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Winder v. Caldwell. 240; Leighton v. Wales, 3 M. & W. 545; 2 Poth. Obl. by Evans, 81, &c; Noble v. Bates, 7 Cow. 307; 2 Greenleaf on Ev. $$ 257, 258, 259, and cases cited; Van Buren v. Digges, 11 How. 461; Tayloe v. Sandiford, 7 Wheat. 17.
The points on behalf of the defendant in error, were —
First. That this act is not repugnant to the act of 1791, but is remedial, cumulative, and auxiliary. That it was designed to give a lien to every person who, whether under a parol contract, oral or written, or a contract under seal, should thereafter furnish materials for or do work upon any dwelling or other building in the city of Washington during its erection, for the owner or for the contractor.
That if the building was constructed by contract, no person who did work or furnished materials to such contractor, could have the lien, unless within thirty days after being so employed, he should give notice in writing to the owner, that he was so employed to work or furnish materials, and that he claimed the benefit of that act.
These points are presented in the 3d, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th exceptions.
1. The first sentence of the act of 1833, is in the most general and comprehensive terms. 7 B. & C. 613.
2. The second sentence expressly contemplates the case of a contract, and provides a remedy for those employed by the contractor.
There is no such provision in any one of the laws of Pennsylvania referred to by plaintiff, and under which the decisions of the courts of that State were made.
3. The act of 1791 expressly recognizes and provides for two sets of liens, the one by the contractor, the other by the work. men. So does the act of 1833.
4. The act of 1791, contemplated a statutory mortgage; provided for contracts of a certain description, viz. those in writing acknowledged before a justice, and recorded in the clerk's office within six months, and gave a remedy in equity.
This act is not repugnant to that. It extends the remedy and provides a new one, (not for those who have made their contracts and recorded them under the law of 1791,) but to all persons who have done work or furnished materials for the build. ing, without pursuing the remedy given by that law. It provides a different remedy. It gives an absolute lien in all cases, for two years, to be enforced upon a claim filed by scire facias or personal action; or if no claim is filed, then by personal action.
The act of 1791 provides a lien to commence from the date
Winder v. Caldwell.
of the contract, if recorded within six months. The act of 1833 gives a lien from the commencement of the work.
There is no repugnancy between them. The two provisions may well stand together, the latter as cumulative to the former. 3 How. 645-6.
They are both affirmative statutes, and such parts of the prior statute as may be incorporated into the subsequent one as consistent with it, must be considered in force. Id. 644-5.
They are in pari materia; they must be taken together as if they were one law. Id. 564.
A thing which is within the intention of the makers of the statute, is as much within the statute as if it were within the letter. Id. 565.
Here the intention cannot admit of dispute. It was to protect all who furnished skill, time, labor, or materials, to the erection of the building, without regard to the manner of their einployment. They might make their contract under the act of 1791, and obtain a remedy in equity under that act; or they might proceed under the law of 1833, and seek their remedy at law only. Both laws require a recording as notice. The law of 1833 has received this construction from its passage, and hundreds of mortgages now existing, rest upon it.
Unless it repeals the act of 1791 by necessary implication, it may be, merely affirmative, or cumulative, or auxiliary. 16 Pet. 362-3.
The more natural, if not necessary inference is, that the legis. lature intended the new law to be auxiliary to and in aid of the purposes of the old law, even when some of the cases provided for may be equally within the reach of each. Id. 363.
In construing an act, (and equally so in acts in pari materia, 3 How. 564, 2 T. R. 504,) if there are expressions not so large in one part as those used in another, but upon a view of the whole act they can collect from the more large and extensive expression of the legislature, their intention, it is the duty of the Judges to give effect to the larger expressions. Per Lord Tenterden, 7 B. & C.613.
A second law on the same subject does not repeal a former one without a repealing clause, or negative words, unless so clearly repugnant as to imply a negative. But if they be not so contrary or so repugnant that the last act expresses or implies a negative of the first, then they may continue to stand together. And if such be the case here, a mortgage of city prop rty, recorded in conformity with either law, would be valid. Many cases of this kind, very analogous, are cited in Foster's case, 11 Coke, 63, 64; 4 How. 53.
We contend that both acts are in force, and the parties may
proceed under either. But if the act of 1833 repeals the act of 1791, we contend further that its provisions clearly embrace written contracts for construction.
Second. If the contractor or person who had done work or furnished materials for the owner, files his claim in the clerk's office, as provided by the act of 1833, within three months after the last work is done by him, under the same written contract, or under an implied contract, during the progress of the work, that claim will relate back to the commencement of the building and cover the work and materials mentioned in it and used in the erection of the building. 4th and 5th exceptions.
1. The language of the act is explicit. "Every ..... building hereafter constructed and erected, &c., shall be subject to the payment of the debts contracted for, or by reason of any work or materials found and provided by any person or persons, &c., employed in furnishing the materials for, or in the erecting and constructing such house or other building, before any other lien which originated subsequent to the commencement of such other house or building, &c.: Provided, That no such debt, &c., shall remain a lien on such house or other building, longer than two years from the commencement of the building thereof, unless, &c., a claim be filed within three months after performing the work or furnishing the materials."
It could not have been designed by the legislature to deprive a lumber-merchant of his lien, if there was an understanding between himself and the owner that he should furnish the lumber for the building from time to time, as it should be required, and it should occur, in the course of the erection of the building, that more than three months should elapse between filing one order and the giving of a new one.
2. If the work is done by contract, and there is an express or tacit understanding between the parties that alterations may be required by the owner and executed by the contractor during the progress of the work, it would be in direct violation of the spirit of the law, and the obvious intent of the legislature to deprive the contractor of his lien, unless he from time to time, and every three months recorded his claim.
3. The language of the act is, within three months after performing the work or furnishing the materials. This means, by the force of the terms, after performing the last work or furnishing the last materials used in the progress of the building; not that he shall record his claims toties quoties three months shall elapse. This would be requiring the party to accumulate costs, the thing the legislature designed to avoid, and to do a vain thing, which the law never requires.
4. Much more will this construction apply to a contract, as in
this case, for work and materials for a building which contemplated eighteen months in its construction.
As to the pleadings.
1. No declaration is required on the appearance of the de. fendant to a scire facias under this act. In Blake v. Dodemead et ur. (2 Str. 775,) it is said there is no such thing as a declaration on a scire facias, the plea is to the writ, and narratio and breve in this case are the same.
Vaughn v. Floyd, 1 Sid. 406. The scire facias disclosed the facts on which it was founded, and required an answer from the defendant; it was said to be in the nature of a declaration.
Bank of Scotland v. Fenwick, 1 Exch. 796, (per Rolfe.) The declaration, in fact, sets out the writ, and is in the same form as the writ.
Nunn v. Claxton, 3 Exch. 715. Although called a declaration, it is "merely a mode of entering the writ on the record."
See, also, Herd v. Brustowe, Cro. Eliz. 177; Tidd's Pr ic. 8th ed. 1140.
2. The nature of the relief intended, the object of the legislature to give a mortgage, and the writ being provided as notice of the action, the court may well, as the Circuit Court has heretofore, consider it as setting forth the facts on which it is founded, a narrative in the nature of a declaration, make it part of the record, and require the defendant to plead to it. The statute itself, in the second section, would seem to contemplate the same thing.
Second, as to the form of the judgment.
The writ is not to show cause why execution should not issue against the property mentioned in it, but to show cause why the court ought not to render judgment for the sum demanded upon the record aforesaid.
This is the conclusion of the declaration.
The judgment is responsive. It must be the same after the pleading "as in personal actions for the recovery of debts."
The judgment, then, is right. But the record being in the 'same court, the statute regulates the form and extent of the execution which may issue on that judgment.
Mr. Justice GRIER delivered the opinion of the court.
Caldwell, who was plaintiff below, entered into a contract with Winder, " to furnish all the materials and do all the car. penter work required to a certain house to be erected in the city of Washington," for the sum of ten thousand dollars. After the house was finished, the contractor filed a lien against the building, claiming this sum, together with sundry charges for extra work. A scire facias was issued to enforce this claim, and
a trial had, in the course of which, numerous bills of exception were sealed by the court at the defendant's instance, which form the subjects for our consideration in this case.
1. The want of a declaration, though not the subject of exception below, has been urged here as an error. But we think this objection is without foundation.
A scire facias is a judicial writ used to enforce the execution of some matter of record on which it is usually founded; but though a judicial writ, or writ of execution, it is so far an-original that the defendant may plead to it. As it discloses the facts on which it is founded, and requires an answer from the defend. ant, it is in the nature of a declaration, and the plea is properly to the writ. In the present case the bill of particulars of the plaintiff's claim is filed of record under the statute which gives this remedy, and it is recited in the writ and thereby made part of it, so that any further pleading on his part, to set forth the nature of his demand, woald de wholly superfluous.
2. In the written contract between the parties, given in evidence on the trial, it is stipulated that the work is to be promptly executed, so that no delay shall be occasioned to the builder by having to wait for the carpenter's work ;" and also, " that in any and every case in which the carpenter shall occasion delay to the building the sum of twenty-five dollars per day shall be deducted for each and every day so delayed, from the amount to be paid by this contract."
The defendant, under a notice of set-off, offered to prove " that in consequence of the plaintiff's not being ready to put up his work according to said contract, delay was occasioned by him in the construction of the building of not less than three weeks ;" and also, " that the work and materials found and provided upon and for the said building, were defective in quality and character, and far inferior in value to what said contract and specification called for."
The refusal of the court to permit such evidence to go to the jury, is the subject of the first two bills of exception.
The statute which authorizes this proceeding, gives the defendant liberty " to plead and make such defence as in personal actions for the recovery of debts." Had the plaintiff below brought his action of assumpsit on the contract, the right to make this defence cannot now be doubted. For, although it is true, as a general rule, that unliquidated damages cannot be the subject of set-off, yet it is well settled that a total or partial failure of consideration, acts of nonfeasance or misfeasance, immediately connected with the cause of action, or any equitable defence arising out of the same transaction, may be given in evidence in mitigation of damages, or recouped; not strictly


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Indeed. Best episode of all ST series, IMHO.
I'm pretty sure this comic would still work if you replaced Picard with Walter Blunt….
More like "Measure of MY JAM," because that's what it is.
Hey Joel, I'm curious. I *LOVED* these strips when they first came out as Faneurysms, but to my sensabilities, I didn't need a recolor or reworking of it to be any more excellent than it was originally.
As an artist, how often are you driven by the "one more layer, one more retouch" on a project. Do you EVER feel like you're done?
I ask this as a musical composer who never knows when to quit on a song. . . .
This wasn't about "finishing" the comics. There was a certain aesthetic I was going for with FANEURYSM and it doesn't fit in with Sharksplode's greater detail and full color. The whole purpose of recomposing and recoloring these strips for Sharksplode is that FANEURYSM was intended to be an entirely new, long running comic. Since it only ran for a few months everything I did with it would likely be completely looked over/forgotten. This way i can integrate these strips into my current project and give them a longer life and bigger audience.
And, to answer your question, I don't approach comics that way. I typically know exactly how I want the finished product to look when I start. Rather than finish and keep tweaking, I tweak along the way (especially during the sketching process) so that when it comes time to ink and color all of the tough decisions have already been made.


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Sylvie stands on the brink of "monster girl" territory that seems to be popular recently, but she is just a regular girl. Regular girl with quite an interesting past.
Painting-like art style along with gritty soundtrack perfectly conveys the gothic feel of middle age Europe. Characters have distinctive personalities, and even those you interact with only for a short time have the unique feel (and mystery) to them. In fact, I would describe them in the way similar to how the circle is named - "Freakily Charming".
So in the end, if you are a nice person and would like that to be appreciated, I dare to say you will enjoy this!
But if you prefer some sexual deviation, well... this is not a "slave training" game, just a beautiful fairytale.
P.S.: Currently, there is an unofficial English patch that does a great job translating the game.
Looking at it from the girl's point of view: Sylvie finds herself with a new Master and can't understand why he doesn't beat and abuse her, she's stand-offish, timid, terrified and afraid of when the first blow will come.
She learns what its like to receive kindness and gradually falls in love with him.
Sweet, deep and interesting, my only request, is for there to be a non-loli version, or option where Sylvie is a little more mature?


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THE Resource for Star Wars Fans Who love the Marvel Comics
Many Star Wars fans are also fans of Marvel, especially the comics. For those fans, Ultimate Marvel is your one stop comic resource. It includes a wealth of in-depth information about the people, places and things found throughout the Marvel comic universe.
Timeline of Marvel Universe Events found in the pages of Ultimate Marvel
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Did you know that Nebula from Guardian's of the Galaxy claims to be Thanos' granddaughter or that the X-Men's Wolverine stole the Nick Fury's S.H.E.I.L.D. flying car? It is tidbits like these that make this book more interesting to fans of Marvel outside the comics.
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Amid backlash from readers who have pointed out her storied battle against masculine taunts, GQ is defending its decision to put the word "Woman" in quotation marks on a cover issue that names Serena Williams Woman of the Year for 2018.
People magazine reported that the release of four separate editions to reveal GQ's annual "Men of the Year" roundup was followed by a wave of criticism as soon as the issue fronted by an image of Serena went viral on Monday, November 12. The matter of contention wasn't that the publication chose to celebrate a woman, as GQ has been including women among its honorees since 2003. Rather, the primary gripes were related to the connotation quotation marks can have when one means to convey an idea as presented. Within hours the tennis great's name was trending on the strength of tweets that accused the male-focused magazine of body shaming Serena with a backhanded insult that racist and sexist trolls continue to recycle.
GQ research manager Mick Rouse would respond to the outrage by informing critics that the title was styled by Off-White brand fashion designer Virgil Abloh, who is known to arbitrarily present his text as quotes. While Serena has yet issued a statement regarding the blow-back, as USA Today notes in its coverage of the controversy, she herself can attest to Abloh's signature quotation marks being incorporated into themes from the Nike "Queen" collection they collaborated on in time for her recent U.S. Open run.
Michael B. Jordan, Henry Golding, and Jonah Hill are featured on the other three covers of the ceremonious December issue. None of their corresponding titles veer from the conventional text.
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With more than a dozen shows left on the Kill the Lights Tour, Luke Bryan is already looking ahead to his next trek: a 40-date, cross-country tour with Brett Eldredge and a revolving door of opening acts. The Huntin', Fishin' and Lovin' Every Day Tour kicks off in Music City on May 5th, with Bryan, Eldredge and their assorted guests — including Lauren Alaina, Granger Smith, Seth Ennis, Craig Campbell and Adam Craig — all hitting the road for a series of long weekends.
To announce the tour's lineup, a camouflaged Bryan strapped on his Gore-Tex boots and headed to the family basement in a comical video released yesterday morning. "Alright, let's hunt us up some opening acts," he announces in the clip, which shows the 40-year old father of three playing a rousing game of Nintendo's Duck Hunt. In the game, the ducks' heads are replaced with Eighties-inspired graphics of his opening acts' faces. "Brett Eldredge, I've got you now, you tall, bow tie-wearing drink of water!" Bryan yells at the screen, shooting down his first prey. He fills the rest of the video with punny jokes worthy of the Grand Ole Opry ("Lauren Alaina, the road less traveled is with me, girl!"), eventually emerging from the basement with a full tour's worth of talent. Watch the video below.
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The Huntin', Fishin' and Lovin' Every Day Tour runs through late October, with Bryan making a handful of solo appearances at festivals like Rock the South along the way. In the meantime, he will also perform the National Anthem during Super Bowl LI, kicking off the evening's match-up between the Atlanta Falcons and the New England Patriots on Sunday, February 5th.
Here are Luke Bryan's Huntin', Fishin' and Lovin' Every Day Tour dates:
May 5 – Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena
May 12 – Bristow, VA @ Jiffy Lube Live
May 13 – Hartford, CT @ Xfinity Theatre
May 18 – Moline, IL @ iWireless Center
June 1 – Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center
June 2 – Cullman, AL @ Rock the South*
June 3 – St. Louis, MO @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
June 9 – Little Rock, AR @ Verizon Arena
June 10 – Tulsa, OK @ BOK Center
June 16 & 17 – Atlanta, GA @ Verizon Amphitheatre
June 23 – Hershey, PA @ Hershey Park
June 24 – Mansfield, MA @ Xfinity Center
June 25 – Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion
July 1 – Dauphin, MB @ Dauphin's Countryfest*
July 13 – Bethel, NY @ Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
July 15 – Cleveland, OH @ Progressive Field
July 16 – Holmdel, NJ @ P.N.C. Bank Arts Center
July 21 – Kansas City, MO @ Sprint Center
July 22 – Eau Claire, WI @ Country Jam USA*
July 26 – Cheyenne, WY @ Cheyenne Frontier Days*
July 28 – Central Point, OR @ Country Crossings Music Festival*
July 29 – Mountain Home, ID @ Mountain Home Country Music Festival*
August 5 – Detroit Lakes, MN @ WE Fest*
August 12 – Syracuse, NY @ Lakeview Amphitheater
August 13 – Oro-Medonte ON @ Boots and Hearts Music Festival*
August 17 – Virginia Beach, VA @ Veterans United Home Loans Amp. @ Virginia Beach
August 18 – Charlotte, NC @ PNC Music Pavilion
August 19 – Raleigh, NC @ Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek
August 25 – Darien Center, NY @ Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
August 26 – Saratoga Springs, NY @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center
August 27 – Jones Beach, NY @ Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
September 1 – Lexington, KY @ Red, White & Boom*
September 6 – Scranton, PA @ The Pavilion at Montage Mountain
September 8 – Philadelphia, PA @ Citizens Bank Park
September 9 – Pittsburgh, PA @ KeyBank Pavilion
September 15 – Indianapolis, IN @ Klipsch Music Center
September 16 – Chicago, IL @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
September 21 – Austin, TX @ Austin360 Amphitheater
September 22 – Houston, TX @ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
September 23 – Dallas, TX @ Starplex Pavilion
October 12 – Concord, CA @ Concord Pavilion
October 13 – Wheatland, CA @ Toyota Amphitheatre
October 14 – Mtn. View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre
October 19 – Albuquerque, NM @ Isleta Amphitheater
October 21 – Salt Lake City, UT @ USANA Amphitheatre
October 26 – Phoenix, AZ @ AK-Chin Pavilion
October 27 – San Diego, CA @ Sleep Train Amphitheatre
October 28 – San Bernardino, CA @ Glen Helen Amphitheater
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Home Editorial RSN Pick of the Day ELIANA BENADOR: OBAMA OVERDOSING ON ISLAM
ELIANA BENADOR: OBAMA OVERDOSING ON ISLAM
By Eliana Benador | Benador
A majority of Americans elected the son of a Muslim father yet they still doubt about the president's allegiance.
Experts say Americans suffer from acute depression and that is a reason not to face reality despite the fact that reality is slapping you on the face.
No one can erase that the son/daughter of a Muslim man is a Muslim. Period.
That is not an opinion but a fact: The child of a Muslim father is a Muslim, forever. That is the way it is.
Obama and his people's main concern is not America, but Islam.
Whether it is Iran, Saudi, Emirates, Qatar or Bahrain or any other Muslim country, and whether it is Sunnis or Shias, radicals or moderates, regardless, they read the Koran, they follow their Prophet Mohammed, they want sharia in the world they are conquering. Their common denominator is Islam.
Roughly a week ago, the Chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey shared that the U.S. military leadership are now viewing favourably at Iran's contributions to the fight Iraq is waging against the Islamic State. Nonetheless they are "still concerned" about Iran's influence in the region. Seriously.
In a very dangerous move, the Americans have served the Iraqis on a silver platter to Iran so they can "help" the Iraqis fight the IS terrorists.
Iranian-backed military have joined the Iraqi Security Forces and have been advancing on Tikrit, in a coordinated assault, their largest offensive so far against Islamic State.
Suddenly it stalled, and the "Tikrit Pause" is now in place.
"We need air support from any force that can work with us against [the Islamic State]," Deputy Minister of Defense Ibrahim al-Lami told Reuters, declining to say whether he meant from the U.S.-led coalition or Iran, which is playing a role in the assault.
Iraq needed more military equipment. What did Obama and his Department of Defense do?
They did not give the Iraqis what they needed. Instead, somehow the Islamic State terrorists have managed to get American equipment.
Other troubling news have announced that the Obama Administration have quietly removed Iran and Hezbollah from the "Worldwide Threat Assessment" of the U.S. Intelligence Community report. And so are off the global threat list both the rogue regime of Iran and its most radical Islamist terrorist wing Hezbollah, the Eastern Mediterranean outpost of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
For full disclosure and to be accurate and fair to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) James Clapper, Iran is mentioned unfavourably in other sections of the report: cyber threats, counterintelligence, weapons of mass destruction and proliferation, and Middle East regional threats.
However, this is only one step among many others that this administration has adopted lately to the benefit of the Iranian regime precisely at a time when nuclear negotiations are taking place.
Ever since the Islamic Republic of Iran overturned the Shah, they have been faithfully devoted to spreading Islam violently in the world.
Their goal? They made no secret about it: To dominate the world and to destroy the big and little Satan, i.e., America and Israel, the two pillars that have so far kept the world together.
Their means? Funding terrorist groups, foremost Hezbollah.
Hezbollah comes from two Arabic roots: Hizb Allah or the "Party of Allah," party of God, is Iran's terrorist army around the world, for which Iran has abundantly provided weaponry, physical and of course religious training plus broad financial means to achieve their goals.
Iran's investment in Hezbollah goes beyond imaginable. According to Dr. Matt Levitt, one of the foremost Iran experts, "Iran invests on Hezbollah roughly [a whopping] $200 million per year."
Dr. Levitt's latest book is an excellent source of information: "Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon's Party of God."
On the other hand, Obama and his people have a newly found interest on the Shia and Sunni division.
In parenthesis, having been in the region for several years, I want to point out how difficult, if not impossible, it is to tell a Sunni from a Shia.
In the streets of the Muslim world, people do not wear a badge on their foreheads to identify them as one or the other.
If Obama is using the noun Sunni with a negative connotation now, it is to insinuate that Shias are better and our friends.
Trouble is that Shias include the trouble-makers and funders of trouble-making, mixed Sunni-Shia Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran. And because Obama says so they are turning into the good guys. Really.
As mentioned in my previous articles, in the aftermath of the Liberation of Iraq in 2003 a friend, then ambassador of Iraq, stated in no uncertain terms that: "Iraq has a Shia prime minister, a Kurdish president and a Sunni ambassador, me." And he added, "We don't look at our ethnicity, as you can see." True.
You may recall, not too long ago we were also 'bombarded' with terms as "radical" Muslims and, oh good luck, there also existed the "moderate" Muslims.
Trouble is that now there have been extraordinary examples of serious and major initial revolts within Islam, especially under such notable people as the President of Egypt and the King of Jordan.
Therefore, the "moderate" argument is no longer so attractive to terrorist-friendly people as Obama and his team.
Now that the inner fight of Muslims against Muslims is highlighted, the president and his people desperately needed to find a solution to continue their PR for Islam.
And found it they did. That is why his emphasis is now on Sunnis and Shias, with Sunnis fulfilling the role of bad guys because of their allegiance to the Islamic State, and the Shias who thanks to the Obama magic, appear as the 'good guys' with Iran and the partly Shia Saudis. So, go figure.
For good form, recently the American government closed various representations in Saudi, reportedly due to a terror alarm, and just a few hours ago, the U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia has been indefinitely closed.
In closing their representations in Saudi, once again the government showed off how they learned the lessons from Benghazi. But. What the Benghazi Martyrs need is Justice.
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Not long after the first official synopsis was released and Bill and Ted Face the Music looked like it was going to become a reality, Winter's co-star Keanu Reeves made some comments that chilled some of the heat fans were generating, essentially saying that the film was still looking for funding — a consistent problem for years now. Shortly thereafter, Winter spoke at the Television Critics Association this week and told fans that despite Reeves's words of caution, the project is still moving forward a the same pace as it was.
"The fan response has been enormous. It helped us get the financing because there was an overwhelmingly positive response to the idea of us doing this," Winter said. "Even in the age of internet comment trolling, we haven't really encountered any pervasive negativity. The concerns that I've encountered are totally valid – don't screw up the tone of the first two, make it a real Bill & Ted movie.


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DS Becca Vincent is struggling to juggle her work and personal life but has just landed the biggest case of her career. A serial killer is stalking the streets of London, each kill becoming more hideous than the last. Working alongside facial recognition expert, Joe Russell, the killer always seems to be one step ahead of them. Could he have someone on the inside working for him? Will Becca and Joe manage to catch him before he completes his mission and eliminates each of the people on his list?
I am going to start by saying how much I enjoyed this book and the way it was written. By having two protagonists instead of the usual one main character, we get to see the investigation from different branches of the police force. Becca, a no-nonsense detective was a complete contrast to Joe who, in the course of his work, was thorough and methodical due to his role as a facial recognition expert. I enjoyed how the relationship between Becca and Joe changed and how, although she was originally sceptical of his work, she began to see its value as the case progressed.
The case itself is a fascinating one and is more of a 'whydunit' than a 'whodunit'. The first murder seems almost casual when we see how the killer escalates his crimes, each killing being more grisly than the last. It is apparent quite early on that the victims are connected in some way but we do not know how. This culminates in a huge twist that I definitely did not see coming! It's not often that an author completely wrong foots me but John Marrs certainly did in Her Last Move. I was so taken aback that I had to go back and re-read a whole section to make sure that I had read it correctly!
In addition to the main storyline, there are subplots featuring the two main characters. I particularly enjoyed Joe's backstory and, yet again, was thrown by how this ended. Joe was probably my favourite character and I felt great sympathy towards him as he battled with his past but also as he tried to come to terms with what was inevitably going to happen in his professional life.
Her Last Move is a thoroughly entertaining read that kept my attention right until the final page. This is the first book by John Marrs that I have read but it will definitely not be the last.
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When Jefferson Tayte is tasked to find the identity of his client's long lost 4x great-grandfather, the genealogist finds himself drawn into the search for a ruby that has been missing for generations. What is already a challenging case takes a murderous turn when others with knowledge of the ruby suddenly start turning up dead. With letters from 150 years ago being left for Tayte after each murder, each providing more information about a horrendous event in the past, can he solve his client's mystery before he, too, suffers the same fate?
For some years I have been a fan of Steve Robinson's Jefferson Tayte books, and I look forward to each one with great anticipation. Once again, the author has managed to produce a tense story that will appeal to fans of mystery, historical and genealogical fiction and has definitely become one of my favourite Tayte novels.
If you thought events in previous books would have made Tayte consider the potential dangers of the cases he takes on, you'd be very wrong! Once again, he finds himself taking on a deranged killer in a story that, at times, had more than the touch of an Agatha Christie about it. There was certainly a hint of And Then There Were None as we see each family member getting bumped off one by one, and the gathering of all the suspects in one room was definitely classic Poirot!
Letters From the Dead, in addition to being set in modern Scotland, also takes place in colonial India. Steve Robinson has certainly done his research to paint a vivid picture of life at this controversial time in British history. The characters were realistic and managed to show the contrast between life at the Residency for the British and the Indians. I enjoyed the slow build-up as we finally discovered just what secrets had been covered up and how this continued to affect people today. This gradual retelling of the story complemented the high octane closing chapters as the plot drew to a close.
If you have not read any of Steve Robinson's work and are a fan of historical and genealogical fiction or merely just love a good mystery story, then you won't go wrong with this series which is going from strength to strength.
With thanks to Thomas & Mercer and Netgalley for my advance copy.
Dying Games by Steve Robinson
When twin brothers are found drowned in a Perspex box in Washington D. C., and a family history chart is left at the scene, the police realise that this is one of several recent murders with a link to genealogist Jefferson Tayte. Knowing that his experience will be invaluable, Tayte is summoned by the FBI to assist in catching the ruthless killer who always seems to be one step ahead. With his reputation at stake and the body count rapidly rising, will Jefferson have to pay the ultimate price to stop the sadist in his tracks?
I have become a big fan of Steve Robinson's Jefferson Tayte books over the years and I await each new instalment eagerly. I was excited, therefore, to receive Dying Games through Net Galley, telling myself that I would wait until nearer publication day before I would read it. This resolution lasted a whole day before I found myself clicking on it on my kindle!
The book begins in a very macabre fashion as a woman is burned to death inside a dolls' house. This sets the tone for the rest of the book as the twisted killer re-enacts deaths that have appeared in the family trees of the victims. From quite early on, JT realises that the killer is someone he has encountered in his professional life but is finding it impossible to convince the FBI that the man cannot be working alone. In Frankie Mavro, JT has the perfect sidekick – someone who provides him with the necessary authority to undertake his research but who is also genuinely on his side.
Like the rest of this series, once I started on this book, I found it difficult to put down. I do feel, though, that this one is different to the others as it had an almost Dan Brown feel to it with our hero solving clues against the clock in order to prevent a tragedy. The 'race against time' element made it a very fast-paced, exhilarating read and I really liked the fact how, in many of the cases, there was no happy ending, as this helped JT to develop a true hatred of the unknown man.
Dying Games is a superb addition to the Jefferson Tayte franchise and I hope this is a series that continues to run and run: the ending of this book has certainly changed the direction of any future plots!
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Over the weekend I've been in Amsterdam attending the 2008 European Information Architecture Summit. It was held at the Tuschinski Theatre, which was a simply amazing venue. Despite a couple of schedule clashes - including missing a much anticipated presentation by Deanna Marbeck and Silver Oliver because it coincided with my own session - I got to see a great selection of presentations. Here are some of my take-away facts and quotes from the morning of day one.
Whilst the Apple brand halo ensures that the iPhone captures lots of attention and headlines, Nokia just quietly go about selling millions and millions of phone handsets, setting the user interface standards for the industry. Although not necessarily the highest standards of taking pictures in low light in a massive theatre.
Adam Greenfield from Nokia gave a rather provocative keynote, suggesting that since the halcyon days of 2001, the IA discipline had concentrated on the 'little IA' of taxonomy and ontology and building websites, and missed the big picture of acting as intercessionaries to steer the development of the rise of Mark Weiser's concept of ubiquitous computing.
Greenfield made particular reference to the work of Bruce Sterling, who he saw outline a near-future scenario. In it a couple are moving into a new flat, and are designing and re-designing then purchasing their interior decoration and furniture digitally, which is then custom built for them. In the course of the story, Bruce had suggested that they would need a human expert to guide them through this process, and called them an 'Information Architect'.
Greenfield's point was that Bruce had misinterpreted the term, and made it something much more important and defining in people's interactions with pervasive technology - but the real IA community is firmly trapped in the browser and in the world of the corporate enterprise intranet.
Adam was applauded during the Q&A session for brutally dismissing Second Life and virtual worlds as being essentially 'infantile'.
"We have a perfectly great shared multi-user environment, and its called reality. My body isn't perfect, this stage isn't perfect, and we are all here, decaying together"
"Unless anyone here works for Philips, I'm fairly certain that nobody in this room wants or will ever by a networked fridge."
"Computers sound dorky. Who the hell talks about computers anymore?"
"If you became an IA to help ordinary people wrestle with the monstrosity of poorly designed technical systems, does this sound like a reasonable challenge?"
Adam also wanted to know if there was anyone in the audience who had recently called him a Communist.
Ruud Ruissaard had a great presentation that evoked the spirit of Gordon Ramsey, asking just what the celebrity chef would make of the state of the IA kitchen. Ruud was concerned that a fraction of the IA effort went into 'back stage' systems than was applied to 'front stage'.
There were some great facts in Ruud's talk, particularly about the satisfaction level and efficiency of IT projects. Quoting a survey of leading businesses, Ruud stated that only 37% were satisfied with their content management system. That somewhat implied that two-thirds of them had wasted time and money on sub-optimal solutions that were not meeting their business goals, and which would require replacing at some point, at even further cost.
He also had a table of how many IT projects finished on time in particular countries. The UK was somewhere in the middle at 11%. Russia and the Netherlands were languishing at the bottom of the table with only 4% of IT projects being delivered on time. Sweden, meanwhile, was streets ahead, with 44% of projects finishing on time. We need some serious further study to find out how they are getting this result. It can't just be down to "being Swedish", can it?
Ruud estimated that there were over 3,000 CMS systems on the market, varying from closed source to open, and from cheap to expensive. He also reckons that the Dutch Government is currently using a mind-boggling 110 of them - which may even be more than the BBC does!
Erik had a risky topic, as I've seen presentations about web analytics use descend into a series of slides of ever more complicated pie-charts and graphs, but he avoided that - and also had a tough assignement because his co-presenter hadn't made it.
"Analytics doesn't replace anything. It doesn't tell you how to improve, or how to meet your goals"
His argument was that UX people and IAs in particular were more suited to analysing this kind of data than engineers or marketers, because they already have a greater understanding of how people behave on the web.
One of the most interesting questions asked was whether Erik had been able to 'prove' a correlation between the results of eye-tracking studies and the actual actions of the user. A lot of people in the IA community are sceptical that eye-tracking charts are useful for anything other than as eye-candy for impressing managers. Sometimes, of course, that is a useful result in itself. Erik showed a chart where the 'hot spots' matched the clicked links closely, but I'm not sure he changed anyone's mind.
"A mind-shift from 'this is advertising' to 'this is improving our findability'"
Chiara Fox gave an engaging talk about the subject of content analysis, which was impressive given her jet-lag and the sheer number of Excel spreadsheets it involves. In fact, Chiara confessed to living and breathing Excel. She pointed out that she would be a poor consultant if she didn't start with a Venn diagram, and lamented that when doing content analysis, IAs didn't get to use a massive electron microscope.
Chiara was particularly reassuring about the kind of sample size needed to do a 'content audit' rather than a full 'content inventory'. In the latter, particularly for something like a migration project, you need to get a handle on every single bit of content. For the former, provided you have captured the navigational spine of a site, even touching as little as 2% of the content can be sufficient.
Rather sweetly, Chiara assumed that the 'Wizard of Oz' may be too specifically an American reference for a European audience.
A good question from the audience was how to document an increasingly complex Web 2.0 world. Unsurprisingly, Chiara reached straight for Excel again. She suggested that you can document the end-points and extreme 'states', even if, in a more fluid web app, the concept of the 'page' has been dispensed with.
"You're thinking: 'Chiara, that's great, but my site is huuuuuuuuge, and you want me to make a spreadsheet? That's crazy!'"
"Have your bots do your work for you"
"The problem is that some people just don't think in Excel"
"We do have a couple of seats in the front row for anyone who doesn't want to be a fire hazard sitting on the stairs."
Tomorrow I'll have some more from the EuroIA Summit, with lots of planes and trains, but no automobiles.
By Martin Belam on 30 September 2008.


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GENFIT: Positive Outcome from the 1-year Pre-Planned Safety Review by the DSMB, in RESOLVE-IT Phase 3 Clinical Trial with Elafibranor
› Safety data, including adverse events and laboratory data, were reviewed by the Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) which recommended the continuation of the trial without any modifications
Lille (France), Cambridge (Massachusetts, United States), June 1, 2017 – GENFIT (Euronext: GNFT – ISIN: FR0004163111), a biopharmaceutical company at the forefront of developing therapeutic and diagnostic solutions in metabolic and inflammatory diseases, that notably affect the liver or the gastrointestinal system, today announced that the Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) issued a positive recommendation for the continuation of the RESOLVE-IT Phase 3 trial in NASH without any modifications.
Dean Hum, Chief Scientific Officer of GENFIT, commented: "We are pleased that the DSMB has found no safety concern that would require modifying the study. We consider this recommendation as a positive sign for the on-going Phase 3 RESOLVE-IT clinical trial. NASH is indeed a chronic condition, which means that safety is crucial for any molecule aiming to address the unmet clinical needs related to this disease. The positive outcome of this safety review by the DSMB allows us to actively pursue our effort in enrolling patients."
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Elafibranor is GENFIT's lead pipeline product. Elafibranor is an oral once-daily administered molecule, and a first-in-class compound acting via dual peroxisome proliferator-activated alpha/delta pathways developed to treat, in particular, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). Elafibranor is believed to address multiple facets of NASH, including inflammation, insulin sensitivity, lipid/metabolic profile, and liver markers.
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"NASH", or nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, is a liver disease characterized by an accumulation of fat (lipid droplets), along with inflammation and degeneration of hepatocytes. The disease is associated with long term risk of progression to cirrhosis, a state where liver function is diminished, leading to liver insufficiency, and also progression to liver cancer.
GENFIT is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of drug candidates in areas of high unmet medical needs corresponding to a lack of suitable treatment and an increasing number of patients worldwide. GENFIT's R&D efforts are focused on bringing new medicines to market for patients with metabolic, inflammatory, autoimmune and fibrotic diseases, that affect the liver (such as NASH – Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis) and more generally the gastro-intestinal arena. GENFIT's approach combines novel treatments and biomarkers. Its lead proprietary compound, elafibranor, is currently in a Phase 3 study. With facilities in Lille and Paris, France, and Cambridge, MA (USA), the Company has approximately 130 employees. GENFIT is a public company listed in compartment B of Euronext's regulated market in Paris (Euronext: GNFT – ISIN: FR0004163111). www.genfit.com
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This press release contains certain forward-looking statements. Although the Company believes its expectations are based on reasonable assumptions, these forward-looking statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in, or implied or projected by, the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include among other things, the uncertainties inherent in research and development, including related to biomarkers, progression of, and results of clinical data from, the RESOLVE-IT trial, review and approvals by regulatory authorities, such as the FDA or the EMA, regarding in particular, elafibranor in NASH and PBC, as well as other indications, and biomarkers, the success of any inlicensing strategies, the Company's continued ability to raise capital to fund its development, as well as those discussed or identified in the Company's public filings with the AMF, including those listed under Section 4 "Main Risks and Uncertainties" of the Company's 2016 Registration Document registered with the French Autorité des marchés financiers on April 28, 2017 under n° R.17-034, which is available on GENFIT's website (www.genfit.com) and on the website of the AMF (www.amf-france.org). Other than as required by applicable law, the Company does not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information or statements.
This press release and the information contained herein do not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy or subscribe to shares in GENFIT in any country. This press release has been prepared in both French and English. In the event of any differences between the two texts, the French language version shall supersede.
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Afghanistan's struggling women: food assistance 'is our only hope'
European Union support helps WFP reach families in need
5 January 2023 , Philippe Kropf
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Guldana (R) carts home WFP food for her family. Photo: WFP/Ziauddin Safi
Guldana struggles to feed her large family without assistance from the World Food Programme (WFP).
She lives in Sayed Abad district of Wardak Province, west of Afghanistan's capital Kabul. "There is not even enough water to drink in our area," she says. "The wells have dried up. There is no food, and no one is employed."
Guldana heads a ten-person household: two sons, two daughters, a daughter-in-law and four grandchildren. Two other sons were killed during the conflict that engulfed the country for more than two decades.
Her husband, who worked as a driver, died in a car accident. She and her children do not have regular work.
Women and girls across the country are hit hardest by the ongoing humanitarian and economic crises, and by restrictions on their fundamental rights. Humanitarian organizations also face new challenges to their operations.
Food stocks at a distribution site. In 2022, WFP distributed more than 1 million metric tons of food to hungry people, thanks to support from partners like the European Union. Photo: WFP/Ziauddin Safi
Breadwinners like Guldana struggle to feed their children every day. WFP surveys show that women-headed households are more likely to resort to negative coping strategies, including selling assets, withdrawing their children from school or skipping meals.
"Somehow, I have to take care of my family's needs," Guldana says.
But increasingly, her only source of food has become WFP emergency assistance. If this stops, she fears her family will die from hunger.
"The assistance we receive is our only hope, and we survive each day with it," she says.
The assistance Guldana receives from WFP is enough to support her family's needs for one month. However, she knows they will need more support afterwards.
WFP surveys show that women-headed households like Guldana's are more likely to resort to negative coping strategies. Photo: WFP/Ziauddin Safi
"To the people who are supporting us, I want to tell them that we have no other support, no assistance, except for what we get from WFP. Please help us to the best extent you can," she says.
In 2022, WFP reached 23 million people in Afghanistan – nearly half its population – distributing more than 1 million metric tons of food. It also distributed US$286 million in cash and vouchers.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Ohio Gov. John Kasich is preparing to announce new standards to help people suffering from chronic pain get proper treatment from prescribers to avoid addiction.
The Republican governor scheduled a Wednesday afternoon news conference with the presidents of the state's medical licensing boards.
The governor has been pushing prescribing limits in recent years to battle Ohio's addictions epidemic, which led to a record 4,050 overdose deaths in 2016.
Restrictions enacted last year for acute pain patients bar doctors from prescribing more than seven days of narcotic pain pills for adults and more than five days for minors.
The governor and state medical leaders announced guidelines in 2016 meant to reduce the prescribing of painkillers for short-term pain.


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Wreaths Across America at Andersonville National Cemetery
Annual ceremony to occur on Saturday, December 17, 2016
ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia – Andersonville National Historic Site invites you to remember and honor our military veterans during the winter season by participating in our Wreaths Across America program on December 17, 2016 at 12:00 pm.
Wreaths Across America is a national program that encourages individuals, community groups, and families to sponsor wreaths for placement in national cemeteries throughout the United States. These wreaths may be placed on specific graves, or left undesignated to place on one of thousands of unvisited graves. Wreaths may be purchased and sent to Andersonville National Cemetery by visiting www.wreathsacrossamerica.org. Wreaths may also be purchased from local florists or home improvement stores and placed at the cemetery throughout the month of December.
Each year, between 500 and 800 wreaths are donated for placement at Andersonville National Cemetery. Our goal is to ensure that each of the more than 20,000 gravesites in the cemetery is decorated with a wreath at least once. To accomplish this, undesignated wreaths are placed sequentially and rotated from one cemetery section to the next each year. For 2016, undesignated wreaths will be placed in a portion of Section B, Section R, and the Memorial section.
On December 17, 2016 at 12:00 pm the Civil Air Patrol will conduct a brief ceremony honoring America's armed forces in the Andersonville National Cemetery. This ceremony is open to the public. Attendees are encouraged to bring a wreath for placement after the service.
If you, your family, organization, or business is interested in sponsoring one or more wreaths, you can learn more about the program and sponsor wreaths online at www.wreathsacrossamerica.org. Please remember to visit the Andersonville National Cemetery page to ensure your wreath arrives at the intended location.
Beginning December 1, 2016, wreaths and floral blankets no larger than 2 feet by 3 feet are permitted in the cemetery. Wreaths should be brought in person, or delivered by a florist, directly to the gravesite. To find the location of a specific grave, please visit http://gravelocator.cem.va.gov or stop at the National Prisoner of War Museum for assistance.
"Placing a wreath on the grave of one of our fallen military is a simple and beautiful way to honor their memory and sacrifice," said Lisa McInnis, Acting Superintendent of Andersonville National Historic Site. "For those placing wreaths on the grave of a friend or family member, it may bring back cherished memories of holidays spent together. For those placing a wreath on other gravesites, the act of honoring a fallen soldier, one who may no longer be visited by anyone, can be a powerful experience."
Andersonville National Historic Site is located 10 miles south of Oglethorpe, GA and 10 miles northeast of Americus, GA on Georgia Highway 49. The national park features the National Prisoner of War Museum, Andersonville National Cemetery and the site of the historic Civil War prison, Camp Sumter. Andersonville National Historic Site is the only national park within the National Park System to serve as a memorial to all American prisoners of war. Park grounds are open from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. The National Prisoner of War Museum is open 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., daily. Admission is free. For more information on the park, call 229 924-0343, or visit at www.nps.gov/ande/ Visit us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/AndersonvilleNPS, Twitter www.twitter.com/andeNHS
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Dr. Anthony Hendrickson is considered a radical in some corners of the academic world. Why? Because as he prepares young people for careers in business, he recognizes that businesses are his true customers.
A businessman turned educator and educational innovator, Hendrickson has significantly increased enrollment at the private university since his arrival in 2005. Under his leadership, Heider now extends the classroom into the workplace at every opportunity with a strong focus on applied "real world" learning. From etiquette dinners to mock interviews with actual employers, students are immersed in the world of business from day one.
Students may select from thousands of internships with companies such as Union Pacific Railroad, Cerner Corporation and Nike, Inc., and many complete two or three job stints before they get their degree. Notably, Heider College of Business has the only student-run campus Apple store where management is integrated into the business college's curriculum.
This focus on work vs. theory pays off in consistently high placement rates for Heider students following graduation, averaging 97 percent in the past two years alone. Heider graduates have been hired by well-known companies such as Berkshire Hathaway Inc., TD Ameritrade, ConAgra Foods, Inc., Kiewit Corporation, Mutual of Omaha, Toyota Motor Corporation, Sony Corporation of America, Barclays PLC, Microsoft Corporation, Boeing Company, IBM, General Electric and many more.
Creighton University consistently ranks No. 1 in U.S. News and World Report's ranking of Midwest Regional Universities and several Heider College of Business programs have ranked among the report's best in the nation. Creighton University is also No. 1 in Washington Monthly's Master's Universities Rankings.
Dean Hendrickson received his Ph.D. in Computer Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis from the University of Arkansas in 1994. Prior to joining Creighton University in 2005, Dr. Hendrickson was an associate professor at the College of Business at Iowa State University, where he served as Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Accenture Faculty Fellow from 2002 - 2005 and chair of the Department of Logistics, Operations, and Management Information Systems.
View Dr. Anthony R. Hendrickson's Curriculum Vitae.
Dr. Hendrickson has always been a businessman first. Before becoming an educator, he spent a dozen years in a variety of consulting and executive roles with companies such as Arthur Andersen & Co (formerly Andersen Consulting and now Accenture), MNX, Inc. (now a subsidiary of Swift Transports), Booth Enterprises, Inc. and Sprint, Inc.
It was during his work with Sprint that Dr. Hendrickson's wife asked, "What would you want to do if you won the lottery?" He surprised himself by saying he would want to return to college, earn a Ph.D. and become a college professor, which is exactly what he did.
Dean Hendrickson sits on a number of business boards, including: Business Ethics Alliance Board of Trustees Governing Board; First Westroads Bank Board of Advisors and Grameen Bank of Omaha Board of Directors. Past board memberships include the Eurasian Business Center Board where he was chair from 2004 - 2009, and the Iowa Small Business Development Center State Advisory Board from 2003 until 2005.
Dr. Hendrickson is a member of the Jesuit Colleges and Universities Business Deans, serving as president in 2012, as well as the Decision Sciences Institute, the Association for Computing Machinery and INFORMS. He is a charter member of the Association of Information Systems.
As dean of Creighton University's Heider College of Business, Hendrickson regularly attends the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce meetings and other business-oriented functions within the community. He is an avid business networker, having personally met with more than 500 individual business leaders in the past year on behalf of Heider students.
Among his many accolades, Dean Hendrickson is a recipient of the Creighton University Distinguished Administrator Award. He has also received many prestigious grant awards throughout his academic career, attesting to his academic rigor and research acumen. Most recently, he was awarded more than half a million dollars from the National Science Foundation for an interdisciplinary, university-based education partnership.
Dr. Hendrickson has been published extensively in the areas of e-commerce, virtual teamwork, virtual collaboration, and virtual organizations.
Dr. Hendrickson is an associate editor for the European Journal of Information Systems. He also was a guest co-editor of a recent issue of International Journal of E-Commerce Service.
His research is published in leading journals including, MIS Quarterly, Decision Sciences, Information Systems Research, Communications of the ACM, Academy of Management Executive, Journal of International Business Studies, DATA BASE, International Journal of Electronic Markets, Computer Personnel, Computer & Society, The Journal of Computer Information Systems, Journal of International Information Management, and Journal of Labor Research, as well as in other journals and at numerous conferences.
A full list of Dr. Hendrickson's journal contributions may be found in his Curriculum Vitae.
Dr. Hendrickson has co-authored several editorially reviewed and invited papers in publications such as the Journal of Jesuit Business Education and e-Service Journal.
A full list of Dr. Hendrickson's editorially reviewed and invited papers may be found in his Curriculum Vitae.
Dr. Hendrickson is co-author of several book chapters, most recently including Digital Media: Future Research Directions with Trent Wachner and Brook Hudson, Digital Product Management, Technology and Practice: Interdisciplinary Perspectives by Troy J. Strader (Editor): IGI Global, September 2010, pp. 225-234.
Dr. Hendrickson has been quoted in publications such as Bloomberg Businessweek, Chronicle of Higher Education's Bottom Line Blog, Silicon Prairie News, Nebraska Entrepreneurship, Omaha.com and more.
Please feel free to contact Dr. Hendrickson directly about his ability to speak to these and other topics.
As Dean of Creighton University's Heider College of Business, Dr. Anthony Hendrickson thinks of himself as a businessman first and an academician second.
Dr. Hendrickson believes his business is preparing young people for careers in business; he sees businesses as his customers.
Dean Hendrickson envisions the Heider College of Business as the most connected college of business with business in the world.
An educational innovator, Dr. Hendrickson has significantly increased enrollment at the private university since his arrival in 2005.
Dean Hendrickson wants to prepare students for lifelong success by helping them understand how to apply what they've learned in school to the real world.
Under Dean Hendrickson's leadership, Heider extends the classroom into the workplace at every opportunity with a strong focus on applied "real world" learning.
Heider students can select from thousands of internships, and many complete two or three internships before they even earn a degree.
A strong focus on work vs. theory pays off in consistently high placement rates for Heider students, averaging 97 percent in the past two years alone.
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Creighton University Heider College of Business is hot-wired for innovation, constantly testing and implementing new methodologies for applied learning and relevant curriculum.


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A panel of experts will review how the family courts protect children and parents in cases of domestic abuse and other serious offences, Ministers announced today (Tuesday 21 May)
• Panel to make recommendations and report back in three months
• Public 'Call for Evidence' to gather views on how the current system can be improved
• Focus on ensuring the family court works in the explicit interests of the child
The three-month project aims to ensure that the family court works first and foremost in the explicit interests of the child, such as their safety, health and well-being. The MOJ-chaired panel will consist of a range of experts including senior members of the judiciary, leading academics and charities.
A public call for evidence will also be launched imminently and will look to those with direct involvement to share their experiences.
The move follows responses received through the government's domestic abuse consultation in which concerns were raised around the family courts' response to potential harm to children and victims. In addition to calls for better protections for children, some claim that domestic abusers are using the court system to re-traumatise their victims.
Every day family court judges do outstanding work making difficult decisions in highly emotive cases where the paramount consideration is the welfare of the child. Ministers now want to take a closer look at how existing safeguards in the court process are working in practice and, if necessary, strengthen them.
Justice Minister Paul Maynard said:
"Some of the most vulnerable in our society come before the family courts, and I am absolutely determined that we offer them every protection.
"This review will help us better understand victims' experiences of the system, and make sure the family court is never used to coerce or re-traumatise those who have been abused.
"Its findings will be used to inform next steps so we can build on the raft of measures we have already introduced to protect victims of domestic abuse."
Specifically, the work will:
• examine the courts' application of Practice Direction 12J – this relates to child arrangement cases where domestic abuse is a factor
• examine the courts' application of 'barring orders' which prevent further applications being made without leave of the court under the Children Act 1989
• gather evidence of the impact on the child and victim where child contact is sought by someone alleged to have, or who has, committed domestic abuse or other relevant offences
The panel will consider how the family courts handle a range of offences including rape, child abuse, assault, sexual assault, murder and other violent crime, with the government committed to ensuring the right protections are in place for victims and their children.
This will build on the draft Domestic Abuse Bill, published in January, which includes measures to ban abusers from directly cross-examining their victims in family courts, on top of the £8 million of funding announced to support children affected by domestic abuse.
Last year, we made changes to make it easier for victims of domestic abuse to obtain and provide the evidence required to access legal aid, including removing the time limit from all forms of evidence for domestic violence. And we have allocated £900k in funding for organisations to providing specially trained staff to offer dedicated emotional and practical support to domestic abuse victims before, during and after hearings in the family court. Further details on the review, the composition of the panel and the call for evidence will be announced in due course.
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Book Review: Christopher Hitchens - The Last Interview
December 04, 2017 / Steve Donoghue
Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
Melville House, 2017
The thriving "Last Interview" series from Melville House features slim volumes collecting the final public comments made by a wide variety of public figures – geniuses, charlatans, comedians, artists, successful frauds, and the occasional transcendent intellectuals. Here we get reflections in winter (whether they knew it or not) from such people as David Foster Wallace, James Baldwin, Ray Bradbury, Hannah Arendt, Philip K. Dick, and Kurt Vonnegut, and this month the series takes in the late Christopher Hitchens, political commentator, outspoken atheist, and author of the bestselling God is Not Great.
Hitchens is an exceptional case even for a series as wide-ranging as this one, because thanks to the phenomenon of the Internet, he can never actually give a last interview. At any moment, somewhere in the world, someone online has recently discovered the trove of Hitchens videos available on YouTube, and for that person, Hitchens' voice isn't ending – it's just begun. For that person, for all the people who've come to know his thoughts and style in such a way since his death in 2011, the idea of this book – transcriptions of eight interviews Hitchens gave from 1987 to late 2011 – is the continuation of a conversation, not the end of one.
It can be presumed that those people are this book's target audience, and yet paradoxically, they're the ones who'll be able to recite most of its contents from memory. Hitchens very often did his various hosts and his paying audiences the grave discourtesy of appearing before them visibly drunk (and, on more than one occasion, continuing to drink on stage), and he sustained his performance at such times by letting his phonograph needle drop onto some very well-worn tracks. These isolated chunks of discourse he could produce virtually verbatim in any state of mental déshabillé, and they crop up often in the course of these transcripts. The myth of Hitchens the omni-competent titanic drinker is laid bare in these pages, as it is in any trip down what's been informally dubbed YouTube's "Hitchens rabbit hole" – but it's both the curse and the charm of the man that the interest level remains fairly high drunk or sober.
The range of the subject matters is matched the range of presentability. For some unaccountable reason (or perhaps not – it's one of the most popular of those YouTube clips), the book includes a transcript of the guest shtick – hardly an interview – Hitchens did on Jon Stewart's TV show in 2005, in which there's hardly a cogent sentence, much less a cogent line of thought. But the book also contains, for instance, a very thoughtful talk Hitchens had with Marilyn Sewell for Portland Monthly in 2010, in which, at one point, she confesses to him that her faith "is that I put all that I am and all that I have on the line for that which I do not know" and draws a stirring response from Hitchens:
Hitchens: Fine. But I think that's a slight waste of what could honestly be in your case very valuable time. I don't want you to go away with the impression that I'm just a vulgar materialist. I do know that humans are also so made even though we are an evolved species whose closest cousins are chimpanzees. I know it's not enough for us to eat and so forth. We know how to think. We know how to laugh. We know we are going to die, which gives us a lot to think about, and we have a need for what I would call "the transcendent," or "the numinous," or even "the ecstatic" that comes out in love and music, poetry and landscape. I wouldn't trust anyone who didn't respond to things of that sort. But I think the cultural task is to separate those impulses and those needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the superstitious.
Likewise the book's most poignant section, the genuine last-ever interview Hitchens did with Richard Dawkins in late 2011 in the New Statesman, tends to show both men in a thoughtful, even aphoristic light that their combative public personae often omit. The book's highlight, perhaps tellingly, is the one piece not structured in a They-Asked/He-Answered; the 2010 The Guardian piece by Andrew Anthony is written as a narrative and easily brings the human Hitchens before the reader more clearly and vividly than all the other sections combined.
In fact, the transcribed interview is a lousy way to commemorate just about anybody, since the listening ear elides the vocal placeholders that look so unflattering on the written page. An interview Hitchens gave to C-SPAN's Carl Rutan in 1987 (oddly included here, and doubtless to be reprinted again in some future volume called The Complete Hitchens Interviews) is a typically off-putting example:
I, um, I wrote a piece about it recently for Harper's Magazine saying that the, really the level now of TV discussion of ideas and politics has become humiliatingly low, that it's the province of various, well what I call, repertory company of pundits, who take themselves far too seriously, who take each other far too seriously, and are taken by too many viewers more seriously than they deserve because these programs are very light minded, very frivolous … The president didn't have a really tough press conference until he was six years into his, uh, presidency …
"He teaches us that reason, learning, engagement and commitment can turn tides" Stephen Fry writes about his friend in the book's heartfelt Introduction, adding, "The Hitchens manner can never die." And that last statement is almost certainly true – but not because of books like this. Rather in spite of them, well-intentioned though they are.
Steve Donoghue was a founding editor of Open Letters Monthly. His book criticism has appeared in the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal, and the American Conservative. He writes regularly for the National, the Washington Post, the Vineyard Gazette, and the Christian Science Monitor. His website is http://www.stevedonoghue.com.
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