From a tiny kitchen in laid-back Fremantle, Amazonia was born. Dwayne had been eating Açaí for a few months now & was feeling a bright change, "I just always thought low energy was a normal state of being". Invigorated by the difference these whole nutrients made, Dwayne had to share his little health revolution with the people around him.
Who would have known Açaí would become a gateway food to all things bright.
As a young man does in an evening of passion, Dwayne decided to take Amazonia national. He took his first ever business trip to meet down-to-earth Chris Norden. They say opposites attract and this dynamic duo has shown just that. With a passion for travel and a love for food, Chris held down the rafters, while Dwayne went on a sourcing expedition.
"We go right to where the seed is grown, we understand our partners, the culture and the small things that play a vital role in sustainable food cultivation" says Dwayne.
Amazonia grew so fast that Dwayne literally worked himself out of home. The 'Amazonia house' was quickly filled up with A-team members, so a backyard teepee became Dwayne's only refuge. Amazonia was thriving and the boys were kicking goals, but nothing could prepare them for what came next. The Brisbane floods hit and over a million dollars of stock sat in the most affected areas of Brisbane. Amazonia was taken to the brink of foreclosure. After years of growth it was back to just Dwayne and Chris to start over.


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On March 11, 2011 a catastrophic earthquake struck off the coast of Japan triggering a massive tidal wave laying waste to the countryside of the northeast coast of Honshu. The true scale of the devastation won't be known for some time, but the effects and consequences are under close examination by experts from many different fields. What is happening in Japan three months on? What are the effects this disaster will have on the region and the world? Dr. Steven Vogel, Dr. Barnett Baron and Dr. Tsuneo Akaha discuss the political, economic and humanitarian implications of the disaster in Japan and what we can expect looking forward.
Senator Boxer will join the Council to discuss the need for a new course in Afghanistan in a speech entitled, "Ending America's Longest War." Senator Boxer is a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and author of a Senate bill that would require the Obama administration to give Congress a plan for the safe redeployment of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. She is the co-chair of the Senate Military Family Caucus and chairs the first Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee to focus on global women's issues.
Powering America: Does Nuclear Have a Future?
The 8.9 earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11, 2011 set in motion one of the largest nuclear disasters in almost three decades. It also renewed the debate over the future of nuclear energy in the US and abroad. With 104 nuclear power plants across the country, generating about 20 percent of America's energy, there is no doubt that we are currently dependent on nuclear energy, yet the debate over this highly contentious technology is far from resolved. The three panelists will discuss what this disaster means for the future of US energy. How will the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant shape future energy policies and public opinion, and are there existing renewable technologies capable of fulfilling the world's energy needs? Will nuclear energy be the fuel of the 21st century, or a relic of the past?
Since its beginnings in the 1970s with the founding of the Grameen Bank, microcredit has been praised as a powerful tool for reducing global poverty. By putting small loans into the hands of the poor, microcredit has allowed entrepreneurs world-wide to establish and expand their businesses, delivering sustainable income to those who need it most. The last decade brought an explosion in the number of micro-lenders and borrowers around the world. The number of customers served by microfinance institutions now surpasses 100 million, most of them women. This growth has helped scores of impoverished communities, but the recent commercialization of several large lenders, and the scarcity of quantitative analysis on the lasting impacts of microcredit has drawn scrutiny. Please join Dr. Dean Karlan, Yale University behavioral economist and co-author of the new book More Than Good Intentions (with Jacob Appel) for a review of what recent research has shown about the effectiveness of microcredit and other financial services for the poor. Dr. Karlan will be joined by Christopher Dunford and Sean Foote for a dialogue on the state of the microfinance world today and what it might mean for the future of poverty alleviation.
Since President Obama's assumption of office, he and Secretary Clinton have signaled their interest in strengthening economic and political relations throughout Asia. The US has important interests in Southeast Asia, and the Administration has expanded U.S. ties with multilateral organizations in the region, particularly the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN). ASEAN member states are important partners for U.S. diplomatic and security efforts in the region, America's 4th largest export market. What role does the U.S. diplomatic corps have in expanding political and economic partnerships in this critical region? What policies can be advanced to strengthen US relations with individual countries and the relationship with the ASEAN community as a whole? Please join a panel of U.S. Ambassadors to the region as they address these questions.


So instead, here's a quick run through some of my fave records of 2017. There'll be more next Friday. Firstly though, it's worth noting what a great year it's been for female artists. My two favourite albums of the year have been by solo females, while many others are either female-fronted acts or have significant female contributions. My fave songs on the Broken Social Scene album, for instance, are sung by the lady members - Leslie Feist's turn on the title track is just wonderful. Even the Jesus & Mary Chain drafted in Isobel Campbell, Sky Ferreira, Bernadette Denning and the Reid brothers' sister Linda to sing some parts.
An in-yer-face opus that not only astonished me, but knocked me sideways, upside-down and back-to-front. Direct and confrontational, nothing else had the effect 'Holiday Destination' had on me this year. Its main themes were immigration, the refugee crisis and mental health - not particularly easy listening perhaps, but by god it was moving. This record can stand proudly alongside last year's Savages album 'Adore Life' as one of the albums of the century so far.
Pop album of the year. That's POP! with a capital P. O. and P. Pure, unashamed POP! tunes in a classic indie style. This is how C86 would sound if it came out in 2017. Never fails to get me singing and smiling this one (which is not a particularly pretty sight or sound, but few records can achieve it).
Now MrsRobster keeps her cards close to her chest when it comes to music critiquing (unless it's Björk or anything Paul McCartney has ever been involved with, in which case she becomes almost psychopathic). So when, during a car journey soundtracked by 'Villains', she utters the phrase: "This is a good album," you know it must be pretty special. She loves a good riff and few excel at them better than Josh Homme.
If you omit the last two songs from this record, it would be Broken Social Scene's finest. Some absolute corkers here, from the rousing multi-member anthems they're known for (Protest Song, Halfway Home), to the arty swagger of Vanity Pail Kids and Stay Happy, by way of the mellow, more restrained moments of Take Me With You and the absolutely gorgeous Feist-fronted title track. It has a lovely warm production too which makes it ideal for these long, cold nights!
Three excellent comeback records. I was particularly taken by the Echobelly one which is not only drenched in blues, but also shows that far from diminishing with age, Sonya's voice has matured magnificently!
Records for those who like their music to be a little... quirky? eccentric? different? Both bloody good though.
Proper loud records for when I needed to vent my spleen without actually venting my spleen!
More next week. Have a good holiday everyone.
Wonderful. Lots to delve into here. Also great to see Echobelly still going strong.
Looking back, I wish I had given TJMC a chance. Made the lists of Drew and Adam too. Between the three of you I must concede Damage and Joy must be good. With you on Alvvays. Sparks was a just miss on my list. Nadine Shah seems to be getting the attention she deserves. Her name has popped up all over the place this December. Your review of that gig has stuck with me. I know you're not much into this sort of thing, but happy holidays to you and your family.


Last week I talked about the power of gratitude. I believe that living in gratitude changes everything in our world and in our experience. It is a way to direct our brain power.
Let's talk about the brain for a moment. We all have a Reticular Activating System (RAS) that does powerful work for us. There is way too much stimulus out there for us to possibly take all of it in.
It screens information, it is our filtering system.
I call it our Google Search.
If you go to your computer and put a request in your search box, your screen will immediately fill up with information. The amount of information seems infinite, page after page of options! The same is true with the amount of data around each of us at all times.
How is it determined what data we see and experience? Our RAS screens for us. Here is the huge good news. We tell it what to screen for us! This is often done unconsciously and passively. AND, once we know we have this personal power, we can tell it with great intention and alertness.
Just like we are in control of what we type into our Google search, we are in control of what we tell our RAS to look for. Think of the last time you bought a car. If you are like most of us, you researched and explored your options before buying. You finally settled on a particular make and model. Let's say you buy a green Toyota Camry. Suddenly, you see green Camrys everywhere you go! It is as if everyone noticed you bought one and went out and bought one for themselves. In actuality, there are no more on the road and in the parking lots than before. You had put green Toyota Camry in your "Google search" and your "computer screen" filled up with examples.
I am doggedly diligent about what I put in my Google search. When am feeling any way that is unpleasant I first ask myself if there is anything I need to be taking action on. If not, I notice what I have put into my search. Am I making myself wrong? Am I making someone else wrong? Am I making a situation wrong? Am I looking for what I don't like? Am I focusing on something I have no control over? Am I filling up my "disk space" with everything that is wrong?
I am going to refer back to an example I used last week, living in Texas in the summer time. (Is it because it has been a hot summer and I am needing to remind myself of this?!) I have a belief system that I don't like heat. I see it as miserable. I see the steam, I feel the sweat, the scorching on the bottoms of my feet, the aching and blistering skin from overexposure to the sun. For many years of my life I complained all summer long. "It is SOOOOO hot." "I hate the heat." "I am miserable that I can't do the things outside that I like to do." Whine, whine, whine. I had put into my search everything that was wrong with Texas summers.
After learning the value of gratitude, I changed what I put in my Google search. I noticed a big difference in how I was feeling. I was saying, "I am so grateful for air conditioning in my home!" "I am so grateful that I don't have to work outside." "I am so grateful for air conditioning in my car." "I am grateful for air conditioning in my office." You get the picture! Hot Texas summers no long brought me upset.
When I notice I am not feeling emotional, mentally, and/or physically the way I want to be feeling, I look to see what I have in my Google search. If it is a statement or belief that is causing me to feel less than my best, in my mind's eye I "highlight and delete." I then, consciously and with great intention, fill it in with a new statement that encourages and supports being in a place of ease and joy.
Is your disk space filled with "spam?" Do you need to highlight and delete? What are you going to iintentionally put in your Google search?


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hell of a hill
Back in the spring, not long after the trauma of the Bolton Hill marathon, I got an email about this race. Five marathons in five days, same course each day, with over 6,000ft of elevation, coming from eight laps up and down Rivington Pike each day, at the end of November. Normally I'd give something like that a big swerve. I hate hills, I hate being cold, and I didn't especially enjoy the rocky terrain of Bolton Hill which the route overlapped. But I'm still about eight years old, so the proclamation that the 30,000ft of ascent was equivalent to running up Mount Everest had me parting with my cash within 10 minutes of getting the email, and deciding to worry about the details a bit nearer the time.
The week before the race I was really close to bailing. The Pumpkin marathon went badly, and I was starting to feel exhausted after 10 months of tough racing. But I'd done the hard work in sorting out childcare for the first three days so I could make the start in time, and despite my glass foot, was in ok shape physically with no real niggles to speak of, so I pulled my big boy pants on and decided I'd give it my best shot.
In order to try and cope with the mental aspect of running five tough races on the bounce I made two deals with myself beforehand. Firstly that it REALLY didn't matter where I came, so long as I finished. It would be pretty much unknown territory beyond day 2, it wasn't an "A" race, and I wasn't going to risk not finishing at all for one or two places up the leaderboard in a race I wouldn't be anywhere near placing in, even at my absolute best. It was a challenge not a race, and I knew being ok with that at the start would make things a lot easier. Secondly, I gave myself permission to take two months off afterwards if I needed it. That gave me the freedom to stop worrying about the after effects during the race, like whether I'd still be ok to run Portsmouth in December, or even run again this year. It meant I was in for all five or nothing, no matter how hard it got, and that the physical consequences would be worth it and I'd deal with them afterwards. They were tough deals to make with myself, but I knew they gave me the best possible chance of overcoming the mental part of the challenge ahead.
So, then all of a sudden it was day one. After a nightmare drive to Rivington I found the start, just made the van with my dropbag, registered, and was off five minutes later. I'd missed the recce, and not managed to get over to check out the route beforehand, which was probably just as well. The route was just about perfect for the sort of race it was. It was insanely tough in places and really easy in others, but the best thing was it was perfect for breaking down into manageable bits. Every tough bit was followed by an easy bit, and you never had to really dig in for more than five minutes before any of the toughest bits were over. My approach quickly became:
Intro: Road section from the start to the feed station/start of the loop (runnable every day)
Bit 1: God awful climb up a rocky hill (ran it once, could barely walk up it the other 39 times)
Bit 2: Nice flat stretch kicking up a bit at the foot of the Pike (ran every time, end bit got harder)
Bit 3: Steps up the Pike (walked every time, tough but ok because I knew what was coming)
Bit 4: Lovely long and gentle descent down the other side of the Pike (ran it smiling every time)
Bit 5: Deadly Forest of Rocks (tried running first few times but kept nearly falling, walked the rest)
Bit 6: Nice flat bit, kicked up a bit at the end which got tougher (ran every time)
Bit 7: Forest steps (insanely tough by the end, but a guy told me it used to be Lord Lever's zoo, so looking for escaped tigers and elephants took my mind off them a bit)
Bit 8: Nice long downhill to the awesome marshalls at the feed station (ran it smiling every time)
After 8 laps: Back along the road half a mile or so to the start/finish (ran it grinning every day)
I managed to keep to that pattern every day which seemed to be working for me, and to be honest, there wasn't much variation in the days as far as the running went. The weather was consistently fine, a bit windy and some showers on Wednesday, but otherwise cold and dry. I ran most of Wednesday with a chap called Paul who was doing two days, but apart from that it was just short chats with the same people as we passed at around the same spots, mostly at the steps when everyone dropped to the same pace (barely moving). Some people were getting slower, others getting quicker, and some being really consistent over the five days, so I got a chance to chat with most of the others as we plodded around which was cool.
In between was pretty tough. Each day I finished, ate some of whatever was in the pot at race HQ (beans or tomato soup), stretched, drove home, played with the kids for a bit, had an ice bath, had dinner, washed my kit, went to bed, and got up the next day to do it again. After day two I was feeling sick in the mornings, but it had usually passed by the time I got to the feed van. I'm not sure my fuelling strategy was especially orthodox, but I think the ultras and being a total slob helped. I was chucking down about 300kcal a loop for pretty much the whole five days, mixing up High5 gels, flapjack, Jaffa Cakes, Toffee Crisps, Mars Bars, Creme Eggs, chocolate spread sandwiches, leftover pizza and fudge, washing it all down with lashings of High5 Tropical Fiesta energy drink. That's more than I've ever managed in longer races without getting sick, so I'm hopeful I've finally cracked that one. I weighed myself on the morning of day five just out of interest and I'd put on half a pound which I'm taking as a very good thing - I didn't bonk once in the five days!
Injury wise I think I was really lucky. On day four my right Achilles was really sore and I could only hobble up to the first climb. It was really painful until I got to the top, but then it seemed to warm up, and the fact that most of the climbing was steps rather than hills helped that a lot. I sort of adjusted my gait a bit to go easy on it for the last two days which gradually caused me some pain in my left hip from compensating, but for the most part I only had generic tiredness and non-specific pain to worry about. One guy finished with a stress fracture, another guy Shaun picked up an injury and really struggled on the last day, and Brian who'd done Thunder Run solo was in a bad way towards the end and walked all of day five which was a monumental effort.
The organisation of the race was fantastic, the marshalls at the feed station were amazing and everyone got a hug from Phil the RD at the end each day - although he had to win by about 10 minutes when he ran the course to be able to do that on the Friday!
It was billed as the toughest marathon in the UK, and I don't think I'd argue with that. I reckon I got away pretty lightly by virtue of how I approached it, how lucky I was to reach the start line in good shape and finish injury free, and to get a run of four and a half days of dry sunshine in Bolton in November is astonishing. If I'd pushed it maybe another 10 minutes quicker each day, or injured myself one of the times I nearly tripped on a rock, or it had been wetter, colder or windier, it could have been REALLY unpleasant. As it was, it was tough, but I got to enjoy a huge proportion of it, met some fantastic people, snagged five awesome medals and a 5 in 5 finishers trophy, and with a bit of luck I'll be running again by the end of the week and slowly building up to Portsmouth in four weeks time.
Day 1: 5:21:54
Position: 6th (17 finishers)
So this was supposed to be the first time I'd run two separate marathons in a day – the Pumpkin Marathon at 0900, followed by the Spooky Challenge Marathon at 1600. As you may have guessed already, it didn't quite work out like as I'd planned.
I got to the start in Lightmoor, Telford, which was in someone's house, met a few familiar faces including the race organiser Denzil, and put on my compulsory fancy dress costume – a blood stained apron with loads of knives attached. There were only about 40 or so people there, so without much of ado, we were off and running.
Both races were on the same route, a loop, just under a mile long, that we were to run 31 and a bit times. The lap counting was suitably low-tech, we were given 31 elastic bands to wear on our wrists, and were to drop one in a bucket after each loop until we had none left. The going was mostly tarmac, but muddy, and through the woods, so despite the potential for it to be mind-numbingly boring, it wasn't too bad a course with a bit of variation in the terrain to keep things interesting. The profile was way more up and down than I was expecting though, with a biggish climb at the start
and end of each loop.
The first couple of laps were a pain in the arse, my knives kept falling out of my apron, and the apron itself was doing my head in. Despite having pinned it to shorten it and keep it off my knees it was still really annoying, so I ditched it after two laps. Then I settled into a bit of rhythm, got chatting to a few guys I recognised from other races, reintroduced myself and then immediately forgot their names again, and the first half of the race had passed before I knew it.
Now I'd sort of planned to aim for both races in somewhere around 8 hours, although I had also, somehow, assumed it was a nice flat course, which it definitely wasn't. Not long after halfway the main hill just after the start of each loop was starting to take its toll, and I could feel all the climbing
of the previous week at Beachy Head flooding back into my legs. This is the point where anyone with a brain would have eased off, thrown in some walking breaks, and paced themselves for the second marathon. Not me though. Something about the regular passing of people (and being passed) made me dig in rather than ease up, and instead of coasting the last 10k or so, I found myself really struggling.
I'm not really sure which came first, the pain in my left foot, or the pain in my left hip, or whether one was causing the other, but soon the pain in my foot was pretty bad. With five loops to go I was in real pain, and could feel that the pain in my foot was making me run funny and putting all sorts of weird pressure on my calf, hamstring and lower back. So again, instead of easing off, I dug in a bit harder, kept running, and probably made it all a lot worse.
The finish stretch was actually pretty cool. Once you'd done your 31 loops you had to turn around and run 500m or so back the way you came, turn around again, and run back to the finish. What that meant was, if you were coming down that home stretch you got to see and congratulate the people who you knew were nearly done, and others on the course could do the same for you when you were finishing – a really nice touch with such a small number of runners.
So I finished, got my medal, and shuffled back to my car. It was nearly a mile away, so I had some good time to assess the damage to my foot, and debate seriously whether I was going to make it to the start line of the second race, which was only four hours away. I called Sandy, told her I was thinking of dropping and coming home, and she was great, but she couldn't decide for me. I sat in the car for 10 minutes, and then decided it wasn't worth causing any further damage just for the sake of what was not even a "C" race, so off I set. I got 20 miles towards home when I changed my mind, decided I'd give it a go, and then turned around. As I neared Telford I stopped at the services to get some food, got out of the car, and promptly fell on the ground. My foot was still screwed. I spent 20 minutes in the car park stretching, hobbling, walking, and trying to find a way of moving forward without my foot hurting, but there was no way, so I re-decided that was it, got back in the car and drove home.
I felt pretty bad most of the evening, but more frustrated about having injured myself than for the DNS. I was way more gutted at the prospect of not being able to run until my foot was better than I was at missing out on the double, so I know I made the right call. As it was, the pain had mostly subsided by Sunday night, and I reckon I'll be running again by Wednesday. Once the generic pain had died down, the specific pain was right under the arch of my left foot which made me wonder if the slightly knackered old trail shoes I ran in could have played a part. I'm currently rotating two pairs of Alvords, and had planned to wear the more worn ones for the first marathon, saving the newer more supportive ones for the second one, but that lack of support might be what messed things up.
Next up is the Hell of a Hill 5 in 5 which I'm seriously considering DNSing for lots of reasons, not least family, work, recovery time, different goals and a growing hatred of hills. I'll see how quick I get back up to speed after this one.
beachy head marathon
I can't believe I nearly didn't run this race. I had a bit of a wobble a few weeks before the race about how much time I was spending away from the kids, as my race schedule has sort of exploded towards the end of this year. I heard there were reserve places going at Snowdon marathon which was much closer, and I could do there and back in a day, but in the end I couldn't get one, so it was back to plan A, and down to Eastbourne for Beachy Head. I wouldn't normally have entered a marathon that far away, but it was local to my brother Dan in Newhaven, so I crashed at his on the Friday night, and he drove us to the start (and back), so there wasn't any of the usual logistical hassle of racing away which was really cool.
I didn't really know what to expect before the race - all I really knew was that it was hilly, the finish along the coast was REALLY hilly, and Dan had run it in just over 4 hours the year before. My vague plan was to not do anything that could write me out of the double marathon I was running the following Saturday, aim for around 4:30:00-ish, but be ok with easing off towards the end if the hills got the better of me. Dan felt a little less prepared than he was the year before, so we agreed to start together, run something like 5:30/kms on the flat and downhill bits, take it easy on the ups, and then part if one of us felt like we needed to slow down or speed up.
The start was interesting - straight up the hill in the background of the photo above. The potential to ruin your day in the first 10 minutes of the race is huge, but we plodded up, and started the series of long ups and downs that made up the first 20 miles or so. The conditions were really good for October, it was dry, the trails weren't too muddy or slippy, it was unseasonably warm, but it was really windy, especially on the tops of the hills. The course was on a loop, so we got a good mix of head, tail and side winds along the way, and the tougher bits weren't too hard to take as we knew we were in for a bit of a tailwind in the final section along the coast.
The first few hours were largely uneventful, we were just plodding along, chatting about other races we'd run, Dan giving me an occasional heads up about the next sections of the course, and enjoying the incredible scenery along the South Downs. Around half way I started to struggle a bit, not being as used to the hills as Dan, but we kept a steady pace together, and despite me telling him a few times to just kick on if he wanted to, we stuck together for the whole race which was really cool.
At around 20 miles, after a particularly steep climb, Dan said we'd just climbed the first of the Seven Sisters, the short sharp hills along the coast, and we could see all along the cliff edge towards Beachy Head, which was a fantastic and moderately terrifying sight. The pace dropped quite a bit here as we were marching up the steep climbs, and tentatively shuffling back down the other sides, me on my trashed quads and Dan on an increasingly painful knee. If we'd been racing hard for places or a time it would have been insanely hard, but as we weren't, it was just tough, and we stuck it out until we reached the finishing stretch which was a couple of km of gentle downhill, followed by a steep descent back down the hill we'd run up at the start.
We crossed the line together with 4:14:something on the clock, got our medals, and a few minutes later both realised we hadn't stopped our Garmins. As it turns out, although we crossed the line together, Dan actually beat me by 0.45 of a second, finishing with a chip time of 4:13:45.20 - which is the most accurate marathon timing I've ever seen. At most of the trail marathons and ultras I've run it's been a bloke with a clipboard, but good to know someone was taking things seriously! Position-wise that put us 214 and 215 out of 1,557 finishers which wasn't a bad return for the effort we put in. Overall I was happy with the time, quite a bit quicker than I expected, especially as the course was way tougher than I thought it would be. Beforehand I thought it had about 2,500ft of ascent, about the same as The Yorkshireman and Lakeland Trails, but in the end my Garmin was showing 4,822!
The best part for me was running the whole race with Dan. If he hadn't run the Great South Run a few years ago and suggested I do it the following year, I might still be a fat, lazy, pizza disposal machine (instead of a thin slow one), so it was great to be able to share such a scenic and challenging race with him, both of us having come so far in our running since then. Next time we toe the line together will be the Portsmouth Coastal Marathon in December, and as things stand it's 1-all, so depending what shape we're both in that one could be a little bit more competitive. If nothing else it should be quicker - it's flat, it's the south coast in December so it'll be cold, wet and windy, and I suspect we'll be looking to spend as little time out there as possible!

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Whether are permitted to come up with the topic on your own or are assigned on in class, you need to know what you're about to write about. Do plenty of research or carefully read your assigned sources and begin to organize them in your thoughts as you plan out your thesis statement.
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In your introduction, write about the background of your topic as you lead into the thesis statement. While your primary goal with the introduction is to introduce the reader to the topic, this is also where you want to grab their attention to make sure their thoughts are on the essay and not wandering elsewhere.
Just like synthesis or dissertation essays, writing an analytical essay will require you to come up with a thesis statement. Just like other essays, the thesis will be no more than one or two sentences, is typically the last part of your introductory paragraph, and does clearly state your claim for the paper. The only real difference is that whereas a synthesis essay would require you to write a more opinion and argumentative thesis, an analytical essay will require you to write a more fact-based thesis statement based on what you found in your research.
You supporting paragraphs are where you bring up facts and evidence to support your thesis. Break down and analyze each fact or evidence to show why it clearly supports the thesis. This is key to writing an analytical essay. Your breaking down of the topic should sound reasonable and logical. Don't forget to cite your sources and to put in an in-text citation when necessary.
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Kevin Drum has written a brief piece on Rick Perry to explain why he doesn't think Perry can win the Republican nomination for president. It's also useful as an overview of the less appealing aspects of Perry's politics and character for people not familiar with the Texas governor.
What some may not realize is how extreme Perry is, for example showing no concern at all when he refused to delay the execution of someone very possibly innocent and then shut down the commission investigating the case. Perry has also expressed opposition to Social Security and Medicare, not to mention science, and he's even suggested Texas should perhaps secede from the Union.
Drum mentions that Perry comes across as a narrow-minded religious extremist (he did recently promote an explicitly Evangelical Christian prayer rally, dismissing concerns about violations of the Bill of Rights and the constitution of Texas), but neglects to mention that Perry had previously indicated he wasn't especially religious, before he started toying with the idea of running for the GOP presidential nomination.
Steve Benen has a related post talking about Perry in the context of the radicalization of the Republican base.


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Exploration and Optimization of Biomaterials and Cells Required for the Fabrication of a "Cardiac Patch"
Shweta Anil Kumar, University of Texas at El Paso
Cardiac failure induced by myocardial infarction is believed to be one of the primary causes of morbidity and mortality all over the world. Affecting more than 26 million people worldwide, its prevalence has been observed to increase steadily. Myocardial infarction, which intitially begins as the occlusion of of a coronary artery, results in the death of millions of cardiomyocytes by obstructing blood flow to the serviced regions of the myocardium. The dead myocardium is replaced by a dense,collagenous scar which reduces the contractility of the heart, gradually leading to heart attacks. Most of the existing treatment therapies are palliative in nature and while slowing down the progression of the disease, have not been successful in regenerating the cardiac tissue that has sustained injury following myocardial infarction primarily due to the limited regenerative ability of the cardiac cells. This has become a major cause of concern and has prompted researchers and scientists all over the world to investigate other forms of treatment such as stem cell therapy and tissue engineering to reverse the effects of myocardial infarction-induced cardiac cell death in an effort to restore the functional ability of the heart. This dissertation explores the feasibility of tissue engineering "cardiac patches" via extrusion based 3D bioprinting technology by combining biomaterials, cells and other soluble factors. This study is novel since we employed furfuryl-gelatin, which is a visible light crosslinkable derivative of porcine gelatin, as the base material for our bioink in tandem with fibrinogen to generate cardiomyocyte-laden scaffolds which exhibited high cell viability and retention, in addition to possessing mechanical properties resembling those of the native myocardium. The outcomes of our experiments show that there is great promise in adopting the fibrin-gelatin based bioinks, specifically for the fabrication of cardiac tissues, and can potentially open up new avenues in the field of regenerative medicine if adopted into clinical trials.
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Anil Kumar, Shweta, "Exploration and Optimization of Biomaterials and Cells Required for the Fabrication of a "Cardiac Patch"" (2019). ETD Collection for University of Texas, El Paso. AAI27668135.


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Pearl Howard "P. H." Welshimer (April 6, 1873 – August 16, 1957) was an American Christian minister and author from Canton, Ohio, and well-known leader in the Restoration Movement.

Pearl Welshimer was born to Samuel and Louisa Jane Wilson Welshimer at Union Center, Union County, Ohio, on April 6, 1873. As a boy he selected for himself the middle name "Howard." In his adult years he was most often known simply as "P.H."

Welshimer graduated from Ohio Northern University at Ada in 1894. In his final year of school there, university president Henry Lehr pulled Welshimer aside and urged him to abandon the study of law for the ministry. As a result, Welshimer attended Hiram College to study preaching. After graduating from Hiram in 1897, Welshimer accepted a call to a church in Millersburg, Ohio.

Welshimer met his wife, Clara Hornig, in Millersburg. The two were married in her parents' home in Vermilion, Ohio, on May 15, 1900. They had three children: Helen, Mildred (Phillips), and Ralph.

Welshimer resigned from the pulpit in Millersburg to accept a call from the First Christian Church of Canton, Ohio, on January 1, 1902. He stayed at this church for the rest of his life. Under Welshimer's guidance, the Canton congregation became one of the largest Christian Church congregations in the country, especially well known for the unusual methods Welshimer used to attract people to worship and the success of its Sunday School program. Welshimer himself published a number of books, sermons, articles, and tracts. He was also a highly sought-after speaker, a member of the Commission on Restudy, president of the short-lived Phillips Bible Institute, as well as an active member and thrice president of the North American Christian Convention.

P. H. Welshimer died August 16, 1957. In October 1957, Harold L. Davis was chosen as the successor to Dr. Welshimer.  Mr. Davis served as P.H.'s assistant for four years and would serve for 12 years until 1969.

Bibliography
Arant, Francis M., "P.H." – the Welshimer story, Cincinnati, OH: Standard Publishing Foundation, 1958
Foster, Douglas A., Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement, Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2004
P. H. Welshimer, Facts Concerning the New Testament Church, Standard Publishing Company, 1996

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References
Browning, Don S., Christianity and the new psychologies: 1979 P.H. Welshimer- Alumni Lectures (P. H. Welshimer-Alumni Lectures)
W. R. Warren, The Pastor the Pivotal Man, Centennial Convention Report, ed., Cincinnati, OH: Standard Publishing Company, 1910. pp. 160–162

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For diverse corporate board members, upward mobility stops with a seat at the table
This graph demonstrates research data suggesting the majority of board directors and board leaders are white men. New research from Laura Field digs deeper into this issue. Credit: University of Delaware/ Julie Morin
Recent protests across the United States and the world have put a magnifying glass on issues of diversity and equity. A new study explores the ways in which these issues go all the way to the top of the corporate ladder.
In "At the Table but Can't Break Through the Glass Ceiling," led by the University of Delaware's Laura Field, found that even when corporate boards include directors who are women and/or racial minorities, these diverse directors are significantly less likely to serve in positions of leadership. This is despite diverse directors being more likely to possess stronger qualifications.
"While specialized skills such as prior leadership or finance experience increase the likelihood of appointment, that likelihood is reduced for diverse directors," wrote Field, who is Donald J. Puglisi Professor of Finance at UD's Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, and her coauthors, the University of South Carolina's Matthew E. Souther and the University of Missouri at Columbia's Adam S. Yore.
In a question-and-answer interview, Field provided more information on these results. She also discusses why this inequity could be occurring and how it could be solved.
Can you talk more about the data that your team found?
Prior research has shown that women and minorities are underrepresented in corporate boards, and we've seen increasing calls from institutional investors and regulators for firms to diversify their boards. U.S. firms seem to be responding to these calls for greater board diversity: The percentage of female and minority directors has increased substantially over the past 20 years. In our paper, we examined the extent to which female and minority (diverse) directors served in board leadership roles, as chairman of the board, lead director or as chairman of one of the four major committees (audit, compensation, governance and nominating).
We studied a large sample of directors on U.S. corporate boards over the period from 2006 to 2017. Our sample was extensive, including 126,044 director-firm-year observations, which represented 19,686 individual directors serving at 2,254 unique firms. We found that diverse directors were highly qualified; they had a greater number of professional credentials, they had more extensive outside board and other firm committee experience and they came from larger director networks than their white male counterparts. Nonetheless, we found that women and minority directors were significantly less likely to be appointed to board leadership roles. In each year of our sample period, female and minority directors were less likely to serve in leadership roles, while white males were more likely to serve as board leaders.
When we looked at how specific experience increases the likelihood of appointment to a leadership role, we found that diverse directors were at a disadvantage. For example, while a white male director with prior chairman/lead director experience was 10.5% more likely to be appointed as chairman/lead director, a diverse director with the same experience was only 6.1% more likely to be chosen. Regardless of the experience measure we considered, diverse directors were less likely to serve in leadership roles than their white male counterparts.
Why might this be happening?
There are several possible explanations for why diverse directors are less likely to serve in board leadership roles. As previously discussed, qualifications or experience do not explain the results: Diverse directors are generally as qualified as non-diverse directors. There are several other possible explanations for why diverse directors may not serve in board leadership roles in the same proportion as white males:
Given the recent focus on board diversity, diverse directors may choose to serve on more boards rather than commit substantial resources to serving in leadership positions on fewer boards.
Diverse directors may not choose to serve in board leadership positions because they are risk-averse or because they live farther from the firm.
Diverse directors may not be effective in board leadership roles.
We thoroughly examined each possible explanation and found no evidence to support any of them. In terms of the effectiveness of diverse directors, we found that the quality of financial reporting was higher with a diverse chair on the audit committee, the sensitivity of CEO turnover to performance was similar for boards with or without a diverse non-executive chairman or lead director, and abnormal CEO pay was similar for boards with or without a diverse chair on the compensation committee. We also examined shareholder voting, and we found that diverse directors receive significantly higher shareholder voting support than do their non-diverse counterparts, suggesting that shareholders view them as effective.
In sum, our evidence points to the conclusions that diverse directors possess at least the same professional skills as their peers and, when serving in leadership roles, diverse directors perform their board duties at least as well as their non-diverse counterparts. Moreover, we found no evidence to suggest that diverse directors avoid serving in board leadership roles. Thus, we posit that biases may at least partially explain the leadership gap we observed for diverse directors.
Does your research team have any suggestions on how to remedy this problem?
To identify possible intermediations to mitigate the diversity leadership gap, we considered three interventions suggested by prior literature to enhance board diversity:
Increasing the proportion of diverse directors on the board
Adopting a diversity policy in director nominations explicitly considering gender and race
Including a diverse director on the nominating committee
We found that firms adopting a diversity policy indicating that they consider race and gender in their board nomination policy were more likely to have diverse directors serving in board leadership roles, as were firms with a diverse director on the nominating committee.
However, our results suggest that merely increasing diverse representation on the board will not mitigate the leadership gap. Thus, our research suggests that if firms wish to mitigate the diversity leadership gap, they should make conscious efforts to do so, by publicly acknowledging their commitment to diversity and by including diverse directors on the board's nominating committee.
Why is this research unique and significant?
Our paper raises important questions about board inequity and lends justification to several recent public concerns on the issue. While most concerns raised by advocates have focused primarily on board composition, we point to evidence of inequity even after these directors have been elected to the board.
Minorities, females serving on boards receive less compensation, less leadership roles
Laura Casares Field et al, At the table but can not break through the glass ceiling:Board leadership positions elude diverse directors, Journal of Financial Economics (2020). DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2020.04.001
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Netflix recently launched another exclusive on its video streaming service, this time bringing back a classic from the early 2000s, the critically acclaimed sitcom Arrested Development. Fifteen new episodes launched on May 26 and they are already quite popular on...
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Publicity stunt?
Pirate bay says Arrested Development seasons 1,2,and 3 only has 191 seeds at the moment.
In comparison game of thrones episode 8 has 29302.
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Just a number...what is the ratio? If 100,000 compared to 3,457,653,234, I would say "so what".
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Cycloid Torus said:
True, but there's only about 100 million households in the US, so 3 billion downloads would be quite an achievement. Also, this was in the first day, not total.
What I want to know is if the show is any good. It's front and center when you log into Netflix, but the commercials I've seen look really dumb to me. Anyone watched it?
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Start from the beginning. It's hilarious. Of course, the humor may not be for everyone.
I loved seasons 1-3, but season 4 really isn't doing it for me in the same way. Enjoyable, certainly, but a little disappointing after waiting so long. I'd still highly recommend the whole series though.
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Q: OpenVPN: Allow specific clients to reach only a specific LAN behind the OpenVPN-Server I have an OpenVPN server running on an Ubuntu 18.04 machine and various OpenVPN clients connecting to that server. Some of those clients are routers, each of which has a 192.168.0.0/24 LAN behind it. The other clients are Windows, macOS and iOS devices.
The goal is that specific (Windows, macOS or iOS) clients can only reach a specific LAN (behind a router OpenVPN client). For example, a certain iPhone should only be able to reach LAN_1 via the OpenVPN server, while another iPhone must always be connected to LAN_2 only, etc.

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I have already created the directory /etc/openvpn/ccd and added text files with the names of the LANs. Since each of these files contains the line iroute 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0, there is no distinction yet other than the name.

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*Is it somehow possible to achieve my goal by using client profiles with the exact same names?

*Can this access limitation be based on client profiles rather than devices such that a specific iPhone can be connected to LAN_1 as well as LAN_2, depending on which client profile is activated?

A: Each client would connect to your server through their router, so clientA and clientB behind routerX would appear to come from the same place.
I assume you can't use some rules for certain users based on your question.  If some design choice means you want to keep the same concept that is in your question then you can assign static IPs to clients in OpenVPN...you could then apply rules to those IPs to be allowed through to your specific VPN.

A: I found a solution to my problem but I must add that it is far from ideal.
I found out that it is possible to have multiple OpenVPN server instances on a single machine by simply adding multiple server.conf config files to the /etc/openvpn directory. Then, OpenVPN creates a virtual tun interface for every instance, and all that I had to do was choosing a new VPN subnet and port number for every instance.

Now, every router VPN client will connect to a unique subnet (OpenVPN server instance), and every client profile on iPhones, MacBooks, etc. will do the same. Thus, by activating a certain client profile I effectively choose a certain subnet.

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Condensed Matter > Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
[Submitted on 31 Aug 2003 (v1), last revised 12 Apr 2005 (this version, v3)]
Title:Comparative numerical study of Anderson localization in disordered electron systems
Authors:Gerald Schubert, Alexander Weisse, Gerhard Wellein, Holger Fehske
Abstract: Taking into account that a proper description of disordered systems should focus on distribution functions, the authors develop a powerful numerical scheme for the determination of the probability distribution of the local density of states (LDOS), which is based on a Chebyshev expansion with kernel polynomial refinement and allows the study of large finite clusters (up to $100^3$). For the three-dimensional Anderson model it is demonstrated that the distribution of the LDOS shows a significant change at the disorder induced delocalisation-localisation transition. Consequently, the so-called typical density of states, defined as the geometric mean of the LDOS, emerges as a natural order parameter. The calculation of the phase diagram of the Anderson model proves the efficiency and reliability of the proposed approach in comparison to other localisation criteria, which rely, e.g., on the decay of the wavefunction or the inverse participation number.
Subjects: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
Journal reference: High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering Garching 2004, A. Bode, F. Durst (Eds.), Springer Verlag, 2005, pp 237-250
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-28555-5_21
Cite as: arXiv:cond-mat/0309015 [cond-mat.dis-nn]
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One dead, three injured in California synagogue attack
Six months to the day after the Tree of Life Synagogue massacre in Pittsburgh, this happened:
A 19-year-old gunman opened fire at the Chabad of Poway synagogue in Poway, Calif., on Saturday morning, leaving one dead and three injured, according to authorities.
Poway Mayor Steve Vaus and San Diego County Sheriff William D. Gore confirmed four people were transported to Palomar Medical Center with gunshot injuries at around 12 p.m., Pacific time, in a news conference Saturday afternoon.
One of the victims, a woman, "succumbed to their wounds," Vaus said. The three others — a girl and two men — remain in the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. All three were in stable condition, authorities said.
"I can only tell you that we have a fatality," Vaus told MSNBC, "and I can also tell you that it was a hate crime, and that will not stand."
The shooter, identified as John Earnest, posted a lengthy white nationalist and antisemitic manifesto, parts of which you can read here.
Earnest said in his manifesto that he was inspired by the Tree of Life gunman along with the New Zealand mosque shooter, who killed 50 people in Christchurch on March 15, 2019.
Earnest claims he set a fire at an Escondido mosque in the weeks after the Christchurch shooting. In his manifesto, Earnest wrote, "I scorched a mosque in Escondido with gasoline a week after Brenton Tarrant's sacrifice and they never found shit on me (I didn't realize sandn*ggers were sleeping inside though—they woke up and put out the fire pretty much immediately after I drove away which was unfortunate. Also they didn't report the message I spray-painted on the parking lot. I wrote 'For Brenton Tarrant -t. /pol/')."
Whether or not some Jews or Muslims want to acknowledge it, many people hate us equally and want us both dead.
(On Tuesday, a driver in Sunnyvale, California, ran down several pedestrians, leaving one girl critically injured. Police say he was deliberately targeting people he thought were Muslims.)
In his manifesto, John Earnest wrote a "lightning round" with questions and answers. The first question he answered was whether he is a Trump supporter. He wrote, "You mean that Zionist, Jew-loving, anti-White, traitorous c*cksucker? Don't make me laugh."
The Pittsburgh shooting suspect had posted on Gab about why he didn't support Trump, saying that he was not anti-Semitic enough for him.
For some reason, this doesn't make me feel any better about Trump– especially after he doubled down on his claim that there were "very fine people" on both sides in Charlottesville for the "Unite the Right" rally featuring hundreds of people marching with torches and chanting "Jews will not replace us."
A commenter on The Washington Post website wrote:
I am a proud Jewish-American who has served this country in the armed forces. I have put up with anti-Jewish crap my entire life, but the current turn to murder, assault and hate speech against Jews, Muslims, Hispanics lays at the door of our so-called president. Praising the virtues of neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and treasonous members of the old Confederacy encourages the violence and general ugliness our country is experiencing. The sooner Trump is gone the sooner we may emerge from our current national nightmare.
Trump spoke to the media before traveling to Wisconsin for a political rally.
"My deepest sympathies go to the people that were affected, the families, the loved ones," Trump said. "Obviously, it looks right now, based on my last conversations, looks like a hate crime. Hard to believe."
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"I attended Auckland University in New Zealand and majored in history and social studies. In my last internship I was focusing on the period of time in our country's history when the British Crown and the indigenous Maori people of our country had entered into an agreement, after years of fighting, called the Treaty of Waitangi on February 6, 1840 that outlined how these two peoples could live in peace. But the treaty was not honored. So I was teaching my students all the ways the treaty was broken by the British. The administration reprimanded me and told me I could not teach that perspective but must stick to the "politically correct" perspective of the story. In that moment I realized that this wasn't the right place for me and that within the educational system I wasn't going to get to be who I truly was."
"My dad said that people who are always educating themselves have a better quality of life and can contribute more to society so I have always been on this learning path. A wonderful sprinting coach told me early on, 'Don't turn around to see what everybody else is doing, play your own game, stay in your own lane because every time you turn around to look and see who's coming behind you, you lose a little bit of speed. So that's what I've done. Yes, there's competition out there and yes I've got to notice it, but I must play my own game to the best of my ability."
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"Today it's possible to not only get involved in entrepreneurial activities, but also to give back, to make a difference in the world and get paid for it, to get really well paid. So all you need to do is say: 'Yes, I'm going to discover what I'm really here to do and I'm going to believe that I'm going to be able to make a really decent living by living my passion.'"
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Milan airports rank among the main European airport systems, with over 29 million passengers transported in 2016.
In particular, Milan system occupies 2nd place in Italy and 10th in Europe for passenger traffic volumes.
In 2016, our airports grew by more than 864,000 passengers (+3.1%) and more than 7,800 movements (+3.1%) compared to 2015. At Malpensa, the increase was 4.7% for passengers and 3.9% for movements.
Linate airport retained the same number of passengers, while recording a 1.9% increase in movements.
Performance indicators of Aviation Business of the SEA airport system
Movements (no.)
Passengers (n.)
Cargo (tons)
2016 2015 ∆ % 2016 2015 ∆ % 2016 2015 ∆ %
162,683 156,642 3.9 19,311,565 18,444,778 4.7 536,862 500,054 7.4
97,828 96,049 1.9 9,636,221 9,638,763 0.0 12,553 12,434 1.0
Airport system
Source: SEA
In 2016, our aviation sales policy at Malpensa was aimed at increasing airline connectivity to local service. As such, it was directed at acquiring new carriers and developing activities of those already operating in airports. A particular effort was made to develop Schengen traffic at Terminal 1 through new partnerships with low-cost carriers.
Number of daytime and night-time movements* (inbound and outbound) - 2016
State flights
Daytime arrivals
69,843 3,705 - - -
Daytime departures
Night-time arrivals
6,217 1,581 - - -
152,106 10,577 4,153 6 166,842
*Night-time movements are those made from 23:00 to 6:00.
Sales policy involves constant contact with airlines, the pursuit of new development opportunities with specific marketing tools (welcome packages, communication initiatives, participation in international events), and taking part in negotiations to revise Bilateral Agreements with a view to pursuing a wider liberalization of traffic rights, including fifth freedom rights.
Two new bilateral agreements were signed with South Korea and Qatar during the first half of 2016. The first concerns an increase in frequencies for passengers and cargo and an increase in destinations. The second involves an increase in frequencies for passengers and cargo, the increase in destinations in Italy and the stabilization of fifth freedom rights for Qatar Airways, for Doha-Malpensa-Chicago flights.
In July, a negotiation with Russian aviation authorities took place in Moscow, resulting in a new agreement to increase frequencies on routes other than Moscow and an increase in destinations.
In November, the bilateral agreement with Hong Kong was revised to include a liberalization of the routes table and the stabilization of the fifth freedom rights granted to the foreign party for cargo flights on Hong Kong-India-Malpensa route.
Agreements with Saudi Arabia, Australia, Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Jamaica and New Zealand were also updated, and first agreements were negotiated with Bahamas, Benin and Curacao. All of these defined or increased the operational capacity of Milan, with no restriction compared to other domestic airports.
Pending the signing of a bilateral agreement, a temporary license was granted for Turkmenistan Airlines, allowing two weekly services on the Ashgabat-Milan route.
Number of arriving and departing passengers - 2016
Arriving passengers
1,350,356 8,324,302 9,674,658
Departing passengers
2,693,131 16,618,434 19,311,565
Ryanair's arrival at Malpensa stimulated the growth of Terminal 1 without penalizing the existing traffic.
Intercontinental traffic remained largely stable (-2.0%) after the growth generated by Expo in 2015.
SEA focused on low-cost carriers for their growth capability in terms of traffic and expansion of their portfolio of destinations.
The increased competition between carriers ensures the development of new destinations and the growth of traffic required to reach the targets, thanks to lower prices benefiting users and the expansion of the catchment area of our airport system.
The presence of several low-cost carriers and the announced role as long-haul "feeders" are an opportunity for future development, especially for Malpensa.
Number of passengers by origin and destination, transfers and transit - 2016
Origin and destination
Direct transits
19,311,565 100,144 19,411,709
The growth at Malpensa was partly driven by Ryanair's investments (73% of the growth, equal to 630,000 passengers) and by other carriers, including Vueling, Meridiana, Flybe and Latam, which recorded the highest growth in absolute terms. At Terminal 2, EasyJet invested with a 3.5% capacity growth and 0.5% transported growth, expanding its network with 8 new destinations.
Alitalia continued its streamlining strategy at Malpensa, exiting completely from short-medium-haul market (cancelling Malpensa-Fiumicino from February 2017) and keeping the long-haul flights to New York, Abu Dhabi and Tokyo. Despite the crisis, Turkish Airlines maintained the product structure of four daily flights to Istanbul, but reduced the unit capacity of the aircraft and frequencies to the Sabiha Gokcen secondary airport. Four new carriers started operating at Malpensa during 2016: Croatia Airlines (Zagreb), Ellinair (Thessaloniki), Atlasglobal (Istanbul) and Fly Ernest (Tirana). 13 new destinations have been added. Among these, 9 are European (Lille, Krakow, Lourdes, Zagreb, Thessaloniki, Alicante, Kalamata, Podgorica, Sibiu) and 4 are non-European (Annaba, Lagos, Accra, Kutaisi). Among the main increases in frequencies: Air Canada (from 5 weekly flights to daily), Singapore Airlines (from 5 to 6 weekly flights), Air India (from 3 to 4 weekly flights), Aeroflot (from 3 to 4 daily frequencies). Emirates continued to invest in Malpensa, positioning the A380 on Dubai's second daily frequency starting in October (in addition to the flight to New York).
Destinations of passenger traffic from Terminal 1 - 2016
Distribution of passenger traffic by geographical area in 2016 showed growth mostly in Central America (+11.8%) and Central/South Africa (+7.4%), while there was a decline towards the North America (-0.9%), the Middle East (+1.9%) and the Far East (-2.6%).
In 2016, Alitalia reconfirmed its share of Linate traffic (57.3%) recorded in 2015. Domestic traffic showed a positive trend towards Cagliari, Catania, Lamezia Terme, Alghero and Palermo, while European traffic declined on all routes, with the exception of Barcelona.
Linate-Fiumicino shuttle fell by 13% to 1.2 million passengers. This is due to easyJet permanently eliminating the link with the capital.
Passengers by origin and destination, transfers and transit - 2016
9,636,221 2,275 9,638,496
46,982 100 10,108 2 57,192
48,490 30 10,133 2 58,655
Night-time departures
97,320 508 20,703 4 118,535
*Night-time movements are those made from 23:00 to 6:00


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On behalf of The Amlong Firm posted in Workplace Discrimination on Tuesday, August 2, 2011.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 includes a requirement that employers respect the religious beliefs of their employees by making reasonable accommodations for religious customs and practices. That is, unless those accommodations pose undue hardship.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has recently filed a lawsuit against a company operating a chain of Taco Bell restaurants. The lawsuit alleges wrongful termination and a violation of the civil rights act.
In 2010, a young man was fired after six years at Taco Bell because he refused to cut his hair. The man claims he is a victim of religious discrimination, because he wears his hair long for religious purposes.
He is a practicing Nazirite. According to the EEOC lawyer representing him, "Nazirites base their religious beliefs on references in the Old Testament to individuals who took a special vow of abstinence. In accordance with this vow, Nazirites do not cut their hair, believing that long hair is a way of showing their devotion to God."
The EEOC believes this is a clear case of religious discrimination. They are seeking not only employment reinstatement, but also back pay and compensatory and punitive damages.
However, the company claims that the young man was in violation of their grooming policy. He was informed of this, and he was given that ultimatum that he would be fired if he didn't cut his hair.
There are many questions left to be answered which could prove important in the case. Did Taco Bell try to make reasonable accommodations, such as hair nets and other restraints? Why did his hair and grooming only become a problem after six years as an employee? Did his grooming cause potential health problems in the restaurant?
Health standards are high in the food service industry, and the company may argue that accommodating the man's beliefs posed an undue hardship. It may be difficult to determine if religious discrimination took place until or unless those important questions are answered.


Cornell, as an institution, appears to be complicit in a shocking amount of ecologically destructive, academically unethical, and scientifically deceitful behaviour. Perhaps the most potent example is Cornell's deep ties to industrial GMO agriculture, and the affiliated corporations such as Monsanto. I'd like to share how I became aware of this troubling state of affairs.
Currently, the vast majority of US commodity crops (corn, soy, alfalfa, sugar beet) are genetically engineered to either withstand Roundup herbicide or produce Bt toxin pesticide. These "technologies" are ecologically damaging and unsafe. The majority of these crops go to feed animals in factory farms. The remainder generally gets converted into corn syrup, white sugar, vegetable oil, or biofuels — you know, good stuff! This combined approach of growing GMO commodity monoculture crops, and feeding them to factory-farmed livestock, is one of the most ecologically destructive forces our planet has ever seen. It's also a leading contributor to climate change. In fact, some experts believe it to be the leading cause.
I came back to Cornell a changed person, with a drastically different perspective. I was in for quite a shock, however: I sat in on a course entitled "The GMO Debate". I was expecting members of an intellectual community coming together, with proponents and critics of GMO food each giving the best verified evidence they had to support their cause. Given all that I had learned about GMO agriculture, I was excited to participate for the "GMO skeptic" side.
It gets better. During the semester, emails were released following a Freedom of Information Act request, showing that all four of the professors in the class, as well as several guest speakers, the head of Cornell's pro-GMO group "Alliance for Science", and the Dean of the College of Arts and Life Sciences were all copied in on emails with Monsanto. This was part of a much larger circle of academics promoting GMO crops on behalf of the biotech industry. Jonathan Latham PhD, virologist and editor of independentsciencenews.org, documented this in an article titled "The Puppetmasters of Academia". I highly recommend giving it a read, for further context.
Perhaps saddest of all was the inclusion of several visiting African agriculture-academics in the course. They were brought here by the "Cornell Alliance for Science". This organization was completely funded by a $5.6 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and appears to espouse only pro-GMO rhetoric. For those of you who are unaware, Bill Gates is a proponent of using agricultural biotechnology in Africa, India, and other developing regions. So in essence, a group of African representatives got indoctrinated into the industrial and GMO agriculture framework, and were sent home to disseminate this information ... after all, who could question the expertise of an Ivy League powerhouse such as Cornell?
You didn't think I was just going to complain about a pro-GMO, industry-sponsored Cornell all day, did you? Good, because I have come up with a plan to create actual, lasting change on campus.
There will be several experts and scientists coming in to lecture for this course. Frances Moore Lappé, of "Diet for a Small Planet" and "World Hunger: 10 Myths" fame, will be introducing the course on September 7, via video presentation. She will be speaking on how GMO agriculture is unnecessary to end world hunger.
Steven Druker is a public interest attorney and author of the powerful book "Altered Genes, Twisted Truth: How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science, Corrupted Government, and Systematically Deceived the Public", which Jane Goodall (in her foreword) hails as "one of the most important books in the last 50 years". He will be giving two lectures that elaborate on the themes in the book's subtitle and demonstrate that the GMO venture has been chronically and crucially dependent on deception, and could not survive without it.
Belinda Martineau PhD is a geneticist with an interesting history — she was on the team of genetic engineers that created the first commercial GM food crop, the Flavr Savr Tomato. She authored a book on her experience, titled "First Fruit: The Creation of the Flavr Savr Tomato and the Birth of Biotech Foods". Her lecture will be a historical and personal account of the science, regulation, and commercialization of genetically engineered foods, effectively giving context for today's GMO paradigm.
My personal scientific hero, T. Colin Campbell, who started me on this whole journey years ago, will not be speaking on GMOs per se … but will address some critically important, related topics: academic freedom and scientific integrity. He began his Cornell career over half a century ago, and has "seen it all". He has fascinating anecdotes that will illuminate these campus-wide issues beautifully.


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Angus Claude Macdonell (June 23, 1861 – April 18, 1924) was a Canadian lawyer and politician.

Born in Toronto, Canada West, Macdonell received a Bachelor of Civil Law degree in 1886 from Trinity College, Toronto and a D.C.L. degree in 1902. He was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1886. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada for Toronto South in the 1904 federal election. A Conservative, he was re-elected in 1908 and 1911. He was summoned to the Senate of Canada representing the senatorial division of Toronto South, Ontario in 1917 on the advice of Robert Borden. He served until 1921.

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Canadian senators from Ontario
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Jerald "Corkey" Dean Scroggins
July 1, 1929 - February 17, 2021
J.D. "Corkey" Scroggins Born at Maize, OK to Frank and Beulah Scroggins on July 1, 1929, he was raised at Locust Grove, OK. Served in the Army, from February 1951 to February 1953. After his discharge, he went to work for Huddleston Engineering until it was sold to Schmoldt Engineering. He worked at Schmoldt till retiring in 1990. He married Ardena Garner, on Nov 19, 1955. After eleven years of marriage, they were blessed with a bouncing baby boy they named Larry Dean. Five years later, they were graced with a daughter, Donna Faye, who is a special needs child. Corkey was an active member in the Moose Lodge, American Legion Post 105, lifetime member NRA, and the lifetime VFW. Corkey was an avid fisher and hunter. He always had a good joke or story to tell. Although he was on the road two thirds of the time, he always had time for his family and friends. Corkey and Ardena have five grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Holidays were always special times when everyone got together, one of his favorite times was during hunting season when four generations of Scroggins family, and many other close friends got together and told jokes, ate steak, drank whiskey, and told stories. Corkey was preceded in death by his parents, four sisters, one brother and one granddaughter. Was survived by his wife, Ardena, two children, Larry and Donna, five grandchildren, Sarah, Jotham, Jericho, Tiffany, Tyler and significant other Jessica. Six grandchildren, Lilly, Logan, William, Noah, Amilia, and Thurman. Once sister, Nora Lee, one bother-in-law Tommy, one sister-in-law Nancy and many nieces and nephews. He will be truly missed.
J.D. "Corkey" Scroggins Born at Maize, OK to Frank and Beulah Scroggins on July 1, 1929, he was raised at Locust Grove, OK. Served in the Army, from February 1951 to February 1953. After his discharge, he went to work for Huddleston... View Obituary & Service Information
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Overall, the app has been just what I needed. It has allowed me to keep track of my spending during trip. It even reminds me, via mobile notifications, to ensure that I input all of my expenses. Recently, I even got a notification that I'm on track to be slightly under budget (for my trip). I would recommend it if you're planning on traveling abroad or dealing in currencies outside your home currency.


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One of the best things I ever did for my life is join my local credit union. On my journey to better credit, it was my credit union what helped me strengthen my score and while spending less money on interest and on benefits like auto insurance. For the first time, I am walking into a bank filled with people I recognize and who recognize me, and I am receiving personalized service. For the first time, I belong to a bank that helps me with my goals, and isn't just interested in gaining interest from my money and charging me a slew of unnecessary fees. Though, I still keep a portion of my money in a large bank, I am sold on the benefits of keeping my credit union.
Unlike banks, which operate for profit, credit unions are member-owned, democratically run nonprofits. That means you're more than a customer; you're a member, and you get to vote on board directors and other officials. Each member's vote carries equal weight, regardless of deposits at the credit union.
Credit unions' not-for-profit status lets them distribute their profits to members through returns on savings and investments. As a result, credit unions provide higher average returns on a national level than traditional banks do. Credit unions' average rates for savings and loan products beat or tied those of traditional banks in every category.
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Q: Variables in VBA loops I'm trying to run a VBA application using a loop and using variables whose names depends on where in the loop I am. Specifically something like
Dim i As Integer
i = 1
Dim varname() As String
while i < 50
varname(i) = asdasd
i = i + 1
Wend

Somehow it can't read varname(i) or whatever. It reports subscript out of range.
I have no idea what the problem is, can someone helt me perhaps?

A: You need to give your array a capacity first.
Sub max()

Dim i As Integer
i = 1

Dim varname() As String
ReDim varname(49) '<---- There

While i < 50
varname(i) = asdasd
i = i + 1
Wend

End Sub

This is a good resource for VBA arrays:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/aa164778(v=office.10).aspx