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Adu, Joseph (2018) The effects of individual and community-level factors on maternal health outcomes in Ghana. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Adu, Joseph and Tenkorang, Eric Y. and Banchani, Emmanuel and Allison, Jill and Mulay, Shree (2018) The effects of individual and community-level factors on maternal health outcomes in Ghana. PLoS ONE, 13 (11). ISSN 1932-6203
Bartellas, Michael (2015) A narrative approach: barriers and facilitators to access and care in services for youth eating disorders in Atlantic Canada. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Bernard, Karine (2018) Beyond food: contributions of a community kitchen and a community garden to the well-being of the Francophone and Francophile community of St. John's, Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Bowen, Sonya (2017) An inquiry into stigma within mental health care policy. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Brunger, Fern and Duke, Pauline S. (2012) The evolution of integration: Innovations in clinical skills and ethics in first year medicine. Medical Teacher, 34 (6). e452-e458. ISSN 1466-187X
Brunger, Fern and Duke, Pauline S. and Kenny, Robyn (2014) Matching physicians to newly arrived refugees in a context of physician shortage: Innovation through advocacy. International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, 10 (1). pp. 36-51. ISSN 1747-9894
Butt Chedore, Kimberly A. L. (1997) The prevalence of dysphagia in a long-term care facility. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Chen, Zhi (2015) Dietary patterns and their impacts on colorectal cancer in Newfoundland and Labrador. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Coombs, Alyssa (2016) Assessing the health outcomes of the family members of disabled individuals. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Dewling, Ruby Skinner (1983) Utilization of cottage hospitals and health service needs in two defined districts. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Doyle, Emily (2014) An Environmental Scan of Factors Relevant for Sustainable Food Production in NL. Project Report. The Harriss Centre.
Doyle, Emily (2014) The Benefits and Sustainability of School Gardens: A Case Study of St. Francis School Greenhouse (Harbour Grace, NL). Project Report. The Harris Centre.
El-Bialy, Rowan (2015) Refugee resettlement and sense of wellbeing in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Enrico, Valerio Tonelli (2017) Dietary inflammatory index and chronic pain in an adult, non-institutionalized civilian population of the US. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Ferguson, Hillary (2018) An epistemological assessment of positivistic knowledge and humanistic knowing in medical care. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Fullerton, Laura Mary (2014) Infant feeding and institutional compliance with the WHO/UNICEF baby-friendly initiative: an assessment through maternal experience. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Gee, Adrian Stuart (2017) Spatio-temporal analysis of Chlamydia trachomatis in Newfoundland and Labrador and an exploratory analysis into employment traits as risk factors. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Giles, Madison Leigh (2014) Impact of an HIV/AIDS sexual health education program for youth in southern Inuit communities. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Giles Murphy, Tina Linda (2015) Asbestos exposure and incidence of disease among a group of former chrysotile asbestos miners and millers from Baie Verte, NL, Canada. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Halder, Biplab Kumar (2019) Promoting women's reproductive health: why autonomy matters. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Harris, Rebecca R. (2018) The retail food environment: a rural perspective. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Hoque, Zakia Nahim (2018) Effectiveness of workplace health and safety programs in university settings. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Hunter, Kelly (2017) A study of university students' perceptions and experiences around food practices. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Hurley, Laura (2019) Barriers and facilitators to access and care in services for children with autism spectrum disorder in Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Jones, Andria Q. and Dewey, Catherine E. and Dore, Kathryn and Majowicz, Shannon E. and McEwen, Scott A. and David , Waltner-Toews and Eric, Matthews and Carr, Deborah J. and Henson, Spencer J. (2006) Public perceptions of drinking water: A postal survey of residents with private water supplies. BMC Public Health , 6 (94). pp. 1-11. ISSN 1471-2458
Jones, Andria Q. and Dewey, Catherine E. and Dore, Kathryn and Majowicz, Shannon E. and McEwen, Scott A. and Waltner-Toews, David and Henson, Spencer J. and Matthews, Eric (2005) Public perception of drinking water from private water supplies: focus group analyses. BMC Public Health , 5 (129). pp. 1-12. ISSN 1471-2458
Law, Victoria G. (2016) The influence of religion and gender on physician and nurse HPV immunization recommendations in Newfoundland and Labrador. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Liu, Shiliang and West, Roy and Randell, Edward and Longerich, Linda and O'Connor, Kathleen S. and Scott, Helen and Crowley, Marian and Lam, Angeline and Prabhakaran, Victor and McCourt, Catherine (2004) A comprehensive evaluation of food fortification with folic acid for the primary prevention of neural tube defects. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth , 4 (20). pp. 1-10. ISSN 1471-2393
MacDonald, Donald M. (2004) Pharmacists' expectations of a pharmacy network: a baseline evaluation. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
MacKenzie, Adrian (2019) The importance of division of work and clinical focus in health human resources planning: a dynamic, multi-professional, needs-based simulation model. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Marchant-Short, Sheila (2017) Adverse events in health care: examining the second victim experience. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Mason, Barbara Ellen (2018) Mitigating the impact of structural discrimination for people with dementia residing in long-term care facilities: an ethical framework based in virtue ethics and facilitated using a citizenship lens. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Matthews, Maria and Seguin, Maureen (2012) A qualitative study of factors influencing different generations of Newfoundland and Saskatchewan trained physicians to leave a work location. Human Resources for Health, 10 (18). pp. 1-8. ISSN 1478-4491
Maxwell, Erika (2017) The impact of financial and geographic barriers to fertility service in Newfoundland and Labrador. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Phillips, Jennifer (2018) Maternal and neonatal risk factors for type 1 diabetes mellitus among children in Newfoundland and Labrador. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Pollock, Nathaniel J. and Naicker, Kiyuri and Loro, Alex and Mulay, Shree and Colman, Ian (2018) Global incidence of suicide among Indigenous peoples: a systematic review. BMC Medicine, 16. ISSN 1741-7015
Ramos, Amelita (2017) A study of employee absenteeism at the health care corporation of St. John's. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Reitmanova, Sylvia (2009) Knowledge translation in health research: A novel approach to health sciences education. Medical Education Online, 14. pp. 1-10. ISSN 1087-2981
Roche, Madonna Margaret (2015) Diabetes and early and late diagnosis in Newfoundland and Labrador. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Roskams-Edris, Dylan (2016) Acting on impulse: using the neuroscience of impulse control to improve the law. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Roy, Krishna Rani (2018) Stress, appraisal, autonomous support and coping: an integrative perspective of adult type 2 diabetes management in Newfoundland and Labrador. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Sarkar, Atanu and Traverso-Yepez, Martha and Gadag, Veeresh and Hunger, Kelly (2015) A Study on Food Security Among Single Parents and Elderly Populations in St. John's: Final Report. Research Report. Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Sharma, Ishor (2018) Dietary patterns colorectal cancer risk and survival in Newfoundland, Canada. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Shortall, Chris (2017) Queering baccalaureate nursing education in Canada: a survey and qualitative content analysis of curriculum and policy documents. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Simms, Colleen (2016) The role of Patient Representative in the Mental Health Care and Treatment Act. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Thomas, M. Kate and Majowicz, Shannon E. and MacDougall, Laura and Sockett, Paul N. and Kovacs, Suzie J. and Fyfe, Murray and Edge, Victoria L. and Dore, Kathryn and Flint, James A. and Henson, Spencer and Jones, Andria Q. (2006) Population distribution and burden of acute gastrointestinal illness in British Columbia, Canada. BMC Public Health , 6 (307). pp. 1-11. ISSN 1471-2458
Thomson, Kalen K. (2017) Exploring appropriate business models for establishment of water quality monitoring service in Newfoundland and Labrador. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Wallack, Elizabeth M. (2016) The first time delivery of the first link learning series using Skype and YouTube. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Wang, Meng (2015) Developmental trajectories of body mass index: evidence from the National Population Health Survey (1994-2011). Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Wang, Peizhong Peter and Liu, Lin and Roebothan, Barbara and Ryan, Ann and Chen, Zhi and Yi, Yanqing and Yan, Jing (2014) A preliminary investigation into diet adequacy in senior residents of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada: a cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health , 14. ISSN 1471-2458
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White, Gerald J. (2014) The impact of individual and school characteristics on types and levels of bullying in Newfoundland and Labrador schools. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
White, Nicole and Gabril, Manal and Ejeckam, Gershon and Mathews, Maria and Fardy, John and Kamel, Fady and Doré, Jules J.E. and Yousef, George M. (2008) Barrett's Esophagus and Cardiac Intestinal Metaplasia: Two Conditions within the Same Spectrum. Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology, 22 (4). pp. 369-375. ISSN 0835-7900
Wu, Hao (2015) Palliative and end-of-life care for Chinese immigrants: experiences of family caregivers. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Zhu, Yun (2014) Influence of prediagnostic dietary patterns and cigarette smoking on colorectal cancer survival: a cohort study. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Zhu, Yun (2018) Vitamin D, calcium, dairy products and genes involved in their metabolic pathways in colorectal cancer risk and survival. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.


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Does a Company Have to Pay for the Defense of a Former Officer Who Was Criminally Charged (Twice) with Stealing the Company's Trade Secrets?
October 1, 2012 | Marcus, Ellen
That's the question presented by a recent lawsuit filed by Sergei Aleynikov, a computer programmer who was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs responsible for code relating to Goldman's high frequency trading business (more on "HFT" here) before he left to work for a hedge fund – allegedly bringing Goldman's "secret sauce" code with him. We've observed before that contractual rights to indemnification can sometimes lead to head-scratching results, but, depending on the outcome, this case may take the cake. Plus, it nicely illustrates key concepts about indemnification (our focus today) and advancement (our focus later this week).
Aleynikov was twice charged for allegedly stealing Goldman's code. The first time, he was indicted by federal prosecutors in New York. That case went all the way to trial. The jury convicted Aleynikov, and he was sentenced to more than eight years in prison. Aleynikov appealed. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed his conviction on the ground that the federal statutes that he was charged under did not criminalize his taking of the code, which is "intangible" and was "not designed to enter or pass in commerce, or to make something that does."
Briefly, Aleynikov was a free man, although he had racked up more than $2 million in legal fees, and had run out of money. But, in August, less than six months after the Second Circuit's reversal of his conviction, he was charged by the Manhattan district attorney for state crimes relating to his taking of the code and arrested.
In the lawsuit against Goldman that he filed last week, Aleynikov seeks a court order directing Goldman to reimburse him for the legal fees that he incurred defending against the federal case – in other words, indemnification. He also seeks a court order directing Goldman to pay on a current basis the legal fees that he has incurred and will incur for the state case – in other words, advancement.
You may be surprised that any person – no matter how important – would be entitled to have his legal expenses paid by his former company for (1) a criminal case, (2) after a jury convicted him for stealing valuable trade secrets from the company.
Here's some background. Goldman, like many companies, is incorporated in Delaware. Delaware law permits companies to provide broad indemnification rights in their bylaws for their directors and officers. The theory behind the law is that, otherwise, companies will not be able to attract the best and brightest to their C-suites. The best and brightest will work elsewhere, rather than risk having their personal financial resources drained in defending against a case relating to their work for the company. Goldman seems to have embraced the theory. Its bylaws provide for mandatory indemnification to the fullest extent permitted by law. That is not unusual.
(By the way, there appear to be questions in Aleynikov's case about whether the Goldman subsidiary that Aleynikov worked for was bound by the bylaws of the parent company, and whether Aleynikov was a director or officer covered by the bylaws' indemnification provision. The case may well end up turning on those questions. We are putting them aside for now. That's the nice thing about having a blog. You can do that.)
Now, back to the issues presented by Aleynikov's lawsuit.
First, a person may be entitled to indemnification for a criminal case if he is successful on the merits of the case. Aleynikov relies on Section 145(c) of the Delaware Code provisions on indemnification, which requires corporations to indemnify former directors or officers who have "been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any . . . proceeding referred to in subsections (a) and (b) of this section." Subsection (a) provides that corporations "have the power to indemnify any person who is a party to a proceeding," including "criminal" proceedings "by reason of the fact that the person is or was a director [or] officer . . . of the corporation . . . ."
So, just because the case was criminal in nature doesn't mean that a company does not have to indemnify. That leaves the question of whether getting a conviction overturned on appeal (even on what may seem like technical legal grounds) is "success on the merits." Aleynikov says that it is. That also leaves the question of whether a person's facing criminal charges for stealing from a company on his way out the door is a proceeding "by reason of the fact" that the person was an officer or director of the company. Aleynikov says that it was because he only had access to the secret code that he allegedly stole by reason of the fact that he was an officer of Goldman.
Aleynikov's case against Goldman also raises the issue of whether the exclusion in subsection (a) frees Goldman from any obligation indemnify – specifically, the part of subsection (a) providing that corporations only have the power to indemnify a person if "the person acted in good faith and in a manner the person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe the person's conduct was unlawful."
According to Aleynikov, the exclusion does not apply because it is not found in subsection (c) (the provision that he is relying on), and, even though subsection (c) incorporates part of subsection (a) by reference, it only incorporates the part describing the "proceeding" for which indemnification is required, not the rest of the subsection.
We'll be on the lookout for Goldman's response.
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John Hose, London Cordwainer, c.1770
Courtesy, Historic New England
These fashionable but restrained cream silk brocade shoes, with earth-tone, stylized flowers on a patterned ground, were made by a London family of cordwainers. The Hose family shop was located on Lombard Street "at the boot." Several generations of the Hose family practiced skilled shoemaking and their shoes are some of the more elegant ones seen in North American collections. The upper features an attractive floral silk in browns and greens on off white with green binding and oval toe. A well-proportioned 2.5 inch Louis heel and period buckles (owned by Prudence Jenkins for her wedding in 1778) complete this tasteful ensemble.
This post is a work in progress as recent correspondence with Hose family descendants and information supplied by the Cordwainers archives is adding exciting new detail and dimension. The author is indebted to Colin Michael Hose, Linda Pardoe and Judith Millidge, of the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers, for sharing their research and perspectives.
The Historic New England catalog information for the shoes notes: Many eighteenth-century shoes are called buckle shoes because a removable metal buckle was used to fasten the straps along the top. The high heel, round toe, angled side seams, and exuberant floral pattern of this buckle shoe are characteristic of shoes made in the third quarter of the eighteenth century. In eighteenth-century Boston, Massachusetts, as in Philadelphia, PA, Newport, RI and Portsmouth, NH, the latest London fashions were readily available to those who could afford them. These brocade shoes were made in the section of London called Cheapside, known for its textile merchants and shoemakers. Like most shoes of the period, they have no right or left but were made to be interchangeable. The long tabs were intended to be fastened by buckles, which were worn like jewelry and could be transferred from one pair of shoes to another. Buckles could be set with diamonds for the wealthiest wearers, or, like these, made of paste.
The shoe buckles themselves were worn by Prudence Jenkins (b. 1759) at her 1778 wedding to Dr. John Chace in Providence RI. Historic New England also has fragments of Prudence's brocaded silk wedding dress, which, according to tradition, was purchased in London for a guinea a yard as well as one of her high heeled wedding shoes covered in a green and purple floral brocade. These related objects illustrate that eighteenth century brides either wore their best dress or had wedding clothes specially made for the occasion and did not universally wear white, which was considered a more appropriate color for mourning.
Acc. # 1919.140AB Gift of Miss Mary C. Wheelwright
Information and photograph courtesy, Historic New England
For additional examples of work by the Hose family, see collections at Historic Deerfield (left) and the Charleston Museum, discussed in previous posts.
Stephen Jones: A Season of Hats at the Peabody Essex Museum
A hat makes clothing identifiable, dramatic--and, most importantly, Fashion...they confer a sense of presence and poise to the wearer that, in my mind, cannot be achieved through clothing or other accessories.
Stephen Jones A Personal View
Hats: An Anthology, 2009
The photos throughout this post are perfect illustrations of the transformative nature which hats bring to the wearer, so deftly described by Mr. Jones. Among my favorite images (left), following a November fashion show, the milliner is flanked by Peabody Essex Museum staff members who were the models. "Presence and poise" (and just sheer glee) was in abundance and transmitted to an appreciative audience.
If you are still looking for a special gift, you may want to visit the "hat boutique" at Peabody Essex Museum shop, where you will find something special in all price ranges. Do hurry as a number of milliners work has already sold out!
Director of Merchandising, Lynne Francis-Lunn
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Milliners currently on view include:
Stephen Jones, London, England
Dinah Makowsky, Memphis, TN
Sarah Havens, Louisville, KY
Denise Shea, Maynard, MA
Eric Javits, New York, NY
Natasha Manolagas, Swampscott, MA
Gwendolyn Gleason, New York, NY/Naples, FL
Thank you to Stephen Jones, Oriole Cullen, Curator, Victoria & Albert Museum, Lynda Hartigan, PEM Chief Curator, Juilette Fritsch, PEM Director of Education, Paula Richter, PEM Curator of Exhibitions, Lynne Francis-Lunn, PEM Director of Merchandising and the many friends, colleagues and staff of the Peabody Essex Museum, for creating a magical season of hats.
A Kilt: The Tale of a Plunge
By Jeff Hopper
This is the tale of a plunge. Two weeks ago a friend in the building trades told me that one of the local lumber companies was closing. Not so odd given today's economic climate, but it was one of the last lumberyards in this area that was also a lumber mill. I used some of their true 2x4's in work on our circa 1914 house, no need to thicken to modern 2x4's, these were the real thing with their furred edges. The same day I heard this I read that the Dalgliesh Tartan Mills, www.dcdalgliesh.co.uk, in Selkirk, Scotland had almost finished their last run in 2011. The tartan mill was saved, at least for the time being, but the lumber mill was not.
This is a fashion blog about the old and new so herein hangs the tale. Learning of the loss of the lumber mill, I ordered 6 yards of tartan to be woven in a slight variation of the Ancient Campbell tartan and a kilt will be made from this weaving. D.C. Dalgliesh Mills will receive the order some time this autumn and if all goes well the run will be finished in early winter. Matthew Newsome, www.NewHouseHighland.com, of North Carolina will tailor the kilt in the knife pleat style and it should be finished sometime in the spring. I'm a Yank so the idea of a kilt is in itself questionable and will be met with some derision, so be it. I've thought about this for a while, but it wasn't until the lumber mill closed that I realized how dependent we are all on use. We need to use materials such as lumber or cloth in order for them to exist—no demand, no goods, no market. I'm not sure how I am paying for this, but it will happen.
Ancient Campbell from D.C. Dalgliesh LTD
I chose a kilt because for the first time in years I need evening attire. Recently I became a member of our local Athenaeum and there is a formal gathering during the Christmas season. It's been awhile since I had a tux and even longer for a set of tails, but I thought why should I settle for either of those when a kilt can be worn. I have enough Scottish ancestors to at least make the pretense of this move, on top of which when asked, my wife and other women I know all said there was something about a man in a kilt—we'll leave it at that. However, it's more than that. If I need to dress for the evening, why am I still dressing as my great-great-grandfather would have done? I understand the kilt has the same limitations, it duplicates a nearly two hundred year old tradition, but it isn't as pervasive as the black evening attire of the past two hundred years in American-European circles. I cannot image a man of 1890 wearing the evening attire of a man of 1690, yet somehow we are there.
by Giovanni Boldini circa 1890, private collection
Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax by Sir Godfrey Kneller, oil on canvas,
circa 1690-1695. NPG, London
Fashion comes and goes, no news there, and the materials that make fashion possible are just as fleeting. The other reason for the kilt was the tradition of weaving. The Black Watch and Stewart tartans will live on in shirts, skirts, jackets, coats, dresses, and all manner of products until we tire of pattern, but the lesser known tartans or plaids only live as long as people use them. Most cloth and patterns may be timeless, but they are not perpetual—no use, no need. All right, the Campbell tartan isn't going away, its other incarnation is Black Watch, but the desire to commission a one-off was still strong. My tartan will be woven on a 27-inch loom producing a woven selvedge on both sides, with the result of no hem. (My preference is for a kilt that is tailored to measure, not finished to measure.) The color choice will be a slight variation of the present ancient Campbell, so in this instance it will be a special weave. Will this one commission save a weaving house, not possible, but the idea that consumers of fashion should be responsible to the craft of the trade is possible.
A Dagliesh woven selvedge
So there it is—the plunge, a special weave, a kilt and who knows what else—a floodgate may have opened. In the end, it's in honor of my paternal grandmother whose great-great grandfather was born a Campbell in Edinburgh. She had a lust for life, obtained a degree just as women got the vote, didn't drink until it was illegal, didn't smoke until it was rationed, and received a Christmas card for years from her bookie. How could I not wear a kilt in honor of that woman? Now go out there and commission someone to create something for you. It will give future generations something to ponder.
Guest blogger Jeff Hopper is the Project Director of Blue Tree Publishing House and holds an MA in Museum Studies from Harvard University (2012). This is the first in a series on men's wear and textiles.
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NEA 2013 Budget Honors States' Role in Federal Arts Funding
NEA 2013 Budget Honors States' Role in Federal Arts Funding
The policy positions NASAA successfully impressed upon Congress last year are reflected in the Obama administration's fiscal year 2013 budget request for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Last year, NASAA and state arts agencies advocated for several changes to the NEA's proposed budget to ensure that states' interests were addressed in the appropriations legislation ultimately recommended by Congress for FY2012. According to documents released this week by the NEA, and following a briefing by NEA staff for NASAA personnel on the FY2013 budget details, all four of the positions advanced by NASAA last year are reflected in the budget proposed for the year ahead.
First, in proposing an increase in funding for the NEA from the 2012 level of $146 million to $154.255 million in 2013, the NEA's proposed budget allocates the congressionally mandated 40% share of program grant funds to the states. The 2013 budget requests an increase in support for Our Town grants from a current level of $5 million to $10 million in the coming year. Dollars for that initiative are included this time in program grants, with the states' allocation applied.
Second, the budget document proposes two legislative changes: one clarifying allowed matching funds for grants made to the states, and the other providing guidance on the waive-of-match provisions for states and regional arts organizations. The language proposed in both instances is that developed by NASAA in collaboration with the NEA. As explained in the budget, the NEA had included proposed legislative changes on these issues in its 2012 request, ". . . however, based on House Congressional guidance, the NEA engaged in extensive collaboration and consultation with a diverse group of State Arts Agencies and the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies. The result of these discussions is a proposal that reflects a consensus developed from our ongoing partnerships with the States."
Third, the 2013 budget proposes that funds to the states for Poetry Out Loud and for arts education initiatives be maintained at the current levels. Last year, anticipating disproportionate reduction in these funds, NASAA advocated to focus on maintaining fair treatment for support to the states for these activities, a position backed by congressional directive in the 2012 appropriations legislation.
Fourth, the 2013 NEA budget documents provide for continued support for the National Heritage Fellowships and the American Jazz Masters Fellowships. Both were proposed for elimination in the administration's 2012 budget, but Congress directed the NEA "to continue its annual recognition of individuals with outstanding achievements in these disciplines in a similar manner to past years."
NASAA and our arts advocacy colleagues working with Congress have agreed to promote a funding level of $155 million for the NEA in 2013. That figure, which is slightly above the amount requested by the president, is identical to the arts endowment's appropriation two years ago and equal to the level proposed by the Senate appropriators going into negotiations on the 2012 budget. Later this spring, the House and Senate appropriations committees will begin their deliberations on the 2013 appropriations legislation. Bills are expected to go for floor votes in the House in June. NASAA will keep you apprised on the progress of that debate.


I'm so thrilled to share today's interview with you. I have the absolute pleasure of working personally with Jennifer since she gracefully stepped into my Divine Self-Care Circle in January 2016, and is now one of our guest mentors.
Her work, her presence and her dedication to empowering introverted leaders to step into their power is absolutely incredible.
During this interview Jennifer and I explore what it means to be introverted in a loud, extroverted world. We also dive deep into what it means to truly make an impact YOUR way. During our conversation, Jennifer shares what it means for her to stand up and claim the ICON status and how she's helping other quiet leaders to make a big impact without sacrificing their unique essence, voice and personal style.
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Toronto Montessori Lower School Addition
This new 22,500 sq.ft addition to Toronto Montessori's Lower school features a new entrance, reception lobby, gymnasium, student common space, administrative offices, and a shipping and receiving area.
Shaped semi-circular, the new addition forms a half circular garden plaza in front of the building for the arrival at the main entrance. Adjoining the building along its concave curve is a 230ft long glue-laminated timber canopy that provides a continuous covered walkway and areas for seating.
Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada
Toronto Montessori School (TMS)
Farrow Partners, TriAxis Construction Ltd.
The new addition was designed to reflect Montessori's values of learning through materials, to provide an environment that promotes self-directed engagement with these materials, and belief that each child has an innate love for nature. Supporting these values, the design uses exposed timber framing as a primary structural material, and the layout of the framing fits a uniquely geometric arrangement.
Forming the main entrance, reception lobby and common space is a series of three-point glue-laminated timber arches positioned along the arc of the semicircular plan of the building. Springing from the floor and rising 21ft, these featured elements give opportunity for direct contact to the materiality of the structure. Branching from these arches in a network of triangular patterns are a series of glue-laminated struts that supports the main roof beams.
Recognitions: Canada Wood Council – National Design Award; Canada Wood Council – Ontario Wood Works Mass Timber Design Award, 2021
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CONNECTING WOMEN IN MATHEMATICS ACROSS CANADA
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The CMS Committee for Women in Mathematics, in cooperation with the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, is organizing a workshop for women graduate students in the mathematical sciences at Canadian universities, which will take place just before the CMS Summer 2003 meeting. The workshop is scheduled to be held at the University of Alberta in Edmonton on Thursday, June 12 and Friday, June 13th, with an introductory dinner and talk on Wednesday evening, June 11th.
Fifty women will be selected to participate in the workshop, on the basis of their applications. They will be attending plenary talks in mathematics, and panel and small group discussions on issues of career development and balancing career and personal and family life. Each participant will be expected to give 15 min. presentation on their research interests. Afterwards, the participants may wish to remain for the CMS Summer 2003 meeting. For information on registration fees for that conference, please go to http://www.cms.math.ca/Events/summer03/.
Women graduate students in the mathematical sciences at Canadian universities are invited to apply through this website. All applications should include:
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At least one letter of support, including one from the student's supervisor. Letters should be send by email to the chair of the organizing committe, Malgorzata Dubiel, at dubiel@cs.sfu.ca, with CWiMAC and the applicant's name on the subject line.
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Registration fee: $100 (includes meals)
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All the rooms at this residence are single rooms. The price is $33.60 per night (taxes included), and this includes breakfast.
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Malgorzata Dubiel, Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
Rachel Kuske, Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia
Judith J McDonald, Department of Mathematics, Washington State University
Leah Keshet, Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia
Ortrud Oellermann, Department of Mathematics, University of Winnipeg
Dorette Pronk, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Dalhousie
Gerda de Vries, Department of Mathematics, University of Alberta
Susan Cooper, Department of Mathematics, Queens University
Mateja Sajna, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Ottawa
The workshop is supported by a CMS Endowment Grant and a grant from the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences.
Plenary I
An academic career: a fantastic opportunity to mix harmoniously teaching and research,
Christiane Rousseau, Université de Montréal
In my whole life I have always been involved with popularization of mathematical research. I have done this through mathematics lectures and/or math camps for college and undergraduate students, and also through a course "Mathematics and technology" for future secondary school teachers. I will explain briefly how I choose my themes which are not at all limited to my research area, i.e. dynamical systems. Under each theme there is always an underlying message, whose scope is much wider than the theme treated in the lecture. This interest in popularization of mathematical research has joined and enriched my own research interests in dynamical systems. One fundamental problem in dynamical systems is to understand the "type" of equilibrium points. One method is to use change of coordinates bringing a dynamical system to a "normal form" whose equilibrium points are well understood. However in many cases the changes of coordinates to normal form given by power series diverge generically. I am now working to understand the "meaning" of a divergent change of coordinates, and why we should expect divergence to be the rule and convergence the exception.
Plenary II
Mathematical Versatility,
Priscilla Greenwood, Arizona State University and UBC
In this talk I will share some thoughts about mathematics as a choice of mental training and outlook. The message will be that a mathematician can weave into her professional tapestry whatever interests her next. She can be versatile throughout her life. My own current choice is the mathematics of the genome, and I will dwell mostly on why this topic fascinates me.
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Having recently redone my will, I've been forced to think about what happens to me when I'm hit by that metaphorical wayward bus and like Jacob Marley, am as dead as a doornail.
I don't mean what happens to all my earthly possessions – that's what the will is for. I mean, what happens to my body when bereft of life, I kick the bucket and shuffle off this mortal coil.
I've found some options for my earthly remains which may interest ageing baby boomers. They may also interest enterprising entrepreneurs in the funeral industry who are tired of thinking inside the box, or the urn for that matter.
The funeral business is a billion-dollar industry in Canada and one that will never run out of customers. Leaving aside the cost of a memorial service with food and wine, a typical burial with respectable wooden casket, transit to and from funeral home, embalming, grave site service and other miscellaneous costs such as the interment fee for opening and closing the plot, headstone, and granite base for the coffin to rest on could be anywhere between $5,000 to $30,000. Additionally, the plot could cost anywhere from $1,500 to $5,000 depending on location in Canada.
Likewise, a typical cremation in this country, including a respectable urn, transit to and from the funeral home, cremation, a grave site service and miscellaneous costs could run anywhere from $5,000 to $10,000. And if the urn is to be in a cemetery, the additional cost could be $1,000 to $3,000.
Of course, there are other things to consider, like a double-depth plot, a niche wall, a standalone family legacy niche, a crypt, an indoor niche or an indoor crypt. A memorial service, complete with appetizers and wine, might rival the cost of a wedding reception.
As for my own arrangements, a traditional burial strikes me as too boring and conventional, so for some time I've thought of cremation and having my ashes scattered in the waters of English Bay in Vancouver or Oak Bay in Victoria, or perhaps both. But part of me is fearful that by the time I snuff it, environmental groups or animal rights activists will protest 'ash-scattering on the ocean' due to the alleged harm my ashes could do to dogfish and seagulls. It is British Columbia after all.
But then I discovered something that Canadian funeral homes don't advertise: the option turn my remains into a diamond. Yes indeed, companies like LifeGem, Cremation Solutions and Algordanza will compress and super-heat my cremated ashes and turn them into a man-made diamond. They extract the carbon, convert it to graphite then heat it to almost 2,900 degrees Fahrenheit, after which point, they compress the graphite with 725,000 pounds per square inch of pressure – the weight of the world on what's left of my shoulders, so to speak – to turn me into a synthesized diamond.
As for the cost, it can be as inexpensive as a 'respectable' coffin. Remembrance Diamonds Corp., the Canadian partner of Algordanza of Switzerland, states that its "Memorial Diamonds" start at $2,899, but pricing goes up for larger carat stones. A 0.6-carat diamond could cost between $6,500 and $10,500, for example, while a one-carat diamond runs between $13,000 and $21,500.
Now admittedly there are some aesthetic concerns to these memorial diamonds, no matter how striking they are. Is my wife really going to wear what's left of me on a pendant or a ring? Or despite how stunning my stone will be, will there be a certain yuck factor to it? I can picture the scene playing out in my mind: "That's such a beautiful blue stone ring you're wearing." "Oh, that's my late husband Tony. He had such beautiful blue eyes…see right here?" as she holds out her hand.
Another opportunity out there is out of this world. A company called Celestis will send cremated remains into space, like it did for Gene Roddenberry, but it'll cost you. The company charges a whopping $12,500 to send a teeny weeny 'symbolic portion' of someone's remains to the Moon. That seems like a lot of money for a symbolic portion, if you ask me.
Enter Astrobotic Technology. This space logistics company is working with Carnegie Mellon University to put a privately-owned lunar lander on the moon for a lot less money using a Falcon 6 rocket built by Space X.
On Dec. 11, 2014, the company announced a service called MoonMail to help underwrite the cost of launching its private lunar lander and win the Google LunarX Prize. The MoonMail page on Astrobotic's website states that they are accepting small mementos for inclusion on its first mission to the Moon like a family photo, a ring, an SD Card, a lock of hair or cufflinks. You simply mail the keepsake in a small, special container to Astrobotic in Pittsburg, where its placed in its Moon Capsule and integrated into the Moon Pod on the lunar lander. More information on their kit is available here.
Although they won't take cremated remains, they will take gems. So once I'm a gem through LifeGem, Cremation Solutions or Algordanza, it'll cost as little as $460 to send me (well, a very compressed version of me) to the moon.
Voila! Astrobotics plans more missions in the future with bigger payloads. I can hardly wait.
Canadian funeral homes should be boldly going for this option faster than a rocket because we boomers lived and breathed Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Star Trek. And with apologies to God, many boomers are way more interested in physics than metaphysics.
"We buried dad on the Moon" will be a showstopper in any conversation my adult kids will have about their father. They won't have to feel guilty for never visiting the cemetery; all they'll have to do is look up at the man in the moon, and roll their eyes knowing that I got the last cosmic laugh. My memorial service will be like a launch party celebrating a pending trip. Friends and colleagues will do their worst William Shatner and Patrick Stewart impressions while The Blue Danube, Sprach Zarathustra and Dark Side of the Moon play in the background. Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters may be served.
Call it the ultimate trip, the final frontier, Monoliths-R-Us™ or any other metaphor you want, but ask a boomer these three questions: Do you want your body to buried in a cemetery? Do you want your ashes scattered on the ocean? Or would you rather be turned into a diamond and be 'deliberately buried' (to quote Stanley Kubrick) on the moon?
When the time comes – which I hope will be later rather than sooner – I choose to go to the moon. Boldly. I expect others will too.
Tony Wilson is a franchising, licensing and intellectual property lawyer at Boughton Law Corp. in Vancouver, he is an adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University (SFU), and he is the author of two books: Manage Your Online Reputation, and Buying a Franchise in Canada. His opinions do not reflect those of the Law Society of British Columbia, SFU or any other organization.


Sevastou I, Pryce G, Baker D, Selwood DL. Characterisation of Transcriptional Changes in the Spinal Cord of the Progressive Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis Biozzi ABH Mouse Model by RNA Sequencing. PLoS One. 2016 Jun 29;11(6):e0157754. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0157754. eCollection 2016.
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a debilitating immune-mediated neurological disorder affecting young adults. MS is primarily relapsing-remitting, but neurodegeneration and disability accumulate from disease onset. The most commonly used mouse MS models exhibit a monophasic immune response with fast accumulation of neurological damage that does not allow the study of progressive neurodegeneration. The chronic relapsing and secondary progressive EAE (pEAE) Biozzi ABH mouse model of MS exhibits a reproducible relapsing-remitting disease course that slowly accumulates permanent neurological deficit and develops a post-relapsing progressive disease that permits the study of demyelination and neurodegeneration. RNA sequencing (RNAseq) was used to explore global gene expression in the pEAE Biozzi ABH mouse. Spinal cord tissue RNA from pEAE Biozzi ABH mice and healthy age-matched controls was sequenced. 2,072 genes were differentially expressed (q<0.05) from which 1,397 were significantly upregulated and 675 were significantly downregulated. This hypothesis-free investigation characterised the genomic changes that describe the pEAE mouse model. The differentially expressed genes revealed a persistent immunoreactant phenotype, combined with downregulation of the cholesterol biosynthesis superpathway and the LXR/RXR activation pathway. Genes differentially expressed include the myelination genes Slc17a7, Ugt8A and Opalin, the neuroprotective genes Sprr1A, Osm and Wisp2, as well as genes identified as MS risk factors, including RGs14 and Scap2. Novel genes with unestablished roles in EAE or MS were also identified. The identification of differentially expressed novel genes and genes involved in MS pathology, opens the door to their functional study in the pEAE mouse model which recapitulates some of the important clinical features of progressive MS.
There are some of you out there that think that animal models are useless and a waste of time. Others think that they are vital for the development of treatments.
EAE has taken a bashing because it has turned up so few treatments. I will argue that it takes time for these treatments to filter through. Also the issue is the way we use the data from the animal work and how it is then translated by humans, whether the researchers or the clinicians, pharmaceutical, conspires to lead to failure. This maybe because the idea was hopelessly wrong in the first place.
I have had recent dealing with some animal modellers doing testing in non-MS areas ,where their positive control in the experiment only worked at 70 times the human dose and no other drug currently used in the human disease could work in the test system. I would say in dutch:-) "Schtop". The testing isn't fit for purpose.
There are people out there that believe there are no models of progressive MS. They are simply wrong. We have one and following a period of relapses progressive disease ensues that no longer responds to drugs that block relapsing disease.
In this study we can simply ask what is the difference of the genes being activated to make proteins in progressive disease compared to health. There are many thousands of genes that are different and this will be in part due to the presence of immune cells in the CNS.
RNAseq (R, N, A, seek) detects the sequences of the RNA that has been made from DNA and tests every gene in the body and it is perhaps amazing that only about 2000 genes were deferentially expressed and interestingly the pathway that popped out of this "fishing trip" look-see was the cholesterol pathway. Maybe this starts to underpin why statins may have use in progressive MS. If we look in Alzheimers disease where nerves are lost, the cholesterol pathway also features heavily. This contains loads of data and it will be hard to fathom what is occurring until be do more such as see what happens when we add immune cells into the mix. Maybe this is telling use something.
However the real reason why we did the experiment was to see what was the difference between the animals with progressive disease and what happens when we give a drug of interest to animals with progressive disease. What changes?
The answer was only seven genes and some of then were in the same pathway, what was this and what were they and what is this about…top secret until we do more work.
Excellent post MD! How do you hypothesize cholesterol causes neuron death or worsens neurodegeneration?
I know it's top secret, but then there would be such an implication also the environment in MS genetics, especially n-progressive?
I used to see cholesterol and fat metabolism in a expression from cell autonomous (i.e. primary, not infiltrating) immune response in the model i worked on in grad school. I'm convinced that there's more to tissue stress and distress and defence than the canonical stat + nfkb stuff, and that this was part of it.
10 bucks says that's what you're seeing too.


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Incredible New Photos Of A Tribe Living in Total Isolation Reveal Surprises
Alexa Erickson
It's so easy to get caught up in what we that we often forget there are so many different types of realities happening throughout the world, some of which we could have never fathomed to be true.
While many of us buzz around in our cars, on our phones, in and out of offices, and relax at restaurants, in our homes in cul-de-sacs or nestled among a big city, hitting the gym, trendy outfits, or enjoying our eco-friendly flair, there are parts of the world where such modern life is completely non-existent — to the point where it feels more surreal, more like a movie setting, than anything else.
But every now and then, we are reminded that life exists outside of our bubble. Aerial photographs of an isolated tribe in the Brazilian rainforest are one of the most recent examples, as they expose a look at a Neolithic way of life that has all but vanished from Earth's existence.
Brazilian photographer Ricardo Stuckert took high-resolution images, which show a colorful yet discreet indigenous community living in total isolation within the Amazon jungle.
"I felt like I was a painter in the last century," Stuckert said to National Geographic of his reaction to spotting the natives. "To think that in the 21st century, there are still people who have no contact with civilization, living like their ancestors did 20,000 years ago—it's a powerful emotion."
The photos, which were taken near Brazil's border with Peru, are revolutionary in the sense that, because they are so close-up, they reveal specific information about the Indians that had largely gone unnoticed by experts before, like the emphasis on body paint and their haircuts.
"We thought they all cut their hair in the same way," noted José Carlos Meirelles, an expert on Brazil's indigenous tribes. "Not true. You can see they have many different styles. Some look very punk."
The tribe became the subject of global conversation back in 2008, when agents from Brazil's indigenous affairs agency, Fundação Nacional do Índio (FUNAI) published images of the tribesmen covered in red body paint shooting arrows at their hovering airplane. Since then, the tribe has reportedly moved several times. According to Meirelles, they move locations about every four years.
Stuckert had boarded a helicopoter with Meirelles to visit the jungle outpost of Jordão near the border of Peru when thunderstorms forced the vessel to detour, which ultimately resulted in the occupants being directly over an isolated settlement of thatched huts in the jungle. Naked inhabitants of the community reacted with shock, running out of site and into the forest.
But the tribe's panic soon turned to curiosity as they returned a few hours later."They seemed more inquisitive than fearful," explained Stuckert to National Geographic. "I felt there was a mutual curiosity, on their part and mine."
Because the tribe has never made a successful and peaceful relationship with the outside world, the name of their tribe is unknown. Brazilian officials therefore call them the "isolated Indians of the upper Humaitá."
Photo by Ricardo Stuckert.


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A Million Media Now: The Rise of India on the Global Scene
Time 6 - 6pm
The media are booming in India: newspaper circulation is rising; new community radio and FM stations are being launched; India has more dedicated television news channels than the whole of Europe put together, and it is also home to the world's largest film industry. From mobile telephony to online communication, India has witnessed a revolution in the production, distribution and consumption of images and ideas.
In an age of mediated international relations, the mass media have an important role in making nations and cultures attractive in a globalising marketplace. The focus of this lecture will be on how India's mass media, popular culture and communication outlets influence ideas and institutions outside India and beyond the diasporic constituency. The lecture will explore the strategies that the Indian government and creative and cultural industries are adopting to raise the country's international profile. Will the million messages emanating from the world's largest democracy, and one of its fastest growing economies, via the Indian media, reach all corners of the globe? What is the role of India's increasingly vocal and visible English-fluent diaspora in contributing to this mediated 'soft' power?
Professor Daya Thussu
Daya Kishan Thussu is Professor of International Communication and founder Co-Director of India Media Centre at the University of Westminster in London. He holds a PhD in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Formerly a journalist – first at the Press Trust of India and latterly with the London-based news features agency Gemini News Service, Professor Thussu has conducted workshops and written policy papers and reports for such international organizations as UNESCO and UNDP. Author or editor of a dozen books, Professor Thussu is an internationally recognised scholar of global media, having worked at Goldsmiths, University of London before his current post. He has written extensively on global aspects of media and communication with a special focus on global news. Among his recent publications are Internationalizing Media Studies and News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment. He is the founder and Managing Editor of the Sage journal Global Media and Communication and series editor for a book series for Routledge called Internationalising Media Studies. He is currently working on a book on India's Soft Power.


Cotton Incorporated's Consumer Marketing Division has launched a new television and online advertising campaign, Life is Uncomfortable, to help drive consumer awareness for cotton.
According to a statement from The Cotton Board, the new campaign uses awkward humor combined with uncomfortable situations to contemporize cotton, create relevancy, and drive engagement with a younger consumer audience.
The first commercial, Tattoo, launched on television and online April 23, including a showing on ABC's American Idol. The other three commercials will launch digitally on May 7.
Three of the videos are targeted specifically to women, and one is targeted directly to men. Beyond television, the videos will run on media sites like Refinery29, PopSugar, Men's Health, and Women's Health. The videos are all clickable and ultimately drive consumers to shop for cotton apparel on TheFabricOfOurLives.com.
All four new videos leverage cotton's comfort as a key benefit and reinforce the message that cotton is The Fabric of Our Lives. Other cotton benefits like ease-of-care, naturalness, and durability will be communicated through other advertising tactics including web banner ads, social media, blog posts, and custom content through media partnerships.


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Q: How to modify the navigation toolbar easily in a matplotlib figure window? Is it possible to do something like the following to modify the navigation toolbar in matplotlib?

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*Generate a figure window, with: fig = figure()

*Get a reference of the navigation tool-bar, with: tbar = fig.get_navigation_toolbar(),
or better yet, just by: tbar = fig.navtbar

*Modify the tool-bar through the reference tbar, such as delete/add/edit a button with something like this:
   tbar.add_button(<a Button object>);
   tbar.remove_button(a reference to a button);
   tbar.edit_button(a reference to a button);

*Update the figure with: fig.canvas.draw()
Thank you very much.

A: With MPL 1.2.1 it is possible to get an handler of the navigation toolbar of a standard MPL figure through figure.canvas.toolbar. I'm not sure about previous versions.
At least with the QT backend it is possible to add arbitrary widgets to the navigation toolbar using the QT method .addWidget(). I suppose other backends will work using similar methods, but I haven't tested them.
Here it is a working example (using the QT backend) that adds a QLineEdit() to the navigation toolbar to change the title of a MPL figure (run from IPython (pylab) with run -i ..., then launch test()):
from PySide import QtGui, QtCore

def test():
    plot([1,2,3], lw=2)
    q = qt4_interface(gcf())
    return q   # WARNING: it's paramount to return the object otherwise, with
               # no references, python deletes it and the GUI doesn't respond!

class qt4_interface:
    def __init__(self,fig):
        self.fig = fig

        toolbar = fig.canvas.toolbar
        self.line_edit = QtGui.QLineEdit()
        toolbar.addWidget(self.line_edit)
        self.line_edit.editingFinished.connect(self.do_something)

    def do_something(self, *args):
        self.fig.axes[0].set_title(self.line_edit.text())
        self.fig.canvas.draw()
        #f = open('l','a'); f.write('yes\n'); f.flush(); f.close()

A: The way I found to remove unwanted toolbar items is making a subclass, which is instantiated and used in a GTK application. As I manually create Figure, FigureCanvas and NavigationToolbar objects anyway, this was the easiest way.
class NavigationToolbar(NavigationToolbar2GTKAgg):
    # only display the buttons we need
    toolitems = [t for t in NavigationToolbar2GTKAgg.toolitems if
                 t[0] in ('Home', 'Pan', 'Zoom', 'Save')]

If you want to create custom buttons, you should take a look on the definition of NavigationToolbar2 in backend_bases. You can easily add your own entries to the toolitems list and define appropriate callback functions in your toolbar subclass.

A: The previous answers work but are very backend-specific. A slighly more elegant solution is to subclass NavigationToolbar2, as done in this other answer: Matplotlib/Tkinter - customizing toolbar tooltips
There the aim was to change the tooltips, but adding or removing a button is equally trivial.

A: In addition to torfbotl's solution above, you might have an extra button hanging at the end (the one with the green check mark).
That can be mitigated in the subclass constructor:
from matplotlib.backends.backend_qt4agg import NavigationToolbar2QT as NavigationToolbar

class PanOnlyToolbar(NavigationToolbar):
    # only display the buttons we need
    toolitems = [t for t in NavigationToolbar2GTKAgg.toolitems if
                 t[0] in ("Pan", )]

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(PanOnlyToolbar, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.layout().takeAt(1)  #or more than 1 if you have more buttons

A: Using PyQt5 and matplotlib version '3.0.2'
If you want to add some buttons just follow the doc given by the class NavigationToolbar2() that is initialised in NavigationToolbar2QT() wich is imported from matplotlib.backends.backend_qt5agg :
# list of toolitems to add to the toolbar, format is:
# (
#   text, # the text of the button (often not visible to users)
#   tooltip_text, # the tooltip shown on hover (where possible)
#   image_file, # name of the image for the button (without the extension)
#   name_of_method, # name of the method in NavigationToolbar2 to call
# )

So you need to redefine your class as previously said (you can also see under, the pre-defined buttons available atm). In my case I wanted to remove 2 buttons ('Save' and 'Subplots' that I commented) so that gave me :
class NavigationToolbar2QT(NavigationToolbar2QT):
    # only display the buttons we need
    NavigationToolbar2QT.toolitems = (
        ('Home', 'Reset original view', 'home', 'home'),
        ('Back', 'Back to previous view', 'back', 'back'),
        ('Forward', 'Forward to next view', 'forward', 'forward'),
        (None, None, None, None),
        ('Pan', 'Pan axes with left mouse, zoom with right', 'move', 'pan'),
        ('Zoom', 'Zoom to rectangle', 'zoom_to_rect', 'zoom'),
        # ('Subplots', 'Configure subplots', 'subplots', 'configure_subplots'),
        (None, None, None, None),
        # ('Save', 'Save the figure', 'filesave', 'save_figure'),
    )

And calling the NavigationToolbar2QT (still in my case) :
figure = plt.figure()
canvas = FigureCanvas(figure)
toolbar = NavigationToolbar2QT(canvas, self)

A: I found that just that
fig = plt.figure()
toolbar = fig.canvas.manager.toolbar
tb=toolbar.toolitems
while len(tb)>0:
    tb.pop(0)

worked to remove all tools, and popping individual tools worked too. That said,
toolbar.toolitems=[]

didnt work, so the code must have another reference to this array somewhere.

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The BMW i8 Gets Unplugged
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The brand's first plug-in hybrid waves goodbye after six years on the market.
BMW i8 production ends in April 2020.
More than 20,000 units of the PHEV sports car have been produced since 2014.
The i8 Ultimate Sophisto Edition will mark the end of the car's career with a 200-unit run.
Production of the BMW Group's very first plug-in hybrid will come to an end in April. The BMW i8 eco-supercar will retire after six years on the market. The German brand is claiming that it will make its way into its sports car "Hall of Fame," the BMW i8 having "started its worldwide success story as a unique symbiosis of futuristic design and pioneering technology."
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Only 200 units of the 2020 BMW i8 Ultimate Sophisto Edition will be built, and each one will get a numbered plaque inside the cabin. The latter also gets the Accaro interior design with a Black and E-Copper colour scheme. The Coupe also boasts an anthracite-coloured headliner and comes with the extended storage package, while the Roadster includes the travel package.
As a matter of fact, the 20,000th unit of the BMW i8 was built in December 2019, and was an Ultimate Sophisto Edition. The automaker says the PHEV sports car outsold its other iconic models by a mile, such as BMW M1 (399 units) and the BMW Z8 (5 000 units). Of the special-edition variants of the i8 launched over the years, which include the 2016 Protonic Red Edition, the 2017 Protonic Frozen Black Edition and the 2017 Protonic Frozen Yellow Edition, this last one is the rarest with only 100 units produced for worldwide consumption.
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The last BMW i8 will roll out of the company's Leipzig factory in April. New electrified models will soon be introduced, such as the BMW i4 and the BMW iNEXT.
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