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Елена Абрамовна Давидович (24 декабря 1922, Ташкент — 5 декабря 2013, Москва) — советский и российский археолог, нумизмат, доктор исторических наук (1965)

Научная деятельность
В годы Великой Отечественной войны Елена Абрамовна параллельно с учёбой работала медсестрой в госпитале.

В 1945 году окончила исторический факультет Среднеазиатского университета (САГУ) и осталась в качестве преподавателя на кафедре.

В конце 1940-х годов в Душанбе один из крупнейших советских востоковедов — А. А. Семёнов по решению правительства создавал Институт истории и археологии им. А. Дониша, куда он пригласил из Ташкента Б. А. Литвинского и его супругу Е. А. Давидович.

В 1965 году Елена Абрамовна стала доктором исторических наук, а в 1969 году — профессором.

В начале 1970-х годов академик Б. Г. Гафуров, будучи директором Института востоковедения АН СССР, пригласил Б. А. Литвинского и Е. А. Давидович на работу в Москву. В Институте востоковедения Елена Абрамовна возглавила Сектор исторического источниковедения. Елена Абрамовна была автором более 250 научных работ по исследованию нумизматики Средней Азии и Ближнего Востока:.

Скончалась 5 декабря 2013 года в Москве на 90-м году жизни.

Примечания

Литература
 Давидович Е. А. О мерах веса позднесредневековой Бухары // Известия Отделения общественных наук (ИООН) АН Тадж. ССР. Вып.1. 1960. С.115-128.

 Давидович Е. А. Денежное обращение в Мавераннахре при Саманидах // Нумизматика и эпиграфика. Вып.VI. М.: «Наука». С.103-134.
Давидович Е. А. Материалы по метрологии средневековой Средней Азии // В кн.: В. Хинц. Мусульманские меры и веса с переводом в метрическую систему. — М., 1970. С.
 Давидович Е. А. Денежное хозяйство Средней Азии после монгольского завоевания и реформа Мас'уд-бека. М., 1972.
 Давидович Е. А. Новые данные по истории Саманидов (клад медных монет IX—X веков их Самарканда) // Средняя Азия в древности и средневековье (история и культура) / под ред.Б.Г.Гафурова, Б.А.Литвинского. М.: Изд-во «Наука». Главная ред.вост.лит-ры. 1977. С.112-125

Давидович Е. А. Краткий обзор монетной политики в государствах Средней Азии VIII-XVIII вв. // Нумизматика и эпиграфика. Вып.XIX. М.: «Наука». 2015. С.161-193.
ПОЛНАЯ библиография работ Е.А.Давидович:  URL: http://archaeologyca.su/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Davidovich-ru.pdf  доступ 25.08.2021

Археологи СССР
Археологи Таджикистана
Археологи России
Историки России
Историки Таджикистана
Историки СССР
Женщины-археологи
Выпускники Национального университета Узбекистана
Похороненные в Москве
Сотрудники Института востоковедения РАН
Доктора исторических наук
Преподаватели Национального университета Узбекистана


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Rhubarb is an interesting perennial vegetable that offers an ornamental appeal with its bright red stalks and huge elephant ear sized leaves.
While it doesn't win many popularity contests when it comes to eating or preparing this vegetable, I always grow a plant or two in the garden.
I frequently receive comments from gardeners experiencing difficulty growing rhubarb in their vegetable gardens. I don't do anything special and my rhubarb flourishes with very little attention so I would guess that any trouble raising this perennial vegetable has to do with the soil quality and preparation prior to planting.
Rhubarb enjoys a rich, fertile soil with good drainage and high levels of organic matter. It will also benefit from annual applications or side dressings of compost and well aged manures. If you're growing rhubarb in a poor quality soil then begin by enriching the area where you intend to plant the rhubarb plants or root divisions.
Dig a hole that is three feet deep and about three square feet wide. Fill the area with a rich mixture of good quality topsoil, compost, and aged manures. Your rhubarb plants or root divisions can then be planted right in the center of this enriched growing area.
Start rhubarb from root cuttings or obtain plants in the spring from your local greenhouse or garden center. It's best to plant them in a perennial herb bed with other perennial vegetables like asparagus and sea kale.
Rhubarb can also be planted in the vegetable garden at the end of a raised bed where it will not be disturbed. Just be sure to give it plenty of room as the plants can cover an area of four or five square feet.
New rhubarb plants shouldn't be harvested at all during the first year and only sparingly during the second growing season. The leaves are not edible; it's the thick stalks that are included in a variety of recipes and desserts. Harvest the stalks by carefully twisting them off from the base of the plant.
Limit your harvest to a few stalks at a time to ensure that the plant has enough leaves left to build reserves to the root system. After six or seven years of growth the roots may need to be divided in order to maintain good productivity.
Rhubarb plants will produce either red or green stalks, with the red varieties being much more ornamental in the garden. Popular rhubarb varieties include: Canada Red (one of my favorites), Ruby, Victoria, Mammoth Red, Prince Albert, Macdonald, Crimson Cherry, Sutton's, and Riverside Giant.
While rhubarb is classified as a vegetable most of its uses are as an ingredient for making desserts. It provides a very tart flavor that blends well with sweeter fruits and ingredients. Rhubarb stalks are commonly included in recipes for pies, cakes, sauces, jams, cobblers, tarts, and breads.
With just a little care in enriching and maintaining a fertile soil, rhubarb will provide you with years of trouble free growth and large, ornamental plants that will decorate the garden's beds even if you never harvest a single stalk for use in the kitchen.
I don't know how I got here but I love your site. It is very inspiring! Makes me want to really get into organic gardening with no pesticides! Thank you for sharing your insights.
Thanks for this. I swear I'm going to get rhubarb going one of these years! The lady at the grocery store where I bought it last said they used to mow it down with the lawn mower, it was so prolific in the midwest where she used to live. Aaack! What a waste!
My brothers rhubarb in Rusk County, Wisconson starts growing then turns to seed real fast. He does not get to enjoy eating any of it. Can you tell me the reason why? I would really appreciate it very much. Thank you Rebecca Robinson.
Rebecca, I'm not sure what you mean by the Rhubarb "turning to seed real fast" I've seen rhubarb plants develop a very small almost unnoticable seed stalk which is easily removed and doesn't really affect the quality or flavor of the Rhubarb harvest.
When I grew non-ornamental rhubarb in New Brunswick, I had two 30 foot rows of the red variety, which we called strawberry rhubarb. You might wonder what in the world could you do with that much rhurbarb. It turns out that it makes the most incredible wine-a pale pink dry chablis. Since I don't drink anymore, I have long since lost the recipe which I found at the library in an English winemaking book. For any winemakers out there, it is a treat not to be missed.
Marilyn, I wonder if your impostor rhubarb might actually be cockleburrs. They are really hard to get rid of. I recommend digging them out. At the very least don't let them go to seed.
I would really like to know if what I think is rhubarb is actually a weed, as my friends think. The plant looks like your website picture but at the top there is a growth, flower? /seeds?? I have pulled it out last year as a 'weed', but this year it's back & I think it is rhubarb — but not sure – Would love to harvest it if it is the real thing!
Hi Elsie, does the growth that you mentioned look like the last photo in this article about Vegetable Seed Stalks? Rhubarb is pretty distinctive looking, but always get a positive ID before eating any plant that you are unsure of.
The photo you asked me to check does not look the same. I just went to have a better look at the plant, now about 4'high, which is just getting taller by sprouting more leaves. What I thought was going to open and flower is just more leaves. Also although the stems at the bottom are red at the source, the whole stalk has a fibre'y surface, not smooth like rhubarb – I think I'm looking at what articles suggest might be a 'cockleburr' – best to pull it out 🙁 will go to purchase a plant, then I will have the right thing for sure. Thank you for your assistance. Much appreciated.


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Lab's Low Gene Test Price Gets Insurers' Attention
California lab firm contracts with insurers, gains in-network access to 100 million members
By Joseph Burns
| From the Volume XXIV No. 8 - June 5, 2017 Issue
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CEO SUMMARY: At a time when most molecular and genetic testing companies are struggling to gain coverage for their tests, this Silicon Valley-based lab company has become an in-network lab provider for a number of health insurers—including three of the nation's largest payers. It did this by establishing a patient-friendly price of $249 for its 30-gene test panel and building a physician-friendly portal that makes it quick and easy for doctors to meet pre-authorization requirements when ordering the test.
DO SILICON VALLEY EXECUTIVES schooled in the intensely competitive web marketplace understand the market forces driving genetic testing better than pathologists and clinical laboratory directors and the private equity firms that fund their lab companies?
The answer to that question may be yes, based on the impressive managed care contracts that Color (formerly Color Genomics) announced last month. The two-year-old company snared multiple managed care contracts to provide testing for more than 100 million lives for its 30-gene cancer test. Color operates a CAP-accredited, CLIA-certified laboratory in Burlingame, Calif.,
Priced at just $249 for cash-paying consumers, the test is convincing evidence that some of the nation's largest health insurers appreciate Color's strategy of setting a patient-friendly price for its genetic test.
On June 15, Color will become an in-network lab provider for three of the nation's large health insurers: United-Healthcare, Blue Shield of California, and one other unidentified insurer. These payers will reimburse Color when in-network physicians order its 30-gene test for hereditary cancer risk for patients who meet the insurers' medical criteria, Color said.
Color's in-network status gives it immediate access to more than 100 million Americans. For any insurers not under contract, Color will accept out-of-network payment.
In 2015, Color launched a 19-gene test for $249 for women who wanted to know their risk for breast and ovarian cancer. Then, in April 2016, Color expanded the test to 30 genes and marketed the new panel to men and women seeking to assess their risk for developing eight common hereditary cancers. Although it had expanded the genetic markers in the test panel, Color retained the $249 price.
A Simple, Direct-Pay Model
Last year, Color's co-founder and CEO Othman Laraki told THE DARK REPORT, "From day one, we have adopted a simple, direct-pay model. We did not put a lot of effort into pursuing insurance payment because our focus has always been on improving patient access to these genetic tests." (See TDR, July 5, 2016.)
Low prices helped to improve patients' access to those tests and generated a lot of buzz, with publications such as Forbes, Fortune, The New York Times, TechCrunch, and BuzzFeed writing stories about Color's low price.
Being savvy shoppers, health insurers noticed and soon came calling. "This is the only time in my career that insurance companies actually started to reach out to us," stated Darrin Crisitello, Color's VP of Global Sales, Marketing, and Operations. Because of the complexity of billing inherent in any insurance contract, health insurers will pay more than $249 for the test, but Crisitello would not reveal contracted rates.
"Our $249 price point resonated with insurers, and so we were able to contract with them at rates that are much less than they currently pay to other labs," he said. "Not only did we get a lot of traction with UHC and Blue Shield, but we'll have more payers within the next quarter.
"Many lab companies are trying to determine what's the most amount they can charge for a genetic test or service," commented Crisitello. "But we have the opposite view about price.
"We want to know what's the least amount we can charge to promote more widespread access to our genetic test panel and truly be a disrupter," he explained. "Our foray into managed care contracting shows that same thinking."
Color is particularly gratified about its contract with Blue Shield of California, Crisitello said. "The interesting thing about Blue Shield is we became one of their preferred laboratory vendors for BRCA testing," he noted. "That's exciting for us because our cost is dramatically lower than what our competitors charge. That helps us negotiate favorable terms with payers.
"We don't share our list price or our contracted rates with the payers, but you can assume that there are some additional fees because there are added steps involved in billing insurers compared with billing a cash-paying or self-pay individual," he said. "Those rates are higher than our cash rates." Like most labs taking insurance payment, Color needed to hire a billing team, for example.
Physicians Prefer One Lab
The reason to pursue insurance contracts is simple: Physicians who order tests from Color wanted to offer the same lab test to their insured patients. "Physicians want a way to offer genetic tests to their patients that will be covered by the patients' health insurance plan," explained Crisitello. "Physicians use other commercial laboratories that take insurance but would rather use one lab for all their needs—if possible."
Crisitello then added the twist that appears to be making his company's pricing strategy a double-winner. "It's easier for physicians to use a single laboratory for two types of their patients," he said. "One type are folks who meet insurance criteria. The second type are patients who may have high-deductible health coverage or are self-pay for the full cost of the genetic test."
Recognizing the value of being physician-friendly, Color built a physician portal to ease the prior-authorization process to make it easier for doctors to order its test. Often, obtaining preapproval for a genetic test can be troublesome for physicians and their office staff.
"Our goal was to give physicians the same type of user experience that we provide to consumers," noted Crisitello. "Each specific payer has requirements that individuals must meet, including personal and family history, for instance.
"That's why we designed our physician portal to make it simple for doctors to identify which patients meet insurance criteria and which do not," he said. "It also helps physicians understand what their patients' out-of-pocket costs may be.
"With the online tool, the physician can make the best choice for the patient on what the lowest cost would be, whether through insurance that includes an out- of-pocket portion or whether the patient is to use the self-pay option of $249," he explained.
Given the low price and simplified ordering, does Color expect volume to increase overnight beginning June 15?
"Simply getting insurance contracts doesn't mean that our lab automatically gets that volume," observed Crisitello. "But the lab has been scaled for significant volume from day one in part because we are participating with the University of California's WISDOM trial. Under an exclusive contract, we're assessing 100,000 women for their hereditary cancer risk.
"So, from a scale and a volume stand-point, we're comfortable we'll be able to handle whatever volume comes from payers and providers," he said.
Contact Darrin Crisitello at 844-352-6567.
Genomics Lab Company Focuses on Patient Experience to Attract Patients, Physicians
COMPANIES IN THE SILICON VALLEY are known for focusing on the users' experience. Some of today's biggest tech companies in the San Francisco area grew by meeting and exceeding users' expectations.
In 2015, tech entrepreneurs founded Color to offer affordable genetic testing. Two of the founders had worked at Google and Twitter. Their work in consumer platforms is visible in Color's user-friendly approach toward patients and toward physicians.
For patients, the attraction was low price. For physicians, it was ease of use, noted Darrin Crisitello, Color's VP of Global Sales, Marketing, and Operations.
"We want to make it easier for physicians to order tests so they can spend their time with their patients," he explained. "Our design, product, and engineering teams aim to offer providers a simple user-friendly experience.
"On our platform, a physician enters patient information," continued Crisitello. "The system then identifies the insurer's criteria and the patient's potential out-of-pocket costs, including the deductible and co-pay.
"This tool streamlines the ordering and approval process for our genetic test because it gives the physician the information he or she needs to decide whether to choose the self-pay or insurance-submission process," he explained. "Therefore, physicians can be more efficient when ordering a genetic test from Color.
"In this industry, the payer system for adjudicating claims is challenging," added Crisitello. "It shouldn't take 12 people to review and process a lab test claim. It seems to have reached this point because a significant number of labs are billing exorbitant amounts and payers have installed various restrictions and denials to ensure that they're properly managing costs.
"We hope that the best way turns out to be the simplest way," he added. "We'd like to see payers tell our lab what the criteria is for their patients. Then our lab will submit only those patients who meet that test criteria. When we submit the claim, the health plans will pay us. In that way, we make the process as simple and efficient as possible."
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Over 200 CMU faculty and staff sign open letter voicing concern over controversial hire
Earlier this month, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) was met with backlash from students after the school announced it had hired Richard Grenell, former ambassador to Germany and former acting Director of National Intelligence, as a senior fellow in the Institute for Politics and Strategy (IPS). Now, over 250 faculty, staff, and Ph.D. candidates have signed an open letter to the school's administration voicing their concerns over Grenell's hiring.
Grenell previously served as the U.S. ambassador to Germany from 2018-20 and as the acting Director of National Intelligence from Feb.-May 2020. Both positions were appointed by President Donald Trump. The open letter addresses concerns about Grenell's affiliation with CMU citing his past opinions and actions expressed during his time in those positions. While working as the German ambassador, Grenell gained a reputation as undiplomatic, and associated himself with far-right nationalist political parties in Europe.
The faculty letter cites the fact that Grenell met with the Alternative for Germany party, which has promoted antisemitic, islamophobic, and xenophobic views and policies. "As we work to make CMU a welcoming place for students, staff, and scholars of color and those who are Muslim, what message does this appointment send? This appointment does not align with CMU's stated commitment to ensure that 'every person at CMU should feel as though they belong here,'" states the letter.
In a statement responding to criticism over Grenell's hiring, published before the open letter from faculty, IPS director Kiron Skinner said the institute "is fully committed to intellectual diversity" and said that after working with Grenell, she "found him to be personally and professionally generous and respectful of varying opinions." Skinner previously worked as the Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Department from 2018-19.
The letter also takes issue with sexist comments Grenell has made on social media, failure to disclose past financial conflicts, and spreading misinformation. The letter accuses CMU of not properly vetting Grenell and not getting input from other staff, stating that CMU "abdicated its responsibility to ensure academic integrity, harming our reputation in the process."
The letter is signed by faculty across several departments and disciplines, though none from IPS, which is the department that hired Grenell as a fellow.
Over email, a group of faculty members who authored the open letter say they were "moved" by the open letter written and signed by students and alumni. They feel that in CMU's defense of Grenell's hiring, they misunderstood and misused the concept of "academic freedom."
In a statement on June 16, CMU provost James Garrett defended Grenell's hiring as "a clear case of academic freedom for Dr. Skinner."
"This same academic freedom protects deans and department heads in appointments they might make," said Garrett in the statement. "Limiting that academic freedom in one case would create a precedent that could jeopardize all of us in the future."
The group of faculty, who wish to remain anonymous, says that the moral and legal concept of academic freedom applies to things like making public statements or inviting speakers on campus, but that it does not apply to "hires and appointments that establish an affiliation and employment agreement between the university and third parties."
"'Academic freedom' is about individual freedom of expression in writing and speech; it must not be misused as a way to evade the accountability and responsiveness that students and faculty have a right to expect of CMU and its administration," says the group of faculty members.
They add that this is an issue specifically with Grenell's views and past actions, not an issue with the general concept of CMU employing a person with conservative politics.
"Our community is already home to honest, socially responsible conservatives and always has room for more," they say. "Whatever his politics, Grenell's record simply does not meet CMU's academic or ethical standards."
CMU has made clear that Grenell will not teach any classes, but the group of faculty says that "he will be expected to meet with and interact with students and faculty."
In a June 25 statement responding to the situation, CMU president Farnam Jahanian said that Grenell's appointment as a senior fellow was reviewed by several deans, but only because they had to make sure the hiring "met the requirements of the financial restrictions" imposed by the pandemic.
"Had the financial restrictions imposed as a result of the pandemic not been in place, the Grenell appointment would have proceeded without review by the deans who are responsible for overseeing IPS, as such review would not have been required," said Jahanian in the statement.
But Jahanian adds that he has established a committee "to review whether this appointment was considered and approved in a manner that was consistent with university policies and procedures."
Jahanian says that he has tasked Garrett with appointing a commission to discuss the questions around academic freedom and deliver findings and recommendations by the end of the year.
The open letter from faculty asks CMU to respond to concerns raised by staff and students, to provide transparency into the "financial, procedural, and ethical deliberations" that led to Grenell's hiring, and to establish policies and oversight to avoid a conflict like this in the future.
"At a time when millions are marching for racial justice in the U.S. and around the world, university leadership must act to defend rather than diminish the freedom and integrity of our community," states the letter.
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Mullen 15, Fairview 12, Castle View 11, Greeley West 11, Poudre 11, Cherry Creek 8, Regis Jesuit 6, Arvada West 5, Brighton 4, Denver East 4, Aurora Central 3, Bear Creek 1, Chatfield 1.
Evergreen 30, Wheat Ridge 25, Rifle 18, Northfield 16, Harrison 10, Alameda 7, Coronado 6, Pueblo East 6, Air Academy 4, Green Mountain 4, Silver Creek 4, Discovery Canyon 3, Pueblo South 3, Pueblo Centennial 2, Golden 1, Ponderosa 1, Thomas Jefferson 1.
Discovery Canyon (9), Pueblo East (10).
Centauri 19, Resurrection Christian 17, Jefferson Academy 14, Platte Valley 14, Alamosa 13, Delta 4, Eaton 4, La Junta 3, DSST: Stapleton 2, Lamar 1.
Resurrection Christian (4), Platte Valley (7).
Telluride 11, Sedgwick County 9, Campion Academy 8, Paonia 7, South Park 6, Ignacio 5, Mancos 5, Holyoke 3, Calhan 2, Clear Creek 1, Del Norte 1, Dolores Huerta 1, Plateau Valley 1.
Peetz 22, Arickaree/Woodlin 21, Lone Star 16, Evangelical Christian 15, Mile High Academy 8, Kim/Branson 5, Haxtun 4, Kit Carson 4, Belleview Christian 3, Creede 2, Longmont Christian 2, Prairie 2, Cotopaxi 1, Merino 1, Otis 1.
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Sarah Gambito Profiled in Inside Fordham
Sarah Gambito, associate professor of English and director of Fordham's creative writing program, was the subject of this profile published in Inside Fordham on November 24, 2015. The story was written by Patrick Verel.
For Creative Writing Professor, Words Nourish the Soul
Readers of a recent The New York Times review of the restaurant Tito King's Kitchen at Jimmy's No. 43 were treated to a snippet of poetry when the subject of pork belly came up:
"When God was Filipino, / he put a pig and fire together and called it porkissimo."
The line—an excerpt from the poem "I Am Not From The Philippines"—was written by Sarah Gambito, an associate professor of English and director of the creative writing program.
It was, to her knowledge, the first time her work had been used in a restaurant review, though it was not the first time food had infiltrated her poetry and prose.
"I remember having a very delicious bowl of ramen with a friend, and saying, 'What if a poem could be like this bowl of ramen on a cold, cold day? You know, carbs and broth and complete comfort," she said.
"I'm interested in the idea of how that can happen in words."
The theme of hunger comes up a lot in her work because she writes often about the immigrant experience. Her parents emigrated from the Philippines to the United States, and she grew up in Virginia, before moving to New York in 1995. Because she never lived in the Philippines and left Virginia so long ago, the concept of home is very much on her mind, she said.
A trip to the Philippines in 1999 on a faculty fellowship—her first as an adult to the country of her ancestors— made her realize she has many homes.
"The idea of feeling at home in multiple places is a different kind grace that I didn't realize I'd have access to either," she said.
"Much of my writing has been about the anguish of feeling displaced and the anger around that. I'm ready to also look at the other side of it, because I may not have a capital "H" home, but I have these lower case "h" homes in many places that I look."
Having already published two collections of poetry, Matadora (Alice James Books, 2004) and Delivered (Persea Books, 2009), Gambito is currently at work on a new one, tentatively titled Virginia. It's still unclear what form it will take, she said, but chances are that food will play a factor.
"There's a great quote from the poet Lin Yutang: 'What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?'" she said.
Gambito came to Fordham in 2008, and in 2011, she became editor of Cura, Fordham's literary magazine. The magazine, which is a collaboration among the faculty, the public, and students, publishes twice annually online. This school year's theme, "Black Lives Matter," was chosen in response to the recent racial bias events both on campus and off.
"Speaking with students, we said 'We can do something about this. We don't have to just observe. We can act as artists and encourage a voice against this action," she said.
Claudia Rankine, whose book Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press, 2014) was a finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry, will help to edit the Fall 2015 and Spring 2016 issues. Gambito teaches Citizen in her classes. She says one of the biggest challenges she faces is convincing students that the book, which recounts racial aggressions in encounters in daily life and in the media, is written for them, no matter what their racial background.
"We want to collect student voices from both campuses and feature them alongside the pieces we're finding from members of the public. Poetry, fiction, some fantastic digital creative writing, creative nonfiction, visual arts; it runs the gamut," Gambito said.
"It's an issue for all of us to pay attention to."
The Fall 2015 issue of Cura is being published at the end of the year, and is drawing some of its material from art coming from within the creative writing workshops. As such, Gambito is adamant that students are present for the workshops.
"It's not just the poems that they bring in, or their stories, but it is what we co-create together. Sitting and speaking to each other is another kind of art. So I tell them, the workshop is mandatory," she said.
"If you're not here, we miss what you could have said. We miss what we could have created as a class," she said. "I don't make distinctions between writing and critiquing. We're creating together, we're imagining together what a poem can be."
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EbonyLife TV founder, Mo Abudu has achieved a new feat after she clinched the 2019 MIPTV Médailles d'Honneur in Cannes, France, thus making her the first African to win the MIPTV Médailles d'Honneur. She received the award in Cannes, France, at the Inter-Continental Carlton hotel on Monday night. The media mogul took to her Instagram page in a series of posts to share her excitement.
"Basking in the glory of receiving my award. I share this award with the EbonyLife Team, I thank all our partners, sponsors, my family, my dearest mother, my darling Temidee and Koko and of course my bestos that have helped and supported us on our journey. Much love always," Mo Abudu said.
"Sharing the stage with three other incredible people honoured with this award tonight – US writer, showrunner and producer, Ilene Chaiken, chairperson of the Banijay Group in France, Stéphane Courbit, and UK managing director of Sky Vision, Jane Millichip," she wrote on another post.
"Camille Bidermann, Executive Director of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, presented me with my award last night. Thank you so much Camille for your words of inspiration. Much love
"A major part of my acceptance speech was dedicated to the creative business leaders in the room and the need for a partnership between our respective continents, so that our stories can be told with authenticity and produced to the best international standards.
"If these stories are told from both our perspectives there is a captive audience on both sides of the Atlantic waiting to be entertained as never before and with creative business leaders adding significantly to their bottom line!"
The prestigious MIPTV Médailles d'Honneur is awarded to senior executives who have, through their talent, leadership and passion, made a significant contribution to the world of television and the development of the international TV community.
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The great Brazilian guitarist Rogério Souza, whose swing and virtuosity have contributed to the groups of Paulinho de Viola, Época de Ouro, Nó em Pingo d'Água and Ivan Lins among others, will perform in New York City at Cornelia Street Café on September 8th from 8:30-11:00 pm. Accompanying him from Rio will be João Hermeto, pandeiro/percussion; they will be joined by Billy Newman guitarist/composer; Dennis Lichtman, mandolin/clarinet; and Rob Curto, accordion; from NYC.
One of the leading interpreters of choro and samba, Rogério's guitar playing and composing is informed by a language and aesthetic rarely heard in New York City. More on Rogério's music. . .
More on the performance at Cornelia Street Café . . .
Hermeto Pascoal is a visionary and prolific Brazilian musician born in 1936 whose compositions and performances evade categorization. A multi-instrumentalist, often taking extremely unconventional instruments and techniques as a basis, Hermeto pursues jazz-based experimentalism, heightened by grace and whimsy. He began his career playing on recordings for now-prominent Brazilian groups, and went on to play with jazz figures such as Miles Davis, whose album Live-Evil introduced Pascoal to a larger audience.
Also on the bill, the boundary-pushing, inventive Brazilian body-percussion group Barbatuques, and also Michael Rothner and Friends perform the music of NEU!
Come early to catch Hermeto, first on the program!
The concert takes place at 7:30 pm at Damrosch Park Bandshell, between 62nd and 65th Streets and Broadway, New York City. More information. . .


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Roost unveils new business model
Company shifts focus to social media tools
by Andrea V. Brambila
Roost, a company known as a real estate search portal driven by data-exchange agreements among real estate brokers, is a search company no more. In an exclusive interview with Inman News, the company announced a categorical shift this week to a business model focused on helping agents and brokers gain referral business through the social networking site Facebook.
The company today unleashed a new home page, which advertises its new business focus: a "Social Real Estate Toolkit" that includes a Facebook tab and a publishing tool, as well as plans for other tools to be released this fall.
"At the end of the day, the world doesn't need another property search engine, but Realtors absolutely need a social media toolkit for word-of-mouth business,"said Alex Chang, Roost's CEO.
While real estate professionals get some leads from property-search sites, 80 percent or more of their leads still come from word-of-mouth referrals, Chang said. Roost's goal is to help agents attract referrals by leveraging Facebook as a networking and relationship-building platform.
"(The) vast majority of agents are not (search-engine optimization) experts, lead conversion optimizers, or bloggers, but they are relationship builders," Chang said.
Roost was founded in 2007. According to Web metrics firm Hitwise, Roost's site ranked at No. 129 among real estate category websites as of last week. Lack of traffic did not factor significantly into Roost's decision to change, however, Chang said.
"We have done a nice job of growing traffic and the traffic services have always under-reported the Roost platform due to its nature (a network of IDX sites with different domains). The issue has much more to do with building something truly (unique) and needed by the market," Chang said.
Roost had considered a change to its business model since the March launch of its Social Real Estate tab for real estate professionals on Facebook, Chang said.
The tab allows agents to display local market data for one geographic area and up to four of their own listings on business and profile pages. Roost also released Roost Publisher last week, which allows users to customize and schedule their Facebook wall posts. The toolkit now has more than 17,000 individual users, primarily from the Social Real Estate tab.
The quick adoption of the tab made the decision to switch to a total focus on social media a "no-brainer," Chang said.
The switch will come with a number of new developments this fall. The company plans to release a premium version of the Social Real Estate tab in October that will allow agents to display market data for up to five markets, locations, or ZIP codes; feature an unlimited number of listings; and choose between multiple templates for the tab's appearance and user interface.
The monthly fee for this "agent toolkit" will be around $20 per month.
Roost currently offers a "Social Real Estate Toolkit for Brokers", which includes all of the features from the upcoming agent kit as well a branded "Home Search" tab that ties into an individual brokerage's IDX or website listings. It also includes customized social media training for agents, primarily through webinars.
The cost for the broker toolkit is between $20 and $2,000 a month depending on the size of the brokerage. So far, more than 70 brokerage companies have signed up and 50 of those kits are currently live, with the rest expected to go live with the tools within the next 30 days.
The company recently formed a partnership with Leading Real Estate Companies of the World, which gave the network preferred pricing for the broker toolkit and training directed specifically at LeadingRE brokerages, in exchange for promoting the toolkit to brokerage members.
Avery Hess, Realtors is one of the brokerage companies using the broker toolkit and the Social Real Estate tab. The Washington, D.C.-area company has about 210 agents and seven offices and has been using the toolkit for a few months.
The brokerage said it had about 1,000 interactions on its corporate Facebook page per week and wasn't sure how many were due to the toolkit.
Nevertheless, real estate business engagement on Facebook is expected to grow rapidly and the toolkit has put the brokerage at the forefront of that trend, said Amit Kulkarni, the brokerage's vice president of marketing and brokerage services.
"I don't necessarily see it as getting bang for the buck right now, but I think it's going to be important in positioning us for the future, like within the next one to three years," Kulkarni said.
He also added that the brokerage has been happy with Roost's training webinars and that the real estate tab, in particular, has helped the brokerage's agents stand out as local experts.
Roost's free tools are also helpful to agents who don't have a clue about how to nurture their relationships online, said Laura Monroe, a real estate virtual assistant and consultant. She uses Roost's real estate tab to manage her clients' Facebook business pages.
"(Roost is) helping them to strategize, and making it easier to take a strategy and put action to it, rather than being overwhelmed with 'How do I implement this in my day-to-day business?' Otherwise, (social media) can be more of a distraction than help your business," Monroe said.
Also upcoming in the fall are three new tools that will be available for free along with the real estate tab and publisher tool: Roost Endorsements, RoostBar, and Roost Analytics.
Roost Endorsements will allow users to easily ask for recommendations from their contacts and then publish selected endorsements to both an agent's and client's status feeds as well as the agent's real estate tab.
RoostBar is a banner featuring a brokerage name and picture with a "Like" button next to it. The banner will appear at the top of any link posted via Roost Publisher in order to both encourage "friends" to become "fans" and remind readers who provided them with that link.
Roost Analytics will let users know which of their posts are garnering the most engagement as measured by the number of times a post is shared, commented on, and "liked."
Roost has 12 staff, including two employees hired in anticipation of the switch: a new head of product, Brad Selby, formerly senior product manager at Flixter; and a new head of technology, Chris Henley, formerly executive producer at Social Gaming Network.
San Francisco-based Roost is funded by venture capital from Shasta Ventures and General Catalyst Partners. The company declined to comment on its profitability, but said it had raised two rounds of funding totaling $13 million.
Commenting on discussions with Roost's backers, Chang said, "From their perspective, what's going on with the social world and Facebook is so powerful that this type of move makes a lot of sense."
While initially focused on Facebook, Roost has plans to build tools for other networks in the future.


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David Miller Williamson
P.O. David Miller Williamson
Rank: Petty Officer
Regiment/Service: H.M.S. Hogue
Unit/Ship: Royal Navy
Place of Death: Lost at Sea
Age at Death: 30
Cemetery: Chatham Naval Memorial
Grave/Mem Ref no: Panel 1
Date of Birth: 25/1/1884
Address: 101 Ancrum Road, Dundee
Annie Ferguson, b. 1858
Richard Williamson, b. 1851
Richard; b.1880.
Elizabeth Fawns; b.1881, d.1971.
Andrew Edwards; b. 1886, d.1960.
Allan Ferguson; b. 1880.
May Christie; b. 1891, d.1892.
Jane; b. 1891, d.1896.
Alexander; b.1892, d.1986.
William Hood; b. 1895, d.1959.
Annie Ferguson; b.1877.
Helen McBeath; b.1899, d.1978.
More about David Miller Williamson
On 6 October 1914, The Courier reported that P.O. David Millar Williamson, H.M.S. Hogue, missing since 22 September, was now officially reported as having been killed in action.
The eldest son of Richard and Annie Ferguson Williamson, 101 Ancrum Road, David had been in the Royal Navy for some thirteen years.
On the morning of 22 September, Hogue, an armoured cruiser of some 12,000 tons, and her sister ships, Aboukir and Cressy, encountered the submarine U-9. Aboukir was torpedoed at 06.20 but her Captain was under the impression that she had struck a mine. As Hogue closed to assist she was struck by two torpedoes at 06.55, capsizing ten minutes later. Cressy unsuccessfully attempted to ram the submarine, and resuming rescue attempts was also torpedoed at 07.20. In all, 62 officers and 1,397 men were lost.
P.O. Williamson is commemorated on the Chatham Memorial, Kent.
LOCHEE HOME MOURNS LOSS OF SON WHO WENT DOWN WITH H.M.S. HOGUE. A Lochee home is mourning the loss of a son who went down to his death with the ill-starred cruiser Hogue.
After a fortnight's anxious waiting Mr Richard Williamson, 101 Ancrum Road, Lochee, has received a message from the Admiralty that, as no news has been heard of his son David, who was a leading torpedoman on board H.M.S. Hogue, it must be concluded that he went down with the ship.
Leading Torpedoman Williamson was a splendid type of the British navyman. Broad shouldered and genial, he was a favourite wherever he went. Amongst his shipmates he was especially respected.
He joined the Navy thirteen years ago, at the age of seventeen. At the time of the recent manoeuvres he was undergoing training on H.M.S. Vernon at Portsmouth for a torpedo-instructorship. During the manoeuvres he was transferred to the Hogue, and he had not left that vessel when war was declared.
He was a first class petty officer.
Much sympathy is being expressed with his parents in his loss. His younger brother Andrew is also in the Navy. The Courier, Tuesday, 6 October 1914, 4.
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Fluxes between 1900 and 3300 Å corrected. The correction is based on large aperture point source data. LWPFIX will determine if your data needs the correction. Only data processed with ITF1 will be corrected; data processed with ITF0 should be reprocessed.
ITF1 was used starting on 4 November 1981 at Goddard, and prior to 21 December 1987 at both stations (starting date for VILSPA unknown). The ``old'' absolute calibration was used until 22 December 1987 at both stations. Starting date for Goddard was 19 October 1983; for VILSPA it was 11 October 1983. ITF0 was used between 17 August 1981 and 3 November 1981 at Goddard.


A volunteer has thought up a unique fundraising idea after a sanctuary in Auchnagatt was hit with £10,000 worth of damage during Storm Frank.
Eilidh Haggart, 24, will allow donators to design her next tattoo to raise funds for The New Arc animal sanctuary after their cat house was destroyed by Storm Frank.
Eilidh, who works as a volunteer for the sanctuary, said: "Well obviously with it being January it was going to have to be something ridiculous that I would have to do to raise money.
Donators of over £7 to Eilidh's campaign will design a tattoo, a vote will then be held by those that donated to see which one will be inked on Eilidh permanently.
Eilidh started out with a target of £700 but has already more than doubled that number, currently standing at nearly £1,700, to go toward rebuilding parts of the animal sanctuary.
The New Arc is looking at a bill of £10,000 to replace their cat house alone and has also suffered damage throughout other parts of the sanctuary.
Keith said: "While the storm was taking place we sat and watched the roof being torn off the cat house.
Mr Marley said that although all the animals have been temporarily relocated they have a limited time to work with and need to be finished by the end of February.


Manage all administrative duties for all TSI contract ramp locations.
Create and maintain numerous spreadsheet reports in Excel.
Process and maintain time and attendance for payroll.
Set up and maintain filing systems at off site locations.
Complete inventory adjustments and process inventory counts.
Coordinate communications with vendors, customers and employees.
Process online ordering of supplies for ramp locations.
Coordinate all new hire paperwork and pre-employment physicals for contract ramps.
Input Data entry. Handle operations in supervisor's absence.
Entered data into the machine master computer system for Technical Services International.
*Hired as full time employee by Mi-Jack Products d.b.a. Technical Services International-first and only temp placement.
Managed Accounts Payables and Accounts Receivables.
Performed general reception and support duties including filing, phones, customer service.


Closed Sessions is awesome. The label is owned and operated by Alexander Fruchter, rubyhornet founder, and Michael Kolar, the Owner/Chief Engineer of SoundScape Studios. They continuously bring together the best in Chicago hip hop, this time linking up Closed Sessions artist Alex Wiley with Kids These Days supaMC Vic Mensa, all over Chuck Inglish production. Made before kick off the the Super Bowl, you can check out a documentary about the pairing after the jump. Enjoy!


Discuss the debates around the impact of American-centrism on knowledge creation and consider how these have influenced your approach to and engagement with knowledge.
According to Grey (2010), two different camps in Europe and America were concerned with the publications of journals. One of the camps is Administrative Science Quarterly (ASQ), located in America; another one is Organization Studies in Europe. Approximately 92.7 percent of the authors who cited journals produced by ASQ were from North America. Grey also stated that new journal publication companies that emerged in Europe followed the citation of ASQ, proving the dominance of American centralism in knowledge creation. Most business schools were established in Northern America. Knowledge on management originates from studies conducted by business school students and practitioners; this explains why most journals are from North America. Clegg (2002) also argued that North American schools were responsible for creating most management journals. These journals mainly sought to find out the consequences of the organization's existence. American-centrism has influenced my approach to engagement in knowledge. It is now clear that North American scholars concentrated mainly on companies in their country while producing most journals on management. Therefore, it is important for me to generate new knowledge that matches the practical management of modern day organizations considering the variables that affect my organization.
Use Bell and Bryman (2007) to identify the potential ethical issues involved in researching your own workplace-based problem and suggest ways you could increase knowledge co-production through the development of more reciprocal relationships with research participants.
Bell and Bryman (2007) identified potential ethical issues that were involved in research. They established eleven principles that aim at reducing unethical behavior during the research process. These principles include harm to participants, dignity, informed consent, privacy and confidentiality. Other principles include anonymity, deception, affiliation, reciprocity, misrepresentation, honesty and transparency. A researcher will engage in unethical behavior if he/she tells lies to the participants during the process of research. In addition, researchers who engage in particular research process, knowing they have conflict of interest with the participants or the area of research, commit unethical behavior as well. It is vitally important for the researchers to refrain from releasing confidential information to the public. The researchers should also be honest by telling the participants all the information they need to know during the process of research. It is also ethical for the researchers to avoid asking the private life details of the participants. While researching on the problem of knowledge hoarding in our investment team, I will ensure that all the members of our team are willing to share their ideas on why they hoard investment knowledge. Moreover, I will keep the contributions of individual members of our team confidential. To increase co-production, I will tell the participants all the information I will use while trying to solve the problem of knowledge hoarding and ask them to raise their contributions on how to promote teamwork in our organization.
Based on the issues (Politics & Ethics) covered this week, do you imagine yourself publishing the research findings from your research and if so, how might you go about this?
I imagine myself publishing the findings obtained during my research. If I decide to publish my research findings, I will follow the insights given by Pratt (2008) on evaluating qualitative research. One of the insights that I will follow is fitting oval pegs into round holes. Using this insight, I will make qualitative investigation to mimic quantitative research. I will achieve this by including qualitative data in my study. In addition, I will structure my research by starting with literature review, move to methods, results and, lastly, conclude the research. I will also try to make the evaluation criteria to be more acceptable. Other factors that I will use to strengthen my study and findings include trying to create open theoretical frames and create checklists while structuring my research. I will also try to frame my research so that it matches the emerging issues in research. This will help in strengthening the research; thus, it will be acceptable by major publication companies. I will also try to separate evidence of my research and interpretation of several facts that I discovered while conducting my research (Easterly-Smith et al, 2008). This will help peer reviewers to follow my research more appropriately.