Breast Friends' newest affiliate launched in 2012 and is located in Stroudsburg, PA. The Directors are two fabulous women, Vivian Vega and Kelli Mercurio who have been friends for many years. Vivian was diagnosed in 2004, and Kelli was diagnosed in 2010. They supported each other through their journeys, but after treatment they both realized that not all women are as fortunate. Many don't have the level of support they each had and they began searching for a way to bring their passion and heart to help the many cancer patients in Pennsylvania.
Vivian has worked to support the cause by helping raise money for research, but wanted to do more. She and her husband started to make plans to start a foundation. She shared her dream with Kelli who also had the passion to give back to others. Kelli and Vivian both felt the same calling. Together they decided to partner to show how friendships can fill the soul and help other women on the same journey they have both taken.
Kelli discovered Breast Friends and shared it with Vivian and Shawn, Vivian's husband. All three believed in the mission of Breast Friends and agreed that this program would have helped their families and friends. The desire to bring the program to Pennsylvania was born.


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Q: Adding legend manually to R/ggplot2 plot without interfering with the plot Question: Is it possible to add a legend to a plot that has nothing to do with the plot itself and - crucially - will not interfere with the colors in the plot?
Explanation
I have all the information I should need for the legend. In particular, I have the hex codes of the colors and I have the labels. I do not care what shapes are shown (lines, points, whichever is easiest).
I was hoping this should do the trick (this is a very simplified minimal working example):
the_colors <- c("#e6194b", "#3cb44b", "#ffe119", "#0082c8", "#f58231", "#911eb4", "#46f0f0", "#f032e6",
                "#d2f53c", "#fabebe", "#008080", "#e6beff", "#aa6e28", "#fffac8", "#800000", "#aaffc3",
                "#808000", "#ffd8b1", "#000080", "#808080", "#ffffff", "#000000")
the_labels <- c("01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10")

the_df <- data.frame("col1"=c(1, 2, 2, 1), "col2"=c(2, 2, 1, 1), "col3"=c(1, 2, 3, 4))

the_plot <- ggplot() + geom_point(data=the_df, aes(x=col1, y=col2), color=the_colors[[4]])

the_plot <- the_plot +
  scale_color_manual("Line.Color", values=the_colors[1:length(the_labels)],
                      labels=the_labels)

Unfortunately, it will not even show the legend.
Playing by the rules, and including the color argument inside the aesthetics element, I can get it to show a legend.
the_plot <- ggplot() + geom_point(data=the_df, aes(x=col1, y=col2, color=the_colors[[4]]))

But then, of course, it will not take the value passed as the color argument () serious any longer and will instead interpret it as some kind of a label and change the color of these data points to the first color in the the_colors list. At the same time, it will only include this one in the legend and there does not seem to be a way in hell to convince it also include the others.
In other languages, this is unbelievably easy. In R/ggplot2, this seems unbelievably hard.
Reason why I want to do this: I want a legend that does not interfere with the colors in my plot. This is sometimes very inconvenient. There is also no deeper reason that the legend must mess with the colors in the plot, just that this is how it is implemented in R/ggplot2.
Approach: I was hoping that there is a way to easily do this by still treating this as a legend. Failing that, it might be possible to add a box with some colored points and some text, thereby constructing a legend from scratch.
Other questions: There have been various other questions asking the same thing. The answers did instead suggest workarounds to solve the concrete problem of the OP (usually by applying melt() or so) without providing a solution to the question that was asked (how to add a legend manually without messing with the plot). E.g. here and here. This is not what I am interested in. I would like to know if I can add an arbitrary legend to an arbitrary plot, and, if yes, how.
Software: R 3.6.3, ggplot2 3.2.1
Edit (March 30 2020):
Solution: As described in @Tjebo's answer below, a legend that is reasonably independent from the plot and defines additional data series not shown in the plot can be created with scale_color_identity. With option #1 in the answer by @Tjebo, I could solve my immediate problem:
the_colors <- sort(c("#e6194b", "#3cb44b", "#ffe119", "#0082c8", "#f58231", "#911eb4", "#46f0f0", "#f032e6",
            "#d2f53c", "#fabebe", "#008080", "#e6beff", "#aa6e28", "#fffac8", "#800000", "#aaffc3",
            "#808000", "#ffd8b1", "#000080", "#808080"))

color_df <- data.frame(the_colors=the_colors[1:length(the_labels)], the_labels=the_labels)

the_df <- data.frame("col1"=c(1, 2, 2, 1), "col2"=c(2, 2, 1, 1), "col3"=c(1, 2, 3, 4))

the_plot <- ggplot() +
    geom_point(data = color_df, aes(x = the_df$col1[[1]], y = the_df$col2[[1]], color = the_colors)) +
    scale_color_identity(guide = 'legend', labels = color_df$the_labels)

the_plot <- the_plot +
  geom_point(data=the_df, aes(x=col1, y=col2), color=the_colors[[4]])

print(the_plot)

Explanation of the solution: More generally, as Tjebo explains, it separates the plot from the legend. The legend still needs a plot. This is built first with:
the_plot <- ggplot() +
  geom_point(data = color_df, aes(x = the_df$col1[[1]], y = the_df$col2[[1]], color = the_colors)) +
  scale_color_identity(guide = 'legend', labels = color_df$the_labels)

The plot this creates still has the wrong color, but the points are chosen so that they are hidden by adding the plot I actually want to show in its appropriate color:
the_plot <- the_plot +
  geom_point(data=the_df, aes(x=col1, y=col2), color=the_colors[[4]])

It is also flexible in that further data series can be added in any of the  colors that are predefined in the the_colors variable:
the_plot <- the_plot +
  geom_point(data=the_df, aes(x=col1, y=col3), color=the_colors[[6]])

(Note: The data series can also be plotted at once if the color is defined as a third column in the data frame. I just wanted to point out that the solution is flexible and the plot can be modified at a later time without interfering with the legend or the colors of the data points that are already arranged in the plot.)
Edit 2 (March 30 2020), Additional Note: With this solution, the legend will sort the colors by their hex codes. I cannot begin to fathom why it would do that, but it does. So, in order for the colors in the legend to match the intended colors, the vector of hex codes should be sorted beforehand (as is done in the code above).
Unexpected behaviors like this would not be a concern in normal use of R and ggplot2 (where you let ggplot2 do the legend for you and restrict yourself strictly to what designs are intended to be used). This solution is basically a hack around how the legend is expected to be used in ggplot2 (unfortunately quite restrictive). As such, it is possible that this hack will break in future versions of ggplot or R.

A: Maybe this is what you want.. Plot 1 is definitely not a clever and ggplot-y way of plotting (essentially, you are not visualising dimensions of your data). Below another option (plot 2)...
Below - creating new data frame and plot with scale_color_identity. Use a data point of your second plot, which comes second and overplots the first plot, so the point disappears.
library(tidyverse)
the_colors <- c("#e6194b", "#3cb44b", "#ffe119", "#0082c8", "#f58231", "#911eb4", "#46f0f0", "#f032e6",
                "#d2f53c", "#fabebe", "#008080", "#e6beff", "#aa6e28", "#fffac8", "#800000", "#aaffc3",
                "#808000", "#ffd8b1", "#000080", "#808080", "#ffffff", "#000000")

color_df <- data.frame(the_colors, the_labels = seq_along(the_colors))

the_df <- data.frame("col1"=c(1, 2, 2, 1), "col2"=c(2, 2, 1, 1), "col3"=c(1, 2, 3, 4))

#the_plot <-
  ggplot() +
    geom_point(data = color_df, aes(x = the_df$col1[[1]], y = the_df$col2[[1]], color = the_colors)) +
    scale_color_identity(guide = 'legend', labels = color_df$the_labels) +
    geom_point(data=the_df, aes(x=col1, y=col2), color=the_colors[[4]])

a more ggplot-y way
Now, the last plot is really peculiar, because as you say, "the colors have nothing to do with the plot" [with the data] and thus, showing them is absolutely pointless. What you actually want is to visualise dimensions of your data.
So what I believe and hope is that you have some link of those values to your plotted data. I am considering col3 to be the variable of choice, that will be represented by color.
First, create a named vector, so you can pass this as your values argument in scale_color. The names should be the values of your column which will be represented by color, in this case col3.
names(the_colors) <- str_pad(seq_along(the_colors), width = 2, pad = '0')

the_df <- data.frame("col1"=c(1, 2, 2, 1), "col2"=c(2, 2, 1, 1), "col3"=str_pad(c(1, 2, 3, 4), width = 2,pad='0'))

ggplot() +
  geom_point(data=the_df, aes(x=col1, y=col2, color = col3))  +
  scale_color_manual(limits = names(the_colors), values = the_colors)

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Over the years, medical professionals have used Valium on alcoholics to ease their withdrawal symptoms. It is hailed for its calming effects, thus enabling alcoholics to achieve their sobriety by providing them with calming effects. The interaction between Valium and drinking disorders has allowed millions of people to achieve their sobriety and lead fruitful lives.
People researching on how to detox from alcohol have stumbled upon Valium as an option. However, as much as Diazepam is a wonder drug in matters relating to alcoholism, it is always essential to understand how Valium and alcohol works, its effects, and how to use it. This way, one can take the right decisions regarding the drug for a successful recovery from alcoholism.
How does valium work for alcoholism treatment?
Is diazepam effective for alcoholism?
What are valium side effects in the absence of alcohol?
How to use valium for alcoholism properly?
What are valium regimens for alcoholism treatment?
Valium is also known as Diazepam. It belongs to the benzodiazepine family, a group of psychoactive drugs known for their sedation qualities. Diazepam's first patent was filed in 1959 by Hoffman-La Roche and had seen more than 2 billion tablets sold by 1978. Currently, there are more than 500 brands of the drug in the market.
Diazepam has been used for treating alcohol dependence in alcoholics. Alcoholism weighs down on the brain such that the neurotransmitters are rewired and the body cannot function without alcohol. This causes severe withdrawal symptoms which can cause harm to the affected party.
The positive effects of diazepam and alcohol allow the body to relax and the patient to ultimately recover from alcoholism.
Ever since Diazepam was first introduced to the market in the 1950s, doctors have been using valium for alcohol withdrawal symptom cases.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), diazepam is one of the safest and most effective drugs in the market.
This has seen an uptake of diazepam for alcohol withdrawal by the millions. As of 2011, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) reported 15 million subscriptions of the drug.
Valium is not just an over the counter medication to stop drinking alcohol. Like most drugs, diazepine in itself presents several side effects to its users whether they are using it for alcoholism medication or not.
It is also important to note that abuse of Valium can cause a lot of harmful effects on users. The DEA has reported more than 300, 000 ER visits from benzodiazepine abuse between 2010 and 2019, and more than 20 million cases of abuse from individuals from 12 years and above.
Under the right use, Valium for alcohol detox presents many great benefits. There are, however, ways to ensure that Valium is taken correctly.
Only a certified doctor should prescribe diazepam. A doctor is better able to understand what the patient needs and the right valium dose for alcohol withdrawal.
The dosages prescribed should always be followed to the letter. Any variation from the prescribed dosage can cause some unwanted effects such as resistance. It can also prevent the drug from working as it is supposed to.
Diazepam can be taken with or without food. This will, however, be better communicated by the doctor who will have created an effective valium alcohol withdrawal protocol.
Concentrated solutions of diazepam should be diluted and taken immediately. Do not dilute a dosage to take later.
Valium should not be mixed with alcohol. This goes for all kinds of medications prescribed by the doctor such as Antabuse medication to help keep a patient from using alcohol. Mixing valium and alcohol can lead to fatal consequences.
In some instances, sudden withdrawal from the drug can be expected, especially when the dosage is stopped. A doctor will usually wean the patient off valium by reducing the dosage until they can live without it. On should, however, always makes sure to seek medical advice in such instances.
Do not mix Valium with drugs such as cough medications that might contain alcohol. Mixing alcohol and valium can cause some unwanted effects. Doctors might, however, decide to combine the drug with other forms of drugs such as the acamprosate moa for better results. This should only be done by a doctor.
Patients with co-morbidity such as COPD, pneumonia, cerebrovascular disease, reduced GCS, head injuries or patients who are above 70 years of age.
Ths regiment is administered to patients who can be considered dangerous and aggressive.
It is essential to understand that all these regimens should be administered from a rehabilitation center for alcoholics or residential facilities where care can be administered around the clock and by qualified professionals.
There are other regimens from other groups of benzodiazepines such as Librium for alcoholism.
While Diazepam has enjoyed full success in its benefits and usage, the drug has also attracted its share of criticism. This has even seen some suggest new ways to fight alcohol addiction such as using Topamax as a combination of Topamax and drinking does not have such severe effects on the user as would happen with mixing diazepam with alcohol.
Long term memory impairment and amnesia. Studies suggest that using valium could lead to the loss of memory in its users.
Benzodiazepines such as Valium have been suspected of causing an increased risk in pregnancies causing newborns to be born with defects such a cleft palate. The newborns might also experience some withdrawal symptoms. This might make it challenging to treat expectant others trying to get sober.
A typical use of Valium has also been linked to causing some adverse social effects. Addiction to Valium can happen where an alcoholic drops alcohol for Valium or starts using both alcohol and Valium.
Alcohol addiction is not a manageable disease to deal with. Nevertheless, there exist different forms of medications to help fight alcoholism. Drugs such as naltrexone for alcohol abuse can help suppress the euphoria that comes with taking alcohol, but one would still need Valium to handle serve withdrawal symptoms.
Therefore, it is always essential to make sure that whenever one is using Valium as one of the alcohol treatment options to help handle the withdrawal effects associated with abstinence from alcohol, they should talk to a certified professional, who clearly understands how to taper off alcohol using valium, for the best results.


Flower-fruity vortex in a daring, youthful and stylish fragrance. A sparkling mixture of grapefruit and bergamot dissolves in the transparency of the colors of the heliotrope and is replaced by a sensual solo of oriental sandalwood. Festive release.


An ivory-inlaid macassar daybed by Christian Krass (1868-1957). France, circa 1925.
Christian Krass was a cabinet maker with workshops located in the French town of Lyon. He was known for the high quality of his work and later in his career for furniture created in a distinctly Modernist style. He studied at the École des Arts Décoratifs d'Aubusson and was later apprenticed to the master of art deco furniture Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann (1879-1933).
Most pieces of Krass's furniture are unique, or executed in two or three examples at most. They often make use of the most expensive and rare woods enlivened with finely cast mounts. One of Krass's most important pieces was made for the Aga Kahn and exhibited at the Salon de la Société Lyonnaise des Beaux-Arts in 1937.


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Ain't that a kick in the pants.
This month is flying by. I've gotten about 1/2 of my Christmas shopping done, though, so at least I'm not in full-on panic mode.
Don't worry, give it a week (during which I will do zero additional work on that Christmas list) and then it should set in nice and heavy.
And since technically I still have 7 more days of fall left, I've got a nice little autumnal recipe for you today.
Squeezing right in under that fall recipe deadline. Not unlike that little Christmas deadline. I'm sensing a pattern.
2. Cut ends off butternut squash and then slice in half, lengthwise. Scoop out seeds and then cut in half across, separating the bulbous half from the seedless half. Peel and cube seedless half.
3. Place squash on a baking sheet, sprayed with cooking spray, spray again with cooking spray, sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste and garlic powder. Roast for 50-55 minutes until large pieces are fork tender.
4. While squash roasts, prepare couscous according to package directions (I cooked mine in chicken broth for more flavor) and set aside.
5. Place kale in a skillet with a few tablespoons of water and place over high heat. Steam 4-5 minutes until slightly wilted and set aside.
6. Spray skillet with cooking spray and cook leeks over medium heat until they are slightly tender. Add garlic, salt, pepper and red pepper flakes and cook an additional 1-2 minutes and remove from heat.
7. Add kale, couscous and sour cream (if using) to the skillet and toss to combine.
8. Evenly divide couscous among squash "bowls" and serve.
Since I'm sure you've got about a million cookie exchanges to attend and big family dinners to eat, put this light little dinner idea in your back pocket for when you need to up those vitamin stores in the ol' body.
Not that there's anything wrong with eating twelve sugar cookies in a row.
So many cookies! It's so good and also quite terrifying.
I don't eat couscous often enough. This looks great!
I love the combo of squash and kale. This looks really good and so pretty too!
I love anything with butternut squash. You just can't go wrong with those things.
Hope you had a very, very happy Christmas and wishing you a beautiful New Year!!


Ghetto IFE points out that KLM is adopting a low-cost carrier approach to checked luggage. Whilst that's true I wouldn't go as far as calling them LCC, just negatively influenced by the USA model.
So if you need to book a European flight with KLM and need to check in luggage, make sure you do it before 22nd April 2013. Otherwise it's a €15 charge per suitcase for pre-booking and €30 at the airport.
You are a Flying Blue member. Flying Blue Elite members too will be able to bring 1 suitcase for free.
The one that strikes me as odd is the first bullet point. Its ambiguous wording suggests that a Flying Blue member of any level can get a free bag. Whilst I highly suspect they actually you need to have some level of elite status with them, that's not what's written. Still, I'd sign up for an account just in case!
Hand luggage comprising "1 bag and 1 accessory" (bag's maximum dimensions 55x25x35 cm) must have a combined weight of under 12kg. Hand luggage will remain free.
The aviation industry's margins have shrunk to barely anything in recent times, so this doesn't surprise me all that much. For those who do fly LCCs or North America domestically, you will see just how much more people use their cabin baggage allowance compared to Europe. As Ghetto IFE points out, this seems merely a revenue booster, especially since I can't see them reducing fares for light travellers.
What's your take? Are KLM going the way of LCC? Is introducing the fee a bad or smart move?
had an email today, and as an Ivory card holder (=no status except having signed up for a card) I get the bag charge waived. Sounds to me like a great plan to get people to join the FB club.


Trade secrets are a fickle form of intellectual property. They can be invaluable in protecting a company's assets, and potentially can last forever. Coca-Cola famously has maintained its formula as a trade secret for well over a century. On the other hand, trade secret rights can be easily lost. Unlike a patent or copyright, there is no general right to exclude third parties from using the trade secret.
Instead, trade secret law focuses on the means of obtaining access to the protected information. To illustrate, a competitor who buys the trade secret owner's product off the shelf and reverse engineers it can use whatever it learns in its business, even in competing with the trade secret owner.
On March 3rd the Southern District of New York granted summary judgment in favor of the defendant in a trade secret case, Big Vision Pvt. Ltd. v. E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., 1 F.Supp.3d 224 (2014). The decision highlights the difficulty of maintaining and enforcing trade secrets. District judge Katherine Polk Failla's 94-page opinion is a primer for counsel seeking to advise trade secret holders.
Plaintiff Big Vision Private Ltd. is an Indian company based in Mumbai, India that specializes in digital printing, including advertising banners and billboards. Around 2007, it began developing an idea for recyclable banners that would be economically competitive with the more standard, non-recyclable versions. Big Vision entered into a partnership with an equipment manufacturer, Davis-Standard.
Defendant E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. of Wilmington, Delaware, is a well-known multinational chemical and materials developer and manufacturer. Among other things, DuPont manufactures materials used in the banners, including the substrate, pigments and resins.
In 2008 and 2009, Big Vision and Davis-Standard invited DuPont to review several trials to demonstrate the banner-printing methods it had developed. The parties entered into two nearly identical non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). Yet by 2010, DuPont had introduced its own recyclable banner products in the market, and had even filed several patent applications supposedly disclosing Big Vision's secret methods.
Big Vision sued for breach of contract (the NDAs) and trade secret misappropriation. Following completion of discovery, DuPont moved for summary judgment on all claims, which Judge Failla granted. On the contract claim (decided under Singapore law), she found that Big Vision had failed to designate the information as confidential in the manner required by the NDAs.
On the trade secret claims (decided under New York law), she ruled, among other things, that Big Vision had failed to properly specify what its trade secrets were (both at the time of disclosure and during litigation), had failed to show wrongful means of appropriating the information, had failed to maintain confidentiality and lost any trade secret rights it might have had when it published the information in an Indian patent application.
But, Big Vision completely failed to follow the terms of the NDA: it failed to designate any information as confidential during the three trial runs, and it failed to follow-up with any confidentiality designations.
These emails, the district court held, were too little and too late – too little because they did not specify what was confidential, too late because they were sent long after the required dates in the NDAs.
The opinion reviewed the documentation provided during the three trials, and none of them identified the supposed trade secrets with any particularity. Simply figuring out what was tested at the first trial required cross-referencing of four separate documents! And, because so many variations were tested, there was no way that DuPont could know which exactly were claimed to be trade secrets.
The lack of particularity was exacerbated by the fact that DuPont was itself expert and itself had invented and commercialized technology in the same field. Big Vision claimed that it told a DuPont employee that the trials and everything in them were confidential.
The Court conceded that such might have sufficed for disclosure to a layperson. "But DuPont had developed advertising banners for decades, held numerous patents in the space, and had at least two divisions in North America alone that were developing and testing these products." DuPont's great expertise meant that Big Vision was required to do much more, because otherwise Big Vision's belated attempt at blanket confidentiality designation would have prevented DuPont from using its own developed technology!
The lesson: if you have a trade secret, you need to be very clear when disclosing it subject to confidentiality what exactly it is that is confidential. This is especially true where it is being disclosed to a potential business partner, like DuPont, that already has substantial experience in the field.
Another serious problem that Big Vision had was defining its trade secret in the litigation. First, its own descriptions of the trade secret "changed dramatically" from its complaint, to its responses to interrogatories, to service of its expert report.
Many of the terms were found far too vague. For example what is a "suitably strong" polyoelfin layer? Numerous different types of layers were tested in the various tests, and it was unclear which, if any, were "suitably strong" or what that even meant as to other materials a company like DuPont might use.
Other terms like "high," "predominantly," "minimal" and "expensive" were likewise found to be too vague to give any guidance about what was being claimed as the trade secret.
The lesson: Before filing suit, define your trade secret with sufficient precision that the court and your adversary know what you are complaining about and what the defendant needs to avoid. This exercise is analogous to drafting claims for a patent, but because trade secrets are common-law rights that have no administrative review like the Patent Office, counsel must do so before bringing suit.
While the complexity of this description will vary according to the complexity of the trade secret – a customer list, for example, will be fairly simple to describe – there must be sufficient precision to satisfy the court or the right will be lost.
The court also rejected the claimed trade secret claim because Big Vision had made substantial disclosures to other manufacturers without securing confidentiality through agreements. Although Big Vision claimed that there was a general understanding in the industry that such disclosures were to be maintained as confidential, the court rejected that in light of the broad disclosures made to several different parties.
The lesson: keep your trade secrets a secret. If they need to be disclosed to a potential business partner or investor, make sure that confidentiality is well-secured by agreement. And, make sure that, even internally, confidentiality is maintained – such as by restricting access to certain employees, ensuring that key employees have signed confidentiality agreements, and using technical security measures (e.g., password protected computer files) to maintain the "secret" status.
The Court also noted that in 2009, Big Vision applied for a patent in India, and the disclosures of that patent were more detailed and precise than what had been made in the litigation and to DuPont. The whole basis of a patent system is public disclosure in exchange for a limited monopoly for qualified inventions; disclosures in patent application have thus long been held to destroy trade secret status.
The lesson: decide what you want to patent and what you want to maintain as a trade secret. Generally, one form of protection excludes the other.
All five elements of Big Vision's trade secret were well-known in the industry in which it operated. Big Vision claimed, however, that the combination of the five elements constituted a trade secret. True, a secret and commercially valuable combination of known elements can be protected as a trade secret (just as a novel, non-obvious combination of known elements might be protectable under patent law).
The problem, however, is that even the combination Big Vision claimed was "very nearly" disclosed in two patents owned by DuPont — one of which combined four out of the five elements, the other had a combination of four different elements.
The lesson: before suit, analyze what the trade secret adds to the body of knowledge known in the industry. In some fields, just as in a patent case, this may require study of patents and other "prior art" to ascertain whether the claimed trade secret differs in some "unique and not publicly known way" from what the rest of the industry does.
Indeed, in trade secret cases, this inquiry might require a broader inquiry, not only into "prior art" but also "later art." While patents can only be invalidated by what was known in the art at the time of filing, in sharp contrast, a trade secret that becomes public knowledge loses its trade secret status regardless of when the disclosure happened, even if made after the trade secret owner created and began exploiting the trade secret.
As discussed above, trade secret law focuses on how the defendant acquired access to the trade secret, not merely using or copying it. Under New York law, a party asserting a trade secret claim must show that "the defendants used that trade secret in breach of an agreement, confidential relationship or duty, or as a result of discovery by improper means." The Big Vision court had already ruled that DuPont did not breach the NDAs, so the first prong was not available.
Like all intellectual property rights, trade secret rights require due diligence to secure, maintain, enforce and litigate those rights. But because trade secret rights are a creature of the common law, and there are no administrative agencies like the PTO or the Copyright Office that oversee its administration, the potential pitfalls before litigation are greater.
For some businesses, trade secrets are their "crown jewels," and such businesses and their counsel have to take care at every step to ensure that these rights are not lost.
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a gloriously sunny january day.... i wander along the road past a young cormorant drying his out-stretched wings in the morning sun and head onto the coast path. it's wet and incredibly muddy, slippy and slidey, and although i hadn't planned to go swimming the sun feels strong and the sea is calling. i decide to head down to falmouth bay through the tangled network of little paths above arthur's beach. being winter and less overgrown it's actually possible to follow the tracks, although there are many branches tempting me in other directions. i follow my instinct and arrive at a sudden slope downwards. there are three ropes tied to the base of trees that you hold onto as if abseiling. when one runs out you pick up the next and then when that runs out there is another. seeing that they're well secured gives me the confidence to lean far back and swing down. it's incredibly fun and conjures up feelings and memories of my rock climbing adventures from way back. when i'm at the bottom i immediately want to do it again and again just for the experience.
this route brings me out onto arthur's beach and from there i clamber across the rocks to falmouth bay. it's bathed in a golden light, completely deserted and i take off my clothes. i'm just about to run into the sea when a man appears in the distance. i hesitate, then run, thinking i can be swimming before he gets any closer.... and his nearing presence is the motivation i need for a quick entry. it's cold but not unbearable and i swim as fast as i can out to a solitary rock only visible in this very low tide. i think the man might pass but he doesn't. he places his bag down quite a distance away and gets undressed. he wanders in up to his knees, seems to have a change of heart and then returns to the warmth of his woolly jumper. by now i'm a tad chilly and he's busy dressing so i seize the moment and run lightening fast to my scarf, which, today doubles as a towel. i wander around in my vest top and pants for quite a while as i dry off in the sun. i'm fully dressed and balance on one leg to dust the clinging sand off the sole of my other foot with the outside of my sock. the man approaches. he must be in his late seventies or eighties and he looks at me shaking his head, "that's a messy way of doin' it" he says in a strong cornish accent. with his stick he points out a flat rock with a little pool conveniently in front of it and explains that you can sit down, swish the sand off your feet in the water and do it that way. i'm not one who likes to be told how to do something so i continue as i am, swaying precariously on one leg whilst trying to keep up the conversation. he seems puzzled that i'm not acting on his advice so i tell him that i'll do this foot my way and the other foot his. immediately he gathers up my bag, my coat and the buoys i found earlier and walks them one by one and places them on his flat rock. i have to say- it's brilliant! it's comfy and you can have all your things next to you and the sand falls away effortlessly into the water and before you can blink the sun had dried your foot (well, not quite!) ....and you can leisurely pull your sock on and have a conversation at the same time, no problem. he looks like a man who's lived and learnt a bit.
he asks me if i'm an art student, "cos a lot come down 'ere," he says "but none as brave as you". i'm flattered and we get chatting. he's lived here all his life and between himself and two friends they regularly cut back the network of paths. i'd always wondered who tended to them and replaced the ropes when they became worn and frayed. he's a bit grumpy but he likes talking about his paths and takes me on a little tour of the ones that he proudly introduces as his own. we climb up above falmouth bay, his physical frailty and lack of breath become apparent but he mutters and swipes his stick at brambles with gusto. i gaze down on the rock i swam to and he waves his stick at things as if it were an extension of his pointing finger. he shows me where toads breed in the spring, we find a lone violet and he tells of his discovery of a rare orchid near where we are. he shows me a vast area of bracken and gorse and paints a picture of how it used to be when it was a luscious green field. there was once a big ramp for launching fishing boats which were towed down the paths by horses.
he mentions arthur and i ask if he means arthur as in arthur's beach. there is a big rock on the beach with 'arthur's beach' scrawled in yellow paint. it's been there for a long time gradually wearing away with every tide. "oh, yes", he says, "that's arthur for you. 'e daubed thaddon there". arthur is now in his seventies and isn't able to make it down to his beach as often as he used to. apparently he is known for saying to people, "had a good afternoon on ARTHUR'S beach have you?" and wandering off leaving them a bit perplexed. i imagine he's a bit of a character. i ask this man why arthur named the beach and he says loudly, "egotism" and then mutters, "all 'e's got goin' for 'im". so he's obviously not a big fan of the man! he looks at his watch and tells me it's 2pm and he'd like to go further but he has to get back home for his cup of tea. and without much of a goodbye he wanders off in the opposite direction, stick in the air, bashing brambles on either side as he goes.
i found 44 cowrie shells at dusk- some with a head torch after dark!
I enjoyed reading this and looking at your photos last night, whilst eating a bowl of yumptious chocolate and also licorice ice cream. Lovely to imagine the feelings of being in those situations...more vividly as it is places I know and love. Quite a character you met too. Very interesting to hear of he and his friends path maintenance role. Makes me want to share some photos from a February morning adventure I had, from Falmouth, all the way along to Trebah...back in 2008, when I was living by myself for a few months after Silje Camilla had gone back to Norway. Will see if I can find the photos and email them to you.
Posted the photos here instead: http://takemetotheriver.posterous.com/a-walk-i-took-nearly-five-years-ago I remember waking up really early and feeling very excited about what was in store.


In the US and Canada we will "fall back" into Standard Time on November 4th , If you have not updated your device previously, I would recommend doing to now. the Windows Mobile update can be found here.
You can download the update directly on your Windows Mobile device using Pocket Internet Explorer and this URL http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile.
The Windows Mobile mobile update page.
Last Saturday, I received a Verizon Samsung SCH-i760 Windows Mobile phone to review for pocketnow.com. This phone has an interesting form factor with a numeric phone keypad on the front and a sliding qwerty keyboard. It has a 400MHZ processor and will be an interesting comparison to my T-Mobile Wing's 260MHZ overclocked processor. This will be my first video review. The video reviews are usually made up of 6 clips lasting about 3 minutes. They detail the aspects and operation of the device. I posted the first in the series (the unboxing) today at pocketnow.com. This is an interesting medium, which requires more practice on my part...I am using my Sony DSC-W70 7.2 MP still camera to shoot the videos. I am consistently amazed at the quality of the videos it takes.
I finally finished my comparison of Windows Live Search 2.5 and Google Maps applications for Windows Mobile. During the process, I was amazed how much better Windows Live Search was than Google Maps. The article should get posted shortly on pocketnow.com.
These days it seems Apple makes news every couple of days. Today, the Wall Street Journal had article about Apple's new policy on the sale of iPhones. They will no longer accept cash and are limiting purchases to 2 units per person (the previous limit was 5). They are trying to stem the flow of sales to resellers. Tim Cook, Apple's COO mentioned in a conference call with analysts last week that Apple estimates that out of the 1.4 Million iPhone solds, 250,000 were purchased by customers intending to hack them (a fairly significant number). The iPhone dev team has finally put together a simple method to jailbreak version 1.1.1. Instructions can be found here. I may restore via iTunes this week and try it.
Work on part 1 and 2 of my video review of the SCH-i760.
I am also adding a Sirius satellite receiver to my BMW. After my navigation computer and radio tuner upgrade, this should be plug and play. The real work will be installing the antenna inside the X5's rear spoiler, but the X5world instructions are excellent.
Ilium Software just released version 2.1 of their free Tipster tip and tax calculator.
"Tipster 2.1 is fully optimized for Windows Mobile 5.0 and Windows Mobile 6, and is compatible with your Pocket PC (Windows Mobile Professional) or Smartphone (Windows Mobile Standard) device. Visit our free products page to download your copy of this great free application today!"
Microsoft just released a Windows Mobile update for Daylight Savings Time for both 5.0 and 6. I thought the DST fix was part of Windows Mobile 6, I guess I was wrong.
"This release updates time zone registry data for New Zealand and Western Australia in addition to US, Canada, and Mexico DST related issues in 2007."


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Effects of isoenergetic, low-fat diets on energy metabolism in lean and obese women
Lori R. Roust, Kris D. Hammel, Michael D. Jensen
Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism, and Nutrition
Whether changing from a high-fat diet to an isoenergetic, low-fat, high- complex-carbohydrate diet results in thermogenic benefits is controversial. Brief dietary interventions and failure to account for the potential influence of body-fat distribution on energy metabolism could have confounded the interpretation of previous studies. To address these issues, eight upper- body obese, seven lower-body obese, and eight non-obese premenopausal women underwent measurements of body composition, resting energy expenditure, overnight energy expenditure, and meal fat oxidation at the end of a weight- stabilizing, high-fat (42%) diet, and after 4 wk of an isoenergetic, low-fat (27%) diet. No change in body composition, resting energy expenditure, overnight energy expenditure, or meal fat oxidation occurred. We conclude that isoenergetic shifts from dietary fat to dietary carbohydrate within the generally recommended range have little or no effect on energy metabolism, and that body-fat distribution does not predict differences in energy expenditure.
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/60.4.470
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Fat-Restricted Diet Medicine & Life Sciences 100%
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Roust, L. R., Hammel, K. D., & Jensen, M. D. (1994). Effects of isoenergetic, low-fat diets on energy metabolism in lean and obese women. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 60(4), 470-475. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/60.4.470
Effects of isoenergetic, low-fat diets on energy metabolism in lean and obese women. / Roust, Lori R.; Hammel, Kris D.; Jensen, Michael D.
In: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 60, No. 4, 10.1994, p. 470-475.
Roust, LR, Hammel, KD & Jensen, MD 1994, 'Effects of isoenergetic, low-fat diets on energy metabolism in lean and obese women', American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 470-475. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/60.4.470
Roust LR, Hammel KD, Jensen MD. Effects of isoenergetic, low-fat diets on energy metabolism in lean and obese women. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 1994 Oct;60(4):470-475. doi: 10.1093/ajcn/60.4.470
Roust, Lori R. ; Hammel, Kris D. ; Jensen, Michael D. / Effects of isoenergetic, low-fat diets on energy metabolism in lean and obese women. In: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 1994 ; Vol. 60, No. 4. pp. 470-475.
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When I left Judy and Sucheta on Monday morning I was sad to be leaving them. I was off to Queenstown but was starting to resist it for some reason. I just wasn't in the mood to be back in civilization again, as much as Queenstown is civilization. I have mostly been in super small towns and mostly on my own, so going to the "city" was giving me a weird feeling.
I drove in and then just drove right out, haha. I just continued up the road 44km to Glenorchy all along the lake. It was stunning. I am so happy I did that. I think it is something most people miss. The mountains are massive and at the end there is a beautiful snowcap that I have no idea what the name is. I had a wonderful meal that the chef made special for me at the Glenorchy Cafe, the one with the brown sign. It was worth the trip just for that meal, nevermind the scenery.
I eventually headed back to Queenstown and then back out again to Arrowtown. There was supposed to be some fall festival there. There were a few events, but nothing that interesting. The town itself is pretty toursity. One touristy street of shops. I did a loop walk and then drove back to Queenstown for real this time. I checked into my hostel which was pretty nice. It was the Nomads hostel and it was purpose built as a hostel. They have some great lounges.
I took the Gondola up the hill to get a good view and took two runs on the louge they have there, super fun. I was met with tons of Brits and Irishmen working up there. It gave me a giggle for some reason. I milled around up there for a while enjoying the view. When I came down I walked all of the streets of the main area and had a great sandwich for dinner.


Starting from a random location outside a city and walking towards the centre, the camera, which is the companion of Wolfgang Lehrner in his explorations, is capturing moments of a journey to what he calls the world city. The artist undertakes his journeys following his gut feeling. The result to be seen by the viewer is not the artist's journey, but an accumulation of moving images recording seemingly accidental observations whilst the camera is not in motion. It is not the creator of the image who is in motion but what is filmed — provided there is an action to be documented. The immobile camera stands in opposition to the explorative moving of the artist and the reverberations of a city.


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Manchester United hero Dwight Yorke thinks his former side can beat Barcelona in the Champions League quarter-finals, but admits that dealing with Lionel Messi could be an impossible task.
The Red Devils host Barca in the first leg of the tie on Wednesday night at Old Trafford before traveling to Spain for the away leg on Tuesday 16 April.
The Catalans are the heavy favourites to progress to the semi-finals, as they sit 11 points clear at the top of La Liga.
However, Yorke believes United can cause the upset, despite the fact that Messi could prove unstoppable.
'I don't think we can stop Messi,' Yorke told United's official website. 'I think that you have got to concentrate on your game. I think we have to play the most near-perfect game to overcome Barcelona.
'We know that Messi is arguably the world's best footballer in our generation, and when you have that sort of mentality, it is always difficult.
'But I feel if we play the team collectively and we play to our potential, even with Messi's greatness, I think we may just have the edge on them.
United faced Barcelona in the 2009 and 2011 finals of the Champions League, losing on both occasions.
Messi scored in both contests, netting the second in a 2-0 win in '09 and in the 3-1 victory at Wembley in 2011.
The Argentine has scored 33 goals in 29 La Liga games this season.


A SHORT MIX FEATURING A FEW CHOICE VOCAL TRACKS..
Absolutley gorgeous mix and choice of records. Even more gorgeous than my Italian girlfriend!!!! You need to send me your records, so I can enjoy them as well!
Where do you get your tunes from? I use predominantly Redeye.
Thanks.. Yeah Redeye for me as well..
Any chance of another link?
Sorry only got it hosted on my mv2 page..


MU 001 Music Forum/Concert Attendance 0 cr.
Reserve 4 p.m. Tuesdays for the Music Department's Music Forum hour for student recitals, seminars and studio classes and provide a mechanism for grading concert attendance.
Note: Required for music majors. The course is repeated until seven "S" grades are achieved.


BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis screening of people living with HIV (PLHIV) can contribute to early tuberculosis diagnosis and improved patient outcomes. Evidence-based guidelines for tuberculosis screening are available, but literature assessing their implementation and the quality of clinical practice is scarce.
OBJECTIVES: To assess tuberculosis screening practices and the effectiveness of audit and performance feedback to improve quality of tuberculosis screening at HIV care clinics in Ghana.
DESIGN: Healthcare providers at 10 large HIV care clinics prospectively registered patient consultations during May and October 2014, before and after a performance feedback intervention in August 2014. The outcomes of interest were overall tuberculosis suspicion rate during consultations and provider adherence to the International Standards for Tuberculosis Care and the World Health Organizations' guidelines for symptom-based tuberculosis screening among PLHIV.
RESULTS: Twenty-one healthcare providers registered a total of 2,666 consultations; 1,368 consultations before and 1,298 consultations after the feedback intervention. Tuberculosis suspicion rate during consultation increased from 12.6 to 20.9% after feedback (odds ratio, OR 1.83; 95% confidence interval, CI: 1.09-3.09). Before feedback, sputum smear microscopy was requested for 58.7% of patients with suspected tuberculosis, for 47.2% of patients with cough ≥2 weeks, and for 27.5% of patients with a positive World Health Organization (WHO) symptom screen (any of current cough, fever, weight loss or night sweats). After feedback, patients with a positive WHO symptom screen were more likely to be suspected of tuberculosis (OR 2.21; 95% CI: 1.19-4.09) and referred for microscopy (OR 2.71; 95% CI: 1.25-5.86).
CONCLUSIONS: A simple prospective audit tool identified flaws in clinical practices for tuberculosis screening of PLHIV. There was no systematic identification of people with suspected active tuberculosis. We found low initial tuberculosis suspicion rate compounded by low referral rates of relevant patients for sputum smear microscopy. Adherence to recommended standards and guidelines for tuberculosis screening improved after performance feedback.


Classical music concerts by the Royal Danish Conservatory.
Home What's on Classical music concerts by the Royal Danish Conservatory.
Address Various venues across Copenhagen. See programme details under Onsdagskoncerter on the Royal Academy's website (in Danish).
Various venues across Copenhagen. See programme details under Onsdagskoncerter on the Royal Academy's website (in Danish).


We had our CCAN (Cambridgeshire Community Archives Network) executive committee meeting yesterday and some really positive things came out of it. CCAN has made such a big difference in moving forwards the digital capture and recording of archives in the county and we are looking forward to some great new CCAN groups joining us over the next few months.
Our AGM is coming up to which all CCAN groups are invited to come along and if they wish, bring a display. The AGM will in the conference room of the Central Library Cambridge, which is on the third floor right next to the Cambridgeshire Collection and opposite the café. The AGM will start at 2pm, on Thursday 7th April 2011, and Chris Jakes from the Cambs Collection will be giving us a talk on archives – and you will get chance to network with other CCAN groups from across the county, catch up on CCAN news and show off some of the things your groups have been doing. Look forward to seeing you there!!!
If you would like to know more about how to get involved with CCAN just use the Contact Me form, leave your name and number and I will get back to you.


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Elke Twiesselmann (* 31. Mai 1927 in Hamburg; † 28. September 2021 in Stuttgart) war eine deutsche Schauspielerin und Hörspielsprecherin.

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Elke Twiesselmann wurde am 31. Mai 1927 in Hamburg geboren. Nach ihrem Abitur studierte sie drei Semester Literatur und Kunstgeschichte an der Universität ihrer Geburtsstadt, danach ließ sie sich an der Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg zur Schauspielerin ausbilden. Twiesselmann hatte diverse Engagements an kleineren Bühnen, ehe sie 12 Jahre lang dem Ensemble des Schauspielhauses Bochum angehörte. 1972 wechselte sie ans Staatstheater Stuttgart, an dem sie später auch noch gastweise auftrat. 2018 wurde sie dort erneut Ensemblemitglied und stand bis 2020 als Maria Josefa in Bernarda Albas Haus unter Calixto Bieito und als Furie in der Orestie unter Robert Icke auf der Bühne.

Zu ihren Lieblingsrollen zählten nach eigenen Angaben die Hekabe in Euripides' Die Troerinnen und die Winnie in Glückliche Tage von Samuel Beckett. Sie spielte außerdem 1973 in der Uraufführung von Franz Xaver Kroetz' Wunschkonzert und von 2008 bis 2018 an der Staatsoper Stuttgart die alte Papagena in Mozarts Zauberflöte. 2015 sah man Twiesselmann an der Württembergischen Landesbühne Esslingen in einer Inszenierung von Goethes Faust mit nur zwei weiblichen Darstellerinnen, in der sie Mephisto, Wagner und Gretchen verkörperte. Gemeinsam mit der Sängerin und Musikerin Wilma Heuken rezitierte Twiesselmann ab 2000 Texte der Dichterin Mascha Kaléko.

Elke Twiesselmann arbeitete daneben gelegentlich auch für das Fernsehen. Ihr Debüt gab sie dabei 1968 in Helga Feddersens erstem Fernsehspiel Vier Stunden von Elbe 1 in der Rolle der Elli Andresen. Diese verkörperte sie auch in den beiden nachfolgenden Produktionen Gezeiten und Im Fahrwasser, für die Helga Feddersen ebenfalls die Drehbücher schrieb. Neben weiteren Gastauftritten in St. Pauli-Landungsbrücken, Onkel Bräsig oder der Tatort-Folge Rot – rot – tot erlangte sie durch die wiederum von Helga Feddersen verfasste Serie Kümo Henriette große Popularität, in der sie in 28 Folgen als Margot Petermann eine der Hauptrollen spielte.

Ab 1959 war Elke Twiesselmann auch Gast in zahlreichen Hörfunkproduktionen, unter anderem sprach sie 1966 in den Folgen 1 und 2 des Kriminalspiels Paul Temple und der Fall Genf und 1969 die Titelfigur in Goethes Iphigenie auf Tauris. Daneben unterrichtete sie 24 Jahre lang im Fach "Rollenstudium" an der Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart.

Filmografie
 1968: Vier Stunden von Elbe 1
 1970: Gezeiten
 1971: Im Fahrwasser
 1975: Dein gutes Recht – Frau Flugkapitän
 1978: Tatort – Rot – rot – tot
 1979–1982: Kümo Henriette
 1980: St. Pauli-Landungsbrücken – Walter und Erni
 1980: Onkel Bräsig – Die drei Bräute
 1984: Kolp
 1985: Als Amerikaner darfst du alles
 1986: Der Tod des weißen Marabut: Die bewegende Lebensgeschichte des Charles de Foucauld
 1986: Zweikampf
 1989: Liebe, Tod und Eisenbahn
 2009: SOKO Stuttgart – Judaslohn
 2014: SOKO Stuttgart – Der Priester ist tot

Hörspiele (Auswahl)
 1959: Eine Geschichte, die das Leben schrieb – Autor: Wolfgang Altendorf – Regie: Peter Arthur Stiller
 1959: Vier Elefanten auf dem Lampenschirm – Autor: Mark Burns – Regie: Peter Arthur Stiller
 1966: Paul Temple und der Fall Genf (1. und 2. Teil) – Autor: Francis Durbridge – Regie: Otto Düben
 1969: Iphigenie auf Tauris – Autor: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Regie: Ulrich Lauterbach
 1973: Das Faß – Autor: Michael Judge – Regie: Klaus Mehrländer
 1975: Anika auf dem Flugplatz – Autor: Gert Loschütz – Regie: Otto Düben
 1976: Etuden – Autorin: Barbara König – Regie: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell
 1980: Das Buddelkastenschiff – Autor: Johannes Schenk – Regie: Otto Düben
 1984: Hund und Katze – Autor: Robert Thomas – Regie: Andreas Weber-Schäfer
 1987: Dry Manhattan – Autor: Henry Slesar – Regie: Albrecht Surkau
 2000: Das Wasser in Capri – Autor: Martin Mosebach – Regie: Norbert Schaeffer
 2008: Kaliningrader Nacht – Autorin: Julia Schoch – Regie: Ulrich Lampen
 2014: Snapshots of War – Autoren: Hugo Rendler und Inka Bach – Regie: Kirstin Petri
 2015: Die Malaussène-Trilogie – Autor: Daniel Pennac – Regie: Philippe Bruehl

Weblinks

 Website von Three Times A Lady

Einzelnachweise

Theaterschauspieler
Filmschauspieler
Hörspielsprecher
Deutscher
Geboren 1927
Gestorben 2021
Frau

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"I promise." She nodded and the two were on their way to an entrance of the mine.
Hooking a grapple between two rocks, Em descended into the narrow entrance and Jay soon
followed. Clicking a light on from the helmet on her goggles that illuminated the solid hard rock
walls. The two continued in silence, following the trail full of twists and turn through the hallow
mine tunnels that Captain Horatio had instructed them. Soon they stood at and entrance of a
"This must be one of the places they keep the diamonds," Em said, unshouldering the
bag she had been carrying, and taking out the tools to start picking apart the safe. Jay looked
down the dark holes cautiously peering for intruders.
"Got it," she said, slowly opening the safe to reveal mounds of shiny white diamonds.
"Let's get in our sacks and high tail outta here!"
"Agreed," said Em. Soon, the two were scurrying down the tunnels of the mines, heading
back to the ship. Suddenly they heard a gun cock, stopping them in their tracks.
"Turn around slowly please," a firm voice said. Jay instantly looked down at the rifle in
his hand, then looked over at Em. She had a look of plea in her face. Suddenly, Jay's face was
splattered with a sly mirk, as he mouthed words to Em. She nodded, slowly turned around, and
did a quick tornado kick, knocking the gun out of the intruder's hands and kicking it away from
him. Jay then turned around, and pointed his gun at him.
"Don't move."
"Let's get out of here Jay." However, he stood locked, rifle in hand, pointed to the man.
"Jay!" Em shouted. Suddenly there was a shot, and the man fell wounded to the floor.
Em looked at Jay in horror, who looked equally as horrified. He hadn't fired that shot!
"Are ya two gonna stand there all day?" Max asked.
"You shot him!" yelled Jay.
Transcript "I promise." She nodded and the two were on their way to an entrance of the mine. Hooking a grapple between two rocks, Em descended into the narrow entrance and Jay soon followed. Clicking a light on from the helmet on her goggles that illuminated the solid hard rock walls. The two continued in silence, following the trail full of twists and turn through the hallow mine tunnels that Captain Horatio had instructed them. Soon they stood at and entrance of a safe. "This must be one of the places they keep the diamonds," Em said, unshouldering the bag she had been carrying, and taking out the tools to start picking apart the safe. Jay looked down the dark holes cautiously peering for intruders. "Got it," she said, slowly opening the safe to reveal mounds of shiny white diamonds. "Let's get in our sacks and high tail outta here!" "Agreed," said Em. Soon, the two were scurrying down the tunnels of the mines, heading back to the ship. Suddenly they heard a gun cock, stopping them in their tracks. "Turn around slowly please," a firm voice said. Jay instantly looked down at the rifle in his hand, then looked over at Em. She had a look of plea in her face. Suddenly, Jay's face was splattered with a sly mirk, as he mouthed words to Em. She nodded, slowly turned around, and did a quick tornado kick, knocking the gun out of the intruder's hands and kicking it away from him. Jay then turned around, and pointed his gun at him. "Don't move." "Let's get out of here Jay." However, he stood locked, rifle in hand, pointed to the man. "Jay!" Em shouted. Suddenly there was a shot, and the man fell wounded to the floor. Em looked at Jay in horror, who looked equally as horrified. He hadn't fired that shot! "Are ya two gonna stand there all day?" Max asked. "You shot him!" yelled Jay. 30


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Jamal Khashoggi: Turkey charges 20 Saudis over journalist's murder
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Turkey has charged 20 suspects over the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in October 2018.
Prosecutors said an indictment accused former Saudi Deputy Intelligence Chief Ahmad Asiri and former royal aide Saud al-Qahtani with instigating the murder.
The 18 others are accused of carrying out the "deliberate and monstrous killing" inside the Saudi consulate.
Western intelligence agencies believe it was ordered by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman -- something he denies.
The secret tapes of Jamal Khashoggi's murder
Jamal Khashoggi: All you need to know about his death
A United Nations special rapporteur says Khashoggi was "the victim of a deliberate, premeditated execution, an extrajudicial killing for which the state of Saudi Arabia is responsible".
At the time of his death the 59-year-old worked for the Washington Post and had become a prominent critic of the Saudi government.
Saudi authorities blamed a "rogue operation" for Khashoggi's death. In December, a court in the kingdom sentenced five unnamed people to death and jailed three more over the murder.
What are the charges?
According to the indictments, announced by prosecutors in Istanbul on Wednesday, Ahmad Asiri and Saud al-Qahtani were charged with "instigating the deliberate and monstrous killing, causing torment". Image copyright Reuters Image caption A UN expert has called for an independent and impartial international inquiry
The prosecutors' statement accused 18 others of carrying out the killing - including a member of the Saudi Royal Guard, a forensics expert, and a Saudi intelligence official who has travelled with Crown Prince Mohammed in the past.
The charges were based on witness statements, an analysis of Khashoggi's digital devices, and records of the people entering and leaving Turkey, the statement said.
Saudi Arabia has not yet made a public comment about the indictments.
What happened to Jamal Khashoggi?
The journalist -- who had gone into self-imposed exile in the US in 2017 -- went to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October 2018, seeking papers to marry his fiancée Hatice Cengiz.
Media captionMohammed bin Salman is asked: "Did you order the murder of Jamal Khashoggi?"
Investigators believe that as she waited outside, the 59-year-old was murdered and then dismembered. Khashoggi's remains have never been found.
The gruesome killing shocked the world and UN Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard said there was credible evidence that Crown Prince Mohammed and other high-level Saudi officials were individually liable.
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Damaging Hurricane Harvey settles in over southeast Texas
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — Hurricane Harvey settled over southeast Texas early Saturday, lashing the state's Gulf Coast with damaging winds and dumping torrents of rain over hundreds of miles of coastline that braced for what forecasters predicted would be life-threatening storm surges — basically walls of water moving inland.
The fiercest hurricane to hit the U.S. in more than a decade made landfall the previous night about 30 miles northeast of Corpus Christi as a Category 4 storm with 130 mph winds. It gradually weakened over the next several hours and the National Hurricane Center said that by 3 a.m. Harvey was back to a Category 2 — still sustaining winds of 110 mph.
Harvey's approach sent tens of thousands of residents fleeing inland, hoping to escape the wrath of a menacing storm that threatens not only the coast but a wide swath of Texas that is home to oil refineries, chemical plants and dangerously flood-prone Houston, the nation's fourth-largest city.
No deaths were immediately confirmed in the hours after Harvey's arrival, but officials noted emergency crews couldn't get out in many places due to high winds. Melissa Munguia, deputy emergency management coordinator in Nueces County, which includes Corpus Christi, said early Saturday that it could be hours before crews could fully assess the damage in coastal communities.
Early reports did begin to emerge from Rockport, a coastal city of about 10,000 people that was directly in Harvey's path when it came ashore. Officials confirmed that the roof of Rockport's high school had partially caved in and that the community's historic downtown saw extensive damage.
Harvey came ashore as the fiercest hurricane to hit the U.S. in 13 years and the strongest to strike Texas since 1961's Hurricane Carla, the most powerful Texas hurricane on record.
A worst case scenario is that the hurricane could hug the coast for days and stay strong enough to be a tropical storm through Wednesday at least. During this meandering time, the storm will likely dump 2 feet to 3 feet of rain, often on areas that don't handle much smaller rainfall amounts well.
It may also spawn tornadoes. Even after weakening, the system might spin out into the Gulf and regain strength before hitting Houston a second time Wednesday as a tropical storm, forecasters said.
All seven Texas counties on the coast from Corpus Christi to the western end of Galveston Island ordered mandatory evacuations from low-lying areas. Four counties ordered full evacuations and warned there was no guarantee of rescue for people staying behind.
State officials said they had no count on how many people actually left their homes.
Associated Press writers Michael Graczyk, Juan Lozano and Nomaan Merchant in Houston; Seth Borenstein and Catherine Lucey in Washington; and Diana Heidgerd, Jamie Stengle, David Warren, Claudia Lauer and Terry Wallace in Dallas contributed to this report.
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What exactly does "keeping it real" mean? The meaning lays in keeping. How do you not only grow an audience, but how do you keep them coming back for more? If you have been around for years, how do you keep your material fresh? How do you continue to keep blogging fun? Blogging is fun for me because I am able to talk about two of the most important things in my life- books and teaching. This also easily lends itself to keeping things fresh because every day of teaching is a new adventure and amazing books are coming out every day. As for building an audience, I just try really hard to be as real as possible and just put truth in my reviews. I also work really hard in considering the best ways that each book I read could be utilized in the classroom. I want to help teachers out there and be someone that people go to if they need help. This has completely made me rethink how I read books. I hope all of this allows for my readers to want to come back for more.
What are the top 5 (or more) books that every child should have on his shelf? If you are an adult who reads YA, why do you keep going back for more? If you are not a reader of these books, think back to your childhood and share your favorites from your younger years. Books molded my childhood and shared all of these with my "Books I'm Thankful For" post this Thanksgiving. I think there isn't a set 5 books that kids NEED to have because it is so important to find the right books for the right kids. Although there are a set couple of books that I buy for parents when I go to baby showers: Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester, Where the Wild Things are by Maurice Sendak, Jon Klassen's Hat books, Willems's Elephant and Piggie books, and the classic Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown. Though some other reads that I'll probably add to this list is Each Kindness by Woodson, Because Amelia Smiled by Stein, Peter H. Reynold's books, and Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon by Patty Lovell.
What exactly does "keeping it real" mean? The meaning lays in keeping. How do you not only grow an audience, but how do you keep them coming back for more? If you have been around for years, how do you keep your material fresh? How do you continue to keep blogging fun? Honestly, when it comes to blogging, I just share what I think and try to have fun doing it. As I've visited other blogs during Armchair BEA, it has been fun to see new book bloggers and read about how they just loved books so much that they wanted to devote a blog just to talking about books. That's why I started and I think why so many of us started really. Book bloggers seem to be powerfully passionate about books and I believe that if you are blogging about something you are passionate about, just be yourself, share your love, and that's what's important. That's how you keep it real.
What are the top 5 (or more) books that every child should have on his shelf? If you are an adult who reads YA, why do you keep going back for more? If you are not a reader of these books, think back to your childhood and share your favorites from your younger years. This is my kind of question! My plan is to give my sons one of my favorite books at the beginning of every school year. I wrote about which books I plan to give them over at the Nerdy Book Club blog. Check out my Book-School Year Tradition post to see which books made my list!
We are so sad that this week is almost over. We are having a blast!


UEFA have opened a Financial Fair Play investigation into Paris Saint-Germain. The French club have had an extravagant transfer window, sewing up a deal for Kylian Mbappe and breaking the transfer record for Neymar.
Friday's announcement from European football's governing body said it would look at whether PSG had violated the regulations, which are designed to prevent football clubs spending more than they earn.
"The investigation will focus on compliance of the club with the break-even requirement, particularly in light of its recent transfer activity," a statement from UEFA read.
Punishments for breaches of FFP range from warnings and fines through to points deductions or banishment from UEFA competitions. PSG are in this season's Champions League.
"The club is surprised by such a decision since it constantly kept UEFA's financial Fair Play teams informed of the impact of all the player transfers carried out this summer despite not being obliged to do so," PSG said in a statement.
The French club have been among Europe's biggest spenders since a Qatari takeover in 2011. They have fallen foul of the regulations before and were fined €60 million (€40 million of which was suspended) in 2014. They were only freed from the associated restrictions in April.
Last year's Ligue 1 runners up signed Brazilian striker Neymar from Barcelona for a world-record €222 million ($264 million) on August 3 and completed a loan move for Kylian Mbappe on Thursday in a deal that includes an option to buy the French teenager for 180 million euros.


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Darryl Issa (R-CA)has generally not been a major player on immigration. The House Oversight Committee Chairman has been tasked with crafting a skilled immigration bill that will be considered by the House Judiciary Committee. The news is generally considered good for those in favor of skilled worker immigration. From The Hill:
Issa's involvement is welcome news to the tech industry, which has
viewed him as an ally since he helped lead the successful fight in
Congress against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). In effect, they get
to work with one of their closest GOP allies on the immigration issue
that they care about the most.
"From a tech industry perspective, we have a very strong relationship
with Congressman Issa. We've worked on a lot of issues with him over the
years, including intellectual property issues," said Peter Muller,
director of government relations at Intel. "There's a good strong
relationship and we think he'd be a good person to work with on
immigration."
Tech representatives also say Issa understands
their perspective on the issue, citing his past work on similar
legislation in the Judiciary Committee and background as an
entrepreneur. Before his days in Congress, Issa founded a company that
makes anti-theft devices for cars.
Tech insiders acknowledge that the House bill presents them with the
opportunity to push for provisions -- particularly on the H-1B program --
that they might not be able to secure in the Senate version.


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Ten civilians, including as many as seven children, and no terrorists were killed in Kabul by a drone strike on August 29th, 2021 that the Pentagon had hailed initially as "righteous," the Pentagon announced Friday. 9/17/2021
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"Ten members of one family — including seven children — are dead after a US drone strike targeting a vehicle in a residential neighborhood of Kabul . . .
"The youngest victims of Sunday's airstrike were two 2-year-old girls, according to family members.
"Relatives found the remains of one of the girls, Malika, in the rubble near their home on Monday."
Ho hum, life goes on — especially if you call it collateral damage and refuse to imagine the corpse of your own loved one lying in the rubble. The deaths, described in a brief CNN story, resulted from a retaliatory airstrike following the ISIS suicide bombing at the Kabul airport last week, as the U.S. was allegedly ending its 20-year war with Afghanistan . . . 80,000 bombs dropped, several hundred thousand people killed, 2.3 trillion dollars wasted, a country left utterly shattered and impoverished.
The secret to waging war, especially endless war, involves sweeping all this cold, hard data out of the public consciousness. It also involves maintaining a total disconnect between one's own acts of violence and those perpetrated by the enemy (the enemy is motivated solely by immoral interests, not by retaliatory outrage). And above all, perhaps, it involves never acknowledging one's own economic and geopolitical interests in a given conflict, but endlessly blathering about our ideals and the need to "fulfill our mission." Indeed, in Afghanistan, as in Iraq (or Vietnam), our mission could have been code-named Casper the Friendly Ghost, so lacking was it in actual substance.
Such rules, of course, must be followed not simply by governmental spokespersons but by the mainstream media. If we all love our wars, we won't be living in a "divided nation."
For instance, the New York Times editorial board, a leading cheerleader of the war on terror from start to finish, recently lamented the tragic nature of the war's ending thus:
"The rapid reconquest of the capital, Kabul, by the Taliban after two decades of a staggeringly expensive, bloody effort to establish a secular government with functioning security forces in Afghanistan is, above all, unutterably tragic.
"Tragic because the American dream of being the 'indispensable nation' in shaping a world where the values of civil rights, women's empowerment and religious tolerance rule proved to be just that: a dream."
The takeaway here, of course, is that nothing has been learned, the annual U.S. military budget is still in the neighborhood of a trillion dollars, and China looms as our potential next enemy — that is, the challenger to our global idealism. We want to empower women, for God's sake, and we'll drop as many bombs as necessary to give them — at least those who survive — the right to get an education.
What seems not to be part of the editorial board's sense of unutterable tragedy is this:
"At the conclusion of twenty years of occupation and at a cost of one to two trillion dollars," write Ben Phillips and Jonathan Glennie at Inter Press Service, "Afghanistan has been left the poorest country per capita in Asia; the number of Afghans in poverty has doubled; half of the population is dependent on humanitarian assistance; half lack access to drinkable water; poppy cultivation has trebled and opium production is at its height."
And as Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies point out, "Even as UN agencies warn of an impending humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, the U.S. Treasury has frozen nearly all of the Afghan Central Bank's $9.4 billion in foreign currency reserves, depriving the new government of funds that it will desperately need in the coming months to feed its people and provide basic services.
". . .instead of atoning for our role in keeping most Afghans mired in poverty, Western leaders are now cutting off desperately needed economic and humanitarian aid that was funding three quarters of Afghanistan's public sector and made up 40 percent of its total GDP."
While President Biden's decision to end the 20-year war is necessary and no doubt politically courageous, it's not enough. Many — perhaps a majority — of Americans know this, but . . . so what? Militarism, and its corporate beneficiaries, still rule, basically with a public shrug of "that's just the way it is."
This. Must. Change.
And I believe the time for change is now. The American empire is floundering in chaos of its own making and progressives are claiming political traction. After Biden announced the withdrawal, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) tweeted: "America's longest war is finally over. As we continue working to help our allies and welcome Afghan refugees with open arms, let's also commit to stopping endless wars once and for all."
And Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-California) said, "The answer cannot be more war and violence. The answer cannot be launching more ineffective and unaccountable counterterrorism operations." She added, according to Truthout, that the United States "owes it to all those who lost their lives to not commit the same mistakes" in the wake of Sept. 11.
Let us not let such words evaporate as soon as we declare our next enemy. Simply suggesting change — wishing and hoping for it — is never adequate. Overcoming war is probably as enormous an effort as waging it, and perhaps one place to start is with . . . get ready: a truth commission. Truly, truly the time has come to make all the realities of war, horrific and otherwise, fully public,
Let's open the books, declassify the secrets and lies, let our vets talk about PTSD and moral injury, let refugees talk about loved ones found in the rubble, let the corporate militarists disclose their finances, and demand full coverage by the media.
The first step in ending war is seeing it for what it is. I realize how terrifying this must seem to those who have secrets to hide, to those who have accepted the façade of idealism — "we're fighting for freedom!" — and allowed this façade to justify murder. But the point isn't condemnation. The point is transcendence.
Robert Koehler is an award-winning, Chicago-based journalist and nationally syndicated writer. His book, Courage Grows Strong at the Wound is available. Contact him or visit his website at commonwonders.com.
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Applications for a forum were already submitted by the famous ceramists from Russia, Uzbekistan, Bulgaria and India which intend "to grow up" in the botanical garden "fiery flowers".
Is noted that the action is dated for carrying out in NBS of the All-Russian scientific and practical conference "Modern Problems and Topical Issues of a Lesovedeniye, Dendrology, Parkovedeniye and Landscape Architecture". "Especially for its participants recognized ceramists will hold the presentations and master classes, will show really boundless opportunities of use of ceramics in landscape and park design and will take part in laying of a thematic garden of magnolias", - the director of a botsad Yury Plugatar has told.
It has assumed that unique plants of NBS and its landscapes will inspire artists-ceramists on creation of uncommon works. "The Nikitsky garden is full of riddles and secrets, in its avenues is where to get lost to imagination. We will wait from masters of ceramics of works, full love and respect for the nature and a garden", - Plugatar has emphasized.
In return one of founders of a festival Alexander Shekhanin has noted that the most responsible part of the program will lay down on shoulders of 12 invited participating ceramists who, having broken on couples, will create six works from shamotny clay, height of each of which will exceed one and a half meters. Ready sculptures after roasting will be under the open sky established in various corners of the Nikitsky garden.


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What is Chicana scholarship?
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Works by Gloria Anzaldua, Ana Castillo, Emma Perez, and the anthology, Building with Our Hands: New Directions in Chicana Studies, have been most influential in my development as a Chicana sociologist. As racial/ethnic women scholars, I feel our works are attempts to explore our realities and identities (since academic institutions omit, erase, distort and falsify them) and to unbuild and rebuild them. Our writings and scholarship, built on earlier waves of feminism, continue to critique and to directly address dominant culture and "white" feminism. However, our works also attest to the fact that we are now concentrating on our own projects, our own agendas, our own theories, in other words on our own world views. This process is recognized by racial/ethnic scholars as "de colonization of the voice." For others, it is considered unscholarly, unscientific; words of colonization associated with a monocultural society.
Chicana scholarship reveals our struggles as Chicanas in the United States, and expresses in a society which attempts to render us invisible. Historically, Chicana voices have not been chronicled. They have gone largely unnoticed and undocumented. In spite of the academic claims of "value-free inquiry," Chicanas have not been deemed worthy of study. When they have been studied, stereotypes and distortions have prevailed. Yet Chicanas have spoken out around kitchen tables, in factories, labor camps, in community and political organizations, at union meetings. Rooted in the political climate of the late 1960s and early 1970s, our scholarship, like other currents of dissent is a Chicana critique of cultural, political, and economic conditions in the United States. It is influenced by the tradition of advocacy scholarship, which challenges the claims of objectivity and links research to community concerns and social change. It is driven by a passion to place the Chicana, as speaking subject, at the center of intellectual discourse.
Although we are all trained in traditional disciplines, our intellectual enterprise compels us to stretch our disciplinary boundaries, discover new methodologies, and formulate new directions in theory building, in order to comprehend our complex position in a society stratified along lines of class, race/ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. Chicana academics work many angles of academia; a situation imposed by the need to maintain our presence in our own disciplines, our historical roots in Chicana studies, our political interest in women's studies and feminist theory and our own "protected" space.
The vitality in Chicana scholarship springs from its insistence on developing new categories of analysis that reshape and expand established intellectual boundaries. For the first time in the short history of Chicana/o scholarship, a visible, viable group of Chicana academics are confronting the complex intersection of class, race/ethnicity, gender, and sexuality in their scholarship.
Over the past twenty years Chicana scholarship, its development and establishment, has been and continues to be a struggle for representation and voice in the realm of knowledge. Obviously, I would want to see this knowledge contribute to change not only in our own communities but in the larger society. But, like most scholarship, ours is not developed in a vacuum. Its most important contribution has been the integration of a gender analysis of the Chicana/o experience. The methods of investigation of Chicana/o lives, both past and present, are being seriously questioned, challenged, and tested. And they continue to be part of a larger academic process in building theory and seeking new methodological approaches. Chicana scholarship has not only contributed to the building of knowledge about the Chicana/o experience but has also helped Chicanas develop as scholars.
I view my own work as part of a larger collective effort in building Chicana scholarship. My book, Understanding Older Chicanas: Sociological and Policy Perspective, (Sage, 1996), is such an effort. In this book, I attempt to provide a feminist perspective of the socioeconomic conditions of older Chicana lives with an interpretation of their cultural expressions. The work defines and describes the parameters under which older Chicanas/Mexicanas socially construct the meaning of old age. It is an attempt to understand the meaning older Chicanas attribute to their total life situations. The book provides an analysis of how feminism and gender simultaneously structure individual and collective experiences for older Chicanas.
In addition to my work on older Chicanas, my research interests have turned toward understanding the relationship between socialism, nationalism, and feminism in Cuba. Currently I am working on a manuscript titled, Jineteras: Gender and Sexuality in Post-Soviet Cuba. With respect to teaching, I find the classroom an exciting pedagogical arena. For racial/ethnic scholars, I feel our greatest challenge is defining, establishing, and maintaining ourselves as activist scholars within an institution in which we have not had legitimate presence. Obviously, achievements have been made, but there are also major obstacles confronting our work. As the educational pipeline narrows, the works of racial/ethnic scholars speaks to the contradictions they face in their lives that threaten and mold the future direction of their scholarship. Within these contradictions of barriers and success, acceptance and disdain, recognition and indifference, our scholarship will be produced and will continue to flourish.
—Elisa Facio, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies
Dr. Facio served MALCS as chair during 1996-97 and 2001-02
* "The Queering of Chicana Studies: Philosophy, Text and Image," in Reversing the Lens, Ethnicity, Race, Gender and Sexuality Through Film (Eds). Jun Xing and Lane R. Hirabayashi. University Press of Colorado, 2003: pgs. 185-195.
* "Jineterismo during the Special Period," in Global Development Series. Vol. 1, Numbers 3-4, 1999; pgs. 57-78. Reprinted in Cuban Transitions at the Millennium (Eds). Eloise Linger and John Cotman. International Development Options, 2000: pgs. 55-74.
* Understanding Older Chicanas: Sociological and Public Policy Perspectives . Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, CA, 1996.
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