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Labour Market: Economic Surveys, Budget Legitimise Short-Term Illusory Gains
The government's strategy regarding labour welfare in general and jobs in particular quite clearly projects that temporary jobs and current higher income are good enough.
K.R. Shyam Sundar and Rahul Suresh Sapkal
Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) members at the protest in November 2017. Credit: Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta/The Wire
The biggest challenge the NDA government faces is the fulfilment of its poll promise of huge employment growth.
In the absence of a credible comprehensive database on employment, it is difficult to argue success or failure, though micro-level stories and the general sense is that employment generation has been a policy failure. Further, it is rather curious that the Economic Surveys for both 2016-17 and 2017-18 provided data on employment in the organised sector only up to 2012 (Tables below). The data deficits on employment are disturbing.
However, the government's strategy regarding labour welfare in general and jobs in particular – as can be gauged from the pronouncements relating to labour in the Union Budget 2018, the thinking projected in the Economic Surveys of the last two years and the recent labour market reforms of the government – quite clearly project its myopic approach to the labour market, i.e. that temporary jobs and current higher income are good enough.
Source: Economic Survey 2016-17
Economic Surveys and government thinking
The policy measures in this and the earlier Budget should be seen in the context of the policy resolves of the government as demonstrated in the Economic Surveys. For example, the issue of tinkering with employees' provident fund (EPF) has always been there ever since the NDA government came to power – recall the spontaneous violent acts by garment workers in Bengaluru in response to announcements regarding PF withdrawals. In its chapter on 'Clothes and Shoes: Can India Reclaim Low Skill Manufacturing?', the Economic Survey 2016-17 came up with a proposal to subsidise employers' pay-roll taxes in textiles and apparel firms to "generate employment".
It argued that "formal employment" could increase by providing choices to workers with regard to their PF contributions and their parking and contribution to health insurance. Its assumption is that workers would act as rational economic agents and would make informed choices with regard to current take-home pay, health insurance provider and investment of PF money. It is immediately clear that these assumptions are fantastic and constitute a clear attack on conventional labour institutions like government-assured-safe-social-security. All these utterances are made even when stock markets are known to be volatile and there is the history of collapse of well-established fund players.
The Economic Survey 2017-18, following the claims made in the earlier Economic Survey, blames stringent labour laws in India – as opposed to our competitors like Bangladesh, Vietnam and Ethiopia – for not capturing the void created by China's exit from the garment sector. It is again difficult to understand the choice of comparator countries, all of which fare quite poorly in terms of labour standards. In order to address some of these constraints, including stringent labour laws, the government has introduced pay-roll tax sops, fixed term employment and rise in overtime (consistent with International Labour Organisation norms) for the apparel sector. The primary justifications for all these exercises are the inefficiency of government social security institutions (which cannot be denied), facilitating market institutions, and employment generation.
In line with the aforementioned perspective, the government floated the Pradhan Mantri Paridhan Rozgar Protsahan Yojana (PMPRPY) and Pradhan Mantri Rozgar Protsahan Yojana (PMRPY) Schemes, under which the government subsidises the 12% EPF contribution for establishments for new employees (joining after April 1, 2016) earning less than Rs 15,000 (which is the coverage threshold under the EPF scheme) for three years in apparel and other made-up sectors.
Through a notification in October 2016, the government also introduced a fixed term employment (FTE) facility to provide numerical flexibility to establishments in the apparel sector. According to the notification, the FT workers will be engaged for a given tenure and the terms and conditions of employment for them will be equal to those for permanent workers and they will be eligible for social security benefits proportionate to their tenure even if their tenure does not satisfy the eligibility tenure under the relevant law.
It may be relevant to know that earlier attempts in 2003 by the same NDA government to introduce FTE did not succeed. Hence, in the guise of inducing investment, promoting export revenue and employment generation, the government introduced FTE along with other sops to textile and other made-up sectors. This is clearly consistent with the central government's strategy on labour law reforms, i.e. introduction of a "hard" reform (i.e. having direct implications of quality of employment) in a "partial" manner, i.e. in a sector or in a special economic zone and then seeking to universalise the same and also in a less visible manner, i.e. through government notifications rather than through amendments to a labour law. On January 8, 2018, the government notified its intent to amend the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946, to legalise the introduction of FTE not only in the apparel sector (as earlier notified) but across all sectors.
Unlike in the previous Economic Surveys, the judicial aspects of governance with respect to contract enforcement have received significant policy attention in this Economic Survey. In order to improve India's global ranking on the Ease of Doing Business Index, the NDA government has initiated substantial reforms to improve judicial indicators such as the pendency, case disposal and the settlement rates. However, the reform efforts have only been taken with regard to the Supreme Court and high court levels, without paying any attention to the performance of the labour judiciary created under several labour laws. A high pendency rate and slow disposal rate at labour courts across India have aggravated the suffering of the industrial working class and made it difficult for them to secure their legal entitlements. For example, the handbook of the government of Maharashtra for 2009-2011 (a rare statistical compilation in India) showed that though the total number of pending cases declined during 2006 to 2010, on December 31, 2010, the total number of pending cases were 41, 447.
In the Mumbai labour courts as on date, 1.5% of cases have been pending for over ten years, 36% have been pending for between five and ten years, 31.1% have been pending for two to five years and less than one-third of cases (31.33%) are pending for less than two years. The poor ratio of one labour court for 11.90 million non-agricultural workers for 2004-05 shows the poor judicial governance relating to industrial disputes. The patent failure of timely and quick justice delivery to workers should top the agenda of reforms concerning labour market governance.
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Instead, the government continues to revel in taking so-called reform measures which have little relevance to justice-seeking workers. During July 2017, the labour ministry announced that it is proposing an electronic process which will enable workers to raise an industrial dispute on line and the status of their complaints would be communicated through SMS alerts. This is at best cosmetic and at worse an utterly insensitive measure as workers should have the facility or knowledge to do so.
Pro-reformers miss no opportunity to attack Chapter V-B of the Industrial Disputes Act or the pay-roll tax burden or the Labour Inspector-Raj as weakening the 'ease of doing business' and hence employment. Scarcely do the issues of extraordinary and inordinate delays in justice dispensation or the violations of labour laws get discussed with equal zeal if not with social concern. Judicial reforms should start from the lower levels and also embrace the labour judiciary and industrial disputes. It is in these contexts and the schemes made flowing from these that we need to assess the Budget in relation to labour.
Through this Union Budget the government has now extended its earlier sector specific policy of short term pay-roll tax sops and the FTE to all sectors. The universalisation of two schemes is expected to create jobs. There are problems with these measures. One, it assumes that pay-roll tax subsidy will lead to significant employment generation. Up to February 5, 2018, 29,055 and 599 establishments have joined PMRPY and PMPRPY (for textile sector) and cover beneficiaries 21,79,024 and 1,78,492 respectively. To put these numbers in perspective, according to the Annual Report of EPF Organisation for 2015-16 as on March 31, 2016, there were 17.14 crore members (i.e. a member having PF balance in his/her PF account) and 6.70 crore UANs (universal account numbers) have been allotted to members in respect of whom at least one contribution has been received since January 2014. There were on an average 3.76 crore contributing members (i.e. those for whom contributions are regularly remitted by the establishments).
A worker works in a factory of Ananta Garments Ltd in Savar. Credit: Reuters
Two, the government should find money to subsidise far more numbers of establishments seeking exemptions under the pay-roll tax sops schemes which means some tax or cess burden on others. In other words, tax burden will be shifted from one to another or printing of more money. Fiscal problematics cannot be wished away. Three, the punitive action on employers erring in implementing the pay-roll tax subsidy scheme is ex-post which will not benefit the workers removed prematurely from service. Four, in the case of any FTEs there can be disengagement (escape) clause before the expiry of prescribed tenure. These will increase costs to the government.
The new regulations on FTE make it mandatory on the part of the employers seeking to hire workers on fixed term contracts to provide equal terms and conditions of employment and make proportionate social security contributions, even if the tenure is not commensurate with those prescribed for cover under law. The FTE provision will in fact formalise all forms of securities save employment security and hence will add to the cost to company (CTC) and as a result will discourage hiring. In the earlier regime of "un-regulated informality" "employment numbers" could have been much higher as the terms and conditions of employment were left to individual bargaining or unilateral determination which reduced the CTC to the company. In the current "regulated informality", the CTC is higher. Hence, employment generation will not be as high as it was earlier.
In China, if the fixed term employment contracts are renewed for more than two times, such workers should be deemed to have employed on a permanent basis. This law there recognises that the employer cannot continue to hire workers on incessant short tenures for jobs which are perennial and thus cannot continue to enjoy undue rents. In India we are formalising the move away from open ended jobs to short term tenured jobs. In fact, recently the government has proposed to amend the Contract Labour (Regulation and abolition) Act, 1970 among others to prohibit contract labour in "core" jobs in lieu of the present regulation of "perennial" jobs as the former will reduce the scope for prohibition of contract labour employment as opposed to the latter.
The government seeks to reduce the provident fund contribution of and for a woman employee to 8% irrespective of the stipulated 10-12% under the EPF scheme. However the employer's contribution with respect to female employees remains unchanged. In other words, matching contribution concept is thrown out of the window. The idea is to leave more money in the pockets of women employees which is expected to incentivise women to enter the labour market.
But this is surely a wrong strategy to do that. Given the fact that short-changing women employees is legalised through this Budget now it won't be surprising if the employers also short-change women's future. For example, employers can provide marginal rise in the components of income (like basic and dearness allowance) which attract pay-roll tax burden on the employer and grant impressive increases in other components which means that workers will be left with more money in their purses now. This is a kind of "wage theft" as not only the wage rates decline but also workers' future income stream is short-charged.
The Union Budget legitimises the illusory gain and the long-term disaster. If a female and a male worker has worked for, say, 20 years for the same employer performing same work and retired at the same time, the female employee be left with less current (because fixed component is less and there is no guarantee variable pay will be more as female employees are less likely to work overtime or be in a position to put in more effort-time thanks to multiple commitments) as well as retiral money, all things remaining equal. Should not a woman worker provide for her own future as adequately as a male worker?
The critical assumption behind reduction in corporate income tax for MSMEs (medium, small and micro enterprises) is that other things being equal it was the major impediment to investment and reduction in it will result in additional investments and hence additional jobs. But other factors are not equal, i.e. there are far more severe irritants in 'ease of doing business' than tax burdens, like energy deficit or poor access to credit in the case of MSMEs.
Reduction in tax revenue due to this measure could lead to higher fiscal deficit which would affect interest rate and hence will raise the cost of borrowing. Thus, what is given by one hand is sought be taken back by another. Again, it is assumed that the firms will reinvest net gains and also share the higher spoils with employees in the form of higher wages; both are questionable.
The Budget has generally disappointed the salaried class by offering too little on the platter, i.e. allowing a standard deduction of Rs 40,000 in lieu of the present exemption in respect of transport allowance and reimbursement of miscellaneous medical expenses. This means effective relief will be much less. Further, government employees sector has been waiting for some policy statement with respect to their demand for enhancing the floor minimum wages to Rs 18,000 and the Budget is silent on this.
The trade union movement has conducted several national-level agitations, mass dharna in front of parliament for three days in November 2017, for example, and their demands comprise stopping of disinvestment drive, raising the minimum wage, calling a halt to the pro-business labour law reforms, stopping of precarious employment programmes, among others.
The Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) held a rally on November 2017 and the finance minister as a chairman of the Ministerial Panel of Labour Law Reforms is said to have assured it that he would "look into" their demands which included income tax exemption up to Rs 5 lakh and minimum monthly pension of Rs 3,000, nomination of representatives of labour and farmers on NITI Aayog and stopping privatisation and disinvestment of public sector undertakings, among others. But these are exactly what the government is proposing to do or not do. So BMS has stepped up its agitation and even threatened to boycott the forthcoming Indian Labour Conference on February 26-27 if its views are not considered before February 25.
K.R. Shyam Sundar is Professor, HRM Area, XLRI, Xavier School of Management and Rahul Suresh Sapkal is Assistant Professor, Maharashtra National Law University, Mumbai.

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Uyen T Nguyen: Young Vietnamese Woman's Satoshi Nakamoto Court Case Involvement
Who is Uyen T Nguyen, the Young Vietnamese Woman Involved in the Satoshi Nakamoto Court Case?
Earlier this year, it was revealed that the estate of Dave Kleiman was suing Craig Wright for $10 billion. The court case may involve the bitcoins that belong to Satoshi Nakamoto. It also involves a mysterious 26-year old Vietnamese woman named Uyen T Nguyen.
Uyen Nguyen is mentioned in several of the documents mentioned in the court case between Kleiman and Wright. Nguyen was involved with some of the disputed assets in the court case, for example, including one of the companies that was reportedly owned by Kleiman and Wright.
The court case claims that Dave Kleiman, a deceased computer security specialist from Florida, and Craig Wright, an academic and businessman from Australia, partnered with one another to build bitcoin in 2008 and 2009. The two amassed a fortune in bitcoin from early mining activities. That fortune, however, has never been shared with Dave Kleiman or his family.
Obviously, the names Dave Kleiman and Craig Wright pop up frequently in the court documents. However, a third name also pops up: Uyen Nguyen. Who is this person? What connection did she have with bitcoin – if any? Why is she involved at all?
Despite the fact that she may figure prominently in Satoshi lore and the history of bitcoin, a quick Google search will reveal limited information about Uyen Nguyen. We decided to dig deeper. Here's what we found about the Uyen Nguyen mentioned in the bitcoin court documents.
Dave Kleiman and Craig Wright's Disputed Bitcoins
To understand how Uyen Nguyen fits into this story, you first need to understand the dispute between Dave Kleiman and Craig Wright.
Dave Kleiman and Craig Wright purportedly mined hundreds of thousands of bitcoins during the early days of the bitcoin network. The two established a company to mine and hold those bitcoins.
That company was called W&K Info Defense Research, LLC.
Remember that name: it will be important later. The company's listed address was Dave Kleiman's house in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
Dave Kleiman, who had been paralyzed for most of his adult life due to a motorcycle accident, died from MRSA in 2013. Despite the fact that he and Wright had mined millions of dollars' worth of bitcoin, Kleiman died in squalor, surrounded by blood and feces in a house that had been foreclosed by the bank.
After Kleiman's death, Wright reached out to Dave's family with an interesting story. Wright contacted Kleiman's 94-year old father Ira explaining that the two had created bitcoin together.
This is where things get controversial. According to the court case filed by the estate of Dave Kleiman (i.e. Dave's family), Wright "concocted a scheme" to seize Dave's bitcoins. The court case claims that Wright backdated documents, fabricated signatures, and committed other acts to seize Kleiman's bitcoins.
It's unclear how many bitcoins are disputed between Wright and Kleiman. As ArsTechnica reports, it could be 300,000 or 550,000 or 1 million, according to the lawyer representing Kleiman's estate. If you connect the dots, it appear Satoshi's bitcoins – the mysterious one million bitcoin owned by the first miner of the bitcoin network – are at stake in this court case.
How is Uyen Nguyen Involved with Any of This?
Up above, we mentioned that Dave Kleiman and Craig Wright had established a company together. That company, W&K Info Defense Research, LLC, purportedly held Wright and Kleiman's bitcoins.
This is where things get interesting, and it's where Uyen Nguyen gets involved.
Nearly a year after Dave Kleiman died in 2013, a woman named Uyen Nguyen listed herself as the formal registered agent for W&K Info Defense Research, LLC.
Then, 18 months later, Nguyen formally dissolved the company. You can view the corporate history of the LLC here.
A quick search of corporation registration information shows that Uyen Nguyen is a (now) 26-year old Vietnamese woman who previously operated a company called CO1N Ltd. That company, which lists an address in London, was incorporated on October 11, 2012 and dissolved on July 4, 2017. That company also operated under the names "Moving Forward in Business Limited" between October 2013 and January 2014 and "Design By Human Ltd" between October 2012 and October 2013.
Corporate registration documents list the nature of the business as "Business and domestic software development."
A Craig Wright company is also listed as a Director of the company: Wright International Investments Ltd. was appointed as Director of CO1N Ltd. on April 2, 2016.
Meanwhile, Craig Wright himself is listed as a "Secretary" of the company, a position he held from January 3, 2014 to June 2, 2016.
Dave Kleiman is also listed. Dave Kleiman was director of CO1N Ltd. from October 14, 2012 to April 26, 2013.
Finally, we get to Uyen T Nguyen, who is also listed as a Director of CO1N Ltd.
CO1N Ltd. isn't a huge mystery: it's Craig Wright's company. However, the connection Uyen Nguyen has with that company is more unclear.
Who is Uyen T Nguyen?
The limited information we have about Uyen T Nguyen comes from sources like corporation registration records – like the list of officers for CO1N Ltd. seen here.
That list of officers reveals that Uyen T Nguyen is a Vietnamese national born in August 1992.
Nguyen was listed as the Director of CO1N Ltd. from October 12, 2012 to June 1, 2016.
Ngyuen lives in the United States. The corporation registration documents list an address in El Monte, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. The United States is also listed as Nguyen's country of residence.
Other listed directors off the company, by the way, include Bryan Anthony Thornton, CFS Secretaries Limited, and Panopticrypt Pty Ltd. Craig Wright is also listed two more times under different addresses (one in London and one in Sydney, Australia).
What does all of this mean?
ArsTechnica did a little more digging into Nguyen:
"Uyen Nguyen is a now-25-year-old Vietnamese woman who appears to be connected to an address in El Monte, California, a Los Angeles suburb. She was listed as a director of a UK-based company called CO1N, which was founded in October 2012 and dissolved in July 2017. Both Kleiman and Wright are also listed as officers there. (Ars has sent a letter to the El Monte address in an attempt to reach Ms. Nguyen.)"
The ArsTechnica report, however, features no additional information about Uyen Nguyen.
The Court Case Claims Uyen Nguyen Owns 650,000 BTC and Lent Them to Craig Wright
First, let's make it clear why Uyen Nguyen may be an important figure in the whole Satoshi Nakamoto / Craig Wright / Dave Kleiman lawsuit drama: the court documents of Kleiman v. Wright claim that Uyen Nguyen owns bitcoin addresses that collectively hold 650,000 BTC.
Nguyen reportedly lent those bitcoins to Craig Wright – for an unclear reason.
The problem is that the addresses mentioned in the court documents don't appear to be legitimate. A ground-breaking WizSec security study showed that the addresses mentioned in the documents belong to Mt. Gox, random bitcoin whales, and early miners – they don't belong to Nguyen or Wright.
Here's how WizSec feels about Nguyen after conducting plenty of research into her alleged bitcoin addresses:
"Effectively, Wright/Nguyen seem to be claiming to have robbed MtGox."
Either Wright and Nguyen claim to have robbed Mt. Gox and now own bitcoins associated with Mt. Gox. Or, random rich bitcoin addresses are listed in the court documents and those addresses have no real connection to Wright and Nguyen.
WizSec adds that Wright and Nguyen have a Mt. Gox connection:
"Speaking of MtGox, both Wright and Nguyen had accounts there: #433804 and #465042 respectively. Wright registered and used his account for a bit in order to buy bitcoins in April 2013, which he later withdrew and sent a few thousand dollars' worth to Nguyen, and a few hundred dollars' worth to the 1933ph… above (possibly an attempt to make a blockchain connection). Nguyen's account was registered later in 2013; its only BTC deposits are from Craig Wright. By any standard both of these accounts are small and unremarkable compared to most big bitcoiners."
Again, this doesn't reveal much more information about Uyen Nguyen.
We Might Have Video Footage of Uyen Nguyen
The first mention of Uyen Nguyen appeared online two years ago, well before she was mentioned in the Kleiman v. Wright court case.
That's when online Satoshi researchers noticed that Nguyen was listed as a Director of two companies connected to Wright and Satoshi: Nguyen was listed as a Director of W&K Info Defense Research, LLC as well as CO1N Ltd.
You can see one of the first /r/bitcoin threads discussing Nguyen here. It got limited attention at the time.
Who is Uyen T Nguyen? from Bitcoin
Buried in that thread, however, was a comment from /u/aqa123 with a link to a Vimeo video. At 9:20 of that video, a Vietnamese lady interjects Wright.
"Nguyen is of Vietnamese origin, the person in the video has an East Asian accent. She also talks to Wright with a great deal of authority like shes in the know."
You can view the Vimeo video and decide for yourself here.
In that same thread, one Redditor had a zany theory about how Nguyen was part of Wright's new life:
"And we are wondering about a 24yo Vietnamese girl that pops up as Director in his companies during 2013-2014 (and the beginning of a whole new level of fraudulent behaviour). Just an educated guess – but I'd be betting step-daughter."
The theory is neat, but Wright's wife is from Singapore – not Vietnam.
Nguyen was also outspoken when Wright's Satoshi claim first appeared online in 2016.
Conclusion: Who is Uyen Nguyen?
Uyen Nguyen is a (now) 26-year old Vietnamese woman who is connected with Craig Wright in some way or another. She has served as a director of two companies associated with Wright and has possibly appeared in videos with Wright.
Despite her connection to Wright and the (possible) Satoshi Nakamoto bitcoins, there's limited information about Nguyen available online.
The mystery remains unsolved – for now. But we'll update you with more information about Uyen Nguyen when it becomes available.


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In Part 1 of the series on Lean HR, I introduced the concept of value and waste and showed several examples of wastes present in human resources processes. In Part 2, I introduced a fictional company called Abilla and Sons. A leader in the pest control industry, they are faced with the challenge of having to hire 300 field sales reps in only 4 months. A promising Abilla and Sons employee, Angela, thinks she can help the company meet their deadline by streamlining their recruiting process and bringing human resources operational excellence. The CEO of Abilla and Sons, Pedro, gave her the Ok. In this part we continue the journey of this fictional company and learn how they were able to streamline their recruiting process and meet the needs of the business.
Phone Screen: 350 Resumes * 30 minutes = 10500 minutes. But, Angela makes a point that at best it will be 10500, but the reality is that time and effort is wasted in phone tag and rescheduling.
Onsite Interviews: 330 * 30 minutes of a manager's time = 990 minutes. Again, this is the best case, but Angela knows that there are rescheduling and phone tag issues that eat up valuable time.
Angela chose to stop here, feeling already very overwhelmed with the rough calculations thus far. She thought to herself "Just the first few beginning steps in the recruiting process is already 251.5 hours! How much worst is this going to get???? At this point, Angela wanted some advice. So she went to her professor, Dr. Newman. Angela presented the issues to Dr. Newman and he sat quietly, digesting the information. Then, in a stoic-like manner, he waved his hand and said "Angela, this is a problem indeed. But getting lost in the weeds will not help you. Remember, what is your purpose???? She thought for a minute then said "Well, I want to streamline the recruiting process so that we can hire all the sales reps by May.??? "Precisely???, said Dr. Newman. "That means, then, that you only have to do a few things???. Then, Dr. Newman went to the blackboard and drew the following diagram: Then he explained "Angela, at the end of the day, your boss wants results. The way to get results is to reduce the number of steps. By doing that, you'll reduce time and overall, there will be a reduction in time. Steps. Time. Effort. Money. They are all one and the same??? With great gratitude, Angela said thanks and quickly ran out the door excitedly, ready to make material improvements to the recruiting process. In part 4, we learn exactly what Angela does in order to improve the recruiting process, allowing the firm to hire 300 field sales reps in time for the busy season.


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Major depression, religious attendance and mediation of social support among Asian americans in the u.s
Hoa B. Appel, PhD, MPH, School of Nursing and Health Studies, Univ of Washington Bothell, Bothell, WA
Amy Ai, PhD, Psychology, Social Work, Family Medicine, and Nursing, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Bu Huang, PhD, Bastyr Research Institute, Bastyr University, Kenmore, WA
Hyung J. Daniel Lee, M.S.W., School of Social Work, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Despite the increasing Asian American population, little research has been done regarding religious involvement as a protective role in mental health among Asian Americans. We addressed this gap using the National Latino and Asian American Study (n=2095), the first national epidemiological household survey of Asian Americans in the U.S. We examined the effect of religious involvement on major depression among Asian Americans, above and beyond the effects of known predictors (i.e. Demographics, discrimination and acculturation factors). Of significance is the mechanism of social support between religious factors and major depression. Logistic regression analyses were conducted to predict the presence of the diagnosis over the past year, using the WHO Composite International Diagnostic Interview, similar to the DSM-IV criteria. Results showed employment status and English proficiency were associated with less depression, whereas years in the U.S. and discrimination were both associated with more depression. After controlling for these variables, religious attendance, but not religious coping, predicted less depression. Our findings suggest that religious attendance may act as a protective factor for Asian Americans' mental health. Furthermore, entry of social support eliminated the influence of religious attendance, indicating its mediation in the attendance-depression link. This study may be the first of its kind to examine religious factors with major depression in Asian Americans using the NLAAS. However, future research should examine more closely this study longitudinally. Implications for culturally appropriate mental health services are also discussed.
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Describe how religious attendance and social support affect major depression in Asian Americans. Discuss an overall view of major depression and mental health related issues in Asian Americans. List four barriers to obtaining mental health care faced by minorities in the U.S. Discuss four reasons why disparities in mental health care exist between minority populations and the general population in the US.
Keyword(s): Depression, Religion
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Sens. Finley Wetmore, SEAS-U, and Jan Yonan, CCAS-U, presented a 40-page bill Monday overhauling the way SA, Program Board and Class Council elections are run.
The Student Association Senate Monday nearly unanimously approved a series of reforms to the way that student body elections will be conducted beginning next academic year.
After a nearly three-hour debate about a 40-page reform bill, the senate approved an overhaul of the Joint Elections Committee – the body that runs elections for the SA, Program Board and Class Council.
The bill replaces the five-member JEC with a seven-member Joint Elections Commission, whose leader will be elected by the student body during annual elections instead of being appointed by the SA, Program Board or Class Council.
The reform bill was enacted in reaction to the stalking and harassment scandal that rattled the election process last spring.
The bill also eliminates the current winner-takes-all voting system, allowing voters to order their preferred candidates instead of only picking one. The SA previously proposed the system as a referendum during the 2011 elections, and it was approved by the student body with 61 percent of the vote but never enacted.
SA President Peak Sen Chua signed the bill immediately following the meeting.
Sen. Jan Yonan, CCAS-U, and one of the sponsors of the bill, said he was "overall incredibly pleased" that the senate passed the reforms. Yonan chaired the committee that produced the bill, hosted town halls and conducted a review of the JEC's bylaws ahead of the proposal.
"I certainly look forward to working with the JEC to make sure all of these are enacted properly, as well as working with any senators that wish to see future changes in the elections," Yonan said in an interview following the vote.
During debate about the legislation, the senate largely disputed a section of the bill mandating that Class Council and Program Board also approve any amendments made to the JEC charter in the future, instead of just the SA Senate.
Sen. Brady Forrest, G-at-Large, said that provision would be unconstitutional because it would grant Class Council and Program Board the ability to usurp amendments proposed by the SA Senate to the SA's own governing documents, since the JEC charter is written in a section of the SA bylaws.
"We can't enact change, we can't do what we what, we can't control our own bylaws because we need the approval of two other organizations," Forrest said during discussion about the bill.
Following two failed amendments to add language to the bill giving the senate sole power to amend the charter, the senate intially failed to approve the bill as it stood by two votes. The bill needed a two-thirds majority, or 24 votes, for passage but only 22 senators supported the legislation.
The bill was then amended to include a section granting the senate the power to overrule any Program Board or Class Council objections to amendments if three-fourths of the senate agrees. Upon second vote, the bill was passed by a vote of 30 to zero, with one abstention. At least two senators promised to propose amendments to the charter at the senate's next full body meeting in January.


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WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., Nov. 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — On November 2nd, Advatix onboarded Ramon Grado, Senior …
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Advatix announces the addition of another West Point Graduate, Ramon Grado, as the Senior Director of Customer Solutions. Veterans make up 35% of the Advatix Leadership team.
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., Nov. 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — On November 2nd, Advatix onboarded Ramon Grado, Senior Director of Customer Solutions. Ramon graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY. He was commissioned as an Infantry Officer earning his Airborne Wings and Ranger designation. Over the last 18 years, Ramon has helped transform businesses with hardware, software, and digital services solutions using IoT, Big Data, SaaS, and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) for risk mitigation. Ramon also has a Master of International Business degree from the University of Saint Thomas. Ramon joins other veterans and fellow West Pointers Jeff Helms, Vice President of Operations and Joe Barber, Director of Business Analytics.
"We are very excited to have Ramon join our leadership team," said Manish Kapoor, Founder and CEO of Advatix. "He adds to the long list of veterans who play key roles in the shaping of Advatix's on-going success. I want to take this opportunity and thank all our veterans for their service to our nation."
Advatix Inc., is one of the world's leading providers of eCommerce Supply Chain Consulting and Technology solutions. Advatix has helped numerous companies expedite growth and scale profitably using Advatix's depth of domain knowledge, industry leading technology platforms, and the 'boots-on-the-ground' operational leadership.
Vice President of Operations Solutions at Advatix, Tom Baker, a 'Top Gun' trained Naval Aviator who served in the US Navy for 20 years says, "The focus on hiring veterans is happening organically. Advatix focuses on boots-on-the-ground execution and we need professionals who have a high bias for action, are very hands-on, know how to get around obstacles, and understand the intricacies of change management. We take a great deal of pride and ownership leading our clients to the next level, and military veterans are a perfect fit for the Advatix model of servant-oriented leadership."
Veteran's Day: More than 100 Years of Celebration
The first observed Veterans Day took place on November 11, 1919, on the one-year anniversary of the end of World War I. Originally named "Armistice Day," Veterans Day became a US national holiday beginning in 1938. Today, November 11th is a day we set aside to recognize all those who have served our country in the various armed services, both in times of war and peace.
As we surpass 100 years of Veterans Day celebrations and continue to honor those who have served, it is important to consider and recognize the valuable contributions our veterans make to the workforce and the companies that hire them.
John Cordova, Vice President of Talent Solutions and a US Army veteran says, "Hiring veterans is a noble endeavor worthy of pursuing. It is also a smart and productive business strategy. Savvy, successful business leaders recognize the value that veterans bring to their organizations. Whether it is the accelerated learning curve veterans display, their ability to learn new skills and concepts quickly, the focus on teamwork within diverse groups, the ability to perform under pressure, or their proven leadership qualities, veterans are valuable contributors to the workforce – a true and significant return on investment."
As we approach another Veterans Day celebration, lets pause to remember the veterans that have proudly served our country and, the companies that seek out and employ them! Thank you all.a and is expanding to Europe in Q1 of 2021. Its global technology hub and logistics command and control centers are based in Gurugram, India.
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The participants in Our River are members of the Studio Collective, a group of politically and socially engaged artists who live in Hastings-on-Hudson. Isabella Bannerman, Diane Brawarsky, Pepe Coronado, Barbara King, Gina Randazzo, and Ed Young share more than an address, however. This exhibition of artwork by the Studio Collective was inspired by their profound, mutual concern for the current and future condition of the former Anaconda Wire and Cable factory, which sits on the shore of the Hudson River. Declared a Superfund site in July of 1989, the Anaconda factory had once been Hastings' biggest employer[s], providing union jobs for many families in the area.
During World War II, the United States military was its most eager customer, and the factory produced massive quantities of copper wiring for the Navy. For decades, however, and in willful disregard of the 1899 Federal Refuse Act, the factory regularly dumped its highly toxic industrial waste from copper wire production into the Hudson River. Polychlorinated Biphenyls, or PCBs, were the most harmful of these contaminants. Manufactured domestically after 1929 and used to insulate copper wires, PCBs and other poisonous by-products were released into waters adjacent to the Anaconda, and accumulated in the surrounding area. The company was investigated and indicted for violating the law in September of 1971, while the extent of environmental damage was evident when the Anaconda building was declared a Class 2 "Superfund" site almost 18 years later.
Since then, environmentalists have continued their attempts to clean the site and Building 52, the remaining structure from the Anaconda factory. Residents from Hastings-on-Hudson have sought ways to address the contamination, and the community has faced a struggle over the years between removing all remnants of the Anaconda, and reconciling that the factory and its legacy will always be a part of their history. The artists in the Studio Collective have each responded to the ongoing struggle to resolve the situation. With this exhibition, Bannerman, Brawarsky, Coronado, King, Randazzo, and Young present artworks that incorporate, reflect upon, and examine the many historical, political, environmental, and social issues surrounding the Anaconda.
Pepe Coronado's print Presencia is at once specific and general, abstract and documentary. At the top of the picture is a three-part panorama of the Hudson River. Like an altarpiece that depicts the same subjects at multiple points in time, Coronado's panorama skews and extends our perspective so that we see more than is possible in the real world. In the left panel, we register our location in relation to the distant, dark water tower: here, we look down the river to the south, with Hastings on the left shoreline. The right panel provides the opposite, north-facing point of view, and the central panel depicts the landscape immediately across the river. Altogether, the panorama offers us large-scale Nature, as with Hudson River School landscape painting.
The lower half of his work—a series of overlapping, right angle triangles—transformed the most familiar detail of the Anaconda, one that is echoed by many of the other artists. This is the sawtooth roof, which consists of triangular, windowed sheds. Although this unique design makes a strong visual impact, the sawtooth roof was a highly functional nineteenth century architectural innovation designed for large industrial buildings like the Anaconda. Sloped glass windows face to the north and act as the primary light source for the building; prior to widespread electrification, a series of these peaked sheds on a roof offered an ideal means of lighting an entire floor. They enable natural, indirect sunlight to flood the space; the less intense northern light adds little additional heat to the room, and current "green" architecture uses this same innovation to limit building electrical usage and costs. The Anaconda's iconic sawtooth roof is a reminder that innovative and creative problem solving can dramatically transform entire industries, landscapes and lives.
In Isabella Bannerman's work Hastings Riverfront Timeline, the artist provides us with an alternate means of perceiving Building 52 and its surroundings. This depiction of the waterfront and shoreline is part of Bannerman's engagement with graphic arts, and with the evolving history of land use and development in Hastings-on-Hudson. Bannerman's selection and transformation of these maps gives the viewer a means to locate specific places geographically and at different points in time. From the perspective of the present day, it is easy to see the hazards of PCBs and industrial pollution. But the maps enable us to envision a place and time when the National Conduit Cable factory represented possibility, opportunity, wealth and productivity in the early twentieth century.
The theme of transformation continues with Barbara King's piece, "Waterfront Decisions," which unites images from various perspectives and types of media. Bright green photographic images of cellular organisms float along the bottom of the work. Texts add another dimension to the work, from the hopeful ("New Bacteria Found for Destroying PCB's") to the scientific ("Dehalococcoides," the bacteria's code-like name) to the expressive hand-drawn markings that deface different areas on the black-and-white photograph of the entire Anaconda site. With the careful arrangement of pieces, King seems to suggest that multiple perspectives are necessary to view the entire situation, and to imagine a solution to the environmental catastrophe created by the Anaconda.
Offering yet another perspective, Gina Randazzo's starkly beautiful black and white photograph Building 52 depicts a broad view of the Hudson River. The Palisades loom in the far background, and their shape and size echo the sawtooth roof. The water tower juts up from behind those dark eaves, like an alien pod waiting for launch. In the foreground, two tall, inky black trees assert themselves over the scenery, train tracks just barely visible beneath the brush. Randazzo's photograph reveals a chilling future in this gray winter setting that seems abandoned by humans.
In dialogue with Randazzo's photograph is the abstract, multimedia work Hudson River: Winter by Diane Brawarsky. Here, the color palette—of sepia, chestnut, and fallow browns, silvery grays, and blue-ish, bruised whites—perfectly encapsulates a Hudson winter landscape. At the bottom of the piece, the river is represented by two rows of rectangles arranged along the horizontal plane; brushstrokes coat the surface like tracks over snow and ice. An array of dark brown rectangles cascade from upper left to middle right as the topmost mountain peaks of the Palisades across the Hudson. Rectangles with rough edges, made of corrugated cardboard pieces, create the bare winter tree line, with the brightest gray-white clouds, snow and sky appearing along the top row. In depicting this river view as seen from the hills in Hastings, and in constructing the Hudson landscape in winter, Brawarsky's abstract forms and recontextualized materials reconfirm the idea of transformation—in art, in nature, and in Hastings.
Ed Young's collage and relief piece Sunrise on #52 shows a similar play with material. His work is a minimalist composition that perfectly captures the play of sunlight on the Anaconda rooftop. Young employs humble, unconventional materials to create his piece. Its spare lines suggest the enormous ridged spine of a river-dwelling monster, a dragon in mid-flight, or a dinosaur. His artistic process of reclaiming and reusing cardboard cast-offs shows how a shift in perspective can inspire new ideas to address old problems. As perhaps the most radical appropriation and assemblage of media in this exhibition, Young's piece imagines a fantastical place created with a lens of possibility.
Altogether, the Studio Collective offers a dynamic model of contemplation and response. The works in this exhibition offer us an alternate means to comprehend the site as a whole, from the microcosmic cellular structures of toxic PCBs, to the industrial architecture of this former factory, to the contaminated beauty of the surrounding Hudson landscape. Reflecting on the same subject, using a multitude of images and perspectives, the artists transform diverse media and materials. Their artworks show that creativity, imagination, and optimism are valuable, constructive tools that enable us to reconsider the past, present and future of the Anaconda, the environment, and Hastings-on-Hudson.
Julie holds a BA in art history from Wellesley College, and an MA and PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She is Director of Research at the Cristin Tierney Gallery in New York. Her current research includes a comprehensive study of video artist Peter Campus' oeuvre in preparation for his Catalogue Raisonné. Julie was previously a contributing editor and a contributing author for the Hans Hofmann Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, and she has taught undergraduate and graduate level history of photography courses at Pratt Institute, Pace University, and SUNY, New Paltz.


Since Meghan Markle and Prince Harry announced their engagement just a few days ago, it's all anyone can talk about. We've already seen the ring and we know where the wedding will be, but what will the dress be like? We're expecting nothing short of fabulous for the famous actress turned future princess. She's living every girl's dream. So, in honor of the future royal wedding, we're sharing some of our favorite dresses from past royal weddings and some fabulous dresses you can wear to feel like a princess on your wedding day, too!
Marie Chantal's custom Valentino gown is a dress made for a princess, literally. The silk gown was encrusted with pearls and featured gorgeous Chantilly lace along the train. Although the wedding was over 20 years ago, the dress would still make statements today with the long lace sleeves and high neckline.
Princess Madeleine wed her prince in an off the shoulder cap sleeved Valentino gown. If you still want some coverage, but not too much, a capped sleeve is a great option. If you still feel it's too much, a lower neckline could take a gown like this to the next level.
The sleeves are a bit longer, but this top is pretty similar to Princess Madeleine's. The neckline is also a bit lower, showing a bit more shoulder than the Princess, but still just as stunning.
To feel like a princess, you've got to dress like one. That doesn't mean a big ball gown, either. It means whichever dress you feel like the greatest in. It could have sleeves and be a big ball gown, or it could be strapless and form-fitting. Whatever you decide, you're sure to be a princess on your wedding day.
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Q: Websocket send all clients a message in Echo Framework I believe that this question is almost the same with this.
But I use websocket in Echo framework instead of Gorilla. So I think the approach will be different.
Echo does provide the example. But it only shows how to connect with single client. When there are more than one client, the other clients don't receive message from server.
How do I make the server broadcasts message to all connected clients?
The accepted answer from referred link says that I have to use connection pool to broadcast messages to all connections. How can I do this in Echo framework?

A: You indeed need to follow the same principle of connection pool.
Here is the Echo example, with a very basic implementation of a pool:
package main

import (
    "fmt"

    "sync"

    "github.com/labstack/echo"
    mw "github.com/labstack/echo/middleware"
    "golang.org/x/net/websocket"
)

var connectionPool = struct {
    sync.RWMutex
    connections map[*websocket.Conn]struct{}
}{
    connections: make(map[*websocket.Conn]struct{}),
}

func main() {
    e := echo.New()

    e.Use(mw.Logger())
    e.Use(mw.Recover())

    e.Static("/", "public")
    e.WebSocket("/ws", func(c *echo.Context) (err error) {
        ws := c.Socket()

        connectionPool.Lock()
        connectionPool.connections[ws] = struct{}{}

        defer func(connection *websocket.Conn){
            connectionPool.Lock()
            delete(connectionPool.connections, connection)
            connectionPool.Unlock()
        }(ws)

        connectionPool.Unlock()

        msg := ""

        for {
            if err = websocket.Message.Receive(ws, &msg); err != nil {
                return err
            }
            err = sendMessageToAllPool(msg)
            if err != nil {
                return err
            }
            fmt.Println(msg)
        }
        return err
    })

    e.Run(":1323")
}

func sendMessageToAllPool(message string) error {
    connectionPool.RLock()
    defer connectionPool.RUnlock()
    for connection := range connectionPool.connections {
        if err := websocket.Message.Send(connection, message); err != nil {
            return err
        }
    }
    return nil
}

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Pålsson is a Swedish-language surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Johnny Påhlsson (1941 – 2009), Swedish sport shooter
 (1935-2019),  Swedish writer focusing on heraldry and phalewristics
Samuel Påhlsson (born 1977),  Swedish former professional ice hockey player

Swedish-language surnames


Thumper loves his Obachan. He walked up to her on Sunday, gave her a clear "hi!" and then a hug. I wasn't fast enough to snap a picture of the first hug, so I got one of them together. I'm never fast enough with the pictures when something cute happens.


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$480M settlement with Wells Fargo shareholders…
$480M settlement with Wells Fargo shareholders OK'd by judge
By Stephanie Francis Ward
September 5, 2018, 1:23 pm CDT
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A San Francisco federal judge late Tuesday granted preliminary approval to a $480 million class action settlement between Wells Fargo and shareholders who alleged they were harmed by the bank's unauthorized accounts scandal.
Plaintiffs alleged securities fraud, claiming that Wells Fargo executives inflated stock prices by claiming it had great success convincing clients to sign up for additional accounts and services. In fact, the bank created millions of accounts without customer authorization, the Los Angeles Times reports.
The settlement deal was reached in May, and at that time Wells Fargo denied the shareholders' allegations, according to the Times. The shareholder settlement is open to individuals who purchased Wells Fargo stock between Feb. 26, 2014 and Sept. 20, 2016, according to the Los Angeles Times. Plaintiffs lawyers in the case say they may seek up to $96 million in attorney fees and $3.2 million in costs.
In 2017, it was reported that Wells Fargo has fired 5,300 employees in connection with the unauthorized accounts, and agreed to pay $185 million to settle federal claims. It also replaced its then-general counsel, James Strother.
In April, Wells Fargo agreed to pay a $1 billion fine for alleged violations of the Consumer Financial Protection Act. The bank forced customers with auto loans to buy insurance they didn't need, and it failed to follow the process it explained to customers concerning payments to lock in mortgage interest rates.
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Supreme Court will consider Goldman Sachs case that could limit shareholder suits
Florida lawyer and disbarred New York attorney are indicted in alleged opinion letter scheme
Afternoon Briefs: These BigLaw firms get 'A' ratings on climate change; lawyer settles athlete fraud claims
Receiver's lawsuit alleges 2 BigLaw firms turned a blind eye to Ponzi scheme


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the boy asked. Ray ever really laughs is when he gets his high.
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photograph. The boy simply giggled and responded: Ray did indeed know how.
True Self Emily Drew Look above. Look within. Fill me with youth. Make me bright. Remind me who I am.
the same brown belt every day.
never met that Bobby. two boys.
were all the same. his mouth. than the words people said.
allowing teeth to bite down on them to hold in sound and push out pain.
The First Second Lay the hidden truth. The unbreakable. The determination. The readiness.
Overcooked Steak said rolling her eyes.
her pillow and took a deep breath. That was another reason to add to the list. Mumbling in her wondering what in hell she was dreaming about that she had to mumble. I brought this up to You.
ing her how to garden and one day tending to her own garden when she owned her own house one day.
Racing around to come up behind you again Shorter of breath and one day closer to death that time. anything.
The mellow song was soothing and he alternated between singing and taking long gulps areas. them to slow down.
Home, home again ed. son said eagerly.
Waiting for Dark Hearts Molly Martindal a moment still. and someday laugh. dark hearts a dark soul.
moving around down there. behind. top.
Slice Instead I will observe.
Slice Eight is up. Irony. risk takers.
The newspapers need me. as they say.
Slice My dream was to be a poet.
Angel in Disguise I saw your broken wing your knight in shining armor I knew it hurt so I waited and waited and waited until it healed. I gave you then months and what did I get in return. But in the end I was the only one to be blamed.
Running a Symphony triumphant uproar. running. into submission.
Running a Symphony with less. rushing home to get my nebulizer.
when I thought I might pass out. strenuous.
somewhere beyond the treeline and I knew the end was near. done.
Release of the Soul You are nothing but damaged and soulless.
Bimbo Fair Enough The bitter morning to snap into the shimmer and pulse Fathoming the trip I stumble down the stairs.
The Three Roads out of Mullica Hill month.
The Three Roads out of Mullica Hill My mind emptied until all that remained was that single thought: You are alive.
On the Day They Exhumed South Bay Cemetery and smuggled them like prisoners and sought them out. marking them as ours. we buried them.
Absolution T I opened my eyes and leaned on my elbow to get a better look around. There were streams English now.
Absolution when the basket was passed around.
T meditayded For this sin head.
Absolution he was surrendering to us.
Y me in the eye.
times growing up but it still never made sense. I love you.
Hunting ied beneath the dead animal.
A Good Man hit its mark.
I always imagined this is something like what death spoke into my ear. with his eyes.
A Good Man the young nurses lips. man. That would do.


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In these stories, T. C. Boyle focuses his unerring eye on humanity's relationship with nature, and the unintended consequences of our efforts to control it. The prize-winning "Are We Not Men?" reflects on the impact of new gene-editing technologies while "The Relive Box" parodies our obsession with electronic games. A dynamic new collection from one of our most original storytellers: satirical, surreal and very much of the moment.


When Lou Scott made his first military diorama with his son Chris 35 years ago, he had no idea where it would lead him. He has expanded well beyond this narrow theme, and the 150 dioramas on display at the B & G Gallery in downtown Rutland just begin to scratch the surface of Scott's seemingly boundless creative energy. It's hard to believe that there are still 150 more dioramas stored in Scott's Chittenden barn.
Art Is Vital, a collective of local galleries based in Rutland, has converted the former Boys and Girls Club space into a wondrous world populated by Scott's myriad mini-worlds. Scott is a consummate storyteller, both visually and in words. Each of the dioramas has a number and corresponding text, which Scott writes immediately upon finishing a piece. He works in a small 10-by-10-foot heated space carved out of an old barn and creates one work at a time, which can take anywhere from eight to 15 hours. The texts are thoughtful expositions of the issues that inspired Scott to create the work.
A veteran of 50 years in the advertising industry, Scott sold his medical advertising company in 2000 and moved to Vermont, where the idea of the "Visual/Word Dioramas" originated. The artists who Scott hired in his business were essentially frustrated fine artists. He would give them a thumbnail doodle on yellow paper and they would go about executing it.
Despite not having any formal art training, Scott credits his experiences with these graphic designers with giving him a natural sense of layout. He also speaks of his "muses" — a favorite being a childhood friend, Alfonso D'Imperio, a natural engineer who could "build anything." Even now, Scott often carries on a "conversation" with "Fonzi" as he builds his works.
When Scott retired, he trained as an EMT and worked at the Rutland Regional Medical Center emergency room and with Hospice. He had a desire to "give back" after his business years. One thing that he noticed immediately was the fact that people in difficult situations were grateful for any assistance, as opposed to his former clients, for whom money was the bottom line. He remembers distinctly the day that he realized, "One day you're going to be there, but not today." This spurred him to appreciate each day, and to do the work that was closest to his heart — and now we see the results of that dedication in this first exhibit.
The dioramas are intriguing. They draw you in with their charm and story. Once you are hooked, you begin to look deeper. Scott's thoughtful writings, easy to read, will help you make the journey. When one enters the gallery, the sheer number of dioramas is astonishing. There is no set path to follow. Every direction is equally interesting. The visitor knows immediately that he or she is on the path of adventure, and Scott does not disappoint.
Although one theme, e.g. global warming, might animate several pieces, it is never repetitive. The colorful scenes express the particular point of view of an artist whose eye is always fresh, inspired by his deep interest and also by his irrepressible sense of play.
In "Strange but Same World," a baby turtle gazes directly into our eyes. He is balanced on a coffin, atop a complex tower that includes a variety of characters such as an angel, giraffe, frog, Greek columns, flora and fauna. It looks like an interpretation of Noah's Ark, and in fact, Scott speaks of the origins of the world in different cultures — various creation myths — Eden built on the back of a turtle, or beginning with an egg, or divine intervention. His underlying message is that we are all one people, despite surface differences.
Each diorama is a journey that often combines past, present and future. In "Multiple Dimensions," Scott explores intertwining layers inspired by String Theory with cowboys, Indians and Greek gods, all of which are endlessly reflected in a background mirror.
Scott also journeys into unresolved contemporary questions. "Rescue" features a family of polar bears on an ice floe that threatens to spill over the edge of the frame, while a moose with a lifesaver on his antler stares at them from a forest habitat. The piece speaks to the changing nature of our world, not only global warming, but refugees displaced by circumstances beyond their control. Scott sees the lifesaver as a symbol of hope that America will again resume its role as a protector of nature and freedom.
Scott was drummed out of a military modeling club because he refused to make scenes where people shot at each other. A social consciousness and freedom of association and expression are key elements for him. He calls his approach "impressionistic." As a self-taught artist, Scott brings together disparate objects and ideas in a surrealistic approach that shows real range, from pared-down essential statements to Baroque towers of objects where several layers of history are jumbled together.
"And and And and And," an unusually stark black-and-white diorama, features a zebra, pandas and a unicorn in a cosmic scene presided over by a serene Buddha image. Scott writes about the essential questions of life, why we exist, and why the world is the way it is. Religions often attempt to give black-and-white answers, whereas the realities that we live with are much more nuanced.
In complete contrast, "T-Rex and Santa Claus" is a mélange of prehistory and contemporary times. The fantasy of Santa flying over the complicated world that has evolved over eons is dreamlike and magical. Scott has often included Santas in his works, and donates some of these to veterans' children at an annual Rutland Rotary luncheon. On a recent visit by Boys & Girls' Club members, Scott arranged a scavenger hunt and the gallery was filled with excited children dashing from diorama to diorama.
Scott's pieces are filled with light, wonder, a love of nature and compassion for the human plight. He is always approaching life with a question, and is willing to keep exploring the central thesis and see where it takes him. It's an open-ended journey. The art piece is resolved at a certain point, but the question remains and enters our consciousness, thereby provoking more thought, more life.
In fact, Scott is doing us a favor by framing contemporary life questions — global warming, species extinction, refugee issues — in a mode that is different than what we are accustomed to. This is not the evening news, or digital communication, or Facebook. This is the imagination, concern for humanity, and questing the consciousness of an unusual artist seeking to do his part in waking us up more deeply to the issues of our increasingly complex world, while entertaining us at the same time. The dioramas are like 3-D New Yorker cartoons that have a quirky way of engaging our attention and adding an unexpected punch line.
Scott's work is marked by a sense of invention and play — a transformative vision that animates commonplace objects and creates endlessly fascinating mini-worlds. He invites us to travel into the far reaches of the human and animal journey on this planet. There is a global feel to the work that honors a vast consciousness on a diminutive scale.


When the Jixt arrived above Earth's skies, first contact celebrations with the friendly alien race were cut short when the Jixt warned of the Xir threat.
For months, the Jixt helped us improve our technology and weapons, preparing humanity for the fight against extinction.
The Xir came, and we defeated them. At great cost. But humanity was so eager to befriend the Jixt, the first alien race mankind encountered, that we bought their lie.
The Xir came to save us from the Jixt, and we murdered them.
Humans were massacred. The survivors were scattered throughout the galaxy, living as endangered vagabonds.
Good sf story, but deserves a much longer version. Classic sf theme.


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SYDNEY, Australia: A 102-year-old great-grandmother is believed to have become the world's oldest skydiver after plunging 14,000 feet (4,300 meters) through the South Australian sky.
Centenarian adrenaline junkie Irene O'Shea said she "felt normal" after a 220 kilometer per hour (140 mph) dive that sent her cheeks flapping wildly.
She completed her first skydive to mark her 100th birthday in 2016, but organizers claimed it was Sunday's successful tandem dive at the age of 102 years and 194 days that earned her a place in the history books.


Our tagged Sociable Lapwings are on the move, making rapid progress as they travel southwards.
Three are taking the eastern migratory pathway (Maysa, Tesfaye and Vyan), with Tesfaye already at the key staging area on the Turkmenistan/Uzbekistan border where in a couple of weeks we will have teams on the ground to gauge the importance of the locale, assess habitats and possible threats.
Five birds (Ajaz, Canan, Nikoo, Sanjar and Shirin) are heading westwards towards the Middle East and Africa as their wintering grounds. Nikoo has already made it to Azerbaijan, with Sanjar close behind. Canan is taking a more northerly route.
Kiryl is the only bird to stay hanging around on the breeding grounds. His tag is transmitting, and he is moving, so all appears to be well.


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Chatham police working violent crimes
Arrest made in sexual assault case dating to 1999; murder in Siler City being investigated
Siler City Chief of Police Mike Wagner sits in his office in Town Hall.
Posted Friday, June 25, 2021 3:56 pm
Updated: Thursday, July 15, 2021 4:43 pm
BY D. LARS DOLDER, News + Record Staff
Chatham law enforcement agencies are investigating a pair of violent crimes — serial rape and murder — making an arrest in the former and working with the State Bureau of Investigation in the latter.
Pittsboro police officers arrested Alejandro Jacobo-Marcos last Thursday in connection with a string of unsolved sexual assaults from more than 20 years ago, according to Chief Shorty Johnson.
An investigation into Jacobo-Marcos' suspected crimes began in March when two victims contacted the department and accused him of abusing them in 1999.
"Jacobo-Marcos was known to the victims," Johnson said, "and lived in Pittsboro at the time of the assault."
Since then, Jacobo-Marcos moved to California. Detective Delaine Womach of the Pittsboro Police Department contacted authorities in Riverside County, California, who cooperated in the inter-departmental search and eventually located Jacobo-Marcos.
"After Detective Womack secured warrants in the case," Johnson said, "the Riverside County Sheriff's Office detained and held Jacobo-Marcos until he was extradited back to North Carolina."
Jacobo-Marcos has been charged with 31 counts of indecent liberties with a minor, 16 counts of first-degree sex offense, six counts of sexual battery and one count of first degree kidnapping. He is being held under a $1 million dollar bond and is scheduled to appear in court on August 6.
Siler City shooting
Last Monday, Siler City police were dispatched to the 400 block of East Sixth Street in response to reports of gunshots, according to Siler City Police Chief Mike Wagner. Upon arrival, officers found one person who had been shot.
Police have not identified the victim, who eventually succumbed to the gunshot wounds at an undisclosed time. The department is conducting a homicide investigation with assistance from the State Bureau of Investigations, said Wagner, who declined to provide further details citing the sensitivity of an ongoing investigation.
The suspected murder is at least Siler City's second fatal gun crime in the last six months. Earlier this month, an extradition team retrieved Sergio "Yovani" Rodriguez Pereira from Gwinnett County, Georgia, where he'd fled after allegedly shooting his brother-in-law, Ramon Hernandez.
Hernandez, 28, died Dec. 20 in the UNC-Chapel Hill Medical Center after he was shot several times in the torso. He'd been found earlier the same day on Waterford Street after authorities received reports of gunshots. A witness later identified Rodriguez as the shooter.
Rodriguez, 24, faces one count of first-degree murder and three counts of assault with a deadly weapon among other less serious charges. He is next scheduled to appear in court on June 30.
Siler City's crime rate exceeds the state and national average, according to Wagner, who has worked to shore up his staff in his two years as chief. In the last complete year of data, the town had 67 violent crimes, he previously told the board of commissioners, including murder and rape, and 325 property crimes.
In Siler City's budget for fiscal year 2021-22, which the commissioners adopted Monday, the police department stands to grow by more than 25% with plans to nearly double in the next three years.
Reporter D. Lars Dolder can be reached at dldolder@chathamnr.com and on Twitter @dldolder.


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The Role of Established Breast Cancer Susceptibility Loci in Mammographic Density in Young Women
Eunjung Lee, Christopher A. Haiman, Huiyan Ma, David Van Den Berg, Leslie Bernstein and Giske Ursin
Eunjung Lee
Christopher A. Haiman
Huiyan Ma
David Van Den Berg
Leslie Bernstein
Giske Ursin
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-07-2749 Published January 2008
Breast cancer susceptibility loci
Mammographic density
Recently, three genome-wide association studies identified and validated multiple novel loci as contributors to breast cancer susceptibility (1-3). In two of these studies (1, 2), the most significant association was with a common variant (rs2981582) in FGFR2, a gene implicated in mammary carcinogenesis (4-6). However, for all loci, the specific biological pathways that are disrupted and the mechanisms through which these common genetic variations contribute to breast cancer risk remain unclear.
Mammographic density (MD) is an important risk factor for breast cancer (7) and might be predominantly inherited (8), but the gene(s) responsible are, to a large extent, unknown. In the present study, we investigated whether these established breast cancer variants are also associated with MD. Given the known effects of postmenopausal hormone therapy on MD (9, 10), we addressed this question in a study of breast cancer patients under the age of 50.
This study has previously been described (11). Female patients diagnosed with histologically confirmed first primary invasive breast cancer were identified through the Los Angeles County Cancer Surveillance Program. Eligible cases were U.S.-born and English speaking, white (including Hispanic) or African-American females, ages 20 to 49 years. Among the 2,882 potentially eligible cases, 1,794 (62%) were interviewed. The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the University of Southern California. All participants provided written informed consent.
All subjects were interviewed in-person using a structured questionnaire which covered information on standard breast cancer risk factors. We obtained and digitized mammographic films of the contralateral (noncancerous) breast on 639 of 866 women with unilateral cancer for whom we requested mammograms. Estrogen and progesterone receptor information (ER/PR) was abstracted from pathology reports.
Blood specimens were collected from 588 (92%) women with mammograms. DNA was available on 578 women for the current study. The heterogeneity of genetic effects has been observed for some of these variants between African-Americans and other populations, which presumably reflects differences in linkage disequilibrium between these variants and the underlying causal alleles (1, 3). Thus, we limited our analysis to 516 whites (429 non-Hispanic, 87 Hispanic). We genotyped six single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP; rs889312, rs2981582, rs3803662, rs3817198, rs13281615, and rs13387042) using TaqMan assays as previously described (1, 3). The genotyping call rate was 97% to 98% for all six SNPs. We included 33 blind duplicate samples which had completely consistent results with the original samples. All SNPs were in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium in each population.
MD was quantified (by G. Ursin) using the University of Southern California Madena computer-assisted assessment method (12). The breast area was outlined by a research assistant trained by G. Ursin. The Madena software counts the area of absolute density as well as the total breast area. The percent mammographic density was equivalent to the amount of absolute density divided by the total breast area.
We examined the association between the carrier status of these SNPs and the mammographic percentage density using multivariable linear regression. The models were adjusted for age at diagnosis, ethnicity, menopause, hormone use, and body mass index 1 year prior to the diagnosis. We examined allele dosage effects because the previous studies support the codominant effects of these variants on breast cancer risk (1-3). We also examined associations by ER/PR status as the effects of rs3803662 and rs13387042 were shown to be stronger in ER+/PR+ cases (3). All P values reported are two-sided. SAS 9.1 was used for all analyses (SAS Institute).
Among whites, minor allele frequencies for each of the SNPs were similar to those in the genome-wide studies, except for rs3803662 (0.36), which was slightly more common than in previous studies (∼0.25; refs. 1, 3).
We observed no association between these six SNPs and percent mammographic density (Table 1). Among the ER+/PR+ patients, rs3817198 was statistically significantly associated with percent mammographic density (Ptrend per allele = 0.020), with the homozygous carriers having an 11% higher percent density than noncarriers (P = 0.030). However, the trends for ER+/PR+ and ER−/PR− cancers did not differ statistically (P = 0.19). For rs3803662 and rs13387042, the variants more strongly associated with risk of ER+/PR+ breast cancer (3), we observed no significant association with the percent density in ER+/PR+ cases.
Percentage of MD associated with genotypes in total subjects and by ER/PR status
In this study, we found little evidence that established low-penetrance breast cancer susceptibility variants contribute to interindividual differences in MD.
MD represents the amount of stromal and epithelial tissue in the breast (13). Fibroblast growth factor receptors are involved in cell proliferation, migration, and differentiation, and have been implicated in mammary carcinogenesis (4-6). Therefore, we hypothesized that one possible mechanism by which rs2981582 (or the causal allele it is marking) influences breast cancer risk is through altering MD. However, our data suggest that neither this SNP nor the other susceptibility variants that we examined are strong predictors of MD in young women.
Homozygous carriers of rs3817198 variant alleles had higher MD than noncarriers among ER+/PR+ patients, but the formal test for interaction by ER/PR status was not statistically significant. Rs3817198 is located in intron 10 of a gene encoding lymphocyte-specific protein 1, a filamentous actin–binding protein that plays a role in B-cell signaling and the motility of lymphocytes and neutrophils (14, 15). An alternatively spliced isoform of this protein is expressed in fibroblasts (16), and lymphocyte-specific protein 1 overexpression has been observed in certain drug-resistant breast cancer cell lines (17). Although we cannot exclude the possible effect of rs3817198 on MD, our finding on rs3817198 is likely due to chance and needs to be replicated.
Women with homozygous variants in these new loci may be at a 17% to 63% higher risk of breast cancer than noncarriers (1). If this increased risk were strictly due to MD, this should have translated to 9% to 30% differences in MD between homozygous carriers and noncarriers because a difference of 1% in MD has been associated with a 1.5% to 2% difference in risk (18, 19). We had sufficient (80%) power to find 8% to 10% differences between homozygous carriers and noncarriers; however, no such differences were found.
In summary, we found no evidence that the FGFR2 variant (rs2981582) or the other five breast cancer susceptibility loci that we examined (rs889312, rs3803662, rs3817198, rs13281615, rs13387042) are associated with MD in this study of young women.
Grant support: CA17054 and CA74847 from the National Cancer Institute, NIH, 4PB-0092 from the California Breast Cancer Research Program of the University of California, and in part through NIH contract no. N01-PC-35139. The collection of cancer incidence data used in this publication was supported by the California Department of Health Services as part of the statewide cancer reporting program mandated by California Health and Safety Code Section 103885. The ideas and opinions expressed herein are those of the authors, and no endorsement by the State of California, Department of Health Services is intended or should be inferred.
The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked advertisement in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.
Accepted November 2, 2007.
Received November 2, 2007.
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