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Reports of algal biofuel's death greatly exaggerated
What was left in the wake of Solazyme's failure to get algal biofuels off the ground has become a cooking oil business run by food conglomerate Corbion.
n an article in Forbes magazine in October — An Algal Biofuel Obituary — Robert Rapier, a chemical engineer in the energy industry, discussed the overhyped biofuel companies in the algae space, and the failures of numerous start-ups that couldn't deliver on their promises, after hundreds of millions of dollars of private and public investments.
Following that article, the author was contacted by a long-time acquaintance who took some exception to his characterization of the "death" of this industry, pointing out that it actually thrives as an active and important R&D enterprise, supported by both private and public funds.
Dr. John Benemann, with a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of California Berkeley, has worked on algae-related technologies for over 40 years. He is CEO of MicroBio Engineering Inc., a research and engineering consulting firm specializing in developing improved algal strains and cultivation processes for wastewater reclamation, animal feeds, higher value products and, yes, biofuels. He is also a director of the Algae Biomass Organization trade organization.
Dr. Benemann himself has been a notable critic of this field, at least of some of the more outlandish claims put forth, starting about a dozen years ago when several venture capital-backed start-ups ignited the algal biofuel "bubble." His justified fear at the time was that these would undermine an otherwise worthwhile long-term research effort.
In a 2010 interview with Algae Industry Magazine, he was asked whether he was an algal biofuel pessimist. He replied: "I would think that I'm definitely on the optimist side, but I can't quite bring myself to say that we are ready to produce algae biofuels. I think it will take some time to do this…"
Mr. Rapier admits he is well-aware that microalgae farming is already a commercially profitable industry for higher value nutraceuticals, food products, coloring agents, cosmetics, etc. So, the existing algae industry, already producing high value products, wasn't the target of his column. Nor was research into producing fuel from algae, or from other biomass. But many companies – the list is long, he says – received both private investments and taxpayer dollars based on claims for algal biofuels that just weren't credible, and then failed. These were the targets of his column.
Dr. Benemann notes that long-term R&D investments are needed if algal biofuels or low-cost commodities are ever going to be a commercial reality. There is a role for government funding, working together with private enterprise, he says.
Indeed, for the past ten years, Congress has directed the US Department of Energy, DOE, to invest $30 million a year specifically on algal biofuel R&D. This is now a vibrant research program ranging from genetics of algae to the engineering of cultivation, harvesting and processing technologies. Dozens of universities, small companies and national laboratories are participating and making steady progress.
Coming back to the failures of the companies in algal biofuels, the focus of the author's "Obituary," Dr. Benemann provided further background: The "algal oil bubble" started about a dozen years ago, when venture capital firms made major investments into several US algal biofuels start-ups that promised a great leap forward in technology. With the Obama "stimulus" package of 2009, DOE co-funded two pilot plants ($25 million each to Solazyme and Algenol) and a 100-acre demonstration plant ($50 million to Sapphire Energy). The need to spend these funds, says the author, quickly led to the lack of real "due diligence."
Although they failed in making good on their projections, and the venture investments were essentially written off, these projects actually survived, or were resurrected:
Solazyme was bought out of bankruptcy by Corbion, and just announced that its algae cooking oil is now sold in Walmart.
The Sapphire Energy demo plant in New Mexico, with new owners, is operated by Qualitas Health and selling its iWi brand algae omega-oil supplements in Sam's Club and others.
Algenol in Florida is using its algae reactors to develop food coloring products.
Thus, Dr. Benemann argues that these projects were not failures, even if biofuels were not produced.
Jason Huffman writes in UndercurrentNews.com that the Kampachi Company, a mariculture business focused on expanding the environmentally sound production of sashimi-grade ...
Nature.com reports that swimming algae have been enlisted to carry drugs to individual cells, raising the prospect that such "microswimmers" could deliver targeted therap...
Cécile Barbière writes for Euractive.fr (translated by Rob Kirby) that, in large greenhouses formerly home to the tomatoes and cucumbers of the market gardening Groupe Ol...
Paris-based Solabia Group ("Solabia") has acquired Algatech Ltd., a global leader in the development, cultivation and commercialization of ingredients delivered from micr...
San Diego, CA and Kailua-Kona, HI-based Cellana, Inc. has signed an Asset Purchase Agreement with Cyanotech Corporation for the sale of Cellana's six-acre production and ...
The Utah Science Technology and Research (USTAR) initiative, a technology-based economic development program funded by the state of Utah, has awarded a $175,320 grant for...
Judith Lewis Mernit writes in e360.yale.edu that an experiment being conducted by animal science professor Ermias Kebreab at the University of California, Davis, is testi...
The Algae Biomass Organization (ABO) reports the introduction of the Algae Agriculture Act of 2018 (H.R. 5373), a bill that would give algae cultivators and harvesters ma...
"The Israeli food-tech industry has been growing in leaps and bounds in recent years and is taking a leading role worldwide with a broad range of innovative companies and...
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hearthesilence
Re: Orson Welles
#251 Post by hearthesilence » Sun Nov 08, 2015 10:37 am
Tickets for all of those rare Welles screenings at MoMA are currently on sale (at least to members, not sure about the general public) and they're mostly playing in the smaller T2 theater (damn you, Bridge of Spies and The Walk!)
#252 Post by Roscoe » Sun Nov 08, 2015 11:27 am
And coming in early January -- a weeklong run of CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT at Film Forum:
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#253 Post by FrauBlucher » Sun Nov 08, 2015 1:02 pm
I will be at the FF tomorrow to see Spartacus. I'm hoping to see Bruce Goldstein there. I want to know if Chimes is a different/updated resto than what played earlier in year.
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#254 Post by Drucker » Sun Nov 08, 2015 2:50 pm
Fwiw, the restoration last year did not say A Janus release, and was credited to Filmoteca Espanola, who are not mentioned in he current repertory calendar.
#255 Post by FrauBlucher » Mon Nov 09, 2015 12:51 pm
Janus responded to a twitter question that, "yes!" there is difference between their Chimes at Midnight and the Filmoteca Espanola that toured last year, with "details forthcoming."
So perhaps they have used that found 35mm print that was recently discovered.
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#256 Post by The Fanciful Norwegian » Mon Nov 09, 2015 4:09 pm
No reason to use a release print discovered by a couple of over-enthusiastic collectors—the negative still exists but wasn't used for the Spanish restoration, presumably because the Filmoteca Española worked with the Spanish rights holders and the negative is with the Harry Saltzman estate. We know Criterion knows about these elements, so hopefully they worked something out to use them.
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#257 Post by Drucker » Mon Nov 09, 2015 4:11 pm
Again, the restoration is promoted as a Janus release. Don't want to even think about the idea that Criterion is not going to release this.
#258 Post by big ticket » Sun Nov 15, 2015 11:38 pm
It looks like the same Japanese studio who put out The Trial (IVC) is releasing special editions of Kane and Ambersons on blu in just a couple months. This is Ambersons' first ever appearance on blu-ray, no? An exciting prospect. Appears to be region free, too, according to WellesNet
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Magni ... ay/144249/
#259 Post by Drucker » Fri Nov 20, 2015 10:28 am
hearthesilence wrote: Tickets for all of those rare Welles screenings at MoMA are currently on sale (at least to members, not sure about the general public) and they're mostly playing in the smaller T2 theater (damn you, Bridge of Spies and The Walk!)
Were you there last night? I was reading What Ever Happened To OW this morning, specifically the passage about Merchant of Venice, and noticed that something Stefan Droessler said contradicted McBride's book:
Welles's condensed version, however, takes the radical step of eliminating Portia from the play, a decision he made after Kodar told him she was not up to playing the role.
Droessler mentioned the absence of a funeral scene and of this character, but he made it seem more like it was an artistic and monetary decision by Welles. That he wanted the Shylock speech to be the climax of the film, and he sort of haphazardly told the actress playing Portia not to show up to film wherever they were going to film (though he eventually made it up to her in some way). Further, Droessler made no mention of Kodar playing this role, but some other actress whose name escapes me now. Anyone else there last night that can help me on these details?
#260 Post by hearthesilence » Fri Nov 20, 2015 10:36 am
Interesting! Sadly I was not - I wanted to be but I had a prior engagement I couldn't get out of.
It was more of a lecture than anything else, but the restored Merchant of Venice is certainly the best looking color film I've seen from Welles. Stylistically, it was very similar to Immortal Story, but I actually found it better and more powerful overall. The most interesting thing about the restoration is that a whole reel of sound elements is missing (from the important Shylock speech, no less). But Welles had recorded the speech as part of a record series for Columbia records in the 1930s. It just so happens, as well, that he didn't change ANY of the lines from his recording of the speech, but did rearrange them. So the missing sound elements were dubbed in from a recording from 1938, and it really wasn't too bad!
I'll be at The Deep on Sunday. Gonna have to miss the preview cut of Journey Into Fear and the screening of Dreams and OTOTW clips.
#262 Post by Altair » Fri Nov 20, 2015 11:54 am
Where are all of these on BD? Sigh... What are the differences between the preview and theatrical cuts of Journey into Fear (IMDb being singularly unilluminating)?
According to the page on MOMA about 8 minutes of footage, and maybe a little more, considering it's 81 minute runtime. I don't know if it'll really help make sense of that film, but would certainly be a treat to see.
I would hope Janus owns Filming Othello, by the way. Droesseler showed a document of the contract Welles signed to make the film, and it appeared to be a contract with Janus. If they are releasing Othello and Chimes like people have speculated, then hopefully some of these odds and ends of his career (and Immortal Story, of course!) make it on to discs as extras.
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#264 Post by Roger Ryan » Fri Nov 20, 2015 1:39 pm
The version of Journey Into Fear that Droessler is screening is a 2006 reconstruction of the film combining footage from the two extant edits in additional to a few explanatory intertitles and two or three production stills. It is an attempt to reconfigure the film to more closely match the 91 min. preview version for which a cutting continuity exists but no print (the preview version reels were sent to Welles in Brazil along with the long version of Ambersons). As with Ambersons, RKO re-edited the preview version and released it in August, 1942. Welles was successful in convincing the studio to pull the film from release and allow him to do a quick re-edit himself and shoot a new ending. This new version was then released in February, 1943.
Only being familiar with the Welles re-edit, I was quite surprised to see the earlier studio edit screened during the 2005 Locarno Welles retrospective. Apparently, a stray print survived and had been in circulation in Europe. I had never seen any reference to there being two extant versions of this title and, frankly, I think this comes down to the film being such a minor entry in Welles' canon. Droessler was surprised as well and hit upon the idea of combining footage from the two versions. I volunteered to do some research for the project and advised him on how the preview version was structured.
This reconstructed version not only features more footage, but some of the scenes that were re-sequenced by RKO have been restored to their original running order. Does it make sense out of the story? Well, I think it improves it a bit, but this was a film that was largely derailed during pre-production due to censorship issues. If Welles didn't have to answer to the Hayes office, I think Journey Into Fear would have been a lot sharper in its political critique and funnier in its sex comedy aspirations.
#265 Post by hearthesilence » Sun Nov 22, 2015 7:24 pm
I was actually on my way to MoMA tonight as I had tickets to see The Deep but the goddamn f$%&ing MTA f-ed over my plans. For anyone had made it, please post about it, I'm very curious to know what they showed.
#266 Post by Drucker » Sun Nov 22, 2015 11:27 pm
Well, I hate to tell you, but it was actually quite excellent. Droessler made clear in the introduction that Welles' intended this to be a popular film, to show he could deliver a hit, and it's easy to see how this could have been a very successful, fun film in the mold of Lady From Shanghai and Touch of Evil.
I'm sure you're mostly familiar with the plot, and I need to re-read the chapters in WEHTOW, but the entirety of the plot is in place. We open in a dream sequence of Oja's, where she is pushed off the deck, she comes awake, and we are on ship with her and her husband. The opening sequence is long, as are many of the sequences. Droessler stressed that as a work print, shots are intentionally repeated, and different takes of the same scene are inserted intentionally several times because the film would have been edited down.
-There are many blank frames where close-ups were to have been inserted
-Welles' lines are mostly absent, as he would have dubbed his own lines in last after everyone else did
-Harvey's lines are all (clearly) read by Welles. He has the most finished dialogue of anyone in the film (because of this?). He died before having the chance to dub.
-Moreau has a lot of dialogue recorded, and clearly most of it is NOT overdubbed, which was a nice treat.
-All of Welles' lines you hear are live in shot
-Most of Kodar and her husband's lines are clearly overubbed
-The assembled/displayed work print consists of pieces of 2 separate workprints and even some rushes. Welles printed rushes on whatever shitty film stock he had lying around. The film frequently goes from black and white to color.
-I can confirm for you that this does not represent at all the color timing. Sorry, would be nice if it looked like that, but the color stock was mostly faded, or I assume, never color-timed to begin with (I would have no idea technically what to make of it. Very, very faded)
I lost track of time, but if I were imagining what the edit would have consisted of, the first reel would have been: 1) dream sequence 2) wake up 3) see Harvey approaching in boat 4) figure out what's going on with him 5) husband gets suspicious and investigates other boat 6) discovers Welles and Moreau 7) discover Harvey was faking illness and gets away. This could easily make up 15 minutes, and with a 15 minute reel establishing plot, of what would probably be a 1.5 hour movie, it would establish everything pretty well.
As the film goes on, Harvey comes off very well as paranoid that his boat mates are out to get him. Even without his voice, the performance is clearly strong and desperate. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Kodar is sort of the weak link of the film. At the beginning of the film, she is sympathetic to Harvey's plight, even while her husband is suspect. Then, of course, she is kidnapped by Harvey. She actually seems perfectly well-cast, but it's kind of underdeveloped from what we see. She has a chance at one point to kill Harvey, but spares him. This is something I jus didn't get. She moves between feeling bad for the guy's clear mental wreckage, and at the same time is plotting to kill him or escape, eventually drugging him long enough to find Welles's and co's boat. She's not bad, really, but her character's motivation is lacking. And there's plenty of this-era Kodar-esque close-ups stuck in for good measure that don't necessarily fit the rest of the film (of course, maybe finished they would have, but who knows).
I cannot stress how great Welles is though. Playing a bit part instead of a lead, he's doing his best Falstaff, except it really seems like he's channeling Thomas Mitchell in Stagecoach. He's constantly drinking and smoking, and tossing off snooty one-liners as the exposition is explained, and we learned about what really happened from Moreau, as she explains to Kodar's husband what really happened. The plot, is basically (from what I gather):
-Harvey washes up on Kodar and husband's boat, claiming everyone on his boat is dead from food poisoning and his wife is dead.
-Turns out, in reality, he's gone mad, thinks others are out to get him. His wife is Moreau, and she's alive. But Harvey killed Welles's wife.
-Kodar's husband spends night figuring out how they can reach Kodar's boat, which isn't sinking (their boat is, though slowly).
The clear highlight of the film is the scene right before they set the boat on fire so Kodar would see them in the distance. I think they are supposed to be throwing gasoline around the boat, but this humorous scene lasted 5 minutes, and they were clearly throwing around various paint cans all over the boat. There's even a minute or so with yellow and red-tinted film. I'm not sure if this was the first film Welles planned to make with color, but you can imagine an anarchistic scene where people are tossing full-paint cans all over the boat. With finished color processing, it clearly would have been a joy to watch. It's a comedic scene and a real blast.
Unfortunately, the climactic close-ups of Harvey and Welles in their final, underwater fight, eventually killed by a shark are all lost.
So, overall, a great workprint. Sure, it needed a lot of trimming, but the film clearly had potential. The only reel with music featured a french jazz LP (Droessler narrated about 4 or 5 times during silent stretches), and that modern soundtrack would have been wonderful. It's very effective the brief moments it's used.
I think that's all I can conjure up. It has a happy ending which mirrors Kodar's dream sequence at the open, so surely Welles was going for something he could market. But it works, and is a mostly entertaining film. Long stretches of silence in a crowded theater are somewhat difficult to endure, but it's really not too bad at all.
As far as the original negative goes, Droessler's speculation is that the negative is destroyed. It was apparently housed somewhere, where, basically it would have needed to have been signed out, and there's no accounting for when it left where it was held. More than likely, he thinks, Welles quietly had it removed from the archive without signing it out so he wouldn't have to pay a tax on it. Eventually, however, customs would have held it, having figured it had been removed 2 or 3 times without payment, and demanded payment to ship it back to where it belongs. Customs would have only held something for a year or two before "chopping it." So if Welles couldn't come up with the tax bill to rescue the film, it would be destroyed, which it probably was, it sounded like.
At least, that's how I understood his speculation. Anyone who knows a thing or two about customs can probably clear up the details of what I've just tried to describe.
#267 Post by Altair » Mon Nov 23, 2015 5:08 am
Roger Ryan wrote: The version of Journey Into Fear that Droessler is screening is a 2006 reconstruction of the film combining footage from the two extant edits in additional to a few explanatory intertitles and two or three production stills.
Thank you (and thank you to Drucker's extensive report on The Deep); so I assume the reason the 2006 reconstruction wasn't included in Kino's recent BD is it's not public domain? Can we dare hope for a Criterion which includes both versions?
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#268 Post by Jonathan S » Mon Nov 23, 2015 7:04 am
Altair wrote:
Surely Journey Into Fear, as an RKO production, is owned by Warner, at least in the US (are you thinking of Kino's Blu-ray of The Stranger?) Officially, of course, Welles only acts in Journey - if I recall correctly, in the BBC Arena interview he was still keen to deny any directorial input and give all the credit (and I suppose correlative discredit) to Norman Foster.
Jonathan S wrote:
Of course, yes, I was writing too early in the morning! I suppose we shouldn't hold our breath for Warner Archive to release Journey into Fear on BD.
#270 Post by Roger Ryan » Mon Nov 23, 2015 9:29 am
Jonathan S wrote: ...Officially, of course, Welles only acts in Journey - if I recall correctly, in the BBC Arena interview he was still keen to deny any directorial input and give all the credit (and I suppose correlative discredit) to Norman Foster.
Interestingly, the version of Journey RKO released briefly in August, 1942 credits the screenplay to both Welles and Joseph Cotten (although Ben Hecht was the primary writer on it initially) whereas the final version credits only Cotten as screenwriter. This suggests that Welles was distancing himself from the project even though he initiated the film and was the one responsible for the final re-shaping of it. When comparing the two versions, I suspect Welles was allowed to rework the material using only what was present in the August '42 released edit. Welles chose to tell the story exclusively from the perspective of Howard Graham (Cotten) so he stripped away any scenes where Graham is not present and added the first-person narration (he would choose to do the same thing late in post-production for The Lady From Shanghai and, possibly, for Mr. Arkadin as well). This is the likely reason he placed the opening scene showing Banat leaving his hotel room in front of the credits (to separate it from the main narrative since it is an event Graham could not have witnessed). Welles scripted and directed a new ending scene to tie in the first-person narration to a letter Graham is attempting to write. For as much as Welles wanted to deny directorial input on the film, he was the one who determined the final shape of the narrative.
#271 Post by hearthesilence » Mon Nov 23, 2015 11:28 am
Drucker wrote: Well, I hate to tell you, but it was actually quite excellent.
Yeah, I figured. And yet again, the MTA was just garbage this morning, again with TWO separate and significant delays before I could even get into Manhattan. It's not even the holiday rush yet, it's absolutely ridiculous.
And many, many thanks for the description. Hopefully another presentation will come after some much needed additional restoration on the color. I imagine the funding isn't there yet, but hopefully that'll change.
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#272 Post by hanshotfirst1138 » Mon Nov 23, 2015 12:38 pm
Drucker wrote: Well, I hate to tell you, but it was actually quite excellent. Droessler made clear in the introduction that Welles' intended this to be a popular film, to show he could deliver a hit, and it's easy to see how this could have been a very successful, fun film in the mold of Lady From Shanghai and Touch of Evil.
Is it up to the studio which negatives get tossed and which get kept, hence the many famous "missing scenes" out there for various films which exist primarily in stills and trailers?
#273 Post by Altair » Tue Dec 01, 2015 10:17 am
It won't tell dedicated Wellesians anything new, but Alex Ross' overview of Orson Welles' life and times over at The New Yorker makes for a fine read.
#274 Post by Drucker » Thu Dec 31, 2015 1:56 pm
Wellesnet on Twitter indicate that multiple cuts of Othello will be released on Criterion.
Also, Beatrice Welles will be introducing Chimes at Midnight at Film Forum.
Another great year for Welles' ahead!
Randall Maysin
#275 Post by Randall Maysin » Thu Dec 31, 2015 2:06 pm
He's dead.
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Noah Lenstra
Library & Information Science (LIS) Department
Email: njlenstr@uncg.edu
Office: 456 SOE Building
Website: Dr. Lenstra's Website
Community informatics and engagement
Ph.D. in Library & Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
C.A.S. in Library & Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.S. in Library & Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B.A. in English,; Geology and Portuguese minors, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Noah Lenstra takes a community engagement approach to the study and teaching of libraries. His current research focuses on how public libraries support health and wellness through programs and partnerships. His dissertation analyzed how public libraries and senior centers are used by senior citizens learning digital technologies. Past research has focused on digital heritage, genealogy, archives, and community engagement in libraries. He teaches in the areas of community informatics, project management, and foundations of library and information science.
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This panel focuses on how everyday objects assume new lives in new consumption contexts through rebranding of "stuff" to retro or vintage, and explores theoretical conditions for circulation of material culture in relation to issues of ownership, morality, power and the formation of subjectivities.
The current recycling trend - reusing of clothes, furniture, household goods or building material - captures several contemporary social dynamics. It can be read as linked to the interest in cultural heritage in late modernity: home- and lifestyle magazines feature advice about how to create authenticity and a connection with the past through decorating with memorabilia, unique finds from flea markets, or furniture with a history. It can also be understood as a critique against the current rate of consumption, seen as unsustainable, both in terms of how goods are produced, and their impact on the environment. However, the rebranding of old stuff into vintage enables a continuous consumption, but now under a banner of sustainability, uniqueness and quality. The circulation of goods can thus be read both as an effort to resist consumption, and simultaneously as an expansion of capitalism. Parallel to these changing contexts for used materiality, the idea of owning is undergoing a transformation. Rather than accumulating and collecting, many actors seek to minimize their ownership, not through downsizing but through securing access to goods in new ways: donating before buying, borrowing, renting, or co-owning. From having been a cornerstone of modern liberal democratic society, ownership has become problematic: costly and limiting; related to sedentarianism and unwieldy for late modern subjects engaging in rapidly shifting identity projects. This panel welcomes papers that explore theoretical or empirical dimensions of the circulation of material culture in relation to issues of ownership, morality, power and the formation of subjectivities.


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By James Uber
(Last Updated On: July 1, 2016)
While there are no bones in the penis, it is possible to break it due to rigorous and aggressive sexual intercourse. According to reports from men with a broken penis, the woman on top position seems to be a very common culprit.
Penile fracture is described as a traumatic rupture of the part of the penis, which is a tough fibrous layer of consisting of connective tissue surrounding the corpora cavernosa. The penis only breaks when it's fully erect where the corpora cavernosa is full of blood due to the erection. It literally produces a "pop" sound during a blunt traumatic sex.
Generally, when this happens, the patient experience severe pain, swelling of the penis and erection subsides. It is described with a reddish, purple, blue color. This condition requires immediate medical attention.
Penile fracture is real! Hence, be careful when having an aggressive sexual intercourse. And, although there is no evidence that exercising the penis makes it somewhat it stronger in the long run, it would be helpful to some degree, and even regular use of a penis pump like Penomet. There are several reports on penile fracture, and you can check some of these cases below. However, note that these reports contain images that you may feel gross, but that's what really happen during a penile injury.
A case of penile fracture with complete urethral disruption during sexual intercourse
Penile fracture with bilateral corporeal rupture and complete urethral disruption: case report and literature review
Penile Fracture – BMJ Case Reports 2016; doi:10.1136/bcr-2016-215385
Penile fracture – experience in 56 cases
Fractured Penis – A case report
Penile fracture. A report of two cases
Penile Fracture – N Engl J Med 2015; 372:1055March 12, 2015DOI: 10.1056/NEJMicm1404224
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Q: Error missing systemd on AWS server I cant seem to figure out how to install systemd. I am attempting to upgrade mysql server on AWS from 5.5 to 5.6. I am getting the following error when trying to install- "Requires: systemd"
Any ideas on what the problem could be or how to get this installed, Ive tried sudo yum install systemd.
$ sudo yum install mysql-community-server
Loaded plugins: priorities, update-motd, upgrade-helper
4 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package mysql-community-server.x86_64 0:5.6.21-2.el7 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: systemd for package: mysql-community-server-5.6.21-2.el7.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: systemd for package: mysql-community-server-5.6.21-2.el7.x86_64
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: mysql-community-server-5.6.21-2.el7.x86_64 (mysql56-community)
           Requires: systemd
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

any ideas?
Thanks!

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On November 7, 2013 at approximately 7:45 am, in the vicinity of the 800 block of Franklin Street, Worcester, a male trespassing on track 1 was struck by an inbound MBTA train: Worcester Line. The male was pronounced deceased as a result of injuries he sustained. The male has been identified as Mohammed Uddin, 29 from Worcester, MA.
On November 7, 2013 at approximately 10:25 am a woman drove into the MBTA Wollaston parking lot from Woodbine Street. Shortly after entering it appears the female driver may have suffered from a medical emergency causing her to lose control of her vehicle and subsequently strike a male pedestrian and collide into the entrance of the station. The female driver has been identified as Mary Mullaney, 78 of Quincy. Mullaney has been pronounced deceased. An autopsy is scheduled for today and the Medical Examiner's Office will make the determination as to the cause of death.


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Victim recounts chilling sub shop robbery
APD hunts for serial sub shop robber
Updated: 7:46 AM MST Dec 1, 2014
Laura Thoren
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Only on 7, terrifying surveillance video of a serial armed robber.
Police said a robber has target several Albuquerque sandwich shops in the past week and he's still on the run.An employee at Yeller Sub said she stared down the barrel of a gun on Wednesday when the shop was robbed. The shop released surveillance video of the robbery to Action 7 News.The masked man pointed his gun at the woman behind the counter and demanded cash. She's afraid to show her face, so Action 7 News is not identifying her."So I opened up one of the drawers and started giving him money, but he wasn't happy with the amount," she said. "I said, 'I'm sorry this is all we have, I can't give you anything else.'"The owner said most of his customers paid with credit cards that day, so the robber only got away with about $120.But police said he wasn't done. Six other Albuquerque sandwich shops were held up that night around the same time. Police believe the Yeller Sub robber is responsible for at least three of them."I think it's like a very surreal situation to go through, thinking you're about to die," said the shop worker.The worker said she is thankful for her training to help her prepare for the situation. She will also keep working at the shop.Anyone who recognizes the robber in the surveillance footage is asked to call police at 505-242-COPS.MOBILE USERS: Tap here for video
Police said a robber has target several Albuquerque sandwich shops in the past week and he's still on the run.
An employee at Yeller Sub said she stared down the barrel of a gun on Wednesday when the shop was robbed. The shop released surveillance video of the robbery to Action 7 News.
The masked man pointed his gun at the woman behind the counter and demanded cash. She's afraid to show her face, so Action 7 News is not identifying her.
"So I opened up one of the drawers and started giving him money, but he wasn't happy with the amount," she said. "I said, 'I'm sorry this is all we have, I can't give you anything else.'"
The owner said most of his customers paid with credit cards that day, so the robber only got away with about $120.
But police said he wasn't done. Six other Albuquerque sandwich shops were held up that night around the same time. Police believe the Yeller Sub robber is responsible for at least three of them.
"I think it's like a very surreal situation to go through, thinking you're about to die," said the shop worker.
The worker said she is thankful for her training to help her prepare for the situation. She will also keep working at the shop.
Anyone who recognizes the robber in the surveillance footage is asked to call police at 505-242-COPS.
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Lock in a great price for Angleterre Hotel – rated 9 by recent guests!
Great historical hotel with absolutely standing view of church, nice room, beds and bathrooms.
The staff was very polite and helpful. Special thanks to the chamber maids. Food was great as well.
Location location location. Attentive staff and top notch customer service, concierge service fave great advice and made reservations with ease. Relocated me to another room after I complained about external noise.
All the staff was friendly and helpful. Went that "extra mile" in making us feel comfortable. Good breakfast selection including fresh fruit and juices and always satisfying.
Excellent location, but I highly recommend to explicitly ask for a room at the good hotel section (with no water pipe problems etc.).
We were upgraded to the hotel next door: the Hotel Astoria which is a 5 star hotel. The comments refer to that hotel not Hotel Angleterre.
Location, and staffs. Clean and neat bedlinens and towels. Also, don't miss swimming pool. It's not that big but worth. Also, if you book an executive rooms, you would appreciate fabulous view of St. Issac.
Angleterre Hotel This rating is a reflection of how the property compares to the industry standard when it comes to price, facilities and services available. It's based on a self-evaluation by the property. Use this rating to help choose your stay!
One of our top picks in Saint Petersburg.The Angleterre Hotel is very conveniently located a 5 to 10-minute walk from Palace Square, the Hermitage and Nevsky Prospekt. It is next to the stunning Saint Isaac's Cathedral.
Energize at the gym or rejuvenate at the sauna and solarium, with massages also available. Follow with a dip in the Hotel Angleterre pool. When you're ready to go out, ask at the tours and tickets desk for advice. The ATM is also a useful on-site facility.
Return to superb, authentic Italian food at the chic Borsalino Restaurant. The attractive Gallery is the perfect place for a tea or coffee during the day, and to meet friends or colleagues.
Business travelers are accommodated well, with 3 multi-functional meeting rooms for up to 100 people. There is a 205-person capacity theater-style space, with 4-language translations. Secretarial services are also available.
When would you like to stay at Angleterre Hotel?
This spacious two-level room features a view of Malaya Morskaya street. Free Wi-Fi is available.
The Junior Suite provides a seating area and the views of St Isaac's Square.
This room has air conditioning, a minibar and a private bathroom.
It provides views of the inner garden.
This air-condiitoned room has a minibar and private bathroom.
It offers a view of St Isaac's Cathedral.
This spacious suite offers free WiFi, living room and St. Isaac's Cathedral's views.
This room features a bathroom fitted with a bath. Bathrobes and free toiletries are provided. You will find a mini-bar and TV with cable channels. The windows overlook the inner garden.
This air-conditioned room features cable TV and a mini-bar. The private bathroom is fitted with a bath. Bathrobes and free toiletries are provided.
The room offers a view of St Isaac's Cathedral.
Angleterre Hotel is located in the heart of St Petersburg, adjacent to St Isaac's Cathedral and close to the famous Hermitage Museum. The hotel is within a walking distance from the Nevsky Prospect and all the major sightseeing and shopping spots!
House Rules Angleterre Hotel takes special requests – add in the next step!
Any additional older children or adults are charged RUB 2000 per night for extra beds.
Angleterre Hotel accepts these cards and reserves the right to temporarily hold an amount prior to arrival.
No coffee machine in the room. Long wait for room service.
The only thing if you are extra sensible to noise might be a bit the noise from the street despite double window, but ear plugs will solve everything of you really need and will not take you away from the opportunity of St Isaac view.
No tea or coffee facility in the room.
Value for money. Good room with amenities.
Great hotel and staff. Highly recommended.


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Hagia Triada (řecky: Αγία Τριάδα) je archeologické naleziště a mínojský palác na jihu Kréty vzdálený asi 3–4 km na jihozápad od Faistu. Nachází se na pobřežní vyvýšenině nad Messarskou planinou.

Historie osídlení

Počátky zdejšího osídlení lze vystopovat do raně mínojského období ve 3. tisíciletí př. n. l., kdy zde stála první osada a dvě hrobky typu tholos. Mezi lety 1600 a 1550 př. n. l. zde místní obyvatelé vybudovali mínojský palác. Tento palác byl mnohem menší než ten v sousedním Faistu. Úzký vztah k Faistu dokládá kamenná cesta, která tato dvě střediska spojovala.

Palác byl kolem roku 1450 př. n. l. zničen. Mykénští Achájové na jeho místě vybudovali nový palác typu megaron a kolem něj obchodní středisko s tržištěm.

Archeologické nálezy
Hagia Triada, stejně jako Faistos, byla odkryta mezi lety 1900 a 1908 skupinou pracovníků z Italské archeologické školy v Athénách (Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene). Výzkumy vedli Federico Halbherr a Luigi Pernier. Při nich byl objeven malovaný sarkofág se scénami ze života tehdejších Kréťanů,. Nyní se nachází v archeologickém muzeu v Irakliu.

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Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigour and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.
Some coffee-loving gardeners may not realize that the used coffee grounds leave behind in the pot could be used in the garden with incredible benefits!
Compost – Coffee makes for a wonderful addition to the compost pile or as a soil amendment. soil lab tests showed that the grounds provide generous amounts of phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, and copper.
Coffee As Fertilizer – First and foremost, the most important property of coffee when it comes to helping the garden is the plentiful supply of nitrogen retained from the bean. This is a must-have plant nutrient for leafy greens and vegetables. Coffee grounds can contain as much as 2% nitrogen by volume and sometimes have a carbon:nitrogen ratio of 11:1, which is ideal for any home-made fertilizer.
Acid Loving Plants – The high acid content of leftover coffee grounds makes them the ideal supplement for tomato plants as well as other acid-loving flowers.
The secret formula are: leave the grounds to soak in a decent amount of water overnight, pour the solution into the soil or pot and that's it! From there the nutrients and goodness of the coffee is free to do its work. Some gardeners also do this with tea but the acid content of coffee is much higher.
Roses Love Coffee – Coffee grounds have been a "secret weapon" contributing to many beautiful roses bushes and blooms. It contains small amounts of nitrogen, pH is neutral to acidic, lighten the soil around, attract worms that aerate and loosen the soil, and help deter some common garden pests and bacteria.
Pest Control – It seems that while the scent of coffee can get us humans out of bed in the morning and put a smile on our faces, it has the opposite effect on some of the creepy crawlies that we wish didn't inhabit our gardens. Placing some leftover grounds around ant holes and plants that are troubled by slug and snails can work pretty well. Slugs simply do not like crawling over the scratchy surface so a nice, well-maintained ring of grounds around vulnerable plants can be ideal.
Cat Repellent – Cats are not all that welcome because of the damage they can cause, the threat to local wildlife and the mess they leave behind. Coffee grounds on the soil can deter them from digging and can also be used near potentially dangerous plants for the cat's safety.
Prevent Fungal Disease – On the subject of protecting our plants, it seems that coffee can also be helpful in preventing fungal rots and wilts in some plants because the grounds create their own superior, helpful form of fungus. The science gets a little complicated but the important thing to remember is these particular fungal growth are a gardener's friend and should be encouraged.
These simple actions and neat tricks can turn a mound of unwanted coffee waste into something incredibly useful and versatile to the point where you'll wonder how your garden managed without it.


Under the terms of the agreement, Medigene will supply Structured Immunity with a lead TCR candidate for a high-profile solid tumor target. Structured Immunity will evaluate the TCR's specificity and recognition properties using their established structural immunology technologies.
The collaboration will also involve the expertise of the research laboratory of Brian Baker, Ph.D., professor of structural biology at the University of Notre Dame, affiliated faculty member of the Harper Cancer Research Institute, as well as the advice and support of Notre Dame's IDEA Center.
"We would like to acknowledge Dr. Baker's scientific input and thank the IDEA Center for their support in the development of Structured Immunity," said Hardwicke.
For more information, please visit http://structuredimmunity.com.
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Originally published by Nick Swisher at ideacenter.nd.edu on August 21, 2018.


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Viktor Bout: Freed Russian arms dealer "wholeheartedly" supports Ukraine war
Released Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout said on Saturday that he "wholeheartedly" supports Moscow's so-called "military operation" in Ukraine and that if given the opportunity and the necessary skills, he would "definitely go as a volunteer".
Bout, dubbed the "Trader of Death" by his accusers, was released from U.S. detention on Thursday in a prisoner exchange for American basketball star Brittney Griner.
Bout made the comments in a video interview with the Kremlin-controlled TV network RT. He was interviewed by Maria Butina, a Russian gun rights enthusiast turned TV personality who now works for the network.
In the interview, he denied any ties to the Taliban and that he supplied weapons to Afghanistan.
When asked if he had a portrait of President Vladimir Putin in his cell, Bout replied: "Yes, always. Why not? I am proud that I am Russian and that our president is Putin."
The former Soviet military officer was serving a 25-year prison sentence in the United States on charges of conspiracy to kill Americans, acquire and export anti-aircraft missiles, and provide material support to a terrorist organization. Bout, who had maintained his innocence, is believed to be in his fifties, and his age is disputed due to various passports and documents.
Griner, 32, returned to the United States early Friday after being released in exchange for an international arms dealer. She was "in a good mood" and "incredibly friendly," National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told CNN.
Griner — who had played for a Russian women's basketball team in the offseason — was arrested in February at a Moscow region airport on drug charges. Despite her testimony that she accidentally put the found cannabis oil in her luggage, she was sentenced to nine years in prison in early August and moved to a penal colony in Mordovia in mid-November after losing her appeal.
The trade, which US President Joe Biden confirmed on Thursday, did not include another American the State Department has falsely detained, Paul Whelan. Whelan was arrested in 2018 on espionage charges and sentenced to 16 years in prison in a trial that U.S. officials have called unfair.
Griner and Whelan's families had urged the White House to secure their release, including through prisoner exchange if necessary.
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Currently, in the US, about 75 million people are suffering from hypertension, with many dying of hypertension-related cardiovascular disease than any other disease or illness known to man. In recent years, around one-third of everyone over the age of 20 had hypertension, based on their high blood pressure tests and medication requirements. Controlling hypertension has become a priority in the country by the Million Hearts Initiative, which aims to prevent one-million heart attacks and strokes by the end of 2017. Knowing the symptoms and potential treatments are the first step.
Patients suffering from hypertension, or high blood pressure, typically don't show any symptoms. In fact, many endure the condition for years without even knowing it. Doctors across the world call hypertension the "silent killer" because of its asymptotic nature. In rare cases, however, patients with high blood pressure may experience headaches on occasion.
The only surefire method to catch high blood pressure is to schedule regular checkups with your local practitioner. Over time, hypertension may cause "wear and tear" on the body, leading to damaged blood vessels, increased health problems, and weak spots, leading to hemorrhagic strokes or aneurysms.
For most, treatment generally involves managing the condition instead of removing it altogether. For patients with hypertension, ensuring their blood pressure remains within a normal range – under 140/90 mmHg – is vital.
Doctors generally prescribe lifestyle changes, including diet and more physical activity. Occasionally, medications aimed at managing high blood pressure are prescribed. Also, stress relief practices, such as meditation or relaxation, are highly recommended. These methods, combined with lifestyle changes and medication, are typically enough to make a difference.
If you suffer from hypertension and would like options, contact Brookhaven Heart by calling 631-654-3278. We're available to assist you with any heart-related concerns you may currently have!


Next week starting on Monday the 4th, all students may wear their pajamas to ALL classes. As always wear appropriate Pajamas, and pajamas that students are able to dance in. Of course being the obnoxious person that I am I would say it is ok for moms to wear Pajamas too.....that do not have to be appropriate, BIG SMILE!
It is important to Kelli, myself, and our family on just why we have Pajama Week. Most of our families that have been with us for a while now, know that on December 9th, 2011 at 3:30pm, Kelli and I found one of our twin boys, Mason "Baylen" had passed away from SIDS. So we celebrate his life in our family with a Pajama Day. We have Pajama week at the studio to raise awareness for all of the sweet babies that were taken way too soon from SIDS.
This year we have so many new little babies at the studio, and each time Kelli and I meet one of the new babies, we in our hearts say a little prayer that no one ever has to go through this.
It is with love, that we will always remember Baylen, and celebrate his life.


It's our Sea Themed Week on The SEN Resources Blog this week and we've been trying out this stunning Under The Sea Back Drop by TTS.
Made up of 4 panels, this beautiful photographic back drop featuring sea creatures and coral, creates the illusion for children that they are under the sea. Ideal for educational settings to support under The Sea topics or even at home as decorative wall art for kids rooms.
Easy to Hang- I must admit I was a little apprehensive about how I was going to hang the four polyester panels when they arrived. But it couldn't have been easier. There's a channel in the top of the fabric to thread it onto a curtain pole or wire and the bottom of each panel is weighted to ensure it hangs well. What's great is, if you don't have enough space for all 4, it doesn't matter as they look great as two panels or 3.
Stunning Photos– The photographs printed on the panels are absolutely stunning and to a high level of detail- transforming any learning space with its bright colours.
Fuels Learning- High quality backdrops like these are fantastic for encouraging and engaging children in learning. They capture children's imagination, helping them to pretend they are deep under sea and provide an interesting visual prompt to get children asking questions about the sea.
Calming and Therapeutic– We found this backdrop created a particularly calming environment, with its tranquil blue colours. We tried it over a window and the light shining through the images was beautiful. Looking at it and feeling immersed in the environment is a lovely therapeutic and sensory experience for children. Potentially helping children feel overstimulated to relax.
loving your blog. I could imagine these backdrops helping transform a room or indeed classroom into an underwater environment, with a touch of imagination of course.


Dublin's minor hurlers came with a storming last quarter to defeat Wexford in Saturday's Leinster MHC semi-final at Innovate Wexford Park.
The Slaneysiders started the second half the better and having trailed 0-13 to 1-8 at the interval had moved into a 2-13 to 1-14 lead with 15 minutes remaining, despite Conor Foley hitting a goal for the Dubs immediately on the restart.
Thereafter Wexford got great impact from the second-half subs with Darragh Furlong hitting three points and Josh Shiel grabbing a goal to go two points clear.
Two Dunne frees and an excellent point from Alex O'Neill gave the Dubs a three-point cushion, 1-19 to 2-13, and they continued to keep the scoreboard ticking.
Dunne added another free, after a foul on Luke Swan, and Purcell pointed to make it 1-21 to 2-13 before Dunne converted a '65' as the game moved into added time.
The hosts got a late goal but it wasn't enough to stop Mike Connolly's men progressing to a Leinster MHC final meeting with Kilkenny, who defeated Offaly in their provincial semi-final.
Donal Leavy opened Dublin's account in the sixth minute and a succession of points from Liam Dunne, three from frees and one from play, had the counties level at 0-5 each after 12 minutes.
Leavy's second point nosed Dublin in front and point from Dunne and a fine point from Pearce Christie put their side 08 to 0-5 clear by the 18th minute.


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Ascension, Google working on 'secret' patient data project, says WSJ
With the initiative, reportedly called Project Nightingale, the health system and tech giant have been collecting and analyzing detailed medical records, including names and birth dates, according to the Wall Street Journal.
By Mike Miliard
The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that Google has been working since 2018 on a "secret" project involving patient data with Ascension, the St. Louis-based nationwide health system.
The initiative, which WSJ said had drawn some questions, both "technological and ethical," from some Ascension employees about how the information was being analyzed and shared, had reportedly been code-named Project Nightingale.
Google is apparently using the data to help inform its design of new artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning software for Ascension. WSJ reports that employees at different Alphabet divisions, including Google Brain, have access to the patient information.
Until recently, neither patients nor physicians knew that "at least 150 Google employees already have access to much of the data on tens of millions of patients" across 21 states, according to the article's author Rob Copeland, including "lab results, doctor diagnoses and hospitalization records, among other categories ... including patient names and dates of birth."
But within hours of the WSJ report, Ascension put out a press release explaining its work with Google – and promising that the work is "HIPAA compliant and underpinned by a robust data security and protection effort and adherence to Ascension's strict requirements for data handling."
Beyond that, the health system had no further word on this project's potential patient privacy implications – except to say that one of its chief goals is a modernization of Ascension's infrastructure with help from Google Cloud, and that "key elements" of the work are focused around "data integration, privacy and security and compliance."
Other hoped-for results include real-time communication and collaboration, "securely in real time," with Google's G Suite, and new AI applications to improve quality and access for vulnerable populations, and boost patient and provider satisfaction.
HIPAA does allow providers (and others covered by the privacy law, including health plans and clearinghouses) to share protected health data with their vendors and business partners – but only in certain cases.
"Covered entities may disclose protected health information to an entity in its role as a business associate only to help the covered entity carry out its health care functions – not for the business associate's independent use or purposes, except as needed for the proper management and administration of the business associate," according to HHS.
The project bears some similarities to another recent Google collaboration, with the University of Chicago, which has been the subject of an ongoing class action lawsuit. The suit alleges that, despite being deidentified, Google's expertise in data mining and AI makes it "uniquely able to determine the identity" of the medical records shared with it by the university.
Google, the University of Chicago Medical Center and the University of Chicago are listed as defendants in a class action suit that alleges they failed to properly deidentify sensitive patient medical data.
The complaint, filed by Matt Dinerstein in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District Of Illinois, claims UChicago "promised in its patient admission forms that it would not disclose patients' records to third parties, like Google, for commercial purposes."
Instead, the university "did not notify its patients, let alone obtain their express consent, before turning over their confidential medical records to Google for its own commercial gain," the document states.
This past week, the University of Chicago asked for the lawsuit to be dismissed. While Dinerstein claims Google has the ability to identify him, he "admits that Google contractually agreed not to even try to identify anyone as a condition of receiving the data," according to the motion filed by U of Chicago.
"As the healthcare environment continues to rapidly evolve, we must transform to better meet the needs and expectations of those we serve as well as our own caregivers and healthcare providers," said Eduardo Conrado, Ascension's executive vice president of strategy and innovations, in a statement.
"Doing that will require the programmatic integration of new care models delivered through the digital platforms, applications and services that are part of the everyday experience of those we serve," he said.
"By working in partnership with leading healthcare systems like Ascension, we hope to transform the delivery of healthcare through the power of the cloud, data analytics, machine learning, and modern productivity tools – ultimately improving outcomes, reducing costs, and saving lives," added Tariq Shaukat, president of Google Cloud.
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Natural treatments for brain health, mood and temperament; gastrointestinal health; mood and temperament issues in children; maternal health care; women's health care; functional medicine; chronic health problems; pain control
Licensed Acupuncturist in California (AC 5960)
1997 M.S. in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Academy of Chinese Culture and Health Sciences, Oakland, California
1978 B.A. in Psychology, University of California at Los Angeles
Participant in dozens of continuing education workshops and trainings (ongoing)
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Treasurer, Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom, San Rafael, CA
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Appendix on Nutritional Neurochemistry in Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom. New Harbinger, November, 2009. Published in 20 languages.
Co-author of Mother Nurture: A Mother's Guide to Health in Body, Mind, and Intimate Relationships. Penguin, March, 2002.
Wise Brain Bulletin (2008 – present) – Many articles on Nutritional Biochemistry, including:
• The Road to (Brain) Health Is Paved with Good Intestines
• Your Brain on Starbucks
• Methylation and Mood: Why Folic Acid, B-12, and SAMe Are Good For You
Marin Family News (1997-2005) – Many articles on family health including:
• The Hormones of Parenthood
• Good Nutrition For a Good Mood
Client Handbook (with Joseph Heller). The Body of Knowledge, Inc., 1985. This 32-page handbook has been used by over 100,000 individuals undergoing the Hellerwork series of deep connective tissue bodywork sessions.
Smog Patterns (film). January, 1973. Presented to the National Science Foundation, and distributed as an educational film.
Inhibition of Glutamate-Decarboxylase By Fatty Tissue in The Cockroach. 1973. Authored by Baxter, Torralba, and Emge [Hanson]. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Society of Neurochemistry.
Esalen, "Buddha's Brain: Neural Pathways to Happiness, Love, and Wisdom" (with Rick Hanson, PhD). Big Sur, CA, July, 2013.
Wellspring Institute, "Your Best Brain: A Benefit Workshop for The Wellspring Institute" (with Rick Hanson, PhD). San Rafael, CA, April, 2013.
Esalen, "Buddha's Brain: Neural Pathways to Happiness, Love, and Wisdom" (with Rick Hanson, PhD). Big Sur, CA, August, 2012.
Wellspring Institute, "Your Best Brain: A Benefit Workshop for The Wellspring Institute" (with Rick Hanson, PhD). San Rafael, CA, March, 2012.
Wellspring Institute, "Your Best Brain: A Benefit Workshop for The Wellspring Institute" (with Rick Hanson, PhD). San Rafael, CA, September, 2010.
Esalen, "Buddha's Brain: Neural Pathways to Happiness, Love, and Wisdom" (with Rick Hanson, PhD). Big Sur, CA, January, 2010.
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The Hellerwork Training. 1989.
Various Hellerwork classes. 1983 to 1989.
Clinical Nutritionist and Acupuncturist. 1997 – present. San Rafael, CA. Practicing a combination of acupuncture, herbs, assessment, and nutritional consultation. Specializing in natural treatments for brain health, mood and temperament issues, chronic illness, women's health, and the treatment of gastrointestinal dysfunction.
Acupuncture Intern. 1994 – 1997. The Clinic of the Academy of Chinese Culture and Health Sciences, Oakland, CA.
Faculty Member, Hellerwork Training. 1983 – 1992. Marin County, CA.
Hellerwork Practitioner. 1981 – 1992. Marin County, CA. Practiced Hellerwork, an established form of deep connective tissue bodywork and movement education.
Project Manager – Synovations. 1977 – 1978. Venice, CA. Managed the production of large technical workshops on such topics as geothermal energy.
Founding Partner, Together Seminars. 1976 – 1977. Venice, CA. This company offered workshops in communication and relationships. Developed and conducted numerous weekend-long workshops and evening seminars.
Supervisor, the Databank of Program Evaluations at the School of Public Health, UCLA. 1976 -1977. Los Angeles, CA.
Supervisor and Research Assistant – Acupuncture Research Clinic, UCLA. 1975 – 1976. Los Angeles, CA.
Research Assistant – Neurochemistry Research Laboratory, Sepulveda Veterans Hospital. 1970 – 1972. Sepulveda, CA.
Research Assistant – Senses Bureau, Department of Chemistry, University of California at San Diego. 1972 – 1973. San Diego, CA.
Born March 14, 1954 in Oakland, California.
Married, with two children.
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Ruka is very brash and acts as a tomboy compared to Itosu who has an opposite personality compared to hers. She acts without thinking ahead, going straight into battle against her opponents which easily let Black Lotus to defeat her swiftly.
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Ruka became the child of her master after he moved to Okinawa. After becoming a burst linker, she became a parent for Itosu and the two are inspired to to increase the number of burst linkers in their community.


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Events 3rd Quarter 2018
Event Review: A Classical Evening with Joseph Calleja
The event was attended by the Hon. Prime Minister of Malta Dr. Joseph Muscat and his wife, Michelle Muscat. They are pictured here with Joseph Calleja
Earlier this year, Henley & Partners, with the participation of the Government of Malta, hosted an exclusive event in London to celebrate the remarkable success of the Malta Individual Investor Program (MIIP), a leading citizenship-by- investment (CBI) program. The dignified and sophisticated event was attended by the Hon. Prime Minister of Malta Dr. Joseph Muscat, and world-renowned Maltese tenor and Cultural Ambassador of Malta Joseph Calleja provided the evening's transcendent entertainment.
Boasting a magnificent interior and exquisite art and architecture, Drapers' Hall a truly impeccable backdrop against which to reflect on and celebrate the growth of the MIIP, which the Government of Malta has worked diligently to establish as the preeminent CBI program in the world. The Prime Minister delivered the key address of the evening, titled 'Malta: A Vision Realized', in which he highlighted how the island nation has successfully positioned itself as a secure country in which to invest thanks to its advanced tax regime, transformative technological developments, and thriving economy.
Dominique Bolli, Head of Government Advisory at Henley & Partners — which was contracted by the Government of Malta in 2014 to design and implement the MIIP — spoke on behalf of the firm and congratulated the country for achieving the program's distinguished reputation. The MIIP is widely considered the industry benchmark with regard to due diligence, setting the standard for the stringent vetting of applicants. The MIIP is also the only CBI program to be endorsed by the EU Commission, a reflection of its credibility and industry leadership.
Attendees of the event included government ambassadors and representatives, leading financial advisors and intermediaries, reputable academics, and select media. The performance by Calleja was certainly the highlight of the evening, reminding the audience of Calleja's worthy comparison to Italian opera pioneers such as Enrico Caruso and Beniamino Gigli, the latter of whom is regarded as one of the most prolific tenors of his time.


The United Nations in their quest to ensure that the rights and privileges of children are respected have enacted a number of Acts that seek to preserve the rights of children, especially children in conflict with the law. These laws are universally binding, and every state associated with the UN is expected to domesticate the laws into their legal systems. However, past studies have revealed that, though states have ratified these international laws and have made numerous attempts to domesticate the laws, the laws are not being implemented effectively. Consequently, the purpose for which these laws are enacted is not being realized as expected. Most African children especially those who find themselves in conflict with the law are not well informed about their rights and are therefore easily exploited when they find themselves in conflict with the law. This study was therefore an attempt to find out how relevant the ratification of the UNCRC has been to juvenile justice systems in Africa. Findings from a comparative analysis of three selected countries, specifically South Africa, Kenya, and Zambia, confirms the existing gap between policy and practice of the CRC in the three countries. While all three countries have done a reasonably good job to ensure that their laws on child justice are representative of the best practices that have been laid down by international law on child justice and rights, there is evidence that they have not been able to fully implement these laws in practice. It is argued that in order to ensure better compliance with the CRC, these and potentially other African countries would need to adopt best practices that resonate with the needs of youth in conflict with the law, while taking into account the continuing importance of tradition and customary law.


Introduction Microsoft has grown its Azure offering by leaps and bounds, especially in the past year. In our previous blog post about our Azure and Azure Stack plugins, we pointed out that Microsoft's cloud service is seen as a definite number two in public cloud, behind Amazon's AWS, but is quickly gaining among large enterprises.
5G is already here. It was first deployed at really large scale at the Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang and it has proven to be a game changer. In the US, AT&T announced at the beginning of the year that their 5G rollouts will take place by the end of 2018, as have some others.


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I began playing mandolin when I was six. My dad and his brothers had formed a bluegrass band when they were in high school in Ava, Missouri, in the 1950s. My dad had evidently played the banjo and the jawbone of an ass in their band–though I never saw or heard him play either of those instruments. I do remember him playing a version of Wildwood Flower on the harmonica one time when I was quite young. Nevertheless, my dad was determined his boys would play music—Bluegrass music. He signed me and my brother up for mandolin lessons with Charlotte Blackwell in Seymour, Missouri. My journey experience with music had begun, and my dad was living his deferred musical dreams through me. I was never particularly excited about practicing, but by the time I was in eighth grade, I had taken lessons on mandolin, bass fiddle, guitar, bluegrass banjo, and dobro.
It should be understood that during these years, I mostly hated playing music. Sure, I enjoyed messing around with my mandolin at home, figuring out new chords and playing whatever I wanted to, but I disliked doing what other people wanted. I loathed playing in the student band I was in. When I was in eighth grade, a girl in my class, Erica Spyres, who played classical violin, told me excitedly that she was taking fiddle lessons from a man I had never heard of in Ava: Bob Holt. She was excited about a fiddle camp she was going to be attending in Bethel, Missouri, and since I had recently started playing fiddle, she thought I should go. Knowing this was another thing my dad would push me into without giving me a choice, I resolved to keep it a secret from him so I wouldn't have to go. Fortunately (though it seemed incredibly unfortunate to me at the time), her mother spoke to my mother about it, and when my mom told my dad, it was all but decided. I was going to fiddle camp. Having grown up around Ava, my dad knew that Bob was a legend, and he wanted me to learn anything I could from him.
Sure enough, my experience at fiddle camp made me want to take lessons from Bob, but not because I appreciated his greatness as a teacher at camp. In fact, it was quite the opposite. Bob cussed a lot more than I was used to and insisted on results from his students. I didn't enjoy that approach, but what I did appreciate was friends my age who were also playing fiddle. In addition to Erica, I became good friends with another one of Bob's students, Travis Bentley, who had been taking lessons from Bob for years. So, for the sake of having friends, I told Bob I wanted to take lessons from him after fiddle camp. Without knowing it, I was discovering what I still appreciate most about old time music: community. Bob understood the importance of traditional Ozarks culture for learning traditional Ozarks music, and he strongly encouraged us to attend local music parties and dances to absorb as much of it as we could. Of course, my favorite parties were the ones Bob hosted at his house because I got to see Travis and Erica and learn tunes from them. My friendships with Travis and Erica soon expanded to include Bob's long-time guitar player, Alvie Dooms, and many other people who attended these events. To this day, these people are my favorite part of Ozarks fiddle music.
Travis and Erica knew more tunes than I did, so I worked extra hard to catch up to them. Whereas I had always hated practicing, I spent hours and hours on summer days in my room, playing with my lesson tapes and trying to learn tunes I had heard Travis and Erica play. When I attended music parties, my dad wrote down every single fiddle tune I didn't know from the party, and I requested them in my lessons with Bob. During this time, my dad also insisted I play in multiple local bluegrass bands. While I appreciated the people I met through those bands, I hated playing on stage, attending weekly practices, wearing matching western outfits, and, in general, being a performer. I just wanted to attend old-time fiddle house parties and work on learning more tunes.
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I mentioned that I became friends with Alvie Dooms, Bob's guitar player. His role in my development as a fiddle player is probably at least as significant as Bob's. While Bob tended to be gruff and hard to please, Alvie was as nice as any person I had ever met, and he has always gone out of his way to encourage people who are learning to play. Alvie was teaching a few people to play rhythm guitar, and he needed a fiddler to play while he was teaching chords and pick use. I served in this role, which meant I also got the same guitar lessons. But more importantly, I came to see Alvie as one of the finest people I've ever known. During the summer between my junior and senior years of high school, my parents let me go with Alvie to Clifftop. I learned a lot about Alvie's philosophy of music and life in general on this trip. We spent two weeks getting to the festival. We didn't have a travel plan, and we just drove. We stayed off the interstate and didn't use the air conditioner—and it was the most peaceful form of travel I had ever experienced. In the evenings, we would find campgrounds to park at, and after setting up for the night, we would play music as long as we wanted. When I went away to college, the freedom from my dad's pushing and local bluegrass bands meant that I basically quit playing music for two or three years, but Alvie's influence and kindness kept me from quitting entirely. Because I was excited to see Alvie when I went home, I would frequently plan music parties in Alvie's kitchen, and through those parties, I realized my true enjoyment of old time fiddle and took ownership of my fiddling.
For a look at the McClurg jam, Alvie Dooms, and Ozarks fiddling, be sure to check out this recent short documentary:
And here is a series of videos with Bob Holt and Alvie Dooms in 2000:
Video editing: Rachel Krause
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Steve Ritz
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Here Craig Judelman gives answers to some of the most common questions oldtime fiddlers have. Of course, in oldtime there are no "right" answers, but Craig's combination of experience and technical knowledge is surely a great place to start. What strings should I use? How...
The Bones and Musical Repatriation
Dom Flemons, quoted frequently in last week's article by Timothy Jones on rhythm bones and old-time music, here tells his story of discovering bones, and how he has integrated them into his vibrant and extensive musicianship as a former member of the Grammy-winning Carolina...
Gimme that Old-Time Rhythm
At first, as I was coming to love oldtime music as an adult, I found it curious that percussion and rhythm instruments seemed to play such a minor role. Having played the drums while growing up in California in the 1970s, banging away to...
Rachel Krause
Like all performers and teaching musicians, Tricia Spencer's life looks a lot different this year. While she'd typically be in the middle of festival season and travelling to oldtime camps around the country to teach and perform alongside her musical collaborator and husband Howard...
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Box Office Futures Listcore: Denzel And Fuqua Reunite!
You guys ready for YET ANOTHER REBOOT THAT WASTES THE TALENT OF ITS STARS AND DIRECTOR?
Well, unfortunately, it looks a lot like you are.
Sony has been great in hyping their $90 million-budgeted remake of the classic 1960 Steve McQueen/Yul Brynner/Charles Bronson western, helmed by "Training Day" director Antoine Fuqua and starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt. The advent of two legit A-listers and fun advertising is already propelling this to the top spot. It made $1.75 million in Thursday night previews, besting the $1.35 million of "Sully" en route to a $35 million finish two weeks ago — and outperforming the $1.5 million brought in by the last Fuqua-Washington collaboration, 2014's fantastic "The Equalizer" — en route to a $34.1 million first weekend. "Seven" could threaten the $40 million mark this weekend, but I'm going to call it for a $37 million opening take. Also — isn't it weird that a $90 million movie with two mega-stars is somehow being released in 248 fewer theaters than a $70 million kidpic whose biggest star (Jennifer Aniston) can only open romantic comedies?
Warner Brothers' malicious $70 million childbirth misinformation campaign, "Storks," opens in the most theaters for a new release this weekend — but it does not have the biggest theater count overall (see my prediction for the #3 finisher below). As an animated movie, its core audience (little ones who won't see a movie on their own) was not going to turn in droves between 6 p.m. and midnight on a Thursday — so its $435,000 Thursday night preview haul shouldn't be thought of as a harbinger of doom for the movie's weekend take. This just looks horrible, though, so I don't like the optimistic projections of other sites. I respect the filmgoing public too much, you see. It'll open with $25 million and, filling a gap in the marketplace, will hold up very well, matching or besting the final haul of "The Magnificent Seven," which will be significantly more front-loaded.
The #1 hit of the last two weekends will get knocked down two pegs this weekend. Clint Eastwood's mustache-fetishizing real-life actioner "Sully" will dip for sure, but it has a secret weapon to cushion the blow — after two very successful weeks at the top, Warner Brothers is adding 430 theaters to its tally, a 12.2% bump. That is a very significant addition, designed to capitalize on very positive audience and critical buzz. It fell by just 38.2% last weekend, very good for any movie with a $30 million+ opening. I think it's going to hold up equivalently or maybe even a bit better this weekend, and I think the marketplace will swell to accommodate two successful adult-oriented action pictures. I say "Sully" descends by 35% to a $14 million third weekend and a $93 million 17-day sum. It will cruise past $100 million by the start of its fourth weekend, with a lot more money in store.
"Snowden" has been holding up well during the week, supplanting "Blair Witch" to take the third spot from Monday through Wednesday. I think it's going to have a slighter drop this weekend than "Bridget Jones," which will perform more like a traditional sequel and fall harder. "Bridget Jones" has been performing better than "Snowden" this week, but averaging less money per theater. "Snowden" will pull ahead this weekend. That will bring its total to $16 million — its march to $30 million is no doubt assured, but I think that finish is quite possible.
After a rough first weekend, the bleeding will continue for Universal's latest sequel miscarriage, "Bridget Jones's Baby." You weren't expecting that graphic a reference, were you? GOOD. Anyway, as I mentioned, "Bridget Jones" has been performing well during the week, but its luck is doomed to run out now, with adult women's eyes shifting to the stud muffins of "The Magnificent Seven" or the stupid talking critters of "Storks." It'll see its crowd cut nearly in half, to a $4.5 million weekend, and a $16.5 million sum to date.


As a President of IMS I am very pleased to send you the sincerest greetings for the 'International Forum for Young Musicologists'. To my knowledge, such a conference is a welcome novum in the international arena of musicological congresses.
In many countries around the globe efforts are intensifying to improve the institutional needs of our discipline and the international contacts. Ironically, at the same time, the academic institutions of the humanistic disciplines, particularly in continental Europe, are undergoing a period of crisis. It becomes increasingly difficult to enter a professional, academic career. Thus nothing could be more welcome than a Forum like this one, where young scholars have an opportunity to prove themselves on an international stage and form professional and personal bonds.
The future of our discipline depends on the young generation of scholars. Although the older ones can perhaps provide you with models and a distillation of what they learned in their time, you, the young ones, have to find a link to the demands of the present with its ideas and its music. The Forum offers you a chance to better understand this task.
It is my hope that the Forum will help you to see beyond your place and find your vision and your confidence.


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LA Downtown News: "With Star Apartments, Skid Row Gets a Stunning Housing Complex"
March 13, 2014 By Melanie Johnson
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DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – Skid Row's new Star Apartments may be affordable housing for the formerly homeless, but with its angular concrete supports in the middle of the building and the levels that seem to float in space, it is also one of the most striking structures to sprout in Downtown.
About Melanie Johnson
Melanie Johnson, a Southern California based writer, works as an editor for an online media company. She earned a bachelor's degree in English (1997) from Cal Poly Pomona and a master's degree in journalism (1999) from Syracuse University. Melanie has worked the bulk of her 13-year career in newspapers, including stints at the San Bernardino Sun and the Press-Enterprise in Riverside. She has covered a wide variety of beats, including city government and education. She also has worked as a freelance writer and editor.


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