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John Billingsley (, born May 20, 1960) is an American actor best known for his role as Doctor Phlox on the television series Star Trek: Enterprise.

Early life and education
Billingsley was born in Media, Pennsylvania, and subsequently lived in Huntsville, Alabama and Slidell, Louisiana before his family settled in Weston, Connecticut. He graduated from Bennington College in 1982.

Career

Early work
Billingsley's first on-screen role was in 1991 as a difficult customer making a return in a customer service training video produced by Nintendo of America. He made an appearance in "It Happened in Juneau", a third-season episode of the TV comedy-drama Northern Exposure, playing a patient treated by Marilyn. He then appeared in The X-Files episode "Three of a Kind", as a friend of the Lone Gunmen who turns out to be a government spy. He played Bill Gates in a sketch on Seattle comedy show Almost Live! One of Billingsley's earliest film roles was in the 2001 made-for-television historical drama Just Ask My Children, in which he played corrupt lawyer Andrew Gines.

2000s
Billingsley played Dr. John Fallow in a West Wing episode that featured the Gall–Peters projection map (season 2, episode 16). He was cast as Professor Miles Ballard in the short-lived television series The Others; then as the Denobulan Doctor Phlox in the fifth live-action Star Trek series, Star Trek: Enterprise, which ran for four seasons. He also played himself in an episode of Roswell that used the Enterprise set. He also starred in the independent film Breathing Hard (2000) in the same year. In 2002, he was a guest star in an episode of Stargate SG-1, playing a scientist who is also a Trekkie, "worshipping at the altar of Roddenberry". He played a supporting role in the 2003 thriller Out of Time as medical examiner and best friend to the chief of police, played by Denzel Washington.

Billingsley is well known to fans of the series Cold Case for his guest appearance in the show's second season, playing serial killer George Marks, the only killer on the show to get away with murder. He reprised the role in the season finale, in which Marks was killed. He also appeared as a blunt-force victim in the first season of Six Feet Under, in the episode "The New Person".

Billingsley appeared in the first season of the series Prison Break as the mysterious Terrence Steadman, brother of the Vice President, whose death is faked to frame Lincoln Burrows for murder. Soon after, he was cast as a regular on the series The Nine. This left him unable to continue his role as Steadman, and he was replaced in the role by Jeff Perry. In 2005, he played the voice of Trask in Ultimate Spider-Man. In November 2006, Billingsley portrayed William Bradford on two episodes of the podcast The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd. In May 2007 he appeared on NCIS as a blind photographer in the episode, "In The Dark". He appeared in the seventh season of 24 as a recurring character. On October 8, 2007, he also made a guest appearance on Journeyman as Alan Platt. Billingsley played Prof. Harry, a biologist, in the 2007 independent science fiction film The Man from Earth, as well as the 2013 sequel ''The Man from Earth: Holocene''. He also made a guest appearance in an October 2007 episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and in 2006 on the spinoff series CSI: NY.

Billingsley appeared as Jacob Nolston in "Crash Into Me", a two-part, fourth-season episode of the TV drama Grey's Anatomy.

Billingsley and his wife have also appeared as themselves on the HGTV series My House Is Worth What?, in which a real estate expert toured their home and provided commentary for viewers before providing an appraisal.

In 2008, Billingsley had a supporting role in several episodes of the HBO series True Blood as coroner Mike Spencer. In May of that year, he guest starred as John Harris, the father of the Kiss-Me-Not Killer, in "Never Tell", an episode of Women's Murder Club.

He appeared in the disaster film 2012, which was released on November 13, 2009, as Professor Frederic West, an American scientist. He subsequently appeared on the ABC series Scrubs in December 2009.

2010s
In August 2010, Billingsley guest starred in an episode of the TNT series Leverage as Coswell, the head of security at the Boston Museum of Art and Antiquities. In November that year he guest starred as amateur psychic Ellis Mars in "Red Moon", an episode of The Mentalist.

In February 2011 Billingsley played Gidger in the Richard Greenberg's play The Violet Hour in Los Angeles. In August 2011, Billingsley starred in an episode of the USA Network drama Suits as the company accountant who is being released for never finishing university.

In October 2012 Billingsley starred in the film Trade of Innocents alongside Dermot Mulroney and Mira Sorvino.

On February 12, 2013, a web comedy video was released on Yahoo! Screens under the title "Forwarders" that featured Billingsley as an Dr. Alan Cooper, a psychologist and expert on compulsive e-mail forwarding. That same year he completed filming of the independent film Red Line.

On January 7, 2014, CBS television premiered the science fiction drama Intelligence, on which Billingsley played Dr. Shenandoah Cassidy, the inventor of an implantable microchip that acts as an interface between a human mind and electronic devices.

In November 2014, Billingsley guest-starred in the CBS crime drama series, Hawaii Five-0, playing lawyer Eugene Goodman in the Season 5 episode, "Ka Hana Malu".

In May 2015, Billingsley appeared in the second season of the AMC period drama, Turn: Washington's Spies, playing Samuel Townsend, father of American Revolutionary spy, Robert Townsend. He later returned to the role for the third season.

In July 2017, he appeared as Doctor Ben in the Showtime revival of Twin Peaks.

Personal life
Billingsley is married to fellow actor Bonita Friedericy. She first became interested in him after seeing him perform in a stage production of Great Expectations. Friedericy appeared with Billingsley in "Regeneration", a 2003 episode of Star Trek: Enterprise in which she played Rooney. The couple has subsequently appeared in other productions together.

Filmography

Film

Television

Videogames

References

External links

1960 births
Living people
People from Media, Pennsylvania
American male film actors
American male television actors
Bennington College alumni
Male actors from Pennsylvania
People from Greater Los Angeles
Male actors from Seattle
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
People from Slidell, Louisiana
People from Weston, Connecticut


NotSoSAHM http://www.NotSoSAHM.com I'm a photographer and homeschooler Dream = travel blogger. We move around every couple of years. That's fine, I love seeing different parts of our great country and the world. Great things: Jesus, traveling, photography, eating, sewing, scrapbooking, reading, shopping...not necessarily in that order.
There are three people in this house who love snow and one person who is just meh. I'm the meh. I was born in the South for a reason. But even I will admit that flurries like the ones below are beautiful. Mind you, I wasn't out doing a happy dance in them, but that was taken care of for me by Ash.
This was taken in 2012, five years ago, and I can guarantee you I wanted to practice stopping motion. Head over to Project Edit 365 to see how I edited the original pic. Thanks!
I don't remember where we were when I took this picture. But I tend to like taking pictures of roads that are cut through tall trees, hugging in on both sides.
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Near Monterey, stands a mission along the California Mission Trail. It also stands on the San Andreas Fault! San Juan Bautista is a beautiful, small mission founded in 1797. Below is the church. Some of the tiles that make the floor have paw prints of cats that walked over them while they were drying, over 180 years ago! Another note of interest is that parts of Alfred Hitchcock's movie, Vertigo, was filmed here.
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He's probably the sweetest member of our family. He's been with us for only five months less than Ash has (almost 10 years!). They've grown up together and because of that, he doesn't mind being around little kids. Adults on the other hand. . . We've been feeding him for ten years and he's still not 100% sure he can trust us.
He wasn't a lap cat for the first 8 years of his life, but lately he enjoys crawling into my lap to take about a 30 minute nap. Thankfully that's the extent of it, because my legs are asleep by the time he's leaping out! He's not a small cat — 14 pounds!
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When we took a tour of the US Capitol we were awestruck at the beautiful architecture, columns, paintings, ceilings, sculptures, the cupola, and even floor grates. I could stare at this for a long time. I love the symmetry. It looks like it's a fibonacci sequence. Maybe that's why it's relaxing to me. Is it only me? It might be too busy for you.
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We're back at the bowling alley. The girls were attending a birthday party and one of the party favors was a water bottle shaped like a bowling pin. So they all put their own names on their pins. This was back when Ash was 6 and signing her name was still a novelty. So much concentration.
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The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) states: "The principal contradiction in our society in the new era has been transformed into the contradiction between the people's growing need for a better life and unbalanced and inadequate development." The key measure to solve this contradiction is to change China's welfare system from a residual type to one that is based on the principle of moderate universalism. The current social welfare system of China is mainly social security, which focuses on social insurances and social assistance. The system has certain problems such as narrow coverage, gaps between the rich and the poor, and between regions, which cannot meet the growing needs of the people. A moderate universal welfare system requires, to meet the needs of the people, extending the coverage of social security from only a portion of the population to all citizens; extending service objectives from only disadvantaged groups to all the people; in welfare programs, extending from economic security to provision of basic social services; and in terms of quality of life, the basic income security should be extended to people for enjoying a decent and dignified life.


Paired box gene 2, also known as PAX2 is a protein which in humans is encoded by the PAX2 gene.
The Pax Genes, or Paired-Box Containing Genes, play important roles in the development and proliferation of multiple cell lines, development of organs, and development and organization of the central nervous system. The transcription factor gene Pax2 is important in the regionalized embryological development of the central nervous system. In mammals, the brain is developed in three regions: the forebrain, midbrain, and the hindbrain. Concentration gradients of fibroblast growth factor 8 (FGF8) and Wingless-Type MMTV Integration Site Family, Member 1 (Wnt1) control expression of Pax2 during development of the Mesencephalon, or midbrain. Similar patterning during embryological development can be observed in "basal chordates or ascidians," in which organization of the central nervous system in ascidian larvae are also controlled by fibroblast growth factor genes. The Pax2 gene encodes for the transcription factor which appears to be essential in the organization of the midbrain and hindbrain regions, and at the earliest can be detected on either side of the sulcus limitans, which separates motor and sensory nerve nuclei.
PAX2 encodes paired box gene 2, one of many human homologues of the Drosophila melanogaster gene prd. The central feature of this transcription factor gene family is the conserved DNA-binding paired box domain. PAX2 is believed to be a target of transcriptional suppression by the tumor suppressor gene WT1. Pax 2 is a transcription factor controlled by the signaling molecules Wnt1 and Fgf8. Pax2 along with other transcription factors Pax5, Pax8, En1, and En 2 are expressed across the Otx2-Gbx2 boundary in the mid-hindbrain region. These transcription factors work with the signaling molecules Wnt1 and Fgf8 to maintain the MHB organizer. The MHB controls midbrain and cerebellum development. Pax2 is the earliest known gene to be expressed across the Otx2-Gbx2 boundary. It is first expressed in the late primitive streak stage and is expressed in a narrow ring centered at the MHB during somitogenesis. Transgene expression of the mid-hindbrain and developing kidney is directed by Pax2. There are three distinct MHB-specific enhancers in the upstream region of Pax2. Expression at the MHB from the four-somite stage onwards is directed by the two late enhancers in the proximal and distal regions of Pax2. The early enhancer located in the intermediate region activates the mid-hindbrain region of late gastrula embryos. The activation of Pax2, Pax5, and Pax8 is a conserved feature of all vertebrates.
Pathologically, Pax2 has been demonstrated to activate hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) gene promoter, and both have been indicated as playing a role in human prostate cancers.
Mutations within PAX2 have been shown to result in optic nerve colobomas and renal hypoplasia. Alternative splicing of this gene results in multiple transcript variants. Pax2 and Pax8 are also necessary for the formation of the pronephros and subsequent kidney structures. Pax2 and Pax8 regulate the expression of Gata3. Without these genes mutations in the urogenital system arise.
PAX2 has been shown to interact with PAXIP1.
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Schimmenti LA, Cunliffe HE, McNoe LA, Ward TA, French MC, Shim HH, Zhang YH, Proesmans W, Leys A, Byerly KA, Braddock SR, Masuno M, Imaizumi K, Devriendt K, Eccles MR (Apr 1997). "Further delineation of renal-coloboma syndrome in patients with extreme variability of phenotype and identical PAX2 mutations". American Journal of Human Genetics. 60 (4): 869–78. PMC 1712484 . PMID 9106533.
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COLORADO 3, KINGS 1: Third-period Avalanche buries L.A.
DENVER — The Kings were dominant on the road in last year's playoffs.
Two games into a new season, the defending Stanley Cup champions can't win anywhere.
Gabriel Landeskog and David Jones scored 1:35 apart to start the third period, Semyon Varlamov made 28 saves and the Colorado Avalanche beat the Kings 3-1 Tuesday night at Pepsi Center.
P.A. Parenteau also scored a third-period goal for the Avalanche (1-1) in their home opener.
Jonathan Quick also made 28 saves and Kyle Clifford scored in the first period for Los Angeles, which has lost two straight to start the season.
The Kings had an historic run to the title last year, winning their first 10 road postseason games and finishing 10-1 away from Staples Center. They haven't gotten traction this year, losing their home opener Saturday before dropping to 0-2 Tuesday night.
The Kings lost despite the return of center Anze Kopitar, who missed the opener because of an injury. He didn't get a shot in 24 shifts Tuesday.
Like the rest of the team, Kopitar struggled on the power play, where the Kings were 0-for-6.
Colorado killed off five through the first two periods, which kept the game close for a rally in the third. The Avalanche trailed 1-0 for most of the game before Landeskog took a rebound off the backboards and beat Quick one minute into the third period.
Dustin Penner was called for holding 27 seconds later, and Colorado took advantage. Defenseman Davis Drewiske failed to clear the puck along the boards, and Jones scored to make it 2-1 just 2:35 into the third.
Parenteau got his first goal with Colorado when he tipped in a pass from defenseman Erik Johnson at 8:16 of the third to make it 3-1.
The Kings pulled Quick for an extra attacker with 1:44 left but couldn't score.
Clifford gave the Kings a 1-0 lead when he knocked in Jordan Nolan's rebound late in the first period.
Colorado dressed 12 forwards but lost one when Steve Downie sustained a knee injury in the second period.
Despite their limited forward corps, the Avalanche had a great chance to even the score with a 5-on-3 for 1:29 in the second period, but they managed just one shot in that span.
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After the game, the Avalanche players skated to center ice and raised their sticks to the crowd.
"To be away for so long and come back into the Pepsi Center and see so many fans and how loud they were, it seems like we missed them as much as they missed us," Landeskog said.
NOTES: Colorado has won five straight against Los Angeles, outscoring the Kings 15-6 during the streak. … Dating to before the 2012 Stanley Cup playoffs, the Kings are 14-3-2 on the road. They have had a winning mark away from home the past three seasons. … To make room for Kopitar on the active roster, the Kings assigned forward Anthony Stewart to the Manchester Monarchs of the AHL. … Colorado right wing Chuck Kobasew was a scratch for the second consecutive game. He missed Saturday's opener in Minnesota with flu-like symptoms. … Avalanche defenseman Shane O'Brien was a healthy scratch. … Landeskog was presented with the Calder Trophy as the rookie of the year in 2011-12. He is the only Colorado player to win the award besides Chris Drury in 1998-99. … Colorado center Ryan O'Reilly, the team's leading scorer last year, remains unsigned.


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How Kylie Jenner Really Feels About Being Called a "Side Piece" in Drake's Song
According to a source, Kylie Jenner is still "good friends" with Drake after he and Future called her a "side piece" in unreleased song
By Cydney Contreras May 22, 2020 10:43 PMTags
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Watch: Drake Swears Kylie Jenner "Side-Piece" Track Is 3 Years Old
Drake and Kylie Jenner might've sparked romance rumors last year, but that doesn't mean the makeup mogul is his "side piece" by any means.
This week, a song by the rapper and Future was played on Night Owl Sound's Instagram Live, revealing lyrics like, "Real s--t, Kylie Jenner, that's a side piece / Yeah, I got 20 motherf--kin' Kylies." He also name-dropped Gigi Hadid, Kendall Jenner and other women.
The next morning, the Canadian released a statement clarifying that the song was recorded 3-years prior, but was scrapped. "Last thing I'd want to do is wake up having any friends of mine feeling disrespected so I just had to say that to start off the day," he assured.
Since then, none of the stars who were named have spoken out, but a source tells E! News Kylie "wasn't surprised" by the song lyrics.
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"She has no hard feelings about it. She knew it was old," the insider explains. "Her and Drake are still very good friends and she just laughed it off." Moreover, the source says Kylie "appreciated" the fact that Drake acted quickly to address the situation.
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As for their current relationship status, or lack thereof, the insider reveals, "Drake and Kylie still keep in touch regularly and all is good."
For a brief time, people suspected the 22-year-old was romantically linked to the rapper, but a source previously explained that they were just "good friends" hanging out in social settings. "They have always been good friends and have been hanging out more that Kylie is single and Drake is in town at his house in Calabasas," the insider said. "It's a convenient friendship but it's strictly platonic."
It would seem Kylie is very much still single and spending all of her time with daughter Stormi Webster. She and the 2-year-old recently moved into a new Los Angeles home, where she and BFF Anastasia Karanikolaou have been making Keeping Up With the Kardashians -inspired TikToks.
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how should a painter be? July 3, 2014
Margaux Williamson's Paintings for an Imaginary Museum
Photo: Courtesy of Margaux Williamson
"Margaux worked harder at art and was more skeptical of its effects than any artist I knew," Sheila Heti writes in her novel, How Should a Person Be? about the character Margaux — who is based, quite closely, on her real-life best friend, Margaux Williamson. The actual Margaux is a painter who lives in Toronto, and her most recent work is the subject of a new book, I Could See Everything, out this month.
First conceived during a trip to the Yukon in 2009, the work in the book spans five years, and plays with the relationship between imagination and the real world. In fact, the book's conceit is that it's a collection of paintings for the imaginary Road at the Top of the World Museum, curated by Ann Marie Pena.
"I thought, if it's a book, then it gets to be any institution that I want," said Williamson. "And, I was working with a real curator who was taking her role very seriously. She told me why the museum wanted to have me, and she was so straight-faced. It was so fun. I was like, Wow, I'm making my own art world." Williamson's paintings are both playful in approach and ambitious in scope, grappling with the existential questions that consume her: whether painting can be meaningful and what it might mean to be able to see "everything" ("even the person with the greatest eyes can barely see anything," she concedes in reference to her title). She spoke with the Cut about humility, narcissism, and finding meaning in art.
In the book, you say that you start all your paintings with text sketches. Have you always worked that way?
When I started painting, I'd work on, like, ten canvases at once, for maybe like a year, and I just worked on them over and over again. This process somehow naturally came out of that, where I figured out that if I write things down and do a lot of the work in my head beforehand, it just saves a lot of time and paint. I'm not good at drawing, so I just take notes. None of the notes are actual painting ideas, they're just thoughts or something I overheard or something I can't get out of my head. I keep them all in a box, so when I'm doing the "art part," I take that box and see if there's any order to be found in it. With my old notes, a lot of it's garbage and I throw it away, but sometimes it's a much quicker way of seeing if there's any natural order to your random imagination and line of thinking.
In an interview with Chris Kraus in the book, you say that as you became less interested in yourself, it became more useful to use yourself as a character. How did that start to happen?
Around 2006, I started working with Sheila Heti quite a bit. We were both in a similar place — we actually work in a very similar way. We are both pretty intuitive artists. Anyway, we both sort of stopped working a little bit and just starting talking to each other, and that turned into a book for her, and for me, I ended up making a movie. I didn't know how to make a movie, exactly, but I had all these strong urges and desires, and a real burst of inclination came out of me to do that. You know, I don't know that much about narrative or storytelling, but I realized the most helpful thing for a viewer would be to know why I was making this and where I was going with it. It was helpful, being in Sheila's book, to see the outline of myself … it all just seemed like, Oh, that's the most helpful thing I can do as an artist — I can say who I am and what I'm looking at. For me, my paintings in the past were always a bit more narrativesque than they look now, but now they're much more literally a narrative, because the narrative is: I'm a painter, and I'm trying really hard to do something. Which is sort of like as simple of a narrative as you can get.
In an interview with The Believer, you said: "Art's not immediately meaningful to me, and the act of doing isn't automatically meaningful to me, so I feel like I have to struggle really hard to find meaning." It feels gratifying to hear an artist say that.
Oh, really? Is that unusual, do you think?
I was going to ask you that! But yeah, I think it feels unusual for someone to say that so directly.
Well, I'm so happy to hear that resonated. Sometimes I feel so frustrated with myself, like, Don't say that one more time! [Laughs.] But I think that makes a doctor a good doctor or a gardener a good gardener — the idea that you don't trust that what you're doing is great, or that the craft you're handed is perfect, or actually genuinely meaningful in the world. I think that no matter who you are or what you do, it's pretty good to reexamine the bones of your livelihood. I think it's also a gift for some people to never have to question that — like if they're raised thinking art is this gift they were given, that must be really nice, and maybe it even helps them make art in some ways. But I feel lucky that I think like that, because it is a genuine joy for me to try to find meaning and find how things fit together — and to have hope that you can maybe see a more elegant structure than the one you've been handed.
With Chris Kraus, you were also talking about anxiety about being misunderstood, and how lately you "learned that being understood isn't the most important thing." What changed?
Honestly, I feel like I get through things just by having a lot of fear. Being in Sheila's book was pretty terrifying. I think that being a character in my work or other people's work, it's humbling. I'm sure some people see it as narcissistic, but for me it's primarily humbling, because it's like, Look, I'm just this person here, and I have no interest or hope in ever communicating my full essence — or anyone else to do that. I just feel like everything gets to be complete for what it is. All those things are so fragmented, but they're still real.
Sheila was working on that book for four or five years. I think it started when I was 27, 28 — that's an age where you're still a teenager, in our prolonged adolescence, and you like, like, Oh, I can still do everything. Like, I can be this useful person in the world, or I can still be this or this. The hardest thing for me was just being like, Oh, I'm an artist. Like, that's what I am, that's what all my actions communicate — I mean, that's very true. But when I saw that I was like, Okay, you're an artist — you better just be really an artist, then. It was a slight corrective help.
How did you decide on the title I Could See Everything?
It's related to the humbleness of having to only feature your own eyes, and only communicate through your own eyes and hands. It's such a big claim, like, I could see everything, but it's also so small — like, I can see what I can see from this small place where I am standing. I guess there were a lot of things, like looking up from yourself and really trying to look at the world, and also the feeling of being in the Yukon — you have the sense that you can see everything, even when you're so far away from the world — and how we are all like that now, how we can see so much, no matter where we are. And how great it is and also how awful it is to see everything when you are so far away — like being that type of god that sees everything and does nothing. Also, it's willful — as though I could see something that's not necessarily true and make it true, since I saw it somehow. It's a claim. It's a lot of things, but I'm happy whenever I see the title. I'm like, That's the right title! It's helpful that it's just "I," you know?
A selection of Williamson's paintings will be on view at the Frith Street Gallery in London from July 4 to August 16.
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They were in fact expelled from the Cup Winners' Cup after their fans ran riot in France after a first round first leg tie with Saint-Etienne, although they were reinstated to the competition on appeal but had to play the return leg at a neutral venue.
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Released on May 31, 2013
In recognition of World No Tobacco Day, May 31, the Government of Saskatchewan is reaffirming its commitment to reduce tobacco use in the province. The Ministry of Health, together with its partners and stakeholders, continues to make progress in the areas of protection, prevention and cessation through the provincial tobacco reduction strategy.
"As we mark World No Tobacco Day, I want to thank all of our valued partners who are involved in the effort to protect, educate and support people at risk from tobacco," Health Minister Dustin Duncan said. "Reducing tobacco use, particularly among young people, will bring us closer to our goal of achieving a healthier population."
The Ministry of Health recently conducted an innovative social marketing campaign called Smokestream aimed at encouraging youth to remain tobacco-free. The campaign featured an interactive website, www.smokestream.ca and classroom sessions with more than 3,000 students across the province. Their opinions were used to create a TV and cinema ad with a persuasive anti-tobacco message.
At a local level, more than $700,000 in funding was awarded to three regional projects that reach people and areas of the province with the highest tobacco use rates: The Green Light Project, Northern Saskatchewan Tobacco Reduction Initiative and the Battlefords Family Health Centre Smoke-free Community Initiative.
"These projects are building capacity, supporting prevention initiatives and engaging youth while drawing upon the community expertise and creativity," Duncan said. "They demonstrate the success we can achieve in tobacco reduction when we invest in local action."
"The funding received from the Ministry of Health provided a much-needed boost toward capacity building and sustainable tobacco reduction activities in the north," Deputy Medical Health Officer for Athabasca Health Authority, Keewatin Yatthé and Mamawetan Churchill River Health Regions Dr. Moliehi Khaketla said. "We've been able to work collaboratively with stakeholders to develop culturally-appropriate resources and deliver tobacco reduction workshops to more than a hundred youth throughout the three northern health authorities."
The province's other important tobacco reduction initiatives include:
The Tobacco Control Act and the Tobacco Control Regulations, which were put in place to reduce youth access to tobacco products and protect Saskatchewan people from the harms of environmental tobacco smoke.
Providing funding to the Canadian Cancer Society, Saskatchewan Division to deliver the Smokers' Help-Line at 1-877-513-5333.
Helping people quit using tobacco and offering a range of training and resources for health care professionals through Partnership to Assist with the Cessation of Tobacco (PACT). PACT resources are available at www.makeapact.ca/.
The "View and Vote" program offered every two years to students in Grades 6 to 12, who view anti-tobacco ads and vote for the ones they think are most effective.
The Canadian Community Health Survey indicates the overall smoking prevalence in Saskatchewan decreased by 3.4 per cent between 2007 and 2010. In 2009-10, 22.0 per cent of the Saskatchewan population aged 12 years and over reported smoking daily or occasionally - an all-time low. The national average is 20.4 per cent.
For more information on tobacco reduction in Saskatchewan and supports to help people quit smoking visit www.health.gov.sk.ca/smoking-and-your-health.
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McGlynn, Clare. (2009). Rape, Torture and the European Convention on Human Rights. International and Comparative Law Quarterly 58(3): 565-595.
Publication type: Journal Article
ISSN/ISBN: 0020-5893, 1471-6895
DOI: 10.1017/S0020589309001195
Professor Clare McGlynn
This article examines the legacy of the ground-breaking judgment in Aydin v Turkey in which the European Court of Human Rights held that rape could constitute torture. Ten years on, it examines jurisprudential developments in the conceptualisation of torture in the specific context of the offence of rape. It is argued that while all rapes should be found to satisfy the minimum threshold for Article 3, rape does not per se satisfy the severity of harm criterion for torture. Nonetheless, where the severity of harm is established, the case is made that the purposive element of torture is satisfied in all cases of rape. Finally, in relation to the scope of State responsibility for rape, particularly by private individuals, the article suggests that while the Court's achievements in recognizing rape as a serious harm are considerable, there remain further avenues for jurisprudential development which would ensure that rape as a form of torture is recognized in a wider range of situations and circumstances than is currently the case.
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As Congress trumps BJP in Parliament, nation gets a taste of sordid politics to come
Published: 08th December 2012 11:41 PM | Last Updated: 08th December 2012 11:41 PM | A+A A-
By Prabhu Chawla
The parliamentary debate on FDI in retail was expected to be a trend-setting duel between mighty minds. Leaders from 40-odd parties were meant to assert their ideological support or opposition to the government's move to open Indian retail to marketers from abroad. But at the end of over 20 hours of debate in both houses of Parliament, none of the 56 speakers made any new point or revelation which a primary student of Indian politics and economics does not already know—it was like reissuing an old book with a new jacket, while retaining its old title. Even the main protagonists, who had made similar arguments during the last discussion on FDI few months ago, were the same.
Yet, both the BJP and the Congress were able to deliver their political messages loud and clear. It was almost after two years that the UPA could assert its authority to legislate. Meanwhile, the BJP established the minority character of the government as one holding on to power only by manipulating contradictions in Opposition ranks. It was also evident that instead of a visible dogma driving the political spectrum, some invisible and undefined ideological power was playing an important role in the FDI debate. How else can one explain the conduct of over a dozen MPs who were elected on the tickets of parties opposed to FDI? They either abstained or voted with the ruling party. For example, all those with corporate connections were ideologically convinced that FDI was beneficial for the nation. Both Rajeev Chandrasekhar, former telecom tycoon and now a media mogul, and Vijay Mallya voted with the Congress, although they won their Rajya Sabha seats from Karnataka with the help of the BJP and the Janata Dal (S). Rajkumar Dhoot, Shiv Sena member from Maharashtra and a promoter of the Videocon group, abstained. Six of the seven independent MPs also voted against the motion. Three members of the TDP, including its leader, deputy leader and chief whip—with direct or indirect corporate interests—abstained from voting in the Rajya Sabha while two of its five Lok Sabha MPs voted with the Opposition.
Except for the exceptional floor management by Manmohan Singh, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath, Commerce Minister Anand Sharma and backroom operators, the government and the Opposition wasted Parliament's time, making vicious mutual attacks. Normally a loner, the Prime Minister himself contacted some non-Congress MPs to convince them about the merits and importance of FDI.
Otherwise, it was a flop show. At the end of the confrontationist and offensive discussion, neither the nation nor the middle-level workers in various sectors were better informed on the issue. The speakers indulged in hype and swipe rather than on the gains and pains of the sudden transition from a fully protected mom and pop store retail system in small towns to megamalls. The outcome of the whole exercise was never in doubt. The moment the government chose to call the BJP's bluff by accepting the discussion, which required voting in both the Houses, it was clear that it had managed a comfortable majority. Only a political novice would have thought that caste- and community-based parties like the Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party or Rashtriya Lok Dal would vote against the ruling alliance. All of them are fully aware of the ground reality that they win elections thanks to caste loyalties and not on economic issues like the entry of the much-demonised Wal-Mart into India. Ironically, Maya, Mulayam and Lalu spoke against the unrestricted entry of FDI.
While Lalu has been consistently supporting the government's every legislative move, both Mulayam and Maya have saved the UPA in the past only after striking significant political deals and getting financial packages for their states. If the debate was meant to influence the outcome of the future elections, none of the parties stood to gain from their posturing in Parliament. Those who have convinced themselves that it is the stance of a political party on issues such as nuclear energy, economic reforms or FDI that gets it votes, have forgotten the massive electoral mauling the Congress received in 1989 and in 1996; the father of economic reforms, P V Narasimha Rao, was at the helm of the government and Manmohan Singh was its most visible reformer. The Congress could win in 2004 because of the sheer arrogance of a few BJP leaders who treated NDA allies like political plague. It won both the 2004 and 2009 elections because its leadership had mastered the art of coalition and could accommodate even its fiercest rivals. The Congress pulled down the Deve Gowda government in 1997 because the DMK—one of his coalition partners—was suspect in the eyes of the Jain Commission in the Rajiv assassination. In 2004, however, it welcomed the Dravidian party into its fold. Even the sins of Sharad Pawar, who had quit the Congress on the issue of Sonia's foreign origins were forgiven; he was given a place of pride in the government, and that too on his own terms.
On the other hand, whenever all the anti-Congress forces, including the Left and BJP, have joined hands, the Congress has suffered a crushing defeat. This time, it won the battle in Parliament because the entire non-Congress opposition was united in heart, but divided physically. Unfortunately, the next government would be formed not through ideological alliances but by striking attractive deals with potential coalition partners.
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Q: Android read/write bitmap bits directly Thanks ahead of time... I realize there are questions similar to this for Windows.  In fact, I have a version of my code working in Windows that "manually" creates a device independent (DI) bitmap from a bitmapheaderinfo struct and a pixel data array and other things.  Then I write to the bitmap pixel memory via its pointer to set/unset pixels and repaint to the screen as needed.
I want to do this in Android.  I see there is a way to getPixels() but that creates a copy of the entire pixel field into an array, and you can create a bitmap from an array after altering it.  That seems like a whole lot of copying when all I ever want to do at a single time is alter a small section (e.g. 6 x 12 pixel cell) of the bitmap, by setting or clearing pixels.
Can anyone tell me how to access the "pixel data" of an already existent bitmap in memory?  Or, as a second option, I'd settle for some information on how to use image/canvas objects to read and write single pixels at a time.

A: You don't want to set a pixel at a time.  It's incredibly inefficient, requiring a Java function call, then calling through a JNI interface to a C library which will set the pixel (Bitmap is actually a wrapper around a C library, so all calls to it go through JNI).  Don't do it.  If you insisted the call is bitmap.setPixel(), but it's always a mistake to do so.  Your performance will suck if you call this width*height times.
As for directly accessing bitmap memory-  you don't do that in Android.  They instead decided on a model that's less efficient, but less likely to have errors due to threading.  If you really need that level of performance, you shouldn't actually use Bitmap as your model-  your model should be an array of pixels, and you should create a new Bitmap wrapper and send the result to the OS when necessary.
If you need more performance even then that, consider OpenGL.  At that point you're way beyond normal uses and need a graphical interface built for that level of perf.

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Harry, Markle Hope to Start a Family
Prince Harry says he and Meghan Markle hope to start family in the future.
Harry said "one step at a time" when asked about plans for having children.
He has said in the past that he wants to have a family.
Harry's older brother Prince William already has two children and his wife Kate is pregnant with their third.
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Prince Harry, fifth in line to the British throne, will marry Markle in the spring, palace officials announced Monday, confirming months of speculation.
Markle, an American actress, humanitarian campaigner and lifestyle blogger who succeeded in show business before falling for Harry, will become a senior member of the royal family as the wife of one of the monarchy's most popular figures.
Harry, a bad-boy-made-good by his tireless devotion to wounded veterans and his embrace of a variety of charitable causes, has said for several years that he wants to start a family, and the rumors of his engagement to Markle have been flying for some time.
The marriage represents a first-ever blending of Hollywood glamor with the once-stuffy royal family, which has of late seemed less fixed in its ways, and brings a mixed-race American divorcee into a highly visible role.
The proposal came about a year and a half after meeting.
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Why Aren't Those Wind Turbines Turning?
It's called curtailment—and it could be costing the nation a lot of green energy and green money.
Some 292,000 megawatt-hours of wind power were curtailed by the Midwest transmission system operator in 2009; in 2010, that figure jumped to about 824,000 megawatt-hours. At a rule-of-thumb 7 cents per kilowatt-hour, that makes the rough cost for one system's 2010 generation capacity losses $37,240,000 more (at $57,680,000) than losses in 2009 ($20,440,000).
Even in energy generation, those are big numbers -- but the rate at which they have increased is even more intimidating to a wind industry struggling to keep costs competitive.
In Texas, where transmission congestion is a significant problem because wind development has been big and fast, "It's not unheard of for wind to be curtailed between ten and twenty percent," Moland said. "You're moving from 40 percent capacity factor down to 32. That's twenty percent of your output." It is a serious hit. "Your revenue stream is less and your return on investment is lower." At a time when wind is locked in an urgent fight with natural gas for market share, curtailment could be the make-or-break issue.
Where wind is curtailed, it can ruin a plant's profitability. Where it is anticipated by forward-looking models such as the ones Moland uses to perform congestion studies at GL Garrard Hassan and those used by transmission planners, it can make a viable development non-viable.
Far and away the primary cause of curtailment is limited transmission, Moland said. There has in recent years been large-scale rapid development in the wind-rich Midwestern regions of the U.S. from the Canadian border to Texas, "where you get that 40 percent wind availability." Transmission development has not kept pace.
Moland mentioned other factors that could idle turbines, including (1) an operator's requirement for instantly available spinning reserves, (2) scheduled or unscheduled turbine maintenance or (3) extreme weather conditions. However, none of these come near to being as significant as the nationwide impact on wind's economics due to inadequate and congested transmission.
"Lenders who finance plant development expect a certain return," Moland said. If "that plant under-performs, it impacts both the return economics and their appetite to finance additional plants," Moland said.
One additional -- and particularly crucial -- way that curtailment impacts wind economics is through utility power purchase agreements (PPAs).
Utilities motivated to add wind to their portfolios, either because of state mandates or because they anticipate that such assets will accrue in value, now may find it necessary either to require developers to accept a certain level of unreimbursed curtailment or to commit to paying even if production is curtailed. Often, it is only by insulating developers from curtailment losses that utilities can meet planned or mandated goals.
"The utility has some mechanisms in the market to hedge congestion risk," Moland said. But what the utility cannot hedge may, of course, be passed along to the ratepayer.
The best solution for eliminating curtailment, Moland speculated, would be cost-effective energy storage. But the three best candidates (pumped hydro, compressed air and battery storage) presently have challenges that limit their cost-effectiveness.
New transmission is the ultimate answer. It requires an infrastructure investment but, Moland pointed out, studies such as the 2008 Joint Coordinated System Plan from eastern U.S. system operators suggest that spending to build transmission saves costs, such as those of curtailment, in the long run.


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Revenue among first with new certification
Eleven executives from the Revenue Commissioners were among the first to graduate from the newly established ICS Skills Framework created by the Irish Computer Society (ICS).
The certification follows a three-month trial, after which the Revenue Commissioners, Bank of Ireland and Fujitsu Services rolled out the framework within their IT departments.
The ICT Skills Framework, built around a model already deployed in Northern Ireland, the UK and throughout Europe, endeavours to allow employers to define skills competencies in ICT (information and communications technology) and non-ICT companies dependant on technology.
It also allows firms to map out training programmes, identify gaps, allow individuals interested in ICT careers to understand the profession and identify a career entry-point and allow the industry and government departments to quickly address shortages as they happen.
According to the ICS, the framework helps firms identify job skills within their existing staff pool as well as potential recruits.
Kieran Coyle of the Revenue Commissioners says: "As the manager responsible for providing the technical training to our ICT division, it is important that I know the current ICT skills pool within the Revenue Commissioners so that I can identify skills gaps and target training accordingly. From a motivational point of view, we have many highly skilled individuals who have no formal qualifications but who gained their skills through courses, informal training, hard work and experience. The ICS Skills Framework is a method through which we can recognise these skills and experiences in a structured, independently verified manner."
Jim Friars, CEO of ICS Skills, added that the framework aims to bring some structure to what is a largely unstructured industry. "This is the first group of individuals to be certified and the feedback has been immensely positive. The framework is a dynamic tool and acts as a measurement and motivational device. It provides much needed transparency and is a fundamental shift from vague job titles to solid verifiable skills certification," he said.
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Configured on Tudor's successful Black Bay dive watch base, the 41 mm stainless steel case is powered by Tudor's caliber MT5652, an automatic in-house movement with GMT functionality. The 5652 is a new version of the existing Tudor in-house movements, like the 5602, but with the addition of a GMT complication. This is not only Tudor's first in-house GMT movement, but also the first GMT complication offered on their popular Black Bay line. The movement provides chronometer-grade performance and a 70-hour power reserve.
The Black Bay GMT allows three-time-zone tracking thanks to its 24-hour GMT red hand, its independently moving hour hand, and its bidirectional 24-hour, 48 click aluminum rotating bezel. The bi-color bezel is a stylistic departure from all of the other Black Bay models, and the lack of crown guards, riveted bracelet and blue and red aluminum bezel insert give it a great mix of modern and vintage charm.
As seen in many GMT watches, the quickset date has been removed in favor of using the independent hour hand. The advantage here allows you to change the date backward and forwards. With the crown unscrewed and in the first position, you can change the hour/local time, moving the hour hand in one-hour increments to set the local time and advance the date. Pulling the crown to the second position allows you to set the GMT function and moves all of the hands together.
For night and low light situations, the lume is superb, as you would expect from Tudor's past examples.
The matte dial, oversized markers, and Tudor's very recognizable "snowflake" shape for the hour and GMT hand, make the watch extremely legible for work/desk diving. For night and low light situations, the lume is superb, as you would expect from Tudor's past examples. The finish of the watch, particularly the bevels are quite exceptional.
At first glance, it can be conceived that the GMT hand and the second hand could be confused, but Tudor has subtly and ingeniously added a luminescent tip to the snowflake diamond shape of the GMT hand aiding in legibility. As a slight negative, a luminous pip and maybe even some lume on the bezel, both not present on this reference, would aid greatly in low light settings. That being said, the matte dial and a "flat" red and blue on the aluminum bezel makes the BBGMT extremely stylish while at the same time slightly less conspicuous when compared to its ceramic bezel Pepsi counterparts.
Even though the writing on the dial doesn't display it, the watch is dive rated to 200 meters. As with most Tudor/Rolex dials, "Chronometer Officially Certified" is present at the 6 o'clock position. Of note, the crown tube of the BBGMT is not color-matched to the theme of the watch as with other Black Bay models.
Although well received, the case thickness was a point of contention when the in-house Black Bays were initially released. The same 14.8 mm thickness (compared to the 12.7 mm thickness of the previous ETA models) from the three hand models is also used here for the GMT. As mentioned, the case measures in at 41 mm in diameter, 50 mm lug to lug. The watch on its bracelet, as reviewed here, weighs in at approximately 175 grams.
The Black Bay GMT is available in three different configurations from Tudor. The bracelet is a riveted model and is this author's preference. A leather "Terra Di Siena" strap option is available as is a fabric strap, which pairs nicely due to its subtle red stripe.
On the wrist, the BBGMT does not disappoint. It definitely has a captivating combination of aesthetics and functionality, dazzling in almost any setting. Like many other average wrist sized individuals, this author found the case to wear comfortably, however slightly larger and thicker than preferred in a perfect world.
The value of the Black Bay GMT has to be considered one of it's strongest points. On the bracelet, retail is $3,900 and it's least expensive pairing on the fabric strap is listed at $3,575. For an in-house chronometer with 70-hour power reserve and a true GMT complication, it is clearly a top contender in its class.
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A general view of the new shipping canal through the Vistula Spit in Skowronki, Poland, 17 September 2022. Micha? Ryniak/Agencja Wyborcza.pl via REUTERS
Poland Opens New Canal To Bypass Russian Waters
(Bloomberg) –Poland opened a canal linking the Baltic Sea with a lagoon whose only previous entrance went through Russian territorial waters.
The canal will eventually give seafaring vessels easier access to the city of Elblag but only once the lagoon is deepened and its port facilities enhanced. Critics have said the over-budget, 2.2 billion zloty ($467 million) project isn't viable and is risky for the environment.
Related Article: Poland Defies Green Activists, EU with Baltic Canal Project
"Today, we are proving once again that Poland is a serious country," ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski said during an opening ceremony, which was broadcast live on the country's main public television channel. "No one is able to stop us in such initiatives, we finish what we started."
Polish President Andrzej Duda delivers his speech at the opening ceremony of the shipping canal through the Vistula Spit in Skowronki, Poland, 17 September 2022. Micha? Ryniak/Agencja Wyborcza.pl via REUTERS
Members of the Special Forces of Military Police attend the opening ceremony of the shipping canal through the Vistula Spit in Skowronki, Poland, 17 September 2022. Micha? Ryniak/Agencja Wyborcza.pl via REUTERS
Saturday's opening was timed to coincide with the 83rd anniversary of Russia's invasion of Poland in the early days of World War II. The canal will allow ships to sail in out of the Vistula Lagoon, east of Gdansk, without obtaining authorization from Russia's Kaliningrad exclave wedged between Poland and Lithuania.
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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has strong message for his players as Man United face pivotal Chelsea test
Manchester United and Chelsea go head-to-head at Old Trafford on Sunday amid the battle for a top four finish
Robert Warlow
Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has called on his players to "stick together" as they look to get their season back on track against Chelsea this weekend.
A crushing 4-0 defeat against Everton last weekend was followed by a 2-0 reverse at home to Manchester City on Wednesday night, leaving United three points behind Chelsea in fourth with just three games to play in the battle to finish in the top four in the Premier League.
And Solskjaer has echoed the words of Marcus Rashford , who spoke out on social media about how much the Red Devils' recent form was hurting him and his team-mates, after seven defeats in their last nine matches in all competitions.
Indeed, Solskjaer has called on his players to stick together and use the hurt from their recent defeats to spur them on against Chelsea on Sunday.
"You could see on Wednesday night there's a team that wants to play and be there for each other, we weren't doing our jobs at Everton and it's a boy who was hurt, Rashy's really hurt by losing the derby, we all are," the United boss said, speaking at his pre-match press conference.
Old Gunnar Solskjaer watches on as Everton run riot against his team. (Image: Jan Kruger/Getty Images)
"The eye opener was the Everton one and, of course, the last ten days have been hard for everyone and you might come out emotional. For this club to be successful we have to stick together 24/7."
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United's recent run of results are in stark contrast to the form they showed during Solskjaer's time as caretaker manager, with the Red Devils clawing their way back into top four contention after a poor start to the campaign under Jose Mourinho.
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But Solskjaer says that can happen in football, as he described the emotions of an up-and-down season for the Old Trafford outfit aheadof the pivotal clash with Chelsea on Sunday.
"That's football for you that's human beings for you that's margins, and of course we've played - you can say some may say - easy teams in the beginning and more different teams now but it's the whole scenario, whole season," he said.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer looks dejected after the defeat at Wolves (Image: Catherine Ivill/Getty Images)
"It's been an emotional season for players and club and that's what you've got to deal with as a football player, coach and manager, deal with human beings.
"They've all seen the reality the last few weeks where we're at, if you look at the team total points last five seasons, I don't know if you can give me that average, and the total points is 70 for average, we're now on 64, that's where we're at.
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"The reality where we've been the last five seasons and that's not good enough, that's not down to the last six seven or eight games, that's where we are. We have a great challenge ahead of us."
A win on Sunday would draw United level with Chelsea in the race to finish in the top four, although Solskjaer's side have an inferior goal difference to the Blues and fellow top four rivals Tottenham and Arsenal.
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Chinese Restaurant Mogul Zhang Lan Spent Millions at Christie's
She spent $30 million at Christie's in under an hour and tried to buy even more.
Eileen Kinsella, May 30, 2014
Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997) Untitled oil on canvas 79 3/8 x 95¼ in. (201.5 x 242 cm.) Painted in 1988.
Who is the ultra-wealthy Chinese collector who recently dropped nearly $30 million on two paintings at Christie's in a single evening?
Zhang Lan, 55, a successful entrepreneur who runs the South Beauty Group chain of upscale restaurants throughout China, was a force to be reckoned with at the recent spring series of contemporary auctions in New York.
At Christie's special theme sale, "If I live I'll see you Tuesday," held May 12, Zhang was the buyer of the star lot of the evening, Martin Kippenberger's untitled self portrait (1988), which had a price tag of $9–12 million, but eventually sold for a record $18.6 million with premium after a dramatic two-way bidding war. Zhang was bidding through Christie's specialist Xin Li over the telephone and she proved a tenacious competitor, sometimes jumping the bid higher in $1 million increments as opposed to the typical $250,000 or $500,000 jumps seen at the price level. At $12.5 million, she jumped to $13.5 million, drawing gasps in the saleroom. The tense but entertaining battle continued when she moved the bid to $15 million from $13.75 million and then up to $16 million. At one point the lively competition prompted auctioneer Jussi Pylkkanen to remark "I like your style."
Zhang's other big purchase that evening was Warhol's Little Electric Chair (1965), which sold for $10.5 million with premium (estimate: $7.5–9.5 million). Zhang won the painting after outbidding a collector seated in the room, again bidding on the phone with Christie's Xin Li, for a hammer price of $9.2 million.
According to a profile on China.org, Beijing-based South Beauty Group was set up in 2000 and has 71 restaurants, of which 43 are in major cities such as Beijing and Shanghai. The restaurants are well known for their innovative fusion style of authentic Sichuan cuisine and are popular among businessmen and expats. Philippe Starck was hired to design LAN, her 60,000-square-foot bar and dining complex in Beijing that opened in 2006. Zhang has said that she wants her company to become the "Louis Vuitton" of the global dining market.
With accumulated wealth of 3.1 billion yuan ($500 million) according to the China.org profile, Zhang was ranked as China's second richest woman entrepreneur in the 2011 China Restaurant Rich List. According to the profile, Zhang finds time to squeeze in visits to exhibitions and galleries despite her busy schedule.
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Q: php array dropdown field not insert into database mysql I am new in OOP PHP and I am still learning, I have a form where name of locations is populated through JQuery/HTML form using drop-down field with same name, my problem is when I try to insert in mysql database, I did not get the selected value,

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                            'region' => Input::get('region'),
                            'registered' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s'),
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A: You need unique names for each form element, with php you can use region[].  this will give you an array in your server script.
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Troy coach inducted into Hall of Fame
September 1, 2016 Sports
Taylor Boydstun
It has been said that "good things come to those wait."
That rings especially true for Richard Shaughnessy, director of the strength and conditioning program.
Shaughnessy came to Troy University in 1996 as a restricted earnings coach, taking a $30,000-per-year pay cut in order to pursue his vision for Troy University Athletics' strength and conditioning program. On July 31, he was inducted into the Wiregrass Hall of Fame.
"At the time, I got to build the strength program," he said in an interview with the Tropolitan.
"They said, 'Hey, we don't have any money to give you, we don't have very good equipment, but if you want it, go for it.' Now you look. We got a 10,000-square-foot room. There's over a million dollars of equipment.
"It's been fun to see where it's gone. Sometimes I can't believe where it's at because I know where we started. I feel really blessed to be able to see it come to where it's at."
While he initially came to handle football, his role quickly grew to encompass all sports. As evidence of Shaughnessy's dedication to the program and building it from the bottom up, he never had to turn in a resume.
"I was able to get the job based on what I could do and what people recommended me to do," Shaughnessy said. "So that's been awesome."
He said he typically spends at least 12 hours per day teaching classes and talking to players, among other duties.
"The weight room teaches a lot of things," he said.
"It teaches you discipline, for one thing. All kids need discipline. Life is that way, too, you know. You got to do things when you don't want to. You got to push through pain.
"You got to have perseverance. You know you got to understand that it's not easy. You got to work for it.
"And you know, there's been guys that are playing in the NFL because of this room. Because they came in an inch too short, or a second too slow, or they didn't weigh enough.
"(Strength and conditioning) builds good players into great players and great players into champions. … I can tell you story after story of guys that nobody else really looked at and we did that are now making millions of dollars. I'm just glad that I was able to play a role in any of it. It's been pretty neat."
As for his expectations for Troy University Athletics this year, Shaughnessy said he was looking forward to the changes occurring in women's athletics.
"I'm really excited about where women's athletics is going," he said.
"I've been so engulfed in football for so many years. Now I'm director, and I'm able to really look a little bit.
"Women's athletics is not for fun anymore. It's not because we got football and now we got to have soccer. Everybody's got to win. Everybody's got to be good.
"I mean, there was more people that viewed college softball this year than they did the World Series for men's baseball. So I mean it's just changed so much.
"You know the World Cup soccer has changed things. The WNBA has changed things. They can play beyond here now if they want to."
While many new participants in the Troy athletics program see room for improvement, Shaughnessy believes they may be taking for granted what they currently have.
"People want more, but we have so much more than we did when we started," he said. "It's changed drastically. And what strength and conditioning means to a program has changed drastically. … Strength and conditioning is not just something that you got to have. It's part of you being successful."
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Gift to boost CM research & innovation at Western Sydney University
On Friday 31 March, 2017 Blackmores, together with The Blackmore Foundation (the personal philanthropic trust of Marcus and Caroline Blackmore) announced that they are each gifting $5 million dollars to the National Institute of Complementary Medicine (NICM), at Western Sydney University.
"This is the Blackmores' group's most significant investment into research and development in the history of the company," said Blackmores Institute Director Dr Lesley Braun.
Blackmores Chairman, Marcus Blackmore said, "As industry leaders, we believe it is our responsibility to invest in complementary medicine research and to support innovation in this field. NICM is a world-class research facility, and we are very proud to provide this untied donation to help advance science and innovation in integrative and complementary medicine."
"We are proud and excited to be supporting the growth of complementary medicine research within a group who has achieved an ERA ranking of 5. This ERA ranking has been awarded rel="noopener noreferrer" by the Australian Research Council, recognising NICM for its high quality research, evidenced by its outstanding performance well above world standard," said Dr Braun.
NICM Director Professor Alan Bensoussan said, "The gifts will support new PhD scholarships, postdoctoral fellowships, support for international visiting scholars, as well as advancing research translation".
"This very welcome gift will further the development of NICM as a world-class integrative and complementary medicine research facility, and expand our research and clinical trials, and education and training."
Western Sydney University Vice-Chancellor Professor Barney Glover said, "The gifts will support research and innovation in integrative and complementary medicine at NICM, and is a wonderful example of universities and industry collaborating to drive research."
"If we want to continue to develop ideas that improve the health and wellbeing of all Australians, as well as generate new jobs and industries, we need to encourage a greater level of private support of higher education research and innovation."
"Australian medical research institutes draw, on average, 30 per cent of their funding from the private sector. This support is essential to fulfilling the Federal Government's agenda to improve university and private industry collaboration to promote research and build upon Australia's Global Innovation Strategy."
Dr Braun said, "Blackmores believe it is important to grow the future of complementary medicine, to support new leaders, and to keep building the evidence base to help improve public health."
The Australian government's National Innovation and Science Agenda have advised that Australia has the lowest level of industry-research collaboration in the OECD. Some of the countries that Australia is lagging behind include Latvia, Turkey, Chile and Estonia.
Dr Braun said, "While industry engagement happens at all universities the Chief Science officer of Australia, Alan Finkel, is encouraging more."
The Medical Research Future Fund which released Australian Medical Research and Innovation priorities for 2016-2018 has set a list of priorities which includes utilising industry investment for the rapid funding of priority areas in health and medical research.
Dr Braun added, "Industry partnerships with universities are not new. All prestigious Australian universities have long-standing partnerships with industry that are subject to governance, and university oversight."
- Monash University – partnerships with Pfizer, Merck Sharpe & Dohme, GlaxoSmithKline and Janssen Pharmaceuticals
- Sydney University – partnerships with GE Healthcare, Rio Tinto and Sirtex Medical
- University of Queensland – partnerships with Pfizer, Janssen Biotech and LEO Pharma
This is not the first, nor the last time that Blackmores has supported independent research into complementary medicine. Historically Blackmores have been strong supporters of research and academic institutions to help address the need to build capacity, expertise and research activity in complementary medicine.
Blackmores are enormously proud of the contribution that this gift will make towards the advancement of complementary medicine research, innovation and research translation. Credible research and continuing to grow the evidence base of natural health underpins the future of the complementary medicine industry.