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DR. DIONYSIA-THEODORA AVGERINOPOULOU
Dr. Dionysia-Theodora Avgerinopoulou is a leading future in International Environmental Law and Policy. A former Member of the Hellenic Parliament, she serves as the Vice-Chair of the Steering Committee of the Global Water Partnership Organization and the Head of Water of the Energy and Environment Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce. She is by profession a specialized attorney in Public International Law, European Law, Environmental, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Law and ADR and the Executive Director of the European Institute of Law, Science and Technology. Dr. Avgerinopoulou has also served as the Chairperson of the Circle of the Mediterranean Parliamentarians on Sustainable Development and the Vice-Chair for the Mediterranean Commission for Sustainable Development. She was nominated as the candidate for the position of the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Program at the rank of the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations by the Hellenic Republic.
Dionysia received a first degree in Law from the Faculty of Law of the National and Kapodestrian University of Athens, Greece (top 1 in class, grade: excellent) and an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. with distinction. She also holds a Doctorate in International Environmental Law (J.S.D.) from the Columbia University School of Law. She has been the recipient of many awards and scholarships. Dionysia is the author of several articles on environmental and international issues and has presented her work on several international conferences. International media have covered aspects of her work in many countries.
She has previously worked, among others, on environmental cases at the Legal Service of the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium, the Permanent Mission of the European Union at the United Nations in New York, U.S.A., the Center on Environmental and Land Use Law of the New York University School of Law in New York, the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and the Yale Law School in New Haven, C.T., U.S.A. and the International and Foreign Law Institute in Athens, Greece. She is an attorney-at-law by profession. She teaches Public International Law, International Environmental Law, European Environmental Law, Law of Sustainable Development and Energy Law.
She served twice as a Member of the Hellenic Parliament, as well as the Chairperson of the Special Permanent Parliamentary Committee on Environmental Protection and its Subcommittee of the Watercourses, as well as a Member and Chair of the National Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee, and as a Member of the Committee on the Revision of the Greek Constitution and the Committee on the Parliament's Library. She has been the Secretary of the Parliamentary Committee of Friendship between Greece and the Netherlands and Member of the Parliamentary Committees of Friendship between Greece and the U.S.A., Russia, Kenya and Israel. She has also served as the President of the Parliamentary Committee of Friendship between Greece and Botswana, and a member of the Parliamentary Committees of Friendship between Greece and the U.S.A., Russia, Israel, and Albania. She has served as the Deputy Secretary of Volunteerism and NGOs of the New Democracy Party ("Nea Democratia"), and the Deputy Head of the Environmental Policy Sector of the New Democracy Party. Dr. Avgerinopoulou was a member of the Committee regarding the Genetically Modified Organisms of the Greek Ministry for Environment, Energy and Climate Change. Most notably, she was the Chairperson of the Standing Committee for the UN Affairs of the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
In 2015, Dr. Avgerinopoulou was nominated for the position of the Executive Director of UNEP at the rank of the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations by the Hellenic Republic. In 2013, Dr. Avgerinopoulou was nominated for the position of the Deputy Executive Secretary of UNEP by the Hellenic Republic. In 2011, Dr. Avgerinopoulou was elected as a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum for her leadership in environmental protection. In 2011, she received the "Green Star" Award by UNEP/OCHA/Green Cross International for her efforts in preparing and combating environmental emergencies. She was also selected among the "40Under40" of the EU, namely among the most promising 40 leaders of the European Union under the age of 40. In 2010, she also received a Special Congressional Recognition for her "outstanding efforts and invaluable contributions on behalf of Hellenic Students and the environment" and the Global Citizenship Award for Leadership in Assisting Humanity by Orphans International Worldwide in 2010. In 2009, she received the international Goddess Artemis Award by the Euro-American Women's Council for her contribution to transatlantic cooperation between the U.S. and the EU on environmental and climate change issues, as well as a Recognition by the Mayor of Athens of "her contribution in promoting the Hellenic spirit worldwide."
She is also a Member of the Network of Women Ministers and Leaders for the Environment, the Hellenic Association for Environmental Law; the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank and IMF; the American Society of International Law (ASIL), the European Society of International Law (ESIL), the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS), the Biopolitics International Organization, the European Women Lawyers' Association, the Global Diplomatic Forum, the Euro-American Women's Council, and the Women's of Europe Award-Greek Division.
DR. ELENI CHATZICHRISTOU
Dr. Eleni T. Chatzichristou is a Research Associate of NKUA. She received her PhD in Astronomy from the University of Leiden (Netherlands) and conducted research in astrophysics in several top institutions world-wide (1994-2004: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Space Telescope Science Institute, Yale University, European Southern Observatory). In 2005 she was awarded a Marie Curie International Re-integration Grant to conduct research at the National Observatory of Athens.
During the following years she gradually became involved in a variety of national and international science communication activities: co-coordinated the Press Office and Outreach and Media Center (EPMC) of Europlanet RI (affiliation: National Observatory of Athens), coordinated the the outreach national nodes network of Europlanet-RI in more than 20 countries (affiliation: National Observatory of Athens), coordination of yearly outreach best practice workshops of Europlanet 2020 RI (affiliation: Institute of Accelerating Systems and Applications), Outreach officer of the Eu-funded MAARBLE project (affiliation: National Observatory of Athens), Greek coordinator of the EU-funded Hands-on-Universe project (affiliation: National Observatory of Athens), Outreach and Communication officer of the Astroparticle Physics European Consortium (APPEC), Greek representative at the European Particle Physics Communication Network (EPPCN).
Since 2012 she is member of the SOC, chairing the Outreach Education Policy (OEP) sessions of the yearly European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC). In June 2016 she became project manager of the Academic Cluster of Science and Technology of USPC (Université Paris Sorbonne Cité) and since January 2017 she is the project manager of the Laboratory of Excellence UnivEarthS at Université Paris-Diderot (France). Publications in refereed journals (23), Conference presentations (54) Citations: >2600 h-index: 13 i10-index: 16
ANGELICA KATSIYIANNI
MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Angelica Katsiyianni was born in Athens in 1978 and was admitted to the Athens Bar Association in 2006. She is a Supreme Court Attorney. She graduated from the University of Aberdeen, School of Law, LL.B. with a specialization in International and European Law, and holds a Master of Laws LL.M. in Commercial and Company Law from the University of London – University College London (UCL), School of Law.
She specializes in: Banking and Finance Law, commercial contract negotiation and drafting, company incorporation and continuous legal support. She speaks English, French, Spanish and Greek.
Published book by Palgrave Macmillan, UK: Katsiyianni A., Kokkori E. and Polychroniou N. (2011): "Law-Company Law, Tax and Employment Law" Ch. 6 in Prouska R. and Kapsali M. (eds.), Business and Management Practices in Greece – A comparative context, Palgrave Macmillan.
ISABELLE VAN DAMME
Isabelle Van Damme practises international trade law, with a particular emphasis on WTO law, and European Union law.
WTO Law
Isabelle advises clients on WTO procedural and substantive law and represents governments in WTO dispute settlement proceedings.
Isabelle has represented WTO Members before WTO panels and the Appellate Body in dispute settlement proceedings involving export quotas and duties, accession protocols, export licensing, transit restrictions, administration and review of trade measures, general exceptions, minimum export pricing, discriminatory taxation and customs valuation.
Isabelle also assists clients on all aspects of the negotiation of trade and investment agreements.
Isabelle previously gained experience in the areas of WTO law and public international law as a Legal Liaison Officer at the United Nations Secretariat, Legal Affairs, Codification Division and as a Legal Intern at the WTO Appellate Body Secretariat.
Isabelle has significant expertise in the area of EU law.
Isabelle previously worked as a référendaire in the chambers of Advocate General Sharpston at the Court of Justice of the European Union, where she assisted with the drafting of opinions on a variety of issues, including external relations, common commercial policy, free movement of capital, intellectual property, import licensing, EU citizenship, freedom of movement of workers, consumer protection, life assurance, agricultural aid, fisheries, visa and asylum, access to information, protection of the environment, product labelling, terrorism and money-laundering suppression, protection of personal data and public international law.
Isabelle advises on various aspects of data protection, EU institutional law and EU external relations.
PERISTERA PASCHOU
I work at the intersection of human population genetics, statistical analysis and genomic medicine, and my research interests lie in two main areas: first, I study the genetic basis of complex disorders in diverse human populations aiming to translate research findings into clinical applications and, second, using novel methods for large-scale data analysis, I investigate human genomic variation and population genetic relationships around the world.
Towards the first goal, a major focus of my research is the elucidation of the genetic background of neurodevelopmental phenotypes, such as Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome, autism, obsessive compulsive disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. I study genomewide datasets and I have a leading role in multiple large-scale collaborative efforts such as the EMTICS and TS-EUROTRAIN consortia. At the same time, working with neuropathologists and analyzing whole genome sequencing data, I also investigate the potential link between neurodegeneration and neurodevelopment.
On the other hand, working towards the decomposition of human genetic variation around the world, I investigate human evolution and the migration patterns of the human population across the globe and in particular population movements around the Mediterranean basin (GENOMAP.GR project). Interdisciplinarity is an important aspect of my work and I place particular emphasis on transferring algorithms and methodology from the fields of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics to population genetics and medical genetics. In an era of Big Data and the ability to mine the genome of hundreds of thousands of individuals, such approaches pave the way towards the direction of personalized medicine.
Dr. Konstantin Aravossis
Prof. Dr-Eng. ,MBA, DIC K. Aravossis
Coordinator Environmental Economics and Sustainability Unit
Sector of Industrial Management and Operations Research
National Technical University of Athens
Web: http://arvis.simor.ntua.gr/
Giorgos-Stavros Kremlis
Giorgos Kremlis started his career in the European Union in 1981. He was a Legal advisor (from January 1981) in the European Commission's Legal Service, with an interruption of three years (1990-1993) in Greece. In that period he exercised the functions of Advisor to the Greek Minister of National Economy (1990), National Co-ordinator for the European Economic Community (EEC) internal market (1990-1992), Head of the EEC Committee under the Greek Prime Minister (1993), and Secretary General for European Affairs in the Ministry of National Economy (1993). During this period he was also a Member of the Greek Competition authority.
In 1995 he joined DG Environment. From 1995 to 2004 he served as Head of the Legal Unit, responsible for all legal issues in the DG, including, inter alia, the legality of new initiatives, the implementation of EC environmental legislation and investigation of national compliance with EC Directives and Regulations; handling of complaints, infringements, EU Ombudsman requests and Petitions. From 2004 to 2005 he was Head of the "Legal affairs and Governance" Unit, responsible for in-house legal advice, Århus Convention (access to environmental information, public participation and access to justice), Environmental Liability, Environmental Criminality, the IMPEL Network that he co-chaired, the Forum of Judges and the International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (INECE), Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and the financing of NGO's programme. From June 2005 to May 2013 he was the Head of the Unit "Cohesion Policy and Environmental Impact Assessments", responsible for the overall integration of the environment in the Cohesion Policy (ERDF, ESF, Cohesion Fund), the Trans European Networks for Energy and Transport, and EIB/EBRD loans.
In his current position, since June 2013, he is the Head of the "Mainstreaming and Environmental Assessments" Unit (former "Enforcement, Cohesion Policy & European Semester, Cluster 1" Unit), responsible for the enforcement of EU environmental law and of the compliance with environmental law of projects (and plans and programmes) co-financed by the EU as well as the evaluation of their
impacts. He is also responsible for environmental integration in Cohesion Policy and the Trans European Networks for Energy and Transport.
From March to August 2011, he served as Acting Director of the Directorate "Legal Affairs and Cohesion" and from June 2013 to January 2014 as Director ad interim of the Directorate "Implementation, Governance and Semester".
In his current position, he is Chairman of the ENEA-MA (European Network of Environmental and Managing Authorities), and the EIA/SEA (Environmental Impact Assessment / Strategic Environmental Assessment) Experts Groups. He is also a Member of the Board of the Espoo Convention.
He has also served as a member of the Board of the National Centre for Environment and Sustainable Development in Greece, and as a member of the Greek Regulatory Authority for Energy (RAE). He is Founding and Honorary President of the Hellenic Environmental Law Association.
He is a lawyer of the Greek Supreme Court and in the past he has been a Research fellow at the Centre of International Economic and European Law (1979-80), in Thessaloniki. He is visiting Professor in a number of universities, in Greece and abroad, especially in post-graduate studies. He is the co-author of a four volumes Commentary, Article by Article, of the EU Treaties (in Greek). He is also the author of a very large number of various publications, in English, French and Greek, including books and articles, on EU Policy and Law, in particular institutional law, business law, private international law, environmental law, and comparative law
Maria Angelakopoulou
IT and Social Media
Stavroula Antoniou
Elias Aravantinos
Ljupka Arsova
Olga Babakina
Dimitra Betsi
Katherine Christodoulatos
Nikos Chronis
Nikos Deonas
Athina Diamanti
Chrysa Efstratiou
Chrysa Efstratiou is a Research Assistant of European Institute of Law, Science and Technology (EILST). She holds a bachelor's degree in Water and Soil Engineering (2012), specialized in Renewable Energy Technologies (2017). Chrysa's published Master's thesis deals with Wave Energy Applications in order to promote energy efficiency and provide alternative solutions to water scarcity problems in isolated island or coastal communities.
A core focus throughout her career has been the study and analysis of soft energy applications to address water related issues using applications of spatial analysis tools to study both regional effects and damage patterns concerned with water conservation status.
In recent years she has been cooperating with private companies and NGO's, promoting new technologies in the Water sector. Chrysa' s responsibilities include the development of environmental management programs, development of environmental policies and strategies, environmental law and climate change issues, environmental investments in pollution control, wastewater treatment and related infrastructure.
Nicole Freund
Elli Galanopoulou
Dimitra Georgana
Lina Ghazal
Christina Gianopapa
Katerina Giosma
Aikaterini (known as Katerina) Giosma is a Greek Journalist and a Comms Professional from Thessaloniki with origins from Izmir (Minor Asia), France and the Black Sea, currently dwelling in Athens, who is responsible for the Social Media, Communication and Dissemination Department of the
European Institute of Law, Science & Technology.
She is a member of a startup team under the name Tech Talks Central, whose strongest dissemination tool is the interviews it conducts with movers and shakers, from inside tech events, broadcasting live to its community of listeners from all over the world and then saving all audio material as podcasts.
Prior this, Katerina was for 3 years a Media, Comms and Social Media Officer/Project Manager for the environmental NGO Hellenic Ornithological Society. In addition to her communication key responsibilities and daily tasks, she co-implemented and successfully completed 3 European Programmes (LIFE+, GRUNDVIG, LEADER+), while contributing for 5 more (LIFE, Natura 2000).
Working with teams and people from different countries, enhanced her intercultural awareness, which was also cultivated by being polygnot and corresponding via snail mail since her childhood till now with all continents on Earth! In adddition, evolving herself by taking over new responsibilities in diverse environments, emerged Katerina's creativity, adaptability and passion for every novel challenge on the way. So, it is true that her"lifelong learning bug" knows no cure and it is fed by a genuine curiosity and a lot of MOOCs…
As a Journalist, if data could speak, she has so far proofread and edited almost 20.000 pages, made 6.000 hours of radio broadcasting, conducted more than 300 interviews and weaved 200 story-driven articles, while crafted over a 300 marketing-advertising publications.
Katerina holds a Master of Arts on European Communications and Policies, obtained in 2012 by the public University of Athens.
In her free time, she plays with words- in the form of poems- and her acoustic guitar.
Litsa Grammatikou
Alexander Gritsinin
Despina Hadjikyriakou
George Hassiotis
Daphne Ioakimidou-Patakia
Daniel Jianu
Eleni Kalaitzi
Dr. Konstantinos Kalachanis
Public Health Researcher
Konstantinos Kalachanis was born in Athens in 1981. He received his degree in Philosophy-Pedagogics and Psychology, from the Faculty of Philosophy and a Master's degree in "Environment and Health, Capacity building for decision making" from the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Also he holds a PhD in Philosophy.
Since 2012 he has been teaching the course "Bioethics" to the students of the Post Graduate Program "Environment and Health, Capacity building for decision making" and the course "Environment and Cancer" to the students of the Post Graduate Program "Neoplasmatic Diseases: Diagnosis, and Research" in the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Also from 2012 until 2016 he was research associate of the Astrophysics-Astronomy-Mechanics Department of the Faculty of Physics of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
His research interests include History and Philosophy of Science and Astronomy, Ancient Greek and Byzantine Philosophy, Environmental Bioethics and Cosmology. His scientific works includes more than 80 articles published in refereed scientific journals, in conference proceedings and scientific volumes. He is also editor of scientific volumes. Furthermore he is Secretary General of the International Scientific Association of Ancient Greek Philosophy.
Christophoros Kapopoulos
Christophoros Kapopoulos is a Professional Civil Engineer (DUTH) and Geologist (UoP) with a M.Sc. degree in Civil Engineering Infrastructure (UoP). He is also certified in Coastal Modeling (DHI/MIKE), Shoreline Management (Danish Institute), Integrated Coastal Zone Management (UNESCO-IHE).
Mr. Kapopoulos is the Founder and Managing director of Ch. Kapopoulos & Associates Co., AQUATERRA, established in Patras, Greece since 2007. He has a professional experience of 25 years in various scientific fields of Coastal and Geotechnical Engineering, Scientific Simulations, Environmental Impact Assessments, Geophysical exploration.
In his professional career he has conducted over 300 surveys, studies, reports and applications for the Public and the Private sector in collaboration with Greek Authorities and Municipalities, Construction Consortiums, Private engineering and commercial companies, Hotels, Universities, Institutes. He is author and co-author in 12 scientific papers published in Scientific Magazines, Books and Conferences proceedings.
Vicky Karagiorgou
Anna Kefala
Aspasia Klokana
Aspasia Klokana was born in Athens, with a provenience from the Peloponnesian Region of Ilia.
She has gained professional expertise in the fields of Public Relations and Social Interaction, as a result of a two decade long working experience in the PR and Social Communications fields
She has collaborated with some highly relevant Shipping Companies, mainly Attica, Super Fast Ferries Enterprises owned by Pericles Panagopoulos as an expert in Customer Services
She has been a PR Manager in some significant Hotel chains, namely ELOUNDA PENINSULA & GRECOTEL .
She has also been a close collaborator of former Government Minister V. Kondogiannopoulos
She is an active member of a wide net of organizations comprising several cultural unions and voluntary organizations, engaged in activities ranging from tourism to entrepreneurship and similar matters.
She speaks English, German and Italian
She has obtained a Certificate for a Special Course at ELKEPA, i.e. the "Greek State Productivity Center" and is presently dealing with a Post-Graduate Course in Social Communications held by the Swiss Organization Α
Pavlos Krassakis
Krassakis Pavlos has studied Geology and Geoenvironment at National & Kapodistrian University of Athens and holds a Master's degree in Environmental Design of Infrastructure Works, specialized on integrated geospatial and space-based approaches. Main objective of his scientific work is Applied Geographical Information Systems (Applied GIS) in environmental sector, especially in soil and water remediation using 3d/2d modeling techniques. He has been involved in relative research projects such as 'HydroEvia', providing a thorough figure of the water potential of Evia prefecture aligned with the Water Framework Directive (WFD). In addition, he has corporated with Hellenic Institute of Geological and Mineral Research (I.G.M.E.) in various projects related to: a) hydrogeological study of 15 Natural Resources as Thermal springs b) area mapping of superficial geothermic resources by soil and groundwater data and c) monitoring soil indicators in relation to water resources. Moreover, he has been involved in studies related to soil contamination assessments and formulation of cost effective remediation strategies for habilitation and closure purposes especially in mining sector. Currently, he is collaborating with CERTH / CPERI in RFCS EU project SLOPES, in order to advance monitoring and risk analysis of slopes within open pit lignite mines across Europe.
George Kratsas
Alexander Kyriakopoyulos
Christos Mammides
Almudena Mateos
Anna-Maria Methenity
Ioannis Monopolis
Hermes Panagiotopoulos
Mariana Papadopoulou
Aspa Papazacharia
Melina Pechtacides
Georgia-Melina Peta
Nektarios Polychroniou
RESEARCHER – DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Nektarios Polychroniou is the managing Attorney of the Law Firm NJP Polychroniou & Associates.
He is a Supreme Court Attorney and Adjunct Professor at the Hellenic American University.
He has graduated from the University of Athens – School of Law and holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the Georgetown University, School of Law, in Washington – USA. He is author of the study "Corporate, Tax and Labor Law" in «Business and Management Practices in Greece – A Comparative Context», which was published by Palgrave Macmillan London, and a number of legal studies about the World Trade Organization and the South African Development Community.
He is the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Botswana in Greece, the Director of the Center of African Studies of the Hellenic American University, a Member of the Board of the Greek-African Chamber of Commerce & Development and the Special Envoy to the European Business Council of Africa. He has been honored for his work by the Patriarchate of Alexandria and all Africa as an "Archon" and by other institutions. He speaks English, French and Greek.
Ioannis Psymopoulos
Angeles Rico Rico
Ioanna-Aristea Sekeri
Ioanna Soulioti
Spilios Spiliotopoulos
Rebecca Strauss
Rebecca Strauss has just completed her first year at Georgetown Law in Washington, DC. She will be the president of the Environmental Law Society in 2018-19. She graduated from Brown University in 2011 with a BA in International Relations and History.
Prior to beginning law school, Ms. Strauss worked as a litigation paralegal at Gilbert Employment Law, a plaintiff-side employment law firm. She has extensive experience volunteering with environmental organizations including the International Anti-Poaching Foundation in Zimbabwe doing patrol work as well as the San Francisco Department of the Environment doing community outreach. She also worked as a research assistant for the Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA). In addition, she served in AmeriCorps for a year, volunteering with the Nature Conservancy doing ecological survey work to promote the carbon market, the American Red Cross immediately after Hurricane Sandy, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service fighting a wildland fire.
Katerina Stoli
Katerina Stoli is a Researcher in European Institute of Law, Science and Technology (EILST) since 2017, where she conducts research for environmental, climate change, climate finance and space law issues, prepares drafts, proposals as well as press releases and speeches and develops environmental management policies, and strategies. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in International, European and Area Studies, specialized in Environmental Governance and Sustainable Development (Jean Monnet Programme).
A core focus throughout her career has been the study and analysis of the legislative and policy framework regarding environmental matters, the financing of sustainable development, the empowerment of the enforcement mechanisms of Environmental Law, the mitigation and adaptation of climate change and the support of innovative technologies, such as IoT and space technologies. All these aspects have been approached under a humanitarian as well as environmental perspective, highlighting the role of the environmental education in tackling the existing issues and promoting the SDGs. During this year, she gradually became involved with the interconnections between the environmental protection and the maritime sector, exploring the transition towards sustainability through green shipping practices that enhance maritime energy efficiency.
Prior to that, she volunteered for the Greek Council for Refugees (GCR), a Non – Governmental Organization within the field of asylum and human rights that provides a smooth integration of refugees in Greece. A subject relevant to the sustainable development agenda. She is additionally an active member of many civil society organizations, most notably Action Aid and has attended several seminars and conferences.
Katerina Stoli received a first degree in International, European and Area Studies from Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences of Athens, Greece and a Master's degree in Environmental Governance and Sustainable Development, with distinction. Katerina's Master Thesis deals with the case of migration in the context of the 2030 agenda on sustainable development and questions the social issues within the realm of sustainable development.
Stavros Tassiopoulos
Lawyer, Member of the Athens Bar Association (Court of Appeals)
PhD(c) in Public Law, University of Athens – School of Law,
Mr. Tasiopoulos specializes in legal and policy issues on public/governmental and administrative law/policies, and in climate, environmental and energy law/policies.
He has an expertise in providing services on administrative law/procedures, specializing in public sector reforms with the tools of open and e-government and also handling bureaucratic matters concerning citizens, businesses and investments.
Also he has worked for the Greek Government at the Ministry for Administrative Reconstruction, representing Greece at the OECD-Public Governance Committee in 2015-2016, and was responsible for the policy proposal and bill drafting of the new law on the obligatory use of digital signature and exchange of documents in the Public Sector (ar.24 law4440/2016)
In July 2018, his book on "Climate Change and International Energy Law – Renewable Energy as a necessary legal instrument", was published by Scholars' Press.
Lucia Todd-Lozano
Angeliki Vassiliou
Nasia Vaiopoulou
Markellos Vlachopoulos
Dr Dimitris Xevgenos
Dr. Dimitris XEVGENOS has a strong engineering background, having graduated as Mechanical Engineer from the National Technical University of Athens (2008), MSc from Electrical Engineering (2010) and Ph.D. Degree from Chemical Engineering (2016) by the same university, while he continues as a Post Doc at TU Delft. Throughout his academic studies, he was awarded 11 prestigious scholarships, out of which seven for performing at top 2% of his class (out of 150 students).
Except for his strong, inter-disciplinary engineering background, Dimitris has developed coordination and management skills. Over the past 10 years, he has participated in 10 European projects, serving as Leader for WPs related to the design of prototype equipment, as well as Scientific Coordinator of three H2020 projects. Dimitris established a start-up company (SEALEAU B.V.) for the exploitation/commercialization of his PhD results. The merit of the scientific results, as well as the contribution of this company to the Blue Growth opportunities have been recognized from the EU Commissioner for the Environment Mr. Karmenu Vella with the 1st Blue Growth award. Dimitris has participated in a business accelerator competition, where the start-up was distinguished among 15,000 companies and received a 6-month intensive training on business development and market exploitation by experts. In 2016, Dimitris submitted a proposal (ZERO BRINE), supported by 22 partners from 10 EU countries, and raised €10 million to scale-up the technology developed in his PhD. To date, Dimitris has written 5 successful EU proposals, raising more than €14 million.
Ioli-Theodoti Zacharia
Nikolaos Zirogiannis
Stelios Agrogiannis
Andrianna Gazou
Ifigeneia Georgakopoulou
Irene Tsipi


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We need to ratchet down tensions with Iran -- before coffins start coming home | Joyce M. Davis
By Joyce M. Davis | jdavis@pennlive.com
The United States is staring down war with Iran. And that's not good for anyone.
It won't be good for our security. It won't be good for the economy. And it won't be good for those families who will have their sons, daughters, mothers and fathers called up to fight in the Middle East.
If there's one point of agreement between conservatives and liberals – no one wants outright war with a power like Iran. But the question now is – can it be avoided? Tensions have been strained almost to the breaking point in recent days, with the U.S. killing of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani and Iran's retaliatory strike on an Iraqi-American military base.
It's not clear what's coming next, but it should not be war. The nature of warfare -- especially with a country like Iran – is not the World War I or II models. It likely would involve cyberwar, guerrilla attacks on U.S. military and economic interests around the world, and attacks on Americans wherever they are vulnerable. It likely would involve people in places like Pennsylvania.
Regrettably, it likely would mean the loss of Pennsylvania sons and daughters in another futile fight thousands of miles from home.
There's another point of agreement between conservatives and liberals. If there's any way to calm tensions and calm the rhetoric, it ought to be done – and now.
In this photo released by the official website of the Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, fourth from left, leads a prayer over the coffins of Gen. Qassem Soleimani and his comrades, who were killed in Iraq in a U.S. drone strike on Friday, at the Tehran University campus, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Jan. 6, 2020. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)AP
Die-hard Trump supporter Jeffrey Lord had no argument with the call to pull back from all-out war during the taping of the recent Battleground PA podcast on tensions with Iran. Nor did Middle East expert Mehdi Noorbaksh or Capital Star Editor-in-Chief John Micek.
Their views are probably in line with many Pennsylvanians who are have good reason to be worried that American troops may once again be marching off to another endless war in a place where they can't tell friends from enemies, and where people consider killing Americans a religious duty
People watch a simulcast of the rally outside the Giant Center. President Donald Trump holds a rally at the Giant Center in Hershey, December 10, 2019. Dan Gleiter | dgleiter@pennlive.com
Lord rightly noted President Trump's supporters in Pennsylvania and around the country were attracted to him in large measure because he was focused on what's happening inside America, on building a strong economy. And he was opposed to getting us into any further military entanglements. He even took the rash step of pulling American troops out of Syria, leaving our Kurdish allies unprotected.
Lord says that's still Trump's mission – to keep America out of wars. And he's confident the president doesn't want war, will not send American troops into Iran and will find a way to calm things before Iran turns into another Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam. But it's not clear how he'll be able to pull back if Iran pursues revenge attacks for their general's death, and if they turn deadly.
Dr. Mehdi Noorbaksh is an expert on Iran and a professor at Harrisburg University.
An outspoken proponent of democracy in Iran, Dr. Mehdi Noorbaksh, who joined the discussion on Battleground PA, knows the country and its leaders well. Despite the bravado and the threats of death to America, he is convinced Iran's political elites don't want outright war with the United States. But the Iranian people are angry and demanding revenge.
He believes Iran's leaders would like a way to pull back from the brink of a global catastrophe. Let's hope the ballistic missile attacks on the base appeased Iran's angry masses.
Mourners attend a funeral ceremony for Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani and his comrades, who were killed in Iraq in a U.S. drone strike on Friday, at the Enqelab-e-Eslami (Islamic Revolution) square in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Jan. 6, 2020. The processions mark the first time Iran honored a single man with a multi-city ceremony. Not even Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who founded the Islamic Republic, received such a processional with his death in 1989. Soleimani on Monday will lie in state at Tehran's famed Musalla mosque as the revolutionary leader did before him. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)AP
But if the U.S. provides no way out for Iranian's leaders; if President Trump continues to threaten, talk tough and ignore ways to get Iranians back to the peace table, they'll use every tool at their disposal to fight – including suicide bombers, cyberwar, terrorism and threats to develop a nuclear weapon aimed at Israel – if they don't already have one.
Pennsylvanians would do well to pay close attention to developments in the Middle East and to go one step further. They should demand President Trump and congressional representatives find a way to pull back from the brink of what would surely be a brutal showdown, with only losers.
They should reopen the talks President Trump closed with Iran, negotiations that had brought a degree of stability to the region and the entire world.
In this image made from a video, mourners gather to pay their respects to the slain Gen. Qassem Soleimani who was killed in a U.S. airstrike, in Kerman, Iran Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020. (Iran Press via AP)AP
John Micek put it well during the Battleground PA podcast when he warned that Pennsylvanians have a lot at stake in this international debacle.
It will be our sons and daughters who will be sent into the quagmire of the Middle East, he said. And most of these young soldiers are likely to be from the families of the very voters who put President Trump in the White House.
Their voices are the ones most likely to be heard now. They need to speak up to stop another war -- before the coffins start coming home.
Joyce M. Davis has reported from Iran and was senior supervisor of Radio Farda, U.S. International Broadcasting's Farsi news service into Iran.
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Review: 'The Chekhov Dreams' at Theatre Row
Deb Miller - February 9, 2018
Whether you love the works of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov or hate them, you can't help but enjoy The Chekhov Dreams, a dark and...
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Review: 'Once On This Island' at the Circle in the Square...
Deb Miller - December 4, 2017
The first Broadway revival of the 1990 Tony-nominated hit musical Once On This Island, with book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by...
Review: 'The Little Mermaid' at Damascus Theatre Company
Paul M. Bessel and Barbara Braswell - November 12, 2017
Both "Under the Sea" and in "The World Above," Damascus Theatre Company brings us a truly charming production of Disney's The Little Mermaid. Based...
Interview: Dominic North Discusses 'The Red Shoes' and Life As a...
Jane Franklin - October 3, 2017
Based on the film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, The Red Shoes comes to The Kennedy Center...
Review: 'The Little Mermaid' at Ballet Theatre of Maryland
Charles Green - February 26, 2017
Ballet Theatre of Maryland's production of The Little Mermaid, at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, is a gorgeous spectacle of storytelling through dance....
Review: 'The Little Mermaid' at Glyndon Area Players
Caitlin Adolph - August 4, 2016
Look at it all, look how it gleams! Glyndon Area Players' (GAP) 2016 production of Disney's The Little Mermaid is certainly somewhere beyond my...
'Rehearsal for Murder' at Reston Community Players
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Job Description: Responsible for monitoring oncology protocol compliance for all clinical trials coordinated by the Colorado Cancer Research Program (CCRP).
procedures, FDA regulations, Good Clinical Practices, and IRB policies.
•	Routinely audits patient charts and associated case report forms to assure compliance and quality control.
•	Responsible for preparation, scheduling, facilitation, and management of all external audits.
•	Responsible for creating and managing corrective and preventative action plans in response to internal and external audits.
•	Responsible for patient registration/randomization.
and that follow up is conducted as directed by protocol, FDA regulations, and ICH guidelines.
•	Participates in project-related and departmental meetings as required. May participate in or lead cross-functional teams.
•	Develops and maintains programs and processes to facilitate staff compliance with protocol requirements.
•	Educates staff on current and changing FDA regulations, ICH guidelines, and SOPs.
•	Demonstrates behaviors that reflect quality, professionalism, teamwork, and excellence.
•	May attend relevant symposia, conferences and scientific meetings as necessary.
•	Performs other duties as requested.
•	Frequent use of computer, telephone and general office equipment (copiers, faxes, etc.) required.
•	Occasional bending, grasping, twisting, carrying, stooping, kneeling, and crouching required.
•	Frequent lifting and/or moving up to 20 pounds and occasional lifting and/or moving up to 40 pounds.
•	Problem-solving skills and ability to independently analyze and interpret data required.
•	Clear oral and written communication skills required for all interactions on behalf of CCRP with the public, physicians, affiliates and staff.
•	Ability to travel locally to affiliate sites required.
•	Working knowledge of Microsoft Office (word processing, computer spreadsheets, database use/maintenance and network file maintenance & management).
•	Experience with interpreting complex protocols, subject records, and federal, state, and local regulations preferred.
•	Understanding of current GCP/ICH guidelines applicable to the conduct of clinical research.
•	Demonstrates effective and efficient decision making capabilities daily and adjusts decisions to meet organizational requirements.
•	Demonstrated knowledge of medical terminology and regulatory compliance.
•	Acute awareness of confidentiality of information.
•	This individual must be able to work as a member of a team, manage conflicts and resolve problems effectively.
•	Ability to complete tasks in an accurate and timely manner.
•	Strong ability to multi-task and manage competing priorities while demonstrating excellent customer service behavior.
•	Ability to constructively respond to organizational successes and development opportunities within the organization.
•	Excellent interpersonal skills with proven written, presentation and verbal competencies.
•	Experience using health-care based clinical information systems preferred.
•	Valid driver's license; must provide own transportation to affiliate sites as required.
•	Bachelor's degree in scientific discipline, or an equivalent combination of training & experience.
•	Minimum 2 years' experience in health research and/or healthcare-related field preferred.


The Jeffco Fair and Festival happens each August and has so many events I can't list them here. The Cass Clayton Band is honored to be playing the Saloon Stage this year on August 9th from 5:30-8pm. I grew up in Nebraska attending rodeos and mutton busting competitions, so this is definitely up my alley. Come out and join us for some great music and enjoy the many events taking place on August 9, 10, and 11.
Check out events on their website at Celebratejeffco.com.


This is a joint Australian Federal Police and Western Australian Police media release.
Four people are facing serious drug-related charges following a Western Australia National Anti-Gangs Squad (WA NAGS) investigation into an organised crime syndicate. The investigation resulted in the seizure of around 8 kilograms of illicit drugs, encrypted mobile devices and $10,200 cash.
In March, WA NAGS commenced an investigation into an MDMA drug-dealing syndicate closely linked to the Comanchero Outlaw Motorcycle Gang (OMCG).
On 4 April 2019, investigators from WA NAGS and Gang Response Team (GRT) conducted a vehicle stop in Embleton and executed search warrants in the Perth suburbs of Rivervale, Embleton and Bentley.
Police seized approximately 700grams of MDMA in the form of pills and powder, approximately 130 Xanax tablets, approximately 100 dexamphetamine pills, 35 grams of cannabis, 14 grams of cocaine and $6,300 AUD in cash.
Four men aged 19, 19, 20, and 22 were subsequently arrested for WA State offences ranging from Possession of a Prohibited Drug with intent to Sell or Supply to Possession of Stolen or Unlawfully Obtained Property.
The offences carry a maximum penalty of a $100,000 fine, 25 years imprisonment or both.
On 9 April 2019, WA NAGS and GRT investigators executed a further search warrant at a premise in High Wycombe, WA related to the 22-year-old man arrested. Police seized approximately seven kilograms of MDMA in both pill and powder form, encrypted mobile devices, a vacuum sealing machine and packaging, and $3,900 AUD in cash.
The four people appeared before the Perth Magistrates Court on 5 April 2019 and two were remanded in custody. The next court dates for the four are; 12 April 2019 (22-year-old), 29 April 2019 (19-year-old), 3 May 2019 (20-year-old), May 8 2019 (19-year-old).
The street value of the seized drugs is estimated to be worth about $650,000.
AFP Detective Superintendent Timothy Underhill said the AFP is committed to disrupting organised crime at all levels.
"Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs are organised crime, they are involved in the distribution and supply of drugs to fund criminal activities, with no regard for the devastating effects illicit drugs have on the Australian community," Superintendent Underhill said.
WA NAGS, comprising of members from the Australian Federal Police, Western Australia Police Force and Australian Taxation Office, targets OMCG involved in the movement of illicit drugs into and within Australia.


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King's Lynn's Town Investment Plan allocated £25,000,000
Town deal fund announcement signals improvements for King's Lynn
Town Deal Board members were delighted to hear today's Government announcements, that King's Lynn's Town Deal Board had been allocated the maximum amount of £25,000,000 to press ahead with a range of projects.
Graham Purkins, Chief Technical Officer of Merxin, and Chair of the Town Deal Board said: "We are delighted to receive notification that our King's Lynn's Town Investment Plan submission has been successful.
"The collaborative working between the Town Deal Board and borough council in conjunction with valuable and constructive engagement with the local community enabled us to submit a strong proposal through which we have secured the maximum possible amount of funding. This is a significant achievement, and I would like to thank everyone involved for their hard work and commitment that has made it possible.
"Last year we received a smaller amount through the Accelerated Towns Deal Funding which has enabled us to start improvements to our town centre and the initiation of a new School of Nursing in partnership with the QE hospital and the College of West Anglia. We are already making a difference.
"Receiving the Towns Fund money will now enable us to start the process of delivering the broader range of projects identified in our plan and help us all work towards a brighter and more prosperous future for King's Lynn."
The projects are split into four general themes: – economic productivity through urban regeneration, planning and land use; skills and enterprise; and infrastructure and connectivity.
Cllr Stuart Dark MBE, Leader of the Borough Council of King's Lynn & West Norfolk and borough's lead representative on the Town Deal Board, added: "This announcement is really great news for the town, as it brings significant external investment to a range of priority projects that combine to deliver major improvement. All the projects submitted in the bid were developed through consultation with the public and engagement with stakeholders and local businesses through the Town Deal Board we established as part of the required process.
"I am delighted that central government has recognised the need for this funding in King's Lynn and can see, through the strength of our bid and board, the clear benefit that can be realised here.
"We are awaiting the exact details of the next steps but are so pleased the exciting work of bringing the projects to fruition with partners, in consultation with stakeholders and the wider community, can now begin to start in earnest.
Commenting on today's announcement from the government's Towns Fund, James Wild MP, said: "I'm delighted to have helped secure this major investment to boost skills, improve the town centre, promote our strong Shakespeare links and heritage, and support new and growing businesses.
"With funding already secured for a new School of Nursing Studies, North West Norfolk is really benefitting from the government's commitment to spread opportunity and level up.
"I now look forward to helping deliver these ambitious plans as part of the Towns Fund board and making Lynn an even better place to live, work, and visit."
Further details about the Town Investment Plan and Town Deal Fund projects can be viewed at www.visionkingslynn.co.uk.
The town deal priorities set out in the Town Invest Plan are:
– New opportunities for skills and jobs for our young people and all those affected by Covid-19 and needing to reskill, linked to demand from local employers and opportunities in local sectors
– Growing innovative businesses – attracted by our connectivity and high quality of life and supported by the networks and collaborative support that businesses need
– A repurposed town centre with new experiences and businesses – increasing footfall, enhancing cultural opportunities, with its different parts better connected
– A high-quality residential and leisure offer in the historic town core and riverfront – attracting new people to live and work in the town centre, whilst protecting our unique heritage.
– A sustainably connected town – through reduced congestion and better connectivity between the town, its catchment area and residential growth areas, creating safer walking and cycling routes and supporting remote working


Just south of Rio de Janeiro (r´ d zhä-n´ r) near the coast of Brazil you can find on your map of South America the city of Sao Paulo (são pou´ l). Brazil is made up of 20 states, and Sao Paulo is one of these. The city of Sao Paulo is the capital of the state of the same name. It was founded and named by the Portuguese, and its name means "St. Paul". Sao Paulo is in the heart of the greatest coffee-growing district in the world. Rich coffee planters live in its beautiful suburbs. Banks and business houses of foreign countries may be found here. It is also a railroad center. You can board the train at Sao Paulo and go to Santos, the nearest port, 28 miles southwest, or to the Parana River 250 miles inland, or southward a third of the distance to Uruguay (´ r-gw). It is a thriving city of 450,000 people. The street pictured here is one of the most interesting. It is in the business section, which is the oldest part of the city. In the newer parts of Sao Paulo the streets are wide. But the Portuguese who laid out the old city were used only to narrow streets. This street is called the "Rua 15th of November." It is a queer name for a street but it means much to the people there. Of course "Rua" means street, and the 15th of November is Independence Day in Brazil. There are many coffee-houses in Sao Paulo. These are little inns in which coffee is served. Coffee is the chief subject of conversation. The smell of coffee is everywhere. You would need to be in the city only a few minutes to learn what its chief product is. The city of Sao Paulo is on the Tropic of Capricorn. What is this? How many degrees south of the Equator is it? Name all the things in the picture that make it look modern. All that make it look old-fashioned. Keystone ID: 21847 Note: All titles, descriptions, and location coordinates are from the original Keystone Slide documentation as supplied by the Keystone View Company. No text has been edited or changed.


Get yourself some free coffee if you are near one of their stores in OH, PA, WV, MD, NC. Just walk in before midnight today and grab a self-serve coffee. Or from 4pm on New Year's Eve through 4pm on New Year's Day!
Walk into a store near you anytime before midnight local time on Christmas Day to grab a free coffee, that's it.
* Mouth with drink-proof lips required.


What a fascinating project! Thank you for sharing it on your blog. I have often wondered what it would be like to weave on a warp-weighted loom like that. I had not thought of the weights flying around.
Hi Nancy. There are 2 rows of weights and for some reason the row at the back seemed to be hitting the wall hard. I have never thought that was a problem before. The stones do move a little each time you change the shed, and it is normally a really nice sound of the stones, they 'clink' as they bump into each other.
Will you tell us more about this particular item that you are weaving - what exactly is a vararfeldur?
I will describe it in the next blog and see if I can find a photo of a finished one.
Thanks for inviting us in to watch! DO teach this at John C Campbell next time you come! By the way, how long are those lovely Shetland locks you are using?
Some of the locks could be longer. I will put some details in the next blog. If we can get the looms I could teach at JCC. Very possible. I could do 2 classes next time. Will have to talk to Pam.
This looks a very big project Elizabeth, how much fleece is involved ( roughly) in the final piece? It is so good to be able to see it. Thank you.
It is a big project. I will be able to figure out how much yarn and fleece in the finished piece. I have started with a kilo cone of J&S worsted spun jumper weight yarn and will use most of it I think. I started with about 2 fleece, but from 5 fleece, using only the back half of each. I want it finished by the end of August so you will see the finished thing at Wool Week, Janet.


The founders of Caring Soul is a married couple who wish to impart good values to the young. The founders have no intention to raise any funds from this outfit and will not accept any form of donations.
The organization has a blessed commencement in the form of the relentless support of a kind hearted soul who is prepared to fund its activities.
Caring Soul would however love to receive applications from individuals who wish to participate in its program.
Programs organized by Caring Soul is not financially intensive and therefore do not require funding. The organization operates on the principle that voluntary and charity work is not about giving what you do not want. Neither is it about giving away your excesses.
Caring Soul rather believes that giving away what is most valuable to you is the greatest gift of all. And your most precious asset is your time.
It is along this premise that Caring Soul hope to recruit volunteers to offer their valuable time to participate in its programs of offering charitable services to the needy.
It all started in 2005 for the founding couple of Caring Soul. While the husband went about to earn a living, the wife with her spouse's encouragement, decided to make her time more fruitful.
She wanted to take part in some voluntary services but did not know how to go about it. It was rather odd and unbelievable to start knocking on doors.
An opportunity came when she got to know some Japanese friends from an English class she attended. What started as a social gathering with her new found friends later led her to meet more of their kind who were here while their husbands were working in reputable multinational organizations.
Some of these wives together with the support and leadership of their embassies were involved in providing services to some selected charities.
After joining the group, she discovered that she derived a lot of satisfaction and enjoyment in bringing some form of cheers and smiles to the needy.
Just spending time talking to some spastic children brought smiles to their faces and this has lit up her life tremendously, bringing in a totally new meaning to an otherwise boring routine.
Seeing her wife enjoying such voluntary work also brought immense pleasure to the husband. So much so that on one occasion while the husband was having his haircut with his regular barber, he managed to connect the wife with the hairdresser who have since made regular and constant visits to several old folks homes and orphanages to offer free haircut to these group of people.
It is not about the free haircut but rather the interesting time they have in connecting with the old folks and orphans by engaging them in meaningful conversations during the routine.
The old folks, in particular look forward to their visits, not because of the haircut but because of their company and the conversations they brought with them.
Credos go to the hairstylist who utilizes her off days to perform such charitable act without fail for years.
It is indeed not difficult for many to do some form of charity but it is not easy to find someone who has the love and above all the consistency to do it over a long period of time.
This is what Caring Soul aims to achieve - to be able to form a core team of volunteers that embraces voluntary and charity work on a consistent basis over a prolong period.


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Drawn by infrastructure and history, artisans fashioning new chapter for Rhody jewelry - PBN (Providence Business News)
In this thoughtful piece by Province Business News (PBN), a thorough examination of the jewelry industry in Rhode Island is made. Highlighted in the column is Ed DeCristofaro of LDC and his ability to constantly stay relevant in an every changing environment.
Rhode Island Jewelry: One Company's Story Of 21st Century Survival - WGBH
Learn more about the history of jewelry making in Rhode Island, how LDC continues to thrive in an ever-changing landscape and the launch of the company's new line, Alexys Ryan Jewelry.
Visit from Rhode Island's Secretary of State!
Rhode Island's Secretary of State, Nellie M. Gorbea, stopped by LDC, Inc. for a visit and to review our new line, Alexys Ryan Jewelry! Thank you so much for your love and support Secretary! We are proud to be Rhode Island jewelers!
Local Gift Ideas for Mother's Day - Alexys Ryan Inspirational Jewelry - Rhode Island Monthly
Alexys Ryan makes the perfect gift for Mother's Day. Jamie Coelho of the Rhode Island Monthly explains why.
Interview // Jennifer Brousseau and Alexys Garrepy, co-founders of alexys ryan jewelry - Lady Project
In this beautifully written article by Lady Project, the author gets to know the co-founders of Alexys Ryan Jewelry and what inspired the line.
New jewelry line is local company's answer to changing retail landscape - WPRI
In this video and written interview, the co-founders of Alexys Ryan share their combined jewelry industry knowledge, which spans over 20 years, to launch a new collection. The owners describe why the brand was created both aesthetically and professionally in an ever-changing landscape.
Tranquil reminders for the woman who does too much - Warwick Beacon
Moms, sisters and wives, the dynamic duo behind Alexys Ryan know the demands of working motherhood all too well. In this article for the Warwick Beacon, Tess Roy gets to know the sisters-in-law a bit better to learn more about the inspiration behind the brand.


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Twig Girdlers and Pruners
By Jeff Rugg
September 4, 2019 5 min read
Q: All of a sudden, a lot of small short branches broke off the oak tree in our front yard. The ground is covered with them. There are at least 50. There hasn't been a storm to damage them, and the squirrels don't seem to be in the tree. The oak is probably over 100 years old, and I don't want to lose it. What do you think is the cause?
A: Well, you eliminated two possible causes: storms and squirrels. That leaves three possibilities: two longhorn beetles and a fungus. Both the beetles are less than an inch long and rather skinny. They are called longhorn beetles because their antennae are longer than their bodies.
They are both common on all the normal forest trees: elm, hickory, honeylocust, linden, maple, oak, pecan, sweetgum and walnut. They are also found in smaller, ornamental trees such as dogwoods, redbuds and fruit trees.
Twig girdlers are about 3/4 of an inch long, brown and black in color and rarely seen. The adults hatch out of their pupas in mid-August to mid-October. The female chews through the bark all the way around the branch. She chews through the cambium layer so that the branch tip can't gather any water that could drown her young, and the branch can't produce resins and gums that would prevent the larva from infesting the branch. She then lays eggs under the bark on the end of the branch.
As the larvae begin hatching and eating the dying wood in the branch, the branch breaks off the tree and falls to the ground. The larvae will remain in the protection of the dead branch through the winter. In the spring and early summer, the larvae continue eating. In midsummer, they pupate, and the cycle starts over.
If you pick up and dispose of the fallen branches, you will remove a large number of next year's twig girdler beetles. The branches must be burned, run through a chipper or sent to the garbage. They cannot be composted or else the beetles will hatch out in the spring.
Twig pruners are only about a half-inch long. The adults hatch in the spring, and the female lays eggs on the ends of the tree branches. The larvae burrow into the stem and hollow it out. By the end of the summer, they are large enough to pupate, but before they do, they eat around the inside of the branch so that it will break and fall to the ground. The larva will continue eating for a few more weeks and then spend the winter in the pupa stage.
Again, you can pick up the fallen branches during the fall and winter and dispose of them so that the insects never hatch. Both of these insects only have one generation per year and don't cause enough damage to old mature forest trees to be too concerned. They can cause a lot of damage to small or young trees, and an insecticide may help in those cases.
Some dead branches, caused by each insect type, may not fall off the tree. You may notice short, dead branches hanging on the tree in the fall before they fall off. Some branches will fall off while the leaves are still green, and others will cling to the tree until the leaves are brown and dead. During late fall and winter, you can prune off any remaining dead twigs and dispose of them, too.
To determine which insect is causing the damage, look at the cut ends of the branch. The twig girdler cut is smooth around the outside where it was chewed, and ragged in the middle where it broke off. The twig pruner cut is smooth on the inside and ragged around the bark edge where it broke off. In the fall, if you slice open the twig and it is solid, it is a twig girdler; if it is hollowed out, it is a twig pruner.
The reason I don't think fungus is the problem is because those dead leaves and twigs stay on the tree. The last few inches of the leaves will die and often bend backward toward the branch, so it might look the same as the insect problem at first. Prune off the dead branch and scrape off the bark between the dead and living areas. It will be green on the living side and black on the dead side. The disease is called Botryosphaeria canker, and it can affect more than a hundred species of trees.
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Home » News » Trump Goads China as Trade Talks Resume
Trump Goads China as Trade Talks Resume
Source: By Ana Swanson and Jeanna Smialek, New York Times • Posted: Wednesday, July 31, 2019
President Trump said China was slow-walking trade talks in the hopes that a Democrat would win the 2020 presidential election.Samuel Corum for The New York Times
WASHINGTON — President Trump lashed out at China on Tuesday morning as trade talks between the two nations resumed, taking credit for weakening China's economy and downplaying the likelihood of a deal before the 2020 election.
The president's comments, in posts on Twitter and remarks to the press, came just as his top negotiators were sitting down to dinner with their counterparts at the Fairmont Peace Hotel in Shanghai. While both sides are trying to get trade talks back on track, Mr. Trump's angry words underscored the diminishing prospects for a transformative trade deal anytime soon and the extent to which the bilateral relationship has not unfolded in the way that Mr. Trump expected.
"I think the biggest problem to a trade deal is China would love to wait and just hope," the president said. "They hope — it's not going to happen, I hope, but they would just love if I got defeated so they could deal with somebody like Elizabeth Warren or Sleepy Joe Biden or any of these people, because then they'd be allowed and able to continue to rip off our country like they've been doing for the last 30 years."
Mr. Trump's anger was fueled, in part, by the fact that China has not begun buying large amounts of American farm products, which the president promised farmers would happen after a June meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Mr. Trump emerged from that meeting in Osaka, Japan, saying he had agreed to postpone tariffs on an additional $300 billion of Chinese products and allow American firms to resume sales of nonsensitive goods to the Chinese telecom firm Huawei. In return, Mr. Trump said China would immediately start buying American agricultural goods, touting it as a big win for farmers.
But no such purchases have happened, and, in the weeks since, Chinese officials disputed that they had agreed to buy more farm products as a condition of the talks. On Sunday, Chinese state media reportedthat "millions of tons" of American soybeans had been shipped to China. But Mr. Trump on Tuesday said no such purchases had materialized.
China "was supposed to start buying our agricultural product now — no signs that they are doing so," Mr. Trump tweeted. "That is the problem with China, they just don't come through."
His comments on Tuesday appeared to be an effort to give his negotiators more leverage and to pressure China into making concessions in talks this week. Mr. Trump took credit for China's weakening economy, saying the tariffs he's placed on $250 billion worth of Chinese goods have put enormous pressure on the country, costing it jobs and prompting companies to leave.
But he seemed to veer between goading China to quickly accede to America's demands and suggesting the country could get a better deal if it waits and a Democrat wins the 2020 presidential election.
"China is dying to make a deal with me. But whether or not I'll do it — it's up to me, it's not up to them," Mr. Trump said. "I think China is willing to give up a lot, but that doesn't mean I'm willing to accept it."
Stocks dipped on Tuesday, partly as investors grew nervous about a prolonged trade war between the world's two largest economies. The S&P 500 was down 0.3 percent.
The president's remarks have been matched by strident rhetoric on the Chinese side. At a news conference on Monday, Hua Chunying, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, called the United States "capricious, arrogant and selfish" after the Trump administration challenged China's claim to a special status for developing countries at the World Trade Organization.
"There is a catchphrase that got popular just recently in China: 'Don't do things like the U.S. does.' I hope some people of the U.S. side can deeply reflect on it," she said.
Negotiators from both countries will try to bridge their divisions as talks begin in earnest in Shanghai on Wednesday. But the deep divisions between the countries suggest another protracted round of talks may be needed before any agreement can be reached.
The text that the two countries have been negotiating is highly secret. But American and Chinese negotiators appear to still have significant differences of opinion over how China should enshrine changes, including new protections for American intellectual property in its laws and regulations, how many American products China would agree to buy as a result of the deal, and how many of Mr. Trump's tariffs on $250 billion in Chinese goods would remain in place after an agreement is struck.
The president continues to insist that he faces no immediate deadline to reach an agreement. On Tuesday, he repeated his claim that the United States economy is benefiting from the billions of dollars his tariffs are generating and that all the pain of the trade war was being felt on the Chinese side. That view is not supported by businesses and economists, who say Mr. Trump's trade war is starting to take a toll on the United States economy. Chinese leaders have also insisted that the country can withstand the pressure of the trade war as it waits for a better deal from the Trump administration, or another president.
In reality, both economies are presenting more of a mixed picture, with the effects of the trade war clearly being felt, but not so intensely that their leaders can't ignore it.
The Chinese economy is decelerating gradually, but further increases in the country's already massive infrastructure spending have cushioned the shock. Chinese exports to the United States have fallen 8.5 percent in the first half of this year compared with the same period last year, while exports to the rest of the world have been up slightly.
Sales of cars and other big-ticket purchases in China had tumbled sharply last autumn when Mr. Trump broadened his tariffs to $250 billion a year of goods from $50 billion. But Chinese consumer confidence now seems to have leveled off at a level best described as still very glum, but not rapidly deteriorating further.
In the United States, gross domestic product, a broad measure of the strength of the American economy, came in at an annualized 2.1 percent in the second quarter, a decent pace but slower than the 3.1 percent rate posted in the first three months of the year.
On Tuesday, Mr. Trump again blamed the Federal Reserve for taking some steam out of the economy, saying that both the stock market and economic growth would have been stronger if the Fed had not raised interest rates last year. Mr. Trump called on the Fed to implement a large rate cut, just a day before the central bank is widely expected to lower rates, albeit slightly, for the first time since 2008.
Stocks "would have been 10,000 points higher, and I think we would have been in the 4's for GDP" if the Fed hadn't raised rates, Mr. Trump said, noting that former President Barack Obama had a near-zero interest rate while the Fed has since normalized interest rates.
"I'm very disappointed in the Fed. I think they acted too quickly, by far, and I think I've been proven right," Mr. Trump said.
The Dow Jones industrial average closed about 27,000 on Monday, and has risen nearly 4,000 points since the start of the year.
The central bank lifted interest rates nine times between late 2015 and the end of 2018, though it has paused such increases this year as risks from Mr. Trump's ongoing trade wars and slowing global growth loom. It has also been shrinking its balance sheet, swollen by bond purchases meant to reignite growth in the wake of the recession, and that process is set to end in September. Policymakers are widely expected to cut rates by a quarter percentage point at the Fed's meeting on Wednesday.
"The Fed moved, in my opinion, far too early and far too severely," Mr. Trump told reporters Tuesday. "Fortunately, I made the economy so strong that nothing is going to stop us. But the Fed could have made it a lot easier. I would like to see a large cut, and I would like to see immediately the quantitative tightening stop."


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Jennifer Lopez Tangled Up in Lady GaGa 'Judas' Lawsuit
by Elle Breezy January 18, 2013
The case surrounding the plagiarism lawsuit filed in 2011 against Lady Gaga regarding her hit "Judas" is still pending, but now Jennifer Lopez's name is in the mix.
In 2011, singer Rebecca Francescatti sued Lady GaGa for allegedly using parts of Rebecca's 1999 song "Juda" in her hit "Judas" without permission. Jennifer Lopez was brought up in a recent court case hearing because GaGa co-produced Lopez's song "Invading My Mind" from her 2011 Love album, which allegedly used an unlicensed sample by another artist.
Francescatti's lawyer Christopher Niro alleged in the hearing that the "Invading My Mind" sample also used Francescatti's "Juda" sample, asking the court to dismiss GaGa's credit saying she didn't contribute to the song. According to the Chicago Tribune, Niro also claims that he has text messages between GaGa and "Invading My Mind" producer RedOne, insinuating that the text conversation proves the sample was stolen and used in "Judas" and "Invading My Mind."
The judge dismissed Niro's claims, saying that his theory "just doesn't really hold up from our perspective," and that information regarding Lopez's song is "far outside the bounds of discovery."
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Dr. Holly Knor decided to become a veterinarian when she was just five years old. Her parents bought her a toy poodle, which she named Pepi. From that point on she was an animal lover. "Having my own dog nourished my love of animals," she says. "I didn't even know what veterinarians were until I got Pepi. But after one trip to the vet's office, I was hooked. I knew I would become a veterinarian someday. Actually, I believe that was God's plan for me."4 Today, Dr. Knor works for Alameda East Veterinary Hospital in Denver, Colorado, where she has been since 1995. She is a well-known veterinarian —not only in Denver, but throughout the country—because she is also a television star. Dr. Knor is one of the veterinarians featured on the Animal Planet series, Emergency Vets.
Dr. Knor returned to Fort Lauderdale, and after graduating from high school, she enrolled in a community college. She attended for two years and also worked for Dr. George as a veterinary assistant and receptionist. After earning her associate's degree she transferred to Colorado State University, where she earned her bachelor of science in microbiology. She applied to Colorado State's veterinary school and was accepted.
In 1995, during Dr. Knor's last year of veterinary school, she applied for an internship at Alameda East. She got the position and spent the next year working long hours for minimal pay. But she says the valuable experience she gained was well worth it. When the year was up she was asked to stay as a staff veterinarian, and she took the job.
When Dr. Knor decided to become a veterinarian, she had no idea she would someday end up on television. "I went to school to become a vet, and never dreamed I'd be on a successful TV show! It's a privilege to be able to do that." She has traveled all over the country with Animal Planet and has even appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show. She says people often recognize her and sometimes ask for her autograph.
4 All quotes in "Meet A Veterinarian". Holly Knor, interview with author, October 2, 2003.


For more than half a century governments around the world have been trying to solve the challenge of nuclear fusion. In theory it could provide a cheap, clean, and almost boundless source of energy. Consider this: One tablespoon of liquid hydrogen fuel—a mix of deuterium and tritium—would produce the same energy as 28 tons of coal.
But smashing two hydrogen atoms together at 100 million degrees centigrade to create a fusion reaction has proved to be a costly and elusive endeavor. The ITER international project in France has been plagued by cost overruns—the original 5-billion-euro project is now budgeted at 13 billion euros (about $15 billion)—and its 23,000-ton Tokamak experimental reactor, three times heavier than the Eiffel Tower, is still many years from completion. In the U.S. the Department of Energy's $4 billion Lawrence Livermore project, which uses lasers to smash atoms, is still deep in the experimental stage. Scientists are learning much from all this tinkering, but experts say these big projects—if they work—are at best decades away from commercialization.
Vancouver based General Fusion aims for a relatively low-cost, practical form of fusion called Magnetized Target Fusion.
That's not soon enough if the world wants to mitigate the worst effects of climate change while providing cheap, clean energy to the poor—a point not lost on a handful of American billionaires including Jeff Bezos, Paul Allen, and Peter Thiel. These men are betting that fusion done on a small scale will be cheaper, less complex, and ready for market sooner than the big government projects. Some major corporations, such as Lockheed Martin and General Atomics, have the same idea and are working on their own versions of small-scale fusion.
America has six private-sector fusion projects underway, according to a new report by the research firm Third Way. PayPal co-founder and Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel has backed Helion Energy of Redmond, Wash. Microsoft (MSFT) co-founder Paul Allen has put money behind Tri Alpha Energy in Irvine, Calif., which has reportedly raised $140 million. And Bezos Expeditions, the investment fund of Amazon (AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos, is backing a Vancouver company called General Fusion, which so far has raised $94 million.
Tri-Alpha Energy in Irvine, Calif., has reportedly raised $140 million.
Other well-heeled investors are sniffing around a different but related technology: cold fusion, which requires a much lower operating temperature. Skeptics will recall researchers Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann, who claimed in 1989 to have achieved fusion in a simple tabletop machine at room temperature. Their experiment was eventually debunked.
More recently scientists have been making some progress on a variation of this technology called low-energy nuclear reaction. That has led investors like Tom Darden, CEO of the $2.2 billion Cherokee Investment Partners, to create a North Carolina startup named Industrial Heat, which licensed the technology of Italian scientist Andrea Rossi. Last year Bill Gates visited the cold-fusion facilities of the Italian national technology agency ENEA, but he has not invested, according to his office.
At this point no one knows which—if any—of these private-sector ventures will prevail, and achieving fusion won't be easy. Says Glen Wurden, a team leader at the plasma physics group at Los Alamos National Laboratory: "To get funding, small companies have to promise the moon. There's a long history where promises have been made and not kept. When you hear a private company say it will have a technology in five years, you roll your eyes." Critics also say these startups are building on technology that was rejected decades ago by government labs or that still hasn't been proved.
That may be so, but these entrepreneurs argue that improvements in computer technology just might make those older designs doable today. One prominent example of this trend is General Fusion, the company backed by Bezos. (Retired NASA astronaut Mark Kelly is one of the startup's advisers, and in August the government of Malaysia led a new $22 million round of financing.) It is building on the concept of compressing fuel to heat it until it triggers a fusion reaction, an idea experimented with for years in large-scale government programs. At the Livermore lab, for example, lasers the length of football fields are being used to compress atoms into fusion. So far these expensive laser systems require more energy to operate than they produce. In 2002, Michel Laberge, a Canadian plasma physicist, had an idea. What if you replaced those expensive lasers with a hammer and anvil system that created a shock wave that would force the particles into a fusion reaction? Soon after, he founded General Fusion.
PayPal cofounder and Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel has backed Helion Energy of Redmond, Wash.
Hammers, too, had been tried before in government labs in the 1970s but failed. Now, thanks to advanced algorithms, modern electronics, and control systems, the hammers can hit the side of General Fusion's sphere-shaped metal reactor precisely at the same time, creating a pressure wave that compresses the plasma into a fusion reaction at 100 million degrees centigrade. The heat is transferred into a swirling vortex of molten metal, which then gets captured by a steam generator.
The idea of entrepreneurs working in glorified garages trying to solve one of the most ambitious problems in physics sounds absurd on the surface. After all, governments have spent decades and billions without cracking fusion. Yet these startups have one thing going for them. Because they are working on a smaller scale they have a quicker learning cycle and, theoretically at least, could get to a solution faster and more cheaply.
There's at least one relatively recent example the entrepreneurial set can cite: In the late 1980s the federal government said that mapping the first human genome was going to take 15 years and cost $3 billion. The private sector stepped in and did it much faster and more cheaply. There's certainly no guarantee in this case that private industry will succeed where the government hasn't. But after 50 years it certainly seems worth trying a different approach.


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Hollywood is full of fun "what if" stories, but here's one that's a bit unexpected. When it was announced that David Fincher would be directing a movie about Facebook written by Aaron Sorkin, there was a hefty dose of skepticism from anyone who wasn't a Fincher/Sorkin acolyte (my faith never wavered, for the record). Prejudice against the film got even more pronounced when Fincher cast Justin Timberlake in the role of Sean Parker, which some felt was stunt casting and simply another example of a famous pop star throwing their weight around to be in the movies.
Those familiar Fincher's sensibilities knew better, and of course not only did The Social Network go on to become one of the defining films of the 21st century, but Timberlake's performance was also critically acclaimed. However, the role of Sean Parker could have gone a very different way, as Jonah Hill recently revealed he was up for the part—but Fincher wasn't having it.
While that casting may seem a little weird, the timing of this lines up. When The Social Network was casting, Hill was still known mostly as a comedic actor. But while Social Network hit theaters in 2010, the following year saw Hill land an Oscar nomination for his dramatic work in Moneyball, and now the actor has firmly solidified himself as a versatile talent. So he was clearly looking to branch out around the time that he was up for the Social Network role.
Hill goes on to say that during the early portion of his career, Shia LaBeouf was the one always getting the roles, then if Shia passed the studio would go to Jesse Eisenberg, then if Eisenberg passed, Hill and Paul Dano were "fighting for scraps." Hill names The Battle of Shaker Heights and The Girl Next Door as other films he was up for that he ultimately didn't get. Coincidentally, 2018 sees both Hill and Dano making impressive directorial debuts with Mid90s and Wildlife, respectively. Funny how that works out.
But yeah, while Hill has proven himself adept at dramatic work, it feels like Fincher probably made the right call for The Social Network, as Timberlake's performance is truly remarkable. Listen to the full conversation below.


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Indiana Pacers – Opening Night win shows team willing to fight together
by Kent Sterling
Roy Hibbert had 22 (points) and seven (blocks) reasons to smile during last night's win.
It was tough to get a great read on the Indiana Pacers in last night's opening night 103-91 over the Philadelphia 76ers We knew that would be the case before the tip. Both teams were missing key pieces to their roster, and the first of 82 regular season games was not going to fill in a significant part of the picture that will develop over the next six months.
There were a few obvious takeaways –
Rodney Stuckey is a serious basketball player who shows grit and aggression on both ends. Scoring a point a minute seemed to suit him. (16 points in 16 minutes). His five assists and three boards were also welcome in short minutes.
While Damjan Rudez is going to earn his minutes by shooting threes, his passing was consistently on time and on target.
Donald Sloan became better and better throughout the night on his way to 16 points and 10 rebounds.
As you might guess, the Pacers didn't have a collective identity in the first half without George Hill, David West, Paul George, and Lance Stephenson.
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On a night when Roy Hibbert should have been the best player on the floor – he was. He responded poorly when fouled by picking up a technical that could have been more – on a night when the Pacers could least afford to play without him. Defensively, coach Frank Vogel expects consistent activity from his throwback center, and Hibbert's seven blocks gave it to him. His 22 points on only eight field goal attempts was the kind of efficient performance they will need from Hibbert to compete until West and Hill return.
The halftime ceremony was the highlight of the night, as the Pacers honored Slick Leonard one more time. He was the greatest coach in the history of the franchise, and remains the best ambassador the franchise will ever have.
Slick is a magical presence on the radio, and while all Pacers fans equate his "Boom Baby!" call with so many of the successes experienced over the years, the team would have moved from Indianapolis without his presence and passion during the franchise's darkest times.
Had the Pacers moved, it's very unlikely the Colts would have chosen to relocate here, and then where would downtown be? Indianapolis would be Louisville – no offense to Louisville.
The second half showed a level of play that could bring more wins as the Pacers try to tread water until help arrives. The first half was hard to watch at times. Turnovers, fouls, and overall clunkiness led to the Sixers taking a 51-48 halftime lead. The tide turned after intermission as the Pacers outscored the 76ers 55-40.
When you open up against the patsy of the NBA, everything from that point forward is going to be uphill. The Pacers host Memphis tomorrow night at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, and they are going to be a more challenging quarry.
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According to Luis Scola, the Pacers will need to work to clean up the 18 turnovers that marred their effort, but the Pacers were good enough to post a W in Game One, and that was good enough for fans last night.
The expectations for the same franchise that was thought to be a favorite to earn a spot in the NBA Finals just eight months ago are muddy at best. Estimations range from 30-45 wins depending upon when the team gets back some of its walking wounded.
All associated with the Pacers may look back at 1-0 with fondness in a few weeks, but last night there were stretches of play last night that gave hope to a fan base unsure what they are watching early in the 2014-2015 season.
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