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Peppi Bottrop: Jungle Rapture
Open: Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm
54 Eastcastle Street, W1W 8EF, London, UK
Pilar Corrias, Eastcastle St
Tue 23 Nov 2021 to Sat 8 Jan 2022
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm
Artist: Peppi Bottrop
"The special fascination of the brownfields lies in the idiosyncratic and unusual combination of wild nature and industrial relics that bear testimony to the areas' past: they can be overgrown ruins of old colliery buildings, but also just the remains of a railroad track in the middle of a birch forest — a special, exciting atmosphere always emerges from the contrast between the industrial past and its recapture by nature."
Kommunalverband Ruhr (local government association of the Ruhr region), 1999
The wilds are not what they used to be. In times of intensifying climate change and corresponding disasters, the centuries-old trope of the jungle as a pandemonium of untamed, uncontrollable forces loses its currency and poetic appeal. Bygone notions of nature's brutal power, something to be mastered and civilised, are supplanted by a better understanding of intricate, fragile ecosystems that need to be preserved and protected.
Where the wild has been radically eradicated, attempts at resuscitation, recovery, and restoration have entered the agenda. In Germany's Ruhr district, the now largely disused powerhouse of northern European industrialisation, respective efforts began in the late 1990s, with an effective media campaign initiated by municipal interest groups and the local government association. As one coal mine after another shut down, the expression "industrial nature" was coined to describe the wild vegetation that developed on abandoned production sites. The local population – largely deprived of the myth of lasting economic prosperity and now facing a future of uncertainty, clouded with collective memories of early 20th-century coal dust — was promised healing: so-called 'industrial forests' would offer the possibility to experience unspoiled nature close to home, a 'new wilderness' in the middle of the industrial conurbation. Poised between nostalgia and optimism, these newly conceptualised spaces were promoted as intersections where "not only the past, but also the future manifested itself", if only in the form of past expectations, hopes, and fears. The former wastelands turned public refuges went down in local history under the term of a new 'Ruhr Natur'. Epitomising the post-industrial effort to reconcile the relationship between man and nature, they point far beyond their original context.
Peppi Bottrop, who bears the name of his hometown, grew up in the industrial districts of the Ruhrgebiet, the old continent's largest and once most prosperous coal-mining region. He was still a child when municipal rewilding initiatives began, but the last colliery, located in Bottrop, was shut down only three years ago. There were plans to convert it into a pumped storage hydropower facility,a giant reservoir to store enough renewable energy to power more than 400,000 homes, but the project was put on hold because of high costs.
The ongoing struggle of structural transformation is one of the most burning issues of our time. One can find traces of it ingrained in Peppi Bottrop's paintings. In the way he negotiates (and repeatedly renegotiates) space. In his scrawling coal marks that tend to peter out like severed pipes. In the reddish grid structures that recently entered his work like remainders of fenced brownfields or the German rust belt's obsolete order. And certainly, in his painterly gestures that appear confident enough to overcome it.
Once described as "the manic cartography of an urban flaneur", Bottrop's compositions may resemble the frayed infrastructure and overlapping freeway feeders of the Ruhr area. But they also brim with alternative routes, some of which border the realm of science fiction, where concepts of time and existence have long become fluid. Over the past few years, the artist's characteristic choppy dashes have become more fluid, almost arabesque. Imbued with a sense of indispensability, they evoke the romantic idea of an innate drive that turns the subject into an art-producing animal, placing the work of art in direct analogy to the product of nature. As if fuelled by remnants of the fossil energy inherent in his brittle trademark medium, Bottrop's charcoal marks proliferate and overgrow other elements in the composition.
As viewers, we are presented with the residue of an erratic process that involved inner struggles and hard, physical labour. Stapled directly onto the bare studio wall, each canvas underwent an almost punishing procedure, typically treated from front to back. The integration of chance elements has only recently become part of Bottrop's alchemy, a seemingly logical progression in a process that allows for the wild, but only within precisely set parameters: If Bottrop paints like the jungle grows, he does so only in the broader, more inclusive sense of the term, recognising its full scope and ambiguity. At one time wild and possessive, his strokes also appear fragile, delicate, and tentative; some meander before they twist into determined tendrils.
The works presented in Jungle Rapture, Bottrop's first exhibition at Pilar Corrias, demarcate vigorous mindscapes triggered by new physical territory. After stints in Düsseldorf and Hamburg, where he studied with Albert Oehlen and Jutta Koether, the artist spent time in Los Angeles and Mexico City. He then lived and worked in Cologne before recently relocating to rural Sicily. While the sooty facades of his hometown may inform his earliest memories, there are also now flakes of ash from Mount Etna or dense smog from wildfires that have troubled the region, along with so many others, this past summer. His new studio, dubbed 'Casa Rossa', is an old house on a hillside, its reddish hue not unlike the rusty red in his recent paintings. The building is surrounded by lush vegetation, with wild blackberries growing more rampantly than his sprawling strokes.
In Bottrop's show, his compositions are permeated by unusual amounts of metallic surfaces and brushstrokes—results of the painter's lush use of powdered aluminium. His rusty red grids are blanketed by their glossy opposite: expanses of shiny silver, organic in shape and alive with reflections, as if to counter the old dichotomies of nature and culture, man, and machine. The fleeting memory of an alloy-rimmed joyride fades into the background, where it blends with the silver of the gallery walls. Consciously or not, Bottrop has us mesmerised in the belly of a huge machine, a vessel of sorts, turning his canvases into windows out onto unknown terrain, where remnants of our industrial past are churned up by natural powers, entangled in a most intriguing symbiosis.
Text by Anna Sinofzik
all images © the gallery and the artist(s)
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DWLA's Annual Awards Reception honors trailblazers in the legal community. The prestigious Raggio Award is named for DWLA co-founder and Dallas legal pioneer Louise Raggio, who was the first female prosecutor in Dallas County history and who helped develop the Texas Family Code. Each year, the organization presents the Raggio Award to someone who has demonstrated the highest levels of professionalism while making significant contributions to the advancement of women attorneys.
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Dallas Women Lawyers Association (DWLA) is pleased to announce an exceptional group of legal and community trailblazers as honorees for the DWLA 2018 Annual Awards Reception.
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Spintires dev planning to add weather, new vehicles and more in continual updates
By Samit Sarkar@SamitSarkar Jun 26, 2014, 11:00am EDT
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Spintires developer Oovee Game Studios wants to keep expanding the off-road trucking simulator with features such as weather, new environments, additional vehicles and more, according to a Q&A posted to Reddit earlier this month.
Oovee is planning to provide some content in free updates, but may also charge for add-ons, depending on how much time and work they require to make. Regardless, the studio's main focus is to improve the existing game rather than develop DLC.
Spintires takes place in Russia, and although Oovee will likely add new environments and trucks, the studio wants to remain faithful to Russian locales and vehicles for now; trucks manufactured elsewhere may pop up later in special scenarios. Oovee hopes to increase the environment variety with new maps in future updates, possibly bringing in natural features like cliffs and urban areas (although the studio noted that the latter would require more work).
Different weather conditions are coming: wind and rain, at the very least, are in the cards because they both would have a material effect on the physics of rubber meeting dirt. Winter maps are a possibility as well, but Oovee isn't sure about snow and ice.
One element of Spintires that will remain the same is the map. Right now, it's a separate overlay that players have to pull up, and that's the way Oovee likes it. The studio believes an on-screen mini-map or GPS feature would ruin the experience.
"Oovee is [committed] to constantly upgrading [Spintires]. They will not stop improving it for players," reads the end of the Q&A. Spintires launched two weeks ago on Windows PC via Steam; it is available for $29.99. For more on the game, check out our Overview video below.


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The Greater Law es una película muda estadounidense de género dramático estrenada en 1917 dirigida por Lynn Reynolds y protagonizada por Myrtle Gonzalez, Gretchen Lederer y George Hernandez.

Reparto
 Myrtle Gonzalez como Barbara Henderson
 Gretchen Lederer como 'Seattle' Lou
 Maude Emory como Anne Malone
 G.M. Rickerts como Jimmy Henderson
 Lawrence Peyton como Cort Dorian
 George Hernandez como Tully Winkle
 Jack Curtis como Laberge
 Jean Hersholt como Basil Pelly

Referencias

Bibliografía
 Robert B. Connelly. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.

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Películas de 1917
Películas en inglés
Películas de Estados Unidos
Películas dramáticas de Estados Unidos
Películas en blanco y negro de Estados Unidos

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What is branding in the 21st Century?
People often ask: "what is branding?" So here it is… All you need to know about branding, but were too afraid to ask!
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Branding is your identity in the eyes of the customer. It goes along with the philosophical notion of: "You are the 'who' others see, not the 'who' you see". This means that branding cannot be dictated, but it can certainly be controlled. In today's customer empowered world of choice, brand owners need to think laterally to make an impact. Today's generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than yesterday's, and wiser than tomorrow's. So yesterday's rules for branding don't work today and definitely won't apply tomorrow.
The old fashion way of associating products or services with logos, slogans and designs (including colour schemes and fonts which are easily recognisable) is not enough to achieve success with your branding (not that they ever were by themselves). Stephen King claims that branding is defined as a personality which involves the consumer by allowing them to co-create the whole brand idea. What we can see happening in the current world is that the owner of the brand actually has the seed of the idea and the consumers use it, to make those ideas work for them by adapting them.
An executive from Coca-Cola once summed up the effects of good branding as follows: "If Coca-Cola were to lose all of its production-related assets in a disaster, the company would survive. By contrast, if all consumers were to have a sudden lapse of memory and forget everything related to Coca-Cola, the company would go out of business." This remains true today but not to the same extent. Consumers' attitude towards brands has become erratic and unpredictable. They will happily turn their back on a brand. Just look at what happened to Compaq or Kodak.
Today, attitude and what you stand for has surpassed logos and slogans. Consumers care about ethics, they look at how you treat your workers or what you do with your products and services. We live in a time of information crisscrossed with misinformation. Never has it been easier and quicker to fall off the pedestal you so securely sat on. Brands are born and die every day and this is why you need to stand out.
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HomeMarketRussia rejects $60-a-barrel cap on its oil, warns of cutoffs
Russia rejects $60-a-barrel cap on its oil, warns of cutoffs
Russian authorities rejected a price cap on the country's oil set by Ukraine's Western supporters and threatened Saturday to stop supplying the nations that endorsed it.
Australia, Britain, Canada, Japan, the United States and the 27-nation European Union agreed Friday to cap what they would pay for Russian oil at $60-per-barrel. The limit is set to take effect Monday, along with an EU embargo on Russian oil shipped by sea.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia needed to analyze the situation before deciding on a specific response but that it would not accept the price ceiling.
Russia's permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, warned that the cap's European backers would come to rue their decision.
"From this year, Europe will live without Russian oil," Ulyanov tweeted. "Moscow has already made it clear that it will not supply oil to those countries that support anti-market price caps. Wait, very soon the EU will accuse Russia of using oil as a weapon."
See: What analysts think of the $60 price cap on Russia oil
The office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, meanwhile, called Saturday for a lower price cap, saying the one adopted by the EU and the Group of Seven leading economies didn't go far enough.
"It would be necessary to lower it to $30 in order to destroy the enemy's economy faster," Andriy Yermak, the head of Zelenskyy's office, wrote on Telegram, staking out a position also favored by Poland — a leading critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.
Under Friday's agreements, insurance companies and other firms needed to ship oil would only be able to deal with Russian crude if the oil is priced at or below the cap. Most insurers are located in the EU and the United Kingdom and could be required to observe the ceiling.
The Russian Embassy in Washington insisted that Russian oil "will continue to be in demand" and criticized the price limit as "reshaping the basic principles of the functioning of free markets." A post on the embassy's Telegram channel predicted the per-barrel cap would lead to "a widespread increase in uncertainty and higher costs for consumers of raw materials."
The price cap aims to put an economic squeeze on Russia and further crimp its ability to finance a war that has killed an untold number of civilians and fighters, driven millions of Ukrainians from their homes and weighed on the world economy for more than nine months.
See also: Oil ends lower for the session, up for the week, ahead of OPEC+ meeting, EU ban on Russian oil
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported that since Friday Russia's forces had fired five missiles, carried out 27 airstrikes and launched 44 shelling attacks against Ukraine's military positions and civilian infrastructure.
Kyrylo Tymoshenko, the deputy head of the president's office, said the attacks killed one civilian and wounded four others in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region.
According to the U.K. Defense Ministry, Russian forces "continue to invest a large element of their overall military effort and firepower" around the small Donestsk city of Bakhmut, which they have spent weeks trying to capture.
In southern Ukraine's Kherson province, whose capital city of the same name was liberated by Ukrainian forces three weeks ago following a Russian retreat, Gov. Yaroslav Yanushkevich said evacuations of civilians stuck in Russian-held territory across the Dnieper River would resume temporarily.
Russian forces pulled back to the river's eastern bank last month. Yanushkevich said a ban on crossing the waterway would be lifted during daylight hours for three days for Ukrainian citizens who "did not have time to leave the temporarily occupied territory." His announcement cited a "possible intensification of hostilities in this area."
Kherson is one of four regions that Putin illegally annexed in September and vowed to defend as Russian territory. From their new positions, Russian troops have regularly shelled Kherson city and nearby infrastructure in recent days, leaving many residents without power. Running water remained unavailable in much of the city.
The other regions annexed in violation of international law are Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia.
Ukrainian authorities also reported intense fighting in Luhansk and Russian shelling of northeastern Ukraine's Kharkiv region, which Russia's soldiers mostly withdrew from in September.
The mayor of the city of Kharkiv, which remained under Ukrainian control during Russia's occupation of other parts of the region, said some 500 apartment buildings were damaged beyond repair, and nearly 220 schools and kindergartens were damaged or destroyed. He estimated the cost of the damage at $9 billion.
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By designing a pet therapy programme for children with autism, Aeroflot gave a whole new purpose to their Sulimov sniffer dogs whose daily routine is to fight drug-trafficking at Russian airports. It also gave new meaning and value to Aeroflot's brand. The campaign won IPRA's Golden World Awards Grand Prix last year. In another winning campaign, TNT's tropang ready (team ready) programme was about fighting typhoons and hurricanes in the disaster-prone Philippines. A special combination of information and entertainment engaged Filipino youth in advocating and spreading a culture of preparedness and prevention that saved lives. Dubai Police's smart video games campaign reached 24 million people spreading awareness and support for improved social behaviours. These were just some of the award winning PR campaigns from IPRA's Golden World Awards for Excellence in PR 2018.
What campaigns win a Golden World Award?
Winners come in many forms such as campaigns serving people and causes that elevate the value of the brands they represent. Or projects that inspire people in a new way. Or communications that match purpose with trust and transparency. Is one of these campaigns something you have done? Yes? Well please tell us and the world about it. It is GWA time again.
IPRA's Golden World Awards is the most prestigious PR competition in the world, attracting talents from around the globe. This year, I will lead a jury of experienced communication professionals with the goal to select and award the best campaigns that inspire people to make the world better, enhance brands and elevate the standards of our profession.


In recent years, I've argued that America's corporate tax system must be very bad if companies are not only redomiciling in places like Cayman and Bermuda, but also inverting to countries such as Canada and the United Kingdom.
Well, the same thing happens at the state level. Yes, companies (as well as entrepreneurs and investors) usually move from high-tax states to low-tax states, with zero-income tax jurisdictions like Texas reaping a windfall of new jobs.
But when a big company like General Electric announces that it will move its headquarters from Connecticut to a state like Massachusetts, that's a damning indictment of Connecticut. After all, Massachusetts doesn't exactly have a reputation as a low-tax refuge.
The always-superb editorial page of the Wall Street Journal looks at the big-picture implications.
Hard to believe, but Connecticut was once a low-tax haven in the Northeast. Its business climate has grown so hostile in recent years, however, that General Electric on Wednesday announced that it will move its headquarters to Boston. When Taxachusetts becomes a reprieve, Governor Dan Malloy ought to know Connecticut has a problem.
And what's really amazing is that Connecticut didn't even have an income tax as recently as 1990.
But once politicians got the power to impose that levy, the state has been in a downward spiral.
And it doesn't appear that the decline will end anytime soon.
… last summer…Connecticut's legislature grabbed an additional $1.3 billion in tax hikes, the fifth increase since 2011. …The state's $40.3 billion two-year budget boosted the top marginal tax rate on individuals earning more than $500,000 to 6.99% from 6.7% and 6.5% in 2010. Mr. Malloy also extended for the second time a 20% corporate surtax that his Republican predecessor Jodi Rell had imposed in 2009. …The tax hikes have failed to cure Connecticut's chronic budget woes.
Of course they haven't. Raising taxes to cure an over-spending problem is like trying to douse a fire with gasoline.
But the tax-happy politicians have one achievement. They've managed to drive the economy into the dumps.
Since 2010 the…State has recorded zero real GDP growth, the lowest in the nation save Louisiana (-0.7%) and Maine (-0.6%). Connecticut is one of only four states (Illinois, Vermont, West Virginia) whose populations have declined since 2012.
Notwithstanding all this bad economic news, politicians in Hartford continue to spend like there's no tomorrow.
Over the next two years spending is set to rise by $1.5 billion, including $700 million in higher personnel costs. Pension payments are soaring. Connecticut's pension system is 48% funded, third worst in the country after Illinois and Kentucky.
Good grief, as Charlie Brown might say. The bottom line is that the productive people who are left in Connecticut should make plans to leave before it's too late.
By the way, there are two other noteworthy observations in the WSJ's editorial.
First, I like the fact that General Electric has escaped the fiscal hell-hole of Connecticut, but I'm not a fan of the company because it likes to feed at the public trough.
And, indeed, it will be getting special privileges from Massachusetts.
Mr. Immelt says GE, which has been headquartered in Fairfield since 1974, selected Boston after considering…a "package of incentives" valued at as much as $145 million.
Huh, whatever happened to the quaint notion that the laws should apply equally to everyone? Why should GE enjoy one set of rules while other companies labor under a different set of rules?
I imagine Voltaire is spinning in his grave.
Second, even though Massachusetts was foolish enough to engage in favoritism for GE, the state actually isn't as bad as its reputation.
As the WSJ explains, it has a flat tax for households and it also has been cutting its corporate rate.
Massachusetts has the lowest taxes in the Northeast outside of New Hampshire… The Tax Foundation ranks Massachusetts's business tax climate 25th in the country, ahead of Georgia (39), Connecticut (44), Rhode Island (45) and New York (49). Massachusetts has worked to shake its high-tax image by cutting its corporate rate to 8% from 9.5% and flat income tax to 5.15% from 5.3% in 2008. In the same period, Connecticut has raised its corporate rate to 9% from 7.5% and its top income tax rate to 6.99% from 5%.
Wow, I'm embarrassed that I used to live in Connecticut.
Though, in my defense, I was a kid when my family escaped from New York and Connecticut was a zero-income tax state when that happened.
Now, though, Connecticut merely serves as a bad example.
There are two broad lessons from this episode.
A state that doesn't have an income tax should never allow the adoption of that awful levy. I'm thinking specifically of the folks in the Pacific Northwest since some of the big spenders in the state of Washington are advocating for that levy. And add Wyoming and Alaska to that list since politicians in those states over-spent when energy prices were high and some of them are now pushing to impose an income tax since tax receipts from energy are no longer climbing.
A state with a flat tax should never allow the introduction of multiple rates. It's remarkable that Massachusetts has a flat tax (thanks to an old provision in the state's Constitution), but the key lesson is that the flat tax has made it difficult for leftist politicians to raise the rate since all taxpayers would be adversely impacted (this is also why it's been difficult for big spenders in Illinois to raise tax rates). In a system with graduated rates, by contrast, it's much easier for politicians to play the divide-and-conquer game and selectively raise some tax rate.
I'll close with one additional observation that this story is yet another example of why federalism is good.
We get to learn the damaging impact of high taxes and excessive spending thanks to the fact that we still have some government taking place at the state and local level.
And this explains why our statist friends want centralization. If there's a one-size-fits-all policy of high taxes and wasteful spending, it's much harder to move across national borders than it is to move across state borders. That insulates politicians (though not fully since there are varying amounts of tax competition between nations, both for investment and people) from the consequences of their reckless behavior.
It's not fair to say that the tax breaks GE is getting mean that the same laws don't apply to everyone. Of course they do. Every citizen of Massachusetts has the same right to bribe a legislator, subject only to their ability to pay.
Here's the problem you can't legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government can't give to anybody anything that the government doesn't first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they don't have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my friends is the beginning of the end of our country.
'If you supplement indolence and poverty, you get more of both'.
Excellent anlysis of Progressive cancer. But why does it spread to areas that surround the infected states rather than shrink? Why does the Left persue such self destructive policies in the face of all evidence that their policies destroy their tax base?


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In Delhi, gold of 99.9 per cent and 99.5 per cent purity priced at Rs 32,250 and Rs 32,100 per 10 grams, respectively.
Gold prices on Friday fell by another Rs 150 to Rs 32,250 per 10 grams at the bullion market due to muted demand, the third straight session loss for the precious metal, reported Press Trust of India (PTI). Silver too followed suit and fell by Rs 600 to Rs 38,400 per kg. The bullion market in the national capital was closed Thursday on account of 'Govardhan Pooja'. In the international market, gold traded at USD 1,219.51 an ounce and silver at USD 14.40 an ounce in New York. Bullion traders said the decline in prices was mainly due to muted domestic demand and weak global trend.
2. In Delhi, gold of 99.9 per cent and 99.5 per cent purity priced at Rs 32,250 and Rs 32,100 per 10 grams, respectively. Gold prices had dropped by Rs 210 to Rs 32,400 per 10 grams during special 'Diwali Muhurat' trading at the bullion market on Wednesday.
3. Sovereign also weakened by Rs 100 to Rs 24,700 per piece of eight grams on Friday.
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Gov. Bryant discusses Trump's $1.5 trillion infrastructure overhaul
Posted on February 13, 2018 by Steven Gagliano
President Trump has unveiled his $1.5 trillion plan to overhaul America's infrastructure. Governor Bryant was in Washington D.C. to hear the details of the plan, and discuss the future of Mississippi's own infrastructure.
Honored to be at the White House to hear @realDonaldTrump unveil his plan to upgrade and modernize American infrastructure. The plan will return decision-making authority to the states, invest in rural America, eliminate regulatory burdens and streamline the permitting process. pic.twitter.com/KMg2JRAnTL
— Phil Bryant (@PhilBryantMS) February 12, 2018
The plan would receive $200 billion from the federal government with the remainder to be made up by local cities and towns along with assistance from the private sector when necessary. Governor Bryant says that getting investments from these areas would allow each party to have some "skin in the game" to ensure that everyone does their part to keep the infrastructure strong. Not only does the Governor believe that the deal with have a positive impact on roads and bridges, but on the economy as a whole.
"If you've got a business and you've got the roads and bridges; you've got to maintain those. You have to invest in those or else no one will be able to drive up to your hotel, and nobody is going to be able to park in your parking garage," Governor Bryant said. "So you hire a contractor, he hires 150 crew members, they go home and say 'I'm working overtime, let me go by that new truck I've always wanted,' the salesman says 'I've sold enough pickup trucks, I can buy a home' and the economy begins."
A section of the new tax code creates a tax deduction for capital gains if a company invests them in local infrastructure in a rural area. Another key portion of the plan deals with eliminating regulations and shortening the permitting process which can take up to ten years.
"25% of building roads and bridges is permitting, going through these federal agencies, doing the environmental impact study, and trying to deal with 16 different federal agencies. We're going to get that number down to one, and we're going to get permitting down to two years; hopefully much less than that. The savings from that will be astronomical."
The Governor says that they must work to create better deals to bring the cost of building down across the country. A statistic given by Governor Bryant was that it may cost over a million dollars for a mile stretch of highway to be built, and the chances to decrease that number would bring a renewed sense of investment in American infrastructure. When it comes to opportunities created for Mississippi, Governor Bryant says that this could be beneficial to all corners of the state.
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Also in attendance at the meeting was Vicksburg Mayor George Flaggs, who scored a seat right next to President Trump. One of the projects mentioned was a potential new port in Vicksburg, which Flaggs says could have a nationwide impact.
This port would allow them to transport road material like never before, and at a much cheaper rate. It's quicker to come to Vicksburg than to go to the Gulf Coast, and if we can work this out it would be a game changer, not only for this region but for the state of Mississippi and the nation. We would be the only port on the Mississippi River adjacent to I-20 and have the rail at the same time."
An emphasis of the plan is the rebuilding of rural communities, and Senator Thad Cochran agrees that it is a much-needed focus and that this plan is an important step in the process.
"President Trump's initiative to rebuild and improve infrastructure around the country is ambitious. It will be up to Congress to review the plan carefully and develop legislation to put this plan in motion. I particularly like the plan's attention to assisting rural states and to lessening the costly bureaucratic permitting process for many public works—both of which would be beneficial to Mississippi."
The plan has received early criticism from Democratic leaders including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who says that the plan would do nothing but put a burden on local communities.
"The president's infrastructure proposal would do very little to make our ailing infrastructure better, but would put unsustainable burdens on our local government and lead to Trump tolls all over the country," Schumer said.
While Democratic mayors and governors were in attendance at the White House meeting, Governor Bryant says that the criticism shows that top Democrats are not willing to work with the President.
"Infrastructure was going to be the golden bipartisan rule, everybody was going to work together," Governor Bryant recalled. "How many times have we heard Democrats say infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure. Then the President comes out and says that we've got $200 billion in growth and savings that were going to put into this plan, and it'll generate $1.5 trillion, thousands of jobs and save lives. The first thing they say is 'not enough', 'we don't like it, we don't know the details of it, but we don't like it', well they need to get out of the way because we are going to push forward."
While the plan will be in the headlines over the next few weeks, it may have to wait until the fall until the bill is workable. By then the Mississippi legislative session will have concluded, but Governor Bryant said that he may be in favor of a special session in the fall after the federal bill is finished to ensure that the money in Mississippi is maximized.
"The legislative process does a lot of strange things, but the President has his jaw set on this so he wants to get it done," the Governor said. "There will be some variation and changes, and that's to be expected. So, everyone needs to take a deep breath, let's not all say we have got to have every detail of the plan today."
Fox News projects that the plan would double the projected 2019 fiscal deficit and sees an accumulating deficit of $7.2 over the next ten years.
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'''''Defiance''''' is a science fiction television set on Earth some time after a war with a group of aliens known as the Votans. After a ceasefire is declared after many years of fighting, the majority of organized government on both sides has been destroyed leading to many new factions and militias being created who pursue their own interests. The story focuses on a town known as "Defiance" which stands in the ruins of St. Louis, in which both human and Votan survivors live together.
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Defiance is a science fiction television set on Earth some time after a war with a group of aliens known as the Votans. After a ceasefire is declared after many years of fighting, the majority of organized government on both sides has been destroyed leading to many new factions and militias being created who pursue their own interests. The story focuses on a town known as "Defiance" which stands in the ruins of St. Louis, in which both human and Votan survivors live together.
The series is the first of its kind, in that it is being produced in concert with a massively multiplayer online game by Trion Worlds. Events that occur in one will effect the other, and characters will transfer back and forth between the game and television series.
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EBV was the first major disappointment for CFS researchers. Several studies in late eighties suggested EBV might be the cause of CFS but subsequent studies revealed EBV activation to be no higher in CFS than controls. In recent years, however, like Lazarus rising from the grave, EBVs role in CFS has been given new life by several research groups that have continued to examined this intriguing virus in greater detail.
Check out the four part series on EBV and ME/CFS from Phoenix Rising.
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The authors of the study postulated that reduced antibody or auto-antibody production was responsible for their improvements - suggesting that ME/CFS may have an autoimmune component.
Note that they also discussed another hypothesis, "ongoing infection with a B-lymphotropic virus". Presumably this could be EBV, or XMRV, or both. Dr. Timothy Lucketts wrote on his blog that, even though XMRV infects both B and T cells, eradicating XMRV-infected B cells could give the patient's immune system a leg up on the situation, at least until the new B cells become infected again.
That part about "until the B cells become infected again...."
I remember hearing about a woman with CFS who lost a lot of blood because her stomach ruptured or something from too much aspirin and she received a blood transfusion at the hospital and she felt better for about 2 weeks and then her symptoms returned.
Cort, your articles are amazing! You do us all a great service writing such well-researched and informative information. What is the date of these articles? I can't find that anywhere, if it's there can you tell me where?
I always thought there was much more to EBV in CFS. I was first Dx with chronic EBV in 1985. I am really hoping my brainfog clears up more soon so I can actually comprehend all these articles and the other information about the CAA that you gave me. I'm looking forward to more discussion here about the EBV articles.
Thanks for the reference to the series. I am seeing Dr. Montoya and while I have not had a chance to go over all of my recent test results, I do know that in addition to other viral infections, I have elevated EBV IgG levels. He's started me on Acyclovir for an active/chronic HSV-1 infection but this article suggests that it might also be useful to lower EBV levels. This is also encouraging as I have had significant cardiovascular issues over the last 18 months. Great post!
1. EBV infection during adolescence or adulthood that leads to infectious mononucleosis is a risk factor for ME/ CFS.
This is not proven by any means. The best you can say is that IM *may* be a risk factor, as http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2756827/ states. Other infections are also suspected to trigger CFS, and this paper did not compare the post-IM incidence rate with other infections. Most of the cases resolved eventually anyway.
2. An ongoing chronic and mostly undetected EBV infection causes ME/ CFS in a significant portion of patients.
This borders religion. If it is undetected, how do you know it is undetected? You could as well say unseen spirit causes CFS.
I can't find info on the EBV test Dr. Lerner uses, but I remember the HCMV test looked for antibodies to early gene products. I think he uses an Italian test for EBV early gene products.
If a virus is making proteins but not completely replicating, you could have an infection that is not shown by ordinary antibody testing. The EBNA doesn't work because the infection moves inside the cells, so the antibodies to viral nuclear antigen subside.
It's "undetected" because the common testing is not looking for smoldering infection.
I've only begun to read Cort's work, so maybe he says this somewhere.
Mononucleosis can be caused by both EBV and CMV, FWIW.
Thanks CFS since 1998 - I amended that passage to include that.
Rates of active EBV infection are not higher in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) patients than the population at large: EBV infection does not play a role in this disease.
EBV infection during adolescence/adulthood that leads to infectious mononucleosis is a risk factor for ME/ CFS.
An ongoing chronic and mostly undetected EBV infection by itself or in interaction with other viruses causes significant symptoms in a subset of patients.
Note that I said, though, that I said these are 'ideas' in the line before - not fact.
Hi Come Back Shane! I just noticed your post re: Dr. Montoya and that you had started Acyclovir.
I've been trying to find someone besides myself taking this....and now I've found you! Valcyte is common - Acyclovir...not so much, it seems.
OK, Cort, I missed that. I mistook those as a priori that Glaser, Learner, et al was basing their new research on.
Thanks Teejkay - Most of the articles were done quite some time ago but I tried to bring them up to date. I just posted them recently. I'll put a date on them.
Thanks Cort, I appreciate that.
I was also wondering if you can make it so that the font in your articles is able to be enlarged a lot without going off the page like this forum lets you do. It's hard for me to read smaller print because of CFS even though my eyesight is still good.
I ageee Teejkay, the small font and not much spacing is a deterrent to reading, I had to give up, too overwhelmind for my smashed brain cells.
I tried to read it earlier today in preparation for my doctor's visit tomorrow. I was looking for a reference value for my EBV results. I wanted to know how high is a high EBV VCA AB IgG?
Mine is 4.19 (ref. range <= .90). I couldn't skim the text and got bug-eyed trying. I gave up.
Khaly, thanks for the reminder about enlarging the text. I tried it, and it does make the text larger, but then the text doesn't fit horizontally on the screen and I have to scroll left/right to read each line. Might only be a problem on a smaller screen, like the laptop I'm using.
I've wondered if its too small. I hope to make it so that you can adjust the font size easily - I have to learn how to do that. Thanks for the feedback.
I sometimes copy and paste an article to Word or some other word processing program and then enlarge the font, change the font, add spacing, or whatever I need. Sometimes it is also helpful to then print it out so I can underline what I want to remember.
the right side of the pages I read, here and everywhere else.
Makes learning and advocacy that much harder, doesn't it?
viruses that are activated by something else?
Don't forget CMV causes symptoms almost identical to EBV even in "regular people". And other herpes viruses have been implicated in CFS.
I know my condition started with an acute EBV infection but after about a year my doctor said my antibodies had normalized -- although there is debate about what normal is. I should probably have them rechecked.
I altered the print size on the research section of the website.


Every company needs a strong foundation in order to support itself, its partners, its clients, and its future endeavors. To do that a company needs to have not only a good and feasible business model but also have a good and capable roster of employees that are willing to work for them especially in the long run of the business. They would need to be morally responsible as well as technically skilled to carry out their duties that is assigned to them by the company and be able to see a future within the company rather than just simply working each day to simply set food on the table.
Recruitment of employees is how a company can grow not just in its infrastructure also with its ideals, scope, and achievements. Nowadays though, recruitment of capable employees has prove to be a difficult trial. Companies are growing left and right and startups are flourishing from all across the globe. Competition for the perfect employees in their given fields has become a warzone that companies are trying to advertise themselves everywhere that they are the future that those employees should see. There are many tactics that they employ all to just get the attention of their potential candidates.
The said candidates themselves will ultimately be the ones to decide which company would best fit them. Either for the time being or in the long haul where they could retire with and not regret their choice when signing that contract. So there are many factors that can affect their decision whether or not they will atleast listen to the companies that are interested in them, like for example the benefits, the shift schedules, dayoffs, mandatory holiday work, number of yearly leaves, health and life insurance, and most of all the salary that the company is willing to offer them. So let's view a few aspects that will help in convincing those candidates that you are the right choice.
Landing a job is hard enough as it is, with having to look for the one in the field of your choosing, looking for the company's address or the recruitment agency, then waiting in line together with other candidates then having to go through the interviews and exams process. It is during the interview process where the candidate can find out what is it exactly that the company needs from them. There may have already been some information about that when the employee was looking for a place to work through the classified ads section of the newspaper or through the online portal, but it might have been obscure or the candidate wanted some more insight on the tasks to be given.
The company also needs to be clear on the matter, they can't expect their candidates to do just about everything, anywhere and anytime no less. They need to be able to give a clear and precise response should the candidate have any questions about that matter. Having too much of a workload or even too little will cause candidates to seek other opportunities with their competition if the proper balance for work is not met. The company's end expectations of the candidate must also be in line with their interest or profession so that the two can have a mutual understanding of what is to be expected and delivered throughout the tenure.
Aside from the workload and work to be expected there are also other variables that can potentially be factors in the candidates decisions. The candidate would also have expectations in some degree with regards to the work environment, the benefits, their leaves, the company rules, the mission and vision, the health and dental plans, colleagues, the managers, and other factors. It is best to be as open as possible so that the candidates will have a more clearer perception of what is expected of them and what the company can offer either in the short run or in the long one.
Companies need to show their employees what is in it for them should they decide to stay with the company for a long time. They need to properly nurture them, let them grow, give them their space if necessary, and give them the opportunity to become a bigger part in the company than they already are. If an accountant just stays an accountant throughout their whole tenureship then there is little point in continuing to work for that company at all.
The company would also need to improve themselves by possibly providing a better working environment, getting better health and dental plans, providing meals, improve the sanitation level, and many more. Companies need to prove that they are worth the employees investing their time, skills, and resources in. Employees in turn also would like to see them grow in one company if at all possible since changing to a different one usually has them reset their credentials when compared to a company that they have worked for years in, they have achievements or if nothing else work ethic to prove themselves.
Those companies that can get the really talented individuals that work for them show them why they are needed by the company and how they are not just a simple accountant but something more, and how they can possibly be different from a regular accountant if they work for them. What direction the company takes itself and its employees is one way for them to attract candidates, whether that direction is good or bad is up to the candidates though.
It is best to convey to the candidates during the interview process that they could possibly be given a promotion or atleast a raise if the management sees that they are capable at their production values, ethically sound, morally responsible, punctual, and can step up when needed. However that would depend upon the evaluation of the said employees.
The companies that manage to get the top talent in their professions are usually very open about their plans for them for now and for the future if he or she should ever join. So it is advisable to be as articulate as possible about this matter. It would also boost the morale of employees if they know where their path is going to take them tomorrow.
It is also important for a company especially its management, to see through the eyes of their employees. To know whether or not they company and its people are worth the said employee's time and skills. For recruiters the job descriptions and company information are all just one aspect, word of mouth and real life testimonies are another and can be a bigger factor. It is important to make a connection between the employees and management so that they can have a deeper understanding of their expectations of each other.
If the company is in need of talent then the company can make compromises to get the talent that they need. It is best to design and organize employee-friendly experiences that can strengthen the company as a whole. The company should not be afraid of the questions and concerns the candidates ask of them but embrace them fully to show them that they are also able to see their side and how much they want the candidates to be a part of them. The company must show to their employees that they can inspire them to work for them rather than against them.


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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it,
it frowns back;
if you smile,
it returns the greeting.
This poem is in the public domain.
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863) was a British writer known primarily for his satirical novels. Born in Calcutta, India, to English parents who worked for the East India Company, William was a mediocre student, at best. He did a bit of traveling, made a feeble attempt at studying law, then made a fairly serious attempt at becoming an artist before finally committing himself to a career in journalism. Though his professional life was quite successful and satisfying (during his lifetime, he was considered second only to Dickens as a popular novelist and lecturer), his private life was quite sad; one of his three daughters died in infancy and, after only four years of marriage, William's wife began battling mental illness that would plague her the rest of her life. Vanity Fair is William's best-known and most enduring work, although he published well over a dozen novels and hundreds of essays and articles.
KevinArnold:
No reliance on rhyme or sound of any kind yet its pithy message spans the centuries.
Sharon Waller Knutson:
I enjoyed this very smart sparse poem.
When I look into a mirror, my left hand becomes my right.
Larry Schug:
Kind of simplistic thinking though it has some merit up to a point. I can't imagine his world of 1811-63 being any less chaotic for its time than the one we live in. However we do need a positive outlook or we'll get nowhere.


Selling to the C-Suite: How Do I Get Started?
One of the most difficult things you can find yourself having to do is to connect with the CEO or any other senior level person in an organization. Thinking you can use the same approach you use with others in a company is simply not going to work.
In my book, High-Profit Prospecting, I devote several chapters to this issue.
One approach I share in the book and when I'm working with sales teams is the power of sending an email on Saturday morning. Senior level people in any company simply do not take time off on the weekend. They're engaged just at a different level. The weekend is the time when they will spend more time digging into emails, reading and working on the business, rather than in the business.
First, don't send a link or an attachment. They simply won't open it, because they can't verify 100% the source. Second, use bullet points to help convey your point faster and to keep it short. Third, if they do respond to your email, don't wait until Monday to respond. Doing so means you're just another salesperson. If they respond to your note on a Saturday, then you want to follow up with them on Saturday.
Yes, there's an art to the process, and it would take me too long to explain all of the detail in a single blog post, so I suggest you buy the book to get the full details.


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Industry Profile: Insightec
The Foundation recently spoke with Maurice R. Ferre, MD, Insightec's CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors, to learn more about the company's role in bringing focused ultrasound to patients around the world to treat a wide variety of applications including essential tremor. Read on to learn more about the company, their vision and accomplishments, and their plans for the future in the fast-growing FUS market.
What is your vision for INSIGHTEC?
My vision for Insightec is to transform the lives of millions of patients. Our mission is to forge a new paradigm in healthcare, one that allows medical treatments to be performed with surgical precision but without incisions, all but eliminating the risk of infection and allowing patients to go home the same day. As focused ultrasound (FUS) becomes a mainstream treatment worldwide, this will have a considerable impact on reducing healthcare costs. More importantly, patients can quickly return to the important things in life.
Tell us about your company.
Insightec is one of the most exciting medical companies. We are experiencing rapid growth and adoption of our innovative FUS technology by physicians and medical centers around the globe.
Over the last 18 months, I have taken the helm with fresh capital to accelerate the expansion of MR-guided FUS. During that time, our first neurosurgery application, for essential tremor (ET), received FDA approval; a second peer-reviewed article was published in the New England Journal of Medicine; and we have begun the journey of obtaining reimbursement for FUS to treat ET. We have also expanded our footprint with offices in Israel, US, Japan, and China, and our global team of experts now exceeds 200 employees.
What are the key treatment areas in which you are operating?
We have developed a robust and flexible platform that can be applied to multiple clinical indications. Our strategy is to focus on the brain, although we have identified close to 100 applications appropriate for FUS. We see our greatest opportunity in diseases that have no good treatments to date. For example, the healthcare industry has poured billions of dollars of research into curing neurodegenerative disease, but decades of research have not produced a treatment that prevents, slows, or reverses many of these diseases. FUS has the potential to treat these as well as other diseases of the brain. Our company's first commercial application in the brain is for the treatment of ET.
Let's get technical here. Tell us about INSIGHTEC's FUS technology and your system(s).
The company markets two commercial MR-guided FUS platforms. The Exablate is our workhorse and has performed more than 15,000 treatments for uterine fibroids and palliation of bone metastases. It was approved by the FDA in 2004 for treating uterine fibroids and in 2012 for pain palliation of metastatic bone cancer.
The Exablate Neuro platform (FDA approved in 2016 for ET) is simply a feat of technological excellence. The ultrasound transducer features advanced algorithms that allow 1,024 ultrasound beams to pass through the skull and target a focal point deep in the brain. This had never been done before now, and it is the first FUS device approved by the FDA to treat medically refractory ET.
What are some of the technical challenges your group has had to overcome to develop a fully noninvasive system?
The road has been filled with many challenges, but one of the major hurdles has become a key success of the company – neurosurgical procedures through an intact skull. Delivering ultrasound waves through an intact skull is not trivial and had never been done before. We are the first! Insightec devoted enormous resources and thousands of man-hours into developing sophisticated hardware and software that delivers treatment through varying skull shapes and thicknesses to a target deep inside the brain. The research and development (R&D) team has had major technological breakthroughs and has amassed considerable intellectual property during these efforts.
What do you see as your company's key success factors?
First and foremost, our people. Our people are experts in their fields, whether it is engineering, software development, or marketing. Next, our commitment to technological innovation and excellence. We currently hold 90 worldwide patents. Finally, and most importantly, the impact we have on patients through our successful collaborations with leading academic centers around the world.
What challenges will you have to tackle moving forward?
The biggest challenge that we are tackling is making FUS a standard of care. Obtaining regulatory approvals, such as FDA, is the key step in achieving widespread use of FUS. The challenge for the industry is the lengthy time and enormous costs required to get new clinical applications approved and available for patients. Even after receiving regulatory approval, a treatment does not immediately become widely adopted. Reimbursement must be in place and be at an appropriate level. Here again is a difficult hurdle for us to cross. Before approving a new medical technology for reimbursement, insurance payers need to analyze clinical and economic data to determine the cost benefit of the new product compared to available treatments. We continue to build the evidence base to get reimbursement. In the interim, patients with ET who want to be treated with FUS have to rely on personal savings or crowdfunding to pay the expense out of pocket.
With more than 7,000 rare diseases affecting an estimated 30 million people in the US, there is a huge opportunity for non-invasive FUS. However, the process of getting a new treatment to a patient takes much too long – years of clinical studies for FDA regulatory approval and then years of data collection for reimbursement.
Let's switch gears to Insightec's clinical studies. What can you tell us about the scope of your clinical experience?
Insightec has invested more than $300 million into developing our MR-guided FUS technology to solve real clinical needs. Our clinical experience is considerable with more than 16,000 patients treated for a range of clinical applications including ET, pain palliation of bone metastases, and uterine fibroids.
We have conducted 48 clinical trials so far for hundreds of patients around the world and published more than 250 peer reviewed articles in scientific journals. The key clinical studies ongoing now include: the focal treatment of prostate cancer; disruption of the blood-brain barrier; epilepsy; brain tumors; targeted drug delivery for Alzheimer's; neuro treatments with different targets in the brain; and lumbar back pain.
Tell us about your commercial success. How many systems you have installed around the world and what is the regulatory status of your FUS systems?
Our Exablate systems are currently in more than 80 medical facilities around the world and have performed more than 16,000 procedures.
The company has just begun commercialization of the ET procedure, with 553 patients treated worldwide, as of June 30, 2017. Many hospitals already have a backlog of patients waiting to receive treatment as well, and the list of centers performing the treatment is growing.
The company is also working to expand the indications of FUS in the brain; the roadmap includes neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's, epilepsy, OCD, and depression. In parallel, thanks to more than 15 years of extensive clinical research, we are on the precipice of developing FUS technology to not just ablate, but to also disrupt and open the blood-brain barrier. This development is of monumental importance for the treatment of various brain diseases because it holds the potential to deliver targeted drug therapies. We are very early in the process, but have been encouraged with the early safety data on this technique.
Is there anything you would like to add regarding INSIGHTEC's hopes and plans for the future?
Insightec is one of the most exciting companies in healthcare today. The company began with a vision almost 20 years ago, and today we are on the cusp of transforming healthcare in a way that hasn't been seen in a very long time. We are focused on our mission and completely committed to innovation because innovation improves lives – the lives of individuals who face challenging diseases.
Readers can visit http://usa.essential-tremor.com/blog/story to hear the stories of patients in their own words.


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1. How chosen. Each member district shall be represented by at least one resident on the board of school directors of an interstate school district. A member district shall be entitled to such further representation on the interstate board of school directors as provided in the articles of agreement as amended from time to time. The articles of agreement as amended from time to time may provide for school directors at large, as set forth. No person may be disqualified to serve as a member of an interstate board because he or she is at the same time a member of the school board of a member district.
2. Term. Interstate school directors shall be elected for terms in accordance with the articles of agreement.
3. Duties of board of directors. The board of school directors of an interstate school district shall have and exercise all of the powers of the district not reserved herein to the voters of the district.
4. Organization. The clerk of the district shall warn a meeting of the board of school directors to be held within 10 days following the date of the annual meeting, for the purpose of organizing the board, including the election of its officers.
1981, c. 693, §§5,8 (NEW). 1983, c. 806, §34 (AMD).


Charleston, the port city founded in 1670, is defined by its cobblestone streets, horse-drawn carriages and pastel antebellum houses. It's the largest and oldest city in South Carolina, and is bursting with Southern charm and hospitality. The city feels a bit like it's suspended in time, thanks to its antebellum architecture and surrounding plantation landscapes. Ashley is currently a nurse within a neurological department and Zack is attending power school within the Navy regular nuclear testing. Ashley and Zack had their engagement session within multiple Charleston spectacles: the lush and invigorating Magnolia Gardens, the vibrant Rainbow Row, the romantic cobblestone streets encircling Waterfront Park, and the bustling Market Street.


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Барра () — микрорегион в Бразилии, входит в штат Баия. Составная часть мезорегиона Вали-Сан-Франсискану-да-Баия. Население составляет 	171 646	 человек (на 2010 год). Площадь — 	32 805,554	 км². Плотность населения — 	5,23	 чел./км².

Демография
Согласно сведениям, собранным в ходе переписи 2010 г. Национальным институтом географии и статистики (IBGE), население микрорегиона составляет:

Статистика
 Валовой внутренний продукт на 2003 составляет 299 574 069,00 реалов (данные: Бразильский институт географии и статистики).
 Валовой внутренний продукт на душу населения на 2003 составляет 1810,83 реалов (данные: Бразильский институт географии и статистики).
 Индекс развития человеческого потенциала на 2000 составляет 0,604 (данные: Программа развития ООН).

Состав микрорегиона
В составе микрорегиона включены следующие муниципалитеты:
 Барра
 Буритирама
 Иботирама
 Итагуасу-да-Баия
 Морпара
 Мукен-ди-Сан-Франсиску
 Шики-Шики

Микрорегионы штата Баия


The article by Condon and colleagues1 concluded that "the excess burden of cancer in [Northern Territory] Indigenous Australians (higher incidence and lower survival) will persist until exposure to lifestyle risks is reduced, particularly the extraordinarily high prevalence of smoking".
In relation to smoking rates after release in Australia, the University of New South Wales started a randomised control trial that will investigate whether a brief health intervention called SNAP (smoking, nutrition, alcohol and physical inactivity), using a five-step model, will assist prisoners to extend tobacco cessation after release from prison, as well as reduce their risk factors for poor nutrition, alcohol misuse and physical inactivity (https://ndarc.med.unsw.edu.au/project/randomised-controlled-study-health-intervention-snap-northern-territory-prisons).
This trial has the potential to benefit prisoners, their communities, prison staff and Indigenous health clinics in remote areas by identifying the lessons learned from this initiative to ensure that the NT policy of banning smoking in correctional facilities is achieving its aims.
Robyn Hopkins was the project manager of Smokefree NT prisons, and is working with the Menzies School of Health Research to review gaps in smoking pathways after prison release. Kate Dolan is the chief investigator on the SNAP randomised control trial.
2. Australian Bureau of Statistics. Northern Territory population growth (Cat. No. 1362.7). Canberra: ABS; 2011. http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Products/1362.7∼Mar+2011∼Main+Features∼Population?OpenDocument (accessed Nov 2016).
3. Butler T, Stevens C. National Summit on Tobacco Smoking in Prisons: report on the summit. Perth: National Drug Research Institute; 2010. http://ndri.curtin.edu.au/local/docs/pdf/publications/R247.pdf (accessed May 2017).
4. Hefler M, Hopkins R, Thomas DP. Successes and unintended consequences of the Northern Territory's smoke-free prisons policy: results from a process evaluation. Public Health Res Pract 2016; 26: e2621619.
5. Clarke JG, Martin RA, Stein L, et al. Working Inside for Smoking Elimination (Project WISE) study design and rationale to prevent return to smoking after release from a smoke free prison. BMC Public Health 2011; 11: 767.


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Beauty / Hair
Herbal Essences' Newest Shampoos Are Verified By EWG And PETA Approved (YES! YES! YES!)
By Sarah Daniel
Herbal Essences may be most known for its 90s shampoo commercials featuring women in the shower doing their best Meg Ryan impression in the When Harry Met Sally restaurant scene (remember the ad slogan "A Totally Organic Experience"?), but now it has two new claims to fame: It's officially part of PETA's Beauty without Bunnies family, a green light given to brands that don't test on animals, marked by a seal featuring a leaping bunny. And earlier this year it became the first mass beauty brand to have the blessing of the Environmental Working Group (EWG) on two shampoos in its Bio Renew collection.
EWG is the non-profit organization behind Skin Deep, a product database built to help consumers identify clean cosmetics and personal care items, making it a thorn in the side of many beauty companies that formulate with ingredients EWG has deemed harmful and hazardous. Nudged by focus groups who told P&G (Herbal Essences' parent company) that EWG's insights inform their beauty purchases, Herbal Essences extended an olive branch, bringing lab coats from both sides together to formulate two sulfate-free shampoos.
Since full transparency was required, the project began with P&G inviting EWG to its labs. "We found that we had a lot more common ground," says P&G's Senior Scientist Rachel Zipperian. "They were impressed by the level and the rigour of our safety testing, and the number of toxicologists we have on site that they got to meet with."
EWG has two key lists: one for ingredients that are restricted in certain quantities and another featuring ingredients that are unacceptable, says Zipperian. (For example, silicones are on the unacceptable list which is why both shampoo's companion conditioners, which include the smoothing ingredient, are currently not EWG verified.) "Once you get to the point that you are just using ingredients that are on their restricted list, you have to actually sit down with them and disclose the levels and amounts of each ingredient in the product."
After removing sulfates, the brand also had to create a new preservative system, which was tricky due to how long the company wants their hair products to sit on shelves. Reformulating its fruity and floral fragrance, the very thing those 90s ads suggested made the women scream in the shower (or the airplane) was also required, which took six months, says Zipperian. "Herbal Essences has so many sophisticated, complex fragrances. If we went with simple fragrances, things that are one or two ingredients, it would have been a lot easier."
Herbal Essences also partnered with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, an enormous green space, and the most biodiverse in the world, borrowing the brains of on-site botanists and mining its libraries of plants that've been collected for hundreds of years to learn more about the ingredients it uses such as aloe and argan oil. In the middle of a Canadian winter where we're all most likely suffering from nature deficit disorder, may we suggest pausing Netflix for a sec and watching this short documentary on the collaboration for a hit of some Kew's majestic trees, lush plants and blooming flowers.