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ODESZA Return for First Live Show In Three Years
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After a three-year-long wait, ODESZA's fans finally got to witness the electronic duo's magic in person! The two-time Grammy-nominated duo consisting of Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight made a stunning return to their hometown at a sold-out show in Seattle.
They kicked off their amphitheater tour at Climate Pledge Arena in support of their latest album 'The Last Goodbye'. Their show on the 29th in Seattle marked the beginning of an amazing tour that will set out to be carbon negative.
As more and more music festivals and artists attempt to make their concerts more environmentally sustainable, ODESZA, too, is making efforts to do so through a partnership with REVERB. It is a nonprofit that partners with musicians, music festivals, and venues to green their events. They also engage with fans "face-to-face at shows to take environmental and social action."
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Similarly, fans can take climate action onsite at each ODESZA show. ODESZA + REVERB Eco Village will be set up to support the band's sustainability efforts at every show on this tour. In an effort to make the tour more environmentally sustainable, venues like New York's Forest Hills Stadium have urged prospective attendees to take steps like:
1) "Bring an empty reusable water bottle (32 oz or less) to refill at the free water station.
2) Donate for a limited edition ODESZA reusable bottle.
3) Consider taking public transportation or carpooling to the show to reduce carbon pollution and limit parking traffic."
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Fans were enthralled by ODESZA's live performances. The outstanding production and immersive visuals at the ground-breaking show left the attendees with a mind-blowing experience. From classic tracks to live renditions of music from the electronic duo's latest album, it is safe to say the three-year-long wait to see ODESZA hit the road again was worth it!
ODESZA had a three-night run at Climate Pledge Arena, the world's first zero-carbon arena, with shows on July 29, July 30, and July 31. The duo announced the amphitheater tour 'The Last Goodbye' set to come to 25 cities across the United States and Canada in March this year.
Find ODESZA's 'The Last Goodbye' 2022 tour dates below:
Fri, July 29 – Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena
Sat, July 30 – Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena
Sun, July 31 – Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena
Wed, August 17 – Phoenix, AZ – Ak-Chin Pavilion
Fri, August 19 – Austin, TX – Germania Insurance Amphitheater
Sat, August 20 – Dallas, TX – Dos Equis Pavilion
Sun, August 21 – Dallas, TX – Dos Equis Pavilion
Tue, August 23 – Atlanta, GA – Lakewood Amphitheater
Thu, August 25 – Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion
Fri, August 26 – New York, NY – Forest Hills Stadium
Sat, August 27 – New York, NY – Forest Hills Stadium
Tue, August 30 – Philadelphia, PA – TD Pavilion at the Mann
Thu, September 1 – Toronto, ON – Budweiser Stage
Fri, September 2 – Montreal, QC – Parc Jean-Drapeau
Sat, September 3 – Gilford, NH – Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion
Sun, September 4 – Boston, MA – Xfinity Center
Wed, September 7 – Cincinnati, OH – The ICON Festival Stage at Smale Park
Thu, September 8 – Detroit, MI – Pine Knob Music Theatre
Fri, September 9 – Chicago, IL – Huntington Bank Pavilion
Sat, September 10 – Chicago, IL – Huntington Bank Pavilion
Mon, September 12 – Minneapolis, MN – Armory
Tue, September 13 – Minneapolis, MN – Armory
Wed, September 14 – St. Louis, MO – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
Fri, September 16 – Denver, CO – Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre
Sat, September 17 – Denver, CO – Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre
Tue, September 20 – Salt Lake City, UT – USANA Amphitheatre
Thu, September 22 – Ridgefield, WA – RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater
Fri, September 23 – Vancouver, BC – PNE Amp
Sat, September 24 – Vancouver, BC – PNE Amp
Mon, September 26 – Bend, OR – Hayden Homes Amphitheater
Tue, September 27 – Boise, ID – Fort Idaho Center Amphitheater
Thu, September 29 – Sacramento, CA – Heart Health Park
Fri, September 30 – San Francisco, CA – Shoreline Amphitheatre
Sat, October 1 – San Francisco, CA – Shoreline Amphitheatre
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Board of directors / Kasim Kutay
Kasim Kutay
Member of the Board, member of the Nomination Committee and member of the Research & Development Committee
Positions and management duties
Mr Kutay is chief executive officer of Novo Holdings A/S, Denmark.
Mr Kutay is member of the board of Novozymes A/S, Denmark, of Evotec SE, Germany and of the Life Sciences Advisory Board of Gimv NV, Belgium.
Former positions
From 2009 to 2016 Kasim Kutay was managing director, co-head of Europe and member of the Global Management Committee of Moelis & Co., UK. From 2007 to 2009 Mr Kutay was managing director and head of Financial Solutions Group of SUN Group, UK. From 1989 to 2007 Mr Kutay held a number of positions at Morgan Stanley, UK, including chair of the European Healthcare Group. Mr Kutay was member of the Board of Trustees of Northwick Park Institute for Medical Research, UK, from 2005 to 2016. Mr Kutay was member of the Board of Governors from 2006 to 2011 and the Investment Committee from 2011 to 2016 of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), UK.
Mr Kutay was first elected to the Board of Novo Nordisk A/S in March 2017 and has most recently been re-elected in March 2020. His term as a board member expires in March 2021.
In March 2020, the Board of Directors of Novo Nordisk A/S assessed that Mr Kutay is not regarded as an independent board member as defined in Section 3.2.1 of the Danish Recommendations on Corporate Governance designated by Nasdaq Copenhagen due to Mr Kutay being the chief executive officer of Novo Holdings A/S.
Mr Kutay became a member of the Nomination Committee at Novo Nordisk A/S in March 2017 and Mr Kutay became member of the Research & Development Committee at Novo Nordisk A/S in March 2020.
Special competences
The Board of Directors has assessed that the special competences possessed by Mr Kutay that are important for the performance of his duties are his extensive experience as an investor in the life science sector. Further, Mr Kutay manages an investment fund that invests in life science companies at all stages of development including the venture, growth and developed stages and has extensive experience as financial advisor to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. Mr Kutay has also advised healthcare companies on an international basis including companies based in Europe, the US, Japan and India.
1987: MSc in Economics, the London School of Economics, UK.
1987: BSc in Economics, the London School of Economics, UK.
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Mr Kutay is a UK national, born May 1965.
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In1995, shortly after graduating from college with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology, I started counseling at an intensive, residential wilderness camp for court-ordered teens. In addition, I have worked with adolescents and families with kids at high risk of being removed from their home or school system because of their behavior. I spent two years as a youth pastor helping deal with emotional and spiritual issues of the teens and parents in my congregation. I left my pastoral position to pursue a Master of Arts in Counseling and in 2007 earned a degree from Reformed Theological Seminary. Today, I counsel all types of clients and specialize in working with adolescents and men, leading groups and canoe trips for fathers and sons.
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If you are still hoping that employees would be checking their benefits through the company website, you're probably forgetting about a significant portion of your workforce who would like the ability and flexibility of checking benefits via their mobile devices. Moreover, when it comes to mobile use, only 11 percent is spent on websites via mobile browsers, while apps account for 89 percent of mobile media time. This is a clear indicator of the fact that it's not enough to select a benefit provider that has a mobile-friendly webpage; The best option would be to go for an employee benefits app your team can download as well.
Mobile app based benefits help your employees to engage and adapt to the benefits that your company offers more comfortably. For example, an employee with unanswered questions about their diet, fitness, and health benefits may be reluctant to make a doctor's appointment. However, if there is a mobile App for it, it would benefit him or her to be easily able to access this benefit information via their phone – and not having to wait to get back in front of their PC.
Medical identity theft is an increasingly prevalent issue nowadays. To stay protected mobile Apps can provide time-sensitive alerts and notifications to changes in benefits redemption.
According to a survey conducted by Bank of America, 55 percent of respondents said they even sleep with their smartphones on their bedside table to avoid missing a call, text message, or any update during the night. So, having mobile app-enabled wellness program can provide them with untethered access to available benefits on-demand – from any device, and from anywhere. Employers, in return, can begin to drive behavior change and improve overall well-being and employee satisfaction.
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How relyable is the dating of the MacKenzie home tapes in the tracklist of the copyright CDs?
Are there any more up to date informations available?
This tape is continuous and James Alley Blues ends with Eve(?) laughing. I Rode Out One Morning (bootleg copy) begins with Eve laughing and ends with the tape cutting off. Playing it after James Alley Blues sounds like it fits. I agree with Sony on this one, Fall 1962.
This tape has a break during Only a Hobo, but Bob picks up where he stopped so it seems like the same song. During the Instrumental Bob talks about recently playing Hollis Brown during the Town Hall concert (4/12/1963). Eve also asks about whether a song is on the "new album," which would indicate a 1963 date and not 1962. Considering this tape has continuity and House of the Risin' Sun is the same here as the 50th release, I agree with Dundas that it's April 19, 1963.
Just my opinion for those 2 songs. The other songs I can't tell just from the tapes.
Thank you very much for your estimation. I can follow your explanation very well.
Leaving the question of the first and/or second McKenzie tape. They were allways assigned to Nov. 23 and Dec. 4, 1961. Jan. 29, 1962 was never a known date for either tape.


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Absolutely Incredible Kid Day® – March 21, 2020
Children, Parents
Absolutely Incredible Kid Day®
A thought for Absolutely Incredible Kid Day®:
"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children." — Nelson Mandela
Kids are the future. Camp Fire stands ready to help. This organization, born as Camp Fire Girls in 1910, has embarked on a mission to "guide young people on their journey to self-discovery." What can we do to help? It's simple, really. Absolutely Incredible Kid Day®, celebrated on March 21 this year, encourages adults to write a young person a note — letting them know just why they're so amazing! (Verbal messages are fine too.) Our thoughtful words can spark a life-changing journey for a child. Let's get started.
Absolutely Incredible Kid Day® timeline
Meet the "Incredibles"
Camp Fire recognized three kids chosen for their resilience, determination, courage, compassion, and joy. They are Ohio fifth-grader Hala Khalil, who has quickly learned English after arriving from Jordan; aspiring drummer Jessica Albertson; and talented baseball player Davy Bradley.
Thrive!
The organization taught kids and teens SEL (Social Emotional Learning) skills via the new Thrive{ology} framework, a research-based approach for youth success.
A century of great kids
Camp Fire celebrated 100 years. Participants from coast to coast lit campfires (of course!) at the same time to mark the occasion.
A new day for kids
Absolutely Incredible Kid Day® began as a nationwide effort urging adults to write about the awesome children in their lives.
Girls rule! (And so do boys.)
Camp Fire, America's first multiracial, multicultural, and nonsectarian organization for girls, went co-ed. There are now a total of 54 chapters, or "councils."
Absolutely Incredible Kid Day® Activities
Write a note
Simply tell a special young person in your life what makes her/him so, well, absolutely incredible. Be specific. Stick the note in their lunchbox (if they have one), or anywhere else they might look. Not feeling old school? You can always post on their favorite social media page. Or just tell them in person.
Consider a Camp Fire camp
You'll be surprised at the variety. There are camps for the LGBTQ community, as well as autism camps, grief camps, special needs camps — and many more. Kids learn crucial life skills while participating in a wide array of fun activities.
Plan for a "Wohelo Award"
"Wohelo" stands for work, health, and love — critical Camp Fire values for over a century. The award represents the organization's highest achievement. Kids in grades 9-12 work hard to complete an intensive project based on their passion. Looks pretty cool on a college application, too!
5 Spectacular, Inspiring, Confident Kids You Seriously Need To Know...Like Right Now
Tanitoluwa Adewumi
He's the 8-year-old Nigerian refugee who just won the "kindergarten through third grade" category at the New York State chess championship. All this, despite living with his family in a homeless shelter.
Dafne Almazán
Originally from Mexico, Dafne became a psychologist...at age 13! Next up — Harvard, where, at age 17, she's the first minor to be enrolled in a post-graduate degree program in the last 100 years.
Elisabeth Anisimow
The Los Angeles-based artist began selling her paintings at age 7. Now 12, she turned her parents' garage into a studio. Elisabeth hopes to study art at the Sorbonne in Paris.
This Texas teenager, born with cerebral palsy, holds a prominent place on his high school wrestling team. (He's the captain.) Hunter hopes to inspire others with his inspiring viral workout video
Charley Thomas
This 10-year-old British boy can recite the mathematical constant known as "Pi" (π) to an astonishing 258 decimal places.
Why We Love Absolutely Incredible Kid Day®
AIKD focuses on the "now."
Yes, when it comes to our young people, it's absolutely crucial to plan for the future. Still, Camp Fire hopes to inspire kids to take on leadership roles right now. Why wait? Children have unlimited potential.
Camp Fire remains committed to helping kids "use their voice and find their sparks." Each young person has different passions. Exploring them early can greatly improve their chances of success. Let's help kids figure out who they are on Absolutely Incredible Kid Day®.
"Thrive{ology}"
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When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It's when you're mad with it, it's when it's stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It's when there's no hope but that.
I want to wake up next to what I went to bed with. I need a girl who can get dressed up to come with me to things, but also one who isn't afraid to get her fingernails dirty or chip her nail polish.
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This movement that RuPaul has created and World of Wonder and Logo has allowed to be aired, it's so much than just gay men carrying on in high heels and wigs and fake fingernails. It's truly a story of courageous souls. And I'm grateful that I'm a part of this.
When you really listen to what your body is telling you, it's easy to treat it well. For example, if my fingernails are weak, I know I need more calcium. If I have dry skin, I'm dehydrated or need to exfoliate.
Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.
I'm living to the edges of my fingernails, using everything I have. It's impossible for me to look at things politically or in any way as a project, to further my career. You're injected directly into the blood of the places in which you're living and what's going on there.
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I do talk to individuals still in the business of tracking individuals in the homeland and abroad. A lot of them have felt that they were hanging on by their fingernails a bit in terms of tracking all the potential threats out there.
I bite my fingernails. That's probably not a good thing.
The people I always loved listening to had a little bit of dirt under their fingernails because they had done some living and had these stories to talk about.
The success of 'The Widow' meant there were expectations for the second book from the first word, and it has created a completely different writing experience. Not to say I haven't enjoyed writing 'The Child,' but I confess there were times when I felt as if I was wrenching it out of my body with bloodied fingernails!
Literally, if someone says I am grounded, everyday I am at home, I actually have my hands in the ground and dirt under my fingernails. I don't have a staff to do it all for me. I still plant a seed and I'm amazed it grows.
I do go back and listen to my songs. I'm biting my fingernails the whole way through, but I do listen. I have a lot of songs I've wanted to re-record just because of how advanced technology is and the different instrument sounds that I'm more experienced with.


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Biodiversity Informatics - Research Thread
AMcD August 5, 2022, 12:29pm #1
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I'm working on a map of radio-ecology / sustainability / impact investing and molecular bio-prospecting building off Leo's investigations in that area and my recent reading on the history of the Atomic Energy Commission and radio-isotopes. It's hard to keep all the sources straight as I make the map, so I'm going to use this thread as a placeholder for links and observations as I pull this together. This is what I have so far - work in progress…
Kumu – 2 Aug 22
Radio Ecology
A Kumu Project.
What led me to start this tread was noticing that the MacArthur Foundation has been funding taxonomic indexing and citizen science documentation of biodiversity. They are also the folks who are central to ed-tech "open education resources" and playlist education for lifelong learning aka training the machine. MacArthur is insurance money and based in Chicago. On a hunch I did a search of MacArthur and Argonne National Lab - also based in Chicago and a US DOE operation closely tied to bioinformatics, too. This guy's obituary came up - Arthur Sussman.
"Arthur M. Sussman, former General Counsel at the University of Chicago and former MacArthur Vice President passed away on August 10, 2016 in Chicago."
"…then General Counsel and Vice President for Administration and Argonne National Laboratory at the University of Chicago for 22 years (1979-2001)."
"As Vice President at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (2001-2011), Sussman helped to shape the Foundation's grantmaking in support of human rights and international justice, biodiversity preservation, and arts and culture in Chicago. "
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MacArthur Mourns Arthur M. Sussman
The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, we work to defend human rights, advance global conservation...
This is the press release for their funding of the "Encyclopedia of Life" in 2009. I have a feeling that the creation of biodiversity informatics will be linked to financialization of natural asset classes and that "citizen science" data capture may be folded into future pay for success deals - picture those nature apps as a "future of work" task assignment.
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So for years I worked at a public botanic garden where the founders corresponded with Linnaeus, creator of taxonomic systems in the 18th century. We are about to see the imposition of standards include molecular level monitoring I think. For a time around 1738 Linnaeus worked for a director of the Dutch East India Company who was a plant collector. I think the image below kind of sums up the dominating tendencies of man over nature. From this slide deck.
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The MacArthur Foundation provided the seed funding for the World Resources Institute in 1982 - the are the primary think tank laying the ground work for the Climate emergency. See the composition of their board.
WRI's active and highly diverse board of directors is substantially engaged in our strategic direction, program planning and outcomes.
This is the 1982 MacArthur grant reference.
https://www.macfound.org/timeline/1/
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At the time of its founding Yale alumnus and Rhodes Scholar James Gustave Speth was director. @leo Speth was born in Orangeburg, SC about an hour east of the AEC Savannah River Ecology Preserve. Speth had already founded the Natural Resources Defense Council and was closely involved with the Clinton administration's environmental policies and later the UN environmental program and sustainability measures. Later in his career in "forestry" and environmental law he landed at the University of Vermont Law School. James Gustave Speth - Wikipedia
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RFK Jr. was lead attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council, founded by Speth, from 1986 to 2017.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - Wikipedia.
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Hopping back to MacArthur - as we consider vast amounts of data aggregation on the environment under the umbrella of "sustainability" it's important to remember that it is all used for simulation and modeling - the digital twin "world." MacArthur was an early promoter of Second Life in 2009 even creating its own digital island and promoting virtual philanthropy. More on that here: PhilanTopic: MacArthur Island Launches in Second Life
MacArthur Island Launches in Second Life - PhilanTopic | PND | Candid
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leo August 6, 2022, 4:34pm #7
So im not sure if it would be to off topic, but radiogenetics abasically same thing.
Hugo De Vries, Dutch Botanists. Heres some text from what I am working on, my source is primarily Luis Campos, Radium and the Secret of Life. Italisaized are quotes from his book. I get you the pdf if interested.
Dutch botanist Hugo De Vries, catalyzed a major shift in biology with his theory of mutation, positing that new species could emerge within a single generation. The idea came about in response to the problems of Darwinian natural/sexual selection, where changes lead to new species were selected through 'survival of the fittest' or 'mate choice'. The purely Darwinian model required a longer timespan than life had actually evolved under. De vries argued that organisms could go through "mutating periods" involving sudden major shifts. He believed his favorite subject, the evening primrose, was undergoing one of these "mutating periods". His work inspired the concept of experimental evolutionary biology. Campos writes:
its publication marked "an epoch, not only in the history of botany, but of all biological science," according to one prominent reviewer— "and the mutation- theory itself is, in all probability, the most important contribution to evolutionary thought since the publication of Darwin's 'Origin.'" As another contemporary noted, "Whether de Vries' theories are correct or not, wholly or partly, is of far less importance to agriculture than the stimulus he has given to the experimental study of plant variation." (bold added)
So this is significant as agricultural interested are at the heart of some of this early genetics/radiation/mutation work. Carnegie plays a big role.
De Vries became quite popular and went on speaking tours throughout Northamerica. On June 11, 1904 he spoke at the dedication ceremony for the department of genetics of the Carnegie Foundation at Cold Spring Harbor:
In an address entitled "The Aim of Experimental Evolution," de Vries thrilled his audience by suggesting that "the rays of Roentgen and Curie" might be successfully used to induce mutation, grant humanity control over evolution, and lead to the production of new and useful varieties— all extraordinarily popular topics at the turn of the century.
De Vries' biggest fan in the United States, Daniel MacDougal, began working at the NYC botanical gardens in 1899 and conducted some of the first research looking to expand De Vries notion of large scale intentional mutations in plants. After failing with various salt, mineral mixtures, MacDougal finally succeeded in inducing mutations through radium, and Campos cites him as:
MacDougal was arguably the first to make the evolutionary link between the transmutation of radium and the transmutation of a species experimentally explicit.
Campos also described MacDougal as emblematic of a shift in academic biology, where researchers were "becoming increasingly professionalized, interventionist, and experimentalized and making use of new technologies, equipment, and funding sources".
After several years at the botanical laboratories in NYC MacDougal became the director of botanical studies for the Carnegie Foundation around 1906.
Fascinatingly with Carnigie, one of the main contributions I am reading about MacDougal, is the invention of the dendograph, an recording device for tree growth. Daniel T. MacDougal (1865-1958) | Carnegie's Department of Plant Biology
Carnegie Institute money put Cold Spring Harbor lab on the map for biology and genetics research in the early 1900s.
One of the often cited results out of Cold Springs is the development of 'hybrid' corn. George Shulls, Princeton professor who worked out of Cold Springs in the early 1900s, is taught as the 'father' of 'hybrid' corn which became the basis for industrial agriculture corn breeding. He went on to found the journal Genetics.
Jean-Pierre Berlan, former director of research in economics at the National Institute of Agronomic Research in Montpellier France, argues in an essay that Shulls 'discovery' was merely an extension of cloning and isolation practices already in practice, and actually solved the economic problems of corn property rights.
Shull's 'Composition of a field of maize' is a masterpiece: it sent generations of biologists astray chasing the mysteries of heterosis; it established Shull's priority on the exploitation of the elusive heterosis (the worldwide paradigm of breeding), and on its implementation with his revolutionary breeding technique, 'hybrid corn'. It turned reality upside down: his breeding technique appeared as a consequence of his theory of heterosis although his theory was actually an ad hoc construction to justify his extending the early nineteenth century isolation/cloning method to maize; it hid the extravagance of his breeding method and its inability to increase yield behind the 'magic of heterosis'; it highlighted isolation methods to stamp out the isolation/cloning method; it solved the twin overdominant problems of an industrial capitalist agriculture, industrial uniformity and breeders' property rights, and created the present monopolistic seed industry; and last, it insured that Shull would not have to share his 'monument' with anyone.
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The molecular approach to life, UN-sanctioned equal access to genetic material, and uplifting of Indigenous voices I feel will lead all of nature onto the blockchain for tokenization. Considering what you just said above, I see this article as a set up for a future "sharing economy" of genetic material managed by IoT and satellites / drones. Indigenous Maize: Who Owns the Rights to Mexico's 'Wonder' Plant? - Yale E360
Compare Shull's patent approach with Raul's discussion of the four-season floating gardens of Mexico City.
jenlake August 15, 2022, 7:02pm #10
Corn genetics….@leo
"Barbara McClintock (June 16, 1902 – September 2, 1992) was an American scientist and cytogeneticist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927. There she started her career as the leader of the development of maize cytogenetics, the focus of her research for the rest of her life. From the late 1920s, McClintock studied chromosomes and how they change during reproduction in maize. She developed the technique for visualizing maize chromosomes and used microscopic analysis to demonstrate many fundamental genetic ideas. One of those ideas was the notion of genetic recombination by crossing-over during meiosis—a mechanism by which chromosomes exchange information. She produced the first genetic map for maize, linking regions of the chromosome to physical traits. She demonstrated the role of the telomere and centromere, regions of the chromosome that are important in the conservation of genetic information. She was recognized as among the best in the field, awarded prestigious fellowships, and elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1944.
"During the 1940s and 1950s, McClintock discovered transposition and used it to demonstrate that genes are responsible for turning physical characteristics on and off. She developed theories to explain the suppression and expression of genetic information from one generation of maize plants to the next. Due to skepticism of her research and its implications, she stopped publishing her data in 1953. Later, she made an extensive study of the cytogenetics and ethnobotany of maize races from South America…" Barbara McClintock - Wikipedia
Listen to the audio on McClintock by Jo Handelsman, who cites McClintock's discovery of 'jumping genes' which she identified with "mosaic" leaf characteristics—we're induced to call them viruses and there is a long list of plant viruses labeled "mosaic". Neither Wikipedia nor the audio mention that McClintock was irradiating her specimens with X-rays. UV is often mentioned and was common practice in historical context, but I searched hard to find the X-ray citations, which may have actually been her preferred method.
jenlake August 16, 2022, 4:24am #11
Here's a World Resources Institute collaboration to bring Forest Resiliency Bonds [FRBs] to market, and a question:
If private investors buy stakes in government forestry resource management, can wildfire catastrophe bonds be far behind?
Wildfire burnings this year as of August 13, 2022, with Alaska at #1 with 3 times its average:
"Over the last 10 years Alaska's average acres burned in a full year is 1.1 million. This year they are at 3.1 million, more than the other 49 states combined. There has been a major increase in Alaska acres burned after mid-August in only 2 of the last 18 years. And it has been fairly quiet there, fire wise, for the last four weeks.
So far this year, fires in the other 49 states have blackened about 2.8 million acres, 12 percent below the to-date 10-year average of 3.2 million. The 49 states typically burn 6.2 million in a full year, so if this year turns out like the average of the last 10, we're about half done…" https://wildfiretoday.com/2022/08/13/wildfire-acres-burned-to-date-in-united-states-outside-alaska-is-lower-than-average/
Before reading on, consider the military uses of forest fires: www.geoengineeringwatch.org (17 minutes)
Here's a 3-way partnership "pay-for-success" investment bond (FRB) from World Resources Institute, Blue Forest Conservation, and Encourage Capital which launched the implementation of a 'forest restoration' project in Tahoe National Forest in 2018 to prevent destructive wildfires and improve air and water quality.
"Encourage Capital has become a leader in financing ecosystem-based carbon offset projects that develop carbon credits for the California carbon market. Our EKO Green Carbon Fund [GCF] invests in projects that rely on changes in forest management practices that are designed to preserve more carbon." Encourage Capital - A new kind of investment firm that seeks to make profitable investments that solve critical social and environmental issues. | Environmental Markets. "One of the most important investments by the GCF is an investment in the development of a project with the White Mountain Apache Tribe (WMAT)… The WMAT IFM project is the GCF's largest investment and is expected to produce over 3,500,000 California Carbon Offsets, making it one the largest forest carbon projects in the U.S." Encourage Capital - A new kind of investment firm that seeks to make profitable investments that solve critical social and environmental issues. | Environmental Markets.
As Wildfires Scorch U.S. Forests, Forest Resilience Bond Blazes a New Trail
"In 2015, wildfire burned over 10 million acres of land across the United States for the first time in recorded history. This was no anomaly: 9 of the 10 worst fire seasons have all occurred since 2000. 2017 is on pace to join the list with nearly 8.5 million acres burned as of September 17. Wildfires have been particularly vicious in the western U.S., choking Seattle with smoke, ravaging the renowned Columbia River Gorge, and threatening Los Angeles with the largest fire in the city's history.
"Forests are three to four times as dense as they were a century ago, with excess vegetation increasing the risk of wildfire. As a result, 40 percent of the U.S. Forest Service's 193 million acres of public forest and grasslands are at "high risk" of severe wildfires.
"Forest restoration—the strategic removal of brush and shrubs and selective thinning of trees—could help return forests to a healthier state. However, the agency is far short of the resources it would need to do to the job at the scale required. An ambitious new approach to financing is needed. One such approach, called the Forest Resilience Bond, will allow private investors to help close the gap between the need for forest restoration and the capital available for restoration projects.
"Forests restored to a more natural density face a lower risk of severe wildfire, which protects water quality and watershed resilience while avoiding devastating carbon emissions from wildfires. However, despite the financial, social, and environmental benefits that restoration would create, the USFS lacks the resources to implement treatments. That's due to a vicious cycle known as "fire borrowing," in which USFS pays to fight today's fires out of the funds designed to prevent tomorrow's. USFS now spends more than half of its budget just to put out fires. Left unchecked, fire suppression is expected to rise to two-thirds of the total budget by 2025, resulting in nearly $700 million less available each year for proactive restoration and other initiatives to promote forest health…
"In many cases, the multi-stakeholder value of forest restoration far exceeds its costs and would make a compelling economic case for investment—if such opportunities existed. Recognizing this potential, a new approach called the Forest Resilience Bond has been spearheaded by Blue Forest Conservation, the World Resources Institute, and Encourage Capital. This first-of-its-kind tool brings together the beneficiaries of forest restoration with an unlikely ally: private investors.
The Forest Resilience Bond
The Forest Resilience Bond (FRB) is an investment in forest health. It is a public-private partnership that enables private capital to finance much-needed forest restoration. Beneficiaries of the restoration work make cost-share and pay-for-success payments over time (up to 10 years) to provide investors competitive returns based on the project's success.
Once investor capital is used to implement the restoration treatments, investors earn back their money from payments by the following beneficiaries:
USFS, paying for decreased risk of severe fire;
Electric utilities, paying for increased hydroelectricity generation, avoided sedimentation, and protected infrastructure;
Water utilities, paying for protected water quality and improved water volumes; and
State and local governments, paying for avoided fire suppression costs, avoided carbon emissions, protected communities, and job creation.
…$52 billion is invested in global environmental conservation annually, but research shows at least six times that sum is necessary to preserve the world's ecosystems. The Forest Resilience Bond could help meet this challenge. In their inaugural report, "Fighting Fire with Finance: A Roadmap for Collective Action," the FRB team details how conservation finance can be applied not just to forest restoration, but to other environmental contexts across the globe.
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The US Forest Service has to fight fires with the money meant to prevent tomorrow's, creating a massive budget shortfall for forest restoration. Amid a terrible fire season for the U.S. western states, a new financial instrument can help stakeholders...
Blue Forest – This is our story.
"In 2015, a group of graduate students at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business identified a lack of financing as the primary barrier to adequate forest restoration in California and across the U.S… [T]he group developed an innovative financial model that would utilize sources of financing from private and philanthropic investors to fund forest restoration activities. With this model, then called the "Blue Forest Conservation Notes," the group entered the Kellog-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investment Challenge, a global competition for innovative finance vehicles that seek positive environmental or social impact and competitive financial returns. Out of 129 teams from around the world, the early version of the Forest Resilience Bond, won first place.
"After winning the competition, the founding members and the model began to draw attention and started developing a network, establishing important and valuable relationships with groups who believed in them and the FRB.
"One such group was the Rockefeller Foundation. In 2015, Blue Forest received an early-stage grant from the Foundation's newly launched Zero Gap Portfolio and another from the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation. Investments from CSAA Insurance and Calvert Impact Capital were also crucial to Blue Forest as they continued to build out the model and identify investors.
"Fast forward three years and Blue Forest successfully launched its first FRB project in 2018. The Yuba Project provides $4 million in private capital to finance critical restoration treatments across 15,000 acres of the Tahoe National Forest, working in partnership with World Resources Institute, the USDA Forest Service and various partners that provide research, evaluation, legal and implementation expertise. The Yuba Project's first successful work season was completed in the fall of 2019.
"In 2020, Blue Forest gained tax exempt status becoming a 501c3 non-profit organization and elected its first Board of Directors.
https://www.blueforest.org/our-story
Chad Reed is a co-founder of Blue Forest Conservation and leads investor relations and ESG strategy for Hannon Armstrong (NYSE: HASI), a leading investor in climate change solutions… Chad started his career as an intelligence officer operating primarily in the Middle East. He holds degrees from the University of California at Berkeley, the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and the George Washington University.
Nick Wobbrock is a co-founder and the COO of Blue Forest Conservation. He is a licensed civil engineer who developed drinking water and sanitation infrastructure in the US and internationally in Honduras and Malawi… Nick earned an MBA from the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, an MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University, and a BS in Biological and Environmental Engineering from Cornell University.
Newsha K. Ajami, PhD is the Chief Strategy and Development Officer for Research at the Berkeley Lab Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA) …Dr. Ajami is a Commissioner for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and previously served as a two-term gubernatorial appointee to the Bay Area Regional Water Quality Control Board. She is a member of the National Academies Board on Water Science and Technology…
Daniela Saltzman is the founder and CEO of Saltzman & Co., a communications advisory firm that enables companies to generate value from sustainable products and services…
https://www.blueforest.org/board-of-directors
The Yuba Project: "Tahoe National Forest and Blue Forest Conservation partnered to launch The Yuba Project…[as] the first FRB… to finance ecological restoration treatments across 15,000 acres of national forest. The State of California and the Yuba Water Agency are repaying investors at contracted rates as restoration work is completed…" The Yuba Project — Blue Forest Conservation
Fire in Tahoe National Forest grows to nearly 1,000 acres
September 5, 2018 – A fire burning in the Tahoe National Forest near Emigrant Gap has grown to nearly 1,000 acres. The North Fire erupted in the forest Monday. It continues to burn on both sides of the North Fork of the American River canyon near the North Fork Campground.
After downgrading the size of the fire to 500 acres — from a previous estimate of 750 acres — Tuesday morning, the fire grew to 999 acres, according to an update posted at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday… Containment is at 10 percent. There are no [additional] evacuations at this time.
The Placer County Sheriff's Office has closed the following roads and campgrounds: Yuba Gap Road at I-80; Emigrant Gap Road at I-80; Crystal Lake Road at I-80; Onion Valley, North Fork, Tunnel Mills, Lodgepole, Silvertip, and Sunflower Campgrounds.
https://www.tahoedailytribune.com/news/fire-in-tahoe-national-forest-grows-to-nearly-1000-acres/#:~:text=A%20fire%20burning%20in%20the%20Tahoe%20National%20Forest,American%20River%20canyon%20near%20the%20North%20Fork%20Campground.
Two days earlier…
Published: 4:56 PM PDT September 3, 2018 :"According to the Placer County Sheriff's Department, authorities have evacuated the North Fork Campground, the Onion Valley Campground and the Tunnel Mills Campground after the so-called North Fire ballooned in the area… Officials say the "aggressive" fire has consumed about 650 acres of land, so far, with "spotting" occurring. Due to the evacuations, traffic on I-80 area is becoming congested…" North Fire: Campgrounds in Tahoe National Forest evacuated | abc10.com
The Sum of Its Parts: Wildfire in Multi-Peril Catastrophe Bonds
Water, wind, and wildfire. It's been a devastating three months for the U.S. Total insured losses from Hurricanes Florence and Michael, and the Camp and Woolsey wildfires are estimated by RMS in the range US$18.6 billion to US$28 billion…
While California wildfires may seem far removed from Atlantic storms, for capital markets investors the fires may make the difference to how 2018 is remembered. Insurance Linked Securities (ILS) eyes are now trained on multi-peril aggregate catastrophe bonds. Bundling multiple perils under a single coverage makes good sense for the capital markets… The Sum of Its Parts: Wildfire in Multi-Peril Catastrophe Bonds | RMS
Tahoe National Forest Loyalton fire now 44,000 acres
August 18, 2020 Tahoe National Forest Loyalton fire now 44,000 acres - MOTHER LODE TRAILS
MAFFS tackle largest wildfires in California history
Oct. 30, 2020 MAFFS tackle largest wildfires in California history > National Guard > Guard News - The National Guard
"California's 2020 fires were unprecedented — and not just because they covered more than 4 million acres. The Creek Fire, which burned east of Fresno in the western Sierra Nevada, flamed with such frenzy that it produced a cloud resembling an atomic bomb blast, with smoke reaching the stratosphere. That fire and others, like the huge, lightning-sparked North Complex fires in the Sierras north of Sacramento, didn't burn in the usual patchy fashion of wildfires, leaving lightly singed spots mixed with more intensely burned islands. They torched much of the acreage within their boundaries, killing even large trees that would have withstood smaller blazes… today's fires tend to include large patches of fierce crown fires, in which flames engulf the entire forest canopy. These intense fires kill trees across broad areas, and the scorched expanses are too large for nearby surviving trees to reseed… foresters may need to replant saplings after severe burns such as those California experienced this year — and that need has been growing as megafires become more common. The acreage that must be replanted annually is now several times more than it was in the 1970s…"
https://www.ncronline.org/news/earthbeat/how-rebuild-california-forests-climate-mind
Forest Service: All California national forests to close as wildfires ravage state
Aug 30, 2021 – Lake Tahoe Nevada State Parks is [also] closing all its management units due to hazardous air quality from the Caldor Fire. MSN
leo August 19, 2022, 1:48pm #12
Considering that X-Rays seemed to replace radium as the choice irradiation method around that time with Muller it would seem likely she was doing that.
She worked at Cold Spring for 26 years! Also first recipient of the genius grant from the MacArthur Foundation @AMcD.
" 1981, McClintock became the first recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Grant, now known informally as the "genius" grant, which was awarded for her lifetime. "
Claude Shannon's PhD dissertation was on creating and "algebra for Mendelian populations" and was conducted at Cold Spring as well, published a year before Barbara began working there.
Thanks for passing this along I dont think I had heard of blue forest. A Partner is the Natural Capital Project out of Stanford, who built the INVEST platform for ecosystem/biodiversity services
For anyone reading whose not familiar. The general model of 'investing in nature' revolves around a measurement of the economic value of an ecosystem (from things like tourism, pollinators, rivers, clean air, ect). So investors are paid a profit, form the government or private foundations based on the measurable benefit the program created in terms of ecosystem services and related economics.
@AMcD another piece, which from a quick search I dont think is in the map yet. is the UNs SEEA-EA System of Environmental Economic Accounting for Ecosystem Accounting is an international standard recently set by the UN office of statistics for the accounting of ecosystem services.
seea.un.org
seea_ea_white_cover_final.pdf
In addition ARIES for SEEA is the AI engine for using SEEA.
Using ARIES technology, the ARIES for SEEA Explorer application allows users anywhere in the world to produce rapid, standardized, scalable and customizable ecosystem accounts for their area of interest that are consistent with the SEEA Ecosystem Accounting framework. ARIES for SEEA is available on the UN Global Platform, a cloud-service platform supporting international collaboration in the development of official statistics using new data sources and innovative methods.
Spatial Finance
Ecosystem accounting takes a spatial approach
The SEEA EA takes a spatial approach to accounting, as the benefits a society receives from ecosystems depend on where those assets are in the landscape in relation to the beneficiaries. In contrast, the SEEA Central Framework looks at individual environmental assets (resources), such as water or energy resources.
This spatial focus identifies the location and size of ecosystem assets, the ecosystem services provided, and the location of beneficiaries (households, businesses and governments). For example, the beneficiaries of water filtration ecosystem services are likely located downstream of the ecosystem asset that provides that benefit (see figure 2).
As a result, ecosystem accounts are commonly presented using maps, bringing together geographical, environmental, ecological, and economic information in one place, as well as tables
The Swiss Re papers on "underwriting nature" use the same language of spacial Finance
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I said that Scarecrow stands alongside Fulton most of the time that I see him. That's because sometimes I've seen him standing in the middle of Fulton during the evening rush hour, blocking the traffic heading to the I-70 onramp, looking confused amidst a chorus of honking horns. Other times, I've seen him cross the steady current of traffic headed south on Third, wait for the light to change, and then walk across the cars headed west on Fulton, causing ripples in the car flow as the drivers swerve to avoid him.
I should also clarify that he doesn't really stand, so much as he sways. I've never seen him fall, but it usually seems like he's about go down. His torso swivels back and forth — to the point where he's bending back 45 degrees then suddenly bending completely forward, always staring or pointing — with his legs rooted firmly in the ground, like a scarecrow flailing in the wind. And he doesn't walk across moving traffic so much as he stumbles, making the same swiveling motion with his torso but occasionally taking a knee before steadying himself to the point where he can get back up and move forward.
He's got to be on some kind of drug, but I don't know what. I do know that every time I see him, I think that it's a miracle he's still alive.
Anyway, one day while walking south along Third, I saw Scarecrow stumbling on the sidewalk ahead of me, just north of Fulton. I slowed my pace, hoping he'd get moving again before I reached his spot, and I would've avoided him if he hadn't stopped next to a light pole just off the left curb of the sidewalk to pull down his rolled up pants legs.
I was on the far right of the sidewalk and was just about to pass him when he suddenly stood straight up and turned around to face me. Startled, I stopped for a moment, and he approached me. I got my first good, closeup view of him. His hair was long and bushy, but not necessarily unkempt, and his clothes looked old, but clean and well cared for. He wasn't swaying at that moment, but his right leg made a kinetic, wiggling motion that seemed synced with the constant chewing motion that his mouth made. He rubbed his hands together every few moments. His whole body seemed restless, except for his eyes, which were steady and fixed determinedly on my own.
"Hey man, hey man," he said. His voice sounded relaxed, not pleading like I had expected.
"What do you need?" I said. I already had excuses prepared to explain why I couldn't give him what he was looking for. First on the list was to say that I was sorry, but I didn't have any cash on me. Second was that I myself was broke and had just gotten fired from my job. I'll spare you the others, but trust me when I tell you that it's easy to make up stories the farther away you get from reality.
"Hey man," he said again. It was like he didn't realize he had my attention. We'd only been talking for a moment, but I was ready to get this conversation over with.
"Yeah," I said. "What do you need?" I was two seconds from walking away.


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Newark-upon-Trent
Goerge Pike England, 1810
"Father" Willis, 1866
Wm Hill, 1910
Hill, Norman & Beard, 1979
St Mary Magdalene, Newark
The original organ by England was placed on a western gallery, but it was moved in 1814 to the rood screen, when both screen and organ were painted white. In 1836, and octave of pedal pipes was added by Bishop, and it was moved to its present position at ground level in the south choir aisle in 1855 by Forster & Andrews during a major restoration of the building. At this stage, it had four manuals, each with a different compass!
In 1866 "Father" Willis was engaged to complete the organ, when side wings were added to the Scott case, almost doubling it in size.
William Hill rebuilt the organ in 1910, when about 1000 of its 2944 pipes were new. The hydraulic blowing apparatus installed at this time was replaced by an electric blower, together with minor modifictaions, in the 1920s by Hill Norman & Beard. Further rebuilds and restoration work were carried out in 1938, 1964 and 1979. In the latter rebuild, the Choir Organ was remodelled on classical lines and renamed Positiv, and an Ellen Dynamic Transmission System was installed - the first four-manual organ in the country to be so equipped - giving the organist the ability to pre-record a performance and then replay it automatically.
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Q: iOS Firebase sync not working after login token expires Firebase iOS version: 2.4.1.1
After having logged in the upstream synchronisation from the mobile to firebase stops after the login token expires. However downstream sync is still working.
This is not what I expected since I don't require the user to be logged in in order to write to Firebase.
This is usually not apparent, but it became clear when I experimented with very short Session lengths. In my testing I used 24 seconds, set through the admin interface.
Do I have strange expectations of the default behaviour or did i configure something by accident?
Firebase rules
{
"rules": {
    ".read": true,
    ".write": true
    }
}

In my AppDelegate
override init() {

    super.init()
    Firebase.defaultConfig().persistenceEnabled = true
    let ref = Firebase(url: "https://xxx.firebaseio.com");
    ref.authUser("xxx@gmail.com", password: "1234") {
        error, authData in
        if error != nil {
            // an error occured while attempting login
            print(error)
        } else {
            print("login sucessfully experiy date \(NSDate(timeIntervalSince1970: authData.expires.doubleValue))")
        }
    }

    ref.observeAuthEventWithBlock({ authData in
        if authData != nil {
            // user authenticated
            print("AuthEvent \(authData)")
        } else {
            // No user is signed in
            print("AuthEvent: user is signed out")
        }
    })
}

I have the following upload code (example)
func createSubscription(subscription: Subscription) {
    let commentRef = fireSubs.childByAutoId()
    commentRef.setValue(subscription.fireDict())
}

downstream (example)
fireSubs.observeEventType(.ChildAdded, withBlock: { snapshot in
    self.subscriptions.insert(Subscription(snapshot: snapshot), atIndex: 0)
    self.tableView.insertRowsAtIndexPaths([NSIndexPath(forRow: 0, inSection: 0)], withRowAnimation: UITableViewRowAnimation.Top)
})

A: Apparently this is linked to the offline capabilities being enabled:
https://www.firebase.com/docs/ios/guide/offline-capabilities.html

If our app uses Firebase Authentication, the client will persist the
  user's authentication token across restarts. If the auth token expires
  while our app is offline, the client will pause our write operations
  until we re-authenticate, else our writes might fail due to security
  rules

So the app does to some degree indeed follow the documented behavior. One thing is that pausing the writes does not only happen when offline, but also when online and the token has expired.
Turing off disk persistence and the writes are not paused.

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Orders for digital radio products from Clear Channel and CBS helped Harris to an increase in broadcast revenue in its third quarter.
The company said revenue in its Broadcast Communications segment, which includes radio and TV, was $143.1 million in the third quarter, compared to $103.2 million in the same period last year. Though revenue benefited from the acquisition of Leitch Technology, Harris said broadcast revenue also was up over the second quarter of this year.
The company said it also has improved its margin performance through cost reductions and selling higher-margin digital products.
The parent company reported that Harris Corp. revenue in the third quarter was up 14 percent to $881 million.