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Why GM's Electric Future Is Also an Additive Future
Production capacity isn't the only reason that additive has been slow to make inroads into the automotive industry. There is a larger barrier to entry—one that General Motors and Autodesk are working to overcome.
For this automotive seat bracket, engineers at General Motors and Autodesk used the latter company's cloud-based generative design technology to consolidate what had been an eight-component assembly into a single piece. This proof-of-concept, 3D-printed seat bracket is 40 percent lighter and 20 percent stronger than the original part.
The generative design process for GM's seat bracket resulted in 150 design iterations of the part. Those iterations are the result of setting inputs around constraints so Autodesk's software can propose the geometry. This started with the "hard points" for the bracket design—the regions of the part where material needs to conform to specific requirements. Other inputs included static load requirements, input data for the surrounding components (aka the keep-out zones where material is not allowed) and data regarding the additive setup itself, primarily around build orientation, support structures and any extra material that might be needed to enable postprocessing.
A closer look at some of the 150 design iterations for GM's 3D-printed seat bracket. Kevin Quinn, GM's director of additive design and manufacturing, says that engineers will be critical to the generative design for additive manufacturing process. "What you're doing is giving that person a broader design space and more options to consider. Using generative design for the seat bracket, we asked ourselves what the most important criteria was… (And) we said our number one priority is to get the lowest mass that we could test in our simulation model."
A side-by-side comparison of GM's traditional seat bracket and its generatively designed 3D-printed bracket. Using generative design and 3D printing, GM consolidated the bracket from eight components to one. The bracket is now entering a second round of design iterations (to achieve even greater weight savings), and will likely to be tested first in high-end motorsports vehicles before it winds up in GM's consumer fleet.
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On May 3 of last year, General Motors (GM) made an announcement that pierced the news cycle. The auto giant had entered into a "multi-year alliance" with the San Francisco Bay-area software company Autodesk, and engineers from each company had jointly created a proof-of-concept, 3D-printed seat bracket that was 40 percent lighter and 20 percent stronger than the original part.
The news generated a media blitz. Dozens of publications, from this one to WIRED Magazine, reported on this oddly shaped, table-lamp-sized seat bracket—and for good reason. Not only was the bracket stronger and lighter than its traditionally manufactured counterpart, but GM's engineers—aided by Autodesk Fusion 360's cloud-based generative design technology—consolidated what had been an eight-component assembly into a single piece.
For more than a century, weight reduction for automotive parts—when sought at all—has been an incremental process. Lightweighting a single part by 40 percent is unheard of. The same can be said for consolidating the bracket's eight assembly components into one piece. General Electric's 3D-printed LEAP engine fuel nozzle is the most famous example of an assembly consolidation made possible by AM. A corollary breakthrough for the automotive industry, where parts are produced annually by the hundreds of thousands, would be auspicious news indeed.
Adding mileage to GM's announcement was a photo of the seat bracket itself—a gracefully designed lean metal object with interconnected sweeping lattice structures. It's a functional sculpture, aesthetically crossed between a robotic hip joint and Art Nouveau.
Yet for all of this innovation, it's hard to ignore that GM's 3D-printed seat bracket is still a proof-of-concept part. Now entering a second round of design iterations (to achieve even greater weight savings), the part is likely to be tested first in high-end motorsports vehicles before it winds up in GM's consumer fleet.
But between the lines of GM's press release there is another story, and it foretells changes coming to the industry very soon that are very large. While each of the Big Three automakers races toward an all-electric future where generative design and additive manufacturing dominate, General Motors is betting that victory is achieved not only through faster printers, but through a reimagined digital workflow. The bet that General Motors seems to be making is that, by the time its engineers perfect a new process flow between generative design, setup for additive manufacturing and simulation testing—a process they're refining right now with Autodesk engineers who are embedded with GM—the value proposition and throughput capacity for metal AM will enable mass production.
If GM is right, this is how the internal combustion engine ends. Not with a bang, but with 150 AI-fueled design iterations of a 3D-printed seat bracket.
Engineers in the Keep-Out Zone
Perhaps more than any other automaker, GM has embraced additive manufacturing since 3D printing's inception. The company says that it purchased the first available "rapid prototype machines" in the 1980s and has since installed more than 50 machines that have produced hundreds of thousands of 3D-printed prototype parts in the last decade alone. But it's been under the direction of Mary Barra, CEO since 2014, that the company's leadership has strengthened relationships with top AM industry players. Two years ago, GM sent a handful of its design engineers to Silicon Valley on an exploratory mission into additive technologies. Some of those engineers were embedded for two weeks at Autodesk's Pier 9 Technology Center in San Francisco, where they took a crash course on how to use and integrate Autodesk's Fusion 360 generative design capabilities into GM's operations.
The benefits of this relationship between GM and Autodesk are mutual. This October, Autodesk announced that it had consolidated all of its Fusion 360 tiers for generative design, advanced simulation and five-axis machining into a single product. Whether that was a coincidence, coming as it did on the heels of the two companies formalizing a multi-year collaboration this past January, is hard to say. But based on conversations I had with design and engineering leaders at both GM and Autodesk, the integration of generative design through final simulation was exactly what GM was seeking.
But generative design entails a different kind of thinking. It involves not modeling geometry directly, but setting inputs around constraints so software can propose the geometry.
GM says that it has reduced a total mass of 5,000 pounds across 14 of its vehicle models since 2016. Citing material and technology advancements, the company says that most of those models shed more than 300 pounds. The 2019 Chevrolet Silverado alone is 450 pounds lighter than the 2018 model. Kevin Quinn, GM's director of additive design and manufacturing, says that it's only a matter of time before generative design and additive manufacturing are the primary technologies driving these lightweighting efforts. Using the seat bracket as an example, Quinn compares traditional lightweighting to how the company is approaching the future.
"Traditionally, we would start with the last version's model, maybe tweak it a little bit and come up with two or three design iterations," he says. "We might achieve a five percent mass saving and make it a little stronger." But generative design entails a different kind of thinking. It involves not modeling geometry directly, but setting inputs around constraints so software can propose the geometry. He says this starts with the "hard points" for the bracket design, the regions of the part where material is necessary and needs to conform to specific requirements. "Areas where the bracket attaches to the floor, for instance, or where the seat buckle attaches to the bracket," he says. "So you set those hard points and say, 'I have to have material here, in this shape, on the entire side, and that attachment point has to be this big.'"
Static load requirements are then programmed where those hard points attach to other parts or assemblies. Engineers then input data for the surrounding components, such as the floor, the seat and the plastic trim bezel that covers part of the bracket. These are the keep-out zones, the areas where the software knows that material is not allowed. Finally, designers input data regarding the additive setup itself, primarily around build orientation, support structures, and any extra material that might be needed to enable postprocessing such as five-axis machining.
Throughout all of these steps, engineers can manipulate materials to test for performance across each new iteration.
"You're not getting rid of the engineer in this process," Quinn says. "What you're doing is giving that person a broader design space and more options to consider. In the traditional design scenario, maybe we iterate from the last version of that seat bracket and maybe we get two or three different iterations to choose from. Using generative design for the seat bracket, we asked ourselves what the most important criteria was. We could've chosen stiffness, but we said our number one priority is to get the lowest mass that we could test in our simulation model—because it's got to still pass our requirements when we run into through crash simulations and other tests."
The Coming Fleet of EVs
On October 2 of last year, General Motors' executive vice president Mark Reuss said that GM believes its future will be 100 percent electric. The statement, which did not include a timeline, put GM in line with other traditional auto manufacturers that are publicly committing to an electric future. And committing they are. Last year, Ford announced its plans to invest $11 billion in electric vehicles (EVs) by 2022 and increase its fleet of hybrids and EVs to 40. The company vowed to cut $14 billion in costs, predominantly from the production of sedans and internal combustion engines. Volkswagen is investing $20 billion in electric vehicle technology and says that every model across its multi-brand lineup will include an electric powertrain option. Porsche's CEO expects that its vehicle models will be all-electric by 2030. And Volvo is moving even more quickly, stating that "every new Volvo introduced" from 2019 forward will be hybrid or electric only.
International commitments to reduce emissions and ban gas- or diesel-powered engines are intensifying pressures on automakers. Great Britain, France, Germany and India are taking a range of actions that including banning the internal combustion engine within the next 25 years and investing heavily in charging infrastructure. In Norway, about 40 percent of cars sold today are already zero-emission vehicles, and the country aims to increase that number to 100 percent by 2025. China, the world's largest car market, recently passed a cap-and-trade credit program for electric cars that progressively punishes automakers who continue to sell gas- or diesel-powered vehicles. And while the United States is, at the time of publication, on the verge of rolling back the federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards, American automakers may have traveled too far toward a low-emissions and EV future to turn back.
Consider that General Motors currently offers just one hybrid electric car, the Chevy Volt—which GM will stop producing by the end of 2019—and one extended range all-electric vehicle, the Chevy Bolt EV. As this article went to press, GM announced that it was realigning its manufacturing capacity and closing several plants in the U.S. and abroad. Explicit in the announcement was that the company intends to invest heavily in EVs. Indeed, by 2023, the company plans to offer "at least 20" electric battery and fuel cell vehicles to its global lineup, including two new models in the next 15 months.
What does all this mean for additive manufacturing? What is the connection between EVs and AM? The answer—or one of the answers—is mass.
Charging infrastructure notwithstanding, the two major obstacles to electric vehicle ubiquity in the U.S. have been cost and the limited range on a single charge. Lightweighting by printing parts is seen as the key to overcoming both of these obstacles. Still, for GM's seat bracket, the generative design process resulted in 150 iterations of the part, and narrowing the selection down to a single part wasn't simply a matter of choosing the lightest option. Aesthetics, manufacturability and the results of simulation tests all played a role in the process. The design that GM selected out of those 150 iterations was light, but not the lowest weight option.
The connection between EVs and AM exists in part because an entirely new vehicle type affords the opportunity for a new, more versatile, more streamlined approach to manufacturing. To fully capitalize on future technology developments, changes in habits and thinking need to happen first. And those changes are why, at least for the foreseeable future, Mike Grau is embedded with General Motors.
A New Workflow for Automotive
Grau is one of Autodesk's project and team managers for its advanced consulting team in the Americas. He's also one of Autodesk's engineers who, for the last year, has been stationed at the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan. Grau, whose background is in simulation and CAD for the auto industry, thinks that even if additive machines could handle volume requirements for automotive, today's engineers would still find it hard to break free from workflow routines they are used to. It's Grau's job to work with GM's engineers to refine the process of designing a CAD model, creating the setup for additive manufacturing, then converting that model to import into simulation.
"You need to have an overview of the entire workflow," Grau says. "It's not really one discipline you need to be a specialist in. My role is managing the project and helping GM to create and explore these different disciplines—to create a flawless design workflow going from CAD to additive to simulation."
Grau says that simulation for generatively designed parts still poses a major challenge. "We can create a great structure. We can create beautiful, latticed, lightweight products, but it's very tricky to put them in a crash simulation," he says. "And that is not an Autodesk problem. That's an industry problem. It's pretty much a physical and mathematical problem. The aviation industry more often runs static stress analyses because a plane doesn't crash, ideally."
This is key to why the aerospace and aviation industries have adopted additive and generative design faster than automotive, according to Grau. "In an automobile you have multiple load cases that are not considered by the aviation industry. When you talk about crash simulation, [federal] requirements, squeak and rattle requirements, all the designs you create in that workflow have to be ready to pass simulation tests," he says. "That makes it much harder for us to create workflows that can be integrated by OEMs." Grau adds that Fusion 360's new additive- and simulation-specific features are meant to vastly speed up the workflow process, something that both companies are learning and refining together.
"What we're doing now is taking example designs from GM and running these designs through a new workflow," Grau says. "So we set up the generative part, create the first generative outcome, then we optimize this outcome for an additive manufacturing process. We then take that back and run nonlinear or crash simulations on these parts." Grau and the GM engineers will look at multiple materials and multiple safety factors, including the location and magnitude of load constraints. "What we're learning from GM around design is helping us to optimize the workflows in our software. And the GM engineers benefit from us because they learn how our software works. It is really a constant development of workflows together. A symbiosis."
Grau acknowledges that lightweighting through generative design and additive manufacturing will be relegated to high-performance motorsports vehicles in the short term. So, when will generative and additive be ready for consumer automotive production?
"I don't have to speculate," he says. "It is already there. The only thing holding us back, at least for the most part, is the efficiency of the process to get there. Until now the design and simulation processes have taken a long time. They've involved a lot of manual work by the engineer. While additive is still evolving, the software needs to adapt and shape the process. But we're engineers. We can do it."
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Video Collection: Additive Manufacturing Workshop for Automotive
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Bruno Famin est un ingénieur automobile français. Il est le directeur exécutif d'Alpine F1 Team depuis février 2022.

Il fut directeur technique de Peugeot Sport avant de prendre la tête de cette dernière en 2012. En 2019 il devient directeur des opérations de la FIA.

Biographie
Il obtient son diplôme d'ingénieur à l'école nationale supérieure d'arts et métiers. En 1986, il commence sa carrière professionnelle dans la logistique et le transport en Afrique de l'Ouest. Après avoir continué ses études à l'école nationale supérieure du pétrole et des moteurs, il entre chez Peugeot Talbot Sport en 1989, où il intègre le bureau d'étude du département compétition client en tant qu'ingénieur développement. En 1994, il quitte la compétition tout en restant au sein du groupe PSA, et devient chef de projet, où il part pour l'Argentine avant de revenir en France. En 2005, il devient directeur technique de Peugeot Sport. En 2012, Il est nommé directeur de Peugeot Sport, succédant à Olivier Quesnel.

En 2019, il quitte Peugeot Sport et rejoint la Fédération internationale de l'automobile (FIA) où il devient directeur des opérations de la branche sport.

Bruno Famin devient en février 2022 le directeur exécutif chargé du développement moteur de l'écurie Alpine F1 Team.

Notes et références

Dirigeant français du sport automobile

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Big Fork River State Water Trail
Share your own photos of the river!
The Big Fork River flows north to the Rainy River. The low-lying river valley is pastoral in places and wild in others, with excellent fishing for walleye, northern pike and muskie.
Local contact and map
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Itasca and Koochiching counties, north central Minnesota
Contact Parks and Trails Northeast regional office: 218-328-8980.
River character
Mostly easy to canoe, with several areas of Class I rapids.
Two spectacular waterfalls must be portaged by all but the most experienced paddlers: Little American Falls (Class III-IV) and Big Falls (Class IV-VI).
Stream flow generally peaks in late April and drops in the summer, when the rapids may become impassable. Heavy summer or autumn rains can raise the river to runnable levels. Some rapids will be too rocky to run if the gauge reading on the State Highway 38 bridge in Bigfork is much less than 4 feet. Use great caution at the two waterfalls!
Scattered small farms break up a forest of pine, spruce, fir, cedar, aspen and birch. The areas of major development are the towns of Bigfork and Big Falls.
The geology is clay, silt and sand deposits—in many places less than five feet thick—overlying Precambrian igneous and metamorphic rocks. Most of the watershed was once covered by glacial Lake Agassiz.
Muskies
Timber wolves
Various ducks
A succession of Woodland Culture Indians occupied the region during the 2,500 years before its settlement by whites. One of the most notable groups was the Laurel. People of this group built Grand Mound, a burial hill 40 feet high and more than 100 feet across at its base. Located near the mouth of the river, the site is part of Grand Mound Center, a Minnesota Historical Society facility.
The Laurel gave way to the Blackduck, who may have been the direct predecessors of the Dakota. The Dakota—or Sioux—inhabited the region until the Ojibwe laid claim to the area.
At the turn of the century, millions of board feet of pine logs were floated down the river to lumber mills in Ontario.

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With so many problems in the world, I thought I'd spend a few minutes dealing with one of the most serious; which is that something I wrote a few years ago for an episode of the Mark Steel Lectures, has been purloined by someone else. I wouldn't normally take much notice, but the writer who swiped it is the TV reviewer, Victor Lewis Smith, known for being magnificently caustic in his own columns about television, including, I suppose it's fair to add, about the Mark Steel Lectures. It's all very flattering really, so in the spirit of literary letters between figures like George Bernard Shaw and HG Wells, I've sent him a message to thank him.
I would like to express my deep gratitude for your change of heart regarding my writing, which you have previously been highly critical of. It appears that now, you have not only developed an affection for the show, but you value it to the extent that you copy whole sections of it in your Christmas TV column.
Because this is almost an exact recital of a joke I wrote for a column in The Independent, and which I used to perform in my stand-up shows. I notice you've made one change, which is to substitute the Statue of Liberty for the Eiffel Tower, so I'll bow to your superior instincts on that one. Now, instead of being forgotten, the joke has been revived for a whole new audience.
Other, less principled writers, might try to hide their attempt to use other people's jokes by placing it in publications the original writer may not see. But you're clearly more honest than that, and included it in the paper I write for myself.
Who knows, maybe I'll soon have two columns in The Independent, one of which I don't have to bother to write, but is a compilation of old pieces you've kindly put together yourself.
Also, I'm aware it can be harrowing to keep finding new ideas for a long running column so the temptation to use other people's material to pad it out can be overwhelming, and as this was your second column for the paper, it's understandable that by now you were running out of ideas.


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Q: How to use ConvertTo-Json @() on char or string data from PowerShell? In the context of converting to and from JSON:
perhaps the integer's below are just marking array index?  Yet it's entirely possible to send 1,1,1 so it's not an index.  the "1" might, perhaps, indicate a "depth" then?
PS /home/nicholas/powershell>
PS /home/nicholas/powershell> ConvertTo-Json @(1)
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PS /home/nicholas/powershell>
PS /home/nicholas/powershell> ConvertTo-Json @(1,a)
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PS /home/nicholas/powershell>
PS /home/nicholas/powershell> ConvertTo-Json @(1,2)
[
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PS /home/nicholas/powershell>
PS /home/nicholas/powershell> ConvertTo-Json @(a)
a: The term 'a' is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
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PS /home/nicholas/powershell>

why are integers okay:
PS /home/nicholas/powershell>
PS /home/nicholas/powershell> ConvertTo-Json @(1,3,9)
[
  1,
  3,
  9
]
PS /home/nicholas/powershell>

but not even a single char?
Neither it seems are String data acceptable.

A: PowerShell doesn't have any syntax for defining character literals, and bare words (like the a in your example) are interpreted as commands, as the error indicates.
If you want to pass the a single [char] a as a value, there are a number of options:
# Convert single-char string to char
[char]'a'
# or
'a' -as [char]

# Index into string
'a'[0]

# Convert from numberic value
97 -as [char]

So you could do something like this:
PS ~> ConvertTo-Json @(1,'a'[0])
[
    1,
    "a"
]

But as you'll notice, the resulting JSON appears to have converted the [char] back into a string - and that's because JSON's grammar doesn't have [char]'s either.
From RFC 8259 §3:

A JSON value MUST be an object, array, number, or string [...]

So converting from [string] to [char] is in fact completely redundant:
PS ~> ConvertTo-Json @(1,'a')
[
    1,
    "a"
]

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Invite some rustic charm into your home with Hampton, a delightful range of brick-effect wall tiles made to replicate the handmade artisanal tiles of a bygone era.
A popular alternative to the Metro tile, Hampton takes the form factor of subway tiles and gives it a sheen of artisanal authenticity. Featuring an undulating surface design and gloss finish, these fetching tiles are a popular choice for kitchen splashbacks as well as for creating feature walls that really pop with colour.
Q : Is there variation in the tone from one tile to the next? I am looking for white/very light grey colours but don't want it looking too uniform. If this is not suitable, do you have something similar to the savoy range but in whites/greys rather than green shades?
Hampton White does have one tone, however because it has a rustic hand made like texture, the light will hit the tiles differently, giving the illusion of varying shades. We do not currently have a similar tile that is more varied.
Q : IS this tile good for the wall of the shower?
Thank you for your question. The Hampton White is a suitable tile to use on a shower wall. Correct adhesive and grout would be required Mapegrip D2 would be our recommendation Sku (011715) and Ultracolor White Grout Sku (6010005A). If you would like any further advice please call 01782 223822 or email and we will be happy to help.
The Hampton tile for a smaller kitchen works well, and the quality of these tiles are good. They all have a coating which separates each tile to reduce any scratching or breakage which is added benefit. Quick and efficient service, the only downfall is the delivery charge which I feel is a bit stiff for 4 square metres of tiles.
Bought 3 tiles to see which suited best.
i ordered them for my daughter, she has now received her order from you and work is in progress.


The first and most closest option is Breckenridge Stables. They are located right on Peak 9, which is just a short 10-minute drive from Main Street. They will accept rides of all ages and typically have last minute availability. The 90-minute ride will take you right up to the ski area and cover some fun facts about Breckenridge . This is a walking ride only, which means the horses stay close together and there is little to no deviation from the trail. This is a great option for beginners and families.
The second option is Platte Ranch, out of Fairplay. This provides magnificent views of seven different mountain ranges from your horse's back. On this ride, you have a variety of paths to choose from and are not in single file line, so you can have a fun time riding right alongside your friend or family member. The guide will take you up to a large open area and you have the option of testing out your cowboy skills and letting your horse run. This is certainly the most exhilarating part of the ride and really makes you feel like you are part of the ranch!
The third option we provide our guests is a four-hour cattle drive at the Rusty Spurr Ranch. This is the most physically demanding ride of the three, as you are on the horse for a long period of time. They will accept riders of all ability levels, from beginners to advanced. This is truly a western tradition and being a part of it is a memorable experience. One of the best parts is that there's a homemade meal waiting for you upon your return!
Whatever option you choose, it's sure to be a wonderful time. Horses are beautiful, gentle, kind animals that really enjoy giving people a ride around the countryside. So, if you are up for a western adventure on your next trip to Summit County, be sure to get in touch with one of our Activity departments today to book this trip for you!


Baptist Health is assisting the Department of Urology in the recruitment of physicians to join the UAB Multispecialty Clinic at Baptist Medical Center South in Montgomery, Alabama. The physicians working in this office will provide inpatient and outpatient urology services and will assist with teaching responsibilities of the UAB School of Medicine third and fourth year medical students. The UAB School of Medicine opened a regional medical school campus at Baptist Medical Center South in 2014. Baptist Health is the market leader for health care services and provides a full spectrum of specialty services and primary care.
Board eligible/certified physician with strong recommendations and ability to receive licensure and credentialing in Alabama is required. UAHSF offers competitive salary, excellent benefits, and relocation assistance. For benefit information visit www.uabmedicine.org/web/careers/benefits-and-perks.
Baptist Health is a faith-based, three hospital system located in Montgomery, the state capital of Alabama. We are affiliated with the UAB Health System and enjoy clinical relationships with UAB through teaching activities and services agreements. In 2014, we proudly opened the UAB School of Medicine Montgomery Regional Campus on the campus of Baptist Medical Center South, central Alabama's regional tertiary medical center. Baptist Health is the market leader for health care services and provides a full spectrum of specialty services and primary care.


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Pacgen Appoints Robert DuFresne as President & CEO
Vancouver, BC, Canada, March 13, 2007 – Pacgen Biopharmaceuticals Corporation ("Pacgen") (TSX-V: PGA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Robert 'Duffy' DuFresne as President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. DuFresne replaces Dr. David Cheng who held the position since he co-founded the company in 2004. Dr. Cheng will continue to lead scientific affairs at Pacgen as Chief Scientific Officer and also as a Director. Mr. DuFresne will also be joining the Board as a Director.
"Duffy is a seasoned biotechnology executive who has significant experience in building successful North American biopharmaceutical companies" said Mr. Chung-Yu Wang, Chairman of the Board of Directors. "We are very pleased to have Duffy on board as we focus on building our team, advancing our lead product, PAC-113, through Phase II studies and increasing our profile as a leader in peptide based therapeutics," added Mr. Wang. Mr. DuFresne was President and CEO of Zelos Therapeutics Inc, and prior to that President and CEO ConjuChem Inc. He has over 25 years of experience in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and medical device industries. His background includes functional responsibilities in the areas of business development, finance, and general management.
Mr. DuFresne also held the positions of President and COO at Anika Therapeutics and Senior Vice President, Marketing and Business Development at Alpha-Beta Technology. Mr. DuFresne's pharmaceutical industry experience includes senior management positions at the Canadian subsidiary of Boots Pharmaceutical, and at Baxter International. Mr. DuFresne received his B.A. and M.B.A. from Harvard University.
"For an emerging biotech company, Pacgen is in an excellent position to support strategic collaborations and build its investor base in North America" said Mr. DuFresne. "With its lead product already into a Phase II clinical program and a solid early stage pipeline of products, I am very much looking forward to being part of building the value of this company," added Mr. DuFresne.
Conference Call Notification
Pacgen will hold a teleconference and audiocast on Tuesday, March 13, 2007 at 4:30pm EST (1:30pm PST). Please dial 416-644-3418 or toll free 1-800-732-1073 to access the call. Questions can be asked at the end of the presentation.
To listen live on audiocast, please visit: www.newswire.ca/en/webcast/viewEvent.cgi?eventID=1768140
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it doesnt make sense to me... how can a praveen kumar clone can own professional batsmen this badly?! truly a mystery.
Murali kartik makes a great point about the horses for courses theory of virat and Ravi. If they are going by that theory, Rahane should have played in the whole series. But they dropped him due to his current form. The if you are going with current form, bhuvi should have played the 2nd test and Ashwin should have played here. Also that theory also suggests that shikhar and Rohit should be somewhere in Delhi and Mumbai respectively.
Yeh laal baniyan kyun pehne hai...?
Oh...ipl coming. Mist be wearing his rcb jersey.
Did you turn Kira down or something? Why is he reacting to every post with troll?
Did you trun Kira down or something? Why is he reacting to every post with troll?
I might have mentioned something about hormones and puberty somewhere.
You will need a lot today, Kohli's decision to bat first is backfiring.
He averages below 25 in every single country except Australia (avg 30), Bangla Zim and Sri Lanka.
Puji is going to score a half century of balls before he scores a run.
Anyone else watching this through the gaps in their hands as you cover your eyes?
Like Dravid at Headingly in 2002? Remember that?
Tho.....you have become a south Indian too.
he's played just 3 test matches in India and uae combined that's a very small sample size to be mentioning his average in those countries.
How can you elect to bat here with 5 quicks, I am done with this team, they are driving me insane. Bye, catch up after a few months.
Yea, we would take that with open arms here. Its been long since we ended up 600+ overseas.
This is exactly the same pitch we got for the 1st test vs sl but with extra bounce and these morons decided to bat first on it, this is trundlers Paradise.
Come on Pujara, be on 0(50) that will surely require some beating from anybody.
There is no such word as 'Dead rubber' in test cricket and rest assured the 3rd test will be a classic. Even though team India couldn't take '25 Saal ka Badla', they played and competed well in the first two tests. India will also consider themselves unlucky having lost both tosses and made to bat last. We will fight tooth and nail to salvage some pride in the test series and go into the LOIs with positive mindset.
Stay tuned in ICF for another cracker of a Test Match.
Record is 0 of 77, he can break that surely?
OMG who hold that record ??
Pujara needs to see a psychologist.


IC40 reading 6600ppm or ~double real salt level??
My IC40 is about 5 months old. Yesterday it read low, 2800 add a bag of salt to my 22k gallon pool. I added 20 lbs or less of salt and today it is reading 6600. Using a cheap TDS meter I get 3340. Compared to my pool guy's calibrated meter mine reads about 800 ppm low.
I searched threads and cleaning salt cell seems to be the advice but the cell has only been active for a month. Is this a sensor defect? Do I ignore reading, clean cell, request warranty repair, or something else?
After running 30 minutes today reading is now 2900. All is well.
I would not pay attention to anything the cell has to say within 24 hours of adding salt. In theory you are supposed to shut the SWCG off for 24 hour while the salt is blended with the water.
Also the IC40 only measure once every 12 hours (Unless you turn it off and then back on).. So your can watch it for 11 and 1/2 hours and see nothing change..


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'Rise of the Black Panther' comic book writer dishes on creating new series
Evan Narcisee is responsible for crafting the backstory of his favorite super hero.
Cortney Wills
As a critic for iO9, Evan Narcisse is a bonafide aficionado when it comes to comics.
He has spent years writing about different series and has been an avid fan, immersed in the comic book culture since he was a kid. Now, he has been charged with crafting the backstory of his favorite super hero in Marvel's new limited series, Rise of The Black Panther.
"It's weird. It's a lot of weight because I'm coming at this as somebody who, up until a year ago, was just a fan. As someone who has been reading these comics for 30 years or longer, I want to put enough new stuff in there where you get some revelations about where his character came from and certain moments in history that must have happened," he explains.
"I want to push new readers to the stories that I loved. I want to create some curiosity in readers; the same kind I felt when I was a young where it pushes them to investigate."
Black Panther isn't the only Black super hero in the game, but he's truly unique compared to others like Luke Cage and Black Lightning, and that's part of what attracted Narcisse to the character.
READ MORE: Rotten Tomatoes score for 'Black Panther' breaks Marvel record
"Luke Cage was in the hood and so was Black Lightning. Their concerns were wrapped up in narrratives about Black mythology, drugs, street crime. I grew up fairly middle class and so, I wasn't adjacent to that stuff. Luke Cage didn't speak to me in that way. He was hot-tempered and he spoke a lot of jive. He just felt more like a caricature compared to the experiences of people I know," he says.
Unlike some of the other series' offerings, Black Panther presented a character Narcisse could identify with on many levels.
"When I first encountered Black Panther stories in Wakanda, he was intelligent, he was compassionate, he was a scientist and he was even-tempered. I grew up with my mom always talking about Haiti and it being a place that was rich in history, but also a place where that history was neutralized. Being a child of immigrants, that resonated with me," says Narcisse.
READ MORE: 'Black Panther' Preview: Meet Lupita Nyong'o's character Nakia
When the initial excitement wore off after being asked to write Marvel's, Rise of Black Panther limited series Narcisse admits a bit of panic set in.
"It is the most frustrating aspect of this. This constant, creeping feeling in the back of my head that somebody else hit something that I didn't or that I'm invalidating a story that happened already without knowing it. It's very stressful," he admits.
"This character has 50 years of publishing history to go through and I read as much of it as I could and as much as I felt I needed to, but I don't want to be regurgitating the stuff I read before. I want to re-conceptualize it."
Rise of The Black Panther focuses on T'Challa's origin story and his life before becoming Black Panther while diving deeper into Wakanda's roots and illuminating the country's history.
Narcisse notes that our current social and political climate has created an ideal moment for a story like this to resonate with readers.
"With Trump being in office, we are seeing things that make us more mindful of the kind of racist and oppressive tactics that we thought were over and done with. Immigration bans from brown countries; unfair, inequitable taxation practices that make rich people richer. These are the strategies that have had Black people on the margins before," he says.
READ MORE: Early Review: 'Black Panther' is a masterpiece. Here's why you need to see it for yourself.
According to Narcisse, the world of Black Panther paints a powerful picture of freedom black folks have never seen before and pushes against the boundaries of Black consciousness.
"The way Black Panther relates to it is Wakanda is a world where Black people are freer than they have ever been in the real world. Just to know that it can be like this, even in our imaginations, is amazing because in our imaginations is where they start to beat us down. The idea that we will never be as powerful all starts in the collective conscious. Black Panther is a denial of that disenfranchisement," he continues.
In the film, fans are able to see Black people as a complex, beautiful entity instead of presenting the culture as a monolith.
"The movie is a big part of that too. This thing is going be Black from front to back. Dark-skinned women are up in there, front and center with romantic attention they don't normally get in mainstream media. We will have factions of Black people going up against each other politically and philosophically. We have talked about this idea that we are not a monolith for decades, but we are finally going to see it in action."


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Mormon Beards Exploring the Issues: Patriarchy and Duplicity
Homosexuality Marriage Mixed Orientation Marriage Patriarchy
May 12, 2011 May 12, 2011 Invictus Pilgrim21
This is the fourth in a series of posts addressing issues relating to gay Mormon men marrying heterosexual women. The first post was published on my own blog as well as Main Street Plaza. The next two posts were published only on my blog (here and here), and beginning with this post, the rest of the series will be posted dually on my blog as well as here on MSP.
As I have previously explained, beard (as used here) refers to a slang term for the heterosexual spouse of a gay Mormon who is effectively used to conceal the husbands sexual orientation. In the past two posts, I have discussed my own personal situation regarding my mixed orientation marriage. Id now like to turn to a discussion of why Mormon Mixed-Orientation Marriages [MoMoMs] continue to happen.
So why do guys keep doing it?
Why do gay Mormon men keep marrying Mormon women?
DISCLAIMER: Let me say right here and now that I KNOW there are some MoMoMs that work, where both the husband and wife are happy and fulfilled. HOWEVER, the odds against a successful MoMoMon are extremely high, and information pertaining to the issues and problems endemic to such marriages needs to be made available to help such persons make informed, moral decisions as they contemplate traditional marriage.
Beginning with this post, Id like to take a closer look at the factors that have contributed and continue to contribute generally to the creation of MoMoMs, including Mormon doctrinal background, the Mormon understanding of homosexuality (particularly within that doctrinal context) and Mormon sexual mores generally. My hope is that an examination of these factors will lead to alternative ways of thinking about these factors and, ultimately, in more enlightened, reasoned and responsible choices and actions as gay Mormon men confront the prospect of heterosexual marriage.
Before turning to the other factors mentioned, however, I want to first address one of the key factors that Holly Welker (who originally issued me the challenge to write these posts) believes contributes to MoMoMs: patriarchy. In her Sunstone essay entitled Clean-Shaven: No More Beards Straight Women, Gay Men and Mormonism (located here), she writes:
I know it can take a while to figure out ones sexual identity, and that people who eschew sexual behavior during their teens only to marry in their early twenties might not have a firm handle on their sexual orientation But I also think from observing various marriages and divorces that theres something different happening when men who know ahead of time that they are gay marry women they know are straight, particularly in Mormondom. I submit that patriarchy endows men with a sense of entitlement that blinds them to the real cost of their actions
In a couple of separate comments left on Mondays MSP post, Holly wrote:
What I am actually saying is that Mormon men who know they are gay prior to marriage should be real Christians and put the happiness of any woman they might consider courting above their own. They should work out their ambivalence about the plan of salvation without threatening the happiness and well-being of another. Im saying that men who know about their sexuality at the time theyre courting straight women, and fail to tell those women, are engaging in patriarchy and misogyny.
It seems to me there are (at least) a couple of points to be made about Hollys comments.
First, though I dont know exactly how Holly defines patriarchy, I would agree that the Mormon Church and, by extension, Mormon culture, is patriarchal. Wikipedia, that ever-trusty source, defines patriarchy as a social system in which the role of the male as the primary authority figure is central to social organization, and where fathers hold authority over women, children, and property [implying] the institutions of male rule and privilege, and is dependent on female subordination.
I do not personally want to get into an academic discussion of patriarchy (for which I am not qualified or equipped); I do not believe the parameters of the definition are particularly relevant to the ultimate objective of these posts. I do believe, however, that the patriarchy that is reflected in Mormon theology, church administration and culture has historically been and remains an important factor in the creation of MoMoMs, though in ways that are (still) not immediately apparent to most Mormon men, gay or straight.
For this reason, I would personally be interested in Hollys comments (as well as those of others) as to examples of patriarchy in the LDS world and how this patriarchy endows men with a sense of entitlement that blinds them to the real cost of their actions. This is a sincere request. I do think such information would be extremely germane to the overall objective of these posts.
In the mean time, I think Alex, a gay Mormon who recently came out and is now going through a divorce, provided some useful observations in this regard in comments left on Mondays post on my blog:
I've seen that even as a gay man, I treated my wife according to family customs and religious practices that were extremely patriarchal I wanted to have kids right away, wanted her to stay home. I expected her to clean while I was at work, cook dinner, etc. We didn't have kids right away and she worked, which I supported, but I didn't necessarily pick up the slack. The "perfect Mormon family" image, strict gender roles image was hard to break for me. I did help clean and cook but not to an equal degree as my wife. The fact that I'm gay doesn't undo these societal values and norms I've been instilled with Even if I outwardly disagreed, it takes a lot of work to fully change your attitudes beliefs and behaviors.
In a comment to the original MSP post, Alex wrote:
I tended to approach my marriage in a very patriarchal way. I wanted to be the one who earned the money so we went with my career. I wanted to be the one to provide for my wife while she stayed home with kids. I always insisted that we should think about having kids soon. Im grateful we didnt. It goes beyond this, but my point is that it can be very difficult to unthink this, forgive the overused term, ideology. The church likes to view itself of being above and outside ideologies. But there is no question that at the very least the institutional practice of running the church is influenced by a heteronormative, patriarchal way of thinking. Gay men marry women because even if the church doesnt counsel anymore to get married as a fix or cure, it is virtually impossible to ignore the culture and ideology that teaches that every man should be married, and be out dating women. Just listen to the last general conference. I couldnt help but feel for the thousands of gay Mormons out there that hear the message that men are not being responsible enough, and will make like I did the unfortunate choice to get married to a woman.
A second set of observations about Hollys comments relates to her references to men who know they are gay while dating or at some point prior to marriage.
This matter of knowledge (i.e., of ones sexuality and what this means) is one of the most complicated aspects of the creation of MoMoMs, and will be addressed separately later. However, I would like to make some comments about men who truly do know they are gay and/or those men who like to tell themselves (i.e., pretend) they are not gay, yet (in the words of one of the introductory quotes from Mondays post) mess around with guys.
I dont know about Hollys use of the term misogyny in connection with such guys. (Again, I havent done enough reading in this area to comment intelligently or even coherently.) I will say, however, that in my view – Mormon men who
truly know they are gay gay gay (e.g., theyve had sex with guys, they know what it feels like, they know who theyre attracted to and know they dont just have SGA) and/or Mormon men who tell themselves they arent gay yet go out and mess around (read, have sex, though I realize that, in some circles, there is some dispute as to what the definition of sex is; thus, the use of the more inclusive term, mess around) and who
nevertheless in todays world – court, become engaged to and marry women without having disclosed their true sexual orientation to their girlfriends, fiancs or wives,
have a lot to answer for.
Why? Well, to quote from a comment Chanson left on Mondays MSP post:
Young people of my generation [i.e., 30-somethings] (even sheltered Mormons like me) had at least a vague awareness of homosexuality, and hence had more tools for understanding their situation than earlier generations did. Kids today [however,] have to be living in a cave not to be aware of homosexuality, hence are better equipped to analyze their own sexuality (and to reject hateful messages about it) than kids of my generation.
With such knowledge and understanding comes a corresponding requirement to act responsibly and morally in accordance with the knowledge and understanding.
Such men as described above appear, in my view, to be either amoral or immoral. These are not men who are truly, sincerely struggling with, or are functionally ignorant of or blind to, their true sexual orientation. These are not men who are sincerely grappling with issues of faith, obedience and identity. In short, these are not men who are trying to do what is right; they are rather men who are doing what is expedient. I would like to think, and trust, that they constitute a small minority of those gay Mormon men who enter into mixed-orientation marriages today, but I'm not so naive as to think that they don't exist.
I am reminded of the story a gay friend of mine told me of attending, within the past year or so, a wedding reception in a suburb of Salt Lake. He and his former wife were approaching the newlyweds when he suddenly realized that the groom was someone he recognized from having seen on more than one occasion in a Salt Lake gay bar. The recognition was apparently mutual, for my friend thought the groom seemed extremely uncomfortable as he and his wife approached and greeted the couple.
One wonders if the bride knew that her new husband, fresh from a temple sealing room, had fairly recently frequented gay bars. Ummmm. Somehow, I doubt it (although its possible).
There is to me, and I think to most reasonable people who are to any degree knowledgeable about issues relating to MoMoMs, a vast difference between the young, faithful (read sincere), moral (moral, not necessarily morally clean) Mormon man who is honestly trying to do the right thing and the cynical, immoral (immoral, not just morally unclean) Mormon man who is using his wife as a cover, a way (in Holly Welkers words) to preserve his own respectability and righteousness. Again, I would very much like to think such men are a small minority of those who enter in MoMoMs.
In both these cases, however, it is likely that many of the same factors propel these men to the same temple sealing altar. It is to these factors that I will next turn.
Observations on MOMs from a Rambling Lesbian
Mormon Beards Exploring the Issues: Turn It Off
Those Uppity Gays
August 6, 2012 Invictus Pilgrim
Husband and Wife Swapping = Order of Heaven? (D&C 132)
March 13, 2008 October 20, 2010 ReformedEgyptian
Congratulations to 2013 X-Mormons of the Year: J. Seth Anderson and Michael Ferguson!!!
January 23, 2014 chanson
21 thoughts on "Mormon Beards Exploring the Issues: Patriarchy and Duplicity"
I would personally be interested in Hollys comments (as well as those of others) as to examples of patriarchy in the LDS world and how this patriarchy endows men with a sense of entitlement that blinds them to the real cost of their actions. This is a sincere request. I do think such information would be extremely germane to the overall objective of these posts.
For starters, I'd suggest looking at Leslie's post on a lesbian/straight-guy MoMOM, and her observations about what lesbians give up in a MOM that gay men do not.
http://mainstreetplaza.com/2011/05/12/mormon-beards-%E2%80%93-exploring-issues-patriarchy-duplicity/
Also consider something like "Fascinating Womanhood," which tells both women and men that every failure in a marriage is the wife's fault. Men must be taken for who they are, and women must adjust to that.
I'd also refer you to "You and Me (But Mostly Me" from The Book of Mormon musical.
http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=136054170&m=136021600
It works perfectly in the show with two male missionary companions, in part because it's an attitude enough 19-year-old Mormon guys have. But imagine it sung with a young Mormon man and his fiance: it works even better. Both of them very likely accept that she is "the side dish on a slightly smaller plate," precisely because that's how they've been trained to see marriages: he is the captain, she is the mate.
Well, I tried to leave a response to your question, Invictus, but it seems to have disappeared. I'm commenting now to ask you or one of the other moderators to look for my comment, and to sign up for followup comments.
Invictus Pilgrim says:
Sorry, Holly. It ended up in spam, so I set it free.
@Holly – Thanks for your comments, and particularly for the link to the song. I hadn't listened to any of the songs from that musical yet. I LOVED this song and I HEAR what you are saying. (I also listened to "Turn it Off" which I MUST use with a subsequent post.)
As I was listening to this song and "Turn it Off", my thoughts turned to the famous (at least in the Church, in certain quarters anyway) talk given by President Kimball entitled The Gospel Vision of the Arts. I thought how ironic that others outside the Church are opening up windows into our collective soul so that we can examine ourselves as a people, culture, religion and church.
The concluding words of President Kimball's talk were:
We must recognize that excellence and quality are a reflection of how we feel about ourselves and about life and about God. If we dont care much about these basic things, then such not caring carries over into the work we do, and our work becomes shabby and shoddy.
Real craftsmanship, regardless of the skill involved, reflects real caring, and real caring reflects our attitude about ourselves, about our fellowmen, and about life.
I couldn't help but see a tremendous amount of irony in these words. His words are true enough, but not in the way he intended them. (I won't say any more, cuz I feel a post coming on.)
Young people of my generation [i.e., 30-somethings]
Well, more like thirty-to-forty-somethings. 😉
I'm turning 40 this year, and I my experience with this subject was closely tied with that of my older brother, who's 41.
Thanks for this, Invictus. There is indeed a difference between those "moral" and "immoral" gay men.
I don't think there is an objective way of looking at patriarchy and heterosexism. I believe this where Holly and I lose each other.
I mentioned on the previous thread how when I went to Sunstone and I met older gay LDS men married to women, and they told me about how they hurt their wives, patriarchy was obvious to me (and to them). What does not follow from this is me thinking patriarchy itself is manifested in my view of the situation. I was looking at the situation as someone who has never married a woman (and looking back, never considered it), and whose "coming out" experience (although it was less of a coming out, and more like, I was just myself) was not too difficult.
Think about the "It Gets Better" campaign. The assumption behind the campaign is that it will get better, that heterosexism is disappearing slowly everyday, perhaps because if we point out who's moral and who isn't, we'll shape a better future. But I come from a philosophy that a moral world isn't shaped this way. For me, a big part of patriarchy and heterosexism is an insistence on "one" morality.
I would like to tell a story to try to convey this point.
Ananda was the Buddha's male attendant. When the Buddha refused to ordain women, Ananda talked to the Buddha and helped him see why he should ordain women.
Many Buddhist nuns today revere Ananda. But others think that had the Buddha not been sexist in his refusal to ordain women in the first place, Ananda would never have had to intercede. So, they question why the nuns would revere Ananda.
The nuns tell those who think the Buddha was sexist: actually, the first woman — specific woman — to ask for ordination was the Buddha's aunt, who was a queen with a lot of power. To frame the story as one about "female ordination," as opposed to a story about "the ordination of Buddha's aunt" is part of the problem of sexism.
The moral of this story is that one cannot liberate women without also somehow marginalizing them as women. Which is why liberation is an individual matter. When we look at patriarchy, we have to be nuanced. That's why I appreciate you laying out the difference between "moral" and "immoral" gay men in the current situation (in which knowledge about homosexuality is more likely to be known prior to marriage). But as the times change, we will constantly have to reevaluate the boundaries of morality and be humble about those boundaries.
As another example, if a gay man were to come here to try to uphold the Church's current position, as APL in the last post did — to try to work creatively where he's at with what he's got — and we were to shout him down as "perpetuating heterosexism," and not work with him, I would consider ourselves to be acting heterosexist.
I was reading about a lesbian activist whose Mormon mother accepted her and how this has affected her politics. She seems, like I am, to be more comfortable in meeting people where they are, rather than insisting on a given morality. She recognizes in her own mother the ability humans have to hold contradictory viewpoints.
In my own experience, as I was growing up, I tried to force my mother to resolve the contradiction, as if she wasn't truly loving me or supporting me unless she was fighting for me in a specific way. But then I realized how selfish this was.
I don't think there's an objective way of looking at patriarchy and heterosexism. I don't think you have enough insight into my position or your own–as I pointed out, you agreed with me on a point but continued to argue the opposite–to have much clue as to where we lose each other.
But I did think we were going to try to drop the previous disagreement. You did not, after all, need to invoke me or my position here, or to drag the previous discussion to this one. I was ready to let it drop–indeed, I had made no mention of it on either or the subsequent threads. I had imagined that dropping it might be part of what you would want–had you truly been interested in making MSP a safe and welcoming place. But as I also said, I had imagined that you weren't really sincere about that.
p.s. Just out of curiosity, are the views you express here ones you REALLY hold, or will you admit in a few more comments that you actually think the opposite?
Alan @6:
What does not follow from this is me thinking patriarchy itself is manifested in my view of the situation.
Well, DUH.
That's part of how privilege works: those who have it often find its impossible to see how it colors their view of the situation.
Invictus, you wanted an example of how patriarchy blinds men to the cost of their actions: Alan just gave you an example. Women here tell him repeatedly that he exhibits sexist thought and behavior; he responds, "I don't see that."
He carps about humility and the need to listen, but he can't listen to women tell him, "Dude, maybe you need to reexamine some of your attitudes about women and the treatment they get from men."
Sorry, I guess I misread you when you said on that other thread
I suppose since we are dropping this matter after this comment I wont get an answer, but I do wonder why…
I thought you were requesting an answer. But yes, let's drop it.
Wow, I should have listened to these earlier!!!
When the reviews of this musical first started appearing, I remember there was a lot of focus on whether they got the doctrinal details right (Is Kolob a planet or a star? Does God really live there? etc.). But it appears that what they really got right is unique character of Mormonism — what it's like to be Mormon!
And, really, caring less about the precisions of doctrines (like Kolob) and caring more about Mormon practice and attitude is, itself, quite accurate.
I thought how ironic that others outside the Church are opening up windows into our collective soul so that we can examine ourselves as a people, culture, religion and church.
Parker and Stone have talked about doing and obviously indeed do a great deal of research and fact-checking about Mormon doctrines, attitudes and behaviors. Their interest is in portraying Mormons accurately–including their contradictions, such as their arrogant niceness–instead of reinforcing the basic tenets of the faith and avoiding raising difficult questions. So it's not surprising that their portrait of Mormons is faithful and accurate as opposed to faith-promoting and proper.
They are to be commended, I think, precisely because they "nailed it." Their research and insights into Mormon faith and culture are impressive – and refreshing and illuminating.
Johnny Townsend says:
I know a gay Mormon who wants to "spare" his wife the pain of knowing he is fooling around with men, so he simply tells her he has to go "home teaching" when he has appointments with guys. He says he fully believes in the Church, so how he can justify his actions, I don't know.
Their research and insights into Mormon faith and culture are impressive and refreshing and illuminating.
it doesn't hurt matters either that the insights are delivered in a show that is entirely hilarious and utterly joyous. 🙂
Badger says:
I'm about a decade older than Chanson, and I'd like to take a crack at my generation's experience.
Imagine you're a young man, in an interview with your mission president before going home. It's time to marry, he says. Plan on getting it done in the next few years.
You've observed church standards, so you're a virgin who has theoretically not even thought about sex for a couple years. You know you're gay, and you've never felt any sexual attraction to a woman. You learned about homosexuality from sources like The Miracle of Forgiveness, which says that everyone is innately heterosexual, and that homosexuality is the result of a long apprenticeship in lesser perversions. You've masturbated, but who hasn't, and that's all. You have never had any heterosexuality to work with. How did this happen?
Is a sexual relationship with a woman even possible for you? The church says yes, just get married and you'll get over the "phase". Will that work if you can't even do it with a woman? Can you even bear for your wife to know something so terrible that you've never told anyone? If you were Catholic, you could become a priest. You fantasize about having an accident that leaves you physically incapable of sex. The price of exaltation is one that seems impossible for you, but how do you know, really, if you haven't tried? So, you are left to try to imagine two unimaginable things, exaltation and heterosexual marriage, and make a decision.
Where is the woman in all this thought process? Absolutely nowhere. She's a phantom, and a goal, and something you need but don't want. She needs you, too, of course. Does she want you? Well, that's a question that never came up in Aaronic priesthood.
If you somehow reach the point of discussing marriage, will you be able to see your potential wife as more than a passport to the celestial kingdom? Will you be able to understand that you're not the only one who might be be attempting to do the impossible? To some extent, no doubt. But a lot will depend on your ability, and hers, to see past the framework you've lived your life in up to this point.
Things have changed a lot for young gay men and women. But the view of marriage as something you need to get done Real Soon Now for your eternal well being seems to be alive and well. The church talks out of both sides of its mouth about heterosexual marriage for gay members, but at least some of the time, probably most of the time through the more official channels, it says it may not be the right thing to do. I wonder, though, if the young women's lesson manual ever mentions that it's ok to say no if a gay guy proposes to you.
Badger — That's exactly what I was talking about with my remark about the different experiences of the different generations. It's only quite recently that there's been widespread awareness that orientation isn't just about sexual desire; it's also about falling in love and forming an emotional bond with your partner.
If all you've heard is "everyone is innately heterosexual, and that homosexuality is the result of a long apprenticeship in lesser perversions," then there's no particular reason it would occur to you that there's something a straight man offers a straight woman that the gay man is not offering her. Sure, it's theoretically possible to intuitively figure that out, but it's not the same as if you've been exposed to the idea of orientation and information about how it works.
Badger – Thank you for your comments. It sounds like we are contemporaries, and your comments are validating of my own experience as well as thought-provoking.
I suppose that one of my hopes/goals for this series of posts is for those of us who are of a "certain age" to be able to better understand what happened to us and our spouses, to obtain new insights and ways of looking at our common experiences, to (as you put it) "see past the framework [we've] lived [our] life in up to this point."
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Cameron "Cam" Crawford (born 14 November 1988) is an Australian professional rugby union player who plays for the Rebels in Super Rugby as a full-back.
Cameron Crawford
(1988-11-14) 14 November 1988 (age 31)
1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
98 kg (15 st 6 lb)
Sydney Grammar School
Rugby union career
Fullback / Wing
Amateur team(s)
Team Apps (Points)
Northern Suburbs ()
2014−
North Harbour Rays 4 (0)
Rebels 1
Correct as of 21 July 2016
Born in Sydney, Crawford has represented the Brumbies, Waratahs and Rebels in Super Rugby.
1 Early years
2.1 Brumbies
2.2 Waratahs
2.3 Rebels
3 Super Rugby Statistics
Early yearsEdit
As a schoolboy, Crawford represented Sydney Grammar School and was selected in the Combined GPS 2nd XV, having been kept out of the 1st XV by Kurtley Beale.[1] Crawford played his junior rugby for Lindfield.
Crawford spent several years playing Shute Shield for Northern Suburbs Rugby Club.[2]
BrumbiesEdit
Crawford was a member of the Brumbies in the 2012 Super Rugby season. He made only one Super Rugby appearance for the side, coming on as a late substitute in a 28-17 win over the Western Force.[3]
WaratahsEdit
After the 2012 Super Rugby season, he was released from his contract with the Brumbies to join the Waratahs.[4] Crawford enjoyed a successful 2013 Super Rugby season. After scoring on his Waratahs debut in a win over the Chiefs,[5] Crawford went on to score a hat-trick against the Southern Kings.[6] Crawford's 8 tries from 7 appearances in the 2013 season made him the league's second highest try-scorer over the regular season, behind Frank Halai.[7] Following such a successful debut season, Crawford was widely expected to become a Wallabies "bolter" under Ewen McKenzie, however, injury and surgery kept Crawford out of action for the remainder of 2013. Ironically, it was his winger partner at the Waratahs, Peter Betham that went on to make his Wallabies debut against the All Blacks in Dunedin.
Crawford was a member of the Waratahs squad for the 2014 Super Rugby season,[8] in which the team won its first Super Rugby title.[9]
RebelsEdit
Crawford signed with the Rebels in June 2014 on a two season contract, starting from the 2015 Super Rugby season.[10] He made his Super Rugby debut for the Rebels in a loss to the Stormers in South Africa in May 2015.[11] He scored his first try for the side in a loss to the Hurricanes in April 2016.[12]
Super Rugby StatisticsEdit
As of 21 July 2016[13]
2012 Brumbies 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2013 Waratahs 7 7 0 542 8 0 0 0 40 0 0
2014 Waratahs 5 4 1 313 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2015 Rebels 3 3 0 228 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2016 Rebels 6 5 1 403 2 0 0 0 10 0 0
^ "GPS Rugby Representative 2006". AAGPS. 15 June 2006. Retrieved 26 June 2012.
^ "Cam Crawford player page". NSW Waratahs. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
^ Briggs, Daniel (30 June 2012). "Live: Brumbies v Force". canberratimes.com.au. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
^ "Cam Crawford released to Waratahs". Sydney Morning Herald. 18 July 2012. Retrieved 18 July 2012.
^ "Review: Waratahs boss Chiefs". Green and Gold Rugby. 20 April 2013. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
^ "Rugby-Crawford hat-trick helps Waratahs to record win". Reuters. 4 May 2013. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
^ "SA Rugby Try Scorers – 2013 Vodacom Super Rugby". South African Rugby Union. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
^ "NSW Waratahs 2014 squad confirmed". New South Wales Waratahs. 20 September 2013. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
^ Pandaram, Jamie (3 August 2014). "Waratahs beat Crusaders 33-32 in epic final to win first Super Rugby title". The Courier-Mail. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
^ "Rebels sign Cam Crawford". ESPNscrum. 18 June 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
^ Ward, Roy (24 May 2015). "Melbourne Rebels must keep composure, says coach Tony McGahan". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
^ McKendry, Patrick (15 April 2016). "Rugby: Beauden Barrett shines as Canes crush Rebels". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
^ "Player Statistics". its rugby. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
Rebels profile
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cam_Crawford&oldid=904018507"


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Build 'an impregnable firewall' to counter Chinese digital aggression: Cong MP in Lok Sabha
Courtesy: Lok Sabha TV
India should build an "impregnable firewall" to counter the "menacing syndrome" of Chinese "digital aggression" of carrying out surveillance on "everyone from king to public" in India, Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury (Berhampore, West Bengal) said in Lok Sabha on Wednesday during Zero Hour. A second Congress MP, Kodikunnil Suresh (Mavelikara, Kerala), who had raised the issue of "surveillance" by a Chinese company of at least one thousand Indians, called it "an utmost condemnable act of violation of international norms and data privacy" and called it "an act of cyberwar".
Chinese aggression on all fronts
"I don't know if there is a way to deal with Chinese surveillance. But the fact is that the corona[virus] aggression in our country originated in China, China is engaging in physical aggression in Ladakh Congress, and now China is engaging in digital aggression," Chowdhury said. He asked if the government knew that "the entire country was caught in this snare of surveillance". "If a company from outside India can carry out such surveillance, what will happen to our national security?" he asked.
Suresh said, "The Chinese aggression in multiple factors, including cyber espionage, assumes significance when India is engaged in a simmering stand-off with China along the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh. The Overseas Key Information Database developed by the Shenzhen-based information technology firm, a company with links to the Chinese Government and the Community Party, which features Indian political leadership, is an act of cyberwar." He further demanded that this be protested against at all international forums and "appropriate action" must be initiated at such forums. He also wants the Chinese ambassador in India to be summoned by the government to "register its strongest protest".
Editorial: An Internet Firewall for India would be unconstitutional and totalitarian
Was the 'spying' by the Chinese data company such a big thing?
A consortium of media organisations had reported on September 14 that a Chinese company, Zhenhua Data, which has links to the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Liberation Army, had been monitoring public figures across the world, including 10,000 Indians. These Indians include Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Ramnath Kovind, chief ministers Mamata Bannerjee, Ashok Gehlot, Amarinder Singh, Uddhav Thackeray, Cabinet ministers Rajnath Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman, former and incumbent military officials, senior members of opposition parties such as Congress' Sonia Gandhi and industrialists Ratan Tata and Gautam Adani.
This database was built by digitally scraping public and social media data of the targets. It then built a relational database where it also tracked the target's friends and family to build a more detailed digital dossier. However, this practice, called open-source intelligence (OSINT), is not uncommon. Many cybersecurity and data analytics firms, both in India and around the world, offer OSINT services to employers to do background checks on employees, to financial lenders to check on prospective borrowers, governments, and others. And when it comes to government-based intelligence, building dossiers on key public figures is the modus operandi of every intelligence agency in the world.
A closer look: A Chinese firm was found 'monitoring' prominent Indians, should we be worried?
The beginnings of the Great Firewall of India?


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In his nomination, Nick was described as a 'visionary leader' and praised for fostering a positive culture change throughout the company.
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Shortly after coming off stage, Nick said, 'The nomination came from a guy who worked with us for a year. He's gone back to Northern Ireland but he recognised all the things I've been trying to do with driver management in terms of change, driver engagement and bringing in new ideas.
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He added, 'It's about encouraging young people into the industry, making the train drivers of the future and being as diverse as possible.'
The Rail Manager of the Year award was sponsored by recruitment company Advanced Resource Managers (ARM). The company's head of rail, Adam Razzell, said, 'We're delighted to have presented Nick Chadwick with the award for Rail Manager of the Year.
'We work with managers across many different organisations and Nick's nomination stood out – especially his work on the driver apprenticeship programme and reward strategies.'
Highly commended: Karen Sherwin, Great Northern, and Clare Williams, Southern.
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Mihal Grameno (13 January 1871 – 5 February 1931) was an Albanian nationalist, politician, writer, freedom fighter, and journalist. He was one of the four initial appointed delegates from Korçë to the Albanian National Congress that proclaimed the Independence of Albania on 28 November 1912.

Biography
Mihal Grameno was born in Korçë to an Orthodox merchant family. He studied at the local secondary school before emigrating to Romania in 1885. It was in Bucharest where he got involved in the Albanian National Awakening where the movement soon collapsed due to financial reasons in the extended family who were dependent on money.

In 1907, he joined the newly formed Çerçiz Topulli's kachak band, an early guerrilla unit fighting against Ottoman troops ( mostly Albanian) and policies of Sultan Abdul Hamid II in Albania. They were considered the Apostles of Albanianism and would go from village to village to discuss the Albanian predicament.

Ottoman officials sent out military patrols to capture the bandits. The activity of the band consisted of only one battle in two years, when the 5 people band was surrounded by 150 Ottoman units in Mashkullore. Four out of five escaped the encirclement by defeating Ottoman troops. Other bands of this nature, not having a journalist in their company, such as Grameno have remained unsung heroes.

During the Young Turk Revolution (1908),  the Albanian Adjuntant Major Ahmed Niyazi Bey met with guerilla leaders Topulli and Grameno on 23 July in Resne (modern Resen) where he expressed his gratitude and viewed the declaration of the CUP constitution as advantageous for the Albanian nation. Grameno alongside Topulli and Niyazi appeared in photographs taken by the Manakis brothers during the revolution.

In 1909 Grameno founded in Korçë the Orthodox League (or Alliance) () and served as editor of its periodical with the same name during 1909–1910. In 1910 the organization proclaimed the establishment of an independent Albanian church, and was unrecognized by the Ottoman Empire and Patriarchate of Constantinople. Grameno was arrested in 1910 by Ottoman authorities for his work with the newspaper Bashkimi i Kombit.

During the upheavals of 1911, Grameno traveled as a go between for Albanian revolutionaries in Albanian inhabited lands and leaders of the Albanian national movement in Istanbul to coordinate armed activities against the Ottoman Empire and secure a separation of Albanian lands from the Ottoman state.

Mihal Grameno was one of the four initial appointed delegates from Korçë to the Albanian National Congress that proclaimed the Independence of Albania on 28 November 1912. While the Ottoman Empire had allowed Ismail Qemali to go in Vlora and proceed with his political activities , the Ottoman officials in Korce had created a communication blockade, by preventing the telegram messages from being sent in and out of town. Grameno and his compatriots Menduh Zavalani, Stavro Karoli and Estref Vërleni learned later about the Independence Congress and reached Vlorë after five days, while they were substituted during the first day of the Congress by Pandeli Cale, Thanas Floqi and Spiridon Ilo.

After independence, Grameno served as the editor of the weekly Koha (Time), initially published in Korçë and later in Jamestown, New York, where he lived from 1915 to 1919. He traveled back to Europe to represent Albania through the Albanian-American community at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 and in the following year he returned in Albania.

In the 1920s he carried out his journalistic and literary activities until he retired from public life due to ill health. Resigned and seriously ill, he died on 5 February 1931 in Korçë.

Works

Mihal Grameno's published works include:
Vdekja (The Death), a patriotic poem published in 1903;
Mallkimi i gjuhës shqipe (The curse upon the Albanian language), a comedy published in Bucharest, 1905;
Vdekja e Piros (The Death of Pyrrhus), a historical tragedy published in Sofia, 1906;
Oxhaku (The Hearth), E puthura (The Kiss), and Varr' i pagëzimit (The Tomb of the Baptism), Korçë, 1909, short stories;
 Plagët (The wounds), Manastir, 1912, a volume of poetry;
Kryengritja shqiptare, Korçë, 1925 (The Albanian Uprising), memoirs of his experiences as a guerrilla fighter against the Turkish and Greek troops.

References

Sources

External links
Works (in Albanian)

People from Korçë
People from Manastir vilayet
Albanian politicians
Albanian journalists
1872 births
1931 deaths
Albanian emigrants to the United States
Activists of the Albanian National Awakening
Members of the Albanian Orthodox Church
19th-century Albanian people
20th-century Albanian writers
20th-century Albanian politicians
Eastern Orthodox Christians from Albania
Heroes of Albania


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