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Händel's Alcina in Hof, Germany
Posted on July 1, 2018 May 26, 2021 AuthorNemorino3 Comments
Händel's Alcina was the first Baroque opera ever to be performed in Hof, a small out-of-the-way city in the extreme northeast corner of Bavaria. I went there in 2018 not knowing what to expect, but I was completely convinced by the brilliant production and flawless performance of this "magic opera" (Zauberoper, as it was advertised in Hof) from the year 1735.
Lobby of the Hof Theater
All you loyal readers of my post on the State Opera in Vienna might recall that I saw an impressive production of Händel's Alcina in Vienna in 2016. The staging in Hof was completely different but equally brilliant, thanks especially to the presence of ten ballet dancers, five men and five women, who appeared in many of the scenes in a variety of roles, dancing in both contemporary and ballet styles to accompany the singing and the music.
I remember especially Badamente's aria in which she apologizes profusely to Oronte for being unfaithful to him, with a beautiful violin accompaniment from the pit and a lovely dance sequence on stage. Most theaters don't even have ballet companies any more, but Hof has twelve dancers in its ensemble, ten of whom appeared in Alcina (the other two presumably being kept in reserve in case of illness or injury).
The choreography, by ballet director Barbara Buser, was varied, inventive and always seemed to support the music and the drama, without ever getting in the way. Of the ten dancers, two pairs emerged who did classical-looking ballet sequences at appropriate times.
Seating in the Hof Theater
The stage set consisted mainly of a cylinder within a cylinder which could be opened and closed in various ways. The center was the inner sanctum where Alcina appeared, triumphant at first with her long dress and long claw-like fingernails but defeated at the end when the evil spirits, played by the dancers in ingenious gauze costumes, ignored her orders and just swirled around her instead. The inside of the cylinder was illuminated at times by an unusually subtle use of videos that just seemed to grow out of the lighting effects, so you never had the feeling 'now they're showing a video'.
Program booklet for Händel's Alcina in Hof
The title role of the sorceress Alcina was played and sung by the German soprano Inga Lisa Lehr, in her eighth season as an ensemble member of the Theater Hof. The male lead was a guest singer, the Italian countertenor Antonio Geovannini in the role of the knight Ruggiero, who has been seduced by Alcina to keep him on her island and off the battlefield. (But Alcina makes the mistake of falling in love with him, leading to her downfall at the end of the opera.)
The conductor for this production was Daniel Spaw, an American in his first season as deputy music director in Hof. The stage director, set designer and costume designer was Hinrich Horstkotte, who has staged over sixty operas (mainly in Germany, but also in Austria and Taiwan) since 1998.
Alcina was one of Händel's later operas, composed after he had been in the opera business for over a quarter century. That makes it 283 years old (as of 2018), but the story was based on an epic poem from two centuries earlier (Ariosto's Orlando furioso) which was set in a time three hundred years before that, in the First Crusade of the late eleventh century. This is typical for Baroque operas: looking back from the present day to the creation of the opera, then to the writing of the poem and then to the time of the story, we are looking back nine hundred years or more into the misty past.
Applause after Händel's Alcina
The word Hof in German has several meanings, for instance court or courtyard or farm or farmyard. The city of Hof seems to have got its name from the farming side, since it was never the seat of any kind of kingdom or duchy.
The composer Georg Friedrich Händel never set foot in Hof, as far as I know, but he was born and grew up in another city on the same river, namely Halle, which is well over a hundred km downstream (= north) on the Saale River.
During the decades of the division of Germany after the Second World War, Hof was in an extremely isolated position, since it was in West Germany but surrounded on three sides by impenetrable borders to East Germany or Czechoslovakia.
Even today, after the borders have opened up or disappeared, Hof is rather remote. To get there you have to change trains in Nürnberg and ride for nearly two hours on a regional express train.
The Hof Theater at night
The new theater in Hof was opened in 1994 and has 567 seats in the large hall. Most of the seats were occupied the night I was there, even though it was a Wednesday evening in July, which might not seem like an ideal time for filling a theater.
Before my opera visit I had been to Hof twice, once in 1999 to lead a workshop for the English teachers at the adult education center and once in 2002 to do a presentation of a new series of textbooks.
The theater in Hof is the sixty-first German opera house I have been to, as listed in my post Seventy-one opera houses in Germany.
Watch the trailer of Alcina at the Theater Hof.
My photos and text in this post are from 2018.
See also: Händel as an opera composer.
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toutloperaoupresque655890715 says:
Très intéressant, merci !
(Le seul opéra où je suis allé en Allemagne est le Festspielhaus de Bayreuth 🙂, mais quels souvenirs j'en garde).
Malheureusement, je n'ai jamais vu d'opéra au Festspielhaus de Bayreuth.
J'ai eu cette très grande chance en 1986 et 1987. Tristan, Die Meistersinger, Tannhaüser et Lohengrin !
Par ailleurs, je me suis permis de citer votre article sur l'opéra de Lille dans mon billet de ce matin (29 novembre 2021).
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A: Considering how fast the events of TLJ happen, it is probably just that no one has gotten around to actually debrief Rey who is the only one was there to see Snoke's death and Kylo's very tentative hold on power.
Add to this the fact that The Resistance just went through its own heavy losses and they probably are focusing on those first before they start asking what happened with the First Order.
It should be noted that at the start of Poe Dameron #31 Leia mentions being aware they have done some damage to the First Order, but in comparison to the damage done to The Resistance, well...she is not going to focus on the losses of the First Order that seems more stable.


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36 дом по улице Красных Орлов — особняк в историческом центре Каменска-Уральского, Свердловской области.

Постановлением Правительства Свердловской области № 859-ПП от 28 декабря 2001 года присвоен статус памятника архитектуры регионального значения.

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Здание расположено в исторической части города на пересечении улиц Революционной и Красных Орлов (бывшая Верхняя Новая). Революционная напрямую ведёт к Храму Покрова Пресвятой Богородицы и городскому кладбищу.

Особняк был возведён в конце  XIX века. Двухэтажное здание квадратное в плане выделяется пятой стеной, шириной в одно окно между восточным и южным фасадами. Дополнительная стена ориентирована прямо на перекрёсток. Визуально эта стена является центром дома, восточный и южный фасады идентичны и создают симметрию. На каждом из них на обоих ярусах по четыре окна.

В архитектуре здания выделяются эклектика, классика и модерн. Внешние стены выполнены в кирпичном стиле с ярким кружевом. Узоры выполнены из красного лекального кирпича. Аттик непрерывен по всем стенам. По южной и юго-восточной сторонам по центру аттика размещено шестилепестковое солнце. Выше него протянут фигурный кант, объединяющий стены в общую композицию. Ниже выложен кирпичный карниз с прямоугольными выемками-«сухарями». Оконные проёмы венчает округлое лучковое завершение. Каждое окно щедро декорировано сандриками с навершием из пары дуг. Все стены за исключением юго-восточной завершены лопатками по форме схожими с прямоугольными колоннами. Среднюю стену обосабливают полукруглые пилястры. Западный и северный дворовые фасады оформлены скромнее, аттик отсутствует, количество окон уменьшено до двух. Окна выполнены без декора. Фундамент высокий на бутовом камне.

Данных по владельцу и архитектору дома не сохранилось.

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 Памятники архитектуры Каменска-Уральского / С. И. Гаврилова, Л. В. Зенкова, А. В. Кузнецова, А. Ю. Лесунова — Екатеринбург: Банк культурной информации, 2008. — 92 с.

Здания и сооружения Каменска-Уральского

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Combining Metrics for One Health
Simon ReidUniversity of QueenslandBrisbane, Queensland, Australia
Human and Animal Health
Simon Reid and colleagues at the University of Queensland in Australia will develop a combined metric using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis to integrate divergent values on impacts of disease interventions from the agricultural, animal husbandry, and human health sectors. These sectors are involved in addressing similar issues such as disease control, but they each have different priorities. They will focus on the impact of interventions to reduce the incidence of two diseases in Bangladesh, and use existing data and consultation with stakeholders to identify priorities for intervention, including livelihood impact and livestock productivity, that are then ranked by each sector. This will be used to develop a measurement framework that preserves the priorities for each sector, but provides a means of comparing them and achieving consensus.
Combining Phages with CRISPR for Ecological Vaccination
Kevin EsveltPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeCambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Kevin Esvelt of President and Fellows of Harvard College in the U.S. will use CRISPR technology to make protective healthy bacteria resistant to phage so they can outcompete pathogenic bacteria that cause childhood diarrhea and stunting. He will develop a method to make the protective Nissle 1917 strain of E. coli resistant to a range of phage, and use it to replace native E. coli strains in the guts of young mice as a model for human infants. This approach will provide long-term protection against pathogenic bacterial infections at low cost.
Combining Visceral Leishmaniasis Risk Mapping and Deworming
Hussein AbdullahiWajir Country GovernmentWajir, Kenya
Hussein Abdullahi of Wajir County Government in Kenya will combine a mass drug administration effort to treat soil-transmitted helminth (parasitic worm) infections in Wajir County with a survey of the number of cases of visceral leishmaniasis, which is transmitted by sand flies. Visceral leishmaniasis can be lethal and has recently become endemic in this poor Kenyan county, but the actual disease burden is unknown. They will compile community data on mapped settlements in two subcounties, and recruit and train local health workers to distribute questionnaires to help identify past and present cases of visceral leishmaniasis, which will help identify risk factors. In parallel, these workers will distribute deworming drugs, which has been difficult in the area due to low attendance rates at schools where mass deworming efforts normally take place.
CommTrack: A Distribution Management System to Serve the Last Mile
Kara GrijalvaDimagi Software Innovations Private LimitedNew Delhi, Delhi, India
Urgent shortages of medicines in low-income countries lead to millions of unnecessary deaths at birth every year. One pervasive challenge causing such shortages is how to move the right commodities to the right place on time and at cost. We propose to develop an open-source distribution management system which leverages our existing real-time dataset of stock transactions at thousands of facilities in Africa to drive automated improvements in practice. Specifically, we will make optimal usage of limited resources to improve route planning and scheduling, respond to delivery or cold chain failures, strengthen communication, and reduce inappropriate resource utilization. These tools could save governments hundreds of thousands in the cost of fuel, trucks, drivers, and wasted/lost stock, while also improving reliable access to better quality, life-saving commodities.
Condom Materials to Increase Pleasure and Enhance Erection
Shengxi ChenArizona State University FoundationTempe, Arizona, United States
Next Generation Condom
Shengxi Chen of Arizona State University Foundation in the U.S. will produce a male condom using a material to mimic the surface of the skin for a more natural feel, coupled with a chemical to activate erection. The surface of skin cells is both hydrophilic and hydrophobic, however conventional condoms, such as those made from polyisoprene, are hydrophobic and therefore feel unnatural. To mimic the skin surface, they will synthesize the molecule glycosylated PROLI coupled to nitric oxide, which is known to stimulate both male and female physical arousal, and use it to coat a conventional polyisoprene condom. The new condom will be evaluated for strength, biocompatibility with skin cells, and release of nitric oxide.
Continuous Global Early Intervention Program for Preterm Infants Performed by their Families
Rita de Cássia SilveiraHospital de Clínicas de Porto AlegrePorto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Rita de Cássia Silveira from Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre in Brazil will develop and test a program for families with preterm infants to follow at home to improve the child's cognitive, motor and social development. Preterm infants (those born with less than 37 weeks of gestation) can suffer a variety of complications due to incomplete brain, lung and eye development, which can cause long-term problems. They have shown that careful baby massage, alongside the standard skin-to-skin care by the mother, in the hospital after birth can improve the child's neurological development at two years of age. Here they will perform a randomized study of around 80 mothers of preterm infants, and teach one group to perform the massage technique and instruct them to administer it at home for the child's first 12 months of life, which will be carefully monitored. The effects on motor and neurodevelopment will be assessed at regular intervals up to 24 months of age and compared to a control group performing only skin-to-skin care.
Cow-Baited Tents as a Monitoring and Intervention Tool
Brandyce St. LaurentNational Institutes of HealthBethesda, Maryland, United States
Brandyce St. Laurent of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. will test whether cow-baited tents can be used to monitor and control disease-causing mosquitoes in the Greater Mekong Subregion. Most Anopheles mosquitoes preferentially bite animals, but they still contribute to malaria transmission in humans, and many bite outdoors, rendering bednets and indoor repellants useless against them. They will produce low-cost tents treated with insecticide, and locally rent cows as bait. The tents will be set up in both villages and forests and the captured mosquitoes will be analyzed to evaluate the efficacy of their approach.
Create a Foursquare for Development
Vijay ModiColumbia UniversityNew York, New York, United States
Vijay Modi and colleagues of Columbia University in the U.S. will create a universal database to centralize the mapping of social infrastructures, such as schools, clinics, and water points, to improve data accuracy and help to better coordinate aid efforts. Currently, data collection of physical points occurs across multiple platforms, and is inefficient and difficult to update. They will build and host a web service providing a simple database that is easy to access and edit to promote widespread adoption and thereby sharing and integration of important datasets.
Creating the "M-KOPA" of Data Collection
Punit ShahOkHiNairobi, Kenya
Punit Shah of OkHi in Kenya will build a platform to provide up-to-date information on financial access endpoints such as ATM locations by crowdsourcing data from smartphones from a network of users. Current tech-based data collection tools are not ideal as they are generally expensive, and the data quickly become outdated. They will build an app and run a 6-month pilot test by providing locked smart phones with limited functions to potential data collectors in Nairobi, one smaller city and one rural location. As data collectors complete set collection missions using their phones, more functions will be unlocked until the user becomes the owner of the phone, whereby subsequent missions are rewarded with free airtime. The data will be analyzed to determine the frequency of updates, and integrated with open data platforms to broadly disseminate the information and enhance its value.
CRISPR-Cas-Directed Bacteriophage Treatment of Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) Diarrhea
Haiqing ShengUniversity of IdahoMoscow, Idaho, United States
Haiqing Sheng and collaborators Carolyn Bohach and Scott Minnich from the University of Idaho in the U.S. will exploit the CRISPR-Cas9 (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats and CRISPR-associated protein 9) system in a dual approach to combat enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) infections. EPEC cause diarrhea and result in several hundred thousand infant deaths annually. They will engineer a CRISPR-Cas9 cassette to recognize and cleave a DNA sequence found specifically in EPEC, which will lead to selective EPEC cell death in the intestinal tract without affecting other beneficial bacteria. The engineered CRISPR-Cas9 will be administered using both safe EPEC-targeting viruses (bacteriophage) to treat primary infections as well as probiotic E.coli to stably establish the EPEC-targeting plasmid in the gut and block re-infection. They will test it using an established rabbit model of EPEC infection, which will pave the way for future clinical testing.
Customized Insecticides for Combating Disease Vectors
John AbramsUniversity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at DallasDallas, Texas, United States
John Abrams of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in the U.S. will utilize novel mutagenesis and selection strategies to develop new variants of the Cry protein, a toxin producing the pathogen Bt, in an effort to create customized insecticides that can selectively target disease vectors without harming humans and non-target species.
Data Collection Through Interactive Audio Podcasts
Neil PatelAwaazDe Infosystems Pvt LtdAhmedabad, , India
Neil Patel of AwaazDe Infosystems Pvt Ltd in India will produce interactive podcasts that are sent by mobile phone to inform local users in India on relevant financial services and to collect their feedback on specific issues in audio form, making it more widely accessible. The feedback will be used to monitor financial habits, and help identify barriers to usage and ways to improve services. The interactive podcast platform can also be supplemented with optional features such as balance inquiries or loan repayment reminders. AwaazDe ("give voice") will tailor the technology, and work with partners to pilot test the podcasts and collect data first in 10 villages in India, followed by scaling up to 50,000 users.
Deconstructing Barriers to Uptake of Labor Saving Devices
James PimunduSend a Cow RwandaKigali, Rwanda
James Pimundu and team from Send a Cow Rwanda in Rwanda will test whether educating men and women in Rwanda on gender barriers and social behavior issues stimulates them to use energy-saving stoves for cooking. Although affordable energy-saving stoves are available, they are not widely adopted, possibly because women have limited access to money and lack the power to make decisions. They will train both men and women to inform them of gender barriers in order to reduce inequality. By promoting better technology uptake in this way they aim to substantially reduce the time and labor costs of collecting firewood, as well as empowering the women to take control of other important family issues such as health and child care.
Delivery of New Drugs Into Parasitic Nematodes
Stephen MillerUniversity of Massachusetts Medical SchoolWorcester, Massachusetts, United States
Stephen Miller and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in the U.S. will identify and characterize molecular features that can easily penetrate Roundworms (nematodes), which commonly infect humans and can cause disability and death. Current treatment options are limited and toxic, and are losing efficacy due to the development of resistance mechanisms that can prevent the drug from entering the worm. Once molecular features that enhance entry are identified, they will be tested for their ability to promote delivery of a drug they have developed, which is predicted to inhibit the nematode's nervous system, as a potentially effective new treatment.
Dendritic Cell Receptor-Targeted Malaria Vaccines
Rajan GeorgePaladin BiosciencesEdmonton, Alberta, Canada
Rajan George of Paladin Biosciences, a division of Paladin Labs Inc. in Canada will produce a vaccine with multiple malaria antigens to target dendritic cell receptors and without the need for an adjuvant, in an effort to induce both antibody and cell-mediated immune responses to the malaria parasite at various stages of the infection.
Dense Metabolomics Profiling Over the Course of Gestation
Mads MelbyeStatens Serum InstitutCopenhagen, Denmark
Mads Melbye of Statens Serum Institut in Denmark will analyze the metabolic changes that occur in women over the full course of pregnancy to help identify signatures that could diagnose disease or predict gestational age. They will use liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry to measure the plasma levels of a broad range of metabolites in 30 pregnant women every two weeks. They will also collect samples for future analyses to profile the types and levels of other molecules and microbes at different stages of pregnancy. They will analyze their data for associations between specific metabolites and gestational age, and validate these on an existing independent cohort of 100,000 mother-child pairs.
Design and Development of Wearable Personal Devices
Laurence ZwiebelVanderbilt UniversityNashville, Tennessee, United States
Laurence Zwiebel of Vanderbilt University in the U.S. will produce a wearable self-powered device containing the compound VUAA known to repel the malaria vector mosquito Anopheles gambiae. This will help to protect individuals from being bitten outdoors. He will optimize volatilization of VUAA compounds, and explore strategies to incorporate selected analogs into wearable materials. Available technologies that can harness energy from movement, the sun, or body heat, and long- lasting batteries will also be tested for integration into the wearable device and their ability to control a slow release of the repellent.
Design of HIV-1 Epitope Vaccine Based On a Non-Immune Antibody Library From Healthy Individuals
Qi ZhangTsinghua UniversityBeijing, China
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Qi Zhang of Tsinghua University in China will identify and characterize antibody germline precursors of broadly neutralizing monocolocal antibodies (bnmAbs) with the ultimate goal to design an HIV-1 vaccine candidate able to stimulate the precursors to develop into protective antibodies in healthy individuals.
Designing an Agricultural Implement Microfranchise for Women
Patrice MartinIDEO.orgSan Francisco, California, United States
Patrice Martin of IDEO.org in the U.S. and Devi Prasad Rao from the Arohana Seva Foundation in India will design and prototype a microfranchise system to rent small and mid-sized time-saving agricultural implements for Indian women smallholder farmers to improve their productivity and incomes. The system will be tailored to meet the unique needs of women smallholder farmers, and incorporate financing, training, and equipment maintenance. They will purchase and develop crop- specific prototype kits, including selected equipment and training materials, and lease them to local entrepreneurs who will be trained and supported to launch the microfranchise to rent out the kits.
Designing for Female Ergonomic and Cultural Appropriateness
William KisaalitaUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc.Athens, Georgia, United States
William Kisaalita of the University of Georgia in the U.S. will redesign a milk churner to make it suitable for women in order to reduce the time and labor needed to make ghee. In many sub-Saharan countries, the morning milk harvested from cattle can be sold in markets, but the milk harvested in the evening needs to be processed into longer-lasting products such as ghee to prevent it from perishing. The current method for churning milk to make ghee is time and labor intensive. He will recruit women in Uganda to test and refine the milk churner design, which is cheap and can be locally manufactured and repaired, to make it more ergonomic and culturally appropriate for women users and thereby promote its widespread adoption.
Designing On-Farm Participatory Models of Integrated Farming Systems for Enhancement of Household Diet Diversity and Livelihoods of Women Smallholder Farmers
Ramanathan KathiresanAnnamalai UniversityAnnamalai Nagar, , India
The project intends to promote the adoption of an innovative model of farming - the Integrated Farming System (IFS) - in the Chidambaram region. It aims to demonstrate the effectiveness of this model of farming in improving agricultural productivity and create avenues for empowerment of women as well as augment household diet diversity and improve nutritional standards of 150 poor women farmers.
Detecting Pathogens in Mosquitoes with Pregnancy Test Strips
Andrew EllingtonThe University of Texas at AustinAustin, Texas, United States
Andrew Ellington of The University of Texas at Austin in the U.S. will develop a low-cost and easy-to-use diagnostic test incorporating widely available pregnancy test strips to detect disease-causing mosquitoes. An industry partner will develop a handheld sample preparation device to extract pathogen-associated nucleic acids from live or crushed mosquitoes for diagnosis. An undergraduate research laboratory will design loop-mediated isothermal amplification reactions for a number of different pathogens including the dengue virus and malaria pathogen that would lead to the release of human chorionic gonadotropin within the device, which can then be detected by standard pregnancy tests. They will first test the sensitivity of the device for detecting mosquitoes coated with pathogen biomarkers in the laboratory.


Worcester, Mass.--The Clark University men's tennis team fell to the visiting MIT Engineers in a New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) match on Saturday afternoon at the Corash Tennis Courts.
-MIT senior Tyler Barr (San Antonio, Texas) took a victory over sophomore Nicholas Mathieu (Topsham, Maine) at No. 1 singles with set scores of 6-2 and 6-2.
-Senior Alex Cauneac (Severna Park, Md.) took a victory over Clark first year Max Schweitzer (West Hartford, Conn.) at No. 2 singles. He claimed a 6-2 final in the first set before shutting out Shweitzer, 6-0 in set two.
-Sophomore Chris Ruebens (Cheshire, Conn.) earned Clark's lone victory of the day at No. 3 singles over MIT's Pablo Ampudia (San Antonio, Texas). Ampudia took set one 6-2 before Ruebens took set two, 6-2, to force a third set. Ruebens edged Amppudia 10-8 in the third set.
-Sophomore Charles Deng (Temple City, Calif.) took 6-1 victories at No. 4 singles over junior Alex Hattenbach (Wilton, Conn.).
-Senior Henry La Soya (Los Angeles, Calif.) finished with 6-3 and 6-2 victories over Clark's Ian Levy (Needham, Mass.) at No. 5 singles before MIT's Arman Dave wrapped singles play up with a 6-0 and 6-2 final over Clark senior Jacob Malicky (South Egremont, Mass.).
-Mathieu and Ruebens fought hard at No. 1 doubles, but MIT's Barr and Cauneac clinched the 8-5 final victory.
-Deng and Ampudia took an 8-3 victory at No. 2 doubles for the Engineers over Malicky and Schweitzer before La Soya and Dave fouth their way to an 8-5 win over Hattenbach and Levy at No. 3 doubles.
-Clark hosts Emerson College in NEWMAC play on Sunday, April 7th at 11:00 a.m.
-MIT travels to Wheaton on Wednesday, April 10th for a conference match at 4:00 p.m.


Researchers Becky Deegan and Kenneth Bayles of UNMC and David Berkowitz of UNL are jumpstarting the development of drug therapies to protect military service members from the effects of radiation exposure. The same drug therapies could improve the health effects for cancer patients receiving radiation treatments. Photo taken in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center in Omaha, NE.
In an environment where for-profit pharmaceutical companies are often reluctant to embark upon financially risky drug discovery efforts, the unique four-pronged partnership established by the university and the Department of Defense could shorten the U.S. military's wait for drugs that prevent and counteract the effects of radiation exposure.
"It's an exciting collaboration among the federal government, our state university and two of its premier research campuses — University of Nebraska Medical Center and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln — and consultants from private pharma who are Nebraska alumni," said David Berkowitz, professor of chemistry.
"This research represents the broad capacity of the University of Nebraska and its alumni consultants to tackle potentially hazardous radiation exposures around the world," said Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Robert Hinson, founding executive director of the National Strategic Research Initiative.
The University of Nebraska project for the Defense Health Agency, and in collaboration with Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, has reached a second increment — potentially awarding nearly $11 million in federal funding over the next five years. Nebraska researchers will look for therapeutics candidates the U.S. military would need to protect troops from radiation in case of exposure, as in a nuclear accident or a nuclear weapons incident.
Leveraging the full, collaborative strength of a united university system — multiple campuses, a network of successful alums — directed by the Department of Defense, is something new for the university.
"We've pitched this concept to develop a virtual pharmaceutical company, a drug development pipeline that would coordinate the activities of all the expertise we have across all of our campuses and develop capabilities to move molecules forward for drug development," he said.
Handfuls of NU's top scientists will work on medicinal chemistry, metabolomics and bioinformatics in order to move potential drug candidates toward clinical trials. "We'll be coordinating all of these aspects like a pharmaceutical company does," Bayles said. "If we do it right, this pipeline concept is an opportunity to build the economy in Nebraska, build the pharmaceutical industry in Nebraska."
"We are extremely proud to be affiliated with this research and the impact it can have for the Department of Defense, Defense Health Agency and other agencies as well," Lt. Gen. Hinson said.
• Samuel Cohen, UNMC, toxicology. • Patrick Dussault, UNL, synthetic chemistry. • Babu Guda, UNMC, bioinformatics. • Tomas Helikar, UNL, computational systems biology. • DJ Murry, UNMC, pharmacokinetics and pharmacogentics. • Rebecca Oberley-Deegan, UNMC, radiation therapeutics. • Robert Powers, UNL, metabolomics.
"They are appreciative of the opportunity to give back to their home institution," said Berkowitz. "They really like the idea of the Lincoln and Omaha campuses collaborating. They really like working for the DoD. There is a patriotic aspect of helping the country and protecting our troops using the tools of biomedical science.
"That's something that has made this project special for all of us."


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Clubs strive to continue virtually despite COVID-19 setbacks
Contributed by Zach Bishop '22
Chamber Music Club, among others, utilize Google Classroom as a key method of keeping in touch and posting updates.
Lyah Muktavaram '22, Web Features Editor
With topics ranging from aerial photography to cybersecurity, the Staples community fosters a variety of unique clubs and activities. However, many were uncertain how clubs would fare during a global pandemic.
Club leaders remain persistent in working to continue their clubs while abiding by COVID-19 precautions. By utilizing applications like Zoom, leaders aim to bring their clubs back to create a sense of normality for the Staples community.
"Even though COVID-19 has disrupted the way our club normally operates, it's great that we are still able to meet and accomplish most of what we want to do," Claire Lee '21, president of Girls Who Code, said. "We are able to meet on Zoom and post important documents to Google Classroom."
Girls Who Code and Chamber Music Club would normally attend in-person events and competitions and are now faced with the challenges of figuring out when and how to perform.
"Distance learning has made the clubs more difficult and almost impossible for students to rehearse and perform in person unless outside of school," Zach Bishop '22, co-president of the Chamber Music Club, said.
We are just trying to make the best of a situation. Our club is very based on meeting up since it is all fun and games, but this year we really have to come up with something different."
— Ana Punia '22
Bishop emphasized the importance of more individual-based learning and practice for clubs like Chamber Music that don't have as many opportunities to practice together.
"I am going to send everyone their music after creating the groups in order for members to have something to work on at home," Bishop said. "Brief meetings or discussion posts amongst groups will be recommended so members know what to work on."
Despite these restrictions that distance learning and COVID-19 have brought, leaders are optimistic about the accommodations they have been making.
"We are brainstorming as a team on what to do so it is fun for everyone," Ana Punia '22, co-president of Students Supporting Special Athletes, said. "We are doing movies over zoom, [to] get to know [each other], [and eventually] we are going to do a walk-a-thon."
Clubs and after-school activities continue to remain a critical aspect of Staples, and leaders and members are doing their best to maintain a sense of community.
"We are just trying to make the best of a situation," Punia said. "Our club is very based on meeting up since it is all fun and games, but this year we really have to come up with something different."
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Advantages To Attending Hawaii Universities
Published at 03/29/2012 00:20:24
Hawaii is probably the best place in the world to be in if you love nature and want to see beautiful places around. There are several universities and institutions of higher learning in Hawaii. As to which among the Hawaii universities you attend is your choice, but time spent at a Hawaii university will be the most memorable years in your life.
There are several advantages to attending Hawaii universities. Here are some of the advantages to attending Hawaii universities.
Hawaii being located in the middle of the Pacific attracts students from America, Asia and Europe. All the Hawaii universities offer diverse student population giving you the opportunity to understand and appreciate people from diverse ethnicities and nationalities. This is the true multicultural advantage.
Some of the Hawaii universities like Hawaii Pacific university being a military friendly college is the ideal place for the military veterans to advance their careers. There are military friendly programs as well as professional business careers. In other words, the career programs at Hawaii universities are tailored to everyone's needs.
Hawaii Pacific University offers the unique program not available in every campus. This is known as FlexTRACK, the military friendly program. This opportunity should be counted as one great advantage of attending Hawaii universities. Accordingly, you have complete flexibility in doing the program that include multiple start date, full and part time study, day, evening, weekend and online classes, classes conducted on Hawaii military bases, option to complete the degree who leave for some reasons like relocation or temporary deployment, transfer credit option among several others.
One of the Hawaii universities is the University of Hawaii at Hilo which has 100 faculty members and enrolls approximately 27000 students. It serves the County of Hawaii by providing the four year liberal arts campus for those who prefer a small, residential college environment. It also has a four year College of Agriculture. The University of Hawaii – West Oahu has 26 faculty members and enrolls about 700 students in its upper division Bachelor of Arts Program.
Among the nation's universities as well as Hawaii universities, the University of Hawaii is particularly strong in agriculture and tropical medicine; astronomy and planetary science; oceanography, geology and geophysics; marine biology, conservation biology and evolutionary biology; comparative philosophy and comparative religion; and Hawaiian studies, Pacific Island studies, Asian studies and studies of Russia in the Pacific. These strengths reflect Hawaii's unique geography and environment as well as its historical involvement with many cultures in the Pacific rim.
In brief, Hawaii universities offer a number of unique advantages not available anywhere else by virtue of their unique geographical location, history and environment. University of Hawaii is among the top universities of the nation. It is an international university ranking typically in the top 10 or 15 universities among American universities in federal funding for international programs. Manoa faculty routinely offer instruction in forty five languages and are capable of presenting over eighty many of which are taught nowhere else in the world outside of their native countries. The university is also a minority institution: 56 percent of its students are women, and no more than 23.3 percent of its students come from any particular ethnic background.
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Staff were great and even amended our booking at short notice. Rooms were spacious, spotless and beds were huge. Location is excellent.
A very lovely owner! It feels like you're staying with your family. The entree is very cute. Good facilities. Clean and good beds, towels and very nice corners where you can relax. The balcony and view is very nice.
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a bit pricey for hostel style accommodation, but everything you need was provided.
The beds are comfy, but makes a lot of noise.
Our favorite hostel of our entire trip!
Just one of the toilets was very small, but nothing to die for.
I'm not sure how often the blankets are cleaned but mine was pretty gross.
Overall it was a nice, unique place.
woken at 6am by people chatting in the kitchen as the room was right next to kitchen and they stayed there chatting for next 2 hours..... night away from the kids so was sooooo hoping for a sleep in!
The bathrooms could have been cleaner. Additionally no one filled up the paper towels or the toilet paper in the downstairs toilet.


How'd I do in 2017?
Time to take a look back at 2017 and see how I did.
Add 5 Topps sets to my collection (1981 - 2017). I only have 5 years right now, so that gives me a lot to choose from. I added 7 Topps sets in 2017 (1984, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1995, 1998, and 2004).
Put together 10 insert sets. I need to narrow my list down because there are so many great insert sets to choose from, but I already have several in mind. I know I completed our bought multiple inserts sets in 2017, but I can't put a number on it. I just didn't keep track. Probably in the 5 -10 range.
Add 3 autographed baseballs to my collection. Official Major League Baseballs are pricey, so I tend to be very selective about who I have autograph a baseball and I want these to be in person autographs. Added 3 autographed baseballs to my collection in 2017; all D-Backs (David Peralta, Robbie Ray, and Jake Lamb). I got Lamb in person and won the other two at D-Backs events.
Send out at least 60 ttm autograph requests. 5 requests per month should be easy enough and hopefully I'll average about 1 return per week. I didn't do well in this are in 2017. I didn't send out many requests and didn't track them very well. I'm going to focus on this more in 2018.
Add 10 cards to my Ryan Roberts collection. There aren't many Roberts cards left that I don't already have, so I had to set the goal fairly low. Picked up a few Ryan Roberts cards in 2018 via comc, but I don't think I got to 10. Maybe around 5.
Add 50 cards to my Paul Goldschmidt collection. Goldy is my favorite current D-Back player. I picked up over 150 new Goldschmidt cards in 2018. This was my primary focus in 2018 and it shows. I've documented 145 additions as of the writing of this post, but have about 20 additional cards I've picked up recently that need to be added.
Add 10 vintage cards to my Hank Aaron collection. My overall goal is to acquire every Topps base card from his playing days. If my count is correct Aaron has 68 Topps cards between 1954 and 1976. I think I have 24 of them currently. Picked up a few, but haven't kept track.
Add 10 additional vintage cards to my collection. For this goal, I'm going to say that vintage will include anything prior to 1981. The cards need to be of star players, but not necessarily Hall of Famers. I've picked up a few that would fall in this category, but haven't kept track.
Add 100 cards to my Ken Griffey Jr. collection. I need to organize and document my Griffey collection and am excited to add to it. Thanks to The Great Griffey Giving Box, I was able to add 116 Griffey cards to my collection in 2017 and I organized my Griffey collection.
Obtain a 1997 Upper Deck Ken Griffey Jr. Game Jersey card. My White Whale. Still my White Whale.
Add 100 cards to my Mike Piazza collection. I need to organize and document my Piazza collection and am excited to add to it. Don't think I was able to add 100 Piazza cards, but I did organize my Piazza collection, so now I can keep track.
Finish my First Night Game at Wrigley Field project. I only need three more to complete the project (Mitch Webster, Damon Berryhill, and Darrin Jackson), No progress.
Finish my Super Bowl Autograph Project. I think I need 6 more. No progress. I think I'll need to change my standards. I previously said that it would have to be someone that scored points for the team that won. Now, I'll just go for someone on the winning team.
Add to my 2005 Prime Patches Steve Finley Collection. Not putting a number on this because I don't know if there is an actual checklist. Was able to add one card and I'm happy about that, since there aren't many left I need.
Add 5 Hall of Famers Autographs to my collection. These can be ttm, in-person, or certified but they have to be new to my collection. Didn't do a good job focusing on this or tracking it.I know I was able to add a Duke Snider certified auto to my collection thanks to Judson.
If I had to grade myself based on my goals I'd give myself a B. I did get at certain goals and horrible in others. I blew my Goldschmidt goal out of the water and finally organized my Griffey and Piazza collections. One thing that kept jumping out at my while reviewing my progress was that I didn't keep track of most of my goals very well in 2017. I'll have to change that in 2018.
Fellow blogger and lover of all things Larkin and Legos: Nachos Grande has been sending out packages as part of his Season of Giving. That means for me it was the Season of Getting.
I claimed the D-Backs and got a box of D-Backs goodness from Nachos Grande. Check out a small sampling of what he sent.
These early Topps Heritage cards really caught my eye. These three cards are making me rethink a part of my collection. Currently all my D-Backs base cards are sorted by player, but I'm thinking about changing that up and put together team sets.
I picked up the 2017 Topps Update All-Star Stitches card of Paul Goldschmidt as part of my my recent comc order. It goes nicely with the previous years.
Goldschmidt is still in his prime, so hopefully there are many more All-Star stitches cards to come.
Let's take a look at Repack #4.
Here's a look at the point system.
Cards can't have + and - points, so for example, a card of a Hall of Famer or Star Player from the Junk Wax era will only get the positive points. Also, some cards will not have any point value.
46 points total. The lowest so far. Lots of D-Backs, but not much else in the way of star power.
Paul Goldschmidt has 232 doubles and I have 283.


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Cardinal Tauran denounces murder of Christian couple in Pakistan
(Vatican Radio) Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue has denounced the assassination of a young couple in Pakistan, who had been accused of blasphemy.
In an interview with Vatican Radio, the cardinal added that he was "shocked" by the "barbarous acts".
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According to the couple's Christian lawyer, the young Shahzad and Shama Masih were beaten by an angry Mulsim mob on Tuesday and then burned alive. Police instead report the young couple was beaten to death and then their bodies burned.
"Obviously, one remains speechless before such barbarous acts," said the cardinal. "And what is worse is that religion is invoked in a specific way. A religion cannot justify such acts, such crimes. There is this lay on blasphemy, the 'blasphemy law', which poses a problem."
The cardinal noted that there have been about 60 executions under the blasphemy law since it was adopted. He called for some international intervention in the matter, saying that a minimum of humanity and solidarity is required and that dialogue is necessary.
Since direct intervention in Pakistan's domestic affairs is not appropriate, said the cardinal, legislators must be helped to understand that laws must respect the dignity of the person.
Cardinal Tauran said the Church must denounce such violent acts publicly, with consistency and force. He said he hopes Muslim leaders will do the same. He said Muslims are victimized by these acts of violence as well, as they give a very negative image of Islam.
"Therefore, it is in their interest to denounce such acts in a vigorous manner," he said.
The cardinal said solidarity is the way to continue giving hope to Christians facing daily threats and violence. He also underlined some encouraging and well-received initiatives by the Church in the Middle East.
"We need to bet on fraternity," he said, "which is the theme of the World Day of Peace."
Report read by Andrew Summerson, article by Laura Ieraci


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Delay in power plants costs SWK college $2 million grant - The Chanute Tribune: News
Delay in power plants costs SWK college $2 million grant
Posted: Tuesday, March 3, 2009 1:07 am
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A southwest Kansas community college has lost a nearly $2 million federal grant because of delays in state approval for two new coal-fired power plants proposed by Sunflower Electric Power Corp.
Garden City Community College officials said they were told Monday morning to return the Department of Labor grant that would have trained workers to help build the plants. The same day, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius — who vetoed three bills last year that would have allowed the $3.6 billion project to go forward — was announced as President Barack Obama's nominee for secretary of health and human services.
"I'm very disappointed," GCCC president Carol Ballantyne said. "We worked hard to get the grant and had been working hard to get them to hold off until the decision was made. But the roller coaster in Topeka, with the veto and no veto override ... it's just been a roller coaster."
Kansas Department of Health and Environment Secretary Rod Bremby refused in October 2007 to issue Sunflower Electric Power Corp. a needed air quality permit for the plants. He cited concerns about potential carbon dioxide emissions, and Sebelius agreed with him.
Supporters last year couldn't muster enough support to override the governor's vetoes.
The House on Friday approved another measure that would allow construction of the plants, but it still was five votes short of the two-thirds majority needed to override another promised veto.
House Speaker Mike O'Neal said he wishes the Labor Department would have waited a little longer before pulling the grant.
"It's an example of opportunities that continue to be lost in delaying these types of projects from moving forward," O'Neal said. "These types of losses we're aware of, but there also are losses we'll never know that we were even in line for because of the regulatory uncertainty we have."
Senate President Steve Morris, a Hugoton Republican, said he was disappointed that the governor's "shortsightedness" had cost the college $2 million that it could have used to improve the region's economy.
"It's really ironic to me that we're talking about the stimulus package and they take back money that would allow us to stimulate our part of the state," Morris said. "It makes no sense."
He said a Senate measure allowing the plants was passed out of committee on Monday and will be taken up on the Senate floor either late this week or early next.
He said he doesn't know whether Sebelius' departure will make it easier for Democrats who had opposed the plants out of loyalty to the governor — rather than strong feelings against the project — to change their minds. But he figures Lt. Gov. Mark Parkinson, who will take over if Sebelius is confirmed to the HHS post, will veto whatever measure comes out of the Legislature.
"Were going to do what we can to press forward assuming we will have another veto to deal with," he said.
Ballantyne said the three-year grant, which was designed to train 300 people in various aspects of construction, could have helped resolve a shortage of such workers in southwest Kansas after the coal plants were finished.
"People were going to be brought in from elsewhere anyway, but we were intending for the grant to put some locals in seven of the skill areas," she said. "We were hoping that not only would we be training people that the big company would bring in, but also some of our own so they would stay."
Ballantyne said the news Monday came during a scheduled call with the Labor Department to discuss the possibility of extending the grant, which was awarded last March.
"I guess it's not a total surprise and I understand the Labor Department's perspective," she said. "But I want to emphasize that we did not give up or turn back the grant. This is simply a matter of the protracted political process affecting the timeline, and we're not happy with the way this has worked out."
Morris said the entire state, not just southwest Kansas, loses out because the grant money was pulled.
"If there was anyone that would make efficient use of a grant like that, it would be Garden City Community College and the Garden City area," Morris said. "I know they would make the maximum use of that money, and for it to leave because of the shortsightedness of some folks, that's very disappointing."
Sebelius was in Washington D.C. Monday for the announcement of her nomination for the HHS post and was unavailable for comment.
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The Cornell University Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections is located in the Carl A. Kroch Library, a state-of-the-art, three-story underground building, which opened in August of 1992. Named for Carl A. Kroch '35, the pioneering bookseller who provided the principal gift for its construction, the building was designed especially for the storage of rare and fragile materials. Within its 97,000 square feet, the Kroch Library has room for approximately 1.3 million volumes and 20,000 cubic feet of manuscript material. All three levels provide space for researchers, staff, and collections. Comfortable study areas are clustered around a large, open atrium to take advantage of the natural light provided by four skylights. To ensure proper preservation and security, rare books and manuscripts are kept in a climate-controlled vault on the lower level of the building.
To facilitate access and instruction, the Rare and Manuscript Division offers a variety of facilities. A reference room and two classrooms accommodate an array of research and instruction needs. Researchers may examine collections in the Elizabeth Reed Rare Book and Manuscript Reading Room. Additionally, the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections mounts three to four exhibitions each year in the Samuel L. Hirshland '51 Exhibition Gallery. Visitors are encouraged to peruse the exhibition gallery in person or online.
The Carl A. Kroch Library is located on the central Cornell campus; access is through Olin Library. Visitors and researchers are welcome in the Rare and Manuscript Division during regular Kroch-Rare & Manuscript Collections library hours (listed to the left). The receptionist on the 2B level will be happy to direct you to the reference room, exhibition gallery, or classrooms.
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Dublin faces fallout from nuclear row
Ireland has sparked the ire of the European Commission by going over its head and asking the UN to settle a spat over the future of the Sellafield nuclear plant.
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The European Commission has taken the Republic of Ireland to the European Court of Justice following the country's decision to bring an action against the UK under the UN's Convention for the Law of the Sea regarding marine pollution from the Sellafield plant.
The EC argues that the Irish action, which began in 2001, was an infringement of the ECJ's exclusive jurisdiction and that its breached Ireland's duty of co-operation.
The dispute could, and should, have been dealt with internally by the EU, says the commission.
On Wednesday, January 18th the court announced that it was minded to agree with the commission and in its opinion Ireland had broken the rules.
This does not amount to a final verdict, however, and that will be delivered later in the proceedings.
For their part, Irish lawyers claim that Dublin was entitled to take the matter up with the UN as the UK's actions were in breach of environmental protection agreements laid down by the international body.
The case will not deal will the original dispute itself.
The Anglo-Irish spat began when the UK started importing spent nuclear fuel from all over world for processing at the West Cumbrian mixed oxide plant.
Ireland's complaint was based on health and environmental concerns as well as London's refusal to share the finding of a public enquiry into the economic justification for the plant.
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From renewables to fossil fuels: Everything you need to know about the UK's Energy Security Strategy
Energy Security Strategy: UK targets 95% low-carbon electricity mix by 2030, but will increase oil and gas production


A pre-trial motions and instructions hearing was held in Starke Circuit Court on Friday ahead of a murder trial set to begin on Monday morning.
Matthew Schutz, 32, of North Judson, is accused of knowingly and intentionally killing Bradley White by stabbing him in the chest causing his death in an incident at a North Judson residence on Jan. 17, 2017.
Portions of video and audio evidence were discussed where some of the content was ruled inadmissible by Starke Circuit Court Judge Kim Hall. The recorded conversations in question were conducted in close proximity to the incident. They will be edited as ruled before being admitted into the court record as evidence during the trial that is expected to continue through Tuesday, Aug. 7.