Suffolk sculptor’s latest work helps mark 100 years of women’s votes
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Suffolk sculptor Sean Hedges-Quinn’s latest public statue is of one of Britain’s leading suffragettes that has been unveiled in her home city to mark the centenary of the some women being given the vote for the first time.
Alice Hawkins was a political activist in Leicester at the turn of the 20th century who joined the suffragette movement in 1907. She was jailed on five separate occasions before the First World War.
Mr Hedges-Quinn created the statue at his studio near Ipswich and it was unveiled in Leicester’s Market Square last week to mark the centenary of the 1918 Act of Parliament that gave some women aged over 30 the vote.
The unveiling was covered by the BBC’s East Midlands “Inside Out” programme because Alice Hawkins is a well-known local figure.
She died, aged 83, in 1946 – 18 years after the vote was extended to all women aged over 21, giving them equal voting rights with men for the first time.


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Year Established: 2020 Start Date: 2020-02-27 End Date: 2021-02-25
Total Federal Funds: $6,816 Total Non-Federal Funds: $21,625
Principal Investigators: Jon Sweetman
Abstract: Prairie Pothole wetlands play a significant role in providing important freshwater resources and vital ecosystem services for socio-economic development in North Dakota. The climate in this area is highly variable both annually and seasonally, which has markedly influenced wetland ecosystems. The seasonality of physical, chemical, and biological water variables is a major characteristic of temperate polymictic lakes. Understanding intra-lake seasonal and spatial variability in shallow prairie lake diatom communities will be important for obtaining improved insight about long-term changes in wetlands ecosystems. In this project, we will use ice-free monthly survey data (water chemistry and diatom) from two adjacent lakes P1 and P8, located in the Cottonwood Lake Study Area, North Dakota. The aims of this research areto: (1) investigate the patterns of seasonal succession within both lakes, (2) evaluate the main environmental variables that affect diatom community seasonal and spatial changes, as well as (3) evaluate patterns of spatial variability of diatom communities within a lake.

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text: Oh how I love You, Jesus. You are my Lord and the One who gives life. Thank You for coming into my life. You have saved my soul from hell. All the darkness has been scattered and Your light has come in to show me the way. I am secure in this fallen world, for You are with me. Because You heard my cries and had mercy for my sins, my shame is gone. Now my life is filled with Your love. Thank You for the cross. Thank You for dying for my sins, that I might be forgiven and set free. Thank You for rising from the dead. Because You did rise, there is hope for tomorrow. I have faith in a risen Lord, for You are alive today. And because of what You have done, I am a new creation. In baptism, I have died to myself and am now alive in You. Your death, burial and resurrection, I have felt and has become who I am today. What You have done for me has overwhelmed my soul. My soul has been set on fire, because of the Holy Spirit that You have brought into my life. My hopes and dreams are alive and You have made it all happen. I look to You for answers, for I trust in You. You are everything to me Lord. I love You. Amen.

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A woman was found fatally shot in Riverside and police Sunday were searching for the shooter, who remains at large.
She was shot around 12:10 a.m. Friday in the backyard of a house in the 3800 block of Locust Street, according to Riverside police.
Paramedics were called to the scene but the woman died where she was found, police said. Her name was withheld pending notification of next of kin.
The shooter was believed to have fled the scene in a vehicle. No description of the shooter or the alleged getaway vehicle were available.
Anyone with information on this homicide was asked to call Riverside police Detective Dan Mercadefe at 951-353-7103 or Detective Bryon Adcox at 951-353-7103.

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If you are a regular reader of Nerdist, you probably know that we are big Sleepy Hollow fans. In addition to bringing you coverage from special Sleepy events on red carpets and at San Diego Comic Con, we’re also the home of the SleepyCast: The Official Sleepy Hollow Podcast. Now that Sleepyheads have a third season confirmed, it’s only a few short months before we’re reunited with Ichabod, Abbie, Jenny and Frank.
Now, to hold you over, we have an interview with Mike Johnson, author of the comic book Sleepy Hollow: Origins on sale Wednesday, April 8 from BOOM!
It’s no small task to tell a piece of the origin story behind beloved characters like Abbie and Jenny Mills, Ichabod Crane and Abraham Van Brunt, but lucky for him, Johnson was a Sleepyhead himself as he explained to us.
“I was a big fan. I’m biased because a few years back I worked for the show’s co-creators Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, which ultimately led to my work on these comics, but the show is right up my alley. It’s got history, horror, and mystery combined with a dark sense of humor. I love it.” Johnson continued explaining why he was excited to address the backstory for the audience favorites, saying, “All of the characters had gone through dramatic events in their lives even before we met them in the pilot, and I was intrigued by going back and exploring those transformative moments through their distinctive voices. It’s like being able to hear their thoughts at critical moments in their pasts.”
A fan himself, were there any challenges that the author faced writing in the distinct tones of the characters in the Sleepy-verse? Even if there were, they were challenges that Johnson readily accepted. “It was one of the most fun things about the project. There was a challenge in making sure it all matched up with what’s in the show, but I really enjoyed both portraying different time periods and writing the different voices of the characters living in those times.”
With characters as exciting as those found in the world of Sleepy Hollow, was there one in particular that he was most looking forward to exploring? “I was really looking forward to writing the Horseman, and I loved playing with his voice before and after his head took leave of his body,” he explained. “In the end I think I liked writing Abbie the most. She’s such an interesting character, and Nicole Beharie has really brought her to wonderful life on the show. If I get another opportunity I’d like to use the comics as a way to explore the history of Sleepy Hollow itself, other secrets of the town down through the centuries that might tie into the main characters’ stories at some point.”
Sleepy Hollow: Origins, written by Mike Johnson, featuring cover art by Joe Quinones and art by Matías Bergara, is available on Wednesday, April 8 from BOOM!
Sleepy Hollow will return to Fox this fall with all new episodes.

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Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Greenpeace International.
From Dr Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Greenpeace International
February 12th, 2010
Dear Prime Minister Hatoyama,
Your election has presented Japan with a-once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for change. Internationally, your support for ambitious greenhouse gas emission reductions has challenged the world to put our climate before corporate profits, the stance of a true leader. At home, your election commitment to build a strong economy and end corruption within the government has given you much support with the people of Japan, but also presents a hard road ahead.
Both of us came to our new roles around the same time last year and I believe we have much common ground on which to build a new relationship between government and non-government organisations in Japan.
Before joining Greenpeace I worked for many years to end corruption in my home country of South Africa, to end poverty worldwide and to ensure that all human rights are respected. When our voices were in the minority, change was hard won. I can imagine that you must have felt the same, fighting to change the political landscape of a generation. It is an incredible achievement to have turned the tide.
I accepted the role of International Executive Director at Greenpeace, because I believe that ensuring a green and peaceful planet is also a basic human right. For both of us, it is not enough to say we want change, we must ensure it happens and now we are both in a position to do so. Turning the tide is not enough, a new course must also be set.
Greenpeace has operated in Japan for twenty years. In that time our actions stopped the dumping of radioactive waste in the Sea of Japan; we have worked with local communities to stop the expansion of US airbases that risked the habitat of the threatened dugong; developed long term working relationships with the technology industry in Japan to remove dangerous substances from products such as mobile phones and computers. We have contributed to government debates to ensure that corporations promoting genetically engineered food do not gain a foothold in Japan and we have not only raised concerns and debate about the nuclear threat in Japan, but assisted in monitoring for radiation following the 2007 fire at the Kashiwazaki nuclear reactor, after a major earthquake.
We have a long, positive, peaceful history in your country. However, as a new member of Greenpeace, I can say that I suspect all we are recognised for is our opposition to whaling. Greenpeace in Japan and the Liberal Democratic Party have been at loggerheads on this one issue for twenty years.
On February 15th in Aomori, the trial begins of Greenpeace Japan's senior executive Junichi Sato and his colleague Toru Suzuki, following their exposure of large scale corruption within the government whaling programme.
The case has garnered a large amount of international attention and condemnation. More than a quarter of a million people sent emails requesting that the government investigate the allegations of corruption and not prosecute the activists. Nobel Peace Prize winners Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu and Betty Williams have also signed on to a letter calling on Japan to adhere to strict international standards on human rights. Many international organisations including Transparency International and Amnesty International registered their concern about the manner of detention and prosecution.
Most significantly, just last week, Greenpeace received notification that the United Nations Human Rights Council's Working Group on Arbitrary Detention ruled that, in pursuing the detention and prosecution of Junichi and Toru, the previous Administration in Japan had breached numerous articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
These are decisions made not on your watch. The many years of claim and counter claim were with another party. The United Nations ruling was against the decisions of the previous Administration. You were swept to power on a wave of hope because the people of Japan were tired of corruption. I believe in the same way that you have shown strength in challenging other governments to reach further in the climate negotiations, that you will also take the lead in showing other governments that the civil and political rights of its citizens are paramount.
The world is watching this trial, I urge you to show that it will both be fair and conducted in full accordance with you international obligations to protecting human rights.
These are rights that I have held in my heart since I was a child growing up in South Africa under Apartheid, and ones that I will always strive for, but in my new life at Greenpeace there is an equally compelling need to act to stop climate change and I believe we can also work together to achieve this.
Climate change is the biggest threat our planet and people face and demands immediate, dramatic action. I know that Japan can go even further if other nations will make similarly strong commitments and I welcome the chance to discuss how we can face this challenge together, and in particular exchange opinion on how Japan can continue to take a leadership role regarding climate finance. I also know that nuclear is not the answer - we have only to look at the dangers of the technology, the needless expense and most tangibly, the radiation leaks at Kashiwazaki after the earthquake to know this.
But there are solutions. Greenpeace has already mapped out and had accepted by scientists a plan for an Energy [R]evolution which outlines a global plan for a sustainable renewable economic future. It shows us how we can get from where we are now, to where we need to be to avoid a climate change disaster. It was developed with specialists from the Institute of Technical Thermodynamics at the German Aerospace Centre and more than 30 scientists and engineers from universities, institutes and the renewable energy industry around the world.
I hope that together we can forge a new relationship in Japan. That you will ensure human rights are respected and the environment protected and it is my strongest hope that the opportunities presented to both of us will be realised.
Executive Director of Greenpeace International
Join Kumi. Tell the Japanese government that you stand beside Junichi and Toru.
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I have been riding/working both Scout and Hoss on a regular basis (each 3 or 4 X per week) since I healed from my surgeries back at the end of November.
It's exciting to say that except for a few set backs such as a minor abscess for Scout, and what appears to be a mild strain due to a tripping for Hoss, both horses are doing great! We are so greatful to have an indoor arena to work in when the footing is lousy (such as today, with a soppy 14" of melting snow on the ground, and chilly temps).
I did turn them out, and Scout decided he had to roll (thankfully in a snowy section) and then self-exercise for a good 10 minutes before we went indoors to pick the ice chunks he'd accumulated out of his front hooves and do some cool down exercising.
Hoss simply meandered when I turned him out. He's still a bit sore on the left front leg, so we just went indoors, picked his hooves and walked about. He's getting some aspirin in his pellets, which he sniffs, then refuses to eat, so I've been adding a top dressing of things. Pretty darn good at picking carrot pieces out, so we mixed in just enough sweet feed...may just need a few more days of this!
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Training with Mezza ground to a standstill last September as I moved our horses and then underwent two surgeries.
Now, aside from the weather and occasional schedule flexing, Dawn trailers Mezza out once a week so we can work together. It is a great experience for her to trailer on a regular basis, and over the past month she has trailered without Luna, her dam, on board.
We are currently working on her long-lining and ground driving, while testing out various saddles on her. She is growing, but still fits in a semi-quarter. These two photos were taken in March, courtesy of Dawn Dooley.
I was really proud of her this past Sunday, as it was fairly windy, and she didn't get it a thought! Dawn and I froze, but Mezza still has most of her winter coat and seemed to enjoy the session much better than the week before, when it was warm and she got itchy and she wanted to roll with the saddle on!

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Posted in thread: dry fire on 12-17-2013 at 01:15 AM
Never dry fire a rim fire weapon....all others should be ok
Posted in thread: best rifle in case of collapse of society on 03-18-2012 at 03:34 AM
and im glad we are American and not Syrian........
Posted in thread: mosin help on 03-18-2012 at 02:11 AM
i had the same issue , as well as many other people.... there are numerous good write ups on
the web out there just google....what seemed to work for me was getting a 12 gauge bore brush
and cleaning ...
Posted in thread: First gun on 03-15-2012 at 10:40 PM
my first rifle was a Remington nylon in .22lr......great light weight rifle for anyone to learn
Posted in thread: new guy... on 02-21-2012 at 06:02 AM
Thanks for the welcome all!!
Posted in thread: new guy... on 02-20-2012 at 11:58 PM
hey guys, new to the forum but not new to shooting....currently living in NM. just got back
from a 4 year tour in Okinawa, Japan, and im happy to be reunited with all of my firearms....
Posted in thread: First rifle for an adult.. just for shooting fun on 02-20-2012 at 09:46 PM
Remington 700 sps tactical in .308. i picked one up the other day and it is a sub moa gun right
out of the box....with your budget you should be able to get a good piece of glass also
Posted in thread: Need Help Choosing Gun on 02-20-2012 at 09:26 PM
Replied to the wrong post......sorry
Posted in thread: Need Help Choosing Gun on 02-20-2012 at 08:23 PM
Remington 700 sps tactical in .308, I just got one and its a sub moa gun right out of the
box.....for your price range it can be had with a good piece of glass also....


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The versatile Stuart Weitzman® Nunaked sandal will be an instant staple in your summer wardrobe.
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When the heart of the hearer is quickened, enlivened, spirited with gospel truths,
and by them is moulded and fashioned into their likeness, and cxpresseth that
likeness in its fruits, or in a conversation beconiing the gospel, then is the word
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||Cordova, M. L., Scott, B. D., Ingersoll, C. D., & LeBlanc, M. J. (2005). Effects of ankle support on lower-extremity functional performance: A meta-analysis. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 37(4), 635-641.
||Background: Even though external ankle support such as ankle bracing and adhesive tape have been used to prevent ankle injuries, its negative impact on lower-extremity functional performance has been argued among professionals in the sports medicine community. Studies that assessed the effects of ankle supports on lower-extremity functional performance tasks have reported inconsistent results.
Objectives: To conduct a meta-analysis on studies addressing the effects of various external ankle stabilization devices on lower-extremity functional performance.
Search Strategy: The authors conducted computerized searches of the following databases: MEDLINE, Sports Discus, cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health (CINAHL), and Dissertation Abstracts. In addition, reference checks for the selected studies and a review of the abstracts in the supplements of the following journals were conducted: Journal of Athletic Training and Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise.
Selection criteria: The authors included studies on recreationally active people or competitive athletes that were published in peer-reviewed journals, doctoral dissertations, and master’s theses between 1972 and 2002. The selected studies contained the following: (a) use of either tape, semirigid bracing, or lace-up bracing for ankle stabilization; (b) a control group or control treatment; (c) measurement of either vertical jump, straight-ahead running speed, or agility; (d) means and standard deviation or standard error; and (e) the number of participants.
Data collection and analysis: Measurements of vertical jump height, sprint performance, or agility performance(s) were used as dependent measures, and the independent variable was the type of ankle stabilization device. The standard effect size was calculated for each test condition, and > .20 was considered substantial.
Main results: A total of 17 studies were included in the analysis. The authors reported the effects of three ankle supports (tape, lace-up, and semirigid) on the three performance measures (sprint speed, agility speed, and vertical jump height). The most significant effect size was a negative effect of lace-up ankle support on sprint speed (-0.22, 90% CI of -0.47-0.03), which shows a decrease in running speed compared with the control condition.
Conclusions: More research is needed, as the effects of external ankle support on lower-extremity functional performance are still unclear.


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Just to put things in perspective, a 97-run defeat in a Twenty20 match is equivalent to a 242 run defeat in a One Day International, if we take straight proportions. That is the margin by which Chennai thrashed Wayamba in what was the second league match for both teams. And both had identical and accentuated results.
Wayamba had lost the first match after fighting, while Chennai had outplayed Central Districts in their first match. Here, Chennai upped their game, while Wayamba lost theirs, with the 97-run margin being the result.
Chennai's victory was built around a massive total after being asked to bat by Jehan Mubarak - which seemed a questionable decision at the toss and a downright wrong one at the end of the match. The main contributors for Chennai were Suresh Raina (87 off 44) and Murali Vijay (68 off 46). Both had been made to hop around in the previous match, but on a pitch that was as flat as Andrew Symonds' singing in the Champions League advertisements, they both made merry. Their association realised 137 runs in just 12 overs - a run-rate of 11.42 - and effectively put the match beyond the reach of a side that were never in the league of their illustrious counterparts across the Bay of Bengal.
It resulted in Chennai putting on a tournament-high 200/3 on board, and Wayambe must have known at the innings break, that for all practical purposes the match was a lost cause after that.
Just how much of a lost cause it was though, wouldn't have been imagined by Wayamba's critics too. Only four of their batsmen reached double figures, and only one of them crossed 20, in an abject capitulation to Chennai's bowling.
It was almost procession-like, with 28 balls being the maximum that any partnership lasted. All of Chennai's bowlers lined up like kids at a candy store, and all were rewarded with wickets. R Ashwin was the most successful with 4/18. The most eye-catching moment of the match also came when Ashwin was bowling. It involved a spin-trifecta: Ashwin bowling, Herath batting, and Muralitharan diving to his right with the athleticism of someone who has just started his career as opposed to someone who has just retired, to take as neat a catch as any in the tournament.
Wayamba managed to avoid the ignominy of being bowled out for less than 100, but not by much as they folded for 103 in 17.1 overs.
The immediate consequence of the result was that Chennai had taken a big step towards the semi-finals with two big wins, which have done wonders to its Net Run Rate, while Wayamba are all but out of the reckoning, needing two miraculous victories to overcome their negative NRR, and hope that other results fall their way.
The other conclusion to be drawn from the match was regarding the relative strengths of the various teams that have qualified. Australia have long been known to have amongst the best domestic systems, with South Africa not too far behind. Consequently all four teams from there have done well, and fought till the end even when they have lost matches.
New Zealand have never been a cricketing powerhouse, and that is borne out by their best club side looking over-matched, with Sri Lanka sharing the same fate.
Guyana's woes mirror that of the once-great West Indians, and last year's run by Trinidad and Tobago is looking more and more like a fairytale.
And what of India? It would have been very interesting - not to mention insightful - if the IPL teams had to come with purely Indian players and were not allowed the luxury of top class foreign imports. I suspect the difference between the domestic structures in Australia and South Africa versus the other countries would have been even more stark then.
Of course, the weaker teams might still pull off odd victories and upsets, but the it's clear by now that 'Champions' is not a word that can be readily associated with every team in the league.

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text: Lauren was really proud of her accomplishments. She belonged to the baby boom generation who had experienced hardship. She valued land and working with her hands. Every extra dime she saved, she invested in agricultural and forested land. When she won a coveted $25,000 award in the early 1990s, she bought more pasture land.

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- 1 What force acts on the marble to slow it to a stop?
- 2 What can change a marbles speed?
- 3 How do marble mazes work?
- 4 What made the marble roll faster?
- 5 How do you make a successful marble run?
- 6 Will a marble rolling down an incline travel a shorter?
- 7 How do you make a marble go through a loop?
- 8 What can I play with marbles?
- 9 What age is marble run for?
- 10 What’s the best marble run?
- 11 How do you slow down a marble on a marble run?
- 12 What can I use instead of a marble ball?
- 13 Is a marble run an inclined plane?
What force acts on the marble to slow it to a stop?
Friction occurs any time two objects rub against each other. This rubbing slows movement and creates heat in the process. You can feel this heat by quickly rubbing your hands together. If the force of friction is greater than the force of gravity, the marble will roll to a stop.
What can change a marbles speed?
-Objects move when pushed or pulled. -Objects will change speed and direction when in contact with another object. -Force (how hard the marble is pushed) will affect how fast the marble moves (speed).
How do marble mazes work?
You are exploring physics! Gravity pulls the marble down the first hill. At the top of the hill, the marble has potential energy (energy that’s stored up and ready to be released). As the marble rolls down the hills the potential energy turns into kinetic energy (energy of motion).
What made the marble roll faster?
When an object is in free fall, gravity increases its velocity by 9.8 m/s with every passing second. Specifically, the distance between the one- and two-second marks should have been greater than the distance between the starting line and the one-second marks, showing that the marble moved faster the longer it rolled.
How do you make a successful marble run?
It’s easiest to build your marble run inside a big cardboard box with no lid. You can use tape or tac to hold different parts in place. Cut cardboard tubes in half lengthways and tape them together end to end, forming a long chute. You can use rolled up newspaper to form covered tunnels as well.
Will a marble rolling down an incline travel a shorter?
Answer: The marble will travel faster when the height of the inclined plane was raised. Explanation: Therefore, raising the inclined plane increases the speed of the marble rolling down the inclined plane, and the greater distance it will travel.
How do you make a marble go through a loop?
You need to start the marble higher than the top of the loop so it has enough extra energy to get the whole way through the loop without stopping. If you watch the marble closely, you might be able to see that it is going the fastest right at the bottom of the hill before it enters the loop.
What can I play with marbles?
- Classic Marbles. This is the easiest of marble games to play and the one you’ve probably played a million times.
- Marble Bounce Game.
- Marble Mazes.
- Marble Putt-Putt.
- Matching Marbles.
- Marble Toss.
- ThinkFun Gravity Maze Marble Run.
- Marble Genius Marble Run Super Set.
What age is marble run for?
Galt Toys, Marble Run, Construction Toy, Ages 4 Years Plus.
What’s the best marble run?
Here are the top ten marble runs on the market.
- Gravitrax Marble Run & STEM Toy By Ravensburger.
- Gravity Maze Marble Run By ThinkFun.
- MindWare Marble Run Set.
- Giant Marble Run Toy By MagicJourney.
- Marbleworks Marble Run By Discovery Toys.
- PicassoTiles 70 Piece Marble Run.
- Marble Run Set By Magicfly.
How do you slow down a marble on a marble run?
To slow down the marble, a force has to be applied in the opposite direction from the marble’s motion. Applying a force over a longer period of time results in a greater change in velocity.
What can I use instead of a marble ball?
If you don’t have a marble lying around, there are other things to use instead! Anything that rolls can be useful, but you will have to build your track based on the size of your new object. An easy substitute is to make a dough ball – just mix some flour and water together and roll it into a ball.
Is a marble run an inclined plane?
A marble run is an inclined plane or ramp. Ramps are sloping surfaces that connect two or more levels. In classical science an inclined plane is considered one of the six most basic machines because it takes advantage of the laws of physics to perform a task and change a force.


Anxious. Skeptical. Weary. Relieved.
That’s how members of Asheville City Council described their state of mind as they settled in for their two-day annual retreat at Harrah’s Cherokee Center – Asheville. As the sometimes contentious discussions unfolded, members grappled with ambitious priorities for the upcoming year, and, perhaps more importantly, what their working relationships would look like for the next 18 months.
For members Sandra Kilgore, Antanette Mosley, Kim Roney and Sage Turner, it was the first time participating in the annual policy-setting forum. For Mayor Esther Manheimer, Vice Mayor Sheneika Smith, member Gwen Wisler and senior city leadership, it was the first retreat with loose social distancing measures in place. For all, it was the first time meeting in-person as a group after conducting official business remotely since May.
As facilitators Nicholas Beamon of Charlotte and Kimberly Hunter of Asheville walked Council through exercises meant to “build a solid foundation for success,” the conversation kept returning to trust: in fellow members, in city staff and among skeptical community members.
The good, the bad, the united
The first five hours of the March 31 session were devoted to team-building — a necessary step for what Beamon repeatedly referred to as a “historic” group, a nod to the all-female elected body. Members were asked to reflect on their motivation for running for office and, later, to share the “idea, possibility or group” they most passionately represented in this moment.
The day before, a coalition of local media outlets, including Mountain Xpress, sued the city over its plans to conduct the team-building portions of the meeting in private. Buncombe County Superior Court Judge Steve Warren ruled the team-building sessions constituted an official meeting, opening the door for members of the media and the public to attend the retreat in its entirety.
Mosley, who was appointed to fill outgoing Council member Vijay Kapoor’s vacancy in September, spoke of her commitment to speak up for Black women during the ongoing conversation around community reparations. Turner, the parent of two adult children, said she felt compelled to fight for everyday Asheville residents who soon may be driven out of the city by high costs of living. Roney, who works with young people on a daily basis, is committed to including their voices in decisions.
Kilgore wants to bring unity back to Asheville’s Black and white communities. And Smith shared that she was driven by a desire to bring Asheville back to “the good ol’ days” — but better. “Everything about Asheville is a utopia to so many people, so let’s get back to that utopia.”
The conversation then transitioned to a critical analysis of the group’s professional and personal dynamics. Almost every member pointed to a lack of active trust among colleagues as a major team weakness. Unity also needs to be a priority, said City Attorney Brad Branham. “It doesn’t have to be on everything, but we all have to row in the same direction,” he said.
The idea of unity is common among board members working in the private sector, Turner added. Once a decision is made, a private board stands by that choice as one unified body, she said, a mentality that could be applied to Council’s work.
But Council is overseeing people, not a product, countered Smith. Even if members were to come together as a unified body, discussions will inevitably turn from “rules of engagement” to “rules of war” as members speak up for their beliefs, ideas and constituents.
“Our focus, anyone who is at this table, is not to appease each other,” Smith said. “It’s to work for the people we serve.”
To build the active trust the team has been lacking, Beamon asked members and staff to share agreements that would “ensure an environment of respect, trust and productive dialogue.”
Kilgore, who was the sole member to oppose the removal of the Vance Monument, asked that members make time to listen to the concerns of others without immediately dismissing their ideas.
Feedback should be given early and often, offered City Manager Debra Campbell. Mosley took the suggestion a step further, asking that feedback be given first in private before offering thoughts in a public setting. And Wisler requested there be “no gotchas, no surprises” at Council meetings.
“There are many times when we as elected officials need to say something publicly,” she said. “It doesn’t necessarily mean what I’m going to say at the dais is something that staff is really really happy about, but no surprise ‘gotcha’ moments. Staff should know what we’re going to say, if it’s something we’ve contemplated.”
Roney immediately pushed back, reminding the group about the recent release of the Asheville Police Department’s 303-page after-action report detailing the agency’s response to the spring’s racial justice protests. It came out just 16 hours before Council’s Public Safety Committee met to discuss its findings.
“Often, in meetings, we’re dealing with some pretty heavy stuff,” she said. “I’m often surprised by what I hear in the meeting, and there may be times I do something surprising because I’m also surprised.”
Manheimer chimed in, saying Roney had nearly made the mayor “have a heart attack” when Roney asked a direct question of Campbell at the March 9 Council meeting. “What I heard in that moment was ‘Debra, I’m very critical of you and how you’re managing things,’” Manheimer said. “Maybe you didn’t mean it that way, but I spent two hours after that thinking how you could have said that in a way that didn’t make me have a heart attack and let me hear what the real issue was.”
That wasn’t her intention, Roney said. She offered her own commitment to ask for clarification on future topics and to be more careful about comments that could be misinterpreted.
By the end of day two, members had whittled their key priorities for the coming year down to four. A plan for reparations, including identifying funding streams and crafting a policy for the disposition of city-owned land acquired as part of urban renewal efforts of the 1970s and ’80s, topped the list, as did directing federal COVID-19 relief spending.
The city is expected to receive $26 million from the federal American Rescue Plan. Crafting a policy framework to equitably distribute those funds within the federal guidelines will likely take significant staff time, Manheimer said.
Implementing pay raises for city employees and continuing to reimagine public safety priorities round out the focus areas. At Council’s regular meeting of Tuesday, April 13, Campbell will share a summary of the strategic priorities and a general timeline for delivering results. A third budget work session will be held at 2:30 p.m. the same afternoon.
“Essentially, we have consensus on these four areas,” Turner said. “I think that sends an incredible message.”


The measures mark the first step towards what advocates for immigration reform hope will be a year or two of substantive action on the issue. However, as debate on the House floor on Thursday made clear, the caustic rhetoric surrounding a recent upsurge of young migrants crossing the Southern border shows that chances for bipartisanship are dwindling.
Overall, nine Republicans supported the measure giving a path to citizenship to immigrants protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, compared to seven who voted in favor of the measure in 2019. It passed 228-197.
However, rather than reflecting new broad support in the congressional GOP for this policy, the uptick is likely attributable to more Republicans holding swing district seats after sweeping the November elections.
For instance, Florida Reps. María Elvira Salazar and Carlos Gimenez, who beat Democrats Donna Shalala and Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, respectively, were new lawmakers to vote for the Dreamer bill. So was Rep. David Valadao, a Californian in his fourth term.
Other moderate Republicans supporting the measures included Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-1st District, Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida, Mark Amodei of Nevada and Fred Upton of Michigan.
After casting her vote, Salazar told reporters that she though the bill was little more than a partisan gimmick, but wanted to show Democrats a gesture of good faith, because she has a competing bill in the works that would pair a pathway to citizenship with more border security.
“I want to send the right message to the Democrats that I’m willing to work with them,” she said. “Let’s see if now they’re going to work with us, so they will not say that the Republicans are the racists, or the Republicans are the uncompassionate ones.”
Democrats said the legislation is a moral imperative. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, a Maryland Democrat, said during debate on the bills that immigrants with temporary status and others living in the shadows, including Dreamers and farmworkers, deserve relief.
“Immigrants are a reason why America became the world’s most powerful and most prosperous country,” he said. “This legislation today is a major achievement and will hasten the moment when 3 to 4 million immigrants and their families can breathe a little easier, a little freer, knowing that they are welcomed and valued here in America, that they are truly a part of our country.”
Others centered the issue as a matter of local importance. For instance, U.S. Rep. Greg Stanton, a Democrat, said he voted “Yes” for the roughly 24,000 Dreamers in his home state of Arizona, many of whom work as essential employees, doing everything from stocking grocery shelves to practicing medicine.
“We are telling Dreamers all over our country, ‘We see you. we hear you. and we know your home is here in the United States of America,’” he said. “Dreamers are essential to rebuilding our economy and it’s long past time we put them on a path to citizenship.”
In a tweet, U.S. Rep Dwight Evans, D-3rd District, praised the bill, saying it would allow Dreamers to “to gain permanent legal status so they can continue to contribute to the country they call home.”
U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-5th District, another “yes” vote, said she was casting her ballot to “honor the dignity, humanity & resilience of all who come here to build a brighter future for themselves & their families, reinvigorating our communities & democracy.”
In a statement, Gustavo Torres, the executive director of the immigrants’ right group CASA, called the vote “a great win for the millions of immigrants and allies who have mobilized for immigrant justice.
“Fully integrating DACA and TPS holders – who have opened businesses, served in the US military, studied and gone to college, bought homes, and started families in the US – underscores that this country recognizes that they indeed belong here,” Torres said. “It erases the fabricated crisis that former President Trump created and celebrates them and their tremendous contributions. Now we look to the senate to pass protections for the 2.5 million people affected.”
However, predicting a tougher road for the legislation in the U.S. Senate, Republicans by and large opposed both measures, citing the familiar objections to “amnesty” for people who came here without prior authorization, especially in the wake of an unfolding overwhelming situation of increased migration at the Southern border.
“On the heels of this border crisis that is going on right now, there’s a bill on the House floor to create amnesty, to create a bigger magnet, saying, ‘Come to the Southern border,’” House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., said on the House floor.
In an earlier tweet, U.S. Rep. Scott Perry, R-10th District, blamed the Biden administration for “an untenable crisis” at the southern border that were the product of “atrocious policies.”
Other hard-right Republicans objected to specific items in the bills. For instance, Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican who was managing floor debate on the Dreamer bill, objected to a section that would create a grant program to fund nonprofit organizations who help immigrants through the application process.
“This bill gives amnesty to 3 million illegals and uses American tax dollars to help those same illegals apply for the amnesty,” Jordan said. “The disrespect that the Democrats have for the American taxpayer, it’s astounding to me.”
House members later Thursday night on a 247-174 vote passed a bill to give legal status to undocumented agricultural workers. Thirty Republicans backed that legislation.
One Republican member who voted for a similar bill in 2019, Rep. Mike Simpson of Idaho, laced into members of his own party on the House floor for tying the issue to the current migrant situation.
“This bill is not about what is happening on the border, but that seems to be what all the debate is about,” he said. “This bill is not amnesty, it does not grant anybody amnesty. It allows individuals to get right with the law and to become legal workforce in the United States. It’s about providing a stable legal workforce for the people who put food on our tables.”
A senior White House official told reporters Thursday they are indeed seeing an increase in unaccompanied children coming across the border — 29,000 so far this fiscal year, in fact — but said the administration is trying to clean up the mess left by the Trump administration, and would be happy to work with Republicans on doing so.
The Biden administration released statements earlier in the day supporting House passage of both bills, but also noting they want Congress to take up broader immigration reform, like the U.S. Citizenship Act. That bill, based on Biden’s policy outline, would pair these measures with broader efforts to give legal status to millions more immigrants, as well as some border security measures and aid to Latin American countries to address what the White House sees as root causes of northbound migration.
U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., who is carrying that bill in the U.S. Senate, told reporters Thursday that he appreciates the House is moving the conversation along, but wants to include these pieces of legislation in a larger conversation about broad, bipartisan immigration reform.


KAUS Sports talks with Riverland Community College Blue Devils Head Men’s Basketball Coach Derek Hahn
March 4, 2022 11:16AM CST
KAUS Sports Director Jason Brandt had the priviledge to sit down and talk with Derek Hahn, the Head Coach of the Riverland Community College Blue Devils Men’s Basketball team before they depart for the NJCAA Division III men’s basketball tournament at Rock Valley College in Rockford, Illinois that will start for the Blue Devils on Thursday…
The Blue Devils enter the tournament with a record of 30-1, and they are the No. 1 seed overall. Riverland downed Northland 80-60 and Anoka-Ramsey in Anoka last Sunday to win the North Plains District Region XIII title to qualify for the national tournament.


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The whole ornament is cased in multiple layers of resin to protect them for years to come.


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Fans of the exceptionally beautiful and melancholy sounds of the Portuguese song form fado are being treated to an extraordinary new album this summer, with the Times Square Records release of Transparente, the breathtaking third album from international star fadista Mariza.
Recorded in Brazil and produced by Grammy-winning Jaques Morelenbaum, who has worked with Caetano Veloso, Tom Jobim, Sting and others, Transparente has already pleased music fans and critics across Europe, debuting at number 1 on the Portuguese music charts – the first time ever for a Fado album – and still holding that position since the release several weeks ago.
Mariza has also emerged as a new star with younger fans, many of whom flock to her live performances to see a fresh perspective on the fado style, both wardrobe and performance-wise.
Fado, the storytelling song form born out of the tiny bars of the “bairro alto” in Lisbon, Portugal, has a tradition in which poets and composers create songs for specific fadistas.
Oftentimes, a fadista either finds a poem and has it arranged to one of the 200 or so traditional fado melodies, or has someone compose new music for it.
On Transparente Mariza collaborated with several renowned poets such as Paulo de Carvalho, a well-known singer and composer in Portugal, and Paulo Abreu Lima, who composed the title track about her African and Portuguese heritage.
The song “Transparente” connects Mariza with her African birthplace, Mozambique, and fado’s African heritage, but does not deny her Portuguese side either.
“The poet who wrote it, Paulo Abreu Lima, all he knew was I came from Africa. It’s very simple, but the minute I read it, I thought, ‘This is me!’ And the way he finished it- ‘I was born to sing’- it’s a little crazy but it’s an autobiographical poem even if he didn’t know me.”
Transparente is the natural successor to Mariza’s first two records. “Fado Em Mim was my presentation,” explains Mariza. “It is the story from when I started to sing fado to the time I decided to do a record.
“Fado Curvo was an ‘upgrade;’ where I show more of my ideas about fado: what I like about poetry, opening my soul a little bit, a little bit of me. Transparente is closer to my sound; what I dream about music; what I dream about fado.”
Snippets of what the British critics are saying
“Portugal’s new queen of fado sings sweetly of the profoundest of sorrows. This is Mariza’s best album to date.”
London Independent, 4/24/05
“Her haunting, gently-passionate and sad-edged singing is as exquisite as ever.”
London Guardian, 4/23/05
“Mariza sounds more majestic than ever.”
London Sunday Times, 5/5/05
“For those who haven’t yet heard her, Transparente is a good place to start.”
London Evening Standard, 5/5/05
For more info on Mariza and tour dates:
Mariza-Transparente: North American Tour: Sept/Oct 2005
Sat 9/24: Vancouver, BC – Canada/Chan Center for the Performing Arts
Sun 9/25: Edmonton,AB – Canada/Winspeare Center
Tues 9/27: Toronto, ON – Canada /Massey Hall
Wed 9/28: Ottawa, ON – Canada/United Cathedral
Fri 9/30: Montreal, QX – Canada/Outremont Theater
Sat 10/1: Boston – Berklee Performing Arts Center
Tues 10/4: Hampton, VA – American Theater
Thurs 10/6: Washington DC – Lisner Auditorium
Fri 10/7: New York City, NY – Carnegie Hall
Sun 10/9: Philadelphia – Kimmel Center
Wed 10/12: Miami – Gusman Theater
Fri 10/14: Memphis, TN – Buckman Performing Arts Center
Sun 10/16: San Diego, CA – Humphrey’s Concerts by the Bay
Wed 10/19: Los Angeles, CA – Royce Hall-UCLA
Fri 10/21: Berkeley,CA – Zellerbach Auditorium
(Only San Francisco Area performance)


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Jorja-An Fox (born July 7, 1968, in New York, New York), is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her work as Sara Sidle in the hit CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and for starring in two other successful television dramas, ER, and The West Wing.
In 2003, she was ranked #80 in Stuff magazine`s list of the 103 sexiest women. She is annually nominated for PETA`s "World`s Sexiest Vegetarian".
Fox is the youngest child of Montreal-born parents, and was raised on a narrow barrier island in Melbourne Beach, Florida. She describes herself as being overweight while growing up, with a prominent gap between her teeth. By her twenties, neither her wisdom teeth nor braces had appreciably helped, and Fox said "forget it."
After attending Melbourne High School for two years, she began a modeling career after winning a local contest. She subsequently enrolled as a drama student at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York, under the tutelage of actor William Hickey.
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Miniaturized Fiber Inline Fabry-Pérot Interferometer for Chemical Sensing
This paper demonstrates the chemical sensing capability of a miniaturized fiber inline Fabry-Pérot sensor fabricated by femtosecond laser. Its accessible cavity enables the device to measure the refractive index within the cavity. The refractive index change introduced by changing the acetone solution concentration was experimentally detected with an error less than 4.2×10-5.
T. Wei et al., "Miniaturized Fiber Inline Fabry-Pérot Interferometer for Chemical Sensing," Proceedings of SPIE, SPIE, Apr 2009.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1117/12.818612
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Fabry-Perot Sensor; Chemical Sensing Capability; Femtosecond Laser
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What a dramatic way to start off Scion #32 as Kai and Ylena start the story off with Ylena telling Kai that Bron is alive! Absolutely loved the scene shift to Ethan and Ashley in the beautiful city of Tigris. Jim Cheung again proves that his artwork is majestic as this city comes to life in the pages of Scion. Do the Herons know what they are doing? How can they ever have peace with the Ravens with Bron back on the throne? Is there another threat on the horizon? Will Tigris really be that new threat for the Heron kingdom and Raven kingdom? With Tigris’ technology their potential threat is ominous. Tigris reminds me a lot like Atlantis in beauty and technology. When Ethan and Ashley met up with the Khanate Mhinda in Tigress, it seemed like everything would be okay. Especially knowing that the people of Tigress respect the lesser races as equals and do not believe in slavery of the lesser races. But, what is this? Tigress wants to conquer both kingdoms of Heron and Raven? They want to control these two powerful dynasties and extend their belief upon them? Are the people of Tigress nothing more than androids? The attack on Ethan and Ashley was ruthless, what an amazing cliffhanger!
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The mighty Kyambura Gorge is an atmospheric underground rainforest situated at the flow of the great western arm right valley in Queen Elizabeth national park, it’s magnificently stretches about 16 kilometers and 100 meters deep. The steep Gorge was created by thrashing waters of the Kyambura River this panoramic valley is sometimes know as “The valley of Apes”.
Kyambura Gorge is home to many great apes providing you with a thrilling chimpanzee trekking experience, the chimpanzees at Gorge were given names to describe Uganda’s beauty and to ease their identification, the chimpanzees are said to be over 20 in number.
Kyambura Gorge has got one of the best breath taking views of the world boasting with Rich biodiversity the chimpanzees trekking experience is very fascinating as you learn the behavior of chimpanzees man’s close relatives in their natural environment. The Kyambura Gorge tree canopy provides exceptional climate being showed by tall trees you would not believe it’s surrounded by Savannah grasslands from the top.
Kyambura Gorge is endowed with beautiful bird species some of which are endemic to this area, the chattering of the birds will welcome you to this dramatic valley as soon as you start trekking some of the birds you will see here are; African skimmer, Ovampo sparrow hawk, Papyrus Gonolek, white winged warbler, martial eagle, greater and lesser flamingoes, African crake, secretary bird, vereux eagle, low land akalat and black bee eater among the rest.
Earlier on before the chimpanzees got trapped in the Kyambura Gorge, they used to connect to Maramagamboforest and Katsyoha- Kitomi forest and to Budongo forest in Murchison falls national park the gorge used to be their transit route and due to human settlements the chimpanzees had no choice but to remain in this tropical rainforest good enough the forest is adaptable to them because of the many fruit trees
Kyambura Gorge was formed as a result of volcanic activity causing the middle part to sink down with it’s forest and a fault line below was created this led to the formation of the Kyambura river that drains this rain forest with water supplied by the streams from Bunyaraguru and Buhweju hills.
Chimpanzee treeing is the main tourists activity doesn’t at the splendid Kyambura Gorge, there are many trails that have been set up for chimpanzees trekking offering you the best chances of I serving the great apes, the best time for trekking is always in the morning hours. The gorge is covered by Savannah at the top and swamps towards the Kazinga channel.
The Kyambura Gorge also offers visitors a wildlife experience a part from chimpanzees trekking tourists can come along other primates likeOlive baboons, red tailed monkeys, black and white colobus monkeys other things that will dream your attention at Gorge are butterflies, insects, gigantic trees, spider webs uniquely tapestried and many wild flowers.
Kyambura Gorge is also home to other animals like; water bucks, stripped jackal, African elephants, giant forest hogs, bush bucks and giant forest hogs to mention a few.
While at Kyambura George it’s good to connect your safari with visiting Queen Elizabeth national park for better wildlife viewing experience where to sleep will depend on the tourist’s choice and budget. Some of the hotels where to sleep are park view safari lodge, Kyambura Gorge lodge and many more
Kyambura Gorge can be accessed through the Kyambura Bridge and Kakumbagaro. Kyambura Gorge is 440 kilometers from Fort portal- Kasese route and approximately 420 kilometers south west of Kampala via Masaka-Mbarara- route. Tourists can also opt to fly to Mweya or Kasese airstrips from Entebbe international airport or Kajjansi airfield in Kampala.


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At the midpoint of the TaLAM project, we are starting to produce outputs. One such is the outcome of a consensus building exercise we held in Teagasc, Ashtown in November. Here we gathered government experts in land use mapping from agricultural and environmental perspectives in order to ascertain what spatial and temporal characteristics would be needed of a national land cover programme for them to do there day to day work.
The report with the results of the exercise can be downloaded: TALAM Consensus Building Workshop_Nov2014_WP2.
In the coming weeks we will be presenting interim mapping online looking for wider feedback


Britain's most car friendly town has been revealed as Telford in a poll of motorists.
The Shropshire town overtook Dundee as the best place for motorists in a poll.
Drivers in the country's 50 most populated towns and cities were asked to rate them on issue as petrol and parking prices, number of car parks and level of car crime.
Telford scored strongly across the board and was rated top for car parks.
Dundee was runner-up to Telford with Newcastle-upon-Tyne third, Sunderland fourth and Belfast fifth.
The least appealing was Northampton - where there were "high levels" of vehicle crime, few parking spaces and expensive petrol -followed by London, Cardiff, Birmingham and Liverpool, which all scored poorly in each of the categories.
Bristol had the most expensive parking where a two-hour stay cost an average of £5.
The "car crime capital" was Manchester with an average of 8.9 incidents per 1,000 people. Swindon was the "safest" town, with just 2.2 incidents per 1,000 people.
Reading in Berkshire had more speed cameras than anywhere outside London, while Hull had none at all.
This is how the UK's main towns and cities did in the car-friendly survey, with Telford the best place for motorists to visit:


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Transhumanist politics is a group of political ideologies that express the belief in improving human beings through science and technology.  Transhumanists claim that the transhumanist movement aims to improve humanity with technology and science (for example, through life extension , moral enhancement and the abolition of suffering ). American adjunct professor and author Jeanine Thweatt-Bates considers it possible to define transhumanist politics have one set of beliefs, as the transhumanist movement includes opposite political perspectives on the central issueof regulating technology.  James Hughes , American sociologist and bioethicist, has noted the dynamic between left-leaning and right-leaning visions for transhumanism and the future of technology and human enhancement.
The term “Transhumanism” with its present meaning was popularized by Julian Huxley’s 1957 essay of that name.
Natasha Vita-More was elected as Councilor for the 28th Senatorial District of Los Angeles in 1992. She ran with the Green Party, but on a personal platform of “transhumanism”. She quit after a year, saying her party was “too neurotically geared toward environmentalism”.
James Hughes identifies the “neoliberal” Extropy Institute , founded by philosopher Max More and Developed in the 1990s, as the first organized advocates for transhumanism. And he identified the late-1990s formation of the World Transhumanist Association (WTA), a European organization which later was renamed to Humanity + (H +), as a reaction to the free market perspective of the “Extropians”. [ citation needed ] Per Hughes, “[t] he WTA included both social democrats and neoliberals around a liberal democratic definition of transhumanism, codified in the Transhumanist Declaration.”  Hughes has also detailed the political currents in transhumanism, particularly the shift from socialist transhumanism to libertarian and anarcho-capitalist transhumanism.  He claims que la Left Was Pushed out of the World Transhumanist Association Board of Directors, and That libertarians and Singularitarians -have secured a hegemony in the transhumanism community with help from Peter Thiel , purpose Hughes remains optimistic about a techno-progressive future.
In 2012, the Longevity Party, a movement described as “100% transhumanist” by cofounder Maria Konovalenko,  began to organize in Russia for building a balloted political party. Another Russian program, the 2045 Initiative was founded in 2012 by billionaire Dmitry Itskov with its own “Evolution 2045” political party advocating life extension and android avatars.
Writing for H + Magazine in July 2014, futurist Peter Rothman called Gabriel Rothblatt “very possibly the first openly transhumanist political candidate in the United States” when he ran as a candidate for the United States Congress .
In October 2014, Zoltan Istvan announced that he would be running in the 2016 United States presidential election under the banner of the “Transhumanist Party.”  Other groups using the name “Transhumanist Party” exists in the United Kingdom    and Germany.
According to a 2006 study by the European Parliament , transhumanism is the political expression of the ideology that technology should be used to enhance human abilities.
According to Amon Twyman of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET), political philosophies which support transhumanism include social futurism, techno-progressivism , techno-libertarianism , and anarcho-transhumanism.  Twyman recounts such philosophies to collectively constitute political transhumanism.
Democratic transhumanists , also known as technoprogressives ,   support of equal access to human enhancement technologies in order to promote social equality and prevent technologies from furthering the divide among socioeconomic classes .  However, libertarian transhumanist Ronald Bailey is critical of the transhumanism transcribed by James Hughes .   Jeffrey Bishopwrote that the disagreements among transhumanists regarding the state of the art is “precisely the tension that philosophical liberalism historically tried to negotiate,” but that it is a disagreement with a posthuman future is a disagreement with the right to choose what humanity will become.  Woody Evans has positively posthuman rights in a continuum with animal rights and human rights .
Riccardo Campa wrote that transhumanism can be coupled with many different political, philosophical, and religious views, and that this diversity may be an asset as long as transhumanists do not give priority to existing affiliations over membership with organized transhumanism.
Some transhumanists question the use of politicizing transhumanism, [ who? ] And Truman Chen of the Stanford Journal Political considers Many transhumanist ideals to be anti-political.
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- ^ Jump up to:a b European Parliament (2006). “Technology Assessment on Converging Technologies” (PDF) . ii . Retrieved 12 January 2015 .
On the one side is the true believer in the potential of technology. Transhumanism is a political expression of that.
- Jump up^ Thweatt-Bates, Jeanine (28 June 2013). Cyborg Selves: A Theological Anthropology of the Posthuman . Ashgate Publishing. ISBN 1409481832 .
This diversity within the movement, allowing a scope of political perspectives, which makes it possible for the political system to be a reality.
- ^ Jump up to:a b c d Hughes, James (1 May 2013). “The Politics of Transhumanism and the Techno-Millennial Imagination, 1626-2030” . Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies . Retrieved 13 January 2015 .
- Jump up^ Huxley, Julian (1957). “Transhumanism” . Retrieved February 24, 2006 .
- Jump up^ Rothman, Peter (8 October 2014). “Transhumanism Gets Political” . hplusmagazine.com . Retrieved 7 July 2015 .
- Jump up^ Hughes, James. “The Politics of Transhumanism” . changesurfer.com . Retrieved 18 August 2016 .
Ironically, Natasha Vita-More was actually elected to the Los Angeles public office on the Green Party ticket in 1992. However, her platform was “transhumanism” and she quit after one year of her two year term because the Greens were “too far left and too much” neurotically geared toward environmentalism. “
- Jump up^ Hughes, James (10 April 2009). “Transhumanist politics, 1700 to the near future” . Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies . Retrieved 13 January 2015 .
- Jump up^ Konovalenko, Maria (26 July 2012). “Russians organize the” Longevity Party ” ” . Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies . Retrieved 14 January 2015 .
On July 19, we made the first step towards the creation of the Longevity Party. […] Longevity Party is 100% transhumanist party.
- Jump up^ Pellissier, Hank (20 August 2012). “Who are the Longevity Party” Co-Leaders, and What do They Want? (Part 1) ” . Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies . Retrieved 14 January 2015 .
The recently-formed Longevity Party was co-founded by Ilia Stambler of Israel and Maria Konovalenko of Russia.
- Jump up^ Dolak, Kevin (27 August 2012). “Technology Human Immortality in 33 Years Claims Dmitry Itskov’s 2045 Initiative” . Retrieved 22 August 2015 .
- Jump up^ Eördögh, Fruzsina (7 May 2013). “Russian Billionaire Dmitry Itskov Plans on Becoming Immortal by 2045” . Retrieved 22 August 2015 .
- Jump up^ Rothman, Peter (1 July 2014). “Interview: Gabriel Rothblatt Congressional Candidate in Florida’s 8th District” . Humanity + . Retrieved 13 January2015 .
I recently got together with Congressional candidate Gabriel Rothblatt who is very possibly the first openly transhumanist political candidate in the United States.
- Jump up^ Bartlett, Jamie (23 December 2014). “Meet the Transhumanist Party: ‘Want to live forever? Vote for me ‘ ” . The Telegraph .
[…] Zoltan decided to form the Transhumanist Party, and run for president in the 2016 US presidential election.
- Jump up^ Volpicelli, Gian (14 January 2015). “Transhumanists Are Writing Their Own Manifesto for the UK General Election” . Motherboard . Vice .
As the UK’s 2015 general election approaches, you’ve probably already made up your mind on who knows how to do it. But did you ever wonder who will deliver immortality sooner? If so, there’s good news for you, since that’s exactly what the UK Transhumanist Party was created for.
- Jump up^ Volpicelli, Gian (27 March 2015). “A Transhumanist Plans to Run for Office in the UK” . Motherboard . Vice .
Twyman intends to stand as an independent MP for the constitution of Kingston, on the radically pro-technology platform of the Transhumanist Party UK (TPUK), of which he is co-leader and leader.
- Jump up^ Solon, Olivia (10 April 2015). “Cyborg supporting Transhumanist Party first political candidate in UK” . Mirror .
The newly-launched Transhumanist Party, which supports people who want to become cyborgs, has appointed its first political candidate in the UK.
- Jump up^ Benedikter, Roland (4 April 2015). “The Age of Transhumanist Politics – Part II” . The Leftist Review .
The Transhumanist Party is gaining traction in other parts of the world – mainly in Europe so far. Among them are the Tranhumanist Party of the UK, the Transhumanist Party of Germany (Transhumanistische Partei Deutschland) and others, all currently in the process of foundation.
- ^ Jump up to:a b Twyman, Amon (7 October 2014). “Transhumanism and Politics” . Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies .
I would suggest that the way forward is to view transhumanism as a kind of political vector, axis, or hub rather than a single party or philosophy. In other words, the different political philosophies supportive of transhumanism (eg Social Futurism, Techno-Progressivism, Anarcho-Transhumanism, Techno-Libertarianism etc.) should be considered as collectively constituted Political Transhumanism.
- Jump up^ Dvorsky, George (31 March 2012). “J. Hughes on democratic transhumanism, personhood, and AI” . Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies . Retrieved 13 January 2015 .
The term ‘democratic transhumanism’ distinguishes a biopolitical stance that combines socially liberal or libertarian views (advocating internationalist, secular, free speech, and individual freedom values), with economically equal views (pro-regulation, pro-redistribution, pro-social welfare values ), with an openness to the transhuman benefits that the science and technology provides. […] In the last six or seven years the phrase has been supplanted by the descriptor ‘technoprogressive’ which is used to describe the same basic set of Enlightenment values and policy proposals: Human enhancement technologies, especially anti-aging therapies, should be a priority of the ethically funded, basic research, be well regulated for safety, and be included in programs of universal health care
- Jump up^ Hughes, James; Roux, Marc (24 June 2009). “On Democratic Transhumanism” . Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies . Retrieved 13 January 2015 .
When I wrote Citizen Cyborg in 2004 we had just begun defining the ideological position that embraced both traditional and democratic transhuman possibilities, and we called it ‘democratic transhumanism.’ Since then, the people in this space have adopted the much more elegant term ‘technoprogressive.’
- Jump up^ Ferrando, Francesca (2013). “Posthumanism, Transhumanism, Antihumanism, Metahumanism, and New Materialisms Differences and Relationships” . Existenz . 8 (2, Fall 2013). ISSN 1932-1066 . Retrieved 13 January 2015 .
Democratic transhumanism calls for an equal access to technological enhancements, which could otherwise be limited to certain socio-political classes and related to economic power, and accordingly encoding racial and sexual politics.
- Jump up^ Bailey, Ronald (2005). “Trans-Human Expressway: Why libertarians will win the future” . Retrieved 5 February 2006 .
- Jump up^ Bailey, Ronald (2009). “Transhumanism and the Limits of Democracy” . Retrieved 1 May 2009 .
- Jump up^ Bishop, Jeffrey (2010). “Transhumanism, Metaphysics, and the Posthuman God” (PDF) . Journal of Medicine and Philosophy . 35 (700-720): 713 and 717. doi : 10.1093 / jmp / jhq047 . Retrieved September 22, 2015 .
The tension between the individual and the political that we see within trans-humanist philosophies is precisely the tension that philosophical liberalism has historically tried to negotiate. “And” [T] o matter the future posthuman is to question our liberty to become what we will.
- Jump up^ Evans, Woody (2015). “Posthuman Rights: Dimensions of Transhuman Worlds” . Teknokultura . Universidad Complutense Madrid. 12 (2). doi :10.5209 / rev_TK.2015.v12.n2.49072 . Retrieved August 16, 2016.
Consider the state of posthumanism as a domain (* PR *). The careful definition of this domain will be vital in articulating the nature of the relationship between humanity and posthumanity. It will be an asymmetrical relationship, at first heavily favoring humans. It will become, if the posthuman population (and / or their power or influence) grows, a domain in which posthumans may be subject to the expense of humans, as well as to the expense of animals and machinery within their own domains and networks .
- Jump up^ Campa, Riccardo, “Toward a Transhumanist Politics” , Re-public, Archived from the original on June 14, 2012,
The central transhumanist idea of self-directed evolution can be combined with different political, philosophical and religious opinions. Accordingly, we have observed individuals and groups joining the movement of very different persuasions. These methods can be used in a variety of ways, especially in the context of their specific affiliations.
- Jump up^ Chen, Truman (15 December 2014). “The Political Vacuity of Transhumanism” . Stanford Political Journal .
Some transhumanists have criticized the emergence of the Transhumanist Party, questioning the utility of politicizing transhumanist goals. In reality, the Transhumanist Party ideals are embodies are anti-political.

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On the eve of The Bachelor Finale, Rove and Sam caught up with the man of the hour about how he's feeling.
There is no denying that there is a strong connection between Richie and the top three ladies, so we had to ask: How does his chosen lady feel watching the show and seeing this connection?
"I haven't asked her to not watch the show" Richie revealed "I'm dating 25 women on National television, at the end of the day she absolutely understands what we're going through."
"She's been so understanding through all of that, which has been sensational!"
With only one more night to go, is Richie worried he's going to slip up at the last minute?
"You're in Perth at the moment, is everyone like 'WA eh? I get it!'" Rove probed
"Every single person I run into, I get that question" Richie laughed "So I've got myself pretty well trained"
Catch The Bachelor Finale episode tomorrow night on Channel Ten to find out which lady wins Richie's heart.


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Jeff Daniels doesn’t believe a “Dumb and Dumber” sequel can happen without his former co-star on board.
“I don’t think there’s a ‘Dumb and Dumber 2’ if Jim Carrey doesn’t do it,” the actor told Access Hollywood at the premiere of his new HBO series, “The Newsroom,” on Wednesday in Los Angeles.
“Right now, Jim doesn’t want to do it, so doesn’t look like it’s happening,” he explained. “I’m disappointed we’re not doing it, but I think the guy that’s really the most disappointed in it is Jim, because he really wanted to do it.”
Adding, “As we stand here today, it’s not happening.”
But does Jeff think he can convince his former co-star to sign on?
“No, Jim makes his own decisions,” Jeff told Access.
-- Jesse Spero
Catch Jeff, along with Olivia Munn, Emily Mortimer and Dev Patel on the premiere of “The Newsroom” June 24 on HBO at 10 PM.


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The Valorant patch notes for Patch 0.47+ were released earlier today and here's everything you need to know about the changes hitting the closed beta.
There are only two Valorant agents specifically effected by the patch, with Raze and Sage receiving slight changes to their kits. There are also some general bug fixes and exploits removed from the game, along with a change to the way melee attacks interact with destructible objects,.
Valorant Patch Notes 0.47+: Everything You Need to Know
Changes to Raze on Patch 0.47+
Raze will be getting quite a few changes on the latest Valorant closed beta patch. A few of the changes include reducing the number of paint shell she receives from two to one and each shell now has a kill reset, where players have to get 2 kills to refresh the cooldown.
Raze also received some audio changes so that players can be more aware of what abilities are being used in hectic scenarios and secondary clusters of Paint Shells will now have a minimum duration before exploding.
Changes to Sage on Patch 0.47+
Sage's Slow Orb will be the main target of the changes coming on the latest patch. Her Slow Orb will now slow the air in the zone, making it sow that players on both sides can walk through the Slow Orb without making noise. The idea behind the change is to give players more ways to play around the ability and give some benefit to traversing through the zone.
Changes to Melee Damange on Patch 0.47+
Melee attacks are only receiving changes on the newest patch when they're used against destructible objects like Sage's Barrier and Haven's metal double doors. In earlier rounds, players were running into problems breaking through destructible objects and the change is designed to give players a high risk-high reward option for taking them out.

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Staff on the Foxconn Expertise Group plant streamed out of dormitories within the early hours of Wednesday, jostling and pushing previous the white-clad guards they vastly outnumbered, in response to movies despatched by a witness to parts of the protest.
A number of white-suited individuals pummeled an individual mendacity on the bottom with sticks in one other clip.
Onlookers yelled “fight, fight!” as throngs of individuals pressured their well beyond barricades. At one level, a number of surrounded an occupied police automotive and commenced rocking the car whereas screaming incoherently.
Screenshot from video of Foxconn employees clashing with cops exterior the dormitory compound early hours on Wednesday.
The protest began in a single day over unpaid wages and fears of spreading an infection, in response to the witness, asking to stay nameless for concern of repercussions. A number of employees have been injured and anti-riot police arrived on the scene Wednesday to revive order, the individual added.
In a single video, irate employees surrounded a silent, downcast supervisor in a convention room to voice grievances and query their Covid check outcomes. It wasn’t clear when the assembly happened.
“I’m really scared about this place, we all could be Covid positive now,” a male employee mentioned. “You are sending us to death,” one other individual mentioned.
A Foxconn consultant declined to touch upon the incident.
The uncommon situations of violence on the plant within the central metropolis of Zhengzhou displays a build-up of tensions for the reason that lockdown started in October.
Many among the many huge workforce of greater than 200,000 at “iPhone City” have been plunged into isolation, pressured to subsist on spartan meals and scrounge for treatment.
Many ultimately fled the plant on foot final month. Foxconn and the native authorities appeared to have gotten the scenario beneath management in current weeks, promising unusually excessive wages to draw new employees and promising higher working situations.
Wednesday morning’s protests counsel that’s not the case. It underscores how Xi Jinping’s Covid Zero coverage, which depends on swift lockdowns to stamp out the illness wherever it pops up, is more and more weighing on the economic system and throwing swathes of the worldwide provide chain into disarray.
Beijing not too long ago issued new directives ordering officers to reduce disruption and use extra focused Covid controls, however surging outbreaks in main cities have pressured native authorities to succeed in for strict curbs once more.
Violence has erupted sporadically throughout China over Covid restrictions. In Could, tons of of employees clashed with safety personnel at Quanta Pc Inc.’s manufacturing unit in Shanghai after they have been barred for months from contact with the skin world, whereas protests have emerged in locked-down areas of Guangdong, the southern manufacturing hub.
The Foxconn scenario serves up one other reminder of the risks for Apple of counting on an enormous manufacturing machine centered on China at a time of unpredictable coverage and unsure commerce relations.
Zhengzhou is the positioning of Apple’s most crucial manufacturing, churning out an estimated 4 in 5 of its latest-generation handsets and the overwhelming majority of the highest-end iPhone 14 Professional models. Apple warned this month that shipments of its latest premium iPhones will probably be decrease than beforehand anticipated — simply forward of the height vacation season procuring.
The sprawling compound has operated for weeks inside a “closed loop,” or a self-contained bubble that limits contact with the skin world. That’s retaining some manufacturing going. Apple and Foxconn have mentioned they’re working to exchange employees who’ve left and resume full manufacturing as quickly as potential.


Whether it’s heat pumps in the home, condensers in supermarket refrigerators or ventilation systems on the production floor, FlowGrid, the innovative patent-pending air-inlet grill from ebm-papst, is dramatically reducing noise levels for fans installed within limited-space air moving equipment.
Its open grill design straightens airflow to minimize turbulence before the air hits the axial or centrifugal impeller blades. FlowGrid is ideal for fans installed within flat and central air handling units, air purifiers and heat pumps with centrifugal fans, or air-water heat pumps, condensers and V-shaped condensers with axial fans.
“FlowGrid is the result of our extensive airflow testing for inlet conditions with a wide variety of customers’ axial and centrifugal fans across dozens of applications,” said George Riker, business development. “By improving the aerodynamic conditions external to the fan, FlowGrid reduces the adverse effects of these inlet conditions and minimizes noise.”
With FlowGrid, ebm-papst is making a clear contribution to active noise reduction – a big part of its GreenTech philosophy. It can help manufacturers and ventilation specifiers comply with noise regulations and improve the environment for employees who work near ventilation equipment. The innovative air-intake grills, which require less acoustic insulation, work with both axial and centrifugal fans without reducing their performance. Using them can help to reduce or entirely avoid the use of cost-intensive, passive noise-reduction measures.
Grayhill, Inc. has introduced the compact Series 67B Joystick, a Hall-Effect joystick with a pushbutton and momentary knob rotation for additional interface options. The joystick travels 20 degrees in each X and Y direction as well as momentary rotation around the Z axis. With a 32mm diameter and requiring just 16mm behind panel depth, the new 67B is the smallest joystick to offer this many functions.
A hall-effect sensor provides contactless operation, facilitating a long operational life of over 1 million cycles. The hall-effect sensor magnetically detects the shaft position anywhere within its 20-degree field of travel. The on-board micro-controller then produces X,Y coordinates in a range from 0 at center to 50 at the extreme periphery for digital output. It also conserves power by operating at 3mA max, with a built-in sleep mode of only 0.1mA max.
Output is via a built in micro-controller for I2C interface. I2C is a simple and flexible interface bus for communication with other digital devices. Most other joysticks of this size only offer an analog output.
The Series 67B Joystick is designed for panel mount applications where space is limited. Its integral mounting flange has 4 threaded mounting holes in a 28mm square. This compact joystick can provide precise cursor control where other pointing devices are impractical, such as on medical electronics, work vehicles and industrial or robotic control.
Grayhill’s proven technology and quality systems ensure superior performance with minimized costs. The 67B has been fully-tested in ISO/IEC 17025 labs to achieve electrical and environmental specs, including:
Environmental Seal: IP67 with optional sealing boot
Operating Temperature Range: -40°C to +85°C
For over 60 years, Paktron has been manufacturing polymer film capacitors. Serving industries such as telecommunication, military, automotive, medical and high-end industrial. Paktron capacitors have provided improved stability, both electrically and mechanically, when compared with other ceramic capacitors.
Capstick® capacitors have true voltage ratings and, unlike other systems, require no voltage deratings for maximizing reliability or life usage. Cutting edge circuit designs have been created to take advantage of a film capacitor’s inherent reliability at rated voltage, while both reducing board size and improving performance.
- Surface mount capability.
- Ideal for high frequency switching power supplies and DC to DC converters.
- Low ESR/ESL
- High ripple current/ high capacitance.
- Operating temperature range: -55 degrees Celsius to 125 degrees Celsius.
- Volumetrically efficient.
- Output Filter
- High Voltage Input Filter
- AC & Quasi AC Input Filter
- Low Pass Filter
The Quencharc® snubber is the most widely recognized trademark in the industry for RC (resistor-capacitor) Network. Arcing, sparking and transients often cause premature failures in relays, switches, thyristors, triacs, contactors and related products. Paktron Quencharcs® extend operating life when properly selected and applied.
- Relay contact protection
- Noise reduction on controllers/drivers
- Dv/dt suppression on thyristor and triacs
- EMI/RFI reduction
- No lag time in suppression
- Available voltages: 125VAC-660VAC
UL Recognized/CSA Certified
Honeywell announced its new Basic Board Mount Pressure Sensors, Compensated, Unamplified TBP Series. These new sensors are designed for customers who require a simple, high quality, cost-effective, basic performance, mV output device. They are compensated and unamplified, ideal for customers who want a temperature-compensated sensor with the maximum possible resolution.
Wide pressure range: 60 mbar to 10 bar; 6 kPa to MPa; 1 psi to 150 psi
Small: 7 x 7 mm [0.276 x 0.276 in] is very small when compared to most board mount pressure sensors, occupying less space on the PCB and typically simplifying placement
Wide compensated temperature range: 0 °C to 85 °C [32 °F to 185 °F]
Non-silicone-gel coating: The input port is limited to non-corrosive, non-ionic media such as dry air and gases and should not be exposed to condensation
Silicone gel coating: Uses the same materials in the wetted media path but is protected from condensation by a silicone-based gel coating
Various package styles:
- DIP (Dual Inline Pin)
- Leadless SMT (Surface Mount Technology)
Various pressure ports:
- DIP: Single axial barbed port and low-profile port
- Leadless SMT: Single axial barbed port and low-profile port
- SMT: Single axial barbed port and low-profile port
The newly expanded, easy-to-install M8/M12 connector system offers design engineers a reliable and complete solution to decrease downtime in industrial environments and supports higher bandwidth needs, meeting the requirements of up to 10 Gb/s.
The new system includes an extensive range of board and field installable connectors, cable assemblies and IO boxes. Key applications include: industrial automation, automobile manufacturing, machine tools , semiconductor manufacturing, factory automation machines, vision systems, and manufacturing of solenoid and sensor valves. The system is also sufficiently robust for use in harsh commercial applications such as outdoor data communications, outdoor telecoms, and advanced traffic monitoring.
Designed to meet IEC-61076-2-101, the new M8/M12 Connector System is also well suited for applications outside the traditional industrial environment, offering benefits wherever a compact reliable connection system with IP67 and IP68 environment protection is required.
- Industrial Automation
- Automobile Manufacturing
- Machine Tools
- Factory Automation Machines
- Semiconductor Manufacturing
- Manufacturing of Solenoid and Sensor valves


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The Festival's Friday and Saturday evening concerts take place in the newly renovated Sarasota Opera House, a comfortable art deco era movie palace with warmly reverberant acoustics. On 13 June 2008 Beethoven's Piano Trio No 3 in C minor opened the program with an appropriate combination of charm and gravitas. Pianist Susan Starr's dexterity and intelligent musicality brought dynamic life to every bar. Unfortunately violinist Joseph Silverstein's technique seemed frayed and unreliable. Nevertheless he played with passion. Substituting for cellist Desmond Hoebig who was sidelined with an injury, Clive Greensmith (from the Tokyo String Quartet) exhibited distinctive tone and superb instrumental control.
Silverstein seemed reinvigorated for the original chamber version of Wagner's Siegfried Idyll. Conducting from his concertmaster's seat, Silverstein brought delicate lyricism and spacious pacing to a performance rich in beauty and fervent romanticism. His soaring, honeyed tone carried a student-faculty ensemble. Norway's Froydis Ree Wekre (a former principal in the Oslo Philharmonic) was exceptional in Wagner's extended horn solos. The chamber version allows one to hear much of the inner voices and instrumental textures that are obscured in large scale orchestral versions. With such faculty luminaries as Wincenc, Cobb, oboist Allan Vogel, clarinetist Charles Neidich and bassoonist Frank Morelli contributing gorgeous solo turns, the student members of the ensemble held their own. Cellist Julia Yang and violist Alexander Petersen were particularly impressive, producing rotund, fully burnished tone. Violinist Elizabeth Fayette, clarinetist Benjamin Davis and French horn player Brigette Bencoe made stellar contributions to a performance that soared in ecstatic rapture.
Dvorák's early Piano Quartet No 1 in D, Op 23 is an unjustly neglected gem. Abounding in the composer's typically rich melodies, Czech dances and bursts of romantic fervor, this score deserves repeated hearings. Pianist John Perry (a faculty member at the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music) exhibited a light, winning touch, disarming flair and real musicality in the prominent keyboard writing. The superb chamber playing of violinist Federico Agostini (former concertmaster of I Musici), Dunham and Greensmith would be hard to equal. Here was a great ensemble performance by musicians who were clearly enthralled with a newly found treasure.
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Lawrence Budmen, Miami Beach, USA


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Happy Saturday Scrappers! It's Cut It Up Saturday at Paper Issues. I'm going to share my layout with you & you can check out the other Design Team members layouts here.
I used Amy Tangerine's Oh Happy Life. The colors are beautiful and fun to play with and contrasted my black & white photo perfectly. And the embellishments are awesome too! Hope you like!


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In this paper we present the numerical simulation-based design of a new microfluidic device concept for electrophoretic mobility and (relative) concentration measurements of dilute mixtures. The device enables stationary focusing points for each species, where the locally applied pressure driven flow (PDF) counter balances the species electrokinetic velocity. The axial location of the focusing point, along with the PDF flowrate and applied electric field reveals the electrokinetic mobility of each species. Simultaneous measurement of the electroosmotic mobility of an electrically neutral specie can be utilized to calculate the electrophoretic mobility of charged species. The proposed device utilizes constant sample feeding, and results in time-steady measurements. Hence, the results are independent of the initial sample distribution and flow dynamics. In addition, the results are insensitive to the species diffusion for large Peclet number flows (Pe > 400), enabling relative concentration measurement of each specie in the dilute mixture.
The study of liquid crystalline assemblies, with an emphasis on biological phenomena, is now accessible using newly developed microdevices integrated with X-ray analysis capability. Many biological systems can be described in terms of gradients, mixing, and confinement, all of which can be mimicked with the use of appropriate microfluidic designs. The use of hydrodynamic focusing creates well-defined mixing conditions that vary depending on parameters such as device geometry, and can be quantified with finite element modelling.We describe experiments in which geometry and strain rate induce finite changes in liquid crystalline orientation. We also demonstrate the online supramolecular assembly of lipoplexes. The measurement of lipoplex orientation as a function of flow velocity allows us to record a relaxation process of the lipoplexes, as evidenced by a remarkable 4-fold azimuthal symmetry. All of these processes are accessible due to the intentional integration of design elements in the microdevices.


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EU backs Russian environment clean-up fund
The European Commission is to host a donor's conference on Tuesday to appeal for funds for a programme of environmental aid for north-western Russia. The initiative aims at reducing cross-border pollution spilling into EU and accession countries as part of the "northern dimension" of EU policy, launched in 1999 (EED 12/11/99). The Commission has pledged €50m towards a budget which, it is hoped, will eventually provide €1.8bn to mop up water and air pollution and deal with masses of nuclear waste in the Kola peninsula. See European Commission press release.
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