Building to the University Concert Hall for an excellent recital of music for two pianos given by Andrew Johnston and Michael Jones. The programme consisted of two works by Chisholm, his Celtic Wonder Tale and the first performance of his Concerto for Orchestra in an arrangement he made after the orchestral premiere in Cape Town in 1951 had to be abandoned for lack of rehearsal time. The Concerto was a revelation, and it was an extraordinary privilege to be among those hearing such an important work for the first time – something denied to the composer himself – even without all the orchestral colours he had envisaged. It must be said that Andrew’s and Michael’s brilliant traversal of what is certainly a technical mountain to climb was marvellously evocative of the variety of colour that one would hear in the full orchestral score. The hard work and care they had taken in preparing for the performance did Erik proud and the concerto full justice. It’s another of the works, like the Violin Concerto, from his ‘hindustani’ period, with a wealth of contrapuntal complexity and expressionist intensity – quite a tough nut, to be sure, but an exciting and powerful piece. Let’s hope it won’t be too long before an orchestral performance becomes possible.
Songs and Piano Music
On Sunday, June 7 Pollok House Arts Society presented a recital of songs and piano music by Chisholm, given by three talented young artists – soprano Emily Mitchell, baritone Douglas Nairne and pianist Edward Cohen. Pollok House is a magnificent Georgian mansion in the grounds of Pollok Park in the south of Glasgow; the estate is also home to the beautiful modern museum that houses the famous Burrell Collection and all of it is now owned by the City. Originally the estate and house belonged to the Stirling-Maxwell family and it was they who founded the Arts Society in the 1960s to promote concerts in the beautiful library of the house. The list of artists who have performed there reads like a who’s who of music, from Elizabeth Schwarzkopf to Kiri te Kanawa and from Alfred Brendel to Mitsuko Uchida. It’s worth noting, too, that Erik Chisholm himself played at Pollok at least once – in a wartime charity event with Margaret Morris’s dance troupe held in the grounds of the house. John Purser acted as MC for the concert, which was followed by an excellent dinner.
Edward Cohen gave fine, sensitive performances of a range of piano works, chosen to emphasise Chisholm’s Scottish heritage but extremely varied in style and mood for all that. He played five of the Scottish Airs for Children, the First Piano Sonatina, the Ossianic Lay, the Sonatine Écossaise and nine of the extraordinary Cameos. Ed was also accompanist to the two superb young singers, who delighted the audience with selections from the Celtic Song Book and Lilias Scott’s Poems of Love. This was an intimate and memorable recital by three terrific young musicians in a beautiful setting at the end of which, most appropriately, John Purser presented Morag Chisholm with a bottle of single malt whisky, congratulating her for all the hard work and dedication she has devoted to bringing her father’s music back into the world. Daisy Henderson and the Pollok House Arts Society deserve the Trust’s heartfelt thanks, too, for their organisation and generous hospitality in mounting the concert.
Monday, June 8th – the actual anniversary of Chisholm’s death – marked the climax of a remarkable weekend and what must be one of the most significant performances of any of his works ever, including those in his lifetime. Since researching his authoritative Chisholm biography and examining the music in great detail, John Purser has had a bee in his bonnet about the one-act opera Simoon. John has always maintained that this was potentially the most important of Chisholm’s forgotten works, the one work in his ‘Murder in Three Keys’ trilogy which he never heard, and that finding a way to have it performed must be a priority for the Trust. We knew that it would not be easy, because the score of Simoon bristles with extraordinary challenges, for the instrumentalists even more than the singers. We also had to commission, at considerable cost and effort, modern typeset scores and orchestral parts since all we had was a manuscript full score.
But to cut a long story short, a way was found – and the piece emerged triumphant, an incredibly powerful, intense, dark musical drama that was a complete revelation to those in the capacity audience – i.e. nearly all of them – who were encountering Chisholm’s operatic music for the first time. The performance was given as part of the Cottier Chamber Project, a visionary festival of chamber music that was started by a young horn player called Andy Saunders five or six years ago and has now established itself as a major annual event in Scotland’s musical calendar. Andy had long wanted to include chamber opera in his festival and after a smaller-scale first venture in 2014 he agreed to attempt the daunting task of staging Chisholm’s setting of Strindberg’s psychological drama. Simoon was in fact the product of a great partnership of utterly committed people, and Andy and the EC Trust were joined by Music Co-OPERAtive Scotland headed with brilliant organisational flair by its chair Sue Baxendale.
‘MacOpera’, as they call themselves for short, was formed a few years ago by the players of the Orchestra of Scottish Opera, after their parent company put them on part-time contracts to save money, leaving the formerly full-time employees with a problem about how to make up their lost income. The players’ cooperative was set up specifically to generate work for them outside their work for Scottish Opera, but they can hardly have guessed that they might ever be called upon to devote their considerable talents to such a work as Simoon! The piece calls for 26 players, each with a highly virtuosic, sometimes verging on impossible, individual part to play. Certainly not a job for the faint-hearted, but carried off with staggering aplomb by these players, who, as Sue Baxendale later commented, had ‘worked their socks off, to achieve a frankly amazing result with frighteningly little rehearsal time.
Sue had scoured Britain for exactly the right singers and used her contacts to come up with an ideal cast of three highly experienced and respected artists headed by the marvellous Jane Irwin as Biskra, with Damien Thantrey as a hauntingly intense Gruimard and Philip Sheffield a scarily obsessive Yusuf. The off-stage soprano part was beautifully sung by a talented young student at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Charlie Drummond, and the score was conducted with a passionate sense of drama by Ian Ryan. This was in essence a concert performance – it would have cost too much in time and money to stage it fully – but it was hugely enhanced by a film specially commissioned from director Roddy Simpson which was coordinated with the music and acted as a highly evocative backdrop to the score. It mirrored the action, set in the Morrocan desert, with the three characters represented by two dancers, Salma Faraji and Erick Mauricia, and an actor, Michael Daviot, as Gruimard. It was a simple, but extremely subtle and skilful way of creating a powerful theatrical experience, and the Sports Hall of Glasgow’s Western Baths Club was transformed for the occasion into a very effective theatrical space.
The music itself took one’s breath away. What other British composer was writing music of this kind in the early 50s? Its strong expressionistic echoes of Berg’s Wozzeck take it into a quite different sphere from contemporary pieces by people like Britten, Vaughan Williams and Tippett. The exquisite colours of the score, so many and varied, were beautifully realised by the players. No-one had ever heard these before since Simoon’s only previous outing had been with a two-piano accompaniment at its premiere in New York, but now they were revealed in all their kaleidoscopic richness. The audience gave it a rapturous reception and the critics (who included John Allison, up from London to cover it for Opera magazine) were just as enthusiastic. According to Kate Molleson in The Guardian the score was
“teeming and seething, percussive, restless and evocative; Chisholm is marvellously adept at conjuring up the desert storm and conductor Ian Ryan drew focused and atmospheric playing from the musicians of Music Co-OPERAtive Scotland”
And in The Scotsman, Ken Walton was equally impressed:
“The small cast delivered the hi-concentrate libretto with dark and devilish potency; Jane Irwin’s Biskra wild and seductive, Damian Thantrey portraying Guimard’s diminishing will with horrifying vocal conviction, and Philip Sheffield and Charlie Drummond chillingly effective in delivering the supporting roles. It was a performance that did full justice to Chisholm’s score, its pungent colours and master craftsmanship. Well done Music Co-OPERAtive, for taking the leap into the unknown and making a powerful evening’s entertainment.”
And so what might be called a ‘red letter weekend’ in the ongoing effort to give Chisholm his rightful place in our musical history came to a suitably exciting and satisfying end. Will this single performance of Simoon be our only chance to hear it in our lifetime? Not if the Trust has anything to do with it. The performance was professionally recorded for posterity, so watch this space!

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It was a sea of red as hundreds of Northwell Health staff members gathered together for the annual “Go Red for Women” celebration.
In honor of American Heart Month, the Katz Institute for Women’s Health sponsored the joyous event, featuring special guest speakers, a wellness fair, dance troupe and a special appearance by Beats & Eats by DJ CHEF, the “only entertainer who simultaneously cooks and DJs for events worldwide.”
Adam Auerbach, MD, medical director of Sandra Atlas Bass Heart Hospital, emphasized the health system’s gratitude to Bass, “without whom the dream of a beautiful heart hospital would not have been possible.”
Stacey Rosen, MD, who serves as vice president of Women’s Health, also expressed her gratitude to Bass, and then urged women to heed the warning signs of illness before it’s too late.
“We live in a time when science understands that the symptoms of heart attack are different in women,” she said. “We can’t take care of our families if we’re not taking care of our own health.”
Echoing that sentiment was Evelina Grayver, director of the Coronary Care Unit (CCU) at North Shore University Hospital. For her, the key to good health comes from knowing the signs of illness and working hard to prevent future medical problems.
“I often think about how much better it would be if people would make a point to see me on the first floor, so I don’t have to see them in the CCU later on,” said Grayver.
Kathy Khodadadi couldn’t agree more. An employee of the health system, Khodadadi shared her story of prevention with the audience. Last year, during a health presentation at Northwell, Khodadadi realized she might be at risk for heart issues because she didn’t take time for herself.
“I rarely took any of my prescribed medications on a regular basis, or made time to exercise,” she said. “I was the last on the list.”
This realization brought her to Grayver; follow-up tests revealed the presence of blockages.
Luckily, no stents or surgery were required, but the news served as a wake-up call to action.
“Now, I exercise regularly and watch my diet,” said Khodadadi. “For me, the key to getting healthy was to really want to make changes. I’m leading a much healthier life now.”
Finally, the audience heard from Yvonne Fleming, the first patient to undergo heart transplantation surgery at NSUH. The day was meaningful for Fleming, who is looking forward to celebrating her first anniversary with a new heart on Feb. 19.
“I remembering telling my surgeon, Dr. Brian Lima, just before what turned out to be a three-hour surgery that I promised to do my part, and all he had to do was his part,” she said. “I knew it would turn out just fine.”
One week later, Fleming took a triumphant first walk from her hospital bed to the nurses’ station. She reported that those few steps “were the proudest moments of my life.”
These days, Fleming is back to her favorite activities—dancing, enjoying friends and family, and speaking about the power of hope.
“In just a few days, I’m going to celebrate my first anniversary with this new heart of mine,” she said. “I do everything I can to honor this heart…I feel very blessed.”
Heart disease is the number one killer of women in the United States, but 80 percent is preventable.
“Build a strong relationship with your doctor—and with yourself,” said Grayver. “Just remember…it’s time to take care of me.”
—Submitted by Northwell Health


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Winning The Battle Of The Mind
As we encounter people throughout our lives, some people stand out in our minds as people who seem to have it all. Cars, homes, clothing, the perfect job and much more. Believe it or not, there are people who look at you and are convinced you have it made! Whether it be the clothes you wear, the vehicle you drive, your house, your job or something else. You are the one they desire to emulate. Even though you may not look at yourself in that manner, others do.
What others do not see is the battle of the mind. In most cases, no one knows about the battle that rages inside of you. While others see order and a role model, you may struggle with self-esteem issues or guilt. In fact, many people spend more time fighting this battle than is often realized. Sometimes this struggle is manifested by the perceived need to measure yourself against a standard set by someone else. In other cases, it is the struggle with the confidence of knowing you can achieve a task even though your history says you will fail. Another example is the incorrect attitudes of thinking you have done so many bad things that Jesus will never accept you even if you repent. Maybe it’s just outright fear that possesses you every time you speak in front of a crowd or sing in front of your church. All of these situations, and many more, initiate a battle between doubt and the promises God has designed for your life. If you want to know how to become victorious over these battles, keep reading.
Please allow me to use these next few sentences to help you. Throughout the New Testament of the Bible, it talks about your authority through Christ Jesus. You need to realize that God did not create Christians to be powerless against all that might try to prevail against the body and mind. “Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us” (Romans 8:37). If you believe the Bible, you should not allow negative thoughts, feelings or emotions to control you and cause you to live in fear. As for fear, the Bible says, “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind”. Through faith in Jesus and His Word, you can become victorious over these situations that wage war in your mind. Once you’ve grabbed onto the truths listed above, open your Bible and read what is written in Philippians 4:8 and then do it. If you earnestly grab onto what these scriptures say, you will begin to notice you are having fewer battles and that you are victorious in the ones you face.


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Jammu and Kashmir: Authorities organized Ski mountaineering event for girls during Khelo India second winter games event at Gulmarg. "I am very excited and want to be the winner," said a participant (3.3.2021)
A view after heavy snowfall at the ski resort of Gulmarg, Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021. Most events of second Khelo India winter games were cancelled due to heavy snowfall. #Gulmarg #Kashmir #snowfall #IT Photoblog Photo credit: PTI
PM khelo india winter games'>Inaugurates Khelo India Winter Games, Says J&K To Be Winter Sports Hub
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PM inaugurates Khelo India Winter Games, says will make J&K winter sports hub
Sports are not just a hobby or 'time pass'. In sports, we learn team spirit, look for new ways in defeats & learn to repeat victories. Sports shape the lives & lifestyle of players. It boosts self-confidence: PM Narendra Modi at 2nd Khelo India Winter Games, via video conference
Khelo India University Games, a great effort to promote sports and fitness among youth.
Delhi’s Sanchita Tiwari has made India proud on world stage. She is one of the recipients of Bal Shakti Puraskar this year for her exceptional achievements in archery. She was also the torch bearer at the Khelo India Youth Games in 2018. Many congratulations to her.
Meet Praveen Chithravel. The youngster from Tamil Nadu secured a Bronze in the Men’s Triple Jump event at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games. Previously, he had also won a Gold medal in the inaugural Khelo India School Games. Many congratulations and keep it up, Praveen!
The Khelo India programme has been introduced to revive the sports culture in India at the grass-root level by building a strong framework for all sports played in our country and establishing India as a great sporting nation.
199 gold medals, 199 silver medals and 275 bronze medals are at stake in the Khelo India School Games. The country’s brightest talent in the under-17 age group will compete in the Games.

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Title: A Scrap-Book of Elementary Mathematics. Notes, Recreations, Essays
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The FINANCIAL — The leading company in automotive products and services, Tegeta Motors Ltd., will issue over GEL 30,000,000 worth of bonds, which is the largest transaction to have occurred in the corporate lending segment of Lari so far in 2019.
The investment in bonds has been made by resident and non-resident institutional investors, banks, insurance companies and international financial institutions. The most significant part of the bond was purchased by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and it should be noted that this is the third such investment in bonds by EBRD.
The bonds are planned to be listed on the Georgian Stock Exchange in May, 2019. Tegeta Motors say that the company will use the funds attracted from the bonds to refinance existing bank loans, resulting in an extension of liabilities, diversification of the financing structure, and greater access to capital markets.
“The issuance of these bonds is an initial and important stage for the development and support of our future projects, for attracting resources, and for the successful implementation of future plans. From the very start, the main task for Tegeta has always been to be able to implement projects with greater potential; to realize large-scale goals that are very important for us. Therefore we were in need of financial resources for high growth. Whereas before, the company managed to fulfil these tasks with the help of a bank loan, and bank credit as the main instrument, today we have the necessary resources for the development of the company in the open market, as we have become an issuer.”
“What’s important is that the investment community trusts Tegeta Motors; trusts our past, present and future. In the development of any business this is a very important stage to reach. It means that we are a public, transparent, law-abiding and open business. These are the main values of Tegeta Motors. Our goal is not only to be a leader in the country, but in the whole region,” said Avtandil Tsereteli, General Director of Tegeta Motors.
The bonds, the total base amount of which is GEL 30,000,000, and the accrued interest – 425 Basic Points (Spread) added to the National Bank’s Monetary Policy (Refinancing) rate, was issued on 30 April, 2019. GEL 1,000 (thousand) as a nominal value bond and their redemption will take place on 30 April, 2022, at their root value.
“Our cooperation with Tegeta Motors extends back over 20 years, and this is one of the most important projects we have achieved as a result of our joint cooperation. Tegeta Motors issued a bond worth GEL 30 million that significantly improves the sources of financing of the Tegeta Group, makes it more diversified, and most importantly, is in the local currency which means that currency risks are minimized. The second thing that should be taken into consideration is the growth rate of Tegeta. It has been growing rapidly in recent years, and it is important to note that the resources available for financing are maximally stronger and have been protected from monetary risks, and this product has been achieved,” said Giorgi Tkhelidze, Deputy Head of TBC Bank.
“This year we think that we will issue GEL and currency bonds together to at least 5-6 companies. The Georgian business sector is mainly financed by bank credit which enables specially enhanced companies to have an opportunity to improve their financing resources, their cost, and insure against foreign exchange risks. Most importantly, it contributes to the development of the stock market in Georgia. Since at least a few companies are public, whose stocks or bonds are on the stock market, each such success contributes to the development of the capital market in Georgia,” he added.
TBC Capital is the subsidiary and licensed brokerage company of TBC Bank, which offers investment banking services. Since 2017, TBC Capital has become part of TBC Bank’s corporate and investment banking business. The main business directions of the company are: financial consultations and credit rating services; the issuing of bonds and shares; investment research and brokerage activities. TBC Capital is a shareholder of the Georgian Stock Exchange and plays an important role in developing the stock market’s infrastructure.
“This is Tegeta Motors’ Inaugural Fund, a public emission of GEL, which has made the company public. These operations will start at the Georgian Stock Exchange and this is the biggest public GEL emission released this year. TBC Capital and Tegeta Motors have been cooperating on this project for quite a long time already. Due to the fact that this is the first emission that TBC Capital has introduced in a renewed manner by NBG, Tegeta had to disclose more of its own information, which once again highlights the company’s high standards and transparency, and the fact that the company is one of the corporate leaders in its segment, and more widely in the region too. TBC Capital is pleased to have participated in this project,” said Irakli Elashvili, Director of TBC Capital.
Tegeta Motors is the first company in the auto industry in the Caucasus and Eastern Europe, to have been able to get a BB rating from an international ratings company. There are only a few companies in Georgia that hold such a rating, and this is an entirely unprecedented event for the region’s automobile industry. In March 2019, international ratings company Scope Ratings GmbH awarded the company a BB-credit rating with a stable prospect.


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You’ve probably heard it countless times: we’re in the “consumer age”—the power of choice is in the consumer’s hands. This realization has forced organizations in every industry to take a hard look at the experience they are delivering.
Many companies have realized that with intuitive products and innovative features, they can significantly improve consumer experiences, and by proxy financial outcomes. But how do you identify what features are truly impactful? Finding product enhancements that move the needle in meaningful ways requires a deep understanding of what users are doing.
Let’s look at how to do this.
Prior to any experiment, you need a hypothesis—a verifiable/falsifiable belief about how or why users take particular actions. Experiments must begin with data analysis to figure out the problem you want to solve and identify the potential solutions to that problem based on expected impact, reach and effort.
That being said, a hypothesis is specific to a particular time and place—it’s concrete. Shocks to the economy (for example, our most recent inflation spikes), social changes, technological changes and more can create changes in user engagement. These can introduce lurking variables that invalidate a hypothesis, so one must remain vigilant in evaluating long- and short-term variables that affect user behaviors (and consequently hypotheses).
Given the complexity of isolating a variable and separating the signal from the noise, one must undertake an ongoing cycle of data analysis, brainstorming, design and experimentation.
Data analysis and modeling help identify key factors driving consumer behavior. But to understand why consumers act, a great data team needs to understand relevant emotions and subconscious behavior by talking to consumers directly through user research, in order to understand what they think about their own experiences.
By correctly identifying the major consumer behavior causes and why they influence action, you’re armed with information to build a thoughtful hypothesis and deliver experiences that can (and must!) be continuously improved upon through experimentation.
Experimentation, validation and falsification
Given the cross functional collaboration inherent in experimentation (i.e. data science, design, user research, engineering and product must work in lockstep when making changes), teams must constantly optimize processes to make sure the experiments with the most expected impact are prioritized. And since the cost of experimentation can be high, you also want to make sure that everything is done thoughtfully, and all steps are carefully planned and reviewed.
When you do finally test, know that sometimes a wrench is thrown in the works and you have to retest, sometimes even going back to the drawing board to try different product changes and personalizations until one clearly confirms or falsifies a hypothesis. Fortunately, if caught very quickly, you can learn a lot from that experience. For example, one experiment we conducted led to a 30% drop in patient login rates to our platform—our hypothesis wasn’t falsified, we had just pushed the call-to-action too far down our homepage (which actually showed how critical the login workflow was).
Additionally, a hefty grain of salt must sometimes be consumed depending on sample size. For example, you may have a sample size of 10,000 people but are making decisions for 10 million, while also trying to generalize for future consumers (aka, the entire population of the United States).
It’s important that a data science team holds each other accountable by sharing updates broadly to the whole company, helping to ensure objectivity by soliciting outside opinions when you must prioritize or make tough decisions. Let yourself be fearless when it comes to cutting changes and features that aren’t improving metrics.
For example, when you find something isn’t working, running a classic A/B test with two separate workflows can help you find which option yields greater success, whether it be click throughs, registrations or sales.
I’d recommend methodically testing one aspect before making any big changes so that you can be as sure as possible there aren’t any lurking variables.
Making it count
Developing a culture of continuous experimentation isn’t easy, as the process can be expensive given the aforementioned extensive resource coordination. And getting results takes time, so make each hypothesis as airtight as possible and each experiment meticulously well thought out.
But by collaborating on a regular basis, the entire team can become greater than the sum of its parts by helping each other to identify and fill collective blindspots while contributing to each other’s work. Through this partnership and constant evolution, organizations can be sure they are delivering on the consumer expectations necessary in order to be successful.
By employing some of the pointers above, we hope you’ll be well suited to start using a data-driven approach to product enhancements—good luck!
About the Author
Yohann Smadja is the VP of Data Science at Cedar. With 12 years of experience in the field, Yohann leads the Data Science team who is in charge of making sense of the vast amount of data they have available to help achieve the company’s vision.
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A Herald of Plasma Cell Myeloma: A Report of Malignant Plasma Cells Identified in Parathyroid Adenoma and a Review of Non-parathyroid Malignancies in Parathyroid Glands. Cracolici V et al. Head Neck Pathol. 2017 Oct 13. doi: 10.1007/s12105-017-0861-7. [Epub ahead of print]. Multiple Myeloma Presenting with Autoimmune Autonomic Ganglionopathy. Nakae Y et al. Intern Med. 2017 Oct 11. doi: 10.2169/internalmedicine.9096-17. [Epub ahead of print].…Details
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Published 12:00 am Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Community support. That’s the reason that Georgia-Pacific officials gave as one of the biggest reasons corporate officials agreed to invest an estimated $400 million in the Brewton paper mill.
Yes, they said $400 million dollars.
The Brewton GP plant produces two products – white top consumer board that is seen on items such as pizza boxes, and SBS, which is found as high-end cosmetic packaging. The plant employs more than 450 people.
Each and every one of those locals depend on GP to keep the lights on and groceries on the table.
Anytime one begins talking about economic development, one of the foremost questions is, “What does the community think about this?”
In GP’s case, our community – and its leaders – believed that this area could not stand to lose such a valuable resource, and they did what they could to make sure that idea did not come to bear.
“This is a huge investment for our future,” General Manager Jeff Joyce said. “This is a long-term, state-of-the-art project that is unparalleled in North America. Community support was vital (for the project). We couldn’t have moved forward without it.”
And we know that Brewton and the surrounding areas couldn’t move toward the future without such good stewards of the economic community.


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