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Tuberculin sensitivity test in uveitis: Immunological perspectives
Manish Jain1, Yashik Bansal2
1 Department of Ophthalmology, VCSG Government Institute of Medical Science and Research, Srinagar, Uttarakhand, India
2 Department of Microbiology, VCSG Government Institute of Medical Science and Research, Srinagar, Uttarakhand, India
Dr. Manish Jain
Department of Ophthalmology, VCSG Government Institute of Medical Science and Research, Srinagar - 246 174, Uttarakhand
DOI: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_2854_20
Jain M, Bansal Y. Tuberculin sensitivity test in uveitis: Immunological perspectives. Indian J Ophthalmol 2021;69:180-1
Jain M, Bansal Y. Tuberculin sensitivity test in uveitis: Immunological perspectives. Indian J Ophthalmol [serial online] 2021 [cited 2021 Jan 21];69:180-1. Available from: https://www.ijo.in/text.asp?2021/69/1/180/303321
We laud Rathinam et al. for bringing out a much needed review on immunological tests in Uveitis.[1] Granulomatous inflammations constitute a significant chunk of uveitis, both in peripheral and referral practices. We share additional immunological perspectives on Tuberculin sensitivity test (TST).
Despite being a common test, many healthcare workers misinterpret moderate positive response as tuberculosis and initiate antitubercular drugs even as many cases of ocular tuberculosis are immunologically driven. Similarly, a negative test is taken as anergy leading to the diagnosis of sarcoidosis. As such, a positive test merely suggests a past exposure to mycobacterial antigens and adequate cell mediated immunity (CMI).
In addition, many patients tend to have serial TSTs before finding their way to a tertiary center. This enhances the subsequent size of induration, just as past/ongoing steroid therapy would reduce it. Inadvertent boosting of tubercular hypersensitivity has aggravated inflammation leading to irreversible visual loss.[2]
The peripheral anergy in sarcoidosis is a result a compartmentalization, whereby monocytes are actively recruited at the site of active inflammation.[3] Anergy, earlier considered a result of steroid responsive suppressor T-cells, is mediated by monocytes through prostglandin (PGE2) & interleukin 1 and is amenable to drugs such as indomethacin and steroids [Figure 1].[4] Positive TST in a case of sarcoidosis could imply reversal of anergy or concurrent tuberculosis. Unlike "in vitro" tests such as Interferon-γ release assays, conversion, reversal, and booster effects are unique to TST.[5]
Figure 1: Sarcoid anergy, tuberculin test, and the status of cell-mediated immunity (CMI). (a) Sarcoid anergy is mediated through PGE2 and deficit of IL-2; it is reversed with Indomethacin, steroids, and exogenous IL-2 leading to delayed type (IV) hypersensitivity (DTH); (b) it shows the presence and size of the induration which in turn reflects (c) the status of CMI against the mycobacterial antigens
In summary, positive/negative TST can be compatible with both sarcoidosis and tuberculosis depending upon the CMI. Paucibacillary and military tuberculosis should be seen as a continuum akin to tuberculoid, indeterminate, and lepromatous leprosy. History of past TST and steroid treatment is crucial in the interpretation and the rare, but serious risk to visual functions should be borne in mind.[5]
Rathinam SR, Tugal-Tutkun I, Agarwal M, Rajesh V, Egriparmak M, Patnaik G. Immunological tests and their interpretation in uveitis. Indian J Ophthalmol 2020;68:1737-48.
Yen MY, Liu JH. Bilateral optic neuritis following bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination. J Clin Neuroophthalmol 1991;11:246-9.
Hudspith BN, Flint KC, Geraint-James D, Brostoff J, Johnson NM. Lack of immune deficiency in sarcoidosis: Compartmentalisation of the immune response. Thorax 1987;42:250-5.
Hudspith BN, Brostoff J, McNicol MW, Johnson NM. Anergy in sarcoidosis: The role of interleukin-1 and prostaglandins in the depressed in vitro lymphocyte response. Clin Exp Immunol 1984;57:324-30.
Nayak S, Acharjya B. Mantoux test and its interpretation. Indian Dermatol Online J 2012;3:2-6.
Jain M
Bansal Y
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Dugout has today announced a Partnership with Relevent Sports, the founder and operator of the International Champions Cup (ICC), to be the tournament's exclusive global content production partner this summer. The ICC sees the world's best teams competing against each other across the US in exclusive pre-season fixtures.
Dugout's expert videographers will accompany the participating teams (FC Barcelona, Real Madrid, Manchester United, Manchester City, Tottenham Hotspur, A.S. Roma, Juventus and Paris Saint-Germain) around the tournament, and will be fully embedded within their camps to capture all the best behind-the-scenes footage from training and inside the dressing rooms.
Working with the ICC, Dugout will create exclusive original video content for the tournament organisers, as well as their sponsors and affiliates.
The Dugout crew will also be present at stadia and fan parks across the US, soaking up the best of the atmosphere at this summer's premier club competition. As part of the partnership, the ICC will have a dedicated channel on Dugout where users will be able to follow all the action and excitement as the tournament progresses.
Elliot Richardson, Chairman, Dugout said: "We're delighted to be partnering with the ICC this summer. Dugout fans around the world want their daily view of exclusive, behind-the-scenes content from the world's best clubs and players in the number one pre-season tournament.
Coverage on Dugout commenced on Sunday 9th July with the International Champion's Cup taking place in venues across the US from today to Sunday 30th July.
ICC tickets are available at InternationalChampionsCup.com.
Meanwhile, Dugout has also announced the signing on of FC Schalke and Valencia, two of the biggest clubs in Spain and Germany, this week.


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THERE ARE a few things one can expect with confidence from a day at Portland International Raceway: the roar of engines, the smell of diesel, maybe a satin jacket or two. But not when the race-day event is called Electrathon America, held May 24 to 26, during which drivers rip silently around the track in vehicles powered not by high-performance fuel but by two 12-volt batteries. (OK, we can't promise there won't still be a few satin jackets.) "Ripping" might be an exaggeration, since the fastest low-slung, one-man electric cars top out at a little over 50 mph; the goal is to complete the most laps in one hour without recharging, making it a race for efficiency rather than for speed. About 20 teams competed last year, including one Hawaiian squad who, in 2006, had to pack their ride, one piece at a time, in their carry-on luggage and reassemble it on the mainland. Not that the reassembly was any kind of a setback: They still took first place.


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Q: Creating a Data Access Layer when using Web Client Software Factory 2010 I am exploring WCSF and wondering how is the data access layer created? Some of the articles I have found are two years old and talk about using Web Service Factory. I am using VS 2010 and .Net 4.0. I am looking for some sample and tutorials with real world examples.

A: The Web Client Software Factory doesn't provide automated guidance for creating the data access layer.  It's focus is primarily on providing guidance to facilitate composite Web application development (i.e. Web applications which are comprised of individual modules, often developed by different development teams).
There are several approaches for accomplishing data access, but a few resources you might want to check out are the ASP.Net MVC Nerd Dinner tutorial, the S#arp Architecture project, the Code Camp Server source, and the Microsoft Pattern & Practices Data Access Guidance.  All of these use variations of the Repository pattern which is the predominate approach among teams following Domain-Driven Design.

A: There is a good reference implementation hidden in the WCSF2010 Source file, and a few other examples. On http://webclientguidance.codeplex.com, click Web Client Software Factory 2010 Source and then download WCSF2010Source.zip.  Inside you'll find Trunk\Source\GlobalBankRI\GlobalBank.Commercial.EBanking (VSTS Tests).sln, which is a pretty good example of many aspects of WCSF, including data access through a WCF service.  There are some other simpler examples in the Trunk\Source folder.
Only the ETF module is fully built out.  Each view presenter uses an ETFController to manage data common to all presenters.  The ETFController uses an instance of IAccountServiceAgent, realized by AccountServiceAgent (for non-unit testing), which is registered as a module.  AccountServiceAgent uses a class that acts as a proxy for the WCF reference.  The proxy instance to use, AccountServiceProxy, is hardcoded.
The actual source code for WCSF is in BlocksTrunk\Source.
Yeah, not at all easy to find.  I don't remember what made me download this and look inside for such examples.  Certainly not anything I read on the website.
I've used this example to build a web app that access SQL data and scrapes a website, if you'd like to take a look.  It's still under development, but the data access bits are pretty firm: http://lcbodrinkfinder.codeplex.com/

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Amy Borum
RN, Nurse Supervisor
Amy Borum joins us as a Registered Nurse. She graduated from The University of TN Martin and Austin Peay State University and has 17 years of experience in emergency medicine, correctional medicine, endoscopy and orthopedics. Amy and her husband Clint have two kids, Gauge and Reagan.
She enjoys family time, hunting, watching her daughter's softball and cheer competitions and listening to her son's guitar. She is excited to start this new journey, learning and discovering the art of functional medicine.
Brooke Blackburn
Brooke Blackburn is a Tennessee native who started in the medical field as a candy striper. In 2015, she earned her AEMT (Advanced Emergency Tech) Certification from Columbia State Community College. Her experience ranges from physician offices to EMS at Maury Regional Medical Center.
In 2015, she earned her AEMT (Advanced Emergency Medical Tech) through additional training and plans to further her education at nursing school. When not at work, Brooke enjoys spending time with her 3 children and friends who have become family. Camping, local festivals, school sports, competition cheer and tumbling are just a few of the activities that they enjoy together.
Anne Segebarth
Anne Segebarth is a Registered Nurse. She graduated from Aquinas College here in Nashville in 2015. Over the next five years, she worked at St. Thomas West Hospital in Advanced Heart Failure and Interventional Radiology. She is excited to join the team at Sanctuary after having been a patient here herself for several years. She has found answers and healing through the care she has received here and is excited to be a part of that for others with her uniquely personal perspective. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her fiancé, playing with her sweet nephew, and having relaxing game nights with good friends. Most weekends you can find her hiking, at a Farmer's Market, or grocery shopping at Trader Joe's.
Amy Loessy
Amy Loessy joins us as a Registered Nurse. She graduated Georgia College and State University and has worked in a variety of surgical areas as a pre-operative and PACU nurse. Amy is passionate about the functional medicine approach and is grateful to be working in a setting with the same mindset. In May 2020, she decided to pursue a health coaching certification from Vanderbilt University, in hopes to help patients adapt to new diagnoses and lifestyle changes. Amy moved to Nashville from Atlanta in 2018, and recently married her husband May 2021. They enjoy any live music events, hiking and traveling.
Marlene Roncskevitz
Patient Support Coordinator
Marlene eagerly joins Sanctuary with the goal of making each patient feel cared for, respected and given the attention that quality health care promises.
Marlene is originally from New Jersey and has lived in Tennessee for 30 years. After earning a Certification in Youth Ministry from Seton Hall University in New Jersey in 1986 she moved on to work for the Archdiocese of Miami, Florida and then landed in Tennessee to raise her family.
Marlene's health care experience has been varied over the years, from working at DCI Donor Services, Physical Therapy to Cardiac Telemetry
Kira Whitam
Masters of Nutrition
Kira Whitham, Nutritionist at Sanctuary Functional Medicine, holds a Master's in Health and Nutrition Education from Hawthorn University, as well as an additional 30 hours of training through the School of Applied Functional Medicine and IFM.
She combines the principles of holistic nutrition and functional medicine to help people bring their bodies back to their intended state of wellness. She is a firm believer in the healing power of food and works hard to help her clients improve their relationship with food while gaining an understanding of what nourishes and depletes the body.


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Die registrierende Leistungsmessung (RLM), auch registrierende Lastgangsmessung, beschreibt einen Messvorgang (per Strom- bzw. Gaszähler) durch Messstellenbetreiber in den regulierten Sparten Gas und Strom. Für diese gibt es unterschiedliche Anwendungsgrenzen im Strom und Gas: Im Strombereich wird RLM ab 100.000 kWh elektrischer Energie und im Gasbereich ab 1,5 GWh Gas oder 500 kW (stündlicher) Ausspeiseleistung angewendet.  Für Kunden ohne registrierende Leistungsmessung werden vereinfachte Verfahren (z. B. Standardlastprofile) benutzt.

Dabei erfasst die Messeinrichtung pro Messperiode (15 Minuten bei Strom, 60 Minuten bei Gas) einen Leistungsmittelwert. Die Gesamtheit aller Leistungsmittelwerte, die über eine ganzzahlige Anzahl von Messperioden gemessen wird, ergibt dann den Lastgang.

Diese registrierten Werte werden in regelmäßigen Abständen (sofort oder am Folgetag) an den (Verteil-)Netzbetreiber übermittelt. Dies geschieht "online" entweder direkt über die Stromleitung oder über einen (ggf. mobilen) Internetzugang.

Siehe auch
 Lastprofil

Einzelnachweise

Elektrische Energieverteilung
Elektrische Messtechnik

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Home News & Analysis Fundraising Gilde launches new healthcare fund
Gilde launches new healthcare fund
The Dutch private equity firm is planning to raise €125 million for its second dedicated healthcare fund.
Robert Venes
Netherlands-headquartered Gilde Investment Management has begun marketing its second healthcare fund, with a target of €125 million ($151 million).
We have already had discussions with our current LPs and their support has been overwhelming, meaning we can start in a very comfortable position.
Pieter van der Meer, investment director, Gilde Investment Management
Pieter van der Meer, an investment director at Gilde, told PEO that the firm began marketing the fund, Gilde Healthcare II, at the beginning of this year with the €125 million target, "although we may well exceed that".
Van der Meer added that Gilde expects the vehicle to reach a first closing of approximately €75 million in the coming months. "We are aiming to hold a first close somewhere in the first half of this year, most likely in the second quarter," he said.
A final close would occur within a year of the fund's first closing, according to van der Meer, with the aim of meeting its hard cap by the end of 2006.
Investors in Gilde's previous healthcare fund, Gilde Biotechnology & Nutrition, have already shown interest in the new vehicle, said van der Meer. "We have already had discussions with our current LPs and their support has been overwhelming, meaning we can start in a very comfortable position," he said.
Gilde's €127 million predecessor healthcare fund, Gilde Biotechnology & Nutrition, was launched in 1999 with commitments from Rabobank, Novartis/Syngenta, European Investment Bank, Banco Sabadelli, Fibanc and Lagun-Aro.
van der Meer: first close likely in second quarter
The new fund will have a duration of 10 years, and will aim to make 15 investments in Western Europe and the US. The vehicle will commit a maximum of €10 million per investment. Van der Meer said that the firm would be "comfortable" with a return on investment of 20 percent but would aim for a higher figure.
In September of last year, Gilde Investment Management was sold by Rabobank to its management for an undisclosed sum. The firm operates out of offices in the Netherlands, France and Switzerland.


WITH the 2018 Winter Olympic Video games properly underway in PyeongChang, the Curling competitors continues to wow followers as the occasion switches its consideration from combined doubles to the males and lady's event.
CURLING is a teamed occasion with as much as 4 gamers, by which gamers slide stones throughout a marked space of ice in the direction of a goal space.
The purpose is to get the stone, or a collection of stones, as near the center as attainable, the stones or variety of stones closest wins.
There are eight ends in a match, sixteen stones are thrown, every group scores some extent for every stone nearer than their opponents greatest stone.
The origins of curling started way back to the sixteenth century in Scotland, earlier than establishing itself abroad in Canada, the place the Royal Montreal Curling Membership was based in 1807 – the oldest sports membership nonetheless lively today.
The primary recorded world championship for curling was held in Falkirk and Edinburgh in 1959, solely restricted to male rivals.
What are the several types of curling competitors?
THERE are three totally different occasions in curling.
Combined doubles: This includes a group of two, one man and one lady.
The competitors lasts six days, 4 maintain the spherical robins, the penultimate day holds the semi-last and the sixth and remaining day of competitors hosts the third-place play-off and the ultimate.
At the starting of every finish, two stones begin in play. 5 stones are performed per workforce, scoring is the similar as the males and ladies occasions.
One participant on every workforce is required to throw the first and final stones on every finish, the different throws in different three.
This yr's video games is the first yr combined doubles has been included on the official Olympic programme.
Males and ladies: As talked about beforehand, males and ladies's groups are made up of 4 gamers. Every participant has totally different roles, starting from a lead, second, third and a skip (captain).
The lead is answerable for delivering the first two stones, the second delivers the second pair of stones and the third the second-to-final pair.
Every swap duties when each other delivers the stones, they primarily sweep for every of their group-mates. The skip on the different hand, has the position of captain and is tasked with figuring out the technique.
Additionally they maintain a brush in the goal space to point to a workforce-mate the place to goal and they're often tasked with throwing the final two stones.
CURLING was first included in the Winter Olympics in 1924, nevertheless, the outcomes weren't thought-about official till 2006 by the Worldwide Olympic Committee.
The game was added to the official programme in 1998. In that point, Canada has tended to dominate every of the three staged occasions.
They've gained three golds in the males's, two in the ladies's and gained the inaugural combined doubles on Tuesday.
How do I get into curling?
YOU can start to study the artwork of curling by beginning in taster periods and newbie courses that happen in Scotland, there are additionally curling ice rinks in Tunbridge Wells, England and Wales.
There you possibly can study the fundamentals of the sport, learning the guidelines and laws and the gear athletes use.
It's a enjoyable approach to familiarise your self with one among the Winter Olympics most difficult sports.


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World's Fastest Marathoners Will Race on Sunday in London
Kenyan and Ethiopian athletes lead the men's and women's fields and their results could take them to the Summer Games.
By Cathal Dennehy
Giancarlo Colombo
For many of the world's best runners, the road to Olympic glory runs through the London Marathon, and the journey starts on Sunday morning.
The finest exponents of the event will gather in the British capital to scrap it out over 26.2 miles, and there's a lot more than pride and prize money at stake—for some, a trip to the Games is also on the line.
Boston may be the most historic marathon, New York the largest, Berlin the fastest, but when it comes to the caliber of competition, London reigns supreme.
The men's race is set to take star billing, pitting the two most-recent world-record holders, Dennis Kimetto (2:02:57) and Wilson Kipsang (2:03:23), against the current world No. 1, Eliud Kipchoge. That's without even mentioning the athlete often regarded as the best distance runner of all time, Kenenisa Bekele.
The favorite, undoubtedly, is Kipchoge. Despite the Kenyan not having an otherworldly time to his name—his best is "just" 2:04:00—he's been unbeaten at this event except in 2013, when he came in second to Kipsang in Berlin. Since then, he's defeated the world's best, taking wins in Chicago, Berlin, and London, where he sprinted away from compatriot Kipsang to win last year in 2:04:42.
"The last six months have been good, training has been hard," Kipchoge said. "If you prepare well, then you win."
In an interview with Runner's World earlier this week, Kipchoge noted his training has indeed been better than ever, the 31-year-old logging upward of 130 miles a week in recent months at his training base in Kaptagat.
"My mind is fully on defending the title," he said. "The training is faster this year. I am finishing workouts quickly, have had no injuries, so I think I'll do a fast time."
Kipchoge's chief threat may come from Kipsang, who finished five seconds behind him last year and was champion here in 2012 and 2014. "I'm feeling good," Kipsang said on Wednesday. "The last few months I have prepared very well."
For world-record holder Kimetto, London will be a chance to reclaim his former glory. Since setting the record in 2014, his best result was third here last year, but the Kenyan failed to finish at the IAAF World Championships in Beijing and at the Fukuoka Marathon in December.
However, the 32-year-old believes his form is back to its brilliant best.
"If you compare it with [the world record run] it's the same," he said. "In October I had a knee injury but now I am good."
If anyone is to upset the above trio, then triple Olympic gold medalist Bekele, of Ethiopia, could be the one. But the 5,000-meter and 10,000-meter world-record holder has yet to transfer his former track dominance to the roads, and the 33-year-old will need an unlikely breakthrough if he is to repel the Kenyan challenge.
A better bet is Kenya's Stanley Biwott, who was second here two years ago and claimed his first victory in a World Marathon Majors in New York last November.
With only three spots available on the Rio marathon team, the race will serve as a defacto trial for the Kenyans, with one of their powerful quartet set to have his Olympic dreams extinguished on Sunday.
The same is true in the women's race, which is headed by four Kenyans of the highest caliber: Mary Keitany, Florence Kiplagat, Priscah Jeptoo, and Jemima Sumgong.
Of those, Keitany looks the strongest.
The 34-year-old is the second-fastest woman of all time, having run 2:18:37 to take her second title in London in 2012. Since then, she took time off to give birth, but returned to the top level in emphatic style in New York last year, routing the field to win in 2:24:25.
"This year I have done enough to run a good time," Keitany said on Thursday. "I am ready. I hope to run well. After my race they will be naming the team for the Olympics, and I hope if I do well I'll be selected."
Despite temperatures forecasted to drop to the mid-40s by Sunday—and some even predicting snow—Keitany doesn't believe the conditions will influence the result.
"I think we will be ready for anything," she said. "I feel very much at home competing here."
The athlete she'll have to be most prepared for is Tigist Tufa, who usurped Keitany for the title here last year. The Ethiopian shocked the field over the last three miles and came home a worthy winner in 2:23:22, but Keitany exacted revenge six months later in New York, where Tufa finished third.
"I want to win again," Tufa said. "I know it won't be easy because London fields are the best in the world. If I run well here, I hope I'll have a chance to go for the Olympic title."
Fellow Ethiopian Mare Dibaba could also pose a threat. The 26-year-old reigning world champion has a best of 2:19:52, and along with compatriot Aselefech Mergia, will be looking to book her ticket to Rio.
Of the others, world half-marathon record holder Kiplagat, of Kenya, looks most likely to upset the favorites, and will be seeking her first victory in London on her fifth attempt.
The sole American competitor in the women's elite race is Sara Hall, who is making a quick turnaround after dropping out of the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials in February after 17 miles.
For Hall, the book has closed on the 2016 Olympics in the marathon, but for the others, it remains tantalizingly open.
The race is on.
In the United States, the race will be shown live at 3:30 a.m. EDT Sunday on NBCSN. It will also be streamed live on NBC Sports Live Extra to viewers on desktops, mobile devices, tablets, and connected TVs. The race will be shown again on Universal HD on Monday at 7 p.m. Eastern.
Cathal Dennehy Contributing Writer Cathal Dennehy is a freelance writer based in Dublin, Ireland, who covers the sport for multiple outlets from Irish newspapers to international track websites.
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L'eruguera de les Sula (Edolisoma sula) és una espècie d'ocell de la família dels campefàgids (Campephagidae).

Hàbitat i distribució
Habita els boscos de les illes Sula, properes a la costa oriental de Sulawesi.

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Connecting Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning To Policy And Practice: Cscl 2011 Conf. Proc. - Community Events Proceedings, 9Th International Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conf., 2011, p. 1112-1119 How to Cite?
While new media have greatly magnified people's opportunities for access to and sharing of knowledge and ideas and for forming social networks they have not performed so well as media for the collaborative production of new knowledge. In this symposium, researchers with experience in efforts to advance knowledge building apply insights they have gained to the question of how to enhance the socio-cognitive benefits of new media. We suggest development of a technological, social, cognitive and epistemic infrastructure for creative knowledge work. Toward this end we propose engaging teachers in design research along with researchers and subject-matter experts, enhancing students' ways of contributing to the pursuit of causal explanations, and introducing technological advances that provide greater support for high-level knowledge processes. We argue that teachers and students must be major players in the design and working of an infrastructure for creative knowledge work.


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Miss NGU Gives Back by Helping Children in Need
Tigerville, SC – (December 4, 2018) Miss NGU 2018 Hannah Pearson has been volunteering with Upstate Backpack Blessings, a charitable organization that provides food items for underprivileged area students. Pearson, crowned in January, has been familiar with the organization from a young age.
"Backpack Blessings was first started at my middle school," said Pearson. "I got to experience first-hand the impact it made on the lives of so many children."
The nonprofit was founded by Alice Prevatt, a former cafeteria employee at a local middle school. Although students from disadvantaged backgrounds are eligible for discounted or free school lunches, Prevatt realized that this isn't always enough. Students who eat at school often go hungry in the evenings and on the weekends.
Pearson, from Simpsonville, knew she would choose Backpack Blessings as a charity platform when she competed for Miss NGU.
"I wanted to be a part of something bigger than myself and I felt backpack blessings was the perfect opportunity. I had the opportunity to help the organization hand out backpacks full of food to children, and it was such a heartwarming experience to see how many kids it was helping," said Pearson. "My mom is a teacher at a school in which backpack blessings helps, so I've also been able to experience the impact through her."
Upstate Backpack Blessings now provides bags of food to over 300 students each week in 16 area elementary, middle and high schools. Individuals can get involved by holding food drives, volunteering at the pantry, or giving a donation. The food pantry is located at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church in Fountain Inn, SC.
Pearson is looking forward to the future of providing food items for even more Upstate children who face hunger. "I hope to continue to inform people of the amazing impacts of backpack blessings continues to make," said Pearson.
Individuals interested in volunteering should visit, www.upstatebackpackblessings.org/volunteer.
Come, Rejoice!
Cline School of Music and Theatre Department will present annual concert to celebrate the beginning of the Christmas season.
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Guest speakers to include Tobin Cassels, Lauren Green, and Josh Kimbrell ('07).
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187 undergraduate, graduate, and doctorate degrees were awarded Friday, Dec. 13.
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Vivid Entertainment Group is an American pornographic film production company, featuring  internet content.

Overview

Vivid Entertainment is privately owned by Americans Steven Hirsch and Bill Asher, and Welshman David James.

In 2006, Vivid Entertainment was described by Reuters as one of the handful of studios that dominate the U.S. porn industry. It is based in Los Angeles, California. Founder Steven Hirsch is co-chairman, along with Bill Asher, who is also a co-owner.

In February 2006, Vivid changed its condom-only policy to a condom-optional policy that lets performers decide whether to use them. In October 2010, Vivid stopped production as a precaution when an actor tested positive for HIV. An October 2012 open letter, from Steven Hirsch, took aim at a Los Angeles County plan that would require performers to wear condoms on set. Hirsch said the proposal would be costly and ineffective and was an example of unnecessary government intrusion into private bedrooms.

Divisions and ventures
Alt-porn: In 2009, the company won the AVN Award for Best Music Soundtrack for The Bad Luck Betties, and in 2010, for the musical soundtrack of Live in My Secrets.
Vivid Radio: Vivid supplied content for a channel on the Sirius XM Radio network that features its various stars. The channel moved to online only on July 17, 2014.

List of Vivid Girls

The following is a list of notable Vivid actresses (known as "Vivid Girls") during the first thirty years of Vivid. The most recent Vivid Girl, Allie Haze, terminated her contract with Vivid in 2012.

Legal controversy
On December 6, 2007, Vivid Entertainment filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against PornoTube. The lawsuit alleged that the YouTube-like site profits from the illegal posting of Vivid's copyrighted films, and failed to comply with the Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act, a federal age-verification and record-keeping law that applies to the adult film industry. The case was settled out of court.

Awards and recognition

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American pornographic film studios
Companies based in Los Angeles
Film production companies of the United States
Pornography in Los Angeles
American companies established in 1984
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Home Trucking News Bronx Councilmen realize illegally parked trucks will only be solved by creation...
Bronx Councilmen realize illegally parked trucks will only be solved by creation of actual truck parking
Residents in the Bronx say that illegally parked semi trucks are causing safety concerns and leaving trash behind, but know that they have nowhere else to go with the current truck parking situation.
Truckers have been turning North Bronx roads into improvised parking spots for years, and while residents have concerns about driving around these illegally parked trucks, they say the trash that drivers have been leaving behind is equally as distressing.
"They're not moving them, and it's unfortunate that the parking enforcement is not focusing on this part of the Bronx," says Wakefield resident Anthony Maldonado.
"A lot of trash on the side of the road," he continued to Bronx News 12.
"You call 311, and that's the system for the normal person to complain about something that's not being done by the city. But you're spending all this money for the system, and nothing is being done," adding that his wife nearly had an accident on the Major Deegan Expressway when she had to swerve to avoid a truck parked in the road.
Bronx city Councilman Eric Dinowitz says that he is doing his best to remedy the situation, which he knows can only be truly solved by creating safe, legal truck parking for these drivers.
"We've reached out to the 50th Precinct and they have ramped up enforcement on illegal parking…They say they wrote 20 tickets on Thursday night," he said.
"We have reached out to the Department of Transportation commissioner and asked them to take steps to designate tractor trailer rest areas to allow these trucks to stop legally," Dinowitz continued.
"We are working very hard to both enforce the law, to improve our quality of life, and to find the space for those tractor-trailers so they're not taking up space on Nereid Avenue, on Webster Avenue, or on the Deegan."


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Won last night, Sat 24th June one ticket won £21million. 5 plus Bonus ball prize £28,000. About a thousand times less.


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Mar 13, 2019 (Heraldkeeper via COMTEX) -- Market Study Report LLC recently introduced new title on "2019-2024 Global Shipping Software Market Report" that provides an in-depth overview of industry and competitive landscape, covering multiple market segments and elaborates market outlook and status to 2024.
The global Shipping Software market is valued at 1160 million in 2018 and is expected to reach 1880 million by the end of 2024, growing at a CAGR of 8.3% between 2019 and 2024. Shipping software will help you reduce costs and automate your shipping processes with quick carrier cost and service comparisons, shipping label and document printing and delivery tracking.
End-Users of Shipping Software can be segmented into four types: CEP, Air & Ocean forwarding, Contract Logistics Land, In-house and others. Land and In-house/Other takes a bigger market size of about 56% of total global share in 2017, and CEP segment is the fast growing downstream user group in the world at present. Currently, the market concentration rate is very low. Regional characteristics of products are obvious. Leading international players include Pitney Bowes, Metapack, Temando, Stamps.com, WiseTech Global and some others. Pitney Bowes, Stamps.com, ADSI, ReadyCloud, LLC., Shipwire and Metapack are major players in USA market, Metapack, Pitney Bowes, WiseTech Global, Temando, Shipwire are well-known shipping software players in Europe market. There are many small local players spread in each separate countries, to meet the needs of local logistic system.
The Shipping Software market stands tall as one of the most proactive industry verticals, as claimed by a new research report. This research study forecasts this space to accrue substantial proceeds by the end of the projected period, aided by a plethora of driving forces that will fuel the industry trends over the forecast duration. A gist of these driving factors, in tandem with myriad other dynamics pertaining to the Shipping Software market, such as the risks that are prevalent across this industry as well as the growth opportunities existing in Shipping Software market, have also been outlined in the report.
One of the most vital pointers that makes the Shipping Software market report worth a purchase is the extensive overview of the competitive spectrum of the vertical. The study efficiently segregates the Shipping Software market into Pitney Bowes, Metapack, Temando, Stamps.com, WiseTech Global, ProShip, Logistyx Technologies, ADSI, Malvern Systems, ShipHawk, Epicor Software Corporation, Pierbridge, ReadyCloud, LLC., Shippo, Teapplix, Shipwire, 2Ship Solutions and V-Technologies, as per the competitive hierarchy. In essence, these companies have been vying with one another to accrue a near-dominant position in the industry.
The report supplies substantial data regarding the market share that every one of these companies currently garner across this business, in tandem with the market share that they are expected to procure by the end of the forecast period. Also, the report elaborates on details pertaining to the products manufactured by each of these firms, that would help new entrants and prominent stakeholders work on their competition and strategy portfolios. Not to mention, their decision-making process is liable to get easier on account of the fact that the Shipping Software market report also enumerates a gist of the product price trends and the profit margins of each firm in the industry.
The regional spectrum, as per the report, is segregated into North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, South America & Middle East and Africa. Which among these zones is most likely to accrue the maximum market share by the end of the forecast duration?
How much is the sales estimates of each firm in question? Also, how strong do the revenue statistics stand pertaining to the current market scenario?
What exactly is the remuneration that each geography holds at present?
How much revenue will every region including North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, South America & Middle East and Africa account for, by the end of the projected timeframe?
How much is the growth rate which each geography is estimated to depict over the estimated timeline?
The Shipping Software market report plays host to a plethora of deliverables that may prove highly beneficial. Say for example, the report underlines the information pertaining to market competition trends - highly essential data subject to competitor intelligence and the ongoing market trends that would enable shareholders to stay competitive and make the most of the growth opportunities prevailing in the Shipping Software market.
What questions does the report answer with respect to the segmentation of the Shipping Software market?
Which among Web-Based and Installed - the various product types, is likely to procure the largest share in the Shipping Software market?
What is the market share held by each product type?
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Which of the various application spanning CEP, Air & Ocean forwarding, Contract Logistics, Land and In-house/Other may emerge to be a highly profitable vertical in the Shipping Software market?
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A2P SMS is one where an SMS message is sent from an application ? typically a web app to a mobile subscriber. These text messages can also be sent in the other direction (from a mobile subscriber to a web app). This is known as P2A (person-to-application) messaging.


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Platypus Reviews (iPhone)
Handmark, Inc.
Squashy Software
BlackBerry, Macintosh, Palm OS, PSP, Symbian, Windows, Windows Mobile, Xbox 360 | Combined View
Arcade, Shooter
Sci-Fi / Futuristic
There are no reviews for the iPhone release of this game. You can use the links below to write your own review or read reviews for the other platforms of this game.
AppCraver (Jan 30, 2009)
Platypus, from Handmark, ranks among the best-looking side-scrolling shooting games to debut in the App Store. Heck, make that one of the best-looking games in the entire App Store.
MacLife (Jan 05, 2009)
2D shooters get a fresh face with painstakingly detailed, stylized claymation graphics. The power-up system is fun and engaging, although the gameplay can get a little shallow at times, especially during boss fights.
TouchGen (Dec 14, 2008)
A great shooter, looks great, plays great…. It's pretty great!
Slide to Play (Jun 11, 2009)
Besides three degrees of difficulties and an offline high score list, Platypus doesn't contain many opportunities for replay value. The wi-fi multiplayer is a nice touch, however. A few intense moments aside, this casual shooter is more about easygoing and consistent progression, which suits the iPhone very well.
Pocket Gamer UK (Dec 11, 2008)
This puts Platypus in the slightly awkward position of being attractive enough to pull in both fans and newcomers alike, but perhaps only having the goods to sustain and entertain the former. Nevertheless, it's not a bad thing to be a memorable first step and there's little chance of anyone forgetting the delights Platypus has molded onto the iPhone.
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The Burger Bobbies: Hard-up police force patrols streets with McDonald's marshals to beat crime
By Daily Mail Reporter
Updated: 05:58 EST, 19 November 2010
McDonald's is helping to pay for a team of police officers and civilians to patrol the streets of a city centre at night.
The 'street marshals' are being funded entirely by local businesses, including the fast food chain, to try to control alcohol-fuelled violence.
Critics, however, fear the scheme is another potentially dangerous example of ordinary citizens being used to replace police officers to save money.
Frying Squad: McDonald's Street Marshalls join police on patrol in Leeds city centre
While towns across the country use street marshals or 'angels' to patrol on busy Friday and Saturday nights, the scheme in Leeds is the first totally funded by private businesses.
West Yorkshire Police insists all the marshals are 'licensed and professional' door staff whose job involves controlling troublemakers anyway.
Since July, up to 29 street marshals, wearing high-visibility jackets, have been going on patrol at key weekends alongside police officers, community support officers and special constables.
Serving justice: McDonald's fast food staff in Leeds are helping police combat drink-related crime
The marshals work for a number of local pubs, clubs and takeaway outlets employing door staff to control revellers late at night. In the wake of the huge cuts to policing budgets across the country, many other forces are keeping a close watch on how effective the project is. Normally the bill for street marshals is split between the local council and police force.
Chief Inspector Vernon Francis, who is leading the West Yorkshire Police scheme, told Police Review magazine: 'It saves us on cops. The imperative (for businesses like McDonald's) is that while they are paying for the staff who become marshals, they benefit from the extra police presence in their area.'
He also said that since September the force has recruited 54 'unpaid volunteers' who assist the force with administration, research and a 'variety of investigations'.
Mac my day: McDonald's have often resorted to the law to promote crime awareness, such as with their characters Officer Big-Mac and Hamburglar
The Leeds scheme has been criticised by police staff on internet forums. One said: 'These street marshals are little more than members of the public with fluorescent jackets on and they're being asked to do exactly the same job as the police are vetted, trained and equipped to do.
'If we continue down this road we'll end up with private security replacing the police in every aspect of traditional policing, and the police will end up being recorders of crime rather than out there on the streets acting as a deterrent.'
A spokesman for West Yorkshire Police, which is facing huge cuts to its £438million budget, described the privately sponsored scheme as 'a fantastic achievement'.
Police to patrol Leeds streets with McDonald's marshals to beat crime


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Q: Swift 3.0 NSFetchRequest error Just watched Whats new in Swift in WWDC videos, they have made a number of changes to SDK and the APIs in it. So when heard about the NSManagedObject fetchRequest thing, I directly jumped in and started implementing it.
So as per the WWDC, the old NSManagedObject fetching model changed completely. This is a snippet I wrote in Swift 2.2, long back.
let answers : Answers = NSEntityDescription.insertNewObjectForEntityForName(EntityNames.Answers.rawValue, inManagedObjectContext: managedContext) as! Answers

Now I tried to do the same in Swift 3.0, here we go.
let answers : NSFetchRequest<Answers> = Answers.fetchRequest // WWDC video style

Then I got this error
Cannot convert value of type '() -> NSFetchRequest< NSFetchRequestResult >' to specified type 'NSFetchRequest<Answers>'

Then I changed the code to this
let answers : NSFetchRequest<Answers> = Answers.fetchRequest()

Then I got this error
Cannot convert value of type 'NSFetchRequest<Answers>' to specified type 'NSFetchRequest<NSFetchRequestResult>'

So I have changed the code a bit and the error gone away. But now I don't have an instance of Answers NSManagedObject, I have an instance of something else, by using this instance I can't access the properties of my Answers NSManagedObject. I want to do fetchRequest in Answers.
What do you think about this? Let me know your comments please.

So I have solved it by using this way
extension Answers {
    @nonobjc class func fetchRequest() -> NSFetchRequest<Answers> {
        return NSFetchRequest<Answers>(entityName: "Level");
    }
}

And fetched like this
let answers : NSFetchRequest<Answers> = Answers.fetchRequest()

Then I thought of making it more precise, like this
let answers = Answers.fetchRequest()

And shown the error Ambiguous use of fetchRequest() Why??


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Early in the year 2000, Stephen R. Knapp came across one of my posts on Genforum. A few email exchanges established that we are third cousins once removed and that we both felt a good old-fashioned family get-together was long overdue.
Fortified by our mutual enthusiasm for the undertaking ahead of us, we forged ahead with plans for a Knapp/Napp reunion. The second weekend of August 2001 was selected because it falls near the 180th wedding anniversary of our immigrant ancestors, Conrad and Maria Napp (married on August 9, 1821). The sleepy crossroads of Beetown in Grant County, Wisconsin, was chosen as the reunion site because of its proximity to the farm where the Napps settled when they immigrated in 1846.
Our mailing list was built by asking known cousins for addresses of additional family members. The initial mailing (in late January) to 180 households included a form for providing still more family members' names and addresses, plus a stamped, self-addressed envelope to maximize return. At the same time a news release was sent to newspapers in Grant County. The story was printed in at least two publications. As a result of the mailing, publicity, and word of mouth, the mailing list has grown to 300 households. With only a 28 percent response rate to date, over 100 people have indicated they will attend the reunion.
The Knapp/Napp reunion will meld traditional ideas and newfangled notions of what a reunion is all about.
The day of the reunion picnic will begin with a slide show presented by another newly-discovered third cousin, Bruce Johnson, and his daughter, Diane Foster. Bruce and Diane visited the ancestral Napps' native village of Werlau, Germany, early in the 1990s. Bruce took many photographs of the village and surrounding countryside along the Rhine River. Diane contacted Werner Trunk, who had researched the Napp lineage and turned out to be a fourth cousin.
We've gotten information about what life was like when the "old pioneers" settled in the mid-1800s from the Grant County Genealogical Society and other area historical resources. In addition, we are fortunate to have a brief family history, written in 1922, which the family's first 76 years in the New World. Some of this combined historical information will be read at the picnic to give a sense of the "olden days," some appears in mailings and all of it will be available at the reunion.
Reunion planners have moved into their bifocal years, so they appreciate the need for BIG nametags written in LARGE letters; they also will include (in smaller print) the wearer's direct lineage to the original Napp immigrants.
The picnic lunch will be catered to keep things simple for those traveling from afar, but several local cousins will bring potluck salads and desserts – perhaps the most fondly remembered elements of an old-fashioned reunion picnic.
At least one notebook computer will be in use the day of the reunion. Family members all over the country have contributed genealogical information so my Family Tree Maker database now includes approximately 2,000 Knapp/Napp family members. The notebook computer will allow us to do on-the-spot lookups, additions and corrections. We will also use presentation software to project captioned family portraits continuously throughout the reunion picnic. A rented photocopier will allow us to duplicate photos and documents that couldn't be provided in advance for scanning.
The Grant County Genealogical Society provided data about where Knapp/Napp ancestors are buried. A volunteer will create a map indicating roads and cemetery locations, and copies will be given to those joining an informal caravan of the gravesites on Sunday. Other volunteers will go to the cemeteries early Sunday morning to mark pertinent graves with flags or balloons. Caravan participants will be encouraged to bring cameras, small notebooks and pens, and everything needed to make grave rubbings.
There are lots of limited jobs that require an hour or less of the volunteer, but cumulatively take a tremendous load off the shoulders of the reunion organizers. One volunteer will bring a supply of posterboard, paper and labels, along with a Ziplock bag filled with tape, tacks, glue sticks, pencils, markers and scissors for making last-minute signs, labels, etc. Another volunteer will organize a reunion toolbox with hammer, tacks, duct tape, masking tape, screwdrivers, staple gun, etc. Yet another will organize a supply of Gladware, foil, plastic wrap, freezer paper, waxed paper, and Ziplock bags for handling leftovers. Others will be assigned to bring a first aid kit, extra film, camera batteries, sunscreen, aspirin and acetaminophen.
When we think back on Conrad and Maria Napp's era, we really appreciate, by contrast, the ease with which we're able to communicate with one another and accomplish what needs to be done. We know that they would be astonished by the tools — internet bulletin boards, email, computer scanners and database systems — we've utilized to organize the reunion. We're equally certain that it wouldn't surprise them at all to see their progeny sharing both the work and rewards of creating a reunion where we will celebrate our connection to them and to one another.
Mary Thiele Fobian is a free-lance writer/editor and former editor of Reunions magazine who is keeping her reunion skills sharp planning the Knapp/Napp Family Reunion 2001. Along with Lynn Blocker Krantz and Nick Krantz, Mary recently co-authored To Honolulu in Five Days: Cruising Aboard Matson's S.S. Lurline, which will be published by Ten Speed Press later this year. She lives in Pacific Grove, California, with her husband and three children.


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Who needs banks? My experience of "We R One World"
This past weekend, I participated in the "We R One World" game hosted by Carolyn Tate on behalf of the Slow School of Business, and facilitated by Ron Laurie from MetaIntegral. The game is an immersive learning experience in the form of a simulated global strategy workshop, based on the work of Buckminster Fuller. I joined a team whose role was to represent the interests of the commercial banks. It was a rather sobering experience, because as the workshop unfolded, it soon became clear that in the context of the game the banks were almost redundant – which partly reflects what is going on in the real world, as banks face increased disintermediation and disruption by FinTech, crowdfunding and the shared economy.
The Fuller Projection or Dymaxion Map
The Premise – Earth as Spaceship
Without going into too much detail, "We R One World" mimics elements of the board games "Risk" and "Monopoly", and takes the form of a narrative-based hackathon, combined with a meetup and an unconference. Played out on a floor-size version of the dymaxion map, the game also draws on Fuller's concept that the Earth is a spaceship, of which the players are the crew, and the "fuel" is the inventory of global resources at the crew's disposal, including people, technology, capital, food, energy, munitions, water, etc. The participants form teams to represent various geo-political regions, supranational NGOs, multinational corporations and banks. The goal is to achieve (through trade negotiations), the best socio-economic outcomes for everyone, with a few surprises along the way!
There is a lot of information to absorb, as well as the structure of the game. One challenge for the players is to not get hung up on the presented "data" (which is more representative, rather than precisely factual). Even though we live with access to real-time, on-line statistics and research, and despite the Internet and search engines, in real life we still experience considerable information asymmetry.
The Prelude – We Are Star Dust
As a prelude, we were shown the documentary "The Overview Effect", which includes the comment by former Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell that we are made of star dust (a now common concept echoed in various songs such as Moby's "We Are All Made of Stars" or Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock", depending on your musical taste/cultural perspective).
It was also a timely connection, given the increased media coverage of space exploration, and Hollywood's renewed interest in space travel. The recurring theme (in reality as much as in fiction) is that human survival will depend on relocating to, or harnessing other planets.
As examples, in the real world, we have the latest discovery of an Earth-like planet, tweets from Philae on a frozen comet, and the remarkable images from Pluto. While the entertainment world is enjoying critical and popular success with films such as "Moon", "Gravity", "Elysium" and "Interstellar" (plus the forthcoming "The Martian"). Even veteran Sci-Fi writer Brain Aldiss has bowed out with his final space novel, "The Finches of Mars".
The Banks – Increasingly dispensable
But back to the game, and what we might conclude from the outcomes.
From the start, in the role of the banks we had a strategy for encouraging "good" behaviour, and punishing the "bad". We had a catalogue of regional problems, and a set of possible solutions. "Good" behaviour was predicated on regions finding creating solutions to their problems, based on partnering, prioritization, planning and promotion. "Bad" behaviour might include late or failed interest repayments, misuse of funds (e.g., deploying more military hardware ahead of feeding their population), or actions that led to worsening conditions (increased poverty, hunger and illiteracy, or depleted natural resources).
At the outset, the banks' role was to manage existing loans (by collecting interest due), and to originate new loans for development and commercial projects. In the initial stages, despite Japan's attempt to renegotiate its existing repayment terms on the fly, the commercial banks managed to collect all interest due, on time and in full (with a small surplus, thanks to some regions' lax monetary management). One region paid up without much prompting, cheerfully (or ironically?) commenting that "we must keep the banks happy!".
However, as the game progressed, the banks were basically ignored, as regions switched their focus to responding to new circumstances, such that the consequences of not servicing their debts seemed irrelevant. Even the risk/threat of bankruptcy did not carry much persuasion, as regions were more willing to find new ways to trade with each other, less reliant on bank capital, and more focussed on alternative value exchanges (part of the game's secret sauce).
For example, we received only two loan applications throughout the game: one was for a worthy but ambitious development project, but when asked to resubmit the request with some further information, the loan did not materialise; and the other was more in the way of a short-term deposit with the bank, to generate interest income to buy food. Given that deposit rates are low, our response was to suggest using the capital (with additional bank funding) to increase food production, but our offer was declined, maybe because of the need to trade out of a short-term food shortage rather than investing in long-term supply.
Towards the end, the banks were almost mere spectators in the game, and were reduced to protecting their self-interests: namely their capital, and their stalled/stagnant loan assets. If borrowers don't want the banks' money, where and what will the banks invest in order to generate depositor, investor and shareholder returns? As one regional participant commented, "we are all bank shareholders". Just as in real life, we deposit money with the banks, we invest in their financial products (especially through our superannuation and pension funds), and we may even buy their shares and bonds. And of course, following the GFC, many taxpayers found themselves indirect shareholders of banks that were bailed out by their respective governments.
The Conclusion – An alternative approach?
I'm not going to give the game away (you can experience it for yourself in September) but the conclusion and outcome reinforce the view that in order to tackle the world's problems, we all have to take a different perspective – whether that is challenging existing structures, subverting traditional business models, or questioning our personal motives and objectives. For myself, I recognise that this means an increased awareness of "living lean" (mostly around personal preferences and lifestyle choices), and (multi-)lateral thinking.
For institutions like banks (as well as governments, corporations and NGOs) this alternative approach means re-assessing their roles and contribution (which can also be framed as re-connecting with their "purpose"), remodelling their processes and systems, and redefining the measures of their success. As my team member concluded, "the other players only see the banks as a source of capital, rather than a resource for knowledge, expertise and networks".
Declaration of interest: I participated in the game at the kind invitation of the Slow School of Business.
Next week: "I'm old, not obsolete"
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carolyn643 on July 28, 2015 at 12:28 PM said:
Excellent write up Rory! Truly, who does need banks? Thanks for playing the game with us!
Thanks, Carolyn. Although, as I have written previously, despite all the disruption and disintermediation, the banks will not be displaced lightly. But I do believe that a mix of regulatory reforms, new risk management models, FinTech, changing customer expectations and "new value exchanges" are making the banks re-think their purpose. Mostly I see this as a positive development, but we need to keep monitoring this space.
Ron Laurie on July 28, 2015 at 2:43 PM said:
Hi Rory, you were both so good as the Bank. Like a brittle pine tree on the shore of a windy cape, sooner or later the pounding winds of change snap off the branches (no pun intended, not). Great report and blog. Thanks for playing full tilt.
Kind words, Ron, for which our team will be grateful! The banks are waking up to the fact that have a bigger role to play as a solution to the problem, rather than being part of the problem itself. Hence the tentative steps towards collaborative services (e.g., co-working spaces).


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Limbo has traditionally been viewed as a place between heaven, on the one hand, and purgatory and hell, on the other, to which the patriarchs, who lived under the old law, and babies who died before being baptized into the Christian faith have been consigned. Like purgatory, it is a dark place but not deprived of grace. Now that the Roman Catholic Church has declared that limbo is not an official church teaching, the idea of limbo has been freed from ecclesiastical constraints and available for reflection on the human condition on this side of the grave.Living in Limbo by Donald Capps and Nathan Carlin focuses on the acute limbo situations that are an integral part of human life, including the vicissitudes of growing up, of forming committed relationships, of finding employment and staying employed, of undergoing life-threatening illnesses, and of experiencing dislocation and doubt. Using cases and examples of real-life persons, the book identifies the forms of distress likely to occur throughout the duration of the limbo experience, and it also identifies the internal and external resources that individuals draw upon as they cope with the stresses and uncertainties of living in limbo.Drawing on the traditional view, especially reflected in Christian art, that Christ descends into limbo to comfort and liberate its occupants, Living in Limbo comes down on the side of hope versus despair. In reading about other limbo dwellers, readers will meet themselves-or someone they love and care about-and will be encouraged by the very fact that they are not alone. Although it is not a pleasant place to be, limbo is not a place of solitary confinement, and one derives strength and resilience from the presence of the others.
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Donald Capps is Professor of Pastoral Psychology (Emeritus) and Adjunct Professor at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the author of The Child's Song (1995), Agents of Hope (2001), Fragile Connections (2005), A Time to Laugh (2005), Jesus the Village Psychiatrist (2008), and The Decades of Life (2008). Nathan Carlin is Assistant Professor of Medical Humanities at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston. He has coauthored many articles with Donald Capps.
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Lila Freedman
Long-time Yale College Director of Publications Lila Freedman passed away in the Whitney Center in Hamden Wednesday night. She was 86 years old. Born in Brooklyn in 1924, Freedman earned her B.A. from Brooklyn College, an M.A. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and her Ph.D. with Honors from the University of Wisconsin. After teaching at the University of Rhode Island and the University of Iowa, she worked as a free-lance editor before moving to New Haven in 1972. She joined Yale in 1974, ultimately rising to the position of Director of Publications for Yale College, where she edited the Yale College Course Catalogue and supervised the numerous other publications. A passionate student of Yale architecture and ornament, she authored many articles on the gargoyles of Yale and led Elderhostel tours of the campus. She also edited and wrote an introduction for former Yale College Dean of Undergraduate Students Martin Griffin's book, Latitudinarianism in Seventeenth-Century England as well as a collection of Griffin's informal writing, In His Own Words. Beloved by her colleagues and by the bursary students she mentored, Lila Freedman also taught composition in the English Department, tutored high-school students, and participated in the Center for Independent Studies. She retired from Yale in 1995. Lila 's other great love in life was travel. She spent much of her free time in Europe and North and West Africa. Lila Freedman is survived by her brother, Robert Hermann, of Brookline, Mass., two sons, Jonathan of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Mark of Paris, France, and by six adoring grandchildren.
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I am so very sad to learn of Lila's passing. My love and sympathies go out to Mark and Jonathan and your whole family.
Whenever I show visitors around Yale, I share with them small bits of the history of the gargoyles that Lila pointed out to me over the years. What a woman she was! How I miss her!
Love, Ruth
Yuhong Li said,
I cannot believe Lila passed away. How I wish she would always be there and smile at me.
"Oh,boy!" Lila said when I told her something interesting about China. After that, she added: "boy" here doesn't mean that "boy." She was teaching me English.
I came to New Haven in 2004 from Beijing, China. Lila was my first English teacher in the U.S.
I still remember the day we met for the first time. It was a sunny afternoon. Lila sat at a desk and she prepared a pen and a notebook for me to study. She was a strict teacher. Whenever I made mistakes on pronunciation, she would stop me and say "I don't know what you are talking about." I was very frustrated at the beginning, especially when Lila told me she could not understand me when I said "I LOVE my husband."–" You have to place your top front teeth against your bottom lip when you pronounce V." Lila told me and bit her bottom lip with her front teeth tightly. I can never forget this in my whole life.
I laughed and–cried when I though of this. I miss you so much, Lila.
I visited Lila once a week since 2004 until I moved to NYC and studied at Columbia University in 2007. Lila taught me English and corrected my English writings. She recommended me many good English novels. We became very good friends and she told me her stories as well. We kept in touch even after I moved to NYC until she was sick and could not remember who I was.
I moved to Hong Kong for good last April and I went to see her at the Whitney Center before I left. She could not speak clearly and I don't know if she knew me then, but we both cried when I left. It was the last time I saw her.
I am so grateful for having a great teacher and friend like Lila. Rest in peace, Lila, and I LOVE you.
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