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A study of internet-based gambling sites compared self-reported risk of a gambler
with an overall rating of problem gambling to determine the likelihood of a person
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likely to use internet modes, and that not all low-involvement gamblers were
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the risk of a gambler developing a problem.
Responsible gambling means understanding the
One of the most important principles of responsible gambling is to stick to a budget.
If you can’t stick to your budget, you might end up losing too much money. To avoid
this, you should set a daily limit and stick to it. When you go to gamble online, you
should stick to that limit. Also, you should never gamble with money that you can’t
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is convenience. Online gambling has many advantages compared to traditional
casino gambling, and convenience is a common factor among those who play for
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first factor is social availability. Some cultures may be more welcoming of
convenience gambling than others. Another factor is cultural context.
Excessive gambling is a behavioural addiction
A person suffering from excessive gambling is unable to control his or her urges to
bet or gamble and is compelled to repeat the behaviour as often as possible in order
to feel the same high. He or she may even lie about the extent of their gambling,
attempting to hide their financial situation. People with a gambling addiction are
often financially dependent on others and often have erratic behaviour. They also
take substances in greater quantities than they intended to and for longer periods of
time than they intended. A gambling addiction can also have a genetic cause,
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Regulatory frameworks for gambling are complex and varied. Online gambling
presents a number of unique challenges compared to traditional gaming. In the UK,
the Gambling Act 2005 was implemented. Since then, the Gambling Commission has
conducted British Gambling Prevalence Surveys to assess the prevalence of problem
gambling, underage gambling, and the number of people playing online casino
games. The 2010 Gambling Prevalence Survey revealed a two percent increase in
the number of people participating in online casino, poker, and slot machine style
Legalization is a challenge
California voters are opposed to legalizing gambling online for a variety of reasons,
but they’ve also recognized the benefits of the industry. For instance, New Jersey
has become the “Vegas East” of the country, and New York lost $1.3 billion in tax
revenue by not legalizing gambling in the state at the same time as New Jersey.
North Carolina, on the other hand, legalized in-person sports betting in 2019, with
bets accepted in March 2021. The state was on the verge of legalizing online sports
betting in 2022, but came up short because of confusion over reworked legislation,
and concerns about collegiate betting.


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Sheffield SU bans white students from attending ‘anti-racism’ meetings
It emerged today
Sheffield Students' Union has been criticised for banning white students from attending meetings for its new "anti-racism" policy.
The organisation announced on Tuesday that it is shifting from a "non-racist to an actively anti-racist" stance.
But SU bosses say "only black and minority ethnic students" will be allowed into meetings to share their views.
The move sparked controversy on social media, with some accusing meeting organisers of racism. However, others rushed to defend the decision, insisting it allows BME people a safe space to share their experiences of racism.
The meetings are due to be led by the National Union of Students, who are carrying out an audit of the institution in an aim to better support students who encounter racial prejudice.
The Sheffield Tab understands that the policy change will involve the SU taking more active measures to confront racist language and actions.
It follows outcry over a Uni of Sheffield student throwing a banana at a black Hallam student during Varsity ice hockey in 2018.
Announcing the new policy on Tuesday, SU women's officer Rosa Tully and welfare officer Beren Maddison said on Facebook that the focus groups, based in the Octagon, are "open to BME students only".
"Sheffield Students' Union want to make a change from being simply non-racist to actively anti-racist," Tully's post adds.
"To do so, we are enlisting a member of the National Union of Students to audit the Students Union to see what we can do better.
"However, we need your help to incorporate your ideas and experiences into our work. We are hosting two focus groups on the 14th of October, open to BME students only."
Last month students at the Uni of Edinburgh drew criticism for planning to hold an "anti-racism" event where white attendees were barred from asking questions.
University staff raised concerns after reading promo material for the conference, named Resisting Whiteness, which said: "We will not be giving the microphone to white people during the Q&As, not because we don’t think white people have anything to offer to the discussion but because we want to amplify the voices of people of colour."
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Is a Still Star-Crossed season 2 still possible going into tonight’s finale airing? We never like to be the bearer of bad news, but the answer’s a firm no.
Unfortunately, the Shonda Rhimes-produced Shakespearean soap tonight is coming to a close on ABC, and it’s doing so with a whimper far more than a bang. Even when the show first premiered, there wasn’t all that much hope for its future. It was billed at the time as a limited series event, one that had already seen its episode order cut and was just going to air in the summer after The Bachelorette. There wasn’t this extreme amount of hope that it was going to come on the air, generate huge ratings, and somehow figure out a way to be back for another season. It was almost more of a surprise at that point that Romeo & Juliet follow-up series set in Verona during that time was going to be something that ABC considered as a possible hit.
Our feeling for now is rather simple: The show had Rhimes aboard, and the hope was that her producing power would somehow get the show good ratings. There were some moments of great potential through the first season and solid performances, but none of that was enough to ensure that it would eventually get anywhere beyond the first seven episodes.
Now that we’ve said all of this … there was a path that the show could have been granted a second season. If it had come on and generated ratings that were in the 1.o+ range in the 18-49 demographic, it would’ve been hard for ABC to look that gift horse in the mouth. We’ve seen on so many occasions now limited series eventually become more than that on the basis of their success, and we easily could’ve seen that become the case here, as well.
Alas, that didn’t happen, and after tonight Still Star-Crossed ventures off into the TV graveyard. In this sort of situation, there are two different things that we really hope for.
1. The cast gets to move on to do other great things – There should be all sorts of interesting recurring roles coming in the 2017-18 season. It’s a little too late for them to get presumably a series-regular gig on a new drama, but those could open up again when we dive into pilot season.
2. ABC still takes big risks – We don’t want to see them shy away from things that could presumably become big hits. Remember that this is the network that did bring us Lost, and there aren’t many people who would look at that concept on paper and say “oh, that’s a safe bet.” You can say the same thing about a show like Nashville, which did rather well for them for a few seasons.
Do you think that there should’ve ever been a Still Star-Crossed season 2? Share in the comments below!
Meanwhile, be sure to head over to the link here to get some further news when it comes to the show, including a preview for the finale. (Photo: ABC.)

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Former Packers historian, sportswriter Lee Remmel dies
A man who spent most of his life with or around the Green Bay Packers has died.
The team said Lee Remmel died Thursday at the age of 90.
“Lee was a key member of the organization for many years, and his knowledge of Packers history was unparalleled. He was a great ambassador and through his public relations work, he helped multiple generations of Packers fans learn more about the team. We extend our sincerest condolences to his family," Packers President Mark Murphy said.
A member of the Packers’ front office since 1974, Remmel led the organization’s public relations and publicity efforts until 2004, when he became the Packers’ team historian.
Before joining the team’s front office, Remmel was a sportswriter and columnist for the Green Bay Press-Gazette for 29½ years, covering his first Packers game in 1945 in Milwaukee.
In 2003, the Packers named their press box the "Lee Remmel Press Box."
Remmel also was a member of the NFL public relations directors' Professional Football Writers of America liaison, statistics and NFL Films committees.
Remmel retired from the Packers in December 2007.
The family has a private funeral planned.

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2017.03.18 WORLD FIGHTING CHAMPIONSHIP
PRESS CONFERENCE FOR HEROS SERIES Vol. 17 & KOK’38 WORLD GP 2016 IN TALLIN
As fans from around the world are getting ready for a new KOK (King of Kins) season and the upcoming world championship showdown between the strongest KOK fighters, Estonian KOK fighters gathered for the press conference regarding the upcoming KOK tournament in Tallinn, which will take place on 17th of September in SAKU SUURHALL.
KOK WORLD GP 2014 IN CHISINAU PRESS CONFERENCE
There is only one day left until one of the biggest event in the world of professional Kickboxing - KOK WORLD GP 2014 IN CHISINAU. The press conference took place in Kodru hotel, Chisinau. In one evening KOK fans will be able to see two events – “KOK HERO’S SERIES 2014 in CHISINAU” which will be live on FIGHTBOX and “KOK WORLD GP 2014” which will be live on EUROSPORT.
KOK WORLD GP 2014 IN GDANSK 4 men tournament
Four strongest European heavyweight fighters will try to find out: who is the one – king of kings? The winner of this tournament will fight for the title of KOK World champion in 2015.


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Intel and the Michael J. Fox foundation are teaming up to use wearables to study Parkinson's disease. The two parties have begun trials where patients afflicted with the disease use a wearable device, paired with a smartphone, to continuously gather health data and transmit it to a cloud analytics service.


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Why can’t I have a Tardis? Well, I made one at the library, and I think it looks pretty spiffy. I borrowed bits of graphics from here and there. It wasn’t complete without an homage to the Dr. Who’s of past, present, and future, along with their nemesis-es along the way.
Here are links to some great articles I used:
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LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas athletic department is moving forward with planning for three major construction projects: a basketball practice facility, a student-athlete success center and a baseball and track indoor training facility.
Director of Athletics Jeff Long called the additions "essential" to the future of the program.
"Our focus remains on providing student-athletes with the resources they need to win in the Southeastern Conference and nationally," Long said in a statement.
The department recently issued requests for qualifications for the design team and the construction manager for the three projects, a move that is necessary before the Board of Trustees can approve the work.
The projects will be funded by athletic revenue, gifts and bond proceeds, the statement said. No timeline has been established for construction.
The basketball practice facility, a 70,000-85,000 square foot facility planned to be built across from Bud Walton Arena, would cost $20 million to $25 million. The student-athlete success center is projected to cost $18 million to $23 million and the baseball and track facility would cost up to $9.625 million, the statement said.
Arkansas unveiled a master facilities plan for athletics last October that will cost more than $300 million to construct. Among them, a football operations center and new football practice fields are currently under construction at a cost of $40.35 million.
The practice fields are expected to be completed by the fall, while the operations center is scheduled to be finished next summer.


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The S&P 500 broke down significantly during the trading session on Tuesday, showing quite a bit of negativity. After forming a couple of shooting stars this should not have been a huge surprise, as traders are starting to recognize that the United States and China will not get some type of agreement going this weekend, which is kind of ironic considering that I thought it was obvious. Nonetheless, we closed at the bottom of the range so it’s very likely we continue to go lower. At this point, it’s very likely that the 2900 level should offer support down to the 2880 level. I suspect that’s where were going next. I would be a seller of rallies on short-term charts, but that’s about it. Longer-term we are still in and uptrend so you should keep that in mind.
The NASDAQ 100 initially tried to rally during the trading session on Tuesday but we have seen lower highs and therefore it looks likely that we are going to go a bit higher and then find sellers again. It makes sense, because the United States and China have a long way to go before we will have some type of an agreement, and the NASDAQ 100 is very sensitive to that exact situation. Beyond that, it’s very likely that traders have not missed out on the fact that the market has been lagging behind the S&P 500 as well. At this point, I suspect the next couple of days could be a bit soft. There should be significant support at the 7500 level as well. At this point, it looks very likely to be rocky and erratic, but I suspect the sellers are starting to make their presence known.

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Zac Goldsmith, MP for Richmond Park and North Kingston and Food Minister, introduced ‘Natasha’s Law’ to protect allergy sufferers and give them confidence in the food they buy.
Millions of allergy sufferers across the country will be protected by the new law laid in Parliament earlier this month, requiring food businesses to include full ingredients labelling on pre-packed for direct sale foods.
Following the tragic death of Natasha Ednan-Laperouse, the teenager who died after suffering an allergic reaction to a Pret a Manger baguette, the government confirmed stronger laws would be implemented to protect those with allergies and give them greater confidence in the food they buy.
Currently, food prepared on the premises in which it is sold is not required to display allergen information on the label, meaning allergy sufferers sometimes lack confidence buying food to eat whilst they are out.
A Statutory Instrument (SI) was presented to Parliament in early September tightening the rules by requiring these foods to carry a full list of ingredients - known as ‘Natasha’s Law’.
The Minister of State said: “This is a significant moment for the millions of allergy sufferers in England and a fitting tribute to Nadim and Tanya Ednan-Laperouse’s tireless campaigning. The introduction of this law will make it easier for allergy sufferers to make clear, safe choices when buying food.”
‘Natasha’s Law’ will come into force in October 2021, giving businesses a transition period to prepare for the new rules. The Food Standards Agency will publish information for industry on October 1 to help ensure that businesses of all sizes can prepare and adapt to these changes.

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Design, optimization and manufacturing of monocomposite carbon/epoxy leaf spring having varying cross sections
The main objective for weight optimization is to replace a steel leaf springof a light commercial vehicle with a monocomposite leaf spring. Steel leaf spring ismodeled in Creo Parametric with the existing dimensions and analyzed for stress anddeflection using ANSYS. A composite leaf spring with varying cross sections is de-signed by using specifications of a steel leaf spring and optimized by using ANSYS.An optimized composite leaf spring is manufactured by the hand layup method withhot molding process. There was 88% weight reduction for composite leaf spring withvarying cross sections, which was the main purpose of this chapter. Fabricated leafspring is tested for the experimental validation. Experimental values were nearly thesame as that of analytical with the negligible error.

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Poliça in Concert
Apr 29, 2020
8911 N Western
Poliça has been churning out ethereal synth-pop tracks since 2011. Come see Poliça perform some of their best-known tracks along with their forthcoming "When We Stay Alive" album as they take the 89th Street stage. Pack this Oklahoma City venue and sing along as Poliça shares their unique take on life through some of their most beloved tunes, from "Fake Like" to "Lime Habit."
General admission: $15. While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the pricing listed above, prices are subject to change without notice.


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2 edition of Pacific Asian Art (Multicultural Art Print Series) found in the catalog.
Pacific Asian Art (Multicultural Art Print Series)
Leilani L. Duke
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It's easy to talk to our kids about being nice, playing outside, and having adventures. But some topics get a bit tougher: how do you deal with the death of a grandparent, or worries, or racism? Well, you could start with some of the books in today's column. A Discovery of Asia and the Pacific This monthly, published in Hong Kong, is an attractive, slick journal, profusely illustrated with excellent color photographs, that views and reports on the arts of Asia and--to a somewhat lesser extent--the Pacific.
Explore our list of Asian Art Books at Barnes & Noble®. Receive FREE shipping with your Barnes & Noble Membership. Our Stores Are Open Book Annex Membership Educators Gift Cards Stores & Events Help Auto Suggestions are available once you type at least 3 letters. Use up arrow (for mozilla firefox browser alt+up arrow) and down arrow (for. Get this from a library! Pacific Asian art. [Pacific Asia Museum.; J. Paul Getty Trust.; Crystal Productions.;] -- Emphasizes works of art that contain multicultural and/or multiethnic imagery, and explores the works of art thematically so that they may be .
Pacific Art facts. It is not possible to cover the vast amount of material about Pacific art in a single article. To simplify the matter this article deals with sculptures. Pacific Sculpture represented gods, deities or an ancestral hero. They were sometimes made free standing but are also often found as part of an object like the top of a fly whisk. Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT) is the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art's flagship exhibition focussed on the work of Asia, the Pacific and Australia. This eighth edition emphasised the role of performance in recent art, with live actions, video, kinetic art, figurative painting and sculpture exploring the use of the human form to express cultural, social and.
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Partnership versus confrontation: public participation in the environmental assessment of trunk roads and motorways.
Drafting Commercial Agreements
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ArtAsiaPacific magazine is the leading English-language periodical covering contemporary art and culture from the Middle East and Asia-Pacific. For beginner readers who want to explore different cultures by reading to themselves, the Living In series of books by Chloe Perkins and Tom Woolley is a perfect start.
There are a few Asian countries included, like this book on Living in book depicts the geography, important monuments, and different cultural regions of the featured country, as well as a “day in the life” look.
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She has also written for Artforum, X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, ARTNews and other publications. She is a recipient of a Pacific Asian Art book Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers' Grant and a coauthor of the award-winning book, "Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art." Photo credit: Oliver Wang.
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The first draft, submitted by the chiefs of the Army and Navy General Staff, was accepted by Imperial General Headquarters early in. An overview of Oceanic art and a history of the Metropolitan's collection are followed by informative introductory essays on the major cultural regions of the Pacific.
Detailed discussions of the individual objects place these outstanding Oceanic works inn their historical and cultural contexts. The University of Washington Press is the oldest and largest publisher of scholarly and general interest books in the Pacific Northwest.
May is Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, to honor the rich history and accomplishments of AAPIs throughout the history of the United States.
AARP is proud to celebrate AAPI Heritage Month with articles that showcase AAPI accomplishments and culture. In this third installment of our series, we offer a list of the most influential and inspiring books — both fiction. Contemporary Art and Asian Voices at the Pacific Asia Museum A new online exhibition features recent work by Asian artists grappling with their past and present.
By Carl Kozlowski. Search the world's most comprehensive index of full-text books. My library. Nearly 20 years later, only 7% of kids books published in featured Asian American characters, according to the Children’s Cooperative Book Center.
May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, and it’s the perfect time to discover some new stories about Asian.
Books shelved as asian-authors: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan, Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, The Joy Luck Club by Amy. Along with magazine and journal articles and books that have documented this new sphere of study, there have been a growing number of major pan-Asian periodic exhibitions devoted to Asian artists, including the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art begun in at the Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane, and the Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale Reviews: 6.
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INDIAN AND SOUTH-EAST ASIAN WORKS OF ART. London: Sotheby's, July 4, 54 pages, lots auctioned, 90 lots. The 14th Annual San Francisco Arts of Pacific Asia Show (SFAPA) returns to the Fort Mason Center FebruaryOne of the top Asian Art Shows in North America, the upcoming show will bring 85 vetted private and international galleries to the Bay City.
In recent years the SFA. Asia Pacific Arts is an online magazine that covers the dynamic worlds of Asian and Asian American arts and entertainment. APA brings readers. MetPublications is a portal to the Met's comprehensive book and online publishing program with close to titles published from to the present.
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APA brings readers news, reviews, interviews, and its signature top ten lists.The Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature (APAAL) are a set of literary awards presented annually by the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA).
The APALA was formed in "to create an organization that would address the needs of Asian/Pacific American librarians and those who serve Asian/Pacific American communities.".Arts of the Pacific and of the Americas Arts of the Pacific Australia was settled by ancestors of the peoples today known as Aborigines.
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Yesterday was a very happy day for the fans of Ghanaian Actress and Video Vixen Akuapem Poloo after she was released from Jail on Bail
Akuapem Poloo was sentenced to jail for 90 days after she posted a nude Photo of her with her son last year celebrating his 7th Birthday.
She was convicted on the 16th of April after an Accra Circuit court found her Guilty of Child Abuse. Fast Forward a New post shows that the Actress has released a New Song with Ghanaian Rapper Sarkodie titled Jail Life.
We cannot tell if it is indeed true or just social media users trying to create something hilarious out of the situation.

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Dow Dips 37 on Mixed Retail News
AP Business Writer
Mixed news about the health of retail sales Thursday gave investors an incentive to cash in more profits from Wall Street's recent rallies and send stocks lower for a second session.
Disappointing results from such retailers as Kohl's, which also issued a profit warning, contributed to the market's declines. But some pullback was still to be expected following weeks of gains made as companies reported surprisingly strong first-quarter earnings results.
In the first hour of trading, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 36.84, or 0.4 percent, at 8,523.79, having lost 27.73 on Wednesday.
The broader market was also lower. The Nasdaq composite index fell 11.19, or 0.7 percent, to 1,495.57. The Standard & Poor's 500 index declined 5.24, or 0.6 percent, to 924.38.
Kohl's dropped 95 cents to $55.55 after the retailer reported same-store sales, those at stores open at least one year, for April fell 4.1 percent, missing analysts' expectations for an increase of 3.5 percent. Kohl's also cut its quarterly earnings outlook.
Sears fell 30 cents to $27.70 after posting same-store sales fell 8.5 percent last month, worst than the 5.5 percent decline analysts expected.
But Gap rose $1.11 to $17.71 on a same-store sales gain of 20 percent, much better than the 12.9 percent Wall Street anticipated.
Investors are particularly sensitive to news about retailers and consumers, whose spending accounts for two-thirds of the economy.
Other losses Thursday stemmed from brokerage house downgrades and weaker-than-expected earnings. Providian fell 34 cents to $7.99 after Morgan Stanley cut its rating on the credit card issuer to "equal-weight" from "overweight."
Energy company Reliant Resources fell 84 cents to $4.87 after reporting a first-quarter loss of 9 cents a share, 2 cents bigger than analysts predicted.
Declining issues outnumbered advancers 8 to 3 on the New York Stock Exchange. Volume came to 174.61 million shares, below 185.95 million at the same point Wednesday.
The Russell 2000 index, which tracks smaller company stocks, fell 2.61, or 0.6 percent, to 407.62.
Overseas, Japan's Nikkei stock average finished Thursday down 1 percent. In afternoon trading in Europe, France's CAC-40 fell 2.6 percent, Britain's FTSE 100 lost 1.6 percent and Germany's DAX index shed 2.8 percent.
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During and immediately after the Revolutionary War, artists in America and Europe painted scenes of some of its pivotal events—some to display national or individual pride, others to make a profit and others still to reveal the brutality of war. Often using eyewitness accounts and their own observations of the setting, these artists created paintings with accurate details as well as emotionally evocative scenes. They are among the best sources we have to convey what events and places of the Revolution looked like. They also remind us to ask why these works were created and what memorializing these scenes meant to the people who commissioned them, the artists who painted them and the viewers who gazed upon them. This list of ten great Revolutionary War paintings—highlighting works in both American and European collections—follows the course of the war through dramatic and compelling scenes of struggle, violence and triumph that illuminate the vast scope of this world-wide conflict.
The Battle of Bunker’s Hill, June 17, 1775 by John Trumbull, 1786
Yale University Art Gallery
The Battle of Bunker Hill was the first major battle of the Revolutionary War, occurring two months after the opening battles at Lexington and Concord and the beginning of the patriot siege of Boston. In response to patriot troops taking up positions on Breed’s Hill overlooking Boston, the British sent three thousand men to dislodge the Americans and take the hill for themselves. Three waves of professional British soldiers advanced up the hillside before the patriots abandoned their positions, having inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy. The surprisingly effective conduct of the patriot troops at Bunker Hill encouraged American enlistments and discouraged the British from attempting another assault, allowing the newly formed Continental Army to maintain the Siege of Boston until the arrival of Henry Knox’s artillery train in March 1776 finally forced the British to evacuate the city. The Battle of Bunker Hill was the subject of John Trumbull’s first canvas in a series of history paintings of principal events of the American Revolution. Completed in 1786, Trumbull’s oil painting depicts the climax of the battle, when the British overran the American redoubt and the patriots were forced to retreat. One of the last men left facing the enemy was Dr. Joseph Warren, a leader of the patriot resistance to British tyranny in Boston who fought at Bunker Hill as an ordinary private, despite having been appointed a major general of the Massachusetts militia a few days earlier. His death at the hands of the British—making him the first martyred hero of the Revolution—is the central event of the painting. Warren’s lifeless body is cradled by his fellow patriots, recalling images of Christ having been removed from the cross and Benjamin West’s portrayal of British general James Wolfe dying on the Plains of Abraham during the French and Indian War—all symbols of heroic sacrifice for one’s ideals. Trumbull organized the events of the day—which he observed from afar and heard about from participants—into a familiar artistic framework that conveyed to his audience one of the ideals of the Revolution. The painting’s sweeping elegance and intimate action have made it one of the most familiar images of the Revolutionary War.
The Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec, December 31, 1775 by John Trumbull, 1786
Yale University Art Gallery
John Trumbull’s second history painting of the Revolution remains less familiar than his view of Bunker Hill, but it is similarly compelling. With this canvas, Trumbull memorialized the death of Maj. Gen. Richard Montgomery, one of the most experienced soldiers in the Continental Army and the leader of the American campaign against the British in Canada. After an unsuccessful siege of the walled city of Quebec, General Montgomery ordered his men to attack during a blizzard. As dawn broke on New Year’s Eve of 1775, a barrage of British gunfire killed Montgomery and sent his troops into a panicked retreat. The Canadian campaign had failed, but Montgomery was enshrined among the heroes of the American Revolution. For his oil painting of the battle, Trumbull again chose to depict the moment of the martyred hero’s death, using the same symbolic composition as he did for the death of General Warren. Trumbull’s painting of the action at Quebec is somewhat simplified, with fewer figures and larger areas of plain cloudy skies and snow-covered ground. His use of light creates a more dramatic scene, with Montgomery’s body bathed in light as the focal point of the composition, while large swaths of the painting are darkened by shadows. The mood of the wintry scene is more somber and uncertain, while still celebrating an American hero’s ultimate sacrifice to the fight for American liberty.
The Unsuccessful Attack on the Fort on Sullivan’s Island by Henry Gray, 1776
Gibbes Museum of Art
In an attempt to reestablish royal authority in the southern colonies, a powerful British squadron approached Charleston Harbor on June 28, 1776, intent on subduing the city. Instead, four hundred South Carolinians manning an unfinished fort made of palmetto logs on Sullivan’s Island drove off the fleet. The battle was the Bunker Hill of the South, helping to persuade Americans that their troops could successfully resist the British military. Lt. Henry Gray fought in the battle and was wounded while manning a gun in the parapets of the fort. Shortly afterwards, he painted two panoramic watercolor scenes of the attack and the morning after, based on what he had witnessed. Gray’s painting presents a view of the battle from an offshore point just northwest of the fort, as if from a ship or boat—not a perspective he had during the attack but one that effectively conveys the overall scope of the engagement. He pictured at least six of the attacking warships bombarding the fort, with the smoke from both sides prominent in the scene. A blue flag with a silver crescent in the corner flies over the fort, soon to be struck down by a British cannonball only to be returned to the flagstaff by the gallant Sgt. William Jasper. Gray gave the paintings to Richard Bohun Baker, his comrade in the Second South Carolina Regiment who would become the last surviving officer of the Battle of Sullivan’s Island.
The Battle of Princeton by James Peale, ca. 1782
Princeton University Art Museum
George Washington’s first battlefield victory over British troops at Princeton, New Jersey, inspired several artists, during and after the war, to memorialize the battle on canvas. This oil painting by James Peale, a member of a renowned family of artists from Maryland, compresses the events of January 3, 1777, into a single scene. He emphasized the critical moment when Washington—in the center foreground accompanied by his blue headquarters flag—rode onto the battlefield, rallied the men and led the final attack on the British lines. To the right, a crew from Capt. Joseph Moulder’s battery fires a cannon at the British soldiers positioned at the fence line in the distance. In the middle distance, Brig. Gen. Hugh Mercer, who was mortally wounded during the first American advance on the British lines earlier in the day, lies on the ground next to his fallen horse. Peale tried to depict numerous details as realistically as he could, including the specifications of the American uniforms, the equipment of the gun crew and even the color of Washington’s horse. The artist was also a soldier, serving as a first lieutenant in the First Maryland Regiment at the battle, and composed his painting from his recollections of the day. He would have also had access to the sketches of the site that his brother, Charles Willson Peale, made in 1779 while preparing to paint a full-length portrait of Washington at Princeton. James Peale completed his painting of Princeton five years after the engagement, probably for himself to commemorate a battle in which he and his brother fought.
Battle of Paoli by Xavier della Gatta, 1782
Museum of the American Revolution
This depiction of the nighttime attack at Paoli, Pennsylvania, is one of the more unusual Revolutionary War paintings. It is a rare depiction of a nighttime engagement and was commissioned by a participant in the battle for his own use, when many of these kinds of paintings were commissioned by governments or organizations for public display. On the night of September 20-21, 1777, British light dragoons and infantrymen launched a surprise attack on Brig. Gen. Anthony Wayne’s division of the Continental Army, which was camped in a field northwest of Philadelphia. In the Battle of Paoli, also known as the Paoli Massacre, the British soldiers took advantage of the Americans’ exposed position to inflict heavy casualties on Wayne’s men. One of the participants, Lt. Richard St. George of the light infantry company of the British army’s Fifty-Second Regiment, commissioned Italian artist Xavier della Gatta to paint a gouache scene of the Battle of Paoli, along with one of the subsequent action at Germantown. St. George traveled to Italy at the end of his service and provided his own accounts of the battles and the sketches he made while on campaign in America to help della Gatta create the works. The artist’s composition of the Battle of Paoli emphasizes the brutality and confusion of the surprise attack. Along the foreground, British light dragoons, riflemen and infantrymen use sabers and bayonets to cut down American troops, who in return fire their muskets, revealing their positions in the dark. Similar scenes occur across the battlefield farther in the distance. Della Gatta merged these events—which occurred at different times during the battle—into a single tableau to provide a comprehensive view of what St. George called “a nocturnal bloody scene.” St. George kept the paintings at his home in Ireland as a reminder of his experiences in the American war.
The Surveillante in Action Against the Quebec, 6 October 1779 by Auguste-Louis Rossel de Cercy, 1789
Musée National de la Marine
In 1786 King Louis XVI commissioned Auguste-Louis Rossel de Cercy to paint scenes of the principal naval battles of the American war to honor French officers’ skills and bravery—conduct that had “added lustre to the glory of the nation.” Rossel had only started painting during the American Revolution, after retiring from a twenty-eight-year career in the French navy, but he quickly became adept at depicting naval subjects. This oil painting of Surveillante in action against HMS Quebec was one of sixteen original works he completed for the royal commission. The engagement near the mouth of the English Channel was one of the fiercest naval duels of the war, with both ships losing their masts and catching fire. The crew of Surveillante was able to put out the flames, but Quebec exploded. In a display of compassion, the French gathered the British survivors and together they made it to the port of Brest. Rossel chose to depict the moment of the explosion on Quebec, with some British sailors attempting to flee the wreckage and others already adrift in the water. French sailors begin their rescue from a small boat in the foreground. The rough seas and gathering clouds add to the drama of the scene. The artist probably created his composition using accounts of French survivors of the ordeal as well as earlier depictions of the event, at least one of which had been published as an engraving. Rossel’s original paintings for the royal commission—now preserved in the collections of the Musée National de la Marine and the Château de Versailles—were to be displayed at the three primary French naval schools as examples of virtue and valor. The commission also included copies of each work—painted by other artists under Rossel’s direction—to present to the commanding officers honored in the paintings.
The Death of Major Peirson, 6 January 1781 by John Singleton Copley, 1783
John Singleton Copley celebrated heroic sacrifice and national glory in this painting of the death of Maj. Francis Peirson during the British defense of Jersey in early January 1781. The French attempt to seize the island just off the coast of Normandy failed when troops from the British garrison and local militia organized a counterattack and defeated the invading force. Major Peirson, who led the British forces, was killed by a French sniper before the battle in Royal Square. News of the victory, although a minor one in the overall course of the war, was embraced by the British people, who were growing weary of the lengthy conflict in America. To capitalize on the excitement, London engraver and bookseller John Boydell engaged Copley to create a painting of the event. A Boston native who settled in London just before the war, Copley was one of the most important artists of the revolutionary era. At the center of his large oil painting he placed twenty-four-year-old Major Peirson at the moment of his death—a martyred hero in the same tradition as Benjamin West’s General Wolfe and John Trumbull’s General Warren. Copley depicted Peirson’s death in the chaotic battle in the square to add to the drama. To the left of the central group stands a black soldier—identified as Major Peirson’s servant—firing towards the French lines to avenge his leader. The public success of the painting, first exhibited in London in May 1784, and the engraving, published in 1796, elevated this minor engagement on Jersey to one of the best remembered of the Revolutionary War in Great Britain.
The Capture of Yorktown, 19 October 1781 by Louis-Nicolas van Blarenberghe, 1785
Château de Versailles
To memorialize the most important French-American victory of the war, Louis XVI commissioned two gouache paintings of the siege and surrender at Yorktown, where the British lost the war for their American colonies. The commission went to Louis-Nicolas van Blarenberghe, the painter of battles for the War Department and a member of a prominent Flemish family of artists. Van Blarenberghe embraced the traditional style of eighteenth-century European battle paintings: panoramic, bird’s-eye views that offer a sweeping overview of the engagement, emphasizing the enormity of the scene in a detailed, dispassionate composition. To create the scenes, he studied plans and maps of the siege, especially the topographical data collected by Alexandre Berthier, an engineer on General Rochambeau’s staff. Van Blarenberghe’s painting of the surrender on October 19, 1781, depicts the British troops marching out of Yorktown towards the surrender field, with the town and York River faintly in the distance. The landscape of wide expanses with few trees resembles Flanders or Italy more than Virginia, and serves the picturesque aesthetic of the work more than its accuracy. But many of the painting’s minute details—drawn with the help of a magnifying glass—are faithful representations of the surrender scene, from the ranks of French and American soldiers flanking the marching British troops to their uniforms, flags and weapons. The Yorktown paintings hung in the king’s private apartments at the palace of Versailles—a daily reminder of the critical French role in the monumental victory over his enemy. Louis XVI also commissioned replicas of the paintings for Rochambeau, which he presented in 1786.
The Close of the Battle of the Saints by Nicholas Pocock, ca. 1782
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
After Yorktown, the main theater of the war shifted to the Caribbean, where Britain and France—and, to a lesser extent, Spain and the Netherlands—fought over their lucrative sugar islands. In April 1782 a British fleet under Admiral George Rodney intercepted a French fleet commanded by Admiral de Grasse near the Îles des Saintes, a group of small islands a few miles north of Dominica. The Battle of the Saintes was a disaster for the French navy, which saw casualties higher than those sustained by French, British or American forces in any other battle of the war. The momentous victory became one of the most popular events of the war for British artists to depict, many of whom were commissioned by officers who had served in the battle. Nicholas Pocock was one of the most successful of these artists, producing numerous oil and watercolor scenes of the battle through the 1780s and 1790s. For this oil painting—one of Pocock’s first of the subject—he collaborated with shipbuilder James Martin Hilhouse, who had invaluable knowledge of naval engineering. Pocock was also familiar with ships and the Caribbean, having served on British merchant vessels in the region for much of the 1760s and 1770s—including Dominica, which he visited five times. The scene depicts the French defeat, with de Grasse’s flagship, Ville de Paris, at the right, its sails faltering, surrendering to HMS Barfleur commanded by Admiral Samuel Hood. Pocock’s treatment of the scene—particularly his use of light and shadow—is dramatic yet restrained, injecting an immediacy often missing from his rivals’ versions. Admiral Hood’s brother Alexander commissioned another painting of the Battle of the Saintes from Pocock in 1784 that remains in the family’s collection.
General Eliott and His Officers Observing the Destruction of the Floating Batteries, Gibraltar, 14 September 1782 by George Carter, 1784
National Army Museum, London
The British triumph at Gibraltar was one of its most celebrated and often-depicted victories of the American war. From 1779 to 1783, Spanish and French forces besieged British-held Gibraltar in the longest and largest engagement of the Revolutionary War—one that diverted British resources from North America. For his oil painting of the siege, English artist George Carter chose to depict the climatic event in September 1782 when Spanish and French warships and floating batteries, vessels that were modified to serve solely as heavy artillery batteries, mounted a failed attack on the Rock. Carter, whose works were influenced by his rival John Singleton Copley, was known for his paintings of contemporary events. His Gibraltar composition is both a literal history painting and symbolic allegory. A realistic portrayal of the British destruction of the floating batteries, which caught fire and exploded in the bay, fills the left side of the painting. On the right, a contrived assemblage of British officers looks on, honoring the men who led Britain to victory at Gibraltar—a success that helped counter the sting of the defeat at Yorktown. The group is led by Gen. George Eliott, governor of Gibraltar and commander of its garrison, shown at the center of the group wearing a pale red coat. Carter worked to depict the details of the painting as true to life as possible. For his view of the battle scene, he consulted government papers as well as Sir Roger Curtis, a British naval officer who helped rescue hundreds of Spanish sailors from the burning floating batteries. For the grouping of military leaders, Carter made portrait studies from life of the figures, some completed when he visited Gibraltar soon after the siege. (His portrait of senior engineer William Green is in the Institute’s collections.) With this work Carter hoped to win the City of London commission for a large painting of the siege. Though the commission went to John Singleton Copley instead, Carter’s composition influenced the more famous depictions of the siege by Copley and John Trumbull.


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Sleepingdust presents Bhabi, sung by the duo Parmjeet Pammi, and Sukhdev Sahota.
Bhabi, as the name suggests, depicts the beautiful bond shared by a sister-in-law and brother-in-law. The lyrics of this track have been penned by Jagtar Gill, who captured the essence of this special relationship in a fresh and unique way.
Jawahar Bharoli has once again teamed up with us, and has shaped the music in such a way that it instantly creates a celebratory mood. Both the singers Parmjeet Pammi and Sukhdev Sahota have performed their respective characters as sister-in-law and brother-in-law with finesse. The inherent playfulness in Parmjeet’s voice is complemented perfectly by the talented Sukhdev. We hope to hear more of this duo in the near future.
Sleepingdust hopes that our audience will brace this song with love, and enjoy listening to it as much we enjoyed making it.

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The recent closing of Bahooka, a Tiki-themed restaurant in Rosemead, was an occasion for mourning. Bahooka was one of the great delights of Southern California Tiki, with countless fish tanks (including Rufus, the giant pacu), flaming drinks served in bowls, and bucket lamps hanging from the ceiling that took diners back to the romance of the South Seas in World War II. Thank goodness, though, Tiki is also the style that refuses to die. Its endurance tells us something about Southern California design.
By all rights, Tiki should have been just another passing fad of the 1950s, like hula hoops (another Polynesian import). Its aesthetic is the opposite of what most experts insist is important about midcentury modern Southern California architecture. In the official architectural history of the region, Craig Ellwood showed us minimalist steel, and Richard Neutra showed us elegant abstraction.
In contrast, Tiki showed us textured bamboo screens and blown-glass fishing buoys suspended in fishing nets. Yet Tiki had something in common with Southern California Modernist luminaries: where Ray and Charles Eames showed us whimsy, color, and history, Tiki also showed us whimsy, color and history.
What is it about Tiki and its woven mats, its hanging blowfish, its thatchedroofing, its rainbow colored tropical fish, and its solemn, all-knowing totems? We are no doubt addicts of visual stimulation, and we no doubt love the Polynesian dream. But, for Southern Californians, Tiki’s appeal runs deeper than that.
The opulent patterns, the spectrum of colors, and the evocative imagery are as central to this region’s aesthetics as are exposed steel beams and sliding glass walls. Our design heritage is rich, contradictory, inclusive, ephemeral, and ancient.
This inheritance can be rendered in neon, thatch, audio-animatronics, architecture, graphics, clothing, salt-and-pepper shakers, theme restaurants, movies, paperback books, or lipstick holders. It is the 20th-century style expressed in every range of 20th-century media. Tiki satisfies a need that the German architecture pioneer Walter Gropius could not have imagined.
And in the latest news, the much-mourned Bahooka may have a resurrection. Los Angeles Magazine’s Chris Nichols reports that much of Bahooka’s decor will be re-ensconced in the renovated Clifton’s Cafeteria in downtown Los Angeles. This is entirely fitting. Back in 1931, Clifton’s Pacific Seas restaurant gave us neon palm trees and tropical waterfalls. If you need another sign that Tiki cannot die, there it is.
Alan Hess is an architect and author of 19 books on Southern California and Modern architecture, including “Oscar Niemeyer Houses” and “Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture.” He wrote this for Z calo Public Square. Columnnist Steve Scauzillo is on assignment this week; his column will return next Friday.


London: In a quest to succeed Boris Johnson as the next leader of the Conservative Party and British Prime Minister, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said she wants the UK to be a nation of aspiration because she is pledged to seize Brexit opportunities and promised immediate tax cuts with a reversal of the National Insurance increase while former Chancellor Rishi Sunak pledged to reset EU relations and the United Kingdom if he becomes the next British Prime Minister.
Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak explained their long-term visions for Britain as they came face to face in the 10th round of hustings in Birmingham on Tuesday.
The two contenders are to endure bouts of 12 national events with the first bout taking place in Leeds, northern England, as members elect a new leader. The result will be announced on September 5.
Truss indicated that she would strongly oppose “left-wing identity politics” as she considered legislation for single-sex spaces such as domestic violence shelters, while Sunak backtracked by proposing the idea of reducing VAT to revive the country’s economic situation.
Additionally, Truss promised to introduce a moratorium on the green levy and roll back the National Insurance increase, in response to which Sunak said direct financial aid was the best way to support people with disabilities. low income rather than tax cuts.
On Brexit, the two Conservative leadership candidates pledged to reset relations between the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom and said the next leader would continue to create opportunities to restore ties.
“The EU and UK are ‘at loggerheads’ over the Northern Ireland protocol, but with a new prime minister we have a chance to reset that relationship,” Sunak said.
Addressing Tory members on the economy, the former chancellor said he would reform the NHS to avoid constantly throwing more money at it, while Liz Truss stressed the need for a tax event to deal with to the cost of living crisis and said his first priority would be to cut taxes.
“My first priority is to cut taxes because what I don’t believe in is taking money in taxes and giving it back to people in benefits,” she said, adding that growth of the country was the need of the hour.
Notably, corporation tax, policing and ethics were the main highlights of the Conservative party’s election campaign at the NEC in Birmingham on Tuesday.
Truss is currently leading surveys among Tory members after promising immediate tax cuts as Britain faces falling living standards.
Former Chancellor Rishi Sunak and British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss exchanged blows over economic policy and foreign relations in the first-ever televised debate on July 25. The candidates are said to have clashed over Britain’s future relationship with China after cutting ties with Russia.
The second Tory leadership debate between Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss was called off, however, after presenter Kate McCann passed out and collapsed live.
In July, Sunak and British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss became the final two candidates in the leadership race for the ruling Conservative Party. International Trade Minister Penny Mordaunt was eliminated in the last round of voting among Tory lawmakers. Sunak won 137 votes and Truss 113.
The competition to replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister is now in the hands of Conservative Party members, who will select the winner on September 5 by postal vote.
Both candidates promised tax cuts as the cost of living crisis continues to bite. However, Sunak called his rivals’ promises of immediate tax cuts “fairy tales”, arguing that inflation must first be brought under control. Truss, on the other hand, promised to start cutting taxes from day one.
Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss are in the running to replace Boris Johnson as Britain’s next prime minister. The Conservative leadership race was sparked after Johnson was forced to resign on July 7 amid a flurry of resignations from government officials, who protested his scandal-ridden leadership.
Johnson will continue to serve as caretaker prime minister until a new Conservative leader succeeds him.


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UDAIPUR: Fearing house arrest and police harassment, members of the Gujarat Kisan Sangharh Samiti and various farmer unions
disguised themselves and started moving secretly to Delhi to participate in the farmers’ movement.
Leaving the traditional kediyu-chorno and phento (kurtadhoti with headgear), many peasants
underwent a makeover to escape the watchful eyes of the authorities. One of the groups led by the chairman of Gujarat Kisan Congress, Palbhai Ambaliya, reached Udaipur on Sunday afternoon on their way to Delhi. Mewar Kisan Sangharsh Samiti greeted the Gujarat delegation
and assured to join them in their Delhi protest.
Terming it as a state of ‘undeclared emergency’ in Gujarat, Ambaliya said of the 17 farmer unions in the state, heads of 14 unions and their second rung leaders are either in police custody or under house arrest. “The December 8 bandh call was successful in entire Gujarat and all farmers in all the 239 blocks and traders of mandi yards supported the bandh. Intimidated by the response, the Gujarat government is trying to curb the movement with the help of police,” Ambaliya said.
“We have planned to reach Delhi on December 14 and so we are moving in small groups. All my life, I have worn the traditional peasant attire but now I have almost shaven my head, wearing shirt and pants so that no recognize me and I could participate in the Delhi stir,” he said.
The leaders said the actual plan was to ensure the presence of at least 1,500 to 2,000 peasants to join the Delhi protestors, but seeing the government vigil, they changed the idea. “Modi showcased the Gujarat model and mislead Indian people to become the prime minister. He knows if the peasants voice the truth, he would be exposed. His dream project of Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bheema Yojana
has collapsed in Gujarat, the insurance companies have made huge profits and farmers are not getting compensation,” the leaders said. Daya Bhai Gajera, state president of Gujarat Kisan Sabha, said with the three laws, the central government has sold the farmers of the country at the hands of multi-national companies and capitalist groups. Not only the farmers, but consumers too would have to pay the price. “After giving away public sector and financial institutions, now the Modi government wants to sell the farmers to the mercy of these companies which is not acceptable,” he said.


National Park; Dzūkijakhatib
Dzūkija National Park is the largest protected area in Lithuania (697 km2) and the country’s most extensive forest (91% of the park area is forested, mainly with pines).
In order to preserve the unique natural and cultural features of the Dzūkija ethnocultural region, a dense network of protected territories has been formed in the Park’s territory. The Park is divided into four functional zones: conservational, protective, recreational, and economic (commercial). The conservational zone, which occupies an area of 26,580 hectares (47.5% of the park’s territory), consists of three reservations and 28 reserves: eight landscape reserves, 16 nature reserves, and four cultural reserves.
The strictest protective rules are applied in the three nature reserves, the total area of which is 2,080 hectares. No economic (commercial) activity is permitted there.
The largest single part of the Park in terms of area is composed of landscape reserves, which occupy 13,060 hectares. They protect not only the Park’s most valuable landscapes, but also habitat for animals and plants as well as ethnographic villages.
Nature reserves occupy 10,600 hectares. They differ from landscape reserves in that greater emphasis is placed on preservation of separate landscape components (terrain, plants, animals).
During the Soviet occupation (1944-1990) the Forest became a “home” to thousands of people forced out of their villages who joined the guerilla campaign for Lithuanian freedom. Massive woods provided shelter for years but sadly the partisans were defeated by late 1950s. Graves and crumbling entrenchments are their sole remains.
The largest single part of the Park in terms of area is composed of landscape reserves, which occupy 13,060 hectares. They protect not only the park’s most valuable landscapes, but also habitat for animals and plants as well as ethnographic villages.
The most valuable segments of the largest rivers in the Park have been declared reserves. The Nemunas reserve includes the middle reaches of the Nemunas Valley between Merkinė and Krikštonys with its unique geomorphological and hydrographic elements (washes, islands, cliffs, and river shoals), distinctive villages, archaeological sites, and biological communities inhabiting the forested washes.
The Liškiava reserve protects one of the most picturesque bends of the Nemunas in Lithuania, with especially valuable historic hill-forts, an architectural monastery ensemble, and unique geomorphological complexes, including the Nemunas terrain carved by washes and the valley formed by the Krūčius stream.
The Merkys reserve, which includes the entire valley of the lower reaches of the Merkys river located within the Park as well as the lower reaches of the Skroblus, is valuable not only as an outstanding example of a valley landscape with its distinctive villages of forest Dzūkai and archaeological finds. On the south-facing slopes of the junction of the Merkys and Nemunas, unique communities of steppe meadows remain, while in the flood-meadows corn crakes may be seen and along the rivers one may find the European kingfisher, goosander (Mergus merganser), and otters hunting for their next meal.
Perhaps the most beautiful reserve in the Park is the Ūla reserve, which includes the entire portion of the Ūla river valley located within the Park, with its ethnographic villages of Zervynai, Mančiagirė, Žiūrai, Trakiškiai, and Paūliai, ever-changing outcrops, scenic river-bends, and the distinctive flora and fauna of the spring-fed lower slopes, dry meadows, and slopes.
The Kapiniškiai reserve includes the unique headwaters of the Skroblus stream and its upper reaches with abundant springs, its wide valley with a distinctive structure of land-use by the homesteads belonging to the village of Kapiniškiai, and the ethnographically valuable village of Margionys. Very distinctive communities of plants have formed on alkaline soil in the Skroblus valley, and many protected species of plants and insects are found there. An entirely different landscape is preserved in the Lizdai reserve in the northwestern part of the Park: a picturesque chain of moraine hills with deep thermokarst (kettle) lakes, the Lizdai, Galvinis, and Bedugnis lakes, valuable lakeside bogs, and the Stone Age camp of Ežerynas.
There are also many archaeological sites in the Glynas reserve, which includes Glynas lake, a picturesque lake formed by glacial meltwater in the northern part of the Park, the Glynupis stream, and a complex of five ancient settlements.
These occupy only 860 hectares of the Park, and are divided into two ethnocultural reserves, one townscape reserve and one memorial reserve. Other valuable villages, such as Dubininkas, Lynežeris, Zervynos, Kapiniškės, or Liškiava, fall within other protected areas and are regulated according to separate rules
The Musteika ethnocultural reserve includes the village of Musteika in the southern part of the Park as well as its surroundings. Its purpose is to preserve the planned spatial structure, ethnic traditions, and traditional way of life of one of the most ethnographically valuable and best-preserved forest Dzūkai villages. The planned spatial structure and ethnic traditions of the river Dzūkai villages is represented by the Žiogeliai ethnocultural reserve in the southwestern part of the Park. In order to preserve the historic town of Merkinė, the Merkinė townscape reserve was established, protecting and exhibiting the town’s planned spatial structure, its central square, buildings, church, and hill-fort.
The Subartonys memorial reserve is also located in the Park, to protect and exhibit the homestead of the writer Vincas Krėvė Mickevičius, the museum-house, cemetery, and other places connected with the writer.


Disat is meant to solve the problem we face every single day due to the Coronavirus – the social distancing. Although it is required to stay 1 meter away from all other people, it is challenging to accurately gauge how far someone is away. This product is meant to solve this problem through the implementation of 4 small distance(ultrasonic or infrared) sensors to detect objects that are closer than 1 meter. If it detects an object within the 1-meter radius, it will send a signal to the bracelet, causing it to vibrate and alert the user. It is very inconspicuous as the sensors do not protrude much and all of the wiring is sewn into the hat itself.
My original design at the beginning of the Design Process was a portable food dispenser. However, as I was sketching the designs, I realized that not having food at our fingertips is not as important as making sure that we are safe. From this, I began thinking of a product that would allow users to know when they are safe and when they are not. I settled on having a hat and a bracelet as those two accessories are very common and unnoticeable. Although it may not be possible to create as inconspicuous of a product that has been designed due to technological constraints, it is still possible to create similar products.
I think that the design process went smoothly and resulted in me creating a product that was useful and practical. However, if I were to do this another time, I would attempt to find a better name for the product as Disat is not the most attractive name.


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Underside of the package and how it looks when the jerky bar is removed. The descriptive sentence is completed after the bar is removed and the "ENJOY" is revealed.
The pattern in the background is a topographic map created from the Sierra Nevadas. I designed the logo as a bear climbing upwards, seeking higher elevation. The blue signifies streams and rivers, the red the sunset, and yellow is the color of the trail.

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Ford CEO Jim Farley teased a high-performance idea model of the electrical pickup truck F-150 Lightning.
Farley posted a photograph of himself and Crimson Bull Racing F1 take a look at driver Daniel Ricciardo pulling again the truck cowl, revealing a Lightning headlight. The truck differs barely from the Lightning pickup that’s at present in manufacturing. It seems to be a lowered car with a entrance fender that resembles a Ford Raptor.
Ford lately introduced a historic settlement with Crimson Bull Racing that can see the automaker return to Formulation One for the primary time in almost 20 years in 2026. Formulation 1 is a wonderful platform for producers to check new efficiency merchandise, which is the place the idea F150 Lightning suits in.
The idea automotive is a part of a collection of particular efficiency demonstrator EVs being developed by Ford’s design studio. Beforehand, the automaker unveiled idea demonstrators reminiscent of a Mustang Mach-E with seven electrical motors producing a complete of 1,400 hp and an electrical Ford Supervan with a large 1,972 hp output.
Compared, the manufacturing F-150 Lightning with the big 131-kwh extended-range battery pack produces 563 hp and 775 lb-ft of torque, with a 0-60 mph acceleration time of about 4 seconds.
It’s unclear whether or not this efficiency F150 Lightning will go into manufacturing, however extra info ought to be obtainable as soon as Ford formally unveils the truck.


First water entrance for GB£7 Red Jet 7
Red Funnel’s new GB£7m high-speed passenger catamaran Red Jet 7 has entered the water for the first time off the Isle of Wight, UK.
The vessel was ordered from Wight Shipyard on the Isle of Wight in August 2017, following an international tender. The new 275 seat Red Jet is a sister ship to Red Jet 6, which was also built by Wight Shipyard in 2016.
The final fit out and commissioning of onboard systems will take place with the vessel alongside at East Cowes on the Isle of Wight and will be followed by extensive sea trials and crew training in the Solent.
Red Jet 7 will be named at a ceremony at Trinity Parade in Cowes on 24 July and will enter regular service between Southampton and West Cowes thereafter.
Wight Shipyard told Maritime Journal last month that work on the vessel is well on track with the passenger accommodation already resiliently mounted on the two hulls and the specialist job of installing the four engines, generators and waterjets almost complete. The bridge was also said to be taking shape with most of the electronic equipment, control systems and touch screens now in situ and ready for testing.
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It comes after a report by The Joseph Rowntree Foundation said that the Welsh Government's Tackling Poverty Plan is unlikely to succeed if it overlooks the specific needs of different ethnic groups living in poverty.
The Welsh Government has signalled its commitment to both reducing poverty and mitigating its impact upon people. The report demonstrates that now there needs to be better integration of poverty and equality policies; that there are still some gaps in the policy and the Welsh Government needs to find out if it is policies are working for different groups.
The Welsh Government has been contacted for a response.
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The eight-days training, which runs from 3rd to 10th June, 2020, is meant to roll out the ‘Promotion of Market Linkages for Cassava Out-Growers’ within eight (8) villages in West Coast Region. The training will be conducted in four batches of 30 participants.
The “Mass Agricultural Production Project” is envisaged to link industrial users of cassava like Aspuna with 600 youth farmers in the three Regions of West Coast (WCR), Lower River (LRR) and Upper River (URR).
The one-year project under the overall supervision of the GIZ Project Management Team and in conjunction with stakeholders like the Global Youth Innovation Network Gambia Chapter (GYIN Gambia Chapter), National Research Institute (NARI), and the Department of Horticulture Services will mobilize youths that are interested in cassava farming and link them to Aspuna, who in turn will ensure market opportunities for the 600 targeted farmers by buying their products for processing.
Mamadou Edrisa Njie, founder and executive director of GYIN Gambia said the main aim of the project is to promote and popularise cassava production amongst the youth and women farmers.
He added that GYIN Gambia’s role in the project among other things is to ‘properly’ coordinate its successful implementation. As part of the project, GYIN Gambia would cluster young farmers and provide them with training on the value chain.
Chief executive officer of Aspuna Gambia Ltd., Mr. Amadou Jah, explained that his company is an agro-processing enterprise that will purchase the produce (cassava) from the farmers in large quantities and process into starch. Aspuna is also committed to providing organic fertilizer to the beneficiaries in its general goal to help Gambian farmers stabilize cassava price and increase their income in cassava farming.
Mr. Suwaibou Cham, senior private-public sector expert at GIZ, stated that the project would commercialise the cassava sector, and that with the commercialisation, cassava farmers will increase their yield as the market is available for them, thus improving the food security situation in The Gambia.


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Having a Blast on the Suffolk Coast
There are few seaside towns as quintessentially British as Southwold. With its sandy beach lined by a string of brightly painted beach huts, lighthouse and invitingly cheerful pier jutting out into the sea, it makes a good base to explore this pretty stretch of the Suffolk coast.
We based ourselves at the Randolph Hotel, on the outskirts of Southwold. Follow the link for the accommodation review.
Day 1 - Exploring Southwold
George Orwell settled in Southwold in 1921 and stayed for 20 years. You can see a colourful tribute to him at the edge of the Pier.
Southwold Pier hosts an arcade with a collection of weird and wonderfully eccentric coin operated machines designed by Tim Hunkin. You can see his innovative water clock on The Pier too.
There are plenty of places to stop for a drink or a snack – but be sure you don’t miss the wonderfully wacky Hall of Mirrors.
Tips for Future Travellers
The Pier is closed when there are high winds – so if you are unlucky enough to have bad weather during your stay, time your visit accordingly to avoid disappointment.
You can climb up Southwold Lighthouse and explore the views from the top. Tours take approximately 30 minutes and are on the hour and half hour.
Advanced booking is not necessary – buy your tickets on the day (£4.50 for adults) directly from the Visitor Centre.
The beach huts lining The Promenade at Southwold are a joy to walk beside. Each has its own individual personality, reflecting the wishes and dreams of its lucky owners.
If you want to own one yourself, you would have to fork out a hefty £150,000 (11/10/20 – Durrants Estate Agents – “The Folly”).
You can rent one for a much more affordable £24 a day or £120 a week. A hut would give you a cosy place to watch the comings and goings on the beach. Grab a blanket to keep you warm if the wind is blowing and enjoy making a cup of tea in your very own kitchenette – nice. Or go the whole way and grab yourself some tasty fish and chips – always best eaten right beside the seaside.
Be sure to allow enough time to call in to Adnam’s Brewery in the centre of town. You can also book a tour of the distillery – or – if you have enough time – try your hand at making your own gin.
Adnams Copper House Gin is a juniper berry based gin distilled with an unusually delicious blend of six botanicals: Orris Root, Coriander Seed, Cardamom Pod, Sweet Orange Peel and Hibiscus Flower. Serve with a slice of orange to enhance the flavour.
Adnam’s claim it is the world’s best gin. Try it and see for yourself!
Day 2 - Walking to Walberswick and Having a Blast!
Walk from Southwold to Walberswick via Marshes
We followed an 11.9 kilometre circular walk trail from Southwold to Walberswick.
You can view the map and full directions on the All Trails App – Click the Link below.. All Trails is great for navigating on your walk. Based on Google Maps, it guides you expertly through all the twists and turns – highly recommended!
From the sea front in Southwold, walk up through the busy little harbour across the Bailey Bridge footbridge that crosses the River Blyth and then on to the pretty village of Walberswick village. This walk will take you through the Walberswick Nature Reserve and across the reedbeds that separate the village from the sea. It is mostly flat, but – like many of the walks in this area – can be wet after rain.
Walberswick has tea rooms, restaurants, two public houses, an art gallery, a village shop, original crafts and gift shops. You have a good choice of pitstops for lunch – or wait until you are back at the harbour where there are huts selling a variety of fresh fish – and of course – fish and chips.
If you are celebrating a special occasion and fancy doing something a little bit different, why not do as we saw one happy couple doing – spread out your picnic rug by the harbour and enjoy a seafood lunch right by the waterside. They even had a selection of cakes on a three tiered china stand and a bottle of champagne in an ice bucket. No photos – in respect for their privacy – but I will leave you to conjure up the happy scene. Come to think of it – why wait for a special occasion – life is for living after all?!
The Walberswick Ferry also runs in the summer months, so – for the princely sum of £2 per adult – you can choose to have the fun of being rowed across the estuary in a little ferry boat.
Having a Blast with the Coastal Voyager
Do you sometimes just feel like letting yourself go and having a bit of fun? If you are in adventurous mood, book a Sea Blast trip with Coastal Voyager based at Southwold’s harbour.
It isn’t a cheap thrill (£29 per adult) – but it is really good fun! I won’t give you too many spoilers, but suffice it to say that the music choice is as exhilarating as the ride itself. Be prepared to hold on tight as your boat is put through its paces in the hands of your expert crewmen.
You can easily time your ride to fit in on the home stretch of your circular walk to Walberswick. Setting out on the walk at the start of the day and stopping for a leisurely lunch, we made it back in plenty of time for a 3pm Sea Blast.
Tips for Future Travellers
You can’t take anything onto the boat with you – be prepared to travel light and leave your bags in the Coastal Voyager Office.
Glad I Packed
Waterproof jacket, Hiking Boots
Day 3 - Meet the Seals at Horsey Beach
A short hour’s drive across the border from Suffolk into Norfolk gives you the opportunity to visit Horsey Beach and enjoy watching the playful seals that have colonised this area.
If you have time for a walk, try the National Trust circular walk around Horsey Village.
Leave your car at Horsey Gap. You never know quite where the seals will place themselves of course – but there are a LOT of seals on this beach, so your chances of seeing large numbers of them are very high. You might be lucky and find them all at the beach entrance – but allow yourself the time to walk a mile or so along this very beautiful beach to see the best of the seals. You won’t find any of the usual seaside amusements and attractions here – just miles of soft, unspoiled sand and – usually – not too many visitors.
Flora and Fauna
Find out more about the seals on the link below.
Tips for Future Travellers
Dogs are allowed on the beach, but obviously, should not be allowed anywhere hear the seals. In the Winter months when the seal pups are born, the beach is often closed to visitors to protect the seals – check before you visit.
The National Trust Nelson’s Head Pub also has a car park from which you can access Horsey Beach. You can treat yourself to a great lunch and some good beer here too – Highly Recommended!


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Anoka County Rivercity Housing Collaborative, Anoka County, MN
Best Practice | August 11, 2006
Anoka County Rivercity Housing Collaborative is administered by the local Division of Human Service. The Collaborative keeps funds in a “resource pool” which is drawn down by grantees as needed, maximizing resources and ensuring a collaborative versus competitive relationship among grantees to achieve program goals. They have also developed a tenant education curriculum they are planning on introducing statewide.
• Families, single adults and youth who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.
• Required to explore eligibility for Emergency Assistance funds administered by the Division of Human Services—majority of families served have already received EA funds and are experiencing a subsequent housing crisis.
Administered by the local Division of Human Services, subcontractors include a legal advocacy organization, emergency assistance providers and transitional housing providers. Funds are kept in a “resource pool” and can be pulled down by sub-contractors as needed—eliminating competition for funds within the county. Services provided include:
• Legal advice and intervention in eviction proceedings.
• Short-term housing subsidies.
• One time rent/mortgage assistance.
• Transitional housing assistance to youth and families that may have substantial barriers to accessing housing including minor parents with children, a head of household with a mental illness and victims of domestic violence.
• Pilot of an education campaign to promote successful tenancy in collaboration with the University of Minnesota Extension services and other partners.
• Assistance to secure permanent housing.
• Developing culturally sensitive response to large immigrant/refugee population entering county.
• Provide “bridging the gap” assistance to those with pending benefit applications to help maintain housing until receipt of benefits.
• Maximizes use of existing resources
• Approximately 90% of families working with the Division of Human Services’ Housing Advocate receive Emergency Assistance that is used in conjunction with FHPAP dollars.
• Leverages funds and collaborates with services funded through the continuum of care process.
Source of Funding:
• Family Homeless Prevention and Assistance Program (FHPAP) that includes TANF block grant and state general revenue funds
Objective/Service Utilization/Outcome Data:
In first year of the biennium 304 new households served:
• 33 families received legal assistance to prevent eviction
• 79% of those assisted maintained housing
• 14 families received mortgage assistance to prevent mortgage foreclosure
• Additional 42 families denied assistance due to size of arrears and family’s inability to sustain housing after assistance due to loss of income.
• 44 received one-time rent or mortgage assistance.
• 7 families received on-going housing subsidy.
• 105 families were served in transitional housing.
• 20 families received short-term transitional housing.
• 48 families with one parent with mental illness and history of repeated housing crises served in specialized transitional housing.
• 91 families served by Income Maintenance Department to explore eligibility for public assistance and work with other providers to plan to address housing crisis.
• 40% secured permanent housing
• 30% were able to sustain existing housing
• 13% reside with relatives
• 6% entered transitional housing
• 11% did not maintain contact or were unsuccessful
For More Information Contact:
Income Maintenance Department
Human Services Division
County of Anoka
2100 3rd Avenue
Anoka, MN 55303-5047


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HWG Holdings LP boosted its stake in shares of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) by 7,383.9% during the fourth quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the SEC. The institutional investor owned 2,320 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock after purchasing an additional 2,289 shares during the period. Amazon.com comprises approximately 2.3% of HWG Holdings LP’s holdings, making the stock its 11th largest position. HWG Holdings LP’s holdings in Amazon.com were worth $2,713,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.
A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Regis Management CO LLC grew its position in Amazon.com by 0.9% in the second quarter. Regis Management CO LLC now owns 231 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $224,000 after acquiring an additional 2 shares in the last quarter. Hall Capital Management Co. Inc. grew its position in Amazon.com by 0.8% in the second quarter. Hall Capital Management Co. Inc. now owns 403 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $390,000 after acquiring an additional 3 shares in the last quarter. Noesis Capital Mangement Corp grew its position in Amazon.com by 0.8% in the second quarter. Noesis Capital Mangement Corp now owns 505 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $489,000 after acquiring an additional 4 shares in the last quarter. Exencial Wealth Advisors LLC grew its position in Amazon.com by 1.3% in the second quarter. Exencial Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 395 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $382,000 after acquiring an additional 5 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Kingfisher Capital LLC grew its position in Amazon.com by 0.3% in the second quarter. Kingfisher Capital LLC now owns 1,632 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $1,580,000 after acquiring an additional 5 shares in the last quarter. 60.21% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
In other Amazon.com news, Director Tom A. Alberg sold 670 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, February 21st. The shares were sold at an average price of $1,500.00, for a total transaction of $1,005,000.00. Following the sale, the director now owns 14,159 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $21,238,500. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Also, VP Shelley Reynolds sold 544 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Thursday, February 15th. The stock was sold at an average price of $1,462.32, for a total transaction of $795,502.08. Following the sale, the vice president now directly owns 6,533 shares in the company, valued at approximately $9,553,336.56. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold a total of 6,214 shares of company stock valued at $9,251,120 in the last quarter. 17.00% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.
Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) last announced its earnings results on Thursday, February 1st. The e-commerce giant reported $2.16 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.85 by $0.31. The business had revenue of $60.45 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $59.85 billion. Amazon.com had a net margin of 1.71% and a return on equity of 9.23%. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 38.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $1.54 EPS. analysts expect that Amazon.com, Inc. will post 8.49 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
Several analysts have commented on AMZN shares. DZ Bank reissued a “buy” rating on shares of Amazon.com in a research report on Wednesday, January 24th. Citigroup reissued a “buy” rating and issued a $1,400.00 target price (up from $1,250.00) on shares of Amazon.com in a research report on Friday, January 5th. Vetr raised shares of Amazon.com from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating and set a $1,414.91 price objective for the company in a report on Tuesday, January 30th. Jefferies Group upped their price objective on shares of Amazon.com from $1,450.00 to $1,750.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, February 2nd. Finally, Credit Suisse Group upped their price objective on shares of Amazon.com from $1,385.00 to $1,410.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Monday, January 8th. Four research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, forty-eight have assigned a buy rating and two have assigned a strong buy rating to the company. The stock has an average rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $1,477.78.
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- Treatment of 29 acute gastrointestinal Graft-versus-Host-Disease patients with full-ecosystem microbiome restoration biotherapeutic MaaT013 reported safe, demonstrating positive impact
Lyon, France, November 26, 2020 – MaaT Pharma announced today that updated results from its compassionate use program for lead microbiome therapeutic MaaT013 will be reported in an oral presentation at the virtual 62nd American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting held from December 5 -8, 2020. The results include data from 29 patients with gastrointestinal, acute Graft-versus-Host-Disease (aGvHD) who were resistant to multiple lines of treatments and were treated with the full-ecosystem microbiome restoration biotherapeutic. MaaT Pharma provided the product to hospitals under an expanded access treatment program in France called Autorisation Temporaire d’Utilisation Nominative (ATUn). MaaT013 is an enema formulation of a microbiome biotherapeutic characterized by a consistent high diversity and richness of microbial species, derived from pooled donations from healthy individuals. The data will be presented by Dr. Florent Malard, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Hematology at Saint-Antoine Hospital and Sorbonne University, who participated in the treatment program.
Oral Presentation details:
Title: Successful and Safe Treatment of Intestinal Graft-Versus-Host Disease (GvHD) with Pooled-Donor Full Ecosystem Microbiota Biotherapeutic: Results from a 29 Patient-Cohort of a Compassionate Use/Expanded Access Treatment Program
Abstract No: 422
Session Name: 722. Clinical Allogeneic Transplantation: Acute and Chronic GvHD, Immune Reconstitution: Pathobiology and Predictive Biomarkers
Date/Time: Sunday, December 6, 2020 / 1:00 PM EDT
MaaT Pharma will announce the results through a press release on Monday, December 7, 2020.
The company is also investigating its lead biotherapeutic, MaaT013, in the HERACLES trial, a multi-center, single-arm, open-label Phase II clinical study in steroid-refractory, predominantly gastrointestinal aGvHD patients (NCT03359980).
About MaaT Pharma
MaaT Pharma, a clinical stage company, has established the most complete approach to restoring patient-microbiome symbiosis to improve survival outcomes in life-threatening diseases. Committed to treating cancer and graft-versus-host disease (GvHD), a serious complication of allogeneic stem cell transplantation, MaaT Pharma has already achieved proof of concept in acute myeloid leukemia patients and a Phase 2 clinical trial in acute GvHD is ongoing. Supporting the development and expansion of our pipeline, we have built a powerful discovery and analysis platform, GutPrint®, to evaluate drug candidates, determine novel disease targets and identify biomarkers for microbiome-related conditions. Our therapeutics are produced through a standardized cGMP manufacturing and quality control process to safely deliver the full diversity of the microbiome, in liquid and oral formulations. MaaT Pharma benefits from the commitment of world-leading scientists and established relationships with regulators to spearhead microbiome treatment integration into clinical practice.

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