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My schedule at Readercon 30
Posted on June 2, 2019 June 2, 2019 by svourvoulias
At the Mundos Alternos reading at the Queens Museum 5/19/19.
Who knew back in 2012 when I started going to Readercon that I'd come to think of it as my home convention — even when going home, in this instance, means traveling 3+ hours from Philadelphia to the Boston-adjacent town of Quincy where this most literary of speculative fiction conventions takes place.
But it really does feel like a homecoming every time I go, and I even have a super eclectic playlist I listen to as I settle into the café car of the Amtrak Northeast Regional.
This year Readercon takes place July 11 through July 15, and the Guests of Honor are Tananarive Due and Stephen Graham Jones, so if you've never attended, it'd be a great year to go. Register here.
I am scheduled to be on the following panels at Readercon and, if you are there, I'd love to see/meet you:
Latinx Authors Tear Down the Wall
Lisa Bradley (mod), Carlos Hernandez, José Pablo Iriarte, Julia Rios, Sabrina Vourvoulias
Fri 2:00 PM, Salon 4
Isolationist governments portray immigrants (and citizens perceived as foreigners) as vectors for disease, crime, and terrorism. Currently, the U.S. administration is demonizing Latinx immigrants in this fashion, and oppressing asylum-seekers from Central America. How can authors dismantle anti-immigrant myths while portraying immigrants in all their human complexity? Led by Lisa M. Bradley, Latinx writers will discuss their work regarding borders and immigration, providing historical context and exploring possibilities for future stories.
Why Does Space Get the Opera and Cyber the Punk?
Liz Gorinsky, Austin Grossman, Catherynne M. Valente, Sabrina Vourvoulias, T.X. Watson (mod)
For Arisia's 50 Panels in 75 Minutes panel in 2018, Cecilia Tan suggested "Why Does Space Get the Opera and Cyber the Punk?", which was universally acclaimed as too good for 1.5 minutes. Our panelists will give this exploration of speculative and musical genres the full hour it deserves. (And where is the spacepunk and cyber opera?)
Reading: Sabrina Vourvoulias
Fri 9:00 PM, Salon C
Incorporating the Media into Fantasy Worlds
Zig Zag Claybourne, Randee Dawn, L. Penelope (mod), Sabrina Vourvoulias, Paul Weimer
Sat 11:00 AM, Salon B
From the 24-hour news cycle to online journalism, the media plays an enormous role in our society, but it tends to make less of an appearance in fantasy works. L. Penelope will lead a discussion on how authors incorporate the media into their fantasy writing, as well as the challenges and benefits of doing so.
I Don't Know Why I'm on This Panel
Jeffrey Ford, Elizabeth Hand, Arkady Martine, Cecilia Tan (mod), Sabrina Vourvoulias
Sat 2:00 PM, Salon 4
This phrase is often spoken during panelist introductions at conventions. In this case it's literally true: the panelists have no idea why the program staff have put them on a panel together or what they're supposed to discuss. They may try to figure it out, or they may have a totally unstructured chat for an hour. Either way, it's sure to be entertaining.
Food at the Corner of Fiction and Community
N.S. Dolkart, Andrea Martinez Corbin (mod), Greer Gilman, Michael Swanwick, Sabrina Vourvoulias
Sat 9:00 PM, Salon A
Food plays a central role in many cultures and accordingly takes center stage in the work of many speculative fiction writers. How does cuisine help define, or build, a community? How can food be used to communicate important information about a people to the reader? What are some particularly noteworthy examples of the way food can be used to set, or subvert, expectations?
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Who's going to be at Readercon 2018?
Posted on July 1, 2018 July 1, 2018 by svourvoulias
Looking forward to attending Readercon July 12-15 in Quincy, Mass. If you are there, and you see me around, stop and say hello!
These are the panels I'm scheduled to be part of:
❧ Writers who edit, editors who write – Thursday, 8 p.m.
Those who edit as a full-time job rarely do much writing on the side, but many full-time writers bolster their incomes through editing. Why does this equation seem to function better in one direction than the other? How do writers who edit avoid the pitfalls experienced by editors who write? What can be done to address an ever-widening taste gap, and the tendency to self-edit into the ground?
Panelists: Julia Rios, Mimi Mondal, John Edward Lawson, Mike Allen, Scott Edelman and me.
❧ La Sagrada Chingonez: The sacred badassery of Latinx speculative fiction – Friday, 3 p.m.
David Bowles once dubbed me one of a number of "sacerdotisas de la sagrada chingonez" (priestesses of the sacred badassery). The term implies a religion of dogged persistence, of speaking up and out, of fucking with the status quo/system/hegemony, of acknowledging the vastness of Latinx badassery and reveling in it. This panel will bring together some of the practitioners of la sagrada chingonez to talk about what 2018 holds for Latinx writers and readers of speculative works.
Panelists: Julia Rios, José Pablo Iriarte, Malka Older, Pablo Defendini and me.
❧ Radical Elders – Friday, 9 p.m.
On the page, as in GOH Nisi Shawl's Everfair, and in real life, as in the careers of authors such as Ursula K. Le Guin, elders are speaking their minds and upsetting the status quo. How can age intersect with radicalism and pioneering thought? How is the cognitive estrangement of aging relevant to speculative fiction and fannish communities, and what's the best way of acknowledging that relevance?
Panelists: Barbara Krasnoff, Elizabeth Hand, James Patrick Kelly, Rosemary Kirstein and me.
❧ Reading – Saturday, 12:30 p.m.
I'll be reading "The Life and Times of Johnny the Fox," a short story that will appear in Outland Publication's Knaves anthology in November. Johnny the Fox is a character readers first met in my story "Skin in the Game" published in 2014 at Tor.com. You can read that here.
Take a look at all of Readercon's programming here.
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Weird and speculative at Readercon 28
Posted on July 20, 2017 by svourvoulias
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Readercon schedule
Photo from the Amtrak Café car n route to Readercon three years ago.
I'm headed to Readercon 28 next week and I just got my schedule.
Pre-Readercon:
Reading, etc. 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
With Max Gladstone and Yoon Ha Lee at Pandemonium Books and Games in Cambridge, MA (4 Pleasant St.). This event is free and open to public. Click here to get more info.
At Readercon:
Our Dystopia – 1 p.m.
Since the election, many on the left have been calling attention to George Orwell's 1984 as a missed warning. Guest of Honor Nnedi Okorafor said in a radio interview that she believes Octavia Butler's The Parable of the Sower is a more appropriate dystopia for our current climate. Orwell's Animal Farm, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, and other books have also warned of surreal authoritarianism. Do they map to our current world or are we projecting? What other books have warnings for us that we might heed?
Panelists: Susan Bigelow (leader), Cameron Roberson, Tui Sutherland, Gordon Van Gelder, Sabrina Vourvoulias.
Reading – 7 p.m.
I'll be reading my short story "Sin Embargo" which was published in the anthology Latin@ Rising in early 2017.
"In 'Sin Embargo,' Sabrina Vourvoulias plays with translation and transformation in interesting ways." — Publishers Weekly
Come hear me play with language(s), live and loud … 😜
The Long Tail of the Tall Tale – 1 p.m.
Tall tales, like their fairy tale cousins, are reinvented in every culture around the world. These tales, handed down through generations, provide context for how humans relate to one another and to storytelling, as well as giving an intriguing look into cultural history. Panelists will discuss the ways tall tales and oral storytelling traditions have influenced the work of present-day speculative authors such as Andy Duncan, Andrea Hairston, Catherynne M. Valente, and Daniel José Older, and explore what helps a tall tale hit the sweet spot of both exaggerated and believable.
Panelists: David Bowles, Christopher Brown, Michael Dirda, Miriam Newman, Sabrina Vourvoulias.
The Life Cycle of Political SF – 2 p.m.
SF writers have often written deeply political books and stories; some stand the test of time, while others become dated very quickly. John Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar, Octavia Butler's Kindred, Joanna Russ's The Female Man, and Ursula K. Le Guin's "The New Atlantis," to name just a few, directly addressed major issues of their day and are still relevant now—but differently. What affects how political SF ages and is read decades after its publication? What are today's explicitly political books, and how do we expect them to resonate decades in the future?
Panelists: Barbara Krasnoff (moderator), Dennis Danvers, Alex Jablokow, Sabrina Vourvoulias, T. X. Watson.
There is a registration fee for Readercon weekend, except for Thursday programs which are free. There are day passes are available ($55 each for Friday and Saturday programs, $25 for Sunday programs). The schedule of programs is pretty spectacular, even on Sunday. The full schedule (except for individual readings) is here.
Hope to see you in Cambridge or Quincy!
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Author Event: Max Gladstone, Yoon Ha Lee and Sabrina Vourvoulias
Wednesday, 12 July 2017 at 7 PM
Join us for a Pre-Readercon author event with Max Gladstone, Yoon Ha Lee, and Sabrina Vourvoulias.
Events at Readercon start on Thursday, but that doesn't mean you can't start celebrating early.
Event is free and open to the public.
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My column at Philly Mag: When Philly Woman Reported Sexual Assault at the DNC, She Got Little Help
Posted on August 12, 2016 July 24, 2018 by svourvoulias
Photo courtesy of Gwen Snyder
Gwen Snyder hopes to transform her experience into a movement toward justice.
The U.S. Department of Justice defines a sexual assault as any kind of sexual contact or behavior that occurs without the explicit consent of the recipient. Snyder, 30, the executive director of Philadelphia Jobs with Justice and a Democratic committeewoman in the 27th Ward, said she knew she had just been sexually assaulted — what she didn'tknow was what exactly she could do about it.
"I just kept asking party leaders from Pennsylvania what the process was to address the attack and get my attacker's credentials pulled, and no one knew how, or even if there was an official process," Snyder said. "I was never put in touch with anyone trained to deal with sexual violence. After a reporter gave them the heads-up about me, a couple of DNC staffers did contact me to take a report, but didn't make any commitments and didn't seem willing to involve me in discussions about assault policies moving forward."
Read the rest of the column here.
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Readercon 27: Confronting the fails
Posted on July 11, 2016 July 24, 2018 by svourvoulias
Reading "El Cantar of Rising Sun" on Saturday at Readercon. What a great audience I had! Thanks to each and every one of you who attended.
Readercon 27 just ended and I am trying to convince myself not to write this.
Here's the thing, I love Readercon. My first year (Readercon 22) was a bit rough since I knew no one IRL (and precious few folks virtually), but it had enough substance and just enough fluff to hook me into returning every year (except last year, which I couldn't swing for a variety of boring, mundane reasons).
The con has evolved a lot in those six years. It had a fairly major harassment fail that prompted it to revamp its safety policies and procedures so wholly it has become a model for other cons. The panels steadily grew more inclusive, and some even focused entirely on underrepresented groups (in 2014, the Thursday open programming track included a Latinx SFF panel, for example). Last year — in a welcome admission that even the intellectually predisposed need moments of bodily abandon — a dance party was added to the mix.
All of which is to say, that this year should have been great. And, in some ways it was. I spent time with a lot of wonderful people. The audience for my solo reading was fantastically supportive and appreciative. The new venue had better food, more lobby space and offered free wifi in private as well as public spaces.
But in ways that really matter to me, Readercon 27 wasn't great at all.
There were more all-white panels than I remember from previous years. Microaggressions toward people of color became macro and played out in front of rooms full of people, and for the first time in my Readercon experience I came away from panels shaking my head at the stunningly unrepentant arrogance of members of the SFF community.
Others can speak to the panels they attended or were part of (the Readercon twitter timeline is full of incisive comment — I particularly suggest @ANerdCalledRage), I will stick to the worst of the ones I myself witnessed and have since been stewing about.
Beyond Strong Female Characters
This was a complete shitshow. Sorry, but there is no other way to describe it.
Within seconds of starting, the leader of the panel, Ellen Kushner, silenced Mikki Kendall (the one Black panelist) as she was speaking about the trope of the Strong Black Woman.
When Kendall gave pop culture examples of the Strong Black Woman trope, Kushner demanded literary ones in a move that was 50 percent gaslighting and 100 percent intellectual hubris.
Instead of actually grappling fully and honestly with the trope, Kushner asked for a show of hands from the audience from those who had heard of the Strong Black Woman trope and those who had read N.K. Jemisin, and seeing many hands, dismissed the need to speak further about it, or the way a Black American author has addressed it in her work.
"Well, that was graduate level comment," Kushner said to Kendall at one point, in a comment so wincingly condescending it hurt me, as an audience member, just to hear it come out of her mouth.
Kushner is someone who, at my first Readercon, held a reading so spectacularly wonderful it still lives vividly in my memory. I've always liked her work; I've always admired her talent. But … but … I will never be able to unhear this comment and the disgraceful stereotype it plays to.
Because of Kushner's antipathy toward Kendall, the other panel members — Delia Sherman (Kushner's wife), Kat Howard and Natalie Luhrs (all white-appearing folks) — got a lot more time to address the topic at hand than Kendall did. At the end there was time for only a few audience questions. Thankfully, Readercon's Emily Wagner directed her question to Kendall, and so gave her some time to speak without constraint … but it was way too little and way too late.
The panel was real time proof that the online discussion of white feminism's exclusion and dismissal of the concerns of women of color, particularly Black women, is sadly on point.
Blue Collar SF
I don't actually know the name of the leader of this panel but not too long into the panel, the words "too many chiefs, not enough 'injuns'" came unabashedly out of his mouth. My friends Ezzy Guerrero Languzzi (a Mexican-American writer who has been attending Readercon for the past five years) and Kay Holt (one of the publishers of Crossed Genres) got up and left right then. I'm sure others did too.
I did not, I stayed — because it's hard to look away from an accident, and also because I am eternally hopeful that clueless leaders will experience a corrective from their co-panelists (all of them, at this panel, white-appearing).
After some time of bemoaning the lack of blue collar protagonists (the leader listed some five or six books he remembered with blue collar protags, and Bud Sparhawk spoke about his own blue collar characters) I thought we were finally going to broach the complexities of depicting blue collar protagonists of color when Marissa Lingen brought up intersectionality.
But I ended up feeling both disappointed and let down by the partiality of her plea to remember women are blue collar workers too.
Fran Wilde did mention a writer of color — Nisi Shawl and her steampunk novel Everfair (which will launch in September) — but as in the previously described panel, it was too little and too late.
Oh, and again, the leader of this panel made the point that books, not media or pop culture, were the acceptable references and subjects for analysis at Readercon. I'm not sure why this point was being made over and over again by leaders of panels this year in a way I don't remember from previous years — is it about "making Readercon great again"? (Yes, that is a very intentional choice of words.) But, no matter its intent, it really sticks in my craw, as all such "purist" pleas do.
The panels I was on
Two of the panels I was on, Cozy Dystopia (about Harry Potter's dystopian elements) and Fantastical Dystopia were inexplicably programmed one right after the other. They were pretty white (I'm a white-appearing Latina), which I think is bizarre given the ongoing discussion about erasure of people of color from post-apocalyptic worlds and dystopian literary constructs.
Cozy Dystopia was a great panel, thanks in part to Kenneth Schneyer's leadership and his willingness to broach every we issue raised, no matter how fractious or complicated.
Fantastical Dystopia, on the other hand, was really quite awful. I took on the role of leader the day before, and consequently hadn't organized it — and it showed. I truly value everyone's contributions under less than optimal conditions, but things never meshed for us. On the other hand, at least nothing "outright barbarous" (to, fittingly, quote George Orwell) was said or enacted by any panelist — which reportedly happened at other panels on dystopia and apocalyptic fiction.
The third panel I was on — Who Gets to Tell My Story? — was terrific. The panelists were, without exception, great and it ended up being led by Julia Starkey, because Mikki Kendall (the scheduled leader) thought she was going to be late. Kendall actually arrived just as the panel started, and the session was lively and dynamic. This was the Readercon I remembered and loved so much.
I don't know for a fact if the panel composition was less diverse this year, but it sure seemed that way to me, and much of what happened during panels felt like a huge step backward because of it. The tweets I've seen about The Apocalypse Is Already Here; It's Just Not Evenly Distributed and other panels I did not attend, seem to confirm that others felt that way too.
Because I love Readercon, I hope the folks in charge find a way to look at what failed this year and why, and to understand what it might have meant to the first-time attendee of color in the audience.
I think this deserves as much thoughtful discussion as what took place during the harassment situation from years ago. I'm thinking that in-depth conversations with Mikki Kendall and Vandana Singh (if they are willing) and other folks who might have been subjected to public macro- and microaggressions are in order before next year's planning begins.
Also, attendees of color should be invited to give their suggestions and recommendations to ensure that Readercon doesn't garner — further? — a reputation as an unfriendly con for PoCs to attend.
There is an opportunity here for Readercon leaders to do better and to confront the damage done this year head-on. To paraphrase Dolores Huerta and conflate several of my favorite quotes from her: Every minute is a chance to change the world …now get off the sidewalk and march into history.
Updated 7/12/16 at 4:34: The leader of the Blue Collar SF panel was Allen Steele, per the comment on this post by one of his co-panelists.
Updated 7/11/16 at 2:38 p.m. to correct title of panel about which I've seen tweeted complaints.
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Snow days keep piling up this year, putting students in Kansas City metro behind in their AP classes.
Leawood police are investigating a shooting out the Church of the Resurrection.
Trees will apparently be used as a solution to block noise and the view of the Center High School bus lot from upset neighbors.
Now that the crops are out of the fields most local farmers are already planning for next year's harvest. But at one small farm on the outskirts of south Kansas.
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Park Jung-min (hangeul : 박정민 ; hanja : 朴政玟 ; RR : Bak Jeong-min) est un acteur sud-coréen, né le  à Chungju dans la province du Chungcheong du Nord. Il est révélé grâce aux films indépendants La Frappe (, 2011) et Dongju : Portrait d'un poète (, 2015) pour lequel il récolte le prix du meilleur espoir masculin aux cérémonies de Baeksang Arts Awards et Blue Dragon Film Awards en 2016.

Biographie

Enfance et formations

Park Jung-min est né à Chungju dans la province du Chungcheong du Nord. En 2005, il étudie à l'université de Corée à Séoul. Il la quitte pour participer au théâtre, puis à l'université nationale des arts de Corée dans l'arrondissement de Seongbuk-gu. Il y obtient son diplôme.

Carrière

En 2011, Park Jung-min commence sa carrière dans le premier long-métrage indépendant La Frappe () de Yoon Sung-hyun, inspiré de l'œuvre L'Attrape-cœurs (, 1951) de l'écrivain américain J. D. Salinger.

En 2016, il devient Song Mong-gyoo, cousin et ami du poète coréen Yun Dong-ju Dongju : Portrait d'un poète (). Il récolte le prix du meilleur espoir masculin aux cérémonies de Blue Dragon Film Awards, Baeksang Arts Awards et Director's Cut Awards, ainsi que le prix du meilleur acteur dans un second rôle à la cérémonie de Chunsa Film Art Awards en 2017. La même année, il sort son premier essai  () en décembre, dans lequel il parle  dans le but de devenir acteur.

Entre 2016 et 2017, il apprend le piano avant d'interpréter le rôle d'un pianiste d'un talent exceptionnel souffrant du syndrome du savant pour  () de Choi Seong-hyeon et maîtrise le rap pour entamer l'âme du rappeur sans succès dans  () de Lee Joon-ik, pour lequel il écrit de même les paroles.

En 2018, il retrouve le réalisateur Yoon Sung-hyun pour interpréter le rôle d'un jeune voleur pour fuir son monde dystopique pour un monde meilleur aux côtés de Ahn Jae-hong et Choi Woo-sik dans La Traque (), diffusé sur la plate-forme Netflix en 2020.

Filmographie

Longs métrages
 2011 : La Frappe () de Yoon Sung-hyun : Baek Hee-joon, alias « Becky »
 2011 :  () de Yoon Sung-hyun : le troisième employé (séquence : )
 2011 :   : I-mae (séquence : )
 2012 :  () de Lee Seok-hoon : le livreur de colis
 2013 :  () de Kang Woo-seok :  Im Deok-kyoo, jeune
 2013 : Pandémie () de Kim Seong-su : Cheol-gyo
 2014 :  () de Lee Yeon-woo : Hwang-gyoo
 2014 :  () de Kim Jung-hoon : Hyo-min
 2014 :  () de Ryoo Seung-wan  : Bizen (séquence :  ())
 2014 :   : Chang-gyoon
 2015 :  () de Kim Tae-sik : Chen
 2015 :  () de Hong Won-chan : Lee Won-seok
 2016 : Dongju : Portrait d'un poète () de Lee Joon-ik : Song Mong-gyoo
 2016 :  () de Lee Eun-hee : Yong-soo
 2016 :  () de Kim Sun : Dong-geun (séquence : )
 2017 :  () de Han Jae-rim : Heo Gi-hoon
 2017 :  () de Kim Kyeong-won : Jae-beom
 2017 :  () de Moon Hyun-sung : le prince héritier Uigyeong
 2018 :  () de Choi Seong-hyeon : Oh Jin-tae
 2018 :  () de Yeon Sang-ho : Kim Jeong-hyeon
 2018 :  () de Lee Joon-ik : Hak-soo
 2019 :  () de Jang Jae-hyeon : Jeong Na-han
 2019 :  () de Kwon Oh-kwang : Do Il-chool
 2019 :  () de Choi Jeong-yeol : Go Taek-il
 2020 : La Traque () de Yoon Sung-hyun : Sang-soo
 2020 : Deliver Us From Evil () de Hong Won-chan

Courts métrages
 2007 :   : le garçon
 2009 :   : Ho-yeong
 2010 :
 2011 :   : lui-même

Séries télévisées
 2011 :  () : Park Jae-beom
 2012 :  () : Jang Mi-so
 2012 :  () : Jang Yeong-woo
 2013 :  () : Sin Yeong-bok
 2014 :  ( : Ji Gook
 2014 :  () : Jang Gi-tae
 2015 :  () : Park Jong-hoon (épisode 8 ; apparence exceptionnelle)
 2016 :  () : Lee Ho-jin
 2018 :  ( : Ahn Chang-ho
 2018 :  () : l'artiste des rues
 2021 :  () : Bae Yeong-jae

Bibliographie

Distinctions

Notes et références

Liens externes

  Park Jung-min sur Hancinema

Acteur sud-coréen
Naissance en mars 1987

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Eugenol is a phenylpropene, an allyl chain-substituted guaiacol. Eugenol is a member of the phenylpropanoids class of chemical compounds. It is a colourless to pale yellow, aromatic oily liquid extracted from certain essential oils especially from clove oil, nutmeg, cinnamon, basil and bay leaf.
Benzyl alcohol is an aromatic alcohol with the formula C6H5CH2OH. The benzyl group is often abbreviated "Bn" (not to be confused with "Bz" which is used for benzoyl), thus benzyl alcohol is denoted as BnOH. Benzyl alcohol is a colorless liquid with a mild pleasant aromatic odor.
Citral, or 3,7-dimethyl-2,6-octadienal or lemonal, is either a pair, or a mixture of terpenoids with the molecular formula C10H16O. The two compounds are double bond isomers. The E-isomer is known as geranial or citral A.
Octyl methoxycinnamate or ethylhexyl methoxycinnamate (INCI) or octinoxate (USAN), trade names Eusolex 2292 and Uvinul MC80, is an organic compound that is an ingredient in some sunscreens and lip balms. It is an ester formed from methoxycinnamic acid and (RS)-2-ethylhexanol. It is a clear liquid that is insoluble in water.
Geraniol is a monoterpenoid and an alcohol. It is the primary part of rose oil, palmarosa oil, and citronella oil (Java type). It also occurs in small quantities in geranium, lemon, and many other essential oils.
Thujone ( ( listen)) is a ketone and a monoterpene that occurs naturally in two diastereomeric forms: (−)-α-thujone and (+)-β-thujone. It has a menthol odor. Though it is best known as a chemical compound in the spirit absinthe, which contains only small quantities of thujone, it is unlikely to be responsible for absinthe's alleged psychedelic effects.
Musk xylene is a synthetic musk fragrance which mimics natural musk. It has been used as a perfume fixative in a wide variety of consumer products, and is still used in some cosmetics and fragrances. Musk xylene was once the most widely used of the "nitro-musks", but its use has declined sharply since the mid-1980s due to safety and environmental concerns.
Pulegone is a naturally occurring organic compound obtained from the essential oils of a variety of plants such as Nepeta cataria (catnip), Mentha piperita, and pennyroyal. It is classified as a monoterpene. Pulegone is a clear colorless oily liquid and has a pleasant odor similar to pennyroyal, peppermint and camphor.
Triethanolamine, often abbreviated as TEA, is a viscous organic compound that is both a tertiary amine and a triol. A triol is a molecule with three alcohol groups. Triethanolamine is a strong base.


Sometimes, when I perform a search, I need to see results for more than one file type at the time.
That's especially true with Microsoft Office documents. Word has a file type for older .doc files for instance, and another one for the newer .docx scheme. When I look for a Word document, I don't necessarily remember whether it's a .doc or .docx.
I tried command-clicking the two file types in the right-side pane, but it doesn't seem to have any effect… Ifs the option there at all or should this be consider a feature request for a future version?
That would be (now is) a feature request.
Thanks a million for letting me know Pierre!!


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Chie is a New York-trained international sensation, performing to dozens of packed houses a year. Her unique phrasing and soulful playing is adored by millions of fans. These recordings are in the vein of Three Blind Mice, which is a great thing indeed.
Influenced by her parents' hobbies, Chie has been surrounded by jazz and Hollywood movies from an early age. She first studied classical piano but soon began to swing, and grew up as a kid that always preferred gospel to psalms. When she was 17 years old, she scraped together all the money she had saved from part-time jobs and left for the land of dreams; the U.S. West Coast.
After marrying, giving birth then divorcing her husband, she moved back to Japan in 1991. She began to sing in a jazz club in Osaka. Thanks to rumors of her vocal performance she soon made a name for herself in the local jazz scene.
The June 1998 release "For All We Know" marked Chie's debut as a professional jazz musician at the age of 40. Since then Chie has been touring regularly across Japan. With the help of fans spreading the word via the internet she managed to establish a reputation as an outstanding female singer. Soon her concerts were sold out as soon as they were announced.
In March 2001, Chie received the 51st Ministry of Education and Science Cultural Promotional Award. Harboring an aversion against settling for one thing, Chie has been exploring territories outside the realm of jazz. Her repertory extends to 20's swing jazz to the rock pop standards.
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Gord Downie added to WE Day lineup in Toronto to perform 'Secret Path' song
TORONTO — Gord Downie has been added to the WE Day lineup in Toronto and will perform a song from his upcoming "Secret Path" solo album.
Downie will perform twice on Tuesday at the Air Canada Centre, first at the afternoon WE Day Toronto event and then at the evening We Day Family concert.
The "Secret Path" album, which is accompanied by a graphic novel and animated film, is inspired by the story of 12-year-old Chanie Wenjack, who died in 1966 after running away from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School near Kenora, Ont.
Downie's performance will be followed by a speech from his brother Mike Downie, who introduced the singer to Wenjack's story, and a healing song performed by Pearl Wenjack, sister of Chanie Wenjack.
WE Day, launched by Canadians Craig and Mark Kielburger, is billed as "a celebration of youth making a difference in their local and global communities."
The event has grown from its Toronto roots to include similar shows across Canada and internationally.
"I believe that each of us has a unique story to tell, and am honoured to have the opportunity to share a meaningful message with thousands of young Canadians and their families, who like me, believe that change is possible," said Downie in a statement.
"Today's youth have the power to build a stronger nation — they have the potential to be a generation of leaders who lead us on a path toward change."
Other speakers and performers taking part in the WE Day festivities include YouTube star Lilly Singh, Macklemore, the Barenaked Ladies, Nelly Furtado, Rick Hansen and Margaret Trudeau.
WE Day Toronto will stream live at mtv.ca, while the evening WE Day Family concert will stream live at WE.org/watchweday.
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Will Space Tourism Ever be Affordable?
By Liam Abbas Wednesday, April 6, 2022 Updated: Tuesday, April 5, 2022 No Comments6 Mins Read
Via Daily Travel
What was once the realm of science fiction is now reality. It's now possible to book your very own trip to space- that is, if you have the cash.
Unfortunately, you probably don't. This time last year SpaceX, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic all flaunted their ability to fly passengers above Earth's atmosphere, giving us the first look at the future world of space tourism. The problem is, with ticket prices ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions, this new industry has a very limited customer base. We're told that it will change- that everyone can have a space adventure of their own, but how realistic is this, and will it ever affordable to leave Earth in our lifetime?
Those that say yes have pointed to the history of the aviation industry. It's an adept comparison, just like rockets are today, planes were once an extraordinary luxury that few could afford. But little over a hundred years later, planes are now the most popular way to travel long distances and all for a relatively low price.
Broadly speaking, the affordability of air travel has been attributed to two things: Deregulation of the market and rapid improvement in technology.
Back in the 1970s, Air travel was generally expensive and inaccessible. In America, only 20% of Americans travelled by plane. This was in part due to strict government regulations which set the price for fares to guarantee profit for airlines and was overall unnecessarily bureaucratic.
In a rare case of deregulation working as it's supposed to, the 1978 airline deregulation act saw the air travel industry dramatically change. Without strict government laws, the industry became far more efficient, flight numbers increased, and new start-ups were able to break into the industry. This environment naturally led to an atmosphere of fierce competition in which airlines were desperate to undercut each other and, as a result, flights became much cheaper and accessible. Since 1978, American airfares fell around 50% and the number of air passengers tripled between the 1970s and 2011.
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The problem is that this can't really be applied to space tourism. It's an industry that evitability will have a very small amount of competitors. As expensive as starting an airline is, it's not even comparable to how much you would need to build your own rockets and launch facility. This is why we only see the richest of billionaires being at the forefront of the industry.
Already, we can see that there is no serious attempt by any company to undercut their competition. They all charge relatively similar prices and aim to distinguish themselves based on their technology, Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson even said there "isn't any [competition]" between him and Jeff Bezos. Whether you believe that or not, the nature of the industry does not lend itself to the competition that made plane tickets so affordable.
Perhaps the more important development though is technology. Rapid improvements in the airline industry made it affordable for planes to seat more passengers, making more profit for similar operating costs while making tickets more affordable to increase demand. Early airlines had an extremely high operating cost per plane, much like current rocket technology so many predict that space tourism will follow the same pattern. Elon Musk has stated that he wants SpaceX rockets to seat 100 passengers, but for now the company is focused on private tours of less than 10 passengers.
However, Ron Epstein, an aerospace analyst with Bank of America said: "getting that many people into space on one flight is extremely difficult. It's an endeavour that requires tremendous amounts of fuel and energy to lift every pound. The technology just doesn't exist today." While the industry is getting better and better at transporting more weight for a lower cost there would need to be a huge leap in capacity to justify affordable prices, making widespread space tourism pretty implausible for the near future.
But the airline industry saw huge technological changes in a rapid amount of time and the question remains, will it be the same for rocket technology?
Air travel versus space travel
The American aviation industry had something space tourism doesn't, and that's two world wars. After their invention planes were mainly known for their novelty, they didn't have a widespread use until WW1. Aircraft were used for surveillance to great success, but once the war was done the US government were left with more planes than they knew what to do with. They decided to sell them to airlines who repurposed them for the commercial sector. Originally designed to carry air mail, they quickly began to seize the opportunities that came with transporting passengers. Few chose to fly as early commercial flights were incredibly expensive.
The industry was transformed yet again in WW2 as the government once again pushed for innovation and it was this period that we get the invention of the jet plane. Planes soon took over as the main form of transport for long distance travel, and this massive commercial potential continued to spur innovation which would eventually lead to affordable prices.
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When it comes to space travel, there are as yet, no external factors that could cause the same spark of innovation in the space tourism industry. In the immediate future, it is unlikely that there will be enough innovation that advances rocket technology to the point of affordability.
Without a crisis spurring on investment, innovation will have to come from the companies themselves. But this too comes with a problem. Governments funded space travel to further exploration and scientific understanding, but private space travel is concerned only with profit, not with innovation itself. For now, the severe technological limitations will guarantee limited capacity and therefore a high price point and going forward this will inevitably improve but space tourism may not follow in the footsteps of aviation as so many people claim. But even if technology does improve affordability is in no way guaranteed. SpaceX are now charging more for the use of their Falcon 9 rocket than they did last year. It is always possible that technology will improve capacity but not to the extent that it is profitable to sell tickets to ordinary people, or perhaps if the customer base is large enough at the existing price point, companies would simply have no financial incentive to make it any cheaper.
In the end, the question of affordable space travel may not be a question of technology but economics.
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The Santa Felicia Dam, constructed in 1955, was the first dam built to solely to recharge groundwater.
The Freeman Diversion, constructed in 1991, replenishes approximately 58,000 acre-feet of stream flow to the underground water supply each year. A fish ladder was built into the Diversion to allow for the annual migration of steelhead trout.
Lake Piru Recreation Area was created by the dam and holds approximentely 82,000 acre-feet of winter run-off while providing year-round camping, boating, fishing and other outdoor recreational opportunities to visitors.
The Piru, Saticoy, El Rio and Noble Spreading Grounds (also known as artificial recharge basins) facilitate a natural percolation process, allowing water from the Freeman Diversion Facility to seep through layers of sand and gravel in an area known as the Oxnard Forebay to replenish the underground supply.
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– Three Dog Night
In Bullfrogs players take command of their frog forces in a battle for supreme power and control of the pond! Bullfrogs is a tactical area-control game with a constantly changing game surface. So how does one control an army of frog forces and reign over the pond? Glad you asked; let's jump in!
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Manchester Arena plotter and Tube bomber charged with attacking prison officer
Hashem Abedi (left) and Ahmed Hassan
Manchester Arena plotter Hashem Abedi and Parsons Green Tube bomber Ahmed Hassan have been charged over an attack on a prison officer.
The two men are accused along with Muhammed Saeed, 22, of actual bodily harm on the member of staff at HMP Belmarsh on May 11 last year.
Abedi, 23, is also charged with assault on an emergency worker, a second prison officer.
He, Hassan, 21, and Saeed are all due to appear at Bromley Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, April 7.
Abedi was found guilty by a jury in March of 22 counts of murder, attempted murder and plotting to cause an explosion likely to endanger life over the 2017 Manchester Arena bomb attack.
He could die behind bars after being given 24 life sentences with a minimum term of 55 years before he can be considered for parole.
Hassan, who planted the Parsons Green Tube bomb in September 2017 which injured 51 passengers, was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 34 years in 2018.


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A Good Leader Rules Justly and is Concerned about the Well-being of Their People – Bolingbroke
Monarchs are known to be among the oldest style of leadership for ruling kingdoms or countries. Usually, a monarch was the supreme head such that no one could question them for fear of the wrath of the ruler. Kings relied on the counsel of a small circle of advisors before they could make a decision. As they are also human beings, not all their choices are right, but people would always have to deal with the consequences. Also, most monarchs were hereditary based on the hierarchy of the royal family. Not anyone could ascend to the throne. As follows, members of the royal family were accorded respect by being future heirs of the kingdom. Some leaders were great for being just, and others were infamous for being ruthless. King Richard II was infamous for making harsh rulings. Inarguably, a king is divine and should unconditionally serve God and his country well. To that end, one is only considered to be a good leader if they rule justly and are concerned about the well-being of their people as is the case with Bolingbroke.
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An analysis of Richard's character is essential in understanding the context of this argument. Richard is a protagonist in this play where he is first a depicted as a king and later becomes the subject of his cousin Bolingbroke later known as Henry IV. He is described as an individual who settles for the best things life has to offer. A description of his court manifests luxury and affluence. Richard is a ruler who makes irrational decisions without giving much thought on the possible consequences of the actions. For instance, he imposes heavy taxes on his subjects, engages in land usurping, and commits fraud. The crimes against the people will cost Richard his crown because his popularity will significantly decline in favor of Bolingbroke, who is concerned about the subjects' best interest.
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Also, instead of listening carefully, to the case of Bolingbroke against Mowbray, he gives an ambiguous judgment because he, Richard II, was part of the conspiracy. At first, he tries to quell the quarrel between the two by using the words, "Forget, forgive…conclude and be agreed…" because he is aware of his atrocity in the matter (Shakespeare 1.1). He refuses to listen to the counsel of Gaunt and even proceeds to seizing Gaunt's property. The action is insensitive and not befitting of a king considering Gaunt was Richard's regent when he was still a young king. His pride about being God's deputy and thus unquestionable makes Richard have the courage of acting unfairly against Bolingbroke by banishing him for six years from the kingdom after reducing it from ten years upon realizing Gaunt's agony (Shakespeare 1.2). To Richard, family ties do not matter because he is only focused on having his way.
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The second protagonist, Bolingbroke, is depicted as an advocate for justice. Bolingbroke Henry is the Duke of Hereford and Lancaster. He makes rational decisions that are in favor of the subjects. His choices are not easily made because Bolingbroke is aware that a king is divine and is God's representative on earth. He was quite conflicted about not wanting to commit treason and blasphemy while at the same time, he wanted to restore justice for his people. In Act 1 Scene 1, we see Bolingbroke accusing Mowbray, the Duke of Norfolk for murdering the Duke of Gloucester.
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Bolingbroke wanted justice served for the murder of his uncle by pointing out that Mowbray is "foul and dangerous…" (Shakespeare 1.2). However, his quest for justice is not realized because Mowbray vehemently denies in plotting the murder as quoted in Act 1 Scene 1 saying, "I do defy him, and I spit at him…Call him a slanderous coward and a villain." Undisputedly, Mowbray manifests a degree of arrogance towards Bolingbroke who is not aware of the king's involvement in the murder of his uncle. Mowbray had acted on the king's orders and was confident that Bolingbroke would not win the case. In spite of the unfair judgment by Richard, Bolingbroke chooses patriotism and states that "…though banished, [he is] yet a trueborn Englishman…" (Shakespeare 1.3). He is determined about remaining true to his country no matter what he faces in the process. In Act 1 Scene 1, we see him as an individual who values family and even thinks of his father when he accepts to battle against Mowbray to determine the murder case. Bolingbroke is quoted saying, "…shall I seem crestfallen in my father's sight?" (Shakespeare 1.2)
A leader's legitimate power is likely to be weakened by being unjust and unfair. By being God's deputy, Richard imposes his will instead of following the laws of the land. He transgresses the laws and customs that govern the process of inheritance by seizing the property of Gaunt. In so doing, he takes Bolingbroke's estate. Other nobles and commoners suffer the same fate because the king was raising funds to suppress the Irish rebellion. The illegal and forceful amassing of wealth put the king against his nation.
Richard dares to break feudal traditions by urging Bolingbroke and Mowbray to refrain from their accusations and reconcile. Bolingbroke perceives the attempt as, "such deep sin…" (Shakespeare 1.1). In the same act, Mowbray is equally offended and even informs the ruler that he might have power over him as a King but not over his honor which he vows to defend by stating, "[his] life…shalt command, but not [his] shame…." Without determining the case, Richard takes advantage of his power as ruler and banishes both Bolingbroke and Mowbray. The Earl of Northumberland accuses Richard of being an ineffective leader by relying on the advice of his favorite nobles who are after their interests. When a leader does not abide by the rules of the land, they are telling their subjects that the rules are not essential and should not be regarded highly.
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Following Richard's shortcomings as a ruler, Bolingbroke gets an opportunity to fight for a just cause as the wronged party. He is fighting against tyranny. His reason to revolt resonates with a majority of the population which had been experiencing oppression by the king. Bolingbroke is back from exile to claim his inheritance as well as his Lancastrian title which was stripped from him upon being illegally ousted from the kingdom. He accuses Richard of being unjust saying, "I am denied to sue my livery here…And yet my letters patents give me leave…" here Bolingbroke has gained the courage to challenge the king because Richard has lost his supremacy by being unjust (Shakespeare 4.1). The open rebellion shows that Bolingbroke is not willing to let Richard continue the authoritarian rule over the nation. Richard abused his divine appointment through tyrannical administration, and Bolingbroke is justified in challenging Richard. Bolingbroke is determined to steer the country in the right direction by being a just ruler who cares for his people. In conclusion, it is indisputable that Richard is drunk with power and practices dictatorship, which make him a bad leader. His authoritarian rule alienated him from his subjects and fellow nobles because he was selfish. He is not concerned about serving his nation justly. On the other hand, Bolingbroke is fighting to fairness throughout the play. He is against Richard's tyrannical rule because the reign is undermining the laws and customs of the nation which seek to protect the interest of the people. To that end, Bolingbroke is a good leader.


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John Kernan Mullen (11 June 1847 – 9 August 1929) was an Irish-American businessman and philanthropist.

Origins

Mullen was born to Denis Mullen (1806–86) and Ellen Mulray (1816–88) in Ballinasloe, County Galway in June 1847.  John had an older brother Patrick (born 1844), as well as younger siblings Ella (born 1849), Denis (born 1850), Kate (born 1853) and another who didn't survive.

During the 1820s and 1830s, John's father Denis and uncle Thomas Mullen, "crafted barrels for the mills" of Ballinasloe, which had three oatmeal mills, two breweries and a flour mill. However, the advent of the Great Famine brought an end to whatever prosperity the family enjoyed.

Emigrate to U.S.
In 1856, the family emigrated to the United States, arriving in Boston. They settled at Oriskany Falls, Oneida County, New York, where Denis and Thomas purchased houses adjacent to each other, and close to the town mill, where John Mullen first worked at age fourteen. He soon dropped out of school to help support the family. At his first job with the Oriskany Flour Mill, he learned the operation and won the respect of the owner, who placed Mullen in charge of the mill before he was twenty.

In 1867, Mullen headed west looking for a mill in need of a miller. He spent time in Illinois and Atchison, Kansas. He settled in Troy, Kansas, where he was in charge of the Banner Flour Mills, owned by Tracey and Parker Company. In the fall of 1871, Mullen left for Denver, where he worked for West Denver Flour Mill owned by O. W Shackleton and Charles Davis.

Businessman
In 1875, Mullen decided to operate his own mill. Mullen leased the old Star Mill in north Denver as a partnership with Theodore Seth. After a year, he bought him out and the company became J.K. Mullen and Company. During the following years, Mullen took over the Iron Clad Mill, Sigler Mill, Excelsior Mill and opened the Hungarian Mill in 1882.

In 1885, the Colorado Milling and Elevator Company (CM&E) was formed as a trust to help stabilize unpredictable flour prices; area millers elected Mullen as general manager, thereby increasing Mullen's industry influence. In addition to milling, Mullen was involved in the land and cattle business, including the J.K. Mullen Land and Cattle Company located in Lamar, the Platte Land and Cattle Company in Logan County; and the Riverside Land and Cattle Company in Larimer County.

Among his contributions to the Colorado milling industry were his introduction of the Hungarian milling process (alternative to gristmill) and high-altitude flour.

Over time, Mullen entered the financial sector, first as president of Union Savings and Loan Association, later a director at the First National Bank of Denver. Mullen also served on Council of Defense, a body organized by Colorado governor Julius Caldeen Gunter in 1917 to prepare for recruitment and property defense after the U.S. entry into World War I.

Personal life

Mullen married Catherine Smith on 12 October 1874. They had five daughters. All are buried in the Mullen plot at Mount Olivet Cemetery (Wheat Ridge, Colorado) He became known as a philanthropist because of his numerous donations of land and money.

Among his most notable gifts:
 Funds for the construction of the J.K. Mullen Memorial Library at The Catholic University of America (in Washington D.C.) and a fund to provide ten annual scholarships for Colorado men to the university
 The land and one-quarter million dollars for building the J.K. Mullen Home for the Aged in Denver, presently known as the Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged;
 Funds for the erection of St. Cajetan's Catholic Church, a large Hispanic parish;
 Major donations for the construction of the Immaculate Conception Cathedral;
 Established the John K. and Catherine S. Mullen Benevolent Corporation in 1924.

Honors
In recognition of Mullen's efforts on behalf of the Catholic Church, the Pope twice knighted him, first as a Knight of the Order of St Gregory and later as a Knight of the Order of Malta.

Death

Mullen died of pneumonia on 9 August 1929, aged 82, with an estimated net worth of $4 million. He was the first person to lie in state at Denver's Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. After Mullen's death, his daughters established in-state the Mullen Home for Boys in his memory.

References

Sources
 Pride of the Rockies: The Life of Colorado's Premiere Irish Patron, John Kernan Mullen, William J. Convery III, University of Colorado, 2000; .
 John K. Mullen and Oscar Malo Collection, WH259, Western History Collection, The Denver Public Library.

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Irish emigrants to the United States (before 1923)
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Knights of St. Gregory the Great
People from Ballinasloe
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There is great momentum for building a regenerative agriculture showcase farm in the U.K.
In the UK, there is a growing recognition that regenerative agriculture practices can be part of a solution for climate change, as well as providing multiple other benefits, such as increased biodiversity, nutrient-rich food and water savings. The President of the National Farmers' Union of England and Wales, Mrs. Batters, considers the COP 26 climate summit in Glasgow the opportunity for British farmers to "truly demonstrate that we are committed to being global leaders in climate-friendly food". Key drivers for farmers to make the transition towards regenerative agriculture are proof of practice and revenue models based on regenerative agriculture. Soil Heroes is therefore joining forces with frontrunning companies and farmers to jointly build showcases for regenerative agriculture.
"Soil Heroes are building a much needed pathway to prove and accelerate a transition to long-term sustainable agricultural practices."
Huel wants to help create a sustainable food system for the future
"A sustainable food system is going to require action at all levels - agriculture, manufacture, retail and consumers. Soil Heroes are building a much needed pathway to prove and accelerate a transition to long-term sustainable agricultural practices. We already offer low carbon products, but there is so much potential to improve further and this partnership offers us the opportunity to build our knowledge and explore what is possible in our own supply chain" says Jessica Sansom, Sustainability Director of Huel. Huel is the bestselling 'complete nutrition brand' in the world, with a record-breaking 100 million meals sold. Huel's mission is to make nutritionally complete, convenient, affordable food with minimal impact on animals and the environment.
Huel joined Soil Heroes to learn about the role regenerative agriculture can play in developing a sustainable food system for the future and particularly to understand the link between regenerative agriculture and nutrition. The bigger aim of both Huel and Soil Heroes is to make regenerative agriculture financially viable for the long term and not a 'boutique' way of farming that cannot be widely applied. The Soil Heroes programme is starting with the set-up of showcase farms which can inspire and inform farmers globally, of various sizes in various financial situations, to convert to regenerative agriculture and know that it makes climate and commercial sense. Jessica explains how Huel supports and potentially can further integrate Soil Heroes in the vision of Huel: "Currently Soil Heroes forms part of Huel's community work, meaning it will be funded through our profit sharing initiative to support organisations aligned with Huel's mission. Longer term, we would love to incorporate Soil Heroes into our procurement".
"Very concrete, Soil Heroes offers us revenue streams based on nature restoration, and innovative tools and techniques for on-going (regenerative) farm improvements"
Huel has teamed up with Showsley Farm, a farmer at the end of the street of their Headquarters and who is highly motivated to prove and share the value of regenerative agriculture.
Showsley Farm covers 600 hectares in Towcester, Northamptonshire. Showsley Farm is owned by Carl Krefting, who directed an international food business and decided 10 years ago to move into farming. Carl's son, Fred Kefting, is taking over the farm with a strong commitment to transform the Farm into regenerative agriculture, share their learnings with other farmers and set an example for regenerative farms in the UK. Carl and Fred Krefting joined Soil Heroes to learn from and work with a group of like-minded farmers to together confront the challenges of farming in the future, including volatile commodity prices and climate change. "Very concrete, Soil Heroes offers us revenue streams based on nature restoration, and innovative tools and techniques for on-going (regenerative) farm improvements" says Fred Krefting. Showsley is set to become one of the first farms in the UK to be privately paid for farming using regenerative farming practices, compensating CO2, increasing biodiversity, and saving water. On average, by farming regeneratively, Showsley Farm will sequester 4.5 tonnes of CO2, and generate 400m2 of biodiversity, providing homes for bees, butterflies, birds and other flora and fauna.
The Soil Heroes programme brings together companies and farmers to jointly set a new standard in the food and agriculture sector.
The impact from this collaborative project is quantified and verified using satellite imagery and other collected data using the Soil Heroes open fair-chain model. The impact for both company and farmer is much more than just the quantifiable impacts on climate change, biodiversity and water. It's also the one-on-one personal contact amongst farmers, amongst companies and between companies and farmers. A company like Huel knows who the farmer is, who is generating positive environmental impact for them, and they can explore how to strengthen and develop their relationship further.
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Published on: October 18, 2017 | by Shepherd Smith Edwards & Kantas, LLP
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has filed fraud charges against Rio Tinto and its ex-CFO Guy Robert Elliot and former CEO Thomas Albanese. The defendants are accused of hiding the Mozambique coal business' swift and steep drop in value soon after they acquired it for $3.7B. The mining company later would go on to sell Rio Tinto Coal Mozambique for $50M—a much lower figure than the buying price.
The SEC contends that following the acquisition of the coal assets in 2011, the project experienced problems right away because there was "less coal and of lower quality" than what Rio Tinto, Elliot, and Albanese had anticipated. Also, the country of Mozambique, which is where the acquisition occurred, had turned down the barge application. This means that there was no infrastructure to transport the assets. All of this "significantly eroded" the acquisition's value.
Rio Tinto and the two ex-executives purportedly knew that publicly disclosing the acquisition as a failure, after a previous acquisition of Canadian company Alcan had rendered big losses, would create doubts over their ability to identify and develop mining assets that were "long-term, low cost, and highly profitable." This purportedly compelled them to hide the problems that arose with the Mozambique acquisition and issue misleading financial statements prior to a number of US debt offerings.
They also raised $5.5B from US investors. $3B of that was allegedly brought in after Elliot and Albanese were told by Rio Tinto Coal Mozambique executives that the subsidiary's value was a negative $680M. Albanese is accused of continuing to project a "false positive outlook" in public statements. The SEC said that the misleading statements made to the public are what allowed the mining company to raise all that money from investors.
Albanese denies the regulator's charges. Elliot's spokesperson said he planned to fight the charges.
It was in January 2013 that one of the company's executives noticed that the coal assets' value was inflated on financial statements. Following an internal probe, the mining company announced Albanese's resignation and the coal assets value was lowered by more than $3B—an over 80 percent decline. Rio Tinto sold the subsidiary in Mozambique for $50M, which is way below the acquisition price.
Rio Tinto Plc, Rio Tinto Ltd., Elliot and Albanese are charged with violating federal securities laws as they pertain to books and records, internal controls, reporting, and anti-fraud provisions. The Commission wants permanent injunctions, ill-gotten gains and interest, and civil penalties. It also wants to bar Elliot and Albanese.
Meantime, the company has arrived at a $35.6M settlement with UK's Financial Conduct Authority to resolve claims that it breached accounting rules over the Mozambique assets. The FCA found that the mining company breached transparency and disclosure rules. It also accused Rio Tinto of not executing an "impairment test" and submitting an "inaccurate and misleading" financial report in August 2012. The company finally disclosed the impairment in 2013 when it wrote off approximately 80% of the Mozambique acquisition's value.
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Ben Caselin, vice president for global marketing and communications at crypto exchange AAX has resigned from his role weeks after the exchange suspended withdrawals.
On November 28, Caselin took to Twitter to announce his resignation and explain the various reasons for his departure. The former AAX exec highlighted that his role in the firm became "hollow" and his "trust in the brand is broken". He explained that despite his efforts in fighting for the community, the solutions that they came up with were not accepted. Caselin wrote,
"It's true I have resigned from AAX. I did fight for the community but none of the initiatives we came up with were accepted. Any role I had left for communication became hollow."
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Why did Caselin Quit?
Caselin exhibited disagreement with the ways the exchange has been handling issues expressing the actions of AAX as "without empathy" and "overly opaque." The former head of research and strategy at AAX claimed that several people, including some of his family members, asked him for help after the exchange had halted withdrawals, earlier this month.
But despite being at the helm of an important position, Caselin wrote that there was nothing he could do at the moment and that everyone is waiting for actions from the exchange. He tweeted,
"I have disabled a lot of my social media because too many people believe I can solve the issue, but I cannot."
However, he believes that things will be better organized without any hostility, but indicating that the "damage is already done". He further lamented, "The brand is no more and trust is broken".
Ongoing AAX Woes
On November 13, AAX, the Hong Kong-based crypto exchange halted withdrawals citing a scheduled system upgrade. The crypto platform noted it had suspended withdrawals for all users due to the failure of a third-party partner. After the withdrawal halt, Caselin expressed the untimely measure the company resorted to for the prevention of any major security lapses.
He specified the system update has been enforced to address "serious vulnerabilities." The former VP also hinted at a longer wait time for the system to resume in order to minimize risks.
Previously, Caselin had noted that crypto exchanges should put more consideration into their operations in preparation after the collapse of FTX. In an interview, he said,
"We need to pay very close attention and map out: who are the investors in FTX, what are their holdings and what's their current risk profile."
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Down Syndrome Affiliates in Action - A National Magazine Focused on Down Syndrome?
A National Magazine Focused on Down Syndrome?
What good would a (highly professional looking magazine full of current information, research, and stories related to Down syndrome with a variety of contributors all coming together creating a unified voice intended to break down barriers, change hearts, and promote further research) magazine sitting in a doctor's office do?
We have all heard and read the articles and reports indicating 67 to 85% of parents who receive a diagnosis that their child may be born with Down syndrome choose to terminate the pregnancy with estimates running as high as 92% in some studies abroad.
Have you ever wanted to have a long discussion with one or more of the thousands of family doctors, pediatricians, OB/GYN's, etc. and convince them that there are just as many positive things to consider and somehow influence their opinions and understanding?
Face it; most doctors are more concerned with covering their proverbial "bottom" line. If they don't tell you everything horrible that could possibly go wrong or happen, you might come back and sue them for not educating you to the fullest extent. Knowing this, how can we then ensure those potential parents hear a voice of support that could help them make a more balanced choice?
I read dozens of articles every day that have current, relevant, uplifting and inspiring information. I also read some that prick my heart, make me angry or cause me to shake my head in disbelief (that an industry that promotes itself as highly intelligent can have such a limited point of view).
However, that's me... as you know; most doctors rarely ever seek information like this out.
In all my thirteen years of raising my children (or them raising me), I have never read anything that caused me to wish my son Jonathan was any different than he is today. Down syndrome is just as much who he is as my crooked smile, hairy back, and strange looking toes are me.
Now I realize it sounds very foreign to someone who has never known a person with Down syndrome and even to some within our community but it is what it is and that's how I feel. Now... this is not to say I don't want to provide him with every possible opportunity, valid treatment or therapy available. But from where I sit, he's the most honest, funniest child I have and he forgives me and his siblings faster than anyone I know. Heck, if I'm out of line and being unreasonable he also gets on my case and tells me to chill out and go for a walk if that's what I need… and he has mastered the art of graciousness.
The bottom line is this. Magazines are just about the only form of print media that is not only thriving but growing.
This is why we would like to see about 1200 issues going to each state with at least 2/3 of them reaching doctor's offices, service providers, and community leaders.
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The proposed Buenos Aires New Contemporary Art Museum is uniquely situated on a prominent urban axis that extends from Avenida De Mayo to the sea. Equally so, this axis has been rearticulated by the addition of a bridge that connects the city with the extended fabric and a biological preserve.
The urban gesture of the project in this context creates heightened interaction between the boardwalk, museum and the city's axis by implanting an oppositional gesture to the bridge. It creates a moment of pause that deemphasizes the long urban axis of Av De Mayo by the mediation between the axis along the boardwalk through the openness of the ground plane of the museum.
The museum journey extends from the first floor open plane in ascending loops around the gallery tower offering ever-changing views of the city and museum through the experience of art, city, water, and skyline.
Throughout this journey moments of rest provide opportunities to experience the museum/public/city engaging in different situations. In particular the courtyard mini cafe, sculpture garden, and sky bar are rewarding moments along the path through the museum.
The structural system is a hybrid system that consists of steel trusses and concrete slabs and core.
The 3rd floor 12m gallery is an entirely column free space that provides limitless configuration possibilities in both plan and section.
Saw-tooth roof skylights provide naturally controlled day lighting from the South over galleries (1 and 4) and the auditorium space. The undulating fritted glass envelope allows daylight for all circulation and open spaces at the perimeter of all floors above the ground floor.
Photovoltaic and solar thermal panels located on the tops of all Saw-tooth roofs perform as an integrated energy system. The configuration of the envelope produces a microclimatic chimney effect through solar heat gain that naturally creates vertical ventilation up drafting. The envelope also allows for controlled heat gain in the thermal mass of the museum's vertical circulation core.
The hierarchy of condition spaces are defined by two relationships closed and semi-closed. The climatically controlled gallery spaces are surrounded by a buffer zone, the undulating envelop configuration around the museum, that is a responsive system that mediates all environmental contexts.
A 60cm deep undulating glass envelope provides structural stability against lateral loads and increases vertical stiffening for self-support. Along with the sustainable and environmental advantages already listed the quality of the experience of the city is to be noted.
When viewed through acute angles visual density that creates an ephemeral experience of the city from the inside and the interior of the museum from the outside. At close distances the envelope creates a visual lenticular effect, a kaleidoscopic vision of the city through the assent and movement along the envelope on the path to the upper galleries. From the exterior, the veiling of the museum produces transparency with increasing distance. The museum patrons are seen through this veil with the backdrop of the museum gallery volumes.
The program is organized through a series of elemental voids and volumes.
Volumes: The galleries float above an open ground floor plane and grow in density from the South to the Northern most location of the site where they culminate as a stacked tower of "white boxes". A vertical core connects the stacked tower that houses all utility services such as elevators, fire stair, washrooms, mechanical rooms and a maintenance staff area located in the shaft head above the roof plane.
The entry plane is an open space that functions as a direct extension of the city into the museum and vise versa.
The following programs are organized as a series of interactive zones; entry area with ticket counter and coat check in the north, gift shop, restaurant bar, multipurpose space, and auditorium space. The following programs are organized in contained space; the loading dock in the south, and the utility spaces in the core.


I am writing this blog post in October 2012; this will get published automatically in one year, like government secrets published 50 years after the event. But this just cannot not be shared.
It's time for a little Game called... ... ... "Clean your dishes and live in peace" !!
If anyone is not interested about this "game" we are all enough mature to talk about it.
Also, if anyone has a request to do : It's time to do it !!
Hey. We kind of established a "policy" that its ok to let dirty dishes lie around for 24 or even 48h at certain occasions. At least no one ever had a problem with that, as long as its not getting to worse.. I personally think that maximum 1 or occasionly maybe a few days is a good timefraime to have and would not like to be forced to always clean everything right after eating. Sure we are mature enough to dicuss this.
How happy do you reckon the original author is going to be with this reply??