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In 2008 independent video producer and internet critic Doug Walker created the Ask That Guy With The Glasses, or in short, the Ask That Guy. This was a dark comedy show about a psychopath who answered stupid questions in the most inappropriate way possible. The show ended in late 2014 and it seems to be dead for good. Fortunately the old episodes are available in the archive on the Channel Awesome website so you can go back and watch all of them any time you wish. In case you've never heard of Ask That Guy, allow us to offer a retrospective summary of the character and his show.
Ask That Guy knew how to make an entrance, saying hello in a different language every episode; this may have included Klingon and Wookie by the sound of it. He made a habit of inventing words like murdercide and was obsessed with hamsterjelly and a hummel figurine (which he pulled out of his ass on episode 25), also onions (which was elevated to epic heights in episode 59) and Roger Rabbit. He hated Twilight and people who wanted to borrow sugar. He promoted cannibalism and human sacrifice, insulted everyone from Ted Turner to child actors and especially the audience, constantly made sexist jokes, and he made out with or abused himself (often using his signature pipe on either his dick or his ass) on multiple occasions. He also committed mass murder in an orphanage.
As he himself would have said, we "know what you're thinking". You're thinking: how could such a terrible person have a fanbase?
No, actually, if you read this website, you're clearly not thinking that. If you read our site that means you love dark humor, and therefore you find Ask That Guy to be a likable, heroic role model. We know there's a lot of you out there, because when Ask That Guy offered five questions to the audience to answer in his stead in episode 30, you produced ten minutes worth of responses that are all just as fucked up as anything Ask That Guy himself could have come up with. And it was glorious!
The show peaked between episodes 40 and 46 (more on that later) around the 4-episode December special edition of all things. To be fair, if you ask questions related to the holiday season from a devil-worshiping mass-murdering sexist psychopath, you're liable to get some really messed up and thereby hilarious answers, and that's exactly what happened.
The show never managed to reach the same heights after that, but it never really went downhill, either. It remained fun and fresh, even when it started recycling old questions, and even produced our second favorite episode of all time (more on that later). Even after episode 60 the show produced memorable moments like the time when Ask That Guy admitted to being a brony, or the live session in which he invented the Voltrongina, or when he headbanged to Bohemian Rhapsody in a way that put Wayne's World to shame. Sadly, the show went on indefinite hiatus in 2012 following episode 69 (which, miraculously, did not contain any 69 jokes), until in late 2014 Ask That Guy came back only to be immediately killed off in the series finale:
Ask That Guy Final Episode
It was a sad day for fans all over the world, and Ask That Guy will be sorely missed. He will also be frowned upon as a liar, because in Episode 47 he promised that Mr. T would take over in the event of his untimely demise, and that didn't happen. Disappointing...
In closing, let us reflect upon the years of inappropriate and insanely funny dark jokes with the following list of our top 8 favorite episodes. This was a very hard list to compile. After all, Ask That Guy gave us so many memorable moments that would deserve a spot in the Dark Humor Hall Of Fame, like when he gave Wile E. Coyote advice with the Roadrunner, or when he posted a job advert for a scrotum washer, or when he blew up his old set, or when he gave himself a heart attack, and many many more. If you're a fan and find your favorite episode missing from the list, well, that's too bad. This is our list, deal with it.
So without further ado, our top 8 episodes of Ask That Guy With The Glasses. Rest in peace you mass-murdering sexist psychopath. We will miss you.
8. Episode 6: in which Ask That Guy discusses the ass-scratching fairy. Also, cabbage soup.
http://channelawesome.com/ask-thatguy-episode-06/
7. Episode 51: in which Ask That Guy borrows from South Park and reveals that Mickey Mouse is evil incarnate. Also, he visits an orphanage with spectacular results.
http://channelawesome.com/ask-that-guy-episode-51/
6. Episode 37: in which Ask That Guy discusses how bullets are made of ice cream.
5. Episode 42: in which Ask That Guy discusses whether the Jedi Force Choke can be used to commit suicide. Also, chess.
4. Episode 43: in which Ask That Guy dons a Santa hat and explains how Santa is a rapist. Also, suicide advice for the holidays.
3. Episode 2: in which Ask That Guy recommends the T1000 from Terminator 2 to be the President of the United States, and reveals the real fuel used by Optimus Prime.
2. Episode 58: in which the Devil himself guest narrates, feeling that the episode was so fucked up it warranted his intervention. Also, quotes from Commando, and a robotic machine gun dick.
1. Episode 44: in which Bennett the Sage guest hosts and turns out to be infinitely more fucked up than Ask That Guy himself.
The absolute best episode as far as we're concerned. In fact, remember when we complained that Mr. T did not show up to replace Ask That Guy and continue the show? Fuck that, bring in Sage to run the show! Please? Pretty please? We'll pay you in orphan blood.


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Adair Jewelers in Missoula has gathered Montana sapphires from mines in Phillipsburg and Helena and is giving them away to western Montana women that graduated high school this year.
"We've already given away almost 450 of them this year," said store owner Jim Adair. "We decided they can have a little chunk of Montana as they scatter all over the country after they graduate."
Adair says the pendents range in value from $100 to $195 dollars and that the stones are set in sterling silver.
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Mike Granby
Chief Executive with Strong Technical and Entrepreneurial Background
Summary of Experience
Highly adaptable, internationally experienced executive with a proven record of generating sales and profit growth. Excellent builder and leader of board-level teams, with a management style that demands ownership, independence and performance. Strong background in engineering and marketing, plus deep knowledge of finance, accounting and operations. Experienced in acquisition due diligence and integration, and in merging company cultures, structures and brands. Excellent public speaker, presenter and writer, with an outstanding ability to define and communicate strategy and vision.
Recent Professional History
Red Lion Controls, York PA (1999 – Present)
President of a leading industrial controls company with full P&L responsibility for over $120m in sales and 380 employees. Direct report to director of UK-based parent company, Spectris plc. Responsible for strategy generation and implementation, and for all aspects of company operations.
Drove customer-focused values and culture into all aspects of the company's organization.
Repositioned brand from panel meters to solutions in communication, monitoring and control.
Organically doubled the company's revenue via the introduction of a new HMI product line.
Diligenced and integrated acquisitions that doubled the size of the company once again.
Constructed new management team and culture suited to changing scale of the business.
Delivered long-term revenue growth, and maintained profitability through economic cycles.
Expanded sales structure from US-based distribution to a global mix of channels and staff.
Transitioned factory from 4-week to 3-day cycle time to improve service and cut inventory.
Vice President of Engineering for a brief period upon moving from the United Kingdom.
Paradigm Controls Limited, Chesterfield, England (1993 – 1999)
Managing Director and Founder of an industrial electronics company specializing in intelligent operator interface terminals. Responsible for raising start-up capital, and for the development of the company's initial product range. Negotiated and managed the company's eventual sale to Spectris plc as a bolt-on acquisition for Red Lion Controls in 1996.
Overseer Systems Limited, Chesterfield, England (1991 – 1993)
Technical Director of a control systems company, with responsibility for managing a team of six development engineers. Responsible for migration of the company from an older product range to a leading-edge design. Part of board-level team charged with overall financial and marketing direction, and with the establishment of a new office in the North of England.
Axiomatic Design Limited, Chesterfield, England (1989 – 1991)
Managing Director and Founder of a three-person engineering consultancy firm, specializing in embedded microprocessor designs. Responsible for start-up financing and the day-to-day operation of the business. Also responsible for the provision of software development services to clients.
Education and Background
Self taught, with no formal qualifications beyond High School.
Graduate of INSEAD 2002 Advanced Management Program.
Dual citizen of both United States and United Kingdom.
Central Pennsylvania "Forty Under 40" winner in 2007.
Instrument-Rated Private Pilot and Angel Flight volunteer.
Published author in aviation magazines on variety of topics.
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The About section has been imported from the old site and updated to describe Red Lion's recent acquisitions. Mike's resume has also been added.
The avionics library is now back online, providing one of the Internet's broadest selection of manuals for King, Garmin
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How ICE Can Freeze Your Business Operations!
By: Pascal Benyamini
ICE, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was formed in 2003 "as part of the federal government's response to the 9/11 attacks and its mission is to protect the security of the American people and homeland by vigilantly enforcing the nation's immigration and customs laws." With an annual budget of more than $5 billion and more than 19,000 employees in over 400 offices in the U.S. and around the world, ICE is the largest investigative agency in the United States Department of Homeland Security. ICE may conduct raids or sweeps at a particular place of business. ICE can also send Notices of Inspections to employers to alert them that it will be inspecting their I-9s and hiring records to determine whether or not they are complying with employment eligibility verification laws and regulations. ICE's increased focus is on holding employers accountable for their hiring practices and their efforts to ensure a legal workforce. ICE also seeks to ensure that employers are compliant with I-9 forms and hiring records.
In the event of audits or raids, employers' non-compliance may result in civil penalties and lay the groundwork for criminal prosecution of employers who have knowingly violated the law. According to ICE's Assistant Secretary John Morton, "ICE is focused on finding and penalizing employers who believe they can unfairly get ahead by cultivating illegal workplaces." He added that ICE is "increasing criminal and civil enforcement of immigration-related employment laws and imposing smart, tough employer sanctions to even the playing field for employers who play by the rules."
While the presence of illegal aliens at a business does not necessarily mean the employer is responsible, consulting with legal counsel is paramount to limiting your potential exposure in your hiring practices.
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Revised guidelines for both employers and veterans regarding the Americans with Disabilities Act
By: Marion Cooper
On February 28, 2012, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") announced the publication of revised guidelines for both employers and veterans regarding the Americans with Disabilities Act (the "ADA"). The new publications address changes to the ADA's definition of the term "disability", which was broadened under the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 to include, among other conditions, a wider range of military service related disabilities such as traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder. Before the amendments, the ADA's definition of the term "disability" had been construed narrowly, significantly limiting the law's protections.
With large numbers of veterans returning from service in Iraq and Afghanistan, attention is now being focused on veterans' challenges in obtaining and successfully maintaining civil employment. According to the EEOC, approximately "25 percent of recent veterans report having a service-connected disability, as compared to about 13 percent of all veterans." And, as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in October, unemployment for post-9/11 veterans hovers around 12 percent, which is more than three percentage points higher than the overall unemployment rate. The EEOC wants "veterans with disabilities to know that the EEOC has resources to assist them as they transition to, or move within the civilian workforce," said EEOC Chair Jacqueline A. Berrien.
The Guide for Veterans answers questions about an injured veteran's rights when returning to civilian life and explains the kind of work adjustments or reasonable accommodations that may help veterans be successful in the workforce. It explains that, in addition to the ADA protections for disabilities, the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act ("USERRA") protects veterans from discrimination on the basis of their military status.
The Guide for Employers explains how the ADA applies to recruiting, hiring, and accommodating veterans with disabilities and differentiates the protections available to veterans with disabilities under the ADA from the protection afforded to veterans under USERRA from discrimination in employment. The Employer's guide provides information on additional laws and regulations that employers may find useful if they decide to make recruiting and hiring veterans with disabilities a priority.
Both guides may be found at the EEOC website at:
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EEOC Discrimination Charges Reach Record High
By: Aaron M. Moyer
According to the EEOC's recently released statistics, the Commission received a record number of new employment discrimination charges last year. For fiscal year 2011, the Commission received 99,947 charges of employment discrimination. The Commission also obtained $455.6 million in relief, another record high. This is a $51 million increase from the previous year and continues the upward trend of the past three years.
The statistics provided by the EEOC offer employers some guidance on the hottest issues before the Commission right now:
• Charges alleging retaliation under all of the statutes enforced by the EEOC were the most numerous, accounting for 37.4% of all charges.
• The agency's enforcement of disability claims under the ADA resulted in a total of $103.4 million of the total $455.6 million obtained.
• The most common alleged disabilities were back impairments, orthopedic impairments, depression, anxiety disorder and diabetes.
• 2011 was the first full fiscal year of the EEOC's enforcement of the Genetic Nondiscrimination Information Act (GINA). Only 245 GINA charges were filed, none of which proceeded to litigation.
According to EmploymentLaw360, in a January 2012 speech to the New York State Bar Association, EEOC Commissioner Chai Feldblum discussed the growing number of EEOC cases alleging ADA violations in the service sector, particularly the healthcare and restaurant industries. The Commissioner cautioned employers in specific areas: one-size-fits-all attendance policies, medical questionnaires that are unrelated to the job at hand, and rescinding job offers strictly on the basis of disability. h/t Employment Law 360 (http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/303314?nl_pk=6f740239-75f3-4574-ac7d-3486fe3ce6dd&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=employment)
The EEOC's complete statistics can be found at http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/statistics/enforcement/index.cfm.
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NLRB Clarifies Standards to be Applied to Claims Involving Employee Use of Social Media
By: Jerrold J. Wohlgemuth
Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon recently issued an NLRB Report clarifying the standards to be applied to claims involving employee use of social media. The Report, which summarized recent cases concerning employer policies restricting employee use of social media, like Facebook, as well as cases involving discipline imposed in response to postings on social media, makes clear that the Board will apply traditional analysis to issues concerning social media.
With respect to employer policies addressing the use of social media, the cases show that the Board's focus will be on whether the policy in question "would reasonably tend to chill employees in the exercise of their Section 7 right" to engage in protected concerted activity. Employer policies will be found to be unlawfully overbroad to the extent they directly prohibit using social media to discuss terms and conditions of employment, or could "reasonably be construed by employees as prohibiting" such discussions. Policies that prohibit "disparaging" comments about the employer, "inappropriate" references to the work environment, and "unprofessional" or "disrespectful" postings are unlawfully overbroad because they could reasonably be construed by employees as prohibiting complaints about the work environment or discussions about the terms and conditions of employment. To pass NLRB muster, employers should focus their social media policies on the same type of activities that are prohibited in the workplace, such as harassment, threats and discrimination, and should also include a specific savings clause to make clear that the policy is not intended to limit or interfere with the right of employees to discuss wages, hours and the terms and conditions of employment.
With respect to cases involving discipline or the discharge of employees for comments posted on social media, the Board applies traditional analysis to determine whether the comments at issue are "protected" because they concern the terms and conditions of employment as opposed to unprotected personal griping, and whether the postings are "concerted" because they seek or result in co-worker comments. The cases cited in the Report show that postings about personal gripes at work or disparaging comments about the manner in which the employer conducts its business will not be protected, whereas comments addressed to working conditions, including the actions of supervisors and the terms and conditions of employment, are protected. The cases also show that the Board will engage in a traditional analysis to determine whether or not a posting is "concerted" by looking at such factors as the intent or purpose of the posting (personal rant/complaint or attempt to engage other employees) and the response to the posting (whether or not co-workers participated in an on-line discussion). An employer's reaction to postings will also be subject to traditional "surveillance" analysis in which the Board will look at the manner in which the employer learned about the social media postings at issue; that is, whether it unlawfully obtained information about the postings surreptitiously, or lawfully learned about them because a manager or supervisor is a "friend" invited to read the postings. All of these factors must be considered in connection with a determination to discharge an employee based on social media activity.
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Tout-Monde: Markham - Call for Proposals
Elegoa Cultural Productions and the Varley Art Gallery of Markham present:
The commission of 6 projects to Toronto and GTA filmmakers and visual artists to be presented in an exhibition
in the fall of 2019. Deadline for proposals: November 9, 2018
Photo credits: City of Markham
"The poetic of the relationship is not a poetic of Magma, of the undifferentiated, or neutral. For there to be relation there, there must be two or more identities or entities that are masters to themselves and that are willing to change by exchanging." Edouard Glissant
Elegoa Cultural Productions and the Varley Art Gallery of Markham are seeking proposals from GTA based filmmakers and visual artists for their upcoming project Tout-Monde: Markham. Presented with a budget of $5,000, each of the six artists chosen will be commissioned to develop a new film-based work in Markham to be presented as part of an exhibition at the Varley Art Gallery in the fall of 2019.
Inspired by the ideas of Martiniquais poet and philosopher Edouard Glissant (1928-2011), this project seeks to engage with the contemporary debate on the legitimacy of speaking for or representing the other. By investigating an empirical approach to the encounter and the building of relations, we aim to create conditions that will inspire a fair and equal visual expression of our experience of this encounter with/of others.
Glissant conceptualized le Tout-Monde ("the whole-world") in the late 1990s following thorough explorations of the history of slavery and the concepts of créolisation, of chaos-monde and of intercultural relationships. Edouard Glissant's oeuvre was primarily influenced by his Caribbean roots in the island of Martinique, colonised by France in 1635 and currently designated as a French overseas department. Although resulting from centuries of colonial history, Glissant extolls what he saw as the chaos of cultures, believing this chaos to be "beautiful, when it conceives elements as equally necessary"1. Glissant explains further:
Let us have the imaginary and utopian strength to conceive that this chaos is not the apocalyptic chaos of the ends of the world (…) In the encounter of the world's cultures we should have the imaginary strength to conceive all cultures as exercising both a unity of action and a liberating diversity.2
Glissant's thinking is grounded in the idea that any relationship –two or more indentities or entities that are masters to themselves - relies on "changing by exchanging". Equally important for him is the assertion of the right to opacity: "I claim the right to opacity for all. I no longer need to "understand" the other, i.e. to reduce him/her to a model of my own transparency, in order to live with this other or build with him/her. The right to opacity would be today the most evident sign of non-barbarism (…)"
With its national record of cultural diversity3, Markham offers an interesting Canadian context within which to experiment with Glissant's principles. While Canada reiterates the mantras of diversity and multiculturalism, the Tout-Monde: Markham project proposes to venture into an alternative path: the practice of the right to opacity and of the poetic of the relationship.
Markham is one of the most diverse cities in Canada, and has a long history of migration and settlement by both Indigenous and settler populations. Located in the Rouge Valley, the area was first inhabited by various Iroquoian-speaking confederacies including the Haudenosaunee, the Huron, the Petun and the Neutral and later the Mississaugas. Since the late 18th century, the town has drawn waves of settlers, starting with British colonisers, German settlers, French Revolutionary Émigrés and United Empire Loyalists. Since WWII, the ongoing economic boom of Markham has attracted exponential waves of immigration from all over the world: Black, Filipino, Latin-American, Arab, Southeast Asian, West Asian, Korean and Japanese. According to Statistics Canada, Markham counted close to 330,000 inhabitants in 2016. Of these, 78% self-identify as visible minority, including 45% Chinese, 17.8% South Asian, 2.9% Black, 2.7% Filipino and 2.4% West Asian. Markhamites self-identify their mother tongues as follows: 39% Chinese, 36% English, 11% South Asian and 14% all others. Over 58% of Markham residents are immigrants and 1% non permanent residents. 77% of all Markham immigrants were born in Asia.
Artists are invited to Markham to engage with community members from cultural backgrounds different from their own, thus stimulating the exploration of various means of perception and interaction with others. Affecting the artist's creative means and processes, this exchange could potentially affect the resulting aesthetic. Ultimately, this project aims to generate a series of personal or collective intercultural encounters between artists and communities, as well as between neighbours, between friends and between strangers. As such, artists, participants, and the public will be inspired to dig alternative paths into the concepts of diversity, multiculturalism and suburban life. Banishing a common language is a proposed, but not mandatory, creative constraint for participating artists. Artists are encouraged to request introductions and networking support.
Interested artists should submit proposals by date November 9, 2018, including:
1. Proposal and Artist Statement (including what draws you to the project and what draws you to Markham in particular). Maximum 2 pages.
2. Curriculum vitae. Maximum 3 pages.
3. Visual support material of past work. Accepted formats: URL links or WeTransfer
Email applications and/or question to: tout.monde.markham@elegoa.com
Subject Heading: Tout-Monde: Markham proposal (or question)
About Elegoa:
Elegoa Cultural Productions, is a social enterprise for artistic and inter-cultural productions that advances the development of socially-active individuals and communities in Canada and abroad. Elegoa's two main activities consist of commissioning artwork and cultural projects, and service delivery (curating, representation, fundraising, project management, consulting / training).
About the Varley Art Gallery of Markham:
The Varley Art Gallery of Markham is a municipal gallery with a vision is to be a cultural hub in the City of Markham. We inspire local and national audiences to engage with art, both historical and contemporary by presenting high quality and well-researched exhibitions and rich, educational and dynamic artistic programs that are relevant to the communities we serve. We also share and celebrate the life and work of F.H. Varley, a founding member of the Group of Seven. We produce and circulate exhibitions that support the work of contemporary artists that are relevant to the communities we serve. Specifically, we support artists from York region and we seek to broaden access to the arts for diverse artists and communities.
About LIFT
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) is an artist-run charitable organization dedicated to facilitating excellence in the moving image through media arts education and production resources. LIFT exists to provide support and encouragement for independent filmmakers and artists through affordable access to production, post-production and exhibition equipment; professional and creative development; workshops and courses; commissioning and exhibitions; artist-residencies; and a variety of other services. Founded in 1981 by a small collective, LIFT has since grown to become one of the foremost centres of its kind globally.
Tout-Monde: Markham is curated by Catherine Sicot and Anik Glaude for the Varley Art Gallery of Markham with the collaboration of LIFT (Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto). It is part of the multi-layered project Facing: The Stories of Others (an exploration of nations from the "outside-in") curated by Catherine Sicot and supported in large part by the New Chapter Program (Canada Council for the Arts). This project is also supported in part through in-kind equipment support from the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto.
1 Edouard Glissant, Introduction à une poétique du divers (Introduction to a Poetics of the Diverse) (Paris: Editions Gallimard, 1996), 71. Quote translated by Zaira Zarza.
3 Markham is not just composed of a large Chinese minority population; it also includes the highest number of visible minority groups in Canada (78% of the total population). 61.2% of people living in Markham are first generation Immigrants (Census data 2016).
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Thirty-five years into his 'big climb,' Dale Coyne is closer to the peak than ever
Dave Kallmann
ELKHART LAKE - Dale Coyne offers a pared-down version of his team's Indy-car history that starts with "the old stock-block engines" in 1984, finishes with "then the merger happened, and here we are" and lasts precisely four sentences.
It's appropriate, perhaps, that Coyne chooses this route; he is direct and humble with Midwestern sensibilities.
But in condensing 35 seasons of Indy-car history to one paragraph, Coyne does sort of gloss over decades of struggles on the racetrack and challenges at the bank.
And 85 other drivers.
And a persistent climb fraught with setbacks and detours from the back of the field, and a 25-year wait for his first win.
And the satisfaction of reaching the point where his name can be mentioned in the same sentences as Penske and Ganassi and Andretti weekly, not just when their cars are lapping his.
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"The one ingredient Dale has always had is he's a racer through and through," said Jimmy Vasser, a retired champion driver who this year became a business partner of Coyne's.
"He's always there. He's consistent. He's going to be there."
That persistence brought Coyne to Road America this week for Sunday's Kohler Grand Prix, where veteran Sebastien Bourdais will pursue his second victory of the season in Coyne's No. 18 Honda-powered car and 20-year-old Zachary Claman De Melo will drive the No. 19 in his eighth Verizon IndyCar Series start.
Road America is where this racing journey began in earnest for Coyne, 63, more than 40 years ago.
A native of Minooka, Ill., southwest of Chicago, and a student at Joliet Junior College, Coyne drove to the track with buddies and stayed in a motor home for the June Sprints, which then was a big spectator event.
"I was sick and had mono," Coyne recalled. "The Corvettes were running, and I was not very excited about it. Then the Formula 5000 cars — the Formula A cars — ran. Those were cool.
"I got up and said, that's what I want to do."
Hooked on open-wheel racing, he went back to the Sprints as a competitor and honed his skills in the Formula Atlantic and Super Vee ranks. Then he took Dale Coyne Racing into the CART Indy-car series in 1984.
To look at Coyne's debut that season is to see his career as a whole.
With outdated and over-matched equipment and a tiny budget, he was no competition to the front-runners, but persistence carried him to the checkered flag, albeit 17 laps behind, in 14th place. From '84 to '91, Coyne started 34 CART starts as a driver, failed to qualify for 10 more, was running at the finish of seven and didn't cover the full distance in any.
He was able to build with pay drivers who brought sponsorship in exchange for the opportunity to try to launch or resurrect a career. Along with dozens of names even serious fans wouldn't remember, Coyne's all-time roster of drivers includes Paul Tracy, Roberto Moreno, Michel Jourdain Jr., Oriol Servia, Bruno Junqueira, Justin Wilson and Mike Conway as well as the four-time Champ Car title-holder Bourdais.
"I just always thought they were lacking resources," said Vasser, the 1996 CART champion, who competed against Coyne's team as a driver from 1992-2008 and then as an owner. "They always seemed to be underfunded. He was doing everything he could, putting everything into it. They were fighters."
It took until 2004 for Coyne to pick up his first top-five finish (two by Servia) and in 2009, Wilson finally took him to victory lane.
The tipping point for Coyne came after the reunification of open-wheel racing with the merger of Champ Car and IndyCar for the 2008 seasons and actually was helped by the economic downturn that affected all of motor sports.
Dale Coyne Racing is the last survivor from the Champ Car side of the merger. When teams such as Conquest, HVM, Newman/Haas and the various iterations of Vasser's KV Racing team faded away, talented drivers, engineers and crewman became more readily available.
"The formula now has changed from teams making a lot of their parts to two or three chassis manufacturers to two engine manufacturers to budgets being $50 million for two cars to maybe 10 to 20," said Scott Dixon, a four-time IndyCar champion. Dixon has raced against Coyne's team on and off since 2001, mostly with the powerful Chip Ganassi Racing.
"The biggest thing I think Dale's done is he's got good people, man. He's got a four-time champion with Bourdais. His engineering staff is really stacked. He has good mechanics. That grows."
Bourdais is in his second stint with Coyne, landing at the team for the 2011 season after three years in Formula One and then again last year after KVSH folded.
Bourdais was able to bring in Craig Hampson, the engineer with whom he had won four Champ Car titles at Newman/Haas. They also added Olivier Boisson, a fellow Frenchman who had been Bourdais' engineer at KVSH. And finally Vasser and James Sullivan — partners in KVSH — joined with Coyne on Bourdais' side of the team, adding sponsorship and other support.
"We're getting closer (in budget), and we're certainly getting closer in performance," Coyne said. "Performance per dollar, we're No. 1."
Bourdais won on the streets of St. Petersburg, Fla., in his return to the team last year, and then repeated in April. A penalty cost Bourdais a chance for victory in Long Beach, Calif., and he has slumped beginning with a crash in the Indianapolis 500, but he came to Road America ninth in points with the top five in sight.
Coyne's No. 19 Honda-powered entry continues to be a development program for Claman De Melo, Santino Ferrucci and Pietro Fittipaldi, who is injured.
The statistics aren't quite what the owners or drivers would prefer, but they're a far cry from Dale Coyne Racing's early years and a lot closer to what Coyne had hoped when he first opened his doors.
"We knew it was going to be a big climb and things needed to work out," Coyne said. "You just work at it. You hope to get a dream sponsor that will give you the money you need to do what you need to do.
"That's gotten a little better every year, and here we are."


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Army veteran, 55, left with life-changing injuries after she was trampled by a herd of cows
A former army officer has told how she was left with life-changing injuries and 'convinced she was going to die' after she was trampled by a herd of cows while out walking her dog.
Janicke Tvedt, 55, had been walking her eight-year-old Labrador Goose with her partner David Hood, 57, when they stumbled across a 30-strong herd of cows in Masham, North Yorkshire.
Within minutes, the ex-army officer, who served in Bosnia, had been taken down and pinned against a fence as the animals, who apparently feared her Labrador was a threat to their calves, stamped on her body.
She managed to escape when her army training kicked in and she went into 'survival mode', climbing a tree.
The mother-of-two slipped in and out of consciousness before paramedics arrived and she was finally airlifted to hospital.
Ms Tvedt was left with seven broken ribs, hoof marks on her chest and legs and had to have a colostomy bag fitted after part of her colon had to removed by medics following the terrifying ordeal last July.
Janicke Tvedt, 55, was left with seven broken ribs, hoof marks on her chest and legs and needed part of her colon removed after she was attacked by cows
The former army officer had been walking her eight-year-old Labrador Goose (pictured together) when they stumbled across a 30-strong herd of cows in Masham, North Yorkshire
She said: 'I was convinced I was going to die.
'I was trying to get in contact with my son because as far as I was concerned, that was it – I wasn't going to see anyone again.
'Had there been a child or an elderly person there, they would not have survived – that's how serious the attack was.'
Now Ms Tvedt, who followed a farmer's gatepost instruction to keep her dog on a lead, is urging those who find themselves in a similar situation to let their pets run free.
She explained: 'What you're supposed to do when you're under attack by cattle is you're supposed to let the dog off the lead and kick the dog away.
'It's the dog that's the issue. They see it as a predator.'
On the day of the attack, Ms Tvedt, who now works as a life coach, had set out on the walk with her partner and their dog close to the market town of Masham, near Harrogate, on July 25 last year.
It was a footpath that she has taken before without incident, but on this occasion, as she rounded a hedge, she came face-to-face with a horned cow and its two calves.
She said: 'The cow was obviously startled by us, so she bolted directly at the dog, who was on a lead. She kicked the dog, and the dog ended up rolling on the ground.
'Then loads more cows came to her defence. They pinned us against the hedge. I had the dog very tightly on the lead, which is what I thought I was supposed to do.
'I stood there really still with my partner, not trying to be aggressive towards the cows, and after about ten minutes of sniffing us, I thought they were going to leave.
'Then a cow attacked the dog again, but in doing so, it hit me in the knees as well, and knocked me to the ground.'
Now lying flat on her back, the cows trampled the former army officer while her distraught partner watched on helplessly.
Ms Tvedt managed to escape by climbing up a tree, where she slipped in and out of consciousness, before finally being airlifted to hospital. Pictured: Medics attending to Ms Tvedt after the incident
The former army officer said the animals pinned her against a fence and stamped on her body. Pictured: Ms Tvedt's injuries
The mother-of-two (pictured in hospital) managed to escape when her army training kicked in and she went into 'survival mode'
She said: 'One of them kept raising itself up on its hind legs and then stamping its front legs actually down on me.
'It trampled me at least four times on my abdomen and chest, and then once of my face, but I had my arm across my face.
'I've still got a mark on my cheek where I think it crushed my glasses into my face.
'Then one of them knocked another over, and it fell and landed on my legs, and then did a complete body roll over my body.
'So I was crushed by the weight of it – these were absolutely massive rearing cattle, with horns.'
She added: 'I was terrified. Apparently, I was shouting at the cows. But they were snorting, mooing and grunting. They were pawing their hooves on the ground.'
When the cows briefly dispersed, Ms Tvedt became fully aware of her terrible injuries.
She said: 'I had to put my head between my knees to get blood to my head because I kept blacking out, and I knew then that something was seriously wrong.
'My abdomen was like a watermelon. It was swollen and distended and really quite solid – not normal and squishy. I was in such pain in my chest.'
But it wasn't long before the cows returned, so Ms Tvedt and her partner then had to climb a tree as they became surrounded once again.
The former army officer needed to have a colostomy bag fitted, which she still wears today
Ms Tvedt said she had followed a farmer's gatepost instruction to keep her dog on a lead
She said: 'My partner was having to hold me up, and we were there for about 20 minutes. And I passed out three times while I was in the tree.'
What to do when in a field with cows
Try not to walk in a field where there are cows with their calves.
If cows are without calves it is still advised to still try and find an alternative route.
If there is not an alternative route, stick to the footpath and walk calmly and at a steady pace.
Try not to surprise the cows and do not walk to close to them.
Dog owners are advised to keep their pets under control when walking near cows and some walking fields have signs in place telling owners to keep their pets on a short lead.
But if you are in a situation where you feel that you and your dog are in danger, you can let your dog off the lead so you can both run to safety.
Source: National Animal Welfare Trust
Ms Tvedt said her 'survival instinct' from her days as an officer in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers 'kicked in' to help her plan their escape.
She said: 'Clearly, I wasn't able to walk, but I was explaining to Dave how he was going to go for help, as I realised I'd lost my mobile phone in the attack.
'He then went through the next field again to Masham golf course and got somebody off there who had a phone to call for the ambulance, and then the Yorkshire Air Ambulance came.
In hospital, Ms Tvedt was sedated and required an emergency operation to remove part of her colon.
She then needed to have a colostomy bag fitted, which she still wears today.
When she finally came round two days later, in a delirious state, she was too scared to sleep or self-administer her morphine drip as she believed she 'wouldn't wake up'.
In the months that have followed, the 55-year-old, who previously swam three times a week and walked up to 8k each day, has begun to build up her strength again.
In October, she joined a gym and can now bend down to the floor and get up again.
But despite remaining 'very driven', she knows there will be limitations to her mobility from now on.
She said: 'I've had to accept what I can and can't do. That's been really hard.
'It's affected my relationship with my partner as well. That's been really difficult. But he's been really supportive.'
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THE DOE FAMILY
In early June, a family from Redeemer (for security reasons, let's call them the "Doe's") will be moving to South East Asia.
John and Jane Doe each grew up in large families who knew Jesus, and they were taught to follow Christ in their everyday lives. They had been introduced to the idea of missions growing up, but they never saw it as something to seriously consider. For John, he understood it as something that only happened in ancient Church history. "I grew up reading missionary biographies, but it was always these things that happened 100 years ago, or 150 years ago, so it was never something that was actually going on right now. I never realized that there was so much work left to be done." Jane also read missionary biographies, but she saw missionaries as super Christians. "At the time I thought, 'That's so cool I want to do it. But that's always somebody else, that's always somebody special that does that, and I'm not special.'"
In 2009, they moved to the Lubbock-area and started a vineyard. They started attending Redeemer around the same time, and that would prove to be a turning point in their relationship with God. The authentic understanding of grace that came through a consistent presentation of the Gospel began to shape how they viewed the world and their place in it.
The couple took Perspectives (an annual class intended to teach people about the worldwide Christian movement) and it sparked their desire to be involved in missions; so they began to take little steps in that direction. They started by helping with Perspectives, and a short time later they began co-leading an Advocacy Team with the purpose of supporting missionaries. As leaders of an A-team, they were encouraged to go and visit a missions team in Asia to get some personal experience with what they were doing; and they jumped at the chance.
The experience in Asia exposed the Doe's to a real-life example of how they could be actively living their life on mission across cultures. "The weight of it really sank into me, right in the metro, just jam-packed with people thinking, 'Man, I'm probably the only Christian here right now.'" After seeing a family similar to theirs living not too differently than they did back home, their misconceptions were shattered. The small fire for missions was ignited.
Once they got back to the U.S., they really wrestled with the desire to be overseas and what they thought at the time to be "most logical": using their business to allow them to help send and support missionaries. They decided to follow this option, so they stayed home to be senders.
However, it wasn't long before they started to feel discontent with this decision. They still felt a passion to let the Lord use them overseas.
One night while at the Stringers' home, John and Jane entered separate conversations with Spencer and Veronica that led to the question they were each struggling with: "How do we find contentment in staying?" The couple learned that this discontentment was not normal–that most people who decide to stay are at peace with the decision–and it was like a switch was flipped for them.
John and Jane signed up for the Missionary Training Program to begin the process of going overseas as missionaries. They began investing in the lives of international students in Lubbock and those around them. Their gatherings that started with just two students have since grown to as many as twenty. They have and continue to invest in these students' lives, just like they intend to do with students in Southeast Asia. "We just get to go overseas and do what we've been doing here, over there."
They've recently been getting to know people at Redeemer in hopes of sharing their story with as many people as possible. "We want to know as many people from Redeemer as possible, so when we launch out and Dusty hops up on stage on a Sunday morning and says, 'Hey, this family is headed overseas', people can be specifically praying for us."
Leveraging their business background for the glory of God, they plan to open a coffee shop as an entry-point into the lives of people in the community. They'll also be helping with the launch team in Southeast Asia, dealing with culture and language-shock for incoming missionaries, and teaching them how to run a small business.
"What we've been doing here, and feel called to do there, is equipping and mobilizing others. So that's what we're kind of doing here, and it's a natural fit stepping into a role like that overseas."


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If You Encounter a Lion | Stay Safe | Coexisting Video | Lions at Rancho | Identification
Mountain Lion Conservation Research
In the densely populated Bay Area, Midpen preserves provide critical remaining habitat for native wildlife, such as mountain lions and nearby nature for people. Midpen began new mountain lion conservation research in the fall of 2020 to learn more about how mountain lions use open space lands also frequently visited by people. The results will help guide Midpen's science-based land. Midpen is specifically studying:
Mountain lion movement and habitat use
Factors influencing mountain lion behavior
Strategies to help people and mountain lions coexist
We hope you'll follow along by signing up for our email list, and learn more about the many challenges these important big cats face, how we can best safely coexist to help them survive and thrive in the Santa Cruz Mountains region and beyond.
Collaring Study
In partnership with the Santa Cruz Puma Project and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, mountain lions in multiple Midpen preserves with high visitation will be fitted with temporary tracking collars that do not adversely affect them, and provide GPS information similar to fitness trackers, before automatically falling off. This science is humanely conducted and is aimed at the long-term conservation of these important native predators.
No mountain lions have been collared for this study to date. Collaring is expected to begin in Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve in winter 2020-21. The collaring effort may expand to other highly-visited preserves including Fremont Older and Piccheti Ranch Open Space Preserves and others.
Wildlife Camera Study
In the fall of 2020, Midpen biologists began using a scientific grid system of motion-activated still cameras, currenlty only in Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve, to learn more about
the movement, abundance and diversity of mountain lions and other wildlife. Cameras are positioned and used for wildlife research only. Volunteers are invited to participate in this research.
Learn more about the camera study, see some of the first images and let us know about your interest in volunteering on the Wildlife Photo Index Research Project web page.
Mountain Lions Play an Important Role in the Ecosystem
Mountain lions, also known as pumas and cougars, play an important role as predators in our local ecosystem. Their primary food source is deer, but they can also prey on smaller animals like raccoons, rabbits. Occassionally, they opportunistically prey on domestic pets and livestock. More than half of California, including most of undeveloped San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, is prime mountain lion habitat. Mountain lions are a specially protected species in California.
Mountain lions face many challenges. They need large habitats, and as open space in the Santa Cruz Mountains has become hemmed in by roads and development, some are pushed into the wildland-urban interface. This is one reason why wildlife corridors like Midpen's Highway 17 Wildlife and Trail Crossing, are critical for allowing wildlife to move safely across the landscape to access the resources they need to survive.
Download Mountain Lion Fact Sheet
If You Encounter a Mountain Lion
If you encounter a mountain lion, take these safety precautions:
DO NOT RUN!
Keep children and pets close.
Do not approach the lion.
Do not turn your back on the lion.
Do not crouch down or bend over.
Back away slowly while paying attention to how the lion is reacting to your movements. If you are getting farther away from their young, the lion may relax or walk away.
Leave the area and inform other preserve visitors of the potential danger.
Fight back, if attacked.
Report sightings immediately to 650-691-2165.
Stay Safe in Mountain Lion Country
Stay alert when visiting a preserve.
Do not hike, bike or jog alone.
Avoid hiking or jogging when mountain lions are most active – dawn, dusk, and at night.
Keep a close watch on small children.
Do not wear headphones.
Coexisting with Cougars Video Presentation
Learn all about mountain lions with Midpen Resource Management Specialist Matt Sharp Chaney. Matt provides an overview of mountain lion biology, habitat and research. He also shares how hikers, families and neighbors can stay safe in mountain lion habitat.
Mountain Lion Activity at Rancho San Antonio
Mountain lions have been observed in Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve. Though seldom seen, they also roam most Midpen preserves.
Map is illustrative to demonstrate ongoing mountain lion presence across the preserve in a given year, it is not intended for analytical purposes.
The mountain lion has a small head and small rounded ears. It has a very long tail that is about 2/3rds the length of its body.
Color: Generally tan, but can range from gray to brown, with a whitish underside. The ears and tail are tipped with black. Cubs have camouflage spots that fade as they mature.
Size: Adult males can reach 8 feet in length from nose to tail; and weigh 130-150 lbs. Adult females can reach up to 7 feet in length and weigh 65-90 lbs.
Tracks: Unlike a dog, mountain lions don't leave a nail mark and their pads are shaped like the letter M.
Behavior: Adult pumas are solitary and territorial animals. Males can have territories up to 100 square miles and females' territories can range up to 60 square miles. They are most active between dusk and dawn, and generally avoid contact with humans, but have been known to stand their ground.
Midpen supports effort to protect mountain lions
Midpen's nearly 65,000 acres of preserved public open space provide prime habitat for mountain lions, a top predator in our region facing many challenges in our region. In April, the California Fish and Game Commission voted 5-0 to consider Southern California and Central Coast mountain lions for listing under the state's Endangered Species Act. A year-long review by the CDFW will determine if six geographic populations of mountain lions, including those in the Santa Cruz Mountains, should be designated as threatened or endangered.
We're working to protect regional mountain lion populations by preserving habitat, increasing habitat connectivity through this wildlife crossing project, promoting rodenticide regulations and supporting research that improves our understanding of lion populations, ecology and behavior throughout our region of influence.


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How to Cancel my FuboTV Subscription Easy!
Home » Blog » How to Cancel my FuboTV Subscription Easy!
1 What is FuboTV?
2 Reasons to unsubscribe
3 What steps should I follow to cancel or unsubscribe from FuboTV
3.1 Permanent cancellation
3.2 Partial cancelation
4 How to unsubscribe from FuboTV in my trial week
5 What are FuboTV's cancellation policies
5.1 Cancellation fee contracts
6 Post comments
Today the consumption of series and movies online with FuboTV, either through any of the streaming platforms or any web page, especially now with pandemic issues where we must all take care of ourselves and, therefore, it is preferable to stay at home.
Sometimes these platforms become a complete wonder and change our lives, but at other times we simply do not like the model or the form of said platform and for this reason or another we prefer to cancel our subscription.
Today in Miracomoseace we will be talking specifically about FuboTV, an alternative platform that has become popular. But in this case we will explain how to unsubscribe or cancel my subscription to FuboTV.
What is FuboTV?
FuboTV is one of the platforms in charge of providing us with a channel catalog in which we can enjoy, especially those that have become popular in the current era in the satellite signal, where it is achieved get excellent signal reception or via cable.
By these means it is possible to view sports channels to the favorite channels of the little ones in the house, in a very similar way to how the pluto tv platform, but with the difference that in FuboTV if there is a payment method of approximately 4.99 euros monthly.
Reasons to unsubscribe
The reasons for this to happen are several and the truth is quite understandable, because one of them is to subscribe and once you can enjoy this account, simply do not like the design of the website or the channels offered by said page.
The next reason is more for economic issues, where you unsubscribe or cancel your subscription because you do not have the money necessary to pay the monthly payment of said page, or on the other hand, that you only have subscribed for the trial version and you just don't want to use this platform anymore.
What steps should I follow to cancel or unsubscribe from FuboTV
It is important to remember that once your subscription is canceled while you are in the trial period, nothing will be charged, but unfortunately you will not be able to have the opportunity to enjoy another trial period with the same data.
Permanent cancellation
Already explained the reasons why most people decide to cancel their subscription to FuboTV permanently, to do so is really easy, you just have to follow the following steps:
First of all you must enter your browser of choice and once in it, you must type in the search bar «fubotv». Find and select the first option.
After being on the website, you must access your account, entering both your email and your password.
After this, you must click on your account and enter it.
Already in your account you must click on the section where it says «my account» which is located in the upper right part of the screen.
Once you are in «my account» just look for the option «subscription and billing«. Click on this.
You must go to the bottom center of the screen and press where it says «unsubscribe».
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How to unsubscribe from FuboTV in my trial week
If you have already subscribed to the FuboTV platform but for different reasons you do not want to continue with the subscription and you do not know how to do it, here we explain in a simple way How to unsubscribe from FuboTV in your test week. It is important to know that you must cancel the subscription before the 7 free days are up to avoid being charged.
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Katri Naukkarinen photographed symbols of hierarchy in Tokyo and sat down with Haruka Furukawa, head of Startups at Slush Tokyo, to talk about the hierarchical and gendered working culture holding together Japan's gigantic economy.
Katri: So the startup scene boasts about being very non-hierarchical. Which elements are still supporting the hierarchies?
Haruka: So there's this thing in Japan called keigo which is a level of politeness in words. In Japanese there are different levels of keigo and using them enforces the hierarchy. Even if you're more experienced in a group but you're younger, some people would still use keigo. That's one barrier. Also there are these weird rules like when you have beer and cheer, you might position your glass lower, or when you exchange your business card, you might position it under.
K: How about other structures in Japanese working culture? Such as gender equality?
H: Talking about boys and girls and work in here… There are two kinds of working positions. There are those where you can get promoted in, which guys apply for. Then there are general office positions without any possibilities for promotions. Girls apply for these as their lifetime jobs. Girl universities even have slots for these positions.
Many of my friends say, I just want to meet the Toyota guy and get married and quit.
Getting hired is usually based on how pretty you are because the work is like on counters, registration and answering phone calls. Like, all the pretty girls get those jobs. It's so normal in Japan and I really hate it.
Now is the season for freshmen to have meetings, and every guy tells how "All the girls in my company are so pretty, I love this company!" Like, are you going there for work or are you expecting that to be like real-life Tinder?
K: But I guess it actually works like that if the office girls are also expected to get in relations with them.
H: Yeah I guess so… And I asked my guy friend: Do you want to work with pretty girls or do you want to work with energetic working girls? And he said "Well if you don't have pretty girls in the office then where's your motivation?" I told him he needs to quit that company.
H: People choose companies like that.So girls normally don't get a position on the top of the hierarchy. There's this culture of standing by the big famous guys and praising them, and many of the women here are happy with that because that's the only way to live.
K: And if you challenge the way things are here, you're out?
H: In Japan if you say an opinion, people might feel personally offended. Men might feel offended. If you start talking like "I don't agree with your opinion" then I think many people could think like oh, this girl is offending me. It's easier if old men like you and think you're pretty and make that guy happy. Then you're taken with that guy to every party and are able to make connections even without a position of your own.
K: I heard that you also went to an event where you were just told to smile and not talk about whatever as if you didn't have any thoughts.
H: Last week I just went to one of the biggest startup events in Japan. I saw girls in dresses with no sleeves, model girls with no relation to this event, with nothing to do but to hold boards. And they were there just standing with boards for two whole days. Young girls, maybe university students. I guess they get paid not-so-bad but… Yeah. And I was asking like, who are these girls, what are they for, do they have to be here? And everyone was staring at me like no, don't say that out loud!
K: Oh I just remembered I read somewhere that, maybe during the change of millennium, the Japanese government made a goal to have 30% of women in leading positions by 2020. A couple of years ago they re-evaluated the percentage and decided that 7% might be more realistic. I also saw that the number for women in leading positions and boards would currently be around 3%.
H: So two days ago we had a Slush meetup for volunteers.
A lot of boys and girls, Japanese and foreigners, were all mixed together and enjoying themselves. Those people don't even know each other and there were like 200 people in the same room.
And then around the same time there was this other startup event for students, which was full of young guys. This was organized by an actual venture capital firm that says that they need more young startups and they're trying to build a young startup ecosystem. So, they brought all the entrepreneurially minded students together and it ended up like this: I was going through this picture (Haruka shows a picture from her phone) and counting girls… There's like one, two… and no foreigners… and the guys in the front are not even students. Everyone's complimenting them like, you've got so many young people, this is so cool. And I'm like yeah but where are all the girls? I know a lot of girls talking about startups, and many of them are in the Slush picture, but why are they not in this one?
H: Yeah they're not invited. It's a bit sad, right?
K: They look so enthusiastic in that photo like, we have the best boys' cluuuub!
K: I think females make up even more of the population.
H: Yeah, but, this happens and I wasn't even conscious about it. And talking about guest speakers or people who get invited to this kind of events, it's more or less 100% guys.
K: How is it with Slush Tokyo?
H: We're trying to get to 50/50. This year it's a pretty good mix, we have pretty many ladies. It's something that we care about a lot because we need people to get inspired by these people and if it's all guys talking then definitely girls would think that okay it's not my position, I won't be able to do that. But we need to get young girls excited about business too.
K: Let's say, if I recently acquired a good position, how would I feel if I went to one of these events, and how would they make me feel? Smaller?
H: If you had a good position and went to a startup event… If you are a girl, basically no one will come and talk to you even if you have, I don't know, even if you are a CEO. If you are a woman I think not many people would be interested in you. Girls are normally just the general workers and just stand there for someone else.
22 years old Undergraduate at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies In various positions in Slush for 3 years. Now Head of Startups.
33 years old Master of Arts from Department of Photography in Aalto ARTS In Tokyo as an exchange student in Tama Art University during 2009–2010 Artist in Residence in Akiyoshidai International Art Village during January–February 2018 by recommendation of the Finnish Institute in Japan Awarded for her symbolic photography for magazines.


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Category: Tom Brake MP
Part 3 – Were the public Engaged Under Duress?
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On the 10th of November 2017, the Epsom & St Helier Trust Board decided to proceed with their plan to remove Acute Services from one or both of Epsom hospital AND St Helier hospitals. At the meeting, before the board took their decision on whether or not to proceed, a member of the KOSHH Campaign […]
Part 2 – They want to take away your Acute Hospitals – ACT NOW!
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On the 10th of November 2017, the Epsom & St Helier Trust Board decided to proceed with their plan to remove Acute Services from one or both of Epsom hospital AND St Helier hospitals. At a board meeting on the 10th of November 2017, despite significant opposition, a whole series of relevant questions being raised, […]
URGENT: Important events coming up
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You may have heard that the Epsom & St Helier Trust have announced their plans for the future of hospital services in our area, and the news is not good. The plans offer three possible outcomes, all of which involve the loss of Acute services, from one or both of Epsom Hospital And St Helier Hospital. The […]
Paul Scully actively pursuing the CLOSURE of St Helier Hospital
Paul Scully MP, Slider Photos, St Helier Hospital, Tom Brake MP, Video
Paul Scully, the Conservative MP for Sutton and Cheam is actively pursuing the closure of St Helier Hospital, in order to build a replacement "Facility" on the site of the former Sutton Hospital. He believes that a replacement for a full Acute hospital can be built, on a site which has always been deemed […]
Epsom & St Helier, the plot sickens
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The Wimbledon Guardian have today run a front page article about the threat to St Helier, but recent developments have been a little confusing. For clarity, we have put together a brief timeline of events over the last year or so. In January 2015, Daniel Elkeles started work at Epsom & St Helier Trust, as […]
KOSHH supports junior doctors on strike day #5 (06/04/2016)
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KOSHH Campaigners went to today's picket line outside St Helier Hospital to support the junior doctors in their struggle and were joined by representatives of Merton & Sutton TUC. Once more the weather was foul, but it'll take more than inclement weather to stop this group of determined folk. The level of support from the general public was […]


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Are biologics used by lactating mothers harmful to the infant?
Nursing Mothers can Safely Use IBD Biologics
The question has to whether nursing mothers should use IBD biologics is one that has disturbed both experienced and new mothers. Luckily enough, that issue is no longer a dilemma, thanks to a detailed multicenter research.The study found that there were lower transfer rates of anti-tumor necrosis factor (anti-TNF) agents into breast milk. Furthermore, these biologics could not be associated with any infant infections or inhibitions to the ability of your loved one to achieve crucial development milestones.
How the Study was done
To conduct this study, the researchers assembled samples of breast milk from 72 of 842 mothers receiving biologic therapy from 2013 to 2015. Concentrations of the drug were measured following four timelines, namely: 1, 12, 24 and 48 hours once dosing had been done. The researchers also measured in the points 72, 96, 120, and 168 hours.
In all the samples taken, it was found that the levels were minimal for all the biologics as shown below:
natalizumab in one of two treated women (max 0.46 μg/mL)
certolizumab in three of 13 treated women (max 0.29 μg/mL)
infliximab in 19 of 29 treated women (max 0.74 μg/mL)
golimumab no trace (one woman)
ustekinumab in four of six treated women (max 1.57 μg/mL)
adalimumab in two of 21 treated women (max 0.71 μg/mL)
Biologics safe to use for expectant mothers
Rebecca Matro, MD, of Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, told MedPage Today that "expectant and new mothers always worry about the potential harm of the medications they are taking on their unborn babies… this study is a clear indicator that even though biologics could be spotted in the least amounts, there was no harm to the infants."
The study authors also noted that lactating mothers have been historically told to keep off anti-TNF and any biological therapies. "Breastfeeding should not worry you since IgA is the predominant immunoglobulin found in breast milk yet the evaluated agents in the study were IgG subclass. Hence, the transfer in breast milk is at its lowest levels."
Anita Afzali, MD, of Wexner Medical Center, shared her views on the study notes that it made sense molecularly since biologics have a high molecular weight which means their transfer rate must be minimal. "Then again the fact that breast milk is predominated by IgA means the possibility of IgGmonoclonal antibodies moving into the breast milk is at its lowest."
Furthermore, the researchers established that there was no harm to the ability of the infant to hit crucial developmental milestones. This assessment on development was conducted on the basis of Ages and Stages Questionnaire 3.
The findings of this study can be associated with another research, which concluded that biologics are not the blame for adverse pregnancy outcomes.


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Q: Using mojorra implementaiton on Websphere Application Server 8 I think that I'm stucked with ideas. I'm trying to move liferay portlets from the weblogic to WAS 8. On the weblogic I have been using mojorra implementation for JSF 2.0 and primefaces as a component library. I've installed primefaces on the WAS, and when I was trying to move portlets probles started popping.
First problem is that WAS constantly trying to use myfaces as a JSF implementation - I know this because myfaces throws exception:

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException:
  factoryName'javax.faces.view.facelets.FaceletCacheFactory'
              at javax.faces.FactoryFinder.checkFactoryName(FactoryFinder.java:383)

I have following dependencies in maven pom.xml file:
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.sun.faces</groupId>
    <artifactId>jsf-api</artifactId>
    <version>2.1.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.sun.faces</groupId>
    <artifactId>jsf-impl</artifactId>
    <version>2.1.2</version>
</dependency>

And for the WAS application I set class loader to load my classes first. But this didn't help. To be sure I configured new classloader for server - but the situtation repeat again. Last idea that I've is to define mojarra jars as a shared libraries - but then I've got ClassFormatException (I havn't time to investigate it).
Any ideas?

After adding mojorra classes to the WAR and changing the classloader I've got exception:

[7/17/12 18:52:25:072 CEST] 0000002c config        E   Critical error
  during deployment:
                                       com.sun.faces.config.ConfigurationException: CONFIGURATION FAILED!
  factoryName 'javax.faces.view.facelets.FaceletCacheFactory'
              at com.sun.faces.config.ConfigManager.initialize(ConfigManager.java:375)
              at com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener.contextInitialized(ConfigureListener.java:225)
              at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebApp.notifyServletContextCreated(WebApp.java:1649)
              at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebAppImpl.initialize(WebAppImpl.java:410)

I traced the exception and found that only factoryfinder from the myfaces implementation maybe I should add other dependendency to the project beside that which are already there (jsf-api, jsf-impl)?

After specify jsf libraries as a shared library and pointing them as a reference to my war - initalization went with success without any error - other problem is that now liferay is throwing exception:

01:21:16,956 ERROR [LiferayFacesContext:61] Instance not initialized
  -- caller might be static 01:21:16,960 ERROR [LiferayLocalePhaseListener:87]
      java.lang.NullPointerException
      at com.liferay.faces.portal.lifecycle.LiferayLocalePhaseListener.setLocale
      (LiferayLocalePhaseListener.java:67)

Maybe it's because I should also define liferay libraries as a shared - I'll try it in seconds.
And the following exception is:

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException   at
  com.liferay.faces.bridge.renderkit.html_basic.HeadRendererBridgeImpl.encodeBegin
  (HeadRendererBridgeImpl.java:133)

Have no idea if this two exception are related to each other - but the result is that my portlets won't work :(

A: It's completely possible using some custom classloader magic in WebSphere. See this thread here:
http://forum.primefaces.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6860

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