Fans of Selena Gomez have had the luxury of seeing her grow up right in plain view. Through her TV shows, movies, and music, we’ve had an inside track on Selena’s life, ever since her early beginnings as a Disney star. Selena Gomez’s net worth has been estimated to be as high as $45 million according to some sources, while others have calculated her net worth to be as low as just over $5 million.
We’ve had the privilege of seeing the very profitable Selena Gomez net worth value grow with her status, and both her personal growth and bank account have come quite a long way in her 23 years. So, just how rich is Selena Gomez now?
Selena Gomez has many titles to her name, including musician, designer, and brand ambassador. But it was through her early roles as an actress that we were first introduced to this Texas-born sweetheart, who was born to Italian and Mexican parents in 1992.
By averaging out her worth through several sources, the best estimate for Selena’s net worth is approximately $16 million, earned from a combination of film, music, investments, and brand partnerships.
Early Years in the Spotlight
We first saw Selena Gomez as young Gianna on Barney and Friends. Gomez was still a preteen then, and the role lasted from 2002 up till 2004, during which she made 14 appearances. Her standout TV role, however, came shortly after when she starred in the Disney channel series The Wizards of Waverly Place—Gomez played the real role of Alex Russo. From 2007 till 2012, she appeared in 106 episodes, including two spin-off Wizards of Waverly movies. She also made cameo appearances in several other TV shows and movies, including Hannah Montana and Spy Kids 3D: Game Over. She even showed up in a Jonas Brothers music video.
But it was her role as Alex Russo in Wizards that really put her over the top as a popular child actor, along with making her a lot of money. She was reportedly paid $30,000 for each episode. That means in her five years on the show, Selena likely grossed just over $3 million, all before she was 20 years old.
From Disney to Music and Movies
Now that she’d had her first taste of stardom and made more money than most adults twice her age, Selena Gomez wanted to lose the Disney tag and expand her brand past the kid-centric roles. Music became her next venture, and it certainly paid off. In the coming years, Gomez would release three albums with her band called Selena Gomez and the Scene, two solo albums (including her most recent chart-topping Revival album), and a best-of album that ended up being her last with her previous label, Hollywood Records. Gomez’s joint sales of all her albums approximately total an estimated $3 million worldwide.
No matter what venture Selena veered off to (and there were plenty), she always seemed to return to acting. She did a voiceover in the popular 2012 kids movie Hotel Transylvania (as well as its sequel), starred in a double role for the 2011 movie Monte Carlo, and took a risk by playing a more mature role in the Harmony Korine-produced Spring Breakers, which co-starred James Franco, Vanessa Hudgens, and Ashley Benson.
Endorsements and Investments
Of course, Selena Gomez couldn’t just stop there. She had become a bonafide star in Hollywood and understood how she could leverage that title into more opportunities, and eventually, more money. She launched her Dream Out Loud clothing line in 2009, partnered with ID Perfume to launch her first fragrance in 2011, and later signed a licensing deal with the now-defunct perfume company Adrenalina (although they tried suing her for backing out of an endorsement deal when their business was failing). Her most recent endorsement deal was becoming a spokesperson for Pantene, which she signed in the summer of 2015 for a reported salary of $3 million.
She’s also worked with several other mainstream brands, including O.P.I, Apple (to promote the iPhone 6S), and Beats By Dre.
In total, Selena has had four major endorsement deals, has released 11 singles and five albums, and started her own clothing line. That seems like a lot for someone who has barely hit her mid-twenties. At 19, she also showed some serious savviness as an investor with a contribution to a $750,000 round of angel investment for the L.A. start-up Postcards on the Run, a popular photo-sharing app. She said she invested her money in the project because she felt like “it had meaning.” Forbes reported back in 2012 that one Facebook post from Gomez lead to 20,000 downloads in just one day.
Selena Gomez’s Career Today
|Selena Gomez Net Worth (Estimated Maximum)||$45 million|
|Net Worth Compared to Justin Bieber’s||4.4 times smaller|
|Net Worth Compared to Miley Cyrus’||3.3 times smaller|
|Net Worth Compared to Taylor Swift’s||4.4 times smaller|
|Net Worth Compared to Donald Trump’s||126.7 times smaller|
|Net Worth Compared to the average American household||662 times bigger|
* All values are based on estimates from various sources.
Despite the success Selena Gomez has had so far, it’s safe to say that her most successful and profitable days are likely still ahead. This year alone has been incredible for the young star. For starters, she landed a small role in the critically acclaimed movie The Big Short in December 2015. What’s more, she’s got at least two more movies in the works for 2016: the drama In Dubious Battle alongside James Franco and Bryan Cranston, and the comedy sequel Bad Neighbors 2 with Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, and Chloë Grace Moretz.
On the music front, her Revival album has also earned her credit as a more serious artist, which likely further boosted her salary from live performances, and she has even furthered her movement into philanthropy. She’s lent her name and dollars to the Malala Fund, UNICEF, the Ryan Seacrest Foundation, and the ALS Association, just to name a few.
Expect Selena Gomez’s net worth to continue to rise with her star power. She’s managed to stay away from too much controversy, Justin Bieber aside, and has proven to be a bankable entertainer and ambassador. Don’t be surprised to see a few more zeros beside her name in the next few years!


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|Publication number||USD576118 S1|
|Application number||US 29/289,206|
|Publication date||Sep 2, 2008|
|Filing date||Jul 11, 2007|
|Priority date||Apr 4, 2006|
|Also published as||USD570802|
|Publication number||289206, 29289206, US D576118 S1, US D576118S1, US-S1-D576118, USD576118 S1, USD576118S1|
|Inventors||Christine D. Beilstein|
|Original Assignee||Sanford, L.P.|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Referenced by (1), Classifications (1) |
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
US D576118 S1
The ornamental design for an electronics hub, as shown and described.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing my new design for an electronics hub;
FIG. 2 is a front view of the electronics hub of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a right side view of the electronics hub of FIG. 1;
FIG. 4 is a top plan view of the electronics hub of FIG. 1;
FIG. 5 is a left side view of the electronics hub of FIG. 1;
FIG. 6 is a rear view of the electronics hubs of FIG. 1; and,
FIG. 7 is a bottom plan view of the electronics hub of FIG. 1.
The dashed lines are for illustrative purposes only and form no part of the claimed design.
|Citing Patent||Filing date||Publication date||Applicant||Title|
|US20070164178 *||Jan 17, 2006||Jul 19, 2007||Beilstein Christine D||Mounting receptacle with interchangeable hub|

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MELBOURNE -- A new study by the CSIRO (the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization), revealed that Australia's oceans could supply 10 percent of the country's electricity by 2050. This is the equivalent of powering a city the size of Melbourne, which has a population of around four million.
The Australian science agency study investigated the potential of harnessing the energy of the oceans -- from waves, tides, currents and thermal energy -- to power the country's electricity from 2015 to 2050.
Their report, Ocean Renewable Energy: 2015-2050, showed that there are tremendous energy resources in Australia's southern oceans, in particular near the west coast of Tasmania, the southern ocean in Victoria, and the south-west ocean of Western Australia.
This is the first time in Australia that ocean-based renewable energy has been assessed from resource to market development. Dr Susan Wijffels, a spokesperson for the CSIRO, said that the findings showed that wave power could be integral to Australia's renewable energy plan.
"The idea [of ocean power] has been around for a very long time," Dr Wijffels said. "It’s getting attention now because some countries are currently looking at how viable some of these technologies are. I suspect it has to do with the policy setting in an energy market."
There are at least 200 wave energy converter (WEC) devices that extract the energy from either the surface motion of the waves or the pressure fluctuations below the surface. The range of this energy capture varies between devices and to differing degree of success. Some companies are currently conducting pilot tests and commercial demonstrations.
There are three main classes of WEC devices that can be loaded in various depths: Point absorber (a float that is free to follow the movement of the wave and gather wave energy from any direction); linear attenuator (a float aligned in the direction of the wave); and terminator (a device that faces the wave directly to collect the energy).
The fact that around 80 percent of Australia's population live in coastal areas, suggests that wave power will play a very significant part in the country's energy future.
Dr Wijffels claims that wave power holds many key advantages over solar and wind power, including its consistency (waves are generated both day and night), and predictability as an energy resource.
Solar and wind are subjected to sudden changes in weather, whereas wave power comes from the momentum of an ocean storm that can often take days to reach our shores.
“If you get a longer lead time, then you know that wave plant will give you power. The people that manage our electricity supply in the future will want to know when and how much renewable energy is coming in and how it will fit in to the grid,” she said.
“The other big challenge we have is getting the grid ready. How to shift power across the country very cheaply, quickly and in large volumes," Dr Wijffels said.
She contends that the technology has the potential to be cost-effective, but this will largely be dependent on overcoming engineering challenges such as creating efficient energy farms and harvesters.
“Water is really heavy. When water is moving, it gets moved by either tidal forces or waves, and that’s a lot of momentum. The energy density, as a resource, is much higher than wind. If we can get the turbines to work efficiency, we’re using less real estate for more power. If we can build really efficient extractors that can be made cheap enough to maintain, then that advantage could be realised,” she says.
The CSIRO are careful to point out that there are many economic, technological, environmental and societal challenges that will determine wave energy's place in Australia’s future energy mix. These include investigating the wider impacts of the technology as it relates to issues such as as marine life and aquaculture.
The CSIRO hopes that their report will encourage the renewable energy industry, government and the public to think seriously about the opportunities, as well as the challenges, for ocean technology in Australia.
Photo: WHL Travel/Flickr
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South Buffalo Creek Watershed
The City of Greensboro has embarked upon a Citywide stormwater watershed master planning effort to thoroughly assess each of the three primary watershed systems throughout the City to better identify capital stormwater project needs and prioritize future stormwater infrastructure improvements across the City. The systems include Horsepen Creek, North Buffalo Creek and South Buffalo Creek.
As part of a coordinated effort with the Horsepen and North Buffalo Creek watershed master plans, McAdams is conducting a watershed master planning study for the approximately 33-square-mile basin of South Buffalo Creek. The study includes a detailed analysis of its 17 major tributaries, and FEMA-regulated stream reaches.
In conjunction with the Citywide planning analyses, McAdams will be performing updated hydrologic and hydraulic analyses, including HEC-HMS, unsteady 1-D HEC-RAS analysis, and PC-SWMM models, to analyze existing and future conditions, as well as climate-change scenarios for its major stormwater systems. This effort will also entail identifying the Level of Service deficiencies at roadway crossings and drainage networks and providing alternatives analysis and proposed scenarios for mitigating street and structural flooding across the City.
In addition to analysis of these primary systems, McAdams will also assess high-priority secondary systems across the South Buffalo Creek Watershed, including areas of frequent drainage complaints, including flooding and erosion. This project will also include an assessment of streams and open channels for potential streambank stabilization and restoration to be incorporated into future culvert and bridge improvements. The water quality will also be assessed to determine opportunities for nature-based solutions and improvements and the implementation of green stormwater infrastructure where beneficial to future projects. The end result of this effort will include the development of a prioritized listing of future Stormwater CIP projects, complete with Opinions of Probable Construction Costs, for the City to develop into their long-range capital improvement plan and align projects and priorities for decades to come. This project is anticipated to be completed in conjunction with the other basin studies by summer 2024.


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What Are the Benefits of Mulberry Extract?
According to the Latin poet Horace, circa 35 B.C., “A man will pass his summers in health, who will finish his luncheon with black mulberries.” Mulberry plants have been used in folk medicine for centuries and are being studied as a possible weapon against diabetes.
Mulberries are edible but are less tasty than the other summer berries, according to Life-enhancement.com. Mulberry extract is made from the leaves of the mulberry plant.
For centuries, Chinese herbal medicine has recommended consuming mulberry leaves as a way to suppress high blood sugar levels after meals high in carbohydrates.
When blood sugar levels spike, the body produces extra insulin. Over time, the pancreas’s ability to produce insulin may become impaired or the body may become insulin resistant. This can result in Type 2 diabetes.
Research conducted in Japan has suggested that mulberry extract might be useful in preventing human diabetes by controlling blood glucose changes after meals.
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What Now, Congress?
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connections to Islamist terror by
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CAIR initiated against
Daniel Pipes, Steven Emerson,
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Despite years of investigation,
incontrovertible facts, and CAIR's
to defend itself in a lawsuit they initiated; CAIR still exists.
Why? What is it about CAIR that has apparently
superiors from allowing real investigations into CAIR’s activities?
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Don't Be a Dick!
Imported from Antiquated Future, a brilliant American zine distro based in Portland, Oregon.
A primer on how not to be a dick. Don't Be a Dick! serves as an introductory guide to understanding consent, toxic masculinity, rape culture, the porn industry, and more. Well-written and accessible.
36 pages, half US letter size, revised edition. Blue card cover.

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jlk – Did you know that every time you inhale air, you’re enjoying the hard work of very tiny marine organisms? Yes, you read that right.
Marine organisms like plankton and seaweed are the largest oxygen producers on Earth, surpassing even the trees that grow on land.
Without them, we might not be able to breathe as comfortably as we do now. So, how do they accomplish this remarkable feat? Let’s delve into the incredible tale of plankton and seaweed in this article.
Plankton: Mighty Microorganisms
Plankton are marine organisms that are incredibly small, even invisible to the naked eye. They drift on the ocean surface and follow the water currents.
Plankton are divided into two types: phytoplankton (plant group) and zooplankton (animal group).
Phytoplankton are the most important in oxygen production because they can perform photosynthesis, the process of converting sunlight into energy and releasing oxygen as a byproduct of metabolism.
Phytoplankton rely heavily on sunlight, so they can only live in the upper layers of the ocean known as the euphotic zone. In this layer, sunlight can still penetrate the water and provide energy for phytoplankton.
However, phytoplankton must be cautious because they are also preyed upon by zooplankton and small fish.
Therefore, phytoplankton have strategies to avoid predators, such as moving up and down in the ocean layers according to the day and night cycles or releasing toxic or foul-smelling chemicals.
Phytoplankton come in various shapes and types. Some are spherical, star-shaped, chain-like, or even needle-like.
They can be green, yellow, red, or blue. Some live individually, while others live in colonies. Some can move, while others cannot. Some form symbiotic relationships with bacteria or fungi, while others do not.
One of the most famous types of phytoplankton is blue-green algae, which are actually bacteria capable of photosynthesis.
Blue-green algae are the oldest organisms on Earth, having existed for 3.5 billion years. They were the first to produce oxygen in the atmosphere, paving the way for other forms of life.
According to research conducted by the University of British Columbia, marine plankton produce about 50% to 85% of the oxygen on Earth. This amount is equivalent to the oxygen produced by 1.5 trillion trees.
Imagine how many trees we would need to plant to replace the role of plankton. So, do not underestimate plankton, as they are the true rulers of the ocean.
Seaweed: Not Your Average Plant
Seaweed is a marine organism distinct from plankton. Seaweed belongs to the algae group, which is a group of organisms capable of photosynthesis but not classified under the plant kingdom.
Seaweed has a more complex structure than plankton because they have parts resembling roots, stems, and leaves.
However, these parts do not serve the same functions as land plants but only for attachment, support, and nutrient absorption.
Seaweed lives on the seabed or attaches to hard substrates such as rocks, coral, or wood.
Seaweed also requires sunlight for photosynthesis, but they can live in deeper layers of the ocean than plankton, up to a depth of 200 meters.
Seaweed has different pigments, which determine its color and depth of habitat. There are seaweeds that are green, brown, red, or purple.
Green seaweeds usually live in the shallowest layers of the ocean, while those that are red or purple can live in the deepest layers.
Seaweed also plays a crucial role in oxygen production in the sea and contributes about 10% to the total oxygen production on Earth.
Seaweed also serves as a habitat, food, and protection for many other marine organisms such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks, and echinoderms.
Seaweed is also beneficial to humans because it is rich in nutrients such as protein, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants.
Seaweed also has many other benefits, such as being used in cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, textiles, fertilizers, and biofuels.
Conclusion: The Sea and Us Are One Entity
From the explanations above, we can conclude that the sea is the largest source of oxygen on Earth, thanks to the role of plankton and seaweed. Without them, we might not be able to breathe as comfortably as we do now.
Therefore, we must preserve the ocean and appreciate the contributions of these tiny marine organisms. We must realize that the sea and us are inseparable entities. As Jacques Cousteau, a famous ocean explorer, said:
“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.”
May this article provide you with new insights into the ocean and oxygen, and inspire you to care more about the environment. Thank you for reading this article, and don’t forget to breathe easy, as you are benefiting from the hard work of plankton and seaweed. Happy activities, and see you in the next article.


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GSTM5 Rabbit anti-Mouse, Polyclonal, Invitrogen
Rabbit Polyclonal Antibody
Manufacturer: Invitrogen PA527981
PA5-27981 targets GSTM5 in WB applications and shows reactivity with mouse samples. The PA5-27981 immunogen is recombit fragment corresponding to a region within amino acids 1 and 218 of Human GSTM5. Store product as a concentrated solution. Centrifuge briefly prior to opening the vial. For short-term storage (1-2 weeks), product can be stored at 4°C. For long-term storage, aliquot and store product at -20° C or below, avioiding multiple freeze-thaw cycles.Cytosolic and membrane-bound forms of glutathione S-transferase are encoded by two distinct supergene families. At present, eight distinct classes of the soluble cytoplasmic mammalian glutathione S-transferases have been identified: alpha, kappa, mu, omega, pi, sigma, theta and zeta. This gene encodes a glutathione S-transferase that belongs to the mu class. The mu class of enzymes functions in the detoxification of electrophilic compounds, including carcinogens, therapeutic drugs, environmental toxins and products of oxidative stress, by conjugation with glutathione. The genes encoding the mu class of enzymes are organized in a gene cluster on chromosome 1p13.3 and are known to be highly polymorphic. These genetic variations can change an individual ft.s susceptibility to carcinogens and toxins as well as affect the toxicity and efficacy of certain drugs. Diversification of these genes has occurred in regions encoding substrate-binding domains, as well as in tissue expression patterns, to accommodate an increasing number of foreign compounds.
|Recombit fragment corresponding to a region within amino acids 1 and 218 of Human GSTM5|
|Antigen affinity chromatography|
|PBS with 20% glycerol and 0.01% thimerosal; pH 7|
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It’s not surprising that the green movement has found its way into the world of event planning – from weddings to product launches to graduation celebrations. Parties are fun, and trust me, I’m definitely in favor of fun.
But most parties will create more waste and use more energy in one night than a family of four will in an entire week.
To plan and execute a green event takes a little bit of resourcefulness and a whole lot of planning, not to mention some extra cash. Hopefully, this soon will change now that it’s more mainstream to watch our footprint as intelligently as we watch our calories.
But, if you get light-headed at even the thought of choosing flowers and invitations and guest lists – well, you (and I) might want to call Toast Green Event Design.
Toast Green was started by three sisters in southern California who wanted to offer eco-friendly and affordable party choices to the green-conscious consumer. Their mission is two-fold: “1. to promote eco-conscious consumerism by proving that making ‘green’ choices does not mean sacrificing style, quality or dramatic effect – even on life’s most momentous occasions; and 2. to nurture the community of green service providers and promoters.”
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AKV9, Protein Aggregation Inhibitor
AKV9 is the first compound reported to improve the health of diseased upper motor neurons by:
Although different proteins aggregate in different neurons and diseases, the underlying causes of neuronal pathology appear to be shared. Therefore, developing therapies that target protein aggregation would have broad implications.
In ALS, misfolded mutant superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) proteins aggregate in diseased motor neurons, and this accounts for about 10% of familial ALS. In addition, TDP-43 pathology, which is characterized by the accumulation of aggregated proteins that contain phosphorylated TDP-43 in the cytoplasm, accounts for more than 90% of all ALS cases. Since misfolded SOD1 toxicity and TDP-43 pathology do not overlap, inhibitors that act on both of these protein aggregates offer broad implications for a larger population of ALS.
Therefore, we investigated compounds for their ability to reduce protein aggregation.
What Makes AKV9 Different?
Previous ALS drug discovery efforts
- Mostly focused on improving the life extension of ALS mouse models to suggest improved patient outcome, believing that mice mimic humans
- Never considered improving the health of diseased UMNs as a potential treatment strategy
- At times utilized cells and cell lines that are not related to motor neurons to obtain data about motor neuron health
- Could not show translation between mouse survival and human survival
AKAVA’s unique approach
- Utilizes a cell-based and mechanism-focused drug discovery effort
- Focuses on the biology and pathology of diseased upper motor neurons (UMNs) with the goal of improving their health at a cellular level
- Investigates and obtains data directly from diseased UMNs and not from unrelated cell models
- Builds on the fact that translation is not at a species level, but is at a cellular level
Ornithine Aminotransferase Inactivators
The gene that encodes the enzyme ornithine aminotransferase (OAT) is overexpressed in rats with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Development of HCC correlates with activation of OAT.
We have shown that inhibition of OAT leads to inhibition of HCC growth.
Our inactivators of OAT inhibit secretion of alpha-fetoprotein, a biomarker for HCC, and tumor growth in mice with human-derived HCC. Five different molecules are undergoing comparative efficacy and toxicology studies to determine which to move into IND-enabling studies.
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary liver cancer and the 3rd leading cause of cancer death worldwide; over 800,000 people worldwide contract HCC and about 700,000 deaths occur annually.
- radiation therapy
- targeted therapy
- hormone therapy
- stem cell transplant
- precision medicine
Despite all of the approaches available, the 5-year survival rate is only 10%, and side effect profiles are high.
The development of HCC has been shown to correlate with the activation of the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway in liver. The Wnt/β-catenin pathway, an evolutionarily conserved pathway, is essential to normal cellular processes such as growth, development, survival, and regeneration.
β-Catenin serves three major roles in liver physiology. In the presence of Wnt, β-catenin translocates to the nucleus, where it functions to activate genes essential for proliferation, growth, and regeneration of the liver. However, in addition to its diverse important physiological functions in liver, β-catenin also is associated with the initiation and progression of liver cancer, generally resulting from mutations in members of the Wnt/β-catenin pathway.
Activation of the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway, and concomitant development in liver of HCC, correlates with the upregulation of Wnt/β-catenin pathway proteins ornithine aminotransferase (OAT), glutamate transporter GLT-1, and glutamine synthetase; loss of β-catenin induction of those three proteins blocks glutamine synthesis as a result of loss of OAT activity. L-Glutamine is essential for growth of both normal and neoplastic cells; however, tumor cells take up glutamine more efficiently than normal cells, and tumor growth is enhanced by glutamine.
Cancer cells distinguish themselves from normal cells in that they have an increased requirement for glutamine to support anabolic processes that stimulate proliferation. Increased activity of OAT by Wnt/β-catenin activation enhances tumor cell growth, allowing a controlled growth advantage to the tumor cell. Therefore, reducing enhanced glutamine concentrations by OAT inhibition should inhibit tumor growth and be a viable antitumor mechanism, and we have found that inhibition of OAT does inhibit the growth of HCC in mice.
Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase Inhibitors
Neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) is an enzyme in neuronal cells that catalyzes the production of the cell-signaling molecule nitric oxide, which is a neurotransmitter important for brain development, memory, and learning. However, pathological overproduction of nitric oxide, which is a free radical, is detrimental to neuronal tissue and can lead to all of the neurodegenerative diseases.
Melanocytes, melanin-producing cells in the skin, are derived from the neural crest and have been shown to contain nNOS. UV radiation causes an upregulation of nNOS, which increases the production of nitric oxide that can degenerate the melanocytes, leading to melanoma.
Therefore, the connection between neurodegeneration and melanoma is formation of excess nitric oxide. Inhibitors of nNOS reduce the production of nitric oxide and could have a therapeutic effect against neurodegeneration and melanoma.
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|Broadcast area||Greater St. Louis|
|Branding||NewsRadio 1120 KMOX|
|Affiliations||CBS News Radio|
St. Louis Cardinals Radio Network
First air date
|December 24, 1925|
Former call signs
Call sign meaning
|Missouri Xmas eve (station first signed on the air on Christmas Eve)|
|Translator(s)||98.7 K254CR (St. Louis)|
|Repeater(s)||102.5 KEZK-HD2 (St. Louis)|
Public license information
|Webcast||Listen live (via Audacy)|
KMOX (1120 AM) is a commercial radio station in St. Louis, Missouri. Owned by Audacy, Inc., it is a 50,000 watt Class A clear-channel station with a non-directional signal. The KMOX studios and offices are on Olive Street at Tucker Boulevard in the Park Pacific Building in St. Louis. KMOX refers to itself as "NewsRadio 1120 - The Voice of St. Louis." It is considered the first U.S. station to program all talk shows around the clock.
KMOX's transmitter is located off Route 162 in Pontoon Beach, Illinois. With a good radio, KMOX's nighttime signal can be heard in most of the Central United States and into Mexico and Canada. Its daytime signal provides at least secondary coverage to most of Eastern Missouri and much of Southern Illinois. The station is also heard on KEZK's HD2 subchannel and translator 98.7 K254CR. Along with WIL-FM, KMOX is responsible for the activation of the Greater St. Louis Emergency Alert System for hazardous weather, disaster declarations, etc., and is the EAS primary entry point for eastern Missouri and southern Illinois.
KMOX airs a talk radio format with blocks of news every morning and in weekday afternoon drive time. Middays it carries the Dave Glover Show, which replaced The Rush Limbaugh Show. Local talk hosts Charlie Brennan and Amy Marxkors are heard in late mornings and Mark Reardon in early afternoons. In the evening, the station airs sports. At night, local host Ryan Wrecker is heard, followed by two syndicated shows, "Our American Stories with Lee Habeeb" and "America in the Morning."
On weekend mornings, all-news blocks start the schedule, followed by programs on money, health, car repair, home improvement and old time radio dramas and comedies. Some weekend shows are paid brokered programming. KMOX is the flagship station of the St. Louis Cardinals Baseball team, and was the flagship station for the St. Louis Blues Hockey team through the 2018–2019 season.
KMOX has a large team of local newscasters and reporters, and airs CBS News Radio at the beginning of most hours. KMOX also has an agreement to share news gathering and weather information with KMOV, the CBS television Network affiliate for St. Louis. At one time, KMOX and KMOV (formerly KMOX-TV) were sister stations, both owned by CBS.
KMOX was started in the early 1920s by a group of businessmen who formed a company known as "The Voice of St. Louis, Inc." The station's owners wanted KVSL, for "Voice of St. Louis." The owners also applied for KMO, with MO the abbreviation for Missouri, but those call letters had been in use by another station since 1922, KMO (now KKMO) in Tacoma, Washington. KMOX signed on the air on December 24, 1925. The "X" was added because the starting date was Christmas Eve, or Xmas Eve. A local legend states the call letters mean Kirkwood, Missouri On Xmas.
In 1927 the station gave prominent coverage to the Charles Lindbergh flight across the Atlantic in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis. That same year, KMOX became one of the first 16 stations in the CBS Radio Network.
Following the establishment of the Federal Radio Commission (FRC), stations were initially issued a series of temporary authorizations starting on May 3, 1927. In addition, stations were informed that if they wanted to continue operating, they needed to file a formal license application by January 15, 1928, as the first step in determining whether they met the new "public interest, convenience, or necessity" standard. On May 25, 1928, the FRC issued General Order 32, which notified 164 stations, including KFQA, also in St. Louis, that "From an examination of your application for future license it does not find that public interest, convenience, or necessity would be served by granting it." KFQA proposed that instead of maintaining its own transmitting facility, it would share the facilities of an existing station. The FRC initially disapproved of this proposal, and ordered KFQA deleted, but eventually relented, and assigned KMOX to be operated under the dual call sign of KMOX-KFQA.
On November 11, 1928, the FRC made a major reallocation of station transmitting frequencies, as part of a reorganization resulting from its implementation of General Order 40. KMOX was designated a clear-channel station on 1090 kHz. In mid-1930, the dual call sign operation as KMOX-KFQA ended, and the station's call sign reverted to just KMOX.
CBS bought KMOX, and began the process of getting approval to build a 50,000-watt transmitter tower. When completed, it gave the now a signal that could be heard at night through much of the U.S. In the early days of radio, KMOX broadcasts had been picked up in Scotland, New Zealand, the Arctic Circle and South Africa.
In 1933, KMOX covered the first post-Prohibition case of Budweiser beer leaving the Anheuser-Busch St. Louis brewery for the White House, a story carried nationally by CBS. Through the "Golden Age of Radio," KMOX carried the CBS schedule of dramas, comedies, news, sports, soap operas, game shows and big band broadcasts. The studios and offices were housed in the Merchandise Mart Building on Washington Street.
On March 29, 1941, KMOX moved from 1090 to 1120 kHz, its location ever since, as part of the implementation of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement.
CBS had planned to have a corporate-owned and operated television station in St. Louis, to pair with KMOX. In 1957, the network originally won an FCC construction permit to build a new station on Channel 11, the last remaining commercial VHF channel in St. Louis. After being approached with an offer, CBS decided in August of that year to instead buy the existing KWK-TV for $4 million. KWK-TV was owned by a group including the publisher of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
CBS took control of KWK-TV's operations that March, and changed its call letters to KMOX-TV, sharing the call sign with AM 1120. The original Viacom purchased KMOX-TV from CBS in 1986, and because of an FCC regulation in place then that prohibited TV and radio stations in the same market, but with different ownership from sharing the same callsign, it subsequently amended its call sign to KMOV.
KMOX added an FM station on February 12, 1962. It broadcast at 103.3 MHz and mostly simulcast the AM station. By the late 1960s, KMOX-FM was separately programmed, airing an easy listening format, then later shifted to Top 40 as KHTR in 1982, and is currently classic hits KLOU, owned by iHeartMedia, Inc.
In July 1968, CBS opened a new studio and office facility in downtown St. Louis to house KMOX-AM-FM-TV, which until that point had been operating from separate locations. The radio stations had been headquartered near Forest Park. KMOX-TV moved from Cole Street into the new facility, known as One Memorial Drive, and remains there to the present day.
As network programming shifted from radio to television in the 1950s, KMOX scheduled a full service format of talk shows, news, and middle of the road (later adult contemporary) music. In 1955, Robert Hyland Jr. became KMOX's general manager, a role he held for nearly forty years. It was Hyland who leveraged KMOX's relationship with the Cardinals, signing many lucrative advertising contracts with local businesses.
Hyland made the decision in 1960 to eliminate the station's afternoon music programming, the last of the non-talk shows. That made KMOX the first full-time talk radio station in the country, helping keep KMOX dominance in the St. Louis radio market for many decades. On February 29, 1960, Jack Buck hosted the first "At Your Service" program, which included an interview with former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. That program, like the sports and talk shows that soon followed, pioneered a format for radio featuring news maker interviews, guest appearances, and calls from listeners.
After Hyland died in 1992, Rod Zimmerman was named general manager. He departed in 1998 to manage CBS station WBBM Radio in Chicago.
KMOX picked up Costas Coast to Coast in 1994. Also, in July of that year Bob Costas began hosting a sports call-in show on the station.
Karen Carroll was general manager from 1998 until 2003, when Tom Langmyer was promoted to the top position. Langmyer left in 2005 to become vice president/general manager of WGN Radio in Chicago. Dave Ervin managed the station from 2005 to 2008. Becky Domyan, who also oversees sister stations KEZK and KYKY is the station's current Market Manager & Sr. Vice President for Entercom.
KMOX started broadcasting in HD Radio in May 2006. For many years, KMOX broadcast using C-QUAM's AM Stereo technology, but stereo transmissions ended in the spring of 2000.
On January 30, 2012, Jon Grayson's "Overnight America," based at KMOX, and also airing on CBS stations WCCO Minneapolis and KDKA Pittsburgh, became a nationally syndicated program with several dozen stations airing it across the country. The syndication was discontinued in 2017, but the show continues to air late nights on KMOX.
On February 2, 2017, CBS Radio announced it would merge with Entercom. The merger was approved on November 9, 2017, and was consummated on the 17th. The Entercom acquisition ended KMOX's 88 years of CBS ownership.
KMOX held the distinction of holding the record for consecutive number one Arbitron ratings books in the United States. The station was consistently the top rated radio station in St. Louis since the ratings service began in 1972 until 2010, when WARH took over the top spot in the Arbs. KMOX remains the top rated AM station, consistently in the top ten in the Nielsen ratings for St. Louis.
KMOX carried the Rush Limbaugh show weekdays for several decades. The program was sometimes pre-empted by St. Louis Cardinals' afternoon baseball games. Limbaugh was one of the few non-local shows broadcast on the station. It is syndicated by Premiere Networks, a subsidiary of iHeartMedia. KMOX also carries two non-local shows overnight, "Our American Stories with Lee Habeeb" and "America in the Morning." Habeeb is a programmer with the Salem Radio Network. America in the Morning is supplied by Westwood One, a subsidiary of Cumulus Media.
For the past 21 years[when?], KMOX has hosted a holiday radio program, in which KMOX personalities perform an old-time radio show in front of a live audience.
On March 22, 2021, KMOX added an FM simulcast on 98.7 FM K254CR, a translator formerly used for KFTK (AM), then temporarily for KFTK-FM. This translator provides coverage to the inner ring suburbs of St. Louis. KMOX also added The Dave Glover Show to their schedule, which previously aired on KFTK for the past two years, and following Limbaugh's death elected to launch a new, local show hosted by longtime news reporter Carol Daniel in its lunchtime timeslot.
KMOX has had a long history of broadcasting sports. In 1926, it aired the Cardinals-Yankees World Series, and starting the next season the station began airing St. Louis Cardinals' games.
During the 1930s and 1940s, KMOX was one of several St. Louis stations broadcasting both the Cardinals and St. Louis Browns baseball games. KMOX lost broadcasting rights in 1948 when a new Cardinals radio network was formed by the team, but by the 1950s, it became the flagship station of that network (in part due to its clear channel status).
KMOX's most famous sports broadcaster was Jack Buck, who was the station's year-round sports director during the years he was also calling baseball and football for the CBS radio and television networks. Another famous announcer was Harry Caray, who did play-by-play for Cardinals' baseball from 1945 through 1969. Dan Kelly was hired in 1968 to broadcast the new Blues hockey team and became the voice of hockey in the city until his death in 1989: his son John is the team's TV commentator today. Bill Wilkerson, the station's football caller, was the first black man to be the lead announcer for an NFL team when he took over commentary duties for the football Cardinals in 1973: three years later, he would assume the same position for Mizzou football, where once again he would be one of the first black primary broadcasters in major college athletics, only leaving the post in 1993 when he was poached by KTRS. Bob Costas did play-by-play on KMOX for the Spirits of St. Louis of the American Basketball Association from 1974 until the ABA-NBA merger in June 1976.
At times, the station's emphasis had shifted away from broadcasting St. Louis professional sports teams. In 2000, the St. Louis Blues hockey team moved to KTRS after having been on KMOX for all but three of the team's 33 seasons (1967–2000), but the games returned starting in the 2006–07 season. The St. Louis Blues moved to WXOS starting in the 2019–2020 season. In 2006, the Cardinals' broadcasts moved to KTRS after 52 seasons on KMOX (1954–2005) after the team purchased controlling interest in KTRS. On September 1, 2010, the Cardinals announced the return of broadcasts to KMOX, starting in the 2011 baseball season. KMOX aired University of Missouri Tigers Football and basketball games for many years, and was the flagship of their radio network until the 1990s. Starting in 2011, the Tigers moved their basketball, football, and news & talk programs to 550 KTRS.
The station continues to host sports programming such as "Sports Open Line," heard Monday through Friday nights, beginning at 6 p.m. Matt Pauley is the main host. "Sports on a Sunday Morning" airs from 10 a.m. to noon on Sundays.
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|K254CR||98.7 FM||St. Louis, Missouri||138424||250||162 m (531 ft)||D||LMS||Previously assigned to rebroadcast KFTK (1490 AM); reassigned to KFTK-FM after the former's license was cancelled by the FCC.|
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Consider Preliminary Subdivision Application (#PP03-CR-27) - Perkins Subdivision
The applicant is seeking Preliminary Plat approval to divide approximately 40.6 acres into three (3) single-family residential lots. The subject property is zoned Rural Agriculture (RA), and is located on the west side of State Route 616 (Bristersburg Road) south of its intersection with State Route 617 (Blackwells Mill Road).
Section 9-7 of the Subdivision Ordinance requires that "…all preliminary plats approved by the Planning Commission shall be referred to the Board of Supervisors at its next regularly scheduled meeting…If the Board takes no action on the preliminary plat referral, the preliminary plat shall be deemed approved in accordance with the actions of the Planning Commission."
The Planning Commission staff reports are available upon request.
Requested Action of the Board of Supervisors:
No action is necessary,
unless a majority of the Board wishes to consider this preliminary
subdivision application. On
A. In accordance with Section 3-400.12 of the Fauquier County Zoning Ordinance, front building restriction lines are measured (and shall be noted on the Preliminary Plat) from the centerline of the roadway, not the property line.
The bulk regulations for the appropriate zoning district
shall be listed on the plan.
Lots 4 and 5 shall meet the minimum lot width requirements
for RA zoning; please note on the plan if this is a cluster development
and provide the accurate bulk regulations for such.
Plat shall include the width of the right-of-way on Route 616 from either
the centerline of the road or the edge of pavement to the property line.
The Preliminary Plat shall indicate the distance to the
In accordance with
Section 7-603.2 of the Fauquier County Zoning Ordinance, Residential
Subdivisions, a landscape plan shall be required prior to approval of the
existing culverts are to be shown. All
driveway culverts are to be sized for the 10-year storm.
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Becoming a successful marketer or business owner in this 21st century depends so much on Social media the powers tool, which Instagram is outstanding, it boosts business growth in countless ways.
But in this article, let us focus on how to use the Instagram Stories feature to grow your business and marketing in other to receive the highest ROI.
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This is so because of trends, Instagram is growing popular and it has a lot of new interactive features while Facebook gradually going outdated.
For this fact, Instagram remains the front runner for marketing businesses in this present time.
Now let’s take a look at how you can use Instagram Stories to grow your business in 2022.
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What are Instagram Stories?
Instagram stories are defined as the feature on the Instagram app where users can post related content like text, photos, emoticons, and videos, they are arranged in a swipe through an array format.
Contents posted on our Instagram stories typically disappear within 24-hours from the time of successfully posting them, it also allows users to use links and stickers.
According to Instagram, the Instagram stories feature allows users to post more content for business partners, friends, and family members.
These contents can be skipped and since they vanish within 24-hours, it gives users the liberty to post many updates without crowding their Instagram timeline.
How Instagram stories can grow your business
#1. Instagram Stories have massive views of over 400 million daily
#2. They are entertaining, fun, and engaging.
#3. They are one of the most used Instagram features.
Collecting feedback about your business from customers is very vital, this makes you understand where to make improvements to your growth.
When you don’t have the exact data of your customers and their behaviour, you are left with nothing but guesses about how they feel about your business.
But with Instagram stories, it is very easy to keep track of your business and how users feel about your goods and services.
Instagram stories have features like an interactive poll sticker which is extremely engaging and fun for many users on it.
Below is an example of an Instagram Story View.
Let’s jump into the list…
#1. Creating an email list with Instagram stories
It will be unacceptable if one of the best advertising features “Instagram Stories’’ won’t be able to help you build an email marketing strategy right?
On the Instagram Stories feature, you can post a registration link for more people to subscribe to your email list, Instagram allows users with 10k or more followers to add links to your Stories.
Another feature is all Instagram Stories links are invisible, they are hidden under the “See More” option below the page
Below is an example of an Instagram story link
#2. Increase your business visibility
Exposing your business brand to the world with Instagram Stories can also help you get more local exposure for your brand.
The use of location stickers, can boost your visibility to the local audience and beyond.
Location stickers tell where you are at a particular moment, the location of your physical store, or current locations. This makes them perfect for the growth of brick and mortar stores businesses.
Below is an example of Instagram story location stickers
#3. Tighten customer-brand relationship
When you have a mutual relationship with your customers, you stand a better chance of getting the customer back to patronize you again, and that is the foundation of building your business, it brings loyal customers.
The more loyal customers believe in your services and you understand them, the more you benefit from them.
Now all you need to do is create
See the examples below.
● Easy tutorials and do it yourself (DIY) videos.
● Post intriguing questions on your stories.
● notify them of new changes and do giveaways to followers.
● Post user-generated content (UGC) and appreciate their contributions to your business growth.
#4. Drive traffic to your blog
With Instagram stories, you can share your new blog’s content on it just like any other platform, e.g Medium, and Facebook, and also add a link to it to help boost the traffic of your site, be it E-commence or normal web blogging.
That can also help build your business and improve your sales.
#5. Boost your sales with Instagram stories
When you share pictures and videos about your business, new products, or related information on your Instagram stories, you inform many people online and that encourages potential linkup.
Instagram displays thousands of ads from different companies, this kind of ad may make some lose followers as users feel bombarded with too many posts.
We all know Instagram stories disappear just within 24 hours and notify followers only when they are posted.
So I believe with this I’m able to convince you that Instagram stories are one of the best ways to advertise a new product without disturbing your followers much.
Example of how to boost your sales with Instagram stories
These Instagram stories feature has been engaged by millions of Instagram users daily.
#6. Build a consistent audience
When you start a business to make it grow faster, you have to build a consistent audience that will earn your trust, this will grow your online audience, all you need to do is post fascinating photos or and/or videos on your Instagram Stories with useful hashtags relating to your business.
#7. Boost brand awareness
Creating awareness about your business makes people know more about it, this can make it, even more, easier for people to patronize you when they are familiar with you.
When your run a real estate business, for instance, people will always go to the popular brands than to new and unpopular ones because of the brand’s reputation and popularity so it is good to boost your brand’s awareness to increase traffic to your business and Instagram stories can help you with that easily.
To boost your brand’s awareness always posts your content e.g. links, videos, and photos of your brands on your Instagram stories and other social media platforms as well.
Also share other content especially when they tagged on their post, that way people will also acknowledge your post as well this can help in growing your business brand.
Make a logo of your brand and post it on your profile avatar, and add it to your Instagram stories too.
Below is how to boost your brand with Instagram stories:
#8. Improve your brand loyalty
To make customers patronize you and become loyal, the first thing to put in mind is to always fulfil your advert promise, and this will keep more of them coming back and you which earns you profit.
Try to bring in new customers every day through campaigns like discounts and referral programs from time to time.
When you improve your brand’s awareness, people usually prefer to buy or hire existing reputable brands most times and this can give you an edge over other competitors.
This may not be easy but it is not impossible when you keep doing it right.
Share reviews and organize polls to get more insights
#9. Avail yourself to Customers
So many people don’t usually like interacting with robots, they prefer to be attended to by humans like them to be able to question poor services leaving them with only a programmed attendant that will make them look elsewhere they are attended to by fellow humans.
So please use robots only when necessary this can also be achieved by posting about your products and services on Instagram stories and replaying them directly to their DMs this will also help in interacting with willing customers.
#10. Constant Advert
To grow your brand you don’t just relax with posting on your Instagram stories alone make sure you post regularly to catch even neglected users, surely one day they may want to view what you are always adverting.
Secondly, when you post on your Instagram stories alone you are limited to only your followers, run Instagram Stories ads to make your product reach more users across the globe to be able to expand your brand
Keynote: Instagram notifies your user when you post and this is another key to growing your business in 2022.
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Share this article with friends, you may just be a helper on their timeline to help enlighten them on how to efficiently use the Instagram stories feature to boost their knowledge on how to their reach more potential customers.


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At this start of the year, Classical Opera embarked upon an ambitious project. MOZART 250 will see the company devote part of its programme
each season during the next 27 years to exploring the music by Mozart and his
contemporaries which was being written and performed exactly 250 years
The Concordia Foundation was founded in the early 1990s by international singer and broadcaster Gillian Humphreys, out of her ‘real concern for building bridges of friendship and excellence through music and the arts’.
An opera dealing with — or at least claiming to deal with — the events of 11 September 2001? I suppose it had to come, but that does not necessarily make it any more necessary.
On April 10, 2015, Arizona Opera ended its season with La Fille du Régiment at Phoenix Symphony Hall. A passionate Marie, Susannah Biller was a veritable energizer bunny onstage. Her voice is bright and flexible with a good bloom on top and a tiny bit of steel in it. Having created an exciting character, she sang with agility as well as passion.
This second revival of Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser’s 2005 production of Rossini’s Il Turco in Italia seems to have every going for it: excellent principals comprising experienced old-hands and exciting new voices, infinite gags and japes, and the visual éclat of Agostino Cavalca’s colour-bursting costumes and Christian Fenouillat’s sunny sets which evoke the style, glamour and ease of La Dolce Vita.
English Touring Opera’s 2015 Spring Tour is audacious and thought-provoking. Alongside La Bohème the company have programmed a revival of their acclaimed 2013 production of Donizetti’s The Siege of Calais (L’assedio di Calais) and the composer’s equally rare
The Wild Man of the West Indies (Il furioso all’isola di San
Mary Zimmerman’s still-fresh production is made fresher still by Shagimuratova’s glimmering voice, but the acting disappoints
When WNYC’s John Schaefer introduced Meredith Monk’s beloved Panda
Chant II, which concluded the four-and-a-half hour Meredith Monk &
Friends celebration at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, he described it as “an expression of joy and musicality” before lamenting the fact that playing it on his radio show could never quite compete with a live performance.
This year’s concert of the Chicago Bach Project, under the aegis of the Soli Deo Gloria Music Foundation, was a presentation of the St. John Passion (BWV 245) at the Harris Theater in Millennium Park.
It is not an everyday opera. It is an opera that illuminates a larger verismo history.
On March 26, 2015, Los Angeles Opera presented Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro). The Ian Judge production featured jewel-colored box sets by Tim Goodchild that threw the voices out into the hall. Only for the finale did the set open up on to a garden that filled the whole stage and at the very end featured actual fireworks.
Gotham Chamber Opera’s latest project, The Tempest Songbook, continues to
explore the possibilities of unconventional spaces and unconventional programs
that the company has made its hallmark. The results were musically and
theatrically thought-provoking, and left me wanting more.
Nixon in China is a three-act opera with a libretto by Alice Goodman and music by John Adams that was first seen at the Houston Grand Opera on October 22, 1987. It was the first of a notable line of operas by the composer.
It is thanks to Céline Ricci, mezzo-soprano and director of Ars Minerva, that we have been able to again hear Daniele Castrovillari’s exquisite melodies because she is the musician who has brought his 1662 opera La Cleopatra to life.
Lyric Opera of Chicago, in association with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, has staged a production of Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser with an estimable cast.
Puccini and his fellow verismo-ists are commonly associated with explosions of unbridled human passion and raw, violent pain, but in this revival (by Justin Way) of Moshe Leiser’s and Patrice Caurier’s 2003 production of Madame Butterfly, directorial understatement together with ravishing scenic beauty are shown to be more potent ways of enabling the sung voice to reveal the emotional depths of human tragedy.
Rarely, very rarely does a Tosca come around that you can get excited about. Sure, sometimes there is good singing, less often good conducting but rarely is there a mise en scène that goes beyond stock opera vocabulary.
The Nash Ensemble’s 50th Anniversary Celebrations at the Wigmore Hall were crowned by a recital that typifies the Nash’s visionary mission. Above, the dearly-loved founder, Amelia Freeman, a quietly revolutionary figure in her own way, who has immeasurably enriched the cultural life of this country.
On March 7, 2015, Arizona Opera presented Dan Rigazzi’s production of Die Zauberflöte in Tucson. Inspired by the works of René Magritte, designer John Pollard filled the stage with various sizes of picture frames, windows, and portals from which he leads us into Mozart and Schikaneder’s dream world.
There are some concert programmes which are not just wonderful in their execution but also delight and satisfy because of the ‘rightness’ of their composition. This Wigmore Hall recital by soprano Carolyn Sampson and three period-instrument experts of arias and instrumental pieces by Henry Purcell was one such occasion.
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A Month in the Country
We previously reported on the Manhattan School of Music production of Lee Hoiby's A Month in the Country. Here is Anne Midgette's review. A Russian Play, Reimagined by an American Composer By ANNE MIDGETTE "We've lost a few people," said...
We previously reported on the Manhattan School of Music production of Lee Hoiby's A Month in the Country. Here is Anne Midgette's review.
A Russian Play, Reimagined by an American Composer
By ANNE MIDGETTE
"We've lost a few people," said a woman in the audience, surveying a few empty seats after the intermission of Lee Hoiby's opera "A Month in the Country," which opened at the Manhattan School of Music on Wednesday night. "And I don't know why. It's so beautiful."
We have lost a few people. Or rather, we've lost a few operas. Mr. Hoiby was once a rising star over the American opera landscape. But you don't see his work anymore at, say, the New York City Opera, where "A Month in the Country" (originally titled "Natalia Petrovna," and based on the play by Turgenev) had its premiere in 1964. And that's a shame, because "A Month in the Country" is a wonderful opera.
You could perhaps carp that Mr. Hoiby's music is conservative, tonal and breaks little new ground, but I was too busy being engrossed by it, and by the opera's psychological insight and grateful vocal writing, both equally rare. It didn't hurt that the Manhattan School of Music cast it strikingly well and gave it a fine production by Ned Canty (down to Elizabeth Hope Clancy's period costumes).
Every part here had something to offer. The lead role of Natalia, a beautiful, bored aristocrat who falls in love with her niece's tutor, is huge and demanding; JennyRebecca Winans showed a lovely, smooth voice that matched her poise, and if she lost some steam in places, it's hard to think of a singer who wouldn't. As the tutor, Liam Bonner had a big, impressive baritone that was slightly raw and unpolished (perfectly fitting the character); as the niece, Vera, Yoosun Park was a bit challenged by the upper register.
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August 19, 2014ContiWinterContact TS830P best winter tyre of 2012
This year, the ContiWinterContact TS850 underwent a series of independent tests, alongside a number of prestigious tyre manufacturers, and won a flurry of awards for it’s performance in slippery and icy weather conditions.
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The ContiWinterContact TS830P, the winter tyre for performance vehicles, was awarded best winter tyre in the 2012 Auto Express Product Awards. And this is the second year evo magazine has selected ContiWinterContact tyres as the best of the best in the winter tyre market. evo said, “The Continental ContiWinterContact TS850 is responsive, stable and predictable in all scenarios. Winter tyres come no more capable or reassuring that this.” The annual tyre awards highlight exceptional performance, quality, safety, desirability and value. They are regarded within the motoring industry as a stamp of approval offering motorists reliability and confidence when looking for their next winter tyre purchase.


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Hoskins ready to embrace Green Shift
SIMCOE REFORMER: Monte Sonnenberg - Aug 1, 2008
Dr. Eric Hoskins has no reservations about the federal Liberals' Green Shift environmental program and looks forward to selling it to local voters.
"It's a bold visionary plan," said Hoskins, who will carry the Liberal banner in Haldimand-Norfolk in the next federal election. "It's the right one for Canadians right now. Climate change is real and the world is working on ways to put a price on carbon. I strongly support it."
If elected with a majority, the federal Liberals intend to impose carbon taxes worth $15 billion on the largest generators of greenhouse gases. This will be matched by a $15 billion reduction in income taxes. The Green Shift will lower federal taxes on families and individuals while polluting industries could ease their burden through clean technology and reduced emissions.
Liberal leader Stephane Dion is banking Liberal hopes on the Green Shift agenda. Some Liberal candidates have expressed reservations about the strategy but Hoskins isn't one of them. Hoskins is confident he can explain the plan's complexities quickly and easily to any voter who wants to learn more.
"It's taxing the polluters," he said yesterday. "It's taxing bad behaviour. The lion's share is going to come from the 700 industries in Canada that are the worst polluters. And the auditor general will be required to ensure that the plan is truly revenue neutral."
Hoskins played host yesterday to a visit from Nova Scotia MP Scott Brison, the Liberals' critic for industry, science and technology. The pair huddled with a who's who of the local Liberal establishment at the Little River Inn in Simcoe before touring local industries and fielding questions from reporters.
Unlike his Liberal colleagues at Queen's Park, Brison thinks Canada can continue to enjoy the benefits of low-cost electricity from coal while continuing to improve the environment.
Brison feels Canada and the rest of the world is in a race against time because China, Russia, India and Brazil are gambling their economic future on coal technologies that promise to aggravate the problem of global warming.
In response to a question on the proposed closure of the Nanticoke Generating Station in Haldimand, Brison said it is in Canada's best interests to research, develop and market clean coal technologies before dirty factories and power plants around the world proliferate out of control.
"Around the world coal energy is going to be with us for a long time," Brison said. "We have to move in this direction. I'd like to make Canada the best place in the world to research, develop and market this technology. The world needs all forms of energy and we need to save the world while we are using them."
Brison and Hoskins fielded a host of comments and questions on issues affecting Haldimand-Norfolk. High on the list was the ongoing stalemate over native land claims in Haldimand, now into its third year. Cayuga Coun. Buck Sloat warned the pair that Ottawa must resolve this problem soon or be prepared to watch this part of Ontario sink into economic despair.


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Driving in Cape Verde
Driving in Cape Verde is reasonably straight forward and it's a great idea to hire a car to give yourself the added flexibility and convenience to explore the Islands at you own speed.
There has been a considerable expansion of the road network in Cape Verde with many new asphalt roads being constructed however there are still many cobbled roads and dirt tracks and roads under repair. I would therefore suggest hiring a 4x4 vehicle.
Driving is on the right hand side and you will need to have a valid driving license and must carry all your documentation including insurance and passport. It would also be useful to obtain the International Driving License but to be honest, I have never been asked to show this document. All drivers must be 18 years of age and are supposed to by law have 3rd party insurance and seat belts must be worn. Children under 12 must sit in the back.
The speed limits are 80 Kmph on the highways and 30 Kmph in urban areas but it's especially a good idea to reduce your speed especially around the towns, as tourists and children will continually walk in the street or run across the road, I would therefore drive slowly and sound your horn to anticipate potential danger, especially as the locals and taxi don't like to use their indicators.
The locals don't always wear their seat belts but don't get in to bad habits because the Police may fine you, also make sure you park in the direction of the traffic and not on speed bumps If you do get fined you must ask for clarification and pay the fine only at the central police station.
The police in Santa Maria, Sal are now making drivers park on the right hand side of the road in the direction of traffic unfortunately there are no signs which indicate this new change.
Petrol Stations are located normally at the entrance of towns and villages, so look out for Enacol and Shell. The price of petrol is around 136.00 CVE per Litre or 0.95.00 per Litre for Diesel and the attendant will fill you up.

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The South African government is allocating 29 million South African rand (nearly $2 million) to the municipality of Mangaung for solid waste management projects. The funding is in response to a request from the municipality in the Free State province.
The funding request from the authorities of the Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality was approved on October 15th, 2021. The information was revealed by the South African Deputy Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment, Makhotso Sotyu. The municipality in South Africa’s Free State province is getting 29 million South African rand (about $2 million) to improve its solid waste management. Currently, the municipality does not have a waste disposal policy. As a result, illegal dumpsites are created, which often coexist with the population and businesses.
The municipality of Mangaung also hopes to reduce the pollution of soil and water by solid waste. The local authorities plan to eliminate the illegal dumping of garbage that clogs the streets, while developing more suitable sites. Part of the South African government’s funding will be used to “revitalize two solid waste collection and disposal centres,” says the South African Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment. The department sees this as being in line with South Africa’s on-going Expanded Public Works Programs (EPWP).
This program aims at the protection, conservation and environmental sustainability in the southern African country. According to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), South Africa produces an average of 12.7 million tons of waste per year. Approximately 3.67 million tons of this waste is not collected or processed through formal systems, resulting in large amounts of waste being illegally dumped on the streets.
The EPWP will also create job opportunities in several sectors, including waste, and provide skills development to enable beneficiaries to find permanent employment.


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Adventist Hospitals Receive Komen Grant to Expand Access to Breast Cancer Screenings for Local Women
2,000 local women will benefit from $1 million grant
Rockville, Md. – Local women will have improved access to breast care services thanks to a nearly $1 million grant Adventist HealthCare has received from Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
The four-year, $917,000 grant will fund the Navigate to Health: Rapid Referral Program, which will provide comprehensive breast care services to medically underserved, low-income, minority women in Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties. The grant will be split between Adventist HealthCare’s two local acute care hospitals – Shady Grove Adventist and Washington Adventist.
“We are grateful to Komen for providing this grant that will allow us to create a program to expand and enhance breast care services for women in our community,” said William G. “Bill” Robertson, president and CEO of Adventist HealthCare. “We believe that this important program will improve health and save lives among local women.”
The Navigate to Health program is just one example of Adventist HealthCare’s numerous community programs. In 2009, Shady Grove Adventist and Washington Adventist Hospitals contributed approximately $63 million in community benefit through charity care and other programs – more than any other health system in Montgomery County. Programs at Shady Grove Adventist and Washington Adventist Hospitals have been providing free mammograms to local women for the past 18 years.
According to the American Cancer Society, breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in women, in the United States, exceeded only by lung cancer. The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene estimates that about 12% of women, or 1 in 8, will develop invasive breast cancer at some time during their life.
The Navigate to Health program, which will begin in the first quarter of 2011, is expected to provide breast cancer care and services for approximately 2,000 new patients between 2011 and 2014. The program will provide specialized services to decrease the time between diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer for local women. Additionally, the Navigate to Health program will work to expand the number of mammograms provided to underserved women, educate local women on breast self-awareness and enhance the follow-up process for women who have had a positive result from a screening.
“We know that breast cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers among Marylanders,” said Dr. Gaurov Dayal, Chief Medical Officer for Adventist HealthCare. “This program not only aligns with our mission of improving the health of our community, but it also provides an important service to women who may not have access to breast cancer screening and treatment.”
Adventist has partnered with the Montgomery County Primary Care Coalition for the Navigate to Health program. The Komen grant is the largest single grant ever awarded to Adventist HealthCare.
Adventist HealthCare, an integrated, health-care delivery organization based in Rockville, Maryland, is one of the largest employers in the state of Maryland. The mission of Adventist HealthCare is to demonstrate God’s care by improving the health of people and communities through a ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing. Adventist HealthCare includes Shady Grove Adventist Hospital, Washington Adventist Hospital, Adventist Behavioral Health, Adventist Rehabilitation Hospital of Maryland, Adventist Home Health Services and the Reginald S. Lourie Center for Infants and Young Children.


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To assess the need for quality improvement of diagnosing and reporting of noise-induced occupational hearing loss and occupational adjustment disorder.Performance indicators and criteria for the quality of diagnosing and reporting were developed. Self-assessment questionnaires were sent to all occupational physicians recorded on the Netherlands Centre for Occupational Diseases database. The performance of responding occupational physicians was then assessed by separate scores per performance indicator and by a total quality score.Twenty-three questionnaires on noise-induced occupational hearing loss and 125 questionnaires on occupational adjustment disorder were available for analysis. The mean quality score for diagnosing and reporting was 6.0 (SD: 1.4) for noise-induced occupational hearing loss and 7.9 (SD: 1.5) for occupational adjustment disorder on a scale of 0–10. For noise-induced occupational hearing loss, there was a need for quality improvement of the aspects of medical history, audiometric measurement, clinical diagnosis of the disease and reporting. For occupational adjustment disorder, the assessment of other non-occupational causes needed improvement.The quality of diagnosing and reporting could be improved for noise-induced occupational hearing loss and occupational adjustment disorders. Information, education and practical tools are proposed for quality improvements.


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In the latest Halas Intrigue podcast, Patrick Finley talks to the Bears’ Danny Trevathan about leading the team, John Fox’s evolution, the linebacker’s health and more:
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Those nerve-racking encounters are woman’s worst hurdle to starting a family with a mate.
Hiring is well underway at the fulfillment center where robots and humans interact to boost efficiency. The facility’s size matches corporate ambitions for growth.
The Man of Steel’s new motto — ‘Truth, Justice and a Better Tomorrow’ — is meant to inspire ‘people from around the world,’ DC Comics says.
In partnership with the Chicago Housing Authority, developers have submitted to the city a plan to build a $400 million residential and commercial center along Cicero Avenue on the Southwest Side.
Only a third of pregnant women are fully vaccinated, according to recent CDC data, despite having a higher risk of severe illness if they contract the virus.


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Municipalities throughout the Chesapeake Bay over the past several years have anticipated and, in some cases, planned for the costs to reduce pollutants from stormwater runoff. Starting in 2013 through 2018, MS4 permittees within the Chesapeake Bay must reduce 5% of the required pollutant loading and an additional 35% from 2018 to 2023. Many localities will meet the 5% through enhanced housekeeping and best management practices, as well as the implementation of projects, but attaining the additional 35% will require significant funding.
Read more at the Richmond Times Dispatch about how Henrico County planned for funding the reductions required today and is now wrestling with how to fund even more in the future.
2015 Stormwater Local Assistance Fund Grants Announced
The Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has announced the FY15 grants authorized for the Stormwater Local Assistance Fund (SLAF). A total of over $21.5 million was awarded to 64 projects in 25 localities. To view a list of all recipients, visit the VADEQ.
Environmental issues caused by increased stormwater flows and pollutants in the waterways is a world-wide problem. Australia is in the forefront of research and implementations to curb these impacts. The CRC for Water Sensitive Cities in Australia conducted a really interesting study that compares the “willingness to pay” for stormwater improvements and income level. A summary of the study can be found here: http://watersensitivecities.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/IndustryNoteA1.1-Web.pdf
Interested in donating to pay for a fountain, walkway, and rain garden? Mercer University in Georgia is incorporating pedestrian spaces with donor naming opportunities to help pay for water quality improvements currently under construction. With the stormwater permitting and TMDL requirements in Virginia, higher education is struggling to provide funding to pay for facilities and improvements – maybe funding through donations is one avenue to defray the costs? Read more about what Mercer University is proposing here: http://www.macon.com/2014/07/07/3186002/new-fountain-rain-garden-almost.html
Free Stormwater Management Webinars
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is hosting two free webinars designed for local government employees who are involved in stormwater management. The webinars are free.
LOCAL RECORD-KEEPING, TRACKING AND OPERATING PROCEDURES
Thursday, July 10, 2014, 12:00 – 1:30 PM
The webinar will focus on public education and outreach, tracking nutrient and habitat management, coordinating local best management practices with Clean Water Blueprint requirements, and developing nutrient management plans for public facilities.
To register, visit http://cwp.adobeconnect.com/vacbf1/event/event_info.html.
DEVELOPING A PUBLIC EDUCATION AND OUTREACH PLAN
Friday, July 18, 2014, 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Topics for this webinar include a step-by-step process for creating a public outreach plan, including identifying target audiences and priority water quality issues, crafting messages to engage the public, and evaluating outreach plan effectiveness.
To register, visit http://cwp.adobeconnect.com/vacbf2/event/event_info.html.
Spaces in the webinars are limited, and registration is required. For more information, contact Ann Jurczyk at 804/780-1392 or email firstname.lastname@example.org.
Recorded versions of both webinars will be available at cbf.org/ms4 shortly after the webinars conclude.
Under the heading of “practicing what we preach”, Glenn Telfer, our firm’s Technical Leader for Sustainable Design, decided to do just that – he installed a micro rain garden at his home in Richmond. His goal was to have first-hand knowledge about how they work. While the landscaping design will not win any awards, the combination of the soils and grasses do work. The first photo was taken immediately after it stopped raining – the 3-4 inches of stormwater runoff that was captured by the rain garden. The second photo was taken 30 minutes later and shows how quickly the water infiltrates into the ground, despite the heavy clay soils.
Local governments are struggling to find resources to comply with stormwater management regulations – a theme we will continue to hear about – particularly over the next 15 years in Chesapeake Bay localities. There are many ways to fund a stormwater program based on levying taxes or fees.
The Stafford County Board of Supervisors is facing an estimated $42 million cost of compliance over the next 15 years, but currently they do not have designated funds to meet the mandates. On Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors voted to deny the creation of a stormwater service district. Like so many other localities, Stafford County is going ‘back to the drawing board’ identifying alternative, creative ways to find monies for their stormwater programs.

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